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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
THE RETAIL GROCERS.
Jorpahs World Herald

The convention Of retail grocers be-
ing held in Omaha, is doing work that
may be of permanent value not only to
the state, but to the people OF the
whole country. Their effort to cooper
ate will commend itself to all thinkin 6
men. There is vast difference between
cooperation and the formation of a
trust. 1t does not destroy the principle
OF competition while it benefits equally
all parties interested.
There can be cooperation among
sroceTynen in buying. in insurance and
In various other ways. The grocers OF
any city or town could cooperate in
the delivery of goods, and in one or
two places that has already been done,
greatly reducing the cost OF all. It is q
plan that would he of equal benefit to
both the grocers and their customers.
One delivery concern would prevent the
duplication of much costly work.
In England there are said to be sew
eral million people who do all their
trading thru cooperative concerns
Their method may not be applicable TO
the conditions in this country, but the
propositions made in the grocers' con-
vention seem TO be sound and practi-
cal. The principles advocated may
spread to other states. ard extend far
beyond what this convention conten-
plates.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
NOT THE LAW, THE OFFICIAL

The jnricaciaS Of the law will ever
continue 10 bother the layman. Thus
he n.sarvels much. when he reads that
at 0ska!ooSa a mar who was Charged
with the crime Of trying 70 kill anolaer
man, was fined s25 Ana quite nat
uraily. the la!2nan wonders what the
fine would have been x the defendant
had succeeded in killing the plaintiff.
Perhaps $50 or some other multiple
OF S25. OF course, Il is all according
10 Hoyle. but there is really 10 great
difference between killing a man and
Shooting at him and missing him or
cutting him with knife and just
missing one OF the vital organs or
killing him. However at II : the
law. the common herd bows submiS-
sively, To TIE present II has not
been forbidden to marvel al the pecul-
iarities Of the law. however. aspec ial-
" when it Is not done in a loud man
ner and at reasonable distance from
court houses or justice shops. Bur-
irgron Hawkeye.
into the common failure 10 difrerentiate
between the law and It's enforcement,
The law IS plain on attempted murder
and the penalty, perhaps. sufficient.
The insufficiency is in the charge
brought against the law violaior
one man cuts another, e, us say
over the heart with knife. An inch
deeper ard the assaulted man would
have felt the blade in his heart. The
law is plain in this case. The law IS
not to be blamed if an official charged
with its enforcement chooses TO sus-
pend its operation or Il magistrate
consents 10 accept a charge Of assault
and battery and impose q small fine for
perltentia-y offense.
There is no lack of law ard its pen
alties to fit brutal crime. The lack is
in enforcement. in the stiffness which
evades responsibility ard barters its
duty for the peculiar personal popular
ity to be gained in this sort Of ner-
chgndising. pays political debts, or
follows the weak dictates of an ILL
placed sympathy.
Let Us not rail overmuch at the laws
and over the lack OF LAW. The lack is
in the official and We make the Of
acials.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
Think. Tama. Jim Should Go.
(Colliers Weekly.l

lSOh!SI > w SShle.J
The Florida everglades affair in the
department OF agriculture is too char
acteristic of that branch OF the govern
ment. President Taft. in his opinion
On the Wiley Investigate ton of last sum
mer, said that organization was
needed: No such reorganization has
been made. The history az the depart
history of scandals, some OF them. ill.,
volving criminal conduct on the part
Of high officials. A few led to, con-
victions and a few others to displace-
ments. Others have brought about only
renewed endorsements. Untrustworthy
officials have been retained and de-
Tended. Many good men have 5ce::
dismissed; others have been prose-
cuted. The public has borne the ulti-
wasteful expenditure.
Ten. years ago the mana cement OF
the bureau of statistics was charged
with garbling official statistics. The
facts were brought to the attention o1
Secretary Wilson. Behind the charges
were competent statisticians all over
the country, statistical officers in thf
census bureau, and honest men IN thu
grain and cotton trades. Secretary Viii
son accepted the unsupported denial OF
those in charge. At the end Of three
years an investigation by secret service
men revealed illeeitimate relations be
tween officials OF the bureau and spec
ulators on the exchanges. in which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
PAVING RECORD BROKEN.

The city council at Cedar Falls has
broken the record in Iowa for concrete
paving, having secured bid at 81
cents per yard. In the absence of a
copy Of the specifications 1t is impos-
sible to determine whether the bid has
been made at fair price or not, but
the price is sufficient to bring either
the paving as specified or tho contrac-
tor under suspicion. If the specifica-
lions are sufficiently light 20 justify
the price the paving is not to be
trusted for durability and if the speci-
fications are standard then the con-
tractor has bid SO low that he will face
the necessity Of skinning the job or
else do without fair profit on his
work.
The contractor in this case. however
II exDerienced and of reputable stand
ing so he should not be misjudged
without cause His bid on asphalt was
hieher than some others, out there
49,. s:cther hid on the concrete at 81
cents and one at 81 so that the speci-
naataons. must have accounted for the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
Outside Point of View

At first thought there seems but
little in common with reform and dol
lars. 1t seems an anomaly to mention
generosity as the result of selfishness-
To ascribe motives Of self interest to
the philanthropist seems outrageous.
But Just the same self is always con-
sidered as an actuating motive where
we dive deep into the causes that re-
suit in true reform. Suppose we take
up for an illustration, the Interference
of the United Statse with SPANS au-
thority over Cuba. It sounds well that
we liberated Cuba. 1t reads well that
we stamped out yellow fever On that
island. And we swell up with pride
and tell the world we will interfere
again if they don't keep it stamped out.
But to get down to brass tacks-slany
but just expressive tive liberated
Cuba because somebody blew up the
Maine. we sabated the nuisance Of
yellow feve- not because we love the
| Cubans, but because yellow fever is a
constant menace and danger to cur
seaport cities. Take another historical
Cass;e. II resident Lincoln freed III
slaves of the United States. Grand
thing. Lincoln the emancipation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
Closing OF the Branch MINIS.

lN.!- lSL iiIi SCIENCE
The committee of the United States
house OF representative having juris-
diction in the case has decided. in the
interest OF economy. thai the branch
minis at New Orleans ana San Fran
cisco be closed. New Orleans seems to
take the matter quite calmly, as calm
~ as Boston now taxes the proposal 10
abandon the Charleston. navy yard
There are certain things that are in
evitable, and New orleans can not see
! why it should Income excited over an
announcement that il has had reason
! TO expect at any time during the last
decade or two. Cold is neither comet
| nor circulated in New Orleans these
days. There was time when the New
Orleans mint turned out much OF the
finished product. Later the coinage of
| the silver dollar kept. the mint busy
for time, but the silver dollar. save
as 4 curiosity. is seldom seen now in
the Crescent city.
Coin has gone out OF style, except in
| fractional denominations. and the Phil
| adelphia mint is capable of turning out
more of this than the country needs.
! Apparently, there is no reason why the
. nation should continue to maintain
]
| Its circulating medium is paper. But
! San Francisco and California are still
on a coin basis. They have never aban-
doned their traditional liking for hara
cash. Disseminating the mint that has
nodded from the products of the Sierra
| Nevada almost countless souvenirs of
| the golden argonautic days seems like
! breaking the last tie that binds them
| 20 the romantic past. There is less gold
! 10 be coined out there than formerly,
they admit: but there will always be
some gold coinage, and there will al
ways be something doing in silver.
San Francisco. evidently. is not to
| let the mint go without struggle. The
question o. its abandonment and res
cue has already been woven into the
| political situation. Public opinion is SO
| pronounced on the subject that it may
! affect even the national campaign. In
! the meantime. the democrats at Wash
/ in ton, responsible for bringing the
matter 10 the attention of congress AMI
/ the country, have made no further
move. All the Probabilities are that it
| Will rest where it is indefinitely The
branch minis may not be needed at
this time, but nobody can tell; and 1t
! is better on the whole to proceed with
| caution, especially at a. time when
| there already is enough Of political
com lication.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
SUGGESTED LIQUOR LAW CHANGES.

The members of the united commit
tee of the Iowa temperance organiza-
tions recommend some restrictive
changes in the liquor laws which would
still further restrict and regulate the
liquor traffic in Iowa. Among the
changes recommended one would limit
operation of saloons to the hours be-
tween o'clock in the morning and :
o'clock in the evening: another would
deprive pharmacists of the privilege 10
sell liquors and beverages.
Drastic as these suggested changes
may appear TO some minds it is not at
all unlikely that they will be made
sooner or later. In the case Of the
druggists the prohibition would, OF
course, include only intoxicating bever-
ages and liquors. So far as the saloons
are concerned the change would be
very largely opposed in Iowa where
general conclusion would be that men
should be able to drink as much as
they ought to get and saloonists to
z
hours between in the morning and
evening.
If these changes come the phar-
macists may debit their loss TO the
whisky drug store and that class OF
pharmacists who prostitute the certtfi-
cate of a learned profession TO the level
of card In the bartender's union. The
proper and necessary sale Of liquor for
use in sickness and Of alcohol for me-
chanical and scientific uses is general
~ recognized and understood, but the
determination OF the drug store doggery
overshadows the legitimate and trust
worthy pharmacy.
So far as saloons are concerned the
committee has stopped too short in its
recommendation. There isn't time
between l o'clock a. m and 1888 at
night when they ought to be legally
open.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
THE NEW EDUCATION.

We are working as fast as possible
toward a new system Of education as
old as Cain and Abel. the dealing with
things instead Of with distractions. The
agricultural college. the engineering
school, technical teaching of all kinds
of which the Ames school is the care
in Iowa, grows in Iowa as elsewhere
When we bring the student face to
face with things. when he takes nature
apart and looks at the works. when
he watches analyzes and understands
in logical way the things he lives
with, for and upon. we make men and
women capable OF organizing these
things into individual and general ben
eft. Russia is almost or the point Of
passing compulsory education law.
The British educational system is re-
ceiving a thorough overhauling. Ad
vanced methods are being rapidly
adopted in France. A course in good
manners has been esta bltshed in the
thinking seriously Of caring in all re-
spects for the upbringing Of the ne
elected child In Newark, y. J., a
model fve-room fat, a machine shop
and a school for business have been
added to the city school establishment
Out in North Dakota travelling agri-
cultural college IS providing for the
educational needs OF those who can
not leave their homes and farms
The new education is making two
blades OF good citizenship grow where
one grew before. Nowhere is this fact
so noticeable as on the farms and
among the farmers who have become
world citizens with the impulse toward
real culture given by rural mail de-
livery, telephones and the thousand
graduates Of practical schools and agrt-
cultural colleges who are sprinkled
from end to end and side to side Of
Iowa They have the cultivated sense
Of proportion which those acquire who
handle. watch and weigh things with
their own hands.
The new education Is but return to
the, simple education, the practical
side with the side lights Of theory upon
it. 1t Is Twentieth century education
with a foundation of the experience Of
fha a 1ea
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20

price rather than any mistake in fig
ures by the contractor.
Concrete paving in Iowa at any price
less than 81 is too cheap. The result
is too likely to be the same as putting
in cement walks too thin and without
enough cement. 1t is far better to
specify a good job Of concrete paving
and get it for s115 to 1925 and know
that it is going to last and be worth
the price. Labor and material are both
low this spring.
Now is the time to pave and to
build NV there ever was one time bet
ter than another and the contractors
are hungry for work tostlo. The bids
at Cedar Falls on street paving should
suggest to every city council in Iowa
that paving contracts should be let
right away
Concrete paving at 90 cents is within
the reach OF every town in Iowa no
matter how small. For a thirty foot
street it will cost S92 per lot or sixty
feet frontage. s1.314 per block. which is
just half what other kinds of paving
will cost. For residence streets TWEEN
ty-four feet wide such as have been
laid :. Osage the cost Nil he only
$500 per lot front or $1,000 per an
mum with interest on the seven year
assessment plan Who wouldn't want
to live on paved street At that price :.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20

\ large. Sums had been made by sub
/ Officials OF the department. After years
of prosecution, some pleaded guilty and
paid fines OF $1,000 each. among them
| one of the chief statiatical officers OF
the bureau.
Six years ago the pure food law was
enacted. Since that time there has been
a series Of attempts, directly aided by
Secretary Wilson, to nullify this law.
He told the California fruit interests
they might continue their excessive
use of sulphur pending investigations
which have even yet not been COM
pleted. He told the saccharin manufac-
turers the Remsen board of consult
ing scientific experts had been created
for the purpose of protecting the IN
terests Of manufacturers. He sus-
pended. subject to the advice of his
solicitor, more than $500 prosecutions
against presumed violators of the food
! and drugs act, and thereby rendered
useless an expenditure of nearly ST.
| 100000. In the whisky controversy he
permitted to be overruled again and
again the findings of chemists and ex-
perts, and the action Of the depart
1nent has finally resulted even in multi
tying the opinion of President Taft
summer he gave at least his tacit ap-
prevail to a report by his personnel
| board, in which serious charges were
made against DR.. Wiley himself, DR..
H. H. Rusby. and others, and backed
! by ~ opinion OF Attorney General
Wickersnam. Tho report of the per-
sonnet board, upon which Secretary
Wilson'S action was based was found
ed upon misuse and Misrepresentation
Of letters.
Our readers will remember the feeble
part he played in the Ballinger case.
In the everglades case it has been
shown that he detached parties of So.
!! called scientific experts to assist con-
gressmen in the holding of political
meetings designed to advance their
own fortunes, paving these experts out
of government funds. He permitted
the suppression of circular regard
ing the character of the everglades. He
has maintained upon the rolls OF the
bureau Of statistics, for years at q time.
thousands of unnecessary correspon-
dents. Interests concerned in the man;
ufacture of whisky and other products
have constantly resorted to political
pressure to get what they wanted at
the department. In negotiations with
congress. Secretary Wilson has lent
himself to the use of subterfuges.
notable example being seen in the
joker whereby the power of the solicit
tors office was enormously extended
without knowledge on the part of con-
gress generally. The department is
badly organized, full OF incompetence
subject 20 political influence. unwilling
to enforce the pure food law. eNtrava-
CANT. reluctant to remedy evils. Sec
rotary Wilson has been undisturbed in
his management. and has been sup
plied with ample funds and authority.
He has appointed his principal subor-
Ginates and directed their development.
There is TO reason to expect improve
menr He should go.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20

Hear our Fourth Of July orators. But
once more give the facts. give the real
reason. 1t was a war measure, in
tended as such and used ito cripple
the enemy" exactly the same as blow
ing up one Of his warships.
80
Perhaps as much mock eloquence has
been uttered over the temperance
question as any one subject and prob
ably as many laws made to suppress
and control the sale Of liquor as any
one thing detrimental to the commun-
ity al large, and while temperance
workers feel and think their labors are
disinterested, back of 1t all. to get at
the core of the question, we find the
dollar. Railway companies are not
fighting the saloons, because they hate
the saloons or love their employees.
They discharge an employee who drinks
Intoxicating liquors while on duty, be-
cause his acts while under the inf1u-
ence of liquors cost them dollars. The
southern states adopted prohibition be-
cause the negro having easy access to
rum was a dangerous factor in the
destruction of life and property. And
no argument can be stronger than this.
Once convince a town or community
that the saloon does not pay and the
saloon goes. The dollar beats the
saloon every time. AS long as COM
munity by a majority sentiment be-
feves the license tax amounts to more
than the expenses OF the police court,
as long as manufacturers and corpora
lions employing large numbers OF men
think the end Of the year shows larger
dividends by having the saloon tax
pay part Of the necessary taxes. and
therefore their share less the saloons
will run wide open. But convince these
corporations that they can get more
labor results, less accidents they have
70 pay for a greater output on the
same number of dollars they pay for
labor and the saloons close insofar as
the efforts of the corporations are con-
cerned.
And one by one these great questions
that affect humanity are discussed and
acted upon Sentim entalistS in pulpit.
in press and on platform with sincere
and unselfsh motives strive to bring
the public TO their way of thinking,
Frequently they achieve spasmoradic
is->u4tS' hNN no great. az sweeping POSI-
tive reform. carries till said public IS
convinced the proposed reform is a
paving proposition II must ne admitted
We have a small percentage of philan-
thropists willing 10 act in the present
for future results to their children. and
chidlren's children. But the average
inha nirart Of the world in this twen
tieth century is perfectly willing 10
keep warm by wasting the visible sup
nlv If coal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20

and educate him; hut he is under no
obligation to furnish him money for
dissipation or doubtful amuselhents. or
even for having good time. The faith
er could well afford to give this boy
half day in the week to play ball. and
time to attend corn show or insti-
tute. or anything else that would get
the boys head turned in the right d.
rection and build up character.
This boy probably thinks his father
is very stingy man. Now, we don't
believe 1t. We presume. the father sees
that the son over whose birth he re-
joiced, for whom his mother risked
her life, over whom he has watched
with tender care, is inclined to go the
wrong way, and he does not intend to
help him along in that direction. In
this he Is a wise man.
Our advice to this young man, and
to all other young men, is to, in the
firsts place. get their minds turned in
the right direction; to remember that
they have but one life TO hive here on
earth that the foundation Of that life
is character, and that character is not
built up by the kind of dissipation or
doubtful amusements in which this
young man wants to indulge.
Cases OF this kind are not uHcom-
mon in the city; we have plenty of
them. They are comparatively rare in
the country; and the man who breaks
over the restraints Of country life and
breaks into this kind of life is not
likely TO amount 10 ul4cn in the world
No man can amount to anything I'M
less he has serious purpose, unless
he intends to make something Of him
self. unless he does those things that
build up character and associates with
people who have some serious purpose
in life. We confess this letter makes
us sad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20
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TOMMY"S ACCOMPLISHMENT.
TkenSett NeWS.1

One of our country contributors ven
lures the statement that Edwin Gil
bertson, II years old staying with Tom
Elvrunl, is very likely the only boy
of his age in Worth county who has
read the bible thru. page by rage. The
young lad is the better for this rare
and good plishmen,, and II he
has been interested in the early history
of the race. and has profted by the
lessons and valuable teachings. he has
laid q foundation for an education
which will only be completed when he
quits this mundane sphere-no matter
how long he may live.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-20

Children are much more likely to
contract the contagious diseases when
they have colds. Whoopins cough.
diphtheria. scarlet fever and consump-
ton are diseases that are often con-
tractei when the child has cold. That
is why all medical authorities say be-
ware Of colds. For the quick cure OF
colds you viii find nothing better than
Cham berlain's Cough Remedy. 1t can
always be depended upon and is pleas
ant and safe to take. For sale by all
dealers.