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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

tangling financial alliances may be abb
solute,y innocent and harmless is TO
insult common sense.
Indeed, the defense Of the Harvard
professor should challenge the atten-
ton Of the psychologists OF that great
institution. He asserts that the views
he expounded in his public lectures
were his mature and honest views,
formed long before the Melien conneo-
ton was made. and that. done by him
either to Harvard or to the public.
This is mighty queer psychology. what
eyer may be thought Of its ethics.
man who gets liberal salary ION the
side" for advocating certain doctrines
can not possibly know whether ile
honestly" holds such doctrines. The
bias in the case is q factor whose
strength he can not estimate. Men
change their views with time and tide.
and q fat, secret salary may operate
to obstruct and retard, IL not to pre-
vent wholly. a natural modification OF
opinion.
We have had so many interesting
contributions to practical questions
from the Harvard psychological labor
atory that an analysis Of the psychol-
ogy Of tainted lectures and OF fallaoous
theories fashioned to justify them
would not be out of the line and sphere
Of it's observation-disclosures Record
Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
SALOON is DOOMED.

Washington Ia. Democrat.J
or course. the dry territory Is In
creasing and the reason is because no.
body can defend the saloon and get
away with it. The Register and Leader
gave the saloon keepers the best ad-
vice a week or so ago that we have
seen.
1t advised them to clean up their
business and get out of 1t.
It told them that 1t is merely mat
ter of time when their business will
be outlawed
Aside from any sentiment. It Is bad
business. No town is helped by Saloons.
You may tolerate them, but you can't
urge any good to come from them. can
you? We would like to know what good
you can urge.
The world is travelling away from
the saloons. They might as well take
time by the forelock and get out OF 1t,
and forget 1t. a.
At banquet Of $50 travelling men re-
Gently, not drop Of liquor was served,
and 1t occurred In wet town. We DO
not say that none Of the boys had taken
q drink during the evening Jet We
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
EFFECTIVE ROAD WORK.
Gporry rhioF

lfeTFy IHlelJ
Dallas county is getting in line to do
real effective road work and step In
the right direction was made yesterday
when the supervisors agreed to buy
gravel for the roads OF Spring Valley
township and to let the township funds
take care of the distribution. The re-
suit Of such policy has already been
shown in Peoples township where
there are miles upon miles OF graveled
roads on which all this winter the
travelling has been excellent and the
roads in unusual condition.
The board has discovered an unfor-
tunate provision in the new road law.
The board can not pay for work done
on township roads The county funds
are held to use exclusively upon the
county roads as laid out by the coun-
~ engineers and under that provision
all OF the county money must be placed
upon the routes which have become OIL
fetal thru the acts Of the board.
In the long run this is good thing
but it does work hardship upon the
township or by-roads where 1t is neces-
sary to do effective road work as well
as on the county roads.
There is no question but what
movement will be started next winter
to secure the repeal of that provision
and to pass another road law which
will permit the county to take care OF
some of the by-roads where there Is no
/! likelihood Of their being included In the
county road system for years to come.
The present road law is based upon
the belief that the system will create
the greatest good to the greatest num-
Der Of people, but there are roads which
at times need attention from the coun-
| ty and there should be a legal vehicle
to permit it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
HELPING FRIENDS,

webster City Freeman Tribune.]
The O'Connor- Kenyon campaign
contribution controversy raises the
question of whether if it is wrong for
democrat to subscribe to a republic
cans election fund it is right for dem
ocrat to subscribe to a republicans
primary fund.-Boone News Republi-
can.
1t is not wrong for private citizen
to subscribe to any political fund If
he is doing it from patriotic motives or
thru friendship for candidate. The
evil of campaign contributions lies in
the fact that designing men contribute
in the hope OF personal reward later
on, such men not infreuently contrib
uting to both sides. 1t is easy to un-
derstand. tho. why prominent demo-
crat might conscientiously. subscribe to
the primary campaign fund Of re-
democratic opponent Of that man at
the general election following the NOM
nations. He might feel chat the re-
publicans were going to win and he
might be patriotic enough to want the
place filled by the republican best fitted
for it, or whom he believed to be best
fitted. Mr. O'Connor has been person.
ally acquainted with Senator Kenyon
since the boyhood days of both and we
believe he can consistently. as loyal
democrat, do what he honorcbly can 20
bring about the nomination Of his
friend
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
Topics of the Times

With the passing Of j. P. Morgan the
system of "Morganism" seems to be
passing. After all the system is very
largely the man who makes it. Scan
derDerg's sword needs Scanderbere's
arm
In order 10 estimate the probable
number of fatal accidents likely to &C.
cur just count the grade crossings and
wait.
Somebody hunted up Foraker, once
Of Ohio, and got an interview the other
day. But it belongs in those popular
reprints of What Happened Twenty
Years Ago"
Every time it starts to snow folks
meet each other on the street saying.
now we are going to get it," And the
next day the children play out doors
and the birds are singing and all ma
ture seems gay. Great country, Iowa
That Michigan copper country needs
touch of Theodore Roosevelt more
than anything else.
One OF the saddest developm ents of
the winter is that cat and dog fight in
the bosom Of the Iowa democracy
If that motor company holds out and
continues the minimum of So a day,
now long will it be before it has a
strike on its hands? You know how
a day.
Those who have already planted
their early radisnes and set out the
first batch Of onions in Marshall coun-
ty may have to use the snow shovel
no present reason why we shouldn't
have new potatoes by the first of
April.
The Madrid Register News approves
Harvey Ingham as a candidate in the
Seventh district However the Register
News does not quote w. o. Payne and
Cassius NJ. Dowell as agreeing with it.
The more Clarke's enemies bring out
regarding him the nearer is Clarke to
second term. Clarke Is mighty
useful governor.
EIdora wanted $4,000 viaduct over
! the Iowa river So the county pays
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

dividend rate down to per cent. It's
stockholders do not lose by the new
arrangement as the topped off divi
dend comes to them directly from the
Baltimore and Ohio.
Shippers might have lost something
if the Union Pacific attempted to pay
that extra 2 per cent of its own earn
ings in addition to giving its stock
holders the stock that had previously
earned it. This was the point Attor-
ney General McReynoids had in mind
in suggesting. the corresponding re-
duction in dividend. In securing the
acceptance Of his suggestion the attor-
ney general must be credited with
another substantial net gain for the
principle of public supervision Of rail-
way finances.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
THE L. P. UNsCRAMBL1NG.

Inc action of the Union Pacific in
emptyins Its treasury OF Baltimore and
ONO stock is something entirely new
In the way of unscrambl bling corporate
eggs The two railway systems con-
cefned are not competing and the COM
munity OF interest between them was
merely cooperative. 1t is not yet clear
whether public policy or private bust
ness considerations was the governing
motive in the new divorce. II matter
OF public policy it would involve recog-
milton of the principle that one trans
portation corporation shall not hold
stock In another corporation. either
transportation or industrial. As it is
announced that Attorney General Nc
Reynolds supervised and approved the
transaction, 1t may be assumed that it
fitted in with the administrations
tentative new plans for corporation
regulation.
The Union Pacific first became in
terested in Baltimore and Ohio back
in 1906 when the late Mr.. Hartman
was pursuing his ambitious plan to
make his railroad system nationwide
in scope. He then bought block OF
stock in Baltimore G. Ohio to estab-
est between the two properties. While
the western road did not control the
eastern, 1t had a sufficient proprietary
interest to make cooperation the
logical business policy of the two
roads. The Union Pacific's holdings OF
Baltimore & Ohio were about doubled
last summer during the dissolution Of
the Union Paciflc-Southern Pacific
r,,r~ t., %Io+ ,I,s I,
was supervised by Attorney General
McReynolds. the Union Pacific made n
trade with the Pennsylvania by which
the latter took the Union Pacifc's
holdings of Southern Pacific, giving the
Union Pacific in return about 100000
900 Of Baltimore & Ohio. This left the
Union Pacific with about $4,000, 900
Of Baltimore G. Ohio stock in its
treasury. This whole block is now to
be taken out Of the treasury and dis
tributed pro rata among the indi-
vidual stockholders of Union Pacific.
The stock distribution. with the small
cash bonus that accompanies it. will
amount to an extra dividend Of 33 per
cent to Union Pacific stockholders.
Another new feature Of the present
"unscrambling" will be found in the
permanent re0uctlOn OF the union
Pacific dividend rate that accompanies
this dispersion of assets. The Union
Pacific dividend rate has been 10 per
cent. OF this 10 per cent 2 per cent
was earned by Baltimore 6 Ohio stock
held in the treasury. Under the new
arrangement the Baltimore & Ohio
stock Is to be passed out to the Union
Pacific stockholders, who will indi-
vidually collect the dividends that
formerly were disbursed thru the
Union Pacific company. Under the
circumstances 1t was not to be reason
ably expected that the Union Pacific
would continue to maintain the old
dividend rate after turning over to its
stockholders the assets from which
per cent Of the old rate was derived,
Whether It was expected or not. At
torney General McReynolds insisted il
should not be done. His suggestion
was that the Union Pacific dividend
rate b reduced proportionately as its
income was reduced by the elimina
ton of the Baltimore and Ohio hold
lngs. This brings tine Union Pacific
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
Til. Psychology Of Tainted Lectures.

The prompt resignation of the Har-
ward professor Of economics who was
on the pay roll of the New Haven rail-
road system under the Mellen regime.
and who lectured to the public in De
tense of railroad combinations without
disclosing his personal and pecuniary
interest in "Mel,enism," closes an un-
pleasant incident which, 1t Is certain,
is rare in our academic history. Pro-
fessors. instructors and lecturers VINO
are paid by the public or by quasi
public educational institutions are net
supposed to maintain secret and Hon-
fidential relations with, or to receive
salaries from, other employers. To
contend that such relations and en-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
eRANDMorHER's BED.

Someone In some newspa per or other
spoke recently of the feather bed as a
thing unknown to this generation. 1t
isn't quite so bad-or good-as that
for now and then the guest room Of
some rather old fashioned family de-
velops feather bed like grandmother
used to make, but the feather bed is
On its way to oblivion with the buffalo
robe and the rest Of us who were young
and gay and fashionable a long. long
time ago.
Just the same 1t is worth remember
ing. A big goose feather bed, one Of
those which swelled up like a summer
cloud beneath the hand woven cover
tired body like a warm wave and into
which you sunk half way and rested as
on air was thing to bless and re-
member on cold winter night in those
days when neither register nor radi-
ator strove with the frost upon the
window pane. 1t was mattress and
cover in one. How it surged up along
your sides, crept along every curve and
fitted every angle of your body and
folded you in warmth and lulled all the
senses except that luxurious restful
feeling which it accentuated 1t was
the fitting preliminary to buckwheat
cakes and maple syrup and home made
sausage stuffed in cloth sacks which
the morning was to bring. II any
there be who have not had this ex-
perience then some OF us older persons
have an advantage over modern lux
uries.
Grandmother made the bed from the
beginning barring such assistance as
was afforded by the geese that grew
the feathers. She kept geese" At
odd and unexpected places about the
farm youthful Investigators ran upon
q gray goose laying or sitting guarded
by sentinel gander. her mate. The
youthful investigator quickly learned
20 pursue investigation moderately
Interference brought swift attack and
4ander hanging to the seat of his
trousers and applying punishment with
swift wing strokes was at once anus
lnG and alarming; for the blow of a
Hander left black and blue spots where
they landed and sometimes caused a
fractured leg. It was well enough to
watch the gray goose while she COW
erod her eggs carefully as she left
her nest but dangerous to go farther
Deserted as it might look the guardian
GAnder came down like the Assyrian in
the poem whence he had been artfully
hidden and began operations at the
drDf indication Of immediate inyesti-
cation.
There arrived yard full Of goslings.
hairy. duffy. yellow idiots that needed
care and watchfulness. The gander
ottIl stayed on the job, however. and
So1teved grandmother Of much worry
VIXEN the children were around. Then
| q the fall came picking day."
Dver help pick geese? Well it was
treat fun and had a spice of danger in
NJ. not real danger but of minor in
&1uFy for an enraged goose pinches
|assntngiy when she sets her bill and
IT, POINT Of pander's wing lands like
bo1r hst. You grabbed a victim
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
KErp1NG OUR BALANCE.

[Des ,Moines Register and Leader.l
Another Of the newspapers OF tne
state from which we might expect sane
and safe criticism Of the acts OF our
governing officials. newspaper "hicn
in its own party rather boasts Oh
safety and sanity. is the Times-Trl-
bune of Waterloo.
And yet here Is the Waterloo Times
Tribune calling the attention OK It's
readers to such a statement as TINS,
in discussing the raise in taxation IN
Iowa:
Who is responsible for the vast In
crease? The state legislature, mostly.
Now, the state legislature is respon-
sible for exactly 49, mills of the total
taxation Of Waterloo. Of Black Hawk
county, OF the state of Iowa. All the
regular appropriations. all the special
appropriation everything the state
does in its prisons, asylums. colleges,
capitol ground extension. agricultural
college extension. state road commits
sion. everything is included in the levy
OF 49, mills.
But the total taxation of the aver
age country township in Iowa will run
from 35 to 40 mills, while the city taxes
of Waterloo will run to 80 mills or
more. Who is responsible for the re-
mainder OF the tax levies. for the
nine-tenths of the total taxation of
the township county and state? 1t is
the county boards. the school boards
and the township boards.
There are Individual townships in
Iowa where the township trustees have
raised taxes this year substantially as
much as the total state levy.
The Register and Leader challenges
the Times Tribune to publish the tax
levies of Waterloo and Of Black Hawk
county, for the present year under the
new assessment and for the past year
under the old assessment, and if. with
these comparative levies to work upon,
The Register and Leader cannot show
that the Times Tribune need not go
outside of Black Hawk county to learn
how taxes have been raised and who
raised them, then the Register and
LIZ adler will join with the Times Tri-
bune in raid on the whole admins
tration.
IL the legislature has done anything
that is not right. if IL has ordered
money spent that ought not to be
spent, even TO the fraction of dollar.
let the legislature stand the blame. But
on the other hand, il county boards
township boards and school boards
nave become utterly needless in the
matter OF ievying taxes. and are col
Letting dollars where the legislature
does not collect cents. then lie, INTEL
f1igent lowe newspapers keep their bal
anee and assist in putting the respon :
sibi'ity w.lete the responsibility be-
longs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

aeed. IN 4 quotation from one Of -
ablsst opponents. who. speaking On
another subject and discussing the
British empire in tomorrow's worid.
saiA:
II cannot help thinking that a. ~
IN England have now thoroughly fea-
Lied IN every ono Of these great com-
mvnitias that each IL. to manage 10
own aasirs, carry ont IL own lite.
make tn own experiments - freely -
II Il were IN independent political -
tity-as that 10 . truth thoroughly nm
derstood BY every politician Of every
marty In every one Of these several
oommunities-I cannot help thinkino
that upon that solid basis We shan
bulld up something which the worlo
has never yet sean. which political
deeamers In the past have nsvee yoe
lrsamed OF. Q coalition Of free and self
spveruing communities who fsel thas
thar a1e never moro themselves
never more masters Of their own tate,
than whom they recognize that they
arc parts Of Q greater whole. nom
which they can draw inspiration ana
strength; and that each hve0 it, own
life and II most itself when It feels
itself in the fullest sense oeaf.govern-
ing entity which yet has . lsrgss
whole to look to, whose interests aro
not alien to It. on whom Il can rest IN
dine Of trouble. from which It car
draw experience, 70 whom 1t can look.
whom II can aid. and from whom ~
can receive aid"
Commons ooee % Ensot Law.
Tomorrow's world IL TO have Brit
ish United States, With federal capt
til At London, II Mr.. Balfours nobel
dream finds realisation. In tho mean-
time, Ireland is to be self-governing
division Of the present British empire.
Twice the parliamentary act effectinS
this result has passed, by . considera-
BILE majority, the British house Of COM
mons. Twice, BY an equally decided
1t has been rejected BY the.
British house Of lords. When passed.
Q third time BY tho commons It BEL
comes q Law despite the opposition Of
the lords. The majority party In the
house OF commons par
ties" 10 moro aco0rats. - coalition
Of Liberals. Nationalists and Laborites
1, necessa1y TO form the majority-io,
pledged to pass tho Act before another,
general election. Unless something,
unforeseen occurs. tho Irish Parlta@
ment at Dublin Win come into being
early in 1916 or before. At which all
ireland win rejoice-au but Ulster!
copyright, 1913, by Joseph b. Bowles)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

Dublin, N
land.-Old Ire
land, nearest OF
the British Isles
70 I'll America
and dearest 70
nsny 4 m . RI
cans. u being
mAAo new, TO the
10y Of those who
yet dw0u ON the
Guild ed" and to
the eQ0Al ~ OF
the thou "a nds
who A1vo depart
ID b enrich 9TH
oe lnnlR. Th0r
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
MISREPRESENTATION IOWA: JANUARY 10 1914

haA no evidence Of It. We did not
smell drop Of liquor and never heard
the word mentioned.
(, Ten years ago. yes. Ave years ago.
there would have been liquor served at
the banquet. 1.-THE world do move" as
Brother Jasper said
Liquor has no defense. except the
money end Of 1t. Nobody says drink
Ing beer is good for YOU. Certain
things are useful. Physical culture Is
good for the body. Dancing is not
harmful. billiard playing is good exer-
else. Bowling IL good, automoDlins Is
good, going fishing is worth while Tor
the health and relaxation 1t gives.
Horseback riding Is useful
Many diversions do not pay q money
value, but they do in enjoyment, IN
health, In good morals, good conduct,
good work. But boozing dissipates. IT
Injuries everything it touches. Young
men are made old by it, old men are
made older, clear minds are wrecked
bv it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
Iona Newspapers
RAWLEYS NEWSPAPERS,
TBoone News Republican.

A candidacy for a political office is
a signal for indulgence in criticism.
Now they are finding fault with Mr..
RoWley's newspaper. the Keosauqua
Republican. which is nine column pa
per, prints advertisements on the front
page and suspends publication from
Christmas until the second week in
January to give the employer and his
employees a holiday. This criticism
may be unjust, but 1t must be admitted
that these newspaper methods were
antedated years ago and that Mr.. Row
ley had better keep his paper out Of
sight during the campaign.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

The Sheldon Sun suggests that,
Proof positive has been found that
closing saloons in a town hurts bust
ness. While the Des Moines saloons
were closed the city police business
fell Off 40 per cent"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

The Perry Chief has noticed that
1.-The man who is always clicking be-
cause Des Moines is hogging the things
of Iowa is the one who usually goes
there just as soon as he gets little
money to spend "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
THEN AND NOW.
Manson Journal

We hear lot about the high
cost of living, and it certainly IL
high enough, but we sometimes. won
der what the good people would say
II they had to pay the prices our
mothers paid for things. During the
sixties, even after the close Of the civil
war. prices were so much higher than
at present that by comparison things
are cheap. For years. tea was 81 to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

The Boone News Republican says,
'It took the democratic party more
than four years to get over the schism
of 1896. 1t may take the republican
party as long to get over the schism of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

Let us have little straight talk on
republican principles this year, and a
little less political hero worshipping,
suggests the Vinton Eagle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

"Ingham is by all odds the strongest
man yet mentioned as Prouty's pos
sible successor says the Madrid Regis
ter News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

\ Baltimore traveller accused Boston
women of being able 10 talk on but six
top:cs-the weather. divorce. Christian
Science, the race problem, the civil war
and scandal But almost any one of
these can be made to go long way
Springfield Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

"a mother, who has never been a
boy, can not understand why all the
deviltry in the family seems to break
out in the only son." says the Tama
News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

The shopping district constitutes the
average woman's idea Of the buy ways
Of life.