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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16

small baby on the cover brandishing q
bent bow with an arrow aimed at
raw red heart OF the size and Of those
displayed behind the butchers counter.
It's verse had graduated from the
crude declaration of love defiant OF
jack knives and the sugar sweet flat
terry Of earlier effort The 1S-year- old
article cooed plenty but it ran to two
graduated into eternal fidelity Such
crude symbols as knives and sugar and
the round ring that has no end' had
been put away with childish things and
the Tyre was strung to a classical pitch.
1t was byronic as the collars of its day.
Where childhood bluntly asserted
Adolescence breathed. But thru it all ran
the same motive and over all whether
the scent was musk or yang ylang or
bergamot hung the doors of Araby. Out
of the old trunk breathes the sandal
wood memories of valentine days long
part of vanished years.
How the ghosts crowd. AS the gent
from the fisherman's casket, how mum.
oerless the ghosts rise from the ol6
trunk in the attic, ghosts of days and
the glimmer of half forgotten faces
among those well remembered;
ghosts of old loves and likings, of
friendships that live on and renew
themselves again as the grass grows
over graves: of affections that have
never faltered and wait in the eter-
nal hope; ghosts @: old songs, dim
shades that rise vapcr like and take on
definite form and whisper Of old days
Shut down the lid: but if it were of
triple steel it could not keep them in.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
IN IOWA.

The Washington Post, reviewing the
result in the Second Iowa district con-
cludes that the new tariff law has
scarcely been vindicate in that cleo
ton. It says further, in it's review of
that contest meeting, that progressives
may read with interest as an outside
view of conditions in Iowa and else
where as regards the progressive
party:
Ostensibly, the progressives are rail-
lying their forces for a nationwide and
vigorous campaign next fall, hoping to
gain many seats now occupied by reg
ular republicans. They had the pres
tige and incentive of Mr.. Roosevelts
heavy poll in the Second Iowa, and felt
sanguine over their prospects for at
least again overlapping the regulars.
They failed signally, but for that mat
ter, the most they have done in any Of
the several special elections held this
year to fill vacancies in congress has
been to poll enough votes TO let the
democratic candidates slip in by plu-
rality.
The progressive party in this state
is made up Of republicans who have
Joined with it for one reason and an
other which seems sufficient unto
themselves. So far, as the Post points
out, the movement has mainly resulted
in the election of democrats. 1t is
hard to see what they have gained by
detection from the party in Iowa. AS
between progressive republicans and
progressive partisans in this state
there are no differences wide enough
to justify a new party. The new party
is not making gains. On the contrary.
And in results 1t is losing with the re-
publicans who stand for progress.
The situation in this state is vastly
different than that in New York and
certain other states. Iowa IS progress
sively republican, not democratic and
with no prospect Of becoming bull
moose. Why shouldn't the voter who
stands for progress make his vote
count for progressive principles in
Iowa instead of for the election Of a
man like Vollmer?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
The GHOSTS OF VALEN1INEs.i

II we were to rurlnnage thru the old
trunks in the attic perhaps some Of US
could find a funny looking old sheet
of paper adorned with funny repre-
sentation Of kid with wings, bow
and CULVER and beneath the drawing
lines like to these:
1.-THE rose is red. the violet blue
Sugar is sweet and so are you
The verse might vary. It might run
like this: "If you love me as love
you, No knife can cut our love in two"
Whatever form poesy might take the
verse will have been written in a
scrawly school boy hand or traced in
the heater chirography of a school girl.
In either case you are lucky if memory
of the old time satisfaction it brought
comes back for the moment; for moth
ing was ever quite SO satisfactory as
valentine that bore such sweet assur-
ance from the little girl your childish
fancy singled" Smudgy, i'll written
whatever in taste or beauty it may lack
now it was the limit then.
If we stir around In the old trunk we
shall find history in epochs beginning
with the rose color and saccherine
quality Of the first valentine and rising
from note paper filched from mothers
stock up thru the gradations Of a 10
cent marvel of paper lace and print in
vari-colored ink up to the one he paid
50 for the valentines day after he was
IS. It was long and wide and beau
tiful beyond measure. altogether lovely
but none too good for her. It.had ar
embossed cupid almost as big as q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
THE OLD COUNTRY SCHOOL.
GShelGon Mail1

School consolidation is coming, along
with other modern arrangements.
Twenty years ago the editor Of the
Mail taught a country school with but
eleven pupils. in Clay county, ana the
conditions in many places today are
just the same as they We're then.
Come to think it over, how foolish it
looks, especially when there is a way
To improve it. The teacher remembers
the SIS per month-fair wages for a
country school teacher then, too-the
cold sleeping room where we stayed,
which never pleaded guilty to fire
turnout the long winter the mile and
cne- half walk in the teeth of north
west wind to the little implanted frame
schoclhouse- in the mornings; the kind
ling of a soft coal fire with the weeds
that grew around the schoolhouse and
what boards we could find from
neighboring fence; the frozen feet Of
some of the smaller children, to be
thawed out before classes were called.
Those were not "the good old Gays" W.
presume, to which the old settlers refer,
but they were good enough and much
more pleasant in retrospect and mem
DRY than they were in experience. The
election Of officers among the directors
by tossing pennies at the cracks in the
floor; the prairie chicken hunting; the
honk of the wild geese as they flew
over the schoolhouse from Trumblo
lake to Lost Island in the morning and
back again at night; the swish of wings
as they rose from the corn fields along
the road and circled their noisy way to
the lake-these are the things we
would retain in memory.
These conditions are gone in Iowa
and with them should go the family
school, as it will go. Progressive coun-
ties should get in line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
MISTAKES.
Marion Register.l

Mistakes are to be laughed at. II
one were to take seriously every little
mistake he made life would become
burden to him. Laugh at Your own
little mistakes, and dc not feel srieTed
e others laugh at them. Laughing VIII
help you remember to avoid them an
other time quite as we'll as giving away
to serious regrets. Some people are
forever taking themselves TO task Tor
some shortening. They are the over
considerations ones. If We act toolish-
Is On the impulse Of moment, it Is
no mere fair to punish ourselves than
to punish a child for a little mistake. 1t
is right to look for the error and ac-
knowledge it, If one has wronged an
other, he ought to confess it and De
more careful; then put 1t out Of mind.
To grow ,norose and solemn is to COM
init a second fault.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
DRY TIMES, IN WATERLOO.
Waterloo Courier


January "a, in answer to a request
from Mrs. Lydia Larson, of West
Branch, Iowa, for statement Of con-
ditions in Waterloo, following the clos
ing Of saloons, Mayor r. c. Thompson
made the following repy:
Replying TO yours Of recent date
will say that Waterloo has not gone
dry as you infer in your letter. The
lesaliZed saloons. have been closed for
over a year. but the use Of intoxicating
liquors and habit forming drugs con-
tinue. the after undoubtedly on an in
crease. While the abolishing of the
saloons has thrown many persons out
of employment and deprived the pub
lie fund Of over $4,000 in license
revenue each year. II has not by any
means destroyed or. as I verify believe,
even decreased the use of Intoxicating
liquors.
Locally, among tn well-informed, the
mayors answer was not accepted as
reader might draw an inference that
the cause of temperance had made no
gains in Waterloo thru the legal sale
of :ntoxicant being barred, the mayors
reply is susceptible Of a different in
he says that 1T has not by any means
destroyed, or as I verify believe. even
decreased the use of Intoxicating
liquors" This is a trifie vague as the
quantities consumed could decrease
even tho the Intensity Of the habit did
not-howayer. there has been a falling
off in both.
Without entering into discussion
yn
loo from the operation of the saloon
or the harm that results from Its abb
sence, the Courier, admitting that 1t is
not in as close touch with the situation
as our honorable mayor. begs to differ
with him. a great dea' OF this talk
about Waterloo being as wet as ever
since it became supposedly dry city
is mere buncombe. Only recently
lodge room. where gossip said liquor
was being dispensed freely. was ra1ded
by the police and the only liquids FOUND
were pop and ginger ale. Mayor
Thompson takes pride in the efficiency
Of his police force and within few
days a general roundup OF places
where liquors were sold was made by
the city's sleuths. after months OF close
surveillance and investigation. 1t was
said. Six arrests and job wagon load
of booze was the result-this in city
Of 1000 souls. Further, II bootlegging
was practiced to any great extent, even
tho this sort of offender is hard to
catch, we believe that the police force
is equal to the task; the drug store is
another alleged SOURCE and we do not
believe that we are merely unsophisti-
Gated when we say, that drug store
sales are inconsequsntiaL Who will
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
End. Fear Of Dentist.

The next worse thing TO a toothache
is going TO dentist, for most of us,
but these days of terrible anticipation
Of horror are past, if the latest APP
proved methods are used. Not only can
the dentist make the extraction OF
tooth painless by using cocaine or some
other nerve deadener around the roots
II the tooth, but he can perform the
far more nerve-racking operation oil
grinding out cavity and filling tootr
without the patient suffering the least
inconvenience or pain.
The magical means of securing ab-
solutely painless dentistry is nothing
else than the administering Of mix
ture of nitrous oxide and oxygen by in
halation thru the nose, while the mouth
remains open for the dentist to do all
the work he finds necessary. BY the
latest method Of administering this
mixture of gases the patient remains
fully conscious, sees the dentist at
work, and knows what he is doing. but
can not feel a single twinge of pain.
The explanation of this effect is very
simple, from a physiological stand
point. The effect of the combination of
nitrous oxide and oxygen is not n. all
like that Of the injecting of certain
drugs into the spine. by which all
nerves are deadened, but it simply par
alyzes for a time the ends Of the nerves
and in this way prevents the pain from
making itself felt 1t is just as il an
electric current were running along
wire, but you insulated the end Of the
wire. and therefore could not get the
shock: or rather, the electric wire Of
your nerve Is alive and ready to feel,
but the sensitive end being paralyzed
no sensation Of pain can enter upon
the nerve. The especial value OF this
new painless method is that the admin
istering of the gases may continue in
definitely without any bad results, so
that the dentist does not have to hurry
or skimp his work. and the patien. is
perfectly at ease under all the nerve
racking grinding, boring, and hammer
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16

DOtn' en0S meet Suo 10 NY IOASOueUSS
dividends on the reasonable value OF
their properties while making Also
suitable provision for their mainten-
ance. He is not q statistician and
therefore any impression he may have
on the subject must be based on his
confidence or lack Of confidence In the
general statements on the subject made
by the two parties to the controversy.
the carriers and the shippers, speaking
thru their representatives.
However, one need not De statlsti-
clan, nor familiar with the statistics
bearing upon this controversy, to ap-
preciate the inevitale Justice of the
statement by tho interstate commerce
commission that 80 long as the car
riers continue to grant rebates to the
steel trust and other favored shippers
they can have absolutely Tic standing
to complain that the rates now col
lected from shippers receiving no re-
bates are not compensatory.
The commission says it regards $1o.-
100000 year as conservative esti-
mate Of the rebates allowed by eastern
lines to favored sh. ppers in the form
of per diem reclaims, demurrage ex-
emptions. allows noes to Industrial rail-
ways, and other devices for favoring
the big shipper at the expense of his
weaker competitor.
AS consequence Of such allow
ances. the Baltimore and Sparrows
Point Railroad Company, owned by the
Maryland Steel Company. paid divi-
den0s aggree ting 423 per cent in ten
years. This IS only one of the many
examples.
Until they abolish such defiance of
law and natural justice, the railway
companies wi. not be entitled to as
much as a hearing on the question Of
whether present published rates are
sufficient.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
LOSS on MONEYS AND CREDITS.
Mt. Vernon Record

Why is it that the larger city dailies
Of Iowa do not explain that the ad-
vance in taxes aside from the foolish
raise by the executive committee, is
caused by the fact that monies and
credits have been exempted except for
a 5 mill levy. That makes ii necessary
for the money to be raised from real
estate and personal property, so rea!
estate and personal property are
soaked that the money lenders will not
have 50 large taxes to pay. Tell this
to the public. Then see what the next
Legislature would Go to the Law which
exe.npts monies and credits except for
the straight mill levy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
PAROLES AND PAROLES.

[Des Mcines Register and Leader.l
The attention of The Register and
Leader has been directed to inquiries
addressed TO Il by the Grand juno
tim GLIDE, which is ca pably edited by
Mr.. +. l.. Mott. the son of Hon. D. C..
Mott, a member of the state board Of
parole.
The questions asked by Editor Mott
are:
Are you,in sympathy with the pa
role system IL general? Are you in
favor Of -u,es for paroled men such as
are nect ssary part Of the system
and in vogue n every state that has
Parole laws? Axe you in favor OF the
enforcement of these rules? Can you
suggs st any p-lctical way to enforce
the rules II par Id men are scattered
all over the United States--or for that
matter. all over the world?
Editor Mott, Of course realizes very
fully that it is because Of the sym
pathy Of this paper for the parole
system in genera that il has insisted
in season and OUT of season, for its
administ aticn in sympathy with the
spirit of the law
But the emphasis put on the
rules Of the beard" by Editor Mott
disc!oses the fata' defect in the ad
ministraton of the system In Iowa.
The board of parole seems to regard
its rules as the vital thing, wehre-
as the parole law was passed by the
legislature solely to give men in pri-
son TO chance TO make good citizens
of themselves. The board Of parole
has no power to amend the law of the
state, and It especially has no au-
thority to punish men for technical
infraction Of some of its SELMA de
regulations. enforcing penalties that
not even a court would undertake to
impose.
In cases that have come to the pub
its rules as the vital thing, where
back TO the Iowa prisons from other
states becau they hace broken some
mere rule" Of the board of parole al
tho they had broken no law and were,
in fact, making good as conte mplated
By the parole law Of the state.
For instance TO force q man back to
prison because he made good on the
west side of the Missouri river instead
Of the east side, Nas prescribed by the
board of parole. is to make the board,
its rules the whole system and the
state ridiculous.
The trouble with the board seems to
be that ii rs CARDS it's rules and reg
ulations" as more important than the
redemption CT the men released under
the law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
Iowa Newspapers
JACK DALToN's OPINION.
Marion Democrat

About the meanest and cheapest kin !.
Of stealing this newspaper can imagine
is the outright theft of the newspaper
comment from such big newspapers
as the Sioux City Journal Marshall
town Times Republican, Waterloo
Times-Tribune and few other con-
scientously edited dailies, by the
smaller and cheaper fry around the
state. There is nothing meaner than
the theft of another mans brain
work
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16

say that the drayloads of beer that
were formerly daily sight on our
streets are now being delivered by the
express companies? Police records
also show fewer arrests for drunken
ness.
1t Is true that Waterloo has felt in
a measure ihe business depression that
has been general over the country for
the past few months and Some mer-
chants furnish proof that dry condi-
tons here have diverted portion of
their trade to smaller contiguous towns.
TO Offset this other merchants state
that their sales have increased by
reason of diversion of money from the
saloon till to the counter over which
the necessities and comforts of life
are sold.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
REPUBLICAN. IOWA: FEBRUARY 1914


trict there ought to be something doing
all over the state between the two fac-
tions. to the hilarity and satisfaction OF
the democrats, who, if the republican
progressive fight keeps up should win
Iowa in Next falls election"
The political contest In Iowa the
present year will be one long to- be re-
mem hered by some Of its peculiar
points" says the Oelwen Register.
The Democrats are getting ready to
unlimber their batteries on the Capitol
extension project which they propose
to charge up to the republicans. The
G. O. p. leaders expect to get back by
suggesting that dropping the tariff on
meat. butter and eggs is body blow
to the farmer. The bull moosers are
fernist them both so there you are"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
THE GOOD TINE COMING.

IIOunclI BUNS NOnpareLJ
This Second district election clearly
Indicates that the disorganiZed or di-
vided opposition TO the democratic
party is going to rally under the ban
ner of a reorganized and chastened re-
publican party rather than under a
party bearing a new name. This may
come in 1916. 1t may be postponed
until 1920. But it is coming on this
line. There Is no mistaking the direc-
ton pointed out by this election.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
Topics of the Times

That appropriation bill for road i'm
streak of lean in it. Il isn't just COM
mon side meat
DR.. Tanner says he can live on 10
cents day. Doc once went forty
days without meal and maybe he can
90 it. The better plan for the aver
age man is to figure on earning few
! dimes more.
Now they are insinuatine that every
woman who registered in Chicago was
| promised a box of chocolates l. they
are not Of better quality than the usual
much for their trouble.
Roosevelt it is said is planning TO
start speechmaking tour in March 10
swing all around the circle. Mr.. Taft
turned that circle once TOO often and
Theodore may profit by his example.
Mr.. Carnegie has set aside $1,000.
600 fund wherewith 10 abolish war. If
he can do it on less than a fifth of
what one big battleship costs the world
will have been set a new example of
economy. George Washington's pistols
sold the other day for $4,000.
1t looks as tho the indecent play
was, on its way. But the indecent
story still holds the high place in the
magazines.
The death a few days ago Of the
former surgeon of the Monitor is be-
lieved to have removed the last sur
vivor of the famous ironclad's compile
nent The Merrimac and Monitor
which gave for the first time in book
form the account OF the conflict as
seen from both sides-does not men
lion the surgeon by name: but Chief
Engineer Ramsay, Of the "Merrimac"
notes in the midst Of the preparatio
for battle how he saw the surgeon of
his ship at table laying out lint and
surgical Implements
In the one month Of November road
bonds to the extent Of 1925, 900 were
voted in five counties as follows: BeXar
$4,000, Ellis 5000, Hill $3.50, 600,
| Kinney $4,000 and Walker $3.50.
and it required a two-thirds majority
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-16
New Plan Of Rural School Supervision

For the benefit of school officers out
side Of Ohmio, the following school
supervision made BY the Ohio state
school survey commission is given.
State Superintendent Miller calls at
l.tention to the fact that the rural COM
munities will have absolute charge OF
| the supervision OF their own schools
and the home rule principle for the
rural and village districts has been
maintained entirely intact.
| l. A county board Of education
elected at large on a nonpartsan bal
! lot by all the voters Of the county out
side Of cities which already have full
time supervision. This will not dis
turb the loca! boards Of education in
any sense, but will leave them in full.
| control of their own schools.
! .. a county superintendent of schools
elected by the county board of educa-
ton entirely without outside dictation.
| This county superintendent shall be
! professional man and may be selected
! from any part of the state The state
shall pay half the salary of the county
superintendent up to maximum pay
nent by the state of $1,000.
| 3. Division of the county into super
vision districts by the county board
| OF education, these supervision districts
| to be made up of rural and village
| school districts according to the num-
Der of teachers employed The mini
mum number of teachers per district
superintendent shall be 20 and the
maximum so.
/, 4. The lection of the district super
intendent-
| (a.) BY the board of education in
case there be but one school district in
the supervision district.
! o.. BY a joint meeting Of the boards
of education in districts where there
are either two or three school districts
! in the supervision district.
| (c). BY the presidents of the various
boards of education in all supervision
districts which contain more than three
school districts:
! 5. The nomination but not appoint
ment of the district superintendent by
| the county superintendent, the boards
| or presidents of boards, as the case
4 may be, having the power to elect over
this nomination on a three fourths
vote as in the city.
! s. That local board of education re-
main exactly as at present with the
| right to elect the teacher on the nom
nation. of the district superintendent
and with the right to elect over his
nomination by a three -fourths vote. as
| is the case in the cities.
Z. The protection of all efficient
supervisors now in the service by a
provision in the law that three years
successful experience in supervision
| places a man automatically on the
| eligible list.
! 8. The payment of half the alary Of
each district superintendent b. the
county up to maximum payment by
the county of $3.50.
| 9. The requirement of professional
! training of superintendent not row in
service by provision which will
enable young men to enter the profess