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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
HELP THE RED CROSS.

Although Ottumwa has not begun its
campaign to supply its portion of the
100000, 900 fund for which the Red
Cross asks. the work will be started
soon and no doubt this community
will be ready to do its proper share.
The Red Cross must have money
and if the sum for which its officers
ask seems large, the work they pro
pose to do looms even larger.
The Red Cross must take the lead
in succoring Americas soldiers and
sailors in the European war zones. II
is on the ground already with several
hospital units and many more are in
the making.
In addition to Its work on the battle
field however, the Red Cross has un
dertaken the rehabilitation Of the war.
wrecked countries Of Europe. where
the restitution of the people is appal
ling.
How great the need is can be real
lied to some extent after reading the
dispatches from behind the British
lines and from Nancy, France, on an
other page of this issue.
Ottumwa knows much more about
the mission and aims Of the Red Cross
than 1t knew a few weeks ago, before
the remarkably successful membership
campaign was inaugurated here. AS
the war proceeds we all will learn
more about the organization.
It's ordinary work. which would he
done in America and elsewhere II
there we're no war, must be continued
with it's customary efficiency. And in
addition 1t must meet the extraordi
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
DELEGATES ARRIVE
FOR E. L. MEETING

Eddyville, June 2O.-Delegates are
arriving on every train and $50 are ex-
pected to be in Eddyville today to at
tend the Epworth league convention
The following are officers Of this
district and many will be in attend
ance: President, c. H. Feezer, Oska-
loosa; Spiritual chairman, Clyde King,
Grinnell; World Evangelism chairman,
Gladys Minear, Oskaloosa; Social Ser
vice chairman, Ida Young, Knoxville;
Recreation and Culture chairman, La
nora Early. Newton; recording secre-
tary. W. W. Chambers. Oskaloosa;
corresponding secretary, Mabel Tilton,
What Cheer; treasurer, NJ G. Addicks.
Newton; junior league supt., Nellie
Truitt, Newton; member conference
board. l.. G. Rohrbaugh, Hedrick
The following talent will appear on
the program: Miss LeMar Sheridan,
social research secretary; Rev. Bert E.
Smith, pastor of Joyce Memorial,
Minneapolis: DR.. Harry B. Lewis, insti-
tute worker; Rev. V. S. Smith. Musca-
tine; DR.. E. J. Shook. Mt. Pleasant,
superintendent Burlington district;
Miss Grace Dawson, Des Moines, rep
resenting Bidwell training school;
Rev. A A Heath. Delta; Rev. G. l..
Stafford. former district superintend-
ent: Rev. G. L. Minear, district super
intendent; Rev. F. E. Day, Newton;
Miss nellie Truitt, Newton, district
junior league superintendent: Rev. L..
G. Rohrbaugh, Hedrick, member of dis
trict cabinet; Rev. E. W. Day. Eddy
Vile; Rev. A. S. Kilbourn, Eddyville.
Music will be furnished by Beacon,
Knoxville, Brooklyn, Oskaloosa and
Eddyville chapters.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
MAKE DRASTIC.

Herbert C. Hoover gave Americans
something to think about yesterday
when he told members Of the senate
that the price OF bread in Belgium is
60 per cent less than New Workers are
paying and that the prices in England
and France average from 80 to 40 per
cent less than the New York figure.
In America. where production OF
foodstuffs always has surpassed con.
sumption, only an excess Of specula-
tive price imitation could bring about
such condition. The high prices In
New York and elsewhere In this coun-
try are not due to basic shortage OF
supply nor, on the other hand. TO
greed for big profits on the part OF
producers.
The speculator is reaping har.
vest of dollars by playing the foreign
demand against the domestic need and
by manipulation of the markets to such
an extent that the consumer in Amer
lea finds himself mulcted for extra
wartime prices before the country has
more than dabbled at active partlcipa-
ton in the war.
This single comparison by Mr..
Hoover leaves no room for argument
as to the ACCESSIBILITY and necessity for
some kind of legislation to protect the
bulk Of Americas people from the food
gambler and the profiteer.
No doubt there are numerous details
Of the Lever bill which must be ironed
out before it will be in proper form
for adoption. Congressional experience
with other measures which have gone
to the capitol stamped with the white
house o. K. justifies the members OF
the law making wing of the govern
ment in taking the Lever bill apart and
putting 1t together again. But it is
Of vital Importance to the country at
large that it's main purpose be preserv-
ed and that when 1t finally is adopted
it contain drastic provisions preventing
the food gamblers from wringing un-
just profits from their fellow country,
men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
HOSPITAL UNIT X
SWORN FOR SERVICE

Council Bluffs, June 2O.-Members Of
Hospital Unit K have been sworn into
the medical enlisted reserve corps, the
last step in the organization Of the unit
for service in the war.
All Of the privates also were given a
final physical examination and innocu-
lated with anti-typhoid serum. A half
billion Of the bugs" were put into the
arm Of each Of the privates. They must
Records, such as are required by the
war department, also were taken and
there is a mass of clerical work which
must be done before the organization
of the unit is actually completed.
Tom Besley made finger prints OF
each private according to the war de-
partment requirements.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
HEIR TO S5oo,0o0
FORGOT TO REGISTER

Waterloo. June 2o-Keith Dahymple.
of Charles City, heir to 100000. held IN
Jail for failure to register under thd
CONSUMPTION act, says he was drunk
June and for several days afterwards
When he sobered up. he say. he reaaiz-
ed the seriousness of his lapse OF duty.
He was arrested here Wednesday, after
arriving from Minneapolis when no
called to register.
The rich youth. after being visited BY
DR.. Bradford. head of a private sAn1tax-
ium I'M Wisconsin, from which Dalrym-
Pile escaped June 4, and by DR.. Palmer
Of Charles City, his guardian. refused
to sign a bond furnished by the guard
ian for his release from the county
Jail.
81 am ready to register. to serve 2
year in a federal prison or to 90 direct
to France to fight" he is reported to
have told the sheriff. but do not want
to return to the sanitarium-"
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
THE YELLOW PERIL.

It is unfortunate, though apparently
unavoidable, that the international
situation should be further scrambled
just now by disagreement between
America and Japan over the old, old
Chinese question.
Possibly 1t is unjust to Japan, but
nevertheless it is true that big sec
ton Of the American public. including
coast states, has long had feeling of
uncertainty. with regard to Japan and
its attitude toward the United States,
not only on the score Of the exclusion
Of Japanese from this country, but also
on the possibility that some time the
Philippines might be developed to such
q condition of wealth and productive.
ness that they would tempt the willy
orientals into war with aggression as
its real aim.
Japan has adopted an attitude
throughout the present war which has
been difficult for the rest of the world
to understand and only the fact that
each country has been so absorbed
with its individual worries has ac-
counted for the absence of some per.
tinent--perhaps fmpertinent--ques-
lions.
Japan entered the war only few
months after England, Belgium
France, Serbia, Germany and Austria
became involved, but not until few
weeks ago did she take an active part
in the fighting in the European war
zone. Her factories have supplied mu-
nitions to Russia it is true, but 1t is
also true that there was suspicious
let-up in the volume Of expectation at
particularly critical time.
Recently, Japan has sent few de
stroyers to the Mediterranean to COM
bat U-boats, and since then reports
have been made of the sinking of one
or two Japanese merchant vessels.
Perhaps the freedom from loss which
japan has enjoyed heretofore has been
accounted for by the fact that the bulk
of her commerce is on the Pacific, but
it must be remembered also that she
has had many ships plying waters
| where the kaiser has established his
arbitrary zone for ruthless submarine
warfare. Perhaps Japan has been
lucky, but it is not outside the range OF
possibility that her failure until re-
Gently to take an active part in the
fighting gave her immunity from Ger
man attack.
Japan is building several immense
battleships: she is withdrawing vast
sums of gold from the United States
she is training an efficient army; she
is informing herself with remarkable
thoroughness regarding the offensive
and defensive methods of the other
countries.
And why? Not for participation in
the present war. certainly, for she has
given no intimation of that.
What would be more logical course
for her to pursue should she have in
mind a plan to obtain control of the
far east and remove the bothersome
influence of the United States even at
the expense of war?
It is not the attitude of the sincere
ally to grow testy and sulky over the
note which Secretary Lansing sent to
China, advising the warning factions to
get together and bury the Ratchet
This suggestion certainly was made
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nary demands which the greatest war
in history is making.
It's officials say they will need $780,.
100000. They will need that much at
least. How much more they must
have will be determined by the length
Of the war. All the money must be
raised in America without delay
IF you can't go over, come across,
is the slogan for the campaign. AL
ready, many have come across" and
1t is up to Ottumwa to be ready with
her share when the committee issues
its call.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
BLOOMFIELD

The remains of Mrs. Nancy Elrod OF
Brush, Colo, were shipped here for bur
ial Sunday.
The revival meeting now in progress
at the Nazarene church under the
leadership Of f. A. Lewis and E. g.
Mathews of Idaho is being we'll attend
ed.
Mrs. l. T. Russell and daughter visit
ed relatives In West Grove Sunday and
attended the flag raising exercises.
Marion Krewson spent Sunday IN
Memphis, Mo-, a guest at the parental
krewson home.
DR.. Gaumer left Sunday for st. Louis
on business connected with the army
dentist corps.
Miss Ruby Rudd OF Ottumwa visited
her parents here Sunday.
Glenn Candy visited his sister Mrs.
o. o. Shackford Of Agency, returning
home Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. William league and
children of indianapolis. Ind, are To-
eating here again. They were former
residents OF this city.
Miss lola Mcclure of Des Moines is
the guest of her sister and family. Mr..
and Mrs Nelson Stuart.
Miss Maud Tackett of Pulaski spent
the week end at the Frank Rominger
home.
Mrs. NJ f. Jones OF Pulaski was
shopping here Friday.
Dawson Hunt of Kahoka. Mo. is the
guest of his sister Miss Lillian Hunt
and other relatives.
Mrs. Harry Pittman and children OF
Belknap spent the week end here with
relatives.
Rev. o. J. Fix and little son of
Pulaski spent Friday here and attend :
ed the Nazarene meeting.
Miss Gladys Hinder visited friends in
Moulton Friday.
The Ladies' Flower and Community
club held a benefit Thursday evening at
the wishard for the benefit of the Red
Cross.
Masters Stanley and Tracy Everhart
and little sister Frances Of Oskaloosa
arrived Friday for a visit at the Rich
ard Eckard and Frank Romlnger
homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. Delmer Good and Mrs
Indy Spencer of Des Moines are eX-
pected soon for a visit at the parental
l.. r. Good home.
Mrs r. c. Day was passenger to
Ottumwa Saturday.
Mrs. Anna Smith left Saturday for
visit at the home of her son John al
Hedrick.
Mrs. Harve Lawson returned to her
home at Martinsburg Saturday after a
visit with her daughter Mrs. viii Dill
liner.
Masters Joe and Francis Mitchell re
turned Saturday from months Visit
at the home of their uncle and aunt
Mr.. and Mrs. w. P. Hall of Lancaster,
Mo.
Mrs. ]. b. Warner and daughter de-
parted for their home at Moulton SAT-
urday after visiting friends here.
Oscar Kenney arrived home Saturday
from a week end visit at Kansas City.
Miss Vera Swift was shopping In
Ottumwa Saturday.
Miss Jeanette Jordan. domestic
science teacher at the s. l. \. spent
Sunday at the parental Jordan home In
Moulton.
George Stookesberry left Saturday
for a few days visit at Kirksville, Mo.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
A PROGRAM OF FRANkNEss.

Although there is much that may be
said properly in criticism Of the admin
istration's committee on public infor
nation, the appointment Of -four
minute men" in each community
throughout the country is most com
mendable step.
Ottumwa is to have these four
minute men, one of whom will have a
place on every public program of mo
ment, to deliver to the audience mes
sages from the president with regard
to the conduct Of the war and allied
Official actions.
This is an admirable way to brine
home to the individual citizen the prob
lens which confront his nation, and to
impress on his mind his own impor
lance as an integral part Of the coun
try. 1t will serve also as check on
the administration actions. for as the
war proceeds these four-minute men
no doubt, will find some Of their hear
ers putting up to them as the spokes
men for the president, questions bear
ing on the administrations course in
this or that emergency.
No doubt the prospect for this sort
Of questioning has occurred to the
president and to those Of his advisers
who compose the committee on public
information The apparent implied In
tention to provide answers for the IN
auiries Is indicative of commendable
desire to be frank with the public.
II the plan succeeds and is continu.
ed in operation throughout the war II
will set an admirable example for the
other warning nations. 1t promises a
condition in America that will contrast
remarkably with the situation In the
other warning countries.
1t has been only few weeks since
Won Bethmann Hoflweg kept Germany
and the whole world on tip-toe, waiting
for his announcement of German peace
plans in response to an Interpolation
in the reichstag. The event was set
for definite day. the questioners were
ready, the stage was set, but the chan
cellor decided not to make the state
ment at that time.
Then he set another day, only to
make another postponement. and final
ly, when the fateful May day was pass
ed in safety and the threatened social
list outbreak had been avoided by the
promise Of a peace announcement,
there came the brief statement that
the chancellor had decided to wait In
definitely, "for more suitable time. :.
England's censorship Is strict and
the representatives Of the government
choose their own times and places to
reply to questions regarding the con
duct of the war. The condition in
France Is similar.
Although the undertaking Is likely
to prove highly difficult the plan of the
public information committee is wor
thy Of the worlds greatest democracy
If it succeeds, which is possible only
If the government is frank, 1t will go
far to unity the American people on
the issues and aims Of the war, and 1t
will dispel any possible fear regarding
the governments ability to negotiate
future war loans for it will give the
people confidence in the men on whose
actions the country's welfare depends.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
LITTLE BENNY'S
N O TIE BOOK
BY Lee PAPE


This aftirnoon Kumpiny B marched
over to the empty lot to practice dig
ging trenches, the intire kumpiny be.
ing present, as follows Genre1 Martin,
Kaptin Potts, Lootenant Wernick, Ker-
mel simkins, Sargent Hunt and Private
Persey Viewer, the trench tool being
a shuvvel out of Kaptin Pottses house
wich Private Persy Viewer carried
ordered to.
And wen we got to the empty lot,
Genrel Martin sed. Private Viewer, dig
trench.
Private Viewer dig trench, sed all
us uther officers.
Wat, all by itself? sed Persy.
Serteny, officers never digs. sed Gen
rel Martin
Well then, o heck. wy don't you get
some more privates? sed Private
Viewer.
Folward dig. sed Genrel Martin.
Folward dig, sed US uther officers.
And Persy began to dig trench
with the shuvvel. not being eny sintch
on account of the ground being as
hard as enything and us officers stood
GROUND tawking, Sargent Hunt saying.
wish officers was allowed to dig, II
they was Id be glad to dig some OF 1t
Myself.
Cant you pertend you're private for
a little vile? sed Private Viewer.
Sargent Hunt not saying weather he
Good or not and jest then Kernel Sim
kins sed, Cheese it, the enemy. Meen-
ing Flatfoot the cop wawking across
the lot to see wat we was doing and
Kumpiny B quick retreeted without
losing man, exsept one, on account
of Private Viewer misteriously dis
apeering.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
IOWA TO PLAY BIG
PART IN PRODUCTION

Ames, June 20.-Iowa promises TO
give a huge contribution toward an
Increased food production. There has
been an active response to the food
production and conservation campaign
conducted the past weeks by the agri-
cultural extension department at Ames,
which is reaching every Iowa county.
increased crop production. enlistment
for food production and farm labor and
more canning, drying and preserving
are being urged.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
RussELL FIRMS CHANGE.

Russell, June GO. l. Jennings has
traded his stock Of general merchan-
disc to the Lemley Mercantile Co., of
Melrose for a farm near Weldon. Mr..
Jennings has been In business In Rus.
sell for the past eight years.
Another firm in Russell has changed
hands in the past few days. John and
Nick Ewald have purchased the gen.
eral merchandise store of c. s. Mckin-
ley. With one exception, Mr.. Mckin-
ley has been In business longer than
any other business man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
NEW HIGH WATER
MARK is REACHED

Sidney, June 20.-A new high water
mark was made by the recent food
in the Nishnabotna valley. Farms and
pastures were inundated to an extent
that surpassed all previous records.
The flood was the worst ever seen in
southwestern Iowa.
Gardening had been carried on on
a larger scale all through the district
than ever before and prospects were
good, but the destruction is now COM
plete. Experts from the Ames Agi.
cultural college have responded to
many calls to visit this section and
assist in launching plans for rehabili-
tation
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
KNOXVILLE MEN
HELPING FARMERS

Knoxville, June s20.-The renters on
the farms of the creek bottoms and on
the Des Moines river bottom are re-
ceiving help this week. the work being
led by Seth Way. He has organized
a relief corps to help them out Of their
difficulty from being washed out by
the heavy rains Of the past two weeks.
About $3.50 in cash has been raised and
others have given their time or teams
to help replant the corn. One man on
the Des Moines river lost 200 acres Of
corn. another 175 acres. while a large
number lost from 20 to 100 acres.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
COURT GRANTS NEW If
TRIAL TO MEYER

Des MONIES, June 2o:-Fred Mayer.
Madison county farmer convicted at
Winterset In 1915 of second degree
murder, following the mysterious
shooting of hts wife July Is, 1915, viii
have another opportunity to prove him
self innocent Of the crime before q
jury.
The supreme court has reversed the
finding Of the court and jury which
convicted Meyer and ordered the case
remanded for a new trial.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
-
Mr.. LANES WARNING.

A correspondent who writes to The
Courier regarding recent editorial, in
which Secretary Lanes warning to big
business was reviewed and approved
grows angry and even profane in his
denunciation of the secretary, and OF
The Courier's attitude on Mr.. Lanes
assertion that a drift toward socialistic
regulation Of prices would be the pen.
atty for short-sighted striving for huge
war profits.
The critic processes to see in the ar.
ticle an approval of socialism which
was not there, and argues somewhat
pathetically that if socialism is worth
adopting in part at time of stress 1t
is worth accepting for all time at a
single gulp.
Not because his ill-conceived note
Mr.. Lanes choice OF a word may have
occurred to other readers Of The
Courier as questionable. it Is worth am
plification here for their attention.
Mr.. Lane characterized the food con-
troll measures and their possible re-
suits as socialistic, no doubt, because
this is short word to symbolic con-
f1scation of the wealth of a few for dis
tribution among the comparatively i'm
pecunious many.
That Is what socialism has meant, in
a broad sense, to the layman. That.
in effect, was Mr.. Lanes meaning,
when, in his, plea for Business as
usual" he told big business men that
the government is prepared to inflict
price fixing laws which would rob them
of more than fair profit on their pro-
ducts, as a means of protecting the ul-
innate consumers against exorbitant
prices for necessities.
OF course, this is not what the social
lists want, and the plan is not, in fact.
socialistic. 1t Is practicable phase
Of paternalism which stops far short
Of socialism's radical and visionary
schemes.
What the government wants, and
what every loyal citizen wants. is a
code of wartime laws which will COM
pei every citizen to pay his proper por-
ton of the wars expense so that none
will be forced to pay more than his
fair share.
If the socialistic tracts and social
istic orators are to be believed, this is
exactly what the socialists do not
want. They object to taking any part
in the war except to urge the govern
ment under which they live to sue for
German peace. They do not want to
do their bit as citizens of the country,
either in. the ranks of the fighters or
in the ranks of the financial hackers Of
the government. If they were not so
negligible numerically their attitude
might cause anxiety regarding Ameri-
cas- success in the struggle. AS it is.
they merely serve as an example Of
what good citizens should not be. and
their presence probably Is blessing
in disguise since it whets the loyalty
Of the big majority of Americans.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22

consideration for his people or his
country can sway him from his insane
course. For him surrender means not
only surrender to the allies It means,
as well, surrender to his subjects of
the power he has welded over them.
Nothing but complete victory over the
allies or a German" peace can pre-
vent the revocation of his power by the
very people whom he is using now, like
pawns, to postpone the day of final
reckoning.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
CAUGHT so POUND FISH.

Mt. Pleasant. June 2o,-Earl Nicola.
who is the night man at the power
house at Oakland, broke the record Tor
Fishing when he landed a fish weigh
ing fifty-two pounds. He was fishing
from out of one OF the power house
windows about o'clock in the morn
ing when he connected with a 81
pound fiat head which. after a strus-
gle he landed. John Arthur landed two
twenty Founders and nineteen
FOUNDER the same day.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1917-06-22
JOINS HOSPITAL UNIT.

Mt. Pleasant, June 20.-Dr. W. A.
Sternberg of this city, one Of the best
known physicians in this county, who
is also county democratic chairman
and the physician appointed by Gov
ernor Harding to look after the regis
traion in this county, has been award
ed commission as captain in the hos
pital unit organized by DR.. ]. Fred
Clarke Of Fairfield. The war will thus
take from Henry county one OF its
most capable and important public
men,