Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-24


The Brooklyn Chronicle thinks
much of the complaint against the
new certificate law is unfair and alb
surd The passing grade for teachers
is lower than it was before the law
went into effect. There is no possible
tty of favoritism. Those who now
grade the papers have no means what
ever OF telling whose papers they are
grading. The real trouble is that in some
portions of the state county superinten-
dents have frequently issued certifi-
Gates with or without examination. to
poorly qualified teachers"
III all the reforms proposed by the
next legislature are accomplished in
Iowa there will be no doubt any more
about the exact date Of the millen-
tum," concludes the Mason City Globe
Gazette.
The Denison Review calls the chau-
tauqua "the great democratic move
ment for culture and investigation
among the people of the country towns
and farms"
TO hear the bowls the democrats are
raising over Chairman Cortelyou who
is to succeed Shaw as secretary Of the
treasury, one might think that he
had bamboozled some Of them into
contributing to the republican cam
paign fund.-" observes the Alton Star
Enterprise.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette finds two
sides to the race suicide question, and
calls attention generally to two sides
calls attention to the case of a Mar
shalltown woman who died at the time
she became the mother Of her thir-
teenth child. She had been married
sixteen years. Further comment is
unnecessary" concludes the Gazette.
Prosperity has tendency to blur
and scar the conscience" asserts the
Iowa Falls Citizen. Great religious
REVEALS are most successfully prose-
cuted in times of adversely. Men in
the mad and more or less successful
pursuit Of dollars forgot their Maker,
forget their conscience, forget their
family, forget to do right. They
stake everything on the ends sought,
and forget the means used. The dollar
bill and the conscience come up a
standing, face to face, and the dollar
bill wins. And the winning has been
the source of endless wrong in recent
years."
To the Boone News Republican
prosperity and long presidential mess
ages seem to go hand in hand"
Noting that "sonse Of the newspapers
seem to think it queer that the presi-
dent of the American baseball league
should receive three times the salary
given a congressman, the Baskerville
Enterprise explains That's easy; most
any fellow can be congressman, but
it takes brains to run a base ball
league
eff Rinehart is really the mouthpiece
Of Bryan in Iowa, then God help poor
Bryan says the Manson Democrat.
BE booster" advises the Humboldt
Independent. Never knock. Join with
the other citizens in moves that will
promote your community. Never mind
if the benefit does not fall at your door.
Be liberal. Live and let live. Adver-
tise. Boost. Push. Get there"
The Burlington Hawkeye says "It
will be singular coincidence if two
of President Roosevelt's cabinet min
listers become heads Of great insurance
companies"
1.-The 2-cent fare is bound to come
in all the states of the middle west
says the Carroll Herald. ut will be
opposed by the railroads, of course, but
not more strenuously than they opposed
the Scent fare years ago"
The Cedar Rapids Republican classes
Rankin with the lobbyists and wonders
what he wants to do to the prohibitory
law this winter.
A Tip to TeIephonists.
Mayor Brush of Mount Vernon has
established a municipal ice plant. A
young man congratulated him on his
plant the other day and Mayor Brush
answered:
Corporations and rnonopolies are
very powerful things, but one way or
another it is always possible to get just
treatment from them