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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
HOuse.,JOl1nsel),

Fred A. Johnson and Miss Effie NJ
House, both of Jewell. were married
in this city Saturday afternoon by DR..
Il. Chipperfeld at the Methodist par
sonage. They were accompanied by the
brides mother, Mrs. Mary House
They will make their home on a farIl
five miles southwest of Jewell.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
DAILY MARKETS
Furnished by e. w. Wagner & Co.
Office in Dessert Bldg. Phone $40
II, M. Sharpe, Manager.
AFTERNOON GRAIN LETTER.

Chicago, Mar. 10.-The HOOvier view
on the wheat situation was the all-im-
portant factor in today'S market for
grain and provisions. Corn prices adj
vanced sharply and provisions immedi-
ately went to the maximum permitted
for the day. Early shipments of food
stuffs to Germany expected also Great
ed bullishness. Large quantities of
short corn have been covered, many
stop orders being caught on the adj
vance. Cash houses are credited with
having sold considerable corn and one
pit observer who has been bullish states
holding appear to be finding weaker
hands with commission houses the
principal buyers of the day.
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK MARKET.
Hogs $4,000. Market -sfrong, &c up.
Top $1,000.
Cattle $1,000. Good grades steady.
others show to 2Jc lower, calves 25c low
er. Top $4,000.
Sheep $4,000. Market slow, but
steady, top $3.50.
Hne,s loft oynr 113f)
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
Private Bentley Home.

Private Arthur n. Bentley arrived
home today from Camp Wheeler, Geor-
gia. having been honorably discharged
from the army.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10
Deliehtful Social Gathering.

The Mems bible class of the Baptist
church, of which Rev. +. NJ. LETTERS is
teacher. held most delightful social
gathering Friday night at the home Of
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10

Possibly we are partially to
blame for the lack of under
standing which exists IL re-
gard to our business. In the
past, knowing that attacks
upon us have been based on
tissues Of half-truths. adroitly
handled innuendo and misin-
formation. we may have for
gotten that the public were not
in full possession Of the true
facts.
Armour and Company have
always courted proper inquiry
into methods and operations.
And. in the past few years. be-
cause Of SO many ex-parte hear
ings, We have voluntarily put
our case before the public.
Through publication advertis-
ing, we have met the mislead-
ing headlines through which
people get impressions. head
lines frequently controverted
by the text matter under them.
Confident that fair-minded
people will respond to COM
plete knowledge. We seek bet
ter understanding with them.
Through newspapers, booklets,
moving pictures of our process
es and other similar methods.
We are explaining the place
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ciosz. The wives
Of the membeYs of the class were the
guests of the evening.
Games and short story telling were
features which tended toward relaxa-
ton and prompted gayety. Musical
numbers contributed by Miss Mae Roth
rock were greatly appreciated. A val
liable part of the program was the in
centive to aggressive service offered by
the pastor, Rev. Viets, in three min
ute talk on Mems Work. The host
ess was assisted in serving by the little
Misses Katherine viets and Marian
Louise Jeffers
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10

Armour and Company occupy in
the world Of human needs and
the manner In which they full
MI their function.
We are putting our case
squarely UP to all parties who
are interested-to producer.
merchant, consumer and labor
and that each may realize
how our obligations to him
must combine with our respon-
sibilities to the other involved.
we let all know the entire story
as we tell it to the rest. We
tell consumers what We say to
the neutrality-suspicious. what
we say to consumers.
When all IL said, however,
the size Of any business deal
Ing comparatively in staples
must remain the best evidence
Of its economic soundness. II
our methods were not sound,
Armour and Company could not
have attained size in proper
ton to national needs.
Bearing this thought in
mind. you will readily appre-
ciate that your own self-inter-
est and your right to fullest
value for your money both
urge that YOU always ask your
dealer for Armour ProductH
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10

THE business of collecting preparing and distributing
foods relates to the daily life of all that it has
close personal interest for everybody Sensation seek
ers have long realized this and capitalized on it. An
attack the packers could always be relied upon either
to draw notice to its nstigator divert too close
vestigaton of some other question
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-03-10

The Ladies Of the Macabees will hold
no meeting this week.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
SCHMIDT HAS THE FEVER

BALTIMORE. March 12-Base ball
fever, certain. something which gets
into mans blood, and even worms
its way into his very marrow. about
this time Of the year--has claimed for
victim Charles (Butcher) Schmidt.
one of the greatest first basemen ever
turned out in this country. would
not be surprising il the Butcher sud
denly cast aside his knife, saw. steel
and cleaver to pick up the bat and
the trusty mitten and hike for the dia-
mond-that is provided there is
enough money in it.
Hardly month has passed since he
announced his retirement that some
who started his career with Evergreen
Lawn as pitcher. Only few days
ago an agent of one of the majors
spent few hours talking to Butcher
about q comeback, but this man got
little satisfaction, because his offer,
while fiattering, was not big enough
TO be convincing.
Schmidt still is the property of the
Boston Braves, unless the Beaneaters
have failed to carry him on their re-
serve list He signed a three-year
contract with them some time ago and
played through just one season o. 1t
after which he retired because he
found his butcher business demanded
his attention. But now Charles has
come to the conclusion that base ball
fever is fataI-that 1t is liable to carry
him off unless heroic treatment Is
resorted to Immediately.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
PRESIDENT G|VESAPR|E
Pershing Also Offers Trophy for In
terallied Olympic Meet
in June.

President Wilson and Gen. John J
Pershing have both offered trophies fol
the interalled olympic meet which is
to be held at Joinville-le-Pont, neal
Paris. in June. This announcement has
proved great incentive for competition
and the interest IN the athletic games
has increased.
The Presidents trophy will go to the
nation scoring the greatest number of
points In the track and field events,
while Gen. Pershings trophy will be
awarded to the winning team in the
rif1e-shooting competition.
Col. Walt c. johnson, chairman of
the games committee, has announced
that Cen Pershing has given his hearty
consent to the naming of the great
athletic stadium and field now being
constructed on the French military
ground at Jofnville-le-Pont Perish
ing Field" The field, after the games.
viii be turned over to the French TO
stand for years as monument to the
strong ties of friendship between the
two nations.
Construction work has been started
at Joinville, and IN the coming weeks
the project will be pushed to com
pletion. At an appropriate time a
dedicatory ceremony viii be held,
when Gen. Pershing and the other
officers of the A. e. F. will be invited
to be present
The event has aroused so much in
terest among the members of the
forces that numerous ath-
letes who could now have been on
their way home have asked TO be al
lowed to remain until the big games
are over. In nearly all cases these
requests have been granted. as the
American forces are more than anx-
ious to win the allied games.
Evening star., 1919-03-12

When Jennings secured Covaleskie
from A Southern League club other ma
jor league teams Uttered and wondered
what Detroit intended to do with
COVE" Outside of having trimmed
New York out of a pennant- by beating
Evening star., 1919-03-12
STAR B0WLERS ON NEXT

TOLEDO, Ohio. March 12-Pros-
poets Of better scores in the Ameri-
can Bowling Congress tournament now
on here is due today when a score
or more of Toledo's best bowlers are
scheduled in the two-man and in
dividual events. On the schedule for
this afternoon are members of the
Page Dairy five, the team that ran
second in the tournament last year at
Cincinnati, and the Champion Spark
Plugs, winners of third money last
year in the team event
Competition of the two-man will
start at / O'Clock this afternoon. All
entrants are local men with thu, ex-
ception of three pairs from the Elks'
Club of Kane. Pa.
beginning tonight, visiting bowl
ers VIII have almost exclusive use
of the armory drives until the close
Of the tournament, March 81
Scheduled tonight on the second
squad are the Blouins No. l, Blouins
No. Of Chicago G. r. Elks No. 1
and Elks Nights Of Grand Rapids.
Mich; the George GoIde & Co. of
Cincinnati and Ships Bunch of
Ligonier. Ind.
Several of the better Toledo fves
also are on tonights program.
First place in the five-man event
is held by the Waldorf Hotel of
Toledo with 2,S23. A Toledo bowler
with 6l9, and 1,205 is high in the
doubles
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Pile. Cured I'm a to Il nav,

Druggists refund money IL PAzo OINTMENT
Tails TO care Itching. blind, Rieeding or Pro
irading Piles Stops Irritation; soothes and
aeats. You can get restful sleep after the
nrst application. Price. 60c-AdYertisemsnt.
Evening star., 1919-03-12

A good left-handed pitcher Is neces
| sary to a ball club that hopes to wiz
| the pennant.'
That is the remark Manager Hughey
Jennings Of the Detroit Tigers made
to me one day last summer. The Tigers
were getting nowhere in the race, due
In a measure, to a lack OF consistent
pitching, and If you take the word oi
Hughey Jennings, to a decided lack OF
southpaw stars in particular.
'If the Cleveland club had a south
paw of the Ruth type, that club would
just about win the pennant this year.
continued Jennings. The Cleveland
club has been lacking in that depart
ment, just as much as Detroit, since
the injury to Harry Covaleskie's arm
That Jennings still carries the
thought a club must have a good
southpaw, has been proven by a deai
recently put through by the owner
of the Detroit team, Frank NaVin. IN
a three-cornered deal the Tigers ac-
uuired the services of Slim Love or the
New York Americans. Perhaps there
are some who doubt Jennings reaily
landed a star southpaw in Love, Dut IL
one takes into consideration the
dearth of high-class pitching material
he will admit that Love is tar apoNe
the average as port side hurlef
Just one thing stands between Love
and stardom--lack of ambition. Love
has as much stuff as Rube Waddeii in
his palmy days. He has peculiar
side arm, as we'll as over hand, de-
livery and his six feet seven inches OF
height tend to make his ball look ali
the more deceptive.
1t would not be at all surprising TO
me If the "peppery'' leader of the Tigers
supplied Love with the necessary aInbi-
tion to raise him to the rank of star.
Love always has pitched in a matter-of-
fact manner. If he won. the big fellow
was satisfied and if he lost-well. why
fuss about it. That was his attitude.
Now if there is one thing Jennings ad-
mires in an athlete it is the do-or-die
spirit, with the emphasis on the do. 1t
Il Hushes seta oa many OCCASIONS M hads ths year a
and it is possible such a system will
supply the incentive the big fellow al
ways has lacked. In this connection,
the case of Harry Covaleskie strikes me
as a peculiar coincidence. 1t is worth
while to relate some facts to show what
can be done to help fellow over the
hurdles.
When Jennings secured Covaleskie
from A Southern League club other ma
jor league teams Uttered and wondered
what Detroit intended to do with
"Covie" Outside of having trimmed
New York out of a pennant' by beating
Evening star., 1919-03-12
v. AND L.PLANS
FOR BASE BALL
Lexington Institution for
Awhile During Winter Ex-
pected Not to Have Team.

Washington and Lee University
gave up the idea of turning out base
ball team this spring, has determined
to be represented on the diamond. a
formal meeting of the athletic council,
the body governing athletics in that
institution, held Monday reached de-
cision in favor of resuming the sport
this spring.
It is rather late for Washington and
Lee to arrange much Of schedule,
but it has begun to go right out after
games. The Lexington institution
plans to play most of the south At
lantic colleges. and figures on devei-
oping a nine that should measure UP
to the standard formerly set by teams
representing it.
Tonight at 61s 18th street a meeting
of all those Interested in amateur
base ball is to be held. The gathering
has been called by Maj. Robert II.
Young, president of the District ANA
teur Base Ball Association, and is TO
be presided over by him. Owing to the
long hours Maj. Young has put in as
chief counsel to the bureau of aircraft
production, practically no time has
been availa BILE to him to giye to anna
teur sports. However, he plans TO
take an active part in the recon
struction of amateur ball and intends
to do everything possible to put the
sport back on the high plane 1t used
to hold.
Base ball squads got in very little
practice yesterday. All the coaches
sent their squads to shelter after
brief workout, not caring to take the
chance of getting split fingers and
bruised hands because of the cold
weather.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
BASE BALL ON THE INSIDE
BY BILLY EVANS.

them three straight when with the Phil
lies, Covaleskie's career as big Lacquer
had not been success. lie had hiy-
vered', at New York and Cincinnati.
In the minors he was the big noise.
but general opinion was he lacked some
little thing that kept him from being a
big Lacquer. Rumor had it Covaleskie
wilted under pressure, that he was not
game. That was the runor I always
had heard, but l am positive those re-
sponsible for it did Covaieskie a great
injustice. I feel he was a victim Of cir
cumstances until he came to Detroit;
that he was never properly handled to
get the best results. He has proved his
gameness time and again TO me, In some
of the most critical situations on the
ball field.
George Moriarity. a member OF the
Tigers when Cevaleski Joined the
club. now an American League UNI
pire. tells an interesting story about
Covaleskie's coming to the Tigers.
We had heard that Covaleskie had
plenty of stuff, but that he wilted
under pressure. Our club needed a
southpaw badly, so the team under di
rection of Manager Jennings agreed
to adopt a certain method of dealing
with CoValeski6. Most of the players
agreed that Covaleskie's tempera-
ment was such. riding did him no
good, and we learned riding was the
only encouragement he had ever re-
ceived in the majors. The team de-
cided. instead of cussing Coyaleskie.
it would slip him nothing but praise
We would insist he was the best
in the world. The team
worked along that line from the day
Covaleskie Joined the Detroit club
until an injury to his arm caused his
withdrawal from the majors"
too tough for Covie," continued .Mori-
arity. He welcomed being sent into
the box with the bases filed and
run or two needed by the opposition
to win. At such times he always
showed to the best advantage. Any
time we were in tough series,
always was willing TO
work as often as Jennings desired
We never found the least desire on
the part of Covaleskie to wilt He
always was ready and willing to meet
the toughest kind of an emergency.
Other clubs with which Coyaleskie
played never had handled him proper
ly He always was rubbed against
the grain"
The Tigers undoubtedly worked a
reformation in Covatleskie 1t is not
unlikely they Will supply Love with
the needed enthusiasm. Love will
relish not pitching against Cobb. He
always Insisted that facing the Tigers
was like pitching two games, one
against Detroit the other against
Cobb.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Wants Bowling Match for Title,

Manager Albert Perruso of the
"Perruso Stars" Is anxious to match
city, for the championship. He is
willing to roll a pair match, but pre-
fers a quint contest. as he believes he
has the best aggregation in the city.
The team is made up of Girardi. God
dard. Mccarthy, Works and Nolan.
with Mayhem and McAboy substi-
tutes. Mr.. Perruso can be addressed
at S03 North Capitol street.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Pickup Signs With Milwaukee

MILWAUKEE, March 12-Charles
Pickup of Philadelphia, and who. had
brief trial with the Phillies two
years ago, has been signed by the
Milwaukee American Association
club. He is an outfelder Pickup
last season played with the Wildwood
IN j. club. and was one of the
hardest hitters in independent ranks.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
American Industry Small.

Up to August, 1914. the American
industry in dyestuffs and medicines
consisted OF little more than a series
Of rather small assembling plants.
FIVE concerns, comprising the Ameri-
can industry. operating on German
Intermediates, were at the mercy OF
German producers. German dyes were
Indispensable to textile manufactur-
ers. The Germans had monopoly OF
potash. Offset by American possess
SIGN OF phosphates. The German
ownership in phosphate companies
has for the most part been taken
over, according to the custodian.
In medicinals little American manu-
facture existed. The most important
factor in this field, Merck and Com
pany, branch of the Merck of
Darmstadt, has been taken over The
involved little manufacture. and the
materials used were largely imported.
There was little, IL any. German in
terest in this branch of the industry.
except among small brokers and
dealers. the report says.
The dye industry, therefore. inter
ested the custodian most. The vital
character of the industry was not due
to it's financial importance. since the
consumption of dyes at the time of
the outbreak of the war did not ex-
ceed s25. 5.00o. 900 a year in cost to con-
suming industries, nor to the fact
that these dyes were essential to in
dustries producing $780, 0,060.000 of
goods annually. but it's vitalcharacter
was due most OF all to the fact that
the technical skill and equipment
provided by a successful dye industry
furnished the means to which every
nation must look for advantages in
the application of chemical science
tD practical undertakings.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
CLOSE DUCKPIN BATTLE.

five games was rolled last night at
the Recreation between. Elicit and
Williams and Mack and Holiidge, the
former pair winning out by twelve
pins, the respective totals being 1.07s
to 1864. Hollidge whooped things up
over 14s pins, the best score o. the
match. A large crowd witnessed the
contests. Elicit and Williams are
now waiting on "Aibert's" team from
the Northeast.
The following is last nights scores
N detail.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Organize for Business.

The result was the formation of
the Chemical Foundation Une9, "in
which practically every important
Americans manufacturer will be n
stockholder. the purpose of which is
to acquire by purchase the German
patents and to hold them as trustee
for American industry. for the Amer
icani2ation Of such institutions as
may be affected thereby: for the ex-
c,usion or elimination of alien in
terests hostile or detrimental to said
Industries and for the advancerle ent
OF chemical and allied science and
Industry in the United States.
The trustees OF the voting stock are
George l.. Ingraham, formerly pre-
siding justice of the appellate divi-
sion, nrst department, New York Su-
preme court: Otto T. Barnard, presi-
ceut New York Trust Company
Cleveland II. Dodge and Ralph Stone
This chapter of the report concludes
with this statement: The new instl-
tuition promises an incalculabIe ben.
eht not only 10 the dye and chemical
industries, but to the whole American
manufacturing world. The opportuni-
ties which II can offer and the re-
wards which IL can hold out to com
petent research scientists should far
exceed those of any institution un-
connected with industry. and It may
wen. therefore, form the nucleus of
the greatest research organization in
the country"
Evening star., 1919-03-12
EXPLAINS GERMAN
CONTROL OF DYES
A. M. Palmer Discusses the
Chemical Industry, Exposing
Myth of Hun InvincibiIity.
HOW MONOPOLY GREW UP

The chapter on the chemical Indus
try in the report of A. Mitchell Pal
mer, alien property custodian, has
been made public. It deals with the
history of the German chemical in
6ustry, and states that "in regard to
no branch of human endeaVor was the
myth of German invincibility more
firmly fixed in the public mind. 1t
tells of the formatio of an American
company so organized as to eliminate
dependence on Germany.
The country was flooded with Ger
nan chemists, says the report, and
those who were not German by origin
we're mostly German by training. The
chemical industry therefore presented
at the outset perhaps the most dlffl-
cult problem which the custodian was
expected to solve, says Mr.. Palmer's
report.
From about the middle of the nine
teenth century the practical appilca-
ton of chemical science occupied the
attention of an increasing number of
the best scientific and industrial minds
of Germany. This trend was fostered
by the German government Highly
skilled service was available to the
German chemical manufacturer at low
cost, giving him the advantage over
the manufacturers of every other
country in the world.
Result of alliance"
Thus the alliance of the manufac-
turer and the university professor be-
came close. and the manufacturers
forged ahead of their competitors in
other countries, except in the manu-
facture of heavy, cheaper chemicals
where the cost of transportation was
a controlling factor.
Germany had attained practically a
world monopoly in the application Oh
organic chemistry to the manufacture
of dyestuffs and medicinals. So. from
an early period, the dyeStun industry
became concentrated in few impor-
tant companies. The result of all this
was overproduction, leading to the
establishment of large export trade.
over the world at prices home manu-
facturers could not meet and home
competition was stified. The world
monopoly resulted.
The patent laws OF other countries
aided the great German manufac-
tories. In the United States alone
they took out patents by the thou
sands They were held to prevent
formation Of an American dye in
dustry and to make impossible inn
portation from other countries. Dyers
were Subsidized, the dyer5 controlled
the situation, and organized propa-
ganda discouraged American at
teInpts, the report says.
Evening star., 1919-03-12
Conditions in 1914.

At the opening of 1914 nine-tenths
OF the dyes used in American indus
tries were. supplied by German houses.
The outbreak OF the war cut off the
importation OF dyes from Germany.
Immediately there sprang up a num-
ber Of American companies to manu-
facture dyes They averted the
threatened dye famine. The dyes
produced compared fayorably with
German dyes. but the fast aIizarin
and anthracene colors were not pro-
duced, nor was the synthetic indigo.
the consumption of which is larger
than any other dye. At the time Mr..
Palmer took office. he saws, the re-
quirements of the textile manufac-
tories were being met and an export
trade had grown aIp. The prices.
however, rose enormously. But the
American position was insecure. Un-
less the Germans could be deprived
Of American branches their re-en-
trance intn the field would be easy.
The report then cites concrete
cases OF its activities. and says that
the idea was conceived that II the
German chemical patents could be
placed in the hands of any America n
institution strong enough to protect
them zeal obstacle might be op-
posed to German importation after
the war, and at the same time Amer
lean industry might be freed from
the prohibition enforced by the pat
ents against the manufacture of the
most valuable dyestuffs.