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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
Billy Bunny and His Friends

along came the barpyard folk, Cocky
Docky. Kenny Jenny'sand Duckey Dad
les. Even Mrs. Cow wasn't too busy to
be there, and II you'll walt a minute I'll
tell you the names OF some more OF
BILLY Bunnys friends. Turkey Purky,
Danny Beaver, Old Mother MagpiA.
Jimmy Chipmunk, Scatterbrains, the
gray squirrel and Shadow Tail, his
brother Daddy Fox would like to have
been there, only Uncle Lucky hadn't
sent him an invitation. The only person
who wasn't there was Uncle Bullfrog.
He couldn't leave his log in the Old
Mill Pond. so he Assent his. regrets by
little Mrs. Oriole, who lived In the viii
low tree by the Old Mill
Nov we'll cut the cake" said kind
Uncle Lucky, and he went over toSthe
Luckymobile to get the big carving
knife which he had hidden under the
cushions. There's q little gold ring
hidden away somewhere" he said as
he cut the cake very carefully SO az
not to topple over the pretty candles
and get the pink and green melted
wax all over the white frosting.
And then everybody ate up his piece
Of cake as fast as he could to find the
little gold ring. I've got it! I've got
it," screamed Jimmy Chipmunk. But
oh dear me! 1t wasn't the ring ct ~
1t was only hard nut. And the lie10o
chipmunk was so disappointed that no
ran home to tell his mother Ill about
it, and she gave him one she had found
when she was little girl in the toe OF
her stocking one happy Christmas
morning. And In the next story, you'll
be surprised to hear who got the ring
after ALL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
MASONIC TEMPERANCE.

lFpTt DOGge -hcsSSenSer.I
Any Mason In Missouri who signs a
petition for a saloon license will be
expelled from that order If an amend
ment of the constitution Of the order
is passed by the grand lodge which
meets in ST. Louis Sept is.
The proposed amendment was intro
ducd at the meeting of the Grand
Lodge last year and action deferred.
Il has been discussed all of the
local lodges Of Missouri and delegate
have been instructed how to vote or
have gained an idea of the feeling of
their lodges.
Members Of the order are now pro-
hibtted from engaging in the liquor
business ard persons engaged In that
business are not received to member
ship. The new amendment provides
that any person who recommends
such a person for membership and any
lodge receiving such person may be
punished and such a person be ex-
PEELED from membership. The clause,
however. which is causing discussion.
IS one which provides: Nor shall
any Freemason recommend or Sign
any petition or application for dram
shop license"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
Io,Ua Newspapers
AN OVERSIGHT.
fNaxytpp Nayx-S

The Colfax firemen should be voted
the palm for extreme carelessness in
the handling of fire equipment. They
received q fire call the other day
made the run to the fire, eXtinguished
the flames and then went home, and
forgot to take their hosecarts, chem
ical wagons and other fire fighting
indictments heci. 70 TIC Arc haii. in
fact the fire equipment was lost in
the weeds before some very cautious
gentleman happened to think about
the omission some twelve hours af-
terward when he summoned some OF
the fire boys, searched ont the place
of the last fire and gathered up the
stuff and took il home.
The ColtaS Clipper refers to the
fire organization as being "headless'
body and it could easily be believed
that such is the case. The Spring
city is liable to burn down some day
before ,he fire company is able to
remember where they used their hose
cart last.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
HOLD TN BERLIN.

The Washington Post commencing
the decision Of the police authorities
of the District of Columbia that no
street meetings under the auspices OF
the Peoples Council will be permitted
in Washington goes on to say that:
Neither in a hall nor on the street
should any such meeting be permitted.
The officials have stated that the dis
persal of CoNey's army some years ago
is q sufficient precedent to warrant the
exclusion of the Peoples Council. but
there is a better precedent to be found
in the constitutional provision against
treason, which is clearly defined as
giving aid and comfort to the enemy"
Washington is the last city in the
country where such a meeting should
be held. Invariably foreign enemies,
honestly or dishonesty, interpret such
meetings as representing far more than
the fractional sentiment which they
actually do represent.
But if such meetings are not to be
held in Washington where should they
be held?
II they are aid and comfort to the
enemy in Washington surely they are
such aid and comfort elsewhere.
If meeting Of protest against the
held under the shadow Of the nationa!
capitol. IN the center of the govern
ment it appeals to where then within
the United States is such meeting
proper and permissible?
If the Peoples Council is appealing
to the government Washington is the
place for its appeal TO be made. If 1t
is endeavoring TO stir up opposition to
the government solidarize disgruntied
elements and embaIrass this country !
N its emergency there is no place in
wide America where il should shelter. |
The conclusion then is that the coun-
ell shouldn't meet in this country. Its
logical gathering place seems TO be
Berlin.
II the federal authorities of the dis
trist and the police of Washington are
TO assert the supremacy of the law and |
it is true as the Post declares that
the Peoples Council plainly has been
giving aid and comfort to the enemy,
and it's leaders are engaged in a. con-
spiracy against American effectiveness
IN the war what course is left open
for federal officers IN the state and dis
tricts and the police of other cities.
The law is the law without as within
the District of Columbia and the city
of Washington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
SEPTEMBER 5. A DATE IN HISTORY.

Tomorrow Is a tantul day. For to-
morrow the first soldiers called by
CONSUMPTION start for the training
camps. Yesterday 200 Of those men
marched thru me streets Of our own
city between sidewalks lined with peo-
pie Just beginning 20 understand and
realize the nearness Of their departure.
Tomorrow brings the fateful parting.
The war Is coming very close to US
Tomorrow will rningIe cheers and tears
as the Marshall county soldiers 90 70
their ask
It IS first Of all q hard task. Let
none deceive himself az 10 that It is
likely 70 be long az well as arduous
There liz small hope that these men
viii not undergo all that war includes
and mat other men will De needed be-
fore the END arrives.
This county and this country may
turn tomorrow from the spectacle Of
the assembling Of tts first seiective
army 70 their own tank. Every pa
triot5c man and woman ig az much con-
scr!pted in this war as the men who
march away tomorrow and the other
men who snail follow them, this fall,
next spring and perhaps thru other
falls and springs, how long none knows
or can safely predict. We have been
slow To understand. diIatory to realize
the seriousness Of the situation. Now
that 1t is arriving at e stage where
everyone can gee and feel the deep
seriousness Of the present and Of the
prospect this county and this country
should find themselves in a different
state ~ rid
We must fall in behind those men,
attune our souls TO sacrifice. IT ig not
fulfllment of duty and obligation that
we cheer or weep. We must work. We
must enlist ourselves in the war. our
efforts and our gaing. We must seek
opportunity to deliver our sacrifice 10
the altar. Man for man and woman
for woman. individually. az counties
and states and cities we must get into
the war With those We send 70 its
battle fronts.
The war ia coming home TO us
coming to our towns and our nelghbor-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS ASKED 10 AID

Ministers are urged 20 preach on the
Importance of school attendance as
patriotic duty this year. and SUNDAY
school superintendents and leaders OF
young peoples societies in the various
churches are asked to make scvhooi
attendance a special topic. in letter
addressed by the commissioner OF edu-
cation to churches and religious papers
throughout the United States. In urs-
Ing the churches to help in the cam
paign for greater school attendance,
DR.. CIaxton SAYS:
1T is Of the greatest Importance that
the schools Of tse United States OF ali
kinds and grades-public, private, anu
paroChial--be maintained during the
war without any lowering Of their
standards or falling off in their at
tendance.
This IS necessary both for the pro-
lection OF our boys and girls against
many unusual temptations 10 deiin-
Cuenc!es Of various kinds. and that
they may have full opportunity 1or
preparation for the work Of lite ana
for the duties and responsibilities OF
citizenship all OF which will require
higher degree Of preparation because OF
the war.
For many reasons there will De nee0
in this country for higher standards
in average ability knowledge, and VIZ
tue. when the boys and girls now IN
our schools have reached manhood ana
wonanhood than we or any other peo-
pie have yet attained to-
In the making Of public opinion ana
popular sentiment necessary for the
maintenance of standards ,of efficiency,
20 keep children in the schools, and
to prevent their exploitation in the
mills and shops, the churches may do
much. I am therefore appealing 10
all ministers TO urge this from their
pu!pits, and TO all superintendent Of
SUNDAY schools and all leaders Of
young peoples societies to have this
matter discussed in their meetings.
ITO DO this is a patriotic duty which
should be performed gladly, both for
the present defence and for the future
welfare OF the country"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

1t very often happens
You don't know what to do.
And thens the time the Mischief Man
Comes smiling round to you.
He whispers something In your ear
You know you shouldn't stop to hear,
And then's the time for you to say,
"Oh, Mischief Man, please go away"
This is what dear good Uncle Lucky
wrote In Billy Bunnys album for It
was the little rabbits birthday, you
know. and Uncle Lucky thought he
ought to warn him against the Mischief
Man.
Well, as soon as the ink was dry SO
that the little rabbit could put the al
bum away in UncleI Luckys desk, the
kind old gentleman rabbit said: Let us
take d. ride in the Luckymobile. May
be we can go some place where we will
have good time!" @
So they got into the automobile and
started off, and by and by they came
to a shady spot in the woods. And
there, right under a big spreading
chestnut tree, was little table cover
ed with a clean white cloth and in the
middle was lovely birthday cake with
candles and big frosted letters, which
read, "a Happy Birthday to Billy Bun
ny!"
And oh my, wasn't he delighted, and
so were all the little forest folk, for
they were all there. let me tell you,
from Old Squirrel Nutcracker to the
Big Brown Bear. And so were the little
people from the Pleasant Meadow. Dicky
Meadow Mouse and Robbie Redbreast
and many others. And pretty soon
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
Ripping Rhymes
y WALT MASON
IN THE MOUNTAINS.

Majestic mountains round me stand,
with awful gorges by Them. I find them
noble, solemn, grand-the blue prints
don't belle them. Here I have lived
while happy weeks slid 50 COUNT
time them: I've gazed upon the snow
capped peaks and never wished to
climb them. look upon the mighty
hills. by which men seem like midgeaI
and have as many pleasant thrills a.
tho climbed their ridges. And I
alone and sane and safe. yes, l. who do
this rhyming; for all the other tourists
chafe to climb, and keep on climbing.
Whene'er they look upon peak, they
say TITS quite boulder; we'll climb
it If we take week, and bust a shin
or shoulder And SO with alpenstocks
and ropes, and other doodads silly.
they're wearing out the mountain
slopes, and spelling vistas hilly. And
here in this great pleasure ground
they labor nine times harder than
when at home they go their round, to
fill the family larder. At home II they
worked half as hard, they'd prance in
righteous RACES and hand out protests
by the yard. and strike for higher
wages. II one can call his labor play,
you'll never see him weary; he'll put
in nineteen hours q day, and still BE-
fresh and CHEEKY.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
FTNING PRICES,
Huntington Hawkeye.1

At Clinton a husband has filed a
damage suit against a wealthy citizen.
Plaintiff claims 5000 900 for alienation
Of the wife's affections. AS the num-
Der of such suits seems to be increas-
ing Il would seem desirable to have a
limit set on the value of such affec-
tons. OF course, in reality there can
be no such thing. In reality, there can
be no such kind of a suit. At least
there should not be. But as the law
seems to consider ii proper for man
TO place a price upon his own honor
and the affections Of his wife it ap-
pears desira bic to have some standard
by which judges and juries might be
guided Perhaps the legislature might
take up this question. If the price of
grain, etc, can be fixed by the ma
tional legislature, it does not appear
quite urreas enable to assume that an
Iowa legislature might establish limit
upon the amount which man can de-
mand az damages for alienation Of the
wife's affection,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
Masonic Meetings
a.
Visitor, always welcome.

- vSttOrS aIwdyS "S'SS"e'
MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1os A. +. &
A. M.-Special communication, Friday
Aug. "a. 1880 p. m. Work in the FIRST
degree. John w. Wells, secretary; W.
II. Steiner, w. NJ.
sIGNEr CHAPTER, No. SO, r. A. NJ.
Stated convocation Monday evening"
Aug. 20, at s o'clock. Business session
Carl Shaffner H. p; John w, "e"s'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 90. r. & S. NJ. Non
day, Sept. II. 7:30. Regular business
l. T. Forbes, recorder: George Gregory
/. VI.
STATED coNcALVE, St. Aldemar
Ccnmandery. No. 80 K. T, TUESDAY
Sept. IS, s p. m. Regular business, L
r. Forbes. recorder; H. {. MueheF'
commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E.
S,-Regular meeting for business wed
nesday. Sept -. p. n. Mrs. George
Downing. secretary; Mrs. ]. L. fred-
erick, W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

From Russia to Petrograd is but an
other step but it is a step away from
the west front where Germany needs
all her strength.
Whether by accident or design those
defective primers were put into ammu-
milton with which American soldiers
were TO defend their own lives and the
safety Of their country. Those respon-
sible should suffer an extreme penalty.
Carelessness is murder in such mat
tiers and design adds treason to muir
der.
If war profteers are not to pay AMI
pay well for the privilege of prcfting
what OF the wage worker who is 10
pay for the privilege CT living?
Might put the white soldiers who
shot up a negro camp and the negroes
who shot up Houston all together and
let them shoot 1t out among them
selves after the fashion of the Xii
kenny cats.
About all the rain left Of Labor Day
was freedom from labor.
A South Dakota farmer after filling
the barn and granary filled the parlor
with wheat If the lady Of the house
il wise she'll see that something comes
back into the parlor when that wheat
M al
The booze interests seem to be apa-
thetic over the amendment election
but not more so than the opposition to
the saloon. The general conclusion in
Iowa Is that the fight is over. How
ever, it would be we'll TO drive a con-
stirutional nan In the coffin Of the
booze business.
A limit Of five prairie chickens a day
is set by South Dakota which brings
prairie chickens up to about s. q
pound TO the resident shooter.
AS yet no composer has written an
Iowa Highway Patrol march.
Hunt up o trench dug for sewer OF
water main. Get down into 1t after
| rain. Stay there twenty-four hours
Then you will not speak SO trippingl,
| glib Of trench fighting.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILTowN IOWA: September 1917

Z " NJ
surrendered" says the Sioux City Jour-
nal. THE coal baron must surrender
It. The maker OF armor plate must
surrender it, And the farmer must
surrender It, too. Not only the good
will Of the government but the world
wide food situation makes 1t certain
that he will not suffer thereby"
It's dollars to doughnuts that the
farmers who are kicking about the
S2.20 price for wheat would not be
satisfied if ii was $500, provided they
thought they could get that much"
says the Perry Chief.
The Chicago police set the pace for
the pacitists," agrees the Des Moines
Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
A Thousand Miles in Ten Hours.

War continues to bring out new
possibilities residing in that marvellous
American invention, the airpiane To
write more accurately, it continues to
increase the possibilities already known
to be possessed by that machine AS
reported yesterday. Captain Giulio
Laureami, an aviator in the italian
army, made this week continuous
flight from Turin to Naples and back
to Turin again. Precisely how long
his Journey was can not be known, but
1t must have been more than go miles,
which is the distance he would have
traversed had he gone In a straight
line both ways. The time used in
making the journey was ten hours,
thirty-eigh minutes, and the speed
therefore can safely be put at about
100 miles an hour, and probably it was
something more.
The achievement earns equal credit
for the aviator and for his engine. for
the wear and strain on both were such
as could be met only by a close APP
proach to perfection. It Is not to be
believed that such exploits will cease
with the end of the war. Peace. too,
has its needs for rapid transportation
Of passengers and mail-not such des-
perate needs as those Of war, indeed.
but sufficiently pressing to make 1t
worth while to pay well for them.
An aviator able to carry 1000 pounds
OF dead weight besides the live weight
of himself-and that Is within the
present limit OF capacity for airplanes
would have no difficulty getting
<,,n q mt
every day, OF letters for the carrying
Of which between New York and Chi
cago, for instance, postage OF 10 cents
an ounce would not be considered too
much, IL the letters were delivered
within ten hours Of departure from one
or the other city. That would pay
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
Cornbrsad.

The government has asked us to
eat cornbread one day each week and
help save the wheat for the soldiers
who are going to fight for us. It's
good suggestion. This whole country
was pioneered on cornbread. the
Pilgrim Fathers almost lived on It.
Corn was the first crop planted in all
the virgin soil as it was settled from
the Atlantic out across the Aileghenies
upon the broad prairies TO the Rockies
and beyond Corn was crop thar
would grow even in the uncleared for
est OF the middle west The pioneers
used to dead the trees by girdling and
drop corn in hills in the unplowed soil
and get a first crop that way. STURDY
men were reared on corn bread and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
OVERRIDING . Good Thing.

Food Dictator Hoover said at
reception:
1--WE mustn't have too many food
rules They're good thing in mod
Grafton. but too much Of good thing.
you know"
He smiled and shrugged his
shoulders.
TOO much of the best OF things ID
bad. A war profiteer visited sculptor
and said:
whats the very finest statue in the
universe?'
1.-THE Venus de Medici, undoubted-
ly'" the sculptor answered.
"'Well, put me down for Ave dozen
de Medicis. them said the millionaire.
4 want EN- to trim up the front lawn
of that there eighty-room cottage I'm
buildin' in Newport "-WashinEton
Star.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

is here seeking out lives for its bloody
sacrifices from among our own. 1t Is
no time for weakness or apathy but
time for the sitting OF mems souls for
the great test
This is the beginning. Mercifully,
perhaps vail hides the future from
us. 1t can not hide nor does it vail
the plain duty of Americans.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

two men were left between the ages OF
Is and As. Three Iowa regiments were
composed wholly Of older men, many
Of them married. The Thirty seventh
infantry, known as the Governors
Greybeards," was made up OF active
and vigorous men As years OF age. 1t
Is true that in other regiments were
enlisted many from Is to rs years of
age but neither the young nor the
middle aged were used exclusively.
The war is every mans business, and
every man should expect to do his part
in proportion to his physical mentas
and financial ability. Judgment as
well as enthusiasm is needed in the
modern form of warfare. We will not
be able to settle the question as to the
proper age of the soldier but after
considering the argument on both sides
we may accept the selection Of the men
from II TO 81 for the first call as en-
bodying the happy medium between
the two ideas.
SHOULD REGULATE CORN PRICE.
fCedar Rapids Gazette.l
While it is true that probably not
more than 10 per cent of the Iowa corn
crop will pass the boundaries of the
state as corn; and while it is also true
that there is no prospect of price
that will not be remunerative, the same
reasons that urged the propriety and
Necessity OF liking the price for wheat
apply in this case. 1t is illogical to
regulate the price Of wheat because
it is the most necessary breadstuff, to
urge the substitution of corn meal for
flour and to leave the price of corn
without regulation.
The cost of meat supply of the
United States is based more on corn
than on any other item. The prices of
beef, pork, mutton and poultry can
not be made staple until the price Of
corn has been fixed
No small part Of the motive part of
the United States Chat part repre-
scented by horses and mules) is derived
from corn and oats which enter d.
rectly into the cost Of producing and
marketing all crops, including wheat.
Corn and oats regulate very largely the
quotations on mixed feeds and there
fore exercise most important influ-
ence on the cost Of dairy products.
The ramitications of the corn mad
ket cover more territory and are more
than those of wheat. What
with meal, starch, corn oil, gluten feed
and various other by-products and the
indefinite number Of feeds of which
corn is an Indispensable ingredient. 1t
bears in the north central and CEN
rial western states a relation of prime
Importance to industry and food sup
ply. There is no excuse whatsoever
FOR permitting gamblers to intervene
between producer, manufacturer and
consumer. Commerce pertaining to
agriculture should be placed on a.
basis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

the individual expense Of man and ma
chine, and leave a good profit besides.
We do not feel much need for suca
a service-we get along we'll enough
without it-but that proves no more
than did our like freedom from q sense
of want before the telephone came into
existence and use. Now, life without
a telephone would seem next to impos-
sible for no small part of the American
and certainly we should
miss it enormously and cruelty If 1t
were taken from us.-New York Times,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04
EvERYMAN's WAR.
Iowa City Citizen.l

iowa NIIy IIlIItH.I
II Is not correct to say that the ciVf
war was fought by boys. In Iowa,
which was a typical state, all able
bodied men went to the war. Only
women, old men and boys remained
at home In some communities. In one
township in Des Moines county only
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-04

venison. But in these days cornbread
has fallen into disuee in the cities
partly because wheat has been so
cheap, and partly because women have
forgotten how to make palatable corn-
bread. Let the cooking experts get
busy now and tell us again how to
make cornbread like grandma used
to ake."--Kansas City Times.