Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-10
THE IOWA FEDERATION.
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I1h ICWA fELJGHAllON.
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The Iowa Federation of Women's
Clubs is preparing for its Forthcoming
convention at Burlington Civic i'm
provenent and domestic science are to
have prominent places on the program
this year. Civic improvement is very
comprehensive term, embracing many
forms of effort for the advancement
of the community. The field is quite
large enough to engage all the activity
which women can profitably devote
to public affairs. The civic improves
ment and village improvement clubs
in Iowa have been useful in directing
public attention to matters which con-
Germ the public comfort and the proper
treatment of the defective or neglected
classes. They have not antagonizea
the public authorities but rather have
sought their cooperation and here AMI
there have set an object lesson before
them and the public. The civic im-
provement club is a better proposition
than woman suffrage. 1t enlists those
women only whose interest in public
affairs is desirable and helpful.
WAR.
[Burrell in Washington, Ia, Press.l
War is the most natural thing in
the world. and in practicing it, men
take the path of least resistance, and
shoot the chuteS War has largely
made the race what it is. Is it para
dox war, the destroyer has made
al the fruits of peace, and secured
them. No nation gets on the map but
by war Our most Christian ma tions'
have been the greatest scrappers,
They won empire by arms. Arms
and the man, l sing" wrote the great
noet 1000 years ago, and, really, arms
and the man are all there is of it.
that is the gist of all history. The
skillful man, with superior arms in his
hands,-he made history and every
thing else that travels in its train.
If the doctrine of evolution is true If
we, indeed, descended, or ascended.
from the lower animals, as our faces.
anatomy traits, tricks and habits seem
to indicate, we came by our fighting
instincts and propensities logically and
naturally and inevitably The mill
tarN instinct is in all blood red and
white No creature on earth, in sea,
in air, that will not fight to the death
to win it's food and stay alive. Pug
nacity. grit, fighting,-there is Moth
ing more conspicuous in human nature
than those traits Man is only nlo"e
cunning animal. and the whole animal
kingdom is back of him, "sicing' him
on, pumping valor and comoatlveness
into him. 1t is as natural for man TO
fight as to eat. drink, sleep, breathe,
ana. we may safely add. about as pleas
ant. The same military necessity
crops out in business. Companion il
war. is hell Rockefeller, Carnegie,
Hartman. jim Hill. Morgan, Clark,
are bruisers, fight like woodchucks, to
"eet there" and somebody's ruin, IN
sanity and death are in their wake.
History - the footprints are all red,
ALWAYS have been, probably always VIII
no So far. the world has not been run
on rosewater Sad, but it can't be
helped. We were built that way We
are fighting animals under our dress
suits plug hats, kid gloves and ele-
eant manners. We doubt if war shall
ever cease. or if it is best it should. 1t
makes living for millions, for the
soldiers themselves, and for those VINO
supply them food, weapons, accouter-
ments. munitions of war. Co!ossal
civic industries cluster vitality ABOUT
camp and field. And, then, the race
needs the exhilaration and tome OF an
occasional war. In tame. level ages OF
trade. we rot, and rust with ehnul.
We all wake up and are truly alive
when the big guns begin to below ana
are happy with intense excitement
when Togo sends Rojestvensky's shlps
70 Davy Jones' locker. What il men
did drown? They had to die some
time. and drowning is an easy way 10
die. they say What if some thous-
ands died in the destruction OF tne
SPANISH Armada in Queen Bess time
The literature of that exploit, the
wonderfully graphic account of the
tremendous feat written by Motley and
Eroude down-weights million times
al, the misery and terror and sorfo"
of it, Literature is me- ana Wal anu
love have inspired nearly all the great
prose and poetry ever written, ana nc
matter who. or how many, get hurt
we can't afford to lose great me o.
prose or song. Love made the no
meric books together with the Trojan
war. Who wants to lose them? Love
has been the inspiration of many wars.
Knock out of literature the wars that
created it, you have a hole as vast as
the bed of the Pacific ocean, scooped,
they say, by that centrifugal motion
that flung off from the earth the huge
wisp of flre-mist that made the moon.
Can any one calculate the good, the
glory. the inspiration resulting from
our Revolution? What are the deaths