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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
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Times-Republican: In its first I'VE
days the Panama Pacific International
Exposition surpassed by $4,000 the total
attendance OF the Worlds Columbian
Exposition In Chicago for Its first two
weeks. the total attendance here being
50S,S6s. This in spite OF the fact that
every day except the opening day has
been stormy. and even on opening day
there were hurries of rain up to IL a.
m. San Francisco is having more rain
than usual for this time of year.
The exposition opened on Saturday,
the goth with the greatest throng,
believe, 1t has ever been my lot to see.
in the same space. The opening cere-
monies were conducted from an inn
mense temporary grandstand erected
in front OF the tower OF jewels.
Promptly at noon President Wilson
pressed a button, in washington, D. c.,
that communicated a signal direct to
this grand stand. and on the instant
banners and flags We're unfurled. foun-
tains began to play, the doors of the
exposition palaces We're thrown open,
machinery was started, and the spiel
ers on the Joy Zone began their bark
ing. There were over 100000 present
that day, not counting passes.
For area, size of buildings, and
classical grandeur, this exposition can
not be compared to the Chicago fair,
nor to the st. Louis, but for quality
and sheer beauty of grounds and build
ings and setting, the others pale be-
fore 1t in the daytime, and at night one
stands wondering and almost unbeliev-
ing that anything so supremacy beau
tiful as the tower of jewels can have
been made by the hand of man. 1t
looks like a monster diamond-studded
frosted tower, made to adorn a we'd
ding cake. It is peculiar how 1t takes
on this appearance at night, for in the
daytime, it is composed Of orange,
browns. reds and blues. but still so
much like candy that a market street
candy store has placed candy model
of it in the window At night the only
color is a red interior, as though the
tower were on fire inside. It is I'M
earthly. heard lady remark, TT is
Paradise" referring to the entire
place; and she was not far wrong, be-
cause without an exhibit in them. the
buildings and grounds would be well
worth a trip across the United States
to see.
At San Pedro. in 1908, saw sixteen
battleships playing all their search
lights simultaneously. 1t was a
wonderful sight. but never before in
the history of the world have search
lights competed favorably with a grand
display of the northern lights. If one
did not know that in addition TO the al
most innumerable search lights con-
cealed thruopt the grounds there is a
battery of forty eight Of them out on
the water front, of ever changing
colors. one would think of the Aurora
Borealis had moved around to the west
and was playing high jinks' with it
self
The fair opened on schedule time and
practically all the work to be done by
the exposition company itself is COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
Topics of the Times

Why send the drunken autoist to
Jail and smite the speed maniac who
hasn't even the excuse of drunkenness
on the wrist with a feather? Why not
pile the whole kit and boiling into Jail
together? 1t doesn't make great deal
of difference in the hospital whether
the auto was driven by a fool or a
drunkard.
After talking around among 'em
Clarkson seems to be about as strong
much stronger as a general principle
in Iowa.
Some newspapers not especially
friendly toward Cosson are wondering
whether he would enforce the law
rigidly If he were running for COVER
nor. From the gossip going on anent
governorship candidates it begins TO
look as tho all the questioners need
is to wait in order to be satisfied.
This argument that women will vote
precisely as their husbands do doesn't
appeal to married men who have long
passed the honeymoon stage
Somehow the idea of starving wom
en- and children doesn't strike the peo-
pie of the United States just right.
German children get just as hungry as
Belgian babies, don't they!
Senator Cummins seems to be pretty
we'll received as a possible presidential
candidate not only in but out Of
Iowa.
Reaction on the good roads question
is one way to set Iowa back ten
years.
Calling four district sheriffs a state
constabulary'' is very much like speak
ing of country constable as a police
force.
Funny thing isn't it when Sioux City
points with pride to the fact that
George F. Rhinehart. who put Arizona
in the dry list and is now preparing
to create the same drouth in Chicago
was formerly Of Sioux City?" Gee,
how times change up in the northwest
part Of the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
n. time of the 4Iaymarket as.assina-

the time of the Haymarket assassina-
ton Of policemen by q bomb. An
archists and bombs and plots that rami-
fed into all classes and included the
family servants were common talk and
fright and expectation went hand in
hand Some Of it was true. most OF It
manufactured. There was a group OF
half mad men who talked anarchy on
the streets and from whom other de-
generates caught the spirit of murder
One of those threw the bomb. One Of
them later blew his head off in Jail
with dynamite cap. Others guilty
mainly Of talk and threats were
hanged. Nobody regretted their TAX
ing off. But so far as any ramified
plot which spread thru the city and
included any number Of persons no
such thing existed and half the bombs
found during that reign Of terror were
probably planted by those who found
them.
There are not many anarchists In the
United States, dangerous men who
counsel assassination and urge murder
and robbery. At that there are too
many. We have overplayed the poll
teal refuge idea and permitted many
persons to land and live in America
whose right to live anywhere is open
to question. II the New York Incl
dent brings on sweeping investiga-
ton of anarchist groups" of all varie-
ties and results in the deportation of
certain political refugees" with whom
their governments they fed from will
know precisely what to do it will
have been of more good than harm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
"Don'r BE A CLAM"

The members of the legislature who
are standing in the path of good roads
legislation are making mistake for
themselves and for those they repre-
sent. Iowa is not reactionary in any
way, least of all in business way. And
good roads are business.
There is no desire to force good
roads upon counties and communities
that do not want them or imagine they
do not want them. There is necessity
for legislation that will permit those
who desire good roads to make a start
building them.
That is about all that has been con-
templated by the good roads forces in
the assembly and all that has been
asked for. There is r OF the slightest
reason or excuse for any legislator re-
fusing to put the decision up to the
people themselves. If county or a
district in this state desires to build a
permanent road or roads it should have
not only the permission 1T Graves in
law but the encouragement of the state
thru percentage of state aid.
Some communities, perhaps many,
Imagine they do not want permanent
roads. These same communities with
in few years will regret that they de-
layed getting into the game early. We
are going to build good roads simply
because we must as we purchase modern
equipment in our factories and as we
improve the farms by better houses and
provide labor saving machinery. The
permanent road is a certainty. It is on
the way as the telephone and the mail
route came into Iowa not without moss
back opposition a few years ago.
Don't crowd good roads those who
refuse them: but as matter of good
business sense and progress give those
who desire them power to build them.
Don't be a clam.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
I0WA'S WORST ENEMY.

The Iowa Club, m orsa nization of
teachers for the purpose of studying
farm conditions especially II relation
10 rural schools finds that the number
of farms is decrea sing and the size
Of farms increasing IN Iowa; that the
average farm ten years ago was of Isl
acres, in 1910 155 acres and in 1913
162 acres. While the size Of the farms
is thus increasing tenant farming is
also rapidly increa sing so much so in
proportion to the owners who work
their own farms that in six counties
in the state more than ons-haf the
point out that their task is multiplied
by a shifting population of school
children, that effo..,s looking to COM
munity centers and good roads and
country churches and other community
affairs are minimized in effect because
of a population which shifts from one
farm and one district and one township
TO another annually.
Those are some of the charges
brought thus indirectly against the
short lease system which is in vogue in
Iowa to the vast detriment Of the state.
Imagine the conditions Of the farm
lands Of those six counties referred to
by the teachers club after twenty
years Of farm SHINING have had their
logical and inevitable effect. If the
land owner can reconcile himself to
poor schools and bad roads and lack of
churches if he has neither pride nor
sympathy with the neighborhood in
which his holdings les it is hard to
understand how he can deliberately
depreciate the value of his farm lands.
For year of SHINING requires year
of rehabilitation. Nature never fails
to collect all her fines.
The short lease is the secret OF all
the trouble. Long term leases would
abolish practically all Of which the
Iowa Club makes complaint except the
gradual absorption Of small farms by
large owners and the absence Of the
owner himself However under the
long lease the ownership Of the farm
would not particularly affect the COM
munity except as to farm improve
ments. The community would De
standardized as regards the schools
and the churches and community CEN
tiers.
The short lease IS at the bottom OF
most of Iowa's rural -roubies today. 1t
is costing land owners and tenants and
the state at large more tnan hog chol-
era and foot and mouth disease and
the catalog houses put together
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

pleted, with the exception Of . few
walks and gardens: but some OF the
nations and states are . little behind.
The exhibits of Italy and France are
yet on the ocean, Those OF Germany
and Austria likewise. are not yet
started.
/ gColorado's building still consists Of
only sign. Iowa's building II finished,
but the grounds are still untouched.
This section Of the exposition will look
Infinitely better in six weeks or two
months, when the lawns are developed.
So would say to wait until April l,
before coming to the fair.
I registered at tho Iowa building
along with about $500 others on open
ing day. l learned something; the
lady In charge said, From Marshall
town? You ought to be proud of Your
town; one OF our greatest men was
born there" asked who that was
and she replied, Admiral Fletcher"
1t was not for me to dispute tine glory
OF Marshalltown, though I always had
the impression, CLEANED somewhere,
that the F1etchers hailed from around
Oskaloosa originally.
A short time ago you printed some
prices of eatables from Pasadena, so
1 send you some prices from San
Francisco, that will, think demon
strate that, meat eaters can subsist
much more cheaply here in San Fran
cisco than in Marshalltown:
Some places some times, charge 20
cents for all classes of steaks and
sometimes raise porterhouse to pm
cents; and IT bone" is always %
cents. Vegetables are usually fairly
cheap also. except when some grocer
tries to make the price Of square
meal off 1o-cent sale Of onions. T
know one produce market that sells
four punches of radishes, fifteen in a
bunch. the year round for cents; and
from two or three heads Of fine lettuce
for nickel E. Morris Vail
San Francisco, Cal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
Just Getting Along.

Several girls managed IS wage by
sacrificing all recreation.
ooh, I just sit at home in the eve
ming and worry about what will be-
come of the family if can't earn more
than IS a week. replied Polish fac
tory girl when asked what pleasure her
wage allowed her. Her father is a
plumber by trade and when all goes
well can earn So or $40 a week. but
many are the weeks when all does not
go well. Last year. when this 1s-year-
old girl was sick with typhoid fever
and out of work for four months, the
Charity Organization Society had to
aid the family.
And oh, how ] hated that" she said.
Five dollars doesn't seem very much
when I'm feeding $4,000 boxes to a ma
chine every day-but when I don't get
it at all. 1t seems like a fortune
In many cases this total sacrifice OF
any legitimate pleasure seemed
especially disastrous, because girls
were carrying a heavy burden Of
anxiety, in addition to their work, and
needed wholesome amusement.-Esther
Packard, in the Survey. -. -. -. ;.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

Marshall Lodge, No los A. F. & A NJ,
Wednesday, March 8. Work In thlra
degree John w. Wells, secretary; W.
H. Steiner w. NJ.
STATED coNvocATioN, signet
Chapter, No. IS. R. A. Nj. School ol
instruction March Is, conducted oy
Cd. Custodian Charles c. Shrader. l..
S. kilborn. n. F.; John w. Wells Kec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20. R & s. N. Monday aite
the third Sunday. L T. Forbes recofoef'
George Gregory. T. L NJ.
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80, K. T., IuesoaS'
March % at $50 o'clock. Regular ousl-
ness. George Gregory, E. C.; M .
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. ST, O. E. s.. Wednesday AaFch
II, 1880 p. m. Anna Downing, secre-
tary; Mary Black Collins. w. M.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
CHAPTER ~.

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and the great valley Of the San Joe'
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home OF the Wild horse There sse
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

The Clinton Herald thinks "t1e state
highway commission needs fixing, but
ought not be abolished"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

"The liquor question should not be in
politics. and the only way to get it out
is to do away with liquor" asserts the
Knoxville Express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

The Mason City Globe Gazette adj
vises: Let us endure much in prefer
ence to getting embroiled in the Eu-
ropean struggle"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

1--WE would like to see the color Of a
corporations hair that would stand for
some Of the stunts that ara being pulled
off at the expense OF the public" ex-
claims the Hartley Sentinel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

"A few years ago railroads said leg
islatures were not capable of passing
on such technical questions as rates,
a subject understood only by railroad
experts" notes the Sioux City Tribune.
and inquiries have legislatures i'm
proved their technical knowledge of
railroad rates since then to such
marked degree that they are now fully
qualified TO advance rates without hav-
ing a single bit of data offered show
ing the necessity of such advance"
The Logan Observer says: Let's
have law enforcement in Iowa, even
untr the prohibitory law. There are
few more laws proposed at Des
Moines that are going to make it
rather dangerous to engage in the
bootlegging business, if they are
passed"
February with its two legal holt
days long has been one Of the saddest
month"; of the year for the Iowa sa-
loonkeeper, but February, 1915, will go
down in his records as the saddest
month in history" says the Sioux City
Journal.
with Reed and Meredith out of 1t
two figures stand out conspicuously as
suitable to succeed to the vacant COM
mittee place, one, w. w. Marsh. OF
Waterloo, and the other, DR.. j. w.
Reynolds, of Creston, chairman Of the
state central committee" says the
Fort Dodge Chronicle, referring to
Wades successor. Owing to BUSH
ness interests of the most absorbing
and important character it is not like
ly that Mr. Marsh would be willing to
charge himself with these responsible
tiles; and in this event the field mar
rows. as The Chronicle sees it. to the
brilliant Crestonian who now stands at
the head Of the state organization"
1--WE would like to see the color Of a
corporations hair that would stand for
some Of the stunts that ara being pulled
off at the expense OF the public ex-
claims the Hartley Sentinel.
The Mason City Globe Gazette adj
vises: Let us endure much in prefer
ence to getting embroiled in the Eu-
ropean struggle"
The Clinton Herald thinks "tfe state
highway commission needs fixing, but
| ought not be abolished"
1.-THE liquor question should not be in
politics. and the only way to get 1t out
is to do away with liquor asserts the
KnoYvil1a ExnresS
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-03

0eubls laess oF Understanding.
&c half of the world, dissatisfied
"a what 'it has, can't understand
- ~ oGAse half can be dissatisfied
- vhae Z haaat
The labor advocate. [volume] (Cincinnati, Ohio) 1912-1937, 1915-09-04
Brotherhood Of Painters, Paperhangers
and Decorators Of America.
District Council.

Meets every Monday at S. E. cor Ninth and
Plum.
President, ]. Smith.
Financial Secretary, ]. C. Kunzelman, 2ll5
Ailanthus.
Corresponding Secretary, Oscar Matthews
92l W. Ninth St
business Agents, Phil Gasdorf and Samuel
Kelly, 90 4, Twelfth st. Phone Canal
1860
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LOCALS AFFILIATED.

LOCALS AFFILIATED.
Local No. $50.
Meets 1st and Sd Wednesdays at Warsaw
ave. and Wells, Price Hill.
President, VIM. Hinton.
Secretary, c. E. Simonson, 1924 Warsaw av.
Local Union No. so.
Meets every Friday at S. e. cor. Ninth and
Plum SITS.
President II. II. Siekmann.
Secretary, +. G. Hummcl s17 Gest st.
Local Union No. 3OS.
Meets every Wednesday at Central Turner
Hall.
President Vincent Doty.
Secretary, Edw Hammond
Local Union No. 13 (Fresco
Painters).
Meets 1st and Sd Saturdays at 1929 Vine st.
President, John Marischen.
Secretary, o. Biester, s37 Armory ave.
Local Union No. 224 (Sign Writers)
Meets ed and 4th Fridays at Odd Fellows
Temple.
President, VIM. Pott.
Secretary, f. L. Trenary, 24s4 Seegar ave.
Local No. 3s7 (Glaziers).
Meets every Tuesday at Central Turner Hall.
President, Oscar Sunker.
Secretary, Al Feldman Central Turner Hall.
Local Union No. 251 (Newport)
Meets every Tuesday at H. W. cor. Tenth and
Ann sts., Newport.
President, Walter NJ. Byram.
Charles Brauch, 331 w. Eighth ST., New
port, Ky.
Local Union No. 23S (COvingtOn).
Meets every Thursday at Workmen's Hall,
122 Pike ST., Covington.
President, John H. Moorman.
Secretary, James A. Smith, 1888 Wheeler
ST., Covington, Ky.
Local Union No. $50 paper
Hangers).
Meets every Friday at sO2 Main ST.
President, Oscar Matthews
Secretary, Alex Young sO2 Main ST.
hardwood Finishers' Union No. S36
Meets 1st and Sd Wednesdays at Central
Turner Hall, l4O7 Walnut St.
Secretary, Fred J. Dreyer, 1880 Clifton ave.