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The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
End of War Not in
Sight, Lloyd-GeOrge
So. Asserts
HAS NO PITY FOR
PITILESS FOE
Fate of TeutOns to
Serve as Example
for All Time
SALIENT POINTS ~
LLOYD GEORGE RNiEN

The end 81 the war s not in
sight No possible peace terms
can he considered with GERMANY
unbeaten.
Germany elected nnish hgnt
with Britain, Britain VIII see
that she gets a.
IL took ~ years 10 defeat Va
poieon. 81 which the first - were
britisa defeats It Ugii NOT take
that long 90 win This war.
This war viii not nd until The
menace Of another such calamity
is forever removed
Such punishment must be Teted
20 those responsible for the war
that AZ will stand fur ever after
as a warning 20 rulers who might
be tempted 70 DO likewise
Efforts 90 rho United states or
the vatican 20 hrir- prar- now
would be bitterly resented by
citizens " all the allied nations.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
BILLY TALKS TO
SOCIETY FOLK
Urges Crosse Pointers
to Take Active Part
in Revival

Accompanied by his choirmaster.
Homer Rodeheayer Evangelist Billy
Sunday again visited Crosse Pointe,
Thursday morning, and addressed a
large gathering OF society women
In the home OF Mrs. Fred NJ Alger
a number of men prominent In De
troit's business life also were pres
emit. He spoke on The molding
az clay In the Fathers hand and
urged the society folk TO take an
active part IN the revival now in
progress.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
DETROIT MANS
BROTHER MEETS
DEATH IN BATTLE

Richard Hinshaw. corporal iu n
Canadian regiment that Was recruit.
ed In Toronto and brother ~ Joseph
Hinshaw, assistant manager ~ Horn
blower 4 Weeks. brokers. was kalea
Boa acton. somewhere 90 France. ="
Jofeph was Informed ~ wire, Thurs.
t8y.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
earau. sui, se,,l,d

Louis ~ RoHon's suit against Post
master Nagel and 'he United States
government 20 compel the defend
ants 20 vacate an Abbor.-t garaso.
WAS dropped ThursH morn ing
when rho voeerumG.i agreed 10 va.
cate the buudins.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
THE WEATHER

Detroit and Vtetnityt Thursday
ntEht unsettled, probably shower
and colderi Friday overcast and fresh
northwesterty winds.
lower Michigan Overcast weather
and colder Thursday night aud ri
dHyi probably locHl rain tonight
strong west Rnd northweset Winds
overcast weather Tbursday night aud
Friday with probably showers to-
niEhti colder.
Lower Lakes Fresh southwest
shifting 90 northwest Winds over
east wentherl probably with showers
Thursday nieht and Friday colder
Highest temperature this date In
past - years. - In 1885, lowest, %
In 1854
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
CALL GRAND 1869
TO GET TIMES TENT
ON eRlNpLEY FIELD

Thru the courtesy OF tho Mich
igan State Telephone Co. service
has been Installed AZ Tho Times
rest tent on the Tabernacle
grounds The number Is Grand
1850.
Appointments with out nftown
friends may be made az the rest
tent over the phone.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

PARIS Sept "a The BuIgarlans
took "a few elements Of Serbian
trenches IN attacks on Kamakchalan
ridge, bui suffered such heavy losses
fhaf they did not renew the attacks.
'he war Office announced today All
other hungarian attacks In Mace
dOaia we're FepuIsed-
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

tThe following iuterview with
Lloyd George asserting that the wsv
must 40 on Ito On. hnlsH--to
Knockout" ia the FIRST statement
given hy him % American n4wspa-
pers since be succeeded Lord kitcn-
ener as seere.arl Yt atate Tor Warl
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

one year aGo today Highest tenn
pernture, ati lowest. fOt mean. tTt
cirHr weather.
The SUI sets Thursday ~ 0tta y.
M. AID rises Friday ~ 1927 o. IN.
The moon sets NJ Gia6 y. m.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

The annual convention Of fNo Wo
mans rhr.H.ar Temp o'arc, rnlon
Of South Carolina g. 70 meet a' sum.
ter toda, and VIII continue I. .os.
siOus until the God o. 'he week.
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
WANTED
nov WrIU WHEEL.
u8ttst NI.IIUINCE
10 IiWf.- Ut-Iif T..

" hen in nrtroit tisit VI clemens.
W." world renowned Ilfh CITY
Adv
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

I'FintinE--fbr plata urnt kiud-thnt
~ riEht--Times Job Dept-Hain t52n
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28

PrtntinE--the plain neat kind-that
a. riGht-Times Job Dept.-Main $50
The Detroit times., 1916-09-28
THE MONDAY LUNCH

Hotel Griswold Adv.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
SAFE, SOLID OLD IOWA.

The calamity which sweps life and
property before the floods caused by
the breaking of great dam in Cali
fornia suggests again the thought
that Iowa is of all states free from
human holocausts. While death
stalks abroad in pestilence and acct
dem and war Iowa is peaceful, safe
and prosperous, says the Marshall
town Times-Republican Without sta
tistics at hand it is impossible to
verify the statement except as a gen.
eral impression but it seems that OF
all great communities Iowa is
freest from dangers to life and prop
erty. When we read Of widespread
calamity and disaster and contem-
plate their causes Iowa seems the
safest spot on the worlds surface
Her farms are far out of the track
of war, her fields contain their own
fertility, her cities fear no armed
foe, none live under the shadow OF
great dams or in the apprehension
of earthquakes. Quiet and safe and
ready to render ten fold return for
honest labor, Iowa stands alone, the
shadow of a rock in a weary land, a
shelter in the time of storm"
We scarcely notice and seldom
realize our daily blessings in Iowa.
Perhaps since the waves of destruc-
ton swept over Europe we have be-
gun to understand and somewhat
realize what it means to be citizens
of free country. But it requires
calamity to teach us the fullness OF
the lesson.
Iowa, rich, safe, comfortable Iowa,
her children are like our own chill
dren; they take her for granted un-
til some sudden stress forces her
goodness and safety and protective
ness upon them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
Too Cid at SEVENTH

Attorney General Gregory of the
United States declares that when a
man is seventy years Of age he is too
old for duty, and should be retired
He has expressed himself as favoring
the passage of a law which would
retire judges at the age of three score
and ten, says the Clinton Advertiser
The attorney general has touched
upon a theme which admits of dis
cussion-and of serious doubt as to
the correctness of his attitude,
though it doubtless reflects his hon
est judgment.
Edward d. White, chief justice of
the United States, is more than 70
years Of age. Thomas A. Edison is
68. Henry Gassaway Davis is SO
years old. He was the democratic
nominee for vice-president when he
was 50, and he is as vigorous now.
Uncle Joe'' Cannon is back in con-
gress at 10.
Old at 10? Untold riches have
been contributed to the worlds civil
ization by men at that age and even
more than 10 PLATO took up music
at so to Danish the tedium of idle
hours. Victor Hugo was past 80
when he wrote LES Miserables, .
and Goethe was an old man when he
finished Faust. The world is indebt-
ed to grey boards for many of its
richest treasures and greatest deeds.
The greater the age the greater
the wisdom, was the belief of the an
clients and it comes near to being the
belief today-in war, at least, it is,
because there is not man at the
head of any of the great armies of
Europe who is no. past go.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY
MONDAY, APRIL 10.
New Law Will be Given Its First
Workout i'm the State of Iowa.
CONDUCTED IN EVERY WAY
LIKE OTHER PRIMARIES
On the Third Monday i'm April Fol-
lowing the Primary Boards of
Supervisors Will Canvass
the Vote and Certify
Results to County
Auditors.

A primary election to be held this
spring, about which little or nothing
has been written or printed and
Iabout which very few people have
any knowledge, is the primary cleo
lion to select candidates for the pres
id ancy of the United States and to Sc
lect delegates to the national conven-
tions. This primary is TO be held on
the second Monday in April which is
April 10.
The law which is an entirely new
one provides for primary elections
quadriennally or every four years,
presidential election years, and this
is the first time it has been brought
into the working in the sta.e.
Candidates for national delegates,
alternates, delegates-at-large and for
ma ional committeeman must file
their nomination with the secretary
of state thirty days before the pri-
mary. To make such nomination
filing candidates must secure signers
to their petitions, district delegates
being required to have one-haif the
number of signers required of cam
didates for representatives in con-
gress, while candidates for delegates
at-large and national committeeman
must have one-half the number of
signers required of candidates for
United States senators.
Candidates for the presidency and
the vice presidency must file the af-
fidavits of candidacy with the secre-
tary of state at least sixty days be-
fore the date of the primary.
The primary is conducted in ev-
cry way like other primaries. Candi-
dates to be nominated or elected
mrst have thirty-five per cent of the
vote cast for that office.
On the third Monday in April, the
Monday following the primary, the
boards of supervisors will canvass
the primary vote and certify the re-
suits to the county auditors who will
make certification to the state exc
cutive council which on the fourth
Monday in April, the second Monday
after the primary, will meet in Des
Moines and canvass the returns from
the entire state.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY.
The Great War President Was Type
of True Americanism.

In the many addresses given at
celebrations in honor of Abraham
Lincoln's birthday, February IL, one
thought that is always emphasized
is that of the humble origin of the
great war president. The lesson is
enforced that lowly surroundings
are no bar to advancement, and that
they often stimulate the ambitious
boy to surmount obstacles.
While this is perfectly true in
rare cases, yet usually the boy from
the home as humble as Lincoln's s
starts in under terrible handicap.
He is put to work after meager
schooling, at sweeping up floors in
some mill, picking up coal in a mine
or at any task where brains are not
called for. There is nothing in his
work to stir his ambition or develop
his mental powers.
Most children of this type go to
work before they are physically rea-
dy for it. Their lives are spent in
"a weary day dream, in which the on
ly bright spots are the feeding times.
These are likely to be meager and
unsatisfying. Ii spark of ambi-
tion exists in such a mind it is soon
blotted out.
A future generation will see what
a dead weight is hung on the state
by neglect of these young lives and
federation of unwholesome working
conditions. In some of them are
the germs of great futures. Lincoln
even with his humble home, lived a
healthful open air life, which many
of our children never have. Lincoln
might never have been heard from.
had he been put into a mill at II or
IA years of age.
A child at this period can add but
little to the means of his family. BY
keeping in school and preparing him
self for better work and better citi-
zenship, he can add much to the well
fare of the community. A wiser gen.
Grafton will keep it's children long
er in school, even if it has to extend
aid more freely for the support of
humble homes.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
BETTER ROADS FOR
iowa IS The PLEA
State Ranks Third i'm Money Spent
and is Listed 9th i'm Results.
MONEY is NOT USED RIGHT
ACCORDING TO ID. w. NORRIS
Chairman of the Better Roads Com.
mission Would Issue Bonds
by Counties.

Iowa now spends more for roads
and bridges every year than any
other state excepting New York and
California and yet they have less
miles Of improved roads than half
the states in the union. Third in eX-
penditure and twenty-seventh in re-
suits is due to the method of SINKING
each years tax money in the mud.
Indiana and Ohio each have ten
times the number of miles of hard
surfaced roads as we have in Iowa
on less expenditure a year, because
by bonding they have been able to
build roads that do not wash away or
get soft with every rain
Ames, Ia, Feb. 7.-'Iowa must
have better roads. There is money
enough spent on them now, but it is
not used in the right way" declared
ID. w. Norris of the Marshalltown
Times-Republican and chairman of
the Better Roads commission, re-
Gently appointed by Governor Clark,
in his stirring address before spe-
cial session of the short course.
Make permanent grades on the
county roads, surface them with
gravel, distribute the cost over peri
cd of years by bonding the county
and assessing the cost upon those
who adjoin the roads and get the
most benefit from them. This is, in
substance, the plan proposed by Mr..
Norris. He declares that it will
bring results wi .hout any increase in
taxes.
In Iowa it is possible to pave fif-
ty miles Of county roads in every
county in the state by bonding the
auto license revenues alone. The re-
naming roads could be graveled and
every wooden bridge replaced eith
masonry by bonding the present
bridge and county road taxes be-
lieyes Mr., Norris.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
THE ROAD TO HE'LL.

An old document issued by the
school board of Lancaster, Ohio, in
1928, and brought to light by being
recently published in Railway Engi-
neering," brings a broad smile to
cur faces as We read it, but how
many of us will make application
to our own time?n Here it is: Your
are welcome to use the, schoolhouse
to debate all proper questions in, but
such things as railroads and tele-
graphs are impossihilities and rank
infidelities. There is nothing in the
word of God about them. II God
has designed that his intelligens
creatures should travel at the fright
ful speed Of 15 miles an hour,r by
steam, he would have clearly fore
told through his holy prophets. lt'is
a device of Satan to lead immoral
souls down to hell"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
After the War is Over.

We Americans seem to be in some
doubt as to what will happen" after
the war" British manufacturers
are not. They have bought twice as
much raw wool as last year The
quantity on hand is far in excess OF
visible needs and greater than could
possibly be used in making war sup
plies. The fact is that British fac
tories know they have a free trad :
market awaiting them in America.
In seven months after the democratic
wool tariff became effective America
increased her purchases of woolen
goods nearly $21, 100000, or nearly
$3,000,000 month. British man
ufacturers feel that they are safe in
laying in huge stock of raw wool,
for they expect the American people
to rc>ain the democratic president
on the p.. that kept us out of
war;" says the dubuque Times Jour
nal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
PROBLEMS RETAIL TRADE.
Problems Merchant Has to Meet in
Matter Of Returned Goods.

Reference was made in the previ-
Gus editorial in this series to the
problems merchant has to meet in
the matter OF returned goods. II
is of course two sided question,
with two points of view to be looked
at.
A woman may go into a store and
make purchase that showed poor
judgment and which she regrets as
soon as she gets home 1t is not al
ways easy to make decision on the
spur of the moment, and with a great
many people hindsight is better than
foresight.
If under such circumstances a
customer is permitted to return the
goods, assuming that they are not in
jured in any way, and can be put
right back into stock, great SER
vice is done by the merchant. He
has cemented his friendship with a
customer, and saved her from MAX
ing mistake she would many times
regret. He has made the strongest
bid for her future patronage.
There are great many cases,
however, very different from this.
and very exasperating to the store
people. Many persons will buy a
pair of gloves, jab down between the
fingers to put them on, which splits
the glove. Then they demand anoth-
er pair A great many merchants
will give them the second pair, which
will split just the same if misused in
the same way.
Merchants say that there are peo-
pie who will order hats or gowns to
wear to some party. Having used
them, they will send them back
There are cases where it would seem
as if they ordered the goods merely
to wear to some occasion, with no in
tention of buying the goods. They
bring them back a little soiled, so
that the article has to be closed out
at reduction.
Retail trade papers and associa-
sions are discussing the matter of re-
turned goods good deal this winter,
and many of them feel that the mer-
chants should unite to prevent them
selves from being imposed upon. 1t
lis a difficult matter to distinguish
between reasonable and unreasona-
| BILE requests. The public should not
expect too much. Where goods that
are not defective are returned be-
cause the customer made an error of
judgment in buying or using them,
and where such return involves the
merchant in a loss, the public should
realize that such returns are a
charge on the business. The public
in the end will have to pay for them
as part of overhead expense.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09

A Norwegian banker in northern
Iowa who owns farms has figured it
out that there is profit of $40 per
annum per COW in a good dairy COW
over and above the cost Of her feed.
Interest and depreciation on the
COW is only $40, leaving $50 per an
mum net for the labor of doing the
chores. This, he says, costs him
nothing as the same number Of men
do the farm work anyway. In other
words each COW milked nets per
cent on $1,000 additional value in
the farm. Ten cows make the farm
earn on $4,000 and thirty cows
will pay per cent net on the price
OF farm. Cows can double the re-
turns from the entire farm.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
IOWA'S POPULATION.

Ninety-one of the ninety-nine
counties in the state have now re-
ported their population to the state
census department and show gain
of 13S,267 over 1910.
Oelwein, with population of T.
1877, is the largest city reported in
the counties received Thursday.
If the per cent gain in the coun-
ties reported is maintained by the re-
naming eight, the population OF
Iowa will be 2,3SO,5O4, compared to
2,224,711 in 1901.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
Haugen and Preparedness.

Congressman G. N. H&ugen recent
ly expressed his views on military
preparedness to press correspon-
dent at Washington in Che following:
Il favor a reasonable prepared
ness, but am opposed to extravagant
plans. / am not supporter of the
continental army plan, but believe it
preferable to build up the national
guard and make it more efficient. We
should increase our navy if that is
found necessary after thorough con-
sideration and we should pay special
attention to our coast defenses, sub
marines, and mines"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09

Some one in Kansas is credited
with stealing the gloves out OF Presl-
den. Wilson's pockets, for the sake
of having a souvenir OF a president.
If that man were not doting fool II
might be hard work for him to eX-
plain why pair of gloves were mol
ier or worth more because they had
been on a president. OF the many
kinds of worshippers in the world
heaven deliver us from the man who
worships another man simply be
cause that other man has been elect
ed to something Cedar Rapids Re-
publican.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
Are You an Economist? Then Saw
Old Shoes.

A lot of people practice economy
after holiday buying. Here's one way
to make money and cut down on your
shoe bill. Old shoes have value.
Henceforth don't toss them in the
garbage can. Every little bit of lea
ther is money to you. Almost as pre-
cious as that bit of egg on your chin.
Due to the high price of leather
old shoes now have a marketable
value. In some cities they are be-
ing purchased at prices ranging from
25 to 75 cents a pair. This will
cause many people who have dis
carded shoes because they were of nC
value, to begin to search for them
When it is known that they can be
converted into cash, most people
will save them.
Everybody run to the attic ant
hunt up a dealer in leather. Kay
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09

The census department reports
100000 rubber tires sold in the
United States last year at an average
price of $40 per tire. At that rate
it cost Marshall county autoists last
year $4,000 for their rubber tires.
That is four times their county road
tax and in three years would gravel
the entire county road system. Who
says we can't afford to have some
roads? asks the Marshalltown Times
Republican
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1916-02-09
A GREAT PLAY
COMING THIS MONTH
.'POtash & PerImutter" Will be the
Attraction at the Grand Friday
Evening, Feb. %.
SECURE YOUR SEATS
AT PARMAN'S DRUG STORE
The Play Has Had One CT the Great
est Successes Recorded in New
York City Within the
Memory of the Oldest
First-Nighter.

For two seasons the theatre-goers
of Decorah have been hearing and
reading about Potash and PERI
mutter," the greatest success record
ed in New York City within the MEM
ory of the oldest first-nighter, and
now they. are to enjoy for themselves
the lhree-act comedy that has set two
nations talking-for, Potash and
| tPerlmutter' is as great a hit in Eng
tland as it is in the United States. No
lplay ever began its career under
more remarkable conditions than
this. The sketches, written by Mon
tagae Glass in the Saturday Eve
ming Post, had made Abe Potash and
Morris Perlmutter, known and be-
loved everywhere. Their virtues and
their weaknesses, their joys and
their sorrows, their failures and their
triumphs had become classic but the
minute the suggestion was made that
| all this vast material might be dra-
matized the edict went forth that lit
lcan't be DONE Not that there
wasn's vast fund of action" in the
various stories, but the task of MAX
ing coherent play out of this vast
amount Of Individual scenes" SEEM
led beyond all likelihood of success.
Manager after manager turned
down" the suggestion of dramati-
zation-reluctantIy enough for there
was no question of the grip that
the principals had secured on the
hearts of the great public-but it
seemed impossible to put it into
shape. l: remained for Manager A.
H.. Woods to take a more hopeful
y!4A the situation. Securing the
ldraWf.t1c rights he submitted the
stories to one dramatist after anoth-
ler. Their efforts were futile. Then
he tried still once more A really CO.
herent and interesting three-act play
was evolved and rehearsals began at
once. That was nearly two seasons
ago. AS the rehearsals progressed
the original script" underwent in
Vulnerable subtle changes-change
made by Mr.. Woods, by Hugh Ford,
the stage manager, by Montague
Glass the creator of the characters,
by the artists assigned to the various
roles, by everyone within hearing.
Day by day the play was smoothed
and rounded, twisted and turned,
polished, frightened, until a. last the
curtain rose on the opening perform
ance and one of the most critical au-
diences ever gathered in on Broad
way sat in judgment. That Pre-
miere' is matter of history now.
Never in the annals of the New York
stage had men and women laughed
as they did that night, laughed until
they cried and they cried until the
laughs chased away the tears. Never
before had the hearts of an audience
gone out so completely to the heroes
of play. The success of Potash
and Perlmutter" was instantaneous
and from that opening night until
the play was sent out on the road to
meet the insistant demands of out
of-town theatre-goers the Cohan
Theatre was packed to the doors.
That is the play that Mr.. Woods will
present at the Grand in Decorah on
Friday night, Feb. 25, direct from
New York.