Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-06-11


blind; if thou art servant, sometimes
deaf.-Fuller.
Press Comment
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: The pri-
+ piled DR.. Soonever.
What doctor Is treating you?'
II am prescribing for myself"
You shouldn't do that You are
liable to be arrested for attempted
suicide"
mary Is now over and the fellows
whose predictions have been verified
are busy telling their neighbors how
and why they knew all about it.
Kansas City Journal: The A. B. c..
mediators are said to be making pro.
gress. They have now reached the
point where all that is lacking is a
practical solution, an agreement to
adopt it and some way to enforce it.
Des Moines Capital: Our states.
men in Washington might take vaca.
ton during June or at least until after
they have seen just what kind of sug-
gestions the college and high school
graduates may have to offer in the
solving of national and international
problems through the medium Of the.
sis and Grafton.
Of Fort Dodge, who cites the fact that
we now have mothers and chill.
dren's day. gallantly makes an appeal
in behalf of celebration, for father
Next, who will claim formal recogni.
ton for bachelor. uncle and maiden
aunt as useful members of society?
Davenport Times: The democratic
congress, fearful of not having time
enough to enact the legislation in the
short session and that others will be
elected this fall, is taking no vacation
because of the hot weather in the hope
of getting a part of the Baltimore plat
form-the part not repudiated-made
into laws.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Mayor
Mitchell of New York Is in Chicago
getting pointers on how to run Goth
am. If he wants some real inside in
formation on municipal government,
why doesn't he come on to Cedar Rap
ids and study the commission plan.
However, If he did he might be tempt
ed to continue to Des Moines and that
would spoil the effect of anything he
might have learned here.
Springfield Evening News: Failing
to make much of an impression with
his minimum wage platform, Barratt
O'Hara, who is one of the eight or
nine democratic candidates for the
United States senatorship, now pro-
poses to make the advocacy of early
marriages the leading plank in his
platform.
AS if the democratic situation in
Illinois needed any more comedy.
Topeka State Journal: President
Wilson insists that prosperity would
come with jump if the manufactur-
ers. the country over, only believed
it was coming. But suppose they act
en- on such belief, and it did not
materialize? Conditions, then, would
be worse than ever. There would be
such an overproduction that the army
vi LIlc uuCllplOyCu WOulu dItdAA AlOSI
disastrous proportions.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Some Of
the quietness at the A. B. c. confer
ence is due to the fact that few of the
delegates know when any of the 9TH
ers are swearing at them.
Kansas City Journal: Penrose, Pal
mer and Pinchot are the three sena-
torial candidates in Pennsylvania. A
rather Peculiar race, to say the least.
None of them is proposing to say the
least, however
Marshalltown Times Republican.
The man who saved last years straw
lid may bring it now without fear of
detection. There has been enough
weathering of the new crop to make
all straw hats look old.
Clinton Advertiser: Fears have
been expressed in Germany that the
Panama canal has shallow places.
Some of the arguments about it I'M
doubtedly have.
Clinton Herald: The bull moosers
hope to injure the republican party by
defeating as many congressional can
didates as possible this fall. This
course will not increase the strength
of the moosers in congress, but will
insure continued and perhaps in
creased democratic power. It is we'll
to understand just what the progress
sives have in mind.
Iowa City Republican, Governor
Clarke received fine vote in this
county. yet nine-tenths of those who
voted for him are opposed to capitol
extension and his actions in arbitrar-
lily raising the taxes a third when
there was no necessity for doing so.
II the governor now attempts to make
the same kind Of campaign he made
in the primary, he may be defeated.
''.orr or. -hr"ran'- OF S-~r"h'icnns
who do not intend to commit them
selves as to Governor Clarke until the
state convention has been held.
In Mexico.