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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
Danger in "eood Road. Days"


The good roads days in Missouri
last week attracted attention the coun-
try over Judging by most reports. the
chief benefl, deemed to be derived con-
sists in the actual work done-the
number Of miles graded and graveled.
Undoubtedly a small army can. II
properly directed, effect temporary
Improvement in two working days. But
there are disadvantages as we'll. The
chief one is that these days will en-
gender the notion that highway work is
extremely simple and that 1t consists
solely in filling up ruts. The value Of
drainage-so essential to good dirt
roads-is likely to be overlooked.
Moreover, spasmodic efforts are likely
to leave the impression that occasional
efforts are sufficient TO keep reads in
good condition. Bitter experience
should teach road users that such 10
not the case, but the omission in high
way lays Of provision for maintenance
is so general that something besides
occasional good roads days 10 neces-
sary to inculcate sound ideas on high
way management Until the people at
large have sound ideas on the subject,
proper recognition Of maintenance will
not be accorded by their legislative
representatives.. These road days
should be accompanied by an educa-
tional propaganda. If with the cam
paign for bringing out the men there
be combined the distribution of short.
simple leaflets emphasizing the essen
tials for good dirt roads, the value of
the good roads day Will be much en-
HANGED.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
A skirt Censor.
rAtkinson Globe. ]


In Puritanical New England. in New
Britain. Conn, to be exact, great
manufacturing firm has warned It's
clerks and stenographers to beware OF
the silhouette and slit skirt, the form
fitting finery too tight to walk in. Girls
are expected TO appear for Work IN
modest sarh and business-like. II is a
wise notion. it seems to us. FOR the
stenog should not dress for duty as II
she were in the butterfly business And
probably it will have the desired effec.
on the few VINO md employment there.
But girls who don't work and those
who do should remember that this skirt
censor heralded about in the dispatches
is not the only one. There is one in
every town, almost on every corner.
The girl who defies this widespread
censorship may not lose her JOB: she
may not have job to lose. but she
loses something Of considerably more
importance. She may not sacrifice her
honor. but she loses reputation for
modesty which is more precious than
pearls or other oriental ornaments. And
this censorship of public opinion is ex-
tensive. and by no means limited TO
scanty skirts
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
TIadEsREPUBLICAN. sEPTEaBER

for eight months. butter for nine. fish
for nine, veal for three, fowl for flvs
or ten months according to whethse
they are merely killed or dressed.
This law. II well enforced, ought to
be Of great beneht to the people OF
Pennsylvania. insuring them sound and
wholesome food, and tending to pre-
vent the cornering Of good products by
specula tors. or course. Pennsylvania
merchants can still purchase supplies
from cold storage plants outside OF the
state not subject to this regulatory
measure. But as the subject is better
understood other states will doubtless
follow Pennsylvania example.
Cold storage properly used 10 great
and, under modern conditions almost
indispensable convenience. It's perver-
sion to the uses Of undue speculation.
with the resulting higher prices and
deteriorating condition OF the stored
products, can easily be prevented.
Such prevention ought In time to have
a distinctly beneficial influence on the
cost of living. to say nothing OF the
conservation OF health.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
pusvouE's PRIZE ROAD MONEY

The energy displayed by Dubuque
county in raising $4,000 for road i'm
provement and going after a prize Of
special appropriation of $4,000 after
Boone and Story counties had beaten
her to 1t on the first one illustrates
what would happen in the way OF road
work in Iowa il the state would offer
to pay for one-third or one-half OF
the cost OF road Improvement. The
struggle OF localities to obtain the
prize or bonus money would lead TO
an era Of road Improvement such as
we have never dreamed OF before.
Senator Bourne. OF the senate COM
mittee, should also find in the Du-
buque case confirmation Of the wis
don, OF his plan for natural aid to To-
calitieS in road Improvement. Bournes
committee has pending in congress
bill which would have the national
government borrow money at 3 per
cent to be loaned to the states at
per cent for road Improvement and
credit the extra / per cent upon the
principal OF the loan which would
eventually retire the loan without tax
alton other than the states interest
charge. Under his bill the national
government would also pay a part OF
the cost Of roads and its plan would
prove of far more public benefit than
the various schemes for building ma
tional highways in spots. Those COM
runities like Dubuque and Boone and
Story counties which were willing TO
help themselves would receive federal
aid for road Improvement
The time will come when an Iowa
legislature will see the wisdom of the
state paying third Of all per-
manent road work from its automobile
fund. the county one-third from a gem
eral levy and the property benefited
one-third from special road assess
ments. This with twenty year bonds of
either county or state will pave rural
roads in Iowa without putting bur-
den upon anyone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
LOOKING FORWARD.
ISin,r CITY Tribune.

Colonel Roosevelt has again denied
that he has shown disrespect TO the
courts. He has only manifested con-
tempt for corrupt or incapable judges
and these have been and still are more
plentiful than they should be.
No little interest attaches to the
charges that have recently been
brought against a member of the fed
eral bench and which charges congress
has resolved to investigate. II will be
remembered that this judge Travelled
over the country, urging upon state
bar associations 10 denounce by resp
luton the system Of investigation by
means of specia, agents TO which the
federal judges were being subjected by
the government In this he apparently
lost sight of the fact that the ccnstitu-
ton provides that the president shall
take care that the laws be faithfully
executed" and that such surveillance
has been justified in several instances
tina, ii has been practically essential
in the territories.
When Senator Borah attacked the
attorney generals Justification of the
governments methods in such cases,
Senator owen promptly took up the
gauntlet. He said:
Il believe federal judges should pc
subjected to r1atured public opinion:
that they should respect 1t, and that
they should regard themselves as the
servants of the people. believe. there
fore. these judges should not be ap-
pointed for life. with no other way to
reach them except by the cumbersome
and almost impossible remedy OF inn
peachment. believe 1t would be
better to have the people nominate ana
elect the federal Judges for limited
terms
Looking forward this utterance may
be prophetic of what the present adj
n7ini.tration a. Washington will at
tempt TO bring about. Any Judge whose
integrity il. in doubt should keep silent
He furnishes 1000 arguments against
his life tenure that integrity would
contradict.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
MNAB'S CASE.

tCouncil Bluffs Nonpareil.1
President Wilson's conduct in the
case follows that Of President Taft in
the defense OF Ballirger and the dis
charge OF CLAWS and his fellow work.
ers. But Wilson avoided the rocks
which Taft hit. He didn't take any
chances by trusting his lieutenants to
carry out their conceptions Of the
proper governmental course while from
the executive offices he gave them his
signature and sanction not only TO
what they had done. but to all things
which they proposed to do. While sus-
tanning and retaining his assistant and
discharging their assailants. Wilson
took excellent care that his own
er.nine was not soiled in the melee.
Under the circumstances the strongest
charge that can ne laid at the door OF
Mr. Wilson is that he did McNab
grave injustice for purely political
consideration. Whatever might have
become of McReynolds. McNab should
have been retained to prosecute these
cases and he should then have been
continued in his office because of his
fidelity TO its duties. President VIII
son put a blur on his conduct in this
case which will not wash out, for 1t
is more than skin deep.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
RACHELORHOOD.

fWareTlOO Times rlOuen.j
Some states would have il that man
must be perfect. physically. and every
other way, before he marries. There
are lega, requirements galore ana as
reform goes on. they are being added
10. What will the future bring? How
strict will the marriage laws be made:
Many states are now making bachelors
and many more will be SO engaged be-
fore there is a backward movement.
The high cost OF living is enough 10
scare the daylights out Of any young
man and the laws demands becoming
more severe are enough TO commend
bachelorhood to him. Why scare him
more?
In former days bachelorhood was
state of mind. Today other causes
contribute. TWO can live as cheap!y
as one" once had its effect. but today
the theory is exploded. VIVA. will the
reformers do? II is now certain that
the statistics showing that married
men live longer than bachelors has had
no good effect-he reuses 10 be moved.
Making divorce easy has offered NJ
inducement.
The more we think Of it, the farther
up the tree are we. Perhaps. after all.
it is just as we'll to let the bachelor
alone. He can do harm only to him
self. But We shall see what the knights
of reform shall see.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
FARMING BY PROBATION.

Now that we have worked the care
Of the children's morals and manners
or on the school teachers are we to put
.aslonsio billy for common affairs 81 the
farm and countryside upon the gov
ernors of the different states? At pres
ent gubernatorial proclamation seems
to be at least fashionable and even
popular. The governor OF Missouri
with the proclamation of a seed corn
week" Minnesota's governor takes up
1.-THE seed corn proposition and issues
to that effect Kansas
|Hovernor will have the good people Oh
that dry and thirsty state assembled
10 dig ponds all over bleeding Kansas
Il the proclamation prospers. And
there we are. To be sure Iowa isn't
'poeclAiming much officially. Every
body 10 Busy doing something useful
ln lows.
A. to this seed corn proposition: the
EAfmer who requires to be shaken
wake by gubernatorial proclamation
10 ave seed for the coming year isn't
strong asset to 4 strictly farming
)ommunity. The farmer who hasn't
|unIciAnt knowledge and sense to know
FAsn his seed should be gathered isn't
kelly to know good seed when he sees
There have heen 1nnumerable in
Iltutes At which the gospel OF good
farm boy ~iio does not know that
- should be saved before frost per-
AD0 he had best study for the law r
= 1nintstry. He doesn't show the
-: :e.Se.s:..en sor agriculture agriculture.
H. average farmer refuses to call
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
[Chicago Record-Herald.

The idea of consolidating and simpli-
flying state government is marching.
The conference Of executives at Color
ado Springs discussed the question
constructively and significantly.
Governor Hodges, Of Kansas, restated
his views on the application of modified
commission government to the state
views originally set forth in a legis-
lative message-while other governors
boldly advocated single house. small
m EN- bership. more frequent and bust
nesslike sessions, the election of certain
members at large scientific budget
making. and improved methods of Leg
islation.
Two or three years ago such ideas as
these were startlingly novel Today.
owing 10 the spread of municipal COM
mission rule. as well as to the addi-
tional illustrations Of "how not to do
it, by inefficient, faction ridden, boss-
controlled or demoralized legislatures.
the country is very seriously consider
ing ways and means OF undermining
and simplifying the machinery Of state
administration. Do we need so many
Of the old checks and balances? Is 1t
rational for states to stick to the alb
Sufdly long DallOt. TO eject so many
ministerial and obscure functionaries?
Is not systematic cooperation between
the legislature and the executive not
only safe but essential to economy and
efficiency? Is a bicameral assembly alb
eolutely necessary?
In Colorado there is a movement in
favor Of short state ballot and drastic
simplification Of government. Consid-
ering the number and variety OF exper-
iments We are constantly Witnessing, It
would be a good thing for some Of the
smaller states to try small. single.
chambered legislature and very short
ballot, the appointive power being SUBJ
ject to such new checks and restraints
az the up-to-date municipal charters
provide for local authorities possessing
concentrated power.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
THE ANIMAL DANCES. F."
[Sioux civ Journal.l


There are those to say that the
tango and other animal dances" very
popular in high society on either side
of the Atlantic. have come to stay.
unless something better is provid
ed. What is meant, to be sure. is
something worse. and as human in
genuity. as Well as wickedness. is
very great. it may be assumed some
thing worse will come along in due
time as the tango and the like soak
in. From time out OF mind the pro-
prieties in dancing have uniformly
fallen into the discard. With the physi-
cal uplift there has been no attend--
ant moral uplift. The minuet, the slow
and graceful dance Of the days OF
Washington, could only be thought of
now in association with history. The
square dances Of a generation ago are
on, OF practice. The waltz, until re-
Gently the dance of the giddy and the
bane OF the clergy. is now tame az
fair and relegated to the clumsy and
to those in fear Of rebuke. The tango
will have defenders !arer-defenders
other than those who make expression
with their feet and the swish of scant
wearing apparel. Possibly there are
those to stoutly persist that this can
not be to any very respectable extent.
1t is we'll to reflect. The London Times.
not in any respect sensational. re-
Gently called attention to some things
said OF the polka when II arrived
about a century ago. The Sporting
Magazine. mind you-101 years ago
spoke of the polka as the disgrace OF
sense and taste"-"a will-corruptlng
dance: a compound OF irnlnUdest s5st-
ure and infectious poison" No sport
ing publication of our time has gone
after the tango with anything like
equal severity. Indeed, it is doubtful
if the pulpit has fayed the tango with
the severity dealt out to the delicate
little polka by the Observation-Disclosures
a century ago,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
,een found in the vast majority q

been found in the vast majority q
cr1minals
Dr. Gorine concludes: "Ths chise
source OF the high degree OF feaat1en-
ship between wsakmindsdnAss and
crime il probably beside tie fact The
thing which We can ex1minal1ty xnd
which leads % the pespsttat1o0 OF
many II not most ant1-social o6e0Oe0
today IL not lnhessnt Wicks6nea. but
natural stupidity"
The volume - epoch making p that
it il "the ffst attsmpt 70 arffte It
results in criminolosy ~ the statistical
treatment OF facts. which in Q crude
form are without scdeati0c value.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
Iona Newspapers
NOT OUT OF PROPORTION.
fSheldon MALL

There Is much talk. and Justly 10. Of
the rise in land prices in the last few
years. For instance. farm which sells
today for $500 an acre thirty years ago
was sold for $50 But this raise Is on
parellel with that Of many commod-
tiles. For instance. twenty years ago
eggs could be bought for 4 cents per
dozen, whereas today they are II and
is cents. The raise in land has not
been out Of proportion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02

the hired man." He insists on help
that get up without assistance and 90
to doing chores without being told and
directed daily. The farmer who waits
until proclamation sends him out to
gather seed corn for next spring il
about the same sort Of farmer as the
hired man who must be shaken by the
shoulder Of mornings and requested to
get up and feed the horses. Thank
goodness we haven't enough Of them in
Iowa to render proclamation" neces-
sary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
I1-rGE PROUTYrs STAND.

IDes Moines Register and Leader.]
The Register and Leader did not
set out to have a debate with Con-
gresham Prouty over his opposition
to the Glass Owen currency ana
banking bill. All it had 1t mind
was to suggest to him that in basinS
mis- opposition to the bill on the
compulsory aid it demands Of the ma
tional banks he was choosing the
weakest ground he could take with the
public. however he. might fare tech
nically with the courts.
1t stands to reason that no central
banking system can be suggested that
does not involve the organization OF
one or more central banking institu-
tions capitalized and maintained as
part Of the national banking system.
To say in the law that it will be vol
untary with the existing banks wheth-
er to join in sustaining these central
hanks. once they are ordered, ID q
mere form of speech. For no national
bank could remain in business and not
offer to it's patrons the guarantees OF
the central bank reserves. Therefore
it's voluntary action would be in the
end just what its compulsory action
will be II the Class Owen bill becomes
a law-it would either pay its share
or surrender its charter as q national
bank.
Judge Prouty himself plainly rec
ognizes that there IL nothing in this
claim of "compulsion" IL there il to
be central banking system, ana
sustains himself by declaring his OPP
position to the voluntary cooperation
suggested in the report Of the AID
rich commission. n other words.
the Judge would not favor the or
ganization Of central banks at ALL but
would content himself with granting
permission to the existing hanks to is-
sue an emergency currency.
This II . suggestion that has been
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
Regulation Of Cold storage.
rNipnoapoJta In,,rnal1

Pennsylvania has taken the lead In
regulation OF cold storage. A new law
IL now in force in that state which re-
quires all storage houses to be licensed
by the state. They ara TO be inspected
regularly By deputies 0s The dairy and
food commission, and all food pack.
ages must bear tags showing the dates
on which they were put in storage
Beef can not he kept Icager than fur
months. nor pork. mutton and lamb
longer than six. Eggs may be stored
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
FORMS A ONE MAN TRUST.

Philadelphia Carpenter lneorpssseee
Himself Fer 92yooo,ooo; Partly Watsr.
Benjamin r. Roberts. carpenter Of
924 Cumberland street, Philadelphia.
has sent to Harrisburg papers 1ncor>
porating himself for 100000 - Z ono
man trust
Roberts said that he was watering
his stock somewhat. % he might not
be able to pay dividends upon the 81
600, 900 stock issue which he purposes
to sell to friends or other interested
parties. but he contended he had %
much right to innate his personal Suck
q any other corporation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
Broken Lea Get by c.nerst..

A lAborsr In Columbus, O.. had his
bTvksu ie6 partially reset by Inc con.
crete which had been dumped on him
from . bucket. The blow Of the
bucket broke his leg, ana the concrete.
flowing out, made q arm cast around
the limb. The doctors who finally
got to work on the broken bone had
arst to remove the concrete. and re-
bort that the cast had done its work
very wslL even helping to reset the
bone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02

Driiiian< 9igno luso Aawjss.
Maurice Willsn Of 0eofgetown. Del,
has q new scheme for killing chicken
hawks which hs claims proves that
hen hawks havo n artise1c sense -.
spite their feeoc1ty.
Maurice secured Q nuDbee Of iarEs
advertising signs brilliantly paaAted,
which he set ia his poultry !Ar4, the
pictures Turing the hec hAwts 6owa
Tor a look. when wi;isn h1;sx WITH
q run, shoots them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
lm of Abeent coyvardlx.

Criticism a Absent cot~ardIy.
Don't crit1eiDo The absent. Aake g
Q point when any man II under dc.
cussion to cay something nice about
him or TO Keep still. There's always
something mean and oowafdly "a .
criticism made upon an absent person.
You fall ut once N the estimation Of
rightuindsd people who hear yos.
They may think you small, and poe
sibly nay ct you down - Q cad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02
Topics of the Times

Only the slave to fashions dictates
the mercury at 10s in the shade. And
it doesn't usually make a lot of differ
ence how soon one of these S. t. (. d..
get sunstroke.
The corn crop. the statistical sharps
say, will be only about 100000. That's
little short, but it is practically all
the corn on earth and we have it.
Dividends for September are esti-
mated 100000 better than those of
las, year. Well. they need be. Bread
and meat anu gasolene haven't gone
down any.
A ship will pass thru the Panama
canal next March. if Ola Mr.. Balboa
and lot of other ghosts should be
given day off 10 see the finish.
Actually those Mexicans are ae hard
TO harmonic as Clark and Wilson dem
ocrats
Senator Hitchcock IS insurgiaS
against the democratic president. Is
it possible tina, Champ is he man who
put the hitch in Hitchcock?
II the United States uses good sense
i, will make that cana! 50 hard to get
at that no war vessel ye, produced can
get within range for any purpose ex-
cept paying tolls.
When corn sells at 20 cents and hogs
approach the $40 point and cattle are
jumping over the moon if any statisti-
clan cares 70 amuse himself by show
ing that the farmer e still DOWN
trodden creature who isn't getting his
let the heathen rave But the rest OF
us will keep on wishing we were farm
ers and had the stuff 10 sell instead Of
buy
AS foil 70 conditions in Iowa and
suggesting that good old saying, ut
might be worse" II may be pleasing as
well as sad TO note that the secretary
OF the Atchison. Kan. commercial club
is sending out appeals TO other COM
merc!al clubs to send buyers for small
stock hogs which must be sold for lack
Of feed.
The Iowa Falls Citizen went riding
in an automobile to Des Moines and
boldly asserts that there is scarcely
we'll fenced farm between Iowa Falls
and the capitol. If he had been riding
with some of the Marshalltown scorch-
ers the telephone poles along the road
side would have looked like solid
wall Still. il is strange that he saw
50 few good fences. Had 1t been COM
ing home from Des Mo,nes explanation
might suggest itself but Iowa Falls is
dry.
Mr.. Thaw's little trip abroad has re-
ceived more attention than the million
or more decent people who have trav-
eled gu, OF the United STATES into for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-02

The healing demuicent qualities Of
Foley's Honey and Tar Compound are
not duplicated in any other medicine
for cnughe and colds ANY substitute
offered yon is an inferior article. Re-
fuse to accept 1t for 1t can not pro-
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OF Foley's Honey and Tar Compound.
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