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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
BELKNAP

c. NJ. Livingston, who has been In
"a Chicago hospital for the past month
taking treatment from specialist for
cancer, was brought home today. He
is in very serious condition. o
J. l.. Mccormick Of Des Moines.
who is now convalescing from his re-
cent illness, is spending fow days
with his mother, Mrs. ]. M. McC05-
mick, and his sister, Maude.
Miss Xeia Swinney was called last
week by a telegram to Washington.
d. c., to take up the duties of clerk.
She left for Washington Saturday
night.
c. c. Pitman reports the sale OF .
COW for $3.50, at the large stock sale q
Oskaloosa, Wednesday.
! Little Margery Martin, the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. G. Martin is III
with measles.
Mrs. Earl Cary and sons. Francis
and Matson, OF Bloomfield, are guests
at the parental O. c. Bell home.
r. C. Cree spent Tuesday and
Wednesday in Ottumwa at the home
OF his daughter, Mrs. Ed lngersol and
family.
Mrs. w. L. Woolwine returned
uOuIS Au1SOoJ AlOAA DCS u1OxAn3Ub
where she was a guest of Mrs. George
Erwin and husband
Mr.. and Mrs. John Hull and two
daughters, Mary and Dorothy, of
Pulaski. were over Sunday guests az
the parental r. c. Cree home.
c. G. Martin was business visitor
to Nevada, Missouri one day last
week
r. E. Hancock has purchased new
tractor with which he expects to ploW
an dattend his crops this year.
j. A Prather is having an addition
Of two rooms built on the west side 0I
his house for his mother-in.law, Mrs.
Mary Greiner Of Floris, who expects
to occupy them.
School was dismissed Thursday and
Friday that the teachers. Miss Wise
and Mrs. Smalwood. might attend tho
Teachers Institute at Bloomfield. Miss
Esther Bell, Miss Myra Rough and
Miss Gladys Fresh, also attended.
Mrs. J. A. Prather spent one night
last week at Floris with her mother,
Mrs. Greiner
Mrs. Maggie McMain has returned
home from Locust Grove. where sho
visited her brothers, the N.ssrE.
Buchanan.
Oren Dickson was in Belknap ons
day last week.
Mrs. J. v. Howard spent most Of
last week in Bloomfield with her
mother, who is very i'll.
The stormy weather Of Saturday
night caused the Red Cross supper to
be called off. While it is not known
whether another sumner will h0 m
ranged for or not, it is desired that all
will get their donations for the Red
Cross auction ready and that this
place may be proud of its donation, a
this community has already furnished
number of young men and expects
to still furnish some more, the women
and older men should show their pstTf
otism by generous donations.
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NOT PATRIOTISM

"A OOOLleSSer WHO SISAIS" eHo
of The Courier recently to plead LOT
editorial clemency-and to plead IN
vain-offered an unique argument IN
defense of his lawlessness.
"I'll bet you hundred DUCKS nc
offered, "that I've invested more
money with the government IN the
last year than lot of these - pro-
hibitionists. It's nobody's business
how get my money. bought Liberty
Bonds with some of my money. I'm
helping the government, and my mon
ey's as good as anybody's.
A queer twisted idea of right ana
wrong, which the bootlegger himself
knew was indefensible, dictated that
declaration. He is an enemy OF the
government he processes to AID, ana
he does not wipe out the fact by pur-
chasing interest-bearing securities
with portion OF the profits Of his dis
loyal, illegal traffic.
He imports whisky into Iowa am
brings it to Ottumwa. where ne se!is
It at profits ranging from 100 to !'oo'
per cent. He consumes some OF MS
own wares, FORGETTING some OF his ell
cheney and intellect with each drink
But, worse by far, he distributes the
stuff among boys and men in exchange
Tor money they cannot afford to spend.
His customers and those dependent
IN them 20 without proper clothing and
proper food because this bootlegger
and others like him find it easy and
profitable to break the laws. The
whisky not only wipes out the earn
lngs and potential savings or those
who drink it; it reduces their ability
10 earn more money; 1t keeps them
from work; it reduces the output OF
the factory or other industry where
they are employed. Its harvest Is an
economic waste.
The bootlegger, possibly. takes some
Of the excess profits which his law
breaking gives him and invests 1t n
Liberty Bond. That is not patriot
km, nor does he deserve the slightest
credit for loyalty in recognition OF his
sct. The money he invests has been
earned by another; it would have been
Ipent in legitimate avenues OF trade
md found its way to patriotic invest
rent had the bootlegger not existed.
L would have served as the measure
md reward of productive labor instead
4 the penalty for loss of efficiency
md productive effort.
The bootlegger, after realizing a
rofit by lawlessness and disloyalty,
lsks the government he has offended
b guard his money and pay him inter
1T on it. That is what the purchase
4 Liberty Bond means to him. 1t
loes not mean patriotism, for he has
10 conception of patriotism. II he
lad, he would not be bootlegger.
Every bootlegger is leech and a
parasitic. He produces nothing and
lids nothing to the community's intel
sgence, industry or opportunity for
.ain. Instead, he lives off the efforts
II those who work. He robs depend
snts Of money and comforts they
jhould have. He contributes to delin-
ruency and poverty and pauperism. He
4 a traitor, and he knows it. Purchase
II Liberty Bonds falls far short of alb
bolving him.
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WAIT AND SEE

1t is we'll to withhold judgment, at
least for time, on the war department
order which cuts casualty lists from
France to mere names and omits
places of residence and the names Of
the next Of kin.
General March, acting chief Of staff,
has announced that the order was is
sued at the suggestion Of General
Persbing, who declared that the more
extended lists give information Of mill
tary value to the enemy. There Is a
belief among newspaper correspon-
dents in Washington that General
Pershing's objection is to the designa-
ton of military units to which the
men are attached and to the exact
causes of death or injuries and the
dates and locations Of the engage
ments in which the casualties were
suffered.
Efforts to obtain a revision of the
order are being made, and II they are
not successful it must be accepted as
fact that the commanders Of the
armies are taking what seems a need
lessly arbitrary position for reasons
which are good and sufficient despite
our inability to so regard them.
1t is difficult to understand how
Germany would realize military ad-
vantage should the casualty list carry
the information that John Smith, in
jured in battle, lived at Shoshone
Falls before he enlisted in the army.
On the other hand, when John
Smiths name appears in the
casualty list in its present
abridged form, the families and
friends of countless John Smiths, from
Bangor to Grey's Harbor, and from
Duluth to Tallahassee, will suffer days
and nights of mental anguish before
they learn that the man to whom ref
erence was made Is not their relative.
Because it seems such foolish rule
! there appears ample ground for the
belief that 1t will be modified in the
interest of the families and friends OF
the soldiers The war department will
serve it's own and the nations interest
best by doing nothing arbitrarily
which will tend to weaken the ties
which connect the boys over there
with the folks at home. This is fact
which General March seems to realize
more than did his predecessors. Al
ready, since he became acting chief Of
staff, he has let down the censorship
bars considerably. II he has gone too
far in his newest order there is reason
f, to believe that he will correct the
error gracefully. Meanwhile. there Is
nothing to do but wait calmly and
without prejudice.
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SPEED
(From Tuesdays Daily.)

(From Tuesdays Daily.)
Typical Yankee speed ana eameness
spelled victory for the Americans yes
terday in their first raid into the Ger
man lines in which they were unac-
companied by their French allies.
They were over the top, into the Ger
man positions, out again and back
home before the slow-thinking enemy
realized q raid was in progress.
Some of the enemy achieved hasty
and apparently disorderly retreat from
the first trenches, the dispatches indi-
cate, but many others were found IN
dugouts and killed in hand to hand en-
counters.
A significant sentence in the story OF
the raid is the one which records the
absence of German prisoners. me
Americans returned to their trenches
with much captured material and a
quantity Of valuable information, but
with no captive Germans. They were
out for a battle. The enemies they
encountered were left dead on the
field.
Despite their long training and their
Wanted efficiency, the German troops
thus far have not shown themselves a
match for the Americans. In the per-
sonnet of practically every company
under Pershing there Is the fighting
spirit Of all the race that have made
and won wars in the past There is
the blood of the pioneers and adven-
turers, too. There is the spirit of fun
which goes with the spirit of adventure
and with ingenuity and spontaneity.
There is daring which, combined with
judgment and knowledge OF warfare,
goes to make the ideal fighter.
The Americans have introduced a
NEW vim and dash into fighting on the
western front which we'll may stun
their Teutonic adversaries. Speed, the
Germans will discover-have discov-
cred already, in facts the most diff
ficult factor for their army to combat.
The very elaborateness Of their meth
DDS of training tends to make them
slow in action and in thought. This is
, the Americans advantage.
! British and French acclaimed
Americas armies wonderful when they
marched through London and Paris.
but they saw only half the soldierly
excellence of their allies. Now they
are learning that the soldierly bearing
| and the athletic frames of the men,
on which they commented so favor
ably, are the outward manifestation OF
brand Of speed and resourcefulness
which are bound to prove important
and, perhaps. deciding factors in the
struggle along the western front
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soning apparently, that the extra
charge is no more than under federal
control than under private manage
ment and that the governments abil-
ity to fix charges arbitrarily should
not be permitted to operate unfairly
as an argument in proof of the con-
tention for federal ownership of rail-
roads which is certain to be made
after the war.
The Illinois senator's objection ap-
parently took the administration
leaders by surprise, for. as Ring Lard
ner's bush Lacquer says, "they didn' :
have no come back" and 80 postponed
further consideration Of the bill.
Consideration Of profits from gov
eminent operation Of the railroads
calls attention to the opportunity
which Director General McAdoo and
congress have just now to put stop
to a considerable outlay OF govern
ment funds which promises not the
slightest benefit
Several years ago, as result OF the
congressional furore over railroads
which was in large part responsible
for their anaemic condition of the
past winter a survey was inaugurated
to determine the physical valuation
of all the railroad properties in the
country. This has gone on ever since,
and is perhaps half finished now. 1t
is a tedious task and has cost millions
of dollars already. It win cost other
millions before it is completed, and
when the work is done the result will
mean absolutely nothing. For in the
meantime prices Of everything will
have undergone many changes and
the inventories will deal with mater
ials which no longer exist.
All the cost Of this survey does not
come out of the railroads receipts, to
be sure, but it happens that the rail-
roads are compelled to provide certain
facts and certain facilities to the
statisticians compiling the inventory
and it is estimated that the actual
cost of the proceeding to the railroads
treasures will amount to $4,000, 600
Even in these days Of immense fg'
ures, $50, 000, 900 is a tidy little sum. as
sums go.
Indeed. it rather outclasses the
SIC 100000 which Senator Sherman
figures would be the increased annual
additional revenue to the railroads
under government control in Illinois
as result Of the sporting" charge to
which he called attention yesterday.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-03-15
HAZARDS OF BUSINESS

After all, there are few disappoint-
ments and hazards about booueggmg
as an occupation. To be sure, there
is little or nothing to be feared in the
way of interference by officials bent
on law Enforcement, but 1t seems that
among some of the gentry there u a
lack of that sterling sense Of honor
which makes for utter confidence.
For instance, a few weeks ago, one
of Ottumwa's leading bootleggers
purchased about $500 worth Of whiskey
and arranged for its delivery at
Missouri point just across the Iowa
line. The roads were not fit for
automobile travel, and the buyer az
ranged with an Ottumwa teamster to
drive across the line with a team and
wagon, load the liquor in Missouri and
transport it to Ottumwa.
The driver was to be paid $25 and
all his travelling expenses. but that
did not strike him as sufhcient. So he
arranged with a rival b0otlegger for
delivery of the cargo to him.
The trip was made without un.
toward incident and the teamster al.
rived in Ottumwa about midnight
The owner Of the booze was waiting
for him, but so was the teamsteT's
more liberal patron. The latter met
the driver, received the whiskey, paid
$50 for its safe delivery and, no
doubt. has sold it before now for as
much as $1,000.
The teamster left his horses at the
door Of a livery barn, caught a mid
night train for Chicago and mailed
letter to the liveryman, telling him to
care for the horses as il they were
his own.
The man who paid $500 for the
whiskey is nursing his wrath and
waiting patiently for the teamsters
return. He and his rival are at
swords points, and competition in the
bootlegging business is fraught with
more than the usual keenness Of
business rivalry.
Meanwhile, automobile trafic is be-
ing resumed between Ottumwa and
Keokuk. Two well loaded cars are
expected to return to replenish
South Side bootlesger's dwindlins
stock today, and another merchant
whose business fourishes openly in
that section received a large consign-
ment, via the Rock Island and the
suitcase brigade. yesterday.
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GERMANY AND SCANDINAVIA

The German wolf at last has the
Swedish lamb about where he wants
it. Now, instead OF smiling frater'
nally and inviting the lamb to worship
with him beneath the olive branch, he
is beginning to lick his chops, and his
smile is the smile Of anticipation
which precedes good meal.
Germany has been touchingly solic'
itous of Swedish friendship and Swed-
ish interests, of course meaning no Of
tense in an occasional sinking of
Swedish merchantmen. She has been
dependent on Sweden for food, for
steel, for peace propaganda and for
facilities OF underground communica.
ton to her diplomats and spies. Sho
has sorely needed Sweden, and has
had no certain means Of securing
what she needed except by blarney
and feigned friendship.
But now it is different. The Wis
ionary dots Of the present Russian
government, having surrendered their
Baltic seacoasts and strongholds to
Germany, and Finland having declar-
ed its Independence with the posi-.
bility that son of the kaiser will be
invited" to its throne, Germany's
position in the north has been radi-
cally strengthened. And now, instead
Of smiling to induce Sweden to do her
bidding she proposes to accomplish
the same end in the approved German
way by rafting the sword and issuing
military orders, noncompliance with
which would be followed by force.
There is at least one satisfactory
aspect to the present situation. It
must disillusion the whole Swedish
race, in Sweden and elsewhere, of the
character of German friendship.
Swedes who have been pro-German be-
cause of fear Of Russia must now, by
the same reasoning, be pro-entente be-
cause of the menace Of Germany
The practical outcome Of the situa.
ton. however. does not yet appear as
a cinch for the German game. It all
depends on the possibilities Of united
rallying Of the Scandinavian spirit
which is easily capable Of rebuffing
German aggression. Denmark alone,
under the muzzles Of the German
guns, Is helpless. Sweden, with mod.
ern and superbly equipped army of
half a million, appears to be able to
take care Of herself. And as long as
Sweden and Norway are dependent
for food support upon agreements
with the allies forbidding food expor-
tation to Germany. it appears that. il
Germany makes an open threat, the
Scandinavian alternative will be but
to fight Germany or to throw itself
upon German mercy in the matter of
food supplies as we'll as military and
naval protection.
What Sweden, the leader Of the
Scandinavian group, will do in these
circumstances is anybody's conjec.
ture. Sweden has been. alas. too pru.
dent throughout this war. Would that
there might return to her a flash of
the fighting sand Of old Gustavus
Adolphus or of the dauntless spirit Of
that most fiery Of battlers, Charles
XII.
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PROFIT AND LOSS

Senator Sherman halted conSidera-
ton of the administration railroad bill
yesterday when he declared that a
"spotting" charge which has been ad-
ded under the new regime is calculat-
ed to increase the revenues of the
railroads by many millions, thus re-
flecting undeserved credit on federal
management. Il Il . part OF Ids reap
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FINDS MILLlNER Asphv,uArED

Cedar Rapids. March 13-Mrk II.
c. Howell. miIliner. said 70 be nm
cially web Oh. was found dad IN hss.
bed here today. The gas jets In h4
room were open and hsr drende ~
leve abe Naded Ae .oDA - lan
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WEST POINT

Carl Raunbuehler returned Tuesday
from visit with his brother at Barring.
Mo.
w. C. Craig and family, who recently
sold their farm in Pleasant Ridge town
ship, have moved to town and are Occur
'pying the Armour home.
daughter, Mrs. Joseph Meters, at Fl.
Madison.
Alvin Trueblood fractured both
bones Of his left leg Saturday. He was
working with some logs and was
caught between two of them, fractur
Ing the limb below the knee.
Miss Louise Link has returned from
a visit with her sisters at Burlington.
The chapel at st. Mary's school is
adorned with a handsome new altar,
the gift OF Mrs. Mary Meyers, in msm-
ory Of the Geppert and Meyers fam
flies.
Mrs. Elizabeth Grabenshroer Of
Agency visited here Monday with her
sister. Miss Maggie Marschman.
Ed Pieper has rented the c. A. Bon
neville farm east of town and moved
there last week.
Glen Strothman, carrier on route
No. 1. has resigned his position and
will go back to farming in the spring.
Mr.. Strothman has served the patrons
Ct the route well and they regret the
step he has taken.
Mr.. and Mrs. Allie Denning Of near
Mt. Hamill visited Sunday at the E. J.
Link home.
Miss Marie McEvoy of FIT. Madison
visited with friends here Saturday.
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OLD STUFF

The bootleggecs who bring whisky
to Ottumwa from Keokuk ara depaZt,
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EDpYvlLLE SCHOOL ELECTIONS
Eddyville, March 13.-At the school
elections on Monday the following
vote was cast: Directors. H. G..
True, 81: S. A. Shaver. "a: Phil
Scott, SO; Charles Tenant, 81 For
hrnaHaner r II RnA -
The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1918-05-06
The First Brick House Built in Columbia

There is an historic old wreck OF
a house on Locust street that immed-
lately attracts the passer-by in spite
of himself, for the gabled roof with
its oval window and the huge arched
front doorway bespeak an architec-
tural style of a hundred years ago.
This old house was built by the first
postmaster in Columbia, Charles H.
Hardin, father of Governor Charles
II. Hardin.
The Hardins came to Missouri from
Kentucky, and Charles Hardin was ap-
pointed the postmaster of Columbia
in 1921. Columbia was then a town
of 500. Hardin was a tanner by trade,
so he built the Hardin house near Flat
Creek where he could have water to
carry on his business. and as side is
sue he kept the postoffice in his resi-
dence.
Hardin House was built in 1923, the
first brick building in Columbia. Two
other houses now in Columbia were
built later the same year These
were what is now the Central Hotel,
built by DR.. William Jewell, founder
of william Jewell College, and a
wooden house built by William North
Todd, corner of Broadway and Third
streets.
Building brick houses in 1923 was a
slow process in comparison with what
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everyone was eager to get an invita-
ton.
After one learns the history of this
old landmark, one gives a sigh of re-
gret that because of economic reas-
ons, the old place has been allowed to
run down as it has. The house cannot
now boast of a single window pane;
some of the doors are gone, and there
is not enough roof left to keep the
floors from being veritable seas on
rainy days.
The house consists of five rooms
and two large halls. In the two up
stairs rooms, the ceiling is so low that
a man can scarcely stand up at any
place The windows here are placed
very near the floor. However, two of
the downstairs rooms are large and
high-ceilinged, and the windows are
long and broad. In every room of
the house there is a fireplace. None
of the doors of the house is of good
and the mantels have been
torn down. The original doors prob
ably have been sold. Two handsome
carved wood mantels were recently
sold to Mrs. ]. n. Belcher by the pres
ent owner, Judge ]. A. Stewart. The
smaller downstairs room which forms
the L of the house has to be entered
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it is today. Every brick in these two
houses was handmade and burnt by
the builders of the houses! 1t is small
wonder that it took a year to build
the Hardin House
After the death of Charles Hardin,
Sr., his widow, Hannah Hardin, lived
at the Hardin House for many years.
1t has been rented out for the past
forty years.
Governor Hardin died without chill
dren. Members of the family are bur-
led in the Jewell Cemetery south of
Columbia. Charles and Hannah Har-
din were charter members of the Co.
lumbia Baptist Church. Mrs. Charles
Hardin was the sister of Mrs. Will
liam Jewell, whose husband was the
founder of william Jewell College
Governor Charles Hardin was a lawyer
and state senator before he became
Governor. He was the founder of Har-
din College.
Hardin House in its early days was
the social center of Columbia. To it,
at Christmas time, the
bellies and beaux for many miles
around were invited by Mr.. and Mrs.
Hardin to celebrate this happiest seas
on of the year with the minuet, which
was then at the height of its popu-
larity And the host and hostess
were so gracious and hospitable that
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For Fifty Years
Your ClOthier

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found this their safety valve in purchases of Cloth
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Our endeavor always look first to the interests
of patrons by always giving the best values possible
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In this store you find such we'll known clothiers
as The Stein Bloch Co-The Society Brand-the SOph
omore and The Langham High represented in their
particular lines producing the highest grades of cloth
ing in the world Our prices are consistent with good
merchandise
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