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The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
WHIP UP! WIN THE WAR!

For several days the automobile
dealers of Oskaloosa have been run
ming a series of educational adver-
tisements in the Herald, the last of
which appears on page today. Tho
philosophy set forth is along the line
of business as usual" and should
appeal to every one interested in fur
nishing the where-with-all to conduct
the war.
No war can be prosecuted to sue
cessfud issue without patriotic and
well rationed soldiers in the field. And
to keep the boys satisfied and wen fed
there must be plenty of money at
the command of the government.
II factories are closed and indus.
tries halted, and everybody goes about
in gloomy attitude, business viii be
paralyzed, and the resources of the
government crippled. There will be
no taxes or revenues on business and
, incomes and the boys in the field will
be first to suffer from a false econ
omy.
1t is up to those at home,--the older
men who cannot go to war,-to whip
up. Produce everything possible,
take care of the liberty loans, the Army
Y. NJ. c. A. and the Red Cross. This
is not selfishness. Profteering
should be stOpped,-with the shot gun
if necessarily every legitimate
enterprise should be pushed to the
limit.
Keep the home fires burning and a
constant stream of cash running to
Washington to provide for the boys,
at home and across. Don't let indus
tries fall into decay, but keep them
up so that when the boys come back,
the older men may let go and the
boys have good opportunities to prose-
cute business as they are now prose
cutting the war.
The automobile, the tractor and
many other luXuries and experiments
of yesterday are necessities of today
Buy them and use them if they will
help pay taxes and win the war! Get
out of the rut of pessimism and hit
the Kaiser a whack by inspiring the
boys over there with cheerful OPP
timism, born of a knowledge that you
too are doing your bit with all your
might.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
GREAT WASTE oF WORDS.

Oratory in congress has increased
to such an extent that the volume Of
debate in the past nine years consti-
tutes one-third of the 100000 pages
of the Congressional Record issued
since publication was begun forty
three years ago.
This was disclosed by the House ap-
preparations committee in making pub
lie statistics compiled by Fred lrland
and George c. Laffaerty, official House
reporters.
The statement shows that the high
water mark was reached in the Sixty
third Congress- when 31,216 pages were
used, as against S,432 in the Forty
third Congress. The record of the
Sixty-thir made thirty-one 3 inch vol
umes which laid one on top of the
other would make a pile nearly nine
feet high. The quality of product the
official reporter Of debate turn out in
the House is now three times as great
as it was when that reporting corps
was established in 1875,
What a waste of words--and like
wise good paper and printers ink!
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
TAXES INCREASED 100000
Special War Fund Will Get $1,000, 900
of lncrease-State Levy This
Year 7.25 Mills.

Des Moines, March 5.-Taxes to be
collected in Iowa this year total $751;
761, 075.79, as compared to $53,046,-
$500 in 1917 according to the reports
submitted by the county auditors to
the state auditor, which are now COM
plete. The taxable value OF, property
is s975,467,S72 exclusive of moneys
and credits as compared to $685., 143,-
500, the preceding year.
The total increase in taxes through
to last year as shown above is $S,114,-
1910. OF this increase about $4,000
900 is an increase in state taxes. OF
this $3,000,0G0 increase $1,000,O00 goes
to the war fund of the state, $1,000
900 to the state educational institu-
tons, and $1,0OO,O0O to the institutions
under the state board of control.
The increase in the county taxes
amounts to about $5,000,00O. OF this
amount $2,69S,041 is an increase in
SCHOOL taxes. mere Is al luCT6dSS
of more than $1,OOo,OOO in city taxes.
Out of the $61, 761075 in taxes to be
collected this year the total state tax
is .$7,06S,966.68. The remainder, 1884,
&c., 100 goes to the countoes. fact
the most of the money collected as
state tax indirectly or directly goes to
the counties inasmuch as it maintains
the state educational institutions, es-
tablished for all of the people, the
state. institutions under the board of
control, except for per capita con
tributed by counties for their own pa
tents in these institutions, for money
to pay the salaries of district judges
and indirectly to other county pur-
poses.
The state tax levy this year is 7.25
mills, whereas last year it was 4.33
mills. The amount of money to be
collected for capitol extension is
$169, 1889.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
BRING THE WAR HOME.

If men were being shot down in
your front yard: if women and babies
were being bayoneted on your main
street; If shells were exploding at
the railroad station and homes were
burning before your eyes it wouldn't
be necessary to appeal to you daily
to Help Win the War. says Ralph G.
Ely, federal food administrators, in
his latest message to the people of
New Mexico.
Yet you are at war just as surely
as II New Mexico We're pitted with
shell-craters. its clear atmosphere
murky with powder smoke and its
fertile soil poisoned with gas Ameri,
can people at home have TO have inn
agination 10 win this war. They
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
BELGIUM.

Land of long days of happiness,
or pale gray skies and windmiils
tall
Wide is the world, and thou art
small,
But yet we love thee none the less.
Land of sweet bells and faith serene
OF solemn sunset calls to prayer
Brooding above the darkened air.
(But sweet bells jangle at Malines).
BY fair Liege, whose stored dead
Sleep in her great cathedrars nave,
The Mouse rolls on, with glittering
(Lo, her green current turns to red)
At Bruges the belfry tells his tale
OF days when ugliness was crime,
And bids US bark the ancient
Il only hear a child's low waiD.
Namur o'erlooks fair lands outspread
Where hamlets of Brabant are seen
Standing knee-deep in meadows
green
(Soft-'tis new-made grave you
tread).
At Client the great bell Roland tolls
Where through six centuries long
the tower
Has summoned freemen to their
ut mourns thousand passing souls).
And old Louvain, Louvain the wise,
Hugs to her breast the precious
store
Foregatnered of our ancient lore
(But hungry flames fill all her skies)
And Ostend, by the gray North Sea,
Dreams of her ancient hardihood;
"a sea more grim, of steel and blood,
Surges behind her ceaselessly)
However the tide of battle roll,
There hides what none can burn or
raZe-
The Flemish spirit of old days,
The Ageless freedom of the SOUL
Land of long days of frightfulness,
For faith and honor crucified,
Though thou art small, and earth is
wide,
We still shall love thee none the less.
David Starr Jordan.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

The singing of popular songs by
American soldiers on active duty
over there" is advocated by their
superior officers, according to u. S.
Marine Just returned from France.
Singing is soldiers second nature, >
said the Marine. 1T drives away
loneliness and helps to enliven the
spirits of the boys The soldier who
can pick banjo or guitar is well
come comrade in any camp, not only
to the enlisted men, but to the officers
as we'll"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
CANToNMENTS IN 1862.

The huge cantonments where the
young men of this country are being
trained for service over there" are
striking evidences of Americas earn
estness in preparing for war. Similar
scenes were witnessed in the concen
tration camps of the civil War period
"In the spring of 1862, Camp Benton
Just west of st. Louis. was rallyine
point for the volunteers of the North
west" says a veteran of an Iowa reSi
ment in some "reminiscences in the
possession of the State Historical SO
ciety of Iowa. Fifteen or twenty thou
sand new troops occupied it, in tents
and barracks; brass bands paraded;
raw cayalrymen, with unstained sa
bres, stood in long lines learning tc
cut, thrust and let the enemy parry;
infantry with glittering weapons were
drilling in companies and in regi
ments; staff officers, who had been
clerks or unfledged lawyers a few
weeks previously, galloped about with
an air of immense responsibility, as
though a battle we're in progress. All
was glitter, hustle and excitement"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
GAS A EIENplsH WEAPON

| No more fiendish weapon of warfare
! has ever been devised than the gas
! first used in the present war by the
Germans. No other weapon approaches
| it in the horrible suffering it causes
the victim, except the liquid fire, also
first introduced by the Germans. The
bomb, the bullet and the shell are
merciful beside them.
The Germans began the use of pois.
onous gas in warfare April %, 1915,
notwithstanding their signature to the
following clause in the declaration of
The Hague:
THE contracting parties agree
not to use projectiles which have
for their sole aim to spread as
phyxiating or deleterious gases"
The ink was hardly dry on the paper
when German chemists received in
structions. secret but precise, from
the imperial government. while all
other people, civilized or even half
barbarous, held themselves bound by
their word.
The lung destroying war weapon
was first put in use against the French
in Belgium. A yellow smoke. coming
from the German trenches and driven
by the north wind, swept down on the
line. Hundreds Of men fell asphyxi-
ated. writhing in frightful pain A
similar attack followed against the
British
Field Marshal French's report said:
THE effect Of the poisonous vapors
wA SO violent that all action was
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
cRITlcIzlNe FRANK WOODS.

The Boston Transcript has discoV.
cred what ii calls IAN inconsistency in
politics." II finds that Hon John T.
Adams was defeated for the chairman.
ship of the republican national com
mittee because early in the war he
had been pro-German, and then the
Transcript finds that the republican
congressional committee had elected
as chairman Hon, Frank Woods from
the tenth Iowa district. The Trans,
cript says: "An examination of Mr.
Woods, record would reveal that he
voted in favor of the infamous Nc.
Lemore resolution which was intro
dueed by a Texas democrat of that
name; that he voted against the
amendments to the administration S
draft bill proposed by Representative
Kahn the republican minority leader
from California. and that he voted
against the war resolution last April. .
The Massachusetts paper says that
the loyalty of Mr.. Woods is not ques-
toned and then proceeds to question
his availability.
The Boston Transcript is expecting
consistency in politics which never has
been in and perhaps never will be,
says the Des Moines Capital. Con
gress is filled with men who vote on
both sides of every question, until the
popular side is discovered and then
they land on that side with both
feet
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
CRYING "oFFENsivE," HAVE
MADE READY TO DEFEND.
WESTERN FRONT A VAST FRONT
Has Three Fighting zones-Few Men
In First Trenches-Main Force
is Back of the Frant-Must
Save Man Power.
(Dy Henry Woods.)

With the French Armies in the
Field, March 5.--While loudly pro-
claiming a gigantic offensive on the
western front, the German armies have
been working night and day for
months past building up the greatest
system for defense warfare the world
has ever known.
Germany realizes that in the end
she must sustain on the western front
the combined forces of the French,
British and American armies.
She also knows that in spite of
win on the western front she will be
obliged to defend every step of the
territory between the western front
and the Rhine river.
Like One Great Fort.
The entire western front extending
for miles to the rear, in fact practi-
cally to beyond the Rhine, has now
been converted into one vast field of
defenses.
In the 1918 defense system three
lines of trenches of the original system
gave way to three great fighting
zones. The first of which is gnown
as the zone of habitual fighting"
The second the zone of "garnd COM
bat" and the third the zone of bat
tie"
Economic Man Power.
The zone of "habitual combat" re-
places the old first line trenches. This
zone is intended to lessen the fright
full losses sustained in the defense line
trenches The first line in the zone
of "habitual combat" consists most
often of but one single trench.
The troops even take up their posi-
tons in the shell holes in front of this
trench.
Main Force in Second Zone.
These shell holes are not only
stored with ammunition, but they also
have water and food Often this
first line is held but by a few sol
diers,
Instead of sacrificing thousands Of
men in the rigid defense work of first
line trenches, Field Marshal Won Hin
denburg now prefers to save them by
permitting them to enter into the
zone of grand combat"
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
w. w, Shaw

will sell at P'-<slic Sale, at his farm 6
miles north OF Rose Fill on Thurs
day, March IA, at 10 O'Clock u. m, 4
horses, 20 yearling steers; C good
hand-milked cows; Ii cows and heif-
ers, some with calves at side and 9TH
ers to be fresh soon; 2 yearling An
gus bulls; ten Chester White sows,
bred to farrow in April; 35 sheep, all
breeding ewes, due to lamb April LIST;
timothy hay, corn, harness, potatoes,
1000 oak posts, grain drill and 9TH
er articles. Lunch served by Spring
Valley Red Cross. Usual terms l.. Z.
Ferguson and Son, Aucts., j. II. Bus
by, clerk.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
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PUBLIC SALES
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WIN. !.
will sell at public sale at the Sunny
Slope Dairy Farm" l mile west of Os-
kaloosa, on Tuesday, March II, at 10
o'clock a. M, black mare, smooth
mouth, weight 1900; bay horse smooth
mouth, weight 400; brown mare IL
years old, work in all harness; 2
ycarling mare colts; 2 mules COM
ing 2 years old; mule coming l year
old; head fine Jersey cows from
5 to 7 years old, 2 giving milk, 3
coming fresh this spring; half Jersey
coming years old, fresh; Jersey cow
5 years old, Registered, giving milk,
to be fresh in September; Jersey
heifer 2 years old, Registered, to be
fresh in April; coming 2 year old
Jersey heifers to be fresh this spring
and summer; Jersey heifer fresh in
April; Jersey hcifers l year old;
Jersey bull 2 years old, Registered;
2 Guernsey bulls, coming l year old;
Angus steer calf; 8 Short Horn steer
calves; 2 Hereford heifers year old;
10 head Of pigs; farm machinery and
other articles Lunch served by the
ladies of X. X. Club. Terms made
known on day of sale. l. NJ Reed,
auctionee2. Lester Butler, clerk.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
ToRonor Soldier Dead.

Ottumwa, Mar. 5.-Ottumwa will
pay tribute to the cbmmunity's first
victim of the world war by holding a
public military funeral for Lloyd H..
Carter, who fell to death In an aero
plane accident at Leaside airdrome,
near Toronto, Canada, Friday even
ing March l. The funeral win be held
Wednesday afternoon.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
SEIZE BIG WIRELESS PLANT.
Secret Outfit in Wall Street District
Could Talk to Germany.

New York, March 5.--It was made
known by federal officials today that
a powerful wireless outfit on the top
floor of building in the Wall Street
district had been seized. The Off
Gals declined to diyulge its exact To-
cation or the names of the persons
responsible for il being there. The
apparatus was so constructed that
aerial wires were not necessary, two
metal structures serving the purpose.
The apparatus was described as
powerful enough for communication
with Germany.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
THE BROKEN WORD.

Germany agreed at The Hague con
vention of 1907 to certain definite rule!
of war. Among them were these:
No employment of deleterious
gases.
No bombardment of unfortified
towns
No pillaging.
No leyying of Illegal contribu-
lions in occupied territory.
No seizure of funds belonging
to private persons.
No collective penalties for indi-
vidual acts prohibiting shooting
of hostages).
No terrorization OF d country
by outrages on its civil inhabit-
ants.
Every one of these provisions has
been deliberately violated by German
as deliberately as the
neutrality of Belgium was violated.
We know what society does to an
who nouts his word. Its
action is of sort to make the break
ing of promises unpopular. In that
way ii has helped educate men in the
way of truth telling and reliability.
The same process must be applied to
the treaty breaking nation.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
Bible QUOTATIONS.
FAILED STACKER
DRAFT BOARD HEARTLEssLY
oVERRuLED anew WIFE"
AM | DOWN HEARTED? mo-!
Boy in France Satisfied But Will Be
Glad To Get Home-One Soldiers
Income $3eso.oo Per Week
Measles On Pay Day.

st. Louis, March 5.-The district
appeal board went on record last
night as having overruled the Bible.
Claiming deferred classification on
the ground of dependent wife, Shep-
pard A. Evans, who was married since
May IS, 1917, attempted to justify his
claim with this quotation from the
Bible:
when man hath taken unto HIM
self new wife he Shall not go to
war; neither shall he be charged with
any business, but shall be free at
home one year and shall cheer his
wife which he hath taken"
The board placed Evans in Glass /.
Am ! Downhearted? No!
Mankata, Kan, March Sin let
ter to his parents, Roy w. Spencer
writes from France:
You spoke in your letter of me
making a sacrifice. In one way, per-
haps, | did,, but it is mostly bust
ness proposition. / took a job to do
my part in the war, but in return
there is $4,000 for every month be-
side everything else furnished me.
have had the chance to travel seven
thousand miles and see four foreign
countries, without expense to me.
There are people who have spent hun
dreds of dollars to see what l already
have seen. Do not worry about me,
as l am going to set foot in the U. S.
A. again, and you'll hear me shout
from the coast to Kansas when do y
Soldiers Weekly Wage, $3.50.
Aver, Mass, March 5.-The routine
of collecting biographies of recruits
for the National Army was broken in
somewhat startling manner for
Capt Richmond P. Harding at Camp
Devens yesterday.
Whats your average weekly
wage?" he asked YEARLY of one of the
last of the final quota of the first draft
to arrive in camp
About $780," came the answer.
Weekly weekly" repeated the
captain.
About S3,S80," the rookie answered
in the same matter of fact way.
The captain sank back in his chair
whats your business?" he in,
quired What are you specially
trained in?"
my business has been living re-
tired life for the past eight years, -
was the answer q am specially
trained in investment"
The rookie" is Harold L. Judd of
New Britain, Conn, owner of a large
factory. A few years ago he was
married to Mrs. John w. Gates Jr.,
of New York.
Gloom! Measles On Pay Day.
Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Ia, March
5.-For three consecutive pay days
the Illinois soldiers in the headquar-
tiers company of the 349th infantry
here have jingled their money in their
pockets without chance to spend it.
Fate has played these men in the Hi.
nois regiment a trick. Just prior to
each pay day some member Of the
company has come down with the
measles, resulting in a two weeks
quarantine for the others.
Uncle Sam is kind enough to get the
money to the men, but they are con
fined to quarters, not being allowed
to go to the exchanges or to leave
their company area. Lieut.. Schultz,
Rock Island, is the newest victim of
the disease.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
A TOAST TO THE FLAG.

Here's to the Red of it
There's not a thread of it,
No, nor a shred of it
In all the spread of it
From foot to head,
But heroes bled for it,
Faced steel and lead for it,
Precious blood shed for it,
Bathing it Red.
Here's to the White of it
Thrilled by the sight of it,
Who knows the right of it
But feels the might of it
Through day and night?
Womanhood's care for it
Made manhood dare for it,
Purity's prayer for it
Keeps it so White.
Here's to the Blue of it
Beauteous view of it,
Heavenly hue of it,
Star-Spangled dew of it, ,.
Constant ana true.
States stand supreme for it,
Diadems CLEAN for it,
Liberty's beam for it
Brightens the Blue.
Here's to the Whole of it
Stars, stripes and pole of it,
Body and soul of it;
On to the goal of it,
Carry it through.
Home or abroad for it,
Unsheath the sword for it,
Fight in accord for it,
RED, WHITE and BLUE!
John Jay Daily.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
More Gardens.

Oskaloosa will go in for gardening
this year in a more intensive way
than ever before. Not a vacant lot
or piece of ground in the whole town
that has not been rented or promised.
The demand will be greater than the
supply. Numerous lawns are to be
plowed up to give space to garden
truck.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
uNMovED BY SYMPATHY.
Chicago Workmen Refuse to Protest
Moneys Sentence.

Chicago. March 5. a movement TO
urge general strike throughout the
United States as a protest against tho
hanging of Thcnas J. Mooney, under
death sentence in California, was sat
upon with firmness by the Chicago
Federation of Labor after considerable
heated argument.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
New Stock Pavilion.

The urgent need of a large stock
pavilion at the Southwest Iowa Fair
Grounds was never more noticeable
than during the combination stock
show and exhibition now going on.
Why not move the Chautauqua build
ing onto the Fair Grounds and use it
for Chautauqua, Fair and sales?
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

The value of the primary alumni
mum made in the United States in
1917 was $45,8S2,0OO. an increase OF
$ll.9S2,OOO over the value of that
made in 1916. This increase APP.
pears to be due chiefly to an increase
in the quantity of metal produced but
in part TO an increase in the price OF
the metal.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

On March 30, and April 5, respect
lively, two drawings will occur in west
ern Colorado by which 10000 acres OF
irrigable land viii be thrown open
to settlement. The Government farms
contain from 40 to 80 acres each Of IT.
rigable land and are located In valleys
on the western slope.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

Give an acre!" That is new
slogan for these days of slogans. 1t
is to be the inspiration of state wide
movement to enlist farmers and their
families in growing special acres of
crops and donating the sale proceeds
to the Red Cross, the Army "Y." or to
other similar war service.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07
Eirst To Act.

Oskaloosa Eagles Lodge has been
the first to respond to the appeal to
invest in War Savings Stamps. A
motion or resolution prevailed at the
meeting OF last week for the pur-
chase Of stamps in the sum Of at least
$4,000 and possibly more.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

is to furnish hot food to soldiers in
first-line trenches. Two New York
men have charge of these first rolling
canteen units. They are Lieutenant
Gardiner Penniman and Lieutenant
Edward Mickey.
The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1918-03-07

Since August 1914, the cost of
living in Germany has gone up twice
as fast in the United States, notwith-
standing the fact that living in the
United Staes is worn ten times as
much as in Germany