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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
THE LESSON OF THE DODGES.


Looking over the life Of General
Dodge. whose death as a notable ma
tionaI figure vas the leading news
feature oE Iona newspapers the other
day, one fact sticks out TO the notice
- young men. When Dodge had a
job he did il first and If he ever played
played after the work was done.
Down at the bottom Of all success is
that active principle Of success exem-
p!ided by Dodge and other men who
have succeeded in becoming widely
prominent and useful. They got up
early and did their work in the morn
ing They put the job out OF the way
the first thing. Dodge was a good
engineer. He was a good soldier. OF
course he had brains and training but
these did not make his success They
only made success possible. The thing
that made Dodge and makes other men
prominent and prominent Is the
steady use they make OF the best in
the getting up early TO get at ii and
sticking 10 1t until it was done Brains
and training are like idle money. They
gain no interest and add nothing to
the principal unless they are working
steadily. To be sure all can not be
equal Despite the declaration OF in
exactly But the man with brains and
training who doesn't use them for ali
they are worth must fall behind the
mediocre man who does make the best
Of ali he has. And when we match
brains and training and industry and
anxiety for responsibility and desire to
eninence. That's all there is TO it.
That's the end of the calculation. It's
as certain as the multiplication table.
Also there is no other way.
A man might dream a bridge across
the Missouri but he must put his
dream into steel and iron and mighty
it. a fellow may look forward i'm
agining great things TO do by and by.
Along in the forenoon of life he will
wake up TO fnd time TOO short TO build
in, himself too weak TO build and the
material for building all under con-
tract to the other who got up early
and started his stringers across when
the whistle blew at :.
That's the main lesson Of pre-em
inence-wanting job 10 do, finding
il. getting at it with sunrise. sticking
70 it until II is finished It's the
coupling that bitches ability and train
ing to the engine Of desire. And there
you are.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
nEs-REPUBIIcAN MARsHAILTowN IOWA: JANUARY = 1916

vinegar while there were those who
bound on a slice OF fat pork and let
nature take her course. The thing
was to bring it to a head" When 1t
broke" an operation with the darning
needle removed the core" and the pa
tient began to sit at table and gener-
ally enter into the activities of life
again.
1t was only when a "felon" attacked
the hand or a large and ramified car
huncle broke out upon the back of the
neck that the sufferer OF previous
generation appealed to the medical
profession.
sympathy for the sufferer from boils
is q modern improvement, Folks used
to dismiss a boil on the other fellow
in a cavalier fashion which minimized
the affliction. 1t is not OF record that
job himself found much sympathy
except from the devil and he was only
fooling. When our fathers had boils
where boils are most in the way and
uncomfortable their plight evoked
more smiles than tears. When a man
with q big nose added to the extent
and ruddiness Of that feature a large
and prominent boil other folks found
something most ridiculous about it.
Sometimes they made unkind and I'M
feeling remarks. But they were a rude
people. those pioneer fathers Of ours,
Injured to hardship ana pain and new
er knew the lethe OF chloroform or the
nepenthe of local anaesthesia
Let-us hope then that the kafser's
boil is not acutely painful. that it is
located where he can see and satisfy
himself that it is not as big as milk
pail as il feels, and suggest that he
try fax seed poultice or the skin OF
an egg. if it isn't beeling properly.
with the assurance that he'll feel bet
ter when it breaks
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07

The spine is long. narrow tool box
which holds nothing but an inner tube.
When Allied with quiet courage and q
cold nerve however, this tube Is hard
err to puncture than the tire on Q
motor truck.
The spine Is surrounded by q brist-
ling object known as the back bone.
which sometimes produces nothing but
bristles. You never can tell by the
looks Of a belligerent backbone in times
of peace how 1t will act when the call
for volunteers comes. The greatest coll
lection of simon-pure backbones ever
gathered together in this country. was
assembled during the civil war and
there are several million more just
like them ready for immediate use.
The spine is the secret Of success
In life, and has more to do with land
ing man in political office than
campaign cigars or free-fiowing ora
tory. Many man has run for con-
gress with nothing but a valve-in-
head spine and the republican cam
paign text book, and come on con-
oueror because he began to organize
for two years hence as soon as the
polls were closed. The man whose
spinal cord can't stand a little grief
without collapsing like a cream pun
will never startie the wholesale house
into shipping anything in his direction
without c. O. D. tag on II.
1t frequently happens that the only
spine of any consequence in the house
hold is owned by the wife, who in
herited one of the New England type
from her grandfather. II there were
mores pines Of this character led up to
the marriage altar in a tulie veil, there
would be less money spent on 25-cent
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
The New Phase Of The va,

1t is to the new phase thai is now
opening in the war that desire to call
attention in my common. for this
month. The war has changed wholly
in the current year. It has changed
quite as much III the minds IL the al
!:es IA uIUse or The Germans. The
hope of crushing Germany and de-
stroying her unity has persisted. or
should have persisted. Out of the storm
of seventeen months of war German
unity has come mistaken: and those
who still talk of a partition OF Germany
limit their expectation tn the restora-
ton to France of AIsace-J1orrafne.
2 The recent words of the German
chancellor in the reichstag revealed a
necessity to convince the German poo
pie that the government would not re-
fuse to make peace on terms that were
reasonable in view of German success
and outward prospects. But they re-.
vealed similar recognition Of the fact
that the foes of Germany were nc.
ready or willing to make peace On any
terms compatible wish German honor
or present expectation 80
What. then. are the enemies OF Ger
many lighting for? What are. their
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
New Labor Soma,


A song that has been sung occasion
ally at labor gatherings il New York
is To Labor" by Charlotte Perkins
Gilman. The Women's Trade Union
League has used this song in its meet
ing, singing the words to the tune OF
Maryland This is the song:
TO LABOR
Shall y>- complain Who feed the
world.
Who clothe the world. who house the
world?
Shall you complain who are the world
OF what the world may do?
AS from this hour YOU use your pow'F
The world must follow you,
AS from this hour you use Your pow'r
The world must follow you.
The worlds life hangs on your right
hand.
Your strong right hand, your skilled
right hand.
You hold the world in your hand,
See 10 il what you do.
Or dark or light. or wrong or right.
The world is made by You!
Or dark or light, or wrong or right,
The world is made by you.
Then rise as you ae'er rose before.
Nor hoped before. nor dared before.
And show as ne'er was shown before,
The pow'r that lies in you!
Stand all as one. till right is done!
Believe and dare and DO,
Stand all as one. till right is done,
Believe and dare and Go,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07

keeping up with world that moves,
The great war in Europe receives at
tention In summary OF events and
chronological table. In short the al
manac Is q complete tabloid OF the
past year in statistical information. 1t
is Cor sale at all news stands.
Talk about Hughes is all talk as 1t
was last campaign. Justice Hughes Is
satisfied with his present position and
is not at all likely to suffer himself
to be dragged out into the turmoil OF
a fierce political campaign for the
presidency. So we might as we'll settle
on Cummins as the nominee to win
with.
If Mr.. Roosevelt were to come into
Iowa campaigning he could find the
milk all right but where would he find
the tablespoonful to so with it?
Nobody has ever yet found sub
stitute for the saloon, complains the
Iowa City Press. Probably no use to
hunt for 1t in Iowa The substitute
would have to contain an unlawful
per cent Of alcohol
Isn't II time for worry over the ice
crop or did we get a stomach full OF
worry over the corn crop?
Secretary Garrison thinks We need
half million army to maintain the
Monroe doctrine. That Monroe doc
trine seems TO be as expensive as own
ing an automobile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
THE KalSER'S BOIL.

The report that Kaiser William has
boils will 60 far to arouse kindly feel
ing for that eminent person in America
where he has had more OF criticism
than Of praise. II VIII bring the man
who has had EN- himself a feeling Of
that kings and ne have
b0ils in common and that "beelings"
grow alike under royal purple and blue
oYeraiis and it will arouse sympathy
Of 2 personal character for any man
vino has a boil anywhere upon earth
or on his person. In short, il should
bring the kaiser the boil vote: for
there is brotherhood in boils, be-
tween kaisers and carriers, the mem
DRY OF acute and common sorrow.
Folks that have had boils like to
advise those who have boiIs They
like % tell Of their own suferings and
offer and suggest remedies. And a
large. egg-shaped boil located upon an
any much used portion or protuberance
of the human form divine Is thing
that induces research for remedies
In these efeminate and neurotfc
day people with boiis big or little
hasten to the doctor shop for relief
Doc gives them something out Of a
bottle and after while smothers them
with soninoform or some other dope
while he sticks a knife in the boil
But in those elder and heroic days q
boil was matter Tor home treatment
Some held to q bread and milk poul-
tice. others favored the lining of az
egg; still others banked on sugar and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
LAWS WITH FLAWS.

An Iowan is in Jail for trapping
wolves. 1t seems that he and another
trapped two wolves over in Monroe
county. sold the pelts and attempted
TO collect or did collect the head boun-
~. II was a violation sen1ehcw Or
other of the closed season for trap
ping and somebody complained and
the trapper found himself shut in the
jaws OF the law
Ii is a peculiar case. A wolf should
be an outlaw 20 be killed or trapped
on SIGHT as sheep thief and 2 maui
rauder. If there is any way to turn
the man loose he should be sent home,
the bounty paid him and the law, If it
protects wolves. amended.
However. we shall not demand the
entire repeal Of all protective game
laws because a twist in the law seems
TO give protection to wolves. We shall
fix it SO that sheep killing wolves have
no more immunity than sheep killing
dogs, and go on protecting game just
the same. That plan will appeal to all
sensible persons.
The same good sense and judgmen,
should be used On all laws which gen.
orally serve q good purpose and which
have some lack that may be twisted
into an argument against the law.
That is true of liquor legislation and
Of road laws and all manner OF laws
born and framed in a spirit Of progress
and service which need pruning here
neither good sense or good citizenship
10 assume and say the protective Law
is foolish" and "nouenforcible' and
attempt 10 make political capital out
Of it against legislators and executives
because a man had been put to jail for
trapping wolves in Iowa. And there is
as little honesty in the demagogery
that attempts to d!scredit other good
laws after that fashion.
We shall go on making laws with
flaws IN them and eliminating the
llaWS 10 the era OIL Tune All Things,
laws included, grow and change as
ada ptation TO changed conditions be-
come necessary. Laws are but the
machinery of the government. They
change and are improved as farm ma
ohinery is changed and improved to
meet modern necessities and condi-
tions. We have changed certain laws
to fit present conditions much to the
disgust OF certain minority elements
in this state But the politician who
builds hope for his personal ambition
upon opposition and an effort to dis
credit the consensus Of Iowa thought
upon that matter is building on sand.
One quality is making itself very ap-
parent in Iowa politics, the horse sense
of the Iowa voter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
BEST SINCE THE WAR.
rCrranf1n Innrpq1

Almost ali the smart Iowa newspaper
men are expressing an opinion as to
who has been Iowa's greatest COVER
nor. James ". Grimes, who was gov
ernor Of this state from 1854 TO 1855. Is
strongly featured in the guessing. This
paper knows little about Governor
Grimes, who played prominent part
in the early history of Iowa. but since
the ciyir war Governor Cummins has
a record for accomplishment which no
other governor approaches. He gave
the machinery of state government a
much needed and thorough overhaul
ing. with results that proved beneficial
in multifarious ways. IOWA has had
many good governors during the last
generation. but the really notable ones
have been Larrabee and Cummins. The
latter succeeds in molding into legisla-
ton many OF the splendid ideas which
the former promulgated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
The Creates. Music in tho World.

II Wagner had not written Tristan
und Isolde, what we now know as
modern music would not exist. Doubt
less We should have had today some
kind OF music; but II would have been
very different thing from that which
we actually possess. For modern
music without Tristan Is uncomfortable
Look wherever You please in the music
Of the last three decades: French
music or German, Russian or Italian.
English or American; and you VIII find.
somewhere-in a meditation or a
melodic turn, a chord or sequence
some reminder OF Tristan. In this
score Wagner gave music a new
language incomparably rich, various,
and expressive. Thru technical de-
vices of unexampled audacity, he liber-
ated music from the constraining
moulds Of traditional form that had
from the beginning. prevented its at
teinmen: OF perfect freedom and fexi-
bility OF movement.
The achievement seems today very
much matter of course; a thing long
familiar, 10 which we are thoroughly
and affectionateiy habituated. But
fifty years ago its effect was con-
'N%S@''S -SA SOt'l-. ~ ~ dS dS Tue ISSczd-
ton OF new heaven and a new earth:
for many, il was sheer chaos. Heinrich
Dorm. the eminent pedagogue, declared
that in this score. harmony was used
in way that SCOTS at its very nanle:"
OF melody there was practically none"
The great Hanslick found in ii IAN as
sassinat!on Of sense and language"
Others saw in 1t only higher cat
m, III go
chaos OF heart-rending chords" To-
day, as we have indicated, Tristan is
milk for babes. The young ladies'
finishing schools are taken to it in
droves. Its once revolutionary dis
sonances are merely the starting point
for the youthful composer.
We have spoken lightly of the sim
plicity and familiarity and approach
ableness that Tristan wears for the
musical world of today Yet even to-
day how overwhelming is the impress
sion made by this music--not by its
strangeness. its revolutionary quality.
but by its ineffable beauty, its terrible
eloquence, its crowding miracles OF in
spiration, the amazing. the incon1par-
able genius that flames thru it from
the first note to the last. For twenty
years we have been listening to It;
thru sixty performances we have
watched its loveliness unfold and have
been silent In the presence Of Its
heights and depths. Here indeed are
thoughts that wander thru eternity"
Here is an altar and an altar fire be-
fore which the proudest must bow in
reverence; temple Of the spirit
wherein we would fain believe that the
divinity that broods within is repeating
the sublime affirmation OF the Gita.
Il am Beauty itself amid beautiful
things.,'-Lawrence Gilman, in the
North American Review.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
Topics of the Times

The English CONSUMPTION bill passed
dicates that the draft will be pressed
with the whole power Of the govern
ment Why not? In time OF national
disaster every mans body and property
must be under the ownership OF the
state.
North NacGregor has organized
thoroughly TO secure Senator Kenyon's
national park along the Upper Nissis-
sfppi. The state should back the pro-
ject. And the opposite state should
get into the game and insist that the
other bank be included The Creator
made the Upper Mississippi for a per-
re:::ai.. ;;;;IIeeSs.==,:=S S:Saa beauty SPIT
An Iowan invented the periscope and
it is estimated that several guberna-
torial candidates. still submerged are
using It
Among first aids to happy and
prosperous New Year there lie always
The World Almanac. This standard
reference book. fresh from the presses
and bearing the date 1916, is now avail
able to purchasers. A peep into the
book shows that II comes TO the public
bringing, according to its annual ci1s-
tom. not only the election returns, crop
reports. business figures. sporting rAc-
ords and other statements and statis-
| tics covering the transactions OF the
/ year 5t;s-- r sses aDuuunnce OF
fresh facts and features necessary 70
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
CALLS HENRY A MUTT

Henry Ford is a mutt. We do no.
base this sweeping declaration on his
spending half million or a million on
his cracked Drained peace expedition
which fell to fighting, for he can well
afford the trip; but because OF his
asinine remarks on landing In New
York. He declared his views regarding
the cause of the war have undergone
q marked change. When he left he
said he was Of the opinion that bank
ers. manufacturers of munitions and
armament We're responsible. b.n he re-
turns with the belief that 1t ID the peo-
pie themselves, those now being
slaughtered. who are resnnnsible- The
men doing the fighting have been too
content to let those who rule them do
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07
CAN JOHN HILL REPEAT?
ISioux City Journal


Fighting prohibition Is no new BUSH
ness to John Hill. Of Davenport. who
opened his saloon on Jan. 8, sold liquor
over the bar and submitted to arrest by
agents OF Attorney General Cosson. 1t
was the same john Hill on whom the
liquor interests centered thirtv-thraa
years ago as a subject for an action to
test the prohibition amendment to the
constitution, which had just been
adopted by popular majority, of 80
759. In that case the liquor interests
We're victorious. Possibly in choosing
Mr.. Hill to become the defendant in
an action brought by Attorney General
Cosson in support of the prohibitory
statute, they are hoping that history
will repeat itself
In 1852 the liquor interests took a
little different tack in opposing pro-
hibition- koehler & Lange sold beer
to John Hill. and upon Hilfs refusal
to pay for 1t on the ground that the
sale Of liquor was Illegal, the brewers
brought suit for the collection. The
case was made up between the brewers
and the saloon man, of course, and
was brought TO test the validity of the
amendment. Hills attorneys as well
as the attorneys for Koehler & Lange
were unfrienily to prohibition. The
brewers showed that the wording OF
the amendment, as it appeared on the
journal of the house of the Eighteenth
general assembly, was different from
the wording OF the amendment as 1t
appeared ON the journal of the senate
Of the same assembly. On this ground
Judge Walter I. Hayes held the
amendment had not been legally en-
acted and therefore was not part OF
the constitution. The case being car
r!ed to the supreme court, Governor
Sherman directed Attorney General
Mcpherson TO appear for the state. and
the prohibit.onis;s employed Judge w.
F Miller &C assist him Wright, Cum
minis & Wright and J. c. Bills repre-
scented :h= liquor interests and sue
cessfuiiy attacked the validity OF the
amendment On Ian IS, 1883, the SUI
preme court affirmed the decision of
Judge Hayes.
The next year the legislature passed
q prohibitory statute. In 1894 this
was partially nullihed by the passage
of the mulct law On Jan. !, 1915, 1t
came TO life again as result of the
repeal OF the mulct law. Now John
Hill hopes to defeat the repeal of the
mulct law and save the saloon in Iowa
as in 1852 he helped defeat the pro-
h!bitory amendment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07

good the Lima bean. the spud the the
grant pie: every mouthfu sweet
sit eat and eat and watch the buttons ny.
had that last attack OF pink unbago In the
appetite destroyed; the music OF the dinner
bell has all the pathos OF knel, and LIES aching
void The turnips Just like the spuds the coffee
like washday suds the tastes like the
the rich imported Worchester reminds Of to-
the prunes taste like the The rack
tempt appetite: the finest products Of their sin
taste like the bilious pill thst must take ct night
IL could only again. like yonder hungry
men. cares should daunt my heart; I'd laugh the n<
OF Life to scorn and blthely eat Of cab
baC and a tart
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-07

terms Of peace? It is impossible to
say. because, first OF all, the allies arc
fighting state Of mind. What Europe
Is facing Is one more Of the wars that
/ have been fought to preserve the ball
ance OF power and 10 establish the fact
that one race. one nation. can not rule
in Europe. Peace now in the minds o.
the French and the British. Of the Rus
slams and the Italians. would be but .
truce, another pause such as that Of
Nimwegen or Of Amiens. a breathing
spell while Germany reorganized for a
new attack. having harvested the prof
its and sought to guard against the err
rors of her first venture.
The year that is TO come Is to de-
ter1nine one thing. 1t is to determine
whether Germany can bring home any
profits from the great efforts she has
made. Can she free Poland from Rus
sian control and erect upon her east
ern boundary a Polish state. protected
BY Austro- German arms. which Wi,
act as a buffer state against Russian
| expansion? This Is a policy of pro-
lection wholly analogous to that Of
Louis XIV. who sought to make Elan
ders and Alsace barriers against hostile
advance to Paris. For the future in
Europe, Russia is the great menace to
Germany. the foe who must be faced
in that near time when Russian popu-
lation has passed 2o0,090.000 and, con-
ceivably, revolution or reorganization
has made Russia strong.
But even the insurance against Rus
sia s relatively insignificant. What
Germany is now fighting for is the
right to dominate central Europe from
the Baltic to the Black sea and con-
troll western Asia Austria has be-
| come a mere tool, Hungary an ally.
whose integrity and safety depend
upon Prussian protection. Serbia Is
conquered, and Bulgaria, having thrown
herself into Prussian arms. can exist
only as Germany assures it against
Russian attack. AS for Turkey. the
Russian. Italian. British, French fleets
and armies are at its doors, and with
out German aid its doom is sealed.
A peace now. that restored Belgium
| to its previous state, left France in
tact, turned back Russian Poland to the
car and permitted Italy to take the
Trentino and Trieste. to take Albania
and the Egean islands, which permitted
the British and French to divide Ger
man colonies, would still leave Ger
many not merely the advantage, but
| far on the road to the world power Of
Bernhard and to the domination Of
| Europe for which Napoleon and Louis
XIV stroye in vain.
Once this mighty empire had been
reorganized. Germany would be ready
| to retake Trieste and return to the port
of Antwerp, while 1t could organize a
new and deadly thrust at Britain both