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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
the ,tc1,on HAND From RED OAK

AS the returns come in the new re-
pute Of the Iowa section hand as
rolling in wealth increases and re-
ceiyes confirmation. The latest naiis
the flag to the mast The Iowa section
hand is not only rich as commercial
fertilizer but he has taken the thirty
third third degree &c "as: wealth end m
bounded riches. This time he hans
from Red Oak, the metropolis OF the
Nishnabotna, a city celebrated Tor
calendar statesmen, rich soil ana per-
sonal purity. He seems to nave en-
tertained not wisely but too well
lady who appears to have had little
wealth beyond a variety OF surnames'
The section man had had little mat
ter of 81. roo lying around in an OLD
trunk, as section hands do. 1t and the
lady appear to have disappeared at the
same approximate period. He suspects
that they went together. And SO ne
feels the touch" of a vanished hand
and longs for a voice that is still.
This incident cinches the thing. The
section hand steps into the ranks Oh
the rich who favor chorus girls, as
sist to make the Maybrays prosperous
are the main dependence OF wire tap
pers and footracers and ladies with
mum surnames. There might De
sincere question over the section
hands who have picked up big farms
and bought bank stock and have cat
tie on a thousand hills and cash In
their inside pockets; but this one mas
shown class" He belongs by election
and initiation to the order of the idle
rich And attaining such distinction
he confers distinction upon his COM
peers and contemporaries OF the rlsht
o. way and maintenance
Perhaps we shall see in the near
future a new order. exclusive, AFRO
CANT and purseproud, Of which the
heraldry shall be a spike and maui
xules upon a handcar argent overlooked
by foreman rampant. At any rate the
section hand has made good. Never
mind the others with the big farms
and the accumulated coin. The section
person from Red Oak has called the
surn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
CONTRAST OF LONELINESS

There were two stories side by SIDE
in the morning paper. One told OF
finding "olA Fiddler Clarke" dead at
Dubuque, probably Of starvation. The
other was the story Of the death OF
John D. BOOKSELLERS wife.
No two people would seem to be
farther apart than Old Fiddler Clarke
and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller but there
are condolences in their passing
nevertheless. Both were old. Both
died practically alone; for while the
old fiddler lacked even the caro- OF
strangers the old woman who died In
the palatial mansion at Tarrytown
seems to have lacked the presence OF
her husband and children and relatives
in her final farewell to earth.
To be sure there IL . difference in
tie tie !!eac:S::ss Che :s:s TIC !c:e!!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
witches would the boy have eaten Il he

witches would the boy have eaten Il he
had had them to buy?
No one has any objection whatever
to giving the bidder upon property
good, first class. feed. II every man
who partook OF the free lunch was
bidder and buyer. no one would have
any license to kick. It would be per-
fectly all right. The farmer would be
glad to entertain and feed his Gus
toners and patrons.
At the average good sized sale there
are about thirty or forty buyers. that
is, those who really old on and make
purchase Of property. There are
probably q few more who go there
and bid. in good earnest. but do not
purchase. There are probably IS to 100
there who do not go with the idea OF
bidding. They go to loaf. mix with the
crowd, eat the lunch. and offer advice
to bidders, about half of them doing
full days work OF knocking" And the
average 'knocker'' yoV know. can eat
about twice as much as white man.
That's the free lunch story in nut
she'll.
In Story county, Iowa, there are sew
eral restauranters who send out lunch
wgons to the public sales. They serve
80
cart II you please-at price that need
not exceed IS cents. & the loafer has
the price he eats II ne doesn't he eth
er does not cumber the earth round
about the barnyard. Or he goes hungry.
II the holder Of the sale feels he
must feed his bidding friends. he can
deduct the price of the lunch out OF
what they purchase. 1t would be q
airnnla iob The ordinary man ought
not to except the farmer TO feed ev-
everybody in sight, just Cor the privi-
Iege OF having public sale. There is
no business method whatever In the
free lunch. It Is an injury to sale to
have too many non bidders about. They
take up space, they make larger
crowd to alarm timid stock, and their
ever-free chin music hurts the auction.
The lunch wagon IS the best way. itsis
sensible, and the real business headed
farmer would welcome 1t as solution
of problem which now means both
expense and waste.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
DRAG ALL ROADS IN IOWA.


Spring is here. All Iowa is wallow
Ing iii the mud. IN Few days the
roads will dry UP rougher than frozen
feed yard. The Iowa road dragging
la wmakes it possible for every town
ship superintendent to organize the
farmers into dragging squads so they
can drag all roads in each and every
| township in the state in less than three
hours The same law is applicable to
the county road system. So let's get
busy with the drags in the early spring
and smooth the roads up in fine shape
and few draggings at the proper time
will keep them good the balance OF the
year. Let's show our determination
and Intelligence for making good roads
under the present conditions. Then if
! the legislature of Iowa happens to
make it possible to pave country roads,
let's show the same determination and
intelligence in paving our main line
roads.
There's no one in all Iowa more in
| favor Of practical road drag used at
| the proper time by an efficient man at
about s. per mile per year than I. but
I'm not in favor Of paying the price
| of paving for its use. And it means
Just that much If we go on dragging
| from year to year al an expense of SIS
to S25 per mile, as in some instances.
Twenty-Five dollars per mile would
pay interest on the cost of a whole lot
of paving. Therefore. 1 hope the time
is not far distant when paving on our
main line roads will supplement- the
road drag. Prentiss Ransom. Owasa
Iowa,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

ness OF extreme poverty. the other that
Of vast riches, And perhaps the ioneN-
ness Of the old woman who died alone
was the harder to bear. For physical
comforts fail at the bedside Of the
dying and there is no support or COM
fort there unless it be that reliance
which the parting soul finds upon some
fond breast.
Poor old Mrs. Rockefeller. When
her hour came to pass her husband
and son were separated from her by
miles no special train could cover In
time. Her daughter only few miles
away in New York failed to arrive
before her mothers death" and the
ocean rolled between her and her other
daughter. It was lonely death bed.
Better a cottage in a country village
where love Is than the gilt splendor OF
an empty mansion in Tarrytown. Bet
ter the touch OF nand Oh d chilling
forehead and the falling moisture OF
tear on a stiffening face and the
voices of children in her ears than
palace filled with servants and hung
with the purple tapestries Of the rich
est man in the world" Poor lonely old
dying woman that was all she was
just a poor lonely old woman of 10,
craving no doubt in an agony OF de-
sire the hand grip of affection as she
stepped out into the chill of the mists
SHAT meet US at the end of the jour
ney.
It is the old axiom reasserted, wealth
certifies happiness to none. Down at
the bottom Of all human life there is
but one solid foundation. one safe
footing for the individual and the
family-the love that they bear to one
another and the companionship and
comfort that it gives.
Perhaps Old Fiddler Clarke was not
more lonely or more to be pitied than
Old Mrs. Rockefeller. At any rate
they have crossed the same river
equals.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
WIFE RECOMMENDATION

The Miller bill to repeal the law
providing for appointment OF county
superintendent Of schools and re-
storing the elective system met
chilly reception in the senate COM
mittee when it was turned down pv
that committee and reported out with
a recommendation for indefinite post
movement. The action Of the COM
mittee forecasts a similar fate for
similar bill introduced by Caswel IN
the senate.
The senate committees recommend
alton Of indefinite postponement shouio
be agreed with by the voters OF the
state. The bills to repeal seem 10
have been pushed mainly for popu-
larity purposes from districts where
the appointive law Jared too sensi-
tive conception Of popular rights ana
possibly interfered with personal pur-
poses and prospects. No doubt there
Ia considerable opposition to the ne"
law and no DOUBT much or most OF II
has been cultivated. For the appolntlve
law has not had a chance to show
ubether il Is better or worse than the
elective system. That. however, was
seriously faulty and bound to continue
faulty. The committee is right In in
sisting that a law passed by previous
LEGISLATURE shall have a fair trial De-
fore it is repealed.
The appo,ntive law strikes at popu-
lar rights very much as the appointive
power of a city school board strikes at
the rights Of the voters OF city ols-
trict. Few persons would fail to see
tho righteousness of suggestion that
city superintendent should be elected
by popular vote. The honest TACT is
that if there is one matter upon which
we are as a majority ignorant it is the
schools. Not one male patron out OF
100 ever sees the inside of the school
houses unless his wife drags him, an
unwilling and protesting sacrifice to
mothers club meeting or to school
exhibit of grade work. And what is
true of the city school patron Is true
of his rural contemporary.
Give the new law fair triai. II
has elements Of efficiency in it. 1t cen
tralizes responsibility. 1t has the best
of the argument. Afford 1t a chance to
stand or fall by the future. If it is a
failure it will fall, for while we make
mistakes as a people we also as peo-
pie are ready to confess and correct
them. But try the new law fairly on
its own merits or dement's.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
SALE BILLS AND FREE LUNCH.
Jefferson Beef

An eastern Iowa paper sayss "Old
Bill Beels, of the Hopkinton Leader,
says that in five years there won't be
no such animal as the auction bill. Bill
says that more and more the farmers
are seeing the superiority of newspaper
advertising and realize tina. the hand
bill is read only by the scattering few.
We have an idea that William Is COR
rect In severe weather nobody Will
stop to read posted bill, but the adj
vertisement in the home paper can be
read as leisure by a warm fire, with the
aid Of cloth slippers and pipeful OF
strippings. Twenty years ago farm
auction advertisement larger than
reader was curiosity. Today 1t BIOS
SONS out in quarter and half pages,
and is as common as pink wart on
| a shoat."
In Greene county, however, the pub :
| lie sale holder has one more piece OF
| foolishness to abolish. ana, like lot
/ of other old silly schemes. It dies hard.
| We refer to the free lunch" plan.
Where is the business man VINO
serves free lunch to 81 who are IN
his store at IL o'clock noon? Where
is the man who has a town SAFE Wao
serves a free lunch? Why then the
| free lunch?
well YOU know, Mr. Editor, out In
the country one can not find a restau-
| rant, and they have to be fed"
| Nothing to it. Greene county is the
| only county left in Iowa where the
| free lunch" is being given. and ioiks
| attending sales elsewhere are not
starving" either. The lunch wagon
is there, and all tho food necessary u
to be had, except it . not free to the
public sale loafer. The fellow VINO
goes there for free lunch mas nis
own bill to pay.
About a month ago ! farmer COM
plained to the Bee that 14-year-old
neiehbor boy came 10 his sale. and
when the lunch was served. the boy
4 got outside of eleven hot wiene sand
/ wiches. MY gosh. think OF It! ano
from all reports the boy - still alive.
i The question is, how many sand-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
Creek Prayer For Psaes.

It was not left for modern times to
discover the blessings Of peace. The
Hebrew prophets had company when
they praised 1t and besought 1t OF a
higher power. Prof. Alexander Marine.
OF Kings college. London. has cited
in the London Times the following
prayer found in the Pax Oines 9s1 nj
Of Aristophanes. the Greek writer OF
comedies (45O-3s5 b. CO.. and furnished
the translation which, though some
what free, gives admirably the flavor
Of the original.
O; thou that makest wars to cease In
all the world,
In accordance with thine ancient name.
we beseech thee,
Make war and tumult now to cease.
From the murmur and the subtlety OF
suspicion with which we vex one
another,
Give US rest
Make new beginning,
And mingle again the kindred OF the
nations in the alchemy OF love.
And with some finer essence Of tor.
bearance and forgiveness
Temper our mind.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
Topics of the Times

Two thousand more people attended
the Des Moines auto show this year
than last. That has no suggestion OF
hard times in it but it does inter ABOUT
1000 more chances to eaten rioe
home.
The Robinson bill providing for the
equipment of sewer systems WIN
sewer disposal plants has been re-
ported out of committee for passage. 1t
is not likely to pass this session ous
cities in Iowa may begin TO get READY
to dispose of sewage in some other way
than dumping it into the narrow ana
sluggish rivers and creeks of the state.
The disposal law IS certain to come
ere long.
Recent developments appear to fur
nish confederation to Mr.. Roosevelt
arraignment Of conditions in Mexico
and of the murder Of American citi-
zens. It begin to look as tho the period
OF watchful waiting were drawing near
close.
The committee on graft recon :
mends very radical changes in the
printing and binding for the state.
Among these a editor Of state docu-
ments at $4,000 a year and revision
Of the rates paid for printing. II
Pierce and Dave Brant are telling the
truth something needs doing and at
once. 1t is hard to believe that the
publisher Of a weekly newspaper or an
employe upon daily at $1,000 sal
airy becomes worth from $4,000 TO
SOS. 900 a year thru the incarnation OF
state partnership or bindery ap-
pointment.
Harding's hope for nomination de-
ponds entirely upon the number OF re-
publicans who jump into the race.
Given sufficient number Of candi-
dates Harding will be the next nomi-
nee of the republicans for governor
matter which the drys should take into
early consideration.
The Iowa City Republican objects to
the term asylum as applied to the IN
sane Hospitals" of the state. says
the institutions are named by law and
| newspapers should refer to them as
HOSPITALS. The Republican Is tecnnl-
cally right But what's the matter
with the word asylum" An asylum
| ;s a place of safety, Of protection. why
fuss over the term when one is as sooo
as another?
The military feminine styles this
wear will go we'll with the old style
OF giving orders to husbands who drop
| cigar ashes on the rug. The style OF
the order has always been OF mill
tary and militant character.
! Perhaps if President Wilson woulo
| threaten to SINCE Carranza's whiskers
the old man would behave himself.
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
the proposed plan for state constab-
,,Iary would enable our police depart
ment to say that they have nothing to
do with state laws, that the state has
| its own laws enforcers." That may &c
in Cedar Rapids out you couldn't get
by the Sioux City police chief with 1t
| II any county in this state desires to
make good roads at It's own expense II
ia pretty hard to see why state as
sembly should deny it the privilege.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
WHY WAIT TWO YEARS,

lDes Moines Register and LEADER
The Fort Dodge Chronicle, in a per-
fectly matter of fact way recognizes
that Iowa is already ten years behind
the proposition" in the matter of roads.
The Chronicle then offers this tenta-
tive suggestion:
I'm two years more, after the bene-
fits OF the new law have opportunity
to prove themselves and the people
shall have had economic value of bet
ter roads illustrated to them. NAV
come the time for progressive legisla-
ton"
Now why wait two years and why
say "may?"
Certainly there has been no want
Of agitation and discussion. It was
nearly six years ago that Governor
Carroll called a state convention of
road makers, and Attorney General
Byers drafted a road law patterned
after the Wisconsin law.
The Chronicle will certainly not
claim that Iowa must devote two more
years to the general debate.
Why a wait Of two years and Their
say may"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
TOO MUCH FAT"
Iowa City Ran,,blinanl

me state printing system is rot
ten TO the core. Thousands Of dollars
are wasted every year. The documents
are padded and the law is violated
from ten TO twenty per cent is paid in
excess OF what the law contemplates
on many jobs, in fact on most of the
DOCK work, but the newspapers of the
state generally are silent Par Mur-
phy, party leader, received something
Ike $4,000 in commissions when state
printer, for which he never did stroke
or real work in the way of printing.
ana other state printers have been
living On the fat Of the land on in
comes from that fat office The Re-
publican looks upon such a practice IS
no more honest than highway robbery
ana a legislature which permits such
practices is little better. It is time for
some plain talk respecting these mat
ters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
But WITH HARD ROADS
Thompson Courier.1

[ ffVIItPSUII II
An automobile will be something Of
curiosity when it gets out on the
ground again after being laid up from
natural causes the past snowy months,
personally, we don't expect to buy a
car out OF curiosity. We would buy
one, tho. If we had the wherewithal to
swing the deal At present the pros
poets are good for a healthy auto bust
ness turnout this midwest country
this coming season. A fellow can
buy car now that looks like some
thing for much less than one could buy
a car that looked like the devil a few
years ago, and that ought to be some
Inducement to any one having the
fever. And speaking Of the fever. it's
nice thing to have If you have the
long green" to smother 1t with
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
yyhers she Msndsd L.

Whon Illicit distilling was common
- t. Highlands there was an old
Who went about the country re
1870 vhioky-pots. The gauger met
- 90 day. and. surmising that he
$50 49, doing repairs ct NO great die
n6n1a aakoa what he would take to In
- Mn (ths saaesf) where be had
~ he last whisky-pot. Och.
B 80 - I'D man. shell shust tax
EEd1 crown. Dons," rstoFted the
sHsee = your money, bat b
~ . ten me correctly" Och
- tn the Osausmaa . lee.
1no1od IL lAst vhi0ky-pol
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
Il Masonic Meetings.
NJ STATED COMM UNlcATloh

Marshall Lodge, No. los A. F. & A. NJ.
Friday. March 1s. Regular meeting
John W. Wells. secretary; w.
Steiner, W. NJ
siGNET CHAPTER, No. 50. r. A. M
School of instruction March 10. con-
Quoted by Cd. Custodian Charles y
Shrader. L. s, Kilbo, IL, n. P; John w.
Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20. r. & g. NJ. Monday a.tss
the third Sunday. T. Forbes. recoFce1'
George Gregory. T. L II.
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 30, K T.. TUESDAY
March % at 1880 o'clock. Regular ousl-
ness. George Gregory, E. c.; NJ. 5.
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. g., Wednesday March
II, 1880 p. m. Anna Downing, sec1e-
tary: Mary Black Collins, w. Nj.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
Iona Newspapers
HOW IT WORKS.
[Tama News.l

for once in many years. Des Moines
poice stations were without the usual
TRUNKS the other Saturday night. And
YET the argument continues thar pro-
hloltlon IS a fraud, a foolish illusion. n
might Just as well be said that laws
concerning marriage be annulled be-
cause OF the many divorces as to allow
a wide open state and unchecked SELL
ing OF good chance for an excursion
TO Hades
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
THE SLIGHT INCREASE"

They speak of the controversy over
| a Slight" increase in rates and l.ken
It to tempest In a teapot. The fact
that their demand increases passenger
rates % per cent and freight rates on
many farm products fully as much Is
slight matter in the railroad view
Tie feet that II figures cnt s12 oa9 GOO
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

Washington.-With the Mexican situ-
alton more unsettled than it has been
since the European war began the ad-
ministration felt justified in ordering
the battleship Georgia and the cruiser
Washington to Vera Cruz to add to the
moral effect of the presence there of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
NO CALL FOR REPEAL.

mere aren't many people around
mere who want the present road law
repealed and a return to the old sys-
tenn OF allowing the bridge companies
70 take the county officials and super
Visors on vacation trips to the Iowa
lakes. AT least. if they do exist, they
are not saying much about their
wishes. While here and there a few
changes might be desirable in the
present law. there is no real demand
for change such as few of the re-
dictionaries in the legislature are de-
handing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

acute. Intervention talk Ii heard here
again, but the president will stick to his
| policy Of nonintereference unless real
crisis arises that will force him to act.
His sharp warning to Carranza Is ex-
J pected to have its effect.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

Delaware and smaller ships. Rear
Admiral Caperton is commander of the
cruiser squadron. and the Washington
is his flagship. Rear Admiral Fletcher
will not go to Vera Cruz unless the
trouble in Mexico City becomes more
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
SALOONS AND TAKES.

eft seems to me that the city c0un-
Gil doesn't need to worry very much
about the loss Of $4,000 saloon IL
cense;. said man who owns q small
home on the west side. We all re-
member the big boost that was made
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
a a.nse 81 Rearst.

1T was great move the Russians
made in abolishing vodka.
Eyes" replied the man Who Is never
happy; only it seems to me they have
gotten rid of about the only word In
their language that p easy to pro-
nounce.. = = ~.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

From the situation at Sioux City 1t
is very clear to the Sac Sun that the
need Of such officers as the department
of Justice was able to send to Sioux
City is kcenly felt at various times.
The present general assembly Will be
exceedingly remiss Of duty il it fails
to meet this need"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

1.-The state legislature can spoil an
otherwise good record by passing the
bill which eliminates the state highway
commission" says the Perry Chief.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-13

Some people have to be cranked up
by the boss every day." remarks the
Washington County Press. Others are
self starters"