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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Tho Saloon and CHICAGO.

The wet" and dry" advocates in
the general assembly have each come
forward with "home rule" proposals
The 'wets" ask that municipalities be
permitted to vote themselves out OF
the state Sunday closing law, thus
ending for them the spectacle OF q
law usually not enforced because local
sentiment moves juries to, refuse to
convict.
This proposal is 80 simple as to need
no further explanation. The dry
home rule proposal. known as the
Cleary residence district bill, Is more
complex. It would permit the voters
Of ANY contiguous residence terri
tory" to decide whether saloons shall
exist therein. Hence interest centers
in its definitions Of residence" "busi-
ness" and neutral territory. These
are summarized:
Residence: All parks and ceme-
teries; premises the buildings on
which have more than three -fourths
of their floor space occupied FOR
dwelling, educational, religious or
charitable purposes. Also blocks more
than one half Of the occupied premises
in which are residence territory" and
blocks of not more than Is 600 square
feet surrounded by residence terri
tory" by excluding lots abutting on a
street when two-thirds OF the frontage
on both sides for 500 feet or more Is
business territory"
Business: Premises the buildings on
which have more than one-fourth of
their floor space occupied for mercan-
tile, manufacturing, hotel, amusement
1th h,,oi
Neutral: All railroad rights OF way,
vacant premises, and AL space IN
buildings or premises occupied for
baseball or governmental purposes.
The effect Of these provisions would
be, on the one hand. to leave out Of
the dry" districts their voters may
create such business streets as Cot
tage Grove avenue, Haisted, Sixty
third. tho running thru residence di..
tricts. On the other hand. 1t would
permit the dwellers OF actual residence
districts to keep saloons out OF their
One-fourth Of the voters OF pro-
posed dry" district may petition for
a referendum vote. The same number
may call for q new referendum. But
after district has been voted dry"
or Is voted back wet" the question
may not be raised again for three and
one-half years.
The bill is described As "a township
option act for cities" An interesting
provision is that which would give
each district created local name. An
argument for 1t is that it would per-
NIT the householders interested to es-
tablish stable conditions regardless Of
city council fluctuations.
The members OF the general assem-
bly, should vote upon each Of these
"home rule" proposals IN their merits.
Both are extensions OF the principle
of local enlightenment. Chicago
Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
4 STARTLING EXPOSURE.

The Cedar Rapirs Republican 10
shocked and Mortified. The especial
and particular cause Of Its present
shattered condition is the trip OF SEN
ator Cummins and the assertion OF
some newspapers that the senator Is
being urged forward oy his friends.
This the Cedar Rapids paper turns
from with disgust and adherence as
"trickery." It condemns any sugges-
ton that candidates are urged forward
by their friends. It insists that these
candidates are as anxiously forward
ing their own interests as possible and
its open, frank and truth worshipping
nature shrinks as from blow from
the accursed trickery which suggests
that candidate Is being urged by his
friends" It can not conceive how
ANYBODY should require urging to run
for an office.
It is a terrible state Of affairs. Why,
0, why will men suffer sucn things to
be? Why do newspapers sink to such
depths of chicane and crooked artihce
and Michiavelian duplicity as to sug-
gest that Cummins is being urged by
his friends or for the matter of that
has any friends anywhere? Is no ruse,
strategem, hoax or maneuver to be
left untried by this artful and design
ing person whose nomination for gov
ernor long time since brought food
of tears from the eyes If an editor un-
accustomed to weep?
Why not use a handkerchief? Why
not brace up and grow calm. ten
year stretch of hysteria ought to
satisfy any reasonable person. Why
continue to yell wolf, wolf" when
there is no wolf to be seen? Why seek
among the debris Of ancient political
dumps for a bone 10 snap and growl
over? Why not come in out of the
rain?
Since men began to hold caucuses
pardon the reference to the loved
and lost-since men began to hold
caucuses candidates have been urged
by their friends" No doubt that pro-
fessorship of Journalism came about
thru the urgency of friends and the
postoffice was granted thru friendship.
If it is a fiction it is still a pleasing
one like other courtesies commoner for
their kindness than the extreme ad-
herence to absolute and unvarnished
truth to which the Republican holds
with we'll known desperation. While
primaries endure-again pardon II
tender chord has been touched-while
primaries endure men will be urged
by their friends" And why for no?
The Galahad of the Iowa newspa-
per profession must modify its intens-
ity to conform with the common run.
Holding still to it's own high standard
Of truth and absolute accuracy 1t must
stoop a little to touch elbows with the
rest Of us. Adhering rigidly to the
principles OF complete partnership
with the public inculcated during long
years Of political purity preceding the
advent of Cummins it must still be of
this world and reach down and not
up and lend a hand.
But Just imagine a candidate for the
presidency who lis being urged by his
friends" Heard We ever of such
trickery?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
FINDING II IN the ROAD.

An eastern family bought land in
Iowa near Fort Dodge in 1846. The
heirs Of the eastern estate have been
dispcsing Of part II it lately at $3.50 an
acre. Sixteen hundred acres at $3.50 an
acre. Two hundred ten thousand dol
lars will keep the wolf away from the
back doors Of those eastern owners for
a considerably extended period.
To them it was like finding it in the
road. 1t hasn't been a very extended
stretch of years since 1896 A leading
actor of the American stage who was
born the year before that land was
bought played in Marshalltown the 9TH
er night so measured by lifetimes,
1S46 isn't so long past. The children
Of the man who bought that land six
ty-nine years ago and who take that
$4,000, are still young enough TO en-
Joy wha. 1t will BUY. No doubt it hap
pened something like this: The elder
Litchfield. having some money on hand
was induced to buy or trade for land
in the new state If Iowa, then just ad-
mitted to the union. He bought a big
tract for few small dollars and for
got it, except as the tax receipts aided
memory. The land wasn't worth any
thing" 1t was away out on the frontier
among Indians and buffalo and sloughs
and hundreds Of miles from. any mar
kets, the winters were terrible and
summers a carnival of mosquitoes 1t
was out of the world, dear as a gift.
Probably after trying to sell or trade
it he forgot he had it. And so it ran
until long later some one in charge
walked up to find that tract father was
fooled into buying, worth money and
adding value. And now the Litch-
fields and Smells are cashing in an un-
earned increment on 1900 acres Of about
100000 and have most Of the $1,000
acres left because their fathers took a
flyer in Iowa land as hundreds Of other
Fasteners" did forty and sixty years
ago. But it illustrates what Iowa has
done in sixty nine years, good and
plenty.
Sometimes, however, speculative pur-
chases failed to turn out as this one
has done. In those old days all the
money in the world was on the other
side Of the Alleghanies. 1t was the
custom of the hardy realty shark Of
the new state to go back east looking
for it. Sometimes he plated q town,
printed prospectus and sold lots. Iowa
is dotted with the forgotten sites Of
such rere: towns. One prospectus Of
a town on the Iowa river in Franklin
at a wharf, factory chimneys pouring
smoke into the air and promised to the
eye much that could never be delivered
to the hand. Twenty years ago the
rotted stakes still remained to mark
the streets and boulevards Of this town
that never was except in prospectus.
It lay four or five miles back from the
river, had never seen stick Of lum-
Der except the marking stakes and is
now probably in corn and utterly for
gotten. But dozens Of these lots were
sold, some of them at 5000 a lot and
many years ago an occasional east
erner' came west seeking the city
where his investments lay. And this
city" was one of the many. Mark that
degenerate time. There were giants IL
| those days.
II the historical society and the edi-
tors of its valuable Journal would
; commission some Capable person t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
IT'S HUMAN NATURE.
[IefferSnn Bee

Is it any wonder the land is full Of
wishy-washy, palavery, salvy afraid
to-call their-soul-their-ow editors?
Why no wonder at all when SO per
cent Of communications they receive
from the public are either unsigned
and anonymous, or handed In with
the fishwormy request that the name
be withheld! And, funny too, these
same non-signers who bother the edi-
tor with their screeds are the loudest
howlers because editors are afraid to
go home in the dark" on needed re-
forms, afraid to $50 after evils, afraid
to take any positive position on any
thing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Riding 4 Horizontal Cycle.

Going 1t . speed Of from seventy.
I've to sighty-nve miles an hour,
notorcyclist succeeded in driving his
machine around the perpendicular wall
It the top Of . motordrome, says
Popular Mechanics. This IL regular
pD1Ssment park feat for automobiles,
Ut = seldom attempted with motor
Oyele, since the machine must be
drives q terrific speed and must
stand out almost horizontally from
The wall Il u good example Of the
power oe centrifugal force. ~ well ~
e the sk.M and :-s e Tie 4..ye:. !;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
CoRNFIELDS AND ORCHARDS.
LClinton Heraldl

Not farmer can be found IN this
section who would plant corn and let
1t go without cultivating. He knows
that the weeds would stunt 1t and per-
haps smother it. But the same farmer
who keeps his corn field slick as
whistle will never think of spraying
his fruit orchard. He will let the bugs
and borers ruin his apple and pear
crops. and kick at Iowa as poor fruit
country. If he applied the same prac--
tice to corn. he would rail about the
poor corn country. 1t is impossible to
raise good fruit crops without spraying
unless the fruit grower is fortunate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Iona Newspapers
THE LACK IS IN OFFICIALS.
IDubuque Times-Journal.l

The pity is that our energetic law
makers haven't performed real SER
vice for decency by enacting a law
especially designed to rid every COM
munity Of panders. So long as this
most despicable class is allowed lib
erty we may expect to hear of vice
and of young girls going wrong. We
may not always be able to mete out
punishment to the men responsible
for the first sin of the unfortunates
of the underworld. but we can reach
the panders who are almost entirely
responsible for keeping them there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
PATENT HoUsECLEANNG.
britt Tribune.1

We are getting up patent on
house and furnishings that will Just
take the eye Of every man in Iowa. 1t
is going to have all chairs bolted to
the floor with inch bolts Of the best
swedes iron. The beds will be band
ed and soldered to the wall. The car
pets put down in hot glue, the stoves
fastened to the floor with steel rivets,
the tables, bureaus, commodes, dres-
sers and stands made Of steel and riv-.
eted to the foundation 80 that the only
way they can be moved is with dyna-,
mite or taking the roof off. All stove
pipe is to be made Of steel two inches
thick, to be put up first and the house
built around 1t and set In cement.
Storm windows and screens all in one
piece and fastened with log chains to
the frame before the siding Is put on;
rugs made of steel and riveted to the
floor joists before the floors are laid.
Then have steel cage in one corner
where the women can be locked UP
in the spring when the robins begin
to sing and the dandelions begin to
float in the breeze, gentle Annie. and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
A NEW THEORY.
TIOwa (,ity Citizen

An upstate paper criticizes Des
Moines man. who it is claimed made
an application in five different coun-
ties for the position of county super
intendent of schools and was defeated
in all of them. The criticism APP
parently is that no man should con-
slider it the proper thing to apply for
position in q county Of which he is
not resident.
On the contrary the theory Of the
new law is that the position Of
county superintendent of schools shall
be on the same basis as that Of city
superintendent, that it is entirely
proper for any competent person to
apply in any county, and that every
county school convention should feel
at liberty to select the best man, re-
CARELESS Of his place Of residence.
This was done in a number Of counties
in the state.
The difficulty with the Des Moines
applicant may have been that he was
not considered a strong man. His ac-
quirements might be criticized there
fore, but certainly his action In apply
ing for the position was justified.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Masonic Meetings.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

The winterset News says: A board
of supervisors usually imagines it is all
there is in the world and no man
may question its proceedings. The
trouble with Iowa largely, in the adj
of county affairs, has
been that the people and the press
do not dig into the real government
which is by the board Of supervisors"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

make q monograph on the land spec
ulation in the early days of Iowa
most readable and interesting addition
could be added to the historical litera-
ture Of the state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

keep them thore too. until ~
house cleaning bug 10 sxtersninatsd and
they are al mssker than Moses. This
house will supersede ill other struc-
lures In iowa when it, properties aro
thoroughly UNDERWOOD.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Instructions Sought.

Everybody" observed a New York
woman, knows one or more Of these
conscientious egoists who can not rid
themselves OF the notion that no ono
can be trusted to carry out the
simplest details of routine work with>
out their personal supervision.
TT was one OF this sort who went
west, leaving in his brothers care .
parrot Of which he was very fond. All
the way out he worried about the bird.
and at Chicago he cent his brother the
following telegram:
"'Be sure to ped the parrot.
"Whereupon 1rother telegraphed
back:
Have fed him. but he is hungry
again. What shall I do next 2 New
York Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
TnMEsREPUBLICAN. MARsHAILTowN IOWA: MAY Z. 1915.

ten or fifteen years another crowd
comes on to take the place OF the old
disbanded brass band. Wonder where
all Of those horns have got to? Why
we raised $1,000 for those silver-plated
horns" 1--WE had thirty-two members
Of our brass band in 1885," Several Of
them are helping Gabriel these days."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

export Times. TN time of peace China
has not prepared for war. Now that
crisit has come there IL little option
for China In making reply to Japan.
"The newspapers are pounding away
at the governorship question just as
tho the primary was only q month or
two away" says the Iowa City Repub-
lican.
IF Iowa Is found to have gained a
quarter Of million inhabitants since
1910 the whole OF the increase can
hardly be accounted for by the back
from Canada" movement" says the
Sioux City Journal.
1.-THE teacher who begins child train
ing as school girl and is faithful IN
her work for twenty, thirty and even
forty years Is entitled to a pension" In
sists the Ackley World,
Introducing an old acquaintance the
Cedar Rapids Republican says "as long
as Mr.. Cummins was born in Pennsyl-
vania, Mr. Kenyon in Ohio and Mr..
Shaw in Vermont there does not seem
to be much likelihood of an Iowa pres
ident, after ALL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
psosptivs Looks.

Altho Lord Charles Reresford 10
noted for his breezy style, he can at
times be very sarcastic. as his p Jlitis
cal opponents well know. y
Shortly after he entered the house OF
commons q certain "A. p, who had re>
Gently announced 4 complete change In
his political opinions on very inn
portant matter, said to him ono day In
q patronixing tone: II think, in time
you might become . statesman, tho !
must admit you don't look q bit like
one"
'.For that matter" answered Lord
Charles instantly. you don't look like
q weathercock!"
After that the other M. r. was LEST
patronixing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
osd's Plan In II. War.

That God willed the war 10 Z viev.
that may be orthodox" but It doea
not gain widespread statement In these
modern days. BY many Il might pers
hAps be supposed to have passed enc
tirsly from mons minds. but Tho Meth.
odist Recorder (London), the LEADING
organ of that church in England, gives
full and unhinching expression to thia
view. declaring that "the bible writer's
and tho christian doctrine drawn from
them. insist that war Is always under
the COMPLETE control Of Gods will" n
believes God is furnishing England"
as the Germans pray. but In the pro.
cess 1t rates the Teutons with the
heathens who punished Israel. War, We
arc assured. can como only thru Gods
permission. and "the searching trial Of
this war has not come upon mankind
without Gods sovereign ordination.
For
ITO suppose, on the other hand, that
1t has arisen without Gods express
permission. 'instigated solely by Satan.
il to attribute to the Adversary q lib.
erty OF access to tho world, and power
OF evil over 1t. which, II true, would
place the world under tho chaotic gov
eminent OF two contending powers, and
would destroy the sovereign providence
Of tho one Lord and the flrst founda-
ton Of religious faith"
Since God might have spared man4
kind this war. but has chosen to lot
them suffer it. argues the Methodist
journal. faith insists that he has de-
termined to make it work together with
all other things for good" This Ia the
argument:
Not to prevent that which Is pres
ventable II to share some responsible
ity for 1t. And since the suprelna
power and the highest authority are
with God. God owes 1t to himself, and
to his people who trust in him, to wins
dicate his use Of the evil which he has
NOT prevented. Those who believe that
God Is powerful, wise, and good, the
Father of Jesus. have the assurance
that he would not have accepted the
responsibility OF permitting this war
unless he purposed-as he has the
power-to utilize it for the highest good
OF the race which he has made and
redeemed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

"China is an example Of nation
that has been hugging peace at any
cost most OF the time," says the Dav-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

"Mr. Barnes at least had stable
politics." pleads the Burlington Hawk
eye.
The Story City Herald explains they
have been complaining about hard
times in the east. but how would It
have been II Iowa and other western
states hadn't caught the automobile
fever. AS q matter Of fact II 1t weren't
for the automobile industry the present
depression in trade would have made
the hard times OF 1895 look Like 80
cents"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07
Gods Plan SAY. Pastor.

Rev. Frank o. Beck. pastor OF the
Covenant Methodist Episcopal church,
OF Evanston. said In his sermon yes.
terday he would not Join the stop the
wal" party. He argued war has q
place In the plan Of God" and that II II
part Of the evolution Of the world"
says Church Owes Debt 70 Ministers,
Bishop Edwin II. Hughes, Of San
Francisco took the First Methodist
Episcopal church Of Evanston into his
confidence and gave some glimpses Of
his life as the son of pioneer minister.
My father was Methodist minister
who served for fifty years without .
vacation" he said.
He began preaching in West virs
ginia In 1867. His salary for the nrse
four years OF his ministry was 800 :
year. The nth year, because OF the
outbreak OF the civil war. It was only
$3.50.
When was born my father war RED
ceivinG $500 year and my mother waa
m invalid. There were three children.
We had to 30 to bed in order to get our
clothes mended.
Some persons criticize ministers bea
C8uUO Oh tuolI 1oCk OK GUINNESS Qu0l1us
cations. but my father could give most
men lessons In domestic economy.
When he was getting a salary OF ST.
900 q year he had three boys studying
in the university. After nifty years Of
service he died and all the property he
left was small house with mortgage
Of $500 on 1t. Yet never once heard
my father complain.
II don't believe in mushy sentiment
tally about the ministry, but believe
the church owes ministers debt on
the basis Of simple honor and manhood
"A soldier who had gone at the risk
of his life to serve his country and
came back safely was asked what sus-
tanned him most when he was in dan
ger Of being shot His reply was: II
am killed the government is pledged
to care for my wife and family
Some day the church Is going to be
just as wise and good as the national
government and the great corporations
which pension their retired men,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-07

Never mind a few rainy days. Every
thing will be dry as a bone Jan. l.
1916.