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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
,MpoR7s OF EGGS,

February Of this year a Dan1sn
ship brought sixty tons OF eggs from
China to this country. The shipment
Is one of the largest ever received al
an American port. 1t contained 10000
dozens or 1,O80, 900 eggs. No duty was
paid on these eggs because under the
present law, eggs come in free. I'm.
der the -Aldrich law the govern
.mant would have received $4,000 foI
the duty was five cents per dozen. IN
cidently eggs have not been selling
Eve cents q dozen cheaper this winter
than former winters, so the freedom
from duty has not benefited the con
sumers in any way.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

The administration has practically
admitted it's defeat on the ship pur-
chase bill. 1t is announced that there
will be no extra session of congress
for it's consideration and it is practical
ly certainty that it cannot be passed
during the present session. The SEN
ate fllibuster has probably kept the
United States out of war with Europe
for the purchase of interned or belli-
gerent ships would doubtless have re-
suited in unpleasant complications.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
IOWA REPRESENTED At FAIR.

IOWA REPRESENTED At FAIR.
The Panama-Pacific exposition was
formally opened today-it being the
first Of the great worlds fairs to be
really ready for the formal opening
Iowa's exhibit building Is ready be-
cause public spirited citizens of the
state last summer guaranteed enough
money to erect the structure. The leg.
islature is still debating whether or not
these men should be made to come
across" with the guarantee money. II
is to be hoped that Iowa legislators
will yet see the wisdom Of approprlat.
ing money to recompense these men
and to give them a vote OF thanks as
well. Had it not been for them, Iowa
would not, be among the forty-three
states and forty-one foreign countries
that are oficially represented.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
PLEDGED TO ECONOMY.

Observers at the state capital have
been struck with what they term a
esprit of economy among the legisla-
tors. They are cutting down appro-
priations all along the line and trying
to put a stop to the extravaganza in
Office which has been SO bitterly at
tackled of late years. An instance of
this is in the turning down of pro-
ject for building Temple OF Justice"
on the newly extended capitol grounds.
The plan met with considerable ap-
prevail among the legal fraternity OF
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

the congregation tip-toed over to the
side of the church and placed u coin
in box, and little later another did
the same. Surely the minister thought
his sermons had never met with so
practical response before.
On leaving, he was accosted by one
of the brethren, who said: 81 hope we
didn't disturb you, sir; but ours Is a
penny in-the-slot meter, and we should
have been in darkness If we didn't at
tend to It,"
The young man in the bureau OF In
formation laid the railroad guide down
and looked reproachfully at the woman
who had turned in volley of ques-
TONS
Madam" he said "you can't possibly
take all these trains you are asking
about"
II know It," she replied serenely,
''but as long as didn't have anything
else to do thought I'd just see for my
self how much you railroad men really
know about your business"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

industry and her food imports are
enormous. England is dependent upon
over seas for her normal quota. The
development of food resources in
France is far behind the needs Of her
people. Less than 10 per cent. OF the
area of Germany Is unproductive, and
that which produces is made to yield to
the utmost through the cooperation of
science and industry.
The agricultural labor question in
Germany and Austria solves itself, for
there the women work in the field, and
thus a trained and efficient army OF
workers is left behind by the armed
force gone to the front, to plow, SOW
and reap with all skill and hardihood.
To say that any country can be
starved into submission within a given
time is rash attempt at prophecy.
Even England, dependent as her people
are upon import, would surprise the
world with the strength of her resis-
lance. Under such conditions people
eat in less variety, waste becomes Grim
inal and home production is stimulated
to the utmost. Patriotism and neces-
sity are powerful incentives to re-
sourcefulness. How little a community
can live upon as compared with the
consumption of prosperous days has
been demonstrated everywhere in the
world in times of industrial depression
or of famine.
Industrial Germany can be and Is al
ready seriously hampered by shortage
of such raw material as the country
does not produce; but with a large pro-
portion of the workers under arms this
shortage is no hardship in many lines
of manufacture Cotton and wool are
most important features of import, and
cotton is not held to be contraband.
The probabilities are that Germany
will have but little difficulty in secur-
ing such raw material as is necessary
to carry on the reduced trade which is
now hers: that is to say, the limited
home demand and the still smaller pos
sible export.
The war will end when one military
force triumphs over the other or the
whole affair becomes in effect a stale
mate through mutual exhaustion. To
starve any great nation into submits
sion would be prolonged and difficult
task, and in Europe there is no country
which can stand longer siege than
Germany. Economic war will cripple
her activities to certain extent, but
it will not bring peace. There is no
escape from the conclusion that this
greatest of all wars must be fought to
an end on land and sea with men and
guns and not with statistics of export
and import.
]. D. Whelpley.
or and the philadelphia Public Ledger.)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
When VIII the War End?
BY JAMES DAVENPORT WHELPLEY.
Author Of THE Trade of the World etc.
Those who are predicting the end of

nose WIZ dIS pIculCtlhS NAO GIN ~
the present war through the "starva.
ton of Germany" should allow their
minds to take a grip on facts and give
them their due place in the scheme OF
things. In times of peace 80 per cent
of the German people are supported on
homegrown produce. In time of war
six million or more adult men out OF
the total population Of 66,O0O,0OO are
being fed as soldiers-in other words
upon a less varied and less expensive
diet In many instances large bodies
of these men through accident of war
fare are consuming even less than the
regular military allowance. Thousands
of German soldiers are subsisting upon
the produce of countries other than
their own, which they are taking as the
spoils of war, and If the Losses by death
be 5000 or 100000 the demand upon
the food supply is lessened in proper
ton.
1t is also fact that imports into
Germany have not stopped entirely-ln
fact, by less than one-halfr-and If
these imports be expressed in money
values it will be found it is largely the
things which can be done without that
have caused the decline in the value of
purchases from abroad What is COM
ing in now is for the support of the
population, not for its pleasure or its
adornment. From Austria, Italy,
Switzerland, Denmark, Holland and
Scandinavia, countries which in ordin-
ary times are themselves vast contrib
utors to the German food supply, are
still coming millions of dollars worth
of produce.
Control of the Atlantic by the Eng
lish feet has hampered trade with
Germany from elsewhere, but has not
stopped it entirely, for the indirect
shipment through neutral territory has
somewhat taken the place of the direct
trading of several months ago.
There is little doubt that there are
today greater supplies of certain staple
articles of food in the country than
would be visible in normal times, for
preparedness for war does not mean
soldiers, guns and ammunition only; it
means a store of food for these men
and to keep the prices as low as posi-
BILE for the people as a whole. That
prices should increase generally and
that there should be shortage of GER
tain things largely dependent upon
free import is natural, but this Is as
true today of England, France and Rus
STA as it is of Germany.
In the nature of their country, their
customs and manner of living, the
people of Germany and Austria are in
far better condition to Withstand a
blockade Of food supplies than are their
downright 1915, by The Ottumwa Cour
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
WHY RESORT TO TAxATIoNa

!, WHY RESORT TO TAXATION?
II the lack of money by q business
arm is purely psychological, as Presi.
dent Wilson says, why is it that the
same brand of psychology won't work
for the administration? Why does the
government have to tax the people to
get money to pay expenses?
If a business can have money and
orders by simply thinking so, why
can't President Wilson get the same
thing in the same way for the govern.
ment? Why does he tax the people
TO get money? Why not fill the treas
ury vaults with money by the psyche.
logical method?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
HANplcAPPlNG THE BOYS.

4 Ever since the introduction OF Dill
kinto the Iowa state legislature to pro-
l&hibit boys under IA years from doing
any kind of work. the proposed act has
been attacked from all quarters OF the
iystate. Successful men who began
lgtheir lives as bootblacks, messenger
boys, paper carriers or in dozen
other occupations peculiarly adapted
Il for bows from ten to fourteen years
cid. and who glory in the fact that they
!, learned the lessons of life at such ten
I der ages, resent the effort to handicap
the boy OF today and of posterfty by
making him an idler until he reaches
the age of fourteen.
The bill that is up for consideration
aims at child labor Of the varieties
that get the attentions of social reform
committees and investigating commits.
sions. Doubtless legislation that will
prevent the exploitation of helpless
y children Is a good thing but when that
1 legislation is made so broad that 1t
practically excludes the boy from max
j, Ing himself useful in any way, then 1t
lis very undesirable brand of law
/, making. The following from the Cedar
Rapids Republican is fair sample Of
the criticism that is greeting the bill
from the state in general:
Senator Aliens child labor bill does
mot deal with many conditions in Iowa.
In this state we have SO few fac
tories and most of those are SO we'll
regulated by the rules of union labor
that we really have no serious child
! labor problems. The union appren-
I ticeship system is better safeguard
than the state laws would be, for they
are, on the whole, saneT In Iowa we
know nothing of the conditions in the
sweatshops of the larger centers. A
law governing such conditions is, of
|, course, wise enough.
N But law that itnerferes with boys
\ olacking shoes, carrying messages
/ and selling papers, as the Allen law
afdoes. is almost ridiculous. They may
mot do these things at all, not even al
Tier school hours or during vacations.
I What sort of law is it that says that
| / boy of Is may not carry q message
and earn 10 or 20 cents for doing 1t?
J What sort of law is 1t that says that
! boy of that age may not work to
help support his mother, as hundreds
4 pf boys have done in this world? What
I sort Of law Is 1t that says that boy
must be brought up as loafer until he
1 Is past IA years of age, may do moth
/ Ing but eat and draw his breath?
And what sort of law shall we
make to create in that boy, after he
has been spoiled in idleness and the
mischief that goes with idleness, a
willingness to work? The whole prop
psition Is extremely mischievous and
we are surprised that man like Sena-
tor Allen would lend his name to 1t.
In correcting an evil that belongs to
sweatshop systems in cities he would
make law that would rear nine-tenths
pf the boys in idleness and worthless
hess. The boy who does not learn to
work, and even to save, before he Is a
Is already half way to hell-and he
will get there sure by the aid OF Mr..
Aliens law, If it should be enacted.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

One good way for America to solve
the question of interference with sea
traffic by belligerents would be to
cease selling arms and food to Europe.
England and Germany would both
come to time in a hurry then because
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

The Iowa legislature If it adopts a
bill that has been presented to it, will
be required to give preference to Iowa
dealers and producers on bids Tor sup.
plies, provided of course the bids OF
the Iowans are as low as those OF the
outsiders. If the legislators are real
,owans and have any business sense
at all, such law is not needed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

China is looking to the United
States for protection against threat
ened aggressions by the Japs. There
is no particular reason why China
should not have the full benefit of our
celebrated "watchful waiting" policy
that has done such wonders in restor.
ing peace and quietude in Mexico.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Unjust have been an awful blow TO
the robbers who risked their lives to
steal an express companys safe of a
moving train, to find when they pie"
it open at their leisure that 1t was
empty. But even had it been full the
result would be about the same, tor
in the long run, wrong doing Is empty
Of any profit
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

the state but the committee In charge
of the bill recommended it for In
definite postponement, which prac-
tically means killing the bill. Mem.
bers of the committee frankly stated
that they would not dare approve any
such bill in view of the promises they
made before election. Nearly all OF
them went into Office on a platform OF
oc0nOrny
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
PRIZE BREAD MAKER.

Clinton, Feb. 2O.-Miss Mary Olson
of Calamus, IS years old, won the
sweepstakes at the Clinton County
Farmers Institute for the best loaf
of bread offered in competition. She
had entered the bread in the girls
class, but it ranked not only at the
head of that class but outranked the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

George Fitch, one of Americas
greatest humorists, says that self as
surance Is a fine thing when used as
a stiffener for the back but that as
a substitute for brains, it is dangerous
both to the possessor and to the inno-
cent bystander.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Chicago Evening Post: Berlin ar
rests woman newspaper correspond
ent for 'indiscreet curiosity" With
out that quality she would be neither
correspondent nor woman.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Cedar Rapids Republican: The state
dairy and food commissioner wants
an Iowa butter trade mark, to be plac-
ed upon properly made and inspected
butter. In time the eastern buyers,
who already appreciate Iowa butter as
the best, will come to look for that
trade MARYLAND it is argued that it
will prevent inferior buffers being sold
as Iowa's official product.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Chicago Evening Post: Each re-
curing Lincoln's birthday brings in
the press and upon the platform a dis
cussion of the great American. AS
we read them or hear them year by
year, the one fact is borne in upon
us that the greatest possession of Lin
coin was character. 1t was, not Lin
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
Press Comment

Marcus News: Nothing but protec-
ton to American industries, however,
will bring permanent prosperity to this
country.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Burlington Hawk-Eye: 1t is per-
picking the way things get mixed up
in this world. Now, there's Bourbon
county, Kentucky, which at a recent
special election on the liquor question
went dry, and Christian county went
wet! And yet, it would be anomalous
to try to rectify it.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

England needs the arms she is getting
here and Germany needs our food
stuffS.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

When certain North Carolina jurist
made his first appearance at the bar
as a young lawyer he was given charge
by the state solicitor of the prosecution
jof man who was accused of some
misdemeanor.
Although there was practically no
evidence against the man, the youth
full attorney did his best, but was as
tonished when the jury brought in a
verdict OF guilty" After the trial one
OF the jurors tapped the young lawyer
on the shoulder. "We didn't think the
man was guilty" he explained, 'but
at the same time didn't like to dis
courage young lawyer by acquitting
him."
One cold wintry morning a thin man
was walking down steep hill. He slip
ped, began to slide and was unable to
stop.
At a cross street half way down he
encountered fat woman, with her
arms full of bundles. The meeting was
sudden. A collision ensued and both
slid down hill-the thin man under
meath.
When the bottom was reached, the
thin man gasped:
Pardon me, madam, but you will
have to get off here. This is as far as
60"
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

from chronic dyspepsia. One day he
was taking a walk along the beach
with his host.
II have derived relief from drinking
a glass of salt water from the tide,
said the invalid, solemnly. do you
think might take second?"
Goodwin reflected deeply. Well, /"
he replied, with equal seriousness, 81
don't think a second would be missed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23
D1 nn0r
S f ri e ),

A friend of Nat Goodwin's was stay
ing with the actor at his home in Cali
fornia, in the hope of obtaining relief
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

A visiting minister preached on a
recent Sunday evening in little
church on the subject of Giving. .
During the sermon his heart was re-
joiced by the fact that member of
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

coins military genius, not his political
ability not his intellectual strength,
but his character that made him the
rock of the unions hope during the
four troublesome years of struggle.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Hannibal Courier Post: Talk bust
ness and less about the war, is a
mighty good motto, especially as you
can aid business but you can't do a
thing about the fighting.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

er and the Philadelphia Public Ledger)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Waterloo Courier: Nineteen hun
dred and fifteen is expected to be a
great year for public improvements.
There are two reasons. First, labor
Is cheap and needs employment. Sec
ond. timid capital is glad to find in
vestment in public bonds. Philadel.
phia recently sold $5,000,000 worth of
As cover the counter" in six hours.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Kansas City Journal: 1t was in
evitable that a few years of anti
business legislation would result in a
change of popular sentiment toward
business. No country can prosper by
depressing its industrial and transpor-
tation interests, and it doesn't take
long for the fact to make itself known
and felt.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-02-23

Clinton Herald: Hudson Maxim, in.
ventor of the Maxim gun, gives some
detailed data on what has been noted
occasionally, that practically every
gun, armor and powder factory in the
United States is located close to the
Atlantic seaboard, where it would be
exposed to capture by an enemy which
should succeed in landing an army
close to New York.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-08-28

Captain kitteIIe Battles Hungry Shark
On Sunday morning at Kualoa some
thing exciting happened. The house
party, at which the Misses Nora and
Rosamond SwanZy were hGstesses, de-
cided that swim would be about the
incest sport for the morning. Few
people ever go in swimming at the
Kualoa beach. However, the men, If
not the girls, thought they would try
it. Capt Kittelle, commanding the
U. S. S. Maryland, now in port, was
among the seekers of aquatic pleas
ures, and being trifle more skilful,
swan further seaward and away from
the rest of the men. When he was
enjoying his swim at the utlsost there
: came from the shore a disturbing,
piercing shrek from the girls, who
were sitting on the sand. The captain
turned to the beach and saw, separat-
ing him from the men, huge man
eating shark He did not lose his
head for moment, and after but a
seconds hesitation called for his COM
rades to splash the water as much as
they could and yen at the top of their
voices. They did so and likewise did
he. He swan towards the monster,
scared it and it turned out to sea.
Capt Kittelle has won much praise
for his presence of mind .~ ~.
- - -
Miss Mills at Tahoe. ...-..& ~
Mrs. James Mills and her DAUGHTER
Miss Ethel F. Mills, of Berkeley are
spending a couple of weeks at Tahoe
Tavern. Miss Mills is well known
among the younger set of Berkeley.
She is member of the Pi Beta Phi
sorority, but has been spending the
past year in Honolulu, connected with
| tn Kawaiahao Seminary. She will re-
turn to the islands shortly after re-
turn from the lake-San Francisco
Examiner, August Is. ~"
/ Miss Mills is one of the most pop
ular of the teachers in Honolulu and
/ her return is looked forward to by
many. .."... -: .......<
Judge and Mrs. Gary conpIimented.
Another affair in honor of Judge and
Mrs. Ebert H. Gary was the dinner
dance given by Joseph Martin On
Tuesday night The affair was at the
Martin home on Fillmore street.-San
Francisco Examiner
Judge and Mrs. Gary, during their
short sojourn in Honolulu, were ex-
tensively entertained.
- - -
Capt. George. Steunenberg and
Miss Florence Alexander Wed.
A pretty wedding was solemnized in
the Idaho building at the fair in San