Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-07-23


can count the bushels of corn in crib
Grand junction Globe: If the county
manager plan contemplates doing
away with the board of three or five
members and substituting one expert
who is acquainted with road and
bridge building and is good business
man, the suggestion Is we'll worth con-
, sideration.
Louisville Courier-Journal: Tho
reason why the tipping system will
never be abolished Is that the attitude
! of the average patron of the restaur-
ant toward the high-mighty waiter Is
that OF, Alice, who wept with delight
when Ben Bolt gave her smile and
!! trembled with fear at his frown.
Utica, N. Y, Press: It is reported
that the United States senate Is great
ly excited over the general accuracy
of the published reports about what
takes place at it's secret sessions Its
dignified members forget though re-
/ peated experience ought to teach them
that what hundred men know a score
of diligent reporters can find out by
the exercise Of reasonable and charac-
terlstic diligence.
Dunlap Reporter: Iowa this season
is trying to live up to the reputation
, given it by DR.. Frank Crane.
Council Bluff Nonpareil: John Bar
leycorn will have difficulty In finding
any political party in Iowa willing to
stand sponsor for his business.
Hannibal Courier Post: That was an
inglorious ending at the peace confer
ence at Niagara Falls. Inglorious for
us. The one bit of humor is that IN
the settlement with Huerta, the origin
al cause of the dispute was not men
toned, we entirely forgot our repara-
ton.
Sioux City Tribune: If instead OF
spending millions improving rivers
that never can be made nayigable anu
! would have no commerce If they were
navigable, congress would spend hall
the pork" appropriations developing
the water power of rivers and erecting
in its own name water power plants
like that at Keokuk, it would be per-
forming a real service to the country.
The power from such plants cold be
, rented quickly and at profitable hg-
ures. :.
Cedar Rapids Republican: After all
Villa knows how to do some things
up brown. When the l. w. WIS invad-
ed certain mining regions and COM
menced to preach anarchy-which Is
their style-Villa told them to get out
or he would have the whole bunch
executed, Like good towards they got
out And that is about the best way
Of talking to men whose sole object Is
to make trouble-and to dynamite 9TH
ers. There is no use Of being mealy-
mouthed with that kind of mon.
Davenport Times-The Wilson ad.
ministration has been making much OF
| its opposition to trusts. When t. u.
Jones was nominated for member OF
the federal reserve board, however, 1t
was discovered he was connected with
the International Harvester Co. Then
the senate committee had to choose
between, Wilson'S policy and Wilson's
man and 1t has taken the position that
the policy ought to be sustained and
| the nomination rejected.
| Davenport Times: The voters Of the
county should take notice. The Scott
county board OF supervisors has left
one spigot Of the treasury turned on.
| While they have right to open 1t and
| let the money of the taxpayers leak
out in little dribs they have refused
to take any such action. And the re-
suit is that the rattles of snakes con-
tinue to be mere curiosities Of exhibits
proving the prowess Of mighty snake
hunters, but they do not pass for cur
rency or possess any money value. The
rattlesnake bounty is not paid here.
Clinton Advertiser: Some Of the
| Clinton motorcyclists, who go dashing
over the pavements at rate Of speed
Of from twenty-five to fifty miles an
hour think the police are making spec.
| ial victims of them, and are allowing
! the auto drivers to violate the speed
laws with impunity.
/ While on the other hand the speed
ers in cars believe they are much abus.
ed If a policeman happens to. stop
! them-which really does happen once
| in a while--to caution them against
burning up the pavements. They think
they are being prosecuted, and that the
motorcycle speed demons are permit
ted to violate the speed laws to their
hearts content.
| AS a matter of fact both auto and
motorcycle speeders are getting away
pretty easy In Clinton. They are daily
violating the laws, and imperilling the
lives of the people. Yet two or three
arrests month for speeding autos and
! motorcycles is about the limit In Clin-
: ton