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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-06-09
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Four. teen election officials have Just
been indL icted i'll Chica ago for frauds at
the recent election. II convicted they
should be severely ealt with. 1t is
a serious oftense against our free III
stitutions to defraud the people out o.
their rights at the ballot box.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-06-09

of the democrats to make itkan issue
will go glimmering. We shall have to
wait while before planning an align
ment of parties on the league as an
| issue.
Cedar Rapids Republican There is
much less talk about government own
ership nowadays. The change of mind
is largely to be found III the fact that
the so called utilities are not rs
profitable as once they appeared to be.
Even, the public does not want to annex
a losing business. 1t is like profit shar-
| ing i'm the labor world, when there arc
no profits there is no desire to do any
sharing.
Carroll Times: Of course thesleague
of nations covenant does not suit every
body, but that is nothing to worry
about. Neither does the constitution of
the United States, the ten command
ments, the weather, the railroad service
and lot Of other things.
Carroll Herald: The new road law
is at best a makeshift. In sense it is
a disappointment and will result in de-
laying the hard surfacing of highways
in the state. The legislature clearly
passed the buck and made it possible
for such men as Justin Doran, of
Boone, to postpone road building in the
state for un indefinite period. The
Pierce Doran gang is conspicuously on
the job.
Waterloo Times Tribune The Ger
mans do not understand that there is
not in the whole world one nation that
speaks for them Not one friend in the
world comes to them. There is moi, even
sympathy for them IN their trouble.
The thought of the world is that the
peace treaty is not too severe: that
they had coming to them more than the
treaty will give them. Their word is
not good with the world; nowhere are
there people who have confidence in
them. In their day of punishment the
jury. composed of the people of the
world. approve of the sentence imposed
upon them. They threaten. they plead,
but the world is deaf.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-06-09

ically the chief advocate on the Other
side? ~
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1919-06-09
CITY FIRE EMAN

Issued every Monday by the Free
.man.Journal Publishing Company
Webster City, Iowa.
! Entered at the Webster City Post
office as Second Class Matter.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
HOROSCOPE
Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
paper Syndicate.)
TLIlqCnAN nrT q TOTO

Conflicting planetary influences rule
this day, according to aStrology. While
Neptune, Jupiter and Mercury are in
benefic aspect, the sun, Saturn and
Jupiter are adverse.
During this sway II la well to con-
serve ones energies, pursuing all rou-
tine matters and delaying initiative.
There is an suspicious rule for bust
ness matters. much buying, selling ano
bartering being forecast.
The stars presage extravaganza In en-
teftaining during the coming season
New York, Washington and Chicago wit
be lavish in hospitality at a most eriti-
cal time. the seers predict.
Again the sign promising success and
profit to writer's, editors and publishers
is powerful for good. Daily newspapers
that win great power will probably be
established in the West and the Middle
West.
There Is menacing sign for promot
ers or Intermediates Of every sort. 1t
Is not favorable sway for agents.
The sun Ia In place read as most
stimulating to opposition directed
against persons in high places.
Riots and clashes between labor and
capital will be numerous as the winter
progresses, the seers declare, and poll
ticians will profit by complex condl-
tions
Astrologers who declare that the
world has issued from the war blind
to the Industrial revolution which Is
in progress. declare that the United
States will solve even the gravest eco
monte problems with success.
The rise of new political leader Is
prognostlcated and he will belong TO
the Middle West.
Persons whose birthdate it Is may
have yaAr OF changes that demand
great foresight and adaptshility.
Children born on this day may be
gifted. proud and generous. These sub
iects OF Lsbra have Venus as their prin-
cipal ruled
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
FEATURES
|.gyVNCLE WIGGLYl 81 al
BEDTINAE' STORY


u can't go to the left because, of the
bramble briar bushes thought the
bunny. They'll catch in, and tear the
box worse than ever, and maybe tear
the hat too, for all l know. t ana !
can't go to the right because there
big puddle of water there. and II
| try to jump over that / may fall IN
the mud and spoil Nurse James new
hat. And l can't go back, for IT would
take me too long. and we'd be late Tor
the moving. pictures, On, dear dear r, How
shall | get home safe with MISS tuzzy
Wuzzy's new bonnet?"
Uncle Wiggily took another. look
through the bushes, The Pipsisewah
was still there waiting for the bunny
to come along. Then Mr., Longears
looked in at Nurse James hat through
the hole in the box. ----
purple asters. He saw brown, red,
golden and purple leaves. He saw
filmy cobweb lace, and ribbons the
color of soap bubbles, so that the hat
looked just like patch of the woods,
when the leaves on the trees have been
painted by Jack Frost. And the nat
was very big.
"Ha! / have an idea!' thought Uncle
Wiggily. II can put that hat on my
head, scrooch down low and walk along
Maybe the Pipsisewah won't see me-
for he'll think he is looking at bunch
OF flowers, leaves ana Wooulauu BlaS0'
Maybe l can fool him"
Uncle Wiggily took Nurse James hat
out of the broken box. He put the
hat on his head. 1t almost hid him
from sight, and it did so completely
when he stopped down.
he walked boldly out on the path right
in front Of the waiting Pipsisewah.
I Slowly Uncle wiggily moved along un,
der the big hat, trimmed with artinclal
| flowers and leaves and vines,
The Pipsisewah gave one look at the
moving hat. He did not see Uncle
Wiggiiy under it, On and on went the
bunny rabbit. .-,-
elancing at his wrist watch. II wonder
what's keeping Uncle Wiggily! was
| told he was coming along mere with a
big box. That would make it very easy,
| for me to catch him. But where is heE
The Pip looked at the moving nat.
He did not know Uncle Wiggily was
| under It,
Dear me. The wind is blowing along
a big bunch of autumn leaves ana
goldenrod flowers" said the. BAD chap'
| 1But where is Uncle Wiggily?"
We know, but we won't tell; will we?
| He was under the hat. And little
later Uncle Wiggily hoped safely into
the yard carrying the muskrat lazy
new bonnet, not hurt bit. a.,
why didn't you bring II IN poN
Nurse Jane asked, and when the bunny
told her how he had fooled the Pipslse-
wah. making believe he was part OF the
woods Nurse Jane laughed. She and
the bunny enjoyed the pictures very
much, the muskrat lady taking of. her
hat, of course. And If the loaf OF
bread gets un early enough to help the
breakfast rolls iump over the FROM
fence to play tag with the milk bottle
III tell you next about Uncle "lsshS
and the walnuts.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
Just a Moment
DAILY STRENGTH AND CHEER.
Compiled by John g. oulnIus. the
Sunshine Man.

Pray without ceasing,"-I Thess.
V, H.
Pray often, and you shall pray Of
toner; and when you are accustomed to
a frequent devotion. II will so inscnsibly
unite to your nature and affections, that
II will become trouble to omit your
usual or appointed prayers, and what
you obtain at first by doing violence to
your inclinations. al last will not be
left without as great unwillingness as
that by which at first 1t entered. This
rule relies not only upon reaseI derived
from the nature OF habits, which turn
into second nature, and make their
actions easy frequent and delightful
but il relies upon reason depending
upon the nature and constitution or
grace, whose productions are of the
same nature with the parent, and IN
creases itself, naturally growing from
grains to huge trees, from minutes 70
vast proportions, and from moments
to eternity. But be sure not to omit
your usual prayers without great rea-
son, though without sin 1t may be done,
because after you have omitted some
thing, in a little while you will be past
the scruple of that, and begin to be
tempted to leave out more. Keep your
self up to your usual form-you may
enlarge when you viii, but do not con-
tract or lessen them without very
probable eason.--Jeremy Taylor.
Dayton, Ohio.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
PAY ROLLS.

Thirteen hundred officers have re-
signed from the regular army since
the armistice was signed, or one In
every eight. The general staff is ex-
ercised about it and recently ordered
an investigation. The report shows
that high cost Of living is the chief
cause, and remarks that the war de-
partment is now paying a hodcarrier
substantially as much as a second
lieutenant, and a plasterer more than
first lieutenant--who may have had
seven years of university and hospital
training. Both pay and allowances of
the army officer are included, and he
gives all his time against the wage
earner's eight hours.
Perhaps in an ideal adjustment Of
human values a plasterer is worth
more than a first lieutenant or than
a brigadier- general; but the plasterers
seven and quarter dollars a day. he
says, barely covers his cost Of living,
and first lieutenant has been brought
up and educated to a more expensive
plane of living.
The chief victims of this high cost
of living are the, salary earners, the
savers, and uno2Nnized inarticulate
wage laborers. AM they get the least
consideration, because they are usually
not in a position to raise row. The
government is no better employer from
the point of view OF the people on
its pay roll or from the point OF view
of society as whole, than any pri-
vate concern is. 1t pays its lieuten-
ants now just what it paid them in
1908, and it can hardly pay them more
precisely because 1t has to pay its plas-
terers seven and quarter dollars a
day--or more IL the plasterers energet-
ically demand it, It's pay roll exhibits
the ratna fnpurlaIitv as any other in
fact, a greater inequality than most
pay rolls. Extending the field Of gov
eminent employment Of labor promises
nothing. Saturday Evening Post.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08

BECAUSE TONY Soper.
POINTED 1T out.
FROM A Long Island train.
AND THE way ! told 1t.
TOM GOT an idea.
THAT MOST of my week-ends.
ARE SPENT with you,
AND THEN Maybelle came.
AND TOM told her
HOW I knew Otto Kahn.
AND HOW we are friends.
AND ABOUT your place,
AND MAYBELLE said.
SHE HAD read all about it.
AND WOULD give most anything
IL D11E tOhtt uIiNG pubii W.
AND WOULD I take her
AND / ask you, Otto.
WHAT WAS to do.
AND | said | would.
AND TOMORROW morning.
I'M GOING to get my car.
AND WE'RE going to start out.
AND GO down to Long Island.
AND ON the Jericho road.
AND WHEN we get to your place.
WHERE THE big gate is.
TIL HAVE to turn In,
/ AND ALL want you to do
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08

People who are rough and blunt
spoken always accuse those who are
suave and tactfu of hypocrisy and in
sincerity They affect to believe that
there Is some peculiar merit in tramp
ling roughshod over the sensibilities OF
others, and to believe that diplomacy
is invariably the work of the devil
This is nothing but envy. 1t is the
tribute that uncouthness pays to grace
and charm, for there is not one of US
who in his secret soul, does not yearn
to have the grand manner and a GID
tongue.
Nobody honestly believes that dis
agreeable people are any better than
pleasant ones, or that the 1ndlvldual
who invariably rifles you every time
you meet him or her, is of superior
character to the man or woman VINO al
ways strokes your fur the rlght way,
and vet we have insisted so much upon
sincerity and truth telling being the
accompaniment to being flayed alive,
that many misguided folk feel that in
order to be genuine they must be brutal.
The other day | heard a young girl
discussing this subject with an elderly
woman, greatly beloved, and who Is
noted for her charm of manner, and fer
always saying Just the right thing TO
everybody with whom she comes IN
you always make me think of heal
ing waters" said the girl WlstIuliy,
@swhen | come to see you may be feel
ing blue and discouraged, and at ODDS
with the world, but when | go away
An full of hope and cheer, and feel that
This is a good old world, and that
amount to something In it. And when
II watch other people talking to you
gan see the cross, tired, worried LOOK
Sust being ironed out of their faces IKE
"A has been out of mine, and | Know
fhat you have given them the. message
they needed just as you have given mine
TO me. ~ &c
rs, You can't agree with all OF US IN
an of our opinions, Yet I've never
heard you get into an argument. Many
a. us must bore you stiff, yet you, al
WAYS keep that bright, interested LOOK
IA your face. | have heard people tel
YOU stories that you must have heard
III thousand times, yet you always
laughed in the right place.
INV mother would consider that
hypocritical. II she doesn't like per-
IN she feels it only honest to be rude
~ him or her. If she knows anything
disagreeable about you, she considers
II her duty to tell you of 1t, and II there
N a sore spot in your soul she can rest
nnti, she puts her finger on It, II she
sSiffers with you on any subject, she IS
1 ssnnnd 10 have a hot debate on the sub
aect. and she'd feel that she had been
sacitly lying II she didn't look weary
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
DOROTHY DIX'S TALK
TACT.
BY DOROTHY DIX,
Tho Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer

and tell YOU that she heard that story
before when you got off twice-told
tale,
tatest them Everyones loves you, even
my mothers own children love her best
when they are farthest from her. l
should like 70 follow in your footsteps
instead of my mothers, and yet want
to be sincere and honest, so tell me,
please, if it's hypocritical to be dipio-
matte and tactful in dealing with one
fellow creatures?"
Tact replied the elderly woman,
lis not hypocrisy. 1t is not insincerliy'
1t is merely applying the Golden Rule,
and treating others as you would have
them treat you, and saying TO others
the things that you would like to have
them say to you, instead of reversing
the process and saying and doing the
things to others that you would IKE 70
murder them for saying and DONG 10
YOU. - ,, ,,,it,
neople. That is true, but no one has
more settled convictions than / have,
vet | accord to every other person the
same liberty of thought that have my
self, a
IS oisten with patience while they
exploit their theories about religion, ana
politics, and Bernard Shaw, and bring
ing UP children, and after the argu-
ment is over we both think exactly as
we thought before, and l have saved
myself from getting red in the face, and
parting from my friends with a Iiltie
unpleasant taste in the mouth. Also
have cut the argument short because 4
one sided argument falls to the ground
for lack of support.
''You say that / laugh at old jokes
and listen while people tell me familiar
stories. True. l do as ! would be done
! BY, / put myself in the place OF the
narrator and think how Inundated
| would be If just as l got. Wen iaunched
| on my pet story, somebody, brutaliy re-
| minded me that 1t was old stuff 10
my mind, it's just as cruel thing TO
| do, as 1t would be to give man or
woman a slap in the face.
in making nice speeches to people
my guide is the things l like people to
saw to me. like to have people. APP
preciate the little favors do for them,
SO | never fail in appreciation myself:
When / do good piece of work II
pleases me for people to notice IT,
| Therefore 7 never spare my praise
where 1t is due, 1t comforts me Tor my
! friends to reach out an understanding
| hausS when | am fighting with my back
to the wall, and so stretch out my
hand to them in their struggles.
| believe me, that is all that tack Is
understanding and sympathy, and IT >
as sincere as sincerity itself It's just
| the Golden Rule put into action"
| Downright 1919, by the Wheeler syn
dictate, Inc.)
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
ITALIAN CATHOLICS ISSUE
PREDICTION APPEAL

ROME, Oct S.--The Catholic popular
party has addressed manifesto to the
country preliminary TO the general cleo
lions saying its program Includes the
liberty Of religious teaching In schools,
reorganization of the finances Of the
country on a democratic basis. pro-
motion of agriculture and commerce,
revision of peace treaties and the re-
sumption OF cordial relations with all
peoples.
''in view of the nearness Of universal
disarmament. the manifesto says, I'VE
hope to make the Christian religion a
perennial source Of civilization and en-
iightenment, and to elevate the con-
science Of the people for the restoration
of peace and for social reconstruction, :"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
Copyright, 1919, by Mcclure News
paper Syndicate,)
BY HOWARD R. oARIs.

BY HOWARD r. GARis.
Nurse Jane" said Uncle Wiggily
sthe bunny rabbit gentleman, to his
nuskrat lady housekeeper one morn
png, do you want to go to the moving
pictures with me this EVENING""
Il shall be delighted" answered Miss
Fuzzy Wuzzy But my new hat has
znot arrived, as yet, from the eight and
nine cent store, where ordered it yes
terday. l don't feel like going with
Hout my new hat"
-oh, I'll go get it for you" Uncle
HWiggily said. 1T will be a great pleas
lure for me. Tell me what it is like
kyour hat, | mean, so III bring back the
Fright one
"Oh, my new hat is a dream!'' said
the muskrat lady, clasping her paws
and looking up toward the sky. 1T is
the color Of the rainbow, with cobweb
lace like fleecy clouds, and ribbons like
: the autumn leaves"
Some hat! as the boys say re-
marked Uncle Wiggily We'll, | trust
you may have a good time with it at
the moving pictures. Now I'll hop
along!"
So the bunny rabbit gentleman hop
aped, skipped and jumped over the woods
and through the fields until he came
to the seven and eight cent store.
'I'll take Nurse James hat, If you
girl clerk behind the counter,
Yes, it is all ready" she answered.
"Oh, it's a love of hat 1t has colors
like soap bubbles, with frosty lace like
snow flakes and the ribbons are like
the tints Of sunset and she tied her
tail in, a double bow knot she was SO
testhettc like and demonitiZed.
well" spoke Uncle Wiggily, slowly,
Nurse Jane didn't say 1t was like that
but it may mean the same thing. III
take it."
The little mousie girl clerk gave the
bunny rabbit gentleman large, square
box
whats this?' he asked
Nurse James hat was the answer.
t1ts In the box.
Uncle Wiggily carried it as best he
could, and on his way back he hoppeu
i to the hollow stump bungalow. He
was going through the woods, wonder
ing why 1t was that muskrat ladies'
wore such funny hats, when, all of
L sudden, the bunny rabbit gentleman
heard a rustling in the bushes,
II wonder what that Isl" he said to
himself. He came to a stop, ,peeked
out and there he saw the bad old Pip
sisewah on the path in front Of him,
20 he's waiting for me" thought tHn !
Jump that he caught Nurse James hat
box on a bramble briar bush and tore
large hole in it--tore a hole in the
box, not the hat I'm glad to say. Then
Uncle wiggilv crouched down to hide
AS yet the Pipsisewah had not seen
n him "..
"Dear me- What am l to do?
thought the bunny rabbit
There was only one path for Uncle
Wiggily to take in going home, ano
the Pipsisewah was right in the middle
of it,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
~ &c. q.

THAT ONCE In while.
you WRITE letter.
ITO OTTO H. Kahn.
AND FELLAS like that.
do YOU know them all?"
AND THERE was.
SITTING IN the lobby.
OF A big hotel.
AND WHEN Tom first knew me.
l WAS living on an island.
IN A rainy country.
OUT ON the Pacific.
AND l kept on Dragging.
AND BEING careless.
AND said ! did.
AND THEN ! told him.
ABOUT THE wonderful place.
You HAVE on Long Island,
WHICH ! know about
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08

IS 10 tell your hired men,
WHEN THEY see a green car
WITH WHITE wire wheels.
AND THE driver of the car.
WEARING A fiat green hat.
AND LOOKING scared.
If YOU'LL tell them, please,
NOT TO throw him out.
AND IF they could act.
LIKE THEY'D seen me before.
I'd BE tickled to death.
AND, OF course, I'll promise.
NOT TO stop at the house.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08

MR.. OTTO Fl. Kahn. 4.
CARE KUHN, Loeb 8 Co.
NEW YORK City.
MY DEAR Otto
THE OTHER day.
THERE CAME to New York.
AN OLD friend Of mine.
BY THE name of Tom Dyer.
AND WE we're sitting around.
IN THE hotel lobby
AND EACH of us.
WAS TELLING the other.
HOW WELL we had done.
AND WE were Dragging.
AND GETTING careless.
ABOUT WHAT we were saying.
AND TOM said.
1--WE NOTICED in your column.
out IN California.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
CENSUS MAN NAMED.

WASHINGTON, Oct. SC, +, Lowe,
of Winston Salem, has been appointed
supervisor of census for the Fifth dis
trict Of North Carolina, vice John u.
Tucker, resigned.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-10-08
AMERICAN WILL OFFER
TO SERVE D'ANNUNZl0

FfUME, oct. S. tBy the Associated
Press. whitney Warren. prominent
American architect, has arrived here
from Paris and win offer his services
10 Capt. Gabrielle p'Annunzio.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-25
THE l. w. w. IN PHOENIX

SUSPECTED n a major industry mining w. w. would still quiescnt the Phoenix We take the declaration Cannon alleged for the w W. in this statewide with also his w w. well organized Experience the while capable the statewide" character a Americansm part 
 However Cannon speaks true He that " is only attitude constantly repeatedly ask seeking fighting improved conditions
  doctrines, this continual until anarehy-Bolshevsm- achieved
 The constitution the W. w. other literature freely openly circulated Phoenix and elsewhere in tie the authorities That that working and the employing class that struggle until the abolished the world of the machinery production That with the result that the millions life soldiers the deos whose mdest murder and other that the w. that they outlaw organization which a which the state of Washington.
 Phoenix, where the l w. w. maintains attention the federal officials.
Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-25
A THANKSGIVING PRAYER

THE FOLLOWING Tnanksgving officially endorsed by the
 World Movement North America the
 churches of all Protestant denominations participating bears
 dignity optimism, unostentatlous God the macontents the labor breeders who agitating
 Almighty Who earlier led fathers forth into inheritance humby beseech Thee turmoil in confidence and courage what we'll begun will rich completeness
 with fruits honest toi Save from the which feet the path liberty and justice and to the entire world well the mutiude brought hither of countries and make them true Americans
 the abundant harvess of the year selfconfdence with the gift above Thine abiding love Thee to fail patient break endeavors Of Il avail.
 with Thanksgiving Day Teach to thanks for nothing but the loss of Thee perceive shining behind every cloud
 all the Thanksgiving Board Be with those who with well those who Make wherever we that hope and faith and love which neither send forth into the future Thanksgiving hearseager to labor strong to endure, love. Amen"