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the WEATHER FORECAST.
Snow or rain to-day and ,prohsb,y. ~ =
morrow. W.
Detailed weathet =, t,"na mail and marin. will
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FACE FAMINE AND MOB.
Foreigners in Desperate Plight.
American Merchant Writes.

\ New York business man has re-
ceived the following letter from a mer
chant of Mexico city describing the
famine conditions and the political
troubles in the capital:
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Continued on Second Pd1s.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
LITTLE JAKE AsroR.

That Astor baby's mother has Pc
titioned the surrogate of New York for
larger allowance for the child born to
her after the drowning of John Jacob
Aston her husband and the father OF
the child. Astor left a $3,000,000 trust
fund for the expected child from which
the mother was to be permitted to
spend $4,000 year for the care and
maintenance of the coming John Jacob
Junior. She says she can't get along
with the sum, that the kid costs more
and that she has spent a considerable
sum Of her own money in order to
maintain young John Jacob clean and
sweet and see that he gets his meals
regularly.
Now actually that's a shame. How
could a woman be expected to keep
child comfortably with but s54 and
some odd cents to spend upon it daily?
OF course Mrs. Bill Smith who keeps
six on Bills wages of S2.75 day
thinks she could do it but she doesn't
understand. And Soandso, who clears
about $4,000 a year by working full
days and a little on Sunday and who
has managed to keep three or four
kids clothed and warm and who is
helping out the boy at college and do
ing little something for the girls has
a foolish idea that he could keep the
whole blamed family and an automobile
and have a regular hilarious time for
himself and ma if he had half the an
nual income that is too small to suffice
the necessities Of little Jake Aston. Co
ing back to Old John Jacob the First
whose broken English and aroma of
skunk skins made him marked man
among his fellows, why the old man
would have looked on $4,000 as a null
timillionaire's dream. Chances are
that he'd have saved s17,463.71 out of
it and kept the home where the AS
tors started going just the same. If
the present youthful j. j. had lived
with great grampa he'd have got along
on 20 cents a year of real money and
been happy to get out and see the cir
Gus parade so by.
And as to Madeline. Times have
changed with her. She would have
figured few years back that $50, 900
a year would keep any baby and leave
ma considerable to buy hats with.
The way out of it would be to send
little Jake out to Carey Arney or some
other successful Marshall county
farmer. They could manage to keep
Jacob on less than the allowance, give
him better time than he will ever
have in New York, make a better man
of him than any Astor has ever been
and best of all grow a real American
citizen out of a transplanted Bavaran |
whose folks have never done much but
make money and keep it all in the fam
lily. Somebody speak to the surra-
gate,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
BURGLARY INSURANCE.

IF the president would call for an
army in the morning" said Mr.. Bryan,
the sun would go down on the spec
tacle of million men in arms"
Suppose we gathered in that one day
a million men from the farms and the
Workshops if they were armed it
would be with the shotguns and %
ealiber rifles they brought with them
from the homes. For we have no rifles
for million men or any real part CT
million men. They would be clothed
in their working suits, tentless, with
out commissary supplies. without med
zeal corps lacking the first necessities
of an army
They would be unofficered unframed
without any real cohesion, a million
brave men at the mercy of division
of any trained army.
In time that million men and the
other million who would rush to their
support would be wrought INTO an ir-
resisuble force against which no for
eign nation could make Roadway on
this continent. But in the meantime
There is no occasion for great
standing army in this country. Per
haps the 100000 provided for is suffi-
Gent to all our needs unless of actual
war. If our policy shall be that of de-
tense only, we need no mighty military
establishment But we do need a sys-
tenn of peaceful preparation that will
familiarize with the duties of soldier
and make the creation OF an effective
volunteer army possible under three
three years. We need arms for emer-
gency that may arise, need sufficient
coast defenses properly manned. That
is not militarism but defensive COM
mon sense
The man who locks his doors and
makes sensible preparations against
burglars does not have to sit up nights
watching his house.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
Littl. White hand..

apologies to Mary II. Krout1
They drive home the car from the city.
Up through the broad avenue,
Where the spatted and hartschaffnered
Willies
Loll pale and translucent as dew.
They nni In the thick, golden tresses
An imported switch from Hongkong:
They gather the earliest style-rags.
And the lids that are swell and bon.
ton.
They toss down the cards on the table,
They garner the prizes with glee;
They pluck from the player piano
The notes that are vibrant and free.
They toy with the three -dollar rosebud,
They search out the costliest furs;
They know how to tickle dear papa
Till he coughs up the rhino. and
purrs.
They carry lorgnettes to the sexplay;
They patty -pat-pat to the star;
They gather the delicate seafood-
Red lobster and Russ caviar.
They wave from the grand stand ana
boxes,
They wave to both sinner and saint
And at last when some sucker asks 20:
them.
Dear papa falls down in a faint!
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
MASON CITY FOR MUSE.

Mason CITY liMS5.j
The Clinton Herald, discussing men
of large size as candidates for COVER
nor, suggests that Will Muse. OF Mason
City, is large enough to fill the chair.
But why should the Herald dwell on
averdupois? Or friend Muse has 9TH
er qualifications for the position pc
sides size. Think Of what rafting
good campaign we could have because
every member of the Empyrean maze
quartet, the best in Iowa, and OF Wnicn
he is a member, would accompany the
candidate about the state and we
would have an effusive trail OF harm
ony from Sioux City to keokuk ano
from Lansing to Sidney. The name OF
Mason City would be heralded broad
cast and the mecca for Iowa would De
removed from Dallas county to Cerro
Gordo. Just think OF the emoiun's . =
which would accrue by having gov
ernor In our midst. The more the mat
ter is studied the better It looks ana
the enthusiasm grows with each pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

medals upon his faithful subjects for
greater bravery upon the field of battle.
The working man In England has no
quarrel with the working man in Ger
many, but because the king OF Eng
land wages war upon the emperor OF
Germany and because the emperor OF
Germany has decreed war upon Russia.
faithful subjects must so forth to
battle hundreds of thousands OF them
never to return. With the war cost
running into millions every day, the
British working man can take solace
in the thought that he Is paying tax
TO maintain the royal family in state
betting the greatness and dignity OF
the British empire. 1t costs the tax
payers Of Britain nearly $4,00O,0OO ev-
cry year to maintain the royal family
and its various dependents. Here are
the figures: The king and queen OF
England get civil list amounting to
s2,350, 900 annually: the queen dowager
Alexandria receives $350,000 every
year. the Princess Christian 100000.
the Princess Louise $4,000, the Duke
Of Connaught, $125,0O0; Duchess OF
Edinburg, $4,000; Princess Beatrice,
$50, 900; Duchess Of Albany. $50 900;
Duchess Of Mecklinburg Strellitz. $15.-
600: the trustees for the daughters OF
the late King Edward, $4,000. Tho
king also receives about 100000 from
the Duchy of Lancaster and the Prince
of Wales gets 100000 per year. These
are some Of the things that the British
private in the ranks and the British
toiler in the factories and fields have
70 be thankful for when they remem-
Der the kings birthday. And the peas
ants in Germany, in Austria, in Russia
and in Italy have the same cause to
be thankful and the same cause to
thank God that they have been given
an opportunity to offer up their lives
for the king.
If the present war does nothing
more it should be at least put an end
to "the kings birthdays" Peoria Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
life insurance Millions.

An attempt to define the full mean
ing of the distribution of 1886, 100000
in the name of life insurance in 1914,
as computed by The Insurance Press
from special and official reports, may
prompt the query: The amount Of the
distribution was equal to what as
matter Of money merely?
1t was nearly equal to the ordinary
disbursements, exclusive Of postal
deficiencies, by the United States gov
eminent during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1914, for the civil, was and
navy establishments, pensions, In
dian service and the interest on the
public debt.
1t was nearly two-thirds Of the
amount Of the net national debt. 1t
was more than twice the amount OF
the customs receipts and more than
twice the amount of the internal reve-
nue. receipts.
1t was more than equal to the total
amount Of the expenditures to Nov.
/, 1914, for the purchase, construction,
Notifications, etc, of the Panama
canal and the amount of the balance
of the canal bonds authorized, but not
issued.
Incidentally, and not accounted for
in the computation Of distribution,
for each $1,000 of death claims paid
the American life insurance COM
panies paid SCI for taxes. licenses and
fees. The total of the taxes, ETC., was
nearly equal to 40 per cent of the cor
poration income tax; also As per cent
of the individual income tax that the
United States government collected.
Comparison of the GiStribu ton for
the numerous benefits to members OF
the human race with the expendi-
lures of the people for liquor in the
United states in 1914 showed that the
value of the alcoholic beverages con-
suned was nearly three and one-half
times the amount of the distribution of
$685., 100000 of life insurance money
BY such comparisons can the value
Of life insurance be made impressive.
Its human interest has not been de-
veloped by compulsory laws; the TAX
ing Of life insurance has been, and 1t
will continue to be, voluntary act
after much urging.
It is true, as indicated by the sur
render of millions of dollars worth of
protection in times Of business dis
tress, that the fundamental purposes
Of life insurance are not fulfilled al
ways, but the argument Oh the ;ieces-
sity of providing for family support In
the event of death or for funds for in
come at advanced age Is strengthened
by the evidence of the breakdOWns OF
Individual efforts under the stress OF
adverse circumstances, and the afS.-
ment will be forceful until the last days
of life insurance.-Tile Insurance Press
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
~. kinn,. Birthday.

The British kings birthday has come
and gone. He was 50 years old yester-
day. There are now new peers IN
Great Britain and new honors have
been conferred right and left-and as
the press dispatches say, because OF
the war the list is long one" King
George is grateful because MS Ialtnlui
subjects are lighting for him in the
trenches He has created new peers
and one Of the chiefest was the head
OF q steamship who did signal service
to the crown by transporting troops
safely to the continent. With the thun-
der Of German guns In their ears the
British soldiers in the ranks learn OF
.lesa hnnnrs conferred by a grateful
monarch. AS they hurriediy iiins Siis:
slain comrades into hastily excavated
graves they learn that King George
has conferred more crosses and more
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
MR.. BRYAN QUITS.

''''a' o'''S's VSssS'
The long predicted split in the ad-
ministration between the president and
Secretary Bryan was made open and
definite yesterday by the proffer Of Mr.
Bryan's portfolio and it's acceptance
by the president Difference over the
note to Germany is given as the cause.
THOSE differences no doubt We're the
immediate reasons but it is safe to as
sumo that there were other causes
back of these which had their influ-
ence upon the cabinet change. Some
Of Mr.. Bryan's friends have wondered
that he has remained in the cabinet
SO long under conditions which they
considered lacking In the respect due
to a statesman of his high repute and
the high office he holds. The news
paper reports have suggested that the
president has rather ignored Mr.. Bry-
an; that the principal adviser TO the
throne has been McAdoo the son-in-
law and the story is current that the
Wilson influence and intent are TO seat
the son-in-law In the place of his dis
tinguished father So there
may be and very likely are other con-
stderations that lie behind the action
of the peerless leader in severing his
advisory connection with the admins
ira ton
If Mr.. Bryan found himself unable to
subscribe to and defend the German
hote ana II ne was overruled as seems
to be the case he is entirely within his
rights when he makes this plain bv his
resignation. However, it is not time
TO canvass this particular difference
between the president and the man
who made him president. The country
is pledged to stand by the president In
the German affair. In the cabinet he
has the last word. The note has gone
forward. He has used the best iudy-
ment at his hand and decided between
policies. If he shall be wrong and Mr..
Rryan right that is for the future IN
develop. At present while crossing the
stream few will incline to trade horses
between Wilson and Bryan.
Mr.. Bryan will come out Of the
cabinet stronger politically than he
went in. The ancient and dyed in the
Bryanite is fast color 1t does not
run. Moreover Mr.. Bryan has ecn,,ired
political influence and following that
he has never had, the political friend
ship and support Of the German.
Americans. There is no doubt that this
strong element has set its face agains,
Wilson for reasons fully sufficient unto
itself. Perhaps in this split Bryan
has saved the German democrats to the
party. At any rate it is good guessing
| that Bryan will go to the next demo-
cratic convention, whether or not he
goes as candidate, sufficiently power.
full to see that McAdoo and perhaps
! other possible candidates fail of theil
ambitions.
But all that is for future consider
alton. Just now the president il bus,
with the German note and we are wait.
=
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
Tn. Vacation Peril.

School is out. Millions of youngsters
whom yesterday the schools ABSORBED In
more or less useful occupation will to-
morrow have nothing to do, nothing
except that
satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.
The American public school system
was established under rural conditions
and was adjusted to meet rural condt-
lions. There was hoe for every hand
in those days, and every youngster
graduated straight from the closing
exercises into the cornfield. There was
no parental horror then OF having the
family flock ION their hands during
idle Saturdays and summers. IL TOOK
all of Saturday to chop the next weeks
wood. It took all summer to cuitlVato
next winters food. There were chores
to do before 8 a. m. and aftcr p. m.
II the children were spnreu scs 2 NIX IL.
months term then, that was pretty
generous Of their hard worked parents.
To this day some Nebraska puDhc
schools take an extra vacation In corn
husking time.
Rural conditions, as &c 8 majority OF
American children and parents. disap-
peared. In that unbendinE way which
institutions have, the schools went
straight ahead on rural basis. Still
the short school day, still the Saturday,
holiday, still the long, fallow summer.
Still stands the expensive school mousse
vacant one day out Of every two
and occupied only six months, wnie
parents wreck their nerves and wrench
their hearts in the effort to save them
from the debauching effects OF idle
ness.
BY certain beginnings at supervieea
vacation playgrounds and vacant 10.
farming the city OF Lincoln has shown
glimnering recognition that we are
crowding new wine into old bottles. On
| a sweeping scale ct Gary, Ind: and by
cautious experiment In New York CITY
the school system OF the days OF the
| scythe and flail II being super .s =:
with something different and, safe 70
| say, better. There the school y pc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.


Get out your clothes pins. stock up
with chloride OF lime and sulphur
candles, then prepare to read the in
terstate commerce commission probe
into the affairs OF the Rock Island rail-
road" says the Burlington Gazette.
IF Lieutenant Governor Harding
becomes candidate the feeling will
be strong that the friends of the liquor
legislation of the last session must
center on one man or be beaten" says
the Des Moines Tribune. "If he does
not become candidate this urgency
will be removed from the campaign"
The Burlington Hawkeye says "if
Iowa can not have the presidency it is
not going to seek the vice presidency
Iowa soil raises high grade products
and commands the best markets"
Many country road is good deal
the better because one or more farmers
along it use three or thre and onehalf
inch tired wagons" remarks the Iowa
Falls Sentinel
and good cities" remarks the Sioux
the farms"
Its raining dollars in Iowa this
spring" declares the Davenport Dem
ocrat.
Germany can hardly take the posi-
ton that it has the right to Kill every
man who ventures upon the water
says the Sioux City Tribune. That is
what the president wants Germany to
declare herself on. OF course, if Ger
many We're to insist upon the right TO
stop all travel and commerce on the
seas she would at once declare by that
very insistence that she is at war with
the whole world"
THE travelling man has always been
as the pace setter in the line
II live entertainment. Years ago he got
many orders by taking his customers
out and buying them drinks. In fact
the system was highly approved and
commonly employed RECALLS the Sioux
-ity News. But now comes the Iowa
U. c. T. in convention assembled and
,alls for national prohibition. The very
men who used to be regarded as the
friends of liquor are now its enemies.
Why? Because they know the saloon
business cripples trade and when trade
s crippled travelling men can't sell
FOODS"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

ginning to furnish to children the USE
full active life which farm children get
without school. The longer day, the
consequently nearly doubled capacity
OF the school houses, the training of
hand and head together, the abandon
ment of the long, formal vacation, offer
q hope that finally city schools will get
over their devotion to country condi-
tons, to the eradication of the special
perils over which some million terrified
parents are now losing sleep-Lincoln
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

According to the estimate of the
federal census bureau for 1912 live
stoc in Iowa is worth almost as much
as railroad property and the average
claim agent who has to settle for the
bulls that stray upon the tracks will
be surprised that the livestock is not
worth more than the railroads.
Iowa has $1,000 masons according
to the report Of the grand master Of
the state lodge. This however does
not refer to the lads who get rs cents
an hour for fixing the underpining.
One OF the important announcements
of the day is that the decision for the
steel trust has pelased Judge Gary"
That story of the Eldora doctor who
was thrown from the cras out in Kan
sas has weak point. And man who
could get away from California with
$500 should have been able to take care
Of himself and his money anywhere
else.
All other atrocities are forgotten
when the home pitcher goes wrong.
Mr.. 3. F. Harris, Of Illinois, has is
sued a call to the farm owners of that
state, suggesting that they come to-
gether and perfect an organization.
The purpose OF such an organization
would De to discuss methods Of better
farming; how to bring about more
satisfactory cooperation between the
landlord and tenant, better roads,
schools, drainage, markets, boys and
girls, township and county govern
ment, taxation, legislation. and all
other matters in which farm owners
are interested. Such an organiza-
ton would be of great value if it acts
unselfshly. It is to be remarked that
the residents Of states and COM
munities have common interests which
meet at one point or another A
farmers organization formed with the
purpose Of impraving not only farm
ing but all interests in the state
should be Of great assistance to those
/" AZ 4l10hC laws old llSIlls
Now that the seventeen-year locusts
are due it is time to revive decisions
that they were the advance guards of
war and that wv" on the locust's
wing proved the prediction.
The University ot Maryland con-
ferred a degree on Mr.. Bryan SO he
comes out of it even with Wilson on
that "Dr." business.
The G. A. r. is meeting in Sioux
City. Wonder If 1t will pass resolu-
lions distasteful to the candidate who
finds the work Of the legislature fool
ish" and nom enforcible.
Iowas taxable wealth is placed al
S7,437, 0e4,834 by the federal census bu-
reau but the assessors Of Iowa have
put the valuation OF the state al
33,72s,0Oo or about half itsc real value
as defined by the census bureau. We
pay taxes on one-fourth the assessed
valuation SO we are III FAC. taxed :.ron
one eighth our real values.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

crossing breath. The Times hereby
volunteers TO send two staff represen-
tatives to accompany the gubernatorial
campaign party about the state, one to
act as advance agent and the other
TO perform the duties of follow-up
and 10 interpret, explain and elucidate
the elongated and ethereal words used
by our candidate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

were no outbursts of enthusiasm when
the Italian reservists sailed. The
seemingly dismal sailing was not due
to any lack of national patriotism,
but the word had been passed that II 1t
We're understood that concerted army
movement was being started in this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

country Germany might object unuer
our neutrality regulations and the
United States might prevent the de-
parture of a body of fighting men. In
the other illustration is shown Italian
infantry leaving for the Austrian bat
tile line
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09

In the accompanying illustration is
shown Italian reservists watching a
boxing match on the steamship Duca
degli Abruzzi, which sailed for Naples
All reservists enrolling at the Italian
consulate are being booked in the
steerage of the Italian vessels. There
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-09
If Flowers Should Fade.

[By Irma l.. Wallace
Is the world so much with us that we
pass
The buttercup and daisy breathing
grass?
Do hearts of men so love false riches
lure
That songs of birds. flowers fragrance
children, theyl abjure?
If flowers should fade,
Birds cease to sing,
And children weep,
Would worldly man contented still
obey
But worldly summons and a fowerless
vigil keep?