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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07
TN our next SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ty Cobb
has an article on GOING AFTER THE

TN our next SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ty Cobb
has an article on GOING AFTER THE
PITCHER. Everybody will admit, par
ticularly the pitchers he has faced, that Cobb
speaks with authority. No player has ever
gone after pitchers with such consistent and
overwhelming success; for the records show
Ty Cobb to be the greatest batter that ever
lived.
Not only is he terror to all pitchers he
has played against, with one exception (the
batting champion says frankly that no one
can hit Walter Johnson Of the Washington
team), but he is equally dangerous when he
is on the bases. His fitting from one to an
other isn't so much a matter of physical as Of
mental speed Decision and action follow OPP
portunity so swiftly that they seem stimuli
taneous.
Most of us who are familiar with baseball
incline to the opinion that batting is natural
gift, and that for player in Ty Cobb's class
ball game is just grand, sweet song. All
he has to do is to amble up to the plate, hit
the ball, and speed on his way to first base, to
the applause of the crowd. But in this
article Cobb says the champion batter is
under a tremendous strain all the time.
Good batting is not merely a matter of
natural ability: vast deal of hard thinking
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-07
BARBER-BORNE DISEAS]

anybody managed But usual he holsters
developed by investigation Also he
pleasantly quarrel with
THERE number
drawing T. Benda called THE ADVENTURE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

made his trust plain thru long years
of Sunday editorial sermons n like
Of which we shall not soon see again
in Iowa. He made it still palmer when
at the open gate to another world he
voiced his complete dependence and
trust in the support and guidance Of
the Almighty arm.
Mr.. Bryan, speaking before a great
audience, confessed his inability or dis
inclination to argue up to his faith. He
announced his belief, declar, q his faith
and refused to argue and split words
over 1t: And the mighty men OF Amer
lean history from Washington, down
past Lincoln and Stonewall Jackson
and Grant and Sherman ard the names
that make American history to the
Perkins dead and the Bryans living
have turned to God as little children
draw toward home as the dark comes
on.
At h base of all strength, mingled
with the nerves of all intel.;gence, part
of the wisdom that belongs to great
ness and wider experience and deeper
knowledge lives the childlike depend
ence upon God that George D. Perkins
expressed in the last lines he wrote
on earth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Soda Relieves
Indigestion or
Acid Stomach

Few stomach sufferers know that in
digestion, sourness and gases are not
caused by a lack Of digestive juices,
but result always from acidity. mean
ing there il an excess OF hydrocholosic
acid in the stomach which retards
digestion and promotes food fermenta-
ton. Everything eaten sours In the
stomach like garbage sours in q can.
forming acrid fluids and gases which
initiate the stomach like = toy balloon.
Then we get a heavy. lumpy feeling
in the chest. we beich gas and eructate
food or have heartburn. water-brash,
bl0ating and nausea.
A we'll known authority states that
a 10 grain SodaEen tablet taken any
time, followed by q tumbler Of water
instantly neutralizes those stomach
acids; stops fermentation, absorbs the
gases and sweetens the entire digestive
tract. He a y any pharmacist can
supply a package Of 10 grain Sodasen
tablets as they are constantly prescribe
ed for stomach acidity because Of their
harmlessness to the digestive organs,
being composed Of soda, calcium car
Donate and magnesia u. g. P.-Adv.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
STOMACH UPSET?
Get at tho Real caus-Taks Or
Edwards Olive Tablets.

That's what thousands Of stomach
sufferers are doing now. Instead Of
taking tonics, or trying to patch up a
poor digestion, they are attacking the
real cause Of h Acknowledgment liver
and d~isordered bowels.
DR.. Edwards Olive Tablets arouse
the liver in q soothing, healing way.
when the liver and bowels are per-
forming their natural functions, away
goes indigestion and stomach troubles.
II you have a bad taste in your
mouth, tongue coated, appetite poor.
lazy, don't-care feeling. no ambition or
energy, troubled with ~undigested food,
you should take Olive Tablets. the sub
stitute for calomel.
DIR. Edwards Olive Tablets are a
purely vegetable compound mixed with
olive oil. You will know them by their
olive color. They do h work without
gripping, cramps OF pain.
Take one or two at bedtime for quick
relief, 50 you a eat what you like.
At 1Oc and z5c per box. All druggists.
The Olive Tablet Company. Columbus.
Ohto.-Adv, 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
IN A SALOON TOWN.
TDrr1ir otnn H1wkeVG.

VII
wagner's Hotel was raided by the
police Sunday night. Last week a raid
was made on the place to discover al
legged gambling. Instead an illicit
liquor Joint was discovered. The pro-
prietor was fined $50 for running a
disorderly house.
Last Sunday this same joint was dis
covered to be in full operation against
the law and in spite of the fines thai
had been assessed. 1t was a clear at
tempt to brazenly ignore the aw. The
proprietor was cognizant of the fact
that he was running a disorderly
house. He pleaded to that charge.
Then he deliberately allowed the IL
legal sale of liquor to continue.
No mercy should be shown the Wag-
ner Hotel management. The place has
proven itself to be a ~disreputable joint,
and has no right to ask respectable
people to p~atronize 1t. If another act
of illegality is proven against anyone
connected with it, 1T should be closed
up as one closes a bad resort. If there
are other places like it in Burlington
they also should be closed. Hotels
whose proprietors have self respect
enough to obey the city ordinances
and the state laws, ought to get all
the business. Let decency, and legality
rule in Burlington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
THE FARMING BUSINESS.
rKnoy,ille 1ourna11

What is the matter with the farm
ing business in Iowa? In recent years
the general impression Of the Iowa
farmer has been that he is rolling in
wealth. yet since the taxation ques-
ton became acute The Journal has
heard a dozen good farmers. men who
have apparently made a big success
and have accumulated wealth, say that
at present prices Iowa farm land will
not yield as much income 1s the same
amount of money loaned at prevailing
rates of interest. lie, ) and 6 per cent.
One big farmer in Marion county says
that he will rert his land to anyone
who will maintain it in its present con-
dition ut 4 per cent Of its selling value.
If this Is a tru statement of the facts
in regard to the farming industry it is
apparent that there is something radi-
cally wrong with our methods. or else
the value of lard is badly inflated. The
man who invests his capital in produc-
tive enterprise is entitled to a better
net return thereon than one who in
vests it in bonds or mortgages. He
should have something for the risk
he runs, for the losses he must en-
counter, the depreciation of his invest
ment, etc, etc. While it is true that
practically no business except that of
the banker pays more than ten per
cent, and most of them pay less, yet
the fact remains that under right con-
ditions II right management they
should yield that much. If money
loans for ) or 6 per cent the net re-
turns on indus " should be at least
double that amoun
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Tho Dancing Question.

Fl. G. Wells, in one Of his portrayais
OF English country-home society, d.
vided the guests into Square Toes and
Pointed Toes. The latter were out for
a coed time, tho the prophecies and
even the moralities might suffer. The
former put decorum first, even If a
certain stiffness and dryness acompa-
MED it. The two factions have little
approval or tolerance OF each other.
They were anticipations, in fact, Of the
pro-tango and the anti-tango parties
Of our day, representing a cleavage
that a u thru English-speak1ng So
ciety for generations.
The warfare proceeds apace. A So
prano soloist in an Atlantic City church
vas required to give up either her
tango or her position. She resigned. A
lodge of Elks at Konkers. unable to
agree on the tango. has compromised
on three dance floors in three separate
halls. with three orchestras. Each
members will seek his own. One floor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
PARTIES AND PRINCIPLES.
tGrundy Republican,


Some of the progressives say they
are sorry they can not vote for Sena-
tor Cummins this year because he re-
fuses to wear a progressive b we
thought the progressives were stand
ing for principle but it looks like party
is getting a pretty strong hold IN some
quarters. What good will be accomp-
lished by fighting over party names!
SO far there has not been Il single man
proposed against Senator
who, in any way, is his equal, and 40
they Their propose to build a poitlcai
scarecrow and set it up in the national
senate under a progressive party Label?
There may be some who would follow
such a course but we are slow to pc
lieve that the rank and file o the peo-
pie are willing to be so missed. me
want a man who is progressive
from principle not from a party labeA,
and will take more than words to de-
feat Senator Cummins. Those VINO
bear the name progressive Will 90 Wen
to give heed to Just what Will be ac-
corplished by defeating Senator Cum
Minis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
A GARDEN AND A Mich COW.

In peace prepare for While the
weather is making ice in defiance
Of the pessmtstic predictions of an ice
famine the seed catalogues are sug-
costing fresh lettuce and early radishes
and green peas. Get ready for your
garden.
Every family should have a garden.
A good garden and a mich COW is the
closest approach to independence per-
mitted the town dweller. 1t isn't al
together easy to have a good garden
but it is the most sensible and profit
able employment Of odd time. The
labor expended on a summer garden
gives the biggest returns in pleasure
and economy.
The amount Of truck hat may be
raised on an intensely cultivated back
half Of an ordinary lot, and the
equivalent in cash if bought at the
grocery store are astonishing, The
saving will carry a very considerable
life insurance policy. The man with
a good garden nay have the finest
vegetables for his table if he chooses
and with the saving he accomplishes
with a little time and labor carry an
endowment policy which would pay
him $4,000 at the end Of ten years.
Imagine a profit Of 5 ? 1000 from the half
of a $50 foot lot in ten years. What
would farm land which should show
such a profit sell at per acre?
And a good mich COW to the garden
and apply the added saving on a loan
payment policy. figure honestly the
cost Of milk for nine months a year
TO the family. Add to this the milk
tina may be sold in excess of the home
needs. Subtract the cost Of the cows
keep and a fair interest on the money
invested in the COW. Put all the re-
mainder into endowment life or into
building and loan stock and see where
you are at the end Of ten years.
Thrift, thrift, Horatio," there is TO
thrift like a garden and a good mich
COW
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Young, But Discreet,

A certain man who lives in a subur-
ban town in North Jersey is no beauty.
He Is not only long and angular, but
has a face and a complexion that are
neither pale blue, sky yellow nor any
other color that dress effect will attune
to. says the indianapolis News.
One day the aforesaid person called
to see an acquaintance and while wait
ing for him to appear in the parlor was
entertained by the little ~S-year-old son.
"Well, what do, you think of r1e"'
asked the caller after conversing sew
eral minutes.
Instead of replying. the boy turned
aside and thoughtfully hung his head.
you haven't answered me-" smiling
ly persisted the caller. Aren't you
going to tell me what you think OF
me?"
NO, sir" returned the youngster
do you suppose that I want to get a
licking.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Terpsiehorsan.
Every dance has Its day. passes. and

Is forgotten.
...."Swift from shine to shade
The roaring generations fiat and fade"
each capering to its own special meas
ure and each piously reprehending the
saltations Of its SUCCESSORS. Only the
waltz %eternalIy survives, and because
(for a suess) it has been the most
rhythmic, the most poetic Of all dances.
For a like reason the one step, under
some n OF its many aliases, Is here to
stay. 1t is a prospect which we are
unable to view with any marked degree
Of horror. Doubtless the present inno-
vations. with their pulsating meter, are
at times performed immodestly. But
that there Is anything inherently evil
in them, one may, from the side lines,
doubt. For one thing. they demand
a sustained and considerable activity.
Exercise is a powerful solvent Of i'll
manners. More collars than high res
olutions will be melted. ons suspects.
and short bosoms. rather than moral
principles, succumb to the lure Of the
foot-fretting tempo. For our part we
choose to be optimistic about the tur-
key trot, the onestep. the largo, ct i'd
omno genus. holding that. in respect to
the light fantastic toe. one may still
trip without falling from g,ace.-Col-
lier'S.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
o AND HOGAN.
[Grundy Democrat.l

If Moore hadn't urged Hogan's can
didacy at the beginning it never would
have gotten outside Of Jones county.
If he hadn't wanted Hogan to get the
place in preference to himself he wouid
have become a candidate a year ago
and none Of us would have heard OF
Hogan. He dropped Hogan only after
he was given absolute assurance that
the man couldn't win. When one
knows the ship is going down he is a
fool to stay on board. Moore explained
the situation to Hogan and If Hogan
had taken Moore's advice he o
nave kept his Jones county democratic
friends instead Of swapping them 1or
republican sore heads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
THE TEST.
Tc;n,,. (';ty To,,rnaI

The passage by the house of the i'm
migration bill with the Objectionable
"literacy" provision fortunately does
not foreordain that the bill Will become
law in that form. 1t has yet to run
the gauntlet of the nj and the
executive approval. Similar bills have
been got thru both houses of congress
on two occasions during the last twen-
ty-ave years, only to meet executive
veto.
The literacy test is a wrong to many
worthy people to whom the doors of
Castle Garden ought to swing freely
open. The ability to read in English
or any other language such printed
sample as might be arbitrarily pre-
scented to the arriving immigrant Is no
fair test Of character or competency
for admission. Many Of these. and
many of the most deserving of them,
even tho they are not in fact illiterate,
would be SO confused by the strange
surroundings and GO awed by the
emergency that they would fall If
such a law were to be executed In the
spirit from which has come the strong
est Urgency 1t would have in large
part the effect of outright prohibition.
That is the real purpose back OF the
strongest part of it's support.
The very class which by reason or
criminal or other dangerous charac-
ter ought to be excluded o gen.
orally have little difficulty from the
literacy test. 1t would hit the poor,
the humble, the worthy Woodworking
classes in the old world whose CHIEF
purpose and dearest hope in coming
here is relief from conditions which
have held them down there. Mere
inability to read difficult samples OF
written language is no sign that their
souls or even their intellects are not
right and aspiring toward good.
OF all nations on the planet we
should be the last to set up arbitrary.
unjust, selfish bars to immigration. 1t
is, of course. proper and well to use
effective precautions against the n
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
TERMS:
HELEN kELlER..A MIRACLE.

Helen Keller, who Is to speak in
Marshalltown is a modern miracle.
Some Of US assert our disbelief in
miracles. The healings of scripture,
the raising of Lazarus and the ancient
miracles are discounted by many. But
Via of these Is more by way Of the
miraculous than Helen Keller brought
from the silence and darkness of a
living death to the bright intelligence
which receives and imparts. delights
and is delighted, knows and is known.
Modern science and patience and hope
breathed upon Helen Keller as a mere
lump of clay and she became a living
soul.
The modern miracle is quite as
miraculous as those we incline to deny.
The invention that permits US today to
speak across q continent into the ear
of friend with the voice of a%cquaint-
ance is a miracle. The modern world
is alive with the miraculous. Helen
Keller Is one of them, the telephone
and the airship and the entire miracle
of modern efficiency and discovery is
one marvel and miracle. 1t is a miracle
to plant three seeds and bring them
to maturity where one grew before.
It is an age Of miracles. of marvels,
of swift change and immense better
ment. Men become as gods and no.
where is the power and beneficence
of modern knowledge better displayed
than in the miracle which maketh the
blind to see, the deaf to hear and the
dumb to speak with the lips of un-
Outstanding as In the case Of Helen
Keller.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
industrial Justice.

Henry Fcrd's gig ntic plan for an
eight-hour day n a minimum wage
Of So per day has been given the notice
it deserves, but u journalists miss
one of the more important economic
point of 1t. The facts seem to be
that the plant has been built u OF
earnings and that no securities ave
been sold to the public. The capital
stock is 50, 900, 900 and there are no
bonds. How foolish and wrong this
must appear to the average Wall street
Operator when he notes that last
years profits were about SIS 000, 900!
On this earning power as a base our
talented "fnanciers" would easily
build you a capitalization Of at least
s400, 900. They would issue and reis-
sue, sell and resell. incorporate and
re~incorporatc and concost the old
hodgepodge Of preferred and common,
bonds and debentures. holding COM
panies and supply companies, that is
so familiar a sight in our business his
tory. The sponge Of Securities" and
rights which could easily be devised
would absorb even these enormous
earnings as the Sahara desert sucks
up the babbling brook. The business
would Stagger aicng ana .aDor WOOlo
be paid the market rates" Of wages.
This is where Henry Ford is "utopian."
He has refused to burden a great en-
terprise with the false and parasitic
capitalism which has bllghted SO many
of our railroads n mills. The bust
ness is enormously successful so that
the results are startling, but Mr.. Ford's
great departure lies in hat he has
given the enterprise the benefit OF it's
own power. In doing so he has shown
US what the business Of the future is
to be l:ke.-Collier's.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
significantly enough. Z reserved g.
~,S~A~l1l>~ M2@tt. 4f~e ANFNE%H N4y9fNt&ofEtA

significantly enough. ~ reserved -
~quadrilles.
We'll. why not the auadrAlsf Ths
tangoers say they want exercise -
riety, sociabiltiy. They can get All three
abundantly In the square dance. This
dance u the sociable dance par excel.
ience ana 10 free from objections raised
against round dances. particularly the
new ones. A simple reversion to
quadrilles and reels would unite the
Square Toes and the Pointed Toes and
bring harmony. Yet this reform II
probably no more to be expected than
. return from bridge to euchre or from
golf to croQuet-Chicago Record Her.
aid.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

trance Of those who are, or who very
likely will become. paupers and Grim
inals. Tire 10 no dispute az to that.
but II Is o right to set up . wall
against good. honest, industrious PEG.
pie, no matter from what part OF
Europe they hail or how ignorant they
may be Of written language. Multi
tudes Of our best citizens do not speak
the English language at all or only
most imperfectly, tho indeed most OF
the foreign born population here
quickly acquire at least a working IA
cility. Their children know the lam
guage as well as u wi do.
Obviously difficult tests Of this
character amour simply to prohibi-
tions. Indiscriminate. wholesale pro-
hibition Is the very object aimed at.
The spirit behind 1t is the spirit OF
prejudice, narrowness. jealousy and
injustice, the violent outbreak of which
has several times disgraced this coun-
try.
We are not so ~overcrowded with
honest, laborious people that we need
go to extremes to keep out that KIND
of people. There is plenty of room
here for us and them. We ought rather
to help them. There are many points
in which we need their help. Who
are we? Whence did we ourselves
come? How did we get here? why
should we now abolish the golden
rule?
We have had few more significant
or more important ideals than that
our land should be a refuge to the OPP
pressed, the hard driven, h perse-
cuted in the older lands across the
Atlantic. Because Of it, as much as
because Of any other n thing. we
have developed so rapidly and be-
come so big and strong. But we can
never grow big enough and strong
enough to afford, as a large number
Of congressman and forces back OF
them seem to think. to repudiate those
ideals and to do such gross injustice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
WHERE STRONG MEN 1Rus1.

Boys and youths are usually hero
worshipers. They seek example. A
winner is always a model TO the young
and ambitious. It is not uncommon for
young men to hold the impression that
the great men are rarely religious n
this false impression is to be blamed
for many Of the follies and much Of the
failure of youth. So it is we'll to call the
attention Of men, DUN and older, to
the attitude Of George D. Perkins, a
man who had stood shoulder high
among strong and successful men Of
his generation, a notable success in a
state where success is common and
whose achievement was marked In a
country and a state where achieve
ment is the measure Of a man. When
Mr.. Perkins had given up his work an !
was in the hospital facing the final
nroblem he wrote a few words to his
sister on her birthday and enclosed
with the lines these verses without
word or comment:
Show me Thy way, o Lord.
And make it plain;
I would obey Thy Word,
Speak yet again;
I will not take n step until I know
Which way it is hat Thou wouldst
have me go.
Oh Lord. I can not see;
vouchsafe one light;
The mist bewilders me,
Impedes my sight;
Hold Thou my hand and lead me to
Thy side:
I dare not go alone, be Thou my guide.
The trust of the strong men is in the
Lord. Down at the root Of high intelli-
gence Inc the courage which carries
them on to success and achievement
Mes In all its simplicity a plain belief
and dependence upon the Highest In
telligenee and the Greatest Good. They
believe In Cd and the wisdom Of His
ee0nnnAments. MI. Perkins had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Iona Newspapers
AN EASY TIME.

Council Bluffs N~onpareil.1
The effort to give boys and girls an
easy time. to shield them from the hard
work which parents were obliged to
undergo themselves doubtless proves a
cruel kindness II many cases. Thrift
and industry are as necessary for the
welfare of the individual as liberty and