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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
ELIMINATING THE HYPHEN.
Campaign on to Make English Speak
ing Aliens Learn English
Language.

The Board of Education at Wash
ington has begun campaign 10
make it compulsory for non-English
speaking aliens to learn the English
language. OF course the American
spirit can not wholly be implanted
by teaching language. There are
great many people born in this coun-
try who still have more in common
with the land Of their race origin
than with their native country. But
the chances for assimilation into the
American spirit are greatly decreased
where person uses only a foreign
tongue.
Employers of labor suffer from in.
ability of employees to speak Eng
lish. Where workman can con-
verse, with his foreman only signs or
'pidgin" English everything drags.
The foreman may use profanity,
which is a universal language. But
you can only drive a workman about
so far.
To get better work day by day,
one must appeal to brains and
arouse intelligence. That can only
be done by careful explanations of
the reason for things and the philos-
ophy of the material substances that
a man handles. Signs, broken jar
CONS of speech, and abuse never ac-
complish that.
When alien work people do make
an effort to acquire English, their
effort should be recognized by en-
ployers for its full value 1t means
quite struggle for a bewildered
newcomer in our land. English
speech has so many awkward twists
and turns for pronunciation that it
seems forbidding even to an educat-
ed foreigner. A peasant from for
eign soil, to whom books and w9rd
symbols and idioms are entirely out
side his previous experience, finds it
infinitely more difficult than any
physical task he has had to perform.
If he makes progress at it, it indi-
Gates industry and a bright mind
The moment that aliens realize that
their pay envelope will be increased
the day they show some proficiency
in our language, there will be more
interest in acquiring our speech.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
MARRILA in HOSPITAL.
Creston Girl, Sick With Scarlet Few.
or at Omaha, is Wed by u. s.
Sailor on FurlOugh.

Ora e. Ray, seaman aboard the u.
S. monitor Tallahassee, stationed at
Pensacola, Fla. and Miss Mary Mi
ley, Creston, Ia. were married We'd
nesday in the contagious ward of the
city emergency hospital The groom,
the minister and the witnesses, two
convalescent patients, wore antisep-
tic robes. Miss Miley, critically i'll
of scarlet fever, was propped up in
bed with pillows for the ceremony
When Ray heard Miss Miley was
i'll, he secured furlough, came here
and persuaded the city physician to
permit the marriage.
After the wedding DR.. r. w. Con-
nell, city physician, who had feared
Miss Miley would die, said: 1.-The
cheering influence of the marriage
has made her recovery probable.
When Mrs. Ray is released from
quarantine she will be taken to Ores
ton. ~@I*t4'
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
THE CAR CURE.

Before / bought myself an auto,
my diaphram was full of pain; / had
about a hundred ills, for which |
doped myself with pills. I knew that
I was growing old, and felt that /
was drawing near the place, where
would disappear.
I'd fallen in beastly rut: hung
around my little hut, and ate my
meals and took walk and went to
bed all by the clock. hardly ever
went away but kept my groove day
after day. I sat for hours around
my shack and read the blamed old
almanac, and found that / was in
the soup; / had the measles and the
Group the CHAMBERS, the mumps and
wen, and every all that tortures men.
When one is waxing on in years,
he's always full of foolish fears that
some disease will come along, and
take him from the mundane throng.
And every time he feels an ache, he
fears the worst and starts to quake.
He's always thinking of his ills, and
always buying Eastwood pills.
"Get some new interest in life"
observed my good and trusty wife,
"quit brooding DER your chicken
pox, and thinking you'll be in a box.
Go, get car, scoot around and
scorch a million miles Of ground, and
breathe the soft-boiled country air,
and you'll feel better, / declare"
When James hand came down a
stern decree, obedience is up to me.
And so | took a roll of bills that l
had planned to spend for pills, to
keep my poor old form alive, and
bought an auto, and learned to
drive. And now am the blamedest
fan! / am the merriest old man! /
do not brood in my abode, but jaunt
along the open road, and see new
faces by the way, and have adven-
lures every day. l never knew there
was such fun beneath the good old
smiling sun.
The pains I knew have disappear
ed; there is no fungus In my beard.
/ wouldn't give pewter cent for all
the pills you can invent.
If there are other ancient lads
who buy up dope and liver pads. and
porous plasters by the peck, and
salyes for Joint and limb and neck,
they're surely in doleful fix; they
ought to buy new Light Six
Walt Mason.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
ENTERTAINING TRAMPS.
Pennsylvania Farmer Has Enter
tanned 595 Wayfarers So Far
This Year.

An Allentown, Pa, farmer makes
la practice of giving tramps lodging
in his barn. He has entertained
$50 wayfarers so far this year. He
provides a fireplace out under the
trees, where in summer they cook
meals, and he often lends them flour,
salt, pepper, and other necessaries
This gentleman, Henry Heft, by
name, is surely double starred in the
hoboes' Baedeker.
Mr.. Heft is not the only one. The
majority of people feed tramps from
a sense of fear or from dislike to
seem stingy. There are others that
really like sitting down with good
fat tramp, and seeing him surround
his handout. 1t gives them chance
to ask questions about tramp life, and
they enjoy delivering virtuous lee
lures on the evil Of vagrant ways.
Wandering Willies listen to much
admonition provided the ham sand
witch is properly seasoned.
Whether tramps are best reclaim
ed by moral lectures or by setting
the dog on them, is fair question
for debate. Their variations sound
pitiful That is a part of the bust
ness. The dog method at least
makes tramp life less alluring. If
consistently followed it would lead
some of them to adopt occupations
less open to public censure.
The woodpile is the final and most
conclusive test. A tramp who will
take hold and saw and split half
cord of wood has something in him
yet. The housewife might we'll lis
ten to his story and offer him adj
vice.
But the majority, offered this dis
tressing alternative, find the saw and
axe in deplorable condition and the
weather conditions unfavorable.
They should be permitted to move on
dinnerless. The sooner tramp fare,
becomes precarious, the more attrac-
tive settled occupations will become
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
UNIQUE Grocery.

A news dispatch from lola, Kan,
says: The successful operation here
of a grocery and provision market
on new plan has resulted in reduc-
ing the high cost of living for it's pat
rons. The market is called the BIAS
ket Store,' and there is neither clerk
cashier, nor deliveryman. The pro-
prietor alone conducts the place.
Patrons are furnished a market
basket free and are admitted to spa
cious aisles which wind along be-
tween rows of shelves and tables
loaded with provisions through a
turnstile. All goods are priced in
plain figures and as the patron pas
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
cow SWALLOWED STAPLE.
Embedded i'm Animals Throat Causes
Her Death.

One of the most unusual things
that could befall an animal befell
that of a fine COW belonging to Erick
Rogness, of Ossian When he moved
to town he brought with him the
best bossy on the farm-but she died
last Wednesday evening. For some
few days Mr.. Rogness noticed that
the COW was not eating and he called
DR.. Havirland, veterinary surgeon,
to make an examination. When the
doctor arrived the COW had a cob Sc
curely lodged in her throat which he
forced down with an instrument.
This did not seem to relieve the ami
NAL and DR.. Havirland was unable to
make an intelligent diagnosis, in 9TH
err words, he was "up in the air." for
the COW apparently was in healthy
state otherwise.
Before leaving he told Mr.. Rog-
ness that in the event the COW died,
he would like the privilege of exam
ming her throat. This was granted,
and on Thursday morning last, Doc
tor Havirland dissected the throat
and found imbedded in the flesh a
good sized staple. This was swallow
ed with the points first and lodged in
her throat, which caused her death.
The staple had evidently been in her
throat for not less than three
ys.-Ossian Bee.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
Y HARRY j. GREEN.
Engine Hit Laundry Basket.

Wednesday morning the Laundry
basket for Charles City had been
placed on truck at the depot
awaiting No. a, when through
freight running close on passenger
time, came tearing into the station
Some one had placed the truck TOO
close to the edge of the platform ard
the engine of that freight struck -
What happened? Well the through
freight decided to stop because for
minute the engineers view of the
track was INSTRUCTED by flying "pus-
nuP' linen, some too personal for
public print, and truck wreckage.
When the fireman had dug a beanti-
full lingerie waist out of his left eya.
and climbed out of his cab to ascer-
tain the damage done, he found the
engineer weeping on, pair of pa
jamas, truck wheel on the COW
catcher, a union suit waving from
the smoke stack, pair of socks
hanging on the bell rope, while
Agent Corbett, who was standing on
the platform was jauntily wearing a
size sixteen collar around his cap
and a red silk stocking for a neck
tie.
Laundry Agent Phil Rue hopes to
collect about $45 for damages to the
basket and contents, bat we have not
heard what the amount will be,
which the train crew will collect
from Phil, as damages to their feel
ings.-Rudd Review.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
ACT QUICKLY.
Delay Has Been Dangerous i'm De-
cOrah.

Do the right thing at the right
time.
Act quickly in time of danger.
In time of kidney danger Doan's
Kidney Pills are most effective.
Plenty of DEBORAH evidence of their
worth.
Mrs. Ed. Ostenson, Clio w. Main
St., DEBORAH, says: about three
years ago l had an attack of kidney
trouble. had dull, constant ache IN
the small of my back. When / was
sweeping, sharp pains shot through
the small of my back and fairly
drove me wild. had tired feeling
and didn't have much ambition. /
suffered from pains in the back OF
my head and dizzy spells when / had
to put my hand on the wall to steady
myself. l used four boxes of Doan's
Kidney Pills, procured from Wang
ler's Pharmacy, and they greatly re-
ieved me-"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy
get Doan's Kidney Pills-the same
that Mrs. Ostenson had. Foster-Mil-
burn Co., Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
Large Single Farm Sale.

What is said to be the largest
single farm sale ever consummated
in northern Iowa has recently been
completed in the sale of the J. A.
Strickland farm of 283 acres for
$3.50 per acre to resident of Cedar
county. The purchaser will stock
the place with Hereford cattle in
the spring. The farm lies just west
of Manchester city limits on high
ground and is we'll equipped with
buildings and conveniences which
are valued at $4,000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
You Win, Dusty!
Wilmington, Ohio, News.

Wilmington, Ohio, NeWs.J
Luke McLuke, who speaks with
says that a man breathes
10000 quarts of air day. But we
suppose that the fellow who eats on
ions breathes outward at least 49,
500 quarts.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-21
Would You?

Some there are who'd give lot
To be the old Akoond of Swat;
But | would really much prefer
To be the Rama of Dhilpur.
e. T.. III
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
Speaking Of Dippers
and Some Other Things

Half a dozen people with dippers can
fiji a wash tub, but it takes steam
pump to fill water tank
Before we went to war a wash tub full
of money was enough to run our govern
ment, and we got along well enough with
the little dipper' tax laws passed by
congress-the stamp tax dipper. the i'm
come tax dipper, and two kinds of cor
poraton tax dippers The dippers filed
the wash tut, so nobody cared much
whether the plan was efficient OF waste
full.
Now we are at war and need q tank
full Of money and then some. But does
congress put in steam pump 70 keep
it filed? No. After celebrating four
months they simply decide to make the
old clippers a little larger, and put In a
lot of new ones "a so-called excess prof
its tax and a whole string of pesky little
dippers in the shape of taxes on railroad
fares, Pullman berths telephone mes
sages. shaving SOAP baseball. etc.
Every day, every hour almost. one or
the other of these clippers IS reaching
into the pocket Of every American.
usually bringing up nothing but pennies
and nickels, hat causing endless annoy
ance and business friction
With this ya'rlegated assortment of Liz
and little clippers and a crew O Internal
reeenue collectors at the handle OF each,
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03

The public health and who died az
the age OF So Of pulmonary tuber
CuIo-is
Edmund Alexander Parkes. born
March % 1873. physician. surgeon,
sanitarian and author left perhaps
a greater impress ou sanitary sci
ence than any Euglishman OF the
nineteenth century.
HIS work ranges from the theo.
retical consideration ~ the minut.
est details N chemical and physio-
logical research 70 the practical con
sideratlon Of the cleansing OF q
sewer or the tightening Of the sol.
diers knapsack
India. the Crimea and London saw
his labors and benefited thereby
War brings some good things in
its train Just as the $apole0nlc
campaigns perfected the arr of
Transporting the sick and The loss
% life from preventable disease IN
the Spanish var quickened The SAINT
tary conscience Of the American
people. so the horrors ~ the
Crimean campaign made parkes "A
professor OF military hygiene
He organized a complete course
OF instruction based on The pFiu.
ciple that The student must be- able
20 practically apply the lessons
which be learned Many OF the san
itary reforms which he inauglrated
are now bearing fruit In the i'm
provement o. the wellbeing o. the
community al large
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
Times and Maidens Change

Remember thatt.me when Bill Taft
with his mighty bosom swelling with tar
iT reciprocity. spanked Miss Canada, ana
got rta mirren sos that all the ~erld
saw it2
Well. the naughty maid mas relented.
There's soft glad hand AZ her front
door and room on the parlor sofa for
Uncle sam. with the lights turned low
Since April last Miss Canada has sent
into the United States over II million
bushels of wheat duty free On April
rs. She removed her import duty on
wheat and this act automatically broke
down the tariff walls
A common distress makes nelghbors
akin. After Uncle sam dofts his khaki
gets bath and a shave and dons his old
reliable boiled shirt, watch him perk up
To Miss Canada once more!
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
Memories Poison

Fh.t lh. mnd cau manufacture
poison aa Irly a Hur chemical
laboratory Is iacI gi practical .m
p1rauce tu Everybody f only ~
wcrg universally appreciated We
should hlf ar 't-- llhealtu than
troubles mankind today
Tor Jus as poisons may hc pro
ducei .u Boo bods hy the miud 500
may they he expelled from the body
hy lbc mind i1 proof Der me cite "a
recent experience ot personal
fr.ud
Election morning fh.s friend. "a
broker iU 100 eastern city rose feel
re lon excellent health I,e are a
hearty breakfast them lof' bis home
io walls to 'b. polling pIHCc and vote
be.ur. COINS fu bi Office
Tie dos Was dne. rhe arr crisp
and M8oH Ms friends th0roly fu
'oyed his walk until he came In
sight of the schooihousc whore ne
was fo vote
Then Nlh startling unexpected
moss. hr began to feel ill
IT'S boar psIpf7fed. he WAS dizzy
and weak The discomfort increased
until entering the polling place be
feif positively uauseated
Uatnc voted he hurried out "a
quickly as he could. ic WAS iu
GocbI whether ro return home or
f1 continue 90 his office
"Juat then sail he. IAN Idea
suddenly occurred go me
~ remembered that De previous
election day had been Iii FOR near
ly week When election day came
Z was NOT feeling much better hut
{ gragcad myself cut to vote. as ]
thought if my duty to do $50.
The sensations now felt We're.
tho mule. exactly like those ! felt
ur chat occasion
Recognizing this believed
understood what had happened NO
me.
without my knowing 81 Che
l.ht of lhe schoolhouso had re-
yl,o-l I'm me memory az The dizzt
ness. weakness and nausea from
which J had suffered when I went
t0 The sChoolhouse 90 vote Tho year
before This memory revival hao
So disturbed me as 70 bring back
ths sensations then felt.
'Tne more Z reflected about the
matter the more convinced ] be
came ala { had hif on the right OK
PLANTATION And ga conviction IN
rreased ! began to feel better
"By noon 7 was an right again
and was able % eat and really en-.
joy a good substantial lunch
Much illness originates .n SINH
lar fashion know another man
who having once had an attack OF
acute Indigestion 10 che state room
~ L0ua Island sound steamer was
similarly attacked whenever
yutartd ON th0-e steamers
Finally he gave up travelling hy
them But fhc nature of The din.
Guilty having hetn.mado clear ro him
he was able once more TO use the
Sound steamers without unpleasant
effect
Moreover The sight not only OF q
place bar of some object or person
associated n The mind with memo
+ r.es ~ di-aereeabIe experiences
MAY revive hose memories with
such intensity as to upset the whole
. organism
u the person th1s affected FALL,
into panic the service OF medi
cal man 1iu likely be needed
But II the possibility OF psychic
poisoning is appreciated, and N the
. situation is analysed as d was bf
my broker friend. then speedy
self-cure can be confidently looked
for
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
The Torches
BY OR. FRANK GRAMS
tCopyriEht Nsl5. by Frank Crane)

In "The Torches, one Of the play
this season, one of the characters, Z
merit, describes how In III OF desp
caused boy the shock Of his disiIlusion
love, he determined to blow out
brains He repaired TO the garden
night Il pressed the pistol to my ter
pie, he says. 1T was the end And
| raised nay eyes, they rested on q
stars. They saved me- In this supremN
moment saw up yonder The Torches
the flaming Ideas that illumine the con-
science of this great world was about ID
leave. That moment of contemplation.
brought peace TO my soul The flesh nc
longer counted. My petty sorrow was
lost in the universal mind. The soul Of
the infinite had absorbed by soul -
And he adds "The moment ono
grasps the possibilities Of the mind, fear.
pain, jealousy become merely the refuse
of the soul"
This is an example of the mind taking
refuge in the infinite 1t is not uncom-
mon experience. In one way or another,
sometimes as a religious act sometimes
as a plunge into philosophy, it has beer
the discovery of the soul ut bay that
there is open an avenue of escape.
To the human being who viii believe
it there is no possibility Of entire de
feat.
There is always r door behind Va thru
which We can slip and evade the enemy
There is always an arplane in which
we can mount and soar above the Huns
that surround us
What is it?
1t is the Infinite. It touches every one
of us. We can find it in the darkness OF
our bedchamber alone at night even also
in the confusion of the market place OF
the welter of the arena.
The Infinite is every mans secret.
It overarches all souls and illumines all
minds, as the sky embraces the earth,
and with its stars speaks majesty unto
our littleness
The Infinite! We came from it al
birth We go back to it at death. And
no mans life needs be a dull gap unlit
by it.
do not press upon you any religious
creed nor any system of philosophy. But
| point out to you the way many tor.
mented mind has arrived at greatness
poise and peace. 1t is by grasping some.
how, some way, the Infinite
This is the deepest, most inexhaust-
ible, most dependable ally of the human
spirit. We are profoundly akin to the
Infinite
Have you found that relationship? In
your solitude are there any stars?
Perhaps this very hour of your wreck
and failure may be the opening to you OF
vast spiritual resources hitherto un-
guessed
If you are but an animal that thinks
you are lost; if you once realize that
you are an imperial spirit, you are saved
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
Sammy's Doctor Wages
War On Common Colds

Army surgeons will adopt new
methods FOR keeping down conta-
zions among the soldiers n he can
comments this winter They VIII go
directly after the common cold
Their experience ON the Mexican
border last year taught them that
the common cold was the starter
of most everything that was bad a.
FAR ar soldiers health was affected.
They learned that as long as they
kept down colds they had little OF
no pneumonia measles bronchitis,
or meningitis
That why Sammy IN his canton
ment viii have good dry shoes.
warm. dry clothing, mo- oyereatinE
no foul sir and no overhe3ted room.
An ample supply OF pure water
was one ~ tho essential factors CDu-
=.dered in the selection % camp
Sites
UNDERGROUND sewers carry away
waste In SOME camps complete
sewage disposal plants have been
built
The result of these antary NEE
sures Is being honn n Dee low erred
sick rate OF the men in camp rh
expected ILLNESS ot au army NOT bon
active service = three per cent.
ln none of ia camps recently .ufcs-
tipatod was tte ra-e up fo that ar-
orage The hRt rate reported
was q IS pe7 cent u wr Icrn camp
the lowest. pfr cent iu guard
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03
Anniversaries
TODA1,N ANNINERsARIrs

AOA1 - = y 4 = taltN y fAAtrN
lscr--fawt - F1ir. millionaire
atur. born ir r'f3st ireland Died
FOO sam Francisco Icc 1t. 1896
ISfsEev geujsmIu 81 Norr b
Was r1use. ratrd second Episcopal
m fsIauart hishcu ~ oregon.
lkSa--l rs=Icsur BENJAMIN Harrison
presented his FIRST annual message %
1904 Robert Louis stevenson. ia
nous noveI-I Gled u samoa Born
in Edinburgh Scotland. In 1850
ltI1- MAJ Ger wesley Merritt
who commanded the cVprdltionar,.
forcns cont to tho Philippines in
lN'H. and gov whom t.e concentration
camp ut ffoboken S. D.. has been
named died ln Natural Brldgr Va.
Born ln New York June 3. 1888
1915 German reichstag voted 81 r.
$50 600 600 for war purpofcs
1915 Ierb.anu evacuated Mouasttr.
thri- iasf stronghold
YEAR AGO TODAY ~ THE wan
The German and bulgarian armies
began The b0mhardweut % Bucharest
Premier Asguifh ~ was officially
announced. had decided go advise the
reconstruci 90 thc government
ToDAN's BIRTHDAYs
NeWton ~. Baker. secretary az war
in the Wilson cabinet born iu Mar
burg At. Va. ih years ago today
Reur Admiral tohn Hood. ~ tie
United states navy. born lu Alnba-
Wu lN Years ago today
Franl, Mason $9rth president 30
tIn Federal Council or Che Churchcs
~ lHEiFf IU America. born Zoo New
YORK; ~ sears HRf today.
Dr George 49, Denny. president ~
tho lnivereity ~ Alabama. born in
hanover county VA. ~ years ago to-
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1917-12-03

wealth 20 the Advancement OF edu-
Gallon She has established and
maintained kindergarten training
schools in San Francisco. in Wash
.ngton. and at Lead S. y. where
her principal mining interests are
loca Ted She donated a quarter o.
"a million dollars 20 the National
Cathedral School for Girls in Wash
ngton. and erected and equipped
the mining building az the Univer
sity % California as a memorial to
her husband Mrs Hearst is the
mother ~ william Randolph Hearst.
weli known newspaper publisher
and oue-timc congressman.