Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-02-18
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away. The contract made by the
of which ex-President
Taft is the head, has been approved
by the Secretary of War, and what
ever friction might arise over the
dispute of authority between the
Commission and the Secretarys office
has been discounted in advance by
the appointment of joint represent
tative of both bodies. AS result.
the ground will be broken in Wash
ington on Lincoln's birthday for the
greatest of all our national memoir
ials-for a building which will in
fact be greater tribute than even
that of the Washington monument.
In short the Lincoln memorial will
be the greatest structure ever con-
templated by the American people, in
honor of its most illustrious martyr
In trying to find uses for blight
killed chestnut it has been found that
it cannot be utilized for Grating
stone; quarry owners say that chest
nut wood leaves an indelible stain on
the marble or granite.
Reindeer that Santa Claus Made
Famous.
There is an explanation of the
growth of conviction in the Santa
Claus story found in the fact thai
10000 domestic reindeer remain in
Alaska. The United States govern
ment, which has finally discovered
this country upon it's map, has turn
ed attention to the reindeer as al
agricultural proposition, and is ad
vocating stringent methods of pre-
venting the destruction of these ami
mails. There have been instances O
cross-breeding the domestic reindeer
and the native wild caribou. It Il
found that the blood of the latter cal
be used to good advantage in build
ing up the reindeer herds. The do
nestle deer seem to have decreased
in size and other ways because of tn,
lack of careful selection in breeding
The caribou are superior in size an,
are not SO wild as to make their do
mestication impracticable. The PEG
pie in the Agricultural Department
who have determined this are sus
pected of having based their con
illusions upon early experiences witt
tame deer in Missouri and Iowa bacl
yards. 1t has been found that. tn
meat of the reindeer is of excellen
quality, and the skins are of grea
value. We learn that the Europeal
deer is used for dairy and transpor
tation purposes, yet little attemp
has so far been made in our owl
country in this line, The customs O
different countries are interesting
and case in point was illustrated il
a recent lecture by Madam Monitor,
of Palestine, at a Masonic gathering
in Washington. She related how tn
shepherds of Jerusalem drank tn
milk of sheep, and said that in he
girlhood days she had been "almos
brought up on it," She declared
to be as nutritious and palatable a
cows milk. Yet in the United State
no one ever heard of drinking sheep
milk. And here there is no drivin,
of reindeer, except when Santa Claus
used it in preference to later-da,
airships, which have proven far NOR,
feasible than ever the feet-footet
reindeer, inasmuch as the countr,
now has so large number of chin
neys; and these can be more easil,
reached by airships than by reindeer
that stub their toes over housetop
and shingles.
Lodge versus Norris.
From Senator Lodge of Massachu
sets comes the admission that ''suf
fering and injury have been done t,
hundreds of innocent people in New
England, as the result of the break
down of the New York, New Haver
and Hartford, and the Boston an,
Maine Railroads, and his opinion il
that the Department of Justice an,
not Congress should be the instru
ment for righting the wrongs O
investors and stockholders. The min
ions of justice have been riding ex
ceedingly slow, and though the pub
lie is assured by Mr.. Lodge and 9th
ers that the new President of tn
New Haven system, Mr.. Elliott, is
man OF high character and hones
purposes" yet but recently these sam
things were said about Mr.. NELLIE
and the financiers of the house {
Morgan, who MIXED almost dry on
of the greatest properties in Americ;
Men like Senator Norris, who stan
for up to the minute methods {
righting wrongs, has declared that
thorough sitting of the New Have
| affair is within the nrovinoa an