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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Makino Othere Pay.

In New York street wagon loaded
with lamp globes collided with a truck.
and many of the globes were smashed.
Considerable sympathy was felt for the
driver as he gazed ruefully at the shat
tered fragments. A benevolent looking
old gentleman eyed him compassion
ately.
MY poor man." he said. II suppose
you will have TO make GOOD TINS loss
out of your own pocket?"
YES" was the melancholy reply.
well, we'll" said the philanthropio
old gentleman, hold out your hat
here's quarter for you: and daresay
some of these other people will give you
a helping hand. too"
The driver held out his hat. and sew
eral persons fastened to drop coins In
1t. At last, when the contribution had
ceased. he emptied the contents Of his
hat into his pocket. Then, pointing to
the retreating figure of the philan-
thropist who had started the collection.
he observed: Say, maybe he amt the
wise guy! That's my bossp
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Topics Of the Times

Where there's will there's always
a way. The Iowa farmer who mounted
his binder on skids and ran the binding
with a gasolene motor
while eight big horses dragged the raft
around the field illustrates that. He
exempHfies something else-the spirit
of the age that refuses to believe any
thing Impossible from flying to cutting
wheat with a stoneboat-
And Perrin never read a nickel Ii
brary in his life, was considered q
model youth and hadn't any bad habits.
Something gave that boy the wrong
steer. Suppose 1t was the impression
that a man with a lot Of money, how
ever obtained, Is the biggest toad in
the puddle?
One Of Clifford Thorne's finest ac-
QUESTIONS Is the enemies he has made.
And the same is true Of George Co.'S
son. Also 1T IL fact that csrtain en-
mites are assets.
II it's fact that cah KMehnle is
worth half million there's q. lot Of
folks in Iowa that would rather have
half as much than to be governor.
80
When those Sioux City breweries are
finally turned into buttermilk factories
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
con.eouences in Mexico.

Our conception OF duty with regard
to Mexico is that of a policeman travel
ing tough beat. He knows from long
experience that every 80 often he will
have 20 step into some quarrel and see
IL he can not reduce the disorder. But
it is no part Of his duty to work to
change the conditions which inevitably
produce the disorder. He deals with
the consequences and not with the
causes. Occasionally 1t might occur to
h m that the procedure was hardly In
telligent, but II is not his business TO
change It, 1t is his duty merely to SEQ
that things don't become too bad.
When Americans read that United
States battleships again were on their
way to Vera Cruz they must have had
the policeman's sensations. We are
dealing with consequences and not with
causes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17

some Roadway will be made - regards
better government In that thrifty town
Big Gladys'' and Mike the Bite" and
their hangouts do not flourish on but
tefmilk.
The only solid. safe and sane coin in
the world yesterday was the American
dollar. The English pound was or
more than 25 cents and other foreign
monetary units of lighting nations were
shy their face value. There's profit
in peace.
If Atlanta and the state OF Georgia
was as pertinaciously consistent In
other ways as in their purpose to lynch
Leo Frank the state would lead the
world.
When a solicitor comes to you asking
funds for children's home outside the
state just remember that Iowa has two,
one at Otoumwa and another at Coun-
Gil Bluffs that have proved themselves
and are worthy OF any support you
may be able to offer. Just now inquiry
is on foot as to certain solicitors from
the outside for alleged orphans homes.
If you have anything to give send it
to home institutions. Then you know
it is going to do the work you sent it
on.
Warning is sent out against lepef
who Is supposed to be roaming about
Iowa. At that he isn't as dangerous as
the moral kind which is permitted to
mingle with the crowds without warn
ing or check.
About time that Teddy cut out his
muller again, isn't it?
McA DOCS plan of financing Mexico
and Perrin's kind of investments have
a family resemblance
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17

winter. At any rate there We snhsht-
ened selnahness IN what those baa.
ness men did. They passed around Q
new kind OF subscription paper. !.
called for manual labor instead OF
cash. It was signed by about sixty
Of the town jewellers, practically all
Of whom knew something about the
Joys and sorrows Of farm life And
The next day fifteen automobiles car
ried huge volunteer relief expedi-
ton out into the country where the
farmers needed help with their grain.
The bunch visited farm after farm
in a body. Where there was shock
ing to be done it was done in hurry,
many hands making light work. Where
the farmer was found we'll up with his
work he was given three cheers for
his observation-disclosures. When tho close
OF the day found the relief work un.
finished, part Of the volunteers enlist
ed for another day Of It. and the Dee"
was repeated the next day and again
on the next. When the incident closed
no more oats was lying around spoil
ing for lack Of willing hands 70 take It
in out Of the wet. And there were q
lot of tickled business men and farm
ers in and around PocahontaA
The town people and farm folks had
got better acquainted than they ever
were before. The town people had not
only given a practical demonstration
OF desire to help out the country
neighbors. but had gone out and played
the farmers own game sympathetical-
ly and in the main effectively. The
natural inclination Of this friendly
turn must be toward a reciprocal one.
Can the gentle reader con1ure up
a mental picture OF one Of those Po-
cahontas county farmers getting out
the big catalog OF STUFF and ordering
a wagon load Of stun shipped to him
by freight from Chicago next winter,
in preference to driving to town and
giving profit to the men who helped
him save his oats? No. Neither can
else.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
A COMMITTEE OF ABLE MEN.

Governor Clarkes selection for the
Iowa Better Roads Commission has
been announced. Without mentioning
the editor Of the Times Republican
with whom the readers of this news
paper feel sufficiently acquainted, the
personnel of the commission is excep-
tionately strong. Senator Foster, of
Guthrie Center, has long been a stu
dent of the road problem, and entered
the state senate solely beca use of his
desire to accomplish something for his
state in the matter of more permanent
road building. He is a successful law
yer and banker and approaches all
problems with mature judgment
hardened in a school Of practical af-
fairs.
Mr.. Meredith, Of Des Moines, is one
of the most CONSPICUOUS business sue
cesses in Iowa. His journal, Success
full Farming, has become more of an
institution in Des Moines than bust
ness and the President of the United
States has been sufficiently attracted
to Meredith to place him on the board
of the federal reserve bank. Within
the democratic party he is a leader. 1t
may be assured that no road program
will get by him without it contains the
elements OF sound business finance.
Mr.. Brockway Is one OF the biggest
farmers in Iowa. He, as much as any
other one man, created the present
highway law in the Thirty-fi Cen
eral assembly, which Is looked upon
turnout the United States as a model
plan for highway administration. He
went home to find his own land on
township road so he promptly i'm
proved his road and put it to grade at
his own expense. Farmers need not
fear prohibitive burdens from any
thing Mr.. Brockway viii endorse.
Mr.. Davis must be a big lawyer or
else he would not have been selected
by the c. & N. w. Ry. for IS states
attorney. He occupies with that road
the position Senator cummins once,
held with the Book Island and which
Senator Kenyon held with the Illinois
Central He is road booster With
ideas and his railway company IL Vi
tally interested In the perfection of a
system Of highway feeders which can
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
LICENSING cHAv1AuoUAs.

Some newspapers are demanding
that the chautaueua pay license fee
like circus or any other itinerant
was started by an attempt to collect
such fee from a chautauQua held in
southern Iowa which resulted in the
chautauqua management fall an
nouncement that it would pass up the
town if the fee was enforced. AS the
town wanted the chautauqua more
A chautauoua is not a carnival. 1t
IS something very much different. In
the first place whether the manage
ment is foreign or domestic it is in
variably backed by a considerable
number OF home people who want a
chautauqua for its educative features
business men who take into considera-
ton that it draws a thrifty class to
town. Those people who back it do
not expect to profit materially in any
way. On the contrary, they take a
chance of loss and many times have
been forced TO dig up after a rainy
week And those public minded people
have some claim on public considera-
ton.
With most of the so-called chautau-
qua systems" it is as tho the course
had been bought by a lyceum club;
that is the system insures itself
against heavy loss by the advance sale
of tickets. But with all that there is
very good chance that the system
will lose money: For instance:
system" a few years ago met with
long rainy early season thru the north
ern. part of its circuit and suffered
loss of equipment thru storms. II
came to Marshalltown at about the
middle of its season $4,000 behind
with it's manager begging and Dor
rowing money to keep going. II re-
vived when IT got into Missouri and
paid out, but it didn't make dollar
liidl S1I <tl!d Tic ScSl io-pci III 0AA
ming six chautauquas daily for six
weeks was done gratis SO far as its
proprietors were concerned. It is not
all skittles and beer for the system"
and there are few of those systems"
that pay more than a good salary to
their manage ments.
Sc IN, Er.p
taxing the chautauqua than for taxing
a baseball tournament because an ad-
mission fee is charged and players are
paid for their services. 1t is also to
be taken into consideration that the
admission fees to chautauquas are
ridiculously low. The average Of the
that sells at 81 to $50 and which may
include talent that sells in large cities
at 50 cents to sl.50, according to the
location of the theater seats, is to be
given consideration. A well arranged
ciautauQua program is boon to the
average small city and town And that
also deserves the consideration of the
public officers and the public.
In short the outcry as to the advan-
rage given chautauquas over circuses
and carnivals and street fakirs is most
~ noise, much cry and little wool. The
chautauqua with real chautauqua
program should meet a warm welcome.
That with vaudeville program should
be given the go by.
And it is also to be considered that
some people would insist on license
fee from a revival il there was any
proposition.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
IOWA FARM LANDS.

The William McTurk farm in lama
county near Traer has just been
sold for $3.50 per acre. The improve
ments are good, but they do not ma
terial1y affect the price Of the land.
Ten years ago, this farm sold for 500
per acre and the new improvements all
told do not represent $1,000. 1t is just
an instance Of the way the Iowa farms
are rising in price everywhere. And
the people, who have been tellins
others, that the top had been reached
and that the bottom was going to fall
out OF the Iowa land boom have an
other guess coming. In fact, there
has never been a boom in Iowa land.
but there has been q steady advance
in Iowa land prices. owing to the fact,
that Iowa is the best farming state
in the union. and has the best soil, the
best climate and never did have crop
failures. It is almost a cfnch that the
Iowa. farmer Is going to make hand
some profits in twelve years out Of
each dozen, and that is the reason why
Iowa land increases in price. It 10 not
high now, it not too high. and will
probably never be too high. But in the
past, 1t has been entirely too cheap,
and the people Of Iowa are Just be-
ginning to discover that fact.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Car I.n't Worth q Mortgage.

An automobile Is not worth any
great debt-making sacrifice. II a man
has to mortgage his home or farm or
go in debt for machine, he should not
get it, Otherwise he should have a
machine. The upkeep OF an automobile
is OF course expensive, but the man
who can afford one doesn't notice this.
On the other hand, the man who can't
afford one would have the upkeep to
pay and also the interest on the bor-
rowed money. The two combined would
make the automobile burden and g
worry instead OF a comfort.
For the man who can afford one It's
value can't be counted in dollars and
cents. One day last TALL the buildings
on q neighbors farm caught fire. In
our machine managed to get chemi-
cal hand extinguishers to the place
before the house caught. After 1t was
out of danger we reloaded the exun-
guishers and put out the fire in 500
bushels OF uninsured wheat OF course
the wheat did not bring top price, but
they were able 30 sell it. Besides these
unexpected things the machine has
been useful for 80 many hurried trips
and saved % much time that feel It
has almost paid for itself.
One night after supper recently,
when my mother and were ready to
start to town with 4 load of produce.
a neighbor woman telephoned that one
Of her hives Of bees had swarmsd.
She said might have them II could
get them in . hive.
We drove to town. did our trading.
drove to the homo of the friend with
tho bees, and got the bees in a hive
before dark. II 1t hadn't been for the
machine, either the trip 10 town or the
trip to the neighbofs for tho bees
would had to have been given up.
There is much satisfaction IN knowing
one can. barring accidents. go some
where without wasting q lot Of time
on the road.
Then again It IL suoh q comfort and
pleasure The other day we had ell
worked hard and were fired and dis
couraged when evening came, because
things had not gone we'll. Someone
suggested tha4 we 90 out. So We left
home at O'Clock. reached nearby
town in time to get seats for good
entertainments, and were back homo by
IL. The next morning things seemed
to- mtaug1e themselves and 80 along
without . bit Of troubls. II We had not
had q machine we would have plodded
of to bed at O'Clock. each wishing in
his heart that he WAS back in town
Farm and Firesids.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
THE pocAHoNrAs EXAMPLE.
fSioux City Juur.n.:.i!.1

(5lOux City JOUssss-
Something happened near Pocahon-
tas the other day that ought to put q
crimp in Pocaa1ontas county patronage
OF the mail order houses. The Poca-
hontas example ought to have this ef-
feet, because It carried an unusually
plain object lesson OF the unity Of In
terest between town and country.
The chance to point this moral came
to Pocailor tas when word was brought
to town that much oats was rotting in
the fields for Jack Of labor TO care for
It. The crop had been cut and bound
between showers, but % many fields
were cut about the same time that
sfockers enough TO 90 around could
not be secured at any price. The farm
ers mourned and refused to be COM
forted over their inability TO get their
oats IN shock and thereby avoid the
6,sastrous effects Of further showers.
Maybe the PocahontaS business men
were merely selfish about II. Maybe
they figured that IL the farmers' oats
crop wasn't saved. business would be
rather poor at the stores during tie
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Iona Newspapers
WARRIORS.
fort Dodge Chronicle.1


Bill Payne, Of Nevada, wants us to
help France to HEX Germany and now
comes General Jim Rush Lincoln and
ayers that we are permanently dis
graced If we do not clean out Mexico.
The bellicose Payne calls attention
to the fact that $50 years ago we
sought aid from France, and got it,
and that it is now up to us to deliver
the quid pro quo. AS a professional
soldier Lincoln is entitled to more re-
spect II is the business OF the pro-
fessional soldier to fight
There is, however, nothing to pre-
vent Payne and Lincoln from going
to war II they want to, either at home
or abroad.
On the theory that those who want
to fight should do the fighting. we
are prepared for the sacrifice. This
Is a free country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
AND IN CEDAR RAPIDS?
CCe5ar Panids Eazetto

Before the primary in which there
was rioting and killing, Henry Wat
terson writing in his Louisville Cour-
ier-Journal made these predictions:
The situation in this town is only
little short Of desperate, because there
may yet be time and saving grace to
rescue it from impending evil But
unless its leading men and all its citi-
zens realize the danger and come to
the rescue it is only a question Of a
year or two when a horde OF crazy
fanatics. led by group of handed
politicians will swoop down upon US
and sweep these streets Their raid
upon one industry striking at all in
dustries. making a desolation and cali
ing 1t morality, and. as in the twink
ling Of an eye. changing the loveliest
and happdest Of cities into a hubble
Of bankrupt institutions and empty
houses.
He seems TO have nit off TIE recent
primary in his state about right Put
did he not contribute to the la,wless-
ness that disgraced Kentucky on that
election days? It seems to use that he
helped to arouse the lighting preju-
dtces and propensities Of the people.
His description OF Louisville as the
'loveliest and happiest place, fort!-
fed by dfstilleries is somewhat far
fetched The whiskey they make IN
Kentucky has not always produced the
'1oveiiest and happiest" results abroad.
There are homes all over the country
in which furniture has been smashed.
Where wives have been beaten and
where children have walked barefoot
ed because Kentucky whiskey had en-
tered too much into the man OF the
family There are two sides to this
question The makers OF whiskey may
live in lovely and happy homes in
Louisville surrounded by wealth and
"refnesn ents" but those who contrib
ute to that wealth are apt to be Of all
men the most miserable and their
wives and families still more miser-
able The men who garner the profits
OF the business are better off than
the men who spend their earnings on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
The Nevx.paper Guy.

ne newspaper GUY
see a man pushing his way thru the
lines
OF the cop. where the work Of the hre-
fend shines.
Tho chief" / inquire. but 4 fireman
replies.
'Oh no. that's one Of those newspaper
guys"
see a man start on the trail Of z
crook.
He scorns all assistance, but brings
him to book.
mr.. Burns?" / inquire. Some one
scornfully CRIES
Burns? No: he's just one Of them
Newspaper guys"
I see man walk thru the door Of q
show,
Where hundreds are blocked by tho
sign, s. r. o.
lis this fellow star that no ticket
he buysT
swell hardly. Just one OF those news
paper guys"
I see a man knock on q presidents
door.
And the sign mo Admittanee" COM
pletly ignore.
SIS this Morgan. that privacys right
he denies?"
Morgan? Shucks! It's just one Of
those newspaper guys"
And some day I'll walk by the great
gates OF gold,
And see man enter, unquestionsd and
bold.
"A saint?" I'll inquire. and old Peter
will reply.
well. should say not; he's q news-
paper guy"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Masonic Meetings.
epEcIAI REMUNERATION

/" SPECIAL coMMuNiCAIi ION
Marshall Lodge. No. lOs F. & A NJ a.
work in first degree Friday. Aus u
John w. Wells. secretary
Steiner, w. NJ. y,
sleNET CHAPTER, No: 3d. H.
Regn1ar Convocation MONDAY w
AS 1s l. S. kilborn, H. p 'ohh W.
Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. Kin. ,s s %nnaag
councu No 20, R & 8. M, Mo onpss
recorder; George Gregory, T. L NJ
REGULAR coNcLAvE, St ra Asasaas.
commandery No. 80, x. =. /, bnstness.
Aug. IT. o'clock. h Ga u.r, Gregory,
NJ. S. Mcfarland. Rec 1eo-
: REGULAR MEETING Central Central c sspt.
ter no o. M M. Business. Anna 7is poW w ~
. 10, . Mary Black Collins, ". ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17

struction Of . good paving. The Inn
portant factors arc the right specifi-
cations and proper inspection Of the
Job at every stage. Too much paw
ing has been laid in Iowa without due
confederation by city councils before
the letting OF contracts.
When this state establishes certain
standards for each Of the we'll known
kinds Of paving. and devises means by
which It is possible for every munic-
ipality to check up the construction
work at every stage. there will be less
skepticism about the permanency of
paved highways IN Iowa.
1OWtA;S STRATEGIC POSITION.
lDes Moines Register and Leader.]
Iowa's onion crop, laments the state
of Washington, has knocked the bot
tom out Of the western market, and
onions are being sold below cost in the
coast states.
Iowa could knock the bottom out Of
the western apple market, If the people
of this state were so minded. Indeed,
Iowa can raise almost anything that
will grow outside Of the tropic zone,
and this state is so favorably situated
with reference to customers that the
TAR west can not possibly offer equal
Iowa is verify the garden Of the
gods, and her emblem should be the
With riches thrust upon the state
In such profusion, Iowa should have
the finest homes. the finest schools,
the finest roads, the least pauperism.
the least crime of any member of the
American commonwealth. The time
has arrived for Iowa's material wealth
to be matched by a corresponding ma
terial progress. We can not afford to
allow other and poorer states to out
strip us.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-17
Use EN-.

rCedar Rapids Gazette.1
The sheriff, genial John Taylor.
pushed his big bulk into the office the
other day for a chat.
How many prisoners are doffing
their hats TO you now" he was asked.
Twenty" was the reply.
What are they doing for their
boardo"
"Nothin'.''
Don't you think they should do a
little work that would pay for their
keep"
you bet do. They pound rock once
in while hut that doesn't get the
county anything"
The sheriff was right The county
realizes nothing from the work done
by prisoners who waste their days
making little rocks out OF big ones.
The most it can hope to DO is create
good appetites among the county
charges appetites which require heavi-
er. meals Healthy appetites are all
right. but they are expensive to the
fellow or county which satisfies
them.
Gould a couple Of fellows with SAW
ed-of shot guns take what whole gang
Of prisoners out on country ROAD
and keep them at work." was another
query.
Easily" said John.
Linn county. could use Ave thousand
men on it's roads for the rest OF the
year and the Job Of making first class
thorouga,fares would not then be com :
pleted. These prisoners cost the coun-
ty heavily. The present method OF en-
acting penalties for petty offences de-
serving Of sentences Of from ten to
thirty and sixty days in the bastile Is
a poor investment. It might be made
to pay. Some Of the habttual criminals
welcome the opportunity to live a lie
OF comparative ease within the ancient
pile Of debris at Marion.
There might be less crime II these
fellows faced good hard work on the
county roads every time they became
tangled in the meshes Of the law. And.
IL the sawed of shotguns presenter
persuasive appearance. those who are
arrested doubtless could perform quite
well with the pick and shovel.
Why not make an experiment!