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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
CHILDREN DRIVING AUTOS.

little boy in Des Moines was killed
NY an QUITO yesterday while his parents
were awaiting his return from Sunday
school 10 light the candles of a birth
day cake celebrating his fifth BIRTH
Gay The boy was run down in the
street by an auto of a physician from
Abba whose 12-year-old hoy was driy-
ing and he was brought home in a dy-
ing condition.
Mark the fact that "a 12-year old
boy sat at the wheel" The little boy
who went away TO Sunday school and
was, brought back crushed under the
wheels is dead; but there are other
l2-year-old boys driving cars and
other little boys on the streets.
Children darting in front of an auto
from street car are likely to be run
down by the best of drivers and in
this case IL has not been shown that
the 12year- old driver was negligent.
y banker, of Thompson, ran over and
killed his own child Friday but where
danger is known to exist juveniles
have no place at the throttle. A ma
ture driver gives more promise that
accidents can be avoided in emergency
Nobody would permit 12-year-old
boy to drive passenger engine or any
other locomotive on a railway track
-, D ~
town is given command of a powerful
engine in the streets of a city. There
would have been even less danger to
the public had he been running a
switch engine past guarded railroad
crossings. 1t was a bid for accident
and death to put a child at the wheel
Of powerful automobile and trust the
lives Of other children to his childish
Judgment and nerve. Yet it is COM
mon sight to see autos in charge Of
children pushing thru crowded streets.
These 12-year-olds are not to blame.
They want TO run the machine. But
those who turn over the management
of cars to children should be held neg
ligent in case of accident and warned
off the streets and punished under the
mum age before accident occurs. To
intrust to child upon crowded
street a machine capable of express
speed and powerful enough to crush
and destroy all in its way is to show
disregard of the safety Of others that
deserves a most severe penalty. No.
year old boy are saddened and hor-
rifed over the tragedy. However, that
does not get us anywhere nor does it
bring back the little child who died
under their car nor will it prevent
similar tragedies thar result from
turning the management of a powerful
and most dangerous vehicle over to
children. The 12-year old boy and the
automobile are a combination only less
| dangerous than the drunken man and
the machine; for it is a question Of
| judgment in tight places Of knowledge
of the things that are always likely
to happen and not Of sufficient me-
chanical dexterity to shift and guide
| the car under ordinary circumstances.
| We shall come sooner or later to a
| system requiring licenses for all auto
mobile drivers and the sooner the
| safer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
Topics of the Times

Well. the reprieve reached the public
in time But unless congress pays
some attention to future probabilities
it is only reprieve. The country
should never be caught in that trap
again.
Well. will the brotherhoods agree
is held unconstitutional or carry the
case on as IT started?
The worst thing about September is
that it is only thirty days long.
We use 100, pounds of salt to every
person in the United States. And at
that good many of us continue al
together too fresh
A. B. Garretson says he's going to
get on a ship and out Of sight and
touch with the problems Of abor and
sail just as long as possible without
touching land. Garretson is the Iowa
man. who :, engineered the eight hour
day to conclusion satisfactory to The
brotherhoods. One Of the differences
between Roosevelt and Garretson is
that Roosevelt goes away when he
wants something and Garretson when
he's got it.
The Des Moines conference Of the
Methodists meets at Glenwood day at
ter tomorrow. o yes, they'll do it too,
Mr.. Harding.
What congress did was to shut off
the power and lock the brakes while
the blamed thing skidded on the edge
OF disaster. And now the next thing
is to push the machine back by hand
A few mossbacks still find fault witt
the capitol extension tax when the dog
tax will cost Iowa $4,000 more this
year than the capitol extension tax.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
THE PuBLICs MORALS.
Harlan Republican. ]


]. VIC are to believe the state .neot
MADE ty some that the world Is get
ting worse, then am forced to believe
that some Of the "reminiscences Of my
:n'pr' ssdonistic youth are but vague
dreams of fanciful evil
Shelby county is just concluding an
annual fair. This fair can be favor
ao.y compared to almost any previous
session of the Shelby county fair and
were l to place my opinion as It has
NODDED itself over several years. OBJ
servance, I shall say that the public's
morals are much more delicate and
sensitive than ever before. The fair
grounds Is proof Of betterment The
public will not tolerate the amusement
today that 1t would Ave years ago,
Where formerly the Streets of Bag
dad" with its slovenly. lewd beyy. of
female dancers would divide the crowd
with the horse race. the pike has been
cleared of the tantalizing shuttle of
jigging feet and display of bare legs
and fimsy attire on the free concert
platform and the weird notes Of the
hornpipe's minor tunes.
Where the wild AbysinIan snake
eater formerly devoured his daily
portion OF wriggling muscles and sim
ews. kind Of protecttorate Of public
opinion tells US the Zig is up" and
that Bosco and all his-other wild cap
tured brothers have found need TO
learn another trade.
Where the wheel used to dispense
pair Of brass cuff buttons for dollar.
the odds of chance have been lessened
into a game of skill, where one Will
be properly rewarded II he can throw
straight enough. The formerly highly
profitable g-for-nothing" ma
chimes have disappeared, the betting
IS done on very limited scale. The
raucous voice Of the profession liar
Is sealed by the deputized policeman.
who has the weight Of sincere,
steady and purposeful demand Of
public opinion behind 1t.
SO II the worlds morals are in a
state Of retrogression, the disappear
ance Of the maelstrom of vice and hor-
ror which might formerly have been
found at the fair grounds is poor
evidence oft.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
RANN.DOM REELS
THE WATERMELON
E,H[Q1ga1d.LR''aul1s -
AA YIN -. $500
9 of a,oes:sd SHIPS 80 Selma 20. 6 eaoeeees.


The watermelon is a pleasing and
harmless beverage which is 20 per
cent water and so per cent seeds.
much on the order Of Sunday-school
lemonade. Owing to the lack OF al
cohol in the watermelon. 1t Is much
in favor with the clergy and can be
shipped into a dry state without re-
quiring the customer to swear that
it is bought for medicinal purposes
only. =,
Watermelons are grown Largely ip
the south and are used to sustain
and initiate the colored brother. When
greedy, wabble- jointed cotton hand
has wrapped himself around a thirty
pound watermelon and settled back for
q sonoTous nap, he will look as II
somebody had attached q tire pump
TO him and fors tan 30 shut o1nf the
engine. The look Of perfect content
ment which fastens itself upon the
face Of Georgia darkey who has eat
en- six or eight wo-story watermelons,
seeds and all, is enough to cause a
hardened dyspeptic to jump Off the lake
front. - ~ z -
The watermelon has been grown in
this country for hundred years and
thousands have been eaten by our coll
lege professors and other shining in
tellects, but, nobody has ever discoy-
cred way to prevent 1t from running
to seeds and ,cloggiAg up the windpipe
OF the trustful northerher. The water
melon would be served at polite social
functions more If it were not for the.
narrowing fear on the part of the hos.
tess that some nervous male guest will
get few seeds upside down in his
neck and have to be operated on with
d pair of duckbill pliers. To coun-.
try which boasts the Incubator baby
and the on-corrosive banana the pres
ence Of the watermelon seed is stand
ing reproach. 81
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Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome.

SPECIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No. Jas, A. F. & y. NJ,
Work in third degree Wednesday, Sept.
6, p. m. Dinner at s 80 p. m. John ".
Wells, Secretary; B. o. Frazey, W. NJ
3fGNEI CHAPTER. Nc. IS. r. A, NJ,
Stated corvocation Monday evening,
Aug. 81. Regular business. Carl
Sciaftner. H. P; John w. Wells, Sec
retary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
moa Courcil No. 20. r. & S. NJ, Mon
day, Sept. IS; regular business. l. I.
FAroes. Recorder. George Gregory. /. Nj.
STATED CoNCLAVE, st. Aldemar
Command.rv No. 80. X. T., Tuesday,
Sept. 49, s p. m: regular business l.
T. Forbes. Recorder; H. c: Mueller,
Commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. {.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, sept
IS, s p. m. Business. Eliza 5. Bat
tin. secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell
w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
The Old Tin Safe.

Remember the old tin safe that stood
in the corner Of the dining room? 1t
is still in use to some extent in the
country. but we in the city do not en-
counter 1t so frequently as formerly.
The ice chest has taken its place, and
the china closet and the pantry have
made it obsolete for the most part.
But 1t was a wonderful invention in
it's day--and the cold food you could
sneak ont Nnf 1t when nobody was look
ing was the best food in the world
A himsy sort Of thing so far as the
woodwork was concerned; cheap pop-
lar lumber stained with cheap var
nish-that il about all 1t amounted to-,
with sheets Of tin punched full Of tiny
holes ike nutmeg crater. 1t was
ornamental all right, with all Of its
shortcomings. for the holes were
punched after pattern, and 1t had a
pleasing effect because you knew what
it contained. Why, there was the
sugar bowl on the top shelf: they al
ways put the sugar bowl as high up
as possible, Just SO a chap would have
to get chair to stand up on when he
wanted to investigate.
II the ants discovered the safe, the
legs had to be placed In little recep-
tacles with kerosene in them. Flies
could not get thru the small holes In
the tin, but the gnats passed thru
readily and found delight in the apple
sauce that was in evidence along about
this time OF the year. CHATS certainly
liked apple. sauce, but a hoy didn't
car. ytthhi.nss about Snats when he
wauted annie sauce
Mother was somewhat artistic In
her tastes. She scalloped red or pink
Tissue paper and placed 1T upon the
shelves, so the edges would droop
down and present pleasing, wavy
picture when the safe was opened, but
newspapers were used upon the
sheIves-folded neatly and pressed
down fiat.
There was sort Of sacred at
mosphere surrounding the old tin
safe. 1t was the most used and the
most useful piece Of furniture about
1.-THE home. The children sought !!
when nobody else was present, and
/ haif Durrowed themselves u. !!ttss gen
erous cavities And now-5astt think +
we haven't seen an old tin safe for 8
generation.--D Dayton (O.) News.
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far north and bought unsight and un-
seen by people who hore for the best.
All such purchases are usually followed
by disappointment and rebellious up-
rising In the stomach Econoniical
housewives try to get even by manu-
featuring the watermelon pickle, which
is fed all. winter to cowed husbands
who are too broken spirited 10 resist.
The watermelon is 4 great delieacy
When it is allowed to stretch out and
get ripe internally. II there were
more Of this kind Of watermelons to
be had the average grocer would not
wear such hunted look. ss8,s
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Hard Roads III Other States

4
| Spring and sowellton, Trimble coun.
vote Of 524 to 155. Davies county has
sold It's 100000 OF bonds for roads.
| In Louisiana Rapides parish has
voted $4,000 Of bonds for roads. Jef-
ferson Davis parish voted 100000 in
OF gravel road are being built on the
Work has started on 100000 OF hard
| roads In Ouachita parish.
In Michigan the county board has
county. Lapeer county county has
miles OF concrete have been completed
near Lake Cadillac.
IN Minnesota Clay county Is spend
ing $4,000 for graveled roads. The
crawling of the Yellowstone Trail from
Mankato to the Dakota line, $50
miles Is about completed. washington
bonds to be issued. Near st. James
three days by donation work. The
gravel and fifty teams did the hauling.
| AACAV Wiz 10 OVSL sApUVVA ulACS AldV-t
eled in Minnesota this year while iowa
will hardly gravel 200 miles.
In Mississippi Holmes county has
Kinds county will complete a $500. 900
system of hard roads by issuing $780,
600 more bonds.
bond issue for $1.250, 600 for 202 miles
InP 81 Z. a
sue voted in st. Louis county for roads
which was tied UP by q suit in court
has been held by the supreme court
to be legal. In special district near
Salem the vote was 8 to for 100000
of bonds for hard roads
In Montana forty-seven miles OF
macadam are to be built near Billings
at cost Of $4,000.
In Nebraska the Afst attempt at
paved roads has been attacked In the
courts by objections to the 31,750.000
Of bonds voted by Douglas county for
roads near Omaha. district court
has held the bond Issue invalid.
In Ohio Columbiana county has
100000 worth Of hard road construo-
ton under way. Mahoning county =
building twenty-seven miles Of hard
road. Ashland county has sold $780,
Geo OF It's bonds &c: hard roads
Z In Oregon Skamonia county Is build
Ing forty-three miles of hard road
with $4,000 Of bond money. Ciack-
arnas county has spent S110.477 for
hard roads this summer.
In Oklahoma Calvin and Stuart
townships in Hughes county have
voted bonds for forty Ave miles Of rock
roads. Moundn township in CreeA
county has voted 100000 in bonds.fcr
twenty miles Of macadam.
In Tennessee Carter county expects
to complete its 100000 system OF
stone roads connecting with Ashevills
In North Carolina. The vote was four
to one for 100000 OF road bonds In
Uincoi county.
In Texas Ss,5oo.ooo Of bonds have
been voted this year for roads in tho
counties traversed by the Jefferson
Highway. Hopkins county's road dis
trict No. has contracted for 100000
Of hard roads, Anderson county's dis
trict No. has voted 100000 for hard
roads.
In West Virginia total OF nearly
$10,0o0,000 in read bonds has BEEN
authorized by the various counties this
year.
In Washington snohomish county
has begun laying concrete on us roads
with $1.s00.00o Of bond money.
In Wisconsin Summer and Pleasant
Prairie townships In Kenosha county
will improve the Sheridan road with
100000 OF bond money. The COM
mercial club Of Racine recently bor-
rowed money enough and loaned It to
the town of Caledonia with which to
surface two miles of road.
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sinfully unwise to stain ones whiskers
brown or black. with chemicals o. any
dyes compounded by mineral ouack.
IL al 1.-The money spent FOR shsves were
used to swell poor widows' means,
those widows now would cleave the
waves in their own private suhmA-
rines," The voices of the birds wVre
weird, strange whispers issued from
the trees. and thru the statesmaii's
germ proof beard there blew chilly
mountain breeze. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
Ripping Rhymes
BY Walt MASON
HUGHES I'M COLORADO.

~ y NVNk.O rIiS-OSssOVSSNO0s - 80
/ sat with Charley on peak that
overlooked the Thompson gorge; he
was so thrilled he could not speak, and
I could only say, tBy George!" The
abyss spread for leagues below, a
fissnre scooped out by the gods, and
We could see the tourists go. on er-s
rands vain. to spend their wads The
sinking SUMS exntring beams the
canon stained with gold and red, and I
was lost in noble dreams, when
Charley raised his voice and said:
MANS whiskers are q precious boon,
awarded by divine decrse,. and he Is
but thoushtless loon who'd shave
them Of with sniclgershee. ] hold II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
Iona Newspapers
POLITICAL AcUMEN.
Hogan observer.l

Candidate Meredith made a bad
break when he admitted he had taken
a drink or two, but Harding would
be too smooth to admit that he had
even If such was the case.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

the president Is a friend of the. people
as well as the railroad employees he
Will first ask congress to pass an
emergency act that will prevent the
strike from going into effect, This
having been done. he will go before
congress and In manner BETTING his
office urge that tn. legislation which
he has proposed be enacted into law.
A HOME OPINION OF HARDING.
ESioux City Tribune.l
Those who have any thought of pro-
noting prohibition thru Mr.. Harding
are unsophisticated. to say the least.
There is no malice or prejudice In the
classification which has been accorded
to him by those who know his record.
AS late as two years ago, in the 1914
campaign, the Iowa Liquor Dealers
Association" actively supported Mr..
aarding in his campaign for lieuten-
ant governor and copies OF circular
letter sent out by the association still
are available. An extract from the
circular, relating to the Harding can
didacy. follows:
Il am instructed to write you in
strict confidence In regard to the ur-
gency Of the political situation govern
ing the interests of our business. II
is absolutely necessary for every liquor
dealer in Iowa to be united and active
In working for the same candidates
for state offices. You are urged to
forget your political affiliations and
unanimously support those who are
recognized as our friends and upon
whom we can all agree in quiet way.
The office of lieutenant governor Is
the most important office of them all,
even more important than governor.
because the lieutenant governor APP
points the committees In the senate
who report on all measures to be voted
on by the senate. The democratic
candidate for lieutenant governor is
dry and would use every influence at
his command in favor of prohibition.
1t is most important that he be defeat
ed. His opponent, w. L. Harding, the
republican candidate for lieutenant
governor, has always been fair and is
being opposed by the united dry
forces OF the state We want to be
united in supporting him.
Whether Mr.. Harding did or did not
make any preliminary pledge to the
liquor dealers. 1t is certain that Mr.
Harding's senate committee on liquor
legislation performed precisely as the
liquor dealers would have that COM
mittee perform. as.,
Mr.. Harding apparently was not
calling out the militia two years ago
to drive the saloons out of the state.
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TIMEsREPuBIIcAN MARsHALLTowN SEPTEMBER 1915

in Grace Methodist church. Morning
side, consists of one luminous, hand
painted lemon. personally bestowed by
leaders OF the compensation"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES..

There is no question that we know
of concerning the regularity OF his
present nomination; but neither is
there question that Mr.. Harding has
been subjected to a large amount Of
personal and political criticism and in
fact is under impeachment upon high
authority in the republican party con-
corning his fitness to be governor
under republican auspices" says the
Nevada Representative. We do not
know at all how the division Is; but
we do think that among the repuh!!-
cans of Story county there is consider
able division upon the question raised"
Meredith is accused Of being a
millionaire and tapping his barrel to
insure his election, but Harding who is
not accused o. being millionaire is
sending out just as muck publicity as
Meredith" remarks the Logan OBJ
server.
The, Iowa Falls Citizen suggests:
How would it be to fine man S. II
he fails to vote without proper excuse,
and place all moneys thus collected in
the school fund
do you suppose that If Roosevelt
were in the White House there would
have been an appeal to congress- &c
enact enabling legislation" inquiries
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
"why should Iowa democrats be 30
| boastful Of the rural credits law?
Who is it going to help in lowa?" asks
| the Monticello Express. "In the first
place no man can borrow money Of
any kind OF bank unless he has well
established and undouhted credit or
the proper security to offer. II he has
that he can borrow all the money he
desires for legitimate investment in
any county in the state, without any
long process OF red tape. at low rate
OF interest, and without having to buy
stock in the bank, to the extent OF
per cent Of his loan.'' IA.
"As gasolene goes down. milk and
bread go up. If we can't eat, we can
fiivver." consolingly observes the Bur-
lington Gazette.
The Sioux City Tribune AYERS that
u 7,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

According to the census reportA
2s3,sl5 girl stenographers> and types
writers are employed in the United
States.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

"As gasolene goes down. milk and
bread go up. If we can't eat we can
flivver" consolingly observes the Bur-
lington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

The Sioux City Tribune ayers that
"Mr Harding = Y h:s.s.ssas az .ee.sA-shin
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Delivered by carrier by the month %"
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

The, Iowa Falls Citizen suggests:
How would it be to fine a man S. II
he fails to vote without proper excuse,
and place all moneys thus collected in
the school fund
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-04

do you suppose that If Roosevelt
were in the White House there would
have been an appeal to CONGRESS &c
enact enabling legislation ?" inquiries
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
The Jasper news. [volume] (Jasper, Missouri) 1898-1924, 1916-05-25
Alphas Close Seasons Work.

The Alpha Club held its last meet
ing of the season Tuesday afternoon
with Mrs. j. w. Black.
The annual election of officers took
place, resulting as follows: President,
Mrs. ID. c. Houser; vice-president, Mrs.
A. f. Drake; secretary, Mrs. Arthur
Teeter; treasurer, Mrs. V. III. Hendricks.
A number of guests were invited to
meet with the club, and as they ar
rived they were served punch on the
porch by Mrs, J. N. Marsh, after which
a social hour was spent together.
Mrs. Blacks house was decorated
throughout with pink roses and
asparagus, the club colors. a dainty
two-course luncheon was served and
the club colors were also in evidence
in the luncheon.
The afternoon was delightful social
event. Besides the usual contests and
games music was furnished by Mes
danes Houser, Leiss, Marsh and Drake.
| The hostess was assisted by Mesdames
Arthur Teeter, A. f. Drake, F. A. Rice.
j. n. Marsh and Miss Lawson.
The invited guests were Mesdames
McCandless, II. J.. Deardorff, Arthur
Smith, Claude Boyer, c. A. Lewis and
daughter, w. III. Woods, w. C. Thorn
as, A. H. Lawhead, G. l.. Hayzlett,
c. +. Rex, Bert Webb, L. w. Scott,
t. b. Hardaway, A. NJ. Crandall, r.. V.
Elliott, Frank Seal and Misses Oma
Webb and Lula Lawson.