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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
Topics of the Times

# Harry Thaw succeeds in keeping
his temper while being grilled by his
old tormenter, District Attorney Je-
rome, his sanity will have been pretty
fairly established
President Eliot, like some other ex-
college presidents and high professors,
seems TO be trying to keep before the
public bly, insidious attacks upon the
christian religion. If he is seeking pop
llarity he has adopted the poorest
method that ever deludea SO learned a
man.
About the only farmers observable in
Iowa towns the past couple of weeks
nave been the retired farmers
What Spain seems to need is not
more soldiers so much as soldiers who
know how TO fight.
Whether he has earned it or not
Aldrich will need about as much rest
as any of them.
In q, few days twill be quite ap-
-propriate for the county press to an
|nounce that "the song Of saesthreshine
Fmachine is heard In thesland.'
Let US not lose hope that, congress
fwilIsyet adjourn in time osgtve.Presi
Edant TAFT -anS Opportunity ito. spend
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
Tho Inside of Game of Baseball.

Those interested in baseball who get
an opportunity to read Hugh S. Fuller
toms article in the August American
Magazine will realize how little the
spectator sees of the inside workings of
baseball game from the beachers.
Baseball games, Mr.. Fullerton says. are
often won on the players bench-or
even before the game commences. He
writes:
1T is seldom that spectators at any
game get a glimpse of the brain work
behind the movements of the players
and even to hardened fans the game
looks haphazard. They criticize because
they do not understand. They see only
the individual, what he does. where the
ball it hit, or caught, or thrown and
the intent and purpose of it all is lost,
without thinking how much thought
may have been wasted on the play that
the individual attempted to carry cut.
or how well planned the game may have
been. They imagine, most of them.
that the players are individuals who
walk to the plate, hit or miss the ball.
made safe hit or go out, and they do
not know that behind the way the nun
hits behind the movements of the base
pciliIk1 Sl1S pOSIllOA LllS lllSA
take are hidden code of signals, and
a series of orders to be obeyed without
question, for the general good Thay
scarcely imagine that games are planned
before, they are started, or that as soon
as a pitcher is named the manager and
his advisers map out a scheme of ac-
ton and plan an attack upon the weak
est point of the opposing team. They
do not realize that as soon as Mar
guard. of New York, or Pfester Of
Chicago, is named to pitch, the oppos-
ing manager orders a bunting game, or
that as soon as a catcher known to have
a weak arm, or to throw badly, or a
pitcher who does not watch base rum
ners carefully is elected to perform bat
terry duty for the day the opposing
manager signals Steal Steal steal
to every fast man who reaches base.
Listen to a coacher, Doc Marshall
of Brooklyn, for instance. on the line
at first base. running up and down,
paving the dirt, acting like a mad
| man. and perhaps one not deeply
versed in the game imagines he is try
ing to rattle the opposing pitcher. ior
spur his own men to greater efforts.
A hundred Of the words or phrases he
uses may mean nothing, but somewhere
among them the baserunner hears.
Careful. Harry. which tells him Mar
shall has seen a signal for fast ball.
flashed the batter a signal to hit and
is warning the runner to start as soon
as the ball is pitched. Or he may
catch, Now we're at 'em, and leap for
| ward to save himself from being forced
when the batter bul1ts d sacrifice"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
ENTITLED TO INCREASES.

lCeuar RAPIDS Gazette
Clerks and letter carriers in a num-
Der Of Iowa postoffices are being
granted an increase in salaries. by the
postal department. Here is an increase
in the cost of government that no one
will condemn. When the average low
salaried government official receives
an increase in wages ne usually earns
il. Especially is this TRUE of the postal
service, the amount of work in which
is constantly on the rise
The government in increasing the
salaries of clerks and carriers takes
into account, of course. efficiency and
the length of time of service. But there
is another matter that undoubtedly
enters in to the consideration of the
question. The department heads can
hardly fail to realize that the cost of
living is increasing rapidly and that
salaries that once We're considered
quite remunerative are no longer ac-
counted large enough to allow the en-
ploYes to live as the times demand and
at the same time save anything for the
Inevitable rainy day. The subordinates
in the government service are entitled
10 good pay for good work. and if they
do not get it no one would blame them
for leaving the service and forcing the
department to put UP with employees
who might not be SO we'll qualified.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28

banks reporting as such to the con-
troller OF the currency are only 1853 in
number. These are obviously inad-
equate to country with nearly ninety
million Inhabitants. The Bankers AS
ISOLATION has recently replied, however,
with figures to show that there may
be added about $4,000 State banks,
trust companies, private banks, etc., not
reporting to controller, together with
the savings departments of POLL Ma
tional banks. Including these. the
amount of savinks grows from $500,
600 to $5.500,o00. If there may be added
the building and loan associations.
$3.50, and the life insurance COM
panies, 1927 in number. the countrys
savings can be calculated at $685.
All, 4SS,-an average for every Amer
lean man, woman, and child of s11s,
nearly three times what the controllers
report would indicate.
What All These Figures Mean.
The trouble with these figures lies
in their implication that a deposit IN
anything called building and loan as
ISOLATION" National bank" State
bank" trust company" is a proper
disposition of savings.
Such institutions are essential to the
country's development. Thousands of
them may be, and number. known TO
the writer, actually have been run with
enough care to safeguard hard-earned
pennies and doMar& But they have
got to stand on their personal and in
dividual merits. There is nothing in
their names that carries such a safe
guard as the words savings bank" over
any institution empowered to bear that
title by the legislatures of states like
New York, New Jersey. and the New
England states, Indiana, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and a few others. For in
these states the savings bank is made
what it ought to be,-a disinterested or
mutual institution.
No savings bank in New York, for
instance. makes money for any one but
it depositors. There are no stockhotd-
ers and there are no profits. There is
no risky personal paper" feld,-no
stocks or speculative undertakings.
Whatever the bank can earn thru the
purchase of sound railroad and nun
icipal bonds. mortgages, and so on PEI
mitted by the rigorous state laws is
returned to the depositors in the form
than s5o,000,00O so returned; and loss
than S5,o00.o0o was taken out for ex-
penses OF every dollar earned by the
bank depositor got more than ninety
cents. There We're no failures in New
York last year. There have been no
failures in New York since the passage
of the present law,-1S92
OF the 1853 savings institutions. 1871
are in New York, and every one Of
these is mutual"
AS soon as voters learn that gilded
sign entitled Savings Department.
hung in a bank which places its 'le-
positors' money in speculative schemes,
does not make that money one whit
safer.-that savings, to quote Pierre
Jay. banking commissioner of Massa-
chusetts, ARE trust funds and should
be invested accordingly."-it will not
be long before prominent and trust
worthy men in every important COM
munity of the United States are or
ganizing mutual savings banks. Money
placed in these banks need not be. even
temporarily, carried away from the
district where it has been earned,-to
cite one objection widely urged against
the postal" plan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
ROOSEVELT FOR MAYOR.
(Dayenport Timesl


The republicans of New York City
are in a fever of excitment over the
report cabled from Paris that John S.
Wise, Jr.. in an interview there has
said that Roosevelt told him, before
sailing from New York that he expect
led to be back to this country in time to
have something TO say about the cleo
ton of a mayor in that city. Colonel
Roosevelt's friends in the republican
ranks have long had him in mind as a
candidate for mayor if he could be in
duced to accept the nomination and
this report from Paris gives them
ground for the hope that he will all
low his name to be used. Just what
the strength of the former president
wculd be in New York City is problem-
atical because New York City is the
very center of all the opposition to
what are called the Roosevelt poll
! tics of the last national administration.
OF course, as mayor, he would not
have the opportunity to do the things
affecting New York's business inter-
ests that he had while president; but,
at the same time. he would have an
opportunity to exert an influence that
would be felt outside of the CITY. He
would give New York an administration
that would be honest, direct and effec-
tive. Tammany would have to be ex-
| ceedingly active to effect his defeat If
| he was nominated
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28

have felt the touch of the interurban
or the revivifying impulses of the
periods of prosperity" which have
passed over the country like benedic-
tions within the past fifty years and
have changed. The new merchant has
built new and up to date modern
house with all sorts of jimcracks in
the gables and decorated it with vari
colored paints and stains; "Old Doc"
who used to drive the old claybank
horse TO a road cart is dead and gone
and the new doctor goes popping over
the h;ghwavin motor car. Along the
road sides the dingy old farm houses
have given way to mansions heated
by modern appliances and with their
own systems of hghting and water
runs from taps in every room. The
roads themselves show the march of
progress. They are hard roads where
the dusty lanes ran in the old days
and cement culverts where the old
bridge ,gaped holes thru its worn
planks Where Is this little section that
has stood still while the rest of the
world whirled on? 1t belongs more in
a museum than In the United States of
America
And the eternal change has replaced
the old familiar faces with new ones.
Names may not have changed so much,
Old Smiths boys or grandsons may be
on the old place but they are strangers
TO him who knew the country half
century ago and has not known it
since, as much and as completely
strangers as tho they had landed there
from another continent the day before
the Des MONIES man arrived. He is a
stranger in a strange land. The old
men whom he knew are dust; the
women who lnothered him are by their
sides in the cemeteries; and the boys
he played with are old and gray, those
of them who have survived the flight
of fifty years.
Don't GO back after fifty years ex-
pecting little change. You will go to a
foreign country. unless as the Des
MONIES man referred to, you find a lit
tie and sequestered spot that progress
has passed by and that the lines of
change have swung around and left
off the right o way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
Texas Excursion

The M. P. .Soash Land Company Of
Waterloo, Iowa, with branch offices in
almost every state in the Union, an
nounce that they will conduct large
excursion on Tuesday. August Srd, to
the Big Springs Country. on the South
Plains of Texas.
This company is one Of the largest
concerns in the land business, and is
known to thousands and thousands of
our best business men and farmers.
The company has been successful in
handling large tracts of Texas lands,
and their latest purchase, the Big
Springs Ranch is a tract of land which
good judges consider an excellent agri-
cultural district, and many are buying
With the intention of moving to that
country and anticipating the raise of
price in land. and in this it seems that
they will not be disappointed.
The Soash Development Company is
just now promoting the sale of lots in
the new town of .Soash, which has been
started on Big Springs Ranch. This
town gives promise of rapid and per-
manent development. The lots in the
town of Soash are selling on a very
liberal plan. and already the sales re-
corded are very numerous. Mr.. tSoash,
with the assistance of the business men
and farmers of the Big Springs Coun-
try is engaged in building a line of
railway rom Big Springs to the town
of Soasb, and construction work has
already begun.
Tuesday, August Bird, Soash Special
train will be started for the Big Springs
Country. An entire train, fully equipped,
has been chartered and to this the two
handsome private cars, the "Bernice''
and the "Arvilla, both belonging to the
w. P. Soash Land Company. will be at
tached
This special train will leave Dies
Moines, Iowa, 80 o'clock Tuesday ev-
ening, August Srd, via the Wabash rail-
way. and arrives at Abba at 11:15;
| Motion, 1920. getting into Kansas City
at 1880 a. m. Wednesday. The train
there will be joined by special cars
from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin,
Kentucky, Minnesota, the Dakotas
Kansas, Nebraska, and eastern and
western Iowa. From Kansas City
south, there will be at least twelve or
fourteen coaches, according to indica-
tions received at the home Office in
Waterloo.
The W. P. Soash Land Co. is send
| ing out .gratuitously, very complete
beautifully illustrated. 1t contains a
mine of information and is well worth
reading.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
PROMISING BIG THINGS.

To those whose business it Is TO
keep a finger tip on the pulses of pros
perity the circulation of trade beats
with Increasing strength and healthfill-
ness. Alphabetically and industrially
the prediction is for Improvement and
continuation of good times. We are
told that Improvement is pronounced IN
many Industries, including the man
ufacture of steel products. Long de-
ferred orders for new railroad equip
nents are being placed of proportions
to keep the entire steel plants operating
95 per cent of their full capacity. The
manufacture of rails is still below
normal volume but steadily improveing
with new orders that had been held in
allegiance by railroads during the dull
period of the business depression fol-
lowing the financial panic in 1907.
Middlemen. jobbers and retailers are
placing large orders to replenish eN-
hausted stocks and a season of normal
dullness is transformed into a period of
great commercial activity orders that
had been deferred for sea.sonable fall
goods are being placed with jobbers in
unusually large volume and the move
ment generally in all parts of the coun-
try indicates that the period of siren
llous economy is being superseded by
an era of increased consumption of ali
classes Of staple merchandise
Money rates continue easy and as
large loans have been placed by rail-
roads for equipment and extension con-
struction the demand for loans will be
lighter the balance Of the year. The
rapid movement of winter wheat tc
market has increased the volume OF
currency circulation and banks show
an increase of deposits and reserves
Country banks are we'll supplied viii
money and less drafts will be made or
eastern banks than usual TO move the
/ seasons crops. altho larger volume OF
money, estimated at $500 900 900, viii
be required for the fall marketing thar
a year ago.
Agricultural conditions are particu-
larly favorable for a record yield G,
corn and good harvest of other lead.
ing crops. The condition of the corr
crop is fastening the realization of the
largest yield in the history of the III.
dustry. It is estimated that the farm.
ers in 1909 will produce crops aggre.
eating value of $4,000, 100000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
GOOD MONEY IN JUNK.


Up and down the dirty back alleys
drives the junk man, singing mis-
mournful, nasal cry, loading his rick
ETY. wagon with broken scraps and
pieces of old iron-an object OF pity or
Of ridicule to most of the uniformed
public serfiir
Let him be admired or envied rath-
er, for. if not he himself. at least his
employer is probably making more
money than nine out of ten professions
al men. Better than that his work is Of
the utmost Importance in the world
and, in the aggregate reaches proper
tons almost beyond the belief of the
casual man in the street.
Few things are more depressing and
unsightly than pile of junk as high
as two-story building. One may see
them in every city and, so far as the
casual observer can determine none of
the stuff is ever moved. The piles IN
crease, apparently from month tn
month and grow rustier and rustier but
the men in the business keep on buy
ing.
How are they able to keep so much
money tied up? Where do they get the
large amount Of capital which seems
to be necessary?
They borrow from the banks, like
any other business man, on the secur.
ity of their stock in trade.
mo better security" the president
of almost any bank will declare. I'll
can neither burn nor blow away. II
can't be damaged by water OF smoke
where is there d voiia:torra.!. like that
1t is absolutely safe. The foundrie$
and the nut and bolt works and the
stove factories can't get along with
out it. 1t pays the largest profits OF
any business to which we lend money
and these profits fuctuate very little
Junk is always in demand. The men in
that business are excellent customers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
Tho Poor Mans Bank.

Whether poor ple,"-meaning
that vast majority of the population
that ought to save some Of its money
really need a government postal saw
ings bank or not fs a question now be-
ing fencely fought.
n-the-affirmative is the republican
party platform, and also many expert
and impartial public men. There lis the
American Bankers Association de-
cseedly inAfhe negative. Meanwhile, the
poor man" could settle the question
hfmse1f5by a view minutes study OF
what a sayings bank is and by his re-
fusal to<deposit,in any bank that does
not treat-saMlngs asstrustjfunds. In
stead Of the ordinary commercial ac-
counts.
The open factsRre, that thessaYings
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
What's in a Name?

An old German wearing a faded blue
coat and a campaign hat liinped into
the office of a palatial dog and horse
hospital beaueathed by a humane mil
lionaire in the town of x.
4 wish to be admitted to dis hos
pital." he announced to the superin-
tendent. I've got heart trouble. I'm a
G. a. r. man. und I can prove it,
But you can't enter this institution,
my good man." said the superintend-
ent.
Sure I can. I fight at Gettysburg.
I hat got a weak heart efer sence. I
can prove it."
Yes, but you can't enter this hospi-
tai; it's "a"
Cant, huh? Why not? I was a
soldier. I can prove it,"
But this is a veterinary hospital"
81 know dot. Amid l choost tellin'
you dot I'm a n?"-Lippincott'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
A WAY TO GAIN RESPECT.

Long ago the Times Republican was
severely censured by a leading and
friendly attorney for its attitude and
utterances as to court procedure. The
point made by the limb of the law was
that the T.-R. having no technical legal
knowledge failed to understand the
reason and necessities of long delay
and apparent naiscarriages Of justice.
Indeed It was bluntly and plainly as
serted by the lawyer that the T.-R.
simply played its ignorance in its ar
gunlent and should keep still regarding
what it knew SO little about 1t was
not new The presumed ignorance Of
complicated legal procedure has been
urged against all who have from the
outside criticised the present unjust
and dilatory methods OF courts.
But of late comes Justice Brewer OF
the highest court in the land TO say
that "the reversal of a. judgment by an
appellate court on the ground Of mere
technically when substantial justice
has been administered is an outrage"
He said many other things more severe
than were said by the T.-p at the time
referred to. And who is 10 chide Justice
Brewer as ignorant nd behind
Justice Brewers plan 5ements arc
those equally plain ma. by President
Taft, himself a judge ana lawyer Of
high repute, in a public address.
The Busse case in Iowa is one of the
eases that belong with the recent case
where the Missouri supreme court
gave convict new trial because she
definite article the" was omitted in
the Indictment Busse dragged UP and
down thru the courts OF the state for
five years until his means ran out and
was at last sent to the penirentiary be-
cause of the division of the supreme
court of the state over point of legal
procedure If ever man deserved
hanging Busse deserved that fate
There was no question of his guilt. He
was guilty on his own confession There
Is no question of the guilt of Junkin,
but attorneys are asking for a new rial
and DESTROYS Of appeal. Johann Hof.
guilty and proven guilty of crimes
enough TO hang. him a half dozen times
was refused an appeal in Illinois, not
because procedure failed TO contemplate
appeal but because he hadn't $500.
When some woman with more charity
than common sense laid down the
money Hons got his appeal.
Ndw~one doesn't need legal training
to see what Justice Brewer calls the
Outrage Of all this. II is not a con-
fesston of ignorance when i is crit
dcised. We learn much in five years
and from men like Taft and Brewer
much that We already knew but waited
for some one in authority or of prom
inence no voice.
The courts have lost much of the re-
spect in which they were one time held
a respect that amounted to submission
and was given without question: the,
have lost it moreover because. they de.
served to lose it. This is an ipquir-
ing and inquisitive age We insist or
Knowing why. This insistence is grow
ing as to investigation Of court pro-
cedure and the manipulation of cases
back and forth thru the courts to the
benefit of the guilty and the detrimen
of society. Justice Brewer is pointing
q way whereby the united respect o,
the people for courts and law may be
-egained. It is up TO the legal pro.
fession to walk therein.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
Iona Newspapers
AN ESSAY ON WHEAT.

Ikeokuk Constitution- Democrat.1
Wheat is a plant, and whoever is at
all conversant with the machinery
OF speculation knows what a plant is.
There are many kinds of plants. vari-
ously successful in catching suckers.
but wheat is about as sure as any to
land the game. Contrary to what YOU
sometimes hear, wheat doesn't ex-
haust the soil. AT all events these
United States have been cropped
and cropped with no seeming diminu-
ton of the harvest. Wheat may be
planted any time, there being a de-
livery every month When wheat has
served the main purpose for which it
is planted, it is by no means thrUwn
away. but goes to feed the world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-28
HENCE WE SHOULD WALK.

The trolley car, the automobile and
the train have made transportation so
easy that people seldom walk any more.
They ride to business, to the theater,
the store, the resort, from the country
into town, from one street to another,
until walking has become quite a lost
art. In a generation or two more we
will forget how to use our legs. Man
Is by nature a walking animal. He was
never made to sit still and be swiftly
moved from place to place. And he is
beginning to show the results of fail
ure to use the motor muscles. He is
becoming too fat and pudgy, and no
small portion of his i'll health might be
traced to this failure 10 develop his
muscles and use his physical faculties