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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
Indefinite Suspension Of In
dustries Is Inevitable, Fuesl
Administration Says y
Eastern States Affected
Seriously.
EXTRA HOLIDAYS
MAY CUT USE OF COAL

CMcaSo, Jan. 15.-Au of Chica&o's
factories and industrial plants viii
have to close in I'VE or six days Tor
lack OF coal, according to RAYMOND e.
Durham. county fuel administrator.
The tie-up, he said, is inevitable be.
cause the storm has prevented the
return of empties to the mines. Coal
on hand and headed this way, he
said, viii keep factories going on the
present curtailed basis. How long
the suspension will last, he said. de-
ponds on the speed with which emp
ties are gotten to the mines.
OTHER CITIES THREATENED.
MI. Durham gave out this informa-
ton after conference Of three hours
with the managers of all roads enter.
Ing the city. At the once Of the
state fuel administrator It was said
that other cities in the storm swept
territory, unless Immediately adja-
cent to coal fields, would md them
selves in practically the same dilemma
as Chicago.
10000 ARE IDLE.
Inability to get coal caused . number
of industrial plants about Chicago to
close yesterday although the city and
Its suburbs made great strides toward
getting from under the snow drifts
that have caused so much trouble for
a week. It il estimated that more than
a hundred and nifty thousand workers
are idle through lack Of fuel ct indus
trial plants in the Chicago manufactuf-
ing districts and three large packing
plants have temporarily suspended.
DELIVERY FACILITIES RAli
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18
eRIToNs BOMB KARLSRUHE.

London. Jan. ia successful day
light air raid has been made on Karls-
ruhe, according to British official
communication issued last night.
The raid is regarded as marking
the opening Of general reprisale by the
British for the German air attacks on
London and other portions of Eng.
land. -.
During the German raids several
weeks ago the British demand for re-
prisals became so insistent that the
government promised to make them
when It could spare the necessary ma
chimes from war operations.
FRENCH BOMB FOES.
The French already have conducted
a number Of reprisal raids on German
cities, and recent reports from Amster-
dam said the Germans were greatly
perturbed over the threatened British
raids.
Karlsruhe, which is the capital Of
the grand duchy of Baden, several
times has received visits from allies
airmen. It is situated about fifty miles
from the French border and has pop
ulation of between $4,000 and 100, 900.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1916-1918, 1918-01-18

STAR SHELLS SHOW TARGET.
Yarmouth, Eng, Jan. 15.-The en-
envy craft which bombarded Yarmouth
last night presumably was a subma-
rine or light cruiser. The lombard
ment, which was preceded by illumina-
ton of the town by large star shells.
continued about eight minutes. The
Inhabitants were taken completely by
surprise.
Owing to the blackness of the night
the enemy was not seen. He fired
twenty to twenty-five shells in rapid
succession. Many windows were shat
tered and number of roofs and chin
neys were wrecked.
SAILOR AMONG VICTIMS.
Most Of the inhabitants were in bed
at the time Of the accident. One Of
three persons killed was sailor
aboard his ship. who had escaped sub
marines in midocean. The others were
killed in the street. There were many
narrow escapes among the occupants
Of the damaged houses.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
A Cyclopedia of Cooperation

co COOPERATION: The Hope of tho Consumer BY
Emerson T. Harris With Introduction by John
Graham Brooks Illustrated l2mo pp xii,
S2S. The Macmillan Company
Discussions of economies are usual
ly dry and dreary. That is because
they are usually written by mere
theorists When written by practical
men and women of affairs, who have
had experience in the things they
write about, there is at least a good
chance of their being interesting and
valuably informing.
Such is the case with the volume
before US. The author has had long
and successful business training, much
of which has been in cooperative
store, and he thus writes with ampli-
tude of knowledge. Recognizing, as we
must, the evils of middlemanism and
the failure of that system to meet
the real needs of the public, he pre-
sents cooperation as the alternative.
Every phase of the proposition is dis
cussed, both authoritatively and i'm
partially, with abundant citations of
facts and statistics, and the various
methods of cooperative dealing in
this and other countries are elucidated.
1t is in brief veritable encyclopedia
of cooperation. and in it's direct ap-
peal not merely to experts but to the
interest of the general public, we
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01

publication of Braithwaite's "Anthol-
cgy of Magazine Verse for 1917" It
is the sixth in Mr.. Braithwaite's an
nual anthologies of this kind.
Edward j. Clode is about to publish
new novel by Louis Tracy, entitled
ne Jewellers" a present-day story
OF Old Yorkshire; new Shorty Nc
Cabe" story by Sewell Ford, and "The
Story of the Salonica Army" by G.
Ward Price.
Charles Scribner's Sons will publish
two particularly interesting books on
June g.: "The War Letters of Edmond
Genet" edited with an introduction by
Grace Ellery Charming and with
preface by John Jay Chapman, and
"The Flower and the Bee: Plant Life
and Pollination," by John S. Lowell.
Word has just come from England
that Captain Alan Bott, holder of the
Military Cross, fighting pilot in the
Of the best of the flying books, "Cav-
airy Of the Clouds" Doubleday, Page
Il Coz. has been reported severely
wounded and prisoner of the Turks
in Palestine. How it occurred the dis
patch does not say, but probably his
aeroplane was brought down behind the
Turkish lines. 1t was only few
weeks ago that inquiry in London as
to the whereabouts Of this gifted
young flicr and author brought word
that he had been ordered to Pales
tine. Captain Bott was young ncws-
paper man at the outbreak of the war
and enlisted as a dispatch rider. He
went from that into the air service.
where he first served as an observa-
ton officer. Later ha returned to
England for additional training and be-
came q pilot.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
A Gospel of the Air

THE PROMISE OF AIR. BY Algcrnon Black
wood l2mo. pp. 279. E. P. Dutton s. Co
Bird-song, sunshine, a riot of color
and the free breeze of heaven. with
human hearts and minds attuned
thereto. are the stuff of which this
psyche logical idyl is made. 1t is de-
lightful stuff. and the result is a de-
llghtful fantasy which is not all a
fantasy. For fifty years the words
OF kuskln have runE and vibrated in
our mind: at is a strange thing how
little in general people think about the
sky" 1t is strange, and most regret
table. wherefore we give thanks that
here is writer who thinks and who
sets his readers to thinking about the
sky and all fresh air, and who con-
ceives glorious future for the world
IN which mon and women will be less
OF the earth, earthly, and more of the
air~shal we say, airy? The common
meaning of that word does not fit, but
use it as the converse of earthly and
you have our meaning; to wit, ethereal,
1t is book of rare charm and beauty.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Sea Power and Freedom
From Salamis to the Struggles
Of the Great War

SEA POWER AND FREEDOM BY Gerard
r,:snT nlennes With an introduction by Rear Ad-
1i'Fd5 q rs, ,sSe Illustrated. svo. PIP. xvi. 374
The handsome volume before us
might we'll be regarded as compile
ment to Mahan's monumental work on
the Influence of Sea Power on His
tory" 1t is scholarly review and dis
cusslon of the part which the exercise
OIL sea power has performed in cstab-
hshing' enlarging and maintaining hu-
man freedom among the nations of the
world. Beginning with ancient Egypt
and dwelling appreciatively upon the
achlevements of the Greeks. it is natu-
rally devoted in chief part to the naval
oeeds OF Great Britain More than
0nce or twice The sea power of the
orl1lsh mas saved not merely their own
ls!anGs from conquest, but also all Eu-
rope and, IN the present case, the world.
1fom oppression and subjugation.
me maritime features of the present
war OF course, receive much attention.
oo'h IN description of actual engage
nehts ard manmuvres. and in discns.
sion NJ the principles involved and the
new issues raised by the introduct;on
CT submarine warfare. The introduc.
1lon OF numerous fine historical illus
Urstlon5 acds to the attra activeness of s
work winch must be reckoned with as
one OF the serious, thought-inspirin>
ano 'horoughly worth while" volumes :
Of the dav. 0i"'i'es
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Small Town Caste
CASTLE THREE BY Gertrude ~ Shields "
frontispieca In color. l2mo pp. 450
Century Company

CASTLE THREE BY Gertrude NJ Shields With
frontspeca In color l2mo. pp- 45O. The
Century Company
Hewitt Stevenson, wrapped in the
extravagant egotism of the early
twentles, unsocable, except to those
intellectually inclined, returned from
Chicago, where he had gone through
high school, incidentally acucmulating
ideas, to Alston, Ind. His father a
retired farmer, was willing to pay
tor his expenses at an agricultural col
lege, but Hewitt, having other plans
and not being true son of the soil.
refused the offer. However, he set
tied in Alston, and in learning to
forget himself, he made a soci
illogical study of Alston and its
inhabitants, dividing them into three
classes. Hewitt's idea of cate three
was: "First of all, however, you must
have enough money to be able to
forget money, at least, publicly.
Poverty was too concerned with OBJ
tanning the necessities of life to take
part in the pleasure of caste three"
Through Mary Young, a member of
caste three, Hewitt learned that the
life led by the citizens of Alston. all
belonging to the elect, was verv
fascinating game, and he found out
tina. there was something more suh-
stantal in life than being "mere"
intellectual.
Miss Shields has written very fas
cinating story of real small-tow.l life
in the Middle West. investing the char.
acters Of the story with much charm.
humor and naturalness.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01

dulge. The tale deals with a noun
tain feud, with dour bigotry of a
mountain preacher, with the schemes
of great land, oil and coal company,
and, above ALL with the awakening and
education of a young man to whom
comes the vision of the Outside, and
who devotes his life to the redemption
of his people. 1t is an intensely in
terestlng romance, taken just as ro-
nance; and a most informing and in
spring study of social conditions in
the mountains; on the whole, we
should say, the best thing that Mr..
Hough has written, and one of the
best that anybody has ever written
about the mountaineers
Incidentally, apropos of the recent
controversy over General FORESTS epi-
gram, and one rash writer's denial that
Forrest could have said, 81 got there
firstest with the mostest troops" be-
cause those double superlatives are
not used in Southern dialect, we no.
tee that Mr.. Hough repeatedly makes
MS characters use them; and we
reckon that he is right.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
The Huns Dannat;on

TIE GUILT OF GERMANY By Prince Karl
Sont Wl,h portrait l2mo PIP. l22. G. p Putnams
This little volume is reprint. from
Inc New York Times" Of Lichowsky's
story OF his Enthusiastically at London
Tor two or three years before the war.
and Won Jagow's reply. We need not
40 more than to remind our readers
that the former is one of the most
absolutely convincing and damnine in
dlctments ever framed against Ger
many for deliberately bringing on the
Great War. and that the latter in its
futile attempt to break the force Of
the blow only makes it the more ef-
t,ectlve. 1t is great public service
thus to put these historic documents
INTO convenient, attractive and perma-
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01

Wilde. In ordinary circumstances this
might be unfortunate for the subject
of the work. But the circumstances
of these volumes are not ordinary. The
consummate and sublimated egotism of
Wilde would have made this biography
OF him gratefully welcome could it
have been written during his lifetime,
and makes it now the most appropriate
in tone that could have been written.
True, this very quality compels GER
tam generous discounting of the Gre
dence which we repose in the book ss
a strictly veracious record. But that
again, in present circum stances-is a
negligible consideration. Despite the
dictum of Keats, what has mere truth
to do with beauty? Does not Mr.. Har-
rls assure us that the most vicious NAV
be the most beautiful?
Yet is Wilde unfortunate in his hiog-
rapher; though, perhaps, only from our
present bourgeois, Philistine and utter
ly contemplate point of view. Of
course, if the chief interest of Wilde's
life lay and lies in the unspeakabe
scandal in which he was at last in
yolved, we have no more to say. Mr..
Harris's work is all that it should be.
We ourselves had ventured to thinl,
otherwise. We had regarded some Of
his lyrics. such as the matchless ave,
lmperatrix!" and his plays, and some,
not all, Of his criticisms, as of major
consequence. immeasurably transcend
ing the piff1ing output of his homo
sexual phlandcrings We had hoped
that his defnitive biography would
deal with these, and with his really i'm
portant place and influence in litera-
ture, rather than with a rehashing of
his fetid and feculent relationship with
Lord Alfred Douglas We were and
are ready to acknOW1adCo and to nj
mire Wilde's genius, without the slicht-
est regard to his moral lapse, but we
shall not concede that the genius pal
liates the lapse, and we certainly
should oppose an infexble denial to
the monstrous proposition that the
lapse was inseparablc from or that it
was the cause and origin Of his genius.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Lord Northc)iHe

NORTHCLFFE: BEITAIN's MAN OF POWER
By William p Carson. illustrated svo. DO.
456 Dodge Publishing Company
Mr.. Carson, who was formerly an
American correspondent of the Eng
llsh newspapers controlled by Lord
Northcliffe, has written an interesting
biography, analysis, estimate and eu-
logy of the man who for years has
been the greatest individual force in
British journalism and who is now one
of the greatest forces in the British
conduct of the war. 1t is an inspiring
and instructive volume, in which the
authors partiality for his subject is
not permitted to distort vision or to
warp Judgment
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
M I. :, III
IN
w =
Bv ANDREAS LATZKO

The Boston Transcript says:
"'Men In War will unquestion-
ably rank with the greatest en-
pressions wrung from the human
soul by these years of agony and
horror. The publishers announce
a first edition of ten thousand
copies. One hopes that not fifty
such editions will exhaust the
public demand for such book
The Philadelphia Ledger says:
"The man who wrote this book
has done a magnificent and fear
less service for humanity and
democracy"
The Philadelphia Press says:
"B,y far the outstanding master
piece of the war
The Neyc York Sun says:
"Most war books are ephemeral,
but Men In War deserves to
live. 1t has all of the flaming
red realism that characterizes
many personal narratives of the
war, and it has in addition an
artistry of style that sets it far
above them"
Theodore Dresser says.
Far and away the best war
book | have read
Prot. Stuart P Sherman SAYS
1t is a book written with i'm
pressive bitterness and meTnor-
able power of expression
I wish copy of it would be put
in every household Of the Central
Empires.
John Macy says;
This book is noble and fine
and ultimate The hatred in the
book is the right kind of hatred.
Latzko is an artist
Prof. Brander Matthews says:
"Of all the war books have
read, this seems to me the most
powerful
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
War and Patriotism
Sounding the Reveille of the
Nation

AwAKEi AMERICA BY William T. Hornaday
illustrated Ip. xvii. 1877. Mo~at Yard & Co
Dr. Hornaday is not merely a. Jealous
patriot. He is equally thoughtful and
discriminating. He has both vision
and judgment, discerning needs and
eYigencies in advance and determining
the means by which they are to be met.
He reminds US of Sherman, who was
accounted madman in 1861 because
he said that instead of the $4,000
troops called by the President we
should need million before the war
was ended. DR.. Hornaday incurred dis
agreement and implied censure be-
cause he saw and said what America
should do and urged the doing of it.
But how much those who disagreed
with him then must now wish that
they and all men had had his vision.
Well, the need of his prophecy is not
yet past, and we therefore welcome his
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01

II there. Obviously, it is there because
IL ~ belongs there, because the author
is i;f portraylng with sincere realism n
~ t;de "nlcn is filled with just such ac-
s'on. !. 1T is tale of the old-time COW
oooys, of "rustlers" and "gunmen," and
OF one fearless man, who could shoot
quickly and straight, and his single
handed victory over the gang. Every
page is replete with interest. and is
instinct with the truth of phase of
NE now almost past, but once of COM
mandlng Importance in our Far West
ern commonwealths.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Some New Novels
a Fine Romance Of the Cunber.
land Mountains

1HE WAY OUT BY Emerson Houyh nlua-
~ated l2mo pp. sls. u. Appleton & Co
Mr.. Hough continues in his latest
work his searching studies of Ameri-
can life-folk-life, we might call it
on this occasion taking the Cumber-
land mountaineers for his theme. 1t
Is brave adventure, since readers
Will remember with enthusiasm other
stories of the mountains with which
tins is sure to be compared but it is
justified in the event. The touch is
sure, the vision unerring. There is
neither the exaggeration of dialect,
conduct and what not with which
some lesser writer's seek to embellish
their work, nor the over-sentimental-
lty IN which it would be easy to in
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
The Beauty of Vice
Mr.. Harris s Apotheosis of
Oscar Wilde

OSCAR WILDE His 1Afe and Confessions By
Frank Harris. Together with Memories OF Oscar
Wilde. by Bernard Shaw. Two volumes Svo
pp:, vii, 6l0. Printed and published by the
author
Oscar Wilde is both fortunate and
unfortunate in his biographer. He is
fortunate because of the intense SYM
pathy and devotion toward him which
Mr.. Harris manifests. The admiration
OF Boswell for his great friend is "as
water unto wine" to the impassoned
alteration, not to say adulation, with
which Mr.. Harris incessantly regards
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Strenuous Action

TIE NAN FROM BAR-2o BY Clarence
Mcr,,1zl MMu-ora Illustrated. l2mo. pp Sl9 A. G.
AS IN his former works, Mr. Mulfo1d
realizes Demos osthenes's defnition ~
eioquence. There is action from first
TO last of the most strenuous kind. vet
we are not made to suspect that it is
crowded in just for the sake of having
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01

"CGlebs," by F. f. Mills Young
(12mo, PIP. 311. John Lane Company,
IS the entertaining love story of bach
elor "The Foolishness of Lilian.n bv
Jessie Champion 12mo, DID. 24O. John
Lane Company, is tale of an English
girls somewhat highly seasoned ex-
periences, from a Midland slum to a.
London palace. "Mr. Manley," by G. I.
Whitman 12mo, pp. 304 John Lane
Company, is a somewhat sentimental
English novel. "The Rod of the Snake"
bv We're Short and Frances H. Mat
hews (12mo, PIP. $40. John Lane Com
pany), is a story in which love and
adventure, black magic and hideous
tragedy, are commingled in interest
gripping fashion.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
An EneIish Eamilu
THE GRAFTONS. BY Archibald Marshall.
pp. 337. Dodd. Mead & Co

THE GRAFTONS. BY Archibald Marshall. lemo
pp 337 Dodd Mead & Co ''''
Eng rural domcstcity is OBJ
viously Mr.. Marshall's meter. He
gave us some time ago a delightful
tetralogy of the Clinton family, and
now gives US his second Of series
on the Graftons, who are on the whole
more interesting than the Clintons--
which is saying much-and with whom
we shall gladly remain through an
other tetralogy. There is no melo-
drama in it. There is no prurient
problem such as some seem to regard
as essential to "strength." Nobody
throws fits" either physically or
morally. We are not sure that there
IS trace Of "punch." But there are
human interest, sympathy, character,
heart, soul and life as actual people
actually live it. 1t is a work which
cannot be too cordially commended to
lovers of good literature.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
Beyond Architecture

By A. Kingsley Porter of Yale University
author OF "Aedaeco1 Architecture"
Mr. Porter treats OF broad principles applicable only
but also the other arts painting and sculpture
ure He demonstrates that beyond architecture principles
beauty lie significance and content
1t only IN modern times that art has itself higher
uerior
or American the
lhs revolutionary
cct, artist interested ford to read.
svo
MARSHALL JONES COMPANY, PUBLISHERS
2l2 SUMMER STREET BOSTON, MASS.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
The Latest War Books
Some Current Fiction
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

book as one of the most awakening,
inspiring, informing and helpful that
have been put forth to rouse America
to its needs and duties in the war.
New-York tribune., 1918-06-01
interesting Personalities
Book News and Miscellany

must regard it as one of the most
valuable economic treatises which have
come to hand for years.
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-18
Fix Your Ideas.

The cantonments are primarily
schools for soldiers. They also
are-and this in the end may
prove more important still to the
country = clearing. houses for
ideas. Men from every condition
of life walk and talk and bunk to-
gether. The musician and the
blacksmith, the lawyer and the
carpenter, the farmer boy and the
city bred man, the luxurious
young aristocrat and the heir OF
poverty meet here as equals.
Confronted with the sternest of
realities, face to face with the in
finite, they<forget the petty dis
tinctions of business and social
life and see each other as brothers.
To those in the camps with
ideas and ideals this is a time of
remarkable opportunity. Here is
presented the rare privilege of i'm
pressing upon others whose minds
are fallow and whose souls are
stirred the visions of the new era
that is beginning to dawn upon a
darkened and saddened world.
"Get next" to the fellow beside
you. He may need your help in
many ways, and remember that
when this war shall cease, as all
wars must, the nation will be
governed by ex-soldiers, many of
whom have had their ideas fixed
and their visions cleared by rub
bling with the boys in camp
Trench and camp. ([Admiral, Md.) 1917-1919, 1918-04-18
A Christian Association.

President Wilson, in his appre-
citation of the work of the Y. M.
c. A., says the most important
thing in the development of an
army is it's morale. And for the
development of that spirit he
knows of nothing more helpful
than the general work of this as
ISOLATION. He says that morals
is the basis Of morale. In other
words, the greatest forces in the
world are what we call spiritual
forces. The greatest thing in
Camp Meade will be the camp
spirit.
If the Y. M. C. A. sustains the
reputation which it has wrought
out for itself, and which the Presi-
dent believes it is justly entitled
to, it will do it by giving attention
to moral and spiritual forces as
the foundation of all it's work. 1t
has an immense amount of good
fellowship, but the basis of real
good fellowship is good morals.
Otherwise it develops into buff
foonery or something worse.
The Y. M. c. A. is constantly
saying by its acts: We are not
forcing upon you unwilling at
tendance upon religious services.
But with all our devotion to ath-
letics and good fellowship we are
prompted by high moral and
Christian motives.
Our organization originated in
the church. It's workers have
come from the church. 1t is at
present supported by the gifts of
those who belong to the church.
Let US realize that while the
Y. M. c. A., as no other institu.
ton, looks after the athletic, the