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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-09
FARM BUILDINGS COST $4,000.
viii Sprols, Of Tanna County, to euile
$1,000 Residence.

Special to Times-RepubI1can.
Traer April 8. Will Sprole VIII
spend nearly $4,000 on his big farm OF
GAO acres, east of Traer, this year!
He has let the contract to Ed CLOSER
for the new house which will be atep-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18

foresight. it would have passed railroad
anti-strike law last summer, when the pub
lie was awakened suddenly TO the vast
perils threatened by a general strike. 1t Is
a pitiful thing for the government 70 nave
TO go down on its knees again TO the
brotherhoods in the hope of escaping an
embargo on transportation. But that Is
the penalty it now pays for past weakness
and heedlessness.
No such situation as now scandalizes the
United States ought ever to be permitted
to exist again. One Of the first duties OF
the new Congress will be to pass an anti
strike law, thus applying the theory OF
Federal control Of interstate transporta-
ton logically and honestly and protecting
the country against annoyances which are
intolerable and which persist only because
Of gross governmental neglect.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
An Example for New York State

On a second attempt the Assembly OF
New Jersey has passed the bill repeating
the full crew. law enacted in that state
a few years ago, and there Is likelihood
that the Senate will take similar action. 1t
is 10 be hoped so. Experience with the law
there. as in other states has proved that 1t
does not do what was claimed for it by the
railroad mems unions when 1t was passed.
II does not assure greater safety for pas
senpers or railroad employees. 1t does re-
quire the expenditure Of money for men
whose work is unproductive or unnecessary
for men who, according to the railroads,
sometimes don't work at all, but merely
hold their Jobs. 1t is an arbitrary statute,
requiring a given number of men in train
crew of given class, regardless of cir
cumstances.
1t would be a good thing for New York
State if the farmers and business men here
organized, as did those of the state across
the river, to procure the repeal of New
Yorks full crew law. No measure which
fosters or compels an economic waste should
have place on the statute books. There
is the less reason for this particular one
because Of the existence of the public SER
vice commissions, regulative bodies Of ex-
perts charged with the duty Of seeing that
the travelling public and railroad workers
are protected against accidents caused by
undermining of trains and duly equipped
to carry out that duty. If they are not fit
Tor the work, it is time they were reorgan-
lied. If they are it is time the railroads
were relieved of the financial burden this
law causes without producing, according to
careful investigation Of the causes Of acct
dents and the operation of the law, any
GOOD result commensurate with its cost.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
The Precocious City Spring

Sunsets and the sky in general with all
its trappings of stars and clouds and what
not mean next to nothing in the city. For
the hours Of the day the country IS the
place; city streets are rudely insensitve
to all their varying charms. Seasons OF
the year. however, are another matter.
Spring comes up the city street long before
the first robin hops across your lawn. For
these changes the city is far more keen
than the country
II is largely an artificial affair. to be
sure. Our precocious city spring comes
when the street cleaners and fashion Will
if. The two wise golfers who lately char
tered a car to run out for a spring game IN
Westchester all because Fifth Avenue was
clear of snow and the sun was shining,
represented this cockney point Of view.
They felt sure that spring had come. and
hey were utterly amazed to find their
Golf course knee deep with snow. Mud IS
one of the first beautiful harbingers Of
rural spring, as a matter of fact and mud
means little enough to New Workers, who
think of it ch ely as something the soldiers
of the trenches are fighting in.
Our spring takes its first motif, OF
course. from the shop windows, which leaf
out weeks before even the sap begins to
run in roadside trees. From the windows
To the sidewalk is but a step, and morn
inc comes when you cannot see the furs for
the bright straw hats and the new-colored
frocks. The florists window blooms with
daffodils. you hurry in to buy your new
spring suit, and premonitions are become
reality. Snow may still be deep on your
Golf course. You know that spring has
come Just the same.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
The March of the Dead Men

From The Poetry Journal
After midnight, over London's Darkness
Where the searchlights peer like eyes that
are afraid,
Through the empty streets Of LONDON
The ghosts parade.
Their feet rattle heavily on the pavement
The butts of their rifles ring aloud
But If any one should walk through them,
He would see only shadows in the crowd.
Only shadows shrinking back to the black
buildings,
Proving shadows. come from the trenches
again
To march anew through London,
Shadows Of dead men;
Once these were recruits for England's glory
Now they are only ghosts;
And every night, over empty London,
They march, in hosts.
Their feet swing and hit the empty pave
ment
Their eyes stare:
They stalk restlessly
Through every street and square.
Seeking perhaps some landmark hid in the
darkness,
Which. though their bodies lie still under
ruined trenches,
They remember and long for, far from star
shells rising
Through the dull night stenches.
Its long, long way TO Tipperary,'
Scream their thin ghostly voices;
And the darkness hears them
And it rejoices.
After midnight. over London's darkness,
Where the searchlights fit through empty
skies in vain,
There comes relentessly
The noise Of marching men.
Piccadilly-Leicester Square-lost in the
darkness.
Lost as these restless and unburied dead;
And the Strand is naught but great black
river Of darkness
Under the tramp of the grey ghosts over
head
JOHN GOULD FLETCHER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
William VS.. the World

from Punch
Doubtless you feel that such a fight
Would be a huge reclame for Hundom;
That Earth would stagger at the sight
OF Gulielmus contra Mundum;
That William, facing awful odds.
Should prove spectacle for men and gods.
And If the game against you goes.
As seems, take it, fairly certain,
The Hero, felled by countless foes
Should make rather useful curtain;
You could with honor cry for grace,
Having preserved the thing you call your face
/ shouldn't count too much on that.
The globe is patient slow and pensivc,
But has a way of crushing fiat
The objects which it finds offensive;
And when it's done with you, my brave,
doubt If you will have face to save.
OWEN SEAMAN.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
A Pathetic Appeal

President Wilson's appeal to the four
brotherhoods makes pathetic reading. The
pathos of it is the pathos Of governmental
ineficiency and mismanagement. Our gov
ernment now begs the railroad employees
as a favor to it, not to do what it has long
had the power to forbid them to do. 1t is
forced to ask the indulgence of the broth
erhoods, because it has left itself hobbed
and cripped-unable to protect the public
against the calamity of nationwide rail-
road strike. The government appealed to
the patriotism of the railroad men. But in
doing so it only emphasized its own lack
Of patriotic forethought and energy.
1t is the business Of the government TO
regulate interstate transportation in all
it's aspects Congress has repeatedly as
serted the Federal power to do this. The
railroads are public instrumentallty.
Their uninterrupted operation is a neces-
sity. Yet Congress has GoGged the re
sponsibiity Of securing uninterrupted
operation. 1t has delegated to the Inter
state Commerce Commission authority to
enforce a one-sided regulation of the rail-
roads. The railroads have been deprived
of power 70 make their own rates and thus
control their own income. They are not
permitted to go into the market and sell
their services, but they are still compelled
to 20 into the market when it comes to en-
ploying and paying their operating force.
Railroad regulation so far has been I'M
balanced and inequitable. The whole burden
of it has fallen on railroad stockholders.
Rates have been forced down and kept
down by governmental action, while taxes
have been put up and wages have steadily
advanced under arbtrations conducted
under government auspices. Rates and
operating expenses have never been CO.
ordinated. No attempt has ever been
made to coordinate them.
The theory of state control has been
applied with the greatest rigor, so far as
the earning power Of the railroads is con
cerned. But it has not been applied at all
20 far as their wage fund is concerned.
The public or semi-publc character of the
railroad employees occupation has never
been properly recognized. Unions Of en-
ployes have retained the same freedom to
strike as is exercised by unions dealing
with private employers in private industry.
The public has been cajoled with the
assurance that it was getting cheap freight
rates at the expense Of the owners Of
railroad stocks. But the fact has been
concealed that a nationwide strike Of six
weeks might easily cost the public more
than all It's savings in freight rates for
twenty years.
If Congress had had real courage and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
The Gold Flood

|0W IN I'|''' ''I''"T
The failure Of Congress to pass the bill
amending the Federal Reserve act so as TO
make il possible TO mobilize the gold reserve
leaves the country exactly where it was in re-
spect TO the menace in the enormous i'm
portatons Of gold.
Congress has now adjourned without doing
anything TO relieve the gold situation We
not only do not need the gold that IL being
sent 10 ~, but we would be much better Oft
in We did not have il. The only apparent way
in which the inflow can be checked Is by buy
ing more goods in Europe or by giving the
Entente Allies more credit either through Sc
cured or unsecured loans.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
The Letter

From PoetrBl
The words were beautiful
Before | had read them.
| laid my fingers along the edges,
Over the fold your hands had folded
laid ny face to the face Of my letter
Softly came down and closed in about me
A solitude,
A separate world;
In which was no sound or motion or being,
Only the whispering of the paper
Stirring 10 life in my brain
All day | carried il
Against me,
Like bird
Against my heart where ny life s,
Like a secret waiting in my heart.
Singing. HELEN HONT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
What the Orderly Dog Saw

Winter Landscape
To Mrs. Percy Jackson
From PoetrDo
The seven white peacocks against the castle
wall
In the high trees and the dusk are like tap
estry;
The sky being orange, the high wall purple
barrier,
The canal dead silver in the dusk
And you are far away.
Yet ] see infinite miles Of mountains
Little lights shining in rows in the dark Of
them
Infinite miles of marshes;
Thin wisps of mist, shimmering like blue
webs
Over the dusk of them.
Great curves and horns Of sea,
And dusk and dusk, and the little village;
And you sitting in the freight.
Around me are the two hundred and forty
men Of b Company,
Mud-colored;
Going about their ayocations,
Resting between their practice OF the art
or killing men;
AZ ] 100 rest between III! pfhCtiCe
OF the art Of killing men.
Their pipes glow over the mud and their mud
color, moving like frefes beneath the
trees
] too being mud-coiored
Beneath the trees and the peacocks.
When they come up to me in the dusk
They start, stifen and salute, almost IN
visibly.
And the forty-two prisoners from the battal-
ion guard-room
Crouch over the tea-cans in the shadow OF
the wall
And the bread hunks gimmer, beneath the
peacocks
And you are far away.
Presently shall 90 in
! shall write down the names OF the forty-two
Prisoners Ia the battalion guardroom
On fair white fooscap:
Their names rank and regmental numbers;
Corps, Companies, Punishments and Offences
Remarks, and BY whom confined.
Yet in spite of all I shall see only
The infinite miles of dark mountain.
The infinite miles OF dark marshand.
Great curves and horns Of sea,
The little village
And you,
Sitting in the freight.
FORD MADDOX HUEFFER.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
Grass

from The ScrH Arfsi
Pile the bodies high Mt Austerlitr and
Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work
/ am the grass. cover all
And pile them high AZ Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun
Shovel them under and let me work
Two years. ten years. and people on pssscn-
ger trains ask the conductor:
What place il this?
Where are We now
! am the erase. Let me work
CARL SANDBURG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
Arbor Days

Irr9u Tho PhtddrIhih Ltop'f
The Governors proclamation has been IS
sued appointing April - and April p as
Arbor days The twofold opportunity TO plant
trees means more than usual in this hour
when destructive forces are unlcashed the
world over to disfgure the woodland and the
verdure. Nearly every battle scene shows a
landscape denuded of the forests that adorned
it. The trees, if any part Of them withstood
the she'll storm. are no better than match
sticks. There are craters where bubbling
well springs gave refreshment 20 the ambling
cattle or the reposing traveller. bleak and
hideous wilderness has taken the place OF gar
den. meadow and orchard In our own land,
enriched with every good gift Of a bountiful
Providence we can do our part to assure to
our descendants the perpetuation Of the
blessings we enjoy by planting and conserv-
ING trees. Where there are Aourishing forests
there is thriving animal life and there are
abundant watercourses. Each Arbor Day is
holiday of the best sort for it is an OBJ
seryance not Of selfish sport but of another
higher kind Of recreator-the cooperative
effort TO further in our finite way the infinite
task Of Him who, as Bacon wrote first
planted "A garden
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
Parliament Has Disappeared

But Parliament was at least an honest at
tempt to give the people a check on the be-
havor Of the men in power. And now this
inside clique has taken away Parliament, and
TO one knows where they have secreted il.
When it has been discovered and restored. it
will have still other problems with which to
wrestle.
Sidney Low in The Fortnightly Review
says that Parliament has ceased to be a
government making organ, and that the gov
eminent in the future will continue to be
carried on by great administrative commits
sions appointed by the Cabinet, directly re-
sponsible 20 il, and removed from the direct
control Of Parliament. A violent shift is
taking place in the nice balance OF power Of
Bagehot's English Constitution, throwing
control to the executive and expert. and away
from the geographical representative.
The democratic machinery of the nine
teenth century has broken down. new
machinery is being slowly constructed. Under
the old regime, elected representatives Of the
people became the law-making body, the Leg
islature, and a committee of the Legislature
was selected 10 be the Cabinet, or Executive.
But in recent years there has grown up a
body Of a thousand departmental admins
traitors, outside Parliament, housed in gov
set of permanent expert officials. who. aetu-
ally. not only administer the law as created
by Parliament but initiate new legislation.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-18
DRAGONS TEETH
Bv ARTHUR GLEASON

group of lawyers. fnancers and imperial
ists. surrounded by a larger group of per
manent expert officials. And this group IN
turn is enlarged by a small army Of volun-
teer social workers Not only do these hid
den experts administer government, but they
create new legislation. As a Government in
vestgator reports:
'The change in the mode Of industrial!
legislation may be summed up as a tendency
TO move from the politician towards the eX-
pert
Even before the war men were saying, Tho
political machine Of TO-DAY presupposes that
popular opinion shall have no initiative. Off
caldOm increases at the expense of the re-
naming social classes
This is a tendency in the direction Of beau
reaucracy, and the value Of it rests in the
intelligence and character Of these inner
manipulator., and their responsiveness to
public need Parliamentary committee
sits on its bill of recommendations, like a
hen on its nest and arises with cackle.
Sometimes the product, when Matched, is as
distressing and unexpected as a ducks egg
in the poultry farm. I suspect that the Re-
Committee are going to find that their sober
well-rounded draft Of recommendations will
develop ttartling methods of locomotion. The
law itself, Matched in the privacy of com
mittee rooms, salljes out with a special dy-
mamie Of its own.
1--WE have lost all surprise that our cor
respondcnce should be paved over before we
see il, our houses invaded By competent or
incompetent authorities and their represent
atiyes, our religion or otherwise catechised.
SO says one of the Cambridge Magazine
group, who have retained their sanity in a
war which temporarily unhinged II. e.
Wells and Rudyard Kipling, and lifted Austin
Harrison, st. Leo Strachey, Leo Maxse,
Gwynne. Horatio Bottomley, Robert Blatch-
ford. and Northclife into leadership of
public opinion. To these creators OF con-
structive thought, "out 10 beat the Boches, "
such question as who shall guard the
Guardians ?" is academic in "a world OF
blood and iron, controlled by men who do
rot take what they would call Sunday
School view" as the realst editor Of The
Spectator writes.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-13
HALF OF QUOTA CERTIFIED
Fourteen Chlttenden County Names
Passed Upon-District Board Sends
Names to Adtutnnt.

Montpelier, Sept. 6.-The district board
of appeals has certified more than half
of Vermont's quota Of drafted men to the
adjutant-general. adding So names yes.
terday and bringing the total to 5A.
Up to to-day no names had been certi.
fed from Chittenden. Orleans Franklin
and Lamoille counties, but before adj
tournment this evening 26 names had been
certified from Orleans county. "a from
Franklin, "a from Lamoille and IA from
Chittenden.
The Chittenden county names with the
addresses are as follows:
William ]. Kelley. 81 Cherry street, Bur-
lington; Louis G. Manos. SO Church street,
Burlington; Charles R. Wells, Colchester;
Albert Forth. Is Hall street. Winooski |;
Fred J.Breyea, 1873 North avenue, Bur-
lington: Mitchell N. Lamphere, Milton
Tows Melikiano. 80 Malletts Bay avenue.
Winooski Roy G. Hamilton. IA Pearl
street. Burlington; George Gosselin, 81
Maple street, Burlington; Andrew Dubina,
1853 Main street, Winooski, George Soucy,
IS Lafountain street, Burlington; Elliott
Thompson, Colchester; Henry B. Cook,
Underhill; Kenneth D. Hindes. S25 South
Union street, Burlington.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-13
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.


1hur8ody Nl8nts
The regular monthly meeting of the YER
mont State board of health was held
Thursday evening at the office Of the Sec
rotary. r. Charles F. Dalton.
Besides talk by DR.. Harold L. Amoss
Of the Rockefeller Institute. there was not
much to excite comment among the MEM
bers outside Of the reading and the dis
cussion Of the reports from the various
departments.
DR.. Amoss of New York, who Is doing
more work on infantile paralysis than any
other man in the United States, said
among other things. that when we come
to consider the things which have been
learned in regard to poliomyelitis our
knowledge is comparatively extensive. He
added that we actually know more at the
present timo about poliomyelitis than wa
do about measles.
Among those present Thursday were r.
NJ. Bradley of Boston and Bratteboro, the
trustee of the Thomson fund; DIR. Creigh-
ton Barker of New York city, who is to
do special work on school hygiene in this
State; the Misses King and Selfridge. the
polio nurses. These women visit polio
cases and see that the directions of tho
attending physicians are followed out to
the letter. Miss Selfridge has been very
busy in Montpelier since coming to ver-
mont. having 81 cases in that vicinity
which she has to visit regularly.
Following Is the report of contagious dis
eases In this State for the month of Au.
gust as reported to the secretary, DR.,
Charles F. Dalton: Measles 81, poliomye-
litis "a. typhoid fever IL, whooping cough
1874. chickenpox 20, german measles II. scar
let fever Is. humps 81. diphtheria Is, tu-
berculosis and venereal diseases 81.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-13
CHANGES AT THE POST.
Fort Ethan Allen May Become Base
Hospital.

hOBpttuis
Definite plans have been made for con-
verting Fort Ethan Allen into base hos
pital but owing to other changes that are
proposed for the Post it has not yet been
possible to put the arrangements into effect.
Word has been received that the squadron
of cavalry which was sent to Pennsyl-
vania about two weeks ago for guard duty
may return. II they do come back they
will be quartered in their former places
in the barracks. and this will prevent the
medical corps from using them. as they
had planned. AS soon as some definite ar
rangements have been made by the mill
tary authorities for disposing Of the entire
Second cavalry the Post may be converted
into base hospital.
Colonel GOsman, In charge of the Post
hospital, has Just received a letter from
a friend In Washington stating that no
further assignments of Red Cross hospital
corps or units will be made from this
country to France. The reason for this
move is unknown. but It may be an indica-
ton OF peace In the near future.
Secretaries Snow and Dorchester of the
Y. NJ. C. A. at Fort Ethan Allen will leave
Saturday for Aver. Mass. where they will
have charge of one of the big buildings
there. Each one Of the Y. M. c. A. build
ings at Aver Is about twice as large as
the green building at Fort Ethan Allen. and
nine such Y. M. C. A. buildings have been
erected, in addition to a mammoth audi
torium capable of seating 5000 people.
Everything possible has been done by the
War Work Council of the Young Mems
Christian association at Aver for the con-
venience of the men. and small army of
| secretaries will cater to the needs of
the soldlAr boyA
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1917-09-13
AGED WOMAN LOSES ARM
Mrs. Jane Dewitt, ~, Falls I'm Getting
of Moving Train-DragGed from
Wheels by Bystanders.

Brandon. Sept. 11.-Mrs. Jane Dewitt
was seriously injured this morning. her
left arm being badly mangled. at the
railroad station, Mrs. Dewitt, who Is
II years OF age. is domestic nurse. She
accompanied a friends to the station and
helped her into a car Of the 10 o'clock
mall train. After the train started she
attempted to get off and In doing so was
thrown to the platform. A number of
bystanders prevented her from falling
beneath the train. but her left arm was
under the wheels and was badly In
injured that 1t will have to be ampu-
tated. She was taken to the Rutland
hospital In the auto ambulance of Mrier
& Frye.