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The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-04

Myrtle St. Methodist
W. H. Steinmeyer, pastor.
Sabbath school, 10 .. m.
Preaching and the Sacrament Of
the Lords Supper, II a m.
Prayer service Friday night, z
o'clock.
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-04

". s. Wilkes has as her
I cousin. Mrs. G. s. Carl
little son William of Wau-
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Zelda, the Woman of Mystery, en-
tertained large audience last night
with an exhibition of telepathy
winch was indeed interesting and
makes one wonder some about the
mysteries of this life. Zelda will, an
pear again tonight in a new act n
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-04

First Presbyterian
Sunday school at 9:45 a. m.
Preaching at II a. m. and 7:15
p. m.
Prayer meeting Wednesday even
ing at 7:15.
Rev. Jas. F. Winnard, d. D.,
will preach morning and evening.
This being the day set apart by
st. Johns Presbytery for home mis-
sion week, the sermon will be on
that subject and all the church men,
bers and their friends and all Wis
itors in the city are invited to wor-
ship with us and aid us in this home
work that means so much to the
church and the community.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
England in Hiding.

England Is hiding behind America.
The German admiralty, as we'll as every
German, deplores the fact that with
the sinking Of the Lusitania lives were
lost. England alone seems to welcome
the heartrending catastrophe with Joy.
It is now doing what 1t has always
ing to instigate hostile action on the
part Of our republic against Germany.
Was 1t not England that killed cold
bloodedly the neutrality OF the seas, in
spite of our repeated protests? Was it
not on account OF that brutal piracy Of
England that Secretary OF State Bryan
wrote TO United States Senator Stone:
1--WE are obliged to tolerate and to SUBJ
NIT to all actions Of England because
she rules the waves!"
And is 1t not now on account Of the
general helplessness that Germany
conducts q submarine war;
England invited Americans to take
passage on the Lusitania with the as
surance that the ship was In no danger
that its speed protected It against
any attack"
With Americans on her back, I'll.
Lusitania carried in her bottom war
materials for the destruction Of Ger
mans.
England and England alone is to be
held responsible for thekloss Of life be-
cause England lured Americans to
death, hoping that the presence Of
Americans would protect the ship
against German attack. Chicago
Presse Germany
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15

building Is in progress this spring than
last. For the past seasons the towns
have been active in the erection Of new
business and residence buildings, im-
provement Of store fronts and the gem
eral improvements that thriving COM
munities make.
But It is not boom. Iowa is not
boom state. 1t is prosperous ana
prosperous and grow:hy states do, ex-
pressing in steady and logical improve
ment the natural advancement of her
communities.
So far from being boom the ac-
tivities noted in Iowa are IL anything
delayed behind the opportunities Iowa
offers. The builders are but catching
up with the natural advance belonging
by right to section so favored by nat
ure. If business blocks are under way
business is waiting ;lnpatiently to move
in. If dwellings are being fastened it
is because they are or may be rented
in advance Of their completion. There
is nothing hatulent about the activities
Of Iowa little that Is speculative. It is
all solid. The foundation is under 1t.
No chance of collapse exists. 1t isn't in
any wise boom but plain growth in
it's place in the sun.
1t is probable that every dwelling
under construction in the state could
be doubled before the boom appellation
would fit the situation. AS it is the
building activity is just plain express
sion of need. Iowa has coma to pc
riod Of building. Houses puilt twenty
to thirty years ago are being replaced
by those up to the minute of modernity.
That is true of business blocks. Iowa
is simply stepping abreast of pressing
and present demand. She is doing
what she must in order to maintain step
with her fortune as the farmer builds
a new and commodious barn and a
good house as his means and opportun-
ity grow.
That's ALL It isn't a boom but the
recognition of a plain necessity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
INFECTIOUS BUT DEPENDABLE.

Critical of the proposal of Mr.. Roose-
welt that the United States should for
bid all commerce with Germany and
encourage the same with the allies and
the rest Of the civilized world the Des
Moines Register and Leader terms the
proposition "a futile remedy" and sug
gests that it may have been put forth
to discredit the president
But the same thing has been sug-
gested many times and without intent
to discredit or embarass the president
by others not as prominent. perhaps,
as Mr.. Roosevelt. And admitting that
the expedient would prove futile as to
stopping the submarine warfare what
other course which may be suggested
would be likely to prove less futile
when applied to the same purpose?
In event that Germany should fatty
refuse the demands of the American
note what course to be contem plated
would prove otherwise than futile?
Even if war were declared what effect
would it have beyond the cutting off
Of such supplies as Germany may be
receiving from this country and open
assistance to the opposing powers.
Our army does not figure. A greater
navy than ours within striking dis
lance lies terrified behind its own de-
fences.
Mr.. Roosevelt is in a vastly different
position from that he would occupy if
he were president of the United States.
Like other men not Of official position
and responsibility he claims his right
Of speech. Men utter sentiments and
advance propositions out of Office that
in office they would ponder over long
and perhaps suppress. It is probable
that were Roosevelt president he would
curb his impetuosity and walk warily
big stick in hand. However, it is to be
said for Mr.. Roosevelt that after he
had made a demand he would not
finch from the consequence of refusal.
Moreover. there is more to be said
for Roosevelt, If this blaze with its
dangerous possibilities flames into a
confagration it Is safe to predict that
the administration that will be thus
burdened will have the willing sup
port Of Theodore Roosevelt in the time
Of trial.
Perhaps Theodore talks too much
and says what he says too bluntly.
Many useful men do that who may be
depended upon in an emergency to stay
until the last dog is hanged. At any
rate it is a time when this country
needs it's Roosevelts and its Wilson's
and every other patriotic citizen. It is
no time for squabbling over admins
trations or seeking cause of criticism
against public men whether in or out
of office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
TndEs-REPUBLICAN. MARsHAILTowN. IOWA: MAY IS 1915

himself with the church, and secure
adequate education for his children, he
would not want very badly to own q
farm. On these rich lands It Is eco
nomically better for most men to rent
than to own their land, on account OF
the large fixed capital needed. 1t re-
quires on the really well managed farm
about one-third as much working cap
ital as fixed: that is, capital to grow
stock or buy 1t, to pay the labor to buy
the family supplies, and in time Of low
prices enable the farmer to hold q nom
perishable crop over for fair price.
This advance in the amount Of fxed
and working capital has not only
brought with it tenantry. but it has
brought with it demand for credit,
both short-t time and longtime, and for
some system of amortization which will
enable the tenant who has fixed him.
self in the community to buy the land.
with payments extending over long
period Of years, at a reasonable rate
Of interest. How shall this credit be
obtained? That is problem confront
ing the western poole just now.
Credit means financial trustworthi-
ness. Therefore, 1t is part of char
acter, and you can not legislate char
acter into men. You must either de-
velop working capital by the slow way
OF earning it, and that requires char
acter in the broadcast sense Of the word,
or you must convince men who have
money to lend that you are trust
worthy. Without this financial trust
worthiness, credit will not be given;
and 1t would be doubtful blessing. If
given. We heard men say thirty and
thirty five years ago, that if they only
had money they could make money.
and they would quote the old saying:
Money makes the mare co. Well, it
does generally make her go, but un-
less the driver has character skill and
ability, 1t is more than likely to make
her go wrong.
The problem is not yet solved. We
hope 1t will be: but it will not be
solved by the government shoveling out
money to any man who thinks he can
use it, nor by making itself basis OF
credit at low rates Of interest, lower
than the currency market rates to men
of similar financial trustworthiness.
1t can be obtained thru cooperation.
as it is obtained by people who need 1t
in the old country; but cooperation
means liability, limited or unlimited, to
the members Of the association. 1t also
means supervision of the borrower;
and we are entirely too individualistic
as yet in the corn belt for that
1t is a subject requiring the most
careful study both on the part of bor-
rowers and lenders, of landlords and
OF those who wish to- become land
owners and their own landlords. We
have no patent solution to offer. This
matter must be thought out carefully
and honestly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15

world Tor nearly = hundred generation1
tho better nature Of man has subduedy
Every day Innocent men. women and
children are Sacr1flced until we have;
become callous to Al human sufIerings
A Lnsitania II sent to the bottom and.
1880 noncoEnbatsnts lose their Lives,
and we calmly say TINT It u q conss-
qusnce Of the war. This hate has
blinded mon not alone Ia Berlin and
Vienna, but also In London. Paris and
Pstrograd to all but tho most effective
meas for hatchery and destruction. It
has driven all Europe mad.
"The better nature OF man-is there
anything left OF II or did It ever really
exist? HAS religion bean anything moro
than the thinnest sort Of veneer which
the slishtest occasion rubbed on 70 re-
veal the untemed savage underneath?
How can the European rulers and
their advisers dare to speak Of relig-
ION, Of humanity and Of God ?"-Wash-
ington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
SPREADING THE COST.
burlington Hawkeye.l


Mason City neds new high school
building. A special election has been
called for June 5, when a proposition
will be submitted that 100000 worth
of bonds be issued to pay for the new
structure. That looks like a pretty
sum. Yet big building that is not
merely intended for the present, but
that will suffice until it shall have been
paid for, can not be, put up for a small
amount. While they are going into
the thing. Mason City folks are going
in right. There Is no profit in build
ing something that the city does not
need and that does not I'll the bill
just because 1t Is cheaper. OF course.
it means that for the present and per-
haps for number Of years, Mason
City will have to pay some $4,000 in
interest alone, without thinking Of the
principal. But who cares for little
matter like that, especially when the
next generation Will have to pay for
that building? OF course, If the Mason
City folk are inclined to let those bonds
linger along and to take them up later
and issue new bonds In payment there
for, it is just possible that the new
100000 high school will eventually
cost the town very huge sum. But
when it is paid little at time, no.
body seems to mind it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
THE FISHING SEASON.

The fishing season opens today in
Iowa and the usual first day crowd will
be at the lakes and along the river.
Opening of the fishing season Is an
event to a very large number of
Iowans. Fishing is about the only
sporting diversion remaining to Iowans
that includes the taking of game ami
mails. Shooting has vanished except for
an occasional duck in the fall and as
few quail and prairie hens. AS a
sportsman's paradise Iowa long ago
passed into the class Of has beens.
1t will never come back to the gun
ner. His pipe is out. His cartridge a
misfire. But fishing in Iowa lakes
and streams may be made and kept to
afford excellent sport for thu fisherman
and an inducement to the ordinary
persons outing. The streams especially
should be given attention and cultiva-
ton, for they are the fishing places Of
sorts for those who can spare time
and money to indulge themselves. It
would not be hard to do or long to wait
for very complete system Of fish
propagation and protection that would
make fishing good in every river Of the
state.
Fish hatcheries are not prohibitively
expensive to establish and maintain as
game bird farms and must always be-.
A million fish may be Matched with as
little trouble and expense az q few
dozen pheasants and distributed with
as little cost and with certainty that
they will live and multiply. Stern pro-
lection Of the streams, which means in
effect fines heavy Enough to inspire
terror in the fish poacher whether he
or a wealthy farmer who hides q seine
and officers who must impose the pen
altiess under bond would solve one Diff
ficulty. A half dozen fish hatcheries
located in different parts of the state
would solve the other.
How to get the money is another
matter. Perhaps by fishers licenses,
perhaps by appropriation. That is a
matter to be settled by the legislature.
The fact stands out that Iowa could
provide vast deal Of good sport and
an immense food supply at reasonable
cost by paying attention to fish culture
to the neglect Of the impossible task Of
providing birds for sporting purposes.
That can't be done. The other can.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15

Queenstown.-In his testimony be-
fore the coroner's jury in the case OF
the victims Of the Lusitania Captain
w. T. Turner, commander of the ship.
said he was warned by the British adj
miralty Of the presence Of German sub
marines on the Irish coast, that he re-
ceived certain specified orders as to
course and the like and that he obeyed
them. He would do 1t again.
1.-THE weather was clear" he testified.
I'VE were going at a speed Of eighteen
knots. I was on the port side and
heard Second Officer He6ord call out.
Here's a torpedo!'
II ran to the other side and saw
clearly the wake Of torpedo. Smoke
and steam came up between the last
two tunnels. There was q slight shock.
after the hrst explosion
there was another report, but that may
possibly have been internal.
Il at once gave the order to lower
the boats down 70 the rails, and di-
rected that women and children should
get into them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15

20 bushels Of corn per aors wsfs
worth ............ ....... 1l.7e
21.5 bushels OF corn per acre were
worth Observation-Disclosures. il.so
"a bushels OF corn per acre were
worth ..................... 1910
27.75 bushels Of corn per acre
were worth observation-disclosures. 10.O1
S1.6 bushels Of corn per acre were
worth .................... 1V.O0
Now, II It cost during this period
SO to raise an acre, the profit on q
nineteen bushel crop would be forty
times as great az on q Sl.5 bushel
crop. n
With hogs It works out the same
way. When there has been no chol-
era in the country, and hogs are go
ing to market at the rate Of nearly .
hog per person yearly. the price will
be about - per cwt.;; but when there
are half this number Of hogs, the price
will be $40 per cwt. When there are
many hogs in the country, you are
likely to lose 10 to 20 cents a bushel on
the corn you feed them, but when there
are few hogs. you make 10 to 40 cents
a bushel.
Shall we all become mossbacks?
Certainly mott The thing to do IL to
get together. Learn to know your
neighbors. The time is coming when
the farmers will boss" their own BUSH
hess and get as much for large crop
as a small one. In the meantime, It IL
up to you to beat your neighbors, and
grow as large crops as you can. and do
all you can to get together on buying
and selling such things as machinery.
feed, livestock, and grain. You and I
may yet see the day when the farmers
will control their business as effective
ly as the packers control theirs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
Jitney superxision.

Automobile Commissioner Roe has
acted with genuine regard for the pub
lie safety in requiring that persons ap-
plying for chaufreurs' licenses to drive
jitney busses should have had three
months practical experience in operat-
ing motor vehicles. Too many reckless
persons are driving these vehicles now,
as is shown by the police supervision
that has recently been demanded from
all sections Of the city, and If to these
irresponsible chauffeurs are be added
a large number who know little or
nothing about the business, the safety
of the community will be seriously en-
dangered. The jitney may have Its
uses, but it is clear from our ex-
perience that, like every other form Of
public service, 1t needs strict regula-
tion.-Baltimore Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
TWO TRAGEDIES.
Madrid Register-News.]

ASAodA ~ 4ASSASIGA-A
Some time ago the news dispatches
woman enclosed within the walls Of
an ancient building which was being
torn down. by Worlmen. It is
presumed that the one to whom
the decaying bones had once belonging
had been false to her VOWS and be-
cause Of her sins had been encased be-
tween the walls Of stone and mortar
to pay her penalty. Probably crouch
ing in terror, she had watched the
walls rise tier upon tier until she was
forever shut out from the sunlight of
existence. If the superstition Is true,
it was cruel generation. q cruel civ
tlization and a cruel world.
The other day the news dispatches
told another story. It was the story of
one who had loved not wisely but too
WELL" Deserted by the one who had
betrayed her, Stunned by old associates
and the doors of respectability closed
against her, ~she faced starvation or the
life Of degradation from which she
was striving with all her strength to
deliver herself. In her desperation she
preferred quick death to the living
one, and the waters Of friendly river
closed over her head.
The world has moved since the days
Of the ancient when they seal their
tragedies in darkened crypts We point
to the by-gone ages as civilization
from which the world has delivered it
self. but we are building walls just as
impenetrable and cruel today as did
the ancients. Responsibility constructs
d dead !:ao @aa gathers her sarm ents
about her IN self-imposed righteous
ness fearing they may be besmirched
in contact. We continue to tnconsist
emily condone the foilables Of one sex,
but sit in stern judgment upon the
other. It is only upon women that we
execute hypercritical vengeance. and
build the irupenetrable wall. And our
method is not far above that Of the
ancient.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15

1t is probable that Germany will take
full number of days Of grace" to set
tie that American note. And everyone
is as anxious for reply as any note
holder who ever notified debtor of
date of maturity.
Speaking of the profit an added
bushel of corn to the acre makes,
what's the matter with the saving that
the promised cut Of 25 per cent in fire
insurance rates predicted?
The Des Moines Register and Leader
is taking straw vote on woman SUI
frage- Leghorn or Milan?
Really it does seem that those auto
mobile numbers should be out and on
the machines by this time of the year.
The system of handling them thru the
office Of the secretary o( state appears
to be an egregious failure. Better send
them to the county auditor and get ae-
ton.
The Fort Dodge Messenger says the
organization to learn Of each other. If
they'd learn to know each other when
they pass on the street that woul2 help
some. Somehow no business or pro-
fession is less personally acquainted
than that which makes the newspa-
pers And none should know each 9TH
er better for reasons too numerous to
recapitulate.
Milwaukee has installed in it's public
schools recently twenty-five pool and
billiard tables. Iowa towns, however,
can get along nicely with a few play
grounds. But they seem as far away
as the millennium and when that ar
rives we shall not need them.
Italy might as we'll be at war with
another country as to conduct a pri-
vate war Of her own at home
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Without any doubt the fighting ma
tons would be glad to see the only
powerful neutral nation mixed up in
the general melee. There is time COM
ing when the umpire's voice will be
heard. With no umpire there will be
no rules.
The Des Moines News says the as
sembly should be treated kindly If only
for passing the new libel law. The as
sembly should be treated kindly as a
matter Of common propriety, not be-
cause it passed a sensible and just law.
It didn't buy any newspapers with the
CasWell law.
DR.. Dernberg is another person who
talks too much at the wrong time.
II it were true that Mr.. Roosevelt is
trying to involve the country in war
for political purposes 1t would follow
that he is acting In the assistance of
the presidential desire to succeed him.
self. For the war party is always the
popular party and Wilson would GER
tainly be reelected in event OF war;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-15
PLANT in HATE KILLED MAN.
Expert says Emotional Negotiations
War on Az Animal Iifa

Expert Says Emotional Negotiations
War on Az Animal Life.
Blue rockets show fear. and the
deadly nightshade 10 full Of hatred.
Both of these are plants. but, that does
not prevent them from declaring
merciless war on all animal life. The
blue rocket perfume carries one OF the
deadliest Of poisons. One sixteenth Of
grain shot from its poison pistil has
proved fatal to q man.
Give this plant the semi-muscular
system possessed by the carnivorous
plants, and 1t would be moro danger
GUS than the cholera" said Prof. Henry
g. Waloers, head Of the plant research
bureau at Langhorne.
The professor, who maintains that
plants have memories. and are capable
Of love- believes also that there are
plants which exercise all the emotions
Of enmity New York Sun.