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Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03
CROPS AND LANDS.

Geo. T.. Roberts, one of the best
known and highly representative auth
critics in the country, figures out that
farmers cannot produce crops at pres
ent prices without loss. He is right
about it, too, but we believe he places
one item of expense higher than il
should be, although he puts it at the
point where nearly every economist
puts it. We refer to the item of inter
est on the value Of the land, which
be puts at 5R per cent.
The Freeman-J ournal may be wrong
but it believes the land owner mus,
and ought to be satisfied with a lower
rate of interest. He has the best and
afest investment there is. Under nor.
NAL conditions money has been obtain
ed at from 9 to per cent and such
conditions will prevail again. Not sc
very long ago tax exempt securities
government, municipal and school dis.
trict bOnds-cOuld be tlOated at two
and four per cent. Here We're invest.
ments that never increased in value
except as they fiuctuated upon the mar
ket. Not so with investment in land
There has been steady tendency up
ward for years, and Notwithstanding
the present dark outlook, the general
tendency of land, barring seasons OF
depression, is going to be upward.
Nobody expects land to increase in
selling price at the ratio maintained
during the past four or five years, but
when interest rates are Stabilized.
transportation facilities made adequate
and credit restored, farm values will
steadily advance and twenty years hence
the land that Mr. Roberts now con-
cedes an average value of $500 per
acre will be worth 500 to $500 per
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

The great heart of America goes out
to the suffering children of Europe and
Asia and this country will respond to
the applications for aid. There are
few human beings in the world so hard
ened and cruel as to be able to wit.
ness the distress Of innocent children
without wanting to relieve them If
they can. Childhood appeals to every
body, with it's trusting simplicity and
godlike purity, and there is no ques-
ton but that the people of the United
States will respond to the requests OF
Herber Hoover for means to relieve
restitution We hear some talk that
our first duty Is to our own people,
and it is. But there is no community
in Iowa where little children are suf-
fering for food and clothing ii the
people of the community know it. 1t
would not take "a hours to raise the
money to clothe and feed any child
in Webster City if the public knew
of the suffering. The fact that the little
ones live 1000 or 5000 miles away in
nowise lessons the suffering. If you
have not yet subscribed to this relief
fund do so today. 1t is most worthy
cause and the giver will have the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that he or she did
something to relieve distressed hui
manity.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

Some people wonder il there are any
assurances that the money donated for
the relief of the children of the strick-
en- districts of Europe and Asia will
he used to the best advantage or II some
of It will be wasted. The fact that
Herbert Hoover is at the head Of the
organization and that such men as
William Howard Taft, Henry Morscn-
thau, Charles Evans Hughes, Clevc-
land H. Dodge, Myron Herrick and
others of that type are members OF thu
board of directors is ample proof that
the funds win be wisely and honestly
handled. OF course some rascal might
worm himself into position where he
would have opportunity to do some
grating, but he would soon be de-
tected.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

licve that if all of the outstanding war
loans were taken care OF by a4refund-
ing issue Of per cent securities, tax
free, maturing approximately one bill
lion a year, the entire situation would
be clarified. It would allow the man
who can afford to hold a 4 per cent
security to take large blocks
But what would it cost the United
States treasury to exempt all bonds?
How much is now realized on bonds
from surtaXes? Whatever the amount
it would be lost to the treasury. Then
how would the $1OOO,OOO,O00 be raised
to liquidate the bonds maturing each
year? These are questions that must
be satisfactorily answered before the
plan suggested by Mr.. Brewer can be
fairly well considered. 1t is one thing
to promise to redeem $1,OOO,O0O,O0O
worth per year and quite another thing
to raise the money to do it, es-
pecially if one Of the important sources
Of income is to be stopped.
After this period of readjustment is
passed the chances are that the money
situation will be easier and congress
and the administration can approach
this problem with better understand
ing than at present and act more in
telligently and hence for the better in
terests of the country. Many men who
have given the question considerable
thought are Of the opinion that ST.
600 100000 per year is more than the
government should retire. They be-
lieve that the debt should be distri-
.buted over long series of years and
that sinking fund not to exceed
5000, 100000 per annum should be pro-
vided.
Deducting the $12,0O0,O0O,0O0 now
owed us by European countries, our
war debt will hardly exceed $4,000
100000 and sinking fund of $780,
100000 per year would wipe the debt
out in sixty years, besides the interest
charge would grow less and less with
liquidation Of the principal. No harm
would be done If none OF the principal
were paid within the next twenty
years. We still have $1,000 100000 of
the civil war debt unpaid, which was
contracted more than 50 years ago.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

acre 81 per cent on an Investment
in land is more than can be expected.
In fact it is more than should be
realized under normal conditions, and
nc such returns will be vOuchsafed, in
the majority of instances, during the
next few years. Then why does Mr..
Roberts and other authorities place
the interest charge at 51a per cent.
This writer is not preaching doc
trine that he is not willing to practice
himself. He happens. to own an equity
in half section of Iowa land in one
OF the best counties in the state. 1t is
practically all tiled and in good state
of cultivation. a responsible farmer
with a good reputation as crop pro
Queer can rent this farm, after next
year, for period Of five years on a
basis Of per cent on valuation OF
$500 per acre, which Mr.. Roberts gives
as the average value OF Iowa land.
This farm is worth considerably more
than that, based on the selling price
OF similar land sold in the vicinity
where it is located. Mr.. Roberts also
adds taxes Well, this farm can be
rented on basis of four per cent and
the owner will pay the taxes and de-
duct every acre of waste land, includ-
mo oman ditch ight-Of.Wav Or a five
year lease will be given on the basis
OF 3h per cent net, the tenant to pay
taxes
True, farms have been leased in
Iowa during late years for cash
rental of $50 to $50 and some higher
than that, but conditions have been
abnormal and few people thought
rentals would remain at such high
figures. This year, at the reduced
price of grain, the farmer is bound to
lose no matter what interest is figured
on the land, but he will lose at a rental
based on 3E and 4 per cent, which is
going to be fair basis in the future,
with the reasonable expectation that
prices of produce will advance to fair
figure. There is no reason for any
land owner, who owns a fair equity i'll
his farm, to be discouraged. COndi-
tons are going to improve after this
period of readjustment.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

Uncle Sam is little late, as usual,
but he is getting In on the home
stretch with price increasing stunt.
He now charges approximately fifty
per cent more for box rent at the post
Office than heretofore making the
boost during these days of readjust-
ment. Box rent is charged according
to the size of the box, the amount OF
mail one receives having nothing to do
with fixing the price The large boxes
now cost $1.5O quarter, $6 per year.
The former price was 81 per year, and
propOrtionate advances have been
made in the rental OF the smaller
boxes. AS business proposition 1t
doesn't seem sound to deliver mail
daily free of charge to any part OF the
city, at an expense of 5000 or 500 per
month"; and charge the patron who
goes to the office and gets his mail.
The same principle is Apracticed on the
rural routes. The patron residing eight
or ten miles in the country has
his mail delivered every day free OF
charge. If he went to the pOstoffice
for it he would have to pay box rental
unless he depended upon the general
delivery, where a man is employed to
serve the public The cheapest method
the government has of delivering mail
is through the rented boxes and that
is the only delivery service for which
il charges. If it is neces-
sary to increase the re-
ceipts of the postoffice department
land it should be made to pay its own
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

We're lying there lifeless and bloody.
Others, not yet dead, but horribly mutt
lated, were moaning or grooming OF
our men who surrendered, most had
been thus MANNED or slaughtered
At this point it seems body Of
Union cavalry appeared. The grerillas
scattered in every direction, but two
officers and seventeen men were captur-
ed The Union cavalry had before it
the fresh evidence Of the Internal
cruelty Of the guerillas. The inhunan
nineteen died the next day, but we are
glad to say they We're shot and not
mangled and tortured. Under such
circumstances it is creditable to the
self-restraint Of both officers and men
that the guerillas were not treated
as they had treated their victims.
But the point that Quinones makes
and which is supported by history, is
that, strange as it may seem, civil
strife always is more deadly, inhuman
and relentless than any other type. 1t
was so in the Civil war, it was SO in
Mexico, it was so in France many
years ago.
Perhaps after this bit of memory
refreshing on the part of Sig. Quin-
Ones we may feel little more inclined
to spread the mantle of charity and
liberation as we consider the offenSes
Of Mexico. Our own domicile Is OK
tremely fragile.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

This year the income tax turned in
to the national treasury something
like $500, 100000. Under the same
law and under the same methods OF
collection the sum that will be real
lied by the government from this
source next year will in all probability
not exceed two-thirds OF that amount,
due to the fact that incomes will be
heavily cut during the period Of re-
adjustment. One Of the biggest prob.
lens that will confront congress and
the administration will be to devise
ways and means to raise the money
necessary to carry on the government
and to pay interest on the war debt.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

or more, vet this frightful mortality
only temporarily reduced the popula
ton. From the economic point Of view
leaving human sympathies out Of the
account, such a disaster has its com.
pensations. China is overcorwded. When
epidemics rage it~is sometimes difficult
for the government to take relief meas
urcs because of the fatalistic temper
these conditions create; where there
are too many mouths a pestilence may
not be wholly unwelcome. Life be.
comes a lottery and those who survive
will be better off when the disease has
run it's course. The best periods in
China's history have come after one OF
these recurrent calamities has reduced
somewhat the sitting pressure of pop.
ulation which reduces life to strug.
gle for bare existence.
Reformers have dreamed of relieving
this chronic misery by introducing in
to China improved methods of agri
culture and of industry, but such bet
terments can only postpone the s0lu
/ ton of the problem. If they made il
possible to maintain double the popu
latiOn they would provide for the
growth of but sixty years or so when
the problem would recur in an agra
waited form and hundreds of millions
might perish in such crisis as the
Ipresent. SO long as the racial instinct
the religious teaching, and the social
organization of China combine to pro
duce. surplus Of population, the
pressure on the soil must continue
any relief which more scientific pro
ductiOn would give would be merely
temporary, creating not an outlet but
q sink which would gradually fill till
the old level was reached.
a more fundamental solution must
be found. and not for China alone, if
the world is to escape an area Of de-
ISolating wars. OF all the causes of war
by far the greatest and the most per-
sistcnt through history is the strain
caused by differences in the density of
population and in economic pressure.
Theoretically the world as a whole and
most parts Of it as units have come
nowhere near their maximum capacity
for the sUstenance of human life. 1t
is possible for statiStician, taking ac-
count of every fertile acre and Of the
intensive culture by which square
mile may feed hundreds. to picture a
world sustaining in comfort a pOpula-
ton many fold greater than it now
bears. But the Utopian element in
these pictures must not be overlooked.
They contemplate 100 per cent eff
cheney in government as well as in pro-
duction They are based on the as
sumption Of uniform pressure to be
attained gradually throughout the
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03
PRESSURE OF POPULATION.

Springfield, Mass, Republican: 1t is
impossible for the mind to grasp in any
but an arithmetical sense the statement
made the other day that 100000 peo-
pie in China will starve to death de-
spite all that can be done in the way of
relief. No doubt the estimate is vague,
yet China has in the past suffered even
greater calamities. During the TAPPING
rebellion in the 10Th century the com
bined loss of life from war, pestilence,
and famine was reckoned at 4O,OOO,OOO
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03
Advice is very cheap thing to give

Advice is a very cheap thing to give
away. 1t costs nothing, not even in
convenience President Wilson is very
profuse in giving advice, Offering large
slices Of it to congress and the inccm-
ing national administration. He tells
them they ought to practice economy
Woodrow is little late in coming to
the conclusion that economy in gov
ernmental affairs is cOmmendable, but
they tell us that it is better late than
never.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03
GOVERNMENT BONDS.

There is more or less discussion of
ways and means to bring government
bonds to par. Some of the best auth
critics advocate the abolition Of all
taxation and the refunding of all issues
az per cent interest. Present liberty
bonds are exempt from taxation up to
$4,000 worth, par value, held by one
person or corporation, but bonds held
in excess of $4,000, except the issue of
|3h per cent, are subject to surtaxes
and the surtax is very heavy to the
Individual, firm or corporation with a
large net income.
The depreciation Of Uncle Sans
promises to pay at some future date at
stipulated semi-annual interest is
due to the fact that interest rates have
greatly increased during the past few
years and the further fact that income
taxes are collected upon government
bond holdings in excess Of $4,000.
Nobody doubts but that the bonds will
be hOnored when due, or that they will
be worth par at that time, but men who
have large sums of money to invest
naturally want to do the best they can,
hence they prefer to invest III tax
exempt securities like municipal and
school bonds. If they buy other securi-
ties they expect rate of interest that
will yield five or six per cent net
and when money is as much in demand
as at present they can find such in
vestments without much trouble.
1t is question whether it would be
good policy now for the government
to exempt it's bonds from surtaxes.
Many billions of such securities are
now in the hands of capitalists and
the government needs the taxes to
meet its expenses. A large percentage
O: the small investors, who bought the
bends from patriotic motives, have sold
them at loss, and any action now
by the government in the way Of furth-
or tax exemptions would benefit in
greater degree the large holders and
would cause resentment among those
who had purchased in small quantities
and sold at loss of from five to fifteen
per cent.
1t is one of those battling problems
that is most difficult to solve. Nobody
could foresee conditions that have
brought down the market value Of
bonds When the national administra-
ton and the newspapers and the vari-
Gus volunteer organizations that were
trying to sell the bonds to the public
insisted that they would go above par
soon after the close Of the war they;
believed it. They were acting in good
faith. They had before them the previ-
Gus experience of the bond market and
knew that the interest bearing obliSd-
tons of Uncle Sam, even at rates Of
three per cent and below, had gone to
premium, in some cases as high as
25 per cent and one long time issue
went to premium of 80 per cent.
That was when the demand for money
was comparatively small and there
were fewer attractive investments. In
discussing ways and means to bring
government interest bearing Obliga-
tons to par, E. c. Brewer, of +. A.
Brewer 4 Company, says in Invest
ment News:
Il believe there is only one way toI
basis. l believe there is only one way
t. handle the tremendous outstanding
of Uncle Sam today. ! be-
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

world, with no cOnvulsive disturbances
as the pressure increases. This implies
a reign of justice, national and inter-
national, and perfect equity in the
distribution of the good things that the
earth yields.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

way,) a plan should be adopted that
would reach all patrons instead of
only few Of them. Letter postage
could be increased to three cents. Per
haps it was mistake to reduce it a
year ago last July.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

The republican party, both state
and national, promised economy if en-
trusted with power. 1t won hands
down and the people will expect it to
make good. If it fails it will get its
walking papers at the next election.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03
A SALESMAN.

Printers Ink: Somehow they have
allowed the idea to spread that adycr
Using is some mysterious force akin
to hypnotism, that subtly wiggles
money out of the pockets Of its i'm
voluntary victims. Fiddlesticks !!
There is nothing strange or mysterious
or supernatural about advertising and
the cause is not helped by letting peo-
PIE think that there is.
Advertising is nothing but selling.
That is all it is, and that is all any
one can make out of it. 1t is very
simple easily understood subject when
sltorn of it's mystifying terms.
Whenever an advertising agnOstic
is encountered, if the matter were
patiently explained to him in this
light, it should not be hard to make
a convert. Tell him that advertising
differs from personal craftsmanship
only to the extent that, it sells to
thousands simultaneously instead Of
to individuals singly. 1t is a quick
and inexpensive way to carry the
sales appeal to multitudcs. 1t ii a
short cut to the buyer in the mass.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

'The automobile speeder should re-
feet that riding on hospital cot is a
very slow and tedious proposition" OBJ
serves the Oelwein Iowan.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

lnaieting unnecessary cruelty upon
animals is about as mean and coward
~ thing as person can do and the
one guilty Of it would accord like
treatment to people if he dared. But
being a coward he considers the pos
sible cost
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

The people who never join any as
soication for the advancement of the
community, are often the ones who
complain most about the lack Of pro
gress.-Oelwein IOwan.
II the coat fits, dear reader, put ii
on and wear it until you Outgrow 1t.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

FOR SALES. c. Buff OrpingtOn
cockerels, $3.50 each. Also hens and
pulletS for sale. Flock headed by
scored cockerels. Mrs. G. II. Farley.
Phone 424. harrisburg. Iowa.
Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-01-03

The most popular tax in the world
is the one the other fellow pays.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-10-29
Masquerade Dance Enioyed.

masquerade Dance Enjoyed.
A much-enjoyed event of the sea.
son was the Halloween dance with
which Miss Dorothy Townsend en-.
tertalned a number of her friends
last evening at her home in Orange
Mills. This pleasant home has been
the scene of many jolly affairs for
the young people but the dance last
night was an unusual success.
The yard and house were aglow
with Jack-o-lanterns and all the
symbols dear to Halloween time
were in evidence. Fortune telling, a
variety of methods, was a feature of
the evening.
The grand march, which was bril-.
liant with the variety of attractive
costumes, was lead by Arthur Long
dancing with the hostess. A number
of favor dances were featured, and
a clever masked highwayman passed
through the merry throng, "holding-
up" any couple he chose, that he
might dance with the girl. A big gun
aided these "hold-ups."
Punch was enjoyed throughout the
evening, and during an intermission,
ice-cream and cake were served
Chaperoning the young people were
Mr.. and Mrs. D. C. Townsend, DR..
and Mrs. Gordon Stanton, and Mrs.
T. A. Woodruff. Misses Ella Woodruff
and Jacquelin Pursley assisted the
hostess in looking after the pleasure
of her guests.
Present last night were: Misses
Gertrude Williams, Gertrude Mayer,
Jacquelin Pursley, Dorothy Meigs,
Ella Woodruff, Essie Woodruff, Mary
Ruth Woodruff, Katherine Johnson,
Katherine Ray, Evelyn Barnett, Flo
renee McRae, Alice Thomas, Ruth
Browning, Helen de Montmollin,
Helen Bruce, Ophelia Currie, Veola
Benbow, and Frances Henley, and
Messrs. Robley Bruce, Fred Bruce,
John Cannon, Davis Dancy, Carl
Alderman, Miller Stockton, Hugh
Padgett, Tom Perry, Carl Fart,
Charles Dressler, George Currie,
Earnest Oliphant, Bob Webb, Jack
Simmons, Brantley Mosely, Arthur
Long, Paul Leverette, Campbell, Sam
Mccormack, Richard Knight and
Richard Jarrett.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-10-29
Surprise Dinner Party.

Mrs. L. S. Barstow planned a plea
SAINT surprise for Mr.. Barstow for
last evening. Yesterday was Mr.. Bar
slows birthday, and in honor of that
fact, Mrs. Barstow invited few of
his married friends to a delightful
party for last evening at seven
o'clock.
The Halloween idea was carried
out in the novel decorations, and
marking the places were cards done
in black cats and witches. The table
was centered with an impressive
birthday cake, and seated at it were
the honor guest, Mr. Barstow, and
Messrs. s. J. Barstow, J. W. Brown
ing, l.. f. Tenney, NJ. H. Shaw, c. E
Anderson. The delicious menu served
consisted of oyster cocktail, chicken
bouillon, fruit salad in grapefruit
baskets, sliced tongue, pressed chick
en-. peas in potato timbables, baked
beans, guava jelly, olives, stuffed
celery, pineapple dainty with ange1
food cake, and coffee.
Palatka daily news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1919-1994, 1921-10-29
CONVENIENT SCHEDULE TO
JACKSONVILLE ON PILOT BOY

The Palatka-Jacksonville Steam
boat Line has innaugurated a sche-
dule to and from Jacksonville by the
Pilot Boy that will be great con-
venience to Palatkans desiring to
make the daylight trip. The boat will
leave Palatka at 9 a. m. on Tuesdays,
Thursdays and Saturdays and return
at p. m. on Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays. Meals will be served
on board. tt