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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
at that It will all come back. for Linn
county would eventually Waken up and
get her share.
SHANKLAND AND NEWSPAPERS.
shenandoah World.l

SHANKLAND AND NEWSPAPERS.
shenandoah World.l
Representative Shankland Of Rs
Moines made an attack on newspapers
and the short ballot In a speech before
the Iowa legislature the other day. He
characterized the short ballot as
dangerous step towards newspaper
government II Mr.. Shankland did but
know it newspaper government would
be an Improvement over much or the
present form, for there is no class OF
people in such close and constant
touch with the people generally as the
newspaper men. 1t is their business to
know what the people are thinking and
what the people want and their ap-
peals are in behalf of the people nine
times ont of ten. The newspaper is
the dread of the CRATER and the special
interest man because the newspaper,
reaching out it's tenacles III a thou
sand directions drinks in public senti-
ment. Its prosperity, its very life de-
ponds upon standing up for the people.
There are corrupt newspapers. 1t Is
true, and many times the newspaper is
brought by bribery or threats to sup
port bad measures, but on the whole
the newspaper fraternity shows up as
a defender Of right, the champion Of
the poor. the leader in the cause of
liberty and justice. Shankland could
have made no plea for the short ballot
more powerful that to say 1t ends to
lead to newspaper government. News
papers govern only as they voice pub
lie sentiment and give direction and
leadership and enthusiasm to fighters
for the right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
Iona Newspapers
EXPENSIVE TO BE ASLEEP.
Advertiser


why should Linn county be obliged
to pay taxes to help build roads in
Woodbury. county" the Republican
asks. In the first place Linn county
will never be asked to help build roads
in Woodbury. county unless Linn coun-
ty is too dead to build them herself
No law will be passed that will 1ot
allow Linn county to spend as much
money as she will vote on a tax on
roads in this county. But if Linn coun-
ty cares to sleep, as she has done on
the road question, there is no good
reason why she should not be taxed for
blocking the wheels of progress. 1t is
only fair that she should be obliged to
help some county that is awake. But
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
For Sunday Reading
AN Ssrt, Of Opinion,
Charity?
mayor Wilson. Berkeley. CAL

| Mayor Wilson Berkeley. Call
| But the supreme reason which oner
Tor not accepting your invitation is
there Is something positively vulgar
and ostentatiously pagan in the spec
tacle OF group Of citizens OF TWEEN :
! tieth century city sitting down to -
banquet while pictures are being shown
displaying the hunger Of the poor. AS
the press describes it, charity work.
ers to see at dinner how needy families
live;" pictures Illustrating battles with
poverty and sickness in the homes of
San Francisco's poor will be shown to
| the banqueters.
l am not very good christian. I
wish were. But in the name Of Christ
and his hungry people l enter my pro-
test against the word ''carity' being
used in connection with any such func-
ton.
| 1t is time people with an awakened
christian conscience should cease to
dine SO ostentaiously with Dives while
Lazarus lies hungry at the gate.
! This picturing Of the hunger and
misery Of the poor to overfed banquet
ers becomes the more reprehensible
since it is now acknowledged by every
social thinker and worker of any i'm
! portance that these poor are made pos
sible by unjust social economic condi-
tions. They are victims of an un-
christian and irrational Industrial sys-
tenn that robs the people and enriches
the exploiters of the people.
! If you offer rebuke to me for pub
licly declining this invitation on the
ground that If did not wish to attend
could stay away and keep silent, re-
| ply that If anything under heaven
should be open to the moral sense Of
| the community it is the activities and
functions Of organized associated char.
tiles. The business Of such a body in
| their dealings to the poor and for the
poor is the business Of every human
being.
l am no mere esthetic and I don't
want to be a mere crank, but I feel led
by what seems to me the spirit Of
Christ to enter this protest. and 1 shall
gladly repent this letter if I can be
Intellectually and morally convinced
that my ethical and spiritual attitude
| rs discourteous or wrong.
This in behalf of Lazarus lying at the
gate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

"At the municipal ownership cleo
ton III Cedar Falls Monday S69 ballots
were cast by men and 661 by women,
The Waterloo Reporter says Of it.:
This result, aside from it's probable
effect upon the question at issue, must
be gratifying to the advocates Of WON
ans suffrage, and disconcerting to
those who maintain that women do not
want to vote and would not if they had
the right"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
NEGLECTED Children.

The decline in church attendance IN
England is attributed by The British
Weekly to the pastoral neglect of the
children. Nearly all Anglican and
nonconformist churches have shown a
falling Of in the past year; the Catholic
church alone finds itself in condition
that warrants self congratulation. DR..
Robertson Nicol lays almost the whole
blame on the pastors. who seem to
make no effort to bring the children
into the fold. Eve may talk as we like
about the forces that initiate against
church attendance" he writes, ''but
when all Is said ard done, the truth is
that the pastoral heart is cooling and
the work &c the shepherd Is not being
DONE" He seems to find the activities
of the clergy tending too much in an
other direction, for he adds: If 1t were
otherwise. those responsible for our
conferences and assemblies would tear
up their programs and know no politics
and no theology and no criticism I'LL
the lambs were in the fold" One sun
day in December Liverpool undertook
to see how bad the case was and took
census of those in attendance at the
churches, chapels. and mission halls
Of that city. This was the fourth cen :
sus taken since 1881 and the combined
showing is a, marked indication OF
tendencies. In 1881, Jag. 400 people were
found in church on the Sunday III
question; in 1891. 157,s46; in 1902. 49,
III, and in 1912, 160.721. Tho the pop
u,ation Of Liverpool was increased In
the last decade by about $4,000, being
now 752,021. this period shows a de-
cline. TIE Methodist position there Is
helped by its Central Hail.. that at
tracts an evening attendance OF 2,34o.
Looking elsewhere:
At the Presbyterian churches the
morning attendance has gone down
from $500 in 1891 to 1854 in 1912. and
the evening attendance from $500 To
1920. The Congregationalists have
suffered a severe loss in morning at
tendance. but there is only a slight dif-
ference in the figures for the evening
being 5,e14 in 1912. and 5,SO3 in 1902
The Baptist decrease is attributed
mainly to the removal Of DR.. Aked
Pembroke Chapel, where he preached
in Liverpool, had morning attendance
in 1912 of 1875, which has now gone
down 20 PA The evening attendance
in 1902 was 1878, and is now 56A.
Politicians, lawyers, preachers and
puhlishers-all these in varying de-
grees are to blame for Chicago's wave
of crime" NJ NJ. Mangasarian named
them and denounced their methods.
The leader Of the Independent Re-
ligious Society addressed an audience
that filled the Studebaker theateT. Here
are the summaries Of his indictments:
Politicians are parasites. and theil
pull is stronger than law.
Lawyers do not seek to aid justice
but to obtain favorable verdicts as
feathers in their caps.
Preachers have been palavering and
doctoring the criminal patient for 2.OOt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

The Mason City Times believes that
the farmer should not be excepted in
the laws. 1t says: "If any Of these
measures apply to the farmer. he
should share his responsibility just the
same as the man engaged in manufac-
turing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

school heartbroken and given up tho
dream OF an education merely because
Of the social ostracism practised by
these "Holier than Thou" combina-
tjona, ~ w I. s3ftIi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
"Hov MANY bridges RELATIVELY cos

How many bridges, relatively. cost
$4,000 or over?" asks the Des Moines
Tribune. "Of the $50 recommended Cor
Polk county. how many would come to
the state commission under this pro-
vision of the law? Why should Chair
man Brockway want to put limit so
high that the bridge men can operate
untouched by it?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15
PLUMETls EMBROIDERY
SMAR1ENS THIS GOWN

This attractive afternoon gown Of
plain and zigzag crepe Is handsomely
decorated with plumetis embroidery in
shades Of yellow and black. The wide
girdle OF Grape is trimmed with patent
leather straps and buttons. the latter
being used effectively in otherwise em-
beiishins the, costume =. 4. 49,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

There is enough of the don't care
spirit in modern life without accen-
tuating it by a popular phrase" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican, referring
to the slang expression, 81 should wor-
ry.' There are a lot of people who do
not worry who should be worrying,
and lots Of people who are worrying
should not worry so much
The Charles City Intelligencer be-
lieves that Senator Kenyon will loom
large on the presidential horizon be-
fore the lapse of another year.
March came in like a lion and will
60 out like one in Iowa if the legis
lature does not come across with some
kind of a satisfactory good roads law
pretty soon,'' says the Manson Demo-
crat.
THE Bee is for woman's suffrag re
and VIII do what It can to advance the
interests of the cause" says the JEFF
ferson Bee. THE assumption Of all the
powers of government by one sex, as
against another eqally intelligent, is
arbitrary and despotic. Custom and
| long habit have given this practice a
| flavor Of Righteousness, but viewed
i from the standpoint of fundamental
+! right and justice, it is indefensible."
when Cuba tried to pass a general
amnesty law, Secretary Bryan prompt
| ly told President Gomez that the Unit
ed States would not allow Cuba to do
anything OF the kind observes the
| Davenport Times. Imperialism, once
a burning issue. seems to be dead even
! in the office of the new secretary OF
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Pastor Picture. City .. Eden.


Eden means opportunity, and no
place on earth is nearer to it than
Chicago" said Rev. Frederick E. Hop
kins, d. D.. in his sermon at the Park
Manor Congregational church.
Take Eden out of the category Of
has beens and tell us where 1t is now?''
he asked. 1T is here. But how about
Adam? The Serpent? Again let us get
away from the kindergarten Of the sub
ject.
Whatever Adam was he was not an
obstruction. he was no sort of dam
thrown across the stream Of human
progress. His garden was his chance.
and it suggests yours ad mine. His
fall the tragedy repeated more or less
in every career since dating from him,
moral history began to be recorded.
His Serpent is the age long false
hood Thou shalt not surely die which
everyone sometimes believes, when We
know better than to believe it, and we
are compelled to suffer the conse-
quences.
What has been called The expul-
sion Of Adam may be described in
modern terms as moving day. judg-
inent day, resignation requested, iii.
voluntary bankruptcy. 1t is paying the
debt. And there is no more sure or
cruel collector in the universe than the
devil.
Every day thru the doors Of our
railroad depots, as thru the gates OF
old time cities, comes Adam and Eve
to Chicago to find the Garden OF Eden.
They fall and will fall II they think
they know too much, or attempt to get
kind Of knowledge they have been
told to let alone. Here they can In
crease and multiply and replenish the
earth. Here they can drop to the bot
tom below which nothing is lower. But
they can turn and climb again to the
top"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

eio Letters on orssn Paper.
Grisgs-"say, did your wife ever
and any letters in your pocket ana
raise q row." Briggs-"she found x's
and vs there. but she always kept
quiet about It"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

FLoWEREp sUNsHADEs
TO BE QUITE POPULAR
Parasols of Powered sfoulard are TO
be carried by women Of fashion this
summer. The advance model tlus-
trated here is q novel shape. known
as the pagoda. The fancy wooden
handle is adorned with a rosette Of
satin ribbon.
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years. ana the patient has crown
Publishers print newspaper accounts
OF crime that tickle the vanity Of the
degenerate.
MI. Manzasar.an named other causes,
among them police inefficiency, the vio-
lation OF the saloon closing law and the
trend Of population toward the city.
But these, he said, were superficial
causes. He did not discuss them at
length.
OF the four named the lawyer suf-
fered the most severe excoriation.
Lawyers" Mr.. Mangarian said, for
get that before they were retained by
their client they were retained by the
public. The lawyer has duty to the
public that he agreed to fulfill when he
was admitted to the bar.
Consider the antics of the average
lawyer at a criminal trial. He pleads
that his client is more sinned against
than sinning-that society is the sinner.
He brings in the wife and child to af-
feet the jury. II this fails. he attacks
the character of the prisoners victim.
Then. If this fails. he pleads drink. in
sanity, dementia Americana-anythin
to win a favorable verdict for his own
talent, to add feather to his cap"
Mr.. Mangassarian then considered
judges. He denounced the proposed re-
call of judges on the ground that jus
tice then will be the plaything for
popular caprice" He had no fault TO
find with the average judge. but said:
After all. they should be watched,
They. too, are lawyers 1t is unfortu-
nate we select our judges from our adj
vocates.
Politics is a swamp. polluted, and
you can't have health in marsh" hi
said. More effective today than the
law is the pull Foreigners believe this
is not a government by law. but by
pulls"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-15

The Charles City Intelligencer be-
lieves that Senator Kenyon will loom
large on the presidential horizon be-
fore the lapse of another year.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
WHY HE FAVORS
 RESTRICTIVE LAWS

Senator B. F. Willard is interested in legislation that will give the people of the East a different idea of Alaska than many of them have at the pres ent time, and to that end he intro duced his white slave bill, the bill to prevent undesirable citizens from vot- ing and the bill making it unlawful to rent property to be used as houses of ilI-fame. In urging the passage of these bills, Senator Willard says that while he was at Washington city in the interest of Alaska legislation he often heard the Alaska conception of citizenship questioned. He says ire quently he was all but insulted by members of Congress who would in sist that the people of Alaska were not of the class that could be entrust' ed with their own government; that they sought selfgovernment for the purpose of removing the lid, and run ming things wide open. He now de sires that the people of Alaska, through their own Legislature, show the people of the Nation that their con- ception of morals is as high as that of the most advanced in the nation
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
SHOUT RELATES
 HISTORICAL INCIDENT

Representative Arthur G. Shoup, yes terday, added a touch of local histor' ical color to the discussion that pre- ceded the passaged of the Willard le' gal holiday bill, by giving graphic picture of the incident when the Amer ican flag was raised for the first time over Alaska. His remarks were con fined to the feature of the bill making Alaska Day legal holiday.
 Mir Shoup said:
 Tt is particularly fitting that octo- Der 18th should be made a legal holi day in Alaska. That is the anniver- sary of the day on which the flag of Russia was hauled down from this great empire of the North to make way for the Stars and Stripes. On octo- Der 18th, 1867, there was landed from the fotilla of United States men of war in Sitka harbor color guard and escort of American artillerymen who stood at attention while the soldiers of Russia, in the presence of their tear full countrymen, hauled their reluct- ant flag from the masthead on the Baranoff castle hill. speak of the Russian flag as being reluctant, be- cause it wrapped itself around the staff, and had to be released by sail or who climbed up and cut it loose, when it was carried down by the wind onto the presented bayonets of the Russian guard. This scene has been described by Colonel George Kostro- metinoff, now high priest of the Rus sian Church, as a sad affair to the Russian people who witnessed the transfer of their country to foreign power. To Americans, however, the event augured nothing but good, and subsequent history has not only full filled the hopes of the most optimistic, but gone so far beyond that the en- tire world looks on with amazement, and the fortunate people who live in this great Eldorado should regard this holiday with patriotic devotion sec ond only to their veneration for the independence of the nation"
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
Seattle Woman
 Seeking Mother

Mrs. Anna Jacobsen Arndt, S64O Densmore avenue, Seattle, is seeking her mother and brother, whom she thinks are in Alaska, and she insists that she will not cease her long search until success shall crown her efforts She has not seen her mother for thir- ty years. Twelve years ago she was spurred on in her search for her moth CT by finding her brother, Louis Jacob son. whom she heard nothing of for fifteen years. She was at Berkely Cal ifornia, then, where she lived with an uncle, Dr. Weed
 Two years after that she thought she was about to succeed in her quest of her mother. A man, who had known the family in Tacoma, before the home was broken up, met Mrs. Katherine Elsia Jacobson, Mrs. Arndt's mother, in Skagway, but did not in quire what her name had been changed to. Mrs. Arndt's hopes rose. Her brother Louis, went to Skagway, but the mother could not be located.
 Mrs. Katherine Elsia Jacobson took one brother Frank Jacobsen, with her when she separated from August Jacobson in Tacoma. She was known to have gone to Alaska in the early days.
 Mrs. Arndt thinks her mother has changed her name, and believes that has been her chief obstacle, because she does not know what name she is known by at the present time.
 She would be greatly pleased if any one knowing anything that would ait her in her search would write to hel at the address given at the beginning of this article.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
Personal Mention

J. A. Peacock has been bitten with the gold bug and will leave on the Spo kane enroute to the Jennings river strike.
 L. E. Buell., the veteran commercial man, travelling out of Juneau, left on the Georgia this morning for Haines, where he will remain until the Spo' kane comes south.
 F. Doverspike is registered at the Orpheum hotel.
 The following are registered at the Occidental motel: oscar Wallen, Gyp' sum; A. vogland, Gypsum; Geo. Kus' ton, Juneau, and c. o. Lindsey, Jul neau.
 w. P. Mills, the well known sitka merchant, is registered at the occi- edntal hotel,
 Earle Jameson was a round-trip pas senger to skagway on the Jefferson.
 Mrs. Thomas Kirkland, of Sitka, sailed on the Jefferson yesterday for Seattle Mrs. Kirkland is on her way to her old home in Norway to wis it her aged mother.
 The following booked passage on the Jefferson yesterday for Seattle: .C. w. spier, G. c. Jones, S. P. Chase, Mrs. l.. M. Altho, Ted Post, Dorothy C. Kerrit, and Mrs. T. Kirkland.
 The following are registered at the Occidental hotel: Capt. D.. V. Price, Juneau; Charles Fowler, Jul neau; Mir. Harding, Haines.
 H. P. M. Birkinbine, the we'll known U. S. mineral land surveyor, has ac- cepted position with the Algunican Development Company at Jualin.
 MT. and Mrs. P. J. Lorengen are pas sengers on the Humboldt enroute to Juneau.
 Alvin Goldstein and bride are pas, sengers on the Spokane enroute to Jul neau.
 Charles Goldstein, Mrs. Goldstein and daughter are passengers on the Spokane enroute home.
 Former Secretary of the Interior Richard A. BaIlinger, is northbound passenger on the Spokane due fo ar rive here Saturday morning.
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
WATER FRONT BILL
 BY SUTHERLAND

If a bill introduced in the Senate yes terday by Senator Sutherland becomes the law it will be impossible in the fu- ture for townsite promoters to take up the waterfront of navigable streams and sell to private individuals.
 Under the law proposed the water front will come under the immediate control of the city or town govern ments upon incorporation occupying townsites which are situated on navi- gable streams in Alaska. The law is designed for both sanitary reasons and to prevent monopoly of the water front by commercial interests. The text of the bill follows:
 Section That after the passage of this act no townsite shall be located within less than sixty feet of the bank of any navigable river or stream in Alaska.
 "sec. 2.-That the term river bank as used in the wording of this act shall mean the edge of the bank or decliv- ity that marks the confines of the vol ume of water at the highest stage of river or stream.
 Sec. 3.-That any person or per sons, organization or corporation To- eating q townsite near any navigable river or stream in Alaska, shall plain Iv. mark by stakes or monuments, the waterfront boundary in a straight line no point of which shall be less than sixty feet distant from the edge of the river bank which it parallels; pro vided that where the curvature of the hank prevents the continuation of a straight boundary line the continua' tion shall be made from a stake or monument placed not less than sixty feet from the bank, and the boundary shall be continued in a straight line,
 Sec. 4.-That any person who shall erect build or place, or who shall cause to be erected, built or placed up on the space of land bounded by the edge of the river bank and the water front boundary line of any townslte located under the provisions of this act, any cabin, tent or building shaI be deemed guilty of a misdemeanoi and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not less than ten days nor more than one hundred days and every ten days that the cabin tent or building remains upon the ground after conviction shall constl ute other and distinct offences.
 Sec. 5.-That upon the incorpora tion of any town the site of which is located under this act the waterfront reservation shall be controlled ant regulated by the city council"
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27

The new Spring and Summer styles are now ready. You are cordially in vited to call and inspect them F. woLLAND. Nv,
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27

The Commercial Cafe has just in stalled a steam serving table which will expedite the service and insure everything being served on piping hot dishes. S-SV-tr
The Alaska daily empire., 1913-03-27
SOCIALISTS COMPLETE
 THEIR CITY TICKET

Dave Robinson, who was nominated with the original ticket for council men by the Socialists, has changed his mind about withdrawing, and will be a candidate for the suffrages of the people at the municipal election next Tuesday. His decision to accept the nomination was pleasing to the mem bers of his party in Juneau.