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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
RAISING SPENDTHRIFTS.
James Intelligent


The desire to enjoy position in life
which has not been rightfully earned
is a fatal one to many youth OF MOD
ern times and if he but knew it he Is
paving the way for some desolate,
dreary days in the future. The youth
starts out in life probably equipped
with brains and capabilities which
would put him on par with the aver
age or maybe just trifle over the aV-
erage, but if he falls into the groove
of falsely believing that it is necessary
for him to maintain himself and spend
as much money as the older men who
have earned some right to their frills
or the youth born in circumstances
where it works no hardship. he is in
most cases gone He will Ooze along
until he discovers that middle age has
overtaken him and chances to work up
have been greatly lessened.
An example is the son Of parents
in medium circumstances-not sucn
as will amply provide him with any
chance to be given Q substantial start
who thru his high school days has
been given all advantages. He comes
out of school used to clothes. and priv
ileges with but little idea Of the actual
in many cases a fact altho it should
not be. He has not been forced to look
upon material things from the view
point of the one who has earned them
| thru hard work and knocks. He gets
lob" and when 20 or q finds himself
drawing s45 month. He stays at
home getting his board. room and
| washing and the comforts Of home
with his salary to spend. He usually
does spend this and all OF it at that
with no thought for future needs. The
boy thus acquires hundred dollar gait
while his commercial value is less than
| half the sum. Where he gets bitter
lesson is apparent.
Where the blame lies Is not an easy
matter to say, but it is primarily with
the makeup Of the boy. 1t takes stern
er will power for the one raised IN
comparative luxury to rise than 1t does
for the youth who knew nothing bet
ter than a bare existence and was
forced to struggle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

Of paying the dues which amount TO
$3.50 annually. The system under
which the club will conduct its ten
memberships will probably include
partial payment at least by the boys
in petty amounts for q period of time.
Now that is fine thing and Q splen-
did thought 1t is the work the
churches ought to do, the work that
appeals to those. outside the churches
who incline to minimize the value and
helpfulness of these organizations. 1t
gets somewhere. 1t is concrete instead
of abstract. 1t makes faith visible. 1t
is samaritanism and applied christian
ity. 1t isn't charity in the common ac-
ceptance of the term. 1t mustn't be
charity. II it were it would spoil ten
boys. 1t is help and notice and a
chance. That's what it ought to be.
It is something bunch Of good men
with more money than they need ought
to notice because it Is a hint and an
opportunity to them. The main thing
that stands in the way Of a 12-year-old
boy belonging to the "Y' is the start
Mighty few boys there are who couldn't
scrape up a nickel a week if the dues
a good thing for the boys and the man
who engineered the matter, If half
dozen men in this town would own ten
memberships apiece and place ten boys
who We're under pledge to earn and
pay a nickel a week on their member
ships and who would see that the OPP
portunity to earn the nickel were at
hand.
The main thing we need nowadays Is
not charity for boys and able-bodied
persons, but help and chance. The
real thing lacking is a lack Of interest
in each other. There are any quantity
of men who will give IS easy enough
who desire to forget it as soon as given
That isn't a good way. It's easy, but II
delivers little besides pauperism and is
an enemy 10 Independence. AAe AeoA
thing is to make a chance for some
body. A real chance is about all any
Of us is entitled TO and we are all en-
titled to that
We are thinking more on this line
and doing more than ever before. 1t is
the key Of the whole business. There
isn't a man in town who couldn't have
a boy or two looking up to him as
friend and big brother II he chose
And there isn't anything that would do
the man and the boys and the future
of the city as much good. Try it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Topics of the Times

Contract labor in Iowa prisons is
snap for the contractor at the expense
of workworn women and i'll clad chill
dren. Let's stop it dead
Senator La Toilette, Of Wisconsin,
has announced his intention OF support
ing the democratic program in congress
if he Is satisfied that the Wilson ad-
ministration takes a truly progressive
attitude. II the senator cant do II
himself, he's willing to see George
do it,
If the legislature should enact law
under which city pavements can be ex-
tended from county seat 20 county seat
thruout Iowa, the farmers who would
like TO live on a paved street from
town to their front gates can do SO al
a cost of s25 per year for each quarter
section Of land abutting the pavement
or IS per annum for each quarter sec
ton lying within two miles OF the
pavement.
It ought not cost more to man DOCKS
than merchandise. The P. NJ g..
should have this Strengthened out.
Bailey and the rest Of the discards
all take a farewell shot at the voters.
It is a simple and harmless way OF
getting back instead of coming back.
Secretary Wilson s imminent separ-
alton from the agricultural department
has it's pleasant side. He will be able
to come back and live in Iowa. And
that's a fine place to retire to.
The attitude Of democratic news
papers is Here's your hat Senator
Bailey. must you go?'
When the ice man met the coal man
they both giggled right out.
When the concrete highway and the
bobsled come together the bob Will
need wheels.
A tagged body usually makes Tor
tagged mind, and both together tend
to sag the morals.-Omaha Bee.
Which suggests that the proprietor
of the Bee had been much overWorked
Immediately previous to the last ma
tionaI republican convention.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Told to a Traveller

Hampton, Jan. S.-Rev. w. E. Stan
ley, of Eldora, a prohibitionist first,
last and all Of the time, has no use
for the Shankland bill with or without
the woman suffrage amendment. He
considers it bill entirely in the inter-
ests Of the wet" crowd, and thinks
its passage would result in an increase
of wet" territory.
Mr.. H. A. huff, representative elect
from Hardin county, and a prominent
candidate for the speakership, is OPP
posed to, and will vote against the
Shankland bill. If a woman suffrage
amendment is offered as "a rider" will
vote for that, and then vote against the
bill as amended. Takes this position
as duty he owes to his constituents,
and also as his personal vote against
an anti-temperance measure.
Editor T. w. Purcell. of Hampton,
says Franklin county is yet to decide
what they will do at the next pri-
maries. While Roosevelt carried this
county by a big majority. yet he doubts
the wisdom of having a progressive, a
republican ticket and a democratic
ticket in the field. Dislkes the idea
Of county politics becoming so mixed.
Furthermore thinks there's a chance
for harmony" as many standopatters
around here are not so bitter as before
election.
Editor /. L. Stuart. of Hampton. says
there's little political talk around here.
Everybody is busy making money.
crops good. Hampton growing fast, and
what's the USE
Senator Elect T. ]. B. Robinson. Of
Hampton, is against the Shankland
bill. Possibly would vote for it il wom
an suffrage amendment was attached
as the women of Iowa can be depended
upon to vote down any attempt to
change dry" to wet" territory.
In regard to the action Of the educa-
tional board thinks they have made q
mistake from the investigation he has
Sc far made concerning proposed
changes. Thinks the sentiment Of his
sonal opinion.
Concerning good roads" says that at
last Iowa has walked up and is ready
to do something. While not entirely
certain the proposition for the state to
issue bonds and the automobile tax to
be used to keep the interest, has good
features that appeal to him. If any
better plan comes before the legisla-
ture he will favor it. rs ready to be
shown" hut thinks the time has come
for wise legislative for permanent good
roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
The NEW GENERRrI0M.

Old Governor Larrabees family gave
Senator Kenyon pair of the old gov
errors cuff buttons which he had
worn for twenty-five years. Upon this
the Iowa Falls Citizen comments to the
effect that wearing one pair Of cuff
buttons for quarter Of century is
out of line with the coming generation.
The Citizen says the new generation
will trade automobiles with more
alacrity than Larrabee bought cuff
buttons.
Well, why not? What's wrong with
trading automobiles? We of the elder
generations are inclined to watch the
rapid operations Of the time with much
the same feeling that our grandfathers
saw the locomotive gather speed and
passing the stage coach create empire
where a state had been. There are
those among us not yet fallen into the
sere and yellow period who recall OPP
position to an organ as part OF the
church service. Later il will be re-
membered that a great many persons
of average intelligence frowned on the
innovation Of rural mail routes and
looked askance at the introduction of
the rural telephone. 1t Is much to the
credit of the old governors methodical
and thrifty character that he was able
TO keep one pair of cuff buttons twen-
ty-fve years. It isn't to the discredit
Of other men that they have had sew
eral pairs within the same space of
time. Men differ from each other as
cne star differs from another and times
change. That's all there is to it.
Principles do not change. The eter
nal yerities are eternal Governor
Larrabee was one of the most useful
men Of his time because he held to
these truths and insisted upon the
greatest Of all the absolution of equal
ity. Other men are going the same
way and doing the same things.
Changes which the governor awaited
thru long years Of struggle and hope
031exTSO AT0 Uc1uS L1doC iiAOA AoPAois
than he dreamed could be in the days
when Larrabee stood for the square
deal between men and men and be-
tween the masses and privilege. This
= IN automobile age. We consider big
things almost as calmly as our an
cestors did cuff buttons.
This new generation is going some.
Il u a motor generation. Perhaps it
swerves q little from side to side Of
the highway Of progress but that is be-
cause we are driving fast and haven't
entirely learned the machine We are
roins ahead however and going fast
Let's not find too much fault with the
coming generation. It 10 the best and
eanest yet generated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Map In tho Nursery.

I have discovered that large map
of the United States hanging in the
nursery, or where the children can
see it. is a great educator. A map Of
your own state also, showing counties.
townships. capitals, ETC., will also help
all the family to know more practical
geography than may be studied In
books. 1t is a good idea to consult
both maps frequently with the chill
dren, to look up any strange towns
read about in the paper. It teaches
them to know their own country. state.
city, etc.-Harper's Bazaar.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
1we BRITISH CONTENTION AND THE CANAL

Great Britain's urgency in the mat
ter Of the canal should be understood
before we, the common people, assume
an indignant attitude. The impression
that Great Britain Is demanding part
proprietorship in the canal is very far
from the facts.
The United States controls the canal.
Few nations would have the temerity
to deny this. In order to maintain the
canal vessels taking advantage of 1t
must pay for passage. Great Britain
will send four ships thru it where the
United States sends one counting ton
mage. The United States proposes to
make the tolls free to American coast
wise vessels.
Great Britain argues that under this
condition her shipping will be paying
not object to tonnage charges. What
she does object to is that American
shipping shall pass free She puts for
ward that the United States will
thus favor its coastwise shipping at the
expense of the British and suggests
that this country collect toll from our
ships and rebate it again. The differ
ence would be that United States ship
ping would thus pay its share OF the
expense Of keeping UP the waterway
instead of collecting the entire amount
from the shipping of other nations.
It Is also to be taken into considera-
ton that this is worlds waterway
and must be open to the commerce OF
the world. Broadly considered 1t be-
longs to commerce and not to any one
nation. We will control the canal. That
goes as it lies We will fortify 1t and
control it absolutely from military
standpoint We will conduct it's bust
ness and fix its tolls. But the mere
nobIesse oblige which arises from this
condition and this control should carry
with it an open ear to the contentious
Of other nations and the responsibility
Of even justice.
In short there is nothing to become
excited over or to justify an indignant
attitude on our part in the demands
Of Great Britain. It is a business prop
osttion and should be treated in bust
ness like way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Why Not Censor Truth?

The passion for censorship seems to
be on the increase. 1t may properly
be considered as a by-product OF the
growing paternalism on the part OF our
In the newspaper post
Office bill we have the first stages of q
censorship of the press. There is also
q censorship of the moving picture in
dustry. which will doubtless In time
be extended to the whole theaterical
field. Already this is true IN Ensia'a'
What is really needed, however. Is a
censorship to suppress the truth. Inc
truth Is getting very bold in these days.
and unless some measures are TAKEN
to curtail her activities, lamentabie re-
suits will follow.-Life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

Blanchard, dean Of women. may not
permit the co-eds to go.
'If the dance is put on the social
calendar" said Miss Blanchard. "a
general permission may be granted.
But any five or six students could ar
range dance anywhere and call it an
interdepartmental dance"
James T. Haviland, president of the
board Of control. asserts that the dance
will be held whether or not it is rec
ognized by the FACULTY. the tickets
have been printed. and II the liberal
arts girls aren't allowed to go Wen
take oratory school girls"
Girls from the school of oratory are
not subject to any social restrictions
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
%m "1-~A
Iona Newspapers
SENATOR BAILEY.
dubuque Telegraph Herald, Demo

1c4SSt NDculO'
If Mr.. Bailey, Mr.. Taft, Mr. Root
and other distinguished intellectual
aristocrats could be trusted to re-
fleet in the law the just hopes and
the communicable ambitions Of the
millions Of our citizens on the
make. then we should have nothing
to fear and nothing to change. But
they can not be trusted, not from any
personal venality, but from the fact
of their viewpoint. For. in the last
analysis, what the mass of people
seek Is larger freedom-po!itical, per-
sonal, Industrial and economic-and
what the aristocratic Is thought OPP
pose is this very larger freedom be-
cause convinced that the people can
not be trusted with power, that their
reliance for intelligent and stable
government must be in chosen men
rather than in themselves and that
liberty for them will mean license.
Senator Bailey voices the spirit OF
the past when he inveighs against the
Instruments of direct government.
But more He indicts the free school,
the public library, the free press,
the open forum. These, he says In
ferentially. have not made man NJ
for self government. At best his
conclusion is an opinion and one
without weight except where there
is fear of the loss of privileges.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
REFORM THAT REFORMS.
IDaa Moines News.l


The last man on earth to roar ABOUT
the civil service policy should be Will
lam Howard Taft Congress. in deal
mo with Tafts eleventh hour appoint
ments and President Wilson, In max
inq room for democrats. should put
Taf+,s recommendations and advice at
the very bottom Of the list for consld-
Grafton. 1,,,,,
No presidet has ever surpassed Will
lam Howard Taft in impudent regard
le..ness Of public opinion. or IN shame
lessness. in the matter of appoint
ments. Time and time again have the
r.on,a kicked worthless or purchased
servants out Of office only to have
them promptly replaced in the pubic
service. often in more responsible ana
better paid positions. by Taft and the
bs nal influences which have run Tart
for four years. Look over the list OF
came ducks" The stronger the peo-
nile repudiated them the softer the
snaps they got, and their ducklinss
With them. It should be one OF WOOD
row wilson's first labors as president
to 20 over that list and wiring the Of
fetal neck Of every famed duck" on It.
The people believe In civil service re-
form. Taking popular interests out OF
the hands of fellows who have been
repudiated by the people Is reform 1t
will be up to the new president 70 COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

Three Months Free

Enclose regular price for any Of this
list Of magazines scoring twenty points
and we will send the Daily Times Re-
publican, (rural route sdition), three
months free ~ Christmas present.
Enclose regular price for magazines
scoring twenty five points and We will
send the Evening Times Republican BY
mail the same.
Enclose regular price for masaxinss
scoring thirty points and We will send
the city edition by carrier three
months the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
COED. Would Dance.

Members of the interdepartmental
board of control at Northwestern Uni
yersity are ready to defy faculty au-
thority II necessary in scheduling
dance at the Arcadia dance hall IN
Evanston on Jan. 9.
The question which moves the stu
dents to revolt 10 that Miss Irene
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

make income cover outso ana not fall
on the debt side into misery. instead
Of staying on the credit side In happi-
ness?"
The Waterloo Times Tribune says:
In Iowa the prison contract labor
system should never get q good hold.
1t is not proper that the state should
use the labor Of its prisoners to meet
the competition of free labor In the
Industrial field.'
1--WE are going to have, after the 4th
of March. less talk about a square
deal and more OF the genuine article"
says the Davenport Democrat.
III 1t takes all the law the speaker
OF the house, backed by congress, can
conjure up to bring one William
to the trough of justice.
what power upon earth can regulate
the price OF oily" inquiries the Water
loo Reporter.
What a grand, patriotic thing it
would be for the legislature to elect
William Larrabee, Jr., as speaker" ex-
claims the Mason City Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
"The Boy and the Man."

Every boy wishes to be man. but
the measure of man Is not that OF
age, nor strength. nor stature. nor
possessions, nor, position. That which
makes a man 10 q quality of spirit;
1t is courage. honor. integrity of char.
acter, and the resolute purpose to
know what is true, and to do what
is right. The central quality of man
illness around which all others must
be built up is that Of q sense Of honor.
St Nicholas.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Not to % Followed.

Brownie, do you expect to keep
on shaving people when you get to
heaven asked . customer, ~ the
towels were firted OF. Deed,
dunno. boss. Il 'spects. ef does, I'll
be obleesed to dran up . new bunch
Of customer. Judge.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
the KEY TO n.

s. One Of the many organizations con-
reeted with Marshalltown churches did
= very fine thing when it decided to
~. care Of ten 7. NJ. c. A. member
ahipe for boys who otherwise would
- deprived Of the privileges OF the
.aaeeciatioa because Of the difficulty
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
HERE'S YOUR HAT SENATOR,


We hold no brief for Bailey. He mas
dug his own political grave by refus-
ing to join in many forward move
ments. He might have been today the
leader of the senate instead OF an IN
significant member, and one who will
be remembered, now that he Is retir-
ing for good alter twelve years in the
senate and ten years in the house. as
a man of brilliant mind, of great ca
pacity. but small achievement. He
draws magnificent audience while
singing his swan song but that au-
dience is not so much attracted by
what he says as how he says 1t.
What Bailey says today amounts to
little as a matter of weight with the
public mind. The departing senator is
classified. He belongs. rightly or
wrongly, in the Aldrich. Payne. Can
non school; the only difference being
they are Republicans, while he pro-
fesses democracy-and, famed he Is as
an advocate of Lorimer and a seeming
friend of Lorim erism-tnat was the
straw that broke the senator's political
back.
So Bailey Of Texas departs. What
mighty power in his country's affairs
he might have been today! His serv-
ice is at an end. What an ending!
He leaves with no one regretting his
departure. He might have been call
ing his party men in the senate to him.
instead he is taking his leave. with
few to wish him Codspeed. And why:
All because he failed to see the crimes
of privilege. We do him that honor:
He failed to see the crimes OF privl-
lege He shut his eyes to the "invisl-
BILE govcrnm ent."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Speaking of readjustment of salar-
les in the court house, the Des Molnes
Tribune finds it a little amusing TO
see officers who struggled as hard as
the present officers did to get the
places decided within three days that
the compensation is wholly impossl-
BILE"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

"A little more snow would be well
coined" boldly says the Cedar Rap
ids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

Noting that a man named Hogan is
cashier of the German savings bank IN
Des Moines, the Iowa City Republican
suggests that IF they would make
Hans Gotzenleber cashier OF the Irish
bank, things would be even
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

There is much complaint about the
present day eutcr!y against rich men
says the iMuscatine Journal. THE pro-
test of the less fortunate is not called
forth by the mere possession OF ex-
ceptional waelth, but by the insolence
and folly which such possession seems
to breed and FOSTER
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

The Davenport Times suggests per
haps there isn't anyone by the name
Of William Rockefeller after ALL"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08
Don't You Believe It.

Some say that chronic constipation
can not be cured Don't you believe It.
Chamberlain's Tablets have cured
others-why not you? Give them q
trial. They cost only quarter.-Adv.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-08

Have you drawn up your budget for
1892" inquiries the Sioux City Irlp-
une. isn't Il the dickens OF JOB 10