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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
The Municipal University

commercial. or mechanical pursuits. As
q further indication OF the class reached
by the university. s55 per cent OF the
male students have followed gainful
occupations before coming to college,
and "A per cent Of them work regu-
larly during the year for part OF the
time. 1t is to men and women such as
these that the University Of Cincinnati
is extending It's opportunities. by CO.
operative courses. by dag and evening
classes. and In many other ways.
Attic the municipal university may
be more or less OF novelty In this
country, 1t is by no means SO rare
abroad. Anyone who has studied at
Leipzig knows that the university In
that city is not merely great German
university, but is first and foremost the
University Of Leipzig-a municipal In
stitution. The city OF Hamburg has
Just completed plans for a city uni
versity on a large scale. Likewise many
OF the newer English universities. While
national in their aims. nevertheless en-
deavor to meet very directly the special
needs OF the industrial centers In which
they are located, and are to that extent
municipal universities"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
Topics of the Times

Ottumwa seems to have been asleep
at the switchman in her last city cleo
ton.
1t is much easier to recognize the
Chinese republic than to tell one
Chinaman from another.
So far as refusing to recognize the
nresent Mexican government is con-
a.~rcd the Tnited States is right in its
conclusion. a dog fight is not revo-
luton.
If any farmer legislator had hired
man who acted that way he'd be look
ing round for smother. Some day the
same attention will be given legisla :
tors that is now being paid to seed
corn.
With all this fuss about Mrs. Pank-
hurst one can't help occasionally to
drop a tear for poor old man Pank-
hurst.
The Harlan Republican believes that
no real editor can afford to accept a
! postoffice. 1t is right too. Neither can
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
were not Instantly offered,
without

were not instantly onered, "ltnout
money and without price.
At such times what becomes Of the
innumerable sects and cults which, I'M
der ordinary conditions. are constantly
trying to usurp the place OF the scien-
tific medical profession and undermine
the confidence of the public? Appar-
emily they sink into obscurity and ST.
lence. When the emergency arises.
what have they to offer? Suppose the
dispatch from Ohio last week had read:
"A special train containing one hum
dred osteopaths Is on the way to Day
ton. All OF the sufferers will be given
spinal adjustments as soon as the train
arrives" Or 1T Is reported that two
hundred people are dead and thousands
rendered homeless and in danger or
their lives thru exposure due to the
floods in Columbus. A special train
containing one hundred chiropractics Is
being sent to the scene at once. Those
suffering from injury and exposure will
be given immediate treatment for nerve
infringement" Or let us even suppose
that those who disdain all material
methods should emerge from their state
of self absorption long enough to do
something practical: Senator Works
telegraphs that he has arranged for a
special train. containing one hundred
Christian Science healers. to be sent
to Omaha. This train has been given
the right Of way over all railroads
All persons injured in the cyclone and
the blizzard will be given mental
treatment as soon as the train ar
rives." No such items have appeared
in any of the neWspapers
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
A CHEAP PRovocATIoN.
IS;oux City Journal


1t is common for people in the
slough Of despond to Cry out that no
body cares for them, and they wonder
why they should care for themselves
Their lamentation comes out OF the
depths of their weakness. The way to
make others care for them is to care
for themselves. If they make them
selves something worth while they
will receive consideration. and other
wise they will find very little coming
to them. II is all right for people to
say they are looking around for oppor-
tuni,y to help somebody, but there is
not very much to that. People are
looking around for opportunity to
help themselves, and there is very
great variety in the way they do II
Some are very coarse about It, and
some are noticeab!y refined. People
who are not helped in their work are
mere drudges, and people who do not
benefit by their play are not partlcu-
larry amused. Desire for companion
ship is universal, and companionship
is misnomer if it be apart from
corgenial!ty There is degradation
in low association. and there is IN
SEPARATION in ass"nblages of the best
character. People should cultivate
society capable of helping them with
their burden. and so far as they have
wisdom on the power of resistance
they will shun society that can do
nothing for them except to add to the
weight of their degradation.
Il is humiliation To quit on the
cheap provocation that nobody cares
1t is within the power of every being
to care for himself. If he abuses him
self on the theory that other people
are indifferent about it. his spitework
reacts upon himself as bitter tor
ment 1t is very needless way of
going to hell.
Many sick are awaiting visit If
they would they might take up their
bed and walk If they would they
might visit the sick Thus they might
be made whole by the feeble.
1t is the proper business Of every one
to resist encouragement for his own
sake, even where he has not the power
! to lift the shadow that hangs low and
/ by which at times he is engulfed as by
thick fog. To resist disbursement
with all his might will improve the
restrospect of his soul.
And wherefore discourage ye the
heart of the children of Israel from
going over into the land which the
Lord hath given them?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
SHOULD APOLOGIZE.


When the teachers annuity plan was
up for discussion In the general assem-
bly,. several Of the representatives Of
the people expressed the fear that the
teachers would grow reckless in their
economical and prudent, and would re-
age, in case pension was provided for
them. These critics We're probably
honest in their opposition. Like some
other people who hav never been
called to represent their neighbors in
law-making body, they we're simply
talking on a subject that they knew
nothing about. They did not know, or
did not take into consideration two i'm
pUrtaIlt points.
The first is, that the teachers are
proposing to take the burden of the
pension upon their own shoulders and
are only asking for a little lift to get
their plan started right.
The other Is that the average Iowa
teachers salary Is but trifle over $500
per annum. To assume that people are
going to cease practicing frugality and
economy and to forget producence In
their expenditures, when their salary
is so ridiculously low, is sheer non
sense.
OF course. a lawmaker has the same
right to talk nonsense that belongs to
every citizen Of a free country. But
these men have done the teachers OF
Iowa a rank injustice. perhaps serious
injury Being honest and we'll meaning,
there is just one thing for these law
makers to do. and they should do that
at once They ought to arise in their
seats and apologize. to the teachers OF
Iowa, and then they ought to make
amends by taking OF their coats and
working with might and main for the
measure that the teahers are asking.
Surely there is no other course pcs
sible to honest, fair minded men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08

THE municipal university ls COM
paratively new In this country. and Its
development will be watched with in
interest" said DR.. P. P. Claxton. United
States commissioner OF education. In
discussing the University Of Cincin-
natl There are certain significant
things about this city university that
tend to show how valuable such an In
stitution may be to a community.
Consider the student body. Seventy
nine per cent Of those in the college OF
liberal arts are residents OF the city.
and they have lived in Cincinnati an
average of thirteen years Nearly half
of the students we're born in Cincin-
natl. A recent inquiry elected the in
formation that 81 per cent Of the stu
dents lacked the means to attend
university outside the city. Thus the
university is providing higher educa-
ton to residents Of the municipality
who could secure 1t in no other way.
Something like % per cent OF the
students are fatherless Ot the fathers
Of the others. less than one-fourth are
in the so-called professions. over
e-fourths are in non professional,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
Recovered From
Severe Lun1 Trouble

While ve all know that plenty Of fresA
air and good food are necessary to persons
more IL fneedsd 70 BRING ABOUT full Seas
Eckman's Alternative y medicine for
throat and lung troubles and .Sa 20 many .Ssy,
aoos
Of cases which were declared hopeless
that all sufferers who are not iDeneatiug
sthervise should ho 81, At o. Least ,Rvestis,ss
the means Of restoring you to health. In
vestigate this case 3-. 49,.
March. isoe, was taken With Seno as.
several weeks each time to ny bed. fhess
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West So, in September. 1900, I planned
to 60, but | had four more hemefrhaEss.
I'm November ! started for Denver, Col
After my arrival, met Aiehaei Brody.
who. upon learning Of my condition. urged
about two months, ! began 70 feel better.
! kept on taking the. medicine and i'm.
proved fast. In March. 1910. returned
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Morgan.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
THE SHORT FARM LEASE.

Professor Kennedy of the college at
Ames, calls attention to the increasing
number of short term leases in Iowa.
The figures given are of the period be-
tween 1880 and 1900 during which time
and increase of about Is per cent is
noted in one year farm leases. The
assertion Is made that in the northern
part Of Iowa so per cent of the tenant
ed farms are thus leased at the present
time.
1t is poor business for both landowner
and tenant. No tenant can afford to
move March 1 of every year and no
farm can afford to have a new tenant
every spring looking for every blade
the land will raise and expecting to
leave after the single crop has been
gathered. 1t is poor business all
around.
The rapid changes in the price OF
land and consequent adjustment OF
rentals perhaps has much TO do with
this increase of short term leases
neither tenant nor owner desires ~
stick himself with a long lease. one
because crops prices are likely always
to fall and the other because LAND
prices are on the uplift continually.
Moreover the prospect Of selling the
farm at a high price leads to selling
clauses in the leases and these clauses
do NOT m 1opo
OF one thing. however. we may be
sure, the farm owner is getting the
worst of 1t on q short term lease. The
tenant farmer is better farmer for
himself than he was ten or twenty years
ago. He knows more and is thus com :
petent to do a more complete job of soil
robhins. He is working for himself
working for y<ar and taking what he
can get away with him. The more he
takes away the less the short term ten
ant leaves.
This -ery capacity would make him
the more valuable IS long term ten
ant. Given 4 FIVE or ten year lease he
would know what was best for himself
and what would be best for him on that
kind Of lease would be best for tbs
land.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08

a real lawyer AFFORD to accept an un-
Just case. But my dear Harlan Repub-
lican, there's the salary and the fee
to consider. And these are strong
temptations even to the real thing.
Which is Koontz. mayor Of Iowa City
or member Of the Iowa legislature?
And now the Supplying announce
ment is made that Dave Brant Is go
ing to bolt If the five mile law and
the school board imbroglio are not
fixed to suit him. But where in thun-
der can Dave go where he hasn't al
ready been?
If the horses were consulted they
would be unanimous for permanent
roads. That's horse sense.
So
Iowa City brewers say they will lose
considerable money by the five mile
law. But as it takes from $1,000 to
$4,000 to raise boy it will only re-
their friends and the state to balance
the account. And there is a long bill
of arrearages to bring in against the
saloons and breweries at Iowa City.
The Webster City Tribune
says the Iowa Democratic Editorial AS
ISOLATION seems to be nothing more nol
less than an officeseeking and office
brokerage organization. Well, the boys
have waited long time for a chance
Let's not be too critical with people
who haven't tasted food since Grover
carved the duck.
The tariff question is a wire stretchea
across the path of presidents.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
No Successor Needed.
Railway Gazette.]

The power of a responsibility dies
with it's possessor. There will be no
successor to j. P. Morgan. Fortunately
conditions in the railway field are now
such that it apparently needs no sue
cessor to him. The day Of cut-throat
competition and financial legerdemain
in railway affairs seems to be past. The
work of Ny Morgan and his associates
and public regulation have together
made them impossible in future. The
very fact, that in the transportation
field at least, Mr.. Morgan needs no
successor is perhaps the highest tribute
to his ability integrity and personality
and the wonderful influence they exert
ed-an influence for good that will con-
tinue to be felt for many, many years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
IS DELAY A COMPROMISED

This newspaper has been searching
tcr several days for the elements OF
compromise which are said to be con-
tanned in the resolution OF the senate
as to the state board of education and
it must be confessed that up to this
time the compromise feature of it re-
mains hidden. AS 1t appears on its
face the state board is requested to
rescind its action to coordinate the
work of the various state schools and
the board has promptly complied by
resembling. The resolution then gives
the board explicit power TO change the
work Of the schools in the future as it
may see fit and in order that partisans
of the school towns may be kept off
the board it is made prohibitory here
after to appoint membership on the
board any one residing in the towns in
which any Of the schools are situated.
Thus it appears that the board has
been requested TO rescind and it has
rescinded and the compromise is very
much the same as the compromise
made by the Irishman with his wife
when he always compromised by let
ting her have her own way about ii.
The net result is to put the problem
up to Governor Clarke TO solve. He
must appoint four members to the
board. One Of the four whose terms
expire lives in Clarke's own town and
he has announced that this man will
be reappointed. The law now pro-
hibits him reappointing Roger Leavitt,
of Cedar Falls, so the complexion of
the new board can be but may not be
changed by the new appointees altho
seven out of the nine members voted
for the plan to coordinate.
1t is to be hoped in the interest OF
the schools and their best work tina,
authority will promptly proceed to CO.
ordinate as originally planned. 1t was
never proposed to a ba ndon elementary
domestic science at either of the state
ScnoOlS put the cOlleSe OF domestic
science for the preparation of teachers
can very properly be placed at the
state university, and the state has nc
more use for two engineering schools
than it has for two law schools or two
agricultural colleges. Post graduate
work in Latin and Greek. too, has very
little place in normal school designed
to prepare teachers for the grade
schools Of the state.
If the governor will appoint broad
men Of scholastic training and devote
of partisan bias the new board will dc
what two previous legislatures asked
should be done, what a former legis
lative committee of distinguished mer
advised should be done and what the
present board set out to have done
The work of the three state schools
will be co-ordinated and the energie!
OF each concentrated upon its own spe
eial lines regardless of the booste
clubs of the interested school towns.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
1T ALL COSTS MONEY.


Nature does not stand still; men do
not stand still: neither do towns and
cities stand still. There is continually
progression or retrogression. Property
values increase or decrease; population
Is attracted or repulsed. During the past
few years Greenfield has been going
ahead. property values have been in
creased Good schools. good churches,
paving and electric lights cost money
These varied improvements have not
appeared spontaneously. Time has been
a necessary element in giving us this
changed condition. Men OF broad in
tellect and good judgment. who were
not afraid to expend money to secure
improvements, men who could see IN
the future the benefits TO be de-
rived from such expenditure Of money
have given us the improvements we
now enjoy 1t requires money to Keep
town in healthy. growing condition,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
Doctors in Times Of Peril.
rJnurnal of the American Medical AS
sociaticn.l

I.J0lFnal III lue AllSlISdI -ASAASoA ~AS
sociation.l
During the recent period OF disaster
and havoc ordinary events were rele-
gated to the back pages OF the news
papers. Every issue OF the dailies was
full OF heartrending and pathetic stor-
les of disasters. storms and floods. The
people responded to the call for help
with the ma gnanimity and promptness
which characterize the nation. From
the scenes Of the disaster came the call
for food. clothing and shelter. But be-
fore this there came call for physi-
clans to minister to the wounded, the
sick and the dying. From almost
every afflicted locality soon came the
same statement. "A special train carry
ing volunteer physicians. nurses, dress
ings and medical supplies Is on the
way to the scene Of disaster"
So it is after every great calamity.
The first men on the scene are physi-
clans. performing their sacred work OF
saving life and relieving the suffering.
| This happens 30 constantly as to De
an accepted occurrence. No one ex-
presses any surprise. On the contrary.
surprise would be aroused only II the
| nearest available physicians ever failed
to respond in numbers equal to the
| need. Leaving their own work volun-
| teering without hesitation for the hard
est service. they toll often for days
and nights without intermission, with
out asking for or expecting compen-
sation. Instances are not hard to ma.
Following the recent cyclone In Omaho
one survivor writes: Il have personal
| knowledge of physicians whose homes
we're destroyed. yet the moment they
knew their families were not injured
they left them and worked all night
ministering to the MANNED and dying.
There never has been public calamity
in which the services OF physician
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
A csriss Spring.
[Chicago Evening Post.

1t is going to be cerise spring. We
saw that much even in the rain and
hail of Easter morn. Such bonnets ss
struggled out to church bore upon
their afterrail tattings Of eertse. The
little dirigible appendix Immediately In
the wake of every hat was as cerse as
any cherry tree that ever doomed IN
southern Italy. For the word. you must
know, is derived from the Latin ce-
rasus. meaning cherry tree. 1t Is almost
the color that cherries assume when
they go into cherry ice or into the
more succulent, old fashioned cherry
bounce. Only. somehow, it lacks the
dignity and reserve OF the real cherry
1t is too slim. too transparent, too flip
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
A SIMPLE TEST.

lDes Moines Register and Leader.l
There is an easy way to submit to
test the punishment now being melted
out to prisoner at Fort Madison.
For what crime would the state per-
NIT the judge to sentence a man to
eighteen months solitary confinement
in cell 3kx7x7 feet into which no
ray Of sunlight had ever entered?
Solitary confinement means that no
passerby may speak. that no reading
matter may enter. that no letter may
be received or answered.
And yet this is the punishment Iowa
is asked to sustain for simple refusal
to obey an order to work on a prison
contract which the legislature is now
abandoning as inhuman.
Is the warden Of the penitentiary to
be permitted to act as judge and jury,
and in his discretion to mete out pun
ishments for mere breaches of disci-
pine that would not be permitted to
any court in the land even on convjc-
ton for most vicious crime?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
500 Reward, 500

ne readers Of this payer WIN Be pleassd e
mat cciencS has been able 70 cure IN an its
stages and th.t e c.tarrs Hail. cs q n err
Scai frstSrnity. Catarrh teis1. !eoestit.tional
disease, rs1sIfo eoestitntiocal treatment.
HANS cstsrfh Care y taxa intes.ally; sssin3
the systein, tSseeby DESTROYING the foundatios
Of the disesss. SD giving tie patient sHsnsta
ture In 1oins it, work. ne pfspf1etofe have
- much faith IN H. curative powers thet they
o1e1 (Snn Hu0dYed Dollars for any case that II
fNiis "a eare Oe8A for list OF testinsonSah.
Address F. J. CHENEY Z CO.. Toleds. q
Sold ~ IN Druggists, he.
Take Halls Family rms fcr esastipstiaa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
A Card,

This is to certify that All druggists
are authorized to refund your money II
Foleys Honey and Tar Compound fails
to cure your cough or cold. John Ber-
net, Tell, Wis. states: Il used Foley's
Honey and Tar Compound for Ave years
and it always gives the best Of salts
faction and always cures cough or
cold" Refuse substitutes. Mcbride 4
VIII Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08

west for the purpose Of complete rest.
Meanwhile 1t was found desirable for
her to put up at public auction all Of
her valuable paintings. rare tapestries,
costly rugs. bronzee and other arr
treasures. Thus while she lay critically
i'll after the operation her home mere
was dismantled Of its treasured objects
and closed It is doubtful II Mrs. Lydig
viii again plunge into the ssye:ses OF
the social whiri.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08

And as it lies upon our millinery IT IS
altogether too garish for everyday NE.
We wish that the rain could descend
upon it in torrents and wash 1t out
several shades lighter. We have an loea
we are going to get mighty tired ol
cerise before the summer is over
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08
AN OLD TIME sUGARBUsH.

There as still men alive in Iowa who
never pour maple syrup-or whatever
the connection may be which has as
sumed the title and dignity of thtt
delectable and mellifluent earlier pro-
duct-Without recalling the sugar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-08

New York, April 7-MNfortunes
came piling down upon tn: pretty head
of Mrs. Philip Lydig, famous society
beauty. thick and fast. Fer friends
h. re among the exclusive set sympa-
thize deeply with her. She Is at pres
ent in a sanatorium In Rochester. MINI.
recovering, it Is believed. from an oper-
alton to save her life. The strain OF
social conqu, st had weakened her con-
stitution, 1t Is asserted. and she went