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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31
Point Breeze MotOrdrome
TONIGHT-s,I5-TO
Worlds Championship
MOtor-Paced Race

100 KILOMETERS-es1z MILES
Clarence CarInan, New York. Champion OF 1916
Hobby Walthour, Atlanta, Champion af 1908
George Wiley, Syracuse, Champion Of 1915
Leon Didlef, Champion Of France 1918
Victor LinaFt. Champion Of BelEium, 1914
George COlumbatto. ChRmplOn Of Italy. 1918
ADMISSION s5 AND so CENTS
In Event OF BAln Race Run Friday Night
HOW TO GET THERE:
No 0 on 10th ST., direct TO Track
All cars South. change at Moyamenslns ave,
Autos take Broad ST. TO Moyamensing ave.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31

la st Thursday
night, will be on
the job again to-
night TO repeat
his performance
in the 100-k.lo-
meter race for
{ h e W orld' s
c h a mpionship.
Bobby defeated
a very fast field
last week, but
Clarence G a r.
man was unable
to furnish any
competition ow-
ing to a series
of accidents at
the start, which
put him nine
miles TO the bad
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31
Central Division Ties for Lead

WILLIAMsPoRT Pa, Aug, 3I.-By defeat.
Ing Pitcairn here yesterday in a wel-played
fracas the Central Division is now tied with
Western Pennsylvania Division for first place In
League,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31
BOBBY WALTHOUR WILL TRY
TO REPEAT VICTORY TONIGHT
AT POINT BREEZE DROME
Conqueror of Carman Eager to Get in Action
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Cyclists Will
Enter the 100-Kilometer Race
BY ROBERT w. MAXWELL

LOBBY wALTHoUR. the 80 year old
ID STRIPPING who won the big 5O.mile mo-
tor-paced race at Point Breeze Motordrome
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31
WHAT MAY HAPPEN
IN BASEBALL TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE

SCHEDULE FOR TODAY
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago at PhIladelphIa-cfear.
Detroit at New YOrk-clear.
ST. Louis at Bost0n-elear.
Cleveland at WashingtOn-elear.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago at st. LOuIs-cIear.
Boston at Pittsburgh-eleaF.
(OnlS games scheduled.)
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
Newark at TOrOntO-clear.
Richmond at Montreal-clear.
Providence at BuffalO-clear.
Baltimore at ROehester-olear.
YESTERDAYS RESULTS
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago, II Athletics, 8.
Boston, IL st. Louis, o.
New York. 81 Detroit, 2.
Washington, 3i Cleveland. /,
NATIONAL LEAGUE
ei Phlllies, o.
New York, 81 Cincinnati, (I2 innings).
Boston, IL Pittsburgh, q.
Pittsburgh, ~ Boston, (2d camel.
Brooklyn, ~ st. Louis. l..
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-08-31

Alert. Miss Eleanor McNulty ......... I.5i. 80
Scat. Miss Caroline White. ..,.,....,.. 1.52. II
Pollyway. Miss Mary White. ......... 1 55 :OC
The Washington times., 1916-05-26

three per cent CONTINENT
TAI CASH DISCOUNT
CHECKS, whether mer-
chandise purchased is for
father, mother, or child.
These cash discount checks
may be deposited by Thrift
Club members on their ac-
count at the Continental
Trust Co., and will draw in
terest compounded semi-an-
nually, the same as cash de-
posts.
The Washington times., 1916-05-26
Come to Berberich's For Both!

The House of Berberich, which is the Wash
ngton home of EDUCATOR SHOES, is one of
the 200 retail stores which are going to help
build a substantial bank account for each of ten
thousand children in Washington.
Berberichs will give you check for $1.OO
with which to open Thrift Club Savings Ac-
count at the Continental Trust Co., 14O5 G St.
NV. You can then build up your account by
depositng the CASH DISCOUNT CHECKS
which. Berberich's and 199 other Thrift Club
Stores will give at the rate of 8 cents on every
even dollar spent in cash at their stores.
Remember, every cash purchase of one dollar or
more made Berberchs will entitle the purchaser to
The Washington times., 1916-05-26
EDUCATOR
SHOES

They're scientifically constructed with the idea of
giving plenty of for the of the little ght
uncomfortable shoes lay the foundation for future foot
troubles.
They're also built to withstand the hard knocks
that only a child give them. This is BIG point for
parents consider for it material economies.
Educator Shoes not only absolutely comfort
able and ongwearng. but they're just pleasing in
style other lines for 'grown-ups."
Buy Educator Shoes for the little ones, saving them
from the danger of of fallen arches bent bones
corns, bunions, and other foot ills.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
FEDERAL AID FOR ROADS,

A bill for federal aid in road building
has been introduced in the United
States senate by Senator Shafroth
which is designed to make fifty mile
mail routes and automobile carriers
possible. Il provides that the depart
ment of agriculture is to pay one
fourth the cost of improving a road
used by mail carriers whenever the
people of the community will pay one
fourth, the county one-fourth and the
state one-fourth. This would be well
come aid from Uncle Sam, but Senator
Bourne's plan of borrowing all the
money at 3 per cent and loanng to
the states at per cent with the profit
of l per cent applied 10 a sinking
fund would save one-fourth the in
terest cost and eventually pay the debt.
II would contribute all the money and
one-fourth the cost, whereas Shafroth
would let the locality hustle for the
money and get help on the cost only.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
SHEVLIN'S TWO LEGAClES.

SheVlin, athlete, business man. mil
lionaire and sportsman, died Of pneu-
monia the other day. Emphasis is put
upon the fact that he was a noted
athlete and football player. There
seems to be an impression that an
athlete should be able to live long and
overcome the ills of the flesh.
1t isn't SO. Defining the term "ath-
lete" as it is understood nowadays it
means one who has by natural con-
formation and long and severe train
ing fitted himself to be a member of
some winning athletic team or break
some established record. Really it
means young man who has expended
the cream of his vitality to take high
rank in physical sports
1t is rather strange that we at
tribute a sudden failure of strength and
vitality to overwork when we analyze
the cause of the death of an ordinary
citizen who has labored at top speed
and increasingly to accomplish some
purpose or pay for his farm and
wonder or express surprise that ex-
cessive exertion and long continued
training should break down an athlete.
1t isn't harder on the heart muscles to
pitch hay or carry loads or overtax at
labor than to strain to the uttermost
in sport. The heart carries the load
in pneumonia. Shevlin's long account
with his heart muscles fell due when
he sickened.
There is about SO much in a man.
He has just about such physical
balance in bank to start with. When
he draws against his principal whether
in athletics or over work of any kind
he leaves just so much less for the
rainy days of illness. Shevlin's pneu-
monia was simply run on weakened
physical bank account. 1t ran to an
overdraft and the account was closed.
Exercise and sport carried on rea-
sonabiy is one thing. Athletic contests
carried on as in most of our colleges
another. One is reasonable, sane and
healthful: the other dangerous physi-
cally and in other obvious ways. Shev-
Inns father left him a fortune and a
fine body. The fortune properly con-
served is alive and strong. The
physical heritage is bankrupt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
THE PASSING OF THE mULcT.

At midnight passed the mulct law,
Quietly, without pain or paroxysm'
after a long and exciting existence in
Iowa ..
The rnulct came into the state main
ly at the behest of the liquor Interests
and the thirsty and as a cat hole for
politics. It served it's purpose fairly.
The saloons came back, the amber
flowed from pumps instead of original
packages and politics perked up.
This worked well for the best part OF
two decades and then a change came
Ger the tenor of the mulct. Outside or
Iowa. one state after another leaned
toward complete restriction. A tenn
perance sentiment grew and like that
turnip of Mr.. Phinneys celebrated in
verse by the immortal Longfellow,
grew and grew The muict petitier.
from a single edged weare:: with the
sharp SIDE, turned .cward temperance
became a double edged affair and be-
gan to cut backward. Then the So :
toonists and the brewers longed for its
repeal under the mistaken hope that II
would be replaced by high license
law. Town by town and county by
county the area of the open saloon be-
came limited as the petitions failed
And the mulct lad become a menace
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
Topics of the Times

'"Travel on Gravel" isn't such bad
slogan. However as Sioux City has
no gravel. while it is largely inter-
ested in the brick industry, it becomes
necessary to Ale a motion to amend
the slogan to read, Go Quick on
Brick.'-Sioux City Journal.
And hell bent on cement?
$50
the wetness outside today is an effort
Of nature to restore balance.
It's like having a tooth out; seems
like it left an awful cavity but 1t fills
I'D in a few days and feels smooth to
the tongue.
Now that New Years is on the shelf
there's little left but Washington's
birthday and Easter between US and
the primaries.
And last night at midnight was
heard the sound Of hammers blow on
blow tearing down the First Chance"
sign at Clinton and the Last Chance"
sign at Council Bluffs.
Mrs. Durand and w. w. Marsh are
deeply stirred over the slaughter OF
high bred herd affected with foot and
mouth disease. But they are breeders
of that kind Of cattle and their anxiety
Is a personal one. The federal bureau
is protecting the great live stock In
dustry of the country and not lew
fancy herds and Mrs. Durand and Mr..
Marsh will have to stand 1t as best
they can. A bull worth $4,000 on pa
per scatters foot and mouth disease
precisely like a slim legged western
feeder and belongs with the cheap
steer in the auicklime. The country is
not likely to give much heed to the
charges brought by the fsnoJ stock
breeders against the bureau. 1t stopped
a terribly dangerous disease almost in
stanter and seems to know its business
very well. 60
The Boone News-Republican sus-
gests that Warren Garst has fared
pretty well at the hands Of Iowa
voters. 1t is true that Mr. Garst has
been in public life long time and
it is equally true that he has always
justified his retention there. Warren
Garst has been very useful Iowan in
public and private life.
And now i. begins to look ne ths
GummiIs would win Minnesota in q
walk After that he will begin 10 run.
The gentlemen who have spent most
of their time coloring their noses VIII
now have to turn to meerschaum pipes.
The nose paint inrustry has suffered
severe shock.
The railroads have confused Us as to
this sean,an's law of LaFollette's. Jim
Hills road sold its ships saying the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARSHALLTOWN, IOWA JANUARY 1916
instead of a bomb proof for the liquor

instead of bomb proof for the LIQUOR
| interests.
| Then the scene shifted again. The
rampant prohibitionists and rank tenn
perance crowd began to demand the
repeal of the mulct with the knowledge
| that such repeal would bring immedi-
ate prohibition under the law. The
liquor interests fell in again behind
the mulct as half loaf better by 100
| per cent than no loaf at all. In their
zeal they went too far. They hoped
| TO control all appointments upon COM
mi.tees and sought to foreclose by
party caucuses of legislators. And then
the storm broke.
1t is quite within the possibilities, in
deed even probable that the repeal OF
the mulct in the last legislature was
accomplished by that caucus which
was intended to prevent restrictive leg
islation. The temperance legislators
were angered and unified by it. Those
who had not considered the repeal Sc
riously edged over closer to the radical
program. Not only the legislators but
constituencies resented the plan and
purpose of the attempt to confer auto
cratic powers and tie the hands of as
semblymen. From every quarter of the
state came advices and petitions for
the repeal. The fight for repeal was
I'D 49,. Cd
democrats and republicans alike and
the muIct was repealed. The liquor in
terests had been hoist by their own
petard.
Most remarkable was the quiet ac-
ceptance of the repeal. The newspapers
of saloon cities fell at once into line.
1t was the law of the state and must
be enforced The temperance people
who had opposed the repeal as unwlse
accepted ii as an earlier step that would
soon have been taken with complete
deliberation. Even the saloons and the
brewing interests in the state as gen
eral proposition accepted i as mai.
They began disposing of their surplus
stock, finding outlet for their fixtures
and seeking other fields of business or
locations where they might carry on
present occupation. And when the
final and fatal hour arrived they closed
their doors regretfully and hope!essly.
The futter at Keokuk is merely dy-
ing fiutter Of wings. The rooster's head
came off at IL p. m, Dec 81, 1915.
There is history. much history be-
hind the mulct. There is the story OF
mighty change of thought and purpose.
The growth of the temperance senti-
ment and the various manifestations
Of it's growth is a volume to be written.
1t includes all the great movements that
have their root in human welfare. The
mulct itself was merely symptomatic,
manifestation of public thought crys-
tallzing. 1t was an expression OF It's
time. We are thru with 1t as we are
with the time 1t spoke for and have
gone beyond it to a wider and inner
thought and expression. This is a new
generation with strength Of its own
and the accumulated strength and wis
dom of the past. We shall go on leas-
ing the muclt behind as having served
its time and purpose. And we shall GER
tainly replace it with something much
better. That is the way Of the world.
an excellent way in an excellent world.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01

state until those who were bound to
find some way to get rid OF statewide
prohibition, and who could not arouse
any enthusiasm over local option Of
state license, eagerly grabbed at it as
something having the attraction OF
novelty, and yet calculated to do the
business.
Perhaps in this connection it is not
inappropriate to indorse the opinion SO
long held by Governor Larrabee that it
was not dissatisfaction with prohibi-
tion SO much as dissatisfaction with
the tariff agitation in congress that
caused the overturn in Iowa, sending
Horace Boies to the governors chair
and five or six democratic Iowa mem
bers to congress. But that is another
story.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
-snd sealin8 Wax -d cabba6e5-I kin&
NEW YEARS DAY.

New Years Day is an epoch in the
life of man when he SAYS good bye for
ever to the corn-cob pipe and climbs
onto the drivers seat in the water
wagon. II is day on which everybody
makes resolves and clings to them
with a death-like grip until . week
from the following Wednesday.
Some OF the best resolutions ever
made started with a defiant look on
New Years morning and wound up
three days later by going out In the
garden with a tubular lantern and
hunting anxiously for a French briar
pipe. 1t is peculiar fact that a man
who discovers in May that he has a
tobacco heart which will not allow him
to take out anything but tornado in
surance will keep on smoking right up
to the close of the watch night service
and then break off with a jolt that
leaves his nerves unlocked at both
ends. II is much better to taper off
gradually. until genteel minimum of
thirty-two home secured cigars day is
reached, when the victim can let go
without developing crouch that can
be heard down TO the front gate.
There are good many expensive
and useless habits which are never
tempered with on New Years Day.
One of these is the practice of chew
ing gum at the matinee in loud,
raucous tone of voice. Then there is
the popular pastime of spreading thick
layers of gossip about people who are
not present with an alibi. II every
body with an inquiring mind and
swivel tongue would swear off on New
Years Day long enough to find out II
the pastors wife really made her hus-
band get his own breakfast, this would
be a world of sweet content.
New Years Day would be better
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
THE MULCT Law.
rDes Moines Register.1

Just how much OF Iowa ia dry today
because of the IS per cent clause Of
the mulct law and the necessity Of
having this So per cent represented in
a concrete way on a written petition,
it would be hard to say. Everybody
knows Of at least one county that In
his opinion would not be dry If the mat
ter were submitted to popular vote and
a bare majority were TO determine. The
So per cent clause and the petition has
without any question had much to do
with driving the saloon from one post
to another until now Its territory is so
limited that the change wH! be made
tomorrow without disturbing even a
minor fraction OF the populous COM
munities OF the state. = 5=i y 41-
Perhaps it is no more than due that
Welker Given should be given credit
for suggesting and popularizing the
mulct la.y in Iowa. AS then editor Of
the Marsfiai,town Times-Repnblican
he not only proposed what was known
as the Ohio plan to his readers. hut In
series OF caFefuiiy, ordered editorials
enforced it upon the attention OF the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
TERMS.
The New Year Comss!

There are bells to ring,
There are songs to sing,
There is good cheer everywhere;
There are kin to meet.
There are friends to greet,
And the world is bright and fair.
There are VOWS well meant.
There is good intent.
There are pledges brave and gay
There are eyes alight,
There are faces bright
For it's New Years Day today.
There are griefs put by,
There's a Cloudless sky.
That smiles DER waiting world,
There are rosy dreams
On a hundred themes,
And flag of joy unfurled.
There's a courage new,
There's a purpose true,
There are shadows passed away,
There's a faith in prayers,
And soul that dares-
For it's New Years Day today.
L. VI. Thornton in the Mother Maya
zine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
IOWA IN GOOD COMPANY.
lSioux City Journal

When on Jan. 1 Iowa goes dry, 1t
VIII not go dry alone. At the same
time statewide prohibition will become
effective in six other states-Arkansas.
Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, South Caro-
lima and Washington. Already Ala
bama Arizona, Georgia. Kansas. Maine,
Mississippi. North Carolina, North Da-
kota, Oklahoma, Tennessee and West
Virginia are prohibition states.
Eighteen out of forty-eight states will
be dry. and Virginia will bring the
count up to nineteen on Nov. /, 1916.
Several other states will vote on pro-
hibition in 1916.
No such condition existed. in the
early sos. when Iowa first tackled pro-
hibition, or even in the early eos,
when holes in the wall had become so
numerous and whisky selling druggists
and other bootleggers so bold and Off
GERS of the law so blind and public
sentiment SO antagonistic to enforce
ment Of the prohibitory law that the
legislature took it upon itself to pro-
vide means whereby communities
which wanted saloons could have them
by indicating their desire by petition.
In those days prohibition states were
few and far between, so far, indeed.
that not many governors had any oc-
casion for INDUCING in such an ex-
change of views as that which history
attributes TO the governors of the
Carolinas .....
The story Of liquor legislation in
Iowa in brief is as follows: In 1852
the people at the polls voted to amend
the constitution by prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of LIQUOR in the
state. In 1883 the amendment was
rejected by the supreme court because
of technical lack IF agreement be-
tween the wording OF it as entered
on the journals of the Eighteenth gem
eral assembly and the amendment that
subsequently was agreed to by the
Nineteenth general assembly. In 1884
the legislature passed law prohibit
ing the manufacture and sale of LIQUOR
In 1894 the legislature passed the mulct
law, practically legalising violations Of
the prohibitory statute by providing
for the operation of breweries and
saloons under certain conditions.
Early in 1915 the legislature repealed
the mulct law the repeal to become
Jan. 1. 1916. With the mulct
law erased from the statute books, the
old prohibitory law becomes effective
again. That is how Iowa is about to
become dry once more.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01
A NEW YEAR THOUGHT.
(By Ora Williams.)
1915.

1915.
BECOME Old Year: we thee abhor. /.
p Satan claimed all thy days for war
An age of sorrows. fears and griefs,
For millions led by feutal chiefs.
Digging their trenches for huts or
.r- graves,
There to be slaughtered like galley
slaves.
Below. above. in sea and air.
Murdeous craft death weapons bear.
Thrones that totter in storm of hate.
Nations that perish-ignoble fate.
Back. Back again, to savage lust,
Reyeling in blood, groveling in dust.
o God OF War; we loathe thy name.
The passing year but cried thy
shame.
1916.
New Year divine; urstained, all hail!
Spirit Of Christ henceforth prevail.
World peace be ours not CHASTITY strife,
Mans blood but mars the path of life.
This day let love remove the blight.
Reveal the truth with clearer light.
The trenches free of those who stay
Hate-blinded monarchs they obey.
o, Year Of Hope: yet young and pure,
Guide US to peace with footsteps sure.
Help US prepare but not for war,
The creed Of force and might abhor.
o. God of Love; thy children pray
Their cup OF sorrow take away.
- R-R-Rl" "sNoWBLRDs,"
THINLY CLAD, ENJOY LIFE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01

law put them out Of the ship business
with its announcement Of its intention
to build new ships for the Hawaiian
trade.
In the slippery condition of the
streets perhaps the man who kept his
skates on over night had an advan-
tage this morning.
Why not take the protection OFF from
all materials which go into ship con-
struction and develop wonderful ship
building industry in this country? This
war Is going to leave the world 50
short Of ships that there is going to
be world of shipping to reconstruct.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01

King Peter of Serbia has taken
refuge in Italy. The aged monarch had
refused repeatedly to leave his army,
and it was only at the urgent entreaty
of his son, Prince RaseIi: Alexander.
that he at last agreed to go into exile.
The prince said to his father that it
would be better for him to preserve
his strength SO :ha. he might be able,
after his health had been restored, to
return to his country at the head of a
army. II give no more
orders said King Peter in an inter-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-01

and women everywhere. from Tampa TO Toronto. ex1s
claimed, the while they paved the air. oh, where has
Trouble gone to? When Trouble. is mora about We
shed the tears unbdden; let us go forth and hunt him
out wherever is hidden" They got search warrants
at the court lanterns trimmed with BUNTING and
every dame and every sport forth to the woods wens
hunting They all other business slidenauxht else
was 80 important. and thru forest dark and wide
they scrambled where they'd ortnt And OH the rap
ture and gee. when thru glade repairing. they
found poor Trouble tree. and dragged him from ~
swearing. Trum phanty they homeward went their
fears for they had found the
lost gent; thenceforth they'd live in clover sE