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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Our Wonderful Language.

During his leisure hours q reporter
scanned the columns Of the classified
page in Q metropolitan newspaper, and
this is what he found:
Wanted-A room by . young man
with double doors.
Lost-A green lady's leather purse.
Wanted-A nice young man to run .
poolroom out Of town.
Wanted-A man to take care Of
horses who can speak German.
Found-A lightweight gentleman's
o%vercoat.
Wanted-A boy who car open oysters
with q reference.
Wanted-An organist aud Q boy to
blow the same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

Passage Of the Industrial employee
arbitration act. which prevented
strike Of eastern railway employer.
Constitution Of peace" policy. -.
sulting in voluntary breaking up o.
the i~nterlocking directorate system.
Deposit by the secretary Of the treas
ury Of $50, 900 900 to facilitate the NOV
ing Of the crops.
Farm credit legislation emphasized
by the president and legislation a.
sured.
FiIipinos Dsnsftsd.
Modified self-government conferred
on the Filipinos.
Enforcement Of the government from
alliance with New York financial inter-
ests in international affairs.
Cooperative policy Of the depart
ment Of justice, resulting In voluntary
dissolution by big corporations in ac-
cord with provisions of the antitrust
law.
Policy Of diplomatic postponement'
or "watchful waiting" backed by high
moral grounds, applied to the Mexican
and Japanese questions and approved
by public opinion.
Postoffice department becomes self
sustaining.
Parcel post system developed and
extended and express rates reduced in
consequence.
Change in the rules of congress. re-
sulting in the elimination Of Cannon
ism.
Extension Of pure food and meat in
spection acts, with resulting benefits to
consumers.
Scientific method Of marketing farm
products with q view t the elimina-
ton Of waste is undertaken by the de-
partment of agriculture.
Armor plate trust forced by the Sec
rotary Of the navy to reduce its bids.
than 81. 600, 900.
Extension of the special delivery sys-
tenn to the parcel post.
Home life Of the farmer made a sub.
ject of special study by the depart
ment Of agriculture.
Protection Of the law given to In
dian children and favoritlsm abolished
by the commissioner Of Indian affairs.
Public land policy embracing con
servatfon Of natural u and
utility at the same time, adopted by
the secretary OF the interior.
cdTIu extension measure carrying u
the farmers the benefits Of the scien-
tific study Of experts passed.
Protection on the Seas.
Emphasis given by the president to
the presidential preference. primary
plan. Legislation is believed probable.
Better protection for passengers and
property at sea provided by London
conference in which views OF delegates
sen by the administration were largely
adopted.
Early enactment of the Alaskan rail-
way bill opening up Alaska promised.
Academic. vocational and technical
instruction for enlisted men in the
navy provided by secretary Of the
navy.
Dissolution of Southern Pacific mer-
ger n surrender Of stock held by
Pennsylvania railroad in its competi-
tor, the Baltimore & Ohio, accom-
plished along lines agreeable to the ad-
ministration.
Prosecutions begun against several
large trusts which have not agreed to
a settlement along peaceful lines.
This document was prepared by the
committee for use in the Iowa cam
paign where a special election for con-
gress is scheduled to occur soon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
HAND BOOK ISSUED REclTlNo
ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF 40.
ADMINISTRATION.
rHlRrY.oNE ACHIEVEMENTS
As sEcoND.TERM CLAIMS
sIiaht Notice Paid to Mexican and
Other Problems Which President Has
Not Solved - Tariff Revision and
Currency Laws Pointed to as Big
Things Brought About.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-The first gun
in the Wilson campaign for renomana-
ton in 1916 was fired when he demo-
cratic national committee issued a
formidable pamphlet announcing thir-
ty-one achievements" Of President
Wilson'S administration.
Political observers here look upon
this as the first concrete proof that the
president is not worrying about the
-.'anti-second term" plank In the Baltt-
more platform, and that he Is taxing
no chances in letting some ether candi-
date be the first in the field.
The first page of the BOOKLET is taken
up with a portrait of President Will
SON; the last with a full page testi-
monial from Senator Robert NJ. La
Toilette, Of Wisconsin, who still wants
to be President Wilson's opponent in
1916.
Nation Believes In Him.
when Woodrow Wilson was a cam
didate for the presidency declares the
pamphlet, che made certain definite
promises to the American people. They
believed in him then, and more thar
ever they believe in him today. NO
responsible man in the nation questions
the fact that he has made good"
The booklet Is the work OF Thomas J.
Pence, assistant to the chairman OF the
democratic national committee. The
thirty-one achievements" listed in the
catalog contain about everything that
has happened ~hereabouts fer the last
ten or fifteen years, even Including the
revision Of the Cannon" rules of the
house Of representatives, and the adop-
tion Of the sixteenth and seventeenth
amendments to the constitution, which
were carried out before Governor VIII
son was nominated at Baltimore.
Some Things Omitted.
There are, however. a number OF
omissions from the list OF things that
had been accomplished since President
Wilson's Inauguration last March. NO
mention is made Of the wholesale x
emptions which have been made from
the operation OF the civil service aw
or Of our achievements in the contro-
versy with Great British over the Pan
anna canal tolls, or with Russia e
q new treaty. Nor Is mention made OF
the Wiison-Bryan reorganization OF the
diplomatic corps. Nothing is said about
the exemption Of labor unions from
the operation Of the Sherman anti
trust law. The achievements" Of the
administration in the Mexican and
Japanese troubles are deiicately re-
ferred to as a policy CT diplomatic
pcstponement."
List Of Achieve nnents.
But here is the list Of claims:
Revision of the tariff dow
Enactment Of currency reform.
Elimination of the lobby from the
halls of congress.
Perfection and operation Of the in
come tax and direct election OF sena-
tors amendments to the constitution.
Negotiations Of treaties in accord
with the Bryan peace plan. thirty gov
ernments having signifed their inten-
ton to accept.
BY public appearances at the capitol
the president has emphasized the end
ing OF government by secret confer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

opportunity. These are habits that can
only be acquired by practice. Boys and
girls should have an easy time. But
this Easy time should be had by care
full instruction in the art OF being
happy while exercising self-restraint
and patiently performing regular
duties in the world of useful work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
Topics of the Times

Now it turns out that Maurice Con-
oily is wealthy and entirely able to
stand the campaign for senator: but
haven't our democratic friends been
fussing for years over the danger of
sending wealthy men to the senate?
Why is it that the man who can pay
his taxes easiest always make the most
fuss over a raise of a dollar or two?
a man may drink and not get drunk
all right but it costs the Philadelphia
Quartz Company's EMPLOYS just ten per
cent Of the wages that he might get
If he didn't use it at all Add to that
at least 90 per cent ,f what he does
get and there's the rent or the grocery
bill and a new gown OF a suit of tailor
mades.
Nevertheless Chairman Woods is
probably doing Well as he may with
what he has to do with.
Nobody outside the Second district
seems TO be highly pleased with tbs
prospect that Vollmer will win. Voll-
mer isn't just the type Iowa desires in
a congressman.
Congressman Bremner's case does
not settle it that radium may not be a
very efficient assistant n treating in
cipient cancer. On the contrary many
medical men find a large hope in he
results attained in the Bremner case.
But it does seem to decide that ad-
vance cancer cannot be cured with
radium or any other known application
and hat the knife is still the suresa
resort.
What one woman's new hat
will do for the hat demand in a~notheJ
family is not a circumstance to what
those concrete rural roads out of De-
troit have done to the farmers across
the lake o nthe Canadian side for they
have induced their county council to
submit to the voters a bond issue for
1000. 900 with which to build just as
good roads as the Yanks have. The
town of Windsor across the channel
from Detroit has some of the Oldest
concrete street ~ene 0 minis con-
tinent.
There rs no occasion for Des Moines
to protest too much that it had nothing
to do with the capitol extension bill.
Polk county and Des Moines have their
rights to have a part in a bin that has
been in contemplation for mony years
and which will be approved by the flu
ture. Des Moines, While it is the larg-
est city in the state, is not a dangerous
element in Iowa as Chica go is in H.
inois. and Common sense and plain
equity should prevent any attempt to
make Des Moines an issue. Let's go
into the extension matter as IOWans
The ground hog and the iceman are
by way Of becoming chums.
Some Of the suffragists refused to
shake hands with the president because
he doesn't warm up to the idea of
votes for women. But isn't as en-
barassing as though they had taken a
shot at the white house with a bomb
Or had HobsoniZed him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

Editor Meredith is entitled to a
medal for still another thing" says the
Sioux City Journal. In deciding not
to be a candidate he gave his real rea-
son for reaching that decision"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
IOWA OPINION AN pNoTES.

1.-The. next state administration
should make an effort to see how little
money can be spent instead of how
much" says the Logan Observer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

The Hardin County Citizen has re-
marked tina there is nothing that
fades much more rapidly than the let
ter on a college sweater
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

"1f the farmer boy knew how often
the business man, tired Of the struggle
for existence, wished he knew enough
to go on a farm. and knew how will
ing the business man would be to don
overalls and work clothes, we think
the young men on the farm would stop
and think a great deal more about
leaving the farm for a business ca
reer," says the Grundy Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09

The Traer Star Clipper thinks "the
use of prison labor on Iowa roads will
benefit the state in many Ways. not the
least Of which is the improvement in
the laborers themselves. The man who
his ability to work faithfully
before parole has no difficulty In Sc
curing employment thereafter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-09
The ground hog and the iceman are
by way of becoming chums.

Some of the ~suffragists refused to
shake hands with the president because
he doesn't warm up to the idea of
votes for women But isn't as en-
barassing as though they had taken a
shot at the white house with a bomb
Or had Hobsonized him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
Struck by Auto.

Donald Russell, the -year-old
son of Chief and Mrs. P. j. Russell, of
Burlington, was hit by an automobile
Wednesday afternoon, and it could not
be ascertained during the evening just
how serious his injuries would prove.
The little boy stepped from the
curbing into the road in front of his
home on South Union street at about
four o'clock and was hit by the automo-
bile owned by Mr.. Mack Of the firm of
Tracy & Mack of Shelburne. There
was team standing by the curbing and
it is thought the boy stepped from be-
hind the team.
The boy was picked from beneath
the machine by DR.. T. S. Brown, who
lives next door, and taken to his home,
where his injuries were cared for. He
was found to be badly bruised, there
being a bad cut on his forehead just at
the edge of his hair and also cut on the
back of his head. His left arm was also
badly bruised. He coughed up blood
and it could not be ascertained whether
or not he had received internal injuries.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
Injured Boy Upset in Ambulance
Crash.

After suffering fracture of the skull
by falling down fight of stairs, eight
year-old Richard A. Houghton of 139
Mason Terrace, Brookline, narrowly es-
capped more serious injury when the
ambulance in which he was being taken
to the City hospital was struck by an
automobile at Beacon and Carlton
streets Monday afternoon and over
turned.
The injured lad escaped without any
additional bruises, but John F. Burns
of Edwin street, Brookline, driver of
the ambulance, had his right elbow
broken. Two patrolmen in the ambu-
lance with the boy were uninjured.
The driver of the automobile that col
lided with the vehicle escaped and sue
ceeded in hiding the number of his
machine Boston Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
WEST CORNWALL.

We were visited with very severe
electrical storm on Monday afternoon
Vivid lightning followed by crashing
peas of thunder and heavy downpour
of rain The lain was much needed and
very welcome. A tree was struck by
the lightning in Alfred Payne's yard.
Miss Katharine Griswold started on
Tuesday morning for her trip to Detroit,
Mich, where she expects to stay few
weeks with relatives and friends there.
Mr. and Mrs. L. Dewitt were guests
at F L. Towner's on Sunday last.
Mr.. aud Mrs. William Boonum of En-
glewood, n. j.. have been visiting his
sister Mrs. A. w Bingham. where their
daughter. Elizabeth, has been staying
for some time.
H.. E Sanford L Dewitt, r A. Bing-
ham, Norman Frost, c. II. Lane and
Howard Atwood went on Monday to
place a foundation for the marker to be
dedicated on the Goth TO the memory of
Ann Story of Revolutionary fame, on
the site of the cave her bravery made
famous in history and story.
A base ball game S being arranged to
be PLAYED her on Saturday afternoon by
the Bridport team and West Cornwall
boys.
George Young of Forestdae recently
called on his daughters, Annis and Kath-
crime Young. His grandson, Lyman
Rowe, was with him.
Miss Beatrice Drolette is spending the
week in Mddlebury with her aunt, Mrs.
n. J. Sanford
Lucien Brigham, Harold Sperry. Reed
Harris, Elwyn Pratt and Harold Butler
in. of | al-.
The ~ hatso Yer Circle meets this
week with Mss Beulih NJ. Sanford.
c, J Lowell WAS tas,n quite suddenly
i'll on M,nday forenoon. but is better
now. DR. 4. w. Bingham attends him.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
Little Girl KILLED by Auto.

Duxbury, Aug. II. -Seven-year-od
Lillian Bartlett was instantly killed this
afternoon when, playing with a num-
Der of children she ran into the street
near the South Duxbury postoffice, di-
rectly into the path of an automobile
owned by George H. Leach of Brockton,
who is spending the summer at Monu-
ment beach.
The chauffeur was driving at mod
crate rate of speed. The girl was the
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. William
Bartlett of Standish street, South
Duxbury.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
CORNWALL.

Miss Edith Darrow of Middlebury was
a recent guest of Mrs. Wilbur Goodrich.
Miss S. E. Griswold ,pent "Chautaqua
Week in Brandon.
Mrs. Charles Matthews and two child
rem of Charlestown. Mass. have been
visiting her sister, Mrs. Amos Atwood.
Mrs. Charles Lord and son of Win
ooski have been spending few days
with her mother, Mrs. G. E. Ward.
Miss Ava Hawley of Floral Park, n.
Y, is visiting Mrs. A. E. Wooster
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Shorkey and Al
bert Shorkey spent Sunday in Rutland.
Mr. and Mrs, A. w. Stevens and Cor
neia have been spending a few days in
Bristol.
Neil Sumner of Hartford, Conn, has
been visiting his sister, Mrs. A. w.
Stevens
Miss Amy Sumner. who has been
spending some time with her sister, Mrs
Stevens, has returned TO her home in
Bristol.
Miss Ina Shorkey returned from Rut-
land Sunday after spending a week with
her sister, Mrs. Cyril Brunette.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
is CIVILIZATION MENACED.

The world unrest, which has been
increasing steadily through the past
two decades, appears to be entering
upon its acute stage. If its awful pos
sibilities are to be escaped, they must
be faced and their effect upon civiliza
ton considered. Nothing can be gained
by refusing to contemplate them. To
domestic discomfort of manifold sorts in
nearly every country we now have the
gravest international complications.
The effect of comparatively localized
conflict like the late Balkan wars on the
world prosperity and its finances has
been grave enough. The consequences
of the universe struggle now threatened
are beyond imagination. Has the world S
capacity for sane leadership been eX-
hausted? There was never greater need
of it among nations than now.
The present epoch is marked apart
from all that has gone before by the
development of creative resources that
seem fairly miraculous. We appear to
be only at the threshold of their posi-
bilities. Unhappily these powers have
been largely valued for their destructive
capacities. Shall such motives now
dominate their constructive aspects? A
universal conflict might so paralyze the
to cripple our present civilization and
arrest indefinitely the power TO Utilize
beneticently the vast stores of knowl-
edge at command.
At a moment like this we may well
ponder some words of one of our great
American engineers, the late George
S. Morrison, to whose advice our choice
of Panama for the canal is largely due.
Showing that the universally of ouI
present civilization has only substituted
other dangers for the barbarian in
vasions which destroyed older civiliza-
tons he said Never before have the
opportunities for selfishness been sc
great, whether that selishness be de-
voted to the acquisition of useless
wealth, to indulgence in degrading
luXuries, or to the general disregard OF
the rights of others which may charac
terize poor and rich alike. In communi
ties where everything is organized or
the selfish basis of commercial life
these influences may transform the
the great forces of the new epoch into
powers of destruction from which tn,
world will never recover. -Bostor
Herald.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21

a ngles where the highway cannot be
clearly seen for safe distance on both
sides of the corner, but the careless
disregard of these elementary rules of
the road causes many accidents.
Recently the pages of the news
plpers have bristled Intellectually with
Don 'ts", one of the best collections
appearing in the Boston press and hav-
ing been promulgated by the Boston
chamber of commerce. 1t reads as
follows:
Don't run fast into or cross main
highways.
Don't take blind curves too fast.
Don run on the wrong side of the
road.
Don't forget that children dash sud-
denly and unexpectedly.
Don't take chances in passing street
cars when passengers are boarding or
leaving.
Don fail to sound your horn before
passing other vehicles.
Don't forget that car or a person
m ay be just around the turn.
Don't forget that the other fellow
may be dull, reckless or drunk.
Don't forget to look out for pedes-
TRANS.
Don take chances.
Don't forget Safety First.
1t would seem that anything so sim
pie and fundamental as the foregoing
would be sufficient, but the best minds
engaged in child training declare that
the negative method is always ineffec-
tive as a continuing moral force. The
life saving recommendations of the
National Council for Industrial Safety
are therefore designed to be more con-
structive.
They are headed Safety First, Safe.
ty Always" and read thus:
81. Be considerable
I'll. Go slow. l. Passing children
2. Passing vehicles; 3. Approaching
crossings q. Turning corners.
iii. Stop. /. At railroad crossings
2. Behind standing street cars.
CIV Use chains on slippery pave
ments.
"V. When in doubt-go slow o
stop"
The first and last injunction actual.
contain the whole sum and substanc
of the gentleman automobile creed
One of the chief controlling forces il
motor car accidents is lack of consid
Grafton. A two-urgent insistence o.
the ''me-frst" idea, sort OF sublimate
selfishness. This ought to be dis
couraged.
Rutland was exceptionally fortunat
in the week end just past in tina
thousands of cars, local, vicinity an
from nearly every eastern State, ira
versed at good running speed and We
without accident. Thh grim lessons o
the Korhonen and Blessing cases seer
to have been learned. Rutland Herald
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21

Medfeld, Aug. 14.-An automobile
owned by Ellery c. Croker of South
street and containing his wife and son,
William E. Croker, was in collision
with freight train at Smiths crossing
of the New Haven road on South street.
Mrs. Croker had three ribs broken
and was removed to her home Her son,
who was driving the car, escaped with
slight cuts and bruises. The front of the
machine was demolished.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
GRAND JURIES INVESTIGATE
RISING PRICES.

Washington, Aug. II. Additional
special agents of the department of
justice were dispatched today to Cleve-
land, Providence, Baltimore, Pittsburg
and Buffalo to assist in the nation wide
investigation of the increased price of
foodstuffs.
United States district attorneys all
over the country have begun inquiries
and in many places grand juries al
ready are at work At Buffalo John
L. O'Brien, the district attorney, will
direct special efforts to ascertain the
cause of the rise in the cost of flour.
Fred Robertson, distrct-attorney al
Topeka, Kansas, reported today that
1.-The unusual circumstances of wheat
going down in the market and the price
of flour going up has stood out promin
emily in the Kansas City daily newspa
pers for several days past" He is in
vestigating.
A flood of letters reached Attorney
General McReynolds today from volun
tary correspondents regarding the ad
vance in food prices. A Brooklyn cor
respondent claimed to have specific in
formation that tho packers there ar
rapidly increasing the price of fresl
meats notwithstanding an unusua
amount of meat in cold storage in New
York.
Gamers protested against the suga
increase in price. A large Middle Yves
firm wrote that the refners "by thei
joint system of selling their produc
through certain brokers have the publ
at their mercy"
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1914-08-21
Woman Badly Hurt, Hit by Auto.

Burlington, August IA. Mrs. Helen
Robbins of l57 Pine street, woman 60
years of age, was knocked down and
probably fatally injured last evening by
a Massachusetts automobile driven by
w. Z. Martin, territorial agent for the
Buick car.
Mrs. Robbins was Immediately taken
to the Mary Fletcher hospital. Late re-
ports last night were that she was in
serious condition. Her skull and right
leg are fractured and there is a con-
fusion on the chest besides other
wounds. Her recovery is said to be
doubtful.
The accident occurred about seven
O'Clock. The car was coming down
Church street at what the spectators
said was low rate of speed. Mrs. Rob
bins was crossing from the southwest
corner of Church and Cherry streets
diagonally to the northwest corner and
about the center of the street she was
struck by the car. Mr. Martin stopped
the machine almost instantly but the
left forward wheel was on the unfortu-
nate woman's skirt and the machine had
to be backed up to release her. The
police ambulance was Immediately sum-
moned and the woman was rushed to the
hospital. DIR. F. w. Bayies was in at