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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
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stop your children from sounding
all the depths of emotion before they
are 21."-Dr Mix. of Northwestern
University Medical School.
A common text nowadays, frequent
ly taken by educators and moralists as
well as by medical men. Our precoc!-
Gus youngsters are indeed one OF the
problems of the age; little men and
women who have been put thru SORT
of forcing process and who are eager
to exhaust the emotional possibilities
of life at time when their fathers and
mothers were just beginning to live. Al
Il these young people are already
blase; their faded nerves respond only
to stimulations of the strongest sort,
and they are cheated of one of the
finest experiences in life--the romance
Of youth DR.. Mix ascribes this prema-
ture maturity in part to the reading
Of dime novels. There is another sort
Of fiction, which. one fancies, many OF
our advanced little men find more
stimulating; this is the new fiction,
which is emphatically written Tor
adults, for persons who have lost 2
great many illusions. 1t may be argued
that illusions ought not to be cuItl-
waited. but 1t is just as true that they
ought not to be lost too soon; they
have q part to play. and an important
one. Stevenson in one OF his wise e.
says held that the true wisdm 10 to 80
| thru life slowly. entertaining at each
stage the thoughts and emotions proper
to that stage and savoring them to the
utmost. for thus are understanding
and sympathy made possible and harsh
Judgments avoided.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
CUTTING CORNERS.
MuScatine JOurnal.1

The Iowa City Republican says:
Some papers are trying to find way
TO keep people from cutting across the
corners. 1t is human nature. The man
who cuts the corners will succeed. You
can not stop the habit.
Cutting corners is truly a manifes-
tatlon OF human nature, or rather one
and by no means the lacst credita bic
side of it Cutting corners is pure sell
hshness. a selfish consideration of our
own interest in disregard of the rights
or comfort OF Others or the rules Of the
road. The man who cuts across the cor
ners may succeed. if some street car or
auto or other vehicle docs not reach
him before he reaches success. Many
men cut corners to success. They ig
more the laws which society in it's age
old experience has set UP for the con-
Venience and safety of the greater
number OF its members. They take
chances. Perhaps you can't stop the
habit, but seltishness has a habit of
defeating it's own ends eventually. The
man who literally cuts corners MAJ
fall so completely under the habits
sway that he will attempt it some day
on crowded crossing of a metropoli
tan city. The chances are large that
something viii happen to him. He may
escape with a severe lesson or he may
never cut corners again, Even he who
cuts the corners in larger matters may
do it once too often. This effort to find
a way to keep people from cutting
across the corners is not confined to
some papers,. Nations and govern
ments are concerning themselves with
it more and more.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
cAhNY ANDREW CARNEGIE.

Andrew Carnegie, rich as he is. will
pay no income tax. In fact. if the law
yers are right about it. his income viii!
remain untouched and Mr.. Carnegie
may keep on building libraries and bio
ding on the Philippines and Offering to
assume the financial functions Of the
government undisturbed. But the gov
eminent will get the tax on Mr.. Car
negie's income just the same.
Some men have supreme faculty
Of protecting themselves no matter
what happens 10 others. When Mr..
Carnegie sold out 10 the steel corpora
tion he took in payment steel stocks
from which his great annual income Is
mainly derived. He also took the
agreement Of the corporation that HI.
income from that stock should come 70
him free Of any tax the government
might put on il. Carnegie was making
the bargain. He held the whip hand in
the organization Of the trust. In nose
halcyon days Of trust making an In
come tax or any other serious inter-
ference with great interests and huge
incomes was considered 20 be fully IN
srred against by "the system. But
Andrew dropped his little anchor to
windward He had sufficient magma
ton to conceive a different state Ct
affairs in which popular pressure might
bring about an income tax and several
other changes.
So the steel trust Will pay Andrew
Carnegie's income tax. That is the
other stockholders who are not pro-
tected by a canny agreement will pay
their own taxes and pro rate Car
neeieA. It will probably not come out
OF the consumer directly for it is TO be
assume ed that if anything more were -
he had of the consumer the trust would
get It anyway.
AS an example of cunning self pro-
lection Mr.. Carnegie's cyclone cellar
dug decades ago to afford a shelter in
the time of storm seems 20 fill the bill.
So far as the public and the govern
ment are concerned nobody will care
much whether Carnegie or the trust
NAYS the tax so long as il is collected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
Who Is Benefited.

springfield, Mass, Rcpuoilcani
The labor employed in the American
mills is often inefficient compared TO
the labor in English mills and this is
handicap upon the industry in TINS
country Whose fault 1t Is need not
be asked. The labor situation in the
American textile industries has evil
Gently grown very much worse during
the past generation. Instructions to
workers in our modern mills have 10
be posted in half dozen different
languages. Every ship with big
steerage list furnishes utterly untrain-
ed help" for our WOODEN and Gotten
mills. Consider the situation at Fall
River at the present time. dispatch
from that city to the New York Jour
nal of Commerce, April II referred to
and continued:
1T is hoped that immigration during
the summer months will provide addi-
iional operatives for the mills. NOT
much gain is to be expected from this
source before fall, The immigrants
from continental Europe usually know
nothing of mill work. They will turn
first to work in the fields. which they
do know. Comparatively re" OF tneih
are expected TO seek mill work until
the warm weather is over and harvest
ing work ends Certainly not enough
of them will go to the mills to make
up for the old operatives who will take
the summer off from mill work.
But if our mills are handicapped by
crude ill-trained immigrant opera
tives, the question arises how far the
obligation of the government extends
to keep up high duties for their bene-
fit. Here is social as well as an in
dustrial question. We saw ii flame
forth menacingly in the Lawrence
strike.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
TIE Railroad Spotter.
Evening Post.

ttnlcdSO Evening foSt'l
The Brotherhood Of Railroad Train
men and the Order OF Railway Con-
ductors are knocking at the doors OF
the California assembly with very in
teresting bill.
The bill is new 20 us, tho it may
have started on its rounds in other
states. 1t provides that the railroads
who dock or discharge their employees
for alleged wrongdoing on evidence
handed in by the companvs spoilers
or detectives shall be required TO give
the accused emplore chance TO reply
to the charges made and-this is the
bright particular spot in the bill-a
chance to face the unknown "spotter
who made them.
The 'spotter' is great grievance 20
railroad men. In theory at least he is
an anonymous individual. He "sleuths
around" disguised like an ordinary
traveller, or hobo" stealing ride or
village loafer idling thru the saloons
at the division point to spot the
employees who slip IN for q drink
Railroad men never, by any chance,
talk Of anything else but railroading.
and sooner or later. the constant dis
cussion of the 'spotter.' his appear
ance and stvle and so forth, makes him
sufficiently familiar to the employees so
that his usefulness is considerably les
sened. The men learn to identify him
and to conduct themselves discreet]y
when he is around When this stage is
reached the road transfers him to some
Other division where he is not so well
known.
The "spotter" strikes his man in the
dark He mails in to the division sup.
erintendent the statement that Con-
ductor So-and So neglected to collect
his fare between such and such points,
or that the conductor charged him an
excess cash fare and, presumably,
pocketed the difference, or that GER
tain freight crew collected all the loose
change possessed by gang of Dos
found stealing a ride and, having col
lected and pocketed the loose change,
let the tramps ride on in peace. When
the division superintendent gets this
report he proceeds to raise his own va
.iety of trouble for the offending en-
ployes. Thus is discipline maintained.
But the California bill would require
the "spotter' to face the man, or the
men, whom he accuses. He would have
to support his charges openly. He, in
turn, would become marked man. He
would become like the famous Secret
police" Of Brazil who went around clad
In yellow jackets and scarlet breeches.
His usefulness to the road would DE
considerably curtailed.
We are glad we don't have to decide
the question between the roads right
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

nouncement is made that the president
has in mind the extension OF the
classified service to include the presi-
Dental offices.
There is no fault to be found with
Wilson's plan. If service is what We
are seeking then the competitive ex-
animation should bring out the best
service which can afford to sell itself
at the price. A $500 postoffice, held
by a politician is one thing and a $500
pos toffice held during good behavior
and efficient service by competent
widow or crippled person is another.
The suggestion that the postoffice is
to be elevated out of politics will meet
hearty approval from all but those
who deal in postoffice appointments.
Even the congressman should welcome
it for the bones of congressman lie
white between the postoffice and
Washington. President Wilson strikes
a business chord when he says:
fundamentally a reform movement
has for its purpose the righting of an
existing wrong. Therefore if the ap-
plication of the merit system to the
postal service was needed in order to
correct an existing evid then the scope
of the order effecting the change
should have been broad enough to have
corrected as far as possible the condi
ton then existing as a result of the
former system as we'll as to accomplish
the desired results in the future"
Nobody but the postmaster will find
serious fault with the opening of the
wicket TO competitive examinations.
Let the best man or woman win.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
the PROBLEM OF THE BLACK PLAGUE.

DR.. Jarvis, speaking to the assembled
physicians of the state medical society
yesterday. made the assertion that so
per cent of the young men of this
country become infected with the black
plague before they are 80 years old.
Perhaps It would be more correct to
say that Dr.. Jarvis reiterated this
statement. II has been made over and
over again by medical men from the
highest authorities down to common
practitioners.
Medical men agree that majority Of
operations necessary to prolong life and
relieve suffering among women are d.
rectly traceable to the black plague.
This is problem which has been hid
den by mutual agreement, dropped be-
cause It has seemed scarcely a subject
prudishly silent on a most serious
danger. Medical men have Of late been
driven by the utter seriousness of con-
ditions to voice their warnings publicly
Legislatures have considered measures
but have turned away from the more
radical propositions with nothing &C
complished.
1t is time for plain talk We lecture
our boys against profanity and sneak
1ngly sidestep a. m ost important part Of
their education. We teach our daugh-
a.
struction and information most neces-
sary to their happiness and even TO
their physical existence. We look up
the financial standing of suitors and
pay no attention to a question Of vastly
more Importance.
We are coming TO a realization that
to hide facts and figures that so vitality
concern every human life is criminal.
When this realization becomes general
II Is not at all improbable that a
stringent law will make venereai dis
eases reportable by physicians under
threatened loss of their certificates for
concealment and that a record of such
cases will be kept accessible to investi-
cation by parents and guardians and
that one of fits provisions will enable
the parents and guardians TO prevent
issue Of marriage licenses TO those who
have been thus affected At any rate
the problem Of dealing with the black
plague and its victims is to be dealt
with openly ere long. 1t is matter of
public protection equal in its import
ance with that of tuberculosis
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
Topics of the Times

There Will be no emergency opera
tons for appendicitis during the ses-
sions of the state Medical Society
Hawks dinna pick out hawks eyes"
Mrs. Loncstrcet. widow of the gem
eraI of confederate fame. lost her post
office. General Longstreet and his
family have been pretty we'll looked
after by the government and Mrs.
Longstreet has had the postoffice AT
Gainesville, Ga, for many years. Per
haps it is anothers turn.
DR.. Saylor. health physician, con-
dennis the artificial feeding of babies
as q crime. But what would Dr. Saylor
do if he had a baby to raise?
The Iowa City Republican is throw
ing fits over the proposition to adopt
the commission plan for Iowa City.
Having quit the republican party on
account of the fve-mile law will Mr..
Brant shake the dust Of Iowa City off
his feet should the plan be adopted.
If this sort Of thing keeps up long
enough Dave Will have no place to lay
his head. There is such thing as a
political Wandering Jew.
Des Moines is asking SIS, 100000 in
back taxes Of the Rock Island road.
But it is suspected that she would
settle for less.
It is to be noted that Mr.. Taft's golf
game isn't getting special telegraph
reports this spring.
The less cloth it requires to make a
wornans skirt the bigger the bill takes
TO pay for it.
Keeping UP dirt road is like walk
ing a treadmill. plenty Of work but
mighty advancement.
Clarence Darrow is broke. Now ii
will be in order 10 raise a fund for MI
Darrow's lawyer.
The person who fired the Ephesian
dome" hasn't anything on the British
suffragettes who tried to burn st.
Paurs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
THE NEW posToFFIcE ORDER.

The blow fell yesterday. 1t had been
,mpending since the beginning Of
March. President Wilson has rudely
yanked down the blankets wherein
Taft snugly tucked the fourth class
postmasters away and everything over
$50 a year is open to competition. The
present incumbents of postoffices pay
ing more than that sum will have TO
hold their jobs on merit.
Taft classified the fourth class post
masters by division on the $500 sal
ary mark. Those beneath that figure
were to be dependent upon the reports
OF postoffice inspectors. Wilson keeps
the postoffices under the civil service
but insists that all over $3.50 year
shall stand competitive examinations
Tor the job. Incidentally the an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

New York May S.--The uisiting peace
committee from Great Britain and the
city Of Client was given round OF vel
coming dinners and receptions 1t came
TO confer with the Ameri IAN committee
over the plans for the celebration OF
the one hundredth anniversary of the
signing of the treaty of Client. which
marked the beginning Of peace among
the English speaking people of the
world at the close Of the war of 1872.
This celebration will take place in 1915
II present plans are carrie out and viii
be international in scope 1t is pro-
posed to secure action from congress,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
Field Test. Of Alfalfa.

Alfalfa is plant Of peculiar re-
uuirements that make it more exactlng
in some respects than many other farm
crops. Tests by various experiment
stations in different parts Of the coun-
try indicate that. provided certain other
conditions exist latitude has very little
to do with its successful culture. Mr..
NJ. NJ. Cook. Of the Ohio station, has
given. in circular No. 113 Of that sta
ton. some information that is worthy
Of extensive circulation among farmers.
In this field study 1913 farmers were
visited and following are few OF the
conclusions drawn:
Ohio farmers have demonstrated thar
alfalfa requires an abundance OF lime;
that natural drainage OF land is one
of the most important requirements
for this crop: that the nature OF the
plant is to send its roots deep into the
soil to find the moisture needed for It's
growth and for this reason the water
level in soils should be comparatively
stationary: that wheat. oats. rye and
barley grown as nurse crops result In
injury to and loss Of alfalfa In the
greater part OF the state where 1t has
haAn Grown- and that an annual ton
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
a HoIiday-Oid School.

DR.. Augustus s. Knight, an author
ity on health statistics, was talking IN
New York about the Improvement IN
the public health, as shown by the last
census.
This Improvement is due" he said.
ito our more widely diffused knowi-
edge of hygiene. From the top to the
bottom of the ladder. We now recos-
nize. to a certain extent, the value OF
fresh air. temperance and exercise. Or
course. improvement is needed; but
rare nowadays, are men OF Hays
stamp.
HAY and his wife took holiday
one Saturday, and went on an excur-
sion to Atlantic City. Hay, on his ar
rival there, strolled about the sta'ion.
looked the locomotive over. and then
disappeared In bar room with
crowd OF congenial brother mechanics.
AFTER an hour or so. his wife sent
for him.
..oh. Jack she said. do come and
look at the sea and the sand. They're
SO beautiful
Air. All. srowIea Hay, what do l
care for your sea and your sand? Do
YOU think I'rp goin' to lose my holiday
for tIie sake OF sea and sand ?'N 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

dressing Of phophate is highly bene-
ficial to permanent growth.
The practice Of cultivating alfalfa
after the first season for the purpose
OF graduating grass and weeds is rap
idly increasing in favor. Numerous
styles Of harrows were tested at the
station with this object in view, and
it is the opinion Of the Station as we'll
as a number Of growers, that the prop
er implement is some style Of spring
tooth harrow. When cultivation was
delayed few days after the crop was
cut, unfavorable results followed the
use of disc harrows, due apparently to
the disks injuring the young, tender
shoots after they had attained consid-
cradle growth. On the otner hand, the
spring tooth harrow does not seem to
injure the young sprouts above the
surface of the soil, and for the thorough
eradication Of weeds 1t Is prefera BILE
to any other implement
In one test a special implement made
by repointing the teeth of spring
tooth harrow was repeatedly run over
an alfalfa field in ditfereir. directlons'
this virtually destroyed all plants othef
than alfalfa. Continuous cultivation
with this implement conserved the
moisture. areated the soil and increased
the yield of hay.
The average cost of seeding an acre
of alfalfa is given as SD The cost
of harvesting thirty one fields. aggre-
eating lao acres, was 1914 an acre. A
field of nineteen acres seeded In 1919
was rented on shares in 1910. During
that crop season the owners snare
was sold for $500. a little over S2l per
acre good rental value.
These experiences of Ohio farmers
are encouraging to those who would
grow this crop We all recognize IN
alfalfa one of the best forage crops for
all classes of livestock. 1t is excellent
for feeding in connection with silase
or starchy grains, and u fire weed
destroyer. Alfalfa gets its nitrogen
supply from the air and IT'S mineral 1000
from far below. where ordinary crops
feed 1t harbors bacteria, which work
twenty four hours a day, board them
selves and pay the farmer handsomely
for the privilege.-Illinois Farmers In
stitute.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
RAILROADS AND THE STATE FAIR
Davenport Times.

When the legislature passed q law
to compel the Iowa railways to give
lower rates to persons attending the
state fair, did the law makers act
within their power The railways are
going to find out, and it will be no
surprise to the average man if the
courts hold that the law is not valid.
II the Law referred to all fairs or
conventions. it might not be considered
class legislation. 1t may be that it is
Worded SO as to avoid that criticism, at
least technically, but inasmuch as it
can apply only to the one fair and
lower rates to one city 1t would APP
pear tn he open to attack. On moral
grounds. however, the proposed reduc-
ton Of rates is open to criticism. When
the e-cent fare law was passed, one
of the arguments was that all persons
would be forced to pay the same rate
at all times. and that under such con-
ditions the railways could afford the
lower rate. The 2-cent fare was ac
cepted in good faith by the railways
of Iowa. II doesn't appear to be the
right thing to abrogate the tacit agree
ment now by trying to force lower
rates for Des Moines at the time of
the state fair. Who can blame the
railways for determining to resist the
attempt to force lower rates?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

appropriating money for the propel
celebration Of the anniversary. In thit
regard it is said that Irish American
members Of congress may object to ans
such appropriation. They oppose any
Anglo American alliance as the prob
able outcome OF the peace celebration,
The chairman Of the visiting English
men is Lord Weardale He Is seen In
the illustration wearing his best peace
SMILE with Isaac Seligman, Of this
city, who was one Of the welcoming
committee The visitors. planned to
take in Washington before they re-
turned.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08
THE VALUE OF A LIFE.

Dubuque IeleSrapn- fieralQ.1
Something man ate the other day
produced ptomaine poisoning and but
for prompt and heroic measures he
would have died.
That he didn't die is not the fault
of the man who made the poisoned
food he ate-poisoned for the sake Of
enlarged profit.
If the poisoned man had died, the
man who made the profit from the
poisoned food would have been his
murderer just as surely as there's
justice in heaven.
Nearly all OF us are bored by talk
of pure food. But if we don't get pure
food were going to get permaturely
pine box and the narrow house. Even
at risk OF boring people it's well to
keep up the demand for an end to food
poisoning
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

Paris, May Every precaution was
taken here TO protect the life of King
Alfonso of Spain when he announced
that he would visit this city. Unless
he change his plans at the last mo-
ment the elaborate police system Of
the city Is prepared to guard the
visiting monarch at every turn. An
anarchist plot to kill the king during
mis- visit was discovered by the police
of Montpelier, in the south Of France.
Several anarchists who have been ar
rested were found to have been In cor
respondence with. we'll known Spanish
anarchists, and several documents
have been seized. The recent attempt
to assassinate Alfonso led to the UNI
earthing Of this latest plot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-08

to this method OF keeping track of its
employees. and the employees right to
fair trial" This world is getting
too all tired complicated, anyway. for
the ordinary newspaper. The modern
general assemblyman ought to be
..Solnni' indeed.