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THE DAILY TIMES JANUARY 20. 3 HE TIMES "COMPULSORY MILITARY SERVICE" I Can Work Now Idle Thoughts flT TN SHUN! mMPftNY fSPfCM ORDERS usual success in a financial way. The men with whom he worked at the bench years ago were not forgotten nor overlooked. He kept In touch with them. All were his friends.

i A number of years ago Mr Haak became a director In the Iowa National bank. This election was an expression of the confidence in him and a tribute to his ability by men who had watched his progress from small be glnnings. His life record was one ol conscientious endeavor, square dealing, sincere purpose and optimistic belief In Davenport and Davenport people. He was a man of comparatively few words; he let what he had SFR6ZRNT Mm ft -DEPLOY Y0M CQMPRAtY ON (RtlR DUTY G0 TO TRE WORE PROWS WS JWfEP THEPrmS BRING COTL -fWUAS WRTEff THEN REPORT kRRTIONS RT tll vjfefo SKpij iff A I Had Catarrh Of the Head and Throat Pcnina Has Done Mc a Great Deal Of Good. A.

29 "I recommend Peruna to all sufferers of catarrh. I am really surprised at the work I ran do. I never felt better than since I took Peruna for catarrh of tho head and throat. I was unable to ork. Four bottles of Peruna did wonders for me." Mrs.

W. H. Illnchllffe, 20 Myrtle Beverly, Mass, Thote who objact to liquid mdi clne can now procure Peruna Tb lets. ships to the corporation, but if tba corporation can establish its credit, it may go on and buy $100,000,000 -worth of ships, or eveu more. The board may pledge the credit of the United States, through its ownership of this stock, to the purchase of an number of ships which their owners may cara to sell on credit.

"There Is nothing in the whole scheme to commend it. There never has been such a partnership between the government and private interests in the whole history of the country. The nearest we came to it was when we bought the stock of the Panama Hallway Co. from its French owners, but there we bought all of the stock; otherwise we should not have gone near It. "I am not opposed to government ownership and operation of public util ities, nut we are, in this Democratic bill, putting tho government in charga of the operation of a public utility un der the most unfavorable conditions.

Public operation should never occur except where the government has com plete ownership or complete control. If we built or purchased, and operated, a railroad from New York to San Francisco, we should not only control ab solutely tho rates upon that road, but we would influence also the rates upon all computing roads. Over the steamship traffic lines, however, wo can exercise no such control. I think this experiment is doomed to failure, and thereby to discredit the principle of government ownership to Uie advantage of the government, since a naval auxiliary would be maintained with maximum economy. "The government can fix the freight rates, by stipulation In the lease provided in my bill; It cannot under tho Administration measure.

Ships operated under my plan would be subject to the laws of the United States In every respect, and would be solely under American registry. Neither requirement 1h found In the bill promoted by the Democratic majority. "I have taken occasion to talk with most of the Republican senators, and with many of the Democrats, about my substitute for the administration plan. I shall have the support of nearly all of the Republicans, and If a caucus pledge or extreme pressure from th White House were not an element in tho decision I Bhotild have the nip-port of a considerable number of Democratic senators for the substitute bill." MOX'T II "SIZED I IV Washington, D. Tost: Billy Sunday refuscB to be placed on exhibition and "looked over" or "sized up" by the Boston clergy, In responsa to an Invitation tno onittelleal a'liance of that city, to hold a ono-night revival In Tremoiu tcmole, tii.it body yesterday received the following reply by mall from ilw "It must be the unanur.oua Invitation of Boston clergy.

I could come for one evening, but not te have the mlutslers size me tip, I never candldated In my life. If I thought 1 was to be sized up, eomin? for one evening to have the ministers tell whether thoy liked me or not, I would not come on any date." Ilesiiine Importation of Chemicals Imports of chemicals and drugs, which were seriously Interrupted It the firs', thr inoMlis following the outbreak cf tiie Kuropean war, h.ivu again resumed normal proportions according to government reports. Tho November Imports were valued at against $0,746,147 In November, 1313, In November, 1912, and $5,702,747 in November, 1911. The importation of chemicals, drugs, and dyes has averaged per month during the last five years, but In August the total fell to and in September to $5,519, 000. With a partial reopening of trade channels there has been a marked increase in imports of chemicals ana drugs, which rose to $7,382,082 in October and in November, as above noted, amounted nearly to $8,000,000.

American Kailroads-The Southern Pacific By THE TIMES COMPANY P. ADLEB, FnMUher. 7. E. HABDMAN, Managing Editor.

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TTOZX, LEASED WIBE SEBVICE OP THE ASSOCIATED PBESS Member American Hewspaper Fublishers' Association THE DAILY TIMES Sworn Detailed Circulation for tha Month, of December, 1914 1 Tnes. a Wed. 8 Thurs. 4 Fit 6 Sat. 26,230 83,220 26,213 26,718 26,650 17 ThtUS.

26,140 18 Fri. 26,025 19 Sat 26,464 20 Sunday 21 Mon. 22 Tues. 23 Wed. 24 Thurs.

25 rri. 26 Sat. 26,020 26,010 26,065 26,110 26,115 26,390 sSunday 7 Mon. 26,231 8 Tues. 26,248 9 Wed.

26,254 10 Thurs. 26,248 11 Fri. 26,223 27 Sunday 12 Sat. 26,690 28 Mon. 26,136 13 Sunday 29 Tues.

26,088 14 Mon. 20,247 30 Wed. 26,089 15 Tues. 26,296 31 Thurs. 26,100 16 Wed.

26,380 Total number of papers printed 708,600 Average each issue for December, 1914 28,244 I. E. P. Adler, publisher of The Daily Times, do solemnly swear that the actual number of copies of the paper named, printed and circulated, during the month of December. 1914, was as above stated.

E. P. ADLER. Subscribed and sworn to before me this Slst day of December. 1914.

ISAAC FETERSBERGER, Notary Public. Scott County, Iowa. Our daily average (or OJ. December was Urit FKBDIN AND HAAK Ferdinand Haak was one of Davenport's representative business men one of the builders of the city, in fact for he had established a large factory which did much to advertise the city over a wide territory. At the age of 25 years, after learning the cigar maker's trade and working at it for a time, he started in.

business for himself. That was in 1870, and the factory was small and the product unknown. But he put into the goods that same sincerity and honesty that has characterided him In all his dealings throughout his business career. Born in Germany, coming here at the age of 12, he entered the local schools and when he attained the age of 19, which permitted him to enlist, he went to the front in Company Eighth Iowa infantry. It was because of no fault of his own that he could not enlist sooner, or that once having enlisted the war came to a close and he was mustered out at the end of one year of service.

He always took a keen interest in the affairs of government, although he was not at all demonstrative about it. He was quiet, unassuming and industrious. He had married three years before he established his factory. His family life was most happy and he worked always with the thought In view that his sons would some day help to take care- of the business which he was sure would grow and prosper. His hopes were fully realized.

Those who were acquainted with Mr Haak declare he had a most sunny disposition. He was not known to use harsh word. He made friends with everyone, and no one was ever made to feel that he had attained any un- SYRUP OF FIGS FOR CROSS, SICK FEVERISH CHILD IF LITTLE STOMACH IS SOUR, I.IYI-Il TORPID OR ROWELS tLOKGED Mothers can rest easy after giving "California Syrup of Figs." because in a few hours all the dogged-up waste, sour bile and fermenting food gently moves out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their towels, and they become tightly packed, liver gets sluggish and stomach disordered. When cross, feverish, restless, see if tongue is coated, then give this delicious "fruit Children love i'.

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Hand back with contempt any other fig syrup. A SAFETV' first campaign Is a fine If automobile owners who hang the '-safety, flrat" shields on their cars would stay on the right side of the street when they get a "tittle out of the business section of the city and away from observation. Also, it mlftht be argued that wagons bearing the signs be driven by persons who remain awake while passing through the downtown streets. OUR notion of a safety first campaign ts to keep the names of several already overhet personages out of our colyum. Its hard to draw tho line between the person who wants to get in, and says he doesn't, and the person who says nothing but waits for you with a sand bag if he does.

AL, OTNES WILL, MEET A. BEAN Jackson Sentinel headline. Something new in a wrestling match. IT takes all kinds of people to make a world, including the person who calls up the society editor and tells a phoney wedding over the telephone. Putting him on the list would be entirely too humane.

SLEUTHED in a w. k. cafe recently by Red Elliott: "Well, wattle wehave?" "Oh look! Theygotrabbit." "I ain't had no rabbitfer along time." "Oeel Thazealongtime gittlnit." "Ilereitis now." "These potatoes Is swell." "Gee! alnt they?" "Waddyecallem?" "Search me." "Like that stuff?" "Xaw; I aint gonna eat "Werestha coffee?" "These waiters have it hard here." "Yass, so has Carnegie," "This butter aint much goocllstt?" "Y'all through "Yeah." "tSo'm "Lessgo." "Yep." THE British is planning to feed Ha soldiers on lobster. Another ally has sprung up for the kaiser. Pittsburgh Has Nothing on Fhllly U'hiladelphia bulletin.) Day's work Ketined young lady, white, wishes cleaning.

Phone Diamond 2024 A. Washing Woman, white, wants washing Tuesday and Wednesday; good reference. 1328 S. Lambert. THE name of the president of the society opposed to women's suffrage is Mrs Dodge.

Draw your own wheeze. It's easy. IF the English and the French sol diers sing "Tipperary" after the fashion in which it is perpetrated in several w. k. cafes of the three cities, by carbaret performers, It is worth more than siege guns against the Germans, who, we understand, know and appreciate singing.

PERHAPS we speak with extreme caution that's why one of the proprietors announces "Music and Singing" on his menu cards. THE OFFICE MINSTRELS "What were you and your wife arguing about last night?" "We were trying to spend the extra money we'll have when I get a raise." J. I was in your office the other p. m. and saw what purported or appeared to be a medal hanging on the west wall near your phu-e of labor I say labor advisedly.

Now what keeps me from sleeping is this: Did you get it for working up new lines of con-trlbs or for the stuff you put into the colyum yourself? K. L. M. Your sarcasm, K. L.

is but It occurs to us that if we received medals for our contrtbs work, the west wall wouldn't be large enough, so it follows that we got it for something else. Perhaps for writing the world's longest paragraph. What D'ye Mean British? (From the N. V. Symphony orchestra program.) British folk songs and dunces: (a) "Molly on the Shore." b) "Irish Song." (c) "Shepherd's Hey." FROM the expressions of discontent, Mr Damrosch must have given his audience a real lightweight program.

It probably isn't so much the nature of the program that hurl, as the thought that perhaps the musicians believed that by playing the jigs they were giving the audience the lattcr's limit of appreciation. "At any rate." one contrib remarks, they couldn't have done anything much lighter except run the scales, or maybe play 'Turkey in the Speaking strictly for ourselves, a rag program would have gone great. Out C'eit Vral J. As state ed. I hereby report that the twenty-seventh most intimate friend of Lincoln has Just died.

Lincoln had more most intimate friends than anyone I know of. He was a popular person, n'est. co pa-s? JASPER. AJi In Preston: "I'ross eyes straightened in two minutes without pain. Everybody pleased." We don't know anyone in Preston with cross yes but doubtless there are some so afflicted and if they get their optics straightened without pain, we are 1 pleased with the rest of them.

IF you've nothing better to do, read 111. is from the Burtis program; Todav one In a. Million rnder Cover Th Candy Shop. I What's he done?" aks the office I boy. NO; WHAT DIM IT WATI'li? I I'rMSf' Tribune.

I i A A Jan. --'Jrrtii'l aw-riif nu have national tvwird of vaster-! ay. Practically the cn-tirf ti'm Imvo iieri t-'l f'orn ti timp tV- fir" alarm was tiirrjf-! in at Sriilitz hotl until the la--t sdiivr'n(t rhortia frirl had icn rtm ir.oed li af to venture l.ai-k after mre clothes. Sixty m-n and women ft-d into the sireM them were memher the mimics ornedv A t. te crowd gathered, but it.

dii not watch the tire. THIS town never has any fires which amount to anything. J- It. FROM REflDQttfRTERS! JT A7ESS QUMTETS fOff JM DOWAt! geokge nun So big that the government hasn't yet tackled the job of asking it why It can own trolley lines when the New Haven cannot. country, and with one exception.

In the world. I mm New Orleans to Port this opinion in terms quite as vigorous. "It Is intolerable to any thinking man," naiil Senator Cummins to The Times today, "that the government of the United Ht.ites should go into a business partnership with private Interests. The government will always be subject to the influence of Us private partners, and that Influence is not wholesome. Yet suppose, under the terms of the, bill, the government shall authorize Its shipping board, composed of three men, to organize a shipping corporation, and the government shall take 51 per cent of the stock and Ktihn, lxieh Co, shall take the remaining per cent of the stock.

Now, this corporation will wholly under the control of state laws. The federal government cannot reduce rates on shipping to a point, which will be confiscatory of the investment of Its partner, because the fctate laws will protect the riirhts of the minority stockholders. The federal government, In other words, will In' helpless to do many tilings with its business which it may want to do. "Nor is there anything in the bill which Indicates who shall be the directors or officers of this corporation. Such officers ship unfairly.

"I do not wish to give the Impression that, there is anything dishonest or unpatriotic in the motives of the men who are 'imposing this scheme, but. I do wish declare my belief that there is something strange about. It something behind the surface which Is ihcoticel able that SU''h a proposal of partnership between the national government and private capitalists would be advanced merely for the purpose of securing additional ships for our foreign trade." I i unitnins poimeo out mat: the 3') proposed to be built or' purchased and put in commission on i the trade routes could have little or1 i no Influence upon freight rates. Hei saw no value in the bill as an crner-1 geticy measure, because the, ships could not be built soon enough to meet, an emergency; as a permanent policy tie could not conceive or the partnership idea as working out to the advantage of the shipper. "My own bill, offered as a substitute for the administration achenie," The Southern Pacilic Co.

is a good example of the enormous capacity of a small corporation, when skilfully designed. The Southern Pacific Co. owns 27 miles of railroad outright, and Is about as important in this regard as the Po-dunk and Klsewhere railway. But the Southern Pacific Co. also controls by lease or stock ownership 10,330 miles of railway in this country, 1,250 miles in Mexico, 4,683 miles of steamship lines and 1,200 miles of trolley lines.

All of this together makes the great Southern Pacific railroad system the third largest in the country. It extends from New Orleans to Portland, controls the commercial destinies of half a dozen great states and is so big that the government hasn't yet tackled the job of asking it why it can own trolley lines when the New Haven system cannot. However, the government has decided that the Southern Pacilic cannot own the Central Pacific, and has ordered a decree of divorce. This- will remove over 2,000 miles of railroad system extending from Salt Lake City accomplished speak for him. FARM LEAGUE IVOR The people of Scott county have read with interest the report of the work of the Farm Improvement league and, while admitting there are other standards by which to measure its success, concede that the dollars and cents standard is the most convincing.

And this is the standard by which those who are interested in the league are willing to have the work of the organization measured. Careful estimates have been made and as a result of the data gathered the Farm league asserts that in 1913 its advice added to the value of the crops of the county to the amount of $41,100 and added in 1914 to the crop values If these figures were all that could be produced In favor of the league's work it would be clearly worth while. But to these amounts must be added $142,800 as the value of hogs saved from cholera in 1913 and $163,700 in 1914, as a result of serum treatment supervised by the league In other words the league's work In two years represents a gain for the farmers of Scott county of $410,500. These results have been accomplished by arousing interest in the selection of seed, the treatment of seeds, and other work that makes for better crops. G.

R. Bliss, the crop expert, has been tireless in his work. He has responded to numerous requests for advice and his suggestions have helped to bring about the splendid results. But there is another phase of the Farm Improvement league's work the results of which cannot be measured immediately. The results will be more apparent after a number of years.

It is this to the extent that the Farm league's activities prove to the young men of the farms that there are great opportunities for doing things in a scientific way and In a big way on the farms to that extent the young men will elect to stay on the farms rather than to rush to the uncertainties of city life. And that result Is worth much to the whole community, no less to the farmers themselves than to the city people. The Farm league is deserving of most liberal support from year to year. THAT DACIA CASE The steamer Dacia, purchased from German owners by an American, chartered to sail with cotton to Rotterdam from New Orleans, is to be seized by British cruisers If it undertakes to make the trip. The notice to that effect has been received at the White House from Ambassador Page at London.

The British government holds that to do otherwise would be to establish a precedent dangerous to the Interests of Great Britain in that all German ships now interned in the United States might he transferred in a similar manner and might be able to return to German ports there to remain. Great Britain questions the sincerity of the transfer. Opponents of the government shipping bill maintain that the Dacia case has a bearing on the proposed administration measure. They point out that if the company which is to be formed with the aid of government funds buys German ships and they ask where other ships can be found that are for sale what assurauce is there that we should not come directly into conflict with Great Britain over the right of these transferred ships to sail the seas unmolested by British warships. Administration supporters, however, declare there Is no similarity between the two cases for in the event of purchase of German ships under the proposed new law there would be no opportunity for Great Britain to question the validity of the transfer.

But those who take this stand are not taking the British determination to rule the waves into account, and they ignore the fact that Great Britain would be quick to find some other pretext for stopping those ships. Judge Smith McPherson gave the impression that he was one of the rough and ready men of the type long associated with the more vigorous or fortunate pioneers. It was one of the handicaps under which he labored. He possessed a keen mind, had no use for quibbling and insisted upon essential justb without delays. And yet, those who knew him best declare that he was a student of the very type that one would assume a federal judge to be.

He didn't make a display of his learning. west, but it is presumed that the two land, its main line measures almost and when Hiram Johnson kicked it out systems will still be on speaking terms. 3,500 miles. It has 1,000 miles of main of the state house he was reelected by The Southern Pacific is the longest line across Texas and traverses Cal- a grateful people, by a tremendous ma-stretch of single track railroad in the ifornia like a back bone from end to jorlty. end.

Its Arizona and New Mexico til visions run through the hottest climate in the country, and its northern Call fomla division has the only hard work ing volcano in the United States for a land mark. It cost almost half a bil lion to build, and in 1912-1913 it earned $142,000,000. When all expenses, In terest and dividends, were paid there was $10,000,000 left to be packed away in barrels- -making this company almost as profitable as the Ford factory The Southern Pacilic Is the south ernmost trans-continental line, It be gins in the cane Held opposite New Orleans, runs through the oil fields, serves the cattle fields, dodges lnsur-recton along the Mxlcan border, runs beside the Pacific ocean for a hundred miles, toots salutes to Mount Shasta, climbs the everlasting pino forested hills to Oregon and cndH in a gentle drizzle In the Portland umbrella belt. It was the first road to use oil-burning locomotives, and is the only road which gets to the coast without climb-lug a mile high. The Southern Pacific has helped make the coast great.

Hut when it owned California it was a cruel master he continued, "calls for the building or purchase of worth of vessels directly by the government, an auxiliaries for the navy. Our navy would be useless In time of war without them. 1 would have the government lease them out in time of peace, subject always to recall for naval duty. During their service, under these leases, the government-owned ships would earn not less than 4 per cent upon the Investment, after allowing for depreciation, or they might leased upon a basis of a proportionate share of the earnings of the vessel, with relation to the total Investment. "This plan would be advantageous to the lessee, since he would secure a vessel at a very low rental, and It would be to the advantage, of course, a necessity under state laws.

No representative of the I'nited Stntes Is au thorized by the bill to become such a director or officer. Next, the use of their power by the three members of the shipping board Is not safeguarded. The board will try to sell its $30,000,000 worth of am oiioi. on iv.li mors mnus Medicine News Gossip of National Capital BY LAUUEX TODD The Times Pmrcau, Washington, Jan. 20.

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