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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-11-10
SONG POETS LURED
BY BAIT OF PRAISE
Girl Clerk Describes Stamp
Letters Used by Accused
Publisher.
OMAHA BARD TO TESTIFY

John r. Newcomer, alias John 7. Hall.
composer OF ""rhe Wedding of the
Winds waltz and head Of the John II.
Hall Music Publishing Company. used
to melt his girl employees to tears every
now and then by playing enc Of his own
selections for them. The Government.
however. does no. take genius into con-
sideration when Il attempts TO enforce
It's postal laws. and Hail. as he Is known
In the musical world, Is now on trial be-
fore Judge Rufus T.. Foster IN the
United States District Court charged
with using the mails 20 defraud song
poets vino paid him to set their verse TO
music and publish II.
a group of Halls sirl clerks gathered
outside of the court room yesterday. and
whilo waiting TO be called as witnesses
discussed their employers p~redlcament
In indignant tones
"1f no could only play the piano IN
court I'm sure the Jury would acqu!t
him. declared Miss Anna Cohen, her
brown eyes flashing. you Just ought
to ave heard him play for us slrls.
Why tiicro wasn't n dry eve among us
I'm not ashamed to cay that I wopt from
! sheer emotion, and 90 did the Others"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
DON'T BE A SUCKER.

Persons are being approached by
western loan, savings and investment
society" which is promising huge re-
turns. Among the instances quoted in
the advertising matter are those which
show how one man got returns of 800
on d 800 Investment" how another
dre" down IN one year 500 per cent on
his and so On. Without any manner
Of doubt it is finding investors" The
snoothness with which the proposition
is put and the natural greed of the in
vestor" meet and bring results
But nobody in Marshalltown or Mar
shall county will bite on such a propo-
sition? Think so? Ask the banker.
He'll tell you that the best part Of a
half million year goes out OF this
county never TO come back on PROPOSE
tons which are dead open and shu.
swindles. If the man at the money
order counter Of the postoffice were
permitted to tell he'd tell tales that
would open your eyes. The suckers
are not all dead by any means. II one
is horn every minute not more than
one in FIVE minutes dies. So the num-
Der grows.
Listen: There's nobody gives some
thing for nothing. You don't. On the
contrary: if you are listening to any
of the shark propositions that promise
you cent per cent you are try
ing to get something for nothing. That
also is the sharks game. But he knows
it. You don't.
| If you have a little money put it into
some safe investment at home. There
are many such: but they don't pay
100 per cent or 20 per cent. AS a mar
who has been investing and loanins
money all his life said the other day;
Six per cent all the time is goot
enough" It's safe. Ask your banke
about investment. See the building
and loan people. Don't be sucker
And when you receive one of thos
iforid propositions just send it to tn
Iportoffice department with reques
for information as to the reliability o
the schemers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29

proOasuns Of Our social order. Yet We
arc perfectly sure that part Of IT. In
fluence will be lost by the readiness
OF the writer to be what In q smaller
man would certainly be called 'smart.'
He urges ministers to &c on to their
Jobs; he patronizes Uncle Sam when
he refers to the government; churches
must get down to brass tacks; we muse
all quit our monkeying.
1T II all quite comparable to the
easy way OF a minister who calls out
to that bunch OF fellows in the gall
lery or in the back row to do this or
sing that. and who declares that at
the 'eatfest next Friday night we will
all have a corking good time.' and that
the trouble with christians Is that they
Will not get down on their marrow.
bones to God, and that he would rath-
or sec man giggle his way into hen
than whine his way into heaven-all
OF these, alas actual quotations. This
is what we mean by helping verbal in.
terlopers into good society. 1t 10 poor
business for one who is set to lead
his fellows into the high. true life OF
the sons OF God. Let his speech gath
er force and familiarity in some less
costly way"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
wa..rel Commemorative.

The multiplication OF Minnesota's
talents proceeds at rate that must
leave her sisters ruefully conscious OF
the saddest words of tongue or pen.
Her auditors pertinacity In discovering
that previous estimates of the public
land values We're all too low is nothing
less than an attempt to rub it in.
Last year the prediction was that
Minnesota, from her iron, timber and
farm lands. would ultimately have u
fund of $200,000,000; now it appears
that it will be still greater. and may
be much greater. Her iron lands this
year bring in q million: by 1920 they
should bring in four million. North and
South Dakota are abetting her. more
over. in the humiliation of the remain
der OF the west. Each Is likely TO have.
in the end, q fund Of above $4,000, 900
the one having 100000. the other
100000 acres.
In painful contrast Iowa has sold all
but 200 acres, and has S4,s00.000 to
show for It: Wisconsin has sold all but
10000. and has q debt; Michigan has
sold all. and has SIS. $780, 600; Illinois has
sold all, and has S1.200.o00. The orig
inal patrimony OF each OF these states
was from 100000 to 100000 acres.
Texas alone is an exception, with an
enormous area expected ultimately to
accumulate $S0,o0o.oo0 All these vast
rel commonwealth must now suffer
the spectacle OF Minnesota buying their
state bonds and batteUing on the in
terest.-New York Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
HE BARBER SHOP BILL.

Next in order If the bill passes is the
certiaca,ed and protected profession Of
tonsorialist A law is proposed pro-
yiding for the examination q BARRIERS
and regulation OF barber shops.
Whether degree will be given the
artists who pass the exams is rot
stated but they will have TO under
stand certain sanitary rules, and shops
where tools and towels ana such like
truck are in unsanitary condition will
be declared nuisances and .he.r pro-
prieJors VIII have to take up insur-
ance or real estate or some other
business that anybody can work at.
Probably that examination will in
clude wild hairs and their treat
rnent. surgical and medical elimination
Of blackheads and the Ike Supplies
when needed TO check excessive ex-
travasation and hemorrhage follow
ing the common trauma of the barber
shop, the principles of vibratory treat
ment and therapeutic effects OF the
different kind Of stuff IN the bottles on
the shelf before the mirror. a course
IN bacteriology, and a few other mat
tiers preventive and curative OF bar
ber's itch, ringworm and disease prop
| erly connected with tonsorial surgery
Long, long ago the BARRIERS were the
surgeons-that is they bled those who
needed phlebotomy and practiced
venesection along with the removal of
suparfiuous hair. This history may be
read IN the barber pole by hose who
understand the significance of the
mingled colors and their arrangement.
There are still BARRIERS 20 whom bleed
ing IS not unknown but they are much
more likely to be accused Of butcher!'
than Of surgery by their victims Blu.
once the BARRIERS were surgeons in a
way. Perhaps they are coming back
TO their high estate to claim their
own again.
So il may come 10 pass that we shall
see the ha-he-'s diploma hanging on
| the wall as we note that Of the physi-
clan, that il shall state in orotund Latin
certain allegations that ne has passed
with credit thru the collegium bar
berosis and is entitled to The degree
of doctor tonsorarium and is to be ad-
dressed as doc"
But if the profession attempts &c
take up and renew the old trade OF
bleeding-outside of that oloodless
bleeding that gets two bits for an ap-
plication Of hair renewer-the public
Will make some fuss. Such phlebotomy
as the barrier shall be permitted must
be restrained to those accidents which
occur the morning after me night be-
tf0re
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
BIRTHDAY OF EARLY SENATOR.
Augustus c. Dodge Succeeded in Spite
of Difficukias.

One hundred and three years ago.
on Jan. >, 1872, in the old French town
OF Sainte Genevieve. Missouri. occurred
the birth Of Augustus c. Dodge who
was one of the first two United States
senators from Iowa. Augustus Caesar
Dodge was the architect of his own
life" says DR.. Louis Pelzer in biog
raphy published by the state Historical
Society Of Iowa. From early youth
he had been accustomed 30 the sweat
on his brow. Working among the rude
frontier settlements he had lived
amidst their crudities and their mar
row prejudices as well as In their free
democratic spirit. He never enjoyed
even a course in the common schools.
to say nothing Of college education.
This lack Of early training he tried
later to remedy by persevering efforts
at study by reflection, and by an enor-
nous amount Of reading" And yet.
in spite OF these handicaps, Dodge be-
came at the age Of 2S the delegate to
congress from the territory of Iowa.
Later he was elected United States
senator and still later was appointed
United States minister to Spain. He
died on Nov. 90. 1883, and was buried
in Aspen Grove Cemetery in Burling-
tpp iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
THAT TEIIEPHONE SCHOOL.
rMasOn City 0lobe .Gaxette.1

Mason City 0lobe-Gaxette.l
1t is hoped that the squad has
chosen these i've cities at random, otn-
erwise it would be tough on Iowa Falls,
Washington ct al. to be listed -
the first places for Improvement along
with the Des Moines office. The squad
will find that they will have to teach
the force at our beloved capital city
more than politeness and quick man
ipulation of the plug and not the cord.
They will need to furnish the long ais
lance queens with a list of few OF
the prominent persons Of Des Moines.
For instance, it makes ones heart drop
like lead to put in a call for the gov
ernor of the state and to have the
answer come back, who is he" and
where will find him." or to furnish
an alibi that they know Of no such
person as Late Young or Harvey Ing
ham or Gardner Cowles. And Speaker
Atkinson-at what church or show
house does he speak and is he on the
Orpheum circuit. So let this new
extension school proceed and IL the
engineering department can't remedy
the lects, turn the job of the Des
Moines uplift over to the head Of the
department of journalism. He did
newspaper work there-the best brand
ever done in the capital city-and
will know how to tackle the delicate
job OF getting the names of the not
ed men of Des Moines, including our
former townsmen. Hon. Emery Eng
lish and Col. James McConologue on
the telephone girls calling list.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
STAY WHERE YOU ARE.
[Boone News Republican,


One of the most remarkable features
of the industrial situation is the num-
Der of cities which are advertising to
the world against an influx of work
ing men. Almost any paper you pick
up has an article stating that such
and such a place does not want any
more men, that it has already enough
of the unemployed. This is just the
opposite to what is usually the case
in this country. Cities are always
struggling for population and wanting
people to move into them. Today the
great struggle seems to be to keep out
the extra population. Even some of the
cities of usually prosperous Iowa are
sending out warnings against the in
fiux of men expecting work. There is
not work for them.
Therefore. the best thing for the un-
employed man at the present time Is to
stay where he is. The chances are that
his own home will furnish him en-
| ployment as quick as any other city. A
least he had better wait until there ].
a well authenticated call from SOM
other city. There lis a suspicion ever
that some of the cities which are over
stocked with idle men are startin,
stories of work in other cities to ge
rid OF them. This is not only inhumal
but repsehens!bie.
! Let US hope that this unusual stat
OF affairs will not last long. Indee,
there are indications that the presen
llull will soon be over and that wit
! spring, work will be plentiful agar
At any rate It 10 futile to be roamin
around In vain search OF better con
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
A Call For Pulpit Purists.

A plea for dignified speech in the
pulpit Is voiced briefly but emphati-
cally by the editor OF The Continent.
He is willing to admit that a minister
must be interesting, and that 1T Is
far better that souls be won by the
utmost cheapness OF speech than that
they should not be won" But, he de-
clares, religion is not the cheapest
part of man. and the appeal that
needs cheap phrasing can hardly be
the best or the necessary appeal.
That christian dignity which should
characterize all might well appear
first among ministers and with them
chiefly in the pulpit" SO the obvious
question arises:
Shall minister move along this
borderland of the language which
m otflers train their boys not to use?
Shall ne be colloquial when he stands
in his high place OF power and privi-
lege? There are some words which
are evidently trying to get into good
soc.ety-low-born words, cheaply con-
structed words: shall the minister be-
come their sponsor? Shall he not, on
the other hand. recognize the arlstoc-
racy of words and use In his pulpit
and even in his private speech the
words which have right in good YER
bal society?
There has recently come to hand q
book meant IN utmost seriousness by
an earnest man, dealing with grave
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
STICKING TO THE GAME.
fBurlington Hawkeye.1


a. S. Bailey. OF the Sentinel Post
stan at Shenandoah. celebrated the
S0th anniversary of his birth few
days ago. He is an old time printer
and still in the harness. How much
better, II a man has health and
strength, to keep on at some profession
or calling than to sit in the corner and
wait patiently for the final summons.
Here IS an old man who probably gets
more out of life than all the retired
farmers and business men in Shenan-
doah taken together. He is no doubt
proud of the fact that he is still active
ard useful. He may have got over
the idea OF many years ago that the
town paper could not 60 on without
him. but 1t is grand thing for him
10 know that ne is still helping to
make il go, and he makes it go just as
ii ought to go.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
For Sunday READING
III Sorts sf Opinion,
"call Down" For Billy
(NeM Haven Union.)


Evangelist Billy" Sunday, former
ball player, at recent Philadelphia
revival service uttered this:
America leads the world in murders
suicides, graft. bribery and divorce,
and all this indicates that we are not
advancing morally. but retrograding,
Crime is more common than honesty
and honesty is rarer today than it was
fifty years ago.
In short, We're all going to hell SO
fast we're breaking the speed limits.
If true. this would be discouragins
would be cause for widespread pessim
ism and despair. 1t Is not true. but Is
the most dangerous kind Of falsehood
because the man who utters it un-
doub,edly thinks IL truth. 1t Is refut-
ed by our national history. by our
present condition by self evident facts
and figures
It IS absurd to say crime is more
comrH than honesty" II Ii were
SO. our banking system. our postal
system. our entire system OF bust
ness credits would go To smash in the
tlvinkIing OF an eye. Our government
would fall. our social structure and
our business system rests on the re-
verse of Sundays assertion.
Nowhere. and at no time in the
worlds history, has human life and
liberty been so safeguarded as 1t is il
America this very day
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
Topics of the Times

Billy Sundays voice is bothering him.
1t has been bo,hering the liquor inter
ests much longer The probabilities
are the breweries would rather see
Bill lose his voice than to have the
mulct repealed.
AT Ida county woman marketed
1880 worth Of produce in two years.
She and the girls also took care of
the housework. That's pretty good
business woman. Wonder why she
isn't entitled to vote along with the
loafer who laid around town those two
years and lived on his wife's wash
wages?
The proposition 70 keep a record OF
all committee action is one that should
not meet opposition. Il is quite as i'm
portant TO have a record Of what The
representative Of free people" did in
committee as Of how he voted on tn.
floor.
Suppose that Great Britain should
declare Lafe contraband of war?
The bill limiting the number Of
hours women may work TO 81 % the
week doesn't apply 10 our wives.
II you want a real puzzle to WORK OF
take the state department OF ,ns
United States and the Mexican stu
alton and sit down TO "a guessir:
match.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29

salaries, per diem and pesQuisites by
accepting commissions on machinery
purchased. Whether or not the evidence
| at hand is sufficient to base legal &C.
| ton upon 1t is enough to set the SEN
ate highways committee drafting bill
providing rules for the purchase OF
| machinery and requiring submission OF
bids to the highway commission for
approval. The allegation Is made that
agents for machinery have become
very bold in their propositions, that
while their propositions to engineers
and supervisors may not furnish
ground for criminal prosecution OF
| those making them the proposals
should be headed off and prohibited
No amount Of legislation will ever
be able to keep the purchasing agent
who inclines TO graft for himself from
listening to the voice of the charme-.
That many such are holding office in
hand there isn't any doubt that among
the large number of persons charged
with these duties there are some with
attentive ears. This VAS true in the
old days when the book companies
came ready TO secure the contract by
fair means if possible but TO get it any
way. The manner in which some ma
chinery manufacturers think best to
entertertain al state meetings OF
county officials is not calculated 10
inspire confidence in the methods in
use
Supervisors and county engineers
may welcome the proposition TO have
all bids checked up by the state com
mission. II lets them out, forcloses
against any charge of graft that nigh,
De brought against them as purchas-
ers. In short it is protection against
any embarrassment that might come
out Of untounded charges and TO those
who are weak enough 10 listen 10 the
voices OF the charmers with commits
sions in hand it is protection agains.
themselves. Best of all il centralizes
the purchasing business in a way
The commission should know the low
est prices at which different machinery
is being sold in Iowa and elsewhere, 1t
/ is merely a checking system The
/ commission is not to say what ma
chinery shall be bought II is RI see
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
THREATENS DEMOCRATIC SPLIT
Manson Democrat.1

This newspaper desires right now to
serve notice on those misguided dem
ocrats in the legislature who are
monkeying with the prohibition buzz
saw that they are building up wall
of trouble for the party in 1916. As
we have previously stated, 90 per cent
of the democrats of Iowa are not pro-
hibitionists and they will not permit
any prohibition foolishness to get into
the partys platform. II the prohibi-
ton democrats insist on showdown
it will mean two democratic parties in
Iowa. Are the prohibition cranks good
enough democrats to permit the ma
jority to rule without fight that will
result in a split. or will they be salts
fed with nothing but row?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
LONG STEP.


The other morning about ] o'clock
the authorities found an old woman
wandering around on the streets OF
Creston. She was thinly clad and
seemed TO have lost her reason. She
came up town TO look for her son who
was said to he in an intoxicated condi-
ton. She became lost and just wan
dered around, and when found was
nearly frozen. She was taken 70 hos
p;tal where she was given the proper
attention and later some of the charit-
able associations took charge OF her.
Think of It, In a free land OF wealth
and religion An old woman roam
ing around the streets on cold
night for FIVE or six hours looking for
la drunken son. We do not know
whether the saloons were the cause OF
the son being in an intoxicated condi-
ton or whether ne would have been
that way II there had been no saloons
but the fact remains, he was intox-
icated and the saloons sell Intoxicating
LIQUOR. Just how long we are going to
continue this farce regarding the sa
looms being necessary evil, we do moi
know but just as long as we do there
will be drunken sons staying out all
night and old mothers out trying to
find them. To abolish the saloons may
not stop people becoming intoxicated
but it will be long step in that direc-
. :.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29

Trenton, N. J.-Governor Fielder is
interested in the enactment Of new
laws relative to deputy sheriffs follow
ing the fatal shooting OF strikers at
Roosevelt, N. j.. in consequence OF
which over twenty deputies are now in
Jail charged with murder. These men
were engaged from q detective agency
to protect the plant, and they fired into
a crowd of strikers during a rumpus
over strike breakers. Two strikers were
killed, and many were hurt. The gov
ernor ordered an investigation and
probably will seek to change the laws
so as to restrict deputies from such all
legged unprovoked attacks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
WHY PEACE PREVAILED.
IClinfnn Herald I

In Clinton there is a man of Ger
man birth who has French wife.
A representative of this paper was
talking to him the other day, and asked
him whether there was any difficulty
at home over friendship for the two
fatheriands.
Not a bit" he replied We don't
scrap over the war, because we are
both American citizens"
There was good sound philosophy in
that remark, and 1t need not be con-
fined to husbands and wives. Anyone
who begins to feel heated on account
of the war will do we'll to pull his
American citizenship down tight
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

1T would be hard TO make the people
Of this neck of the woods believe tha.
there has been anybody mentioned for
governor thus far that would please
them better that Attorney General
George Cosson," says the Carroll Her
aid. IF there ever was a selma de
man, one who won single handed by
his own efforts, 1t is George Cosson"
THE legislature should pass a law
paying county officials straight sal
aries, generous enough to compensate
them deservingly," urges the Burling-
ton Gazette.
| Senator Cummins has his fences set
| for the presidency He is about the
only man named thus far who has ac-
tually commenced to put his house in
order for 1915. Iowa will some time
get the place Senator Cummins is
the most advanced politician the state
has at the present time and would
stand as good a show Of defeating the
democratic party as any candidate the
west could put up" says the Abba
Union.
Governor C1arkes recommendation
that the number OF legislators be re-
duced 80 per cent will fall by the wal
side. says the Oelwein Register. 'Th,
proposition does not look good to thu
members Of the legislature and to thos,
who hope to become such Il woult
be the first step to a commission form
of state government-one-h aif-one
quarter-one- eighth. ETC."
The Cherokee Times says: 'If Cum
minis comes out for the presidency, w,
feel snre he viii not have TO suffer TN,
humiliation Of having divided low;