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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
THE HEN Is QUEEN.
Farm and Village Yard Turned Out
Billion and Half Dollars.

When a man drags out of his
trousers pocket handful of pennies,
nickles and dimes we are apt to
calculate CONTEMPORARY:
Chicken feed!" -,
In other words We look on
Chicken feed" as pretty small stuff.
But do you know that the chicken
feed" fed to poultry in 1919 return
ed food products to this nation valu-
ed at $3.50, 100000 Almost a bill
lion and half dollars farm value)
worth of food and wealth, and the
bulk of 1t from the farm and viii
lage yard.
Just a little comparison:, The
biggest manufacturing company in
the country is the United States
Steel corporation. 1t employs half
million men every day in the year.
It's steel mills, rolling mills and
blast furnaces-hundreds of them
are the industrial show places of the
land. Yet the total value of its pro-
ducts in 1919 was only trifle great
or than the poultry products, or
$1,450, 900, 900.
Something to think about truly.
And remember that, in the main,
poultry is only by-product of the
farm, or the side-interest of the good
housewife and her children in the
rural town or city suburb. : This
much has come from little person
al attention by many. What if every
body who owned poultry doubled his
attention The product would pretty
nearly equal the value of our entire
corn crop before the war.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
STYLES and Wages.

Oakland, Ia.---"If the attitude of
the coal operators is capitals last
word to labor, then capital is DOOM
ed; if democracy is to be made safe
for the world then Industrial oppres-
sion must cease and every worker
have an opportunity to have a home
Of his own" These were Chaplain
Joe Hanley's words in an address
Fere. He took a fling at styles too,
Our grandmothers with their hoop
skirts" he said, looked like great
umbrellas opened out. You needn't
laugh, though girls, for nowadays
they look like umbrellas closed, with
the ease on"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
We're On Visit to Cuba.

Two Independence men returned
last week from seven weeks trip
to Cuba, Columbia, Panama and
Jamaica. The Bulletin-J ournal says
OF their trip:
The weather down there was good
and warm, and they wore their
Palm Beach suits all of the time
until they started for Key West
They found the Colombia country
hundreds of years behind the times.
The buildings in the Colombia cities
have no glass window panes, the
opinion being that glass retains the
heat. Shutters or iron gratings are
used. They encountered millions Of
mosquitoes and other insects. Back
I'm the country in Colombia the peo-
pie are almost as uncivilized as they
are in Africa, wearing apparel for a
boy or girl being an unknown guam
tity up to the age of probably IL
years, and thereafter not any too
much OF IL. They CONSIDER the hatur-
al resources of Colombia most Won
derful, however, with its fine soil,
mines, fat cattle, etc, one drawback
being the exorbitant government
tax which causes the man who
makes money to sometimes wish he
hadn't.
In Cuba the government controls
the lottery from which IT gets Sd
600, 900 annual income. IL also con-
trolls the national gambling game,
but there are no open gamolihs
houses. They did not find Havana SO
full of U. S. people with deep thirs,S
as they had been led to believe woula
be the case. although many boat
loads were going there as they left
Try Our Want Column.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
Nurse Died, Patient Lived.

TT, Dodge, Ia.-While nursing her
neiee Mrs. Harry DURAN, back to
health after severe case of grip,
Miss Matte Ferguson developed
pneumonia and died four days later,
as her patient was recovering. Miss
Ferguson, who for forty-five years
lived with her brother Staurt two
miles west of Fort Dodge, taking
the place of a mother to four child
rem of a deceased brother many
years ago, came to nurse Mrs. Dur
ian, one of her four children early
last week.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
Incubator Twins Are Doing Nicely.

Incubator Twins Are Doing Nicely.
Waterloo, la.-Two tiny bits of
humanity, twins, are starting life
under unusual conditions at a hos
pftaL They are Julia Rose Sullivan,
weighing three pounds and thirteen
ounces, and Michael Robert Suli-
van. weighing four pounds and three
ounces. They are the children of Mr..
and Mrs. ID. II. Sullivan, were born
Feb. 10. and are in baby incubat-
OF. They appear like animated dolls.
There are five other children in the
family.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03
FARMERS INCOME
SUBJECT TO TAX
Gains for 1919 Must Be Figured
Under U. S. LaW-Returns
Due March IS.
LAND SALE PROFITS TAXABLE.
Necessary Farm Expenses May Be
Deducted-SpeciaI Form for Farm
income-cash or Accrual
Basis for Computing.

A farmer. shopkeeper, or tradesman
must figure up his net income for 1919 !;
and If the farm or business income
plus his other income was sufficient to
require an income tax return COM
plete return must be filed with the col
lector of internal revenue by March 10.
A farmer should ascertain the gross
Income of his farm by computing all
gains derived from the sale or ex-
change of his products, whether pro-
duced on the farm or purchased and
resold.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1920-03-03

Try Our Want Column.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
FEELS IT DUTY
TO RELATE FACTS
Nothing Equals TanIac,' She De-
oIares--Gains Twelve
Pounds.

II just want you and everybody
else to know how Tanlac has relieved
my suffering and built me up," said
Mrs. E. n. Manahl, who resides at
lis North Ninth street, West, Cedar
Rapids, Iowa. in conversation with
the Tanlac representative at the Bry-
son drug store, Cedar Rapids, re.
Gently, sand have come in here to
make a statement which you may
have published in the papers II you
wish.
Why, since bought my first bot
tie of Tanlac," she continued, land
that has hardly been two months
ago, have actually gained twelve
pounds. I have never seen or heard
of anything to equal this medicine.
When began taking it ! was suf-
fering. and had been for nearly a
year, with my stomach and liver. My
kidneys were out Of order, too. and
was so run down, weak and nervous
and in so much pain that could not
attend to my household affairs.
had fallen off to almost shadow Of
what / once was and just kept on
losing weight l often had headache
SO bad l was almost frantic, and
could not eat anything but what
would sour on my stomach, causing
gas and such fearful spells of palpi-
tation OF the heart that I could
scarcely breathe. My kidneys both
cred me constantly and my back
hurt like bad toothache. Really
was in pain all over, could not sleep
or rest at night, and while did
everything in my power trying to get
relief, nothing helped me. / just
seemed to be right on the verge of
nervous prostration.
when I first began to read Of
Tanlac l didn't believe half they
were saying about it. It was hard
for me to have faith enough to try
it, but now I would not doubt any
thing good l read or hear about It,
Before finished my first bottle
could tell 1t was doing me good. and
now feel like an entirely different
person. can eat just anythin,; with
out the least trouble afterwards, and
my liver and kidneys seem to be in
just perfect condition. / AM abso-
lutely free of all pains-he adaches
included-and my nerves are as calm
as they ever were. I certainly owe
to make statement that may reach
others who are in need of just such
medicine"
Tanlac is sold in Keokuk by WI.
kinson & Co., In West Point by
Hawkeye Drug Co., in Donnellson by
Fred F. Williamson, in Viewer by
John Blume, and in Montrose by F.
o. Observation-Disclosures.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
A PATHWAY TO REAL RELIGION.

| A noted divine of New York City deplores
the application to religious effort Of the meth
DDS of the Sunday comic supplement. He
feels the improperly OF comic and sensational
Ipreachments, of montebank gyrations IN the
pulpit and of jazz music in the choir.
There will be little intelligent dissent from
this There is nothing to be gained by cheaper
ing religion down to a lower mental and splr-
Eitual level The aim should be rather to hit the
average comprehension to appreciation OF what
lis best Give the masses only unobjectlonable
and informing moving pictures and they Will
come in time to prefer them and find the baser,
isillier pictures bore. In religion, music lit
Eerature, the daily newspapers, middle line can
lie found-not wholly easy to follow always-be-
( tween what the most cultivated and the least
cultivated people crave. To fall below this de-
bases the mass appreciation. By keeping above
it the average capacity to appreciate the good Is
lifted up.
| Many of the best minds in the world are
struggling with the problem of making the
church attractive to the people who are little
interested in it, and wondering how far in popu-
tlarizing the services it is permissible to CO. 1t
is clear to all thoughtful people that the old
fashioned preachment which waded through
bog of platitudes on theological stills has lost
such appeal as it ever had What may without
disrespect be called the lingo of theology, its
technical language or iargon SO to spreak, falls,
Is at all, on inattentive, uncomprehending ears.
Army ehaplains who can speak from experience
unite in this But this is not to say that the peo
pie are not hungering and thirsting as never
before to hear vital truth presented intellgently
Ito them The tremendous interest in healing as
Ia function of the church; the worldwide and
'predgious interest in the life after death; the
revival of what may be broadly called the mysti-
cal phases of religion. and the profound interest
to thoughtful people of calculations which
make the imminence a reasonably satisfying
eoneeption-the and much else appear to
point the path which those who would win the
people out of their materiahstic slough must
now or soon pursue.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Blood Poisoning
Hamlin's Wizard OIL q Safe
First Aid Treatment

How often 1ockjaw and blood poi
coming result from the neglect Of 2
slight scratch or little cutl Ham1in'a
Wizard Oil is safe and effective first
aid treatment. It is powerful anti
septic and should be applied imme-
diately to wounds of this kind to pre-
vent danger of infection.
1t is soothing and healing and quick
ly drives out pain and inflammation in
bites and stings. just as reliable, too,
for stiff neck, sore feet, cold sores,
canker sores, earache and toothache.
Get it from druggists for 80 cents.
If not satisfied return the bottle and
get your money back.
Ever constipated or have sick head
ache? Just try Wizard Liver Whips,
pleasant little pink pills, so cents
Guaranteed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Hiram Johnson,s Masterpieee.

New York World. The Hon Hiram
Johnson jumps into the midst OF
things in South Dakota and submits
his presidential candidacy on plat.
form affirming that Il believe that
the government belongs to all the
people. not favored few; that the
farmer and the toiler have the same
privileges as the banker and the
capitalist; that all classes are sub,
ject and none superior to the law
That is perfect platform. Neither
Wall street nor the l. w. w. would
change a word of it. Democrats, re
publicans, non-partisan leaguers and
socialists can all get aboard. Hiram
will never have any trouble with that
platform until he tries to apply 1t to
some specific issue,
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
SAGE TEA DANDY
TO DARKEN HAIR.
Look years younoerI Use tho old
time Sage Tea and Sulphur and
nobody will know.

You can turn gray, faded hair
beautifully dark and lustrous almost
over night II you'll get bottle Of
"Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com
pound" at any drug store. Millions
OF bottles OF this old famous Sage
Tea Recipe, improved by the add.
ton of other ingredients. are sold
annually. says well-known drug
gist here, because 1t darkens the
hair so naturally and evenly that no
one can tell It has been applied.
Thosc whose hair is turning gray
Or becoming faded have surprise
awaiting them. because after one OF
two applications the gray hair van
iEhes and your locks become lux
uriantly dark and beautiful.
,This is the age Of youth. Gray
haired. unattractive folks aren't
wanted around. so get busy with
Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Com,
pound tonight and you'll be delight
ed with your dark, handsome han
and your youthful appearance WITH
in few days
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
A NASTY COLD
EAsED At ONCE
"PAPE,S COLD CoMpoUNDv THEN
BREAKS UP A COLD IN A
FEW HOURS.

Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow
ing and snuffling! A dose Of "Pape's
Cold Compound" taken every two
hours until three doses are taken
usually breaks up severe cold and
ends all grippe misery.
The very first dose opens your
clogged-up nostrils and the air pass
ages Of the head; stops nose running
relieves the headache, dullness. few
erishncss, sneezing. soreness and
stiffness.
Pape's Cold Compound" is the
quickest, gurest relief known and
costs only a few cents at drug stores.
1T acts without assistance. tastes
nice, contains no Quinine Insist
upon Pape's!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
LET TT PURGE ITSELF.

I The Chicago Federation of Labor has unani-
mously adopted resolution protesting against
the deportation of aliens who are members of
any union affiliated with the Federation, and,
under the leadership of Foster and Fitzpatrick
who brought on the steel strike, has resolved
Ito vigorously oppose all further attempts to
ship such undesirabes across the sea.
But the Federation of Labor has only to
purge itself of such anarchists, bolshevists, L.
w. WIS. as are "boring from within" and it
will have no fault to find with the government
Of the United States If it thinks to protect
against deportation vicious radicals, bombers
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
TODAY'S BIT OF VERSE
THE HILLS OF FRANCE.


If my soul were blessed with music,
II my feeble voice were strong,
And | had the dreams of Shakespeare,
I'd compose a thrilling song
And I'd sing with inspiration
Silyer-bright as Jeanne's own lance
In a voice as clear Melbas
OF the northern hills OF France
Loneler than fields of Endor.
Where the river Jordan flows.
Duller than Deaths darksome chambers
Where the spirit seeks repose.
Wasted as the paths of Redmen,
Hardened in cruel advance,
After wears OF war and hatred,
Are the loveless bills of France.
By mankind you are deserted.
And your surface, cold and gray,
Broken by wars devastation,
Would recall its yesterday.
While your trees, once strong and stately,
Felt the foeman's dread advance,
And like Soldiers they are lying,
Dead upon the hills of France.
Stagnant are your winding brooklets.
Where the red deer came IN herds
Once the haunts OF mating birds;
Vanished are your messy bowers,
And your valleys where the children
Came to sing, to play and dance,
Now are strewn with bones of dead men,
Fallen on the hills of France
Barren hills God hears your pleading,
And your tears not In vain,
For the future will bring glaanesS
To the hills of sad Lorraine
For to all comes compensation,
And you, too, shall have your chance
While the world must pay its homage
To the honored hills of France
Carl Hickman 500 Infantry, Co. e A. f. +
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

enemies of our institutions, who may have worm
ed their way into the Federation, It had better
think again before challenging the government
on this issue America has no use or room for
disturbers of this breed; and no matter in what
association, organization, society or church
they claim membership, criminal aliens are 60
ing to go.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

hours day can compete with this
sort of production. The question is a
fair one. Perhaps Mr.. Gompers will
answer 1t when he has more time at
his disposal. He works all the time
when he is not sleeping.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

The man who is always misunder-
stood merely misunderstands others.
Few people care enough about you to
misunderstood you.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Only so far as a man believes strongly can
lie act cheorfully, or do anything that is worth
doing. Robertson
FRIcK WAS A LEAGUE OPPONENT.

LII d DIlGl lcCOllCObiOl VI thiC 1'@eS AASAAN =
rick, John T., Milholland, the newspaper writ
l.. brings out a fact not generally known re-
sarding the steel mans antipathy to the league
f nations, and Mr. Milholland's words are here
.uoted:
j must refer to another chapter in Mr.. Tricks
career which is known only to those VINO nave
been in close contact with him during the last
months of his life. While many of his financial
associates were more or less in sympathy with
Woodrow Wilson's league of nations he had been
& strenuously in opposition to it. though the fact
is not a matter of public knowledge. The effect
nal practical service rendered by him in beating
the treaty cannot be easily oyerestimated Utter
" independent his judgment on this as on all
other subjects he did hesitate to take course
in the matter Numerically opposed to old per-
sonal and financial friends closely 1dent1ned with
him in his vast interests. Henry c. Tricks views
on the question of labor and Of labor unions We're
not mine; but in his Splendid patriotic, clear VS.
ioned opposition to that awful league OF nations
conspiracy he demonstrated himself to be real
intense American citizen who could not be swerV
ed one iota from what he believed to be his duty
to his country and his devotion to its constitu
ton
Conspiracy it was, and that Henry Frick re
used to be party to it entities him to at eas
me bright jewel in his everlasting crown VIII
son and the money changers might have sat Il
he temple forging the gives OF proud AM
rec republic. but 1.-the man of STEEL was no
i participation in the undertaking, and tina
Fact will help to keep his memory green in tn
minds of the American people.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
LEgIsLATIvE DEFINITIONS LACK.

Most noteworthy OF the resolutions passed by
the American Legion national convention was
that recommending the setting IN definite form
by congress of a standard OF Amerlcanlsm Ii
is debatable whether what the Legion and the
nation want when the term Amerlcanlsm is used
can be determined by legislation, but certainly
q negative limit can be found; laws can be de-
fvised that put active enemies OF the govern
lment, the law of the land and its institutions
outside the pale. If the Legion continues con
slant in action to secure a standard of loyalty
for which the minimum requirement is obedl-
ence to law; if the Legion then supports the
argument of the attorney general and his adj
Evisers who declare that the law must be made
clearer and stronger to meet certain forms of
sedtion, then it's resolution may be great in
fluenee for national safety Resolutions I'M
backed by effort are futile things.
Here is a quotation from the report of the
Porto Rico chief of police: .'There are about
ten thousand homeless children under twelve
years of age who live by whatever means they
are able, many of them begging or stealing
and most of them having no permanent lodging
place, sleeping at night in boxes or on doorsteps
+ or wherever they happen to find a lodging Sc
cure from the rain These children are for
the most part deserted and abandoned children
I Of Legitimate parentage or orphan children
whose parents have left no provision for their
care and education, and they constitute fertile
soil for the implanting of criminal tendencies
and are ready material for older people of Grim
inal habits" We have had Porto Rico under
our protection for twenty years. The problem
of dealing justly with people is difficult and
costly. What would mandates for vast terri
tories and great peoples far across the world
ientai2 And how should we do our mandatory
dutyq
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

Coon Rapids Enterprise: Now that
the grocery jobbers have driven the
big five out of the grocery business.
what is to be the effec. on the pub
lie? Will prices go down, or up? II
they go UP. the public will say that
the jobbers' trust, SO called, is the
worst Of the two; that in Kidding
itself of the packers trust the coun-
| try jumped from the frying pan into
the fire.
Davenport Times: Coal operators
in the central district say they will
abide by the decision of President
Wilson's commission. Very good.
But the party who represents the
public on that commission should see
TO it that the dear people get
square deal.
Waterloo Times-Tribune: OF course
the profiteers will beat themselves in
the long run by getting prices so
high that people cannot buy. But a
fellow gets cold feet waiting around
for the fall.
Burlington Hawk-Eye. AS General
Pershing is not candidate for presi-
dent, the popular ovations in HIS
! honor wherever he appears have a
double value; they are distinctively
a friendly recognition Of his personal
/ merit and his achievements as COM
mander of the American forces in
Europe.
Cedar Falls Record: If his term Of
office as attorney general is cri-
terion as to what might be expected
Of him as governor, then we'd prefer
, almost anyone else to Mr.. Havner
Council Bluffs Nonparil: What we
! need in America now more than any
/ thing else is general and systematic
campaign of economy on all lines in
every household. This does not mean
/ that we are going to quit eating and
1 wearing clothes, but 1t does mean
! that when articles reach an extrava-
CANT figure we are not going to
/ pay 1t.
/ Davenport Democrat: Perhaps the
order prohibiting munitions exports
from the United States to Mexico is
the gentle hint that precedes the kick
which will be forthcoming unless
Mexico mends her ways.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

Only slaves die of overWork. Work is WEAKNESS, a
nuer forsooth Those who say know very little
out rs Labor is neither cruel ungrateful; it re-
ores the strength give it a Observation-Disclosures
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02
Question for Mr.. Gompers.

Question for Mr.. Gompers.
Brooklyn Eagle: A correspondent Of
the Sun notes that In Germany the
twelve-hour day and the seven-day
week are largely prevalent, and asks
how the five-day week with eight
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

Soap-box radicals are making much of the In
crease in the number of our rich men, yet their
whole clamor is for mechanical means Of MAX
ing all men richer Few if any men become
wealthy without aiding others to become
wealthier. Almost the only way for a man to
gain wealth without adding to the wealth Of
others is to steal money, goods or lands.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

The question of the railroads. future seems
no longer to be fated to ride the blind baggage
for a circle Of uncertainty
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

Davenport Democrat: Perhaps the
order prohibiting munitions exports
from the United States to Mexico is
the gentle hint that precedes the kick
which will be forthcoming unless
Mexico mends her ways.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-01-02

Cedar Falls Record: If his term OF
office as attorney general is cri
terion as to what might be expected
Of him as governor. then we'd prefer
almost anyone else to Mr.. Havner