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The Washington times., 1915-04-08
The Law Which Started Mothers
Pensions

0klahoma Staue-Enacted First Session of Leg, l9os)
If any widowed mother shall make affidavit to the
effect that the wages of her child or children under
sixteen years of age are necessary to the support
of such widowed mother, then the county supern-
tendent of public instruction may after careful in
vestigation in his discretion, upon the recommen-
daon of the school district board, or board of edu
cation of cities of the first class furnish such child
children certificate called scholarship stat
ing the amount of wages such child or children are
receiving, or SO much of such wages as shall be
deemed necessary so long as such child or children
shall attend the public school in accordance with
the provisions of this act; which aid may be al
lowed and paid upon the certificate of the county
superintendent of public instruction to the child or
children holding such scholarship by the board of
county commissioners of the county in which such
child or children reside.
All acS or parts of acts in conflict with this act are
hereby repealed. d.-Approyed April 10, 1908.
Drawn AL Mck.lwsy.
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
IF HAIR IS TURNING
GRAY, USE SAGE TEA
Here's GrandmOther's Recipe
to Darken and Beautify
Faded Hair.

That beautiful. even shade OF dark.
glossy hair can only be had by brewing
mixture of Sage Tea and Sulphur.
Your hair is your charm. 1t makes or
mars the face. When it fades, turns
gray. streaked and looks dry wispy,
and scraggly, just an application or two
Of Sage and Sulphur enhances, Its ap-
pearance a hundredfold: "a
Don't bother to prepare the tonic; you
can get from any drug store a 50-cent
bottle of "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur
Compound ready to use. This can al
ways be depended upon to bring. back
the natural color. thickness. and iuster
of your hair and remove dandruff stop
scalp itching and falling hair.
Everybody uses "Wyeth's" Sage and
Sulphur because it darkens so naturally
and evenly that nobody can tell II has
been applied. You simply dampen a
sponge or soft brush with it and draw
this through the hair, taking one small
strand at a time; by morning the gray
hair has disappeared. and after another
application 1t becomes beautifully dark
and appears glossy, lustrous. and abun-
dant.--AdVt.
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
MAMMA DADDY AND THE CHILDREN CAN
ALL TAKE CALIFORNIA SYRUP Of FIGS

without gripping. Please don't think of
california Syrup of Figs" as a physlc.
Don't think YOU are druggins yourself
or your children. because this delicious
trult laxative can not cause injury,
Even delicate child can take II as
safely as a robust man. 1t is the most
harmless, effective stomach, liver and
bowel regulator and tonic ever devised
Nour only difficulty may be in getting
5O-ccnt bottle Of "California Syrup Of
Figs Say to your druggist: II want
only that made bv the California Fig
Syrup Company " This city has many
counterfeit "nG syrups," So watch out
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
Editorial For
Women
Enter the Domestic Business
Woman.

woman.
.(-HE business woman is most
- domestic; she can keep
house more scientifically
and more successfully :han
one who has no outside interests,
says Edna Ferber. and as the crea-
tor of Emma McChesney, of the
firm of T. A. Buck. dealer in petit
coats. Miss Ferber should know.
In fact, lots of folks have known
that for a long time. but they are
probably just ordinary business
women. would be accused of Offer
ing biased and designed testimony,
and are by no means as well known
to the many as Miss Ferber.
So it would not be had idea for
this time to let Miss Ferber finish
the editorial herself, to wit:
"The business woman learns to ap-
preciate tho home because she i
away from it every day. The woman
who Is always at home takes do
mesticity us a matter of course, But
the woman who goes away to the
back in the afternoon, appreciates
her home. She regards it with real
enthusiasm. And this enthusiasm
shows itself in her care of the house
hold. Enthusiasm for her home is
not all that the business woman
learns. She learns efficiency. If
she knows how to run an office sue
cessfullv she knows how to run
home successfully. The really clever
business woman is always a clever
housekeeper. Always.
"The butcher and baker and can
dlestick maker can do what they like
with the clinging vine sort of a wife
and mother. But they can't put
much over on the wife or mother
who spends six or seven hours a day
in an up-to-datc business Office
The Washington times., 1915-04-08

feTndDB you are SO urea NnCn
you come home at night that
anything brazenly labeled EEK
ercise" is out of the question. Exercise
u more or less of a habit. II you were
= basketball girl at high school and
played, tennis during the summer, you
are likely to exercise more now than
the women who never took part in q
sport When you once find what fun
some of the so-called women's sports
are or how easily you may learn TO
shoot at. arrow or to paddle a canoe.
exercise" won't mean bending sixty
evening or breathing eighty conscienti-
Ously-counted times every morning.
You, the business woman, and you,
too, the growing girl, are not entirely
to blame for your aversion to sports,
since the average high school gir1 does
not receive the physical training she
needs and have never cultivated the
exercise habit. Proof? The statistics
OF colleges for women.
Medical examiners at these institutions
have found that a very small proportion
of the girls seeking entrance are up to
the standard Preliminary statements
supplied by family physicians arc sell
dom reliable and cannot be given very
careful and searching physical examina- =
tion of each applicant is one of the
steps Immediately following matrcula-
ton.
Physical Examinations.
Several colleges have adopted the plan
of making the physical examination a
very important part of the admission
requirement and refuse to admit
students whose physique seems to be
unsuited to college work. Other girls
are told that the college course must be
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
FOUR-LEAF CLOVERS.

u kno>~ = SlaCe where the sun Is
like gold.
And the cherry blooms burst with
snow.
And down underneath is the love-
lest spot
Where the four-lcaf clovers grow
"One leaf is for hope and one for
faith,
And one fer love. You know:
And God put another one in for
luck,
II you search YOU will find whore
they grow.
'But YOU must have hope and you
must have faith.
You must love and br strong, and
so
If YOU work. II YOU wait. YOU will
lind the place
AAscs the four-leaf clovers grow"
The Washington times., 1915-04-08

scholarship. has an entirely different
sense
My idea was based Oh the fact
that since no one considers II strange
or charity to accept n scholarship
IN order to go through college. there
should be no reason why the scholar
ship for the small boy or girl, in
order to send them through the lower
graTes of school, should carry any
different meaning.
Charitable Institutions.
"All Of our larger universities.
when one comes down to it. are
charitable Institutions. 1t would be
impossible for them to run on the
moneys charged II they were not
heavily endowed The grade school
children are comparatively financial
ly unable to meet the material obli-
CATION demanded by tho grade school
in the war of food and Clothing
when the bread-winner Of THEIR fam
so why not offer them scholar
ships?
when I went to Oklahoma, at the
invitation OF its leading citizen to
meet with the first Legislature of
the new State, my especial duty. be-
ing the writing Of the child labor and
school attendance laws, l vas met
with the problem-'What will you do
with the children of the poor widow
whom those laws will deprive Of the
wages of her children now necessary
for family support
Il had known of the work of the
scholarship funds raised in New
York. Baltimore. st. Louis. Chicago,
and New Orleans: and with my
philosophy of government, that the
state should do for its citizens as
rapidly as possible. what private
agencies now do in the matter of
relief. l wrote into the compulsory
school attendance law of Okla
homa the principle of the scholar
ship fund. the money to be
paid out of the school funds of the
State to parents who were found,
after due investigation. to be de-
children, as a reward for the attend
ance OF the children upon school,
Harshly Criticised.
Il received my full share of criti-
clsm for having enlarged the area
of outdoor relief But ! have since
come to the conclusion that outdoor
relief is simply a convenient phrase
upon which to hang indiscriminate
denunciation of a system. and that
in this case outdoor relief meant the
keeping of the children within the
walls of a home rather than an in-
stitution.
Il afterward found that, while 7
Sought ! was original. the State of
Ohio had a similar, though for
gotten, law upon its statute books;
and we all know what has been the
history of the mothers pension
movement in the last few years.
"A great celebration was held
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
Harmless "fruit laxative"
cleanSeS stomach, liver
and bowels.

\ delicious cure for constlpst ton,
biliousness, sick headache. sour stomach
indigestion, coated tongue, sallowness-
take "California Syrup of Figs" For
the cause of all this distress lies in a
torpid liver and sluggish bowels
4 tablespoonful tonight means all
constipation, poison, waste matter, fer
menting food, and sour bile gently
moved out OF your system BY morning
The Washington times., 1915-04-08

= row much exercise do YOU get
- Perhaps you are so tired when
you come home at night that
hro 10
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
DR.. A. }. Mckelway, Living
Here, Really Responsible
For Act Which Has Just
Gone Into Effect in New
York.
Drew Up Social Insurance
Measures in 1908, When
Oklahoma Became a State;
Other Laws Have Fol-
lowed Throughout Nation.
By FLORENCE E. YODER.

~ cDClts
The very latest, most 'up-to-date
piece of social insurance yet devised,
the mothers pension bill OF New
York, became a law yesterday after
noon at 3 o'clock. when Governor
Whitman affixed his signature to the
measure at the State house in Al
bany.
And right here in Washington lives
the man who. barely seven years
ago. IN 1908, drow up the laws for
child labor and school attendance in
Oklahoma. which were the germinal
beginnings Of all mothers pension
legislation in the United states.
DR.. A. J. McKelway, secretary Of
the national child labor committee.
of this city. for he Is the man in
question, does not claim that he Is
the first TO offer ideas on mothers
pensions, but modestly states that
he merely contributed to the agi-
tatlon."
Since, however. the laws which he
drew up for children at the invita-
ton Of the first legislature Of the
new State. were the first of their
kind, and since they made a nation
wide disturbance over the advisa-
biity of their administration. with
the pension for the parent as the
next natural consideration. 1t is not
going wide of the mark to state
that they paved the way for like leg
.islation. and sowed broadcast the
idea of pensions for dependent
mothers.
Laws Came Later.
Although the laws prepared by DR..
McKelway in Oklahoma were ap-
proved in 1908, on April 10. 1t was
not until nearly four years later that
the first mothers pension bill became
a law in Missouri April I. 1911.
This first bit Of mothers pension
legislation In Oklahoma was called a
scholarship law. which gave to the
child Of a widowed mother. a scholar
ship donation by which they were
enabled to attend the school and live
at home. The law as drawn up by
DR.. McKelway Is very simple, and as
explained by him is delightfully."- just.
1.-THE idea Of the word pension. or
compensation even," he said today.
carries with it an idea which is often
interpreted wrongly by those whom
we wish to help. Now the word
The Washington times., 1915-04-08

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The Washington times., 1915-04-08

and note how quickly your hair takes
on freshness and life. and how it actu-
ally causes fine, new hair to grow. Re
moves dandruff; stops falling hair.
o'Donnells Drug Stores refund price IL
1t doesn't satisfy.-Advt
The Washington times., 1915-04-08
Popular Sports Offer Way
For Woman to OOercone
Aversion to Exercise
Archery, Golf, Rowing, Tennis, and Esthec Dancing
May BE Continued After School Years To Physical
/. Advantage in Resisting Mental Overwork.
BY MABLE E. WINSLOW.

."',"n in five years instead of the usual
.e of the journals has given a great
deal OF prominence to the fact that one
die West last fall approached very
nearly the set of measurements set i'm
the ideals of Michael Angelo. She had
never heard Of the usual games girls
sise by work on farm. why should
the existence OF one normal girl be the
ment?
tell 0s' ySs si So sw of of e Hes a M
ted to their colleges are ready for work
with even the elementary gymnasium
classes that special courses I'm re
have OF necessity been organized to pre-
pare girls for regular gymnastic work !:
that is, to raise them somewhere near
the physical standard OF girls of their
age.
Restricted Classes.
'Restricted' gymnastic classes claim
those girls who have weak hearts, weak
ankles and weak backs. They are the
ones whose apparatus work must be
specially chosen for them and who may
even be restricted from entering sports
In "correctivc' gymnastics the girls re-
ceive massage or other corrective treat
hient lor rounded shoulders, spinal cur
Vature, and vari rious conditions are rem
edied, the further gymnastic progress
OF the girls Is at a Standstil.
Experts in this work state that the
majority OF girls are below the normal
because they have never had the proper
amount Of exercise. Have YOU ever
stopped to consider the amount Of exer-
else that the high school offers the
growing girl? In the winter she cun
play basketball for few minutes each
week. have one or two periods of
health" and perhaps little dancing
at noon after hastily swallowed
lunch. In the summer even this insult
ficicnt exercise is lacking, except for
those fortunate girls who have access to
tennis ourts.
Esthetic Dancing.
Many of the sports encouraged by
women's colleges are of such a char
acter tha: they are not only beneficial
TO girls while in college, but may also
be followed after they are graduated.
Archery. golf, rowing. and tennis arc.
perhaps, the most striking examples.
Esthetic and '"naturar' dancing, though
scarcely sport. may be continued after
graduation. Baseball playground
games. running, and basketball may be
continued under some conditions
Nearly all, of these sports may be un-
dertaken by nigh school girls, for many
Of them may be played alone Or in
groups in backyards or the public play
grounds. Few of them need much ap-
paratus. yet they offer abundant exer-
else. Handbooks on the various sports
supply the necessary instructions in
very simple language, and with their
aid would-be players may secure all the
preliminary information they may wish.
The girl who exercises constantly,
though that exercise may be of the
simplest Sort is able to resist the
breaking down qualities Of mental cxer-
ton. whether her work Is in a college
or an office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17
GRADUATE GLASS OF THIRTY.
commencement Exercises Of Sac City
High School to Be Held June 3.

Special to Times Republican.
Sac City. May IA class of thirty
young people will be graduated this
year from the Sac City high school,
The commencement exercises will be
held on the evening of June 8, at which
time Governor George w. Clarke will
deliver an address to the graduates.
The members of the class are:
Scientifice course-Ray Stevens,
Jesse Shannon, Edna Bread, Lucille
Wilson. irwin Lesher. Herta Witte.
Adam Neal, Martha Wise, Edna THAI,
Ebert Brown. Maynard Groth, Harold
Brown. Chester Rutter. George Stan
eel Clifford SBeimer..s Warren Brown,
Katherine Taylor, Nellie Pitstick.
Latin course-Frances Needham,
Genevieve Callahan.
Normal CONSEQUENTLY Galloway,
Ellinor Findley. Josephine Riddle, Ce
Gle Grffen, Gladys Stoner. Miriam
Lindsay. Sarah Stevens. Myrtle Stadl-
man.. Wilhelmina Brown and Ina
Strong. 81
Frances Needham is president Of the
class and Irving Lesher secretary. The
class play. In preparation. is entitled
Polish" All members Of the class will
wear sailor costumes at the graduation
exercises. The water lily is the class
flower
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17
IOWA FALLS oEeATERs WIN.
Capture State High School Champion
ship at Iowa City Contest.

Special to Times Republican,.
Iowa Falls, May 1.-THE heartiest
kind of welcome awaited the return
of the members Of the high school de-
batting team from Iowa City. where
they won the distinguished honor OF
the championship Of the state in the
Iowa High School Debate League
Naturally there was great rejoicing In
this city over the victory which the
friends OF the young men were con-
tldent they would win.
The team which brought this honor
to Iowa Falls and her schools as well
as to Hardin county is composed or
Allan Nichols, the eldest son of Edi-
tor Ira A. Nichols Of the Hardin County
Citizen; Cecil Russ, a son of DR.. John
F. Russ. and Harold Wright, son OF
G. A. Wright.
Unstinted praise is due these young
men for their good work on the de-
batting team for they have devoted
months Of hard study and practice i'll
preparing for the big event in which
they acquitted themselves so ad-
mirably.
The local team had the affirmative
of the literacy test for immigration
question. The honor of contesting for
the state championship was secured
thru sitting process and the local
team won in six contests with other
high schools before entering the finals
at Iowa City,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17
Brief News of Sheldon.

special to TlmeS-Republlcan.
Sheldon, May 1.-THE Sheldon high
school will graduate class of twenty
one this year. fifteen girls and six boys.
DR.. Craig, of Morningside, will give the
bacca1aureate.
Sheldon feels honored in that w. H.
Bailey has been chosen as one of the
three lieutenant colonies Of the Iowa
National Guard. he being assigned to
that honored position in the second
regiment, which consists Of Webster
City, LeMars, Ida Grove, Eagle Grove.
Sheldon, Charles City, Boone, two at
Fort Dodge. two at Mason City and
two at Sioux City. Prior to the re-
organization Of the Iowa militia he was
lieutenant colonel Of the Fifty sixth
regiment.
The Sheldon Commercial Club is
Offering a prize of $40 for the best
slogan for the city's use.
The preliminary figures show total
population Of 1852 for O'Brien coun-
ty, as against 1922 in 1910. or this
growth of 1920. S7s is due to Sheldon's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17

looking back over the contest to save
the live stock industry Of Iowa and
the country It can now be seen where
some OF this might have been avoided.
But the attack OF the disease was sud
den. In a little while 1t was in twenty
states. II threatened losses by hun
drels OF millions Of dollars. the prac-
tical paralysis of business and to fas-
ten itself upon the country as q per-
manent blight The experience gained
by passing thru this sudden onslaught
may enable veterinary science to with
stand another attack with less loss to
stock owners and business in general,
but nothing can Justify anything that
will give the scourge any advantage in
its attacks upon the herds of Iowa or
of the country in general. Standard
authorities in this and European coun-
tries, which have had time to exam
inc, agree that the disease is Of very
highly contagious nature, that 1T will
spread very rapidly thru the entire
stock OF a country and entail enormous
losses. The disease attacked over four
million animals in the German empire
In one year and afterwards in two
years nearly three million animals died
of the disease in European countries.
Co Operation Essential.
1T must not be forgotten that in the
consideration of this question, the stock
industry Of each state Is the stock in
dustry of every other state. There are
no state lines. Shipments of stock Of
all kinds and conditions and of breed
ing animals are interstate thruout the
country. There ought to be the closest
cooperation between the state and
federal authorities. The fact is there
otherwise. State legislation should be
such as to give the widest freedom for
mutually of effort and each state is
interested in knowing that every other
state SO legislates and that no state
may become menace to this great in
dustry thruout the country. To such
an extent is this so, and so well under
stood is the virulence of the disease
and so widespread has the knowledge
of this bill become that tine animal in
dustry departments in many states
bave appealed to me in behalf of the
great live stock industry of the coun-
try. From one state it is said, ut
would have been impossible to have
handled the disease in this state with
such a quarantine bill" Another said,
Such legislation will restrict the au-
thority OF your live stock commission
and afford greater opportunity for the
spread of the disease. Further, we
should be compelled in our own inter-
ests, to prohibit the importation from
Iowa of breeding stool. to the detri-
ment of your live stock breeders who
find ready sale in our state"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17
BUS BARN AND CITY JAIL AND
HALL DESTROYED ON SUN.
DAY AFTERNOON.
HIGH WIND MENAcEs
MANY ADJACENT BUILDINGS
Horses Saved From Barn-New Sharon
Man Falls Forty Feet With 5000
Pounds Of Cement When Roof Of silo
/. coIIapsss-Irjuriss Prove FATAL
Companion Saves Himself.

Special to Times Republican.
Belmond. May 7.-Sunday afternoon
at o'clock fire broke out in the Case
bus barn. No one was in the barn
at the time and the fire gained such
Roadway the firemen were unable tc
control it. The barn was burned to
the ground but the horses were saved
The city hall and Jail caught fire and
were practically destroyed. Only BY
hard work the f1remen saved the build
ings on the north side of Main street
Sparks caught in the roofs several
times but were extinguished with
buckets of water. strong north wind
carried sparks several blocks. Both
buildings were insured.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-17

and Industrious young men. was very
seriously injured Saturday while work
Ing at the top Of large cement silo,
removing the false work from around
the recently made roof, the entire roof
collapsed. Five thousand pounds OF
cement fell, carrying him with 1t to the
cement floor forty feet below. Several
bones were broken and internal in
turies were sustained that make 1t very
questionable If Mr.. Vickers will re-
cover.
Carlos Hill, who was working with
Mr.. Vickers and was on the outside OF
the roof, fell part of the distance
but saved himself by grasping a small
wire. The accident happened at the
farm home of Mr.. George Fox.