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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-03-18


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The Dismelnberment of the
Pere Marquette
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PartiaI--E'ther Kind is a Public Calamity
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tinue The antesra,on system
Bear These Facts in Mind
freight business for cars equal all
dnerent sections Of the road As the demand comes from one
part of system another
shaded like conditions and onrush traffic
The extraordinary
demand in Michigan and the mobzes
poaton equipment that section; then comes the demand from
then it SHIFTS to the rhumb district to move hay sugar beet
divided divided.
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Reduce Car Loaning Facilities
Toledo and Buffalo This valuable facility win be reduced
is divided For instance the Chicago Michigan viii
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road can not secure good reciprocal car 9nins
Set Back transportation Fittaem Year.
point they consolidation
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shipments the delivered Al nunno >,
quicker tina" would be possible the system" disrupted
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that through
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connection Chicago division
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all delays The Thumb"
territory now has f" service into and out of Chicago That
D. C W. terminals
Grand Rapids under movement
Today through Chicago the
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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-03-18

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Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1915-03-18

Dividing the system that the Detroit Grand Rapids
would without shops would
Rapids, which would be blow to that
The Michigan Central has this tin
facilities Saginaw D. c. r. W.
other terminal that The bus
the old f.. p NJ. which Grand Rapids
Toledo crosslake does fro
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
MODERN BRAVERY.

For several years past, many emil
nent critics have expressed the belief
that modern man with his urban lean
ing and higher civilization would be
found lacking in the bravery which
characterized the fighters of the days
gone by, should the man of today be
called upon to go to war. The Euro
pean war Is answer to these critics.
It may be that the soldiers who are
in the trenches of Europe, do not have
to face the dread hand to hand combat
that was the common form of battle
UP till the last half hundred years, but
there is abundant Illustrations of brav-
cry that has to be exhibited in dozen
ways that formerly were unnecessary.
To lie quietly in a trench with the
boom of the great guns pounding
the head an inch or two above ground
is to invite death, is position which
requires bravery to keep from going
stark mad. To advance against foe
armed with the dread modern rifles,
quick-frers and bombs and yet be un-
able to see that enemy, is test of the
bravery of any man and one from
which many of the best in days of old
would have shrunk. Add to this the
possibility of attack from the air, the
danger of being blown up by bomb
from underneath and the chance of
running into an electrically charged
wire trap set by the enemy and you
have few of the things that the man
of old did not have to face.
A hundred years ago, the soldier
who could see no foe within two hun.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
BY LEE PAPE

crate lite is still sticking GROUND waite
Ing to'berst avn you, III say 1t this way
this fooid in my cup is kawffee, but at
ferst giants thawt it was rane.
Wat, sed ma, wy that's luvly kawffee.
I'm not RELY refleckting avn the
kaW1ee, sed pop, but you no nuthing ia
to sackred to make joak of In this
age Of freedom of thawt 1 jest herd
that joak last mite and thawt l wood
spring 1t vile 1t was fresh In my mind
Joak indeed, sed ma, that kawffee
cost 80 cents pound and you sit thare
and say 1t looks like wattir, watts the
use of buying the best groceries for
this house, Id like to no, 3S sent kaw.
fee and he sits thare and ses it looks
like wattir.
sed rane, sed pop.
Watts the differents, sed ma.
No differents to sents of humor awl
bound round with wooden string, sed
pop.
Do you meen me, sed ma.
! meen Benny, sed pop. And he got
up and went and put avn his hat and
cote, saying, Wattir or rane, watts the
differents, zee gods and littel boneheds
watts the diffrents.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
POLITE ARGUMENT.

Every since the beginning OF the
European war, British warships have
politely stopped American merchant
vessels, taken them miles out of their
way to some British port and there at
leisure examined the cargo to make
sure that they were not going to reach
in some devious way the camp OF the
enemy. The ship owners naturally
protested to the American government
against the losses and delays they
we're being forced to accept
The United States government po-
litely requested the British govern
ment to look up the rules governing
seizures at sea and refrain from I'M
necessary interference with neutral
ships.
The British government has politely
replied that it will be pleaseS to 90
whatever is in it's power to remedy t5e
matter and that it is very sorry to
have Inconvenience anyone-but
hints, also politely, that it has done
nothing in the past that II will not do
again when it wants to.
And there you are.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

We was Getting brekfist this moarn-
ing and pop was stirring his kawffee,
and awl of suddin he sed, 1t looks
like rane.
wy. how reedickiliss, sed ma, the
sun is shining and thares not cloud
in the sky.
o my errer. beg yure pardon, sed
pop, l sed it looked like rane, dident /,
beg yure pardon it's kawffee.
Wat do you meen, watts the kaWt1ee
got to do with it, sed ma.
Perhaps, taking yure limited expert
ents with the worlds CRATE wits into
considerayshin, had bettir repeet the
ideer in body, as it were, sed pop,
maybe a crate lite will strike you if I
say it this way, It looks like rane, but
it's not, it's kawffee.
Willyum, if dident no you, Id think
you were krazy, sed ma, in the ferst
plase it duzent look the slitest bit like
rane. and in the second phase, don't you
think l no Its kawffee, and in the Bird
plase, watts kawffee got to do with
weathir it looks like rane or wat it
looks like.
Sents of humor, thy naim is not Mrs.
Potts, lissen, my deer, mayed that
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Burlington Gazette: The man who
undertakes to live by his wits, to get
money without working for it, is fore
ordained to failure. And yet there are
always men starting on that road.
In general they are men who failed
in youth to learn the lesson Of indus
try. They got the idea that the end Of
life was to get on with as little effort
as possible. The boys who are spared
all work by indulgent parents, who ex-
pect everything to be done for them
and to do nothing for anybody else, are
on the wrong road. They are getting
the demoralizing ideas that are re-
sponsible for such wrecks as come
daily to the criminal court.
Kansas City Journal: Mr.. Wilson's
plain intimation that he will be can
didate for reelection is not surprising
and, to republicans, not at all dis
pleasing. BY defeating him In person
next year the popular dissatisfaction
with his policies and administration
will be emphasized more effectively
and Enthusiastically than If some other
democrat were carrying the party
standard. And with Mr.. Wilson as the
candidate the republican majority will
be more sweeping. The country will
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
BETTER COOKING.

Ottumwa women are greatly inter
ested in The Couriers School of
Home Economics" which is being con-
Quoted at the Grand opera house. This
is because the women of Ottumwa are
interested in their profession-house
keeping-and good cooking is the
acme of good housekeeping. Men
who make successes in their profess
sions and their businesses are anxious
to attend conventions and talk-fests
where they can get new ideas or cor
rect old ones. The Courier's School
of Home Economics is to the house
wife what a retail business mems con-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
THE AEROPlANE,

On this page in today's Courier is the
third of the special editorial features
secured by The Courier for publication
this year. 1t is an exposition on tie
aeroplane as it is being used in the
great European war and upon it's fu-
ture after the war is over. The author
is the celebrated aeronaut, Augustus
Post, secretary of the Aero club or
America. author of "The Curtiss Av1a-
ton Book" lecturer on aeronautical
sub jects and winner of various national
and international trophies in balloon
races
Practically everyone is interested in
the aeroplane and an article on 1t by
Augustus Post is worth while filing
away in a scrap book for reference
along with the other feature editorials
that have or are to appear in The
Courier
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
IJNpEsIRARLE OFFICIALS.

Governor Blease of South Carolina,
will retire from office January IL a1ter
an eventful executive career IN Whlcn
he has attracted attention all over the
country and ably demonstrated to the
voters. the kind of man NOT to elect
for governor. Blease said, ITO h
with the constitution" when prov1-
sion In that document conflicted with
his within. He overturned convention
and precedent everywhere and furnish
ed a spectacle of man drunk with
power.
All through his term he made 1t
practice to issue indiscriminate par
dons to prisoners in the state peniten-
tiaries. He played no 'favorites-that
Is he did not care whether man was
In for stealing loaf of bread for
starving family or whether he was in
for numbering his mother. II fancy so
dictated, Blease turned the criminals
loose. He is winding up his career by
flooding the state with desperate Grim
inals whom he is releasing as fast as
he can sign the pardons. Saturday he
found the work of signing Individual
pardons too firing so he had blanket
pardon drawn up covering approx
mat0Iy l,0UU Cr1mludlS anu uc Sl6ACu
it and turned that whole number loose
with all rights of citizenship restored
to them. Many of them were murder
ers who had hardly more than begun
to serve their sentences.
There are lots of men like Blease
who run for Office, and there are a lot
of voters who fall for his stamp be-
cause they like to hear about how the
poor people are being downtrodden and
how innocent men are being wronged,
etc. South Carolina has suffered for
it's mistake. in electing such an ire
sponsible man to the executive chair.
South Carolina has been ashamed of
him almost from the moment he took
office. But shame is not all the state
has suffered for it has lost in prosper
ity and in morality because of the &C
tons of It's eccentric governor.
II other states, and cities too, will
heed the lesson, fewer Bleases will be
elected to Office. Voters will pay more
attention to candidates. abilities and
records and less to their blatant, vote
seducing talk.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Davenport Times: Was anybody sur
prised that Kitchner expects the allies
to win? If he didn't say so, at least,
what would become of his recruiting
program?
Philadelphia Public Ledger: Count
Won Bernstorff's information regarding
the manufacture of dum-dum bullets
has been shown to be incorrect. Is 1t
possible that he is in a position to give
more accurate evidence regarding the
manufacture Of American passports?
Cedar Rapids Republican: The
staid Philadelphia Ledger Is now join
ing the mirth makers by defining it as
the Wilson tango, one step forward,
one step backward, hesitate and re-
verse. This was at first applied to the
Mexican policy only, but even the gov
ernor of Texas is now applying it to
the policies as whole.
Davenport Times: Fifty thousand
people INDUCED in riot to gain ad-
mission to the Sunday tabernacle on
the opening night of the Philadelphia
meeting. This is remarkable demon
stration. Usually people have to be
coaxed to go to any kind of church
meeting. Possibly they thought they
were going to some sort of a baseball
entertainment.
Philadelphia Ledger: The real cost
of war is not financial Money spent
in ornaments and ammunition Is still
money distributed, If someone spends
it someone must get it. And the waste
can be recouped. But nothing can ever
bring back the earning power that is
lost when the vigorous young men of a
nation are slain or crippled. Families
are dragged down into poverty: natur-
al resources are left undeveloped and
raw material unused; the drop In pop
ulation caused by incapacitating mil
lion men restricts every market; taxes
fall heaviest just when the people are
least able to bear them. War is in
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

dred yards, was comparatively safe.
Today he is in constant danger at two
miles and many miles still farther
away may be hidden battery that has
already fired its deadly shell at the
spot where he is standing-and with
a better chance of hitting the spot
that cannon of fifty years ago would
have stood at two hundred yards.
Without doubt, the soldier of today
is not lacking in bravery
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Battle lines, once horizontal are
now vertical. War, once game OF
tenpins has become game of chess.
In all the vast equipment of attack
and defense there is only one real nov
city, but it has changed everything.
1t is the aeroplane.
Aircraft entered military strategy
when Abraham Lincoln equipped the
Federal army with captive balloons
that operated successfully before
Petersburg and Richmond. The siege
of Paris brought into service free bal
looms: railroad stations were turned
into balloon factories and sixty-five
free balloons took out of the beleaguer-
ed city two and half million letters
and pigeons to bring back replies.
Gambetta escaped thus over the enc
my's lines. 1t was during this very
siege, no doubt. as he watched the
drifting balloons that Zeppelin con-
ceived his idea Of armored air cruis-
ers in directed flight Then, after a
long wait, came the invention Of
the heavier-than-air machine, the
aeroplane, and from that moment mil
itary experts felt that the character
of war was bound to change.
How great the change we scarcely
realize. any more than We know how
remarkable have been the battle ex-
ploits of aviators, nor Is it likely that
military authorities will be in any
haste to enlighten us. This is no time
for pointing out individual heroic
deeds, nor for revealing resources held
in reserve, and 1t is only as a non
combatant writes home to friends or
newspaper that we have glimpse Of
the fighting aeroplanes, no more
known by the make or the famous
pilot in control, distinguished only as
French" German British" man.
ned only by some one in uniform. Thus
we read of feats that six months ago
would have made the world gasp, now
part of the days work; a machine un-
der fire Of revolving cannon with 1000
feet range. shell bursting so close
to the wing that the conclusion OF
air sends it down like stone for
hundreds Of feet. righting itself, strug-
Cling like a sparrow in a storm and
finally speeding to safety; another
darling from ambush in a cloud-bank
to strike and slip back again; a single
aeroplane meeting a dirigible On
raid, shooting itself straight into the
great mass like living arrow and
falling with it to wreck. Just how
many aeroplanes are in actual service
today no one will or can tell. What
they are doing the world only learns
from the changes they have already
effected in the science and practice
of war.
First. They have taken away from
war the element Of surprise. The
whole plan of battle lies open to
man who can sweep over the vast
field of operations low enough to see
all important details and high enough
to be out of rife range, keeping In
communication with headquarters by,
wireless telephone and able to return
at a speed of 12O miles an hour with
maps or diagrams. Reinforcements
Copyright, 1915, by Ottumwa Coz
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Charles G.. Dawes, former federal
comptroller of currency, expresses the
belief that the new currency law is
very dangerous by reason Of the vast
power it puts into the hands of the sec
rotary of the treasury. He fears that
the law will furnish the means where
by IAN Andrew Jackson of the future
will again lay PROSTATE the commercial
edifice of a great nation"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
The Aer0pl0ne in War and Its
Future in Peace

cannot now be brought up as a COM
plete surprise, nor cavalry mask the
enemy's front. Rumors Of vast num-
bers or even their apparent presence
no longer brighten when an aeroplane
can take a reckoning from the sky.
The day of swift dramatic strokes is
over.
To meet this condition the face of
war has changed. Uniforms have
been worked out on basis Of ''pro.
tective color" French soldiers have
given up red; troops are forbidden to
look up at aircraft, for nothing Is so
conspicuous as the human face; and
when marching In column on a wide
road, British soldiers are kept on one
side of the way that the clear side
may look from above like the whole
road, and deceive the aero-scout.
But scout duty is by no means the
most valuable Of the aeroplane's uses.
It is the eye Of the great gun. How
ering over the battle scene 1t locates
the exact spot where the projectile
should fall and directs artillery fire.
In the day by exploding aerial bombs,
making glare Of color: at night by
dropping upon the doomed spot trail
of fire, the aeroplane marks for de-
struction places that long-range ar
tillery might reach only after repeated
trials. AS an aeroplane complete
costs only as much as one shot from
14inch gun, the economy becomes
apparent.
In actual offensive warfare aircraft
has played thus far subordinate
part. It's most picturesque feature is
the aeroplane dart, grimly described
as looking like steel fountain pen.
released in great numbers from the
under side of speeding aerop1ane, ar
rows adapted to the bowstring of grav-
ity, falling with such frightful force
as to pierce a man from helmet to
heel Even the Zeppelin has taken
but small part in slaughter; it's
effect has been largely psychological,
and the terror it engenders will soon
fade unless reinforced by some ter
rife deed. Aircraft are feared most
before seen at all; after that the mind
quickly adjusts itself to the new pres
ence in the sky
AS the locomotive and the telegraph
developed together, and the automo
bile and the telephone made each it's
own road. SO aeroplane and wireless
have left the road altogether for the
free air. Developing so wonderfully In
these times Of stress, is 1t inconceiv-
able that when these times are over
the continuing development of the
aeroplane will lift the minds of men
out of the oldest road of all, the
blood-stained track of war? It's true
purposes, now bent to destruction. will
be released for civilization. No longer
a fragile thing, but power to over
pass the flood, level the mountain or
penetrate the desert, it will take up
the work of restoration, carry mail to
isolated places, draw continents to-
gether to single days journey, until
at last frontiers will fade beneath it's
a:ob4 oorocs a World nrOtected nv law
instead of war.
AUGUSTUS POST.
rier and Philadelphia Public Ledger)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

The Courier's latest serial story, "A
Tale of Red Roses" makes its appear
ance in this issue. George Randolph
Chester, author of the novel and
creator of "Get-Rich-Quick Walling-
ford" has lived up to his record and
has turned out most interesting
story. It is worth reading.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14
SPELLING.

A dispatch from Champaign, ILL.,, to
the Chicago Herald commenting on
the poor spelling in a rhetoric class
concludes with the question:: is 1T
impossible to teach spelling?"
Yes, with present educational the
cries and methods, quite impossible.
It is useless to look to high schools
and colleges for instruction in spell
ing. 1t is not their business. The
seed time is past. BY the time the
child reaches the high school that
matter should have been settled by
previous thorough drill. A ten-story
building is not put up without some
attention to the foundation. A pro-
cession of song and dance while the
iron frame goes up would hardly H.
sure safety to the structure.
It was about fifty years ago that the
theory that the path of learning must
be made pleasant to the child was
sprung upon the educational world.
Reading without tears promised to
make the way a path of roses. Good
by to patient reiteration OF tlresome
syllables!
But the truth that nothing valuable
is gained without work remains true:
work adapted to the age of Childhood,
but work. Day after day, laying each
foundation stone without haste, with
out rest.
Impossible now, because the teach
ers who made correct spelling of the
English language possible are all dead.
Only the octogenarians remember
them. Their patience, their faithful
ness. their success are now fading
traditions.
That is why it is impossible to teach
spelling in modern schools.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

vention is to the merchant, what a
clinic is to the physician.
The Courier invites every woman In
town who is interested in better
housekeeping and better cooking to
attend the sessions Of the school at
the Grand. 1t costs nothing and every
body is welcome.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

A citizen pays close attention to the
administration Of store or factory in
which he is stakeholder, but he pays
little or no attention to the city in
which he is also a stakeholder and
patron as we'll.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Sioux City Journal: Talk about the
onward march of the race! In 1874
one Joseph F. Glidden secured a pat
ent on barbwire to use on horses and
cattle. In 1914 Europe placed an or.
der for 125,000 tons of it to use on
human beings.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

After nearly every thaw, there
comes a freeze and then the streets
and the sidewalks are icy. At that
time it is good plan to spread little
ashes on the walks for the conven-
fence of the pedestrians and for own
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-14

Have you arranged yet for that bird
house to be put up in your yard? If
you put it off much longer you will for.
get about it,