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.
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.
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,O00,O0O worth Of
As cover the counter in six hours.
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 1t doesn't take
long for the fact to make itself known
and felt.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Home
Run" Baker is to quit the Philadel-
phia Athletics for the purpose of en-
gaging in farming in Maryland. Baker
will need pretty good income to sus-
tain him in the business in which he
is about to engage. He may find it
necessary little later to either go
back to the diamond or move to Iowa.
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.
New York Sun: BY sinking two
British merchantmen in the Irish sea
the German naval authorities again
have disclosed the high state of prac-
ticability to which they have develop
cd the submarine boat. The exploits
of the U-21 prove that Conan Doyle
was not a dreamer when he predicted
exactly such attacks on English ocean
borne commerce and that Admiral Won
Tirptiz, when last December, he sug-
gested that starvation of England by
the destruction of her ships off her
own coast, was revealing plan and
not specializing as to possibility.
Davenport Times: The city of Day.
Following an investigation by a repre-
sentative of the University of Iowa,
a report was made showing that as q
result of an expenditure of approx
mately $4,000 for salary and expenses
for the new official not less than $751;
900 a year can be saved to the tax
payers-a net gain of $4,000 for the
city.
The council wisely acted upon the
suggestion. A purchasing agent will
be employed and the office will be
placed under civil service SO as to
remove it from politics. If this had
not been done there would have been
scramble at every election to make
sure of controlling the purchasing
agent. It would also have resulted
in loss to the city because new man
coming in with each administration
would have to learn the details of
economical purchasing before he could
make any important showing for the
benefit of the city. With the purchas-
ing agent retained in Office his &C
cumulated experience will be of great
value to the CITY, Removal for cause
will be sufficient safeguard against
wrong doing.