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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-02

out with q rash. reddish
looking. II spread until 10
was all over his body. and
II came on his face and caused
Disagreement. His hands
had to bo tied TO keep him
nom scratching. HIS cloth
ing aggravated tho trouble
and made the hrenkinR nnh
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1914-12-02
Hood River Helps Poor.

HOOD RIVER. Ore. Dec. 1.-The
students OF the Hood River high
school forwarded a large shipment
OF canned fruits, clothing and fresh
apples TO be distributed among the
poor children OF Portland. The gifts
were assembled at the high school
building.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
"lN MEMORIAL"

A considerable gift to the Red Cross
collection made by a newspaper in an
eastern city came to it marked TN
Memoriam'
The committee knew no more of It,
Whether 1t were given in memory of
a dead child or a mother long gone
across into the far country none of
those who received it knew. But the
one who gave it knew. And faith will
believe and aver that the one in whose
memory the gift Was placed knew
also.
Last Christmas in a central Iowa
city where the Good Fellows Club was
active family gathered in company
with a tender memory. Mothers
things" had been laid away in the
sacredness that attaches to the gar
ments Of our dead. And this family
talking it all over felt that the good
woman who had gone would be ever
happier II she knew that her warm
clothing were keeping some sh:verint
woman warm. And so they brough
out mothers things" from their sane.
tilted secrecy and gave them in memor.
! lam Of sweet and kindly soul tina
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
VERMONT. SCHOOL COMMISSION.

The Vermont education commission
has reported to the governor OF that
state certain suggestions as TO changes
necessary to a school system intended
to meet conditions as they exist
1t recomme nds that rural schools, so
far as practicable, be consolidated and
that their courses Of study be revised
to the end that the instructions given.
not only in method but in content may
be suited to the daily life and environ
ment of the youth.
That there should be 4 junior school
maintained in every town township
in the state e where the number OF
secondary school youth to ne convent
emily accommodated shall reasonably
warrant it, having "a four-year
curriculum. elastic in administration.
but dimited in scope by the numbers
and needs of the local boys and girls
Il to l6 years of age, covering the
seventh and eighth grades of the pres
ent elementary school and the first two
years of the present high school.
That there should be as many CEN
trail and readily accessible senior high
schools, articulating directly with all
the neighboring junior highs, as the
number of pupils desiring the advanced
instruction given only in this class OF
schools shall reasonably demand, the
number and locations to be determined
by the board of education. These
should have: a four-year junior curri-
culum as in the junior high schools,
but including special vocational OPP
portunities. particularly in agriculture,
for pupils from II to 10 years of age,
drawn from the surrounding districts,
who are fitting for college or are COM
pleting a course of general education
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

had zone on ahead. And n she knew
as they and we truly believe and hope
surely she found an added Joy IN the
knowledge.
Men soften when they remember
their mothers. They turn tender with
recollection of those they loved ana
lost. Every human heart has It's
memories that make life better and
touch the springs of tenderness toward
all humanity. Not one exists who does
not carry with him waking and sleeping
some memory so sacredly tender that
the lips shrink from speaking OF X.
1t was such memory perhaps 'hat
found its expression in the gift to the
Red Cross which had no signature, no
name, no Identification, save IN
Memoriam." But he who remembered
and she who was thus remembered
know. Let us trust that she knew.
Bring it home. The poor have we
always with us. The suffering, the IN
the unfortunate, the chi-
dren and the weak. Bring it home. In
the tenderness of some holy memory
give. Do some kindness. carry nap
uiness to children, comfort to old age
and hope to weary womanhood. some
where in Your heart lives memory
that can not die, memory OF ioNe
and loss and with it hope OF reunion
Do unto the least of these httie ONES
yhat the kindly soul who lives IN
memory would have you do. In memoir
lam Doubt not that they in whose
YOU give shall know
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
MOI FREEDOM hu1 PAROLE.

There are some persons VINO are
very much agitated because DR. Harry
Kelley was able TO convince the courts
that he was sane, and therefore en-
titled TO his liberty said John Null
vaney. They say they can not con-
ceive why a man who killed two others
should be turned loose upon society.
But to person who has investigated
the case carefully, and talked with
Kelley personally. the matter is not
difficult to understand kelley's brain
was affected temporarily from the ex-
cessive use of liquor and drugs. He
killed two men and was put in prison
for more than three years, wher he
was completely cured. The doctors who
gave expert testimony before Judge
DeGraff recently spent nearly an hour
with the young physician. They found
that he possessed more than average
intelligence. and commended him for
approaching his own weakness, which
is one of the surest signs Of sanity.
Kelley has learned al essen, and ven-
ture to assert he will make a useful
citizen" Interview in Des Moines
Register and Leader.
1t all true enough but leaves a very
important part of the problem I'M
settled. No doubt is being raised Of
Kelley's sanity. Kelley IS merely a
case in point, an illustration, parable.
Nobody has a desire to pursue Kelley.
Without much doubt he is as sane as
when he started In to make a maniac
Of himself. His freedom sets him back
at the crossroads again. He may be-
come useful citizen; he may take the
same road and follow the old route.
But the men whom he killed in the in
sanity brought by himself upon him
self can't come back to begin over.
! If the law releases the kelleys un-
conditionally after they have sobered
into sanity after a season Of murderous
| frenzy then the law should be changed.
| Those who by their own habits and
recklessness of their own and other
| lives have been in the position of
of prison under parole. IT IS as need
| full that the state retain some hold on
the man whose temporary insanity
runs to homicide as upon the man
whose habits and tendencies have led
him to theft. Both are dangerous be-
cause they may do it all over. The
state should have a string on the
Kelleys. While they avoid evil com
partnership and refrain from drink and
keep to the purpose of useful citizens
they should be permitted every wise
latitude. When they start wrong again
they should be Immediately recalled
and shut away from opportunity 70
XIII other men in lit of temporary
insanity"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

records Of birth shall be collected by
the assessor but this has proved to be
a very unreliable recourse. Babies are
born and babies die. and babies are
removed from the state, Assessors are
in the field only q portion OF the year
Ministers are required to make re-
turns Of marriage licenses with the
accompanying information as TO the
date of the ceremony, ETC. sometimes
they do this and sometimes they DO
not. Physicians are required to make
reports of the births. Sometimes they
do. more often they do not. In other
words, the present system Is make
shift and does not meet the require
ments Of the state or the necessities OF
sociological studies.
A bill will be introduced In the COM
ing general assembly to remedy this
weak point. Just what system will
be adopted and how IL will be reliably
administered. Tho Hawkeye - not
advised. The point 10 that . better
method OF collecting and recording the
statistics Ia imperatively needed
little reflection ought to satisfy every
citizen upon that point Without Q
legal record OF births the prospective
voter has difficulty In establishing his
right to vote. Birth certificates are
necessary In the courts to prove ones
kinship, ones title to property. ones
right to his or her own name. AS has
been we'll said by . writer discussing
this question in another state. 1.-The
birth certificate. In word. Is a mans
proof that he is himself and without
1t the most amazing tangles sometimei
result"
The registration OF deaths is often
times even more important than the
corr est report Of all births. In the
settlement Of estates 1t is often neces-
sary to determine the date Of death
to gain inheritance, to end trusteeshtps
A son may remember that his father
died in January OF given year, and
personally he knows that to be correct
but when it comes to proving II ir
court he faces another and some .nel
difficult proposition. The record of the
family bible is given some credence
but 1t is not always as legal record
Many an estate has been lost and many
real estate title has been clouded be.
cause there has been kept In the state
TO legal record Of all deaths that occur
In perfecting titles II may be necessar!
to establish the fact tof the death o.
the wife, otherwise her signature wouli
be required for transfer of title. These
are only few glimpses at the man,
| ways in which the statistics play {
very important part in the business
and the social life OF mankind. There
is no reason why Iowa should not, hav'
q model law covering all these points
| similar to statutes in other states tina
have been more progressive in legis
lation than has the banner crop stat
OF the union.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
Unsntersd Land IN 1855.

BY the following reports from land
offices. the following OF unentered or
vacant land in the several districts ID
represented. BY references to the
map. the land districts will be easily
recognized, being bounded OF marked
by pink lines.
In the Fort Des Moines district:
Jasper county, half entered--say $780,
900 acres vacant. Mahaska. mostly en-
tered Marion. probably three-fourths
entered. Marshall contains $4,000
lacres--three- fOurths vacant. Hardin
the same--also three-fourths vacant
Grundy. Butler ana Floyd. each three
fourths vacant. Mitchell b full nine.
tenths vacant.
Each county, with the exception Of
Jasper, Webster, Guthrie and those
directly on the state line. have thu
same area, containing about ~, 00t
worth, cerro oordo. Hancock. Wine.
nebago. Bancroft. Kossuth. Emmett
Palo Alto, Pocahontas. Hunboldt
w right, Franklin and Calhoun afe al
most entirely vacant.
| Emmett, bancroft, winnebago. Han
cock, Kossuth. Palo Alto, Pocahonta'
and Calhoun are not in the market. bu
probably will be next fall.
webster county n nine-tenths va
cant. Greene. Boone. Story ant
Guthrie, each three fourths vacant
/ Polk has. perhaps. 10000 acres o
prairie vacant. AdAir and Dallas hal
vacant. Madison one fourth. Warrel
one eighth and Marion one-tenth va
cant.
All the counties IN this district ar
we'll watered, and on the streams, gen
leraily possess good timber. In sucl
Icounties a. are IN market but llttl
II timber land rsmatns to DO entered
though. Il can be purchased from pres
q eng holders - from $50 to 80 p
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
Topics of the Times

orr in California the people OF NON
,arav county have recently voted more
than to for a bond issue OF sooo'o0"
for paved country roads while the peo-
pie of San Bernardino county Noteu
RI for road bond issue OF si,too'
non santa Barbara boosters are soihs
70 get in the game and has planned
system of paved country roads which
viii cost 81. coo. 900 The town OF Sahta
Barbara has about 1900 inhaoitah's'
Don't make too much fuss over CEN
s,,r sgures The number ct units OF
nonula.ion don't count like the charac-
ter of the units. So far Iowa is count
i,e gold dollars as against the copper
ca,ts of some other cornmunlties'
Count them all but don't Worry over
the aggregate Iowa is pretty wen sat
isfed with the kind of population she
has and is attracting.
Roosevelt probably has no serious
intnet;on to run again for the presi-
dency-but he was mighty good sort oil
man IN that poSIAiOAi AAS - ~~'~-~-
Well if Des Moines closes her sa-
looms the democrats can hold their
conventions at Council Bluffs and Du-
buouew lille the party lasts in Iowa
How a man can play $4,000 worth
of baseball in one season is as hard TO
understand as how Vice President
| Marshall can get $3.50 a throw io1
those alleged lectures.
It isn't a bad suggestion that, to set
the legislature fixing the old FENCES
putting in a post here and stretching
the wire there rather Than building
new fences where they are not needed,
And as the farmers are n force IL
this assembly perhaps it Will appeal
to them especially on rainy Gays.
The notion that you are too big for
your job is all right young man, II 1t
isn't overplayed. Usually. however,
your Job is the measure which the man
who pays the wages puts on your ca :
DaCtty. NOBODY ever got ueltei Jo'
who despised his work and scamped
it thru a mistaken and gweil headed
impression of his own deserts. The JOB
you are on is the best job while you
work at it, The bigger job is wait
ing for the fellow who works at the
little one as tho il were big one. It's
the same old thing over again, the
man who is master of himself and a
! few is made ruler over many.
The most intense interest is being
shown over what the war corresE ond-
ent had TO eat and how he slept-by
| the war correspondent.
! Arkansas crackers are to enjoy
/ twelve miles of stone road from Mesa
to the Monroe county line 20 be built
| from the proceeds Of $4,000 bond is
sue and $4,000 has already been raised
! by public subscription for stone roat
from Little Rock to Jefferson City.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
Masonic Meetings.
.,..,., COMMUNICATION

" SPECIAL coMMUN'CA ~,
Marshall Lodge. No. 1os A Z, q - ~
tuesday. Dec. Is. 1880 p. m. For "orA
Third degree. John w. Wells. secre-
.ary: /. T. Forbes. w. NJ.
STATED coNvocATloN, signe'
chapter No. So. r. A. NJ Mohoay
Dec. u. 1880 p. m. Regular pnSan1 W
and installation OF officers. John W "
Wells, secretary: A. D. Meeker' T. H.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20. R s. S. N. MONDAY a,.a
the third sunday. L T. Forbes. recorder
A. D. Meeker. T. I. M.
REGULAR coNcLAvE st. Aldemai
commandery No. 80 K. T. Iuesoa n
Dec. %. 1880. Regular business ~
wilbur. E. c., NJ s. Mcfarland r'eo'
- y s, wednesday, De
s oembs g 1 49, 7:so p. m Election OF OH,
GERS. Anna Downing. secretary Ma
Black Collins. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
a. M~1.~A
Iowa Newspapers
STUPID AND CRIMINAL.

[Des Moines Register and Leader.1
Congressman Gardner Gays that our
navy. from being good second, has
dropped to weak fourth and will soon
be fifth. Admiral Fletcher says that
our navy is still second and could con-
troll the seas against any power except
Great Britain. New York Globe.
II there were any real urgency IN
the matter Of Arming. there should be
more willingness to tell the truth about
what We have already been doing IN
the way OF military pf6pAfstion,
A compsTatjvs St4tamAnt Of the MA,
costs Of the various nations has recant-
" been published and tn United
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

move to the Empire state. while an
other II back Of : movement to unload
the unemploysd q the metropolis on
prosperous middle west states" notes
the Dubuque Times Journal. ITO the
first proposition we say beware and TO
the other just slansy nothing doing +"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The big leagues were getting john
son, Plank. ct AL just as cheap as they
could get them. What's the matter
with them getting all they can get?'
asks the Waterloo Times Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
lowe eanks In 1855.

There are banking houses at most
Of the important towns in the state.
where banking. exchange and land
agency business is transacted, and to
them we refer tho rsader. an every
way worthy Of confidence ana pa
tronage. OF these. we would mention:
At Burlington Greene Thomas &
Co., successors to e. w. Clark. Bros.
& Co.. bankers. dealers In exchange.
and land agents.
At Cedar Rapids-01een q Wears.
bankers. collectors and general land
agents: Ward Z Bryan. bankers and
land agents.
AZ Council Bluns-0reen. Weare =
Benton. bankers. collectors and gem
eral land ase1tA.
AZ Dubuqus-M.. Mob,ey, exchange
and banking house: r. 3. Jsssup 4 Co..
bankers. dealers In eastern and south
ern exchange. land warrants. ETC.; w.
J. Barney q Co.. bankers. dealers In
exchange. and general land agents.
At Davenport - Cook & Sargent.
bankers. dealers In eastern and south
ern exchange. and general land agents:
Mc0resor. Laws q BIakemore, bank
err. exchange and rea! estate brokers:
Maciot q corbin. bankers and dealers
~ S4OO0SA&OS 0SDy - o0bAVWs ooAAn-
err and DEALERS in domestic and foreign
exchange and land agents.
AZ Fort Des Moines--cook. Sargent
& Cook. bankers. dealers in exchange.
and land agents: Greene. Weare 4
Rice. bankers; collectors and general
land agents; Maclot. Corbin & White.
bankers. exchange brokers and land
agents; Hoyt Sherman. banker and
dealer in exchange and land warrants.
At Fairf1eld-Henn. Williams & Co..
dealers in land warrants and exchange.
At Iowa City-Cook. Sargent s. Dow
ney bankers and general land agents.
At Upton w. H. Tuthill, banker
and dealer in exchangeand land war;
rants.
NO SMALL COINS.
One species of coin Is not current in
the state: we allude to the cent and
halfcent, while even the 3-cent piece
is barely tolerated and is seldom seen
cept In church plates and at the
postoffice.-From Iowa AS 1t Is" by
N. Howe Parker. published in 1855.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

IF President Wilson never accom-
plished anything else but the trimming
OF the presidential messages to con-
gress,'' says the Burlington Gazette.
he has sent precedent that should
earn him everlasting fame and Incl
dentally gratitude"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

acre. according to quality and location.
The receipts at the Fort Des Moinea
land Office. In seven months previous to
the first Of March. 1856. should make
reasonable preparations against the.
possibilities OF attack.---Trom Iowa
AS It Is," by N. Howe Parker Of Daven-
port published in Chicago In 1855.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

That there are forty six farmer
members Of the legislature which will
convene in Des Moines in January sug-
gests the Council Bluffs Nonpareid that
ut will not be surprising II legisla-
tive sessions next winter begin at sun
up and continue until shutdown"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15
A MANS MOTHER.
Stony CITY In,,rpo1l

toward his mother and by his treat
ment OF her. What is more beautiful
to behold that the knightly devotion Of
Il noble man to his mother-the man to
whom his mother Is queenly. to be
approached with reverential courtesy,
whose words to him are freighted with
! wisdom, whose highest wish Is law,
who indeed to him Is the very shrine
OF love! There IL something funda-
mentally wrong with the heart OF the
man who can be impatient with his
mother or intolerant Of her. who can
deny her his love and confidence, or
who. II she has weaknesses or commits
mistakes. Is unable to excuse and for
give. Without forgiveness man is
lost. How many times does the mother
foregtve What errors does she not
condone! What weaknesses will she not
excuse! Can her children do less and
preserve their self respect ana the re-
spect OF mankind? Il was Coleridge
| who wrote:
mother Is a mother still,
The hottest thing alive.
Who can calculate the influence OF
mothers and mother love? Do no.
men often proclaim that all they have
been able to achieve in life they owe
to the ideals of mother? When the
boy hrst leaves the home to take q
mans place in tho worla who. ~
nuenre "a 40 nowarf,I 70 n.as..,,s ~.
pure and ,,nsnot+aa ,-on, ~ ,,,,.ia..
temptation. ar the krow,.d.s =, .hs
mother ,eft habind 40 ~. 49,, -.
follow. him ~ enve,or ,,r. "a ~ .na,
hin, Yron evil, WIFE, .h.,. ~
mot avoided vhot na-,,S - -" -.
es,onea-ah orIv +ha.~ ~. 80 nc no'
neriencaa lisa car I'll, 49, 80
fhar ~ YOU'VE and s-o,,,,a no~ lns
haa hean .tre, vthsn.s -.
n aoo,,i, ,t..,1 ra,, ~. uesIe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

The Usage News declares II Billy
Sunday could preach month in every
wet county in the state during the year
before election, Iowa would go SO dry
that breweries would contribute to the
prohibition campaign fund"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-12-15

States ranks veil up towards the front:
! How many realiss that fully halt
our public rtvenues 30 for the army
ana the navy7%
Long befare this war - over the
United States win be better prepared
for war than England or Germany,
and as for the rest the United States
has been better prepared all the time.
The attempt to stampede this coun-
try into militarism is both stupid and
criminal.