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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Marketing by Phone.

1t doesn't require such high degree
Of bravery to tell a women's club audi
ence that Woman's suffrage IS a bad
thing A very ordinary man may OPP
pose higher education for women and
'ge. away with it" without any over
whelming burst OF indigna ton from his
hearers. Such things men have often
done and lived 10 tell the tale But to
warn the housekeepers that 1t is their
duty to go TO market instead of tele-
phoning to the grocer or the butcher,
or giving orders to the boys who repre-
sent the tradesmen, is 70 strike at the
dearest Incidence Of city womankind;
and Commissioner OF Weights and
Measures James Walsh. who broke
loose in this way 81 a meeting of the
National League Tor the Civic Educa-
ton of Women, ought to have a Car
negie hero medal without asking for It.
'fMarhetins am I.s vel do house
keepers Is growing TO be lost art.
Fruit, vegeta bles, meats, are custom
ariy ordered thru the grocer's boy or
the butchers boy, occa sionally- by tele-
phone. The cook takes them in-aged
fruit. stale vegetables. meats not quite
a1lted. All are served and eaten.
Prices are the same as for good food.
An occasional present from the grocer
or butcher to the cook covers a null
titude OF sins.
Our grandmothers didn't buy five
pounds Of beef roast They bought
particular cut OF beef for roasting,
after seeing 1t: seeing that it looked
right and was right They didn't let
the grocer pick their heads of cabbage
or of lettuce, their radishes. their
onions. They did that for themselves,
and did it wisely. AS for fruits no.
body could pass off on them soft straw
berries, dried-up blueberries, peaches
each as hard as its own stone, unripe
watermelons that no human being
could eat with safety. Marketing"
with them was at once duty and a
pleasure.
But what's the use? Commissioner
Walsh may talk TIL he is as red In the
face as the half-crushe5 strawberries,
and nothing Will come of it. The city
woman is too busy with Civic educa-
ton" She hasn't time or energy to
fool away on so trivial a matter as the
food that makes or mars the health OF
her family The nectar Of Browning
ism and the arnhrnAa of snffragism
satisfy her wholly. What matter if the
hea kfast mackerel is rusty, or the
breakfast oatmeal only half cooked.
Life is more than meat. Life. modern
life is hers for the asking. The hus-
band can lunch at a good restaurant, for
which the marketing is done system at
ically. AS for the children, they are
the worst sufferers, but they are I'M
complaining because they never knew
fresh vegetables or country fruit. or
well-selected meats. They are city
children.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Tho siIo In Cedar County.

G. f. Woods shipped three car loads
Of stock to the Chicago market last
week This makes twelve car loads
OF stock Mr.. Woods has shipped since
January l. 1911. More than ordinary
interest attaches to his feeding oper-
ations for he was one OF the first to
put in silo and his experience with
1t Is watched with much interest by
his neighbors and by farmers gener-
ally. This silo is 26x4O and last fall
Mr.. Woods put thirty-five acres of corn
into it. On the first Of February, he
began feeding the ensilage to 1873 head
OF cattle and the supply did not give
out until the fifth OF June. Mr. Woods
figures that he saved $1,000 in the
matter Of hay alone and that his stun
made the same gain in a given time
on just half the corn allowance they
would have made under the old system
OF feeding hay and corn alone. He
also says that hogs do better after
cattle feed on ensilage. He found no
difficulty in feeding 1913 head OF cattle
under this method. in just forty Ave
minutes. while it requires much more
time than that under the old method.
Mr.. Woods experience has been such
as to justify the statement that corn
which will make fifty bushels to the
acre. viii, when put into ::.s si,o. re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Glover Seeding in the Fall.
[Wallace's Farmer.l

A Pennsylvania correspondent farm
ing Iowa land thru a manager, states
that his spring seeding o. clover and
grass with oats Is so choked up with
weeds that it will be failure. The
problem is. can he yet get a. stand Of
grass by blowing and narrowing after
the oats are of. and then re-seeding TO
grass in the fall?
In the southern and eastern sections
Of the corn belt clover and grass seed
ing in the fall generally gives excellent
results. West of the Mississippi clover
seeded after the first OF September
rarely makes sufficient growth by win
ter to Withstand the severe weather.
Altho the method has rarely been
practiced in the western part Of the
corn belt. we believe that seeding clover
and grass in August as alfalfa Is sown
may prove successful in the ordinary
year II it Is very dry for a consider
able length Of time before and after
seeding the plan viii fail simply be-
cause the clover Will not terminate
quickly enough to Withstand the winter
In preparing the seed bed for clover
and grass We would follow the same
system which we have recommended
for the fall sowing of alfalfa, in the case
Of small grain following the binder as
quickly as possible with the disk and
then keeping continual dust mulch
on the ground until seeding time. about
the middle Of August. If everything
works all right. the result should be
a splendid clover meadow for the seas
on Of 1912.
AS all our older readers know, the sys-
tenn of clover and grass seeding which
we generally recommend in the western
half of the corn belt is narrowing the
seed in on winter wheat early in the
spring or seeding with early oats or
barley in the spring. Experience has
proven this under most conditions to be
the most convenient and practical
method Of securing a grass stand. Fall
seeding, however. may be justified un-
der exceptional conditions. We need
more experience to detern inc the exact
value of this method under western
conditions
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
WOMEN AND MARKET PLACES.

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Ho,v the Coal Was Kept.

own personal fortunes were concerned,
he risked all and lost all This Kind of
heroism is. not so common that Amer
lea can afford to cast it aside. We
rather expect instances of 1t at times
of great excitement-as in war. for
instance; but we seldom. encounter IT
in the course Of the routine duties Of
peace. The republic should reinstate
such a man In the public service. MI.
Claws, however. was not the only one
who was called upon to suffer for urg-
ing the interests Of the people.
Mr.. Clifford Pinchot was likewise dis
missed, because he valued the truth
more than he did his position as chief
forester. Two of his assistants. Mr..
Price and Mr.. Shaw, were also dis
charged. In the course OF the investi-
CATION Mr.. Kerby made a public state
ment Of facts that Secretary Ballinger
wished and had been trying to keep
secret. and for counting his loyalty to
the public superior to his loyalty to
any man he was also dismissed. The
controversy which started over these
coal claims extended to matters at
fectng other branches OF Secretary
Baiiinger's department. Mr.. Newell,
chief OF the reclamation service. thus
became the object Of attack. Forth
nately, he has been retained: but he
took risks that were as grave as those
taken by others, and he deserves to be
honored for his fearlessness as pub
lie servant.
Mr. Ballingers predecessor. MY.
James r. Garfield. subjected himself to
charges Of jealousy by the part that
he took. Mr.. Brandeis. as Mr.. Claws
attorney had great part In disclosing
the truth: and Golfers Weekly" serv-
ed as q megaphone thru which the
alarm was shouted. These whom the
force OF circumstances impelled to be-
come participants in the struggle ala
not finch; and they deserve the thanks
Of the country. If 1t had not been for
their courage, their willingness to take
the responsibility OF active agitation
even when it involved the responsible
fly for making mistakes. the rich coal
lands OF Alaska might have gone the
way Of the rich coal lands Of Pennsyl-
vania, and, what Is more, a great deal
that has been accomplished in securing
national control of all national re-
sources might. at this critical junctura
have been irretrievably thrown away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

drlch finished his sleight of -hand. will
De or interest and in some respects Of
lmportance; but the public needs no
rurther reports or opinions to convince
IT that heavy cuts in certain schedules
are required. Later adjustments may
be facilitated by the report Of the
commission. The country is not ask
ing that body. however, to decide
whether or not there shall be such
cuts as are now proposed. nor does it
wish to see repeated the old game of
holding up specific cuts on the preteXt
OF general later revision. If the old
guard-Heyburn Cannon Gallinger,
ana the rest-put such an idea across
on the pres ident they will kill his last
chance to become a part of the pro-
gressive movement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
The Future and the Home.

The most eminent among the Euro
pean women who are seeking change
in domestic morals and in the customs
regarding women and marriage is
probably Ellen Key of Sweden The
latest work to be printed in English is
rather unfortunately called in trans
lation. Love and Marriage." not
able quality of her writing. which is
absent in a good many of the crusad-
ers. is that she does not find her ideals
for women's future in an imitation of
men. She feels indeed. that any
tendencies which dim finish woman's in
terest in children. in personal supervis-
ion OF them, in her own home and in
private peace as opposed to public ex-
element are tendencies toward de-
generation. The modern woman's ner-
vousness she attributes largely to the
attempt to live above her physical
powers. She thinks that IN most cases
mission. to repose in it with profound
calm. and not to allow any talk of the
moment about personal development to
distract her from something much
deeper than her individual fate.
Madame Key differs from many agita-
tors in wholly disapp. owing Of the
ground on which woman reforiners Of
ten attack men. She observes sarcas-
tically that men have produced during
the period OF their ascendancN few
such trihes as religions and laws.
sciences and arts. discoveries and in
ventions and she does not wish mega
lonania bout her competing powers to
exist in wonan's mind. however in
Sis1ent she be on fu!le.' freedom and
fuller Justice in the pursuit OF her
own deep ideals. No one wishes more
keenly than this author 10 have all
paths IN the outside world thrown open
to women. but at the same time she
does not lose sight of the fact that the
race can no, go forward TO its full pos
sibilttes. OF women reach their own
finest happiness. unless most devote
themselves to quiet and unselfish
building of the next generation. She
mas only regrets for the womans
rights WON an who takes pride IN being
a specialist or restless working ma
chine:
Again and again savio-s will be born
70 humanity. But always Of some
Young woman with forehead pure as
lily and deep eyes. And Bethlehem
VIII always be there. where a young
mother kneels in prayer by her child's
cradle.
Madame Key believes that the feel
ing which from time immemorial has
linked together man and woman at
common hearth. has raised. the altar
near 1t. and around them both the town
wall, is approaching its renaissance.
Consciou sness OF the children's rights
is on the increase. together with
deeper understanding of the rights as
vel! as Of the liberties Of love. Thru
the somewhat imperfect translation
enc fells the throh and grasp OF big
mind and a big heart
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
FALSE LEADERSHIP is AT HOME.

The Grinnell Register is one of the
erstwhile progressive newspapers
which has been led aStrav by the Des
minis and the progressive delegation in
congress for getting confused in the
hrst wind" becoming panic stricken
and for lacking courage the Register
explains:
The economists OF the progressive
school have held that the import tariff
on farm products was. indirectly. a
curse 10 the western farmer. While
affording him no protection. K was de-
signed 70 cloud the issue that ne
would not get too restless on account
of the constantly advancing price Of
humber WOODEN goods. and hundreds OF
other necessaries Of life. To argue that
an import tax OF 10 cents a .ushel OF
corn would affect the price Of corn III
the United States when this is the
greatest corn producing country n the
kEorld, is an insult 70 he Intelligence
of the American farmer. When we eX-
port more wheat than Canada raises Z
Is equally absurd 70 imagine that taxi
ing off the tariff OF Canadian wheat
can hurt the wheat producer in this
country.
ITO sum up the matter the western
FARMER has been robbed By excessive
tariffs on manufactured goods lumber
and steel while he was buncoed with
a tariff on farm products which az
1orded him no protection.
LAT least. that is the way that we
have always argued. and 7 for one. be-
3ieved it true. And I still believe IL"
The absurdity OF crtticising cum
m ms because the farmers are growing
restless under the constantly advanc-
Ing prices Of lumber and wooden goods.
and because they have been robbed" BY
excessive tariffs on lumber and steal
becomes painfully apparent when the
Cummins amendments to the Canadian
reciprocity bfll propose to admit free
from Canada humber and steel and
wooden goods which this very bill has
failed to include in its reciprocal pro-
visions. The trouble with many we'll
meaning people IN this state IS their
failure to recognize the personal equa-
ton in some of the most severe at
tacks that are made upon Cumynirs
AS was often said in his state cam
paigns read what Cummins said rather
than what his enemies said he said.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
ARE YOU FREE
FROM

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effective. prompt and pleasant
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take. now and then. a desertspoon-
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well known throughout the world
a. the best Of family laxative rene
dies. because it acls 20 gently and
strengthens naturally without I'M.
tadng the system IN any way.
To get it, beneficial efeeh Il j,
always necessary to buy d,e eenu.
me, manufactured BY he California
Fig Syrup Co. bearing the name
Of The Company. planly printed q
he front of evay package
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Topics of the Times

Hoke Smith in the senate from
Georgia will help give Washington a
Cleavelandish appearance
A man can go some in a balloon but
ne doesn't always know where he is
going or when he will get there.
Inc Germans out in South Dakota
propose to organize an association for
the express purpose Of seeing that when
political pie Is distributed they shall
receive due proportion That is one
OF the results OF this trust business.
The state law forbids minors enter
ing saloon-unless they happen TO be
married. In that event the ban is re-
moved, perha ps as a conpensa tory
privilege
The drouth is forcing Mason City 20
a helpful innovation Heretofore the
sewage Of the city has been dumped
irto nearby creek. With this stream
nearly dry a sewage disposal plant must
be installed This is an innovation all
ticable moment without waiting for
some compelling force 70 be exerted
But they should watch while it is in
stalled and tie 1t fast afterward.
Visiting nurses are caring for forty
babies in open air camps at Dubuque.
There are more babies who need the
care but no more accommoda tons.
Here is a chance for home mission
work worth while
The weather man ought to be salts
fed with his record breaking stunts
this season and leave something over
for another time.
President Taft Is reported to have
told Judge Green that his attitude on
reciprocity wouldn't interfere with his
standing at the White House. This was
a case where the president could afford
to be generous; he doesn't need any
votes on that issue on the house side.
I've doubt il the standpat press ever
said neaner things about the insurgent
statesmen than the insurgent press is
doing at this very time" is what the
Des Moines Capital can see in recent
hot weather prostrations among its
exchanges.
Indications are that Oskaioosa will
soon be included in the list Of dry cit
les in Iowa. The petition Of consent
will probably be insufficient because OF
d large number OF Withdrawals. and
since the recent high court decision il
that there can be no Withdrawals OF
Withdrawals. Oskaloosa has had about
fifteen saloons. a number considerably
lover the allotted ene for each one
| thousand of population
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Literary Doubles,

It is rather curious how often great
writer's appear in pairs, and are forced
by the reading public into the false po-
sition OF rivals. This is true not only
Of Thackeray and Dickens, but OF
Richardson and Fielding, Goethe and
Schiller. Tennyson and Browning,
Hardy and Meredith, LongfelIow and
Whittier, Hauptmann and Sudermann,
Bjornson and Ibsen. Turgenieff and Toll
stoi. There is, however, an advantage
to such double stars in our intellectual
armament in the stimuious given to
general discussion and analysis OF their
RESPECTIVE claims Century.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

as bad as he whom he exposes, or that
bad blood of one kind or another may
exist between individuals. 1t is that
graft and unjust or degenerate condi-
tions exist and are to be rem edied and
changed.
Keeping 1t dark is the culture which
breeds and cultivates civic and private
unrighteousness. open wide the doors
and let little sunshine in"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Tariff and Taft.
Editorial in Collier's).

NEullUI III '~OII1cI 81.
Some Insurgents like to see the
president fall into mistakes. Golfers
does not. 1t is always better plea sed
when he acts wisely. If the combina-
ton Of democrats and progressive re-
publicans pass series Of tariff bills.
reducing the duties on wool. cotton,
steel. and other materials. the old
guard will tell the president to veto
these bills. on the pretext of waiting
for his commission. Such advice, II
followed, will put MI. Taft back where
his championship Of the Payne-A1drich
law put him once before. The report
Of the commission even with the linn
ited powers which were left when AL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
KEEP N DARK,

It'll hurt the city; keep Il dark"
That's a false axiom which has done
more cities more lasting harm than
any other on earth. 1t is the concen-
frated essence Of injury.
Pittsburg is complaining that expos
ure OF the gang which has ruled and
ruined the city has hurt Pittsburg"
Il is the general complaint in other
cities where conditions and individuals
have been exposed which make for
their shame. It Is the loud complaint
OF the party politician w, eeo-~csces
public Indignation over party disgrace
and political crookedness. II is the
upon public wrong. And many honest
and excellent citizens Of flexible back
bone fall fearfully in with the asser-
fions of these and swell the cry. Tt
will hurt the city" Keep crime. and
disease and rotten conditions dark.
1t is in the dark that these condi-
sons breed and multiply and flourish
Pittsburg kept It dark, hid it until it
grew 50 great that men lose the mag
nificence OF Pittsburg and see only the
graft which is after all the small and
evanescent part Of Pittaburg "Hinky
Dink" and "Bathouse John" are only
two OF Chicago's population. but they
are prominent with an unfoly promi-
nence. They and the policies and con-
hitions they represent can't be kept
dark. Keeping them dark and cover
ing the conditions they typify results
In public conclusion that Chicago is Of
their stripe
But II isn't. Neither is Pfttsburg
= city Of grafcers except that decency
has kept quiet and kept it dark while
The few grafters got in their work
omaha didn't sell privileges to steal at
the Trans-Mississippi exposition. The
vast majority Of decent citizenship
kept dark and failed to take the man
hgement into their own hands. Council
bluffs didn't rent out the town to
Kambiers. 1t kept dark while the
Gang did 1t. Nowhere has the major
tty Of decency-and decency Is in ma
Sorfty everywhere-been in sympathy
with disrepute, graft and degeneracy
1t has been cozened into keeping 1t
dark because it might hurt the city"
It doesn't hurt the city to expose
rotten conditions unless the city is
Hontent to permit such conditions to
continue after exposure. Then the city
Halls to the level Of Its own complac-
ency. Simple exposure is not reform
and reformers are not always free from
Wengefulness, but exposure Is a step
howard reform. Thieves often fall out
and thus give honest men their chance
but that is no reason why the commu-
Eity should not profit by the exposure
Of CRATER or crook. or OF conditions
: which ought NOT 10 exist. The Tea.
question Is not that the exposer may be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
Iona Newspapers
PRICING VOTING MACHINES.

ITiptor Advertiser1
Chicago contracted the other day for
1000 voting machines with the Empire
Company. IT Will get them FOR sa5250
each This is the same company which
extended some time and effort to sell
Cellar county lot of machines. They
wanted $500 each for the machines
here. and they We're not so conpNcat-
ed IS those demanded by Chica 60 II
the question ever arises here again il
might be well Ia make note ot the
price which Chicag go paid
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

turn the farmer equivalent OF forty
five dollars per acre, assuming that
prices remain approximately the same
as they have been the past two years.
He believes any farmer will do well to
carefully investigate the merits of The
silo before turning it doWn.-AIechan-
icsYille Pioneer Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

The rural carrier is to have his pay
boosted to around $1,000 a year This
IS calculated to make the carrier look
with more favor on the plan to boost
his work by means of the parcels
post" says the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

This newspapers idea has always
been and is now that President Taft
has known and does know what sort
Of an administration he is running.
both as to Alaska coal and Canadian
lands,'' says the Nevada Representa-
tive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

The Burlington Hawkeye says that
the decision OF the supreme court TO
the effect that once PERSONS name is
Withdrawn from saloon consent it *
off forever and can not he placed back
on after the consent has been fled with
the county auditor would seen, TO be
good sense. IS Well as good law else
the shuttle might never stop and the
cloth never be woven. "One repent
ance." the Fawkeye adds. rs all hat
is allowa hle''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

What's the use Of talking about La
Toilette carrying Iowa ." asks the Wat
erloo Times Tribune. There isn't
postmaster in the state for him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-13

The sane Fourth seems TO be COM
ing but it has not quite reached here
Yet. One of the things that needs
looking after is the reckless shooting
of sky rockets" says the