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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21
sIDETRAcklNG THE WASTE.

Correspondents from the battlefields
of Europe write that the trains bearing
the wounded from the front, are side
tracked repeatedly so as not to delay
the trains which are hurrying in the
other direction with fresh troops to
face the enemy's cannon.
1t is hard for peaceful people to fully
realize just what this means. In this
country everything gives the right OF
way to the ambulance which is rushing
the injured to the hospital; train
schedules are disarranged and thous,
ands of people disconnected while a
special burns up the track with wreck
victims being rushed to medical atten.
ton: the wheels of industry are stop
ped or turned backward to hurry aid
to the injured.
But on the battlefield the injured are
wasted or used material and are moved
back to the rear as opportunity permits
because they are in the way at the
front
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HOME SCENERY BEST.

"See America First" is the slogan
of the new superintendent OF the
twelve national parks under the
charge of the interior department at
Washington. Mark Daniels, the Cali
fcrnia landscape engineer, recently
appointed to the place just created,
has taken up the work not only OF
handling the national parks on a
scientific basis, but Of convincing the
American people that they have spent
millions to go to Europe for scenery
when they had much better at home.
Franklin Lane. secretary of the in
terror, and Superintendent Daniels be-
lieve there never was such time
to convince the American public OF
the value of visiting the national
parks that there is now with the great
war raging. They are going to try to
have millions of Americans understand
the beauties and the wonders, not
only of the Yellowstone. but of Mount
Rainier park, the Sequoia, the General
Grant, and others.
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greatly depressed in August, Septem-
gain in November, the total being $4l4,-
Der, and October, made remarkable
642. as against $3l,751 in November,
1913, and monthly average OF $l45,-
600 in the calendar year 1913.
The department further announces
that nearly all imports are back TO nor.
NAL This in spite of the fact that IN
Europe no less than ten or twelve mil
lions of men who ordinarily are pro-
ducers, have been taken away from
their work and turned into consumers
by reason of the war II these mil.
lions of men were at work ana II
European industry had not received
the crushing blow the war dealt IL,
would not Europe be able to swamp
this country under the weight or I'M
ports that would come in under the
present low tariff?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21

Petrograd, (via London) Jan. 10
| The German forces in central Poland
are continuing their efforts to advance
west of Warsaw, between SochaczeW
and Bolimow. and southwest Of War
saw, between Skierniewice and
Grodzisk, although their left flank Is
endangered by the advance of Russian
troops along the right bank OF the
Vistula west of Plock, and the position
of their right flank, according to Rus
! Sian reports, Is no longer tenable.
This forward movement Of the center
! Of the German line has been unsuc-
cessful thus far All the trenches
which the Germans took have been re-
captured by Russians.
It is now thought the German army
must force it's way through the Rus
sian line in the center or retreat to
the Warta river, falling back to within
about twenty-five miles of the German
| frontier.
Cooperation Of Austrian forces from
the southwark has not come. The at
tempted advance Of the Austrians east
of Piotrkow, and in the Darnow region,
on the Dunajec. has been checked by
Russian artillery
Along the immediate Warsaw front
there has been no material change in
positions recently. In the extreme
north the Russians report steady adj
vance toward East Prussia and in the
extreme south they state they are
moving forward successfully in the
Carpathians. Their northern move
ment has been retarded near Loetzen
lby German Notifications and the gen
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21

Des Moines. Jan. 19.-Both houses of
the thirty-sixth general assembly met
again today, called to order at
ten o'clock All was expectancy
with regard to the announcement
of the committees. Perhaps never he
fore had there been so little known in
advance as to the placing of members
on the committees. Both Harding and
Atkinson had been hard at work yes.
terday and until late hours.
With the announcement of commit
tee came the signal for the early food
of bills.
One of the features of the Legislature
has been that practically every mem
Der is loaded with bills all prepared
and ready for the opening session. A
great many Of the members have sue
ceeded in exploiting in the papers their
pet measures and indicating how they
are going to get in first and have quick
consideration Of their bills. Several OF
the members, instead of going home
during the four day recess. remained
here and worked on their bills, SO that
il may be expected that the first week
will witness an unusual number Of bills
presented in both houses. Many oil
these will be, as usual, duplicates--ihe
same bill going to the house and tc
the senate.
1t Is the custom, in the case Of the
larger committees of both houses. &c
refer important bills first to sub-com
mittees to be considered and reported
on to the main committee. This may
be done before the printed bills are on
the desks of the members. and espec
tally in the case of bills that are not Of
general interest. Early in the session
it is not the custom to print bills in
the journals of the legislature. but lat
er this is done in order to secure great
err publicity than by more printing OF
the bills in bill form.
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Won HindenburQ
isSWdn1ped With
Friendly Letters

Headquarters, German Armies
Of the East, Jan. 1.-(correspon-
dence Of the Associated Press.)-
Field Marshal Won Hindenburg re-
ceives two clothes baskets full Of
letters and kilograms Of advice
daily.
OF these naturally comparatively
few reach the field marshal and
his aides have to be cautioned In
submitting even these to him, for
the conscientious old army leader
cannot be restrained from answer
Ing fully and In his own hand
many letter which appeals to
him..
Letters from o%Awomen and
school children engage him par
ticularIy, and frequent quarter
hours which the field marshal
needs for his military duties are
devoted to writing an answer to
some naive request or congratula-
tions from school boy or the
mother Of one Of his soldiers.
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A STEP IN SANITATION.

There are many things tolerated in
this world only because no satisfactory
remedy has been proposed. Railroad
and steamboat officials have long been
interested in the discovery of some
means for the sanitary disposal of the
sewage from trains and vessels. AS
handled at present this sewage consti-
tutes a serious menace to the public
health since it's promiscuous dis
charge on the watershed crossed by a
train or the fresh body of water trav-
ersed by a steamer may SOW broad
cast the seeds Of an epidemic of water
borne disease, such as typhoid fever or
dysentery.
Fully realizing that no improvement
in the present conditions would be
possible until some practical measure
had been suggested the United States
public health service has been at work
for some time on this problem. A
preliminary report just issued des-
cribes what is believed to be the most
satisfactory remedy so far proposed.
BY the installation Of very simple
apparatus and the use of the Oldest and
best known disinfectant, heat, every
railroad train and vessel can be so
equipped as to sterilize at very
small cost it's sewage, which after be-
coming practically unobjectionable is
automatically discharged
Actual tests Of model of this ap-
pa-atus show that it kills 1913 per
cent of the total number of bacteria
In sewage, and eliminates completely
the characteristic intestinal organism,
bacillus coli, regarded by sanitarians
as typical of the disease-producing
germs. Such degree of sewage ster-
ilization had not been attained before,
and the studies of the public health
service must therefore help in solving
a difficult problem facing health auth
critics and railroad and steamer Of
fcials.
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THAT IS DIFFERENT.

President Wilson seems to think
that because the farmer is getting
good prices for his wheat that he must
be Investigated. Why should the ad.
mtnistration try to put the price OF
cotton up and the price of wheat
down?
Last summer when the farmer had
to sell his wheat for sixty cents
bushel the president didn't seem 10 De
paying any attention to the farmer
hut was worried because the cotton
growers we're not getting enough for
their crops. ;,
It is apparent that. what is sass
for the goose is not Tin this instance)
"sass" for the gander.
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can be no questioning OF whether there
Is any intentional or unintentional
Partially in such an act The relief
work is more easily organized and
carried on after such a disaster than
after disaster due to the clash of
armed forces
Des Moines Capital: We inquire
why it is crime for cotton to be sell
ing so low and wheat selling so high
The government Of the United States
is assisting in raising the price Of cot
ton and is going to assist in lowering
the price Of wheat.
Will some friend of the administra.
ton, or broader still, some friend of
humanity, explain why these two
things are right, if they are?
New York Sun: When Billy Sun.
day sprang on the table last Sabbath
and shook his fist at Philadelphia, he
ELECTED howl of appreciation that
proved him the possessor Of still in.
creasing power to WELD vast masses
of men. He may be repugnaant to
the senses of the judicious, to their
ingrained respect for reason, as
against overbearing buster, but fo1
immense throngs of ready listeners he
is welcome prophet, so much so that
he constitutes an important force in
this country today.
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IMPORTS ABOUT NORMAL

The war is not stopping imports to
this country. The department Of COM
MERGE at Washington says:
Practically all lines of chemicals
show larger imports in November than
In any prior month Of the current ifs
cal year and many of them equal or
exceed the imports in corresponding
periods of earlier years. OF coal tar
colors and dyes, for example, the
months figures are double the normal
average, being s1,0s1 900 in value, com
pared with $4,000 in November, 1918,
and showing a marked recovery from
the low record figure of S233,00O worth
in September. Alizarin and
alizarin dyes, Imports Of which were
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21
Iowa Assembly Begins Its
Session With Naming of
Committee Heads
SLAUGHT CHAIRMAN
OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Whitmore to Rule Military
Affairs Body; Freeman
on appropriation"

Des Moines, Jan. 19.--Congress was
asked to pass laws which will enable
the president to lay embargoes upon
all contraband of war, except food
stuffs alone, and therefore withdraw
from contending powers all aid and
assistance from this republic in q
resolution presented in the senate of
the Iowa general assembly today.
Thirty-one bills, ten Of which affect
the saloons of the state, were intro
duced in the senate. Senator Dorau
of Boone, offered resolution con-
trenchment and reform committee, but
Lieutenant Governor Harding refused
to entertain it because it had not been
properly prepared. This report sug-
gested that the governor be empower
ed to appoint heads of the departments
including auditor, secretary of state
and treasurer.
In the committee appointments of
both houses, 1t was claimed by the
anti-saloon forces that they had been
favored, although the temperance COM
mittee in the senate Is composed of
prominent vets and "drys'' with
Senator Eversmyer Of Muscatine, q
strong wet" leader as its chairman.
Committees Named.
The following are committees nam.
ed today in the two houses, or chair
men of leading committees:
SENATE CHAIRMEN.
Ways and means-Allen Of Pocahon-
taS.
Judiciary No .1.-Francis of Dickin-
son.
Judiciary No. Chase Of Hamilton.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Of Adair.
Schools of Winnebago.
ailroads--Larrabee Of Webster.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of Boone.
Cities and towns-Kimball of Potta.
wattamie.
Banks-Jones Of Montgomery.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Sioux.
Insurance of Jackson.
Telegraphs and telephones-Perkin
of Delaware.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES of Polk.
Neutrality-suspicious. Of Guthrie.
Constitutional Observation-Disclosures
of Howard.
Public health--Grout of Blackhawk
Military affairs--Whitmore of WapellO.
suppression VI Incompetence IIVOA-
smyer Of Muscatine.
Penitentiaries and pardons- Head of
Linn.
Elections-Darrah of Lucas.
Labor-Wilson Of Appanoose.
Educational nstitutions-Arney Of
Marshall.
Public utilities-Fraley of Lee.
Board of control-Robinson of Frank
lin.
Public libraries-Laffer of Keokuk.
Printing-Helmer of Carroll.
Commerce and trade-Enger of How
ard.
Congressional and judicial districts
Eversmyer. of Muscatine.
County and township atfairs-Taylor
of Van Buren,.
Public lands-Nye of Taylor.
Food and dairy-Thomas of Union.
Mines and Naturalization Of Mon
roe.
Pharmacy-Jackson of Floyd.
Fish and game-Fellows Of Fayette.
Public buildings of Clarke.
Senatorial and representative districts
(-Henigbaum Of Scott.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21

For the next two or three weeks scs-
sions will all commence at 10 o'clock
each morning and close about noon.
The examination given the candi-
dates for committee clerks in the house
was the case with the first examina-
was thee ase with the first esamina-
tionv 1t was given by the head of a
commercial college and he put 1t on a
thoroughly professional basis. whereas
there is little cause for having the
clerks capable of doing the very hard
est work possible. He read to them
so they agree in saying-a story about
the Keokuk dam and including 4 lot
of electrical technical terms, and he
read it in such low tone that some OF
them failed to hear the words. At any
rate only very few got through. In
cluded in those who failed were girls
who have worked for years in law Of
fees and others who have taken court
proceedings for long time. Those
succeeded only who were fresh from
school. Later other examinations were
given but the professional character
was little lessened. AS a matter Of fact
the majority of the house members
are wholly incapable of debating more
than 80 or 100 words minute and it
would puzzle some Of them to dictate
10 words minute and get them right
The character of the examination has
caused a good deal Of comment
A great majority of both houses OF
the legislature are favorable to an ap'
preparation to see that Iowa has the
right kind of an exhibit at the San
Francisco exposition. They all agree
that it will not now do for Iowa 10 be
backward. A bill for this purpose will
be one of those very early considered,
perhaps far ahead of the other approp.
Ration measures, as the exposition
opens in less than two weeks.
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MAKE GOOD RECORD.

Revenue cutters OF the United
States saved 476 lives and gave as
sistance to 210 vessels, valued, with
their cargoes, at more than $9,OOO,OOO
during the fiscal year which ended
June 80 last, according to report to
congress by Commandant e. P. Ber-
tholf. For every dollar expended by
the service it aided in saving property
worth 1912.
Commandant Bertholf recommended
the consolidation of the revenue cutter
service and the life saving service into
an organization to be known as the
coast guard
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-21
TEACHING AT HOMES.

Giving credit" at school for house
work done at home, as means of
relating the home more closely to
school life, is one of the schemes COM
mended in a new bulletin of the bu-
reau of education. This plan has been
in successful operation for ten years
at Crete, Neb., and has spread from
that town to fifty or more high schools.
Women capable and willing to teach
the cooking of some one article among
twenty articles included in the course
hold classes in their own kitchens.
The girls become cosmopolitan house
keenerS
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sELF.coMPANIoNsHlP.


On christmas eve, in the city OF
New York, a young man leaped out OF
a window in an upper story OF one OF
tho skyscrapers and was dashed 10
pieces on the sidewalk below IN the
very midst of a throng OF busy ana
happy holiday shoppers. A note which
he had left behind caused the coroner
to decide that the youth had committed
suicide because of loneliness.
In a city of five million people,
man earning a comfortable living at
a sood profession, had ended his life
because OF lack of human companion
ship, Lonely in city teeming with
life and known for Its gay white way.
One Us led to wonder just what lone
illness is and what is the cure Inc
cure Is within, not without for the most
lonely lives can be lived In the most
crowded centers. To be among people,
and not to be one of them, gives one
the most dreadful sense OF solitude.
For constantly he sees that which he
has not he IL tantalized with the sight
of that which, he is denied.
Nor does he who by persistent efort
wins the acquaintance of many persons
solve the problem. Each of these mas
his own interests. There may not be
one to turn TOT lin lonely hour when
sympathy and tcongeniality is craved.
No mere material relationship suf-
fees. Parents, husbands. wives. chill
dren-all may be about and yet it is
possible for one to be lonely. And II
one or some do suffice to prevent lone
liness, death may intervene. No hui
man tie exists today that may not be
severed tomorrow.
Therefore the cure for loneliness is
only within the saul Only that man
or that woman masters loneliness who
developes the innef resources OF mind
and character so as to give serenity
and poise in every varying vicissitude
of human experience.
Everywhere in the world there are
books. In every city of any conse-
uuence tAere Ia art and music. The
corrpanionships of lofty minds and
poetic souls, of ages past and present,
are available. The man who avails
himself Of these resources for much
of his solace and can look upon the
human swarms who pass by him and
say. my contentment, my harmony,
my pleasure, is dependent upon none
OF these; I possess them in myself
that man is never troubled by loneli-
ness He has learned to forget that
such thing exists.
And to such calm and untroubled
presences friends come-they do not
need to be sought after. They find
their way, drawn by the unfailing at
traction of self-reliance and serenity
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FRENCH REPORT.

Paris. Jan. 19.-The French war
office this afternoon gave out an
official communication, as follows:
"In Belgium there has been q
snow storm and also intermittent
artillery exchanges at certain
points. There was also fall OF
snow yesterday in the region OF
Arras, where our heavy artillery
on several different occasions
silenced the batteries of the enemy.
GAS we set forth yesterday, q
fairly spirited engagement has
been developing at La Boiselle,
where, following the breaking out
Of several fires, we we're COM
PEELED during the night Of January
1918 to evacuate our positions.
These, however, we recaptured
January 10 at daybreak! The
enemy has not renewed his at
tacks on this part of our front.
"In the section of scissors the
bombardment of the suburb Of st.
Paul during the night Of January
1918, was not followed by an in
fantry attack. and the day OF Janu-
airy 1S passed in absolute calm.
"In the valley of the Aisnc, to
the east Of scissors and in the Sec
tor of Rheims, there were yester-
day artillery exchanges.
ITO the northwest OF Pont-a-
Mousson we yesterday occupied
another field work Of the enemy in
the forest of lie Pretre, where we
today occupy 500 yards Of the
trenches of the enemy.
"The Vosges yesterday saw
SLOW storm. Here also there has
been artillery fighting, partlcu-
larly in Ban De Sapt and in the
neighborhood of Thanh"
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Samuel Gompers, president OF the
American Federation Of Labor and the
biggest man in the labor world today,
tells of the "Unwisdom of Postponlng
Pubic Work" on this page Of today's
issue of The Courier. This article is
one of the series of feature editorials
which The Courier is running and
should be clipped out and filed away
with the other ones for future refer-
ence. The views of the great men VINO
are contributing these articles Will be
worth much for reference later on.
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official Reports
GERMAN REPORT.

Berlin, Jan. 19.-(By wireless to
London)-The German official
statement given out in Berlin to-
day, says:
"In the western theater, except
for few unimportant .skirmishes,
only artillery duels took place
along the entire front.
"In the eastern theater the
weather was very unfavorable.
cat Radzanowa, at Cjezhun and
at Sierpec (north of the Vistula
river) the Russians were repulsed
with heavy losses. Several hun
dred prisoners remained in our
hands.
"On the west Of the Vistula
river and on the east Of the Pilica
river the situation generally re-
mains the same"
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Press Comment

Philadelphia Ledger: Statewide
prohibition has been in effect in Ari-
iona for only two weeks, and already
an agitation against it has begun.
Some day the American people will
learn to distinguish between questions
of morals and questions of law.
Hannibal Courier Post: The recent
rapid rise in the price Of wheat and
flour represents two causes-one a
genuine and the other partly arti-
fetal cause. The first is a real and
unprecedented foreign demand; the
second is the usual disposition of
spectators to the advantage of an
opportunity like the present.
Davenport Times: The devastation
due to earthquake differs from that
devastation due to war in that
the one is considered impossible to
prevent and the other merely intensi-
fies hate and calls the louder for re-
venge. The announcement that the
American Red Cross will send $4,000
for the aid of the earthquake sufferers
meets with universal approval. There
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vERplcI For PAIN.

Fort Dodge Jan. 1T. E. Dever.
aux, dentist, won in district court in
an appeal from justice court decis-
ion which gave E. G. Dryer verdict
of $35 for pain inflicted while in the
dentists chair.
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thrown hng over his victims head,
strangled him and robbed him. There
was so little evidence. however, that
the Judge quickly said:
"Discharged!"
The prisoner stood still in the dock
amazed at being his freedom so soon.
You're discharged" repeated the
judge. You can go. You're free
Still no more from the prisoner who
stood staring at the Judge.
Don't you understand? You have
been acquitted. Get out!" shouted the
judge.
We'll" stammered the man. edo !
have to give him back his watch and
chain?"
Representative Robert Crosser of
Ohio does not believe in firing his audi.
tors, and in this connection tells the
tale of rather "long-winded" preacher
of whom he knew.
BY the time he had reached the eli.
max of his sermon. according to the
Ohio representative, one of the male
members of the congregation was
browsing. The preacher, raising his
voice until it penetrated every corner,
exclaimed:
"Where shall we place Hosea?"
The sleeper reused himself partially
At this moment the preacher fairly
shouted, 81 say, where snail we place
Hosea?"
BY this time the sleeper had fully
awakened, and, taking his hat in one
hand and rubbing his eyes with the
other, he started toward the door, re-
marking meantime in loud voice:
"He can have my seat. I'm going
home"