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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
Just FARm. eUsp!T.on.

When men get together and talk thu
road question over there isn't vita
difference in their main conclusions
everybody wants q good road. The
cost of the road Is the point where
they split that and who shall pay FOL
1t. Nearly everyone Is ready to pay q
share of roadmaking.
| The question Of hard surfaced high
| ways in Iowa is now at the point OF
sharp discussion. The ferment is go
ing on that precedes all changes. II
requires about SO much discussion and
enthusiastic advocacy and opposition tc
| reach a conclusion on any large move
! ment
Most of us are convinced that some
surfacing which will render roads use
ful at all times Of the year is bound
to come soon-upon the principal high
ways.
The surface is merely a question of
ordinary engineering whether it is the
engineering Of the farmer upon his
own farm or that of the trained en-
sineer. The only difference is in its
application to farm and to road work.
Nobody on the farms attempts to
Of an eight by eight When he lays a
stable floor under the horses he uses
three inch plank. Why? Simply be-
cause three inch plank wears twice
as long in that floor as two inch.
When an inch of the plank has been
worn away the plank is turned and
the two inch plank remains to still
do its work. And that same common
sense proposition belongs in road work
and all other work where the desire is
to get the most for the money
Most highways in Iowa are naturally
gravel roads. Gravel will carry the
traffic of most Iowa highways at any
rate under present conditions. But
there are in Iowa short stretches of
highway where traffic congests where
something more permanent will he
needed 1t is the two inch and three
inch plank over again That is all
there is to it. Just plain every day
farm engineering. Home gumption.
Labor is the most expensive COM
modify we put into any of our build
ing activities. The farm implement that
needs the services of the expert often
and requires tinkering and supply parts
at short intervals is not a popular tool
on the farm. Nobody lays the thin
nest shingles on permanent roof and
yet the thin single is just the thing
in places. A stretch of road where ths
immense traffic will cause more ex-
pense Of labor and material for re-
newal of light surfacing than heavy
surface would cost in material and la
Dor will in time give place TO, the
heavier surface. More three inch plank,
more farm sumption
1t is just a question Of thinking 1t
over and coming to a conclusion pre-
cisely as II building a barn or buying a
farm implement 1t is a question of
use and endurance and cost. Given the
same individual consideration and
study that the new barn and the new
implement receive there is no trouble
arriving at conclusion on the road
question.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
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The candidate IS a hopeful citizen
who wishes to hire out to the COM
mon people. This is sometimes
called working for the people, and
at other times working the people.
Owing to the spread OF intelligence
and the prying methods Of the daily
newspaper. which turns its little x
ray on the candidate several times a
week. this kind OF work ls harder to
make living at than formerly.
The candidate Is first Of all q plain
American, and after that he il law
Yer who was born and reared on the
farm, being In complete sympathy
with the agriculturist The candi-
date who can not get up on the plat
form and show pair Of calloused
hands. incurred by milking sixteen
cows night and morning as a strug-
Cling youth. has about as much show
in the political race as a. one-armed
man in ladder climbing contest.
Nine-tenths of all the candidates now
springing up with the bluebird and
the dandelion are lawyers who would
prefer to be something else The
legal profession has furnished more
feather-weight candidates and red
tape legislation than all of the
skilled trades, including floor-walk-
ers.
No man should be candidate for
office in this country unless he knows
the difference between a disc harrow
and corn cutter. He should be
rough and-ready speaker, able to turn
at once from .blistering attack upon
the democratic tariff to fearful trib-
ute to the little bronze button. He
should also belong to three or four
churches, all of the lodges doing busi-
ness In the states. and carry a union
card. The only thing that can defeat a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
PRTCdlY roIKs

Henry Wallace in Wallace's Farmer
Farm lie, especially q quarter Of q
century ago, may have been very hard
Tor them, and they were, In manner
compelled to protect themselves by a
reserve which we call coldness or
loneliness, what we sometimes call
"nernicketv:" from ton, clnaa aasncia-
ton with people who could not under
stand them. The better you get TO
know them. the more you admire them.
Some OF them are among the finest
people in the world folks whose fell
lowship most Of us really need, for ita
refining influence on our eoarser ma
lures. You will become very fond OF
some Of these touchy people when you
get to know tfem real well. q
Other folks are prickiy because their
life experience has been hard one.
Their thorns or prickles are simply
hardened suspicious. They were good
nice, wel'-Inea,,ing folks At the start
but they have been over-reached In
bargaining, short changed and short
weighted, until they are naturally al
| ways on their guard and against every
one. II you propose something that 4
really for their benefit they draw Int
themselves, and in the back 81 thef
heads lies this thought tho perhaps
unspoken: What doer he expect +
get out Of 1t for himself In time they
develop into regular Scotch thislies
4 The thistle, you know, II the emblem
OF Scotland. and the Latin motto. wher
translated is: "Ndxone may touch M
\ with impunity"; in other w0r0es Roucl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

Cummins Or Roosevelt; With the possi.
bility that HUGHES may Be u factor u
the situation" says the Knoxville Jour-
nal. ~ 70 yA+tA-4~t n 4s-y y ~ u. sfl
~ -. ss
How can Il he expected that Con-
gressman Woods. OF the Tenth Iowa
districts Is going to develop into q
statesman with q gang OF fellows con
tinualiy Chasing HIS political goat
around?' inquiries the Council Bluffs
Nonpareil. He. had no sooner got
things quieted down In his own district
than bunch OF congressman in Wash
ington started q move to Gust him
from the chairmanship OF the republl-
can congressional campaign committee.
It is up to Woods now to get off his
JOB as statesman While he gives i'm
mediate attention to his political
fences" 80
1t Is common remark among the
best lawyers in Iowa that no state In
the Union has a man superior to Judge
Evans on its supreme bench. Judge
Evans should, and we believe will be,
renominated and elected by splendid
majority says the Hampton Chronicle.
The Ackley World Cdem.l comes to
the rescue thus: Some of the smaller
calfbered politicians are attempting to
make votes out Of the rural mail route
reorganization. II the q. O. p. has moth
Ing stronger to offer in opposition to
a continuance Of democratic control,
with the possibility OF Teddy Roose-
welt thrown in, they are already
beaten"
Noting that an Iowa City centenar-
ian attributes his long living to the fact
that he sawed wood every day, the Du
buque Times Journal admits that "the
formula may be all right" ard asks
but who wants to live hundred
years II he has 10 saw wood every
day?'
4 What an amount of newspaper space
is occupied by the question whether a
student gave poison to girl. as a
result of which she died. The whole
country seems profoundly interested
in that problem. What else could that
boy and girla have done that would
have attracted tenth Of the INTEREST,"
asks the Cedar Rapids Republican. 1T
is. primarily, a question for the courts,
but we make the while country sit as
the jury. Is it morbidity, or is it in
tensity of interest in justice?"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

only bear his load Of grief and long for death
lief why doesn't that skate arise" Unsypathetio
Neighbor cries, land put his foot good and fiat
and let his wife know where he's at? For every hus.
band safe and sane Well he's boss Of his
But what poor pilgrim do, II he is married to :
shrew? II he rears to speak piece, will
quickly make him cease for she yell three times
loud and has the backing of the crowd. And II he
gathers chair. and with 1t combs the ladys hair
public wrath therer be stormhe fiend In human
form. And II. out he pulls his freight. the
stables will search the state. and drag him to his home
again. where he'll be sentenced to the PEN posi-
tons dire accurst the henpecked husbands the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

garden seeds and postoffices among
his constituents. He should not be
Judged by, his looks, but by his vote.
Some Of the homliest candidates
ever forced into public office have
looked beautiful to their people dur
Ing the roll call on an important meas
ure. 1t is better to pick out a candi-
date with a square head containing q
few honest convictions than trust to
personal beauty coupled up with a
weak chin p
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome.

IN Visitors always welcome.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION Mar
shall Lodge No. 10S A. +. and A. M.
work In first degree Friday. Feb. 20
1880 D. m. John W. Wells. secretary;
B. O. Fraxey. w. M.
SiGNET CHAPTER, No. 50. r. A. M.
Stated convocation Monday evening.
Feb. FL Regular business. Carl Shaft
ner. Fl. p; John w. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solomon
Council No. 20. R. & s. M. Monday
Mar. 20, regular business. I. T. Forbes.
recorder: George Gregory, L n.
STATED CoNcLAVE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K T., Tuesday,
March q. 1880 o'clock. Regular busi-
ness. I. r. Forbes, Rec: 81. c. Mueller
e. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, O. e. s.. Wednesday, March
Is, 1880 p. m. Eliza S. Battin. secre-
tary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell, w. M.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
Hiah s.lfestser,n.

We'll, IL that Watson isn't the most
conceited, selfsatisfied, self
> yes. I've heard, you say something
OF that kind before. What started you
off this timer" q
He Just sent a telegram OF congra4u-
lation to his mother"
'.Well?" ~
"Today's his birthday. Everybody's
Magazine. yg5l sss 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
For Sunday Reading
an Sorts Of Ooinions
un.sarchabI. Riches.

t4tev. II. ID. Jenkins, D. D., in Sioux
City Journal
The unsearchable riches Of Christ
Ephesians III, 8.
The Thoughtful reader OF Saint Paups
epistles is impressed with his two-fold
confidence: a. that there will never
be another not even supplemental
gospel, made known from heaven; and
ca that the meaning Of that gospel as
applied to life will be developed anew.
more profoundly understood, we mean,
In each succeeding age. In this. verse
which expressed both these twin be-
iiefs in single sentence. the apostle
stands like Columbus, when from the
deck of his ship he looked out upon
the rising shores OF new world. Re-
joicing in the beauty, fragrance and
richness that he sees, he re1oices yet
more In the confident belief that be-
hind all he sees lie vaster forests.
ampler fields, richer mines than any
discovered in one sweep OF the eye.
So pioneer builders Of our western
cities have always been deemed In
| sane" by their phlegmatic contempo-
raries because they saw not simply the
things which lay before the eye but
the things which lay beyond the calen-
dar and the horizon. Where one man
could see only bluff and gully and
| a log cabin, another saw the hill laid
low, the valley filled UP and the rude
structure replaced by blocks OF marble,
granite and porphyry. Where one saw
a streak OF dust or lake OF mud called
a country road. another saw, In the
vision OF his soul, concrete city streets
and speeding trolleys. Paul was all
his life after conversion pressing for
ward, as he said, to apprehehd those
realities for which he was apprehended
in Christ, to know more and more OF
that life of God on earth which life In
Its fullness .'passeth knowledge. Liv-
ing as we do IN an electrical age, we
feel that our posterity will 1--we In an
l"electrical world" Of whose beauty.
power and wealth we now but vaguely
dream.
This power OF self government in the
Christian creed has been and still Is
seen IN the matter Of personal char,
acter. ,
Not only do we come upon acts and
emotions in the lives OF old testa-
tment saints which shock US. but we
find at times In the great religious
\ leaders Of the past positive vices
which overwhelm III with ainazement.
Venerable as Ia the name Of Abraham,
.the father OF the faithful" We wish
we could pin down the page upon
which is told the story Of his double
dealing with Pharaoh. Granted that
no man that ever lived has written his
own name upon the page Of history
with q broader marik than the great
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

Seth smigeles says you are another
Daniel Webster"
es. replied Senator Sorghum:
Seth 10 always comparing me with
some body who u dead ~ ashlneton
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

Under the right atmospheric condfs
lions the firing on the west front Of the
European battle line has been heard
40 miles away. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

landslide or valvular heart trouble.
The candidate should be listened
to with respect, for he may have It
in his power later to distribute
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

The only candidate who IL growing
stronger lis Senator. Cummins. AS the
race narrows down II II clearly appar-
ent that the nomination viii go to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

The weight OF the statue Of liberty
in the New York harcor Is 10000
pounds. s =, II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
Iona Newspapers
BOB" KINGS CONCLUSION.
ICedar Rapids Republican.l

Bob King has given it up He
says he will never sell another drink
of booze. I'm thru he says, 1.-The
booze business is gone. Whisky never
did anybody any good. Whisky is q
curse. 1t hurts pretty nearly every
body who drinks it. thought OF go
ing In the liquor business in Mime
apolis. l went up there and then gave
It up Minnesota is going dry. Every
thing is going dry .ag.i- 49,. -
Bob King has been one of the
long time liquor men Of Des Moines
He was n boss IN the business q quar-
ter OF century ago and he went down
with the business But he was a wise
man and he has sense enough to
change when the times change. He
Is going into the billiard and pool and
bowling alley business. with lunch at
taehmentssgood enough f6r women as
Well as men He sets good example
for other men who have been in the
saloon business. There is no use re,
pinins. Make the best of 1t. Don't
go away from Iowa, for as Satan says
In Milton, which ever way l fly is
he'll But with the saloon man which
ever way he flies. from Iowa he will
md prohibition, sooner or later. and
II he does find a place where he can
operate he may find that, too 1t is
nothing but he'll. 80 e
A BLIGHT TllHATssNtis A BLESSING.
tStoux City journal. y
The average man Sfs 80 of a winter
evening would be found ensconced in
an easy chair in front Of CRATE fire
in the slippered pantaloons of which
mention is made in Shakespeare-if
nowadays there happened to BIO such
thing as slippereds pantaloons-but
Henry Wallace was not an average
man OF so. To the end he was an ac-
tive citizen of the world, and practi-
cally all his energies were devoted to
the one general cause Of lettering the
common lot. The story Of his life
might be written in the seven letters
that spell service. It was fitting then
that when the call came II should
come TO him while he was yet pulling
in the harness that was anything but
yoke. ". F- s..s
What appeared to- be q blight that
would cut down Henry Wallace In his
youth turned out to be, a blessing
to others perhaps even more than to
Mr. Wallace-and completely changed
the course OF his life. He had just got
we'll started on ministerial career
when his physician warned him that
he would have to change his vocation
or suffer the fate OF other members of
his family who had been taken by tu-
berculosis. No doubt Mr.. wallace
would have become a preacher Of ex-
ceptional ability, but there are many
such-and few agricultural editors
that are out Of the ordinary The me-
cessity Of leading an outdoor life drove
him from the pulpit to the farm, and
that was the beginning OF Henry Wal
lace, the farm expert. tho not by the
way, the end Of Henry Wallace, the
preacher.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
HENPECKED

There's nothing a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26

why Is a legal holiday" demands
the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-02-26
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Waterloo, Times Tribune, de-
sires to know What has become Of the
old fashioned X. of P. lodge that used
to put on the play Damon and Pyth-
las with local talent"
The American Jewish world., 1916-07-07

politan Opera House, Philadelphia,
Sunday night showed their most en-
thusiastic approval of the Zionist
movement to re-establish the Jews
on their ancestral soil of Palestine
They raised nearly $175,000 for the
work of the coming year. From all
over the United States had come
men and women as delegates to the
nineteenth annual convention of the
Zionist Organization of America,
who, with the Philadelphians identi-
fed with the movement and in SYM
pathy with the work, proved too
many for the capacity Of the big
building, SO that about 1000 persons
were denied admission after more
than 1000 had, made their way in.
It was a day of ovation for ST.
preme Court Justice Louis D. Bran
deis Up to the time he was appoint
ed to the highest tribunal of the land
he was president of the Provisional
Zionist committee, which during the
two years and a half raised $780,
600 for the work. Yesterday he was
elected honorary president of the
committee and Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, of New York, was named to
succeed him as the committee presi-
dent.
Ovations for Brandeis.
Justice Brandeis was cheered
whenever he appeared at any Of the
sessions on the opening day Of the
convention, and when he walked up
on the stage at the night mass-meet-
ing the entire audience arose, and he
was cheered long and loud, while
thousands of persons in the audience
waved the white e-and-blue flags of
the organization. The Justice made
an address at the executive meeting
of the Provisional Committee in the
morning, in which he gave advice on
the future steering of the Zionist
ship.
While there was much enthusiasm
reused by addresses made by Fed
Grafton President DR.. Harry Fried
enwa1d, of Baltimore, Judge Julian
w. Mack, of Chicago, DR.. Schmarya
Levin, of Russia, Dr. Benzion Moss
insohn, director of the Zion High
School at Palestine, Mary Antin DR..
Wise and others, the stirring time
of the night was when the offerings
and pledges for next years work
were pouring in. DR.. Wise, as the
new president of the Provisional
Committee, had charge of this part
of the meeting.
The American Jewish world., 1916-07-07
July 9TH, 1916

day schools. Most of the children
we're dressed in white, and thOus-
ands of the Zionist flags and white
and blue stripes, colors standing for
peace, were carried. Large flags
were spread out and borne along by
numbers of boys.
Many Speakers at Session.
From one of the balconies Of the
Walton the paraders were reviewed
by Justice Brandeis, President Fried
enwald, DR.. Solomon Soils Cohen,
Louis Edward Levy, DIR. Stephen S.
Wise, Judge Julian w. Mack and
other we'll known men who are iden-
titled with the convention proceed
ings.
There were numerous addresses
at the afternoon session, which form
ally opened the convention. After
the chairman of the local convention
committee, DR.. Solomon olis-Cohen
had called the gathering to order and
gave voice to the city's welcome,
greetings were extended by Louis
Edward Levy on behalf of the Phil
adelphia Jewish community. Then
the Federation president, Dr. Harry
Friedenwald, who was given rous-
ing ovation when the convention
was turned over to him, made his
annual address, The audience was
stirred to high pitch of enthusiasm
by speech Of DR.. Schmarya Levin,
who spoke for the inner actions COM
mittee of the Federation. His ad-
dress was in Yiddish and he urged
that the Jews continue their fight
for rights as whole people.
Reports Submitted.
Greetings of the Order Bnei Zion
were spoken by Joseph Barondess,
commissioner of education of New
York, and Grand Master Louis d.
Rubinsohn extended the greetings of
the Independent Order Birth Sho-
lom. Reports were then submitted
as follows: By Louis Lipsky, for
Federation of American Zionists;
Miss Henrietta Sold, for Hadassah;
David D. de Sola Pool, for Young
Judea; Max Shulman, for the
Knights of Zion; Bernard A. Rosen-
blatt, for the Achoozas; Rabbi Sam
uel Margolis, for the Ohio Zionist
Association; Rabbi Louis Goldberg,
for the Virginia Zionist Association;
William Sauber, for the Wisconsin
Zionist Association. Reports were
also made for the Texas and New
Jersey Zionist Associations; by Phil
ip Barnett for the Intercollegiate
The American Jewish world., 1916-07-07
Philadelphia Pledges $4,000.

The start was made with pledge
of $4,000 from Ohio Zionists. Phil
adelphia went on record for at least
as much, with not all heard from.
The Central Relief Committee of
this city had already given $4,000.
1t was given out that Mrs. Joseph
Fels and Miss Mary Antin pledged
themselves to secure $4,000, while
a Philadelphian, whose name was
not given, said he would give at
least $5,0O0 Julius Rosenwald, of
Chicago, was put down for $4,000,
and Zionist organizations Of differ
ent cities and States added sums
ranging from $500 to $4,000, the
latter being the sum given by the
Sons of Zion, through Joseph Baron
dess, of New York. The Young
Judea, the Junior organization of
Zionists, pledged $1,000.
The movement was clearly out
lined by President Friedenwald to
the great mass-meeting, when he
said: "The idea of Zionism is the
will of the Jewish people to return
to it's normal life-its own national
life on it's ancestral soil-the will Of
the Jewish people to free itself from
the letters Of foreign environment, of
physical and spiritual slavery, and
to develop according to it's own char
acter, it's own peculiarities, it's own
genius.
"The ideal of Zionism is a great
and noble national development
through which the Jewish people
will once more attain position of
honor among the nations and again
contribute it's share to the progress
of civilization and the advance of
mankind. The underlying motive is
the desire of the Jewish people to
preserve it's existence, not to perpet-
uate it in a passive form, but as an
active development. In other words,
it is the preservation of the life of
the Jewish people and the perpetual
tion of its identity with the object in
view of developing its greatest posi-
bilities, of reaching it's highest ideals,
Of completely unfolding itself"
Children in Parade.
A pretty feature of the opening Of
the convention was parade of
about 5000 children on Broad and
Chestnut streets in the morning. 1t
was made up of boys and girls be-
longing to the Young Judea, the
Junior organization of the federation,
the Council Of Jewish Clubs and
pupils of the Hebrew day and Sun
The American Jewish world., 1916-07-07
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

Convention Raises $175,0O0 For Zionist Movement
Sum Quickly Throng Convention of National
Body-uce Brandeis Preceded by Parade
., - of 5000 School Children in Broad Street