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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26

orsasing Likelihood that meeting Of the
national committee will be called Ia
the course Of the next few weeks. II
such shall prove to be the fact and II
at that meeting the almost inevitable
special national convention shall be
called, Senator Cummins will have won
q remarkable victory for the effective
right Of the republican voters to deter
mine their own party policies: for
there will be no stopping the course OF
republican reorganization and reform
II once that special convention Is called.
In the course CT the senator's efforts 1t
is to be observed that there are people
in Iowa who would rather have the re-
publican party go to the eternal DOW.
vows than see it saved by Cummins;
but such people are mostly confined to
Iowa, and their number in this state is
not great. To a growing appreciation
Of the senator's soundness of judgment
in this vital matter Is largely due the
now conceded fact that he will have no
opposition for denomination next year
in the republican primaries and that
such doubts as pertain to his re-elec-
ton have their origin in party troubles
that yet continue in spite of the wisest
efforts at their alienation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
A TIME FOR EVERYTHING.

l1OWa lily nepuUklCdi.J
OF all the idiotic habits, that of
swearing is the most senseless," says
the Webster City Freeman Tribune.
That is just the point. Swearing has
been put into bad odor just because
so many fellows make 1t habit.
Swearing is all right at the right time.
1t is necessary as a safety valve. IL
saves elderly gentlemen from apoplexy.
It preserves the arteries. 1t clears the
atmosphere like sudden thunderstorm
But swearing has been spoiled thru
abuse Chronic swearing may nave
some tonic qualities at first. but these
wear off and it becomes like habituai
drunkenness, it is the apparently natur-
al condition and leaving 1t on skaters
the nerves like enforced abstinence.
There are many degrees Of chronic
profanity. First. there is the man who
saws he never notices that he swears.
hut who doesn't swear when he Is talk
ing to ladies. Then there is the old
topper who swears all the time ladies or
no ladies. 1t is remarkable what lot
of time he spends in street cars ana
other place. where he can't get on 'pv
himself and cuss. And the oftener ne
swears. the louder he does 1t.
Swearing should he INDUCED in Ike
old wine. on rare occasions. It's use is
constantly becoming more restricted.
This year it fell into disfavor on the
golf links
Moderate swearing is permitted when
you hammer your finger. lose your col
lar button. break a teeth. crack your
head on a furnace pipe. Over indui-
gence may be tolerated when the prov
ocation is especially great, as, for IN
stance Il Sc: fell down Just when you
think you are going to catch up with
the street car But the chronic sWearer
should be placed in the only spot on
earth where cussing for cussings sake
is good for the soul, in the hold OF
,rans-At lantic cattle ship.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26

department store. But he can have his
little patch and get most Of his living
of it. He can have his cows and his
pigs and his hens ana live happily-if
he Is willing to live simply and outside
the glare of the electroliers.
Farming is waiting. not for an ebs
wave from the shops and the cities but
for those who have made agriculture
study and who are going on up to
farming, not those who are coming
back. 1t isn't thing to fall back on
but something to go forward to. The
man who has failed has no right ON
the farm. 1t belongs to the fellow who
is going on. beginning, whose eyes are
steadily fixed frontwise. The man who
is looking sidewise for an opening
can't make good there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
Parents Responsibility.


Dr G. A. Harper, secretary OF the
Wisconsin state board OF health, IL
well within the facts inaffrm1ng De
fore an anti-vice commission that par
ents are TO blame for a large part OF
the immortality Of girls today. Fathers
and mothers who think this a severe
arraienment should consider the free
dom given their daughters. especially
during those years requiring 'ne
closest parental scrutiny and ADVICE.
There is too much easy gong IN
difference to the solemn responsloli-
ity OF parenthood. What IS the mean
ing OF the multiplicity OF pubic aeeh-
cies for Juvenile care and cortec'ion
IL not that the home - nesiectins III
duty? Men and women racing W.
grave function of parenthooo snouio
feel very keenly the fact that no pupi.s
institution or influence can De mag,
20 take the place Of the home IN tne
training and culture Of the child: ina
such agencies exist only as substitute'
at best. seeking in many cases to atone
for parental sins Of omission.
Not even the school, the church OF
Sunday school can. or was ever, DE
signed 20 suppiant home training. Ever
they. tho filing useful spheres, ou
supplement where they touch the worn
of the father and mother. Too mucf
stress can not be laid on this point
that fathers and mothers are primaril.
and chiefly responsible for their owl
children. The trouble comes. not II
getting folks to admit that. but to &C
on 1t. When the beautiful flower o.
girlhood, withered by the blight OF sin
droops before the mothers eyes. tn
saddest Of all facts Is the mother
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
MAKE l1ApsRmANEN1 SPECTACLE.

There are big doings al the state
fair. Under a prominent head the Des
Moines morning paper bazons TO the
world a fairly detailed account of what
seems to have been some function. E.
NJ Wentworth the we'll known and
genial representative on the fair board
from Marshall county divided a cherry
pie. 1t was pie that one Mrs. john
ston had made and presented 20 the
magnate a pie it is to be inferred
which any man might receive in graft
tude and which fair hands might pre-
sent with pride. Whether pits or pitted
the account with peculiar failure OF
detail in a single particular falls to
state. But il was a cherry pie, given
for purposes OF lunch, was cut and di-
vided in princeIy fashion, and its Civ
ing. as the reporter naively and human
ly suggests, made him little more
solid with few of mis- friends
The function seems 20 have attracted
vide attention. Incidentally il is
learned that the attendance was greater
than on any previous Monday in the
history OF the fair People piled in 70
see tina, pie cut. To be sure stock
Judging was going on in the pavilion
and perhaps the horses were painting
down the stretch but one can imagine
the amphicheater tenanted only oy
touts and the pavilion occupied only
by the boys who lead the cattle while
that cherry pie was executed. From
hardwood 20 Lineville It may be
/ imagined they gathered and looked
hungrily but not less adm!ringly while
that pie was dispensed and eaten on the
spot Perhaps some Of the onlookers
slavered little az the sight.
AS a feature of the fair this shoulo
! be made permanent. 1t seems 10 dra"
the crowds With rooms for rent within
reason. meals AT regular prices, SUI
| ffcient street car transportation and tbs
| pie attraction as premier feature
/ every day should be record breaker
Perhaps 1t would be too much TO re
quire pie division and devourmen
daily but the visitors could gaze upor
the place where the pie was divided
after the manner of the gentleman who
goes round the corner to see where tn
dynamite exploded
If bill 10 appropriate suffcien
sum for a pie pavilion is not befor
the legislature at It's next session some
one shall have been derelict. Build IN
pie pavilion Put a pedestal tall an
broad enough for portly MAJ
to stand on comfortably in III
center, furnish with silver knit
and pie server and make II
office of pie divider permanent for III
or good behavior. Then there VIII b
no more need of Mr.. Paine's fireworks
The limit Of the spectacular VIII nav
been reached.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
TO WHOM CREDIT Is DUE.
Ishenan6oah World.l

AS we accumulate grey hairs we
come mere and more to the con-
cl;.sion that the fellow in whom there
is not lot of latent good IS the
scarcest article that the good Lord Gre
ates. And that the fellow who goes
around picking holes in his neishbor.
like a woodpecker hunting occasional
hugs in an otherwise sound tree, is the
mos, extravagant spendthrift of other
wise perfectly good energy on earth
only "A shor, time ago, an old man
lied in Shenandoah who was common
~ acknowledged as the stingy man OF
the town. Yet since his death his COOS
qualities have begun to come to hsht
And few days go by without unearth-
ing some kind act that this old ieilow
did for some poor devil and then toio
him tc shut his mouth about It,
We know a dozen men IN Shenan'
doam whom everybody-by that We
mean the average EMBELLISHMENTS
Yet by looking for the good instead o.
the other, We can from our private
knowledge read their title clear IN the
case of many poor cuss. VINO wsn'
10 them-and still frequently goes tc
them-in time Of trouble. And he gets
help too, the only RESTRICTION gehelaiiS
being not to advertise it.
They have their faults, these men
in common with all the rest of us
Maybe their faults are worse thar
oufrs. we don't know. We don't par
ticularIy care. II makes little differ
ence and is all in the point of view.
There is good and lots Of it in al
! of them and its twice as easy to f1ne
as the other-if you are decent enough
TO be looking for it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
THE LATEST SONG.
Twill Chamberlain in Sioux City Jour


One OF the most pitiful expressions
of our civilization is the latest soi.S
commonly and most flttingly called a
rag" In applying this general title
to these sentimental Nightmares. which
hop fittuly across the stage Of life. an
estimate of their very worthlessness
appears 70 have backed the application.
The dear old deathless songs. The
Last Rose of Summer" Annie Laurie.
Drink to Ne Only With Thine Eyes"
Sweet Belle Malone and the like
linger fadelessly IN the heart, laugh
about them as we may ct times when
We become thoughtless. But these up
to-date "rags''-God forgive US for in
fiicting patient world with them. and
forgive particularly those persons who
crave them and deem them just the
thing.
Permit me 10 make the songs of q
people. and I care not who makes their
laws" exclaimed a French thinker. i'm.
biieSi with The spirit Of the Marseillaise.
That patriots idea was distantly re-
moved from the conception of the m cd :
ern hit" Patriotism has no kinship
~:.h .he fresh rag" and let us hope
that II never may. Would it be too Sc
we're TO make this form Ct melody, so
called. q penal offense?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
SHOULD MARY HAVE AN ABSTRACT

Hon. L. L. Bingham. representative
Of Emmet county in the general as
sembly, writes to the Times-Republi-
Fan thus:
who Will Marry Mary" Good edi-
torial. Parents need TO be reminded
over and over. Strange how blind we
are to so serious menace"
The rimes-Repubiican is very sens
ible and appreciative of Mr.. Bingham's
commentator. He Is right as 10 the
need Of warning to parents. 1t should
be made over and over for as he says
this Is a SERIOUS menace" TO happiness
and health and the very race.
To Mr.. Bingham. member of the
general assembly Of Iowa the question
. Is pertinent: isn't something beyond
warning thru the newspapers and pa
visable and necessary? Ought there
not to be an accessible record of all
venereal cases on file. say at the court
house? Isn't Mary's husband a matter
quite as important as the title to three
acres of wood lot? Shouldn't Mary's
father or mother or Mary herself be
able to look over the abstract If she
chooses and satisfy themselves that
there is no fatal flaw? Speaking to a
member Of the legislature. isn't some
thing of this sort needed also in protec-
ton OF Mary? Hasn't Mary right to
st.? And hasn't Mary's prospective
husband right to look over the oppo-
site abstract also?
Isn't Mary and her mother in a rath-
er helpless position? How are they to
act upon warning, what are their
sources Of information? The physician
does not retail the secrets of his Of
fee.
Whatever pity may arise for those
who thru deliberation or misfortune
have acquired fatal taint the asser
ton stands that those who have no
are most entitled to protection: that The
health OF the innocent and the best in
terests Of the human race are vastly o.
higher importance than the conceal
ment OF bad morals or misfortune. Per
haps it might be suggested to the gen
eral assembly that were physicians re
CURED to report every case of venerea
disease to the proper officer for recort
under penalty Of loss of the right Il
practice for deliberate failure Mar.
would have a very adequate protectio,
and that whether or not morals wer
better for it's enactment a very effect
i've check would have been given in
very much needed matter
The newspapers are like Barki!
~wiiin" TO Go their part in warning.
occurs to them that the Legislature ca
help a lot Il II is so disposed. Ism
anything due Mary from the genera
assembly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
SEVEN FAT YEARS COMING.
rD,hrn,1a Tines-,JourEai.i

i
The country since the panic OF l9o'
has nearly completed its cycle OK
seven lean years and is in train 70
enter upon it's series OF fat ones wan
street has called the turn in THIS
instance, as 1t has done often in the
past. by the recent rise in stocks ana
a recovery OF fully one-third OF the
depression that had occurred in bonds
from last autumn until mid-summe..
Whatever depression was caused
bv alteration of the tariff is now over.
Manufacturers and merchants nave
discounted" the actual enactment o.
the new rates. The country has nov
gone to the "demnition bow vows, as
MANY ultra predicticnists asserted II
would. and many respectable author
toe believe that trade will broaden
when the law goes into operation.
the spectre of "a money famine N
tho autumn" has been banished ano
the prospects are good for SO snap
;ng the currency bill that it VIII oe
shorn of Objectionable features WINE
preserving the essential feature Oh e.i
cula 1ion based on commercial assets
Dreaded possibilities on which eh'
financial markets abroad and at MONS
zero depressed beyond all reason nav
nro,,ed TO be like the old woman
.ro,,h,es that never occurred, and the
way is now cleared for general i'e'
iod Of prosperity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
CALLING BACK ON THE FARM. y

Much of the back to the land" talk
from platforms and Of the urgency In
print are based on conditions that have
passed. There was time. not beyond
the memory of the middle aged when
the person who failed at everything
else fell back on farming" In those
days in Iowa a span Of horses, a stir
ring plow. lumber wagon and wife
were pretty full equipment for farm
ing. The stock consisted of mich
COW or two, couple of brood sows and
the dog. OF course this was not the
. best equipment but it would do. He
!. could Ego to farming" with 1t. The
store would Garry him" until he cut
: his wheat. The implement man would
take a mortgage on the horses and
cows as security. Some tools he could
borrow and prairie hay was cheap. So
was corn. When in all the wide. wide
world nothing else held a ray OF hope
somebody had farm Of one kind OF
another to rent on shares. The land
was the dernier resort, the haven OF
disappointed souls and weakness.
Things have changed. To advise the
man who has not been trained to the
farm and whose capital Is small to &c
hack to the land for the purpose OF
conducting modern farm operations !.
the veriest bosh. He can't do it. Tn,
span Of old horses and the stirring
plow have passed with 10 cent corr
and the chattel mortgage that covered
everything the man had or might be
Deme possessed Of between its date ant
,1ho end Of tho world. Farming is {
sbuDiness. It used to be less than al
joccupation. In those old days It wa
Ian expedient.
4 workinsman can go back to tn
1oaMd with . little money IL he goe
track to little land. He can operat
neording TO his means. To talk abou
olng to farming" IL on about tn
] Level IS talking about starting
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
T1dEs-REPUBL1CAN MARsIAILrOwN IOWA AUGUST 90 1913

game fnishss The hooks are baited,
the jugs corksd air tight. and at 2
given signal al are thrown overheard
to fioat down the river. Bach man fol-
lows his own jug. which has his name
painted on the outside. When q cat
fish grabs the floating hook the owner
calls IL out and the umpire calls halt,
and If the fish is landed the stakes are
handed over to the lucky man. and the
game starts again until the end of the
trip Then they go over the route
again until the players are tired out.
1t is said hundreds of dollars change
hands on the luck Of these trips. and
Juggling for catfish" promises to be-
come the great gambling craze of the
age. This is why home on the Mis-
slssippi will always be an attraction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
Topics of the Times

That republican reorganization seems
10 he standing with reluctant feet
where the brook and river meet. Come
On in, the waters fine.
Now the news comes that Kaiser
Wilhelm mas cut it all out and is en-
tirelv on the water wagon. Inc results
the example Of a man like our own
Ri1lv BRYAN are far reaching, but what
soothes a German seems only 10 excite
a Mexican. Neither example nor pre-
cept appears. to affect Huerta.
Under a new law Arkansas viii
have this year s1,1s3,sS4 for the I'M
provement of public roads and bridges
new version of The Arkansa"
Traveller" is coming due.
One thing the talk Of reorganization
has done. 1t reminds US that Cnalr'
man Hilles is still alive.
Mexico has seventeen kinds Of rev.
olut.ons and Iowa pursues the same
system in road making. And nelthei
gets anywhere.
| DIR. Cook, has issued a book regard
! ing his alleged discoveries and reas'
/ serting his claims. 1t Is accompanied
by an appeal from chautauqua man
ayers association for congressional
| investigation. Those who wish Z
! write their congressman to this eHec
| are at liberty TO do so and take oppor
tunity to do a little press asen:!ng 70
next years chautauqua engagements
The book itself is interesting. The dit
fculty arises. however, as to whethe
it belongs on the shelf with Baro
| Munchausen or alongside OK Kane an
Peary. Where would you put it?
Mayor Gaynor will be candidat
for reelection but so far Governo
sulzer has not announced himself.
Speaking OF good races notice tn
way corn Is coming down the stretc
ahead OF the Frost entry.
. .
After lifes turmoil and its bufets rud'
Silence and sleep wherein no dream
Rest unimpaired by irking pain c
tears
The reparation for the loud-voice
Scribner's Magazine.
Il Jerry Sullivan has closed up h
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
orr1c1AL RESPONSIBILITY.

tkeokok GATE S1e!'i
One Of the mistakes OF the pfeseh'
civ administration has been III as
suning that it was not its duty 70 en-
force the laws unless spec'hc 'ioia
lions Of law were called TO lis atieh
ton accompanied b. evidence sum-
Gent to convict. Such view OF the
limitations Of official duty may nave
obtained in some communities IN
times past, but they are not now re
garded as valid in Keokuk or any ON
er city in Iowa. Il is as much par.
of the duty of the commissioner OF
public safety, for instance. to 1erre'
out violation of law, secure evidence
and bring about the punishment OF
viola1ors as it is to exercise genera.
SUPERVISION over his department OF
| city government or to draw MS salary
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
Ambition,

He starts ere youth is gone to more
than doubly earn his wages:
He turns from pleasure to climb up
thru all the trying stages;
He saves his pennies and he gets alon g
without vaca tons,
And finally is envied by his penniless
relations.
He keeps on striving when his hair no
longer may be parted.
Each day little farther from the
place at which he started.
And when at last his eyes grow dim
and weakly he sits signing.
Those who are waiting grieve because
he is so slow in dying.
Chicago Record Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
THE cuMM1Ns PLAN.
Nevada Representative

INcVaQa 1SSPA
ser,tor Cummins continues TO be
ho.ter identified in the public mihu
man anyone else with the movement
n reorzanize the republican party on
III. basis of an equitable apportionmen. =
Of delegates and an honest conduct o.
republican primaries and conventlons !,
and il the republican party is puiiea
M. Of its difficulties in such way as
m enable it to make an early ana el-
sectiye fight for the control OF con-
1re.s and the country, to his EFFORTS
diplomacy and fair proposals VIII DC
the greatest credit. 1t was thru al.
in si.tence last spring that the meeting
Of the executive committee Of the re-
n,,biican national committee was Sc
cured, but the conclusion then reached
to cali a meeting Of the full committee
sixty days following the adjournment
OF congress has not proved fortunate
for the reason that the session OF con-
gress is being indefinitely prolonged
The senator, however, u keeping q
the matter and there 10 now IN In
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
Iona Newspapers
EDITORS IN CLOVER.
ICedar Rapids Gazette-l

TIE administration is good to the
democratic editors OF the Fifth ais :
trict. Several Of them have LANDED
uos,offices. and several more are On
the list. Editor Moore Of the Ana
mosa Journal predicts that Jackson o.
the Tama News. Mcmahon OF the To-
,e6o Chronicle and VanderWicken OF
the Grundy Democrat will get the OF
fees in their respective towns. mas :,
much as Moore is the state ceht.a'
committeeman for this district ana the
Official dispenser. 1t is safe guess
thar his predictions will be verified
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26

held that the Mexican situation was
too critical for interference at this
time. and they were inclined to think
that Senator Penrose's resolution was
solely designed to harass the president.
The hornets nest buzzed for awhile,
and then the resolution was sent to
sleep. But Senator Penrose promised
to have something further to say.
claiming that he was not playing pol
itics. but acting in good faith.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26
JUGGLING FOR CATFISH"


The decay Of the gamblers games
alorg the Mississippi river and the dis
appearance of the sporting gentlemea
who cnce made the palatiai steamers
OF our river the scene of fabulous
stories. thrilling experiences and ex-
citing scenes OF high play with cards
and dice is one of the changes that has
marked the traffic on the grand water
way from ST. Paul to New ORLEANS.
a scent game of pinochle now &C.
cupies the old tables where seven up
at 800 a game was no uncommon
sight and the dainty ana ancient game
Of progressive euchre with dollar
fountain pen for the prize has usurped
the places where each stack OF paker
checks represented thousand dollars.
All these have passed away, and the
old sports who made these trips ia
nous have become outlaws and dis
appeared.
But the old feeling seems to exist.
The gambling instinc. will crop out.
! And this has resulted in all the old
games of chance giving WAY to jug :
ging for catfish" The game is an old
| one and easily learned, but II is said
TO have fascination that is hard 10
get away from. II is generally played
! in groups Of from Sis 30 twelve, Dut Is
! said 10 be equally interesting as two
! handed contest, and there Is no limit
/ 10 the stakes. And there IS SAID 10 De
/ no law that can reach these reckless
/ gamblers. and they are going TO il with
/ all the hunger that has been created
! by years of total abstinence.
| To play the game each player must
! own a gallon jug. ten feet OF fishing
!, line. a good fish hook and his owr
bait Each man FAUST also have his
| cwn beat or skiff. At certain houi
all meet al a given point some five OF
six miles above the point where the