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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

As told YOU in the last story, little
Gaping from the Miller's Boy. and
while he stood on his hind legs and
looked around, who should fly down
from a tree but Old Mother Maybe.
And the very first thing she said to
the little rabbit was, My goodness.
what a dirty little bunny you are"
And this of course made Billy Bunny
very angry. for he didn't think he was
dirty. SO he opened his knapsack and
took out little mirror which a lady
bunny had dropped one day in the
Friendly Forest and looked at himself,
and sure enough there was great
black smudge right across his face.
"Ha. Hal" laughed Old Mother Mag
pie. You wouldn't believe me. would
your" And then she laughed again.
mo. wouldn't bslieve anything you
said" answered the little rabbit. 'for
you've told more untruths about peo-
pie than anybody ] know, and that's
the reason they call you Old Mother
Mischief Well, sir! This made her
so mad that she flew at the little rab-
bit, and maybe she would have pecked
his eyes out il he hadn't put on a pair
OF goggles that belonged to his lear.
kind Uncle Lucky.
Please go way" said the little rab-
bit. y can't help being rude to you be-
cause you're so rude to other people
and he hoped away as fast as he could
before she could say another unkind
word, and by and by he came across
Squirrel Nutcracker. Now the old gen.
tleman squirrel had grown pretty old
and was very hard Of hearing and
when Billy Bunny said Good morning
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
WHAT $500 CORN MEANS.

BIDS of sl.S2 for cash corn in Chi
cago while the distilleries are in a
hurry to obtain corn for whisky before
the making of whisky is prohibited
means that there is no old corn in tn
country, comparatively speaking In
fact it has been several years now
since corn cribs were filled with grain
awaiting better market
1t also means that there is no sur
plus or reserve stock OF grain in the
world today. The world is living from
hand TO mouth. Continuance of the
war will keep out of circulation the
grain products of vast areas and a
general crop failure in single year
while present conditions prevail would
reduce the world 20 want.
Here in Iowa where grains grow in
abundance it is difficult to realize that
there could be any real shortage. but
even in this purely agricultural state
population has drifted toward town
until half Of our people are living in
cities and towns even in Iowa. The
farther east one goes the greater the
margin of food consumers over food
producers. and in Europe the proper
ton Of urban population is worse ye.
That is why Belgium is starving. Be.
GUM was one vast factory district
trading its wares for food Germany
seized the factories, stole the machin-
cry and the allies had already prevent
ed the importation Of food to terri
tories occupied by the German armies
The war will end some time. perhaps
next year, but hardly before the har-
vest Of next year. When IT does enc
another year will be consumed in get
ting the European countries back into
cultivation again and several years
more must pass before we can actually
store up grain so as to have part of a
crop in reserve. II is as tho a wage
worker had drawn upon his savings
during sickness. After he gets well hi
must live and II requires several years
before he can accumulate from his
fixed income another savings account
in reserve. The world is paying ar
enormous doctor bill just now and it.
savings account Of grain is gone. It /:
eating each years crop as the wage.
worker spends all Of his weekly wage
II will take time TO get ahead agair
and until that time comes real short
age OF food must be suffered by those
nearest to the bread line. Those liv-
ing nearest the farms will have thu
first grab and they will not go hungry
but others will have to go without
what we eat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Ripping Rhymes
~ WALT MASON
BACK 70 THE FARM.

Since I'm too fat to do more harm
with sworn or gun or sabre. methinks
I'll go back to the farm. and do some
useful labor. In carnage would like to
slosh, but as I've too much tallow, I'll
raise the large and shaply squash, the
artichoke and mallow. Then, maybe,
when the war Is done, and Kaiser Bills
q goner. with him who piled the deadly
gun they'll let me share the honor.
When I'm declared too fat to fight,
do not sulk or grumble: I say. What
ever is is right-Tll choose task more
humble. There surely is some useful
sphere in which portly duffer may do
as much as tho, with spear, he make =
Prussian suffer. So shall hum some
martial chants while spading, raking.
hoeing: I'll cultivate my nutmeg plants,
and keep my string beans growing
Most men are glad to bear the flag to
any warstruck region, IL they can ride
on prancing nag, and boss fighting
legion. We cannot all wear stripes OF
gold and train with captains courtly.
for some Of US have grown too old. and
others are too portly. But there are
places for US all ,whate'er our age or
station, to hang banner on the wall
and do things for the nation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
aTE3P IDAHO LAUNcto AND f1Ss sN1ONSl SpoNS0R

blue ribbons of the champagne bottle
stuck to the PROV, floating gayly in
the smoke arising from the ways until
the ship made her bow in the Della
ware.
Governor Alexander was accom-
panied by his daughter Mrs. William
Simons; Colonel Louis Doplin, of his
staff. Attorney General T. A. Walter
and several personal friends. Secre-
tary Daniels wired at the last moment
that he could not present, and the
navy department was represented by
Captain c. H. Dickens, chaplain from
the Philadelphia navy yard.
The Idaho is the heaviest vessel ever
built at the Camden yard and is 20
per cent completed. Her keel was laid
Jan. Is. 1915, and she will be complet-
ed in six months. She is sister ship
to the Mississippi, recently launched
at Newport News and the New Mexico,
built at the New York navy yard. Her
length is 624 feet. breadth 81 feet AK
inches, displacement $4,000 tons and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
There must be no prof,teerins. IL

There must be no pronteering. II =
in the nature Of treason. The people
will not tolerate it. It flourishes only
where the people are kept in Ignorance.
The tendency Of the committees UNI
der the council OF national defense to
take the law into their own hands de-
serves the immediate and stern atten-
ton Of the president. These commit
tees have no executive powers, yet they
are trying to dictate the placing 0f
contracts, often to their own members,
thru the binding power of advice.
The result il confusion and an open
avenue for the entrance OF graft
II it is deemed unwise at this time
to create a department Of munitions.
as other nations have done, it IL at
least time to put curb upon the ten
denotes OF certain committees to award
contracts to their own members and to
fix prices without warrant Of law. 1t
is better that the war and navy de-
partments should struggle along With
out the advice OF the council OF ma
tional defense and Its swarm Of patri-
otto committees, II this asiviSs ~ e
be accompanied by fayoritism, illesal
price fixing and efforts to throw con
tracts to men on the inside" who pose
as patriots, giving their services to-
the nation free Of charge. Washington
Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
AND WE ARE NOW AT WAR.
[Sioux City Journal


Considering its condition of physi-
cal, mental and even moral unprepar-
edness, the United States has been
fortunate in getting into war in
which it was not required immediately
to assume its share of the whole bur-
den. Altho the military strength OF the
enemy was not to be discounted. 1t
could not be brought to bear against
the United States. Therefore we have
been permitted to go into the great
war rather leisurely. We were in q
position to throw our financial
strength forcibly into the balance At
the outset. Our Industrial resources
were partially mobii.SeS for affective
work There was no strenuous call on
the navy, but the navy was ready Tor
such help as it was asked to render.
We mus: be getting ready to make
real sacrifices, and to make them as
cheerfully as we have done what has
been put up to us to do thus tar.
Soon our troops will be at the front,
and the roll Of honor" will mean
more than an enlistment or registra-
ton record. Casualties must be re-
corded. More bonds must be foated,
more taxes paid. The world food sup
ply is short. We must stop eating 30
much. If wool Is needed for the army
we must wear something else. II labor
is short we must work harder to make
up the deficit in production. II the wal
drags along, married men and middle
aged men may have to 30 to the 'front.'
as they have in the old country
Is all this unlikely II IL no more
] unlikely thar 1t was three years age
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
DIN YOUR LIGHTS.

The so-called DINNER law is now IN
to compel automobile drivers TO dim
their lights or defect them downward
when passing other drivers upon the
road. The language of the law is not
clear but the intent can easily be read
out of it.
The average lamp in an auto head
light is stronger than fifteen candle
power while this new law makes it I'M
lawful to use more than four candle
power unless the rays of light are so
DETECTED as to shine not more than
forty-two inches from the level of the
road at the car seventy five feet away.
To follow the language of the law
strictly one should have his light
brackets bent or reiectors turned so as
to throw the rays upon the ground and
not higher than forty-two inches at the
seventytive foot distance. If this were
done there is nothing in the law re-
quiring DINNERS to be used.
Common courtesy upon the road,
however, has always required that
lights be dimmed when passing another
car. Do unto others as you would that
they should do unto you is the founda-
tion Of common law and a gentleman
will observe ct without reference to a
statute, Dim your lights wen passing
others but if you would comply with
the new law have your lamps detected
so as to keep the strong light down
upon the road when driving.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Iona Newspapers
ONE NATIONAL DRAIN.
[Des Moines Register.l

The government Of the United States
does not derive a dollar from liquor;
on the contrary, liquor drains the
United States of more than two bill
lions annually, of enough to take care
of large part of the cost of war. To
maintain liquor is merely to add to tine
other burdens of war time. without any
compromising advantage whatever.
1t is strange that intelligent men
will stand in their places in the United
States senate and make a plea for
liquor as a revenue producer. II is
strange thar President Wilson, who is
not wanting in courage for other dras-
tic action to conserve the resources of
the country. is not willing 10 face the
liquor situation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
EAST ST. LOUIS RIOTS.

Ddh export L IlSS-J
Back Of the East ST. Louis race riots
there is an economic cause. Back OF
the surface conditions was the eco-
nomic need for more workers and the
activity of agents who induced sOuth-
ern negroes In come TO East ST. Louis.
And the negroes who came in response
TO the appeals of agents were the more
daring. the more reckless, among the
negroes of the southern communities
Perhaps they assumed. when they
reached Illinois. that they were en-
titled to more privileges than they had
been used to having in the south where
the whites know what can be allowed
and what can not be permitted THIS
assumption led 10 excuses, no doubt.
These, combined with the natural re-
sentment on the part OF East st. Louis
workers, made a situation needing only
a spark to cause an explosion.
That the developments are a dis
grace to East ST. Louis will be admit
ted by every right thinking resident
there. But that will not change con-
ditions. When the mob spirit gets
abroad there is nothing but superior
and determined force that will crush
it, The lust for vengeance Is the
primitive animal lust for blood
It is always dangerous to disturb
the equilibrium of populations that has
been established by years of effort.
compromise and mutual understanding.
The south knows the negro better than
do the people of the north and the
negro who has made his home in the
south is much better off there than
anywhere else. he may yearn for
Utopias but they are never to ne
found by anyone
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Masonic Meetings
visitors AWAY, welcome.


MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1os A. F. Z
A. M.-Special communication. WORK
in second degree Monday, July J. .
.. m. John w. Wells, secretary; w.
n Steiner, W. NJ.
I SiGNET CHAPTER, No. SO. r. A. NJ:
Stated convocation Monday evening
July Is. at s o'clock. Business session
Carl Shaffner H. P; John w. "ells'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 90 r. & S. NJ, Mon
day. July Is, p. m. Regular business
/. T. Forbes, Recorder: George Greg
DRY. I. M.
STATED coNcLAVE. ST. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80, K. T. Tuesday
July II. 1880. Regular business. l. L.
Forbes. recorder; H. c. Mueller COM
mander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. g. O. Z.
S.-Regular meeting for business wed
nesday, July II. at p. m. Mrs. George
Downing, secretary; Mrs. J. +. FRED
erick, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
vIERECKs NEW OUTRAGE.

fort Dodge Messenger and Chronicle. ]
George sylvester Viereck's schs
to have German Americans excused
from active military participation in
the war is an insult to millions Of
Americans in this country of German
extraction. 1t assumes they are Ger
man before American.
There is room for but one national
ity, one class OF citizens in this coun-
try today. ANY citizen who is not with
US is against us. There can be no
middle course. There can be no neu-
trality. The enemy OF this country is
the enemy of its citizens.
Viereck is really conducting a Ger
man propaganda-for he seeks TO d.
vide our people and to drain our coun-
try Of some Of It's best fighting blood.
He gets no support from the majority,
the very great majority of Americans
OF German blood. The enlistments
prove this Viereck in his new outrage
is speaking for himself and the kaiser.
The thousands of German Americans
who have already enlisted or who have
registered and are waiting the call to
the colors speak for themselves and
their undivided Americanism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
FOR NATIONAL PROHIBITION.

d.
The New York World and the Chi
cago Tribune are having all sorts Of
spasms because of the danger Of ma
tional prohibition. We do not know
what is best to do in this case. But
NE would take a shot at national pro-
hibtion. The New York World pulls
off the same old stuff about personal
liberty and that old Junk about be-
ing a free people. But we are not a
free people. The good Of the whole
has to be paramount to all else. The
selective draft shows whether we are
free or not.
We may be in error and President
Wilson may change the entire plan.
before this is in print, because we
write before he has made up his mind.
We believe it is just as important
that we control booze, as it Is that
we control men, and If drafting them
into service does not interfere with
their liberty we do not know what
does. And at the very worst, war does
not destroy as many men as booze,
yearly. They say Germany will re-
joice if We get to -quarreling over the
booze question. Well, II that Is the
case, let the booze peddlers drop it.
Germany restricted booze, Russia
etopped it altogether and every coun-
Try In war controls 1t more or less.
We simply can not get stirred up by
the threat of prohibition. II II is true
that potatoes and bread and meats are
high because they are scarce. and il
it is true that lot of grain Is diverted
from provisions to make booze. then
we say we would risk prohibition of
foodstuffs for -four.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Topics of the Times

demand by holding out of the market
all Gamers Of those foods which would
| keep until later. The canning of beans
and hominy and such dry foods has
now been resumed. but the use of tin
cans for articles other than food has
been discontinued until further notice.
Il is now estimated by automobile
manufacturers that Europe after the
war will buy as many autos as are
now running in the United States, or
approximately three and a half mil
lions Of cars. That promises some bus
mess for Detroit
Hereafter the license number and the
car number Of every strange auto stop
ping al a garage is TO be taken for rec
ord by garage and gasolene station
men. 1t is required by law now as an
aid in detecting theft
The American people did not know
that United States troops had sailed
for France until the newspapers print
ed the news. In Germany the news
papers have suspended hence the Ger
man people will be long time find
| ing out that the United States troops
are in France.
Few practical jokers would back
| hearse up to a sick mans window but
| one specimen of that kind sent out a
| false draft for men who must stand in
| line to be counted into the European
! war
II it is true that government agent
! is in Detroit 70 acquire an automobile
| factory for the hurried manufacture u
| flying machines the wonder is as 10
whose auto factory he wants.
| Canada has two million French
| Canadian slackers out of eight mil
| lion population, and hence needs the
| draft. Suppose that We had three times
az many negroes in the United States
as we do have, and suppose that as !
race they were refusing to volunteer
| for the defense Of their country. which,
| Of course. they are not refusing TO do.
| Would we be long in providing for a
| draft?
That Wilkerson performance in
| Omaha looks bad on the face Of It.
| Beware Of a man who hires hall in
| order to present a case that should
be heard in court
The wet and dry fight in the senate
at Washington is the same old fight
| over again. The drys have gained
! strength enough to get the door Of pro-
hibition half way shut but they can't
| quite slam it. By vote Of 50 to "a
they failed to prohibit the manufacture
! of beer and light wines, but they can
cut out whisky and strong alcoholic
| drinks.
| II there was not quite so much fear
| Of the draft on the part Of some who
are registered the temptation to the
practical poker would not be SO strong
| It Is not for the poor and middle
classes alone to become enlightened in
food preservation and household eco
nomics as a result of the nationwide
campaign. Even the idle rich are abb
sorbing unfamiliar facts. In New
York City hospital recently class Of
wealthy women was being instructed
oh 10
ton, What is pasteurized milk?" A
fair matron, gorgeously gowned, es-
sayed the answer. "Pasteurized milk,
} she said, "is milk given by cow which
|. has been fed in a pasture" Another
question was put to the class: How
do you clean refrigerator" a styl-
ish creature raised her lorgnette ant
proclaimed: The latest approved
method Is with vacuum cleaner"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

that the whole world should be
wracked by war. 1t is no more un-
likely than II was year ago that the
United States would be drawn into the
war. We were not prepared for war
when ii came, but We can be prepared
for the worst phases of it when they
come. They may not come, but il VIII
be wisdom to proceed on the assump-
ton that they will War is st.ll hell.
and we are now at war.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
New York. Pennsylvania, Massachu-
sets, Maryland. Delaware. Virginia
and thirty-one other states"

u a."
IAN exchange says that Iowa farmers
may still SOW fax and millet," remarks
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. 80 they
may. But the average farmer does
not buy manure spreaders and then
sow low profit, soil robbing crops"
The Knoxville Journal, advising re-
formers to scan their own activities for
something to criticise, says it does not
profess to say whether Sunday base
ball is a violation of the commandment
handed down on Mt. Sinai several
thousand years ago." but that it does
insist that there is no moral distinction
between attending a Sunday baseball
game and riding in a motor car for
pleasure on the Sabbath"
In the present emergency there is
but one remedy, and that is in govern
ment Intervention to regulate prices"
decides the Colfax Clipper.
asks this question: 'If congressman
have the privilege of franking letters
why should such concession be de-
MED to soldiers in the service of saving
the government that congress occasion
ally tries to talk to death?'
THE Amana society, the famous
communistic settlement in Iowa county,
has abolished all it's wine cellars and
poured good old red and yellow wine
into the CUTTERS" says the Mt. Vernon
Hawkeye. THE act was a recognition
of law and loyalty of the high charac-
ter expected Of the organization. 1t in
volved 5000 colonists and seven vii
lagos
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

Even dog living is going up in these
days Of high prices and strenuosity,
observes the Emmetsburg Reporter, re-
ferring to the new Iowa dog law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

1.-THE happiest man in this world
ought to be the German who is now an
American citizen" Is the declaration OF
the Vinton Eagle.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

The Sioux City Journal says iowa
didn't furnish her quota during volun
teer week, -shish.-nefther did
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

since the European war began one-
third OF the Armenian race has been
massacred or died from starvation and
one half Of those remaining ire HI; home.
less and dying n exile VI
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Des Moines Tribune says great
aches from little Red Oak meetings
sTo-"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Geld Air 4. aTonIe.

So eola air Is q mighty good tonic In
1eDelf. It kills OF most Of the mi-
cze6ee Of common Colds and .
Nte1s lot Of other neasly germs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07
Jar Sells for 500.

The lar in which the first wheat was
ut over from Spain to Ecuador was
SocentIy sold for 800 In New York.
\ hsa blue and white Chinese vase.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

Few practical jokers would back a
hearse up to a sick mans window bu,
one specimen of that kind sent out a
false draft for men who must stand in
line to be counted into the European
war
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

II it is true that a government agent
is in Detroit 70 acquire an automobile
flying machines the wonder is as 10
whose auto factory he wants.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

The American people did not know
that United States troops had sailed
for France until the newspapers print
ed the news. In Germany the news
papers have suspended hence the Ger
man people will be long time find
ing out that the United States troops
are in France.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-07

That N-ilkerson performance II
Omaha looks bad on the face Of It
Beware Of a man who hires a hall II
order to present a case that SHOULD
be heard in court