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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04

majority. Young people are sent to
college by parents who are able to
finance the course and others are n
nanced in one way or anothe: by
means Of loans. The harvest field no
longer invades the average college cali
ing for it's students. The demand today
is to prepare young people to become
specialists in the worlds work. Three
years of eleven months each ought to
accomplish what now requires four
years of nine months each.
The young man or . woman who
leaves high school and enters employ
ment is lucky to obtain two weeks va
cation out Of the year. Continuous en-
ployment is expected. Should they
elect to prepare at coolidge for special
work the employment at preparation
should be made as continuous as that
at earning a living. The necessities
of an early day which called for
school years of nine months have
ceased The necessities Of today call
for vastly more special preparation
and the school years should be length
snel 70 eleven months for all courses
whether of four or Of three years to
graduation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
the "BY.BlppER."

A lawsuit lately concluded at
Esthervtlle is of interest to purchasers
and to those who make and conduct
public sales. The defendant in this
case purchased a team. After he had
bought 1t he discovered that "by
bidders" had run the price up on him
and refused to pay. In the trial it
seems to have been established that
the team had been offered at private
sale for less than It brought at auc-
ton. The trial ended by the Judge
taking the case from the jury and
rendering verdict for the defendant.
by bidding used to be a common
thing at public sales. How common it
is now those who attend such sales
know best However. the use of by
bidders was always sufficient to spoil
an auction when discovered in time.
The verdict at Estherville is just
one. There isn't such a wide distinc-
ton between public sale where the
owner arranges with by-bidders and
the auction graft" in cities where the
unsophisticated are lured to pay sew
eral prices for the alleged gold watch.
What effect the verdict will have on
the custom 1t establishes as a legal
precedent that the sale owner can not
collect from the man whom he has de-
ceived and cozened and Classics by
bidding as fraud.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
so RICH AND YET so POOR.

Iowa is the fifth richest state in the
union. So says the census. New York,
Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio are the
only states that exceed Iowa and all
but Ohio are larger both In area and in
population, while Ohio is more pop
ulous. But Iowa stands fifth from the
top in total wealth, second from the
top in per capita wealth. Now where
does she stand for good roads?
Alas, poor Iowa, she stands twenty
seventh in the number of miles of
roads improved. New York has paved
and macadamized most Of its main
travelled roads. SO has Pennsylvania
Illinois is hard at it with state aid
fund of 100000 year to boost the
enterprise, while Ohio, next to Iowa In
total wealth but far beloy her in per
capita wealth has ten times the num-
her OF miles of hard surfaced roads and
by means of bond issues does not
spend any more tax money on her
roads and bridges per annum than
does Iowa.
Alas, poor Iowa. So rich and vet so
poor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
Society on tho Farm.

In our fathers day the farmland
was the son Of neighboring farmer.
working by the month for the first
payment on farm of his own. Now he
is usually a bit of human driftwood
floating on an uncharted sea, with no
anchorage for the winter save perilous
roadsteads like Hinky Drinks place in
Chi" A letter from South Dakota
farmer throws flood Of light, not al
together pleasant on this generally
neglected phase of country life de-
velopment:
Here are few of the more striking
men who have worked for US in the
of the British parliament, the nephew
colored Maltese globe trotter, side
tracked civil engineer whose educa-
ton extended thru integral and diff
ferential calculus a British sailor,
United States cavalryman, two prize
fighters, an ex-convict, a long haired
poet, barber, an excaped inmate OF
the state hospital for the insane at
Cherokee, Iowa, locomotive engineer,
and man who said that MS last job
had been boring holes in macaroni.
Rather different from the men one
visualizes as joining the family at
meal times on western farm. isn't 1t :?
Most Of them CONTINUED our farmer
correspondent We're detectives In some
way; but none of them were the worse
for their sojourn with US. They were
not all incompetent-andw we can judge
men only by the way they do their
work.-Collier's Weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
ACROSS IOWA IN 1s4s.
Forty Miner Tells OF Experiences .
lono Trim

Forty Miner Tells OF Experiences on
Long Trip.
George ]. Kellogg, who made the
journey across the plains from Illinois
to California during the gold rush In
1s49. gives the following account Of
his experiences In Iowa in q pamphlet
that has recently come into the pos
session Of the State Historical Society
of Iowa:
April s. twenty-ons miles to Full
ton. where We crossed the Mississippi.
Sixty-two California wagons had
crossed ahead Of Us: roads bad. sandy.
rocky, or mud to the hub. Ono hun.
bred and twenty-ons miles to Iowa
City. then the state capital. April IS
shot wild turkey and . deer; in Iowa
county got stuck In q slough with al
most an empty wagon: took eleven
yoke of cattle to pull us out. Lay by
in Iowa and turned out our cattle into
an unhusked cornfield. at IL cents per
head day. for three days. In Polk
county saw DufIaio anu an esh. Pes
ed through Des Moines. May Z; poor
ferry; swan our cattle and came near
losing two yoke in a tree top; waited
for new ferryboat and the crowd
crossed till midnight. May 10. no
wood; cut up an OK yoke; that night a
big storm; our cattle 3eft us and only
recovered them next day: rain. hail
and wind. May %. crossed the MIS-
souri,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
Looksy-Or1 In Io,va

Greene, June 4.--Another "jitney.'
The old man gets big two-wheeled
cart goes regularly to the depot and
solicits business by calling out Take
your grips to the hotel for five cents
And he gets some every trip. frequent
~ a dozen or more, especially in towns
where the hotel man forgets to send q
mon to the train. Old men for years
have contracted to carry the mall from
the depot to the post office for less
than this jitney cart gets for regular
trips, and this Is given publicity IN
hopes that more old men, or even boys
will run jitney carts to the passenger
trains IN many more towns.
Applying the following mem
toned candidates one hears, they
used the positions in the last legisla-
ture, to bring out their candidacy.
Talked to the galleries." expresses 1t.
Some Of this kind Of talk would be
laughable If mentioned here ana
names given in connection.
Now it would be unfair to any OF
these men. If an attempt was made IN
this column to prove there was any
organized or extensive opposition to
any of them, only as a Looker-On IL
may be interesting for these candi-
dates ana their friends 70 know what
they are up against. 1t can be said
there is more expressed opposition to
the wet" candidate than any other
one and fear he will be nomi-
mated because so many others have
entered for the race.
During the war of the rebellion, dur
ing the Spanish war, and now once
more we've got him. Its the chap
that knows how the present war
should be carried on. He occupied the
floor OF the hotel office from supper
till bed time. The rest of us could
neither read nor write for his elo-
quence drowned everything. 1t wasn't
his arguments so much as his elo-
quence that overpowered us. Many OF
his statements were so absurd that
smiles were in evidence from other
travelling men who did not care to
answer fool according to his folly
After he had told us all about the
war he then Strengthened out every
thing concerning baseball in the whole
United States. And the hotel porter
remarked as we went to bed to get
rid of this travelling mans noise. no
use listening to him. I have to stand
it every two weeks"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
INCREASED EFFICIENCY IN COLI EeEs.

Both the state university and the
normal school at Cedar Falls have
opened summer schools in 80 many
branches Of college work that the busi-
ness Of these colleges will go right on
without interruption. The millions in
vested in the plants will become ap-
proximateiy 100 per cent efficient In
stead Of Is per cent efficient -4nder an
archaic nine months school year.
Nine months Coz schoo! year and
three months Of idleness is cus.ona
which has long outlived the conditions
to which It was fitted There was a
time when our people were all farmers
poor but ambitious. Then It was that
every hand was needed in the iiaf5es::
fields and there was no time for school
except during the winter months
Most men were compelled to work theil
way thru college and they perforce
must nave the summer ii which e
earn wages 1t the harvest work.
That day has passed Tor tine SFeai
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
IOWA HAD FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE
Trial Held in 1889 and Negro ct
Free.

Free.
Although the bred Scott case 10 the
best known fugitive slave case in AM
erican history, 1t is interesting to note
the fact that as early as 1889, during
Territorial days, similar case came
before the Supreme Court Of Iowa IN
the years 1884," says writer In one
Of the publications Of the State His
named Montgomery living in Missouri,
entered into a written agreement with
a slave. one Ralph, to the effect that
upon payment by Ralph of five hum
dred and fifty dollars, with interest
from January 1, 1885, he was to become
free" In order to earn money with
which to purchase his freedom Ralph
made his way up the Mississippi and
found employment In the lead mines
in the vicinity of Dubuque. Five years
passed and still the ex-slave was un-
able to earn and save enough money
to make any payments to his former
master. At this juncture. 1889, two
kidnapers from Virginia appeared at
the mines, learned the situation with
regard to Ralph. and wrote to Mont.
gomery offering to return the negro
for the sum of one hundred dollars.
The offer was accepted, but as the kid
nappers were making away with their
unfortunate prey they were brought
before the court on writ Of habeas
corpus. The case went up to the SUI
preme Court of the Territory OF Iowa,
and Judge Charles Mason rendered a
decision giving Ralph his freedom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04

upon to carry such burdens OF state-
to face such epoch making resp0nsi-
bilities. Tasks which have fallen to
the lot Of many Of our presidents seem
to have been almost trivial in compare
son with those which have confronted
Woodrow Wilson almost from the be-
ginning Of his administration. He has
been q modern man OF sorrows-but
at the same time Of modesty and
patience. It has not been his habit to
call attention to the exceptional re-
sponsibilities that have been thrust
upon him. Nor could he have been
fairly criticised for giving way to his
humanity to that extent. Even the
illustrious Lincoln was wont to COM
pare his own burden with that OF
Washington. Wilson Is deserving OF
the deepest respect for his dignified.
courageous and manly attitude tn Pc
Rod Of travail. He has kept his head
and maintained his poise and showed
himself to be true American.
In one particular Wilson is more IA
vored than was either Washington or
Lincoln. He has the sympathy, the
backing and the support of the whole
American people. Washington was
president of an infant republic in
which the tory was still living.
breathing. moving factor, hopeful that
time would make short work of the
new government and willing to do
whatever might lie in mis- power 10
hurry along the dissolution. Lincoln
was president of disrupted union and
lacked even the united support Of the
people of the north, who shortly after
electing him seemed to repent Of what
they had done and norrowly missed
.discarding him after his first four
years in the White House. Wilson may
at least count on the undivided loyalty
of 100, 900, 900 Americans.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
THEY DON'T J,BE.

Secretary Allen has done wonders
with the force at his disposal. The
editor of Motor Age recently visited
the secretary's office and stated that
Iowa had the best equipped and most
efficient system for registering auto
mobiles Of any state in the union
Creston -AdveT tiser.
Another clipping from the Sioux
City Journal says:
Councilman Dineen said that the
officers were facing a peculiar difficult
ty on account OF number plates. He
said that scores Of motor car owners
had number plates over the 100000
mark, while car owners who had re-
ceipts for plates in the 10000 group
had not received the numbers yet. The
councilman will take up this situation
with state officials to determine why
the early numbers were held back and
whether it was because the money for
the plates had not been forthcoming.
The two clippings don't Jibe The
conditions Of which Sioux City COM
plains exist all over the state. The
fact stands out that interminable delay
Is dIAlOS duSS dIlO dSSlSllHS
evasion of law all over Iowa. Whatever
a travelling writer for an auto jour
nal may say in compliment the facts
are as they are. Compliment doesn't
change them.
The system is wrong. The plates
should be distributed from the county
seats. Then, TOO something must be
lacking in the manner Of distribution
at the state capital. AS a question
of expense 1t would cost no more TO,
force adequate to the rush period
than to keep a smaller force stringins
out auto plates several weeks behind
the demand. II 1t cost more 1t would
be money well spent and it's use would
be praised instead OF criticised.
It is hard to understand how an,
department should be as far behind IL
its work as the Sioux City complaint
indicates. At any rate the insistenc'
| is for quicker service and it shoult
be given in one way or another.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04

New York.-Already society here il
talking about who will hold the social
scepter. now that Mrs. Fish Is gone.
Mrs. Fish was considered the most
notable society woman Of New York
and Newport and since the death OF
Mrs. Astor has been regarded az her
successor ~ leader. Mrs. Fish gave
the most original and sparkling enter
tainments Of any New York hostess.
At her town home. rs East Seventy
eighth street, she entertained with q
series Of dinners followed BY various
forms Of entertainment at which all
sorts OF novelties were given to amuse
the guests She was the drst to have
japanese dancers, and later she had
Ruth st. Denis and her Indian dancers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
Topics Of the Times

TOPICS TAN
If it is true that President Wilson
hopes tc leave his son-in-law, McAdoo,
in his shoes he should send the shoes
back to New Jersey. If McAdoo ever
fills them it will be outside the White
House.
A woman spent her last dime for a
sandwich and jumped in the river at
Des Moines yesterday, unable to find
work. While the demand for domestic
science teachers and domestic work
ers is so per cent above the supply. The
fact is that there is work enough in
the world if we prepare our boys and
girls to do it and to accept the best
they can find.
The Des Moines Capital points to a
Kansas county paper which sold above
s10,0 900 as an example of the prosper
ity of the country publisher. No need to
go so far afield. Just drop into any
county seat in Iowa and price the
plants. In some prominent instances
you might take $4,000 along and have
to bring it away with you.
All we need to do is to build the sub
marines No devilish contraption was
ever invented or designed that lacked
men to run it in the air or under the
waves.
More people than Mr.. Garrett think
he would make a good governor. but
his claim is being urged at time when
1t is net likely to receive the atten-
ton it really deserves. The universal
desire-except among the VESTS to
sentatives candidates and settle the
matter definitely.
The difference between building a
speedway and casting AZ centimeter
shell is mainly as to range and effec-
tiveness. They both are deadly In their
| way.
The surest bet on a baseball game
is to have the home team away from
home on a rainy week.
Nobody ever tells boy to be
studious and honest and that thus he
may become vice president some day.
II it were not for the censorship the
story of the Zeppelin raid On London
| might read vastly different. 1t scarce
| ly clear how rain of bombs could
oit -;Yh 1or11 eyc
except to four persons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
If Youth Hut Knew.

It is sometimes difficult Tor young
folks, just starting in life. TO realize
that life consists, mainly, Of hard work
dull, plodding commonplace work In
the main. To the youthful folk the
world is such beautiful place, filed
with SO many adventurous things 70 do.
that to only few Of them comes the
opportunity to reach high pinnacle
OF fame-to become an Elihu Root In
craftsmanship Theodore Roosevelt
in politics. Peary In exploration.
Morgan in finance, Shakespeare IN
playwrighting, an Edison In Invention.
a Napoleon in soldiering-tha. most OF
US must be content to be q high pri-
yate in the rear rank In whatever vo-
cation we may adopt. The sooner
Young people realize this, and accept
it philosophically. and begin to hustle
In the position In life they happen 70
find themselves, the sooner they VIII
get started on the way to good citizen
ship, to becoming substantial citizens
Of the community in which their lot u
cast.
Dreams are fine things. The young
girl who dreams Of the knight who waLi
carry her away to . castle finely fur
nished and supplied with servants who
win do her every will isn't doing any
especial harm IN 80 dreaming. 80 long
a she hustles about learning to sew
ara cook and wash clothes and care Tor
habies. in order that IL her knight. after
ali turns out to be the boy who just
now IL driving the grocers dsAvet1
wagon, or carrying messages 1or tns
western Union, and her castle four
room cottage, and her servants nel
own two capable hands, she will b aDls
70 I'LL her place in life az capaDly ing
q efficiently q she will NIL that more
conspicuous place she dreams OF, q
mistress Of mansion ana. maynap
the society leader Of . city, should tne
dream come truA 81 =
And the grocsrs boy who dreams o.
/ becoming Trieeffff>cct Morean OF WON,
row Wilson or an Edison OF Fofo ~ ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
Feeding krupps' Employees.

Having housed their people comfort
ably the Krupps next turned their at
tention to feeding and clothing them,
and supplying them with furniture
and household requisites. Thus enor-
nous supply stores have been devei-
oped. At first the supplies were sold
at cost price, and naturally difficulties
soon arose with the local shopkeepers.
Now goods are sold at current prices
to every one. whether employed by the
firm or not. But, in order that the
employees should not be robbed OF their
benefits a system of rebate was de-
vised, and now every year in December
the bonuses are returned to the work
people in cash.
III connection with these great stores
slaughter houses and large bakery
have been established, and these es-
adjustments are models OF their kind.
The baking, for instance. Is almost en-
tirely done by machinery. Indeed only
once during the process does anyone
touch the material.
BY way of amusement and recrea-
ton for its employees the firm has es-
tablished two casinos, with dining
rooms. billiard rooms. tennis courts
and cafes. There Is a large concert
hall, an excellent library, a we'll
equipped gymnasium. as well as sew
eral bathing establishments. In addi-
ton to the ordinary schools there is an
industrial and household school where
more than 1000 girls. all daughters OF
the workmen, are taught household
duties, plain and fancy sewing. dress
making, embroidery. etc. In the work
shops of the evening schools great
number Of the boys practically serve
their apprenticeship. A special COM
mittee it attached to the educational
! department, which supervises the rec
reation, the sporting. and the holiday
arrangements-From The Krupps'
Model Town." by Robert Hunter, in the
American Review Of Reviews for June.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
why o,ass Cracks.

You have learned By experiences
that cold water will crack . hot glass.
or hot water cold glass. But did yOl
know that . thick glass will crack
much more readily under such treat
ment than . thin glass? When hot
watsr strikes cold glass, for example.
the hsa& OF the water 10 quickly com.
municated to the glass next II, caus-
Ing the glass to expand. II the glass
- thin, the heat b quickly communi.
Gated 10 both sides Of tho glass 90
that they EXPAND togsther without
damage. But u the glass 10 thick tho
heat = slow h getting through and
the side next the hot watsr expands 30
much more raDidly than the other side
that the glass = cracked. Tho Ameri-
ca DOy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04

not - doing any particular Marin ~
hlmself 10 any one else, II ~ lust
Keeps huatling.s trying 70 deliver HE
esUcefies promptly and to make : hit
for the store hs works for With the et,s-
toners with whom no comes IN CON.
tact.
Il really doesn't matter 30 much
what you do. no II y respectable, but Il
makes . whole lot Of difference, the
way In which you do it.-Absrdssn
News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
whv Feed siIaoe.

Good corn silage is next best to the
natural food Of cattle-namely. green
grass. 1t contains all the food ele-
ments Of grass and In nearly the same
proportions, with the exception OF the
protein or muscle-building element,
which is about one per cent less
in silage than in grass, and must be
supplied by feeding clover. alfalfa,
bran, or any feed which will supply the
missing element. Then, too, silage 10
a succulent feed like grass. and easily
digested.
Taking dairy COW from the fall
pasture and putting her to diet Of
timothy hay, bran, and other dry forms
of feed Is the same in effect as de-
priving person OF fruits or green
vegetables and allowing him only ra-
ton Of said pork and bareback. It IN
small wonder that the cow 30 treated
falls on in her flow Of milk: the change
in food has thrown her system out of
stride, 80 to speak, but q change from
grass to corn silage IL 80 slight that
her flow Of milk continues almost with
out interruption. The succulent silage
keeps her digestive organs in normal
condition and gives her the same food
elements in about the same proper
lions that she has been used to in tho
pasture
Corn In silage makes the crop go
one-fourth farther.
/ When corn is fed whole the greater
| cs-. ct tha stalk is left untouched and
the stalk contains about one-fourth Of
the food elements Of the plant. The
waste Is SON ;s:s$sss less ahen the corn
ID cut up or shredded, but the hard
outer shell OF the stalk IL likely to
cause sore mouth by getting between
the teeth and the gums Of the AMI
NAL.
when made into silage the stalk
LEAVES. cob, and kernels become soft
and juicy and the waste Is practically
nothing II q proper amount II fed.
Silnge Is easier to feed than Gu:
! stalks. Whole stalks, or hay and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-04
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

IF a newspaper printed in the Eng
lish language IN Germany would critt-
cize the German government half as
vigorously some of the newspapers
printed in the German language IN this
country are scolding the U. S. A., what
would happen to the editor?" inquiries
the Burlington Gazette. "One guess at
time. please"