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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
CONTINUING CONCERN,

The New York World having as
serted that The only elements that
have continuing concern about New
York City's government are the crooks,
the corporations, the saloonkeepers.
the contractors and the politicians"
tho bureau of municipal research
makes the counter assertion that The
facts prove there are nore elements in
side and outside New York Ctiys gov
eminent which are working, more OF
tho time. from more different angles,
to increase it's efficiency and honesty
than ever before in New York or any
other American city,
There isn't much doubt that both
assertions will stand up under fire. 1t
is true that in New York and elsewhere
all over this country more elements are
working more time than ever before to
increase efficiency and honesty in gov
eminent whether municipal state or
national. 1t is also true that these
elements and the voting public to
whom their appeal is made lack the
continuing concern OF crooks, corpo-
rations, saloon interests, contractors
and politicians. Reform is sleeping
giant which awakeS to intense activity,
strikes and goes back to sleep again.
The continuing interest of bad govern
ment never sleeps. When it is quiescent
1t Is either dead or in jail.
There is evidence that the public is
gaining and cultivating this "continu-
ing concern which makes selfish and
criminal interests 50 powerful. New
laws, new methods of government are
evidences of that. The promise is that
in time We shall arrive at that state OF
mind which insists upon enforcement
Of law as well as approves the spirit
Of laws protective of society and the
common welfare. The word welfare
has of late taken on wider pubic
meaning. individually men have
actual and continuing concern in the
lives and interests Of other men. Some
day we shall vote as We talk. Some
day the religious will vote as they pray
and business men will vote on business
principles and honest men of all classes
vote in honesty with themselves. In
short some day these who believe in
good government shall stand together
with somewhat of the cohesion dis
played by crooks. corporations, sa-
loonkeepers contractors and politi-
clans.
But it is a fact that more elements
are working more time in the interests
of good government. II is as patent a
fact that other elements are the more
effectively organized about cont!n-
uing concern for selfish interests. Poll
tics and politicians are never better
than strength and purposes behind
them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
NOT THE TRUSTEES"
TDeS .Moires TriI,upe

II will be noted that the three pris-
oners who have attempted escape from
the prison at Fort Madison were none
Of them TRUSTEES that is prisoners
who were permitted to engage in out
side employments and enjoy certain
liberties.
1t is rather remarkable that altho
many of the TRUSTEES" are life prison.
ers they are not the ones who cause
the trouble.
No conclusion can be drawn from
the escape or attempted escape of
these men adverse to the general poll
icy of giving prisoners a growing de-
gree of liberty as they show their
Willingness to work and fit themselves
for use in life when they are released.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
THE PUBLICITY PREVENTIVE.
MI Vernon Record.

The Washington Press announces
that as it believes publicity does more
good than the law itself it will pub
fish the name of every youth who gets
into trouble and is fined for drunken
ness or gambling. Also that it will ap-
hold every official who does his duty
and condemn every one that fails. The
Press has the right idea, and fortu-
nately the back bone necessary to car
ry out its belief. Washington is bound
to be a better place for it's stand. The
parents of some of the young men
receiving the publicity will undoubt-
edly think that the stand is I'M
necessarily hard on them, but the pub
licity given few young men will have
an excellent effect on a large number
of others.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
RAISING FRUIT m IOWA.
TMuscatine Journal.]


This is the story Of a former Iowa
farmer. A couple of years ago he sold
his good Iowa farm and taking the
proceeds OF the sale went to Colorado
to purchase fruit farm and becom 9
IA grower of fruit. Now he is coming
back to Iowa wiser man. Old stuff.
says the reader. Yes, up to this point.
but from here on the story is different
from the usual one of the returning
Iowa prodigal. For this former 1owan
is returning a wiser. but not poor
er man. For the most part those 9TH
ers return discouraged and broken IN
fortune. and their returning is not
particularly cause OF congratulation
to Iowa. But this man is returning,
with broader experience yet with his
fortune still intact. returning because
he has found that truly Of all that is
good Iowa affords the best. The others
were more experienced too, but they
got their experience after they had put
their money into lands in other states.
This man get ?c!s experience while his
money reposed safely in the bank and
then returned to Iowa where he found
he could invest it to the best advant-
age. whether he cared to raise corn or
plant orchards.
Iowa has everything for the profit
able growing fruit that Colorado mas
except the Skill and certainty there
are easier ways to acquire that skill
than by selling good Iowa land ana
investing. still minus the experience,
In land. no better. elsewhere.
One can not but admire the WISDOM
and foresight of this former lowan
who was content to put his money IN
the bank and accept somewhat num-
bile employment for himself and his
wife before reinvesting 1t. The only
wonder is that a man so wise and so
far sighted ever sold his Iowa land at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

a nation Of artists he had found the
minor fault or what seemed fault.
Emboldened by his seeming success as
a critic he began to criticise in Grass
pose and pose aud genera: effect. The
populace rose in angry disgust. drove
him from the market place and it's word
of dismissal has become an adage for
all ages and all lands: Let the cobbler
stick to his last"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
NEVER MIND THE ARISTOS.
TDayenDort Times

Is there real danger Of overload
ing the federal courts with such cases!
If conviction in such cases continues
10 be sure as was the conviction OF
Digs anG Caminetti-the courts in
structions left no room for escape-the
business will be so discouraged by the
very certainty of conviction that the
cases will be comparatively few. And,
in regard to@other things, no one
seems to have any fear that the fed
eral government will be overloaded.
This is an age in which regulation Of
many activities Is undertaken by the
federal government, and even In the
tariff bill, now pending, there is to be
an examination OF every mans per-
sonal income Surely If the federal
government can Go all these things.
there is little likelihood Of the machin-
cry breaking down simply because
here and there some representative Of
socially select and wealthy family is
likely t. be caught in the net Of the
Mann act.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
Track az Bird Mior.,ion.


Some most remarkable discoveries"
have beet made OF ringed birds. and
once again Portugal takes prominent
place. Two terms. first ringed In their
nest. one In Rossshire anu one In
Renfrewshire. Scotland. have been re-
ported. the first Is miles south Of
Oporio, the other near Aveiro. In Port
ugal. These "rccoveries" in Portugal
aSe becoming 80 considerable that It
may soon be possible to track out .
regular line Of migration along the
coast and across Spain. parts Of which
are perhaps the best bird paradise II
the world Q,,ite a number Of Enelish
ornithologists are now engaged in
studying birds there and investigating
migration
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
IOWA LAND PRICES.


a lecturer before a butter makers
convention held at New Hampton re-
Gently. said that Iowa land would
soon be worth $500 per acre. and tina,
given proper facilities he would guar
antee to make that priced land pay
10 per cent annual interest. Now
comes another optimistic individual
who assures us that within twenty
five years any productive farm In
Iowa will be worth $500 per acre the
natural growth OF the country being
the only determining factor. Well, why
not? In the thirty years that the
writer has been in Iowa lands have
advanced from s25 and $50 per acre 10
5000 and $3.50 per acre, and surely the
next period Of thirty years will see
much more wonderful growth and de-
velopnent of the country than has
come about in the last quarter of a
century. The man. therefore. who has
q good farm is extremely foolish if he
seeks to dispose Of it at 800 or $3.50
per acre. tho at the present he may
not realize much on the investment.
The facts are. that even tho the in
terest rate or moneys invested IN
farms be small, yet the natural ac-
erection in value oflands will be such
as to eventually bring the interest On
an unbelievable amount.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
,.. $50, HOWARD ell lO' ia i 81.
PRESIDENT k Sc. I. Il. NO. hI,i.f1 .R.

all the determination Of a seasoned
ra;lroader who knows he stands in an
embarrassing light before the public.
President Elliott at once issued
statemen. saying that he courted the
fullest investigator and the publica-
ton of the facts. The public wondered
whether the new head would soon get
rid of the wooden Pullman cars and
put the read on q safer baEis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
Clever Doc. Trained by smuas,sr..

Clever Dogs Trained by smussIsrs.
The manner in which dogs are
trained by smugglers to assist in their
operations on the Italian frontier u
certainly ingenious. The canine pupil
II submitted to various torments on
Swiss territory. and after being re-
peatedly shot at by one Of the Gang,
attired in the uniform OF an Italian
customs official, 1t Is driven across
the frC:'tier into Italy. Here It nests
with the greatest kindness ct the
hands of the smuggiers. 10 that It soon
learns to know on which side ~ IT.
friends and on which it, enemies. The
dog 10 then taken back to Switsesland.
where It IL laden with Suklf. tohacco
and other articles Of contfab6nd. ana
II then allowed 70 escape iaak = IL
friends In Italy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

insistant democrats. If Wilson had
been raised among democrats instead
of in II college. he would not make
such mistake. The democratic ideal.
and one rather common in other par
ties. is to cut off all the jobs from the
other fellows and use them for immedi.
ate assets"
More Chicago philanthropy! ejacu-
lates the Des Moines News Mrs.
Mollie Neuberger. owner Of the big
Boston store. has paid $4,000 for two
giraffes for Lincoln park zoo. The few
doiars-a week department store girls
can walk out to the park, Sunday, and
just look at those giraffes.'
The railroad are now carrying more
passengers than they ever carried be-
fore. and the automobiles are carrying
more passengers than the railroads.
Where do they all come from and
where does the money all come FRONT"
exclaims the Mount Vernon Record.
The Muscatine Journal believes that
Reunited the republican party can
win, provided that reunion is not eff
fected at the cost of any of the ideals
for which the progressive republicans
fought and is accompanied by the
sloughing off of those evils against
which the progressive or liberal repub-
lican battled'
The Algona Advance say MIR.
Woods recognized talent in organl-
cation warrants the prediction that if
he is kept in congress for a long term
of years he will eventually rise to a
position of leadership in the inner
council of the house. Speaking selfish
ly, that would not be a bad thing for
the big Tenth district. \ congress-
man of the inner temple has a good
many plums" to bestow on commune
ties and individuals"
When pensioner of Uncle Sam
visits holes in the-Wall saloons in OF
tumwa. buys drinks with his pension
currency, thereby factor in MUIR
der that follows what about the pen
sion?' inquiries the Ottumwa Review.
The Review insists "he should be de-
prived of his annuity at the expense
Of the American people,"
1--WE are ready to believe anything
about Iowa farms" confesses the
Humboldt Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
Unlimited Credit,

You have left the name of the au-
thor off the program" the stage man
ager ventured to suggest
What's the authors name?" asked
the manager with the thick mustache
and double chin.
William Shakespeare
Friend Of yours, eh All right, give
him all the credit there is. Put down
on the program Words and music by
William Shakespeare Washington
Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
TURN DOWN THE LIGHTS.

I PlSSTdpli-iA
"Look over my shoulder said the
motorman addressing a passenger on
the front seat Can you see anything
between US and those lights?"
The lights were on an automobile
hundred yards away and coming from
opposite direction. 1t was dark night
and Impossible to discern single OBJ
iect for the space of that hundred
yards.
"A child could run out into the street
in front of this car and l wouldn't see
it." the motorman went on. NO mat
ter how alert J am l can't guard against
accident in the next hundred yards
When you consider that / meet dozens
of automobiles this way you'll see why
less powerful lights ought t. he uEed
on motor cars and why Chicago has
adopted strict regulations regarding
them.
Then there is the effect of those
lights on the eyes. never heard so
much complaint from the boys'-other
rotormen-"about their eyes. as dur
ing this summer. and I think the ex-
PLANTATION is the glare OF strong lights
on motor cars
Must there be a killing or two be
fore Dubuque will properly regulate the
lights? Or IL this matter as In all
others concerning the regulation Of
automobiles. would the regulation, X
adopted. be merely more legislation for
the police department fo ignore?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

1T might not be gambling. playing
those paste board cards in the stores,
where tobacco and candies are for
sale, but close inspection WIFI find
law against it," says the Waterloo
Times-Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

New Haven, Conn, Sept. 9.-Howard
York, New Haven and Hartford rail-
road. faced trouble right at the start
of his taking office. When he received
word of the disaster near North
Haven the new head Of the system
took off his coat and got down to busi-
ness in his office, ia cling the crisis with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

Wilson is queer democrat" says
the Iowa City Republican. He claims
that attending to public duties is more
important than giving out fat Obs 10
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

II the senate wants 20 put up the
tax on incomes over 100000 TO the
top OF the Washington monument.
there will be no one in Iowa to com
plain Of a pinching shoe,'' says the Du-
buque Telegra PHI Herald
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

Washington, Sept ). 1t is likely
that Federal Judge Emory Speer. o.
Georgia. will be impeached on charges
involving his conduct in office. These
charges hold him responsible for al
legged Irregularities CT mis- son-in law
as executor OF certain estates as we'll
as for his own misconduct in bank
ruptcy cases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

Fashion seems to delight in ex-
tremes. For the coming season, 1t not
only indorses the x ray skirt, but such
demure creations as the dainty even
ing gown illustrated here. It is Of gray
liberty satin, with q vest of embroid-
cred silk and dainty fichu of chiffon
that would have well become Priscilla.
the Puritan maiden. The satin belt is
fastened with an antique silver clasp.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

1t when they came into = new country
and needed fuel, this before the coal
mines were opened In Iowa. The same
land has now advanced in price to be
used for farming purposes, back to the
original figures paid by the early
settlers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
DAvENPoRT's GUESTS,

The two weeks automobile trip ar
ranged By the Iowa Edua! Suffrage
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

1--WE are ready to believe anything
about Iowa FARMS" confesses the
Humboldt Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12

Strange as it may seem there will be
days when the hot weather Of this
summer will seem to have had it's
charm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-12
Topics of the Times

The facts are that an American is 4
lot safer in Mexico than he is cross
ing the street of the ordinary Amer
lean town.
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
The Impossible Boy
By WALT MASON

l wish go and fish, other lads going; I'd rather take the spade and rake, spend the long day hoeng. I'll plant the seeds and pull the weeds where grow the beet and radish, yearn all to play baseball or other pastimes faddish. When 1 am done, sum- with cab- bage bean and onion I won't forSoOth read tale Sleuth-Tll read the work Bunyan l do not to the bear or elephant performing, or watch the clown come tumbling down when up a pole he's Swarning To do my task is all I ask all day, till light dwindling the wood children should, and split the morning kindling Let other lads distress their dads and in the brook swimming, with knife edge I'll prune the hedge give a trimming I'll clean the yard which looks hard, and paint the shed and stable, and fix the fence with zeal intense, and toll while able I do how there be joy in foolish pleasure the best bet is honest sweat, and toils greatest treasure.
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
F i S h
By HOWARD L. RANN

Fish is a bony article food which is highly recommended for people whose brains need upho stering. In there is nothing to work on it will keep the patient busy lodging stray remnants of backbone that he won't have time commit any grammatical errors by mixing in the conversation.
 There kinds of fish-fresh and salted. Fresh fish caught by patient citizens who well equipped with spare time and angle worms, and attired in a cob pipe and hip boots. Some wives will spend all day fishing below the dam and if they return home at night with wide-mouthed sucker rock bass they will pleased if they had sold a forty-acre lot by the front foot Fresh fish should always be eaten with a magnfying glass, it is full of splinters which liable to stick in the throat and impede the conversation.
 Salt fish is species of brain food which is served at boarding houses whenever the price of round steak jumps up two cents It comes in sev eral patterns, the most popular of which is the cod fish ball. the dried herring and the hollow eyed halibut. After hungry boarder has gorged himself these danties for weeks, without seeing anything else the table but stewed prunes and soda crackers he will have to drag his appetite into dining by the back hair
 The largest fish ever manufactured is the Whale, which is hunted down in a boat and shot with a harpOon. The whale has become famous in his tory through having provided board and lodging for yawn and dived with highly satisfactory results. The shark is a fish which has to turn it's side in order to remove leg from anybody, and is a very unpleasant object while engaged in getting dinner. The ;panked whte-fish is dining car spe ciaty which is forever associated in the mind of the patron with the remains of d 5 bill which is planked down beside it.
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
A TRIUMPH IN TRANSLATION

(Nn1i, York Post |

(NeW 4Ork POSt)
 correspondent writes from the University of Wsconsin:
 'The following letter. received by the college of agriculture at the University of Wisconsin, may interest your readers Not unnaturaly, it was at first regarded having been written in some strange European dialect and was passed on to my polygot colleague Professor Prokisch who takes the writer to be Czech living among Ger American farmers transcribe' literally:
 "'Juplis Sintmi dlblet kajn sit cum train tobaku sit Cebic sit Angens sit tomitos sit bic sit persin sit klober sit svit Corn sit Begi sit Flat tenap sit Cjun Cumbrist sit Jer CD Truli
 ".ANTON ROTH
 "Black River Falls, R. : Viss'
 translaton only slight difficulties as soon has grasped the fact that the let ter is supposed English, transliterated by means of European vowels
 '''You please send little bit some kinds seed try G. e., for instance perhaps), tobacco seed cabbage seed, parsnp seed, clover seed sweet seed, (ruta) baga seed, flat turnip seed cucum- Der seed. Yours (the only word ilegibly written perhaps indicating Professor Prokosch suggests in this he willing to admit little uncertainty about his English, truly
 "Phonetcalfy- Interesting 'tranj and 'cjun, convey the strong nasal of the American pronun- ciation further 'lid,' it is frequently spoken in these parts; < bet for bit, because f is open and .begi for baga, also an unfamiliar sound to him.
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
Arizona Republican Editorial Page

if it had been true, interesting contingency would have been brought about This government would probably taken action ter. The Douglases intimately connected with the Dodges and the Dodges are intimately connect ed with president. children of Old Mas sau, not, however in the all of them have been nutured at Princeton, but the associa- tions the Dodges and Wilson's go far back of the present generation extending back into the msts of antiquity toward Jonathan Edwards himself.
 We that President Wilson this account, would have done what he would have done for the humbest American citizen, in the line of his official duty but the need of official action for the protection of American citizens in Mexico would have been brought his attention in unusually forcibe
 The Mexicans would have found dangerously big game in their net
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
TO ESCAPE MOTOR CARS

When crossing crowded thOrOughfare which motor cars predominated,' remarked pedes trian, it uced be difficult decide whether chauffeur intended to go straight ahead suddenly and dart around the
 T endeavored to solve the matter by watching the of the chauffeur, the game boxer watches the eyes of his opponent to discover where he intends striking blow But the method proved unsatisfactory
 The other day I accidentally discovered a way to tell in which direction the chauffeur intends turn. It is very simple. All that necessary to keep your eyeS glued on the steering wheel. Of course the chauffeur cannot turn his car without twisting the wheel and by watchinf which way he twists it you tell in which direction he in- tends to turn.'
Arizona republican., 1913-04-19
A WOMAN AT GREENWICH OBSERVATORY
1New York Times)

I4NtW IIn1eS1
 When visited Greenwich observatory said the traveller, T set my watch by the observatory clock. Since everybody else who has watch does that, nobody paid attention to me, but my Wife created big enough sensation for both of uC
 She had done little shopping before we went down to Greenwich. In her handbag carried remnant of lace. Far more attractive to her than the obserVatorys wonderful clock the little Iron pegs driven into the observatory which represented the true measure of the British yard, two rect, one foot, six inches, and three inches
 Just at l o'clock out came her bit of lace, and at the minute when everybody else stood impressed With the fact that standard time for large part Of the, civilized world was being set within those walls my wife, stood before the iron pegs calmly measuring