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Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1916-11-09

meeting will be- under The auspices Of
the Parent Teacher Association. in con
nection with tire Century Club. u will
be an open meeting. both men and WOO
men being invited and children in their
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26

THE ,cE-cREAM surpAE

The ice-cream sundae Ii an intricate
beverage which has a very cooling ef-
feet when applied in rapid succession.
BY the time heated and care-worn
tourist has Topped down In a drugstore
and consumed FIVE or six Ice cream SUM-
daes at a rate Of speed that would win
the 1905 pace, he will be entirely cooled
on and At to cope with the roadside
puncture without melting away while
doing the coping.
The sundae is an Improvement over
the old fashioned cornstarch ice -cream
that used to be served on the church
lawn. A few years ago you could not
go anywhere in this broad land with
out running into the sallow complexion
of plain vanilla ice-cream with q lin
gering. prehensile flavor. It was in or
der to render this flavor null and void
that the sundae was invented, and a. a
result nobody eats plain ice-cream any
more except to appease an outraged
stomach.
The sundae Is a mixed drink and
consists Of ice-cream smothered In
everything but young onions. Owing to
the prohibition wave thousands Of skill
full bartenders have been thrown out of
but most of them have
since been hired to manufacture the
lce-cream sundae in long wriggling re-
lays. Every few days some former bar
keep will bring out new sundae which
Is harder to mix than q welsh rarebit
In hay cooker. thus stimulating busi-
ness and creating widespread demand
for some time-tried dyspepsia cure. 4
The ice-cream sundae has robbed the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
TAKE BARNo0LLAR INTO CAMP FIRST.

A Mr.. Barndollar broke the record
for fast driving across Iowa last Sum
day, speeding from Council Bluffs to
Davenport in eight hours and SO min
utes. The fastest train the c. R.L.SP
runs across the same part Of the state
by shorter route is scheduled for
hours and Is minutes 1t is said that
Ralph Mulford will attempt to lower
the Barndollar record
Mr.. Barndollar should have been ar
rested before he had got out of Pottamie
county. He should be arrested now
and fined TO the full extent of the law.
II Mr.. Milford starts anything of the
sort he should be incontinently arrest
ed and given the penalty That sort of
thing should be broken UP in Iowa. AS
a beginning in the campaign of en-
forcement OF auto regulation lately an
nounced by state officers why not begin
on Mr.. Barndollar.
The Sunday roads are full of auto
mobiles driven by lawabiding citizens
on their different ways. The roads be-
long to them, not to the sport. speed
maniacs and automobile advertisers.
They should not be endangered and an
noyed by those who defy the statutes
and make speedway out of the public
highways.
There has been enough OF this. 1t
should be stopped. For state officers
TO assert a purpose Of strict enforce
ment and shut their eyes to fragrant
violations like that Of Sunday is an in
consistency that should be Strengthened
out by seeing that the violator gets the
full limit of penalty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
LET RAWS0k BE SWORN.

Bitter business rivalry between
Pierce, OF the Iowa Homestead. and
Meredith, who has eclipsed him as a
successful publisher OF farm papers. is
bringing into this campaign a mess of
NTH and muck which has not been
known in Iowa politics for a genera
ton. The stun is published in the
Homestead and then circulated over
Iowa II reprints bat {, Is So ad.o:tiy
prepared with lawyer assistance that
1t skirts safely outside Of legally ac-
tionahle language. The Times -Repub-
leans name has been mention ed in
connection with corrupt newspapers
but when submitted to attorneys the
language has been found to be care
fully qualified so as to prevent the
Homestead's victim recovering dam
ages for SANDER, and this newspaper
has dared the cowardly Pierce to put
his accusations boldly into unequivocal
language that would be actfonable in
law. But he refuses TO fight in the
open.
In the last screed an entire page re-
cites a mysterious story about Mere
dith's connection with Professor
Holden in an Idaho irrigated land
project which gives every reader the
impression that there was something
wrong and corrupt about it for there
Is constant reference to a corrupt
Des Moines gang but safely tucked
away at the bottom is the statement
that:
The Homestead does not charge
that this wild, visionary scheme wa,
evolved with any intent to defraud. Blu,
{. does say that II was thru thi.
mutuaiiy proftabis Business relation,
ship that this unholy bipartisan al
lance first came about"
The Homestead does not dare to sa,
that Meredith defrauded anybody. bu
its article is 80 worded as to leave thai
impression.
And And 20 :. Is :. 20 Gardner Cowlsa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
HARDING NOW AND THEN.

Mr.. Harding, candidate for governor,
speaks at the Rhodes fair in Marshall
county today. He will tell the farm
ers that he is opposed to road bonds
ana to paved roads and he will receive
applause. 1t will make him votes be-
Harding.
On May Is last. this same Mr.. Hard
ing wrote to {. d. Cass, interurban
magnate of Waterloo, saving. Let the
people OF given locality vote on the
proposition of taxes or bonds and il
they can afford either or both they will
build the roads,
In the acts of the Thirty third gem
eral assembly law was passed pro-
viding for paved roads Mr.. Harding
voted for ii and he, himself intro
duced an amendment TO 1t which pro-
NiQed that the board of supervisors
shall have power TO assess not less
than so per cent of the cost thereof on
adjacent property" Mr.. Hardngs
amendment was adopted and we have
in chapter s5 of the acts of this as
Sembiy the paved road law which
reads in part:
Sec. l. The board of supervisors OF
any county shall have jurisdiction,
power and authority at any regular,
special or adjourned session, 10 estab-
llsh permanent road improvement dis
trict or districts and TO cause to be
constructed as hereinafter provided. by
grading, guttering and curbing and
paving or matchmaking permanent
highways, and 20 provide for the max
ing and reconstruction of any such
highway Improvement and 10 assess
not less than so per cent OF the cost
thereof On abutting or adjacent prop
erty as provided in this act"
-MT. Harding voted FOR that paved
road law and amended il so as to stick
the adjacent land owner for not less
than half the cost. This proved so
hurdensome that the law was seldom
ever used for road improvement and
it was repealed by the law which ere
ated the present state highway COM
mission.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
War Myths and Legends.

II is in periods of great stress and
trial. and especially in time Of war.
that the legends Of myths and mira
cles usually have their origin, to be
handed down thru credulous genera
lions. war-even the scientific earn
age of the present-appeals to the
most primitive. emotions Of mankind
The reign OF reason is temporarily
overthrown and men return ito sit in
superstition's lap and hear again the
oft-told tales Of the mythical and the
marvellous" Scores of legends of SUI
pernatural invention have sprung up
during this war and have found null
tItude of ready believers.
The Russians are the most prolific
of myth manufacturers. and according
to the tales that are told around the
campfires and in peasant households.
saints without number have returned
to give their counsel and guidance to
the soldiers of the car. The Germans.
especially those OF the south, have dis
played similar fertility OF pious i'm
agination. The free-thiniing French
men of the city scoff at snch notions,
but the peasant soldiers of Ia repub-
lique" fervently believe that Joan OF
Arc has often reappeared in the flesh
and led the French to victory. Per-
haps the most remarkable of these
myths. that dealing with the miracu-
Ions appearance at Mons of ST. George
and the bowmen of Agincourt, who
saved the British from humiliation.
has found ready credence in England.
altho IT has now been demonstrated
that this legend originated in a clever
bit of fiction written by Arthur
Machan and originally published in the
London Evening News. and was lit
erary invention pure and simple.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
Mr.. Hughes and Labor.

Truth is mighty and will prevail as
much so in~a political campaign as in
any other contest. The desperate eff
fort that Is being made to capitalize the
Adamson act for the benefit of the
party that has the ignomirious distinc-
ton of passing 1t, is founded upon false
hood and deception and out of it grow
other falsehoods Not content with
laureling Woodrow Wilson as the saw
ior Of labor-Woodrow Wilson who in
1909 publicly declared that II am a
fierce partisan of the open shop" and
who in 1907 spoke Of the labor organi-
cations and leaders of the country as
a formidable enemy to equality and
betterment of opportunity "-his parti-
sans are holding up Mr.. Hughes as
the enemy of labor" This is as un-
true and as vicious as the claim that
the Adamson law established an eight
hour day.
Mr.. Hughes altitude in regard TO
labor was fairly expressed in an edi-
torlal IN the official organ OF organized
labor in the state of New York al the
time he was appointed justice of the
Supreme Court. We printed this ut
terance few weeks ago we here pre-
sent 1t again:
Now that Gov. Hughes has retired
from politics and assembled to a place
on the highest judicial tribunal in the
world, the fact can be acknowledged
without hurting anybody's political
corns that he was the greatest friend
OF labor that ever occupied the govern
or's chair at Albany. During his two
terms ne has signed ffty-six labor
laws. including among them the best
labor laws ever enacted in this or any
other state. He also urged the enact
ment of labor laws in his message TO
the legislature. even going so far as to
place the demand for a labor law in
one OF his messages to an extra session
Of the legislature. Only 1s2 labor laws
have been enacted in this state since
Its election in 1.77-in l35 years one
third of these exceeding in quality all
others. have been enacted and signed
during Gov. Hughes term Of three
years and nine months.
That is an unbiased statement of Mr..
Hughes record. made at time when
IL was supposed that he was perman-
emily removed from the field of poll
tics. The legislation referred TO in
Guided child labor laws, covering profli-
bition OF child labor under certain ages.
the regulation OF child labor of permits
able age, outlawing certain machines
and industrial practices in relation to
CHILD labor. a law safeguarding women
in employment, and numerous other
enactmerts. all designed 10 protec.
labor and promote its interests. These
arc the things Mr.. Hughes was doing
al the time Woodrow Wilson was say
ing: You know what the usual stand
ard Of the employe is in our day. II is
TO give as little as he may for his
wages. Labor is standardized by the
trades unions. and this is the stand
ard to which 1t is made to conform.
Mr.. Hughes does not truckle TO labor
or 10 any other interest. He does what
he believes is fair and right to ALL
st. Louis Globe Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26

ing frankly admits in his campaign
speeches that during his six years as a
member Of the state legislature he
voted against temperance, measures
and justifies himself on the theory that
he was correctly representing his Sioux
City constituency, who he says were
80 per cent wet" Thus, il MIR.
Harding had convictions contrary to
his votes, he smothered them at the
behest OF the liquor element of Sioux
City. This does not sound good. Meth
er does 1t explains why as lieutenant
governor. when he should have been
representing the entire state and not
Sioux City only ne twice packed the
senate committee on intemperance
with VETS" when he was making his
selections from a membership which
was overwhelmingly dry Mr.. Harding
has stood thruout his political career
with the whisky ring. He doesn't deny
it, but excuses himself on the ground
of his Sioux City constituency His
candidacy has been condemned as a
threat against the moral welfare Of
the state by Iowa Methodists. Baptists
and Presbyterians in state gatherings
and by numerous smaller church
meetings OF various religious denom-
nations. He Is a Methodist and Is re-
pudiated by his own pastor and by the
president OF the college OF which he Is
an alumnus. Unless he has seen new
light, which he Is not telling us any
thing about Mr.. Harding might fairly
be presumed to act as governor as he
has acted as lieutenant governor With
due respect to the Sioux City papers
eulogium. the Journal is not ashamed
of the company it finds itself in at this
time, altho 1t may have been slightly
so when II opposed woman suffrage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
Too Many Meat Retailers,

Grass cattle are gathered al this sea
son and full markets are logical. Prices
are high, especially when measured
by the paying capacity of the con-
sumner, who, after all, is the determin-
ing factor. When the public is unable
to go the price pace the cattle market
invariably needs the service of an
apologist. When the movement over
the stock yard scales Is slow and buy
ers attribute it to rotten" beef mar
ket. 1t is an !nfallible sign that the
consumer is protesting against cost by
tine only effective means al his ccn,-
mand, curtailing OF consumption. and
this is especially applicable during a
period OF Industrial prosperity. when
payrolle are full money is in liberal
circulation and the public IL less in
clined to haggle over cost Of either
necesscries or Injuries.
The American packer has developed
system Of economic efficiency that
commands admiration. His system has
made possible the utilization of by
product to the last cent has eliminated
the deadbeat element of distributors
and otherwise established desirable
condition. But when animal product
leaves the packer coolers Distribution
cost begins to pile up. The packer
boasts, not without reason, Of the
miniature margin Of profit on which he
does business. Unfortunately, this
economy ceases when meats reach dis
tributive channels. The parasites OF
the trade are numerous and each Ievies
a tribute chat the ultimate consumer
must pay. There is little relation be-
tween cost Of beef. pork and mutton
at the cooler and over the counter TO
the man who eats 1t. Stock yard
fluctuations are rarely reflected in re-
tail costs except when prices go up.
Restaurant and motel owners pursue
the same policy. always reducing the
size Of the portion and inching up tine
price. Overhead charges cut more fig
ure with retailers than wholesale cos.
OF meats.
Packers assert that th.y gre mani
sacturers. To' -etailers. ana in tits
there Is '.'-.c. bi:t high cost of mcat
distribution Irejudfcia to their In
terests as well az those of the producer
and consumer. Sooner or later some
means of obviating this evil will be
devised. Retailers contend thar th=
public demands service and must pay
for IT, The fact is that retailers ayss
so numerous that their volume OF
trade IL out OF proportion to their fixed
charges. ard it is the latter jmpo@t
for which the pubic Is taxed All are
treated alike at the meat market. Cash
. u 100
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
Ripping Rhymes
woopRow,s VIEWS.
BY WALT MASON

To Woodrowis Office I went faring: he
talked while of vital things. THE
hangdowns Charley Hughes Is wearing,
must shock the thotful soul, by jings.
Shall we have whiskers in high places?
This l. the question paramount; the
voters call for shaver faces-all Other
themes are no account. There's no ex.
cuse for wearing clover like Fairbanks
Hughes, and other gents: the days Of
spinach long are over-a shave now
costs but fifteen cents. My foes would
fain obscure the issue by talking thingx
that cut no ice. and think that wild and
woody tissues Of sophistries should well
suffice. They are accomplished verbal
friskers. and dodge around from theme
to theme, but. friend. the crucial theme
is whiskers-make note OF that; II ir
no dream. Shall whiskers desecrate
this dwelling. that mighty statesmen
used to know? II once Y starts. there
is no telling how far the whiskers fad
will go. My friend. the issues plain be-
fore us, and never to the rear 1t drops:
let US, our bright nag waving DER us.
stand up for razors, mugs and str0ps"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26

publisher OF the Dies Mones Register.
A story covering three pages relates
Of his alleged offer TO Harding to sup
port him II Harding would accomplish
Cowles' appointment to the board OF
education and the words Of the alleged
interview are cowardly put into the
mouth of viii Johnston, who is now
dead. That makes the falsehood safe.
Gardner Cowles long ago told some
Of his friends about that interview in
the Des Moines Club. He said then
that Charlie Rawson, chairman OF the
state central committee, called him out
of bed one night to see Harding at the
club. Cowles said he refused to come
as he had nothing to see Harding
about but Rawson was very anxious to
be peacemaker and laid down on
Cowles to come down anyway for my
sake" Cowles got up, dressed and
discussed generalities as to the Regis
ter's news stories being unfair to him.
Cowies promised TO look into their ac
curacy and the Interview ended.
Cowles says he understood very clear
ly what Rawson and Harding had in
mind as the confirmation Of the APP
pointment Of Cowles was then pending
but he, Cowles, did not care to enter
tain any compromise.
1t is now up to Rawson to be sworn
in testimony TO protect a fellow
townsman from SANDER
Did you, Rawson. cali Cowles from
his home to meet Harding at the Dies
Moines Club? If You did the VIII
Johnston story must be a mistake.
Did you hear Cowles suggest to
Harding that he wanted Harding's
support as to the confirmation of
Cowles' appointment?
Let's have the facts. Most men who
know Cowles and Harding and Pierce
personally will believe that Pierce is
lying about Cowles. Those who read
Perces article and do not know any
of the men personally will believe that
Cowles tried to buy Harding with
newspaper support.
1t is up 10 Rawson 10 be sworn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
Topics Of the Times

Some people hire lawyers to keep
them out Of the penitentiary and some
hire them to tell just how far lie
may be carried and stay out Of libel
suits.
OF course the poor could eat pudding
and milk IL milk wasn't so high.
49,
Ask the chautauqua man which he'd
sooner sign. the poet laureate OF Eng
land or Don Pancho villa of some
where in Mexico?
One way the wealthy victim" can
escape the blackmailer is by staying
decent himself. Mighty few men were
ever biackmailed who hadn't assisted
the blackmailer to build the founda-
ton.
The Upper Iowa tMethodists at their
conference denounced Harding as a
friend of the liquor interests and re-
solved that they would "be traitors ID
their trust if they didn't. Then when
somebody suggested that the resolu-
tons had been railroaded thru they
went back and did it all over again
harder than ever. That ought to be as
conclusive as the action Of the Des
Moines Ministerial Association.
Perhaps, If the race record break
ing continues across Iowa we SHALL
have to put f1agmen at the cross roads.
The New York legislature may be
called in extraordinary session to deal
with the strike. Huh. After the con-
gressional experience?
The alleged outbreak Of mad itch"
Franklin will take a good many older
men back to prairie times when mad
itch" was not an infrequent ailment
among the cattle and when it be-
hooved the youth on foot to keep a
wary eye on animals thus afflicted.
COW with the mad itch attacked blind
ly and without regard 1t seemed TO
affect her somewhat as the state print
ing does an ancient editor Of a farm
paper.
Iowa apples went east and tccG seq
ond in competition with the world
while Indiana took first So you see
all that talk about eastern and west
ern apples doesn't amount 10 much !!
the Iowan will spray his orchard
If the democrats keep on the ;lme
way keeping their promises TO reduce
the cost of living a lot of folks are
u
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26

Lieutenant Zinovi Pechkoff, son of
Maxim Gorky. the Russian novelist, is
now visiting America, having arrived a
few days ago. He lost his arm at Arras
while leading his men of the Foreign
Legion against the German trenches. He
was decorated by the French govern
ment with the war cross with palms and
has come here to spend three months
lecturing. The lieutenant. who is a
modest young soldier, explained that he
lost his arm thru being hit with an ex-
plosive bullet.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-26
TWO OLD FOOLS.

The papers quoted Frank Rock fell
Ter the other day to the effect that he
and his brother John D. could never
be reconciled in this world" William
had made overtures toward bringing
the two old men together. But Frank
refused. He said he and John had
had trouble over business and that was
the end of il. No reconciliation "on this
earth" for them.
That sort of thing is common. 1t
isn't confined to the Rockefellers by
any means. There are other old men
and young ones for the matter of that
who deny their blood because they
have had trouble over some settle
Inent. When father died Henry acted
the hog" or Wesley tried 10 get ii all"
ing works" something happened. And
they called in their amba ssadors and
severed relations. Maybe John got
along faster than Frank and perhaps
Johns wife looked down" on Franks
wife and maybe Franks Oldest boy
went TO college while Johns stayed at
home or Johns girl married mil
lonaire while Franks ran away with
the hired man and carried her pigs 10
poor market Anyhow the families
drif;ed farther apar, and the two Old
men and two old women drive past
ach other without speaking. Rookie
Teller or Jones or Brown or Stokes it's
all the same.
Old John Rockefeller and Old Frank
Rockefeller are going TO die pretty
soon. They can't live forever. So are
those other Franks and Johns. It's
only little while longer that they can
hold gruGges and keep up feuds. And
all the time they are buying more un-
happiness with their hatred than they
can buy happiness with all their
money.
Now there are three old men in Des
Moines-there were four until one OF
the brothers died the other day. They
have always worked together. Their
property was held in communism
What one had the others had and
wha, the others gained the one gained.
They prospered also. They grew rich
and built big buildings and financed
this and that proposition. The Flem-
ings stood together. There was no
need Of reconciliation because there
was not a break. Imagine the sT5a;
happiness those brothers enjoyed and
which each brought the others. Com
pare their situation with that Of John
and Frank Rockefeller glazing at each
graves.
A family feud 10 both wicked and
foolish. SO for. that matter is any
feud. No man ever grew content
among the nettles OF anger and envy
and hatred. Happiness refuses to
spring from such soil. Brothers and
sisters-and all are brothers and sis
tiers in the best and broadcast sense
need one another. No man ever had
too many friends or too few enemies.
None ever gained happy day be-
cause another sorrowed.
Frank and John Rockefeller are two
wrong, foolish old men who can not
forget wrong and ~ho refuse recon
Citation ''in this world" But this IL
the only world where they are certain
Of chance to be reconciled. And there
are other old men and women who are
nursing hatred for each other along
| with the hope Of future world Of uni
versal love.
In the long run the difference be-
| tween billionaires and other people IS
only the difference in their stocks and
bonds and bank accounts. And nve
minutes after they are dead there vii:
not be any difference.
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