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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-10-23
FREEPoRT.

Oct. Il, 1918.
Mr.. Taylor of Bluffton is spending
a few days at the home Of his daugh-
ter, Mrs. Gordon Baker.
Mr.. and Mrs. r. Youngblood of
Decorahl were Sunday guests at the
#. A. Hendrickson home.
Mrs. j. Stoskoff visited friends in
this vicinity last Saturday,
Julian Ellis returned home last
week having spent the past few
months in Savannah and Davenport.
Lena Plueger was called to Burr
Oak last week to attend the funeral
of her cousin, Carl Winter, who
died at Camp Dodge with Spanish in
fiuenZa.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. w. Pearson of
DEBORAH spent Sunday with the
formers parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ].
Pearson.
Geo. Thune and family of DEBORAH
were Sunday visitors in this vicinity.
Cora Dickinson and Ethel Miller
were calling at the Rosendahl home
in Glenwood one day last week.
Mr. and Mrs. A. l.. Tyler and
family of Clay Hill visited friends
in this vicitity last Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Thomas of De-
corah were Sunday visitors in our
village.
We have observed the following
people from Glenwood in our village
during the past week: Martin Clau-
sen, John Hegtvedt, Mr.. and Mrs.
C. Bolson, Martin Husebye and son,
Mrs. Ed Anderson and son, Mr.. and
Mrs. Clark Headington and little
daughter.
Theodore Miller Is spending a few
days at the Hubert Funke home
near Burr Oak.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. w. Baker and
children visited Stewart Baker and
family near Bluffton one day last
week.
Quite number in our village are
sick with colds at present.
Word was received from Mime
apolis last Thursday of the serious
illness of Roy Robinson.
Mrs. Leonard Larson of Mime
apolis Is visiting her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. j. HI. Logsdon this week
r. II. Robinson was quite sick a
few days last week but is better al
present.
Little Frances Funk returned to
her home in Burr Oak last week
after visiting her grandparents, Mr.
and Mrs G A. Funk.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dinger of CLAY
Hill were calling in our village one
evening last week.
Mrs. f. Skinner of Clay Hill visit
ed her daughter, Mrs. Ruby Miller
a few DAYS last week.
Harold Dinger visited his sister
Mrs. Jessie Limbeck in Ossian one
day last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. d. Gross and
children visited relatives on Clay
Hill last Sunday.
Mrs. S. Warn returned last week
from Burr Oak where she spent
few days with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. A. Worth of De
corah visited at the Warn home Sun
day.
Mr.. and ..Irs Leytze of Decoral
were calling on friends in our VII
lage Sunday,
David Baker and daughter Dom:
of DEBORAH were Freeport callers on
day last week.
Mrs. w. Bloomingdale and son
B. o. Anderson spent Sunday witt
relatives in DEBORAH.
j. A. Robinson and James Delane'
were Sunday visitors with hom
folks.
School has been closed for tn
past two weeks on account of sick
pess. =,
Mr.. and Mrs. P. Roman and famil
ware Freeport visitors Sunday last.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-10-23
When You Think

of your winters outfit, think OF
Bears. The fact is We can take care
of your wants in good shape, and
can save you many dollars on your
suit, overcoat, sheep lined ulster,
mackinaw, sweater. We absolutely
guarantee everything We sell.
BEARS
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-10-23
NOTICE in PROBATE.

To whom 1t may concern:
You and each of you are hereby
notified to appear at the Court House
in Winneshiek County, Iowa, on the
18th day of November, 1918, at 1871
D. M, to attend the probate OF an
instrument purporting to be the last
Will and Testament of Rachel o.
|Sleetager, late OF DEBORAH Township
in Winneshiek County, Iowa, de-
ceased, at which time and place you
will appear and show cause, II any
why said will should not be admitted
to probate.
In testimony whereof l have here
unto subscribed my name and afflxed
the seal of said office, this 3Oth day
of September, 1918.
(SeaD . y. MoosE,
Clerk OF District Court
w. III. STRAND, Attorney. 4O-4w
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-10-23
The Government.

Is in urgent need of all the shelE,
nuts and pits they can get. Bring
all you have to Ben Bear, DEBORAH.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
Empty Coal Bins
By EARL GOODWIN.
a Kindly Suggestion b an Oyerworked Coal Admin

This is meant to be kindly and constructive criticism
for the benefit of the Coal Administration 1t is also meant
to be interesting to the general public which divided into
three casses Those with COAL those with money to buy
coal who can't get it. those who have money and coal
For the benefit of the third pitifu class splendid
charity has been organized by neghbor the Post As
far know it is being administered by persons Outside
the coal business and will be entirely with the purpose
of placing coal in the homes of poor people. -sgf D.
Just bear that in mind. - 70 %, g
Now, every day, people the street. in the stores in
Offices and street complain that they have money to
buy COAL yet get it. They make the complaint that
customers of organized coal and
do get fuel Small dealers have complained that they cannot
get supplies of coal and at the time make the charge
that large dealers
You will notice that do not claim these charges are
true merely say these complaints in the air
Now my suggestion to the Coal Administration is that
these complaints be taken up seriously and disposed Of
Either statement of facts to disprove these claims should
be made if they not true the organization should be
changed so admit into its ranks advocate for the
coalless portion of the community
The Coal Administration must have coal experts IN ITS
Office as the coal business technical thing and men con
versant with its detail must be employed On the other
hand coaless population is not technical thing and
advocate the empty coal bins could possibly be found to
stand up for the folks who do not know where to turn for
fuel ..
Sooner or later John L. Weaver will put into effect SCI
enc plan for ratonng the city with coal When that time
comes as it will come know there will be little compliant
Until then hope the overworked Coal Administration VIII
nv point and consider seriously the plant OF the man
with money to buy coal whose dealer tells him he can't
get any. .-.1,. - e, - p
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
By Mrs.

XX HEN | go through my
wv letters | usually have
a strong impression of
the personality of the writer. 1t
seems to pervade the written
word; and this morning the peO-
pie who are talking to me on paper
are all of them sad. They write
of their perpleXities and diff
culties, of their wounds and diff
heart and soul. All of them are
different, and yet in the last analy-
sis their problems are one-all
covered by the famous exclama-
ton: To live is difficult. Oh. my
heart is tired! "
One girl, who has but recently
learned to write in English, has
sent me her pathetic history. 1t
is told very crudely and brokenly,
but this is It as | have made it
out:
She lived in small, remote vii
lage. When she was a mere child
she suffered a great misfortune
In her fright and misery she
turned to her father and mother
and confessed the circumstances
to them.
The father, evidently a schcm-
ing, restless, villainouS person.
saw an opportunity to free him
self from his responsibilities and
home ties and to crafty some am
bilious and adventurous longings
which he had been holding in mind.
He wanted to go TO America, and
he wanted to go unhampered by
his family.
He was afraid to desert them
openly, and so he went about
through the village telling every
one he met that he had discovered
this circumstance in his dau"h-
ter's life and that he was filled
with such unbearable shame and
misery that he could no longer
live in the old place among his
friends and companions, but was
determined to leave for America.
And so he departed. leaving this
little girl to face all the scorn and
humiliation which ignorance and
superstition and village savagery
could heap upon her.
Wasted Sacrifice.
Her mother. seeing the childs
anguish and moved by some ma
ternal passion of protection, at
tempted TO lift the ignominy from
her daughter by stating that it was
her wrongdOing and not the girls
that had driven her husband away.
When the village people asked her
why he had blamed the daughter
instead OF herself. she said that he
had been unwilling to admit his
wife had fooled him.
Life became 80 hideous TO the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

Dr. J. Shirley, of 1917 Swami street northwest says
that message sent by Thomas Paine to American coonsts
In the Revolutionary ought to be reprinted now We
agree with him. Here's the quotation:
"These are the times that try mems souls. The sum-
mer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink
from the service of his country but he who stands de-
the love and thanks of and woman Tyranny like
hell not easily conquered yet have this consolation with
us, that the harder the conflict the glorious the
triumph
A powerful quotation, indeed.
Dr. Shirley sending this admirable and powerful quo
tation from Paine, also corrects the editor.
BE says it Thomas Paine not Fox, that attacked
Burke for his sympathy with the artocracy in the French
Revolution. DR. Shirley quotes from Panes Rights of
Man"
Paine, who was always championing the cause of the
oppressed, commenting Burke lack of sympathy with
the real victims of centuries of monarchcal oppression said
"Not one glance of compassion not commiserating
reflection that find throughout his book has he be-
slowed on those that fingered out the most wretched Of
lives life without hope in the most miserable of prisons
HE is not affected by the reality of distress touching
his heart but by the snowy resemblance of it striking his
imagination
He pities the pumage but forgets the dying bird Ac
him from himself he degenerates into composition of
and the genuine soul of forsakes him His hero
heroine be tragedy expiring show and not
the real prisoner of misery sliding into death in the silence
of a dungeon"
We glad receive the doctor correction neverthe
less retain the impression that Fox invented the comp
Of the pumage and the dying bird Will reader
with leisure look it up and let US know?
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
From the Public to the Editor

tensive advertising drive with which
the war-Savings campaign was
launched in Washington would have
been impossible.
/ want you to know that We ap-
preciate your work. On behalf OF
Mr. Vanderlip and the National War
Savings COMMITTEES / want to thank
you for the attitude you have taken
and for the constructive manner in
which you have helped
Although the intensive advertising
period here in Washington Is almost
over, and many OF US who came here
as volunteers at the request OF Mr..
Vanderlip are returning TO our re-
spective duties at home, I am sure
that the Washington papers VIII
continue to give valuable assistance
in the carrying on OF this campaign.
You have rendered q patriotic service
to the Government, and Incidentally
you have made our work here easier
, to accomplish.
Very trHly yours.
GUY, EMERSON.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

. The that would be the last to undertake thrash
ing somebody his size is first and energetic
beating creature weak and defenseless
The man who beats his children proves himself
brute and beating his child expresses the opinion that he
has bred another brute that can be controlled only by bu
tally.
The teacher that beats child commits crime should
be put In jail for that crime whether results as it often
does in mastoids and long Illness did the other
day In the sudden death Of the child beaten.
By way of impressing upon parents that it is foolish
well brutal to beat their children call attention
the of Albert Miller years DID, murdered by his
teacher In school at Waterbury, Conn., few days ago.
The child was guilty of some trifling oense The teach
er took the child for punishment to the principal woman
who happened to be in an ugly mood.
The teacher of the little child did not care to take the
responsibility Of infictng punishment But there no
hesitation in the mind of the principal of the school
First there came of course the harsh words frightening
threats that of themselves punishment too brutal for
sensitive timid child.
Then the ruler with the sharp edges The child held out
his hand for the beating got it. and back to his desk
The other children laughed his tear stained face and
uuivering mouth as he returned.
The blows that his body had received could not have
killed him But the blow received by his mind and by his
heart did kill him.
The unfortunate child dropped dead at his desk
We have desire to speak with especial harshness
of this particular child beater and omit her name She
is simply engaged in the wrong work
There should be found for her congenia EMPLOYMENT
dressed in overas in hogpen of Chicago slaughter
house. where employees hook chains the hind legs of the
hog that it may be dragged have its throat cut
There is plenty of useful work world for men and
women that believe corporal punishment but none of them
should have chance do their work the schools of the
country
We hope that this particular will discourage future
child beaters.
They warned that sensitive child can be killed with
out breaking its back o crushing its skull.
The heart and mind of child sensitive and very
often though the child does die did this unfortunate
little boy the child is killed spiritually by punishment and
made useless after.
It should be remembered by fathers and mothers that
the odfsshoned "box the ears frequently
toiditis and subsequent death.
CONTINUED in Las Column
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
Oh, Boys! Do Keep Trench
Music Alive
By Winifred Bla c k

They were intelligent and re-
spectable-oh, terribly respectable.
That was one of the things that
rather worried neither respect
ability. 1t was so intense and SO
determined, like the manners the
little girl puts on when some one
very grand comes to tea and she
holds her little finger out very
carefully and says, "NO, thank
you" and Eyes, please" in a voice
of such dulcet sweetness that | be-
gin to tremble at the sound of it.
Hours of Trouble.
And ! wished I'd gone some
where else for the summer. The
sea was gray and the sand was
gray, and the rocks were gray and
the people were gray, and my
heart was gray, and | thought I'd
get someone TO telegraph me and
get out of the place as soon as |
could.
And then something dreadful
happened and the little cottage by
the sea where ! lived was suddenly
full of a nameless horror-but at
the dOOr-what was it that |
heard?
1t was the knock Of friendly
hand, and behind it came a neigh
Dor, and then another, and then
more, and all the gray, unfriendly
people dropped their stiff, fierce
responsibility like a tattered cloak
and were all at once kind and low
ing and warm-hearted and sympa-
thetic friends.
Why, the world was full of
friends, so true, so kind, so
thoughtful. How could ! have
called the little place by the gray
sea cold and unfriendly?
! should never have known them
at all If / hadn't fallen upon
trouble there.
Dear boys in the trenches. keep
on with your singing, and sing as
you always do the songs of senti-
ment and home and love. You will
never have friends anywhere in
the world that will be to you like
those you're making now in this
time of your suffering and discom-
fort and misery and hard, grueling
existence.
"The end of a perfect day
they say you can hear it almost 4
mile when the sun has gone down
and the battle has stopped. raging
for a while. Here's to you, loyal
hearts and grave, kind hearts and
true! Here's to you IN the trenches,
dear boys of our race and of our
blood! May the end of a perfect
day come to you in peace and vic
tory.
tCopyright. 1917. by Newspaper Feature Ser
vice. Inc. Great Britain Rights ReserNedl
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
Suggests Remedy For Food
Situation.

Mr.. Brisbane:
Before food Dictatorship. should We
not look to food production? The
planting season Is nigh at hand. and
there are millions Of acres OF pro
ductive land idle-some in sight of
the Capitol
There should be no cause for 4
sugar shortage In this country when
cane molasses can be produced IN IN
limited quantity and sweet apple cider
made as in the ante bellum days In
this country to work Up the fruit
crop.
How it might improve the food
situation to have a farm production
supervisor to see that bigger and
more diversified crops are produced
the coming year.
GEORGE PIERCE TORBETT.
1O14 Vermont avenue northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

THEY are singing in the
trenches, the English. the
= French, and the Ameri-
cans. They've always been singing
in the German trenches. Don't you
remember the story of the Christ
mas eve when they sang, "Oh,
Holy Night" and lit little candles
for the Christmas trees in the Ger
man trench?
And now they're singing in the
trenches of the allies. What IS 1t
that they sing? New soldier songs
written with so much interest and
care?
Not at all. They've evidently
never heard a note of them. Old
war snngs-''The GallantS Of Eng
land. THE Marseillaise.' Nal
brough," Yankee Doodle or even
"A Hot Time in the Old Town?
No. they choose a different song.
This is the end of a perfect
day"-after day Of roar and
fever and death and murder! The
end of a perfect day!
The Way to Make Friends.
In the Crimean war the English
soldiers sang, not THE British
Grenadier" or "Britons Never
Shall BE Slaves" but, as hearts
that love and memory that holds
true, Annie Laurie And the
Crimean valley rang night after
night to the melody of the old. old
song written in honor of one whose
voice was low and sweet.
A fighting man fights, but he re-
members, and, oh. sometimes |
cannot help but feel that this
hideous war which is tearing the
world to pieces like mad dog Is
giving us "A chance, after all, TO
see through the veil we all attempt
to wear. II has torn down and
thrown away the foolish mask we
carry, most of us, and made US
show ourselves as We really are.
human and loving and very, very
sad.
What friends they must make
there in the trenches. Yes. that is
the way to make friends-in trou-
bic, in sorrow, in anxiety and in
stress. ] was in a little village
once in the edge Of the continent
down in the cold quarter of the
world, where people want TO
know your grandfather's name
and of what family your grand
mother was. and who Your great
uncle married and why you have
your washing done on Tuesday
instead OF Monday and how it is
that you stayed at home from
church last week and were not i'll
at all And the people in the lit
tie village did not appeal TO me.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
A Censored Letter.

Mr.. Arthur Brisbane. Editor OF The
Washington Times.
Dear Sir: I wish to tell you The
Times is the brightest. newsiest. and
most interesting paper published In
this cIty-In fact. the only one. The
editorials and the witty. bright para
graphs published in the first column.
headed To-day" are simply delicious.
And. best of all. II is democratic!
growing more popular every day. It
reminds me OF the Washington Capt
tai. edited by Col. Dom Piatt, one OF
the most brilliant writers that ever
lived. The poor old - tdeleted
BY kind-hearted censor) has seen Its
hest DAYS, and the - (also defetsdD
simply puts one to sleep. Lots of
good luck to you. a. >.
Dec. "a. 1917.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
Concerning Senator Vardaman.
jackson, Miss, Dec. 10. 1917.
Editor Washington Times,

Jackson. Miss, Dec. Is, 1917.
Editor Washington Times,
Washington. d. c.
Dear Sir: I have just read. with a
great deal Of interest. your editorial
Of the 9th inst. regarding the jump
in railroad stocks, and Senator Varda-
mans comment on same and write to
endorse both the editorial and COM
mont.
verify believe that il Gods crea-
lures were prompted at all times by
the same splendid motives that
prompted you in writing the editorial
and that prompted Senator Nardaman
m making the Comment--he always
has the interest OF the masses Al
b.art-that this world war would NOT
he upon us with its great sacrifices OF
mountains Of money. millions OF our
hest men-the flower OF the world
rivers OF blood, and the making OF
millions OF widows and orphans: but
ali would be true. loyal citizens,
striving, in the name Of God. to make
this world better and happier ana
Heaven richer. l am,
Yours, truly,
y l. HARRIS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
CHEAPER and Better Service.
Washington, ID. c.
December 20, 1917.

washington -. -
December 20, 1917.
Mr.. Arthur Brisbane, Edl'or Vi
Times:
Dear Sir: As a constant reader Oh
vour very valuable paper-in my
opinion the best in the city ap-
,ra,iate your efforts in behalf OF the
residents-not citizens-of the Dis
trict Of Columbia
You would confer a great FAVOR on
the residents OF the District by urS-
inc nubIic ownership OF the gas com
nany and the telephone company Call
the attention OF the Congress to this
matter. II would be a blessing 10
the community. and we could have
cbeaper gas and better telephone ser
vice Every resident of the District
should protest against this outrage
on the public.
Respectfully yours,
STEPHENS NJ. SIMPSON,
aiS9 Ontario road northwest.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
A Good Cause Always Com
mands Us.
Treasury Department.

Treasury Department.
Washington Dec. II. 1917.
Washington Times, Munsey Bldg
Washington, u. c.
Gentlemen: The intelligent co-opera'
ton The Times has given to the
representatives OF the War-Savings
Committee has been the occasion of
much favorable comment. Without
this cooperation on your part the In
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

On Massachusetts avenue extend
ed. near the top OF the hill before
reaching Wisconsin avenue, Is an
old-fashloned pump. Has it been
there long? Believe me. nave
been travelling that hill for years
and never noticed it before this
week. Give me the history Of that
pump.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
HEARD AND SEEN

JOHN HENRY MILLER tells ma
he was allowed busfel Of coal and
that he burned the entire bushel Try
ing to get the house warmed up after
letting in the cold afr oeeasioned BY
opening the door to get the oushel
of coal inside.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

Washington's quota for the war
savings stamps brought down to an
individual basis means that YOU
and every one else must invest IN
these stamps at the rate OF one dol
lar and a half month
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02
This Particular Child Dropped Dead
Continued From First Column.)

Continued From First CounnJ
Every blow dimishes chids self respect its chance
for success future fe and its respect TOR ats pGrens
You will find ten thousand men that will beat child
breaking its spirit and the same men would denounce any
body that should beat and break the spirit OF their valuable
young horse or their valuable young fighting dog
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-02

The SIGN 80 to 4:30s on, the door
of the emergency fsGsS bHreaE, at
1908 F street northwest, indicates
that less than eight hours day
are being given to the weeds Of ths
people Cho haven't the inside track
on the coal game. --.