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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
CUT OUT the TRIMMINGS.

Congress is to go after the high cost
Of living, That Is, congress will make
a great many speeches and appoint
committees and the newspapers will
carry headlines of the fray between
the congressional ST. Georges and the
dragon OF H. c. L.
Meanwhile the common citizen will
do we'll to start a little campaign of
his own right at home. Beginning at
the right end he may cut down the
number Of cigars per diem or better
yet cut them all out. There's one ex-
cellent opportunity for reduction. But
how many will do it? A merchant
says that wooden blankets selling at
S. today are likely 10 be $40 next fall.
Now which are we TO do. cut down IS
on cigars or buy cotton blankets?
Groceries are higher but So are lux
uries. How many Of us will forego the
Injuries?
Congress isn't going 10 accomplish
much in lowering the cost of living
while the Dig war goes on. Things are
going 10 stay high or go higher. Those
who wait for congressional action to
lower potatoes and flour and cotton
and wool and staples Of all kinds are
due for long. long wait Meantime
perhaps we'd better do something our
selves.
As former president might say III
is condition and not a theory that
conironts us" II isn't much use -
argue with the retailer over the price
OF potatoes and flour and butter and
eggs. He has had his argument with
the producer and the producer has the
best OF it because he has the eggs and
the butter when we start argument
with the retailer he has them and
somebody else is ready to take them If
We don't, and there We are.
There is only one immediate way 10
lower the cost OF living and that is ~
live lower, II We actually look FOR them
We shall find items of expense which
may very We'll De eliminated, some OF
them 10 our great advantag e in every
way. Congress can't do much and it
takes congress long time to do any
thing. The only immediate outlook
70 relief IS right al home Gu, out the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

are able to steady themselves for pro-
gressive work which will be OF last
Ing value TO future generations,
The society OF the d. "A. r., In the
marking of this trait is doing some
thing worth while. It Is doing work
which will grow more valuable with
passing wears. As time passes this
trail will grow dimmer IN the :::.:::a: CO
our people, unless 1t is marked. With
out means of Identification il will in
time become only a tradition with it's
location a source of doubt and con-
tioversy. With suitable markings the
story of the struggles of these people
viii become as much an asset Of future
generations as are the stories written
on the stones of Nineveh and Babylon
a massive boulder, native Iowa
stone, is to be used for Council Bluffs
marker for this old trail. 1t win hold
two tablets properly inscribed. To
assist in procuring funds for this pur-
pose the local d. A. RS will give an
entertainment in the auditorium on
the evening of Dec. 5. This entertain
meDt will be worth the price Of add
mission because Of its merit. 1t will
oS iL0ic VSSduSC VI Wv
permanent contribution which this
marker will be to the people of Council.
Bluffs and TO those Of the whole coun-
try for generations yet unborn.
Keokuk. the first point on the trail.
has marker of beautiful de-
sign and properly inscribed. Others
VIII be placed in Iowa as funds can
re collected for the purpose Curator
Harlan of the state historical depart
,nent ia directing this work. fact
which will insure historical accuracy
as well as architectural propriety in
the selection and location OF statues,
and tablets. Council Bluffs
ought to be generously responsive to
the efforts of its local d. A. r. society.
The organization has already made
contributions to the city and
to posterity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
DEFEAT OF HUGHES.

G. Hughes went down to grim defeat
because his whiskers were too long.
His hopes have found their winding
sheet and life is not one grand sweet
song. He is 4 man of sterling worth, in
him the virtues all are Dient. he would
adorn the highest berth to which he
ever might be sent. You may dissect
his whole career with hope to knock
him from his perch, and friends Of
Hughes need never fear the outcome of
your busy search. Intelligent. high
minded, clean. he surely should appeal
to you: yet when his bunch of brush
Is seen. the voter says, He will not
do When he was chosen -or me race.
said to MIN, oh. Charley hughes.
clean that alfalfa from your face. and
you viii win. I'll bet my shoes But II
you let those whiskers bloom, and bear
their crop OF pods and bolls. you'll
march straight downward to your
doom--we'll all rebuke you at the
polls" My whiskers are my own
concern" replied the statesman. and
that's fiat. Rebuke? j do not care a
dern" And now we see where he is at.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
TEACHERS AND NORMAL SCHOOLS.

Whatever may be the conclusion OF
the educational board on the report OF
the federal survey one recommendation
which would bring about no serious
complications should be given serious
consideration. the suggestion that Iowa
should have more normal schools for
the training of teachers.
There is sharp need of trained
teachers in Iowa. We could use many
more than we seem able 10 get. Of
course the wages paid have something
to do with the scarcity of trained
teachers but wages are gradually
climbing into reasonable responsibility.
Anyhow we need teachers and should
afford every opportunity to those who
may desire to enter that profession.
Training teachers is merely plain.
common sense. J. Sterling Morton,
cabinet member of the Cleveland ad-
ministration said it we'll when he
said:
We demand educated educators We
demand professionally trained teachers
men and women OF orreproachable
character and we'll tested abilities. We
demand from our legislature laws rails
ing the standard of the profession and
eSalting the Office of the teacher. AS
the doctor CT medicine or the practi-
TONER at law is only admitted within
the pale OF his calling upon the pro-
duction of his parchment of certificates
so the applicant for the position OF in
structor in our primary and other
schools should be required by law TO
first produce his diploma, his authority
to teach, from the normal schools.
We call no uneducated quack or
charlatan to perform surgery upon the
bodies of our children lest they may be
deformed. crippled and MANNED phys
ically all their lives. Let Us take equal
care shat We intrust the development
OF the mental faculties to skilled in
structors OF magnanimous character
that the mentalitieS OF our children
may not he mutilated. deformed. and
crippled 10 halt and limp thru all the
centuries OF their never ending lives
The deformed body will die. and he
forever put out Of sight under the
ground. but mind made monstrous
by bad teaching does not. but stalks
forever among the ages. an Immortal
mockery Of the divine image.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

the mobiles who could pay ransom were
saved from death when captured on the
battle fields; when the sick, poor died
In bitches and serious injury meant
death. Hospitals came OF course but.
think Of this. contagious wards were
not known In the United States until
after the civil war!
Those people read that book Of his
400 years ago as we would read an
account Of trip to the sun ana q de-
scription OF impossible conditions. It
was fiction. Scholars read the book as
an effort OF the imagination. But what
was Utopia then Is plain duty and me-
cesslty and common sense today. This
Impractical man" of that age is the
practical man of this year of our Lord
1916. We do not question the pfac-
ticability, the necessity Of public hos
pitfalls so furnished and stored with all
things that are convenient for the ease
and recovery OF the sick" Shall we
Took after them with such tender
care" that there Will be scarce one
who can not go thither assured OF pres
ent help in time OF trouble?
Shall q man born in a cruel age into
world careless OF suffering foresee
more than we shall be willing and able
to do In the Golden Age of Humanity
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
Topics of the Tunes

Next 10 a boy who is mean to his
mother is the man who DULLES the tel
ephone operators.
There are $50 piano factories III the
United states in spite Of the phono-
graphs.
$50
The deficit in the United States
treasury this year is s100.951,6S3
against deficit of Sal, 600, 900 last year
an da surplus in republican times. And
the worst is yea 10 come.
But when sunshine and sweet wealth.
er prevail as at presen; and the roads
are good and golfers still foozIe in
shirt sleeves Iowa goes the old song
one better for December's pleasanter
than May.
1t will be almost worth spending
Christmas on the border if only for the
added zest with which the Christmas
presents will be opened.
Des Moines is TO have a municipal
Christmas tree and community cele :
bration which shows that Des Moines
is willing 10 learn.
In Australia it is said that two
pound loaf OF bread is TO be had for
: cents. Perhaps it is like the Irish
man who could buy a great deal for a
sixpence in Ireland and who explained
his reason for staying in America was
that he couldn't get the sixpence in
Ireland.
The travelling men would all vote for
Monday election day and what diff
ference would it make to the stay-at-
homes whether they voted Monday or
Tuesday?
A fellow al Long Beach who married
seven wives says he had lapses Of
memory and forget he was married.
Imagine a person ever forgetting that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

II haven't got any time to talk" said
Billy Bunny. backing into his burrow.
Now be friendly" said Daddy Fox,
coming closer. I've come all the way
from my den on the hillside to talk to
you this beautiful morning"
"All right" said Billy Bunny, but
you'd better talk from where YOU
stand or I'll go inside and close the
door,"
Now that's not very nice way to
speak to me when I've come to ask
you TO have dinner with U.S. said
Daddy Fox. MY little boys Slybools
and Bushytail, want, you to come. and
Mrs, Fox has some lovely stewed car
rots for YOU"
Daddy Fox had sat down by this
time. He folded his front paws and
looked SO kindly at little Billy that
I'm sorry to say Billy said: Yes. I'll
come before he really thought 1t over.
II he had only gone inside and asked
Mrs. Bunny! But he didn't. He never
even thought OF 1t. He put on his cap
and followed Daddy Fox into thu
Friendly Forest just as tho Daddy Fox
was the best friend he ever had.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

success 10 a sight draft drawn upon
his wealth and his willingness.
Men die; they fade as the leaf and
are not. One generation marches its
day on the trail Of human progress
and vanishes into eternal bivouac.
Happy he who can assure himself OF a
kindly Ard enduring memory: ~; es- the
tall shaft in the cemetery will mean
little to the next generation except
that it is taller than others unless the
Eame 1t endeavors to commemorate
is linked with the memory of kindly
and humane deed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
4 PASSING 1YPE-.THE IONA PIONEER

A man named Sargent died the other
day in Pasadena whose story is typi-
cal Of class which IS practically
eliminated from Iowa-the Iowa
pioneer. This man come 10 Iowa
when he was a boy of IS and found
employment as a stock buyer. He
came TO northwestern Iowa in 1858
riding horse across country from
Narshalltown. There he founded the
present town of Akron. He bought
and sold land but kept more than he
sold. Later he built hourishing mill
al Portlandville. This mill was fol-
lowed by other mills built by him at
points in South Dakota. He grew
wealthy and went TO California seek
ing health and died there. And the
original entry of $50 acres on which
his first home was made is still part
Of his estate
1t is the old story of the successful
pioneer who stayed by the country.
with it. One of Sargent's sons is
lawyer and general counsel for the
Rock Island in Iowa. Which is only
following the story of the Iowa pioneer
into the second generation.
1t is a common story in its way.
Gene Ellsworth drove livery teams
over northern Iowa conveying land
seekers, many Of whom turned from
tie prairie and sloughs of Wright and
Franklin and Hardin to go farther and
fare worse. And as he could. from
time to time he bought land and stayed
with it wringing out his interest
somehow and selling now and then TO
make payments. He trusted the coun-
try And Gene Ellsworth died a
double and treble millionaire because
Re believed in the section where he
lived and stayed with it. He left land
marks that will be monuments in
r3borate his faith in Iowa and that
particular part Of Iowa and his love
Ger its people.
The country owes much TO the men
who believed in it and stayed by it.
They aided and led it's development.
But the pioneer and those who sue
coed him in heirship owe more to the
country. Many of them, like Gene
Ellsworth paid their debt and liberal
". Othere still owe it or the debt has
been transferred to their descendants
and legatees.
When men grow old in honors and
wealth they sometimes imagine that
they did it ALL They didn't. Men who
have had honor and trust and oppor-
tunity thru a lifetime did their part
but it was only a part. The great
force is the community. Its approval
Of such men and its willing assistance
10 their plans and purposes are the
foundations Of fortunes and honors
and the high respect good men win.
Those who have stood to offer their
shoulders that other and perhaps
more useful and competent men might
climb high have served and have thus
created an obligation that can not be
denied by those whom they have
served The man growing old in
wealth and honor and high respect
owes the community more than IT
owes him. And he ought to pay il
tw;lrngly and honestly and even glad
lily 10 the purposes OF human welfare
land community bet:ermest;; Tor his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
Iona Newspapers
THE LAW OF THE HERD.
KNOXVILLE Express (dem.)l

Truly, i will be Joke to see Stand
patter Cummins and the elder states
men lighting for their lives against
the young blood Of the party as rep
resented by Gov, Harding and his fol-
lowers when the contest comes on for
the senatorship. For Governor Har-
ding Is organizing his machine. and
he is going to stalk poor Cummins in
his declining years, as the fiery Hand
some Albert used to hang on the
TANKS of the old Senator Allison. 1t is
the law OF the herd. and none can es-
cape it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

country and not be able to bounce
smowballs OF the ribs OF the engrossed
passerby. and then be chased down the
nearest alley and walloped until he
couldn't lie on his back for week.
This teaches us that there are draw
backs to every climate.
II our laws would limit the throw
ing of the SNOWFALL to girl pupils. there
would be fewer fatalities and stiff
necks in our midst.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
Rack Rents.

equivalent to the full net annual value
Of the real property out of which 1t is
sues, or approximately go" By statnte
In England today rack rent is defined
az mot less than two-thirds of the full
net t annuai value OF the lands out OF
which Il asisesA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The very rich and the very poor are
not worrying over the high cost of liv-
ing observes the Sioux City Journal.
The millionaire can afford to pay the
high prices and the various county and
state institutions continue to give their
inmates square meals regardless. 1t Is
the in petweens' who are getting the
worst of it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

John D. Archbold. president of the
Standard Oil Company OF New Jersey.
known as the parent of the group OF
com panies into which the so called "oil
trust was dissolved, was operated up
on for appendicitis at his home in
Tarrytown. n. Y. While his physi-
clans expressed themselves as satis-
fed with his condition, they remained
at his bedside. Mr.. ArchboId was born
in 1S4S and has been connected with
the Standard Oil Company since 1875.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

started on. The commission idea 10
right. There are numerous details In
connection with 1t that need changing.
.'s the idea in tho main should not be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
A Masonic Meetings.
~ vlsitors always welcome

SPECIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No. los, A. F. & \. NJ,
Wednesday. Dec. 6, 1880 p. m. Work
IN Third degree. John w. Wells, sec
rotary; 3. o. Frazey, W. N.
S,oNET CHAPTER. Nc. -. r. A N.
Stated convocation Monday evening.
Dec. IS, T:30 o'clock. Regular business.
Election of officers. Carl Shaffner H.
p; John W. Wells. secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo,
mon Council No. 20. r q 6. NJ, Mon
day. Dec. Is. Regular business and
election Of officers !. T. Forbes, Re-
rorder; George Gregory, I. NJ
STATED coNcLAVE, St Aldemar
Commandery. No. 80, X. 7, Tuesday,
Dec. ~. $50 p. m. Regular business
and election OF officers. !. 7. Forbes
Recorder: II. c, Mueller, Commander,
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. ST. o. e.
S.-Meeting Wednesday, Dec Is, $50
D m, for regular business and election
OF officers Eliza 5. Battin, secretary
Cora II. Mcdowell. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

tSow everybody don't get scared 4
Cause little Billy Bunny dsrsd
Go out to dine With Daddy Fox
Ini.iae his den amid the rccks.1
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

Speaking about bond issues the next
governor of Iowa wouldn't hesitate a
moment to issue personal bonds to
cover his election expenses" says the
Waterloo Times-Tribune But it was
a good issue for him, at that"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

Among the islands named after ami
mails there are the Isle OF Dogs and
Whale Island. Pewit Island in Essex,
England, and Crane and Gull Islands,
OF the coast Of Cornwall. Near Lundy
Island are Rat Island and the Hen and
Chickens. Transatlantic travellers, it
may be added, are familiar with the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
MARKING THE MORMON TRAIL
(CoGncil Bluffs Noupareill,

MARhINL The MORMON TRAIL.
tCodncil Bluffs Nonpareill.
The local chapter Of the Daughters
Of the American Revolution has under
taken the task of suitably marking the
trail at this point which was made his
toric nearly three-quarters OF CEN
tury ago by the Mormons and other
pioneers who trekked from Nauvoo, ILL.,,
across Iowa to this place and from
here and from Florence. Neb., on
across the Great Plains
The story Of these pioneers is in
tensely interesting. They made his
tory as well as roads. THEY blazed the
way for others. They assisted in con-
quering the last west" 1t is eminently
proper that the roadway over which
these people Travelled should be suit
ably marked with monuments and tab
let's bearing inscriptions indicative Of
their purpose. This is work of ire
mendous historic value. We must rely
Upon the records of the past to guide
Us, in future. II is only those people
who look down the long ages Of the
past with some clearness of vision who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

with the British and the United States
may have some business, as a neutral
to transact with Austria why should
the new Austrian ambassador to this
country be denied safe conduct" in
quires the Davenport Timese.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05
CEDAR RAPIDS MILK.

Inc city council. acting as board OF
heal'h. has stepped out to take an ac-
1--WE nand in the examination and reg
uLaton of Cedar Rapids milk supply
And 1t stepped out with right foot fore
most 1t should have experieneed no
difficulty in assuming the proper
swing. fer 1t has rested suf!:ciently
long and should De in excellent trim
for exercise.
Hereafter the city chemist will make
regular tests of the milk sold by dairy
men in Cedar Rapids. These tests will
De oacteriological. Mr.. Pray will con-
tinue 10 make his tests as state dairy
inspector. but the city is going to|lelp
MIN Previously he has had practically
10 help from the city which. in contras:
to hundreds of other cities no more
metropolitan than this, had permitted
matters TO drift, relying solely upon the
state to give protection TO consumers
Of milk.
But the board Of health doubtless
realizes that this step only marks the
beginning of a movement TO enforce
the distribution of pure milk from SAN
itary diaries. Inspector, Pray says hd
can go into the dirtiest barn in Chris
tendon and get pure milk. Maybe that
is possible, but even SO the filth in the
dairy would not be excused We must
not rest content If, We And that the
milk tests well. The thing to do Is 10
zee that II has no opportunity to test
otherwise. Eliminate the possibility of
dangerous milk by getting ar the
source. Its the old story of an ounce
OF preventative being worth pound
of cure.
The Evening Gazette can not but feel
that even tho its publication of an arti-
Gle which plainly asserted there was
need of closer regulation of local
dairies apparently was IN disfavor at
the city hall, that same publicity had
the desired effect. Two dairymen have
been ordered TO build new milk housen
or quit selling milk and now the board
OF health has ordered the. city bacterio-
logical examination. a good beginning
has been made.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

did you ever notice that the man
VINO won't work, takes real pleasure
in getting in the way of the man who
as job?" asks the Ottumwa Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

Politicians from Iowa gathering in
Washington are reported to be dis
cussing "Hardings' future" Why not
wait and see II he has one? ?" suggests
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

8 FOVernor-eIect Harding, since his
election, has indicated in several
statements that he is not bitterly OPP
posed to the, state highway commits
sion idea, remarks the Dubuque Tele-
graph Herald. This will be welcome
news to many VINO believe he proposes
exerting his influence to do away with
the commission and destroying the
great reforms In T0ai-buiiding 10 has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

A fellow al Long Beach who married
seven wives says he had lapses Of
memory and forget he was married.
Imagine a person ever forgetting that.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-05

The SNOWFALL is cold, cisagreeable