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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
HIGHWAY ORCHARD TREES.
TIA ma NaMS

If the Lincoln Highway commission
would plant fruit trees along the great
boulevard from one border Of the state
to the other, it would be bat a few
years until travel would all come that
way unless other roads were similarly
lined.
and out of the way corners, the weed
patches and brush corners, the fence
rows and unsightly back lots of the
country were but planted to fruit trees
what a wonderful country this would
be in a few years. The organization OF
a great state voluntary genealogical So
ciety with its members pledged to plant
a certain number of fruit trees each
year, could be organized it would be a
splendid move.
John kunz, CT Kossuth county has
set splendid example.
A number Of years ago the News ed
itor planted half dozen wealthy apple
trees along the street about his prop
erty. For years they have been al
most the common property of the
neighbcrhood and no passerby has been
denied the privilege Of helping himself
to the fruit when ripe. They have borne
politically. barrels and barrels Of
splendid. juicy Iowa apples. such as
grow nowhere else In the world, and
have been delight to not only girls
and boys but grownups. Imagine such
a row of trees on either side of high
way for miles and miles in every di-
rection. They do not cost us cent
except to pick the fruit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

cramped on stool or in a swivel chair.
He may walk block to lunch or to a
street car to get home, but this is about
all the exercise he gets.
IF he is unusually energetic, he may
foo! himself into believig that he is
lettering his condition by going to
some gymnasium for an hour or two
in the late afternoon or nigat, and
languidly going thru a series of evolu-
tions-that is all tllat they may be
termed. as they certainly are no, exer-
cise--and then take a breath of foul
air and go home, mentally convinced
that his body is being taken care OF.
Every man and woman. to keep In
good condition, should walk at least
three miles day. It makes but little
difference how far man lives from
his work downtown, he should make
a practice to either walk to work or
from 1t. If those who complain Of ordi-
nary Ills would only try this for a
time. they would be surprised to note
how quickly their condition would i'm
prove."-Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts Of Opinions
For Fewer Reforms.

The world needs to be delivered
from It's reformers," said Preston Brad
ley, pastor Of the Peoples church.
Give the world enough redeemers ana
they will put the reformers out of bus
mess.
All sorts of new and startling re-
forms are being thrust upon the
people" asserted the minister. The
great difficulty is that the idea seems
prevalent that people are to be made
good or bad by legislation. Laws are
made as tho they were being enacted
for wooden persons instead Of human
beings-each one different from all the
rest. The reformers are trying to
make the problem a social instead of an
individual one.
Reforms shoot up in perfect cycles.
The people have their reform spree
and then go back to their 'tentmakins.'
What the people are really demanding
is a social order that will guarantee
to them an uninterrupted opportunity
to make their own future secure.
'If half the energy spent in trying TO
reform was spent in concentrated effort
to give greater individual uplifting the
world would be better or It is easy
to discuss glibly and contribute freely
to alleviate the sufferings and the
wrongs of an Oppressed and enslaved
people, and then individually to 6e-
spise every member of that same OPP
pressed race that you meet on the
street. It is N easy matter to hold up
our hands in holy horror at a red light
district and then to turn out into the
streets of a great city hundreds of I'M
fortunate girls, homeless and withou:
friends. Too many persons are all too
active in reform movements and too
little active in reforming and in re-
deemins broken and bruised lives.
The reformer feels satisfied when
he has made laws and appointed COM
mittees, but the redeemer never rests
until he has touched human hearts
with new spirit. The people do not
need laws. They want love and OPP
portunity. They want chance to ex-
press themselves net as puppets and
machines. but as men and women.
They want to be saved not in the mar
row theological way. but in deeper
and more fundamental way. They do
more good men,"
The teaching of sex hygiene to chill
sailed and defended from Chicago
pulpits last night
Right Rev. P. j. Muldoon, bishop
of the Catholic diocese of Rockford,
said he was "astonished that the Cath
olics of Chicago have not risen up
against it's introduction"
DR.. Clara Seippel, an assistant city
physician, asserted that opposition was
caused by ignorance; that for LIES
greatest sorrow and misery personal
purity is the panacea.''
Bishop Muldoon lectured on obi
vorce" before $50 parishioners and
friends of st. Clements Church. Dem
ing place and Orchard street. DR..
Seippel addressed the congregation OF
South Park Methodist Episcopal
Church. Her subject was Teaching
Personal Purity in the High Schools
"The question Of sex hygiene, race
| suicide, woman. immoral plays and
magazines simply come from wrong
notions" said Bishop Muldoon. They
may be traced to immortality encour-
aged and brought about by the exist
ence OF divorce. I am astonished that
Catholics of Chicago have not risen
lup against the introduction Of sex
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
"A BURST Of INDIGNATION.

The Tama News is much exercised
over the relation in the Times Republi-
can of an incident where man who
said he was from Tama" found fault
with the facilities for raising hades in
Marshalltown and declared that he
could have found more deviltry in
Tama. The News says 1T doesn't be-
iieve any man said any such thing and
denounces the whole thing, lock, stock
and barrel as SANDER. 1t goes on to
say that Tama has been bothered much
by lewd women from Marshalltown and
that men from Marshalltown have been
picked up in Tama engaged in mat
tiers much to the discredit of them
selves and the town they hailed from.
Marshalltown pleads guilty of hav-
ing residents who ought to be in Jail
and are not; it is not so i'll informed
as to what deviltry may be unearthed
in Marshailtown as the man who said
he was from Tama," perhaps not SO
thoroughly in touch as the News con-
standing that the person seeking de-
bauchery is able to find something fair
~ satisfactory in that line if he is
"onto the ropes 1t will be a long time
before Marshautown Cor Tama) is free
from drunken and dissolute men and
women But the man said he was from
& L.
Perhaps the man lied. Perhaps he
wasn't from Tama as he alleged. Per-
haps he lives there and knows more
than the News does of what may be
found in Tama as the News seems to
know more Of such conditions in Mar
shalltown than the T.-R. Sometimes
We must so away for news.
1t doesn't matter in either case. To
swell up with spurious patriotism and
seek cause Of complaint over the
article is plain poppycock, no more, no
less. Tama and Marshalltown as
neighbors do not disagree nor is either
seeking opportunity TO knock or to
SANDER the other. Most of their gen.
eral interests and all their moral in
terests are common to each and march
together. If the person referred to by
the T.-R. in its editorial hangs around
Tama the sooner the town gets rid Of
him the better for itself. The less Mar
sha!Itown sees of him either as visitor
or resident the better the town will be
off There isn't any doubt at all but
that both towns might be better and
there isn't much doubt that they will
be as the years pass and We gain bet
ter understanding of the policies and
the people who make towns and COM
munities good to live in.
AS between Tama and the T.-R.
there is no need of serious explanation.
AS between Tama and Marshalltown
nobody is fussing. AS regards the
News perhaps things We're slow and
the boy was shouting for copy or the
sausage and buckwheat cakes had
turned TO water brash or any OF a half
dozen causes may have been respon-
sible for the burst Of Indignation" Let
it go at that. There's so much good in
the worst of US and so much bad in the
best of US. etc.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
Get Out and Walk.

Recently a Council Bluffs woman
called on her old family physician lot
advice as to her health Can you do
anything to relieve the constant misery
which afflicts me-" she inquired. After
a number Of questions had been asked
and answered the cid doctor said:
yes / can give you some medl-
cine which will afford temporary RELIEF.
But If you are to get into fair state
Of health and remain in that condl-
ton, you must get out into the fresh
air and walk. Get out every day. Do
not allow the weather or anything else
to interfere. Be persistent in this ana
you will find yourself improving very
soon. This is the best medicine in the
world for YOU"
Be is said to the credit Of the medi-
cal profession everywhere that they
are advising their patients to follow
lust such a program. In other words
the physicians are trying to have peo-
pie keep we'll and avoid the necessity
Of using drugs and doctors by follow :
ing a systematic outdoor treatment
which costs nothing but the wear on
shoe leather and sidewalks.
On this subject DIR. Woods Hutchin-
son is quoted as saying: Get out and
walk. 1t is the best exercise known
to mankind" Hutchinson claims In
this connection that street cars and
automobiles are responsible for much
disease. in that they prevent people
from walking.
1t is fact that many business men
who feel sluggish and generally run
down are in this condition wholly. for
lack OF outdoor exercise. DR.. Hutchin-
son says further on this point: Few
people realize how little the average
man or woman gets into tho air for
exercise. A bank clerk spends eight
or nine hours in a stuffy room.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
Topics of the Timse

The state highway commission of
Massachusetts after an exhaustive
traffic census reports that SO per cent
Of all traffic on state roads in that
state is now motor traffic. The au-
tomobile vote is thus put in the ma
jority on the road question in Massa-
chusetts.
1t now remains 20 see whether or not
the Federal league can solve the de-
livery of the lawyers who will be in
the box for the regulars. The law has
more curves and changes of pace than
a pitcher ever dreamed of.
San F'rancisco's plan Of furnishing
public employment TO the unemployed
on public works suggests that great
deal of public work might be done by
furnishing job to the man seeking it
and a compulsory task to the fellow
who is hiding from work while his
family suffers.
By a sort of 'richman, poorman,'
count Mexico is coming down to the
bandit Villa.
The tariff will be responsible it is
said for a drop in the price of golf
balls. A man can stand a little extra
on his shoes and clothing if he can
get his golf balls cheaper. President
Wilson should hold the solid vote of
those who play for "a ball a hole
The emperor OF Germany has issued
an order to army officers that says,
you mustn't take a ladys arm; she
must take yours" Young men in this
country who grab their lady compan-
ions by the arm like a policeman ar
resting a dangerous criminal should
take notice. You shouldn't grab the
| lady by the arm; she should take
yours"
Boosting is all right and a civic
duty; but there isn't any occasion to
act like a pump for automobile tires.
| 1t was dry year in Nebraska, an
, awful dry year, but deposits in her
ia state banks show an increase of
s12,269,s12 for the year. And they
We're guaranteed or insured by a spe-
! cial state fund to make the depositors
| absolutely safe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
The ovERcoA1 WAS HERE.

The district court at Council Bluffs
has taught the people of this state on.
of the axioms in public utility taxation
which economists have known for a
long time and which this newspaper
has explained in repeated discussions.
The Council Bluffs telephone utility
was assessed for franchise tax by the
city council and the telephone company
deliberately added the tax to it's tele-
phone rate and billed each patron for
his amount Of the tax. Citizens ap-
pealed TO the court and a district judge
has held that the utility company has
perfect right to charge the public any
rate which is necessary to cover its
expense Of operation, plus a reason
able profit so long as the rate does not
exceed the maximum agreed upon in
the franchise and so long as the profit
does not exceed a reasonable return.
Of course. the question Of the reas SON.
ableness of the profit in the Council
Bluffs telephone business has not been
passed upon.
A franchise tax upon a public util-
ity company IS an added expense to its
cost of operation and must be recovered
in the rates charged for service. It al
ways is recovered but seldom does the
utility company seek to show the
people that the public must pay the
tax as this Council Bluffs company
has done. The rule is to absorb the tax
and good deal more for safe fgurin g
in rate and get away with it without
explaining why, but the public pays the
tax just the same.
All public utility service that is per-
mitted private corporations to perform
should be performed at cost plus rea-
soma BILE profit upon the investment. In
order to insure that the public rate
regulating bodies may know what the
rates should be there should be abso-
lutte publicity of all the affairs Of the
public utility company's business.
The Van Law Bill, which has been
defeated in two legislatures by the art
full opposition of the public utility
lobby under the guise Of public utility
commission bills, should have passed
This bill simply provided that whereas
city councils are now given authority
by law to fix rates for all public utility
service excepting telephone service
they are given the right of access to
the books and records Of any public
service corporation for information as
to the cost OF said service, capital in
vested, ETC., when fixing rate in order
that said body may be fully Informed
as to what kind Of a rate would be
reasonable. Had we such law the
equivalent of franchise tax could be
returned to the public in the way OF
rsts reductions. To attempt to- get al
reasonable rates IN any other way is
20 shoot In the dark and to resort to
franchise taxes merely invites the cor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

one time. and the men. instead OF being
dumped on their families or being shut
up in jail in idleness. were given q two
weeks steady job. the wages to go to
tho support Of their families? Would
that be more like golden rule
policy?
Why is the community SO slow to
see, first, that 1t owes o duty to the
wives and children Of these derelicts,
and that the only way to meet that re-
sponsibility is to compel the husbands
and fathers when they are taken IN
charge to do for their wives and chill
dren what they agreed to do. and what
the welfare of society demands that
they do?
There is but one golden rule" for
men who go wrong. and that is work.
Let US hear no more about golden
rule" that feeces a drunkard at the
police station, and then turns him over
to the wives and children to straight
en- up.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
A DISTRICT FAIR.
Waterloo Times-Tribune.l


Those who may be somewhat skep-
teal regarding the financial success
of district fair such as as is proposed
to be located in Blackhawk county
will be interested in what is being don.
in other parts of the state and the
measure of success that is being met
with.
Under the state law county and dis
trict fairs are required. in order to
receive state aid, to make reports OF
their business affairs each year. There
were ninety-one regularly organized
county and district fairs held in Iowa
during 1913. They are divided into
four classes by the Iowa department
of agriculture, those with receipts
under $4,000: from $4,000 to $1,000;
from $4,000 to $4,000, and those over
$4,000.
There were six big fairs outside
of the state fair. in Iowa in 1913
listed as follows: Sioux City. receipts
s4O702.97, total attendance 64,9S2, PAID
admissions 50,953, balance on hand
s5,230.46. value of plant 100000, no IN
debtedness; Waverly, total receipts
s16.92S.1s, attendance $4,000, paid $34.-
672, balance On hand s2,662.4S, value OF
plant $4,000, no Indebtedness; Mar
shalltown, receipts s14.690.04 gross
attendance 1925, paid $4,000. balance
on hand s2,190.7l. value of plant 800
600, no Indebtedness: Rock Rapids. re-
ceipts s13.920.S6. attendance $4,000
paid s17,202, balance on hand S3,366.l4
value of plant s26. 1000. no Indebtedness;
Mason City, receipts s12.O00.39. attend
ance $500; paid s2O,sO9, balance on
hand S1.126.27, value of plant $4,000
Indebtedness $1,000; Mt. Pleasant
receipts s1o,572, attendance 10000. paid
$4,000, balance on hand $4,000, value
of plant $4,000. no Indebtedness.
The territory surrounding Black
hawk county (the district is to com
prise nine counties) is the most fer
tile in the state. If financial success
can be made in the six localities named.
it certainly can be made in this dis
trict. There is positively no reason why
the success met with at Sioux City
can not be equalled here.
But it is not financial success alone
that should be considered. There is
something OF value in the good aoves-
Using a district fair brings to the dis
trict and there is great value in draw
ing the people of the district into a
great. mutual undertaking. 1t would
bring the people Of the district into
a movement that would make for
benefit to all.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
Precautionary Practical,

we've stopped every kind CT graft
in our CITY," remarked The confident
reformer."
Good" replied the boss. Having
shown your ability<to enforce the rule.
you can now begin TO collect assess
ments for the privilege Of being excep
|tions.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
THE GOLDEN RULE"
TDaS Moinee Tribune

What is this golden rule policy
we hear SO much about?
At best, when there is no bond shark
ing connected with it: it is a policy
Of taking drunken men home and
dumping them on their families.
Why the community should call II
following the golden rule" to leave
to the helpless wives and children II
stand the abuse Of drunken men who
ought to be their support 1t would be
hard to say.
But in Des Moines the golden rule
has consisted, first, of letting Slater
take away what little money the
drunkard has about him, or getting
some obligation fastened upon him
which in the end the women and chill
dren have to meet.
1t may be admitted that this comes
about as near the golden rule as
shutting the men up in Jail and leav-
ing their families to shift for them
selves, or fining them in court and com
polling their wives to pay the fine.
But what Il the city had secured the
woodward we heard 80 much about al
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
THE STREET LOAFER.
TJafferSor Rec

L
Three street loafer kicks against re-
straint. He whines if his rights are
interfered with. He stands upon the
street, chewing tobacco. leering with
evil eyes at every woman who passes.
He looks a life only from the beastial
and red light" side. He thinks Of
nothing, he knows OF nothing in life,
and cares about nothing but the sat
isfaction of his animal desires. He
thinks Of the opposite sex only from
the standpoint OF lust, fors citing his
own birthr hit, forgetting the purity CT
his own mother, and disgracing and
ridiculing her thru whose intense pain
and anguish he was born into the
world. And this human skunk, If any
body gainsays his right to stand upon
the street corner, spit, loaf, and leer at
women, sets up the howl of personal
privilege" the argument used by every
devilish business that ever started in
America. If reasonable human beings
did not curb men OF his stamp we would
soon revert to conditions Of pre- his
toric ages when woman was only a
beast Of burden, bartered and sold as
chattel, and treated like Mrs. Jimson
if she demanded a place to "amuse''
herself.
These dirty street loafers, by their
acts. put wrong notions into the heads
Of growing boys, teaching them that
all women are bad, that no woman is
coed, that no girl is pure Thru a con-
tnual catering to their baser selves,
constantly using lewd and lascivious
language, thinking nothing but hellisn
thoughts. giving way to every tempta
ton, these miserable creatures, calling
themselves men, form a damnably con-
terminating source for the human
stream Of the future.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

Labor unions in London have under
consideration project to build q
81, 100000 structure to serve as the gem
eral headquarters Of their organixa- Y.
tions. 1t Is proposed to include in the.
building 4 club, cffice accommodations;
for nftr unions. large hall and stnre-
room. 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
|TYPCAl REFUGEE

He is the type of Mexican native
making up the body of refugees who
have fed from Villas soldiers across
the Rio Grande to find shelter under
Uncle Sam's rifles. They are poorly
fed. ill clad people Of the peasant class
and carry most of their worldly goods
on their backs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

AS fact, most OF the very expensive
hotels are no great revenue-producers
but they are Of vast indirect benefit to
the towns that have Them" points out
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

poration to do a. the travelling sales
man is supposed to have done when he
got the price of the overcoat into his
expense account anyway.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

when the people fully understand
the subject that they will think Geo.
w. Clarke one of the best governors
Iowa has had for many years." says the
Carroll Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

are to be made to beautify Them says
the Mason City Times" The agitation
of the sportsmen of the state has hat
a good effect
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

The Newton News says: when a
genuine fossil from the standpat re-
publican ranks, such as j. Rowley,
speaks, even the standpatters smile"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

obstructs the rebel advance on Mexico
City. The federals are strongly in
trenched there but Villa believes he
can repeat his successes at Ojinaga and
Juarez.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

the Burlington Hawkeye. "even II the
cost were still greater, no town that
has a strictly modern hotel would do
without 1t, If there were an oppor-
tunity to sell it and have it moved
away"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

The Alton Democrat explains: The
fuss being made about Argentine corn
shipments is just tempest in 4 teapot
stirred up by the Spectators. The
Democrat advises is farmer readers
not to become alarmed ot.r these ship
menjS.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-24

People who have gone to California
this year to escape the cd have srent
their money f:r that which is
bread and for that when satisfe;a
not while the people of Iowa have
been eating the best Of food, throwing
aside their overcoats and wondering
when the blue birds will be here says
Des Moines Plain Talk. Wonder how
those Californians would like to trade
some of their pithy oranges for out
good cornbread."