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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
LESS SONG AND MORE SHOVEL.

In Marshalltown the county Jail and
buildings. The Marshalltown Club oc-
cupies the lower floors of the temple.
So often, of evenings and afternoons
the members of the club are treated
to a song concert bawled out between
bars by jail birds full of song and
nutritious food. Three square meals
per diem without exercise lead direct
ly to songfulness or indigestion. And
in Iowa the Jail bird gets three squares
and no exercise. So he sings as nat
urally as full fed cat purrs.
A Chicago paper recently described
the proftab BILE employment Of brideWell
prisoners by the city on city work to
which they are adapted They are set
sorting junk, doing all sorts of tasks
and saving that which otherwise would
be wasted Their labor goes far toward
paying their board and room rent
Why should Jail bird sing upon a
full stomach while other men go home
O. nights too tired to smile, whose la
Dor thru taxation has provided the
aforesaid j. b. with that comfy feeling
in his interior? Why shouldn't our
ward be given urgent opportunity to
work off some Of his high spirits at
useful and laborious employment thus
earning what he eats and avoiding dis
turbance in his alimentary canal? Why
should a Jail bird eat bread II. the
shadow of disgracefu idleness that
honest men earn and eat in the sweat
OF their brows?
The county could use them. In these
DAYS Of motor trucks and abbreviated
mileages a gang of dozen Jail birds
could be unloaded ait a flll or culvert or
a bridge approach or concrete mixer
ten miles out in something like half
hour. do nine hours of hard labor for
the county and be back home for sup
per'' at 6 o'clock. And after supper
they'd sleep more than they sang.
Song and hilarity are not good for
iail birds. That isn't what they are In
for. There Is no meditation on the
mast or pledge to the future in THE
Night Before Larry Was Stretched or
Casey Jones" Quite the contrary.
But ten hours with a paddy shovel OF
IN q vheelba rrow loaded with sand OF
cement induces to reflection when all
II brings is food and a place on this
blanket covered stats.
The slogan should be less song and
more shovel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
RAN1l-D0M REELS
n &azIlh 2 9 u! Ram - AN
81 Of ss,oesa1d SHIPS Ia0 9eelk6 u7 cabha6es %

The greaser Is a full-bloOded Msxi-
can with the mild and humane in
stincts Of the masculine hyena- Mex
leo was at one time owned by the king
dom of Spain, and when she retired for
repairs all she left was an empty treas
ury and collection Of intrepid and
thoroughly alcoholized greasers. who
are still doing business at the old stand.
The greaser Is highly patriotic and Ii
not afraid Of any American on earth
when he finds him unarmed. Some Of
the most daring deeds in Mexican his
tory have been performed by greasers
who surrounded American citizens
when they were sound asleep and cap
tured them in their pajamas. The aver
age greaser prefers to fight from be-
hind stone barn, inspired by the spirit
Of patriotism and all Of the other spir-
its he can get access to- When a
greaser Is fortified by liquor and the
love OF native land. he Is very un-
back Is turned.
The greaser army Is recruited from
able-bodied citizens who have never
been able to inure themselves to man
ual labor. There are millions Of Mex
lean poems who do not want anything
but peace and one meal day. but the
army is made up of descendants of the
aboriginal Aztec who would rather die
on the field of battle, behind some corn
crib, than cultivate the humble Mexican
bean. This is written at q time when
it looks as If this pious wish would be
gratified with interest at the rate Of 2
per cent month.
The greaser would be easier to
get along with II he were less ignor-
ant in the head. 1t is hard to do bus
mess with race of people who never
went to school long enough to learn
that crossing the Rio Grande with a
machine gun is one Of the most prompt
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
Topics of the Times

The Fort Dodge Methodist confer
ence sent its resolutions committee
back when it brought in a nom com
initial report on the governorsnip with
orders to commit something and
adopted unanimously the amended re-
port repudiating Harding's candidacy.
Evidently the Methodist spinal column
mas something more than cartilage il
1t from bishop down to mission min
lister. And the bold assertion that these
Methodist ministers are liars and false
leaders will not assist the Harding
oVte
Mr.. Greeley at Ames has donated
lots and cash toward a hospital that
shall bear his wife's name. What finer
memorial could a man conceive and
why do not more men of wealth leave
such memorials behind them?
Sauer kraut, the food experts say is
to go up. Spare ribs have already
risen in price and fallen away in flesh
Whatre you goin' to substitute for
spare ribs and sauer kraut?
There was never an army without an
Irishman in it; and there was never a
winning baseball team without several
Irishmen on it.
So strong is the conclusion that
Hughes cant lose that 5000 applica-
tons for jobs and postoffices have al
ready been filed by hopeful aspirants.
If Houston papers reflect the senti-
ment of Texas that state is still dem
ocratic but willing to take a day off
while republican lug the state over to
Hughes. Texas expects to see Wilso.,
beaten and the expectation is not al
together displeasing. Well, all Texas
need do is to wait
Meredith says the Endorsements %
Harding. by the senator are virtual
apologies. Whatever may be said about
Meredith he can tell hawk from a
handsaw all right. .a
wilson is TO be nOtlned OF his NOM
ination Sept 2. Good deal like an
nouncing a birth just before the flu
neral, isn't it?
But no business house hires a man
except on his record, no bank employs
a clerk OF a cashier whose record is
opposed to its policies and the safety OF
it's depositors, no employer cares. &c
balance bed record with the promises
of the men who wants the job. Then
why shouldn't a candidate be rejected
or approved by the record?
Either the vets have been played
for suckers or an attempt is being
made to play the medium drys the
same way. Now which is it?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24

and women alike. The bars drop In q
big crowd and especially at big ball
game. So even the women initiated
the roaring Of that domestic animal
| that maiden ladies call a creature"
when Bull Durham came to bat,
everybody chanted together "he can't
get 'em over" when Muscatlne's pitcher
went up in the air and threw gleeful
but not less cruel contumely upon the
dazed "moundsman" A pitcher who
weakens has no more friends at a
| baseball game than the fighter who
| fails in the ring. Somehow human ma
| ture Graves a knockout finish. The
| fierce Roman maids and matrons who
| answered the plea from the arena with
| down turned thumbs We're simply the
great grandmothers seventy times re-
| moved of their gentle descendants who
roast the pitcher and joy to see him
| knocked out Of the box. A game s
game 1t must have winner. The
| crowd loves a winner and forgets a
loser Remember that. young man,
when you strip for baseball or for the
gladitorial games Of life. Don't look for
sympathy for a loser while the blood
is up. Nobody will stop to weep for
him until after the winner has palled
on them; and then most of them will
be looking for another winner. No
body draws from the discard until all
the live cards have been dealt. That's
the game and the spirit of contest and
the way Of the crowd. The hook" is
different now from that with which the
losers in the Roman games were
dragged away but it's the same hook
after all and the spolarium is Just
back of the arena now as it was when
the Caesars sat in purple to watch a
bloodier play. And a crowds a crowd
whether in Roman togas or American
palm beaches, in steel helmets or
straw hats.
There isn't anything more worth
watching and studying than a big
baseball crowd. All that human nature
ever developed or was born with dis
plays itself there And don't forget
that the foibles and follies and strength
and weakness and good nature and
srouchiness and all the emotions that
mirror themselves on the faces of the
crowd are a reflection from your own
face and your emotions
big holiday crowd is humanity
with the mask off 1t is just folks.
And the biggest and best and finest OF
all things in the world is-folks
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willing to lay on sdetracks, then run

willing to lay on sidetrachs, then run
their trains in when they get q chance.
There has never been any dispute
about their loyalty or has their eff
cheney been questioned. After all has
been said and DONE the present dis
pute is in regard to the pay Of the
men. The railroads say they can not
afford to pay the overtime price which
is asked. Somebody must determine
what must be done. In fact, what can
be done. President Wilson has at
tempted to secure the consent of the
railroad managers to the eight-hour
day proposition, and 1t has been sew
eral times reported that he had sue
ceeded. If the managers consent to
the eight-hour day, the next move of
the employees will be for the price and
one-half for overtime. This will be
the sticking point The overtime will
mean big increase in wages. If the
dispute proceeds, the final decision
ought to be by the interstate COM
merce commission. That commission
fixes the incomes Of the railroads and
should have authority to fix the outgo.
One thing is certain. the country will
have no patience with strike.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
THE EIC,HT-HOUR DAY.
[Des Moin es Capital


Any Industrious man can do a good
days work in eight hours. If the day
is split up into shifts OF eight hours,
more men will secure employment. The
work will be divided up. In some pur-
suits it is imposs ible to enforce the
eight hour day 1t would not be pos
sible to enforce it on ships at sea It
would make too many employees on
board 1t will be many years before
an eighthour day prevails on the
farm. The cropping season is short.
and the work must be done in a brief
time. If there has been a long siege
Of wet weather, preventing blowing,
and then the rain ceases, it would not
be wise to go to work on the eight
hour plan. There might be another
rain. The reader can readily call to
mind the employments in which the
eight hour day would be neither wise
nor satisfactory.
1t would be difficult to enforce the
eight hour day in the railroad work,
especially in the running Of trains.
Very few trains originate and COM
plete run in eight hours. II train
is on side track and must wait for
cSioi IL diIiS, l1lllc 10 passing anu Lie
eight hours would soon expire We
presume that the railway employees do
not expect to shorten their hours but
they do expect to increase their wagee.
If man works eight hours at so cents
per hour, and works four more hours
overtime, for the overtime he will re-
ceive rs cents per hour. II a man
works twelve hours at so cents per
hour, he will receive Sc. II he works
eight hours at 50 cents an hour and
four hours at rs cents per hour he
would Receive 81. The question then
to be determined in ending the dispute
is whether or not d man should have
81 for twelve hours work The rail-
way employees are loyal and they are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
SQUANDERLNG OF ROAD FUNDS.
(DeS MoineS CAPITAL

The road problem in Iowa is one OF
common honesty. 1t involves the hon.
est expenditure Of money raised by
taxes. Millions of Iowa money have
been squandered in the past ten years.
The state highway commission has not
been to blame. The responsibility
rests upon the shoulders Of the local
officers. For sixty years, the road
funds in Iowa were expended ineffi-
GENTLY, carelessly and in some cases
with dishonesty. For many years the
local officers were not expected to
make reports. Township clerks were
the treasurers for the road fund Of the
township. Township clerks carried
over from season to season from 500
to $500. Each township clerk de-
posted money, as a rule to his own
credit He felt that he had right to
do this. because he had given bonds
for the security Of the money. The
money was not expended on the roads
as it should have been. 1t used to be
the rule for sons-in-law. brothersin i
law and general favorites of the town
ship trustees TO be employed in road
work. They rendered bills which were
promptly paid by another relative and
thus the public money was squandered.
Local officials in Iowa have squandered
enough Of road funds in the past
twelve years to biild brick roa dway
thirty feet wide on the pathway of the
Lincoln Highway from Clinton to
Council Bluffs The local squanderers
Of local road funds are banded togeth-
er with contractors and others to de-
feat any purpose of reform in regard
to road expenditures. They focus the
eye Of the taxpayer onto the aggre-
gate of taxes instead of the expendi-
ture. Thus they ma AXE their own NAL
feasance an, argument for their con-
tinued malfeasance. The automobile
owners Of Iowa are paying enough tax
to do ail>the road work that is now in
progress, If the money were wisely
and properly applied.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
SILVER DOLLARS.
Waterloo Courier,l

You go to the grocer to buy a TO-
cent loaf of bread and you hand him a
$40 bill the smallest you have. He
goes to his cash register and counts
out to you 80 cents in change and nine
silver dollars. Altho you can barely
stagger out under the weight of the
silver, combined with that of your
purchase, it is not often that you pro-
test, and if you do it is of no avail as
it is very likely that the grocer has no
paper money to give you.
Why are there so many silver dol
lars in circulation? They are burden
and a nuisance. Few of them circu-
late in the larger cities. There you
almost invariably. receive your change
in dollar bills. The explanation is
probably this: The big city banks
know that their customers do not like
to lug silver dollars. Therefore they
ship them out to the small city and
town banks by the wholesale and re-
tain the dollar bills for circulation in
the city. But why could not the gov
eminent print enough of the smaller
denominations of currency to go
around and thereby do away with the
nuisance of the silver dollar? The
right place for it is the treasury vaults
and the national banks. Why is a
silver dollar, anyway? The gold dollar
is our standard of monetary value,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome.

SPECIAL coMMUNicATloN-Mar
shall Lodge No. 10S, A. F. & A NJ
Work in second degree Friday, Aug. 20
1880 .. m John w. Wells, Secretary
B. O. F'razey, w. M.
3iGNET CHAPTER No. IS. r. A. M.
Stated convocation Monday evening
Aug. 81, Regular business. Carl
Schaffner, II. p: John w. Wells. Sec
rotary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ. Mon
day, Aug 81; regular business. l. T.
Forbes, Recorder. George Gregory. l. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80, K T., Tuesday
Aug. %, p. m: regular business.
r. Forbes, Recorder: H. c. Mueller,
Commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. 0. E.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, sept
13 s D. M Business. Eliza =. BAT
tin, secretary; Cora M, McDoweli'
w. NJ.
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IU5x "a cat ba6es-DM l8

soap. the only effective remedy is to
introduce both with as little argument
as possible.
The greaser will some day be a
useful and respected citizen, living
on per cent money, but at pres
ent he is worse pest than the side
stepping mosquito. 1t is generally
believed that eventually your Uncle
Samuel will have to put on rubber
gloves and teach him the use Of the
first reader and the scrub brush.
A good start could he made with
some Of Mexico's statesmen, who
shave oftener than the greaser does
but in other respects would pass for
his twin brother
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
left in men; vicious driving and brutal
killing on the parts Of automobiles;
and motorcycles should stop. ii
MAsHING rHE WASHER

lMuScatlne Journal
The giddy ardor of Muscatine'!
masculine street strollers is in need OF
disbursement. OF late several Incl.
dents have been reported which en-
phasize the necessity Of MASKING the
masher. Perhaps a few arrests might
have the desired effect. Because those
who object to the unwelcome atten-
tionS of these pests are reluctant to
gain police court publicity, however, it
its doubtful If a campaign against
them which must be dependent upon
the action of those suffering the dis
respect would be effective.
The masher knows this and feels
secure in his advances. If the woman
upon whom he seeks to bestow his re-
pulsive presence should occasionally
obey a first impulse it might convert
the youthful gallant. Women of re-
f1nement, however, are loath to make
a scene and no one knows this better
than those who persist in their
cowardly advances. Women are de-
fenseless to protest against the prac-
tice but they might be defended by the
men who look on. Too often the
affront is taken lightly by those who
witness the unpleasantness to which
women are subjected. Heroic methods
If resorted to by onlookers occasion
ally might have the desired effect.
Every young woman who walks
along the downtown streets during the
evening is not seeking a date. Often
1t is necessary for girl to proceed
thru town without escort and she has
x,xslI IL
from the offensive attentions
of those main street loungers who be-
cause Of their lack of intelligence can
not be brought to realization that
their attentions are as repulsive to
decent folks as their intentions are
base
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
WHAT MAKES YOU HAPPIEST?
Huntington GaZette1

Suppose it were given you to live
perpetually in world of light. Of
winding rivers, cleaning forever in a
fadeless sun, of pleasant trees. flowers
and. when you would. of cities filled
with stately buildings and laced with
cool. shady drives.
Suppose this We're given You. but at
the same time you were denied all
human relationships, the little everyday
give nd take, friendship, love.
Greatly we prize the beauties of the
material world. We master it so that
it will be ever more, and more beau
tiful in its appearance and in it's cor
relation to our use. And yet is it not
true that this world of external beauty
is only secondary? Do we not set
first and chiefest store upon the hui
man relationships Of life? ,.
Let this be the answer:
In San Francisco the other day a
woman who had been blind for sixty
two years was operated on by skllfui
surgeons. Her sight was restored.
Before the bandages were taken off
she was asked what she wanted to
see first.
Much of the literature dealing with
the experience Of blindness might lead
us to believe that this, woman would
long first to view the beauty Of earth
and sky, Of sunsets. cleaning noun
ta!ns. But such was not the womans
wish. Asked what sheSwanted to see,
the woman answered:
1t is my son, my great big boy.
Even now ] am sure l know how he
looks, but, oh. how I have longed real
ly to see hint"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
Could He?

He was a perfect wonder, was the
parliamentary candidate for a certain
agricultural district And he was
never shy of telling the voters why
they should return him as their NJ. p.
a am a practical farmer" said he
hoastfully at one meeting. II can
plow. reap. milk cows. work a chat
cutter, shoe horse--in fact" ne went
on proudly, II should like you to tell
me one thing about a farm which
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24

ill soon be past and gone; we'll look outdoors some
luscious morning and see film of frost adjoining
the orchard and the lawn Septembers coming,
bless her gizzard, and later on come snow and
blizzard, down from the arctic pole; and you and
l, oh gentle neighbor, will have to buckle down
and labor, to raise the price of coal. Let winter
come, with roar and rumble! 1t seems to me I'll
never grumble again at wintry blast; it seems to
me I'll hail with gladness Old Boreas, whose
maudlin madness has bored me in the past. The
cold will be a welcome conner, for have had my
fill of summer, and dust and heat and flies, of tor
rid nights and scorchng breezes, and prickly heat
and punk diseases, and ants and brazen skies
September's coming, gentle reader, the heat, that
eader, will soon be on the wing let all sad and
haor m and fill tho air with chortles and smile
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
Iona Newspapers
TOO NEAR.

waterloo Times Tribune.]
The barber says he can't see any
thing in near beer that there's entire
ly too much near to it..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
PRESIDENTIAL POINTERS

There has been only one i'm
parchment Of president. that
of Andrew Johnson, who was I'M
peached in 1868 for usurpation
iof the law, corrupt use Of the
veto power, interference at cleo
lions and high crimes and mis-
demeanors. His trial lasted
from March 80 to May rs and
he was acquitted by . vote
OF 35 to ia two-thirds vote
being necessary. A change of
one vote would have resulted in
his conviction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24


Gazette.
rs it mere coincidence, or is there
some intimate relation between manu-
featuring in Iowa and the price Of Iowa
land7" inquiries the Burlington Hawk
eye. 1.-The latter has doubled within
the past ten years. The value Of the
products Of the Iowa factories has also
doubled during the same period"
AFTER the newspapers who are try
ing to make capital for Harding by
claiming Meredith is drinking man,
get well along, maybe there'l be some
thing said about Harding's capacity
threatens the Waterloo Times Tribune
The Winterset Reporter judges by
conditions in its own community that
from so to 80 per cent of the bull moose
vote Of four years ago will be cast for
the republican ticket this year. THAT
is not an over estimate for the entire
country" agrees the burlington Hawk
eye. In Iowa fully 30 to IS per cent
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can not do"
Then, in the impressive silence, q
small voice asked from the back Of
the crowd:
Can you lay an egg?"-Answers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24

Signor Marconi, the wireless wiz
ard" has but one eye, having lost the
other In a motor accident some years
ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24

Harding will poll bigger yate in
November than the, people think" says
the Newton News. There are good
many men who are wet enough to want
saloons back in Iowa and they will vote
for him even If they would not openly
admit that they want him to have the.
place."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24

But the truth about Brownsville and
every other militia concentration camp
along the border is that it is one of the
biggest political farces perpetrated in
the United States in years." insists the
Ames Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

LAS skirts grow longer. mems glances
grow shorter" notes the Burlington
Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-24
Good Rule to Follow.

II we are ever In doubt what to do,
Il is good rule to ask ourselves what
We shall wish on the morrow that we
had dome.