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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
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ICE AND DAMAGE SUITS.
[Burlington Hawkeye.3


Cedar Rapids reports seven new
suits filed against the city by persons
who were injured by ugly tumbles on
ice-covered walks. The problem is one
that exists everywhere at certain sea-
sons OF the year. And to the present,
nobody seems to have suggested So
luton that VIII solve. 1t will never
be possible to keep the walks in abb
solutely safe condition all OF the time.
but by prompt action Of the authori-
ties and loyal citizens, the danger OF
such accidents can no doubt be re-
duced quite materially. The seven
claimants at Cedar Rapids demand
$4,000. If they get $1,000 that will
make hole in the public funds. And
perhaps at an expenditure of $500 much
sand and ashes could have been used,
where it would do the most good. NO
doubt, next season Cedar Rapids will
make a strenuous effort to keep this
danger at the minimum.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
Topics of the Times

Those voters at home are some re-
pealers themselves. And some of
them are ready to repeal certain GER
tificates of election.
MI. Bryan's Remington letter was
like the arrival OF an angry wife at
q beer party.
The Washington Democrat wants to
know why teachers should be pen
stoned more than doctors and lawyers
Well, for one thing there's a difference
between the fees. Far as that is con-
cerned why should man feel under
any obligations to his wife's sister
after she has taken care of his chill
dren twenty-five years any more than
to the laundryman?
If any person were to say that the
present house is Johnstonian don't
imagine the reference is to "Rare
Ben" or old Doctor Samuel or even
Hiram. 1t isn't. The reference is to
Twelve Foot"
Gardner Cowles would lose less than
the state anyway. He can stand it.
The recent election where party lines
have been in evidence can scarcely
be got by as Endorsements Of the ad-
ministration.
The Poster Advertising Company, of
the United States, successor to the
Associated Bill Posters Of the q. S. A..
will receive no more contracts from
manufacturers of spirituous liquors.
at is getting so that money will not
buy friends to whisky.
II a good excuse is needed instead of
fining the colored boy who takes the
tip why not sting the person who offers
it. That would give the anti tipster
a good excuse to keep his two bits.
Notice that the volley firing at Cliff
ford Thorne has ceased and the only
shots are those Of an occasional
sniper?
It does seem rather inconsistent to
ship shells from one Christian nation
to another to be used in tearing the
life out of the Christian soldiers OF
another Christian nation-but we prob
ably need the money
This is the time Of year when every
farmer is an optiimst. Along in May
he will be talking gloomiiy OF re-
planting, after the harvest he will
! tell Of the thirteen acre oats field that
thrashed out ninety-five bushels to the
acre machine measure and then viii
| go into pessimistic quarters again over
the corn crop. But he'll build bigger
corn cribs next fall and buy new
eight cylinder next spring just the
same.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
MICE. MATCHES AND FIRE.
lDoS MoinaS canifal.l


Rats, mice and matches have long
been considered source of fires. An
investigator, however. after extensive
experiment, reports. in Safety En-
gineering, that there is no real foun-
dation for the popular plea. A large
number of rats We're caught at differ
ent times and confined In cages with
the ends open for observation. Matches
were then placed in the cages. but no
food, and the rats were left In a quiet
spot in a cellar. In every case the
animals starved 10 death or ate their
companions Not a match head or
splint was gnawed. The matches
were well seasoned and Of different
varieties from the strike on the-box
to the double tip and the common par
lor match. A second series Of tests
was conducted in a cage measuring
more than six feet square. The re-
suits were the same.
In all cases the rats were without
food from two to three days, then the
matches were introduced and the rats
died from starvation within one to f1ve
days after. Like experiments were
conducted with mice and the same re-
suits obtained. the mice being hungry
from two to three days, then the
matches were introduced and death
followed in one to five days. In the
larger cages the rats were fed Tor per-
iods varying from twenty to forty-four
days in order to permit the animals TO
become accustomed to their surround
ings and act normally. A greater var
iety OF match was used in this test.
The rats were imprisoned together IN
this case and many were gnawed and
eaten by their companions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
the obstacles that check. and loves the
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world in spite Of itself.
1t becomes the breath OF the nos
trils to the real Newspaper and news
paper man. 1t deals with every phase
of life, it carries the earliest news.
offers opinion. praises and blames, as
sumes the attributes Of Olympus. The
newspaper man delves into life as a
surgeon explores the recesses Of the
| body. He konws it as 1t Is. He stands
behind the scenes Of the stage where
| we strut and parade before our neigh
bors. The secrets Of a hundred families
are his and he helps keep them unless
they pass the boundary between pri-
ivacy and that publicity that OF right
belongs to the public. Down in the
morgues OF newspapers old scandals
gibber and shameful secrets strive to
spring forth like the frightful little
! figures from the toy boxes. Back in
the files are episodes recorded that
shocked the town. The man who
makes up the copy for Twenty
Years Ago moves in catacomb Of old
skeletons. He shuts them back in their
graves and goes on bringing sweet and
suitable memories, and his gravest Of
tense is that he sometimes adds again
to feminine record those ten years
she dropped when she came to be so.
There is place in newspapering for
the young fellows who are coming on
to the day shift as their elders depart
toward the might side" place and
greater opportunity, If they will take
themselves and their work seriously
and with purpose. When the mail
routes were established it was as tho
publicity had discovered a new hemi-
sphere. We have been making history
faster than we can assimilate it. op-
portunty faster than we are able to
recognize. The farthest outlying farm
is within a half hour Of the court
house, the remotest township has be-
come a community Of world citizens in
daily touch with the four quarters of
tlle edIlu. Inc ClaQCe ana the IeSpOn-
sibility Of the press have multiplied,
not the great metropolitan" paper but
the home paper. And it has come to
pass that those great metropolitan
dailies" do not exert 80 great an in
fluence upon Individual, state and ma
tional character IS honestly edited,
purposeful newspapers Of the interior.
1t is true that standards Of manhood
and ideals Of government are more en-
duringly' taught by minor newspapers
and journals of minor towns and cities
where unnoted men serve their COM
munities in sincerity.
So there is young mans oppor-
tunity in newspap ering, an opportunity
and a need. Nowhere else are strong
men with strong convictions and the
courage Of them needed more, not
necessarily crusaders but men Of mind
and conscience who put patriotism
above the favor of the mob or the pur-
chasing power of special interests. For
upon the press and the schools and the
organized forces OF religion lies the
burden OF the most important period
of development in the history OF the
world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
SOUTH SIOUX DRY. TOO.

lS1OuA lily JOuEildi.J RI
South Sioux City's decision to go
dry without waiting for its big neigh
Dor to set the example is significant
Of the odds against which the saloon
must contend hereafter, even under
seemingly favorable conditions.
When the Iowa legislature set Jan.
1, 1915 as the date for drying up Sioux
City, no time was lost In indicating to
the suburb on the Nebraska side OF the
Missouri how it might profit by the
situation. BY permitting itself to be-
come the headquarters for Sioux City
trade in wet goods. both at retail ana
wholesale, it was pointed out, Sioux
City might raise enough revenue from
liquor licenses to defray all expenses
OF the village government without inn
posing cent of direct taxation. Even
il the traffic were held within rela-
lively narrow bounds, 1t was sug-
gested, sufficient revenue could be de-
rived from it to make many needed
improvements which otherwise must
be neglected.
These arguments were used for all
they were worth in the late local op-
ton campaign, without overcoming
South Sioux City's natural reluctance
to tolerate even a mild imitation OF the
undesirable conditions existing on the
Nebraska side Of the river during
Sioux City's first experiences with pro-
hibition.
South Sioux City is not only to 80
dry, but it is going to go dry eignt
months in advance OF the beginning
OF the drought in Sioux City. It 10 go
ing to put up with the loss OF saloon
revenue and perhaps some loss In trade
in the meantime rather than give the
saloon start in South Sioux City
with Sioux City dry.
The voters Of South Sioux City must
be credited with the courage OF theii
convictions. They must be credited
also with having made a material con-
tribution to the ease Of the task will
| which the law enforcement authoritlef
on the Iowa side will be confrontec
after Jan. !, 1916.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10


nature, which are expressive 70 mAln.
tain and attract NV etudonta They
40 Il because of the tendency to judy
schools BY their elaboration oe courses
Agricultural schools offer electives from
archaeology to Yiddish.
A year or two ago, The Herald re-
ceived publicity story from, an Iowa
institution telling OF the great demand
for graduates Of tho department Of
ceramics. It said the college couldnt
keep up with the offers of positions.
Reference to the ofllcial records OF the
board OF education disclosed the fact
that only two people had graduated In
ceramics since the course was Installed.
and the average number of students In
each Of the four years Of instruction
was one and half. This was at the
agricultural college. Ceramics. be II
known. u the art Of baking mud. and
the state has built a $4,000 building
for 1t.
At the University Of Iowa. o college
Of homeopathic medicine Is maintained.
The Herald isn't slurring homeopathy.
but the college hasn't over a dozen stu
dents, unless 1t has grown very recent
ly, and az a state business proposition
it is in the ceramics class.
Many people believe that duplication
OF colleges and departments increases
expense. But it doesn't-except when
elective studies are multiplied ad In
finitum. All work in the state educa-
tional institutions demanding a wide
variety Of elective studies should be
concentrated in one place, and In that
place courses should be eliminated
which have not enough students to keep
down the cost.
1t isn't duplication Of schools which
makes education expensive. for Wiscon-
sin has only one state school. and the
cost per student 10 TAR higher than in
Iowa. It u small classes that swell tho
cost and small glasses are produced by
the multiplication Of elective courses.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
cause Of BAD Manners.

Pride. I'll nature, and want Of sense
ere the three great sources Of i'll man
esss; without one of these defects no
IAN will behave himself i'll for want OF
experience Of what in the language OF
tools IL called knowing the world
Dan swift
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
IOWA opiN,on AND \ drGs.

"Thoss patriots MO ifvs hear the
Minnesota. NepraSka and Illinois
boundaries viii have near bear any
way. even II the legislative bill only
missed by . near majority" says the
Mason City Globe Gazette.
The Castana Times wonder what
there will be left for the next legts-
lature to do after this one gets thru.
Well" replies the Sioux City Jour
nal. lone thing 1t probably will do Will
be to consider bills to establish the
Torrens title system and to regulate
private banks and then kill them. As
has practically every other legislature
for considerable period Of years.
Goodness knows why
All prize fighters look alike to the
Webster City Freeman-Tribune and
Jack Johnson is as good as any OF
them.
about all that the liquor men can
90 legally now is 10 dream about the
past" says the Burlington Hawkeye.
IF instead Of pruning the already
meager state ievies some effort was d.
recteo at more efficient county man
agement the taxpayers might be saved
large sums Of money suggests the
Cedar Falls Record.
The Oelwein Register thinks Its a
pious plan not to kick on legislator
because he does not vote and line up
Just to suit you. II he did 1t is possi-
Bile that he would be warming his shfns
ISex tn
setad of occupying leather uphol-
stored chair In one of the halls OF the
general assembly"
Boost your home city by buying in
it. and help develop the country by
using as much home grown products
as possible" says the Oska,oosa Her
aid. Town and country should work
hand in hand"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
.MULT1PLIcITY MAD"
ICIinton Herald.1

Institutions of higher learning are
going multiplicity mad HRiyersittes
vie with each other in padding the
calendar with courses Of specialized
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATION


Marshall Lodge. No. 10S A +. & A. M,
Regular meeting Friday, April l6. John
w. Wells, secretary; w. II. Steiner,
w. NJ.
siGNEr CHAPTER. No. So. R. A. NJ.
Regular convocation Monday, April is'
L. S. kilborn, H. P: John w. Weiis'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No 20, r. & s. Al. MonoaS
after the third Sunday. 1. /. forpes'
recorder: George Gregory, I. l. al.
REGULAR coNcLAvE. St. Aldemar
commandery No. 80. x +" iuesuay
April 20 at 1880 o'clock Regular ous.-
meas. George Gregory. E. c.; N. ..
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central chap,
ter No. 81. 0. E. s., WEDNESDAY. Apr"
IA, D. m. Business. Anna LOWING -
secretary; Mary Black Collins. W. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10
with Proyisos.

wen, we'll tell You. George. frank
10. You can marry on $500 year.
1 -. Provided you have saved your
rs - yeas,s salary. and Likewise pro-
z s1AAA IN caYl get your next years sal
- = sdvancs.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10

The whales progress thru the water
IL limited to ten or twelve miles an
hour
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10

DO legally now is 10 dream about the
past" says the Burlington Hawkeye.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10

All prize fighters look alike to the
Webster City Freeman-Tribune and
Jack Johnson is as good as any OF
them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-10

Those voters at home are some re-
pealers themselves. And some of
them are ready to repeal certain GER
tificates of election.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
PLAYLET
NETS $40

More than $40 was Melted in
the Jefferson Parent-Teachers
entertainment held Friday even
ing In the school building, in
which the comedy playlet "Cin-
derella" was featured.
Andrew Mcpherson spoke to
the parents urging a close CO.
operation between the parents
and teachers. Mrs. O.G. GIL
more. who arranged the music
for the entertainment, pleased
the audience with several vocal
selections.
The entertainment was free.
The money was made through
the sale of candy, ice cream and
cake. 1t will be spent in pur-
chasing reference books for the
school library.
Those who took part In the
play were: Florence Rawlings.
I4svflla Cutler, Margaret Raw
ings, Helen johnson, Helen Me-
Farland. Francis Manning, Stan
ley Olson and Corydon Chantle-.
About 500 persons saw the
performance.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
STAGE Fright
COSTS TIGERS
CHAMPioNSHIP

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. u.s.
Apparently developing stage
fright, after playing stellar ball
In the opening game Friday, the
South Tacoma Tigers were
trounced badly Saturday and Sun
day by the Cleveland White
Autos. losing all chances for the
worlds championship.
The Cleveland team is now the
amateur baseball champion team
OF the world. 1t will hold that
title until October, 1916, when
the next championship series is
staged.
Yesterdays game was frightful,
from the standpoint of the Tig-
ers. The final score of Is to 3.
The Tigers's star pitcher was
knocked out of the box after be-
ing hit eight times in three in
nings for nine runs, and the Tiger
infield and outfield made nine
fat errors during the game.
Stage fright must have been the
cause. There was a big crowd
out to see both the Saturday and
Sunday games. The Tigers sim
ply couldn't see the ball, and the
pitchers apparently couldn't
serve up a thing that Cleveland
wasn't ready for. The fielding
was SO bad that the fans began
to applaud whenever Jensen or
Shager, the principal offenders.
really hung on to ball.
Cleveland won Saturdays game
by Ginning all over Davis in the
seventh. for total of eight runs.
The final score was so.
Yesterday, however, the hitting
began early. Two singles, sew
eral walks. and a home run In
the first brought over six tallies
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
COAST
LEAGUE
CLOSES

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. U.s.
With probably one of the most
uninteresting and least patron
lied seasons in the history of the
circuit, six teams of the Pacific
Coast league called "enuf" yes
terday, and the 1915 season came
to an end. The Coast league Is
the last big league to cease play.
San Francisco, with a comfort
able margin through nearly the
whole summer, came out winner.
Salt Lake was second, and Los
Angeles, who made a bid for first
place during a lively squirt dur
ing the middle of the season,
found itself far down in the col
umn.
Portland, cellar champions
since the season opened, proved
a sore disappointment. The team
showed no brilliancy, and ad-
mittedly deserved its tail-end po-
sition.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25

INTEREST
GROWING

High school soccer interest is
Increasing by leaps and bounds.
4 mass meeting Friday at the
Lincoln Park high school saw the
creation of two new teams under
the supervision of Supervisor
Kelly.
These teams will practice
among themselves and nearby
grammar teams until they have
developed sufficient team work to
tackle the Stadium soccerites.
At Stadium the game il pro-
crossing smoothly. The two
teams are playing nightly at
Wright park. There is nearly
two months yet of soccer weather.
During this time 1t is expected
most OF the soccer teams in the
city will be met.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
INCREASE STAKES; BIG
RACES HERE AUGUST 5

One days racing, with larger
field than ever, and purse nj
most double In size that of last
year, will be the feature next
summer of the Tacoma Speed
ways annual speed contests.
Secretary George Dunn of the
Speedway association returned
last night from a meeting OF auto
race track men in New York. Ia
coma has been given Aug s as
its race date, and there will be
no other motor race in tae Unit
ed States within five weeks of
that date.
The Montsmarathon and Pot
latch trophy races will be run
together, on the afternoon of
Aug. 5. The Intercity race will
probably be staged in the morn
ing of the same day.
The fact that other speed ways
in the United States are cutting
down prize lists, and chopping
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
CHIMES TO RING
OUT TEAMS FATE

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Oct. 25.-At the suggestion of
the president, the outcome of the
athletic contests in which the
University of Washington partic-
ipates will be heralded by the
chimes.
II the varsity is victorious,
Alma Mater will be played. The
score will be indicated by tolling
Washington's score on the low
toned bell and the enemy's
score on the high.
Home, Sweet Home, was judged
fitting to dissolve the under
grads in tears In the event OF
defeat.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
IF BILLIARDS interfere With
BUSINESS, QUIT, SAYS CUE CHAMP

am staggered when I think of the
time l have given to the game.
Suppose l had given a fair share
OF that time to business, how
much better off l might be-"
Huey is the first business man
to win a big cue title. 1t has al
ways been claimed a man couldn't
excel with the cue unless he de-
voted all his time to 1t. That
makes the feat of Huey, head of
business concern, all the more
remarkable.
L will say this for billiards"
remarks the new champion, "tlle
training man gets with the ccue
helps equip him for business. II
trains the eye, arms and fingers.
II is helpful recreation, ehe
kind every business man needs.
But 1t should not be allowed to
monopolize ones attention"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
200 Get Jobs

More than 200 Tacoma high
school students have obtained
work through the employment
agency conducted under the di.
rection of w. l.. Edwards. and
500 more are available.
The work done by the students
ranged from piling wood to wash
ing dishes and is guaranteed TO
be first class. Any number CT
girls are doing household work
evenings and week ends.
Circular letters are sent to the
business men of the city with
the names of the students want
ing work.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
LOCHBURN TEAM
WHIPSLAKESIDE.

Golfers of the Lochburn course,
inside the Tacoma Speedway,
showed their supremacy at the
game yesterday by defeating q
picked team of Lakeside Country
club golfers by the score of 40
to Z. Only two Lakesiders, j. e.
Burkey and James p. Hughes,
won their matches. Scoring was
counted with one point for each
nine and one point for match.
The game was played on Loeb
burns links. Twenty pair OF
players competed.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
PRINCIPAL
LIVE ONE

Principal Rodgers. of the JEFF
ferson school, Is to be the good
samaritan of football circles in
the Jefferson school district.
There are a number of boys
who hang around his school vino
are not attending.
They watch the practice of the
Jefferson teams with envy. Prin-
cipal Rodgers has consented to
manage a team, If the boys will
organize. and get them games
with other soccer aggregations.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
HE'LL ROOT AGIN'
HIS OWN BROTHER

UNIVERSITY OF WASHING
TON. Oct. 25.-Ernest Walter, of
Denver. star varsity broad jump
er, will be drawn and CHARTERED
emotionally Thanksgiving dag.
He will have to sit In the bleach
ers and cheer when his brothers
nose is rubbed In the mud on
Denny Field.
Frederic Walter, better known
In Denver as Tank" is a men,
Der Of the University of Colorado
team, which will meet Washing
ton on the gridiron.
Tank" is left halfback, and
has twice made the All-Rocky
mountain mythical eleven.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
BLACK DIAMOND
TEAM BEATEN

Showing marked superiority
over their opponents at all stages
of the game, the Tacoma associa-
tion football squad yesterday aft
ernoon trimmed the Black Dia-
mond Miners by a score of 9 to
1. The game was played at Ath-
letic park.
Tacoma scored a few moments
after the first whistle blew, and
from then onthe game was never
in doubt. Clever passing by Mar
tin, Gibson and Stevenson Tea
tured the Tacoma teams play.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1915-10-25
SCHOOL NOTES
Worst Team In Years.
Says Melancholy Dobie

SEATTLE. Oct. 25.-"It's the
worst team we have had In years.
Yesterdays game was far from
satisfactory"
6uoh was the cheerful verdict
Of Coach Gilmore Dobie, who re-
turned from Spokane last night
after the washington eleven de-
feated Gonzaga college 81 to 7