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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
FARM HOUSE DESTROYED.
Family of Frank Sankot, Near Belle
PLANE, Suffers Heavy Fire Loss

Special to Times Republican,
Belle PLANE, Dec s.-The fine coun-
try house of Frank Sankot, Jr., who
lives seven miles south Of town. was
burned to the ground about O'Clock
Thursday morning. The family mar
rowly escaped and all the furniture
was burned. The fire was supposed to
have started from the hot-eir furnace.
Mr. Sankot phoIled to this city for help
but it was TOO late to save anything.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
TINES REPUBLICAN MARsHALLrowN IOWA: DECEMBER

Additional universities and COLLEGES
have now been recommended as giving
degrees which ara@eauaily acceptable
Cornell is the only ,Metnodist coiirse
included in all the states west Of Chi
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
Hjnh cIaes Farm Paper.

wallaces' Farmer is the highest class
farm weekly published An Iowa and IS
the only one that commands It's full
Subscription price. 1t costs II per
yAar.ssT6e r. r.. costs - par year ,Dy
nail. We viii sell the Two, 0Iifs O. ssfse (,
for 1850 in advance. Times-Rspubii-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08

Bucharest the capital Of Roumanias
has population Of 100000 ana m said
TO be the gayest city In the world. The
Roumanians are q Latin race and Bu- \
charest is deliberate !. imitation Of
Paris. s ~ #
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
EaIrnn Notas.

Where silage is. not fed, calves DO
better with linseed meal rather than
cottonseed meal as a supplement.
else ths milk and cream wiif absorb !
gasoIene odor.
When ii is considered :. .::: * Il; scoring
butter. IS Of the 100 points are award
ed for the flavor: It ID well that farm
ers know the cause and + remedy Of
some Of the common defects OF butter
as regards favor. 'c::asolene flavor" is
often traceable to the farm where the
man who niilss Is the man who drives
the car and does not wash his, hands
between times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
MINNEAPOLIS & ST. LOUIS
NORTH RnITNn

MINNEAPOLIS d ST. LOUIS
NORTH BOUND, Leav.
Albert Leo MAN tdaiiy).... e:15 a. N.
MASON City Mail tex SUM-. b:55 p. N.
Twin CITY Limited (caily).. z:io a. "a.
Local Freight lex SUM-. $40 4 "a
SOUTH BOUND.
ct. Louis and Kansas City
Mail tdaiiT) ............. s:fs D. N
Peoria Express SUM-. 9:i5 a. N.
1t. Louis and Peoria Linn.
TIED tdally) .........-.... 1901 a. n
Locai Freight tex. SUM-. 700 =. m
STORY CITY BRANCH.
Leave AfTfvA
SOS .. m. Passenger daily s:sS I. m.
~ Z. %. (ox. SUM- ........ SOS .. a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
CHICAGO & NORTHWESTERN
Effective 1901 a. M, June l.
GOING WEST

GOING WEST
No. I-Denver Special 80. 1885 a. n.
No. 7-Los Angeles Limited. 5:12 a. IN
No. - China and Japan
Express .................. S:17 a. m
No. 2S-Anes Passenger Has a. m
No 5-Des Moines Paxsen-
ger 6:2s >. N.
No. i3-Hawkeye Express. 6:25 .. "a,
No. 17-Oregon and Wash.
iugton Special ..... 4:43 a. m.
GOING EAST
No. 4-Des Aoines Passen-
ger 1888 a. a.
No. II Denver Special $500. 1910 o, m
Nc. IL Oregon and WASH
ingtoA Special .... ESQ a. n.
No. 30-Clinton Passenger. 3:17 D. m
No. e-Atlantic Express s:25 o. M
No 22-Chicago Special .11:58 D. "a.
No. 1o-Eastern Express 80. e:.1 a. NJ
Nos. 4, 5, %, 30, daily except Sunday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
RAILROAD TINE TABLE
CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN
Corn Belt Route"

CHICAGO GREAT WESTERN
Corn Belt Route"
GOING SOUTH
No. st Joe and Z. c.
limited ................... sos a. N.
SO * c. Mail & Express 9:lS u. m
No. 5-Kansas City and St
Joseph ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. $3.50 a. M
No. s5-Des Noines Mail. 90. 6:A5 o, m
GOING NORTH
No. Twin Cities Limited. 11:22 o. N.
No. 4-Chicago and st. Paul
Express ................. s:35 a. M
No. "a 7:ss p N.
No. s-Chlca9o Filler .10:3s .. q,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08
COMMUNITY CENTER SUCCESS.
Live Wire Factor in Town Which Puts
the Hroot" IN institute.
Co-onera zion nakes many things

cooperation makes many things
possible.
For instance. thru a unique. small
town community center II was effec-
tive'last week in rousing the farmers
Of Scion to one Of the largest and most
enthusiastic one-day institute and
grain shows ever held in the state.
The show was held in Scion, Johnson
county. Nov. %.
Scion has live wire population of
about zoo, all 100 per cent enthusiastic.
A couple OF years ago a young
blsoded bunch Of Scion business men
got together, formed commercial
club. built a $4,000 community CEN
ter house in town and invited every
person within ten mile radius to be-
come member Of the center
That community center, complete
with gymnasium, bowling alleys. pool
tables showers and party room, be-
came the fustng point which has
welded together the urban and rural
population until the town in spirit has
become unit which includes the
population Of ten mile radius.
Months ago the commercial club de-
cided an institute and grain show vas
the thing. Announcements were sent
out and the farmers invited to exhibit
their grain and produce Nov 2s. 1t was
lucky that there was a community
center house which could be turned
iato an exhibit room, for that house
was simply crowded with exhibits.
Thirty-two samples Of oats, fourteen
OF wheat, seven Of rye, four Of barley,
ten Of clover. eight Of timothy and
forty-five ten-ear corn entries formed
part Of the exhibit.
"And 1t was sure winner" COM
mented the agricultural extension
worker from Ames who judged the en-
tries. THAT community center has
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-08

BEAD THE T.-R. WANT ADS.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
BOATING FACILITIES

TIME taking over OF the Hard
scrabble" district must not be
permitted 10 interfere in any way
with boating and canoeing during the
coming summer. Some arrangement
must be made, either public or pri-
vate. whereby the large number of
boats that find dockage and storage
at Verbeke street can be cared for as
they now are.
The new dam at the lower end of
the city has given a tremendous i'm
petus to boating and canoeing here
during the past year and rivermen
predict great increase of pleasure
craft on the stream within the next
few months. Sundays delightful
weather-even with the river nearing
flood stage-took hundreds of canoe
lists out, and the stream was dotted
with myriads of these tiny craft. This
was but an indication of what is to
come. Everything should be done to
encourage this use of the river and
nothing should be put in its way. No
doubt satisfactory manner of caring
for the situation will be worked out.
but no time should be lost I'm giving IL
the consideration 1t deserves.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28

subject upon which he has not already
reversed himself.
When President Wilson signed the
Underwood act, he declared that he
took peculiar pleasure in doing so,
and that this was an accomplishment
which he had hoped all his life to be
able to achieve. That statement was
a direct contradiction of his later as
sertion that he knew, because he was
college professor, that there is moth
ing in either the doctrine of free trade
or of protection.
Since it is evident that as a con-
tinued opponent of protective tariff
the Democratic party must lose some
of its strongest members, and since
the election of Democrat on a free
trade platform would be impossible,
it is almost certain that the st. Louis
convention will hedge on this issue
and that President Wilson will pose
as the leader in the new movement in
the Democratic party and become as
ardent an advocate of protection as
he is now of military preparedness.
He will hope thus to steal the thunder
of the Republican party or at least
remove this issue from the campaign,
and win the election on the plea that
he kept us out of war" But will he?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
WHO is AN AMERICAN?
philadelphia Public Ledger


Uncle Joe Cannon scored heavily
with Congress-and with the country
at large, afar from the echoing halls
of debate-in his speech upon Amer
leans In the Burnett immigration bill
the same old stumbling block has been
included that has led to the veto of
two Presidents-namely, the proviso
of a llteracy test wherein the appli-
cant for citizenship must show that
he can read. Uncle Joe raises the
pertinent query as to the nativity of
those who would bar out those of
alien blood. When did their fore
bearers come to our shores? Were
not the Pilgrim Fathers immigrants?
Is it not a dog-in-the-m manager attitude
that would lead men after their own
admission to a land of toiling equality
to put up the defenses, and let the
portculls fall to those who crave q
similar privilege and flock hther as
to a camp of refuge against the social
pressure or the militaristic regime in
countries beyond the seas? 1t is
narrow definition of freedom that
means liberty for ourselves alone and
not for all mankind. The spirit of
those who planted the colonies was not
exclusive. Captain John Smith did
not want the men who were too fine to
work; the founders were in many
cases men innocent of the culture of
DOCKS and the rennement OF the arts.
They were plowmen and sturdy peas
antry: men that had knowledge of n
trade, with hands cunning to work
in the raw material such as the for
ests and the soil and the sea afforded.
Since those pioneers, millions have
followed in their train, and have built
their lives into the teeming life OF the
land TO its great advantage They
have taken their places among the
truest and the best Americans. They
never spelt their citizenship or made
oath to their allegiance with a hyphen:
they promised unreservedly to serve
this country and obey her laws and
live in honor and in peace with all
men. Learning has made many q man
mad with the greed of gain, cunning
practitioner in politics, treacherous
and subversive of the common good
like the agitators of India, who have
used what they were taught in foreign
colleges only for turmoil and even
for anarchy. Let the name and the
definition of good citizen be detach
ed from his booklearning, and let ii
be admitted that man may spell bad
ly and write i'll and still be faith
lful friend and servant of America.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
DIXIE GOES AHEAD
Statewide Shopping
By Frederic ]. Haskin
By BRIGGS

unique selling scheme have been mu-
tual, widespread and gratifying. When
the cotton crop was tied up and the
small planter faced starvation, this
cooperative market enabled him to
sell calf, a few eggs, a bushel of seed
corn, or anything else he might have
that would bring in a few life-saving
dollars.
The commissioners market helped
to save the cotton situation, and incl
dentally made its own reputation in
doing so. 1t now handles a business
of couple of millions a year, and
much of this is business that would
otherwise go outside the State. Sew
eral large corn dealers who used to
import all their stock are now getting
it from South Carolina farmers who
place their offerings with the commits
sioner. A number of little grist mills
that could not otherwise exist are get
ting all the corn they can grind from
the same source. Most welcome of all
Is the stream of cash which this unique
market has turned toward the woman
on the farm. If she has butter or eggs
or preserves to sell, be her product
ever so small, she can have 1t listed in
five newspapers without cent of cost
to herself. and she can almost surely
make a sale, or a trade.
[Continued on Page H.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
ANOTHER FLOP COMING

TNHERE are men in touch with
political sentiment throughout
the United States who confident
ly predict that President Wilson will
he an ardent advocate of a protective
tariff before the conventions meet in
either Chicago or st. Louis. Reports
from the business centers of the South
indicate that even in that stronghold
of free trade there is now a very ac-
tive demand for a protective tariff.
In fact, it Is only a long standing
prejudice against the Republican
party, as such, that prevents many
prominent Democratic businessmen in
the South from voting the Republican
ticket in national election.
In recent years manufacturing has
developed rapidly in many of the
Southern States. 1t is not surprising,
therefore, that men engaged in manu-
featuring and other lines of business
such as banking, wholesaling, and re-
failing have come to see the import
ance of protective tariff in building
up not merely individual business hut
munity.
So strong is the evidence of this
change of sentiment that there can
be no doubt that the Democratic marty
would be strengthened in the opinion
of the strongest of its members bv
advocating tariff policy based upon
the principle of America First" The
recent announcement by President
Wilson that he has changed his mind
upon the subject of a tariff commits
sion, and his further declaration that
he cares nothing for either free trade
or protection, is an indication of his
recognition of the change of senti-
ment in his own party. It is onlv a
few months since he was denouncine
protection and proclaiming the efficacy
of free trade in lowering the cost of
living. His willingness to admit that
there is nothing in free trade Is but a
preliminary step to his acknowledge
ment that protection is in fact the
proper economic policy for the United
states. 1t Is not to be expected that
he will acknowledge that he has been
wrong all these years. His expiana-
ton will be that the war has changed
conditions and that although the
Democratic party was sound in ,ts
previous attitude upon this question.
the changed conditions have made
advisable change of tariff policy.
Thus will he attempt to save himself
from the accusation that he has at
last changed his mind upon the only
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
WHERE THE RLANtE HES

n I the outset of the present war
n restoration OF Belgium by Ger
many-with indemnity for the
invasion-might have been sufficient
to have taken England out of the
fighting. England was not prepared
on land and her people were practically
inclined; so much so indeed that rails
ing armies was one of the govern
ment's greatest difficulties in the war.
stored and Alsace returned to the
French attracts only passing interest
in Great Britain. The people are de-
termined now as never before to carry
on the conflict until German militarism
shall be crushed.
And, curious as it may appear, the
very weapon that was to drive Eng
lishmen whimpering from the seas
and terror stricken to their cellars has
turned, Frankensteinlike, upon it's
creators. The "frightfulness" of Won
Tirpitz which sank the Lusitania,
with its load of women and children,
and sent overseas the great zeppelins
babies as they lay sleeping, has had
exactly the opposite effect than that
for which it was diabolically designed.
Instead of cowing Englishmen 1t has
made lions of them; instead of MAX
ing them beg for mercy it has made
them cry for revenge; instead of
breaking their spirit it has stiffened
their backbone. 1t has transformed
pacilicists into warriors.
If Germany finds England a hard
taskmaster when it comes to paying
for the ruthlessness of which the Teu-
tonic allies have been guilty, the Ger
man people will have nobody to blame
except Won Tirpitz-and those respon-
sible for him and his kind. Fright
fulness" has proved to be a two-edged
sword. and Germany is finding to her
sorrow that it cuts both ways.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
THE FLOWER BOX
by Wing Din ger

T'other evening. WHEY murmured.
Hubby, dear. your paper talks
Quite a lot upon the subject
or the porch and window box.
Don't you think that you could builC
some
For the porch and windows, too,
So that l can raise some flowers.
AS Ia muchly like to do?"
So got some boards together,
Saw and hammer. nails galore,
Donned some old clothes and got busy
Downstairs on the cellar floor.
Sawed up all the bloomin' lumber.
Then tried to assemble 1t,
But I'd made some error somewhere.
Couldn't make the pieces fit.
So I've ordered in more lumber
And again I'll try my skill;
Wifey's got to have a porch box
Which with flowers she may fill.
But il surely is an i'll wind
That to no one blows some good
That first lumber that I ruined
is long-needed kindling wood
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
PEW days ago a LONG lean moun-

n FEW days ago a long lean noun
~ taineer with q virgin stand of
= red whiskers covering his face
and dusty homemade cowhide boots
on his feet, called to see Colonel E. j.
Watson, the commissioner of Agricul-
ture for South Carolina. Told that the
official was busy, he said he would
wait as long as necessary.
81 amt been to town fer seven or
eight years, now," he explained, IAN
l ies' walked in forty miles this mawn-
in to thank the Kunnel fer sellin' that
litter o. hound pups fer me-"
Selling a litteI of hound pups for
mountaineer may seem an unusual
activity for q State commissioner of
agriculture. To Colonel Watson it
was merely a routine incident in the
days work. He has built up a sys-
tenn by which he will sell literally any
thing for any farmer in the State of
South Carolina, whether it be q setting
of eggs or a forty-acre farm. A poo
die dog and pair of monkeys were
among the articles recently listed in
his remarkable bulletin: the other day
he effected a "swop" of sewing ma
chine for a disc harrow; and the only
merchandise he has refused to date
was an ivory-handled revolver which
the State law prohibited him from sell
ing.
The benefits of Colonel Watson's
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
God help rs all to kindly Uiew
The ,oorld that ice are passing through
LYDIA MARIA CHILD.
MIR. CUNNINGHAM's ADDRESS
NNE of the most interesting and

nNE of the most interesting and
" instructive features of yesterdays
William Penn Highway Confer
ence vas the address of State Highway
Commissioner r. j. Cunningham. In
few brief sentences Mr.. Cunningham
outlined road conditions in Pennsyl-
vania in way that laymen could
readily understand.
Mr.. Cunningham pointed out that,
whereas the original good roads bill
contemplated the transfer of about
1000 miles of main highways to the
immediate care of the State, legislators
ambitious to favor home communities
and relieve counties of road burdens
added so greatly to the original plan
as to increase the State road mileage
TO more than 10000. But while the
Legislature was willing enough to
dump this tremendous load of respon-
sibility on the Highway Department.
1t was unwilling to give it the money
wherewith the enormous mileage
might be rebuilt where necessary and
maintained as it should be. The re-
SUIT iie'S bSSl Iiltl the Sldte HIGHWAY
Department has been trying to do
$10,000,0O0 worth of work year with
an income of some $4,000, ,O00-or in
proportions of that ratio-and the task
has been impossible of accomplish
ment in a manner satisfactory to the
people OF the Commonwealth.
Mr.. Cunningham has done marvels
with the comparatively small sums at
his command. He has given the people
of the State renewed confidence in his
department. But he cannot be ex-
pected to make ten cents do the work
of a dollar, and If the public wants
good roads it must be willing to pay
for them. The next Legisature-what-
ever else it does or does not do
should provide the Highway Depart
ment with sufficient cash to care for
the roads that legislative enactment
has thrust upon it.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
TELEORAPH'S PERISCOPE

If the Colonel isn't careful the
Teddy Bear and the Bull Moose may
become jealous.
Twelve rural mail routes are to be
abandoned in York county April l..
And York gave Wilson a majority, too.
The man who prepares for the
worst usually doesn't get 1t.
China having changed its form of
government again, one has only to try
TO remember what its previous form
was to know what it's form now is.
There's one thing about this
weather-it keeps us hoping that to-
morrow will be pleasanter than to-day.
--Barbed wire having proved too
cruel for use in the construction of
cattle barriers, it has been transferred
to Europe for war uses.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
WELL KNOWN PEOPLE

&C. A. Buck. vice-president of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, has gone
to Cuba to inspect ore properties.
George w. Elkins has returned
from North Carolina to his home near
Philadelphia.
John Monaghan, mentioned for
Judge in Philadelphia, attended the
high schools in Philadelphia.
Congressman Bailey spoke at the
Barton memorial meeting in Wash
ington.
j. Banks KurtZ, mentioned for
Congress, is an Altoona lawyer
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
OUTGROWN
THEM.

It's a big war,
isn't it?
Yes and I'm
glad of 1t. II
was an awful
nuisance at the
start when the
amateur strate-
gists t h o u e h I
they could ham
die 1t.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
THE STATE FROM DAY TO DAY

Too bad the weather man couldn't
have arranged a more cheerful aspect
for the face of nature on the occasion
of the visit to this city yesterday of
the assemblage of prominent repre-
sentatives from towns along the route
OF the proposed William Penn High
way. Now If Sunday had been Satur-
DAY and vice versa, our visitors might
have obtained an even better impress
sion of the city which ought to be the
pride of Central Pennsylvania.
Farley Gannett. Harrisburg en-
gineer," says the Erie Dispatch, will
be in the city Wednesday to confer
with city officials concerning improve
ments to Mill Creek" The public
meeting which Mr.. Gannett will ad-
dress will be the first in the educational
campaign of the city of Erie prior to
the bond Issue election on May 16. 1t
is estimated that s1,000,00O OF the
issue will be used for covering Mill
Creek.
Despite the criticisms of Judge Jen-
kins in Philadelphia the other evening
with reference to Dr. Nathan
Schaeffer's attitude toward military
training in the public schools, the
State Superintendent of Public In
struction declares that he will stick
by his original contentious and will
not change his attitude.
A marriage boom is scheduled TO
occur in Ligonier and real estate deal
ers are reaping a harvest from young
men who are making their first ven
lures in house building.
Continued service with longevity +
scarcely common occurrence and tn,
Rev. David Tully, pastor of Highland
Park Presbyterian Church, Philadel-
phia, who is nearly a centenarian, IS
still serving the Lord in an active way
and shows no signs of any desire to
give up his pulpit and retire. Let him
who thinks he is an old man at seventy
frisk about a bit and forget it.
Anybody want a gallows? North
cumberland county would fain rid her
self of the one that has become
obsolete In that section. This ad ap-
peared in n local newspaper there:
May be bought cheap-one gallows.
Apply to the Northumberland County
Commissioners. Dauphin county
antedated northumberland action
by month or so.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1916-03-28
The Business Bourse

The advertising columns of the
telegraph are the city's Business
Bourse.
Here commerce meets in fair
competition and presents its
claims to consumers.
Qualities are stated and prices
quoted.
Trade is an open book to the
consumer.
People look to the advertis-
ing when they want to buy or
when they seek any kind Of in
formation as to what they need.
Are you making full use of
The Business Rourse
Not to read the advertising Is
to run as much risk of loss as
the merchant would who did not
advertise.