Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-10

pen. Dear OLD Iowa was chosen 81
committee from list OF some forty
others which had been submitted. Mrs.
Perdue was song writer OF note back
in Des Moines Iowa. where she lived
for a number OF years before coming
to Les Angeles Ave years ago. She
conceived the idea Of writing the song
for the February picnic, but after she
had submitted the synopsis OF the
words and the tune to the committee
they asked that she have 1t completed
for the picnic of next Saturday.
BIZ, here's the song, and you can
judge for yourselves:
DEAR OLD IOWA
We're from dear old Iowa.
Where the corn grows tall:
We're from dear old Iowa.
Where the cold SHOWS fall.
We love you. dear old Iowa.
But you never can compare
With sunny California.
with it's flowers and fruits 80 rare.
Chorus:
Were from Iowa. Iowa.
From that state so grand,
A merry, jolly band,
We're from Iowa. Iowa,
Where the cold SHOWS blow.
Back in dear old Iowa,
There are friends we love;
Back in Gear old Iowa,
Goose the turtle dove.
The meadowiarks are singing
In the fields of waving corn:
The frosty dewdrops sparkle
on cold October morn.
Thoughts Of dear old Iowa
Brings no regrets TO me,
Here IN California,
All its beauties we can see.
The white waves on the ocean
And the poppyfields of gold;
Bu. back in dear old Iowa
IL is SNOW and ice and cold.
Now. we don't care continental
how. many songs are written oescFioiiAs
the beauties and virtues of California
bur what we want to object 10 rishe
nov is this unfair comparison IN Inc
same song, and labelling it Dear o!o
Iowa" You'd think from reading the
above that Iowa was located near the
north pole. where the cold SHOWS
blow" and where 1t is snow ana zee
and coldd." We think mighty Httie
of the intelligence and fair mindedness
of any bunch OF former 1owans acting
as committee who would present
.,nh a song. or any other bunch OF
former Iowans who would adept ana
sing q song So unfair. September, the
::rce this Jora picnic was held in Call
fornia. was anything else but sno"
and ice and cold" and the picnicKers
knew Il. but IL suited their purpose
little better to misrepresent the fscts.
we fi.nun liz. whole crowd II they
don't change II.
California boasts of her bigness and
diversified climate. Par. OF California
;s in the very cold belt and part OF II
il SO almighty hot Imperial Valley.
for ius,ancs) that the visitors rink
hsdes nus. be winter resort IN col'-
parison Why, bless your poor pc
nighted souls, OF course snow Is COLO.
That's what makes 1t snow. It's the
same cold snow in California as 1t Is IN
Iowa. You don't find 1t in the tropics.
Another thing meadow larks sing IN
che meadows, that's why they are
called meadow iarks. Don't monkey 100
much with this poetic license. please.
"On a cold October morn Is DID,
too. wouldn't that frost" you? Iowa
has az fine October weather, general
1y speaking, as any country in the
world and all ex-Iowans know this.
And yet the song writer above makes
II anpear that il is bleak and desolate
in Iowa-in October.
II you are really proud OF the race
that you formerly lived IN Iowa. sins
the o.x.cta. Iowa state song and then
If you want to whoop it Up for the
state you are now living in, do 1t all
YOU want to, but for heavens SAKE
don't label It Dear Old Iowa" and IN
the same song damn us with iaiht
praise" or compare us unfairly
This writer was born In OHIO, ano
we naturally love the ole state eno
we expect TO stand by her thru thick
and thin, but that don't anect our
I1.ya!.- or love for our adopted state,
Iowa. in the least. They are both great
and each has It's ad-
vantages and we are not going TO make
any unfair comparisons.
statistics show that Iowa. in many
respects, il the greatest state in the
union. ana you ex-Iowans. even IN
Cslifornia, know this. he trouble y