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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
The PAVING DISTRICT BILL.

A bill permitting cities of 1000 or
more inhabitants to create paving dis
tricts passed the senate Wednesday.
1000 or over will be permitted to Gre
ate paving districts for the improve
ment of streets leading from the cor
porate limits to the business district.
A tax of not to exceed l mill annually
for ten years may be levied by the
council to pay not to exceed so per
cent of the cost Of the Improvement.
The other so per cent is to be paid
by benefited property in the district,
not to exceed % per cent of the value
of the said property.
The district plan for paving would
be as fair as districts for drainage, if
it distributes the cost fairly. Paving
is a city improvement and benefits all
property owners without exception. OF
course the greater benefits accrue to
the man whose abutting property is
thus benefited but a paved street is a
benefit to ALL The property owner
a block away benefits as does the pub
lie which makes use Of the paving. So
a fair distribution Of the cost of the
Improvement would work to the relief
of the abutting property owner.
Perhaps the Farr bill would be the
better for little fixing but law
whereby paving may be ordered in
and paid for under similar plan Is a
fairer proposition than the system of
assessing the entire cost of a public
Improvement to abutting property.
Without doubt it would increase the
demand for paving on the part of prop
erty owners on unpaved streets. That
it would result in more paving by city
councils at an increase of general tax
alton is questionable.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
MONEY AND AUTOS.
Manchester Press.1

A friend of ours called attention to
an interesting fact the other day. We
were discussing the money stringency
and trying to find cause for it. This
man referred to the statistics showing
that there are something like 100000
automobiles in Iowa. There are ninety
nine counties in the state. II Della
ware is an average county, it has an
investment in automobiles of over
100000. Some. OF these cars are
utility vehicles, but the greater part Of
them are used for pleasure. Each car
represents, no doubt, an average depre-
citation OF % per cent annually. and the
thousand cars in the county, assuming
that to be the number, burn up large
sum annually in gasolene and oil. A
million dollar outlay by one county on
good roads, for instance, would be con-
sidered a heavy drain on its supply of
money, SO while we are looking around
for an excuse for the scarcity OF the
needful it may be at our very door.
But If you own an automobile. do you
want to go back to the horse?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
LEND A HAND.

Sudden shutting off of the narcotic
supplies of those infatuated 70 the use
of habit forming drugs has revealed
the terrible extent % which morphine,
cocaine and drugs used for similar pur-
pose are in common use. The number
of dope" users thus discovered is
even greater than any estimates that
had been made.
To simply abolish the opportunity
to obtain dope" without taking into
consideration those whose habits have
made these drugs part of their exist
ence is to stop too short. The suf-
ferings of the victim of this habit who
finds himself unable to procure dope"
are beyond description. De Quincy
master Of language and expression
failed in the telling of the torture he
endured. Not one of the engines of
torture wherewith medieval savagery
drew confession and punished con-
tumacy inflicted greater agony that
is the lot of the dope fienG" deprived
of the drug.
These sufferers are of every rank and
condition Of life. The weather. have
the price Of such relief as medical
treatment can give. But there are 9TH
ers and many others to whom suicide
or the drug seem the only choice. And
they should be cared for at the charge
Of the communities where they live.
The larger cities are arranging for
hospital treatment Cor drug habitues.
The federal hospitals are open to such
sufferers. The community, large or
small, which includes such sufferers
should render them every assistance
possible. If they are unable to pay
for treatment they should be given
treatment at public expense. For this
| is a necessary reform in the interests
of all the people. The law must stand
and must be strictly enforced. And
this must be done with as little suf-
| fering as possible.
Give the dope victims every chance
and every possible help in this forced
reformation. Doubt not shat they need
and are entitled to all that can be
|
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
LIQUOR IN DES MONIES.

bcS AhOlIiSS IIlDuhC.l
The abolition Of liquor from the Des
MONIES Club, and now from the
Hyperion Club, will serve &c recall a
somewhat unique record for Des
Moines.
When Ingersoll park was opened by
the street car company, at time when
practically every popular amusement
park in the country was modified
beer garden, not only the sale Of liquor
in the park was prohibited, but liquor
was not permitted on the grounds, and
nobody under the influence of liquor
was admitted to the grounds.
When the Country Club vas opened,
the first golf club, we believe, in the
state, this same prohibition was incor-
porated in its bylaws and faithfully
lived up to, altho visiting golfers FREE
quently complained Of sucn an unheard
of restraint.
At this time, when prohibition is to
be the policy Of Iowa, it might be ex-
pected that many Of the clubs In the
city would go to all lengths to main
tain open lockers, or to do whatever
could be done to get by the letter Of
the law.
The fact that promptly and without
the least suggestion from anywhere the
Des Moines Club, the busir ess mems
club Of the city, and the Hyperion Club,
the most popular OF the out-of-town
resorts, have ordered liquor out OF the
private lockers-it has not been per-
mitted in the club In any other way
is significant Of the spirit Of the city.
1t has surprised many that the sa-
loon has been allowed to drop out OF
Des Mo.nes ws:ho... /: rinnle of pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
Topics of the Times

Never mind; the frost on the trees
this morning will be apple blooms next
month.
The National Model License League
which is attempting to minimize the
effect in this country of the edict
against vodka in Russia reminds forci-
bly, of old Mrs. Darlington sweeping
back the Atlantic ocean with broom
A little more neutrality exercised to-
word Americans by all American citi-
zens Of foreign birth or descent would
be extremely we'll received and con-
duce to peace Of mind in a peaceful
country. Keep the war on the other
side of the pond.
Still it Is impossible to refrain from
specializing just what would become
of the new s14,oO0,00O battleship Of
ours if a numbered submarine slipped
up under her and .urnsd loose sew
eral hundred pounds Of destruction. A
superdreadnaught doesn't scare sub
more than a merchant vessel and the
bigger they are the easier they are to
hit with a torpedo and the deeper they
sink.
If there is any good reason why the
Caswell libel bill should not pass no.
body has mentioned it aloud.
If the reactionary road lawmakers
are turned down hard his time the
next two years will put the question
Of good, hard roads Beyond dispute.
Expression of the various newspa-
pers indicates the different plane the
prohibition law will encounter. With
the exception of the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican and the Manson Democrat
the newspapers are calling for the legal
machinery necessary to strict enforce
ment or are not saying word about
it. It is all illustrative of great
change in public sentiment and pro-
phesies an entirely different deal
after Jan. l from that which followed
the enactment Of he old time prohi-
bitory law.
The Mexicans have no period of
watchful waiting. They act as tho there
was no ned of watching or waiting for
the action or opinions OF their big
neighbor on the north.
! If this legislature gets thru without
taking a backward step on road legis-
| lation it will be entitled to rank as a
pretty good sort Of assembly as legis-
! latures go in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
KILL TILE JOHNSTON BILL.
Till


1t is reported this morning that the
hackers of the Johnston road bill have
had a meeting to try and tinker up
some of the worst loopholes before
bringing it to the floor Of the house
tomorrow.
But why are the loopholes there?
And why have they not been discov-
cred before? Why did nobody who
was behind the bill seem to know any
thing about it until others got after it?
But all the tinkering they can do
will never make tight proposition Of
this bill, every section Of which has at
least one loophole, and some of them
many loopholes.
The bill was gotten up to open the
door to the road machinery, bridge.
patent culvert, county lumber and
other supply men to the same sort of
easy street proposition they use to
have before the state highway COM
forced public work into the
open and secured honest contracting
and honest inspection.
Nobody can read the bill even cas-
ually and be mistaken as to it's real
purpose, and all the tinkering that can
be done to it will not make black
white.
There is only one thing to do for
the Johnston bill and that is to cut it's
head off directly behind the ears.
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the COMMON AND HALF SEEN.

The Burlington Gazette notes a
pathetic incident of the stage Of that
city where a comedian lately appeared
and did his funny stunts after having
been informed that his doom was fixed
by an incurable disease. Still he did
his work in the old fashion and set
the house roaring. The Gazette found
it clutchingly pathetic.
And it was pathetic but 1t is a
pathos common as humanity il we look
for it, commoner off than on the stage,
one of the commonest things in the
world.
We incline to see and feel the rathns
Of the mimic and the clown who
struggles to create laughter with the
fore knowledge Of death in his heart
and miss the pathos Of common things
and common people, the pathetic and
tragical that passes daily under our
eyes without more than perfunctory
notice. The man who goes smiling to
his work with incurabIe disease, striv-
ing to make the best Of it walks the
streets OF Burlington and Of every
other city and town on the face OF the
earth. The mother who holds herself
on her feet by pure force Of will and
desire to serve her own with the GER
tainty of a final parting just a few
months beyond is living in the next
block. II we stop to review our friends
and neighbors we shall all find these
pathetic instances that clutch us. They
are so many and so very common.
why? Because truth and sacrifice
and loyalty and love are the COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
Rx7elsl,,1s1,,

. Y y efs
Notwithstanding is the man who
is working to upset the presidents
view that the federal trade commission
has control over the tariff. He is Con-.
gresham William D. Stephens of CALI.
fornia. While the president is now
asking 100000 to permit his commits
sion to make a tariff probe, Stephens 10
pushing his bill to found a commission
which would have exclusive jurisdic-
ton over tariff matters. Washington
is wondering which will win. Mr..
Stephens has spent his life in railroad
business and the like and was promi-
nently connected with the construction
Of the $25,o00.00o Los Angeles aque-
duct. He has been in congress four
years as a progressive republican and
was reelected to the Sixty-fourth COM
gress. 3
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monest things in the world. Because
mothers and fathers acceot their re-
sponsibilities and live for their chill
dren, husbands and wives for each
other and serve willingly and gladly
while strength permits. Because In our
work and our duties lies life and we
cling to them as the evidence that We
still live. Because life Is service and
usefulness and the inability to serve
and to be useful Is death. And so real
men and real women refuse to die until
their time comes whatever the edict OF
the diagnosticians.
When "Honeyboy Evans told his
jokes and drew the delighted laughter
of the crowd his was no uncommon or
infreuuent instance. There are thou
sands today everywhere covering the
same knowledge with an outward
smile, making the best Of it, accepting
the inevitable decree with courage and
outward equanimity. going on with
their work, hoping perhaps against
hope, hiding their despair, facing the
future bravely-common men ana
women, our neighbors and our friends
and acquaintance. 1t is the pathos
Of the common, the half seen and haf
noted pathos Of everyday life. There
is nothing new whatever strange there
may be about it. 1t has gone on since
love and loyalty and the higher hope
came into the world and will continue
while the world endures with its pathos
and sacrifice.
Perhaps were we to see common
things and common people clearer we
would be kinder and better.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
THE BIBLE IN THE SCHOOLS.
Manson Democrat

A lady at Knoxville writes quite a
strong letter to the editor of this pa
per in reply to his article on the mat
ter of bible reading In the public
schools, and. strange to say. does not
agree with him that the good book has
no place in the public schools Of the
United States because of the fact that
the constitution guarantees religious
liberty to all its people. The lady signs
herself IAN Iowa mother with children
in the public schools" Shake, Madam!
This editor is an Iowa father with
children in the public schools. 80 that
makes a pair Of US. But we'll wager
the Iowa mother" that the Iowa
father" has her beaten as to the NUM-
Der OF children he Ia sending to the
public schools. We have four children
in the Manson schools, one Of our chill
dren is attending q sectarian college
and one Of them 10 teaching In the
public schools. Nothing strange about
that. for it's an Irish family. you see
and that is one of the reasons why we
are opposed to bible reading in the
public schools. We never yet heard OF
our kind off 5.S!c being read in the
public schools and never heard any
body make any demand that 1t be read
there. The Knoxville lady wants her
kind Of bible read there and she
would have At II any other kind OF
bible were introduced woman as
enthusiastic as she is for bible reading
for other peoples children should
have bible in her home and she
should teach her children to read it
there. There is bible In our home
and our children read il AMI stud;
their religion in that home and in
the church of their faith--where their
religious teaching should be attended
to. The only reason we object to in
PRODUCING the bible into the public
schools is because Of the. strife it en-
genders, thereby curtailing the effici-
ency of the schools along lines OF prac-
tlcal education. Wen wager the
Knoxville lady new Easter bonnet
against plug OF thin Climax that
She can't Introduce her choice OF bible
into the Knoxville public. schools with.
out making somebody mad and kicking
up religious fuss. When she Or some
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
Hail Of the Pleasure

The youngest girl Of Baltimore
family was recently much distressed to
discover that there was ice cream for
dinner.
"Oh, papa" exclaimed the youngsteHs
reproachfully, why didn't they tell me
this morning that we were going TO-
have ice cream"
.what difference would that have
nader
.Tot's!. sighed the child. II could
have expected it all day. "-Lippincott's
Magazine. #
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body else gets up a bible that will
please the Protestants, the Catholics
and the Jews alike, that will be the
time to make bible reading compulsory
In the schools. Until that time comes,
let US keep all bibles out of the schools
and in the churches and the homes.
where they belong.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

who knows absolutely nothing about 1t
and who lives over fifteen hundred
miles from the scene he is operating
on! But Iowa democrats are joke
with those Washington swellheads and
they know that Iowa will never pass
muster as a state that is always likely
to give her electoral vote to the dem
ocratic candidate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

IF the railroads Of Iowa are not
making a fair profit under cent fares
they can get relief by going into the
courts and establishing that fact"
says the Webster City Freeman-Trib-
une. Possibly they do not pursue that
course because they believe 1t is easier
to fool the legislature and the people
than it is to convince the courts, where
partial hearing"
Governor Clarke issues statement
that is a sort Of apology for signing the
mulct-repeal bill. AS that is the best
thing the governor has ever done, it
needed no apology or excuse" says the
Knoxville Express, (dem.)
The Sioux City Journal notes that:
There never has been sign Of life
in the capitol extension repeal project
since the official canvass Of the vote
cast at the last election"
"There is not, and has not been a
single valid argument for abolishing
the State Highway Commission, and
the new law as whole is good law,
with some imperfections which time
will correct declares the Jefferson
Bee.
"The legislature is given so much
and varying evidence by the newspa-
pers Of the state on the good roads
question. that the solons must be hav-
ing a bewildering time Of it trying to
make out what Is best to do" says the
Cedar Rapids Republican. But at any
rate, Iowa roads just now need fixing.
They are next to impossible. The
state IS coming to pave roads. This
may be a good while off, but paved
roads are coming. Iowa is bit slow,
and while it is just as well to let other
states do the pioneering in 80 an i'm
portant and costly matter as paved
roads, Iowa should not lag too far be-
hind"
IF the March lion keeps on hogging
things there won't be anything left for
the lamb to make good on" says the
Manson Democrat.
with prohibition and woman SUI
frage,' says the Algona Republican,
'sIowa will be the cleanest and best
governed state in the Union"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
THOSE IOWA PICNICS.
Jefferson Bee.l

About $50 Iowans at Eugene, Ore,
got together the other day and en-
joyed fine iowa picnic" That's one
thing you can say about Iowa Not
withstanding our :lbsent friends have
cut loose from this grand old state.
where bread and butter is always
plenty. they think enough Of their old
home to hold at least yearly celebra-
lions in honor Of the place OF their
nativity. ALI hail TO our old neigh
bors out west. They are now wrestling
with the stormy end Of financial hard
times, times that periodically strike .
body blow to the coast country, times
such as never hit old Iowa, the bread
basket of the American nation. Again
we say all hail to the boys and girls
Of former years. Come back some
day, old friends, and eat of our grand
old yaller corn bread, our hominy ana
our hog, yea our fatted calf! Come on
folks and eat one real good feed and
be happy again! Come on now and
have a roll in the good old snow and
the grand old Iowa dough. the dough
that holds the corn roots and makes
glad the shouts Of the Poland China
and Duroc Jersey. Come boys, one and
all, and battle in the dough" that is
easily exchanged for the baby's shirt
and the overalls! Come little later
and stand in the Tong gseen." roll In
the long green. sleep in the long green,
wrap yourselves in the long green and
fill your pockets with II! Come once
and have picnic on the 'auld sod"
and gambol on the grass that grows
by virtue of the rains Of generous
providence. in place Of that which gets
it's watery breath from yonder noun
tain thru q dirty irrigation ditch!
Come again to the spot where nature
has it's perfect way. Come once and
have fine old Turkish hath in the
humid confines of a perfect Iowa sum-
mer day! Come once and cook" with
us and let your pores pour out the
stored-up deviltry of the land OF the
ever-sweats!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

test. without creating any sort Of dis
turbance whatever.
But the past record Of the city is all
that way. There has never been the
tolerance for public drinking in Des
Moines there has bean in other cities.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
n Masonic Meetings.
!" SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

"N SPECIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Marshall Lodge, No. 1os A. F. & A. M.
Friday. March IL. Work In tmro ae-
gree. John w. Wells. secretary; w.
H. Steiner, w. NJ.
SlGNET CHAPTER, No. SO, R. A. M.
School of instruction March 10, con-
Quoted by Cd Custodian Charles =.
Shrader l.. 5. Kilborn, n. p; lonh w.
Wells, Rec.
sTArED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. r. & 8. NJ. Monday a,ee.
the third Sunday. !. T. Forbes. RECORDER
George Gre9ors. T. I. NJ
REGULAR coNcLAvE, ST. Aidemar
Commandery No. 80. K. T.. TUESDAY
March % at 1880 o'clock. Regular nusl-
ness. George Gregory, E. c.; M D
Mcfarland, Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. CT. o. E. s., Wednesday, March
II, 1880 p. m. Anna Downing. secfe
tary: Mary Black Collins, w. M.
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THOSE ARROGANT PIEMEN.
4

Those democratic pie-cutters down
in Washington seem to be quite inde-,
pendent about how they pass out the
postonices to Iowa democrats. They
even inquire what are you going to
do about it?" with curl of their lips.
How nice it is to have your business
all transacted for you by some pstrioi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12
a. M~1,AN>
Iona Newspapers
WOULD HELP THE FAMILY.

[Carroll Herald.l
The editor of the Scranton Journal
is uncompromisingly opposed to wom-
ems suffrage Lowrey says that un-.
less he is lazier than he expects to be
he Fiji cast his vote against the
amendment. It's too bad that his wife
can't vote in his stead; she would vote
much more intelligently than he. After
the adoption Of the reform the Smith
family will be half right at any rate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

on by exposure in the icy water. at the
Edinburgh hospital. He was buried
with full military honors. The picture
shows Scots firing the last salute over
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

The Sioux City Journal notes that:
There never has been q sign Of life
in the capitol extension repeal project
since the official canvass of the vote
cast at the last election"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

with prohibition and woman SUI
frage," says the Algona Republican,
.sInwa will be the cleanest and best
governed state in the Union"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-12

'Tf the March lion keeps on hogging
things there won't be anything left for
the lamb to make good on" says the
Manson Democrat.
Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1915-02-23

PLANT TREES NOW
We have "A complete line of the best
varieties, Riverside Nursery. South
Central Ave. Phone 43J2 or $500, Box
70. If
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For Sale or Exchange

FOR EXCHANGE-Incom property
and good business that will net rs to
$50 monthly in new town near Indian
reservation of fine farming land, prop
erty will increase in value. $500, want
cattle, will buy small outfit for about
$4,000. Box 2213 Republican. bg
GOOD LIST of Calf. property to
exchange for Salt River valley and
Phoenix property. See Thompson, Is
n. LIST Ave. If
GOOD PAYING BUSINESS--Cen-
trally located, invoicing about $4,000,
to exchange for improved ranch.
BARNARD & CLEMENT.
Phone 1121. 129 \. First Ave- If