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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
THE FIVE MILE LIMIT,

The five mile bill passed the senate.
With the concurrence of the house,
which is to be expected confidently, the
saloons will have notice for June l.,
1915. The date came as compromise.
and is the limit of the present consent
petition.
The measure is generally approved
except in Iowa City and among those
who consider the saloon the most ex-
pedient manner Of handling the traf-
fc. 1t would have been approved had
1t given warning for June l, 1913. Tn
der the conditions existing in the COM
mittee which had the bill in charge and
in the senate Itself it seemed to be i'm
possible to pass the bill without COM
promise.
1t is good law and good common
sense to Danish the saloon from the
university city. When the state con-
siders the efficiency Of the school and
the safety Of students before the in
terests Of saloonists and breweries it
Is certainly within the moral rights
in the case. Iowa City has the uni
versity. I. is we'll for Iowa City that 1t
has. When It comes 10 a matter Of
moving out the proper procedure is TO
move the saloons. Also it is much
easier and vastly less expensive than
70 move the university.
1t is just another step forward for
Iowa. The saloon and the schoolhouse
are enemies. They shoould be separa'-
ed. A Ave mile strip Of taboo around
every school house in Iowa from the
university down to the battered little
howell on the cross roads wouldn't hurt
the educational interests Of the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
THOSE TIN SOLDIERS"
Ida Grove Pioneer.


AS the year rolls uy ana We occaS-
days or perhaps whe.. tney are soMs
ence to them t.s TIN soldiers but Ne
nave noted that In times OF stress
when the crisis deman-s reai men -
take charge Of the Situation the sta.
troops are usually equai TO ANY EN- ef-
gency.
During the past few months we have
noticed in the Omaha Bee more or 1888
comment on the state militia OF Ne
braska, all OF which has been som =
what in the nature OF ridicuie. Now
take look at y hat the Zee sa'a 'as'
Sunday:
Since the tornado swept the city
nearly 400 state militia, constantly on
guard duty, nave aroused the adfnlra
ton and received the commentator y!
the citizens of Omaha for the jealous
and efficient work they nave zone.
You don't see any tin soldier refer :
ence there.
The Bee then goes on To relate that
on the night OF the storm the nrst
mi!itiamen went on guard in water
mud and pitch darkness and for thlr-
ty-six hours the first relief worke1
without a stop. Many OF these militia /
men stood like veterans at their pos,
for eighteen hours without 1000 ano
not one complaint was heard.
Maybe they were tin soldiers but
when Omaha vas stricken, and wreck
ed homes were at the mercy OF the
looter. there was nothing said about
tin soldiers" when the special trains
discharged company after company oi
state troops and in a sold!erly manner
they took charge of the situation.
The same story came from OHIO ans
Indiana, where the foods have fol-
lowed the hurricane and promised tc
make 1918 year OF disasters. lht
state troops have been taking charge o.
things like veteran soldiers and we io'
one would like to see them gwen soihs
little credit for what they have done.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
GOOD THING ALL ROUND.

The report of the experts employed
by thes legislature to investigate" the
state fair is evidence tina. the matter
had been long enough delayed The
efficiency experts report the records in
such shape as to preclude any salts
counting methods ARE OF the crudest
description and no commercial concern
could exist under similar conditions"
in short the books, according TO the
reports are in such condition that the
income of the agricultural society and
it's disbursements can not be operly
checked and accounted for. The re-
port suggests that it is up TO the as
sembly to decide whether the depart
ment is entitled 10 appropriations for
salaries or other purposes"
The efficiency engineers make Ger
cain recommendations. They would
have:
Reduction of the membership of the
board to more workable number, with
the suggestion of either five or seven.
Adoption of proper system of double
entry bookkeeping.
Adoption of a proper stores system
by which the receipts and issue of lum
Der hardware, building material and
other supplies would be a matter of
record.
Definite fixing OF rates and charges
for all concessions and whenever pos
sible complete statement of receipts.
Adoption of rules and regulations of
the duties Of the superintendent Of
grounds.
Adoption of a board members at
tendance book wherein mileage and per
diem would be duly recorded and each
account signed.
Taking of a physical inventory at the
close Of each year.
II the business Of the department has
been conducted lacking the essentials
recommended by the report it was time
for shake up which would awaken il
to modern business methods. The state
fair and the state board of agriculture
are extremely valuable assets of the
state and essentialities to lis continued
development. They should be put into
a state OF ordinary commercial effci-
ency and kept there The shake up was
a good thing for the state. the board OF
agriculture and the state fair.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
For Sunday Reading
Ill :o,n Of Obiuio7,
General Booth Enters Heaven.

fBy Nicholas Vachel Lindsay.l
Booth led boldly with his big bass
drum.
Are you washed in the blood of the
Lamb?
The saints smiled gravely. and they
said, Hes come
Are you washed in the blood of the
Lamb?
(Bass drums)
Waking lepers followed. rank on rank,
Lurching braves from the bitches dank.
Drabs from the alleyways and drug
tiends pale
Minds still ridden, soul-pow-
ers fraii,
Termin-eaten saints with moldy
breath.
Unwashed legions with the ways OF
death
Are you washed in the blood Of the
Lamb?
Every slum had sent its half-a-score
Tho round world over-Booth had
groaned for more.
Every banner that the wide world flies
Bloomed with glory and transcendcrt
Big-voiced lasses made their banjos
bang!
Tranced. fanatical. they shrieked and
sang,
Are you washed in the blood of the
Lamb?
(BanjoD
Halielujah! It was queer to see
Bull-necked convicts with that land
make free!
Looms with bazoos blowing blare, blare,
! On, on, upward thru the golden air.
Are you washed in the blood Of the
! Lamb?
(Bass drums slower and softer)
Booth died blind, and still by faith he
! trod,
Eyes still dazzled by the ways of Cod
Booth led boldly and ne looked the
! chief:
Eagle countenance in sharp relief.
Beard a-fying air &C high command
Unahated in that holy land.
Flutes)
Jesus came from out the courthouse
door,
Stretched his hands above the passing
poor. o.
Booth saw not. but led his queer one!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
A PIONEERS EXPERIENCE.
Al


A. J. Miller, Of Written. who was IN
town the other day. and called to cha'
with the Ledger man. came to Hardin
county in 1865 and got here just three
DAYS ahead Of the big blizzard. Mr..
Miller came overland with his young
wife and baby from Maquoketa. nc
had bought eighty acres of land IN
Grundy county just across the line from
where Written now is, al 80 per acre.
but it had TO house on 1t. 1t was
pleasant December day when he drove
his team across the prairie and stopped
at a settlers home. You had better
get into shelter for we are going to
have big storm" advised the resident.
Miller said he thought he would have
time to go 70 Marshalltown, get load
of timber and put up shack The
settler dissuaded him and got him to
buy. a forty acre place not far OF that
had clapboard house on 1t. He bought
the forty for $500. the settler moved out
and he moved in the same day. The
next day he drove to a sand pit and
mixed up lot Of mortar with which
he plastered up the cracks and the very
next day the big binding blizzard
swept down on them. Mr.. Miller has
lived In or near Written ever since. and
in spite of all the early privations and
hardships he has made good"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
IDA GROVE IN 1870.


In commenting upon statement ne
had seen to the effect that the popcorn
market of the world is now controlled
in Ida and Sac counties. that Ida coun-
" is one Of the richest farming com
munities in the world and land here is
now worth around 5000 per acre. Mr.
Edwin Hewitt. of Denver, Colo, writes
the editor Of The Pioneer and recalls
that in 1870 he visited Ida county and
drove across the country with team
Mr.. Hewitt was formerly member
Of the whcie sale grocery firm Of Hewitt
Bros. Of Des Moines. now known as
Charles II witt &c Sons Co. and In the
early 70's travelled all over this part Of
the state selling fancy groceries. He
says: There has certainly been a big
change in Ida county since 1870. Dur
ing the early 70's drove thru Ida coun-
" and northwest Iowa selling fancy
groceries Corn then was selling for ~
cents a bushel if you could find some
body who would buy it. and it usually
broke the man who wanted TO speculate.
in those days land at IS per acre
found no buyers and prairie schconers
:, ere constantly in sight soins any
, place 10 get away from what was the.
looked upon by many as God forsaH-
| en- country
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
A Unitarian View Of Unity.

President Taft. SO he informed a
Unitarian congregation on the last Sun
day OF his chief magistrac5. has always
wondered why all the world is not
Unitarian" And he further remarked,
upon this occasion. that Unitarians can
not show their position as Unitarians
in society more emphatically than by
welcoming the aid Of all churches
toward the progress OF christian civili-
zation.' 1t is this idea of welcoming
christians of other denominations which
President Samuel A. Eliot of the Amer
lean Unitarian Association, emphasizes
in his Brookline address one Of the
series being reprinted in The Congre-
gationalist (Boston). For. as he states
Il "the fundamental PRINCIPLES of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
are Up against 4 particularly hard Job
OF making the best Of things.
MORE CONSTRUCTIVE CONTEMPT
ISioux City Journal

ISioux City Journal.1
| what is contempt Of court?
Apparently It will not be the fault
OF some Of our judges IL we do not
presently secure legislation putting
metes and bounds on their claim OF
czarlike power.
A few months ago the Idaho SUI
| preme court sent a newspaper pub
Usher to Jail for printing an Asso-
ciated Press dispatch setting forth
what presidential candidate thought
about decision of that court in po-
,litical case.
Recently Missouri judge endeav-
ored to send a Kansas City publisher
to Jail because one of his reporters
made mistake in locating the court
in which an incident had occurred
Now Seattle judge is trying to
send three county commissioners to jail
for contempt of court because they re-
fused to buy flag with which to dec
crate his court room.
1t will be well to restrain the nat
ural patriotic impulse to rush to the
support of the flag. Instead let us
try to take common sense view Of
the Seattle case.
Judge Humprhies wanted a large
American flag to hang on the wall OF
his court room. 1t was a patriotic
and commendab BILE desire. 1t would be
particularly desirable to have a flag
On hand when new citizens were being
natnralized. Judge HUMPHREYS made a
requsition on the county commission
ers for flag. The commissioners re-
fused to grant the request. There never
had been flag in the court ROOM and
they did not feel that any of the funds
entrusted to their care were intended to
be expended for such purpose.
Whereupon the Judge served notice
that If the flag We're not imme diately
Forthcoming he would put the COM
missioneis in Jail for contempt Of
court. An alternative writ of prohibi-
/ ton from the supreme court will pre-
vent him from doing this for a few
days. Whether he can do it eventually
remains to be disclosed.
If a judge can put county commits
sioners in jail for not buying a flag
at his riders he can put them in Jail
for not buying a cuspidor and a plug
OF tobacco. And yet it does not APP
pear reasonable to interpret such a re-
fuSal as contempt Of court.
What is wanted, at appears. is more
elasticity in cur currency system and
less in the application of judicial
power 10 impose punishment for con-
tempt of court.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
April and the Meadow Lark.

Bradford TDrrey has died within the
wear, but the April whieh he loved and
Of which he wrote so admirably anc so
sympathetically has been reborn. TT
rey called April the bird lovers month.
and he named it right. 1t is the month
of the return of the birds and OF the
beginning of the chorus Of the fields
and Of the solos Of the forests.
In week the meadow lark will be
here. and with him a company OF the
feathered field folk. The spring melody
Of the meadow lark has been called
both joyous and me!apcholy. 1t - the
same melody. and the difference IN
meaning must lie in the mental attti-
tude of the listener. The meadow lark
comes early in April and Its song. ris-
ing from the still wasted fields, moves
in us the spirit of the springs that have
gone. the spring that IL present and the
springs to come. How such song.
awakening such cheerful thoughts ana
memories, can be called melanchoiy'
the poet of depression must expiain
The meadow lark is Aprils bird. John
Burroughs says Of the lark that IT sings
Spring O. the year" and that II repeats
i this bit of inspiring news IL ID NOT 80
| hard a task to put BIRDS song INTO
words as 1t Is to eaten us spH1 ouu -
| requires only a trifing effort OF tho
mind to make one agree that Mr.. Bur
roughs has read the lark's message
truly.
| The meadow lark loves the earth. On
| her breast it makes its bed and from
| the coverlid Of the grasses 1t gets IT'S
only shelter. When the lark wishes 70
sing. it seeks a fence post or tree AT
| the meadows edge. In the north at
least. it shuns the shade OF the WOODS
as habitually as does the lark OF EuroPe
and Wordsworth's words Apply 10 II as
truly as they do to the oird "hicn no
saw when he sang:
Leave to the nightingale her shady
wood;
A privacy OF glorious light is thine
April is here and has the meadow
lark to keep it company. The month
and the bird have good companionship'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
Stanley on iixina.ton.


When Stanley found Livingstone and
brought hack the news to an expectant
, world, he wrote of one whom he de-
scribes as little short Of a saint This
tribute Is found in Stanley's autobi-
/ ography:
For four months and four days
lived with him in the same hut. or in
the same tent, and l never found a
fault in him. I went to Africa a
prejudiced man against religion. and
the worst infidel in London. To re-
porter like myself, who had only to
deal with wars, mass meetings and po-
! iifical gatherings, sentimental matters
| were quite out of my province. But
| there came to me a long time of re-
! Election | was out there, away from a
! worldly world l saw this solitary old
/ man there, and l asked myself, Why
! does he stop here? What is 1t that
! ms pires him?' For months after we
met l found myself listening to him.
| wondering at the old man carrying out
| the words, Leave all and follow me.
But little BY little, seeing his piety, his
gentleness. his zeal, his earnestness, and
how he went quietly about his business,
/ was converted By him"
Writing to DR.. Livln gstones daughter
after her fathers death, Lord Polwarth
| Gas The Lutheran Observer Quotes)
said:
| Il have long cherished the memory OF
| his example, and feel that the truest
! beauty was his essentially christian
| spirit Many admire in him the great
| explorer and the noble hearted philan-
thropist: but like to think OF him not
| on1y thus but man who was SER
want Of God. loved his Word intensely
and while he spoke to men OF God
spoke more TO God OF men,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
ELDORA WOMEN.
[Eldora Herald. !

\ headline in daily paper says:
"Eldora club women busy" Why. bless
Your heart, whoever SAID they We're not
busy. The Edora CLUB women are The
busiest people on earth, as any man
who has one in his family knows. III
addition to keeping house, doing the
cooking. baking, mending, caring Tor
their cnildren, entertaining, ana cAurcn
and charitable work, they unu time 10
study ABOUT people and th!nSs all over
the world. living and DEAD authors,
economic questions and politics. Ana
now they propose TO aid the city coun-
Gil with suggestions how to stop the
smoke nuisance. clean the alleys, beau
tify the streets and public places, help
the school board and school teachers,
with a committee that sees that not a
day Is missed that one member OF a
city club does not visit school and re-
port to the federation the conditions
found and a host Of other things. II Is
the busy people that do things and the
women who take time somehow IRON
their multitudinous duties 10 belong 10
a club that has definite object IN view
who are the women that make town.
And to the credi, OF he EldoIa men
they never grumble about il but rather
are proud of the fast that the women
are busy at the things they do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
THE COLLEGE TOWN AND THE COL LEGE.

a town with a college j. d favored
town A small city with even minor
college has an asset of which much
larger cities would gladly deprive them
1t is a big thing for a little town %
have a college located In It. big for the
phere Of the community. The small city
with the college always builds better
residences 1t attracts an excellent
class Of residents. A good little college
town usually tries TO live up to the
college and this Of itself makes ii a
good town to live in.
The town with a college should give
it some real attention. 1t should play
fair II a state oratorical contest is
brought 10 the town it ought to give il
somewhat nearly the attendance that
would be given a baseball game or
football match. The strictly educational
caatss: ought to draw, in college
town, q 1.-THE of the attendance which
would be accorded horse race. In
short there should be more tewnspeople
at Z college contest Of the character
Indicated than would be hurriedly at
traeted to q dog fight.
There is something coming from the
college town to the college to the meK
who ere struggling to build up an edu-
cational center, to the memory OF 6
philanthropy which gave fortune tr
tho double purpose OF assisting educa-
ti0n and rendering back an edufValen
to the community where that fortune
had been accumulated.
II there is a college town in lows
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
THE PLAN ~ OTTUMwA.
rSioux city Journal.l

SIOUX tItS Jcui ldi'J
The first municipal election under
the commission plan at Ottumwa re-
suited in the election of Patrick }.
I.ccny "a mayor over Henry l.. water
man after q more strenuous campaign
than ever was witnessed in Ottum"a
under the old form of government
The successful candidate for mayor is
a switchman on the Milwaukee rail-
way. who has served as member OF
the city council for two years. The
defeated candidate is chairman OF the
board Of trustees of Ottumwas pub
iicly owned ~at.T plant. lie vas &C :
"anced as the business mems canal
date-a 10000 man willing to sacrl-
flee personal interests to work Tor the
public at modest salary. ii was
F.; declared to be essential that Water
man be elected inasmuch as the
waterworls under the new law would
20 into the keeping of the council and
his experience in that regard would De
pra ctically indispensable. The cam
paien. as reflected in the columns OF
the Ottumwa newspapers. was enc OF
the kind from which town does not
recover over night. There was con
slant appeal to class feeling. The
business plea in behalf Of Waterman
was met by an appeal to the working
men in behalf of Pat" Leeny. Water
man wa. denounced as the friend OF
the corporations. Promises were is
sued in behalf Of Leeny that II he were
elected the corporations. notably the
ottumwa Packing Company. would bs
made to pay a larger share OF the
taxes On the other side Leeny was
denounced as ignorant and incompe'
tent and there were threats OF movins
away from Ottumwa in case OF his
election. The wet and dry issue, stirred
I'D by the recent defeat In court OF
saloon petition, was lugged into the
campaign in an effort to monopolize
the wet sentiment for Leeny. The OF
tumwa newspapers gave editorial sup
port to Waterman. but opened thei
advertising columns to the opposition
Sizzling advertisements on both sides
contributed to the excitement. On tn
cold gray dawn OF the morning afte1
election IL developed that Leeny hat
won by thirteen votes. Apparently tn
projectors of the commission plan o
government in Ottumwa, who to maj
rallied to the support Of Waterman
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
GETTING TOGETB Err.

I W OUuIItS 1IVsNs'I
The Burlington Hawkeye is IN favor
of a corrupt practices act that VIII
make it a criminal offense Tor any
candidate TO offer position or reward
of any kind for politica! support We
second the motion 1t is the nrst
Hawkeye motion We have ever sec
onded An act of this kind will make
a criminal out of the candidate LOT
congress who promises huge sllcss
from the pork barrel in exchange 1of
votes. There is no district in the United
States needs such law any more than
the First of Iowa. incidentally it VIII
stop commercial clubs from tratficklng
in that particularly offensive brand OF
politics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-05
which carelessly neglects its collegians
in this manner and fashion 1t should
reform.
Topics of the Times

If the house concurs with the senate
in the five mile limit bill the main hope
of the saloon will be in democratic
legislature. And that hope has its un-
healthy outlook. first because it is a
serious task to elect that sort of ar
assembly and second because 1t is not
at all a certainty that it would repeal
the law if 1t We're to be elected.
The lax methods of accounting in
public business by boards of one kind
and another would be brought up to a
sure system of checking We're it private
business under transaction. All men
seem to grow careless when the public
cash is concerned.
One reason why Frank Gotch comes
back" so readily is that he never went
away Gotch went home TO little town,
married a farmer girl. kept away from
red liquor and red lights. lived out
doors. worked enough to keep fit and
lived like a white man instead OF an
Apache. Gotch, in a way. is one OF
Iowa's educational institutions.
Cedar Falls has a farmer l01 years
ole 'who has retired from active WORK,
so the newspaper assures US. About no"
long is a man expected TO make a
hand in harvest" up about Cedar Falls ?
President Wilson refused franked
membership 10 a popular golf club.
Perhaps ne will refrain from frank
language when he misses an eighteen
inch put. but that is considerable 10
expect from democrat.
Lewis is the first democratic senator
since John NJ. Palmer from Illinois
Senator Palmer was the result 10 d
celebrated poker game, and Senator
Lewis came about thru the still more
notorious lack pot which put Lorimer
over.
The Mexican system might be ap-
piled 70 white slavers in the nl'eu
States without raising loud protests. III
Mexico the prisoner is shot while at
,a,npting 10 escape" in cases where X
Is extremely desirable 10 get rid Of him
definitely.
Los Angeles woman has raised
seventeen children Of her own and nFe
adopted ones. Nomination OF the 4ao!
for second place on the ticket with l.
P in 1915 is now in order.
4 colored woman went TO the pastor
Of her church the other day TO com
main of the conduct OF her nusoano
VINO. she said, was a low down. worth
less. trifing fellow. After listening 70
the long recital Of the delinquencies OF
her negiectful spouse and her efforts 70
correct them, the minister said: Have
YOU ever tried heaping coal Of fire upon
his head?"
NO" was the reply, but done trlee
hot water. metropolitan Magazine.