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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
CRITICS AND APOLOGISTS.

1t is not necessary = to become a
carping critic or an effusiye apollo
gist of the president concerning tnc
league of nations. Gen. Smuts has
had larger share in the development
of the actual idea than the president.
Premier Lloyd George advocated the
scheme before the announcement Of
the presidents fourteen points. For
these reasons il is not necessary FOR
his opponents to criticise the league
itself i'm order to criticise the presi
dent. Sioux City Journal.
Of course well informed friends
and foes of the president know what
the Sioux City paper says in thr
foregoing paragraphing is true, but
there are lot of the blind followers
of Mr.. Wilson who think he is the
first man who ever thought OF the
league and the first official to give
his sanction to such a doctrine. For
mer president Taft is the foremost
advocate of league of nations III
the United States He was pioneer
in the movement before his successor
in the white house even thought Of
it. aud the fact that Taft and Wilson
seem to Ike moving along in harmony
for the league ought to impress others
with the beauties and advantages OF
united action.
1t is suspected that some men
are for the league because the presi-
dent is for it. while others are
against il because the president fay-
ors if. This is condition that
should not exist The proposed lea
que and the proposed constitution
ought to stand or fall upon their
merits. regardless of who is for or
who is against. Why not approach
the problem from that angle and con-
slider it free from political bias or
personal prejudice? 1t is big ques-
ton. much bigger than any man.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
A FALLEN CONGRESS-.

New York Times: Has congress
ceased to function?" Year by year,
of late, it has been falling farther and
farther behind in legislation, until this
session has capped tie climax. With
only twelve working days left, not one
of the fourteen great appropriation
bills is ready for the presidents sigma
ture; only two have got as far as con-
ference. Not single great measure
has passed except the revenue bill, and
that is a "holdOver" from the last ses-
sion.-that is, a monument to the fail
ure of that session to do its duty.
! The last session was what is called
1.-The long session. and this is the
short session. Each congress hclds two
sessions, one of which is unlimited in
time within the year, and the other is
by law terminated within three months
after it meets. The long session of the
Sixty fifth congress. though it was in
existence most of the year, was unable
in all that time to pass the revenue bill,
and adjourned with taxation of I'M
known extent hanging over the heads
of the people. The short session. by a
mighty effort. succeeded in passing this
holdover, and has done nothing else.
No such record has been made by any
congress within the memory of men adj
vanced in life. We doubt if mt any
time in the country's history any con-
gress has made such a record. There
has been no reason for it except a
desire to talk which exceeds anything
ever seen in the history of American
politics. In the old bad days of Can
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

:" President Wilson left France with
out having seen the devastated areas,
With the exception OF a flying visit to
Rheims when everything was covered
with snow Although it was announc-
ca when he. left the United States
that one of the first things which
would engage his attention would he
a trip to the battle area, the project
ed journey was never taken. The
President found ample opportun-
fly to call upon royalty in London
and Rome. and enjoy to the full the
extraordinary receptions that were
accorded him because of his official
nbsition. 1T is said.'' asserts the
Morning Post of London, that when
lie was invited to examine what the
Germans had really done to France,
he declined on the ground that ii
might tempt him to hate the enemy
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
DEMAGOGUERY.

President Wilson's speech TO the
crowd at Boston will be today in
the hands Of all the people. The
man who does not read it through
and digest it cannot pretend to dis
cuss with intelligence the most i'm
portant question in the world, or to
defend the president against attacks
made by those that hate him for
putting the cost of war PARTLY on
the backs Of the rich through IA just
income taN.-ChicagO Herald-ES-
aminer.
This is only sample of the dema-
goguery practiced consistently by the
Hearst publications. Whatever credit
is due the government ''fOr putting
the cost of the war, PARTLY, on the
backs of the rich through the income
tax" should be shared by congress.
There was no division in congress on
that point and the war tax measure
passed by an almost unanimous vote.
Such efforts as the Chicago paper
INDUCES in to mislead its readers and
to create prejudice against men who
may honestly oppose the league of
natioshs..- idlaa is unworthy a great
newspaper. Senators and members
of the lower house who are against
the treaty We're for the high rates. OF
income taxes imposed upon the rich,
hence their opposition to the league is
because of different motives than the
Hearst organ would have its readers
believe.
When the Herald Examiner COM
plains of United States troops re-
manning in Russia it tries to saddle
the responsibility upon congress, yet
congress voted tie Oh the PROPOSE
ton to bring them home, but Vice
President Marshall, in consideration
of the wishes of the administration,
voted to keep our men, in Russia.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

If the United States hasn't the
power to deport anarchists and un.
desirable citizens who conspire to
overthrow the government it better
get that power, just as soon as posi-
bic. But it has the right, just as the
citizen has the right to expell the
murderer from his home. 1t is sim
ply necessary step in the direction
of representation. a government
that hasn't the power to preserve its
own existence must be a rather weak
affair.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
Representative Butler Of Penns

Representative Butler of Pennsyl-
vania is of the opinion that if the
league of nations is to have anything
to say about the size of ornaments a
country is to have, congress ought 10
wait until the league speaks before
making an appropriat ton of $70O.OOO.-
600 or $sOOOOO,O 600 for a navy.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

The fuel administration announces
that it has employed an historian.
Not many people will forget the rec
ord of thet' lleatlessy lightless. work.
less period, but perhaps it is well to
have it in, pernmlteIit form.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

~. 1t begins to look as though Senator
Poindexter had the right idea when
u.he wanted congress to make it I'M
snlawful for any representative of tile
government to conduct negotiations
bWith Germany short of unconditional
surrender"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

Secretaries Daniels and Baker,
speaking to the national rivers and
harbors cong sg!, II, declared that they
saw no danger s.af tx r i in. bolshevism in
America. Daniels and Baker in 1915
saw no danger of war either
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
William Hale Thompson, regart

less of his war record, won the repub-
'lican nomination for mayor of Chi
Cage, Tuesday, by plurality OF
si46, $50 over his nearest competitor.
To the credit of the women of Chi
,'eago, as compared to the men, it can
. he said that smaller per centage of
them voted for Thompson. s.s
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

too much. He is therefore returning
to America with his spiritual calm
unruftled, neither too much hating
his enemies nor too much loving his
friends
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

i Philadelphia is seeking for an
honest business man for mayor
Well, as the old Quaker City has
more than million population it
ought to be able to find at least one
honest business man. We have plen-
..ty Of them here in Webster City, and
they are ready to admit it.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

The .'uHibhhszAAalGAb to operate the
railroads with federal aid we are
Informed by the news dispatches.
Wonder If the Oranges and the
Farmers unions would not like to
iUperate the farms with federal aid.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
Tho Freeman and Journal, both
papers, per year--------------$25(
The Daily Freeman. Journal, BY
mail, per year ----------$5.0l
Delivered. in city per year------$6.O(

The bonehead proposition to sink a
large number of German warships
has beeen renewed. Why not put
them up at auction?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

\ Some of our neighbOrs across tire
ocean might seriously object to orr
dumping our garbage onto their
land. That is just what we are do
Sing when we deport anarchists, l.
sf1y! WIS and other undesirables. How
"ever, let the good work proceed until
the neighbors do object.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

AS a loyal defender of the league
loof nations plan, Mr.. Taft appears
to an invitation to the White
blouse dinncr.--Des Moines Register.
p Of course he is entitled to it. He
was entitled to a seat at the peace
conference, too, bat he didn't get it.
...did he?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

e. One of the last things a United
States senator wants to surrender is
the right to talk when and where he
4 pleases:5zzssD9ss,s. Moines Register
sta,snt senator's
any different II This respect than
other American citizens especially
editors and preachers?
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03
WEBSTER CITY FREEMAN

Issued every Monday by the Free
man-Journal Publishing Company
Webster City, Iowa.
Entered at the Webster City Post
Office rs Second Class Matter.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-03

Calling cards printed at lhis; ofIlre.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15

V. p Cash. Postmaster.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15
JUST IN TINE
Some Alma People May Wait Till
It's Too Late.

Don't wait until too late.
Be sure TO bee in time.
Just in time with kidney ills
Means curing the backache. the
dizziness. the urinary disorders
That so often come with kidney
troubles.
Doan's Kidney Pills are for this
very purpose.
Here is testimony to prove their
merit:
Percy Humm, farmer, r. r. 4, st.
Louis. Mich, says. Il had great
deal of trouble from severe pains IN
the small of my back and ! often got
lame. used Doan's Kidney Pills
and they cured me. That was two
years ago and haven't had any
signs of kidney complaint since.
always recommend Doan's Kidney
Pills when ] know Of anyone having
kidney trouble"
Price 6oc. al all dealers Don't
simply ask for kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Plls-the same that
Mr.. Humm had Foster Milburn
Co.. Mfgrs.. Buffalo. y. y.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15
EAST ALMA

The Duford family has bought the
March house on Grove ave. and have
taken possession.
Jesse Wood, Republic ave. has a
position with the REQ company, Ian
sing. in the service department. He
left Sunday for Lansing. His family
viii move later.
The teachers and officers Of East
minister Sunday school met Rev. W.
Shirley of Ann Arbor, on Saturday
evening at the Manse, Grove ave. A
conference on Sunday school work
was held.
A score of c. +. young people held
a social evening Saturday night, with
Mr.. and Mrs. Wood and Miss Mary
Wood. Rosedale ave. Rev. Shirley and
Miss Soule were guests and helped
in the games. Ice cream and cake
were served.
Rev. and Mrs. Grierson were sup
per guests, Tuesday. with Mr. and
Mrs. Hamp, Grove aye.
East Alma is busy making garden
these fine days Folks are singing
the slogan, Clean mp, brighten up.
Rmember Arbor day"
Mr.. and Mrs Lindsay, r. Superior
St.. have been "under the weather
for the past two months. They are
now in better health.
Mr March and son. Republic ave.
have gone 10 Flint TO work
The services at Westminster church
are al 1880 Il. M and 1880 p. M.
Sunday school is at 2:f5 and G. +. at
$50 p. NJ -MonIng t1eme: "An
Austere Man" Evening theme
Making the Best of Both Worlds.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15
DAVIS DISTRICT

X. c. Saxton is building new
house on his farm,
Mrs. f. Baxter is entertaining he
niece and family from near Cadillac
Frank Beard and family Of So
Louis spent Sunday at The home o'
Jesse Beard.
Fiovd Fletcher of Alt Pleasant yis
tied his parents over Sunda.
Chas. Dean arrived home from
overseas service in France last week
WeGnesday. and John Young from
Germany on Thursday
James FRYE has resoid the store
to MIR. and Mrs. Henry Young Mr.
and Mrs. Frye have bought "a home
i'm Mt. Pleasant and will leave fol
that place Thursday.
The barn Of Orln Fletcher Will
some hay and grain was destroye
by lire Monday evening
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15
ADVERTISED LETTERS

The following letters remain at this
Office uncalled for and il not delivered
will be sent TO the Dead Letter Office
on May 26, 1919:
Mr. J H. Burt, Mrs Mary Cum
mings. Eddy Hall. Mr. Harry l.. Mer
~, James Whitehead, Mr.. Harry J
Winter
V. 7. Cash. Postmaster.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15

IMIDKIANI ANNDUNIEMEN
Dainty lunches gotten up at any
hour. Il is a speciality at the Euro
pean Cafe.-77-tf-c.
Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1919-05-15

Smoke the best. wanigas.-64-tf
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

there is work there of more than tran
STORY importance. The Henry
James" number of the Little Reriew,
although written in a prose that re-
sembled nothing SO much as hens
scratching for seed in a backyard,
brought to light some excellent criti-
eism and the last volume of Wheels,
in spite of its somewhat faded &C.
centricities, presented in Osbert
Sitwell's CLavicAOrds and Sherard
Vines's Song for Groaes work of real
beauty and originality 1t may be
true that this kind of poetry is very
easy to write q don't know because
I'm not a poet, it may be true that
it is initiated directly from the
Chinese, that it has neither rhyme nor
rhythm, neither beginning nor end.
About that I don't care at all; it does
produce an impression, it does say
something that hasn't yet been said
in any other way, it is concerned in
the true Keatsian sense with truth
and beauty, and it is, most of it,
sincere.
Nevertheless l believe that this new
feeling finds its best expression when
used by such men as j. C. Squire,
Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Nichols,
who are able to seize the advantages
it offers them without discarding alto
gether the lyrics of melody and metre
that the older poets have left them.
1t is not strange that something Of
a parallel kind should be happening to
the novel. There is a feeling, very
widely spread, strengthened largely
by the war, that Messrs. Wells, Ben
nett and Galsworthy have now shown
US all the tricks of their trade. / do
not mean that Joen and Peter and
The RoH Cau have not been read with
a great deal Of interest. They have
and l believe that it has generally
been conceded that there are chap
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

ters in The Roll Cal Il may instance
the scene in Paris between Lois and
Cannon as vital and eloquent as any
thing that Bennett has ever done.
Nevertheless it cannot be asserted
that there is to be found now any
thing of the excitement about q new
novel by Wells or Galsworthy that a
few years ago would have discovered,
although in Conrad and in Hardy
would he only write) there are felt
still to be infinite possibilities.
For the rest the cry is for some new
personality, some new form of ex-
preston. Well, there is a new form
and there have been several most in
teresting examples of it quite re-
Gently. The latest and perhaps the
most adventurous is The Tunnel by
Miss Dorothy Richardson. This book
is the fourth in series, the story Of
Miriam Henderson's life. There is
nothing very new in this. Have we
not had Jeon Christopher and Peue
the Conqueror and Hlds Lssswaysf
But what is new is Miss Richardson 3
plan of submerging her central figure
deep below the waters Of her ex-
perienee so that instead Of progress
sive story with event following
reality upon event we have the buffet
ing, dazzling, often bewildering con-
cussions that Miriam suffered. We
are given no explanations by the
author. This is what her heroine sui
fcred-we may take it or leave it. We
are offered apparently no arrange
ment, no selection, no emphaas-we
are presented simply with truth,
tangled, difficult, confused, but truth
at its nakedest. A long way this from
the tedious explanatory method Of
Henry James, although that TIE Tux-
mel is a grandehild Of The Golden
Borl is beyond question. Another in
teresting book in the same school is
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

Martin SchuIer, first novel, by Miss
ROmer Wilson,. Here We are given
the study of musical genius in Ger
many before the war and the impress
sion given of genius at its harshest,
most egoistic and most intolerant is
very remarkable. If it is true that
Miss Wilson is young and that this is
indeed her first book she should take
a very prominent place in the English
fiction of this after the war period.
Good, however, though Mr.. Sitwell
in Clarichords, Miss Richardson in
The Tunnel and Miss Wilson in Mar
ten Schuler may be, one is left. rest
less and unsatisfied at the end. This
is the beginning of All epoch and the
new work that is now appearing is
unfinished and hesitating. Mr.. Ellis's
Life of George Meredith, published
last month, emphasized curiously the
value of rest and discipline and sim
plicity in literature One is driven,
more and more, to believe, in spite Of
the undoubted interest and aetuality
of these new ventures, that it is the
simplest and sincerest work that re-
mains. As one reads the pages of Mr..
Ellis one feels the Instructions that
hold one back from Diana and
Beauchomp-grcat work tangled and
Obscured by the strideney of their
manner. We have produced big,
simple things in our time. The Old
WOES Tale, Lord Jim, Tono- Bun0ay
are there to show il: Out Of this
new movement simplicity and sff-
certify may eome-they have not ar
rived yet. HueH WAIroLK.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23

Years ago Mrs. C. v. Jamison wrote q
book for girls called Lady Jsse. It is
just having its tuenty-ffth reprinting.'
Forty editions of this and two other girls
books she has written have been called
for. No wonder the Century Company is
moved to comment: "Many Of them, nat
urally, have been large editions, because q
publisher when he finds he has 4 popular
book saves money by printing large edi-
tons. A writer Of adult fiction who
achieved forty printings with three books
would be q national celebrity. Any pub
hshing house win tell you that it gets out
i've Of SIX editions Of q Juvenile that is
even a little above mediocre, while the
novel for adults Of the same quality would
never achieve third printing"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
London's Latest Literary Spectacles

IT cannot be denied that we are liv-
ing, for the moment, in a strange
state of mingled expectation and dis
may. Ever since the first signing of
the Armistice we have been prepared
for something very wonderful to hap
pen, although what exactly that some
thing may be we cannot at all tell.
We are in condition of being pushed
by our eager friends and Press that
lives from hand to mouth from fresh
Impotence to fresh Impotence. Moth
ing is happening as quickly as it
should; the Conference is DOING, the
Government is doing, the Arts and
the Potteries are doing. And this is
all disappointing because we were told
that so swiftly when the war was over
we would find ourselves in the Mil
lennium. Well, we are not there yet,
and meanwhile every one is striking.
from the Great Western Railway to
the Laundry, and we plough our way
hcme through mud and slush to find
that there is neither a collar nor
handkerchief in the drawer. and the
restaurant walters arc "out." Never
theless we continue to await, breath
lessiy, the "event. Everything, very
soon, is to be wonderful and all we
have ta try and do is to be patient. in
nothing is this more certain than in
the case Of Literature. Very soon IN
deed We are to have the new Crit
eism, the new Novel, the new Poem.
Through the dreary years Of the war
we were forbidden any new enter
prises, were told that there was no
paper, that We must be contented
with few novels by well known
hands (that horrible phrase!), that no
serious literary paper had q dogs
chance. After the war" we said,
"sn will be well. Let US read our
Britlt~g, our Pretty Lady and our
Tree OF Heaven and be patient. After
the war :"
Well, the war may, on the whole,
be considered over and it cannot be
said that so far these first months Of
1919 have discovered our literature
changing her clothes and putting on
any very wonderful new garments.
At the same time there are rumblings
and rustings and stars in the sky.
The MISREPRESENTATION to the gen.
ersl public as Cranks tout court
are busy and promise us a fine dis
play of fine works in the near future.
They are for the most part Poets,
some of them sheltering under the
wing of one of your own Eecentrics,
Mr. Ezra Pound, producing thence a
highly colored publication known as
the Little Reviet0, the others gathered
round the Sitwell family (Osbert,
Sacheverall and Edith and Haunting
with its post-impressionist cover an
annual entitled Wheels. Much amuse-
ment the Little Reriew and Wheels
lave afforded to the middle aged Of
our time; the gray boards have
glanced and shivered. Nevertheless
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-23
A London Letter From
Hugh w alpole

Copyright, 1919. Al rights reserred.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

OUR GOOD FRIENDS IN OTHER
SECTIONS NEED NOT HESITATE TO
SHIP THEIR TOBACCO DIRECT TO
THE BANNER WILL BE LOOKED
AFTER JUST THE SAME AS THOUGH
YOU WERE HERE.
WE HAVE THE ONLY BRICK AND
CONCRETE WAREHOUSE IN GREENE
VILLE-WE PROTECT YOUR TOBAC-
WHENIT COMES TOUS. THE BEST
LIGHTED FLOORS TO SELL FROM.
WE SELL ON BASKETS.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

The Big Man That Sells Tobacco
In Big Way on the Banner Ware
house floor. He is given up to be one
of the best auctioneers ever on the
Greeneville market. He is also a
good Judge of tobacco, and sees that
every pile brings what it is worth be-
fore he turns il loose.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24

and one of the best judges of to-
bacco in the country anywhere.
Buyers on the Banner floor say Dug
knows what pile of tobacco is worth
and starts ii off so that it will bring
its full value.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
THE
NER
Still Leads

THE HOUSE THAT TREATS THE FARMER RGETT-TE HOUSE THAT
HAS REPUTATION FOR HONEST AND SQUARE DEALINGS THE FARM
ERKNOWS THAT TOBACCO BANNER WARE
HOUSE HE WILL GET EVERY CENT HIS TOBACCO IS WORTH
MR. FRANK MCDONALD Is THERE AND NIGHT TO LOOK AFTER
THE COMFORT AND WELFARE OF FARMER HIS STOCK.
WILL SEE THAT YOUR TOBACCO PUT ON NEXT SALE" If IT CAN
DONE.
The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-01-24
w. N. ROBERTS

Book-keeper At the Banner
The man who pays out the cash
and whose experience in the Ware.
house business the past twenty years
gives him an insight to the way it is
done.