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The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-07


Gated at Decatur, in the county of De-
catur, at the close of business on the
3Oth day of August, A. D., 1911, made
to the auditor of the state as required
by law.
Amount of bills bonds and other
evidences OF debt discounted or
purchased actually owned by
bank carried out J.. ; S3, lob.ll
Amount of cash on hand, descrb-
ed follows
Silver s;Ge COIN COIN and bullion 80 1122ss
Legal tender and
tionaI bank
and subsidiary con $279l0O
Drafts and checks
other solvent banks
and other cash items
not dishonored, on
hand and belonging
to the bank 57455 3,365.55 620oT3
Amount subject to be drawn at
sight deposit with solvent
banks bankers specifying
and local ions of banks):
Live Stock Exchange National
Bank Chicago l,45o.5I
Corn Exchange National Bank,
Chicago l,ooo.33
VALLEY Natl Bank. Des Mones 3,64lO9
Iowa National Bank, Des Moines ao6o.se l43aea 1
Overdrafts 2,294.% 2294V
Value OF real property towned by ~
the bank $4,000 oo1o.ol
Total Assets $lose5lso
LIABILITIES
Amount of capital stock actually
paid up in cash floooooo
Total amount due depositors, as
follows
check s4647948
Amount demand deposits $4,000
Amount time deposits oO,46Uoo 9s,4LooN
! Indebtedness OF every kind, due
, banks. bankers, persons
i other than regular depoaitors:
Bills payable ........ 49,. -. ..... None
Re-dscounts. None.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1911-09-07
STATEMENT
of the condition of
Decatur State
Savings Bank

organized under the laws of Iowa, To-
Gated at Decatur, in the county of De-
catur, at the close of business on the
3Oth day of August, A. D., 1911, made
to the auditor of the state as required
by law.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

and long period of civil and social
turmoil in that ancient land. First OF
all, the Manchus, seasoned in intrigue
graft, and chicanery, will die hard. Fol-
long time the reactionary forces in
China will be a mighty menace to free
institutions. In the second place, the
people of China, unused to the admin
istration of their government, will find
the guiding of the ship of state no easy
task. That they will quarrel among
themselves, that faction will oppose fac
ton, is inevitable, and possibly revolu-
ton will succeed revolution before last
ing peace and prosperity settles down
upon the Oldest of the nations.
This does not seem to daunt the re-
publican spirit in China, and should moi
discourage the rest of the world The
experience of the Occident, however
forces the conclusion that republicanisn
in the Orient has long and hard road
to travel before it reaches the goal oil
safety and peace.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Government Statistics.

Some OF the trade papers are taking
Census Director Durand to task for
what they term his imperfect and use
less figures on lumber The crit
cism is aimed at the recently published
report of the Census Bureau on the
output of lumber, laths, and shingles
covering the period from 1907 to 1910,
inclusive
Attention is called to the fact that
the reported production for 1910 is some
hundreds OF thousands OF feet less
than in 1900, which is explained in the
report by the statement that the totals
of 1909 we're made from data taken
down by the census enumerators in the
field, while those of 1910 were compiled
from data received at the bureau through
correspondents. Commenting upon this
method of gathering statistics, the New
York Lumber Trade Journal declares
that at best the effort to secure any
thing approaching actual statistics in a
widespread industry like lumber is alb
solutely impossible, and the editor of
the Journal asserts that any conclusions
arrived at from the government tables
are of little value 1t is also suggested
that the information contained in the
report is not worth what it cost. and
that the Census Bureau is maintained
chiefly to furnish political jobs, and
not because of the value of its sta
tistics.
This, of course, is an extreme view,
for the tables on lumber compiled by
the government have much more value
than the contemporary quoted is will
ing to admit. The fact is that the Ium-
Der trade journals, some of them very
enterprising, never give the country any
statistics upon which to form an intelli-
gent conception of the output from this
important industry. The government
figures are all we have, confessedly
short of the real production as they
are. The one thing to be said in favor
of Director Durand's report is that it
lshows positively that the output of lum-
Der for the period covered amounted
to the totals given, lacking only such
additions as the enumerators and CORE
spondents were unable to discover. Even
the critics do not deny this. If these are
the only figures available, therefore, and
Il they are made as accurate as pos
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
The Big Cotton Crop.

Southern newspapers just now take
a pessimistic view Of the cotton out
look. Commenting on the subject. the
Charleston Post says that South Caro-
lima never produced so much cotton as
this year. nor ever had so much of the
staple left unpicked in the field At
lanta papers repeat similar statement
for Georgia. and the same holds true in
Mississippi. Alabama. and Texas
Some observers go so far as to say
that a considerable portion of the est
mated crop of I4,885,ooo bales will be
left unpicked where it was grown. be-
cause the planters do not think it worth
while to gather in and haul to market
9-cent cotton. A few Southern editors
assume kind OF vengeful tone in their
utteranccs, as though it would be well
to punish the world because it is not
willing to pay more than the current
price. and they blame the planters for an
overproduction which has made the
present prices possible
There is an economic view Of the
situation which intrudes, and, while it
does not serve to salve the sore of the
Southern planter, it is still worthy of
consideration. This is that the world
wants cotton. and desires to procure
it as chcaply as it can be produced This
is the motive behind countless expert
ments in various parts Of the world to
raise cotton and divide the producing
area so that it shall not all be con-
fined to one fortunate nation. Some
who have studied the matter deeply
maintain that the world should be sup
piled with cotton at a maximum of 10
cents pound. and that experiments in
its culture will not cease until that is
obtained.
As some of the Southern contem-
porarics point out, the enormous crop
OF the present year is due directly to
the large acreage of 1911. inspired by
the shortage and high prices of 1910.
The results show. however. what many
have long held, that the South is able
to grow an average crop of 100000
bales. which the world stands ready to
consume at about 10 cents a pound.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Peace in China.

Recent dispatches from the Orient
bring the cheering statement that ne
gotiations now pending between the
revolutionists and the Manchus promise
peace in the near future 1t appears
that the revolution has now attained
such power that not only is it in po-
sition to dictate terms of peace, but
that the Manchus are Selling upon the
negotiations as the last resort of lost
cause
At this distance, it is, perhaps, not
possible to judge accurately the merits
of the situation, and in America there
has been almost from the beginning
much sympathy with the rebels in their
efforts to throY off the yoke of oppres-
sion which they have patiently borne for
centuries. Their success is not looked
upon with disfavor in this country,
where the citizen enjoys freedom as his
birthright. If, therefore, the Chinese
revolutionists succeed in driving out a
reactionary and tyrannous monarchy
and in establishing constitutional gov
eminent they will suffer nothing in the
estimation of Americans.
However, it is feared that the estab-
lishment of a republic in China. in WHICH
the people shall rule, as they do in
Great Britain or France or. America,
will not come without much struggle
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR.
By FRED c. KELLY.

is the result Next to the four Senator
Smiths, the La FoIlettes have more mail
trouble than anybody.
A great many persons in the State Of
Washington think that the Representa-
tive from their Third district is the pro-
gressive candidate for President.
Wouldn't it be a merry joke II Senator
La Toilette would get delegation from
Washington and the instructions should
read, For Hon. William L. La Toilette"
and some other candidate would file
demurrer, or something like that?
Last summer Representative La Fol-
lette dropped in at a tailoring place in
Spokane to be surveyed for suit Of
clothes The tailor took down his meas
urements and told him to come in the
next morning at 10 o'clock for a try on.
The Congressman was there on time, but
could hardly get into the shop for the
crowd around the door-all desiring to
have a look at the progressive candidate
for President
Representative La Toilette is a good
deal of a fellow himself. When he was
lad OF sixteen he started from his ma
tive Indiana-he was born six days too
late to be a native OF Wisconsin-and
travelled to the wilds of the Columbia
River country in Washington. He went
as far as he could. then pawned his watch
at a little trading post and went still
farther. A few years later he had &C
quired $500 acres Of land, and he has
been touted as the fruit king Of the
Northwest. At the present time he Is
probably worth considerably more than
rfa nf NJ
able to keep a fur-lined overcoat II he
wishes to. AS an example Of his dis
position to go in for things on a big
scale, he has a family Of seven children.
Some one suggested to Representative
La Toilette, shortly after election, that
it is a long journey from Washington
State to Washington, d. c.
Long trip?" repeated La Toilette.
why. it's just like going around the cor
ner to the grocery"
He was thinking Of the first journey
he made East from Washington, to visit
is parents in Indiana. The nearest rail-
road was at Salt Lake City, 900 miles
from his home. La Toilette made the
trip on horseback. and led another horse
that bore his provisions.
Representative Cary, OF Wisconsin,
is one OF those few Congressman who
know all the little hooks about the
Capital that will interest visitors. When
any of his constituents come along he
is able to show them about the big
building and talk intelligently about the
oil paintings and statues and the cost
OF running the place.
Tom Patten. who represents one OF
the New York City districts, is another
good Capitol guide. When he became
a Congressman last spring. he made 1t a
point to receive instruction about all
the ms and outs of the building from an
expert, and he can now pilot constitu-
ent about the place with as much sang
froid as II it were Coney Island or the
lobby OF the Waldorf-Astoria-
Copyright, 1911. BY Fred G. Kelly. All rEhtS
reserypS),
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
She Would Throw Stones.

Miss Elizabeth Freeman, suffragette,
has publicly presented the astounding
doctrine that women might as we'll
learn how to throw stones straight"
before they attempt to vote. 1t appears
that Miss Freeman took part in the
English suffrage riots. and has come
back to America with the message that
the women here should learn thoroughly
the most primitive form of attack against
the person of an enemy before assail-
ing the prejudice of men regarding the
right to use the ballot
If the advice of Miss Freeman is to
be taken seriously by American women
it affords the enemies of female suf-
frage much encouragement. If women
are to wait until they can throw stones
straight" before pressing for the ballot
the battle will be some time delayed
The most available records fail to show
one instance in which a woman ever
threw a stone and hit a mark. 1t is
conceivable that a crowd of men might
be in some danger from a crowd OF
women throwing stones, especially il
the men were spread over considerable
territory; but the hits would surely be
purely accidental.
Miss Freeman either has forgotten. or
purposely ignores, the simple physiology
cal fact that the long collar bone in a
woman's shoulder makes it impossible
for her to throw stones easily. let alone
with accuracy. Providence may have
intended that women should vote in
due process of time, but an effectual
ban was placed upon their throwing
stones straight when Eve was created.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
improved Trade Conditions.

Signs multiply that the year 1912 will
mark a distinct revival of business in
the United States, if not throughout
the world. In almost every line of
commercial activity indications point to
larger trade, increased production, and
greater confidence in the outlook.
Within the past ten days the financial
world was taken completely by surprise
when unexpectedly large orders for
structural steel and iron were recorded
in the chief producing centers. Travel
ing men coming home to trading houses
for the holidays are bringing far greater
orders than were expected, Banks as
the financial basis for credit were never
in better shape, and it looks now as
though the business world was about to
stop worrying over the political bogy
and attend 10 its legitimate affairs OF
industry. trade. and investment Far
seeing men are reaching the conclusion
that while the meddling of politics with
business is annoying and productive of
uncertainty. it is like the bark of the
dog which does not bite. and more and
more the idea is growing that activity
will do more to clear the atmosphere
than anything else.
There IS no gainsaying the fact that
business has been through a very try
ing period of encouragement and IN
certainty because of political attack,
Congressional probing, and court pro-
ceedings Out OF it all, however, is
coming better understanding of the
rights of capital and feeling of Sc
curity that the people of the country
are really not the enemies but the
friends OF business-big business-hon-
esily and Iegitimately conducted. Re
sulting from this better feeling is ap-
parently a revival Of business, effectual
and far-reachIng
1t is evident that corporate industry
has reached the point where it realizes
that il can no longer pursue selfish ends
to the injury of the community. and the
more intelligent business men are now
working hand in hand with govern
mental authority to bring about better
conditions.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
AT 20 CENTS A MILE.
CauStic Comments on the Action
of the House.

From the Philadelphia Record.
Congressman Palmer. of Pennsylvania
the Democratic Palmer-made a daring
effort to break up or at least reduce the
mileage graft, and while he failed he lid
himself. his party and his State honor.
and sooner or later this hoary inquiry
will fall. Congress voted travelling ex-
penses at the rate of % cents a
mile when travel was by stage coach,
and many nights had to be spent at way
side taverns, and many meals had to be
eaten in progress. The mileage allow
ance knows nothing of railroads, nothing
of modern means of travel, nothing of
crossing the continent in four days. So
far as mileage goes, members of Con-
gress are still travelling by private car
rage or stage coach at the rate of fifty
of sixty miles day and putting up at a
tavern every night.
Mr. Palmer ted the House that his
round-trip ticket from Stroudsburg cost
him $1O.3O but he drew $103 mileage TO
cover his expenses, and as n compromise
measure he proposed to make the mileage
10 cents instead of 20. But TO a
large proportion of members this mileage
allowance means several hundred dollars,
and to the members from the Pacific
coast it is worth more than 5000 for
one term. So they rallied to the support
of the concealed graft. and Mr.. Palmer
was defeated. But he was right and he
did an honorable thing.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
ADOPTS PENSION SYSTEM.
Sugar Trust VIII Provide for Vet
Gran Employees.

From the New YORK Herald.
Directors of the American Sugar Rein
ing Company. at a meeting held several
days ago, decided to set aside the sum Of
$500, 900 as the nucleus of a pension fund
for employees of the corporation and OF
all companies whose stock is owned or
controlled by IT, A pension system has
been decided upon which will affect IN
all about 1900 employees Of the corpora
ton.
The board appointed a pension COM
mittee, which shall have authority 10
place employees on the pension or sick
benefit list II is stated that all officers
or employees who are more than sixty-hve
years old may be retired at the option
of the company or at their own request.
In the case OF women the age Of re-
tirement may be sixty years.
The pension to be paid to retiring en-
plOyes will be an amount equivalent to
per cent OF the average annual wage
or salary during the ten years preceding
retirement, multiplied by the years of
service. No pension will be paid to ex-
coed the amount Of 5000 a year to any
individual. and no pension after a service
of twenty-five years is to be less than
$50 month;
After a service OF thirty years. and in
the case of women Of twenty-five years.
it is provided that officers and employees
may be permitted, if they so desire, to
retired on the outlined pension basis
whether they have reached the age of
sixty-five or not. In the case of officers
and employees originally in the service OF
companies which have been absorbed by
the American Sugar Refining Company
the date of employment will be reckoned
from the time of entering the service Of
the absorbed company.
Among other details Of the plan Is the
provision that all employees may be paid
the whole or a portion of their wages in
the case of enforced absence on account
Of sickness or accident. Special action
may be taken by the board in the case Of
wives or children of deceased employees
who have been in the service Of the cor
poration for many years.
The pension plan will be placed before
the stockholders Of the corporation at
their next annual meeting.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
The Empire Nose.

From the Baltimore Sun.
Have you an empire nose? II you have
not, you are hopelessly out of fashion,
and should set at once to remedy the de-
feet. Such a remedy Is possible. The
reign OF the empire styles in gowns is
said to account for the new fashion in
noses. Perhaps 1t may be the nose that
accords best with the seasons hats At
any rate, word comes from the other
side that French beauty specialists are
remodellng noses into the empire shape.
The empire nose has a sharp tip. 1t is
small and straight, coming to point at
the tip. To get this sharp tip the beauty
specialists squeeze the end of the nose
with cold cream until 1t comes to point
and the patient continues the treatment
at home. Ten squeezes night and morn
ing upon the tip OF the nose viii bring
It to . point IN q very short time.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

For some years it has been custom
to have a revolver on a shelf under the
desk of the private secretary to the Sec
rotary of the Treasury. II Is wicked
looking smoke wagon, with an opening
like the mouth of a sewer, and has been
kept there in readiness for the cranks
who make social calls at the Treasury
Department ever so often.
When Francis w. Taylor came on
from Chicago last spring to succeed Bob
Bailey as Secretary MacVeagh's private
secretary, one OF the first things he dis
covered was that Ubiquitous looking fire
arm. His first impulse was to utter
low wall, but he restrained himself and
called a brace OF Secret Service men to
remove the weapon. He explained that
he didn't know blooming thing about
firearms, had never seen revolver in
use except once on the stage OF the La
Sale Theater, and that he would have
less fear of an attack from without than
he would of EARRING the trigger OF the
revolver some day while busy at his
desk and shooting off his favorite toe.
The ecret Service men insisted that
the revolver had been kept there for
these many years, and that 1t would be
serious violation of custom and tradi-
ton II the private secretary were left
without protection. So Taylor suggested
that in place Of the revolver there be a
neat but inexpensive electric push but
ton that he could press with his knee,
without attracting attention, and sum-
mon a squat of Secret Service opera
tives II they should be needed.
The push button was placed underneath
the desk, and the incident was closed for
the time being.
Several weeks are supposed to have
elapsed before the next act OF the little
tragedy. One afternoon Jerry Mathews
correspondent for the New York Sun,
| dropped into Private Secretary Taylor
Z office, and the two exchanged three OF
four amusing stories. One of Mathews
stories was especially funny. and Taylor
laughed with great heartiness. He leaned
far back in his chair. closed his eyes, and
fairly writhed In his mIrth. When he
had laughed all he wanted to, he brushed
the tears away, looked about him-and
saw three men in the act Of laying vio-
lent hands on the innocent and thor
oughly well-intenuoned Mathews.
! Taylor had accidentally pressed the
little push button with his knee.
II Representative William L. La Fol
lette, of Washington, had known how
much trouble he was going to have get
ting his mail here in Washington, he
probably would have shrieked like hys-
terical woman when the home folks talk
ed OF sending him to Congress.
Every important letter or telegram ad-
dressed to him is delivered to his cousin,
| Senator r. NJ. La Toilette. And the thing
works backward. 1t causes just as much
annoyance to Cousin Bob as it does to
Cousin Bill Newspapers. circulars, and
souvenir post cards get delivered all right,
! but whenever there's an important tele-
gram or letter for one OF the La Fol
! lettes. requiring an immediate answer. II
( invariably finds 1t way to the wrong
! Office. and one "bawl up after another
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
BRITONS ANGER GERMANS.
POstpOnIng Exhibition Regarded a.
Symptomatic of Strained Relations.

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Berlin, Dec. 1S.-The postmonement in
London OF the great Anglo-German eX-
hibitiOn, which was to have been held
here in 1913. is regarded in Berlin as
highly symptomatic Of the strained state
Of Anglo-German relations.
The exhibition has been put of only
one year. but the impression prevails
here that the promoters actually mean
to bury the project. in view of the bad
blood which now exists on both sides.
Competent observers agree that the
Anglophobism at present prevailing in
the fatherland is far more bitter. even.
than that which ragged during the Boer
war.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19

sible under the circumstances, why
this effort of the lumber press to dis
credit them? Is it possible that the
lumber trade does not want any state
ment of the output of the industry, lest
some curious persons may inquire too
closely into the operations of the large
associations which are said to control
output and prices by methods that are
best kept secret?
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
Live. in the Wrong State.

From the Charleston News and Courier.
One of the gubernatorial candidates in
Louisiana seems to aspire to the position
on the ground OF a successful business
career, which consisted in the main, ap-
parently. in specializing In State lands
while himself a State officer and in a po-
sition to take advantage OF the situation.
A man with such a record in Pennsyl-
vania would win in a walk.
The Washington herald., 1911-12-19
THANKS DUE THE HERALD.


Editor The Washington Herald:
\ short time ago a splendid article in
the interest of the work being done at
the Colored Social Settlement appeared.
On behalf Of the officers, the board of
trustees and the settlement workers, l
have the honor to express to you their
heartfelt. thanks and very high apprecia-
ton for the valuable assistance you have
thus rendered to their work for COM
munity betterment.
Assuring you that in this article we
acknowledge and fully appreciate one
more addition to your very many cOntri-
buttons to the cause of humanity. l have
the honor to be, most respectfully yours,
JOHN r. FRANCIS.
President Social settlement.