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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Ripping Rhymes
y WALT MASON
WoRkDAY AFFAIRS.

Yes, truly. there are other things
than captains, catapults and kings, Of
which We should be thinking; we all
have errands to pursue. and divers
things we ought to do. with energy I'M
shrinking. Its well to talk about the
war, of all the carnage ! abhor, at
quitting time or later, but If / use the
boss's time to talk Of Kaiser Wilhelms
crime, I am selling platter. I go on
duty every day, and wrap up packages
of hay. attending to our patrons; my
thoughts are all on how to please such
ueeful customers as these. the monied
men and matrons This clerk Is
worthy of his hire; SO says the boss,
and ! desire to have him think so al
ways; so on his customers walt, and
try to keep my smileson straight. above
my sorrel galways. But when the eve
ming whistle blows. / talk OF swords
and things like those, and roast the
bloody kaiser; till Q o'clock paint
things red, and then it's time to go to
bed, for I'm an early riser. All day
my minds on rice and prunes, on TAX
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
the BIG THING ABOUT IT.

Again il should be pointed out that
Wilkerson is receiving altogether TOO
much consideration and the row be-
tween himself. certain state officials
and Montgomery people is being mag
nified altogether too much. The more
a mess like that is stirred the stronger
its effluvium. Feuds develop and thrive
in atmosphere and under conditions
created by craftsmanship,
prosecution of the case against the &C
cused minister without taking Wiiker-
son or the Wilkerson crowd into con-
sidera-ion except as to such evidence
for or against the accused as may be
had from any witness or either side
of the row. If Wilkerson has evidence
to give it should be taken for what it
is worth and no more So of every wit
ness
The people, some of the people of
Montgomery are excited but they are
the same sort Of people that live in
other counties in the state. There is
always danger of serious trouble when
communities excitedly line up in diff
ferent camps over a crime. The way to
avoid trouble is to go straight forward
with the prosecution without particu-
lar consideration or particular opposi-
ton toward any camp or individual If
camps or individuals insist in getting
under foot step on them But keep on
going.
WIkerson isn't the cause Of the row
in Montgomery. He is merely an ag-
gravation of it. The cause lies deeper
than Wilkerson. An atrocious crime
was committed there and its perpetra-
tor has not been brought to justice.
That is the underlying cause Of the
trouble.
The thing 10 do is to go straight on
with the investigation and the trial of
the accused without stopping by the
way to magnify side issues.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

little choke cherry.
THAT looks very serious to Inc"
said he, putting on his glasses and
looking at Mr.. Bears injured feet. 'Tli
have TO get saw and cut off your foot.
And then Mr.. Bear gave q dreadful
howl ''Oh, please don't saw off my foot.
It's sore enough already"
II didn't mean to saw off your foot"
said Mr.. Duck. Did say that? / mean
to saw off the splinter and then put
on a poultice and draw out the splin-
ter"
Well, it took a long time to do all
that and the poor Bear cried several
times, for it hurt the splinter dread
fully you knew to he sawed off that
way. But by and by the poultice be-
gan to draw, and pretty soon out came
the splinter, and Mr.. Bear felt ever
SO much better. That is, until the
dollars, for that was q very serious OPP
Grafton"
i've never even seen million doll
lars" said the Bear. Nor even a mil
lion cents. Yodil have to- mail me u
corrected BILL" and then he jumped in
to the automobile and asked Uncle
Lucky to drive away.
Stop, stop. cried the duck doctor.
but Uncle Lucky paid no attention to
him, any more than the bear paid the
bill. You send corrected bill to my
friend; said the OLD gentleman. rab-
bit. And mind you, you had better
correct it three times and half IL you
ever want it paid" And in the next
story you shall hear Of an exciting
adventure which the two little rab-
bits had with a fretful porcupiiie.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
THE POINT AT ISSUE.

The announcement Of the federal
government that It has equipment for
every soldier from Iowa and that II is
simply question OF how to bring the
soldier and his equipment together to
the best advantage, has taken a great
deal of the wind out of the critics Of the
governor who have proceeded to pounce
on him because he had not bought such
equipment with that million dollar
fund. 1t is always well to investigate
before criticising. An equipment bought
by the state government would have
been mere duplication and most of II
might not have fitted in with what the
federal government wants the soldiers
to have. 1t may be added that the
papers that jumped on the governor SO
hastily and eagerly have shut up, but
they have not corrected their blunders
Neither have they apologized to the
governor, as they ought to-
The above from the Republican reads
well. But the cold fact is that the bows
OF Battery E, and we understand OF
other organizations as we'll, have been
in camp since the first of July
and have not had red sent. So
far as the national government which
we are told is ready to connect up with
the men is concerned, the men would
have starved to death and have gone
naked. had not private citizens gone
down into their pockets and contrihut
ed money and supplies. And during
this time Governor Harding had at his
command million dollars appropriat
ed by the last legislature for just such
an exigency
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

Perhaps no successful avunculaI
relative ever had as many poor rela.
tons on his hands at one time as your
Uncle Sam has at present.
The tension is arriving at "a point
when any day is likely to see the
greatest naval battle in history.
The federal law, if appears, scarcely
reaches the shrewd soap box and pull
pit orators who seek to embarasss the
government. However, a law is being
drafted to 1T the situation. In the
meantime communities may be truste ed
to tip over the soap boxes.
Cuba as an ally of the u. S A. isn't
big but she's entirely willing. Also,
situated at the mouth of the canal,
Cuba is an important ally.
While we're lending here and there
perhaps a little loan slipped to Mexico
will be appreciated there more than
the money will be missed here.
Looks as tho we'd have to send MI
Root back to Russia.
II is easy to understand why a re-
firing army should harvest crops and
destroy bridges but why saw down
orchards and burn peasants homes
and poison wells and streams?
Twenty dollar hogs and $3.50 chick
ems seem to offer the Belgian hare its
chance.
The Des Moines authorities can't
understand why one firm should have
the best part Of 100000 of booze on
hand in prohibition state. 1t is a
little confusing
Ladies desiring to reduce should ap-
ply to Mr.. Hoover, food comptroller,
for his diet sheet.
Anyhow the potato has ceased to be
potentate.
The people are certain to demand
swifter action and insist On different
results in the LeMars outrage than
have offered in the matter of the Viii
iisca murder.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Billy Bunny and His Friends

You remember in the last story how
the good -natured bear asked Billy
Bunny and Uncle Lucky to give him
a ride in the Lu:kern ,5ile fs'causr ne
had run splinter in his foot. Well, as
soon as he had climbed into the auto
mobile, and it took him almost 23h
seconds to do it. for the splinter was
SO long that it caught on the door,
Uncle Lucky started off and by and by
they came to the house where the
you remember.
Now, I'll go in and get him to come
out and look at your splinter, salo
Billy Bunny as he hoped out OF the
Luckymobile and rang the front acoE
bell and in minute, less or more,
a nice looking lady duck came out ana
said, 1.-THE Doctor is away on his va
cation. He's gone to the Lily Pond 1or
two weeks. But you can call him UP on
the telephone if you like. The number
is waterville. 8 umpty eleven"
So the little rabbit called up the
number and when the doctor heard
what was the matter, he said, you
had better come to see me. You nave
the automobile right there, and It's
dangerous thing to have so large q
splinter as that. Tell Mr.. Bear he'll
have q dreadful corn II 1t isn't taken
out at once"
So they all hurried away and pretty
soon they came to Lily Pond ana
there was DR.. Duck swimming around
among the Pond lilies and the frogs.
having lovely time. And wasn't he
sunburnt? Well. 4 should say he was.
His bill was as dark as little brown
berry and his nose was az red ~ 2
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
the PRESIDENT AND THE MINES.

The presidents schedule Of coal
prices at the mines will affect the price
OF coal Coal will be cheaper than it has
been. But that is not the most impor-
tant result of the presidents action.
Coal will not be held at utterly ex-
orbitant prices thru the winter either
by mines or jobbers or retailers.
OF course it is a question of get
ting the coal but the question of get
ting coal at any price is settled 1t is
to sell at a specified price at the
mines. The tobber is to have his speci-
fled profit. The retailer must be con-
tent with a reasonable profit. 1t has
taken the element of speculation out OK
coal. They may refuse to dig ii but they
can not dig it speculatively with all the
traffic Will bear in mind.
1t is assumed that the president has
set the price with a reasonable profit to
all concerned. He has had the informa'
ton necessary TO fairness. That being
the case there is no reason why suf-
ficient coal for the necessities of the
people should not be supplied by the
mines. So far as the retailer is con-
cerned he is anxious to handle as big
tonnage as he may his profit is upon his
volume not on his price.
The experience the mines have had in,
monkeying with the presidential buzz
saw should assist them to a clear view
of what awaits evasion Of the ruling or
attempt to embarrass the government.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
WINNING HIS WAY"

Speaking Of grandfather and father
and Uncles John and william who
farmed when you and did chores anG
were sent upon fam tasks that the
men hated umptysteen years ago, let
US strive to imagine the expression
upon their countenanccs had they been
suddenly introduced to Mr.. and Mrs.
Twenty Dollar Hog. Why if T, D. Hog
and family had burst upon the view Of
those old people apoplexy would have
been commoner than appendicitis and
fibroid tumors are now.
Folks used to rather despise hogs in
those days. Generally he wasn't worth
over s2.75d $3.50 after he'd been driven
seven miles to town hog was merely
hog then. He had not attained to
financial respect and pre-eminence as
since, had no social standing in the
community. About mis- only claim to
recognition and regard were disinclin-
alton toward race suicide and tendency
to acquire adipose tissue. To one of
Wordsworth's characters "a primrose
by the rivers brim a yellow primrose
was to him and it was nothing more"
So in the elder day a hog was a hog.
They made use Of him but did not love
MIN. lie was reared for his leaf lard
and his hams and side meat, lived in
disrepute and died squealing to be
sca1ded ignobly> in barrel scraped on
an old barn door denuded Of his in
ternal arrangements and hung head
down by the heels over pole to dives,
him Of animal heat" before being dis
membered, ground into sausage, hung
as hams and shoulders in the smoke
house, packed in pickle as chunks and
rendered into lard and cracklin's.
A hog received and needed small at
tention then. He was born in the back
woods pasture usheralded and unheed.
ed. His early childhood knew its home
in a heap Of leaves besides a hollow
log. He lived II he lived and died II III
died. No veterinary, grand with the de.
gree of D v. 8. attended him or gave him
passing glance. To him vaccine wa
unknown. In the beginning he was blu
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
= pig. Later only . shote and in the end
pork. And there he was from birth to
barrel Just hog.

= pig. Later only . shote and in the end
pork. And there he was from birth to
barrel Just hog.
That hog Of that time knew no herd
book He had neither pride Of ances-
try nor took heed Of posterity. That
there had been hogs before him and
would be hogs after he rocked not
Untrammeled by nose rings he shouted
for acorns and pfgnuts his little time.
He fed and fattened until somebody
grabbed him by the leg and somebody
else stuck" him with a butcherknife,
often as not Shoulder stick, and full
filled destiny he had VOTED not Of
Such was the plebian hog Of s2.50@$4
per cwt
Perhaps there are those of long mem
cries and carping dispositions who shall
draw parallel between the rise of the
hog to financial distinction and similax
changes in the human family quite as
revolutionary and astonishing as that
between the prairie rooter and elm peel
er "hawg" and the Porcines of the pres
ent. But that is another story and 9TH
ers will tell 1t. Trust folks to tell any
thing of that sort. Such rises do take
place in the animal kingdom to hogs
and humans. Anyhow here's your $40
hog. What are you going to do with
him?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
ing in the picayunes, to help my gooG
employer; do not think have.a right
to slosh around in blood till night.
when I'm grim destroyer.
WAIT.
Knoxville Exprese.l

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune
says it is more than enough to make
a person sick to listen to the half
witted demands OF men like T. r.
Roosevelt and Late Young for the
suppression OF all languages in this
country excepting English" Well, have
it your own way, Mr.. g. TT for the
present But just walt until twenty or
thirty Williamsburg boys have been
killed or manned by the German butch
ers, and you'll find Deutsch the most
unpopular language In all the list.
Maybe it is all prejudice, but 1t won't
be long until it will be little short OF
treason to speak German in public, ana
audiences win be angered by Germaa
musical compositions written q hum
dred years ago. Talk as you please.
but these things will be most unpleas-
antly suggestive as time goes on. 4no
as manned Americans return from the
front the gospel Of hate will grow ana
wax strong in the hearts Of those Who
love them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Iona Ne svspapers
COMING AND GOINL.
TSiOi1x Civ Tribunal


When wheat was selling at 50
bushel the millers used the wheat price
as pretext for raising prices on flour,
altho they were them operating on
wheat bought several months previous
ly at $1.25 a bushel. They raised the
claim that selling prices must be based
upon replacement costs.
Now. wheat has dropped one-third
from the price of 50 bushel, but flour
continues high. The millers explain that
present milling Is from the So wheat
and that the lower prices now existing
on wheat cannot be considered
The millers seem to have a private
business logic that has a wonderfully
close relation to excess profits. In nor
NAL years, before the war, the big mill
ing concerns regularly made their
wheat contracts on the lower schedules
OF each year, hut used the periods of
high priced wheat for establishing
fancy prices on flour.
As important factors in wheat specu-
lation they knew just when they wanted
wheat prices to go down and when they
wanted them to so up.
Manipulation of food necessities is a
great game when played by those who
thoroughly know the ropes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

belligerency displayed. Winding trips
over clay hills and thru ravines choked
with underbrush are involved. The
mobilization of fans is in twos and
threes and every man who finally
lands at the clearing that is eupho-
niously called a ring has a right to
feel himself as desperate as Long Toms
Coffin. If he is so reckless then as
to bet quarter on the blond there
can no longer be any question about
his devil may care rakishness. He
belongs
In Des Moines they do it differently.
Oh, yes, they do many things differ
emily there, but this Is conspicuously
SO. The boys get together at the club.
Likely as not it is the club operated
and no doubt well operated-by Mr..
Thomas Ryan. Thomas Is the astute
financier Of the Queensberry school
who used to win the judges decision so
commonly in the joint debates he held
with other middleweights and kid
MCCOY" Having gathered at Tom
my's," the boys manage to repress
their ennui while the bantams and the
feathers and the lightweights demon
strate in their own inimitable way the
superiority of the good offensive over
good defensive at every stage of the
game Then the boys roll home,
probably grumbling at the quality OF
the bill. and make arrangements to
show up punctually on the date of the
next program. That is Des Moines.
There is really no disposition in this
to cast reflection upon Mr.. Ryan or
upon the red blooded denizens Of
Iowa's capital. Least Of all is it de-
sired to imply that the little amuse-
ments provided for Des Moines folks
under Mr.. Ryans auspices are of the
sub caliber type. Quite the contrary,
indeed. No demand for uniformity Of
law enforcement is contemplated, as
Stunning that law has anything to do
with this subject. It has to be ad-
mitted that Attorney General Havner
lives in Des Moines, but that Is not
wholly voluntary, perhaps, and is not
necessarily relevant Purely as
study in psychology and customs. it Is
interesting TO note that in Des Moines
they do things differently.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
SUNDAY PLAYS.
Knoxville Express. |


At the chautauqua we had a cork
ing good play Sunday night. What
would Knoxville have thought of put
ting on play at the opera house Sun
aday evening. staged by professional ac
tors hired for the occasion, the specta-
tors paying the usual prices? The writ
er has never specialized in religion nor
has he eyer had any legal training, and
these shortcomings must be at the root
of his inability to perceive the differ
ence. in law or ethics. between a the
atrical play al a chautauqua on Sunday
night as compared with a baseball
game Sunday afternoon or a play at
the opera house Sunday evening. A
good many people say that one is all
right and the others are all wrong, but
they don't pursue the subject far nor
analyZe 1t as closely as might be wish
ed. If 1T is wrong to employ players
and charge spectators to get into a
Sunday ball game, is it right to employ
actors and charge spectators to get in
to the big tent Sunday night? Men and
brethren, the Express is not insistent
that these things shall or shall not be
on Sunday, but it does insist that some
degree of fairness shall prevail, and
that We shall not make fowl of one and
flesh of another-call the Sunday night
play bird and make the Sunday aft
ernoon baseball game the goat. This is
a live question that ought to be settled
right; and the Express will be glad to
hear from baseball magnates, chautau-
Quans, preachers. showmen and COM
mon slobs on the question.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
FIsTIcUFFs IN IOWA CITIES.


NOW and then, according to filtering
reports, some OF the boys in Sioux City
get together, match up white husky
from the stock yards district-nearly
always he is from the stock yards dis
trlct-With two-fisted gentleman
from Omaha with caulifiower ears and
brunette disposition and the two
&c to it. for the purse Of s17.4S land
the belt" Such affairs happen, IL one
may trust 10 his ears, perhaps twice
year. They are accompanied by
secrecy as thick as custard, and al
ways are mora remarkable for their
furtiveness than for the quality of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

The map shows the situation of
Langemarck, the Belgian town cap
tured by the British in their recent
drive in Flanders, made in conjune-
ton with the French. The photograph
is picture of some German prisoners
taken in a recent British drive and
shows them utterly exhausted after
enduring the heavy artillery fire which
preceded the infantry attack. Virtual
ly all the accounts Of statements made
by German prisoners agree in the as
sertion that human flesh and blood
could not withstand the fearful Smelling
Of the trenches by the artillery.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Masonic Meetings
Visitor, always welcome.


MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1903 A. +. O.
A. M.-Special communication, FRIDAY
Aug. "a, 1880 p. m. Work in the FIRST
degree. John w. Wells, secretary; W.
II. Steiner W. NJ.
sioNET CHAPTER, No. SO, r. A: NJ
Stated convocation Monday eVenlns'
Aug. 20, at s o'clock. Business SESSION.
carl shafner. H. P; John w. "eiis'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20. r. & S. M. Mon-
day. Sept II. 1880. Regular business
T. Forbes. recorder: George Gregory
In.
STATED coNcALVE, st. Aldemar
ccmmandery, No. 30. K. t. TUESDAY
Sept. IS, p. m. Regular business. l.
T. Forbes. recorder; Fl. c. Mueller
commander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. (.
S.-Special meeting for initiation wed
nesday. Aug. %. y. m. Mrs. George
Downing, secretary; Mrs. J. T. FTeu-
erick, W. N.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Goodby, Jane.

Mistress-What for?
Jane-Tve got a place in the NUM-
ton works.
Mistress-Well, all / can say is, If
you drop shells like you drop the plates
you won't be there lolg.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
Another Kitchen invention.

Another Kitchen invention.
i am afraid this high cost OF living
Is going to introduce another innova-
ton In the average kitchen"
What 10 that?"
1.-THE foodleas cooker Baltimore
American. 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

was just a poor struggling young fell
low" says the Knoxville Express.
IF the postal department does not
show healthy deficit this year it viii
notsbe the fault of the governmental
Offices says the Mount Vernon Rec
ord. of the fifteen pieces of mail re-
ceived this morning nine were franked.
Five were from the department Of ag-
gricuture. three from the treasury de-
partment, and one from the food de-
parm ent. Nor was this mornings mail
an unusual mall
Fancy denying sailor lad a pair
of wristlets made for him by some
American mother, because Daniels and
Thompson don't agree as to technicali-
ties" exclaims the Jefferson Bee.
mo matter what may be the status
o fthe war a year hence, there will be
a candidate for congress in every dis
trict in Iowa who will go before the
people on a platform of one hundred
per cent patriotism for the American
| republic says the Manson Democrat.
The Iowa congressman who voted ac-
cording to the dictates Of the hyphen-
ated vote in their districts may take
that vote and &c to their political hell
| with it, for there will be American
| candidates who will get American votes
| enough and to spare to represent the
Americans in Iowa in the national
congress. The towards will stay a.
home and hobnob around with the
| traitors who proved their nolitfcal IN.
doing by arousing their American
neighbors to sense of high patriotic
duty at the polls. regardless Of politics.
It will not be Are you democrat OF
republican" in the political CAM
paign to come, but Are you an Amer
ican2'"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24

The Waterloo Courier says what the
police department wants Is more light
on the bicycle and less on the auto
mobile"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-24
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES

Peabody, the coal mine owner, out
traded the secretary Of the interior
says the Sioux City Tribune. He
first fixed a price of Sc ton on coal
and then under duress" by Lane, re-
duced the price to SO. It's an old trad
ers' trick but the administration was
not caught"