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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
PAY UP..C0lLECI.

| A PAY Up" week is fast becoming
popular as a community enterprise
| Commercial clubs organize the mer-
| chants in a concerted campaign of ad-
yertising to induce delinquent custom
ers to come across with their coin. 1t
usually joys few and reminds the
| thoughtless of the tax he is putting
uDon business by his negligence TO pay
| his just bills.
However. a week devoted to paying
UP will never solve the problem of the
credit system. The creditor himself
must institute a pay up week every
Monday morning and keep it up until
Saturday night. Many business
which could have succeeded has been
wrecked by poor collecting. Merchants
more or less timid have allowed GUS
toners to get behind because of fear
of losing business while competitors
have succeeded and gained trade be-
cause they were vigorous collectors.
Successful business men know that
aggressive collecting often puts Gus
TONER in position to buy more goods
when he has been kept away from
the store because of his fear of having
to meet the obligation already on the
books. Many a manager of statesmen
discovers big bill unpaid on the
books standing between his salesman
and more orders and a vigorous col
lector is sent out to prepare the way
for more business from that customer.
1t is a rule in successful business that
pay up week must last the whole year
around.
Care in extending credit is the first
requisite hut Immediately follows the
necessity for prompt collection. News
papers often collect subscriptions once
each week in order to make it possible
for poor people to take a daily news
paper who could not afford to meet
bill as large as a months subscriptioo
charge. Lots. when sold to people Of
small means, are sold on the weekly
could not buy for cash all in one pay
ment Getting the money quickly be-
fore the bill becomes large is the Sc
cret of good collecting and pay up
weeks at intervals of year or more
can never accomplish this result. They
are good for the time just as boiling
out at the Springs" is good for the
health in business requires daily care
in the collection Of small accounts
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

the nrst time the paths Of these men
have CROSSED. Brandeis was Claws at
torney in the celebrated Bsllinger mix
UP which helped to end Mr.. Tafts
prospects for reelection to the prest-
dency.
1t IL to be hoped that the different
candidates for office in Iowa do not
evolve too many schemes for immedi :
ate building and betterment: the situ-
alton is perplexing enough as it Is.
Baltimore has concluded to invite
Billy" Sunday since the terrible con-
ditions of immortality have been ex-
posed. One thing Is certain, BILLY"
can't do Baltimore anything but good.
The colonel isn't saying anything
definite but there's strong suspicion
that he agrees with those who con-
slider him the strongest candidate the
Chicago convention could nominate.
However there must be something In
his mind as to the availability OF Cum
Minis or else his close friend, Frank
Kellogg in Minneapolis, would not be
shouting for Cummins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
For Sunday Reading
al Sorts of Ooinisns
Some Kinds Of Cant.

GExcerpts from sermon Christian
ity's Greatest Foe by DR.. James l..
Gordon, who is to deliver series Of
addresses on Marshalltown.
There Is such a thing as philosophy
cal cant. Certain people are SO con-
stituted that they can sit with well
satisfied appetite, before a bright open
fire, In their own house, on cold day
and grow eloquent-talking about
the blessings of poverty" always
begin to doubt the quality Of a mans
religion when the room occupied by his
cook. coachman, domestic, or servant.
10 the one room in the house which Is
the coolest in the winter and the hot
test in the summer. Query! II you do
can see, how can you care for his soul
which you can not see?
There Is such thing as social can't.
Queen Victoria, the moment she be-
comes the sovereign, exclaims: On
what 9 difference II makes? Last year
]. was only chance, possibility, 9
may be. a perhaps; but this year re-
side in Buckingham palace, and every
body is so kind to me-Oh, what a diff
ference 1t makes!" Yes. ii makes diff
ference! At q Sunday morning SER
vice, in New York Fifth avenue
church, several weeks after q number
Of young and recently married couples
had united with the church, the pastor
requested the church members to call
on these last arrivals in the realm
eccIesiasticaI IN doing 30 ne usss s :
following suggestive phraseOlOgy:
ask this as q recognition OF your rela-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE.

| Roosevelts talk sounds extreme just
now but let 1t be rem embered that
Dewey's triumph at Manila was due
very largely to the preparedness of
Theodore Roosevelt, assistant in the
| navy department. Marshalltown
Times epublican.
Mr. Roosevelt is entitled to credit
for whatever he has done, but The
journal would like to ask the esteemed
mes-Republican for a bill of particu-
lars as to what he did toward the
preparedness of the United States
navy prior to the outbreak of the
Spanish American war.
AS we understand the matter this
country was utterly unprepared for
war at that time. Whatever of prepar-
alton was made, was done in very
few months preceding that conflict
and at that-as we recall it-President
Mckinley was obliged to hold off the
jingoes in order to give little more
time for such additional preparations
as was possible to make The truth of
the matter is that if Admiral Dewey
had been obliged. on that fine May
morning, to have met the fleet of any
first class power the story written that
evening would have been far different
Theodore Roosevelt, as the Mar
snalltoWn paper says. was an assistant
in the navy department at that time,
and. acting under orders from his SUI
perior, may have had something to do,
in small way. with what little was
possible to get done in the way of
preparation. But it was not of his own
initiative and the credit is due to the
sainted Mckinley and his cabinet.
Give Roosevelt whatever of credit is
due him, but the less said of real pre-
paredness in 1898, the better.
There was no such thing-as we
understand the term in these days
Webster City Journal.
Brush up on modern history As as
sistant secretary of the navy, Roose-
welt was given credit for the coura ge
and initiative to go over the head of
his dilatory superior and order coal put
where it was needed by Admiral
DeWey's fleet. When the war broke
and the fight began Dewey found
Roosevelt's coal where it ought to be
but had it not been for Roosevelt
courage TO act and apologize after
wards the fleet could not have at
tackled when it did
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
PREPARE THE MILITIA

President Wilson admits that this
men when the crisis of war actually
arrives and yet he proceeds TO advo-
cate a national militia Of 100000 sub
ject to national control. When he ar
rives at Des Moires he win be escort
ed by the state militia Of Iowa and in
the course of his remarks he will adj
! nit that we must do something to in
duce a better class of men to enter
military service than are now found
in the regular army. He will plead for
national militia but in fact his argu-
ment will sustain the state militia.
Crises of war are going to be few
and far between in this country albeit
we must be prepared for what comes
but men of the type which must win
their lives to idleness in a standing
army when the day of test comes but
once in fifty years. The great generals
of our next war need to be educated
in the science of war but they will
have to be recruited from the walks OF
peace when the call to arms Is sounded.
To increase our standing army to
100000 men now is merely an incl
dental reform, for 20O 900 is no moro
OF an army for 100,00O,000 of people
than 10000 was thirty wears ago. They
= it,,fo M ~f
nation only.
When 1t comes to the great reserve
which this nation needs we should re-
organize the militia of the states and
coordinate it one state with another.
We should multiply it many fold and
provide for regular mobilization in
large groups. For this militia we
should educate officers at military
schools conducted by the national gov
eminent and those schools should pre-
pare officers who are to teach military
leges of the land. 1t is possible with
out excessive military forces being
kept in idleness to prepare a greae
citizen reserve in this country which
shall have been trained and which can
be differed upon call but which will
never take a citizen soldier from his
peaceful occupation until his country
needs his protection. AS one genera
ton Of men passes away another
should be prepared to take its place.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
Topics of the Times

Great Britain reports half a milliop
Germany's losses have amounted to
$500. 900. Evidently the Johnnies are
going to live to fight another day.
Organized labor in England objects
seriously to the governments policy of
conscription for national defense be-
cause the members of a labor union
know what it means to be forced to
join any organization.
Cedar Rapids would blow 100000
on a coliseum. It would be far more
profitable to put the money into new
Y. NJ. C.. A. and enlarge the gymnas-
mum so as to be used for conventions.
One auto show in a year and one or
two state conventions would hardly
justify a coliseum of the Des Moines
size.
With Ave companies OF national
guard escorting him at Des Moines Ter
us hope that the president will feel en-
tirely safe from sudden assault by
cOSSdckS OF JULIET Gig II uOIoe6 Va III
vasion.
Mr. Marsh continues to protest that
he will not be candidate for COVER
nor. But recollection rises up and
points a warning finger at the one term
proposition at Baltimore.
go
The Greater Iowa Association will
plead with the next legislature for q
refund OF 1920 to contributors to the
exposition fund. Whatever else may
be said Of the G. I. A. its persistency
and perseverance are not to be ques-
toned.
That's an awful proposition made
by the Council Bluffs chief Of police
to search every suspicious parsonage
for booze at this end of the bridge be-
tween that city and Omaha What on
earth would an Iowan go to Omaha for
except booze?
Louis D. Brandeis il the new SUI
] premA court associate Justice TO sue
coed Judge Lamar. There were hopes
in some quarters OF Judge Taft az the
| appointee which recalls that this ID not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

the gun Of all things that slaughter ana
slay: SO tell me yarn who shucks eighty
bushels a day lists Of the butchered. durnal there's
nothing see enchants: I'm tired OF the major and
colonel with blood their bibs and their pants; I'm
tired spy and the spoiler Of dead ones that Hitter
the O. tell tale of the toiler who's whack-
nr mn wood BY the cord I'm tired Of the boys In the
trenches with shoes Of water and loan: TAR better
the pumbers whose wrenches fixing the pipes in my
home I've read Of the movements OF iegions I've fead
az advance and retreat OF and ruin In Iegions
where grew the and the wheat; and now am
weary reading these stories OF carnage and gore OF
wounded and bleeding Of hosts who win wake
never more: tell tale OF the granger who cur
mules In the who digs up the Gee nom
Q puv .1a5uBuu sq2hucks eighty bushels OF corn III
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
HATS OFF TO THE JEWS!
TSioux City Journal.

The Jews Of Sioux City did them
selves and their race a great credit in
responding so generously to the call
for contributions for the relief Of Jew
ish sufferers from the war in Russia.
Incidentally in making up in almost the
twinkling of an eye fund which will
be equaled by few, if any, cities Of
similar size, they did something which
will rebound forever to the credit of
Sioux City.
Where Is the man that does not take
off his hat to the Jew for his solicitude
for his own? The Jew sets an example
Of racial loyalty and genuine frater-
nalism that is worthy Of general con-
templation-and emulation. Perhaps
no class of people manages it's chart
ties with such perfect system and to
such excellent purpose. The Jews do
not stop at mere local organization.
Their societies for relief in the vari-
GUS cities keep in touch : with each
other and work in cooperation and
thus secure substantial results. In con-
sequence there is little real poverty
among the Jews in America. Nor do
the Jews confine their philanthropy to
their own people. Successful MEM
DcIS Va th0 IdSS h1c &iotCo LA thS"
generous contributions to all charitable
projects and organizations.
The Jew has the reputation of be-
ing a successful business man. What
progress he has made in the United
States in a commercial way in a scorn-
paratively few years Is patty put by
the lecturer on one Of the many sight
seeing automobiles In New York some
IT,,
mopolitan city. The Dutch founded it:
the Americans live in it: the Irish run
1t, and the Jews own it." Yet the Jew
never is SO busy scaling the COM
mercial heights that he can not hear
the call Of his own. whether 1t comes
from near at hand or from far-off Rus
STA. He never is so bent on accumu-
lating wealth for himself that he is not
ready to divide his portion with his
less fortunate brothers.
Hath not Jew eyes? Hath not
Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses.
affections, passions?' Yea. verify. Shy
lock, the much misunderstood and
much misrepresentation heart!
To many Jews in America the cry
of distress from Russia has special
appeal. Thousands upon thousands OF
them by personal experience know Of
the misery which is suffered by the
Jew in Russia in times of peace, and
they can imagine something OF the
woe that is his part in this dread time
Of war. No doubt many Of them pic
ture themselves in the same plight in
which their brethren now find them
selves, had not fate been the kinder
to them and led them to a land where
mans a man and freedom is the
common lot and opportunity is open to
all without exception. What the Jew
has made Of himself in America is
proof sufficient Of what he could
make OF himself in any land where he
Is given a square deal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

The hotel is retail establishment
which furnishes sleep and indigestion
at 81 per day. II man doesn't care
for the indigestion, he can take crack
ers and milk at the dairy lunch with
out affecting the size Of his hotel bill
in the slightest.
Hotels are conducted on two plans
American and European. The Amer
lean plan Is one under which the guest
pays for room with bath and has
several Unconditional meals thrown in
free. This plan is preferred by fru-
gal guests who are able to sleep ten
hours every night and never get fully
awake until they are at the breakfast
table. when they brighten up with
amazing rapidity and consume more
wheat cakes than a grist mill. The
alarming frequency Of this occurrence
has caused many hotel keepers to abol-
ish the dining room and sell nothing
but insomnia and liquid soap.
The European plan is an ingenious
and successful part on the part OK the
landlord to make the grill room pay
the entire expenses Of the hotel in
GLIDING the water and towels. This
is accomplished by the la carte
method Of producing heart failure, as
it is a penitentiary offense in most
states in the union to list anything
on grill room menu smaller than a
So bill. This accounts for the increas-
ing popularity Of the humble but fly
specked restaurant where a table
d'hote dinner with a grand, cream pie
clima;. can be obtained for the price OF
a napkin and glass OF water at the
grill room.
The best hotels are run on business
basis, and are content to make com
plete turnover once week. It is Tar
cheaper to live at first-class New
York hotel for few days than 1t is
to buy lot and build a bungalow In
the same neighborhood. Every once
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
Masonic Meetings.
spEcIAl COMMUNICATION


Marshall Lodge No. los A. +. and A. ~
Work in third degree Friday FEB. T.
1880 D. m. John w. Wells, secretary
B. o. Frazey, w. NJ.
SIGNET CHAPTER. No. SO. r. A. NJ
Special convocation Monday evening"
Ian. 81. for work in Mark Masters de-
gree. Carl Shaffner, II. p; John W.
Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. r. & S. NJ. Monday'
Feb. 81, regular business. l. I. Foroes'
recorder: George Gregory, I. NJ
STATED coNcLAvE. st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K T., Tuesday.
Feb. %, 1880 o'clock. Regular ous1-
ness. l. T. Forbes. Rec: H. {. Muelier'
E c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. S., "Wednesday. req.
1s. 1880 .. m. Business. Eliza ;. BAT
tin, secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell
w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

tionship to the church; it does not in
the least involve social recognition.
How delicious! II 1t does not involve
social recognition, what in the name
OF heaven does 1t involve? In Min
nesota railroad town, the wives OF en-
gineers will not associate with the
wives Of brakemen and the wives Of
the brakemen will not associate with
the wives of the hremen: and tho
preacher. poor saint, he Is compelled
to call on all of them. Did you ever
hear of such nonsense? That's what
! call social cant when I find 1t in
So called christian circles-and ind
it.
There is such a thing as emotional
cant. Perhaps tie most prevalent form
of cant is the emotional type. In the
hour of some great enthusiasm men
and women pass from the practical to
the sentimental and imagine that they
are what they feel they would like to
be. Rabbi Hirsch remarks that 9s9
out Of every 1000 Jews, who pray reg
ularly, that they may be permitted to
20 back to Jerusalem, would be almost
stricken with apoplexy should their
Messiah suddenly appear and offer TO
lead them back to their ancient in
heritance. A British subject stood In
a great patriotic gathering and sang,
Justify. the words:
God save our gracious King,
Long live our noble King,
God save the Kingi
Send him victorious,
Happy and glorious,
Long to reign over us,
God save the King!
He was usibly moved. Emotion
swept his frame. Hot tears suffused
his eyes. He almost lost control OF his
voice. Here was patriot indeed! As
he passed out Of the vast assemblagE
he exclaimed: Il feel as tho / could
die for my country-for the hag-for
the EMPEROR the king-the king,
God bless him, the king!" Inside OF
three months he was landed In jail for
defrauding the government. When Q
mans only contribution to the church
is to be found in the open onertng on
the collection plate and when on the
approach of said collection plate he In
variably selects the smallest coin IN
his pocket and drops 1t steadily on the
passing receptacle, and. when. after the
offering has been received, this beloved
brother rises and sings:
..Were the whole realm Of nature mine
That were a present far too small,
Love 30 Amazing, 30 divine,
Demands my life, my soul my all
that's can't
There ;is such . thing as commercial
cant. Perhaps this 10 the most danger
GUS form OF cant, extant, today. 1t was
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
Iona Newspapers
WIDOWS PENSIONS IN STORY.
[Story City Herald

A neat sum is being paid out each
month by Story county in widows
pensions. At the present writing there
are over twenty Ave widows on the list
who receive 81 apiece pension per
week for each child under "A years OF
age. Some few years ago there were
ten children in one family but these
have been dropping of the list at the
rate of one per year. The law provides
that when the husband is sent to the
inebriate hospital or the peEitentiary,
the wife then becomes a widow under
the pension provisions. Story county
has se-eral such widows. FL.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Every one loves a boy and wishes
him well. A boy only has to smile and
he is given a glad smile in return. But
the boy is a problem very largely be-
cause the parents are not equal to the
parental task" says the Des Moines
Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

after which he will retire in an unob-
trusive manner and write home that
Jesse James Is still doing business at
the old stand.
Hotels are frequented mostly by
travelling men, who are always given
the best rooms, the most white meat
and the highest rates. II It were moi
for the travelling man there would be
no hotels or railway guides disguised
as hotel clerks. Furthermore, IL every
town had q good hotel fewer travelling
men would Jump over four countries
every Saturday night in order to reach
@ shower bath.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

good fortune Of Warden Sanders at the
state penitentiary.
He 10 Z disciplinarian, and his crit
ics declare that It has been has un-
Willingness to apply the honor system
to tho institution which explains his
unpoDularity among the prisoners.
The Anamosa mutiny has attracted
wide attention and the state board OF
control can not afford to ignore the
conditions which made for the untoward
display OF dissatisfaction.
A process which plants enmity and
hate In the hearts of the wards Of the
state - not reformative to say the
least.
THE NEWSPAPER AND THE JURY.
[Grundy Republican,
The Republican acknowledges let
ter from law Arm asking US to kind
ly refrain from mentioning certain
cases pending in the Grundy courts
because we are likely to influence the
jury and prevent justice being done,
or words to that effect.
When We stop and reflect how court
procedure is done. and how lawyer,
skilled and trained in cross examining
and probably drawing $50 day, is
brought into case for the express
purpose of asking confusing questions.
and when We see this lawyer take a
witness who probably never was on the
witness stand before and who probably
has not even a common school educa-
ton. and ask him such adroit questions
that even the opposing attorneys and
the judge himself must have the re-
porter read the question over before 1t
can be decided whether the question is
q proper one to answer-we say when
we see all of this transpire, as 1t has
actually happened in Grundy county
within a few months, then we are
moved to say that all the articles q
might print, SO long as they
are confined to the petitions and what
they set forth, won't influence a jury
in any way OF have any influence upon
justice. Justice, as between legal
shark and a witness not even skilled
in ordinary every day English, is a
quantity.
The Republican will continue to
print court news.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

"Of course the Scranton Journal fav-
ors Joe Mates, of Odebolt, for lieuter-
ant governor, for that gentleman is
one of the greatest opponents of wo-
man suffrage in the state says the
Glidden Graphic. IN spite Of all the
splendid qualifications and personal
characteristics that the former sena-
tor from this district possesses. his po-
sition on the suffrage question would
put him out Of the running as far as
the majority of the voters are con-
cerned."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

The Sioux City Journal says: The
republicans seem to be having pretty
nearly as hard time finding a job
for Fred Larrabee as the democrats
had in taking care of Maurice Con-
molly ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

The wood consumed in this country
in the manufacture OF paper amounts
annually to 100000 cords, and every
year the demand FOR some substitute
grows more urgent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-29

1T appears that the prohibition law
in Iowa is going to be enforced with,
out the aid Of a state constabulary,
says the Webster City Freeman Trib-
une. 1T is we'll. The people do not
like the idea of the state going int
towns to enforce such laws, but they
would stand for it before they would
see the law violated