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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-28

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1.-TWO AUSTRIAN acrOpIane> bombard-
eel - this morning. killing seven
persons and wounding ten. NJ material
damage was donc."-PrcSS DiSDatrh.
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NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.

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Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-28

Don't lose sight of everything outside
Your own narrow limits. The shoemaker
who sticks too closely to his last fails to
see that there are any others in the world
except wearcrs of shoes. I'm other words.
anyoue who lives % wholly absorbed i'll his
own personal interests a. To overlook the
claims Of his fellow man gets out of touch
with the world. Instead of being 4 part
of the great scheme of the universe. he be-
and women who realize that they are only
d part of the world. and that they are
placed here for some other purpose than
merely that Of living. who help to make the
world something more than a great shop.
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Finniqin FilOsOfY.

TIL mon that knows least on amy
subject j. usually th one that can be-
injuced I talk most f~rrreely on that sub
jcct.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-28

A would he p~cacemakcr IN Victoria. Tex
a.. was fatally Shot. This proves that
even the p~cacemaker should be protected
against eventualitie>. Had he worn 4 coat
of mail or gone into the fray with q club
for the head of the one who did not agree
10 stop fighting, he might have accom-
plished his purpose and come ont alive.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-28

Pay your poll taxes. Remember the poll
tax goes towards the education Ut the
chlldrcn OF the state.
Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1915-12-28

\ very c%onvient bag To hold dust and
the contents of scrap baskets j. made from
table oil cloth. This l. light to carry with
one when sweeping or making beds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21

During the insanity test trial OF
Harry K. Thaw, Justice Hendrick, who
presided, asked DR.. Austin Flint, in
sanity expert, more questions than he
put to any other witness. It was plain
that Justice Hendrick took the most
intense interest in what was regarded
as the final battle for the freedom OF
Thaw. Earlier. before DR.. Flint took,
the stand at all. Justice Hendrick took
occasion to say to the reporters that
he had been misquoted and misrepre-
scented as to a remark he was reported
to have made.
It was stated in the published re-.
ports that the justice had said, after
Thaw had answered ono question, that.
he had answered fully and sanely.
Some Of the newspapers indicated that
the remark was significant. This the
court emphatically denied. Justice
Hendrick said, II have no objection 10
the newspaper comments on this trial
as far as they are anywhere within
the lines Of truth. but you gentlemen
must not sit down there and guess at
what is said on a vital thing like that,
and Iswant to say to you Reatlemen OF
the jury, if you read that. n4ver made
use OF such an expression and that the
papers which do that are In contempt
of this court"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21

that taxes should be measured by the
full going value No creditor would
loan on such value. Houses and lots
and farm land have the most stability
of value and the most easily deter
mined value because such real estate Is
worth its' price in any owners hands
and yet with personal property neces-
sarily undervalued the tendency Is
strong to eQualize by undertaking the
real estate for taxation.
In the main no serious harm is done
provided the equaliZ!ng is actually &C
complished Farms worth 5000 per
acre and assessed at $50 hardly
e9ualiZeG with houses and lots worth
$4,000 and assessed at 81, 800 SO the
farms had to be raised. If farms con-
tinue to so up to $500 per acre in real
value an average assessed value OF
less than $50 per acre VIII hardly
equalize with houses and lots which
will demand that farm land assess
ments be raised again. There is, at
least, no occasion to reduce them from
the values of two years ago.
The thing to do is to analyze the
tax receipt and see who made the
,eyies, whether township. town. school.
county or state taxing body and then
find out whether the money was we'll
spent. The average assessed valuation
is a joke and, of course will not bear
strict construction investigation altho
it may be fair when judged by COM
parison with other assessments.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
TOM FOSTER CITIZEN AND ExEMpLAR.

The city OF Ottumwa has lost use
full citizen and a model character in
the death of Tom Foster Every town
possesses some one citizen 10 whom
all eyes turn whenever there is any
thing TO be done for the good of all
and in Ottumwa that man was Foster.
Successful in business and thereby
we'll do he grasped the modern idea
Of the trusteeship Of wealth and he de-
voted fixed share OF his income to
public benefits.
Strong and self reliant in the ma
terial things which were 10 be done in
MS town Mr.. Foster very naturally
held positive views as to what was best
for the moral uplift and cleaner life
of his city and ne was not afraid TO
fight for the things in which he be-
lieved.
The Times Republican editors have
never lived in Ottumwa but as OF
tunwas affairs have been viewed from
a distance it has seemed that the best
as we'll as the biggest movements in
the town have fallen in behind the
leadership Of Tom Foster and hence
We'll as is the town of his residence in
the loss OF a man who, endowed with
strength among men. had the nerve
and the generosity to use that strength
for the good Of his community.
Tom Foster is a type Of man who is
born TO nobility as caste is known and
recognized in a country OF democracy.
He lived and worked and both saved
and spent for the common good as we'll
as for private gain. Some men can be
boosters and spenders and develope
, traits of private character which have
TO be covered up with apology while
other men can live to Puritans code
of moral conduct and be so selfish. SO
narrow and of so little account to the
community in which they live that
notice Of their death will arouse moth
ing but tests as TO the undertaken
being compelled 10 seize death coins
20 secure his claim for services. In
the case Of Foster he lived life which
was an inspiration TO others to live
clean and strong and he builded for
his town until an entire community
! mourned when his day had been run.
Every town has its Tom Foster but
| why, oh, why are there so few of them'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
TERMS.
EDUCATIONAL PROGRESS.

In round numbers there were 10000
goo persons enrolled in educational in
situations in the United States in 1914
according to the annual report OF the
commissioner of education just issued.
OF these over 100000 were in ele-
nentary schools: 49,. 900 in secondary
schools. both public and private: and
$4,000 in colleges and universities
Close TO another hundred thousand
We're in normal schools preparing TO be
teachers. $1,000 were in professional
shools. and the remainder were scatter
er thru other types of institutions. The
teachers for this educational army
mum bered 200, 600, OF whom $4,000
were in public schools. In poin, Of
rapid growth the public nigh shoot stiif
presents the most i'm pressive figures;
the enrolment for 1914 is greater by
over $1,000 than for the year before.
The cost OF education for the year.
as estimated by the bureau, was s75.-
coo. 600. This three quarters OF bill
lion is a relatively small amount when
compared with other items in the pub
lie expense" declares the report. Il.
is less by $500 900 goo than the cost Of
running the federal government: it is
less than one third the nations ex-
penditure for alcoholic liquors; it is
only little over three times the esti-
mated cost of admissions 10 moving
picture theaters in the United States
for the same year Measured in terms
OF products of the soil the United
States spent somewhat more for edu-
cation in 1914 than the value OF its cot
ton crop, somewhat less than the value
Of its wheat crop. ana less than half
the value of the annual harvest OF
corn; while the nations bill for edu-
cation was less by nearly hundred
millions 1nan the value OF the exports
rom the harbor OF New York in the
calendar year just passed.
Very little increase is yet TO be noted
in the average term for public schools.
Between 1910 and 1918 the increase was
from 1873 days year TO ASIA
growth Of only six-tenths Of day in
three years. Attendance has improved,
however. The average number of days
attended by each person enrolled in
creased from 1l3 in 1910 to ll5.6 in
1913
Special subjects treated in this years
annual report of the commissioner OF
education include: The Junior High
school; Montesori Schools in the Unit
ed States; Denominational Schools;
Vocational Education; Education for
Child Nurture and Home-Makins;
School Surveys: and Education for
Special Glasses for Children.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
WHY NOR ASSESS At FULL VALUE.

Why wouldn't il be better for
everybody 10 assess all property at It's
-eal value for taxation, let Iowa have
me advertising that her land values
Deserve, and reduce the levies accord
!ugly?" was the question put 10 the
editor by a friend when they were
laughing about bunch Of assessors
who would return the value OF Iowa
farms in thirty counties as having de-
cl;ned below what it was II 1913.
Assessing the best land as worth $50
per acre when plenty Of men are stand
ing around waiting for an opportunity
TO pay 5000 for it does seem about as
ridiculous as some valuations Of $4,000
on stocks Of goods that are known TO
have cost $4,000 Assessed valuations
of ali kinds of property are notorious
" low, TO be sure. the attempt having
been more to equalize or 70 even up
one valuation with another and get
them all about evenly low rather than
10 approach real values. Farm land
having risen in real value faster than
any other kind Of property soon got
out OF joint with other properties and
il had to De boosted in the 1919 as
sessment but even then it's assessed
value was scarcely half Of its real
value.
But why wouldn't the full valuation
plan WORK? In the first place there
ara TOO many levies fixed by statute
which could not be reduced as values
went UP and again there are too many
taxing bodies in control Of tax levies.
For instances county boards which re-
duced levies a year ago were annuiied
by township boards which chung to the
same old road levies in spite Of the
fac, that Is per cent of their roads had
been taken over by the county and
valuations had been boosted % per
cent or more.
However, even IL we should adopt
the school boards budget plan Of
naming the amount of money needed
and fixing a levy which would raise ii
and even II all taxing could be done
by one board controlling all ievies the
full valuation plan would still be i'm
practicable.
When guessing at values upon which
other men must pay taxes no as
SCISSOR feels free to gc the limit. He
mus. keep well under conservative
figure so as to err in the direction
which will be most fair TO the tax
payer. Merchandise which has one
value when moving rapidly is seldom
worth ever so cents on the dollar when
1t must be- sold in bulk for dead OF
defunct business. No assessor feels
justified in assessing it at a full going
value. Likewise factory buildings and
machinery which may have cost 500,
600 and be worth it to the going con-
Germ might not be worth $4,000 &c
anybody else and no assessor will say
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21

Following conference between
Josephus Daniels. secretary of the
navy. and Thomas A. Edison, the ma
tons foremost inventor, who is to head
the new navy board of invention and
development, in Mr.. Edison's home at
Llewellyn Park, \. J.. Mr.. Daniels
said: Our next war will be fought by
machinery and by men of brains. They
say we have millions Of men and minis
of money But we need more than
that. We need machinery and skill.
What we want on this advisory board
is to bring about a mobilization OF
brains. a mobilization Of genius. be-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
HATS OFF TO EMMErsBURG.
[Iowa City Citizen.]

iowa cry SltlZSn-J
We have with US today two repre-
sentative business men OF Emmetsburg.
Iowa. who are here to give information
TO the Iowa City Commercial Club
about the Emmetsburg building and
loan association, semi public enter
prise.
Iowa City business men should take
a good look at these visitors, for they
are a part Of unique community
movement in an Iowa town Of moder-
ate size.
For Emmetsburg has more to its
credit than building and loan asso-
citation run without expense to its
beneficiaries. The city has spent more
money in proportion to its size than
any other in the state to realize an
ideal Of the city beautiful as well as
the city useful The citizens of En-
metsburg have used $4,000 OF their
own money in retaining and beautify-
ing the lake front of which the com
munity is the possessor. and they have
entered npcn the execution of COM
prehensive plan Of paving. street light
ing and other Improvement that Is te
last for some years and is all to BIZ
fitted into a harmonious result.
Emm etsburg has about $500 popula
ton. 1t is an average Iowa county
seat in its commercial possibilities. but
is far ahead Of the average in the way
in which its residents have approached
the problems Of city improvement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
nEvfNl,

tween the money Of the allies who are
paying bonuses for speed and the
money OF the Germans offering prizes
for disorder the workmen, ought to be
doing fairly well in these times.
II a farmer were financier ne
would figure the expense of $3.50 silo
which would last him ten years at $50
per annum plus interest. This is the
price OF one acre of corn. Now ask
your silo neighbor how much his silo
will save in year.
Pat Murphy in explaining why Ernie
Moore and Harding voted for Kenyon
for senator said that their intent was
to destroy the Cummins faction. Both
men are now appealing to that faction
for votes.
In good many townships the town
ship road tax is now larger than the
total tax for all state purposes, colleges
and institutions and capitol extension
combined. The state levy is As mills
when township road levies run from
4 to mills.
If your fire insurance rate is going
up complain to the insurance commits
sion at Des Moines. He can regulate
the rate if he thinks it is wrong.
What do you think of man who
has the nerve to name his price of $500
per acre when advertising farm OF
220 acres for sale near Marshalltown?
He might at leas, have led up to it
gently.
This is the year in which diversified
farming will save Iowa. Ii ours were a
one crop country il would be poor
year for business
II is safe bet that woman Mrs.
Wentworth who would have all women
refuse to bear children in order TO stop
a war never bore a child herself. Else
she would know more about the bust
ness than her utterances would indi-
cate.
Roosevelt has Bryan on the defensive
when the rough rider ciiides the peer
less leader for resigning from his post
of duty when his country was in dan
ger of rupture with Germany and
then be found inside of three days ad-
dressing an audience OF sympathetic
Germans.
Capitol extension bugaboo should
now disappear since the executive
council has reduced the state tax levy
by twice as much as was added for the
capitol grounds. The reduction is 4
Of mill while the capitol extension
levy vas only II of MIL.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
WHY THE PHEAsASTs?


Some of the sportsmen OF. Iowa, ana
some of the non-sportsmen are Won
dering why we continue to breed and
to import all sorts OF foreign pheasants
in Iowa. The fact Is generally admit
ted that there was no lack Of what
might be termed game birds in Iowa,
before they were practically extermin-
ated by strenuous hunters. The quail,
the pheasant. the woodcock. the snipe
the prairie chicken, they We're all home
birds. They fitted into the picture, so
to speak. and they. seemed by nature
best endowed for the task of making
their home in Iowa.
Now. Why do the men higher up per
sist in importing or Matching all sorts
of imported birds. which may and may
not be fitted by nature for existence in
rho fields and the timber land of Iowa?
surely there were no better game birds
than those which at one time delighted
the sportsrnen OF Iowa, who shot not
merely to kill, but principally to eat.
TO get a variety into the bill of fare.
We know that the old birds existed
here and throve here. and We do not
know that the foreign birds will do
we'll here. Nobody knows that. That
is something than can only be demon
strated by giving the matter thor
ough. long trial. But why do this thing.
when we had the very best game birds
to be found anywhere in the world.
Why not re-stock Iowa with the real
Iowa birds?
Nobody knows. There is no answer
forthcoming. It is like asking. how,
after all these years, after this endless
publicity. the Spanish prisoner still
continues 10 find sufficient victims to
make. that ancient Swindle profitable,
or how. after the matter has been
ventilated again and again, people,
good. bright, intelligent; well-posted
people can put their money into any
such hoary, bald-headed graft as that
Sir Francis Drake swindle. or some
OF the other big estates that are going
| to be divided in the near future. There
seems to be something tempting about
| the things that can not be done. that
have no foundation in fact. and per-
haps for that reason, do we 1owans
continue to import all sorts Of foreign
eamc birds instead Of restocking the
state with the birds that were native
| TO the soil and that were very numer-
| Gus here before the white man came.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21

also believe in scientific preparedness.
so my idea In organizing this board is.
as I say, to bring about mobilization
Of the brains and inventive genius OF
the country. l want to get together
the men who have devoted their lives
to science and to use their genius and
skill for the benefit OF the country. I
want to help these men to develop their
ideas for inventions that will be Of SER
vice to the country in time OF war"
The accompanying picture OF Mr.. Edi-
son and Mr.. Daniels was taken at the
conference In Mr.. Edison's homo.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
T1MEsREPUBLICAN MARsHAILTowN. IOWA: JULY q. 1918


supplies whatever. and this is as OBJ
jectionable to Austria as Americas
contrary policy.
The belligerents. in short, ask for
what they want. whether 1t is con-
sistent or not, and without regard to
the neutral obligations of other coun-
tries. 1t is the duty Of neutrals to en-
force their own rights and observe
their own obligations. They cannot ex-
pect belligerents to withstand the
temptation to get whatever advantage
they can out of neutrals. A good-na-
tured neutral Will not take offense
when a belligerent attempts to wheedle
it into a wrong course OF action, but
no neutral government possessing any
sense at all would endanger its peace
by granting special favors to one bel
ligerent as against another.-Washing
ton Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
Topics of the Times

That was nervy thief who took
Weo Byers' automobile and Web the
corporation counsel for Des Moines
and the Greater Des Moines COM
mitree.
Petitions fled in the court of claims
by seven New England railroads seek
ing 70 collect SO 900 900 from the gov
eminent as loss thru carrying mails
for the last six years under the pres
ent system of weighing are regarded
by the postoffce department as bring
ing the whole long standing contro-
versy of railway mail pay to the point
of legal determine ton. Millions OF
dollars and all the governments mail
carrying contracts may be affected by
the outcome.
Whether Mr. FELTON, did or did not
refuse an offer of $4,000 per annum
TO reorganize a shell factory the fac.
remains that his salary as receiver and
manager of the Great Western railroad
is large enough to demonstrate that
there are few opportunities still left
for young men in America.
The suggestion Of new code Tor
next year is the best yet but Il the
index is to cost $4,000 forget 1t. Any
publishing house will get one out tc
sell for so cents and make money it it
!
| The poor, simple minded girl who
was tricked into mock marriage ir
Des Moines has herself mostly te
blame. What girl Of any good sense
would marry young man on the same
day Of her first acquaintance will
him? None but experts care buy
horses that way.
| This should be a good year to pu'
lightning rods on the barn and t:
ground the fence wires for lightnint
damage is altogether too frequent To-
lcomfort.
| Who has heard whether Italy eve
decided to get into the war or not?
! Samuel Gompers, national labo
leader, says that he knows strikes ar
being fomented in American ammuni
| ton end gun factories by foreign in
iterests well supplied with funds. BE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
He, SAFETY Not His susinsss.

Hoe 8aN0Sy NOV oSo 0uS
"This safety movement = . Sreas
thing, but what good doss i do. TO III
to be . missionary 70 some Of theso
women?" commented . Commhas
(Ohio) citisen on . High st1sst ear.
His pessimistic view was the result
of . rebuff he had just resolved from
an elderly woman, who. alighfink
from the car In the uSuAl fomlniDA
way. With her face to the roa1 ro( tn
car. wai informed b. the sHissioaasy
that she should have faeeA The otheg
way IN order TO say,so0id n sccadeaA:
'.I'm attending TO my husinesA 1cs
attend 70 Jour own. rst6rted ~
woman. Thanks. Tor passty Ars :
aid tie mwsaadly. :. i s.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-21
STAY WITH 1T.
IWaterloo Courier.]


Why is it that just as fellow be-
gins TO feel contented with his work
that some charitably inclined individ-
ual darkens the horizon by showing
him how much more profit there is in
some other line Of work? II a man is
happy and contented with his lot, why,
should envy be aroused in his breast
by idle tales Of prosperity enjoyed by
others no more gifted with brains than
he?
There would be less discomfort in the
world II we did not have other posi-
tons in life with which to compare our
own. A man is satisfied until he learns
of something better. and then like the
baby in the famous soap advertise
ment he won't be happy till he gets
it." /, is, Of course natural for man
to wish TO better his condition, but
that may best be done, by sticking to
the task at hand and being so busy at
it that there is no time 10 become
envious Of others.