Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-03-11
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quit. A naughty twinkle sparkled
in his eyes, seeming to imply that he
wanted his supper; whereupon the
Vice President announced THE ayes
have 1.-THE Senate is adjourned.
No Time For Political Anemia.
American diplomacy is receiving
suspended in the air as the result
of jockeying MeXicans and canal
treaties that bind, remains to be
seen. However, the difficulties at
the White House and the State De-
partment are such that there is no
place in the Administration for any
one with political anemia. Colonel
Goethals says that the United States
government will not be affected by
extending universal treatment to the
boats of all nations, and he adds
that the steamship companies are the
only ones vitality concerned in the
controversy. And President Wilson
tells the country to keep COOL and
help him bring Mexico to terms,
without Intervention.
Efficiency Versus The Pork Barrel.
An energetic attack is being made
in Congress upon the marble palaces
being built throughout the country
for postof1ices, and it is urged that
in this busy commercial age 1--WE
need workshops in which to conduct
the postal business" Likewise, the
advance of the parcel post and the
great growth of the country make
it imperative that there be more en-
ergetic methods in constructing pub
lie buildings. Throughout the country
buildings authorized several years
ago have not yet been started; and
the government architects in Wash
is claimed that that branch of the
government is five or six years be-
hind in its work. A big movement
is being agitated in Congress to stan
dardize methods that will result in
buildings for cities that are entitled
to them, and to prescribe their class.
Art is being invited to take back
set, and pork barrel methods are ex-
pected to decline in competition with
the more modern idea of the maxi
mum of efficiency in choosing sites
and in the construction of buildings.
Kiss Your Wife Daily.
Vice President Marshall is an
original chap, and talks upon every
subject under the sun. He suggests
for a man to kiss his wife every day,
merely as matter Of habit Within
that the best remedy for divorce is
the week it has been published that
Mr.. Marshall, having been on train
delayed for many hours, was away
from his wife for the first time since
their marriage eighteen years ago.
1t may be delicate suggestion, but
the people who have seen the Vice
Presidents beautiful and charming
wife can easily understand how it
would be pleasure to carry out Mr..
Marshall's practice of avoiding di-
vorce with such an incentive. Howev-
,er even the Vice President might balk
if his case was like that of some Of
tn other distinguished men of the
nation-no names, please, this being
another case of where correspondent
Jones has said enough.
senate Favorable to Suffrage.
A number of test votes have been
suffrage. While it has not been as
certained that that body contains the
two-thirds majority necessary to
commit it to the proposition to sub
NIT the constitutional amendment to
the states, yet it is nevertheless clear
that the Senators are ready to take
hold of the question and dispose of
it without resorting to the numerous
subterfuges by which the resolution
in the House has been showed aside.
The woman who have been in Wash
ington in great numbers asking ac-
ton by Congress urge that inasmuch
as nine states now have equal SUI
frage, that the question be finally
determined by all the people at the
polls.