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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
As The GAME STANDS.

The latest news from the war is of
German successes. The allies have
abandoned the offensive, have fallen
back anu Ire now defending the French
frontier. While the British statement
is that the position of the British troops
is in every way satisfactory, a report
eys that the French war office admits
that the fate of france depends upon
the ebil'ties of the allies to hold the
Germans on the line.
Comparing the struggle to a football
game offers the ordinary observer a fair
idea of the movements and what they
mean. The line between France and
Germany is heavily fortified on each
side with the intention of making the
frontiers impregnable to either nation.
The frontier between France and Bel
GUM, supposedly neutral ground. is not
so well fortified. There was the weak
place in the French defense The stu
alton called for an end run and Ger
many defying neutrality. attacked there
with the goal posts set on each side of
Paris.
The German interference held in
Alsace and the army carrying the ball,
broke thru Belgium. In the latest battle
it seems 70 have made its distance and
the ball is Germany's on Frances
twenty yard lire. France must hold
for downs. If she fails then the touch
down and the try for goal To this
defense the French forces from Alsace
Lorraine, are being rushed as rapidly
as they may be moved. And with their
removal the German interference there
will become an active offense That is
the way the game looks from the
bleachers as it stands this morning
upon the news available.
If France holds for downs. then what i?
Probably no advance toward Berlin by
the allies but the waiting game, while
Russia focks down form the north and
west TO over-run Prussia The situa-
ton may change in a week from Ger
many attacking to Germany in desper-
ate defense. If, however, Germany
makes her gain and turning from a
broken France meets Russia at her
border Russia will find herself busy in
| her own defense. Also two elements
that enter into the calculation of the
| chances are Italy and Sweden. Italy,
no doubt. desires to aid the allies
Sweden fearing Russia's covetousness
of the Scandinavian peninsula, will be
forced to cast her fortunes with Ger
many and will probably be followed by
all the Scandinavian countries.
The war is not over nor is success
assured to any. AS the game stands
| Germany is carrying the ball on French
territory. France is holding for downs
and the result is on the knees of the
| gods.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
most independent creature that wears
the garb Of civilized man."

iowa people are tho most fortunate
people In the United States-because
they live In Iowa." explains the Cedar
Rapids Gazette. "Ask anyone who has
tried other states whether this is true
If private capital and private brains
are not equal to the task of furnish
Ing this country with a respectable
merchant fleet without being paid q
bonus by the government in the form
of subsidy, why not let the govern
ment take the subsidy and go into tine
merchant marine business itself %
asks the Sioux City Tribune. and re-
plies to its own query: Well, that Is
just what the administration thinks
and is making preparations to do II
the shipping interests continue to COM
plain about their inability"
IF John j. Hamilton is as extrava-
CANT in that business administration
which he hopes to conduct (but never
Wild as he is in the matter of sending
out campaign literature. the state OF
Iowa has nothing to look forward to-
says the Perry Chief. Several hum
dred republican papers over the state
are daily consigning a lot of his press
stuff to the waste basket. Not many
of the democrat papers are using It.
either
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

repealed by the other; and. moreover,
whenever one kind makes its appear
ance in one place, an equal quantity of
the other kind appears simultaneously
somewhere else. Franklin regarded
identification as due to the movement
OF something which he called the cleo
trio fluid. This he supposed to be a
constituent of all bodies, even when they
are not electrified. When not electrified,
any body contains definite amount of
this fluid" If this amount Is exceeded
by the transport of electric fluid to the
body, the latter becomes positively
electrified; il 1t is diminished by fluid"
leaving the body. the body becomes
negatively electrified.
We have in the course of the last If
teen years attained to very definite
ideas as TO the nature of negative cleo
tricity. Negative electrifcation has
been shown to be due to the presence
Of minute particles called corpuscles or
electrons. all Of which are of exactly
the same kind-that IL, each particle
carries the same quantity Of negative
electricity. and each has the same mass.
This mass is far smaller than that as
ISOLATED with ordinary matter, being,
unless the velocity of the corpusle Is
comparable with that of light, only
about 1-1700 of the smallest mass hith-
erto known to science. that Of an atom
OF hydrogen. The mass Of these COR
puscles increases rapidly when their
velocity approaches that OF light, and
il their speed were about fifty yards per
second less than that Of light their
mass would be about the same as an
atom of hydrogen. These corpuscles
may exist in a free state. as in the
cathode rays in vacuum tube, or they
may be attached to atoms or molecules,
as when n solid or liquid body is neg
atively electrified. They form a portion
of the atoms OF all kinds of matter, each
atom containing a definite number OF
corpuscles. For atoms other than by
drogen the number OF corpuscles in the
atom is about half the atomic weight:
thus helium, whose atomic weight is
four, has two corpuscles in Its atom;
oxygen, whose atomic weight Is sixteen.
has eight; and so on. Hydrogen, whose
atomic weight Is one, has probably one
corpuscle in its atom. The process OF
Identification consists in taking cor
puscles from one body and giving them
to another. On this view. negative cleo
tricity Is molecular in structure, and
all negative charges are integral multi
pies Of certain unit whose value is
now known with great accuracy. In
fact, we may regard Frankiin's electric
fluid as collection OF such corpuscles,
only we must suppose that an excess
of this fluid corresponds to negative
Identification, and not to positive, as
Franklin supposed Harper's Maya
zine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

wounded French soldiers. TheVequest
called for 10000 kilos OF absorbent
cotton. 10000 kilos Of ordinary cot
ton. 10000 meters Of soft gauze for
dressings. $4,000 meters OF starched
gauze for plaster splints and large
quantity OF thin box wood for splints.
Mabel 7. Boardman, chairman Of tho
Red Cross National Relief Board. ca
bled Ambassador Herriclk that surgical
supplies would be sent on the Red
Cross ship. but that the full amount
asked by him. requiring over 100000
cubic feet Of space, could not be pro-
vided At once because Of other ship
ments and the necessity Of carrying q
large quantity Of coal. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
Topics of the Times

When the returned tourist starts TO
tell all about it don't duck. It's only
fair to listen once.
Dairy Commissioner Barney urges a
boycott against high food prices. II
the commits ioner would furnish a list
Of what he has cut out OF his own
meals 1t would help the rest Of US
some.
Northern Iowa crops bigger than
ever" says the crop bulletin. That's
the first call for mobilization of an
army OF corn huskers.
Judge Prouty recently spoke in ar
interview of Namur as an "impres-
nable" fortress. He should ask leave
TO revise his pleadings.
Somebody asked Candidate Hanif-
ton to declare himself on the liquor
question. And the silence is so com :
plete that a pin dropped in Cedar
Rapids sounds like the explosion of a
carload OF dynamite.
The Iowa City Republican commends
the Kaiser's prohibitory amendment
applying to German soldiers but is still
hostile to the act that sends saloons
five miles away from school boys
THE largest fish ever caught Is to
be on exhibition at the state fair. II
took fifty seamen thirty mine hours TO
land it, 1t doesn't require more than
twenty minutes to land the ordinary
state fair sucker in Des Moines and
any rooming house or restaurant can
do il,
The National League for Medical
Freedom is much opposed to medical
examination Of school children. The
National League OF Medical Freedom
is chump.
The war is not entirely without its
ompensations. Jack Johnson is in the
French Army and the German ammu-
milton is said 10 be entirely depend
able.
How beastly quiet everything seems
to be down on the Rio Grande.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

great Joy when you heard the old jani-
tor striking the bell with hammer the
next morning to call you back to the
weary grind. Somehow institutions
survive IL you do deprive them tenn
porarily Of their tongues. But really
il was such an easy job that you were
almost ashamed to take the money.
And the superintendent and janitor
were SO mystifed as 20 how anybody
but a dieembodied spirit could get into
that school house thru locked windows
and doors without leaving a trace that
you almost wanted to relieve their de-
feated intelligence with bit OF import
ant information. Do you remember?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
Misuse Of the Flag

Under the gu1Se OIL an emergency
measure caleld for by war conditions
in Europe, the bill providing for the
transfer of foreign shipping TO the
American flag has been enlarged 30 as
to permit the entry of foreign shipping
into the American coastwise trade even
II such shipping is owned entirely by
foreigners.
The war in Europe has not created
any emergency which requires Ameri-
cans to share their coastwise trade with
foreigners or to run the risk of being
driven out of their own ports by cheap
foreign ships.
The bill as 1t stands is snare. II
is provocation OF war. II paves the
way for all sorts of trouble between
the United States and it's friends, Great
Britain. France, Germany. Austria
Italy. Russia, and Japan.
Under this bill the foreign owners OF
a vessel that would be subject to cap
ture at sea under its own Dag could
place it under the American nag and
send it to sea with a cargo Of condi-
tional contraband. They would be en-
titled to claim the protection of the
United States, altho they might really
be engaged in furnishing supplies to a
belligerent. The United States would
be forced to abandon protection Of It's
own shipping or quarrel with the bel
ligerent which captured the vessel. II
would become cat's-paw for foreign
shipowners.
The vessels of the Hamburg -Ameri-
can line now lying idle at New York
for example, could run up the American
flag and go to sea with German officers
and crews, ostensibly engaged in neu-
trail commerce. Does any one suppose
that Great Britain would not seize such
vessels? Under the law Of nations they
are presumptively under the American
flag by fraud, and may be seized as
prizes.
Does the United States wish to have
its flag used for any such purpose:
Does 1t wish to see vessels flying the
American flag seized and condemned as
lawful prizes? What becomes of the
neutrality Of the United States in such
case?
The pending bill would permit foreign
shipowners to use the American flag to
suit their own purposes during the war
ana. then, at the close of the war, tc
take their vessels and place the foreign
flag over them.
The bin is in effect an attempt to
evade the international law regarding
the bona fide transfer of ships to a
neutral flag. 1t is an effort to evade
the duties of neutrality. 1t lends the
American flag to purposes Of fraud
Congress should not pass any law
which degrades the American flag
Every ship flying that nag should be
an American ship. owned mostly OF
wholly by Americans, and engaged
strictly In neutral commerce. There is
no exigency which requires congress ia
admit foreign vessels into the coast
wise trade. Those granted American
register for the foreign trade should be
required to give assurance that they
will become bona fide American ships
and engage solely in neutral commerce
The best method of accomplishing thi.
is to require that the vessels shall be
| owned by American citizens.-Wasfl-
ington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
QUIT WHINING.

If Iowa would manufacture all she
uses, says northern Iowa newspaper,
her population would increase 100 per
cent.
| If a man could save all his salary he
would get very rich in so years.
If New York would raise all the food
t.oducts she uses New York wouldn't
need Iowa
If it were not for the grocery bills,
etc, but what's the use?
Let's get somewhere. II Iowa mer-
chants would push home manufa ctures.
If an Iowa made automobile, an Iowa
made stove. an Iowa made article of
any kind were given the front place in
the show window thered be something
doing in Iowa.
If the article made in an Iowa town
were given first chance and choice by
the retailers and consumers of the town
II is made in there'd be some mighty
busy factories right at home.
Never mind the population Iowa is
dong right well as it is. There's alto
gether too much talk over a falling of
in population which never took place.
Let's not whine over Iowa There's
nothing to whine over Today Iowa is
the most prosperous state in the union.
The travelling men say she is buying
more and paying for it more promptly
than any other state. There's money
and good crops here. Our factories are
ali running, most of them full handed
and on full time.
Quit it. Cut it out All it lacks of
knocking is intent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

H., consisted of siXty-three members. of
whom ffty-six were present at the con-
clave. Today there are sixty-six cardi-
nails. OF whom 1t is not expected that
more than sixty will be present at the
conclave which is to elect the successor
to Pope Plus Y. Besides, the present
war and the chance of Italy being in
volved may cause the conclave to be
postponed. OF the cardinals compos-
ing the present sacred college none was
created by Plus TX, twenty by Leo
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

XIII. and forty-six by Plus x. Under
the late pontitf forty-six cardinals have
died, Of whom three were Of his own
creation. The nationality OF the sacred
college. which not infrequently plays an
important part In the election Of pope.
is thus distributed at present: Italian.
thirty four: French. six: Spanish, five:
American, English. Austrian and Hun
garian, three; German and Portuguese.
two; Irish. Brazilian, Belgian and
Canadian. ONE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
Masonic Meetings.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

This illustration shows View of the
cardinals in session at the Vatican,
Rome. as they will likely appear when
they hold the conclave to elect new
pope to succeed the late Pope Plus x. and
also some of the principal cardinals
whose names have been mentioned as
possible choice. When complete the
college of cardinals which elects a new
pope consists of seventy members. The
college of 1903. which elected Pope Plus
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
A THIEF~s A THIEF FOR A. THAT.
TWatarIon Courier

Bill Kenyon, our senator at Wash
inston, got an fdea into his cocoanut
that directors of railroads who loot
the property of stockholders, or let
somebody else do it under their noses
are in class with the fellows who rob
a Pullman at the point o, gun Halt
the senate thought the same way and
so voted. But the other half somehow
held to the idea that silk hat and a
financial standing are extenuating cir
cumstances and they killed the Iowan's
amendment to the. Clayton antitrust
bill.
But Kenyon still believes, the Cour-
Ter and Reporter still believes. and we
believe the rest of Iowa believes that a
thief is thief and that a hypocritical
thief is worse than an honest one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
THE ssD DECREE.
[Clintou Eerald.l

INIIWlUlI f-tTaIU.
The Herald is pleased to observe that
Senator Cum Minis now has a genuinely
national reputation. The eastern papers
are making him the hero of the stalest
anecdotes that went into the Ark with
Noah. These hoary tales were once
accredited TO Speaker Henderson
When Governor shaw went into the
cabinet, he fell heir TO them. Now the
mantle has fallen on Cumnins Truly
his star has risen to the zenith.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
STRANGE BURIAL.

IOelwein Resister.J
The declaration that Seth Thomas is
AN able lawyer and an honest man"
recalls the story OF the man who stood
oy a grave over which the above quo
tetion was carved on a tombstone He
remarked that il seemed very peculiar
that they should bury two men in the
same grave.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
DIVIDING Up ~. p.v.

"A man should have eight hours of
recreation and then take the remainder
of the day for work and Sleep"
Perhaps. 1t depends on the kind OF
work you select. Sometimes man
goes after his recreation 80 violently
that he gets too nervous to work q
sleep. Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
The Two Kinds Of EIeetrieitv.

There are two kinds of electricity Gas
Du Faye discovered in 1870. which.
from the way their properties are con-
trasted, are called positive and meg
alive II an electrified body is at
tracted by one kind Of electricity 1t i
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
Iona Newspapers
NEITHER WET NOR DRY.
[Sioux City Tribune.

Either an oversight or a careful con-
troll is evident in the fact that an edi-
tor named Moist has entered a dry
newspaper field at Ida Grove and there
have been no puns perpetrated on the
name.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
AN IMPORTANT QUERY.
tSioux City Journal.l

Ii might be interesting TO know whom
the editor of the Manson Democrat
holds in highest regard. near prohibit
tionists, on Orangeman or Louis Muir
hpy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Washington Democrat says: Ii
Clifford Thorne ever does run for gov
ernor this paper will not lay straw
in his way. II will not support him,
but it will secretly pray for him That
will help some"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

"The attempt is being made by some
Of the thoughtless Scott county advo-
Gates of Hamilton for governor. to
make it appear that capitol extension
can be an issue between the democrats
an6 republicans here this fall, re-
marks the Davenport Times and says:
In view of the fact that Scott county
was represented in the legislature by
three democrats and all three Of them
voted for the capitol extension that
line of argument will not be pressed
1t will be better for local democrats to
keep quiet about capitol extension"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

EFF the employers liability law is de-
clared unconstitutional because it Ia
class legislation it is probably good
enough law to be extended to all class
es" says the OeIwein Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

st Louis had day of prayer for
rain and it got it, notes the Des
Moines Capital. which concludes that
For st. Louis to want water is a stu
alton bound to attract attention not
only on earth but higher up"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

The MondaI1iri Enterprise asserts:
1.-THE farmers hair may be bushy. his
skin bronzed, but his eyes are clear, his
digestion is like that of 3year-old
mule. his conscience is Ike the ether
above his head and his bank account
STAT az his favorite shoat. He IL the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

When the returned tourist starts TO
tell all about it don't duck. Its only
fair to listen once.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-26

How beastly quiet everything see
to be down on the Rio Grande
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-18
A Boys Epigram.

Mrs. Russell Sage taught school
in her youth in Philadelphia, and
a Philadelphia woman who was once
her pupil said the other day:
Il remember Miss Slocum as she
was then called-a Very intelligent,
cheerful industrious young lady, and
great favorite with all of us.
'She had way of hammering
home an idea with an apt anecdote
that we girls enjoyed hugely.
lone day in lmpressing on us the
importance of perseverance, she said
that she knew little boy who was
remarkably fine skater
She watched the youngster, one
winter afternoon, do the front and
back roll, the grapvine, the glide and
other feats of tremendous difficulty,
and finally, overcome with enthusi
asm, she patted him on the back and
said: ,
How on earth, at your age, did you
learn to skate so magnificently?"
by getting up every time / fell
down, was the boys simple answer
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1914-11-18

sey, New Mexico, Ohio defeated full
suffrage IN 1912 and on last election,
South Dakota, Vermont and Wiscon-
sin.
Despite the claims of woman stuff
rage leaders that they won the vore
IN some of the other of the seven
states which voted On the subjec.
last week late returns bear out early
indications thai the franchise was
denied women ii Ohio, Missouri, Ne
braska, North Dakota and South
Dakota.
Officers of the National Woman
Suffrage association have began to
recapitulate the results of female
votes in the. various states in which
they voted on Nov. g. They con-
tend that the women were instru-
mental in California in passing the
laws that will drive out pugilism and
segregated vice quarters, and failed
in driving out saloons only because
OF the too drastic provisions of the
amendment.
The suffragist leaders also asser..
that women showed their power at
the polls in Chicago by electing IS
Judge of the Municipal Court Charles;
l.. Billings, who introduced in the
Illinois legislature the bill that gave
women the right to vote for many
officers in Illinois. Billings would
have been defeated by the mems
vote, but was carried to victory by
the women's ballots.
The leaders also assert that women
aided materially in voting prohibl-
ton for Washington, Oregon, Arizo-
ma and Colorado.
, Tabulation of the women voters in
Chicago shows that they cast 1O4,-
GAL ballots. The total registration
of women in the city is nearly 17O,-
| 600. The percentage of women who
stayed at home was much larger than
that of the men. In Chicago the
democrats received about IS per cent
of the women's ballots, the republi-
cans "a per cent and the progressiyes
90 Per. cent.