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NOW TINE WOMEN VOTE.

A week ago today the women OF
Chicago had their nrst chance to vote
as free and independent citizens" in
an election. It was the real beginning
Of equal suffrage In Illinois, for outside
OF school elections and school matters
this was the 1rst chance. And this
election was local in a way for it dealt
with park scheme. The women cast
practically as many votes as the men
and by their votes carried the park ex-
tension. Women spoiled six ballots
while men lost an even dozen.
Wherever 1t has been tried out the
women seem to know fairly wha, they
want and to be able to put their ballots
where they count without much male
assistance. Perhaps this first time
more women voted and the proportion
OF female votes Is greater than it is
likely to be when the novelty has worn
of; but the woman vote will always
have to be reckoued with. 1t will be
there ready to be cas-, when important
matters are to be settled and it will
come out when circumstances call It
forth.
Such incidents Of women voting in
the new suffrage states justifies the
equality bestowed. The women can
take care Of themselves
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signed by Buldneh. OF the celebrated
Front serves ~ the ballroom Of &
summer hotel its old timbers shaking
under turksy-trots and tangoes, bunny.
hugs. and grisxly bears.
In New York one finds similar in
stances At every turn. It Is not Ions
ago that an express office was installed
in an old church on Madison Avenue.
Farther downtown Frohman's chorus :
girls practised their steps where stern
denunciation Of all things theatrical
once rang out. The closets once
heaped with hymn books were gay
with ballet skirts; the pastors study
had become q dressing room. Still
farther down town a church has been
converted Uf that be a suitable term)
into 'Hofbrau.' and baize doors
now swing there on the heels of the
thirsty. Greenwich Village has an ex-
church garage; East Houston street
Lutheran church which now serves
for movies On Twenty sixth street
is a German church which is now used
as a sta Bile
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como e America s7,d who employ the
families at small annual salaries.
Among the incidents thus related II
Of the application Of one Of these fam
| lilies for three old and crippled horses
made to = ne!Shboring farmer who
gave the animals to the Hollander.
This family had raised three pigs,
They sold tho pigs and butchered one
OF the old horses which was divided
among the three families. The other
| old skates being reserved to be killed
for food In colder weather. Other in
cidents are given OF similar thrift"
Some day, perhaps, the grandchil-
dren Of these families may own the
farms where their forefathers dis
placed the bone yard and cheated the
crows and carrion seeking dogs: but
OF the word thrift" does not apply
in the cases stated. To seek and
slaughter and feed upon crow bait in
country where horse meat stands in
about the same relation to human
food as dog meat is no. thrift bu,
mere abasement. II is not the Amer
lean level OF labor but more that of
the Mexican poems and OF the lowest
class Of ignorant and cringing peas
ansry.
Perhaps the large stock raiser can
employ this kind OF labor proatably
but the man who sells his pig and
makes horse cemetery of his stom-
ach is a long way from the citizenship
We desire and applaud in Iowa.
Il IS TO be hoped that the i-nPorta
ton OF labor which is satisfied 20 act
as scavenger to the barnyards will
not become common Indeed there was
once q law intended TO protect Ameri
can labor from such competition as the
tariff is calculated 20 protec; Amer
ican factories and farmers from the
competition OF the products OF 'pauper
labor"
The children and grandchildren Of
these families will acquire American
customs in time. No better prospec-
tive citizens arrive here than the
thrifty Hollander" OF the independent
farming class We can not hold out
too many inducements to these; but
there is very proper question to be
advanced when money is advanced to
bring over families because they are
willing to co manual labor at mis-
erable wages and to live on the onal
OF their neighbors-
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INVESTIGATE IT.


The news story from Cedar Rap
ids concerning the collapse OF the
Lyman building there two weeks
ago is that following the verdict OF
the coroner's jury. the county will
drop the case. The verdict was that
the collapse Of the building was due to
insufficient and faulty false work sup
porting the floors while the concrete
was drying.
Seven men are dead as a result Of
the collapse Of this reinforced con-
crete frame. The report is there
We're differences Of opinion expressed
by witnesses as to the cause. It would
seem that this is not the time to drop
a matter Of this kind The verdict Of
the coroner's Jury. however we'll inen-
toned 1t may be. should not be taken
as conclusive. Certainly there are en-
gineers enough in the United States to
determine the cause OF the accident
with certainty.
It Is not alone that seven men are
dead as result OF what might have
been defective plans. changes in the
plans. or failure to conform to the
plans in the construction Of build
ing OF this type. The lives Of hun
dreds or thousands more may depend
on exact knowledge Of what caused this
accident. that similar ones may be pre-
vented in future structures, wherever
they may be should enforce 1t.
This IL the time not to drop the case,
but rather to take II up and give 1t
one OF the most thorough investiga-
tions that have ever been made of con-
struction work in this country. The In
terest Of the public demands it and the
state OF Iowa, should force II.
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THAT YOUNG sRIckLEY.

Brickiey won the game for Harvard.
Booted" Harvard into frst place. And
the next day the papers had his picture.
Some Of the yellow sheets may have
had a picture OF his big toe. Brickley
and his kicking ability were famous.
But there are a few things about
Brickley that deserve more notice than
his football prowess. He never drinks
intoxicating liquor, and lets tobacco
entirely alone. He won a Harvard
scholarship at Exeter and II working
his way thru; he tutors, writes for
papers, - the agent OF laundry.
Charley Is good boy" said his proud
father on Sunday. He hasn't caused
US one particle Of worry since he en-
tered the grammer school, and If you
are looking for story OF him which
doesn't concern football or athletics
don't know where you are to find 1t. He
never has picked out any fellow IN
particular as a churn. He like them all
and they seam to like him. He is fond
u ASo@AAo' W. ! Soo DOC S4ioI lac ud9
any unusual characteristics. I want
to deny all OF those stories they tell
concerning his being paid fabulous SAL
aries. Charley 10 . hard-working boy,
and he earns by actual work every
thing that he gets"
The smallest thing about young
Brickley is mis- football and his kick
ing skill. Back Of the hurrah in the
papers he is the real goods, the every
day STUFF that counts in the long run.
When we boys are talking about the
Great Brickley let's not forget to speak
Of the big facts that he never made
trouble for his folks, that he earns his
sxpenses by hard work. These are the
biz things about young Brickley. These
are the things that Brickley and the
world need more than the booting abil.
fty to win q football game. Its fine to
play good football. fine for = while but
these big things We live with all our
lives.
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For Sunday Reading
AW Sorts Of Opinions
churehe. in the Dise.r I'd.

A call for some rich and reverent
sour to come forward and "endow
society for the decent interment OF
Old churches is voiced by Lucy D.
thompson in the current Churchman
For this writer thinks 1t a sign Of lack
OF reverence for hallowed places that
a building looked upon for years as the
house Of God" should be turned over
to base uses for some thirty pieces Of
silver" True. she says, we may find
standing here and there some historic"
temple like the Old South in Boston
a storehouse Of memories; the element
OF worship gone, but reverence left
behind to guard its relics" But too
often. We are told. IAN old church is
OF value only az 1t may turn money into
the hands Of the people; its fate. most
often. to serve as a stable, garage. or
a movie" The writer first came
across IAN instance Of these base uses"
years ago when her college town
turned little old st Johns into an
agricultural depot Plows-shares and
hay-tedders were in the chancel: seed
corn and condition-powders. timothy
seed and potatoes occupied the seats
Of the faithful: shovels, rakes, and
hoes leaned about the door" and "one
could point to numerous other in
stances"
Tn Boston. for example, found
the gas company installed In a pretty
little stone church: g(h)astly C)
combination, which incites to unholy
5ests. In Providence, bloused and
paint-stained art students raced In
and out Of . Gothic structure once q
!. house Of Worship; while In the same
city gay shop. girls and efocer1 clerks
spun madly about on roller skates in
an old colonial meeting. house.
In Ptttsdeld . fine old building, dee
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DOES MEDICAL INSPECTION pAY7

D1o meu1ca inspection OF the schools
pay Boston? Here Is the record:
Last year Boston's eishty-seven
school physicians under the direction
OF DR.. w. J. Gallivan, examined near
~ 10000 school children OF these
about 10000 or one-third were with
out defects and about $4,000 had de-
sects that needed medical attention.
The special feature Of the work OF
the year was an attempt to ind out
how many defects were corrected thru
the initiative Of parents. after they had
been notified by the school physicians
Result: At the end OF the year an
other examination was made and it
was found that 70 per cent Of the de-
fective PALACES had been attended to,
- per cent OF the skin diseases, 25
per cent Of the defective teeth, 4s per
cent OF the bad tonsils. Ss per cent OF
the nlalnutrition, s. Per cent OF the
nervous diseased
Now does that pay. When We con-
slider that the schools are maintained
at enormous expense in order to az
ford the future citizen opportunity to
make good. did medical inspection
which resulted IN attention being given
10 SIS per cent OF nervous troubles
among the children. and the large pro-
portion o, other serious handicaps to
physical and mental growth pointed
out and given corrective treatment, did
medical inspection pay Boston?
How much it paid Is beyond COM
putation. But all reasonable persons
know that the effects OF that inspec-
tion which gave growing citizens a
chance to grow are merely the effects
Of cultivation OF plants, the removal OF
weeds and hindrances 20 growth IS the
only way to raise good crops Of a good
product.
Some day we shall look back on un-
inspected schools as barhartsu.
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CITY SOLICITOR.

l6ufilOSCOn dawkeye.I
The city council at Waterloo has an
economical streak That means that
some city employe Is to have his in :
come reduced. OF course II rill not
be the mayor or the members of the
council. It ia the city solicitor He
gets $500 now. and it is proposed TO
cut him down to 5000. That will be
some reduction. It may be. that some
Of the councilrnen are after the scalp
OF the present incumbent and want to
get him out in this fashion, and 1t may
really be the opinion Of the council! that
a $500 lawyer is good enough for Wa
terloo. AS general rule. the fact will
hold good. that the wise cities secure
the best lawyer In the town as city
solicitor. instead Of turning over the
Job 70 some lad just out Of college. A
real lawyer ought to be worth many
times his salary to modern city.
Especially II the council follows his ad-
vice. And 30 with the city physician
and the county physician. IN many
places these positions are filled with
lads just out OF college. Beginners are
given a start by practicing upon the
poor who can not kick and in watching
over the health Of the others, as best
they can. The best physicians ought
to be giving part Of their time to the
public service.
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KEEPING IT DOWN.
fwaterloo Repo-te- !

II the people generally would aoopt
this simple method of keeping down
expecses the cost of living would be
materially lesseneG. There is no need
for an organized movement. Just ap-
ply the rule to Your own ind!Viduai
case. In Waterloo fresh eSSs are SELL
at so cents, cent higher than the
standard fixed by the band of women.
At that rate they become luxury IN
most homes and an impossioii;tS IN
many. Bacon in this city is cheaper
now that II has been for several
months. selling as low as II cents per
pound, Why not eat the bacon TOT
breakfast without the eggs. addlns
perhaps a plate Of oatmeal or. fried
mushc 1t will carry you thru the
mornings work just as well.
The same thing is true of butter.
When it goes 20 a too high plane, II
can be easily supplemented or mixed
With o!eomargarine- For instance, IL
You can not afford TO eat butter at
price higher than 80 cents and it goes
TO SO or 40 cents where it now is here,
suppose you take pound OF butter and
a pound Of oleo at 90 cents and mix
them; the difference IN quality will not
be so great as TO make i. unpalatabie
and the average cost vii! be at your
own fgure-30 cents.
This plan can be carried out in
many ways. When a product g-s. be-
yond what you can afford TO pay, cut
it out or reduce the quantity. even If
you have to get down TO basis OF a
mnsh and milk diet. Prices fiuctuare
with the season and the supply and
demand and the articles that You like
Will come around to your own price
again in due time. And YOU will rel
ish them more for having for time
BEEN deprived OF that particular kind
Of food.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29
Topics of the Times

The Cedar Rapids Gazette says
booze isn't necessity" The Gazette
is right so far. But the saloon isn't 4
necessity either. Why not say tha, too?
II President Wilson continues SO
persisten, in the redemption Of plat
form pledges he viii have to confine
his ambition to a single term in the
presidency.-Eagle Grove Eagle.
Perhaps SO: but Taft, refusing to de-
deem his pledges found his aspirations
frost bitten. So what is a poor preH :
dent to do?
The Denison Review is hopefulof re-
organization but perhaps it is only the
native hopefulness Of the Irish ex
pressing itself.
They started horse racing at Juarez
the minute the shooting stopped. The
bookmaking privilege can't afford to lie
Idle on account of little things like
revolutions.
EnmeEne Pankhurst is going back
without leaving police record at all or
a dollar that anybody was willing tc
contribute. Give woman plenty Of
money and she vii! not make much
fuss.
Goethals refuses to be chief Of police
Of New York. A small job like the
canal doesn't affect him, but he shys
at digging path for justice and pro-
priety thru the metropolis.
New York City is complaining Of an
extra number Of non employed. Send
such of them that will work out to the
corn fields. We can use them in the
middle west where every one who is
willing to do anything has all he is
willing to do.
II public ownership meant free rail-
road rides, what a proposition it would
be to reorganize on.
Bostons oldest school teacher, John
kneeland, Is now 80 and Cone is glad
to hear) still in good health, reading
his newspaper every morning and TAX
ing his daily walk when the sun shines.
He began to teach before the civil war,
and didn't quit until 1904.
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present system. Conventional re-
ligion is disappointing: Society 10
disappointing: trade nnionism u
disappointing Hence the 6AlAvatiOn
Army. suffragettes and syndicatsts.
The methods Of custom and law are
not only tedious. they sro disappoint-
Ing. and the rules Of the game are
framed BY the rulers. il takes infinite
patience and unlimited time to win by
constitutional means. It pays in the
long run. but It IL very stupid ind the
people who require Il Deserve all the
abuse they get The injury is to the
coming generation that Will have to do
the work all over again II militanoV
wins.
There are as many variations of
mdlitancy as of christianity, but In the
long run militancy will win in spite Of
the destruction Of property and life
and the opposition Of supporters Of ths
present order" !
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THE GREAT REFORM.
Waterloo Times Tribune. !

w 1 i
All due respect for the campaign OF
the good women of Cedar Falls who
have taken 1t upon themselves to per-
suade the male members of society in
that city to discontinue the use Of to-
bacco in public. The smokers. the
women will fnd. will be highly indig-
nant. They will prate about their
liberties; they may even suggest
that the women might better be en-
ployed in attending to their own bus
mess The male Is somewhat inclined
to flare up when the female. especial
y il that fe1nore be no kin to him.
attempts to regulate his habits. The
male Is. by nature. inclined to stiN
think he is boss OF the universe. II
is always found easier to govern the
male by persuasive methods. It may
not surprise the women, therefore. IL
mere man, as reflected in the male
population Of Cedar Falls. shows ut
ter contempt for the demands OF the
crusaders" They should not be sur
prised If they observe clouds Of smoke
that would make. by comparison.
Pittsburgh look clear and bright-if
the smell Of pipes. vie with the Chi
cago stock yards for fame. Man Is a
mean cuss" once ri.ed up.
But then. man can not dispute that
woman is right. The youth takes him
as an example. The youth wants to
be man and smoking or chewing does
the youth harm. Man may retaliate
and demand that women cease the
many habits she has formed. 1t would
be just like him not only to place
Cedar Falls in a cloud Of tobacco
smoke and send cut pipe stencil that
would affect the sense Of people as far
away as Waterloo. but he might de-
mand as counter proposition that
the woman cease tempting the girls by
their ways and means Of dress, by
their gum chewing. candy eating and
soda fountain patronage; the mean
cuss might demand that all powder
rags De carried in plain sight: that all
powder, rouge, ETC.. be labeled and
pinned on the back-because. really,
he believes the influence is for evil.
that open work hose pumps. slit
Skirts, low neck waists. etc. are not for
the best influence upon girlhood.
No matter. Man may retaliate. but
he can not show that the use Of tobac-
co does him nay good: neither can
he deny that his public use OF it has a
bad effect upon the youth, whose un-
developed constitution is not prepared
for the strain the use OF the weed puts
upon 1t.
Why not give a banquet? It has
been said that woman has been known
to meet with success by following the
adnonition delivered by some one:
Feed the BEAST"
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Murderer Not Worst Of Criminals.
RECORD Herald.l

Francis s. Sayre. the young assistant
district attorney OF this county. who
was married to Miss Jessie Wilson, the
Presidents daughter, on Nov. 25, has
resigned his position under Mr.. Whit
man. Mr.. Sayre has been IN
the office since September, 1912. and
has dealt with abandonment cases
Consequently he has formed opinions
on marriage and divorce which. IN
view of his own approaching marriage
may prove interesting. He has been al
the head of 4 practical clearing house
for matrimonial troubles for most OF
the poorer residents Of New York.
Crimes Worse Than Murder.
In solving domestic troubles Mr..
Sayre does not believe in more lenient
Jaws or cheaper ways for obtaining di-
vorce.
The present law" ne said. lays dis
proport! t!onate emphasis on the crime OF
murder. To my mind murder Is not
by any means the wrost crime there Is.
Generally speaking, the man who de-
ceives and preys upon unfortunates OF
any sort is worse than murderer.
Some murderers have met have been
rather decent fellows.
What I mean by saying they are
decent il that they do not inspire one
with the same feeling of loathing as
do the men who are parasites-the men
who really deserve the penalty pre-
scribed for murderers. The man who
is making his living by preying on
women is the worst man in the world.
Attacks Swindisrs Of Poor.
Then there Is the man who is carry
ing on a petty form Of swindling, with
the poor as his victims. One such man
has recently been called to my atten-
ton. and finally succeeded in obtain
ing his conviction. This fellow was
getting rich by taking money from
hundreds Of persons on the East Side
under false pretenses.
All he can get Is one year In prison
and a fine OF $500. and yet the care
with which he schemed his crimes
makes him worse than murderer
Then there are the labor union
crimes. I do not mean to say that Ia
Dor unionism is bad thing, but some
Of the methods employed are atrocious.
Bosses are often corrupt men. who
practically deprive the man who earns
their enmity Of the right Of earning his
living. Instances have come to my
attention where men were bounded by
the labor union bosses until they were
in despair. In one case know Of a
man who committed suicide"
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standards Of progress. condemned by
the same logic OF history.
Woman Is not wanting in the mill
tant spirit, but neither Is man wanting
in gentle graces and mother spirit. The
question OF religion as the quest OF
civilization Is to eliminate the militant
spirit in man and woman and to In
crease their faith In love and gentle
ness"
Another view Of "militancy was
given by Prof Charles Zueblin. Of Bos-
ton, in a lecture before the Ethical
Culture Society. He declared the mill
tants are not responsible for their
movement, but that responsibility rests
with those who provoke militancy.
The strength Of militancy Is in its
pitcturesqueness." said the speaker.
Life is dull gray for most working
people and for woman. Capitalists.
managers, politicians. scientists are
getting all the fun out OF the
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The Woman Militant
[Jenkins Lloyd Jones.l

"The Teutons in their invasion OF
Italy were accompanied by their wives
and children. The women were on
hand to cheer the men In their conflict.
to dress their wounds. 10 nurse them
when Ill. Militancy is human and
not a masculine attitude Of mind or So
cial achievement
The war spirit is one for man and
woman and must be tested by the same
code Of laws. measured by the same
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NOT THRIFT BUT AsAss.Exr

A recent dispatch from Ackley re-
saseo Incidents of thrift" in three
Hollandaise families which according
% the correspondent ARE employed by
three large stockraisers near Austin-
etlls who advanced money to them to
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29
DAN HALLaGANs CORN.
burlington Hawkeye. ]


Dan Halligan Is In the hospital at
Mitchelfville. He had sixty acres Of
good corn and was worrying ~ to how
that crop would be garnered. with the
owner nat on his back unable to do
anything. But Mr.. HalligAn had for
gotten that his neighbors also were
thinking Of him and his pfedicament
They got together to the number OF
sixty men with thirty-eight teams and
gathered all the corn in the field. some
3.70o bushels. Thirty-six women had
Joined the party and while husbands
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29
Iona Newspapers
YOUNG MR.. WHITE.

A distinguished visitor of Des
Moines yesterday was Hon Fred
White. who. next to Mr.. Hubbell. may
be Sc. down the youngest looking man
Of his years in Iowa
II Congressman Pepper or Congress-
man Connolly think they have the edge
on Fred White in youth and vfgor. they
VIII have occasion to think differently
as the campaign progresses
y did not waste any OF my physical
resources In youth, and have them
now Is Mr. Whites explanation.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29

The proposed 100 pound lir1i: for the
parcel post sounds well. considering
the hating hesitation over any parcel
post at this time last yea-.-New York
World.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29

Once in a while YOU meet a girl who
IS so fond OF music that she won't play
the piano.-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Evening times-Republican., 1913-11-29

Before the G. o. P sends out its
ral!ytas call it should get one ct those
| birch bark horns that the Maine hunt
ers use on similar occasions.-wash-
ington Post.