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Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1915-10-06

A tablet believed to be 1000 or 81
600 years old and to antedate the
book of Genesis by 1000 years, sets
forth, according to the translation of
Dr. Steven Langdon of Oxford Uuni-
versity, England, that it was Noah
and not Adam and Eve who brought
about the fall of man. Noah was
commanded not to eat of the cassia
tree in the garden of Paradise, the
translation has it, and when he dis
obeyed the curse of i'll health and an
early death instead of life span of
$4,000 years like that of his ancestors
fell upon him. According to Babylon
ian and Sumerian accounts the flood
occurred about $4,000 years B. c. and
the period between that catastrophe
and creation-432, 900 years-was fill
ed in by 10 kings SO that each must
have ruled something like 43,20O
years. The comparatively short reigns
of later kings is explained as being
the result of Noah's sin in eating of
the cassia tree.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
SWEET BUT NOT SATISFYING.
IWayerly independently

Congressman Sweet invited US to
take a ride by way Of auto Monday.
and, as usual. we felt we ought to ac-
cept the invitation We giiGed along
swimmtngly. The meadow larks and
other birds greeted us and babe US vel
come with songs which We enjoyed:
the pure. refreshing breezes. sweetened
with the perfume Of the new mown
clover. alfalfa and timothy filled our
lungs abundantly and we were in
sp,red to admit that this was sure
enough the best Garden of Eden we
had ever SEEN But we woke up in
another place: Our driver struck
three-duar.eEs Of a mile Of east and
west road in lafayette township. on
the north side Of n. L. Shaw's farm.
II you are looking for the worst road
in Bremen county, drive that way. The
milk i,aulers who take milk to the La
Fayette creamery get stuck repeatedly
on that road, and Farmer Hans Han
son has to help to pull them out. We
are not kicking and yet we are inclined
to suspect that Mr.. Sweet drove over
that road deliberately. and may be
with malice aforethought. The next
time our friend invites Us to take q
riGe with hi,., over that road we want
him to take us with a hydroaeroplane.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
THE DEMOCRATIC PLANK.
IXinfnn Ea1lel

That "one-term plank" as the Wat
erioo Times Tribune 'dubs" it, will not
down. Some weeks ago the Eagle re-
ferred to It. and the Times Tribune,
referring to what the Eagle said.
tipped il off its thumb. But 1t will not
down. The Times Tribune refers to
1t again in its issue OF July 22 That
paper insists the plank Is not law. 1t
is purely party law until II is repealed
or reconsidered. The Times Tribune
pretends to believe the plank is am
biguous, and st is difficult to make out
what it means" And yet there never
was a plank in party platform short
er and clearer in language. 1t Is all III
one sentence and paragraph and In
wolves nothing, else. 1t declares that
I'VE favor a single presidential term.
and to that end we urge the adoption
Of an amendment to the constitution
making the president of the United
States ineligible for reelection and we
pledge the candidate of this conven-
ton to this principle. What could be
palmer than that? It is direct state
ment of the intention of the democratic
party. and in convention assembled 1t
pledges its candidate to carry out the
expressed wish Of the party as express
ed by the convention adopting the
plank.
1t may be all right for its own pur-
poses for the Times Tribune to call 1t
neither fish nor fowl. but the language
is too plain to flip it OF ones thumb.
Mr. Wilson must answer to his con-
stituents and to the people OF the Unit
ed States as to whether he honestly
endeavored to carry out the mandate
of his party. There is moral con-
nected with it. and ii Is up to Mr.. Will
son to say whether he will ignore 1t
or not. The mere fact OF the Times
Tribune saying 1t is ambiguous does
not make 1t so. The question is, what
will Mr.. Wilson do?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
AN EDUCATIONAL ADVANCE.

4 race to avoid being the last state
in the union TO adopt compulsory
education laws is apparently under way
in the southern states. according TO re-
ports received al the United States
bureau OF education. There are now
only three states without such laws,
Florida having recently Joined Texas
and South Carolina in adopting COM
pulsory education by legislative enact
ment- The three states still without
laws are Georgia, Mississippi, and Ala
bama
The new Florida law provides that on
petition of one-fourth of the electors
OF any special school district or county,
the county board OF education shall
cali an election to determine whether
shall be compulsory therein.
a rhree-Sfths majority vote is neces-
sary for adoption. Children between
5 and II years of age are required 70
attend at least eighty days each year,
unless exempt because of physical or
mental disability; because they live
two and one-half miles from a school
and no transportation is provided; be-
cause their services are required for
the support Of a dependent family; or
because their parents are unable to
provide books and clothing.
By the provisions of the law the
county boards OF education are au-
thorized 10 appoint attendance officers
70 enforce the law and 10 take a
census Of the children between and
p years Of age
Although the Florida law is thus Of
the optional type, it is clear recog-
milton Of the compulsory principle and
its regarded as real step in advance.
Officials Of the bureau of education
point out that this years compulsory
education legislation is part Of a big
educational advance all along the line.
Nearly all the state legislatures were
educational discussion that has been
going on for several years crystallized
into law. The Alabama legislature has
reconvened for the summer session and
much school legislation will be dis
cussed, including a compulsory edu-
cational law. The fact that Alabama
does not meet again for four years
makes 1t likely that Georgia and
Mississippi may get ahead Of her in
adopting compulsory legislation, un-
less action is taken this year.
IT the field of compulsory education
| thruout the United States it is be-
| lieved that the next steps will have to
do with the adoption Of statewide
| laws where optional laws now pre-
vail; the raising of the age limits in
| conformity with the best principles in
child-labor legislation: and more strict
enforcement Of existing laws.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
DID BECKER BLAME us7

Law and order and society confessed
negligence this morning when it bound
Becker in the chair and shocked out
his life Not that Becker had not de-
served swift and condign punishment
but that killing a criminal after the
act is confession of a weakness that
failed to prevent the making OF Beck
ers and the commission OF the crimes
that group themselves about such men
as Becker as the decimal points OF
criminal calculation. 1t scarcely suf-
fees to await the elimination OF crime
and then as last and purely penal
resort tear the life out of the criminal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
NEEoED--.TEN DAYS.

The opinions and predictions quoted
below are those of two OF the most sue
cesSful farmers OF the county. and
represent the views of one actively en-
gagged in farming and another who has
retired. An editor whose confidence in
the recuperative powers of Iowa soil
has been slightly shaken by the con-
unued rain expressed as much The
active farmer laughed at him. The
farmer is counting on an average crop
OF corn. Ten days he said Will straighten
the corn out with the exception of GER
tain low fields. The hay crop is big
and he found most of the barns full
and stacks in the fields Oats a fair
crop and wheat good. Why" he said
I've seen this many times. I am opti-
mistic on the crops. Well have corn
and good corn
The other farmer considered the
weather had been fairly good for the
corn crop. The wet had prevented the
ground from baking on corn that had
been laid by with few civilizations. Now
the leaves had spread 10 protect the
soil and that moisture would be re-
tanned 70 the best advantage. He also
was optimistic, Some low ground would
fail to produce good crop, OF course.
but that was TO be expected in wet
seasons. Rain might hurt oats in the
shock-but corn IS all right on corn
ground
These farmers ought TO know. Both
got rich raising corn and feeding cattle
ard in Iowa and Marshall county Both
OF them have farr2ed Iowa soil ard
gathered Iowa crops for forty years or
more. They do know and when they
are optimistic the rest OF Us may feel
fairly good over the prospect
Back OF everything IS Iowa soil ard
history, history of other years when
fears OF crop failure held until August
and were banished in the heat and rush
OF Mrs. Nature husrling to completion
her delayed housekeeping
Well please bring on the ten days
necessary and end this suspense.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILroYN. IOWA: July 50. 1918

with an electric current or choke him
to death from a scaffold.
Moreover, Becker was by way Of
scapegoat. When he was electrocuted
for his crimes. if that manner of pun
ishment is the best we can arrive at,
bench and Becker should have been
accompanied in his exit from the world
by long line of accomplices and part
ners who had used him and who had
profited with him. While the higher
up criminal exists with the price to
pay the manufacture of Beckers will
go on. While the interests that buy
policemen and legislatures and judges
live and are represented among the
mighty and powerful of the city and
the nation we shall not be able to kill
our Beckers fast enough to keep down
the supply Those interests will manu-
facture them too fast for us. When We
rid the world of their tools we have
simply gotten rid of the machines the
Immediately install new machine.
Becker seems to have been lovable
man in his family. There appear to
have been many who loved him for
himself 1t suggests that he would not
have chosen the way ne took without a
powerful incentive. He had 1.-THE
most powerful incentive OF the Amer
lean people-"big money" There was
big money in it for him. big money for
others 1t is the standing excuse OF
shady methods and breach of moral
and statutory laws in this country
big money Not only in New York
but in every neighborhood and COM
munty of the nation big money is the
great incentive; because big money in
America spells power. and, however
gained. demands and receives from
very considerable part of our popula
tion that subservience which is the
prostitute sister of respect.
Becker was wrong and we have kill
ed him But what have we gained by
the killing? Have we done more than
10 Brighten the weaker criminal by his
fateo Isn't the weakness deeper than
the Beckers? Are we not all blamsble
and guilty TO some degree with the
nan VINO twisted his tortured body in
an electric chair this morning because
Of his greed and the weakness and
hypocrisy which condones crooked
methods when they lead 10 large per-
sonal success? !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
CITY INSPECTORS.
[Sioux City Tribune

An admission made recently in the
city council of Sioux, City deserves
more than passing attention. Il was
said that inspectors employed by the
city do not inspect, do not interest
themselves to see that specifications
are carried out by the contractors.
If this signifies anything 1t is that
poor paving, poor sewer work, etc, is
going on and that taxpayers are pay
ing for good work. There Is an impli-
cation in the language OF Commission
er Wesley of worse significance toward
the inspectors.
II they are derelict, why are they
derelict? II they are common crooks
or ignoramuses, why are they in the
employ of the city? Who appoints
them? The city administration knows
why the proper proportions of cement
are not put in paving, II It Is not put
in. 1t knows why the sand and the
rock are just as they are In the con-
crete and why the surfacing Is just as
1t Is. 1t knows this just as we'll as 1t
knows why Fifth street needs repair
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
For Sunday Reading
All Sorts Of Opinisns
GREAT HYMNS.
The Atonemsnt and Modern Assthsti.
ciSua

The Atonemsnt and Modern Assthsti.
eisn1.
The tremendous effort made by
large number Of So called Christian
people, whether orthodox or heterodox.
to ground their hopes and aspirations
for future life on q sort Of nebulous
universal love upon the part Of God,
and the performance OF certain moral
duties upon the part Of man. is rem
dering our religion spineless. Godless,
Christless, Iifeless. ~
The aesthetic taste Of the age seeks
to eliminate the idea Of blood from the
RELIGIOUS structure. This cannot be
done without the destruction Of the
whole edfice. The great truth Of truths
underlying the whole Of both old and
new testament dispensations Is that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
Topics of the Times

The Cedar Rapids Republican would
not attempt hard surfaced road con-
struction until the ideal material had
been determined upon. History has
furnished the precedent for this kind
OF craftsmanship in Mcclellan who is
said even by his camp carpenters to
have been undecided in all things.
1t is reported from Washington that
the Roosevelt influence is TO be thrown
10 Cummins for president If it is
Cummins will become a factor.
The street masher Of course belongs
in Jail but ladies who look out of the
corners Of their eyes as they go by
are certain to meet up with unconven-
tionalities.
Also the rainy weather has prevent
ed considerable oratory on why I left
the cabinet SO suddenly" However.
we can stand that better than the de-
layed corn crop.
a Denver brewery foreseeing the in
business into matted milk factory
AT Ottumwa the brewery is doing duty
as butter and egg warehouse. Ev-
erything seems to be going the right
way except the Manson Democrat.
OF course our national trade balance
Is very gratifying reading but it
doesn't bring three hearty cheers from
the man whose personal balance is an
overdraft.
While inauiring who is to blame for
the Eastland deathlist it would be wise
to look into the condition of other ships
that may be waiting its next trip to
supply a similar list.
Also a little police interference is
indicated in the case of Haiti on the
old charge drunk and disorderly."
General Confidence and General HUI
midity are coming 70 close grips in
| Iowa.
1t took three years to bring Becker
to his penalty. Everything considered,
that was comparatively swift work In
American courts. or course in Great
Britain the execution would have been
over and forgotten long ago.
More moving pictures Of the East
land calamity should be barred-if any
such pictures are in existence. Horrors
and prize fights and Jesse James films
may get the money but are as immune
at public executions
Reports from Alaska are OF drouth
and 100 degrees in the shade. And
they don't need it there either.
There's something little ghoulish in
the activity Of film makers to capital
| ize the Eastland horror and the Chi
cago authorities who denied the priv
| iIege to exhibit them are entitled to
the thanks and approval Of their com
munity.
! But all bond issues for roadmaking
should be SHE'D at until we have found
some system of making roads that
will not wear out before the bonds are
paid off. In some of the eastern states
| extensive bonding for road work
spelled graft in capital letters. 1t is
well enough to be enthusiastic on the
| subject Of good roads, but parsimon-
ious on the expense until we have
more light shed on the subject. Iowa
has waited so long that it can afford to
wait some more and proceed with eau
ltion.-Hopkinton Leader.
In other words keep on buryins
| 81, 600. 900 per annum In the mud and
In temporary bridges where we know
I the money will be wasted for fear we
! might lose some of 1t In short Lived
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30

masonry or paved construction. Why
trade certainty for doubt, seems to
be the philosophy Of somS
The tax levy for all state purposes,
colleges. capitol extension. state gov
eminent and i'll is now equal to the
township road levy. The whole state
expense. excepting colleges, is about
equal to the city park tax in town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
THE ROADS.
rWaterloo Times-Tribune. !

lWaterloo Times-Tribune.J
1t is fact. indisputable. that the
highways hereabouts are 100 per cent
better than they were some few years
ago. The work that has been done re-
Gently has been permanent in most
cases-permanent, because it has been
done in grading the roads to proper
elevation and providing suitable drain
age. This was the first thing to do.
Next win come proper GROWING and
surfacing SO that water will run off
the roads almost as fast AZ 1t falls.
This has been a wet season and yet in
the case Of most Of the main Travelled
roads in this vicinity. it takes but a
day or two OF dry weather to make
them passable.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
Arranging Flowers.

his II most effective In a tall glass
mss. Almost all flowers have great
bsasty IN their stems, hence glass
v1oes give them the greatest beauty
whsa thsy are cut, BY showing the
SEAMS. Iris should be arranged only
Win ~ own foliage. Wild flowers
sA0all always be loosely arranged.
Cd tAsy should b placed By them
sa3veo-not u c1oos proximity to the
h1GAly eultiSateA garden sort
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
THE NEW ROAD COMMISSION.
washington County Press,I

Washington County Press.1
a committee clothed with authority
to make such investigation can, IN
questionably, get together a vast
amount of valuable information. that
will be the basis for such action as the
next legislature may see fit 10 take.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
OLD AS BABYLON.

The Iowa redlight law, which aims
at the root Of the social evil by making
property owners in part responsible for
the character Of occupants, is not new.
King Urukazina Of Babylonia, 1900
B. c., enforced a law which provided
that any religious person, who owned
house in which liquor was sold
should be put to death. The death
penalty was also provided for religious
women who visited liquor shops.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
Masonic Meetings.
COMMUNICATIVE

" STATED coMMuNlcAIloN
Ma-.hall Lodge. No. los F. x A. ~ ~"
regular meeting Friday. Aug. Is; ~
y. IN. John W. Wells, secretary W. -
Steiner, w. NJ.
sleNE7 CHAPTER. No. IS. r. A NJ
Special convocation Monday eSent., s.
Aug. 2, for work III Past ana ~" u
Excellent Degrees. /. ;. h'4ooii-'
P, John w. Wells, Rec
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No 20. r. & s. M. n-,-as
after the third Sunday. J. l.
recorder; George Gregory. T. l. Nj
SPECIAL coNcLAvE. ST Alasn Ia
commandery No. SO. x T, Tuesoa' ~
J,,ly 81. S o'clock Work IN osas
s ~. Red Cross. N. $ Mcfarland Ke'''
George Gregory, E. G
REGULAR MEETING Central map
ter No. 81. Q. E S. MesH ;.,<eistion by
o. Harrons. Anna Downing, secre-
ta-v. Mary Black Collins, w NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
IOWA NOTES AND OPINIONS.

Renarking that the congregational
church at Garner is fitted out with a
billiard and pool table and other means
of entertaining the young people, the
Carroll Herald says, every town should
have place where boys can meet
and spend the evenings under proper
regulations. Gamers example is
worth adopting by other churches. The
Catholic churches are pioneers in pro-
visions of this kind.
The Mount Vernon Record points
out that ANY county will set results
from the present road law exactly in
proportion to the enthusiasm OF the
board of supervisors of that county for
the law. This may explain to some
who have been unable to understand.
why Linn county is behind neighbor-
ing counties in the matter Of roads
Mr.. Bryan thinks a big stick and q
soft voice are not synonymous" notes
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil. and says,
There may be some truth in this OBJ
servation. But how about much talk
ing and little stick"
Now that a new commission for bet
ter roads has been decided upon by the
governor. it seems to be the prevailing
idea that dirt roads should not be con-
sidered, but the time given to hard
roads. Roads which will prevent such
accidents as that near Ankeny last
week" says the -Ames Times.
The Storm Lake Pilot Tribune in
sists that Unless the state of Iowa is
willing TO condone lawbreaking all
along the line, the anti-tipping law
passed by the last legislature must be
enforced"
To the Boone News Republican zone
thing is apparent, that if it is left to
the German newspapers and the Amer
lean newspapers. Germany and Amer
lea can never get together"
The total OF municipal improve
ments made or ordered this year in
Iowa must reach a Very respectable
sum- SAYS the Burlington Hawkeye.
Material is low. labor is plentiful and
conditions in general favorable. and so
the authorities are going ahead while
the going is good Ii is wise town
that does her paving when the con-
tractors are able 70 make low bids
There are, of course. those who
maintain that the state Is not getting
It's moneys worth in good roads. The
sum expended does seem large. But
Il must be remembered" says the
Story City Herald, that there are
many thousands of miles of roads in
the state and inpumerabIe bridges to
build. Those who have had occasion
to travel around a bit realize that
amount of work has been
done and is now being done. There Is
no denying the fact that the roads of
this part of the state have shown
marked Improvement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
Iona Newspapers
OUT OF THE ATTIC.
iowa City Republican,

iowa CITY RepubIican.J
The people are coming to realize that
the second generation of confederates.
more bitter and resentful than the
3:en who followed Lee and Jackson.
are in power in Washington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
SALOON SIDE OF DEMOCRACY.
Manson Democrat

VI dIiSUII DeIlOCIdl-J
1t is noted that Senator Garrison Is
being spoken of as possible tenn
perance" candidate for governor. Hold
on! Can't get away with any TEN
perance' stuff for one moment. II
Ciarkson runs it will be as Z prohibit
:ion candidate. Those fellows can't
put over anything by trying to link
temperance with their prohibition guff.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-30
CONCEIvING THE MILITARY IDEA.
ICedar Rapids Gazette1


s-year-old boy in New York City
was shot and killed Sunday while he
was playing soldier" The lad was
showing some of his playmates how
his brave cousin. who is fighting in the
Italian army. was terrorizing the Aus
TRANS. He had picked up a revolver
belonging to his father. and which was
not supposed to contain a charge. Re
volvers that lie around where babies
can find and play with them never are
supposed to be loaded. you know. This
little urchin brandished the gun. There
was an explosion and the bullet which
had been left in the chamber entered
his abdomen. He died short time
later.
The grinning god OF war reaches
farther than the hattlefields. This
time he sank his talons into a New
York home and carried away a mere
child. War gains its conception and
And the men-well. where do they find
the desire for, or even the willingness
to be a part to, war in all its furies and
hellishness? Maybe men have not left
the cave and the club so far behind
them that they can not still be found
Possibly the brute in US has not been
so completely subdued. after all. One
begins to believe that this must be go
when he reads Of the fiendish struggle
in which the men of Europe are par
ticipating.