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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
RESPONSIBILITY BY PROXY.

A minister at Sioux City urges that
Sioux City needs vice commission"
He says the pool halls are full OF
minors. that the liquor business is
loosely conducted, and that immortality
is permitted at the hotels. So the min
lister wants vice commission.
The charges brought as to condi-
tons in Sioux City are probably vel
founded. The same charges might be
made and substantiated of every city
of any size. 1t is matter Of common
halls are full Of minors" everywhere
1t Is certain that much iaxity of morals
exists in many hotels. It is inevitable
that q business like the liquor bust
ness conducted by the class of men
who are attracted to it should be loose
ly conducted.
Sioux City IS under the commission
form Of municipal government. What
the minister is really suggesting is an
other commission to see that the cleo
tive commission attends to It's business
as Il Is sworn to do. There is law
City and elsewhere. The commission
upon whom the responsibility Of en-
forcement, the county official who
swore to enforce law when he took Of
fee are waiting perhaps for an APP
pointive commission TO force them &c
keep their oaths.
Then too. the citizen who IS willing
to meet en- masse with others of his
fix and demand a vice commission Is
anxious TO undertake his individual re-
spcnsibility by proxy. He wants this
condition amended but wants to do his
share Of the amending Under cover. Ir
a general way he is willing to condemn
vice and to call viva voce for reform
But he seees the kids crowd the poo
rooms, he notes it with horror as he
passes, he even stops on the street tC
comment upon It to a friend. he agon-
ICES over It IN Sunday school-but hi
doesn't say q word or do thing to tn.
pool hall proprietor. He doesn't make
protest to the authorities. He lets thu
connr!ssion-whtch Is another name
for George-do It.
Yes, we are all very much alike. Thu
average citizen Is the average citizen
He likes to accomplish reforms b,
proxy. Sincere enough, truly anxiou!
for results. lion of reform in a mas!
meeting and lamb alone. And yet
If he got busy individually, this aver
age citizen aggregated would clean VI
the town in a week. It wouldn't b.
as big Job as the making Of the world
in six days at that.
AS to the vice commission: Yes {
vice commission of men peculiarly fit
red Tor :he service by distinctive cour.
age and judgment would be a goot
thing-and two-thirds of those who
clamored for their appointment in {
mass meeting would so fat back OF
them when the trouble began.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
THE SANE THING.

Waterloo Times-Tribune.l
Collecting the catalogs Of mail order
concerns which sold lumber direct TO
Consumers" was one OF the pleasan-
tries Of the national association OF re-
tail lumber dealers to add expense to
their competitors, according to testi-
mony in Chicago in the governments
suit for dissolution of the organiza-
ton. For mail order lumber houses.
their witnesses said. life has been one
round OF surprise ,contrived by the re-
tailers. Both buying and selling were
as difficult az ingenuity could make it.
detectives for the retailers association
having succeeded in getting employ
ment in the mail order houses, where
they made painstaking note OF the
names of the wholesalers, manufactur-
ers and consumers who sold or bought
and set going an espionage which was
relentless. The governments conten-
ton has been that the retailers or
ganization in fact became a combine in
restraint Of trade and the narratives
Of the mail order house witnesses left
no custom that their competition from
retailers had been keen and persist
ent. Some OF the devices ascribed to
the retail dealers were, in addition
TO getting as many copies Of the cata-
log as possible sending for samples of
roofing. paint, and estimates on lum-
Der bills for mythical structures and
ordering small lots which on day of
shipment were countermanded or
changed.
The fight was to embarrass and to
harass the direct to consumer" con-
Germs at every opportunity.
The revelations are somewhat sur
prising. 1t Is easy to conceive of one
man, with mind SO debased as to con-
coct such a scheme as has been TN
earthed, but It IL difficult to compre-
bend how large organization OF men
can be brought into it. collectively. We
are almost sure that the great body of
retailers knew nothing OF the methods
being used: we feel certain they would
not all be parties to such reprehen-
sihle scheme or would contribute
their money toward carrying it out
And yet. IL we read Alright. and If
the truth is being spoken. they must
all answer for what their organization
has done. They must take the conse-
quences. They should be prepared.
After ALL 1t is only such thing as
the monopolies and combinations have
been engaged in for years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
A CORRELATIVE.
fSioux City Journal. !

The good roads proposition as ia
vored by the Des Moines newspapers is
creating a deep brotherly feeling be-
tween Des Moines editors. Ever Har-
vey 1ngham speaks well of Lafe
Young and Lafe gives Harvey full
credit for his booster road work. That
is something. The good roads move
ment Is worth while even II 1t accom-
plishes no more than to sweeten the
spirits OF these pusilistic editors tow
ard each other.-Coon Rapids Enter
prise.
So say all Of us!-all Of US who are
really and truly for good roads. 1t
would be very gratifying to see the
experiment worked out in a practical
manner, and an initial point is Des
Moines, as everybody agrees. What is
needed in Iowa is a road on which two
can pass without throwing mud in one
another's face. Successful demonstra-
ton in Des Moines. necessarily the
center Of our politics. would carry the
state by large majority. Sometimes
one is tempted to believe that Des
Moines editors do not know how inn
portant they are in the working out Of
problems associated with the welfare
OF mankind.
The comment OF the Enterprise
suggests a train Of trought. It sug-
gests the Importance Of f,armony-and
il il to be expected this newspaper
would not overlook anything with that
tendency. The way to make any road
good IL TO support 1t with goodness.
The material must be good or the
road will turn out poor. Necessarily
al, improved road can not be as broad
as an unimproved way. and therefore
it is important that as brothers meet,
on foot or by auto, that they should
be in good temper and able to pass
pleasantly. Men pick up good deal
Of trouble by humping into one an
other. The ffst impulse OF each Is to
excuse himself. One thing leads to
another, and it really becomes quite
shame the way the morals OF children
are perverted by following the Ian
guage OF the leaders of public opinion.
Reform II necessary as prerequisite
to good roads.
It is very easy to acquire pre5u-
! dice. It is particularly easy to acquire
a prejudice in competitive business
association. II the good roads prob
lem Is to be solved the power OF intro
spection must be developed. No one
has yet measured the horse power OF
the best quality OF tntrospection. It
has been known to lift men out OF
themselves, and thus provide them
with q fair chance in the race for re-
spectabdlity.
Temporixing Is not to be COM
mended. For instance, II Harvey Is
saying good things OF Late. and Lafe
is not hurting them back In Harvey's
teeth. az q mere expedient. the occu-
patton has the faults Of the road sys-
tenn OF which there y just now very
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

Il keeps certain newspapers in pro-
fuse perspiration endeavorIng to hang
to the coat tails of advancing public
opinion.
Governor Foss, Of Massachusetts.
meeting Captain Amundsen. INDUCED in
eulogy Of Sweden and Swedish char
acter. The governor realized his mis-
take when Amundsen turned on his
a Swede. but Norwegian" If the
Massachusetts executive had kept store
in Minnesota for a month Or 50 he'd
have looked before he leaped.
Arctic exploration calls for the limit
automobile racing.
When enthusiasts are calling for an
American army in Mexico it Is we'll to
rem ember that the graves by the death
camp at Chickamauga have been green
but fifteen times since they were made
According to a fashion note womens
skirts are to be six inches narrower
Bosh. 1t can't be did.
That daughter Of Father Coffin's II
showing common sense when she re-
fuses to let the old man squander the
property her mother toiled to helI
create.
The Cedar Rapids Republican objects
to the prison farm because it "would
cost 5000 an acre. Does the esteemed
Cedar Rapids journal of light and civ
ilization mean to suggest that Iowa
farm land is not . good speculative in
yestment? First OF 1t can be bough
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

and great big cannon were hauled up
on q knoll above your native hamlet
and pointed at the house containing
your old mother and sisters; would
you pull the trigger II 20 ordered?
Stenbach answered that he would.
He wanted to be naturalized and he
considered, very likely. that the ques-
ton was one to which he was expected
to answer yes"
We object to the form Of the judges
question and submit that 1t should
have been put in some such form as
this:
Suppose that this country were to
declare war upon your native Austria
and great big cannon were hauled up
on a knoll above your native hamlet
and pointed at the house where your
mother lay, dying and your aged father
was ministering to her; that in the
yard close by was your youngest sister
playing with her doll and in the house
was Your other sister. who had re-
mained at home to comfort your par
ents would you, If ordered, go into
the house and shoot down your parents
and your sisters after torturing the
old folks by holding burning fagots at
their feet and the others by binding
them to stove in which you then built
a fire?
Putting the question in this form. we
submit. would impress the candidate
for naturalization with q more ac-
curate sense Of the humanities as in
terpreted by, some Judges, and would
more deeply impress upon his mind
what Is meant when a citizen re-
nounces allegiance to a foreign power.
Certainly unless man be willing to
draw and quarter his foreign mother
ne is unfit for citizenship. And last to
.be thought OF. ,assuredly, as possible
material for the bench
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
4 POOR CASE.

II the legislature Is deliberative
body. and if there is no more real in
formation placed before it in opposition
10 tho board OF education's plan to CO.
orainate the educational work of the
state than was presented at the hear
4ns this week, the jury ought not to
~ out over five minutes in returning
verdict e Aeauitta1 Tor the board.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
Iona Newspapers
AS THE PARAGRAPHS RAN.
fOft,ip,aya RevieU

The city council is spared the nc
cessity of passing resolutions of con-
sent and fixing lnulct license fee.
Ottumwa is saloonless for some time
to come but by mighty close margin,
however, the familiar skidoo "23" the
shortage number.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
RRockwAY,s NOTIONS.

Washington Iowa. Democrat
Of course. Jim Brockway wants good
roads and so do we. all of us. A man is
a fool who does not. But what is the
method Of arriving at the best results
That is question that is vital and
pertinent, and why may not Jim
Brochway. chairman of the good roads
committee in the legislature, have h!s
notions without having his dog kicked
around? We want to know why not !?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
THE PLAN.
IFort Dodge Messenger. ]

We all want a state highway com
mission to adopt broad views; to in
yestigate what is done in other states
and other countries and give Iowa the
benefit OF the progressive discoveries
that have been made; and spend the
road taxes the way money is spent to
build steam roads-for something that
will stand the wear Of time.
A broad plan to connect each county
seat in Iowa with the county seat OF
each adjoining county by good hard
permanent roads is the best thing that
can be worked for In the beginning.
That will give one first-class highway
rain or shine, north and south and
east and west thru each Of Iowa
ninety-nine counties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

loud complaint. The only way to be
permanently good Is to be genutnely
good. Tho goodness must be OF
quality equally applicable to any ques-
ton that may come up. And there's
the rub; for nothing is more varle-
gated or can appear with less warming
than a vital question. The better the
road the more certain and objection
able the ditch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
A DESPERATE. URGENCY.

waterloo tOUTleF.l
1t must have been a distress signal
OF desperate urgency that moved the
Taft machine to require its postoffice
appOintees TO cough up part OF their
salary toward the noble cause of de-
feating the popular will in 1872 on
pain of losing their Jobs. The re-
quest that the bulldoZing letters he
not opened in a public building is a
raw admission Of illegitimacy on the
part Of the generals subordinates.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
SOME IOWA HISTORY,
Knoxville Journal

If those "progressives" who have
started out to get" Cunmins will cast
their eyes backward for a moment over
a dozen years of+Iowa history they Will
view the wrecks Of many promising
careers whose owners engaged enthusi-
astically in the work Of getting Cum
Minis" Among those that might be
mentioned, let US suggest Shaw. SHAW
of Iowa." Hubbard. Blythe, Cousins
Hepburn, Lacey, Hull, LATE Young
Uncle George Perkins. to say nothing
of Sid Foster, Jim Berryhill. Bernard
Murphy and Governor Jackson. In fact
getting Cummins" has been all the
rage in lows political circles for a
round dozen years It has been little
hazardous for the players but must be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Senator Cummins made very good
point when he said that every presi-
dent with perhaps the exception OF
Washington, would have been better
off IL he had gone out Of office at the
end of his first term says the Cedar
Rapids Republican Their second
terms were generally d!screditable in
some way or other and failed to meet
the demands Of the country. They
were the result OF mere political man i
ipulations for reflections and the
presidents eelcted spend their time
trying to pay off political debts, or
revenges, instead OF serving the peo-
pie. Senator Cumrnins has analysed
the situation very correctly, we be-
lieve."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
A JUDGES QUESTION.

dubuque Telegraph deraid.J
Comes Joseph Stenbach, . candidate
for naturalization, to the bar. 1t 10 q
Sioux City judge who addresses him.
saying:
Suppose that this country were to
declare war upon your native Austria
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

One Ottumwa clothing store is said
to have sold $50 suits in one day, an
other about half as many and two or
three more close UP.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
DECLINE OF THE HASDSHAKE
TTalna Herald

IaiGI Herald.j
Many simple minded people find
nowadays that the handsh2ke is much
cut of fashion.
President Elect Wilson, who is going
to cut out the presidential receptions.
may b. justified for a distaste for the
role Of the human pump. But the de-
cline Of the hand shake is ordinarily
brought about by less practical rea-
sons. A leading fashionable club Of ST.
Louis has decreed that it must go. and
1t substitutes the formal bow Unpre-
tentious people frequently find that
their extended hand is viewed with
considerable surprise, as suggestion
of rusticity.
One thing may be counted on. that
however unpopular 1t is in society, the
handshake won't go out OF business
Any man with any skill in salesman
ship knows how good generous hand
clasp suggests cordially and personal
interest. When did a man ever sell q
bill OF goods after greeting his pros
pect" with formal bow?
No matter how gracefully you may
incline your head and bend your body
as prescribed by society, this form Of
greeting Is formal and artificial. No
degree of correctness can ever put any
human feeling into 1t. 1t savors of the
ball room rather than Of the home
circle.
And how much q good hearty hand
shake does mean to the stranger or the
lonely! The writer attended a church
service in a strange city short time
ago and after 1t was over the clergy
man stood at the door shaking hands
His big fists had Just the right
warmth Of greeting. It seemed to say
Glad to see you! Anything we can do
for you? Do you want friends? If you
do. come around!~
The handshake may 90 out Of style
amid the stin and starched precincts
Of the Smart Set. But everyday people
who have sentiments and emotions to
express will find that the pressure OF
the hand tells q moro effective story
than anything the laundering lips can
spell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

In the case Of the daylight law at
Des Moines it's chances of getting thru
the senate seem to be about an even
break. The same measure was pressed
in the last legislature, but failed to get
thru both houses. All right. keep turn
ing down the screws until something
breaks says the Sutherland Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
Make . NJ. Of The.

mako sV6v0 OF tu10e<
There may be no psycholngical zig.
nidcance contained In the fact, but We
may lay down the dlctum, nevestAD-
less. that few women who 80 good
bridge players trim their own !naas.. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY.

Webster City Freeman Tribune
A presidential primary bill has been
written by the house committee of the
Iowa legislature. 1t provides for the
election Of the delegates by the state
at large. The candidates for president
may have their names on the ballot
with the list of candidates to support
them printed beneath so that there
can be no mistake. The candidate for
committeeman shall also be placed on
the ballot. The committeeman VINO
wins shall assume the duties as COM
mitteeman at once.-@Nus eliminating
the holdover.-Davenport Times.
When Iowa passes a presidential
preference primary law it should see
to it that the delegates selected are
not only instructed for the candidate
who carries the state, but are for him
at heart. In the republican national
convention Of last June. forty eight
delegates who were instructed for
Theodore Roosevelt: violated the spirit
of their instructions by deserving his
standard and his friends upon the
questions OF organization and the seat
ing OF contested delegates. These
fortv-eght traitors We're at heart for
Taft and showed their hand when the
showing was necessary to put Taft
over. When presidential candidate
carries a state at the primary he
should have the right to name the
delegates or at least to make effective
protest against those not satisfactory
to him. But for the conduct OF those
forty eight delegates who We're in
structed for Roosevelt. Taft could not
have been nominated and the republic
can party would have been spared the
humiliating and deserved defeat that
overlook If on election day
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

The Manson Democrat has lost hope
for much progressive legislation with
so many prohibition and woman sur
frage cranks in IoWas legislative
midst
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

sultsn Fond Of zessesy. =.
The sultan Of Turkey 10 tbe pspDse
0fOf of . f1ne SOCIOLOGICAL gardssn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts Of Opinion,
Say. Tim. Change. Religion.

Before the Peoples Synagogue Asso-
citation At the Ziegfeld theater. Dr. Ger
son B. Levi continued his series Of lee
lures on reformed Judaism. He spoke
of the changes in the development OF
the world and It's industries since the
beginning Of the Jewish religion and
the present time and also OF the change
in the attitude toward religion AS
conditions have changed 1t has become
necessary for the practices OF religion
to change" he said 1.-THE reformed
Jew has seen this necessity and ack-
nowledged 1t. The orthodox Jew in
terprets the law of his religion TO meet
the present conditions. but does not
acknowledge any evasion Of that law
The only difference between the ortho-
dox Jew and the reformed Jew Is that
the orthodox Jew makes excuses for his
doing things and the reformed Jew
save that the time makes excuses"
Dwarfed Womankind Blamed.
"Why is there a wave OF crime! why
are so many young men and young glris
going astray? Because OF an inefncl-
ent, uncultivated, unsurpassed. cir
cumscribed, abused, insulted- super
ficlal. superstitious and intellectually
dwarfed womankind."
The above statement was made by NJ.
NJ. Mangasarian in lecture on "Wo-
man and Crime" before the Independent
Religious Society at Studebaker the
ater.
Incredible as 1t may sound" said
Mr.. Mangasarian, women are more
oyerworked than men. and work that
never ends. work that has no regular
hours-which lasts all day and Is never
quite finished. and which Is largely
what we might call drudgery-con-
tributes to that WEAKNESS Of the flesh
which in turn saps the energies Of the
mind. A woman who has no time to
read or to attend public satherings-
ana a. confined to the house from one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

After reading the debates in the
Iowa legislature" the Perry Chief is
content to believe that this water
wagon is some popular vehicle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

The Tama News says: Iowa Will
need to have its code issued in three
volumes after the adjournment Of the
present legislature. One volume might
contain a selected lot of the bills and
be entitled the official joke book"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

Looking at a serious matter in its
lighter aspect. as one is compelled TO
do occasionally III order to avoid
wrinkles" says the Sioux City jour
nal. 1T would be scoa Joke if ,hs
democratic administration, instead of
getting rid OF the Philippines, should
be compelled to take on Mexico
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

TO grade and build permanent roads
fro none county seat to another. east
and west only. in Iowa." says the Iowa
City Republican, means about nine
roads across the state, which would
cost $4,000 00G This would be small
beginning. Yet We have good roads
boosters advocating road building
along such expensive lines
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15

"Eighty-two to three is a fair major
ity for the Oregon bill in Iowa and for
the reelection Of Cumming in 1915,
says the Waterloo Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-15
Topics of the Times

1t keeps certain newspapers in pro-
fuse perspira alton endeavorlng to hang
to the coat tails of advancing public
opinion.