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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
so CALLED PRIVATE BANKS. !"

Expert examination Of the books Of
the private bank that failed recently at
Radcliffe showed tha, the bank had
been insolvent since 1903.
John H. Himmel, cashier pleaded
guilty TO forgery Wednesday before
the court at Eldora and was sentenced
to 10 years in the penitent!ary- John
II. Himmel ran the bank. His brother
was president and the testimony Of
local witnesses goes TO establish that
the president had such implicit con
fidence IN the cashier as 20 convince
the community that ne was not An ac-
tive party to the crime OF his brother.
However, this does not bring back the
money lost by depositors.
There is something essentially wrong
with a banking system under which a
single man in charge may conceal in
solvency over a period Of ten years.
That the president should have i'm
plic;tly trusted his brother is not as
tonishing tho it does argue that any
person of so conading disposition
should not De president Of a bank and
the guardian OF other peoples money.
The astonishing thing is that an in
solvent institution should he able to
cover up defalcatio for decade and
60 on until the big smash came.
The word bank" over the doors and
on the windows OF financial institu-
ton Of trust has come to mean safety.
Honest bankers and trusty institutions
have made the definition and honest
bankers and trustworthy institutions
should be protected against such scan
dals as that at Radcliffe To the gen
| mean absolute safety of savings These
depositors DO not deem il necessary to
inquire into the stability of banks.
They accept them as safe. They need
and deserve protection. A bank should
De a bank. Legislation which shall
| put the so-called private bank under
strict financial surveillance as are
other banks Is an urgent necessity,
tight laws without loopholes A bank
| is not a private institution SC long as
| 1t does a public business pledging
safety of deposits nor should It be per-
rnitted to operate except under proper
regulation and inspection
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
A FALSE HOPE.

Claude Porter came within 10000
votes Of defeating a. 3. Cummins for
governor The same republicans who
then voted against Cummins will vote
against him this fall. The Savage vote
OF $4,000 shows their strength. Besides
these votes Cummins will lose the pro-
sressives-72. GOO of whom voted for
Judge Stevens for governor That Cum
Minis Will be Overwhelmingly defeated
must be evident.-Connolly' Press Bu-
reau.
1t is false hope without any real
foundation. 1t is also somewhat Of an
insult TO the republicans who voted for
Mr.. Savage and classification of their
candidate which would do him small
credit were the accusation to come
from any accredited source. Coming
whence It does it carries nothing with
1t.
ly solid for cummins. SO much is
known and concluded Those voters
who might and those who do prefer an
other republican to Cummins will not
vote for Connolly. There will be no
bolt from the republican candidate to
Connolly. There is nothing about the
democratic candidate or his party to
attract republican votes. If the demo-
Gratis are still banking on anti Cum
Minis republican votes they are building
on sand. The men who have voted and
worked against Cummins within the
party will vote for him this fall. Some
OF them dislike him. Some Of them dis
agree with him. Many of them would
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
FLouR1sHING Altoona.

Upper Dies Moines Republican,
Visitors to this city say no city III
The state gives more evidence of pros
rerity than Algona- Located as 1t 10
ii has tn. best Of natural drainage
and pure water, making 1t a most
beautiful place TO live. Our schools
are not surpassed in the state and our
churches are in a fiourishing condi-
ton. Our business houses are pros
porous and trade increases daily. In
no other place are so many automobiles
seen upon the streets as in Algona-
More buildings are being erected for
business and homes every year More
streets are paved than in any city OF its
size in the state. The surrounding
county contains some of the best farms
in the state with modern improve
inents. We have three railroads enter
ing the city and the promise OF an Inn
proved train service. No place in Iowa
is so nicely located as Algona for a res
idence town. The people are eniighf-
ened, hospitable and courteous. Any
one looking for a good place TO live.
where they Will be able to bring UP
family in good healthful and moral sur
roundines, where all the advantages for
an education and good society exist.
might hunt the world over and find no
place so suitable as is Algona.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
STARTING AND FINISHING.
ICcunciI Bluffs Nonpareil.'


A boy was promised holiday II he
would clean up the basement and have
the work all done at certain hour.
He went after garden rake and when
this was found he discovered little
raking that needed doing. So little
time was spent doing this work. Then
a wheel barrow was sought and when
this was found it needed some atten-
ton which required more time. Final
ly so much time had been lost that
the actual task 1t was purposed to do
could not be finished in the time limit
prescribed in order to get the reward.
And so in life good people go from
one thing to another and never tarrJ
long enough with any one task to ac-
complish anything worth while. There
is great need OF steadying purpose
in life and firm grip on our vital
resources Don't fritter away time
chasing bubbles: settle down to the
task in hand and stay with 1t until
it is finished. There is a crying need
IN every community Tor people who
will start things, and startle people
out OF their indifference. The need ID
much greater, however. for people who
will settle into the collar and stay with
any task undertaken until 1t Is
finished. Many OF the best starters OF
good works are the first cutters after
they have succeeded In launching a
movement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
vSsune wERoes.

When the soldier marches to war and
the woman weeps on his shoulder the
world watches with wet eyes. 1t is
tragedy.
When the boy goes wrong and the
parents scrape their all together,
mortgage their home and sweep away
the props of their old age only few
note the sacrifice.
When the son denys himself the
home he hoped for of his own and de-
votes his life TO the old people no.
body sings of arms and the hero.
When the daughter stays with her
widowed mother. works for their living,
grows gradually into the old maid
class and puts away from her heart
the unspoken hope of all good women
no crowds acclaim her as a heroine.
Bnt these are heroes and their
heroisnl is higher than his in the front
rank or hers in the field hospital.
| This is tragedy also, tragedy TO
match the Sc, faces of men who march
away and the wailing of women who
stay behind.
The world is full Of unsuns heroism
Il walks the streets unnoted, bright
with youth and bowed with years it
passes with its burden OF high sscri-
fee, its hidden splendor OF aonegatioz.
Unlettered perhaps, honely. wrinkled.
humble. without the blare of heroic
bugles or the signalling Of battle ban
ners they pass. those unsung heroes
who suffer uncomplainingiy, even
gladly for the sake of others. Theirs
is the constant heroisul, the finest
patriotism
Think of them See them as they
pass Hats off The nravest men and
women OF the earth are passing by.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
TINES REPUBLICAN, MARsHA11rowN IOWA: SEPTEMBER

be glad to beat him with . republican
but all respect the man and his cour-
age and ability and the vote that VIII
turn from Cummins to Connolly Is so
utterly ncglible as to be dismissed from
calculation.
Iowa is magnificently represented IN
the United States senate. Both Cum
minis and Kenyon are truly represent
alive OF the great state which honors
them thus. They are big strong men
who are leaders among strong men.
Connolly does not measure up. There
are hundreds Of republicans in Iowa
better fitted In every way to represent
this state in the senate than he. Con.
molly is an accident OF politics. His
election to congress happened. He could
not repeat his success which was not
democratic success but republican
failure The comparison is too dis
tinct between Cummins and Connolly.
Connolly will lose more democratic
votes from this cause than he will gain
thru the disSruntlement OF certain re-
pubiicans with Cummins.
The question is settled in the minds
of the voters as certainly as tho the
November returns were in. Connolly
will be overwhelmingly defeated. The
democrats know 1t. he doesn't belong
in the senate as representative of Iowa
and the voters know it There is Moth
ing in his record to Justify his election.
He is nice fellow and my way of be-
Ing a political leader in Dubuque. And
hat Is all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
HAMILTON IN LINN COUNTY.

While John T. Hamilton is home
county" man the Record can see no
good reason for republicans supporting
him. 1t is cinch that If the republican
candidate were from this county or
even from his own city of Cedar Rapids
Mr.. Hamilton would not support him.
But aside from this phase of the matter
no good reason can be advanced for a
republican voter supporting Mr.. Ham
alton. In fact the Record can see no
really good reason why any member of
any party should support Mr.. Hamilton.
Some of us may have preferred some
other candidate than Mr.. Clarke, but
certainly not Mr.. Hamilton In his stead.
Mr.. Hamilton is a standpatter OF the
old school. He is the head of bank.
and be II said that had Mr.. Hamilton
had control of all the money in Cedar
Ra pids that city would still be village.
He is not progressive in business way
or any other way, and his whole career
shows that he does not believe in pro-
gressire methods. He is good citizen.
but entirely u misfit for the governors
chair of a state such as Iowa that wants
TO forge ahead. To elect him would be
a serious mistake for the state.
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THE SWEAR MAN.
lOtiumwa Review


Ottumwa has few policemen with
which to regulate the conduc; of c,i-
zens who have little regard for the
proprieties on public streets. ottumwa
is no worse, perhaps not as bad aus
other cities that indulge certain prom
iscuous habits objectionas Die to gentle
men and ladies. men and women who
are refined and clean spoken and
decent
There is statute Law prohibiting the
Lse Of profane language, for instance
Yet how fragrant. wantoniy, viciously-
: to be hel,d the swear man of the
street, desecrating the glory Of DAY
given him in which 10 be real man
(. nong men on several corners in
ctiumwa. from the railroost OF the idle.
the common iOafer. comes daily ;se
constant stream OF reprehensible Ian
guage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
PRICES FORTY YEARS AGO.
ICharter Oak Times.]

When we were small boys our father
gave US a discarded and out OF date
day book from his grocery store. to be
used as a scrap book We regret to
say that most OF the book is filled with
scraps cut from newspapers. but the
last pages of the book are still inyio-
late. and they hear date Of the first
months OF 1874, just forty years ago.
The little store was conducted in La
valIe. Wis, and the writer waited up
on customers somewhat. even then. In
fact. we find few entries in the book
in our own handwriting. Below we
give you few of the prices charged
We quote from the business OF March
II and a few days following:
Two pounds tea. $40.
Two pounds Topsy tobacco. 30 cents.
One pound tea. 80 cents
One and three quarters pounds rice,
9 cents.
One pound raisins. 20 cents.
One package yeast 10 cents.
Nine pounds sugar. 81. CThis must
have been brown sugar)
One half pound tea so cents.
Ope-auarter pound tobacco, % cents.
One pound coffee. 40 cents.
Three bars soap. 25 cents.
One-quarter pound mustard, 10
cents.
One gallon syrup, 80 cents.
One broom, 25 cents.
One paper OF pins, cents.
Pork, cents a pound.
Eggs, 13 cents a dozen (March I'D.
Three and one-half pounds white
fish, IS cents.
Ten pounds salt, 20 cents.
Two pounds butter. so cents march
2s.)
Cheese. 1S cents.
One quarter pound tea at $3.50, IS
cents. tfThis was green tea)
One gallon vinegar, 40 cents.
We next find credit OF four days
work SO.
One box backing, Is cents. T,
Eighty pounds grass seed: IS. prob
ably timothy seedb
Three pounds dried apples. SO cents.
One ounce cloves, 10 cents.
Two pounds graham crackers. 30
cents.
A credit OF ~ cords wood. $3.50.
One ounce nutmegs. IL cents
One pound saleratus (soda) Il
cents. -
7 This fist was selected without ref
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
Topics of the Times

The finest cattle, We have been told,
are those intended for export. NOW
that none are being exported. perhaps
we shall eat some OF our oMn best beef
at home But SO far robcd: has no
,iced an advance in auaiity OF meats
to match the advance in prices.
So far Hamilton hasn't sot past the
first line o. the Clark defense
Carranza is probably very' much mis-
taken in his statement that Vera CRUZ
is a closed port. Car-anza would o.
more and go farther with closed
mouth.
However. when we stop 70 think
about il an ordinary nail storm like the
one which caused destruction last
night doesn't amount 10 much in COM
parison with the hail that is sweeping
the fields of France.
1t will soon be time for President
Wilson TO proffe- his good Offices II
such horrors as the past three weeks
have evoked do not incline nations 10
mediation, then the world has gone
blood mad.
Just a few more days Of sunshine
and pleasant weather and General
Frost VIII find the corn crop en-
trenched beyond his power TO do II
harm.
One thing the kings and ernperors
failed TO do-contrac, with film com
pany for the moving picture rights OF
the war In some Nays our American
prize lighters are vastly thriftier man
the lighting men of Europe.
Now that the blue shy lc.n has been
knocked out there's nothing to prevent
organizing a company AMI selling stock
in those contac, mines.
The war correspondent may rot be
Of much account 10 himself OF anyone
else while the ffgilt:n., is going on but
watch him spread himself in the maya
zines when he gels ous Of reach OF the
censor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

erenco to the cost At the present time.
but you Will notice that the AlSh cost
OF living IL not 20 much n ths ps3oee
a. In the appetite. You will note that
while sugar. sold at 80 10 $3.50 .
hundred. that wages we're only $3.50.
This was ten years after the owl
war. closed, 80 that war prtces ware not
affecting the market. It was sOn1e three
years after the railroad was built thru
the town. 80 the shipping facilities
were good
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
CoNNoLLY'S ABSENTEE1SM.

Congressman Maurice Connolly Is
now doing the same thing that he GEN.
sored Charley Pickett for. two years
ago in his campaign speeches-shirk
ing his duties at Washington. Drawing
his $1,000 per to spend his time out here
In Iowa. lecturing at sauer kraut festi-
walls and on the chautauqua platform or
before any large crowd that he can get
together. Fancy Woodrow getting
along without the silent Dubuouer. Go
to it. Maurice! Your argument will
have to be some better than it was two
years ago If you talk the Iowa folks out
of their votes this time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
SMALL BUSINESS.

IDes Moines Register and Leaderl
What some OF us have found fault
with is that they should have made
that undertaking so much larger than
necessary, larger than the park
around the national capitol in Wash
ington 1t is just the difference be-
tween acting hoggish and being de-
cent about such things. We have
been for merely ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Cole in the Cedar Rapids Republican.
on referring to the journals Of the
house and senate we ind that Repre-
sentative Herbert Ring and Justin
Barry OF Linn county voted FOR tn
capitol extension just as II stands,
and that Senator Francis a. Heaid did
not go to the trouble to vote against IL
Does the Republican propose TO
maintain that the three representa-
lives from its own county deliberately
conspired 10 rape the state treasury Tor
the bench, OF Des Moines? II that Is
not what IL proposes to maintain, 10
what is 1t referring when II says the
exclusion as planned was "hoggish!
Among the senators from the i'm
mediate neigh borhood Of Linn county
who voted for the extension are A.
l. Ames of the Benton Tama district:
W. II. Arney o. the Marshall district;
6. H DeWolf of the Black Hawk
C;rundy- district: George e. Hilsinger
of the Jackson district. while James a
White OF the Johnson Iowa district did
not vote against it
In the house the affirmative vote
among members from the immediate
vicinity was Atkinson OF Butler,
Berubrock and Grout OF Black Hawk.
keison OF jackson. Leroy of Delaware,
I>ounsbury OF Marshall Miller OF
Bremen. Sherman OF Poweshiek,
Townsend OF Tama koontz of john
son and Milton OF Cedar not voting
against.
Are these the men who acted
hoggish p
These grounds were planned by
Mr. Masqueray, whose reputation does
not res, with the Cedar Rapids Repub-
ncan. General Dodge, perhaps more
than any other one man, stood sponsor
for the project. The members of the
legislature who voted for 1t were on the
ground, and all OF them in full posses
sion of their faculties. And yet the Re
publican proposes with one silly refer
ence to more ground than is given TO
the national capitol In Washington. abb
surd on its face, to wipe out the COM
bined Judgment of them all.
The Republican Is altogether too
smpoT;an; ali Iowa newspaper 10 DC
engaged in such business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
HEALY-THoMAs.

NSNAAOii AACi&A
Seth Thomas. the Fort Dodge law
yer who wants to be supreme judge,
has been in the practice four or five
wears. He has the Endorsement OF the
democratic state convention, but 1t is
not to be supposed that the people are
yet prepared to elect a novice without
experience at the bar to place on the
Supreme bench. We are at loss 20
understand now the state convention,
in the interest of non partisan judi
ciary, could give this candidate
partisan Endorsement. But that is the
Healy notion, and what the Healys
want goes-sometimes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

Others have told how their pastor
donned overalls and went to work four
days In the shops where many Of his
|people earned wages to support their
families. In ono instance the pastor
with pick and shovel went down into
the coal mines with 66nie OF the miners
who attended his ciiLfch on Sundays.
And we are told that these pastors
made themselves helpful as we'll as
very popular with their people.
No doubt, these pastors will be glad
to know that such methods and actions
on their part meet with the approval Of
the Independent, These preachers are
making themselves helpful during the
week. and, II they are made OF the right
stun. they are also preparing them
selves to preach better sermons on Sum
day. r 80 Q
Working on the farm and In the gar
den. and cooperating with nature will
help to prepare the preacher for his
Sunday work. that Is. IL he is on the
right side. If his plans are in harmony
with Gods plans.
Then again. there is nothing that will
help a preacher more to prepare him
self to do good than to get acquainted
with his people. The preacher, in order
to make his sermons helpful to his peo-
pie should know his people, he should
know just how they have 10 plan 10
make ends meet; how they have to toll
to provide the necessities for the fam
lily. In order to count for good. the
preacher must know the conditions OF
his people, not only the well-to-do. not
only the average. but the poorest. The
poorest need his help most. He should
know the farmers. but he should also
know the day laborers. the men who
make the sewers, and those who dig
down to bed rock on which to build the
piers and abutments for our bridges.
and tho foundation wall for our stores,
banks and mansions.
We have sometimes thought 1t might
do some clergymen good II they had to
board round" the way we did when
we taught country school fifty years
ago. Boarding around gave the teacher
a splendid chance to get acquainted
with the boys and girls. The teacher
should know his pupils. and the
preacher should know his people, If he
expects to preach sermons that will do
them good.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

BOMBS IN WARFARE.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,

the Germans have not used Zeppe-
Inns to drop bombs on either Antwerp
or Paris. the bombs which have been
dropped have been the lighter ones
carried on aeroplanes. The presump-
ton Is that Germany does not care to
run the risk OF having the Zeppelins
potted by French or Belgian guns. for
they are needed for other purposes.
Or it may be that the Germans have
not desired to kill and destroy property.
but merely to SOW few scares in the
inhabitant and to unnerve them for
further fighting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

THE Hon. Maurice Connolly. candi-
date for senator. is spending the great
er share of his time IL t;e :sate look
ing after his political fences. His
seat as congressman from the Third
district is vacant in the meantime. But
his absence seems to be giving the ad-
ministration little concern, observes
the Carroll Herald. Really, Iowa needs
men at Washington whose absence
snail De noted and whose presence in
their seats in congress is not only de-
sired but demanded"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

And there is no one else who can
follow Woodrow wilson says the
Cedar Rapids Republican. He has
created an administration that belongs
10 himself, is personal TO him and the
democratic party viii find it hard
work to find a successor for him, a
candidate who can take up the work
The democratic party has become a
sort of Wilson party. as Il became a
Cleveland party in former era.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

The Parkersburg Eclipse hopes. that
the coming legislature viii repeal the
non partisan Judiciary law Then II
will not be possible for men Of the
salineer stripe 10 be elected 10 one
of the most important Offices within
the gift of the people
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

What II congressman are TO be
"docked" s21 per day for on-attend-
anceo They charge from 500 to $3.50
per day for chautauqua engagements.
which still leaves them fair profit II
they join the yodlers during the sum-
mer season. argues the Jefferson Bee.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-09-05

About every third item in the pa
pers IL an account OF some auto acct
dent" complains the Algona Republi-
can.