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bition Boys Seldom Finish Trade Education By A. E. WINSH1P be adm.tted that there is a skillfully promoted and amplv "movement" for curbing the ambition of the children of poor. 1 here is certainly no "movement" to the of the rich and cultured, and there is no public demand for the public for any class. Kvmtlung in ijlpction IB artificial.

American city of 300,000 population haa an ele-ant trade school for boys of fourteen and upwards, on which it by state law about one-seventh as much as upon the education tens of thousands of children, paying the expert trade school and prov him i socialized of the trades. sebool superintendent, the school board, all papers of the city and the labor unions are in the I had several years of enthusiastic i up to date they never found one boys for all of the.se school-shoo, any f. About a fourth of a to be alVr a time that' can er learn the trade M-ctod, and another get tired of 'early out. There is slight prospect a they will ever graduate, as thy and well qualified, fifty boys a year in a fur pentenng, ir 0ll working and pattern making. The "movement" anestinjr, but the demand is not a tidal wave.

In a great industrial state a memorial trade was established I attendance was promoted to the i i brought forth a i a lad who was i i to learn the three consented eara carpentering and some others i to be electrical engineers. A TOM of vast wealth, believing that the "movement" a a demand! a fortune for a marvelously complete technical i i i where they only.provide free tuition and free material but free clothes foor years, so that a voting man can have a good trade wholly without aiuHhe absence of any tremendous i a for It-amin jnary trades is interesting. Some years ago the "movement" i i a launched in lagachuafetta by the appointment of an i i a education commission, a which the state was seduced to expend about $100.000, and it prom-' 3 to pay one-half of the entire expense of any sort of trade school or (hereof, by day or by night, and a an elaborate three ELECTION OF OUR SENATORS BY THE PEOPLE 1ECT IS AL. MOST ASSURED. CHANGE GENERALLY FAVORED State Legislatures Are Expected to Ratify the Conttitutional Amendment--Provision for Federal Control Not Been Eliminated.

By GEORGE pLINTON. If the states of the Union, through their legislatures, do what it is expected they will do, it is virtually assured that every United States senator sworn into office two next March will present years from credentials which are direct gifts from the people. Ten years ago If It had been suggested to the elders of the senate that In little more than a decade the existing system of senatorial elections be a thing of the past they have said that such a thing was only a dream of the dreamers. It would a been too radical a proposi- tion then to have been received with law, and that the demand should to heeded and the matter consideration. Senator O'Gorman la not an eitremlst on the subject of regulation of the great business corporations of the country.

He has a good deal of the conservatism of the old- time Judge about him, but he is willing, it is said, to go Just ne far an Mr. Wilson is willing to go to check the evils which have manifested themselves in great business. say that with the i work of framing amendments to the I Sherman anti-trust law business need not tremble in its boots over the out- come. The Democrats who say thli i are men who think that Mr. O'Gor- man belongs to the reactionary ele- i meut in his party, but there have AWARDS MADE AT THE CORN SHOW AT AMES.

STATE ANNIVERSARY EVENT. DISGRACED: HAPPENINGS OVERTHE STATE General News of Iowa Collected and Condensed from Many Sources that will Prove of Interest to Our big job of judging the thousands ot ears of corn in the annual fchow of the Iowa Corn Growers' association has been finished and been little perhaps in the Judge's rtc- ord or in his speeches to prove that the criticism Is Just. Tariff Not Really Firtt. In speaking of the forthcoming leg- vll uaa UK siatkm under the new administration drcds of ribbons have been the Democratic leaders ia congress al- ways put the tariff first in place and nrst in importance. When they talk about legislation it appears few of them mink that first place in real business importance belongs to the tariff.

The tariff, in the minds of the Democrats, seems to have the first place in political importance i Twentieth Birthday of a Deniton lege Celebrated. twentieth anniversary of the opening of the Denison -Normal and Business college was celebrated at the college chapel Friday evening. Ex-Congressman Conner, president of the board of trustees of thp college, presided. The institution was founded largely through the enthusiastic of Hon M. Shaw he was a resident of this city, and his portrait had a prominent place on the platform Addresses were made by Charles member of tho Lowa legislature from Harrison county; c.

Kuehnle. one of the original large contributors for thp college. Editor L. Cuswell and Prof. C.

Van Ness, who has at the head of thp institution for nineteen years. Much erthusiasm by prizes ot For corn, more than 1'OH ribbons were given for oats, barley and wheat. 73 or 80. The each and oth i repr-si'nti ci a total more than This year's that more men a i are sivins attention to corn breeding in 0 Secretary II. Kkhlinir, of as-socia- over the anniversary v.as bhowii citizens ot Denison and Over S.IIMO difiei-put pupils have been given msmictirn in clir The present attendance is the i largest in its Iiistcry.

Alter the serv- I of refreshn.d.ts to a'l college I bojs fired an i bor.firp on the campus, i veils and resound- I ing i late in 'he niglu. "We dined out last evening. Pa dia- graced us, as usual." "How so." "Got to the end of the dinner with three forks and two spoons still unused." a i but smiles a some sneers The Democrats admit that the Rood treean- of revising the tariff will not be as from the conservatives of the dav. The terms of i senators will expire March 3, and it is entirely probabie rliat every one of their sue- hard as the work of regulating tha I and trusts, although generally they do not use the word regulating. Through than Iowa.

i be lar- While here cess-ors will be elected under a new loil series of years the methods of there provision or the constitution which tariff "ision have glve pt of)le the ri ht directly become well The attempts finally to settle the "to name their men." In a recent! tlle trust question all have dispatch the possibilities in the case fact perhaps is equally true'of of the income tax amendment to the i le a but at an rate so far as constitution were discussed. The i cust are concerned, the Derao- amendmont which provides that t'nited States senators shall be directly elected by the people is in less danger of defeat than its companion tax amendment, although the latter probably will successfully'travel the road to accomplishment. ever not up to standard, judges i in a i a in this ear's show is less of it a ever "We're irakins progress in said one of that's i i i about tins hibit." re 'tt'a." thp Riat- ear's ex- year Last rin 13, to be exact-- the amendment to the of speech making and banqueting prominent and e.xpen- lobbying in many cities and towns did not succeed in starting rherc i the suspicion of a trade idea in it. Well, the time has not come to tell all that is "real causes." They may fool all the people a little while, some people a long time, but 1 refuse to believe that they the people all the time. of the devotion to the children of the poor of any years' tution for the direct election of senators.

Three a later the secretary of state received an embossed parchment copy of the resolution. It was transmitted to the states of the Union for ratification. The legislatures of only two of the states have been in session since the action of congress on the amendment was taken. The legislatures of Massachusetts and Montana considered the resolution and eram a interest grows and some of tiie displays this of a i The ot oats, i i grand chaii- shown by Kred McCul- Thu i lovva count IIP also USt ie ls atl on problem will second honors in i vvhpar first honors the varintv crats know a they want to do while they do not kuow definitely they want to do the trusts. hiihli they know nothing at how to do it.

STATE CAPITAL CHAT Seat to Gillette. UPS Homes Ci! Cilir-tte. Democrat and seiiator-elect from the Ida- distnc-i. i have i a seat in senate. certificate Juts been pent by secretary of nate the time the official 'c-an- of the vote niade was de- I cided a in cave a contest is filed i before rbe is issued a certificate shall not be issued until tile contest is settled.

The a general's office revers- ed itself at the of the year and i certiiicare was se to Mr. Gillette. be studied, not only by O'Gorman but by other Democrats ia the house class and senate whose legal training is sup-1 wheat posed to make them fit for the work and SKIN ERUPTION ON CHEEK Kiagsley, May my thirteen-months-old baby had a aoro come on her cheek. It started in four cr five small pimples and in two or three hours' time spread to the size of a silver dollar, it spread to her ere. Then water would run from pimples and wherever that touched it caused core sores until nearly all one cheek and up her nostrils were ono solid sore.

She was very fretful. cerainly was a terribie looking child, and nothing seemed to be of any use. "Then I got some Cuticura Soap and Cutictira Ointment. She tried to rub off everything we put on so that we would and hold her hands for two tours at a time, trying to give the medicine a chance to help her, but There be a hard winter and hard spring tho chambers of the students of the problem of big busi- ratified it. interest that has been willing to sacrifice the children of the greed of mill and factory and has never had a voice to certain it the crime of child labor.

in private conferences and at the banquets of the elect that other states will do. No Opposition in Sight tn January, 1913, the legislatures of thirty-three states meet. This ii i.iii:c oi.ai.ca uitfeu i nis num- ot the poor ought not to be allowed to choose for themselves I ber includes Massachusetts and Montana, leaving thirty-one legislatures in session whose duty it will be to ratify or to reject the amendment lines of industrial life. may not show where the ''real causes" come from, and aeain i i i I iu icjeui. uie amenam It ft as entirely easy tinder existing conditions to make this i will put senatorial elections place to curb a poor bov's ambition.

sight. Sometime the ''real may cease to fool the at Will unt ong Ileie the ''real anises" fa a i is made tli.it American bovs do not stand at and remove i hats tho American flag is displayed and the national anthem rendered. proval. directly Into the hands of the people Thirty-six states must ratify before he amendment can take Its place as in added paragraph to the great docu- taent. If all tlie legislatures which aieet in January sanction the amendment it will be within three votes of the adoption stage.

There is no reason to believe, in the light of recent know if Mr Wilson, Mr. O'Gorman and the rest can answer the ques-! tions. The bf-st ot was grown bv F. Atchek. of Jasper r-ountv This same man had the best bushoi of barley.

The best ten bushels of barley wore by nuik Kouba, of Heijton Thp nest peck of i seed shown by J. Bursv. of county. The attendance and interest at the show is justifying its return to lovva State college, where it started nine years ago. surround thp ex day, ul! of them students When it was announced that George after Cashed it with Cuticura Soap and then put on the Cuticura Ointment they seemed to her and she did not try to rub them off.

It was only a few days before her face was all healed up. and there has been no return of the trouble since. We Coburn, Hep'iblican. had contested Mr. Gillettr-'s election it at once suggestpu that Sammis, rptiring i senator, occupy tha seat until his sucrpssor tied.

all posfibilitj of Mr. Sammis sitting eht that baby's face would sureiy in the senate. be scarred, but it is not." (Signed) In i rase thpre was but one SIr f- Cleland, Jan. 5, 1912. vote margin In thp official a i Soap and Ointment sold vass.

Mr Coburn has declared that throu the world. Sample of each hp bclipves a recounting of the votes rre ith 32 -P- Skin Book. Address was elected and quali- i ins the certificate eliminates i any state will withhold its ap- It seems to me that have euouo-h of such 81 display of so-called patriotism. Lnless ihe Amoncan boy has a good reason to be proud of his countrv it on account of the protection which the government allords its citizen? as to life, I by ch ance. objection should be fifteen legislatures to meet in January.

1914- and no lead 1 of any party in of the United states will pro- May End Labor Disputes. Representatives of both capital and hlblts labor, Judging from what they have of CCnl said about the matter for Some of the awards by classes fol- seem to believe that toe commission' low: on industrial relations which haa just I A (best ten ears of any va- been appointed by President Taft will 1 sweepstakes--I. K. Proudlit, be able after investigation and study A 'toona. Polk county, to suggest some means for adjusting 1 class (best ear of any variety), labor disputes in the future and pos- sweepstakes--K.

L. Reed, Lon- sibly for their avoidance altogether. Henry county. The commission which President' Taft appointed in accordance with an act of congress is made up as follows: Senator George Sutherland, Utah; George B. Chandler, Rock Hills, Con- i necticut; Charles Simon Union City, Frederick A.

Delano, 1 atl) variety)--B. H. McClintock. Ks- of Chicago, president of the Wabash railroad; Adolph Lewisohn, New York city; F. C.

Schwedtman, St. Louis; Austin B. Garretson, John B. Lennon, Bloomington, and James! O'Connell, Washington, D. C.

It should not be understood that this commission is to give its entire time to the work of trying to find means to Class exhibit of five ear samples of com) Proudfit. Roy Proudfit, C. R. Bishop. T.

Packer, C. Packer. Altoona, Polk county. Class (amateur 25 ears corn. sex.

Page county. Class ears any variety). sweepstakes--Ray Redfern, Roscoe. DPR Monies county. Class (best bushel of state.

an variety), sweepstakes-Krizer Bros. Kddyvillp, Mahaska county Class (parent ear i five off- springs (--Carl Holden, Osford, Johnson county. Class contest (best two will disclose a several votes he was elected by 'Cuticura, Boston." IOWA NOTES The sent to the senate included that of the renomination of Herman Ternes to be postmasrer at state board of education has $p- Problem in Physics. A nath of on the coast of Scotland, when the contract for the building of the first three steamers fitted with electric lights at the local ship- vard was completed, formed one of the social party gathered to entertain the electricians, says Ideas. In a lected Prof Doming of Yale tor our st of candor and comradeship, he the chair of economics at Iowa City.

The members of the board were instructed to prepare an answer heard to say to one of the wire- nen: Peter, efter workin' wl' you ordination order. Thomas Bfjgmon. 24 years was mon," replied Sandy, 'tis this: I dinna ken hoo ye get the lie ue alang the wires." property and liberty, or for other reasons, Vl(ie for a new way to elect members such a display must appear senseless. Uncovering the head does not make for It is a theaters one can notice the hysterical shouts leaders in of the upper house. Federal Control to Continue.

The Democratic party, through its fcorde when the flag is displayed. Is this patriotism? uig America were made to understand ihe lack of fair-minded- prevalence of the brutal cruelty to which the aged congress, voiced a desire for the direct choice of members of bUt Wmed t0 give ana supervision of the elections Into the hands of the states. This prevent future conflicts between capital and labor. It has been given authority to go far afield in its Inquiries Uilrts silage)--Freri McCullock, Hart- and if it should satisfactorily clean up Iowa Bounty, the slate of difficulties which has been iass best bush given It. it probably will go down into sta kes--Fred history as the greatest body of public benefactors ever given official life.

It is impossible that the commission can do all that it is told to try to do, but if it does one of the things committed bushel oats), sweep- McCullock. Hanwick. ted, the nation-wide plundering of the people by some of their i tne Republicans nor the pro- if our boys could be made to and abhor all American gressive Republicans in the senate would stand for The house was iL i 1 1 1 1 i A wuuu i ue uuuse, a Uem- then, if these boys could be brought 1o work for a betterment of ocratic, and for a long time the upper for the implanting of honesh. intcgritv and justice, such a and lowcr house men wer at logger- would bo worth while heads on the form which amend- i i i i i j- i i was to tatie or rather on the us work to a end and forget tne felithism demonstrafetl when question of striking out the "federal is sung. control provision." feiitional anthem us first pledge our boy? to work tow an producing condition? of American shall have reason to be proud to the flag that flies over such a count rv Then let us uncover any onders Of Our odern urgery ML C.

VUN Surgery already doe? things (hat to a past would have sivmcd miracles, but there is ground for believing that ptill greater i in that line arc to come. The young French surgnan, Card, has shown the. possibilities of replacing loati portions of the a frnme through his experiments on dumb animals, and some startling results have been attained. If these i are demonstrated in the case of brutes it is logical to assert they can be done with tho a subject. It is too early to say just yet how far ling may be carried, but it is not visionary to prophesy that a new new foot, or even a new leg may be conferred on one who haa member.

employee of a railway company gets in an accident, his foot is and it is necessary to amputate. Hidden away somewhere, let ia the foot of a felon who for some capital offenae had suffered ation. nngeon of the future will fit the preserved foot bj proper aU to the linb of the railroader, and in due coune of time he ai mod A ptdal tm ia life, The majority in tho senate insisted that the amendment should not change in any way the article prescribing fed- oral authority over senatorial elections. The joint resolution, as the house passed it. gave the states absolute authority.

There was a year's delay before the Democratic majority in the house yielded, and so It is that the states today have an amendment before them which dots not interfere in any way with the existing provision the right! which It has had for years. O'Gorman May Enter Cabinet. James A O'Oorman. junior senator from New York, is giving his attention to the matter of trust legislation under the coming Democratic administration. No one knows definitely whether Mr.

O'Oorman baa teen asked by Mr. Wilson to devote Bis attention to a study of a subject which Is certain to trouble bis party or whether the senator ia at it of his own will, but the fact that be is directing bis legal knowledge and his common sense to the matter makes Washington believe that James A O'Gorman as the next attorney sen- eral of the United States far from being an Impossibility. Tha New York senator said that there la undeniable demand for to the Sbwrmu utl-tnut to It for solution it probahly i get a something of a place in the history of the economics of the country. The commission will have the cooperation of the department of commerce and labor and it is empowered Iowa rountv Class .1 ibest half bushel of winter wheat, a a i open to state-W. Atclieck, Grinnpll.

Jasper countv. Tlass (best half bushel wheat, to Frederick Lehman of St. Louis. 3n tne boats I believe I could put in who recently attacked board's co-, the elec tnc licht masel', but there's one thing that bates me." "Aye, aye. Sandy, what is that?" electrocuted at Clarlnda wbifo" em lnq ulred his interested friend, willing Ployed in i i a steel partition in t0 lB hIm if il laj in his wer the local plecric plant.

He was empkned by a Drs Mcines firm. had recent Ij iruuried His wits is very ill i has not yet been toid of her husband's death Balanced. a Pujo wag talk a divorcff, were granted Sac Washington about the currency, in I'lli 1 the same a "It must balance," he said. "It In 1911 There is an i must balance automatically and deli- how ever, in ratio of marriage i I cately. It must resemble the Christmas censes issued to (iivorcts granted, as husband'' the clerk's words srhow an increase 'Oh.

John, said this chap's of the licences, the be- 1 wife, Tm sc sorry you've got all those heavy parcels to to hold meetings anywhere in Vnited States. Each member the will draw $10 a day as a salary and to this wilt be added the actual expenses while engaged in the work. i i Barrett Repreienti Farmers. Labor conditions in agriculture form one of the specific study duties of the Charles Simon Barrett of Union City, is known as the president of the Farmern' Union. He as the representative of i the farmers upon the while the labor representatives are expected to include In their duties the proper gathering of facts concerning the life of the agricultural i John B.

Lennon and O'Con-1 nell are officials of the American Fed-' eration of Labor. Austin Oarretson of Iowa it) the president of the Order of Railway Conductors. This order ia I not affiliated with the American Fed-! eration of Labor. This Is not the first industrial com mission which has been appointed by a president of the United States. The moot famous one, which was not called an industrial commission, but was one In the highest sense, was that named by Theodore Roosevelt in 1902 to Investigate the anthracite coal In Pennsylvania.

Every man on that commission was known to the country at large. The members of the present Industrial commission are not so well known as those of the anthracite coal strike commission, but this by no means Is held to war against the of securing results. The commission an able body and every man (or it Is known In hta particular Held aa a hard and open to state--Fred Mc- i lovva county. Class (best bushel barley)--w. F.

A driunell, Jasper county. Best ten bushels barley, open to state--Frank Kouba. Blairstovui, Bent Class (best peck timothy Feed) J. Burgy, South Amana. Iow a county.

Two Persons i Webster i fast passenger on the Illinois Central struck an automobile at Duncoinbe. instantly i i Miss Florence Mariclp of Duncombe. Leon W. Webster of i city. James Butler, the i member of the party, lirs at tlle hospital here hovering life and death.

The occupants; of the auto were rcturnine from a party and were just entering nuncombc to take Miss Maricle to her home. The fast train does not stop there ami just as the i consummated a drove on to the tracks the train crash-1 Chicago. Burlington a ed into them at speed Miss Maricle met instant death, and the auto ing 149 in liilu as against li'O 1011. i SIS in her handbag, which she intended usinjr to pay her church subscription. Mrs Howard sat in the a i i room of the street car company in Paii'moiu pirk.

Council Bluffs, a i i for a cur, and i there was robbed of the purse and contents by a man who the bag from the woman's, prasp and scaped. KiiRineer George a i and his fireman. Walter Robinson, seriously injured, the latu-r probobly a a and Conductor If A. Nasoii and Engineer Jacob Hogan less seriously nun a Minneapolis and St. Louis way freight collided headon i an eneine miles north of Albion Both engines wore wrecked Rev Dr Samuel XV.uson.

who at the i he was rector of i i church of Iowa one of the best Episcopal cleremen in the state, has resigned his rectorship at Akron. Ohio, and has pone to Paris to assume charge of i a Fpiscopal church of tliat i He was rector of the church in low.i City for 10 eare. Offered S7.000 for two and one-half lots on which the factory buildings were located in lliibuquc. the Adams Patent Wheel company of Cassulle. deal with the Quincy rail- I 'Well, you John panted, re- aspuringly.

-my pocket is very much lighter now The Condition. "Can wife keep a secret?" "Certainly, if there is nobody around for her to tell it to Many a ir.an performs his work as though he thought he was doing the a favor. smashed i i i wood. The train was stopped and the two injured men brought to tins It was not expected Butler live the night out. la worker.

Land Swindle Victims. Fort Fort bonnp men aro back of an tion by the authorities of an land swindle. The men have invested $1.500 in sums from $10 to $75 each. When a man who makes a pament by mall to Des Moinea had a letter returned unclaimed the Investors became suspicious. It la thpught the land swindlers leased government land south of Des and taen ptv- Unded to sell It They took Investors to Dea Molnea art showed taut the property i TP- vert to the later for double tracking purposes The cotnoany i accurd- i Us buildings and remove them, part bv part, to some other location in a price paid for the lots three years ago.

James Luksan. aged go. committed suicide by hanging himself at his farm in Liberty township, Plymouth county. It is supposed he was insane. The funeral of the six victims of the accident on a railroad crossing just west of Denison was held in the Germania hall.

The services ware conducted In German, Rev. Mr. Wetieler of SchleswlR, officiating. The hall crowded with people. The only survivor of wven of the carriage which waa struck by the engine states that the trtia but wu thooiat to a Substantial Breakfast Pleasure in every package of Post Toasties Crisp, sweet bits of toasted Indian Com, to be served with cream or milk.

Ready to Eat Direct From Package-- Sold Where. Always Delicious, by Onal U. lEWSPAPERr SlEWSFAPERl.

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