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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
a Hymn Of Hate.

The following parody OF the German
Hymn Of Hate" appears in the To-
ronto Daily Star, with mo apologies
to Herr Lissauer:"
Carrots or beets we hate them not;
We love them not. we hate them not.
OF all the things that land on our plate
There's only one that we loathe and
hate:
We love hundred, we hate but one,
And that we'll hate till kingdom come
Sauerkraut.
It's known to you ali, It's known to
you all,
Pilgrims on this terrestrial ball;
Full Of vinegar in distress,
Making a most unsavory mess.
Come, let NJ stand In our eating place
An oath to swear, face to face;
An oath OF bronze, no wind can shake,
An oath for all sons OF guns to take.
We will never forego our hate:
We have all but single hate.
we love az one, We hate as one.
And well hate that dish II We do Il
sauerkraut.
wienerwurst, leberwurst lager beer,
Many q time have given u cheer;
Not so bad if made Just right;
Bad to take going to bed ut night:
Better by far to lunch in THE Day.
Then there won't be the devil to pay.
But we hate with a lasting hate;
We never will forego our hate;
Hate OF the stomach and hate Of tho
tongue, IS
Hate Of the senses every one.
Hate OF millions who've choked It
down;
Hate Of the country and hate Of the
town.
We love q thousand: we hate but one.
And that well hate with hate Of Hun
Sauerkraut.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

The Perry Chief says: 1.-THE good
roads commission named by Governor
Clarke is composed of men who are
known to be true Iowa boosters,
earnest good roads enthusiasts and
progressive citizens. They will do
their work we'll and Iowa will be bene-
fitted bytheir investigation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
In. IN p,..sburuh.

lNs In Pittsburgh.
A Pittsburgh girl had IN admfref
arrested on the charge that he had
stolen her teeth. Life and love In
pittsburgh seem 70 - curiously sxcat'
ius.-Provideueo Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

'The fact that Harry Thaw is on his
way from Iowa to California estab-
fishes no precedent. A lot of people
have gone from Hawkeyedom to the
Golden state without being adjudged
insane says the Dubuque Herald.
The test is whether they stay" asserts
the Dubuque paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
Masonic Meetings.

~ NdSOHlC meetings.
~ SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge, No. 103, A. F. & A. NJ.
work in first degree Friday. Aug. 20.
John w. Wells. secretary; w. H.
Steiner, W. NJ.
SiGNET CHAPTER, No. 80, R. A. M
Regular Convocation Monday evening,
Aug. 16. L. S. Kilborn, H. P. John w.
Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ. Monday
after the third Sunday I. T. Forbes.
recorder: George Gregory. T. I. Nj.
REGULAR coNcLAvE, ST. Alderman
Commandery No. 80, K. T., Tuesday.
Aug. II. o'clock. Regular business.
NJ. S. Mcfarland, Rec, George Gregory,
E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. ST, o. E. S., Wednesday, Sept.
Is, p. m Business Anna Downing,
secretary; Mary Black Collins, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
TERMS:

evening edition by mail.
~ the month by mail. 36
DeilVered by carrier by the month gu
Later edition for morning circula-
Twice-a-week edition per year. 100
entered al the postofflce at MARSHALL
town as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20
ARE BACK NUMBERS.


lBurlinSton Gazette.1
1t is said that at the state meeting
of the county supervisors Of Iowa held
in Des Moines this week, there will be
some active opposition to hard-sur-
faced roads. 1t is hoped that this op-
position will be so small and so weak
that its advocates will feel ashamed of
themselves. When 1t comes to pro-
noting the cause of good roads, super
visors should lead the procession. They
should set the pace for the rest Of the
community. When man decides to
make the race for supervisor his plat
form should be good roads, not only
on dirt roads, but hard-surfaced roads.
Dirt roads are all right In good
weather and reasonably good weather.
During the present summer, however,
when it rained every day, hundreds OF
miles Of Iowa's ideal dirt roads were
them for love or money. It was an i'm
possibility. Supervisors who denounce
hard surfaced roads are back numbers.
They are fossils and have no place in
the present day progress. At the first
opportunity the voters should send
them back to private life, where they
terances will have no official tinge.
There are some pretty fair hard sur
faced roads in this county, not enough
it is true, but farmers living adjacent
to these roads will testify that they
would not do without them. Back to
the mud puddle with the supervisor
who knocks the permanent f,igi1way.
TROUBLE WITH SUPERVISORS.
Davenport Times.l
The trouble with the average man
who IL elected to membership in any
board OF supervisors 10 that he soon
begins to assume that he owns the
county and that he can do anything
he pleases II the act is not clearly and
specifically prohibited by q law that
1t would be extremely dangerous to ig-
more, and sometimes even such limiting
laws are given little heed. A COM
mon thing for supervisors to do is to
take advantage Of every doubtful tech
nicality of law to add to fees. and un-
less some one takes the trouble to
check up the whole matter carefully
it is difficult to discover wherein the
county has been uselessly charged for
mileage or for time supposed to have
been devoted to special committee
work.
Another trouble often encountered in
boards Of supervisors Is the forma-
ton Of factions. One group viii spend
valuable time trying to put something
over" on the other group. II It hap
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

Enforcement of the anti-tipping law
may cure the tipping practice, but not
the expense" says the Hopkinton
Leader. I'm one way or another the
traveller will pay for his service-all
and little more than it is worth"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

The more one sees Of the Georgia
average, the more highly one estecms
former Governor Slaton.' says the
Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

''Straight deep rivers furnish few
floods. The winding shallow streams
are the ones that do the damage. They
could be Strengthened and deepened,"
Argues the Ottumwa Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

President Wilson could not ask for
anything better to increase his own
and democratic chances to be returned
70 power than to ha { Barnes and Pen
rose continue to be spokesman for the
republican party" declares the Sioux
City Tribune
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
that now that Governor Clarke has
appointed commission TO investigate
the proper materials for the making of
hard surfaced roads another com
mission should investigate painless
plans for securing the necessary funds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-20

The following parody OF the German
Hymn of Hate" appears in the To-
ronto Daily Star, with mo apologies
to Herr Lissauer:" II
The Washington times., 1915-04-14
Merchants Plan Water
Trip to Baltimore

Having chartered the steamer Three
Rivers. of the Maryland, Delaware and
Virginia Railway Company, the Retail
Merchants Association will resolve its
annual outing. termed the Spring Gam
bol' into trip from Baltimore to this
city May 8. and TO-
At a meeting of the "Gambol'' COM
mittee yesterday afternoon, the desti-
nation of the outing was determined
upon and the dates selected. Headed
by a brass band the members of the
association who make the trip will go
by special train to Baltimore Saturday
afternoon, May and board the boat
Sunday landings will be made at
Maryland and Virginia wharves on the
Potomac, at each Of which band con-
cert will he given, and individual adj
vertisements of the business of each
member Of the association will be dis
tributed among those who appear to
welcome the merchants.
The Three Rivers will land it's passen-
gers in this city early Monday morning.
May TO-
The Washington times., 1915-04-14
Bank Officials Charge
Williams With FaLSehOOd

The following statement. in reply to
the one issued by the Comptroller of the
Currency, has been issued by the RIGGS
National Bank:
The Comptroller's remarkable state
ment, handed to the press last night,
begins with falsehood according to
the assertion made by the Attorney
General today, and reported in the aft
ernoon papers. with view to creating
the impression that the methods of the
Riggs National Bank were regarded as
worthy of legal action not alone by him
self, but by the Department of Justice
as well, Mr.. Williams said in his state
ment
The recent Investigations of the
RIGGS National Bank disclosed ir-
reSularities and unlawful practices
on the part of certain officers of suf-
hcient Importance to merit their ref
erence to the Department of Justice,
and that department engaged the
services of Louis ID. Brandeis, of
Boston. some weeks ago as special
counsel in the case.
Attorney General Gregory stated al
noon that Mr.. Brandeis had not beer
engaged by the Department of Justice
He said he had no objection to retain.
l
the treasury officials, but that the
statement that he had been engaged by
the department was incorrect.
Typical of Attitude.
MIR. Gregory added that he had un.
derstood that the Treasury officials had
been consulting Mr.. Brandeis but tha,
his department had had nothing to dc
with that.
the CDmDtrOllpr' nj
he characterizes as 'temerity' the course
OF the bank in appealing to a court OF
justice for protection against this un'
lawtul exercise Of his .authority, whlCf
is typical of the entire personal and OF.
ncial attitude of Mr.. Williams.
The Comptroller declares that the
bank Is solvent. but no one can read
the balance of his statement without
knowing that he would never have
made that admission except for the fact
that the bank s so absolutely so,ven'
that the ingenuity OF malice could no,
suggest otherwise.
But he attempts to take credit foi
this satisfactory condition of the bank
and for the safeguarding of its deposi-
tors by saying that IL the methods and
practices complained of had been per.
m tte1 to continue. the results would
have been serious.
''All this he says in face of the with
drawal of hundreds OF thousands OF
dollars Of public and other deposits
effected by and through him during the
when financial conditions were exceed
inSly uncertain in this country because
of the great war IN EurOpe.
Made No Response.
And he claims this credit in face OF
the fact that. although early in the
controversy. he was requested, first by
The Washington times., 1915-04-14

the directors OF the bank. and then by
the attorney of the bank. to specify the
practices to which he objected, he per-
sistently refused or failed to do so, re-
spending to such n formal request by
the board OF directors Your artlcss in
Quiry Is understood and appreciated
and making no response whatever to
the request of the attorney of the bank,
transmitted through the national bank
examiner
The Comptroller complains that the
bank Is loaning more than SlO00.0OO to
women and adds that much of II is on
highly speculative stocks. The truth is
that the s1,0OO,000 loaned TO women was
secured by excellent collateral, with a
value of about s., ,0OO,O
Descending into particulars, we will
say that. notwithstandinE the Comp
| troller has been scare ny this bank
| for subjects of criticism and of pos
sible legal action. and although he has
In more than one communication re-
ferred to these loans to women. he has
ventured to crlticise but one loan of
| that class, and that the bank prompt
l. reduced on its books by charging
! off a portion Of it, although the Comp
trOller did not go direct, and the col
lateral behind this loan today is worth
so per cent more than the amount at
, which the loan is carried on the books.
Loans To Women.
THE Comptroller does himself no
credit and his department no credit
by oritiCiSing this bank because it
has loaned to women.
I'VE eau see no reason why wom-
an Of sur Cient credit or witr ample
credit should not receive acCommod"-
tions at this bank, and the fact { -;
such a large sum of money is loaned
to omen IS due to "A condition peCu-
liar to the city Of Washington. Of
which the ComptrOllaT cannot pos
: sibly he ignorant. for we nave here
. tofOre advised hin, OF IT.
There Is, perhaps, no city Of its
size in the world where there are so
many women with fortunes ranging
from a moderate competence to the
millions who, both in law and in NOR
own business and make their own
. contracts.
"They seldom request a loan with
out rendering ample collateral and
this bank is not only glad to accom-
moaate them, but 1t rhc"rfully t"sti-
fies that its losses on loans 10 women
have been negligipl".
Charge UnfOundcd.
"Another example OF the ComptrOIlcr's 5
! effort to mislcad the public can be found
in his statement that the stock broker
age business which certain OF the Of
ficers Of the bank formerly conducted
in Their individual capacities has tempt
ed young men and women to ruin in
/ speculation
The Comptroller knows. or, at least.
ought to know. that such a charge Is
utterly unfound"d
The Comptrolrrs unjust and deter
mined effort to create a false impress
sion regarding the policy and methods
The Washington times., 1915-04-14
DELAY MAY Be ASKED
IN RIGGS BANK SUIT
Treasury Officials May ChaI-
Ienge Right to Encompass
Powers of Comptroller.
CONTINUED from First PageD


passed. there was considered the ques.
ton of abolishing the office of the
Comptroller and giving the Federal Re-
serve Board the control of the banks
Congress did not abolish the office
but made the Comptroller member
of the RererVe Board.
The present fight will cause, 1t Is
learned. a powerful movement to trans
fer the functions of the Comptroller
to the Reserve Board.
A series of conferences on both side!
developed yesterday. More are ex
pected today. On both sides counse
are hard ut work getting ready for the
actual proceedings in the court hearing
Charge Misstatement.
Chief fcaturcS in the Developments
of yesterday are statements from the
Department of Justice that it had Joined
In the controversy, and a statement by
the bank charging the Comptroller with
mlsStatemcnt of facts with respect to
certain brokerage transactions. This
statement was in reply to that of Comp
troller Williams on Monday night.
The Department Of Justice state
ment was issued last night after
various conferences between Treas
ury and Justice reDresentati tives. Aft
er leaving the Cabinet Attorney Cen
eral Gregory said the Department OF
Justice did not have under consider
alton the prosecution of the Riggs
Bank for any Irregularities.
The statement follows in part.
Inc Department of Justice has en-
ployed Mr.. Rrandeis as special counsel
to assist in the defense Of the iniunc-
ton proceedings brought by the Riggs
National Bank Up to the filing of the
suit yesterday the Department of JUS
tice had not had before it for official
considerati ton the controversies hetwron
the Treasury Department and the Riggs
National Bank. but knew in general
way, that these existed and might re-
suit In some character Of litigation. The
department OF Justice and the Treasury
Depn rtment are in accord and heartily
Cooperating in this suit
gan. of counsel for the Riggs Bank
"shows that Comptroller Williams mis-
led the public when he charged in the
press that MIR. Brandeis had been en-
ployed weeks ago in connection with
hrragularitics and unlawful practices
on the part OF certain officers Hav-
ing been thus shown by the Depart
ment of Justice to have been too en-
thusiastic in his statements of alleged
facts. the public probably will be eau
tions in accepting all he says as prop
eify reporting the real facts"
Discussed BY Cabinet.
The controversy was discussed at the
Tuesday Cabinet meeting, and the un-
Outstanding is that President Wilson
directed the Attorney tItn neral TO take
an active hand in backing up the Treas
ury officials.
Thus far, the Treasury officials have
not added to the statement issued BY
Comptroller Williams on Monday night
Secretary McACo has had nothing to say
for publications..
Treasury officials are calling attention
to decision of the Court of Appeals
last year in which 1t was held that the
Comptroller actions were not subJec'
TO court review.
The Washington times., 1915-04-14

of this bank are strik ,ngly illustrated by
his quotation from his letter of July 22
1914 OF his comments on n loan to q
Washington business man, and his omis.
sion to accompany those comments by
the reply made by the bank on July 70
which was as follows:
Letter Quoted.
"'Your citation of the case OF
Mr.. - Is characteristic Of your
methods throughout this entire cor
respondence. Mr. was neither
tempted nor persuaded by any offi-
Ger of this bank to buy the stock
In question. On the contrary. he
was advised against it's purchase.
The fact that his purchase turned
out badly g a misfortune which he
refused to. contemplate and for
malice consists in this, that you
are endeavoring to make the pro-
prtety OF the business conducted in
the manner stated In this CORE
spondencc by the officers of this
bank depend upon the result Of an
investment voluntarily made by
customer of the bank. This critic
rion has never been applied either
in law or morals. even to the husi-
ress of a broker, and It Is apparent
that you have for Interior pur-
poses of your own used Mr.. IS
case not as an illustration, but as a
fallacious and misleading argu-
"A malicious representation in tn,
comptroller 8 statement to the public II
mis- reference to loan to the cashier.
Loan To Flather.
In order to create general suspicion
that the officers OF the hank have beer
in the habit Of borrowing money OF
speculative collateral, Mr. Williams sc
Ie"ts one loan made to Henry II. Flath
er, cashier. and enumerates certain
stoChS winch he describes as 'speCu
lativc.
The unfairn"ss of his insinuation
VIII become apparent when he explains
that in addition to the stock named b,
the Comptroller the loan was secured b!
other collateral. which he does not list
na\ing a ready market value OF mor'
than $57, 600.
I'kewise he criticises a loan to Vic,
President Flathel because among tn,
collateral by which that loan was Sc
Curcd were llo snarcs OF Greene-Cananet
copper stocks, etc
The Comptroller omits to state tina
this lJan was also secured by OthCr col
lateral az follows: rs shares American
Telephone and Telegraph stock. ~
shares l.anstOn Monotype stock; IL
SHARES American Security and Trus
company stock: 1S5 shares Washington
Railway and Electric Company preferred
stock.
Never Advised Speculation.
III the Comptroller had been pursu
ing his Investigations into the charac.
ter of collateral along other lines thar
those by which loans to officers were
secured, he might have discovered II
the collateral to "A particular loan
otherwise we'll and adequately secured
$500 Georgia and Florida Railront
Company bonds of little or no markc
value, Of which road he was formerly
the president. and which bonds he wa!
instrumental in marketing.
''Thc fact Is that the officers OF this
bank have ncIer ..dHls ID or "ncourHget
any person man or woman, young o
old. to speculate in stocks or to bu!
stocks for investment, and the comp
troller's insinuation to the contrary /!
Il gross pcrVersion Of the truth. o
The Washington times., 1915-04-14
To Lecture on the Earth.

The closing lecture OF the series un-
der the auspices Of the Washington
Academy OF Sciences will b" given AT
the New National Museum tomorrow
evening. Or. Robert :. Woodward.
president of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington. will be the lecturer.
His subject will be THE Earth" He
Will discuss the topic from a Eeologi-
cal, astronomical. gcOPrarh.ca and
mathematical standpoint. Tho lecture
will be open to the public.
The Washington times., 1915-04-14

which no officer of the Government
ought to be guilty with respect to any
matter. and least of ali should the
Comptroller Of the Currency be guilty
In the public estimation.
The brokerase business conducted
py certain officers of the bank in their
Individual capacity. they holding, seats
was discontinued by these officers early
In the summer of 1914.
Nothing To Forbid.
There was 10 provision of the ma
uonal bank act forbidding an officer of
bank to act as broker on a stock
exchange, but a section OF the Federal
reserve n act possibly makes this course
one or doubtful legality, and IL was in
anticipation of the putting of that act
INTO full force and effect, which was
done on November It, l9i4. that Off
GERS OF the bank prior to July 2s, 1914,
discontinued the buying and selling of
securities as brokers
49, II should be borne In mind that the
washington Stock Exchange has among
us membership. and has had for many
years. many bank officers and directors
and that prior TO the going into eff nct
or the Federal reserve act, on Novcm-
Der is last, these off GERS and directors
mad the lawful right to earn commits
sions and to keep such commissions il
they saw fit to do so.
Earnings To Bank.
Those officers of the Riggs National
Bank who owned or held seats on the
Stock Exchange. preferred to give to
the Riggs National Bank their indi-
vidual earnings, and did so. They had
the, right TO do that, as. indeed, they
had the right to keep them or dispose
Of them in any other manner.
80, too. with respect to real estate
commissions which these officers earn
ed. They had the right as individuals
to earn those commissions to keep
them. or otherwise dispose of them as
they saw fit and there was no law
which questioned this right until the
provisions In the Federal reserve act,
to which reference is made as above
That they chose voluntarily to give
their individual earnings In thcsp two
classes Of business to tho hank rather
than keep them for themselves cannot
be questioned in law. and certainly not
from an ethical standpoint"
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-24

ing that all arrangements had been
made for him to sail again for Europe
Dec. %. >- ~
Whitlock and Mrs. Whitlock went
direct to the Ritz-Carlton hotel,
where they probably will remain
over Thanksgiving. The minister
will then first go to Washington,
make a report to President Wilson
and afterward go to Cleveland to
visit his mother and to his home in
Toledo.
WhitIock was greeted at Quaran-
tine by Mayor-elect Charles H. Mil
roy of Toledo, Marshall Shoppey,
personal friend, and delegation of
half a dozen Toledoans.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1915-11-24
TELEGRAPH BRIEFS

SpringfieId.-LegisIators at special
session may refuse to pass appropria-
ton legislation unless Gov. Dunno
gives them chance to pass bill reim-
bursting farmers for all expenses incl
dent to hoof and mouth disease, now
totaling $4,000,
Washington.-OfficiaIs openly chat
ing over delay in receiving official
statement from Italy regarding sink
ing of Ancona. Delay is holding up
Americas protest to Austria.
New York.-Great Britain has
seized ship Kankakee, carrying coal
from Norfolk to Buenos Aires, and
plans to seize 10 other ships of the
American Transatlantic Co, flying
American flag, on ground they are
German owned, says Richard Wag-
ner, president of company. He says
he can prove they are American
owr"'
Pr ..eId, Mass.-With kernels of
corn on fish hooks, Louis Boyden
soon had two of neighbor's chick
ems. Somebody saw Louis antics
and the court fined him $3.50 and
the chickens.
Denver. - Five explosions blew
Mountain Motor Fuel CO.. $4,000
plant into bits, very badly burning
R''"1- Weaver, former White Sox
catcher, and near killing one other
workman. Lucky shift in wind saved
3