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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10

Field Marshall Radomir Putnik,
commander in chief Of the Serbian
army. which is resisting the Teuton
and Bulgarian advance, is one of the
commanding figures of the war" says
correspondent. Just three years
ago I saw him leading to victory
against the Turks that fine army of
which he was the creator. He was a
dapper figure, the pride and encour-
agement OF the Serbian soldiers. but
age-he Is sixty eight-has worked a
difference since those days of triumph.
The soldier sees him no more. Suffer
ing from acute asthma, he is forced
to keep to heated room. but illness
has not enchanted the marvellous mind
nor time lessened the tremendous men
tai energy Of this master soldier. He
works at headquarters with a personal
staff Of only five officers. and In the
rush and pressure of work there Is
little time for sleep. Marshal Putnik
seldom. II ever, refers to map. He
has a gift unique among military men.
Before his minds eve he can see all
Serbia spread out before him like a
gigantic relief map. and he knows that
map down to the minutest topograph-
ical details"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
REPUBLICAN NOVEMBER 10

even more need of q patrons reading
circle than Of teachers circle.
If there Is one public servant striv-
ing earnestly and anXiously to render
quid pro quo for meager salary 1t
is the rural school teacher. And II
there is such public servant who is
refused the leadership and the appre-
citation such service earns and deserves
The rural school teacher of this day
is fairly we'll qualified for her part.
When the rural teacher has evidenced
peculiar adaptability the rural patron
permits the city school to bid her in at
slight advance or salary. Neither the
rural nor the city wage is adequate but
the city wage and the city convent
ences win over the smaller wage and
the utter inconvenience Of the average
rural school where the teacher must do
her own janitor work, build her own
fires and is permitted to pay for board
and room as grudgingly as tho she
were not acting as parent to the chill
dren of the district eight hours out of
the twenty-four.
There is need of reading circle in
the districts to be maintained by the
school patrons and attended by them
and the school directors. Without
doubt the teachers circle Will be Of
large benefit but course in the re-
sponsibilities of the district and tbs
patrons of the school toward the
teacher and the school would help
some.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
MAKE II 1wo CIRCLES.

The national bureau Of education,
dealing with the rural school problem,
has instituted and arranged teachers
reading circle and the program Of
study. The bureau says in stating Its
purpose that:
The greatness and future Of the so, :
100000 men, women and children who
live in the open country and in rural
villages must have more adequate OPP
portunity for wholesome and remun-
erative living than heretofore. This
calls for leadership which can come
to rural communities only thru the
highest degree Of education Of Gull
tural and practical kind. Much Of this
must come about by the cooperation
of nation, state and local community
thru all the different agencies now
available. The most important and in
dispensable agent in the accomplish
ment Of this task must be the rural
teacher.
The vital factor in education Is the
teacher. Without the well-educated,
broad-minded. sympathetic teacher any
system of education can only be a
lifeless mechanism. Therefore, we
must look to the country teachers and
their preparation and see to it that
they shall be men and women Of the
best native ability, the most thorough
education, and the highest degree of
professional knowledge and skill.
Most Of which is true; but the prop
osition that the teachers are to be
leaders is only half true. There is need
of other leadership. The school patron
the leadership Of the teacher. There is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
November Musings.

NoSo"oST Musings.
The autumn glow has faded from the
leaves,
Gray clouds hang low across a wlnlry
sky;
We gather close around the blazing
hearth
And cheer our hearts with thoughts
cf pumpkin pie.
Cold blows the wind thro' branches
gaunt and bare
That writhe and shiver meath the
clouds dark frown,
And. listening to its mournful song, we
dream
OF buckwheat cakes with sausage
crisp and brown.
Up thru the meadows wide the turkeys
come.
In stately single file they march.
while each
Bronze feather on their leader CLEANS
When that birds roasted he will be
a peach!
Oh! sad November, CARRIED in wan gray
robes,
Your tears are falling on the withered
grass;
But deep within our souls we know tbs
time
For good. oldfashioned cider apple
sass.
And, tho sweet Princess Summer now
has fed,
And Sir North Wind her kingdom fair
now takes,
We hail with glee the happy day that
brings
Thanksgiving's festive joys - and
tummy-aches
Harriet R. Owen. in Farm and Home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
WHEN The U. S. DRAFTED ARMIES.

AAtSSA
VINO were about to take passage TO
this country on the charge that these
men were endeavoring to escape con-
scription will remind older persons of
the hegiras which took place from var
ious neighborhoods when the federal
government finally decided upon a
system Of CONSUMPTION to supply the
armies of the civil war Discourage
ment of enlistments by the peace fac
ton and the need of men led congress
to pass the act and President Lincoln
ordered enrolling boards formed in
every congressional district to preNare
lists whence the quota assigned to
each district should be drafted" The
drafe began in July and the draft
riots" in the city Of New York re-
quired all the force Of the civil and
! military authorities to suppress the
| disturbance
( In the more western communities no
violence took place worthy of note but
! the draft was bombshell among nom
unfontsts peace factfonists and those
who greatly desired for one and an
otner reason to escape military ser
vice. Men injured themselves DELHI
erately in order to disqualify them
selves physically for service. They
substitutes right and left. The num-
bers under the care of physicians in
creased in what would Under different
circumstances have been most alarm
ing. But those who could no or would
not pay substitute, who refused to
chop off finger or toe or take the
chance Of malingering, made their
getaway Some of the fed to Canada.
Others lost themselves on the over
land trails to California and Colorado.
Among the timid and the cowardIy and
the so-called "copperheads" and the
peace factionists who were for peace
at any price there was fitting here
and there to escape the draft.
But many Of them failed to get
away. The draft sought them out and
found many of them. The armies
were repleted and men whose first de-
sire had been to escape war carried
muskets and fought and died in the
years that followed 80.
1t will probably turn out sim ilarly
in Great Britain. There is vast OPP
position to CONSUMPTION but it will
have to come and will end very much
as it ended in this country in the tri-
umph of the government and the war
party and the service Of those who re-
fuse to serve willingly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
The QUART A DAY MAN.

Des Moines' police courts are delv-
/ ing into the statistics Of the capacity
| OF human tanks and bringing to light
some very interesting statement From
the tanks themselves as to lerior
measurements. One fellow lthose
| twenty three pints Of whisky nd 1been
seized wanted it back because it HASN'T
more than a reasonable supply for
personal consumption. He t,stifed
that he could drink quart a day
without hurting himself" Another
|gentleman's thirst could not le kept
under proper control with les than
ten bottles of beer daily. The judge
gave them back the liquors.
Take your plain booze comedian as
the basis Of calculation and it nay be
admitted that these two men p.obably
drank as much as they aveted. A
quart of whisky daily is not lncom-
mon consumption by one ofithe old
! soaks when he can get it. Yen who
drink hard and carry their lit1or will
tell you in confidence that dey take
often thirty to forty drinks lof hard
liquor daily over the bar Ntwo and
one-half ounce drink thirtyftimes a
| day uses up the quart and Il some.
That there are those who Tx two
gallons OF beer day is vi is Enough
known to those who have q til tunity
RI ohr IL
at his worst. OF course free are
rather exceptional but therfhS more
of them than most people in he.
However the average Ia of Rinker
doesn't get away with qrt of booze
or ten bottles of beer dai for any
great length Of time. Alnt once he
gets cold and the undertfeit instead
Of the liquor dealer realiz' On him.
Or he develops pain in TT Hack and
his rotten kidneys do the rst lin short
meter. One proprietor of Prominent
Iowa hosiery used to drinka quart of
liquor day when he was Years old
He is the single exception OF record.
The others had been dead ron thirty
to fifty years. The quart Cay and
the ten bottle men don't las long.
They just "gae PUNK" as Archie
Moncur remarked.
Economically the man Fho takes
thirty drinks a day spends 1850 for
them-if he pays for them: ae and
his money are a direct ecor ono loss.
Nine times out Of ten he owes some
body that $3.50 for necessa rles of life
and that creditor loses it. ne sn't of
any account himself while h,a is hitting
the booze and that's dead ITO the
community in which his wags OF earn
ings Of one kind or another Peioag. If
it had been morphine or coke init had
been sieZed he wouldn't ha\Ve got it
back OH his assertion that he COLD hit
handful a day without hun him
self any," it up with booze OF hop he's
a menace to the commnn lty. whv
should he get 1t back?
Neither of these fellows should have
got back their booze. On tha contrary
and upon their own evidehce they
should have been nailed right there
and sent to Knoxville
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
Topics of the Times

1t isn't to our national credit I'll at a
proposition to build up our 1efensive
strength should suggest hug Profits
for steel works and powder mstkers but
the suggestion sticks out like nail
out of the bottom Of an arm cha
One presidential boom seer4is 10 be
dying at the Root. There; the Sioux
City Journal can scarcely dol rse
than that
That story Of a million raisesl to re-
place Huerta as ruler Of Mexico old
he made better nv adding thatl it's the
same million the u. s. collerted in
customs yhen the unsaluted dag still
waved over Vera Cruz. And olne part
Of the story would be as void pr ruth
az the other.
The men who make the arm4r plate
are feeling forv and e,ate the ,powdl ii
maker in hi. 91ee Z. cacbinatinig met
rily but the farmer on the rural 1oute
IL feeling where he got the b4o-
Will. ....,n. -a.dv IN r}1anks]
giving :, nigh. not ba intruJnve tt
sueras. that This wou,a he a gold yea
to buy 'em early.
Tho Cedar Ran;d. Ren,,b,,c.r hopes
,bat vbsn wa % nnder nroh ibitionl
again we shall be able to escarae the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
THE TELEPHONE GIRL.

The telephone girl is a CHEEKY body
in $2.9S shirtwaist who has nothing
to do all day but sit in an easy chair
and steer the CAB waves in some other
direction. Her business Is to enable
people with abundant leisure who live
on party line to converse like a
serial story until rung of by thunder
storm.
Telephone girls occupy small, wire
fenced coops where they can not be
reached by anything but the appeal
ing voice Of the grocery salesman who
is trying to locate the shipping de-
partment on a reverse ticket. Each
girl wears a receiver on her right ear
which enables her to drink in a good
deal Of soulful profanity which was
not intended for publication, along with
some very animated love passages
which bob up IN the divorce pro-
ceedings at later date. The best
thing about the telephone girl IL that
her memory is shorter than Coney
Island walking skirt, and she Is harder
to pry information out Of than wit
ness for the defense in a saloon fight.
If the telephone girls ever got together
and started to tell all they know, the
number of abrupt and hurried de-
partures from the city would make the
exodus from Egypt look like letting
out prayer meeting on a rainy night.
One OF the most important duties Of
the telephone girl is to listen to the
abuse and bad grammar OF people who
are several blocks away. and return
pleasant look thru the transmitter.
This requires much tact and self-con-
troll, especially when four frenzied par
ties are grabbing for long distance at
one and the same time. When the line
has been cleared Of patrons who have
been hanging on to it with a death
grip in order to tell about grandma's
birthday party, the telephone girl turns
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
MISS cAvELLs EXECUTION.

lAChlSy w OTlC
1t should not have been done, even
tho the direst extremrr of war might
give semblance Of justification to the
act but the human impulse shrinks
from laying hand on a woman, except
in a way of tenderness. Miss Cavell.
the British Red Cross nurse, who was
charged with assisting her countrymen
to escape from the hold OF common
war enemy, did no more than would
be expected from any other country
man or country woman. The world
shudders and hangs its head in sorrow
that men In responsible positions. con-
strued a definition Of their duties as
soldier" to mean the execution Of n
woman who could have been reached
without deprivng her of life. Many
things happen in war time that cause
the heart to bleed. Thousands Of
women and innocent children in the
belligerent countries are suffering
agonizingly thru no act of their own.
The German nation is not accountable
for the act of one in an authoritive
place who exceeded his authority and
violated every humane instinct.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10

every place go trade. the smiles from faces
fade wonder why; oh, why do merchants others
greet and bows and manners sweet and meet
me with sigh? "My place u overrun with rats" said
" want twelve pounds Of cats kindly quote your
price," "Our CATS said Rats ARE hale and sound the
price IL seven cents pound which II sacrifice" Great
scott!" cried .your price nerce John Jones sells
torncats by the and only charges six: II you'll
down cent pound Just send crate Of tomeass
round; the partners answered Nixi stood ana ar
wued for an hour their mugs expressions
otill deep and deeper grew. until they laid the
Moor and Dragged me to the open door, and calmly
n,,shed me thru. 1 wonder why the merchants frown
when 60 shopping in the town, TO buy all kinds Of
Trash: they an happy when quit: my winning
vavs don't make hit and wants my cash.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
EDG1N' OVER.
lCedar Rapids Republican,

[Cedar Rapids Republican,
The wet parade in Chicago last Sun
day, participated in by $4,000 persons
seems to have been largely a foreign
affair. The newspaper accounts say
that thirty languages and dialects
hardly sufficed for the communica-
! lions between the men. Al! the racial
hatreds engendered by the war in
Europe in the foreign settlements Of
Chicago, we are told, were forgotten in
their deyotions to booze on Sundays.
The parade was to protest against the
Sunday closing orders of the mayor OF
that city. There were women also in
the parade and some were leading
children, and in the reviewing stand
one young woman Hobsonized a re-
viewer by the name of Neumann, kiss
ing him because she was SO proud OF
him or because she had lost her
head. She may have had one too
many drinks.
The thing that was most heralded
was personal liberty They think
they are being denied that kind Of lib
etry because the vicious saloons are
closed on one day Of the week-as
other places Of business are closed. They
think that an exception should be
made Of saloons, that they are so nee
essary to the comforts. the happiness
and the liberty of human beings that
they should be kept open seven days
in the week and pretty much all night.
Personal liberty" would be taken
away from them If there should be
any moment in the week when they
can not get their booze. Poor and mis-
taken humanity. Assuming that the
majority of the marchers were for
eign-born or of foreign parentage-
which Is safe assumption-one feels
like asking them how many "liberies"
have been taken away in America and
how many liberties did they enjoy in
their own lands?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
reader and enjoys the book Of books.

reader and enjoys the book OF books.
finding the time Is easy.
Colonel Roosevelt IL one Of the
busiest men, and has been busy all
his life. Yet he has found time to
read; has found time to write books.
Professional men almost universally
declare that they have mo time to
read the news Of the day" They are
mistaken, and II they read the news
Of the day and We're in touch with the
worlds affairs their capability in their
profession would be increased.
Many school teachers are not at
tentfve readers of the news of the day,
and this fact is surprising. How can
teacher be equal to his task without
being in touch with the world?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
Meant Mo Harm.

In certain suburban home Is
large green parrot with reputation
for loquacity; also small-sized lao
named Willie. One day mother heard
commotion that sounded like the par
rot. and on cautiously investigating
found Willie standing before the cage.
Willie" exclaimed mother as she
entered the room, what are you do
ing?"
.Nothin'." was the ready rejoinder OF
Willie. "Jes' lookin' at the parrot.
Don't tell me a story, Willie" said
mother severely. you were trying to
teach the bird TO swear"
mo. wasn't mamma stoutly
ayerred the youngster. II was only
tellin' him what he mustn't say
Philadelphia Telegraph.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10

man who snforces it for revenue A
proper hope enough too; but the way
to put those fellows utterly and for
ever out Of business Is to observe the
law. Lets hope also that work along
that Zine will be general
Well, there wasn't many democrats
on that LeGrand route anyway.
I)es Moines does not seem to be
greatly frightened over the promised
invasion of crooks She needn't be.
Des Moines has lost one of the surest
attractions to the yegg and the holdup
man. Those fellows need the saloon
as a base of operations. Waterloo and
Sioux City still has the CALL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
Iona Newspapers
WELL, WHAT DID HE FIND?

(1owa City Republican,
An Iowa City man tells a good Joke
upon himself. He is not a man who
often takes drink, but being in Des
Moines. he was curious to know how
they do things down there. He was
walking along the street when he
CHANGED to meet friend, and he said
he would give a dollar to get a bottle
Of beer. His friend told him to stand
on the corner for few minutes and
something might happen. Pretty soon
man came up and, in low voice,
indicated he could furnish the beer
The Iowa City man turned over the
dollar and when the fellow took 1t, he
handed him a shoe box and remarked
that he would see him later. The man
stood there with the box under his
arm until he concluded he had been
buncoed. He then walked up the
street to his friends place OF business
and told him that the fellow who took
the dollar had not furnished the beer
He was told to look in the shoe box.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
DOING PAVING IN DR1Bs.
[Des Moines Tribune.1


In long report to the city council
of Boston on the high cost of paving
the finance committee insists more
than upon anything else on letting the
work of one year in large contracts
thus inviting the competition of big
bidders.
In opening It's report the committee
says:
Contracts for standard asphalt and
bituminous concrete pavements are let
for such small areas as to prevent
competition by responsible contrac-
tors"
First among the three recommended
tons the committee makes is the fol-
lowing:
THAT contracts for bituminous con-
crete pavements be let in such areas
as to insure competition. not less than
10000 square yards being included in
any contract"
Everybody can see that by letting
little contracts as Des Moines is doing
only the very highest prices for pave
ments are possible, while it would be
just as easy to bunch most OF the paw
ing in any one season in one big con-
tract and get minimum price.
It would sometimes seem that the
work was cut up here in Des Moines
for the sole purpose of keeping up high
prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
dark. Radisi,es and carrots raised in
this soil grew to six times their usual
weight.
suppertins Himself.

Down in the southwestern section OF
Texas a gentleman by the name OF
Patten was running for the state SEN
ate. His partner. being very mucn
interested in the election. took an &C
tive part in the campaign. one oay
he met young man from the forks OF
the creek and after inquiring about mis-
father, mother and the rest OF the fam
lily, discussing the weather. crops,
stocks and things in general, said:
.sWell. Bill, IL the old man going
TO support Mr.. Patten this fall?'
The young rustic scratched his head
and after some little hesitation re-
piled:
well, I don't know, sir, but think
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
What to Do for Ecssys,d

Greasy salyes and ointments should not
be applied IL good clear skin q wanted.
From any druggist for dc OF $1:0O Tor
extra large size, get . 6ottle OF aemo.
When applied O directed, II e6ectively
removes eczema, quickly stops itchtngs
wounds and chatting. II penetrates.
clennses and soothea Zemo 70 dependable
and inexpensive. Try It, a. W heljev6
nothing Won have ever used II - effective
and oetisfying. - IS
Zeno, Cleveland -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10

Telephone girls do not remain long
at the business, owing to the fact that
they are made love to with great in
dustry and are led to the altar in
droves. The training they have re-
ceived makes them model wives, and
enables them to deal firmly with
husband who puts up a feeble imita-
ton of the lodge gag. Sharp -tongued
business men would appreciate them
better II they could be hooked to the
receiver for a couple Of days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
In Rit Of = Hurry.

A very small boy was taken to q
dental establishment to have some OF
his first teeth pulled For a second or
SO, during which time four teeth dis
appeared, everything was fairly Sc
rene, and then came howls Of objec-
lions.
II didn't want them teeth to come
out!" cried the young patient. sud
denly recollecting something. Il want
them to stay in"
THAT'S all right" consolingly re-
sponded the dentist. They will soon
grow in again"
"will they?" quickly rejoined the
boy with Frightening face. DO you
think they will grow in time for din
ner ?"-Philadelphia Telegraph.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10

Mr.. Bryan has not changed. He has
simply refused to move when the pres
ident changed 'front.'" points out the
Sioux City Journal when President
Wilson made his famous too proud to
ight' speech to gathering Of natural
lied Americans in New York on May 10
last, the chief executive and his then
secretary of state were in COM
plete accord on the issue of militar-
ism, for which the preparedness en-
phemism has since been substituted"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-10
Radur as . Fertilizer.

One-seven-h part OF a grain
Of radium will thoroughly fertilize a
ton OF soil. and cause grain to grow
with great rapidity. Where this ex-
pertinent has been tried. 1t has been
noticed that all the leaves become very