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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
UNCLE JOE HAS
ANANNIvE RSARY
SPEAKER CANNON is BoYIsH ON
HIS sEvENTY-THlRD BIRTH
DAY; IS CONGRATULATED.

Washington, D. c., May S.-A loose
jointed man with light, quick tread,
wearing a Happy fitting black suit OF
clothes and a pearl gray boys fedora
hat, walked into his office in the cap
ito Friday. He slammed the door be-
hind him, yelled for Busbey, his sec
rotary, then took fresh cigar and be-
gan another day of his forty three
years of public service at the age of
49,
Uncle Joe" Cannon on his seventy
third birthday looked and acted pre-
cisely like Uncle Joe" has been look
ing and acting every birthday he has
noted on the calendar in the last ten
years. His first duty of the day was
call on President Taft. He got the
presidents congratulations and headed
for the capitol.
The first stop was at the committee
on appropriations, where the speaker
INDUCED in talk with James c. Course,
veteran clerk and one of his earliest
! confidants. After that the speaker
read his kilograms of congratulations
the emblem of the Big Five" organi-
cation in the house which is permitted
to run things by Mr.. Cannon.
Stands Pat on Statement.
The speaker stands pat on his decla-
! ration that this country Is hell of a
| success This was the quotation as
cribed to the speaker which properly
summed up his estimate of the United
States.
81 don't believe l said it, said the
speaker today. 1T shocked lot pi
good people, but it's true. In thi:
country. where 80 per cent of the PEG.
pie are trying to push ahead, where
they are racing to get in advance Of
the other 10 per cent, 1t is UP to those
in the rear to try to equal them by us,
4 ing their mental and physical ability
The country has no patience witt
those who are discontended and alb.
normal. There is applause for the ONT
F, in front. The man who attains power
and keeps 1t deserves success. Carpine
| and complaining will not advance
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
BIG SHIFTING
OF Q OFFICIALS
TELEGRAM HAS IT THAT w. 3
THRooP WILL BE SUCCEED
ED BY ALLEN OF WYOMING.

A Galesburg, ILL.,, dispatch is author
ity for the report of big shifting of
the superintendent of the Burlington
road. as the result of which w. B.
Throop, superintendent of Iowa lines
goes to Nebraska and is succeeded in
this state by L. B. Allen, formerly
division superintendent here. The re-
port can not be verified in the Ottum-
wa Burlington Offices, w H. Thiehoff
being absent from the city on bust
ness. The following is from Galesburg.
Big Shake-up.
Galesburg, May 10.-An extensive
shifting Of superintendent on the Chi.
cago, Burlington and Quincy railroad
goes into effect today. Harry Bryan
of the Nebraska lines has been as.
signed to position in the Chicago
general offices. w. B. Throop of the
Iowa lines, goes to Lincoln to take
Bryan's place. l.. B. Allen OF the
Wyoming district, goes from Alliance
Neb., to TROOPS Iowa position. E. P
Bracken, of the Galesburg division
has been assigned to the Wyoming
district. S. H. Shuts, of the Brook
field. Mo, division will take Bracken's
place here and assistant Supt. Welcf
of Brookield takes Shuts place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11

man in the race; he must put his best
foot forward and try his hardest"
These sentiments were born with
Uncle Joe" in Guilford N. c., on May
1, 1885. 1t was the practice Of these
sentiments that got him into public life
and kept him there. He has spent
thirty-four years in the house of rep
resentatives. Prior to that eight years
were given to the state of Illinois as
district attorney.
Always Trying His Best.
In all that time Joseph G. Cannon
has been trying, and trying hard. He
had to try because leadership in the
house of representatives is not a birth
must be the best politician Of the 800
other best politicians of the United
States.
When Uncle Joe" was a small boy
he was his mothers favorite. He had
a brother. William, better known as
BILL a tow-headed youngster, whose
habit Of falling out Of trees and get
ting his bones broken made his moth
er despair of his ability to fight the
battle of life. Before the mother Of the
two lads died she called on Joseph to
watch over William.
Joseph promised and took William tc
eastern Illinois with him. They went
into business together and then Joe
found out that "Bill.'' the towheaded
was the business man, he, joe" the
caretaker and guardian, the amusing
end Of the sketch. So when Brother
Bill died several years ago he turned
over to Uncle joe fortune not only
big to Danville. ILL.,, but quite sizable
to the rest of the country.
"Bill" Keeps Joe" in Congress.
| In was Brother Bill who kept Joe
in congress, and it was Brother Bill
who saw the advantages OF. ownership
Of public utilities In Danville William
was good banker. also, and as fol
real estate speculation he invented
that shrewd variety indigenous to the
coal belt
The comgined sagacity Of "Bill'' ant
| Joe Cannon sent the Hon. Joseph G
Cannon down to Washington in De
cenber 1878. as representative from
Illinois. Today he is the biggest man
save one. in the government. No othe
man exerts the influence that Il
welded by Speaker Cannon.
| The speaker has wholesome regart
! for the United States senate, but h
has an old fashioned idea that tn
house is the superior branch. So i
| happens that when a messenger from
4 the senate arrives and addresses "Mr
| Speaker" with lowly bow Mr.. Cannon
sits bolt upright and says, Mr.. Score
/ tarv," without the bow. A frien
4 chided him for this and told him tina
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
CHE:ADL.E Goes
TO THE BLUFFS
oTTUMWA NEWSPAPER MAN BE,
GINS SERVICE TODAY AS CITY
EDITOR OF NoNPAREIL.

Clarence G. Cheadle left last night
for Council Bluffs, where today he as
snmes the position Of city editor OF
the Nonpareil, one of the leading Iowa
newspapers. Mr.. Cheadle Is finished
newspaper man and will be valuable
man on the Nonpareil city desk. He
served his cub" days on the Courier
twelve years ago and also worked for
the Daily Press and Daily Democrat.
when they were published here. He
was reporter on the st. Joseph, Mo-,
Gazette and st. Joe News, and left
the latter paper to take the city editor
ship of the Leavenworth Chronicle
Tribune. While in st. Joe he made a
reputation that was the talk of Mis-
souri, newspaper circles for months,
when he was assigned to murder
case by his paper, and after trailing
the parties accused of the crime over
several states, succeeded in bringing
them to trial.
Mr.. Cheadle has been partially out
of active newspaper work for some
time, but he has maintained cor
respondence bureau that kept him
well in the work. Mrs. Cheadle and
little son will remain here for few
weeks before joining Mr.. Cheadle in
Council Bluffs.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11

it was customary to bow to the SEN
ate's messenger.
THE whole damn senate can't make
me bow to it, and I'll be damned if I'll
bow to one of it's messengers said the
speaker, settling that little matter.
In commemoration of his birthday
the Republican members of congress
from North Carolina, where the speak
er was born, presented him with an
unusually large dipper made Of a
gourd from the Tar Heel state. This
brought recollections Of Uncle Joes
boyhood days, when, he said, they used
a dipper OF the same character in MAX
ing maple sugar.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
w. MoEFETT STRICKEN.

William Moffett, an employee of the
packing plant for several years past
and well known east end man, WAS
stricken yesterday morning at his
home, 23O Walnut avenue, with \
stroke of paralysis. His entire right
side was paralyzed by the shock and
his physicians consider ais case not
very hopeful
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
Copyright, 1903. chicago Tribune

Your advertising is saying something or other about
your store to the public every day in the 1t is form
ing impressions shaping opinions about business
in millions of minds from January to January
Public opinion is the clay and your man with the
cotton batting brains is the potter. If his hand shakes
if his fingers are all humbs-don't blame him but blame
yourself!
Sooner LATER if you let him alone, he will drag your
store down to the level of his medocrty You won't
see it today tomorrow year from today but it will
inevitably death; because the creation cannot
rise above the creator.
And this brings right back to where started
to that point in stores when it's advertising de-
generates into debauch of meaningless bargain prices.
That sort OF thing is nuts and raisins to the with
cotton batting brains. 1t makes call his magma
ton, and nasmuch he hasn't any imagination he is
saved the necessity of exposing the shameful nakedness
Of his cerebellum.
If business isn't quite up to the mark he applies the
goad of cutp prices basement junk and other piffle
just dishonest jockey 'dopes' aded horse for
last desperate race
The crowd comes of course-and they walk right in
and turn right around and walk right out again. grabbing
this and that which small profit and often loss is
made And the desperate process repeated every
day in the yearnothng fixed nothing solid nothing sub
stana daily fight to the last ditch for innitesmal
lncrease and not particle of increment for the future
"But," you say, Suppose wanted to change our
advertising methodswe couldn't do it. If we dropped
tns bargain advertising our business would drop with it.
That's true. The who has been taking morphine
for ten years can't chop it off in night or week or a
month.
But he can begin to reduce the doses.
And you at least begin to make your store known
for something in its advertising besides dreary desert
waste OF You put expert gunner in charge
instead of sloppy subatem
You continue to one-half or three-fourths of
your advertising space for bargain balderdash and the
balance for the creation of character.
Or you can begin to exalt stock your store
which deserves to be exatedyou begin to make your
self known the store for Silks the one store for
SUITS or dress goods or what not.
The right man will find the right way.
The only question is: "Do you want to be saved?,
Do you wont to build up character? Do YOU qpaut
to get distinct following?
Or have you been living from hand to mouth and from
day to day long that you like tjust as tramp gets
to prefer box to Pullman?
If the latter is the case-g good evening!
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
Is Your Business Run By Man
With Cotton Batting Brains?
BY THEODORE F. MACMANUs.

The deadlest period in stores development is that
in which the conclusion is reached that individuality in its
advertising is no longer needed-that mass OF
prices printed in almost any paper is sufficient.
From that time forward the store to have
SOUL because it to speak ntegenty of itself to
the general public dumb does by signs
and gestures.
Its growth under such regime is at first,
continued cashing in of past energy and advertising Ell
fort, After while it becomes automatic, and then-a
tremendous strain to keep crowds coming day after
day by dollhouse methods
These dollhouse methods consist in filling certain
space with certain amount of bargain baderdash This
bargain baderdash may continue to make sales indefinite
ly But not in ten years hundred years
give any store rag shred of character THE store
without character is infinitely off than the dog
that's been given bad name.
To be sure, such store will find it's following But its
thereafter will be creeping sweeping; and
it will never unless its policy be changed fire the magn
alton of the buying public by tremendous achievements
The usual first symptom Of this particular stage Of
mercantile senility is lowering in the caber of the
employed in the advertising department.
The standard of ability utilized in this department
never, perhaps, too highs dropped still lower. The
store says, reasonably enough All need is some one
who compile prices and decent looking lay
out. :"
So gentleman with brains Of cotton batting at sal
airy Of say four thousand dollars year, is made the ad
vertisng chief Of ten million dollar business.
With the inevitable result.
No man can give to the store that employs him any
more than he has in his head
So if the ten million dollar store hires four thousand
dollar with cotton batting brains to handle the great
est dynamic force in its equipment ten million dol
lar is absolutely certain to get four thousand dollar
cotton batting results.
You can't beat that conclusion by any possible pro
cess of arithmetic, geography or logic
My ideal of an advertising manager would be great
creative and constructive genius with mind like wide
angle lens who touched pencil to paper-but that
is another story.
The point want to fasten down for the moment with
double rvets is this as yo advertising u.s. so is yo
store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-11
SU N E r A / S

The body of the late Fred Simmons
will arrive in the city tonight on the
Milwaukee from Dallas, Texas. The
funeral services will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 2:3O o'clock from the
home of his mother, Mrs. Rachel Sim
mons, 1917 West street conducted by
Rev. w. II. HORNED, assisted by Rev.
F. G.: Davies. Interment will be made
in the Ottumwa cemetery.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
REVIEW BsBE ARIZONA WEDNESDAY, MORNING. APRIL M

The considerations which most in fuenced the president to appoint Judge Sloan governor were. doubt less, his excellent record on the bench and his strongly conservative lean ings. as well as his freedom from any factionai alliance that might tend to Impair his influence and usefulness as executive head of the territorial government, and we believe it is not assuming too much to say that Gov ernor Sloan will enter upon the du- ties and responsibilities of the high ofiee with the good will of the peo- pie of Arizona"
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
NOTICE.
PLEASED WITH GOV. SLOAN.

Commenting on the appointment Of Judge slcan as governor Of the ter r!tory the Globe silver-Belt says:
 +.The selection of Judge Sloan 10 be governor of Arizona should go far to- ward healing the factional discord n the republican party of the territory. which has been 50 pronounced during the past year. Not that a majority of Arizona's sturdy citizens are espe- cialfy interested in republican family quarrels, except insofar as they Inter fere with the harmonious administra- tion of the affairs of government com nIltted to federal appointees. But this. it must be admitted, is a considera- tion of much import, having mater ial bearing upon our business and so- cial progress. and vitally affecting our standing at Washington with the pow Sto lAdt bt dl q t4I4c N4tu Mt dAE pleading before an indifferent. if not an unfriendly, congress for the recog milton of our rights 10 become full fiedged citizens.
 Judge Sloan has been a resident of Arizona for more than quarter of a century and associate justice of our supreme court since 1888. with the ex- ception of four years covered by Grover Cleveland's second term as president. During his long service on the bench Judge Sloan has wisely refrained from active participation in politics, has preserved the high digni- ty of his high office and won the re- spect and confidence of his associates, the bar and of the people who have observed, his course as judge and cit izen.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14

in Florence Saturday renewing old acquaintances and viewing old scenes of which he has pleasant memories. MT. Doran is to be the superintendent of the Pioneer home, an institution created by the late legislature. The governor could not have selected a more fit man for the place. as Little Jim as he was familiariy called when he resided here. Is himself a pioneer and knows just how to care for and manage those deserving ola trail-builders through the wilderness. who will be given shelter in the Pion- eer home.-Florence Tribune.
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
MINING FURNISHES GREATEST TONNAGE FOR RAILROADS.

The published volume containing the proceedings of the eleventh am naal session of the American Mining congress. held at Pittsburg. Pa. last December has just been received and contains many articles of interest to the mining fraternity. Among the ad- dresses delivered was one by Edward II. Hartman. Americas railroad king.
 Mir. Hartman gave some interest ing facts concerning the tonnage Of
 freight hauled by railroads. showing that the crude products of the mines furnished 5s per cent of the total freight tonnage handled by the raii- roads of this country during the yese ending June %. 1906. while the manu- gactured products Of the mines fur nished an additional Il per cent; so hat the mineral products furnished for that year 64 per cent of the total amount Of freight carried by the rail roads.
 During the same year the products Of the forests furnished II per cent of the total; agricultural products 8 per cent. and manufactured other than from mine products i per cent; which comparison brings out very clearly the overwhelming magnitude of the mining industry.
 Mir Hartman stated that the miner and the railroad builder were the two great advance agencies which made possible the immense industrial de- velopment which has occurred be- tween the Alleghenies and the Pacific coast during the last sixty years. . President Taft expressed his desire to assist in every possible way Tn the  development of mining. stating that the mining industry had grown to such proportions that it was deserv- ing of all the assistance which the government could bestow upon IL.
 Senator Charles Dick of Ohio was one of the speakers who fully the importance and mag nitude of our country's mining inter- ests, and in an able address pointed put the necessity that existed for the of a bureau of mines of the NIT. Dick has been the of this bill in the senate for several years
 One of the themes widely discussed was conservation in mining both as regards material resources, and that more important factor-human life. The speakers being Carroll D. Wright,
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
NOISE AND
 PATRIOTISM.

In the June, 1908. number of the Century magazine. Mrs. Isaac l.. Rice contributed very strong and remark able article dealing with the barbar- ous methods by which Americans eel ebrate the Fourth of July. This ar ticle has recently been reprinted In pamphlet form and is having wide cir culation.
 Mrs. Rice in handling the subject has collected vast and formidable array of newspaper clippings which strongly voice a protest against our present method of celebrating the na- tional birthday. which has been aptly described as our annual orgy of noise, fire and blood" In such list
 might be Included every American paper of any consequence. for the newspapers of America have been of one opinion in regard to the need less and awful cost in life and limb which our present method of observ- ing the Fourth entails. But they have merely urged against the thing without offering any means by which 1t might be prevented. The general attitude toward our bloody and noisy Fourth seems to have been that it is a necessary evil which may be miti- gated and Iessened but not eliminated altogether. No substitute has been offered for the noise with which we express patriotism and our reverence for heroes. And so the carnival of gunpowder has gone on. says an ex- change.
 And in this Mrs. Rice's article evi- dences it's great appeal She would have Americans see Jhow other nations celebrate holidays without deci- nation of population. She would have us see that no other nation has cele- bratlons which annually claim human sacrifices, but rather how they are able to make of a holiday a great, happy and beneficial occasion entire ly safe to life. limb and property.
 Having written to various well known people in other lands, she has offered the following extract from a letter from Marcel Provost, the emi- nent French writer:
 "The fate of July fl is above all. in France a day of popular rejoicing; politics do not enter into it. It af- lords an opportunity of Illuminating the town halls and public buildings and of indulging in the pleasure of dancing in the open air. In a word, 1t is a huge kermess. It has always taken place in order and tranquility Accidents are rare. even in Paris. And since the review at Longchamps has humanely been arranged to take place at in the morning instead of at noon, the troops do not run the risk of sunstroke. which sometimes saddened the early fetes of July A."
 From Dr. Eugene Richard, member of the council of state of Switzerland, she has this statement concerning the
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14

Hon, A. J. Doran of Prescott was
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
PREDICTS TIDAL WAVE:
 INHABITANTS LEAVE TOWN

TAMPICO, Mexico, April 13.-Mexi- cans are nothing if not superstitious and anything in connection with rc- ligion throws theT anic. Just recently spiiitdslisf ss predicted that this port is to be d--frcyed by a great Gday wave, ard the -"ger class is leaving in large n1mber- 70 be out of the way when the calamity comes. The spirituaiist is still here but the authorities say he is roi1- -o move the first vessel leaves port
Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-14
method in which the Swiss observe the anniversary of the foundation of the confederation:

method in which the Swiss observe the anniversary of the foundation of the confederation:
 AS night descends the bells on all the churches are set to pealing in a sublime concert of gratitude, rising with penetrating poetry through the serenity and the softness of the sum mer night Shortly afterward bon fires are kindled along the heights Here and there win be a modest H. lumination or rare display of fire works. A noisy demonstration would take from us the benefit of thought ful mood. In order to prduce an i'm pression both profound and salutary national celebrations must needs have a prevailing tranquility"
 Prof Hugo Munsterberg of Harvard university has written this of the great German holiday, the emperor's birthday. which he celebrated in his boyhood:
 Tn Sunday clothes we gathered in the school: everything was decorat- cd with flowers and garlands and flags, and the whole school contin- uously, year bS year. was lifted up in a common pride and enthusiasm. Two or three of the happiest morning hours were devoted to the celebra- ton. and the jubilant hurrah for the beloved emperor at the end of the historic oration was the only sound of the day.
 Then we streamed out into the dec orated streets. enjoyed the pictur- esque parades and went to the con cert at the market place. where pa. triot,e marches kindled our youthful emotions. Quiet, mellow days they were. and any loud noise would have appeared to us boys as a desecration of the festivity."
 Of the emperor's birthday in Japan, which is the greatest of Japanese holi- days. the Japanese minister at Wash ington has said:
 ''On the emperor's birthday all of fees, schools, banks and large busi- ness houses are closed The national flag is hoisted on all public buildings schools and on most of the private houses all over the country. High d gnitaries, both civil and military, who are present in the capital, pro ceed to the palace of Toxio to present before the throne their congratula- tions for the occasion, while those in the country and abroad send their congratulatoFy messages by mail through the minister for the imperial household. In every school all over the country the day Is observed in a form appropriate to the occasion. One hundred and one salutes are fired from every fort in the empire The imper- ial review of the army is in regular order of the celebration of the day"
 These quiet. beautiful dignified ob- servances contrast sharply with our Fourth of July celebration, which an nually is as hideous for noise as 1t is awful for death and casualties. A sane celebration Is a matter which must come individually, and so long as each individual contributes his share to the methods which make noise and destruction, we shall con time to have q distressing calamitous Fourth.