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Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
PERHAPS the ILLINOIS COURT SMOKES

The supreme court Of Illinois has
voided the anti tobacco legislation of
Zion City. When Dowie builded HIM
self city he made certain regulations.
strict as those Of Medes and Persians
and other law giving outfits that
cinched things tight by statute. Among
the rules Of the new Zion was one
prohibited the use Of tobacco inside
the corpora ton limits. There came
into Zion City certain worknen alien
to Dowieism and these smoked to-
bacco and chewed in despite Of the
laws Of Zion. The Zionites prayed for
them first and later introduced another
and often mere effective fashion Of
suasion. They fought as they prayed
and many a workman stuck his pipe
under a swollen nose and looked on
Zion thru a Sinner" But the court
AYERS that he who will may smoke in
peace.
DoWie wrote into his leases prohibi-
tion Of tobacco. pork and oysters. Evil
IDENTIFY he didn't care for pork chops,
lo!n with apple sauce or shell hsh in
stews or fried or escalloped. Now 1t
will be up to the courts to say whether
or not the leaseholder Of Zion may
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SCHOOLS.

"A radical difference between En-
glish and American systems of school
organization is in the relation of ele-
mentary and secondary schools says
I. L. HANDEL, of Manchester, England,
in a bulletin on English elem mentary
education just issued by the United
States Bureau of Education. The
American high school receives its
pupils after they have completed the
elementary school course and builds up
its curriculum on that foundation. The
English secondary schools receive their
pupils from a variety of schools
special preparatory schools or elemen
,ary schools-and the pupils on enter
ing may vary in age from 10 to IA"
In general Mr.. HANDEL finds it diff
cult TO institute detailed comparison
Of the standards of elementary school
work in the two countries. because
circumsta nces are so different. The
American elementary school has been
for nearly century the national
school. the common school Of all the
people. In England the elementary
school is just in the process of de, elop-
ing into national Institution, public
service for national needs, instead OF
being regarded as a charity school for
the education of the lower classes
Another factor that renders compari.
son difficult, according to Mr HANDEL,
is the inherent difference between the
English and the American child. The
latter. he declares, is by nature more
precocious, natures earlier, is by cir
cumstances of his uppringing thrown
more into the company of adults, with
the consequence that he is less reserved
and self conscious and more alert than
the former
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
OUTSIDE CHARITY SOLICITORS.

Iowa is ove- run by outside solicitors
for allegedly charitable Institutions.
Scarcely day passes that some per-
son announcing himself or herself as
representa- live OF an institution for the
aid of convicts or one thing or another
does not appear with plea for con-
tributions, list Of names of persons to
be seen and sometimes forgetful Of
credentials.
Many and perhaps most OF these
solicitors and most of the institutions
enough. Some of them without doubt
are not what they profess TO be. AT
the least that may be said they ar.
outside the state. located in one or
another metropolis far away from
Iowa and scant of opportunity 70 serve
Iowa.
Charity begins at home. If we shall
pc we'll served We must serve our
selves. In Jerusalem the streets were
kept clean by individual sweeping be-
fore each individual door. We should
look after Iowa institutions first. And
we should make carefully certain the
institution which asks funds for chari-
table and public purposes worthy
one. Until Iowa orphans homes and
the various worthy Iowa charities have
been made effective by contributed
funds Iowa will show excellent judg-
ment by turning down the horde OF
outside solicitors that range Iowa year
in and year ont.
Let's look after iowa convicts and
Iowa orphans first. There is no lack
of charity and heIpfulness in that re-
striction. Put the money you have to
spare working under your own eyes.
Give to the poor of your own cornmun-
ity first. Strengthen your local chart
ties before contributing to some in
stitution In Chicago. See that the
orphans homes at Otturnwa and al
Council Bluffs have funds before send
ing large or small sums far aheld with
little or no knowledge Of who shall
administer them, for what or how. Give
to local hospitals first Take care OF
your own. That is the premier duty
and plain, ordinary commonsense
giving.
Give, give for charity like mercy is
thrice blessed. Be liberal and altruis-
tic and exercise prudence. No work
is so we'll done as that done at home
and in sight Of the needs and require
ments. Let the outside solicitor await
his turn.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MKRsHA1LrowN iowa FEBRUARY ~

feed his face with oysters and SIT
down Of winter day to pork chops
greasy.
The trouble with Dowie and his reg
ulations is that he didn't reckon upon
tn supreme courts and the last guess
they have coming. II Dowie had lived
several hundred years earlier he might
have pulled 1t of for then the last
guess went to the ruler and not to the
supreme court. There was shah OF
Persia who managed to make tobacco
pounding UP the guilty puffer in a
mortar, thus effectually preventing the
particular devotee of the weed from
pursuing his pa ssion beyond the pestle
and at the same time affording an
example calculated to discourage youth
from SLY Indulgence and the formation
of habits detrimental to health. The
popes took ha nd in the tobacco ques-
ton and during parts Of the Seven
.eenth and Eighteenth centuries the
smoker stood in danger of eNcommuni-
cation. Dowie has precedent on to-
bacco and pork. AS TO the oysters
history sayeth not.
However it is not at all unlikely that
the future shall bring strict legal reg
ulation Of the use Of tobacco. Perhaps
was behind the shah and other enemies
Of the weed. With teaching in the
schools against the custom and its ef-
fects it will not be out OF the way Of
prophecy 70 expect that tobacco w!l.
follow booze into the outlaw class
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
MERE BOSH?"

tS!ouX CITY Journal
1t may be mere bosh" to refer to
Iowa as a democratic state as the
Des Moines Capital says. But it will
not necessarily be wise for the. repub
iican party or any faction of it to pro-
coed blindly on the assumption that
the state is republican as a matter OF
course. There has been decade Or
more Of education in Iowa to diregard
party. to act independently of party.
to bolt, to play all sorts of antics
across party lines. to despise party
authority. The electoral vote of Iowa
at the last national election went to
the democratic party.
This isn't bosh. This is history.
This Is the very last expression of
Iowa in an election. Ordinary pru-
dence would require any party in like
case to take notice OF the situation.
The dispassionate observer fails to
note any important movement among
the republican factions for any read
jrIstment or arrangement, such as men
usually attempt in such conditions. 1t
must be obvious upon reflection that
voters who cast a democratic ticket at
the last election must be reclaimed
and that others who then voted the
republican ticket must be prevented
from voting the democratic ticket, X
Iowa is to make the Capitals idea OF
bosh good in this connection. Even II
progressive party men came back in
numbers, their effect upon the oppo-
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
is JUSTICE BLIND?


The spectacle Of two young girls
said always to have borne good repu-
tauons, being found in a snowbank IN
drunken stupor, ought to be just
cause for a more rigid Investigation on
the part Of the city authorities.
According to the police court stories
of the affair, as printed in the news
columns. the two youths who are ac-
cused of causing the girls to lose all
sense of decency, were let off with
fines Of $40 and costs each. The judge
should have imposed the maximum
penalty and then tackled on a month
or two in jail on a bread and water
diet. A whole lot of the deviltry that
we hear about might be curbed II the
courts of justice would throw the
wheels into high gear and hand out
penalties commensurate with the Of
fenses.
If the young fellows who got those
two girls drunk and then deserted them
upon a public street, purchased liquor
with that intention, no penalty that
could be imposed would be too severe.
At any rate, the offense appears to be
serious enough to warrant probe by
those who are in authority. Because
they got off so easily, there Is good
reason to believe the parties implicated
may feel like doing it again.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

ing for their breakfast eggs. they
noticed that favorite hen was miss
ing, relates Answers. f
1T must have been stolen" said
Jones. Just then he observed Brown o!
next door digging in his garden.
Brown. who was q man Of few words
was usually In bed at this hour, %
Jones put his head over the wall.
Good morning! What are you
working at so early in the day.? he
asked suspiciously.
planting"
Planting WHAT" persisted Jones.
Seeds" said Brown.
There was a snort from Jones, who
had suddenly seen something.
"Seeds?" he shouted. why, that's
one Of my fowls you're burying. you
scoundrel.''
"Thats.all right-seeds inside" said
the laconic Brown. as he resumed his
digging.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
MIGHT MOVE TO CARROLL.
Jefferson Ree.1

The approving Of the Webb Kenyon
law does not deny any man his rights.
The barring of liquor from Greene
county, except to licensed druggists, as
the bill intends, works no injury to any
man. a man who is not a drunkard,
or addicted to the use Of liquor as a
beverage, is entitled to buy from the
licensed druggist. Nor is the habitual
drinker thereby deprived of his rights.
1t is his personal privilege to move into
Carroll county any time he wants to,
and be where he can get It, Some may
argue that he would have to sacrifice
his home, leave where he wants to live.
and this, that and the other, II he is
compelled to move into Carroll county.
There is nothing In that argument
whatever. If he loves liquor better
than he does his Jefferson home, every
body would be willing to bid him God
speed on his weary way westward.
Personally we believe in local option.
and make it air-tight. Then the people
who do not want liquor in their county
can rule: and those who do want
liquor can easily move where they can
get it. We believe this thought was
in the minds OF the legislators who
passed the Mulct law. and who passed
the Webb-Kenyon bill. But-when
YOU fight the liquor interests-it is a
fight to the very gates of hell.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

site political extreme would have T.
be looked to. st
So far as appears yet there 10 little
II any sign Of authentic resultful Of
fort on the part Of any faction loolIinA
to contingencies: no conferences among
authorized representatives: no inquirs
for line Of common action; nc suY-
gestion regarding platform and ticket
as basis OF union and harmony. The
preiminaries to this years primary
are already well along in many re-
spects. The primary itself Is not very
far off.
The assumption becomes more
plausible all the time that the pri.
mary will find the democratic party
at least fairly unified. the progressive
party actively and militantly In evil
dence and the republican party IN very
much the same shape as in the last
campaign; divided and confronted
with necessity in which one faction
or the other must go into the pit ut-
terly. If this is not to be the case,
something. not now visibly on tho tapis
will have to happen between now aat'
primary.
In word, it remains for the future
to develop the boshiness Of the Iowa
situation A4ss
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
Topics of the Times

Some talk that Professor Taft vii,
accept college presidency. The ex-
president would fill the chair OF any
college.
Iowa is busy just now unsnowing
herself.
The farther and harder the search to
find a better man for senator than
Cummins the more evident that he
isn't to be found.
The motto on which the republican
party may most certainly -eo.gan;Ze
effectively is more power to the peo-
pie and less TO the machine"
1t rather grinds the average citizen
to read that Morse, the banker con-
v!ct who was let out to breathe his las;
few faltering breaths in freedom is
now enjoying himself hugely on a
European trip. If the average Amer
lean citizen hates one thing worse than
another it is to confess himself
buncoed. Il
Des Moines should not get 80 busy
with her police and her city council as
TO forget the loan sharks. The state
is looking toward the capital for an
example of how TO land them.
Automobile manufacturers of eight
eastern states have framed up a uni
form auto law. But what's the use OF
a uniform auto law if it is Impossible
TO get a man in uniform to enforce it 4?
The shorter the courtship, the
quicker the honeymoon and the surer
the allegation of cruel and inhuman II
treatment, non-support, and the like.
This new wireless method of explod :
ing battleships at a distance may have
been suggested by the feminine GUS
tom Of blowing up husbands over the
telephone.
Seems like those fellows over in the
Seventh are not making much fuss
over the succession to Prouty. Stir
around and start something TO relieve
the monotony. Tell on each other
Fuss. 1t is getting to the point that a
checker tournament is about as exc!t-
ing as a congressional campaign.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
Iona Newspapers
THAT FIVE MILE BILL?
TIowa CITY Republican,

Under our laws a man cannot COM
pound medicine without four years
course in a university, or other study
that will enable him to pass a rigid
examination. To become a physician
man must have college education
and then take a four years course In
medicine. To become n lawyer there
must be years Of study in or out of
college and a final examination. To
hecome minister in most churches
there is required years of preparation.
But when it comes to law making any
ignoramus, any excitable rattlehead or
any sort of demogogue seems to fit
the requirements. Fitness is no quail
ication In many cases. The result is
a hocus pocus lot of legislation with
little reconsideration for the constitu-
tion. or the rights of the people.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
IT PROVES NOTHING.

[Des Moines Register and Leader.1
a former officer in an Ohio anti
suffrage organization. speaking in
Washington a few days ago. assailed
the movement for equal suffrage on
the theory that It's success will not
improve social or political conditions.
The speaker repeated the standing
charge that more liquor dealers do
business in suffrage states than in
states in which women do not vote.
md directed attention to the prev
alenve Of gambling and the looseness
If divorce laws in the west. :,
This sort Of argument" Of course,
is unworthy of reply. 1t is cheap and
2nfair. To say that women should not
vote because there is one liquor dealer
to every 230 people in Colorado, for
instance. is an insult and without force
and effect as an argument. If they
iidn't vote in Colorado 1t may be as
rair to say that there would be liquor
dealer to every tWenty-three people. or
I proportion as large as in many places
where men only vote.
1t is not on this basis that women
claim the ballot or will be given IT..
They are citizens and have a right to
the ballot and another class Of citi-
zens-men-have not the hight to de-
prive them of II.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Rockwell Phonograph says 1T is
almost safe bet that more auto cata-
logs than seed catalogs are now being
studied during the winter months"
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
setwesn the Acts.

Fanny Footlights The comedian
boasts that he used to play the first
grave digger in Hamlet
Polly Pinktights-Pinle! Why, that
fellow couldn't get a job digging a
sewer.-Philadelphia Record.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

1t is estimated that in South Africa
the capital invested in the printing
trades amounts to $2O,o0O.oO0 There
are 5000 white men employed in the
industry or twenty white men to one
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
His Name Was Thomas.

Miss Maguire-Any letter for me?
Postma ster-Nhat name, please?
Miss Maguire-Must tell!
Postmaster-Certainl
Miss Maguire-Well. if I must, tom
Herald.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

In Formosa there is q tree between
$500 and 1900 years old, with a cir
conference Of sixty-five feet and the
lowest branch forty-nv feet from the
sround. The tree is q species Of cy-
press. the Japanese "beniki"
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
PLANTING Seeds.

Planting SccdS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jones were very proud
and fond of their chickens. Great,
therefore, was their CONSERVATION
when, on coming down the other morn
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

'If w. w Marsh should be elected
governor Of Iowa he will see that the
cattle sheds at the state fair grounds
are enlarged" says the Algona Repuo-
Ecan.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

If a. man fakes a deed to a piece
of land not mis- own, and sells same to
some innocent person, the defrauder Is
quickly sent to the pen. But he can
stick UP beautiful green mining
certificate with the words, Capital
$1,000, 900, thereon, sell it to sucker
for the price Of a farm, and go scot
free" alleges the Jefferson Bee.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27
Masonic Meetings.

A. Masonic Meetings.
"sPEclAL COMMUNICATION,
Marshall Lodge, No. los A. f. &, A. NJ,
Friday, Feb. 81, 7:3o p. m, for work.
John w. Wells, secretary; I. T. Forbes,
w. NJ.
SPECIAL coNvocATIoN, signet
Chapter No. 80, r. A. NJ. Monday,
March 2, 1880 p. M. for work Regular
business. John w. Wells, secretary;
A. D. Meeker, H. P.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ. Monday
after the third Sunday. Regular busi-
ness. I. T. Forbes. recorder; A. D.
Meeker, g. I. NJ.
SPECIAL coNcLAVE. ST. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K. T. Thursday
Feb. 2S, 1880 p. m, for work. NJ. S.
Mcfarland, recorder; F. NJ. Wilbur, E.
G..
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. Z. S, Wednesday, March
II, 1880 p. m, for business. Anna
Downing. secretary: Mary Black CHI
l:1s, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-27

IF the local taxing bosrd-the board
Of upervisors-made the same levies
in 1913 they cid in 1912 they dio
wrong says the vinton Eagle. THE
levies for 1913 for the tax to be col
lected in 1914 were made after the ac
ton Of the executive council and could
have been adjusted to meet the rise
in values made by the council"
To the Manson Democrat 1T begins
to look as If Ishka B. Ibble would cut
quite fiiure in Iowa democratic poll
tics this year."
HAS it ever occurred to you that the
lawyer is the most avaricious Office
seeker. and holder, Of any class of
people?' inquiries the Ottumwa Re
view (democrat) and asserts such is
the fact and just why this should be
so is due to their desire to live chiefly,
if not entirely by their wits"
The Sioux City Tribune argues that
having distributed it's best offices in
Iowa, the democratic party is relatively
weak"
what Is wanted just now" declares
the Sioux CITY Journal, "and for a
while is the firm clanping down Of the
lid-rigid resort to executive sessions
in the senate and inexorable enforce
ment Of the powers Of the rules COM
mittee and Of the speaker in the
house"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-31
MORE GILMORE PHILOSOPHY.

We are exceedingly grateful to
Pres't 7. VI. Gilmore. of the National
Model License league for an epistle
on the coming of ]. Frank HanIy and
DR.. Ira Landreth TO South Bend to
talk on prohibition. We commend it
10 our readers, as 1t appears. more
for their entertainment. however.
than with our Endorsement. We have
expressed our views on the work Of
the National Model License league be-
fore.
We know nothing about Dr. Land
reth and care less about Hanly. No
one. however uninfluenced by the re-
wards of the liquor business is likely
To take the letter much more seriously
than it hopes the addresses of these
gentlemen Will be taken. The liquor
problem is problem. Mr. Gilmore
and his league Notwithstanding. and
when he refers TO the "hysterical and
unthinking' as the only possible con-
verts. ne is hitting a wide range of
pretty substantial people. and great
many of whom have forgotten more
perhaps, than hc ever know.
There is such "a tning as being
"hystericaI" from booze. and also OF
being minimizing" from the same
source
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-31
Twenty YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

The i. .. q. r. held a public install
lation OF officers with a program OF
music and speeches Henry G. Thay-
or of Plymouth delivered the principal
address.
St Joseph Valley grange installed
officers. conducted 10y Aaron Jones.
assisted by George Matthews. The Of
ficers were. Charles Stuckey. master;
Lee stiles. overseer. AIRS. Ella Wood
lecturer: John Layton. steward; Alfred
Cover. assistant steward. ~ w Byers
chaplain. W. II. r. Ritter. treasurer;
H. II. Swain. secretary. BAIL Bupel,
gate keeper Mrs :. -. Robertson.
Pomona. Miss Mary J6Ees. Flora, AIRS.
Hattie Ward Ceres. Airs Sarah Buck
bee. ladies assistant steward
The Maximum temperature for De-
ccmber was "a. Minimum 3. mean 3j.
4 skate famine existed. such was
the demand for the elders.
The Misses ChesnutwoOd. Sadie and
bessie Taylor and Grace Treanor en-
tertained at Elks' hail. The Eioeis
PLAYED Tor dancing
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-12-31

ONE of the speakers at the travel
ing salesmen's dinner said that man
was not made for business and in
stances might be cited in support of
the statement And he added that
business was made for man, which
may not be clear to everybody, but
which bears the impress of truth. Per-
haps the middle ground. that man may
not be made for business. but needs
il, and that business was made for
man. but don't need him, may be bet
ter understood by the common herd.
WE are still wondering why some
body didn't tell Pres't Engman to take
off his corset cover.
THERE is no better illustration of
the perversity of inanimate things
than the conduct of Decent er
in delaying the arrival of the new year
by insisting upon 81 days.
Some Newspaper English.
(South Bend Tribune.)
The chimney had fell down and
filled the house with smoke.
THE last day Of the year makes a
fellow think of what he has done with
the rest of the 365. BY digging around