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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02
Working Man Usefui Being.

The useful men are doing some
tasks both sane and good; they're
blowing or they're hewing or saving
ricks Of wood. They make two
blades of lettuce grow where one
grew before; they do not bore or
fret us with an eternal roar All,
when | contemplate them, my eye in
moisture swims. Why don't you
emulate them, you tiresome Windy
Jims? l get SO tired of speaking, of
verbal cataracts, of statesmen who
are reeking with arguments and
facts, of politicians yellow who toot
the brazen horn; l most admire the
fellow who calmly plows his corn!
The men who rant and thunder
across the jaded land, and tear the
air asunder with noise that beats the
band, contributing nothing, nothing
to help the race to win, and idle are
the frothing, the whooping and the
din. The man who puts collar up
on his spawned bay, and earns a
sweaty dollar for toiling through the
day Is more enchanting than all the
gifted boys who spend the summer
ranting and kicking up noise. The
useful men are hoeing, performing
kindred deeds; they're out where
things are growing, a-pulling up the
weeds; the weeds they amputate
them, destroy them roots and limbs;
why don't you emulate them, you
cheap old Windy Jims?-Walt Ma
Snu
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02
Gets Three Years For Stealing Mans
Wife,

Iowa City, Iowa, April 23.-"Peni-
Tertiary for three years" is the pen
atty inflicted upon Herman Lockas
of Marengo, who was arrested in
Iowa City charged with clipping with
another mans wife. Sheriff Ira J..
Reed of Iowa county caught the gull
ty couple here No prosecution
against the woman followed, as she
must settle the problem with her
husband. Lockas forthwith pleaded
guilty to statutory offense. If Loo
kas will enlist in the navy, and he
says he will, he will not have to go
to Anamosa.v
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02
Canada Offers
100 Acres Land
Free to Farm Hands
Bonus of Western Canada Land Tn
Men Who Assist In Maintain
ing Needed Grain Pro-
6uCfinu
duCtiOn,

The demand for farm labor in
Canada is so great that as an in
ducement to secure at once the nee
essary help required, Canada will
give one hundred and sixty acres of
land free as q homestead and allow
the farm laborer, who files on land,
apply the time he is working for 9th
er farmers as residence duties the
same as If he had lived on the Land
he had applied for. This offer made
only to men working on Canadian
farms for at least months during
1917, thus reducing the necessity
of actual residence to years instead
of years, as under usual conditions.
This appeal for farm help Is in no
way connected with enlistment for
military service but solely to secure
farm laborers to increase agricultur-
al output. A wonderful opportuni-
ty to earn good wages while secur-
ing a farm. Canadian Government
Will pay all fare over one cent per
mile from st. Paul and Duluth to
Canadian destination. Information
as to low railway rates, etc., may be
had on application to
FRANK H. HEWITT,
Canadian Government Agent
2O2 w. 9Th ST., Des Moines, Iowa.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02

Greece of today embracing the
so-called Old Greece and the terri
tories added as result OF the Bal
kan wars, has an area of approx
mately 44,700 square miles with a
population of 100000.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02

Many man has lost lots of mo-
ney because of the big hoe in the
top of his pocket.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02

We only realiz9 the value of
health, physical and moral, when it
Is lost.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1917-05-02

Men who pride themselves on their
philosophical minds, frequently can't
make living.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
A PATRIOTS PART.

There are more ways of being pa
triotic than by Drawing the terrors of
a submarine-infested sea or facing
storm of bursting shrapnel and shells.
France, England, Germany, Italy are
all on a war basis not only in army or
SANITATION, but also back of the lines,
in the cities, towns, hamlets, farms.
industries-all are ON war basis
every line of activity straining every
nerve and sinew, opening wide every
storehouse of energy, enterprise and
initiative in Il gigantic effort to des-
troy the sworn enemy of civilization
and popular government.
Are YOU doing a patriots part?
Let every one ask himself this qucs-
ton
The South, and particularly Georgia
is enjoying a period of unprecedented
prosperity. Cotton sells at a price al
ways considered fabulous; corn. pea
nuts. potatoes, beans are selling at
most profitable prices; in fact for a
magnificent and bountiful harvest we
are receiving n price which almost
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

conservation of life at the front; her
armies began to deliver more telling
blows; the spirit of her people began
to glow with patriotic fervor and grim
determination to win.
Do you furnish your table with luxu-
ries? Do you buy fine clothes that
you really do not need? Do you sink
your money needlessly in fetes and
parties, or in ornaments for "milady's
fair?"
The tonnage and equipment of ships
and railroads necessary to bring you
these Injuries are sorely needed by
your country for carrying food and
supplies to the Allies and to our own
troops in France. This is fast coming
to be the greatest problem of the war.
There are hardly enough ships to car
ry necessitatas, to say nothing of luxu-
ries. What are you going to do about
it?
Let us be patriotic and deny our
selves 1t matters not whether we are
able to have these luxuries The i'm
portant thing is to exclude them as an
act of patriotic conservation.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
RAILROADS IN WAR SERVICE.

Outside Of the War Department and
railroad circles few persons realize
how much the railroads of this country
have done and are doing to win the
war. Since the first of last August
they have transported $4,000 soldiers
to training camps without a hitch and
the proof of the perfection of the SER
vice is that so little has been heard
about it. Had anything gone wrong
the country would have rung with the
story.
Secretary of War Baker paid the
railroads fitting tribute by saying:
"This strikingly illustrates the patri-
otto cooperation of the railroads with
the government and also the tremen-
dous capacity of American railways.
! think the railroads deserve great
credit for this achievement"
Five days after Congress declared
war, the chief executives of the lead
ing railroads met in Washington to
consult with the Council Of National
Defense and pledged themselves with
the government Of the United States
with the governments of the several
states and with one another, that dur
ing the present war they will co-ordi-
nate their operations in a continental
railway system, merging during such
period all their merely individual and
competitive activities in the effort to
produce maximum national transpor-
tation efficiency"
The executive committee of five then
selected now directs the operations of
all the railroads as single system.
In doing this the railroads acted vol
unfairly and no law has been enacted
to enforce coordination. They have
received no guarantee of compensation
such as the British government gave
to the English railways which are as
sured of the same net returns that
they earned before the war began
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
HOGS IN TURNER

The first car of hogs was shipped
from Ashbum by the Metcalf Live
Stock Co, on last Friday This is un-
usually early, in the light of condi-
tons that existed in the years that
are gone, when fat pork could not
be had until away in November. But
we are making progress in eqrliness
of production as we'll as in quality
thereof 1t will be remembered that
one hundred and twenty-five cars of
hogs and catle were shipped last
season from Turner county. besides
the unusual large quantity killed for
home consumption, Indeed this was
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21


There have been outbreaks of chol-
era in two places during the past week
in Crisp that promised to prove obsti-
nate. There is an expert in Cordele
whose duty it is to get out and help
you. Call for him if you are in need
of help. Farm Demonstration Agent
]. A. Johnson will be glad to render
quick assistance. The state expert
stationed here is also at your com
mand. Don't hesitate to call for these
men. Ii will maen saving if the dis
ease shows among your hogs.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

so large that there is many a smok-
ed side, ham and shoulder yet hang
ing in the smoke houses of Turner
county. A mighty good thing to
have when bulk meat is selling at
thirty-fve cents per pound. Straws
show the way the wind blows and
all of this in indictiva of the pro.
gress made in this section along the
line of live stock raising This will
be fully demonstrated at our county
fair to be held in Ashburn next
Thursday and Friday. There will be
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
PAYING FOR BOARDING.
business.

Lately we have had two splendid OPP
potunities to know that it is not a
coal shortage that is making it pos
sible for ridiculously high prices Of
coal to prevail The government in
Washington has check on anthra-
cite, or hard coal for the first nine
months of the present year. 1t shows
seven million tons increase over the
J same period last year. Last year, be
it remembered, was the banner year
of all coal producing eras in this coun-
| try.
Following this statement with regard
to hard coal, another comes from the
same source this week showing that
the first eight months of 1917 Melted
an increase in soft coal mined of 81,
100000 tons over the same period last
year. We are today mining both soft
and hard coal at a rate of sixteen per
cent increase over the best year in all
our coal mining history.
Last week came a statement from
the railroads of the country indicating
that they were hauling at least 20
per cent more than last year. They
gave figures showing tonnage of coal
moved that disproved every claim of
coal shortage To move the coal the
roads had to have coal and tn - have
hauled it in great quantities. There is
no coal SHORTAGE
1t is possibly true that we are u5irg
considerably more coal than in former
years of account Of the great manu-
featuring demands made upon us, but
look at the increased output. This is
certainly enough to over Lalapco
everything in demand that has thus
far been made.
Our trouble is the damnable incli-
nation of the Spectator to get hold
and buck" the market The coal is
being boarded Even individuals are
buying more coal everywhere than is
needed for the present. They get the
scare and buy now in order to keep
the prices from catching them with
out. SO many people have bought
coal of late on the boarding principle
that it isn't possible to buy any more
at reasonable price. Under normal
conditions, you couldn sell mana ton
of coal on a warm day. Let him get
an idea that the robbers are cornering
the output and he buys-and pays an
exorbitant price all for nothing. The
miners would be doing well to get nor
NAL prices for the coal if this element
of excited trading were eliminated.
The boarding habit is costing the
country great volumes of the hard
earned wealth of those who have to
spend it for the commodities of life
Coal gives us a good example Of it.
The people raise the excitement and
grab with an idea that this is the last
grab, II is all wrong. The habit is
proving frghtfully costly to those who
play at the game.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

If your farm demonstration were to
remind you now that you should pillow
up your cotton stalks early, would you
understand that he asks you to attend
to this bit of important work early
next spring? If you should so misun-
derstand it, you might find what early
means when Mr. Boil Weevil gets up
all too soon and goes after your mil
lion dollar prospect in the new years
cotton crop. You should destroy the
stalks now. The weevil will soon be
in winter quarters and that right on
your farm. You don't need him there.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
THEY CAN'T DENY

The Holland cable reports that the
Germans rave as Washington con-
tinues to expose INSCRIPTIONS Teu-
tonic plots and Berlin betrays ina
bility to refute the charges. Though
Berlin is willing enough to take the
urgent advice to deny boldly" ex-
posture of such frequency and vari-
ETY. have perhaps had a stunning eff
fect.-Valdosta Times.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

that has been made at him and the
bee enterprise. Condemn us, too, if
you wish. We must protest against
the utter foolishness OF listening at
complaints against this man and his
business.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

COLoRED MEN WANTED-For U. 81
Navy as Walters, pay from $33 TO-
$S5 per month, with board and cloth
ing; also men for all other ratings,
age from IS to IS; see your postmass
ter or Navy Recruiting Station, Amer.
icus, Ca SALT.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21

no charge for admission to this fair
and people are expected from far
and near to see how we do things in
Turner and learn how to prepare for
the boil weevil-(Ashburn) Wire
grass Farmer.
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
Stylish. EH2

Coal in .Cordele is $3.50 per ton,
but here in Fitzgerald we can afford
to pay $11OO, Nothing cheap about
us here in this town.-Leader-Entert
prise. .. 81
The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1917-10-21
SOMETHING FOB A GAZE

King Cotton, Crown Prince Peanut
and the Grand Duke Velvet Bean are
real royal group that the gaze of
the world seems conferred upon just
now.-Albany Herald.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
Mix" MOORE:
=: !: ON TR|AI.F0R !. !.
:. :. dunn MURDER
80, 5"uhAu HuIH
., ~EHh"H uInhn
,3- o~~V "
Man Charged With Directing
.- Crime for Victims Husband
na
-.>l.. First Case Called
REDENBAUGH AND M'COOL
TO BE STAR WITNESSES

st. Paul, Mimi, June 6.-Mike
Moore, bartender, said to have been
a go.between in the alleged plot which
resulted IN the murder of Mrs. Alice
Dunn on April 26, was placed on trial
in the district court today charged
with first degree murder
Moore is alleged to have hired JO-
seph Redenbaugh Frank j. McCool
and Johnnie Doyle to commit the
murder, paying them with $4,000, fur
nished by Frank ]. Dunn, husband OF
the woman slain.
/ Redenbaugh has confessed the
crime, duplicating Moore, McCool and
Doyle as accomplices. He is serving
a life sentence McCool is now on
trial in Minneapolis, charged with the
murder of Policeman Connery. The
police are searching for Doyle.
Both Redenbaugh and McCool will
be witnesses against Moore.
Moore AssaIs Jury.
The selection of the jurors had not
proceeded far before Moore broke
into q TRADE of vulgar language, dur
ing which he warned the presiding
Judge that he wanted a fair and I'M
partial trial and shouted, You'd bet
ter see that 1 get it, Moore was
quieted by his attorney and court Of
ficials, but shortly after his outbreak,
George Moore, a brother, came into
the courtroom and, without warming
arose from his chair and shouted,
"My brother has not killed anyone
Why is he charged with murder"
He was hurried from the room.
Six Jurors were selected from IL
men examined. 1t is expected hear
ing of evidence will begin tomorrow
Particularly Brutal
The murder of Mrs. Alice McQuil-
Ian Dunn was described by the police
as particularly brutal. While she
slept beside her sister. Katherine, in
an upper room in the home of her
father, J. F. McQuillan, on Selby Av-
enue here, early in the morning of
Thursday, April 26, two men entered
the house by rear door. One OF
them CROPPED his way up a stairway
to the room of the young women, turn
ed an electric searchlight on their
bed and saying to Miss Katherine ''Lie
still; I only want to do a little shoot
ing" shot Mrs. Dunn three times her
death being instantaneous.
Miss Katherine's cries awoke her
father and other members of the
family, but the men made their escape
from the house.
Arrest the Husband
The police were Immediately mott
fed and their first act was to take into
custody Frank J. Dunn, well-to-do
contractor whom they found in bed
in his room. Dunn was the husband
of the murdered woman, but more
than year before she had been
granted legal separation from him on
CONTINUED on Page ThreO
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
LENHART AND
BURTON MADE
GRADE EASILY
Business Administration Candi-
dates Elected by Vote Of w.
j. ~ Three to One .5.>s. =..,.

A. P. Lenhart and Cecil l.. Burton
were swept into Office as members
of the Bismarck board of education
yesterday by an avalanche of votes
which left very few to be distributed
among the other five contenders Len
hart headed the stampede with $50,
and Burton was only nine votes be.
hind the leader. E. H. Howell fin
ished third with 1853, and the field
consisted of Joe Schneider, &c; Mrs.
]. S. Arnold, 81 Mrs. D. B. Shaw, IA,
and Marcus A. Edberg, 4.
Considering the day and all of the
excitement attendant on registration
the vote cast, 634, was very good. An
unusually large female vote was
polled, in spite of the fact that rain
overhead and mud underfoot was not
conducive to venturing' afield. The
two women candidates did not poll a
very large proportion of the 200 votes
cast by members Of their sex.
The only event of the day was the
late arrival of one of the lady candi-
dates a half hour after the polls were
closed. She was very much annoyed
when she discovered that she was
not to be permitted to cast belated
vote.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
Joffre Laid Out
Plan for American
Armyf for France

Paris, June GA semi-Ofticial note
says that Marshal Joffre while In Am
erica had a conference with American
military chiefs, at which plan OF
organization for the new American
army was elaborated, in agreement
with British, leaders. The note says:
1T will surprise none that the
marshal took prepOnderating part
in the plans, literally everything
which he advised being adopted. His
collaborators styled him THE god
father of the American army"
"At a moment when the first ele.
ment of this army is getting ready to
take its place on our front, the French
government considered 1t only fitting
to confirm the marshal in his spon-
sorship.. .fs ~.
The minister of war feels that the
moral authority attaching to his high
position will enable him, in accord
with the American high commaod, to
give to the new troops all the nec-
essary advice and direction so as to
prepare them morally and materially
for the efforts they are called upon
to make. z.l ,,n,Y a..
"The program for this IcQllabora-
ton has already been drawn up. Mar
shall Joffre is officially entrusted with
a mission Of putting constantly at
the disposal of our greater sister re-
public what France has learned In
three years of hard campaigning"
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
500 PARADE
IN BU t TE To
PROTEST DRAF 7

Butte, Mont, June GA parade of
about 600 men and women, who ap-
peared of foreign extraction, in pro-
test against registration at the head
Of which was a 12-foot red flag bear
ing the words:
Down with war" started riot.
The paraders, all shouting against
war and registration, had paraded but
four blocks when citizens began gath
ering, police reserves were called and
crowds began to block the passage of
the paraders. Police officers grabbed
the leaders of the procession, when
women in the parade began clawing
the officers. Three or four shots
were fired, but no one was hurt.
Troops Called Out
Mayor w. II. Maloney, mounting to
the top of a building overlooking a
crowd of $500 persons, announced that
he would give them Is minutes to dis
perse. The officers were powerless
against the mass of humanity and the
troops who had been held at their
barracks. came down on run, with
bayOnetS fixed and proceeded directly
at the mob, forcing the people to dis
perse, and assisting the local officers
in making arrests.
About eight Or ten have been taken
TO the police station, and the officers
are securing the city rounding up
others.
City Under Martial Law
The city is virtually under martial
law. groups of soldiers with bayonets
fixed patrolling all the streets, allow
ing no crowds or groups to congregate.
Only portions of the central part Of
the city are open to passage.
The troops, it was announced are
under orders to shoot, and their Of
ticers shouted when they were break
ing up the crowds, that they must
move on or they would get hurt.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-06-06
SOCIALISM RUNS
RAMPANT At BIC
LEAGUE DO|NCS
Anarchistic Doctrines Extolled
and Patriotic Sentiments
Entirely Ignored
BAER HINTS PACIFISM
IN HIS MAIDEN SPEECH
Field Day for Town ley and
Thomason Promised Follow
ers of the Red Flag

Devils Lake, N D., June G-SOcial-
ism ran rampant at the registration
day rally OF the Non partisan league
addressed here yesterday by the chief
executive OF North Dakota, President
Townley and Organizers Bowen and
Thomason of the Non-partisan league.
Americanism, patriotism, registra-
tion, loyalty were crowded into the
background, while Governor Frazier
and John M. Baer, candidate for con-
gress in the First district We'd with
one, another in ridiculing the nations
lawmakers. The congressional can
didate of the league eXcelled through
his ability with the chalk-stick.
Members of the United States SEN
ate who have. stood loyalty by the pre-
sident in this great national crisis
upon whose most vital day North Da-
kota's chief executive deserted his high
offices to make holiday for Townley
and ThOmasOn were characterized by
Frazier as "pOmpOus men with their
white vests and longtailed coats strut
ting around"
MOyer-HaywOOd.GOldm
The governor did make one conces-
sion to patriotism when he referred
to the response of the thousands Of
North Dakota young men who were
yesterday doing their duty at the re-
gistration booths, and to the Civil war
veterans who have volunteered to
again offer their lives for their coun-
try. The principal theme of the three
addresses which he delivered during
the day, however, j was; an appeal to
class prejudice, such, an appeal as
might be made by Charles IMoyer to
his Western Federation Of Miners; by
Haywood to his l. w. w., or by Emma
Goldman to her fellow anarchists.
Baer's Contribution
Baer's contribution to the Socialistic
festival was that war is not an issue
in this campaign. 1t is fact. The
Non partisan league did not have i
chance to vote on this war. 1t did
not have a. man there. We cannot
prevent thing that is on. am
patriotic, but l want to see this gov
ernment adopt line of patriotism
without pay in it" 2"b" t''
Congress today does not represent
the people, Governor Frazier solemn
ly assured his hearers. 81 was on
the floor of the senate for time, and
| wonder how many of them really
represent the people who sent them
there
Frazier followed Thomason and was
in turn succeeded by Bowen. Their
addresses had much in common. Each
was plain, everyday, soap-box social
ism.