Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-01-02
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| thousands Of people in this country
who had formed the foolish idea that
/ imported products alone were worth
while. Happily that notion is being
dispelled under the effects of the war
Many OF those who patronized import
ed goods as far as possible have had
to purchase American made goods and
have found them just as suitable and
just as desirable, frequently more sc
than stuff. brought from abroad. Even
American fashions are taking the place
of Paris designs, gradually the habit
of patronizing American made goods
/ is gaining strength among those who
long pursued the mistaken policy.
Sioux City Journal: Hospital Stats
/ tics of the war, given out in Paris
show lower percentage of deaths
from wounds than in any preceding wal
and emphasize the wonderful strides
| that have been made in surgery in the
| fifty years which have passed since
the civil war in the United States.
! AS many as Sd per cent of wounded
French soldiers returned to the front
before December IL and of the others
"a per cent had been given GONZALES
cent leaves, II per cent were still in
hospitals and / II per cent had been
discharged from the army. Only 3a
per cent died. In the civil war in the
United States the rate of mortality af-
ter operation was over was IA per cent.
Webster City FreemanTribune: Oh,
no. There is no desire on the part or
ANYBODY to make of this nation "a
bristling empire of soldiers and war
preparations" But there is really a
conservatism that is asking that we
get ready on land and sea to put up a
reasonably strong defense in the event
of the necessity arising for us to do So
The staggering bully generally gets in
to trouble. On the other hand, the
meek looking cur is kicked from the
sidewalk while the bold bulldog walks
along without molestation. Then again,
the peaceful man among thugs and cut
throats is not safe when he has $1,000
in his pocket, especially when the
thugs and cutthroats are armed to the
teeth and his only reliance for protec-
ton are soft word and good inten-
tons.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: Now the COM
mittee comes forth with the declaration
that the state should be as business
like in its demands on it's employees as
any other organization, and recon-
mends that time clocks be installed inn
mediately. 1t is asserted that too many
employees refuse to do full days work
THE time clock will not injure the
prompt, and it will spur on the lag
gard" reads the report. In another
place. Anyone unwilling to work ap-
prox imately the same number of days
and hours per day demanded in other
business should be removed from Of
fee"
What a furore those clauses will
create. A few score chair warmers
and hangers-on who never have done
anything but draw their pay checks
are due for terrible shock. Perhaps
the appointive offices which have been
considered so soft may not be so
much in demand after the house con-
siders the committees report.
Summed up, the report represents
the most decided slap at state extrav-
agances, political machines, state house
graft and official red tape ever made in
Iowa.
Muscatine Journal: What is their
loss is our gain. With human love and
charity crowded out of half the world
by envy, malice and hate there seems
to be more than the usual amount OF
these virtues in our share of the other
half of the globe The reports of the
activities of Christmas goodfellows the
nation over made lots better reading
than the war news.
Centerville Iowegian: Wouldn't it be
better to have good old fashioned
protective tariff that would make
American industry thrive one that
would produce sufficient revenue to run
the government, and that would make
conditions so prosperous that railroads
would not have to plead for rate in
creases because depressed conditions
had wiped out their profits?
Clinton Herald: Passage and ratifica-
ion of the Hobson amendment as it
low stands, would be great thing for !
Canada. There is nothing to prevent /
he importation of alcoholic liquors for !
personal use as beverage, and the
abolition Of home manufacture would |
start a line of breweries and distil- |
cries from Halifax to Vancouver.
Cedar Rapids Republican: Harvard
las proposed a 5000 year tuition fee,
and other endowed institu-
ions are talking of making the change.
They are getting all the students they |!
IAN care for anyway. But will they be |,
lble to get the right kind of students,
hat is students who go to college to
,et an education, instead of acquire an
There are many of the best
Students, the students who reflect the
most credit on an institution ultimately
Who do not have 5000 bills in their
,ockets. That kind of students would
'e forced to go to the state institutions
where fees are nominal If the propos-
ID fee would keeps out students who
otter through college, it would be a