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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-09

Mrs. Alfred Weiss and daugh
ter Lily went to CreSco on Thursday
Mrs. G. P Hong come Wednes
day morning from Chicago for an in.
definite stay here.
-Gunhilda Smithling went tc
Holman, Wis. Thursday to spend a
week with relatives. ....
Miss Iva Schlatter went to
Cresco Thursday to spend few days
with Miss Mahala McCulloch.
Mr.. and Mrs. M C. Sayers Of
New Hampton were week end guests
of DR.. and Mrs. A. c. Vernon. y
Miss NeVa Delay came yester-
day from Iowa City for a visit with
her aunt, Mrs. Groat near Burr Oak.
ID. D. Blanchard is here from
Bozeman, Mont. on a visit to rela-
tiVes and friends in Burr Oak town
ship.
Mrs. James Groves and children
arrived Sunday from Boston on a
visit to the Miss Mary Christopher
home.
Mrs. S. G. Heller and son
Robert arrived Sunday on visit to
the parental home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Bear
Miss HiIdred dresser arrived
here yesterday from Canton, Ohio
for a visit with her friend, Miss
Charlotte Larsen.
Misses Ruth Larsen, Anna Dahle
and Esther Torrison went to st.
Olaf on Monday to spend a week
with Miss Lily Void.
Mrs. H. F. Thompson and daugh-
ter Mildred departed yesterday on
visits to relatives and friends at
Redwing and Minneapolis.
Miss Kathleen Reed came home
Thursday night from Cedar Falls to
spend the week end with her par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. B. Reel.
Mrs. C. Steen and son returned
to their home in F'reda, N. D. Thurs
day having concluded a visit here
with her folks, Mr.. and Mrs. Nels
yiek, -,
= Mrs. l.. A. Darcy and Miss
Violet Horton arrived here yester-
day. from Sherbrook, P. @. and are
guests at the home of Atty. c. S.
Boice.
Mr.: and Mrs. B. c. Hjelle con-
clrded their visit with the formers
father, Mr.. John Hjelle and re-
turned to their home in Mercer, N.
D. Thursday.
Mrs. w. S. Dunning went to
Austin Thursday to spend the week
end with relatives. Her sister-in-law
Mrs. George Plachek Of Calmar &C
companied her.
Mrs. II. Campbell went to New
Hampton yesterday to visit her
cousin. She will also visit at Water
loo and Aurela during her stay which
will be two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dave Katzenstein,
Of New York City arrived here Fri
day ON few days visit to the Ben
Bear home. Mrs. Katzenstein is a
neice of Mrs: Bears.
DR.. c. l.. Topliff went to
Moose Jaw, Canada, yesterday on
a vacation visit to the home of Mr.
and Mrs. Jim Thomas. His Office
will be in charge of DR.. Kinley Orr.
Mr. and Mrs. Howard Cummings
of Cedar Rapids and Miss Sarah
Cummings, who is attending college
at Cedar Falls spent the Fourth
here with their parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. II. M. Cummings.
= Mrs Henry Anderson and her
daughters Miss Anna from Park Riv-
er, N. D. concluded visit of several
days here with Mrs. o. L. Hamre
and family and left for Stilton, Wis.
Monday for a visit before returning
to their home.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-09
LOCAL ITEMS.

Mabel McClaskey went to Chic
ago Monday night on a visit.1r
/ Deputy Auditor Fred Todd spent
the Fourth with relatives in Cresco.
Walter Benuecke went to, May
nard Thursday on a visit to his
uncle.
H. F. Merrill, of Hazelton was
visiting here with John BIaess last
Thursday.
Misses Thea Lovaas and Anna
Hanson were passengers to Minnea-
polls Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. NJ. Boehm of
Postville spent the Fourth with De-
corah relatives.
Miss Ella Womeldorf went to
Lacrosse Monday to spend the re-
mainder of the summer.
Atty. H. F. Barthell. arrived
home Sunday night from a business
trip to Superior, Wis.
Preserve eggs for your winters
use now. The best egg preserver
sold by E. j. Parman, druggist
Miss Florence Price went to
Cedar Falls Monday to spend a week
with friends there and at Waterloo.
Miss Abby Amy is home from
Cleveland, Ohio to spend the sum-
mer with her mother, DR.. H. B.
Amy.
Miss Florence Allen who has
been a~ guest of Mrs. Ethel Webster
returned to her home in Mason City
Monday .. ...
Mr.. Ben Glover who has been
here on visit to relatives concluded
his stay here and returned to Chic
ago Monday.
Miss Gertrude Gossman return
ed to Dubuque Monday after brief
visit with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs
G. J. Gossman. ..
-Messrs. Fred and Paul Sobek
and Mike Riley, of Hokah, Mimi
spent the Fourth here at the F. j.
Rosenthal home. &C.,.
Miss Lillian Furness returned
to her home in Superior, Wis Satur-
day after visit at the home of her
aunt Miss Roney. -t.a
Mr.. and Mrs. H. H. Ruddy. and
daughters GenevieVe and Marion
autoed down from Cresco Sunday
on a visit to relatives. ~
Mr.. and Mrs All. Preston and
daughter arrived Monday for visit
with Mrs Preston's palSnts, Mr..
and Mrs. Stephen Muller.
City Clerk M. D. Wells, wife and
son Allen, Mrs. N. Willett and Miss
Marguerite Hitler aitoed to Cedar
Rapids and Marion and spent the
Fourth. B.
Irwin Halvorson who has been
taking a rest since. his return from
France left for Lawler on Monday
to resume his work in the Lawler
State Bank. ...' p
Mr.. Leon Knight departed on
Monday for Iowa City to attend the
marriage of his brother, Dr.. Ben
knight, OF Cedar Rapids, which oc-
Cured yesterday morning.
Mrs. Carl Steen and son Mer-.
lin, of Freda, N. D. who had been,
here on visit to her parents, Mrs.
and Mrs. Nels Wick in Glenwood,
returned home last Thursday.
Band concert and bOwery dance
at Lansing, Iowa, Friday night,
July II. Concert begins at eight O.
clock.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-07-09

Think of all the Daughters o
Revolution Europe is to have.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
SATURDAY, JANUARY 1s, 1919.
NNrn M AN IlNTAINTEp WAN ENTERPmsE.

"a ANY so-caled war charities now under fre be-
WI cause Of The incOmpetency crminality, or both,
which featured their management, or msmanagement
There one war enterprise however, which has es-
capped all such tant That is the Our Boys in France
Tobacco Fund.
1t was conducted on this side Of the water by 500
newspapers and magazines. They obtained from their
friends the money needed TO buy the cartons OF tobacco
That tobacco placed in the hands Of the American
Red Cross for distribution among lighters on the
western warfront
Every dollar collected spent legitlmatey by the
newspapers and magazines and their representatives.
Every carton of tobacco sent distributed
equaby and benenclally by the Red Cross
That is something TO say when we bear In mind thai
more than 100000 cartons sent at cost OF ap
proxlmately s5OOO0O.
In It's participation in the plan to give American
smokes 10 American fighters, The Evening Journal was
supporedy so Loyalty by members Of The Evening Jour
nal Family that on December 1 last this paper stood
ninth in the list Of Tobacco Fund supporters with
s7tos25 toits credit Since then that amount has been
increased 10 s7,47
Our paper only led by the Providence Journal the
Seattle star the San Francisco Bulletin. the Chicago
News. the Oklahoma Times and the Hartford Times.
Those friends Of The Evening Journal who have en-
abled to make such showing cannot fail 10 share
pleasure and graned by the fact that they played
such a conspicuous part in making such pronounced
Of what has been, and st is unainted fund
raising enterprise in the carrying out of which the Red
performed such important and beneficial func-
tlon.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
Editorial Opinion
THE GREAT DRY MYSTERY.
From The New York Tribune.

From The New York Tribune.
The country has never witnessed a
political phenomenon as strange as the
swift uninterrupted progress OF the
prohibition amendment toward flnal
passage. There is no overwhelming
popular demand for the measure that
makes Itself heard SO far as our sol
diers, returned and returning, go, they
are loud in their protests. Yet State
Legislatures fall over one another IN
their haste TO ratify. Six states went
into line on Tuesday. Iowa, Colorado,
Oregon, New Hampshire and Utah rat
lied Wednesday. Nebraska, Missouri,
New Mexico and Minnesota ratified yes
terday, making 80. Thirty-six were
needed for three-quarter maj (ity.
Lawyers representing the Ii Cor and
anti-prohibition interests have an
nounced a resort to the referendum,
which they assert can overthrow the
decisions OF the legislatures in as many
as fifteen states. IL seems entirely
likely that II a popular vote could be
had a number OF states would be re-
moved from the dry column. But there
is reason TO doubt that this resort will
be practicable In enough states to over
throw the fnal result.
The case OF California Is the most ex-
traoNdinary OF all. Here Is a State with
vast investment In the wine industry
and a general habit OF indulgence in the
least Injurious form OF alcoholic drink
ing. On a popular referendum prohibi-
ti0n was defeated. Yet the Legislature
proceeds TO ratify the Federal amend
ment. After this refusal OF legislators
10 heed the popular will Of their con-
stituents opposition anywhere seems
futile.
II is as II a sailing ship on a wind
less ocean were sweeping ahead, pro-
PEELED by some invisible force. Per
haps our legislators are right and there
is strong, unseen popular current to
account for the phenomenon. But state
legislatures have not been famous for
thus anticipating the popular will. 1t
is seldom that legislators are more rad
zeal than their constituents. The whole
swift and hurried process defles analysis
or explanation. 1t stands. for the pres
ent at any rate, one Of the wonders OF
our political history.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
With The ParaQraphers

The Kaiser has trouble eternay with that Hague and
| Halg stuf.-St Louis Republic.
One German pacns laments that after the territorial
settlement Germany Will have only one copper mine
Does he think they going to their indemnity with
pennies ?-Daas News.
II must have been historic mement when members
OF the House OF Lords Joined hands the banks Of the
Thames and sang
"Shout the chorus and far
Wsoni Wilsonl Rail- Rah Rahr"
Toronto Telegram
The government has hand residue Of actlvl-
ties tranloads OF discarded typewrers; nevertheless 10
has Just bought 3s5 Remington and 2i5O Underwood
typewrers at cost OF si703S7 So On with the Dance
LET 10y be unconnned the Democratic partys future is
behlnd.-Natonal Republican.
The cootie is as deadly a high powered gun.t 1t
responsible for at least million lives in the war
The louse carried germs OF typhus and trench
fever and other malades and spread disease over many
countries Typhus is louseborne disease, and in Serbia
alone nearly 100000 persons infected. The coote
Is deadly pest.-Utca Press
Bland Stubbefeld OF Oran advertised for a lost mule
NJ NJ 'nls paper and Sergeant Glove Rodgers has written
IN IN Ssuppened that he found copy Of the Democrat
,arns no uenches in France containing the adj and has
,sorI, u luehuhed, by certain marks the mule wanted
he nn s on q railroad there. Sergeant Rodgers would
orat Wv aAu onereu.-bentoh Demo-
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
A DYING BUSINESS.

= Ohm BARLEYGoRN's requiem has been sung in the
J United states.
Congress has the solo part; the several States
are joining In the chorus.
Il isn't pleasant music for those who have large
amounts Of money invested in brewerles dlstilleres.
saloons and other places devoted 10 the manufacture
and sale Of intoxicating liquors. but it must be borne
Nor is IL pleasant music for those who feel that such
intoxcants necessares Of life and social enjoyment
but they cannot close their to It'll
The fact OF the matter is that in few months after
the amendment has gone into effect those engaged
in the manufacture and sale Of noxcants Will be found
engaged in other and popular forms Of industrial
and commercial enterprise; while those who now feel
that they cannot get along without indulgence in in
toxlcants will discover that it Is easy thing 10 do
when necessity drives the appetite.
There those who express the view that nationwide
prohibition will bring about reaction which will result
the legaizng OF the manufacture and sale OF beers
and light wines Those who cling TO their plants and
their saloons expecting such reaction doubtless will
gret IT, because everything indicates that IL will be
long, an expensive and rulnous wait.
National prohibition has come 10 stay.
Those engaged in the manufacture and sale OF intoxi-
oants are engaged dying business for which there
is visible recovery.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
COLONEL LADUE NEW
DISTRICT ENGINEER

Colonel William B. Ladue. OF the 207th
corps, United States Engineers, has
been appointed United States district
engineer for the Delaware river and
bay, with headquarters in the With
erspoon Building at Philadelphia. He
will succeed l.. ID. Shuman, who has
been temporarily in charge Of the Of
fee.
Colonel Ladue's appointment has no
bearing on the position held in Will
mington district by Frank A. Warner
as district enginer, as the territory COW
cred by this Office includes all rivers
and creeks tributary TO the Delaware
river from above Camden, N. j., TO the
ocean and on the Atlantic coast from
Seaside Park, N. j., TO Chincoteague
Inlet Va, and the Chesapeake and Del
aware Canal.
Colonel Ladue, who returned recently
from France, was stationed at Jackson
vile, Fla, in 1894 and had charge Of the
harbor and coast Improvements for the
State. He afterward became assistant
10 the chief OF engineers at Washing
ton
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
"OPEN DIPLOMACY
(From the New York Trlbune.l

so, he afterwards changed his mind,
for he sent a letter 10 a Senator few
months ago In which he said that he
had in mind nothing more startling
than that treaties should be made pub
lie after ratification. But that has long
been the rule In the United States.
Certainly, delicate negotiations, such
as the peace congress must undertake,
cannot be conducted publicly. 1t would
be highly absurd, moreover. to frame
the peace treaty in the open and then
transmit II 10 our Senate, which still
maintains the right to discuss treaties
In secret.
What Is the meaning OF the demand
in Paris for "Open diplomacy" So
far as Americans are concerned II can
not be for the creation OF a press gal
lery at the CONGRESS-. That way lie
confusion, delay and discord What the
American people want is not a daily
report Of the chickering's and frictions
in the council. They know that there
must be much pulling and hauling and
many compromises. They will be en-
trely satisfied to let the delegates
wrestle with details.
But what they would like TO have
and so far have had to go without-is
a clearly defined idea OF what the rep
resentatives OF the United States are
demanding In the name OF the United
States. Give them that information in
It's essential outlines. and II they ap-
prove II they will be satisfied 30 have
the details worked out In a diplomatic
atmosphere.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
Spirit of The
DefndrUia Press
KENT COUNTY HOSPITAL.

NM AO0Ntt no't-t ftA@s
From the Dover State News.
II Is TO be hoped that the members
Of the present Legislature will see the
advisability Of appropriating sufficient
funds from the Stale Treasury to es-
tablish q Kent County Hospital in
Dover. Residents of this community
have expressed their willingness 10
raise a certain sum Of money provided
the State will appropriate the balance
necessary to establish such an institu-
ton.
There has long been a crying need
for a county hospital to be located in
this community, and the recent epi-
demic OF influenza emphasized this
need for there were many cases that
should have received hospital attention
which were so far from the city hos
pitals that IL was impossible TO re-
move the patients to them.
Probably some Of the lives that were
sacrificed TO the ravages OF the dis
ease might have been saved had there
been such an Institution in Dover, and
the saving Of one life would have been
worth every cent Of the cost OF the
hospital. We hope the members Of
the General Assembly will act favor
ably upon this question this year, for
the hospital should be established
without further delay.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
MORE sIrRRENnER.

A PROMINENT. Democratic newspaper publishes
"A long dispatch from Buenos Aires saying that
the United States is losing trade In South America.
Among other things the dispatch says that at least
score OF ships loading for South America iding in
United states harbors and that month after month has
passed and there have been ships, nothing except
words" America has taken back seat and competitors
grabbing all the trade.
Well what else could you expect under an admins
tration that has fallen down In almost every instance
where American interests at stake?
But why didn't the Democratic press acknowledge the
facts before the recent elections
Evening journal., 1919-01-18

The FIRST OF President Wilson's IA ar
tices reads as follows;
Il. Open covenants Of peace, openly
arrived at, after which there shall be
no private understandings OF any kind,
but diplomacy shall proceed always
frankly and in the public view"
Whether the era Of covenants OF
peace "openly arrived at" should be-
gin at Paris, or only after the adj
lournment OF the Paris conference, was
not specified. Hence the confusion and
irritation over the announcement that
the business at the peace congress
would be transacted after the ancient
methods OF secret diplomacy"
What Is meant by "open covenants OF
peace, openly arrived at2n That is not
the American habit II is not the habit
Of any other nation. Treaties to which
the United States Is a signatOry are
secretly drafted and are transmitted TO
the Senate In confidence. There they
are discussed behind closed doors. The
Senate has rigid rules, which pledge
each member to divluge no informa-
ton concerning treaties under consld-
GRAFTON. II has tried many times to
punish newspaper correspondents who
have published the texts Of cOnyen-
tions before the Injunction OF secrecy
had been removed.
We have, IN fact no treaties which
were "Openly arrived at" President
Wilson may have contemplated some
radical innovation In diplomacy when
he wrote the first OF the "a articles II
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
Cured His RUPTURE

was badly ruptured while lifting trunk
several years ago. Doctors said my only
hope OF cure was an operation. Trusses did
me no good Finally l got hold Of some
thing that quickly and completely cured
me. Years have passed and the rupture
hara ,vorp es a ca,rantnr Srhora al. III uoing
operation, no lost time no trouble l have
nothing 10 sell, but will give full informn-
tion about how you may find a complete
me, Eugene NJ. Pullen, Carpenter 67 u
Marcellus avenue, Manasquan, N. ]. Bet
ter cut out this notice and show Il TO any
others who are ruptured-you may save
a life or at least stop the misery Of rup-
ture and the worry and danger Of an oper.
atiOn.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
QUICK RELIEF
FROM CONSTIPATION
Get DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets

That Is the joyful cry of thousands
since DR.. Edwards produced Olive Tablets,
the substitute for calomel.
DR.. Edwards, practicing physician for
IL years and calomels old-time enemy,
discovered the formula for Olive Tablets
while treating patients for chronic con-
stipation and torpid livers.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets do not
contain calomel, but healing, soothing
vegetable laxative.
No gripping Is the skeynote" of these
little sugar-coated, olive-colored tablets.
They cause the bowels and liver to act
normally. They never force them to
unnatural action.
If you have dark brown mouth" now
and then-a bad breath - dull, tired
feeling sick headache-torpid liver and
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only pleasant results from one on two lit.
Gle DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets at bedtime.
Thousands take one or two every night
just to keep right. Try them. 10c and
25c per box All druggists.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
THE SOCIAL syRpIr,s

w ANS are fought with the social surplus This ia
ne sum above what Is required to keen society
.a,ou'as II ! wRa' Is left after the workers are given
saaa Aesp S'en enlclent and enough has been put
This surplus is the beginning OF clvn,,ot,o, ,,u,,
1t appears man can Rise little above the beas, W.
can be nothing OF comfort culture or art Ito sa a.
cides the character OF civilization
1t built Egyptian pyramids and temples II fostsrs,
Greek sculpture and philosophy. In Rome II iayished
luxury upon the few and bread crcuses upon IN,
many In the middle ages 1t built cathedrals outattes
crusaders and decorated the field OF tire cloth of gold
We have been accustomed TO bestow 1t upon tn
owners Of Industry and pretended that 1t was re
ward for organization and management,
Because wonderful machinery and industria
Evening journal., 1919-01-18

methods produced so much this surplus grew to the
incredible proportions that made this possible.
LAST years war bin would have swallowed the social
surplus OF generations In any other age
The world produces much that si60,0000 100000
could be four years without destroying society
Our resources productive powers much greater
than those OF any other nation that taking In year
sum twice as large the total wealth OF the nation
at the opening Civil War did not seriously impair
our national strength
We have learned that the financial limit is now on
Almost anything this nation wishes II can have II It
wishes Il bad enough Its great social surplus for
social purposes We at disposal wealth beyond
The most feryid Imagination OF other ages
The Treasury Department estimates national In
come at somewhere around eighty billion dollars We
took nearly onehaf that for purposes year
and our people were better fed clothed and housed than
before.
We know now that send all children 10
school and college until they eighteen for than
II costs to maintain standing army.
We know we abolish tuberculosis by spending
price equal 30 a few battleships.
We can save the lives OF half million babies each
year at cost estimated by the chdrens bureau of much
less than was required 10 kill many Germans
We also know THAI by the adoption in Delaware OF the
minimum wage principle for the benefit Of women and
girl workers. make life for them happier, safer
and better worth the living.
involuntary poverty would vanish before the ap-
pcston OF small per cent. Of this social surplus to
which Delaware is such generous contributor.
Evening journal., 1919-01-18
Our Poets Corner
For Verses Written Specially for
The Evening Journal.
Virginia of Laurel
By DAN.

When springtlme comes with vernal
showers,
In dear old Delaware.
And nectar from the sweet wild flowers
Perfumes the balmy air.
o, how | long TO roam with thee
Just as the sun goes down,
And gaze upon thy beauty fair,
Sweet maid Of Laurel town.
No lily OF the valley fair
Is half so fair as thee,
Thy silken, wayy, soft, dark hair,
And beauty fair to see;
Thy coral lips and damask cheeks
And skin Of velvet down
Combine to deck thy charms so rare,
Fair maid Of Laurel town.
What rapture, darling, l would feel,
With your soft hand in mine,
To list to thy melodlous voice,
Half-human, half-divine.
To sing the beauteOus dear old songs,
The songs Of long ago.
The "Nellle Grey" my mother loved,
"0ld Dixie" and Black J0e."
In silyery cadance thy sweet voice
Floats DER the emerald vale,
Till songbirds cease their warbling
notes,
Within the wooded dale.
And list extranced upon the boughs,
OF each green leafy tree
Enraptured by thy beauteous voice
They cannot rival theel
Good luck attend thee, beauteous maid,
And fortune smile on thee,
And something, darling I will ask
You kindly think Of me.
When shades Of eve in springtime fan
Just as the sun goes down.
Think how / live alone for thee,
Sweet maid Of Laurel town.