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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
Taking Armi.. over an.

II our friends who are living in
constant fear Of invasion from across
the ocean, and who, In their fright
picture an invading host OF many
millions landed in q single night will
read the following paragraphs from the
New York Sun and the New York Eve
ming Post they will come to much
clearer notion of Just what It means to
land an army over seas.
The original suggestion from the
Sun is as follows:
"The British probably put 100000
men ashore in Gallipoli. Suppose 1t
became necessary to send 100000
men overseas, say to the Philippines.
how should we do IT."
To which the Evening Post re-
spends:
IF England, in command Of tho
seas and with her unparalleled mer-
chant fleet found the task difficult,
it would no doubt be very difficult
for US. Perhaps one way OF pre-
pairing for this is to pursue policy
which shall make 1t unnecessary to
send 100000 men to the Philip
pines"
Is 1t not about time for those who
are talking about successful inva-
sion OF American by either Germany
or Japan to ask themselves why
the British with their enormous ship
ping facilities have permitted them
selves to be ANONYMOUSLY driven or
the Gallipoli peninsula?
Why in q six months campaign Of
the fiercest sort. where there was
everything to hope for in q victorious
advance. did the English manage to
get a bare 100000 men on the CALI
poll peninsula, and that with no inter-
ference whatever by sea?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

In Mitchell county the farmers or a
part of the farmers took steps the
other day to investigate the seed corn
situation in that county and make as
sure as possible that good seed will
he planted next year. Mitchell made a
poor showing this year in her corn
crop even as compared with some
other counties where the crop was
snort thru causes entirely obvious to
those who carried umbrellas and wore
sweaters thru the corn making months
In Iowa last season. SO calamity or
Its close cousin has brought the Osag-
ers to an active campaign to enable
the fertility of Mitchell county to make
It's just and proper showing. Com
mittets will be active in every neigh
oorhood, seed corn will be Investigate
ed whether on hand or purchased and
an expert from the agricultural coll
lege will supervise the Job,
Nothing Mitchell county farmers
could do would pay them better. This
is a bad seed corn year. Poor seed
following the past bad season would
simply extend the qasi calamity of last
year into real calamity. And all over
Mitchell and all other counties are
careless farmers who take a chance on
their seed corn.
The suggestion is as good for other
counties as for Mitchell 1t is as wise
for Marshall as for any other. We
have an exceptionally good class OF
farmers in this county along with ex-
ceptionally good farm land: but there
is danger Of bad seed corn gathered in
nome fields or purchased in confidence
which may be betrayed. Commissioner
Barney has sent out the warning that
much corn is being purchased to be
sold for seed which is probably alto
gether unfit to plant
The Marshall County Farmers AS
ISOLATION and the Marshalltown club
couldn't do better Job than 10 take
up the proposition as it stands in
Mitchell and make a general canvass
of Marshall county seed corn and Sc
cure tests of all corn gathered here
and shipped in for seed. Both the
farmers and the city are vitality inter-
ested in whether a kernel of corn rots
in the ground or reproduces itself sew
eral hundred times. Those kernels
count into millions of good hard dol
lars. 1t is they that fill the banks as
well as the corn cribs. They Inv tho
autos and the dry goods and the cloth
Ing and are beneath all trade. They
are the nap on the Iowa velvet"
If there is one important CONNER.
clal danger ahead of us for the COM
ing season bad seed corn may claim
precedence. A bushel of bad seed
corn means % to 40 bushels OF corn
where SO to so should have grown. So
at present prices that bushel OF bad
corn would cost Marshall county from
SO to $40. That estimate is low rather
than high. And when Marshall coup-
ty fails to grow good corn on everv
acre OF corn field everybody loses with
the farmer. That corn is wealth pro-
duced, 1t is new coin fresh 1ninted that
never was before, If it doesn't grow,
isn't created. nobody gets to handle IL
and none of 1t sticks to anybody's
fingers.
The Mitchell farmers and other in
terested folks are going the right way
about very important matter. And
other counties and farmers and folks
may profit by their example.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
rock macadem roads.

rock macadem roads.
At Amboy, Illinois, the county board
will call for a vote on 100000 in road
bonds.
At Edwardsville, Illinois, the board
of trade is campaigning for 100000
issue of county road bonds.
At Appleton, Wisconsin,, people will
vote in April upon 100000 Of road
bonds.
In Iowa there is nothing doing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

! told story. auto returning from rost
Dodge, men dead. beer and whisky
found in car"
But Fort Dodge 10 dry. The town
will undergo q complete re-construc-
tion. The buns and skates will move
into wet territory. The scarlet women
. will follow, and Fort Dodge will be q
better Fort Dodge than she has ever
been before. Fort Dodge will learn
that prosperity built on booze is mighty
poor prosperity.
CHURCH AND LODGE CHARITY.
[Monticello Express.l
Candidate Harding who Is evidently
making a bid for the lodge vote, Is re-
ported to have recently said: III I
might criticise the church as against
the lodge 1t would be to say that the
lodge carries food and the church ID
vice." This statement is piece OF
sophistry. He might have said that
the lodge when it deals out charity
| oftertinles makes :: spectacular display
of its generosity, whereas the church
thru its membership in quiet and
unobtrusive way seeks out the dis
tressed as we'll as those in want and
takes to them the consolation Of hope
as well as the material things that
allay hunger and protect from the cold.
The lodge men are entitled to proper
but not excessive credit for their char
tiles. We can offset all their showinge
of generosity with the kindly acts of
the mothers in Israel who are all OF
the time looking out for the wants OF
the poor in their respective neighbor-
hoods: who do so because of the
teachings Of their church, and who ask
for and receive no reward or recogni-
ton, other than the feelings OF we'll
doing and a Christian duty quietly per-
formed. These women do not mako
public display of their generosity
once a year with jingling sleigh bells
and newspaper descriptions OF their
benefactions. They are ready at all
times to relieve distress. The churches
thru their membership still continue to
be the benevolent institutions Of every
community. They have within their
folds the most generous givers-gtvers
who cheerfully promote the cause OF
the Christian religion-and because
they are free giyers they heed the calls
of those in want. We believe that Mr.,
Harding claims a church membership.
II he will but bestir himself. and look
into the acts of the members of his
own church he Will find modest women
and men. too, listening to the injunc-
ton of the Master, take heed that ye
do not your aims before men, to be
seen of them. otherwise We have no re-
ward; that thine aims may
be In secret. and thine Father which
seeth in secret Himself shall reward
thee openly" If he will investigate Mr..
Harding will have a surprise in store.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
FOR INTERVENTION.
[Des Moines Capital.l

lDtS MOlIleS SdplLdll
The situation In Mexico Is not grow
ing better.
Acting President Carranza has not
yet taken possession Of the City OF
Mexico. He is not fully installed. He
is far from being established. General
Villa is still at large, and is anxious to
make more trouble. u..
The administration at Washington
has warned Americans to get out OF
and the advice should be taken.
General Carranza has made promises
which he has never kept. Many OF them
he is unable to keep. Like all Mex
leans, he is unreliable.
The sooner this country takes the
Mexican case in hand and settles it, the
better. 1t will be a bloody job. It will
cost many lives. and will require the
expenditure Of hundreds OF millions Of
money.
But IL life 30 dear and peace SO
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
Liberal With Their Gains.

~ Spanish adventurer returning
from highly lucrative wanderings in
the early day Americas, is said to
haye given away 100000 in aims on
the occasion Of his marriage 1T BARGE
Iona. Another stood in a Madrid win
dow and threw handfuls Of silver coins
into the crowd until he had emptiad
tive barrels.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
A Masonic Meetings.
~ SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

~ SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge No. 10S A +. and A W
Work in first degree Friday, Jan. IL
7:30 .. M John w. Wells, secretary
B. O. Frazey, w. NJ
SIGNET CHAPTER. No. 80, r. A. M.
Regular convocation Monday evening,
Jan. II. 1916, for work and installation.
L. S. Kilborn, H. P: John w. Welis'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20. r. & 8. NJ. Monday
Jan. II, regular business. I. T. Forbes
recorder: George Gregory. l. M.
STATED coNcLAVE, St. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K. T.. Tuesday
Jan. IS, 1880 o'clock. Business and IN
stallation Of officers. Full UNIFORM
M. i. Mcfarland, Rec; George Greg
Org, E. G.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. Ct, O. E. S., Jan. IL, 1880 p. IN.
Eliza s. Battin. secretary; Cora M
Mcdowell, w. M.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The well known characteristic of
the colonel to speak right out in
meetin' is one of the things about him
that the American people like, no mat
ter whether they agree with him or
not. He always plays the game with
the cards upon the table," says the
Webster City Freeman Tribune.
Iowa Is going to have a regular
political campaign this year." predicts
the Humboldt Republican. 1T will
remind the old guard Of the days Of
1S96--the eminence Of political history
that stands out in memory like boil
on the nose"
The Upton Advertiser "is glad that
the state highway commission has
taken a stand against these road races
across the state. There is likely to be
legislation in the near future which
will make a protest effective. Iowa IS
not spending these millions on its high
ways to build race tracks. The roads
should be safe places for the ordinary
traveller" -...
THE people Of America have little
faith in the continued peace and quiet
of Mexico under existing conditions.
We might as we'll face the fact that
sooner or later we must intervene"
says the Boone News Republican. ut
is an unpleasant duty. but 1t is an i'm
perative Just the same" ...
Between war at any cost and peace
at any price there is the better ground
of peace with honor. And on this
ground Senator Cummins, Iowa's can
didate. will be found" says the Coun-
Gil Bluffs Nonpareil.
"The administration at Washington
is absolutely and irrevocably COM
mitted to the policy Of talking about
everything and acting about nothing
asserts the Nevada Representative,
land good many years Of observa-
ton have brought to us the final judg-
ment that it is useless to try to pro-
coed in foreign matter resolutely
without capable leadership and that
capable leadership is out Of question
from a man whose mental processes
stop after he has said something
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
The Othar Side.

John, dear. wish you would do
something in the stock market. / met
Mrs. Margin today and she had
lovely set Of furs her husband had
bought out Of the profits Of his latest
deal"
Il have been doing something in the
market love ana I have strong sus-
picion paid for those furs."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
Iona Newspapers
WORTH THE PRICE.

WORTH THE PRICE.
tWebster City Freeman Tribune.1
A few days ago the sheriff Of Polk
county burned up 10000 cigarets he
had seized at a store that was selling
them illegally. At l cent each those
cigarets would sell for 800. hnt II ia
worth more than that to Des Moines
and Iowa to have them destroyed by
the sheriff.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
A WORD OF CHEER.
TVinton Eagle.1

One has but to read the daily papers
in the larger cities OF the state to real
ize the influence of rum in those cities.
They wall the loss of the taxes which
will result in the closing OF the saloons.
II they would stop to realize the full
result Of saloon taxes they would dis
cover they will be better of without
the saloon tax. Not in twenty five
years has Vinton received saloon taxes,
yet in that time she has erected
municipal waterworks, municipal
electric light plant, from which she
gets electricity at cost; she has paved
the entire business portion Of the town
including the alleys, she has paved six
residence streets with brick and con-
crete, she has bought and is improving
a handsome park, she is levying two
and a half mill tax to sustain Car
negie library. She has electrolier
lights upon every paved street but one,
and not a saloon has ever contributed
1 cent Saloons may contribute toward
the expense of police force and NUM-
cipal court, but they never contribute
cent toward any public improvement
Abas. the saloons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

Published Daily By The
TIMES PRINTING CO
TERMS.

TERMS.
Evening Edition by mail. $4.00
BY the month by mail. .......... SO
Delivered by carrier by the month .bo
Later Edition for morning circu-
Twice-a-Week Edition per year. LOU
Entered at the postoffice at Mar
shalltown as second class mail matter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

ways be seen from the outside. Some
OF the brainlest men this country ever
produced did not look as II they had
more intellect than they could carry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
IMPOSSIBLE, BUT TRUE.
F2ipny Cifv Journal


When Roosevelt and his supporters
marched out Of the Chicago coliseum
in June, 1912, and organized a new
political party for the purpose of crush
ing the republican party no living
prophet could muster vision enough to
venture a prediction that just four
years later Roosevelt would attempt to
assume leadership of the republican
party. Yet that is precisely what ha.
happened. The natural assumption in
1912 was that failure of the progressive
party must mean the passing Of Roose-
welt as an active political force. The
progressive party has failed as COM
pletely as the colonel's dearest enemy
could wish, yet Roosevelt now appears
to be occupying a place Of greater po-
tentiality In our politics than at the
opening Of the presidential campaign
four years ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17

Des Moin-s has ssooss:::s 90 dry the
druggists are no longer selling grape
juice. II old Omar Khayyam were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-17
MITCHELL C0uNTY's SEED CORN WAY

In Iowa there is nothing doing.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-10-13
The Npfphbors Saw

If he is regular in attending church
he is too pious.
If he doesn't attend church he is on
the road to pcrdition.
If he sends his family away for the
summer it is more than he can afford.
If he doesn't allow them a vacation
he is cslled stingy.
If he happens to be successful in
business, he achieved success unfairly.
If he doesn't succeed he missed his
calling.
If the piano is silent why don't they
buy a player?
If they have a player piano it an
noys the whole nelghborhood.
II ne gives freely to charity, it is
for show.
If he doesn't he is classed as a tight
wad.
If his wife does her W work she is
"k.lilng herself for the family.
If she has servants she ought to be
more economical.
II he dies young he led too fast a
life.
! If he lives to q ripe old age, he is liv.
ing beyond his time. Judge,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-10-13

tions aforesaid upon their respective
dates Of maturity together with ao-
cruol interest thereon,
S....on Fourth: Be it further or
daiued that all orders or parts OF or
ders in conflict with this be, and the
sam are hereby repealed.
$. lion Fifth: Be it further or
Jai..f that the occasion being urgent
fhat this ordinance go into effect and
be .orce at and after its passage.
{. aimed this, the 10th day of Octo-
Der, .,l6.
JAMES G. H0RTOF,
,.ayor of the City Of Macon, Miss.
j. SCOTT,
Cler. cf the City Of Macon, Miss.
l.. i. Scott, Clerk Of the Mayor
ana GARD of Aldermen Of the City Of
Macon, Mississippi, hereby certify
thai The above and foregoing oIdln-
ance having first been reduced to
wri. ". was read and considered by
The ayor and Board Of Aldermen at a
regu. er public adjourn meeting Of
said Roaid and the Ordinance was
voted upon by sections and then rs a
Who. and upon final passage, Aloer-
men Allen, F~eatherston, Patty, Patty
and sD.ssard voted yea and none
vote nay" and the said ordinance
ha, aeen duly recorded in IN Minute
Book F. page of the City Of Macon,
Miss sippi.
CITY Clerk,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-10-13

The eastern manager eff h
great Minnesota milling com.
pany predicts that flour, which
is now selling at 500 a barrel,
will. soon reach SD, says an ez-
change. The increase, we wen
know, will be due entirely to the
higher cost of material and VIII
be imposed with great regret hy
the millers, Just as the bread
makers raise their prices only
because they have to-. But why
is it so easy to predict increases
of prices for food products and
so difficult and rare to predict
decreases?
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-10-13

The British losses ON the fight
ing front are now about 1000 @
day. In September they mum.
bered 1883 officers and men
That is a heavy toll, especially if
it is to be kept mp until tho end
sof the war
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-10-13
STRAYED

One roam fliy. with black name and
tail, about l II years old, from the
Gilmore place near Crawford bddge.
Liberal reward for any information
leading TO her recovery
FARLEY GLENN, +. | Macon,
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-25
THE GREEKS WHO BORE GIFTS

The report that Mr.. Bryan will be one of a solid
Wilson delegation from Nebraska to the St. Louis cor
vention' was hardly in the nature of reassuring news 10
The friends of the president. And some of them are say
ing so. 1t is unlikely that Mr.. Bryan could have been
chosen, even in his own state, as an delegate.
The friends of the president are recalling with certain mis-
pivings the fact that just two years ago MIR. Bryan was
me of a solid Clark delegation from Nebraska to the
convention which met at Baltimore. They recall that
the instructions which Mr.. Bryan carried from his con
stituents were treated as a scrap of paper and that he
utilized every Influence at his command to encompass the
defeat of the very candidate he was pledged to support, a
pledge he accepted when he accepted his credentials.
That Mr.. Bryan regards himself as privileged to dis
regard Instructions or pledges is notorious, and 1t is there
fore not to be doubted that if he sees an opportunity to
ditch President Wilson at St. Louis to his own advan-
tage, as he ditched Champ Clark at Baltimore, his new
instructions will be no more binding than were those he
carried to Baltimore. In the same pocket with his new
instructions he will carry a grudge, and he IS about the
most effective self-advertiser that ever occupied the lee
ture platform. That he will let the St. Louis convention
pass without some sensational and spectacular stunt IS
unbelievable. Some friends of the administration recall
the old admonition, Beware of Greeks bearing gifts"
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-25

any man of note by his own petard as in this case of a man
who was leading a campaign that is now a part of the
history of at least three states.
And so we might ask this same convention of presi-
dent makers, what would be its attitude toward free
Italian schools lin every city" free Polish schools in
every city" free Austrian and free Hungarian and free
Hebrew and free Scandinavian schools lin every city,
for all these classes of immigrants have in the last decade
been coming in greater numbers than the Germans. And
these statesmen who would smash the melting pot" in
which this great republic has been formed, must give us
French schools, Irish, Dutch, Greek, Portuguese, Russian
and Roumanian free schools Tin every city" and our laws
must be re-enacted in all these and other languages in or
der that German "kultur' and all these other kultures
may be preserved inviolate to the posterity of those who
came to America to get away from them. Most immi-
grants, including Germans, jumped into the melting POI"
on arrival, but the particular members of that Iowa con-
vention who want free German schools "in every city
had better go back where they left them, and instead of
making and unmaking presidents, they might try their
hand at making and unmaking kings and kaisers. And
what a glorious time right now for the going!
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1916-03-25
WHY RECRUITING is SLACK

In spite of all this excitement along the Mexican
border. recruiting for the United States army is reported
very slow since the first two days. Heretofore when
there has been even a suggestion OF war the recruiting
offices have been crowded, but they are not TO-DAY. IL Is
manifest that it is going to require something more
stirring than has yet transpired to arouse the martal
spirit.
Until quite recently Americans cherished the very
foolish notion that they had the greatest army on earth'
and when the call of country came there were always
plenty of Young men quite ready to hop INTO the ranks.
But the educational exhibit of modern, military efficiency
presented bv the European war and the incidental expos
ue of the utter inadequacy of our own military equip
ment have had the effect of completely disil11slon1ng our
youth, and as a result there is today a very general feel-
ING that connection with the United States army IS no
sort of a glorious distinction. Rather 1t is felt TO De
something of a reproach-the same sort OF a reproach
that attaches to membership on a football team that every
other team has wiped up without especial effort. 1t is
felt that congress is hostile to the army and that 1t IS to be
maintained on a standard of pitiful inconsequence. There
is nothing about it to appeal to ambitious and energetic
young men. 80,
To be sure. in case of real war there will be enlist
ments in plenty, but until something OF a decidedly
serious or sensational nature occurs there Will be nothing
stirring about our recruiting offices. The United States
army has finally been shown up as a starved victim OF
a p~ork-barrel congress-as something pathetic, II we
may adopt the turn of phrase of Colonel Glenn. Before
our army can be made attractive to youth 1t will have
to be placed on a basis in keeping with the dignity and
the actual requirements of our nation.