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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

Wake up. Wake up! It's early morn,
The cock Is footing his little tin horn.
The morning wind is singing a tune
About the roses that bloom in June.
It's time to be up, for the day is here.
And the sky is shining bright and
clear.
So out of bed hoped Billy Bunny
and Uncle Lucky, and then they wound
their watches, for they were so tired
the night before that they had gone
to bed with them on, as I told you in
the last story.
Well, when they got downstairs they
found the squirrel who owned "Cuddle
Inn" already up and dressed. A most
delicious smell of hot coffee and rolls
came from the kitchen, so that little
rabbits won't into the dining room and
read the menu card. And what do you
think they ordered? Lettuce leaves
with cream all over them, and carrot
candies, with maple syrup, and corn
flake muffles and warm milk, and, let
me see. oh, yes! oh, yes = Apple pie!
For Uncle Lucky loved apple pie, and
Billy Bunny loved it just as much,
altho ne couldn't eat as many as the
old gentleman rabbit could, for the
reason that he ate so many candy car
rots!
And now that we are thru break
fast" cried little Billy Bunny, lets go
fishing, for I heard boy say outside
the window that the trout in the forest
brook were nibbling at pieces Of cheese
they were so hungry" Just think or
that. So the kind Squirrel 1nnkeeper
got out two fishing poles and Billy
Bunny and Uncle Lucky started on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
YOUNG DOCS CHANCE.
Monticello Express.

The government is experiencing
some difficulty in getting a desired
number OF doctors to accept commits
sions. This is a bit surprising. for to
a layman it seems that the average
young doctor would covet the
chance for service where he will
surely have the opportunity to secure
more real practice in widely varying
surgery in short space of time,
than a lifetime of ordinary practice
might bring him. The experience
thus gained would be Of great value.
We know of doctor with a large
practice, including much surgery,
who advised the government that he
was ready to leave it all. and do what
he can to care for the soldiers who
might become wounded or sick. 1t
is a sacrifice to him In a material way.
but that sacrifice is no greater than
what every good citizen should be
willing to make. If he returns
from the war he can never be sepa-
rated from the blessed thoughts of
good deeds nobly performed. His
surgical experience will make him
the better practitioner, and his
practice will return to him in an in
creased measure. A finer opening
than that presented by this war was
never rendered the young doctors OF
America.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
BUT NOT IN IOWA.

This IS much activity this year in
the building OF hard surfaced roads
but not IN Iowa as may be evidenced
from the following news items:
Under the new road law of Kansas,
the county commissioners of Labette
county have planned to appropriate
from the annual road Iund the sum OF
$4,000 q year for the construction Of
a county road system Under this pro-
vision the county will pay one-half the
cost the townships one-Quarter and the
benefited districts One-quarter.
Large quantities of river bed gravel
are obtainable from the Neosho river in
the eastern part of the county, and ii
is the purpose of the road authorities
TO utilize this native material for the
proposed system. 1t is estimated that
this can be done at a cost OF ; 1000 TO
$1,000 mile for l6foot roadway with
gravel surfacing of from to 10 inches
and the proper drainage structures.
A 1000 mile highway system for the
province Of Manitoba, Canada, has been
proposed by the minister of public
works. The cost of permanently con-
structing this mileage, which would be
SoAApoSCO VI Tic VI highways III
the province. is estimated at $4,000
mile. and would amount in 10 years
to 100000.
Two thousand miles Of new roads are
TO be constructed in the eastern coun-
ties Of Tennessee during the spring and
summer, according to a report from
Knoxville. Road bond issues have been
voted and sold in several counties and
are for sale in other counties. 1t is ex-
pected that the following amounts will
be expended on highways in the coun-
ties named: Campbell, 100000; C1ai-
borne, $4,000; Granger. $4,000;
Granger, $4,000; Greene, $4,000;
Hawkins, s250.00o; James, $4,000; JET
ferson, 100000; Johnson, 5000, 900; Nc
MINI, s3oO. 900; Morgan, 100000; Polk
$685. 900: Scott, s325,0oo; Unicol, $780,
600: Washin gton, $3.50 900.
At an election held on Monday Of this
week the voters of Oregon decided fav-
orably on the ss,000.0o road bond
issue. According 10 a report from the
state highway department the issue
carried by a majority of about 20. 900.
At the 4Sd annual convention of the
state dairymen's association held re-
Gently at Danville. Ill, resolutions fav-
oring the 10000, 900 bond issue for
roads were adopted
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

intent to break In and impose their
allen rule upon us. II we submit and
bow to this yoke may we not expect to
be wearing sabots, next peaked visor
caps. and perhaps have to cook our
food in olive oil instead of butter and
come to look upon cheese as dessert
There Is. Of course. an excuse offered.
There always is when these foreign
customs Of lower civilization are
sought to be imposed upon us. 1t is the
war this time The wheat crop, 1t
seems, is short and must be divided
with other peoples. Our higher civiliza-
tion is to be subverted (not to mention
our stomachs) and our standards
brought down to the level of corn bread
in order that people who never saw a
riz biscuit may feast on wheat. What
kind of war is this we have got into
anyway? Must the very frontier posts
of our culture and civilization be yank-
ed up and thrown into the scales? We
thought we were going some length
when we threw overheard our tradition
of isolation, but if we have got to
throw our white bread after it what
will we have left? Black bread.
Euphony will say oh, no! Not black
bread-corn bread. Mullins, johnny
cake, hoe cake, dodger-beautiful yell
low, flaky, crisp corn pone with rich
brown ernst into which butter molasses
or gravy sinks like tired man into a
feather bed. But we know better We
know that all bread that is not white
is black bread, and black bread is the
badge OF inferior civilization. We will
have none of it-until the white bread
is all gone. After that-oh, well, who
can prevail against fate? Pass the
johnny cake.-Kansas City Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Ripping Rhymes
ey WALT MASON
OFFICIAL FOLLY.

I saw a young man shedding tears, a
youth when admire. re beat his
breast and pulled his ears in agony and
ire. VIVA; no, fair youth gayiy
said. why all this stream of brine?
The clouds may gather overhead, but
soon the sun will shine. Il want to
tight the foe" said he: I've striven TO
enlist. but from our army. brave and
free, it seems will be missed. Now,
can whip my weight in cats. as all
the village knows. and / would like TO
break the Stats of many Prrssian foes,
You see me sound in limb and wind,
and yet they turn me down. tho III
athletics l have skinned the young men
of the town. Oh, not for me- went on
the youth, the battles roar and hum.
will not do because, forsooth. my
teeth are on the bum. Why should
my molars lay me low. and push me
of the map? I do not wish to bite the
foe, or chew him in the scrap see
good men rejected thus, their brave
hearts badly CALLED; they may not pack
the blunderbus because they're partly
bald. Because they walk with pigeon
tread. they can't defend the right; be-
cause their whiskers are too red,
they're not allowed to fight. think
that any warlike chap who's fit to pack
gun should be admitted to the scrap
cen tho he weighs a ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Me Und Gott.

Colt, Colt, dear Colt. attention, blease;
your partner wilhelm's here
And has a word or two to say into
your private ear;
So turn all oders under now, and
listen veil to me.
For vat l says concerns me much.
meinself and Chermany.
You know. dear Colt, vas your frient,
and from mine hour of birth.
let you rule der heffen, vile rules
DER de earth
Und ven tells mine soldiers Of bygone
battle days,
always splits der glory und gives
you half der braise.
In effery way try to prove mine heart
to you vas true,
Und only claim mine honest share in
great deeds vat we do.
You could not hat better frient In
sky. on land or sea
AS Wilhelm Kaiser, Number 2, der lord
Of Chermany.
So vat ask, dear Colt, is dis: dat We
should be good frients,
IND you should help me send mine foes
to meet der bitter ends.
If you, dear Colt, will dis me do, III
holdings ask again,
Und me und You viii partners be, for
eyer und amen.
But listen, Colt, it must be quick, to
me your help you send,
Or else | hat 10 stop attack und only
play defend
So four and twenty hours gif to make
der allies run,
Und put me safe, into mine blaze, der
middle of der sun.
But if you don't, / den must think.
yours is a hostile act,
Und den, you bet, I'll have revenge, IN
tell the world der fact,
Den var at once / will declare. und IN
mine anger rise,
Und send mine Zeppelins to wage a
fight up in der skies.
Dis ultimatum now. dear Colt, Is Won
of many more;
Ny mind is settled up to clean der
whole world on DER floor,
Because you vas mine partner, Won
extra chance is giffen,
So help at vonce, or else I'll be der
Emperor of Heffen.
-Pittsbursh Post,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
BETWEEN A GOOD AND POOR LIVING,

It isn't too late to plant a number
Of things in the garden that will help
out big next winter. This winter and
spring cabbage sold at II cents a
pound. That is a fair sized cabbage
cost IS cents, or about the same as
a chicken used to cost.
Well, take cabbage-it's an easy
thing to raise. One hundred late cab
bage plants cost IS cents. That's about
all 100 cabbages cost, except the time
it takes to till them. Now, at those
prices, 100 35-ce cabbages mean S35.
OF course, you wouldn't eat 100 cab
bages, but when you've worked up a
supply of canned kraut and put up
a few heads in the cellar, bury the
rest
Father used to bury cabbages every
fall He dug a shallow trench and
lined it with a little straw-one could
use old newspapers. In this he laid
the cabbages, roots down. He used to
put board on each side of the row of
cabbage heads, to protect them from
the dirt, and then cover the whole
business with a few inches Of earth.
When the supply ran out in winter,
we used to pry off a section of the
frozen earth and get the incest cab
bages anybody ever saw, and in the
spring these buried cahbases came cut
fine and dandy. Nobody sold cabbages
then, but the chances are that nobody
would have any trouble disposing OF
nice, ane heads next spring.
Lots OF time for late cabbage yet
July 20 is the truckers cabbage plant
Ing day.
| A Bohemian used to live across the
creek in the old glucose days and work
eleven hours for $1.10 day. He bought
a house and lot and was to pay fol-
them at so much month. He paid.al
right He brought the check for SO:
| in monthly, and when asked how HI
did it, explained that he had a fin,
| patch OF ground and raised all he hat
to eat except what he and his wifi
earned at odd Jobs.
that it isn't quite American and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
BUT WE MUST.


We do not want war. We do not wish
to spend lives and money.
Everybody knows that. Why repeat
it,
We have war. 1t doesn't matter now
what we thought a few weeks ago. We
are in war.
We must raise the money for the
conduct of the war by buying bonds
and paying taxes. We must raise the
money to care for the hurt and sick
and wounded.
The money must come. Everyone
must give, little or big, little and big
poor and rich--we must raise the
money.
1t would be disgraceful if rich COM
munity like ours refused to do its
share.
1t would be wicked and blood guilty
if a state like Iowa, county like
Marshall and city like Marshalltown
should send their own sons out to the
chances of war and seek to save a few
dollars which should have gone to
create hospitals and safe life
1t would mark us forever in our own
eyes and the eyes of the world. 1t would
shape the confidence of sons in their
own fathers. 1t would lead one neigh
Dor to despise another.
Let's raise our share now, willingly
and honestly as we ought
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Topics of the Times

Get those Russians into line Of battle.
A moujik with gun and ammunition
beats three rag-chewing statesmen.
There's Just one thing to do with a
strike or a lockout that interferes with
preparations and the sooner it is done
and done up brown the quicker.
Watch the army camp contracts.
There's no money to be wasted Make
every dollar count. The last thing we
shall stand for is graft or favoritism.
Subscribers TO the Red Cross are
simply holding the maj : coat who is
doing their lighting.
It's a pretty poor sort of man who
sends his wife on a journey without
hotel money or his son into battle
without a Red Cross unit behind him.
Make the average reader thinks there
is too much Red Cross in the edi-
torial these days but when the boy
is in the trenches the urgency will look
different. The trouble with the aver
age man is that he isn't fully awake
to the monster at his door.
The way to get away from the ap-
peal to give your money TO the Red
Cross is TO give it. And there is no
other way. Eventually, why not now?
Now listen: there were ten million
registered. A million will be drawn.
There will be more than million
drawn for perhaps half of them will
not be physically fit and there are
$4,000 to go with the first draft. That
means that one out OF eight will be
drawn and that out Of the eight boys
you see at church or elsewhere one
will have to go. And that boy may be
yours. He may be the lad who goes
with" your daughter and with your
secret high approval. 1t may be your
daughters husband. Now, man 10
man. are YOU going TO match a few
dollars against that boys life and limb?
Why man If you had a drove of pigs
you'd spend money for a man to care
for them.
Let's get down to brass tacks. Let's
honestly and sincerely analyze our own
feelings. If a youth were weeping and
whining IN fear that he might have to
face the dangers Of war we'd rather
despise while we pitied him. 1t is
terrible thing TO be a coward; but a
physical coward is a bigger and better
man than a money coward. The man
who whines when he is solicited for
the Red Cross is the more contemplate
coward. And nobody pities him unless
one of his own ilk And he doesn't
pity him because the man who tries to
dodge the Red Cross in wartime hasn't
pity IN his makeup.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Iona Newspapers
OLD LEAD PENCIL.

webster City Freeman Tribune.]
The culprit responsible for the
raise in prices has at last been dis
covered. He is none other than old
Lead Pencil. The way he works 1t
has been pointed out plainly in The
matter OF canned goods. Last fall
line of canned goods sold ct $3.50
per case That case of goods was
paid for at last years prices No
fruit, sugar. labor, etc, has been
added. but old Lead Pencil has slip
ped in and silently marked up the
price to 81 per case. He has also been
at work in every other line, and 1t
iooshs as tho &c would Keep right ~, lat
the nefarious business until the strong
arm Of Uncle Samuel reaches out and
squeezes the wind out of him.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

doesn't provide for the children's edu-
cation and the like OF that. but 1t isn't
the best type Of American that refuses
to help itself and save for home
either.
Lots OF things that may still be
planted and make all the difference be-
tween good living next winter and a
blamed poor one.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
CONGRESS- BUSINESS.


Do not complain too much of the
disputes in congress and the delay
in formulating a revenue bill 1t could
speed up II it did just what the pres
ident has asked it to do. But We must
remember that it is the law making
branch of our government, and the
president is the coordinate power
whose business 1t is to execute those
laws. For congress to do just as the
president wants 1t to would be to alb
dictate its prerogatives and become the
plant tool of the executive. The pres
ident should be invested with extreme
power of execution during the days OF
war, but it is too much to back him to
the extent of debating the every &C
ton of the law makers. The members
of congress represent widely separated
constituencies and diverse interests.
and therefore it is not surprising that
there should develop in the committee
hearings some strongly marked differ
ences. Give congress little time, and
when it threshes the subject out the
result will represent a compromise of
congressional differences and not exec
utive dictation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Pas. The Johnny Cake.

Our immensely superior civilization
(Which must, of course, be conceded by
everybody has definite frontiers which
it never, never will surrender. Or thinks
it won't They are marked by white
bread as opposed to bread Of any other
color, by leather shoes opposed to
wooden, and by coats (even II Of shod-
dy) as opposed to smocks and biouses.
What, then, will be our horror ana
Indignation to learn that one OF these
inviolate frontiers is actually under as
sault and threatens to give way! me
wheat loaf, we hear, chief rampant OF
our civilization, lis likely to become
dough. while corn bread, and even bar
ley. are hammerins AZ dur gates Wild
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Duty !. Duty, You Know,

Il got gun" said 5year-old boy.
as he proudly exhibited a new pop
gun to his grandmother.
so 1 see," said his grandmother,
what are you going to do with it?'
Shoot some Germans"
Your daddy is German, at least he
has German name"
a perplexed expression overspread
the features Of the boy and then after
minutes deep thinking, he said;
We'll, guess I will have to shoot
him then"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

awakening in Washington. and the
stable door will be locked ceremoni-
ously and officiously. after . vast dis
play Of legal formalities and verbiage
shall have been made. 1t is q pity
that the horse will have disappeared
and will never be recovered. but the
proper persons win have the supreme
satisfaction OF knowing that even II
a bit late they awoke and did the best
that they could do.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
AMANA GIVES UP LIQUOR.
TncGo1on ~, ;lx, Hawaii


Leaders of the Amana society,
unique community association of Iowa
county, have decided to do away en-
tirely with the manufacture and use
Of liquor in these communities.
They have dropped the destruction
of 10000 gallons of wine now in stock.
and will manufacture no more. Man
ufacture Of wine for use in the COM
munity is custom Of more than fifty
YEARS existence.
The decision of the leaders, was
reached after consultation with Ar
torney General Havner and County at
torney Dean Roller of Iowa county.
Members of the community are all
Of German descent. altho few Of them
are recent immigrants. They occupy
thousands Of acres OF rich land in Iowa
county, with leading communities at
Homestead and North and South
Amana
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

There was time when people were
told that competition was the life Of
trade" recalls the Burlington Hawkeye.
More coal mines in operation than
ever before, potatoes coming north
from the south and from the West In
dies and Australian potatoes selling in
the United States and yet coal and po-
tatoes are higher than ever. This must
be the year when the old rule about
competition does not apply"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
BELATED HUE AND CRY.

And now it Is cotton that is being
put out OF sight by gamblers, and
there is urgent demand that a stop be
put to that sort of thing. Perhaps the
government will interfere and 1t is just
possible that the cotton gamblers may
be in preferred class. Sooner or
later they are apt to hear something
drop. After they have made a great
cleaning. perhaps there wiz be an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
F.mou. for Date Palms.

Bagdad Is famous for especially fla
vored date palms. There are several
famous date forests about the delta OF
tho Tigris and Euphrates. One OF the
most interesting and useful relics OF
the Moorish civilization that remains
Ii Spain is the most wonderful palm
gr0ye IN the world. It might be called
1 Att1ng monument to the foresight
ma careful husbandry of those unfOf-
tunate pecpls.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Still it IS about the only time in
good many years that the politicians
Of congress have had chance TO get
back at the newspapers" reflects the
Waterloo Times Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

IT'S tough comedies the George
News, but the prohibition law is not
as easily got around, over and thru as
the late lamented blue law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

Let not the inebriate despond. Hard
cider, peach brandy, and many another
beverage with a kick" in it can be
made without wheat, corn, rye or bar
ley" is the comfortable assurance Civ
en- by the Fort Dodge Chronicle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19
Masonic Meetings
Visitors always welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE, No. tos A. F. &
A. M.-Special communication. Worh
in First degree Friday, June - E9o
D. M. John w. Wells. secretary; w.
II. Steiner, W. M.
sIeNET CHAPTER. No. SO, r. A, NJ.
Special convocation Monday evening'
June 25. at 1880 o'clock. Royal Aren
degree. Carl Shaffner, H. p: John w.
Wells. secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20. R & s. NJ, Tnurs-
day. June IS, s p. N. Regular business
l. T. Forbes. Recorder: George Greg
DRY. I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80. K. T. TUESDAY
June 10, at p. m. Regular business
/. T. Forbes, recorder; II. c Mueller
commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. Q. {.
S-special meeting for initiation "eu-
nesday. June 30 at p. m. Mrs. Georse
Downing. secretary; Mrs. ], T. Fred
erick. ". NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

The Sioux City Journal says: Labor
should be unanimous for government
food control, beca use it will benefit la
Dor more directly and Immediately
than any other class
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

Every year the legislature keeps
tinkering the motor laws. and few mo-
florists can give any intelligent account
of them" observes the Dubuque Times
Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-19

And now a special mission from
Switzerland is on the way to Wash
ington," exclaims the Cedar Rapids Ga
zette. 1T may yet become advisable
to create a house Of special missions
and apportion delegates to the coun-
tries on the basis of population