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Reading notices 5 cents a line, black face type 10 cents a line. Card of Thanks 25 cents. Westminster College at Fulton has completed the raising of a fund of $500,000 for further endowment of the college. The Rockefeller gift of $75,000 to the college was made upon condition that the above amount be raised by the college. Westminster is one of a number of high class colleges in Missouri which are greatly in need of larger endowments to enable them to do the work they have an opportunity to do in the field of liberal education.

the terms of the armistice would be danger to American institutions, but based largely, if not entirely, upon its background of revolt against the the ideas of justice outlined by our Republican machine gave it a legiti- President in his message to Con- mate character. On the other hand, gress and bis notes to the Central his nearly acknowledged ambition to Powers; and even since the signing run for president in 1920 caused con- of the armistice it has been equally cem among many who had support- clear that the final peace terms will, ed him in prior contests. It had no be molded very closely along the lines apparent backing save belief that he which President Wilson considers could not be spared from the helm, an best for the world's welfare. This is unsafe view for any man to hold, or The public schools of Missouri arc in a state of decline. We have as our authority for this rather disconcerting statement, no less a person than Uel Lamkin, the outgoing superintendent of public schools.

But if we will use our eyes, we don't need to be told any such fact, to know it exists in our midst. We can see it. The old style country school district two miles square, or at most, two by three, has blown up. The younger people have left the farms in swarms they had to leave and in the average farming community, elderly and middle aged people predominate. There aren't enough children in three districts out of five, for the maintenance of a school.

The districts are dominated by men, who have no children in school, themselves, are not going to be greatly fussed up about any school problem, outside of taxes. Much i.s said about the great opportunities of the farm. But they are not apparent. The farmer's schools, his roads, are inclined to deteriorate. Where the land i.s not very rich, the tiller of the soil has a pretty hard time to meet his interest and keep his head above water.

Where the land is rich, the owner lives in town, while the renter often pays half of what he raises, and two or three dollars an acre on top of it. Our declining country schools are merely a symptom of the ominous conditions which prevail in the average community of Democrat. true both because he represents the greatest of all nations and one which, although it has been the deciding factor in the war, has no selfish interests to promote at the peace table, and also because he has become through his public utterances and official acts the recognized and universally trusted premier of the world. And, if the proposed league of nations were now in existence, and the' proposition of electing a president of that league were pending before the nations of the world, Woodrow Wilson would undoubtedly be chosen for that exalted office without opposition. Our President, then, is in a position which makes it incumbent upon him to become, with the least possible familiar with" the many delicate and complicated international problems which must be dealt with in the framing of the final peace terms.

This information he is getting at first hand by his close contact with the people whom he meets and the conditions which he views, not only in Paris and London, but throughout the devastated regions of France and Belgium. It may be easy enough here in peaceful and prosperous matter how much one may desire to be say that the war should end without indemnities and without the infliction of punishment upon those responsible for it, but to be really just in the matter to all concerned, one should see with their own eyes (at least so far as that course is now possible) just what the Germans and their allies have really done. And, in order to be in a position to determine what is necessary to prevent a repetition of this great crime is important to see and to understand just how near Germany came to the accomplishment of her purpose to conquer and enslave the world. These facts were undoubtedly realized by -President Wilson before he announced his intention to visit Europe, and they are not only sufficient to justify his course, but, if he had failed to see and perform his duty in the matter, they would have constituted, in the minds of future generations, a serious indictment against him. for any nation to accept.

Many admirers of Roosevelt have found it difficult to reconcile his unfair criticism of President Wilson with their previous conception of him, but it may be explained as the natural revolt of a man, whose keynote is the personal ego, against the fillip of fortune which set him to one side when great events were stirring, and against the thought that another could overmatch his place as a maker of history. Despite his readiness to make enemies, Roosevelt had a very keen regard for the world's opinion of him. It is this which caused him to ask that his 1914 declaration in favor of American neutrality be stricken from text books quoting him on the issues of the war. It is this which GOVERNOR GARDNER ADDRESSES LEGISLATUttE-be consolidated Department and the fish commission made hiin unwilling to admit that he did the slightest wrong to Colombia in the matter of the Panama revolution. Although these are matters which detract from the popular estimate of Roosevelt, it should be understood that to wipe out the characteristics which made him intolerant might destroy the qualities which made him great.

It is not by his administrative acts that Rosevelt will be judged, not by his political opinions or his controversies on the issues of the moment. The test of his position in history is the impress of his personal qualities upon the world. His life i.s notice to every boy, in America and everywhere, that there are no limitations which cannot be overcome when intensity of purpose is applied with intelligence and unremitting per- severence. He engendered and of set purpose developed in himself not only the strength and energy, but the fearlessness, which drew men to him. He was a proponent of democracy in its truest form, that of man to man.

Perhaps he cannot himself be classed as a democrat, for he did not know the meaning of subordination within a democracy, but no other man of his day has given such force to the democratic principle of an equal right to rise in the world. He is an inspiration to every believer in the doctrine that men should be judged for what they are, not for what they seem to be or what their ancestors St. Louis Star. (Continued from page 1) vocational training also is urged on the attention of the legislature. The problem of the 110,000 illiterates in the state is declared to be important.

Missouri, the message says, while ranking high in wealth, ranks low in education. A large part of this is due to' inefficiency in the country schools, says the message. It is suggested that it may be possible to classify the rural schools according to population and assessed wealth, and to make specific requirements for the different districts. Special state aid for weak districts is suggested. The penitentiary management is commended and it is stated that if the present rate of gain in industrial operation is continued for the next two years, it will have saved the state than $1,000,000 during the four years of Gov.

Gardner's administration. The work of the state highway commission is recited without comment. Recommendation is made $1,218,215 be re-appropriated for this fund, which is needed to complete 122 projects already approved. The system in vogue in Illinois, the message says, would be impracticable in Missouri because this state has a larger area. It is urged that construction of 6,000 miles of connected hard- surfaced roads be begun at once, at an ultimate cost of $60,000,000.

The highway commission, governor says, would welcome an investigation of its affairs. Revision of the stock indemnity laws and enactment of a law to The message suggests submission to the people at the next general election of the question of calling a stitutional convention and it also calls attention to the pledges of both party platforms for early action on the federal "dry" amendment. Appropriation of $25,000 for bcautification of the new capitol grounds and $20,000 for regain it. But if you keep up your "present the -regular payment of will able to change it into a standard Government policy without medical examination. Meantime you can keep up- your present insurance at substantially the same low rate.

The Government will write ordinary life insurance, twenty-payment life, endowment maturing at age 62, and other painting the corridors of the capitol usual forms of insurance. This will are asked. The money, the message says, can be taken from the capitol tax fund. Enactment of a workmen's compensation law is again urged, and special consideration of the code of children's laws prepared by the children's code commission. Measures for revising the civil and criminal codes are recommended.

The report of the negro industrial commission, the message says, will be transmitted for consideration later. Attention is called to the decennial revision of the statutes, which falls to the present legislature. The message recommends that the ballot be given to women and it is thatr-the legislature memorialize congress to submit to the people an amendment to the federal constitution providing for equal suf- rage. To the Soldiers and Sailors of America. Approximately four million officers and men of the Army and Navy are now insured with the United States Government for a grand total of almost thirty-seven billion dollars.

You owe it to yourself and to your family to hold on to Uncle Sam's insurance. It is the strongest, safest, courage sheep raising are favored. an cheapest life insurance ever writ- THEODORE ROOSEVELT, A MAN. THIRTY STATES RATIFY PROHIBITION AMENDMENT THE PRESIDENT IN EUROPE. While Americans pride themselves on being the freest people on eaith, there is one of precedent holds them so securely as to constitute, at times, a very serious interference with the exercise of rights and the performance of duties necessary for the public welfare.

It was this, and this alone, which caused such widespread delirium throughout the country a few weeks ago when President Wilson announced his purpose of going to Europe. Everyone admitted the fact that he had a perfect right to go, but thousands of our leading citizens protested vigorously against such course largely because the thing had never been done by any other occupant of the White House. The President is now in Europe and has been there for over three weeks; moreover he has been absent from the United States for a month, and still none of the dire calamities predicted by those who opposed his trip have come to pass; while the other hand, it is becoming more and more apparent to every one who keeps in touch with the march of Theodore Roosevelt rose to fame in an uneventful period of history. A decade which seemed important in its clay has receded into the background of the world war which there i.s no emergence. The Roosevelt administrations have The issues, the rivalries and the achievements of American statesmanship in the first ten years of this century lie far behind, for the tide of world events has swept over them.

This only serves to emphasize the strength of a man who can carve for himself, in the off years of history, such a niche as Roosevelt occupies. The Roosevelt presidency may be dismissed. Roosevelt cannot be. Destiny, he must have felt in these last years, played him a false trick by placing him too soon upon the stage. He would have been the dominant figure of a century in which there was no intervention of the gods, for he represents the final expression of a man's ability to shape his own career.

The dominant note in Roosevelt's character was ambition. He was ambitious without the saving grace of humor, or the blight of cynicism. Egotism, a trait of all ambitious men, was rendered conspicuous by this lack of humorous perspective, but his essential faith in humanity made him something more than a seeker after power for the sake of wielding it. Ambition is nothing, unless it has luck or driving power behind it here is revealed the key to Roosevelt's hold upon the imagination of the times. He personified the dynamic force of the individual, the triumph of energy over inertia conquering will which is appalled ut no obstacle.

Roosevelt's social-mindedness and his bent for politics helped to shape his course, but his influence arose neither from what he sought nor why he sought it, but the manner of the seeking. Every self-centered, powerful man is a potentially dangerous element in public life, and particularly so if he Chicago, Jan. states today completed raitfication of the prohibition constitutional amendment and brought the number taking such action to thirty. The number necessary for ratification is thirty-six. Arkansas, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, North Carolina and Alabama were the states that completed ratification today.

In addition, the Nebraska senate and Utah house voted for ratification. events that it is very fortunate that Com1iines ambition with a great de- we have in Woodrow Wilson, at least citizen who declines to let the silly American superstition that a thing not yet done should never be done, interfere with the full exercise of the right and duty to follow the dictates of one's conscience and best gree of popular prestige. So when Roosevelt, after overcoming his early physical ailments, his easful environment and a succession of political adversaries, had climbed to the political heights und had become the object of the frank hero worship of multi- judgment, rather than senseless rules tu es became a question whether of precedent. he might sweep the country off its Long before the war closed, it was moorin K8 believed the Roose- In California, however, attorneys for the grape growers' protective league, filed suit for an injunction to restrain the governor from certifying the ratification. In support of the suit, it was argued that all acts of the California legislature must be submitted to a referendum.

The states which have raitified the amendment are: Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, South Carolina, North Dakota, Maryland, Montana, Arizona, Delaware, Georgia, Louisiana, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Idaho, Maine, West Virginia, Washington, California, Indiana, Arkansas, Illinois, North Carolina, Kansas and Alabama. Creation of county funds to protect ten. sheep raisers from dogs is suggested. Splendid progress has been made, the message says, in the conduct of the state's charitable institutions. None of the state institutions will have a deficit at the close of the biennial period.

But the governor, for the sake of more efficient management, again recommends enactment of the Hospital Commission bill, putting all institutions under a single management. The state realized $811,585 from beer and soft drink inspection during the biennial period, the message says. Of this amount $61,472 was realized from the soft drink department. This was in spite of the curtailment of manufacturing due to fuel restrictions, which is believed to have equaled 60 to 80 per cent. Revision of the two statutes to make them conform is advised.

A total of $1,968,567 was collected in insurance fees during the two- year period. To eliminate unjust claims for losses, which are blamed for high rates, enactment of a fire marshal law similar to that in other states is recommended. Thirty-four states now have such a law. The message contains a plea for the State Public Service Commission, which, it states, has found its duties under war conditions increasingly difficult. Had there not been such a regulatory body, the message says, the public would have had no recourse from increased rates except by long and expensive litigation.

Any changes in the public utilities law, the governor believes, should be For your protection Uncle Sam has established the greatest life insurance company in the cam- pany as mighty, as generous, and as democratic as the United States Government itself. Just as Uncle Sam protected you and your loved ones during the war, so he stands ready to continue this protection through the days of readjustment and peace. The privilege of continuing your Government insurance is a valuable right given to you as part of the compensation for your heroic and triumphant services. If you permit the insurance to lapse, you lose that right, and you will never be able to be Government Government rates. The United States through the Bureau of War Risk Insurance of the Treasury Department safeguai'd you and your loved ones with the spirit and purpose of a Republic grateful to its gallant defenders.

To avail yourself of this protection, you must keep up your present insurance. Carry back with you to civil life, as an aid and an asset, the continued insurance protection of the United States Government. Hold on to Uncle Sam's Insurance. W. G.

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The mine inspection law enacted by the last legislature is declared to have been a success. It will have a credit balance of $5,000 at the end of the biennial period. The benefit of its operation is seen in the fact that only fourteen persons were killed in Missouri mines during 1918. This is by far thelowest percentage in any state. The work of the State Labor Department and of free employment offices is commended.

The state food! and drug act is declared to have resulted in an "amaziiig improve-' ment" in the sanitary condition of public markets and places where food and drugs are stored. It is said that enough has been saved to the people by prevention of adulteration to pay the expense of the department many times over. Enactment of a statute for inspection of weights and measures also is recommended, and imposition of a license tax. The oil and hotel inspection departments are declared to have been operated successfully. The oil department turned into the general fund in the last two years $151,344.

Ap-. propriation of a special fund to be; used in connection with a similar fund from the national government for the control of social diseases is asked. In connection with this it is suggested that a license fee of $2 be exacted for marriage certificates issued by the state More extensive state propagation of fish is urged. More hatcheries are needed, says the governor, as demands upon the single hatchery in Forest Park are beyond its capacity. Attention is called to the recommendation of the fish commission for an angler's license fee, and it is advised that the State Game and Fish A Talk By a Good Solid Work Shoe You want service and comfort in your work shoes.

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