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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-29
4 DMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE.

4 DEMONSTRATORS NOTICE.
IA Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons interested. that on the Goth day of
j January, A. D., 1914. the undersigned
was appointed by the District Court OF
Mahaska County, Iowa, administrator
of the estate of Prudence j. Stewart, de-
ceased, late Of said Mahaska County, la,
All persons indebted to said estate will
make payment to the undersigned, and
those having claims against the same
will present them legally authenticated
to said court for allowance. ~ e..
Dated this 26th day of January, 1914.
RALPH W. STEWART, Admir-.
j. L. Milligan, Clerk. ... ..-...., e,
BY F. W. VII hit. Deputy. 2swa
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-29
Land Valuation HIGHER.

.ccC -, To the Sioux county
treasurer, about 800 900 more will be
S'N"" corntv residents in
taxes this year than in the year 1918
a. q 'na higher valuation
o. S.oux ccEnty land.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-29
Miner Loses Life.

Ottumwa, Jan. 27.-Arthur Middle
ton, a we'll known young man of this
city, was instantly killed by fall of
slate in the Goat Hill mine just west
of the city limits yesterday. Mr.. Mid
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1914-01-29
Professional Cards
VIM. r. LACEY,
Attorney-at-law.
Oskaloosa, Iowa.

General Practice, Pensions, Collec
tons, all State and Federal Courts
Probate Cases. 24yl
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
FROM A MERE WOMAN
She Yearns for More Masculine Wis
dom as to Her Duties.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir Joseph Gilpn Pyle. in your issue
OF January S. has so positively and forci-
bly, directed US as TO the business Of
being woman" that we dare not ques-
ton his supreme authority Bat We are
so weak OF mind that We fear We do
not receive the full measure OF his Wis
dom. and We most humbly pray that ne
will be so mercful az 10 lead us 20 A
fuller understanding.
We understand that woman Is difleren;
from man because she bears the child.
that motherhood and its duties are the
true business OF a woman. How are we
10 understand that We are TO do nothing
else except bear and rear children? And
those OF us whom God has so constituted
tina, We cannot bear children and those
who have no husbands are TO do nothing?
or is ii ordained that we may do any
kind OF manual labor. such as scrubbing
office floors and working In factories. etc.
and when We become too old for this
may We sell newspapers on the street? or
is this exclusively man duty And are
we TO understand that IL We have a
drunken husband that We may do any
kind OF hard labor TO support him except
vote? MERE WOMAN
New York. Jan S. 1914
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
THE ARMS or ULSTER
Why Dummy Weapons Ars u'1 =
Drilling for the Fight

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: I was sorry 10 SEQ the ps0Ss
Ulster so slightingly alluded 10 u
publication OF the 4th inst as
drilled as Well as the average scn''~
and carrying wooden guns iou :
respondent forgot 10 say that w.
have all been conhscated there ana .
men have to use dummy weapohH
they have arms they can't bring "
cut In public Also ! think no ~
that the men Ulster IS depending gu
business 20 attend 70 and cannot ~.
every day Cor every one who wis's
see them lie may be interested %
that Belfast alone has a total "
volunteers for their protection ~
mention the Unlonlsts Of the emp"
large ready TO help.
Ulster is a small place. but 'her
too many fine men ard women 'ns
any one 20 make fln Of We shol"
forget that some OF our best blow
q few Of orr presidents can be us
this ioyal little piece OF land. '"
know that the United states a.
fights against Tammany RUE ."
YOU blame these people Tor golns %
extremes to fight against la
Tammauy rule than "" io'A
knew? However. let us hope u~
one understands that the people %
have done and can DO things
any nation may well be proud
MRS. H. SLAB
New York. Jan =. 1915
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
The Harvard-TechnOlOgy Merger.

The agreement between Harvard University ana
the Massachusetts Institute Of Tccbnolog! Ia com
bine their departments Of mechanical. electrical
civil sanitary and mining engineering is the out
come of many years Of agitation for a union OF
forces The desire improve facilities aud increase
efficiency through q community of interest FIRST TOOK
the form Of complete anna Igamation. The Institute
Of Technology was once on the point of being alb
sorbcd by Harvard hut difficulties about the trans
fer of property aud the natural remittance of inc
Technology alumni 10 approve the merger plan
caused its abandonment.
Yet the advantages Of cooperation have been 80
obvious that tho two Institutions have been steadily
drawing nearer together. The bcncfactor. not y"i
named who gave the money for the construction oi
the Institutes buildings in Camhridgcport IS
understood 10 have expressed the desire that lia,-
ward students should also enjoy the advantages ~
the now plant When two first class institutions OF
capital and energy for them to 60 on duplicating
work What either one do better should he
done within its walls for the benefit Of both student
bodies Harvard will undoubtedly open its courses
in other departments than engineering to Tech
nology undergraduates aud the exchange will he If
great mutual benefit.
Other colleges and universities should profit by
Cambridge There arc far too many educational
institutions uselessy competing with one another.
nion of resources in many would bring about
greater financial Independence and marked level
ling up of educational standards.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
PENALTIES AIDING VICTIMS"
The Candidates Are To Be Discrcetly
Selected.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Penalties Aiding Victims re
fected sound and logical theorizing.
But what does your certain classes
mean? Every one but the 'lifers' and
those guilty of heinous crimes. or just
the married men? II strikes me that
good thing might easily be abused here
unless there is careful discrimination
between the candidates"
The phase OF this plan that provides
that a portion OF the inmates recompense
he given 70 the family is commendable
But compensating certain criminals who
have no family ties might act rs an in
centive 10 them TO commit unlawful acts.
We have. unfortunately. a class OF
parasites who are perfectly willing to
spend a winter in jail to keep out Of
the cold They'll commit a petty crime
TO get six months" Maybe there are
among these some who would benefit by
a lifting hand, but the majority Of them
are impossible. Again. there is the pro-
fessonal criminal, who scarcely works
out his sentence before he is planning
another lob EUGENE ERHARD.
No 1865 Madison street, Brooklyn. Jan.
:. 1914
The certain classes are the married
men; particularly those who have de-
serted or III treated their wives and
families
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
Our Mexican Policy in South American
Ewes.

ON another page of this issue Mr. Charles NJ.
Pepper anayzeS the opinion which the South Amer
lean republics have formed of President Wilson
Mexican policy. Mr.. Pepper is especially qualified
for such task. since both Il representative of
the United States and a. a private investigator he
has given of his time for the last twenty years
to the study of Latin-Americsn affairs. Ills con
cluson is a simple and natural one. South America.
with every predispositon 10 approve any programme
which Washington might adopt. finds in the Wilson
programme these obvious defects which foreign
opinion generally recognizes in it at glance. and
which would he much more freely recognized in the
United States were il not for patriotic desire To
avoid weakening the administrations prestige and
moral influence
The South Americans can measure the situation
i'm Mexico pretty accurately. for they have often
faced similar situations themselves They will
ing 10 approve and applaud the exercise by the
United States of pressure 10 restore order and pro
tect property. They would not look askance at
policy which involved moral physical inter
vention that policy being based on the assumption
hy the United States through the Monroe Doctrine
Of responsibility 10 the European powers whose
free action in this hemisphere it has materially
limited
The things when Latin Americans criticise in
President WILSON'S policy are lts IOoseness anu IN
defnteness II may have been all right to start out
drifting but at what port drifting vessel hope
TO arrive: Having at the beginning no clear view
Of The end the President could not chart his
lie clothed his purposes in generaiteS and one OF
those generaties has hung ever since like mill
stone about the neck OF his programme All the
world would have understood him If he had said
that be would recognize government in Mex
leo which could not show that 1t was competent
to restore order and protect life and property But
neither Latin-Amercans nor Europeans understood
him when he declared that he would recognize no
President unable unwilling 10 restore "constitu-
tional government"
Constitutional government" is an elastic ideal
among the Iatin-Americans. Its attainment is
thing be hoped for. But most of these countries
have got along with very moderate measure Of
II from time 10 time aud they do not put IL in the
category OF political necessities as internal
tranquility and order.
The Wilson programme therefore seems in their
eyes to have confused non-essentss with essentials
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
The judgment of /abern.

German militarism has at least the courage of It's
arrogance That was shown when the prosecutor
of the Iahern officers recommended the lGhtest
possible sentences for them. and il was conirmed
yesterday when the Strassburg court marital alto-
ccthcr acquitted them. These acts were logical
SeqIlcls 70 the Imperial Chancellors championship
of those officers and Of their noble conradc who
distinguished himself hy sabring cripple and VINO
has with them now been cxculpated.
If remains TO be seen what will be the people 8
sequel to the Rcchsag'S vote of censure upon the
Chancellor There he little doubt that the
acauttal Of these officers will be widely regarded
~ IL conviction of the system under which they
serve and under which such acts as theirs are pos
sible Their acts are undisputed. They admitted
them aud cloricd i'm them. In time of peace they
proclaimed martial law N will. They arbitrarily
arrested and imprisoned unarncd civilians. They
broke open and entered private domcilcs without
warrant. They purpoSed TO fire upon the populace
with machine guns for no other reason than that
men were standing around and laughing. And
the technical justification Of the swashbuckling Is
found in an autocratc decree made under the Holy
Alliance.
1t is Uncomfortable that the spirit and purport
of such judgment will he meehly acquiesced in by
the German people The question is not whether
the kings coat is 10 he respected but whether the
pickcIh0Rbc is TO be made modern GesSlers bat
before which ali men must bow in reverence:
whether. in time of peace. civil rights and civil
authority are 10 he completely subordinated to the
autocratic will Of military martnes. There is
ground for confident belief that strong negative
answer will he given. and will he given not least
emphatically by million men who themselves once
wore the kings coat.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
Good Sense from Mr.. Adamson.

The order issued 10y Fire Commissioners Adamson
forbiddinG the needless speeding of fire aulomoplleS
is sound sense badly needed Altogether too many
ire Department officials have gone rushing around
town. to the risk Of lives all along the route Wheh
no emergency called whatever
Speeding is an inSidous virus. as every autono-
bile owner knows often 70 his sorrow. In inc case
Of Fire Department officials il is easy enough to
comprehend how the taste for speeding IS gained ana
how difficult il is 10 curb the desire. But wanton
speeding must he stopped in this case JUST as lhe
ordinary driver must learn to control ms tchden'!
TO open her up
The automobile has come to stay: but it must stay
as respectable member Of society. not u highway
murderer
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11

Yet such examinations are imperativey prerep
site 70 marriage and 1t is a felony for any one "
erade the law 10y going into another state ~ eo'
married
\ strange feature Of the case Is mat the ~" W.
enacted largely because of the earnest anu 'ee
sive advocacy of it by the physicians of the stage
Yet now the physicians In revolt against H. M"
the members of Of the chief societies ~ wv
profession are reported TO nave felu'cu ~ ""'
take any such examinations OF To issue any 'ci""
Gates under the law. The obvious danger ~ wv
situation is that the work will fail INFO tue "'"''
Of INSCRIPTIONS practitioners. whose eXam'h"'o',
will not comply with the legal requirements, an"
that thus the system will become delusiyc. Inc
purnosc Of the law may he admirable. but there
seems to have been in providing for ITS iuInl'ncn'
lack Of discretion which threatens IN ooiea' IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
The Grade Crossings Toll.

keeping tabs on the grade crossings dead must
be CHASTITY work. The National Highways Irotcc-
live Association reports that eleven persons were
killed aud ten injured in this state last month at
railroad grade crossings In 1913 III persons were
killed in this state and 20 injured. This was an
increase Of Il dead over tho total for 1917
The Increase is attributed to the frequency OF
collisions Of trains and speeding motor cars at The
Grade ssings Whether the railroad or the chauf-
four * NJ fau matter, little Just as it makes little
real difference whether the engineer or the be
wdered pedestrian he runs down i at fault. The
Toll Of life is too great and the railroads and the
state are doing too little TO reduce it, Approprla-
tons to reduce the number Of deadly crossings are
needed and justified.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
An Impasse in Eugenics.

The well meant eugenc marriage law OF Wiscon-
sin seems through overpus Of zeal beyond discre-
lion. 70 have led 10 something like an mpasse. II
requires that before receiving licenses 10 marry
men shall undergo health examinations AT the hands
of regular Musicians who shall not charge fees Of
more than three dollars each for the service That
might do If the examination were 10 be merely OF
the kind which life insurance companies require.
But the law further calls for the application OF the
recognized clinical and laboratory tests Of scientific
search" for certain specific diseases. Few physi-
clans in ordinary practice possess the appliances
needed for such tests, and those who have
them cannot AFFORD 10 do such work for such fee.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
Professor Seager on the Compensation Law

Professor Seager'S article on the provisions and
meaning of the new workmen'S compensation law
in this mornings Tribune comes from authority
on that subject. it is matter for qualification
when lac terms the statute model with the best
features of the experience tested laws of Europe
and the newer ones of faster moving states of this
country. This state with its gigantic manufact-
uring interests and It's hundreds of thousands of
employees. is entitled 10 the best which the human
brain can devise and the human emotions prompt
in meeting the effects of trade disasters
The essence Of workmans compensation statute
is not alone the fact that the business which pro
duces the injury death also produces certain
amount OF cash toward the damage thus inflicted on
the worker, his family and society in general Ii
in the fostering of better relations between EN-
poyer and employees. and in relieving the state
that is. the public-of expense Of ambulance chas-
ing litigation and Of the care of dependents made
helpless through trade disasters. Ii is in the value
10 society arising from greater care on the part Of
employers to prevent accidents and 10 eradicate
is i'm the feeling that man really is man in the
ewes of the law. not small bit Of machinery 10
he thrown away when broken. These things make
enactment Of this law Professor Seager charac-
terjzes it, the most important reform in this state
I'm recent wears.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
BERKSHIRE INDUSTRIAL FARM
A School for Delinquent Boys That De
serves Support.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir. on the edge Of the Berkshires. IN
New York state. has grown up in twenty
f1vc years farm school for delinquent
bows that deserves wide public notice and
backing. Nearly one hundred boys. VINO
in former days would be i'm jais or re-
formatores. here lead normal manly
lie. spending half the day at school and
half the day working out OF doors. The
fsrm-glven by Mr.. Frederick Gordon
Burnham-has never had large endow-
ments or large gifts, but has grown from
small things 10 a larger field by devoted
service with small pay at the farm and
BY gifts from an increasing circle OF
friends. The farm has LOO acres Of farm
ing and mountain land. buildings worth
about $1,000. all unencumbered, and an
endowment fund OF $4,000. The counties
pay $50 per annum for the boys COM
mitted by the courts, and 1t is necessary
TO raise $1,000 annually from subscrip-
tons TO pay running expenses.
The crux of the farm is in the enlight-
ened humanity with which it is run-no
prison features. no harsh discipline, only
TO turn these wrongly started but Iowa
BILE boys toward manliness. The farm was
epitomzed in the remark OF one OF the
Royal Prussan Prison Commissioners
who recently visited there This is not
an institution, il is a home IL IS gov
erned not by rule but by the character
of the men at the head
For what il is accomplishing and as an
example of the right way to run reform
school the work is worthy of support.
Among those on the Advisory Board are
such we'll known men as the Hon Joseph
H. Choate. Dean William NJ. Grosvenor.
Lorillard Spencer. head of the Boy Scouts,
Ernest H. Coulter. head of the Big Broth
or Movement and the Hon. Clifford c.
Pincnot. Gifts will be gratefully received
by the Berkshire Industrial Farm, No. $50
Fourth avenue, New York city.
RICHARD NJ. HURD. Treasurer.
New York. Jan. .. 1914.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
An Open Forum for
Public Debate.

so that the ignorant can understari' b
we said before. We do not presun,
question the eminent scientist. bw
are ar a loss 20 know how this -
calamity exists without our being az
of II until Dir. Pyle informed Us
We have not the figures al hand y
roughly. probably not more than htf
the women bear any children even ~.
they may not vote, and those vito
bear children would not average "
FIVE In the fifty years OF the voting ~
life Of a woman. or one child even =
years for half the women. And p
women are so overburdened IN barr
and rearing children that being isTs
70 vote will make imbeciles OF the a.
dren.
The 'antis" have demonstrated "a
women will not take any interest r0 y
TO the trouble 10 vote. while the se.ec4
informs us that II the women han =
option OF voting or not their childrsn y
be deficient. while being hindered o.
having their rights creates "rampea u
tators," which IS destructive Of posss
and mental quality"
GEORGE n. BEERBo~A
New York, Jan. 3, 1874
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
THE TALK OF THE DAY.

Senator stone Of Missouri. is lover OF coffee, and
unless il is both strong and good the waiter at res
taurant or hotel soon hears from him. Recently he
took little trip to Baton Rouge and went into a
restaurant for dinner on raising his TO his lips
he made wry face and then beckoned TO the pro-
prietor.
what do YOU call this stuff he asked.
Coffee" meekly replied the man, somewhat sur
prised.
Coffee" repeated Stone with scorn. Il could
nut coffee bean into my mouth dive into the Mis-
sssippi River from the end of this street swim way
I'D to Vicksburg and I'll guarantee that any one
could bail up much better coffee than THIS over the
entire route
"You are the manager here; eh? Well, years ago
dined here and being unable to pay my bill you
kicked me out , 49,.
oh that's all right old chap-but-mght |
trouble YOU again?'-The Tatier
The German Roman Catholic bishops at a recent
conference at Fulda passed resolution censuring
the present feminine fashions on the ground that
they are devoid of any sense OF shame. The
bishops have called all the Roman Catholic
women Of Germany join in crusade against the
nresent dress which they describe "a dssrsceful
alteration.
Jiggs-Paris society has adopted tango baths
Jages-Tango baths-what dye mean7
out!-Buffalo Express.
Under the headline Two Remarkable Women
The .Frauenwelt" published in recent edition the
nictures of Theodore Doctora and Mrs Hetty Green.
The former is spoken Of the Oldest woman In the
world This negress says the writer mas ceie-
brated her Hath birthday and is still robust. she
lives in Lisbon. and the portrait which we publish
was taken while she taking her daily Walk
Note the chain Of beads and ornaments about her
neck and the trim manner in which the white shawl
* draped about her ample form. Age has evidently
not destroyed all vanity The other woman is said
To be the richest of her in America. Note her
dress II looks coarse. stout. seasonable and mex
pensive II dress and general appearance are indi-
cations the poor negress has enjoyed life more than
her rich American sister, who is thirty-four years
her junior"
My boy when your age was lucky If | got
- cents a week spending money. And here you
want So"
Il know. dad. but then I've got much cleverer
father than you had
And evidently I've got much smoother son than
my father had."-Detroit Free Press.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-11
The Reproach Of Typhoid.

The Department of Health. the 'eh'rai '"uno" VI
Puhlic Health and all other similar agencies pun
Nc and private. can scarcely do anything better
than 70 push the anti.typhotb campaign with all
possible persistency and vigor For IN Il uouo'e
sense the continued prevalence Of that disease Is I"
reproach to this and the other great American cities
II is not creditable 10 New York that IT snon"
have four and a half times as many deaths from
typhoid proper, onatey, as Hamburg. ana near!
thrce times as many az London. II is not crtui'-
able that this city should have NC deaths from thar
disease In the 100000 population. while the army
formerly very revealing ground for It, has only '"o
cases among its 5000 men.
Neither is il crcditablc 10 our Sanitar! science
that one Of the most familiar and most thoroughly
understood diseases and one of which practically
nfablc means ~ prevention arc well known
should thus continue IA rage. We are making me
Roadway against the much more subtle TUBERCULOSIS
and are seeking To grappc with the still mysterious
cancer Surely ii is time for us 10 stamp out typhoid
at least as completely any other great city has