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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
AND ELSEWHERE?

The inspector Of schools has been in
Charlton and has plainly told that
commonwealth that their school build
ingS are not up to standard and must
be improved. This throws Charlton
right up against the proposition and
they don't know what to do about it.
They have two ideas in mind. One is
to take their high school and make a
grade school of it and build new high
school, and the other is to build an
other ward school to handle the crowds
and provide additions TO other build
ings. What. oh what would happen in
Shenandoah if an inspector were to
come here and look over Central
school? When he saw children sitting
in dark spots porting over books and
trying 10 get the lesson assigned, would
he say that was a fit room in which to
place all those bright children? When
he breathed the impurities Of a
crowded ROOM with no ventilation 9TH
er than what comes in and out of
window which is opened when the
weather isn't too cold. Honestly, how
many Of you have been in ali the
rooms Of Central school this year? If
you haven't been there go. They are
your school buildings and you have not
only a right to visit them and inspect,
but 1t Is your duty to do SO. II you
have a horse or cow or a hog. don't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
TINES REPUBLICAN, MARsHALToWN NOVEMBER 81 1916

much harder road to travel than the
interior cities Of the state. A consids
cradle part of their population held
beer in the same esteem as the average
man considers groceries. Some OF
them still hold to the, opinion. They
are not to be lightly cast aside as citl-
zens by reason Of that. however. The
Teutons OF Davenport are among the
most thrifty and in a general way
among the most law abiding citizens OF
the state of Iowa. And that is true in
ing TO understand that an Iowa statute
includes every acre within the bounda-
res of the state is an excellent. sign of
the times: that they are coming to the
conclusion that the saloon is parasite
and not an aid to business and pleas
ure resort is even more promising. But
at that it doesn't change history or Of
fer opportunity for offence where no
offence was intended. And there were
other causes. Plenty of them.
Kindly forget the holier than thou
business. The T.-R. isn't in it. 1t is
distinctly aware that the interior cou1-
ties and towns contain their share of
those who favor liquor, that men talk
one way and vote another but it does
look forward in confidence to a time
when Iowa will be dry and from end to
end and side to side under the general
agreement and submission Of all the
counties and cities Of Iowa and when
the prohibitory law will be fairly en-
forced. 1t foresees further a time when
the federal government will cease to
assist violations Of state laws by pro-
miscuous issuance of federal licenses,
moral misuse Of mails and insistence
that location across a state line shall
be authority to violate the laws of ad-
joining states.
In the meantime 1t rejoiceS at the
changed attitude of the newspapers in
the river cities. 1t is an excellent
symptom.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
Topics of the Times

A man committed suicide the other
Gay by stabbing himself with a button
look. so the reports say. Perhaps it
wasn't suicide. Maybe he stabbed
himself by accident with the button
hook his wife left on the davenport.
A considerable number of news
papers are forecasting Mr.. Harding's
candidacy for the L. s. senate. And
many of them are predicting a sue
cessful candidacy. And what does
Senator Cummins and Judge Salinger
think Of that? And some of the news
papers are going farther and suggest
will be displayed in assisting the at
torney general up the steps of the
executive mansion when Mr.. Harding
moves to Washington.
Francis Joseph, an old man and
aiiegedly emperor of Austria is dead.
But his passing has not shocked the
world appreciahiy. 1t takes lot to
shock the world nowadays.
Perhaps they will create a chair
marship of domestic appropriations
FOR the new woman congressman.
An egg boycott sounds we'll on paper
but it will probably never hatch out.
That Captain Koenig would make a
'ghty good state chairman for a
political party. 1t takes a submarine
navigator for that job.
If the wheat crop is 400,00O,000 bu-
shells short the u. s. is acting like a
farmer who sells himself short of seed
wheat and his family shor. Of bread.
If the gun license money money
must be used for game breeding, ETC..
ard nothing else then the automobile
license honeywell, what about the
auto license money?
Wait until the c0ngressw oman
breaks into the debate. Thank con-
science so,re"ody has come to town of
whom even Old Joe Cannon will stand
in awe thru past experience.
Also resolve early to buy only prac-
teal and suitable presents and buy
them early.
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AN EXCELLENT SYMPTOM.

The .Muscatine Journal says the
'holier than thou attitude of certain
central Iowa newspapers. among them
the Times Republican, when they dis
cuss the liquor problem as related to
the river cities is ludicrous. The Jour-
nal suggests that the editors Of these
newspapers be invited to visit the river
cities, in order that they may see with
their own eyes that such cities are as
law abiding as the cities Of the inte-
rior. TO scan the central Iowa press,
the Journal ADDS, zone would gain the
impression that the chief industry Of
river cities is illegal liquor selling
The Journal is peeved without good
reason. The river cities nave been the
stronghold of the liquor traffic in this
state, 10 these many years. They
were the first to openly violate and the
last to conform TO the law 'Muscatine
has been dry a long time it is true, but
how dry was fairly we'll developed in
the notoriety it's volunteer fire COM
panies received not many months ago.
Muscatine may be drier now. keokuk,
however, seems to have become the
fore front Of offenders to judge by the
operations Of the temp beer saloons
there The greatest change in the
temperance situation along the river
seems TO be in the attitude of the news
papers published in the river towns.
They are asserting to the prohibitory
law and some Of them are insisting
that it be enforced. 1t is 70 be inferred
from that attitude that the river towns
are gradually gaining in sentiment
against the traffic and that respect for
the liquor laws Is reaching a point
where the question ls at least debat-
able in the river cities
1t is, not "holier than thou" spirit
or a hypocritical or carping purpose
with which attention is called to the
OPPOSITION Of the river towns to closing
but simply statement Of a situation
which every one in the state under
stands The interior towns, most OF
them smaller than the river cities have
been drier and more conformable to
the statutes. Some interior towns
there are whose opposition to the re-
strictive laws is as determined as that
of the river cities and counties has
been The dry counties by petition
were in the interior, not in the river
sections. There Is neither occasion
nor justification for the river towns
and the river newspapers taking higf
ground over the repetition Of history
and the plain statement OF a condition
fully established and understood.
| The river cities moreover have had Z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
Pennsylvania Man Thankful
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Marshall, Mich.

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Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
Gone Before

When some old picked critters.
"hovc Tapped up gin and rye, and every
kind Of bitters. get done with booze and
die, we bend above their bodies, and saw.
quite lachrymose. Poor victims OF hot
toddies! They were their own worst
foes! When any cheap old duffer,
who's failed. from first to last, con-
cludes no more to suffer the cheeriess
mundane blast, we sadly gather round
him. where he is lying low, and spring
that gag. "Confound him! He was his
own worst foe" But It's as sure an
ginger-we know 1t passing well--that
all the failures inture the world in
which they dwell. Societys a loser
when any one sinks low; no man can
be boozer and be his own worst foe.
Tho we have pity ample for one i'm
mersed in gin. he sets bad example.
and that's deadly sin. He shows the
human being sodden thing and sad
/ sight not fit for seeing by any growing
lad. The world, for virtue yearning,
must view him with alarm; at every
bend and turning he works some grew
GUS harm. And when the whisky glut-
tons at last turn up their toes. we sigh.
"Doggone their buttons. they were their
own worst foes!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
A Common Gender.

There is a diverting controversy over
the eligibility Of Miss Jeanette Ran
kin to the seat in the house Of repre-
sentatives to which Montana has
elected .her. The constitution describes
members as persons" but refers in an
aside to that state by which he shall
be elected"
The advent of women in public af-
fairs heightens the demand for a sim
gular pronoun of common gender In
the English language. The French
have evolved CON- and the Germans
man." but we blunder along with che
or she, and the awkward "one." We
have a serviceable noun in person"
but no corresponding pronoun.
The use Of 'he" as common pro-
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OPEN SEASON FOR BuRGL1NG.
rBurlington Gazette,1


Newspaper reports from many towns
tell Of numerous burglaries and hold
ups. There usually Is more of this kind
Of work this time of the year than at
any other period, and it behooves the
householder to take all precautions to
protect himself against loss, either Of
life or property.
The burglar class is made up of mea
who are too shiftless to work at hon.
est employment. They are useless and
dangerous. When one of them is &C.
casionally nabbed he is placed in pris-
on for short period, then released to
prey upon society. The Gazette has
long contended that burglary of a
dwelling house at night should be made
capital offense, carrying with it the
death penalty or life imprisonment. If
would-be burglars generally under
stood that the moose or confinement
until they died behind the walls of a
prison faced them, if caught in their
nefarious business, they might hesitate
about proceeding.
Householders should see that the
fastenings Of the doors and windows
are secure If they feel sure of beins
able to handle tirearm without kill
ing or manning some member of the
family, it is no crime or sin to, take
shot at burglar, even If the marks
manshp results fatally for the intru-
der. He enters your house. is deter
mined to steal from you and escape.
even to the extent Of taking your life.
No mercy should be extended. In the
meantime, the police should round up
every suspicious character, either
strangers or local talent. and make
them give strict accounts OF them
selves. The buster the burglars be-
come the buster the authorities should
be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
UNCLE SAM CHALLENGED.

Lies tMOlHeS Ndpildi.J
The railroad brotherhoods are peeved
at the supreme court. the congress, and
the president of the United States In
short Uncle Sans entire official fam
lily is lin bad.
If the supreme court doesn't behave
itself and declare the Adamson law
constitutional, the brotherhood officials
intimate that they will get what they
want some other way.
If the president insists upon law
which will prevent strikes or lockouts
during the investigation of the merits
of a controversy between employers
and employees. he will have the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor on his back.
The president is on record for some
form of compulsory arbitration.
The coming congress will have its
hands full placating the brotherhoods,
who have decided that the Adamson
law is not what II was represented to
be.
The present controversy between the
brotherhoods and the railroads, which
threatens to bring on a repetition Of
the labor crisis. concerns that section
of the law which relates to the basis
for wages. AT present ten hours Or
less constitutes a days work. Like
wise 100 miles or less is a day. The
Adamson law provides that eight hours
shall be the measure of standard Of
days work for the purpose of reckon
ing compensation. In other words.
employees under the law are to get the
same wage for working eight hours as
they receive now for ten hours. But
nothing is said about mileage basis
Of pay. There is no provision that
eighty miles or less shall be a days
work in place of 100 miles.
The railroads ASSUME that since con-
gress did not mention the mileage ba-
sis of pay they are not compelled to
use it. The employees want the mile
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
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noun referring TO person" 10 well es-
tablished in law and good usage. But It
has not become idiomatic. The ten
dency in conversation Is to use the
anomalous they despite it's plural
form, merely because 1t is Of common
gender. Perhaps the controversy over
Miss Rankin's eligibility, which is alto
gether likely to be settled in her favor,
will help to popularize the usage of
che" as a common gender pronoun.--
Minneapolis Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

you inspect its quarters occasionally
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into security about these matters be-
cause some one has said that tho
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century ago. Go and visit every room
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where some ones child has to sit All
day long. Ask any teacher who teaches
in those rooms and see what they have
to say about it. One teacher told me
the other day that she had a headache
and her eyes ached every night caused
by peering into the darkened corners
to find whether pupil was in school
that day or not. She says she is going
to ask the school beard for spot light
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
Others Failed But
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MARSHALL, Mich.

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Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome

SPECIAL OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge. No. 10S. A. F. & A. NJ,
Nov. "a, 1880 p. m. Work in second de-
gree. John w. Wells, Secretary; B. 0.
FraZey, w. NJ.
sioNET CHAPTER. No. So. r.. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday evening,
Nov. 20. 1880 o'clock. Regular business
Carl Shafrner. H. P: John w. Wells.
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & q. NJ. Mon.
day, Dec. IS. Regular business ana
election of officers. l. T. Forbes Re-
corder; George Gregory, I. NJ.
SPECIAL coNcLAVE, ST. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80, X. T., THURSDAY
Nov. %, 7:30. Inspection and drill
Dinner 6: 80 p. m. Full uniform. l.
Forbes. Recorder: H. c. Mueller, Com
mander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E:
S,-Meeting Wednesday, Dec H. : 81
M, for regular business and election
of officers. Eliza S. Battin, secretaf!'
Cora NJ. Mcdowell, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
Rupture Healed in Four Months

Fl Jansen ST., Dubuque. Iowa
Mr.. c. E. Brooks, Marshall, Mich.
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ANDREW EGGENBERGER.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

age bhsis retained And therein rests
one OF the reasons for the new dead
lock.
During the recent presidential cam
paign the opponents Of the Adamson
law declared that 1t settled nothing;
that at the end Of the period over
which It was to be given a trial the
controversy would be back to its or
ignal stage.
Now the controversy Is renewed be-
fore the Adalnson law has even a
chance to show what it can do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

IF the republicans should control the
house they may have chance to out
line 20 the president some plans and
specifications for the Improvement Of
the Adamson act" says the Sioux City
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

why shouldn't every Iowa farmer
keep a flock of Sheep" inquiries the
Davenport Democrat. They are the
greatest weed killers that travel on
four feet. They will keep the roadsides
and the fence corners clean, and yield
fleece and a carcass that give good
return for their keep. And we need
them, and more cattle, to keep the LID
on the high cost Of living, as is shown
with more emphasis than ever by the
latest report from Washington
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23
Confederate Veteran Cured
Commerce. Ca, R. +. D. NO. II

Commerce. Ca, r. F. D. No. IL.
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ROADS AND ROADS.

lBOOne NeWS-he puDllcan.J
1t is pretty well agreed that drain
age. grading, and crawling win have
to be the.-method employed in i'm
proving Iowa roads. This Is probably
the best we can afford at this time.
There could, however, be better sys-
tenn in making improved roads. Fresh.
ly improved roads in Iowa as a rule
are simply abominable under the pres
ent system. Heavy chunks of dirt are
piled upon the main track and left for
vehicles to smooth down. Gravel is
dumped on 1t in most careless man
ner. 1t is hardly ever rolled or leveled.
and as result the road becomes
"wavy" when IL does get packed down.
1t would be better to make a finished
job of these road improvements, even II
it takes more time and money. We
have determined on the system and the
material for building new roads, but We
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your Appliance would never have
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A Necessary weakness

He-"The trouble with you women
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ter than you are none of Us would
ever marry you."-Boston Transcript.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

should now hit upon some plan to level
them. There certainly must be some
way to bring out new gravel road
into good shape without expecting the
travelling public to spend year or so
In smoothing it down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

Ed Meredith was slaughtered III the
house of his friends. majority OF
the state organization of his own
party was against him, explains the
Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-23

dings. It requires the fortitude OF an
antarctic navigator, for a young man
to canter up to the hymeneal altar on
a salary OF 81 day, in the face OF the
fact that the lowly and unobtrusive
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The Cedar Rapids Gazette suggests
there were a good many thousands Of
football fans at Ames Saturday who
would have taken decided objection to
the recommendation for the abolition
of athletic relations between the uni
versity and college"