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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
T.-R. BULLETIN
NEWS OF THE DAY

Tho weather.
Sun rises Sept. II at 5:41. sets at sos.
Iowa-Partly cloudy tonight and FRI
day. not much change In temperature.
Rain has fallen over southeastern
South Dakota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wis
consin, Illinois. Missouri. Kansas. Okla
homa. Colorado. Texas and New Mex
leo. but fair weather geenrally pre-
Is this morning west Of the Missouri
river. Following are sonie OF the great
est amounts Of rainfall: Dubuque. 1.6S
inches: Marshalltown, LOT: sas
City. LA. High temperature @ on-
tinue over the eastern state the
readings are higher in the . al val
leys. and as the baron is stiil
low over the Canadj northwest.
partly cloudy weathe. thout much
change in temporary indicated for
this vicinity sonIgr - Friday.
PAGE oNE.
Tclesraphic News:
Great Britain Conflscatcs American
Cargoes.
Pacl&rs Heaviest Losers.
Russians Take Offensive on Wide
Front.
Roumania Ready to Enter War.
No Agreement on War Loan Interest
Rate.
Senator Lewis Warns OF Panic.
PAGES TWO, THREE AND FOUR.
iowa News:
Dairy Cattle Exchange Planned.
Crocker Veterans Elect Officers.
Iowa Banks to Keep Money at Home
Free Sioux City Suspects.
Buy Iowa-Grown Potatoes.
Methodists Prosper.
PAGE FIVE.
Story:
The Thousandth Woman.
Editorial:
"Cummins: Who Else?"
Speaking of Old King knute.
The International Loan.
Topics Of the Times.
Iowa Opinion and Notes.
PAGES SEVEN. EIGHT, NINE, TEN
ELEVEN.
City News:
Over 5000 at Fair Wednesday.
Todays Races Added 10 Friday
Program.
Melbourne Postoffice Safe Blown.
Managers For Central Chosen.
Newman Erb Very III.
General and Brief City News.
PAGE TWELVE.
Markets and General:
Improved Weather Aids Wheat
Bears,
Corn Eases on Warm Weather Pre-
diction.
Cattle Trade Steady.
| Hogs Slow and Lower.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
Russian City Falls.

Berlin, via London, Sept. 16.-Thc
CO pture Of the Russian city of Pinsk.
about 100 miles east of Brest- Litovsk.
was announced today at army head
quarters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

More than Is per cent OF the male
bank employees in France have been
replaced by women. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

Colombian Cabinet Resigns.
Bagota, Colombia, Sept, lo.-Tne Co
,on,hian cabinet resigned today as the
result OF a disagreement with con-
gress.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

A new frait-gathcring device re-
sembles huge umbrella inverted under
the tree being picked
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
RAILROADS ASK sEHEARlne.
pselars Thsy Are Unable to File New
Tariffs by Sept. 80.

Tari75s BY Sept. 90.
Washington. Sept. ia formal mo-
tfce that western railroads intend to
ask the interstate commerce commis-
sion to reopen the western rate case,
as concerns fresh meats and meat pro-
ducts. and grain and grain products,
was filed today. The roads declared
in their petition they would be unable
to 41le new tariffs on those products in
conformity with the commission's de-;
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

The Turkish vail Of Adrianople has
gone to Ccnstantinople to obtain in
structions from the porte on the same
subject.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16
RUSSIAN ARMY
ON OFFENSIVE
Renewal Of Activity on
Eastern Front Checks
Teutons.
PRESS ATTACKS
AGAINST AUSTRIANS

Russians Claim to Have Thrown Back
Invaders at Point Where Railroad
Limo Was Cut - British Submarine
Probably Lost OF Dardanelies-Rus.
sian Duma Prorosued Because Of
Differences With Cabinet.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-16

Weuld Lean 10 latins.
Now II It be said our people do not
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s'YANIKEE DOODLE'' A GERMAN
TUNE. SAYS A SCHOLAR

rs Yankee Doodle" a German tune?
II The Germans started making this
q claim a number of years ago. then
they seemed to lay aside Yankee
Doodle" but they have come back and
German scholar is assuring anybody
who will believe him that yankee
Doodle" is of German origin.
So far as known, the first public men
ton of this claim was made about ten
years ago in the columns of the FRANK
furter Zeitung,. and at that time Wal
ter Schumann, United States consul
general at Frankfort. sent TO the De
partment of State a translation of the
claim.
The German claimants said that II
was well known to them that the tune
Yankee Doodle" was derived from a
march played by the Hessian troops
during the war of the American revo-
luton. 1t was said that German mu-
sician by the name of Wewalter IN
studying the dances of the Schwalm
was struck by the similarity in form
and rythm of Yankee Doodle" to the
music of those dances. He had Yankee
Doodle" played at the klrmeSS OF the
village OF Wasenberg and the young
men and maidens swung into true
Schwalmer dance as though the music
had been composed for it. 1t is said
that during the American revolution
the chief recruiting officer for the en-
listment of Hessians was Ziegenhein
in rHesse.
T.ls German musical claimant said
that it was probable that the Hessian
recruits from the Schwalm, and whose
military band consisted OF bugles,
drums and fifes, carried this tune with
them to America, where they played 1t
as a march.
1t will strike a good many people as
somewhat improbable that the patriots
VI the Continental army fell In love
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FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR.

only theoretical assumption in this seriesi OF articles
in The Sunday Star that the United States attacked
Every other incident straight OF what abso
utely happen in such with MILITARY estab
shment remaining what today In the words of certain
foremost military executives of the United States Army
who have cogizance OF these articles. is THE COLD
TRUTH"
Nothing overstated understated. Every reference
o military efficiency, supplies OF unon and
other implements numbers of the various military
units and forth, is based conscenousy the actual
shown today in the official records of the military
establishments of the United States.
The descriptions of the preparatory mobilization,
blage and management of regular and militia has
been approved as technically correct.
The description of the procedure OF small the
presence of large enemy that has fully landed
piece of "armchar strategy. 1t wha numer
caly weaker force inevitably do modern cond
tions.
This story which will appear in weekly instalments
not plea for m1itarism 1t plea for ANYTHING
1t intended simply tell logical sequence that
1t is the of military experts, who long have
faced these facts apprehensve the question: Can We
Defend Ourselves:"
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with and adopted a tune which they
heard the Hessians playing,
1t is also said that the Declaration OF
independence was first printed in the
German language, and il would seem
that this is 2 pretty good and substantial
claim. Ii has been written on the testi-
mony of various authorities that the
Decla aration of Independence was first
published in full July 3. 1876. in Ger
man in the Philadelphia Staatsblatt.
which was a Journal published by one
Henry Miller, who had been Il printer
with benjamin Franklin. When Lord
Howe and the British took possession of
Philadelphia, il is said that one OF the
first of the acts there Of the British
commander to contiscate the press
and printing plant of Miller.
Not many months ago there went the
rounds OF the press story To the effect
that The Last Rose of summer" was a
German tune. The Irish and English
and the other English speaking allies
went at this German claim with how
itzers. bayonets, sa6ers and other
things and brought THE Last Rose of
Summer" back to their own lines.
1t is well known that the Germans
claim Maryland. My Maryland as a
tune that theirs long before the
American civil war came on, and il has
first. because the tune OF Maryland. My
Maryland" really was German tune.
A great many of our American songs
that is, those that are really good
are found to be of foreign origin. os-
car c. r. Sonneck. chief of the division
of music in the Library of Congress.
wrote a report on the origin Of The
Star Spangle Banner tune and finds
that it was an English drinking song
entitled ITO Anacreou in Heaven" and
about 1873 for the Anacreontic Society
Of London.
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told the Conyngham the secret story
of the hidden transports Though the
destroyers men could not even have
sighted the tops of their masts in the
brightest light of day. they could
count the fixed Hghtbeans, distant az
they were.
In the War and Navy departments
they made up estimates from the cod.
report. When it was done. the Che
of staff nodded "Of course our in
forma tion assured us that they would
send at least a hundred and fifty thou
sand men Now that we have an idea
how many transports they'd got. We
are sure of it And they are bringing
vast munitions of war, perhaps more
than We've estimated
Now the news came fast and faster,
as the fleet, and its lowering spies,
came nearer.
The Alabama, sister ship to the
kearsarae. by haphazard fortune got
between TWO enemy scouts and the
main fleet. and accomplished by sud
den attack what she never could have
accomplished by speed. She sank them
within twenty minutes. and returned
without injury. 1t was thirteen-inch
guns against eight-inch, and the story
was as it always is The inferior
enemy ships went down like pasteboard
under the fire of the turret guns on
the American vessel
On the same day, almost at the same
hour. the scout cruiser Birmingham. at
the other end of the enemy line, sent
report that the destroyer Bainbridge,
tiniest of the division, had driven her
two eighteen-inch torpedoes home and
sunk an armored cruiser that had
known injury to its machinery. The
cambridge did not tell its own story.
The little boat and her men were blast
ed into nothing within ter minutes
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nant financial control, a more compre-
hensive and detailed survey of bout
twenty leading industries of the United
States has been made by the bureau.
The bureau has also completed a card
index of directors of the principal in
dustrial, railroad and public utility
corporations, insurance companies and
banks. There are approximately $500
corporations in the United States, eX-
elusive of steam railroads, banking and
other corporations and corporations un-
der the jurisdiction of the interstate
commerce commission, which have a
ca pital stock or bonded or other in
debtedness amounting to $l,000,000 or
over engaged in interstate commerce.
1t will be for the federal trade COM
mission to scan the names of the direc
tors of these corporations with par
ticular care. with a view to enforce
ment of the prohibition against inter
locking directorates. Much informa
tion for a survey of that field has al
ready been collected by the bureau of
corporations. approximately one-third
of them have furnished, voluntarily or
upon request. reports as to their f1nan-
cial condition, organization or other
similar facts for the bureau. that the
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latter may turn them over to the COM
mission.
1t will be noticed, in this survey OF
the work that is to be done Icy the fed
eral trade commission and of the work
that has already been done in gather
ing facts upon which il is to begin its
work. mention is made of jurisdic-
tion of the commission over aSsocia-
tions of employes-lahor unions. While
the federal trade commission law IL
silent on the subject, the Clayton anti
trust law is generally considered to
have taken labor unions out of the
jurisdiction of the antitrust laws and
forbid their prosecution as in the case
of the Danbury hatters, in the follow
ing words:
The labor of human being is not q
commodity article of commerce.
Nothing contained in the antitrust
laws shall be construed to forbid the
existence and operation of labor, agrt-
cultural or horticultural organizations.
instituted for the purpose of mutual
help, and not having capital stock or
conducted for profit. or to forbid or re-
strain individual members of such Or
ganizations from lawfully carrying out
the legitimate object thereof, nor shall
such organizations OF the members
thereof be held or construed to be ille-
gal combination or conSpiracleS in re-
straint of trade, under the antitrust
laws.
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COUNTRY ABOUT WASHlN GTON
SUITABLE FOR NUT GROWING

the garden Of the Rozier, or Rozer,
place. the name Of the family which 1T
one time owned the land on which Fort
Foote stands and wLose name is per
petuated ia 'Rozer', hl8u," TIE bluff
on which the ruins OF Fort Foote stand.
Those trees have borne large crop
of excellent pecanS for years out or
mind and promise to continue to pro-
duce for many years to come. The
have never had the slightest attention.
because it is very probable that the
dWe!ieiS down - way. though the.
enjoy the fruit OF the trees do not
know very much about the culture Or
recanS. II ones memory goes back
very far he will surely recall that pc
can trees were a feature of Old gar
dens.
That the blaci, walnut tree grows 10
perfection in the country around
Washington is within the knowledge o.
everybody who knows that tree hy
sight. \ century ago the black walnut
was common that choice portions %
the trees We're used for fence rails and
the parts of the tree not available for
fencing were used as firewood With
the incoming of the vogue of black
walnut furniture the tree began to dis
appear, but it has not wholly disap
peared and those that grow near
Washington are prolific nutbearers and
in a very small way commerce is car
ried on in these nuts.
The food value of the black walnut
is well known and a large number OF
persons esteem il highly. Yet il is
probably true that nobody near wash
ington has what might be called
black walnut orchard and that nobody
has turned a thought to the cultivation
of black walnuts on commercial
scale. Perhaps time passes, as the
need for food becomes a more pressing
subject and the development of this
part of the country goes on there will
be many pecan and walnut orchards ia
the country around Washington.
Naturally the region in which Wash
ington is situated is great chestnut
country, but commerce in chestnuts has
always been carried on in a hopelessly
haphazard way. not much thought be
ing given to the chestnut except as a
fall diversion or a titbit to be muuche.i
at odd times. Yet in other countries the
chestnut has been developed into an
important article of food and an article
of export to the United States. With
the blight of chestnut trees, for which
no remedy seems yet to be found, the
future of chestnut culture in these
parts does not appear bright, but il is
an ever-present possibility that a cure
for this tree evil will be found.
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by a battle cruiser that had turned TO
protect her mate.

by battle cruiser that had turned to
protect her mate.
These disasters. that might have been
appalling to q lesser sea power. left the
great navy of tn. coalition unshaken-
Steadily, imperturbably il kept on its
way.
So there came the day when coasters
and small craft sped wildly into the
shelter of Boston and New York hsi-
bors into Long Island sound and int"
the Delaware and Chesapeake bays.
They had seen the enemy.
Next morning. in Q gray. Transparent.
peaceful April dawn. watchers on the
coast gazing across the empty, nat
Atlantic 10 the immense half-circle or
the horizon. saw innumerablc tiny oh
5ects just sticking up above the rin'
- the sea Through the glass theN
seemed to lie little perches of skele-
ton iron built il the deep ocean.
Set at beautifully precise distances
apart. they dotted the sharply outlined
edge of water and Sky, north and south,
far beyond vision.
Innocent and quiet they appeared. as
they stood there. growing slowly, very
slowly, up out of the far sea.
And the roaring presses. spcttl'c
and south, told the United states or
America.
INVADER APPEARS OFF
AMERICAN COAST.
Copyright. 1915, by j W Mn''cr- All rish's
reserved
The secoud iustallmeut Of Tic Invasion OF
America viii appear mex; sunday
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heroism can do as great deeds today as
ever Without the machinery it can
only go down, singing.io The enemy
transports are within an inmost line Of
great ships. AT the margin of their
zone of fire is another rnored line of
dreadnaughts. And the outer cordo n
IS at the margin of that zone of fire.
Thus one of our raiding ships would
have to break through AT least thirty
miles, every inch of 1T under fire from
half a dozen ships. 1t cannot be done.
This enemy fleet could be- broken only
by brute force. To attack in force with
our inferior fleet walld mean simply
that We should smash ourselves against
him as unavai1ingly as if we smashed
ourselves full speed ahead against a
rock coast"
y
But surely at night our ships can
dash in! insisted the public. reluctant
to give up romantic hopes. wait
and some night you will see"'
Then there came wireless relayed
from the Conyngham, biggest and
swiftest of the American DESTROYER
divisions. She had circled the Who'll e
enemy fleet. flying around it through
days and nights at the full speed of her
thirty knots. Her message told why
there could ba no raids at night.
There was no night. All the sea, ran
the Conynghaln's tale. was lit like a
flaming city. The outer Gordon played
it's searchlights far toward each hori-
zon. 1t played other lights inward, to-
ward it's own battleships. And the line
of battleshipS in turn, kept mighty
leCertain naval experts, basing their opin-
ion study of the recent naval battles. claim
that difference of as little as 10 per cent in
efficiency between fleets otherwise absolutely
equal mears inevitable destruction for tie Ia
fcrior hees-
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~ NE of the neglected possibilities
IL u or slighted potentialities of the
W country adjacent to and tributary
to Washington is nut culture. This fact
is being pointed to by persons inter
ested in the culture of nuts in those
sections of the United States which
have become famous for the cultivation
of various nuts in a commercial way
A man interested in the growing and
marketing of pecans on large scale
has recently pointed out that Virginia
will become an important nut-produc-
ing state as soon as its people appre-
ciate the opportunities it offers for
growing pecans and walnuts." He says
that in the last ten years. since grow
ers have introduced choice varieties of
pecans and have learned how to propa-
gate them in Virginia. commercial
pecan culture has been put on a sure
basis wherever the orchard is planted
under proper conditions and given ade-
quate care. 1t is alleged to be an in
vestment of an enduring nature. that
1t yields a product for which there is
an unlimited demand. with no imme-
diate prospect of overproduction, and
that it is a pleasant business which
gives large returns from small in
yestment of money and industry.
1t may not be known by the average
Washingtonian, whose knowledge of
pecans does not extend beyond the big
sack in which he sees them at the
grocery store or the confectioners, that
the pecan grows splendidly close around
Washington. both in Virginia and
Maryland. and it would be surprising
if some old pecan trees could not be
found in the District of Columbia.
On many of the old plantations near
Washington the pecan tree was as
familiar as the cherry tree, and in the
gardens of the olden planters homes
it divided honors with the black walnut
tree Near Washington are pecan trees
which, to judge from their girth and
height. must long ago have passed the
century mark. On the shore of the Po-
tomac river just south of the boundary
of the District and on the Maryland
side opposite the mouth of Hunting
creek, which is the body of water to
the south of Alexandria, are two giant
pecan trees. They grow in what was
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searchlights. bow and stern, steadily
on their transports.
Each transport had its guard, whose
bright surveillance never shifted, never
wavered, from dusk to dawn. These
sentinel dreadnaughts never turned a
searchlight to sweep the surrounding
sea. They held their transports stead
lily in the white glare.
There was not an inch of ocean with
in their lines that was not ablaze. A
fragment of driftwood could not have
f1oated into that vivid sea without
being detected by a hundred eyes.
But those steady, unshifting lights
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&C ira 'rsas" s.,': { :. -, ~, ms,, :.
placed over the entrance door OF the
federal trade commission offices, lot
that motto is the guidepost which Con-
gress in outlining the functions OF the
commission has set up to show the dl-
rection in which the wheels OF the
commission are to turn. In the law
creating the commission Congress stat
ed this brief paragraph. which aptiy
describes the work which the commits
sion will do:
'sThe commission is hereby empower
ed and directed to prevent persons,
partnerships or corporations. except
banks and common carriers subject to
the acts to regulate commerce, from
usine unfair methods of competition"
The federal trade commission will
have power over the corporations of the
country similar to that exercised over
the banks by the federal reserve board
and the interstate commerce commits
sion over railroads. Its work Will be
to investigate the organisation, pusl-
ness conduct. practices and manage
ment of industrial companies and part
nerships and prevent them from sitting
competition 1t is estimated that more
than 10000 such business organlza-
tions will come under it's watchful eye.
*.
In taking up it's work in this field to
preyent unfair methods of competition
the federal trade commission VIII
strive to prevent business methods re-
xarded by Congress unfair The four
methods are price determinations be-
tracts which stipulate that a purcnas-
er or lessee shall not use or deal IN
other commodities of competitor OF
the one selling or leasing; holdlns @ com com
nany of the stock of another, ana IN
terlocking directorates. This last pro-
vision of the law goes into erect sep
tember 26, 1916. two years ar a,'er ,.hinh u.h
date of the passage OF lhe Id" "hiShi
created the commission.
The members of the commission. on
account of their duties. are among the
most poWerful nan nna isn.rai iheis Actions VIII Viii
largely rest the business condition OF
tn. country. And not only throughout
rnis country will their power be felt.
but all over the world. for the Presi-
dent has said that they will. in addi-
tion to their other duties. be board
of tariff revision, il revision OF the
tariff is needed Their work on the
other countries which trade with the
G-nited states, and this means practi-
caily every country on the face of the
earth. ,,.i,-
;nformation to serve as the basis of
the first work of the new commission
has been done by the bureau of cor
porations. Department of Commerce,
which will be- absorbed by the new
commission Taking as basis the
value of outrsut of the industries of
the United States, about 30 per cent of
these industries has been examined
in a general way by the bureau; this
affords the new commission broad
general survey of it's field. With
view to furnishing the commission
with general facts as to processes OF
manufacture, organization and DON'T