Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-02-03

to keep radium from monopoly; DuL
more fo!Ks are iulerea ted IL shoes and
food.
st Paul Pl0t Ger Press: President
Wilson extends the pipe OF peace to
all the biS chiefs Of business, but it
VIII make some Oh them sick to smoke
it.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: Iowa will
not be favored with regional bank
but it has more banks than any other
like region within Uncle Sans bound
ary lines.
Boone News-Republlcan: 1t Is a
good thing chat the president took a
few weeks layoH to rest up. He Is
now confronted with three serious
questions involving Mexico, Japan and
the Panama canal tolls.
Kansas City Journal: Don't forget
that the income tax Is a necessary bur
den, imposed to make Up Cor the loss
of revenue resulting from tariff reduc-
tons that were necessary to reduce
the high cost Of living. The cost OF
living mas not been reduced, hut the
income tax will be collected.
Webster City Freeman-TIibune: Dur
ing the recent extreme cold spell in
the city of .,ew York sixteen persons
frOZe to dc attn in the nations metrop-
oils. We used to have cold weather in
Iowa and occasion ally some luckless
traveller lost his life from freezing, but
it is not of record that people ever
froze to death in Iowa cities. However,
the climate of this section of the globe
seems to have e <red and our win
tiers have beco. = rs mild and gentle
as a fawn.
Hannibal Courier-Post: For some
time gang-plows have been operated by
powerful motors in the prairie regions,
but now it is stated that a motor is
being evolved to take the place of
single team OF horses on the farm for
blowing land and cultivating corn. 1t
is claimed that the cost of the work
is less and the labor easier, also that
the machine does not have to be fed
all winter when doing no work.
Lincoln Journal: People are begin
ming to wonder what President Wilson
will say to his party when he is urged
to try the 500 tor one more term? He
said he wouldn't, but will he?
Des Moines Capital: Iowa lakes
should be preserved not alone for fish
ing, boating, skating and other pleas.
ureable purposes but as part Of
natures wise and benificent plan in
insuring the fertility of the soil of the
surrounding country. Let in the Iowa
lakes alone.
Iowa City Republican: The Clinton
Advertiser is mistaken when it says
that the Republican editor is trying to
harmonic the bull moosers and the
republicans. When a lad, we drove
cattle for a. couple of years and we
learned that you can't take wild
seer by the tail and do anything with
Harmonic mooser, never.
Burlington Gazette: Iowa is to nave
q new official. He will be known as
state epidemiologist. In addition to
investigating the causes of mumps,
smallpox and other contagious diseases
we would respectfully call his atten-
ton to the freak dance epidemic.
Boone News Republican: One lndi-
cation Of the steady growth of Boone
is the passing of the Boone post office
into new grade with 1914. The class
is not raised, for it is second class
post Office and will be Tor some time,
but for departmental purposes, post
offices are divided into several grades
according to the amount of their total
annual receipts. The grade which the
Boone post Office has just passed
through Is one of the longest jumps,
that from annual receipts of $4,000 to
annual receipts Of 100000.
Cedar Rapids Republican: One man
has estimated that Chicago loses one
million dollars a day through its unem-
ployed. That adds the cost Of their
maintenance to what their labor ought
to be worth to society. But are all the
idle in that city men who would be
willing to work? We doubt It very
much. There are great many men,
and some women who have learned to
rely upon others to support them. II
each one were offered five acres Of
land to work, how many of them would
work it? Yet living can be made
from five acres near a large city and
some have made prosperity from such