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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-12-22
Some Vulettde Jests.

Little Elsie-Santa Claus doesn't 60
around In a motorcar, does he, mamma?
Mamma-Why, certainly not! He
still drives his reindeer, darling.
Little Elsie-Oh, I'm so glad! Tom
my Rankin told me he used a motor
car, and I've been in terrible state
since, cause I'm afraid the repair
shops wouldn't be open at night
Thirty seven young ladies of the con-
gregation had in mind thirty-seven
pairs Of slippers for the curate for
Christmas.
But one young lady made known her
intention. And when the day arrived
the curate received one pair of slippers
and thirty-six dressing gowns.
Milly Tin Mortified whisper)-Ma1nma,
Willie is an infidel!
Mammalian infidel?
M1lly-Yes He said he don't believe
there's any Santa Claus. .y
"What is the baby crying about?"
'Oh, nothing much. He only wants
to eat the Christmas tree
The Christmas Tree.
The Christmas tree Is rooted deep In love;
tn verdant branches tower far above;
1ts fruit are emblems of fairer cline;
IT. doors whisper Of q happier time.
III planted In all lands to spread and
grow,
A1d faith and hone among tn traasa,raa
glow,
IN NJ green life tree in our midst shall
1tAnd
~ earth once more becomes an Bdsn
Ind.
From 'NChrtstmas Chimsa"
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-12-22
For Scalded Fingers.

Make a solution Of baking soda and
water, placed in a glass or some re-
ceptacle in which the fingers may be
dipped readily This will alleviate
pain very quickly.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1915-12-22
Odds and Ends

OOOS ana EnOS.
Salad l'Anvers (Antwerp salad) is
made of lettuce with shreds of chick
en-, ham, and capsicums, in mayonaise
sauce, garnished with slices of pota-
toes.
The suggestion is made that fowl
for roasting is much approved by rab-
bling it with lemon-juice and then
basting frequently with cream or
milk.
Fillets of beef a la Grande Bre-
tagne are larded, split and stuffed
with macaroni and horseradish sauce,
and are served with a brown sauce
and potato chips.
Caper sauce with roast mutton may
seem incongruous, but it is excellent
nevertheless. With boiled mutton, of
course, the piquant caper is a recog-
nized adjunct.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
MONEY IN THE WEST

The answer of the reserve banks
of the midle west to Secretary Nc
Adoos offer to place government
money with them for the moving of
the crops, is fair indication Of the
general condition in this part of the
country. The managers Of the re-
serve banks replied to the secretary
of the treasury that plenty of mon.
ey is on hand in this region for all
purposes. Business generally is very
good and the farmers are so comfort
able in their situation that they may
sell this seasons crop at their leis-
ure. Forced marketing is no long
er in vogue in the great western en-
pire. A steady, regulated movement
of crops to market has succeeded tae
old time rush, and 1t is bringing its
reward in shape of better returns to
the producer. Harvest time always
affords new impulse for business,
though and just now all lines are
feeling the impetus given by the as
surance of another record breaking
yield. The backing of the United
States treasury Is a good thing to
have, but the west does not require
it.-Omana Bee.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
LID" ON IN CHICAGO

Chicago has experienced a dry Sun.
day for the first time since 1871, the
year Of the great fire. While the H.
linois statutes provide for closing
the saloons on the Sabbath day, the
law has never been enforced and the
recent order of Mayor Thompson al
most deprived the liquor dealers of
their breath, so great was taeir as
constituent. They attempted to use
the courts, but were unable to find
a judge who would issue an injunc-
ton restraining the city authorities
from enforcing the law. So nothing
remained but to close the saloons and
give Lake Michigan a chance. IN
questionably the law should have
been enforced long ago or else re-
pealed for the anti saloon people have
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
DOWN IN OGDEN

Down in Ogden at the present
time there IT, a great political pot
boiling, so hot in fact that 1t is about
to bubble over. The Ogden newspa.
pers are doing much to stir up the
people to a fever heat. Take the
Ogden Examiner for it, one would
think there are a set of backwoods.
men living in that city who In the
past have been entrusted with the
city affairs.
The Ogden Examiner, however, Is
seldom taken seriously We have a
faint recollection when it butted in
to Logan's' civic affairs. While it
never retracted its rash statements,
the people here set down on it in
terms that It will not soon forget.
We in Logan wonder why Bill Glass.
man and The Standard take the Ex-
aminer so serious.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14

made much of the fact that the state
had been openly defied, and have
succeeded in working up quite a
sentiment in favor of closing the sa-
Icons every day in the week. If the
Chicago liquor dealers are wise in
their day and generations they will
strictly obey the law in future and
keep their places closed on Sunday
Public sentiment is entitled to that
much respect Tribune.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14
OUR LUCKY STARS

The stars 90 our flag and our sky
are lucky stars. We ought to give
thanks every day of our lives that
we are so prodigiously blessed, In.
stead of tais incontinent, continual
grumbling. On every hand are the
crippled and enfeebled ones whose
very presence rebukes us with its
chronic good cheer. Would you see
happiness bubbling over, turn to
those who have just about nothing.
Their hope springs eternal, their fac
es saine, their hearts are firm. Would
you find a peevish, grumpy humor,
satisfied with nothing, turn to one
whose horn of plenty Is constantly
replenished 1t is a mystery We can
not read that so many who have ev-
erything are enriched still more with
fortunes lavish bounty and the poor
are poorer still with losses of their
few shabby holdings. But 1t Is not
likely to be the destitute who do
the loud complaining. Theirs is a
golden, unfailing treasury Of cheer.
philadelphia Public Ledger.
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14

Continued on page eight
The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1915-10-14

CONTINUED on page seven)
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
.eel,sH,ke TIVE PAROLE so,Rp.

The house would abolish the board
of parole. In fact SO far as the house
is concerned the parole board is
abolished.
Now. the parole board, properly con-
stituted is a good thing and worth the
money. A board Of men Of judicial
mind and imbued with the spirit Of the
new time and understanding the later
attitude of the public toward those
convicted Of and imprisoned for crimes
committed against the laws is one OF
the best expressions OF real re-
form in the methods and purposes OF
modern penology. 1t may be true that
our parole board in Iowa has at times
fallen short Of what the public has
right to demand and expect Of such
board but that has been fault Of
selection and is not good argument for
its complete abolition.
The board Of control has plenty to
do without taking on the special in
vestigation which parole board must
make if it is to be effective and just.
The business end of state institutions
is sufficient to occupy the time and
energies of the control board.
The state can we'll afford to employ
the services of three good men as a
parole board. The parole system has
been successful in Iowa under circum-
n
cess. It's personnel has not always
been entirely satisfactory. But at that
| a two-thirds percentage Of those who
have been paroled has made good out
Of prison. That, as modern human be-
| ings understand it is the purpose OF
penal Imprisonment, to impress upon
the mind Of the punished decent living
and respectable citizenship pays and
is the price Of liberty. When a parole
board guesses right seven times out Of
ten and the paroled man goes out to
make good and perform the duties OF
honest citizenship it is scarcely to be
abolished.
The effectiveness of parole board
depends, like the effectiveness of every
other public board or commission, upon
the character Of the men who comprise
it. The right kind of board should
not be hard to get in this state if par
tisanship and political debts were for
gotten and the men selected for theil
capacity for the place.
Iowa had much better keep thar
destroy her parole board.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
BLIND REACTION.

The vote Of 35 to Is in the state SEN
ate buries the Johnston bill and its ef-
fort to destroy the advance that Iowa
has made toward good roads since the
last legislature provided an engineer
ing corps for its effective administra-
struction work annually. Perusal Of
the personnel of the vote, too, will be
Informative for the names of all those
members who can be considered as big
men and men Of legislative experience
in the senate will be found shoveling
clods into the grave Of this reactionary
law.
The Johnston bill was conceived by
narrow men, long on their desire to de-
stroy and short on information as to
what it was they were destroying. for.
note in the senate debate that the re-
dictionaries admitted that there was
need for county road engineers and
need for state supervising engineer
and they asked for time in which to
amend the bill so as to save from de-
struction the very essentials which the
bill was designed to destroy.
These men in their ignorance o!
road laws in general and road exper'
fence in other states failed to under
stand that the road law which the!
sought to appeal had provided for the
state of Iowa an engineering corp:
such as every railroad corporation
would set up for itself before i
would attempt the expenditure OF
single dollar on construction. The state
engineer corresponds to the chief en-
gineer of railroad. Five district en-.
giueers under him are in the field su
| pervising the work Of ninety-nin'
county engineers and they perform thu
functions OF railroad division engin
GERS who supervise local engineers OF
the actual jobs Of construction. Most
them. too, have had railroad e1per'
fence. In the Office Of the state en-
eineer at Ames are draughtsmen ant
experienced bridge engineers perfect
ing plans for bridge work all ovel
Iowa.
The result of this system is tina
bridge contractors interested solely IL
the profits they can make no longe
nrepare the plans for bridges to b.
paid for by the taxpayers OF Iowa
Trained and experienced engineer
plan the bridges for Iowa and the ex
pertence gained with bridge in on
county is Immediately made availaol
for the bridge work Of every othe
county. Tho e5t os concrete wor
per cubic yard has fallen under tn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02

new system Of business efficiency from
SIS to 81 and Dubuque county admits
the saving Of $4,000 on the cost Of one
group Of bridges alone.
This Is the system which radical men
legislating for the first time in their
lives would destroy under the delusion
that the farmer vote of Iowa will re-
word reaction. 1t Is the same ignor-
ance of the experience Of other states
with road work which prevents an
Iowa legislature from permitting the
voters of county to anticipate their
road revenues with bond issues when
a majority shall SO desire and yet every
state in the union excepting Iowa and
two others now provide for road bond
issues. It is the same refusal to seek
information from the experience OF
other states that prevents the auto
license fund being appropriated as
state road fund to aid the counties IN
building hard surfaced roads such as
the automobile needs to make 1t an
all the year around vehicle OF useful
ness. 1t Is the same willingness to
leap at conclusions without first look
ing around among the states that are
making a back number Of Iowa In the
matter Of road construction that pre-
vents THIS legislature from providing
for special Improvement districts
whereby the more progressive and en-
lightened communities can go forward
as they are doing on all sides Of US.
II this legislature would restore
home rule in road building let it give
to the voters at home the right to build
the kind Of roads they want and to
finance them on the easy payment plan
as other states do. For the state TO
provide the architects is business ef-
ficiency, not imperialism, but for the
legislature to deny to majority of the
voters in any county or community the
right to borrow money with which to
build permanent roads or to assess
property for special benefits or to CO.
operate town and county in improve
ment districts is to refuse the citizen
and voter the right to exercise his own
intellige upon matters Of local pub
lie improvements and it is decision to
follow ignorance as guide intead OF
the experience of every state which
has built roads,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
PASS A SHORT LOAN" BILL.

A loan shark bill introduced by
Jamison in the house and approved by
the sitting committee would permit
loans to be made at more than the
legal rate of interest but would guard
borrowers from extortion by the lend
ers. The general outline of the bill
at hand is insufficient whereon to
pass judgment on the bill out the pur-
pose and need of sucn bill is to be
commended and recognized.
There is a real need Of the money
lender who makes small loans on short
time on chattel securities and the like.
He fills place and his business should
be legitimatized unde. proper regula-
tions and also under strict inspection.
Pawnbrokers have their place in the
general economy of things. Emergencies
arrive in the lives of the poor where
immediate necessity makes such relief
imperative. 1t is not evidence of abSo-
family is reduced to pledging house
hold goods or other chattels more than
II is absolute evidence that the man
who puts up other collateral for a
loan of larger amount is worthless or
desires the loan for any but proper
and even wise purpose. The short
loan man is the banker of certain
class of people. But ne needs strict
regulation. He should be decent and
human and not shark.
Short loans on chattels or advances
thru pawn shop can not be made at
the legal interest rate. 1t has been
estimated that per cent a month is
approximately a fair rate. everything
considered. Perhaps that is too high.
If go a fair rate for an average bust
ness of the sorts hould be struck and
the loan bank be established under
penalties for eXtortion that would keep
the crooked and cruel out Of the BUSH
ness. No person should be permitted
to take 120 per cent as is not uncom-
mon at present among certain classes
of brokers" and sharks
SO far as the short loan business is
concerned il is legitimate enough il
it shall be legitimized and guarded.
Pass such bill, make the books Of
the concern open and under inspection
by a proper inspector and assess a
penalty for extortion that will make
Iowa waters dangerous for the loan
shark.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02

business a. discussed by the news
papers everywhere 10 how and OF whom
the injured person is to recover for
damages to person or property done by
the jit. And nobody seems able TO
answer.
Those Iowans who settled about
Brownsville, Tex, seem to have bought
a lot Of excitement also.
Ask the auto dealer about hard
times. He'll tell you that everybody
seems to be especially flush.
Having made good start on that
non partisan judiciary law the legisla-
ture should go on and finish it.
The farmer who would hire an en-
gineer or surveyor, which Is the same
thing so far as the job is concerned
should be able to see that an engineer
is needed for highway construction
quite as much as to run the level for
u string of tie ttiru q .c" corner OF
the farm.
After Jan. there will be no occa-
sion for an anti treating law. So passes
one good old standby of the new leg
islator
Speaking of those legislative prayers
if ever occasion demanded effective
supplication now's the time,
The Burlington Hawkeye deprecates
the high price of land as hard on the
man who has dream of going back
to the soil and having a farm of his
own. That man must learn to make a
big farm out of little one. Ten acres
will keep him busy with his own hands
and plans. And If ne wants to go
back to the soil with six hired men
and steam pillow he isn't necessarily
an object Of deep and fearful SYM
patty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
Looker-On In Iona

Iowa Falls, April Pit is hard for
outsiders to understand local political
situations. For instance. this writer
supposed the late school elections in
this town had for an issue the reading
of the bible in the public schools, and
allowing ministers Of different denomi-
nations to address the scholars dur
ing school hours. It seems a school
board some time ago passed resolu-
tons to permit these two things. But
now the LOCKER On 10 told, while large
number of the voters of Iowa Falls DO
favor bible reading and addresses, the
real issue was over grading the schools.
However, the question of bible reading
in the public schools is far from being
settled in Iowa Falls. and 80 interested
Is one prominent citizen here, that he
asks the following be reprinted from
the Cedar Rapids Republican Of late
issue:
John McDonough left the interest
on fund of 100000 to the schools
of New Orleans and Louisiana on con-
dition that the bible be Grad and taught
in the public schools. The school au-
thorities seem to be willing to accept
the gift with the condition attached,
out tueS SeelIl W 10 COhAAO1AISN ~ sAAS
constitutional guarantee OF religious
freedom and the supreme court Of the
state has held that that constitutional
provision Is strong enough to bar the
acceptance of the gift. The case will
probably be taken to the supreme court
of the United States. It is held that
the reading Of the bible and the repeat
ing Of the Lords prayer would be SUI
ficient to hold the Mcdonald gift. but
even that much Of religious teaching Is
inhibited by the court decisions.
ut will make more acute the question
Of the bible in the schools, question
that has already been made somewhat
prominent again. There is a recurren,
feeling that children can be brought ur
better with bible instruction than With
out it. But is it not true that the bulk
OF the children learn Of the bible in
! the;r Sunday schools Those who dc
not come under the influence OF some
Sunday school would Of course remain
| unprovided for in the way OF religious
instruction. Some of us are apt t
think that child which Is nat brough
up religiously is sure to go wrong. W.
may, however, attach too much i'm.
| portance to such things. OF course
what we mean by religious teaching
| nowadays is the Christian religion ant
still Jews bring up their children with
out any christian principles ana the!
can show fewer members Of their rae
in the pauper houses and penitentiarie'
than any other race or nationality.
1 49,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
Topics of the Times

A West Virginia bootlegger man
aged to get the stuff into the state by
branding it nitro glycerine." And at
that he wasn't so far off as to be pro-
secuted for "misbranding.
Perhaps by the time that Iowa code
appears the allied vessels will have
got thru the Dardanelles. Perhaps
sooner.
Those Howe pictures illustrate how
suddenly a $4,000 torpedo puts $780,
600, 900 battleship into the 80 cent
class.
The burning question on the jitney
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
a. N~1.A~
For Sunday Reading
AllSort, Of Opinion,

"siIly" Sunday on Social Religion.
Billy" Sunday, fighting mad" we
are told, made one of the most forceful
utterances of his Philadelphia cam
paign from the standpoint Of social
and industrial reform, according to the
Philadelphia North Americans special
reporter at the tabernacle. In one OF
his afternoon sermons. FOR half an
hour he turned the biggest guns in his
batteries on the child Labor exploiters.
the political grafters, employers who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

SfGSlAI S0NtNs 49, y
Marshall Lodge, No. los A. F. & a. NJ
Sriday, April 2. Work in second De
gree. John w, Wells, secretary; w. ID
Steiner. W. Nj.
sIGNET CHAPTER, No. 50. R. A. N.
Regular convocation Monday. Aprli ~
l.. S. Kilborn, H. P: John W. "elis'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ. MONDAY
after the third Sunday. l. I. foroes'
recorder: George Gregory, t. l. NJ
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. AldemaT
Commandery No. 80. K t. Iuesoas'
March % at 1880 o'clock. Regular ousi- :
ness. George Gregory. E. c.; Nd. =
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central CHAP,
ter No. 81, o. E. s., Wednesday. APP. -
IA. o. m. Business. Anna LOW nin as
secretary: Mary Black Collins W. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
TO- q, erothers.

Two men were talking Of hard times.
Does your wife ever grieve because
she threw over q wealthy man In order
TO marry you? aueried Hall.
well. she started to once" was the
reply, "but cured her OF that without
delay"
Il wish you would tell me how" said
Hall.
Il started right in grieving with
her" replied the other. "and ! grieved
harder than she did" National
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

las the Eagle has said before the
crucial test of all legislation is the leg
islature following the one in which it
was enacted" says the Vinton Eagle.
so with the road law. 1t is going thru
the test by the present legislature. 1t
got a black eye in the house of repre-
sentatives Its friends in the senate will
be able to take care of it and see that
it is neither repealed nor emasculated."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02

Here's another case OF outsiders
perplexity. Mr.. Schmedika, democrat
elected as Harlin county's representa-
tive, must And 1t hard to represent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02

Heaven help the Iowa senate IL 1t
blindfolds itself and staggers along the
trail opened up by the house when it
voted for the Johnson bill to make the
state an old fashioned mudhole!" exx-
claims the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-04-02
Chin. and Christianity.

The biggest piece OF religious news
that has been reported for . century.
we are told. is the return OF Sherwood
Eddy from three months Of special
experimenting among the students,
gentry, and officials of thirteen cities
of China. during which time more than
150, 900 men crowded to hear the mes
sage, while more than $1,000 signed
cards as inquirers" Il 10 important.
explains this writer in Tho Continont.
because 1t means that christianity has
worked up to the top" In China For
hitherto the christian churches OF
China have been largely filled by the
poorer classes. while the, gentry. aJas-
tocr1cy. and scholars have been un.
moved. But the latter responded ANAL
ingly to Mr.. Eddy's call Even the
highest officials gave him Q bearing. ~
Mr.. Eddy says in dsscs1bing his work
in the current Missionary Review Of
the World, "the president, the vice
president, members Of the cabinet, and
the governors OF almost every province
that we visited. either erected pavilions
for the meetings or gave the students
half-holidays, or invited u to BAN
quet, with opportunity to address the
officials And Mr.. Eddy reports not
only kindness. but conversions. 30 that
he comes to the conclusion that prob
ably in no other country in the world
today are the officials 30 accessible to
christianity al in China" Not that
there are not new problems. as we'll as
new successes. One Of them Is the re-
vival Of Confucianism, which lis very
sure to come in this decade"
Mr.. Eddy found the change in Pek-
ing in fourteen years most striking:
.1n 1900 the Boxers were killing our
christians, and attempting to drive for.