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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
CHILDISH PRATTLE.


Many Of the high sounding parlia-
rope during these days of CORY war,
than childish prattle.
A deputy in the French chamber
arises in his place and declares that
the war will not end until certain ends
have been achieved. Then a member
of the German reichstag arises to de-
clare that his country has won the war
and that henceforth all bloodshed and
misery incurred must rest upon the
heads of enemy nations. He seems to
admit by inference some responsibility
for the struggle up to the present time.
Such talk is about on a level with
that of Mrs. Fitzsimmons who. when
her husband was battling for the brutal
fistic championship Of the world with
Jim Cn-hett, shouted to him from the
ringside, to paste de guy in de Stats"
England will not be crushed out of
existence in this war. Germany will
not be crushed. Neither will the world
be ruled by force in future except as
t. t force is exerted to develop intel
lect, sobriety, character and brotherly
love. Nothing is clearer today than
the fact that militarism ID accomplish
ing nothing in Europe beyond the wan
ton destruction of life and property.
II Germany should win the war and
extend dominion over alien people that
dominion would be surrendered in time
by the German people themselves Just
as the English people have granted
autonomy to colonies and to Ireland
until they are practically governments
for the people and by the people. There
was not before this war the slightest
hindrance to commerce on the high seas
nor in any part of the world. The ships
Of the smaller as well - the larger ma
tons were welcome In every harbor
on the globe under such tariff restric-
tons as were imposed impartialiy by
the various governments controlling
them. There was no need Of war to
make the seas of commerce free.
There IL valid reason today why
Britons should fight Teutons or vice
versa. Racial accordance will not be
won on the field Of battle: 1t win be
won thru the elimination Of evils both
national and individual and thru the
development OF manly character in har-
mony with plans and purpOses made
W t the aasssasse: CO al :.:s:. .:.A GO ell
tions.
The braggadocial pronouncements OF
European statesmen, 30 called. most
sound to intelligent people in the war
ring countries like a hollow mockery
Men who talk as some Of these do are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
Masonic Meetings.
Il SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

wv SPECIAL COMmO iSN
Marshall Lodge No. los A. F. and A. VI
Work in third degree, Wednesday. Dec.
%. 1880 p. m. John w. Wells, secre-
tary; w. H. Steiner. w. NJ.
sIGNET CHAPTER. No. 50, R. A NJ
Regular convocation Monday evening
Dec 90, for election Of officers. l.. >
Kiioorn, H r, John w. Wells. Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No 20, r. & s. NJ. Monday
Dec. 90, election OF officers. Come
/. T. Forbes, recorder: George Gregory
1. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE, St. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K. T, Tuesday,
Dec. II. 1880 o'clock Business and
election of officers. NJ. S. Mcfarland,
Rec: George Gregory, E. c.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, 0. E. s.. Saturday, Dec
Is, I: 80 D. m. Initiation. Anna Down
ing. secretary: Mary Black Collins
". NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

The owner 10 given his choice betwesn
surrsndsrins the mustaehe or paying
aIimony 70 q healthy wife
For several years nustaches have
been about as popular as street,
car strike. but word has come from
Lunnon that they are to be worn in
great profusion this season. along
with the cutaway coat and the purple
dress pant. This has resulted in
feverish haste in clothing the upper
lip in foliage OF varying hue. from
the deep. subdued horse chestnut 10
the jubilant sorrel masterpiece. The
mustache should match the hair. but
when there Is no hair to match any.
fast color Will do. w
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
Iona Newspapers
Knoxville Express. I

Jack Dalton wants to know why the
free whisky plate matter is not offered
to the Manson Democrat. Gosh all
hemlsck. Jack! Pouring wet" plates
into the Manson Democrat would be
like carrying a bucket of water to pour
into the Atlantic ocean.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
An Ancient. Romance.

The Book Of Ruth is the greatest
pastoral idyl in literature. II Is found
ed. according to the Christian Her
aid. on loving kindness. the loving
kindness Of the Moabitess revealed to
her family. and the loving kindness OF
Boaz, the wealthy IETaei.:e. % ?nth.
his kins-woman. II also contains the
germ of that great heartedness which
Is the center of the gospel Of Chris
tian love.
II Is a book that opens with tear
and famine and ends with the sound
of wedding bells. The story. turns upon
the Observation-Disclosures of BoaZ. who
showed kindness and manliness to
Ruth. q member of a nation that was
Israers foe and in that kindness
founded a new house, the house Or
Jesse and David. the royal line that
bega. greater than David II was the
first mingiing of the blood of the Jew
and Gentle, symbolic OF the cosno-
politan width of the Christian religion.
1t was the sign that that religion was
not to be founded upon wealth or upon
social caste but upon the large, whole
some love Of the human heart.
Boaz is Immortal among bible heroes
for his Kindness, his plain, everyday
generosity, his sense Of protection and
care for the lonely. unprotected
Moabitish girl his dead kinsman's
wife, who in her poverty CLEANED In
his harvest field after the reapers.
Roaz gave orders to his reapers that
they should allow her to CLEAN even
among the sfeaves OF barley. and by
his large heartedness gained wife
and. more than that made place for
himself in that immortal company VINO
are renowned for naught but for being
kind
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

folish children. measured by modern
standards Of christian civilization. The
world will never be dominated by Sax
ons. Teutons, Celts or Slavs. It. will
be controlled by divine authority work.
ing thru men who have become too big
hearted and broad minded to be clas-
sified by racial designations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
shirtsI.svs Religion.

At Holdenville. Oklag. went 10
Eaps.s: prayer meeting. writes a cor
respondent OF the Congresationalist.
The pastor was out in the country IN
a revival campaign and young man
was leading the meeting. He was In
his shirtsleeves or. more properly
speaking. in shirtwaist. but wore
leather girdle, after the manner OF the
original John the BAPTIST He looked
cool and talked warmly. Let US try
to make our lives worthy Of our Chris
tian profession. he remarked.
He could not have put that better
IL ne had been arrayed in black coat
ana a white necktie. A man in a blue
shirt followed the leader with some ex-
hortations earnest In spirit and much
TO the point. Then sister prayed. and
II was one OF those prayers with wings
ana the breath OF life which watt us
heayenwafd And then man with an
old fashioned pair OF "galluses" told
Of the REVEALS which were going on in
the surrounding country. Their pastor
was having good success at Pecan
Grove and ut half q dozen other places
sinners were repentins and confessing
Christ every night
BY this time was beginning to like
the coatless. sfirtsleeve prayer meet
fng very much. It was after the man
ner Of the gospel in tone and after the
manner Of tho business end Of the
town In dress For the business men
leave their coats at home when they
10 to business. The exceptions. are few
and mostly confined to the tenderfoot
from the north Q. the nan who thinks
.A:s.. Re. g 2 pillar In the temple of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

iowa has too many colleges 10 sup
port" thinks the Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican. TT would be better to have some
of the weaker colleges converted into
Junior schools. doing, perhaps. TWO
years Of work instead Of four"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Who'd ever have thought The day
would come when the saloon men OF
Iowa would line up in a determined
effort to save the once much abused
mulct law?" inquiries the Sioux City
Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

ing like cross between q salt and
pepper suit and q calico pony. When
this happens. the owner Is given his
choice between surrendering the mus
tache or paving alimony to = healthy
wife.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

Some Costly Place TO Sit.
The New York Federal league base
ball team plans ito erect a $t75.00o
grand stand on their 31,500,Q00 site
, Chicago Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

tians are dying Of thirst After New
Years lots Of Iowans will know how
to sympathize with them" observes the
" Waterloo Cou::.e:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

The winterset News says III Iowa
would adopt Governor Moorhouse's
suggestions, Madison county could
furnish enough rock for the state.
Anyhow, we are getting tired of this
good roads talk We have better dirt
roads but not mile of real road"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

Washington" says the Knoxville Jour-
nal THE national administration is
bidding desperately for their support
az well as that OF all big business
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

The Humboldt Republican has "a
bunch that that man Wilson will look
something like Dewey before he fin-
ishes."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

General Koevess. one OF the leaders
OF the Austro -Hungafian troops in
their victorious sonsiaught on SerDiss
which mas 0yerrun tine entire county,
is highly esteemed by the military aus
thorities OF his own country and Of
Germany. Before the war he COM
tefs III Pennsylvania
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18
Ya.e- Prinsston Games.

The Yaie-Princeton football game
i has been an annual feature for forty
Gee years. This is longer than any
otter college series in this country
(u4-- Tribune
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-18

The most recent demonstration OF the
fact is the action Of the interstate
commerce commission in permitting an
advance Of 20 per cent in interstate
passenger rates"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
POLITICS AS PLAYED.

a strong argument for d nOn-par-
tisan law applying to state law max
ing bodies is presented in New Mexico.
New Mexico, under territorial rule,
was notorious for its political iniquity.
Given statehood, the people. regard
less of political afhiiatiOn, and sick
unto death Of the old regime elected
W. @. Mcdonald, a democrat, as the
first governor of the new state. But
New Mexico is a republican state and
a large majority of the legislature was
OF that faith
There has been constant friction
which eliminated in a near riot in the
state senate last week
When the time came for the closing
of the recent session Of the legisla-
ture. under the constitutional sixty
day limit, the exact hour having been
determined by the attorney general,
by request. the presiding officer of the
senate, Lieut.. Gov +. c. Baca, de-
clared the senate adjourned.
But the republican majority OF the
senate would not have it so. Though
that law-making body was in actual
ity adjourned. they twirled the hands
OF the clock back, elected a presiding
officer pro tenn, and proceeded to pass
ing laws over the veto of Gov. Nc
Donald. They remained in session a
full day beyond the time fixed by the
constitution OF the state
Thus another blot is added 10 the
already bespOtted escutcheon of New
Mexico, and a predicate laid for end
less litigation, for which the taxpayer
must foot the bills.
Party division in national politics
has its arguments but there is no
stronger reason for drawing party
lines in electing legislators TO enact
state laws than in doing so in select
ing councilmen whose duty is to pass
city ordinances.
Many measure that would have
been highly beneficial to a state has
been defeated because it originated
with the minority. while much PERM
ciOus legislation has gone through. be-
cause men conscientiously opposed to
it, were whipped into line by the
party lash.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
THE WOODEN-LEGGED.

Addressing the Kansas editors on
the subject, Wooden Legs +. l..
Nandegrift said that every man VINO
has a wooden leg has an uncontroll-
able desire to fraternize with other
men who have wooden legs. Once
when he was sitting in park at Las
Vegas four men, strangers to one an
other. entered All had wOOde legs.
They got together, and in five min
utes were trying on one another )
legs. Two of them traded. A man
he met had all the battles he had
fought painted on his wooden Les.
Another painted his wooden leg IN
deep mourning when his wife died. a
friend of his uses his cork leg as a
life preserver when bathing; another
utilizes his as propeller. A vain
man he met had his wooden leg
tattooed. In San Francisco wooden
legged friend showed Mr.. Wander
grift a national magazine published IN
the interests of wooden legs. called
the Wooden Leg" By means OF TINS
publication men all over the world
traded wooden legs by paying for
want ads in it, Mr.. Nandergrift once
knew a man who had seven wooden
legs. one of them for Sunday.-Kan-
saS CITY Star.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
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4 BITS OF INFORMATION :
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"Tuther day" related old Dad Bling,
the Oklahoma cattle baron, 4 was
rumbling along in street car when a
batch Of young fellers got aboard
judged they were college students by
their funny clothes and queer shaped
heads. The car was pretty full, and
they pushed and snorted back and
forth in the aisle, trOmping on peoples
feet and committing similar frivolities
hathaway. Bime-by they all r'ared
back and fetched loose a long yell.
Then the nearest one to me took a
look, and not admiring my face, or
something, says: We'll. my rural
friend. don't you like ito Shore,
like IT, says 1, I'm half-witted my
SELF"
When a thief drove out of the town
of Silverfield, New, with a team of
horses belonging to Curley Jones a
miner owner. he took with him the
only conveyance in the town. As a
result Jones was compelled 10 walk 35
miles over mountain and desert TO no
tify the sheriff.
Firing at its highest speed. a
French battery would take u minutes
TO hover every square yard within
range
Estimated that 90 per cent Of the
ocean hoor is devoid Of vegetation.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

(whatever il isl congenial. You do
it half heartedly. Presently you be
come lazy shirker. And you
too likely to grow into one of LIES
miserable failures Failure YOU need
never have been if success had been
in your thought You had only to
think of growth and industry and ad-
vancement TO win them some time.
If your actual, physical garden to
one geranium in a pot or q farm or
acres you apply to it the best Of care
sunlight, fresh air, the wedding out
Of useless growths and careful nur-
ture Of blossoms.
Is your own nature any less i'm
portant than a geranium in a pot, or
a glass covered greenhouse
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
TWENTY YEARS AGO
Reminders From the Columns
OF The Daily Times.

Augustus Greene, l., son Of John Z.
Greene of Warren township, was
crushed to death by a sawlog.
Alex. Staples began the erection of a
brick building at Calamity Corners.
A Niles man published a column
article TO show that the St Joseph
river might be made navigable with
a system Of locks.
Mrs. Elizabeth Zeitler Rockstroh,
widow Of Casper Rockstroh, died,
aged 60.
Mrs. Elizabeth Fassnacht, mother of
Chris Fassnacht died, aged SO.
Ground is being staked off for J. D.
divers new residence
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

tlossie Jones could charm snake
As good as any charmer,
she bought "a rattler. named ii Jake,
And said il couldn't harm her.
Well one fine day the snake and she
Were acting on the floor
When Jake he got her on the knee
The undertaken came at four.
Anf papa Jones set out one night,
To blast a mighty rock,
He had no fear Of dynamite,
OF it he feared no shock.
He left the house on Saturday,
With fuse and stick and pack;
They heard the noise five miles away,
And he has not come back.
LeOnora Jones was told and told,
To go light with kerosene.
Her husband used TO stand and scold,
When her stunts he had seen.
She kept on, mad desire,
The rest is sad TO tell
One day she poured some on the fire
Her clothes fit his second wife well.
William Jones the youngest son.
Most every day would skate,
And always had the mostest fun,
lie always got home late.
One day when he was doing nice.
He stumbled and he slid;
Some say that il was rubber ice
Ma cooks for one less kid.
And Mrs. Jones the poor old dear,
Liked boiled eggs all too well;
She'd eat a dozen without fear.
I've heard the neighbors tell.
Well once she ate just thirteen flat.
Her constitution wouldn't 1--WE;
Funny for she was big and fat
The trimmings on her coffin were
u-nrr.rTrr rrr,Nr
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
ONE WAY OUT OF TT.

1t was getting late and Mr.. Dubb-
leigh's gasoline had given out near a
small hotel
Anybody around here got any gas
oline p" he asked the proprietor.
Nobody but me- was the calm re-
ply
Good" said Mr.. Dubbleigh. How
much do you want for it?'
Couldn't sell 1t 10 ye today, said
the landlord virtuOusly. Its Sunday
ye see"
But I must have some" protested
Dubbleigh; "or what am 1 going 10
do2"
'Ye might put up here for the
night" said the proprietor, indiffer-
entity 4 got a nice room / can let
We have for seven dollars. ladies
Home Journal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
NOT OF AN INQUIRING TURN.

\ judge dined recently at a hotel.
where the man who takes care of the
hats is celebrated for his memory
about the ownership of headgear.
How do you know that is my hat ,"
the Judge asked
II don't know it. sir" said the man.
Then why do you give il to me? ,"
Because you gave il TO me. sir, F."
replied the man, without moving a
muscle of his face.-Tit- Bits
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
BITS OF INFORMATION

An Italian priest who has invented
many wireless devices has succeeded
in intercepting messages with needles
thrust into a potato.
Two English words in which all the
five vowels are 10 be found in proper
alphabetical order are "abstemious
and "facetiOus."
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
FOR APPEARANCES SAKE.

One day Pat appeared on the street
with huge tear in his coat sleeve
Look here. Pat" protested a
friend. why don't you get that hole
mended ,"
Not OF, sor," said Pat; "a hole may
be the result of an accident but a
patch is a sure sign OF poverty. -
ladies' Home Journal.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

Those ball games between the uni
versity of California and several Jap
anese colleges will now provide a test
Of the value Of education and culture
OF the two countries.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
Twentieth Century Gratitudc.

(SOuth Bends Greatest Newspaper
GARY, Ind. March 1S.-John An
derson risked his life and was in
jured Thursday when ne drove a mo-
tor delivery wagon over a sidewalk
and into vacant lot TO avoid hitting
several children playing in the street.
While Anderson was pinned under
meath the overturned car, the chill
dren robbed j. Of the groceries it con-
tanned.
1T was an inferno" said an officer
describing Neuve Chapelle Which is
another way Of saying what Sherman
called war.
TERRY HUT gets only one column
on the frCnt page. but it holds its own
with the other six columns Of war
news.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

The Texas legislature has defeated
the woman's suffrage bill and thereby
caused the world TO doubt its vaunted
progress. We are willing to give odds
that there are people in Texas who
still ride in street cars.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

railroads get along. but there should
be some reciprocity We are more
interested in the public getting a
square DEAF than we are in the
railroads getting the whole smear"
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

From the impatient way in which
those warships in the Dardanelles are
acting. il is evident that they are not
willing TO wait until Thanksgiving
before carving Turkey
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

The bakers in many places have
generously and gracefully yielded to
the popular demand by reducing the
price of bread again to five cents per
loaf, the loaves being two ounces
smaller
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

Washington demonstrating at the pro-
posed execution in Oakville. Texas, of
Mexican, Frederick Sanchez, convict
ed of murder in the first degree by the
courts there. Protests are becoming
real fashionable and Carranza evil
IDENTIFY wants to be in style
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

There is a good deal of talk about
one cent postage. but no great demand
for it from the people who already
have 10 take a gO-cart to the post
office 10 carry away circulars with.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
THE MEL TING POT
GOMEZ TAKE POTLUCK WITH US.

DIR. Wiley makes the extravagant
statement that 90 per cent of hu-
man energy il directed toward get
ting something TO eat. Our idea IL
that eating Il a mere incident. Ii
II the dollar that absOrbs the en-
pTQV
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

In reply to a question from a boy
reader. as TO whether there is any zoo
that the best known one is located in
the capitol building, but it has re-
Gently closed until the first Monday
in December
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

Tenant-Our house is in very bad
shape one Of the walls has bulged
out several inches.
Landlords that SO? Then as the
house is larger, I'll have to raise your
rem.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

After sinking an American mer-
chant ship a German cruiser enters an
American port for repairs and sup
plies Ii is one Of the peculiar hap
penings OF war.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

The states that vote on suffrage next
November all have the secret ballot.
and yet the wives Will all know how
their husbands vote What do you
know about that,
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

Some people seem to think il does
no good TO pay the grocer's bill
promptly. as he would have 10 use it
in settling accounts with the butcher
and baker
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20
EXPLANATION.

Father. why do the Chinese believe
in ancestor worship
! presume. my son, because they
have no family photograph a1bums.-
Puck.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

Is the jitney bus getting action ?"
Well we guess yes. The city council
Of Chicago has passed an ordinance
requiring the street car company to
guarantee TO each passenger a seat.
The s. r. o. sign is TO be hidden away
under the cushion.
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

The fact is pointed out that there
are several OF the IS states that are
booming only half dozen candidates
for president
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-03-20

A gorgeous new spring hat dazzles
all the men except such as contem-
plate matrimony.