Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-07
Topics of the Times

/ Secretary Bryan's principal mistake
In signing for chautauqua engage
ments seems 10 have been his belief
that he would ever find time at
which he could &c, away.
| The Iowa manufacturers are in con-
ventton at Keokuk today and it is time
a strong resolution was being form
ulated for Clifford Thorne whose vic
tory before the interstate commerce
is the biggest boost for manufacturing
ia this state that has been accom-
pIis!led in half century.
| Just because the Des Moines banks
are going 10 receive big bunch OF
money from Uncle Sam with which to
move the crops does not guarantee
/ that everybody can get all the money
he wants from Des Moines. Banks
have so much red tape abou, their af-
fairs.
| Now that the railroads have es-
I SdpSo ~ OH TIE pEOpOSS0 ie0AASeA
rates TO the state fair let them pre-
pare 10 double their usual equipment
and render service at the regular rate.
| Two cents per mile is equivalent 10
| the old time fare and a third for the
round trip and vii! get the business If
the service is right.
| Wesley Green. who pretends to
know something about it because he is
secretary Of the state horticultural So
ciety, predicts that there will be a big
apple crop in Iowa in spite of the
drouth. in fact the drouth is killing
worms and checking the scab in un-
sprayed orchards. He says: The av-
erage for apples is per cent lower
than It was IN 1871 when 6.soS.s
bushels were gathered. Under nor
mai conditions the apple crop should
yield 100000 bushels this year, pears
twice as many as last crop, odmestics
an japanese plums and grapes about
| the same as last year. Americana
plums will not yield half as many
busuhels as in 1912. There IS a fairly
good crop of peaches in the southern
part of the state. Duchess, Wealthy.
Grimes and Jonathan promise the best
yield didn apples
Judge Stevens, who ran for governor
on the progressive party ticket in OPP
position TO the progressive republican
candidate Clarke, now says that the
progressive party will not support
Cummins for senator but will have
q party candidate IN opposition. Stevens
speaking for a national management
may speak for the progressive party
but the progressive themselves will:
take care Of Cummins.
II ;s mighty little consolation TO one
who is trying TO bay roast beef TO
De tod that the people Of the United
States are the greatest meat eaters IN
the world exceeding the per capita
consumption of the English people. The
American people as a nation can af-
ford to eat meat, Of course, bu, the
serious problem Is for the individual
II the dry weather is hurting the
Ioi II UNIiu q siIc a1id lAlclCCy ooN0biV1
your corn crop.
Senator Cummins tells the senate
that many of the schedules in the dem
ocratic tarin piii would be changed i
; members of congress could vote their
own convictions free from the party
{ khip OF the president, but then Cum
Minis knows how it was. himself, in the
Iowa legislature when he was COVER
nor. A Legislature body needsd a
strong leader to accomplish things. AS
De leader.
Putting up road signs and danger
markers as attempted in Webster
City is worthy work for automobile
, clubs to perform. 1t is the landlub-
, oers substitute for lighthouses and
; may save human lives.
, Thoughtful people Of the south and
Of the north, white and colored, are
more and more puzzled as to the merit:
, and dement's of the many appeals foi
, money and sympathy in behalf of al
AS'
the Improvement of negroes. letter.
from state superintendent OF educa'
ton in the south emphasize the neet
of complete survey OF the whole field
' At recent conference of the repre-
e sentatives Of some Of these schools
i held in New York. it was thee onsensu'
: Of opinion that there is much duplica
ton of educational effort IN come sec
lions but much more OF neglect il
many other sections. Every educa
t!ona! board Interested Il the colofe,
lpeople and almost every individual VIII
contributes to this cause IL calling TO
a information. After considerable discus
Y sion of this. need ny DR.. billiard Of tn
v lJeanes fund and the CIsssE boeEo. an