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The Washington times., 1917-11-21

-Hst Hinse Piei Fine, Fine, One
Of the HenlthIest Things 10 Rat in
the Whole List of Foods,
You a1 can digest pie OF any kind,
other so-cailsd/ indIgsstIbIe foaSs
il yeu follow meals with Stuartis
Dyspepsia Tablets. Aad IL is from
such food you get the most food
value, the greatest energy, the high
est degree of nutrition. But whether
YOU eat these plain dishes or prefer
salads, rarebits, fancy pastry ana tba
highly seasoned, special food IL is
ali the same IL you use Stuart's
Dyspepsia Tablets after meals. Thsy
digest food. They do what the weak
stomach can no longer accomplish
alone.
Get a 50-cent box OF these tahI.t,
at any drug store. then eat heartis
ly and note how comfortable You
feel.
The Washington times., 1917-11-21

DonnelIy, Mae Melville, T. A. Gibson,
Adelaide Prince and Noel Tearle.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
IN MAKING GARDEN.

Home gardeners need to take spe-
planting or they are likely to pro-
duce more of perishable stuff than
they can either use or SELF warns A.
r. Erwin, truck crop expert at Iowa
State College. Prof Erwin's opinions
are especially interesting to Oska-'
loosa people, as he married an Oska-
loosa girl, Miss Mary Turner, and
visits here often. His warning is
unusually urgent this year, because
so many additional thousands of
gardens will be cultivated in Iowa.
The home gardener" he adds, will
find it a wise plan to look ahead and
plant for surplus use only those vege-
tables which will not glut the home
market and which can easily be pre-
served, canned, stored or dried"
Tomatoes. of course can be canned
for home or commercial use. A
gardener will probably make no mis-.
take in planting heavily on tomatoes.
From all indication, moreover he
may make neat profit on them and
other vegetables that can be canned,
for the outlook is that there is going
to be serious shortage of canned
stuff this year. Beans, which grow
well in Iowa, and which are nutritious
and are now selling for SO a bushel,
are always a safe proposition. They
can be dried and do not perish. Root
crops, such as carrots, parsnips, beets
or onions and potatoes. can be stored
and a surplus on the gardeners hands
is never financial loss. Sweet corn
can be dried or canned and may be
planted heavily.
Screen goods" or perishable stuff,
however, such as radishes, lettuce,
green peas, cucumbers, melons, early
cabbage and green beans, the home
gardener should be careful of plant
ing too much of, advises Mr.. Erwin.
Unless they are used at once they
are very likely to be a loss to the
gardener, especially this coming year
when so many persons will have gar
dens. "Of course, enough of these
vegetables should be raised for home
consumption" he advises, "but TO
plant a large acreage TO perishable
vegetables, depending to sell the sur
plus on the market will very likely be
losing proposition to the home
gardener, especially this year"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
AMERICA LEADS IN FRUITS.

Statistics compiled by the United
States Department of Agriculture show
that this country leads the world in
the export of fruits. In 1910 such ex-
ports we're valued at $1S,505 900 and
in 1915 at 34,23O, 600. Fresh and dried
apples comprised one-third of these
exports.
Italy and Spain are second and
third, respectfully. During the five
years from 1909 to 1913 the average
value OF the exports from Italy
was $21, 49,. 900 and from Spain ST.
$4,000. Lemons constituted in value
one-third of the fruit exports of Italy
and oranges one-half II those from
Spain. !.
The three leading countries import
ing fruits are the united kingdom.
Germany and the United States, re-
specially. During the five years
190srlS. imports of fruit into the unit
ca kingdom averaged $69sS27 900 an
1pally, as compared with $4i,4s5.oOol
or Germany In the same period and
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
OIL USED BY RAILROADS

A decided increase in the use of
petroleum as locomotive fuel by the
railroads of the United States in
1916 is shown by statistics compiled
under the supervision of John d.
Northrop and just published by the
United States Geological Survey, De
partment of the Interior
Reports submitted by 80 railroad
companies, comprising all that oper-
ate oil-burning locomotives in the
United States, show that the quantity
of oil fuel so consumed last year was
42,126,417 barrels, gain of o.
477,S51 barrels or 10 per cent, over
the consumption in 1915.
This increase shows the steady eX-
pansion in the United States of the
market for grade petroleum from
Mexico rather than any apperciable
increase in the use as fuel of low
gravity crude oils from domestic
sources whose value for refining is
just beginning to be recognized.
The total distance covered by oil
burning engines in 1915 was 140,434,-
566 miles, and the average distance
covered per barrel of fuel consumed
was 1888 miles. Oil-burning locomo-
tives were operated in 1916 over
81 $50 miles of track in 81 states.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
The CALL OF The NAVY.

In offering inducements for young
men to join the United States navy
official reports set forth some of the
advantages as follows:
"To the young men. enlistment in
the navy offers an opportunity for
physical training and development, for
the upbuilding of manly character,
for obtaining additional and broad.
ening experience, fore acquiring a
trade or otherwise helping him to fit
himself for making adcomfortabIe liv-
ing in civil life, and for making and
saving up a moderate amount of
money while he is obtaining these
things instead of paying out money
for them.
IF he likes the navy we'll enough
to go back into 1t after his enlistment
is completed. he will find 1t has given
him an entry into an honorable car
Ger. with assured provision for all OF
his future years, whether we'll or sick;
his earnings bound to increase from
year to year. and the possibility OF
reaching as high a position as that
held by the admirals who now com.
mand our fleet IA
~Tbe sailor man Of today Is clean
IInbed, clearseyed, 1.-THE, active young
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
ARNOLD To CAVALRY
ANNOUNCEMENT OF TRANSFER
OF CAPTAIN OF CO. II.

Announcement was made this morn
ing of a telephone communication
from the War Department, notifying
Captain Claire B. Arnold of Company
Fl, Third Iowa Infantry, of his assign
ment on the active list of officers OF
the First Iowa Cavalry. Major N. A.
Laffler of the Iowa cavalry brigade
will be in town tomorrow night to
close the transfer and complete defin-
lite arrangements for placing Captain
Arnold in his new Office.
Captain Arnold has spent almost
eleven years in the service of the Iowa
National Guard and for six years has
served as commissioned officer.
His promotion to the new branch OF
service is most complimentary and
comes in recognition Of efficient ser,
vice. officers jobs in the cavalry can
not be had every day.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
INDUSTRIAL PEACE.

Strikes and lock-outs are costing
the country,--which means the pub
lic--over billion dollars year. This
is stupendous sum and naturally
adds to the high cost of living to the
onsumernwhose name is legion.
Labor organizations are here to
stay just as are combinations OF cap
ital Properly and orderly conduct
ed either can do an economic good,
but when either feels above, or de-
fies the Law. it becomes menace to
the best interests OF the people. To
think that cure can be found that
will eliminate disputes would be an
idealistic dream, but the finding OF a
peaceable plan for settling disputes is
not only feasible but practical.
After discriminating study COW
ering period of several months the
National Industrial Peace League Of
Chicago was organized by body Of
earnest and thoughtful men. 4g
This league has carefully worked
out a plan OF preyention. IT'S plans
do not interfere with the right of
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
THE SOY BEAN.

Soy beans, introduced into the Uni.
ted States more than hundred years
ago primarily for use as foliage crop,
are in reality one of the most snutrit'
ious of the legumes when used as hui
man food, according to specialists OF
the U. S. Department of Agriculture
These beans have been used for cen.
turtles as a staple article of diet in
China and Japan and are coming to
be used more generally in this coun'
try as consumers learn their food val
lie and palatability. Since they furn.
ish protein which contains nitrogen
for muscle building and valuable fat
they are especially important to turn
to as an emergency addition to the
usual dietary or as substitutes for 9th
er foods furnishing protein and fat
Moreover, the fact that they contain
no starch makes them valuable fol
invalids who can not eat starchy
foods. These beans may be grown
easily in practically all sections of the
country where corn is grown and give
heavier yields than most other beans
Where dried soy beans are available
they may be baked with or without
pork like navy and other beans. They
should be soaked over night, and
should be cooked longer than other
kinds of beans. The cooking may be
done economically in fireless cooked
of the sort provided with heating
stones or plates; or on the ledge Of
the fire box inside the furnace if the
house happens to be heated with one
of this type. .r..7........ -.
Dried soy beans have been, canned
in considerable quantities during the
past season, baked with pork. and arc
on sale in this form in numerous mar
kets. Canned green soy beans, which
may be compared with Lima beans
also are on the market in some sec
tiops of the country. Both these can
ned products yield as high proper
ton of protein than the canned beans
with which they are most closely com
parable and so are more nourishing
Both are produced and handled usual
ly at lower cost than other beans
and should, therefore, be obtained al
lower price.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES LOYAL.

Frank Beeckes, in a speech before
the Salem. Ohio, Chamber of Com
mcrce said: "Hyphenated Ameri-
cans? There are none. The English
live in England the Germans in Ger
many, the Russians in Russia, the It.
alians in Italy, but when one of these
men comes to America and takes the
he is a full-ledged American.
The adopted son of this nation is
just as good an American as a native
son by chance. 1t hurts me 10 hear
so much the query: Where are the
German Americans? Where should
they stand but where | stand since |
too the oath to that flag?
Every foreign American has q
warm spot in his heart for his native
place; he would not be a worthy
American if he did not. God pity the
man or woman who forgets the place
where they were born, no matter how
lowly, how humble. But when it
comes to what to do when the dignity
anu HOuOl vi LtiC mas 10 Ohbl oSCh anu
1t must be defended. know that every
man of foreign birth who took the
oath of ALLEGIANCE will defend it with
the last drop of his blood, even if it
be at the point of the bayonet and the
sword and gun in the hands of the
father and mother he left behind"
For two years and a half he de-
clared, the war has gone on, and fate
has flirted with US. and still we have
done nothing. / hope we shall never
get into this war unprepared. can
not share the opinion that even If we
do it will be but paper war" There
is an old saying that you may be a
little bit sick or little bit loved, but
you'll never be a little bit married
or little bit dead and we will never
be a little bit in this war. hope we
are spared, but il not we will do our
duty
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

From twelve to twenty-five hens
are sufficient to provide the ordinary
family with enough eggs and meat to
render the keeping of the birds worth
while, according to poultry specialists
in the U. S. Department of Agricul'
ture. The amount of outdoor space
the flock will require may be estim-
ated at about twenty-five square feet
for each bird. There are instances in
which chickens have thrived with
much less than this, but unless the
soil is especially favorable and the
birds receive unusually good care
crowding is likely to prove unprotit
able.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

$27.0S1 900 for the United States in
1915.
For the united kingdom the chief
fruits imported were oranges, apples
and bananas; for Germany, apples,
grapes and oranges, and for the Unit
ted States, bananas, canned pineapple
and lemons.
Countries which lead in the cult
walton, for, export of some particular
kind of fruit are Asiatic Turkey for
datse, raisins, and dried figs; Greece
for dried currants; Hawaii for canned
pine apples; Italy for lemons; Jamaica
for bananas; Japan for persimmons:
Spain for oranges, table grapes and
picked olives and the United States
for prunes.
Large quantities of grapes and
olives are consumed in the form Of
wine and olive oil With regard tc
wine France produced during the veal
.1904-13 an annual average of 100000,
600 gallons, while Italy and Spain dur
ing the years 1909-13 produced an an
nual average of 1,216,000,00O gallons
respectively.
AS to olive oil, the average annua
production in Italy during the years
19O9-1S was 47,Sl3,OO0 gallons and il
Spain $4,000 short tons annually dur
ing the same period
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
THE NATIONAL GUARD.

In every emergency in which troops
have been required the people have
turned to the national guard as the
only reliable force available for i'm
mediate service except the regular
army.
This was true in the Spanish-Amer
lean war and doubly true when troops
were required in 1916 to protect the
Rio Grande border. 49,
In this critical time the national
guard will not fail in its duty, but will
respond Immediately with a unit of
10000 men and officers.
In spite of the limitations and de-
fects of the guard system, which have
been harped upon from the time OF
the return of the troops from the Mex
lean border, it still remains the only
element of citizens soldiery upon
which the government can absolutely
depend.
Shortages of equipment or improper
equipment must not be laid at the
door of the guard. 1t is our duty to
obtain the men and it is the duty oil
some one else to furnish the equip
ment required for them.
The mobilization of the Iowa troops
at Des Moines last summer was prac
lticaIly a perfect military movement
Within thirty days after the call of h
President all the regiments were OF
their way without disorder to the mob
ilization camp. Camp was established
without confusion or discomfort to TIN
soldiers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

The railroads, acting at the in
stance of the Commission on Car
Service of the American Railway AS
ISOLATION have set out clean up old
of freight. The move
ment began on February 18th, on
which date III, 2O7 cars were being
held up by reason of embargoes, in
ability of consignees to accept, lack
of vessel capacity, congestions, bad
weather or other causes. AS a result
of the efforts made to reduce these
the week ending March
10th showed only 99,774 cars held III
in that way.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
GRASS, AN ESSENTIAL CROP.

mo man can rightly claim to be a
good farmer who has not produced
and maintained good pasture as an
ing" declares Dean Curtiss of Iowa
State College. Grass is the best
source of animal flesh on the farm
and the basis of successful animal
husbandry in every successful live
stock region on the face of the globe.
The breeder of purebred livestock
who has land that is not producing
good grass in abundance should eth
er bring about such production or so
out of the live stock business, for
sooner or later he is doomed to fail
ure as successful breeder of live
stock.
THE grass lands are entitled to
first consideration on every good live
stock farm. Sour, undrained. un-
fortified land never produces good
grass. A farm that will not grow
good grass is poor farm at best.
The first crop, to receive attention
in the spring SHOULD be the grass
crop. The spring manure should go
onto the grass lands. The fall ma
nure may go onto the cultivated fields
or the meadows in the rotation sys-
TEN. The disc and harrow and ma
nure spreader should be used liberal
ly on the pastures. II the, stand Of
grass is deficient, disc and harrow
thoroughly, even to the extent OF
what may look like destructive
tillage, then apply grass seed liber-
ally and follow with more discing and
narrowing: then apply good top
dressing of manure and keep the stock
off this portion of pasture until the
latter part of the season. A tempo
rary fence will pay well as protec-
tion to the part of the pasture so
treated. Where the stand Of grass
is not deficient, apply manure and
later the harrow. The grazing in
this case need not be deferred. This
treatment Will double the returns ,on
pasture land.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
PAY OF GuARDSMEN.

The National Guardsmen are paid
as follows: Privates, $3.50 per month;
captains, $6.67; per day; first lieu
tenants, $3.50 per day; second lieu
tenants, $4.72 per day; first quarter
master and commissary sergeants.
$500 per day; duty and line sergeants
$1.75 per day; corporals, SD per
day; regimental sergeants, $500 per
day. For each additional enlistment
they will draw twenty per cent of
their present pay. Besides this, if
they have qualified for marksman
they will draw 50 per month more;
as a sharpshooter SO per month more,
and if an expert S. per month. So
taken altogether, the army pay is not
at all bad, and Uncle Sam is sure
paymaster.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

contract, either individually or cal
lectiyely. It believes in organized
labor and stands unequivocally for
law and order, and to attain these
ends it does not propose to lobby in
our legislative halls, but will carry on
a militant campaign. to arouse public
sentiment and to crystalize public
opinion against strike methods by
substituting a just and fair plan Of
arbitration, plan that takes justice
to the very doorstep of the dispue.
To accomplish it's end the country
has been divided into fourteen subdi-
visions, each of which will be cover
ed by logical and forceful public
speakers, newspaper and magazine
articles in militant campaign to ed
ucate the people that law and order
are the paramount issues and that
threats, strikes and violence are not
only unnecessary but a decided factor
in the high cost of living problem
Every manufacturer is menaced by
uncertainties and particularly by the
disturbing elements that enter into
the labor problem and an orGaniza-
ton that stands for industrial peace
and has a workable and tolerant plan
for bringing it about deserves the
support of all respecters of law and
order regardless of their occupations
The principal officers of the"league'
are Stephen A. Day, Charles L.
Hutchinson, Alexander Revell and
Fred w. Upham of Chicago; Nicholas
Murray Butler of New York, A. r
Surpluss of San Francisco, CAL, and
IC s Ticker of Baltimore. Md
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

NAL purchases will be maintained,
will run around $5OOObO.O00 a year
more than they did on the basis of the
taxes, wages and prices that pre-
vailed during most of the fiscal year
ended on June 80, 1916.
1T is perfectly natural" the Rail-
way Age Gazette says, that the pub.
lie, and especially the, shipping pub
lie, should be asking why the rail-
ways should be asking for large ad-
vances in freight rates when they
have recently been making the larg-
est gross and net earnings in their
history.
THE reason why it is natural is
that the public does not realize, and
that railway managers themselves
only recently have begun fully to
realize, the magnitude Of the in
creases in expenses and taxes which
the railways suddenly have had
thrown upon them.
THE public naturally desires to
know what have been some of these
increases in expenses, and to what
extent, if present prices are main
tanned, they will affect operating eX-
penses. 1t is impossible as yet to
give detailed figures, but it is posi-
BILE to give some estimates which are
based on actual available facts. The
following are some estimates as tc
the extent to which eight items en-
tering into railway expenses will be
increased for the railways as a whole
annually by advances in wages ant
prices which already have taken place
over wages and prices which actually
entered into the operating expense!
of the railways during most OF thu
fiscal year ended on June 80, 1916:
Train service employees
wages (due to Adamsop
act) .......S oV,VVV'oV'
Other employees wages. 10000, 00'
Fuel (increase in price, so sf7oG lea.
cents a ton) .......... 10O,O00,O0'
Taxes increase, 10 per
cent. Northumberland. 100000,
Rail 100000 tons, in
crease in price per ton
s1O1 .................. 100000 O'
Locomotives $500 at in
per cent? ............. 100000
Passenger cars $4,000 at
increahe in price of 90
per cent? ............. 100000
Freight cars Q75,000 at .a
increase in price of 80 =
| per cent? ........... lOo,O0V,Oo
Total increase in these ~.
eight items ..... .$447 900, 90
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
NEW M. G. ST. L. PRESIDENT.

w. Ii. Bremmer of Minneapolis, and
formerly of Des Moines, the new Act.
ing President of the M. & St. l.. r. II.
was associated with the late Hon.
George w. Sewers of Oskaloosa in
the legal affairs of the road when Mr.
Sewers was the general council of the
company At the time of the retire
ment of Mr.. Sewers from Corporation
work, Mr.. Bremmer was selected as
his successor and has since been serv-
ing at the head OF the legal depart.
ment Mr. C. w. Huntington, who was
so long identified with the manage
ment of the road and who in years
past lived in Oskaloosa, has gone to
New York City to take up larger re-
sponsibilities. Mr. E. L. Brown the re-
firing President, also a former resi-
dent of Oskaloosa, is in Rochester,
Mimi, seeking to regain his health
and now Mr. Bremmer comes to the
front in a large way to position of
almost gigantic possibilities. All of
these men are well and favorably
known in Oskaloosa and while some
have passed out of the M. & St. L. in
forests their labOrs and their person
alities are remembered. Friends on all
sides will congratulate Mr.. Bremmer
on his success and they believe that
his past record is a good omen for his
future activities.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
A Dozen Arrests.

Chicago, April 11.-A dozen more ar.
rests were made today following the
seizure of books of German organiza-
ton including the German Red Cross
and the German Naval association. Re-
ports were that the funds were not
used to carry on this work but that it
was being used in violation of neu-
trality. sf
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

Berlin claims that since the war
commenced, Germany has sunk en- :
teDte warships asgregating $4,000
tons. This is equal to the combined
tonnage. OF Russia and Japan at the
beginning Of the war, and is only CO.
600 tons less than the tonnage of the
United States navy. which was the
third largest in the world.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12
MiI.nn Liner sunk

Washington, April 1.-THE Wilson
liner Saline. with one American Mich,
cal Pioreum Of Philadelphia, was
sunk by a submarine amid ship on
April T. according to the message re-
ceived here to-day from Consul Frost
at Queenstown. A Norwegian fire.
man died.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-04-12

OF Americas total exports for
1915 almost s5.5O0.OOO.OOO approxim,
ately $4,000, 100000 we're sold to Eng.
land. France. Russia and their posses.
sions. In the two years previous
these countries purchased from Amer
lea $500, 100000 of goods making a
total purchase for the three years OF
approximately $500, 100000.