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m.u'.' ttf'i. ^'•,- •fy lf t&( ITR^VV,. E $lif ab*e It ... |ItP:#iTHE '•'m !E$e JWaiufiesJter JBemocrat Subscription, 1 yr. in advance, $1.60. Official Paper of County and City. -B. M. Carr, Hubert Carr, Fred W. Hermann, Editors and Proprietors. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915. to M] at ?3, ,«}S2 0^ INDUSTRY FINANCE America asks nothing for herself, but what she has a right to ask for ••dpi. *.i~, humanity. Ai WOODROW WILSON. 1 SYMPATHY, BUT NOT DISLOYAL- TY. fx' Strive ever so hard, many of this country's very best citizens find it quite impossible to refrain from sym pathizing with one or the other of the foreign nations now engaged in terrible warfare. But it should not, and does not follow, that be cause of this sympathy any consid erable number of our citizens, are disloyal to their country. "America first" is a shibboleth that finds a responsive chord in the'hearts of all good citizens, na tive anr* foreign horn alike. They do not desire the surrender of any of thifc country's rights to help any foreign country because such a degire wQUhj be disloyalty to Ameri- PaJ*®nt appeals to the court of mJfc reason, President Wilson has been maintain our national rights, and at the same time keep this coun try ait peace with all the world. |jk Down deep in their hearts are not |jp all country loving citizens thankful *!v tor .what he has accomplished? NATIONAL FINANCES. The official statement of the con- the joke columns. of the United States treasury, the close of business on the 23rd M'af last month,contains some very dis t^cauraging figures for the patriots the ^country's treasury would be bankrupt ^who have been predicting that 8? fbefore the regular session of rress would convene. it A The statement shows' that the country's income had increased dur tog the past year, $4,070,288.85, and that the outgo during the year Jia4 decreased $1,426,089.56, mak ing a net increase in the surplus of *5,496,378.41. The statement further shows •that-the general fund balance Nov. was. ..... The' American r^ople can be ^tTuit^ to believe 'that the Secretarv *jf Treasury knows better wheth er It is ,empty or in funds than the -fellows who are skirmishing around and striving to find something to hollow about. WEALTH OF "FRANCE. |.' The ease with which France paid its wail* indemnity, at the close of thQ Fraaco-Prussian war, prompted Bismark to say that he did not ^jg under estimate the power of the Preach armies, but that he did un der estimate the financial ability of tlie French people.. If the great German statesman could come back again to his earthly activities he -would no doubt be surprised by the euccses# of the recent French loan, called "The Loan of Victory." On the appointed day the French "r||:'people came forward and subscribed the enormous sum of $5,000,000,000. But even this record breaking loan will not completely exhaust the fi nancial ability of the French people for they are the richest people in If, Pritain, ?20.95, in Germany, •.,and in Russia only ?6.40. Il, A jl v':Y& & It PARTY IN A QUANDARY. Commenting upon what the re publican leaders will do in their party caucus this week the New York World says: "They a're not at all cordial in their support of plans for national defense, and yet with all their carp ing they will hardly assume respon sibility for the defeat of these meas ures. They are heart and soul in favor of an old-fashioned Mark Hanna tariff, but the condition of foreign commerce does not admit of it and they are still in terror of th« Progressives. They want to com®lain because we are not at war i'vrith Mexico, but they are afraid to do so, for there is evidence to show that Germany conspired to compel American intervention. "Whichever way they turn in pur f": suit Of selfish or vexatious partisan f" policies they find the roads barricad !f ed, with danger-signals flying right I'! and left. In a single direction is there an open thoroughfare, and is the one which the Adminis tration is pursuing as the champion of national honor, peace and security. is fl con- $ii2 7{f'e!b97i2a xEjftnrsing. officers' $ a 5 8 0 7 9 5 2 3 "Net unassignedrfunds. 54,626,571.97 fCJnassigned funds'Nov. ....,. .... 63,474,916.93 "Week's:.' increase .. ..1,151,655.04 tbe' world. The circulating medium could'8 b^ iStaei^ per capita in France is ?47.25, in going to be easy fcr Repub- licans this winter to be pabriot i?, helpful and decent. It is going to be not only difficult but ruinous for them to be anything else. "We have a liking for the Repub lican •Parly with all its faults, and we should grieve to see it wrecked by the false notion that a minority must in all eases antagonize and bedevil the Goverrment. This is a rtwfl when Americanism transcends all partyism, and wise" will be the politicians' who appreciate the fact The paramount duty of the Republi can Congressional caucus to as semfole next week is to resolve that individually and collectively its mem' beTs shall not make fools of them selves." The Press objects to the cancli dacy of Rev. T. E. Taylor of Buchan an County as senator from this dis trict to succped Hon. E. C. Perkins, Following the custom Buchanan County n*xt year will furnish the re publican candidate for senator and Delaware County the democratic can didate. But our n-eiglilbor, the Press, balks at supporting Rev. Taylor be cause he was a supporter of the pro gressive party duri the last presi dential election. Rev. Taylor has since 'returned to the republican party and Buchanan County has hon ored him by electing him represen tative. The issue is whether, pro gressives returning to the repub lican party are to be recognized as having as much right to party hon ors as the stand-patters who re mained with the party. The Pre^s contends that they have not this right. That is a matter, which must be settled by the p-arty but how will it be with the Cunwnins boom for president? During the last presi dential campaign he. opposed Taft and supported Roosevelt. Will the stand-patters deny his right to fur ther republican honors? On Oct. 1st, 1913, the public debt of the United States was $2,926,434, 343.66, and on Oct. 1st, 1914, it was $2,809,262,118.66, or a reduction dur ing the year of $117,172^225.00. The Wilson administration can issue bonds for $100,000,000 to pay for national defense and then not in crease the public debt beyond what it was dent. when Wilson became presi- Some republican politicians would like to make calamity howls t|ie permanent issue next year, but the extraordinary prosperity of the country causes even the most par tisan to hesitate and well they may, for there will fee no place for calamity howls next year, except in This country's exports exceeded its imports by $186,000,000 during the month of October. At that rate the allies $500,000,000 loan will not last long, and when that is aibsorbed by our trat'e balances, what will become of British and French exchange? OLD RIP WON'T AGAIN. STRONG INDICTMENT ALCOHOL. COME BACK Rip Van Winkle will not come back from his present sleep if he hears this news. His native town of Katgkill voted for prohibition on the 2d of last month. FAMOUS HEADS (From the Columbia Crowned. ..-V Wooden. •, Mutton. Pin. Figure. Swell. Bone. Pudd'n Block. severe condemnation of alcohol: Even no the United States, $34.81, in Great'to it in the message, national de $11.30, AGAINST The Hobson resolution, recently adopted by the Anti-SaLoon League ed that an abundance of of America, contains tie following .^each is undermining the foundations of government and civilized society, menacing the welfare and the very survival of the nation arid the race. A SELF-MADE ISSUE. (From the Chicago Herald) President Wilson will make tional defense "the paramount •because he can not, make it a para- mount issue. It is already that, toy reasons of events of world-wide sig- reference we're made ure against "Modern science hjis demonstrated an. excellent practice 'to expose nten that alcohol is a protoplasmic poison, sjj^ a degenerating, habit-forming drug, after they have bee* cleaned, that produces crime, pauperism, in- to direct sunlight, and to liang or sanity, disease, premature death, and spread wearing apparel, blankets, blights the lives of children unborn, bedding, rugs, horse blankets, a drug whose widespread use. as a .periodieally where .the sraa beverage is disrupting individual all parte of them. character, homes by the wholesale,, na is- sue" in his message to Congress,oc- was described by &> foreigner who cording to semi-official forecasts. asked if gathering mushroom?, was President Wilson will no doubt not very properly pay most attention to Bitneby somebody die. then we not eat national defense. Put he^ will not, jor. GOOD ADVICE •:»'1' »t« »!*•8"£"fr: »'i' fense would be the paramount issue before the people's representatives. It would clamor for attention even though there were a veritable con spiracy of silence against it. It would be the main business for Con gress even though Congress reso lutely refused to recognize it. Paramount issues are not made. They grow. They spring from cir cumstances over wliich the in dividual often lias slight control. They impose themselves on men whether men wish to meet them or not. A manufactured paramount is sue soon falls to th? ground of its own deadness. Real paramount is sues^ go on and on under the im pulsion of an inward necessity, and if they can't get solution from one generation they seek it from the next. -The President's ability is shown not in making this a paramount is sue but in recognlziag the fact that it is exactly that not in attempting to place a personally selected pro gram before Congress but. in puttting himself in harmcny with the plain national necessity and the move ments of mightier forces than him self. SUNSHINE A GERM KILLER (From the Weekly News Letter, U. S. Department of Agriculture.) Sunshine is an amazingly potent germicide for the farm housekeeper and in the dairy and stables. The practice of exposing cooking^ and oth er utensils used in connection with food to direct sunlight makes use of this fact, although comparative ly few appreciate exactly the work done by the sun in this regard.Prob ably only, those who axe acquainted with tests which have actually been made realize how quickly sunshine kills disease germs -exposed to it. Hence the following teats may be generally instructive and interesting, A pasty, creamy mass of tubercul QUS material, which was proved to contain uncountable numbers of viru lent tubercle bacilli, .was obtained from a tuberculous cow and spread in thin smooth translucent layers cn sheets of glass, pieces of wood, and strips of muslin. Some of the sheets-of glass, pieces of wood, and strips of muslin were then placed outdoors on a moderately wannr clear calm day when the sun could shine on them, and an equal Mushroom Hunting-Dangers. The advantage of rattlesnake hunt ing over mushroom hunting seems to be that you know the amke Is poison ous. A»near as. can be-made out' there seems- to be one sure- way of teHlinfi the character of youir find, and' that ri'sky: "All right most every a week.' Punisbment. The object of punishment ,1s preven tion from evil it never can. be mmfa impulsive to gooiiL—Mann. let's wipe off Say, let's forgive it the slate Fird something better than hate. There's sc much good that we've had, Let's strike a balance, and cross off the bad. Say Let's forgive it, whatever it be Let's not be slaves when w® ought to be free. Wo shall be walking in sunshiny ways One* of these days. to cherish in the world Sa~ Let's not take it so sorely to lic&rt Hates may be friendships just drift ed apart Failure be genius not quite under stood We could all help folks so much if we would. Say L-et's get closer to somebody's side, See wl at his dream is, and hew he has tried, Learn if our scoldings won't give way to praise, One of these days. —P. E. O. Record. y^W»i, I, r-i, 4^ I Dumber placed in a dark room. After 15 min utes exposure to the sun, the- tuber culous material on the glass, wood, and muslin still contained laige num bers of living, virulent tubercle bac illi, which were proved to be fully capable of causing tuberculosis, but after 3.0 minutes exposuire to the sun no living tuberele bacilli could be found every test that could be made proved that they were all dead. Similar tests with quite large opaque masses of tuberculous material, larger and denser than any tubercul ous person is apt to expectorate,, prpved that the bacilli is such mass es on glass are still alive after 4, hut entirely dead in lesa than 8 hours, and still alive in the material on wood and muslin were alter 8, but dead in less than 16 hours. The tuberculous material in thin Eatyerg on glass, wood, and muslin, k@pt in a dark room, was proved to contain, fully virulent, living tuber cle bacilli after 30 days. The con tract is remarkable, tubercle bac illi of the same kind, am the same kind of material, dying in a small er number of minute® in the sunshine than the number of days they re mained alive in a darfcroem. As mop^ varietiejs of disease germs are jriore easily destroyed by gfermi qide than tubercle baoilli, and as tubercle bacilH.Mn the thin layers in which they are likely to adhere to clothing, blankets, rogs, drap eries, furniture, walls, floors, etc., are killed by the rays of the sun in less than half an hour, though they remain alive in dark places a month and longer, it is reasonable to draw the following conclusions (a) As a general sanitpB? [principle it is desirable that all dwellings, stables, etc., should be so construct sun shine mcas. disease germes, it is for handling milk,, and milk etc. oan day. 4 i» THE •j- •fr 3 3- IDE IN BUST SSweni Also Injured: When Expl* sion Wrecks Building. CAUSE. OF DISASTER UNKNOWN in Machinery is. Believed to Have Been. Responsible Bodies Are Blown to Pieces.and Identifi cation Is impossible. Wilmington, Del., Dec. 1.—Thirty men were killed and seven persons injured fatally in an explosion in the Pellet packhouse of the E. 1. Du Pont de Nemours powder factory here. Two bodies have been recovered. Officials of the company said that about forty men were at work in the room when the explosion occurred. Grit Believed Cause. The factory in which the explosion occurred is the place where the ex plosives are taken for final stages of manufacture. The cause of the ex plosion is a mystery, but it is sup posed that in some manner grit found its way into the presses, causing fric tion and creating a spark which brought about ths explosion. The explosion wrecked the building and many of the small buildings ad joining. Houses in the vicinity rocked when the crash 'came and many windows were broken, some of them within a radius of three miles. The scene in the neighborhood of the plant was pathetic. Most of the women living in the district had rela tives employed in the building. Bodies Blown to Bits. Arms, legs, heads and parts of torsos were strewn all around the scene of the explosion. An arm and a leg were blown across the Brandy wine river. Some fragments of hu man bodies were found in trees and on the housetops. One woman living at Du Pont Banks, Del., lost three sons. The known dead: James Baird, Marge Bricotti. Benjamin Barker, El mer Compton, James Egner, Harry El liott, Elmer Fox, Norman Fisher, James Gemmill, Nelson Hogate, J. Halser, Fred JefEry, Battis Kelleher, Edward King, James Malloy, Byron O'Connor. Harry Place. Gemi Silves tro, Paul Smack, John Smack, Wesley Simpson. E. Springfield, Allan A. Thax ton, Leslie Timmons, W. Wein, Elmer Prompt Service man or woman who patron izes a bank, whether depositing money in a savings or checking ac count, appreciates prompt service. To render prompt service the bank must have complete equipment. It is because of its modern equipment and efficient service that this bank enjoys a steady growth in the num ber of its patrons. Fire or burglars are liable to visit your home or office at any time. Our Safe Deposit Boxes afford sure protection against both. I First National Bank MANCHESTER. IOWA 1 -M. »'I' j, SAWING WOOD lABWEHt Mace Patrick Hanrahan, Clarence P1ea8ontoir, William Oliver, one un identified' man. The police declare that the major ity of the bodies are so mutilated that only a few ever will be identified. Only two of the bodies so far recov ered were in such condition that rec ognition was possible. The others are minus arms, legs or heads or have heed's so badly crushed that identifi cation is impossible. Police Seek Evidence. The police are looking for evidence that the factory was destroyed as re sult of a war plot. Injured May Not Survive. Those in the hospital are said to be in a critical condition, and no hope could be held out by the attendants for their recovery. They were badly mutilated, some having had their eyes blown out, others with arms and legs mangled. STEAMSHIP MEN LOSE APPEAL All Points Raised by Hamburg-Ameri-, can Officials Overruled in United States Court. New York, Dec. 1.—Counsel for the four Hamburg-American line officials on trial for conspiring to deceive and defraud the United States assailed bj legal argument the case which the government has presented by wit nesses against them and lost every point of their contentions. Federal Judge Howe, presiding at the trial, heard the argument in the absence of the jury. Judge Howe de nied the defendants' motion to strike from the record all testimony concern ing the chartering and movements oi the steamer Marina Quesada, and an hour later overruled a motion to dis miss the indictments. Mr. Gans sought to show that all the indictments should be'dismissed. "The government charges that we sent supplies to German warships. Why, we admit that we boast about it we are proud that at the call of the fatherland these defendants answered and sought by every lawful means at their command to aid their country men, harassed, pursued and distressed Surely the court will agree that it was a lawful act to send out these sup plies." "Yes," interrupted Judge Howe, "1 will agree with you. It was a lawful act to send out these supplies to Ger man ships. But was it lawful to de ceive the port collectors in doing so?" Mr. Gans replied that the govern ment had not shown that deception, if any was practiced upon port collectors, had been practiced with the knowledge or c6nsei& of the defendants. Ml CHOP Regardless of UnusifiK S$a«MF Iowa Has Great CNfps CORN YIELb IttARLY NDtfkui: Preliminary Estimates 8howJFarme.ef State Produced Abundance of -AH:.1 Kinds of Grains, Vegetable^, Fruit*-—Apple Crop Saints. Des Moines.—-Iowa did hot doo S0: bad after all, in producing crops this year, notwiths^nd|ng While there is a shortage in: the corn yield, Iowa's mainucrop,. the loss will not be as great as .has-been-con? templated by many. The figures, in comparison withi last year, as given out in the report, with average prices quoted for the various products, are as follows: Corn—Estimate this y«ar 31t)i000,000i bushels compared with 389,424,000 last year. The November 1st price was 59 cents pep- bushel last year 61 cents. Wheat—This year's^ yield Is esti mated at 1G,731,000* bushels, while last year there were- 15,066,000. This year's price was 89 cents compared with S6 cents in 1914'. Oats—200,475,000 bushels were pro duced this year, as against 165,000,000 last year. Price'31 cents per bushel year ago 39 cents. Barley-^-The estimate is placed at 11,120,000 bushels last year 9,360, 000. Price this year 49 cents, last year 53 cents. Potatoes—The 1915 yield is placed at 16,200,000 bushels in comparison with 12,642,000: bushels in 1914. The price-thiB year is 48 cents per bushel compared with 57 cents last year. Apples—Iowa produced 3,200,000 barrels of apples this year, while in 1914! tHere were only 533,000 barrels. The 1315 price was $2.25 per barrel compared with $3.20 in 1914. Flouring Industry Resumed. Jefferson.—A few years ago wheat growing had about disappeared from this part of Iowa and witli it the local flouring mills disappeared. Eight years ago the old mill at. Jefferson was dis continued and for the three years to gether previous to that time there had not been 1,000 bushels of "wheat grown within thirty miles of Jefferson. This year there was 50,000 'bushels raised in Greene county alone. It marks another change in the industry of this locality. The new mill which has just been finished has an abundance of good wheat on hand all of which was raised in this immediate vicinity. Discharged Policemen Reinstated. Des Moines.—The fourteen police men discharged some time ago by Chief Ciawford were reinstated at the close oC their hearing before the civil service commission, and given an im mediate opportunity to prove that they are capable of capturing boot leggers, concealed stocks of contra band wliisky, and house prowlers. Eleven of the fourteen were put on the night shift and will be kept there for a time. Bootlegging Is a night time business and so is h-ouse prowl ing. Chief Crawford expects each of the eleven to bring in a large number of prisoners in the next month or two. Farmer Fools Bandits. Dow City.—George White, Capital of Allied Bank $135,000.00 A N E S A E S E I S I O N 4 Per Cent Interest Paid .on Time and Savings Deposits SECURITY SAVINGS BANK GREELEY, IOWA Capital $15,000.00 Transacts a general commercial and' savings business. R. D. GRAHAM, CASHIER ONEIDA STATE SAVINGS BANK ONEIDA, imVA Capital $10,000.00 Transacts a general commercial and savings business. G. DELAWARE SAVINGS BANK DELAWARE, IOWA Capital $10,000.00 Transacts a general commercial and savings'tfusiuessv SECURITY STATE BANK MANCHESTER, IOWA Capital $100,000.00 Receives deposits subject to check buys and sells foreign' and domestic exchange rentB- safety deposit boxes at reasonable rates" for the storage of valuable papers acts as executor or adminiSU-Stbr of estates and in all fiduciary capacities provided for by the laws* of the State of Iowa. OPEN SATURDAY EVENINGS. E. D. GRAHAM. AUDITOR. F. B. WILSON, CASSIBB W. H. NORRIS, Pres. E. B. STILES, Counsel l^t^e adverse weatierOTndi^ all! during the growing and harvest sea sons. Government reports Just: issued: place an estimate on- the yield of corn, wheat, oats, barley, potatoes and* apples and the figures show that the people of Iowa have no reason to feel worried as there ia* a. sufficient supply of these products tomeet the demand. a tana- L. BAKER, OASHIEB. G. L. BAKER, CA-SHTFB. er" living" near here, drew $40f frbnf &:< bank at Dunl&p, but when he,fwlf hfettr up- -by two highway men aftd'* searched, and only $2 found, one ol" the1 bendlts demanded to know whei'e the" 400' was. White had deposited the money in the Dow City hank after'r letting' if atr Dunlap. White' remembers that a fellow' «tbod at' the' Bunlap bank window i^aey and later N Man Dies From-Glandera. GJidden.—An autopsy held on the remains of 'John- -Schafer, a well known^ farmer,- who died.1 at his- home near here, confirmed the diagnosis of phy sicians that Schafer's death resulted7 from glanders. Schafer-is supposed to', have? contracted the-disease* from a-, horse-he ownedf The state authorities burned the barn^oA'th«Kfarm~-and «on ducted a thorough disinfection- of the* place.- Lose-Three-Children- In Three Year*.. Hock well City.—Rees Little andi wife mourn the loss of another of their children. This one was eight, years old. This- is the third child they have lost in the last three- years* TROOPS TO QUELL RACE RI0T& Negroes Attacked by White Men Near Little Rock, Ark.—Several Buildings Burned. Little Rock, Ark., Dec. 1.—Fivej. white men are under arrest on charges of rioting and arson a negro church,, a negro school, several, negro houses! and form buildings*have' Men burned' and deputy sheriffs went to*the Brushy,-. Island district, ten miles north of Lit*! tie Rock, as a result of disorders be-j tween negroes and whites. The trou-j hie, which is the outgrowth of the kill*]. ing last week of John Lee, a white! farmer, in a pistol fight with three! negro cattle thieves, is expected to re-1 quire armed intervention before It ends. Hog and cattle stealing hasj been prevalent of late, and it was inj an effort to save his own property thatj Lee was slain. 4 GERMANY BUYS U. S. COPPER Orders 200,000,000 Pounds, Nearly One-! Fifth of Annual Output—Costs $40,000,000. j, New York, Dec. 1.—Orders for cop per aggregating about 200,000.000 pounds, nearly one-fifth the annual production in the United States, have been placed by German representa tives with copper concerns in this country, it was reported here. As copper was quoted at 20 cents a pound, the cost of the German pur chases amounts to $40,000,000. MAY CREATE A NEW KINGDOM Zurich Dispatch Says Central Powers Will Place Prince William of Wied Over Albania. Zurich, Dec. 1.—in what it calls an "authoritative statement," the Gazette I declares the central powers have de-, cided to create an independent king-' dom of Albania bordering on Austria, Bulgaria and Greece, with Prince_VVU liam of Wied as its sovereign^ ROADS REFUSED A REHEARING Interstate Commerce Commission Makes Final Its Order That Rail roads Give Up Ships. Washington, Dec. 1-.—The interstate commerce commission, made final its order for big eastern railroads to di vorce themselves .from their great lakes steamship, lines by refusing the request of the trunk lines for a re hearing. The decision, which affects the Pennsylvania, New York Central, and other roads. Involves millions of dollars. 1 W: I