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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01

soil and become stunted. The tramp
Is gentleman Of unlimited leisure.
The crumpled rose leaf in the hobo's
bouquet Of earthly pleasures has been
the inhospitable attitude Of the con-
ventional world toward those who have
unlocked the treasure house Of idle
ness, and turned their backs upon the
tawdry prizes hung up for toilers. Now
the great and good state Of New York
has set aside fund out Of which every
wanderer may be provided for, to tho
exNent of IS cents q day, while being
furnished free bed.
Who Is the happy warrior? Who Is
he whom every man-in-arms should
wish to be? The hard worked barris-
ter, getting his fees from the strife
Of his neighbors? The overworked
physician, getting his bread and cheese
by prescribing physiceyto aImelancholy
horde Of complaining patrons who will
blame him II he does not work q
miracle? The business man with the
hot cog wheels in his head. and the
fear Of the bank hanging over him like
thes word Of Damocies? The honest
farmer, spurned by Jupiter aPluvius.
scourged by Aeolus, smitten by the
plague. complaining like an elderly
fishwife of BillingsgAte afflicted with
Rheumatism? The 6fficeholder. har-
assed by hangers-oa, responsible to
everybody, defenseless against criti-
cism? Or the merry hobo ?--Louisvillo
Courier.Ioufnal SfS /.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
Iona Newspapers
DROPPING THE OLD FIGHT.
(Dayennort Times


1t is reported from Des Moines that
the publicity given to the lining up
Of the forces in support Of the school
at Ames' and the university at Iowa
City for fight before the appropria-
tons committee has resulted in a de-
cision to stop the contest. 1t appears
suddenly to have been discovered that
both schools are Iowa's schools and
that with any fair presentation OF
needs the senate Of Iowa is in duty
bound to be fair to both schools with
out any struggle on the part Of the
one school to show why the other
should not get this or that appropria-
ton. If the two schools have sup
porters who wish to present their
claims this should be done before the
board of education and not before the
legislature. The board Of education's
recommendations to the legislature
ought to be supported by the friends
Of all the schools.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
THE WAY eoLpF,Elo TEACHES IT.

The little town of Goldfield, in
Wright county, breaks into public print
not infrequently thru doing ordinary
things in noticeable way. The latest
is the way it teaches agriculture in its
school. Like other smaller Iowa towns
it's main industry is agriculture and
unlike most smaller towns it goes
about teaching principles of it's most
important industry methodically and
scientifically as we'll as practically.
First the school has an excellent
agricultural library. 1t doesn't de-
pend on the school textbooks for suffi-
cient informa ton. 1t takes up a sub
ject, say beef cattle thru lectures and
class reports and discussion, learns
methods of judging and scoring and
then the students go to the cattle
and work on the real thing. If the
herds are six or seven miles away the
students find a way to get to them.
Dairying Is taken up after the same
manner. Milk testing and laboratory
work and COW testing goes on in the
school house but the student gets to
the dairy barn and checks his book
learning against the practical opera
tons. This spring a COW testing as
ISOLATION will be formed among the
students, and the animal industry
study will be extended to sheep, hogs
and horses. Study OF corn and soils
is carried on in the same way.
This year the school board con-
templates providing a ten-acre field
where each student will have his plot
Of ground upon which he will pay rent
and keep account of all expenditures
and receipts. The plans include corn
crib and a canning club.
II school, located in a farming
community can show q more sensible
plan Of educating farm students than
that adopted by the Goldfield COM
munity and one more certain to in
terest and develop the students and
the community itself it will please
speak up and make it known.
To those who knew old Bras
field, the crossroads hamlet, a
days drive from railroad sta
ton and set in the midst Of sloughs
and swampy lands and which replaced
its name with the more euphonious and
! more appropriate enc CO Gclaa:ase.aa, t the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
count 'EM.


Nothing makes so much for personal
reform as adversely. Thus trouble
and pain and emergency have their
uses.
the old October ale and the brown
bowl Of opera and actuality, of home
brews anu puncheons and stout and
xxx and so forth where the present
merry monarch turns drink away
from his table and the Lloyd George Of
the state and Kitchener of the army
demand total prohibition. In the
stress of life and death struggle
when every ounce Of men and money
is needed to hold the nation together
the utter absurdity of poisoning peo-
pie with booze makes itself manifest.
Now tits no new thing in England,
this understanding that the curse Of
England. 1t accentuates English slums.
The thoughtful of England knew it.
1t takes trouble and adversely to
bring men to face radical change. The
war has submerged the titled brew
ers under the waves of dire necessity.
And so England faces a great re-
ofrm.
AS the sale bills and the burlesque
show bills say @count 'em: Russia, the
kaiser, King George, count EN-" The
airship isn't the only astonishing ar
rival on the horizon Of the last de-
cade.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
NEEDLESSLY ALARMED.
Atlantic News-Telegraph.1

Elsewhere in this paper appears a
notice for meeting Of farmers called
for the commercial club rooms in this
city on next Saturday afternoon to dis
cuss the road proposition-from the
angle of those who do not want perma-
nent roads. The notice was inserted
by S. S. Cassidy, who, be it known,
owns no land in Cass county at the
present time, and it Is understood the
meeting has been called at the instiga-
ton of those who fear that some one
somewhere will pave the roads Of the
state and tax all the cost up to the
land along the way.
This newspaper believes permanent
every one in this state. 1t is aware
that many men do not agree with this
proposition. The matter is one for full
and free argument devoid Of prejudice
or appeal to passion. No one wants
to bear down on the people any burden
they can not carry, or work a hardship
on any one. The sooner the opponents
get that out of their minds the freer
and more intelligent the argument can
become.
Permanent roads will come in this
state, whether in the immediate flu
ture, or later. Many farmers have
expressed themselves to this paper as
heartily in favor Of them. 1t may be
some time before they come, Sbut they
will come, some day, and when they
do Iowa will take the place in the
procession which IS hers by right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
Topics Of the Times

Iowa Falls electric light plant Is to
be sold to the highest bidder. The city
should be able to get fair chance to
buy it at a reasonable price in deal
like than.
Seems like q submarine IL mighty
dangerous thing whether you are out
side or in. The average person will
still prefer an automobile.
The Des Moines Register and Leader
is said to "be in bad" with certain
members Of the legislature because OF
its attitude toward the Johnston BILL
However, it would be hard to find a
newspaper in Iowa that has any use for
that Johnston bill.
Certainly that Mexican nuisance
needs abating but there's more to
abating nuisance than merely saying
what ought to be done. A skunk is a
Nuisance, but the abater usually has to
bury his clothes and sleep in the
woodshed week or two afterward.
Only few days more until the grass
brows, golf begins, baseball starts and
the legislature quits. We scarcely re-
alize all our blessings.
The senate bill on good roads is up
today. Of one thing we may feel sure
1t will not follow the house over Mr..
Johnston's 12-foot bridge.
Zapata has paid the widow Of Nc
Manus $4,000 gold as indemnity for
the death Of her husband. This success
may encourage the state department to
ask again for a salute to the flag.
Allen has withdrawn his near beer"
bill. 1t was never near becoming law
and the best it could have been would
have been sort of screen for blind
pigger to hide behind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01

amount Of butter fat but only 60
pounds Of skim milk, leaving him 100
more pounds OF skim milk for feed
ing on the farm.
When corn is worth IS cents per
bushel, skim milk has value of 81
cents per 100 pounds for fattening pigs.
provided not over three pounds of skim
milk are fed with each pound Of corn.
When from seven to nine pounds OF
skim milk are fed with each pound
of corn, then the skim milk is worth
but IL cents per 100 pounds. Even with
this value the savings will amount to
quite sum in the course Of a year.
The transportation charges on the
richer cream will of course. be less.
due to the decreased bulk. and the
thick cream will also keep sweet long,
er than the thin cream. The bacteria
act only on the milk serum and this
Is present in q larger proportion in
the thinner cream. The thinner cream
will therefore sour more readily.
A rich cream IL also more desirable
from the manufacturers point Of view.
The creamery buttermaker realizes
that finer quality Of butter can be
made OF rich cream for two reasons:
First. the cream usually comes in In
better shape; the second. the ripen-
ing can be controlled better after the
cream is received.-DeLaval Monthly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
THE HARDING CAMPAIGN,
[Des Moines Tribune,l

GDes Moines Tribune.l
What Senator Darrah had in mind
when he suggested that gubernatorial
politics was mixed up N the Johnston
road bill fight il now made plain by
the petitions sent out for the john
ston road bill to be mailed to w. L..
Harding, president Of the senate"
The lieutenant governor Is quoted
as saying, II can take that bill ana
make political issue upon which mo-
body in the state can defeat me for the
governorship.''
This statement is encouraging from
one point OF view at least. Il suggests
that the lieutenant governor is not
will to take his chances on his
liquor legislation record.
1t is also encouraging from another
point of view. 1t promises a hot road
debate in the primaries in the place
of hot liquor law debate, and the
road debate will be both fresher and
more promising Of results.
But these aside, the lieutenant gov
ernor is as badly mistaken in his guess
on the road bill as in his guess on the
temperance bills. The republicans Of
Iowa will not indorse his candidacy
any quicker on the one than on the
other, and they will not indorse his
candidacy on both together.
The republicans Of Iowa are not go
ing to choose next year, when there
will be chance to rehabilitate the
party, to name candidate for COVER
nor who is not in line with the best
tendencies Of the party, and the pro-
gressive movements Of the times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
BUSINESS AMID BOOZE.
nSioux Fails Argus-Leader. ]

There may be differences OF opinion
about the best way to control the drink
evil, but there Is only one side to the
booze question. Big business does not
want the boozer. The railroads will
not employ him. He can't lead armies,
or guide ships or head big enterprises.
He isn't wanted in politics. He can't
get a good job in smaller business and
he can seldom hold one when he does
get It. Boozing Is unpopular and its
devotee is on the defensive. He can't
win on the athletic field, he is counted
as below the average in efficiency in
all pursuits, and the mot wanted" sign
is displayed against him everywhere.
A strong and growing public sentiment
is satisfactorily working out the tenn
perance problem.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01

state Of Ohio, city Of Toledo. Lucas County. %.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he Il senioH
1nG business in the City Of Toledo County and
efats Aforesaid, and that said 1rm viii pay
Zach and every ease Of Catsrrh that cannot 10
cured By the use Of Halls Catarh Cure.
FRANK J. CHENEY.
sworn TO before me and subscribed in mp
presence this eth day Of December A. D., 1855
Seal. A. W. GLEASON.
Notary Public.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally and
acts directly upon the blood and mucous SURE
faces Of the system. Send tor testimonials
F. J. CHENEY co., Toledo. Q.
Sold hy all Druggists, 75c.
Taxa Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
The Hobo.

Tramps have few vicissitudes. They
do not have to cater to tickle consti-
tuencies, as public servants must. They
are never alarmed about losing q
sinecure They do not fail and go into
the hands Of Q receiver, as CORPORA
lions often do. or into bankruptcy,
where many individuals fetch up after
entering with high hopes and fine con-
fidence upon profitable and honorable
projects. Tramps are not sued for d.
vorce and compelled to pay alimony
sufficient to keep up disgruntled wives
In the style to which they aspire. They
are under no necessity of getting up
in the early morning, when all Of the
consultations of paradise are claimed
by the fortunate few who can awaken
just sufficiently to be able to realize
their luck and then turn over to pick
up again the golden thread Of unfin-
ished dreams. They are not pinned tc
one pitiful spot In q world Of wonders
and delights to vegetate in q depleted
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01

high community ana land values OF
that section and town are astonishing.
II deserves notice and praise. And not
least OF its claims TO progressiveness 10
the way it adapts its schools to it,
own needs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
8. +. NO. s14.

An Act Making an Appropriation "a
Enable the state Railroad Commits.
sion to Investigate, Prspars and
Prosseuts Cases in Resistance 20
Advances Asked BY the Carriers in
the Western Advance Rats Case 0e-.
fore the Interstate Commerce com.S
mission. 49,. Z Z
Be it enacted by the general assembly
Of the state Of Iowa: .sssS Y
Section There Is hereby apprOpri-
ated out Of the funds OF the state treas
ury, not otherwise appropriated. tho
sum Of fifteen thousand dollars ($16.-i
0OO.O0), or 80 much thereof as may be
necessary, to be expended by the state
railroad commission In presenting 70
the interstate commerce commissions
evidence and arguments oral and writ-s
ten On bs::;:!s 6: III! tho shippers and CON.
sumers Of the state Of Iowa, relative
to the advance In passenger ana
freight rates on Interstate traffic. now
being prepared by western railway
companies An itemized account shall
be rendered to the executive council
OF all sums expended under the pros
visions Of this act q,
Section 2-An unexpended balance OF
the aforesaid sum not. necessary Or
used for the purpose herein specified.
shall revert back to the general fund,
Section This act, being deemed Of
Immediate importance, shall take eff
feet and be In force from and after its
publication In the Des Moines News,
ana the Marshalltown Times zRepnbli-
can, newspapers published in the state
sof Iowa. II 81 II
Approved March %. a. b. ISIS. 4.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
Higher Cream More Dairy Profit.

A farmer is giving away three times
as much skim milk in q 20 per cent
cream as he would be giving in a 40
per cent cream. II 1000 pounds Of
per cent milk are SKINNED into q
20 per cent cream. the farmer will be
selling 40 pounds Of butter fat and
1870 pounds OF skim milk. II the same
milk Is skinned into 40 per cent
cream. he will be selling the same
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
To Paint GaIvanixsd Metal.


George B. Heckel, secretary Of the
Paint Manufacturers Association of
the United States, furnishes US the fol-
lowing directions for painting galvan-
ICED iron. q thing usually hard to do
well:
Apply a wash OF ounces Of copper
acetate dissolved in q gallon Of water
This roughens the surface and does no
injury. to the paint. Red lead Is good
for printing on such surfaces. but for
that purpose should be freshly mixed
on the job from the dry material. But
combination Of IS per cent iron OK
ide paint, free from soluble sulphur
compound, and Is per cent zinc oxide
ground together with oil in the neces-
sary drier is also good and much
cheaper.
Theoretically, when metal is galvan-
lied. 1t is supposed to resist rust and
corrosion. but in actual practice the
forces Of nature knock out this theory.
Paint lengthens the life of galvanized
metal just as 1t does Of wood and other
perishable building material.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
TEACHERS PENSIONS.

Correspondence DeS MONIES Register
and Leader.l :.
Sioux City-To the Editor: wish
you to print this letter in your paper
If you please.
I have just read in the paper today
that the teachers pension bill had been
defeated again. I am having this
printed for the benefit Of every old
teacher.
There are many Of them left just
as am without an income or nothing
for support. l have taught in rural
districts for twenty-six years. I am a
widow with no children. am alone.
have to support myself. spent my
little home at Morningside taking care
of my dear old father and mother, who
were aged and poor. am now "a years
old. still try to teach some. It is very
hard for me on account Of i'll health
and can not get board near the school
house. At my age it is hard for me to
walk so far.
taught many terms when I first
commenced teaching for $25 per
month. paid out SO per month for
board; we had then seven months in
the district year.
Now the salary Of teachers has been
raised and in many counties board Is
high and it is very hard to get a
boarding place.
I want the teachers pension bill
passed to help me and my fellow
teachers who are old and poor and
who are not able to teach any longer.
We or feel that we have earned a
pension and think every old teacher
has who has toiled in the school room
and especially for low wages. do not
consider 1t begging to ask for what ]
know have earned.
have injured my health. ! know
have benefited many children in
my teaching and helped many to &c
out and teach others.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
A cuMM1Ns' CANDIDACY.


[Des Moines Register and Leaderl
If The Register and Leader is not
mistaken the first states to voice their
presidential preferences in the spring
will be North and South Dakota and
iowa, all of which will vote at state
wide primaries.
II Senator Cummins should de-
eide to allow his name to be pre-
sented would it be at all unlikely
that he would receive the support Of
both OF the Dakotas as well as OF
Iowa, especially as it appears more
likely every day that the western
progressives will rally to him IL to
any western candidate?
It Is now assured that the friends
of Senator Borah will not present his
name, and with Senator Borah out of
it there is nobody left but Senator
Cummins unless there should be local
movement In California for Governor
johnson or some other local candidate
should ask for delegation from some
other western state.
Conceding that Senator Cummins
might reasonably hope to secure solid
delegations from the first three states
to select DELEGATIONS, that these Cum
Minis delegations would all come with
the sanction Of statewide popular
vote, and all come from mid western
states, where the progressive move
ment has made its strongest appeal,
would there not be something in the
strategy of the situation to magnify his
candidacy in the eyes Of the country,
and to force upon the attention OF the
publican leaders the Importance OF
taking the west into account?
In any event these are considera-
lions The Register and Leader would
urge upon the senator as he starts
on his western journey, which before
it is completed will take him thru
Denver and Salt Lake City as far
south at Los Angeles, and thru San
Francisco and Portland as far north
as Seattle, Spokane, Helena and st.
Paul.
No matter how solidly eastern
sentiment may be organized, eastern
sentiment Is bound to take some ac-
count OF the feelings OF the terri
tory west of the Mississippi, and
western opinion IL 1t can be given
expression in the person of q candi-
date Is bound to exert q dispropor-
tionate influence on the final action
Of the convention. For even tho the
oio leaders should control the votes OF
every state east Of the Mississippi they
would not use their power ruthlessly
in the present situation.
There is still another question.
Even if a western candidacy should
be foredooued to failure can the
western states consent without q
showing of hands to accept the pro-
gram evidently being outlined for the
= 49,. Il -
| leaders?
| Is 1t not important merely for the
purpose OF forcing a proper balance
into the final action of the conven-
ton that the western states speak
up? Is 1t not the duty OF the west to
make itself heard, IL as the west con-
fidently believes not only the immedi-
ate restoration but the long future OF
the republican party turns upon q
frank recognition Of the merits Of what
the west has been fighting for:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
DISAPPOINTED.
- .

Naturally the Globe was very much
disappointed by the fact that the
Johnston road bill passed the house.
The Globe was for the highway COM
mission bill before it passed two years
aso and has been ioT It eve: since we
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

THE teachers pension proposition
will probably not pass this legislation
but it will be still disable as good cam
paign material and platform lumber"
says the Mason City Globe-Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01

Its almost time for the dandelions,
Think they will look good to you as
you take a spade and go after them on
your lawn" inquiries the Oelwein Reg
ister Think Of the lilacs, the violets
and other evidences of the spring time,
to say nothing Of the boy with his
marbles and the hand organ man.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-01
EFFICIENT PUBLICITY.

The idea is entertained by some OF
the older type of merchants. that the
good repute OF their firm Is spread
from mouth to mouth in converse
ton, and that they do not need to
advertise in the newspapers.
That condition may have prevailed
many years ago. when people had
nothing else to do but to gossip about
their neighbors In those times every
one discussed all Of his home purchases
with all his neighbors.
Today a man who depends upon
conversation and gossip to spread the
news Of his store, will not find that
his place Of business Is much fire.
quented. People do not exchange in.
formation about their domestic habits
as they used to. You have little idea
whether your neighbors buy their goods
OF Smith, Brown, or Jones. The world
is full of wide interests, and the bar
gains one may find in q certain store
are ordinarily known only to those that
find them.
The newspaper is the only efficient
means Of acquainting the public with
the business news OF the town. For
one person that will learn something
about a given store by word OF
mouth, a hundred learn about it thru
newspaper notices.
The advertising columns Of a news
paper are read just as attentively as
any sensation that may appear in the
news columns.
The results of the two policies are
obvious. In one case a merchant
drags along, with only a small part OF
the community Knowing anything
about what is happening in his store.
In the other case. practically every
one knows when that merchant has
special bargains, and what can be
done in his store at any given time.
Can there be the least question as to
which kind of merchant gets the bus
mess?