Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-07
Press Comment

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Des Moines Capital: Occasionally a
candidate for Office is met who refuses
to promise everything. But some men
are naturally very peculiar.
La Crosse Tribune: A Wisconsin
man left $4,000 to a woman who Tilted
him Rare instances are reported
where men are grateful to the end of
their days.
Boone News Republican: The
United States senate refuses to put
an airbrake on the rapidly increasing
parcel post system.
Hannibal Courier-Post: Vassar girls
slide down hill in dishpans thereby
demonstrating that higher education
teaches the damsels new uses for do
nestle articles.
Des Moines Capital: 1t is now
predicted that we will have another
all summer congress. This will not
be without it's advantages. 1t will
minimize the period of speech.mak-
ing in the fall campaign.
Waterloo Courier: This government
of ours cannot be too often or too for
chilly reminded that with all it's efforts
to foster industry it has done nothing
to provide millions of men with oppor'
tunity to earn an honest living.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat: There
are ancient ruins still to be excavat-
ed, and the scientists will be dis
appointed if they do not discover in
some of them the original automobile
and the remains OF primitive tele-
phone line between the Roman and
Trojan forums.
Waterloo Reporter: With all due
respect to Mr.. Groundhog's prediction
spring is near at hand. We know 1t
for the editor has received a package
of free seed from the agricultural de-
partmept under our congressman
frank
Abba Union: Roosevelt is on his way
home from other lands and there will
be something doing in New York poll
tics. Out in California where he had
such a strong pull year ago his star
is waning. They are getting the bene'
fits Of the low tariff out there and al
ready have caught on to what they
did to help bring it on.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Iowa had the
most modest, mildest winter of any
section of the country. The extreme
east and the extreme west have been
6 getting theirs good and plenty" Al
ter all, there are not many places bet
ter than Iowa when it comes to appre.
ciable winter weather.
Rapids City Journal: 1t may be In
ferred from what Orville Wright says
that the only obstacle in the way of
an over-Atlantic flight is the present
lack of engines of sufficient staying
power. But is not this part Of the
problem that has been solved? NO
great undertaking has ever been aban-
doned because something necessary to
it's accomplishment was lacking.
Sigourney Review: The town OF
Eldon has been recommended as a
site for government building. SO
far as this writer knows no congress
man has ever recommended Sigour-
new for a public building or anything
else. We never even got cannon.
or course we don't think We could get
a government building but it might
make us feel good for time to learn
we had not been forgotten.
Des Moines Capital The commonest
word used around an aspiring bust
ness concern is the word efficiency.
Either proprietors or business man
ayers of enterprises have learned the
use and meaning of the word, and
every new employe is taken in with
the positive assurance that he must be
eff cient if he expects to hold his job.
Efficiency means brains and energy
"a combination that is difficult to
defeat.
Cedar Rapids Republican,: The spec
tacle of congress under the thumb
of president, as the present congress
has been, is not entirely reassuring to
the free institutions, however we'll
some people may like the results.
While for some of the issues which
have been considered important it may
have been necessary to have presi-
dent telling congress what to do and
making congress do it, yet in the lar
ger sense and the historic setting, 1t
is far from a desirable state of things.
Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is to be
hoped congress will be able to put a
brake upon the impulsive postmas-
ter general, who seems to be de-
termined to transform the mail ser
vice into a fast freight line. The
parcel post can be made great
blessing to the people of the United
States, if it is kept within the
its name implies. In ex-
tending the local zones and doubling
the limitation of weight, the post
master general exceeds the author
ity given him by the law. Congress
is disposed to put the check rein on