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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
Mr.. FoRo's ADVERTISEMENT.

Ford. motor car manufacturer. and
his manufacturing company constitute
as dazzling a picture Of success as any
thrown On the screen Of modern IN :
dustriai operation. But there is big
ger thing about Ford and his outfit
than the making Of many cars and OF
much money. When ne distributed S10,-
00O, 600 among his employees and fnsti-
tuted q s. a day minimum for eight
hours labor he did something new in
recognition Of what opportunity had
done for him. 1t was a division of sue
zee. among those who had made suc-
cess possible and whose office 1t VIII be
to make success continuous.
The money goes where it will do the
most good. No benefcence quite
reaches that which goes into the pay
check. OF course it is fine when those
who have prof1ted greatly build dormi-
tories and lighthouses and reading
rooms and the like for employees and
others but the real place for benef-
cence of that sort to show at its best II
in the pay check. Bath rooms in the
homes beat marble baths anywhere
else. No benefaction to employees Is
- me - that which touches the work
1ngman,s family, gives 1t higher oppor-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09

himself while he works on his masters
land. The owners put under tillage
only very small part OF their enorm
Gus properties, which in some cases. as
in that of the Terrazas family in Chi
huahua, extend over hundreds OF miles.
l have seen Mexican cotton fields
which gave one bale Of cotton for three
or four acres. If the land were kept
clean and water brought to 1t from
river near by, the yield might be at
least double Most lMexicans still use
the same kind of pillow that Abraham
plowed with. With such climate anu
such a soil they could grow anything
Yet they often have to import quanti-
ties of ''frijoles." the beans which. with
maize "tortillas." form the staple Of
their diet The peasants wants are
few. He seldom tastes meat. Coffee is
his usual drink. A cigaret is often pre-
ferred to food when he is hungry. All
that he needs is q few acres. with
horse, mule or donkey: perhaps a pig
or a few goats. 1t was by promising
these to all that Madero won his popu-
larity 1t was for failing to redeem his
rash promise that he lost it.-Mexico
City Correspondence in the London
Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09

A confession of sin before men gets
In the way Of reform and in the way
OF opportunity to eat bread in the
sweat of the face confessed thief
is Stunned by thieves, and the re-
proaches Of the many are heaped upon
those established in guilt. When men
are exposed in dual living they are
posted in top heads. and the armies
of the dual life use exclamation points
in their speech. People who are down
have reason to expect the boot. They
are roughly dealt by, as If there were
hatred, of sin; and the manifestations
prove that at heart men are not
strangers to the truth.
1t is awful to be found out II the
things to be found out are awful.
The hatred OF thieves Is general:
and yet men go about with their eyes
open making of themselves thieves.
They rebel against doing the right
thing: and they rebel because OF the
weakness of their faith in men. The
most convenient excuse for wrong
doing is that they all do it. 1t Is the
convenient excuse for taking mean
advantage: it is the convenient excuse
for lying in wait to rob.
Men are frequently pricked by con-
science: and conscience funds have
long been known to our public treas
uries. Thought runs to the wrong
that has been done TO others. It ts
doubtful IL there Is as much clear
thinking as would become intelligent
beings of the inexcusable wrong men
do themselves.
The world Is full OF robbers who
steal from themselves. They despoil
their own lives: they take away from
themselves the best of all wherew!th
they were endowed.
II sometimes happens that a clear
conscience has the company OF bare
cupboard. but clear conscience Is
light unto the life, and the way of 1t is
the way of peace.
No one can help him by turning
thief. No one can help himself by
exchanging heaven for hell. Then why
should men steal from themselves?
Nothing taken from their good name
can be exchanged to their advantage.
AS the Lord leads "in the paths OF
righteousness for his names sake SO
should men captain their souls.
He is a mean man who will steal
from his own children; and likewise
is he a mean man who will steal from
himself. to the Impeachment or the
life over which he has been made
trustee. Such thievery involves vio-
iation of confidence between God and
man: It involves the barter OF BIRTH
right: it discloses the stamp of de-
PRAYED nature-it involves everything
of weak intelligence and despicabie.
Men think they will not be found out:
and yet they know the evil OF them +
selves. They exist in full view OF
their shame. They suffer the reproach
of their hearts.
II men would quit stealing from
themselves they would give over steal
ing from others: and with that the
sun OF righteousness would clear away
all clouds. and men would be at peace
with themselves and with God.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
Topics of the Times

The engineers Of the state highway
for over 100000 of bridges in Iowa
requiring special plans. Besides this
work their standard plans were used
in an immense amount of other bridge
work. They probably saved in cost Of
bridge building more than the entire
expense of the commission besides as
surfing the counties bridges that are
right.
family. Here's this man Cadmus busy
sowing dragons teeth in Iowa.
DR.. Edward a. SeIner is TO write his
autobiography for the Boston Congre-
gat:onalist to be run serially in that
journal. 1t will be the story Of an i'm
migrant boy who rose from the steel
mills to high place as a sociologist an6
in the affections Of his adopted people.
All that Steiner writes and says is done
with purpose and holds a peculiar
charm. When he writes his autobiog-
raphy he should furnish US a volume
OF human interest that will attract and
delight ali classes and conditions of
readers.
One Of the surest paths TO peace is
the ability to take care Of oneself. Tbs
national with the warships and COM
mon sense is in a pretty fair way TO
be let alone.
The progressive party is merely VOL
planning down. Let us hope it makes
a clean landing where it belongs. which
Is where Is started from.
Less noise is making in the vicinity
Of keosauqua since the state news
papers came in on the branch Per
haps the quie, will continue to prevail.
The case calls for quietude.
The Ottumwa Review says Claude
Porter is a hard man to lose when i.
comes to considering comparative dem
ocratic qualifications. Claude does
seem TO be always sticking around and
able to stand considerable trampling-
qualification.
The finest system of bringing the re-
publican party back is to fetch It as
close to the people as possible. It has
come TO the pass that the people refuse
to make long pilgrimages TO party.
Mahomet must go to the mountain.
The Mason City Times suggests
Elmer Johnson for congressman from
the Second. Beats all how easy it i.
to nominate outside Of the district.
President Wilson has joined a hook
and ladder company at Pass Christian.
That ought to ge, him the solid vote of
all the old volunteer department fire.
men who are still alive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
HARBOUR, THE WISE cAlIpH.

Harroun al Raschid, landing in
Marshalltown disguised as a common
citizen and accompanied by his chief
officers also incog. took a street car
up town. The caliph sat between two
women. precisely as an ordinary man
is obliged to do except when he stands
up in order that ladies may sit One
woman wore a stiff but fuzzy bunch
OF feathers stuck at an angle OF forty
five degrees in the back OF her hat. The
other had pierced her hca2aseec with
y hatpin that prouuded its point and
described q deadly radius as she
turned her head. First the aigre,te
swept the sultan's face and rckled his
nose until he sneezed. Next the hat
pin swung in a scaritying course across
the back Of his neck.
Harroun the Just stood it as long as
he could. He nodded to his vizier who
winked at the executioner. A scimeteI
flashed and fell swiftly twice. no more
There was a woman with a perfectly
good aigrette and another with a Iona
hatpin with rhin estone settings but nc
heads to wear them on. And upon
Harroun, the great and wise caliph fell
a deep peace and he had plenty OF
room in the car.
AS a stranger to American customs. q
ruler born to absolute power and q
lover Of simple justice can you blame
Harroun AL Raschtd. Cal!ph Of Bag
dado
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09

tuntiy and affords . better mode Of
family life. That's the real. simon pure.
genuine and blown in the bottle benefi-
cence.
Perhaps Mr.. Ford viii get o great
deal Of advertising ont OF his gifts. II
SO he is welcome to it. And the wei
come holds to other successful men and
corporations who incline to follow his
example. But most Of US prefer to be-
lieve that justice and kindness and hu-
man feeling were the primary impulses
which led Ford to part with his money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
Wyoming a osbtIs.. State.

In the report OF the bureau of the
census issued in 1906 and covering a
period closing in 1902. Wyoming was
classified with states Of the North
American union having lowest indebt-
edness. At that time its total debt
amounted to $300,500. A number Of
states had even smaller Indebtedness,
and some OF these were among the old
est New Jersey at the time named
owned less than $15S,0o0 while Iowa
owed only $4,000. Nevada and Ore
gon each owed less than Wyoming.
while Pennsylvania, South Dakota and
Idaho owed little more. Contrary to
general belief. indeed. the actual Amer
lean state debts are low. All of those
in the north Atlantic division COM
bined ran in 1902 to less than $685.
100000: those in the north central d.
vision to little over S2s.O00.000; those
in the south central division of about
$55. 000,O 600: those In the western de
vision to less than $l6,000.000.
AT all events Wyoming is now said
to be entirely debtless. and there is
reason to believe that 1t has money in
the bank. 1t is in some other respects,
along this line. in more comfortable
circumstances than some of its younger
time named. while New Jersey owed
as state less than s156.000. its aggre-
gate debts1tle indebtedness of munic-
qualities and counties being added
ran up to over 3s1,000.000. and while
Iowa owed only $4,000 as a state. It
owed over $17.000,000 in the aggregate.
AS against these larger figures Wyo-
ming owed altogether only about SIS
100000.
AS in the case Of individuals, it il
not always the state that owes least
that can show the greatest evidence OF
prosperity and progress. 1t appears
from data recently collected by COM
mercial organizations OF the group OF
states to which Wyoming belongs that
it is making enormous head way In.
dustrially. In It's four leading In dus.
tries, that is, the gain OF 1919. over
1912 foots up more than $16.00o.000.
Wyoming is not a populous state All
Of its people could be provided for in
city Of 100000 population. But 1t
is advanced in educational and social
lines far beyond what might be ex-
pected OF q state 80. sparaely settled
in parts It has long since outiived the
reputation un1ustiy gtven 1t In the
days when the Union PACING was In
the building and the trans Missouri
west was in the making. Cheyenne
and Laramie. Sheridan and Rock
Springs today are as orderly and cul-
| tured as any communities OF their size
to be found anywhere In the United
States
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
ARE LAWYERS LIARS?
Hardin Ca,lnfy Citizen

The opinion prevails to a large ex-
tent among the, people that lawyers
are crooked and that they are parasites
on the body economic. To such an ex
tent is this idea prevalent, that the
word lawyer IS more or less synony
nous with the word liar In the minds
Of many people. How much truth is
there to this belief?
Roughly speaking there are three
classes Of lawyers in operation-in-
competent. crooked. and honest. There
is often an overlapping of the ella sses.
Many honest lawyers are incompetent
Some crooks are Incompetent Yet the
rule does not generally obtain, for 1t
takes a shrewd lawyer to be a success
full crook
The incompetent lawyer contributes
much toward making the word lawyer
synonymous with the word liar. He
may generally be and generally IL hon
est but his many plumbers lead people
10 question his integrity. A lawyer Is
reputed to be wise man and expected
10 know. Like the newspaper man. he
lives in a glass house and his efforts
are somewhat open to inspection. Peo-
pie who suffer by his blunders or fall
ures are quick to charge dishonesty
and complain tina, he. in some way. has
been bought. The neighbors and rela-
tives repeat the charge. The result is
that the rank and file Of the people is
honey -combed with the idea of liar. TIC
understand the volume Ct the COM
plant, 1t must be borne in mind tina,
many Of the lawyers are mediocre CT
incompetent. This is nothing aga!ns,
the legal fraternity. The same Is true
of newspapers and all vocations. 1t il
in the nature Of things. There is al
ways plenty of room at the top.
The crooked lawyer is the quin-
tessence Of perfection in making law
yer and liar synonymous. To succeed
it is necessary to make much preten-
sion Of honesty. He is a DR.. Jekyll and
Mr.. Hyde. His services consist in find
ing the exact location OF the threshold
of the penitentiary. Many Of hi.
clients are crooks Of equal or superio,
caliber. Ffguratively speaking, tbs
right and wrong of murder is not n
question. The problom is to murder
legally.
There are many honest lnwyers, who
eonscientiously perform their duty and
SSAANS ~ bS JUST " dIf NOhSSiucu, Dul
the currents Of dishonesty are pretty
strong for them to combat. Nor dc
they receive proper encouragement
The people. especially the clients. art
largely responsible for the integrity o.
lawyers. People with gfievanc,
usually want to win regardless o!
merit, justice, or right. Honest law.
yer can't just do this and to dishon.
est lawyers they go. {
From the viewpoint Of the lawyer
there would probably be denial o
much that is here stated, but, whether
true or false, It Sums up in a way tn.
feeling that exists among farmers, la
borers, and business men.
The people ought to put premium
! on legal honesty by employing homes
. lawyers and none other. II lawyer
as class are more dishonest thar
| other classes of people, their patron
have been largely responsible for max
\ ing them 80.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
CLOSING GAMBLING HOUSES.

The gambling houses in Des Moin es
may close, according to the Register
and Leader. That newspaper says the
police have had little to do with the
closing If it comes and quotes the po-
lice chief as saying that he had strong
ly suspected gambling was being car
ried on but had been unable to secure
evidence.
Des Moines' chief Of police may De
short of detective force but at that the
confession isn't 10 the credit Of the
department. The fact is that evidence
as to gambling isn't very hard TO get
Gamblers like other men who are after
quick and easy money forget caution
It isn't much trouble TO get inside
with a roll Thousands Of men in Des
Moines know whether gambling is be-
ing carried on and where and what
thousands know isn't so excessively
hard for a police force to discover.
1t Is a confession of weakness when
the police force Of any city or town
declare that they do not know whether
or not gambling houses are running
The ought to know. They can know
To be sure bull in uniform" doesn',
get far into gambling house. neither
do people hunt rabbits with a brass
band. but there are always plenty OF
rabbits on the market.
It all comes back 10 the old as
sertion: When the police powers get
ready to stop gambling and kindred
crimes they will be stopped. That's
all there is TO It.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09

advice and suggestion unions were
more sane and practical than under the
license permitted in western countries.
Since the filtering in Of Occidenal' no.
tions Of marriage, during the last fifty
years there has in this respect been
a marked deterioration. Now young
people physically unfit for marriage
fall in love and unite without leave or
license: and the result is a progeny
obviously inferior to old times. Tho
only reason why the deterioration Is
not still more in evidence is due to
the wonderful advance in medical SCI.
ence, preventing the free course Of dis
ease; and rendering the physically UNI
fit easier means Of subsistence. But
recent Investigations go to prove that
the average child Of modern days IS
neither so robust nor so bright mem
tally as the children born half a CEN
tury ago. result that can only be at
tributed to the decreasing attention
given to fitness for parentage. In re-
cent article on this subject. Professor
Hayashi, OF the Imperial University.
Toxic. insists that the old way of se-
lecting partners for life was superior.
and that the new system Of eusenicA
as represented by some western states.
Will have to be adopted in Japan. In
old Japan, he says. the chief purpose
of marriage was to build up and propa-
gaze the family. and every measure
was taken to provide for it's perma-
nence and stability. Marriages that
threatened to preclude this could not
be permitted. This ancient and emf
nentiy sane attitude Of the Japanese u
no other than what western nations
are now coming to understand as eu-
genics; and in adopting 1t Japan will
be only returning to her older and bet
Ter system OF safeguarding the family
and the future OF the nation.-Japan
Magazine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
Furnishing FRIENDS.


The Des Moines Register and Leader
does not know that there ever will
be a better time 10 determine whether
Des Moines has been the beneficiary
f undue state cid than the y esent. y
Therefore the Register and Leade. s
pursuing the issue raised by the Keo-
sauQua editor with a show of genuine
enthusiasm.
The campaign for .he June pr
raries is on. and there is 70 be we'll
nic.I a year Of active politics. The
Register and Leader appears 10 think
there will not be sufficient excitement
or enough in the outcome 10 offer en-
courasement to progressive tendencies.
II the Register and Leader is de-
sirous OF contributing to the defeat of
Governor Clarke for a second term an
explanation of It's course is provided.
In the governors first primary cam
paign the Register and Leader was
Very much interested in a greater
Iowa and to that end INDUCED great
confidence that the thing 70 do vas
to nominate and elect Prof. Perry
Greeley Holden. formerly Of Anne. col
lese. But just why the Register ana
Leader is able Il see the defeat Of Gov
ernor Clarke can promote a greater
Des Moines is not perceptible to the
public. Governor Clarke may have
shown too much interest in the project
for the extension Of the capitol grounds.
1t may he that the members of the
legislature who supported the legis-
lation should have been more conserva
tive. But why should the Reg!ste.
and Leader protesting devotion to Des
Moines. crawl under the tent to get a
wnack at the whole bunch OF them?
The debate invited and promoted Is
calculated TO defeat the men for re-
election who were helpful in securing
the capitol grounds extension legisia-
ton. The time is not favorable for
an impartial hearing. Both the Regis
ter and Leaders party and the demo
cratic party. as the campaign warns
up, will make the most OF the mater
iai the Register and Leader has set tt
self about to colelct to the prejudice OF
Governor Clarke's administration. II
the policy is tustlfiab!e. 1t would seem
!, would better become a less preten-
tious friend of Des Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
WASHINGTON IN HAYES TIMES.
Life and charaetsrs That Appealed to
Diplomats Wife.

.(Frpm the letters Of Madame De
Hegermann- Lindencrome, wife Of the
Danish Minis;er-Washingto 1875
1850. published in Harper's Magazine
Washington Is very gay, humming
like top. Everything is going on at
once.
The daily receptions / find the most
tiresome things. they are SO monoto-
nous. Women crowd in the salons,
shake hands, leave a pile of cards on
the tray in the hall and fit to other
spheres
At a dinner at Senator Chambers Mr..
Blaine took me in. and Eugene Hale. a
congressman, sat on the other side.
They called him "Blaine's little boy"
He was very amusing on the subject OF
Alexander Agassiz. the pioneer of my
youthful studies, under whose ironical
eye used to read Schiller who is just
now being lionized and Is lecturing on
the National history Of the Peruvians.' y
Agassiz has become a millionaire not
from the proceeds Of his brain but from
copper mines-Calumet and Hecla.
How his dea: old father would have
liked to possess some Of his millions.
Mr. Ohio Williams told us how they
shoot canvasback and red head ducks
in Maryland. Perhaps all ducks are shot
in this way. and I may rot be telling
you anything new. The sportsman lies
fiat on his back in a sort OF coffin.
which has boards on the sides to keep 1t
afloat. When the decoy bird has done
it's duty in attracting the ducks to the
spot. the shot seems to come UP
straight from the surface OF the water,
as the man is entirely invisible. The
red head duck is a kind OF caterer for
the canvasback. They pick out Of the
marshes the wild celery and then the
canvasback comes and eats IT up with
out word of thanks Selfish bird! 1t
is this celery that give the xtra-fine
tastesto the duck.
We also went to a matinee to hear
Nine Gerster sing in Faust" She
singas we'll. but lacks something-mag-
netism, perhaps.
Sam Ward is t'lo diner-out par ex-
cellence here and is the king Of the
lobby par preference. When you want
anything pushed thru congress you
have only to apply to Sam Ward and
It is done. l don't know whether he
accomplishes what he undertakes by
money or persuasion, it must be the
later, for I think he is far from being
a rich man. His lobbyism Is mostly
done at the dinner table. He Is a most
delightful talker and full Of anecdotes
Mr.. Blaine and Mr.. Robson. sup
plemented by General Schenck. are
great poker players. They are con
tinually talking about the game when
they ought to be talking politics fol
the benefit Of foreigners. You hear this
sort OF thing: well, you couldn't
beat my full house." at which the dipio-
mats pick up their ears. thinking tina,
there will be something wonderful In
congress the next day. and decide to sc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-09
IOWA Crrs BLINDNESS.

-
(Des Moines Tribune.l
The astonishing thing Is that Iowa
City does not clean house and free the
university from the bad advertising 1t
sets from its surroundings.
Iowa City 10 Q clean, handsome city.
and there 10 not the slightest reason
why 1t should tolerate the sort OF
nuisances II does.
The disorderly element is even Z
smaller part Of Iowa City than OF the
average city Of like size. and yet Iowa
City has let Muscatine with big
manufacturing population. Waterloo
with big manufs curing population,
Marshalltown with big manufactur-
ing population, and Ottumwa with
big manufacturing population. get
ahead in the matter Of municipal house
cleaning.
Why should a college town be behind
a manufacturing town in the things
that go to invite the right sort OF peo-
pie?
Why should Iowa City continue to
dilly daily with conditions that Invite
nobody worth while and that keep good
people away?