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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
COMPELLING RIGHT LIVING.
[Oelwein Register. ]

tOelWein Register.l
It was in a barber shop the other
day and as usual there was quite g
running debate on. The parties engaged
included clergyman, newspaper
man. a railroader and Of course the
barber. The shades of opinion ex-
pressed were varied. some of them
tinged with prayerfulness and some
with slight shade of profanity-for
emphasis.
The main topic. as nearly as could
be asccrtained, was whether people
can be made good by law. The clergy
man expressed the opinion that there
is too much dependence placed on ie-
gal restraints and too little on splr-
itual methods. He said that while q
man might be made to behave hlm-
self by legal enactments enforced the
man ill be little better till his heart
is right.
The pencil propeller thought that a
mixture of the two might be we'll, as
without restrictive laws and ordinances
some people would soon degenerate in
to RIGHTEOUSNESS which is not liberty.
The railroad employee thought that the
legislatures are Formulating laws for
the DetleIHleIt VI Iils lci-'N W. i>-''
and that while some of the enactments
in the line Of personal liberty are a
trile drastic, on the " hole they are 1or
the good of the community.
The barber expressed the idea that
many of the legislators, lawyers elect
ed to office, are set Of snysterS VINO
formulate bills that when they hecome
laws are double faced and give them
an opportunity to practice their pro-
LESSONS in the courts. Saloon leGls-
lation started the pow-WoW, ana the
barber expressed the opinion that
sumptuary legislation is q failure and
that it would be better to allow any
one who chose to dispense alcoholc
liquids without restriction.
To sum up the matter there Is
something OF trut.. II the various
shades Of opinion expressed. But 1t
must be remembered that the world is
running to sumptuary legislation as q
panacea for most of the ills with
which the body polite is afflicted. un-
til the millennium arrives it will be
found that wholesome, restrictive laws
are essential to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness. LibertS should
he permitted to the point where the
liberty of one citizen encroaches on
the liberty of his neighbor. And THAI
margin will be a. debated point for ali
time. Our modern laws are not nearly
as drastic as those Of the Puritahs,
and it looks as tho at present We are
middle of the road people,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
Iona Newspapers
A STATEWIDE OUTLOOK.
TEintOn Eagle,

A we'll graded and drained road bed
crowned with gravel. is the practical
road for Iowa. and it is available at
reasona BILE cost.-Jefferson Bee.
How hard 1t is for some people TO
see over their own glasses. The above
para graph is from a paragraph stating
the conditions in Greene county. The
Bee should remember that every county
in Iowa is not blessed CD with gravel.
In a goodly number of the counties OF
the state like Benton there is surface
Of heavy, black loan with no gravel
within hundreds of miles. The Bee
goes on to state that Greene county has
hundreds of miles of gravel roads that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
Topics of the Times

And still February continues to smile
like an Iowa democrat when some one
says "postoffice.'
Between now and 1916 why can:
Theodore run down TO Mexico ana
straighten things out There's a JOB
for a strenuous person.
The business men Of La Sale, H.,
are entitled to the medal in permanent
road building for by calling it DEM
onstration road they have secured do
nations of sand, gravel and cement
from the cement mills and sand ship
pers sufficient to furnish 60 per cent
Of the cost of mile of concrete road
way twenty feet wide leading out of La
Sale The pavement is to be built this
summer under the direction of the Hi
nois state highway commission.
Governor Clarke is averaging five
speeches a week When it is taken into
considera,i ton that Clarke averages a
least one large hunk Of hard common
sense to the paragraph it begins to look
like record.
Doc Wiley wants the smoking cars
abolished. Like every other man who
talks all the while Doc is by way Of
getting himself dislked if he doesn't
watch out.
President Madero's son is q student
at Wisconsin military academy. But
why not stay in Mexico and pick up
pointers in the home abbatoir?
Des Moines is having trouble num-
bering the dwelling houses. Trying to
make the house numbers jibe with the
| population claim, perhaps?
! The Shankland bill seems TO have
| peeped out, seen a shadow and ducked
back into its hole again. And the
longer it stays in the worse the wealth :
! er seems to be outside.
A couple Of $4,000 900 battleshps
would lay a long stretch Of concrete
road
We would like to see good road
bull. from the composite ideas of the
many kinds of good road boosters
Boone News-Republican.
But what kind Of surface would
a mixture Of black dirt, trivia, con-
crete, macadam, gravel and buncombe
create?
Ramsey county is building graveled
surface macadam road out Of st. Paul
with clay as binder. On a base OF
crushed stone seven inches deep and
sixteen feet wide is placed enough river
sand to fill the voids between the stone
Then the macadam is thoroughly
rolled. Then one inch of clay is rolled
in for binder and on top of the clay
:s rolled two inches of gravel. This
is neither asphalt macadam DOR btu
lithic but should be patented AM
known under the trade name o.
t"mudorock" pavement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
Baseball Globe Trotters.

In 1889, led by Captain Arson. a
company of American baseball players
of note visited Europe and Egypt, laid
out q diamond under the shadows OF
the Pyramids and played before the
Sphinx Intervening years have seen
a wonderful expansion of baseball as
national recreation, and an equally un-
foreseen extension of the area OF tao
world where the game is liked and
played. Thus today in Hawaii, the
Philippines, Japan and China, not &c
overlook Porto Rico and Cuba, specta-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Grundy Republican says: Just
because Grundy county has fine roads
this winter and has been able to use
autom obiles almost every day is no
reason for saying let we'll enough
alone 1t was only six months ago, and
in a fall month at that, when mud
boat would havebeen more serviceable
than an auto in getting over most of
the roads in Grundy county And ones
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
THE BUSINEE FIELD.

Business maintains It's position of
steady, conservative expansion, s yet
unaffected, in any material respect, by
the stirring events happening or I'M
pending in many parts of the world.
European crop advlces are somewhat
t1isappointing, but the winter wheat
outlook in this country is faVorapie'
in spite Of considerable snow de-
1iciency. The weather in the west and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

State Of Iowa,
Marshall county-ss.
We, w. N. Dickerson, president. ana
Leo A. Howe, cashier OF bank above.
named, do solemn1y swear that the fore
going statement. is full, true and correct.
to the best of our knowledge and BELIEF:
that the assets therein set forth
are bona nde the property Of
said bank in its corporate capacity,
and that no part Of the same has been
loaned or advanced to said bank for:
the purpose of being exhibited as.4
portion Of its assets.
wv. N. DICKEH2ssoN, President. -
LEO A. HOWE, Cashier.
Sworn to before me and, subscribed;
in nv presence by w. N. Dickerson
and Leo A. Howe, this 10th day Of Feb.
ruary, 1913. .s
s. N. MHEKINS
Justice of the Peace. In An
for Marshall county.
Notary SeaD
Attested by: x
H. G. VAN oRsDE1.
]. A. BRYANT.
" s a. 1Oarect0te. sts sssS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
THE DAYLIGHT. CLOSING LAW.
rCouncn Riffs NOnlDareil.l


There is bill in the Legislature
which provides that saloons in the
state shall not be opened before
o'clock in the morning and snail close
at { O'Clock In the evening. me
measure has passed in the house ana
is now before the senate. There Is
strong hope among the liquor men thas
the house measure can be defeated IN
the senate And there is fear in the
ranks Of temperance men that the
house bill will fail in the senate.
Among the reasons for this hope and
fear Is the fact that as dayilsht
measure the bill is pretty strong.
A great many senators are sa SltS
that they would support law Whlch
requires saloons to close at ocloc"
but will not support the O'Clock
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

lOu8 W TcChAl lOA8 "CS CPA sNoo "ssSsA
scarcely any kind Of . vehicle was
about. GOOD roads must be figured
on 365-day- in the-year basis: less
than that is merely guess work..
'"rhe saloon is being gradually put
out of business. 1t will not be many
years until it will not have a single
friend or apologist," says the Coon
Rapids Enterprise.
The Story City Heralds idea Of
nothing to read Is most Of these edi-
torials on Republican reorganization.
The Grundy Republican thinks ''rhe
school treasurer should be abolished
and the present bill in the legislature
to that effect should become law
Have every last one of the road ex-
perts go home and work out the poll
tax that they have been skinning the
different localities in which they live
out Of and the roads will be so per cent
better in the state" asserts the Glad
brook Graphic.
publicity Of the states resources
means the creation Of fat job for
some clever fellow who can write
breezy stuff about Iowa." declares the
Anamosa Eureka. But the trouble is,
the most Of it would be consigned to
the waste basket when 1t reached the
editorial desks of other states Iowa
doesn't need advertising in Iowa and
it is doubtful if a publicity bureau
culd advertise Iowa in other states
without the expenditure Of Legitimate
advertising funds"
when a judge refuses to grant a
divorce. do the contentious principals
go back and live decently together?
Not that anyone has heard Of says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. And If
they will not live together and will not
be decent. what good does it do them
to be refused a divorce? There is one
thing that we have not been able to
omplish in America; that is, to
compel people to live together"
The Iowa saloon is being slowly
into a corner and within the next ten
years will undoubtedly make an inglo-
rious exit from the state" says the
Charles City Intelligencer. public
sentiment against the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors thru the medium of the
saloon and the saloon drug store is
growing stronger every Gay and Will
eventually stamp out the business.
Its difficult matter to make some
of the farmers believe that all of this
god road talk is for their benefit. es-
pecially when an auto enthusiast is
doing the talking says the Algona
Upper Des Moines- Republican
"A great many women readily ques-
ton what their husbands tell them but
mighty few have the temerity to doubt
what the clairvoyant says" asserts the
Council Bluffs NCnparel.
Road making is an art that most OF
the road supervisors know little about
hence the average country road,
saws the Oelwein Register. "A course
in road making should be given in va
rious cities of the state and the road
supervisor should be required to pass
an examination in proficiency before
filling the position"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
.H..lth . F.eto. il sueesss.

The largest factor contributing to~a
mans success is undoubtedly health. Il.
has been observed that a man II
seldom sick when his bowels are reg.
ular-he is never well when they are
constipated. For constipation you WIN
find nothing quite SO good az Cham
berlain's Tablets. They not only move
the bowels but improve the appetite
and strengthen the digestion.-Adv.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

"He is very poor. Is he notY
Eyes. very poor
docs he drink"
NAV: Why. If opportunity were to
knock ut his door and ask him to come
out and take something he wouldn't
Il, Houston PnSf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

If BuleonN and U
d
Texas
ContsofE Yk a ~. /!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

Too Great Belief II Luck.
Many Z fellow IN such . drm b.
lever in luck that ho would rather
look for q four.leaved clover tAan
hustle for . job. M
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

''rhe saloon is being gradually put
out Of business. 1t will not be many
years until it will not have single
friend or apologist," says the Coon
Rapids Enterprise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

memory does not need to be 30 very
long to recall long wet springs when
scarcely any kind Of vehicle was
about. Good roads must be figured
on 365 -day-in-the- year basis: less
than that is merely guess work"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

Liabilities.
Amount Of capital stock s....$ 100000
Amount of deposits :
subject to check. So, 03o2S
Amount time depos-
its ...............3o,9 15.ss
Amount savings de-
positS ........:. IO1.S5 -
Amount deposited, by
Total denosits ........,...$ s5.1:o,s4
surnlus fund ...... 100000
Other profits after deducting
expenses ................. 1894
Total liabilitie, .........., szsos.ss !.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17
STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION
ST. Anthony Savings Bank

Organized under the laws Of Iowa,
located at st. Anthony. in the coun-
ty OF Marshall, at the Gloss Of busi-
ness on the 5th day OF February. 1913,
made to the auditor of state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

the road supervisors know little about
hence the average country road,
says the Oelwein Register. "A course
in road making should be given in va :
rious cities of the state and the road
supervisor should be required to pass
an examination in proficiency before
filing the position"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

"A great many women readily Ques-
ton what their husbands tell them but
mighty few have the temerity to doubt
what the clairvoyant says" asserts the
Council Bluffs NOnpareil.
Road making is an art that most OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

Assets.
Amount Of bills, bonds and
other evidences OF debt
discounted or purchased
actually owned by this
hank .ss5, oo7.s7-
Silver in vault. IS 245.1S
Legal tender, Ma
tional bank notes
and subsidiary
coin ............ $4,000
Total gold. silver. legal
tender, drafts and checks.
etc. 1,125.1s
Amount subject to be drawn
at sight on deposit with
solvent banks ............ 4.362.33
Oyerdrafts .... 4,1l4.50
yalLe Of real estate ....... 100000
Value OF personal property. 100000 |,
Total assets 80, s7,sos.ss.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

The Story City Herald's idea ID
nothing to read Is most Of these edi
torials on republican reorganization.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

Its a difficult matter to make some
of the farmers believe that all of this
god road talk is for their benefit, es-
pecially when an auto enthusiast is
doing the talking" says the Algona
Upper Des Moines- Republican
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

Have every last one of the road ex-
perts go home and work out the poll
tax that they have been skinning the
different localities in which they live
out Of and the roads will be so per cent
better in the state" asserts the Glad
brook Graphic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-17

The Grundy Republican thinks 'The
school treasurer should be abolished
and the present bill in the legislature
to that effect should become a law
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
He Was Afraid to Tell
His Wife the Plain
Truth.

The police Immediately began
search for the footpads. and as
they began to get warm" as the
children say in playing hide and
seek, the gentleman confessed that
there had been no assault made
upon him, but that he had tarried
downtown too long and looked too
often upon the beer as it foameth,
and had fallen against a fence in
trying to find his own domicile, and
that he had cOncocted his cute lit
lie lie about the assassins because
he was afraid to go home and tell
his wife the unvarnished truth.
Thus do we see how fear of the
partners of our bosoms makes liars
of us all.
Probably there is no other place
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07

but $40 for it. Such bargain!
And Mr.. Smith remarks that it
looks good to him, and he's glad
he's married to a woman who
knows the value of money and
doesn't fool it away as other wom-
en- do. And Mrs. Smith kisses him,
and has the difference between
what she pays for the hat and
what she says she paid for the hat
charged up on the grocery book
and the butcher book, and deep
peace Teigns over Europe, Asia,
Polynesia and the Smith family.
Such experiences are not con-
fined to the Smith family. They
are daily enacted in every house
hold in the land, and the fault is
not with the liar, but with the ty-
rant that makes the liar. No man
but would like to be frank with
his wife. No woman but would
like to be open and aboveboard
with her husband, but the price
of veracity is a continual row, and
we all prefer peace even if we
have to get it by subterfuge.
The truth is, we are all afraid
of our husbands and wives, and
fear breeds liars. A woman makes
her husband lie to her because
she won't stand for the truth. A
man puts a premium on his wife
deceiving him because he won't
stand for the truth from her, and
so it goes, and the biggest whop-
per that any man or woman ever
tells is when they say to the part
ners of their bosoms: 81 always
tell you the truth about every
thing"
Of course, it's better to fib than
to be divorced, but most people
have felt that the domestic lie was
a degradation, and these will be
cheered and comforted by Judge
Phillips decision that such lies
are not only admissible, but a con
jugal duty.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
A Joyous Gospel From
Helen Keller

Rebel against the hardness and
injustice of things as much as
you like. 1t is always well to
keep your fighting edge keen to
smite wrongs wherever you meet
them. But never doubt the per
manence and excellence of what
is yet to be.
THE great, enduring realities
are love and service. Joy is the
holy fire that keeps our purpose
warm and our intelligence aglow.
Work without joy shall be as
nothing. Resolve to keep happy,
and your joy and you shall form
an invincible host against difficult
ties.
Learn from your books noS
only the days lesson, but the life
lesson. In all knowledge, in the
classics, in science, in history and
literature, and in mathematics
you win see the struggle of mar
to get nearer to God. Resolve
then, as you stand on the thres-
hold of your student days, with
an enlightened optimism to con-
secrate your education to the SER
vice of others. When your
thoughts become pessimistlc,
when it seems as if all men were
deafened by the tumuit of trace
blinded by self-interest and greed
turn the pages Of your history Of
England, and you will find that
the ideals which shaped the An
glo- Saxon race were not mean or
sordid. American history, too, is
filed with heroes and martyr
who ioyfully pushed aside ampI-
ton and gave their lives to the
common veal.
The world needs more Of thlS
spirit of service. There is stl''
many a desert place where Ia7
sun of love and the light of tTu'H
have not shone."
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
By DOROTHY DIX

on earth where strict veracity is
at as much of a discount as it is
in the family circle, which uni
versal experience proves that,
however admirable it may be as a
theory, it is a boomerang in prac-
tice. Probably no man and no
woman ever tries telling the exact
truth to his wife or her husband,
but once. That once is sufficient
to point the moral. Let it not be
forgotten that the champion liars
of history and tradition, Ananias
and Sapphire, were a married
couple, who had doubtless acquired
dexterity in putting across plaus-
ible tibs in dealing with each other.
Now, most married people, while
recognizing the impossibility of
maintaining the character of Truth
full James and Veracious Sally,
and still keeping up friendly re-
lations, have regretted this neces-
sity More: They have been
troubled in their cousciences about
the matter. for they were not by
nature liars and would gladly have
dallied with the truth if they could.
To these unhappy tarradiddlers
there is balm in Gilead by the de-
cision that has just been handed
down by Judge George L. Phillips,
of Cleveland, Ohio, who gives it
as his judicial opinion that when
little lie will preserve the do
nestle calm, the husband should
tell it hravely and well. and in a
manner TO carry conviction.
Indeed, Judge Phillips-a Daniel,
a second Daniel, / say, come to
judgment-holds that a man is
actually reprehensible if he with
holds the falsehood from his wife
that would have prevented a fam
lily squabble In commenting on
the evidence in a divorce case,
Judge Phillips opined:
A little diplomacy, and there
would have been no trouble in this
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
Why Married People Lie to Each Other
They Won't Tolerate the Truthful Means Quane and They d
Rather Have Peace Even if They Have Fb That End

Mot long ago a wealthy West
v ern woman was heavily
fined by the customs au-
thorities for classifying her state
ment about the value of a dress
she had bought in Paris. Upon in
vestigation the Collector announced
that he was convinced that the
reason the lady made a false re-
port of what she paid for the frock
was not because she desired to
defraud the Government, but be-
cause she was afraid to tell her
husband the truth about what the
garment had cost.
About the same time a man in
an Eastern town appeared early
one morning with n black eye and
the most frightful tale of how he
had been waylaid by robbers and
almost murdered. and left for dead
by the wayside, and of how he had
crawled home as soon as he re-
covered consciousness.
Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-07
We Fear Our Wives and
Husbands, and Fear
Breeds Liars.

Mr.. Smith is perfectly aware
that his beloved Maria will de-
liver a curtain lecture that will be
interminable if he tells her that
he stayed downtown at night to
play poker with some old crony,
but she will think that he did no
more than his duty if he remained
away from his own fireside to toll
to make more money for her to
spend. Very well, it's cinch what
Mr. Smith is going to tell Maria
about why he wasn't home for
dinner
Mrs. Smith knows by expert
ence the storm that will break
over her head if she admits that
she paid S25 for her new hat.
Therefore she sweetly remarks to
Mr.. Smith, that oh, dear. she's
nearly dead; she's just been run
ming all over town trying to find
hat that looked like anything
and that wouldn't cost but $12, but,
thank goodness. she found one in
shop on Whitehall street that
looks as if it had come from Fifth
avenue, and she didn't have to pay