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CANT RlL.

s An interesting missionary meeting
was held in the M. e. church SUNDAY
evening. Rev. Densmore gave an ad-
dress. Neva Creath and Frank Suit
sang solos which were much enjoyed.
Warner Hilles of Gibbs, Mo-. visited
his mother the past week.
John Silver Of Stockport is the guest
Of his grandparents Mr.. and Mrs j. M.
Silver.
puest at the John Saar home Sunday.
Vance and Mamie Yeager of Kinks
Vile visited Mabel Creath the past
week.
Ward Gretchen closed successful
term of school at Noble and returend
home Saturday.
School closed Friday. Chas. Trachsel
will attend summer school at Iowa
CITY. Bruce McCombs at Highland
Park, Ruth Allender at Ames Bell
Biggs will spend the summer with her
parents near Arbella and Mrs. Conrad
will remain at Cantril.
Thelma Parks returend from Bloom
field where she attended school the
past year.
sadie Saar was home from Mount
Pleasant to spend Sunday.
Mrs. Sells Of Oklahoma is visiting
her sister Mrs McElroy and Mrs
Buckles.
Will Hilpert underwent an operation
for appendicitis and is now recovering
nicely.
Elias Arnold and wife are visiting
Cantril relatives.
Mrs. H. C. Park returend Frida,
from a visit at Bloomfield.
Ray Cunningham is spending 9
month ~ ID Panama exposition.
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CENTER OF UNIVERSE.

Campus, supposed by some astron-
omers to be the center Of the universe,
has recently been seen from French
observatories In Algiers and Morocco
by astronomers who have reported
their observation to Camille Flammar-
ion.
Astronomers say that while by rea-
son of its distance, Campus is, to us,
reduced to the proportions of star,
it is formidable sun, two million,
four hundred and twenty times larger
in volume than our sun; it is equal
in volume to three billion one hundred
forty-six million earths. It is distant
from us the equivalent of four hundred
eighty-nine years of light travel. The
rays of Campus that reach us today
started on their way in 1926, travel.
ing two quatrillion eight hundred sew
enty-five trillion miles. Campus is in
visible In northern ATTITUDES but may
be seen from the observatories of Con.
stautine and Gohar in Africa.
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- even partisan, opinions concerning
acts OF government for which the
people concerned have the most re
mote, if indeed any, responsibility. II
is our privilege to think what we will
and to say what we think as to the
origin of the war, the methods by
which 1t is carried on, the motives
which shall prevail in the final settle
ment.
Many of us in America regard the
manufacture of arms for international
warfare as business dangerous to
leave in private hands. Just as nations
have found 1t necessary for their own
existence to abolish private armies and
private war, so should they for their
own welfare abolish private traffic In
the means of war.
But no nation has yet taken this
step. Nor will any nation take II
while war Is actually on, and one side
or another would be aided by the act
One does not "swap horses while cross
ing stream" nor does any parliament
or congress change international law
while the whole fabric itself is under
the strain of war.
The United States may not gain
friends by rigid adherence to the laws
of nations, but she will maintain her
own sanity, and her own self respect
and for great nation to remain law
abiding amid the havoc of statutes and
conventions is to contribute nightly
to the future stability of international
law
David Starr Jordan.
onal Editorial Seryice)
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iowa City, June 5.-In0 INVITATIONS
for the fifty-fifth annual commence.
ment of the state university are being
issued. The full list OF events fol
lows:
Friday, June II.
400 p. m.-Regimental drill and
dress parade. Review by George W
Clarke, governor of Iowa. Iowa field
500 p. MANUAL graduating re
cital by the school Of music. Audi
forum.
Saturday, June II.
900 a. Threading of theses, col
lege of applied science. Hall Of en-
cheering.
700 p. m.-University band concert
Campus.
Sunday, June -.
400 p. m.-Baccalaureate sermon
by the Reverend Samuel McChort
Crothers, D. D., Cambridge. Auditor
ium
500 p. m.-Third annual social ser
vice meeting, with address by Harve!
lngham. Des Moines. Methodist
church.
Monday, June II.
900 a. m.-Reading of theses. col
lege of applied science. Hall Of en-
cheering.
4:3o D. my. W. c. A. alumna'
tea. Liberal arts drawing room.
1870 D. m.-Class day exercises, al
colleges Campus.
700 p. m.-University band con
cert. Campus.
500 p. m-Senior class play, "A
Grand Army Man" Englert the
alter.
Tuesday, juno Is.
500 a. m-Reunion class break
fasts and senior class breakfast, al
colleges
1900 a. m.-University Of Iowa as
ISOLATION business meeting. Liberia
arts assembly hall.
1880 a. m-Presbyterian alumni
dinner. Presbyterian church.
200 D. m.-Aiumni baseball game
Iowa field.
400 .. m.-Greek play, Euripides
"Inhigenia at Aulis." Iowa City park
700 p. m.-University band con
cert Campus.
500 D. manual entertainment
of the forensic societies. Auditorium
Wednesday, June rs.
900 q. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT exer
cfses with address py John Barrett
LII. D., director general of the Pan
American union. Armory.
1900 m.-Alumni dinner. Women'i
gymnasium.
400 p. m.-President's reception
Presidents house.
500 p. announcement recep
ton and ball. Armory.
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FIND MEN USING
CAR AS CLUBROOM

Fl Madison. June 5.--The street
car running west from the Santa F4
avenue bridge, now blocked, is forced
through its position to remain out OF
the barn over night. 1t develops that
the youths in that end OF the city have
been watching the actions of the po-
liceman and during his trips to the
eastern end Of his beat, are wont to
use the car for club room. The
motorman got tired Of sweeping out
the remnants of the moonlight picnics
and informed the police. The youths,
it is said, have suddenly abandoned
their new summer quarters.
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The Essence of Neutrdlty
Where National Passivity Ends and Individual
Rights Continue
STARR JORDAN
Chancellor Stanford Junior, University
Rights Continue

A neutral nation Is one which In the
crisis Of war which is the denial Of
law remains law abiding. A nation
remains neutral in Its own interest.
not for the accommodation of belligor-
ents. 1t has the right to define its own
neutrality and no belligerent has the
right to call this definition into ques-
tion. To attempt to do so Is, in de-
gree, an unfriendly act. Belligerents
have no rights that neutrals are bound
to respect. The very act Of war implies
the population of law War has no
justification except in case OF defense
from military and therefore lawless at
tack. The neutral nation has not been
thus attacked and her neutrality is
adopted as safeguard against 1t.
But the neutrality of nation affects
only it's overt official acts. 1t does not
control the sympathies nor the opin-
ions nor the acts of its citizens so long
as these lead TO no breach of interna-
tional law.
In the great war. 1t Is belief OF a
vast majority Of the people of the
United States that the nation should
be strictly neutral, that is, rigidly law
abiding This does not mean that you
or l should be Indifferent to current
events or ignorant of them Nor does
It bind you or me to active or passive
equality Of sympathy as between gov
eminent and government or between
people and people. Our sympathies
naturally flow out to all the suffering
peoples, but we should stultify our
selves if we did not have very definite
Copyright, 1915, by Nat
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culture to be Matching out in various
localities from the vicinity Of New
York City to Georgia on the east and
Tennessee and Wisconsin on the west
A thorough canvass made by agents
of the bureau of entomology into the
records of the swarms Matched from
this brood in 1898 shows that the pest
will not be notably destructive. While
will not appear in dense swarms in
the District of Columbia, and sections
OF Georgia. Illinois, Indiana, Ken
lucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jer-
sey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania South Carolina, Ten
nessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin will be affected.
The cicada, as it is technically call
ed, is due to hatch out and settle upon
orchard trees from the latter part of
May to the middle Of June. The dam
age done by the insect is the cutting
of the bark of the young trees by the
female locust when she deposits her
eggs. There are seventeen different
broods of the cicada in this country,
some being very small and some large.
Brood vi, coming out of the ground
this year, is one of the larger. Hence
the department is warning orchardists
in the threatened regions to take
steps to protect their trees. The best
protection is given by shaking the
locusts off the trees and into baskets
or umbrellas. in the early evening or
morning, when they are stiff with
cold.
ton of the famous seventeen-year
insect. The counties in Illinois to be
watched are Shelby and Dewitt,
where large swarms are due and Doug
las, Knox, Mclean, Montgomery, Scott
and VermiliOn.
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LABOR TROUBLES AUGMENTED

London and in fact the whole of
Great Britain is more or less stirred
up by the frequent charges that dis
loyalty and selfishness and inefflciency
on the part of workmen are contribut-
ing to the lack of success in the war
against the Teutons.
The reason why the workers who
remain at their places in British in
dustries are asking for war bonuses
is explained by Secretary Robert VIII
liams of the National Transport Work
ers' Federation, who says that while
the real need Of the workers is to meet
the increased cost of living, the en-
ployes are reap1ng exceptionally large
profits, instead of suffering from the
war; Although 10000 members of the
Seamen's union have gone to the war.
tue merchant ship owners are operat-
ing to such advantage that they charge
six times the normal sums FOR carrying
freight. While 100000 trade unionists
altogether are bearing arms in Brit
aims defense, the millers have increas-
ed their profits four-fold.
In his case against the ship-Owners,
Williams points out that they now
have no serious competitors In the;
carrying trade of the world, and that
as q result Of the elimination of Ger
man ships, the freight rates between
Argentine and British ports had jump
ed from 81 and fraction ton to
around SIT. Another instance of profit
to ship.owners was that a certain
cargo steamer built in 1910 at cost
Of $50, 900 was recently sold for hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, an in
crease Of 76 per cent over the original
price.
While the ship.owners complain of
unfair treatment by the admiralty,
which has taken over many merchant
ships as transports, the arbitration
board which has settled disputes in
these matters consists almost entirely
of ship-owners. At the time the board
was appointed shipping prospects look
ed exceedingly dull and the owners
clamored for government service. A
rental Of nine shillings six pence per
ton gross register was decided upon,
with discount of six pence a ton for
vessels employed for more than one
month, and another six pence off for
vessels employed more than two
months.
Since then the ship-owners have de-
manded not only the shilling reduc-
ton be removed but that they be CIV
en- an Increase of two shillings six
pence over the contract scale-or in
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RECORD MORTGAGE
+ OR 100000
ONE OF THE LARGEST lNSTRU-
MENTs OF iTs KIND FILED
At HAMPTON.

Hampton, June S. What Is probab-
" the largest single piece of recording
ever. done In this county Is now being
copied to the record books of Recorder
Fowyer. 1t Is q mortgage given by the
Citizens Gas & Electric company to
the Illinois Trust company to secure
a loan Of $4,OOO,000. This, too, Is made
subject to previous mortgage Of $780,
900 About twenty pages Of the re-
cords will be used, written closely with
typewriter.
The electric plants included in the
list are those at Hampton. Charles
City. Clarksville, Nashua and Parkers-
burg. The valuation of the local plant
il placed at $4,000. It is expected that
the property will be added to in the
near future by the construction Of con-
meeting lines, and small towns through
which they pass will also be supplied.
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"rRUsT" DOES GOOD.

A new view may come to be taken
of trusts" as q result of the finding
of the federal district court of New
Jersey in which the United States
steel corporation was held not men
ace to trade and not subject to chas-
tisement under the terms of the Sher-
man antitrust act. Instead of being
an octopus crushing out the life of its
competitors and making extraordinary
profits at the expense of the consum-
ers, the company Is good business
proposition with many desirable fea-
lures. That is the stamp of approval
placed upon the corporation by the
unanimous verdict of the district
court, The paragraph of the decision
touching this phase of the matter
reads:
"A study Of the proofs satisfied us
thSt apart from all ethical questions,
the strong trend of the steel business
At the close Of the last century was to-
ward driving competitors out of bust
ness by cutting prices, and that the
business policy inaugurated by the
steel corporation and in which policy
It's competitors subsequently followed,
has resulted in the ten years of its
existence: First, In more general
division of business between all COM
petitors in the steel business than I'M
der the old system; second, in tending
to minimize the shutting down of its
own and it's competitors plants in
time of depression, and third, it has
made steel products nonspeculative."
The trend Of sentiment in the last
year or two has been in favor of big
business" such as the steel corpora
ton. Some years ago every big bust
ness corporation was branded trust"
and the authorities were called upon to
"bust it." The result has been drift
| Ing from prosecution to persecution
and business has suffered dreadfully.
There can be no question but what
"big business" is response to mod
ern requirements. When people come
to look upon big business without sus-
picion because of their mere size, it
will be an encouragement to the bust
ness Re- the country that will have an
in,6neu. ate effect. Next to a revision
o,AAhe tariff to protective basis, 1t
ny Md do more than any other thing
to restore prosperity.
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"pIoNEER" SPIRIT NECESSARY.

The growth of middle western cities
has been such as to incite comment
from any who have given the subject
study. In generation, wild plains
have become populous farming coun-
try and cities have sprung up over
night and acquired populations rang
ing from twenty thousand to several
hundred thousand in q few short years.
These cities are modern; they have set
a pace for older cities and have accom-
plished what fifty years ago would
have been considered impossible.
why this wondrous growth?
The answer is in the men who found
ed and developed these cities. The
men who came west, the pioneers OF
q generation ago, were adventurous
spirits, men with Imagination, men I'M
afraid to try new things. These were
the men who turned wild wastes into
farms, trading villages and cross roads
stores into cities, and Indian trails and
COW paths into improved highways.
These were the men who built modern
once buildings before there were
enough tenants to fill them, men who
paved streets before the houses were
Erected and In general the men who
looked ahead and builded for the fu-
ture In order to get the advantages in
the present.
But unfortunately, 1t Is inevitable
that these wonder workers must leave
us and many of them have gone, so
that If the middle western cities are to
keep up their stride, the younger gen.
erations must show some of the same
kind Of spirit.
Ottumwa is one of the middle wes-
tern cities that has been favored with
"pioneers" of the kind that made the
middle west what it is. Ottumwa, in
common with other middle western
cities, has reached the point where the
burden of progress must be shifted to
younger shoulders. If the younger
generation assumes the burden 1t
means great things for this city and
for those who get in the harness. If
they do not, 1t means that Ottumwa
will fall into the class with hundreds
OF eastern cities where there is no
progress, where people live in the past
without any thought of the future.
The new hotel proposition in Ottum.
wa is one that requires the same kind
OF pioneer" spirit that built the mid
die west Some of the pioneers" who
are left, will be found working for the
project because in the nature of things
thsy are boosters of new improvements
and willing to give their time, their
money and their influence to the cause.
But the men of generation ago are In
q minority and it is now up to the
Younger men. On their shoulders rests
the burden, upon them depends wheth.
er Ottumwa goes ahead or drags be-
hind, on them depends the future pros
perity of the city.
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GIVEN TWENTY. YEARS
FOR BURNING HOUSE

Bloomfield, June 5.-The district
court reconvened Friday morning long
enough for Judge Vermilion to give
Walter Smith, sentence Of twenty
years in the penitentiary for setting
fire and burning house on the Hop.
kins farm near Bunch. Smith will be
taken to FIT. Madison next Wednesday,
unless he can procure bond for an ap.
peal to the supreme court, which the
judge fixed at $4,000.
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San Marine having cast in its lot
with the allies, what use is there of
the Teutons lighting longer? The
newcomer into the fray has some
thirty-three square miles of territory
and half as many Inhabitants as Of
tumwa. It is republic and is ruled
by Great Council" representing
equally the mobiles, townspeople and
peasants. This form of government
has existed there practically unchang-
ed for one thousand years. The re-
public's army numbers almost a thou
sand men.
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Founder o. COLLEGE pies.

Sioux City, June s.. Sioux City
friends have received word of the
death Of Dr. Robert C. Glass, OF Seattle
WASH who with Dr. Wilmot Whitef1eld
founded the University OF the North
west and who organized the Methodist
class which developed into Grace
church, of Morning Side. DR.. Glass
was 68 years old. He died OF apoplexy.
DR.. Glass for rs years was member
Of the Northwest Iowa conference of
the Methodist Episcopal church.
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IOWA COUNTY CENSUS in.

Marengo, June 5.--The census for
Iowa county is near completion, the
returns for all the townships but two
being in. The population OF Marengo
in 1910 was 1855, and the 1915 census
is 2,O33. showing considerable I'm
crease. Besides the increase in popu-
:lation Marengo people have done :
great deal toward identifying their
city. in the building Of new homes.
new sidewalks and fixing up the park.
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The customer who doesn't pay all or
part of his bill at least once q month
is doing as much to add to the cost OF
transacting business as is the mer-
chant who fails to present bill once
month
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Bids EoR .1oo. 600 HorEL.

Ames, June 5. Sheldon & Mum.
builders OF Ames' new 100000 hotel,
have announced that bids will be re-
ceived at their Office here on June IA,
for the construction Of the building.
The plans call for a four story brick
building with banking room and busi-
ness rooms on the ground floor. Tho
building will be located at the corner
OF Main street and Kellogg avenue.
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The American woman who barricad-
ed herself against an attack by Mexi-
can bandits and refused to come out
after Villa scouts had driven the band
it's away, evidently classed Villas
scouts with the bandits.
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Failure of the president to put in
time limit clause in his message to
the Mexican bandits and rebels and
federals and what-nots, merely makes
further communications and negotia-
lions necessary.
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nEsPoNpENI: DIES az POISON.

DESPON0ENT; DIES BY POISON.
Messina, June 5. -Despondency over
a love affair is thought to have caused
Roy Easterly. young man about "a
years old and employed on the Walter
Kerkman farm, six miles from town
to take his own life. According to the
finding Of the inquest the suicide used
poison to accomplish his purpose.
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There was sudden loud report, and
Wiggles brought his car to standstill.
Mercy" cried Mrs. Wiggles. What

A southern family employed very
skillful cook, called Esther She had
been with them about ten days, when
sho announced that she would have
to leave, as she was about to be mar
Tried.
The mistress received the news with
CONSERVATION.
you've been with me only a few
days. Esther" she said, land you re-
member you told me you would stay"
Il knows It, ma'am, an Ise awful
sorry" said Esther mournfully. but
don't see how l kin help 1t. The
gentleman wants de weddin' to be on
Tuesday, ma'am.'
Don't you think you could get him
to put it off, Esther" asked the mis-.
tress, 'just little longer until l
can get another COOKE"
"Deed, ma am, I'd like to oblige you.
said Esther, earnestly, "but, to tell you
de truf, amt well enuff acquainted
with dat gentleman to ak him to do dat
ma am"
''Your apartment, SIR" said the cy-
nical fiat hunter to the stupid janitor
with a cold in his head, lis not at all
what you advertise 1t to be, but, as for
yourself, l cheerfully admit that you
live up to the specifications. for you
are the finest specimen of large
rho umy fiat have ever encountered"
Whereupon he sped out into the cold
world, leaving the janitor prey to
morose reflections.
A clergyman was travelling In rail-
way carriage with team Of golfers
celebrating a victory by circulating a
whisky flask do you know, sir,
said the conscientious parson. that
have never tasted drop of whisky
in all my life?"
We'll" said the bottle holder,
"ye're not goin' to begin now!"
A certain congressman's small son
was very fond of attending matinees:
Finally he decided that life was not
worth living unless he had pair OF
opera glasses. So he purchased them,
on the installment plan, out of his a.
lowance.
Three months later friend OF his
fathers met the boy on the street.
We'll, Benjamin. he said. ARE you
enjoying the matinees now?"
NO" answered Benjamin gloom1ly,
II never get to go to EN- any more.
l have to stay home an save my
money SOS to pay for those there
opera glasses!"
When the season was almost over
a storekeeper in a small southern
town put lot of dollar shirtwa1sts
in the window at 75 cents.
Say, what kind of bizness you call
dis?" asked an old colored woman. is
dat de way you try to make liar OUT
of yo' customers? After been telling
all de cullud folks in de neighborhood
dot / paid dollar for dis shirtwaist,
you come an spoil my reputation Tor
veracity. Las time ever swine to 90
bizness here
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1t Is not a matter of how much
stock in the new hotel your neighbor
has or has not taken-the question for
you to decide is how much stock is
necessary for you to take in order to
assure Ottumwa the new hotel. OF
tumwa must have that hotel and it is
up to YOU to help