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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Doctor by the Year.

A Kansas city doctor is making an
interesting experiment. He Is taAihe
charge of family at fixed price ioi
t,e year. II he is called to attend the
family half a dozen times in the year o'
fifty times, his fee is the same ina
charge is based on the family histor,
and the present physical condlion ',
the members. 1t is simply snpniatco
tha. il one OF them becomes III the aoS-
tor ts to he notified as promptly as pos
sible. SO that treatment may peSm
fore the disease has a chance to de-
yelop
This is merely an experiment that
the doctor il making for his own satis-
faction In order to demonstrate the
Feasibility of some such plan. Certain
" IL In a step toward the ideal system.
Il gives doctors strong incentive 70
see their patients recover and ger oul
from under their care as speedily a.
possible. This is the aim Of reputaoie
physicians, or course But there are
doctors who are not so conscientious.
some day there will be communit.
medical centers to which families Whi
belong. where for fixed sum, pafo
every year. they may be sure OF the
bes, possible medical attention. These
centers win be equipped with the most
elaborate diaxnostic apparatus, In the
charge OF specialists working In con-
junction, perhaps with general prac-
titioner who viii be the regular family
physician. Some such plan VIII prihs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

When mans sick. good and sick. or
when the forced gamble with death
puts him under the knife for q surgi-
cad operation how many people are in
teres,ed in him. Folks inquire after
him. They want 20 know his condt-
ton. not only his friends but his ac-
uraintances Those 10 whom we never
dreamed of sending flowers before get
floral remembrances from us.
We used years ago to sit up with
the sick. Sick people need nursinw. ana
care and attention. So the neighoor-
hood took turns sitting up. There
were a few whose experience some
what qualified them 10 have charge OF
a very sick person The most oil US
however had no more business caring
for a dangerously III patient than we
would have had repairing fine watch.
The Lord himself only knows how
many people kindly ignorance killed
while it was doing the best 1t knew
how sitting up with the sick.
A desperately sick man didn't have
a fair show for his life in those days.
We did the best we could Of course but
we didn't know how and we hadn't the
appliances and equipment Of these
DAYS and couldn't have used them il
we had. Perhaps the sick man was
where the odors Of washday and OF the
cooking drifted in upon him: the drafts
from doors that must be opened a nun
dred times a day because OF the acti-
vities OF the household struck him.
There was no way to get fresh air
safely into his room and the big stoves
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
BETWEEN DAVID AND pEpEW.

Chauncsy NJ. Depew. octogenariaL
and spry as a colt, Is making talk on
old age and the art Of living long that
is worth while. Chauncey says that
Dayjd's assertion as psalmist limiting
the years Of mans lie to three score
and giving him ten more for good luck
and by reason Of strength have killed
more people than war. Capering like
youth Mr.. Depew holds to the old ad-
vice TO keep on living as long as you
can see ANYBODY else alive. Folks &C
cept the David estimate as correct and
give up. put on Ions faces and different
clothes and sit around shivering under
the Davidian sentence when they ought
to be out cutting up. If Mr.. Depew
didn't say 1t just the way that's about
what he conveyed and there's some
thing in it.
David may have guessed at that
limitation considera bly,. When David
is gone over carefully every now and
then we discover where David had
weak spots. David was tsmperanental,
considerably so: and 1t may have been
in one of his temperamental moods
That ne Jumped the whole thing into
three score years and let the tail go
with the hide at . seventy year limit
OF course your uncle Chauncey hasn't
a perfect record but he has something
on hand that gives him leeway TO chal-
lenge any estimate on the length Of
human life. Chauncey has beaten the
limit more than a decade and proposes
to keep on going while the going is
good and the road ahead looks to him
like 100 years.
Get up early. says Chauncey NJ, no
matter how late you go to bed; get
awayyfrom disagreeable things and dis
agreeable persons; keep your mind
serene; have some special interest
apart from your work If you don't go
in for sport let service be your rec
reation for the greatest Of recreations
is service.
Perhaps Chauncey doesn't know as
but We must admi; that Depew is there
with thirteen years the best Of Dayid's
thre score and ten and fully determined
to tilt the limit TO FIVE score.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
THE SILVER DOLLAR.

The silver dollar is a once despised
coin which now makes the currency OF
othercountries look like a Link OF boz
logna at Ia O'Clock dinner.
For hundreds Of years the best kind
OF money to do business with was the
English sovereign. which was made Of
gold and weighed sixteen ounces to the
pound. When the great war broke
out. however. the English sovereign
and the French franc and the German
gmark anct he Russian kopeck began TO
shrink faster than the attendance at
prayer meeting during the dog days,
while the silver dollar took on flesh
and crowded up to the head Of the ta-
BILE. As q result, the American dollar
will buy more groceries and smoking
tobacco and lima beans in foreign lands
than any kind Of money which has es-
capped the war chest.
Despite It's popularity abroad, the
silver dollar is thought very little Of at
home. 1t Is the clumsiest form Of
money we have, and when deposited in
the side pocket OF new pair OF pants
will eat its way thru in a very short
time. On this account all of the silver
dollars coined are shipped west, where
people are strong and rugged and can
carry them without becoming stoop-
shouldered. In the east the graceful,
free flowing 81 bill, which can be car
ried in large wads and looks like real
money. has made the silver dollar
harder to find that a munition maker
on peace committee.
The silver dollar can be counterfeit
ed by anybody who has the tools and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

raised and lowered the temperature
dangerously. The noises or the nome
annoyed him or woke him screaming
because Of shattered nerves. The doc
tor came once q day. Everybody OF
course did the best possible but the
best possible then would seem the
worst possible now.
What would you do today? Why
you'd 20 to complete hospital in Z
modern ambulance that would not
shake a groan from your suffering
body; you'd find trained nurses there,
quiet, isolation. every care and apph-
|ance the wonderful growth OF medical
and surgical science has developed; all
that skill and precaution could DO
would center on your sick bed. There
would be no awkward and inexperi-
enced friends sitting up" with you but
la wise. watAhtai, def, handed nurse
noting every symptom; the telephone
would stand waiting for emergency
the doctor and half dozen doctors
would be at hand in emergency and at
once. And you'd get well twice where
you'd have died once and for all jim the
days when we sat up with the sick
What would we do II the hospitals
were abolished and we had to go back
to old conditions? And when we think
Of that let US take time to realize that
when there is no vacant room or bed
in the hospital the hospital has been
abolished so far as those outside are
concerned. And going farther still let's
think of the condition II. it were us or
one of our families that were thus de-
MED
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Ripping Rhymes
oy WALT MASON
Our Destination

The poorhouse has no Persian rugs,
no costly chandeliers: and there wen
dwell and chase the bugs in our declin-
ing years. On bread and meat and
spuds and pie there's an unholy price;
the cost Of coal has gone so high the
poor are burning Ice. The butchers
used to give away the liver Of the
cow; today they wrap IL up and say.
Cough up = quarter now" The poor
house has no movie stage. no joyous
minstrel troupe: and there wen spend
our wtntry age, and live on cabbage
soup. When Ger the daily sheet we
glance, we drop 1t with frown: the
price Of everything's advanced. and
nothing has gone down. The printer
howls because his stock more precious
10 than gems: the tailor vets with tears
the frock which drearily he hems. Man
wears his sweater In his bed, because
he has no shift. and cries aloud. while
seeing red. 'Oh, whittier do We DRIFT =
Tho poorhouse has no plutocrats, no
closed or open cars; and there veil
dwell and swat the rats until we climb
the stars.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
the FEW WHO PAY.

The report of the commissioner of
internal revenue as to the geese that
lay the golden eggs for the income tax
collectors discloses some interesting in
formation. There are only leo men in
the United States out Of some twenty
million heads OF families whose income
exceeds sl,ao0, goo per annum and sew
enty-four of them reside in New York.
No one in Iowa enjoys either a million
or even half a million per year income.
In the million dollar income class be-
sides New York's seventy four Con-
necticut. Delaware and Illinois each
have four Georgia, Maryland, Mime
sofa, Missouri, Oklahoma. Rhode Is
land and Vermont each have one, Ohio
has six, New Jersey seven, and Masss :
chusetts and Michigan two each. OF
course every boy in the land can name
enc OF the TWO in Michigan and every
man who buys sasolene can name one
Of the six in Ohio.
again has nearly all Of them with III
out of lS2. Seventeen states have the
other sixty I'VE and thirty states do
not have even one citizen in the hait
million dollar income class. In fact
with all the concentration Of wealth
thar is supposed 10 exist N this coun-
Try less than per cent of the heads OF
families in all this land have incomes
that are taxable a. all and one-1hird
of them enjoyed incomes over $4,000
but under $4,000 per annum.
The result Of the income tax for the
year is that s67,siS.5si was paid into
the United States treasury by less than
per cent OF the heads OF families in
the ccuntrx- ore-thira 81 this sum
was paid by those whose incomes are
less than s2e.000 per annun. About
half Of it was paid by the few whose
Incomes exceeded 100000 per annum.
The income tax for this year has
been doubled by congress so as TO raise
money for preparedness. After New
Years the rich will have to dig up
sl2o, zoo. 900 each year for our new navy.
our enlarged army and additional forti-
flea tons.
The income tax IS most certainly
falling upon the few and il falls hard
est upon the swollen fortunes OF an
exceedingly limited class. Less than
one in thousand pay on half million
dollars or more, less than two IN
hundred have incomes that are taxable
at all. The income tax is here 10 stay.
The vast majority will see 10 it that
the minority who have the incomes
must pay but will that majority see
10 it that the money thus taken from
the few is properly and wisely eX-
pended or will there grow up in this
land a spirit Of careless derision al the
extravagances OF congress because OF
the thought that it is the money OF the
rich that is being wasted or stolen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
JUST 4 BIG FAMILY.

Some saloonkeepers in Chicago the
day before Thanksgiving raised the
price of drinks a nickel and with the
money this obtained over and above
the regular price of the firewater
bought chickens and pigs and different
kinds of good grub for the poor in the
neighborhood. Whether the saloonists
put something into the pot besides
what the purchasers paid extra for
their drinks is not stated but 1t Is quite
within the probabilities that they did
ror every person feels the touch OF the
kindly holidays like Thanksgiving ana
Christmas, the giving holidays.
The incident shows how organization
helps charity, how a common purpose
accomplishes things when 1T has a
groove to run in. II was peculia:
channel thru which the good things to
eat found their way to the novels and
the hungry children and in all likeh-
hood most Of the poverty was due to
the saloons. 1t only goes to show that
the spirit Of iieipfuiness exists every :
where and that helplessness has a
common appeal
Ut IN hard TO do big thing alone.
While there are a few men in every
community that could do a big charity
individually II they chose the fact holds
that It is the big pot wherein the finan-
cial big and little men alike throw
their muckle and their miclde that ac-
complishes the community charities
There are some things too big for any
one man or dozen men TO carry on. In
deed community charities ought not be
controlled by any one or dozen men
They belong TO the community and
should be overlooked ard aided BY the
community as belonging to all and all
should have part in them
| It makes different community
where all are interested. where every
body chips in for an oppression OF al
itruism. 1t makes for Independence. II
binds the community together, makes
friends OF men whose business and a.
sociations were otherwise widely dis
tsociated. When everybody agrees OF
one point with everybody else nobody
can get entirely away from anybody.
And when all the people OF the com
munit actually get together there's
nothing they can not do which ought =
be done. II the patrons OF half doze'
saloons can feed a city neighborhood o
poor in a poor quarter by a nieks
lrakeon on the drinks for day wha'
caIl q comm uI1iitty DO If it seer mt 10 De
!.e.e itself 70 great purpose? Why
nickel cigar day is S16.2S wear. q.
But the best thing about 1t all = tn
community spirit that does things, tina
Heels it's duty to do things. spirit tina
includes all in the community from tn
youth to the retired man, that accept
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

are hes=: e s:Ss.s,s: ::.:s III cn.iienss
that statement. lows, In the early six
ties. q mere string Of settlements along
the rivera sent more than $4,000
volunteer soldiers to the front. Iowa
would furnish proportionate number
OF men today II there were actual need
Of men, if the country were in danger
and needed defense. 1t Is generally
recognized that q small force Of regu-
lars would suffice for police duty on
the border, and there Is nothing
especially attractive about sea life to
many Of our boys. hence the navy has
not as many men las she could use.
But there are the regulars. Why
are they short? The cause is the
same as with the volunteers There Is
nothing to stir the heart Of the ma
ton There Is no danger threatening
the domains of Uncle Sam. II there
We're volunteer regiments would
be springing from the soil everywhere
and the regular organizations would
BIO filled until there could be no more
accepted.
II. however. it Is deemed desirable
to build up big military establish
ment in times Of peace, and when
there is no danger threatening the
&C untry. no doubt that could be done
very easily. It Is so simple that IT Is
strange that such steps should not
have occurred to congress long ago.
| In the first place. the volunteer ser
vice should be popularized. and that IN
the towns and the cities and on the
farms That Is up to the people.
| In the second place. judges and m
| nuential citizens should not De al
| loved to squeeze criminals into the
army or the navy in preference 70
serving time in an institution created
| for that purpose.
In the third place and perhaps that
r,jeht be shifted to first. the govern
ment ought to pay the soldiers living
wage. The congressman have raiseu
the salary of the president. thes NAYS
Increased their own salaries seVerai
times. but the private volunteer sun
gets his little SIS per month on au'y
and he does not get that promptly ana
regularly 1t seems ridiculous 10 eA-
pect young men to volunteer Tor ponce
duty on the border at SIS per month.
when there Ia 81 per day and board
and lodging and washing to be had
or. the farm. husking corn, ana When
IN rners are Offering from $50 TO *oo
per month with board. washing, iodg
ing and the use of horse and buggy
or an auto, the year round.
II II is worth $1,000 a year to carry
mail bag ii ought to be worth tnae
much to be ready 10 die for Your couh-
trv and in the mean time 10 carry a
rifle
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
the best results Of modern medical sci
ence to every home.-Kansas City Star
Firss Thanksgiving Day.

A day OF thanksgiving was called
for by Governor Bradford Of the Ply
mouth Plantation In 1921 in recognition
Of the first harvest. This was in real
ity the foundation Of the old custom q
observing Thanksgiving day.
In 1923 there was prolonged drouth.
ad service Of fasting and prayer was
called for. In the midst Of 1t. copious
rains began falling and the service was
suddenly changed into one OF thanks
giving. Thereafter 1t became GUS
tom of the colonists to hold thanks
giving services after the harvests. but
with feasting instead OF fasting. and
the governors OF the several colonies
soon began appointing the day to be so
marked. In time the custom became
national and the president now an
nounces the day.
The curtom also penetrated into
Canada, frs. among the various
provinces. After the confederation. OF
Canada. the right to announce the day
was assumed by the Dominion govern
ment. so the custom spread from
Massachusetts bay over the whole
English speaking North America ana
,s one OF the bonds OF brotherhood OF
the continent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Aa.at Iifa Preeerxsr.'

That domestic science. pracucaliy
applied, Is becoming popular with
Young women. is an encouraging sign
particularly to the young men who
have an eye on tine not Impossible
She. but hesitate over, the matrimoni-
Al plunge because Of the expense. How
much OF the happiness and welfare Of
the home viii be increased by this re-
newed devotion to home Interests Is
matter Of conjecture. The young man
who 'rnarries huffy girl. pretty to
look at, but about az useful as q
Christmas tree, has a courageous soul
which viii presently be overcome by
the difficulties Of making income equal
outgo, The girl who can get up hot
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Iona Newspapers
THAT MAIL ORDER STUNT


Four weeks ago the Republican was
throwing fit because one of the can
diGates for governor was owner of a
mail order paper, that is TO say q
paper that accepted the advertise
ments of houses selling by mail. The
idea was to prejudice the business men
against the publisher because the nal
order houses come In competition with
local concerns. But for the last two
weeks the Republican has been adver-
Using clubbing combination. in which
four mail order papers" are furnished
practically free with the Republican.
All any Of them want lie the subscrip-
tons and they want the subscriptions
SO their mail order advertisers can
reach the subscribers of the Republic
can, THIS change of heart Of the Re
publican might be labeled before and
after-the election.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Topics Of the Times

Folks didn't eat as many turkeys
this year but nobody need assume that
1t will have any effect on the next
years prices.
Perhaps that drop in -four indicates
that the backbone Of high prices Is
weakening. And maybe it's only a
shaw to be followed by a harder
freeze.
Wonder il this administration VIII
keep on taking the fun out Of
Funston?
The educational survey turned out
like the survey the county surveyor
made for Old Bill Butts and Hen
fsarper when they got TO fighting over
the line. 1t turned out that Bill would
have to move his house and Hen his
new barn.
The Burlington Gazette's idea Of a
| good job is a place on diet squad :?
What, at 40 cents day for twelve
people?
The fact is that everybody is going
to be so blamed busy for the next
four weeks that discussion Of future
sc natorships and the like may well
be slid aside until something is needed
10 stir up the animals.
Germany ign. ssSsy ;- reader soT peSss
than the people Of this neutral nation.
And at that we are wondering what
We shall do with it when It comes.
Colonel Gauntlet, celebrated SAL
| walton Army officer is coming to Iowa
from Switzerland. All right we are
hand and glove with the 8. A. in this
| section of the world.
/ The mint director says the country
is demanding two and one-hah cent
piece. The director is mistaken. WHAT
we need more u two and ene-haif
dollar piece and we can use whole
lot Of those. ~ a.
Maybe that earthquake recorded the
osher dav by the eeie.nnssa nhs wa .
merely the political sitnation settling
Gown again.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
CONGRATULATIONS.
Jefferson Bee.1

This congratulation by '.yanquished
to victor" is nothing more nor less
than relic Of the prize ring. In the
prize ring it is supposed to be the mark
of gentleman for a defeated slugger
to say, The best man won as they
most always say. And yet, when It
comes to that. man who would be
party 10 prize ring fight is anything
but a gentleman. Yes, that IL so. Jack
Johnson, libertlne and white SLAYER.
He was no gentleman" Far from it.
That poor old drunken sot Jim Jefrries
never got within five miles Of the Dor
der line Of the country Of gentleman"
John L. Sullivan Is gentleman now.
because new age has made him so.
but when he "beefed" his opponents in
the prize ring ne was nothing short OF
a short haired brute, but little removed
in disposition from the ane Or craig
outang. The prize ring has improved
some with Jess Willard. who Is real
ly far above many Of his belt wear
ing predecessors. but Jess viii never
be Of the real gentleman class un-
til, like Frank Gotch, he announces
his retirement from the sport
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01
Masonic Meetings.

SPECIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge, No. los. A F. 6, A. M, FRI
day. Dec /, 1880 p. m. Work IN nrs'
degree. John ". Wells Secretary. g.
Q. Frazey. W. NJ.
sicNGT CHAPTER. No. 81 r. A. Il
Stated convocatton Monday evening
Nov. 20, 1880 o'clock. Regular business
Carl Shanner. H. P: John w. "shs'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20. r 8 NJ MOI ,
day. Dec. IS. Regular business aho
election Of officers. !. 7. FORBES ne
corder: George Gregory. I. n,
STATED coNcLAvE, St AdeIna'
Conmandery, No. so. X. I. Iuesoas
Dec. 70, 7:3u p. m. Regular business
and election OF officers. l. / FoEoes'
Recorder; H. c. Mueller. Comnahoss'
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o: {:
s-Meeting Wednesday, Dec, - q: ~
n NJ. for regular business and ELECTION
~ o-,eers Eliza s Battin, secretary
Cora NJ. Mcdowell W. N.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

meals and wash dishes is a helpful
proposition. and wears well, even - sne
isn't too frilly. We have before W
winter Of unprecedented high prices.
Everything has gone up! People
With ineiastic incomes and saiafies
must according to the old proyerN
cent the garment according 70 fne
clothr IT. VIE wAo nsDws how TO
INV and 10 cook, and can keep her
house herself is the best life preserses
! man can have. and any agency tnat
instructs her to that end Is 2 6enenl =
the community.-Detroit Free Press.
The cherry. peach and plum Wer1
ar.t ~rown In the gardens OF Persia.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

Considering that each postoffice APP
pointment makes at least three enc
mics TO one friend suggests the Sioux
City Journal ''it5 would seem that the
overworked congressman also might be
Induced 10 approve tie plan for put
ting all postmasters on the classified
list"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-12-01

responsibility, thinks we'll OF itself ana
justifies its own thought by action;
that's the best Of all organized effort
After all a. town is only 4 big family.