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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
THE SOLDIERS DUTY.

Reports coming across the water
of the department of United States
soldiers in France are quite satisfac-
tory. "Our boys" are evidently con-
Quoting themselves as becomes SOL
diers of a great nation of high ideals.
The people of France, at least the
overwhelming majority who have
never visited America, will get inn
pressions of the people of this coun-
try through the way the country
soldiers honor the uniform. Officers
and men should have this in mind
constantly and see to it that no act
or theirs brings reproach upon the
flag, for whose integrity and glory
they are serving. Their conduct
toward women and children and old
men should be especially guarded.
Let no word fall from the lips in the
presence of women and children that
would not be permitted in the pres
ence of wives and sons and daugh-
tiers and sisters. 1t is something for
an army of million or two men, and
this country will, before many
months, have such an army in France,
to leave a record not only creditable
but one that will cement the peoples
of the two nations more closely than
ever. The Journal is
pleased to believe that even though
some of our soldiers might invade
sections of an enemy country, no I'M
necessary cruelties will be inflicted
upon n-combatants and that wo-
manhood will be respected and de-
Tended. Harshness not necessary for
military efficiency should not be
practiced, and it would be cruel
situation for the children of a con-
quered section of country to learn to
look upon our soldiers with fear and
terror because of needless indignities
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
(From Saturdays Daily.)

Mrs. DR.. Vincent of Belle Plaine
is visiting at the home Of her daugh-
ter, Mrs. H. H. Bohlman, and family
on west Second street. Mrs. G. W.
Odds of Pelle PLANE is also spending
the day at the iBohlman home.
Mrs. Emily Smith and Miss Stat
err returned to Manson yesterday at.
ter a short visit with the formers sis
ter, Mrs. Willard A. Crandall.
Mrs. Cecile Anderson of Jewell is
in this city today.
Prof. S. w. Mitchell of Duncombe
was Webster City business visitor
yesterday.
M. L. Henderson of Randall Is
spending the afternoon in this city.
M. H. Hirt OF Woodstock is Web
ster City business visitor today.
John H. Sparboe of Scott town
ship is in the city today.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. C. Worries of Lee
banon, o., arrived here yesterday for
a visit with the formers sister, Mrs.
w. H. Bahrenfuss and family.
Mrs. Ralph Hurd and children OF
Williams are visiting the former
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. Osmundson,
ON the east side.
Miss Ada Gerber of Williams is in
the city today shopping.
Mrs. Ilo Clifton and daughter,
Miss Bernardine, were down from
Woodstock today.
Mrs. Frank johnson and children
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
CHALLENGE TO OUR NAVY.

Chicago Post: 1t is strange that az
ter three years of safe traffic for Ca
madam transports it should be an
American transport that becomes the
victim of a U-boat But If there be
any precaution we have neglected,
any weak spot in our plan OF convoy
and defense, it is well that we should
be put on guard this early, and we
have reason to give thanks that the
ship had discharged her precious car
go before she fell in with the foe.
There is no problem more vital than
that of transport. Security for the
ships that carry our soldiers and their
supplies is the first consideration.
Germany has challenged the Unit
ed States navy. This is its job. We
do not doubt that it will meet the
challenge and answer it effectively.
Meantime, Americans must steel their
hearts and stiffen their lips for such
events as this. 1t is part of the price
we must pay. Let us pay it bravely,
but let us see that the price is not
made higher by any Nldiference q
neglect of our own.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
(Trom Fridays Daily

Mrs. E. L. Boozell of Palmer is
visiting relatives in this city.
Mrs. John Hurst and two chill
dren of Wooden, who have been guests
at the w. G. Seamands home, went to
Jewell yesterday afternoon to visit
relatives before returning home.
Mrs. F. M. Inlay of Lake Crystal,
Mimi, arrived here yesterday for a
visit with her daughter, Mrs. Chas
Jones, and sister, Mrs. F. c. Garrick,
and their families.
Mrs. S. M. Brinton and little son
and Mrs. r. G. Simpson, of Ellsworth
were Webster City callers yesterday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Verne Baker, who
have been residing in Ames, are
spending short time with the w. H.
Baker family here before moving to
their new home in Iowa Falls.
Mrs. Charlotte Kitley-France OF
Woodstock came down yesterday af-
ternoon for a sojourn with friends.
Mrs. Lura Neese returned home
yesterday from visit with her sister
in Ogden.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
MAN WHO NEVER LAUGHS.

Des Moines Capital: Those who
have had anything to do with public
meetings, or looked out upon the
faces of audiences, have always dis
covered the man who never laughs.
He is an iceberg. He agrees with all
that the speaker says, but inwardly
he is thinking that some forty years
before the speaker held some other
view, and therefore he is not deserv-
ing applause in his then present at
titude. There are those who never
clap hands at lectures, shows, or con-
certs. One such man can freeze the
people to death all around him. If his
wife is with him, she is afraid to
laugh. If his daughter is beside him
she withholds her spirit of enthusi-
asm on account of her father. He
looks as stiff and solemn as craven
image. On the way out of the hal
he may speak kindly word about
what he heard. II he does, he i'm.
mediately follows it by a criticism
The foundation upon which this man
stands is egotism. He virtually says
There is nothing done right unless ]
do it; there is nothing said right un-
less l say it." The man who does MOI
laugh is an enemy of the human race
and he is his own enemy. He is an
especial damage to his family. aHe
suppresses youth. He throws wei
blanket over those of high spirits. II
he smells a rose, he cri.icises the
stem.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
FARM AND CITY.

Fl. Dodge Messenger: Farm pro-
ducts are commanding the highest
kind of prices. Farmers, especially
those in Iowa, literally are getting
rich from the soil. Never, perhaps,
in the history of the world was there
better opportunity than there is on
the farm today. Yet very few are TAX
ing advantage of it. The call of the
land is unheard.
And why!
"The truth is that Americans, es-
pecially the young American and the
women, prefer to live in the city, and
will not 60 back to the isolation of
the farm even if agriculture is made
twice or thrice as profitable as it Is"
says Theodore II. Price, editor of
Commerce and Finance. "The people
of this country-and here again l
specify the young people-want mon
ey only as a means to an end, and
that end is happiness. Their con-
ception of happiness is not Pile
thoric bank account or fertile and re-
munerative farms, but intercourse
with their fellows upon terms of
equality, the opportunity of seeing
and being seen, and the social salts
faction of entertaining and being en-
tertained. 1t may be said that this is
a fallacious and unphilosophical con-
ception, but it is fact, and no logic
can change it. Otherwise the tene-
ment-house sections of our great cit
les would be depopulated within a
year. Those who live there could,
and know they could, earn more
money and live in greater material
comfort and better sanitary conditions
in the country, but they will not move
because they dread the loneliness of
rural life.
''They like to feel free to enjoy
themselves in their own way when
the days work is DONE" continues
Mr.. Price. IF this were not SO, there
would be no servant girl problem in
the United States, for the thousands
of shop girls who are making from
81 to $40 week and keeping them
selves could earn just as much or
more in domestic service and be at
no expense for board or carfare. Az
we ascend the social scale, the same
preference for city life is to be OBJ
served. Some centuries ago a Latin
poet drew a charming picture OF Rus
in Urbe, and the phrase describes
about the only sort of country life to
which the well-to-do aspire today.
They want the charm of country with
the comfort and excitement of city.
There is hardly a man who lives in
the city who would willingly go back
to the country as a permanent place
of residence, even if he were guaran-
teed so per cent increase In his in
come"
Since the problem involved is social
rather than economic, it will not be
solved until a way is found to pro-
vide those who till the soil with the
physical comfort, the human inter-
course and the entertainment that
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Home Economics Program.

The Iowa Home Economics associ-
alton, branch of the Iowa State Fed
Grafton work, will hold its annual
meeting in Des Moines Nov. l and 2.
A copy of the program has been sent
to Mrs. w. J. Zitterell of this city. A
number of Webster City women will
attend. The program the opening day
starts at 2 o'clock in the afternoon
and is as follows:
1.-THE Costume in War Time," Miss
Ethelwyn Miller, Domestic Arts De-
partment, Iowa State College.
Food Study as a Patriotic Service"
Miss Edna White, University of Ohio,
Columbus.
Vocational Home Economies" Mr..
John L. Cheney, State Inspector Nor
NAL Training Schools, Department OF
Public Instruction.
"The Clothing Budget" Miss Janet
Cation, Critic Teaching Department,
Iowa State College.
The program the second day is con-
fined to morning work and is as fol-
lows:
"vocations Other than Teaching"
Mrs. Anna L. Burdick, Director Voca-
tional Guidance, Des Moines.
"The Need for Social Service IN
Iowa." Miss Bessie McClenahan, Bur-
eau of Social Welfare, University OF
Iowa.
Round Table
REIMBURSEMENT of Teaching Plans to
Meet Present Needs" Miss olive
Young, Home Economics Department,
Iowa State Teachers College.
Business meeting.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
The Peril Of Lightning.

If you are out of doors In q very
severe electrical storm the Electrical
Experimenter offers the following
rules for your protection:
Keep away from wire fences. They
may carry dangerous electrical
charge long distances. Cattle In pas
lures are frequently killed from the
neglect of farmers to ground the wire
of the fence.
Keep away from hedges, ponds and
Keep away from isolated trees. Oak
trees are frequently struck; beech
are seldom struck. It Is safe In Q
dense forest.
Keep away from herds Of cattle and
crowds of people.
Do not hold an umbrella over you.
1t is safer to sit or lie down In an
open field than to stand.
Drivers should dismount and not
stay close to their horses.
Do not work with any large metal
tool or implement.
If you are indoors:
Keep away from the stove and
chimney. The hot gases from the
chimney may conduct the lightning to
and down the chimney.
Do not take position between two
bodies Of metal, as the stove and wa
ter pipe, for example. An exception
to being near metals is the case OF an
iron bed. One of the safest places is
on mattress in an iron bed, pr0vid-
ed you do not touch the metal. The
metal surrounding you makes safe
cage which will prevent the lightning
from reaching person inside.
Do not stand on wet floor nor
draw water from the well or faucet.
Do not stand directly under chan
delier, near radiator moro regis
ter.
Do not use the telephone.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
HOW THEY VOTED.

Register: In Kossuth county, the
largest county in the state, there are
two civil townships, located substan-
TALLY alike, both rural townships, one
named Swea township and the other
German township. They need not be
further described.
In Swea township the vote on the
amendment stood so for % against
while in German township the vote
stood z for and 107 against.
The same comparison is borne out
by two towns in Kossuth county, both
of them thriving trading centers, Burt
and Whittemore. The names OF the
towns do not suggest their differences
of population, but in this, that Burt
instead of being Scandinavian is
largely community of American
born. In Burt the vote was 145 for
to go against, while in Whittemore the
vote was IS for to 230 against.
In the very nature Of things there
could be no real difference of interest
between Swea and German townships
or between Burt and Whittemore
towns. No reason can be given why
one community should be for the
amendment and the other community
against, if we are speaking of the mer-
its of the proposition. -.a,s
does-not cite this con.
trast for the purpose of complaining
of it, but merely to suggest to it's read
ers how easy it is to fall into sci
habits of voting, so that whole sec
lions of the community are scheduled
in advance on any important matter
| That there is some virtue in fixedness
of opinion must be granted. And ye
how disappointing it is to discover
that new issues are passed upon al
most wholly in the light of old align
ments
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
hey crave and go to the city to OBJ

they crave and go to the city to OBJ
tain.
Mr.. Price says the answer, and the
ionly answer, to the problem is to in
dustrialize farming as we have indus
trialized manufacturing. He says the
land must be cultivated in larger
tracts, to which the laborer can 60 for
his days work, returning at night to
home that is contiguous to other
homes whose proximity will enable
him to satisfy his craving for human
society and intercourse. The hours
of agricultural labor must be con-
formed to those of the shop or factory
operatives who now live miles from
their work, and they are not impos-
sible. The automobile and motorcycle
have solved the problem of transport
tation. There are many factory oper-
atives who now live miles from their
place of employment. Farm laborers
could do the same.
Such farming would have to be con-
Quoted scientifically. Cost would have
to be accurately ascertained. Labor
saving machinery would have to be
used wherever it would take the place
of men or animals.
"It has been said,' Mr.. Price writes,
"that over ten Thousand men of affairs
and fortune have offered to leave their
business and serve the government
without remuneration during the per-
iod of war; Places cannot be found
FOR them. venture to suggest that
some of them could render very
substantial service to their country
and to society by undertaking the or
ganization of a large farm, with its
labor based on scientific industrial
system, within a reasonable distance
of some populous city, and developing
it along the lines upon which their
own business has been made success
full. 1t would be chiefly social and
not an agricultural experiment. OF
course, practical farmers would have
to be enlisted for the distinctively ag-
ricultural work"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
MUST MP IT IN THE BUD.

Des Moines Register: The New
York Globe calls upon General Mann
to kick band OF Alabama soldiers
who recently abused a negro on the
Lond Island railroad, out of the army.
1t says editorially:
Men who disgrace the uniform in
this way should be kicked out of the
army. Let them find an outlet for
their brutality under the kaiser's
banner. The United States wants
none of them, and they should be
made to understand this. 1t is to be
hoped General Mann will not let this
highly important big little matter
drop"
The incident is reported as follows
in the Globe: .r
"A crowd of Alabama soldiers OF
the Rainbow division brutality as
saulted a negro porter on the Long
Island railroad the other day. Chas.
Farrar, who has been employed at
long island City for twenty years
boarded train to 50 to his home in
Ozone park One of the soldiers saw
him and shouted, Get off this train
you nigger!" at the same time start
ing after Farrar. Farrar, seeing the
soldier was in earnest, made for the
door, but he was not quick enough
Several of the soldiers pushed him of
the car, then jumped on him and
kicked and beat him until the train
started. Railroad employees did moi
interfere. AS result of his treat.
ment Farrar probably will lose ar
eye."
Il If this were likely to be all, II
might be passed as so many other as
saults have to be passed, or at leas
are passed, because nobody makes i
his business to see that the minol
abuses are properly rebuked.
But this is not a sporadic case; il
is the beginning of what may cause
infinite trouble if it is not nippet
in the 'bud. For there will be nearly
hundred thousand colored soldiers
in the army and they will be differed
by colored men, and this Alabama
spirit, if it is tolerated, will lead tt
far more serious trouble than kick
ing the eye out of an unoffendine
porter who was exercising the com
mon privilege of an American citi
Il zen.
i The generals in command of the
sixteen cantonments will be the frs
to be brought face to face with the
u problem of race adjustment, ant
upon them much of the success of the
organization Of the army out of all
the races is bound to depend. II
they tolerate the Alabama spirit fol
a moment nothing but trouble is in
Il store,
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
THE MAGNIFIED FATHERLAND.


Minneapolis Journal: Those who
have lived in communities west Of the
Mississippi where the population is
largely made up of settlers from
down east" are familiar with the
adage that the only sure cure for a
homesick wife is to let her go back
to the old folks on visit, after about
two years in the new western home
The psychology of this is that the
wife had dreamed and dreamed about
the old home, clarifying the sunny
places, forgetting the shadows, and
neglecting to see sunshine west of the
Mississippi, until the old home had
become a paradise and the new home
a purgatory.
The visit east opened her mind to
the facts as they actually were. Her
eyes showed her that there were dull
things and disagreeable things in the
old home which her fancy logged
memory had clean forgotten.
This country has great lot of i'm
ported people who have nursed
dreams OF the old world; who have
Rugged childhood memories for forty
or fifty years painting them up afresh
from year to year with the illuminat-
ed paint of fond Imagination, till
they are about as near the fact as
Jacks bean stalk is to real beans.
They have unused and talked and
sung about the dear fatherland, the
loved fatherland, all the time setting
it's high spots over against the low
spots of their adopted land, until they
have worked themselves into an
ecstasy about a gloryland that never
existed, never can and never will.
They magnify their fatherland, and
curse their children's land, till like
the Chinese who worship their ances-
tors and kill their own children, they
have put themselves badly out OF gear
with normal life.
Let these fond dreamers run home
a little while to thtl sweet father
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

The Sioux City Journal has raised
the question of the comparative pop
ularity of Senator Kenyon, Governor
Harding and Senator Cummins IN
Iowa, and as might be expected the
Journal puts Cummins in third place.
But Cummins became governor OF
Iowa at the end of a.protracted fight
in which many enemies were made
and his long contest for United States
senator created many more. Senator
Kenyon had no such conditions and
while Gov. Harding won after hard
fight he has had comparatively few
experiences of that kind. Hence, I'M
der the circumstances, it is really no
discredit to Cummins if he has more
enemies in Iowa than either OF the
ell sthh.c. gentlemen under consideration.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
All single men having an income Of

All single men having an income OF
more than $1,000 annually and all
married men whose income exceeds
$4,000 must pay income taxes under
the new war revenue measure. The
single man is exempt $1,000 for living
expenses and the married man is ex-
empt $4,000. This is another feature
of the law for the benefit Of the poor
man. The majority will escape the
income tax entirely because OF these
exemptions. Yet there are some fell
lows who are whining about this be-
ing a erich mans war" meaning, OF
course, that the rich are escaping their
just share Of its burdens.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

The war department at Washington
announces that the American soldiers
of France are now in fine fighting
trim, and from this statement it is be-
lieyed that our men will soon be en-
gagged upon the firing line. That they
will sustain the reputation OF United
States soldiers for valor and courage
there is no doubt The boys of today
are Just as good as were their ances-
tors of '61 and II and will render an
equally good account of themselves.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

The soldiers at Camp Dodge have
subscribed for more than 100000
worth of Liberty Bonds. That is a
record to be proud of. In fact the
soldier boys are doing a lot of things
to make the folks at home feel salts
fled with them.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

Well, it may seem at times as
though some editors thought they
knew how to run the government bet
ter than the men upon the job. Be
that as it may, the editors have moth
ing upon the so-calIed statesmen in
this respect. Nearly every last one OF
them think they know how to run the
newspapers, but when they try to
turn the trick they generally make a
dismal and ignominious failure.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

OF course it is not to be expected
that the soldiers of the United States
will make any very great dents in the
western line trenches of the Germans
before the Iowa boys get there. Then
look out
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
AN OCTOBER DAY.

Sioux City Journal: What is SO
delightful as an Iowa day in Octo-
bert. exclaims the Webster City
Freeman-Journal The answer is
supplied by w. A. Lynch of Huron,
i South Dakota reader the Jour-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

If you are too old for military duty
abroad you are not too old to fight the
enemies of Uncle Sam right in your
own community and in some COM
munities that requires some courage.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

land. Let them go right now. We
shall see them back better Americans
before the time limit of their round
trip ticket is up. We could even af-
ford to pay their passage one way.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

The Algona Upper Des Moines-Re-
publican says that the candidacy of l..
J. Dickinson for congress from this
district is meeting with general favor.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29
Gets His Pocketbook Back.

Leigh Bateman, who lost his pock-
etbook while visiting his parents here,
got it back. He left it on the counter
at the Illinois Central station when
he bought his ticket. It was picked
up by a station employee who later
turned it over to the Bateman fam
lily.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

.l-.5 ~ sI--47It.al tsls
nal, as follows: "a South Dakota
day in October Truly, Iowa and
South Dakota are rarely favored
states. To none has nature been
more kind and generous.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-29

Silver and gold magazine pencils
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