Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-10-27

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proach the occasion in new spirit
this year.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: President
Faunee OF Brown university says that
in the past ten years as many students
in American colleges have been de-
moralized by the automobiles as by
alcohol. Apparently MIR. Faunce
| knows what it is to be caught ten
miles from town with a leaky car
bureter and limited vocabulary.
Such things are indeed hard on ones
morals.
Cedar Rapids Republican: News
papers now are never without San
Francisco fair copy. They can print
all they want without the trouble Of
writing it. The publicity bureaus
have arranged for everything except
paying for space, as others pay for it.
/ Iowa City Citizen: Every man who
wants to register his voice against
the mistaken policy of the demo-
cratic party on the tariff question
should do so by voting the republican
ticket next month.
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Mason City Globe-Gazette: Isn't
! the primary success? Sure thing.
Didn't it nominate Roger Sullivan in
| Illinois. who never could have been
nominated senator in an old-fashioned
conventiono Thus do the people rule.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: If General
Aguilar cannot restrain his impetnous
warriors it may be the part of Wis
dom to entrust the job to Gen. Freddy
Funston. One of his justly celebrated
restraint treatments would most GER
tainly effect a permanent cure.
Quincy Herald: II we never did
another dollars worth of business
with the peoples at war, the loss
wouldn't be one per cent of our total
volume of business. Get on the job.
Our soil, though yielding this year
products worth nine billions of dol
lars, is capable, of yielding twenty
billions, thirty billions. Get on the
job.
Waterloo Courier: Was it Greeley
that made the saying famous or was it
the saying that made Greeley famous
Anyhow, what he said was: Young
man, go west
The words have long since become
of no effect. To win his everlasting
| fortune the young man is advised not
to 20 west or south or north or east.
He is not even advised to be honest
except by such paragons as John D.
Rockefeller. Here is the advice OF
the day. It was given by E. T. Cash
before convention of packers in st.
Louis, and consists of these words:
/ Young man, raise hogs.
| Wall Street Journal: There is an
other gain from war not quite so well
recognized. They do not expect a
newspaper to devote most of it's space
to baseball, personal gossip, tango
teas, and the latest foolery from New
port There rises, as after the NapO-
leonic wars, grave and sensible peo-
pie, not at all deficient in the sense OF
humor, but seeing life as it is and not
as fools would wish it to be.
| There develops, in fact, after any
great war, creative literature and
art. During those periods, when ma
lions have obviously been preparing
for conflict of arms the human mind
was critical and not creative, except
in a mere mechanical sense.
| But man does not live by bread
alone There are spiritual necessities
/ intellectually higher. The only possible
progress for mankind is moral. The
seeds of it are sown in blood and
tears. Death is dreadful thing, but
by no means the most dreadful thing
in life. This is true of nation as
much as Of man. Death is followed
by the resurrection OF the man, and
aso of people worth saving.
1t is frightful price to pay, but the
world must pay the price If it wants
a thing worth having. It is not we
who fix the price, but the Great Giver.
who gives where we think He sells.
I Kansas City Journal: There are
times when one is inclined to be-
lieve that leniency is wholly mis-
! placed and that the whipping
post ought to be brought back
from the limbo of an era that has
gone Some will be inclined to go
| farther back than that, for there is
still one state in the union where the
whipping post survives. There was
an immense amount of human nature
| in the old Mosaic law. The tendency
of modern law and modern Grimm
ology is far from being in the direction
of "1naking the punishment fit the
crime" Men perhaps do not take
enough of their own medicine. Surely
the whipping post would be none too
good for a father who would brutally
beat boy for taking lead pencil to
school, and the knout would be an easy
expiation for the unspeakable parent
who would drive his 15-year old daugh-
ter away from home, especially in
view of the fact that she was already
| without mother Two cases of these
natures are in the police court now.
But these are kindlier times. These
so-called fathers will serve few days
or few weeks or even few months
in Jail and their accounts with so
/! ciety" will be settled, according to the
complacent code which now prevails.
In lieu of the whipping post, however,
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