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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21

"City hall 100 per cent efficient" an
announcement reads; but wait-dont
be excited. 1t means that all the cttys
official family are members Of the Red
Cross. Now, say it, If you like.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
FINDS BOOZE LADEN CAR.

Oskaloosa, Dec. 19.-Many thirsts
viii 20 unquenched for the time being.
Sunday Sheriff D. 4. Henley confis-
Gated forty-six quarts Of whiakey
found in an aalto twelve miles north
west OF OskalOosa on the PeIla road.
Tho owner OF the csr and liquor hes
not yet been found
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21

Sammy was making determined b1t
unsuccessful endeavors to light hi
pipe, and at about the ninth attemJe
an enemy shell came across, hingfn8
him fiat on the ground and plowng
up the earth in the immedtate vict1s
ity. After he had recoveged sa1po.
what he made one lnofe erbdeayur.stp-
marking ayrievedly, "Wha3 wjeA
these French matches and thiW Be-
gian tobacco, my Life very soon vuRt
be worth living
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
~wHv AcTr

Out OF the OeptnS Oh Uu1lIniISU W
dom, perhaps, the Des Monies Reg.
lister AYERS that there will be at
least twenty-five years Of peace when
this war ends" This is one Of its
arguments" against universal mill
tary training. The article continues:
The physical exhaustion of the
world win guarantee as long
period as that even IL Germany
should succeed in establishing
great military empire. In twenty
five years we can do everything
that needs to be done. Why
should we act now when We can
not possibly know what We may
wish to do or be forced to do?
The physical exhaustion" OF, Ger
many is something we have bean
hearing and reading about for al
most two years now, and stin Ger
many is fighting almost all the rest
Of the world and making a pretty in
tefesting battle of it. France, We
we're told a year and more ago, was
oiled white,'' but France Is fighting
fiercely and effectively today Canada,
we have been told, is without men.
but Canada only this week approved
a conscription law which will send
thousands and thousands of soldiers
to Europe.
'In twenty-five years we can do
everything that needs to be DONE" is
The Registers confident assertion.
But in almost six times as long
America has failed to realize the i'm
poYtxnce Of military training and as
q result she has wasted nine months
in preparation for engaging in war
for which she should have been ready
even while over-enthusiastic orators
were shouting praise for policy
which had kept US out Of war"
why should we act now when We
cannot possibly know what We may
wish to do or be forced to do?" The
Register asks weakly. The answer is
80 obvious that the question inspires
pity for it's author rather than any
other feeling. II we were trained and
capable Of military action we would
not he fit target for force. Our
preparedness would be our guarantee
against the sort of contemptuous war
fare Germany waged against US so
long before we took up the challenge.
Twenty-Five years ago, America
could have begun system Of uni
versal military training. and the re-
suit would have been that we would
have been at peace today. Perhaps
the world would have been at peace,
for il Germany had not been the only
nation prepared for war in 1914 the
kaiser would have hesftated long be-
fore sending his drunken barbarians
into Belgium.
The trouble with the Americans
who oppose universal military train
ing is that they do not possess a
working knowledge Of the government
under which they live. They talk of
what The Register calls a permanent
military policy when it is an impos-
sibility for such policy to become
q fact In America
This could not be militaristic gov
eminent unless its form should be
changed and the constitution discard
ed. BY the very nature Of things
America could not become an armed
camp while it remains a republic No
military machine could be built up in
the time between elections, and any
administration which attempted such
q step would be discredited and eject
ed from Office before it could achieve
It's purpose.
Universal military training means
pEspa1ation to meet the menace -
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
AFTER MANY MONTHS.


Baker that tho war department has
established within rs own organiza-
tsou : supreme war council gives rise
10 two lines Of thought.
\. First II II hopeful sign. that the
work Of obtaining war supplies ana
the work Of using them Is to be co-or-
dinated. It Is . step In the right
direction.
Second, It Is indicative Of past lack
Of business management In the de-
pastnent Of war that such reorgan-
isat3on among the heads Of the var
Ions bureaus should be postponed
until the ninth month Of the war. Such
:. couyse would have been dictated by
mod Indictment at the very moment
whom the administration became con-
vfnGueA that war was Inevitable. This
Wa almost two years ago.
4 The men whom Mr.. Baker deSfg-
mates Is members Of his departments
aau9emo war council are the men who
long axo should have had their heads
tocekher early and late, cooperating
day and night and coordinating the
vaYious branches of the war depart
rent to the end that it would run
eunoothh and effectively.
But these men should have been
able to procure cooperation from al!
the other bureaus, departments and
okHer activities through which the
United States government Is making
war.
J Ii urging the organization Of q su-
prene war council for the coordina.
ton OF all the various departments
ana bureaus, persons who had no init.
rate knowledge Of the workings Of
the war department, for instance.
took It for granted that Mr.. Baker
Jong ago had brought about absolute
oooperation among the various activf.
ttes within his own department The
announcement that Is made now leaves
no for any conclusion but that
Kkds never ha6 been done. Such man
a1eseat OF . business institution by
~ enc man In supreme authority
ever IL, % Secretary Baker is in
authority over the war department,
vouM stamp him % failure.
II has developed during tho congress
sapsaa inquiry that the navy had more
hS1 guns than It can use, and that
their manufacture has been carried on
without regard to the fact that the
army b almost without big guns de-
epite the fact that IL needs them more
than anything else II 1t is to light ef-
fectively IN Europe.
Here 10 . need for cooperation be.
tweeu the two depaftments-thato OF
Secretary Baker and that Of Secretary
Daniels-which should be working in
absolute consonAnce 1T this time.
This b but one Of the many concrete
instances which prove that the United
States needs q supreme war council,
composed Of not more than three men.
and that these men should be the
three strongest men In America for
the exacttng work that would devolve
On them.
As long Is the organization Of such
= council is postponed America must
iii to approach that standard Of eth.
olsncy which must be reached and
maintained II the war Is to be won.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
BIO ENU8TN0r,

CenterviIle, Dec Wa0A ID
past week forty-two men have eu1lgt
e It Centerville for varis1 aAcAss
ofarmy service
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21

advance purchases In so many cases.
In Ottumwa, for instance, the retail
coal prices are little higher now
than they were last August.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
DINNER STORIES
(ro Be Continned.)

ton with q nevFich family which -
pired to be considered "topnueh"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21

ance of the spirit and confidence The
Canadians have given themselves Dy
their hallottn1.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-12-21
COURAGEOUS CANADA

May that time come soon.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31
HasK, FROM TIE TOMB!
y

Rec...hng the fable OF the frogs who
we're dissatisfied with King Log and
were punished by having King Stork
set over them. are Inning cries from
West Virginia, whore revolt Is being
organized against the imposition of
the harsh terms of the bone dry" pro.
hibition amendment voted by congress.
After two short years experience with
the prohibition that Is attended by
boo.leggers, blind tigers and other
forms OF Illicit sale of intoxlcants, the
general assembly voted to legalize
what is widely known as "quart-a.
month" prohibition. In other words,
the bibulous West Virglnian, whose
heart panteth for strong waters, was
to be permitted to import one full
quart of distilled spirits each lunar
and calendar month. This act, crate.
fully received and Justify cheered, be.
comes effective on May 2.
But, alas, on July / will come the
legal enlivening of the federal law,
now dormant, and 1t will become a
crime to ship usquebaugh, spirits,
corn. brandy or any other form of up.
setting beverages into the Mountain
State. The harassed citizen thereof,
as will be seen through simple calcu-
4ation, will get but two quarts when
the federal desiccating simeon will be.
gin to blow, drying up the land and
shriveling up the soul of the merry,
makers.
1t is not to be wondered at that
there Is turning to minds trained
In the law to ask whether a mere
amendment to a postofiice bill al
Washington strides paramount to q
regular statute passed in due form In
the Statehouse at Charleston. De
termined men there have highly re-
solved that they will fight for the
quart-a-month enactment until the Su.
preme Court of the United States has
been reached and appeal made unto
it.-Cincinnai Enquirer.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31

take charge OF the Advertising COL
umns OF the press, and this is only O
beginning. The worst 10 yet to come
and the press OF the country may as
well prepare fc- 1t. The abject sur
render OF the news columns OF the
press to these propagandists led as
naturally as night follows day to the
assumption that with that surrender
went kind Of proprietary interest In
the advertising columns also.
The surrender In the first inst ancs
had been 80 extremely abject, the
spirit OF toadyism 80 serviie. that Il
10 not strange II the regulators pre-
sumed that no demand they might
make would be refused. Under ell the
circumstances this presumption was
both natural and justified. Now that
the hand out OF which the great Amer
lean press has been feeding its news
and editorial columns takes q vigorous
slap at the business once, there is
"wailing and gnashing of teeth"
throughout all the land.-Ohio Valley
Times.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31
ILLICIT LIQUOR DEALER TE3TiFlES BEFORE FEDERAL
JUDGE THAT n RECEIVED PROTE .TI0N FROM
OFFICERS o. DRY" SEATTLE
MINISTER IS INVOLVED IN THE CASE
Witness Says Clergyman threatened Him With indictments By
Grand Jury Unless Ho Made Full Confession Of eced
Transactions Involving Seventeen Persons

was named Sullivan, was calol in and
told to get the papers.
He reported later that Sergeant
Putnam had them and refused to sur
render them. lie was seat back and
finally came with them"
Selling whisky to the best people
IN town ana TO leljln 3 drug stores and
hote.s. In Wholesale lots was the quick
turn his boo!legsing business took
after his compromise" with Mayor
Gil August %, Logan ! Kingsley tssti
fed.
Prcmlncnt Minister involved.
The name of Dir. Mark Matthews
prominent minister. was brought into
the te5tinony wtel Eillingsley stated
that Or Matthews knew of the Gill
bribe, and threatened him with indict
mems b. tic Federal grand jury IL he
didn't core through" with a conses.
zion. This explains the subpoena OF
the 10 oal minister earlier IN the week
B.l'lnG5ley testified that he warned
Gill that the clergyman was double
crossing" him, and repeated to Gill
the threat that Matthews had made
Gil according to the witness, told him
rot to worry about the county grand
j..ry because 1t never indicted any of
tenders except little ones.
He was asked why he had tolc
Eraphcd TO San Francisco. asking fog
shipment of ffty-gallon barrels instead
OF forty gallon barrels. and explained
that rs he was Obliged to pay SO for
each barrel 10 the waterfront detec.
tive squad, he savc1 money by getting
the larger barrels.
Billingsley swore that when Re pro.
posed payment to Mayor GIN OF a sum
OF money monthly fer protection the
mayor did not care to do business In
that way. Il want mine in n lump
sum-" Biilingslcy swore the mayor
said.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31
OUR CONGRESSIONAL FAL.
STAIRS.

The day may yet arrive when any
actor daring to appear a. Falstam
or any other bIbulous character on
an American stage will be hailed to
court In short order and ipcarcerat.
ed In Federal prison on the charge
Of eorruptine the public morals.
Az Congress has passed a law pro-
hlbiting circulation through the
mails Of any publication containing
an advertisement Of alcoholic
liquors the next step, logically, will
be for II to pin the white ribbon
on the theater.
And Of course Demon Rum will
be chased on the movie screen. No
more will the comedians, so-caiied,
In bassy bresehss and slapstiek
shoes besmsar each other with the
wedding cake after having drained
the nuptial wine straight from the
bottle. Those thrilling scenes from
the Wild Wsst hlms In which Red
Nose Pete and 0ooxy Bill shoot up
the Palace Dance Hall after Inn.
billing freely of its wares will be
dsletsd carefully BY the esnsors.
And vlsws o. the mountain moon.
sinner In hIs romantic habitat will
bs barred absolutely. .
But while oil this rsvIslna Of the
morals Of the country 10 going on
will the black bottles In the Con.
eresslonal antsreems b drained
"bone dryr That's the Important
ausst'on.-Nsw York Evening Sun.
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31
FRESS GIVESAHO
IT LOSES LIQUOR ADS
Many Papers. Through Fear Surrendered News Columns
TO Prohibition But Now the Business Office
is Being Hit and-n Hurts

"he bowl going up from the press
II over the country because of the
aove TO deprive them OF wet" adver.
is,ns Is both amusing and instructive.
he proposed Russlanizing of the
lress ia merely the coming home to
oost OF that fine large fowl OF fanati.
ism which the press at the dictation
)f the Anti Saloon League has helped
O raise.
This chicken OF magnificent proper
ions seems 10 be crowding the cash
egister OH the press home roost,
hence the frantic howls from the bust
ness Office. The press OF the country
has been and stlll Is subsidized
through fear, and added to this lack
Of courage, this cowardice, has been
he base and ignoble idea that hypo-
'ritical pandering to- this element
would be profitable.
Censorship Is Coming.
The press has catered to that cam.
laign TO that spirit which has made
possible and inevitable this move to
The Muskogee cimeter. [volume] (Muskogee, Indian Territory, Okla.) 1901-19??, 1917-03-31
LIQUOR RAIDS NEcEssiTATE
MORE COTS IN w. VA. JAIL
A dispatch from Wheeling, w

A dispatch from Wheeling, w.
Va, to the Pittsburs Times, says:
Sheriff Howard Hastings placed
several cots In the county jail to
accommodate prisoners who have
not been assigned to cells because
OF the present crowded condition
as a result Of the numerous raids
BY prohibition forces yesterday and
Saturday. There are 105 prisoners
In jail, the largest In the history
OF the county. The jail contains
but 70 eslls.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
Native Of Gardiner

r. gorge Alton Thb~tts. doctor with
tn. inis' nited states Infantry was
tatH M Gardner NAV rs $50 son of Mr.
a-A Mrs George l. ribhetts, and IS vel
A,rrn mere although when a lad ne NOV
81 =. Hudson Fails. y He graduated
from no~doln college class OF 1912 and
ffr~ mo Rowdoiu Medical school three
Years later lie was . member ~ the
GO, club and prominent in musical CIR
I'D. Wls academic fraternlty is Delta
nsIon AMI his medical fraternity PM
cri
M fnlv NJ This year pr. Tihhetts was
commissioned first lieutenant IN the Med
i-.t .-orps and assigned with the First
Ns4-s Usavv Field ARTILLERY ON the day
~. regiment left Brunswick for West
tep ,icut Tihhetts was transferred 10
tss i0ist Regiment ~ Fram'nEhsm
Mass
UrIc 'hcre he secured furl1uGh and
.- tuT ~ Mise Mabel Hughes ~
prIrs~Irk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
Experts to Demonstrate
Poultry House Building

Arrangements have been completed
by County Agent A. L. Deering for
holding a field day meeting at the
home of r. D. Whitcomb, Readheld,
next Friday, Sept. %.
This will be somewhat out of the
ordinary for a field meeting. inasmuch
as no time will be passed telling Of
advantages of open front houses for
poultry or how they should be built
but the time will be devoted in actual
ly putting up II is foot open
front house Its advantages and strong
points then will need no arguments.
The idea of having such building
bee originated during the three day
Extension Poultry school held in
Readneld last winter when 1t was ar
ranged to hold it some time this fall
in that town. Plans were also made
at the Poultry school in Monmouth
TO have one in their town as we'll but
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
MONMOUTH

Monmouth Academy baseball team will
play Winthrop High a. Cumston Park on
Friday, Sept. Is, at II A. NJ Another
game will be played in the afternoon at
go between Monmouth and Gardiner. A
game of basketball will be played at
o'clock in the afternoon. when Monmouth
Academy will play the alumni
The baby show at Monmouth fair will
be in charge of Mrs, H H. Witherell
She wishes to announce the prizes to be
given to the youngest baby exhibited the
"Eanta baby OUTFIT a very dainty set
OF undergarments, for the little one
Born Friday morning. Sept q, to the
wife of Thomas Robertson. a daughter
Mrs. Lawrence Emery and two children
of Auburn are guests of her father
Charles Curtis.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. f. Flanders and chill
dren, Marguerite and Daniel Marston
were in town Friday and Saturday.
Miss Edith Haynes expects to return
soon to Philadelphia to resume her work
Sixteen young friends and schoolmates
of Florence Berry gave her delightful
surprise party Friday evening in honor
Of the anniversary of her 18th birthday.
The evening passed quickly with games
and music Miss Florence was remember
ed with many gifts from her young
friends Delicious refreshments were
served.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24

had to be discontinued as the place
where it was to be held was destroyed
by fire during the summer.
MI. Deering has charge of the
meeting and is calling it for 10 o'clock
sharp. All men and women interested
in poultry are cordially invited by Mr..
Whitcomb to come and bring basket
dinners Coffee will be served.
". e. Monahan. poultry expert for
the Extension Service of the College
of Agriculture, will direct the work
of putting up the house. Mr.. Mona
han will also give demonstrations in
caponizing and in the killing and pick
ing Of poultry. He is an expert in
this line of work, as one would judge
from the position he holds. and it
would pay those living far or near to
see him give these demonstrations.
Mr.. Monahan will also take up the
matter of feed for winter egg produc-
ton. especially those home grown
feeds which can he used to surplant
some Of the high cost feeds we are
buying
Mr.. Whtcomb lives about one mile
from Readfield Depot. The morning
trains from the east and the west
will be met and visitors carried to and
from his farm.
If time allows short demonstration
will be given by Mr.. Deering in the
selection Of seed potatoes and seed VEL
low corn.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
't---tl' Wedding Anniversary

arse number ~ parishioneis and
trends - Rev and Mrs \. 4 Walsh
gh'-sr-d sefurday evening At their home
Dr see, street VA obserV3nces 81 the 18th
b. ter,arv ~ their hosts wedding. The
tt-t was passed very pleasantly and
Nr sri Mrs Walsh were the recipients
- ..ar. tokens ~ the regard Va which
,-s .rs hsi1 Tire Free Baptist church
fs ,rted - "a, Tho expenses ~ their
,..t-r 90 the annual convention Of Unit
.. p,p,iutu witch IL 70 10 held at
T-ss4us isle on OCT ! and \cNt sun
~ walsh VIII preach hls auniversa-
,s-u.on having heen pastor 81 The
u HON s,-ec, rrec Baptist church for
gre ear
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
HE WAS SOME
COON HUNTER

Friends Of one Of the sturdy residents
Of one of Gardeners rural districts are
having considerable sport at his expense
with story that is too good to keep.
Said farmer had fine piece Of corn that
was the apple of his eye. as far as the
result o. his agricultural labors this year
were concerned. and with corn selling at
1870 per bag he expected to reap consid-
cradle financial benefit therefrom.
one day while making a tour of inspec
ton and mentally calculating about how
many bushels Of the golden grain would
be his he found to his nste.nation.
that coons were doing much da ~ge. It
Il a we'll known fact that a coon will
spoil more than he eats. for he breaks
down an ear. takes a bite and then goes
10 another ear. repeating the process
many times before his appetite is salts
fed
The scene in the cornfeld was too much
for the owner to bear with fortitude, so
he vowed vengeance on the marauders
and that night cleaned ~ and loaded his
fowling niece wrapped up warm tfor the
night was chilly. took a chair and hid
himself in the forest Of corn stalks Be
fore long he became drowsy and soon
was in the arms of Morpheus. While in
this condition coon approached and
proceeded to damage the corn in his Gus
.on,ary manner. in a complete circle all
shou- tie sleeping man. who slept deeply
and long When he awoke he gave IT IN
ard v~rt hone and to bed. The biggest
mistake he made was in telling OF his
scrnoIent condition
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-24
ADJUSTMENTS
Coliseum Bill Today-"Conquest Of
Canaan" in 6 Acts and 1000 Scenes
Alice Brady at the johnson Opera
House

The Frohman Amusement Co pre-
SCENTS the magnetic personality, Edith
Tallaferro. and the versatile Jack
sheriff. in Booth Tarkincton's rug
ged romance. The Conquest of Ca
naan,' in six parts and two reel
comedy. Two thousand players and
1000 scenes in this great spectacle.
The bill at the Johnson Opera house
includes Alice Brady in Darkest Rus
STA and "A Voice on the Wire" This
program is for this day only while the
program at the Coliseum will be re-
rcated tomorrow. No matinee at the
Coliseum during the week except FRI
day and Saturday. Mary Pickford is
coming in The Little American" and
"Rehecca of Sunnybrook Farm"
presents the great feature, "Panthea,"
and comedies to follow The Coli
scum will be open all this week ev-
cry evening. shows at I and s45 Coli
scum prices. 1oc and 15c johnson
Opera house 10c to all-ali the time.
The raramount-Artcraft Pictures
Corporation will present their output
in this city first of any In Kenne-
bee county. It's positively the most
expensive program shown TO-DAY with
such stars az Hart. Fairbanks. Eltinge
Frederick Clark Pickford. Arbnckle,
Charlie Ray. Enid Bennett and Dali
ton