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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-03-29

neutrals nearer the war zone.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
TEAM WORK NECESSARY.

The following article by GTantlaL.
Rice is issued by the Committee on
Public Information:
Every one knows about what the
fighting man has ahead. His bust
ness, in the main, is to fight
But how about the work of those
back of the lines?
l have in mind, as a prelude, two
major league ball clubs. The first
team had the leadership and the ma
terial to win with. There was no
question of this. But the fan sup
port at home was lacking-both in
the way of attendance and direct e2-
couragement. The home fans ap-
parently took it for granted their club
would win the pennant and for this,
or other reasons, were lukewarm in
their support, and oyer-critical of any
managerial or playing mistakes.
The result was a purely human
turn. The club finally became dis
couraged, began to sag in morale, be-
gan 10 wonder just what the use was
in playing for that type of support.
Needless to say it lost the flag. The
second team had good, average ma
terial but nothing bordering upon the
invincible. But it carried the full
and complete support of its home
fans who paid their money at the box
Office and who stood back OF their
club on the field, as loyal in defeat
as in victory. Back in the grand
stand and the bleachers they helped
to fight for their club. This team,
with its morale finely nodded by
such support. fought its way to the
front, and held the peak against bet
ter looking clubs.
These are not hypothetical cases.
They are not what might have hap
pened. They are what actually took
place. ~ 0aiegnt
War is only game upon a mighty
scale. Like any other game IL re-
quires leadership, material. team
play. training. sacrifice--and support
back Of the Zines.
(. What are TIE concrete. .definita MANS
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
DAVE ROBERTS BETTER

Givin, Jan. 21.,-Dave Roberts, the
son of Lewis Roberts who always
lived on Sandridge until years ago
when he moved to Missouri is now at
Williams Hospital at Oskaloosa for an
operation for lameness. he is getting
along nicely and expects to leave the
hospital this week. T. L. Rees and
wife are both in poor health and are
visiting with their daughter at Oska-
loosa since New Years day.
The baby of Fred Earpers's is sick
with pneumonia.
Most of the corn that is worth gath
ering in this neighborhood is in the
crib.
A message was received here last
keek announcing the death of John
Lewis of Oklahoma, the son of law
of the late Esquire Frank Castle.
Our mail carrier failed to make his
rounds last Saturday on account of
the heavy snow drifts on his route.
Several in this neighborhood had
some shredding done last week.
VIM. T. Roberts will have a Public
Sale this month.
Gambler Roberts will move to Bea-
con soon.
...- -.. 2Vc...... Nivig.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
GEN. DUFF is FOUND DEAD
Commander of British Forces in India
From 1913 to 1916 Dies
in Bed.

London, Jan. 21.-Gen. Sir Beau
champ Duff, commander in chief of
the British forces in India from 1913
to 1916, was found dead in his bed in
a West End club.
General Duff, who had had a long
and distinguished army career, was
in his siXty-third year. In August,
1916, he was succeeded in the Indian
command by General MonrO, and was
summoned to Great Britain to testify
before the committee investigating the
MesOpOtamian expedition, which re-
suited in the loss of Kut-el-Amara and
General Townshend's force to the
Turks. The report of this commits
sion, presented in June last, mentioned
many as sharing responsibility for the
result, the list including Gen. Sir John
Eccles Nixon, former commander in
Mesopotamia Baron Hardinge, former
vicerOy of India, and General Duff,
commander in chief at the time
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
GUNS ACTIVE ON THE PIAVE
Lively Artillery Fighting in the Monte
Asolone Sector Reported
by Rome.

Rome, Jan. 21.-Lively artillery fight
ing in the Monte Asolone sector on the
italian northern front is reported in
the war Office statement. There also
was lively artillery activity along the
Piave line. No infantry operations Of
moment are noted in the official state
ment, which reads:
Patrol engagements took place in
the DaOne valley, at GiUdicarie. At
Sano, southwest of More, one of our
stOrming parties carried out a sue
cessful raid into the enemy line TAX
ing prisoner an officer and ten men.
There were brief but intense artil-
lery duels in the Monte AsOlOne region.
British batteries caused a large fire
within the enemy's lines south Of Ser
nagalia.
along the Piave our artillery eff
fectively replied to the enemy's, the
fighting being livelest between Ner-
vesa and Maserada, and dispersed wag-
on transports and enemy patrols in the
neighbOrhoOd of Stabiuzzo and lie
Grave"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
GENERAL STRIKE
STARTS IN AUSTRIA
100000 Workers Quit in Vienna
and NeIStadt.
ALL WAR PLANTS ARE CLOSED
Hostility Voiced Toward Berlin for
Trying to Force the Austrians to
Continue the War-All
Demand Peace.

London. Jan. 21.--A general strike
is on throughout Austria, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from
Paris, which reports that 100000 men
have quit work in Vienna and Neu-
stadt, closing down all the war fac
tories.
The strikers are described as openly
anti-German and the movement as
both political and economic and espe-
cially aimed at securing peace.
Public demonstrations, it is added,
have been held in many places at
which hostility was voiced toward
Berlin for trying to force the Aus
triahs to continue the war.
Three Rioters Killed.
Madrid, Jan. 21.-DisOrders occurred
on Saturday at Alicante, the chief sea-
port of Valencia.
They are reported in an official tele-
gram from Alicante, which states that
Il mob forced the factories to cease
work and attacked shops and private
houses. Women of the middle class
were compelled by the demonstrators
to join them, it is declared.
The civil guard fired on the rioters,
killing three persons and seriously
wOunding four others.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24

by the Allies to certainty. if the
of the lines only hold out"
Nerve and the control of nerves is
needed back of the lines fully as much
as in the field.
What other ways are there?
There is an old golf maxim which
adyises-"Keep your eye on the ball"
This maxim is incorrectly arranged.
1t should read-"Keep your mind on
the ball"
There are too many who keep their
Eye on certain injunctions to Help
Hoover" Cut down the meat sup
ply" Economic" Buy Liberty
bonds" Help the Red Cross" etc.,
etc.
Their Eye is focused properly, but
their Mind is not yet rightly adjust
ed.
Those back of the lines, who are
not in position to serve at the front,
can help UNNECESSARILY to win this
war and end it with greater speed if
they will only keep their Minds upon
the injunctions of the day-if they
will keep their Minds upon economic
irG, upon sacrificing, upon swinging
into line with the most effective
Team Play the world has ever
known.
The entry who does his bit" on the
ball field never wins a pennant. 1t
is the one who does his ALL"
There isn't an American who does
ut wish down through the depths of
his soul for swift and proper ending
of this war. This goal can only be
reached by united team play back of
the lines, by united sacrifice, united
economy, united aid, united loyalty
united concentration upon the main
object ahead, the winning and the
ending Of the war. The longer citi-
zens put off their day of complete
sacrifice, of needed economy, of COM
plete team play, the longer this war
goes on and the greater the sacrifice
that waits ahead.
Many a pennant has been lost -
many football game has gone wrong
because each man thought the 9TH
er fellow would make the play or do
the work. Team play is built of no
such thought. 1t is made up of op-
posite ingredients-it is made up of
each man taking upon himself the job
of doing his full and complete share,
leaving nothing to fate, luck, or des-
tiny, taking nothing for granted but
the accomplishment Of the job at
hand.
United for team play back of the
lines, as it will be at the front, the
United States will have the impetus
to carry it to the greatest goal the
world has ever dreamed ola swift
and proper peace.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
1T TOOK SIX YEARS TO DO 1T.

For six years Glee McCleary, state
garden-canning club champion in
Iowa for 1917, belonged to girls to-
mato club. Each year she had re-
suits that were better and better I'M
til this year she won the state gar
den-canning club championship by
her perseverance. Because the
chickens had bothered her tomatoes
before, this 16-year-old girl of Batavia,
Jefferson county, planted her one
tenth of an acre in corner of her
fathers corn field and there made her
winning record.
From this one-tenth acre Miss Nc
Cleary produced so bushels of toma-
toes. OF these she canned 200 quarts,
sold 40 bushels to the neiI hbors and
had some left over for the home folks
to can and eat. She received $131. AS
from her crop and estimating her ex-
penses at S19;S5 J, her profit was
$11140. In addition, she took can
ming exhibit to the state fair at Des
Moines and won ST in prizes. Just
for fun, she helped her sister can $50
quarts of other vegetables and fruits.
81 received my seed early in Febru-
airy and planted it in hot bed" said
Miss McCleary in a letter to the state
club leader recently, telling just how
she did it. When the plants were
about two inches high, transplanteL
them to the garden. hoed them and
chopped down the weeds frequently.
When the plants were high enough, !
staked and pruned them.
In canning my tomatoes, / used the
cold pack method" she says. when
canned the tomatoes l selected the
medium sized ones, then peeled and
neatly arranged them in the jars To
each quart l added one teaspoon of
salt l boiled a few potatoes, mashed
and strained them and poured the
juice over the tomatoes in the jars
Then l clamped the jars and steril-
ICED them in boiler with a falsa
bottom"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
COAL FAMINE DANGER OVER?
chicaso's Reserve Supply Now so Per
Cent Over Its Immediate
Needs.

Chicago, Jan. 21.-Favorable wealth
err and the material curtailment of coal
consumption by industries during the
first days Of the five-day shutdown
period yesterday found Chicago's coal
reserve on the Increase, The days re-
ceipts were larger than any day for
two weeks. Preference to deliveries
for domestic use after the needs of the
railroads, public utilities, food-produc-
ing plants and exempted war indus
tries removed Immediate danger of
further prolonged shortage for homes,
apartment buildings and institutions.
Incoming coal this week will add to
the surplus because of the curtailment
Of consumption effected by the double
holiday. Continued storm-free wealth
err is in prospect and by Tuesday the
local coal yards should be In better
shape, according TO authorities hand
ling the situation, than any time since
the recent big railroad tie-up.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
NURSE AND II SOLDIERS DIE
Gen. Pershing Reports Twelve Deaths,
Nine From Pneumonia, Among
the Forces in France.

Washington, Jan. 21.-Deaths of
eleven enlisted men and one nurse in
France were reported to the war de-
partment by General Pershing. Nine
of the enlisted men died of pneumonia.
The nurse was Miss Helen Falrchild
of WatsOntOwn, Pa, who died from
atrophy' of the liver January IS.
The enlisted men who died of pneu-
monia, except those otherwise speci-
fed, were: Sergeant Aaron Frazier,
emergency address Selma, Ala. Cor
pOral Claude L. Robinson" engineers,
myocarditis; Mrs. A. L. Robinson,
mother, Mount Sterling, o. Privates
T. w. Farmer, Albany, Ga. G. G. Irons,
Jersey City, N. j.; T. Boyd, Walden.
Miss. G. Lewis, Thibodaux, La. G. w.
VrOman, Casper, Wyo.; w. ]. Cum
ming, Bridgeport, Conn.,. A. Il. Peter.
son, typhoid, Providence, II. l.; J. V.
Sissel, Gazelle, Cal; II. Plummer, Pa
chuta, Miss.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
CANDIDATES FOR JUDGE.

Jasper county, it seems, will have
two candidates for judge in this dis
trict. Judge Silwold, of Newton, has
already announced his intention of
being a candidate for reelection, and
the Newton Record says John E.
Cross, also of Newton, will seek the
office. In introducing Mr.. Cross, the
Newton Record says:
THE many friends of John E. Cross
have persuaded him to become a
candidate for the nomination for dis
trict judge before the non partisan
primary to be held next June.
Mr.. Cross graduated from the law
department of the State University of
Iowa in 1904 and came Immediately
to Newton and began the practice of
the law, first as partner with Ross
r. Mowry and later by himelf. In
1914. on the death of w. o. McElroy,
he was appointed to the position OF
attorney for the Jasper County Say
ings Bank, and has held that position
ever since He has large and grow
ing pIaCIlCe anu Is ldteu 'iIhohS 'hS
best attorneys of the sixth district and
has the judicial mind which will es-
pecially fit him for a position on the
district bench.
There are few men in Jasper
county who have more friends than
John Cross and they would all be
delighted to see him attain to a place
on the district bench. Should he
be elected, there is no doubt but that
he will make a splendid judge"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
U. S. SHIP ESCAPES
STEAMER ARMENIA ToRPEDoED,
BUT REACHES PORT.
Flour In Hold Forms BuIkhead and
Vessel Is Taken to Point of Safety
Attack Occurs at Midnight.

Washington, Jan. 21.-With a great
hole blown in her side by torpedo,
with crews at their guns and on watch
for another torpedo, and with flour in
the hold forming a bulkhead, the
steamship Armenia, in a midnight at
tack, made way to n point of, safety
and saved all her men and the greater
part of her cargo.
Incidents of the attack were made
public by Secretary Daniels from the
report of the commander of the vessel.
Chief Boatswain's Mate Stief Homiak,
U. s. n, in charge of the gun crew, is
commended by the secretary for devo-
ton to duty.
The Armenia, under convoy, was
proceeding through the war zone when,
at midnight, the wirless brought news
of the tOrpedoing of another vessel in
the zone.
with my binocular," the command
er of the guard reports, Il picked up a
light on the port beam. / sang out to
the mate, but got no answer.
"Then | saw large stream of water
shoot into the air about $50 feet and
then shot came forward.
"The gun crews were told to stick
to their guns and watch for second
torpedo and not to wait for orders to
fire.
st was my intention then to go
down into the engine room when no.
ticed spotlights blinking about the
decks and scramble for the boats.
shouted to keep the spotlights off or
we would get second torpedo. l also
told them not to mind the boats, but
save the ship.
"Going back to the bridge we saw
that the men from some of the look
out posts were getting ready the boats
and that the armed guards were stand
ing by their guns. Orders were given
to lower the boats and to cast off.
After making an inspection of the
damage l went to the captain and
again told him l thought we could
make it if there was no second tor
pedO.
"The boats by this time had put off
from the ship. A destroyer came along
side and picked up the men.
"A collision mat with weights and
canvas had been placed over the tor
pedoed hole. Flour In the hold had
formed skin that kept the water from
going forward. The explosion knocked
down three of the lOokouts on the gun
platform.
keeping ahead the Armenia was
gotten to safety and her cargo I'M
loaded"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24

1t is said that the German gov
eminent is planning to practice po-
lygamy after this war in order to
increase the population of the coun-
try. To do his full duty by his
country each male German citizen old
enough to marry will be expected to
have two or more wives. This plan
OF the kaiser's ought to be conclu-
siye proof to the German soldier that
he is not fighting for liberty.-Bloom-
field Democrat.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
BANK ROBBERY
IN DEs MOVIES
CIVILIAN AND SOLDIER HOLD UP
COTTAGE GROVE.
FORCE EMPLOYEES into VAULT
Secure over One Thousand Dollars
and Make Their Escape in An
AutomobiIe-Found Girl Alone
But Her Father Soon Returns.

Des Moines, Jan. 22.-Two robbers,
one attired in civilian clothes and
the other in a regular soldiers uni
form, entered the Cottage Grove State
Bank here this afternoon and escaped
with one thousand dollars in cur
rency.
The robbers entered the bank
while the president, J. w. Gregory,
was at lunch. His daughter Frances,
who is cashier of the bank, was in
the cage alone.
The robbers had just entered when
she was ordered to throw up her
hands. The robber who was attired
in civilian clothing was helping him
self as her father entered the door,
only to find himself covered with re-
volvers which were held in the hands
of the soldier.
Both the father and daughter were
then forced into the vault while the
men pilfered the cash drawers and
made their escape in an automobile.
Jewelry Theft at Detroit. =
Detroit, Mich, Jan! 22.-Sixty
thousand dollars worth of jewelry
was stolen shortly before noon today
by three bandits who overpowered
William r. Granger, manager of =
big down town jewelry store.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
WATCHFUL WAITING
(By THEODORE ROOsEVELTD

3
We have been at war nearly one
| year. We have failed to do any dam
age to Germany, but we have done a
great deal of damage to ourselves. Re
Gently the Presidents Secretary OF
War announced that the war was three
thousand miles away and so he had
not prepared to meet it. Incidently
the feat of the German submarine off
Newport in the fall of 1916 showef
that if it had not been for the allied
fleets and armies the war would have
been on our own shores. But at the
moment it is three thousand miles
away and yet this nation is suffering
the kind of grave economic derange
ment that we would suffer If hostile
army was on our shores. We have
accomplished very little. We have suf
fered very much. Both the failure in
Accomplishment and the amount OF
avoidable suffering are due to the reso-
lutte refusal of our government to pre-
pare in advance and to it's fatuous per-
sistance in the policy of watchful wait
ing.
Doubtless part of the present
trouble in connection with coal is due
| to unwisdom in the price fixing Of
bituminous coal. Doubtless part of il
is due to the railway congestion which
in it's turn is due to the complete
lack of system and consequent chaos
due to suddenly imposing on well
meaning, stogy government Officials
of average capacity the duty of deal.
ing in a tremendous hurry with a
situation of unprecedented size, com
pleXity and importance, but the tenn
porary causes are all secondary to the
great cause of complete failure to pre-
pare in advance.
Our economic unprepardness is just
as complete as our military unprepard-
ness and is one of the chief factors
therein. We are now paying bitterly
for the fact that two and three years
ago it was deemed politically wise to
shape our governmental policy along
the lines of "Watchful waiting" and
He kept US out of war"
If three years ago we had begun in
good faith and earnestly to prepare and
If when the Lustania was sunk, We
had acted as precisely as we did act
with no more proVocation in February,
last, this war would have now been
over. An immense amount of blood
shed would have been spared and the
danger Of German militarism would
have been forever averted. In such
case we would have greatly developed
the trained administrators and the co.
herent system necessary to deal wise
ly with the economic no less than the
military features of the great war. o..
refusal to prepare in advance and our
fatuous acceptance of rhetorical plat
tudes as a substitute for preparations
have resulted in our present military
impotence and profound and farreach
ing economic derangemet. The pro
found business distrust. the unrest Of
labor. the coal famine, the congestion
Of traffic and the shutting down of
Industries at the time when II is most
important that production should be
speeded % the highest point, AZ are
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
Loss kEENLY FELT
DEATH OF GUY TAYLOR MOURN.
ED AT ROCHESTER

Rochester, Jan. 19-The death of
Guy A. Taylor came as shock to the
entire neighborhood his illness was of
so short duration. Mr.. Taylor had liy-
ed his entire life in this vicinity, and
will be sadly missed. Our heartfelt
sympathy goes out to the young wife,
the mother, Mrs. Anna Taylor and to
the other relatives of which there are
three brothers, James, Fred and Cliff.
and two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Wycott
and Miss. Stella Taylor OF Oskaloosa.
Those attending the funeral from a
distance were: Mrs. Mollie Cruth OF
Williams, Iowa Mr. and Mrs. Fred
Taylor of Redfield, Iowa, and Clifford
Taylor of the same place; Mr.. and
Mrs. Howard Wycoff of Fayett City,
Pennsylvania.
Hayden Evans, brother of Mrs.
George Harris is at the Abbott hospl-
tai for IN operation.
George Harris is building a barn on
the Anna Scott place, which he will
occupy the comming year.
Members Of the U. S. S. will give
the play-"Al Martins Country Store"
in the near future.
Red Cross meeting was postponed
on account of lack of material to
work on. Will meet on Thursday OF
next week. All having knitted articles
please bring or send them in at this
time.
Raymond and Loren Johnson were
victims of a pleasant surprise party
planned and carried out by their moth
er, Mrs. Ida Johnson and sister, Miss
Anna Myrtle Johnson.
Francis Thompson and Leslie John
son represented the Rochester school
at the county contest. Leslie had 4th
place in the class.
Will Voss will move south of Leigh
ton, on the AL Wetercamp farm for
the coming year.
Frank Bartlow, having sold his farm
upon which he resided and he and his
wife will move to Oskaloosa for perm
inent residence. Sorry to loose these
good people.
J. A. Current is moving his farming
implements from Tracy to the Julia
De Long place where he will farm
the coming year.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
BIG FLOODS IN GERMANY
Cellars of Houses Near the Rhine
Emptied in Order to Save Food
stuffs-HanoVer Threatened,

Amsterdam, Jan. 21.-SeriOus floods
are occurring in Germany owing to the
heavy snowfall. The River Fulda has
overlooked its banks and Cassel is half
under water. In Hesse several villages
are submerged. The Rhine is threat
ening Cologne. The cellars of all the
houses near the river have been hur-
riedly emptied in order to save food
stuffs. Hanover Is also seriously
threatened. The Berlin tram service
has been stopped by the snow, which
1t has been found impossible to remove
owing to the lack of laborers.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-01-24
THE LITTLE GHOST.

Last night, through driven mist and
beating rain,
One came whose feet had known the
path before;
The little Love we buried stood again
And sobbed beside my door.
What could / do, oh, foolish woman
heart,
But draw him in and hold him safe
and warm?
Why had Death loosed him helpless
and apart,
To wander in the storm?
oh, lips and hands that have wanted
most
Ny arms were open! Be it wrong
or right,
Who could turn such a lonely little
ghost
Adrift into the night?
-Theodosia Garrison.