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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04
For Achmed Abdullah

Christianity. For Achmed Aoouilah
said: = = -
III you wish 10 conquer with the.
right Of fire and the might Of sword, so
ahead and do 30. or ut least say SO.
II would be . motive that We Aoslsma.
being warriors could understand ana
appreciate. But ne do not clothe your
greed for riches and dominion in the
hypocritical nasal sinxsong OF -
heayen-dscreed mission to enlighten
the poor native. Pharisee call OF duty
to spread the word OF your Savior.
your lying intention to uplift the ig-
norant pagan. You are deaf to the
voice OF reason and fairness, and SO
you must be taught with the whirling
swish ~ the sword when 1t is red
Providenes and Stupidity.
To the Editor OF the Sun.-Sir: Your
article seems TO me extremely unjust
to the Rev. J. H. Melish, one Of the
most high minded clergymen OF this
city. Certainly any man OF ordinary
intelligence knows that typhoid fever
and other diseases of the type DR..
Meltsh referred to are due 70 the stu
pidity Of man. not to the providence OF
God: and to ascribe faults Cue
human ignorance and neglect to Divine
Providence IL not consistent with ordi-
nary honesty.
Would you not consider it rank
hypocrisy to ascribe to Divine Provi.
dence deaths for which city commits
sioners were directly responsible!
What can the ordinary dweller in the
tenements as an individual do to SCI
cure purer water supply or ADEQUATE
milk inspection or drainage? Will per-
sonal cleanliness prevent his dying
from polluted milk or water II officials
are incompetent? e, w. ordway.
brooklyn, Nov. Is. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04

The difficulty the suffrage cam
paign suffers under Ia the inability to
create excitement and talk Nobody
seems to be worrying over suffrage one
way or another except the leaders OF
the campaign. Perhaps %-sse: The anti
suffragists land in Iowa and the ladies
mix In good old fashioned political
Donnybrook style the crowd may gath
err round and cheer; but at present
there isn't much excitement one way
or another. Perhaps one reason for
this Is the Iowa male voter generally
speaking has made UP his mind that
the amendment will carry and doesn't
care particularly whether 1t wins or
fails, On the average the men are
willing enough that the women shall
vote If they actually desire in sufficient
numbers. The active opposition to
suffrage lies with the liquor interests
and the easy money outfit The aver
age man who goes about a regular and
decent business and expects to con-
tinue that way is not adverse to votes
Tor women. The person who sees a
finer element coming into politics with
the women is distinctly In favor of
equal suffrage. Labor seems to be
with the movement as witnessed by
the announcement Of the Iowa FEEDER
alton at Ottumwa that the best inter-
ests of labor require the admission of
woman TO full citizenship Straw bal
lots taken at fairs, social functions and
church gatherings show large MAORI
ties for the movement.
The nub CT che hgh: is coming in
the few days previous to election and
on election DAY. The activity Of the
women on those days win settle the
matter. The men will vote right Il the
women turn out and make evident that
they desire the franchise
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04

The seal ~ massive, club-footsd
animal which earns living by sup
plying satin-lined coats to members Of
the Upper Ten. Inasmuch az Il re-
quires the entire savings for many
years of a robust seal to make seal
skin sacque the species u becoming
about as extinct ~ the bone napkin
ring at $50 dinner.
The seal is not prixed for his beauty.
being short several inches OF chin and
having no hips to speak Of. He is SUR
passed in facial charm only by the
horned rhinoceros and the North
American boot owl. but has an hones1
open countenance, especially whom In
the act of perpetrating q yawn. when
the interested oniooker can easily see
what Is on his mind. The seal also
comes equipped with q profuse mus
tache hung Just above the upper
maxillary. This Is ono OF the few
In existence which does not
have to be dyed from time to time in
order to conceal the age Of tho dyee,
The seal is q doci1e animal. and
when treated with affection and fed q
few drayloads of catfish can be trained
to do anything except smoke cigaret.
A fearless trainer can take q herd OF
seals which look as II they didn't know
enough to read or write and teach them
more tricks than the freshman class
at a senior banquet. As the seal - the
only known fish which can stand erect
on its tail and make q low bow with
out caving In at the knees, II Is big
ger drawing card at the circus than
the den of man-eating lions which had
their teeth drawn in childhood.
The seal lives In the frozen regions
Of the north. far from the hay fever
germ. where pure channel Ice s
cheaper than human life in Mexico
and the Thermometer frequently as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04
WHAI FARMERS PAY III

Approving the presidents announce
ment that he will support a rural credit
plan at the coming session Of congress,
the Brooklyn Eagle goes on to make the
statement that farmers now pay as
high as 90 per cent for loans. This. il
says, makes it impossible for many thou
sands to achieve independence or to ap-
ply improved methods of agriculture
In many cases the farmers life story
involve. an unendins struggle In the
slough Of debt. Government supervis-
ion of farm loans is the best means Of
putting responsible farmers On their
feet. Properly organized, such loans
would cost the government nothing,
while they would make the small, farm
ers independent Of the loan sharks who
prey on their necessities, concludes the
Eagle,
Where do farmers pay 20 per cent?
That Is the question that will naturally
occur to Iowa farmers when they read
the statement And why should any
person with reasonable security to Of
fer, such as the government would Ger
tainly require upon farm loans, pay 70
per cent interest! Going further than
that, how can any farm in the United
States pay 20 per cent interest and
live?
| Perhaps there are spots where q
farmer 10 willing to borrow money At
30 Pc recent instead of going to work
for wages sooner than later: but those
spots are few and the probabilities are
that the farms are not worth farming.
Also that unnecessary pity for rhe
farmer who can never achieve inde-
pendence sounds ridiculous in Iowa,
where the farmer usually attain. :nas-
pendence ahsad Of the res. cs -.
A system of rural credits is all right.
Nobody Is finding fault with that prop
osition properly put; but it is not to
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Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATED

~ SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge No los A F. ana \. n
Work in Second degree Tuesday, Dec
7 1880 p, m. John w. Wells, secretary,
w. H. Steiner, w. NJ.
slGNET CHAPTER. No. So, II. A, n
Special convocation Monday eVenihs'
Nov. 20. L. S. Kilborn, II. r. JOHN
w. Wells Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20, r. s. NJ. MONDAY
after third Sunday. I. T. Forbes, re-
corder: George Gregory. T. l. M
REGULAR coNcLAvE, st. Almemar
Commentary No. 80. K. T, TUESDAY,
Nov. %, 1880 o'clock. Business anu
drill for inspection Wednesday evehlns
at 1880. NJ. S. Mcfarland, Rec: oeofe
Gregory, E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central CHAP
ter No. g., 0. E, s.. "Wednesday, Dec.
Il. ESQ d. m. Business and election oi
OFFICERS. Anna Downing, secretary
Mary Black Collins, W. M.
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. declaration from Clarke on the
point than there IL for asking any
other citisen 10 issue = proclamation on
the subject.
1t IL perfectly safe to assume that
Clarke will not be candidate before
the primaries. II the primary fails to
make . nomination Clarke will stand
then Just AZ all other men in the state
stand. He will be available for serv-
Ice in the office OF governor II the del
egates upon whom will devolve the
naming a candidate agree that he Is
the best man to make the race against
the nominees of other parties
Clarke is not seeking the nomina-
ton. He Is making no plans secret
or otherwise, in this matter. He is at
tending strictly to his duties and win
continue to do so. In view Of this sit
uation discussion OF the merits OF can
didates for governor on the republican
ticket should be confined to the men
who propose to place their names on
the primary ballot. 1t Is fair to as
sumo that a nomination viii be made
direct by the voters. Even should the
voters fail there is always a strong
disposition on the part of delegates to
choose from among those who have
made the race. Clarke will not butt
into and disarrange the orderly march
Of the political procession. No declara-
ton from Clarke is In order.
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be furthered by maudiin and ignorant
classification Of the farmers of this
country as one remove from pauperism-
The new country will have Its SHARKS;
stress always creates those as similar
conditions create tho loan sharks of the
cities. But they prey on those who
have little or nothing to offer a. secur-
ity. What plan could any statesman
frame that would make money easy to
those who have nothing to borrow on:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04

war as established by and continued
by nature would seem TO be the pro-
duction Of a race Of beings less robust
In body, though this does not mean
that they are less persistent or short
lived, and one in which the bodily ener-
gies are directed toward mental de-
velopment. Whether or not war - Tor
this purpose the development In peace
ful pursuits tends In this direction.
The inventions OF machinery for wcEk
and for getting about are making con-
stantly sedentarinsSs and diminished
muscularity, and mankind takes with
apparent readiness to change IN this
direction.
III war has any real biological pur-
pose it must, therefore, be intended tor
the end of bringing about now type
OF man in which the combative quanti-
ties that make for war are being grad
ually done away with. and the elements
which make for peace are being stead
lily brought forward. II there Is any
theory which will make war a good
thing and will reconcile the work Of
bullet and splint 1t would seem to be
this. II these two factors are TO pro-
duce. some day, type OF man who VIII
be SO peaceable and SO wise as not
to care to go to war, but content to
settle his differences in milder ways,
then we could perhaps become recon-
ciled to the present struggle"
The War and Nom Christian Peoples.
A Gurkha lighting In the British
trenches on the western front was
asked his opinion Of the war and an
swered with delightful smile" All
war IL good; this 10 heaven" The re-
mark is used by Bishop Frodsham in q
recent Christian Work article to IL
|lustrate his conclusion that, contrary
to the fears Of many christians In
Europe and America, the present war.
regarded as a war" has not yet had
'any disastrous effect upon christianity
in the eyes Of non-christian peoples
1t seems quite natural to this retired
Austrian bishop that the Question
should arise: III in Europe mon and
women have been tempted to turn
aside with disgust from religion
which appears to be Identified with
bloodshed on 10 huge . scale. VIII not
a similar nausea be felt by nom chris.
tian peoples who look upon christianity
from without and assess " by the way
in which these Christians love one an
otherf'
Now. 1t may be humiliating 10 say
30 but we must remember. says DR..
Frodsham, that non Christian races
are not swayed. TO any appreciable ex-
tent. by. paciflst ideals. christian or
otherwise. The Indian troops. Tor IA.
stance. are peoples that delight In
war; We are reminded. and the Gurkhs
incident IL brought in by the bishop to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04

jnks. and bucked the whole day long, took some dope
get my stomach working in the days when It had
fair the dope did that but set muscles jerk
ing until took three to hold down. took some
dope to make my muscles steady; they soon caimed
and started cutting hay: but then my liver acted
up already, and threw fit and spoiled happy day.
took dope TO queli my lvers riot-some bitter
stuff disguised with cherry jam; sooner was that
liver Iued quiet, than shooting pains whxzed thru
my diaphragm took dope--but why prolong the
anguish! taking dope for this disease and that;
there's something each 20 make me langush.
one day boil next aching slat Pursuing health
all kinds of pills swallow the take. the more
have to buy; each pill demands another pill 70 Hollow
hand me the bitters for I'm getting dry.
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Topics of the Times
Lest We forget It, shop early, for to-
morrow il may snow.

Lest We forget It, shop early, for to-
morrow il may snow.
People pass by nowadays upon our
roads altogether too fast to read a sale
bill posted upon a fence and they come
to farm sale from fifty miles away
by auto if they read Of something TO
be sold that they want The news
paper which gives everywhere liz the
only means of distributing publicity
these days. 1t is product of the
times 49,.
Property owners in Spencer are
in a heated controversy as 10 the width
OF paving 10 lay. This has been solved
by experience in Marshalltown and
Usage. Business streets upon which
autos are to stand should be paved
forty feet wide. Main traffic streets
should be paved thirty feet wide for at
least mile from the center Of town
while twenty-four feet is ample width
for all side streets in residence dis
tr.cts. The greatest benefits from
street paving are derived by making
them as long as possible. Reducing the
width from thirty to twenty-four feet
cut the yardage 20 per cent and neces-
sarily the cost Reducing the cost from
50 per yard for asphalt and brick to
$3.50 for concrete cuts one third out of
the price. Paving at 1870 of costs
about half as much as full priced paw
ing and more people can afford to pave.
Mr. Ford has made his will prepara
tory to his plunge into the horrors of
war. Which shows that if he does fly
off at tangent on the peace question,
he's canny business man for a. that.
Senator Kenyon finds that Arkansas
has had fifty new mail routes to four
in Iowa under the present administra-
ton, and wonders whether Iowa and
the north is not being MIXED to fur
nish cream for the southern states.
However, nobody will find fault with
few extra routes In Arkansas, IL the
routes in this state were maintained in
efficiency instead of being "reorgan-
lied" into utter inefficiency.
Senator Clarke beat Senator Pope-
rene for the pro tempore presidency Of
the senate. Clarke with an "e" seems to
be luck name in Washington as in
Iowa.
The Southwestern Editors Associa-
ton has "woman's auxiliary" which
has just elected officers. It Is a great
help to. as some of the editorial pages
seem to indicate.
Alexander II. Grisell. publisher of the
Guthrie Guthrian. Is dead as his home
in Guthrie Center. where he published
the Guthrian for the past sixteen years.
He was one Of the elder newspaper
men of the state and at one time prom.
inent in the politics OF his district and
the state.
Anyway whatever the condition OF the
European countries after the war il
over, It can't be worse imam IL il now.
Somebody says that automobiles have
made mortgages respectable.
go
God made man.
Woman makes bread,
1t takes the brad
That woman makes
To sustain the man
That God made,
But the bread
-
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READY FOR LIES WORK.

lA~SS -hoiIcS NhpltdlJ a.H-
Professor Steiner of Grinnell College
has issued a new book on the Ameri-
can Immigrant. In his book DR.. Steiner
refers to the way children are brought
up in Germany. They are taught eff
cheney and self-reliance from babyhood
up. They are also taught to obey their
parents. In these respects they do not
fail. They are obliging, respectful and
patient. They are taught to do things.
Military drill is one of the greatest aids
to efficiency, and this DR.. Steiner con-
cedes. When all system is removed
from the early teachings of children
and young people, then they become
sfouchy, indolent and inefficient.
We go little further than DR..
be taught as follows:
To harness and drive horses: to ride
in saddle; to shoot gun; to row a
boat: to sail boat; to swim; and, il
IN good company, to dance; to sing for
his own amusement and comfort
In 1899 the editor of the Capital was
riding thru the streets of Quincy, Ill.,
at an early hour. The procession was
in honor of Colonel Roosevelt. then
governor Of New York. There was a
$500 ptoSSSSAoh " ltle O1SIin-
guished man. The Spanish American
war mad only been gone one year. One
barouche, drawn by span of heauti-
full horses. and containing woman
and several children, became unman-
ageable. The team dashed out Of the
line and was coming forward at a.
rapid rate. Our conveyance was Wet
toward the front. In our carriage was
N~1n -
medore who commanded the Monitor
In the fight with the Merrimac. and an.
other college man who had been a
lieutenant in the then recent war.
They saw the runaway horses coming
They both slid out Of the barouche
and as the team was running past
them, one man grabbed one horse by
the bits of his Bride The bride had
slipped back over the head of the
other horse, and the other young man
grasped the other harse in the nostr,I.
by tiger-like grip. These two young
men held the horses and were raised
OF the ground and carried some dis
lance. but they stopped the runaway;
they saved the woman and children.
They did their work quietly and WIN
out any vain-giorious manner. They
Performed what might be called team
work: they co-operated in stopping
the horses. Then with the runaway
team eliminated the procession pro-.
ceedec
Lieutenant Worden and his comrade
were trained athletes in college. and
trained soldiers. They were able to
make this rescue because they had
courage. Their courage was supreme
because 1t had been tried. Courage is
something that grows.
Who Will stop the runaway team:
who viii plunge into the lake to save
drowning women and children when
courage IL no longer part of train
Ing in the homes, the schools, the coll
lsges and the camps?
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ANT1-sUFFRAGIsrs COMING.
ICedar Rapids Gazette.l

lSeoaI Rapids Idzette-J
According to information Iowa is TO
have a visitation Of anti-suffragist
women from the eastern states who
will come to prove their own inability
to vote with as good effect as that Of
fee is performed by men and to argue
that Iowa women can by no possibility
be more advanced than they.
The suffrage question involves no
national issue along the lines Of legis-
lation. 1t pertains to Iowa alone, SO
far as our state election is concerned.
Our citizens will not decide on any
thing that affects Delaware or Yer
mont. They are as foreign in this mat
ter as Prince Edward island or Tas-
mania. This is simply a question Of
the equality Of ability as between Iowa
men and Iowa women and according to
law Iowa men will render the decision.
The women can be assured that the
men will not vote any sentiment be-
hind their backs they would not ex-
press in their presence. There are more
reasons to believe that iowa men think
well Of Iowa women than they think i'll
OF them, and the calculated sisters
from the east will probably be SUR
prised to learn that no considerable
number Of males is disposed to doubt
that womankind may, by careful prep.
aration and in spirit OF patriotic de-
votion. rise to the angelic state that
they have themselves attained. II there
are any family differences they win not
be aired for the edidcation Of visiting
orators for the purpose of eniarging
their vocabularies and teaching them
new and convincing methods Of express
sion and delivery. The evangelists from
the banks Of the Kennebsc and the
peaks OF the Wahsatch range will be
unable to ferret out any evidence In
..!!::s cc:=$s nc: already familiar &c the
court and jury.
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For Sunday Reading
dH Sorts Of Osiniisn,
The Holiday For Theology.

AS il to offset the strennousness of
her other occupations. Europe is TAX
ing a holiday in one--theology So to
a lesser extent is America, says the
editor Of the Hilbert Journal. Pub
fishers lists show an enormous re-
duction" in the number OF theological
books issuing from the press. he de-
clares, and one theological journal has
had to suspend publication for lack OF
material. For fourteen years, he tells
us further, a continuous and ever
growing stream of articles on theology.
philosophy, and religion" found its
way from all quarters OF the globe to
the Hilbert Journal. Almost on the
day the war broke out the stream, az
ready grown to the dimensions Of q
torrent" showed a sudden check It
soon became and has since remained
"a mere trickle" Other streams, he adj
mits, gushed forth: new theology
began to form around the war itself,
but SO different from the old, both IN
topics and method, and in the persons
from whom 1t originated, as to sug-
gest the conclusion that many OF our
former friends, the theologians of ante
bellum days, were taking or being
forced to take. holiday"
War Expected to Breed Warlsss Race.
Discussing the question "Has the
War Any Advantages" the New York
Medical Journal says editorially In its
current, issue:
The only apparent redeeming fea-
ture Of the present war IL the work OF
the physicians and nurses; and yet
their labor seems pitiful and absurd.
for they are engaged in picking out
from the scrap heap Of fine body ma
chimes those which are not beyond re-
pair and In returning TO the front as
many NJ possible Of these for future
destruction.
ITO those who believe that there Ii q
wise purpose running thru the uni
verse ana that everything that happens
has meaning the phenomenon OF war
seems to have no place; and yet 1t u
hardly believable that war, with all
Its horrors does not serve some pur-
pose in the general scheme Of things.
THE destruction Of fine physique by
war has seemed by all ordinary human
standards Of measurement wrong; the
preservation OF the feeble and sickly AZ
accomplished by modern medicine has
Also judged similar standard, seemed
e be Rad policy; hut II there Is a pur-
pose in 1t all both must be for the best
Certainly both tend toward the same
end and II one is good in the long
lrun the other must be 80.
Following this lead. the purpose OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-04
A FOOLISH DEMAND
ICouncil Bluffs Nonnarei1. /

tS11'S1A D6uH0 1SUnpn1 cI1'J ----0--3--
The editor of the Rockwell City Ad-=
yocate thinks it Is due to the people
OF Iowa that Governor Clarke come
out with Z statement that he will or
will not be q candidate Tor the repub-
Ijcan nomination for governor.
This request Ii absurd for the rea-
son that q man to be candidate for
this Office must get his name on the
primary ballot. II Governor Clarke
wanted to stand Tor q third term he
would have his scouts out with the
necessary petitions to place his name
on the ballot Otherwise the prize vi.
GO to some man who II In the race In
the Absence Of such petitioners 1t n
assume :!:::: C!:::s=s -s:M rot he
in the race.
There u no more reason for asking
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% Yeur share.

This world nssds the efforts Of every.
one. There II no reason Why the bur
dens OF life should be shouldered By .
FEW. UnIsss you intend 70 do some
ming that VIII make psople think bet
ter OF you there Is no reason why yoa
ahouid iuhabit this sph3o,
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Fayton--ffiov nsys you ss=e..;S,ee@@ be-
ing operated upon7
Parker-WeIL the doctors haven't
ss ne S- >::c::sS s>- -. .::S ===-.-
mentation or rich enough for = de-
sirable subject-Iife,