Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1913-03-25

lective farming is bringing good re-
suits. But the boy who has learned
the possibilities of intensive farms
ing along scientific lines must be
given some interest in the profits OF
his labors, and amusements to re-
lieve the monotony of his existence,
if he is to be retained on the farm.
IOWA PRESS PARAGRAPHS.
Gust by way of adding to our
burdens it is proposed to make the
Iowa state fair last two weeks here
after" observes the Waterloo Times
Tribune.
The Marshalltown Times-Republi-
can concludes that President Wilson
is certainly lacking in appreciation
of how badly an Iowa democrat
wants a job.
eff the Chicago mercantile estab-
lishments ever go broke it will not
be on account of the exorbitant
wages paid to their list of working
girls" says the Des Moines Capital.
"Candidly, we believe that there
is a multitude of women who care
not continental whether they are
or are not given the right of suff-
rage" says the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette.
Cherokee Democrat: "It is easy
to make a living" said woman
who never earned a cent in her life.
"Why, the newspapers are full OF
advertisements offering from SIS to
500 a week to agents.
"Some papers are disposed to
speak flippantly of the strictly Pres
Ibyterian air about the White House.
bat it will not contribute to a lack
of confidence among the people,
says the Boone News Republican.
| Men ought to spend at least as
much time saving their money as
they do spending it," says the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Nonpareil. why not cut
the saloons down to savings bank
hours for business purposes?"
eff the present legislature" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican, could
get all the Iowa dirt roads drained,
graded, crowned and dragged, with
out using any concrete except in
culverts, during the next two years,
it would be accomplishing a work
| that would be OF permanent value
i and that would receive the blessings
of all the travelling public
Woodrow Wilson," says the Watt
1 erloo Courier, "has probably receiv-
ed more nonpartisan praise from
newspapers. not of his political faith
than any new president in recent
years This fact is testimony both
to him and to the growing nonpar-
tisan spirit of the country. If the
new president lives up to the ex-
pectations he will leave behind him
an enviable place in history
Sloan Star: All chances of Sena-
tor Francis of Spirit Lake ever be-
coming congressman from this dis
trict will be lost If the proposed
changes in the eleven congressional
districts take effect. 1t is proposed
to redistrict the state so that the
population will be about 100000 in
each district. The new map shows
the Eleventh decreased considerable
in size, Dickinson, Clay and Buena
Vista being put in the Tenth and
Monona put in the Ninth. The pres
ent population of this district is
252,400 and under the new plan it
will be 201 ,427.
| Davenport Democrat: The suffra-
gettes have a right to be mad at
Senator Chase for proposing to sub
init to the women of Iowa, at the
next general election, the question
as to whether or not they want to
vote. The primary in Grinnell
proved that the women who want to
| vote will vote to vote, and the wom-
en- who don't want to vote won't
vote on whether they want to vote
or don't want to vote. In other
words, If a woman wants to vote,
she wants to vote. and not just to