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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
PRIVATE BANK REGULATION.

The Chicago Clearing House COM
mittee has Endorsed strict regulation of
private banks. This movement came
about or rather was hurried by re-
cent series of private bank failures
Heretofore it is asserted the Illinois
from urging such regulation because
Of the size Of deposits in the big city
banks by those interested IN private
banking ventures. Now, however. the
matter is TO be taken up seriously and
a letter signed by James B. Forgan, E.
A. Hamin John J. Mitchell, Orson
Smith and George N. Reynolds asks
thai the matter be discussed between
the bankers and a city council commit
tee at future sessions Members of
this committee fully appreciate the
great Importance of the subject now
being considered by your sun-commit-
tee" the letter stated, and will be
pleased to cooperate with YOU in
formulating some action that viii meet
the situation in connection with the
proper regulation of banks. For this
purpose the mem bers Of the committee
will be pleased TO appear before your
sub conlmittee either collectively or in
dividually,'
While the bankers and the clearing
house committees are getting ready 10
regulate, the depositor and those at
fecred by bank failures should add
their demand for strict regulation Of
the private banks. We have had in
stances enough in Iowa Of late years
10 arouse the common citizen who has
come to depend upon the mere bank"
as a guaranty of strength and in
tegrity to demand that the private
bank live up to the standards Of safety
by which other banks are mea sured. 1t
is time for the people, the regulated
banks and the private banker of in
tegri,y and good financial methods and
judgment to demand protection against
wild cat banking.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY.

Cato Sells, n Iowan, Is the recipient
of unstinted praise from Texas
newspaper over his success as COM
missioner of Indian affairs. Down in
Texas Cato Sells is strong. 1t says:
Cato Sells has made good. and he has
made good under circumstances calcu-
lated to try out the best man to the ut
termost limit. He has shown that he
is the big man the president and the
secretary of the interior were seeking.
He is one of the men of whom Texas
is proud"
Now when Cato lived in Iowa he
was fairly we'll considered. Politically
he measured UP with the average dem
ocratic political leader but in those
days democratic leadership was not
the official measure of success. Cato
was pretty good lawyer as lawyers
go across the state. nobody questioned
his integrity and altogether he was a
fair Iowa average. But nothing big or
strange. After while Cato moved to
Texas.
1t is common story. Prophets with
out honor in their own country often
spell their way to the head Of the class
somewhere else. Nothing heats a new
start for young man. Whether in
politics or law or farming or any other
old thing that holds true. ], is a very
common occurrence to meet the ordi-
nary youth who left the neighborhood
| ten or twenty years ago7to settle afar
and learn that he is one Of the most
successful men of his state. Thomp-
sons 10y who was classified as one of
those who would never set the river
on fire comes back big and broad and
shoulder high to the best we know. We
read in the papers that Bill Burke's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
CONCRETE PAVING.


The doubling Thomas is abroad in
Iowa when it comes to concrete as
the ideal cheap pavement.
1t is a source of surprise to certain
municipalities that Sioux City should
have had such great success with
concrete highways that 1t is inclined
not only to brag about them. but even
sends out the word that it would be
delighted to have other cities look
them over.
"Why is Sioux City able to make
this boast when here in Des Moines
what concrete has been laid has been
the most effective argument against
concrete for any roadmaking pur-
~ demands the Des Moines Trib-
une.
IF Sioux City has learned the trick
Of keeping concrete pavements from
cracking we wish it would teach our
contractors how to do it, for crack
ing means inevitable deterioration,
declares the Cedar Rapids Republic
can sceptically concluding. There
may be something in concrete, but
many of us still have to be shown"
It must be confessed that some OF
Sioux Citys early paving experiences
were not of the happiest. Perhaps
the less said about our old block pave
ments the better. But even the more
modern sarcolithic job on Fifth street
was not so much better. AS to the
concrete pavement. however. Sioux
City makes no apologies. II the COM
mission plan had nothing else to its
credit besides giving it twenty miles
Of concrete pavement-nearly all OF
1t good-Sioux City would feel kindly
toward it for that. The pavement Is
not only cheap as compared with
asphalt. for which property owners
long had been paying a fancy figure,
but it is durable and likewise slightly.
And it had to make good in the face
Of considerable prejudice and dire
predictions OF disaster.
Whether or not the contractors who
lay concrete pavements in Sioux City
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
STAMP IT OFT,

dubuque telegraph Herald.1
Let there be an end OF mixing creed1
with politics. The state has Its sphere.
the church its sphere and their ways
lie apart. 1t Is as we'll settled in the
constitution that church and state
shall never be associated in govern
ment as that these United States shall
forever be republic.
AS we'll settled IS 1t that the public
school system shall be retained and
buttressed and continued in it's glori-
Gus function as that there shall be
freedom Of worship. And equally as
we'll settled that the state snail neither
directly or indirectly impair that sys-
tenn nor yield one iota of the principle
that public education is a public func-
ton 20 be supported by enforced taxa
ton upon all peoples irrespective OF
their creed. nor impaired by exempting
from taxation for support of the public
schools members Of creeds which
maintain their own schools.
These matters are beyond dispute,
out of the range Of argument. Whoever
asserts the contrary brands himself an
ignoran.us or a bad American.
Who drag creeds into politics will
destroy themselves. They will not hurt
those whom they seek to 6estroy. His
tory ,s replete with testimony that per-
secution for conscience's sake makes
strong the prosecuted AMI weak their
prosecutors. There is inst.nctively at
tracted to the man assailed because OF
his religion all others Of his faith. Nor
these alone but others not of his faith,
but shot thru with the yrea, spirit OF
American institutions, end who rec
ognize that the one thing we can not
afford to tolerate in this country is
intolerance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
THE FARM TRADE.


We might single out every part Of
the county and make equally inter-
esting showings Naturally these
manufacturers and advertising men
want to know what the people on the
farms use, and what they can be in.
duced to use. Iowa City has little
over 10000 population. The country
within twenty miles Of this city has
three times as many and Ave times
the wealth. Yet we notice that three
fourths of the advertising done is to
get the trade Of the ten thousand
In dry goods store the proprietor
says that he sells the best grade Of
furs, coats and suits to the wives Of
farmers. The most expensive ones do
not go there, but the highest average
is to the farmers.
An old time clothing merchant said:
THE farmers of this county. on an
average. get higher priced suits than
town people, and we sell five suits to
farmers to one to town people.
A druggist says that three-fourths
of his sale Of advertised goods are sold
to farmers.
A grocer says that farmers buy a
better class OF goods than town people.
They are good patrons OF prepared
foods, fancy goods and they use most
Of the nour sold by the stores.
II the advertisers want to get the
best market in the world they want
to 90 after the Iowa farm trade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Iona Newspapers
TWO ODDITIES.
IDubuque Journal.


The opposition to Governor Clarke
in the recent primary vas based or
the claim that the governor was re-
sponsible for increased taxation, yet
the farmers In whose iateres. the OPP
ponents of Governor Clarke claimed
they were working. We're the stronges,
supporters of the governor. Another odd
result of the primary was that the vote
OF Franklin county went against the
governor. Get this was one OF the three
counties in the state where assessed
valuations we're reduced by Governor
Clarke and the executive council.
DECREE OF BEND EN- AROUND
Dubuque Times-Journal.
The degree of bachelor OF arts may
not signify any very large achievement
But it ought to indicate that the owner
of it was at least an apprentice who
had made good in the tests Of scholar
ship. Probably most college authori-
ties would admit that the distinction
has become so common that it means
nothing One fellow has given for fou,
years his first attention and his hearts
desire 10 the pitching Of curve balls
and the making of base hits. He Is
made a. bachelor of arts. just as much
as the proficient experimental at chem
istry, or the aKectionate student OF
Virgil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Topics of the Times

While the other fellows are studying
their cards Your Uncle Carranza sits
back and waits for somebody else to
open the pot. And the smile on his
face indicates aces up.
Perhaps that remark OF the English
vicar who would let women starve
themselves to death il they prefer at
fords a side light on the reason why
English women feel that fire and dyna-
mite are the surest appeals to British
men.
Lafe had it right. ''Standpatism is
dead Galvanism may bring about
some twitching of the corpse. but !.
can never be resurrected.
Now what In Sam Hill do you sup
pose Bashor will run for next?
Some excellent women used to blush
at the trapeze performer and the lady
bareback rider but that was years ago
before present summer styles came into
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
TERMS:
PUTTING tho Boy to Work.

You going to put that boy to work,
That little bit of a kid.
Whose heart is out where the daisies
are
In the dew and the grasses hid?
Going TO put that boy to work
Whose soul is way out there,
Dreaming OF meadows and stream and
bridge.
And the JOY of the summer air?
You going TO put that boy to work
Who is old enough, You say,
To be out helping YOU get along
With his little pittance of pay?
You going 10 put that boy to work
Who belongs 10 God awhile.
Out in the green of the boyhood sheen
Where the hills and the meadows
smileo
May be Your business, and that I'm
blind.
Or a fool TO be butting in,
But putting a kid like that TO work
Is an economic sin;
Stunning and putting him back so Ions
From the glory he should know
In the good green spell of the wood and
Where q kid like him should grow.
You going to put that boy to work
Because he can help you bear
The burden of grocer and clothes and
rent,
And he ought 10 he doing his share
You going TO put that boy TO work,
That little kid whose eyes
and heart and soul are hankering for
The blue of the summer skies?
You going to chain him in a mill,
Who all day longs and longs
For the playtime life on the good green
hill
And the cheer of the robins songs :
You going to put him in prison, Ell,
That he'll never get out again
For the dreams, the dreams, OF the
open da:.
Can never come back to men.
Baltimore sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Crouch Stuck 70 End.

A Duluth attorney tells the follow
ing about a man he once defended on
a charge Of murder. Tho client was Q
grumbler Of the worst type.
1.-THE fellow was convicted. the evi-
dence being Overwhelmingly against
him." said tho attorney. He wasn't
satisfied even when they sentenced him
to be hanged.
"He grumbled about his cell BY day
and about his mattress by night and
on tho morning fixed for his execution
he g1umbled about the way his break
fast had been prepared.
ION the scanold at the dnal moments
he grumbled. too: Say. guv'nor,' he
said. this plank don't seem any too
safe to me."-Duluth News Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Federation Of women's Clubs.

This week Chicago is to witness one
OF the most important conventions held
turnout the year in this or any other
country. 1t is the annual gathering OF
the federated women's clubs Of. the
United States and represents ono Of
the most influential movements in the
life of the nation.
All over the country the constituents
Of this great federation are at work
upon the fabric Of American life. Oud
institutions. our ideals. our customsl
our progress are everywhere feeling
the force Of organized American WON
anhood. In public administration. III
domestic practice. in morals. In educa
ton. in all the cultural activities Of ou
vast community the women's clubs 81
at work with energy. optimism. an
growing insight and foresight.
No community could welcome tn
representatives Of this inspiring move
ment more sincerely than Chicago.
city some Of tho most distinguished
citizens OF which are women. city III
which women and their organised ef-,
forts are becoming yearly more potent
factors in its character and progress.-
Chicago Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10

road men turnout the country. They
recognise now that railroads are
Quasi-public Institutions. and that the
owners are in reality the custodians OF
delegated power OF the government.
that OF providing for means Of trans
portation. There 10 no essential diff
ference between q railroad and . coun.
try road, save that a railroad cannot
be operated without great expense. and
consequently must mako q charge for
Its services The power is delegated
for the sake OF efficient management.
MIR. Brown said that in the early
struggle against regulation the state
was right and the railroads were
wrong He told the bankers Of Iowa,
at their Clinton convention:
IL Dis one OF those who opposed the
state. say that the zeal we used was
worthy OF better cause"
It is partly because Of the memory
of the old objection to regulation of
any kind. that many people believe
any request made by railroad men is
based on the desire to slip something
over" on the public. The old bitterness
may have disappeared, as Mr.. Brown
told the bankers. but some Of the dis
ual events Justify this distrust. the
sweeping mo regulation" policy is
again ascribed to the railroads. and
they have hard work obtaining any
thing that looks like justice.
The prosperity Of the country de-
Ponds so greatly upon the prosperity
OF the railroads, and the welfare of
the people depends 80 greatly upon fair
and Just treatment Of themselves by
the railroads. that neither the people
nor the railroads can afford TO mis-.
Judge each other. nor to work out Of
harmony.
Regulation dictated by fairness
means cooperation between the rail-
roads and the public. Regulation IN
spired by hostility means suffering
both for the railroads and the people
at large.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
THE PRIMARY.

Boone News Republican
Newspapers of Iowa which belittied
the primary proposition when 1t was
first proposed. are swift to take ad-
vantage of the growing sentiment
that the primary election is probably
too cumbersome. w do not know
whether they intend to advocate that
we go back to the old caucus system.
but il they do they are doomed to
disappointment. The primary election
has put out of business forever the old
vest pocket caucus system by which
our nominations used to he made. No
arguments Of expense. cumbersome
ness, siownoess, or of any other kind
whatsoever. would induce the general
populsce to turn over Their rights Of
nominal. ION to the bosses again.
Undoubtedly the primary system
may ne made more effective by the
elimination of number of minor Of
fees which now causes the ballot to
be large and unwieldy, in fact, the
elimination process Is already begun.
1t was noted in this county that there
are number of offices which are no
longer elective. There are some state
offices which should be appolntive also
for the reason that after the average
voter leaves the office of governor, he
has very little information as to the
balance of the state Offices. 1t is true
also that their responsibility is not
such that it require very careful Sc
lection, for their duties are more or
less clerical instead Of administrative.
Complaint is also made by Mason
City paper that any one in Mason City
could call for any ticket. republican.
democrat, or socialist and obtain 1t.
Something must be wrong in Mason
City. Such conditions did not prevail
here nor anywhere else turnout the
state. The primary has come to be re-
spected and it is rare exception that
a democrat tries to obtain republican
ticket thru Interior motives and vice
versa.
No, no, dear aesthetic friend, do not
dream for one moment that the eau
Gus system is coming back because 1t
is a little trouble to count the primary
vote Having secured the right to
nominate as well as elect, the people
Of this country are not going to give
1t up readily.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
DECREE OF BEND EN- AROUND
IOWA LAND VALUES.
ICedar Rapids Gazette. ]


Young men OF this generation will
live to see the day when land in Iowa
will be selling at twice its present fig
ures. Why? Because Iowa land, on an
average, is the best there Is from a
productive standpoint. For that rea-
son farm properties are not bringing
more than they are worth right now
An aged resident of Benton county, a
man who has witnessed the develop
ment Of this state for many years, pre-
diets the doubling Of farm values In
Iowa. He remembers when land in
Germany, the country of his nativity
sold at what would be 1925 an acre in
American money. It was because he
thought this price was beyond all rea-
son that he left Germany and came to
Iowa. And that same land In Ger
many is being bouyh. and SO today
at 500 and $500 per acre! lowa u go
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Polio. Mu.t ee Neat.

The Kansas City police will don .
new style uniform and hat June I.
Every policeman must keep his clothes
pressed and his shoes shined under
penalty OF dismissal.
The new caps are Of bamboo frame
and blue cloth. The uniforms are OF
lightweight blue serge without stripe
on the trousers. The new coats Will
have q straight front, sack style.
Louis L. Burscough has been ap.
pointed drillmaster and inspector OF
uniforms with the rank Of sergeant.
The patrolmen will be given regulation
army drill in Convention hall.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
THE wH1srL1NG CRIPPLE.
lsioux City Tribunc.]


He is hopelessly crippled. doomed TO
the use OF crutches the remainder of
his life. and he looks scarcely out OF
after fashion he IL always whistling
now bit from an old opera, now a
rollicking ragtime. He always seems
gay and optimistic. Misfortune has
it has not chilled his heart or twisted
whistles. as he goes about his work
&c sin!..e. thoughts
It is a parable Of life-th.s cripple
gives us. Sorrow chasteneth and mis-
fortune burns the dross. Some phil
osopher has observed that 1t Is those
who pull an oar in the galleys of civil
ization who smile and sing themselves
into the gratitude of others who do
not cocnt their wealth in money, and
who make the world worth while be-
cause they prove it is not all of life to
live nor all Of death to die.
Not always. but too often 1t is those
who have the greatest blessings who
least appreciate them and are the
most dissatisfied. Possession tantalizes
instead Of satisfies. IT brings strife in
tead OF peace. 1t beget suspicion in
stead OF confidence. Instead OF purify
ing II corrodes and it breeds lust and
greed. Instead Of bringing contentment
IL causes distress and worry. In the
abundant possession Of material things
one loses the art OF approaching them;
the gross obscures the spiritual.
The misfortune Of the cripple has
caused him to put aside ambitions OF
vanity. to forego anticipasions of many
material victories that come to the
swift and the strong. but it has en-
abled him to see visions that are denied
his associates and taught him to ap-
preciate the kingdom that is within his
own heart. Many of those who touch
elbows with him day after day would
gladly exchange places with him If BY
so doing they could face life each
morning and review 1t each evening
with tune in their heart. a whistle on
their lips.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Masonic Meetings.
I spEcIAL RECOMMENDATIONS.

Marshall Lodge, No. 1os A F. & A. NJ.
Monday, June Is, 1880 p. M. for WORK
third degree. John Wells, secretary;
!. T. Forbes, w. NJ.
STATED coNvocATloN, signet
Chapter No. IS. r. A NJ. Monday.
June %, 500 p. m. Regular business.
John w. Wells, secretary; \. D. Meek
er, T. I. NJ.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. r. & S. NJ. Monday
after the third Sunday. Regular ousl-
ness. I. T. Forbes. recorder; A. u
Meeker, T. I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE OF st. Aide
mar Commandery No. 80. X t. tues
day, June 20 at p. m. Regular ousl-
ness. and work in Red Cross. r. NJ.
Wilbur, E. c.; NJ. S. Mcfarland. hec.
SPECIAL MEETING for initiation,
Central Chapter No. 81. 0. E. S, Wed
nesday, June 10, 500 p. m Anna
Downing. secretary; Mary Black Col
Inns, W. N.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10

have some patented process which
they insist on keeping TO theanOelvee,
the fact remains that they deliver ~
goods. and SO well pleased u the mu1
nicipality with the twenty miles q
such pavement 1t already has Laid,
1t proposes to keep laying more and
more from year to year until Sioux
City becomes one Of tho best paved
cities In the middle west.
The commercial clubs invitation to
neighbofing cities to send DELEGATIONS
to Sioux City to inspect Its concrete
pavements still holds good-especially
now as to Des Moines and Cedar Rap
ids in view Of their expressed dubi.
BUSINESS,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
being. Now the athletes look hot and
uncomfortable in their heavy attire.

Z.
being. Now the athletes look hot and
uncomfortable in their heavy attire.
~ 80. NJ
Southern sMethodists have shut on
the tobacco using candidate for the
ministry from ordination. What would
those old fashioned folks do with a
minister who signed saloon petition
OF consent?
II Rowley had run for supervisor he
would have had just about enough
votes to ensure his election.
Looks like a jury Of gypsies will be
necessary in order to insure fair
trial to those plumbers. The average
householder can be challenged for
cause.
Did you read the accounts Of Rade-
heover's suit and -Heink' 5
divorce case? Why?
The saloon might win in a secret ball
lot under the Shankladdo4 bill but
Shankland couldn't However, he
should not lose hope. Ben Salinger
won out.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10
Street Lifted by Tsadstoels.

Albert Raiscn, identified with Al !ra.
provement company, at Los Angeles,
Cal, announces the discovery that toad
stools. exerting a pressure Of more than
700 pounds to the square foot. have
lifted a section of asphalt macadam
dressing IN inches thick on the boule-
ward fronting the Burlinsame' Country
Club. ~.
Before attacking the roadwork the
fungi fought its way thru three inches
Of crushed rock base underlying tho
asphalt macadam.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-10

That Judge Lee came across with a
telegram OF congra tulation and prefer
OF help 10 Governor Clarke after the
primary, which doubtless reveals the
real manliness in the man which gives"
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. warrant
for the belief tina, his effort to win the
nomination from Clarke was the result
of over persuasion on the part of his
friends. and not a deliberate attempt
to discredit a most worthy mand''