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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-08

When he puts on long pants he
sends dad to the rear seat of the
family flivver, and has ambitions to
be flying man.
Only one transportation system
boy and man neglect. That's the
wheelbarrow. Ever hear of a boy
teasing his dad to buy him a
wheelbarrow? No, of course not
The wheelbarrow is the black sheep
of the vehicular world.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-08

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BY o. B. JOYFUL

MANY good men are worrying
AVA their fool heads off about this
transportation problem. What with
car shortages, rate increases, wage
boosts, tie-ups, congestion, ETC., etc.
they are all tangled up. The result
is you don't know whether you're
coming or going. Most likely you're
doing neither.
Which isn't as it should be.
Human animals were made to
move about.
Man has to be on the go-or the
come. And woman is just like that,
too
They start early in life.
First thing the baby cries for is
the cradle.
Then baby has to have a carriage,
so ma and ma can haul the youngster
round the neighborhood.
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THE CALL OF BLUE WATERS
Reading Course Stewardship Navigation Marine
TueH and the is
AFTER-WAR READING COURSE NO. 10

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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-08
RAILROADS HIT
BY II. c. L. TOO

THE high cost of living works a
= hardship upon railroads, too. 1t
is even worse with railroads than hu-
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-07-08

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square deal for the railroads, don't
you think?
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one of a series of "After-War Read
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If you wish to pursue this course
send to the Home Education Divis-
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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
l -POINpExTER.

Never in our history has this nation
faced a situation more critical than
that which cOnfrOnts us now, nor was
there ever more need of leadership
combining integrity, ability, broad ex-
perience, unflinching courage and per-
feet physical health. We are confront
ed with difficult problems both at home
and abroad."-Miles Poindexter.
Miles POindexter has a right to talk
that way. He is a man Of ability, ex-
p%erience, courage and perfect health.
During the years Ie has been in public
life he has hesitated to act or
speak has sentiments. True, it is i'm
possible to agree with everything the
Washington senator does and says, but
it must be admitted that he is his own
boss and is a fearless advocate of the
rights of the people as he sees those
rights. He is a candidate for the re-
publican nomination for president, but
stands little chance of winning. How
ever he is worthy of the support of his
followers, and the Freeman-Journal be.
lieves he would make good if elected
president.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
PARADISE

Dumb Animals: A land without birds
would be a place unfit for human habi-
tation. A birdless paradise would be
in~conceivable. Hawaii only a few years
ago was rich in bird life. Fauna and
flora combined to give her the title OF
paradise of the Pacific" That was
before the feather pirates ravaged the
island: when roses bloomed in every
yard and the air resoundcd with the
melody of many song birds whose cries
the natives used to believe were divine
messages to men. Today-gone are
most of the fair and brilliant singers,
protectors of the roses and the bios
SONS, and an uncomfortable horde of
beetles rules the land and takes much
Of the joy. out of life. Hawaii was plum
dered Of of her greatest attractions.
There can be no earthly paradise
without the song birds and the roses.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
SCHOOL GIRLS. DRESSES.

Cedar Rapids Republican: In Wash
ington the benign beings who go about
like Don Quixote did. correcting the
wrongs and errors of the world, have
pounccd on the schoo! girls. And it
does seem as if they are in need of
some bouncing Of Il rather severe kind,
as they may be in need of it in other
places.
They found one girl. and she, was
just Il chance one, a high school girl
who wore what they call jazz
pumps which are rated at $15 ii pair.
The stockings she wore were of Italian
silk and cost at least So a pair. Her
hat was of gold and blue OF an esti-
mated worth of "A dozen dollars. Her
dress was made of tricotine and n low
value on it was $40-it may have been
$6O-and she wore Il coat of imitation
seal worth not less than $40. That Is
an inventory of the girls apparel as
made by an experienced wOman-and
what she had on under the things III
sight deponent did not say, but, pre-
slmably, she was worth something I'M
der the surface as well as on top OF it.
And so arranged and so rugged out
that the poor girl was sent to a hlgh
school where many girls could not af-
ford to wear as much as was repre-
scented in her shoes and stockings.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
THE OLD STORY.

An old mother at Newton has just
received a telegram from a son in Tex
as who is in trouble. He is in Jail
charged with bigamy. The old moth
er knows, of course, that he is not gull.
ty. She says she had not heard from
him for over a year and that she had
stayed awake night after night worry.
ing about him. Now that he is in trou.
bic and wants money, he writes home
for it, asking the one he has cruelty
neglected to send it. OF cours the
mother cannot believe him guilty, but
a son who would treat a mother as he
has treated his mother is none too good
to do anything. She ought to let him
fight his own battles, but will not dc
it. She will send him the money if she
has it or can get it. That is the way
mothers do.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The railroad men are talking strong
against Senator Cummins, the main
opposition being the provision OF the
Cummins-Es sch law %out-lawing strikes
of railroad employees and incorporat-
ing provisions for arbitration. 1t is
barely possible if the railroad men
emphasize this feature too much all
the rest of the people will be driven
into the support of Cummins. The
public have some rights that railroad
men ought to be bound to respect. and
one of those rights is the right to keep
from starving or freezing to death.
There are some capitalists, mechanics,
laborers and business men who don't
care a continental for the public and
they are going to force the public to
fight them in Self protection. Rail
road owners do not have the right to
stop running trains in order TO force
up the price of freight, and employees
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

ALH .4L 4H- -. - Et
The comparisons and the contrasts are
among the worst things connected with
this painful exhibit Of unmannerly
and almost ind mt dressing Of a
school girl, If her rents can afford
to dress her in that way, then there is
all the more reason why they should
not do so. They should take into con-
sideration that such clothes make others
feel shabby by comparison. 1t is a
Haunting of riches and show that is
not only offensive, but that is highly
injurious morally. Such things help
to unsettle peoples mind and to till
them with discomfort. They also tempt
poorer girls to do things that may in
the end damn them in order to get like
clothes.
Those who have the means to dress
children well should set the example OF
dressing them mOdestly, decently, prop
erlv and that Washington high school
girl described was not so dressed.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
Kanlrar.

Miss Mary Waterman, who is'attend-
ing college at .Anes, returned there
Monday morning after spending Sun
day with her parents.
Little Marven Kennedy, while play
ing Monday got a pebble in his ear
and hislparents, MI. and Mrs. Lee
Kennedy, being unable to get 1t IT.,
took him to the hospital in Webster
City, where it was operated on. 1t
will leave him deaf in that ear.
Mrs. j. B. Kennedy was a passenger
to Webster City Tuesday.
Mrs. Sander Waterman and daugh-
fer Johanna were visitors in Webster
City Thursday.
The school here was closed Friday
informing for a time as two cases OF
scarlet fever were in the high school
room. 1t is hoped. however, it will
not need to be closed very n me
ipupils who have the disease are Theo-
dore Christensen and Leona van
|Langen. Both are somewhat improved
at this writing.
Mrs. A. II. Alexander and Mrs. otto
Christensen were Webster City visitors
Wednesday.
Ben Van Langen was a county seat
caller Wednesday.
Mckinley Thompson was a webster
CITY visitor Thursday. He is having
dental work done.
Mrs. u. f. Cormaney was shopping
in Webster City Friday.
Bert Samson who attends iowa
State college spent Sunday with MS
father.
Mrs. NJ. T.. Hendrickson was a pas
senger to Webster City Friday.
Mrs. Mamie Seamands and children.
Keith and Miss Mildred, spent Sunday
.t the Ed Brewer home west Of own
The Misses Gladys Harris and Nara
lyn Bentley Of Webster City visited
Miss Mildred Seamands Monday even
ing.
Mrs. F. A. Alexander was a caller in
Webster City Friday.
Paul Cordes, who has been WORKING
in Webster City. is spending a while
here with his parents, MIR. and MIS-. II.
A. COrdes.
Miss Caroline Samson. who teaches
at Ellsworth and Miss Jennie DeGroot
at Thor spent Sunday at tic parental
homes.
Miss Mary Cordes, who teaches ut
Hamilton Center, visited ever Sunday
at her home here.
March %.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
PRESIDENT WRONG.

Minneapolis Journal: For, in sober
truth, it was Mr.. Wilson alone who III
sisted on the actual letter of his treaty
The allies had, in all but official fash
ion, indicated their willingness to ac-
cept the Lodge reservations. The Am
erican people had, in various unmis-
taxable ways, shown their disapproyal
of his resistance. Some Of the mos.
loyal of his newspaper supporters h"d
come to advise ratification with the
Lodge reservations. Persistent effort
has been made to hold the Lodge lead
ership responsible, to pillory the Mas
sachusetts senator as the dark villain
who has blocked the pathway to peace
But the steady accretion to his follow
ing in the senate, the growing support
of public opinion as the facts became
better understood, alike proclaim him
to have been right and the president
wrong.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
ROAD BUILDING.

The problem of road building is II
that has been with us for years and
will continue indefinitely. The people
want good roads and many sections Of
the country are ready for hard sur
faced highways. But the fact that
it is so difficult to get Il good job Of
road work done, together with the un-
reasonably high prices now prevailing,
many contemplated improvements OF
this kind. Counties that voted to issue
bonds running into the millions of dol
lars are waiting, while others have
abandoned the idea of building this
year. The. outlook is certainly discour-
aging, but patience must be exercised.
In due time the situation will improve
and good hard surfaced roads can be
secured at fair prices based upon the
price of farm commodities and the
ability of the taxpayers 20 pay. In
speaking Of the road problem now con-
fronting the people, the Des MONIES
Capital we'll says:
Vast millions have been appropriat-
ed by Iowa counties for the construc-
ton of roads under the new road law.
The success of this new law, SO far,
has been fully up to expectations. Its
future success is going to depend upon
the honesty, integrity and brains OF
the members OF the boards OF supervl-
sors in the various counties where
road appropriations have been MADE
Good work will require eternal vigil
ance. In the average city it has been
found impossible to secure honest pave
ment even when the contractors owh
price is paid for the work.
There is something strange about
road work and it is not peculiar TO
Iowa. Complaint comes from every
state in the union in regard to the I'M
possibility of securing satisfactory
work.
The report now comes that the
prices of paving have been advanced.
1t is stated also that in some couh-
ties contracts have been let at prices
away beyond reason. We suggest Il a
paving should be postponed in those
counties where the contractors, by COM
bination or otherwise, have arranged
to exact an exorbitant profit. Iowa
has done without paved roads from the
very beginning and can wait Il While
longer if it is necessary to dofso in or
der to secure a square deal.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
SENATOR CUMMINs.

r. TsHai " H'4- MH- -Ff.i- -Fff" -fH"-E.
Former United States Senator LATE
Young, editor Of the Des Moines Capt.
tai, is now a supporter of Senator Cum
Minis and urges the people Of Iowa to
re-nominate and re-elect it's senior sena-
tor. The attitude of Mr.. Young is all
the more significant when it is remem-
bered that for many years he was the
.implacable foe of the political ambitions
of Senator Cummins and fought him
consistently and persistently, using the
influence of his great newspaper to en-
compass his defeat. However, Col.
Young has mastered his personal anti
patty to the senator and is big enough
to advocate the reelection of his old
enemy because he believes the retention
of MI. Cummins in his present position
will rebound to the benefit of the state
and the nation. In an article in the
Capital under the caption, HE Should
be Re-nominated and Reelected" Col.
Young says:
Senator Cummins has stood faithful
ly by his task at Washington. 1t is
due to the senator, more than TO any
other man, that the railroads were re-
turned to their owners under proper
laws and restrictions. The senator, hay
ing devoted his life to the study of the
railroad question, was able to be of
service. The members Of the senate
had confidence in his Judgment. They
knew he was trying to do the best he
could for his country, for the labOring
man, for the farmer, and all concerned.
The senator has gone through the
fiery furnace Of politics. During the
long fight on the treaty, every possible
question to embarrass the senator has
been introduced. Some of the issues
brought out have been purely political
and solely for the purpose of making a
record on which prejudicial appeals
could be made to the voters. But Sen2-
tor Cummins lodged no roll call.
On the labor question he devoted
himself to devising a plan by which the
wage worker could secure justice with
out the strike. He suggested this be-
fore any of the other leaders. His
thought and endeavor have given the
wage question a new angle. He has as
sisted in having employers give thought
full attention to the wages paid and in
.%cidentally a better relation between cap
ital and labor has followed.
Senator Cummins has not been shout
ing from the house tops. He has not
been making pledges like a man run
ming for membership in the city u
ell. He las given the country the adj
vantage of his long experience as a law
yer and his many years of experience
as governor and senator.
Senator Cummins is president pro
ten of the United States senate. He
presides much more than half the III
He holds Il place that has been Held
by John Sherman, j. J. ingalls, and
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The farm hand who can get $50 to
$75 a month with board, washing and
lodging thrown in, will have more at
the end of the year, if he all
he can. than will the mechanic who is
working in town at the prevailing high
wage. 1t costs about all a mechanic
can make to live, while the farm hand
need spend nothing except for cloth
ing and he can be very economical in
that if he wants to. If he gets $50 per
,month, he can salt down $50 OF it.
There are few business men who can
do better than that.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
CONGREs o U ACT.

Cedar Rapids Republican I'VE believe
that if congress will declare the country
at peace, as it before declared it in
war, we will stand forth with clear
hands-nOt with hands tied in any way.
And then we can say to all the world,
not that we stand aloof from any part
of it, but that we are part of all parts
Of it, and that in every part to the eX-
tent of our abilities AMI u we
will help those things that are just and
right among nations.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The disgrace of Senator Newberry
is his own fault, but for all that it is
unfortunate. Mr.. Newberry is a man Of
ability and had Il good record. He
was a member of the Roosevelt cabi-
net and was a successful and useful
business man and citizen. Moreover,
he is a patriot and rendered his country
good service during the war. However,
he was not strong enough to Withstand
temptation when it confronted him. His
friends told him that the election in
Michigan was in grave doubt and that
it would require the expenditure OF
much money for him to win a seat in
the United States senate. Right then
and there is where Mr.. Newberry fail
ed. He should have told his friends
that he would rather be defeated than
win through the improper use of mon
ey. That is what Roosevelt would have
done if confronted with such a state
ment from his friends. However, no
friend of Roosevelt would have dared
suggest such a thing to him and it is
not creditable to Mr.. Newbcrry that
his friends presumed so much. The
thing for Mr.. Newbcrry to do now is
to resign his seat in the senate.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The South Dakota primaries sur
priscd many people. 1t vas generally
believed here in Iowa that LOwden
would get the state by a safe margin
yet it appears that Gen. Wood will
have at least 1000 more votes than
Lodwcn when returns + all III. The
Johnson vote, too, is Il surprise. MI
Johnson is only some 5000 votes be
hind Lowden. Both Wood and Lowder
made a strong campaign in South
Dakota and did everything possible tC
win. They had good organizations
which did effective work. However
johnson had no such organization and
no powerful friends on the ground
Hence, the vote he received is signifi'
cant.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

1t is President Wilson's move. If he
has n concessions to make on the
peace-league treaty, he now has the OPP
portunity. II he will send the docu
ment back to the senate with the in
timation that he will accept the sen
ate reservations, which t~wenty-thrce
democratic senators favored, it can be
adopted with those reservations in
short order. The president knows this.
He knows that all he has to do is to
tell his rubber stamp senator's how to
vote. If he is not willing to permit
the changes indicated, which ever
Great Britain is anxious to accept,
there is nothing remaining for him to
do. The only alternative is to take it
to the people, and it will not even then
be settled.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The Des Moines News says electricity
travels $3.50 O miles a second and won
ders if somebody can't get up something
that will go faster, so we can communi-
cate with some of the stars. A speed
might be attained that would enable
us to reach some of the nearby planets,
but never the socalled fixed stars
Suppose something could be found that
would go a million miles a second, 1t
would require more time for it to
reach some of the stars than it would
take old Dobbin to walk around the
world a hundred times, and by the
time an answer could be received, the
senders of the original message would
be in their graves.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

1t is easier to keep undesirable for
eigners out of the country than it is to
deport them after they have located
here. We need immigrants to do the
most laborious work. such as making
roads, working in the coal mines, dig
ging bitches. %excavating for buildings,
etc. The foreigners who is used to hard
labor at home can do this kind OF WORK
and is willing to do it. And he is not
the real N to order. 1t is the
schcming leader who came here with
the intention of making trouble. He
works upon the prejudices Of the work
men Of his own nativity and thus
creates discomfort where satisfaction
would prevail. 1t is this agitatOr, this
trouble maker, this easy money seeker
that should not be permitted to locate
in the United States.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29
the poorer he was.

the poorer he was.
"As for the people, l do not believe
there is all honest Texan in Texas; and
people from other states turn Texan
in a short time. They rather are com
PEELED to. No man can make a living
there unless he gets chances to work
for newcomers who have a little money.
l never could make up my mind why
God made that country, unless it was
that He had to have some place to
grow cactus and rattlesnakes and Next
cans. But it is not for me to question,
although l still maintain my right to
wonder"
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

The talk of ex-senator James Ham
ilton Lewis to the effect that the San
Francisco convention will nominate
President Wilson again is nonsense.
The democratic leaders will not allow
anything of the kind. They know their
party has slim chances of winning at
best, and they are not going to deliber-
ately throw those chances to the dogs.
Wilson was elected in 1912 Oh a plat
form promising to curb the trusts ard
reduce the high cost of living. In 1916
he was elected because he kept us out
of war and it will be impossible for
him to win again because he has kept
us out of peace. You can fool all tho
people a part of the time and a part
Of the people all of the time, but YOU
can't fool all of the people all Of the
time. Twice in succession is qlitG
enough for even the American public,
if it does like to be humbugged.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

Reports come from Washington to
the effect that the census just taken is
going to show that more people reside
in the cities and towns than upon the
farms, the ratio being placed at 60 to
40 per cent. This explains, in a meas
urc, the steadily increasing values OF
agriculture lands. There are more con-
umers who are non-producers of food
products than ever before, while there
are fewer engaged in growing such
crops. There can be but one result
of such a situation Food products will
increase in price until more people are
attracted to the farm.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1920-03-29

Earl Ryan of Irwin, Iowa, is short
a $4,000 diamond and many people Will
not have much sympathy for him. A
So 300 diamond might be all right for
an actress or a society swell with more
money than brains, but why an ordi-
nary. everyday man should wear such
a thing is not explained. Well, Earl
was on L Great Western train bound
for his home. He went to the dining
car to get something to eat and While
waiting noticed a negro enter. He sup
posed it was the dining car waiter and
paid no further attention to him. The
negro struck Mr.. Ryan over the head,
rendering him unconscious. When he
was discovered a few moments later
by trainmen, he was minus his diamond
and some money. The negro had got
ten off the train in the Council Bluffs
yards and has not been apprehended.