davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06
THE PRIMARY ELECTION.

Next Monday, April 10th, the vot-
ers of Iowa will be privileged to vote
at the first presidential primary cleo
ton ever held in this state. There
is not much controversy in Iowa, as
it is conceded that the delegates to
the democratic national convention
republican candidates are for A. B.
Cummins. The only thing to be de-
termined is which of the men whose
names appear on the primary ballot
shall be selected as the delegates.
A great deal Of dissention has been
stirred up among the democrats OF
Iowa by the rotten methods employ
ed by Nick Reed and his man Friday,
DR.. J. w. Reynolds, who poses as
chairman of the democratic state
committee, but who really is merely
the tool of Nick Reed, who tells Rey-
holds just what to do, and Reynolds
does it like whipped pup. Nick
Reed is the man who told Reynolds
he must indorse republican non-res-
ident for postmaster Of Leon, and
VINO said he was going to put the
aforesaid republican in the Leon post
office if it wrecked the democratic
party. He is the man who said the
republican postmaster was better
democrat than any of the democrats
who were opposing her.
1t does not make any difference to
us who is elected delegate and ma
tional committeeman if they will use
their influence to re-organize the
state committee of Iowa, and put in
some real democrats, men who are
not using the party for their personal
ends. That is what Nick Reed and
DR.. Reynolds have done. Nick was
kicked off the state committee in his
own district and Reynolds should be
kicked off in this district. They are
not entitled to any consideration al
the hands of real democrats, for they
have given no consideration to the
real democrats. What Iowa democ-
racy needs, and needs badly, is a
state committee composed of loyal
democrats, and not as side show
for the republicans.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06
ON WHAT ISSUE?

We desire to ask a wistful ques-
ton. What is the issue on which the
republican party proposes to go be-
fore the country in November?
The confusion about the candidate
is pardonable. We understand how
that is and are not disposed to be
censorious. We can wait; We beg
our 6. o. p. friends not to stop to
consider us; let them take their own
time. But it seems to us that 1t Is
really time they took up the matter
of the issue.
Will the republicans make the tar
;iff the issue? No one is interested
in that; there is not time between
now and November to ge, the tre-
mendously important matters now oc7
.cupying the public mind out of it
and insert the tariff in their places.
They cannot take up The ques-
ton Of national finance. "he democ-
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06
DEMOCRATIC STIFFNESS.
The Party in Iowa at the Same Old
Childish Tricks.

Some of the party leaders in Iowa
are making themselves ridiculous and
in some quarters the newspapers are
in mighty small business. 1t was only
Yesterday the Leader received
bunch of documents from both of the
democratic headquarters in Des
Moines. There are two sets OF can
didates for national committeeman
and for delegates to the national
convention in St. Louis. This we find
no objection to, but we do object to
this campaign of mud singing, es-
pecially when the game is so small,
buts all the thunders of battle are
turned on when it is but six of one
and a half dozen of the other, the
difference being nothing. To these
scrappy fellows, we would say, read
Ecclesiastes, that part wherein it
admonishes to put away childish
things. So long as the members
scrap in Iowa like children the voters
will consider them as children. 1t was
childish campaign prior to the Sc
lection of the senatorial candidate
two years ago, and that is the reason
that Senator Cummins was elected
by more than 10000 majority. Had
the campaign been waged in decent
and identified manner the election
would have been closer. 1t was a
season of villification and misrepre-
sentation. 1t was just such a silly
farce of abuse that one, the great
organizer waged from his headquar-
tiers in Des Moines four years ago
Now the same old tactics is resorted
to. How would the democratic poll
ticians of Iowa expect others to re-
turn them favor or condolences when
they show no respect for themselves!
''He that would have friends must
first show his friendliness.'
But here we have the spectacle OF
those who should be friends with
their knives out for each other. The
result need not be guessed
The Leader is not supporting any
set of delegates or candidates for
delegates as against any other set.
1t has other and better business on
hand. Personally, when the. time
comes, choice will be made, not so
much because there is a choice, but
because there is need of selection.
Still it is not at all inspiring to see
the line stretched forth on which to
hang up and expose the imagination
of dirty linen. The aspiring fellows
are not really so big and mean as
they think they are; they are only
engaged in play battle.-Chariton
Leader.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06

w. ]. Bryan was Sc years old on
Sunday, March 10. Joe Cannon, the
noted republican congressman, will
be 80 May z, and he was mentioned
as candidate for the presidency
when he was r.. If Bryan lives to
Cannon's age and is active he may be
a candidate in 1892 and a prominent
factor in the selection of president
in 1910. President Wilson will be
60 next December. Roosevelt is SO,
and Beauchamp Clark is 65.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06
Advertising Rates.

Display Advertising, per inch. ~ Il c
Display Advertising, special SER
vice, per inch -. ......... l5c
Reading notices, per line ...... DC
Cards of Thanks, cash with
conv SOC
Resolutions of Respect $l.OO
Church, school and society no.
tees, where admission or en-
tertainment fee is charged,
per line -. DC
We are glad to publish any and
all church or society notices., but
please don't confound news notices
Sith advertising locals. Correspon-
dents are cautioned not to include
such notices with their items unless
they are authorized and paid for, and
IL possible remittance for same
should accompany the notice.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06

"a lot of fellows who are Dragging
about what they would do if they
were President Wilson," says the
Manson Democrat, haven't enough
brains to do what the code of Iowa
tells them to do if they should hap
pen to be elected justice of the
peace"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06

'.The levies in Iowa would raise in
the neighborhood of 81, 100000 for
road work for 1916" notes the Cedar
Falls Record. 1T is safe guess that
SO per cent of this tremendous
amount of money will be Cpent in
temporary improvements, but Iowans
are beginning to get their eyes open
to this unnecessary waste"
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06

We are still unable to find those
SO calves, SIS COWS, 8 cent hogs,
SO cent wheat and Is cent corn,
the republican orators told us we'd
have if Wilson should be elected. If
our republican frienas have any of
the aforesaid stuff to sell they refuse
to price it according to the above
schedule. They're not treating US
right.
The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-04-06

Give million dollars buried in
Iowa's mud roads every year is
pretty extravagant piece of careless
ness" thinks the CoIncil Bluffs Non.
pareil.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

The federal farm loan act will apparently work to-
ward the end by releasing a large share Of the
t capital that present loaned farm land The
pext decade surely great increase in the for
ern banking business of the United States Up to
Great Britain been the banker of the world but 1t
saams likely that Uncle will take the honor away
from him. At present foreign banking business is
IN the hands few great banks but If such business
is secure profitable the smaller and numerous
American banks will claim share in it, with
sponding increase the number of trained
TO take charge Of the business
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
A Forum on the Cost of Liping.

wag rises to remark that although money
talks a dollar merely whispers when it goes into
a grocery these days. The sage economists ex-
extraordinary amount of money is in circulation.
Since the war began, they point out, some six
hundred million dollars of foreign gold has poured
into the United States and the per capita cash sup
ply has increased eighteen per cent. Thus they
argue the superabundance of money lessons its
purchasing power, pretty much bumper
wheat crop would cause drop in the price OF four.
Interesting though they are from the stand
point of cold science, such explanations of
scant comfort to people who feel the pinch of the
present cost of living Persons of common sense
and common sturdiness feel that there should be
some effectual means of alleviating conditions al
though we must wait natural and economic
laws for the larger remedies.
On this idea mass meeting under the auspices
of the Atlanta Woman's Club will be held at the
Auditorium tonight to discuss the high cost of
living it affects Atlanta. The meeting is not
designed for mere complaint and protest but for
thoughtful counseling All the interests concerned
food dealers and distributors we'll as consumers,
will be represented in brief addresses, after which
the discussion will be thrown open to anyone who
has helpful suggestion to offer.
The interests of the community as we'll as of
the individual are vitality involved in the cost of
tiles of broad civic value The fact that it is I'M
der the auspices of the Atlanta Woman's Club is
assurance of its well-considered purpose.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
Germanv's Rich Haul in Rum ania

Germany's latest conquest reinforces her
against danger of starvation Rumania raises in
normal years ten million tons of grain, of which
she usually consumes about three-ffths and ex-
ports the remainder The bulk of this rich harvest
is at the Teutons' disposal and, with the shrewd
husbandry which the war has taught them will
be turned to broad account.
More valuable in some respects than the gran
aries are the focks and herds which the captors
can make use of. The Public Ledger notes in
this connection that the latest Rumanian animal
census showed upwards of two and half million
head of cattle, nearly five and three-quarter mil
lion sheep and not far from two million pigs.
Since those figures were compiled, Rumania's
stock raising industries have received especial
aid from the Government and it's supply of food
animals has considerably increased.
These and kindred resources virtually
impaired, for Rumania entered the war late and
has been put out of it soon. There has been
heavy drain on her food supplies and no devasta-
ton of her farming country. Thus the Central
Empires have acquired actual and potential stores
of food that will be invaluable to them in a strug-
gle of endurance.
The Allies, however, no longer count starv-
ing their enemy into surrender They realize that
although economic pressure will have its effect,
the decisive force will be man strength and man
effort Great Britain realizes less block
ade measures than the great army to which
a million recruits to be added. Likewise France
and Russia are girding for the spring offensive,
which they purpose to make more powerful than
any operations the war has yet developed.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
GIVE CHILDREN BLOCKS
BY q. ARLINGTON BRUCE

with wooden legs. The utensils were generally
made of paper.
karl was then master of the house He had
horses COWS, sheep, pigs, and so forth, which ne
attended to himself. He watched everything with
great care and kept in mind what was wanting
Zone may easily understand what wide, 1rult-
full field is thus opened to parents and cn1Idren A
properly brought up child will pass hours each day
building He will be thinking all the time, trying
to discover something new, and instructlng hlmse1
in a variety of ways"
The mind grows by exercise, precisely as. the
body does. Likewise it grows best when the e2er-
else is pleasurable Mental exercise and fun are as
these passages suggest, admirably PROVIDED Dy
building blocks.
If you do give your child building blocks for
Christmas present, as hope you WILL follow this
wise parents example, and from time to time JOIN
in the childs play, to indicate to him the POSSIBLE
tiles in the blocks.
You will not have to devote much time to this.
Just get him started building and thinking. His
expanding Imagination will lead him to make ex-
periments for himself and devise new CONSTRUCTORS
And steadily he will grow in mental power
That surely is what you want
You want your boy to grow up mentally strong,
not a mental weakling You want him to have
initiative inventveness, creative imagination All
these qualities in large measure be developed
in him through the aid of building blocks.
Wherefore If he does not already possess box
of these admirable toys, give him as large and
varied set of them as you afford to buy.
Copyright, 1916, by the Associated Newspapers.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
Quips and Quiddities

Generally run down, sir?" queried the druggist.
slightly seedy and a good toning up?"
The pale-faced customer nodded.
"weH, I've the very thing for you-Jimforth's Juve-
Three doses day and more If necessary one
dollar a bottle"
NO. thanks" said the pale patient.
But, my dear sir, it's the rage of the day. the
greatest discovery of modern medicine It's the rage
o the Everyone is-rejuvenatng you might
say"
replied the customer.
But" pressed the druggist, tell you it win have
more effect you single day than other medi
could in month. 1t cures everything from
coughs What is objection to it?"
We'll, nothing only I'm Jimforth."
The capitalist knew the company
spending too much money; also he knew that in some
way they had got to put stop to It, So anxious was
he to reduce expenses that offered his private
rotary SIS month extra If he could find way to
down current expenses.
The young overhauled his accounts, but he
ind single expense that could be judicious
Iy Just he about to give the
promised in salary it occurred to him that
already getting $50 month Brimming
with enthusiasm, he sought the capitalist.
Il found way he said You
$40 month 1 have taken that amount of
my salary"
1t took capitalist just about tenth second
to that the young still SIS month
ahead; but the bargain stood.
What are coming to? people in Los Angeles
a York concert the phone, as
done in connection with the Mendelssohn Glee club
golden anniversary why develop practi-
cay? Then Mrs. Hi Lyle, In Seattle will ring the
Metropolitan opera telephone box office say
operator.
Switch for the act of .BOheme:
want entertain guests after dinner"
In that way the papers throughout the country
could have their critics cover" the
Chicago musical events. And if the dsliked
the performance-smplcity! Just ring off
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

y lou are, of course, planning to give your child
Y some toys for Christmas. Let me suggest
that whatever else you give, you include box
of building blocks.
Such blocks among the most desirable play
things for children because they of real educa
tional value. They strengthen the constructive in
snct, thew help children to learn to do things for
themselves, and they quicken the imaginative
faculty
With their aid, also, children may be taught
many things of practical value while at the same
time being given instruction in the elements of
tstic appreciation.
Ponder, if you please, this simple but suggestive
account by exceedingly wise parent, of the part
played by building blocks in the early education of
his son Karl, who grew to be most eminent man.
When Karl still was very small l bought him
a box of building blocks of different shapes and
sizes. Some of them were three, four, even twelve
inches long. There were, besides, keystones and
obltquely cut blocks, so thSt he could them to
build bridges with approaches.
with these Karl built many things, at first
with my aid the aid of his mother, then by him
self; large and small houses barns stables bridges,
churches, towers, fences, arbors etc.
Every building provided with men, ami
mails, or utensils. The barns had corn and straw,
the stables hay, the woodhouse wood, the houses
appropriate fittings.
HAY and straw could be found in plenty, he
took sand EARTH pebbles, etc., for provisions. Men
and animals were cut out of turnips, and provided
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

trained for foreign service II foreign
increases, the number Of American consular OF
fees maintained all over the world will increase and
also the number employed by each office. Such
posts as that attache will multiply and
branches the bureau OF foreign and domestic COM
merce will need more men than ever All these posi-
tions chambers Of in the home plants
of manufacturers, in banking and in government serv
ice, will be outnumbered by the positions
opened the main branch of representing American
and commerce abroad, but they viii constitute
in themselves a considerable total Dr. Swggetts
cluson that field offers large enough demand to
justify special educational machinery to supply 1t
to be we'll grounded
OF course the foreign field will offer any
wards incommeIrsurate with the abnity and industry
of the engaged in it, Especially more trained
men turned out, foreign service will settle down to
of stin competition where the best man wins
This every kind of business. and foreign bust
exception 1t is no royal road to riches But
it safe to that it will offer new Held and
that will doubtless attract strongly certain type
of young man.
The view of the man choosing foreign trade a a
career only side of the question That for
eign trade adequately handled is of primary mpor-
lance to the prosperity of the whole nation Getting
the right properly trained is national educa-
tional problem.
In the present situation every step taken by any
body this end is step in the right direction
souess corporatons-whoever helps to train men for
the foreign field is helping to fill need Many such
measures however, only emergency measures How
such training permanently established in the
long run is a serious question.
DR. Swiggett, who has given the matter some years
of study believes solution will be found
in system of federal foreign trade train
ing, topped federal foreign trade university He
suggests that might be established in
such ports as New York, New Orleans and San Fran
cisco. in inland centers ST. Louis and Chicago
To give whole country the benefit of Them picked
students might be appointed scholarship from every
section, by chambers of Such schools
would well grounded in foreign trade mat
ters and where high expertness desirable, their
studies continued in federal university DR..
Swiggett believes that the latter should be located at
Washington, D. c., where the practical foreign trade
experts of the government, of the state and
departments could give their services nstruc
federal system is at present of course only
prophecy, it would doubtless turn out men who
could meet statetraned foregn-trade getters of
Germany and England equal terms.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

cheaply and used for cattle ranges or livestock
farms. A notable instance is the enterprise re-
Gently projected by the Georgia Land and Live
Stock Company, of Savannah. This company, COM
posed of Southern capitalists plans to utilize one
hundred and twenty-eight thousand of land in
Mcintosh and Liberty counties The character and
scope of the undertaking indicated in this ac-
count from the current number of the Manufactur-
Record:
THE tract has been fenced and the COM
pany expects to Craze twenty thousand head of
cattle and ten thousand head of sheep. 1t has
twenty miles of deep-water front, including
natural harbor Con the Atlantic COAST with
depth exceeding twenty feet at mean low
water On the property 1t is estimated there
are 500, 900 900 feet of standing timber,
$500, 900 crossties and five hundred crops of
turpentine The Seaboard Air Line Railway
traverses the land north and south, while the
Georgia Coast and Piedmont Railway extends
east and west, there being nine stations for
these railroads. A two-thousand-acre farm is
now being planned to grow ensage to feed
stock during four months of the year, and
one hundred silos will be built to store this
cattle food The land is said to be especially
adapted for grazing live stock and for growing
sea island cotton, short-staple cotton, corn.
oats and vegetables"
animal husbandry and related industries gen.
orally appreciated enterprises of this character will
be numbered by scores
The continued development of these industries
will give the South commanding position
in the countrys economic affairs than cotton ever
could have won. There is now, and doubtless will
be for decades to come, worldwide shortage of
meat In the United States the output of food ami
mails has fallen behind the growth of population.
In Europe the warning nations have drawn heavily
on their live stock some of them almost to
the point of exhaustion, and have drained neutral
countries as well. Thus when the ends the
worlds meat supply, which for years has been rela-
lively decreasing will be shorter than If
then the South raises beef cattle and hogs and
sheep abundantly it will have source of wealth
much greater than twenty-cent cotton and GER
tainly much
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

Ths label used for addressing shows the time
Subscription expires By renewing be-
fore the date on tnis label you insure regular service
In ordering changed. lie to
address II N a
numbers.
registered
notices THE
SENI-wEEKLY JOURNAL. Atlantis.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

The Journal Information Bureau Is prepared
to furnish reliable information in answer to al
most any question that you choose to ask You
are invited to make -ree use Of this service
There is no charge Of any sort except a two-cent
stamp for return postage Address THE JOUR-
NAL INFORMATION BUREAU, FREDERIC j.
lIASKIN DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON. D. c.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19
Only one more shopping week!

We shall soon see whether Tolstoi's dream of
peace in 1917, fostered by imam from the north"
who would not be a militarist, will come true.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-12-19

The cold weather is uncomfortable for people,
but consider that it is also uncomfortable for the
boil weevl
Mexico weekly ledger., 1916-03-16
NEW GERMAN RUSH IS
Oh BUT IS FAIlUREl
Action for the Most Part, is Northwest
Of Yeraua and infantry Is Pind-
pal Troops
REfuLsED NoRrH on AIsNE
Artllcry Duels Continue to MARX
Fighting in the Vicinity Of the
Forest Of ArEoane

London. March is. Extremely
heavy infantry Fighting has taken
place northwest Of verdun and on the
outskirts Of the Bois des Buttes, 70
I the north Of the Aisne. with the Ger
mans in beth regions the ~aggressOrs,
Elsewhere along the lire artillery
duels Of great proportions are under
way.
In the sector between Bethineouri
and cumieres, northwest Of verdun
the intense artillery bombardment d
the Germans was followed by an in
fantry attack, but over the entire
front Of three miles il was repulset
10y the French with serious losses, ex.
eept between Bethineourt and Ia
Morte Homme, where The Germans
gained q footing at two points in the
French trenches.
The Germans three times to the
north Of the Aisne threw their troops
against the French positions north
west Of the BOis des Buttes, but none
Of the attacks proved successful.
In the forest of Argonne the French
guns effectively shelled German posi-
tons, North and east Of yerdur thu
artillery duels continue.