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Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-12
WHEN DAUGHTER MARRuES.

tF0T worth St0r-TClogTam.)
1t doesn't take people long to for
get I'm few weeks after tho oldest
daughter marries. she SAYS; 81 never
acted the way sister is aCting. did |,
mama
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-12-12

u has been discovered that Ruth
law has % husband but he does not
ny la her class
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
Was Cleopatra Uuly7

OF muck raking the illustrious dead
there is no end. Now the numisma-
lists of the country who are in conven-
ton at Baltimore are seeking to i'm
pugn the beauty Of Cleopatra, and they
point to her portrait on her coins as
proving that the queen who ensnared
Caesar and Anthony had big ears,
small eyes and a scrawny neck. Would
the fair autocrat Of Egypt have allow
ed her own coinage to malign her
charms?
Clearly the numismatists are not 100
per cent chivalric. But as against this
evidence there is a silver coin minted
at Antioch and showing the bust Of
Cleopatra on the ,obverse and that Of
Mark Anthony on the reverse which
gives the queen a neck by no means
scrawny full eyes and a chin sugges-
tive Of that Of our own goddess of lib
erty, tho lacking the graceful curve
The ears are as invisible as those Of a
modern New York girl, and only the
nose invites criticism. 1t is quite long
enough to disprove Pascars saying
that if it had been shorter it would
have changed the whole face of the
world.
The Antioch coin calls the queen "a
later goddess" 1t is more satisfactory
to put the blame on rude workman
ship. If Cleopatra's charms did not
"beggar all description. they must
have had some potency to make the
slaves they did.
Vino will be left TO as IL the world 9
| gallery of the great and beautiful in
| history II modern detraetnrs of the ia
nous dead are allowed to have their
| way?--New York World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
"CIRCUS TRICK" WINS AIR DUEL.
BY Looping the Loop" British Aviator
Gets aDron" m ENEMY

Before the war exhibition fights in
which looping the loop" was the great
attraction packed our aerodome
grounds with holiday sightseers. The
performance at that time was consid-
cred nothing but freak Of nerves and
reckless daring-a circus trick"-but
nothing more. Its possible utility was
scoffed at. The war has changed
that Looping the loop has proved
10 be a very valuable air battle evolu-
ton. BY looping the loop a British
aviator brought about the defeat. and
destruction Of an enemy seaplane last
July.
Hallum, the aviator, was patroling In
the air off Ostend. When he was at q
height of $4,000 feet he noticed about
500 feet below him German sea plane.
Shooting down at the plane did not ap-
peal to him, as aiming from height
at movable object below would not
meet with any success. so he decided
performing the looping the loop.
which would bring him below the en-
envy The German aviator noticed the
trick and, as there was not the least
prospect Of escaping, he had to give
battle. Well aware that he was cap
ital target for the British aviator, he
moved in all directions to lessen the
danger of being hit, the British aviator
following all the movements The sea
plane slid down and Hailum again
"louped the loop, coming about 1Oo
feet below the enemy. The British
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18

ton, threat or purchase might inhu-
ence focal officers" That Is the hope
and purpose of the liquor interests IN
Iowa. 1t is hoped to repeat the condi-
tions and cultivate the disgust and
disappointment that produced the mulct
law and thus bring back the saloons
to this state. Meanwhile under mon
interference" with local officers the
Illicit saloon would pay the brewers
profit and keep the slush fund brim-
ming
What the near beer saloons proved
to he at keokuk is what the near beer
saloon all over Iva is waiting to be.
Its hopes are builded on the indifference
and mistaken loyalty of temperance re-
publicans The case is clear that he
who runs may read Study the Keokuk
illustration and match 1t with the
avowcd policy of mon interference
with local authorities"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
PIGS, PUPS ANo PEOPLE.

rather funny story comes from
atchison. Kan of q pig orphaned in
infancy and brought up by dog with
a family of pups. 1t relates that the
pig modelled itself after the pups. that
1t ran out and tried to bark at passing
teams and met strangers with at
tempts to bite them like dog"
Perhaps some string fiend" in fnan-
cal straits imagined the tale but
whether it is true of swine it is well
established of humans that those
who run with pups try to act like pups.
The boy whose companions are pups
does the things he sees the pups do
ing or tries to. The pig saw life and
rs activities from a puppish angle.
The things the pups did seemed brave
and laudable to it. And young folks
who run with the pups when they are
With the pups Go as pups do.
1t is SO of older people also. Those
who seek wolfish companionship bark
at every reform that passes along the
road, meet progress at the gate with
barred teeth. and follow the pack
Nothing is truer than that men may
be known by the company they keep.
Perhaps the pig didn't play dog but
men play wolf when they live with
wolves.
One old dog that runs out at teams
viii spoil all the puppies in the neigh
bcrhood and set them chasing passers
by. Perhaps they would spoil the pigs
also under circumstances AT any
rate the influence of a loose and
vicious man is not 70 be minimized nor
is the influence of companionship of
pigs or men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
THE AMERICAN NERO
RANGl!:D0!M REELS:
ri @&InEad! LRam1saa
Of shoes: anc Ships -nd seell8 %. cabba6es kk1&
SUPPLY AM DEMAND.

The law of Supply and Demand Is a
form of soothing syrup which is ad-
ministered to the ultimate consumer
whenever the price of gasolene or hard
coal begins to climb out on the roof.
When the law of Supply and De-
mand was put upon the statute books
of our country, people did not use gas
olene to push anything with. II was
Impossible TO drive up TO filling sta
ton with chattering clutch and get
stood of for ten gallons Of low test
gasolene until the cows returned
homeward There was almost no de-
nand for il, as nobody had thought of
making any. and the price did not
raise any welts on the body polite.
But finally somebody discovered it
while digging a drive well and the law
Of Supply and Demand began to uper-
ate in noiseless. highly fabricated
manner and has been operating ever
since al a blood curdiing crescendo.
The smooth. velvety, multiple. disc
action OF the law Of Supply and De-
mand with respect to the price of hard
coal teaches US that man In reality de-
scended from the goat This law be-
gins to operate in May OF each year.
the visible supply running short every
month until November. when the price
is standing tip-toe on the mountain
top When we stand aside in medi-
tative mood and watch the law Of Sup
ply and Demand boost the price OF
hard coal during the heated term. we
are inclined to believe that congress
would be more popular II It repealed
The said law and then adjourned
There have been several earnest at
tempts in recent years to put kicking
straps on the law Of Supply and De-
nrand, so that 1t would not rear up ev :
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
WHAT IS A FAIR VERDICT.

The Iowa Matchmaking case which
has attained so much publicity is 10
be dropped, the complaining witness
refusing to prosecute. This was the
case where a prominent business man
IF Cedar Rapids charged that two girls
tf his acquaintance had blackma!led
him out of $4,000 and was quoted as
determined to go thru with the case.
The attorney for the girls explains the
present attitude OF the complainant
3y the assertion that the women had a
Just claim on the druggist
There it rests so far as concerns the
criminal code. But what of the moral
code and the verdict of society?
Il the girls were to come back TO
Cedar Rapids what would be the pen
atty inflicted by society upon them?
If the man in the case stays in the
city what penalty will he suffer from
society as it is organized? Will he be
refused at the doors Of reputa BILE
pSopiS. VIII women SCOrn MIN as he
passes and men avoid him as I'M
worthy and dangerous companionship?
That is the penalty the women must
suffer and perhaps with complete
desert
1t seems to have an even break be-
tween the women and the man as re-
CARDS morality or the lack of it, The
letters published as passing between
them denote as much. The whole
transaction was vile and sordd One
is as good and as bad as the others.
1t is a nasty mess at the best of it.
Under the criminal law and before
judges and juries the woman has the
best Of 1t. Before the court of social
appeal she always gets the worst OF
il. It isn't a question of desert in this
case, none of the three have any claim
to sympathy on the facts adduced.
But as a matter Of even handed justice
TIE social penalty should be equaiized.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
lye Hominy.

s5nfe time ago Mr.. Rigelow, editor o;
the Guide to Nature, created something
Of sensation by asserting that we
shall soon have the Irish potato on our
table no more. He said that but little
seed can be found, since the vines
latterly fail to bear, and without seed
It !s Impossible to grow rev varieties
to supply those running out. We be-
lieve the department of agriculture has
a standing offer of Sc per spoonful.
Since that Mr.. Bigeow has made an
other discovery-that the oid-fashioned
ilominy is no more. We have no COM
ment to make on the probable passing
Of the spud; 1t is now so h-priced.
anyhow, that we may have to forego
them even before they run out" But
let's see about this tominy business!
We are inclined to think the editor
Of the Guide to Nature is on the wrong
tack; that he's seeking the common
mussel while wanting the osyster, so to
speak. This conclusion is reached on
reading the paragraph:
Il have been deluged with letters
telling Of innumerable places where one
might obtain hominy, and into these
places I have chased the fleeing will
o'-thewisp, only to find something en-
tireiy different-what every New Eng.
land boy knew half century ago as
hulled corn. or the monstrosity that
any self-respecting New England boy
would have been ashamed to know. a
pale faced, blanched, Japanese like
form of corn, known as hominy- grits.
Now 1t is neither hulled corn nor this
.1f
which am deploring. but real hominy
from yellow corn"
There is the secret of the fruitless
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
aGEQ lE q ~ SfsHlcfAE5IG a
"a grain which IN EnHland IL Generally

Q&Q IG % y fS11t7f1EHIG Ia
"a grain which IN England IL generally
given to horses but In, Scotland sup
ports the people," SO It may be said
that yellow corn was designed for
swine while a gaunt few have affected
to esteem 1t At for man. Real hominy
Is made Of white corn. 1t Is barely
possible that in Mr.. Bigelow's boyhood
he mistook the real color of the hominy
which rejoiced his tongue from the fact
that I've or ashes, used to remove the
hull of the grain, will discolor the hull.
The prevailing variety of rice Is white.
and that is the sort known to our fore
fathers and to most Caucasians today;
and so we can go back to the third
quarter of the eighteenth century for
proof that the toothsome dish was
white. That was long before Mr.. Big
CLOVIS boyhood. In Smollett's Elk
petition of Humphrey Clinker' 1t Is
shown that one of the characters was
so ignorant of grain that our enter
tainer made him own that dish OF
hominy was the best rice pudding he
had ever tasted" 1t is true that the
New England poet, Joel Barlow, in the
last decade of the same century and In
his once famous "Hasty Pudding
wrote that If he knew the name of the
lovely squaw, who
First learned with stones to crack the
WELL dried maize
Thru the rough sieve to shake the
golden shower,
In boiling water stir the yellow flour"
he would at least "blow her pudding
with the breath Of praise:" and the
unthinking might infer that pudding
and hominy material was saffron. But
we should not forget that poets cling
more tenaciously to poetry than TO
truth. Moreover, the autocrat of the
Century dictionary doesn't describe ths
meal as yellow, tho quoting Barlow's
couplets.
If Mr.. Bigelow had come to Tennes-
see ne would have found hominy as it
has been, and as it should be prepared.
The art Of making IT is still known to
thousands of elderly farmwives. not to
mention the surviving black mammieS.
Compared with it, anything made OF
yellow corn is as moonlight unto sum
light and as water unto wine.-Nash-
vile Tennessean.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
THE GOVERNORS POWERS.
IDeS Mctnes Register.


For some days now the Harding men
have been turning more and more to
Havner as the saving feature OF the sit
uation. They are saying 1t is the at
torney general who enforces the laws,
and no matter what Harding may do
about il. Havner may be relied upon to
take care of the liquor laws.
We are not going to stop now to
speculate on what Havner would try
to do. if both were elected and should
find themselves at variance over liquor.
II is enough now to note that Havner
has made most disconcerting state
ment for his friends in his Endorsement
of Harding. so disconcerting in fact
that his friends can not adjust il with
what Havner was saying about Hard
ing before the primaries.
But leaving Havner out of 1t and as
Stunning that he would do everything his
most ardent champion can claim he
would, what are in fact the legal pow
ers vested in the governor and the at
torney general in this matter of law
enforcement, and what could Havner do
in fact If Harding actively stood in the
way, or even IL Harding merely was
unirterested?
How can any body read the section OF
the statute that puts the naming of the
special agents wholly with the governor
and not see that If the governor il not
with the law enforcers the attorney
general can do nothing, no matter how
honestly he may try2 For these special
agents, i they are with a governor who
wants nothing done. will not only not
find any law violators OF the sort we
are speaking about but will harass
with all sorts of espionage the men who
are making trouble by entering com
plants. aid more than that they will
make life unbearable for an attorney
general who breaks with the governor
or who tries to run his office independ-
emily of the governor.
There Is nothing in this talk that
Havner may be relied upon to en-
force the law, regardless of what
Harding may do. Even conceding
that such would be Havners pur-
pose he could do nothing. excepting
as Harding gave him the word Any
attempt on his part to act inde-
pendently of Harding would be met
with disaster for him, and that in ways
perfectly plain to the wayfaring man.
1t is Harding who will enforce the law
insofar as the state Is concerned. IL it
Is enforced, and if Harding Is not for
! law enforcement by the state Hayner
will do nothing. Let us get that point
clearly in mind now when we are COM
ing to an important decision with re-
gard to the future Of the liquor law In
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
Topics of the Tunes

After all the United States has the
| advantage of Greece. The allies haven
taken over our public buildings, yet.
That objection should be raised ir
court against selling police protection
to vice in Chicago is of itself a gooC
sign of the times.
A pair or two of bloodhounds seem
to be worth more toward making
good living in credulous Iowa than a
bunch of mich cows
Evidence in a New York murder case
shows that the assassin soaked a
cheese knife in garlic to make his pur-
pose more certain. But what did he
need of the cheese knife?
The board of control finds that il
must pay large advances for goods
bought for state institutions and for
sees that il will have difficulty in pro-
viding for the wards Of the state on
the per capita allowed by law. Well,
the DOdIu lsll dIoHe III It's tipuciSS'
The per capita allowance is bothering
a lot of people with fixed incomes.
Fort Dodge has a night school that
is attracting large attendance where
everything from plumbing TO millinery
is taught 1t is something that other
towns might observe and investigate
TO advantage.
One of the things that worries the
Harding managers is the silent Vote
that is keeping a close mouth but
knows where The marks on its ballots
are going And there's an unknown
but very practical and astonishing ag-
gregate of that vote.
Most folks will pay more attention
to the statement of Jim BroCkway,
leading republican and big Iowa farm
er than 10 the affidavit of an East
Dubuque saloonist.
Frank Gotch's brother in law is also
for Harding because I am not in favor
of prohibition, never was and nave
friends with me-. The whole Gotch
darned family seem to be aroused. And
perhaps the dog barks at the mail car
rier who delivers the Des Moines Reg
jSter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
THE EXAMPLE At KEOkUk.

Keokuk has just had an experience
with so called temp bars" near beer
saloons or whatever term shall be ap-
piled to the joints that ape the erst-
while dramshops. In keokuk the at
torney generals office raided twelve Of
them the other day and in the twelve
found beer on tap and siezed much
liquor Of all kinds
These bars were under local self
government" The ccuHc:! Of Keokuk
had fixed license tax Of s75 month
directed at the temp beer saloons it was
stated when the tax was fixed. The
bars raided were paying the city 5000
a year Tor their privileges. Inferen
TALLY, from the history of the blind pig
in Iowa, the suspicion Is natural that
they were paying more in one direction
and another.
II the department OF justice aided
and made effective by the state agents
had not acted the beer joints Of Keo-
kuk would probably have gone on en-
ioying immunity from the law and. de-
flying the statutes Of the state despite
the complaints of decency and the law
abiding inhabitants Of that city. If i'm.
munity may be bought with q license
tax levied by city authorities or pur-
chased thru other channels by politica
or by cash payments the Illicit liquor
dealer Is ready and anxious to make
the deal.
It is well for those who favor the
restrictive laws and their enforcement
| to pause where they are and consider
the example at Keokuk. 1t is in line
with the repeated declarations of the
republican candidate for governor
against interference" with local au
thorities and local government. TIL,
governor appoints the state agents ant
SO to a very effective extent controls
successful prosecution Of violations o.
! state laws. A policy of non interfer
| ence with local officers would sci
the real stuff running from taps al
over the state of Iowa where inclina
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
Cartoon by TOM MA Y.

the gossamer sails of the tiny air ships
and blow the dainty things before them
as they run. No one can resist the
beauty of the milkweed. You fiji your
hands, your pockets with the silken
threads for the pure joy of feeling the
sickness in your fingers. Lightest and
most wonderful OF aircraft, the sheen
of their shining white sails is like spun
mornheams The entire arrangement
of the elliptical pods upon the stem,
the dainty fragile skeins Of silk en-
closed. each with its pendant brown
seeds creation of marvellous loveli-
ness.
All this beauty, this exquisite tex
ture of fragility. neither flower nor
fruit but simply natures contrivance
for the spreading of the seed. may be
yours for the taking, this perfect aut-
umn day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
THE MILKWlEED POD.
[Effie NJ Kantor in Des Moines Rel

ister.]
That most mystical of all late sum-
ner mysteries-the milkweed pods
about to toss its exquisite loevliness
upon the autumn air. and here and
there the sage green shells are await
ing the stroke of the hour-the touch
Of the zeit-geist of the autumn, to burst
into beauty.
In a few days the swan child Of q
plebeian mother will leave the humble
milk weed stem and come into its own
heritage of grace and charm. Lined
with satin smoothness the quaint pod
will burst it's one seam, and emit
clouds of ethereal sickness to float and
float thru the AUTUMN air. Lo. feet
Of airships are there encased. So close
| ly they lie together, SO wonderfully
folded are their sails. that hundreds OF
them may reach maturity inside one
finger length Of covering. Let the warm
sun shine, the frost ripen and the dry
| ing breeZes blow, and what a trans
| formation! The seam OF the pod has
bursted and out on the edge, anchor SO
delicately the sailboats ready for flight;
| the brown flulls Of the seed craft the
only ballast for the airy bits of moth
| ingness
At once what an example OF creative
| magnificenee and deiicacy!
Children fastening over the pastures
are fascinated, they know not why, Dy
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
Ripping Rhymes
~ WALT MASON
Unruly Kids

don't like little Albert Clarence.
tho he's sprightly lad. because he
won't obey his parents. his mother and
his dad. This Clarence boy Is strange
ly gifted. he Is no persons fool, and
divers prizes he has lifted down at the
village school. He knows what war or
revolution distinguished every king, and
when 1t comes to elocution. he makes
the welkin ring. 1t sends a sort of
thrill and SILVER all up my spine and
neck, when he arises to deliver The
Boy and Burning Deck" In divers olo-
gies excelling. in Greek he cuts much
grass, and when 1t comes to hard word
spelling. he cleans up all his class. But
when his mother or his father remarks,
go. hunt the eggs" he seems to think
1t too much bother to exercise his legs.
And when his father or his mother OBJ.
serves. GO. feed the cat" he says to
them, Ny little brother Is here--let
him do that" There are no flies on AL
bert Clarence. his teachers all agree;
but kids who don't obey their parence
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
FOR EVANS AND DEEMER.
Shenandoah World.

1t is very important that the friends
Of prohibition and of Judges Deemer
and Evans get busy and let the fact be
known that they are in danger OF de-
feat and their friends will have to do
Il. Under the new non partisan plan
Of electing judges those already in
Office feel that it is beneath the dig
nifty of the position to go into politics
and play the game as other candidates
dc. 1t would be calamity II either
Ceemer or Evans were defeated. With
Salinger and Theophilus constituting
majority of the supreme court prohibi-
ton would stand but little show in
Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
When the law Of Supply and Demand
was put upon the statute books
people did not use sasoisns
TO push anything With.

and prevented them from losing any
money to speak of. In spite OF these
facts. there are those in our midst who
have no confidence in the law OF Sup
ply and Demand and would be pleased
to swat the same just below the Jug
ular vein with a dull axe
This teaches US that man is an UNI
reasonable and cantankerous creature
and should not be allowed to vote at
anything except school election.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-18
SEEING is BELIEVING,

[Shelby County Republican.I
We hope our farmer friends will eN-
cuse us if we give it as our opinion
that much of their opposition to hard
roads is due to lack Of personal ex-
perience of their necessity and ex-
IRENE desira bilty. We are of this
opinion largely because those who visit
localities where they have hard roads
became at once heartily in favor OF
them.