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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
A Democratic Defense.

!. " , sd q q
Editor Freeman-Tribune: Permit
me to say d word regarding the
Kamrar rural route, situation. The
people of Kamrar are, Of course,
very glad that the route has been
changed back. However, in justice
to the postoffice department and to
attempt to correct some Of the
wrong impressions that have been
circulated with regard to the POST
master General, / add that very few
patrons on the route were discom-
NODDED to any great extent. The
farmers have been able to get their
mail practically the same as before,
The business men Of Kamrar have
claimed that it made some difference
toithe town, and it seems to me that
they have been the ones insistant
upon the change.
| AS, I understand 1t, Postmaster
General Burleson has been working
out most extensive scheme, con-
sumniating savingsNof from five to
ten millions of dollars in the rural
route changes, and insofar as loca;
conditions are concerned know of
no one who has been unable to So
cure their mail from nearby post
office or nearby rural route. In
fact, with few exceptions, am Of
the understanding that an attempt
has been made to bring the rural
mail system not further than ahaff
mile from the farmers door, and In
most cases, as you know, the rural
route passes by his door. Further
more, my understa nding is, that in
this new arrangement, where 1t il
found that d mistake or an injustice
has resulted, the Postmaster Gener-
al has been very reasonable In
bringing about Justification.
You intimate in your recent Issue
that the Congressional delegation
of Iowa" has been the agency
Through which the route has been
brought back to Kamrar. This is
not true. The Congressional dele
CATION" as understand, advised
that they were unable to do much.
lif anything. Wilbur Marsh of Wat
erloo has been interested in the mat
| ter, and through his efforts and the
efforts Of the Postmaster General. an
inspector was recently sent to KAN
rar to determine the merits Of the
case. The change made simply
means a small addition to the route,
and the return Of the rural carrier
from Jewell to Kamrar.
Postmaster General Burleson, for
about the first time in the history Of
the post Office department. has ap-
lplied business methods and system.
Wrong impressions haze been Great
ed by both press and politicians. They
have attempted to show that the
farmers have been wrongeds without
recourse; that the mail system mas
been taken away from the farmer
and deaf ear turned their way. This
certainly has not been the case In
this vicinity, or elsewhere, as ] am
informed. l for one and host OF
|others, are mighty glad that we have
Postmaster General who is fearless
enough to attempt to bring about q
system with savings on the right
side of the ledger; and at the same
time the patrons of the rural routes
have not been disconnected to any
great extent. Business methods APP
piled to government departments
without the sacrifice of service, is a
matter that should readily be appre.
ciated by the American people.
Arch Neese,
| Rural Route Patron.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
ARE on FIRE

Prince George, B. c., May 81
Forest fires in several parts Of Brit.
ish Columbia were reported today
One of the fires is raging in the
mountains within a few miles OF
Prince George. Another fire is re.
ported spreading in Mount Robson
park on the Grand Trunk Pacific
railroad. XII ',..... r.. b t 4
The provincial government has
dispatched forces of men to fight the
fires. s,. n, l.. .* "
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
Student BROWNS
IN SKUNK RIVER

Oskaloosa, Ia, May 27--Ernest A.
Maurer, 20 years old, was drowned
in the Skunk river four miles north
of Oskaloosa at 6 O'Clock last even
ing. He was a student at Central
Holiness university. His father is
George Maurer of Nebraska City. ;.
The body was recovered an hour
following the accident. He was with
a picnic party at the river and went
wading. 81.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
Installation Service,

Rev. Harry r. Shook, the new pas
tor of the Universalist church. will
be informally Installed next Friday
evening, June End. The service will
be held in the church and Rev. B. G..
Carpenter, d. D., pastor of the First
Universalist church of Peoria, ILL.,.
will deliver the installation address.
A. cordial invitation is extended to
all interested to attend the instaIla-
tion ceremony.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
AVIATOR MAKES
A LONG FLIGHT
Victor Carlstrom Carries Message to
President From New York.

Washington. ID. c., May 20
Victor. Carlstrom, bearing message
from the Aero club of America to
President Wilson, and carrying Alan
r. Hawley, PRESIDENT Of the club, as
a passenger, flew from New York to
this city yesterday, 225 miles in
three hours and seven minutes.
The aeroplane used will be ship
ped to New Mexico Saturday for use
of the national guard in patrolling
the border.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
The Milwaukee Excursionists.

The Milwaukee Merchants and
Manufacturers special train will Wis
it this city on Tuesday, June 9th,
and the commercial league will have
charge of affairs during their hour
and a half stay here, from II to
1890. 1t is desired tc show the Wis
itors about the city and the league
wants those who have autos to vol
unteer for this purpose. About TWEEN
ty cars are needed. Those who will
assist upon, this occasion are request
ed to notify w. l.. r. Perry, OF
Harry r. Ash. p.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30

Of the other, and this reduces to
comparatively small Importance the
causes of friction within the leagues
themselves. A treaty uniting both
of them in one union Would hardly
be worth the cost Of writing and
signing it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30

To any one desiring good pasture
land. | have room for thirty or forty
head of horses or cattle, sapd good
care will be taken of all animals left
in my charge. Harm Smit, Kamrar.
Iowa. tlf1
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30
GERMANS AGAINST
WILSON AND teddy

Chicago, May z7.-"German-
Americans unreservedly against both
Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow
Wilson for president of the United
States" was fhe slogan Illinois Ger
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1916-05-30

Old papers for sale at this office
so for q nicklA. a".
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
LITTLE ALLEGORY.

1t is easy to shut our eyes and COM
plain Of darkness. But it is easier to
open them and see. Most of our trou-
bles belong with the eyes closed and
the complaint Of darkness. If we open
our eyes to see we shall see Sight is
normal. Darkness abnormal.
man read part of a letter to this
editor the other day. 1t was a pitt
full letter from an old man whose last
relative had died. He found himself
alone in the world. Everything was
dark. He could not see and SO he
CROPPED blindly into the future afraid
| of life and with fearful welcome to
death
Perhaps he has closed his eyes to
the light that lives on in the world
whoever dies. There are so many,
things to see. He had been especially
blessed in his wife and relatives.
| There is a blessing to be seen with
open eyes in the right light. He had
had them. They had been his And
Nootti Aoi dry OlHer power can take
that away. The sun is still shining.
There is always light, not always
bright, but always a twilight of light
for old age and the comfort Of things
that are and have BEEN
Here's a little story, parable. allie
CORY that somebody told somewhere,
1t doesn't matter much when or where.
The man lived in cave where all was
gloom and darkness. He heard the
! birds sing of light and sunshine but
1t meant nothing to him until one day
he ventured forth and saw the world
! oathed in sunlight Then he went to
| the sun and told him Of the darkness
but the sun had never heard of dark
| ness. He besought the sun to go see
for himself how dark and gloomy the
case. So the sun went and when the
sun came into the cave and demanded
Show me the darkness the man
said wondering, there is no darkness
here" Nor was there any darkness.
And the lesson in the little story is
for every one to see. If any can not
see 1t their eyes are closed. They
need to open them and see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17

without the people knowing just what
he stands for. Readers of the daily
newspapers ought by this time to-
know exactly what Mr.. Harding stands
Off by those who are supporting him.
We have not named all the elements
which are for him which give a hint
as to his opinions, but we have named
some of them. He surely ought to be
defeated. E"
Hon. E. r. Moore, of Cedar Rapids,
is candidate for lieutenant governor
and will be before the primary on June
5. Every objection to Mr.. Harding
holds good against Mr.. Moore. .-.
The office of lieutenant governor Is
important He appoints the commit
tees He can push legislation along
or he can obstruct it. The lieutenant
governor has more influence on legis-
lation than las any member OF the
state senate. 49,
If prohibitionists vote for Mr. Hard
ing and Mr.. Moore. they must under
stand that they are doing something
to cripple prohibition and to start pro-
hibition on the back track.
Wet enforcement of dry law is
a farce everywhere. Put none but
trustworthy men on guard.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
WET ENFORCEMENT OF DRY LAW.

The Des Moines Capital gives warn
Ing to it's readers that danger to the
prohibitory law and lack of enforce
ment Of the law turks in the candi-
dacies Of Mr.. Harding for governor and
Ernie Moore for the lieutenancy. The
Capital points out that ut will not do
to say that prohibition is anchored
and for that reason can be ignored,
The opponents of prohibition in a
large measure have interest in liquor
as an article Of commerce and they
will never sleep or give it up" declares
the Capital supporting its assertion by
the facts that those who make COM
merce Of liquor have been fighting
prohibition sixty years in Maine and
for shorter time in Kansas. Then
the Capital goes on to say:
The prohibition states have discov-
cred that when there is an anti-pro-
hibition governor, the law is a nudity
and when there is a prohibition gov
ernor, it is success. Therefore it IL
important in Iowa to know who is tt
be the next governor.
Hon. w. L. Harding, Of Sioux City
is candidate for the republican nom
ination for governor and Is supported
by all the opponents Of prohibition ir
the state. Every so-called liberal ir
Des Moines and elsewhere Is for Hard
ing. He Is q bright fellow and q
splendid politician. He makes friend.
wherever he goes but he should moi
! be nominated for governor Of lows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
WHAT THE STATE DOES.
TDes lMoines Register.l

mir. Pitt gets down to fundamental
principles of government in his criti-
cism of the present Iowa road laws.
He opposes, in vigorous terms. the
present tendency to remove power
from the people and place 1t in COM
missions appointed by the governor,
over which the people have no con-
rol."-Iowa Homestead.
This notion that the people have no
control over what is done in large
state way, and do have control over
what is done in township or county
way is a. most faIiacious notion, as
every taxpayer knows who will stop to
look twice at his tax receipt. =
The fact is the people have much
more direct influence. on what the
United States is doing than on what
their own township trustees do, and
any man who Is candid with himself
will admit it.
The very part Of tax levying and
public money spending the people
really do not have much Of anything
to say about is the part that Is done
by townships, local school boards and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
WORTH A MlLLlO TO HERR

The other night in Des Moines yesgs
broke open mail box and stole its
contents. 1t seems that one youns
woman had put something in the box
that was extremely valuable to her for
as the Register tells it:
Three girls who live in the neigh
borhood of Fourteenth and Walnut
streets were searching the corner to-
day.
A mail box was wrenched off its
post, beaten open on the sidewalk and
its contents stolen last night.
I posted a letter to a man in that
box which 1 wouldn't have fall into
anyone else's hands for million dol
lars one of the girls was heard to
say.
What a fool! If sh had a little off
color diamond worth few dollars she
wouldn't have trusted it in that mail
box; but the inference is that she
dropped the finest jewel she owns into
it-her good repute-and carelessly left
1T to chance. And then she sought the
letter next day hopelessly. 1t was worth
d HlIilOn OOllarS TO ner then. w nat was
1T worth the day before?
She had written something to a man
she wouldn't have come to light for a
fortune. That's trusting a man a long
way isn't it?
Now the cold analysis of it is that
she didn't estimate herself highly or
she wouldn't have written the way she
says she did. She couldn't have put
high value on herself by herself We
cant get away from that. She was
only scared million dollars worth that
others would learn how little she prizes
herself. She was estimating reputa-
ton and not character: for girls of real
character do not write to men what
they would not have exposed for a mil
lion
Why is it that girls will sometimes
0trust "a man" with their good repute.
write matters that they would not have
known for million to men that they
wouldn't trust with 500 in cash?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
rnEs-REPUBIIcAN, MARsHA1LToNN. IOWA: MAY III 1910


county officers. And that Is three
fourths OF all tax Ievies. IS, III !
AS our community life grows many
more things must be done lin a large
way, II they are to be well or eco
nomica1ly done, and 1t is little short
of criminal to fix in the minds Of peo-
pie who do not consider such things q
suspicion OF everything the state or
nation does. Is
I If a railroad were to build across
Iowa who would expect the engineer
ing to be let out by counties or town
ships? Why can not everybody see
that what is wisdom for a railroad is
wisdom for any other enterprise Of
state importance?s
Every state in the union that is do
ing anything for road improvements
has a state engineer and fixes state
standard for road making, To abolish
state supervision Of roads in Iowa
would be to drop back twenty-five
years in state intelligence. 3
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
RAklNDO on REEL s.
n &ggl ItQ Y ! Ram y
~ Of soes-ad ships ~A6 SceIk8 waX-6 cabha&es DNlr
) 1An6 ScoIh8 WsX Ct cobha&es-D lhy
rH.E MASSAGE.

The massage Is an attempt to beau
tify man by giving him the rudy and
ornate complexion OF the boiled lob
ster. Some men are naturally en-
lowed with a bright pink complexion,
particularly In the region OF the nose,
and can not be rnassaged without re-
sembling the headlight on Mogul en-
CINE, while others leave the chair with
the duh reddish hue OF the Kickapoo
squaw.
When the massage is properly per-
formed by highly -rnuscled barber, It
is guaranteed to Danish wrinkles,
crows feet and sleep at one fell swoop.
Nobody ever went to sleep In bar
bers chair just prior to a whole
souled massage without waking UP
imme diately afterward with the SEN
sation OF being on fire from the Adam $
apple up. This is because the massage
never does it's perfect work unless it
is applied at temperature that would
make boiling pitch look as cold as a
woman suffrage audience In wet
town. After a man has been overlaid
with IS cents worth Of hot massage,
he will have some new and valuable
ideas about the future state, toward
which he is tending.
1t costs money to buy a massage,
because It Is necessary to expend a
good deal Of pink salge and elbow
grease. along with four coarse grained
Turkish towels. These towels are APP
piled in rapid succession, after being
charged with live steam, and II al
lowed to settle down on all four feet
will raise blisters faster than sliding
down a hay rope. It is a heart-rend-
ing experience to be massaged by an
absent-minded barber who has just
come in from the hay field with call
loused hands, and who piles on the
towels until the customer has to
breathe thru his ears, like fish. This
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
THEN AND NOW.
Huntington Hawkeye. ]

$3.50
Perhaps children can not spell as
correctly as they could a generation
ago. Perhaps there IS al times some
little truth in the criticism that they
are taught so many things nowadays
that they are apt to be proficient IN
none. But there is one thing certain
and that is that they have learned TO
be kinder to animals and birds than
they once were This fact impressed
a boy of a generation ago who attend
ed the prize essay award OF the hu-
name society at the high school Mon
day evening There were over score
Of essays read by womanly little wo-
men and manly boys. There wasn't
cry baby or a sissy among them. but
all were red-blooded, husky young
Americans. Every essay was good
one and emphasized some pertinent
point on the proper treatment OF dumb
animals. And the hundreds of their
companions who were in the audience
recognized every point and knew when
to applaud and did so most heartily.
It occurred to the boy OF yesterday
that this sort OF thing could not have
happened in his day . ~ would have
|sbeen a courageous boy, indeed. who
would have mounted the rostrum and
told his companions 1t was wrong to
rob bird nests. to shoot birds and to
tie can to a dogs tail. Life would
not have been pleasant to him after
they had interviewed him outside. In
his day every boy had 4 collection or
bird eggs and a rubber gun and knew
how to use it. He will not admit that
the children Of today are naturally
kinder hearted than those Of his day.
but he must admit that. since his day.
they have been taught an essential
that didn't fail to his lot and he has
come to the conclusion that there must
be deal that is eminently worth
while to what some Of us are pleased
to call new tangled education.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
Iona Newspapers
COLORADO AND IOWA ROADS.
Mount Vernon Record. ]

lAiSuhI NSAiioh AsSSoAe'l e.
"A number of campaign arguments
are being passed around endeavoring
to show that the taxation is either
larger or smaller in states having
women suffrage than in Iowa. Wheth-
err the taxes in the other states are
larger or smaller depends on whether
the person or paper making the state
ment is for or against women suffrage.
AS matter Of fact the figures are all
largely bunk. No comparison Is worth
the paper 1t Is written on unless all
the conditions except the one Of wom-
an suffrage are similar. Take the one
item of roads, for instance. Colorado
has thousands and thousands of acres
of farm land that is not worth SIS an
acre. Iowa has thousands and thou-
sands of acres that is worth more than
$500 an acre. Yet it takes just az
many miles Of road to go around
section Of Colorado's cheap land as 1t
does to go around Iowa's high priced
land. Naturally 1t takes a larger per-
centage of SIS to build a road along
side land Of that price per acre than IL
takes Of 5000 to build alongside the
$500 land. And again Colorado has
thousands and thousands of acres of
land that has no practical value, that
is the mountains. Yet the mountains
must have roads, and do have roads,
built at a cost per mile that would
brighten Iowa out of her boots. The
money to build them was raised by
taxation or bond issues, either OF
which eventually eat up taxes. Iowa
has no such problems, and we might
add no such roads. But the point is
that taxes can not be compared I'M
less the basic conditions are similar
And they are not similar in any two
states,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-17
REAL REPUBLICAN, DANGER.
- TDes Moines Repister1

Il
How many have figured out just
primary tine party Is committed to a
ests of the state? ..,.. &.
1t will mean first Of all an exceeding
lukewarmness in the legislature to the
submission of the prohibitory amend
ment. The coming legislature must
sanction the vote Of the last legislature
before the proposed amendment can
come before the people.
1t will mean an immediate cessation
Of activity in the Office Of the attorney
general for the enforcement OF the law
in the liquor counties, and an immedi-
ate abandonment Of removal from Of
fee as penalty for reinforcement. %
1t will mean the immediate invas-
ion of every community in the state of
near beer drinks. containing a greater
or smaller percentage Of alcohol, the
percentage always growing greater as
the enforcement Of the law grows moro
lax. a
1t will mean the organization of an
effective campaign against adoption OF
the prohibitory amendment, If this leg
islature shall reluctantly agree to sub
mission, the theory being that defeat
for the amendment would take the last
bit of vitality out of the enforcement
of statutory prohibition. 81.
Is 1t so sure that Iowa can be de-
pended upon to elect a man who does
not stand four square on the liquor is
sue even in a presidential year when
the presidential year happens to be a
year of great political uncertainty,
when party lines are demoralized. when
men are making new political associa-
tons on new issues?
The Register does not wish to ven-
ture a confident opinion, but 1t does
wish to point out that in Mr.. Meredith
the democrats have named a man OF
clear purpose, Of right principles. Of
splendid manhood, and Of aggressive
Americanism, and the men who are to