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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22

It is quite evident to the Free
man-Journal that statutory prohibit
ton was defeated at the recent cleo
ton by the voters opposed to the sa-
loon who do not want the state so
everlastingly dry that they cannot
ship in wee bit for their own use.
They admit that the saloon is a null
sance and a curse, and nine-tenths
of them would vote for prohibition
of the saloon. This class of voters,
joining with those along the Missis-
sippi who have to submit to the evils
of the saloon just across the river,
had enough strength to defeat the
amendment.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22

AS soon as Col. Bryan sees things
going one way, he can get around
and seem to take the lead in the
most spectacular manner.-Mason
City Globe-Gazette.
If Mr.. Bryan came into Iowa and
supported the prohibitory amend
ment because he thought it would
win, it must be conceded that he
made poor guess. However, his
record, at least upon this question,
justifies no such conclusion. He an
nounced several years ago that he
was going to do all he could to con-
vert the democratic party to prohi-
bition, and it cannot be successfully
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22

The United States-and this in
cludes Iowa-is at war. All the en-
ergies of every patriotic citizen are
needed to carry us to victory. This
is no time to waste any effort in
carrying on personal or partisan
politics. 1t is all right to make
speeches, but they should urge 10y
atty to flag and country and not to
dwell on party differences and dis
putes. Aid the safety commission in
making our state do it's share in this
great effort of the nation. Every
victory gained by the enemy adds tt
the danger of each happy home in
Iowa. 1t matters little who holds
the offices as long as the office
holders are loyal to the cause.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22

It may be necessary for the gov
eminent to take possession of the
coal mines in Illinois, where $4,000
or 10000 miners are on strike. No
doubt the men would work willing
Iy for Uncle Sam at a fair wage
scale based upon the selling price
of coal. However, when the men
see operators Fleeing the public it
is little wonder they demand their
share of the increased prices. The
government could pay the men
higher wages than they are now get
ting and sell the coal to consumers
cheaper than present rates.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-22

court house,
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03

preted to contain an intimation that
Josephus Daniels is no longer render
ing service which would impel tho
President to retain him in charge OF
his portfolio. This, however, is al
most too good to be true. Through
good and evil report the President has
manifested his confidence in and de-
votion to his secretary of the navy.
When Mr.. Daniels, through George
Creel or through one Of his own sub
ordinates or by himself, has hoaNed
the American people with elaborated
accounts of naval battles and with err
roneous transcriptions of dispatches
telling Of submarine attacks, the Pres
ident has given no sign Of displeasurc.
He has stood for Mr.. Daniels idiosyn-
cracies in all their varied development
The secretary's delay in carrying out
early programs of naval construction
has not been rebuked by his chief, nor
has there been any concern displayed
over Mr. Daniels dilatory and costly
tcrgiversations regarding the proper
method of combating the U-boat per
il. Josephus has been the spoiled
child of the cabinet. Is he now 70 feel
the rod? The Washington Posts
utterances sound ominous to us.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
State Capital Notes

Denver, October 1.-The people Of
the state are commencing to wonder
just what kind of a fellow they elect
ed attorney general last fall. Hub
bard, who holds the office, as one Of
his first official acts dismissed a num-
Der of cases pending against those
who took part in the insurraction and
riots during the Ammons administra-
ton. Last week he asked the dismiss
al of the cases in the supreme court
against Ben Richardson and David
Robb of Fremont county, who were
convicted and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for the death of VIM. King
who was killed when a band of strik-
ers marched to Chandler, shooting up
the camp and killing King. The at
torney general now asks these cases
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
When "U" Is V

Why do some modern architects as
svme that U is V and carve in stone
that palpable and bold absvrdity?
Now that we possess the U, with
soft and graceful cvrve, of vnexcelled
docility and willingness to serve, why
do they carve VNITED STATES and
PVBLIC SCHOOL and svch and make
the English language as fvnny as Che
Dvtch, with RESTAURANT and
PVLLMAN CAR and UNIVERSITY,
and other marks of educational per
versity?
That V impresses some of VS. as
cheap and gavdy blvff, which paryen-
yes may pvll in place of more svb-
stantial stvff, bvt people who arc
fashioned of vnpretentious dvst view
all svch affectation with an vnassum-
cd Disgust. Svch exhibitions always
make VS. glvm and blve. Now, honest
Injvn, don't they have same effect on
yov Printers Ink.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
A Sample of Low Speed

The character of efficiency main
tanned in the war department Is il
lustrated by the experience of prom
inent resident of Washington who ad-
dressed a letter to the department on
a matter relating to the war, received
a reply dated 2S days later and post
marked % days after dated The
answer was only six lines in length,
but it was 2S days in preparation and
was % days getting into the mails
after it had been written. No wonder
the acquisitions made by General
Pershing were lost in the department
and had to be duplicated by him.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
Untimelx and MastefuI

President Wilson was opposed to q
tariff commission when there was az
opportunity for such a body to study
the effect of the democratic law O.
1913. Now that the war practically
precludes useful activity he is main
tanning a commission that occupies ex-
tensive offices and employs a consid
cradle clerical and stenographic force
at a time when the war and navy de
partments are so short of room and
help that a 100000 temporary Of
flee building is proposed. Consistency
thou art a jewel.
Des Moines Register-What has be
come of the pleasant dream that
cheaper coal would fall into the bin
with a musical sound this year?
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03

be stricken from the docket and in
doing so takes occasion to score Judge
Cavendcr before whom the cases We're
tried
The insinuation was general last
fall that Hubbard had entered into q
rre-election agreement with the Unit
ed Mine Workers and their followers
to dismiss all cases pending against
members Of the organization. Whether
there was such an agreement or not,
he has dismissed all these cases re-
gardless Of the character of evidence
against the accused. 1t is current
gossip in Denver that Hubbard ex-
poets to be the next nominee of the
democratic party for governor, and to
secure that nomination is depending
on the insurgent element in his party.
This element, which has failed to dem
mate Guntcr, want some man in the
governors chair who will obey or,
command. When they get such fel-
low they ride him to death when they
fail to get such a fellow they indulge
in abuse.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
GOSSIP FROM wASHINToN
Legislation Without Deliberation

Washington, Oct. 2. Especial Cor
respondence) The monstrous injus-
tice of the democratic system in vogue
in the house of insuring the speedy
disposition of important legislation by
a special rule" was emphasized by
Representative Henry Allen Cooper of
Wisconsin when the senate amend
ments to the revenue bill came before
the house for action. A rule had been
brought in to disagree to all of the
amendments and send the bill to con-
ference, and it was proposed to limit
debate to thirty minutes. Mr.. Cooper
called attention to the fact that the
bill contained 129 pages, with 32l
amendments by the senate, and was
perhaps the most important measure
that this congress will be called upon
TO consider. To deny the members the
right to present their views on the
senate provisions was utterly without
justification in Mr.. Cooper's mind, and
! e registered such determined objec-
tion to the procedure that more time
was allotted to the debate.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
Importance of Continued Session

On September 20, the secretary of
the treasury sent to congress fourteen
communications each making esti-
mates for now and additional appro-
rriations. One of these estimates ag-
gregated more than s4O,OO0OOO, and
others were for amounts not disclosed
by the published records. Presumably
the secretary submitted these csti-
mates as soon as he knew the money
was needed. The question naturally
arises, what would the situation be if
congress had adjourned two months
ago, as some of the democratic press
intimated it should do. There was q
demand that congress adjourn and
"give the President a free hand in
prosecuting the war. Secretary Nc
Adoo is giving the strongest kind of
testimony as to the dcsirability of
having congress in continuous session
during the war.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
Is Daniels, Fall Presared?

The Washington Post is found edi-
torially questioning the efficiency of
the direction of the American navy.
What does this mean? The Post has
baer looked upon as an exponent of
the ideas of the administration as held
in the inner family circle of the Pres
ident's councillors, and even a remote
expression of doubt regarding the
navy department is, of course inter
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03
Let wilhelm Sneak Next

The Pope mas abandoned the idea
of trying to get peace for the present.
The next peace proposals will prob
ably emanate from Berlin, Vienna
Sofia or Constantinople-the capitals
Of Teutonic allies. When they will ap
pear and what they will contain j.
mere guessing for many months to
come.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03

Generally speaking the appointment
If Thos Stcarns Of Denver and Pu-
eblo as food administrator for Colo
RADIO under Hoover meets with approx
al. True there are some who do not
approve. They wouldn't approve the
appointment of any man who has
record for construction. They wanted
some fellow in that place whom they
could run. When Stearns was men
toned the same element in the dem
3cratic party that is fighting Gunter
and backing Leslie Hubbard began to
bcsiege Washington with kilograms Of
protest. They might have gotten away
with it but when the leader of the
Nonpartisan League got into the game
and wired protests in exactly the
same Language as other kilograms,
Hoover smelled a mouse. The Non
partisan League at its 81. Paul meet
ing devoted considerable time to
maligning and abusing Hoover and his
methods, so that these kilograms in
stead Of being a knock turned out to
be boosts for Stearns, for Hoover and
the President evidently concluded if
this was the class fighting Stearns
the Denver man must be pretty good
sort Of a fellow.
The federal office holders who fought
Stearns are now wondering whether
their patron saint, Honest John" is
no longer cutting ice at Washington,
or whether he deliberately double
crossed them by finally supporting
Stearns. Shafroth's ability to try to
ride two horses going in opposite di-
rections is well known. The general
belief, however, is that he did not sup
port Stcarns but that on the contrary
his recommendation had little weight.
The information from Minnesota
that the Nonpartisan League is held
by the department Of justice to bor-
der on a disloyal organization, has
thrown the organizers in Colorado in
to fits. Now they are out telling the
farmers and others they seek for mem
bership that all this is 'vicious un-
truths sent out by the interests TO
prevent the common people getting
their rights through organization, and
to enable these interests TO continue
to rob the people" The farmers who
now know lust what the organization
is, are having rothing to do with it,
and II is said, many who have joined
asked TO have their memberships can
celed.
The Bernstorf expose coming on the
heels Of the unpatriotic speeches at the
St. Paul meeting Of the Nonpartisan
League is making a good many afraid
even to let the people know they were
ever fooled into joining. Whether any
direct connection between the Bern
ztorf slush fund ard those who backed
the Nonpartisan League will be traced
is. Of course, a question.
The Lamar register., 1917-10-03

For Sale-One hot blast heater and
IA Joints Of stove pipe, almost new.
Also one large oil heater. Address
lock box 8, Lamar.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19

The fact that some American ships
are on the other side of tlre ocean
unarmed is factor in the situation
and large warships are ineffective
against submarines the problem for
tn government is to get small sub
marine chasers. Most of the American
fleet is needed at home to guard
against operations of German sub
marines in American waters.
There seemed to be no doubt that
steps to supplement arming of Ameri-
can ships would be taken and the only
question was whether the President
would take such steps on his own re-
sponsibility or wait for Congress to
grant specific authority.
No comment was made at the White
House to-day beyond the statement
that the President was getting reports
and considering the question thor
oughly.
Secretary Lansing was called to the
White House by President Wilson
early to-day and they discussed the
policy of the government.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Railways to Give
Trainmen Back Paw

New York, March 19-Conferences
VIII be held here tomorrow between
the railway managefs and the brother
hood chiefs TO decide a basis of compu-
tation of back pay, inasmueh as the
new agreement is to be retroactive be-
ginning January 1. 1t is estimated un-
ofhcially that the men have coming to
them between $4,000, 900 and $13, O00. 900
in back wages.
The record of every mans work by
mileage and hours has been kept since
January l for use in case the United
states Supreme Court upheld the Adam
son act, effective on that date, If con-
stitutional.
1t was explained on behalf of the
managers committee this morning that
If the Supreme Court declared the Ad-
amson act valid it would then fall to
President Wilson's commission, headed
by George w. Goethals, to compute the
award of back pay for the men. 1t was
declared that If the Adamson act was
declared unconstitutional. the roads
then could assume the task of compu-
tation.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Award Coal Miners
Z Per Cent. Increase
Br AsSoci1tcI Prcst

Hazleton, Pa, March 19.-Every
man working more than nine hours a
day, whether by the day or month,
in or about the anthracite coal mines
is entitled to a wage advance of per
cent. dating from April l last under
a decision rendered heer to-day by
Charles p. Neill, of Washington, d. c.,
umpire of the conciliation board
Many of the companies had given
these men only per cent, an ad-
vance which applies to employees who
had been working nine hours and
who were put on an eight-hour shift
as provided for in the contract of
May 8, 1916.
The decision means thousands of
dollars in back pay to workers in the
hard coal region and establishes an
important precedent in the interpre-
tation of much disputed point in
the agreement.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
French Army Pushes For
ward With Machine-Like
Precision Along Forty
Mile Front, Taking I'm
portant Towns
$40 SQUARE MILES
RECLAIMED In DASHES
Successes Will Liberate Two
Entire Departments of
France From Grip of the
Invader; Cavalry Harries
Retreating Germans
BY Associated Press

Paris, March 10. - The German line
at last accounts was in full retreat
over section which represents almost
one-fifth of the vast front from
switzerland to the sea, closely pressed
by the French and British. French
troops, advancing with the precision
of machine along a forty-mile front,
have recaptured important towns and
many miles of territory, accomplishing
this at little cost to themselves, so
carefully has every detail of the ad-
vance been thought out.
In the Lassigny region west of Roye
the Germans appear to have made only
a weak defense since the French were
able to push forward 13 miles at one
bound. General Nivelle, the French
commander who is credited with
possessing almost uncanny ability to
gauge the powers of his opponents, is
following up the retreating Germans
with great rapidity.
Can't Offer Resistance
1t is regarded here as doubtful,
whether the Germans will find it feas-
ible to offer serious resistance before
reaching the basic line of defense be-
tween Lille and scissors, two DAYS
march from where they are now.
Tomorrow or the day after two en-
tire French departments, those of the
Oisne and Aisne, will be liberated from
the German invader, according to re-
ports from the fighting front. The
total territory now regained is roughly
calculated at 620 square miles. The
nature of the ground over which the
Germans retreated was almost all
against them and they were harried 10y
calvary, which is now being used in
force for the first time since the battle
of the Marre.
Several Sharp Struggles
At few points where nature offered
an opportunity for resistance the Ger
mans tried to make a stand and fell
back only after considerable fighting
The principal of these points were the
forest of Curscamp and the village and
part of the wood of Carlepont, south of
Noyon. There was also sharp
struggle for The important Crouy
plateau, across the river from scissors,
the capture of which is believed likely
by military critics to be followed by
highly favorable developments. In
this section the French have approx
mately restored the line which existed
before the battle of Crouy, fought in
the Spring of 1915 by General Berthe
lot, who is now in Rumania. The bat
tie was lost by the French owing to a
sudden rise IN the river Aisne.
The situation in the whole section
was at one moment compromised but
was saved by General Nivelle who was
given credit for the French being able
to retain the bridge head at scissors.
Between Scissors and Laon, lie Chan
teau and Bucy-le-Long, also lost in
1915. have not, however, been recap
tured. The newspapers are overjoyed
at the liberation of such an extent of
territory.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
RUSS REORGANIZE
GOVERNMENT TO
MEET CONDITIONS
Police Sent to Front When
New Men Take Their
Places

London, March 19.-The council of
workingmen's delegates in Petrograd
has prescribed the immediate resump-
ton of work in all factories, according
to q dispatch to Reuters from the
Russian capital. Factories will pay
run wages for the days on which work
was prevented by the revolution.
The detective and police services are
being reorganized, the former mem
bers being sent to the front. The
metropolitans of Petrograd and Mos
COW. Pitrin and Makary have been
sent into compulsory retirement. The
provincial governors are being replaced
by presidents of Zemstvos or mayors in
the management of food supplies. The
public funeral of all victims of the
revolution will be held in Petrograd on
Friday.
HON erule for Finland is the policy
of the new Russian government, ac-
cordlng to Reuter- correspondent
writing from Tammerfors, Finland's S
greatest manufacturing city.
General Zein, governor of Finland
under the old regime, has been sent
to Petrograd as a prisoner. People
throughout the country are jubilant
and the situation everywhere is peace
full.
The Russian cabinet will shortly is
sue n manifesto dealing with Finnish
liberty, according to a Petrograd dis
patch to Reuters. Negotiations are
proceeding with Baron Rosen, former
ambassador to Washington, with a
view to his appointment as governor
general of Finland
Minister of Justice Karensky has
ordered the district court at Tobolsk,
Siberia, to release Immediately NJ.
Ovinhuyer, former president of the
Finnish diet, and arranged for his
journey to Petrograd.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Burglars Break Way
Into Two Churches on
Hill; Get Little Loot

Burglars broke into the Stevens
Memorial Methodist Church aud the
Derry Street United Brethren Church
during the past week. At Stevens Me-
mortal, 80 cents in cash was all the
loot they obtained. At the Derry
Street Church the doors were opened
but nothing was disturbed
The janitor of the Stevens Memorial
noticed that a window of the church
had been pried open. Investigation
showed the thieves had broken open
the secretary's desk and looted its con-
tents. Thirty cents was all they found
A contribution box at the rear of the
church was also broken open but as
it did not contain anything of value,
the contents were undisturbed.
The thieves evidently tampered with
the locks at the Derry Street United
Brethren Church until they gained
entrance. 1t is believed in both IN
stances to have been the work of small
boys.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
AMERICANS ARE
STILL MISSING
AFTER ATTACK
Hope That Rescue Was Effect
ed by Boat or Patrol With
out Wireless
By Associated Press

London, March 19.-Captain Borum
and the eight men who formed the
complement of his boat are among
those missing from the sunken Ameri-
can steamer City of Memphis. Four
of the eight sailors are Americans.
The boat was picked up at 10 o'clock
Sunday morning empty and it is hoped
that its occupants were rescued either
by patrol boat or by a vessel carry
ing no wireless and landed at some
out-of-the-way port.
The survivors say that the captain S
boat became separated from the others
about o'clock on Sunday morning.
The City of Memphis loft Cardiff
with ffty-eight persons, of whom
twenty-nine were Americans. The sur.
vivors who have thus far reported to
the American consulate number thirty
three. The steamer carried no guns.
She was equipped with wireless, but
did not use it after the submarine
appeared. The survivors say the
weather was squally and there was a
heavy southwest wind.
Fifteen men from the American
steamer Vigilancia, sunk by a Ger
man submarin e, are now listed as
missing.
The American embassy learns that
the submarine fired two torpedoes at
the Vigilancia. The first missed by a
considerable distance. 1t was followed
Immediately by the second, which
found its mark.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-19
Right of Congress to Fix
Hours of Labor Unques-
toned Chief Justice White
Declares; Statute Fixes
Time and Wages
STRIPS POWER OF
PARTIES TO CONTRACT
Decision Reached by a Six to
Three Vote; Approx
mately 100000 Trainmen
Will Receive Nearly $780,
100000
BY associated Press

Washington, March 19.-The Adam
son eight-hour law was held cousti-
tutional and valid in all respects to-
day by the Supreme Court
The decision makes eight hours the
standard of days work and wages
for men in operation of trains and
legalizes the wage increases which
vent into tentative effect on it's pass
age.
The immediate temporary wage in
crease won by the railroad employees
affect 100000 trainmen, as of ]nnuacy
l, and are estimated to total between
S40,C00,G00 and $50,000,OO0.
The courts decision was to 4,
with Justices Day, PItney and Van lc-
vanter and McReynolds dissenting.
Federal Judge Hooks ruling IN the
Missouri, Oklahoma and Gulf Pan
road test case, enjoining enforcement
of the Adamson aHt and hold'ag il
"Grcons stitutional, null and void" was
reversed.