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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
A Travelling Hospital for Rural Needs.

A pressing need of our rural districts
is for the same kind of hospital treat
ment which is open to even the poorest
inhabitants of our city slums. DR.. c.
w. Stiles has made some observations
on this subject as part OF his work
with the hookworm commission. The
average mother with whom he comes in
contact in field work is attended in her
confinements, rarely by a physician or
a trained nurse, usually by some ct the
neighbors or dirty and ignorant mid
wife, with the result that injuries fire.
quently occur which are never properly
treated He also finds large numbers
Of children who are handicapped in
their physical and mental development
by large tonsiles and adenoids, and by
defective eyes and teeth. He says.
moreover, that the average country
woman (white or black) with whom
he comes in contact has exceedingly
rulimentary ideas on cooking, house
keeping and care Of children and the
sick. and to meet the needs Of this side
of the problem the district nurse would
be invaluable The remedy which he
proposes for these evils IS travelling
hospital. equipped for the minor surgi-
cal work on children suggested above
and for the repair Of obstetric injuries
or gynecologic ailments. He believes
that it would be comparatively simple
matter to lit out a special hospital train
of from three to six cars and take 1t
to districts without hospitals. The diff
ficulties to be overcome in establishing
these trains are not inSurmountable,
and the expense need not be greater
than that connected with any other
hospital. The travelling hospital could
also be utilized to bring about such
results as much needed postgraduate
medical Instruction to local physicians;
ideas en- cooking. housekeeping. infant
feeding. etc, to mothers: ideas on sani-
tation to the fathers, and special In
struction along health lines to the
schools stiles believes that this work
is more important than the teaching of
the farmers by special school trains
how to increase their crops or how TO
take care of their livestock. The jour
nal of the American Medical Associa-
tion. commenting on Stiles experience.
says that the suggestion is the more
valuable coming from Stiles, as he has
had practical districts in which re-
search and observations were con-
Quoted on school children. This has
shown him the need, the practica bility
and the possibilities of such hospital
train he suggests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
THE MAN WITH THE ORCHARD.

This spring why not try it out Other
and raise good apples. Why not YOU ?
Other men in other not more favored
Some sections of other states draw
from lowa's population and the pro-
ceeds of her productivity by pictures
of big red apples and stories of wealth
to be earned on orhard lands. And
some of these stories are true. There
is money in apples. But they don't
grow wild in Iowa nor anywhere else.
1t takes labor and attention to raise
good apples as it requires labor and
attention to raise hogs.
Spray and work the orchard this
spring. Pick and sort the apples next
fall. Try the orchard out once Here
is the testimony of an eye witness
taken from a Bloomfield weekly:
A former resident of Bloomfield, aft
er going to Oregon to engage in the
raising of fancy apples, has come to
the conclusion that the apples raised
in Davis county are superior in every
respect to those raised in oregon. Just
another proof of the oft-quoted state
ment that Iowa people don't appreciate
what wonderful resources the state
possesses until they go TO some other
part of the country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
Minnesota Roads in Danger.
MINNEAPOLIS Journal.


Do the people Of Minnesota want the
new campaign Of road building prose
cuted on the Tammany plan? Do they
want the proceeds of the new 1-mill
tax dissipated on a patchwork system
Of roads? Do they want to turn over
more patronage to the political machine,
which already has it's grip on the drain
age. game conserving and other mani
fold activities of the state? Do they
want to furnish this machine with new
funds to squander and new places to
fill?
There is imminent danger Of these
things. If the senate passes the Dunn
bill, which has already passed the
house. they are extremely likely to
come to pass, Mr.. r. c. Dunn. the
author of the bill. is doubtless honest
in believing his measure a good one.
He has In it the pride Of authorship.
For the sake of that pride the house
forbore to amend it in any essential.
But it's adoption would threaten Min
nesota with such a condition as obtains
in New York, where as much as eigh-
teen thousand dollars mile has been
squandered on poorly built roads. and
where the expenditure of the proceeds
of a new fifty million dollar bond issue
is making the Tammany tiger lick Its
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
scRAWL NO ONE COULD READ
Valuable Manuseript Lett by Colonel
0urnaby Defied the Efforts
Of Experts.

It was stated At the time Of Colonel
Burnaby's death that he had left be-
hind him the manuscript Of novel,
for which there was considerable com.
petition among the publishers.
This Is quite true. The manuscript,
a bulky parcel. was handed to mo
with Discretionary power either to
publish 1t myself or to use It in con.
nection with the proposed biography.
Here q singular and, AZ It finally
proved, fatal obstacle presented it.
self. Familiar for many years with
Burnaby's handwriting. could not
after diligent endeavor make out more
than sentence here ana there on the
crowded page Of manuscript.
Burnaby's writing was, possibly
with the exception Of Dean Stanley's.
the worst ever saw. It looked 40 IL
before sitting down to write letter
he had pulled a twig out Of the hedge.
mixed little backing and then gone
ahead.
He wrote the whole OF his "Ride to
Through Asia Minor" with his own
hand. But before they reached tho
printer they were fairly written out
by copyist.
The hepless man used to make out
as much as he could, then leave
blanks, for filling up which he had to
seek the assistance Of the author.
Sometimes there were more blanks IN
page than words.
DespairinE Of making anything Of
the manuscript Of the novel. It was
submitted to publisher, who turned
upon it his most skillful decipherist.
Neither head nor tail could be made
Of the manuscript and the intention
OF publishing the novel was eonse-
quently abandoned.-sirH n. w. LucSy.
in Cornhill Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
I'll, New Nickel.

New York Tribune.J
Every head that has ever rested on
an antimacassar seems to be panied
and grieved by the new nickel.
Various flaws are found with the
lettering. But the chief objection is
urmistakable. The new coin 10 beau
tiful. That is the whole story. 1t
lacks utterly the solemn ugliness of the
old coin. 1t does not remotely suggest
a brownstone front. 1t would swear at
a black walnut chair on sight. What
more need be said?
II is not openly asserted that there
is anything immoral about the new
nickel. But our good friends are clear
ly as perturbed as If some hideous In
decency had been committed. Art on a
nickelo What dangerous and revolu-
tionary idea! Doesn't everybody know
that art is a thing to be locked away
in an art gallery and taken out only
upon occasion, like a Sunday suit?
In the general chorus of praise for
this new and excellent coin these few
small complaints have distinct use.
How else could we realize how far
taste has travelled from a dim and
soggy past?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
Punishment for Wrong Diagnosis.

DR.. E. E. Kennedy has introduced
bill in the Colorado legislature which,
according to The Pharmaceutical Era,
provides heavy fines and imprison-
ment for doctors errors. Surgeons
operating for appendicitis must show
the appendix after the operation, ana
II the organ is sound the surgeon VIII
be liable TO fine Of not less than
$500 nor more than $4,000 and i'm
prisonnent for not less than one year
nor more than ten years, or both.
Friends f.the measure say that fully
80 per cent of the operations for APP
pendicitis are unnecessary. In addi-
ton to appendicitis the measure in
cludes other diseases of the body. and
subjects the surgeon to fine or I'M
prisonment If other organs or parts or
organs are removed when clean bill
Of health is afterwards given by
committee of three physicians. Dr.
Kennedy's bill is sweeping in its pro-
visions and would prohibit others than
registered physicians from prescribing
or treating ailments. 1t would force
ostcopaths, opticians, Christian Scien-
fists and others out Of business. anu
under It's stipuations it is even claimed
that a druggist would not be allowed
to advise the use or sell court plaster
for an abrasion of the skin or a slight
cut.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14


chops In authorization. Governor Sul.'
ger. seized with dlstfuSt OF his own
state highway commission, has named
an unofficial body OF road advisers.
Some Of his critics declare this to be
merely move to shift the responsible
ity for impending mismanagement and
worse from his own shoulders. Tho
road building scandals OF the Dix ad.
ministration seem likely to be con-
tinued under Sulzer.
The way to avoid such results Is to
concentrate responsibility Let US se-
cure highly expert road engineer;
create him state highway commission
er. pay him the necessary large salary.
give him the resources and the ma
chinery-and hold him responsible for
results. The Dunn plan contemplates
doing this great fund out piecemeal
among the counties, whose commission.
ers are to spend it as suits them best,
after their choice Of roads to be built
has been confirmed.
There will be neither colierency, eff
ficiency nor economy In system Of
roads built in that way. The road fund
will become another pork barrel into
which greedy politicians will dive, care.
less of the peoples interests. The
pork" will be distributed where 1t will
do the most good" This machine and
its friends will reap the profits.
The Journal is surprised and disap-
pointed that the house, with its keen
progressive leadership. failed to stop
the Dunn plan. We hope the senate
will prove a better guardian Of the
publics interests. Let 1t substitute for
the wasteful Dunn plan Of state aided
roads. the Will plan. or one akin to it,
for system Of real state built and
state maintained highways.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
KILL OR AMEND THE ROAD BILL.
[Waverly Independence

One of the giar!ng DEFICIENCIES In the
committee road BIZ is its silence as 20
aid from a state fund in paying part
of the cost OF hard surfaced roads. In
fact. most Of the objections to the
bill proposed are due 70 its omissions
of the essential provisions for perma-
nent road building. Thirty states now
give aid of some kind in building per-
manent roads. Experience in all these
states has shown that aid from the
state will encourage counties to do
permanent road building which they
would not have done unaided.
If we had vote with the lawmakers
at Des Moines, We would oppose the
committees road bill before the legis-
lature. II is q disa ppointing document.
We can not see wherein the bill. if it
should become Law, would be much
Of an Improvement over the present
Jaw The highway commission which
this bill would create would be no bet
ter than the present highway commits
sion Perhaps 1t would be just as we'll
to kill all the road bills now before the
legislature, and work under the present
law until we can send lawmakers to
the legislature who know what the
state needs and what the state wants.
If this legislature can not do some
thing to stimulate permanent road
construction wherever public senti-
ment is ripe for X, the solons might
as well come home without making
new road laws. We don't need new
laws if the people are satisfied with
the present system Of road making.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14

living. II they have not been doinl
well. then there II no hope that farm :
ers ever will do we'll in this world. Tn.
farmer who has not been able to gel
ahead. beginning under the first Nc
kinley administration and closing with
the first and last Taft administration
never will find the time when ne can
get ahead. Such times can not be ex'
pected to last forever. and some people
In the cities think they ought not to
last at all, for they believe that II
makes high prices for living.
We, ourselves, can remember difer-
en- times on the farms of Iowa. The
writer Of this was born on an Iowa
farm and learned all the secrets OF the
soil during those happy years OF mis-
life. But they were not such times az
we have had recently, altho we were
just as happy in those days as they
are now with their telephones and
their automobiles and their electric
lights. We used to read Shakespeare
and Pilgrims Progress on the farms
instead Of going speeding.
But to come to the other facts. we
used to drive hogs to town for which
the high price. for those days, of 80 a
hundred was paid, sometimes under
and sometimes above that price. Cat
tie ran from to cents the pound on
the hoof. Corn was worth about 20
cents and sometimes it fell to Is, but II
it rose to % they were days of wealth
on the farms. We remember hauling
potatoes to town which had been sold
for Is cents a bushel, and there We're
so many of them in Marion county
that people wondered who ate all of
them. Eggs We're carried to market in
little baskets for cents a dozen, and
it took five dozen in those days to buy
one gallon Of oil 20 burn in lamps by
which we read Shakespeare and John
Bunyan-to say nothing OF the bible.
Sugar was exchanged for eggs and but
ter in all the stores in those days, and
the sugar cost at the rate of about
nine to eleven pounds for 81.
And so everything ran thirty and
forty years age on the farms Of Iowa.
What difference there is between then
and now. Then no one complained Of
the high cost of living. but every one
seemed to be satisfied until the green
hackers came into existence and COM
to tell the people there was
the matter with the coun-
try.
Perhaps. il We reminisce little now
and then. we will get q little more
stability. Most people have too short
and too light beam in the water ana
the result is they wabble up and down
with every little breeze and every day
they face about on whatever issue
happens to come up.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
MILLER'S FOOL PROPOSAL.
ICedar Rapids Gazette.l

One of the men in the Iowa Iegis-
lature who makes us exceedingly weary
is Charley Miller of the Bremen dis
trict. Miller is the implacable foe of
the doctors, and while we hold no brief
for the medical profession. we do
believe that Miller is such a crank In
opposition to the needles that he ought
to be suppressed-and we hope the vot-
ers of his county will do the suppress
ing if he ever comes up for reelection.
Personally we like Charley Miller,
but We have about as much use for
some of his ideas as we have for
poison. Miller now proposes 70 DO
away with the health campaign, main
tanned under the management of the
board Of control, in which Dr. KEEP
ford and his nti-tuberculos!s lectures
are features.
The Gazette believes the health cam
paign which has been waged against
the great white plague has been of in
estimable value to the people of Iowa
That it has already saved many lives
cannot be doubted: that it has been
the means OF helping thousands OF
Iowans to avoid contracting tubers-
culosis ought to be conceded by every
man and woman who lays claim to
erouch intelligence to count from one
to ten.
DR.. Kepfords work should not De
discontinued. 1t is too valuable to De
ruthlessly set aside at the request 81
doctor hater. In fact, more money
should be appropriated for health
study. Here in Iowa we pay grea,
deal of attention and expend great
| deal of public and private money look
| ing after live stock interests we
ought to be willing to spend some
money in health campaigns for nu'
mans.
! Miller may not think it worth while
| TO educate people to take care CT thel'
bodies. He may not think it worth
while TO show people how to compa'
/ a plague that is one Of the worst wnlct
/ has ever afflicted the human race. Bu'
his ideas are decidedly wrong.
| We hope the legislature mas IN th'
aggregate, enough wisdom, not only tt
| ranudiate the latest crank notion OF the
representative from Bremen county
hut that it will even vote to increase
the appropriation for health purposes
Keep DR.. Kepford in the WORK io'
which he is Sc we'll fitted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14

highway commission when the latter
will supervise roads for all the people
of the state while not more than
twenty five Of the larger cities are in
terested in public utility service.
The ice went out in the big rivers
this week and the original honkers are
going over us to the north. There will
be only a few more years Of sport
in this country for the wing shot but
his temperature rises at this time of
the year just as it has always done
since the early days Of wild game in
abundance.
The only thing that makes stuff sell
at a farm auction is the crowd of
buyers That is the reason newspaper
advertising pays SO we'll for farm sales.
1t brings the crowd of buyers to the
place.
Having seen what happened to Taft
President Wilson will try the plan Of
feeding federal pie to both standpat-
tiers and progressives within his party.
AS the democrats take over post
offices and federal salaries which
should have been assumed by republic
cans more than a year ago those who
scription can see what might have
been
Wonder whether an appropriation to
enlarge the tuberculosis sanatorium al
Iowa City will take precedence over the
manufacture of hog cholera serum.
The township will hereafter be the
country school district anyway even if
we do not get subsidies for CONSOLE
dated schools. With the township
school district 1t will not be difficult
TO build a consolidated school in the
center or at the nearby village for the
consolidation of the district. has always
been far more difficult than the build
ing of the school itself.
Des Moines needs the proposed new
hotel all right but to invest $4,000 per
room may stagger some Of US out
sders. 1t might be cheaper to rent
a house than 20 stay at the hotel over
night.
Some congressman who is ambitious
TO become president should legislate
denatured alcohol into use as SUD-
stitute Tor gasolene for power.
Mason City taught Iowa how to use
concrete for cheap and durable street
paving and il she now shows US how
to build a nine foot paved rural road
she will have put herself in class
with Watt and Morse and Edison ana
Burbank as benefactors OF the race.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14

thirds since our last great commercial
crisis This abnormal growth has
been stimulated by the very great ex-
pansion Of business and by examples
OF undue profits from speculative
banking. Many of these mushroom
creations are in wholly inexperienced
hands; some are in the hands Of those
who can not believe that financial his
tory repeats in slow cycle. How to
stabilize and strengthen this far
spread line of loosely connected units
Is a problem quite on par with the
currency or even the money trust.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
SOAP AND HOTELS.

[Des Moines Register and Leader.]
II think that the most dismal effort
that has yet been made to keep pace
with the sanitary wave" said George
H. Roberts. insurance agent, lis the
liquid soap as found in some of the
hotels. The soap liquid is squirted out
Of the glass bucket, one squirt at Il
time. If there is any soap in this stuff
have yet been unable to discover the
fact. Most of this liquid is not even
slippery. There is absolutely no LATIN
er to any of it. and it is the biggest
failure as a soap proposition that can
be imagined. 1t is worthless to WASH
the hands with. I don't believe that
decent lather could be collected If the
hands We're washed in a bucketful CT
cake Of soap has lost none of its popu-
larity. Most Of the travelling men carry
their own soap. They have been car
rying everything else for a long time.
expect that in time the American
sanitary crank will make it necessary
for the travelling man to carry his own
mattress and after awhile l expect we
viii be carrying our own room and fur
niture around the country with us.
The next move will be paper pillows,
paper sheets, paper blankets and per-
hGps paper rooms. The hotel will SIM
ply be paid 50 per day for the pleas
ure of dropping a nickel in the slot
and drawing out the ordinary hosiery
accomm oda tons
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
AN IOWA "REMINISCENCES.
(Cedar Rapids Republican


Re il remembered that on the day
before Taft went out Of office pubic
sale was held at the Will Ferguson
place, three miles north OF Marion, and
stock sold at the following prices:
Twelve cows brought an average OF
s74 each, the brood hogs brought an
average of $3.50 each and the humble
chickens. Of the garden scratching va
riety. brought an average OF 97h cents
each, and there were 200 OF them that
sold at such extraordinary prices.
There was also some corn which was
sold for So cents bushel and some
oats which was sold for % cents a
bushel.
All these are golden prices for the
farmers. and the past ten years have
all been golden years for the farmers.
We often wonder il the farmers real
ize in what good times they have been
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
kinaiy LIE.

And 20 the kingly life Is life IN
quest OF big things. Everyone is pain
fully familiar with the temptation to
fritter away life in interests that are
small and mean. There are those
who spend their strength IN seeking
money. The concentrated purpose Of
their days Is quest Tor gold. They
are jealous for artificial gems and
they miss the goodly peafls@J. II.
Iowett, DID,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
Iona Newspapers
STIRRING UP CLARKE.
Mason C'itN Times /

If the Times can make a fighter out
of Governor Clarke for a greater Iowa,
it will feel that it has done a great
service for the state Of Iowa. The
first treatment is for him to take
something for that Indiana microbe
and the Davis county germ. Indiana
never amounted to shucks until natural
gas was discovered and the boosters
from other states went in there and
made things hum. Governor Clarke
must not wait for natural gas to make
an appearance. He should put in q
plant of his own, and do it now.
Those VIC DON'T KNOW
[Sioux City Tribune.l
Confronting the revelations of the
investigations into vice conditions in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14

One Of the reasons the law Of sup
ply and demand has endured 30 long
10 because It is based on sounder bust
mes logic than any law our paternal-
istic lawmakers have been able to de-
wise as vet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14

Chicago, Senator JUL exclaimed: II
didn't believe there was such q hell OH
EARTH" Yet, any we'll informed person
should know Of and remember the re-
port Of the Chicago vice commission.
published two or three years ago. and
which was excluded from the mails
for prudish reasons or worse
In a way, Senator JUL did know.
But his has been the fault Of many
others. He didn't want to realize what
was going on about him. 1t Is so much
easier to be purblind The social up
lift movement is compelling people to
know about these things which are not
new.
1t was one whose soul was stained
with the blood Of fellow being who
inquired, Am l my brothers keeper"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-14
Tho Mushroom Bank.
ICollier's Weekly.

No other nation has such an extra :
ordinary number OF banks as we have:
cur total now runs over $4,000. Of
these $4,000 have sprung into life in
the last twelve years-more than two