Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-03-28
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their reighbors as man not safe to
| trust for a ten-cent plug of tobacco.
| To get the reputation of man that
must pay his house rent in advance,
or serve three days notice on him IL
he fails to pay the next months rent in
advance. To walk the Streets to go
into the stores, to know that every
body knows he's that kind of a man,
all this for one or two pieces of silver
or paper, called money. These one or
two pieces of tokens of labor so easily
obtained by the man that wants and
will work. And yet no man should
moralize in this vein, without includ-
ing from thought or criticism, the real
ly unfortunate individual in this dead
beat condition. We may all see the
day when we cannot pay even our just
debts. This class certainly should be
excepted. But the chronic dead-beat.
Does he find life worth living?
No organization needs to have the
prayer more frequently offered for
them, than the w. c. r. u. to save us
from our friends" 1t is matter of
history, recent history. that members
of this organization sent remon
STRANGE to Washington against the pro-
posed free alcohol bill" That wood
alcohol was enough. Not stopping to
investigate, not knowing 1t was a pro-
posed law to increase our fuel and
light supply, and that incorporated in
the law is a clause to "denaturize" ii
and heavy penalty and impris onment
to make this free alcohol drinxa be,
into resolution they rushed. And prob
ably the same kind of reformers were
the ones, to write objecting to the use
of wine at the Roosevelt wedding. The
woman that wants law passed pre-
venting one end of the passenger car
being used for smoking, certainly has
right to object to tobacco smoke.
But the man riding in the chair-car,
and finding the heated air of the car
saturated with the perfumery on the
clothes of the lady in the. adjoining
seat, hasn't he some rights. Pass a
law against the use of perfumery.
Why not?
Only those connected with the pro-
fession have any idea of the makeup
of the modern Sunday paper. OF the
efforts made to get sensational stuff.
and Of its effect on the minds Of many
readers Not long ago there was sent
from an Iowa town short account of
man that was born unlucky. He had
been in the army, was shot to
pieces" but recovered. Had been run
away with and broken half dozen
legs and arms so to speak. Had fallen
out of "a tree and was crippled for
life. Had broken thru the ice and
drowned-almost. His COW died. So
did one of his horses. His barn burned
and his wife had eleven children. But
in all of these affections. he managed |
to keep a stiff upper lip and today was
one of our poor but respected citizens.
With photographs enclosed this cores !
pondent got a check for SIS. from a
Sunday daily. But this was only a
beginning. Other Sunday papers way
down east wanted some of it. The
barn, the house, the COW, the eleven
children the army experience, the
drowning. the failing out of the tree.
all had to be written again and again.
More photographs were called for. and
at last reports this correspondent was
SS5 ito the good" Meanwhile some |
spirister way down in Massachusetts
having read this story in a Boston
Sunday daily, was so moved that she
sem. draft for $50 to this unfortunate
man. and wished she could do more
These are facts known to few news
paper men and the demand for this
kind of stuff for Sunday papers is on a
par with the demand for the comic
supplements in colors. The public
wants it so it is furnished them. But
what shall we say of the public?