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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28
Iona Newspapers
NOW Is TIME TO GRAVEL.
TKanawha Record.J

While there is considerable amounf
of gravel suitable for roads In the
north and eastern part OF Hancock
county. there has not yet been found
any good beds of it in the vicinity OF
Ranawha On the other hand we do
not have here the hills to cut down. the
low places to fill In. and the bridges TO
build that they do in the other por-
lions Of our county. This would onset
any Increased cost we may have In OBJ
tanning gravel either shipped In by
train or hauled by teams. Our roads
can be placed in condition to receive
the gravel or hard surfacing at
smaller cost and in less time than the
other roads. and we want to repeat
again that it ought to be done now.
We are In favor Of graveled roads.
properly distributed and worked out
on a road bed that has been put to
permanent grade and has been
Travelled on and ng-dragged to make
It solid and even. Then in the future
years, IL it be deemed wise to lay
brick, concrete or, asphalt the road
bed is already there TO receive 1t. prop
erly graded and graveled, and nothing
has been lost in the work previously
done.
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BEATING INSURANCE RATES.

Buyers of fire insurance may yet
secure d senbiauoe uf competition il.
rates if they will but seek the low
price. While the new state law COM
pels one insurance company to charge
like rates for all risks of like hazard
other companies may come forward
with a lower schedule of rates and the
insurance commissioner of the state
has already sounded a warning that
local agents in many a town are try
ing to keep the cut rate companies out
by refusing to write policies in them.
Il would be well for purchasers of
fire insurance TO do little shopping
Employers have successfully evaded
excessive charges for liability insur-
ance by clubbing together thru the
secretary of the state manufacturers
association and placing their insurance
in bulk with companies which were
willing TO grant lower rates than those
OF the companies which were soliciting
the business direct
Mutual insurance in fixed lines Of
trade should be encouraged. The
hardware merchants of Iowa are carry
ing their own insurance thru their
state association at saving of one
third the cost in old line companies
Furniture, dry goods, clothing, imple-
ment drug and shoe dealers. res
taurants, cigar stores in fact all bust
ness institutions which find a repre-
sentative of their line in almost every
town can carry mutual fire insurance
fully as successfully as the farmers or
hardware men can, the fundamental
requirement being that risks be
F'idely scattered and of similar hazard.
The insurance interests undoubtedly
had great deal TO do with inspiring
the present law but there is a way OF
beating overcharges in any game. lie,
business men with insurance 10 buy
get busy il their buying.
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EAST TALKS ROOSEVELT.
TDes Mojnes Gapftal.J

With the fixing of the date and place
OF the republican national convention.
talk has turned to the men and forces
that will take part in the selection or
candidate in 1916. Perhaps the mosf
significant factor at this time is the
space devoted by eastern newspapers
to Colonel Roosevelt. The discussion
includes. of course, the possibilities
that Roosevelt will be considered a
candidates. 1t also specuiates on the
proba ability that he will support re-
publican candidate II the candidate Is
TO his liking, the chances that the pro-
gressive party will enter the field, ana
the amount of consideration that Will
be given TO Roosevelt principles in the
writing Of the party platform.
The New York Tribune in a recent
editorial sounded out the people as TO
their attitude toward the former presi-
dent. The Tribune has received scores
of letters urging that newspaper to
launch a campaign for Roosevelt as the
republican nominee.
That there will be no compromise
between Roosevelt and the Barnes and
Penrose forces is understood. The
Roosevelt republicans or former pro-
delegation in Pennsylvania. In Califor-
MIA it is said Governor Hiram johnson
is trying to control the republican del
egarion for Roosevelt.
AS to the progressive party 1t has
claimed all along that ticket will be
nominated. Sentiment for return Of
the insurgents who bolted the repub-
lican party In 1912 seems to be gaining
ground. There is a movement in the
east to hold the national convention
of progressives in Chicago at the same
time that the republicans meet. This
means that Roosevelt will be In Chi
cage at the time. Therefore his posi-
ton on every move in both conventions
can be obtained and made known al
once.
Next to the convention itself the
most interesting feature of the repub-
lican gathering on June next will be
Theodore Roosevelt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28

a competency seeks his rightfuiIy
gained leisure in which to reflect up.
on his experience in life. assemblies Its
testimony and deliver to those around
him that counsel which shall be OF
such value as the direction Of one who
has just travelled road entirely new
to the rest of us. The prodding Of old
horses to make them keep off the
wheel in a team of powerful young
animals is looked upon as poor team
work among people who have learned
to live, and ole, at Fort Dodge. was
too wise to try to defy the inevitable
demands of Father Time. Ole is happy
and carefree at IS. He will probably
live a long. long time yet.
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the new ORDER OF THINGS.

Every citizen is interested in the
latter experiment, of prohibition which
will be inaugurated with the repeal
of the mulct next Saturday in Iowa
1t is an advance in good government
We are all agreed that abolition Of the
liquor traffic If that may be accom-
plished would vastly benefit the state
Upon that point there is small diff
ference.
Let us take up the prohibitory law
as it is and with confidence. 1t is not
entirely experimental. The purpose OF
the majority Of Iowans is behind it
now. Unlike the experiment of gen.
Grafton ago we have come to this
change at this time with wide open
eyes and as matter OF conviction
where we sprang into the other change
upon impulse. We are prepared where
We were unprepared We have con-
Guided where then we imagined. The
been brought up to the average Of pub
lie sentiment. The business of liquor
dealing has, within the time since the
mulct was conceived as legal cat
hole for saloon purposes. become
disreputable vocation. We approach
the new regime of restriction in very
different state Of preparedness than
that of the previous attempt.
There is no occasion Of neat and
cutlery What the time demands Is
plain determination and quiet and pur-
poseful enforcement.
The most serious obstacle to COM
plete enforcement is the local pros
prosecutors and executives in COM
munities A certain class Of city au-
thorities imagine that their official ex-
istence depends upon the advocates Of
disorder. In many cases this is true.
They have been elected by the votes
of the unthnking and boosted by the
wide openers. Naturally they fear to
oppose them. The official perjury
which takes oath to execute the laws
with full mental reservation to man1p-
ulate office toward a reelection Is un-
fortunately a common crime in towns
and cities. And these time-servers
and friends OF law-violators are blocks
in the way OF enforcement any law
which effects easy money and those
who seek it and distribute portions OF
tix
ever. the state law provides manner
and method OF reaching them and
stimulating their activities.
1t is to be confidently predicted that
the repeal will inaugurate practical en-
foccement OF the prohibitory law IN
this state. Every effort, OF course, Will
be put forth to discredit it. That was
the case in towns that have been I'M
der prohibition for a sufficient time to
have proved the practicability ana
value OF the restriction. But two
years of honest effort TO enforce the
law from the state capital, added TO
the demand from those Interested IN
good government that local enforce
ment shall be active Will put Iowa IN
the dry class for all time.
The new condition is nothing
wheren: - grow wildly excited or IA
natical 1t is just an Iowa legislature
and approved by majority lo"as
population and TO be enforced quietly
but none the less determinedly. Let's
do it and do it that way.
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Topics of the Times

Mason City boosters having had ex-
perience with a concrete road are now
convinced that they do not set their
moneys worth out of $19 per mile
spent for dragging a dirt road. The
cost of maintaining concrete roads
near Detroit has been less than $50
per mile per annum so far.
About fifty years ago we stopped an
English vessel on the high seas and
removed therefrom Messrs Mason and
Slidel but we later admitted our mis-
take when Great Britain and France
both protested our right to make the
seizure. Those two countries will now
have to read their own arguments as
to their right to seize Teutons from
our ships.
The Des Moines Register estimates
that the people of Iowa spent $4,000
900 for Christmas presents this year.
What of 1t? Didn't they spend S32.-
10000 more for autos during the year?
Meredith's magazine. known as Sue
cessfui Farming, has been successful
all right If we may Judge from his
plans for a 100000 addition to his
present $2e0. 900 palace for printing
plant. Wonder IL he has prospects OF
getting the United States governments
printing to do or does he make 1t all
out Of the federal reserve association
jury In the district court at New
ton has INDICATED its claim to in
telligence by finding banker guilty
who had loaned $4,000 to his brothei
on, OF a bank having only 1880 CAPT.
tai. The fact that the brother bar
rowed on worthless security was only
incidental.
This discussion among editors as II
| who was Iowa's greatest governor re-
minds US that editors are much likt
the average man In the street. Hi.
| estimate Of another il astigmatized b!
| the limitations OF his personal ac
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WHERE HE BELONGS.

The expected has happened with the
practical termination Of the Ford par
TVS peace pilgrimage. Mr.. Ford was
acting under an entire misapprehen-
sion OF the situation when he concluded
that IL he could take group OF paci-
fists from this country to Europe they
could make any impression on the STU
alton over there.
Others saw this, and the personnel
OF mis- party was rendered neg!.sihle.
Only half dozen well-known men are
in it. and they have either gone be-
cause OF curiosity. like Sam Mcclure.
or because they shared MI. Ford's de-
fusion that something could be done.
The rest went because Mt. Ford was
paying the bills, or because as IN the
case OF the newspaper and moving pic
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quaintance and seriously reffacted by
his friendship or enmity. sSs

MS IrlenQSHip OF enmltys sR
His precipitate retreat gives the sug
gestion that a certain manufactures
may have worked the press for mil
lions OF free advertising in his COM
paratively inexpensive peace ship.
The Waterloo Courier remarks that
Chicago is going to put the New
Years lid on an hour after midnight,
from which it concludes that Water
loo, however, will put 1t on about four
hours earlier and more than that. 1t
will stay clamped down." This may
lift Waterloo a degree above Chicago
in depravity but most communities now
insist upon lids being clamped down
Why any open season for vice?
A stock dividend of 100 per cent for
the company manufacturing one OF the
lesser known cars does not look as
tho prices on autos had reao he'd the
bottom this year.
Nevada has decided to take advan-
cage of the new paving district law
and will pave it's Lincoln highway
street from city limits TO city limits
and every county seat town in Iowa
can co the same for all Of its main
roads leading into town. Look up
the law and get busy.
Congressman McKinley's desire 10
again do the driving at the head o.
the congressional campaign committee
is but indicative of the times. Periods
of political starvation will have to be
repeated unless the G. Q. p. can respect
the diet necessary to its good health.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28
TWO WISE MEN YESTERDAY.

Yesterdays news OF the hour flashed
before the eyes of the nation acts of
wisdom on the part IF two men widely
separated which are worthy Of praise
for their foresight and of notice be-
cause of the precepts thus given TO
the world.
In Pittsburgh 41.0O0 school children
had been so schooled in the great les
son of thrift that they had deposited
small savings in bank. The bank
failed and many times 1900 school
children we're about to have their faith
in the wisdom Of thrift dashed to the
ground. There lived in Pittsburgh a
multi-'nlliOnaire. one Of the steel
kings, II. c. Frick. and when he heard
Of the disaster he telegraphed from
New York that he would pay every
school child depositor in full on Jan
as personal contribution to the
cause Of public education in his home
city.
No great pile Of brick and mortar
viii be erected as IA monument to
rlch mans success with his name
chiseled over the door. No foundation
viii forever bear his name unto future
generations, but 41,000 school children
Will rememb Der and repeat unto their
grandchildren, and they unto theirs,
the name Of Henry g. F'rick. a man
who saw a break in the dixie Of child
nuois confidence and promptly
plugged ii with $4,000 of his own
money.
1t is an act like this that helps
nightly to relieve our latent hostility
softened and we appreciate that the
| same strength Of character that caused
q grocery clerk to become captain Of
industry enabled him to rise to save
| his city from a real disaster Leader
ship like his which had made Pitts
! burgh great as a population center en- =
| abled him t. do what lesser men
could not have done and new econ
| omic advantage in the multimillon-
aire as a species was disclosed to a
! nation.
! And then there was old Ole William =
| son Of Fort Dodge. perhaps an immi-
| grant, who at the age of Is years, di-
| vided his estate among his children
| Most men would have hung on to II
under the delusion that a man is az
capable at 10 of managing his own
| property as he was at As Instead OF
! ceal his own deficiencies and putting
his children to endless annoyance
| watching him, lest senil!ty cause hin
to waste his accommodations, Ole calls
them all around him and distributes
to their safe keeping the property
which he no longer needs. which he
can 10: take away with him and wi1icf
has become a useless chore to man
age.
There are many aged people in thi!
world who need the courage Of Ole
| w liiidIlSOH 10 accept Oiu age Wnen i
comes and makes friends with 1t BY
unloading cares that are needless ant
by enjoying leisure that is possible.
The belief that a man dies when HI
quits pulling the same load he uset
to pull is current only in the United
States. Older worlds have iearnes
that there is only one thing NOR
ridiculous than the efforts of an age,
! lady to dress young, and that is tn,
struggle of aged men to hang on t
a young mans load until they drop
In most countries people have learne'
to live. Here we have learned onl.
to make a living. There the maj
wfege thrift or industry has won hin
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ture men. they were assigned to the
Job.
Mr.. Ford naturally broke down
when failure stared the expedition in
the face. 1t Is to be suspected thar
his health was not unimpaired when
he conceived the project. When II
failed. he broke.
Americans will hope that the new
year Will see Mr.. Ford back in the
niche where he fits-directing with
completely restored health the big
manufacturing enterprise which his
genius created and which has done 50
much TO put an automobile IN the
reach Of every family in moderate cir
cumstances.
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realize how good and kind the Dsopie afe TOT 70
the house where signs the village trots witt
lug and jar. been invalid this fall; AL knowo
seasea and others climbed the Ear.
den wall and waited get in the game Ana PrpPis
came from there, to Il they could help me
out try tighten despair and place large plastes
on my govt. They sawed the who'd. they MIXED the
cow they hens and wound the clock they
the frau, and SHE'D at any thankful TAX.
They sat all night beside my bed until the morning
hours were struck held down when. seeing red
Il only onged amuck They brought me chicken
SOUP and pie and all things the sick require and
kindness beamed in every eye-the kindness that No
wealth can hire When recovered from the Eout the
mumps hay and catarrh said 1T beateth all ges
out what thoroughbreds the neighbours are s.! 81
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Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

Marshall Lodge No. los A. F. and A. u.
Work In first degree, Wednesday, Dec
%, 100 D. m. John w. Wells. secre-
tary; w. H. Steiner. W. NJ.
SlGNET CHAPTER, No. SS, r. A. NJ.
Reeular conyocation Monday evening
Dec. 20, for election Of officers. l.. D
KiIborn. H. P. John w. Wells. Rec
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. & s. NJ FRIDAY
Dec. 81. for work: $50 dinner. SoLne
l. T. Forbes, recorder: George Gregory
l. M.
STATED coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80, h T, TUESDAY,
Dec. q, 1880 o'clock. business ana
election of officers. NJ. 5. Mcfariaho'
Rec: George Gregory, E. c.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81. o. E. s. SATURDAY, Oee
Is. 7:s0 D. m. Initiation. Anna Down
ing. secretary; Mary Black Collins
W. NJ.
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nana Pleturss It once.

People who stand their family pcr-
traits against the walls while packing
and unpacking their household goods,
cause . great deal OF broken glass.
scratches and dents. The first thing
TO be done when moving into your
new home, should be to hang the pic
lures any place, in order to ret them
out OF the way, without waiting to
choose q scheme Of arrangement. This
will prevent . great deal Of breakage
and other damage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Says the Dubuque Teiegraph-H
aid: Great Britain has pleaded ii is
fighting for its life 20 condone other
offenses and no doubt will make the
same preposterous claim in this in
stance, but even tho Great Britain is
fighting for its life it will not be per-
mitted TO viciously extend its own
trade at the expense of neutral Ameri-
can commerce, to build up the mer-
chant marine which Germany has
shattered by Selling innocent American
vessels"
Even in Clinton the Advertiser be-
lieVeS that ''it is not likely that Illicit
sale of liquor will thrive in Iowa next
year. \ few reckless individuals may
attempt to take a short cut TO wealth
thru the medium of the boot-legger and
the blind tiger. but the severe penal
ties which will follow any such in
fringement of the law will act as a
summary check on others and there Is
not much probability OF the boot
logger" getting away long with his
pro2cribed business"
More attention should be paid to the
little John Does at all times" says the
Boone News Republican The sue
cessful and the happy are not diligent
enough in relieving their suffering.
They are too complacent with things
as they are 1t is the great problem
Of the world, The poor we have with
We always Many would be charita BILE
If they knew just how TO apply their
charity. or at least they are never any
better off when someone gives them a
start. Yet no one ever helps out a
poor soul without getting some reflex
i've benefit whether the object Of char
ity was worthy or not" III 49,
IF you can not vote for Cumm ms
for president vote for Iowa" sugge tests
the Charter Oak Times. Mr.. Cum
Minis Is the only candidate Iowa has.
and you should be able to vote for
Iowa"
Next year il the figuring of the
drys works out all right. the Christmas
spirit will have no artificial competi-
ton observes the Sioux City Journal.
Clifford Thorne earns twice as
much money as the state of Iowa pays
| him, and more declares the Cedar
Rapids Gazette. which favors Mr..
Thorne for place on the interstate
commerce commission.
The republican calamity hoWlers
have overlooked a point" suggests the
Manson Democrat. "As yet they have
not laid the slides in the Panama ca =
nal at the door Of the democratic ad
ministration-"
Iowa roads are better than they
! ever have been" asserts the Fairfield
Ledger, and most Of them have seen
particular and permanent improvement
| the past year.
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The maid who dresses in SILK poplin
and a naughty mien.
the table and officiate at the Wringer,
SO that blase and unfeeling hired
girl may be conciiiated with the afmos 4.
phere Of the home. This n very ex 8
censive form Of Cancellation, and.
leaves heartburnings and chilbiains In
its wake. 4f
II must be admitted. however. that 2
neat, highly -nuscIed hired girl with
four speeds forward and no reverse is.
worth her weight in gold, and usually
uofa II.
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Polite Substitution.

What makes you keep sayin', OH
" ar Oh, war" asked the paper
hanger. Don't you know a synonym
when you hear it?' asked the man
who had just moved into new house.
II that one?" Certainly Every.
body knows what war il. just hit
my thumb with hammer and dasn't
uGe profanity around the house
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Fort Dodge feels q bit chesty, and
rightly SO, over the completion and oc-i
cupancy, OF a Ji0v.0066169 municipal build
ing. 1t is all concrete and brick and
stone trim. as bright and nifty, as
Mayor Ford sat Q reception.
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Great Britain and France having
abandoned the positions held on the
northern part of the Gaiipoli PENN
sula, now maintain only the strip of
ground held at the southern tip. The
forces transferred have been moved
to another field of operations They
may have gone TO Saloniki TO help
Withstand the German attack ex-
pected there; to the Suez canal. now
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menaced by n Turkish army OF I'M
known strength, or they may be con-
centrated at the southern end OF the
Gallipoli peninsula. An army OF not
less than 100000 men occupied the po-
sitions which have been evacuated,
They were won at enormous cost ana
held at enormous loss. 1t Is apparent
from the British official statement that
the remaining forces on the Gailipoi
peninsula are to be held in their pres
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All mattresses and pillows made
hereafter for the United States gov
ernment win be filled with kapoc, e
vegetable hber having great bouyancy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-28

Since the first OF the present year
24s persons have been killed by auto
mobiles In New York City. forty nine
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rhE HIRED GIRL.

to restrain hired girl who In.
tends to strike Immediately prior to
housekeeping time. Many depressed
husband. after a night of toil over the
pool table. has found it necessary to-
build four fires, grind the coffee. set
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ent positions for the time being at
least. No, in the picture shows Turk
ish artillery near the Dardanelles
which did good work in repulsing
British and French attacks. No. 2
shows the two small sectors (shadedD
held by the allies for some months A.
the cost of 100000 British lives. The
position at the top of the peninsula II
still held by the allied forces. No.
Il the fort at Sedtul Bahr.