Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-03
COSSON AND THORNE.
MASON civ Timea.1


retirement Success would mean re-
tirement after a short season In the
governors office.
George Cosson and Clifford TAorne
have been fitting themselves for special
service Of the highest value. While
there may be objections recorded
against the official acts Of these two
cord with their policies. all must adj
positions with special preparation, with
and with a keen knowledge of the
affairs entrusted to them. They should
continue in the offices they now hold
indefinitely. There would be nothing
for them but disappointment in the
governorship should they both be
chosen for the place-Cosson In two
years and Thorne in six years.
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PREACHER AND THE POLITICIAN.
iowa Farmer.1
A prominent citizen of an Iowa
county was a candidate for the senate
a, the late election. The fellow drank
heavily a few years ago but took the
life Of sobriety and walked circum-
specify before the community. The
politicians in the opposing party
sought to use the prior waywardness
Of the candidate against him Circu-
lars were scattered broadcast reciting
his weakness in the past. His friends
came to the rescue and declared that
his reformation was a credit to him
ich ha
plea he won out at the election. In
certain community some years ago
there was popular and successful
pastor in charge of prominent church
in that locality. He was addicted to
he opium habit but no one suspected
it. He had tried for years to over
come but felt his inability to do so.
The habit was growing upon him and
his exposure was liable to come at any
time. He packed his grip one day,
after his parishioners had voted him
a vacation, and went to a sanitarium
where he received treatment for the
dope habit. He returned purged and
cured and he was SO pleased over 1t
that he todd his membership all about
1t. He told them how hard he had
struggled to overcome a fight he had
made against the inroads Of the In
sidioua foe and how as a last resort,
he had taken treatment at a sana-
torium. Did those people congratulate
him over his emancipation and prom
Use 10 stand by him? No. indeed. They
dismissed him at once. The member
ship of that church were not as kind
and forgiving as were the politicians
who sent the man who had reformed to
the state senate.
BROCKWAY'S PREDICAMENT.
Mason City Globe Gazette.l
D. w. Norris Jr. sometimes called
Fritz to keep him in touch with the
commoners. ought to be put on the
Iowa state highway commission. He
knows more about good roads than
any other man in Iowa, and he has
the tenacity and aggressiveness to put
his ideas into practical demonstration
| IL he has opportunity. II Norris were
on this board he would be at Des
Moines this winter getting the legisla-
| ton needed for the counties which
have the grit and foresight to hard
surface their roads. And the progress
sive counties taking the forward move
ment would stimulate or shame others
| to do the same, so that in ten years one
could 60 north or south, east or west,
from one border OF the state to another
On a hard surfaced road, every twenty
! five or thirty miles.
| Recently Mr.. Brockway, Of Louisa
county, visited Marshalltown, and D.
w. Fritz, Jr.. took advantage to use
him as text Brockway was one OF
| the men who framed the recent Iowa
road law and no matter what any one
| says, 1t Is a good road law. and the
best that could be passed at the last
! legislature. 1t furnishes the machinery
to build and upkeep good roads, but
needs another provision or two to push
along the hard surfaced roads in coun-
ties where there is the intelligence and
! the pep" to construct them. CerrC
| Gordo will have two or three miles OF
hard surfaced roads--perhaps more
next year II the legislature will add the
district plan. something akin to the
drainage district law. and give the
county the necessary authority to bond
and charge the bonds issue to districts
enjoying the Improvement, which
would increase the value of every
square foot Of land In the district
What Colonel Fritz or his good side
kick, Moscrip, has written with Brock
way as a text has in sentiment beer
reiterated time and again by this jour
nal OF civilization, but the sermon is 9,
appropriate just now and stated in 8,
illuminating q manner that eycrybod,
lin the state should let it soak into hi
grey matter.