Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-08-06
Press Comment

Press Comment
Quincy Herald: The Blue Danube
Waltz may become the Red Danube
March before many days.
Muscatine Journal: Time is money.
And civility and courtesy take time.
But as rule they are pretty good in
vestments, and occasionally pay big
dividends. -
Sioux City Journal: The populists
of Nebraska evidently are good ma
tured lot without any desire to hurt
anbody's feelings. They Endorsed both
Wilson and Hitchcock, but evidently
overlooked the opportunity to put
their O. K on free trade and protec-
ton and free silver and the gold stand
ard.
Burlington Gazette: 1t looks as II
there will be plenty of places to put
our overwhelming wheat crop, If we
can fine some method of shipping it to
its destination.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Linn county
is supposed to be dry outside of
Cedar Rapids. This supposition exists
only in the minds of those who wot not
of the numerous key parties which OBJ
tain on Sundays beyond the city limits
up and down the rolling Cedar.
Sioux City Tribune: Great Britain's
a y n
anese fleet disappeared during the
Japanese war it bobbed up in
time to wipe the Russian fleet out OF
existence. When Admiral Schley's
fleet disappeared during the Spanish
American war, it bobbed up at Santi
ago. These disappearing fleets make
nations nervous.
Davenport Times: The New York
Times characterizes the war against
Servia as an unholy war without ex-
cuse or Justification. Samuel Gompers
takes the same position. Gompers
speaks for the workingmen and the
New York Times for business and the
wealthy. 1t would appear that. with
a few exceptions, the opinion Is
unanimous that Austria has acted with
unreasoning haste.
Galesburg Mail: When we read in
the press dispatches that the foreign
countries which are on the verge OF
general warfare count their soldiers
by the hundreds of thousands and the
millions it makes the United States
standing army look like drop of wa
ter as compared to cistern. Many
people of the United States think that
the drain upon our finances Is heavy
in order to care for our few thousand
soldiers an the navy. The cost is
small compared with the expense of
keeping up the armies in Germany,
Russia and several other foreign coun-
tries. The United States has been for
tunate not to- need a larger standing
army, but whether it is wisdom 10
trust to good fortune all the time Is a
subject that is questioned by high
authorities.
Clinton Herald; 1t is to be noted
that the autocratic nations of Europe
are all the most eager for war; the
democratic nations want to- avoid 1t.
Austria, despotism, started 1t. I. Rus
STA. another despotsm, announced Its
willingness. Germany, near depot
ism and an absolutely imperialistic ma
ton, was ready to follow suit. France,
a republic, showed more peaceful IN
though longing to win back
territory wrested from her by force
more democratic than France
and Italy, inclined to be liberal, are
steadfastly for peace.
Kansas City Star: The truth is that
drinking is going out of fashion. The
younger generation isn't taking to 1t
in the old way. There was a time
when it was considered sign OF man
illness to drink That time has passed.
Athletics and the growing demand
for efficiency in every department OF
life are killing the drink habit. The
outstanding young fellows who take.
the lead in baseball and football, and
who set the fashion for the rest, have
"cut out booze" They know they cant
drink and keep in the best physical
condition. The greatest ball manager
of the time, Connie Mack. says public
w that he won't bother with men who
drink. It isn't worth his while. They
have no place on a championship team.
Today the athlete is setting the pace
for the young man. When he takes
his mineral water there Is a general
disposition to follow his example.
The fashion established by athletics
is reinforced by young men getting
into business. More and more bust
ness institutions are closing their
doors to the chaps who drink. They
want temperate men, and they con-
slider as temperate" men who do not
drink either OF or off duty.
Business rivalry, the keenest Of COM
petition, is too great to take chances
with men who may not be at them
selves, or who aren't taking care Of
physically. Business wants
the best there is in a man, and he must
not drink if he Is to give 1t.
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