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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-15
News Of Union.

Special to Times Republican.
Union, May Is. Superintendent
Finger, Of the Union schools. went to
Clarence, Friday night, returning Sat
urday accompanied by his wife, who
has been at the parental home since
her return from Battle Creek suna-
toriun. She is able to walk some with
the aid of crutches.
The city teachers seem to haze the
matrimonial fever. Another ono Miss
ella Imley, of the primary department,
HE'D herself to Chicago Friday night
and met Mr.. Earl Loban, of Dayton,
O.. and they were married Saturday.
She returned Monday morning to con-
tinue her school duties.
Mrs. j. r. AleXander's father, George
Alsup was buried at Eldora Sunday
afternoon. Those going from here were
DR.. Lyle Wilson, of Ames; c. J. Will
son, c. Il, Lawrence e. A. Gregory, O.
w. Rowley, j. b. Castor. Mr.. and Mrs.
o. II. Wood and Henry Burghardt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-15
Ar. Women Naturally oe.pond.ntY

While. there are women who seem
always Respondent and depressed and
expecting misfortune, that Is not wo-
mans natural condition. Such unfor-
tunatcs suffer from ill-health. An alb
normal condition OF the system cX-
presses itself In nervousness, sleepless-
ness, backaches, headaches and de-
spondency.
II all ailing women would make
faithful use OF that grand remedy for
woman's ILLS, Lydia b. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound. thcre would be little
occasion 70 ask II dependency ID nat
uraI TO woman. ---Advsrtisement.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-15
.Corns Loosen Off
With Magic "Gets-It''
z DROPS DO THE WORK PAIN
lESSlY

II tell you, before I heard of Gets It.
l used to try one thing after another
for corns. ! still had them. 7 used
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-15
HOW ne QUIT TOBACCO

This veteran, 5.
b. Lamphere. was
addicted to the ex-
cessive use OF to-
bacco for many
years. He wanted
to quit but needed
something to help
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
The Scale on a Map,

Distance on map is measured by
its scale" By laying rule on a
government map and ascertaining the
number of inches between two points
the number of miles between them
can readily be calculated. Nearly all
maps are drawn to scale represent
Ing one, two, three, or more miles to
the inch, as the inch is the common
unit Of measurement in the United
States by which the eye is accus-
toned to judge distances on paper.
A scale of 1:62.5OO, used in the
well-known United States geological
survey topographic maps, denotes
that l inch on the map represents
$500 inches on the ground, which
Is the approximate number of inches
in mile. Therefore the scale is,
almost exactly. 1 inch to l mile A
scale of 1:125,000 is approximately 2
miles to l inch and a scale of
1:1.000,000 represents 16 miles to !
inch
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

arrest and said I would get b,s ),
pital ship taken away from him i1 nes
a meddlesome. interfering fad a ior
This is the language attribut uu1st !. /.
the d. A. and @. M. G.. in th TO
port of the royal commission e re-
Mesopotamia mess. VI The
The incident might have epdsa ),
this way, but for the fact nv Just
the time he had got this oft,cia a' BY
this frame Of mind. the noise INTO mt
reached e"S1ee Sir Sir John Nixon, command dsa
to be made. The result was sa.oa
steps were then taken to remos mat
far as possible the consequently as
the terrible earlier neglect, Ana Of
OF the whole sad story of the the r out
me- SI tam Campaign. as made D Das
ings, about the only paraersnt uaa
commentator is that given to % q
work Of the meddlesome doctor Tue
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
UNWoMANLY AND UNPATRIoT1C.

The pardoned Suffragists have resumed their
picketing and it is said that the District OF
Columbia authorities will pay no attention to
them unless they display seditlous banners
again. 1t is stated, however, that the president
will not urge the suffrage amendment on con-
gress, and there seems no chance whatever that
a two-t thirds majority will favor the submission
of the question to the states.
There is no doubt that these women of the
congressional union have hurt themselves In the
eyes Of the country and brought their cause
into lessened esteem. The most terrible calam-
ity in history is bringing incalculable suffering
on mankind. The noblest women of every land
are working to the limit of endurance in giving
their time and strength and money to assuage
the anguish of the world Millions of women
are knitting, sewing, making bandages, pillows,
congresses and scores of other things the
wounded need, and tens of thousands of other
women are giving up all their lives to nursing
shattered heroes back to health or to soothing
the pain of their last hours earth The
highest-type women of all nations are thus en-
gagged, but these militant suffragsts have left
their homes and families and given up all use
full work, all womanly activities, to go to the
national capital and hound and harass gov
eminent burdened as no other in our land has
been since the darkest hours of our revolution
and our civil war.
Yet these are women of education, good posi-
ton, wives and mothers many Of them, with
pleasant homes; with money ample for their
needs and surrounded by refining influences.
They live in the most favored of lands and have
no grievance except that they-a handful of
agitators- change all of sudden a
system of government which the vast majority
of people living under it find satisfactory as
lit is. How poor an excuse for their unpatriotic,
unwise, unwomany acts!
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
Praise loudly, blame softly.-Catherine II.
FINE SERVICE FOR COUNTRY.

Daniel Willard. chairman of the committee
hf TRANSPORTATION of the council of national
defense, pays merited tribute to the spirit dis
PLAYED by the American railroads in meeting
the war test. So far as he knows, these carriers
''afford the only instance where the owners OF
private property have voluntarily subordlnated
their own personal interests to the require
ments of the nation for the period of the war;
Others may be willing to do so, he adds, but
he knows of no others that have actually done
go. However, Mr.. Willard may go further and
see more.
Of course others are willing; nor is there
reason to doubt that many men have sacrificed
their personal interests for the sake of serving
the nation The spirit of sacrifice is abroad
in the land. The whoe-hearted service the
railroads are giving attracts attention because
of the magnitude of the work done by the
transportation companies and the remarkable
efficiency shown in performance.
That the example set by the railroads is bear
ING good fruit is evidenced by the action taken
by all shippers of tidewater bituminous coal.
They have agreed to pool their coal at the
ports of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Hampton Roads, which will, it is estimated,
effect such saving in the use Of coal cars as
to enable the railroads to haul to these ports
six million, six hundred and forty thausand tons
more than they did last year when they hauled
thirty-one million tons. Under the plan,
instead of shippers sending 1156 kinds of coal
to the Atlantic seaboard they will reduce the
number to forty-one; when coal of certain
grade is wanted for steamer, the coal of that
kind of any and all shippers will be used to
fill the order. Coal men have sacrificed long
established trade names in the adoption of this
plan and from now on coal will be coal when
lit gets to tidewater, and there will no longer be
any holding of coal in freight cars until one
shipper accrunulates full cargo of particular
grade.
/ The use of one hundred and thirty three thous-
and freight cars will be saved by this pooling
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
DOGS
TO ENTER WAR
Wearing Gas Masks Thev a. 49,
Between Trenches and Locat.
Wounded Men Amono
the Dead.
by United Press. !

WASHINGTON, July 27.-rb.
American dog is going to do hts Nv
In the war. Red Cross CANNES ". w
In big demand on the western troa.
wearing gas masks, they 20 ont =.
tween the trenches and locat nno.s
scious, wounded men in piles :,
dead. '
The Red Cross estab,,sh,,...
which will care for American wa ueas
ed when the national army atari.
pounding the kaiser. would be incom :
plete without its quota of does
Plans are under way to have Incl
Sans bow-wows take their places nv
the fighting line beside those =.
France and Great Britain, some =,
which have actually received decor.
tons for their work under fire
/, Several months Of training is nece,.
sary before the dogs are ready fo,
service. They must be taught ia
range the shell-swept areas of M.
Mans land. hunting the wounded
whom the busy stretcher bearers
could not at first glance distinguish
from the dead. When an uncon.
scious man is located. the dog d
trained to carry his tin hat" or
shrapnel helmet to the stretcher bear.
ers. and then to lead them back to
where the sufferer is lying.
Many Red Cross dogs have been
produced in England. AS trench war.
fare has rendered them a necessity.
project is under consideration to
train the American "Rovers" some
where in the United States and to
send them over with other Red Cross
units. Blue bloods are not the only
ones needed. Yellow ours can do
their bit for America also, II they
have the spirit, and enough dog
brains"
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
HOSTILITY TO RAILROADS.
Iy,u.. s. ~ spue Mind Decision OF ntersate
$500 - meroeco Commission.

And that has been because the rail-.
roads have been not only restrained
from earning the money that Is re-
ouired for expansion Of facilities, but
also have been burdened with increas-
ed expenses through full-crew laws,
the so-called eight-hour law, and
heavier taxation.
Then, when they make application
for permission to raise rate sufhcient-
lly to cover at least in part, the en-.
|larged outgo, shippers and represen-
tatiyes of state commissions make Vo-
ciferous protest, and the commission,
fearing public opinion" grudg1ngly
grants fraction of what 1t ought 10
grant, and makes the promise that II
will watch earnings and, IL 1t appears
after certain period, that the rail-
roads are headed toward greater 1nef'
ficiency due to insufficient resources.
and even bankruptcy, 1t will give re-
lief presumably again fractional.
That Is like saying to starving
man: Well we'll give you q little
food, and then for a time We Will
watch your condition and il it appears
that you are in danger OF dying we
will give you little more.
II this public opinion" or rather
this abnormal state Of mind toward
the railroads persists, then public
ownership will be the ultimate out
come. That danger has been pointed
out from time to time. 1t Is q dan
ger, for transportation by govern
ment-owned railroads would be more
costly. That IS indicated by results OF
government ownership in European
countries. Facilities are inferior to
those in the United States, wages are
much lower; yet rates are higher.
That is because there is never the
economical management applied to
public enterprises which is needful for
success in private business. The in
centive is absent, for profit is not the
object. The public must pay what
ever operation costs. If earnings show
a deficit, it must be covered by tax
alton.
For a time, it seemed that there was
In progress a change in public senti-
ment and governmental attitude, that
the relief from hostility to business
would be extended to the railroads.
Instead, hostility toward the railrads
persists and while their gross business
Is larger, their net earnings are shrink
ing, while all other business is SO
highly profitable that the congress Is
taxing excess profits"
Antagonism to the railroads is an
tagonism to public interests.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
HE is ALWAYS
MAKING TROUBLE
English Surgeon Does Not Intend to,
But Bumps Into Il
Accidentally
Very Often.
[By Lowell Mellett. United Press
4 Staff Correspondent

[By Lowell Mellett. United Press
Staff Correspondent
LONDON, July 8.-{By mail.)-
There's an English surgeon named
Carter who is always making trouble
for himself. Some years ago he was
professor Of materia medica, phar-
macy and morbid anatomy, as well as
curator of the museum at Grant
Medical college, Bombay. Walking
down the street one day, carrying all
this title. he met native suffering
from rare leg ailment. one that
meant amputatton at an early date,
and danger to the natives life. He
explained the situation to the native
and offered him FIVE rupees for the
privilege Of performing the amputa.
ton that afternoon. The native
grabbed at the bargain u and his life
was saved.
But the next morning Garter was
awakened by congregation Of halt,
MANNED and blind natives outside his
house. all clamoring for the oppor.
tunity to earn five rupees.
The dispatch of Indian troops to
Mesopotamia resulted in the appear.
ance there Of Major Robert NJ Car
ter, Indian medical service. Very
soon he was in trouble with the D.
A. and @. M. G. for insisting, long
after his insistence had been frown-
ed upon, that medical conditions must
be made better.
81 threatened to put him under
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
ART AND ETHICS.

A question has been raised in New York City
as to just what amount Of renovation leaves
an art work still to be classed as antique
and where the work of the modern renovator
becomes the major part Of the renewed product.
Not long ago picture purporting to be
Portrait of a Lady" by J. W. Chandler, was
brought to this country by New York dealer
The customs house authorities found the por-
trait all too fresh and brilliant in seemliness
to be the work of an artist dead century or
more and discovered that the picture had been
retouched by a firm of European restorers.
Collector Malone was called in consultation and
he ruled that whatever the picture had been
when Chandler got through with it, it was now
a modern work Of art and subject to fifteen per
cent. duty. Moreover, Justice Waite supported
the claim of the collector, and now there is war
between the court and the jury of art experts
summoned as witnesses by the dealer. One
point seems to have escaped the notice of all
parties to the dispute. The value of the picture
is undoubtedly based on the fact that it is a
Chandler. The government in ruling that it is
not a Chandler destroys that value and would
mot seem within its right in collecting fifteen
per cent. of value it's ruling dissipates.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
Corn Prices Hurting Farmers.

Cedar Rapids Gazette: No one
should develop the idea that these
high corn prices help the farmers as
whole or that they afford a new
reason for Thanksgiving in Iowa. A
level price Of sl.00 or even 90 cents
from the day of husking until now
would have brought more money into
the state and taken less money out.
Individual farmers are to be congrat-
.ulated for their gains, whether due
to deliberate plans on their part or
to accident. But the man who sells
100 bushels Of corn az $500 and pay;
proportionate price for feed until
November is a loser The farmer
who has no corn for sale is a double
loser Ii he must buy feed.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
HOW THE ALPHABET GREW.
Began as Pictures and Required Age,
for CompIetjon


for Completion.
Kansas City Star: No one really
knows all about where the ALPHABET
came from. because il grew very slow
ly. like children and every other good
thing in the world But we know oujte
well that no ingenious man sat down
and made the alphabet. and We know
quite well. TOO. that the alphabe. be-
gan as pictures.
Just as child reads or takes things
in by pictures long before # can read
letters, so men used 70 read and write
by pictures: and then these pictures
were gradually made sim pier and gimp.
Ter, until al last they could be used In
every and any way, as our letter can.
We know that the letter 0 was first
the picture of an eye. and that grad
ualy men made the picture palmer.
until al last they drew an o. The let
ter I was once a picture OF a house
and very likely e capital A may have
been at first the picture Of pyramid
Ages and ages ago in Egypt men
used both kinds OF writing. The priests
used the oldest kind. which was the
pictures. This was called the sacred
writing. But the ordinary people used
a different and newer kind Of writing.
in which the pictures were turned in
TO letters. Not very many years ago
men tried in vain 70 read the old sa-
cred picture writing of the Egyptians.
but they could not. Then they found
tie wonderful Rosetta stone, and this
had written upon II the same thing
three times-once In pictures and once
in the letters. and also once in other
letters. and so men got the key TO
picture writing. and now It can be
read easily.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
TODAY's BIT OF VERSE
a PEREECI DAY.

When you come to the end of perfect day
And you sit alone with your thought
While the chimes ring out with a carol gay
For the Joy that the day has brought,
Do you think what the end of perfect day
Can mean to tired heart,
When the sun goes down with flaming ray
And the dear friends have to part?
Well, this is the end of perfect day,
Near the end of journey, too;
But it leaves thought that is big and strong,
With wish that is kind and true.
For mem'ry has painted this perfect day
With coors that never fade
And we find, at the end of perfect day,
The soul of friend we've made.
Carrie Jacobs Bond
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

arrangement Delays to cars at ports Will De
cut down, and very large part of the shifting
of cars at tidewater terminals will be elemi-
mated
In serving the nation to the best Of their
ability the railroads and the tidewater coal
shippers are really promoting their own inter
ests, but the fact does not detract from the
credit that is their due. They are to be judged
by their skill and energy in meeting national
emergency no less than by their display OF
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27
IOWA PRESS COMMENT.

4 buTllukUOn k1dW hsC1ye. iho $780,
hospital for crippled or sick children
has been running perhaps two years.
and already some 300 children have
been treated there. Some have been
cured, all have been benefited. And
this Is only the beginning. The
more people see and hear of this ex-
pertinent the better do they like II,
and the prouder do they become OF
the good old state of Iowa that leads
in this as In SO many other respects.
1t is self-evident that the state ought
to look after. the poor children. whose
parents are unable to provide such
care and attention. And 1t Is surely
to the credit of the state that Iowa
was the first to appreciate or discov-
er this fact.
Sioux City Journal: You might
have thought the president could not
find solution that would please
both Goethals and Denman, but he
did. Goethals is delighted to see the
skids under Denman and Denman
is tickled to death to see Goethals
shooting the chutes.
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Iowa
finishes anything she starts. That's
WHY ldSSclS On Tic COl Sdu StoW oii,
confident that they will be followed
by ears.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Unit
ed States will again allow export of
ammunition to Mexico, with the un-
derstanding, OF course, that 1t is to
be used only on Mexicans.
Abba Union: Never before has
the congress Of the United States so
abruptly put a chief executive in
such corner as Woodrow Wilson
finds himself on the prohibition
question.
Manson Journal: Secretary of
State Allen complains that people are
not paying their auto licenses. 1t
seems to us there is a way provided
to make people pay. Why not try
enforcing the law for change.
Sioux City Tribune: The press of
Berlin is now engaged in preparing
the people Of Germany for another
winter of war. And less than three
months ago the Berlin press was
promising Germany an early peace,
account Of submarines.
Sac City Bulletin: The Chinese
emperor appeared just at the height
of the season and, naturally, he was
canned. too.
Davenport Democrat: The Iowa
farmer is planning the greatest corn
canning campaign he ever undertook.
The farmers can Is the silo.
Des Moines Register: No doubt
Dr. Won Hollweg's spirit rejoiced at
the kind words of his successor, but
they didn't bring his goat back.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

The wisdom that he toll and poverty was
life has meaning and no happiness unless " 10
spent others did matter that the toins
poor themselves illustrated the unwittinely and
unwlngy ToIstoy perceived that they had the true
spite themselves; but that their reiuc
ignorance could not the blessing from
then, which withheld from him, and from all
the of his kind and quality He oeheVeo
happiness In them came first OF all from
their Iabor-W D. Howelis.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Animals in the London zoo are do
ing their bit" by going without pota-
toes. of which they formerly consumed
5000 pounds a year.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

German cigar manufacturers are
now obliged to deliver rs per cent. Of
their output to the military AUTHORITIES.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Good taste requires that no complaint be
made of the excessive heat; not for a day,or two.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Iowa's state fair and exposition is one of
the few remaining statewide and popular indi-
cations that the people Of our country are to
this day interested in the soil and its products.
Nowhere except in the middle west and on the
Pacific slope are such crowds attracted as
attend the annual showing of states resources
las flock to Des MONIES. It surely will be
worth while to every resident of Lee county
if arrangement is made for visit to that
Iowa institution, the state fair and expo
sition. which is to be opened on August twenty
two and continue for ten days thereafter.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

She who pickets and is arrested expects to j
be pardoned to picket another day.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

How much more trouble LaFollette and his
little band of wreckers will be permitted to
cause by patient senate we do not know. We
do know that they are treading on dangerous
ground. If the senate has any particularly
harsh rules which be applied to nullify Their.
unpatrotic conduct, the country will be salts
fed with nothing short of their strictest
application.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Cedar Rapids Gazette: The Unit
ed States will again allow export of
ammunition to Mexico, with the un-
derstanding, OF course, that 1t is to
be used only on Mexicans.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Sac City Bulletin: The Chinese
emperor appeared just at the height
of the season and, naturally, he was
canned, too.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Abba Union: Never before has
the congress Of the United States SO
abruptly put chief executive in
such corner as Woodrow Wilson
finds himself on the prohibition
question.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Iowa
finishes anything she starts. That's
why tassels on the corn can grow on
confident that they will be followed
by ears.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-07-27

Davenport Democrat: The Iowa
farmer is planning the greatest corn
canning campaign he ever undertook.
The farmers can Is the silo.