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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

"Some thoughtful legislator has in
troduced a bill increasing the pay OF
township assessors from $3.50 to $4
a day. If any class of Office holders
deserves salary increase it is the as
sessor." says the Upton Advertiser,
This paper has often contended
that the Office is one Of the most I'm
portant and calls for high measure
of ability. The man who is capable
Of doing a good job in listing and
valuing all kinds Of personal prop
erty, as we'll as real estate, and OF
making his returns In well written
books ought to be worth at least "a
a day. When the salary of any office
ID less than 1t ought to be 1t Is din
cult to get the right kind OF a man
to fill IT,"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07
Iowa And California.

California papers are making q
great ado over the blizzard in Iowa.
There has not been a blizzard In To-
wa in fifty years. And II there were
an occasional bad snow and ice storm
that does no particular harm-in
fact, no harm. California has climate
and oranges and has lots for sale.
The climate is no better than any
body else's climate, and the lots are
mostly worthless. The oranges are
good. But people cannot live On or
anges alone, and If they want to eat
in California. they havs to bring
their lunch with them or something
that represents human needs. There
is no chance of earning lunch and
other necessities in California. This
is no Joke. Ever is the western press
warning people to stay away from
California. unless they have cash
and plenty Of 1t. No other folks are
weieome and no other folks can ex-
ist there. Better Iowa with a bliz-
zard every year than a diet of oran-
ges only.-Burlington Hawk-Eye.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

A lady reached western railroad
station, destined to a village two
miles away. Her train was late; In
fact, it was nightfall. Seeing no one
but the watchman, with lantern,
she asked of him, when can I get
to Ogensville?" mot till tomorrow
morning, madam, as the stage left
a few minutes before the arrival OF
your train WELL" said she,
"where is the hotel?" 'No hotel
here, madam" "Well," said she, Il
must have somewhere to sleep"
Whereupon the watchman replied,
"You can sleep with the agent. "Sir
sir, wish you to understand that
am lady" So is the agent" replied
the watchman.-Exchange.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07
1.-THE. SEASONS BY
DEBORAH CHORAL UNION
Will be Given i'm Grand Opera House
Wednesday Evening, March Fl.
TICKETS ON SALE
AT PARMAN'S MARCH IA
Public Should Encourage Efforts Of
This Organization by Packing
the Grand on This
Occasion.

A great deal or interest is being
manifested in the forthcoming pro-
duction of Haydn's "The Seasons" by
the Decorah Choral Union. This will
take place in the Grand Opera House
on the evening of March 81. AS
spring begins on this date it is pc
culiarly fitting time to render 'The
Seasons. This is the first time this
oratorio has ever been presented in
Decorah.
The Decorah Choral Union, under
the able baton of Prof. Sperati, has
been working on this oratorio since
early last fall. and that the mighty
choruses are certain of creditable
rendition, goes without saying.
Perhaps few words concerning
this work and its composer might be
Of interest. "The Seasons" was the
last great work of Haydn, and il is
a striking fact that this work is char
acterized by its freshness. It's first
performance took place at the
Schwarzenberg Palace on April "a,
1901. Haydn's death occurred on May
81, 1909.
The Decorah Choral Union is one
of Decorah's enterprises that is en-
titled to the support of the music low
.ers of this city. 1t works untiringly
that the great masterpieces may be
produced here. 1t does not seek to
make money. 1t is hoped that the
public will show their encourage
ment of the efforts of an organiza-
tion that sings as we'll as does the
DecOrah Choral Union by packing the
Grand Opera House on this occasion,
The tenor soloist for this occasion
is the well-known Warren Proctor, Of
Chicago. Mr.. Proctor is member of
the Chicago Grand Opera Company,
and is one of the best of the younger
singing artists in America. He has
appeared as soloist a great many
times with the Apollo Club of Chica-
go, and of him the Chicago Tribune
says: Surely tone of such warmth
and purely is gift to be priced"
The Musical Courier says, "His voice
is big and beautiful, his range is re-
markable, and his scale perfectly
even. He shades finely. and sings
with authority, proving not alone
voice but musicianship" Warren
Proctor is one of the finest recital
givers that one could wish to hear"
says Music News.
OF Herbert Gould, basso, of Chica-
go, the Music News says, "Mr.
Gould's natural assets are truly no.
BILE bass voice of wide range. He is
well schooled, and earnest in his
search for the moods OF the music
When power is called for, the tone IS
opulent and superb rotundity" The
Music Leader speaks Of him as YER
liable find in the matter of voice
and dramatic ability.
Bertha Anna Cooper, soprano, II
an instructor at the State University
of Iowa, at Iowa City. She is an
Iowa product, comes we'll recon-
mended by Decorah people who know
of her ability. and that she will give
a true account of herself in "The
rSeasons' goes without saying.
Tickets will be put on sale at E. ]
Parmans on Wednesday morning
March 14th.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07
Commerce with Latin America.

Total commerce between the Unit
ed States and the countries consti-
tuting Latin America in the calen-
dar year 1916 reached the unprece-
dented sum of $1,260.793.000, as
against $921.025.000 in the previous
year. This was gain of approxi-
mately SO per cent for the period.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

Mr.. Haugen succeeded, adding ma
+terially to his business each year.
until today he is operating one Of
the finest department stores in the
Northwest. carrying an immense
stock Of dry goods. carpets, lace
curtains, etc., as well as large and
select stock of groceries.
OF course the succeeding years
were not all rosy, but nevertheless
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

They say that an Iowa family OF
four recently breakfasted in a hotel
at Palm Beach, Florida, and were
bit >srfprSsedS when they found that
the checks called for $3.50. They
now appreciate the truth of the re.
mark of the Floridan who stated
once upon time that 1--WE live on
fruit in summah and northenahs In
wintah."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

Public Opinion joins with the hun
dreds of friends of.this popular pi-
oneer merchant IN extending to him
most profuse congratulations on his
fortieth anniversary. and successful
and honorable career as merchant
and good citizen :of Decorah, and We
wish for him many more anniversar-
les, good health and prosperity on his
way to the end OF life's pathway.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

The Burlington Hawkaye says
Consolidated sehoolssaEe being vot-
ed quite regularly in NJ, and nc
doubt the last Of the f&Me old one
room school houses in Iowa ma!
consider its days numbered.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07
Some Truth to This.

Sometimes when man consti-
tutes himself into watchdog OF the
Treasury, he don't get anywhere or
let anyone else get anywhere either"
says the Britt Tribune.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

The Clinton Herald commends the
rural carriers as 'One of the nations
most useful connecting links be-
tween city and country, braying
storms and experiencing many diff
culties in their daily rounds that the
people Of city sad country may ELI
Joy the privileges of the mail ser'ice."
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

The child is indeed father to the
man, the former builds houses OF
blocks and the latter builds q block
Of houses. :
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

Beginning Y.@, 'ay Morning They
will Work a, Speed Until
End o. - "a.
ROAD BILL Is CHIEF
Campaigning Has Been i'm Progress
All Over the State During the
Recess.

constituents, loaded with petitions
and rested after a week of recess, the
members of the legislature will now
plunge into the midst of the heaviest
work OF the session. Speed Is ex-
pected to be the slogan until its ad-
journment sine die.
Both houses face calendars which
: will probably never be completely
cleared again this session until the
sitting committee sweeps them clean.
The senate calendar has nearly sew
enty bills and the house calendar a
proportionately greater number, in
cluding the Johnston-Pitt road bill.
The road bill was set as special
-order for Friday morning and it has
been this measure which has kept
the members busy during their re-
cess, answering questions and dodg-
ing the necessity of pledging them
selves to vote both ways and still
maintain the good will of their back
ers. Several debates have been
staged in different parts of the state
and several of the members have de-
voted most of the week to preach
ing the road gospel of the Pitt ad-
ministration to their own and other
counties.
Petitions will flood both houses
this week. The administration road
faction prepared thousands of petit
tions to be signed and addressed to
the legislature and they will be
brought back by the members.
Another fight over the Frailey
military reRolntions may yprecade the
;fas fosd hskf. Il Senator FraiIsy decides
to insist upon the adoption of his
draft denouncing the war department
for it's rulings in the matter OF the
guardsmen's uniforms. Just before
. the adjournment a week ago Senator
Frailey announced that he would re-
turn with full intention or making
the senate reject the house amenu-
ments to the resolution and securing
concurrence of the house in the orig
inal draft. Recent international de-
velopments may affect the question
however.
The appropriations committees
will get down to the task of wedding
out the mass Of bills that have been
sent to them, and by the end of tbs
week will have the last of their con-
signment before them as March 10 il
the final day, under the rules, for in
PRODUCTION of appropriation bills. Ac.
tion is expected on the attorney gen
erals $25; 200 appropriation for spe'
cial agent work this week or early
next week.
The engrossing committees of both
houses are holding up nineteen bills
which have been passed by both and
are ready for submission to Cover
nor Harding for his signature
Among them is the bill establishing .
state banking department. Appoint
ment Of the superintendent of bank
ing ia not looked for until late in thu
session, however, though it must b
I, made before adjournment, according
ito the provisions of the bill.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

A Magnetic speaker is usually .
good drawing card. ts X
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-03-07

Wisdom is the name some men al
ply to their self conceit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28
Gives Veiw of Situation Not Generally Chrcnicled by Correspondent at
 the Front
SILENCE FACTOR MOST IMPRESSIVE
 ALONG THE FRONT
Airplanes Only Signs of Living Things as Battle field Is Viewed
 From Afar
By ROBERT GRANT. JR.

Here is an American business man impression of the fighting front. The professional writer has had his say about it many times, but the profes
 sional writer rarely is judge of certain matters of intense importance. Robert Grant, Jr., who wrote this article, is banker, first, being partner in Higginson & Co, the Lon don house of one of the most famous banking firms in the United States, Lee Higginson & Go. of Boston, and an industrialist; second being a di- rector in Dorman, Long & Co.,, steel manufacturers, Bell Brothers, linn ited, one of Britains greatest iron and steel concerns; the Northeast ern Steel company. the British Man
 nesman Tube company, and several other great industrial enterprises. Furthermore, and this adds much to the importance of the contribution, he is son of Robert Grant, the <famous American novelist. What he Days. therefore, must be of especial interest to all Americans. He saw the front as your own banker your
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28
'AF TER EXPOSURE
 GET THIS RELIEF.
Use Sloan's Eminent to pre- vent aches and pains from
 weather exposure

You. who are out in all kinds of weather! Never let your cold, wet work lay you up with Rheumatism or Cramped Muscles. Apply Sloan's Lini- ment to those sore Joints or muscles, stiff neck, lumbago, neuralgia twinges. Yes and to sprains, bruises, toothache or any hurt. It's warming, easing com fort, will penetrate an inflamed joint, soothe strained muscles or irritated nerves and stop the pain at once.
 S1oan's Liniment requires no rubbing to get immediate results. Is much bet ter than salves or plasters, as its clear, clean liquid is heater and easier to apply. Its success in saving suffer- ing for others proves it will stop your aches. Generous size bottles at drug gists everywhere. 25c, soc, s1.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28
OF FREE
 NATIONS NEXT STEP
By EMILE BOUTR0Ux Famous French Authority on EducatiO n

pose, and in every way uses them as passive instruments of her policy
 The result is that it has become im- possible to remain a spectator of the ..- ~.,e,it war. Not morally only, but ma terially as well, every one already is or .omuIrow will be forced to fight on one 5r the other side
 This war is a demonstration of the extraordinary power which can be pro duced by large groupings and wise or sanization. To suppose that, when peace is signed-granted that so-caled peace may be concluded with people Tor whom treaties are but scraps of paper the whole world, including Germany, will enter single and honorable organiza- ton, in which the Germans would stand on footing of equality with other na- tions, is an empty dream. It is true that the present conflict is likely to last for long time under different forms. Therefore. to build and maintain large groupings will remain not oniy highly uesilsto.- but inaly iaSd l.e.
 and economically, and the question will be whether the German method of mak- ing compacts of nations Is capable or persistence and development, or whether a free association of free nations shall endure and succeed, and prove the only form adequate to the true and high as- pirations of human nature.
  is self-evident that those nations which, abhorring German absolutism and feudal- ism will be disposed to enter the re- public of the free nations will secure q nobler peace and more authority in that international republic if they actually have contributed to make 1t possible, than if they have obstinately kept esually distant from ri "l '"eor'e. from the defenders of liberty and the champions of despotism.
 It is the natural outcome of the Ameri- can tradition that led America to declare herself for the cause of liberty One of the great founders of the great North American republic, Abraham Lincoln, uttered during the civil war the mag nificent words: '.Now we are engaged in a great civil war. testing whether that nation (viz: a nation dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equaD or any nation so conceived can long endure"
 Now, to the word "a nation" only add 'and a republic of nations" and the Lincoln phrase exactly covers the high est aims of this war. We can conf1- dently say that the American moral and political problem is at stake
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employer, or some member of the board of directors of the business firm in which you are most interested would have seen it. rather than as a journalist would see it.
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NoIsEEEss CASCADE OF SHELLS

\ shower came down and the droDs rang on our steel helmets. What star cf surprise every soldier must have haG the first time it rained on his helmetl 1t was the same with the flashes in :he valley. The shell by the tent was only just audible. gentle wind was blowing away from us towards the fighting but even so it is incredible that we heard so little. And vet, we have heard the guns in England, day after day, all the summer long. The others told us it was often like this and that if the wind had been the other way we should have had our ears full. No wonder acoustics con- tinue to puzzle even the experts!
 We would all have remained there atl night had we been allowed to, for if t was such a show by day what must it have looked like at night with every gun functioning like a flash of light ming and every explosive shell a separate pyrotechnic exhibit, to say nothing of star shells, rockets and Verrey lights
 If the earth before our eyes could have yielded up what it held as we watched that day we would have seen at least 2,000,000 men. thousands and thousands ot guns, mountains of shells, miles of rail- road track and enough of other things to set up a nation housekeeping All we could see actually were battered houses towns and trees, bursting shells, flashes .and smoke.
 The only signs Of real life were the arplanes. It was difficult as we mo- tored back past the endless files of motor trucks, the military police regulating the traffic at every crossroads, the lines and lines of tied horses, parked wagons hospitals. intuition dumps, supply cen ters. artillery on the move, aerodromes and all the hundred and one different kinds of devices and equipment that makes the war so long and it's size so stupendous These were visible and stag gering enough. but what we had not seen, as is very often the case, had inn pressed us most.
 Out there in front of the bustlins, crowded country we were passing through were hundreds of thousands of men, most of them patiently waiting They were waiting, like the men near the outswung boats on tsle channel steamer, for something to happen. They were waiting, like the men in the trenches that first day, to be relieved They were waiting to go over the top or to be hit by a shell as they stood.
 The size of the thing and the necessity of the quality of patience in everyone
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28

The juice of two fresh lemons strain ed into bottle containing three ounces of orchard white makes whole quarter pint of the most remarkable lemon skin beautifier at about the cost one must pay for a small jar of the ordinary cold creams Care should be taken to strain the lemon juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in
 then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach and re- move such blemishes as freckles, sal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-28

Paris, September 20-(Special Core spondenceD-One thing among others seems to me more and more certain to result from the present war and that is the impossibility of any nation re- maning neutral
 Even one or two years before the war ] was astonished as I read in a Belgian newspaper an article written by MT. Dumont-Wilden stating that Alsacc- Lorraine was the neuralgia point of Europe. The burden of his argument was this: The incorporation of Alsace- Lorraine into the new German empire meant the assertion of the right of forc.- ble conquest as superior to the right naturally inherent to every person, in- dvidual or collective or dsposing of himself and controlling his own destiny. And he declared that in view of the rapidly increasing power of Germany and her purpose to annihilate the indc- pendence of the small nations it be- came impossible for anyone in Europe to remain indifferent to the question of Alsace-Lorraine Nay, the Alasce-Lor- the most urgent and universal question ill the world.
 What some acute minds might have suspected before the war is now an actual fact, not only as far as Europe is concerned, but for every nation in the world which would distinguish between liberty and servitude, between democracy and despotic rule, for the declared post tion of Germany is that. as she is i,l every respect. superior to all other na- ticns she has been charged by God with the mission of organizing the whole world. by which she means submitting it to her own authority, and if she does not succeed this time in realizing this ideal she will try it again, when she finds that pacific idea again obtain in the nations and impair their strength.
 Since she boasts that she is fighting for the happiness and prosperity, not of Germany alone, but of the world, she ices not admit any restriction on her method of conducting the war She only deigns to discourse on legality when she feels less certain of victory or when she wishes to gain time She not only acknowledges no rights of neutrals and small states, but kills her own citizens, IS well as the soldiers of her enemies, if she deems it convenient for her pur-
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lowness. and tan and is the ideal skin softener and beautifier.
 Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white at any pharmacy or toi- let counter and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon lotion and massage it daily into the facc, neck, arms and hands. It naturally should help to soften, freshen. bleach and bring out the roses and beauty of any skin. 1t is marvellous to smoother rough, red hands.-Adv.
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mary net. Some were brown, some gray or black, and one or two bright yellow As they rose we began to hear the burst and whistle of shrapnel as the Germans took an occasional long range crack at one of them.
 The bursting of this shrapnel brought home to all of us the fact that what we had been watching had been prte- tically devoid of noise. We would hear an occasional bang or the sharp pit, pit pit of a nearby practising machine gun like a woodpecker at work, and once far away behind US drum and fife
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is what is so impressive. If we allies continue to make it still Ligger and to exercise still more patience there can be only one end-victory. The men at the front know this. They do net say so, but they live it. Each one is doing his job and sees only one thing in front of him ito keep on doing it.
 Copyright, 1917, by Edward Marshall }
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are fairer minded than we are. They are also far more interesting to talk to-" Yes" he continued that is what has impressed me most and why I had to 70 all the way to the front to learn 1t, don't know. I might have found it out at home any time these last 40 years. But he was wrong, for what seems easy and natural at the front might not hap pen elsewhere in three times 40 years. Nevertheless, at the end of the war the front may take back with it when it goes home many of these new discoveries.
 These workmen had been impressed as men seldom are by seeing things. Their that no amount of talking or literature what the spectacle of the front does, it stimulates the imagination like raw brandy on an empty stomach. The con- an example of the spell it casts on every one They had come out trouble makers and they were returning to do what they could to stop trouble.
 PANORAMA OF WAR
 The third and last day of our trip usual by motoring and eventually were placed in position where we could see like a panorama, vast stretch of the front, and very active front, too, stretching away before and on each side of us as far as the eye could reach. It was magnificent
 It is hard to say what we saw; we saw so much. In one bare place which
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Live fish have been found in the bot tom of Transvaal gold mine in . vertical shaft $500 feet deep They were barbel, from six inches to twelve inches long, and up to three quarters of a pound in weight, and must have been merely spawn when they fell In exceptionally dry weather small bull frogs have been seen to distend them selves and deliberately jump down the shaft. apparently in search of water How they ever reached the bottom alive is a mystery.