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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-08
PACKERS ATTACKED
Representatives Of Big Firms Attend
Conference and Hear Their Meth
oss Protes ted,

Chicago, Dec. 6.-Anticipating an
attack on the alleged concentration OF
the packing industry at today's ses
sion Of the National Conference on
Marketing and Farm Credits. high Of
ficials, including Arthur Meeker, gen,
eral manager of Armour & Co.. attor-
neys and others representing the big
packers were present today.
The first attack came from Henry
Krumrey of Wisconsin, an official of
a cooperative cheese makers organi.
zation of that state.
THE packers are constantly increas-
ing their hold on the food situation,
said Mr. krumrey. Last summer
they went into the cheese business
along with the spectators who are
customarily in the market. They
bought up practically all the cheese
in sight at an average Of 1874 cents
pound Wholesalers are now selling
this same cheese at % cents. The re-
taller had added his profit and the eff
feet on. the public is bad
f L. Burke. a live stock man of
Omaha. urged an investigation of the
whole live stock industry by the fed
eral trades commission. w. Fl. Perry,
representing the commission. was
present.
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the DIET TEST.

Up in Chicago. the health depart
ment is conducting two weeks test
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She had been rammed by a steamer
whose ghostly shape could be seen
family through the thickness that en-
veloped her.
This nearness to catastrophe left
Madeline trembling and when Peter
Lansdale drew her away from the
quiet but terrified crowd. she chung to
him as if she would never let him go.
She expected him to hold her close.
as if she was the most precious thing
in the world to him. Instead he gazed
intently over her head as he put her
into chair and told her to stay where
she was until he returned,
Chilled. even in her fright. she did
not mean to be left alone by the one
person upon whom she had the claim
of friendship and she followed him to
the rope that separated the first from
the second class passengers. Pande.
monium was on the other side and in
the midst was Peter. holding baby
in his arms and trying to Quiet the
frightened mother. He saw Madeline
and before she could offer protest had
given the child into her keeping and
disappeared
1t was the first time she had ever
held little child and she looked down
upon it fearfully. She expected it to
cry, but it poked at her eyes and
caught her fingers in it's chubby hand.
Before she realized what she was do
ing she was holding the little face
close to her own and humming an air
she had not heard since she was a
child herself.
It was then that she glanced up into
Peter Iansdale's face and the look in
his eyes made her put the baby into its
mothers arms and turn quickly toward
the sea. She heard him say there was
no danger but all else was lost in the
sudden emotion that held her in Its
grip. For the first time she was maks]
ing the fight for career or for the
man she loved. She had worked hard
to fill her own particular niche and
she felt that she could not give 1t up
Then came the memory of warm
little body pressed close against her
heart. AS that thought claimed her
she felt an arm about her shoulders.
Her face brushed rough sleeve as II
was lifted to that other lowered one.
and she knew that Peter Lansdale. not
q career, could give her complete hap
piness.,
They were married when they reach
ed St. Johns and the two months she
had expected to spend in wandering
alone aobut Newfoundland were glor.
ified by the love that passeth all I'm.
derstanding
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of the possibilities Of feeding person
on forty cents a day. There are a
dozen persons engaged in testing out
the menus that the forty cents day
provides And. now that the test is
nearly over. it seems that most of the
members OF the squad have waxed fat
and have remained healthy. So, pretty
soon. the official announcement will be
made that people can live and 1--we
well, although spending only fo-.y
cents per day. per capita. for fool
There is nothing surprising auout
that. 1t is surprising that the health
authorities of big city like Chicago
had to conduct test to reach the con.
clusion. The fact is that millions Of
people are living and maintaining
health and even eating a great MANY
Of the things that tickle their palates
and yet without spending nearly
forty cents per day, per capita.
Thousands of families in that great
section classed as in moderate cir
cumstances" are managing very nice
ly on less than the amount used in the
test The average family contains
about five people which would mean
an expenditure of s14 per weeK at tire
forty cent a day rate. Had they look
ed. the Chicago authorities could
doubtless have found any number of
house wives able 10 provide good fare
for a family of five at an expenditure
of SO or even less per week. And
there are great mary who bv force
of circumstances get along OF r,uch
smaller sum - and seem to get alcng
pretty well at that.
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and economists who have not been IN
personal touch with the situation
across the Atlantic - to picture the
belligerent countries after the war as
depopulated, disorganized, crushed
with debt and generally crippled in
the matter of carrying on business at
home and abroad. This attitude on
the part of the pacifists and the gen.
eral run of our politicians will matter
very little one way or the other =
America. like Europe, is coming to ie-
more the views of these as class even
when it does not distrust their inten-
tons but for those who are them
selves playing part, direct or indirecf
in the American campaign to win
share of the worlds trade, it is in Or
der to get truer perspective.
The present struggle, in spite OF Its
magnitude and formidable array OF
pessimists to the contrary, does not
promise to develop into another "Thir-
ty Years War; and the drawing In OF
any Of, the present neutrals on the side
of the allies will tend to shorten rath-
er than to lengthen it. 1t Is not at all
difficult to conceive Of contingencies
under which hostilities would be
brought to an end by next fall and
peace by the middle OF 1917 is much
more than probable. Let US take the
latter date, to be on the safe side.
!. The point for American exporters,
bankers and manufacturers to get we'll
in mind is that our two greatest COM
mercial rivals, Great Britain and Ger.
many, far from, being depopulated, dis.
organized or industrially crippled by
the middle, or even the end, of 1917,
will, in spite OF their huge war debts
and the killing OF thousands of their
men, be in stronger position to wage
an aggressive war for world trade than
ever before The Engineering Mag
azine.
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and supplies of all kinds to Europe.
then they are doubtless right. But
they are not right if they include tn"
general trend OF business. The firms
that are not making goods for tn"
warning nations. the firms that are
not agents for the warning nations. the
firms that are just turning out or sell
ing the necessities o. nation al
peace, are not unusually prosperous.
Most of them are finding it pretty hard
going because the prosperous ones are
putting the other ones in the hole bv
raising prices for ra wmatarials ana
by raising wages or giving bonuses to
the wcrkingmen.
It is right that the various steel COR
porations and the munitions plants
that are manufac turins at a great
profit now, and the financial institu-
tons which are rakipg in huge profits
through the handling Of the American
finances of the various European gov
ernments. should raise the wages Of
their employees and pay more for
what they are getting. But what about
the fellow who is engaged in making
reckties. or hats, or bread, or digging
bitches or building houses, or rum ng
a drug store or anything else that is
the work Of nation at peace? THE
war is not bringing them prosperity.
It is not giving them an excuse TO-
raising prices or demanding an in
crease in wages. On the contrary it is
making Their expenses heavier
The fedora, reserve people before
renorting Great rr"sre'ity, should look
a little further than those firms that
are max ng big splurge out of tn"
monev they are getting from their
European customers.
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THE NEWSPAPER SITUATION.

The paper committee of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers associa-
ton has issued notice to the public
relative to the news print scarcity.
This committee is in constant touch
with the situation. Next to labor.
print paper is the biggest item of eX.
pense in the production of newspa-
per and the price is almost double
tions that il will be still higher in
1918. The notice of the committee
AnllOws:
To the Public.
your newspaper service is the cheap.
est necessity you buy. The advertis-
ing cost through the daily newspaper
is the cheapest manner in which to
sreach customers.
This has all boen effected by a won.
derful worldwide organization and
system By which the public benefits.
and an efficiency not known to any
other industry.
Newspapers which have all experi-
enced enormous increases in publish
ing costs of their own are being sub.
jected to prohibitive paper prices and
exactions many times the increased
cost of manufacturing paper
The press is doing its utmost to
maintain its service to the public. but
expects that at least two thousand
newspapers will be forced out of bus.
mess next year and most of the 9th.
ers will show deficits.
The situation is extremely serious.
for the publishers and the public.
The Paper Committee
American Newspaper Publishers
ISOLATION. .903 World Bldg. New York
City.
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LITTLE BENNY's
NO E BIO OK
ny LEE pAPE
BY LEE PAPE
900 . . . o . O

Last Sunday after suppir me and
Sid Hunt and Pubs Simkins and Sam
Cross was all standing erround the
lamppost not doing enything on ac
count of it being Sunday. and Pubs
Simkins took rubber ball out of his
pocket and started to bounts it say
ing, wunder II it wood keep you frum
going to hevvin if you had a catch
'on Sundey.
WITCH me and Sid and Sam dident
think it wood. but We vasent sure.
and we started to tawl1 about weather
We wood rather be fireman or a
mounted pleeceman, and wich is the
pleasanest deth. drownding or gas. and
different things, and cupple of stars
came out, and sed. Do you think pc.
pele live on the stars?
Ony angels, sed Skinny Martin.
Wat do they do up there? sed Sam
Crawss.
o. jest set still and play on the
harp. sed Skinny.
Don't they ever eat? sed Pubs Sim
kins.
| shood say not, there's nuthing to
eat. sed Skinny.
Don't they ever get hungry? l sed
No. Wat good wood it do? sed Skin
ny.
Don't they even play games or eny-
thing? sed Sam.
No. they'd get there wings mussed,
they jest set there and play their
harps, sed Skinny.
They stop at mite. don't they? | sed,
There amt eny mite. sed Skinny.
And that is what we wood haff to do
if We went to hevvin? sed Pubs.
Sure. We amt eny better than eny
body elts. sed Skinny.
o, G. lets take a chance lets have
catch. sed Pubs.
WITCH We did.
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~ 4 PRosLEM.IN FINANCE.

NJ There are two ways OF looking al
the financial relations existing be
tween this country and Europe as a
result of the world war. Either pre-
sents problem worthy OF careful
study.
One is: Shall this country extend
credit through the purchase OF
Europe's bonds and notes and thereby
make it possible for Europe to con-
tinue to buy our products with what
is in effect the gold we have lent
them?
The other is: Shall we insist upon
a cash basis and compel the buying
nations of Europe to send us their
gold in exchange for our products?
There is a vast difference in the two
plans, as little study will enable you
to discover. Both ways have their
advantages and both have their dis
advantages.
The first plan, seemingly, is very
good one if the credit of the buying
nations remains unimpaired. In this
day and age there is little likelihood
that a national debt will be repudiat-
ed. And yet, such things have been
done and might be done again. Or,
supposing the buyers were the losers
In the war and found it impossible to
My the costs of the war? There would
hardly need to be formal reputation
in that event This nation would be
in the same position as the storekeep-
er who permits number Of supposedly
good" customers to run big bills with
him and then finds that they cannot
nav. In an event of that kind, the
storekeeper generally ends up bank
rupt. 1t will not be amiss for this
nation to think Of such possibility
when considering the amount OF cred
1t it will extend through the loaning
of money.
But the second plan has its draw
backs likewise. Suppose we insist on
cash for our products and get it. AT
the rate we are selling 10 GER ain
European nations we would soon lave
most of the worlds available gold.
Then. in the mind of one fantastic
dreamer at least. Europe might by
national decree. demonetize gold. II
such far fetched plan were adopted
1t would make our mountains Of gold
about as valuable in most of the world
rs an ice box would be at the north
pOlG. bul ulSEcEdI uiAlS ills POScAOA
fly, there are still drawbacks. In the
opinion of many great f1nanciers, the
flooding of this country with gold
would be an extremely disastrous oc-
currance 1t would FIJI the bank
vaults with idle money and speculation
and wild cat enterprises of all kinds
would result. If money can be bor-
flowed very, very cheaply, it is but
natural to suppose that a great many
men would undertake projects that
would turn, out to be failures and
would have disastrous effect upon
legitimate enterprise.
So. it can be- seen, either plan has
its dangers. Which shall we follow
in our dealings with the nations of
Europe that are now buying every
thing we can spare them and great
many things that we really ought not
spare?
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PROSPERITY FOR SOME.

The federal reserve banks of the
various districts send out monthly re-
ports on the business conditions in
their vicinity. For some months past
they have been telling about the gen,
eral prosperity, how prices were high
and everybody working and how
profits were large and the cond .tions
encouraging to investors,
II the federal reserve people are re-
ferring to the war munitions makers
and to those who are selling stores
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INTERNED VESSELS
TO MAKE ESCAPE?

Pho Janeiro. Dec. 6.-Extraordinary
activity has been noted for several
weeks on board the German ships in
termed here. according TO the Jornal
Some of the vessels have been receiv-
ing provisions and coal and others are
clearing their decks According TO the
formal there is every indication that
the ships are preparing to set out
secretly In order to avoid requisitior.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1916-12-08
PREDICT EARLY RETURN OF
EUROPE'S POWER.

In America there has been a persis.
tent tendency not only among pro.
fessional pacifsts and politicians. but
also in the case OF bankers. financiers
The Press., 1916-01-12
A QUEEN AND A STYLE.
Are Made Square Be
cause of a Royal Whim.

Handkerchiets Are Made Square Be.
cause of Royal Whim.
1t is not necessary to insist on the
utility of the handkerchief, for no ole
will contest it, but why should it be
eternally woven i'll the stereotyped
form of a square? The square may be
large. the square may be small, but
why square instead of oval or oblongf
The unfortunate young Queen Marie
Antoipetta is responsible for the shape
Of the handkerchief
On Jan. 2, 1855, a royal command
was issued that henceforth the regq
lated form of the handkerchief should
be In the form that we are SO accus.
toned to see. Before this we are led
to believe that divers forms were used
-trianSlcs, heart shaped, points of q
star, etc.
These individual conceptions did not
please her majesty. She carried her
complaints to the pliable Louis XVI.
1t was her belief that the handkerchief
in the form of square was more ele
CANT.
At the above date Louis had the fol-
lowing decree issued: '"The, length Of
all andkerchiefs manufactured in the
kingdom snail be equal to their
breadth"
During all the changes Of govern
ment in France, from the revolution
to the third republic, the law passed
under LOUIS XVI. is the only one that
has been immoyable, as far as things
to be worn are concerned. # has de-
fed every change, and the rest of the
Christian world has In this respect
faithfully followed the wishes of
Queen Marie AntOinette.
The Press., 1916-01-12

citation from the consumer. Truck gar
dening and tI;.. raising of small fruits
IRE two of the most profitable indus
tries that have been dev eloped. and
enormous Profits are being made per
acre by those who have seen the oppOr-
tunity and have taken advantage of 1t.
Tobacco is also one of the large crops,
and there are some 1900 acres de-
voted to this crop alone yielding over
100000 pounds yearly.
The booklet, copies of which may be
obtained from the Industrial Bureau OF
the New Haven Railroad, Boston, Is an
absorbing story of the possibilities await
irg the investor in the agricultural re-
sources of the southern New England
section. 1t contains forty pages and has
over twenty five illustra ions of actual
results attained In southern New England.
The Press., 1916-01-12
OPPORTUNITIES. FOR
SPECIALITY FARMING /.
IN new ENGLAND

The New York, New Haven and
Hartford Railroad Company has pre-
pared and is distributing through its
Industrial Bureau an illustrated book
let showing the golden opportunities
for specially farming in southern New
England This booklet is prefaced
with a resume of the agricultural sit
uation in this section of the country,
and contains three articles on the pos
sibilities for agricultural development
in Massachusetts,, Rhode Island and
Connecticut One article is by William
d. Hurd, Director of the Extension
Service, Massachusetts Agricultural
College, on the situation in Massachu-
sets, with particular reference to the
agricultural products of that state.
Another article is by Prof. George E.
Adams, of the Rhode Island State Col
lege, on the agricultural possibilities OF
Rhode Island; and the third article Is
by DR.. C. d. Jarvis, of the Connecticut
Agricultural College, on the opportunl'
ties in Connecticut.
Consumption Of Foodstuffs.
In the three southern New England
states 81 per cent. of the population
| live in towns of $500 or over. Due
somewhat to this large urban popula-
| ton this section of the country does
not provide over 30 per cent. of the
| food products it consumes, according
| to estimates. New England produces
| Is per cent. of the nations industrial
| wealth, and southern New England
| produces SIT per cent of the indus
| trial wealth of New England.
Where such large proportion OF
| the population is engaged in other pur-
suits than that of the production OF
| food products, it is not surprising that
| the district is not considered as an
important agricultural field, yet the
| very conditions that make southern
| NeW England the great industrial cen
| ter that it is, magnify the opportun1-
| ties for agricultural expansion. This
| Is particularly true of certain special
| ties in food products for which the
| land and climatic conditions are par
| ticuiarly adaptable.
The educational and social advan-
| tageS are qneXcelled. and there are
more and better transportation facili-
ties. steam, electric and water. than
The Press., 1916-01-12
For any itchiness OF the skin, for skin
rashes, chap, pimples, etc., try Deans
Ointment 50c at all drug stores.
Italics In the Bible.

Words In the Bible printed in italics
indicate that the words so printed do
not rightly form part OF the original
text. but were adopted by the transla-
tors to make the sense of the original
clear, remarks an exchange. As used
In the Bible. italics have no relation
to the common practice Of using them
for the purpose Of emphasizing cor
tain words " the early history of
printing those portions Of q book pot
properly belonging TO the main work.
such as mtroductions. prefaces, IN
dexes and footnotes. were printed IN
italics. the text itself being In Roman
The Press., 1916-01-12

prices prevent any large waste of prod.
uce while the weather. portion of our
population Cffers an excellent market
for the highest grade goods which the
farmers can produce.
"Rhode Island today has the best OF
markets near which are located cheap
lands. which If properly developed will
produce wide diversity of farm prod.
ucts selling for a higher price per acre
than the farm crops In any other sec.
ton of the country"
Conditions In Connecticut.
In his article on Connecticut agricul
ture. DR.. Jarvis remarks that ut seem.
remarkable that it should be necessary
to call attention to the agricultural OPP
portunities of Il section where Ameri
can agriculture had it's birth. Agri uL
ture was profitable industry In Con
necticut long before the great grain
and meat producing sections of the
middle west and the great fruit grow
ing sections of the Pacific coast were
known. During the years following
the Civil War and during the period OF
railway extension through the western
sections. people were attracted by the
CHEAP fertile lands. At that time there
was real attraction, but that condi
ton no longer exists, for the free Ian
has all been acquired and land values
have risen to such an extent that set
tiers are now attracted to the east
The onre fertile soils of the west are
gradually becoming depleted of Their
natural fertility and the time has come
when the western farmer must coEsld
or the matter of replenishing his soil
The balance of favor is now swinging
toward the east The westerner fnd'
it more difficult every year to compete
with the eastern farmer. who Is righ
at the door Of the best American mar
kets and who is within a few hours
run of the best exporting points.
Connecticut has favorable climatic
conditions and available lands. The
average value per acre Of farm l'n'
in 1916. according to the Census rerorl
WAS S;3 O3. There IS Il population q
over 1Wri000. and the transport t:ol
facilities of the great markets are un
egualed in any section Of the country
Connecticut is pre-eminently Il flui
growing stare. The; e are hundreds o.
successful fruit growers within hel
borders. and The excellence of the ap
,.las AND pel' hes grown in this stat,
is just he%inn NJ f. RECEIVE due hppre
The Press., 1916-01-12

In Spain bride has no girl attend
ants to stand at the altar with her. but
instead u "madrina." or godmother,
Neither does she have wedding cake
nor any festive going away after the
ceremony. The wedding pair depart
quietly to their new home, where they
remain until the following day, when
they start Oh their honeymoon. Before
departing they pay formal visit TO
their respective relatives.