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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
JAPANESE ENTERPRISE.

Japan has forged ahead remarkably
In late years There is no doubt that
it's progress in the future will be more
rapid, for the Nipponese have shown
remarkable ability in searching out
and adopting the trade methods of the
other countries. The latest illustration
of this Japanese enterprise is afforded
by the tour of this country being made
by a party of the leading men OF
Japan, experts on all manners of sub
jects. A detailed inspection and study
is being made of the manufacturing
plants, stores, power plants, educa-
tional institutions, hospitals, public
buildings, banks and other institu-
tons. The idea in studying all these
things is to discover points which may
be of use in Japan.
The Japanese party has been sub
divided into twenty-one committees
and the things these committees are
studying include banking, foreign
trade, cotton and silk trade, agricul-
ture and horticulture, cotton manu-
facturers, stock brokerage, ship build
ing and contracting, car manufacture
ing, electric power, municipal and
charitable administration, education,
medical science, chambers of com
merce, dry goods and department
stores, clay industry, machinery,
American tariff, warehouses, newspa-
pers and publications, transportation
and city traffic.
The Japanese are proceeding with
their eyes open, as may be judged by
an Interview given by Baron Shibu-
sawa, one of the party, who spoke Of
the waste in numbering and agricul-
ture in this country Baron Shibusawa,
who is credited with being the founder
of modern Japanese commerce and
who is known as "the ]. Pierpont Nor
gan of Japan" said:
There is one thing which we would
not care to follow in Japan. That is
what l may call the waste both in
numbering and agriculture. You are
being too free with your resources. it
seems to us, for we in Japan have
learned by the experience of the wears
that natural resources must be cared
fol-. most carefully if they are to cope
with the needs of the nation in times
to come
I'VE saw a waste of timber which
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
NO "FRoST" IN IOWA.

Burlington Hawk-Eye-The concert
ed effort being made by certain in
surgent Republican editors and cor
respondents to give the people of the
United States the impression that
Iowa gave President Taft chilly re-
ception Is misleading and unwarrant-
ed. The president, everywhere in his
trip across the state, even in Des
Moines, the hotbed Of insurgency, was
given cordial and warm-hearted re-
ception. He was greatly pleased with
it, as were his encourage and his
friends at all points along the route.
1t Is quite true there was not the
uproar of boisterous demonstration
that would greet Mr.. Roosevelt. The
latter was the embodiment of focus of
all that is dramatic and spectacular in
big crowd. Mr., Taft never excited
that intense enthusiasm incident to
the demonstrative figure at San Juan,
and on the plains of the west, and in
a thousand situations of popular pub
licity which evoked much personal en-
thuSiaSm. The contrast of PERSONAL
ties is marked. The contrasting pic
ture in public thought is Mr.. Taft, the
lawyer, the dignified judge on the
bench, the distinguished public official
COMFORTING with all the proprities of
exalted position. Such character
elcts the highest respect, confidence
and good will of the people; as does
also Melville w. Fuller, chief justice of
the United States, but over whom
''the boys" would not become hilarious
ly iubilant. There is feeling of pro-
found public respect for the present
chief executive, and it is everywhere
manifested And he is a most likeable
man people are coming into deeper
love for the genial, broad-minded and
ever just and faithful William Howard
Taft. 1t is not true that he travelled
through an arctic region" when he
journeyed across Iowa. The people
gave him splendid greeting everywhere
and he has left profound and endur-
ing favorable opinion in the minds Of
the people of both political parties.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
osTER's WEATHER
ETlN
tCopyrighte1 1909 by ", T.
Gostcr.)

Washington, D. c., Sept. 25.-Last
bulletin gave forecasts of disturbance
to cross continent % to &c, warm
wave 81 to %, cool wave "a to %.
This disturbance was expected to be
preceded by very low temperatures,
the week centering on "a to average
unusually cool, electric storms not far
| from "a and cooler than usual balance
of September.
Next disturbance will reach Pacific
coast about &c, cross Pacific slope by
close of 81, great central valleys % to
so, eastern states and provinces Oct.
1. Warm wave will cross Pacific
slope about 26, great central valleys
2S, eastern states and provinces 80.
Cool wave will cross Pacific slope
about 20, great central valleys Oct /,
eastern states and provinces Oct. 3.
This disturbance will cause severe
storms as it passes eastward across
the continent. 1t will be preceded by
moderate weather and will be follow
ed by cold wave that will carry
trosts TO the northern borders of the
cotton belt Moderate rains will fol
low the warm wave.
First disturbance of Oct. will reach
Pacific coast about /, cross Pacific
slope by close of 2, great central val
leys 8 to 5, eastern states and prov
inces 6. Warm wave will cross Pacific
slope about 1, great central valleys
longitude 105 to 85-Oct 8, eastern
states and provinces 5. Cool wave will
cross Pacific slope about 4, great cen
trail valleys eastern states and prov
inces 8
Temperatures will not go very high
with this disturbance while preceding
and following it unusually cool weather
will prevail. 1t will be most severe on
the Pacific slope and will decrease in
force as it moves eastward. Not much
rain is expected during the week of
>this disturbance. The severe storm
periods of Oct. will center on 1 and
IS and %. The month will be I'M
usually cold. Killing frosts will go
unusually far south about Oct. 16 and
% with lighter frosts near Oct. 1.
Most precipitation will come from to
16. Indications are that heavy rains
will fall during October where the
August drouth prevailed and dry
weather elsewhere
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
The canny Carnegie in Church.

Andrew Carnegies philanthropy
was being praised on the piazza of an
Atlantic City hotel
"Mr. Carnegie" said an aged Pitts
burg clergyman, is as profoundly re-
ligious as he is profoundly charitable.
All the same"
He smiled.
"Mr Carnegie attended some years
ago one Of my business mems week
day services. Seeing him in the CON
gregation and unaware that he was
not used to praying extempore, / said,
after the first hymn:
I'VE will now be led in prayer by
Brother Carnegie
Mr.. Carnegie rose, very red and
fiustered.
Let us engage, first of ALL, he
stammered, in few minutes of silent
prayer.
I'VE all obediently bowed our heads
and closed our eyes, and Mr.. Carnegie
tlptoeing out, escaped. Baltimore
Star.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
Moi Like His Eather

Professor Robert Herrick possesses
full share, Of the artists sensitive.
ness in regard to the inartistic. Some
years ago he had for next door neigh,
bors family among whose charms
good taste was lacking.
One morning the professors little
daughter made an unexpected call at
the house of this family. Show me
the rug in your ROOM" she demanded
with childish imperiousness.
The lady of the house suppressed
her wonder and took her little visitor
upstairs. Inside the door the child
stood and stared at the rug for cou.
pie of minutes HIM" she said. and
sat herself firmly in a chair, her eyes
glued to the rug. Finally she confided
to her wondering hostess. well, it
doesn't make me sick. Success.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28

seemed to US very terrible in the lum-
Der districts, and we also saw big
stretches where trees had been burn
ed by forest fires and where no at
tempt Is being made 10 reforest the
earth.
Then In agriculture we found that
farmers did not attend to the main
tenauce of the fertilization of the soil,
as we would consider wise in Japan.
There is waste on the farms, but your
resources are so amazing that thus far
you have not noticed It,"
The Japanese are entitled to great
credit for their achievements in COM
MERGE as we'll as for their prowess on
the battle field. They have achieved
their success by adopting the plans
that have brought success in other
countries. This method may lack
something in originality, but 1t does
not seem to be lacking in sound re-
suits.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
OTTUMWA COURIER

subyert that government, and then to
proclaim this conduct from his pres
ent seat In that government, Is as bad
taEte as we, can we'll imagine.
This Is laid without heat It Is said
in full consciousness of the private
virtues of the three southern gentle.
men whom the secretary of war has
selected for his homage
The point Is simply this: These are
not the men and theirs is not the flag
for high officer of the United States
government to pay his public homage
to and that is what the head of the
war department of the United States
has done.
AS long as some men are eternally
right in this world, and others are
eternally wrong; as long as this North
American Union Is a government wor-
thy Of our love and deserves to be
continued on the face of the earth;
as long as an oath of allegiance is
more than scrap of paper and our
love Of country Is more than mere
fiction, 1t is at least unfit, grossly un-
f1t for member of the United States
government to proclaim even his per-
sonal and private fealty to the cause
which sought to abolish this nation
Y All things are not as they seem to
all. A man can think he is right and
be wrong. Millions can do the same.
But the everlasting verities abide
just the same.
Jacob Dickinson Of Chicago is free
to accept or denv this, as he pleases.
But the United States secretary Of
wa is not, He has no alternative. He
must accept it, and act on it, or be
condemned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
WHEN TAXES WERE HIGH.

The Burlington Hawk-Eye takes ex-
cept1ons to the complaints heard here
and there that taxes are high and are
constantly growing higher. On the
contrary the Hawk-Eye holds that
taxes were never so low as they are
today, that never before did the tax
payer get so much for his money.
And the taxes, it holds, were never so
high as they were in the oft-lauded
|<'good old times" when the taxpayers
got practically nothing for their mon
ey. The Hawk-Eye goes on to make
its position clearer:
To be sure taxes are higher NV
on the face of the returns Not so
many years ago no city in Iowa paid
park taxes, and the man who would
have suggested a tax Of that kind
would have been overwhelmed with
protests. All Iowa cities pay park
taxs today, and are glad to do it, and
believe that they are getting full value
and something over in return.
In the good old times there wera
no public libraries. You subscribed to
private circulating library, or you
went without books There was some
objection when public library tax
was first proposed. but there are none
now who would like to see the library
abolished, and it is generally consider
ed valuable adjunct of our educa-
tional system
We had no boards of health to main
tain in the good old times" There
were no sanitary sewers there was
no inspection, there was no machinery
for combating, and still better, for
guarding against and preventing dis
ease. Our statistics are far from COM
plete, but for his money the taxpayer
now gets chance to live longer and
to live better than he ever did before.
That ought to be worth something.
There was no public light to speak
OF, there was no water service, there
was no paid fire department, there
was practically no we'll organized ~.
lice force. there was no permanent
improvements, in fact there was very
little of anything in those good old
days" that we consider indispensable
now. And the taxpayer was taxed
much more heavily than he is today
If the benefits are considered which
he enjoys.
The same argument might be adj
vanced In answer to the statements as
to the increased cost of living, which
is more often an increased demand
for luxuries which we never thought
of IN our less prosperous days
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
Hov Washington Views the Speech
Made by President Taft at Des Moines

the control of railroad capitalization.
Strong demand will be made by many
radical Republican members next win
ter that this proposed legislation be
put through. Well-informed Interstate
commerce commission officials say 1t
VIII be impossible to get such legisla-
ton through the Senate and that the
Senate will kill 1t. But it is to be re-
membered that the Presidents In
fluence back of this movement will be
strong and that there is great deal of
public sentiment for it. Bills for the
control of railroad capitalization are
already pending. One of the most COM
prehensive of these Is measure by
Senator Dolliver of Iowa. He has been
giving great deal of study to the
subject, He Is no longer a member OF
the Senate committee on Interstate
commerce, as he gave up place on
that committee to allow Senator Cum
minis to get on. But he will urge the
passage of the bill.
One of the most potent arguments
for control of railroad capitalization is
the one which has been advanced by
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Lane. He asserts that vast quantities
of European capital await investment
ment control of capitalization is had
MIR. Lane is fully convinced 1t Is a
short sighted policy for railroad off,
Gals to stand in the way of govern
ment control of capitalization.
The great question which the efforts
to get legislation for the control of
railroad capitalization will raise in
Congress is whether there should be
any interference with existing railroad
stocks and bonds. The view taken in
Senator Delivers bill is that the gov
eminent. having done nothing all these
years to control capitalization, ought
not step in nov, and attempt to squeeze
the water out of railroad securities.
But he would have 1t from this time
forth exercise careful scrutiny over
issues Of stocks and bonds which rail-
road companies desire to float. The
other idea, advanced by Senator La
Toilette and others, is that the roads
are now heavily overcapitalized and
that the first step in government con-
troll of capitalization is to value the
roads and find out where the solid sub
stances end and the water begin. Cap
ital and securities should be regulated
accordingly. according to this drastic
view, and then future issues of stock
and securities should be controlled as
to avoid any water.
1t is pointed out that If the railroads
fight off successfully the effort to
bring about a moderate method of con-
troll of capitalization, public sentiment
may demand more stringent control
which will go back of the face value OF
existing securities. For this reason, 1t
is deemed possible that a good many
longheaded railroad men and finan-
ciers will be found before long advo-
eating passage of a law to have the
government scrutinize future stock and
bond issues.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
SOME COOL AND TIMELY FACTS.

Chicago Inter Ocean.-The secre-
tary of war for the United States saw
fit on Wednesday to boast before a
southern audience that, in his home,
he always kept "conspicuously dis
played" the portraits of Jefferson Da-
Wis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert e.
Lee, land with them the Confederate
colors."
What Jacob Dickinson does as the
head of the house in his own home is
a matter of no public Importance.
But when, as secretary of war. he
sets forth publicly his private con-
duct for general ediication, he makes
that conduct a proper subject of com
ment
Therefore we are moved to say that
for a high officer of the United States
government, member of the presi-
dents cabinet, to display as the en-
blem of his American faith the flag of
the American citizens who took a
most conspicuous part, in the effort to
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
COOLEY ON SCHOOL REFORM.

! Edwin G.. Cooley, former superin.
tendent Of Chicago's educational sys
tenn, has written an article for a
school paper on 'The Adjustment Of
the School System to the Changed
Conditions OF the Twentieth Century
in which he advocates reform in our
scheme of education. MT. Cooley be-
lieves that the leisure class theory
of society has dominated the educa-
tional theories of the school," and that
while we have talked glibly about
giving every boy a chance to become
president of the United States, every
one knows that the chances Of this
happening are only one in several mil
IONS These chances, Mr.. Cooley
holds, hardly justify keeping the train
ing of all children along the lines that
seem likely to profit the few. Setting
forth his views that such a theory Of
opportunity as this can hardly be call
ed dmocratic, MI. Cooley continues:
"It is evident that this socalled
democratic opportunity of becoming
president is not real opportunity to
get the kind of education demanded
by the conditions of modern times. A
fairer one must be substituted for it.
A system Of schools that permits an
Increase in the number of the exploit
ing class can hardly claim to be dem
ocratic.
"We seem to be ready to care for
the fortunate youth who is able to re-
main in school until he is Is years of
age, giving him instruction that will
fit him for the professions, with all
the advantages of our splendid high
school equipment. We seem to grudge
the poor boy, who is compelled to go
to work, the opportunity to attend an
evening school for more than four Or
five months.
"There is little justice in this. Such
schools should be run the year around,
and should give as good opportunities
to the young people who wish to at
tend them as are given to the day
school pupils in our high schools I"
There is demand not only in the
cities, but in the smaller towns, for
night schools where the boy and girl
taken from school young in life to
serve as bread winners may continue
their education. In the great major
fly OF cases the boy and girl whose
school life is thus cut short cannot
afford to pay the tuition of the priv
ately conducted night schools. Then
too, they do not want the business
education upon which attention Is
largely centered in these schools.
What they want and what they need
ia more training in the fundamentals,
the sort of training they get in the up
per grades Of the grammar schools.
If attendance at such schools had to
be made compulsory it could be made
compulsory, but it is doubtful If the
services of truant officer would be
needed to urge the boy and girl, han
dicapped by being taken early from
school, to gain the ground they had
lost
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28

DR.. Henry Baird Favill, president OF
the Chicago tuberculosis institute has
the following to say concerning
athletics:
I wish to take unequivocally the
position that competitive athletics
under conditions prevailing at present
are serious bar to general physical
development. Whether in themselves
Objectionable depends upon circum.
stances. At present they usurp and
monopolize the field of physical de-
velopment to the extent of limiting
participation to those who have signal
ability. They concentrate interest up.
On competitive success and not upon
intrinsic physical superiority.
Until athletics can be put in their
proper position of exceptional demon.
stration functions they will continue
to be seriously pernicious factor in
this educational field"
After reading that over three or
four times and allowing those extra
syllable words to sink in the reader
will probably reach the conclusion
that Doc. has some vocabulary.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-09-28
Washington Bureau of
Washington, d. c., Sept. "a

| Washington. d. c., Sept. "a.
Presidents Taft's utterances in his
| pea Moines speech on the subject of
| further Interstate commerce legislation
are being given almost as close atten-
| ton as his Ltterances on the tariff. He
mas dwelt with number of important
| phases of railroad legislation which
VIII be given serious consideration by
| Congress next winter. All the indica-
lions now are that railroad and cor
| poration questions will be the Invest
issues of the next regular session and
1T Is quite plain the President is bent
on Keeping the subject well to the
front.
1t mas been understood here for some
days, since the meeting of several of
the cabinet lawyers and members of
the interstate commerce commission in
New York. for the purpose of making
| recommendations to the President on
changes in the interstate commerce
laws that the outcome would not be
what great many have been predict
ing. That is, 1t has been known here
that the members of the interstate
| commerce commission, Chairman
Knapp and Judge Prouty. took strong
stand against dividing the powers of
the commission and stripping 1t of adj
lministrative authority. 1t has been I'M
derstood here that their stand was
successful. President Taft has thus far
| made no recommendation for dividing
the authority now possessed by the
commission. He has recommended
large additions to the commissions
authority. This strengthens the belief
here that the idea of taking from the
| commission it's administrative author
lity and making 1t quasi judicial
body will be entirely given up and that
little more will be heard of 1t. Presi-
dent Taft alludes to difficulties found
in the way of working it out which
have not yet been solved, and while
he does not specifically say no more
effort will be made to solve them, that
| is the understanding here. 1t Is the
| idea of the President that the com
mission should not have the power to
| push investigation of the validity of
its orders before the interstate com
merce commission court which he
proposes but that this should be left
to the Department of Justice.
! The proposition to divide the COM
MISSIONS power would have stirred up
| a great controversy in congress and
would have been bitterly opposed by
| the interstate commerce commission. 1t
| is likely It would have befogged the
question whether rate regulation is to
| be more drastic in number of par
| ticulars. For that reason, those who
are anxious for more railroad legisla-
| ton next winter are glad that the
President has not recommended the re-
moval of the administrative authority
from the commission.
| AS viewed here, one of the largest
questions the President has raised is
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An lrreparabIe Loss.

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
What has happened to me?" asked
the patient when he had recovered
from the effects of the ether.
you were in trolley car acct
dent" said the nurse, "and it has been
found necessary to amputate your
right hand
He sank back on the pillows sob
bling aloud.
Cheer up" said the nurse, patting
him on the head, you'll soon learn TO
get along all right with your left
hand"
Oh, it wasn't the loss of the hand
itself that / was thiiking Of" sighed
to victim But on the forefinger was
a string that my wife tied around it
to remind me to get something for her
this morning and now I'll never be
able to remember what it was"