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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
WHO'S cor YOUR GOAT.

A plan said to have the approval OF
Governor Lowden has been proposed
which will make every Chicagoan his
own milkman. The proposition is that
each family shall keep a goat. A hus-
Ky lady goat it is averred will keep a
family supplied with milk. Some goats
they say give six quarts a day. Amy
old goat however. will furnish cream
for the coffee and enough skim for
breakfast food and milk gravy thus
conserving the butter that otherwise
a goat, the problem of living seems
to be settled.
OF course there arises some incon-
ven;ence, especially to those who dwell
in flats. The goat is of all animals
most fragrant and odoriferous.
1t will require some time to use the
average family to sleeping with a goat
under the bed. Those who have in
habited the same house with a goat
rug or have owned a goat robe for
driving will understand and positively
recall the aroma of wet goat skin.
rug and the robe as child to an ath-
lete. That is, the goat is the stronger.
is bound to be trouble among the
goats crowded thus in flats and on
forty and sixty foot fronts in resi-
dence districts. A mans goat is as his
.ips. re VIII VII, ff::SSh.. sc- his goat u was
SO when we kept cows and let them
run at large. 1t never was our COW
that ate the neighbours cabbage, and
that we maintained. So when the goat
becomes a home fixture and a house
hold pet Those who throw stones at
our goat throw stones at US. Man
kind lnciInes TO deTenu It's own eo1tSs
The goat is an afrectionate animal,
most kindly disposed to members of
its own family, but resentful OF inter-
ference by others. 1t viii fawn on Mrs.
Mulcahay and butt Mrs. Murphy fur
iously II may stand hitched to the
cart of tn. children of its own family
but it takes no nonsense from other
peoples brats. Like the ass it knoweth
its owner and like the OK, its masters
crib. A lively. affectionate and in
telligent animal is the goat. Aside
from its peculiar aromatic redoience
it might make an ideal household pet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
BY DAVID CORY.

BY DAVID CORY.
There are lots Of things I know,
And I'm sure they're really SO.
For the Friendly Forest Folk
Love jolly little joke.
Often Robbie Redbreast tells
What is happening in the dells.
And would you believe 1t, this morn
ing this little red-breasted bird flew
into my window to tell me how the
Weathercock on the Old Barn was try
ing to crow like Cocky Docky? And
OF course all the Barnyard Folk laughed
at him, for a Weathercock isn't sup
posed to crow. you know What he
must do is to tell which way the wind
is blowing land let the ROSTERS down
below sing their cock a doodle songs.
And after telling me this Robbie
Redbreast said that Billy Bunny was
back at the Old Brier Patch and was
getting new suit Of clothes for school.
For the Friendly Forest School was to
open in few days and Mrs. Bunny
was anxious that her little boy should
look spick and span. II only for the
first day.
WELL after had listened to the lit
tie Robin for maybe half an hour he
flew to my typewriter and commenced
this story. and the other things he told
me iii tell you by and by: but first
of all we'll go back to the Old Brier
Patch and see what the little rabbit
is doing.
Now, Billy Bunny" said his mother.
school will begin in few days, 80
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
TIMES. REPUBLICAN MAKsHALLTowN. SEPTEMBER

than the Dutch. Here "a Marion ccun-
~ men Of other nationalities come and
10, but the Dutch who come stay, al
ways. We should be ~ much surprised
to hear one Of our prosperous Hol-
land farmers is selling out his lands
and chattels to 90 back to Holland TO
spend his last days as II a wealthy
American farmer were selling out to
remove to England. The Pell paper
is eminently correct 1t its objections
to being Hollandized by public speak
ers. No race Is being more completely
fused and assimilated in the melting
pot Of America than the Dutch. nor
has any race brought to America men
of sturdier principle or more unblem-
ished patriotism. Pella Is an American
town, populated entirely by Ameri-
cans. part of them born in Holland.
and most of the others descended from
Hollanders.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17

here IL some money for you to buy
pencils and new slate with. You had
better 60 down to the three and ono
cent store and get what you need for
school," and she handed the little rAb-
bit seven and Z half carrot cents ana
he hoped away. and by and by, not 80
very far, he came to the store. And
the first person he saw was Daddy
Fox. Yes, sir! There stood the little
rabbits worst enemy, smiling as sweet
~ as you please and licking his lips
just as il he tasted . nice juicy rabbit
stew. ~ 4
GOOD gracious. Daddy Fox" said
Billy Bunny bravely, for what was the
use ofelookins frightened. for that
would only make the old fox all the
more cruel,
GOOD morning, little rabbit and
the crafty old fox shu. the door Of tho
three and one cent store very softly SO
that no one inside would hear It, ana
then he stepped over toward Billy
Bunny.
Don't you come any nearer" cried
the little rabbit; and he gave quick
hop to one side, and 1t was mighty
lucky that he did. for Daddy Fox gave
a leap and landed IN the very spot
where Billy Bunny had been standins.
And then what do you think happened?
Why. the big shepherd dog that had
once saved the little rabbit from the
ugly snake. you remember, Jumped
out of the bushes, and when Daddy
Fox saw him he ran away ~ fast ~
he could and even faster.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
IT'S so DIFFERENT.
IWinterset MadiaoniAn.l

II a bunch of boys congresate In
back room or haymoW to shoot
craps or play poker, they are arrest
ed, fined and perhaps put in jail-not
because they harmed someone, but be-
cause they broke the law. IT a bunch
CT meg viii: = high, sounding real es-
tate name. conduct a public drawing
in defiance of the laws of Iowa it
goes without hitch. Not only that.
but lot OF the rock-ribbed saints OF
law, order and sobriety follow the lot
terry box all day in the hope of draw
ing something and the W. c. T. U.
gives the whole affair an air Of respec-
liability by serving lunch to the hun
CRY crowd Why insist on law enforce
ment part Of the time and wink at the
violation the rest of the time? All of
which is said. not in spirit Of criti-
cism, but to show how inconsistent we
proud American people are when we
swell up with the belief that We are
law abiding citizens. Too many OF US
are long on law enforcement when the
infraction is one that does not direct
ly concern us and too short on law
enforcement where it interferes with
ourselves, our business or our friends.
The man who likes dram OF liquor.
swears at the bone dry law that in
terferes with the avenues Of supply
The man who wants to keep open
store or conduct an amusement park,
thinks the laws on Sunday closing are
a relic of the dark ages. The man who
wants to catch fish by the quicker
method can see no sense in the law
prohibiting the use of dynamite or the
seine. Taken collectively. we Ameri-
cars need 70 he s,ore careful when we
use the term Flaw abiding citizen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
Topics of the Times

Those "wops" pack wallop in both
hands
Russia has been proclaimed a repuo-
lie. Now that she has her card let's
hope she'll work at the trade.
For a man nearly dead Kerensky is
the liveliest invalid on record A little
Of that Kerensky disease might be an
excellent contagion to scatter around
in other capitals.
At that, Kelly isn't acting crazier
than some other Montgomery county
people.
King Coal, having been drafted,
doesn't seem to be able to impress the
exemption board. Looks like he'd have
to take his medicine like other con-
scripts and serve instead Of command.
When the sun stood still for Joshua
it wasn't fighting for him better than
1t Is putting in its ticks for the U. S. A.
and allies today.
That Typographical error in the re-
port Of the sinking Of those subs
doesn't seem to have been much of an
error after all. The boys got five and
five out Of six is blamed good shooting.
When the peace terms are written
they must make clear to Germany and
the rest Of the world that kaiserism
has been thoroughly licked. otherwise
what's the use?
Germanys bluff talk about AngH-
citation Of Belgium merely suggests &c
the listener that what Germany has to
do with the future of Belgium will not
be much outside of paying thru the
nose for the damage she did.
The farm war profits would buy
Iowa's share Of the bond issue and
leave a margin for automobiles. A
bond is clean velvet for the farmer, a
saving investment Of the proceeds OF
an extraordinary and unearned incre-
ment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
Ripping Rhymes
" WALT MASON
REor.

Rect.
All summer I have been Out west.
where people go from home to rest,
among the snow-capped hills. to Be
far away from office chairs, and city
noise and business cares. and al the
workday Ills. saw q million, less or
more, and most Of them found rest .
bore and longed to be back home.
where each could for some dollars
chase, and plan new business schemes
and place more gray hairs on his dome.
So few Of us know how to rest! BY
mad ambition we're possessed to nail
another hone. to add one large round
dollar more. one shining doubloon to
the store that We already own. We
cannot lay our harness down. forsake
the hot and bustling town. and have Q
restful time: we fear that while re-
pose we take. some other fellow, more
awake, might beat US 70 dime. And
SO vacation finds us sore; We walk tho
mountains or the shore. and fume ana
sigh and fret: We yearn for cares We
left behind. and tell our wives. the
beaxtly grind is stu the one best bet.
Alas. we've never learned to rest, to let
our work slide galley west, to slunnber
and relax; We do not like to pace life's
road unless we bear q calling load
upon our creakinz backs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
IOWA SENATOR'S SET RIGHT.

When the war tax bill passed the
senate last week the early dispatches
named Senator Kenyon. from Iowa,
among the few who voted against it,
and later it was assumed in the edi-
torial columns of this newspaper that
Senator Cummins must have voted for
1t, inasmuch as he was not listed with
the minority.
Word from Washington now discloses
that Senator Kenyon finally voted for
the bill after voting repeatedly with
the minority in an unsuccessful at
tempt to secure higher rates upon war
profits, and that Senator Cummins was
absent hence not recorded as voting
either way.
The Times Republican heartily ap-
proves of Senator Kenyon's efforts to
make profits from war pay-a larger
share of wars expense. but he is en-
titled to be set right in print as finally
voting for the bill because it was the
only revenue bill possible, and revenue
had to be raised.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
LEST WE FORGET. "
britt Tr;bune.1

In writing of the cussedness and dis
loyalty Of certain Germans In Amer
lea who are branded a. Kaiser lovers
and who, wherever they dare do 80,
continually belittle America and Amer
lean Institutions, let US not forget that
among the Germans the very best Of
Iowa citizens are found, and the best
loyalty of America may also be found.
All honor to them. There are ten
loyal Germans where there Is one dis
loyal. and they are, if anything, more
aggressive against this disloyalty In
their ,countrymen. than the ordinary
American citizen. In some certain To-
calities this disloyalty is more pro-
nounced and in some places a sort OF
quasi organization has been attempted,
but as class our German farmers
are as truly loyal as any other class
and the names OF both enlisted and
drafted men will show up on each
roster with its full share of German
names This is especially true Of Han
cock county.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
HEAR The BILLIONS CRUNCH.

At the rate of expenditure planned
by the United States for the first year
Of this war we will be spending each
week as much as the civil war of 81
cost US in a year. We have already
planned to spend in one year % per
cent Of what the war has cost all of
the belligerent nations in three years.
and more than half as much in one
year as Germany and Austria have
spent in three years.
We have set out TO win this war
on the run by the crushing weight Of
our tremendous resources. Billions in
money merely measure the magnitude
go to the front, we are to set millions
OF workers to the task of making the
machines. the flyers, the tanks, the
guns, the ships, the trucks. the loco
motives. the trench diggers, and the
countless contrivances which constitute
modern engines Of warfare.
The UL ted States has appropriated
sls,5'o,o00,0o0 for the first year, which
is approximately all that Great Britain
has spent in three years, aside from
her loans to her allies. France has
spent less than that in the three years
in which her nation has been engaged
in its life and death struggle.
We enter this war not only one hun
dred millions strong in people but
countless billions strong in wealth and
resources. If Germany has felt the
pressure Of the greater economic
strength OF her enemies, she will find
that preponderance of power more
than doubled by the United States.
The lesson of this war has been that
enginery and resources count for more
than men, and while only a million
or two of our men will be enlisted
against Germany, billions upon billions
of resourceS-the work Of other men
will be thrown against the enemy until
the full strength Of a hundred millions
Of powerful people is felt by the
kaiser's crowd.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
ed that darkness not with light but
with fiame.-sNew York Times.
Why His Son Goes TO War.

Suppose England was brought tc
her knees by some severe disasters
and suppose the kaiser could dictate
terms to John Bull-vhat would hap
pen?
A triumphant Germany would de-
mand the surrender Of the entire Brit
ish navy. and the whole outfit of
worlds destruction would be turned
like the DEVILS own carnival against
the United States.
Do we want those powers OF hslrs
pollution on American soil? Remem-
Der Belgium and Northern France
where the Teuton savages have
smashed all historical records Of re-
voting cruelties and crimes. Think
Of Dinant. Aerschot, Malines and
Louvain. God help the women and
young girls where the s'kultur" Of
cannibalism is triumphant!
Are we fighting this war for En-
gland7 No. by the powers eternal
England has for three bloody years
held the ground for france and for
America too. Never would France
have been today II John Bull had not
come to the rescue. Crushed in blood
and dust by tho iron heel of the Teu-
ton world destroyers. England saved
Europe from destruction. and now 4.
10 up to America to save the world
for democracy.
In closing this epistle, beg leave to
state that my only son 6victor Julius)
is one OF the boys who are called by
Uncle Sam for duty on Wednesday,
the 18th Inst. I am man OF advanced
age, and the mother OF the departing
boy is old. too. and her health has been
shattered long ago. In June. 1909. we
lost our oldest boy. Melvin. under very
tragic circumstances. and Victor is
now the only one left from whom we
could expect any assistance in our old
age. But we have no complaint to
make: we know and understand the
situation. I have always tried to be a
loyal citizen Of Uncle Sam. and my
only regret Is that l am too old to 80
with the boys. We arc UP against a
hard proposition. and we must look
stern facts and brutal realities square
ly in the face.
The Rubicon is crossed.-there is no
retreat or compromise until the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
WHAT 90 you KNOW .sou1 THAT,

An Ames professor advises the plant
ing Of trees along country roadsides.
He says that the theory that they re-
tard drying of the road after rains is
without foundation and declares that
trees along the farm protect from dry
ing winds and increase the yield OF
crops.
Every day we learn something or
think we do. Now a very large num-
Der of persons addicted to travelling
the roads have held the impression
that the reason for a mudhole under
the roadside willows lay in the over
shading of the highway by the trees
and that those trees did retard the
drying out Of the road. Also certain
farmers who have chopped down long
rows of trees imagined they added
four or six-rod strip to the productive
ity OF their farms.
The professor, however, says he has
the goods on us. He has made ex-
periments and he is a botanist and
ought to know. He says those trees
conserve moisture all over the field,
that the few rows Of corn under the
trees may well be sacrificed to the in
creased yield occasioned elsewhere.
Granting that the professor is right
and that mis- experiment works out like
two times two are four, it is going to
be mighty hard to convince the average
man that the trees have nothing to do
with the slippery road under them. The
more especially when he finds the road
dry everywhere else. And despite the
assurances offered the farmers will
look on that turn row with its strip
of practically idle ground convinced
that at 81 a bushel il ought to De
turning out load for every four rows
eighty rods long instead Of little or
nothing. Just the same, the botanist
ought to know. Perhaps ne does know;
folks are slow to learn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
Child Minds il Russia.

I'VE are dark and ignorant, and the
educated people have always deceived
u.s." Russian soldiers have said over
and over again, so our Petrograd cor
respondent informs us. There is, in
deed, something of the pathetic in the
case Of these cropping masses, with
whom we grow impatient sometimes
because of their reaction to the hrst
influences that come upon them. Per-
haps we shall understand them better
OF the revolution that are now coming
out ink the French press.
Take, for instance, the story told by
NJ de F-iers. associate editor of the
Figaro, who Is with the Russian troops
in Roumania- One Of those soldiers
meetings which have been fashionable
under "the new discipline" ended in a
rush Of the men to channel between
two lakes. where nets kept the FISH
from passing into the larger lake. In
which 1t would be more difficult to net
them. They began to pull out and de-
stEoy the barriers and nets, crying,
Liberty for the fish," When some OF
their officers tried to interfere. nom
commissioned officer explained:
Fish are Gods creatures like men,
and have the same right to liberty.
But men can talk and so have made
the revolution. while fish are dumb and
can never make theirs. 1t Is therefore
our duty to aid them. because 1t is con-
trary to nature to pen them up in order
to capture them easily and kill them.
Something very lovable and enSag-
IL. - E1frt q
a little unfair to expect 1t to grapple
in large way with great public ques-
lions. Take, too the incident narrat-
ed by II. Nadeau, Of the Temps. about
how the workmen in a factory waited
upon the engineers and informed them
that In view Of the new order Of things
they must go down into the mines and
work like the rest. Then followed this
colloquy:
The Engineers-,And who viii do
our work.
THE workmen-.Some Of us Will
take turns in your offices.
But what will you do there
THE same as you do-sit around.
sharpen pencils and smoke cigarettes.
In the same spirit, the founder and
"a LILO G<IAAAFS0A ebAA~
OF Petrograd reports that the care
takers and cleaners there have peti-
toned the government for the suppress
sion Of his Office. on the ground that
q curator Is useless in q museum, that
he does nothing and costs money. as
they who carry the keys. WELD the
feather brooms, and clean the floors.
are the real curators.'
Milukoff has told how. in one Of his
with representatives Of the
Of workmen's and soldiers
delegates, q delegate said to him:
what do We want with the Darda-
nelles. anyhow? They are icebound
three fourths Of the year" It was
doubtless on such arguments that the
Russian government was forced to give
up its demand for constantinople an
war aim.
Il L. not all cowardice or malevoience.
or even an intelligent fanaticism over
socialism, that has brought Russia 70
her present pass. The responsibility
rests on those who. having minds OF
honest darkness TO deal with penetrat-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
Masonic Meetings
v,srssrs always ~eleoms.

IN vjsfSoes always ~eleoms.
MARoAALL LODGE. No. 1903 A. F. q
4. M-epeeiai communication, Friday
Sent. 81. 1850 e'eleck. Work In First
Degree. John W. Wells, secretary; w.
Il. steiner. W. M.
sIoNEr CHAPTER, No. 50, r. A; MI
stated convention Monday eVenlns'
Sept. II, at 4 o'clock. Business session
Carl shanner. H. P.l John w. "e"s'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Sole
mon Council No 20, r. 4 8. NJ. M 7n'
day. Sept. II. 1850. Regular business
l. r. Forbes, recorder; George Gresor''
/ N.
STATED cohoAlvE. 81. Aldemas
ccr1manaery, Ne. 30, X. T. TUESDAY
Sent. Is, 8 p. m. Regular business; l.
r. Forbes. feeerderi H. c. MaeiAe''
commander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. Q: {.
a.-Rexylar meeting for business wee
pesday. Sept. Il, p. n. Mrs. Seorse
Downing, secretary; Mrs. J. Z. FFeu-
sriek. W. N.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17


The Pella Chronicle complains be-
cause speakers who come there insist
upon regarding Pelia as a Holland
province. and feeding her t.affy accord
ingly. The Chronicle is right. Pella is
an Tican tvwn, sivs n q.
Holland. When a Hollander comes 10
this country he does not intend nor ex-
pect to make a pile" and return to
the old country to spend the after
noon Of life On the contrary. he be-
comes an aggressive American. He
takes out his naturalization papers.
and becomes part Of his adopted
country The Hoilander In America
Is never an alien in fact, because he
has come for the purpose OF being an
American; he is not looking around to
criticize and find fault and 90 back to
the old country. No race takes hold
Of American soil with greater avidity.
handles 1t with greater industry or re-
linquishes 1t with greater reluctance
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
YES OR NO.
rNyt.t --,I

There is no race Of people being put
10 the test as are the Germans Of this
country. The time has come when
they must say they are Germans or
they are Americans. They have taken
the oath Of allegiance to this country.
Are they going to ignore it? They
have renowned the kaiser. who, they
said oppressed them. Do they now In
tend to reconsider what they have done
and said, and stand for the imperial
government OF Germany? Do they In
tend TO hold the property and privil-
eyes they have attained and gained In
this country, and yet give aid and
comfort to this nations enemies? This
question must be decided affirmative
~ or negatively. There can be no quib-
bling about it. 1t is down now TO a
question of treason or patriotism. Is
it yes or no?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-17
LOOKING AT HIM.

ISI0uX CITY JournaI.1
The British skipper who brought his
cargo of $1,000 barrels of good old
Scotch into customs at New York one
hour ahead OF the deadiine may re-
main thru the ages unsung. but he will
probably be the most voluminously
toasted hero in history.