Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-04
Topics of the Times.

ODLLS VI L5LC 4 SIk00s
1t is easier to resolve than to be
resolute
Europe doesn't seem to undeI's tand
that with Castro and Carrie Nation
both "in It's midst" 1t is entertaining
two of the best known Americans OF
| two continents.
Canny Andrew Carnegie is having
the time of his life stringing tariff
committees and soaring the life out OF
his accomplices in the steel industry,
When buyers are advertising Tor 2o0
are at the present high notch 1t is
hard to understand how the automo-
biles are putting the horse out of bus
mess. Fact Is the horse and the auto
are getting ready to speak as they pass
by The war is on paper only.
If Mayor Mathis made the deal al
lCSGu III lltS IiiStI SCS aSdtiSl mn tho
sooner Regenerated Des Moines gets
rid of him the better for the process
of regeneration. However. the mayor
is yet to be heard In his own behalf
OF the brewing of scandal there is
no end. Next on the tapis is the
charge that Americans MIXED Cuba
during the American occupation How
ever there Is nothing SO sanitary as
the opening up of cesspools and IL
there is one about the Cuban business
knock the cover Off and let the, sun
shine In. The quickest way to cure cor
ruptton Is to expose 1t and the best
thing that can happen to a clean man
or clean administration is to be
thoroughly and honestly investigated.
The movement against the loan
sharks should go the limit. The loan
shark is an excrescence that needs the
knife. He should be put out of BUSH
ness in Iowa whether he hides in a
back office or sits in state behind
gilded grilles and marble counters.
The thing to do to him is to put him
In the clear"
Emmetsburg Is moving to improve
the pretty little lake that lies by the
town and has hopes of becoming " re-
sort" The question of being a resort"
Is really a minor one. II Emmetsburg
will go on and make the lake thing OF
beauty for its own benefit and pleas
ure and to the Improvement Of the
town she will never regret the money
and trouble it cost her. A lake is SIM
ply a godsend to any town and should
be so treated and looked upon.
The knowledge that while we were
enjoying the holiday time thousands
were dying in torture in Italy and
thousands Of others weeping above the
ruins of their dwellings, and the dead
bodies of their loved ones should give
impetus to the world charity for which
the governor of Iowa appeals. The sit
uation in the stricken provinces can
not be over imagined. 1t is time for
and for individuals to feel the thrill Of
pity that makes all mankind kin. Iowa
should prove her thanlfulness fer her
immunity from calamity and her Won
drous prosperity by practical and suf-
ficient assistance to the suffering
across the sea
The reporters did Warden Sanders
a very great injustice If as he alleges
they left out of the report of his adj
dress the very important fact that his
for good clothes, and
shined shoes for convicts was made
for "holidays and Sundays" These two
words change the entire face of the
Everyone will be
prone to agree with the warden that
it does any man good to dress up" on
Sunday and that it would be sn ex-
cellent plan to encourage convtcts to
remember that they are men.
.The Gray Gnani of Gingalee'' Is a
volume OF 206 pages by an Iowa au-
thor, Miss Florence Huntley, issued by
the Indo American Book company, OF
Chicago. Perhaps as a take off" on
new thought and mysticism the book
may be worth while. However the av-
erage cornfed Iowan will be likely to
wonder what the author is driving at
and why she took the trouble. 1t fol-
lows the fortunes of mystic" a
stockyards stenographer and a sporty
druggist in a more or less amusing
fashion. Indeed it depends largely on
whether one likes books like Miss
Huntleyss whether one will like Miss
Huntley's book.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
eff any one thinks that the proposed
parcels post would be a good thing.