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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
A 6ELAIED JUSTICE,

The libel law, known as the Caswell
bill in the senate passed the house yes
terday and will receive the governor
signature. 1t is a fair and honest law,
a belated justice to the newspaper
publishers of the state in that it re-
moves a presupposition Of malice from
the present libel law which was not
only unjust but insulting to profess
sion and business whose workers are
personally and professionally the equals
OF any other IL Iowa.
The new law will not remove any
proper responsibility from the newspa-
per. Newspapers which meliciously
libel or attack character or reputation
are not excused or relieved Of any re-
sponsibility or Of actual or exemplary
damages. A mistake, however, If cor
rected by retraction given proper
prominence will not be ground for ex-
emplary damages. It is well for the
public to understand the difference be-
tween actual and punitive damages.
The exemplary IL plain punishment for
criminal intent and accomplishment.
Actual damage 10 the damage sustained
by publication not actuated by malice
And the new law provides no escape
or evasion Of actual damage. The pub
Usher who prints damaging state
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
yAlvA1los or aAILRoao PROPERTY

Senator Joe Allen, who Is slated as
q probable candidate for governor is
making fight for 100000 appro-
priation to be expended making val
uation of the railroads of the state.
Whether or not he shall succeed in
setting IL he is proposing sensiaie
and business like move. The railroads
as proper objects OF taxation are GER
tainly subjects of valuation. If they
are to be taxed justly as to themselves
and the people of the state and the
question Of freight and passenger rates
settled fairly to both their value and as
producing revenue should be assessed
justly.
Perhaps it will take a little more
than 100000 to complete the valua-
ton. Estimates Of those best equipped
to make such estimates however very
closely approximate $40 a mile. One
estimate made by a man perhaps as
well fitted as any other in Iowa to
know is s11 mile of road. It may run
over $40 a mile which would amount to
the 100000 asked for by Senator Allen
or under to 100000. In either case it
would be worth the money as purely
business proposition.
If it is necessary to value farm lands
for taxation it is also worth the ex-
pense to put proper valuation on the
railroads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
Topics of the Times

The loan shark who squeeZes more
than per cent a month from his vic
tins falls under the possibility of a
$500 fine and ninety days in jail. All
of which is as it ought to be. How
ever it will not be necessary to add
an annex for the sharks who are prose-
cuted and convicted right away.
If some person in authority and not
afflicted with color blindness were to
hunt around he'd see 1914 number
on an automobile every now and then.
Senator Borah says he'd like to see
Cummins president Of the United
States. The senator isn't alone in the
desire. A large number Of folks agree
with him and it is barely possible that
Senator cummins himself wouldn't be
entirely displeased with the notion.
Is It NMr. Harding's idea to repeal all
laws that do not suit him and enforce
those that would be left?
Fourth Of July comes on Sunday this
year. To the golfers and fishermen
that's like ave weekly paydays in q
month.
From appearances the nomination
for attorney general will be sedulously
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

and generally sought In the next pri-
mary. Voters should inform Them
selves as to the records and abilities
Of the candidates for that office is
about to enter upon the most impor-
tant two years Of its history.
That bin which compels counties to
care for INDECENT consumptives prop
erly should be passed without
murmur in the interests Of health and
humanity.
When a boy goes into training for
athletics at college he must cut out
booze and tobacco and now we have
seen two great nations like Russia ana
Great Britain cutting out the booze
when their men are placed in training
for war. It would seem that the booze
business which Is SO detrimental to
physical efficiency in war and in sport
might have the same blighting infiu-
ence in bushes and in the shop.
Mr.. A. A. Moore, president Of the
telephone company in Marshalltown,
bank director and for many years q
verl successful lumberman, writes to
the T.-R. from Honolulu bemoaning
the fact that the Iowa house had voted
to abolish the highway commission.
Mr.. Moore, who is one of the keenest
business men in this city. observes that
it makes an Iowa man blush with
shame to recall how many millions Of
good money has been wasted !on Iowa
roads when he sees the kind Of roads
they have in California and Hawaii.
Perhaps by the Fourth of July the
news will have Travelled to Hawaii that
the action Of the house was minority
action and has since been reversed by
decisive vote in both houses sustain
ing the highway commission. However,
there is little hope Of obtaining from
this legislature the road laws which
have made possible such magnificent
roads as Mr.. Moore has seen in Cali
fornia and Hawaii.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
WISE OLD JOHN SMITH.
rRur1inpton Hawkeye.1

John smith, of Dewitt, wealthy and
So years Of age, has given each OF MS
Ave children a fine farm OF 40 acres.
Very wisely, he has retained 500 acres
for his own use. He was very wise IN
distributing the greater part o. ms
holdings during his life time. That
nrecludes expensive lawsuits, II some
one or more Of the children imagined
that they had received trifle less
than had been given to the others.
And It was no less wise that ne re-
tanned 400 acres for his own use. II
Is more than he and his good wife VIII
ever need. And he might have Jared
just az well II he had divided every
thing he had. But perhaps he Thought
OF King Lear, or he may have recalled
the Spanish proverb, which says that
SIT 10 easier for one father to sup
port seven sons than for seven sons to
support one father"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
THE NEW Law IN CEDAR
rr;nton Advertiser.1

The convention Of school Officers
held in Upton Tuesday was model
afrair OF it's kind, and good argument
for the new law FOR selecting county
superintendents. The delegates were q
f1ne lot Of men, men who have been
giving freely Of their services IN tneir
home communities TO the PUBIC
schools, and well informed as TO the
needs and best interests OF the schools
Il ought to be evident that such q
BODY OF men can be depended on to
give more and better attention 70 the
selection Of head for the school IN
terests Of the county than the matter
would receive in an ordinary pohucal
convention or in q primary election
We believe that fair trial OF the new
law will put a stop to all the present
opposition to it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
SIMPLIFY THE AUTO PLATE BUSINESS.

The senate yesterday started ie
form in the automobile plate business
which will avoid much of the delay IN
obtaining number plates winch no" Sc
riously handicaps officers OF the Ia"
in enforcing the present statutes, ou'
If will lose more money than the pres
ent system. A policeman hesitates 10
humiliate reputable and respectaole
citizens with an arrest when four out
Of five claim that they have applied
for their licenses. The result Is lax
enforcement. With three year license
mates one years license will go long
ways.
The present method OF handling auto
licenses is as cumbersome as leglsla-
tive body could make it. The pusl-
ness manager Of daily newspaper ac-
customed to the handling Of thousands
upon thousands Of open accounts
would make short work OF system
of recording 125 900 automobile licenses
and he would cut out most Of the pres
ent clerical expense. The Times Re-
publican is managed by business men
and this is the way they would sys-
tematize the auto plate business.
Auto owners would obtain their
number plates from their county audi
tors and pay their license fees at the
county court house.
The plates would be there on consign-
ment from the highway commission
and charged up to the auditor to be
accounted for strictly. They would be
delivered over the counter when paid
for.
The county auditor would report
once each week to the highway COM
mission for purposes Of registration and
he would remit only the 10 per cent
which goes to the state. The 80 per
cent would be turned over TO the coun-
ty treasurer and each county would
keep the money paid in by its own
citizens.
The law would require an auto own
er to display his license number or be
fined and he would not be permitted to
set up as defense that he bad applied
somewhere for his license. He could
keep his car off the streets until he had
his license number in evidence.
New number plates each year would
then be worth the cost of the tin in
their convenience in identifying the
autos on which taxes had been paid
for the current year and there would
be no awkward delays to make three
year plate of any value. With plates
out for three years and the collecting
for the entire state done at pes Moines
there would be chaos and confusion
and nobody would ever know whether
the auto owner had paid more than
one years tax or not.
There should be simplicity and sys-
TEN introduced in the auto plate bust
ness and then the auto license money
should be dedicated exclusively to hard
surfacing of the roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
IOWA OPINION AN DNorEs.

| Can the democratic party in Iowa
continue to exist half wet and hall
/ dry? Can Jack Dalton and John T
| Clarkson ever again work together In
harmony" inquiries the Jeffeson Bee
Can Bryan be for prohibition in the
states and against it in the nation
Can Lincoln's famous half and half
epigram be disproven? These are
problems which are chiefly worrying
prominent democrats in these days.
"Joe' Allen is being groomed by
some Of his friends for the governor
ship. We have had men in the gov
errors chair who We're not as big as
Mr.. Allen,' remarks the Algona Re
publican.
Farmers should have their letter
heads printed like any other business
man." says the Washington County
Press. The farm is his business
plant. Give your farm a name. have it
printed on letterhead with yours
and your wife's names as proprietors.
Why not?"
The Des Moines Tribune says: 1T
f~s
off for another two years with old
fashioned jails. filled with men. women
boys and girls, all being sent to the
| devil by the stateJ when other states
are taking these same men and women
| and boys and girls and making self
| supporting, self-respecting citizens OF
j them
-, >oIf f4;o ,r,i11 IN
for an August primary the farmers
probably would be willing to put UP
with it." says the Sioux City Journal
AS it is now, the farmer rarely hest
| tates when confronted by the alter
native of neglecting the June primary
| or the June corn cultivation. This. no
doubt, helps to explain why the vote
OF the primary usually is 80 discour-
| agingly light"
The Burlington Hawkeye Is Tor state
parks. but when it takes a glance al
| the Thirty sixth general assembly 1t Is
| inclined to say, Whats the use?' on
the ground that "a body that Is op-
! posed to rational real Improvement OF
| the roads is not apt to get busy on be-
half or state parks"
1T certainly would be mistake foi
the present legislature, which appar-
emily prides itself on reconstruction
to pass by the muddled judiciary la"
without some revision" urges the
Boone News-Republican.
zone kind Of butchcry that Tails to
arouse general horror IS the killing OF
bills by a legislature that :s anxious
to adjourn and go home" says the Des
Moines Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

which, 0f c0pIs y dsri1 Il
~ ~ oWn. Partial par6ISais = ~
veil undS tood. but the fsses ~
Fsusgsst hive given good results IL q
humber pf esses. N II any Of our readSlt
have AnythiAg which they can add e
our suggsGfions along this line, We
would bs glad to hear frcm them =:
once. NJ Sssss
German statistics show one vtctin
OF tuberculosis dies every four and 4
half minutes In that country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
Masonic Meetings.
STATED COMMUNICATION

~ STATED COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge. No. 1oS A F. & A. NJ
Regular meeting Friday, April Is. John
w. Wells. secretary: w. II. Steiner
". NJ.
sioNET CHAPTER. No. SO. R. A. NJ
Regular convocation Monday. April ~
L. 8. Kilborn, H. P: John w. WeAs'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. & S. M. Monday
after the third Sunday. I. T. FORBES
recorder: George Gregory, T. l. M.
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
commandery No. 80, K T.. Tuesday
April 20 at 1880 o'clock. Regular ous.-
ness. George Gregory. +. e.: N. D
Mcfarland, Rec.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap.
ter No. 81. o. E. s.. Wednesday, April
%, 8 p. m. Initiation. Anna Down'ns'
secretary; Mary Black Collins, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16
GETTING sTRAIGTENED AWAY.

GETTING SIRAI1IEASbO A"<A =
Huntington Hawkeye.J
The Chicago woman who paid an
election bet by rolling q peanut around
a crowded block, has demonstrated
that she is as much entitled to vote
as the many fool men who have maze
equally foolish election bets.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

zone kind Of butchcry tfat rails to
arouse general horror Is the Killing OF
bills by a legislature that :s anxious
to adjourn and go home" says the Des
Moines Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

at certainly would be a mistake for
the present legislature, which appar-
emily prides itself on reconstruction
to pass by the muddled judiciary law
without some revision urges the
Boone News Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

From appearances the Nomination
for attorney general will be sedulously
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-16

"Joe' Allen is being groomed by
some Of his friends for the governor
ship. We have had men in the gov
ernor's chair who were not as big as
Mr.. Allen remarks the Algona Re
publican.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26

Its Accompaniment.
81 have an eye for the stage
Then look out you don't get tas
hook, too
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26
SYRUP Of FIGS FOR
A CH|LD'S BOWELS
II is cruel to force nauseatlng,
harsh physic into a
sick child.

Look back at your childhood days.
Remember the dose" mother insisted
on - castor oil, calomel, cathartics.
How you hated them. how you fought
against taking them.
With our children it's different.
Mothers who cling to the old form OF
physic simply don't realize what they
do. The children's revolt is well-found'
ed. Their tender little "insides" are
injured by them.
II your child's stomach, liver and
bowels need cleansing, give only deli
cious California Syrup of Figs" Its
action is positive, but gentle. Millions
of mothers keep this harmless fruit
laxative handy; they know children
love to take it; that 1t never fails to
clean the liver and bowels and sweet
en- the stomach, and that a teaspoonfu
given today saves sick child tonor'
row.
Ask at the store for 5O-cent bottle
Of california Syrup Of Figs" which
has full directions for babies, children
of all ages and for grown-ups plainly
on each bottle. Adv.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26
SYNOPSIS.

At their home on the frontier between
the Browns and Grays Marta Galland and
her mother, entertaining Colonel Wester-
ling Of the Grays, see Captain Lanstron
OF the Browns injured by fall in his
aeroplane. Ten years later. Westerling.
nominal vice but real chief Of staff. re-en-
forces South La Tir and meditates on war.
Marta tells him OF her teaching children
the follies Of war and martial patriotism.
and begs him to prevent war while he Is
chief OF staff. Lanstron calls on Marta
at her home. She tells Lanstron that she
believes Teller the gardener, to be spy
Lanstron confesses 1t Is true and shows
her a telephone which Teller has con-
cealed In secret passage under the tower
for use to benefit the Browns IN war
emergencies. Lanstron declares his love
for Marta. Westerling and the Gray pre-
mier plan to use trivial international
affair to foment warlke patriotism and
strike before declaring war. Partow,
Brown chief Of staff. reveals his plans TO
Lanstron, made vice chief The Gray
army crosses the border line and attacks.
The Browns check them. Artillery, In
fantry aeroplanes and dirigibles engage
Marta has her first glimpse Of war IN Its
modern, cold. scientific, murderous bru-
tality. The Browns fall back to the Gal
land house Marta sees a night attack
The Grays attack in force. Teller leaves
his secret telephone and goes back to his
guns. Hand to hand fighting. The Browns
fall back again. Marta asks Lanstron over
the phone to appeal to Partow to stop the
fighting. Vandalism In the Galland house
Westerling and his staff occupy the Gal
land house and he begins to WOO Marta
who apparently throws her fortunes witt
the Grays and offers valuable information
She calls up Lanstron on the secret tele
phone and plans to give Westerling infor
nation that will trap the Gray army
Westerlng forms his plan Of attack upol
what he learns from her. The Grays tax
Bordir.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26

He got no further. His words were
drowned by the outburst of one OF the
younger members Of the staff, who
had either to laugh or choke at the
picture OF this deepeyed, spectral sort
OF man, known as wOman-hater. IN
his revelation Of the farCical source
OF his suspicious.
why not include Clarissa Eileen"
some one asked, starting chorus or
satiriCal EXPLANATIONS.
How do they get through the llne!
Yes. past wall Of bayonets?"
when not even a soldier IN uni
form Is allowed to move away from
his command without pass?"
by wireless?'
Perhaps by telepathy!"
"Unless." said the chief OF the aero
static division, grinning. "Bouchard
lends them the use Of our own wires
through the capital and around by the
neutral countries across the Brown
frontier!"
But the correct plans and location
OF their forts and the numbers OF their
heavy guns and Of their planes and
dirigibles-your failure to have this
information is not the result OF any
leak from our staff since the war be-
gan" said Turcs In his dry, pene-
trating voice, clearing the air OF the
smoke Of scattered explosions.
"All were staring at Bouchard again.
What answer had he to this? He was
In the box, the evidence stated by the
prosecutor. Let him speak!
He was fairly beside himself in q
paroxysm OF rage and struck at the
air with his clenched fist.
- Lanstron!" he cried
There's no purpose in that. He
can't hear you." said Turcas, dryly al
ever.
"He might, through the leak" SALE
the chief aerostatic officer, who con
sidered that many Of his gallant sub
ordinates had lost their lives through
Bouchard's inefficiency. Perhaps Ola
rissa Eileen has already telepathicall
wigwagged 1t to him"
To lose your temper at stan cour
Gil is most unbecoming. Turcas woul
have kept his II hit In the back by
fool automobilist. Westerling had no.
recovered his. He was again the 81
perman In command.
1T is for you and not for us
locate the leak; yes, for you!'
said. That is all on the subject II
the present" he added in a tone
mixed pity and contempt, which lie
Bouchard freed from the stare OF n
: colleagues and in the miserable col
pany Of his humiliation.
q CTO BE CONTINUED)
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26
wou,d Handle Wheat In Bulk.

Australian wheat, at the present
time, is transported in bags. a system
which involves not only considerable
cost but is also uneconomical in the
use Of labor. In consequence. the gov
ernments Of New South Wales and Vic
toria are considering proposals for
handling it in bulk, based upon the re-
ports of engineers, who made inquiries
"a to this method in Canada, the Uni
ted States and South Africa, The ex.
perts also say that the change would
result in a large extension OF the
growing areas. 1t is understood, how
ever. that the steamship lines, which
have been approached on the subject
are not agreed that under existing cir
cumstances the shipment OF grain In
hulk ia practicable. though 1t Is be-
lieyed that II adequate supplies were
guaranteed the necessary space would
he readily forthcoming.
The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1915-02-26
NOTHING NEW IN JOKE LINE
Foolish Is the Humorist Who Would
Insist That This HAS Never
Been Sprung Before"

A reader Of the Docket in New YORK
city cut out the item relating to the
dissolution of partnership, In which
one partner makes the statement that
those who owe the Arm will settle
with him. and those that the firm owes
will settle with Nose" and sends 1t
back to US with this notation: This
was an old chestnut when lived IN
-, which was in 1855"
To this charge We enter plea OF
confession and avoidance. We con-
tend that the courts will take judicial
notice of the fact that there Is nothing
new under the sun. and in our judg-
ment the jokesmith is we'll within
his rights in resurrecting a JOKE
which was old In 1855.
The incident brings to mind the fol-
lowing story: "The editor OF Mime
sofa newspaper back in the sos con-
cocted the following: 'Yon Yonson put
four sticks of dynamite in the stove
IdHC SuuUdy W IloW 1AOhA Sos'
handles were nickel plated and only
cost $1O.'" A professor of English
literature in an eastern university
wrote a very interesting article on
this Joke, claiming that 1t represented
distinctly American brand Of humor
and that 1t could not have happened
in any other country or at any Other
| time.
But alas for the professor OF Eng
lish literature-for there Ia nothing
new under the sun. Reference to Il
Chronicles, Chapter 16, Verses y ant
10. produces the following:
IL. And Asa in the thirty and
ninth year OF his reign was diseased
In his feet, until his disease was e1
ceedingly great; yet in his diseas'
| he sought not to the Lord. but to tn
physicians.
/ 10. And Asa slept with his fathers
Vests Docket.