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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
JlrNsY ALARM UNNECESSARY.

The terror Of the times. the jitney
bus, has broken the peacefulness OF
street car life in Cedar Rapids. There
the street car companies are objecting
asking the city council that jitneJS BE
compelled to operate during the dull
hours of the day as we'll as during the
rush and that they render service on
Improbable streets as we'll as on the
main streets and the threat is that the
jitney's competition will put an end to
street car extension for its gross re-
ceipts all come out Of the profits Of the
street car lines. The street cars must
run on the schedules agreed in their
franchises and their expense Of oper-
alton is fixed. Along whisks a jitney,
picks up a group Of would-be passen-
gers and each and every nickel thus
lost might otherwise have been added
to the street cars pile without extra
expense.
The plight Of the street car man
just now excites sympathy, He is in
distress. Attorneys for street car COM
panies in western cities have COM
planned to the legislature of their state
that the jitneys nave cut street car
revenues % per cent but this distress
is only temporary. 1t is the belief and
observation of careful men everywhere
that the jitney seldom pays. For a
time it may earn the cost Of opera ton
plus low wage for the driver but it
will not provide for inevitable de-
probation and few of the men who
enter jitney service are capable of fore
seeing their depreciation expense.
Motor street cars have paid fair re-
turns in eastern cities b.: they have
been built as large as street cars on
rail lines and they operate on streets
not supplied with street car service. In
this way they add to the public SER
vice without robbing the esta blished
lines of the nickels tina, are standing
at the curb waiting for a street car to
come along.
If the jitney is here to stay it must
follow that its public service is both
needed and economical and were this
true the street car companies them
selves should put their own fleet of lit
neys into service but If the street car
owners can see no profit in the j,tney
business 1t must follow that those who
have entered it will soon find out their
own mistake. There Is no occa sion
for panic among street car managers
and extensions had better be pushed
for it will be the AGILITY Of the street
car to reach localities not served by
the jitney which Will render it's SER
vice valuable and desirable. The lit
ney of the home made variety as we
Know it today will be short in its life.
Following 1t may come motor street
car service but this will req uire syndi-
Gated management.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
SEWAGE DISPOSAL.
Monticello Express.

If the legislature passes the bill re-
ported out Of committee, which pro-
hibits the disposal of any sewage In
any stream Of the state. until after
the same shall have been treated in
a disposal plant, Monticello will have
the expense of erecting disposal
plant The domestic sewage of the
city is emptied into the Maquoketa
river near the bridge, and the water
for a long distance must be impure
and contaminated with not only filth
but deadly disease germs as We'll
There was decided opposition to this
high handed disposal when the sewer
system was installed. but regardless
of the ordinary rules Of public SAM
tation, the council persisted In doing
what will eventually have to be modi-
fed. This proposed legislation is
coming, if not at this session Of the
legislature. then at the hands of some
other assembly in the near future.
We should not complain when it does
come So long as the domestic sew
age is disposed Of as 1t is now the
beautiful river in it's nearest approach
to the city win be- regarded as often
sively repulsive, whereas it should
furnish opportunities for pieasure
and profit. Speed the day when all
of our streams shall be clear and
sparkling, and not the repulsive con-
veyers Of domestic sewage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
Baby Torpedo Boats.

Large numbers of baby torpedo boats
are being constructed in England for
the purpose Of destroying German sub
marines. Within a few weeks it Is
expected that the waters around the
British isles will swarm with these
speedy little craft. 1t takes a sub
marine fifteen minutes to sink out of
sight under the water. This is too
long-for the submarine-or is ex-
pected to be after the baby destroyers
set into action.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06

60 cents bushel. Fruit never cheaper.
Oranges especially so. and good east
ern and southern apples 30 to 10 cents
a peck. this in April. Cotton goods
never better or cheaper. Even Easter
hats were reasonable from feminine's
standpoint. And for some reason we
are still getting shoes at only a slight
advance. Some doubling ones think q
secret process has been invented and
we are wearing leather shoes not made
OF leather. But at $2.48 and $2.9S
there's still some good looking shoes in
the store windows.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
TIMES REPUBLICAN. MARaHAILroMN IOWA: APRIL 8 1915

rule the waves all right but UNDER
meath them the sub holds full sway.
The big bravery strike doesn't seem
to effect Iowa much. Conditions in
Iowa are not conductive to internal
trouble in the breweries.
The worst that can happen to the
map OF Europe occurred to Mr.. John
sons map yesterday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
Masonic Meetings.
"A
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

~\ SPECIAL iON
Marshall Lodge, No. 1os A. F. & A. NJ
Friday, April 9. Work in second oe-
gree. John w. Wells, secretary; W. H.
Steiner. W. NJ.
sIGNET CHAPTER. No. 80, R. A. NJ
Regular convocation Monday. April ~
T.. S. Kilborn. H. P; John W. "eiis'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. R. & S. NJ: Moiiuas
after the third Sunday. L. 1. oioee'
recorder; George Gregory, t. l. M
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
commandery No. 80. K. T" Iue sa;
March % at 1880 o'clock. Eesu,a'
nes, George Gregory. E. c.; NJ. .
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap hap,
..- NJ 81 o. E. s., Wednesday, Aprh
Il. D. m. Business. Anna po%nn w
secretary: Mary Black Collins w. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
Topics Of the Times

The suggestion is that a negro
champion who can't live in America
isn't worth much to those who live and
thrive Of fight champions. AS busi-
ness proposition the white hope"
should have won-and did.
BY the time the next legislature
meets we shall know better what the
road law will do and understand bet
ter just what screws to turn to get
the right mixture by the carburetter.
AS it is the machine is running fairly
well and we are learning to drive it
better every day.
AZ an example Of misapplied econo-
mics the idea that Jack Johnson. body,
hide and tallow is worth $4,000 takes
first rank.
Having passed law governing lob
byists why not pass a law in each
house governing the other? Doesn't
the legislature need regulating?
Any nation that goes out hunting
trouble need not fear OF finding It.
And those who are trying their best
to avoid 1t are likely TO have it brought
to them. This is a mighty good time
for innocent bystanders to keep quiet
and watch out for bricks.
III The mere see. saa se..d Of the SUBJ
marine the bigger figure those water
snakes appear to cut in modern war
fare. AZ the thing stands Britain may
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
CEDAR RAPIDS FOR INSTANCE.
tVinton Eagle.1


Take Cedar Rapids. FOR instance. the
only saloon town in the Fifth congress
sional district. Saloons wouldn't ex-
list there a minute II II wasn't for the
fact that the saloons divide their earn
ings with the city. Let a saloon refuse
to make this "divvy' and see what be-
comes OF It. Its license IL revoked and
there Is prohibition 30 far as that sa-
loon is concerned. A saloonist Is
handed his license with the admonition
to go to it,; that the city expects
over 60 per cent Of his earnings. II he
fails to earn It he il discharged and
his license revoked. He sells to every
old man or woman; every young man
and woman, and even boys who will
lay down their nickel. dime or Is cents
for liquor. Does he respect the mayor
and city officials. the police or those
in authority? Not q bit of It. He will
perjure himself before he will give the
truth. Cities tolerate saloons because
Of the blood money" they furnish to
run the city government. The moro
saloons the more money. What howl
went up from the cities of thes tate
when the law was passed to limit the
number Of saloons according to the
population! For awhile some Of the
cities defied the law and refused to
limit the number OF saloons within
their municipality, and the strong arm
Of the law had to be laid upon them.
A howl is now going up all over the
state wherever there Is saloon that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Sac Sun says THE suspicion
that Lieutenant Governor Harding IS
lending his assistance toward the pas
sage OF the Johnston road bill In the
senate Ia in keeping with the character
Of the man. He is the Kind OF
politician who could mako good use OF
such an issue. Recent events have
brought MIN into the i.:.:el!sht as the
champion Of the vets. He will need
some other issues and the interests
back Of the Johnston road bill are
scarcely less corrupt than the interests
back Of the wet measure. With such
backing the suave lieutenant governor
would be in clover
THE movement TO cut down the
width Of Iowa highways failed. No
doubt" suggests the Burlington Ga
eztte, "some Of the legislators who
voted against the bill own autos and
have tried to pass other cars on Iowa
roads II the road was twice as wide
it would not suffice sometimes"
Times certainly do change" says
the Perry Chief. mot many years ago
all that a man had to do to get g.
swing from rope attached to his neck
was to steal any kind Of a horse. At
Sioux City this week, man convicted
Of taking two good horses, was given
a years Jail sentence"
When it has come about that
man is ashamed to be seen taking a
drink the temperature problem will be
greatly simplihed." says the Sioux City
Journal
CAS- yet, remarks the Dubuque
Times Journal, mo one has started
gubernatorial boom for NJ. Johnston,
author Of the bill to abolish the Iowa
highway commission
IF necessary the state can worry
along with the present statute but the
interests Of further highway progress
make the hopep -onounced needed
amendments to the present laws shall
be secured" says int Dubuque Tel
egraph- Herald referring to the road
law.
''Des Moines newspapers are advo.
eating the passage Of a near beer law
SO some use can be found for the
$500 900 brewery. Cities without brew
cries are not supposed to be interested
in the near and yet so far stuff" says
the Waterloo Times Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06

poses 70 inaugurate = campAAon -
show TO the people that won't e. ~
enforcement - . detect - their d1Af-
acter and training, ~ beliovs 10 WIN
find that ne has seized hl1 proposition
at the wrong end.
There IL too strong . presumption
in favor Of those who demand more
direct methods ana moro efficient
law enforcing officers.
BACKwARD-LoOKIN0 CANDIDACY
Madrid Register News.l
The Des Moines Register and Lead
er claims to have evidence In its pos
session showing that Lieutenant Cover
nor Harding has aligned himself with
the looking backward element Of the
legislature. Mr.. Harding ID said to have
promised aid to the Johnston crowd in
return for support during the next
campaign in which the lieutenant gov
ernor is to be candidate Tor COVER
nor.
II there is truth IN these assertions.
we opine that the lieutenant governor
will find that he miscalculated In his
judgment Of the people OF Iowa. That
gentleman's candidacy was already
crippled by his alignment with the wet
element Of the state. II he had gone
over to the reactionary element for
sympathy, he is twice handicapped In
his efforts to achieve his ambitions.
The man who will be elected COVER
nor Of Iowa next year win be for
ward-looking man. Lieutenant Cover
nor Harding seems determined to place
himself outside that category.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06

he city ca not live unless Il has this
saloon blood money That's q mere
fAllAcy. There are more towns In the
state without saloons than there ere
With them. ana they live on legiti-
mate taxes. 90 can the saloon cities
The temptation 70 possess saloons lies
Ia the easy money they furnish. It ID
extra Saloon towns levy to the fun
limit allowed by law. and the saloon
blood money" 10 considered 90 much
velvet and spent accordingly. There
isn't . city In the state but that can
live on its legitimate revenue II 1t tries
to. The law u very liberal in its pros
visions for municipal tax. It will do
these. cities good to be compelled to
live within their legitimate income.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
Nc Pr.e.d.nt.

Mrs. Lewis had made 1t a practice
every night just before bedtime to read
some verses from the bible to her little
ones. Among those verses which she
particularly endeavored to impress on
their young minds WAS, whatsoever
smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn
to him the other also" (
The following morning Jack came
into the house sobbing bitterly.
Why, what's the matter?" anxiously
queried the mother.
Sister hit me-"
Have you forgotten about turning
the other cheek?"
"N-n-no, boo-hoo!" walled Jack,
but couldn't; she hit me in the
middle. Magazine
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
PRIVATE BANK INSPECTION.
SPECTION.
fTraer Star-Clipper.1

AEdcT SSdT.SlpPSE.J
We are at loss 20 account for the
opposition to the measure for putting
private banks under state supervision.
There is absolutely no reason for the
failure to adopt this measure, and
there are the strongest of reasons for
its being made the law. No man who
engages in this business can consist
emily object to an examination which
shall be constant official Endorsement
of the soundness Of the institution,
and the honesty Of It's management. It
is true that there would be some ex-
pense involved. but its value as an
advertisement would be many times
as great. There Is always the possi-
bility that the private banker Is not
an adept in the business, however
honest he may be. Such men need the
help the bank examiner ran give, and
what Is more sMnremsly important Is
that his customers need that he should
have just this help. The deluge OF
wild cat banking was stopped when
the hank examiners took hold, but
there are still wild cats here and
there. notably where the examiner Is
not allowed to use mis- gun. There are
three classes who may be expected to
object. to-wit: Bankers who know that
their concern could not pass, men who
want to engage in the business with
out investing sufficient capital to make
1t safe for his patrons but expecting
the business to create the capital nee
essary for its permanence, and men
who do not intend to do strict and
honest banking. There may be some
honest and capable men with ample
capital who object because they do not
need the legal oversight, but even they
would be benefited by being able to
show the Endorsement Of the state. On
the whole. however, there is an abso-
lutte necessity that any one who invites
the confidence Of the people and asks
the public to patronlze him as banker
should be compelled to mako his busi-
ness safe one for his patrons 30 far
as 1t is possible for any human under
taking.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
Ts,.a& DYf :s;.s.

Yin 1slisvs your indigestion. Many
people IN this town have used them
andwshaye yet to hear Of case where
fhey have failed. We know the for
muiA. Sold only By us-25c . boz.
Meerids { Will Drug Co.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06

The more ::ssess ss s::S had nf the sub
marine the bigger figure those water
snakes appear to cut in modern war;
fare. AZ the thing stands Britain may
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06
a. H~,'AA/
Iona Newspapers
Huntington Hawkeye.l

SECTION OF PRIVATE Ranks
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-06

Gas yet remarks the Dubuque
Times Journal, mo one has started a
gubernatorial boom for NJ. Johnston,
author Of the bill to abolish the Iowa
highway commission"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
ATTIC xOQz3T IS

arrival, so the drawing was never made, but a
chill that he caught this journey laid the foun-
datfons Of the illness which eventually carried
him off. The town hall of Middelburg and its
fine tower were new buildings when he them.
The town hall and tower of We're were some
forty years older, having been built about 1470
by A. keldermans the elder. though the statues
on the facade were not added till after Durer S
visit. Unfortunately the surviving pages of his
sketch book contain drawings of these places
mere Is indeed, on one page the complicated
top of some tower. unnamed, the highest member
of which is like that of We're. but the rest is
different Durer was evidently entertained by
these fantastic steeples and several of them ap
pear in his sketches. In the nature of things
however such light wooden structures as
crowned the towers of the low countries were
not SO durable as the stone substructures. Some
have persisted by fire, others have lost their open
work decorations. others have had to be repaired
in various degrees. and repair has generally
meant smplifcation. The tower OF We're. how
ever, was apparently never very elaborate, and
probably remains much 1t originally built.
Four-square and plain below, the stone portion Is
completed with a clock chamber, strengthened
at the corners. Then comes baustraded bell
chamber, with Dubbed spire for roof to It, of
unusually slender and graceful proportions. Little
imitation dormer windows common deco
rative detail these bulbs. but We're spire
they are reduced to the roofs of them only. These
and the Gothic crochets higher up the only
medieval elements surviving in this tower.
The town hall below contains treasure GER
tainly worth seeing for lovers of fine godsmith's
work worth going to see-an admirable CLASH
1cation Of sights" which we owe to the common
sense of Doctor Johnson How useful a guide
book to Europe confined to the things worth
going to see," would be when peace returns
though a real peace in a once more friendly world
is hardly to be looked for in the days of any but
the young. The treasure at We're is magnin-
cent goblet. richly enameled and chased, which
the townsfolk caused to be made for, and pre-
scented to- the Emperor Macmillan.
How they managed to have both the prestige
Of giving it and the solid satisfaction of keeping
1t is not recorded In any books to which | have
access. At all events. there it remains-a very
handsome example of fine period of art in the
low countHes. We're also possesses a fourteenth
century church. once in ruins but now repaired;
also some remarkable old houses. fountain Of
1851 and other agreeable remains. ON the whole
a traveller on landing in Holland might we'll spend
night at Middelburg. where ne can hire cycle
or motor and make in single day circuit of
entertaining little places. which preserve the
charms of old Holland more completely than tho
larger and more famous cities wherein modern
life has compelled much external modernization
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24


his him study nature and books
until
of the ancient Manchu
appellaons
Has studied holyhocks
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24


with passeby
noormen and
This interrupted
railroad yards The of Stop thie the
1t
sidewalk the hauled
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24

10 san FranclScO, an aStrOnoIHer, chem-
list, historian, geologist and botanist.
The lads extraordinary versatility.
ciearness of understanding, retentive
memory and conception of serious
subjects is amazing DR.. Frederick
Burk, principal Of the San Francisco
Normal school, where he is receiving
special instruction during the summer
months.
Until little Richard enrolled at the
normal school he had never attended
school. His extraordinary education
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
ELABORATE EVASION.

Are the fish biting now" asked the stranger
Yes" replied the boy. But you amt allowed
to catch EN-
DO you mean to say you don't fish?
Il don't exactly fsh. But II fish comes along
and bites at me ] do my best to defend myself"
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24

street the burglar
It native a
brought landing LIVERPOOL after weeks
While England
Soldiers Adeshot
Fredericks would
nd mad his
from
10 death had
of
have through ewindo
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24

The two youths who manned the wa
termelon cart and the motormen ana
conductors of several cars engaged in
argument.
The emergency wagon was called
out to haul the wrecked wagon out of
the way, but in doing this the melons
were scattered over the street. FL
nally a policeman organized a volun-
teer melon-carrying brigade.
IF we carry the melons to the side
walk we can then lift the wagon out
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
Boy Prodigy Amazes Teachers Of San Francisco

FRANCISCOWih
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
Pet Monkey Puts a Chicago Burglar to Flight

attempted enter the residence of George Wess
reception
monkey belonging Con Of Mr. Messlg The
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24
Waterme|ons Tie Up Philadelphia Street Cars

MISUNDERSTANDING
Rttenhouse
The Idaho Springs siftings-news. (Idaho Springs, Colo.) 1905-19??, 1915-09-24

monkey bOmbarded the Intruder with
pair of shoes, straw hat, hairbrush.
water pitcher. and several other arti
cles in the bedroom occupied by its
master
Fredericks was awakened by the
chatter of the beast and the striking
Of missiles against the window screen
He looked out the window and saw
man clambering down the real
porch. Other members OF the house
hold were awakened by the unusual
noises, but before they reached the
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-06-25
WILLIS INCONSISTENCY

When on the last day of its ses-
sion the Willis legislature on orders
direct from the governors Office so
arranged the districts Of Ohio that
the Democrats might have only five
of the twenty-five congressman of.the
state it was little dreamed how
strong would be the sentiment in
support of President Wilson and his
policies. Nor did even the Demo-
cratic committees know how popular
would prove their decision to call for
a referendum on the unfair Willis
unwanted and unnecessary gerry
mander of congressional districts.
Now it appears that the public well
fare and idea of fair play will en-
tirely override any personal advan-
tage thoughts. Ohio voters will
eagerly await the perfection of the
referendum election so that they may
emphatically assert their support of
the Wilson policies.
Not only is the issue one OF ma
tional import, but it is also of local
effect inasmuch as Governor Willis
is accused of double-dealing in the
matter While driven by popular
feeling to issue a statement to stand
by the president" on the same day he
used his influence over the legisla-
ture with his club of patronage to Sc
cure partisan advantage and de-
prive Wilson of the support in con-
gress which is his just due from
Ohio. Therefore it is considered
that a vote to sustain the present
equitable districting of the state and
to refuse the Willis gerrymander
will be not only upholding the hands
Of the president, but will be repudi-
lting the partisan attack of the Will
lis legislature on the Wilson admin