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The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

The average wage of Missouri!
school teachers has been increased
1855 a month during the last year.
Every little bit helps.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

The Ottumwa Courier has noticed
that while carpet is purchased by the
yard, il is worn out by the foot.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

The latest figures report Iowa as
a s429,443.437 agricultural state. Who
can beat it?
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

Most mistakes in writing, are
made because of small ideas of big
words.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

The match industry produces sew.
en- matches day for each man, wom-
IN and child in the world.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

1t seems strange that when We
are tired we can best rest by re-
firing.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

1t is surely better to pardon too
much than to condemn too much
Geo. Eliot
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

1t has been observed that the
nose is never painted red with water
colors.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

Drivers OF every country have
their own peculiar way of warning
anyone who crosses in front OF them.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

Europe is sprinkled thick with
battle-felds. but it has nothing on
Mexico.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

lICN
- = -
We are cranks on the proposition
OF buying at home. but we could not
help il this time. We were simply
forced to buy pair of rubbers the
other day,-the first we have owned
for 10 years. Alex Miller says rub
bers are sign of advancing age, but
maybe Alex never tramped around in
California during the rainy season
Fourteen inches of rain and only -four
clear days in over two weeks, so its
Carry me back to good old Ioway
Back where the corn and water
melons grow,
Back where your Sims thaW out at
the freside
Back where the germs 90 with the
melting snow.
There's where the birds MARBLE sweet
in the springtime
There's where your heart with duty
is thrilled.
There's where joys of earth and heaV
en- minglc,
There's where the horn of plenty is
filled.
The trip home over the Santa Fe
was most interesting one, though il
might be more attractive if about
two days could be clipped off,-that
is if the arid wastes and desert lands
could be dropped out But God made
the country and man must make the
best OF it,-and it is well that it is
thus. The comforts of a through
transcontinental train are really re
markable, and if we could ever get &c
be a railroad conductor we believe we
would like to run one of these fiers
They carry no local passengers, stor
only about one time each one hundred
miles, and apparently all the conduct
or has to do is to receive a wallet OF
tickets from his predecessor, tell the
brakeman to do something once in a
while, and then deliver the tickets to
the next conductor at the end of his
run. '.'.'" rt'."..''"' ".
But to resume Leaving Los An.
geles shortly afternoon one gets into
the picturesque part of California
early in the evening, and the sunset
in the mountains is very delightful
Barstow is the only town of cOnse
quence on high ground and the last
rays of sunlight seem to linger upon
it. By morning you are at Williams
Arizona, where you change cars for
the side-trip TO Grand Canyon. We
had planned to make this detour but
a change in the temperature from IS
at Pasadena TO only at Williams,
and this on top of the hardest and
coolest snow you ever saw, led us TO
change our mind. Surely the Grand
Canyon is one of the worlds wonders.
1t beggers description. and words fail
even the imagination of a newspaper
man who has never seen it,
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But if you do miss the main show
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

No doubt many people would g
ahead, if they could get ahead.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

takes a sledge hammer to dislodge &
carpet tack.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

But if you do miss the main shoy
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

Back home when we heard anything
about the Panama-Pacific Exposition
we thought of the show they are pre-
pairing to pull off at San Francisco.
But down here in Southern California
II is hard to distinguish between San
Francisco and San Diego. The San
Diego show is officially known as the
Panama. California Exposition, though
both affairs are advertising as inter-
national shows. San Diego claims to
be the nearest American port to the
canal and looks forward to great adj
vantage with the opening OF the great
waterway. OF course there are over
500 miles intervening between San
Francisco and San Diego. but II looks
The Oskaloosa herald., 1914-02-05

Since writing about politics the
other day, our views have been ques-
toned by some local people, but now
comes the Los Angeles Times,-easily
the greatest paper on the Pacific
coast,-with the statement that the
registration, in California shows that
the Republicans are outnumbering
the Progressives two to one, and
adding editorially: There should be
a straight Republican majority of
100000 in California. Johnson has
made this state the laughing stock of
the nation, let us wipe out the stain.
Drive the sword to the hilt In the
frauds and fakirs who have been
masquerading as the friends OF the
common people" This sounds like
the old time political harangues that
used to occupy prominent places in
Iowa newspapers. We are glad our
papers have learned to be not quite
so bitter. and yet IL some times
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30

sponsible. The Indian, Egyptian ana
colonial packers all send thei cot!oh
in wet secured bales. from winch
there is no leakage.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30

Commons, when the Jewish organiza-
tons in London brought up q protest
that the clause making 'an adequate
knowledge Of the English language
necessary would operate to the pred
pudice of large bodies Of desirable
Jews. Their request that this pro-
vision be left out was needed by the
Imperial parliament, and the whole
question Of who should be admitted or
refused, was left to the House Office
authorities. The clause stands, how
ever, In the Canadian and Australian
legislation, so the original agreement
for uniform laws appears for the time
being. at least, to be defeated.
Collectors and bargain hunters from
the ~aristocratic quarters Of the west
end have found a new spice OF adven-
ture. On Friday, which is the day the
rag and bone men of the metropolis
display their wares for sale in the old
C~aledonian cattle market, near Pent-
onville Prison, in one Of the dtrtiest
slums Of the city, wealthy collectors
flock there to profit by the wonderful
bargains offered.
It is known that many Of the articles
On sale have been stolen by the rag
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30

to the imperial revenue. These
foreign Investments are estimated at
over a billion and a half dollars, and
from this the chancellor hopes to
secure 81, 25O,000 this year, and double
that amount next year. The total
increase of revenue from income tax
and death duties this year will amount
to something like $44,0O4,00o.
In spite of these increases, Sir
George Paish, editor OF The Statist.
says the burden of taxation Is much
smaller than 1t has been in modern
history. In 1880, when the expenditure
came to $&1S,000 600. It was raised out
Of a national income OF $4,000, 900, 900.
Now the national income reaches the
enormous total OF $12, 900, 000, 900, so 1t
can easily stand the increased expen-
diture, Sir George argues that Hing
land can bear still greater increases In
her budget.
There are good grounds he says.
"for believing that the income and
wealth Of his country win again dou-
bic In another thirty years. When 1t
reaches $4,000, 900, 900, and I have no
doubt that 1t will within a generation.
a budget Of s. $500, 900, 900 will be borne
more easily than the burden Of $1,000
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30

and bone men, but the fact gives all
the more impetus to the trade The
|haggling between the ragged mer-
chants and their wealthy customers is
worthy of an Oriental market. Both
men and women are playing the new
game with the greatest zest.
The advice which the cotton spin
ners of England have been giving
American cotton planters to improve
their methods of packing Is beginning
to bear fruit. One Of the biggest
American companies is now sending
its cotton to England in neatly packed
bales thus escaping the great vast
age that in years past has resulted
from bad packing. Sir Charles Ma
cara, president OF the English fedora
ton OF English Cotton Spinners,
pleased at the progress that the move
ment for better packing is making,
would Like. Thousands Of pounds
he said, will be saved every a by
good packing, which I trust viii ere
long be the rule all over the cotton
growing districts Of America"
Tt is estimated that $25, ooO, 900
have been lost by bad packing, the
American packers being entirely re-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30
900, 600 in 1914"

~S~NN sr ..e
The Imperial government has found
itself in a rather embarrassing posi-
Ton in connection with the ~naturaliza-
Clon bill. Under an agreement made
at the last colonial conference, the
naturalization laws in the various parts
Of the empire were to be so changed
that a man n~aturalized in one of the
Dominions should be recognized as a,
British subject either in the United
Kingdom OF the other Dominions. It
was argued that uniform laws on this
point should be passed, but the Cana
dams, Australians and New Zealand
ers insisted that a clause should be in
serted which would enable them to ex-
clude Asiatics or n undesirable, even
though they have taken out natural
lEation papers in some other port Of
the empire. In settlement Of this point
1t was finally agreed that an alien must
nave, as a consideration Of natural
lzation, "an adequate knowledge of
the English language"
The Canadian and Australian parli-
aments have passed the bill with this
clause. and the measure had also pass
ed the house Of Lords and vas await
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30
Resort Season
Opens June 10:
DETROIT, MINNESOTA

Detroit is a clean, well-built and up
lation. with good stores and modern
electric light, water and sewer sys-
TENS. 1t was founded IN the early
days by pioneers from New England,
and even now 1t is often termed "a
young New England gone west" It is
situated about two hundred miles
north N west of the twin cities and
fifty miles east Of Fargo and Moor
head. 1t Is admirable served by the
most modern train service by both
h Northern Pacific and 500 line
railroads. From and to the twin cit
les T seven daily trains on the
Northern Pacific and TWO on the 500.
At the end Of Detroit's main street,
less than a mile from the depots,
lies Detroit lake, the first Of a chain
of eight connecting lakes extending
some thirty miles to the south and
west. Scattered about here and there
in the country adjacent to this chain
are smaller lakes almost innumerable,
providing a diversity of scenes that
is a source of constant surprise and
pleasure.
Plying this chain Of lakes for a
distance of twenty miles from De-
troit is a line of large gasoline boats
three in number,) making four round
trips daily. The lakes are connected
by the small and picturesque Pelican
river, which winds it's quiet, sinuous
way between beautifully wooded hills
and through waving meadows, furn-
ishing an outlet for the lakes into
old. historic Hudson's Bay through
the great Red river Of the North.
At several of the hotels in the city
special rates are made for guests re-
naming for periods Of a week OF more.
On the lake are cottages to be
rented, furnished completely, including
there are colonies Of cottages oper-
ated in connection with adjacent
public rooms, and again there are
small dormitories with similar dining
accommodations. A number of farm
houses adjacent to the lakes are pre-
pared to give accommodations to those
who desire facilities Of that kind.
The shores of the lakes are well
wooded with oak, birch, elm and bass
wood. The land is broken and rolling,
and here and there a farm house from
which come rich milk and cream, good
butter, eggs and vegetables. In the
woods, wild flowers bloom, and berries
and nuts grow in profusion.
All in all, Detroit is where you want
to spend your vacation. Write to the
outing editor Of the Fargo Forum for
further information.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30
LONDON news LETTER

London, May S0.-Under the new
scheme Of taxation introduced by
David Lloyd George, chancellor of the
exchequer, in his budget for 1914-15,
q man having an income from a
capital of $4,000, 900 will have to pay
ne-third Of his income in taxes.
In the first place he has to pay %
cents or every So in income tax; then
he has to pay a similar amount in
~super-tax, and when he dies 81 on
every So of what is left has to be paid
for death and estate duties. The total
is figured at just under one-third Of
the income.
This calculation has been made by
Sir William Lever, n of the million
aires who will nave to pay, but who
does not object.
'T like it." he said, " In my view he
ideal system of taxation. both local
and imperial is through the income
tax, the super-tax, death duties, land
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1914-05-30

tax, site value tax and taxation upon
Injuries, such as alcohol tobacco, etc.
Everything else free" IS,
While Mr.. Lloyd George has follow
ed his predecessors in hts system OF
taxation, except that he has increased
the rate OF income and super-tax and
death duties, SO that the wealthy have
to pay the lions share, he has gone to
other countries for some Of his ideas.
His taxation OF site values is based on
the law now In vogue In British Col
ubgia, while he has gone to the Am
er1can income tax law for the idea
Of making money accruing to British
subjects from Investments abroad pay
its share Of taxation.
In recent years British capitalists
have made immense investments in
foreign countries. When the income
from these investments was brought
home to be spent, the government, un-
der the old law, levied income tax on
It; that Is, when the government could
discover it. But when the income was
r~e-invested abroad, the old law did not
touch it. Now Lloyd George says all
income of British subjects resident in
the United Kingdom must contribute
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-27
GREATER NAVY IS
URGED BY DANIELS
Expresses Views of Former Sec
retary Under Pierce.
\ TRIBUTE TO DEWEY.
Address Before the North Caro-
lima Society at WASH
ington.

Washington, Jan. 24.-Secretary
Daniels advocated greater navy to-
night on responding to the toast
North Carolina in the Cabinet" at
a dinner of the North Carolina So
ciety of Washington. The secretary's
views were expressed by quoting an
utterance of James G. Dobbin, a
North Carolina, who was secretary
OF the navy under President Pierce.
and who declared the navy of his day
was too diminutive to contend with
those of other nations insufficient to
protect American commerce and un-
qucstiOnably too feeble to command
the waters of the American coast.
This splendid spirit of patriotism
and OF progress, avoiding an extreme
position and yet looking to the steady
upbuilding of our strength upon the
sea, may well be an inspiration to all
Americans today as it was more than
half a century ago." said secretary
Daniels.
The quotation which Secretary
Daniels read and which his hearers
took to be a statement Of Mr.. DAN
iels' own views follows in part:
Il deem it my duty candidly to ex-
press the opinion that our navy is not
only too dimuitive to be expected
10 contend IaTlly WIN Jhat or other
respectable nations, Is insufficient to
give adequate protection to our COM
merce, but Is unpuestionably too fee
BILE to command the waters of our
own coasts. Without naval strength
a six months war with any nation
with a powerful marine would result
In the seizure Of rich and valuable
cargoes, In the destruction of fleets
of merchantmen, and in plunder-
ing defenseless points along the coast
and would cost US far more than a
squadron of invincible men-of-war,
1 regard this increase OF naval
strength not as a war, but as a peace,
measure.
] while | by no means suggest the
policy or the necessity of so large a
naval force as many powerful nations
foster, yet ii is desirable and attain
able, too that the American citizen
should gather confidence, courage and
energy from the reflection that he
belongs to a government recognized
( by all as able to average his wrongs
and vidicate his rights"
Having referred to Admiral George
Dewey as the greatest of living sea
fighters Secretary Daniels added: 1T
is one of the most delightful Incl
dents OF my administration to have
/ Admiral Dewey, Dobbin's appointee
to the naval academy, as president Of
/ the general borad."
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-27
SECOND IN SIZE
IS COTTON CROP
Census Bureau Places Ginnings at
13,5S9,171 BaIes-Wil
Reach II. .OOO. 900.

Washington, Jan. 25-Announce-
ment by the census bureau today that
13,589,171 bales of cotton exclusive
OF linters, had been ginned prior TO
January 16 officially establishes the
fact that the 1924 cotton crop is
the second in size the country has
grown. Linters obtained to January l
amounted to 396,934 bales bringing
the total cotton glnned. as far as Of
fetal figures show, to 13,9S6,105 run
ming bales. This amount will be in
creased by ginnings during the re-
mainder OF the session so that the
final figures will show a crop of more
than IA, 100000 bales.
The preliminary figures will not be
announced until March 20,when the
census bureau will make its report
showing the ginnings to February 2S
In. the past fve years the quantity of
cotton ginned between January 16
and February % has averaged SO
per cent. of the entire crop.
During che period between Janu-
airy / ard January 16 235,902 bales
we're ginned, which is greater than at
any similar period in the past five
years.
The ninth cotton ginning report of
the census bureau for the season, is
sued at 10 O'clock this morning, an
nounced that t'13 .589,171 bales of cot
ton, counting round as half bales, of
the growth of. 1913 had been ginned
prior to January 16, to which date
during the past seven years the gin
ming averaged 95.5 per cent. of the
entire crop. Last year to January 16
there had been ginned 13,088,93O
bales, or 81 per cent. of the entire
crop; i'm 1911 to that date 14,515,799
bales, or 1913 per cent cent, and in
1903 to that date 12,666,2 ,203 bales, or
96.8 per cent.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-27
Huerta Government Slowly Crumb-
ling Saws Villa.

Chihuahua, Mexico. Jan. EFT
soon will be shown that the United
States has not waited in vain in the
belief that the Huerta Government is
slowly crumbling," said Gen. Fran
cisco Villa today. with the northern
division Of the Huerta Army impris-
oned in the United States and with
Gen. Jose Refugio Velasco's Federal
troops trembling at Torren, the only
point they now hold in the north, 1t
will not be long before the uTsuper
Huerta will be swept away by public
opinion At first 1t was only our
arms that brought US victory, but
now the people of Mexico are con-
vinced of the seriousness of the revo-
luton. Our strength is growing daily.
We are finding that popular approval
is as effective as bullets.
"But we are not forgetting that bul
lets are still necessary. The fighting
will continue.
"I am convinced that the prospec-
tive battle near Torreon will knock an
other prop from under the tottering
throne OF Huerta. The Federals are
aware thy must put up a vigorous
fight or their cause is lost. Once we
go south OF Torreon every city be-
tween us and Mexico City will fall.
The people there have been kept in
ignorance OF the extent OF the revolu-
ton and when they see our great
numbers they will join us.
THE FedeTals will not last long at
Torreon. We are going to approach
them with an army of $1,000 the
largest revolutionary corps called to-
gether in this revolution"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-27
Anti-Suffragist Likes Outlook
South Carolina.

Washington, Jan. 26.-The cam
paign of the National Association Op-
posed to Woman Suffrage, is to be
carried into every Southern state, ac-
cording to Mrs. Arthur NJ. Dodge, its
president, who has returned here
from South Carolina, where the fight
has just been started.
Heretofore, Mrs. Dodge states, Vir-
ginia was the only Southern state rep
resented in the association opposed
to woman suffrage, but other states
will be added rapidly. Committees
are organizing in Texas, Alabama
Georgia and Kentucky. Mrs Dodge
was optimistic over her trip in South
Carolina, declaring that she found
"a remarkable degree of enthusiasm
for the anti-suffrage movement in a
state that has not and never has had
a suffrage organization"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1914-01-27
SUMMER SCHOOLS
rs CLAYTON PLAN
Problem of Today is to Keep City
Boys From Contamination
in Streets.

Washington, Jan. 25.-Characteriz-
ing the practice of closing public
schools In summer as primitive and
preposterous" and declaring the most
important problem of today was to
keep city boys from three months
contamination in the Streets" P. p.
Claxton commissioner OF the United
States bureau OF education today ap-
proved a plan which would mean con-
tinuous school sessions and through
which 100000 children might be
enlisted in vocational work.
A programme for summer yoca-
tional work of public school children
was submitted to the commissioner by
Clyde Alison Mann, secretary OF the
American Society for Thrift
These teachers should teach ma
ture study and the principles OF hor-
ticulture," said Mr.. Claxton, going
from home to home supervising gar
den work and continuing work dur
ing summer vacation.
Public schools of the country rep
resent an investment in buildings,
grounds and equipment OF nearly
2,O0O,OOO,0OO and that this invest
ment stands idle about one-quarter
Of the time for no reason that in
primitive days both teachers and
pupils were needed on the farms three
or four months in the summer.
For school gardening, the equip
ment is a small item and vacant lots
of the city, now idle, would be better
for cultivation"
Mr.. ClaXton pointed out that in
Europe public schools last year pro-
duced 500, 100000 through their
vocational work. He estimated that
probably 100000 children could be
enlisted In the United States within
few years and that their labors
would yield $1OO,O00.OO0 annually.