Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-25

some graduates make as much as $500
or even $500 in four months. Cease ar
guing the question: of course college
education pays.
The South omaha system of settling
top off the interrogation points will
never become a complete success. II
hasn't worked well on the negro and
the Japs and is likely to fail in the case
of the Greeks
The appearance of Lieutenant Cen
eral LATE Young as the Sunday occu
pant of a Des Moines pulpit will set
the newspaper fraternity guessing
whether the church is growing liberal
or that eminent warrior getting re-
ligious.
Now that the anniversaries of the
birth of Washington and Lincoln have
been duly celebrated. put up the shades
and get ready for the Inauguration OF
u very material president.
As a state and general newspaper,
the Times Republican-shoot that
hyphenated names one to be proud
of. and with the additional press IA
cilities the publishers promise to make
1t a still more desirable publication.
This paper is one of a very few that
eDt. Tot,
and business during all of the period
of cheap prices. which is an indica-
ton that it is appreciated by its read
ers for its real worth.-ClarksviIle
Star
body of Ansel Briggs, Iowa's first
governor to rest in the siol OF the
state Is a good one. 1t should be
brought home with appropriate exer-
cises and the spot where At Is laid
marked with fitting monument at the
expense of the state.
III the Legislature would make the
necessary appropriations and then i'm
mediately adjourn, its members would
be doing all the public requires, says
the Cedar Rapids Optimus. 1t would he
doing nothing Of the sort and the Opti-
mus and other papers that voice this
unwarranted cry year after year knows
1t as well as others. There is plenty
for the legislature to do that needs
II 10 IA = Al,
instead of lodging from one clump of
high grass to another But 1t has plenty
TO do If it would do it beside getting
together to apportlon the spoil.
Captain Boniface, of Fort Des
Moines objects to civilians wearing
army uniforms because fellows buy
regulation government army blouses or
shorts or breeches from dealers who
have got possession of left over sup
Uniforms and parts of uniforms occa
sienally get into the hands OF these
dealers and are worn by an undesirable
class of toughs and tramps. who when
they get into trouble bring discredit
on the army What kind of game is
the captain and the U. S. government
working on the state? The government
proposes to sell all its left over and
condemned stuff to dealers with the
full knowledge that it Is to be retailed
out to those whose poverty or inclina-
ton leads them to buy. Why then
should the purchaser be denied the
right to wear what he has paid money
for? There doesn't seem to be lick of
sense in the bill and it ought to be
smothered. The cases where the milf
tary has been embarrassed by mistak-
en- identity on account of cast off uni
forms are not so plenty as to call FOR
the attention of the Iowa legislature
The regular soldier is not generally a
member of the local band of hope in
the neighborhood of the barracks and
doesn't need to be hedged about with
law lest he be slandered. Legislators
should find something to occupy their
time and energy outside playing up
such babyish complaints before an as
sembly that ought to do something and
get thru Go back to the fort Cap. and
holler hep" to the awkward squad.