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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
THE WO MAN IN THE CASE.

A pathetic little story is going about
thru the newspapers.
1t appears that a poverty stricken
family had been harried back and
forth between Kansas and Iowa be-
cause of a dispute over which state 1t
Kansas to Iowa. On the way the baby,
one of her six children, died. The
mother fearing that she and her brood
would be put off the train concealed
the death, pretending TO nurse and
Coddle the dead baby as tho it were
living and managed to ride from ST
Joe to Council Bluffs with the dead
babe in her arms and the other chill
dren about her. There the charity as
ISOLATION assisted her when the condi-
tons were known.
Mr.. Roosevelt has many followers in
his crusade against race suicide. The
advocates of birth control find horri-
fed hands raised against them and
their theories and proposals. The
moral laws and the statutes provide
severe penalties for those who Grimm
ally evade motherhood. Statesmen de-
mand population as national policy.
Other laws cruelty the woman who for
one reason or another finds herself
with brood of six children born in
wedock and dependent upon her for
their future support. She is harried to
Kansas and back 10 Iowa and back
and forth again. The death CT the
child and the agony Of the mother are
laws and the scriptures demand and
threaten. The statutes and the public
charities provide indirect penalties for
submission TO the moral laws and the
civil laws governing birth. And there
she stands, afraid, ignorant perhaps,
tied to an idle or worthless man OF
widowed and without friends able to
assist her, with six children about her
knees, bound like the ancient to the
hopelessness tearing at her vitals
Those who shed tears over the case
Of the woman under discussion pass
other struggling women with an idle ant
perfunotory glance. There are those
who complain bitterly over the pit.
lance Of widows pensions who might
squeeze out tear over the plight Of
the woman who cuddled a dead baby
against a broken heart while a deadly
fear suppressed her sobs. We incline
to weep over corpses that we, have
helped to make, to shed tear ovel
the victims Of a system that we refus;
| to reform. There Is somewhat of the
hypocrite about it. Emotions that d.
not impel toward readiustment O
wrong belong not to real life hut to tn,
stage and the matinee, They are no
real.
God help the woman who. carrying
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
Tho Law enforcement Spirit.

Attorneys Of Albert Lea are showing
tie right spirit. H. H. Dunn, former
speaker of the Minnesota house, who
in the legislature opposed the county
option law, announced in municipal
court the other day that his firm would
net undertake the defense Of local
blind pig" cases. and declared his be-
lief that no lawyer in Albert Lea would
appear for the defense in such cases.
Freeborn county went dry under
the county option law and the vote put
several saloons out OF business in
Albert Lea. An element in the town
has been trying to bring discredit on
the law by Illicit sales of liquor, rely
ing on smart" lawyers and local
juries to get them off " caught. Mr..
Dunn's announcement is poser for
these gentry.
II the same spirit were shown in
every dry" town. the problem Of law
enforcement would be simple. Beyond
q doubt, public sentiment toward the
liquor business is changing. The blind
bigger was once a sort OF Robin Hood
who had help from all sides. but
society now is growing to look on him
as plain outlaw. - Minneapolis
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19

Hash is an inexpensive substitute
for a square meal with which the flow
err Of Americas manhood is saturated
about three times week. 1t is not
served in foreign countries. owing 10
the fact that over there man is looked
UP to with more reverence and IS
priced as an addition to the nome.
There are times when il seems as II II
would be nice to be foreigner.
While the origin of hash is shrouded
in obscurity, the latest encyclopedias
state that it is presumed to have been
invented by the Cape Cod housewife
who at the same time brought out the
cottage pudding, which makes it posi-
BILE to dispose Of sponge cake after II
has become wrinkled with age. 1t Is
very annoying to a sensitive husband
who has passed up sponge cake Tor
four weeks in succession to have 1t
appear disguised as a pudding and be
obliged to eat it or start a display Of
fireworks about the family hearth.
This is one Of the principal reasons. no
doubt. why so many men remain sin :
gle. Another reason is that woman is
becoming more thoughtful and dis
eliminating in her tastes
The standard gauge variety Of hash
is composed of meat which nobody
cared to eat in its natural state, mixed
with the juicy cold boiled potato.
These ingredients are shaken up to-
gether and held over slow fire for a
few minutes, after which they unite in
one oleaginous mass and are thrust
upon the table with a violence almost
approaching brutality. This causes us
to ask why Is it that when a man
comes home after a hard days work,
with an appetite for some light, filing
food like the whole wheat pancake. he
will be confronted with hash which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
Meredith and Harding 81, Saloon Question
MEREDITH.

1S16-Davenport SpeechT absolutely for a dry Iowa
and opposed to the saloon returning the
My effort IL elected will be that saloon
does not return influence may have win be
erted in opposition to the saloon"
June-Nominated opposition upon the public
declaration that II the drest Of the drys You
take me that way"
champagne once or twice. frankly admits it, Metho-
dist endorsed his church in Des Moines
Mones Association and by church
all over Iowa. Denies circulated about him and
declares that their only evidence is statement made by
saloon keeper
Says that saloons have been out of Iowa only few
months plan disgust people with prohibition
by having wde-open administration That is why he is
cans.
1914-Edoria in his farm paperI am willing to admit
that booze is as bad any preacher reformer
rabd prohbtonst said it is and then Ill say 1t Is
worse than that to vilfy it,
What show is that booze increases your taxes and
gives nothing in return but woe woe and more VICE..
1s11-Edtoria in his farm paper-"Before the
dgned with the recognition OF
1.-The government Since then they have the govern
ment"
1s1-Editorial in his farm paperIt clever move
of the interests permitting the government to
levy upon their products and as reward getting the
governments protection from that day to this
1sos-Editoral in his farm paper-There Is an Inherit
ance that every right to-Ths is an inherited
$4,000 die before reaching three
years and ten"
1slo-Editoral in his farm paper-"When Demon Drink
enters man possession Of his reason and his
affections brute, than any brute KNOWN LOT
that will drive out its mate with such
cruelty"
All the has been admitted to he true OF Meredith
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
tn. Po,.ibiiitis. of slana.

Slang and its possibilities were vivid
ly expressed In the conversation Of
two youths In Back Bay home one
night recently. The boys got into q
discussion and when all legitimate ar
guments had been exhausted. the fol-,
lowing repartee was heard:
Snow again. I didn't catch the
drift"
Keep on spouting kid, you're, 3
whale"
'Tie yer shoe, your tongues hangin'
out"
Hang crepe on yer car, you mutt, yer
brain 10 dead"
Jaw sand your tracks, yer slippin'!"
"Sneeze. little one, your bean is
Traveller.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
As TO LYE HOMINY.

Argument is on between the editor
| of Nashville paper and some one
else who expressed longing for
hominy, yellow corn hominy. The
Nashville editor declares that hominy
was never made of yellow corn but of
white.
Perhaps in Tennessee yellow corn
hominy was unknown but north of
! that yellow corn furnished hominy and
p'enty of it. Hominy in those days,
De 1t known, was corn hulled by soak
irg in the I've of wood ashes until the
hard covering of the kernel came off
readily when the mass was stirred and
washed thoroughly, using several
waters and Swimming away the hulls
the hominy was white when the yellow
hun was removed Perhaps the
Tennesseean never saw hominy until
! it had become hominy and thus
.lnagines it must have been made OF
white corn
Not many northerners manufactured
nomlny. The hominy makers came
| mostly from southern Illinois import
ing the process which had come to
them by Inheritance from ancestors
born in southern '1ngeany" and Kahn
tuck" The New Yorker ran more to
puddin' n milk "samp." Indian pud-
6ings, and such like. The southerner
pone while the descendant of the pill
srim fathers ran to Johnny cake. OF
course in the melting pot of the
pioneer country they traded processes
The descendant of the PATRONS
brought headcheese and souse to
n atch the cracklins of the Carolinas
cider apple sauce made Of quartered
apples stewed in sweet cider for apple
butter stirred into a thick slab by the
Pennsylvania Dutch, Some English
tripe there was. some Scotch haggis.
but neither they nor hominy were IN
general use. In the first place I've
hominy was not appetizing of itself,
secondly few knew how to cook it and
third, it was a mountaineer's ration
which failed 10 appeal in a land of
wheat and pork and beef and plenty.
OF late years however. hominy, pre-
Jared as it is has found a place in many
kitchens and a welcome at many
Ia bles. 1t is. different hominy from
the hog and hominy' of lower Illi-
nois and Indiana. Nowadays it is
made of white corn but in the old
times the color of the corn didn't mat
Ter greatly whether for hominy or
meal.
We may have TO go back to the
puddin n milk and I've hominy if the
price of things keeps on going up
nut where would We get the wood
ashes for I've and how would we get
the milk for the puddin'?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
Topics of the Times

The Des Moines Capital publishes an
estimate by counties showing that
Harding will be elected by almost the
same majority that Hughes will receive
in Iowa. 1t is accomplished by giving
Harding Dubuque county which Is nor
mally democratic to l and by carry
ing other democratic river counties for
the republican ticket. What is the is
sue In this campaign that should carry
Dubuque, Scott, Des Moines and Lee
counties on the Mississippi for Har-
ding?
In the hsndshaking melee somebody
scratched President Wilson until the
blood came the other day So he has
bled for his country whether or not he
was too proud to fight.
Australia will vote on referendum
Of compulsory military service Oct. IS.
Union labor is said to be opposed to II
and likely to defeat it.
Bayonne, France, gave the bayonel
ITS name anu Day OIlne, ~. -, IS eStdD>
fishing a bloody repute for itself on
this side Of the water.
The Harding list of laymen would
look better If it didn't include so many
lame ducks"
If one business man made business
Of going thru another's mail there'd be
something doing besides diplomatic
correspondence.
Well, along with snow and colo
weather come buckwheat cakes. All i:
not lost.
Isn't all this fuss over the retention
or elision of the word obey" in til.
marriage service rather redundant
| They don't pay lick Of attention 70 il
anyway.
Which would you rather be Belgian
| or Greek?
A bushel Of potatoes in the hand arr
worth a wagonload in the bushes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19

draw at once"
Four days later-the invaders requir.
ed the delay only to confirm the truth
of the agreement between the grain
raising nations-the protocols were
signed both by the regent and the gen.
eral Of the eastern forces IN California.
Immediately afterward the invading
armies began TO withdrew.
The little city Of Elgin, shell swept
and half destroyed, was abandoned on
the second day Of this movement. As
the regents troops marched out an
American battalion marched in. Cap
fafn Ashby's company Of that battalion
bivouacked in the fields beyond an old
ruined house with q new cottage be-
side Il partly unroofed by she'll, but
part Of this cottage was habitable, and
there Jim and Beatrice found Nathan
Ashby sitting at the door with little
boy in his arms.
The old man-his shoulders wero
bent low and he was very gray-got
up with tears streaming down his face
- he saw his son.
"Jim, Jim! This is Nellie's boy-Bob
and NellisA boy, and we're all that's
left You and Bob's boy and /, Jim,
wo'rs al that's Ieftw
Jim bowed hi head, tears running
down his cheeks too. He stopped and
Kissed Bsbfs and Nellie's son. Then
he brought Beatrice forward.
"Nther. this u Beatrice, my WIFE.
''Your vita boy?'
Yes fathsf. Isuess-I guess ours
isn't the only family that's got to b.
gin al over sGaia Tor the sake Of .
free eountryr'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
Ripping Rhymes
Nv WALT MAaoN
The Boob

I often think that old Bill Wax should
occupy a padded cell; his intellect il
full Of cracks, like some outworn, dis
cordant bell. All lunatics should be In
charge Of keepers, at the BOBBY place;
that old Bill Wax remains at large. you
will admit. ID disgrace. talk with
him from day to day. no word Of mine
to him appeals; disputins everything |
say, he makes me hot. from head to
heels. When I explain that Charley
Hughes is, as statesman. truly great,
old Bill hands out his moldy views. in
dorsing t'other candidate. When re-
buke the kaiser's course and say his
conduct is a shame old Wax viii argue,
till he's hoarse, that Nicholas must bear
the blame. Whatever argument make.
whatever words OF truth say. old BIZ
the other side will take, and chew the
rag for half day. And have heard
that he explains to those who'll listen
for spell, that / have weevil In my
brains. and should be in a padded cell!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
Utilizing Fish Waste.

Nearly 10000 tons of valuable stock
and poultry food high in protein can be
produced annually from the wastes OF
the salmon and sardine packing indus
tries, and of the menhaden fish oil and
fish scrap factories on the coasts. This
is exclusive of additional wastes from.
the tuna packing companies and does
not include a large additional tonnage
of valuable stock food that could be
made from dog fish. now the bane OF
the market fisherman. This statement
is made in United States Department
of Agriculture Professional Paper No.
27s, Fish Meal: It's Use as 9 Stock and
Poultry Food. which was issued jointly
by the bureaus of chemistry and ami
NAL husbandry after they had COM
ple+ed experiments in making a. stock
feed from fish waste and had tested it
Mt the government farm at Beltsville.
Nd, as food for dairy cattle. pigs and
chickens. .--a...
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
"rHe NATIONS OF TINE EARTH"

AS an example of unshakable OPP
timism circulation of a pamphlet en-
titled Constitution for the United Ma
tons of the Earth" seems to take
seat in the first platform row, consid-
ering world conditions as they exist.
AS a constitution for world fedora
ton perhaps it Is an excellent docu-
ment If the nations of the earth were
not too busy killing each others citi-
zens and preparing to kill more to take
notice of it.. At time, however, when
peoples and nations are racking the
brains of invention for a more muir
derous weapon than that Of their
neighbors and when the fields of scien-
tiic research are being scraped with
fine tooth comb to discover deadlier
explosives and for gases to destroy
armies as the breath Of vengeance
blasted the Assyrian host this proposed
constitution will be set aside until we
get thru with our world epidemic of
blood lust and territorial theft. Per-
haps there will come time but at
and the crash of volley firing around
the world browns the voices of those
who would write universal peace upon
a scrap of paper The peace projects
will be pigeonholed or thrown into the
waste baskets while we scan the re-
ports of our spies and the blue prints
Of murderous invention.
Long ago the best constitution for
a world alliance was spoken to a rapt
audience on the slopes Of Judean
hill 1t has been written for all the
world to read for nearly twenty CEN
turtles. 1t was spoken to the democracy
of that day and has been accepted by
the democracy Of sixty generations
since 1t is true, automatically true,
but it has not kept us from reversion
Grafton.
Perhaps when the nations of the
earth find themselves shattered and
exhausted the common peoples of the
earth may force an agreement and an
alliance that shall abolish that sport
OF kings and rulers and statesmen
which exists upon the destruction of
the lives of subjects and citizens. In
the midst of the murder mania that
exists the constitution Of the pamph-
leteer can scarcely hope to secure
greater attention and agreement with
its provisions and it's purposes than is
given the Sermon on the Mount.
Perhaps there shall come a time Men
must believe that or lose faith in God.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19

rope approaches famine. In Asia there
already is famine, with chances Of re-
Lief only from these continents. II only
now Canada and South America
The door opened. an ofncer entered
with head high, with eyes glowing.
"sir," he cried. "the Argentine Repub-
lie this morning has pledged u the
aid we have asked. They have recog-
nized that If this republic is destroyed
they cannot endure. They therefore
have pledged to burn their grain, both
the grain in the elevators and that in
the field, to prevent 1t being shipped
to or seized by our enemies. Canada
adheres to the same agreement II
attempt is made against either coun-
try to seize the grain, or II our enc
mics now refuse to withdraw they
simultaneously with us-will destroy
all crops"
The chief of staff Strengthened and
Brought his shoulders up. his eyes
dfmmed with tears Of which he was
uaashamed.
dispatch to Argentina and Canada"
he commanded. "the gratitude of the
American people for their adherence to
~ in this extremity and inform our
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
HARDING.

1s6-Carrol SpeechI said at Oakland that the saloon
was gone from Iowa. and to stay. that with
the law as now s II the saloons attempted back
would take the militia drive However his
picture hangs In temp bar in him.
In June-Nomnated by republicans with the aid Of
wet democrats against opposition drys were divided
between two dry candidates
Personal Inclination-Wrote to Business Men. Temner
Association that he OF liquor chau-
tauquas Brockway says he ha seen rim
drinking liquor ellis says he has seen him tipsy Asked
at Bloomfield II he drank liquor refused reply.
Methodist Denounced by his church. ministerial
union his by conferences OF nearly
every denomination as being wet in his politics
Demokrat published at Davenport says in German
vote for Harding vote to defeat the prohibition
amendment and everybody irrespective of party
vote for Harding. Calls Meredith prohibition fanatic.
saloon keepersYou urged to forget political
atons and unanimously support those recognised
strictly friends w. L. Harding has always been
fair and is being by the united
state. We want to be united in supporting him.
s11e writes letter to Del c. Huntoon political agent
for saloon interests about his candidacy lieutenant
eror--I had good talk with Senator Kenyon think
there Of feeling for than WE first thought
191I-He voted to keep the City
State UniversyHF1s6 He voted for local option
saloonsHFS2s. He voted against HFs1. daylight
loon bill to close saloons early in the evening. Fa
1sosHe against resubmssion of the prohibtory
amendment constitution. House joint
He voted to bury the in committee which
closed half the saloons In Iowa down 1000
OF inhabitants. t#s
1sosIe defeated Van the republican nor1ina-
ton for lieutenant by the aid OF the German
vote for him to protect their liberty
not voting on white slave law.-SF216.
Harding admitted quoted and rec
ords of votes to be true
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
MEREDITH I'm SCOTT COUNTY.

| Waterloo Times Tribune.1
| Meredith's straight from the shout
der campaign Is going merrily on. The
old time and smooth politician would
say that Meredith Is poor politician
| Maybe he is, but Meredith can not help
| It, Meredith can not be another man
No double crossing for Meredith. He
| is not so built Meredith tells them eI-
actly what they can expect from him
and tells them all the same thing. To
the old time and smooth politician this
is handicap.
But is it? The signs OF the times in
dictate that there is not much left Of the
old time and smooth politician. The
voter does not now take party aTtlia-
tions seriously He has a better sys-
TEN of measuring men than he used to
have The guarantee of his party was
sufficient to him a few years ago 1t is
not much to him now. His party is not
now his religion. He has better sys-
tenn for measuring men than ny used
to have because he does the measuring
himself
Scott county is told to its face that if
it wants the saloon back in Iowa, 1t
must look to some one else. not Mere
ullH 10 IL JAIN ne lSliS o'-D"
county the same thing that he tells the
dryest county In the state. He is not
trying to humbug anybody. He wants
no votes under false pretenses.
Can anyone imagine Harding going
into Scott county and telling them he
will call out the militia to prevent the
opening Of a saloonrin Iowa" Hardly.
Harding has a different speech for dir
ferent communities, not only on the liq-
uor question but on all questions en-
,ering into the campaign. He Is typ!-
cal old time and smooth politician.
There are few of them left. There will
be fewer of them as time rolls on. The
game is not the game it used to bet S
getting to be a square game Meredith
is playing it square. He ought to have
his reward. He will.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-19
CHAPTER XVII.
The Poaca,


a N even more detailed and In.
structive report of the stu
~ alton Of the enemy's forces
In the east-treating morale,
equipment and supplies-has come to
hand this morning from an escaped
prisoner" said the aid to General
Stone, who, with his stat, had head
quarters at Rock Island.
"Who IL herr
"A Captain Ashby Of volunteers, who
was member Of the original volun-
teer force which defended New York.
He fought in both the early important
actions and was captured, after being
severely wounded, in the action above
Cayuga. he was in prison stockade
until ten days ago. when he escaped
with the help of certain patriots living
In the vicinity. One Of these-a girl
named Logan, between whom and Cap
tain Ashby, by the way, there is ap-
parently sentimental attachment
accompanied him here this morning.
having piloted an aeroplane taken from
the enemy. She appears to have been
most active, and her observations in
every respect confirm your opinion, sir,
that the enemy, having again failed 10
gain q decision, will be unable to con.
tnue their campaign on the present
SCALE"
Stone took the report and glanced
over II. II see: see. The enemy las
not only ceased to send supplies from
Europe to his armies here. but he Is
actually Withdrawing supplies soon t.
be needed to maintain his armies fol
the relief Of the situation In Europe
That is quite In line with my other in
formation Of the situation across the
water. The scarcity In parts Of Eu