Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-17
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

K TOPICS OF THE TIMES !
The Horseless Age has a timely arti-
Gle on automobile racing and its effect
on automobile interests.
| The Columbus junction Gazette has
the following which should be suffi
|eiently strenuous to meet the approval
of President Roosevelt: Born recently
to a woman in this place, a daughter.
the fifth child in ftwen.1-siX months
There is more suggestion of over
production here than of race suicide.
A member of the New York City
Anti Washers League has been ar
rested and fined for smashing" a pas
senger on a street car who made goo
COOS at lady sitting opposite. The
anti -masher watched the seductive by
play of the supposed mesher and pro-
ceeded to castigate him after the most
approved ethics of the society for the
prevention of promiscuous filtration. In
the police court he was astonished to
find that he had beaten the man for
making eyes at his own wife. He paid
his fine and went his way wiser and
richer in experience if poorer in pocket.
After all his mistake was most natu-
raj one, and a street car is no place to
make good-goo eyes ct any persons
wife.
Plans have been completed for Sc
curing vertical and horizontal control
for an area of about 5000 square miles
in southern Arizona, and two parties
have been sent to the field by the
United States geological survey. A
|triangulation party, in charge of MIR. L.
NJ Rannon, has commenced work near
Florence on the ella river Pinal coun-
ty, and is working southwark, intending
Eventually to close work on the inter-
national boundary line in the vicinity of
Nogales, Santa Cruz county.
What is the poet laboring oyer?'
Trying to find a word to rhyme with
Pabst."
"Ah! studying lager-r hythms, | see"
Cornell Widow.
The United Christian party has Sc
lected st. Louis as the gathering place
for its national convention. In the
light of the boodler developments, st
Louis offers an excellent field for united
Christian effort as we'll as Il good place
to hold the convention. j. r. Leonard,
of Iowa, headed the United Christian
ticket in 1900.
The New York Tribune advocates a
system of granting liquor licenses in
proportion to population, and keeping
down the total to the ratio of. one to
every thousand of population. II this
were done there would be fewer than
four thousand barrooms within the en-
tire territory of New York. And the
city would be better of. This limita
ton of the number of dramshops has
worked well in various parts of the
world. Extremely high licenses and a
sweeping reduction in the number
would surely lessen the hosts of invet-
crate drunkards and criminals.
An Notwithstanding thought
you didn't object to nan who talked
shop.
Quiggler-But that fellow is an un-i
dertaker brooklyn Life.
Senator Hoar's creed runs thus: My
creed in general is this:
.First-I believe that TIE great things
that have been gained in these countless
ages in which men have been dwelling
on this planet-and / think that we
have gained great things-have been
accomplished by very slow growth
indeed. So let us have he patience of
God.
"Second-I believe that things are
tending toward what is good, and not
toward what is bad.
'.Third--I believe implicitly that the
desires of the American people are for
Justice and righteousness. however
much they may be mislea at times. The
permanent things are the stars and the
sun, and not the clouds or the dust.
LATE Young makes the statement that
Governor Culnmins and j. w. Blythe
have for some months been in close
communication with each other about
state affairs. Think of it, We anti
machine men!-Council Bluffs Nonpa
reil.
The Nonpareil should remember that
strong agnostic sentiment exists in
Iowa as regards inspirational informa-
ton on political interviews and COM
munications. AS political witch doc
tor LATE Young once walked ahead of
the band, but
Don't complain because you must
read about T.-R want ads in every is
sue. Realize for moment that every
body would hear just as much about
what you had to sell if your ad was in
this newspaper.
McClure's is confessedly at the head
of the cheaper magazines. A great trust
and municipal government are its spe-
cialties at present Miss TarbelPs His
tory of the Standard Oil Company" is
making a great stir all over the country,
and Mr.. Steffens' papers on municipal
mis-government in st. Louis and Min
neapolis seem to have gone home to
of other cities that is, If we