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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
SMILE. BLESS YOU SMILE.

This newspaper is glad to find itself
ON the mailing list of The Smile and
Good Cheer Club of Chicago, which has
for its ideal that it is the greatest thing
in the world to make two smiles grow
where one grew before. Here's sub
scribing TO that proposition and wish
ing it were possible to put it more ex-
tensively into practice.
Smile, bless you. smile! A smile,
they say, is worth a great deal, and
doesn't cost anything. That is not
quite so. Often the smile that is worth
something costs a great deal Indeed,
that is the smile that is worth some
thing.
Ills easy enough to be pleasant
When life goes by with song
But the man worth While
Is the man who will smile
When everything goes dead wrong.
why is it, asks the Baptist Com
monwealth, that most people, as they
walk along the streets or ride in the
cars, have such an unpleasant ex-
presssiono If one will observe even
casually the people he meets in a day
he will be impressed with the panied
and sullen and disagreeable counte-
nances' The Baptist brother explains
il thus: I'VE live in a rush, and the
average person is bent on some errand
or business and is absorbed in that;
we are all rushing to get something or
somewhere. With this absorbing our
attention we haven't time to attend tC
our facial expression"
If we would lay business aside long
enough to smile occasionally, we'd find
the task surprisingly simplified on re-
turning TO it. and have the satisfaction
of having meanwhile created a little
sunshine along the way. We don't lay
much in store by the studied. mechan-
ical smile of the shopkeeper. If the
heart is right, the face will do its part
automatically, without thought on the
part of the owner. This matter OF
smiles is the matter Of life itself. Ge
right with yourself and with life, fling
away envy and pretense and the res,
Of life's miserable junk, and you'll just
smile anyway, even if everything doe:
go dead wrong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
THE suFfRAGls1's SURE THING.

A woman suffragist has suggested d
strike that would get results she
wants all the women of the United
States TO strike on specified DAY, re-
fuse ITO cook a meal or lift hand until
cruel man has given her sex equal po-
litical rights. She says 1t would Ger
tainly bring results. And she is right
It would.
Imagine if possible, what this terrible
conception of the suffragette WouLd
mean were it put into practice some
fine morning, If the stoves stood IRE
less from Maine to California and bare
breakfast tables from the 500 Ste
Marie to Florida strait, where mousse
wives sat idly watching husband
fathers and boarders ransack the cup
boards. How long do you suppose male
medicines could hold out against
that condition?
We should have llurrying in hot haste
from governor to township con1nlttee-
man. Special trains would assemble
legislatures by special and imperative
call. There would be neither log rolling
nor DELAY. Gentlemen. how will you
vote on this bill?" "Ay,' comes a re-
sponse which shakes the giided domes
of state capitols.
The lady delegate has the idea. All
she must do is to organize the women.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
PROU1Y's REPUBLlcAhIsM,

In an effort to reduce Judge Prouty's
Knoxville address to an absurdity the
Sioux City Journal epitomizes his
speech in the following language, but
republicans reading the Journals ex-
IRENE Interpretation allowing for its
intended extremeness will find difficulty
locating the Objectionable republican,
ism in it.
The Journal says:
"The substance of Judge Proutys
elaborate arguments is that the rec
ord of the republican party during
its long years of powers is wholly
bad The organization of the party
has been and is, according to Prouty,
dominated by the railway and indus
trial corporation interests of the east.
These interests exercise absolute con-
troll over the republican majority in
congress This control has been ex-
ercised selffshly for the benefit Vi
eastern capital invested in the large
desperation. Congress is not a rep
xesentative body It is huge ma
chine manipulated by two corpora
ton agente-AIdrich in the senate and
Cannon IN the house. Not an item OF
legislation that is not ayr eeah BILE tn
these two men Is allowed to siI
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02

fBelle Case La Toilette
Running thru the discussion of the
increased cost of living and the meth
DDS of combating it, we find criticism
OF woinen's careless methods in buying.
and condemnation of the use Of the
telephone in ordering household sup
plies. Because women do most OF the
buying they have power of which
they are, as yet, largely unconscious.
The cost Of living agitation has been of
great value in awakening women to a
realization of their intimate relation to
a great economic question and in
arousing the most conservative to q
sense of their potential influence in
the commercial world. Women today
are everywhere reading, thinking, talk
ing, doing. trying to help, and to I'M
derstand and solve big questions as
never before. 1t is important that our
effort to meet conscientiously our OBJ
legation to family and society should
not be misdirected
How about the telephone? What a
convenience, what a nuisance it is, any
way! We recognize it's necessity while
we resent its intrusion; rejoice that at
any moment we can communicate with
the outside world, and rebel that we
can not for an instant be free from the
interruption of it's shrill ring. The gen.
eral introduction of the telephone into
the home has come SO suddenly that
we have no rules, to guide us as to it's
correct social or economic use. 1t is
assumed that ordering household sup
plies by telephone is due to Incidence
and leads to extravaganza; that II
women go in person to buy they will
get better food at less cost; and prices
viii be maintained at a lower level.
/ There is much to be said in favor of
personal acquaintance with dealers, and
personal inspection of places where
things are sold. Many women go out
and attend TO domestic matters who
would not leave the house for any other
purpose, and the exercise and outside
contact is good for them. We should
recognize these advantages. and give
them due weight
But it is a grave fallacy. which we
should not entertain for a moment, that
women are contributing to the solution
of the problem of higher cost of living,
when they go from one place to an
other trying to get a pound of beef
steak, or a spool of thread a cent or
two cheaper than the market price.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
FROM THE NINTH.
GG1thrie Gllfhrianl

Hon Walter /. Smith has started
merry ha, ha among the old soldiers of
the district, when he says in his card
of announcement that the soldiers of
the republic are growing older. feebler
and fewer in number and provision for
them and their widows should be
made" If better provision is to be
made for the old soldiers and their
widows it will be done without the aid
of Mr. Smith Possibly he would vote
for measure to give them a neager
pension but when it comes to giving
them the preference in the distribution
of the offices he has invariably turned
them down. In this locality he turned
down three old soldiers, and one SOL
dier's widow who, were applicants for
postoffices. We have heard him in the
past almost weep over the debt of graf
itude that the nation and republican
party owe to these old veterans who
saved the nation But when off the
rostrum, he had only a glad smile to
hand them. BY his past action in ig-
noring the claims Of the old soldiers
for a share of the offices he has acted
upon the theory that they are too old
to run with the machine But in
this contest he will find that they will
be able to vote In a maneer that will
be rebuke to his hypocrihcal pro-
testations Of sympathy for the old
soldiers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02

liquor was the cause Of norge diseases
producing death than arose from all
other causes. Immoralities were de-
Tended, and there was q ready sale
for obscene books. One society alone
had prosecuted nearly 10000 persons
for lewdness, drunkenness and gam
bling practices during term Of thirty
three years. Saloons displayed signs
offering to get man drunk for a pen
ny. In 1886 every sixth house in London
was a licensed grog shop. 1T was a
time when extravaganza was rife. Men
were living beyond their income and
it was everywhere a mad attempt to
out-dress and out-drink the neighbor.
The people tired of their sin and de-
bauchery and when Wesley and Whit
field preached the religion of IA simple
life and its justification by faith and
good works, they revolutionized the
kingdom and cleaned up society as 1t
will have to be purified in this day,
nearly 200 years later, as Sunday is
doing it, if there is to be a change from
the extravaganza, indifference and ir-
reverance of these times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
SYMPATHY AND SPOONS.


A young tramp applied at a west
ings since The mistress Of the house
is motherly woman whose ample pro-
portions indicate her good nature and
charitable disposition. She never
turned anyone in hunger from her door,
and the hobo was therefore taken into
the kitchen and seated at a table where
he might eat in comfort. The good
woman baked buckwheat cakes for
him, and filled him as full as a silo.
She talked to him, the while, of the
dignity of labor the sinfulness of sloth
and the comfort of right living. He
agreed to this in a self plying sort of
way mo doubt you have had many
trials remarked the kind hearted wo-
man after he had related some of his
hardships. Yes, indeed" replied the
tramp, as he bolted the last hot pan
cake covered with butter and maple
syrup, land was most alus convicted
He rose to go, and his benefactress re-
marked. you seem to have a good
appetite Eyes ma'am,'' admitted the
Wearie Willie, THAT is all L have left
| in the world that I can call my own"
He bowed himself out with a grunt of
satisfaction, and lodged around the side
of the house where he might avoid a
sight of the woodpile. The kind woman
"a mother in Israel, she is-had some
words of sympathy for ''the poor man,
forced to tramp in the cold winter -
but that sympathy has all faded out.
She counted her silver teaspoons later
in the morning. One of them is mis-
| sing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
TEACHING ELEMENTARY THINGS!

AT a rural school house last evening
an old fashioned debate was fought out
on the question Should agriculture be
taught in the rural schools school
nr;ncipal, a member of the Iowa legls-
lature and an ex-county superintendent
Of schools took part in the debate
If DOESN'T matter who won it. The
mere fact that debaters were gathered
from over half county to discuss the
question proves that the rural school
patrons are beginning to study the
needs Of their schools. OF course there
is only one side to the question. Agrl-
culture should be taught in the schools.
It is the primary element of education.
Rural or city schools we need a re-
turn to elementary things. There is
too much effort put upon non essen
tiaIs and too little upon the bases of
education The practical waits while
lesser and less important studies pre-
vail. The schools needs more lindsey
woolsey and less lace and furbelows.
1t is better to give a boy who must
leave school at 16 the educational tools
his head full of undigested and i'm
practicable stuff which will handicap
instead of assist him. Ordinary COM
mon sense calls for the rudiments, the
three Rs, the multiplication table and
the everyday necessities.
In the case of the farm boy it argues
for a knowledge Of soils and the ele-
ments of agriculture. First of all a
man must live and earn what he lives
upon.
With all the fuss over the ineffi-
cheney of rural schools and the inca
pacity of rural teachers the boy from
the rural school comes to the high
school the equal of the city boy and
more often than not leads his class.
His preparation has been elementary.
He has dealt with common fractions
and the multiplication table and is bet
ter grounded in the essentials. He may
not be as we'll balanced but he gets
this is not because he is brighter but
because his school work has been on
4 few things. He is simply an ele-
mentary student who can't diagram his
psychology or thought scheme but who
can multiply, subtract and divide &C
curateIy. 1t is g. pretty good plan to
teach a few things thoroughly instead
u teaching many things partially.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
THE LODGES.
MASONIC NOTICES.

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r. w. Chamberlain, W. n.
Fl. S. Lawrence. Secretary.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. 80. r. A. N.
Stated convocation Monday, March
81, 1880.
George H. Boggie. r. H. r.
l. s. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. r. as.
M.-stated assembly Monday. March,
81, 1880 p. m.
A. d. Mesker, T. I n
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ST. ,ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY Ne.
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ferring the Order OF the Temple.
Sir Knights be present II possible.
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CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81, Q. u.
Special meeting Wednesday even
ing, March 2. at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing, W. n.
Edna G. Fularton, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
Outside Point of VIEW

1t is very evident that the grand jury
of Cook county. Illinois, have had
strong and direct evidence brought be-
fore them that the big packing houses
have been and are engaged in kind of
business that is lin restraint of trade"
for true bills have been found against
the principal owners of several of the
packing houses. The same kind OF
grand jury work is going on in Jersey
City, where a large number Of cold
storage house companies are incorpor-
ated 1t is now an established fact
that the 55s cold storage houses in
the United States have on hand
100000 pounds of fresh dressed meat,
or as one writer puts 1t, a whole animal
for the head Of every family in the
United States. The recent figures show
that 100000 pounds OF fresh fish
were put in cold. storage houses in an
ticipation of the demand for the pres
ent Lenten season. IL is also an open
secret that the markets Of this country
never become overstocked with dressed
poultry, which is another way of say
ing if consumers do not buy the ar
rivals from day to day, the surplus is
put in cold storage and kept there till
the public will pay the price demanded
And that this surplus is never put on
the market in quantity to break prices
goes without saying. This kind of bus
mess practice seems pri1na facie evil
dence of also restraint of trade" Also
a. well-known fact is that frequently
after these perishable products are put
on the market and offered for sale, II
happens the demand is not strong
enough to put them in the hands OF
the retailers. and they are for the Sec
ond time placed in cold storage to be
held for future higher prices. And al
authorities on frozen or chilled food
products say this second storage is
positively harmful if not a dangerous
thing for the public health. In regard
to poultry evidence is given that al
kinds of dressed poultry is kept in cold
storage two or three years and some
times longer. All such facts warrans
this statement Not only is the cold
storage business used for its Legitimate
purpose, pul in the Inajof 50 case:
the food products in these cold storag,
houses are held till a scarcity Of suci
products creates demand that give:
the owners an outrageous profit.
! We are beginning to get facts con
corning the sale of American beef
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
.nnna SinnallY

thru congress. Occasionally when
the pressure of public sentiment pc
comes unusually strong, these corpora
ton representatives consent to some-
thing that looks like law IN the IN
terests of the whole people. Actually,
however, it is filled with "jokers". ano
is found ineffective for the purpose
intended. The new tariff law is
bad law of course. 1t was made In
the interest of the eastern producers
or manufactured goods, regardless OF
the interests of the western consum-
ers. Judge Prouty goes into detail
but really it is hardly necessary. Any
bill allowed to pass, by Cannon and
Aldrich must necessarily be bad
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
M%sa11xe
Mr.. eompers' False Assumption.

lNIlCdSO lIllSi oCcdH.J
Samuel Gonpers is not pleased with
the bill limiting and regulating the is
suance OF injunctions in labor disputes
which the president has caused Repre-
sentative Moon to introduce.
He is arguing against 1t down at
Washington, on the ground that it
would give statutory authority for
injunctions, averring that "at the pres
emit time there is simply an assumption
of authority by the courts in injunction
cases"
In other words, Mr. Gompers assumes
ton in a labor dispute 1t usurps a power
which does not belong to it.
AS every lawyer and every student of
history knows. the assumption Of Mr..
Gompers is absolutely false. in fact
what makes it so difficult to argue pa
tiently with Mr.. Gompers in general is
that he always starts from a false gen
eral assumption.
This assumption is that membership
in a labor union confers privileges be-
fore the law that the nonunion man has
not. The practical union application of
this false assumption is that a nom
union man has not the right in this
country to take a job which a union
man has abandoned
Because so many union men assume
this falsehood to- be truth is why we
have sluggings and riots and vitriol
throwing and BON -throwing and arson
and murder by union strikers anu uIeiI
sympathizers.
OF course the truth, is that no. man
whether unionist or nonunionist, has a
proprietary interest i'm aejob, except as
matter of special contract And a
striker. loses whatever rights he may
have had under any special contract
because he has voluntarily. abandoned
the employment and refused to perform
the task. elg-s-
Yet it is constantly assumed by mem
bers of labor unions that the men who
| take up the work that they hayevolun-
| tarily abandoned are no better thar
thieves, taking what does not belong tc
them. The constant excuse for slug
ging scab" is that he took my job
| Before there can be any argument
with Mr.. Gompers toward any ADJUST
ment Of the points at issue, or to any
conclusion for the remedy OF griev-
ances that may exist, it will be neces-
sary for him and his associates t
abandon this false assumption and face
one great truth.
| That truth is that any job belongs
legally to any man who can get 1t, ant
that his constitutional right to take i
4 is not conferred by membership in
labor union but but BY By the fact OF his ex
| istence as citizen and a man.
| To take any other position, as MIR
Gompers does. is to set up q faisehoot
for truth. to deny the equality OF Amer
lean citizens before the laws, and t
defy utterly and completely the consti
tuition Of the United States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
WHERE IT'S EASIEST.
IMonticello ExpraSS.

The word is given that Billy Sun
day converted $500 sinners at Youngs-
town, o., and that the people gave
the greatest revivalist a present of
$4,000. The dispatches declare Youngs-
town to have been the wickedest city
in Ohio. This being 80, the success of
the revivalist is. not surprising. The
greatest religious revivals OF history
have been when spiritual life was the
darkest and when sin sat on the throne.
It is among the self centered and self
satisfied rnoralists that the evangelist
can do least. The time comes among
the wicked and the outrageously sim
full when they turn with hope for
pardon, and welcome the message OF
hope and cheer that the religionist
brings to them This WAS well Illus iiiii;s;ss-
trated in the times of Wesley and
Whitfield, the greatest revivalists OF
any age. When they took up the
work in the salvation Of souls we are
assured on no less an authority than
the Bishop OF Litchfield, distilled
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-02
It Suited Him.

The late Patrick +. Sheedy, the well
known gambler, always cautioned
young men against gaming, altho he
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