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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
DEBTS AND BETS,

The merchant was telling the story.
1t concerned a hot sport According
to the raconteur this sport found it
impossible to pay his bills. The mer-
chant, Ioquitur. had a Juicy account
against him and couldn't get anything
on account but a smile and a promise
and had concluded to charge it off as
impossible of collection. However
meeting the hot sport at a baseball
game and the hot sport offering bet
of $50 on the game the merchant con-
cluded to take him on figuring that he
could credit on tine DILL IL he lost. The
merchant won and was surprised the
next DAY to receive check for the sun
together with note expressing tne
pleasure the hot sport derived in paying
his loss. Said the merchant this en-
couraged me to retain the account OF
! the book hi,t = sesr or go afterUart
charged it of and forgot 1t. Thil
was after the hot sport informed M
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
TELL THEM ABOUT IT.

The law which provides treatment
and support for crippled and afflicted
children whose parents are unable to
pay for surgery and treatment private
y has resulted in a considerable num-
Der of such patients at the state uni
versity.
But has Marshalltown and Marshall
county looked to it that their poor AND
afflicted children are getting full ad-
vantage of the opportunity created by
the law? How many children thus sit
chance exist here? Is it being looked
after and offered? Does any one know?
A child thus handicapped by misfort-
une disease or deformity is liza bilty
to himself and the community. Cured
and made normal he is an asset. We
look after our domestic animals and
do no, fail to call in the veterinary to
relieve and render such animals valu-
able when relief is possible. II
pays to change cripple into n
normal human being able to care
for himself 1t pays the community
the coldblooded economics of the mat
ter.
But there is another and higher side
TO it. moral and christian side which
demands that every child born shall
have the best show his people and his
community can give him. He is rather
a poor specimen who fails to put
human welfare above profit and who
sets cattle above children. There is
a duty TO perform toward the children
who need help and who may be helped
thru the medical and surgical science
we cultivate and support at our stats
university.
1t is too often the case that parents
of such children are ignorant and neg
lectful or prejudiced against the ser
vices thus freely rendered. So they
stand in the way of their own children.
Explain the law and the opportunity
TO them. If We have crippled and un-
fortunate children in our city and
county that ought TO be at Iowa City
and we have without doubt-they
should have the help the legislature in
tended they shall receive thru the skill
and knowledge of the state specialists
Tell them about il.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
that "a man may not be able to pay
his honest debts but It's a thief and
scnnn drel who WON'T nav a bet"

that "a man may not be able to pay
his honest debts but It's thief and a
scoundrel who won't pay bet"
AS a story it's pretty good one. As
a fact it exemplifies condition OF
business morals lamentably too COM
mon in some circles. A lot of fellows
are betting other peoples money. It's
the old debt of honor stuff, 1t comes
down from old time rakes that despised
men who labored or were in trade, who
considered a gambling obligation first
and an honest debt lowed to a trades
man last of ALL The born aristocrat
had some excuse He had been bred to
consider all outside the charmed circle
of hereditary aristocracy born simply
to his service. His modern and Ameri-
can successor has no such excuse. But
he gets away with it even better than
his predecessor For in those old days
of Imprisonment for debt they put the
broken aristocratic dead beat away be-
hind the gates of debtors prison.
OF course the modern exemplifica-
ton of the we'll dressed and fine man
nered parasite finally gets his. 1t is
practically an infaliible process. He
evolutes. Sooner or later he goes
PUNK. The fine feathers fade, friend
ship fails, for sporting friendship
endures only while fortune smiles. He
becomes n mendicant where he had
been a high roller, hanger on where
ne was a leader. Observe the sport
who considers a bet before debt Con-
slider him after forty. He's all in, out
of it, a fiivver, a has been. No more.
Nine times out of ten.
It's a poor system. 1t rarely wins.
The percentage is all in favor Of the
game Life deals to the sport from a
brace box. All he gets out Of the play
is the excitement The house players,
cautious. steady and with wax on their
fingers get him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15

cal $100.000,00O bond issue for road
work, which had not been proposed OF
advocated by anyone. S
The republican state convention can.
not back up Mr.. Harding's bogus road
issue. It would make itself ridiculous
to do SO. If 1t shall DECLARE for pro-
hibition it will be asking Mr.. Harding
to go back upon the men who nominal
ed him.
DEMOCRATS FOR PROHIBITION
burlington Gazette.1
The democratic party OF Iowa went
on record yesterday at the convention
in Des Moines as favoring prohibition
In declaring for 1t the members OF the
committee on resolutions, who rep-e-
scented, the views of the majority OF
the party in the state. heartily in
dorsed the attitude taken by e. T
Meredith. the candidate for governor
and we all know that be has repeated
~ expressed himself as favoring a dry
plank in the platform. This step will
no doubt mean loss of large num-
Der of votes to Mr.. Meredith and the
entire state ticket and will also mean
that in communities where there is
doubt as to the result Of the county
ticket that the party has put itself in
jeopardy in these places.
The Gazette did not favor a reso-
luton of this sort, believing that the
legislature had already settled this
question. Iowa is dry now and all the
"resoluting" by any party will not
change It, However. Mr. Meredith In
sisted that his views be known in
order that the people who voted for
or against him be aware Of exactly
how he stands. This Is as 1t should
be, and his possible sacrifice Of votes
for principle will be appreciated by
all fair-minded people.
Mr.. Harding, the republican candi-
date for governor, on the other hand,
Is so wobbly that no one knows where
he stands on any question. AT the
democratic convention Yesterday mem
bers OF the Scott county delegation
openly stated that Mr.. Harding as
sured them that he was o. K, which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
aoop.NAruRE.

Good-nature is one of the principal
products of sunshine, and when
we'll rooted never fails to produce
a bumper crop. When a person has
become thoroughly saturated with kiln
dried good-nature he is welcome at any
social circle, especially around the
family hearth at a time when the baby
is. cutting several shrill-voiced teeth
and the apple pie has been thought
lessly cremated In the oven.
Some people are born good -natured
and others acquire It by din. Of hard
work. 1t is better to be born with a
sunny disposition and a perpetual 8 by
4 smile than 1t is to Inherit four farms
and go thru life looking like human
toothache. On the other .iand, many a
person has started out in childhood
without any visible signs OF good
nature and after being hit below the
belt by adversely has become as mel
low as a clings.one peach at the BOT
tom of the basket.
One fine thing about good nature is
that it is as contagious as the red
measles but doesn't have to be quaran-
tined. The minute a CHEEKY, sparkling
eyed woman breaks sinto gloomy
gathering of the Ladies' Aid Society
and begins to get rid of an accumula-
ton of enthusiasm, energy and cour-
age. she will infect the rest of the
members ito such an extent tina. 1t will
be decided to repaper the parsonage
without a dissenting vote. No noble
project. like buying couple of
non skid castings for the pastor or
removing the hitching posts from Main
street. was ever accomplished by work.
erss suffering from an intsrna. crouch.
Good-nature. when once durably
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
ON The DINER FOOT.

The U-liner is classified by the L. S.
as peaceful merchantmen.
At the same time the news reports
give the purpose of the British block
aders to destroy the submarine boat and
the preparations and plans conceived to
effect their object. Fast destroyers
will drag the seas with steel nets and
gripnels equipped with explosive bombs.
In short no effort will be lacking to
sink the liner above or under sea.
The shoe is now on the other foot.
The L boat has accommodations for
passengers and without doubt will find
plenty of naturalized or born Ameri-
can citizens willing to take passage in
her as a protective proposition. What
Is the president of the United States to
do should the peaceful merchantmen be
destroyed incontinently and without
warning by British vessels?
The fact is that the armed merchant
man whether German or British, with
guns capable Of tearing the vitals Of an
armored ship is a peace vessel only as
it refrains from war. Modern four
inch guns with modern ammunition are
capable Of all manner of destruction. A
sailing yacht with a four-inch gun can
sink the largest unarmed ship with dis
patch and in complete safety to itself.
But we have established a standard.
We shall have to conform to it whether
1t be boat or sailing ship
The fact is that we are foolishly at
tempting to maintain and enforce sea
laws that have been antiquated by
modern progress in naval equipment for
warfare. We need not expect Great
Britain to conform to the rule. She
will destroy the Uliners wherever she
finds them and in the most expeditions
fashion at her command.
What then? More notes presumably
and after them more notes. And sue
ceedingly more notes and more notes.
Shillyshallying and bluff and party
and personal political exigency make
a mess OF foreign affairs whether on
the high seas or on the border of Mex
ico The L boat only affords another
opportunity for evasiveness and shifty
| change.
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Topics of the Times

That ss5,ooo.ooo for good roads isn't
+ =
The longer thoughtful men observe
politics and politicians the more char
ity they have for Benedict Arnold and
Judas.
You'll have to hand it to wicked. ig
norant. old Pancho Villa. The harder
he is thrown the higher he bounces
Now Carranza insists that the en-
barge on munitions shall be lifted. And
as Wilson has said ita shall continue
We may expect before long to see the
guns and ammunition we need desper-
ately at home going across the line.
That's the way American foreign pol
icy works nowadays. We play every
shot with reverse english and under
spin,
Ottumwa women threaten to defeat
the $4,000 proposed bond issue in re-
taliation against the local school board
which worked against woman suffrage.
And still some folks insist that woman
would be a cipher in politics. Why
that sounds full man size, doesn't it?
Grin and bear it; it's the making OF
the corn.
It's pretty hard to be frantically "in
love with your work" on a day like
this.
Get the necessary things out of the
way and quit, Hunt the shady spots
and find the place where the breeze
comes coolest across the porch. Be
careful and apstemious at meals, hold
a contented mind and don't worry and
you'll come thru the hot spell all
right.
Thank the good Lord that you live
in America and are not being thrust
against the machine guns at Verdur
and on the west front That's a gooc
hot weather thought which works jus,
as we'll at low temperatures.
800
The farther we get into it the more
certain We are that the national guarc
is more efficient than the federal mill
tarists who send out equipment al
which a zulu would turn up his nose
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T1MEs.REPUBL1cAN, MARsHA1LTowN IOWA: July Is 1915

ISOLATION, az every club represented Is
from some city in Iowa, but that is
neither here nor there. The point Is
that for some reason or other baseball
in Iowa is as hard to keep up as 1t
was in the days Of the old Iowa league,
when Boone was a member.
The Burlington club Of the associa :
ton is broke and can not continue. 1t
Is added that Burlington is the last
of the original eight members Of the
Central association to drop out. Why
can't Burlington support a baseball
team? 1t certainly is large enough,
larger than Fort Dodge. Mason City.
Marshalltown and other cities which
seem to keep their teams going. OF
course if Burlington can not keep up,
then Boone could not be expected to
do so. Still there are many in this
city who long for. the days to return
when 1t will have league baseball.
Baseball is undoubtedly good adver-
tisement for a city. It gives it a
standing that nothing else does. The
great trouble with baseball in smaller
cities seems to be that If salaries are
kept at a point that Is not a losing
game the game is not good enough IL
attract attention, and IL good game
is put up the salaries are so high tina,
the gate receipts will not cover them,
and there you are.
Some day Iowa may be rich enough
to support baseball league in -four
ishing manner. 1T seems to be too
busy or too stingy at the present time
to do so.
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been put out about the orpet trial we
would be glad 10 see the editor present
reasonable defense" says the Gr1ndy
Republican. whether Orpet did, or
did not, kill the girl, we fail to see the
Justification of the front space given
to the sordid details Of the trial And
as for writing editorials about the wo-
men who crowd the little court room
over in Illinois, what is to be said Of
the thousands OF women who can find
the story of the trial In their morning
paper told in such plain language that
but little is left to the imagination ?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15

Of time I'd like to feel as safe In Rome de am feeling
here home, with HAND I'd like to see n-
suffers vince, when with hauteur of prince proclaim
native land But when travelled in Cathay, the people
stopped my way pulled my and ears: and
when cried Finland skates! I'm from the United
States" they greeted with jeers. They robbed
my pen, my dollar every yen. they
stole my dachshund pup and stood by and them
swpe safety and pipe. and TIN drinking
cup notified my and asked that bateshps
fast they could track shoot that country
FULL Of holes and prod the thieves with tenfoot poles and
get my chattes back But Uncle Sam Just wrote
instead Of going after goats and breaking
dome: say Americans will find II lis the best
pInn oafipk at hon 4
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
"RETALLATYON."
HD-1t- ~


The Rolfe Arrow, not especially
dry itself. suggests that the temper
ance people who are working against
Harding within the republican party
may bring retaliation among Harding's
friends with the result that a wet"
legislature may be elected. We are not
alarmed. Friends Of liquor are not in
The habit Of voting for prohibitionisss
for the legislature any more than for
governor. They know no party fidelity
and have depended upon the blind par
tisansfip Of the temperance people TO
keep the saloon In $owa so long as 4,
has disgraced the state. At last the
enemies OF the traffic appear to have
awakened to the fact that a saloorless
Iowa Is more important than a repub-
lican or democratic Iowa. We are be-
ginning to realize that our opinion or
questions which divide the people n
national politics is not a safe guide t.
us in voting for state officers. SO fal
as we recollect, the last Iowa legisla.
ture did not once divide along party
lines. The brewers and their It'll,
friends among the newspapers know
this. and they vote for the men the,
can trust to advance their interests
Ike Harding. 1t is time for temper
ar,ce men to forget party and vote 70
what they wantDon't imagine we cal
get any friend OF liquor to vote for
dry candidate for the legislature
They are posted. We better get wise.
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Iona Newspapers
IOWA LAND.
IBurlington Hawkeye.

The Michael Hogan farm in Adams
county, consisting of 243 acres. was
sold recently for $4S,600. That is ex-
actly 5000 per acre. 1t is noted that
when Michael Hogan came to the
county in 1870. he bought quarter
section of what now constitutes the
farm, for $4,000. That would mean an
increase of $4,000 on the original cost
of that 100 acres. In other words the
value of that land increased 1900 per
cent in forty-five years. There may
be other investments as profitable. but
no other would have been so sure. In
addition no doubt handsome fortune
was cleared from the Intelligent oper-
alton Of that farm.
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Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome


STATED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge, No. los, A. F. & A. NJ.
Friday. July q, 1880 p. m. John w.
Wells. Secretary. B. c. Frazey, W. NJ
3IoNEr CHAPTER. Nc. 81. r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday evening
July II. Regular business. Carl schah-
ner. H. P: John W. Wells. secretary
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mo- Council No. 90. r. & s. NJ, Mon
eaJ. July II. regular business l. =
Forbes. Recorder. George Gregory l. NJ
STATED coNcLAVE, ST. Aldemar
comnandery No. 80. X. T, Tuesday
July IS. s p. m. for work and regular
business. Full uniform. l.. I. FORBES
Recorder; H. c. Mueller, Commander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E.
s-snecial meeting Wednesday, July
%. at s D. m. for initiation. Eliza ).
Battin.. secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell
". NJ.
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means wet. But IL they should hear
Of him making statements IN favor Of
prohibition they We're to ignore them.
because that, he stated, was necessary
in order to get votes. And II the
people of Iowa are willing to be fooled
in this manner, 1t Ia up to them to
cast their vote for Harding.
The honesty and business acuff1en
OF Mr.. Meredith makes him most de-
sirable candidate. II elected he VIII
give the people an administration that
will put Iowa in the van OF the other
states of the union. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
IOWA DEMOCRACY DRY"


In taking bold and uncompromia-
ing stand against saloons and saloon
influences. the democrats Of Iowa have
cast on old shackles.
When number Of democratic lead.
ers met at Des Moines several weeks
ago to bring out candidates for state a.
ces' PRELIMINARY to the primary, they
asked =. I. Meredith to stand as
c "a Tor governor and John T,
c!afKson to stand as a candidat, for
attorney general. Both of these men
accepted the party call on a SPECIFIC I'm.
Outstanding that they were opposed u
saloons and would emphasiz, that at
titude IN the campaign.
AFTER nominating Meredith and
Clarkson the democrats might have re-
fused to back them MP with an aRrres.
sive platform, as urged oy a few demo-
cratic politicians. That probably would
have resulted in complete disruption ri
their party by the withdrawal OF these
candidates. There would be no logic
in asking support Of candidates without
asking approval, also, Of the particular
things which the candidates represent
and advocate.
Whatever the pressure the democra-
tic state convention, held at Des Moines
yesterday, did not do any lodging or
the subject Of prohibition. It took Q
stand for submission of the amendment
| now pending before the state legisla.
ture. This declaration was backed b,
almost all Of the delegates when tn.
resolutions were submitted to vote.
This action on the part OF the demo
Gratis means that the saloon question
will be an issue in the Iowa campaign
this fall. Even IL the republican stat
convention takes stand against sa
looms this will not alter the fact. TIL
republican candidate for governor 1
classed as liberal and the demo
cratic candidate for governor Is op
posed to saloons and in favor Of stric
law enforcement. These ministeri,
associations which have been deciarin
| for Meredith evidently knew what the
were doing.
4 In the urinary campaign the reput
lican candidate made good roads HI
chief issue. arguing against myth
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
LIQUID Evidences.

A publican was prosecuted for
selling bottle Of whisky during pro.
flbited hours. A bottle Of whisky vas
produced as evidence.
!! The jury heard the evidence and re.
tired to the Jury room. They presently
returned. ~
my lord" said the foreman. the
jury is quite satisfied as. to the sale Of
the bottle, but they are not sure OF its
contents. May they have the bottle to
satisfy Themselves n
"Certairly." declared the Judge.
After a brief period the jury MED
into the box again.
"well. gentlemen, have you reached
decision?" asked the Judge.
NO case, my lord said the fore.
man. There was not enough evidence
to 60 round."-London Answers.
"Old man, l am sure in hard luck.
Need money badly and haven't D least
idea where can get IT.
"well, am glad to hear that. I.
feared you might have, decided on me-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
Deadly elIa Monster.

The gila monster il clumsy heavy
NsArd, though full.grown specimen
II wonderfully striking object to be.
hold. II IL justly famous as one o.
1lexico's most interesting reptiles. for
q abounds all over that country from
~ border to the 1sthmus OF Tehuan-
tepec. II il p0puiiaaTi iy!. called gle mon
go booause IL WAS once quite com
- along the ella river in Arizona.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
rR,pLsrs, ANSWER 70 CHARGE.

Woman Arrested For kssleotins Chill.
dren Gives Birth 10 Three.
Hull, Engiand.--A woman sent to the
local prison for negIecfins her chill
dren promptly gave birth TO triplets.
She was immediately released and the
charge was withdrawn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-07-15
BASEBALL.

tBoone News Republican,
The Central association Of baseball
- having a precarious existenoe this
summer. The Central association il
misnamed. It should be the iowa as
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AUTOMOBILE .GYPsIEs

lCarroll Times.
You needn't believe this unless YOU
want to. We wouldn't, If we hadn't
seen 1t personally.
Gone Is another tradition Of boyhood
days when we used to stand with gap
Ing mouth and fear in our hearts as
three or four wagon loads of gypsies
ltrundled down the road and established
| their camp down by the creek. 4 They
always brought with them a number
OF more or less broken down horses
| which they traded to farmers of the
community for others slightly less cis-
reputable, and eked out living gener-
ally by nocturnal visits to the hen
houses of the farmers along the line.
But all this is changed. Nothing do
ing any more-the idea and the ideal
are shattered. for the gypsies are be.
coming up to date Saturday there
passed thru Carroll four autos, each
loaded to the guards with dusky skin
ned children Of Romany clad in the
same colorful garments as of yore and
the men wearing the same highly-bur-
nfshed mustaches. True, the cars were
somewhat disreputable- looking, as wee
the horses in days Of old, but they were
all propelled by gasoline except !, enc
Ford. which ran on It's reputation.
There wasn't horse in the bunch.
and as we gazed at the reflection a
tear stole into the eyes for the good old
days that were passing. The glamor
OF gypsying Is gone. There Is. of
course, the supposition that they swap
autos with the farmers in the same
way which they used to swap horses,
and the gypsy appetite for chicken
PROBABLY remains unassuaged. but the
| kernel of the thing Is gone.
"hen gypsies start riding in autos
the stun is off. 1t gives the average
stay-at- nome citizen longing to swap
mis- runabout for an aeroplane and thus
keep ahead Of the procession.