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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
Face Chewed by Dog.

Mason City.-Attacked by a bull
dog, cries or little Arnold Reynolds,
4-year-old son of Mrs. w. H. Rey-
nolds employed at Eureka hotel at
401 Third street northeast, attracted
the attention of passers-by last even
ing at 4:30 o'clock, who interviewed
in time to save the life of the little
boy who had been playing on the
lawn in front of the hotel with the
dog.
The dog however, had chewed the
face of the boy so badly that he was
rushed to the Park hospital and Civ
en- medical treatment Immediately.
1t is believed that the boy will live
this morning. The face of the little
boy is badly torn, bitten and bruised
and the scars, physicians at the hos
pital state, will remain for life. The
nose was nearly torn off the face in
the boys struggle with the dog.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28

quarters, memorial rooms, library,
assembly hall, gymnasium, natator-
ium club rooms, and rest rooms, it
may include city halls and Offices for
any county or municiple purpose, or
community house, or recreation CEN
ter, or it may be memorial hospi-
tai and for appropriate purposes for
community and neighborhoed use.
For the purpose of liquidating such
bonds such county, cities and towns
shall levy on the property within the
limits thereof subject to taxation for
such purpose in addition to all other
taxes provided by law special tax
not exceeding in any one year 5 mills
on the dollar for period not exceed
ing fifty years.
The terms of this law will soon be
officially published and copies of
same can then be secured.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
Women Repair Road.

Griswold, Ia.-Two women living
near Griswold, Iowa who from their
homes had witnessed numerous auto
mobiles get stuck in the. mud of a
bad piece OF road, one of the worst
near Griswold, became disguised
with conditions and the failure of
the men to repair the road, secured
material and without the aid or con-
sent of any other woman or man, fill
ed the mud holes and repaired the
road themselves. The women, Mrs.
]. r. Railsback and Mrs. G. Dewitt,
can now proceed with their house
hold duties without witnessing the
distressing sights that have been so
common to them.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
THE HARMFUL BARBERRIES.
Vast Numbers of Them are Being
Removed i'm this County

During the past fourteen months
in which we have waged the cam
paign against the harmful barberry
bushes and hedges of the much des-
pissed enemy has been removed from
thirteen townships in the county ac-
cording to reports and records in our
office. They may have been removed
in the other townships or they may
still be present in many parts, Of the
county in a most healthy condition.
The way farmers and city folks
have responded in the campaign is
most encouraging. Letters. telephone
calls and specimens have been re-
ceived at this Office together with
questions on the part of interested
people throughout the entire county.
With the cooperation of the peo-
pie in reporting and searching out
these barberries, it has been possible
for the Farm Bureau to report that
more than five thousand bushes have
been destroyed thus far In Winnie
shiek county. In one community they
were found badly infesting timber
lots, that is, they had gone wild
AS we move about in different parts
Of the county We are still finding
new bushes, new hedges and new
suspected places.
We further enlist the complete CO.
operation Of everyone in the county
that the last barberry bush may be
removed from our soil in a very
short time. We are everlastingly
after them. Let us all stay by it
until the job has been put over.
Chicks May Have Mash.
After four or FIVE days, dry mash
may be placed before the chick all
day in open troughs or-hoppers. This
is in addition to the five regular
feeds each day.
A good grain for chicks is three
parts finely cracked corn and two
parts steel cut oats mixed together.
For the mash, mixture OF two
parts bran, one part corn meal, one
part sifted ground oats or shorts and
, one-fourth part bone meal.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
TRANSPORTS NEED BOOKS FOR
HOMECOMING YANKS.
Books Help Men TO Forget Discom-
forts of Voyage-Welcomed by
Officers to Prevent Gam
bling

Books are proving such boon to
the men homeward bound on trans
ports from France that the American
Library Association is asking for
more fresh fiction for the transport
service.
More than 80 troop ships have
been fitted out with libraries and the
number is constantly growing as
more ships are brought into the
transport service. While at first
books were placed aboard in the ratio
of one to every four men, the de-
mand for reading matter is so ire
mendous that the number of books
is being doubled and sometimes
trebled
On the larger troopships, A. l.. A.
libraries are maintained to give ex-
pert attention to the book needs OF
the men. They report the men hun
cry for books as means OF killing
time and forgetting the discomforts
necessarily experienced on a crowd
ed vessel. Stories of outdoor life and
western stories of adventure are
most in demand
Books are welcomed by the mill
tary and naval officers as a great
aid to the good conduct Of the men
throughout the voyage They have
been found to be more effective
safeguard against gambling than any
other welfare provision, it is said.
When the transport reaches an
American port, the A. l.. A. dispatch
agent at the port boards the vesse
and overhauls and renews the book
collection. The loss of books OF
some vessels is said to be enormous
and constant requirements are neces
sary.
Many more books are needed To-
transports. The public library Is co
operating with the A. l.. A. in sup
plying the additional books requir
ed Fresh fiction left at the library
will be forwarded promptly for us'
in the transport library service.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
WIND POWER.
The World Formerly Did Its Heavy
Work by Wind and Water

The possibilities of the use of ali
power in industry developed by wind
mills, will strike most people as
merely "hot air.. Yet a competent
scientific authority, writing in the
last number of the Contemporary
Review, takes the proposition
seriously He feels that the high pric-
es of coal, the high charges on
freight both by rail and water, will
compel many industries to consider
wind power.
The world formerly did it's heavy
work by wind and water. Innumer-
able generations moved their freight
on the sea by sails On land wind
mills were far more common than
row. Recently however, there has
been considerable revival in the
pse of windmills. They are specially
adapted for pumping water, since
this work can he done at times when
the wind is favorable, and stopped
in times of dead calm or when the
wind is so violent as to endanger
the mill.
The writer referred to believes
that the operation of windmill can
be satisfactorily stabilized by the
generation of electric power and the
use, of storage batteries. These would
assure a reserve of power to cover
the periods when the mill could not
be successfully worked. He speaks of
a plan to operate bacon factory
with a 200 horse power windmill,
also of mill of 40 feet diameter
that has saved, 200 tons of coal in 4
year and cost nothing for upkeep.
His theory is that such windmiils
would be PECULIARLY suited for small
workshops where the activities Of a
rural district are concentrated. The
subject is worth the attention of
scientists and ingenious men. With
fuel constantly raising and, water
power development costly, every
windmill that is erected means an
addition to the productive resources
Of the community.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice of the appointment of Adj
ministrator with will annexed OF the
estates OF George r. Emery Sr. and
Diantha Emery, deceased.
Notice is hereby, given, that the
subscriber has been duly appointed
administrator with the will anneXH'
of the estates of George r. Emery
ST.. and Diantha Emery, late OF
Canoe township, in the County or
Winneshiek, state of Iowa, deceased.
testate and has taken upon himself
that trust by giving bonds as the
law directs. All persons having de-
mands upon the estate OF the said
deceased are required to exhibit the
same; and persons indebted to said
estate are called upon to make pay
ment to
GEORGE r. EMERY, JR,
Administrators with the will annexed.
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, May H.
1919.
BOICE & HOOK, Attorneys,
ala.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
Whence Dutch"

The name Dutch is derived from
Dletsch, meaning the vernacular, as
distinguished from Latin. 1t is the
same word as the German Deutsch.
Dutch belongs to the Frankfsh divi-
sion of the Low German, and is closely
related to the Flemish, with which it
is now practically identified in it's writ
ten form. The Dutch language is one
OF the Germanic group o: dialects, and
is practically the same i'm its structure,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
Mixing Tobacco.

The mixing of light and dark tobac.
co is thing of comparatively recent
date. A man from London found his
pipe tobacco was nearly exhausted, so
he cut up cake of chewing tobacco
and made mixture. He continued to
smoke the blend, and, meeting friend
who was in the trade, he gave him a
sample, with the result that the first
smoking mixture was soon before the
public
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28
Some Swine; Some Change.

Ar. Oscar Rustad is a farmer who
has been raising pure bred cattle
and swine for 10, these many years.
Moreover he keeps accounts, records
and yearly inventories, and thus
keeps tab on his business, to his
great profit and advantage. And here
is a significant item, drawn from his
records: On May 10, 1899, he sold
swine at s2.45 hundred weight.
On May 10, 1919, he sold two hogs
on the Northwood market at $40 a
hundred! Some swine, some price,
some change.-Northwood Index.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-05-28

Argentina will have for export this
year over three and one-half meter
tons of corn.
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Tie SQUARE MohTAeAU HEADQUARTERS Of the FIRST
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the danger is passed, and she is be-
ginning to let herself go.
without the check OF tho supreme
need for self-control, which has hith-
erto kept her steady, she Is passing
through what our French friends call
a crisis of nerves. Her citizens, whose
power OF feeling and OF expression
has been blunted by suffering, are
hardly themselves aware how utterly
abnormal have been the conditions
under which they have been living,
and they are for the time Incapable
of approaching and dscountinS their
effect.
Great Britain has sent during the
war moro than so per cent. OF her sons
between 10 and 40 years OF age abroad
Factory hands and farm laborers who
had never before left their native
town or village have fought in the
wilds of Africa. in the Hlmalayas, in
remote corners OF Persia, in the Arc
tic Circle. have seen the Pyramids. the
Mahdi's tomb at Omdurman. the ruins
OF Babylon and have trod the Holy
Land. while the great mass. who have
not adventured so far afield, have come
into daily contact in France, Belgium
and Germany, with habits, customs
and ideas which have been, entirely
new to them.
II requires little imagination to pic
ture the far reaching and for the time
disturbing effect of this upon a people
conservative by instinct and welded
to custom and tradition, A. high par
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centage OF these men have looked
death in the face and for long periods
have not dared to think of tho NOR
row. OF those who have stayed at
home there is hardly a father. a wife
or a mother who has not trembled at
the knock OF the telegraph boy, and to
how many has the dreaded message
come!
When to these conditions were
added the ever present menace of at
tack from the air, the noise and terror
OF these attacks upon great towns,
crowded with women and children. the
nights without light, which intensified
the gloom of our damp and foggy win
ter. the shortage of coal, the restric-
lions upon food the discomfort of tray
el, the ever rising cost Of living and
the burden OF taxation, and above all
the long continued uncertainty as to
the final result of the war, there was
more than sufficient stress and anX-
iety to try the nerves of the most
phlegmatic.
The Greater Trials OF France.
II these haze been the trials of
Britain, those OF France have been
f1vefold greater. 1t needs the pen II
a lola to convey some sense OF the
horror and desolation which reign from
Ypres to Verdun, through close on 800
miles OF once rich and fertile land
Large towns such as Armentieres and
Rheims have not an intact building
left, small towns such as Bailleul, Ba-
paume, Albert and Peronne have been
destroyed. while scores of villages
have been literally oblterated.
/ There Is not a town east of a line
ljointAg Rouen, Paris and Dion which
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By MAJOR-GEN. SIR FRED
ERICK MAURICE,
Armies.
Former Chief of Staff of the British

Armies.
TIME most remarkable feature of
the Congress Of Paris is the
new spirit in which national
interests are treated. The old diplo-
macy considered its plain duty to be
to regard every offer or proposal COM
ing from the Government of foreign
country with suspicion. to impute the
worst motives and to search carefully
for every possible trap which might
DO concealed beneath an apparently
harmless formula of words. 1t very
rarely exposed its whole hand and was
forever trying to discover the game
which the other side was playing. Its
frst object was to obtain the best pos
sfble bargain for its nationals. even at
the cost OF jockeying friend into an
agreement the full purport of which
he did not foresee.
The last great exponent in Europe
OF these methods was Bismarck. who
lilO uCbIVo t4iO
qualities necessary for their perfect
gestation-moral obliquity, consum-
mate skill and great force of charac-
ter.
Those who followed him had more
honesty, but less ability. and the few
among them who began to envisage
the possibilities OF free. frank and
fearless discussion of international
problems were unable to liberate
themselves from the chains of preju-
dice and precedent. Rusty and anti
quated as these were, they were yet
SO strong that 1t needed a world up
heaval TO burst them.
Moral Factors Now Count.
1t Is almost pathetic to see how
small a part the embassies are playing
in tho great drama which is being en-
acted at Paris. in what new and to
them strange conditions the diplomat
lists of the old school find themselves.
how dead is tho old machinery Of pour
parlers and protocols.
For the first time in the history Of
treaty making the representatives OF
nations are prepared to lay their cards
on the table. TO mako concessions OF
national interests for the sake of OBJ
tanning Just and desirable settlement.
% state openly their own difficulties
and problems. to listen sympathetically
to the problems and difficulties OF
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others and TO apply to the relations
between States the principles of
morality which govern the relations
between individuals.
This has not been due to a wave OF
sloppy sentimentality or of imprac-
ticable idealism but to the recognition
of the fact that the great lesson of the
war is that moral factors do count in
international affairs and that brute
force is after all not the last argument
of the modern State. Tie lesson OF the
scrap of paper has not been lost.
This all sounds noble and encourag-
ing, as II we had in fact come through
the abomination Of desolation to the
high road leading to the millennium:
but, alas, We have got long way to
20 before We find ourselves so far on
the way to the delectable table lands.
The gentlemen now debating upon
our fate in Paris are not, as was the
case at other historic peace con-
crosses, the plenipotentiaries OF prin-
cipalities and powers, clad in re-
splendent uniforms, scintillating with
orders. but the black-coated represen-
tatives of peoples. The uniforms had
at least this advantage, that they had
to obtain agreement among the few.
the many accepting the fact that they
had no concern in these high matters
and doing what they were told The
black coats, on the other hand. are
helpless unless they carry the many
with them. as
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Gen. Maurice Discusses
Conditions in Europe

Here is the-Nrst Of a series of
four articles by Major-Gen. Sir
Frederick Maurice dealing with
conditions in Europe and point
ing out the desperate need of i'm
mediate settlement of the League
of Nations and the peace terms.
Gen.. Maurice. who for three
years, IoI5-IorS. was Chief Di-
rector of Military Operations in
the British War Office, has come
to this country directly from
Paris, where he was an adviser to
the British Commission. He is
recognized as leading authority
on international affairs and writes
from personal observation.
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these views. In default of explanation
and of full knowledge OF tho circum-
stances and difficulties Of the others,
each people judges such decisions as
are reached or such proposals as are
put forward almost solely from its own
standpoint, and Is tempted to be sus-
picious and impatient of such of these
as appear to favor those others at
their expense. Tho result of all this Is
that there have been much greater
differences on questions connected
with the peace outside than within
the Congress OF Paris, and far less
opportunity than usual OF explaining
and removing the causes of these diff
ferences.
Root of the Differences.
AS illustrations I need only mention
the tremor of apprehension which ran
through Great Britain at the mention
of freedom Of the seas, the persistent
and almost querulous complaints OF
the French press that the security Of
France was being neglected for quite
secondary matters, and the unreason-
able cry OF Italy for great expansion
Of her frontiers.
The root cause of almost all these
differences and complaints is the ner-
vous exhaustion OF Europe. For four
and half years she has set her teeth
held herself in and endured grimly
with a stoicism which has surprised
herself. a strain which might well
lhaYe broksne sndsS eiMlization, Nex
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Now the black coats meet daily, they
arc in close personal touch and.
being on the whole animated by sim
cere desire to reconcile differences,
they are prepared to accept the fact
that there are other points of view
than their own and to suspend judg-
ment until they have been heard and
considered. Already some OF the
smaller problems which have vexed
the foreign offices OF Europe for
years before the war have disap-
peared when the rival claimants have
been brought together before the
Council OF Ten.
People Can Merely Guess.
Unfortunately 1t Is impossible to
bring the peoples who are the ulti-
mate arbiters of the great problems
together in the same way, and it is
therefore moro than unfortunate that
the means by which the opinion OF
the public In one country is made
known In another are not operating
normally. The number Of cables at
work is limited and still greatly &C.
cupied with Government business
malls are slow and irregular and the
restricted resources for the distribu-
ton of information are much con-
cerned with keeping us abreast OF
what is happening in Paris.
The people Of one nation hear OF
strong views expressed by the people
of another. but can do little more than
guess at the causes which produces
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has not been bombed Twice has
Paris been abandoned by almost all
who could afford to leave; for months
the nerve centre of France has had
the enemy within an hours run by
motor of her gates: she has been
bombarded by freak guns, bombed
from the air, and has passed through
almost every emotional crisis which
can hefall humanity. She has smiled
hravely through all her troubles, but
they have marked her pretty face in
the wrinkles Of care. and her nerves
are all ajar. Every visitor to Paris
to-day is at once conscious of this.
During my last trip to the Ameri-
can front | visited the little town OF
Montmedy, where the Crown Prince
had his establishment during the bat
tie of Nerdun. Thence he used TO
run out in his car to hts battle head
quarters in the dugout on the famous
hill of Montfaucon, captured by LiG-
GETS men in the opening move OF the
great battle which Won the war. In
Montfaucon ] met an elderly French
man, man OF position, n proprietor
he would have called himself. lie
had owned works and considerable
residential property in the place and
had come out to see what had bcfallen
his possessions. His private house,
the best in the place. had been dam
aged by American shell directed at
the railway junction, all the furniture
and household effects had either been
looted or wantonly damaged by tho
Germans, his works had been stripped
and all his plant carried OFF
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Twice" he said to me. "in fifty
years has this happened to me. ans
between these two catastrophes we
have lived daily Ereading and expect
Evening star., 1919-09-26
CRANK OFFERS TO SELL
U. S. CAPITOL FOR s14

Brooke Gott, deputy clerk of the
District branch Of Police Court,
received a unique letter today
from a crank who offered to sell
him the Capitol building for s14.
The letter was written under a
Washington date line and went on
to explain that the writer, having
inherited the United States Capitol
building from the late Gear OF
Russia. discovered. when he took
possession of the structure, that 1t
was not furnished as it should be,
and as he did not possess the
money necessary to furnish the
many rooms he would dispose Of
1t to Mr.. Gott for tie sum Of $14
The writer offered some criticism
of the architecture of the build
ing and its interior arrangements,
but pointed out what he termed a
big advantage possessed by the
property In that the basement and
subbasements could be converted
into big automobile garage or
airplane hangar
MF. Gott wants to know why this
fellow should pick on him az q
capitalist In a position to own and
operate the building. for &14.. He
eiNE npt1Qe dectil1a fhA
fAtterfng offer. - = e.
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IN0Plltlee INQUIRY now; !;
PAY RAISE BILE PLANNED

The much-talked-of. Investigation
of the police department by the House
District committee is not going to
develop at this time. : The police
hearings which have been in progress
for three days before the subcom-
mittee of which Representative Gould
of New York is chairman were prac-
tically concluded yesterday.
It is the present intention of the
subcommittee to hold one more hear
ing the latter part of next week.
when several members of the police
force will be invited to testify in
regard to the proposed salary in
creases. The present intention is not
to go into any other phases of the
police work or administration of the
Departmental least, at this time.
Chairman Gould expects to meet
this afternoon with his subcommittee
to prepare tentative draft Of the
bill for salary increases, which will
be offered to the full committee after
the members of the force have had
their hearing, next week..