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MUSCATINE JOURNAL AND NEWS-TRIBUNE, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 Muscatine Journal AND NEWS-TRIBUNE BY JOURNAL PRINTING CO. CLYDE R. RABSDEAUX Publisher. D. D.

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Branch Exchange numbers 26 and 27. Wher; operator answers fur ocrson or department wanted. Letters They 9 Never Receive TO JAMES E. WATSON Dear Senator: You don't always strike a popular note in your public utterances, but you certainly did the other day when you talked on the subject of war debt reductions and disarmament. Your stand that America would be foolish to slash the war debts of European countries who continue to spend vast sums in building up armies, navies and air forces is the stand a great many Americans who have no desire that their tax money shall help prepare the war lords of the Old World for another armed conflagration.

The United States has convincingly demonstrated, we believe, that your sportsmanship in acceding to their demands. The athletic director had said publicly that you were to be retained, and the athletic department apparently was ready to fight it out with those who wanted you to leave. Rather than let this fight take place, i you stepped out gracefully and paved the tH way for the employment of a new coach, who may or may not be in your predicament a few years hence, depending on the fortunes of the game. There are those who believe that Iowa needs more than a new football toj coach before it will take a high ranking ac am gig Ten athletic standings. And "-D 1 1 9 there are thousands of Hawkeyes who wish you nothing but success in whatever position you assume when you leave Iowa.

TO J. S. MORRISON Dear Sir: Residents of this vicinity were glad to learn Friday that you have informed the Muscatine chamber of commerce of plans to place permanent guard rails on highway 61 at Wyoming hill. As resident engineer of the state highway commission in charge of this district, you have previously been informed of the need of strong cables on the dangerous hill, but this is the first occasion on which action has been promised. Perhaps there was a good reason for delaying the action, but in the meantime a life has been lost.

We are pleased that lives of motorists who travel over the hill will be protected in the future. TO NICHOLAS MURRAY BUTLER AND JANE ADDAMS Dear Prize Winners: You have joined the list of illustrious Americans who have been awarded the Nobel prize for efforts to keep the world at peace. The peace prize seems to come to the United States very frequently, and the country is duly proud of the fact. Yet it does seem that it would be a good thing for everybody if the Nobel prize committee could locate a ELIEVE IT OR TVTOT BY RIPLEY -JL es. U.

S. Pat Off.) (Side Glances by George Clark Sutch YORK PRO FOOTBALL TEfrM CAN TEAR A DECK OF CARDS INTO SIXTEENTHS His BARE HANDS CT' person or persons in other countries worthy of the award. It takes only two to start a fight, but it takes almost universal cooperation to avoid international controver- it i i i 1 i' 1 willing to load the way in disarmament leading tQ figMg which are very difficult and other peace moves, if it can be assured that Europe will follow the leader. A great part of Europe, however, howls for reduction of debts from the last war while it spends its substance in preparing for the next. This same portion of Europe insists on its pound of flesh from Germany, which virtually has been prostrated by reparations payments.

In view of the situation, America would do well to ponder before promising any further debt reductions. TO BURT INGWERSEN Dear Coach: News of your resignation as Iowa's football coach was received with varying emotions yesterday. We have no doubt that you expressed the truth when you said that a large number of alumni insisted on a new football coach. Alumni and their brethren, the "synthetic" alumni, have a habit of demanding "new deals" when the football team representing their alma mater fails to win. Even your old mentor, Bob Zuppke, has heard the howling of the wolves on the win- Lry breezes recently, in spite of his record filled with championships in the past.

The Ask League of Nations council, SUDDEN TRAGEDY. What awaits us around the H.E. LUNDQUIS)T -oV Vlittcox, Ariz PUMPS 5 GALS. 1 OF GASOLINE A DAY FROM WELL (N HIS CHICKEN PURE WHITE. SQUIRREL TtftCHtS ANAU5JS OF FINANCIAL STATEMEHTS i "I'd like to go along, Jw, but I'm all tied 'up till Christmas.

There's a guy here what's promised me a box of cigars." "As You Were' (From the Journal's Files) CAUGHT BY ROBERT Lisbcm.N.H Explanation of Yes. terday's Cartoon. THE DIX FAMILY OF PUBLISHERS Three generations of the Dix family, of Wooster, are now actively engaged in newspaper publication. E. C.

Dix, 58, publishes the Wooster, Record, assisted by his father, Albert Dix, who is £6, A. V. Dix, age 30, is the publisher of the Ravenna, Record, so it appears inevitable that A. V. Dix, his 2-year-old son, will be at a copydesk within a few more years.

And it is most curious to note that there is exactly 28 years betweeu each of the tour generations. MONDAY "The Suppliant Sadhu." night, tomorrow? We know not. to-I What would we do, iiow would we feel, it' we were to foresee an early, unexpected rendezvous with death? It is an interesting conjecture; for though we recognize as I inevitable the stepping from this transitory plane into another world, the happening which suddenly and unexpectedly takes from us friends and relatives, leaves us stunned and uncomprehending of the mysterious workings of the Divine hand. Accidents of all kinds which take their toll of human lives are told about daily in the news columns of the press. They happen everywhere.

But the closer home they strike, the more aroused we naturally become. Yesterday S. R. Amlong, president of the Aledo State bank, an-1 widely known in banking circles in this section of the state i met his death while driving his automobile on a business errand. It is a sad coincidence that the accident wherein he received his fatal injuries, occurred at almost the identical spot where two Rock Island men, Sidney A.

Carney, former Rock Island county farm advisor, and Glenn Wescott, were killed in an automobile three ago, near Hamlet, about nine miles north of Aledo on state route No. 3. In the tragic loss of Mr. Amlong, Mercer county and its county seat has been deprived of the services and counsel of one of its leaders; a man who un- Romantic Political Drama Raising of Philip Snowden to English Peerage Recalls His Lifelong Comradeship With Premier Ramsay MacDonald in Many Important Battles By MILTON BKONNEK NEA Service Writer. the heights of romantic political drama in Great Britain were reached the other day when the son of a poor Scotch peasant farmer, a "Lossiemouth loon," recommended to King George V.

of England that he make a trusty viscount of the son of a poor worsted weaver of past is over quickly in the football world, had much to do with the progress of our and only tho present seems to count. Even sister county to the south. Our sympathy goes out to fami)y and to om friends and nelgh those who clamored for your dismissal, how- of Mercer county, whose loss strikes so close ever, could hardly fail to be impressed with to home Rock island Argus, OUT OUR WAY BY WILLIAMS A. Ciooo snGv-rr; AFTER TUoT, "5VJ5.AT T've. A UTTuE.

MOO, DAVE I'M TO POT CAM'T BX.AME AM To -Tt-V TOP OF A W'lMO OF A OOM'-T A GoV JOB ITS HARD "TO 8H. LET OOVMM MIA Philip Snowden son of a poor worsted weaver, now a peer of the realm: viscount. the tiny Yorkshire hamlet of Ickornshaw. In other words and terms, J. Ramsay MacDonald, for the fourth time prime minister of England, asked his king to make of Philip Snowden, three times chancellor of the exchequer, a peer of the realm.

No novelist ever invented anything quite so stirring as the strange manner in which the lives and activities of MacDonald and Snowden have been intertwined, making them as brothers in most big causes. Snowden is the elder of the two men by a bare two years. He was born in a small cottage in. the hamlet of Ickornshaw up in Yorkshire in 1S64. MacDonald wa.

born in a peasant's thatched cottage in Lossiemouth up in Scot land hi 1S66. Both had austere upbringing. Both knew poverty. Both went to such public schools as their villages afforded. Snowden passed an examination and entered his country's civil service.

MacDonald carne up to London, did a lot of jobs and almost starved. Both, men became socialists. MacDonald, for a while, was secretary to a prominent liberal. M. P.

Snowden, who had been a liberal, failing to convert his party to more progressive views, left it and became a socialist. In the early years of the twentieth cen- tury, when Snowden was chairman of the independent labor party, MacDonald was secretary of the bigger labor party. Later he was to succeed Snowden as chairman of the independent labor party. Theii work trought them together. Thus was founded a friendship which has known no variation.

Between them they very largely made the labor party. Both men, after various futile attempts, were finally elected to parliament as socialists. During the World war, when the labor party also was a war party, MacDonald and Snowden opposed the war. Both suffered defeat as soon as the voters could get at them. Both, after several vain attempts, were again elected parliament.

MacDonald, at bound, was made the leader of the labor party in the house of commons and Snowden became one his trustiest lieutenants. When MacDonald became the first labor premier in 1924, Snowden became the first labor chan cellor of 'the exchequer. Bad made his own kind of reputation in the house. "Ramsay Mac" was the eloquent orator, moving bj the music of his voice and the pol isb. of his sentences.

Snowden was the "seagreen in corruptible," the Icy speaker loaded down with facts and mak ing full use of them. Philip the Donald was premier and Snowden chancellor of the exchequer. In the second national government MacDonald will be In his old place as premier in the house of commons. But that place will mow Snowden no more. A3 a peer and as lord privy seal in the cabinet, he will have his seat in the house of lords.

But when sessions are over, It's a ten to oue bet that the Lossiemouth loon and the Ickornsbaw lad will get together and talk over policies and statecraft. UOTATIONS If all the folks in the States would do the few simpla things they know they ought to do, most of our big problems FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY. The Muscatine Chautauqua Circle held a roeeting at the home of Mrs. D. P.

Johnson. The topic of discussion was "The Rights and Duties of a Citizen." Announcement of the incorporation of the Muscatine Lumber company was made. The capital stock of the organization was 1200,000. TWKNTY-FIVE YEARS AGO TODAY. Mrs.

Molie Wiles, of Muscatine, was named chief of honor of Banner Lodge, Degree of Honor, at the annual meeting in Muscatine. She succeeded Kate Eitman in the office. J. M. Brockway, Louisa county, and J.

I. Nichols, West Liberty, were appointed members of the resolutions committee of the Corn Belt Meat Producers' association at the state meeting in Des Moines. Construction work at the new waterworks station on Muscatine island was completed. Only a few finishing touchei on soms of the buildings remained. TEN YEARS AGO TODAY.

Members of the Christmas Savings clubs of the Musantins banks collected This amount exceeded the deposits ot 1920 by 520,000. Announcement was definitely made that the central states Independent basketball championship tournament would be held la Muscatine Feb. 10 and 11. Carl Fischer was' elected president of the Laurel Literary society at the first regular meeting after serveral vacation. Louis Froehner was named vice president.

would take care of themselves. Coolidge. The shake of the hand has suffered such debility that a hearty one makes you wonder what the fellow C. Bailey, English Author. The child who has been trained simply to obey, is not equipped to face the complexities of modern Rose of Cornell University.

Wealth, notoriety, place and power are no measure of success G. Wells, English Novelist and Historian. Anyone dabbling in the occult, deliberately depriving himself of vision, man's chief means of getting Information, himself mentally Dr. William J. Mayo.

A hundred or two hundrca millionaires cannot brier prosperity; it's what the average man earns that A. Filane. Communism can be a menace to capitalism, only if capitalism cannot solve its von Beckerath, University of Bonn. All laws attempting to deal with private voluntary sex relations should be Buckler, Writer. Men are whatever womea want them to Parry- more, Stage and Screen Star.

OUR BOARDING Ramsay MacDonald son ol a poor peasant farmer, now head of British government: premier. Bold exchanged for shaft with Winston the Rash. Once more there came a national crisis, second only in importance to that of the war. Once more MacDonald and Snowcien stood together. The first national government was formed.

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