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Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

The farmer ought to ue a happy
mar about these times. Everybody
wants to help him.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Have you heard the wall of those
who are Inundated because the lux
ury of paying an income tax is de-
MED them?
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Many persons do not like the cab
aret, preferring to know what they
eat.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Our opinion is that the world will
survive despite incomprehensible pic
lures and slit skirts.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

St Louis boy swallowed a whole
crawfish, Fortunately. 1t wasn't an
eel.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Thunder and lightning! Seems
rather familiar.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

About this time, the preliminary
step is taken in the formation of
June brides.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

And the love Of evil is the root of
a lot of nancy.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

While edopting those dinky little
hats the dear women cling obstinate
ly to the old long range hatpins.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

But baseball is such a strain on the
voicei
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Experts tell us how to achieve a
ripe old age, when what one wants is
to retain ones verdant youth.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

A German banking house has failed
and its chiefs have fled. The exam
iner over there has a fierce mustache.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

Swat the fly" Yes. swat It way
out into the outfeld.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1913-05-15

About the only croaking one hears
these days is done by the frogs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

article, the forerunner of the movement
in that direction.
Mr.. Marshall is one Of those who be-
lieves that too much of our legislation
has been founded on the idea of soak
ing the other fellow, that same "other
fellow" being a mythical individual i'm
possible to Isolate.
He also is subscriber to the theory
that Senator James Hamilton Lewis ex-
pressed on the floor of the Senate
the other day-although the Vice Presi-
dent had expressed the same idea before
that while there long has been a popular
demand to bring the government closer
to the people, the real need in this
country is to bring the people closer to
the government.
The responsibility for this government
does not rest on one man. said the Vice
President when some talk recently in
his Office was led in that direction; 1T
rests on every one of our 97.OO0.00O peo-
pie. 1t is not a responsibility that can
be shifted from one pair of shoulders to
another.
"A people gets as good a government
as it is entitled to. or as it permits to
exist. | venture to say that there are
try. mostly recently arrived aliens. who
have a notion that a government is
something to provide them with an easy
way of living They look upon govern
meht as reservoir of all good things
to be drawn out and given to them. They
and they are not alone in the thought
regard government as source of sup
ply, without having any thought of CIV
ing anything in return in a proper dis
charge of the duties of citizenship or
otherwise
1t is in this idea of paternalism that
the chief danger to our institutions lies.
In principle there is no material differ
ence between the poor man who wants
the government to support him and the
rich man who seeks special privilege
through protective tariff. Both want
something for nothing, some financial
benefit at the expense of their fellow
citizens
Some remarks the Vice Pesident made
at Mooseheart. ILL.,, in July. in criticism
OF the American educational system.
have caused much comment.
discomfort" said he then. lis pro-
duced by the hundreds and thousands of
high school, college and university men
and women who find themselves thrust
INTO modern warfare with no weapon OF
OHenSe or defense save those OF the
ancient crusaders. They have been eking
out precariouS existences in callingS
which God did not intend them to fol-
low, and at the same time have been
seeing some ow-browed inferior, hardly
able to read or write. gathering unto
himself all the goods of life.
Unless some way be devised to minis
ter to the wants. physical and mental, or
these educated men and women, they
some time will trample under foot all the
theories Of the republic in order to reach
a better condition In life
BY some this was taken to mean that
the vice president was urging a greater
paternalism than is involved in the sys-
tenn Of free higher education. On the
contrary, it was merely his expression Of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

the evil results that may flow from the
paternalism that we have. Rather than
the system of public cultural education
that exists. he advocates a wider extern
sion of vocational training.
wholly inexcusable" he declares. is
that system of education which teaches a
man to be ashamed to do his life work;
which convinces a boy that il is better to
live by his wits than by his muscles or
that it is more honorable to smoke ciga-
rettes and measure tape at So a week than
it is to suck clay pipe and rivet boilers
at SIS week, which turns a natural-born
chicken thief into an educated forger."
Expanding upon this idea in a recent
conversation. Mr.. Marshall said:
1.-The whole system OF free cultural edu-
cation is wrong. This summer, for exam
pie, $4,000 persons We're graduated from
our high schools and colleges. What are
they going to do? Six months hence they
will be railing at the government which
gave them their education and then pro-
vides them nothing to do.
Il wouldn't take a four-year- child
into a candy store unless l Intended to
buy him some candy.
Are we going to buy them candy? Bet
ter far close up all the high schools and
colleges Producing race OF educated
dependents on the public bounty does not
tend to the Continuance of a free coun-
try"
IN line with this is another utterance
of his on the subject:
I'VE are aScerta ming so far as cultural
education is concerned that he VINO
wants it will get il and that our duty Hes
in drawing out the individual man along
the particular line in which heaven has
specially endowed him. The enforced
education of tomorrow viii be vocation
al in character and men will be taught
that not all have hands given them with
which to play tennis, but that some
have hands given them with which TO
dig bitches, shoe horses and build auto
mobiles.
Education in a republic has two
things in view-the safety of the reeuo-
lie and the contentment of its ciuIens
We cannot keep on charging the hoTi-
ION of a man. setting out the sriendors Oh
life before him, teaching him the pleas
ure and satisfaction that come from the
goods things of the world. and then say,
thou shalt not enjoy these things.
THE wailing cry demanding the tear
ing down of things will cease Wnen men
are furnished the knowledge and the OPP
portunity to do their divinely appointed
duty. Men are peaceable men when they
are content: man is content when he
to do
Freedom of opportunity to develop
along his own lines. freedom for individ-
ual effort, freedom from arbitrary re-
straints in living his own life, so far as
he does not trench upon the rights Of
others-that, then. is the Vice Presidents
idea of what should be given 1pe citizen;
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

I'm exchange for which, the Vice Presi-
dent holds, the citizen should give citi-
zenship, in all that the word implies,
and not shirk the burdens and RESPONSE
bilities thereof.
1t will be noted that the Vice Presi-
dent touches upon contentment as a
requisite of a healthy condition of the
body polite. He knows the beauties OF
which he speaks. A philosophical content
ment is his.
He is an active. alert figure as he sits
amid the dignified splendor of the Senate
presiding over that body. But see him
more relaxed in the privacy of his offices
in the Senate office building. and he is a
more homely individual The government
provides for him magnificent show Of
flee in the Senate wing OF the Capitol.
into which the Capitol guides permit their
charges to peek and in which the Vice
President sits on occasions. but his real
work is done over in the Office building.
There he has the usual allotment OF
two offices given to a senator, and in the
inner one of these. overlooking the
visitors and handles his big correspond
ence- Yes, a Vice President has a big
correspondence. and has many visitors
beside the regular run of senators who
must consult with him.
Seated, the short stature Of the Vice
President is not apparent. He has a
thoughtful faca lined and grave at times,
Dut the lines about the eyes are not those
OF care, out rather OF merriment A keen
sense of humor is one of his possessions
An outthrust jaw marks the fighter, for
in Indiana they know him as one OF the
scrappiest governors that state of active
politics ever had
That he finds satisfaction in life, the
satisfaction of the We'll stored mind in a
healthy body, is evident. Kindly eyes
that belle the jutting jaw, pink, healthy
skin. mark him as a man at peace with
his fellows.
And why not?" he asked some one who
questioned him about his mental attitude.
THE world has always treated me well.
! had no hardships in youth. Starting the
practice of law at twenty-one, practice
was brought to me at once by a host OF
friends. / have had all / need"
Which is not the sort of remarks one
hears from the average man.
There is a friend of mine out in our
town who has the proper attitude toward
life" he went on. He had a good bust
ness down town. and the business kept on
ing away.
Where are you going? I asked.
I'm going over TO that little place Of
mine near the station he said
But 1 protested, that is out-of-
place. You won't be able to do
nearly as much business there
That's just why l am going he said.
I've got too much business. and IL keeps
growing. I haven't had time to go fish
ing in a year. The business has got SO
big that ii keeps me tied down to IL all
the time
Most people would call that man a fool.
XsHMuN GROWN.
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share. Let's try watching ourselves to
see that We do not take more than our
own share"
THE mans an anarchist" declare some
indignant worthless; he believes in no
law
Not at all. But he holds that laws be-
yond those necessary for the control Of
the vicious are futile. He has faith in the
Ten Commandments as sound working
code. Lawmakers have labored for gen.
erations, for example, enacting variations
OF and piling interpretations on the Tenth
COMMUNICATION bidding cOvetouSneSS-
without suppressing that sin. And that
very Tenth Commandment, he holds, is
the basis for the greater part of proposed
regulative legislation in this country.
New and not workable suggest the
critics of these ideas. But Mr.. Marshall
points out that they are ages old, just
as old, In fact, as are the ideas of a
strong. highly centralized government that
are now so popular in progressive dress.
He maintains that he is merely repea ting
the ideas of the fathers of the republic.
and that they are simple and more work
able than more modern and complex no.
tons of government.
The individualism of Thomas Jefferson
is not dead. he has said. 1T has not
moldered back to dust in the grave at
Monticello. 1t walks the earth this day,
knocking at the door of rich and poor,
of wise and ignorant alike. calling upon
all men to make this age the millennium
of statecraft, wherein no one shall claim
to be master and all shall be glad TO be
the servants of the republic"
x*
The contrast between the two schools
of thought he puts in this fashion
The contending forces in America are
as they are in nature. There Is centrip-
etal force, which is ever drawing the
earth toward the sun. There is a centrif-
ugal force which 9 dra mir
away.
These two contending forces, acting each
upon the other. have kept this old world
of ours safely in it's orbit, and spring
time and harvest have not failed. Should
either force become superior. desolation
and destruction only could result
The contending forces of political life
are commonly denominated reactionary
and revolutionary. They are the pater-
nahstIc forces that would draw the gov.
eminent out of its orbit and consume it
in the fiery heat of the lust and greed of
the favored few, and the socialistic forces
which would draw il away from its con-
stitutional conception OF the three CO.
ordinate branches and from its guaranty
to each individual of an opportunity to
assert his natural and acquired talents
in an honest endeavor to succeed
AT a time when it is fashionable among
publicists to speak contemptuously of the
federal Constitution as an outworn In
strument, the Vice President calmly holds
his faith in that document.
1T was made. says he, by men who
had studied the statecraft of the world 8
history. The principles of statecraft have
not changed. The desires and the pas
sions of the human heart have not
changed. The Constitution Is based upon
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Is he merely a star-eyed theorist whose
preachings are worthy of no attention?
Throughout the land you may get
ready answers 10 these questions, and to
each the affirmative answers will be quite
as vigorous as the negative ones. For
the Vice President certainly has attracted
attention TO himself and TO the political
philosophy that forms the basis for his
discourses.
In an age where political tendencies for
some time have been in the direction OF
collectivism he breaches pure individual
ism In a nation that has devoted itself
largely to materialism he advocates a lofty
idealism. To a people who long have been
taught TO keep separate religion and poll
tics he commends the teachings of Jesus
Christ as the basis for their political ac-
tivities.
Like those Tho advocate collectivism.
he, too, visions a brotherhood of man.
but his vision is of brotherhood where
each individual is more intent on the rec
titude of his own conduct than in estab-
fishing regulations for the control of his
brothers conduct.
The presiding officer of what has been
said to be the most powerful lawmaking
body in the world he has no faith in
man-made law TO work the moral. indus
trial and social regeneration of the ma
ton.
Many people" said he in one of his
speeches last summer. believe that dis
content Is to be settled by congressional
enactment. / hold that the minds OF men
must be properly trained and their hearts
genuinely touched by the democratic
spirit of the NaZarene if happiness and
contentment are to come to the American
people
And again, last year. In his speech ac-
cepting the nomination for Vice Presi-
dent, he said: Try as we may to sep
arate the religious from the civic, the
fact remains that good government has in
il an element of morality. Neither con-
situations nor laws nor ordinances car
completely divorce civil government from
religious sentiment"
More recently. in private conversation
he pfrrased his idea in more homely
Hoosier words: I'VE are all I'm the bread
line. Our efforts for some time past ir
the history of the nation have been d.
rected to trying to keep the other fellows
In the line from getting more than their
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The TURKRx In HIS NATIVE. HABITAT

have become known outside its native
habitat
Cortes, in one of his famous letters
written about 1913, mentions the turkey
He carried specimens of the bird to
Spain in 1920. where they came into i'm
mediate popularity. and the breeding Of
turkeys soon became established. 1t was
then that the turkey became known as
''pavos" on account of his relationship
to the peacock. which was then called
"pavO reai'-the fowl of kings.
1t was long time before the turkey
reached France, as far as can be learned
from history, for the first turkey eaten
TX and Elizabeth of Austria, June 81,
1910, or fifty years after Spain had first
tasted the bird. The turkey supplied for
the wedding came from somewhere in
the American wilderness"
Its introduction into England seems to
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to be looked upon elsewhere as holiday
feast attraction. In Spain. especially
during Christmas time, the markets are
alive with the voluble arguments of the
vendors and purchasers. and with the
unavailing protests of the victims. In
Madrid some of the principal streets are
crowded with troops of these birds
driven in from the country farms, while
the Plaza Mayor. once the scene of the
"autos de fe'' of the inquisition, is now
the center of more innocent function
the exhibit of turkeys offered for sale.
In the early colonial days turkeys were
still abundant in Massachusetts. the rest
of New England, Maryland, Virginia, the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

according to those early explorers, tur-
keys were to be found, both wild and do
mesticated
Present day scientists have found in
closures in these villages which were one
time used as cages for wild turkeys. which
were herded together later to be do
mesticated The wild flocks. according
to the chronicles of Coronado. We're many
times a welcome sight to these explorers,
as turkeys often made toothsome ad-
dition to larder otherwise too scanty
for comfort.
From America the turkey has spread to
be world favorite. But the fact that
today the turkey is considered delicacy
in so many lands is due to human agen-
cies, and not to the turkey itself. Slow
of movement and deliberate both in be-
ginning fight and in the choice of it's
alighting, the turkey unaided would never
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-23

have been in 1874. But. whenever it
was it soon came into popular favor and
was given such local names as Black
Norfolk and Large Cambridge.
1t is an interesting fact that these
descendants of the parent stock carried
back again across the Atlantic ocean to
New England. where, crossed with the
original turkey already there, they began
the breed that has spread from one end
of the country to the other.
AS in this country, the turkey has come
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eternal principles of right and justice.
1t is not and should not be code OF
laws. So long as it shall maintain, the
republic will live. Corrupt 1t and the re-
public must perish"
These are not the words of fanatic
nor an alarmist. Mr. Marshall is not
running about the country shriekinS to
high heaven that by reason of paternal-
istic tendencies. now and of late SO evil
dent, free government is about to disap-
pear 1t is notable that his remarks
along these lines are not made in the
heat of a campaign nor when he is run
ming for office.
His attitude is that of political phi
losopher; neither a pessimist nor an opti-
mist. Talk with him and you are i'm
pressed with the detached attitude of the
man toward the problems which he dis
cusses. He speaks i,npersonally and out
of the study and observation of a Ions
life Nearly sixty years of age. simple
Of life and habit, he is the picture OF
contentment and talks as a man with no
further political ambition.
These things" he said the other day.
referring to the nations political ten
denotes. mean nothing to me personally.
l shall have passed long before the "a
tual clash comes between the contendnS
forces of the country. 1 have no father,
mother, brother. sister, son nor daugn-
ter. think / can speak without per
sonal bias or prejudice.
But he does hold that the clash is com
ing unless the balance between the con
tending forces is maintained. Natural y
he thinks and says that the Democrat
party. under the leadership of President
Wilson. will maintain that balance RE
said in his speech of acceptance:
III l doubted that the return of the
historic democratic party to power woull
fail to right the wrongs of industrial life.
to wipe out the injustices of legislation
and to preserve the opportunity of every
man for happiness then my voice, now
weak, would be silent. If / did not be
lieve that. In so far as human agency
can, this party of ours will promote ths
brotherhood of mankind | would her.
and now repudiate it
Isolated quotations from his speeche J;
and conversations-perha such as Ties.
with the logical argument of the man !;
political philosophy omitted. have con-
spired to give to the public an inadequate
idea of precisely what he believes and
breaches. When he talked recently in
New York on the inevitable result of
sOcialistic tendencies in government. as
he saw them. he was branded as an
alarmist. When he took pride in defeat
ing the widows pension act in Indiana
just before he came to the vice presi-
dency. he was condemned as reaction
airy. And yet each act squares with his
political philosophy and with his distrust
of the paternalistic in government.
In the age that followed the French
revolution. for example. his talk would
be more readily understood. for then the
Issue between the doctrines of COLLECTIVE
ism and individualism was clearly mark
ed. Toe recent drift, as Mr.. Marshall