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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
the COST or A PARCELS POST.

A parcels post would be handy,
..handy as a pocket in shirt" but
can we afford it? Postmaster Gem
eral Meyer advances it as the cure
for the postal deficit. No doubt 1t
would have an immediate effect OF
curbing the excessive charges made by
express companies and there isn't any
doubt that we could send and receive
parcels vt very cheap rate. However,
IL the parcels are to be carried at a
loss. someone must make 1t good ana
that the parcels post would add to
rather than diminish the deficit is
argued with show Of figures that are
Very much worth consideration. Here
are some of the arguments advanced
by the opponents of the system:
There are $4,000 postoffices in the
United States In many of the larger
cities accommodations are woefully
cramped and outside premises are
rented to make room for the workers.
Clerks and letter carriers are over
worked. and no one can say truthfully
that they are overpaid.
What will happen If the postoffice
goes into the express business? How
many more clerks and how much more
office space will be necessary to han
die the increased volume Of "mail?'
The three big express companies of
America have a combined investment
OF s38.000,000 in horses, wagons, office
equipment, warehouses, and the gem
eral paraphernalia necessary to their
work. Are the people of the United
States ready to assume such an ini-
tial burden as that?
The express companies employ an
army Of 1924 men and pay them
s39,401,O32 yearly salary. The gov
eminent would pay at least $5o0oO,-
900 for the same work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01

protection Of friends against a des-
perate effort on the part of those close
to Mr. Roberts, but who assailed the
legitimacy Of the babe. With it's
father arrayed against DIT 1t led a per-
ilous life in Iowa. Later 1t was adopted
by one Of the leading families of Ohio,
taken to q national convention and
accepted as the lost princess with
cheers and enthusiasm. 1t visited Iowa
to be recognized as Of the blood royal
by those who had hoped to destroy 1T.
Now, a star eyed goddess, she stands
at the right hand Of the throne and
holds her head aloft as with authors
ty. 1t and its sister, the Iowa primary,
are children of whom to be proud. No
wonder cruel and unnatural parents
push forward to urge forgotten claims.
1t Is the old story of the babes in
the wood with variations. No doubt
the cruel uncle would have claimed re-
lationship had the children been adopt
ed by the rich and powerful instead OF
perishing miserably in the wood as he
had hoped and intended. Possibly he
might have stood back, impelled by re-
morse or fear Of public recollection
and comment, but some one would
have showed him forward and pro-
claimed his blood relationship.
But what would the princess have
done in that event?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
shres- 1krshalltu,u 3nua4 9rremhrr 1908

linen starched collar last them WINE
blowing corn? 49,, -
g.. How much help DO you hi'o "
operate the milking machineg
9. Is it run by electric mo'of
gasoline engine?
10 How many silk understands mas
each daughter of the family?
III. Can you state average NUMBER
of ostrich plumes in girls ana your
wfe's hats? "a,
~. tlow many courses in your MD
day lunch? a,n-
ia. How many in your evening din-
ner? ,,,r.a
IA Do Yourself, your sons and hlreu
,,aar Tuxedo or swallowtall fun
dress suits?
TX state color of kid gloves worm
IL any. ~
1s. Do you use safety razors VI
natronjze the barber shop
II. Is your home heated win haru
coal heaters, hot air furnace ho'
water, or steam?
rs DO YOU place the toothpicks on
the table or on the sideboard?
10 Do you employ chiropodis' or
trim your own toenails?
20. How late do you permit your
daughters to sit up" with their fei-
lows?
81. Do you chew cloves or eat on
ions to kill the smell after taking a
drink?
- DO YOU believe in large families:
%. How many pet dogs have you? !,
"a. DO you do your painting ana
"a. DO you do your planting an"
sowing in the new of the moon OF
when the ground and weather are
right?
o5 What is your favorite flower?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
a@Me~7-.A
Iona Newspapers
WHAT MONEY CANNOT BUY.
Davenport Times.)

davenport IlmeS.)
Suddenly John ID. Rockefeller seems
to have discovered that money is not
the only good thing to be desired.
Money will not purchase friends. tho
1t will win fawning sycophants it
will not buy respect. thN 1t will at
tract attention: ii will not obtain
command of public opinion. tho it will
found universities. Power to do things
is much priced by a man in the prime
of life, and money Is the power he can
use to great advantage in doing things
But when the silver wand of time
passes over his head, and the magic
of age is felt and his mind begins to
turn to thoughts of what people ought
to say OF him when he is gone. this
same man who first sought money as
a means of power, begins to see how
much greater is the worth of friend
ship. of respect and OF a favorable
public opinion. And now by writing
the story of his struggles to get a
start. by making confidants of report
ers and even of the lawyers attacking
his company in the name OF the gov
eminent and by frank and willing tes-
timony, In an effort to overcome the
public opinion created and fostered by
years of secretiveness. Rockefeller in
New York Is confessing that he needs
friends. wants respect and hopes pub
lie opinion OF him may be changed
There was once husbandman
whose barns and granaries. We're too
small. He said: II will pull down my
barns and build greater: and there
will I bestow all my fruits and my
goods" He planned to live at ease,
to "eat. drink and be merry" But his
plans awaited him nothing because
they were selfish plans, and when he
suddenly died he was called a fool
1t is tragic to see a man like Rock
efeller, powerful and mighty as any
king, If measured by the standard of
money wealth. SO weak in his old age
that he makes what cannot be inter-
preted to be less than an appeal for
friends, for respect and for public con-
fidence, things which after a life time
spent in gaining money he finds gold
cannot buy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
C11n1n,i,1s as a Lawyer.

ance, but has adhered to his convic-
tons in spite of criticism, and has
continued to fight for the right as he
was able to see the right against fear
full odds, when by compromising his
principles his own pathway to adj
vancement and to high honors would
have been made speedy, pleasant and
safe. But he is not mere pipe for
fortunes finger to sound what stops
she please. He is not ambitions slave.
Equipped with the learning Of the law,
disciplined by Is successful practice.
experienced in the affairs of state, he
enters the senate with the firm con-
viction that the best things in life are
not sordid or material, that the peoples
good is the first law of legislation, and
that national honor is higher than ma
tional wealth and his voice will ring
true and clear in advocacy of those
ideals and measures and for those
standards of civic virtue that build n
noble and enduring national charac-
ter"
"Our People, Congratulate.
Mr.. Davis of the Northwestern said:
1.-The election of the governor to this
office is the elimination of a long
struggle in Iowa. marked by some Bit
terness. but that will soon pass away
and be forgotten. I know there is a
general desire on the part of all of our
people to join in generous congratula-
tions, with the earnest conviction upon.
the part of the great body of the re,
publican party that discord among rel
publicans in Iowa is now at an endl
"In presiding over the Cedar Rapids
convention in 1901 when the governor
was first nominated, l expressed thef
hope that hereafter in the republican
party in Iowa. there would be no In,
dams from the reservation and mol
Comanches from the waters of thel
Coon The fulfillment of that hopeS
then expressed but somewhat delayedt|
l believe is now at hand
II am here as a good loser, and with
sincerity extend to Senator Cunamind
congratulations on a great victoria
hoping that his success in his new field
of labor will be all that he himself
can anticipate and all that his mosL
ardent friends may desire. and I trust
that in his career as senator he mai
accomplish all the good Things he hopev
for, and that he will reflect new glorA
upon the magnificent state which hi
will have the honor to represent. na;rl
tanning and continuing the high stanS
ard Of legislative conduct fixed by
illustrious predecessor"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
IRy Des Moines Lawyers)

The Polk County Bar association
gave q big banquet to Senator Cum
Minis Saturday night at which Jim Da-
Wis, general attorney for the North
western railroad, expressed himself as
a good loser, and Judge Carr and N.
e. Coffin gave their opinion Of Cum
Minis as a lawyer in the course OF their
addresses Of congratulation to the new
senator.
Held First Place as Lawyer.
Judge Carr saw a bright future for
Senator Cummins. Granting his bril-
liant political successes, nevertheless
Judge Carr believed that 1t is as a
lawyer that Albert B. Cummins has
achieved that greatest success In life.
The speaker said:
cat the time he laid down his pro-
fessional work to assume the perform
ance Of his official duties he was, al
tho still young man, the acknoWl-
edged leader of the Polk county bar.
The, place was accorded to him, not
only by the general concensus Of opin-
ion of the people at large, but by the
members Of his profession as well. am
sure no gentleman present will take
.O1fenSe WlleH L SlGlt lli1tl lhS l'iSssN'
has since remained vacant, altho there
has been no deartll Of candidates. L
think 1 know q lawyer when ] see one.
I have studied the lawyer from every
viewpoint. from that of the bench the
bar the office and the back seats.
ut was my good fortune to be assoc
ciaIted with Mr.. Cummins in a number
Of rather intricate. and important
cases. I also count it my good fortune,
altho it not infrequently led to my
iundoing, to be pitted against him in a
number of cases. / have had therefore.
every opportunity to form an accurate
and discriminating Judgment as to his
qualifications as a lawyer. [ can pay
our honored guest no higher compli-
nent than to say that he fully merits
the reputation which he, as lawyer.
enjoys"
Judge Carr recounted some Of the
interesting incidents connected with
Senator Cumnins' professional career.
Ideals Not Sordid or Material.
Mr.. Coffin concluding. said:
cit would not be in good taste to
laud him too much tonight, but we
know and appreciate his character as
a man and his ability as lawyer.
They say he is distrrber. but contro-
versy is the meat on which the lawyer
feeds that makes him great. He has
not followed the lines Of least resist
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
Topics of the Times.

Has anyone noticed the dea' hiy
silence which has fallen on Oklahoma?
J. Now that Won Buelow has made the
Kaiser listen perhaps he can teach
him to look first and leap afterward.
The committee which insistently
asks Mr.. Hepburn to contest the cleo
ton Of Jameson Is outside Of the
game. Mr.. Hepburn might hold it a
while but Jameson appears to have
been elected and it Is doubtful if
a canvas would make serious changes.
"The people are partners in every
great fortune" asserts Mr.. Carnegie,
land are entitled to dividends on their
shares. Does Mr.. Carnegie know your
postoffice address?
Woman will never be mans equal
until she is able to buy SIS Christmas
present without looking over all the SO
stuff first.
Hereafter the Japs can play in the
puddle in our back yard according to
agreement. But they mustn't throw
stones at the back windows.
An exchange has an article on "The
Passing of the Lobster. Why not?
Who wants him to stop and butt into
the conversation?
. y
what want" said the fretful
magnate, "is to find some way of for
getting my troubles.H
That's easy" answered Mr.. Dustin
Stax. Get them to put you in the
witness chair during a trust investiga-
ton" Washington Star.
If Mr.. Rockefeller keeps on talking
for the press and writing autobi-
ographies we may come in time to
call him Uncle Johnny"
**s
If the quarantine for foot and mouth
disease applied to breaking out
around the mouth" common among
humans perhaps all could get along
without feeding cattle TOT lew
months while silence like a poultice"
healed the wounds of sound.
II as the Dubuque Times asserts.
Geo. E. Roberts was the father Of
the Iowa primary law" he enacted
the part of the cruel parent and cast
off his child long before the baby was
in short dresses. Mr. Roberts will need
to take out papers of adoption before
his paternal claim will be given serious
consideration The shelter plank" Is
another uninherited child who found
a good home in Ohio and afterward
was welcome in Iowa, but Mr. Rob
erts can scarcely bring it home shert
of abduction. These were deserted
children once.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
A,REAsoHABLE PHONE LAW.

An independent telephone man mas
suggested a reform which looks very
reasonable on the face OF it and should
command the attention of legislators.
He Is engaged in the fight OF inde-
pendent telephone companies for ex-
istence under the destructive COM
petition Of the Bell trust and as war
measure he suggests a law which will
compel telephone company to main
tain uniformity OF rates in all parts
OF the state for identical service. This
is the weapon turned effectively upon
the STANDARD Oil monopoly in many
states and operates we'll. The Bell
company. like the Standard, has been
known to reduce rates In a single
locality far below the rates prevailing
in other localities for the same serv-
ice. In tact below cost, for the purpose
Of destroying some small competitor.
After the destruction has been ac-
complished the rates go up above the
normal rate sufficient to recoup losses
and leave a nnonopolistisc profit.
The independents now propose law
which will compel the rates to be re-
duced by the same company every
where in the state for like service
when 1t wishes to make a reduction
ut any one point In this manner one
community could not be plundered for
a war fund with which to fight COM
petitors in another community. It Is
argued that It has restrained the
standard Oil company from destroy
ing competition in Kansas and If 1T
has worked we'll there in oil 1t ought
to work well in Iowa in phone service
The public is interested very much
in this telephone fight. 1t must have
telephone service and quality of serv-
ice has depended very largely upon
competition in the past. Reasonable
ness of rates has depended upon COM
petition too. The public is not entitled
to service for for less than cost hence
has no interest in destructive compe-
tition. A living rate will Improve the
service and by fostering competition
regulate fairly reasonable rate ANY,
I. way 1t sounds reasonable to provide
that when the rate comes down In
waterloo In telephone fight it shall
not 60 up by the som,. company in,
Cedar Rapids in order to finance the
x,,ar at Waterloo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
Looker-On In Iona

Traer. Dec. 1.-THE following cat
story comes to the writer from q
source deserving all consideration and
names are omitted only to avoid get
ting them enrolled with Roosevelt;
nature fallirs. The lady Of the house
was preparing the Sunday dinner.
Probably to save time spent in church,
when such work is usually performed,
she placed on the stove the prepared
chicken, to be fried for dinner, and
then went upstairs. Very soon the
family cat came up on a run and new.
ing tremendously. At once this, lady
knew something was wrong down
stairs, and preceded by the intelligent
maltese she hurried down to the kit
chen to find the chicken burning
on" Fortunately the cat had given
warning in time and this family had
their fried chicken for dinner Whether
Roosevelt likes this story or not, two
facts and two differences are to be men
toned and drawn. First, the cat did
come upstairs and did meow" Sec
ondly, the chicken was burning, and
was saved. Again this cat may have
been actuated by a sense of family duty
or to take a selfish view of her ac-.
tions. the cat did not like burnt chick
en-.
A recent number Of the Saturday
Evening Post contains number of let
tiers from graduates of agricultural
colleges. Young men that left nome
to attend college and after graduation
went back to the farm. There are al
together too few such cases in Iowa. in
the writer's opinion. One of these
Young men states in substance that as
a result Of the knowledge he acquired
in college, he took charge of the old
farm Of 100 acres, where the best rec
ord his father had ever made was l.
500 a year profit, and starting in he
cleared up the first year $4,000, and
finally last year $4,000 from the same
farm his father could only get Sl,5oo
off of in a year That's pretty smart
boy. IF there are any more such cases
WHY not write the T.-R. and not send
such good things to a down-eas pub
licaion.
What a good correspondent is worth
to a daily paper the management fully
realizes. What such correspondence is
worth to any town few of the town
people realize. To illustrate, the Tx.
correspondent at Colo. some time ago.
mentioned the name Of a man that had
this year an unusually large crop-f
that's the word-of honey. The result
was a dealer in Minnesota town saw
the item in the T.-R. or else 1t was
copied into some other paper and the
farmer in Colo has already sold the
Minnesota dealer 200 pounds Of Iowa
honey.
People do read Several years ago
in this column was mentioned the
death Of tramp at Manson, by being
run over by the cars. The tramp was
unknown and was buried by tho town,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
SOME OMITTED QUESTIONS.
(Manson Denocratl


The Roosevelt commission for In
curry into conditions of farm life In
the republic has gotten down to husi-
ness. The answers to the many ques-
lions propounded to various farmers
thruout the country are very interest
ing and are the subject OF much med
itation and cogltation by the august
committee. However, the commits
sion has neglected to ask several CUES
tions of considerable Importance and
this newspaper humbly suggests THAI
the following questions be added to the
list of queries put to the farmers In
order that the fullest knowledge Of the
details be brought out.
1. How many automobiles in YOU
family?
Q. What make are they?
g. How many pair of silk socks has
each son In your family?
4. Are they hard on socks?
s. What grade of perfumery do they
use and what flavor is each one par
tial to?
6. Do they get their laundry done
up" at home or send it to the steam,
laundry?
Z. How long. on an average, will y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01

was somebody's son, whose parents
would never know what became Of
him. And five letters came to the
writer from three different states, ask
ing for further particulars of age. size,
weight, clothes, etc One was from a
mother whose boy had left her five
years before, and it was pitiful to reed
it. She still had hopes he would re-
turn. Said she made practice OF
writing every time she read of the
death of an unknown man. She didn't
say so, but it was between the lines.
that even a certain report of his death
would be preferable to the continued
SUSPENSE,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
TnE NEW BABES. IN THE WOOD.

The Dubuque Times coming forward
with claim 1t would have been 10th
to have advanced before the last pri-
mary election, announces that the Iowa
primary law is the child Of George =.
Roberts, whilom editor OF the Ft.
Dodge Messenger, and later Of the Des
MONIES Register and Leader. It was
when Mr., Roberts was editor of the
Leader that he begat the primary law.
according to the Times. This was long
after Cyrenus Cole had as is, now
claimed, written the Evolutionary edi-
torial for the Register which made
Cummins famous" S
The Times claim will hard
~ stand in the light of later
developments. II Mr.. Roberts is to be
connected with the birth OF. the pri-
mary law it is more as midwife than
as a parent. It appears from cyrenus
Coles records that Mr.. Cole, himself,
put in the first call for the doctor, The
primary law was conceived of the spir-
it OF progress, and born Of the COM
mon people Of Iowa
However, IL we were to argue Mt.
Roberts claim to paternity we should
be obliged to admit that the child does
not look like him. 1t is true that about
that time Mr.. Roberts was seen much
about and that he was smiled on pleas
antly. However. he showed no signs
of relationship to the born infant,
ceased to visit its home and exhibited
marked repugnance to the entire fam
lily. He has never given evidence of
natural parental pride or responsibility.
Indeed after the cruel and unnatural
custom alleged against Thomas cats
he has sought to destroy rather than
to protect and provide for the Off
spring Even if the claim of paternity
We're to be admitted. further claim
would be estopped by the proved plea
Of desertion.
In another and somewhat similar
s case however, Mr.. Roberts will have
no trouble in establishing; paternal re-
sponsibility Sad to say it is another
case Of a deserted child. He was the
legitimate father of the famous shelter
plank, was present at the birth and
proudly exhibited the new born. infant
to the Delegates to the Cedar Rapids
convention. Il 10 q pitiful story with a
beanxiful ending. The child was de-
sertsa ~ the father end lett to the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
REVOLUTION IN FAN THEORIES
Turbine Blower Upsess Old Ideas
nl.,t How ~ "Move Air"

Turbine Blower upsets Old Ideas
About How to "Move Air."
Propeller fans everybody knows
about. They push the air just as n
propeller pushes ship. Centrifugal
fans work on the same principle as u
centrifugal pump. As the blades re-
yolve at high speed the air between
them is driven outward by centrifugal
force. or one oflthis type of fans il.
vented by s. G.. Davidson of Belfast.
Ireland. George H. Winstanley, F. G..
S.. in work soon to be published on
."rhe Mechanical Equipment Of Col.
lieries," says:
The most interesting feature about
this fan is IF may use the expression
that it "knocks on the head many OF
the generally accepted fan theories
The distinctive features of the Sirocco
fan are these. 1t has an absolutely
clear inlet or practically the same di-
ameter as the fan itself. (All other
fans have the inlet much smaller In
diameter than that Of the revolving
portion.) The blades are very short
radially. being only about one-sixteenth
of the fan diameter. The width Of the
blades, however. is greater than usual,
about three-6fths of the diameter.
There are larger number of blades
than are usually found In centrifugal
fans, sixty-four being the number
adopted IN the Sirocco.i The blades
take more the form Of scoops, with a
forward curvature.
AS an example OF what these fans
can do fan Of well known make at a
Lancashire colliery Is producing 233,-
600 cubic feet per minute. This fan is
twenty-four feet in diameter. A ST.
rocco fan that has recently been In
stalled at n colliery In the north Of
England Is seventy-fve inches in
diameter and is producing 22e,0Oo
cubic feet per minute. The signtf.
canoe Of this comparison is too obvious
to need further comment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01

porch togener WIN the all's 800
attractive house space nras
ana closet oh tue n ,oe+ Of
fair me ceihss Oh .th oa1or nnser
half a.,,a ans .ht,g.
first ana paneu
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-01
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Think OF Cyrenus Cole as the or
Iginal Cummins mani exclaims the
Mortified Monticello Express.