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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Koren.

Else Elizabeth Hysing Koren,
beloved wife of the late DR.. V.
Koren, passed away Friday morn
ing at her home on Washington
Prairie, after an illness of about
four days. The deceased was born
May "a, 1882 in Larvig, Norway,
and came to this country with her
parents, ditect to Winneshiek
county and her home had been here
ever since. In August 1858 she
was united in marriage to Rev. V.
Koren, who passed away several
years ago. Eight children were
born to the union, foU: sons and
four daughters. The surviving
children are John, of Boston, Mass. !;
William, Princeton University; Mrs,
Prof Naeseth, DEBORAH; Misses
Henrietta and Marie Koren and
Rev. Paul Koren at home. In the
death Of this good woman, one OF
our most beloved and highly res
pected pioneer mothers has gone
to her final reward, She was a
woman possessed of a beautiful
character and during her long life
here bore the respect and esteem
of all and her death brings sorrow
to many. The bereaved children
have the sympathy of all in their
loss. The funeral services
were held yesterday, Tuesday after
noon at three o'clock from the
Washington Prairie church, Prof.
C. X. Preus, of Luther college, and
Rev. j. w. P:eus, of Minneapolis,
officiated
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
NJ. II. Church.

We will observe Children's Day
next Sabbath. The theme for the
sermon Sunday morning 1890,
Jesus and the Children" after
which the ordinance of infant bap-
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
Congregational Church.

Subject next Sabbath morning.
The Wisdom from Above" and in
the evening Adherence of Evil,
with special application to the
a:uelties of the present war"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
Underwent Operation in Chicago

DR.. T. c. Hutchinson arrived
home Friday from Chicago where
he had been with his son Joseph,
the latter being operated on at
Mercy hospital. Joseph has had
trouble with one of his legs since
he was a little fellow. The opera
ton was performed by DR.. J. F.
Golden, formerly with the late DR..
Murphy. The congress of surgeons
meet in Chicago this week, and
Joseph's case appears before the
congress. The operation was very
rare and delicate one, and the pro-
spects are now that he is going to
come out of it fine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
Mrs. j. j. Marsh Dead.

The remains of Mrs. ], j. Marsh,
a former we'll known Decolah mo-
Their, were brought to DEBORAH
fot' burial Monday evening from
Minneapolis, where she passed
away last Friday, June 7, at the
home of her daughter.
Phoebe Addie Maltby was born
at Homer, Genessee county, New
Ydk, Feb. 20, 1910. In early
life she moved with her parents to
Kenosha, Wis. and later to Lake
County, ILL., On May 20, 1860, at
Fox Lake, Lake county, Ill. she
was married to Joseph Judson
Marsh and to this union six chill
d.en were born, Willis c., of Los
Angeles, CAL. Mrs. E. ]. Weiser,
Fargo, N. D.; Susie B., of Detroit,
Mich; 10 L. and Mrs. Hugh
Scammon, of Minneapolis and Mrs
Ho bert Hallenberg, of Carson, N.
ID. These with one brother, Henry
Maltby, of Cut Bank, Mont, and
one sister, Mrs. Nellie Graham,
of DEBORAH, also six grandchildren
survive her.
In the death of Mrs. Marsh one
of our highly respected and beloved
mothers has gone to her reward.
Her home had been in DEBORAH for
many years, until shortly after the
death of her husband sevesal years
ago she made her home with her
daughters in Minneapolis and N.
Dakota. She had an extensive cir
Gle of warm friends he:e, and all
are grieved to. hear of her death.
The funeral services were held
yesterday afternoon, Rev. Willett,
of the Congregational church Of
ficiating, and interment was be-
side of those of he: beloved hus-
band in Phelps cemetery.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12
Her Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary

Her Fiftieth Wedding Anniversary.
Next Sunday, June 16, occurs
the fiftieth wedding anniversary of
Mrs. Augusta Brakeman. She will
quietly celebrate the event at the
home of her son Walter, 1454
Maple street, Dubuque, where she
will be pleased to receive greetings
f:om her old friends here If there
are any who would like to remem-
Der her.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12

tism will be observed. The Sun
day school will render the pro-
gram.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12

The DEBORAH Granite Works Of
fer a wide selection of monuments
and markers having just received
two full car loads of stock,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12

Cash paid for eggs at Reum's
market. l5-tf
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-06-12

We recover old screen frames
with black, galvanized or pearl
screen wire, bring them in.
23-2w. CROFT HARDWARE co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

Of them, but they didn't worry any
longer. They knew the destroyen
were on the watch. They ranged hero
and there. They shot away for mile
or SO and came back to swim circles
about them. They were all new boats
the best ever built. The British will
tell you so, too. They are modelling
their new ones on ours.
The submarines couldn't trouble the
transport men now. If one started to
worry, all he had to do vas look over the
side, and the picture of the destroyers
running the hills of the sea Ike hounds,
was full comfort to him.
The lookout who spotted the de-
stroyers first got a pie as reward.
That is the Croix de Guerre of the
transport service, and most of the men
would rather have a pie right from the
officers mess than the biggest medal
ever designed. There was a standing
oHer OF three pies to the man who saw
a u-boat on the way across-if he lived
to eat them afterward- but on this trip
the reward was not claimed.
A few days later the Ramapo and
her consorts were shepherded by the
destroyers into the harbor Of "a Port
in France"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

we shipped sea that made US gasp.
But the commander waded right in.
He was going to show US.
"And then a wicked looking barrel
spied him, and came down at him like
steam roller. He jumped for a
capstan and stood there, an unwilling
statue on an impromptu pedestal. The
barrel hit that capstan and exploded.
1t didn't just burst. 1t literally dis
appeared in a great cloud of oil, and
out of that cloud the commander
emerged. He was terrible sight.
"'Come out of this he said when
he could speak, let the damn things
break
"Only three Of the twenty we started
with were whole when We reached
France"
A petty officer was going through the
letting go of one stable object until
he had grasped another when his grip
slipped. He was thrown the whole
length Of the hall, and was carried a
limp piece of bloody wrcckage to the
sick bay.
They had to operate to save his life
the surgeon said. That in a storm that
was making the Ramapo behave like
an outlaw horse. But the navy cares
for. its own and they operated, and the
man is still alive. The wind was from
the north and was making the ship
roll terribly They turned her bow
into the gale and faced into i. it for
two hours, because the motion that
way was easNr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Every Five Minutes
They Changed Courses

The Ramapo and her consorts and
the armored cruiser were all zip-zap-
glng now. Navy men know how long
after vessel has been sighted it takes
to aim and discharge a torpedo. Saw
that it takes five minutes. Every four
minutes the vessels changed their
courses, lodging back and forth from
an unseen foe that might not be HIRE
at all, interminably.
The lookouts were ordered to report
everything they saw. Not bit of
drlftwood or a patch of floating sea-
weed was to be missed. Almost every
minute call came down from the tons
to the fore or aft gun control.
Nothing was to be thrown overboa rd
during the day, not even a cigarette
stub. At nightfall the transport
dumped all her waste After that moth
ing was to be thrown overheard until
dusk of the next day That is so that
the sea wolf that comes upon a bit of
wastage will not be able to follow tho
trail. BY the time that submarine
could see the waste ahoat on the sea
the steamer that threw it would he at
least eight hours further along on her
journey.
All at once down the speaking tube
TO the forward fire control camo an on
cited voice.
Fore top, fore top. fore top"
Aye, aye, fore top"
steamer at 1875 degrees; range. 1000
yards" '''''
Aye, aye, fore top"
mere was steamer, and she was
coming down fast, smoke boiling up out
OF her single stack, her bow driving
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
ompers lnterprets New Significance Of Labor in Wa
Organize tons Ideals in Future Are To Be Attained
Through Same Evolutionary Paths That Have
Led to Present Achievements

ica." The desk near the centre of
the room was untidy with that def
mite untidiness of a man who has a
system of placement Of his own.
And l could not help noticing two
bottles Of headache tablets, one OF
them empty. A black skull cap lay
carelessly at one side. When the
labor head came in | saw a man
surprisingly small in stature, an old
man who had seen and done much in
the world, who held responsibility
and enjoyed it and had been mel
lowed by it. His head is almost
bald but for little tufts of gray
curly hair here and there that help
to give his face kindness. His
forehead is broad and high, the fore
head that marks many human1-
tarians. The lower part of the face
is energetic, we'll commanded, dis
ciplined, the eyes shrewd and
careful.
When I had explained my purpose
and had presented my questions Mr..
Gompers called his stenographer.
The stenographic report of his an
swers follows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
Will Continue
To Make Better World

at means little to the labor move
ment of America what it has been
called or how it is interpreted, par
ticularly by those who do not under
stand it, or those who are opposed to
it either from interest or from the
standpoint of those who would CAPT.
talize to a vote-getting machine the
evils which still remain unremedied.
"The American labor movement,
observing and counting with the con-
ditions as they exist, undertakes to
secure the greater protection of the
rights and interests of the wage
working people of the country and to
promote their welfare by every hon
orable means. From every angle and
upon every field the American labor
movement has taken advantage of
every opportunity presented in order
to press home upon the government
and it's agencies, upon employers,
upon society, the necessity for the
recognition of the co-equal rights of
the workers with all other people of
our country. The plan is to make a
better day for the masses of the. peo-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

The cruiser and her convoy passed on
down over the horizon. The storm got
worse. For two hours the Ramapo
steamed slowly into its teeth, alone on
the ocean, she and her thousands Of
men waiting, while in the operating
room the surgeon balanced himself to
the more regular plunge OF the vessel
and saved the mans life.
The ordeal of the ncverending series
of storms was sufficient to try mems
souls, unoccuped by other worry. But
over the Ramapo hung another threat
the menace that envelops any vessel
that faces out across the Atlantic.
"Watchful waiting"-the men Of the
+ Ramapo grew to know the true inward
agony of the word. Always to watch
To stand for a four-hour watch in the
scanning the battling waves for the
sight of the white periscope trail. To
tread the deck, your ears ever strained
for the dull boom below that might tell
of torpedo driven home. To sleep,
with one half of you wide awake, ready
to jump to your appointed post while
the vessel dropped swiftly away be-
meath your feet.
The thing got them. For the first
it: Then into the talking came note
of defiance, as though each man we're
telling his fellows that he wasn't afraid.
Then they stopped talking about it en-
tirely.
Then one morning the section that
awoke to the twitter of the boatswain's
pipe caught new emphasis in the old
navy cry:
"Third section on deck, relieve wheel
lookout, speed cone and ammunition"
Especially the lookout. They had
reached the farfung limit of the war
zone.
eve walked about that day as though
we knew the decks were made of dyna-
mite. You kept watching and listen
ing. You didn't know quite for what
A little stream of foam would send
your heart up into your mouth. 1t was
fairly quiet that day. and the soldiers
were on deck. They were worse than
we, for they didn't have anything to
40, except just sit around and think Of
what might happen.
There was one darkey who sat away
off by himself with battered old ac
Gordon, and sang 'Gwine Away
those were all the words, and he sang
until I thought he'd drive me off INV nv
nut-.just 'Gwine away, gwine away.
gwi-ii-ine. a-a-awa-ay.' 1t got to be-
| terrible"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
The Troops Stood
By the Rail and Checred

cheered and laughed and shouted but
we didn't. We were too tired, Just
plain worn out. Any one who has been
on transports crew knows all there
is to know about the agony of antid-
patton. We just sat and looked at the
green hills and the green roofs and
the green waters of the bay, and pres
entity those who weren't on watch went
to their hunks and had a good sleep
They had brought their men across
safe, which has come to be habit Of
the transport service. On this trip
,hey were fortunate and no one hao
been lost aboard the Ramapo. A sup
erstltion is growing among the trans
port men that on each trip TO Francs
some man has to pay his life as Davy
Jones.s tee for safe crossing. inns
time 1t was marine from the cruiser
mat accompanied them. wase
washed him overheard and he was nos
seen again.
The sick bay of the Ramapo was fun
Of those who had been wounded ID
their battle with the Atlantic, men
prulsed and cut, and few with bonss
broken from being thrown against lh ,.
movable objects by an all too movaD'::
snip. There were also q score o.
troops who had been hurt when
sea broke into a troop space, taxing
the wall with it. One of the trans.
ports anchors had been torn avs.
and her forward deck had been stow
IN by one enormous wave. That VIZ
all, but warships have come out OF
general engagement with less injun.
II have just come off a watch tnss
lasted until dawn came up over u.
quiet bay and the quaint gray house. .,
that ramble up the hill. We have pu.
all our troops ashore, and ! suppos..
Will start back again in few os!ii
now. You get thrill when you ies,
that you have gone through WITH
tough job and seen it to the guy,
That's what we have just done ss aS
we know that there are others aae''
of US.
"A few minutes ago, four destroyssss
that were lying asleep like watch ousi
at the entrance of the harbor, si? ;..o
their mornings and started out =, .a.
the dawn. Not a sound. scarcey II
ripple. as they swung into Int, ~. ~
trailed away toward the horizon : A ~.
somewhere they had caught the, MA NAV
less cry for help, suppose, ana 70. .,sf
were on their way, at speed 10. al
than locomotives could be driven ~
long ago. ~.
They melted into the morning m, .,s
and suddenly | realized that they We -,
there to see us through. and tina. III, a
were there to bring to France the M IN
that are going to help stamp out 1
kaiser's gang. Somehow, | am w; +.
that they put me on transport ~s
stead of dreadnought. 1t
as though we were doing more g VI
win the war, somehow. even II H..
ever hears about US.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
They Saw Periscopes
In Every Wave

Down in the troop spaces soldiers
were singing to keep up their courage
In the quarters of negro regiment at
least hundred crap games were al
'eady in progress. Up in the crows
nests lads only a few times at sea were
already on the watch for submarines
and seeing periscopcs in every wave
top
, That night, the storm hit them.
Wed been on the Ramapo for two
weeks then. All that time she had been
fast TO the dock. We had come to
regard her as something dignified, i'm
posing, filled with stability. She wasn't.
The wind got up and she rolled
Then the wind got higher and she rolled
some more. The dignified imposing old
tub wallowcd and washed and lurchcd
Each minute she invented a new way
TO spill you out Of your bunk, or skid
you across decks.
az was amazing, and it grew TO be
positively indecent. If you were sud
denly to see your aged and respected
grandmother atnrt TO do hoochic-
koochic, you'd know how we felt"
All through the night, the section
on watch. had no time for peaceful
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10

pie, the wage workers, than yester
day; and to make tomorrow and to-
morrow's tomorrow each a better
day than the one which has gone be-
fore.
"The American labor movement
recognizes that there is and can be
no end to progress; and to set forth
a goal as a tinality is to negative the
necessity and the continuity of prog
ress.
"There is no necessity for a re-
vision or reinterpretation of the aims
of the American Federation of Labor
1t is, as it has been, engaged in the
concentration CT all effort to make
life the better worth living in every
respect every day of the existence of
our peoples.
"With that purpose in view and
that policy pursued there is con-
stantly going on a social regenera-
ton of the working people, and it
stands out conspicuously as against
those who believe in a cataclysm for
a reconstruction of society. The
work. the activity, the purpose of the
American Federation of Labor, are all
mediate problems and the achieve
ment Of the immediate needs and
making the workers the stronger
thereby in numbers, in power, in in
fluencc and enabling them to meet the
new problems of each minute of each
day, of each month, of each year, and
decades and century.
"To-day there is an entirely differ
ent conception on the part of all the
people, employers, the government, as
to the rights to. which the workers
are entitled, the representation in all
the activities Of industry and govern
ment, and the responsibility which
rests upon the workers. The workers
in turn demand that they shall have
the fullest opportunity of participa-
ton in meeting these responsibilities
and aiding in devising and advising
and administering the affairs which
affect the masses of the people. That
has been accomplished by the COM
prehensive policy, methods and prac-
tice of the American labor movement,
and without the establishment of a
labor party. The American Fedora
ton of Labor is not only an economic
body; the unions of labor of America
are not only economic in power, but
they are also political and sociolog
ical.
1.-THE ideals have not been at
tanned, but great achievements and
progress have been made and through
evolutionary paths, not revolution
airy. This principle and policy con-
form to the institutions of the Re-
public of the United States, and
while our Republic is not perfect,
while it has its shortcomings, the
shortcomings Of the human, it is bet
ter than any other country on the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
that is to be responsible for the
added meanings that are to come out
of democracy"
Trade Union Was Born
Of Labor's Need

1t is for that reason that I went
to interview Samuel Gompers. I un-
dertook the interview knowing that
the labor movement as it is ex-
pressed by the American Federation
of Labor is bearing an increasingly
heavy fire from radicals who believe
in an absolute revision of govern
ment and industry. Trade unionism
in America is not propaganda for
distinct ends. 1t is immediate in it's
aims, born out of the necessities of
labor. 1t has taken it's shape &C.
cording to labor's needs. 1t does not
theorize about the divisions of So
ciety, although its activity is a con-
slant struggle for more extensive
recognition of it's own rights.
By the confusions and divisions
of the present war other groups
aiming to represent labor and indus
trial change in the United States
have tended to lose their identity.
In the same measure, the American
Federation of Labor and Samuel
Gompers have gained. And with
this definition of identity has come
responsibility; the responsibility of
interpreting American labor to labor
in Europe and to America itself.
Samuel Gonlpers is not an easy
man to interview. Years of leader
ship, years in the open field, in
scores of battles and with every kind
of big artillery trained upon him,
have made him cautious and dis
Greet. Moreover, to the busy man in
Washington the old style of inter-
view in which the interviewer asked
the interviewed more or less vaguely
about anything that happened to
open up for discussion is only an
annoyance. 1t is both unproductive
and untruthful.
Accordingly, 1 framed four ques-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-03-10
BY Ralph Block

COME men absorb so large a
~ part Of the field they work in
and in turn give to it so much
Of themselves that they cannot with
any truth be viewed singly and alone.
Their individual significance has be-
come merged in a group of signifi-
canoe. They are movement or they
are nothing at all.
Samuel Gompers is one of these
: men,. When you meet Samuel Com
pers you meet the American Fedora
ton Of Labor and that part Of the
labor movement in the United States
which it represents. You may also
meet in him fragments of Dutch
caution, derived out of The Neither
lands some generations back; Brit
ish tenacity, an inheritance from the
England he left in boyhood; and a
curious mixture of Jewish shrewd-
ness and idealism. But it is the
labor movement which is the largest
part Of him, the movement with
which he has been identified since
he was a child laborer in London,
and which owes the greater part of
its development and present form to
his interest, devotion and guidance.
He is an important man in Wash
ington. He is important just as
labor is important and essential to
the prosecution of the war. He is
one of the six members of the adj
visory commission to the Council of
National Defence. But his impor-
lance finally stems from a greater
cause, cause which is inescapably
a part of the causes for which the
- war is being fought. War gives
freedom even as it puts into bondage,
and undeniably this war has freed
the voice of the worlds labor, given
= tongue to its cause and forced a re-
spectful hearing from the world. If
the end of war means a new rein
tegration of society, it is labor that
will profit by it, labor that is to take
place in the new councils and labor