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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-01
AWAKENS AND NABS INTRUDER.

Charles f. Abbott, wholesale baker
with an establishment at Eighth avenue
and 22d street. captured a young man
after a struggle yesterday morning In the
library of No. 275 West 22d street, pri-
yate dwelling. where Mr.. Abbott and his
wife live. The Abbotts were awakened
when the intruder stumbled over chair.
AT the West nth street station he gave
his name as Robert Faust. He was held
on n charge of burglary.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-01
Need of "AIl Round Fire"

While no official figures are available,
it is pointed out that there would be
great saving in the number Of troops
needed were the IL and II inch rifles
of the coast artillery corps effective for
"all round fire." so that they could be
loaded with shrapnel and trained on
any force undertaking an attack by
land, while they would be useful, with
their long range, in assisting an army
engaging a hostile force on land any
where in their vicinity.
The estimates of the number of men
required to defend coast defence forti-
dcations from land attacks was made
by one Of the leading experts on coast
artillery, General Arthur Murray, when
he was chief of artillery, and are con-
tanned in a memorandum prepared by
him for the information Of the General
Staff.
The inadequacy Of the personnel Of
the coast artillery crops itself was set
forth by General Murray in the same
report. Approximately 10000 coast
artillery troops, officers and men," he
said. must be drawn from the state
forces to furnish the guns mounted, or
soon to be mounted, on our coast with
one manning detail"
The guns to which General Murray
referred as "soon to be mounted" are
now in place Many Of the great coast
defence guns have q radius of action
of only 10 and II degrees. and all are
mounted so close to the great concrete
and earthen parapets as TO make it i'm
possible to turn them and make them
available for their own defence in re-
pelling an attack from the rear.
These monster rifles are for the most
part mounted on disappearing gun car
riages. At the moment of discharge
they appear above the parapet. but are
instantly thrown back and below 1t by
the force Of their own recoil. In the
loading position the breech extends so
far back Of the centre OF the circle in
which they turn as to make impossible
turning more than half way around the
circle, for the breech would strike
the concrete parapet. This could be
renedied, 1t is said. by cutting away
the concrete parapet and the sand or
earthen embankment which protects 1t,
but that would leave the gun and the
men operating it so exposed to the
fire of the enemy that the engineer
corps has rejected the proposal as i'm
practicable.
Must Call on State Troops.
Commenting on the necessity Of ade-
quate infantry forces to protect the
Notifications from attack by land. Gen.
eral Murray said:
In addition TO the troops required
for service In the forts other state
troops are needed TO protect the land
side of coast forts against possible
assault by small landing parties. These
troops should consist Of such infantry
companies, battalions or regiments.
machine guns and field guns or bat
teries as may be necessary for each
particular locality. Such defensive
bodies are designated coast artillery
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20

large. The tendency to ignore every
thing in study course except that
which can be Immediately priced, or
spend the time in memorizing for.
mulas such as can merely command
employment, initiates against the
progress Of the big industries which
require something more OF braininess
than that man should merely drop
into pocket" or "rut" and stick
there.
All this Ia true, and with 1t all
there remains something to be said
in behalf of vocational training. The
two different aspects of the educa-
tional code are by no means exclu.
sive. Efficiency means something
different in this age from what made
a man equal to his task in former
time Much Of the culture suitable to
a quieter period, when schools were
managed for the few. becomes the
mere baggage Of culture in day
when science itself has assumed a
practical aspect Consequently the
cutlery for vocational education II
itself no sick fancy. Rather is 1t the
evidence that in the face of modern
conditions new elements must enter
into the conception of culture and
such methods be employed as shall
equip the pupil for his specific
sphere In after life.
The true aim should be to so re
organize the so-called classical cur
riculum that it's effect In actual prac
tice shall not be to render the stu
dent stranger to the vital concerns
Iof the hour and as lone that beateth
the air" And on the other hand to
take care that no rush or undue In
sistence upon efficiency In particu
lar task should shut away the liberal
and generous converse which by its
breadth and refinement enriches the
imagination and helps the full-orbed
man to his chosen vocation.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
THE PRESIDENTS TACT.

Springfield, Mass, Republican:
President Wilson may not be a mar
vel for tact, but, if reports are to be
believed, he handled Champ Clark to
the queens taste. The speaker, who
is still childishly exhibiting his sore
toe, is determined not to have any
thing to do with Secretary Bryan.
Accordingly, when he called at the
white house on Monday he seems to
have been in a belligerent mood and
to have started in in somewhat open
defiance of the recently promulgated
rule-the scope of which may, how.
ever, have been exaggerated in the
first reports-that members of con-
gress who wish to talk patronage
must go to the department chiefs.
With suavity equal to the occasion
President Wilson seems to have de-
clared at once that while the rule
was for representatives and senators
it. of course did not apply to the
speaker, the one exception to prove
it This not only provides modus
operandi. but ought to aid in some
day letting it dawn on Mr.. Clark's
consciousness that he Is exhibiting
himself in a very foolish light. For
he apparently got no assurance that
his recommendations for the state
department we're not to be passed d.
rectly to Mr.. Bryan.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20

Taxes are a semi-annual scourge
which falls upon the average citizen
just when his life insurance premium
is due. They are raised for the bene.
fit of the patient off1ceholder, who
otherwise would be obliged to work
for living.
Taxes are levied on all the property
a man has that can be seen without
using an X-ray machine. This prop
erty is assessed by lynx.eyed indi-
vidual who can see everything on the
place that is taxable, including the
COW. but who is stricken with total
blindness when 1t comes to moneys
and credits. 1t is very aggravating to
a man to be taxed for everything he
has, down to Scotch collie, and then
see one of his neighbors hide all of
assets in safety deposit box and get
away with it. @ .G
The tax ferret is an amateur sleuth
with a searchlight and prying man
ner, who is hired by the board of
supervisors to dig up the assessable
property of people who would prefer
to be let alone. His business Is to
remove the lid from money which
has been buried 5000 feet below sea
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20

was pleased by the presidents action,
The democratic instinct Is strong even
In matters of religious association,
and any preference shown for simple
surroundings In the practice OF religi-
GUS faith will appeal to most Ameri.
cans as becoming and wholesome.
MI Cleveland surprised Washington
when he elected to worship In an old
fashioned Presbyterian church In Four
and Half street, In the downtown
business part Of the capital. He and
Mrs. Cleveland found quiet and COM
fort there. President Roosevelt picked
out a Dutch Reformed church of whose
existence nine out of every ten resi-
dents Of Washington were wholly
unaware. President Taft worshiped
in a Unitarian church somewhat bet
ter known, but still not to be classified
as fashionable.
Presidents as rule, In fact, have
, sought to be modest and inconspicu.
GUS churchgoers, and in that they have
lived UP 70 sound American tradition.
Official titles and dignities should be
waived at the church door.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
THE PRESIDENTS CHURCH.

New York Tribune: The United
States is a state without church, and
for that very reason the church
Affiliations of presidents are bound to
excite large measure of popular in
terest. Probably no piece of news
coming out of Washington in the last
few days attracted wider attention the
country over than the dispatch which
told about President Wilson going to
church on the first Sunday of his adj
ministration. Even in this detail Of
his nonofficial life he exhibited the
independence Of routine which is one
Of his most striking personal char
acteristics. He attended relatively
obscure Presbyterian church in an I'M
fashionable part Of the city. although
IT had been taken as matter of course
that he would go to much more con-
spicuous church of the same faith and
sit in the pew formerly occupied by
Presidents Lincoln and Harrison.
No doubt the country as a whole
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
Press Comment.
A BUNS REASONS.

Sioux City Journal: Emmanuel Bap-
tist church in Chicago is located down
town. Rev. Johnston Myers Is pastor
of the church. The church has been
giving daily breakfast to between
sixty and one hundred men destitute
Of the means to help themselves in an
independent manner. Naturally the
customers are largely of the class
known as tranps. Rev. Mr.. Myers. be-
ing of an investigating turn Of mind,
thought he would like to know what
the men themselves would say had
brought them to their present state.
So he put the question why Am a
BUM" and offered 81 bill for the
best answer. number of the break
fasters considered the prize worth
striving for. The dollar was won by
a young man Of 80 owning to the name
of Louis Anderson, educated, Of good
appearance, without residence or job.
Anyway, the answer Is worth all it
cost. He said he was a bum for these
reasons:
Unrestricted immigration. There
are not jobs enough to go around
incompetence, both from birth and
bad habits. Employers want the best
men. We are not the best.
The drink habit, form of moral
insanity.
The second count seems to cover
the first and the third. Employers
want the best men. We are not the
best" There are jobs enough to sup.
ply the best men, and immigration
has helped to answer the demand, but
the supply has not yet been equal to
the demand Incompetence from
birth and bad habits" cuts demand for
men down to the point OF absolute
necessity. The men themselves do not
know when they have good thing, or
else they are too weak to stay with it.
The bum tires of being bounced. and
finds it easier to 60 upon the road and
live on the generosity of churches.
missions and back doors. And yet
there always is the thought of peculiar
misfortune, more frequently warranted
than some cold blooded people think.
1.-The drink habit, a form of moral in
sanity" So 1t seems. And how are
you to hold the insane to strict &C
countability.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
LlBERTYVILLE.

Mrs. Mary Dunlavy and son of Ok
lahoma City are here visiting her faith
er. sa
Geo. Petsinger and son Jake have re-
turned from a winter spent in Califor-
MIA. Mr.. Petsinger Is in very poor
health.
Lester Burnangh, Jr., left for Can
ada to spend the summer.
Miss Nellie Warren returned from
Ottumwa Thursday where she has
been nursing.
Burke Heston left Sunday for Vest
borough, NO. for a short stay with his
brother Claude.
Mrs. Maude Mcwhirt went to New
London to nurse a sick patient.
Miss Edna Pollock who is attending
school in Cedar Falls Is here visiting
with her parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Miller have re-
turned from Washington after year
spent there. They will live on their
farm, recently vacated by Ernest
Countryman.
William Manning, ST., is seriously ill.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Tedrow, a
son. March 4.
Little Glenn Eyeston is reported on
the sick list.
Elmer and Curt Vaught were bust
ness callers in Fairfield Monday.
Paul Gearhart arrived home last
week from Minnesota, where he has
been working in hospital.
Mrs. Denton TedroW visited over
Sunday with her daughter In Eldon.
Zane Eyestone left Monday for a
business trip to Des Moines.
DR.. and Mrs. Davis left Tuesday for
Fairfield. Mr.. Davis will enter the Fair
field hospital for treatment.
Howard Ferrell left Thursda~ morn
ing for Pilot Grove, where he win have
charge of a section.
Miss Jennie Harvey and Isaac Nc
Bride were married Wednesday at
noon at the eMthodist parsonage. A
fine dinner was served by the brides
parents at her home near Libertyville
for the relatives and friends. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mcbride will reside on a farm
west of Libertyville.
Clyde and Arthur Miller were Fair
field callers Wednesday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
vo,ync MEN AND YOUNG WOMEN.

Successful young people make sue
cassful old people-be successful while
you're young. =
remember this-success demands
and requires hard work-and listen!
The kind Of work that brings success
Is the kind that not only requires
great exertion, but that exertion must
he at all times properly controlled and
made use of. Your work must be sys.
tematically done. If it is not youll
he passed by the man who is working
hard. and at the same time conserving
his effort.
The man who is making the most
noise is not always the most efficient
workman. The man who is simply
jumping up and down. is possibly work
Ing harder physically than the man VINO
is walking steadily away from him.
The party who takes a personal IN
tenest in his or her work, tries to do
things better today than he did yes
terday. and continually checks back
to see that the work has been correctly
done and that his effort is producing
the proper results, is the party. Who
Is really progressing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
One Cause Of Divorce

Topeka Capital: As it is pretty gem
orally construed nowadays by many
of those who engage in it marriage
to woman means the shocking Of
all responsibility. It means settling
back on the soft cushions of leisure,
while the husband shoulders the en-
tire burden. Until young women are
taught that marriage is a copartner-
ship and that the assumption of it's
conditions imposes responsibility on
both members of the Arm there will
be matrimonial infehctty and the
docket Of the divorce courts will be-
crowded
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
Vocational Training.

Philadelphia Press: The subject OF
vocational training has become one
Of critical moment in the educational
conduct of schools and seminaries.
Not that there Is unanimity of opin-
ion nor any likelihood of it's being
reached until some method shall be
found which compromises the sharp
difference between the radical and
conservative parties engaged with
the modern phases of culture. This
term will be deemed misnomer by
those who resent the intrusion OF
technicalities within the precincts OF
schools hitherto devoted to a strictly
classical education.
To such it appears the needless az
erosion of a commercial age DOM
mating the more liberal arts and
finer sentiments by the rough-and-
ready demand that the true leisure
of school should be destroyed and
the lad set to work almost before he
knows the trend and temper of that
mind whereby all his work must
needs be done This premature haste
to produce wares in the school that
fetch a price in the market is by such
critics regarded as an offense against
good taste, good breeding and sound
scholarship 1t savors less Of culture
in the sense they hold it than of in
dustrial filibustering, an act equiva.
lent to mixing concrete on a flower
bed. The revolt against such voca-
tional invasion is indicated by the de.
cision of the Amherst faculty to eX-
else elective and technical courses
in favor of that broad and liberal dis
cipline which established the princi.
pies of knowledge and the potencies
Of action in the mind.
There is something to be said for
this attitude. It would be fatal to our
highest interests to relegate mental
discipline to secondary place, and
TO thus choke the springs of inven.
ton with narrow and twilight un-
derstanding, would assuredly in time
react as unfavorably upon business
enterprises uprising from scientific
research as it does against the aver
lage intelligence of the country al
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
Sidewalk Sketches
BY Howard l.. Ram
TAXES.

level and bring it up where 5-mill
levy can get it's hooks into it. The
tax ferret is very obnoxious to opu-
lent citizens who have never paid any
thing but their pool tax.
The income tax Is a medieval form
of rank persecution which Is about to
extract large hunks of income from
the wealthy classes. 1t Is designed
to make taxpayers for the first time
out of large number Of people who
do not own anything but invisible
securities and nineteen automobiles
which are plastered with exemptions.
The income tax Is going to be highly
popular with people who earn $1,000
year and spend $1,100 Of it on rent
The taxpayer is person who con
tributes heavily to the support OF the
high school and then has to buy a
new set of revolving school books
every semester. He also pays liber
ally to pave the street in front of the
mayors house and is rewarded by q
set of crossings on his own street that
couldn't be scaled by an Alpine goat
This is one reason why the taxpayer
never looks happy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
FREDERIC.

Miss Maude Howerton is visiting
friends In Oskaloosa.
Miss Helen Akers Of this place and
Mr.. Baker Of Ohio were married at
Creston Monday March 8.
The Ladies' Aid met Wednesday with
Mrs. Henry Horn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Miller were Sun
day visitors at the John Cramblit
home
Miss Fern Sedgwick is visiting at
the home of her aunt Miss Sadie
Duffy at Cuba.
Walter Reeves was an Ottumwa vis-
itor Saturday.
Mesdames Jas. Griffin and Marion
Griffin were Abba visitors Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Moss and little
daughter OF Chillicothe were Sunday
visitors at the Ed Chapman homo
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
In connection with the articles now

In connection with the articles now
appearing in the Courier written by
Prof. Kirkpatrick, the Muscatine coun-
ty crop adviser an interesting item
from Blackhawk county is published.
The crop adviser in that county has
discovered that the farmers of the
county last year lost $24,3O6 through
the failure to treat the seed oats for
smut, or enough to pay nearly 50 per
cent of the annual road tax. The
growth of the county adviser move
ment is going to save the Iowa farm
ers thousands Of dollars annually. A
number Of counties have employed an
adviser. Wapello county should push
the campaign now being conducted to
secure such a crop expert.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
A DRY WHITE HOUSE.

Kansas City Times: If President
Wilson doesn't wish to serve wine at
the white house for the next four
years, he has a perfect right not to-.
But further than that, isn't it pretty
wholesome sort of thing for the coun-
try to have that sort of standard set
by the president of the United States?
The wise father of today, who may
drink himself, would prefer that his
son shouldn't get the habit. The ath-
lete in training doesn't drink. The big
business concern prefers that .its en-
ployes be not drinking men. The man
who desires the best things for his
boy knows that liquor won't do the boy
any good. 1t may do him lot of harm.
So what's the use of his taking
chances?
If first class fighting man like
President Wilson should bar liquor
from his table, his action would have
a wide influence for good on young
men all over the United States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-03-20
CANT RIl.

School election on Monday resulted
as follows: w. l.. Harbridge, 3 years !;
Lemis Stewart 2 years; w. C. Creath,
and w. w. Powell one year.
Miss Pearl Dyer Of Armenia will
speak at the M. E. church next Sunday
at II a. m.
Mrs. Lucy Roberts of Milton visited
with Cantril relatives Monday.
District Superintendent E. J. Shook
preached in the NJ. E. church Tuesday
evening.
Mrs. Geo. B. Creath visited in Fair.
field over Sunday.
Mrs. Geo. Teter of Milton visited
her parents Monday and Tuesday.
Mrs. E. ]. Shepard returned to her
home in eKokuk after visit at the
Elmer Struble home.
Mrs. John Suare visited Mrs. A.
Purcell Tuesday. E.
Clyde Norris and w. c. Creath are
in Keokuk this week in the interest OF
state bank of Cantril.
Fred Hardy of Milton spent Sun.
day at the home of Mrs. Martha Coch
ran.
Mrs. w. w. Powell and Mrs. Silas
Stouebraker were Milton visitors
Tuesday.
Dan Mcintosh was passenger to
Bloomfield Tuesday.
Mrs. Howard Suit and mother Mrs
Williamson were in Milton Tuesday.
W. w. Drew left Friday for visit
in Mountain Grove, Mo.
The remains Of the infant daughter
|of Mr.. and Mrs. Van Fossen will ar
rive in Cantril Thursday for burial
from Colorado. Mrs. Van Fossen is q
daughter of 3. H. Rider.
Warren Powell has purchased the
w. w. Welborn residence and will gel
possession April l.