Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-29
FORMER IOWA MAN FLOATING
ENDURANCE CONCERN THAT
LOOKS LIKE THIN AIR.
BOBBY" ARMSTRONG LEARNED
FINANCE UNDER LESLIE SHAW
Armstrong Comes in For Severe Roast
From Insurance Neutrality-suspicious.
ton Rife as to What Will Happen
When Iowa suffrasettes Storm the
State House.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Des Mcines, Oct 29.-"Bobbie" Arm
strong, formerly of Polk City, Iowa,
known outside the state line as Hon.
Robert B. Armstrong. assistant secre-
tary of the treasury under Theodore
Roosevelt, is rid.culsd and neatly roast
ed in the current issue of the Insur-
ance Observer. an insurance periodical
published in the east
Armstrong Is organizing some kind
of an Insurance company to be known
as 'Everybody's Corporation" He has
advertised in some of the magazines
for one million people to subscribe for
the stock at $40 a share and no person
10 take more than five shares The In
surance Observer points out that If
they all took the limit this would mean
@ capitalization OF s50.000,0o0 but that
il they all took the minimum 1t would
mean but $4,000. 900.
The advertisement in the magazines
says: u offer You an income for life
The Observer says Of this: But just
how big the income Will be he is care
full or careless not TO tell There is of
course the suggestion that $40 will earn
1920 'ear but he does not really say
IT. In fact no matter what happens. it
will not be possible 10 convict Mr..
Armstrong OF making deceptive prom
ises. however we'll framed his adver-
| tisements are TO make it look as if he
were
The Observer then proceeds to show
that on the seeming representation of
t Mir. Armstrong the corporation If it
| raises $4,000 900 will be able 10 earn
each year 1920 100000 which il points
| OUT is more than twice as good as any
! corporation has ever been able to dc
| thus far and better than all the life in
! surance companies with their $4,000
i 100000 of capital are able to do. Ii
/ mildly intimates that Armstrong
! claims are fairy tales.
II the equal suffragists of Iowa who
seems 10 have decided 10 storm the
doors of the legislature when it next
meets expect to thus make themselves
martyrs as the suffrage,tes do il
England the chances are they will bt
mistaken. Everyone in the state house
Is preparing for a little fun and ex.
pec1ing an excuse TO quit work for {
few minutes and run up stairs whel
the women comes. Just what the plal
of the women is they have not mad
known but they will not be locked VI
in Jail
When they storm the entrance to tn
legislative halls they will find then
open unless it happens to be during tn
opening prayer in the morning. In tina
case they will not be admitted till tn
prayer is over. AS everyone know
the doors of the legislative halls in tn
Iowa legislature are open. That /:
anyone is admitted 10 the floor till tn
first floor gets too crowded to work
The only move therefore the WON
. en- can make to force their arrest an
attract unusual attention will be to in
| sist on interrupting the proceedings c
i the legislature. If they do that it wi
be up to the legislators to decide wha
to do. The general opinion seems
be that il the women insist on talkin
: the two branches of the legislature wi
: gladly arrange joint session and civ
. an entire day or more to listening
/ their arguments
: Al every session of the legislator
! yet the suffragists have made no effor
t 70 speak Of till the legislature was i
/. full organization and working orde
2 The speakers of the house and presi
E dents of the senate have almost al
} ways appointed hostile committee
t simply because they were not presse
TO appoint favorable committees. 1t
( believed that Cumnlins when governo
Y would have, recommended favorabl
action in his messages if he had eve
s been asked He was never asked TO d
anything till the eleventh hour of tn