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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
DIR. G.. Il, Wilson Still Here.

DR.. c. P. Wilson has requested US
to state that he is still in DEBORAH,
and does not know when he will
leave. He has received a commission
in the veterinary corps of the army
Quite number Of his customers have
been under the impression that he
had left DEBORAH, and consequently
have not notified him when needing
his services. Just telephone him any
time and he will be at your service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Only Twenty Years Ago.


Ladies wore bustles.
Operations were rare.
Nobody had seen silo.
Nobody swatted the fly.
Nobody sprayed orchards.
Cream was cents pint.
Nobody had appendicitis.
Nobody wore white shoes.
Canteloupes were mushmeloons.
Milk shake was a favorite drink.
Advertisers did not tell the truth.
You never heard of "tin Lizzie. y
Most young meA had livery bills. +"
Doctors wanted to see your tongue.
Farmers came to town for their
mail.
The hired girl drew one-fifty a
week.
Nobody Listened in" on tele-
phone.
Nobody cared for the price of gaso-
line.
The butcher threw IN cnunk OF
liver.
Folks said pneumatic tires were a
joke.
Strawstacks were burned instead OF
baled.
People thought English sparrow:
were birds"
Jules Verne was the only CONVEX
to the submarine.
Publishing a country newspapel
was not business.
There were no sane Fourths no
electric meters.
You stuck tubes in your ears tt
hear a photograph and it cost dime
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Capt. Swezey and Lieut.. Jewell Here

Last Friday Captain A. j. Swezey
arrived in DEBORAH from Fort Riley,
Kansas, and On Sunday Lieutenant
NJ d. Jewell arrived here from the
same place on visit of a few days
to home folks. Both doctors look in
the pink of condition and are feeling
fine Captain Swezey returned to Fort
Riley yesterday and Lieutenant
Jewell expects to return today. Lieu
tenant Jewell tells us that he expects
to be transferred to Camp Dodge at
Des Moines or to American Lake,
Washington.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Congregational Church.

Next Sabbath will be observed as
Rally Day. Members of church and
congregation please take notice. Sub
ject in the morning The Divine Ur
gency". The Sabbath school will have
a special programme with Home De-
partment AID Cradle Roll represent
ed. In the evening there will be a
Harvest Home concert by the quar-
tette with outside assistance.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Installing New Chairs.

John c. HeXom & Son are installing
fourteen new and up-to-date chairs in
their shoe department this week.
They are of the latest design and will
make fine addition to their already
up-to-date shoe department.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Not A Theatrical Star.

A college graduate was walking
down the street one evening with a
friend of Irish descent, and, pausing
to look up at the starry sky, remark
ed, with enthusiasm:
How bright Orion is tonight.
So, that is Organ, is it? replied
Pat. Well, thank the Lord, there's
one Irishman in heaven, anyhow.
Middle names we're once illegal in
England.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-10-10
Dental Work for Selected Men.

Deutai NOrk IOr ScieCttu MCh.
To the Selected Men of Winneshiek
County:
In cooperation with the State Den
tai society, the dentists of Winnie
shiek County hereby offer their servl-
ces free to all selected men who are
in need thereof and are unable 10
meet the expenses from their own
funds. If necessary, appointments
will be made so that each man VINO
REQUIRES our services may be treated
before it is necessary for him to go TO
Camp Dodge. You may choose which
ever dentists you desire to have do
your work. The time is short so 90
not delay.
F. w. CONOVER, Director.
G. l.. TOPLIFF.
Il. c. HUTCHINSON.
o. DOE.
w. r. TOYE.
KINLEY ORR.
FL. CONOVER. Calmar.
j. p. SCHNEEBERGER
CLINTON SoBOLIK. Ossien.
They Won't Stick.
| All men are born equal. The live
ones refuse to stay in the class they
were horn IN.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Don't Forget to Write Mother
And Send Picture of Yourself

Editor, The Washington Herald:
Your editorial, Remember Mother"
in this mornings Herald. is one wish
/ could see often on the editorial page
Of every great daily in America. J am
sure that before bedtime tonight hun
dreds of tS-oy letters will so out from
this great city TO much-neglected
mothers all up and down this land
because of your editorial Remember
Mothers"
On the streets in Washington yes
terday a little seven-year-olo tot was
found wandering aimlessly. No. not
aimlessly. for the little fellow was IN
search of his sick mother. He did not
know where she had been carried, but
he knew she was somewhere and sick
and in a big effort to find he- he was
treading the streets Of this city, hop
ing, trusting. believing, perhaps. in
his simple, child-like way that some
" here somehow he would be able 20
find her he 50 dearly loved and whom
he knew SO dearly loved him-and he
dId find her.
Shamei that big. strong men should
be less thoughtful of their lovins
mothers than was this little child OF
his mother.
Say, young man. is your mother still
living? Do you write to her as often
as you should7 Let me suggest this:
Invest a few dollars In q camera and
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
PLAIN TALKS AAD. lA.s..

The unimagfnativs persons are the
curse Of the world" says the letter
1ust received from q friend; "the
cause of nearly all our woes"
He was telling Of the trouble he had
been having In trying to collect a
rather large debt that had been owed
him for years by q business man.
when I brought up the subject. he
said: But you know I'm perfectly
good. You are secured by the proper
ty have. And II anything were TO
happen to you. the money would go TO
your heirs.'
'At this point ! came near losing
my temper.
terest,' he said,
Then biurted out: But I want
the money
He exacted the last drop Of mortih-
cation. "Oh," he said, IF you are
in need OF the money
"'Yes, am In need Of IT, ! said.
desperately. and, at last. he turned TO
his desk and. after glancing over his
accounts, wrote out q check for the
full amount. with interest, completing
a most unpleasant transaction
He said goodbye to me without q
word OF thanks. and he acted as IL 4
had done him an INJURY"
Neither a borrower or a lender be. I"
Shakespeare knew how to give cx-
cellent advice in regard to social rela-
tions. He mad probably had some pain
full experiences with his fellow actors
and fellow dramatists.
To be either a borrower or a lender
and OF a temper requires Imagination
And OF the two the greater irnsgina-
ton is required by the lender. For
he may have TO perform the feat Of
understanding the borrowers state OF
mind long after the transfer has oc-
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Sugar-Two Lumps, Please!

Sugar has become scarce because too much has been
exported to France and American housewives have
consumed unusual quantities in preserving fruits and
vegetables The canning factories have also packed
enormous quantities of fruits and vegetables and the
wine makers have bought sugar give body to their
products good market for which is assured by the
high on distilled spirits. Government officials warn
the public that the shortage of sugar will not be
eved until the sugar beet crop has passed through the
factories and sugar comes the market in Louis
lana, the West Indies and other countries that raise
sugar For three successive years Europe has
forestaled the American sugar market and this year
the domestic shortage is more acute than ever.
1t is irritating find the government officials who
urged American women to preserve all the fruits and
vegetables they could afford blaming them for
buying too much sugar. The average home kitchen is
not equipped with apparatus for canning fruits and
vegetables by serilzng process and when
woman tries to do the product is almost always
unsavory and finds its way into the garbage The
know this better than the government experts
and have used sugar as usual If they have bought it
freely they did because the papers full of
warnings from Washington to preserve all that they
could
If Federal food experts cannot look ahead and grasp
the probable results that will follow taking their ad-
in the of sugar. they should keep quiet So
far they have done more harm than good and the
prices of necessares of life have advanced in the face
of larger crops. They said that prices should come
down in October, but past the middle of the
month with the tendency still upward far as retail
prices concerned. Before Christmas the consump-
ton of sugar by candy makers and bakers is always
heavy and the problem of distributing enough sugar
more government experts talk about milk the higher
goes the price; and the thing threatens those
who sugar The public fast losing faith in food
control.-Ne1V York Commercial
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20

send Il home with instructions that
when you write to your mother some
trother, sister or friend is to make q
few snapshots of the 5oy-Illumined
countenance OF the glad old mother az
with trembling, agitated hand she re-
ceives and reads your letters. Then
secure these snapshots, develop them
and the sight OF them will make you
visit home and mother oftener than
ever before. Use the camera srsin
when you visit her and then, when
finally mother passes from this room
into the next" you can visit her grave
and those snapshots vii, afford you a
pleasure. a lot OF satisfaction mere
words are inlpotCnt to express.
Don't forget nor ec~n appear 20 ne
glect your first and best frieud-the
one TO whom you are more indebted
than anyone else, except God.
In most effective rhymth. Alexander
Pope said:
Ne let the tender ONCE long engage,
To rock the cradle OF reposing age;
With lenient arts extend a mothers
breath,
Make langor smile and smooth the
bed Of death:
Explore the thought. explain the ask
ing eye.
And keep at least one parent from the
Fky.
FLEETWOOD L. DIXON.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Another Bond.

Again the submarine takes its toll OF American
lives. This time the United States is at war with the
enemy which, press reports say sent sxtyseven OF our
boys to watery graves.
Sixty-seven gone yesterday, and we are only enter
ing war which has taken toll of millions of our allies
Do we ever stop to think that in three of war
Belgium and France and England have borne the
brunt of Germanys forty years of preparedness for
war-and that had not been for Belgium and France
and England the Hun would be dominating this
country?
Is it not time for scotch the snake of treason
insidious?
The enemy of this country is seeking to debaueh
propaganda into the minds of the strong as well as the
weak and the vaclating and those in high places are
lending countenance to the enemy.
The same mind which sent sixty-seven Americans to
death Yesterday is at work in America, aided and
abetted by Americans unworthy the name These boys
call for vengeance They died at the hands of cow
srdy fighter. Perhaps your boy was there. How would
YOU feel if some bastard shot you from the cover Of
the deep? How did your boy feel about it?
Do you temporize with tarantula that gets in your
path? Do you argue with crazy man who runs
amucke Do you seek the sayers of children
the ravishers of women the butchers Of priests and
nurses?
Then why not give the best answer to be given to-
day-Buy Liberty Bond.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
The Beautiful Twins.

Reference at social function the other night was
made to the sub ect of striking resemblances when
happy little incident along that line was recalled by
Representative Oscar Galloway, of Texas.
In certain Texas town there were beautiful twin
sisters who looked much alike that even the i'm
mediate family occasionally had some difficulty in tell
ing which Gladys and which was Margaret
Eventually one of the two became engaged to a man
named Richard.
"Say Dick" exclaimed friend on meeting the
prospective bridegroom afternoon 81 understand
you engaged to one of those beautiful twins"
engaged about two weeks"
"Fnel Fine!" congratulated the friend "But how
in the world can you tell them apart?"
u don't try to-" was the prompt rejoinder of
Teleqrabh.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Army and Navy News
Best Service Column In City.

The territory to be acquired by the
government in Hartford County, Nd,
for a new army proving ground site
as a substitute for the Kent Island
site will have a thirty-mile range and
will include the entire southeastern
part OF the county and a small sec
ton OF Baltimore County. The range
is to start at and include all OF
Spesutia Island, where there are sew
eral large farms and some fine FISH
ing and ducking shores. II will also
include the famous ducking shores in
the neighborhood of Bengies. The
idea is to have two fifteen-mile
ranges, so that guns may be fired in
two directions at the same time.
Each man Of about 100. 900 in four
national cantonments at Camps Lee,
Taylor, Dix and Devens will be given
an Intelligent rating" by psyche
logy examinations conducted by the
section of psychology Of the surgeon
generals office. Sets OF examinations
have been prepared. involving scores
OF tests, to enable the examiners to
grade each man according to his In
telligence or manual skill. Each mans
record will be placed at the disposal
VI us COlIpdHs " ASSET
him in picking men for promotion or
for special lines of work. Commanding
officers will, OF course. be free to use
their own judgment, for It is intend
ed that the ratings shall merely as
sist them in such selections as they
are called upon to make.
Word received from several officers
OF the Reserve Corps indicates that
/ there Is a feeling among Reserve
officers that there is unfair discrim-
ination" involved in the lettering on
their uniform collars. They point
out that both the National Guard and
| the National Army ornaments are
"C S" with letters 'N.G" with a
small "R" between the u" and IS. E"
It does not appear TO us that their
point is we'll taken. II the dineren-
tiation in the collar ornaments is in
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
The Slogan.

"Now is the time for all good men
To come to the aid of the party"
I write it down again and again
That sentiment hale and hearty;
It's grand old phrase to practice on
When testing your skill at typing,
And it meant lot in the days agone
When political times were piping.
Now is the time for all good men
To come to the aid of the party"
1t once went great in the seasons when
The partisan trend was hearty;
But now, in the days when we fight the Hun
Because of his hate besotten,
That sort of phrase is through and done,
Its potency is forgotten
'Now is the time for all good men"
We need new line to finish
For strong as the hold of the old has been
Its power and strength diminish;
So we cheerfully tap on the keys again
And write, in our exaltation,
Now is the time for all good men
To come to the aid of the NATION p
BY Berfon Braiey
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20

dentists asking that something be
done to have the dental students put
on an equality with the medical stu
dents. General Crowder had the mat
ter under advisement and about the
time the members left for home ruled
that inasmuch as congress had made
no provision for this the provost mar
shal general could not promulgate
regulations taking cognizance of 1t.
The members arrive home just in
time to receive full blame for for
getting the dentists. and such a
scramble was APPARENT that the MEM
bers who had left wired back to
members still here to concentrate for
ces for big drive on the provost
marshsl's Office.
This was done-but General Crowd
er had gone over the matter in ad-
vance with some of the higher-ups
and the Justice Of putting the dental
students on the same plane with their
first cousins was seen so plainly that
he ruled in favor of them before many
members had a chance to renew their
solicitations.
No ruling made by General Crowd
er has been more popular than this
one-and none has relieved the MEM
bers of congress more than this, so
they admit as they gladly meet dem
lists now.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20

CURED and while ~ stiil remains un-
rscompensed. and he must make al
There are few who can reach such
heights In actual practice
As for the borrower, N he can re-
elize how the lender feels. he n likely
70 try TO be q prompt payer. But
much more keenly. az q rule, be real
Lies how hard IL is to pay.
In order 10 avoid paying 4 debt.
some persons viii make astonishing
sacrifices in the way OF personal COM
fort and even Of personal friends.
They win resort TO terrible distress-
60 to escape the distress OF paying.
Rather than pay q friend. they win
lose the friend. Rather than give up
money owed. they will give up peace
OF mind itself.
And, in many cases, they viii even
look on themselves and wonder why
they are so foolish.
But some quality, seemingly strong
er than will. makes them hold tirht 90
what they have
A man Of my acquaintance once
lent another man q considerable sum
OF money.
f1H ttueIoeits Chusco tne otner man
20 disappear from his sight
After a period Of years-considersbly
longer than the number outlswinf a
debt-the two happened 70 meet
The encounter was awkward for
both.
They talked about Indifferent mat
tcrs and shook hands IN parting.
"Oh. by the way" said the debtor,
''one OF these days I'm going to settle
that little transaction Of ours" sno
he added. ''now outlawed."
To enter sympstheticsIiy into his
state Of mind as he spoke those voros
must have been hard for that listener
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Let's Improve Our Methods.

Washington is overlooking several methods by which
the liberty loan in this city might be popularzed and
advertised
Why don't those in charge of it benefit by the
ample set in some other ctiesS Our committee has
been doing good work, but it would be worth while if
some member should pay a visit to New York, for
instance and adopt of Gotham's ideas. The ac-
tiyities of both cities similar, only those of New
York
In New York all the statues draped in signs
urging the citizens to buy bond the taxicabs have
streamers across their backs with like slogan; prom
nent owners of electric sign rights have donated their
electrical display the movement the street carry
cards. and there are many other little ways and
which this city has apparently overlooked
And in the theaters New York goes one better
Here we depend public-sprited citizens to make
speeches between the acts and with all due respect
their efforts, the audiences walking out them
because of their amateurshness and the sameness of
their material
Why not do as New York in the theaters, where the
actors idols of the public appear in their natural ee
ment and urge the buying of bonds. Because must
pay to see the actors their work begets attention where
talk by of citizens is not appreciated to
its full value The actors playing in Washington would
gladly do their bit if they asked.
And why let proposition grow cold after interest
is aroused. Here speaker makes impressive
talk and retres trusting his audience go the
bank the next day and do their buying. How many of
us even remember what he said the next day?
Why not open a subscription then and there, as is
being done elsewhere and get the benefit of any
thusiasm which might accrue from speakers talk?
This is not effort to cast disparagement the
celent work being done by patriotic citizens but just
a reminder that overlooking few bets. Isn't
it worthy of consideration?
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20

gering is last place. If there is business ahead go
and get it.
And get it quickest and best through adver-
tising.
Advertising in The HERALD hits the spot for
quick action because it reaches the consumer in the
morning in his home.
For father, when he comes down in the morn
for mother little when she has quiet hour after
the hddes are off to school. to plan her shopping
trip and get the news that interests her most
YOUR "AD"-all In The HERALDl
GEORGE BROWN.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
The Dutch Ships.

Apparently, the Netherlands government has finally
come to its senses. 1t has been engaged in vain,
losing fight, and has at last recognized the fact.
The United States has not deviated hairbreadth
from the position it originally assumed regarding the
Dutch ships laden with American cargoes which would
doubtless, have found their way into Germany-at
least, indirectly so. The American government, of
course did not try any handed tactics with Dutch
shipping. 1t merely denied their cargoes export
licenses, and the ships themselves bunker COAL 1t
very foolish of Holland spend all these summer and
fall months trying to determined belligerent
like the United States from the policy it had adopted
The Netherlands tried peadings cajolery high prom
ses nearly everything to gain its end 1t would prom
se everything except to stop its trade with Germany
There has been camouhage about Dutch profteer-
ing in the trade. For three years it has been an
open book. Holland at first saw necessity of de-
Tending it; with the United States to support her un-
disputed rights NEUTRAL she all but boasted of the
gold pouring into her Golfers because of her rich trade
across the border" But with the United States as
belligerent in the war-ah, that was different The
Netherlands suddenly brought to the realization
that her whole economic stability depended on her ex-
ports from across the Atlantic. She has made des-
perate effort to argue the American government into
allowing her trade with Germany to continue. Now
she recognizes her failure.
The ninety-odd Dutch ships which have been living
in American harbors for six months and more are to
be added to the stock of American shipping The
Dutch that it is better to put them to some
use-snce the American government willing to paw
well for them-rather than to have them continue in
ideness The solution is an excellent one, and it
should cause gnashng of teeth in Holland unless
the viewpoint of its shrewd trading people is entirely
warped through their anxiety to faen off both groups
of belligereits in the present world turmoil.
Even now we hear OF tiie rising tide of British in
disnaton because Holland is permitting stone and
gravel to pass overland from Germany into Belgium
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Bouquet for Congress.

President Wilson commended Con-
gress for its work of the war session,
and so have many other individuals
here and there. But the first formal
resolution to this effect came to hand
yesterday, when members in the city
received copies of the resolutions
rassed at a recent meeting of the Ma
tional Security League.
Said this leagues board in the reso-
lutions: We urge all public bodies to
express to Congress keen sense of
appreciation for the splendid con-
structive work done by our Senators
and representatives in enacting legis-
lation to provide for the effective con-
duct of the war. Those who know this
work will be inspired by the splendid
example of their official representa-
tives to render the largest measure
of individual effort and sacrifice. The
quality and unity Of service that has
been rendered to the nation during the
past few months, regardless of party
lines, is unparalleled in history"
The President and the Cabinet and
the Council Of National Defense come
in for this enconium also, and what is
said with respect to Congress applies
also to the administrative workers.
the league makes plain.
THE OBSERVER.
The Washington herald., 1917-10-20
Dentists with Physicians,

Members Of congress who are home
can make peace with their dentists
and get their teeth fixed now for
the regular session without being
afraid to take grinning gas or any
other preparation the teethsmiths
may have for them.
For Gen. Crowder has sent out
orders to all the States to place
dental students on parity with medi-
cal students and allow them to enlist
In the reserve corps and complete
their education before formally called
for duty.
About the time of adjournment the
members were deluged with tele-
grams and letters from their home