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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19
What AsitatOr Promised.

Lchigh Argus: We beg your pardon
but we would like to take another
little shot at that handsome fellow, the
walking delegate of the brick and tile
makers union. He said the Argus lied
He did not tell wherein we lied but
Just branded one of our recent arti.
cles as pack Of lies. BY the way
that appears to be Nystrom's favorite
argument, just to call everything the
other fellow says pack of lies and let
1t go at that. Well, now we want to
go him one better
Webster says lie is to utter false.
hood with intention to deceive; to tell
or act lie; to create false, mislead-
ing impression; to convey an untruth.
Well, this definition hardly covers the
ground, but we'n include all this and
more Mr.. Nystrom has been guilty Of.
We have been informed on good author
ity that Mr.. Nystrom has said:
No. l. That the boys would get 8
hours and union recognition. Thew did
NOT
No. g That the company would not
get cars to load the ware. They did
No. 3. That after the office force had
loaded the cars with ware the railroads
wouldn't pull them away from the
plant. They did.
No. I. That after they were pulled
away from the plant they couldn't get
them unloaded. Bnt they did.
No. S. A month ago he said the strike
would be won in two weeks. 1t wasn't.
No. 6. That the companies couldn't
get men. They have.
No. Z. That they couldn't keep the
men they did get. They have.
No. 8. That they couldn't get coal, 1t
being dug by union men. But they
have.
There are more, but it would seem
that all or any part of the above
would be sufficient to prove conclusive
ly and beyond shadow of doubt that
Mr.. Nystrom is the guy who has been
warping the whey out OF the truth. We
have been accused of telling lie when
we said Nystrom was handsome, but
when we think Of the list above we feel
1t is time to hand over the palm to
more able hands. It's yours MISTY.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19
More Auto Plates.

Additional auto plates have been re-
from the state Treasurer. and 1t is be-
lieved there is now sufficient supply
on hand to meet demands throughout
the remainder of the year.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19
One Thing Certain.

Cincinnati Enquirer: who was II
that said he builded better than be
knew" asked the old fogy
Il dunno" replied the crouch. But
it wasn't the contractor who erected
the pasteboard fiat building l am liv-
ing in"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19

The new Community Oil station Is
now open for business. The station has
just been completed ut the corner of
Division and Des sMoines streets.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19
GAS SHORTAGE
CuTSCAR Sales
Attorney General Palmer
Promises an Investiga-
ton of the COndi-
tiOns.
DEFICIT ARTIFICIAL
BUYERS Hesitate to Purchase
Cars Because of
Shortage.

Upon the request OF 5000 auto
mobile dealers of the coast states, At
tOrney General Palmer has promised
that an investigation Of the complaint
that the gasoline shortage is an arti-
fetal one, will be made at once. Feel
ing that the shortage has been caused
by large oil companies, these dealers
banded together, in order to protect
their business from a slump, owing to
advertisements put out by these Oil
companies asking car owners to use
their cars less in order to conserve gas
oline.
The National Automobile Chamber OF
Commerce has assured industries that
there is no need Of apprehension OF a
gasoline famine but regardless OF this
dealers realize that an acute situation
in the west has alarmed the entire
country.
No Gas; No Cars.
Automobile dealers have found that
the curtailment Of the gasoline supply
means curtaileh operation and cur
tailed sales of motor vehicles. This is
true not only in regions where the
shortage has been felt, but has spread
to all sections of the country. and is
affecting the sale of motor vehicles.
Buyers reason that until the gasoline
supply is normal once more they will
delay getting their cars.
Dealers are urged to take the sit
ua tion in hand, and not to leave 1t to
the oil companies, who have publicly
urged the reduced consumption Of
gasoline, without going into features
Of the situation which would helo to
preserve the business of automobile
dealers.
An adjustment of equipment of ears.
to get the most mileage per gallon
of gasoline will do as much in the say
irg of fuel as to reduce the use of tie
vehicle. \ thorough examination OF
the car should he made to see whether
or not it is consuming too much gas"-
line The saving made by having the
carhuretor adjusted is not only econo-
my to the individual but to the nation
during shortage such as some sections
of the country are now experiencing.
In their petition to the attorney
general, the western dealers asked also
that the exporting of gasoline from
Pacific ports be stopped. The exports
of gasoline have increased this year.
and the output is said to be far in ar
rears
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19
Small Potatoes.

Cartoons Magazine: What can ! do
for you, madam"
Can you give me small change for
this potato?"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-07-19

Cady Anderson was taken before
Police Magistrate J. NJ. Blake recently
and fined s. for auto speeding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Go to It

Go to It
 There Is nothing else to be consid-
 cred but go ahead with the county aid
 amendment" said F. Wilkinson, a pioneer Warrior river worker. We have been chasing this Warrior river bubble mapy years. We should com plete the job as soon as possible or
 quit and be done with 1t. The county
 aid amendment should be submitted at the same time as the state port aid
 am endment is sumitted, November 2 T cannot conceive how the subn1is-
 sion of an amendment affecting Jeff ferson county alone at the same time as one affecting the entire state IS voted on could inJure either one. Be-
 sides. if we postponed submission of the county aid amendment and had an election called for it separately, ths cost would be several times greater. We have hitched out energies to de- velopment of the Warrior. I cannot conceive plausible reason for procras- tination in such an important matter and I am glad that the inland water way committee looks, at 1t in that manner"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
CONCERNING CREEDs

dERE few words unpopular people today than the told that eeds had their day. that is passed doesn't difference what believes that life and deeds
 
 proving mans belief really believes that be- lief ends in the deed of rejection
 As matter of fact makes difference eve Pae believed in safety first cruced The gar believes he right breaks night steals believed divine the earth the world fire Belief whence action invariably springs Believing liars Believing in truth, but be
 And so 1t naturally follows that like the God believes his of which he capable The believes a sweeping emptest he himself cruel the lightning Rome and Greece believed whose lives and pumbed the depths of moral degradation Christ believed God whose chief attribute Himself loved with love that passed human understanding
 And creed be elaborate but must be ourselves for higher than nober than that which faith rested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
MED BRACE TALKS ABOUT ALABAMA SUFFRAGE AND GOV. COX'S CAMPAIGN FUND EXPENSES

against corporations and businessI friends subscribing to campaign funds Now, under the law, no officer nor di | rectors of corporation can IegalIyI make, any appropriation for =nS >eAt- ical purpose. With the present methodsI of federal investigation of the booka of corporations and firms such sub-| scriptions could not be covered upl Therefore, the present years campaignI fund of each political party must come| entirely from individuals; and we ald know that presidents of corpora tions| are more liberal with their companies money than with their own. Again, the exposures by Governor| Cox will give the listed capital ists an opportunity to decline subscrip- Illegal and cost them their high sal aried positions. In other words, the old-time cam II paign fund subscribers have splendid opportunity to keep their money thia year; and after the Cox exposure if| the republicans get one-third of the) campaign fund they are driving for] they will be doing well.
 < # < Of course, the Cox exposure will cut both ways. but the democrats did not expect to raise a great campaign fund ' They will hardly have enough to payI for campaign literature and the ex-1 pense of speakers. There will. how ever, be thousands of volunteer ora tors and campaign workers. The democrats must go direct to the people in every state. Governor Cox himself has started the good work and is evidently playing havoc with the ambitions of the senatorial front porch orator of his own state.
 From present appearances the odds on Cox should be about sixty to fifty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29

so much as asking for an allowance of
 water to make it go down easy if I had happened to be one who takes everything but from years of study. not only of his- tory. but the sources of history, am always anxious to get one or more chron- icfers to agree before accepting anything see in print as the truth and nothing but the truth
 It is really strange how . man who is as trustful as I am when it comes to as- sertions made by my friends to be so
 suspicious when I have to deal with men
 who speak with authority, for as soon as they make a statement I begin to check up on them to find out if-it is so or not. This skepticism of mine has caused me much trouble in the way Of original research. as we'll as in the weigh ing if the evidence submitted in books by
 men who make it their business to write
 histories or compile encyclopedias.
 After fishing among a dozen or more volumes, I ran across this interesting
 datum; Tt was long believed that the col lection of blue laws published by Samuel Peters in his General History of Connec- ticut' was fabricated by him, and that
 no such laws were ever really enacted. l but it is now known that most of them
 did appear at one time or another in the statute books of some or more of the New England colonies, or were taken from an earlier writer, Neal' I have never been able to get copy Of the General History of Connecticut" .7sD, or even to see a copy of the mono graph by Prince, Examination of Peters Blue Laws" in the annual report of the American Historical Association for 1898 i; or Trumbulrs Blue Laws" of Connec- ticutt and New Haven; or The False but out of the welter of what I have read. it seems to be true that several of the most extreme and puritanical of the code were invented by Peters.
 Friend Peters, who by the way was a
 minister. gets credit for having been spiteful, and his history has been called Ia satirical work, full of congregations
 Judge Smith, in his continuation of the
 history of New York. gives evidence
 against the existence of the blue laws.
 which is particularly valuable. as it was
 not on record some fifteen years before
 Peters history was published. He says:
 Few there are who seek of the blue
 laws (a title the origin of which the au- thor is ignoranD who do not imagine they
 form . code of rules drawn up for fu- ture conduct by an enthusiastic. precise set of relieionists: and if the inventions of wits. humorists and buffoons were to
 be credited. they must consist of many large volumes.
 Hear him further: The author had the commissioners9 96et st Nss 1asJsa ls&h2 iustins partition line between New York
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
00 RHY should not the Alabama wy legislature do the masnani-
 nous thing?

00 7HY should not the Alabama w legislat ture do the masnani-
 nous thing?
 When it meets on September 14 to provide machinery for women to vote under the nineteenth amendment re- gently adopted by thirty-six states. Alabama should rescind it's former ae- tion and ratify the suffrage amend ment.
 The vote at the last session of the legislature was close. Suffrage was barely defeated Many men who voted against it, under pressure at that time, would be glad to vote the wishes of great mass of intelligent women of the state at this time.
 # # #
 Alabama men composing the legis- lature should not be derelict nor un- just to the property holding women or the stafe at thls tune. whatever pc their vote it will make no difference in practical results. But the oppor- tunity is now given them to be mag unanimous and just to the women and make amends for their past acts.
 Let us make the thing unanimous so far as Alabama is concerned--do the same thing that the McAdoo people did in San Francisco when Cox received the majority of votes. Instead of waiting for a two-thirds vote they made it unanimous. thereby producing a result which is practically sure to make possible the next President of the United States.
 And. by the way, speaking about James M Cox, democratic presidential nominee, he is the kind of man the American people like. He hesitates not to call spake spade. When he has the facts on the republicans he fears not to expose them.
 His Pittsburg speech has put thelre- publican managers in 8 dark and deep
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
Cannot Meet Price

The farmers are having great deal of trouble in securing labor said J. B.. Browning of Etowah county, and it Is no wonder that food is so high. rne n- dustries are paying such big wages for Lust common labor that all the young boys are leaving the farms and going where they can make anywhere from
 $ to S10 day. Even when we are able to secure labor we are forced to pay B day for it, and that is an awful price for farm labor. I recently emp;oyed man, his wife and twelve-year-old child to pick cotton for me. and I had to pay them B day each or leave my crop un- picked. Unless something is done to make people realize the necessity of return ing to the farms and increasing produc- tion food prices will remain high as the consumption is greater than the produc- tion.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
THE BLUE LAWS'---By Frank Willis Barnett

I have been at some pains to try and blue laws" are. and how they came to be enacted, if such was the case, but like everything selse, the more you study the less you, seem to know. for if you dig deep enough to find that some of the foundations which seemed sure are after all easy to be overturned.
 I have examined a score of authorities. and itt very much easier to harmonize the gospel stories to the satisfaction of the 'higher critics than it is to reconcile the conflicting statements of the authori- ties when one gets going in the mystic legal maze which surrounds the blue laws" for it's the easiest thing in the world to get hopelessly lost. Some claim there are mo sich things"
 I have spent some pleasant hours in some of the great gardens of the world in trying to find my way through the mystic mazes as laid out by the great gardeners, and it's favo-ite sport of the children who frequent the well-known ar boreums: but it's dead easy to outwit the ingenuity of the landscape geometri- clans in comparison to solving the prob lems which historians give us to unravel.
 I find out that I am wonderfully blessed in knowing something about a great many things. but that I am handicapped when it comes to giving accurate data auout them. Miscellaneous information Is a mighty handy thing to have until you strike a man who insists on facts, then somehow all your pretensions of knowl- edge seems to fade away. and you stand abashed on account of your Ignorance.
 But 1 am not alone in this, as any of you who are honest well know. for like me, before I began to look into the mat ter you talked glibly of the retention of blue laws in the light of the twen- tieth century without having clearly in your mind whether any such enactments ever really existed or were legendary To be plain, if called upon to state their origin and nature. you would have been compelled to splutter lot of meaningless generalities.
 Many persons insist that they are apoc- ryphal. and one perfectly reliable dic- tionary and encyc.opedia which is used daily by countless authorities with rev erence almost equal to that given to holy writ, speaks of, blue laws" as suppositious code of severe laws for the regulation of religious and personal con duct in the colonies of Connections and New Haven. The assertion by some wr:,- CTS of the existence of the blue laws has no other basis than the adoption by the first authorities of the New Haven colony of the Scriptures as their code of law and government. and their strict appli- cation of Mosaic principles.
 
 This had such an air of learning and was given out with such cock-sureness that I would have swallowed 1t without
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29

hole. from which there will be much trouble in extricatins themselves.
 The republican financial committee is evidently composed of novices. They are~what the children call copy cats. They have initiated the methods of the Red Cross campaign committee during the war and have raised an illegal some of them in the penitentiary. If they had adopted the old Mark Hanna methods of 1896 they could have gotten away with it.
 In the campaign of Mckinley against Bryan Mark Hanna raised something over fifteen million without writing a single incriminating letter. He and his assistants simply sat in hotels in New York, Chicago and various other cities and sent for men to visit them. In the privacy of these rooms Senator Hanna made verbal assessments. Practically every man and every in- terest came across" in political par lance.
 After tho election. in Chicago MT. Hanna told a lot of politicians and newspaper men. of both parties. that the republicans had raised more money than they had spent
 When q democrat present told that the democratic campaign committee had had much less than $300,000 all told for the campaign expenses he re- marked, No wonder you didn't do any better.
 The democrats in that campaign had only s21,0o0 to be spent In campaign literature for all the states. This in- cluded political plate matter sent out to the weekly papers throughout the country.
 The republicans spent somethins g over $1,5oo.ooO in this same class of work.
 < # q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
A SUMMER NOON.

By William Hewitt 4. Who has not dreamed a world of bliss On bright summer noon like this. Couched by his native brooks green maze With comrade of his boyish days. While all around there seemed to be Just as in joyous infancy? Who has not loved at such an hour. Upon that heath, in birchen bower, / Lulled in the poets dreamy mood It's wild and sunny solitude? While OCT the waste of purple ling You mark a su1try glimmersrs, Silence herself there seems to sleep Wrapped in sfumber long and deep. Where slowly stay those lonely sheep Through the tall foxslove's crimson bloom. And gleaming on the scattered broom. Love you not them to list and hear
 The cracking of the gorse flowers near.
 Pouring an orange scented tide Of fragrance OCT the desert wide?
 To hear the buzzards whimpering shrill FHovering above you. high and stillg The twittering of the bird that dwells Among the heath's delicious bells? While round your bed, OCT fern and
 blade,
 Insects in gold and green arrayed.
 The suns gay tribes have lightly
 strayed.
 And sweeter sounds their humming .I fb.lA.Lxk.sr.r. .eao.ns strtnss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
Plans Reunion

Tt gives me great pleasure to have my sister, Mrs. T. G. Mitchell of Gains vile, Tex, as my guest" said Joe Nix, for I had not seen her for sixteen years. She will be with me for month and in that time I hope to have family reunion. Out of fifteen children there are only four of us left. l have a doctor brother at Deatsville, and two
 sisters. I think that brothers and sis
 ters ought to try and meet together oftener, and particularly should this be the case after they have moved away from ono another and are scat
 tered far and wide. 1 fear that when
 we set up housekeeping of our own
 that we forget about the old family
 home ties"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
Vote on State and County
 Amendments at Same Time

 65HE inland waterways commit
 ll tee of the Birmingham district declared unanimously Saturday that the time to ask the people to vote on the amendment to the constitu- ton allowing county aid for internal improvements was November 2.
 This amendment applies only to counties of one hundred thousand and over of population, of which there is only one, the county of Jefferson. Jefferson will be asking the citizens of Alabama to confer on it the privi- lege of aiding itself in the develop nent of its own resources.
 The Chamber of Commerce and the Civic Association were requested to undertake the financing of the amendment campaign and directors of these bodies will meet Monday to act on this request.
 There should be, and there will be, no conflict between the state port aid amendment and the county aid amendment. Each has the same ob- ject in view, development of water way transportation in Alabama. One project is at one end of the line, the other at the further end. They are of like importance.
 Aiabamians are not going to be- come confused by having the two amendments presented at the same time. Both mean the same thing and point in the same direction.
 Forward looking men will enter tain no doubt of the outcome 1t is inconceivable that there should be hesitation where such vital interests are involved Jefferson county will be found as strongly for state port aid ss for county aid.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
Like the Idea

After reading the recent announce ment that simplicity homes will soon make their appearance, each residence 70 be built on large lot. it seems to me that the old saying of, Back to the farm, will soon be obsolete when ap- piled to Birmingham" said 0. R. Moore.
 T have always admired these modest dwellings because of their coziness and neatness of appearance. However, with the extra inducement of comforta- ble yards suitable for gardening. chick en raising, etc, lovers of the simple life have the opportunity of enjoying all the benefits of practical economy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-08-29
What Jame. Wilson
 Did for Agriculture

7 AMES WILSON, who died at his cU home in Iowa few days ago, filled the position of Secretary of Agriculture twelve years, end made . signal success of the offici.
 The department of agriculture was created in Cleveland's first adminis- tration, and Norman J. Colman was the first secretary. Jeremiah M. Rush was the secretary under Presi- dent Harrison, and Stirling Morton came next in President Cleveland's second term.
 All three did something to promote scientific agriculture, but Mir. Will sons incumbency marked the begin ming of broad and extensive policy ip forward movement
 MT. Wilson was practical farmer and had given much attention to the beet industry. But it was he who developed the experiment station end the various divisions of technical cul- ture-entomology, soil survey end kindred subjects.
 He was highly theoretical, but his vision always had a practical bear ing. Early in his administration of the department, he induced Congress