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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
MEASURE OF PREPAREDNESS.

Secretary Garrison quit the presi-
dents cabinet because he could not
reconcile himself to the belief that his
continental army scheme is imprac-
tical. When he learned that Presi-
dent Wilson would not weld his power
to force congress into line fer the plan,
he showed his disapproval by resign
ing from Office. The president ind!-
Gated an unwillingness to force the
continental plan in view o! the evi-
dent sentiment in congress in favor
Of an enlargement of the national
guards in lieu Of the formation of an
entirely new organization. The form
er secretary has no faith in the ma
tional guards fitness for the new de-
tense measures which the whole coun-
try realizes are necessary. Whether
he is right or wrong will require time
to prove. That faction, a minority it
is true, which favors compulsory mill
tary training, has little faith either in
the continental army plan or in the
plan for enlarging the national guards.
This faction believes that until it be.
comes the duty of all able bodied citi-
zens to train themselves to protect
the country, there will never be
enough to assume the obligation until
war actually breaks out.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

not probe below the surface but mere
ly view the exterior. DR.. Hough en-
phasized the value of clean college
athletics. In athletics the true quail
tiles Of the man are shown and there
is probably no other form of student
activity that is so instrumental in
developing the power Of decision as
athletics. In athletics the participant
learns the spirit of self sacrifice, sacri-
ficing his own personal desires for the
good Of the team as whole.
At the close of the meeting, DR..
Hough talked to all the young men OF
the college who contemplated entering
the ministry and again at o'clock he
spoke to the girls of Hershey hall.
DR.. Hough is by far the most impress
sive and forceful speaker who has
spoken at Iowa Wesleyan for some
time. His messages have been full OF
life and vigor and a challenge to lead
better and more useful life.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
GOVERNMENT TO
Be SETTLED SOON
MERRY WAR, WHICH HAS BEEN
WAGiNG AT CEDAR FALLS, UP
TO VOTERS.

Cedar Falls, Feb. IA merry war
that has been waging for several
months to decide the question Of the
government of Cedar Heights will
, have its elimination next Wednes-
day when the voters of that commun-
ity will decide at special election
whether or not to incorporate Cedar
Heights as a village. If the PROPOSE
ton carries at the election the war
will be over and what appears to be
the majority of the people of that
suburb will have won victory. II
the proposition fails of carrying,
Cedar Heights, without question. will
soon become portion of Cedar Falls.
The contest for supremacy in the
matter between Cedar Heights and
Cedar Falls began several months ago,
when the matter of annexing the for
mer place was first openly discussed
in Cedar Falls. Some of the promin-
ent residents Of Cedar Heights, OBJ
jecting to the plan Of having their
community made a portion Of Cedar
Falls, inaugurated the only step
which, under the law, seemed pos
sible to defeat the movement. This
step was to make Cedar Heights an
incorporated town. Certain proce-
dures had to be observed to bring this
end about. In the first place petition
signed by twenty-five property own
ers had to be drawn up. Then plat
of the limits of the proposed town
had to be made and submitted to the
court. When this was approved by
the court, commission had to be
named by the court with the power
to call an election.
While these steps were being taken
by the people of Cedar Heights, tho
city council of Cedar Falls was not
idle. The officials of that city were
alive to the progress being made in
Cedar Heights and an active cam
paign was started, looking to the an
nexation of Cedar Heights. This pro-
crossed so far that recently the city
council Of Cedar Falls adopted re-
solution providing for holding an cleo
ton to vote on the question. AS the
total vote in Cedar Falls outnumbers
the vote in Cedar Heights, victory
would doubtless have followed had
not Cedar Heights been just a few
steps ahead.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
signed, demand better food and more
OF 1t or no food at ALL"

signed, demand better food and more
OF II or no food at ALL
That. was the ultimatum Of the
l. W.. W. colony at the Story county
jail. Their regular meal was sent in to
them and returned untouched with the
exception of two men. The next morn.
ing their breakfast did not 20 in to-
them. neither did their dinner today.
Possibly by this evening they will be
ready to eat
The demand was made by w. 4E.
kerns, Rob. E. Mckenzie, Jimmy
Burke, E. F. Dicks, Joe Dougherty.
Charles Gallwey, Bob Leffler, viii
Jones and Jack Breezley.
The hunger strike is one of the
long suits of the I. w. w. gang and
the occurrence here was not unexpect.
ed. There is no reason for complaint
Of the meals served here and this II
the first one ever registered. The ma
jority Of the last gang brought over
from Ames are L. w. w. men. They
have already began to receive mail
from their I. w. w. pals over the coun-
try.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

Following is tribute paid to Abra
ham Lincoln by Henry Watterson,
famous southern editor of the old
school. Coming from a southerner it
is all the more eloquent of the great
ness of the martyred president whose
birthday anniversary is being observ-
ed throughout the country today. Here
is what Col. Watterson said Of Lin
coin in an address five years ago:
Born as lowly as the Son of God, in
a howell; reared in perjury, squalor,
with no gleam Of light or fair sur
roundings, without graces, actual or
acquired; without name or fame or
official training: it was reserved for
this strange being, late in life, to. be
snatched from obscurity, raised to SUI
preme command alta supreme moment
and entrusted with the destiny of a
nation. - r..
The great leaders of his party, the
most experienced and accomplished
public men Of the day, were made to
stand aside, were sent to the rear,
while this fantastic figure was led by
unseen hands to the front and given
the reins of power. 1t is immaterial
whether we were for him or against
him; wholly immaterial. That, dur.
ing four years, carrying with them
such weight of responsibility as the
world never witnessed before, he filled
the vast space allotted him in the eyes
and actions of mankind, is to say that
he was inspired of God, for nowhere
else could he have acquired the wis
dom and the virtue.
Where did Shakespeare get his
genius? Where did Mozart get his
music? Whose hand smote the Tyre
of the Scottish ploughman, and stayed
the life of the German priest? God,
God, and God alone; and as surely as
these were raised up by God, inspired
by God, was Abraham Lincoln; and
a thousand years hence, no drama, no
tragedy, no epic poem will be filled
with greater wonder, or be followed by
mankind with deeper feeling than that
which tells the story of his life and
death.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
THIRTY YEAR OLD
ROMANCE ENDED

Alden, Feb. PA romance Of thir-
ty years ago was concluded here this
week when, Robert H. Lucas Of Chi
cago married Mrs. Ada B. Dewey of
Milford, his boyhood sweetheart. The
romance began when both were young
STEERS at Verona, ILL.,, but Mr.. Lucas
was not successful then. Some years
ago Mrs. Dewey's husband died and
Mr.. Lucas heard she was widow.
He renewed his courtship and won
this time.
They were married by the Rev.
w. g. Muhleman, Methodist minister,
who Is the husband Of one of Mrs.
Dewey's daughters. The Rev. Mr.
Muhleman has also performed the
weddings of two other daughters of
Mrs. Dewey and her two sons.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

years ago, that In great many COM
munities 1t was absolutely ineffective.
We do claim that thirty-two years OF
education and cultivation of public
sentiment for better conditions is
making it possible to make prohibit
tory law in Iowa effective. The law
is violated, Of course, the same as all
other laws are. The prohibitory law
Of Iowa is not violated any more times
in twenty-four hours in Iowa today
than the antitipping law is. Mr.. Bris.
bane said We were trying to throw
the baby up twenty-five steps at time
in Iowa In that statement he Is alb
solutely mistaken, because Iowa has
devoted nearly half Of a century to
teaching the baby how to go up the
steps
Then the speaker attempted to illus
trate, by citing Germany and France,
that a country could adopt either beer
or wine, because as a nation the Ger
mans are beer drinkers and the French
are wine drinkers. Mr.. Brisbane's H.
Illustration fails to be en- argument, be-
cause he Is trying to apply to the
United States, whose population is
made up from every nation and nook
and corner of the world, the custom
of just one nation. He can't make the
Germans in this country drink wine
nor the Frenchmen in this country
drink beer His theory is to make all
the different nationalittos represented
in the United States conform of the
customs of Germany or France. or
Germany and France. That is an I'M
reasonable proposition.
The facts are that Mr.. Brisbane's
reform theories are like many other
reform theories Of recent vintage. to-
wit:
They are not new discoveries but
are resuscitated theories that have
been proved by test in the past to be
actual failures.
We want to call Mr. Brisbane's at
tention to this fact: That practically
during it's entire existence from it's
organization as a state, up to July 4,
1884, the state of Iowa had exactly
the kind of law that he now advo-
Gates. and that it proved to be an alb
solute failure. The original Iowa law
prohibited the sale in Iowa of all
liquors except ale, wine and beer. Dur
ing the days of the open saloon, eth.
err before or after the passage of the
mulct law, no saloon keeper paid any
to that provision of the Iowa
statute.
Mr.. Brisbane's liquor theories are
fifty years behind the times in Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
SANTA FE WILL
FURNISH GLASSES

Fl. Madison, Feb.12.-Another move
in the safety first idea Of the Santa
Fe, for which the company spends
thousands annually, will be carried out
at the shops at Shopton from now on,
as all machinists, boilermakers and all
who work with steel, will be furnished
steel workers glasses to protect their
eyes.
Within recent years many employees
who work with steel have had injur-
les to their eyes on account of flying
chips of steel which penetrate the
eye, sometimes inflicting serious in
jury or blindness. The glasses will
be ample protection to the men and
will do away with injuries. This
idea will be carried out over the en-
tire system.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
FIRE DESTROYS
CRESTON SCHOOL

Creston Feb. 12.-Fire of unknown
origin destroyed Franklin grade school
here, valued at $4,000. The loss ID
well covered by insurance The fire
started in the roof Of the building
about o'clock and by $50 o'clock II
became evident that the building
would be total loss. Nothing OF value
was saved.
Franklin school was the best con-
structed grade school in Creston. Il
was rebuilt and enlarged about ten
years ago. 1t was attended by 260
pupils and the school board is con-
fronted by the problem Of finding new
accommodations for them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

that you urconsclously raise your
chest and set your shoulders back
bit, which is the ideal position. Be-
sides, this habit Of carrying the chin
will tend to make q slim and pretty
line beneath it, running into the
neck. The other way, even the thin
nest girl seems to have the start Of
double chin-and tho fat ones. three
chins each at least.
Keep your chin up and QUIT" Re-
member this sentence. and say It to
yourself every once in awhile, at the
same time taking the position. II
will become q habit presently. Good
habits are acquired as we'll 40 bad
ones, you see. they are a. easy to
acquire and as hard to break.
You will got q tilt to your head
that will be vastly becoming-you
will take on little ''air" Of distinc-
ton, you will look and feel like q
somebody, to use a quaint expression.
After all, isn't 1t the way they
carry themselves, rather than the
clothes they wear or the money they
spend, that makes you Judge some
people important and other people
QODOO1e6 III I'LL WdtCu tuo 6lIl WHO
holds the most enviable position In
your town, and see IL It isn't the tilt
Of her head and the lift of her chin
that conveys the idea Of aristocracy.
Questions and Answers
I have heard that binding the sDrists
40 tightly 1DilI make them smaller. 1hfs
doesn't seem possible to me, but II e 10.
.oiH you tell mo hoto to do II, az my
sorists ore psry large Annie.
Replv-I have never heard Of this being
done, and 1t seems to me that 1t would
only stop the circulation without making
tho wrists smaller ut all. Get your arms
and hands fsttsr and the wrists will look
normal in shape and size.
. -
CaR you g1po ne tho reoSpe for s0~ne-
thing 60 make tho upper part Of the form
firm and youthfalS I am thirty-foNr years
old, ana inclt,,6d to be thin.-krs TAom1s.
RepIy-I have tho recipe for bust de-
vslopsr, which acts ON that part OF the
body and also as q general tonic creating
flesh. II you Wish It. write me. sending q
self Addressed. stamped envelope
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
DIR. HOUGH TALKS
AT IOWA WESLEYAN

Mt. Pleasant, Feb. 12.-Dr. Lynn
Harold Hough, of the Garrett Biblical
institute, divinity school of Northwest
ern university, spoke to the students
of Iowa Wesleyan college Friday. Dr..
Hough told some of the things that a
college education should do for the
student, the principal idea brought
forth in the course Of the lecture was
the ability to make strong and firm
decisions. The trouble with the great
majority of us is that we are artificial;
we do not have the ability to decide
upon the merits Of the case. We do
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

An eastern automobile manufacture
ing corporation has laid down a rule
calculated to promote better citizen
ship. Hereafter no employe will be
promoted unless he is an American
citizen in good standing and with a
reputation for exercising the right Of
franchise. Furthermore, no new en-
ployes will be added to the payroll
except those who are citizens or have
signified their intention of acquiring
citizenship. -
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t. be the worker that All thought she
was gwine t. be-
II hear that F1orecne has broken
her engagement with you, old fell
low" said Ed.
"Yes." replied Frank.
Z well, Pm certainly sorry, said Ed.
"Why did she break it,"
Merely because stole kiss"
What" cried Ed. "She must be
crazy to object to having her fiance
steal a kiss from her,
Well" explained Frank, "the trou-
BILE was I didn't steal it from her"
"You should have heard the SER
mon today, john" said his wife when
she came home from church. 1T
would have done you lot Of good. 1t
was all about men who spend their
Sunday mornings playing golf instead
of attending divine services"
tits just as well I wasn't there
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

Laying concrete in winter is JOB
for none but experts and although
concrete can be made to set IN cola
weather if proper precautions are TAX
en-, the average man had better save
such work until spring and take no
undue risks. Such is the opinion OF
Dean Marston of the engineering de-
ma rtment of the Iowa State college.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

We should not look with suspicion
upon those who show willingness to
help us do our work, better, perhaps
than we are doing it ourselves. 1t is
true that the one who performs the
service will be benefited; but we must
not forget that all service to human
kind contains largely the element Of
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It has been an unusually cold win
ter but nevertheless, new buildings
have kept rising in Ottumwa and the
work of improvement goes on.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

To bring sleep to victims OF insom-
MIA an English woman has invented
an apparatus to flow water or medi-
Gated liquids on the forehead gently
mill the desired result Is attained
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
Chins Up!

AT ONE TIME gymnasium teachers re-
peated into the ears OF their pupils
the advice to hold their chins well
In and their heads up. Any young
woman following their advice liter
ally would have gone about with the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15
ID = n g = :
| s tor / eC

Uncle Nose, your first wife tells
me you are three months behind with
your alimony."
Eyes, jedge, All reckon dat am SO.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

commercialism. That which does not,
is poor service indeed, and will help
no man.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

Luck or genius seldom accomplishes
as much in this world as hard labor.
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replied John. 1T I had been the ser
mon wouldn't have applied to me-

II want :. a pair OF pants for my
sick husband" exclaimed the woman.
What size?" asked the clerk.
Il don't know, but I think he wears
a AN collar" ..>.41 ..s rI.... -a =.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1916-02-15

PA, what is a diplomat"
"A diplomat, my son, is a. man who
remembers a woman's birthday, but
forgets her age"
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-07-11
Anti-Carranza
Spirit Growing
Friendly Tone Of the First Chiefs
Note to U. S. Reacts
In Sonora

Douglas, Arizona, July Anti.
Carranza sentiment is becoming APP
parent among Mexican residents in
portions OF Sonora, as result of
the friendly tone OF the last note sent
to Washington, according to Mexicans
reaching here today from Nacozari,
seventy.five miles south OF the border
Nacozari they said, was crowded with
refugees from the United States and
from the interior of the state.
These Mexicans confirmed reports
previously received from Fronteras
and Cabullona that the Mexican sol.
diers at these points, as well as civil
lians, have been placed on limited ra-
tons.
General p. Elias Gales, military
commander in Sonora, protested today
TO the authorities here against the
alleged Ill treatment OF Mexican ref
ugees by local immigration officials.
who refused recently to allow many
OF them to enter Arizona from Som
ora. The immigration Inspector said
they based their action on the fact
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-07-11

er he accepts responsibility, coupled
with a threat OF the gravest conse-
quences and followed by the familiar
Wilson side step when Carranza de.
clares he offered what was done and
asks what the United States is going
to do about 1t.
The ordinary rudiments OF practic-
al common sense require that the Uni
ted States either do something effect
I've in Mexico or get out. Half way
measures have been the rule Of this
administration from its beginning and
they have accomplished nothing but
earn the contempt OF the Mexicans,
promote the murder Of American sol.
diers and civilians for which no rep
aration has been asked or given, en-.
courage the destruction of American
property for which no compensation
has been demanded or received, and
make the American government the
laughing stock OF the world.
Let us either give Mexico thor
ough cleansing or get out of the dirt
ourselves. Herald Republican.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-07-11
SHOOT OR GIVE UP
THE GUN

President Wilson mas not said whe-
Their he means to withdraw General
Pershing's expedition from Mexico.
That, however is evidently what he
means to. do as soon as he feels the
American people will stand for 1t, and
he may just as well do II. Sitting In.
active on hot desert, menaced by
enemies 1t may not attack until 1t has
been attacked, irritating the Mexicans
without permission to allay that irri'
tation in the familiarity efficaciois
way, the Pershing troops may as well
come home.
Continuance OF present policies
means only another Carrizal with the
American troops at a disadvantage,
while Washington accepts their muir
der as a matter OF course. Another
Carrizal would mean only another de-
mand upon Carranza to learn wheth'
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-07-11

that these Mexicans had left Arizona
for the purpose of taking up arms in
the event of war.
According to General Gales, the
refugees went to Sonora to avoid fric.
ton when war appeared possible as
hundreds Of citizens Of the United
States had left the state.
A number of American mining men
visited General Gales at his head.
quarters in Aqua Prieta today, re-
questing that they be given permits.
sion to return to their mines south
OF the international boundary. The
general advised them to remain In
the United States for few days un.
til differences between the two gov.
ernments finally were adjusted.
At the same time, however, he in.
formed the mining men that any OF
them who felt they should return to
Sonora Immediately would be given
safe conduct to their property.