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New-York tribune., 1913-07-14
PLEA FOR RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
Law Against Sunday Baseball
Union of Church and State.
10 the Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: 4 notable deficiency In the fervent
argument OF your correspondent ". w.
L. Duncan for suppression OF the
wholesome and innocent pleasures OF the
multitude is his entire omission TO state
who is injured and in what way by the
playing OF Sunday baseball. 1t is legiti-
mate, OF course. to argue that the law
Of the state should be observed. however
antiquated and out OF harmony with the
present views and needs Of the people,
but no adequate reason Is assigned why
the law itself should not be summarily
repealed.
Can your correspondent find a single
objection to Sunday baseball which does
not rest on advocacy Of n union OF Church
and State, in direct violation of the
fundamental principles Of American de-
mocracy? Since our nation is founded OH
an absolute guarantee OF religious liberty
and is made up OF citizens OF every shade
Of religious belief and disbelief. whose
civic rights are precisely and even mathe-
matically equal, IL must follow that no
majority has any moral right to force
or ceremonies on the minority.
Does he think that a Catholic majority
would be justified In prohibiting the sale
of meat on Friday? Would II be perfectly
far and legitimate for a Free Thought
majority to require all churches TO be
closed? W3ld ne return to the old Pu-
ritan rule of compelling every citizen To
attend church. under penalty of fine or
Imprisonment? Not one of these things
differs in principle or In any way except
in degree fIom the prohibition OF private
amusements on Sunday or OF any public
recreation which does not directly invade
the quiet OF the churchgoers in the actual
exercise of their devotions.
IL the state cannot honorably require
attendance at church, IL cannot attempt
to Increase church attendance by the dis
less recreation, so that there will be no
place except church tC go. Tie only duty
of the state is to he neutral and impair
tial IN personal matters, such as religion.
and TO protect all In their equal rights Ia
such matters Nobody wishes to hinder
the Christian from keeping Sunday as
sacredly as he pleases. and II is abso-
lutely none OF his business what others
choose to do with their Sundays, so long
as they leave hun In peace.
Your correspondent does not truly rep
resent even the entire Christian popula-
tlon, as there are still many loyal to the
spirit OF religious freedom as first voiced
by Roger Williams. II only Bible ar
gument will move Mr. Duncan. let him
read and digest Matthew, xxi, q; Ro-
mans. xiv. As. and Colossians. II. 16. and
| trust he will convince himself that even
Christian may be sufficiently good
citizen TO recognize and respect the splen-
did American principle (too imperfectly
applied as yeti OF absolute separation of
Church and State
JAMES F. MORTON, JR.
New York, July II. 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

Erie. and It was Oh August II that he finally left
that part of the lake for the Western waters. III
line of battle
The great practical value Of this naval process
sion around the lakes from Erie to Duluth VIII
be its reminder of the past glorles ana present am
future needs of the navy to dwellers OH hahu
waters, where our actual navy Is never seen Dut
where interest in it should be as vital as at any
of our ocean ports. 1t the battle of Lake Erie
that protected and perhaps saved the heart of the
continent. and the Leart of the continent is today
ms mich concerned as are the coast regions in the
maintenance of a navy adequate to Il , national
service that may be required OF IT,
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14
THE PEOPLES COLUMN

the first time in the history Of the coal
business, to secure some slight return
from this natural commodity for its own
use and primarily for the uses Of the
people OF the territory which is being
stripped OF its wealth for the benefit or
the rest OF the country.
The measure is in no sense an export
tax as YOU suggest. Such would' Oh
course. be I'm violation of federal law
both constitutional and statute but IS
merely a personal property tax levied
upon one of the products of state ana
which, II passed over to the consumer
falls equally upon all consumers both In
and out OF the state.
MARK X. EDGAR,
Secretary Scranton Board OF Trade.
Scranton. Penn, July 10, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

If the dav by being forced into fixed and narrow
channels.
More variety in transportation facilities is needed
as well as larger facilities. When New YORK oe-
comes well paved in its entirety the smooth rum
ming and comparatively noiseless pus VIII I've io'
short distance trips a source or comfort anu con'
venience which generation habltuated 10 uoiey
cars and elevated railroads has hardly dreamed o''
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14
THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT

From The Denver Republican ~,
new law In Texas makes 1t fei0"' 80,
a man to get drunk anywhere but IN his -
home. II Colonel Mulberry sellers
alive he would sight a fortune In the
ness Of selling brass foot rails TOT
homes
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14
AN ovsRPLUs OF GOATS.

From The Philadelphia Press. ..s
with ts bulls and bears and lambs and g.,
Il needed only the addition OF Won -..y
the Wall Street geological COLLECTION
conpiete
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14
OVER HIS HEAD.

From The Philadelphia Ledger n.t,
The President has asked foI a shoNe "a,
In the cellar OF the White House ,sst
is the one Mr. Taft had; the Pres'o'"'
swim.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

Developments at Albany suggest that there ought
tn he money in a company formed to insure nervous
members Of the bar against blackmalL
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

4 politician hereabouts never knows WHAT Vi
him" until he exctes the activities OF the Aaiii'a's
getting II on system.
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

Isn't it about time for Colonel Watterson TO put
the Star Eyed Goddess at the disposition Oh the s'ase
managers of the New Freedom?
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

owned and published daily by The tribune ASS~s ~ ,sah
New York corporations ogden NJ. Reid, PRESIDENT Co
Hamlin, Secretary: James NJ. Barrett, treasurer 1N
Tribune Building, No l54 Nassau street. New iorA'
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

SUBSCRIPTION RATEs.-By Mail Postage Fa'o' 0u'''o "
Greater New ..hs q
Daily and Sunday mo s Daily only months 90
Daily Sunday. 425 Daily only ytaonths rs
$50 sunday only . Inoni''' ~
pailv onv Sunday only year, -''V
New-York tribune., 1913-07-14

FOREIGN RATES CANApiAN iITHbSY..
DAILY AND SUNDAY: DAILY AM N001,-.f T5
one month. Sl'00l Ohe $50
O"e SStt-nl,ir; i,v' oHy1 " ~ DAILY ONLY; "a
rnentbs 3O7IOne month. .......''''' 0,
one wear Wv
O"s yea ", '6SS;t " " SUNDAY ONLY: 20
One IO2lOne month. ...'..''''' SS
one year. .....,.s..''. l=.-oi Ohe Sea'
Entered at New York as secoho NissS ~
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
/. ON The FIRING Line.

For glory? For good? For fortune or
fame?
Why, no for the front where the
battle is on!
Leave the rear to the dolt, the lazy,
the lame;
Go forward as ever the valiant have
gone;
Whether city or field, whether noun
tain or mine,
Go forward, right on to the firing line.
Whether newsboy, or plowboy, or COW,
boy or clerk,
Fight forward, be ready, be steady,
be first;
Be fairest, be bravest, be best at your
work;
Exult and be glad; dare to hunger
to thirst,
AS David, as Alfred-let dogs skulk
and whine
There is room but for men on the fir
ing line.
Aye, the place to fight and the place
to fall
AS fall we must all in Gods good
II is where the manifest man is the
wall,
Where boys are as men in their
pride and prime.
Where glory CLEANS brightest, where
-u brightest eyes shine,
Far out on, the, roaring red firing line
81, g.. . 20 Joaquin Miller
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
CONVICT WORK ON ROADS.

Kentucky's Good Roads Commits
sioners, after investigating results in
other states, have reported in favor
of thu employment of able-bodied,
short-term convicts in road making.
Georgias road, commissioner states
that the prisoners employed on the
highways are healthy, tractable and
more than ordinarily contented, and
that their labor is satisfactory. Ala
bama's highway engineer reports that
when properly managed convict labor
on the roads is more effective than
paid work, and that the cost OF thus
using convicts is from 40 to 90 cents
a day. Georgia employs 5000 con-
|victs on the roads, and estimates the
cost at one-half that of paid labor
California adopted the system last
year and is pleased with it. Colo
radios convicts built 1877 miles, Of
mountain road in 1912 at cost OF 81
cents a day per man. In Illinois SIX
ty-six convicts are kept at work in
quarrles and at crushing stone at a
cost of so cents a day. Kansas Off
Gals think the effect good on con-
yicts. Louisiana built twenty-five
miles of permanent roads last year
with convicts and found the expense
40 cents per man.
In Michigan the convicts prefer
road worn, and Minnesota considers
stone crushing by convicts a success.
Montana works 225 prisoners on the
roads and thinks they are much bene-
flied by the outdoor labor North
Carolina is another state that has
gone into the system extensively. Its
.23OO lconvictsr thus u. employed cost
from AZ TO ~ cents aEdag each. Ore
gom makes a favorable report. Its
100 convict road workers cost $l4
per month. Virginia's 735 convicts
are kept busy on the roads at cost
of 343 cents a day per man. Wash
ington is satisfied with convict labor
in stone quarries. Cole county, Mis-
souri,, has had from twenty to forty
convicts at work on roads and the
state highway engineer testifles that
the work, at daily cost of 40 cents,
is equal to that of free labor. The
movement is growing.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTiSTS

-Apropos the coming camp meeting
and conference of the Seventh Day
Adventists of Iowa at Cedar Rapids,
August % to September 8, it is inter
esting to note that it was not until
, in the year, 1916 that the denomina-
tion,, as an organization, really had
their start. At that time one man,
Captain Joseph Bates, of Fair Haven
Mass, proclaimed in part, the. doc
trines and teachings of this people.
Starting in obscurity and poverty. 1t
has grown in, power of numbers, and
extended in influence, j until today the
| sun never sets but upon their organ
lied work, Thus within period of
less than seventy years they have so
covered the face of the earth that
there is scarcely q country where
their workers may not be found. Dur
ing this time they have raised and
expended in the prosecution of this
work something over $25,000,000.
They believe in the second, literal,
personal coming of Jesus Christ, but
while they believe and teach the near
coming of the Master, they do not
now, neither have they ever, set
definite date for His return.
The 2,769 local churches, with a
membership, of 114,000, untrammeled
in any way, select and elect dele
gates to the local conferences; the To-
cal conferences, in public assembly,
elect delegates to the union confer
ences, which in turn elect their dele
gates to the General Conference. ..
The Seventhday Adventists have
entered so foreign fields, and in ten
years have sent $50 adults abroad.
They now have in non-Christian and
non Protestant countries $50 foreign
missionaries, and 974 native workers,
making a total of 1850 workers.
There are $40 main stations, las sub
stations; Alb churches with mem
bership4 of 1855. Then there are IL
regular training schools with an en-.
rollment of about 800, besides the 1872
schools and outschools which enroll
$3.50 pupils. Directing those schools
are 1903 foreign and 265 native teach
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
APPLES IN IOWA.

According to the Cedar Rapids Re
publican, the reason we do not grow
apples in Iowa is found in the fact
that our farmers are too busy grow
! ing other things, and their farms are
too big to spend much time ''putter-
| ing" with fruits. zone hog" contin-
lues the Republican, will buy all the
apples the average Iowan wants, and
more too. 1t is easier to grow the
hog than it Is to grow the apples.
"Of course, all our pioneer farmers
started out to grow apples. Most OF
them took for such purposes a piece
lof land that he could not use for any.
thing else, and it might be the worst
bit of soil on the farm, for all he
cared. Having planted the trees most
of them he let go at that, assuming
that nature would do the rest. Rank
growths OF grass grew about the trees
or else the orchards were used for
hog or calf pastures and were tramp
led as hard as a rock, especially
around the trees, where the calves
brushed the flies all day long. And
after awhile the trees refused to do
well and the farmer wondered a while
thereat' and then announced that Iowa
was not an apple state. He should
have come to the sounder conclusion
that the average Iowa farmer was not
an apple man, and that would have
been the truth. Out west they cult
waite their orchards as We cultivate
corn in Iowa.. The ground is kept
opened up so that the air can get
into ii. The trees are watched and
doctored when they are sick and they
are sprayed when the insects begin
TO come and to breed They work
twice as hard out west in their orch
ard as we do in our corn fields, and
that is where most of the difference
comes in But until we get down to
that kind OF work, it will be cheaper
for us to buy apples in Oregon and to
make butter to ship to the apple grow
ers in that state.
We are not sure whether it is
economic waste or whether ii is some
thing worse or better. But it is what
we have been doing, and il is what
We are likely to continue doing"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
Dynamited Dam.

Under direction of the Mahaska
county board of supervisors, effort
was made Sunday morning to dyna-
mite the remnants of the old dam at
Glendale Mill on Skunk river north
east of town. The current of the
stream has been thrown against one
of the bridge abutments by the condi-
ton of the old dam wall and damage
is being done that might be costly to
the county. An experienced miner
had charge of the explosive and sew
eral shots were placed. The work
was not as much of a success as was
anticipated, and considerable work
remains to be done to further alter
the current of the stream. Much
material was loosened and thrown up
however, but nothing more can be
done until the stream rises to carry
out the material that was displaced
by the discharge of the shots.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
GOT USED TO GAsoLlNE7

Surely no flower blows, just like your
Rose,
At least not way out here among the
..t,. crows. es a.,-.-,..- ...,..,,
We sometimes hold our colts upon
your streets,
To stack your city clothes-pins, but
it beats
Your brassy band a-playing rag.time
tunes
When we read how We look, far, far
from home.
We've read about the hiking suffrag-
cite,
We know how Bill killed Bill, that
waters wet,
We've watched old Barnum's show
folk swing real high,
We've heard how you have rattlers in
your rye;
If all the freaks are growing out of
town,
What does he eat. your dear, sweet
city clown?
We know it's green to keep Oh asking
things.
Do city swells know honey cures bee
80 stings?' ..-.E......., .
Well, say, it strikes wondering Wild
bird note s.8 ..n. a.-.... 9. 4
And makes the queerest lump come in
",t.- the throat, ..-....
When one of your own city folk
plays ball .-.'
On our side, fiereest strike of all!
Just have your fun; live on your city
style, .....
Making our roads your race-tricks
auaD while We smile 90. ....
How often our "frys" light upon your
wheels! .. ..r&.. ..s
How soft your springy fall-down side
walk feels!
Yell on, scream cones! Old orange
ade! cents.
Woe! Whoai Poor Hayseed! There's
barbs on our wire fence).
Ella Evans Brown.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
THE NEWSPAPER GAME.

The Oskaloosa newspapers have
Just entered into a new contract with
local printers union to run two years
from date. There is nothing unusual
in renewing a contract, as the union
here has been in existence ten or
twelve years. But the wage agreed
upon at this time is the highest it has
ever been, and is just about double
what was paid prior to 1895. Fifteen
years ago also, the printers day was
ten hours, or 80 hours per week.
Now it is 8 hours or 4S hours per
week. 1t will thus be seen that the
price paid for services is over 100 per
cent higher than it was fifteen years
age. .'.
A like increase in the cost OF ma
terals entering into the printing
business has been experienced.
Type, ink, and machinery all cost
more, and paper has gone away up
Wonder. When the Herald first be-
gan to buy paper by the car, car
load cost from $500 to $500. Now
you have to plank down $500 to 1000
for car load, and the mills are not
particular whether you buy 1t or not,
as they have no trouble in disposing
of II. .....
The subscription prices of the news
papers have either remained as they
were in 1895, or have been reduced
For years after it was started, the
Daily Herald commanded a price OF
60 cents per month or S7.20 per year,
either by mail or by special carrier
The price has gradually been reduced
until it is now only 10 cents per
week or $500 per year, delivered by
special carrier, or only $500 per year
by mail
The advertising rates have been in
creased by about 20 per cent over
what they we're about 10 years ago,
but this does not begin to represent
the amount of additional service that
is being rendered the advertiser.
When the standard rate was Is cents
per inch. the Daily Herald had a cir
|'cuIation of less than 1000. Now at
90 cents per inch the circulation is
over $500. II the advertising rate
was as high proportionately today as
1t was Is years ago it should be from
so to so cents. Again the readers
of the Daily Herald are today getting
over 100 per cent more reading mat.
ter than they did when the high sub
scription price was in vogue.
Putting all these things together II
will be seen that the newspapers OF
Oskaloosa, as we'll as those in other
large towns in Iowa, have been M,
against a stiff game of REIMBURSEMENT
during the last fifteen years. The
volume OF business done by each pa
per has increased OF course. but the
increase has not begun TO keep step
with the increase in the expense &C
counts. s IL has therefore been neces-
sary 10 do business on much less
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
SOUTHWEST STILL SMILES.

Despite reports OF crop failures and
the suffering incident to the Iona
drouth, special information Cleaned
by the ST. Louis Globe Democrat from
agricultural department experts In
Missouri, Illinois, Oklahoma, Kansas,
Arkansas and Texas, indicate that
when the crops are harvested the
farmers of the southwest states will
have money in the bank. That the
extended dry period has cut the yield
In various crops is admitted, but in
no state do the reports Indicate a ser
ious shortage Of more than one crop.
Corn has been the chief sufferer,
and in Illinois, Missouri and Kansas
it will be one-half or less than the
yield indicated prior to the drought.
Secretary F. d. Coburn, of the Kan
sas State Board of Agriculture, de-
clares Kansas is still the headquar-
ers of prosperity; despite the drouth,
and similar statements are made by
agricultural officials in the other
states.
Optimism rules In Missouri and Ok
lahoma, and the end of the season will
find the farmers far from bankruptcy.
In Arkansas all crops are declared to
be above the average and, larger
Yields than in 1912 are expected
Texas has large crop of all grams
and late rains will increase the crop
yield. f . .t..3- -,:r-
Illinois has suffered from the drouth
but no financial stringency is in sight.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
COMMERCE OF THE U. S.

The increasing share of the Gulf
and Northern border ports in the re-
ceipt and distribution of our foreign
commerce is illustrated by a compari-
son of the. figures Of imports and ex-
ports by customs districts In 1913
compared with those of 1860, just
completed by the Bureau OF Foreign
and Domestic Commerce, Department
of Commerce. Ii shows a distinct de-
cline in the share which the Atlantic
ports handle, both of imports and ex-
ports, and that their loss Is chiefly
diverted to the Gulf and Northern
border ports The Pacific and Next
can border ports show little change in
their percentage of the total trade.
The share of the Atlantic ports in
the exports of 1900 was SO per cent,
and in 1913 but IS per cent; that of
the Gulf ports in 1900, 16 per cent, in
1913, % per cent; that of the North
ern border ports in 1900, ~ per
cent, in 1913, 16 1-3 per cent; while
the share of the Pacific ports was, in
1900, per cent, and in 1913, 6 per
cent Atlantic ports show an in
crease of 40 per cent in the period
| from 1910 to 1913; Gulf ports, 1872
per cent; Northern border ports, 2S5
per cent; Pacific ports, 109 per cent.
The actual gains were: Atlantic
ports, 3S5 million dollars; Gulf ports,
300 million; Northern border ports,
297 million; Pacific ports, rs million,
and Mexican border ports, az million
dollars.
On the import side the Atlantic
ports show smaller loss in their per-
centage of the total, the share which
they handled OF the imports having
been, in 1900, 81 per cent, and In 1913
76 per cent. The Gulf ports, which
handled less than per cent Of the
imports of 1900, handled per cent
in 1913; Northern border ports, per
cent in 1900 and per cent in 1913,
and the Pacific ports, little less than
IL per cent In 1900 and little more
than per cent in 1913.
The Pacific and Atlantic ports are
more distinctly cosmopolitan in their
trade than those OF the Northern Dor
der or even the Gulf. About one-haIf
of the exports from the Pacific coast
ports go TO the Orient, the remainder
being distributed to Canada, Europe
and Latin-America, in the order nam
ed. About two-thirds OF the imports
OF the Pacific ports are from the
Orient On the Atlantic front the
trade is with Europe, South America,
Africa and Oceanic. About two-thirds
OF the trade with the Orient still
passes through Atlantic ports.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1913-08-28
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MECHANICS OF STATES.

Arkansas, the Bear state.
California, the Golden state.
Colorado, the Centennial state.
Connecticut, Land of Steady Habits
or the Wooden Nutmeg state.
Georgia, Empire state of the South.
Illinois, the Prairie or Sucker state.
Indiana, Hoosier state.
Iowa, Hawkeye state.
Kansas, Sunflower state.
Kentucky, Bluegrass state.
Louisiana, Pelican state.
Maine, Pine Tree state.
Maryland, the Old Line state.
Michigan, the Lake state. .1
Minnesota. North Star state.
Mississippi, Bayou state.
Missouri, Iron Mountain state.
Nebraska, the Blackwater state.
Nevada, Sage Brush state.
New Jersey. Garden state.
New York, Empire state.
North Carolina, Old North state.
Ohio, Buckeye state =, ..-.'....
~ Oregon, Beaver state.,i,., .,,..
Pennsylvania, Keystone. state. ~,
Rhode Island, Little Rhody.
South Carolina, Palmetto state.
Texas, Lone Star state.
Vermont, Green Mountain state.
Virginia, the Old Dominion or the
Mother of Presidents.
Wisconsin, Badger state.