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The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12
FREE PORTS
BUILDERS ()F
COMMERCE:
CONGRESS SHOULD GIVE THEM
PREFERENCE IN APPRO-
PRlATIONS.
BY Peter Radford.

This nation is now entering upon
an era of marine development. The
Wreckage Of European commerce has
drifted to our shores and the world
war is making unprecedented de-
mands for the products of farm and
factory. In transportation facilities
on land we lead the world but our port
facilities are inadequate, and our flag
is seldom seen in foreign ports. If
our government would only divert the
energy we have displayed in conquer
ing the railroads to mastering the
commerce of the sea, a foreign bot
tom would be unknown on the oceans
highways.
This article will be confined to a
discussion of our ports for the pro-
ducts of the farm must pass over our
wharfs before reaching the water. We
have in this nation 81 ports, of which
IL are on the Atlantic and 10 are on
the Pacific Coast. The Sixty-second
Congress appropriated over $51, ,000,o
600 for improving our Rivers and
Harbors and private enterprise levies
toll of approximately $50,000,0QO
annually in wharfage and charges for
which no tangible service is rendered.
The latter item should be lifted off
the backs Of the farmer of this ma
ton and this can be done by Congress
directing it's appropriations 10 ports
that are free where vessels can tie uh
to a wharf and discharge her cargo
free of any fee or charge.
A free port is progress. 1t takes
out the unnecessary link in the chain
Of transactions in commerce which
has for centuries laid heavy hand
upon commerce. No movement is SO
heavily laden with results or will
more widely and equally distribute
it's benefits as that of free port
and none can be more easily and ef-
fectively secured
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12
DARIUS

The neigh of a horse made Darius
King Of Persia, the six contending
powers for the throne agreeing among
themselves that the one whose horse
should neigh first should possess the
kingdom This ancient method of
settling disputes among politicians
could be revived with profit today.
If our partisan factions and petty pol
iticials could only settle their dis
putes by the neigh of a horse, the
bark of a dog or the bray of donkey,
it would be great blessing and would
give our citizens better opportunity
to pursue the vor"ti tions of industry
free from political strife.
Let those who pick political plums
by raising rows and who flash swords
dripping in che 9loci of industry un-
derJtand THAI they cannot turn the
public forum into a political arena and
by a clash IT personal aspirations
still the hammer and stop the ploW
and that tneir quarrels must be settled
~ the back alleys Of civilization
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12
Democratic

Our genial, glorious and humorous
democracy alone could produce this
jest:
A young woman from abroad is
starting her conquest of the country
by entering into domestic service with
a naughty East End family. She mad
an afternoon off last Sunday and she
put on her finest fnery and paraded
down the street with another domes
tic, friend. And lis they were walk,
ing along, talking of this and that
comparing experiences and notes and
other such things the companion said
to her:
'I.ook, Norah! There's the woman
you work for on the other side of the
street,"
Heavens, Maggie! hope she don't
see mel"
why? Are you afraid av yer
boss?'
"No, ye fool. But it would be just
like her to see this hat an go an get
one just like it,"
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12

One way to sidetrack bad lack 10 to
)o prepared for it.
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12

Dream Imprisons Boy for Seven Years
Russelville, Ala.-Julian Mines, who
has been a voluntary prisoner In his
home for seven years because OF g
dream his mother had, will break h3a
long period of restraint on his aD-
preaching twenty-frst birthday bg
walking to the busienss district GS
RusSellyille.
The family has kept the date OF sh9
youths birthday a secret, but fG ID
known to be near, and the appearance
of young Mines on the street tg Oh"
pected to attract considerable aGteg'
ton.
When the boy was Il years old h&S
mother dreamed a spirit from heayeG
came to her and told her that IL Jul2Sn
left his home again before he was 81
he would be stricken dead. She told
the dream next morning and Juiia9
was so impressed by it that he cen"
sented to remain at home. Since that
time he has not passed through tAS
gate of his own yard.
He has had the freedom OF the yaEd7s
and day after day STANDS at the fence
talking to his boy friends. Some Gg
them visit him, and sometimes when
they gather in the street TO play foot
ball or baseball they kick or throw
the ball to him and no returns It.
lie has devoted himself 90 muslc.
photography and shop work, and has
attained proficiency in these subjects.
He has kept up his studies and is d
normal healthy youth.
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12
In Bad Company

A countryman in Savannah observed
a gang of darkies laboring on the
streets, each wearing a ball and chain.
He asked one why that ball was chain.
ed to his leg.
ITO keep people from stealing it,"
said the darky; heap of thieves about
here"
The Winslow mail., 1915-11-12

Every time a woman gets married
some mans troubles begin.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
SHOOTS UP WINDOW;
UNLOCKS AND GOES IN

New London, Oct. IA very bold
robbery was pulled when robber shot
hole through the parlor window Of
the w. H. Safer homo, one mile and =
half east Of this city, turned the catch.
raised the window and made himself
at home. He ransacked the house
from top to bottom and took three
watches, Mrs. Sater's, Miss Ida Sater's
and Mrs. Ray Yount's Of Burlington,
who was visiting at the Safer home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Safer and family were
entertained at the home of their
daughter, Mrs. G. G. Swan, who lives
just few rods from their home, it be-
ing their forty-fourth wedding ami
versary and motored to Mt. Union in
the afternoon, and nothing was known
Of the robbery until they returned
home about 6 o'clock in the evening.
Mr.. Safer suspects tramp that
slept in his hay stack Tuesday night.
He has reward out for the recovery
Of the watches.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
THE COST OF FIRES.

When the clocks of the country
strike midnight tonight the days rec,
ord OF dead and wounded, by fire, will
number twenty-five. Not a terrible
record for one day; but sinister rec
ord for every day. Yesterday, today,
tomorrow, never let-down In the av-
erage, never relinquishing of it's ter
rible grip on our lives. Twenty-Five
dead or wounded every day. Figure
the toll for a year, for five, ten years.
Then add to this in human lives the
price Of the wares destroyed. More
than a million dollars day thrown to
the waste of our fires. From the little
dress the baby had on when playing
with the matches, to the great con-
1agration that made homeless half a
town: they all figure in the burden
of our financial tribute to fire.
New York has been waking up to
these facts and the reason for the
waking is pamphlet which has been
going the rounds. Economists look at
these startling figures with grave
faces. They think of the long season
Of depression from which our country
Is emerging and wonder if the shock
tn our business would not have been
III a w AAA>N
lions we have been feeding to the
flames had been saved to act as a
Shock absorber.
A total yearly waste through this
one channel of the price of the Fan
anna canal, plus one hundred and TWEEN
ty-fye million other dollars. or, as
government experts have expressed IT:
The buildings we give to hre each
twelve months are sufficient to line a
road from New York to Chicago, with
every thousand feet the scene OF an
injury by fire and every three-quarters
of q mile the scene of a death by fire.
One view of such a scene OF tragedy
and. desolation Of ruin and broken
bodies. would cut our toll to fire by
millions. But we have no such visual
lesson to present and unless the
country as whole arises to the OBJ.
servance OF fire prevention day we
seem destined to go wastefully along
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

of fresh fish of the season taken by
a line trawler The amount of sword
FISH, caught during the month was $685.
317 pounds, valued at $57,131.
The catches of cod fish alone at
the three ports were valued at nearly
$14c 900 while paddock went over the
100000 mark and halibut reached the
$4,000 mark. Hake worth 100000
were caught and miscellaneous fish
represented $65,OO0 in value.
These figures are from only three
ports. The salmon fisheries of Wash
ington and Oregon, the funny fisheries
of California and Florida, the oyster
fisheries of the Chesapeake and the
fresh water fisheries of the great lakes
turn in catches that run the total
value of fish products into almost fab
ulous figures.
Fishing is one of the greatest wealth
producers Of the United States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
SECRET OF LONG LIFE.

Only a small proportion OF the nu
man race rounds out it's tour OF duty
on this earth Some people are born
with good bodies which they treat
we'll. Barring accidents, they live a
long time. Some people are born
with poor bodies which they treat
well. Barring accidents they can live
to a ripe old age. Some people are
horn with good bodies which they
treat badly and some people are porn
with poor bodies which they treat
badly. They don't last long.
It is recorded that in Yorkshire IN
1861, Henry jenkins was born. ne
died in 1870, cut off at the age of 1853.
He remembered we'll the battle OF
Flodden field. This occurred In 1913,
when he was twelve years of age. The
Register of Chancery and other courts
show the administration of oaths to
him 14O years prior to his death. he
gave deposition as witness when he
was 157 In his young manhood, when
he was a little over 100. ne was
remarkable swimmer.
The term "old age" too frequently
is another name for the falllng due OF
the debts of youth. Over-eatlng, over
drinking, over-playing, over-Worklng'
these are drafts on the bank OF nature
which sooner or later must be met.
, Sometimes the day of reckoning can
he nut off a little bit, but dame nature
will not be wheedled out of her claim.
The remarkable thing about Henry
Jenkins is the fact that he has lett
behind him no rules of living which
would enable one to duplicate his
feat. In this he showed great self
renression. AS matter Of fact there
is no royal road to old age and 1T is
not to be attained by particular
dietary or regimen Of life. Perhaps
the best rule may be expressed in one
word Moderation" Moderation in
FOOD moderation in drink, moderation
in the joys and worries of life, mod,
Grafton in work, moderation in recrea-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
BREWERY PLANS TO
MAKE YEAST NOW

Cedar Rapids, Oct. 7.-Instead Of
grinding up hops for the liquid that
made Cedar Rapids famous" the
Magnus brewery after the first Of next
January will be grinding hops for the
manufacture of another product that
may some day bring fame to the town
dry yeast Negotiations are under
way. it is understood, between the
directors of the National Yeast Co.,
and the owners of the brewery to con-
vert the beer factory into a yeast fac
tory when the Clarkson law goes into
effect which makes all of Iowa dry.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
REAL FISHING,

People who think of fishing as a
days pleasure involving the use of q
hook and line and flshpole are looking
through the little end of the glass.
Fishing is really a vast industry as
figures compiled by the federal COM
merce department indicate. There is
fishing of some kind all along the
thousands Of miles of coast line of the
United States and there are thousands
of people engaged in catching fish
most of which are valuable as food
though some are used merely for oils
and fertilizer. A recent edition of
Commerce Reports contained figures
from three Atlantic seaports-Boston,
Glouster" and Poftland-which plainly
show the immensely of the fishing in
dustry when the whole country is con-
sidered This report states that the
fishing fleets which touched at the
three above mentioned ports during
the month Of August numbered 3O6
steam and sail vessels.
At Boston 400 trips were landed,
aggregating lO,104,583 pounds of fresh
and sailed fish, valued at $296,232; at
Gloucester 200 were landed, aggre-
eating 8,467,612 pounds of fresh and
sailed fish, valued at s1S5,53O; and at
Portland 81 trips were landed, amount
ing to 1,296,346 pounds, valued at
Spool total for the three ports of
19,S68,541 pounds, valued at $5O3,7
A feature Of the fisheries during the
month was a remarkable abundance of
, small mackerel along the coast of
Massachusetts. Many trips Of these
fish were taken by small vessels from
the mouths of harbors and on the in.
shore banks, and on several occasions
number of vessels caught and land.
ed two trips in one day. On August
81, the schooner James w. Parker
landed at Gloucester, Mass, 100000
pounds of fresh ground fish. The
trip was caught on LIE Have Bank, and
was reported to be the largest catch
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

our chosen route, throwing away lives
and resources almost without a
thought.
It is time we disabused our minds OF
the idea that the burning OF nelgn-
boris house is Of no economic import
ance to us. The cost Of maintaining
our fire department, added to the
waste resulting from fire destruction
means a real outlay to every man,
woman and child in the country. This
cost to the average family OF tlve mas
been figured at thirty dollars per year.
EVERY article we buy carries IN It's
selling price fractional increase for
insurance. Every time it is handled
an additional insurance tax is added.
If we look to our fire hazards and each
of us strive for greater SAFETY we VIII
pave the way for an appreciate reouc-
ton in the cost Of our living.
Fire Prevention day in Iowa is &C.
tOber g.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
MADE-IN-AMERIcA DOLL HEADS.

MADE-IN-AMERlCA DOLL HEADS.
The United States geological survey
has informed the bureau of foreign
and domestic commerce that the
manufacture Of porcelain doll heads
has been established in Philadelphia.
This, the survey remarks, Is new
industry for the United States.
Heretofore the American demand
for such heads has been met from
abroad Chiefly from Germany. The
exact value of these importations.
however, is not shown by official rec.
ords, the heads being included with
statistics for dolls. In the fiscal year
1916 imports of "dolls and parts Of in.
to the United States amounted to ST.
698,131, against total of $1,816,496
during 1914, 31,563,1S4 in 1918, and 81
422,292 in 1912.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
HOME FARMING,

Herman Boesche, 10 years old, OF
Orchard Place, Cook county, ILL.,, this
summer sold $340 worth Of cucumbers
which he raised on one acre OF land.
Ellen Baumann school girl OF
Niles township, on tenth of an acre
raised onions and beans which she
sold for $65. The girl explained to
her instructors that she would have
made more of the plot only rad
ishes which were planted after the
onions were a failure and had to be
dug up"
These are concrete examples OF the
result of the correlation of home work
and school studies which was begun
several years ago in the organization
of field and garden clubs among the
pupils of the rural schools In the
twenty-three townships of Cook coun-
ty. outside of Chicago.
Instead of limiting the activities of
the pupils to their school studies
alone, home life Is brought into touch
with the school and they are encour-
aged to do something" as we'll as to
learn something
So hearty has been the response OF
the boys and girls that today six dis
tinct school home projects are in &C
tive operation under the direction OF
Edward J. Tobin. county superintend.
ent of schools and school life has tax
en- new meaning.
These projects include:
1 Field school and home, under
which the pupils are encouraged to en-
gage in agricultural work on plats
rented from their parents. THESE piats
are regularly inspected by the school
country life director.
z Poultry school and home, poul'
try raising is undertaken by the pupils
who have exclusive care of the fowls
and keep accurate record of the cost
and profits.
8. Cow testing; especially adapted
to the dairy districts. The child
makes weekly tests of milk and deter
mines from the average percentage OF
butter fats the actual profit In butte
and milk from each COW.
4. Business, in which business
venture such as shop or a newspaper
route is undertaken. Each pupil is
expected to keep an accurate record
for not less than eight months
5. Cooking, canning and sewing;
the pupil demonstrates her progress
and the methods employed.
Music; in which record OF the
hours of study and practice are re-
corded and exhibitions of proficiency
given. =.
In each of these projects a certif-
icate of achievement Is given for
faithful work. This certificate is sep
arate from the regular school mark
Successful pupils are given achieve
ment buttons.
That the pupils are interested is
shown by the enrolment which IN the
f,eld section now numbers $500. In
the business section there are nearly
three hundred. Much interest IS also
shcw in the other projects.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

The midwest is the part of the
country that is farthest from pos
sible enemy; it is the part which is
closest to all other parts; it is the
most prosperous part; and 1t Is the
part in which there are least labor
troubles. These are some OF the
things that are being brought out in
connection with the plea for locating
a great government munitions plant
and storehouse at Rock Island ARISEN.
al island between Davenport and Rock
Island
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
KNOXVILLE BANKS
PROFITS IA PER CENT

Knoxville, Oct. AT the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the
Guaranty bank at this place they re-
elected all the officers and directors of
the institution and voted in favor of
Morris Leonard to fill the vacant place
of bookeeper. The accounts of the
bank show a net profit of IA per cent
for the past year. The directors at
their meeting declared dividend of
10 per cent on the stock, the remainder
of the profits going into the surplus
fund.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

The drama is two thousand, five
hundred years old, or more. Motion
pictures are the invention of our own
generation. The question most fire.
quently asked about them today by
thoughtful people is:
What effect are they going to have
on the spoken drama, on the art OF
the theater?'
Unquestionably, they will have
some effect, are having some effect
already. The sudden eruption of film
dramas may be compared, in a way,
to the invention of machinery a CEN
fury ago. The invention of machinery
altered the entire economic status OF
society. Some of it's results were
good, and others man is but now set
ting about to counterfeit.
Similarly, the motion picture is a
machine-made product. vastly cheaper
in price. substituted for the old hand
made article---the spoken drama. 1t
is quite useless to suppose that any
article so much reduced in price will
not continue to command market
The movies are here to stay. That we
have got to reckon with at the start,
Just as much as machine-made shoes
ara here to stay. But, after all, the
drama is an art, not an inanimate
product. The human element enters
in to an extent unknown in the strict
ly manufacturing field. Machine made
shoes are not only cheaper but often
nearly as good as hand made, so far
as the consumer is concerned. But
machine made drama, though cheap,
err. is not so good, can never be so
good, is not the same thing at all.
II is not quite true, therefore, to say
there is. or will be, competition be-
tween the spoken drama and the
movies. They are in reality not Of
feJing the same wares. There is COM
petition only in the sense that one
man may be trying to induce you to
spend your dollar for a necktie, while
another entices you to buy a new pipe.
And because of this fact. dangerous
as it is to attempt prophecy, we may
venture the guess that the spoken
drama in the future will show the
effect of the movies by becoming, con-
stantly, not more like them. but more
unlike them There are already signs
that this is happening The movie
drama can attain a realism Of scenic
setting quite impossible on the stage.
1t can employ freedom of technique,
rapidity Of scenic changes, dash
and daring of action, quite beyond the
range of the theater., For what we
know as melodrama-for the old fash
toned "thriller"-it is we'll adapted.
But is has not yet shown any sins OF
being able to achieve symbolic and
Copyright 1915, by Nat
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09
The "Movies" and the Dramatic Art
Class Divisions Will Be Intensified With the Theater
Becoming Distinctly Arstocratic
BY WALTER PRICHARD EATON
Dramatic Critic and Essayist

suggestive scenic settings; there is no
Gordon Craig of the camera. 1t most
certainly cannot achieve language and
all the charm, the poetry, the wit, the
intellectual appeal, the thought-stir'
ring suggestions, which are the &C
compartments and results Of litera'
ture. The movies can no more take
the place of spoken drama than pic.
| ture books can take the place of EN-.
erson's essays and Hardy's novels and
Keats poetry. What will result prob,
ably is that the spoken drama Will
mere and more concentrate on plays
| with artistic and symbolic scenery
or perhaps no scenery at all-and
with an increased attention to the
graces and the pungency and the In
telectual appeal of literature. 1t will
more and more leave the crude melo'
drama, the slap-stick farce, the Laura
Jean-Libbyish false romance, to the
movies.
That means, of course, that the
theater will become more aristocratlc
more the pastime of the educated and
well-to-do. Just as the invention OF
the industrial machines intensified
class divisions, the invention of art
machinery is probably going to inten'
sify class divisions. This may result
in better drama, but it most certainly
will not result in better nation as
whole The average movie drama
today is often sensational, and almost
always exaggerated and false as a
picture of life. 1t requires no power
! OF concentration to follow and 1t
breeds in the young mental flabbiness
and cheap taste. Sooner or later we
are bound to recognize this fact,
Though today we are indifferent
! When we do, there will be great
awakening and the effort will be made
to put the spoken drama on totally
different commercial footing. We
~
shall attempt to give 1t at much
cheaper prices, to take it out Of the
hands of vulgar spectators and place
it in the hands of wise, unselfish men
and women. We shall all work for
municipal or civic theaters and In
stead of giving our children five cents
to see Charlie Chaplin, we shall train
them to express their own latent
dra matte instincts in little plays OF
dances.
But that time Is still long way of
perhaps. Before it comes, we shall
have to watch the increasing separa.
ton between the theater and the film,
and see, in all probability, an esthetic
class consciousness developed which
may we'll grow to give us grave con.
Germ, complicating Industrial and SO.
cial problems already serious enough.
onal Editorial Service)
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

A telegraph operator taking d1cta'
ton from baseball expert sitting in
a special section at each OF tho
worlds series and Chicago city series
baseball games, will flash the results
directly into the Office of The Courier.
That is how The Courier can give the
play by play story Of the game as fast
the plays occur.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-09

An automobile travelling over tho
legal speed limit certainly kicks up a
dust on the newly paved North Court
The property owners along the line
are planning to kick up fuss of their
own for the benefit of the speedsters