Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-04-15

Lenroot will change over from the
lower house to the senate as easily
as though he were moving from one
hotel to another Mr. Lenroot has
been in Washington a good many
years, and has considerable personal
popularity. The senatorship is a
logical promotion that has been we'll
earned
"We've got to win, and we've
started right" Henry Ford told a
Washington reporter, the other day.
He advised ignoring political talk.
LET us keep to the program which
Mr.. Wilson has wisely mapped out,
and we cannot go astray. / am a
Republican and l didn't want war.
We have a democrat for president
and we have war, and I'm for both.
Why? Mr.. Wilson has proved himself
to- be an able leader and the war
was forced on us. Now that We are
faced With the hideousness of war
fare, let us see it through to the
bitter end.
"The farmers are up against it,
and the government should act
Immediately to put skilled labor be-
hind the food producers. Just now
the man with the pillow is as neces-
sary as the man with the rifle. In
fact, the food grower is the big man
behind the gun. l strongly advocate
that the government put into the
fields without delay the trained
men who have been drafted and to
inquire infinitely into what thous-
ands of men between the ages of 35
and so are doing.
81 believe also that all factories
turning out products not essential to
the conduct of the war should re-
lease many men for the farm work
during the harvest season. You have
no idea how many good farmers are
to be found in the big factories" Mr..
Ftvd stated that he was prepar-
ing to release a large group of young
workers for. farm work in Michigan
this spring.
Farm Workers. \
Belief that shortage of farm labor
exists is largely imaginary, accord
ing to Louis F. Post, assistant secre-
tary of labor. What We need
is less agitation about putting women
on the farms, less talk about the i'm
portation of Chinese and more team
work and mutual confidence. There
are plenty of able bodied men in Am
erica to farm American farms, and
the department of labor will see that
they get there"
"a careful survey" he added,
Shows that the south is the only
| section experiencing a shortage of
farm help. One reason is that some
| farmers pay poor wages and afford
poor working conditions. With pro-
ducts bringing twice the sums of two
| years ago, the farmer is we'll able to
pay more money fer help"
The Packers And The War.
There appears to be very wide
difference of opinion between some
members of the government and the
packers as to whether the latter are
carrying their end of the war burdens
Senator Thompson of Kansas is the
author of a resolution providing for
the government to take over and
period of the war. The federal trade
commission has been going after the
On the other side we find that the
packers have entered upon cam
paign of publicity, and they are car
rying advertisements in the news
papers Of the country, attempting tc
prove that they have not made undue
profits, and that they are doing theil
Bit Upon these points the Amer
lean public may be called upon tC
pass opinion, as the facts pro and
con are likely to become widely cir
culated.
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Real Estate Transfers.
Jacob Sorenson and VT to Ann e
Billington-lot / blk of o. l.. 49,
Stanhope-$140O.
Lane L King and hush et al to z L