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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
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Few persons. ON first thought, wovl0
see any possible connection bstwssa
good roads and good health. Yot the
State Board Of Health OF Kansas Gays
that good roads can and VIII prevent
disease How? BY the removal Of
weeds and trash. Weeds ana trash
prevent the prompt evaporation Of
moisture ana promote rstsntion Of
ground water. This makes Meal breed.
ing spots for mosquitoes. niss and other
insects, which are known - disease
carriers. not to mention ehinch bugs.
hoppers and other insects which arc
crop damagers. Furthermore. IN UNI
dergrowth OF weeds invites the dump.
ing Of garbage and manure By Offering
concealment Of which fact careless and
thoughtless people are prone b take
advantage, thus increasing The facility
Of insect breeding and providing these
insect carriers with proper material for
disease transmission. Goods roads also
prevent disease by providing good
drainage. Many farms have no means
of drainage except by bitches along
roadways. Open bitches. clear Of brush
and debris, with hardened surface end
proper fall afford these farms the OPP
portunity Of Kidding themselves Of
many a stagnant pool. The removal
Of weeds. proper road grading. surface
hardening and oiling, insures prompt
drainage Of all pool ditch ana surface
water. removing the possibility Of in
sect breeders, for none can multiply
without moisture. Road oiling In itself
is destructive Of insect larvae. especi-
ally mosqultos--a well known fact. Dry
roads offer pedestrians and notably
children who are compelled to walk to
and from school, dry shoes and feet.
While colds are due to specific germs.
yet it Is a well known fact that cold.
wet feet and chilled limbs lower the
resistance of individuals and make
them more favorable subjects for in
fections of the respiratory passages. In
Guiding pneumonia and tuberculosis.
Good roads prevent disease by setting
an example to adjoining farm premises.
Good roads promote travel ana set an
example to the farmer whose premises
are bordered by them. The compare
son Of a well graded, clean hishway
with an unkempt and trashy barnyard
adjoining Is sufficient to stimulate ev-
cry landowner to cleanup. Pride
com els him to offer to passers-by
neat appearing and attractive house
and barnyard. Results are only too
obvious. Good roads are active disease
prevention agencies. aside from their
financial and commercial value.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
FILTHY STREET CARN1vALS.


Manchester has had another carni-
val. And now she has the headache,
and that dark brown fuzzy taste, and
she is remorseful and she Is very en-
phatic on the one subject, that she
will never. never, never have another
one. And the locker on wonders, did
not she say that before, and will she
really stick to what she says. or will
she again fall for" this vile form of
entertainment the next or later year.
There is really no reason why any town
should have one Of these carnivals. IT
an Iowa town wants a celebration OF
some kind, she ought to plan and ar
range one of her own. If she lacks the
time or the skill and ability. she ought
to do without But It ill becomes an
Iowa town to harbor one OF those filthy
street carnivals for week, and to per-
NIT il to run without restrictions, and
then to begin complaining after the
aggregation has moved on to some
other town. 1t will surely not be
claimed tina. there is town in Iowa
in 1913, that does not know what the
street carnival is. and that can claim
that she was taken inf there be
such, there is always danger threaten
ing such a burg. 1t Is entirely too in
nocent, too verdant and ought not TO
be left lying alone out OF doors in such
unprotected fashion. And 1t is only
a question whether she will again be
foolish after this headache has dis
appeared and she has been thoroughly
scrubbed and fum:gated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
Thai .1lhRosn" BUSINESS.

In sporting" parlance among those
who make sporting" business the
'tin horn" is petty gambler. In his
relation to real gamblers he stands
about as the curb broker does to the
board Of trade. He is to the king
gamblers what the crow is to the buzz
lard, the jackal to the lion. what a
porch climber is compared to train
sobber So far as results are concerned
there isn't much difference, the gam
bier takes it away from his victim
quite as certainly and effectively as
the tin horn, usually he is quite as
crooked ~ his petty imitator, but he
strikes strong and weak alike when he
ptoopo 20 kill. When the real gray
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
REMEMBER THE POOR.
dubuque Times -Journal.1


Dubuque is a city remarkably free
from the terribly poverty-stricken
class to be found In great commune
ties. or even in many places of Its own
size. Uniformly, the people here are
in a position to be not afraid of the
winds that blow. or the snow that flies.
But the Bible never contained q great
er truth than that spoken by Christ.
when He said: THE poor we have al
ways with ye." Hence it 10 no reflection
upon our own prosperous and grow
ing city to state that there are scores
of families who will need aid and COM
fort during the months to come and
while charitable organizations and the
Salvation Army will undoubtedly re-
peat their humane efforts to relieve
suffering-efforts they make during all
times Of trials-there are many cases
of want and absolute restitution they
can not reach. 1t, therefore, behooves
the individual citizens of means to take
note Of conditions that meet his per-
sonal observation and lend what help
within his power.
No matter the reason why some fell
bowman or woman Is in want. That
is beggering the question. There may
be any one Of a hundred reasons. But
no matter what the reason, the bold
fact stands out that they are In want,
while you are comparatively in riches.
Maybe they are hungry, while you are
sleek and well-fed. Maybe they are
thinly clothed, while you are warmly
clad. These are the main points. They.
like yourself, are declared to have been
made in the image IL their Creator. If
they have fallen from the respectable
and comfortable states Of life. then try
to lift them to higher plane.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
The Rural Water Supply

The responsibility for diseases due to
polluted water is so often put on the
waters supplies OF our large cities that
the conditions in American rural dis
tricts are usually thought of. II not &C
tually pictured in the public mind. as
almost ideal. Naturally enough, farms
which are remote from areas OF con-
gested population seem to be ideaiiy
situated for obtaining wholesome wat
er. In reality, however. deplorably In
sanitary conditions as regards the farm
water-supplies prevail widely. II we
NAV believe state and national govern :
ment reports.
A large proportion of farm water
supply in the less hilly portions OF the
country where springs are not anund-
ant comes from shallow wells, whicn
are particularly subject to contamina-
ton. Deep wells are safer. but are not
entirely free from danger OF pollution.
The chemist OF the Canada Experiment
tai Farms. DR.. Frank 7. Shut, con.
c,udes from an examination OF severai
thousand samples Of water used on
farm homesteads in Canada that
"probably not more than one-third OF
them are pure ana wholesome" IN
yestigations made by the Bureau OK
Plant Industry. in cooperation with tine
Minnesota State Board OF Heath,
showed that OF seyenty-nine carefully
selected and typical farm water-sup-
plies in Minnesota, mainly well Wal
ers, twenty were good and hfty-nlne
were polluted, usually because OF care
less or ignorant management. ana zen.
erallv as a result Of poor location ot
protection against surface wash or IN
e,tration. The rivers, surface reser.
vo,rs and cisterns investigated were
found to be polluted to such an extent
than IL is doubtful whether satisfactory
supplies can be secured for househoio
use from such sources. In an examin'
alton of the rural water-supplies In IN
diana it has been found that OF the pr l-
yate rural water-supplies examined ~
were deep wells. All shallow wells. nve
ponds. forty springs and twenty seven
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
THE suzz SAW HAS TEETH.

About one more such an effort to
discredit the state highway commits
sion as the attacks started simultane-
ously in Fremont and in Shelby coun-
ties will vindicate the legislature which
enacted the new statute. These at
tachs appearing in the newspapers at
the same time in very similar language
and from distant counties looked sus-
picious on their face. Now that the
charges have been answered by the
commission from the records the con-
clusion is inevitable that the voters
Of each county are in need Of
searchlight to disclose what has been
going on at their county seat.
From Fremont the complaint was
that the state commission had unduly
interefered with the local board and
the commissions reply is that the
Fremont board had been giving a
favorite bridge man contracts in vio-
lation of the state law without pub
fishing the legal notices either to
other contractors or to taxpayers and
without having plans approved by
the state commission: that this same
contractor who had been conspicuous
as a lobbyist against the law had been
given for his company repair work to
the extent of s1,749 without written
contracts. Under the circumstances
taxpayers are not going to exhibit
much indignation at Interference Of
this kind when they remember that
something like $4,000 was restored to
the treasury in Clinton county by in
reference of a similar character.
The Fremont bunch complained of
upstairs sent out from Ames', but
ii appears that the engineer In that
district had been trained in the uni
versities of Ohio and Michigan and
had been ten years in actual railroad
construction. When he measured a
drainage area he knew how large a
bridge ought to be and the taxpayers
are not going to bet very heavily on
some farmers judgment as to bridge
construction alongside the opinion Of
man like this. Railroad companies
usually employ engineers in preference
to farmers to build bridges.
The Shelby county kickers COM
| planned that the state commission
would bankrupt the county by requir-
ing heavier bridges. The commission
replies with treasury figures to the
effect that the bridge fund overdraft
increased 1864 during 1912 under the
old law while it would decrease $3,4s2
at the end Of this year under the new
law.
I AS to the charge that the state COM
mission was demanding bridges too
large. the reply Il in the Shelby county
auditors own telegram to the COM
mission OF last srping stating that
floods had carried away seventy five
bridges in that county. Under the
new law bridges are not built by
farmers guess but the engineers sur
vey the drainage area and compute
| the volume Of water to be handled and
when bridges are built according to
their figures seventy-five bridges
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

wolf of the sporting fraternity 10 on
his hunt no pulls down . bull from
the herd where tho tin horn lies out
side in the grass waiting for . calf or
cripple to stray away from protec-
ton. The difference between gamblers
and tin horns 10 often more than In de-
gree There are gamblers who take q
chance. The tin horn never does IL he
can help It. His dice are "phony," his
cards are marked. His makeup calls
for more of the confidence man and
sneak thief than for the cool daring Of
the real gambler.
The tin horn haunts pool halls and
seeks prey where the weaker and more
foolish congregate. He hangs around
certain hotels waiting for the fool
travelling man whose short experience
and mistaken notions Of the chara cter
of travelling men. render him and his
expense money easy prey for the gang.
He butts into petty kid games of nickel
a stick pool. where boys are to be
and the money their mothers gave
them. Sometimes he rises to the high
dignity Of framed UP games that in
volve real money. But he stays tin
horn all his life usually. When he
stands in with the authorities" he
usually runs poker room where fool
ish youths lose their salaries to house
players and where the rakeoff is the
biggest winning made in the place.
About the only use of a tin horn
gambler is to spoil boys. When a
that hang about the pool halls and
play kelly for a nickel know 1t. 1t
sounds big to a kid of that age and
kind. 1t looks like easy money. The
tin horn is by way of an adventurer in
the kids eyes, a sort of modern Sir
Francis Drake, ravaging the Spanish
main of sporting life" and bringing
home ingot-laden ships as the spells
of proves and courage, instead of the
wrecker that he is building false fires
above shoal waters for the petty gath
ering he may make of such vaiuables
as may perchance wash ashore from
the wreck They spoil boys and make
weak men weaker those imitation
swashbucklers who swagger in pool
purlieus and pose as red-handed buc-
cancers of the high seas Of chance,
these tin horns whose fercest predacity
goes no farther than fishing for suck
ers from the shore.
The tin horn is not an acquisition to
q town. He isn't good thing to keep
around He may dress much better
than the man who is running a small
grocery or working for wages but the
town is usually to the good on the
groceryman and the wage worker,
never on the tin horn.
Tinhorning is a species OF vagrancy
and the tin horn along with other
ought to be taken out to the
city limits and given the hurdy gurdy
or set to work on a stonepile. The
tin horn is a good thing to get rid Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
Iona Newspapers
THE QUESTION

IDes Moines Register and LEADER
In the same newspapers that told Of
the detention Of Mrs. Pankhurst at
Ellis Island appeared a thrilling story
OF the uprising Of Sir Edward Carson
in Ulster.
Parading before King" Carson were
pictured 10000 armed men of the Ul-
stec anti-home rule volunteers. said to
represent an actual army strength Of
10000, with a full 100000 others sub
ject to recruit on short notice.
$50 long as you are BEND us there
can be no question Of surrender" de-
clared Sir Edward.
Why was not the British government
present at the royal agricultural show
grounds at Belfast to suppress this
demonstration?
Would Sir Edward Carson be held Mt
Ellis Island II he were to come to
America to rally support to the Ulster
rebellion?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
Topics of the Times

Congress is to be let out for recess
ana is warned to be in and at the
desks right away after Prof. Wilson
raps on the window with the ruler
They'll be there. Never has a con-
gress eaten from the hand with more
docility than the present assemblase
OF sages
Get in line with your money in your
hand. The income tax begins week
after next.
Why should any person desire to be
! president Of Mexico? But for the mat
ter OF that why should men go wild 70
be a county supervisor in Iowa?
1t Is coming winter and the chill OF
the fall weather shuts down ali the
! windows to keep out cold and keep in
the heat that costs so much a ton.
Don't stick in the house and hover the
register and the radiator. Get out and
take the aid in the face, fight of the
chill. exercise. More people die from
shutting themselves up close at the
first frost than ever froze to death in
Labra dor.
A new apple has been named the
Wilson" The next peach to be de-
veloped should be called the "Emme-
line"
The volunteer police and fire depart
ment is doing SO well on the high seas
that paid department posted from
OF the Atlantic is not outside of fu-
ture possibilities. But there will never
be any signs reading Keep Off the
Grass"
That man SuIzer, convicted and de-
posed and still asserting his intention
to ask for one OF the most important
offices in the gift of the voters Of a
state is a product Of modern politics
and criticism on the common sense
Of the voting public. At any rate we
have learned enough of Sulzer to know
that ne is the type OF man least needed
in politics. And Sulzer. banking on
the moral political strabismus OF the
time proposes to capitalize disgust for
Tamany into office for himself.
Mrs. Pankhurst being freed. thanks
the American people" She needn't.
The American people doesn't care two
cents about Mrs. Pankhurst: but It
does care very much for it's own dig
nifty and respect Of custom. And that's
how Emmeline got in.
The scientists have concluded that
the crow is the farmers friend. How
ever. he doesn't show any desire to
get intimate.
OF course If we wait long enough
the roads will freeze and then we can't
drag them.
Rodman Law, aviator has been
smashing up flying machines and him
self and getting on the front pages
pretty regularly. Rodman is one Of
these law breakers who hurts nobody
but himself.
Just keep it in mind that you can
make more clear money out Of a $40
advertisement than out of ten years
complaining because people send to
catalog houses for goods.-Oskaloo.a
Herald.
The Muscatine Journal says that
circumstances than those which have
marked Mrs. Pankhurst's arrival in the
United States have served to trans
form cool, almost cold shoulders into
open arms" The Journal must speak
for itself and the bachelor editors.
Most Of US will insist on opening our
arms to suffragettes Of our own selec-
ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

ban In their own country was not al
lowed 10 interfere. Indeed. It was SUI
hcient to stir sympathy for their cause
In this land Of free speech"
"The report that Prouty 10 retiring
BY the compulsion Of promise to
Dowell two years afo 10 rapidly making
inroads on the potential strength az the
latter" aassrts the Iowa City Citizen.
"The public does not like bargain OF
that kind. Let the story alone little
longer and not even the most strenuous
denial, accompanied by proof Will DO
able to overtAke It,"
MANY q man, who 10 too lazy to
chop bit Of kindling at home Will
work like a hero, swinging an ak and
fell mighty trees in the attempt to
dislodge and capture squirrel or an
opossum," observes the Burlington
Hawkeye. I'm this case, they call It
sport"
The Cedar Rapids Republican says:
"The politician who keeps his hands
clean never needs to fear exposure.
The lesson In the Sulzer case Is for
men in politics not to yield to tempta-
ton, not to 60 wrong not to perjure
themselves in official reports and not
lie or steal even constructively. or IN
a wife's name"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
should not forget this. And neither
should farmers.
A pee.ptive pissase.

MANY people think they can tell =
+,h.rc,,,a, COW by looking at her; ana
these neople never can be convinced
that a cow which looks well, eats wen
and gives a good mess Of milk 10 as
eased. But, as q matter OF fact, THESE
anpearances can not be relied upon IN
the least. At the Ontario station COW
which seemed to be healthy and gave
milk for the last SIX months OF nee
life at the rate Of nearly thirty pounos
a day. or 10000 pounds . year. was
found. OH ost-mortem sxamination' "
be tubercular. a. Professor WADE re.
ports, ''in practically every important
organ in her body.
Most buyers would have been glao
to give 800 for this cow; and she
would have been more harmful than
carload Of rattlesnAkes to . detryman.
The Ontario station has tfted out tho
Bang system Of isolating the calves
from a tubercular dairy herd ana
building up a new herd without kill
ing off the, old one. After three years
they had a beef herd Of fifty flour ant
mails free from the disease. clean
dairy herd OF thirty and . small dds
eased herd.
This was accomplished by rigid ~
Of the tuberculin test. which 10 re.
garded as absolutely necessary. All
animals shown to be diseased Wero
removed from the SOUND herds 1t once.
The most careful separation OF herds
was maintained, and the most careful
system OF spraying with lime AMI Sss--
bolic acid. All diseased animals were
closely iquarantined; and the attend.
ants who cared for the diseased cattle
were not allowed to have anything 20
do with the sound oueA
Any farmer can see that. while the
Bang system may do Tor an expert.
ment station or big dairy. It would -
hard to adapt to farm conditions The
true rule for the farmer IL to set rio
OF the tubsrcular cattle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

THE president is too honestly
human to be caught in such a sack,
and so promptly overru!ed the little
bosses in the immigration depart
ment," says the Sioux City Tribune.
After letting in Cypriano Castro and
the Prince we would have cut sorry
figure putting UP the bars against the
English woman"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23
IN, Insanitarv Darnyard,

In locating the barn and stock yards
with reference to the dwelling. many
do not consider the sanitary results.
The barn may be relatively near the
dwelling, yet the barnyArd and stock
lots should be far enough removed 20
they will in no way prove . nuisance
or contaminate the grounds about the
dwelling. The barnyard that connes up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

Suffrage is gaining ground in the
United States because. as exemplified
by the action Of the Washington au-
thorities. chivalry is not dead, and
chivalry is kept alive IN mems breasts
by true womanhood," asserts the Wa
terloo Reporter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

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cumuIatss are breeding places fof flies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

II we can not have men as good as
women, let US not get into a condition
where women will be as bad as men,"
says the Iowa City Republican. ut
looks like we are coming to that in
some respects, judging by what is
happening in England and in Iowa
suffrage conventions"
The ottumwa Courier says: THE
autoist, Hal Wells, who disabled his
car trying to violate the speed limit
law clear across the state of Iowa, 10
not by such act doing anything to help
the good roads movement. Iowa does
not need roads to race on in dry
weather--it needs roads on which corn
and hay can be hauled In wet weather"
Merely as matter OK common
sense there was no reason why mrs.
Pankhurst should not be allowed TO
deliver her message and collect her
dollars in this country" says the Sioux
City Journal. "Other disciples OF
European protest have been given the
freedom Of the country on similar mis-
sions. The fact that they were under
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-23

Just keep it in mind that you can
make more clear money out Of a $40
advertisement than out of ten years
complaining because people send to
catalog houses for goods.-Oskaloo.a
Herald