Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-13
Topics Of the Times

San Demanding county, California. 10
not going to do things by halves. Be-
sides what state road money It will
get its people will vote Dec. is upon an
Issue OF 81. $50, 900 OF county road bonds.
Iowa men who make money enough in
Iowa to retire will hardly stick around
here in the mud when San Bernardino
county beckons to them with several
millions invested for the public in Its
paved roads.
The Oskaloosa Globe 10 in the fleld
early with Its annual Christmas num-
Der. a model Of typographical neatness.
Others will follow, so many others that
individual notice Is scarcely possible in
this column. But the T.-R. wants the
multitude OF good printers and good
newspaper men OF the state to know
that it notices and appreciates all these
excellent issues Of which 1t often fails
to make public note. The Iowa weekly
is better on the average han any 9TH
or state produces.
Why not apply to the Mexican hot
box some Of the oil over which the fuss
is being made?
Theodore might have stayed in
America 70 have made those speeches
and saved a lot OF telegraph tolls.
BY giving state aid TO the counties m
building roads in Wisconsin 1880
miles OF hard surfaced roads were built
in that state last year which will be
increased to $4,000 miles this year a. a
cost of 81. 000, 900. There may be soms-
thing about those cut over stump lands
that make it easier to pay taxes on a
permanent hard surfaced road than &.
would be to pay the same tax for the
same kind OF roads On black Iowa soil.
Foreign universities are now receiv-
Ing some Of the large private benefac-
tons for which they have long envied
american institutions. Cambridge Uni
versity has decently received $780, 900
Tor general purposes. and $50, 900 for
a chair Of astrophysics: Bristol Uni
verstiy has had a gift of 500. 900 from
one donor, $4,000 from another, and
$4,000 from two others: Glasgow has
been willed $4,000 for a lee
turesh!p in medicine and $4,000 from
an anonymous gift of $50, 900 for the
erection Of a school of agriculture. In
Germany, $2,000,0 900 has been sub
scribed for transforming the scientific
~instftutesat Frankfort-am-Main into a
university, and the University OF Ham.
burg is to start with an endowment Of
s6.250,0 600. In the case OF Hamburg,
however, the money has been entirely
appropriated by the city.
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The equivalent OF one school year
for more than 400 children is lost be-
of contact with minor contagious
diseases. according to figures recently
compiled for Pittsburgh.
Don miss the value OF small things.
Here's everybody waiting for the pull
let's to begin to lay-and a pullet al
ways lays a small egg.
When New York gets the direct pri-
maj liC bdI ACS VII nave ~ SSl
theirs indirectly.
The big fear in Iowa has been that
fund to aid the counties to build roads.
the counties would not apply for their
quota of the aid. In Wisconsin an ap-
preparation of a million and a quarter
for state aid next year has already been
oversubscribed by an excess of 1920, 000
in spite Of the fact that the counties in
Wisconsin have to pledge two dollars
for one in order to secure state aid.
Swe.l-Why, sonny. do you always
smoke cigars? What's your favorite
brand?
Crchin (puffing at a cigar end)-l
always smoke Robinson Crusoe!
Swell don't think I've ever heard
of that brand.
Urchin-Haven's you, guv'nor? Don't
You know that old crusoe was a cast
away?-Comic Cuts.