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The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

In the American Journal of Nursing
Elizabeth Robertson gives the follow
ing directions for making hot COM
press: Wet the compress with tepid
water, then iron it rapidly with IA very
hot hatiron. This produces sufficient
steam to hold more heat and obviates
the necessity of wringing out excess
sively hot cloths.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Dangerous Proposition

The proposed sending of Teddy to
the war zone in submarine should
be sat upon promptly in the interest
of all mankind. Readers of history
know that many of the greatest
calamities in history have been caus-
ed by ocean upheavals and just what
the ocean might do with Teddy in
its bowels is too horrible 70 contem-
plate.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Better to Give Than to Receive.

Go forth into the busy world and
love 1t, interest yourself in its life;
mingle kindly with its joys and sor-
rows: try what you can do for men
rather than what you can make them
do for you, and you will know what
it is to have men yours, better than II
you were their king or master.-Brook
Herford,
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Elnhtlna Moths With Paper.

Moths hate newspapers; and Will
rarely touch anything wrapped In
them. Wrap Winter clothes entirely in
newspapers before putting them away
for the summer and you may feel rea-
sonably certain that moths will not
harm them.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

Man" The young people Of the city
are cordially invited, especially the
young men.
The League meeting at $50, led by
Edgar Polhemus, topic, "Christs
Power to Keep U.s."
A home-like place and welcome for
you and your friends.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

Nov, Tommy, I'm going out, and /
want you to stop and mind the house
just as father would If he were here"
Tommy-"Oh, bother Does that mean
I've got to kiss nurse?"-London Opln-
lon.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
raeNaae for Henry.

Eyes. Henry and | certainly pos
sess similar tastes, 2" exclaimed the
adoring bride. Eve are surely inter
ested in the same things :" Eyes"
agreed Henry's mother-in-law grimly.
you certainly are! You care more
for dear Henry than for anyone else
in the world. and so does hel''
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

Men might as well he given credit
for marrying for love. There are not
enough opportunities to marry for
money to constitute an exception
Topeka Capital.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Daily Thought

Mind and body are not to be sepa-
rated where real beauty exists. Should
there be no great Intellect, there will
be an intellectual instinct. a grace, an
address. a naturally wise amiableness.
Leigh Hunt.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Uncle Eben's Idea.

Some of us folks would sure be
bound fob glory" said Uncle Eben,
"if we took our religion to heart al
much as we does our politics"
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Methodist Church

Sunday school at GAS a. M. with
a class for you.
DR.. N. H. Lee will preach at IL 100
a. m. on 1.-THE Compassion Of Jesus"
At 1880 p. M, on "A Model Young
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Mental Steering Gear Goes Wrong.

Science has at last explained why au-
,omobiles skid, but the police courts
nave had a good working theory for
some time.-Washingto Post.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

It's getting so you might as well
submit TO the operation now. If this
doctor doesn't get you, some other one
will.-Kansas City Star.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

perkins is down and out, isn't her"
"Oh, yes-he told me the other day
he was paying cash for everything. y
Life.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21

There should be law against the
fat young man VINO gggles.-Kansas
City Star.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Girls Club

The Girls club meeting was post
poned last week on account of the
death of Mr.. d. C. Polhemus. The
sophomores will have charge Of the
program for next week.
The Lamar register., 1917-02-21
Boys Club

The regular meeting of the Boys
club was held at the high school on
Wednesday evening. The boys that
attended the conference at Colorado
Springs gave reports of their trip.
After the business meeting eats were
served and the club adjourned.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
GREATER IOWA WEEK.

The State Department of Public In
struction through Superintendent De-
zoe is cooperating with the Greater
Iowa Association in the observance OF
Greater Iowa Week, Oct / to 6, in
elusive, and plans are being perfected
that viii cause special program to
be observed in every school room in
Iowa.
Superintendent Deyoe last year in
augurated the plan of an Iowa, Day
to be set aside each year for the pur-
pose of bringing to the attention OF the
pupils in the schools of Iowa the ma
terial resources and the economic OPP
portunities in Iowa which await those
who are willing to strive hard for sue
| cess.
Iowa Day last year was observed
Oct. 20. This year it will be included
in the observances during Greater
Iowa Week.
Special stories and other informa
ton are being prepared by the Great
err Iowa Association and will be for
warded through Superintendent De
yoe's department to all of the teach
ers in Iowa. The association is work
ing upon the theory that in order tt
develop a really greater state the frs
essential is a thorough knowledge o.
the state as it exists today. These
stories that will go to the schools
will include not only information con
corning Iowas industrial and agricul
tural resources and development, bu
descriptions of her scenic attractive
ness, of her educational and scientific
development and of her position IL
the world of literature and politics.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23

1T is not generally known" says
Mr.. Hargrove, "but it is nevertheless
true that winter wheat can be sue
cessfully raised on nearly every farm
in Iowa. 1t is also true that where
spring wheat is sure to be very sue
cessful crop. Many Of our farmers
here in Polk county raised spring
wheat this year and are harvesting it
now at the rate of thirty bushels to
the acre. Buyers are following the
threshing machine outfits and paying
$3.50 per bushel from the machine
Therefore, the increase of our wheat
acreage in Iowa not only is in com
pliance with the international demand
but it is quite profitable.
I'VE have approximately 225,OOC
farms in Iowa. If each of these farms
would raise ten acres of wheat as q
minimum and if we could obtain al
average yield of only twenty bushels
to the acre, Iowa would be able to re
port a total of 45,000,00O bushels o.
wheat. This would place Iowa thirt
in wheat production in the United
States, and it would bring about $1l3,
100000 to Iowa farmers, at presen
Iprices."
The Greater Iowa Association ha:
taken this matter up with II. c. HooV
/ err, food administrator; DIR. R. X
Pearson, special assistant secretar'
of agriculture, at Washington, an
/ Dean c. f. Curtiss. at the Iowa Stat
College of Agriculture. If plan cal
be determined that will coordinate
these various factors, campaign look
ing to increased wheat acreage vii
be entered into.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
Is Ii PEACE2

To William Hohenzollern, Kaiser
lord of life an death and Of the high
low and middle Justice" the Toledo
Blade makes the following editorial
address:
"You have taken Naboth's vineyard
and killed its owner-taken millions
of vineyards, killed millions of owners
and now you are trying to make
peace with the ayenger while retain
ing the stolen land and escaping the
price of blood. You are using paid
agents in all lands to provoke peace
talk among thinkers, hoping to dupe
humanity into relinquishing just
fight and weaken the armed law which
is being enforced against you.
us it peace? What hast thou to do
with peace?
For many years you collected muir
der tools and trained men to use them
in readiness for THE Day" Should
THE Day" not arrive you intended to
1t. The assassination at
sarajeyo gave you your opportunity.
You are asked to press the button,
to name your own terms every con-
cession. every surrender was offered.
provided this war could be avoided.
You refused because you felt you
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
SANITARY VALUE OF ROADS.

Two years ago law was passed in
Michigan permitting roads to be built
from the proceeds of local assessments
on property held to be benefited by
the improvements. This law was at
tackled as unconstitutional but has
just been upheld by Judge Houghton
of the Bay County Court, in which the
case was tried. In the decision an un-
usual argument for such improvements
was presented by the justice in the
following words:
"The drain law, from which the
highway law is prepared, has been sus'
tanned on the theory of the benefit of
public health, which must be on the
theory that drainage prevents the ac'
cummulation of and removes that
which is conducive to disease; in 9TH
er words, a preventative. 1t is not
stretching the imagination very far
along the same line to say that public
roads are a necessity, not only for con
venience, but also for public health
While drains are designed to remove
the cause, highways afford an oppor'
tunity for elimination by furnishing to
the public the opportunity of receiving
and applying scientific and which
without means of communication
could not be had"
This recognition of the value of the
country physicians services and OF
the aid good roads give him in minis
tering to his patients is gratifying
Few persons realize the Importance
of the labors of a country doctor, noI
the severe hardships he must bear as
result of poor roads nor the suffer
ing caused by lack of skilled attention
when impossible mud isolates a home
| from the rest of the world.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
MAKE A NOISE.

The following absolutely essential
things one should do when attending
a meeting. religious or otherwise, in
the court house park, are promulgated
by the Montezuma Republican: II
Won have a new car and your best
girl with you, don't fail to keep 60
ing around the square almost con-
stantly. Be sure to squawk the horn
at the two nearest corners to the
spe aker. 1t isn't necessary to re-
sort to the horn unless the audience
can hear you. After you have traV-
ersed the square a few times, stop in
front of the speakers stand and let
the engine run while. No one
wants to hear the speaker anyhow
and il will attract attention Then
stup the engine and when the speaker
| has reached an interesting point
start it up again with the cut-out OPP
en- so everyone will know whether
it's hitting in every cylinder. This is
imperative and must not be over
looked. When the car is standing
still and engine idling, if you see an
other fellow with his girl, one or
both Of your acquaintances, honk the
horn a time or two to get them wise
to your position. The audience will
not mind it if you talk out loud
enough to drown the speakers voice
If you don't care to drive around the
square all the time take short trips
out on the paved streets and then
come back like a Fostering horse fly
and make a racket. Those who GO
to these gatherings and sit patiently
/ for an hour or more do so only to
swell the crowd. They don't mind the
noise. And then they can ask the
speaker next day what he said
And again, you're young man, and
the little fellows will follow your eX
ample in adding to the confusion"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
HIGH PRICE OF CORN.

That the unprecedentedly high
price of corn is not due to abnormal
holding of supplies by farmers is the
belief of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, based on reports
just received from crop correspond
ents in Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky, Iowa
and Missouri. These states are typi
cal of the great surplus white corn
producing region of the United States
the department declares, and their
conditions indicate conditions through
out the corn-producing area. The in
vestigations disclosed that farmers are
holding only enough corn to insure
their seed supply for next spring and
to protect their live stock feeding in
terests until the production of suf-
ficient supply from the present crop
is assured; and that the stocks in
their hands are much lower than nor
mally.
Among the conditions making for
high corn prices, according to the De-
partment of Agriculture, are shortage
OF the 1916 crop and the carry-over
from 1915, increased exports, increase
in the general level of prices, and the
increased numbers of live stock on
farms. The 1916 corn crop, 1t is point.
ed out, was 400,OO0,000 bushels short
OF the 1915 crop, and stocks on farms
on March /, 1917, were 300,00O,O0O
bushels short of the stocks on farms
on the same date the preceding year.
The exports OF corn in the year end
ed June 80, 1917, were approximately
70 per cent greater than in the pre-
ceding year and about seven times
greater than in the year ended June
80. 1914. the year preceding the war.
The general level Of prices, 4 Is
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
The SOLDIERS CHANCES.

There is a widespread impression
that fatalities in present-day warfare
are incomparably greater than in
former wars. This belief, cleVerly
spread by pacifists and pro-Germans,
is responsible for large part of the
exemption claims put forward. Worse
still, it has caused a vast amount oil
suffering to the relatives of soldiers
destined for the front. Fathers and
mothers, wives, brothers and sisters
as they watch their loved ones march
away, smile brayely, but feel their
hearts torn .by the conviction that
Ithey will never return.
1t is a false belief. The plain truth
is that never was there a big war in
which a soldiers chance of returning
home, sound and whole, was better
than it is to-day.
This statement may be verified by
anyone who will take the trouble to
look into the reports OF the French
and British army.
L. is amply substantiated by figures
made by Anrde Tardieu, high commits
sioner of the French Republic, now in
Washington.
Mr.. Tardieu. by way of explaining
how it is possible for France to have
more fighting men in the field today,
after three years of warfare, than ever
before, showed that her rate of loss
has steadily decreased from the be-
ginning. Her 'definitive casualties"
meaning the men killed, missing or
taken prisoner, amounted to 5.41 per
cent of her fighting forces in the big
battles of 1915. For the first six
months of 1915 the casualties were
2.39 per cent. Then in succeeding half
years they fell to 1853 per cent, 1.47
per cent, and in the last six monies
of 1916, to 1.28 per cent
Only a little more than one man
out of a hundred killed, missing or
captured in six months of fighting on
that perilous western front! And
from another source comes the state
ment that in the first half of the pres
ent year the present year the French
lost in killed and wounded" only 1Is
per cent of their fighting force.
The early fighting was perilons
enough, but the fatalities have con-
tinually shrunk, thanks to the growing
superiority of our allies in artillery
and thier Improvement in tactics.
Brains and machinery are now doing
nearly all the fighting. The men are
spared. 1t is easily demonstrable, on
the basis Of these figures and other
statistics, that it is safer to fight on
the French or Belgian front today
than it was to fight in our Civil War
or in the Franco-Prussian OF the Ma
poleonic wars.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
PLEASURE PARK NEEDED.

The city of Tama has long owned q
park in the north part of the city
which has remained neglected and
scorned for all these years until now
when the Woman's Civic Improvement
ment League has taken the matter in
hand The committee, headed by Mrs
J. A. Roach, have had the whole park
trimmed and cleaned and have in
stalled swings, teeter boards, merry
go-rounds, etc. There is a splendid
tennis court provided and a wading
pool will soon be added. The park is
now alive with youngsters taking ad'
vantage of the sports provided. This
is an ideal place for auto parties to
east their lunches as pure water is
plentiful and fine. new tables and
benches are in abundance.
This suggests that while Oskaloosa
has had no pleasure park laid by for
years, it has for many years needed
something of this kind. There are
many tracks of land that might be
bought at reasonable price that
would make ideal parks. The Tama
experience suggests that the women
of Oskaloosa might get busy on the
project. We need a park.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
CAN FOR SOLDIERS
oSKALooSA FACTORY BEGINS
ANNUAL PACK TODAY.

Anderson Brothers Canning Facto-
ry opened today, Wednesday, for the
1917 season with splendid prospects
of a successful run. A good crop is
in sight and the quality of the vege-
table is all that could be desired.
Unusual interest attaches to the
pack this season, as eighteen per
cent of the pack has been requisi-
/ toned by Uncle Sam for his soldier
boys. Anderson Brothers have been
notified that out of every hundred
cans of the vegetable packed, United
States will require eighteen cans to
| be set asideN and retained, awaiting
! the order Of the government
| The United States has requisition-
ed a certain percent of the product
F, of all canneries of the land. OF peas
be retained, and of tomatoes Is per
cent.
Anderson Brothers. of Oskaloosa
are opening one week later than last
season, but with anything like the
run promised the output of the facto-
ry will soon overtake the record of
last season. Everything at the plant
in the south part of town is in ship
shape" and ready for the start. The
machinery is in readiness, help is in
waiting for the word and delivery of
tomatoes has been started several
days. A1Fr.v .oaFjrneE. ,
The Herald for some time has been
engaged in printing run of fifty
J thousand can labels for one brand of
goods alone for the factory. Should
this many cans of the popular 'Oska-
loosa" brand be filed, the govern
| ment would require total of nine
r thousand cans. or with twenty-four
, cans to a case, almost four hundred
r cases.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23

the stay at home youth will need all
that he can gain in order to hold his
own against the strong, capable, hard
ened men who come home. The schools
will be full of them. They will have
learned much that those who stay at
home can never learn at home, lessons
of self discipline. the habit of doing
strict attention to duty. And they will
be hard competitors The men who
come home clean and able and force
full will take place by their owr
strength and they will be given first
chance from mere gratitude for theii
service and sacrifice. 1t will require
strong and able men with specia
knowledge to hold their own agains
the millioi who shall come back look
ing for and demanding their own.
He is a wise youth who neglect'
nothing that shall point toward sue
cess"
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
WHAT A $50 BOND WILL DO.

The proceeds OF one fifty-doliar Lib
erty Loan Bond will purchase:
Thirteen 13-pounder shells for de
stroying submarines.
Four 5-inch shells for the same pur
pose!
One hundred pounds of smokeless
powder.
Eighteen gas masks for a like mum
Der of soldiers at the 'front.'"
Enough gasoline Il topdfiFe subma
rine destroyer one IlIuaBdred and fift!
miles. j. $50
A sailors uniform outfit. j..
Four months subsistence for a sol
der. " al
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
COLLEGE AND THE WAR.

The Colleges fOrseeing a slump in
attendance are earnestly seeking the
assistance of the press to prevent a
situation so disastrous to the schools
and in the long run as disastrous to
the country. AS in all wars the col
Ilege men and those about to enter col
Ieges have Joined the colors in vast
numbers. The fact is that in time of
war volunteering is as salectiye as the
draft 1t appeals to the best and finest
and most patriotic of youth as well as
to the most adventurous and plucky.
Joined to the great number of volun-
teers is also the thousands of con-
scripts VINO otherwise would have gone
to college.
at is a serious situation" observes
the Marshalltown Timos-Republican.
"The schools need the students an
the students need the schools. The
country will need the men who are to
be turned out by the schools. That we
do not realize fully at present. But we
shall realize it a few years hence in
all our Industries and professions if
the school attendance slumps greatly.
Life and business and the activities
of the world are to go on during and
after the war. OF course nobody knows
how long this war shall endure and
how many and how much it shall re-
auire of us in men and money; but
the world is not coming to an end with
this war. IL it continued long without
doubt many of those who should enter
colleges this fall will be called to do
their part at the from but that is no
reason why every youth should not
make the best of his present oppor-
tunity. To be sure the commercial, in
dustrial and agricultural call for men
will open great many apparent OPP
portunities to what seems high wage
but after the war the specialist In oc-
cupation will take the high places. The
demand for men who know how to do
one thing better than other men is GER
tain to be abnormal after the war: for
when the struggle on the field is over
another great struggle is to take place
in the fields of peace. Every nation
will be seeking to rebuild to its com
mercial and industrial advantage. The
man who is fitted to lead in lnis strug-
gle win hold the high command. More
over IL the college youth IA called to
the colors he will have lost nothing
but gained by the lime he has spent In
school
Another thing that Is in the future,
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
WHO ls "THEn JAW.

A magazine has been offering prizes
for the best letters about the Jew.
One of these letters, written by Jew
is as follows:
The Jew is Dives; the Jew is Laza'
rus.
The Jew is Carl Marx; the Jew is
Rothschild.
The Jew is Felix Adler; the Jew is
a gunman.
The Jew is a wanderer; the Jew
clings to the pale.
The Jew is shylock; the Jew Is
Baron de Hirsch.
The Jew is Disraeli; the Jew is
Herzl.
The Jew is Spinoza; the Jew is
Maimioinides.
The Jew owns Broadway; the Jew
is homeless.
The Jew is Judas; the Jew is Jesus
There are millions of Jews; the
Jew does not exist. 3.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
HOW TO DRY APPLES.

Use winter apples, not the early oil
sweet varieties.
Pare, core, and cut into eighths.,
Or core and slice in rings, using fruit
or vegetable slicer
Do not let them stand long before
drying.
To prevent discoloration dip fruit
as it is prepared, for l minute in cold
salt bath Il ounce of salt to ! gallon
Of water.)
Remove surplus moisture by plac
ing fruit between towels, or by expos
! ing to the sun and air.
Spread thinly on trays or earthen
ware plates.
Dry in sun, in oven, over the kit
chen stove, Of before the electric fan
until the apples are touch and some
what leathery.
Stir from time to time.
The Oskaloosa herald., 1917-08-23
DID DEVIL DO IT?
AT ANY RATE CYCLONE VISITED
MULHALL TABERNACLE.

1t will be recalled that Rev. L.. w.
Munhall, an evangelist held a union
revival in Oskaloosa several years
ago, his tent being pitched on the
lot east of the High school building.
He was as free in the use Of language
as Billy Sunday might have been and
spared none with his frey tongue. The
current issue of the Christian Work
ers Magazine tells of an experience
that came to Rev. Mulhall, which will
be read with interest by Oskaloosa
people who remembered the evangel-
list. The Workers Magazine says; a
DR. L. w. Munhall and Prof. B. p.
Stout have been conducting taber-
nacle campaign in Sylacauga, Ala, in
which six churches united. Sunday
afternoon May 27, nearly 1000 men
were present in a meeting for men
only. About 60 made confession of
Christ At night, in making the an
nouncements for the coming week,
DR.. Munhall said: "Wednesday after
noon at 3 o'clock, will preach here
on the devil and as he knows l will
expose him, and he wants to keep you
in ignorance of his characteristics and
purposes, being the prince of the
power of the air. according to the
words of our Saviour, it would be just
like him to send a cyclone and tear
this tabernacle to pieces" Three hours
later cyclone did just that thing, but
at 3 p. m. Wednesday, May 30, DR..
Munhall did as announced, but upon
the ruins of the tabernacle"