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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Observing the statement that Athree
hose companies Of the Muscatine are
department are about to quit because
objection is made to their dispensing
liquor at the hose houses" the Pella
Chronicle asks 'how would you Ike
your fire protection to be in the HANDS
of bunch OF boozers?"
Noting that the Vinton Eagle has
become persistent apostle of perma-
nent roads for Iowa, the Boone News
Republican hopes the press of the en-
tire state will follow this good ex-
ample.
If the republican party dominates
Root or any man Of his type 1t had
just as well take the bankrupt law
and go out of business" declares the
Washington County Press. In that
event the next president of the United
States will be Theodore Roosevelt"
at is not safe to bank strong on
community wealth." says tht Ackley
World. For illustrations: There are
some 500 children in Ackley-and some
Of the homes have not solitary child
while others have four, six, eight and
ten. That's wealth. Those who have
none might find their investments re-
turning good interest Some OF our
biggest money bags are not In position
to know what real wealth is, the wealth
that lies in a smile or kiss from
baby's lips, that's gold uncounted."
The farmer will have double use for
his slo this year says the Grundy
Democrat There Will likely be
good deal OF corn that will remain soft
and this stored away to the silo will be
worth it's face value"
The Dubuque Times-Journal thinks
Bernard Murphy's suggestion that the
governor appoint commission to In
vestigate and report on the best meth
odof securing good roads is good horse
sense. What we do know now Is that
Iowa needs good roads and that there
is no set program for securing them.
What we want to know is the best way
to get them"
When Iowa land gets to the $500
mark how is the interest going to be
paid?" asks the Algona Republican.
The Alba Union says Iowa has
never had a better time for White
House run than at present. But few
eastern men are considered and the
chances are for a western president In
20
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

From near Riga, which is their OBJ
jective in the extreme north, right
down to the Bessarabia frontier, along
a front of approximately 1000 miles
Indicated on the above map by a con-
tinuous heavy black line), the Austro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

German armies attacked the Russian
positions. The general scheme was the
capture of Warsaw and the crushing Of
the Russian forces between two great
armies, one operating from the north
under Field Marshal Won Hindenburg
and indicated by the thickening Of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

black line on the map from Ossowetz
to the neighborhood Of Wysxogrod and
another operating from the south under
the general direction Of Field Marshal
Won Mackensen and indicated by the
thickening of the black line Of the map
from the neighborhood Of Lubin down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31
NOT ALWAYS.
CCedar Rapids Gazette.


II girls were properly disciplined and
deported themselves or the street as
they shoul: the police would have little
trouble with the Washers. The Coun-
ell Bluffs Nonpar.ii makes nnta OF a
young woman who wrote the newspa-
per, in answer to complaints about
Washers, that she had gone thru the
streets of her city daily for five years
always unmolested. She attributes her
freedom from annoyance to the fact
that she always minds her own bust
ness and gives no one an opportunity
to think he can pay more than the US
ual amount Of attention to her with
any degree OF success
There is truth in what she says. Any
girl who does not overwork her eyes,
who does not loiter on the street cor
ner or walk around the block with no
destination in view is sure to be let
alone At least she never encounters
trouble, for the masher who is COM
pletely ignored generally is smart
enough to let well enough alone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

about, and is qualified to form conclu-
sions. There has been nothing written
on the road question that he is not ia
miliar with.
The Marshallrown man is an advo-
cate of hard surfaced roads. He knows
that the dirt roads, while in good con-
dition most Of the year. can not be de-
pended upon. He wants roads that are
fit for use all of the time, The COM
mission will bring to light many things
in connection with road building that
will be Of value to the legislature at
the next session.
1t is assumed that the men appointed
by the governor will Of course coop
crate with the state highway commits
sion. 1t is possible for them to do lots
of good in a line Of work that is OF
vital interest to the people Of every
part OF the state.
STREET CAR SAFETY ZONES
lCouncil Bluffs Nonpareil.1
Tho problem OF the safety Of men,
women and children alightins from
street cars on busy corners, or stand
ing on the corners waiting chance to
board the particulhr street car which
viii take them to their homes. 10 al
ways a serious one. and II solved By
different cities in many different ways
Here ther. have been regulations fos
q number OF years-followed by auto
lists to a greater or less Axtent-thaa
no automobile should DO driven past q
standing street car. II this were
strictly enforced. |. would solve the
problem to a great extent. but would
still leave the big problem OF just nov
people on the sidewalk might get out to
the car tracks. thru a string OF pass
ing automobiles, In time to nag the APP
preaching street car.
In Detroit this question has been met
by the creation of so-called safety
zones" on all the principal corners
These are stretches of pavement per-
haps four or five feet wide and the
length of the street cars from which
all automobiles and other vehicles are
strictly barred-as much so as from
the sidewalks themselves. The boun-
daries Of these zones are plainly mark
ed, and the driver of any car tina,
crosses such a zone. whether occupied
at the moment or not, is promptly ar
rested. and is subject to heavy fine.
Both in Detroit, where the idea is
said to have originated, and IN Other
cities that have followed the example
of the big Michigan town. the safety
zone scheme is said to work out in ex-
| cellent manner. That 1t is applicable
to the smaller class Of cities is evil
denced by its use in Lansing. the Mich
| igan capital, city Of about the same
size as Council Bluffs, where the stree,
car habit is perhaps not so firmly en-
| trenched as here. And 1t is found to b
very satisfactory in practice there.
| 1t is comparatively easy matter FOL
persons desiring to take a street car or
a busy street to reach this zone o,
safety, as it is not necessary to threat
ones way between the passing auto.
mobiles at the exact moment Of thu
street cars arrival So. too. aftel
alighting from a street car, 1t is easy
enough to wait propitious momen
before crossing to the sidewalks.
It would seem that it might be &
good idea for the city to establish sucl
safety zones at the principal down
i town crossings on Broadway and Pear
street, where the danger of accident 1,
| the greatest.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

The Alba Union says Iowa has
never had a better time for a White
House run than at present. But few
eastern men are considered and the
chances are for western president In
1885,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

difficult to obtain? Why not build in
stead of being satisfied with INSULT
cheney and temporary makeshifts?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

When Iowa land gets to the $500
mark how is the interest going to be
paid ?" asks the Algona Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

Noting that tho vinton Eagle has
become a persistent apostle of perma-
nent roads for Iowa. the Boone News
Republican hopes the press of the en-
tire state will follow this good ex-
ample.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31
Topics of the Times

Whoever wins the war Canada has
shown herself to be the biggest part OF
Great Britain. Fact is Canada seems
to be big enough to take good care OF
herself without apron strings.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31

The Russians are destroying the
country as they fall back. Now what
difference to the inhabitants does it
make whether the invaders or the de-
tenders fire the homes and take every
thing eatable when they find them
selves shelterless and hungry?
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05

to the owners; but the average laborer fails to understand
that they do not result in employing a single man more in
the particular mine. Seldom do they result in new work
being started. We doubt if six more machines are drilling
today than there were six months ago, before the famous
vug was opened.
Zone amusing thing about the rich ore, however, is
the amount of freak advertising that it has given rise to.
The local sampling company, which f%everishly bought the
initial shipment. being stung considerably by the opera
ton. now seeks to draw business its way by issuing tao
SMILES of the check which it gave in payment, claiming 1t
to be the most valuable single shipment ever made. Most
technical men will recall the shipment from the Mohawk
at Goldeld, Nevada, to the Selby s1nelter III February
1907. 1t still leads as the most valuable shipment, as the
following comparison will show: Mohawk, net tons, AZ;
gross value, S50I,637; net returns, S57495S, Cresson, net
tons, $50; net returns, S46S637.
"Of course, to boost your home town or district is nat
ural. but this district has had all the boosting it needs,
and what it wants now is development along safe and con-
sentative lines
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
ENGLISH View of American Duty

The London Observer, an English weekly paper OF
conservative tendencies, recently contained an editorial
headed: "America and the Lusitania.' The Observer
evidently desires to prepare the people of Great Britain tor
whatever policy eventuates from the Lusitania incident so
far as the United States is concerned. Here is what the
Observer says:
INC one who thinks calmly and clearly will feel any
thing but sympathy with the government and people OF the
United States in the situation produced tor them by the
sinking of the Lusitania. American citizens have been
killed, wanton1y and deliberately, and in defiance of al. IN
ternationa1 law, in the exercise of their undoubted right to
travel across the ocean as they please. IT, we being neu-
trails, a similar outrage had been committed upon us, a
tempest of fury would have swept from end to end OF the
land. But the course which the American people can toll
low is BY no means clear, and the obstacles in Mr.. Will
sons path are so many and SO dangerous that no one can
fairly accuse him of pusillanimity if he decides that forc1ble
action is denied to him. We shall certainly not rank our
selves among those who urge the United States to aban-
don their neutrality. Great and grievous as IS the wrong
done to them, we hold very decidedly that they nave every
reason for prudent restraint.
ct is a profound mistake to think that, because the
American people have not flown to arms to v1nd1cate the
cause of public laws and humanity, they have taken no
worthy part in the struggle. We can never be Suft1-
cientlv grateful to them for the moral support which we
have received from all that is greatest and worthlest IN
the American nation, and it would, in our view, be a blum
der if they permitted themselves, IN a moment OF 1nd1gna-
ton, righteous though it be, to further the deep-laid plans
of Germany by picking up the gauntlet thrown down to
them. President Wilson is confronted with a very grave
problem indeed to the presence of millions of American
citizens of German birth and-what is worse = German
breeding among the population of the United States. We
must never overlook that fact. 1t is not, as is most ul-
fairly said, a question of votes. 1t is a question of the in
ternal peace and stability of the country for which he IS
think fit to take we do not know. Whatever it is, we shall
accept it without any loss of respect for the great nation
across the Atlantic. A man of proved temper and tried
courage is not bound to return a madmans blow
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
Enforce a CurfeU LaW

The Go1dfield authorities are confronted with the ne
cessity of having a curfew law and enforcing it. There
can be no question about the fact that the young boys
and even the young girls-of this camp are given too much
license for their own good. The Tribune is heartily IN
favor of plenty of wholesome amusement tor growing
children, but there comes a time when a certain amount
of restraint is necessary, and that time has come in this
camp. Complaints have been made to this paper by prom
inent citizens of the actions of young boys at the motion
picture houses; other citizens have complained of damage
to private property which, although petty, is annoying,
and it seems that conditions have reached a point where
something should be done to curb a growing evil.
In this matter parents cannot escape responsibility.
1t is their duty to know where their children are OF eve
nings and to exercise such control over them that their &C
tions will not become a matter of general complaint from
the community as a whole. 1t is much better to exercise
this control than to fail to put into effect the restraint nee
essarv to keep their children out of the hands of the law.
Let us have a Q o'clock c,,rfeW law for boys and girls and
keep them off the streets unless they are accompanied by
their parents or proper guardians.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
Tribute to Be Exacted

Wyoming may be liable to pay a tribute of 100000
annually to the federal government; providing the prOpos-
ed leasing system is adopted, the royalty fixed at two cents
per ton and ten per cent of her estimated coal reserves shall
be mined during the next one hundred years. This state
ment is made in the official call for the annual convention
of the American Mining Congress just issued. The total
royalty that may be levied on Wyoming coal by the federal
government at two cents per ton, 1t the leasing bill be-
comes a law, will be $2ooo,ooo,ooO.
Wyoming is simply used as an example. Other states
will have a greater or less tribute to paw, depending upon
the extent of their coal reserves. Other facts scarcely
less startling are brought out in the call for the eighteenth
annual convention of the American Mining Congress,
which will assemble in San Francisco on September Goth
for a three-day discussion of matters of vital and immedi-
ate interest to the west. 1t is pointed out that the water
powers of the west are more valuable than its reserves of
coal. A very modest royalty will net the federal govern
ment a fabulous income, according to the statement. This
huge treasure to flow into the federal Golfers, unless the
people of the states interested protest vigorously, will be de
rived from a special tax on western states which is not i'm
posed on the eastern commemorative, mining congress
members are told.
Plans for safeguarding the investor in mining PROPOSE
t1onS are to be given prominence in the discussions at the
convention. Means for removing some of the obstacles
from the path of the prospector will also receive attention.
Workmen's compensation is to be given more %considera-
ton at this convention than at previous sessions.
Revision of the mineral land laws and mine taxation
are to be the subjects of careful consideration. Every eff
fort is to be used in devising a plan whereby the appropria-
ton for the new metalurgical research and mine safety
stations may be made available at the earliest possible
moment. These stations were authorized by the last
congress-, but no money was provided to make the law ef-
feCtlVe.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
Professors of Mining

The fact that at least four institutions of learning are
looking for new heads of their mining departments gives
timely interest to a subject that must always deeply con-
Germ those having at heart the welfare of the mining pro-
fession and OF tie industry to which it ministers, says the
Mining and Scientific Press.
At first sight it would seem as if professors of mining,
like poets, were born, not made. Assuredly the effective
teacher of this subject is rare. This is due partly to the
enormous expansion of the technology involved and its
world wide application. The scope of knowledge required
is staggering. Concurrently the increase in the number
of students and the large size of the classes to which the
professor must lecture introduces the second, and ever
present. factor of personality. To hold the attention of
his students, the teacher must have force of character as
we'll as a large stock of information.
During the past decade those responsible for the selec-
ton of professors have become impressed with the idea
that a teacher of mining failed to be effective if he lacked
experience in the field: it has seemed to them that actual
contact with the realities of industry was needed to en-
able the teacher to appreciate the ultimate purpose of the
mining art. namely, to make money by exploiting mineral
aggregates. In other words, they wanted the practical
man, the practitioner. in place of the academic authority.
This notion became dominant. In its ascendancy it gave
us one or two professors of the highest ability; their names
will leap to mind, but the number of them is so small as to
constitute exceptions rather than evidence in support OF
the new departure. AS a matter of fact, expert teachers
are made no more quickly than expert mining engineers or
metallurgistS. The eminent practitioner does indeed en-
ter the lecture room with the vital air of the man that has
done things in that world for which his students are pre-
pairing, but he is rarely a good exposition, and he is better
used to managing grown men than disciphning youths.
His knowledge of the subject is probably specialized in a
particular direction, for no man can keep step with the adj
vance in every branch of mining, least of all those who are
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
The Truth Is Good Enough

The Cripple Creek correspondent of the Mining and
Scientific Press is not a hot air merchant. He believes
the truth is good enough and he deplores boosting that is
NOT founded on fact. In the current issue OF the Press this
truthful correspondent says:
sIn general the district is very quiet. Steady work is
the slogan on all sides. The i'll effects of the boom at the
beginning of the year, influx OF men tor whom there was
no work and of spectators of various kinds, due to the
Cresson development, have been safely passed, and the dis
tr;ct resumes the even tenor of its way. Such discoveries
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05

fully occupied in a successful consulting practice or the
absorbing administration of a mining enterprise. Indeed,
he masterful acquaintance with the details of a particular
business or special branch of industry is likely to initiate
against an express recognition of the fundamentals of the
subject as a whole. In any case, such detailed knowledge
does not carry with it the ability to convey the underlying
principles from the practitioners brain to that of a number
of young listeners. Neither width of experience nor
breadth of knowledge assures the aptitude to instruct 9th
ers. The gift of clear exposition is not acquired over
night; it may be latent but in most cases it comes only from
earnest effort and practice.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05
Villas Mining Law Decree

On March 70 General Villa promulgated an addition
of providing that the forfeiture of mining property might
be caused BY any of the following reasons: (a) Non
payment of taxes within the prescribed period; Cd voltn-
tarv suspension of working OF mine for sixty days or more,
excepting because of fortuitous circumstances individually
approved by the secretary of fomento as being OF sufficient
weight to Justify the incorporation OF the property; (c)
abandonment of work; CD deficient exploitation, to be de-
termined by the secretary of fomento; () failure to mann
tain prescribed work in each five-hectare section (regard-
less of the practicability of such work or the regular oc-
currence of the mineral deposits).
When Villas edict became known 5. L. \erm1yea,
formerly we'll known in GoldIeld, now chairman OF the
legislative committee of the chamber OF mines and oil OF
Los Angeles. filed a protest with the state department at
Washington. The chamber has been notified that IN
April George Carothers, special consular agent IN Mexico,
was instructed to protest against the application OF lila S
mining decree to American mine owners. Agent Caroth-
es informed the state department that 1T IS not the 1nten-
ton of the authorities who promulgated this decree to IN
lure legitimate mining industries, but to prevent the pur-
chase of dormant mining property by spectators Tor
profit"
The state department also informed the Los Angeles
chamber of mines that it has been advised of the intention
of its representative to proceed to Chihuahua as soon as
possible "and discuss with the appropriate authorities the
matter of changing or modifying the Decree and he rec
representations to the minister of fomento in Chihuahua
and procure exemption if justified, as provided in the de-
cree
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1915-06-05

Can a vein have extraateral rights in two opposite
directions? Or to express it more carefully. can extra
lateral rights extend downward from an antiCllnal axis or
common apex of a vein in a given claim beyond both side
lines of the claim? The answer depends upon the peculiar
facts of the case; and in this inst lnce, because OF those pc
cuiar facts, the vein, though one, being practically more
two than one, they can; or, treating it as one vein Tor both
theoretical and practical purposes, a condition exists along
it's crest or axis which gives to the vein, considered broadly
and as a whole, a terminal edge at the summit or highest
point or line of highest points where the vein reaches most
closely to the surface, making that line of highest points a
true apex for the whole vein, from which apex the vein can
be followed downward both northerly and southerly-EN
tract from Judge Averilrs apex decision.