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Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
SEED CONN SURVEY

The Harrison Comfy Seed Corn
Survey called by Governor Hard
ing is now practically complete.
This has been made possible by
the splendid cooperation of the
Seed Corn Census takers and the
Harrison County Farmers. The
Survey indicates the approxima-
tely 10000 blu. of seed corn will
be needed for planting this
spring.
There is enough old corn and
new corn listed that will no
doubt, balance the wants. It will
be a matter of testing anil distri-
button. The location of this corn.
is now being tabulated at the
County Agents office These lists
will be available to all who wish,
as soon as preliminary tests are
made. Due to the poor quality of
corn the Government is urging an
individual ear test. The reports
indicate that large number of
the farmers are answering the
call. We want Harrison County in
the 100 per cent list. Enlist now,
and go over the top with the first
line. This first line of Food
Production will put our boys over
the top, over there.
If there is any question as how
to make the individual ear test,
either write or call at the County
agents office for the bulletin on
Testing Seed Corn. The method
lis simple and inexpensive and can
be made by any one.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
LIVESTOCK RIGGS
At SOUTH OMAHA
FL clllis AetIr, Il Fully
Steady Prices
aoes SELL A DIME LOWER.

ohssp and Lamb Receipts Moderate
Demand Aettvs and Prices 2t035s
hlehsr-Fsed Administration Re.
msvai % Dan On Mutton Strength
ems the Market. Feeders in Coed
Demand and Strong.
Union Stock Yards, Omaha, Nsb,
Feb 28.-Thsrs was q liberal run Of
cattle for the opsoiAs day Of the
week, about 5000 head, and they sold
at fully steady. aal u some cases Z
shade stronger prices. Demand was
active from both local packers and
shipping buyers and the movement
WAS free from start to finish, practi-
cally everything being sold in good
season. Stocksrs and feeders were In
active request At steady to strong
prices.
Quotations on cattle: Good to
choice beevss, $12.25@13.1O; fair to
good beeves. $11.25012.OO; common
to fair beevss, $s.00011.O0; good to
choice yearlings, $1O.75012.25; fair to
good yearlings, $9.OO01O.OO; common
to fair yearlings, S7OO09.Oo; good to
choice grass beeves, $1O.75012.25;
fair to good grass steers, $9.25@ 1850;
common to fair grass steers, 5000
eco: good to choice heifers, $1,000
| HOO; good to choice cows, $4,000
! 1880; fair to good cows, $S.0O09O0;
| Gamers and cutters, S7.O008O0; veal
calves, $9.OOO13.O0; beef bulls, $500
01O.5O; bologna bulls. $7.5O09O0:
prime feeders, $1O5Oo11.50; good to
choice feeders, 39.7501O25; fair to
good feeders. 3s.75@a.a0: good to,
choice stockers, 38.5O611OO; fair to
good stockers. $86O69.25; common to
fair grades, $esO0sOO; stock cows,
es.5Oo9.OO; stock heifers, $7.5O09.5O;
stock calves, $1,000 1000.
heas Show sofoe Decline.
Receipts Of hogs. 1890 head, were
among the heaviest on record for
Monday. Quality was fair and the de.
mand active at prices around 50lOc
lower than Saturday. Tops brought
I'll. 80, as against $16.55 last Monday,
and the bulk Of the trading was at
S17O0017.2O, a. against $4,000 1850
q week ago.
a Csc Advance on Lambs.
The run Of sheep was very moder-
ate for Monday, 1850 head, and the
demand for them very active. Prices
Tor both mutton and lambs ranged
from 25c to s5c higher than the close
OF last week. Best handy weight
lambs brought $1600.
Quotations on shesp and lambs:
Lambs, handy weight. $4,000 1875;
lambs heavy weight. t14.25@ 1873;
lambs, feeders. $14.2Bo16.25; lambs
shorn, sS$1l.5O01s.5o, lambs, culls
SlOOO@14.00; yearlings, fair to
choice, $11.50014.5O; yearlings, feed
ers, Sl2OO014.25; wethers, fair Il
choice, $11.OO01s.00; ewes, fair Il
choice. $11OO@l2.25; ewes, breeders
all ages, s$1O.5O018.50; ewes, feeders
e7.5001O50; ewes, culls and cannsea
Ak Onf170k
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

Harold Cox has enlisted in sthc
aviation corps and left last even
ing for DesMoines. From there he
will be sent to TT. Logan. VIM.
has also enlisted in the same
corps and will leave Wednesday
for Des Moines.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. D. Vance are
the parents Of daughter born
this morning. Mrs. Vance was
formerly Miss Flo Oviatt of this
city.
H. A. Newton who was operated
upon at the DeVore hospital for
appendicitis is recovering rapid
".
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
DR. John Tamislca was south

DR.. John Tamisica was south
east of Logan yesterday to hold a
consultation with DR.. Lucy Wood
on the scarlet fever case at the A.
r. Frazier home. The whole fam
lily are down with the disease. DR..
Dean of Council Bluffs was also
there to look after one of the
children suffering With masteoid
trouble.
Miss Ruth Goodrich OF Moore
head was the week end guest oil
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Goodrich.
George Motz was up from Sol
der, today on business.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28
Children CIV
FOR FLETcheR'S
g AS TO r a
CARRIERS WANT RAISE

Woodbine, Ia, Feb. 23.-Sub-
stantial increase in salary and
the county control of all public
highways were leading questions
before the Harrison county rural
mail carriers in session here yes
terday.
The carriers want an increase
in salary and better roads. Ben
Walker, Logan, was elected pres
ident; John Mckenzie of Wood
bine, vice president; and Leonard
Hall of Missouri Valley, secre-
tary and treasurer. The next
meeting will be held at Missouri
Valley, February %, 1910.
The Boyer ditch is out of its
hanks and the land east of town
lis flooded.
Miss Mollie Burke had as her
guest Sunday, Miss Leda Voss of
Council Bluffs.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

Jeppe Thompson, n. T. Briggs,
George Schlagenhaufr, ST., and
George Schlagenhauff, Jr., spent
Sunday in DesMoines, with the
Valley boys at Camp Dodge.
Miss Margaret Kinyon is report
ed on the sick list.
Mr.. and Mrs. Len Case of Chad
ron arrived this morning for a few
days visit at the A T. Briggs
home.
Mrs. Myrtle Hester of Modale,
was a Valley. shopper today.
Ralph Meats Of Fender, Neb.
lis here for a brief visit with the
home folks.
Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1918-02-28

h Mr.. and Mrs. John Varnes were
Omaha passengers this morning
where they will consult DR.. Gift
ford in regard to Mrs. Varncs'
eyes, as they have been causing
her considerable trouble during
the past week.
Mrs. Mae Hargens of Council
Bluffs, was the Sunday guest of
the H. H. Hargens home on 3rd.
Street.
Miss Annabell Bisbee has re-
signed her position as clerk at
Harvey's and started in on her
spring term of teaching in the
country.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
Jofrc, the Immortal
From The rhiludelphin I,do,,.

Marshal Joffre is to be an Immortal in
name as we'll in fact; the French Acader,v
~ solemn conclave has voted to honor ,tself
by admitting the hero of the Marne to mem
bership. If in his case the sword is the
nightier implement, even the boche who runs
may read what our Battle Hymn of the Re
public calls "a fiery gospel writ in FURNISHED
rows of steel" by Jotfre's rm hand. He has
not been a soldier given to "mere literature. "
The terseness of Pershng's speech at Lafay-
cites tomb, "Lafayettc, we are here," would
appeal to him. The examples OF julius Cesar
and of Napoleon so to show that soldiers may
be writer's, too; but as rule the military
profession leaves the descriptive task to the
historian who has distance to focus and
leisure to digest Impressions Joffre is not
acclaimed by the French Academy as lit
terateur. though military law has taken much
of his time and thought, and he has been pre
eeptor as we'll as exemplar of military sci
ence But he is named for the high honor
simply because the land he has served so
we'll desires to accord him while he lives that
recognition which is too often posthumousIy
conferred. France teaches in this act lesson
to our own republic. which frequently has all
lowed factional struggle to retard or even
prevent decent expression of popular graft.
tude for great public service.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
Daylight Saving

1t is interesting to hear from Washing
ton that the House Of Representatives,
just returned from a Christmas vacation.
earned by three weeks Of strenuous in
activity before the holidays, is going to
find time soon t. pass the Senate daylight
saving bill. The Senate measure has been
held up for many months in the House
Committee on Interstate and Foreign
Commerce. That hold-up illustrates once
more the vagrant processes of legislation
at the Capitol and the curious manner in
which important reforms can be obstructed
by petty obstinacies and prejudices.
William c. Adamson, of Georgia, who
was until recently chairman of the Inter
state and Foreign Commerce Committee,
came from farming community and was
welded to the idea that if the great urban
and industrial centres wanted to conform
their working daylight hours in summer
to the farmers schedule all they had to
do was to decide to get up an hour earlier
and go to bed an hour earlier. He made
no allowance for the tremendous inertia
of habit and the impossibility of inducing
millions of people to agree among them
selves to do what could be done for them,
without any appreciable friction, by an act
Of Congress simply setting the hands of
the clock forward one hour some April
Sunday morning.
Mr.. Adamson refused to take the dav-
light saving plan seriously. He put the
Senate bill in pigeonhole, and there it
stayed. AS chairman Of committee he
enjoyed the prerogative of denying it con-
sideration. And few things are more diff
cult than to induce the House to do the
chairman of one of it's committees the dis
courtesy Of taking bill out of his custody
by vote to discharge his committee from
further consideration.
Happily Mr.. Adamson resigned, and
was appointed a member Of the Board of
Appraisers of the Port Of New York. His
successor as chairman is the Hon. Thetus
w. Sims. Mr.. Sims is as strongly for the
daylight saving act as Mr.. Adamson was
against it. He will report out the Senate
measure, and, once it is reported out, there
will be no further hindrance to it's passage
There is not single possible rational
argument against readjusting the relation
of clock time to the position Of the sun in
the heavens from the last Sunday in April
to the last Sunday in September. The
economic advantages Of the change are in
disputable. Fuel will be economical
through smaller use of artificial light
1t is estimated that $40000OOO year will
be saved in this way Then there are the
advantages of larger measure of out
door recreation in daylight hours. Every
European country which has tried the
system has found it beneficial If Con-
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
l. Landlords Also Shiver
G Editor Of The Tribune.

To lhc Editor Of The Tribune
Sir I should like to say in reply to
J. L. s., in Saturdays Tribune, that land
lords also doing some shivering. and
wish that he might have been one of the re-
sponsible landlords trying to get coal last
summer. The landlord seems to get all the
knocks in the joke.
From the first Of last April all through
the summer many Of my friends, as we'll as
myself, endeavored to get our usual supply
OF coal. When we finally got a little, but at
large increase over the price Of other years
for the same quantity, instead of raising the
rent We tried to get tenants to agree to
divide the extra charge with us, hoping
prices would fall back to the old rates again
next year, which they seldom do. This thew
were not willing to do. saying they were not
Worrying so far ahead, that there would be
time enough to worry when winter came,
but they expect just as much heat as in previ-
Gus winters now, still declining to help out,
instead of being thankful they have had
any at all
Re have read of tenants threatening to sue
because they have to help out with gas.
Landlords are human; most of them have
families and have TO pay for necessary re-
pairs, interest Oh mortgages taxes, as we'll
as increased prices everything else. as
we'll as listen to all complaints. But if thew
try to get little more from tenants there
is a great howl about the gouginR. stinev
landlord. | can speak from both points of
view, as | have been a tenant also.
ONE OF THE LANDLORDS.
Brooklyn, JAM s. 1915
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
Rationing in England

1t state of agitation, approaching riot
IN some districts, was brought about by
the official announcement that the con-
sumption of beef in England must be cut
in half, it was not because the order was
issued without due warning. For long
time there has been serious shortage in
meats and fats, and no one with practical
experience Of the conditions prevailing of
late in London and other cities could have
doubted that sooner or later it would be
necessary to introduce some sort of ra-
tioning system.
Many signs of the shortage are to be
found in the columns of the English news
papers. Food queues have been a long
standing scandal in London, and it is ap-
parently not an uncommon sight to see
hundreds turned empty away after wait
ing hours for supplies of margarine or
butter. In spite Of voluntary rationing
the consumption Of food seems to have in
creased rather than decreased last year.
while the quantities available have mark
edly diminished. One of the greatest diff
culties lies in the problem of distribution
and for some time the Ministry of Food
has been considering the desirability of
taking the matter into it's own hands.
The Food Controller has already de-
clared that no measures would be too eX-
treme for him provided they promised to
be effective. The elaboration of system
of national rationing is long and compli-
Gated undertaking, however, and though
the scarcity of food and the difficulties of
distribution are so great that the present
methods obviously fail to meet the require
ments, the public has been warned that
general ratoning will probably cause more
privation among the poor than exists al
ready. Nevertheless, rationing in some
form or other is now coming.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
Soldier Gamblers

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: write this brief letter in the hope
that it will catch the eye Of the proper author
tiles. number Of persons, including SOL
d!ers, have discussed with me the serious
problem of gambling at camps. l have been
informed that it is not uncommon for a SOL
dier to part with his entire salary in one or
the many games The following have d.
rectly from a brother who is at Camp john
ston, Jacksonville, Fla: Every fellow on
the train was playing one Of those games
referring to pinochle, poker craps). MANY
a dollar changed hands on that trip. | saw
all quantities of dollars at stake, up to $50
while we were quarantined almost all the
fellows played one game or another"
suggest that the military authorities con-
sider the gambling problem at camps from
the point of view of the morale of the COM
pa"y and the morals Of the young in
our camps. HENRY HARAP
New York JAN =, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
The New British Ambassador

Lord Reading has long been recognized
on all hands as one Of the most brilliant
men in English public life. Even the bit
terest Of his enemies are compelled to ac-
knowledge that in keenness of intellect, in
versatility and adaptability in human af-
fairs he has few rivals. 1t is true that his
career in the House of Commons was dis
appointing in comparison with his ex-
traordinary success at the bar, but that
was largely a consequence of tempera-
mental qualities which were not entirely
fitted to a highly specialized form of
activity.
He was always held in esteem by the
great majority of his colleagues and fell
low members, and as to the attempt to
discredit his integrity on the occasion of
the Marcon scandal it was soon made
obvious at the most he had been guilty of
a technical error. His own frank account
Of his part in the affair silenced his
critics, or all Of them except those who
were resolved to seize upon any pretext
to wreck the government of the day. This
short-lived controversy will doubtless be
recalled by some of his political opponents
on the occasion of his appointment as am
bassador to this country, yet it is safe to
say that the choice will generally be re-
garded with satisfaction on both sides of
the Atlantic.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
A Fine Record
To the Editor of The Tribune.

10 the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: When the American army took over in
August the ambulances which had been op-
Grated in France by the American Red Cross,
and which were popularity known as the Har-
Jes-korton sections, there were 648 men in
this service. OF these 210 were over or under
military age, or otherwise exempt from mill
tary service. This left 438 OF these 2S2, or
20 per cent, are known to have enlisted with
out waiting to be drafted in branch or
another of the army by November IA. Since
then at least another Is per cent have done.
or are in process Of doing, the same thing
viz enlsting without waiting to be drafted
This is fine record, and shows up we'll the
character Of the men composing this corns.
ELIOT NORTON.
Director in America of Harjes- Norton (Amer;-
can Red Crosse Ambulances in France.
New York, Jan. 4, 1918.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
Light and Business
Better to Heat Humble Homes Than
to Light Broadway

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The Lord once said, "Iet there be
light" and there was light. Does Mr. Estes,
of the Broadway Association, expect to bring
about a like phenomenon by the publication
of his "lghtless night" letter? l am glad
you published that letter, for it is we'll to
have thus voluntarily exposed the sacred
creed Of business is Business" either in time
of peace. Let the poor and the MIC
die class shiv6r however they may, the
Broadway Association must have its thirty
tons Of coal a night that the Anheuser-
Busch eagle may flap his wings, that the Cor
tlceli silk kitten may pursue its spool, that
the kids of the Wrigley Spearmint Gum
(grcat national institution that it is) may
nightly kick their heels and that the Fleisch-
mann bather may perform his feat in the zero
breeze.
Thirty tons Of coal a night, when the poor
are standing in line for COAL fighting for
their places in the line and not always get
ting coal at that but any old Stag that may
be left about the coal yards! Thirty tons Of
coal night, when coal barges are frozen in
the ice and cannot reach the city! Thirty
tons of coal a night, when the thermometer
is registering anywhere from zero to thirteen
degrees below! Thirty tons of coal night,
when necessary war work for this govern
ment and the Allies is held up for lack Of
coal! Thirty tons of coal night, when Office
buildings are often unheated, elevator SER
vice curtailcd, if not eliminated, and neces-
sary lights go out. Thirty tons Of coal a
night, when unheated hospitals are swamped
with pneumonia and grippe patients! Thirty
tons OF coal night going to waste, when
these United States at and our SOL
diers are freezing in shoddy uniforms and
equally shoddy barracks!
1t is hard thing for an American to be-
licve that there arc Americans who would be
traitors to all things but business, but when
it is proposed to prove this fact by an
Educational campaign" one cannot but
await the campaign with deep interest. I am
sure the families buying coal by the bucket
full will be delighted to think that every
shovcful saved will help light the White
Way for the wealthy pleasure seeker. 1t
should surely warm the cookies of the heart
Of the poor clerk or working man to consider
that in his cold dark home with his shiver
ing children and wife. In fact, venture to
think that this Educational campaign" if in
dulged in too freely may be a push toward
precipitating that great American revolu-
ton Of which we in our comfortable homes
occasionally hear rumors
The very least l hope from such an "cdu-
cational campaign" is that it may cause a
society to be formed Of which I should like
to be a humble member-a society to ostra-
cize all business firms advertising by lighted
signs during the war.
Let us have light and heat enough to win
the war and not to lose it.
,,ew York, Jan. 3, 1919. G. HAMBLEN
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08

not know, and democratic enough not
to care greatly.
His ancestors may have been nobodies.
Or his ancestors may have been respectable
people.
But if they nobodies he was possibly
phllosophic about it and reflected that every
one can't have a god for an ancestor. .
az the tanner, Angus dig, and I have.
do not look down on this god. Engus Og,
at all, because | do not know his descent
and | get picture of him going on his way
whistlng and cracking his knuckles and cay
ing to himself: Gran dfather or no grand
lather, I'm as good god as any Of them"
thank you for the opportunity Of dis
oussing my genealogy at length, for in com
mon with most other democratic Americans
have passion for that sort Of discussion
which ] am but too rarely encouraged to
crafty.
| putting this as an open letter in the
sun Dial, although had originally intended
TO bring it over TO The Tribune and ask you
to print in in your paper %. but since
there is much of it, the thought strikes
ne that it would be mistake to carry it
over 20 you and then have to sit down and
write a lot more copy for myself.
Yours for conservation
DONALD MARQUIS.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-08
History Repeats Itself

tfro0t The Charleston Nelcs and Courier,
In the middle Of the ninth century the
Slav tribes nhabiting the forests around
Lake Ilmen-near where Petrograd now
stands-paid tribute to military chieftains
who made incursions into the Sav country
from the north. In the year $50 the Slavs
rose against these foreign masters and ex-
PEELED them; but Immediately the Slav
trbesmen began to quarrel among them
selves, and conditions became 50 chaotic that
three years later committee was sent to
the foreigners to ask them to return This
committee. says the story. presented its re-
quest as follows: Cur land is great and
fertile. but there is no order in it. Come
and reign and rule over u.s."
To verify this historical note refer to the
invaluable Encyclopedia Britannica"
The Slavs Of the linen forests were the
ancestors of the Slavs who now inhabit that
part of Russia. 1t is an impressive fact that
to-day we see these descendants doing essen
TALLY what their ancestors did eleven centu-
rles ago. The Bolsheviki are sending com
mittees to the foreign military chieftajns
lhhablting an adjacent country, and the Bol-
shevik leaders are inviting these foreirners
to come to Petrosrad and direct the govern
ment OF the country. In fact. according to
some accounts. the foreigners are already
in charge.
Surely here is an interesting item for those
who are fond of ransacking the past for
clews to the future. But is it really true
that the modern Russian is as ready as was
his barbaric ancestor Of eleven centuries ago
to be the slave Of a foreign master provided
the latter will give him food and dr. nLo