Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-11-13
Press Comment

Des Moines Register and Leaders A
rainless November Is no help to the
street railway company.
Sioux City Tribune: It is now up
to the appendices clubs throughout
the world to start collecting funds for
fitting memorial to the late DR.. Nc
Burney, the father of appendicitis"
Mnscatine Journal: It is fortunate
for some salaried men that the income
tax collector only considers what they
actually draw and not what they be-
lieve their efforts are worth.
La Crosse Tribune: It Is complained
that football players are given strych-
nine to stimulate the heart, but prob
ably this was only where their oppon-
ents in previous games escaped I'm.
hurt.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: A great
many people are certain that Sulzer
was not indicated in the election
Tuesday. But William knows better.
He has an election certificate in his
pocket which satisfies his soul on that
point.
Davenport Times: The Mexican con.
stitutionalists, hoping in the end to
get control of the Mexican government
quite naturally are opposed to inter
vention because they might have to
share the government with others
later on.
Burlington Gazette: English press
dispatches lead one to believe that
Mrs. Pankhurst might stop long
enough in her triumphant tour Of the
United States to ask herself the ques-
ton, Where is my militant Sylvia to-
night?"
Cedar Rapids Republican,: Don't
imagine that the man who goes away
from home for the winter has an easy
time OF It. He has to sit around and
wait, with nothing to do except to
talk climate. The average man with
no other occupation than that will age
twice AZ rapidly as the man who can
stay It home and busy himself with
really, useful work. The man who re-
tires ON climate hasn't much more to
hope for in this world, his Is almost
ripe for heaven and even his heaven
will have more or less milk-and-water
in It.
Mrs. Pankhurst. declares British wom-
en- are being driven to violence. And
all this time we thought the police
were trying to keep them from it.
Marshalltown Times Republican,:
One family economical by going with
out meat for six months in order to
purchase 5000 rug. That's econ
omy, but it isn't thrift.
Sioux City Journal: Russi&'s invest
ment of half million dollars in an
embassy building in Washington is an
augury for the eventual
negotiation of treaty of amity and
commerce.
!, La Crosse Tribune: A cane which
Lafayette lost in this country in 1924
has been recovered. 1t usually takes
about that length OF time to find lost
article when you don't advertise it.
Dubuque Telegraph Herald: All
Iowans familiar with the ravages of
hog cholera will wish Senator Kenyon
success in seeking a federal appropria-
ton of 33,OOO,000 with which to fight
the disease. The waste from loss OF
Oskaloosa Herald: The old idea
with the farmer was to get more land.
If he had 100 acres he thought he
should pinch and save and buy an
other 80. Go in debt and keep in debt
to buy land, and leave his
children land when he died-that was
the aim. But that drove the children
away from home and into the city, be-
cause the farmer who was always In
debt for land had few of the comforts
of home that make home attractive to
children.
Cedar Rapids Republican: On one
day recently the custom officers con-
flecated five aigrettes which women
returning from Europe wore in their
hats. The aigrettes, under the new
law, are not importable. One woman
who surrendered her aigrette had the
good taste to say she was glad the
law had been passed. she did not be-
lieve in numbering birds to make
plumes for foolish women, but as long
as aigrettes were the style, what was
a woman to do but to submit to it?
Clinton Herald: The suggestion that
better fire protection should be pro-
vided. for the public school buildings
is one that can have none too serious
consideration. If there is single
place in the entire city where every
possible precaution should be taken it
is in the school buildings, crowded to
their capacity with children. who, des-
pite the efficient hre drill training. are
easily stampeded. 1t is probable there
is not parent in the city who will
fail to give endorsement to whatever
expenditure is necessary to protect
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