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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-04-10
LOCAL ITEMS.

Pat Roman was a passenger to
Mason City Monday.
Miss Olive Blagsvedt was a pas
senger to Cresco today.
Mr.. Lee Oestrander Of Water
loo was a visitor here Sunday.
Mrs. A. Leytze arrived home
last week from her visit in Des
Moines.
Donald Haugen returned from
brief visit in Chicago Wednesday
morning.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Bear went to
Lafayette, Ind, last Thursday on a
visit to relatives. /.
Mrs. Halvor Ramlo came home
Monday from Cresco where she I'M
derwent an operation.
Mrs. j. A. o. Preus is here
from Minneapolis on visit to her
father, X. l. Haugen.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. M. Graham
left Sunday night for Chicago, ex-
pcCtlHS 10 De gone a WEEK.
Mrs. John Malanaphy and
daughter Miss Martha were pas
sengers for Lawler Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Rosencrans
returned to Dubuque today after a
visit here at the j. c. Beard home
&C. E. Trzcinski arrived here
last night from Miles City, Mont.
on visit to his mother and sister.
Miss Lily Wise went to Charles
City, Saturday, for a week end Wis
it with her sister, Mrs. E. f. Gueff-
roy.
Mrs. A. E. Hurd returned to
Maynard, Iowa Saturday after a visit
here with her son Howard Hurd and
wife.
A baby girl arrived at the home
of Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Lansrud Mon
day, April 8. We extend congratula-
tions.
Mrs Ernest Granger arrived here
Monday from Eau Claire, Wis. for a
visit with her sister, Miss Minnie OPP
dahl.
Mrs. c. A. Queal came Monday
from Casper, Wyoming, to attend
the wedding of her nephew, P. X
Queal.
Mrs. E. E. Cakes and daughter
Monday on a visit to Mrs. Oakes's
father.
Mrs. George Schlatter came
Saturday from West Union to spend
Sunday here at the home of p H
Schlatter.
Miss Bea Maroney concluded an
extended stay here with her mother
and sisters and returned to st. Paul
yesterday.
Misses Esther and Ruth Strand
departed for Jordan, Mont, Satur-
day, in the interest OF their claims
at that place.
Mr.. John Void arrived home
Thursday from Minneapolis where
he spent the winter with his son
Theodore Void.
-Messrs. Hugh Sherry and A. M
Sherry went to Belmont, Iowa, Mon.
day to attend the funeral of the
formers nephew.
Mrs. w. G.. Adams and daugh.
ter Jean arrived home the latter
part of last week from visit in
Sioux Falls, S. ID.
&C. l.. Holcomb arrived home
this morning from Duluth, Mimi.
where he spent the winter with hi:
son Will Holcomb.
Mrs. A. o. Standard of Madison
Wis, returned to Cresco YESTERDAY
having spent Sunday here at the
home of H. Campbell.
Cash paid for eggs at Reum''
market. 15-t
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-04-10

Mrs. Henry Ness arrived home
last Wednesday from the hospital at
Rochester, and is fast regaining her
health, which her many friends will
he pleased to know.
Cash paid for eggs at Reum' S
market. lott
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1918-04-10
EarlY Seed Potatoes.

We have some fine early seed po-
tatoes, Irish Cobblers and Beauty Of
Hebrons. also late Rural New York
ers. Our prices are right. Give us
your order now.
4o-2w w. r. SYMONDS & SON.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
Liberty LoaneIs.
lNew York Post)

John Muir, a downtown broker, in
spired by spring and the approaching
government bond issue, made public
today the following certified 'Ad-
dress to Third Liberty Loaners":
Once more until the Loan. dear
friends, once more:
If failure--thcn fill the gap with our
dear dead.
In peace there's nothing SO becomes
our lives
AS trusting faith and sweet fidelity,
But when 1iend incarnate with red
rocking hate
Spew forth fcrocious and innIman
saVag gerry
Then stir all noXious venom in your
veins.
Be double-p urposed, fight with might
and bond
Lash the muscles, draw forth the
purse,
Blows deadly deal, and recent wrongs
rehearse.
Foster your earnings, adopt the Par
tial Payment Plan,
Conserve YOUR food, on luxuries place
a ban
Until the call is heard for Freedom
and for Liberty.
L
full ocean,
Pour forth in generous and overrun
ming measure,
Give to your utmost power, exhaust
your treasure.
Up, up, YOU noble freemen
Whose blood dcscends from those YOU
now must save;
Sheathe not YOUR swords, nor yet
your purses close
Until the accursed fend is van
o1ished.
Honor your mothers, swell your IA
Tiers hearts
And show your breeding.
Not one so base as Will not all give
Rather than sink vassal to such
monster.
see you eager for the call straining
in generous rivalry
To outdo your neigh Dor The call is
on,
Follow your spirit. let your dollars
tell
For Liberty Bonds, and Liberty's stir
ring bell.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09


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New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
Digging Out Foxes.

The approved method of capturing
fox puppies is to dig them out. It is
not much practiced hereebouts, but
farther north, where fox farms
abound, even the lum bermen are such
hunters. The efforts cf the mother
fox to save her little ones are some
times pathetic. year or two ago.
in the woods Of northern Michigan.
! two lum bern1en saw a fox's den and
po<ed into it. Nothing happened, so
they went on. Returning at night,
they saw that fresh tracks led from
this den to a newly dug burrow not
far away, ana surmised that the
mother fox had moved her family
ThereupOn they started digging. AS
they dug they could hear the fox
dneein ahead Of them in the round.
and it became evident she was tur-
neling in q circle, to reach the en-
trance ahead Of them and escape. So
che of the men dug ahead to cut her
off. and the other dug behind her.
The latter digger came speedily upon
four puppies, and the former reached
the old fox herself. She had been
forced to abandon most of her litter
in her mad effort to escape: but she
was carrying one baby with her. all
she could hope to save. Two other
men from the same camp found a
fox's hole in a fallen hollow tree and
started to chop the family out. In
this case the mother drove all the
fa,nily--five again-up the center OF
Il hollow branch ahead of her. The
choppers came npon her from be-
hind. They tied her hind legs to-
gethNr end then tied this thong to a
pole, thus pulling her out from a safe
q i,-%c NC
and Il fox's bite is not a pleasant
thing In front Of her were the
pups the foremost one so jan1med
into the rotten wood rRar the end of
the branch that he could hardly
breathe This litter was more than
month old. and every one Of them
lived in captivity on the nearby fox
farm Waiter Srichard Eaton III
IIarper's Magazine.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

France and in Italy what the Ger
man government is endeavoring to
obtain in its negotiations with Rus
STA. 1t Is not peace without anneXa-
tons based on the right of nations
TO dispose of themselves; it is not a
democratic peace that the Central
Powers are offering to the Russian
government; but it is a peace which
will increase the political, military
and economic power of Germany in
the East. With the help of a So
called consultation of peoples, which
will be anything but the loyal appli-
cation of the right of nations to dis
pose of them selves, an attempt is
being made to force Russia to swal-
low this peace. which cannot be a
peace of Cancellation.
The German government. to mask
its anneHat1OnS, wants to make use of
the right of the Baltic barons and the
T dish middle class to dispose of
themselves. Hometown the policy Of
the German government is no longer
doubtful. Whoever supports it con-
fesses himself thereby the partisan of
the policy of violence and the policy
OF conquests. Now that light has
been shed on the matter and the de-
signs of Germany and Austria Hun
Gary are known, it is certain that the
enormo Gus ambitions of BULGARIA like
wise form part of the program of
the Central Powers. If such are Ger
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
FACTS ABOUT THE AMERICAN NAVY
LIEUT.. FrrzHUGH GREEN, T. s. N
Mist axes

Statistics are horrible grisly, night
marish things. They are right, and
yet they are wrong. We know they
lie--yet there they stand and point.
Statistics point to the fact that the
majority Of professional men are not
normal. TOO much concentration
to quote a famous physChiatTist. From
which we may say that the bulk OF
them are crazy.
The Senior Fleet Navigator had
just heard of this. He didn't believe
it. But for the sake of argum ent he
would prove to his mess than only
natural mistakes are foundation for
such idiotic propaganda.
There was. he related, an utterly
WORKOUT skipper who, after nearly
so consecutive hours on the bridge In
target practice times, took bearings Of
bright white light which showed
suddenly up on his port quarter. AS
the light seemed very near he changed
course bit. The lights bearing re-
manned the same. He turned once
more. The light stuck.
Were being pursued" he ex-
claimed. but where are her devilish
sidelights?' She didn't have any dew
ilish sidelights, however, for the sim
pie reason that there wasn't any YES
sci at all. The weary Skipper was
angling on a light on his own boat
crane not hundred feet away!
Again on a heavy day with wind
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
Copyright 1918 by George
Matthew Adams.)
that but few of them ever will be

that but few Of them ever will be
engaged in serious fighting.
We believe that the war will con
tinue until we have several hundred
thousand troops and TO- 900 or more
aeroplanes in France, which should
be some time next spring or sum-
mer. We, however, feel that by the
time these men and aeroplanes are
over there ready to do something
worth while, Germany will have come
TO her senses. We see no reason
for Germany to stop until we are
actually in Europe with seIf-support-
ing bases. prepared to strike hard;
but we see every reason why Ger
many should be anxious to settle with
us at that time, before we do strike.
Our regular army and perhaps the
militia, may get into action at any
time, but the chances are four to one
that the men who are now being
drafted will see very little actual
fighting in Europe. Even If they are
required to do hard fighting. statis-
ties are very much in their favor
and conditions are improving.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

astern the smoke OF a. certa In dread
naught crept ahead and hung. Later,
on another heading, she approached
dark bank in the gray evening twi-
light. Land ho!" shouted the quar-
termaster. And all on the bridge saw
It, Yet not for an hour did anyone
suspect the looming shadow of being
other than a mountainous headland.
Imagine their surprise when it proved
to be no more than their own AFTER
noon smoke.
Then there was the nervous de-
stroyer that opened fire on a gas buoy
adrtft-the buoy having failed to-
heave' to upon command. Another%
time flashing beacon was taken for,
q submarine in action and so care
fully avoided by a merchant skipper
that he ran his ship aground.
why I myself" the debater con-
Guided, have observed the smoke
puffs Of a steamer below the horizon
on a clear day and felt sure the whole
squadron was there
He snorted in disgust, took his feet
from his desk and went out On hia
head was his eyeshader though, SEEING
the visor, he thought it was his cap,
Which proves
But DOES it prove he's crazy? Or
only like other great men and pro-
fessionalists a bit absent-minded and.
at most wholly prone to human error ?
STATISTICS are just STATISTICS
Which?
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
The Spirit of Sacrifice.
Savannah News.

They-the people-can see no rea-
son for being grouchy. They know,
that great war is not picnic and
readily see the big difference betweenl
the terrible sacrifices many men have
made and will make for their coun-l
try and the absurdN little thjugSi
which used to put one out So" lit
is a healthful sign If Anericansi
were proportionately as grouchy over
war taxes and war sacrifices, shoot
ages of sugar and coal, meatless DAYS,
wheatless days and the like as they
used to be over petty inconvenience,
what a grand old crouch this natiou
would have! But Americans have
the saving grace of humor. Tnstaa \ ;
of initiating their little crouch, the,
way has made it burst into smile.
The spirit of sacrifice grows bv sac
rihcing. The more we have to "put,
up oSth" the less we kick about tbe
pu.ytns up, 1t is a fine quality i'm
Z 1erlcans; it actually furnishes one,
%the reasons why they are unbe.t-
Z g5le in war.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
ELECTION DAY.

b a few hours after these
, in print the people Of New
will know the result of the
Ehey have cast in the city
today. The contest Is over,
] s any further efforts on the
Ithe candidates is concerned,
have now only to await the
4bf the voters. The Herald
"a an extra edition immedi-
err the final RETURNS are re-
nd will give SITS readers q
account OF. the election re-
We only to add tluHt it was
e for us to observe In what
Ind yet spirited manner a
campaign can be conduct
city. There hs been no in
personalities into the con-
Ffi1ifying, no mud Singing"
the result is announced at
In to congratulate the heads
respective tickets on the
have shown during the
It has reflected great
hem and on the city.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
JOHN A. NfEEHAN.

InfrequentIy it is the good fortune
Of jewellers in this vale Of tears, to
meet another mortal whose sole aim
in life appears to be to spread sun
shine round about him. Such was
John A. Meehan, the news of whose
death shocked the city today En-
dowed with a happy spirit and q
by the SORROWS of the world, Mr..
Meehan's path through life was Dor
dered on both sides with staunch
friends. whose respect he had won
by his many fine characteristics.
AS a member of the board Of pub
lie safety from 1910 to 1914, he
served his fellow citizens faithfully
and well. That was a trying period
of the life Of the municipality when
1t was emerging from it's chrysalis
to the butterfly stage Of civic impor-
lance in the state. His wisdom and
sagacity bore great weight with other
memb ers Of the commission, all of
whom sought his opinion.
But it was through his unofficial
life that Mr.. Meehan was most widely
known. He was gentleman and
true friend.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
Pork and Beans.
(BostOn Post J


Our people ma% set themselves at
rest. The worst of Saturday nights
is not to come. The announcement
is made that the food administration
ukase for a pigiess Saturday is to be
ilIumined by an exception. which is
that the piece of pork universally put
into the bean-pot in the preparation
Of New England's great SATURDAY.
supper may still go there unre-
strained
This is wise. IT had to be For
law-abidins as our New Englanders
have always been and are, the pro-
bbition of pork in this characteristic
food product would have tried their
loyalty severely. We do not say that
pork beans riots would have oc-
Cured, but grave distractions would
surely have arisen. Happily, the gov
eminent knows Just where to stop.
IT sees the need of n united and happy
New England.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
TODAY'S TABLOID TALE
&'hrcnOlOgy.
BY Joe Blast,

Wandering about viewing the
sights of the Round Corners
county fair, Steuben veskitt
noticed the booth Of Prof. kis-
met, phrenologist.
There's my chance to find
out If there's really anything In
the science of phrenology,' he
thought. And he went into the
booth and requested Prof Kis-
met 10 fell his bumps
'mn.' began the profess
sor, 'NOur stabilistic curve is
almost conoave--that means
that your Will power is not
only null, but void. Your attic
protuberance is negligible
WHICH indica tes that your art
sense is aim st absent, that no
one who knows YOU we'll would
trust you to pick out wall pa
per for them. Your givadatious
peak shows that you have
never been accused Of gener-
osity, and I see by the depict
cd state Of your galantrious
mound that YOU have never
been very successful at inter-
esting the ladies. Fifty cents,
please"
If you expect half q dollar
for that. YOU can keep on ex-
pocting till you're black in the
face" Missed Steubon Neskitt.
Il am now convinced that
phrenology is not only q bluff
and q fraud, but q delusion
and a snare"
And he strobe maddily out.
Soon after. he found himself
before the phrenological booth
Of Madame SW2stlka.
oh, we'll. let me be fair"
he thought. prof. Kismet
may be a mere charlatan, and
l. Wouldn't like to think that I
ever condemned a thing hasti-
ly."
And he went in and uncoT-
cred his head for Madame
Swastil1n, who began: you
have an unusually prolific jol-
II LlI1C dSLlNtLS w AiANiI liio1NhISo
that you are good nature it
self. Furthermore, your up
standing pinnacles are super
normal, showing that you are
the soul Of honor and the acme
Of justice. You are an almost
infallible judge Of human ma
ture and are generally known
as prince Of good fellows.
Five dollars, please
with pleasure, said Steu-
ben Veskitt, handing it over.
You have proven to me that
phrenology is based on sound
scientific principles
And, bowling himself out, he
went and lost eighteen dollars
playing the shell game.
Copyright 1918 by George
Matthew Adams.)
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
Chance Of Death Among Drafted Men
Not Great

(ROger W. Babson in Capper'S.)
Clients whose sons and friends
have been called under the recent
draft should get considerable comfort
from a study of the mortality stats
tics OF the armies In Europe OF
course it is very difficult to secure
reliable figures, but we understand
that about 50 men per thousand are
being killed, and about 100 men out
Of each Thousand are wounded al
though most Of these wounded re-
turn again to the trenches. This
percentage Of casualties is not high.
Of course it cannot be compared with
normal death rate in peace times,
which is about 8 per thousand for
the ages of the men at the front Inc
normal death rate Of s is an annual
figure, while the figure Of 60. above
given. applies from the date of en-
listment, which in some cases has
been three Years. The great loss of
previous wars has been from dis
ease. This has been very largely
eliminated. Some claim that a man
at the front today is less LIABLE 10
disease than if at home working in
a city
The mortality is very much less to-
day than it was at the beginning of
the war, The gas and other hideouS
forms of attack are being well han
died at the present time. Men who
are sensible and careful can we'll pro
tect themselves against these things.
Experience, both in the protection OF
the soldier and the care Of the
wounded, is constantly reducing the
death rate as the war progresses.
tanned during charges, which Of
course are very dangerous most
wounds are in the arm or shoulder
which can be easily healed. or in the
skull. The skull wounds are nat
urally serious. A1nputation Of limb
is very much less than in previous
wars.
The mortality varies considerably
with the different branches Of serv-
ice. A man who is connected with
the heavy field artillery is no more
likely to be killed than if in the en-
ploy Of our railroads. but the fell
lows engaged in certain other
branches are in much more danger.
1t is also. said that the mortality
among certain classes of officers,
such as lieutenants, sergeants and
corporals is proportlonately very
much greater tnan among the pri-
Yates. It Is very interesting TO see
how much greater the mortality Is
among volunteer corps than among
drafted mon. IF the Roosevelt vol
unteers had gone to the front the
mortality among such a body would
doubtless have been very high.
We believe that the dra fled man
who goes as an ordinary soldier, TAX
ing his Judgment with him ard lcav.
ing his enthusiasm at home, is not
only most effective, but is fairly sure
to return in better physical condition
than when he left. OF course, during
it is his turn to charge, he is sub
jeCt to great danger, but the rest Of
the time, with reasonable precau-
tons, he is. stat stically, almost as
we'll off as in the streets Of New York
Most of the drafted men may see
France, which, by the way will be
beneficial to many of them. Since.
however, the &e"oplane appropriation
has passed, there Isl a good chance
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
COMMUNICATED.
April 5, 1918.

Dear Sir:
wish to thank you for your edi-
toTlal Ga suggestiOn') in tonight's
herald. l have a son and brother
over there fighting for justice and
liberty, and every time I had to pass
that door with that obnoxious sign,
1elt something should be done to
remove 1t. Also your mention of the
rhang1ne Of the name Of the town of
Berlin. | am surprised that the resi-
dents Of this patriotic little town don't
rise up and strike for som ething more
worthy OF all the boys who have left
here, to go over there; let us have a
real American name for our town.
ANTI BERITNITE
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
WHAT T. AN AMERICAN?
\ eW York Herald. I

of An vvr by
o male wa not unSi
$ of he he
a of
pressed of every nation and The
from afar the odors Of plenty
of
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up
nd the
of those
with
the and
fol he An
that needs be he will
Of whc stalks
seeking whom or n
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New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
MONEY TALKS.

be an old, hackneyed ex-
! tat Money talks is truer
over. We understand that
he banks alone, approx
10000 have already been
his city toward the Third
1hn. This is almost one
lew Britain's quota. Yes,
1T can and will say lots
when the Liberty Loan
over, 1t will tell the
he made the mistake Of
n he forced America into
will tell the world that
States means business.
tell the President that we
Id that he finally told
hat q terrible trouncing
to give her before this
That's what the money
BIT into the Third Liberty
General Pershing cabied
McAdoo that every
ibed to the Idberty Loan
vested in American man
ID there be a better in
,ould there be a more
bod of indicating to our
ne stirred up a hornets
e aroused the United
on? Money invested in
Loan will say all these
LII talk if we give it a
your dollars, and listen.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09
THE FIRING SQUAD.

han bomb been dropped
yesterday it could hardly
h more of a sensation
Ids exclusive announce
|lumns of Mondays edi-
Feet that enemy agents
kpering with gas masks
8n our factories. 1t ap-
@ three hundred masks
4 useless by the substi-
3or cement in the tubes
vital part of the head
j the defect been discov-
The masks might have
ldiers in France, and,
i them, they surely
d overcome by the enc
isonous gas. 1t is not
CINE what their suffer-
been.
the boldest and the
bit OF work the
pts have dared under
tain, The handwriting
wall and we must not
derestinate its signi-
pms nothing more or
the Hohenzollerns,
b thousands of miles
III city. can, neyerthe-
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

Over photograph of DR.. L. d.
Clements, a Danbury contem porarv
carried a headline the other day as
follows: Substitute for Gasoline
Runs Autos Does the Doc get out
and push?
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

We beg to express our appreciation
of the kindness shown in sending US
a copy of the latest edition of The
Stanley Workers. that splendid little
newspaper published every Thursday
in this city by The Stanley Works, the
purpose Of which, as expressed by the
editors. is ito keep in touch with our
boys who have temporarily left us to
fight for Uncle Sam and to help build
Grafton among those of us who have
remained on the job
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

Ris is my ambition for Amer
that wherever an American
! may go upon the earth he
be honored and loved, De
he represents q nation that
othing but Justice and kind
For all races Of men.
Ia Rifles e. MCPHERSON.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

rnany's war aims in the east, what
can they be in the west? For this
revelation Of today the nations will
pay by shedding streams Of blood3
once more.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

AS between Mayor George A. Quig-
ley and DR. John E. Martin, we pro-
prose RS the next mayor DR.. George 4 .
Marley.
New Britain herald., 1918-04-09

If DR.. Muck devotes his time at the
Atlanta prison to organizing a "Jazz"
band, we shall look for a pred oni-
nance of bars in his next offering.