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PARTIAL INCREASE ALLOWED.

The interstate commerce commits
sion wednesday granted portion OF
the freight rate increases asked by the
western railroads and refused to sane
ton others. The advances which the
roads are allowed are comparatively
small. On the items which would have
netted the greatest revenue, the in
creases were denied.
On the ground that their income was
too low the roads asked for Increases
in car load rates on commodities but
did not ask for any uniform advance.
Their program would have increased
their income approximately ten million
dollars year.
The majority of the committee In re-
fusing the principal increases took he
view that some of the roads which
we're In straits suffered from bad man
agement and financial operations. Com
missioners Daniels and Harlan, the
minority, agreed with all the increases
granted, contended that others should
have been allowed and held that i'm
proper financial management should
not debar the roads from receiving
reasonable rates for service.
The decision affects all the roads
west of the Mississippi river and In the
southwest. Indirectly it affects every
railroad in the United States.
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was the highest paid since the Napole-
onic wars. Should the struggle con-
tinue through the winter the proceeds
OF all the loans, SO far made, will have
been exhausted, and new capital Will
have to be commandered. In this
event 1t is quite probable that Great
Britain will have to pay 5 per cent. for
funds, France fully as much, Germany
51s to 5a4 per cent, for her last can
was on basis of $50 per cent, Rus
STA 6 per cent. or more, Austria 61a to
Z per cent, and some of the colonies
from to 61a per cent. This will make
a world wide readjustment in interest
rates. The effect has already been
shown, for example, in the need OF
New York City for paying ~ per cent.
interest on her last loan, and In gener-
ally falling prices Of bonds The more
remote effects and the extent to which
American securities, still held abroad
in the sum of at least $4,000, 100000,
will be displaced in exchange for
foreign loans, cannot now be deter
mined. - Charles F. Speare, In the
American Review of Reviews.
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HOW WILL ENGLAND MEET HER
DERT TO UNCLE SAM?

It Is already being suggested tnat
Great Britain may be forced to set up
a protection wall in order to meet the
greatly augmented expenses of the
war. At the present time her monthly
imports are exceeding exports by over
5000, 900 900. From August 1, 1914, to
June 80, 1915, the excess OF her I'M
ports over exports was s1,S34,000,0 900.
The problem Of how to meet her debt
to neutral countries, chiefly to the
United States, is one that SO far has
not been successfully worked out.
Credits have been established, but in
minimum degree. Probably $500,000,-
600 OF securities from all Europe have
been sold back to American investors.
Necessity for raising funds for the new,
British loan caused liquidation from
[ ,.ndon alone of between $75,000,00O
$10O,0O0,000. The fact, however,
Shat nearly S,0oo,0oo,o00 was taken up
Indicates that England still has surplus
funds. Normally she ought to save
from her income s2,5OO,000,00 per an
mum. A campaign Of economy is now
sweeping over the United Kingdom.
but without material benefits so far as
can be determined at this time.
The interest rate on the British loan
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j. 5. SOUNDING ONT
MUNITIONS MARKET
MANUFACTURERS ARE ASKED
ABOUT THEIR ABILITY 70
FILL HOME ORDERS.

Washington, d. c.. Aug. IL. An.
nouncement that the ware department.
had asked American manufacturers OF
war munitions for data as to their facil.
tiles for furnishing supplies, particular.
ly In the event Of an emergency. led ia
some speculation here today, although
ofhcials explained that the action was
IN accordance with the usual practice
IN normal times, as well as in war.
The announcement declared emphatic.
ally that no purchases of war supplies
were contemplated at present.
The step, it was explained, was MAD.
necessary because Of the fact that
practically every private plant In the
country Is taxed to It's, capacity fIllins
big orders from the warning nations Of
Europe. General inquiry has been in
stituted to ascertain whether expan.
sion of facilities has kept pace WITH the
demand and whether the government
would be certain Of source OF supply
to supplement the output OF it's arsen-
ais and armories which ordinarily pro.
duce only part Of the supplies needed.
It Is expected that congress- At TT
forthcoming session will enact lexiaaa-
ton to strengthen the national e.
lenses, necessitating increased a.
mands for supplies aside from any
emergency that may arise.
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the fiscal year will show loss OF
about sS0,O0O,Oo0 in customs receipts.
The explanation given by the defend.
ers OF the Underwood tariff is that this
loss is due to the great war. But the
fiscal year began two months before
war broke out, and customs receipts
had already fallen off before the war
checked expectation to America The
"war tax was imminent before there
was a war to give 1t name more at
tractive than deficiency tax"
There has been reduction in impor-
tation because of war. But in the case
of the 80 per cent. of imports that are
on the free list the reduction Is not re-
iected in reduced revenue. It is their
removal from the revenue producing
category that has cut receipts and
made war taxes" necessary SYRIA
cuse IN. W Post Standard
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GIRL IS CHOSEN
FOR LEGACY JOB

Chicago Aug. 12.-Mary Smith, axeA
70 years, was selected today for tho
$4,000 job on the McHenry county
farm Of Uncle Jimmy" Pankhurst and
Mr.. Pankhurst. Pa.
Miss Smith is an orphan, also 4
trained nurse, and at first was reluct.
ant to accept the position, which car.
nes with 1t So a week and q beauest
of $4,000 on the death of the Pauk.
bursts. because Of the publicity at
tending 1t.
The selection was made from hun
dreds Of applications by Mark Craw.
ford Of the bureau of immigration, to
whom the task was delegated by the
lonely old couple on the farm, who
wanted some one who would be their
sympathetic companion to the end of
the chapter.
Mary Grady was the first selection
made by Crawford but this choice was
rescinded because Miss Grady, it is
said, failed to qualify physically.
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DDYV l4LE.

Mr.. and Mrs. r. M. Epperson are
visiting this week with their son and
wife Mr.. and Mrs. A. b. Hpperson at
Donnelson.
Kenneth Herman OF Dos Moinss 10
visiting with his grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Palmer and other relatives.
Mrs. Kitty Cornelius and baby Of
Pella are guests at the parental Fin
Bickford homo.
Mrs. Ralph Chord Of Hartford Is Wis
itins this week with her parents Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Reed and other relA-
tives and friends.
Mr., and Mrs. Robert Crosby Of New
Ross, Indiana stopped of In Eddyville
Monday on their way to San Francisco
and visited their uncle and aunt Mr..
and Mrs. John Fields.
Frank Drew and Wren Warner de-
parted Monday evening for st. Paul on
q business trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. Ward and little
daughter Wiladene are guests this
week Of Mr.. and Mrs. Thee OFT.
r. H. Walker left Tuesday for Grim
nell on q business trip.
Ray Mcdonald who has been visiting
at the DR.. Craft and Spencer homes
left Tuesday for his home at Kansas
City.
J. E. Glasgow who has been visiting
hts family In Eddyvil1e for q few days
returned to Lancaster, Mo. Tuesday.
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kIRkVILLE.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jonathan Parks were
shopping in Ottumwa Monday.
Miss Lorene Belford returned home
Friday after a few days visit at the
home of her grandparents Mr.. and
Mrs. Jonathan Parks.
Mrs. Susan Tiffany returned home
Thursday after a three, weeks visit
with relatives and friends in Ottumwa.
Mrs. Jonathan Parks and daughter
Bertha spent Friday at the home OF
her daughter Mrs. Ed Beiford.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Owen, Mrs.
Frank Waddell Of Greedy, Colo, Is Wis
iting with relatives and friends here;
Norris Aldridge spent Sunday at tho
home Of his grandmother Mrs. Eliza
Pike.
Barton Pelham was a business caller
In Ottumwa Wednesday.
Miss Maude Seigrist spent Wecnes-
day at the home Of her grandparents
Mr. and Mrs. Brown Belford.
Mrs. Eliza Pike and granddaughte-
Miss Mildred Aldridge returned home
Wednesday after three months visit
with relatives at Hiteman, Sioux Falls,
S. D. and Grand View.
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BIRMINGHAM.

Mrs. Maggie Kent and daughter Ollie
Of Ottumwa visited last week with her
sister Mrs. Bert Ely, returning home
on Monday.
E. c. Mendenhall who is visiting his
parents at Stockport was her. Satur-
day with friends
J. Q. Work of Lamar, Mo-. visited
here several days last week with rela-
tives.
Miss Marguerite GARDENER Of Pat
terson, N. j., is visiting her friend Miss
Anna Lindsay. Miss GARDENER is
sister Of J. j. GARDENER who was pas
tor of the United Presbyterian consre-
cation here several years ago and Is
now pastor at Oakdale, Ill.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Prasse Of Keo-
kuk are visiting with her parents Mr.
and Mrs. j. w. Wolfe.
Mrs. w. L. Bennett of Memphis, Mo-
returns home the latter part Of the
week after visiting here several weeks
with relatives and friends.
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FARMihaToN.

Miss Lulu Hartrick Of Bushnell, M.
is visiting her parents Will HSrtrfck
and wife.
Miss kirkpatrick Of New Richmond.
Ind, Is the guest Of her uncle Dr.. w.
J. Kirkpatrick and wife Miss Gladys
Hornbaker.
F. D. Carr and family Of Dos Mofnes
who have been visiting relatives here
for the past week, left Friday for keo-
kuk where they will take steamer TOR
a trip up to st. Paul.
Mrs. Jennie Henry Of Sioux City 10
visiting her sister Mrs. c. Booth.
Mr.. and Mrs. Or Boyer and children
OF La Kempt Okla. are visiting Mrs.
Boyer's parents Samuel Spurseon and
wife.
Misses Gladys and Mabel Reineke
have returend from q visit with their
sister Mrs. Frank Rex ut Montrose.
DR.. Georgia Chalfont who recently
graduated from Still Osteopathy college
at Dies Moines. has located at Polla-
Mrs. vogelgesnng is visiting relatives
at Burlington.
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Dr.. swinney and family have gone to
Pratt Kans., on Visit.
Ola. Evans Of Alva, Okla, is visiting
home folks. He and family Will return
to Oklahoma in a few days.
DR.. Rosser Is very Ill at this time.
The ball game Saturday was won by
the Rabbit Ridge team.
Rev. McMicken expects to go to
Tennessee next week to visit home
folks.
+. NJ. Darnell and wife attended the
merchants convention in Burlington
Mrs. jerry Mustard died Tuesday
and was buried Thursday. Interment
in the Rough cemetery.
Mrs Manerva Caruthers has moved
into the house just vacated by DR..
Swinney. :,
several days at the parental Ritz
Mrs F. M. Ross is in Milton visiting
at the DR.. Stephenson home.
Art Hubbart and family are visiting
at the Mrs. Weise home.
Rill Msstersc and son Park visited
AZ the James Masters home one night
last week.
The Ladies' Missionary society met
Mt the church Wednesday afternoon.
Miss HIGHLAND Of Pulaski Is visiting
her sister Mrs. Chever Tenrod this
week.
a Mrs. Mark Lennon Of Pulaski is
STAYING a few days at the Geo. Hull
home.
Mrs. Geo. Hull is on the sick list and
Miss Smith Of Pulaski Is helping with
the homework.
Several friends Of DR.. Swinney gave
them a surprise the night before they
left Refreshments were served.
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BloWELl.

Thomas Murray visited Sunday u
the John Smith homo In Biadensburg.
Scott Johnston received quite . gu,
in his right shoulder Monday morptns
when a hay fork fell from the hook IN
the barn which II twenty 1ssA high. and
struck him.
The Misses Carte Anderson and
Ada Taylor visited relatives In hlaxes-
burg recently.
Mrs. Beaumont Of Illinois u visiting
her daughter kss. John Brown.
Oman Johnston and fa1aay MIS-
VIII Groolns and MrH 6oSG Johnsson
attended the funeral ok tho AtS Ern-
est Patrick Of High Point SundAy at
ernoon.
Mr.. ana Mrs. James Knox Of Aish
Point made brtsf visit at the Scott
Johnston homo Monday.
Dr. John Orndu6 Of Ottumw1 was 9
visitor here Sunday.
Abba was defeated hero Sunday BY
the Bidwell ball team.
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WHOSE cAPlTAL2

Mexico City Is the capital Of Mexi.
co, but the people who live there don't
know from hour to hour which faction
will be in control the next. Monday,
for instance, saw the government
changed three times. The Zapata
troops were in charge in the early
morning but evacuated upon the ap.
proach of a supposedly large Carran.
"a force The latter, consisting OF q
captain and twenty men, held the
town for several hours but retired in
hurry when the Zapata army re.
turned after learning Of their mistake
regarding the numbers Of the enemy
Later on the Zapata troops again fed
from an imaginary enemy and gen,
eral claiming to be on the Villa side
took charge for few hours. And SO
it goes on.
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HIGHLAND CENTER.

Mr.. and Mrs. J. CARRIER of Farson
spent Sunday with their daughter Mrs.
Bunting and family.
o. M. Wycoff and family Of Batavia
callde at the parental ]. p. Wycoff
home Sunday morning.
The Nicola company shelled LOO bu
corn this week and shipped it to Chi
caso.
Felix Evans prominent your farm
er attracted quite a little attention on
Monday when he hauled four big
wagon loads Of oats to the elevator here
with his new gasoline tractor. The
wagons were fastened one behind the
other,
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TELEPHONE TO AID
POLICE OFFICIALS

New York, Aug IL. The New York
Telephone Co. will hereafter cooperats
with the police department In the cap
ture Of criminals under an arrange
ment beginning today. The territory
within 100 miles of New York City has
been divided In seven zones. AS soon
as the police notify the telephone COM
pany descriptions Of any criminals
sought by the police will be hashed in
la few minutes to all chiefs Of police,
sheriffs and constables and railroad
station agents. Police Commissioners
Woods said that if this system had
been used it would have prevented the
escape OF several criminals recently.
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CHARLTON.

Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Wallace Of Cries.
ton returned homo yesterday after q
visit at the home Of their cousin w. r..
Burgess.
Mrs. s. w. Hurst and daughter Mar
garet Of Leon visited In Charlton last
evening with Mrs. w. v. Kridslbaugh
enroute home from q visit in Abba
Miss Gladys Jewett Of Topeka Kan
sas formerly Of this city visited here
Elwood and other friends going from
here to Des Moines to visit relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Curtis and Mr..
and Mrs. JOS. Curtis departed yesterday
morning on an extended trip to Cali
fornia and different points in the west.
Mrs. Olive Eglof Of Cedar Fellsarri-
we'd last evening for visit with her
father Isaac Fain and sister Mrs. John
r. Bennett.
Miss Mabel Glttinger went to Weldon
yesterday to spend a few days with
friends and attend the Chautauqua.
G. Dalin returned yesterday from a
Clarence Dalin and wife and left last
evening for a visit I'm Ottumwa with
his daughter Mrs. Hilma Anderson.
From there he expected to go to Des
Moines to visit his son and Arthur and
wife thence to Minnesota to spend
some time.
Mrs. G. L. Tate visited friends in
Osceola yesterday while her husband
was absent in Des Moines on a bust
ness trip.
Mrs. j. c. wilkinson went to Abba
yesterday to spend few days with
relatives and friends.
Mrs. c. F. Leavitt Of Keosauqua who
had been spending q few weeks here
with her mother Mrs. Clark and sis
tiers Mesdames Mcdowell and Carmack
and brother Verne Clark returned yes
terday
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hess Of Galesburs
H., visited over Sundty with their par
ents and other relatives and friends
here.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. d. Sutton of Cedar
Rapids came yesterday for a visit al
the Alex Graves home near Newbefn
Arthur Anderson returned yesterday
morning from weeks visit ir
Ottumwa with his brother Albin An
derson and family.
Mrs. L. Tucker Of Waurika Okla, re-
turned home yesterday otter q visit
near Columbia with her daughter Mrs
Ella Mullen. She was accompanied to
Oklahoma by Mrs. T. j. Anderson and
children Of Knoxville who are moving
to that place, Mr.. Anderson having pre-
coded them there.
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arc visiting relatives liz

Brighton arc visiting relatives ~
town.
The chautauqua which opened here
last Thursday came to a close Mon
day night The daily attendance mas
been very good. but somewhat handi-
capped by the previous condition OF
the weather. -Four ideal days OF sum
shine compelled tho farmers to attend
to their grain and hay. The advance
sale OF season tickets did not come up
to the guarantee.
silas Bales, between 80 and 70 years
Of aGA passed away Monday at TO- q:
M, altar painful illness Of sevora.
weeks at his home in the west part or
town, leaving his wife. one SON Dwight,
and daughter Mrs. Guy Hill OF Chicago
who arrived before his ceath. He mas
also two sisters ard three brothers sur.
viying him. Mr.. Bales was born ana
reared in Riohland and will be missed
by his many frisnds. Funeral servicee
were held this morning At 10 o'clock.
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relatively rich. Those who save now
will possess the world later on. An
other reason for saving now Ia that It
is the best thing noncombatant can
do to help the world from the fate that
is being brought upon 1t by the war.
Accumulated savings are the basis Of
civilization. Out Of accumulated saw.
ings hospitals are founded, railroads
are built and new discoveries IN
science made possible. BY this destruc.
ton the world will be set back newt
ably. Any American, living outside the
zone Of destruction. who saves money
now will help by so much to counterfeit
this setback Of civilization.
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small manufacturers organize com.
mon selling agency or unit, and that
the little fellows by this means would
form nucleus which would be advan-
tageous in resisting the power of big
combinations. Locomotive makers be-
lieved in permitting combination to tx
prices, and in the necessity OF CO
operating in order to meet foreign
competition.
Occasionally dissenting view 10
presented, usually from representa-
tives of the commission houses who
get along very comfortably in exist
ing circumstances, but do practically
nothing to increase the foreign market
for American business. But these dis
senting views only emphasize the sub
stantial unanimity that prevails.
The benevolent frame of mind OF
tho commission is indicated IN the
questions asked. These friendly IN
ouiries are, in effect, whether the man
ufacturers could not increase Foreign
business under the present laws and
form combinations of kind which, by
their testimony. they declare to % de-
sirable. Some hints are thrown out,
also as to the benevolent bearing OF
recent court decisions.
The answers to the questions OF TINS
kind are uniform-possibly the selling
agencies and other forms of organlza-
ton which the manufacturers have IN
mind would not be held by the courts
to be illegal, but the manufacturers
cannot afford to take the chances. 1t
has developed that the manufacturing
chemists are doubtful even of their
ability to form combination to in
yestigate South American trade oppor-
tunities.
Whether the approximations of the
manufacturers are fully justified may
be a matter of guesswork; but tney
are not going to risk legal penalties
for guessing wrong. The stone wall
to them is not psychological wall.
It is something real, and they want 1t
leyeled so that they can expand the
foreign field.
Being manufacturers and business
men. rather than campaign orators
and politicians, they have definite
program. Platitudinous panaceas 90
not appeal to them. They want real
remedy. This remedy, as it has been
presented to the commission, Is q Dill
promising the absolute and unquah-
fed right to cooperate for export trade
with the commission having power to
restrain unfair methods of competi-
ton.
The plan offers a working basis for
legislation at the coming session OF
congress. It puts on the federal trade
commission the responsibility OF en-
couraging foreign trade by generalities
and platitudes, or of squarely meeting
the condition which manufacturers
who seek to expand our foreign mar
ket are convinced can be remedled
only by positive legislative enactment
onal Editorial ServiceO
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Imagine American manufacturers
and merchants, in the presence or
what they believe to be unprecedented
opportunity for expansion of the coun-
trys foreign trade, tensing their
muscles with the feeling that they are
invincible when they enter the arena.
and then covering in dread Of what
their laws and their fellow country
men will do to them If they take up
the only weapons possible for the
winning of victory. Without exagger-
alton, that is the condition which OBJ
tains in the United States today.
The. zeal of new knowledge holds
out hope for languishing American
business in the foreign field. The
journeys of discovery on the part of
the federal trade commission give
promise Of results. They also prom
Use to destroy what heretofore
has been a fruitful theme of campaign
oratory; but If the politicians should
no longer be able to vociferate on the
crime of selling goods abroad more
cheaply than at home, nobody will
complain.
The federal trade commission In its
journeys, to be sure, is merely finding
out what everybody knew who cared
to be informed concerning foreign
business; yet there is freshness that
charms about its discovery of the ex-
istence of the German cartels and
other combinations in foreign coun-
tries to get business abroad.
The zeal of the new trade knowl-
edge is like the zeal Of the new con-
vert. 1t creates an atmosphere of con-
fidence and of missionary activity.
There has been a substantial sim
ilarity in the trend of the testimony
taken by the commission in New York,
in New England, and in the middle
west. Everybody is alive to the i'm
portance of expanding our foreign
trade, and nearly everybody runs
against the same stone wall in plans
for getting foreign business. This is
the uncertainty regarding the Sherman
antitrust law, and the more recent
legislation.
There is almost unanimous agree
ment on the need for selling organiza-
lions which shall be allowed to COM
bine and even to represent competing
home concerns in order to meet the
competition of other countries in the
foreign field, such as South America,
or the orient.
The suggestions along this line have
been specific For example, represen-
tatives of hominy foods propose that
they be allowed to make an agree
ment for uniform export price, or to
place their export surplus in the hands
Of one company. The hardware people
suggest that competitive firms be al
lowed to divide foreign territory or to
permit one of half a dozen companies
which make a certain class Of tools, to
supply exclusively section of this
territory and divide the profits. Max
ers of mining machinery suggest that
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