Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-07-12
Topics of the Times


corn is on the market
Clinton Is the first county in the
state to employ farm expert. With
the aid of an auto this expert will SUI
pervise and instruct in field work, or
gan!ze short course schools and social
clubs and interest the people in indus
trial enterprises that will use the
products of the farm. Clinton is alive
to the needs of rural communities.
Governor Wilson proposes to keep
an eye on democratic campaign contri-
| buttons and see to it that no tainted
money finds its way into the political
treasury. Men grow wise from the
experiences of others-of Lorimer, for
| instance.
| The party platform without a wom-
an suffrage plank is out Of style.
Joe Cannon was among those pres
| ent but not voting" when the house,
i 222 to l. ordered impeachment pro-
| ceedings against Judge Archbold.
The senate investigating committee
should understand that the public is
| not so much interested in how much
| was spent, but how it was spent.
| Governor Carroll declares that the
man who bolts Taft is not a repub-
| lican and not entitled to recognition
as such. This means that the COVER
| nor and his standpat friends must sup
port Kenyon and the entire state and
! county republican ticket Are you
| republican, Mr.. Carroll?
Not a single marriage license was
issued in Des Moines yesterday. AS
this Is leap year, young men Of the
capital city appear to come under the
Roosevelt classification of undesira-
bles.
Perhaps the growing popularity Of
the automobile explains in part the
recent slump in tourist travel to Eu-
rope
\ storm is brewing over the Panama
canal. with its centers in Washington
and Great Britain. and both headed in
the direction Of The Hague tribunal
The proposal to admit United States
coast ships free of passage is the dis
| turbing element. Other nations are
| preparing to assume the illogical posi-
ton that Uncle Sam should spend mil
lions building the canal and permit
others to reap the benefit
The corn shreddng season is an
preaching and the undertakes are pre-
pairing for rush of business.
Iowa pharmacists in convention at
Sioux City started out to reform the
| newspapers. Every newspaper pub
Usher in the United States VIII be
called on to omit mention Of the names
| Of persons used in suicides and homi-
! cides. The Iowa Pharmaceutical AS
sociatlon adopted resolution deplor-
ing the mention Of persons in news
| paper stories and determined to seek
the aid OF wholesale druggists in hay
/ ing the practice stopped. The resolu-
ton claims that the mentioning Of
! certain person and the amount con-
shutting a fatal dose aids criminals
and persons of suicidal intent in TAX
! ing their lives. Newspapers are will
| ing and anxious to Cooperate in every
reform that has for it's object the pres
ervation Of life and health. Publishers
are not likely to adopt the suggestions
| of the druggists, however. Newspaper
stories without names Of principals are
worthless, Go not satisfy the reader,
and frequently cast suspicion upon the
wrong person. Publicity many times
is a preventive Of, rather than an aid
to, crime. How would 1t do for the
druggists to refuse to sell poisons ex-
cept under a physicians prescription?
Mention of the proposed new political
organization as a third party must
cause members of the two minor ones
already organized to wonder how this
can be.
A Pennsylvania man has perfected a
Icdl CCUiPOOilu Sh1SAA 10 CARSSlCd W w
away with coal as heat medium. The
safest plan, however, would be to fill
up the coal bin some time between this
and Christmas
Steam shovel number 257. in opera
ton at Culebra, has made a record
Of excavating $3.50 cubic yards, place
measurement, in twenty-six working
Gays, an avera &c Of $3.50 cubic yards
per day. The work was done on the
Gatun dam. This is the highest month
ly record for a shovel of any class since
the beginning Of operations on the 18TH
mus.
Candidates for reelection to con-
gress will probably find 1t necessary
to explain the failure to pass the de-
fciency appropriation bill IN those Sec
lions where neglect Of such action re-
suited in the impairment Of mail SER
? iyice and weather forecast.
This portrait doesn't resemble me
At ALL"
Pardon me. madam. bat once made
. portrait of a lady that resemblet
l her."-F1i<gende BIasttsr.
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