Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-15
:; LOCAL COMMENT

When a man joins a lodge or
club or woman joins q
woman's club they expect to pay their
dues once q year and then chip In
extra for special funds whenever the
hat is passed. Next week the Amer
can Red Cross society expects every
loyal American citizen to renew his
membership in the Red Cross for an
other year or Join 1t and become q
member IL he has not already done So
The Red Cross Is open to everybody,
men, women and children. 1t costs
only 81 to become q member for a
year or 81 II one wants to receive the
Red Cross monthly magazine which
tells what the Red Cross does with q
hundred millions Of money In feeding
the starving babies Of Europe. Every
family in America should tako out
memberships. a 81 membership for Ma
SO she will get the magazine and 81
membership for every other person in
the family. Tho Red Cross wants
numbers this time more than large
amounts Subscriptions to its war fund
will come next spring. The moral effect
upon the people Of Germany would be
tremendous If It could be shown that
fifty millions Of members had Joined
the Red Cross in the United States to
help prosecute the war. 1t might
cause the people Of Germany to force
their military madmen to make peace
with the world.
The county council Of defense Is to
be commended for its resolution to put
teeth into hts Jaws. Yellow paint and
other forms of mob Justice are not to
be desired in dealing with cases of
disloyalty altho such methods do some
times get results. Orderly procedure
Is the proper thing. Every suspect Is
entitled to investigation and hearing
before the council Of defense. II not
guilty he should not be strafed as a
traitor by his netghbors and II guilty
he should be punished by the United
States officers. The time Is coming
when Marshall county boys will be
killed in battle. Feeling will then run
high. Without orderly procedure there
might be danger Of lynchings and mob
violence for disloyal persons. 1t is
better to proceed in advance with or
ganized and deiiberative justice to
forestall punishment by the mob. In
the meantime 1t is we'll for citizens to
realize that II they should deserve
judicial condemnation by the county
council of defense they had better pre-
pare to leave the county for they will
become outcasts and parlahs In the
eyes of their neighbors when the
casualty lists begin to come homo.
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Keeping pigs In town Is as practic-
able as keeping chickens or cows and
far more sanitary than the out door
privy. Permits issued by mayor
or councilman with common sense
would enable 500 families to keep 5000
pigs within the city limits without in
jury or annoyance to any one. That
alone would provide for per cent OF
the rs per cent increase in the county's
pig crop demanded by the government
to help win the war.
II a man Is sick or feeble and is con-
fined to the house most of the time he
manages, somehow, to be the first to
shovel snow from his sidewalk but IL
he is hale, hearty and fat he generally
leaves the snow for passing pedestrians
to kick off for him.
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Several thousand school kids will
find out that the rumor of u four weeks
Christmas vacation is too good to be
true.
The final determination OF two years
OF litigation in the supreme court Of
the state establishes the right of one
-
lection from commercial piracy altho
Its steel furnace is not patented
article. Men may make furnaces and
sell them but they will not be per-
mitted by the law to duplicate the
furnace made by the Lennox Furnace
Company and thereby deceive the pub
lie with their product.
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A Special Sale.
4 We will place on sale for Saturday
n{plf only 100 fancy and aubstantial