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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
PANAMA's MEDICAL IMPORTANCE,


On the completion of the Panama
canal, there will be readjustment OF
routes of commerce and travel which
will radiate from the canal to all
parts of the world, and the Journal
of the American Medical association
points out that the western coast OF
Central and South America will then
constitute definite sanitary menace
to the United States. The Journal
says that close contact by ship with
the ports where yellow fever, cholera
and smallpox are always present, not
to mention a host of other infectious
diseases, will expose our Atlantic and
gulf ports to the constant peril OF
epidemic invasion. Discussing the
new health relief measures needed
with the opening OF the canal the
medical journal says:
1t will probably fall to the United
States to provide against this new
danger. The present quarantine serv.
ice embraces a chain Of f1fty-three sta.
tons encircling the United States,
New York being the only important
port not covered by the federal serv.
ice. The public health service also
includes Porto Rico and Hawaii in it's
quarantine protection, and admins
tiers the quarantine of the canal zone.
The maritime traffic which will con-
verge at the canal zone will bring with
it large numbers of sailors of all the
nations, including the United States,
and medical relief station will be
necessary. A large marine hospital
should be erected at some favorable
location in the canal zone, either at
sea-level or in the mountains; 1t would
find large and increasing field of USE
fulness, and in fact will be almost a
necessity. Out-patient Offices at Colon
and Panama should be equipped for
emergency and ambulance cases, and
as receiving stations for the marine
hospital. There Is unique oppor-
tunity in the canal zone for the estab-
lishment of laboratory for the in
vestigation of tropical and subtropical
diseases. The clinical material which
will be available from all parts of the
world, especially from Central and
South America, will afford opportun-
ity for valuable studies of diseases
which will soon be even a greater ma
tional menace than at present.
The governments work in cleaning
up the disease-ridden spots in Pan
anna, preventing epidemics which
were the chief barriers to earlier work
on the canal, gives promise that this
new problem will be attacked intelli-
gently and effectively when it appears
The Journal of the medical association
however, is justified in pointing out the
danger to which the country will be
exposed when the world traffic begins
to pour through the canal.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
CHARLTON.

Mrs. H. M. Miller Of Warren town.
ship has returned from months visit
with relatives in Augusta, Parsons and
Chanute, Kansas. While absent she
had the pleasure of a visit with three
sisters whom she had not seen for
several years.
DR.. Harold Householder Of MARSHALL
town has returned to his duties after
a few days visit here with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Householder
Mrs Sarah Parkins of Logan, Kan
sas is visiting in Cedar township with
her brother ]. j. Clover and family,
and also In Union township with her
sis.~ Mrs Nelson Cackler who is SER
iously Ill with cancer OF the stomach.
Miss Dollie Bellman has returned
from Des Moines where she had been
employed in the telephone exchange
for some time.
Mrs. Mary Savage and daughter
Mrs u G. Brenaman Of English town
ship have gone to Kansas City and
st. Joe to spend two weeks with rela-
tives.
Mrs Nelson Threlkeld Of near Rus
sell has returned from visit with rel
atives in Arkansas and Kansas.
Miss Edith Benson of Murray has
returned home after a few days visit
with Miss May Howe.
Mrs. Mary E. Hopper and daughter
FlOSSle OF benton TOWNSHIP nave re.
turned from visit in Carlisle with
her father.
Mr.. and Mrs Jas. Robinson and
daughter Edith Of Liberty township,
have returned from Lamont where
they had been called by the death OF
his brother in law L. Lane.
Mrs. Stanford Rea of Abba, former
ly Of this city has returned home after
a few days visit with her mother Mrs.
Anna Sullivan and old friends.
Simon Oppenheimer and family are
enjoying visit from his sister Mrs.
, Bertha Loeb of Abba and his brother
JOS Oppenheimer of Webster City.
Mrs. Mamie Hay Of Cushing, Okla.
is here for visit with her nephews
Robert and Peter Adams.
Mrs. F. G.. Holloway Of Council
Bluffs returned horT yesterday after
a few days visit W h Mrs. w. E.
Dobson and Miss ! tie Kinkead.
Miss Gretchen lrst Of Leon Is
spending few day| it'll Miss Davida
Kridelbaugh while her way to
Indianola.
Mrs Al F'luke an lighter Vera OF
Osceola are spend a few days In
Charlton with Mesdames Fred Yengel
and Chas Fluke.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

The Baltimore Sun, one Of the old
time democratic papers, is already de-
handing that the democrats enact a
tariff for revenue only. The Sun says
"Once again the democratic party has
been given control of congress and
the presidency. Once again it has
given its pledge to enact tariff for
revenue only. If it should fail this
time it will receive and it will merit
tho worst rebuke that the nation has
ever given any political party"
It might be called to the Suns at
tentton that the people administered
more or less of rebuke, continuing
over stretch of sixteen years to the
democrats the last time they tried to
enact tariff for revenue only policy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

might be wrong. We took into con-
sideration the judges experience in
legal matters, and after a little study
about it, we concluded that under GER
tain conditions, Judge might posi-
bly, be right.
Judge Lands, Friday put in a
busy half hour with bunch OF
STRAW bond" artists, and when he got
through with them they were as limp
as an Alpaca coat that has been
caught in the rain. A professional
bunch tried to put over" on the Judge,
"a $50 900 bond for Jack Johnson. These
"good citizens" crowded into Judge
Lands court with a jaunty air, and
mental photos Of Jack Johnson hand
ing them over several hundred dollars
to pay them for going on his bonds.
After few questions to them, Judge
Lands had their family history and
full knowledge of deeds that had
been made to and from the different
members of their families. He also
had one of them jailed, and the rest
of them on the run.
We want to say that this action on
the part of Judge Lands will have a
good effect in court matters. The
court system in this country is gem
orally good, but like most other insti-
tutions, it is afflicted with some bye
products that are absolutely rotten.
That is not necessarily against the sys-
tenn. It is simply the result Of schem-
ing men and nothing has ever, been yet
discovered proof against such NAL
ady. The professional STRAW bond
attache is. not an original part
|of our courts, and a few more doses
OF the same medicine that Judge
Landfs dealt out Friday, will have
a good effect in the country at large.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
Chairman Reeds Good Work.

Burlington Gazette: The cause of
democracy owes an overwhelming debt
Of gratitude to Chairman Nick Reed of
the state central committee. His
management of the campaign was
superb. He did not make single
mistake. That the state will give its
thirteen electoral votes for Governor
Wilson Is in considerable measure
due to Mr.. Reeds efficiency. He was
ION the job" from start to finish.
Tactful, resourceful, efficient and a
dynamo of intelligent energy, he has
proved himself one of the cleverest
and best politicians in Iowa. May
his shadow never grow less.
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time or in Grants or Garfield's. Il
was his misfortune to be president ir
q time Of change and Of popular agi
tation. He was Of judicial mold and
could not hear the murmurings from
the grass roots. He elected to be an
organization man in a period of dis
organization. GThe wave he could not
see has simply gone over him. Aside
from his inability to keep in touch
with the times, Mr.. Taft has made q
good president. AS an administrator
he has been independent and progress
sive. Personally he has been an ex
ample of American manhood, digni
fed, courteous gentleman. ..
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
THE SUPPORT OF THE POOR

Commenting on the discussion Of the
proposed mothers pension legislation,
which it has been argued should re-
ceive consideration at the hands Of the
next legislature, the Des Moines
Capital declares that the Iowa laws
at present permit pensioning of
mothers and that boards of supervisors
have been constituting the law In that
way. I'm many counties" says the
Capital boards Of supervisors have
supported mothers and their young
children by monthly payments from
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
Coxey at it Aqain.

CoXey at TT again.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Coxey of
labor army fame, by some strang coin.
cidence has come to the front again.
He proposes to reorganize his army,
not for asking soup along the high.
ways. but for the building Of roads
Coxey is now rich, the victim Of the
prosperity that came back with VII
liam Mckinley sixteen years ago., II
hard times should ever come again, we
believe that road building would be
the proper work to place in the hands
Of such armies.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

an election, furnish all the evidence
needed to prove the merit OF the con
tention for the shorter ballot
In state elections we believe ii
would be splendid progressive move
ment to elect a governor, lieutenant
governor and judges. and then have
the governor appoint men to act as at
torney general, state treasurer, state
auditor. etc.
In county matters it would be more
business-like to have the voters pay
particular attention to the selection OF
a commission or board OF supervisors
and then allow that board to appoint
the clerk, recorder, treasurer, attor
Iney. auditor, coroner, sheriff, etc
That would make county government
less the football of politicians, guar
antee better business administrations
eliminate the objections now heard
against the primary and save a great
deal Of the money now spent in cam
paigning.
The legislature that tackles the
short ballot proposition in dead earn
est and reduces the number of cleo
tive ofilces will confer great favor
upon the state. Iowa awaits the com.
ing Of this reform.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
In Good old Iowa.

Des Moines Capital: The people
of Iowa can rejoice without regard to
politics. The state has record break
Ing crop. The state has never been SO
prosperous in all it's history. The
towns and cities, while not experiencing
a boom, are growing and developing.
In the state we have great many
things to do. We want to learn to
farm a little better. We want more
piece of timber land in each town
ship for picnic grove. We want
more Joy in life. We can secure that
by manifesting more decency and
manliness. The legislature will soon
be here. We are hoping for the best
in the line Of legislation. We are
pledging ourselves to strive for the
best.
And above all things, we ought all
attempt to look on the bright side.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

1t will not do any harm to refresh
the memory Of the Iowa man with the
fact that the farms of Iowa are worth
more than the farms of Maine, New
Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Jer.
sey, Delaware. Maryland. West vir-
ginia, South Carolina, Florida, Alaba-
ma, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, New Mex
leo, Montana, and Wyoming combined.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
Uncle Joe Defeated.

Des Moines Capital: A large num-
Der Of people are rejoicing because
Uncle Joe Cannon is defeated for con.
gress in the Danville district. The
Capital does not rejoice. Uncle Joe
is back number so far as the world
goes, but he is an honest sincere man.
He has served nearly forty years In
congress. He is noted for telling the
truth and not acting the hypocrite. He
has had his day, but in his retirement
he ought to bear with him the good
will of the country. When he dies,
everybody will say what we are now
saying.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

The Iowa farmer is harvesting big
crop this year and he is harvesting it
off land the increased value of which
during the last ten years was greater
than the increase in value of all the
farm lands in Montana, Idaho, Wyom-
ing, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona,
Utah, Nevada, Arkansas, Louisiana
and Oregon combined.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

An exchange observes that II WI.
son is moved in making up his cabi-
net by gratitude and wishes to repay
those who helped to make him presi-
dent he should make Roosevelt a sec
rotary, presumably Of war, and Per.
kins secretary of the treasury. a.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
Humorous Comment
He Had Only Two Aims.

Frank Krause, Cleveland philan.
thropist has established the Thirty
Cent Egg club, and hopes by means OF
club boycott to bring down the price
of eggs to a reasonable figure.
Being complimented on the hard and
unselfish work he has given to this
movement, Mr.. Krause replied:
"Unselfish work, work that doesn't
pay, is what this country needs more
than anything else. We are all toe
mercenary here. once said to a lit
tie newsboy:
Have you an aim in life?'
eyes, sir. I have two aims he re
piled.
what are they, my SOM
"'The first Is to become q million
aire.'
"'Aha! And the second ~
"The second Is to become multi
millionaire "-Cleveland Plain Dealer
Dangerous oratory.
A young lawyer had been appointed
by the court to defend man charged
with larceny. In his argument to the
jury he pleaded for the acquittal OF
his client He told of his innocent
boyhood days, Of good character, OF
his father, mother and brother. In
short, he launched forth into family
history.
The prisoner, an old darby, had lis
tened with growing uneasiness to his
counsels plea, and as the attorney
went on without a hint of stopping
the negro was driven to desperation
Jumping to his feet he yelled to the
court:
''I's guilty, 70 honah; rs guilty! De
jury can't do no mob dan send me to
Jail TO- six months, but If dat fool
lawyer doan stop dey'll hang me, TO
suah !"-Magazine of Fun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
President TAFT.

Chicago Inter Ocean: If ever man
deserved we'll of his country and is
entitled to it's sympathy now, that man
is William Howard Taft.
The man who of all men should
have stood by him turned on him,
though he tore the temple down in the
turning.
The Inter Ocean predicts that there
will be many day when the people
Of the United States will wish that
William Howard Taft were still in the
white house.
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. The Limit,

Kansas City Times: Rural mail
carriers have rather strenuous life
delivering letters and bundles, but a
carrier at Rocky Comfort was asked
to perform some new duties the other
found note which said: u#
Dear Mail Carier:-Please feed our
chickens and water the COW and the
mule in the stable, we have gone visit
Ing" tr-.s a. ls.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
JUDGE lands SCORES AGAIN.

Judge KenesaW NJ. Land1S~ sOme'
times makes decisions that we do not
agree with in every particular. How
ever, we have never noticed that our
likes or dislikes in the matter cut any
figure in any way whatever with the
judge. In spite of that, we have never
felt that the Judge should be ousted
|fcr am Of the decisions he made. not
even fog ta.,aa wherein we felt he
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

1T must have dawned on Perkins,
Munsey, Dan Hanna and the other
heavy contributors that they paid a
rather fancy price for the privilege of
standing neck-deep in snow at Arma.
geddon," the Kansas City Journal
observes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

t1ey Bet tHe H1Ure popular tHey Hre' - Y
Popular songs written by people who strive to
produce hit and then retire from the public gaze
with their gotten gain. Little did Chas. X. Harris
,ream, when he wrote After the Bali and adorned II
with large photograph Of the author in boiled shirt
that it would bring $4,000 to him and deep sense OF
settled melancholy to everybody else Mr. Harris
fertile producer of songs with factory output of twelve
complete des per day but he has not been good for
anything but hunt toward third base since writing
that inspired masterpiece. 4 s.
The best selling popular start out with an I'M
easy tempo and close TN strict waltz time After per
has met Of these songs few times he VIII not
have to be introduced to any Of the others. they
by the bolt and dressed good deal alike They
always deal with somebody who proved untrue just prior
to the ring service and then back and hangs
he &e In a renenfant mood -
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

Cheer up. Why worry over how
the election went when we can con-
template the fact that Thanksgiving
day with big feed is only a few
weeks off. And then just think how
easy we are getting of on our fall
coal bill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
Press Comment.
FOR A SHORTER BALLOT.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The recent
election demonstrated the need of a
shorter ballot. The inability of the
voters to know. much concerning the
of a number Of candi.
dates for state Office. and the efforts
put forth by many candidates to win
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

1t may be a little early to suggest It,,
but this is a mighty fine time to do
the thing you want to buy now. If
you wait month you may find that
Christmas shopping. You can find
some one else has bought it and you
will have to take something that
doesn't please you as we'll.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
PRESIDENT TAFT.

New York Evening Post: President
Taft's bitterest enemies cannot deny
him a certain regretful sympathy in
the overwhelming defeat which has
befallen him. On his general record,
he deserved better of his fellow coun.
trymen. Terribly i'll used, woefully
unlucky, and-we must add-persist-
emily laundering, he has been turned
off as If he were a coachman. This
is both hard and unmerited. Mr.. Taft
could hardly have hoped to be re-
elected, yet such are the decisions of
official optimism that he plainly was
unprepared for the utter collapse OF
his campaign. Only last Tuesday he
was confidently saying that he would
have at least 200 electoral votes. One
feels like echoing Matthew Arnolds
exclamation about Gladstone: Has
he nobody to tell him the TRUTH" This
is not the time to attempt to review
Mr.. Taft's presidency. Every man
knows in his heart however, that 1t
has not been that black betrayal and
wretched failure, which it has been
painted. To say nothing of his en-
gaging personality the country has
many services-indeed, acts of signal
courage-to thank him for, as all will
acknowledge when the rancorous ami
mosities Of the past few months have
sunk to their proper level. But in the
personal aspect of his humiliation, one
fact will remain unchallenged. When
in 1908 he allowed Theodore Roose-
welt to force him upon the republican
party and the country as president, he
put his official life at the mercy Of
one man. Placed in the white house
by grace of Theodore Roosevelt, he
is now expelled from it chiefly by
Theodore Roosevelt's revenge.
New York Tribune: Mr.. Taft in
his defeat may Justly feel satisfaction
in having achieved something greater
than a reelection. He has stood faith
fully to principle. He has held the
republican party true to it's noble
traditions. He has prevented the
judicial power of the country from
being made subservient to the chang
ing whims of temporary majorities.
He has preserved to the powerless the
guarantees of personal liberty against
the Tyranny of passion. He has NOV
ed serene amid Misrepresentation and
abuse, discharging his duty as he saw
it and refusing to do anything for
spectacular political effect at time
when demagogy was in demand. He
will turn over to his successor the ad-
ministration of country whose laws
were never before so we'll enforced,
whose expenditures have been cut
down, whose governmental methods
baye heen systematiZed and made I'M
proceed entedly efficient, whose general
prosperity and happiness are at high
pitch. His trust is faithfully dis
charged.
Lincoln Journal: The explanation
of Mr.. Taft and the disastrous end Of
his political career is not hard to find
It has been case of good man in
the right place at the wrong time. Mr.
Taft would have been popular presi-
dent in period of economic tran
guilty and political regularity. He
wnnld have made good in McKinley's
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CONGRESS "on His Hands. /"

New York Tribune: The democratic
president-elect will have democratic
congress ION his hands," Mr. Cleve-
land deplored that misfortune when 1t
overlook him in 1892. He evidently
foresaw that his administration would
be wrecked by the uncomfortable ele-
ments in the party in the two houses.
1t was completely wrecked within two
years.
Will history repeat itself? 1t Ia
clear that the division of the normal
republican strength in so many states
must not only enlarge the democratic
majority in the house Of representa-
tives, but also make the senate demo
cratic. As president, Mr.. Wilson will
therefore have to face the problem Of
holding in check the radicals who are
bent on reducing tariff duties to the
point at which protection will vanish
"a thing which they have been prom
Using to do for years and which they
will try to do in spite of Mr.. Wilson's
discovery that good democrat can
be against protection one day and for
it another. s
The country will watch with inter.
est, and with not little anxiety, his
attempt to drive the team of wild
horses which Mr.. Cleveland failed to
handle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14
The Autumn Fly.

Sioux City Journal: It's tough to
lose our balmy autumn climate, but
the loss will not be net loss. This
is to say, the law of compensation
does not succumb to the flrst frost.
We have many reasons for feeling
sad when old Boreas comes batter
ing at the front door, not the least
of which is what is going to happen
to our meager coal supply. The
reasonable pretexts for gladness are
not numerous, but neither are they
unimportant. There is no question
as to which one of them stands para
mount at the head of the list. We
are all glad to welcome old Boreas
primarily because his coming means
the going of musca domestica, the
common or house variety Of fly.
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Let's Rest a While.

Marshalltown Times-Republican
Let's rest a little while. Let's wait
a time before beginning the political
contest of 1916. Let's forget for a
few days that there are to be elections
in 1920 and 1924. Let's husk the corn
and finish the buildings under con-
struction first.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-11-14

Remember Lots wife?" some one
asks. "She was SO staunch on her past
that she had no future"
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in
moth n a O wakefulness
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Yes, we know the weather is all
right-how about your disposition?