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Majority Verdiets.

Mistrials in civil and criminal cases
would be far less frequent if ma
jority of the Jurors were permitted to
decide the Issues instead OF requiring
the twelve men to stand as a unit be-
fore returning a verdict.
The same system which applies to
eminent, majority rule, might be ap-
piled with equal success to jury trials.
One stubborn man on a jury has fire.
quently cause1 endless hardship AMI
Inconvenience to defendants presumed
under the law to be innocent. There
have been cases where at the first trial
eleven men favored acquittal. forcing
a retrial. At the second trial the de-
PENDANT not infrequentiy has been
convicted.
The movement for majority verdicts
has been hanging fire for long time,
but it will be given considerable i'm
petus by the decision of the supreme
court that juries of less than twelve
men when required by common law
and verdicts by less than the entire
jury when provided for by state law
are valid.
An attempt had been made by rail-
roads, sued for damages under the
federal employers liability law. &c
prove such jury and verdicts did not
meet the requirements OF the seventh
amendment to the federal constitution
that cases at common law should oe
tried by jury. The supreme court has
Upheld the Minnesota statute per.
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the public school. This farm was cleared
of trees and brush; stumps were re-
moved; and posts cut and hauled. The
lumber for fencing was cut on the land
and sawed at nearby sawmill on
shares. All this work, including the
building of the fence, was done by the
boys with the assistance of the prin-
cipal The only outlay of cash for this
construction was $3.50 for nails ana
barbed wire.
The land was divided into plots and
cultivated by the boys and girls of the
agricultural classes. Fruit trees Of every
kind suitable for this climate were
planted during late winter and early
spring. Hickory. haws. and many 9TH
er trees were planted and later grated
and budded. "A spray was added to the
equipment. and lessons were given in
spraying fruit trees, vegetables, etc.
The principal and the boys made excur-
sions thru the neighborhood spraying
orchards, potato patches, and gardens
to destroy Injurious insects and other
pests. These excursions afford the
school opportunity to reach the patrons
direct and give them valuable first
hand lessons. The work has become
community looks to the school for ad-
vice and help Of this sort.
Before the establishment OF the new
school with tbs new relationship to the
community. only the smaller children
attended the school: the older ones
sought work and entertainment else
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10
The Will to Enforce Justice.

Justice, not peace, is the first neces-
sity Of the nations. A peace that is
not founded on righteousness, and
whose motive is not justice, is itself on
the broad road to war. First pure,
then peaceable. is the law for nations
as individuals.
II there Is first the will to justice,
as the compelling power in the minds
Of the peoples and of their govern
ments, there need be no fear or hesi-
tation about establishing a league Of
nations to enforce the peace Of the
world.
But If the motive of such a league.
or Of the nations or rulers that would
organize and dominate such a league,
is not justice but peace, a peace that is
a mere absence of the trouble and the
loss and the discomfort caused by war
"a negative and selfish peace whose
motive is the desire for prosperity
spelt with capital P, and that brin gs
fairness to those who wallow In it-if
that is the peace men want to EN-
force" and that its motive, it is a vain
thing, and all talk about it is empty
ard blighting as the east wind. II
can not be. 1t must not be. 1t would
be mockery Of justice. another crime
against humanity, a deeper insult to
God.
And on this point all true Canadians
are Of one mind; we are paying the
price OF war. paying it in the burden
of our taxes. paying it in the toll on
our blood, and we must pay 1t in full;
having paid so much for the sake OF
justice and liberty and the rights Of
the little peoples. we must pay to the
uttermost farthing, until Germany is
driven out of Belgium, and the worlds
resolute will to justice vanquishes for
ever Germany's arrogant will to
power.
And Canada, as a nation is earning
the right so to speak-to speak for
justice as the only sure foundation Of
peace-and so to speak before the
world in the name Of the strongest
conviction and the truest sentiment
and the most enduring purpose Of the
democracy Of the North American con-
tinent. OF all the national heritors OF
American liberty, Canada alone stands
up at the battle fronts Of Europe and
speaks the word Of a united national
mind, Of an uncompromised national
conscience, and OF an undivided ma
tlonal will. Canada alone, in the
worlds assize of war. gives the true
American vote that Belgium and every
other free people shall have the right
to govern themselves That Canadian
vote Is written, ifldeiibiy written. ii
the Canadian blood that soaks the
trenches round about Ypres these very
days.
And that Canadian vote. and every
other vote so written. has the right to
be counted as in favor Of league to
enforce peace. because in the judg-
ment hall Of the nation 1t represents a
will to enforce justice.-J. A. Macdon-
aid in Toronto Globe.
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THE HAIR.

The hair is one of natures gifts
which Is never appreciated until 1t is
all gone, or beginning to depart and
leave footprints in the wash bowl. A
man will start out in married life with
high hopes and thick head of natural
hair and will allow 1t to come up alone
and unaided and lop over his ear lobes
with no other encouragement than the
mi-annual shampoo. Just the min
ute, however, that he begins to miss 1t
from its accustomed haunts he will try
to coax it back with scalp rubs. tar soap
preparations and liquid dandruff re-
movers, only to cry too late" and be
obliged to sit for his picture with a
Derby hat.
The hair was given to man so that
he would not be confused with other
vegetables. 1t would seem that man,
who of all the works of creation is the
only one which can part his hair in the
middle and still look per cent human,
would prize this gift more than he does
and keep up the repairs on it better.
Yet we see all around US men who once
had long, flowing locks, but who now
retain nothing but their courage and
sideburns. This teaches us that man.
who is looked UP to by woman as
model Of wisdom and foresight, is in
reality one of the most acute mental
disappointments in the animal king
dom.
The hair comes in several different
colors, all of which have a strong, fiend-
ish tendency to fade. shrink and final
ly evaporate. Owing to the scarcity
of German dyes. there is more gray
hair in this country than ever before.
Our towns and cities are full Of middle
aged men who have become premature
ly gray over night, owing to the nom
arrival of some foreign coloring sub
stance which would hold water. Red
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The School at ljnnviIle,

Linnville is a rural community far
from the railroad in a hilly region in
northern Louisiana. Five years ago 1t
had all the marks of backwoods com
munity with no ideals for growth. Some
Of the marks were it's box-car shack
used for school, its farm run to weeds,
and it's traditional school open from
four to six months in the year. The
beginning was made by the citizens
themselyes-not all of them to be sure,
only the more energetic. These few sue
ceeded in building a two-room school
which was a marked improvement over
the previous schoolhouse. At the pres
ent time, the two-room building has
been enlarged into fine six-room
structure set in large grounds, sodded
with grass, and dotted with shade trees.
lit mas other improvements that sig
nifty a growing community with definite
standards of its own. There is a shop
room for the boys, well-equipped
home economics department for the
girls, sanitary drinking fountain, and
the like. Local social life, formerly OF
no community avail, now offers inter-
ests for the children, the young men
ana young women. and the older people
| of the community.
The most forceful factor in the new
community life began with the estab-
lishment of school farm and plant
! nursery OF about two acres as part OF
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Iona Newspapers
A DESPERATE sCHDME.
TDes Moines Capital.1

The Capital is in receipt Of a letter
from a 12-year-old girl in Spokane,
Wash. The little girl has written an
essay on the state in which she lives.
1t will be entered in contest. One Of
the conditions of the contest Is that
the letter must be published in the
old home paper OF the contestant.
The little girl wants hers reproduced
in the Capital.
1t will be impossible to publish the
essay. The Capital is sorry that it can
not help the little girl to win prize.
She has prepared a we'll written paper,
full of the booster spirit and the WON
derful advantages Of the country in
which she lives. But the rules Of the
contest. which the little girl does not
understand, brands the whole scheme
as desperate attempt to get publicity
and If possible induce more people In
Iowa to go to Spokane. The west is in
hard straits. Cities like Spokane de-
veloped during a boom and now they
are fast reaching the limit of arti-
fetal prosperity. Only communities
which are in the position Of drown
ing man grabbing at a straw would
try to use their little girls and boys
as tools with which to secure free adj
vertisine.
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Due South,

II the big ditch at Panama brought
the west coast Of South America with
in easy commercial range. the great
war has Put 1t on the map as a new
playground for the states It is novel
reading to see Peru, the Land of the
Incas," poisoning into print along
side of Martha's Vineyard and Bret
ton Woods. Yet why not? There is
no trip out of New York, by rail or
water north or south, east or west,
that holds quite as many rich. vivid
monuments as the new short cut from
the Atlantic to the Pacific.
In miles Callao, Peru, is now but
slightly further from New York than
Liverpool. Colon is 1872 miles dis
tant and there are 1872 miles between
Panama and Callao. The whole route
lies in a fairly straight line almost due
south. The canal itself. owing to the
sweeping bend eas- ard west in the
isthmus, lies straightaway before you.
turning slightly east of south as a
matter of fact. In point OF time the
trip is. of course. more leisurely than
the express service to England. The
southern route, to say, Naples, is
fair parallel. With a stopover in the
the canal: and week more to your
west coast port.
The Incas seem even further than
that from Rroadway-most of our
recollection of them is associated with
schoolboy history wherein moved un-
real temples and unbelievable llamas
and uncounted treasure gold. Lake
Titicaca. 1880 feet in the air. is the
particular goal now advertised along
side of Lake Champlain and Ausable
Chasm. 1t sounds very blue and very
highland very unreal. We shall have
to see it to believe in it. And here's
hoping that the sight is granted After
a life in the subway, strange seas,
tropic fruits and old. forgotten heroes
the oldest romance Of the Americas
have a clear call. Spain and the
South of Franre-and with them the
land of ruin ard cold-south by west
from the Rattery.-New York Tribune.
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THE ORA1ORicAL OVERTURE.

Oratory doesn't count for much in
big political conventions. Time was
when the nominating speech was
looked forward to as an event; nova
days it is endured. The sun of the
spellbinder seems to have set for the
day
Still, some Of the great speeches
have been made in nominating eandi-
dates before republican conventions.
1ngersolrs classic spoken before the
convention at Philadelphia which
created a ''plumed Knight but failed
to bring the nomination TO Blaine,
Conkling's speech at Chicago nominal
ing Grant for third term, which also
failed to bring the bacon home. Mr..
Bryan's circus speech when he dra-
matically introduced the cross Of gold
and the crown of thorns was not a
great speech but it found the right
audience and nominated a candidate.
Nowadays the nominating speech is
the overture before the play, TO which
few listen and which is not properly
part of the play but an incident in a
program. Perhaps, soon, we shall dis
pense with the nominating orator al
together and start the steam roller as
a curtain raiser. What's the difference
in modern political convention?
IT is a pity if oratory is to perish
from the earth If the spellbinder is
to vanish and the person with the
notebook and pencil and cold ranks Of
figures is to take place and precedence.
But il looks that way, it certainly
looks that way.
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Topics of the Times

The iceman is just as much dis
susted with the weather as are the
farmers. Along about knee deep in
June the ice crop needs hot weather
quite as certainly as does the corn.
49,
Whatever the convention may do
today they can't affect the crop of
strawberries and spring onions. Some
thing remains to live for
Jim Hill left no last will and tesla
ment to make trouble in the family.
But Jim had enough to go all around
and leave something over. He didn't
need TO make a will.
What was your guess this morning,
Hughes and Roosevelt and a three
oornered campaign of pussy wants a
corner with Wilson in pussys corner?
Along about Friday night or Satur-
day morning delegates begin TO count
what is left of the expense money and
wonder whether they hadn't better be
nomination.
E. R Moore, successful candidate
or lieutenant governor, spent 81,
1923 in his campaign. AS the salary
of the office is but $4,000 a year Ernie
will not be able to lay up a cent dur
ing the first twelve months if he shall
be elected.
VIII the democratic convention put in
the prohibition plank? And if it
doesn't will Meredith walk out?
The woman suffragists propose to
keep up their present organization
which is good politics and will save
the trouble Of reorganization when
they try it over. One more boost and
over it goes.
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"ALL SHOT TO PIECES"

That the republicans will be divided
in the coming state election goes with
out saying. Thousands Of repu blicans
will shift to the democratic nominee
without any manner of doubt That
the division Of the democrats on the
wet and dry question will be slight Is
evidenced by the attitude Of the Man
son Democrat, opposed to prohibition
and representative Of very consider
able vote in the democratic party. The
Democrat is boldly out for Meredith
and solidarity in that party while hop
ing that the platform will not pro-
nounce for prohibition. The indica-
lions are that while some opposition
to the Meredith platform program
may be expected, whatever may de-
velop in the convention by way Of
opposition to the absolutely dry pro-
nouncenent. Meredith will have
his way and hold the democratic vote.
The opportunity of victory is too al
turing TO De denied.
The situation is peculiar. Repubii-
cans are to present a wet candidate to
a dry constituency, democrats a dry
candidate to a wet constituency. For
Mr. Harding is as wet now as he was
before he was nominated and the de-
mocracy is dry only as Meredith
makes it so by assertion and as his
orifIamme leads toward party success.
And there we are.
What the conventions shall say
amounts to little. No doubt the re-
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dew cleaning like priceless jewels the grass; 1t
sin here dreaming while mornings transient glories
pass Get up. the light is stealing athwart the
summit the hill the porkers squealng
buckets of refreshing sw The orioles already
ing the hooking bird begins to mock and sluggish
youth, snoring atho it's nearly o'clock! When
young sainted father ne'er had to my
bed thought 1t shame to such bother-I
fore the East red Before the began its
cat bird raised its solo fine went
barrels of sop to feed the hunpbacked
my abors singing as would do. my son;
breakfast bell ringing. the
~sS. aene. &c. Up. get the world is waking:
is grand, but it fades! three shakes
will be breaking this sat your shoulderbades
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AFTER THE RATTLE

USaS sun.
The republicans Of iowa, with gem
erous democratic assistance. perhaps
by majority and certainly by a sweep
ing plurality. have nominated Lieuten-
ant Governor w. L. Harding as their
candidate for governor. In doing so
they did not heed the advice of the
daily or weekly press. Neither did
they heed, the advice of most Of the
republican leaders Of the state. They
have nominated a man Of pleasing
personality and accommodating dis
position who had the backing Of all
the liberal and corpora ton influences.
With this support assured because 1t
was deserved. Harding was free to
make any kind Of a campaign he chose
and by appealing to those prejudiced
against high taxes and the opposition
in certain sections Of the state to pro-
gressive road laws he succeeded in en-
listing the support Of thousands Of re-
publicans who otherwise would have
opposed him vigorously There never
has been time since Harding went
into the field that the Sun had any
strong expectation Of his defeat and
when Senator Joseph II. Allen launched
his campaign in an attack upon At
torney Genera! Cesscn and a silence
which amounted to tacit approval Of
his other opponent, W. L. Harding,
there remained practically no doubt Of
the outcome OF the primary election.
1t has surprised few unless the sur
prise has been in the size Of Harding's
victory. Democratic leaders were SO
sure Of it several weeks ago that they
agreed upon their state ticket as one
best calculated to gather the vote Of
republicans dissatisfied with Harding.
This fact contributed to the Harding
lead, because, with no fight in their
own ranks liberal democrats were free
to cast their votes to aid the man they
wanted to support for governor next
fall. The Sun has no expectation Of
assisting in the election Of Harding.
but It now freely predicts that he will
win. He does not deserve all the re-
publican votes he will get. and he
surely will receive a big lift from lib
eral democrats.
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H>$$ina II All

The doctor told him he needed carbo-
hydrates, proteids and. above all. some
thing heterogeneous. The doctor men,
toned long list Of foods for him tc
eat. He staggered out and wabbled
into Penn avenue restaurant.
How about beefsteak?" he asked the
waiter. ''Is that nitrogenous?"
The waiter didn't know.
Are fried potatoes rich in carbohy-
drates or not?"
The waiter couldn't say.
We'll, III Ak it," declared the pooi
man in despair. Bring me a large
plate Of hash. "-Pittsburg Post.
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Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome.


STATED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No. 10s, A. F. & A NJ. Reg
ular business Friday, June IL p. m.
John w. Wells, secretary. B. 0. Fra
zey, w. NJ.
sIGhET CHAPTER No. So. r.. A. NJ
Stated convocation Monday evening"
June 10. Regular business p. m
Carl Schatfner, II. P; John W. "eiis'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No 20, r. & S. M mon
day, June 10, regular business. l.
Forbes, Recorder George Gregory l.. M
STATED coNcLAVE, St Aldema'
conmandery No. 80, K. T., Tuesoay'
June 20, s p. m, regular business. l.. :
Forbes, eRcorder; H. c. Mueller ION
mander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81, o. E.
S.-Regular Meeting Wednesday, June
IA. at 8 p. m. for business. refresh
ments. Eliza S. Battin, secretary Cofa
NJ. Mcdowell, W. NJ.
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The only reason men wear hair is be-
cause 1t is cheaper and more durable
than the patent fiy-catcher With wom-
an 1t Is entirely different. Wom-
an would not be able to come down to
dinner or go shopping unless she was
accompanied by the low, rakish switch
or full equipment of inherited hair.
Women always have an abundance Of
hair. because they take care of what is
given them and know how to match the
remainder II switches were made for
men only, the industry would be about
as profitable as growing grapefruit in
canada
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publican convention will approve pro-
hibit;on and demand law enforcement.
The democratic platform will conform
closely to Meredith's demands. The
leading issues in the campaign will
not be made on the platforms but on
the candidates. And there we are
again.
Somebody said the other, day that
Iowa is all shot to pieces politically"
And he seems to have had inside infor-
nation.
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verdict after being out twelve hours
and a Virginia statute authorizing
trials before seven jurors. In
cidentally, judgments awarded in
Oklahoma and Kentucky where 'frac-
tional verdicts" by three-fourths Of
the jury are authorized were also af-
firmed.
With the supreme court on record as
upholding the constitutionality OF
such a reform, there is every likelihood
that the other states will adopt the
majority verdict system.-Washingt ton
Post
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where At the present time the young
men and women of the community,
ranging in age from 81 to &c years, at
tend The farmers have learned to
look to the institution for help in their
agricultural problems. They find it
more profitable to have their sons and
daughters in school than to keep them
at work on the farm. with no vision Of
their own and no aid beyond that whicis
they themselves can give.
The True Theory.
1t may be that woman's essentially
wild,
Hysterical, feeble and shifty.
It may be she only exists for her child,
And ought to be strangled at fifty.
1t may be she asks nothing better Of
Fate
Than a master to guard and to guide
her
Or perhaps she's intended to carry her
In her pocket-the plan of the
spider.
We ruay argue, assent, contradict OF
dismiss,
We may talk till we're frankly! dis.
tranted
But the comforting thing to remember
is this:
We shall act as we always have
acted.
New York Tribune.
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essk Origin Of Mysterious Fire.

Yearly on February 2 and for As
lays after. . mysterious fire breaks
out in Ariyake bay on the west coast
Of Kyushu, Japan, burning both on
land and sea. the origin Of the con-
GaSrstion being complete mystery
which . recently QUILTED scientific
sxrle.et!c: party VIII make q point
q solving.
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IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The sentiment seems to be very
strong against the republican nominee
and the chances are that if the cleo
ton We're TO be held within a month
that Iowa would choose Meredith as
its executive notes the Indianola
Herald but suggests that the
national campaign will draw the at
tention of the average voter away
from the state ticket. Time will make
the pill less bitter to those who wish
Mr.. Harding defeated"
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The: Cherokee Times states that
One hundred and seventy democrats
in O'Brien county filed affidavits OF a
change Of party affiliation to the re-
publican party"
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The nomination Of Harding will
make the issues clear in the coming
campaign between the republican and
democratic contestants" says the Des
Moines Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-10

Making speeches to sweet girl
graduates does not qualify one for
presidential timber" says the Sioux
City Tribune.
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