Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-31
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The great state of Pennsylvania has
registered only $4,000 automobiles,
while Iowa has registered over $4,000.
and yet Pennsylvania counties with
their bond issues have built thousands
iof miles of paved rural roads while
everybody in Iowa must remain for
good part OF the year stuck in the mud.
William B. Snow. of the Boston
! nigh school and one of the most highly
considered school men in the United
States says that cities should grant
leave with half pay to teachers who
will go abroad for purposes of study
This is Mr.. Shows conclusion and is
approved by the United States bureau
of education. There is no doubt that
the teacher who is willing to spend
money and time to At herself for bet
ter and stronger service should have
the approval. and perhaps the CO.
operation of the schools and those in
charge Of them.
The American Journal of Medicine
warns old tangoists that they are liable
to burst their hardened old arteries do
ing the various contortions which pass
for dancing nowadays. And it is dis
agreeable and delays the dancing and
muses. things up generally when an
Old gentleman or lady ends an aggra-
waited case OF arterial sclerosis on the
ball room floor
Surely. surely, let Mr. Rowley argue
his case. That's an American pri-
Vilege; there are great many Ameri-
can privileges that are more annoy
ance than assistance.
There is evident deplorable ten
dency 10 smile over the sorrows of the
Iowa democracy Some people would
laugh a, a funeral
Well. 1913. we have enjoyed your
visit, are sorry you can't stay longer
and wish you we'll in the limbo of for
gotten years; but We are very much
like widower looking forward to his
second wedding. we expect to live most
happily with 1914. we snail put up
a line monument over you and hang
Your enlarged photograph in the attic
and look forward and not back. Good
by.
On those concrete rural roads lead
ing out of Detroit II is a sight TO see
newsboys on roller skates skating
fifteen and twenty miles out into the
country to deliver the evening news
papers and the Ice wagon stops at the
farm houses every day just as it does
at the residences within the city. Many
a business man buys a few acres Of a
farmer along the paved road and
builds his home there because he can
go to town every day in the year with
his auto on paved road The farmer
gets the price OF his road tax back and
acquires desirable neighbor besides.
1t didn't take the Second district and
the rest Of the Iowa democracy long
to bring the political estate of Con-
gresham Pepper 10 probate.
The Vinton Eagle wants Senator
Cummins to stand back and let some
other people settle Republican confu-
sion.' One of Mr.. Murphys obsessions
has been that Cummins should stand
back. 1t used to include all other pro-
gressive republicans but has yielded
somewhat to treatment
1t has been mighty good winter
to haul hay in from the stack and
cornshocks from the field but the man
who had his silo filed and his hay
under cover has had the best of It at
that. There ought not to be a hay
| stack n Io"a. AZ the price of land
the farmer can't afford to stack hay
A Marshalltown master painter
wants to know where the trades Of
painting and paper hanging are to
get off at He says there are no
apprentices and suggests that the time
is near when trade schools will be nee
essary III keep up the supply OF skilled
Workmen.