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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
1xo POSTAL lllcoaePE1EnIs.

President Wilson showed much of
the hard common sense with which
he is generally credited when he com
lnanded the reinstatement Of the Win
netka postmaster who had been re-
moved by the postoffice department
for lese majesty in speaking disre-
spectfully of the president and his
matrimonial venture. 1t was also good
politics; for in this country we assume
the license to make remarks about
people high and low. Perhaps 1t Is a
fools license but the official who takes
advantage of an official position to
punish personal criticism sours his
own milk. The Winnetka postmaster
talked like a chump and If President
Wilson had met him in the road and
kicked him where nature has indicated
4 roar of laughter and approval would
have been sent Up ece:n the whole
country. But to fire the man from Of
flee is different affair. And Wilson
knew that as we'll as any other. 1t is
also but fair to the president to credit
him with the Americanism that refuses
to use official power to satisfy private
pique.
1t is time the president turned his
attention to the postoffice department.
We have never had postal officials
who managed to acquire and deserve
the dislike and arouse the protest that
the present outfit has awakened. The
assistant postmaster general made an
ass Of himself. The postmaster gen
eral is running a great and necessary
service at least in this state where the
rural mail delivery Is being butchered.
The removal of the Winnetka man
was an incident in the arrogance and
foolish assumption of a postoffice boss.
The wholesale ripping up and partial
destruction of the rural delivery SER
vice in Iowa is little short of calamity.
1t is harder blow to the progress of
the state than the wet season and the
early frost.
If the president desires to make
friends against an evil day he could
not do better than to fire the foolish
assistant postmaster as incompetent
and the postmaster general as dan
gerouSly unfit to have autocratic power
over service SO important as the
rural mail delivery. The same hard
sense and knowledge of the people that
reinstated the Winnetka man should
suggest change in the postoffice de-
partment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

no doubt is what reconciles many a
wife to the regularity with which veal
loaf served for Sunday dinner hobs up
on Wednesday in coy setting OF let
tuce leaves. Boarding house veal loaf
Is harder to get rid OF than a relative
from the far west who 10 trying to
tire out a sixty-day return ticket.
1t will probably be admitted that
there would be better boarding houses
in this country II all boarders would
remit the first Of the month in long,
sinewy silver certificates instead OF
putting up furniture which escaped
the chattel mortgage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
DANGER-sLow DowN!


In reducing the cost of their wares
the automobile manufacturers have
cheapened human life. One can not
pick up a newspaper from anywhere
that does not record an automobile ac-
cident, a large portion of them fatal.
The mortality the country over from
motor cars approaches that Of war.
There are many reasons for this car
mage. People are driving cars who are
not fit to do so: some of them light up
with alcohol and many are reckless.
The law officers should attend to these.
The chief cause, however. is the speed
mania that appears to have affected
nearly everybody who has the price.
The man of average good impulses
would find it hard to forgive himself
if he should be the means of Fastening
a fellow mortal's exit. It is best to
guard against such a contingency by
going slower and exercising more care.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

not exceeding 5000 for work, material
or supplies. But this money can not
be legally spent except in cases Of
real emergency, such as to repair dam
aged caused by storms. or to meet 9TH
or contingencies which will not admit
OF delay. In all other cases the coun-
Gil should. under the law, authorize
these expenditures of the public funds.
The remedy for existing abuses, If
such really exist, is simple, and does
not necessitate purchasing commit
tee such as is now proposed, and which
the Advertiser believes could not be
legally vested with any such power
and authority.
The Clinton council can secure bot
tom prices for supplies by receiving
bids for these supplies In large guam
titles at the beginning Of each fiscal
year, and awarding contracts to the
lowest bidders, as the law provides.
And if during the year there arise
circumstances which make necessary
more supplies or new expenditures for
other purposes. these expenditures
should only be made by resolution in
council meeting in which every mem
Der % the council has a voice. Ex-
cepting, always, in the case Of actual
emergencies, as above set forth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

soldier. Of a new microbe which
changes sugar to fat and thus pro-
duces substance Of high nutritive val-
ue which Is readily assimilated. The or.
ganism supplements the work Of an.
other used in Transforming sugar into
albumen. Among the manifestations
Of German thoroughncss is the nriliza-
ton Of chemical processes in warfare.
In the picture are seen two German
military scientists, In uniform, con.
Quoting an experiment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
coMPL1MENTING KENYON.

llOWd lily SlllZeIll
Editor Pat Murphy and Editor Billy
Payne are engaged in vigorous debate
over the question of putting Senator
Kenyon on the delegation to the re-
publican national convention next
year.
Murphy has the affirmative and
Payne the negative side of the PROPOSE
ton,
The affirmative argues that Kenyon
is one Of our greatest men and most
successful politicians, and should be
put where he can do the most good
The negative agrees as to the quail
fications and asserts them as the rea-
son why he does not need seat on
the delegation to be effective.
1t is difficult to see how Kenyon
can find fault with either of his edi-
torial friends.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

ling countryB borders we say not at some nISnaIs
orders. In Europe now preparing for months of
freezing desparng they'll spend the winter In the
trenches, while foes with and monkey wrenches
daily disodge them and they'll be too
blamed cold dodge them. Oh. when you're seated In
your rocker with trusty and shilling shocker with
comfort all around and not peril to
YOU think your trans Atlantic cousins are
being shot by the dozens There comforts In
the rocking chairs padded benches there
sprighty evening papers, tell the latest foot
ball capers The must stand In muddy water. and
the swatter and SILVER in the Bit
blizzard which freezes them from to gizxard Oh
think that while you rocking before the fire. and
bhey talking Of White House brides and income taxes
think Of the swords and battle-axes! se
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
Iona Newspapers
FOOTBALL.
[Cedar RAPIDS Republican,.

We would not emphasize brute
strength too much, neither would we
ignore 1t too much. In proper channels
it is an excellent thing. We need a
little of the roughness Of football to
develop we'll balanced manhood. We
must nto lay too much stress IN mere
softness. We need to cultivate some
OF the elemental and primitive in
stincts. Football as it is now played
offers many advantages. 1t is at least
one of the things that people, old and
young, alike The boy of 10 can under
stand it for the theory of the struggle
for supremacy is already being forrced
in his mind. Indeed, he is born with IN.
il he is ever to amount to anything.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
PURCHASING CITY SUPPLIES.
CC1ipton Advert iSer.1

[C1nton Advertiser.1
The Iowa code is thoroughly SPECIFIC
in the matter of the purchase Of sup
plies by cities and towns Of the COM
nlonwealth. Local interest in this sub
iect has been created by the introduce
ton of an ordinance in the city council
last Tuesday evening providing for
purchasing committee, to be appointed
by the mayor, bonded in the sum OF
$4,000, and invested with the sole au-
thority to buy the city's supplies.
Here is what the Iowa code provides,
in section 66S, chapter one:
1.-The councils of cities OF the first
and second class shall advertise in at
least two newspapers published in the
said city, for three weeks with two IN
sertions for each week, for bids for
furnishing all supplies of every kind
for the several departments OF the
city: said advertisements to be pub
lished two weeks before the beginning
of the fiscal year"
The question which now arises, In
view of the fact that the law SPECIFIC
ally provides the manner of purchasing
supplies for the city, is whether the
city council has authority 20 delegate
that power to committee Of the
council, such as is proposed in Council
man Grotes ordinance This action
seems, on the face Of 1t, to conflict
with the state law.
This law provides ample protection
against extravaganza, graft or col
fusion in the purchasing Of city sup
plies
In Clinton there has been no charge
OF any such collision or extravaganza
Those who are behind the proposed
ordinance are endeavoring to best con-
serve the city's finances, and to brint
about a condition whereby supplies
may be purchased at bedrock prices
But without any such ordinance thes'
finances would be entirely safeguardee
| by strict adherence on the part OF TIT
city council to the existing lows law
Hap-hazard purchasing Of supplies
| by heads Of departments. or by mem
bers Of these several departments, ant
the purchasing OF supplies in small
quantities must result In great waste
Of money in the course Of year. Blu
| these heads or members OF depart
ments have no legal right to purchas
supplies for tier departments, at tn
] city's expense. The letter and sprt
Of the law is that the whole council
not committees, individual members
| the council nor department head
or members, shall do the buying. TIL
department heads should make requf
sition to the proper committee for In
cidental supplies needed during tn
course of the year, and that commit
tee should then present the matter I
the whole council, and the expenditure
II it is deemed necessary, should
authorized by resolution. sss5s :
Under the law, however, the counc
committees have the power, in case
OF emergency, to spend sums OF none
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
Makina e awim.

There is story told that some
years ago the keeper of the lighthouse
on Tory island Gan Englishman) got
marriedsto London girl and his wife
had, among other effects, piano sent
after her to her new home. BY and
by the news reached the island that
the instrument was on the mainland,
and two islanders were dispatched in
"a luzger to fetch It across. The light
house keeper and his wife were wait
ing the arrival Of the plano which was
to brighten the long winter evenings;
but to their disappointment they saw
the boat returning without the instru-
ment.
where 10 the piano?" shouted the
lighthouse keeper when the 1ugger had
got within haiiing distance.
Its all right" replied some OF the
boatmen; "sure we're towing it behind
us!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
lEsREPUBIIcAN MARsHALErowN. IOWA: NovEMBh..--.

hope Of release before the expirations
Of their sentences, who would not
menace society in the least" says the
Sioux City Tribune. "They are nat
urally and normally law abiding clti-
zens but they made the one bad step.
Such OF these as are without influence
have less chance for freedom than the
confirmed criminal with some friend or
lawyer outside to set the machinery OF
clemency In motion
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
Republican Presidential Timber.

Less than eight months from now the
candidates for the next presidency of
the United States will have been nomi-
mated. Less than four months from now
the primaries which will determine the
candidate will have begun and some of
the delegates will have been elected. Al
the present moment it is possible to say
that the most aggressive candidacy for
the republican nomination is that Of
Senator John w. Weeks of Massachu-
sets. Ex-senator Root is not really
available. Justice Hughes is, as always,
the republicans one best chance, but
his disinclination to permit the use of
his name has not been diminished. In
the Judgment of the closest and most
careful observers he is likely to remain
firm in refusing to permit the use of his
name in the race. Senator Burton of
Ohio is the third conservative who
shows strength and commands good
deal Of public confidence. Among the
more progressive possibilities of the re-
publican party, Cummins and Borah
are the only persons who have enoug n
following to be considered. With the
layout as it stands here, is the publican
partly likely to make much Of a show
ing in the next national election?-Col-
Tiers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
Status Of "Moxis /,

To 1000 editors the question was re-
Gently submitted as to whether the
word movie" Is to be regarded as a
legitimate English word to be used
without quotation marks Five hun
dred voted for the words admission
without adornments; 22o declared that
the word is still on probation; $50
failed to express an opinion. but are
probably to be counted with the ma
jority.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

Germany has a new food, discovered
by a soldier In her trenches, which she
believes will be q powerful ally against
famine. Had the amazing story of it's
discovery appeared IN any other pub
location than the Chemiker Zeitung, re-
garded by many scientists IS the lead
ing organ of chemistry in the world.
it might be received with a shrug Of
incredulity. The latest number Of this
journal tells of the finding by young
bacteriologist, who is .slso private
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
THE AsHrABuLA WAY.
dubuque Times-Journal.]

lDuUuQuc 1hleS-JOuTIldIJ
Looks as II Ashtabula, o., has
slipped one over on some OF the So
called progressive cities.
Ashtabula has just held an election
which resulted in the choice Of q
council composed OF members OF each
political party in the. proportion OF
their strength in the electorate.
Each voter marks his first, second
third choice. etc. on up to seven. Any
man who gets one-seventh of the
votes is elected In other words. II
one-seventh of the voters agree on a
candidate for alderman, he is elected
regardless of ward boundaries.
In this case only one man was
elected on first choice, so they counted
the combined first and second choices
and elected a couple more; then the
combined first, second and third, and
SO on.
1t took all night and part of the
next morning to decide on all seven
councilmen-but this delay could be
ended by use Of an adding machine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATION


Marshall Lodge No. los A. f. and A. VI
Regular meeting Friday, Nov ~. q 9p
D. N. John W. Wells, secretary, w. u
Steiner, w. NJ.
SiGNET CHAPTER, No. ss. n. A. d.
Regular convocation Monday eVen'n $
Nov. %. L. S. Kilbo-n. H. F. john
W. Wells. Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No. 20, R. & 8. NJ. Monday
after third Sunday. 1. T. Forbes re-
corder; George Gregory, T. !. NJ
REGULAR coNcLAvE. st. Alden AZ
CcnImandery No. 30. K. L.. Tuesday
Oct. 10, 1880 o'clock. Regular BUSINESS
NJ S. Mcfarland. Rec; George Gresof''
z. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
tor No 81 O. E s.. Wednesday, NOV
II. 1880 p. m. Business. Anna po"h-
ing. secretary; Mary Black Collins
w. M.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
FORESIGHT.


Senator Lodge was talking in Bos-
ton about certain investigating COM
mittees.
They are like the brook" he said;
they flow on forever. Some of them,
in fact, remind me strongly Of 81 Hos
kins.
Isl Hoskins got job last spring at
shooting muskrats, for muskrats over
ran the mill owners dam.
There, in the lovely spring weather
81 sat on the grassy bank, his gun Son
his knee, and, finding him thus one
morning, said:
what are you doing, 81?
"Tm paid to shoot the muskrats
sir he answered. They're undermine
ing the dam
There goes one now said 1
Shoot, man! Why don't you shoot?
Isl pulled tranquil cloud from his
pipe, and said:
DO you think want to lose my
iul, % s..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
WOMAN AT THE POLLS.
[SiouX City Journal

Do the women want to vote?
The Fort Dodge example goes to
show that they do. Undoubtedly 1t will
figure prominently in the coming
propaganda for the equal suffrage
amendment of Iowa. If the demon
stration had been deliberately planned
for effect in the amendment campaign,
it could hardly be utilized to better
advantage. The Fort Dodge example
goes to show that women can be in
duced to vote about as readily as the
men when a proposition Of genuine
municipal interest is at stake.
The question to be decided at Fort
Dodge was whether the city was to
float 100000 bond issue to build
municipal dam in the Des Moines river.
Ihe dam was intended eventually to
supply power for municipal electric
plant. Immediately it was to con-
tribute to the pleasure of the city by
expanding rather spindly river into
"a lake which would give Fort Dodgers
the watering place diversions for which
they must now motor to Okoboji The
proposition developed perhaps the
hottest campaign in the history of the
Webster county capital 1t was fought
by those who We're opposed to NUM-
SAPdA OWASISIIp On O1
course, it was opposed by business in
terests that would be affected ad-
versely by the city's entry into the
light and power field. The dam would
affect some property holders favorably
and injure others These conflicting
interests contended in the newspapers
and on the hustings, beginning with
law and statistics and winding up
"a hi t.,
junction was applied for and refused.
AS the women We're eligible to vote,
many of the arguments were aimed
directly at them. Election day found
the whole town excited over the dam
issue and doubtful about the result
The bond issue carried by majority
of sS6 in total vote of 4,5S2. OF this
total the men cast 2,511 votes and the
women, 2,O71. Not only did the women
almost equal the total Of the men, but
they cast majority OF their votes for
the dam. as the men did.
The box score" Of the Fort Dodge
bond elections stands as an emphatic
answer to the argument that women
can not be interested in public ques-
tons sufficiently to induce them to go
TO the polls in the same proportion as
the sterner sex. To complete the rec
ord, 1t must be added that the Fort
Dodge women had had some training
in the way Of voting on bond issues
in some red hot school elections. but
had never cast more than one fourth
OF the large total vote brought out in
the recent election. The women, like
men. were brought out by the extra
ordinary publicity campaign, and in
almost equal numbers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
BOARDING.
ND SELLING luax -d cabba6es- . hn&

a man who always made 1t a point to
be half an hour late for his meals at
home will be the first one down at
the boarding house. and instead OF
reading the daily paper he will fairly
bristle with vivacity and repartee on
which the patents have expired. This
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Perhaps the worst handicap that
Mr.. Meredith would work under as
democratic candidate for governor is
his close Des Moines associations, but
even this likely could be overcome
says the Dubuque Telegraph Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

john T. Hamilton. of Cedar Rapids,
has issued a declaration to the effect
that he will not seek the gubernat orial
nomination on the democratic ticket"
notes the Council Bluffs Nonpareil and
says LAS political news item this
statement is clearly entitled to CLASH
fication as innocuous' or non-essen-
tial.''
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

In the prisons Of Iowa. Nebraska
and South Dakota, there are hundreds
Of men serving time today, with little
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17
THE GREAT BLESSING

be grateful since warfare gr
smiling countrys at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

TT is WELL" concludes the Webster
City FreemanT Tribune. Amy man who
can write such letter as Hamilton
wrote anent the Charlie Thomas parole
isn't fit to be governor of Iowa, and 1t
is fortunate that Mr.. Hamilton recog-
nizes uhe fact"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

THE game of football at all times
borders upon the brutal and it is not
an ideal American game" declares the
Boone News Republican. II 1t Is to
be continued, still more stringent rules
preventing the exhibition of vicious
ness should be adopted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

TT is possible to make the school
course so innocent that the most in
different may make their way thru it
without distress to their mental facul-
ties or awakening the powers that
open to them the broad road Of under
standing" declares the Fort Dodge
Chronicle, and says This seems to be
the direction In which the state teach
ers' association is aiming"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-17

Cummins has always been a stake
horse. The farther he goes the better
he stays. And that is worth consid-
ering in the race in which the Iowa
man is entered.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-15

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renourishing the blood, renewing it's
strength, and stimulating the flow so
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long standing cases respond. But
you must use s. S. s. Take it for all
blood infections. Get it at your
druggists today.
II you need special advice, write
the s. s. s. Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Ocala evening star., 1915-09-15

Rev. Roy Bowers left this after
noon for Eustis where he has accept
ed the position as principal of the Eus-
tbs high school for this term. Mrs
Bowers and son, Master Roy, will
join Mr.. Bowers about the first of
October, or as soon as a suitable resi-:
dence can be secured. 1t will be OF
pleasant interest to their many friends
in this city to know that they will
be at Lake Weir again next sumner
and will continue to claim Ocala as
their home.
Mr.. Sonny Geise will leave Friday