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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
THEY'RE STILL JOCKEY1NG.


Those who have delayed purchasing
very unsettled state of mind. II prices
are going to be lower they wish to hold
back and get the benefit, but no sooth-
ing assurances of lower prices are
available. Each day the Tribune re-
ceives a number Of inquiries. about OF
this tenor: "Will coal be cheaper this
winter than it is now?"
The Tribune wishes to make il clear
that it claims no knowledge about fu-
ture coal prices. There is not only
price, but question Of supply. Federal
and state officials contend that present
prices are excessive, but they have not
taken ony steps to enforce reductions.
They may conclude, after Sailing
around for few weeks, that they Will
have fulfilled their duty to the public
by preventing further advances One
persons guess is as good as another.
Courage in public officials is not al
ways a dependable quality.
Resolutions adopted at the council
of governors and state councils Of de-
Tense, held in Chicago last week, offer
nothing definite except the date for
anOtIler IHStlliS-&AuS. 20. Ill q ''iie7A>
paragraph the resolutions class coal
prices as "unreasonably excessive" and
provide for assembling information on
the approximate cost OF producing,
handling and distributing coal to the
ultimate consumer.
without some idea OF this approx
mate cost how could the members OF
the council know whether present
prices are ''unreasoiiabiy excessive ant
in some cases extortionate?"
Cost figures have been compiled by
numerous authorities and should have
been before the Chicago council. the
delay to Aug. % before attempting to
take definite action sayors principally
of political timidity--a hope that the
federal government will take action
and save the governors from doing any :
thing that might cost votes
In an interview given out at Des
Noines the other day, Governor HARD
ing boosted Of the wonderful things
the state will do after Aug. % OF the
government, in the meantime. fails U
take action. Why should there be Sc
| many ifs" on the part OF the state
The federal trade commission pointee
out, several weeks ago, that the Goa
situation could be materially improved
| by firm action by the various star
| governments. Why shouldn't Iowa ac
on it's own authority now Why dlo
| not act a month ago? 8
Illinois coal mine owners are con.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
Whose RUM

The advance word from the oniciai
Dutch mission shortly to sail 10 Inc
United States is that an embargo on
grain from this country wiz mean
misery and economic ruin for Holland.
Whether such policy, If persisted IN,
vii, force Holland into the war is nov
stated. Hints are given out by mem
bers of the mission, however, that a
cessation of food shipments from TINS
country would make Holland more
than ever dependent on the central
powers. to which she would presum-
ably be obliged to turn to Try 10 ses
grain"
This assumption IS no weaker tnah
the rest of the argument. me PROS
meets Of a rehabilitation OF Holland 3
food supplies thru the kind OFFICES ol
Germany are exceedingly remote. II
il current that has flowed only IN
ono direction With Germany drawing
In customary ruthless fashion on ner
allies for food, it Is inconceivable that
she would turn philanthropic ear 20
Hoiland,s plants. And II Holland were
to enter the war on the side OF Ger
many there would be more than eco-
nomic ruin az . result
# Holland 10 suffering for food sup
plies, Holland knows the reason, az
does the rest Of the world. There has
been proiteering on gigantic scale Dy
the citizens Of that professedly neu-
trail country, with the government
winking at the process.
AT first the plea was that this trade
was necessary in order that Holland
might get coal from Germany. TO the
suggestion that Dutch ships now load
ing with grain in AMERICAN porls
sho,,,d carry coal instead there came
!. M response. There has been merely
the abandonment Of specious con.
tention and a renewal Of the plain'
| from another angle.
with peace talk proceeding aion.
various lines, there should be no rem
gushing of single measure calculat-
| ed TO break the war strength OF tn
enemy. 1t mas been stated on hign az.
| thnrity that the central empires nav
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
r,..o Opposite Points u yy.s..


The trouble with most discussions
Of the value Of technical men to In.
dustry is that to one class they rep
resent the hero Of the play--the hand.
some upright youth bearing the torch
Of knowledge into the benishted
realms where ignorant and hide-bound
business men dwell in outer darkness.
TO the other classic those aforemen'
toned gnomes- the graduate OF 2 teen
meal school is the unlocked cub, IL
tened to with mock respect and duo-
bed q college Teller" or something
worse, by the honest manufacturer
who, having made his pile, knows ex-
actly who made It and don't pro
pose to be dictated 70 by any heds-
ling by writing home to father
Dwight. T. FarnhaIn, in Industrial
Management.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
WE'LL MAKE EN- BE GOOD"
Ma snn City Glnho- ca zaffe


Good by, sergeant! We're all hop
ing they'll be good to you!" said an
acquaintance to the stalwart left guide
Of Company A, who brought up the
rear Of the single file column that was
boarding. the cars last night
We'll make EN- be good to us!'
answered the husky sergeant, in a
voice that was meant TO be brusque,
but was quaverins, ss no eripped his
friends hand for an instant.
Wen make 'em be good" That was
the sentiment Of every man who march
ed away last night or the day before,
or who viii march away with Com
pany D in day or two.
There were quivers in all the voices.
like there was in the left guides, but
there were and are none in the reso-
lutte hearts of the first of the Mason
City men to be sent forth to battle.
No finer collection of young Ameri
cans ever wore uniforms than those
who are leaving and they will all live
up TO the words of Capt Garman's SER
geant:
We'll make 'em be good"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

Quoting Campaign of education" in
which they contend that the CHIEF
problem this winter will be to secure
enough coal to go around. The purpose
OF this campaign, of course, Is to ere
ate a stampede for coal, regardless OF
prices, but it is quite within the range
of possibilities that the strain on trans
portation facilities, and other causes,
will create periods of coal scarcity.
Such conditions occur to some extent
every winter
Power to control coal prices is in
cluded in the food control law, but the
use that will be made OF that power
has not yet been set forth. Thus far
the coal operators, the miners, state or
ficials and federal officials have been
INDUCING ~ big game of jockeying.
It's difficult to predict who will get
left at the post, but the state officios
are not showing up as good starters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
KILL OR CURE.

d. G. Lester, of Barnes City, was
fined $40 and costs for selling rotten
eggs. Of course. man may not be
blamed for selling eggs that are not
absolutely fresh laid, unless he. repre-
sents them as such. There may be
such thing in the egg business as an
innocent seller as well as an innocent
purchaser. But when the hen-fruit is
over-ripe, the justice was surely
lenient, when he made that fine only
$40 Perhaps the proper thing might
have been to make the seller cat some
of those eggs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
Masonic Meetings
Visitors always welcome.

]" Visitors always welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1903 A. +. d
A, M.-Special communication, Friday
Aug. "a, 1880 p. m. Work in the First
decree. John W. wells, secretary; W.
III. Steiner, w. NJ.
sIeNEr CHAPTER, No. SO, r. A. nj
stated convocation Monday eVen'ns
Aug. 20, at s o'clock. Business session.
Carl Shafrner, H. P; John W. "e''S'
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, Kins SOLO
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ Mon
dav AUG. 20, 1870. Regular business
I +. Forbes, recorder; George GREGORY
]. NJ.
STATED coNcALvE, St. Aldemar
co,nmandery, No. 30. K. T.. TUESDAY
Arg. II. p. m. Regular business; =
~ Forbes recorder; H. c. Mueiief'
commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o: =
a-snecial meeting for initiation "eo-
nasday. Aug. 20, s p. m. Mrs. Heolse
novning, secretary; Mrs. J. f. hFe.
erick. w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
Iona Newspapers
sEAsoNABLE SUGGESTION.
mason City Globe-Gazette.

If you haven't a boy of your own in
the or D companies going to war.
look over the list Of names and adopt
one. Write to him and send him an oc-
casional memento, something he can
use to cheer up the life OF camp, trench
and firing line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
AS REINFoRcEMENTs.

And when the boys come back in
triumph, after fighting it out for per-
haps year or two in Europe. 1t would
not be bit inappropriate If, instead Of
forming new organization under an
other name; they were simply to drop
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

committee, shows group Of sailormen
on one Of the navy's largest vessels
swabbing out gun Of secondary bat
terry after firing in target practice. The
public is assured by the department
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

The public now is about to make
certain claims upon labor and labor
illw have no legitimate ground to get
hot about it if those claims involve
a little temporary recession Of accus-
toned privileges declares the Sioux
City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

The Cedar Rapids Gazette assumes
that that Benton county farm which
was sold at 5000 the acre was probably
to be delivered after it had been shorn
Of oats, barley and corn
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
Bixby's Song.

I'm building poems right along
That crate upon the nerves,
But when ! write warlike song
Such as this war deserves,
I'm sure twill please the boys so well
They'll sing the song in spite of oppo-
stion.
Lincoln State Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The second Liberty loan is the same
liberty but another loan,' says the
Boone News Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

that the navy is kept up to the top
notch of efficiency and prepared
ness ready to give a good account Of
itself whenever it may meet the leu
tons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21
In as reinforcement to the finest
army that ever did its bit-the Grand
Army of the Republic.
THE MEANEST SORT.
rPerrv Chief.1

The poorest kind of an American is
the man who kicks on paying his share
toward the support Of a soldiers wife
and family.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

N speed (after the spill) The
haenk lied to me about this car. He
~. There was car that would
hneek ny eye out and It only Knocked
~ tsstA out"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says
IF the great war should end now the
American people would profit much
more than any one can comprehend by
the greater respect we will command
and this respect comes almost wholly
from the impression made on those
other nations by our soldier boys"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

This photograph, taken very recently
and given out for publication by the
committee on public information in
Washington, and copyrighted by the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

1T is not the por. people who have
to be warned about being wasteful. 1t
is forced on the poor thru necessity.
1t is the rich who are extravagant and
wasteful,' says the Central City News
Letter
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

Stacker deserters face firing squad,
whereas the mortality in the trenches
is one in thirty observes the Council
Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

The Waterloo Courier says Without
action-sustained action-of this kind
local supply and prices) thousands of
people in the United States will suffer
needlessly during the next six months.
The people want action and not talk"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

There can be only one outcome to
this Montgomery county agitation, II it
not checked" says the Des Moines Reg
ister Some crime is going to be COM
mitted that will startie and disgrace
the state"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

Certainly some disloyal people in
this country are being given lot of
rope" remarks the Waterloo Times
Tribune. I'VE are a patient and confid-
ing people"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-21

If street car conductor should
short change US dime we'd lay Tor
him but when a coal operator grabs
our dollars we buster and threaten
what we may do but don't
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
ENTENTE COUNCIL PLANS GREATER OFFENS|vES WHILE
RUSSIA AND GERMANY DISCUSS ARM|ST|CE AND PEACE
POPE PROPOSES NO
NEW PEACE EFFORT
Plan for ANYTHING Except Christian
and Enduring Harmony Not
Contemplated

ROME, Tuesday. Nov. 27.-The
papal secretary OF state. Cardinal Gas
parri, answering the numerous crit
iciSms regarding the Vatican's peace
attitude. issued to the press today the
following statement:
The holy father is not preparing
any new appeal looking toward peace.
His earnest desire, mary times mani
tested. Il a just Christian and durable
peace. Is unchanged and can not
change. Who can crave anything else
and call himself "a Christian?
ITO say that his holiness favors, or
has favored, or will favor an unjust.
unchristian and undurablc peace ~
not only false. but also absurd. Any
propaganda for such n peace. alleged
TO be conducted at the vatican's In
spiration. especially in certain ma
tions Is the product OF pure malicious
ness. A chain II prayers has always
been reprobatcd by the holy zee and
bishops aud priests in the United
states OF America and elsewhere are
warned against them, particularly
those having airy such propaganda be-
hind them.
Also, American Catholics and 9TH
ors are cautioned that such prayers
are species OF superstition"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
MRS. KING PRISONER
OF GAST0N B. MEANS
Startling Disclosures Promised
in Trial of Attorney on
Murder Charge.

CONCORD, n. c.. Nov 2S.-An-
nouncement WAS made late today by
the state that IL allowed to introduce
In evidence alleged statements of Mrs.
,Maude A. King, that 1t could be
shown that several months before she
met death here last August that the
woman add her money were abso-
iutcly under control of Castor l..
Means. and that she at that time,
frm May until July. Was Virtually a
prisoner" in a fashionable hotel near
Chicago. Means is on trial here
charged with murder OF the woman,
who had employed him as her busl-
ness agent.
The statements were made to the
court while the jury was out and the
state announced that it expected to
prove them If Willard j. Rockefeller.
managing director CT the hotel, were
allowed to testify to alleged state
ments Mrs. King made to him. The
court held that he could only tell
what Mis-. King told hin. while in the
presence of the defendant. Rockefel-
lei said Mrs. King never talked to
linn in tho presence of Means.
Rockefeller. according TO the So
licitor also would tesaify that Mrs.
King told him that she was helpless
hut expected to get out from under
this control shortly and do as sh ,
pleased" This also was ruled out. The
solicitor announced that this alleged
statement on the part of Mrs. King
showed "the motive the state partly
relies upon"
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
TULSA HAS CAUSE
FOR THANKSGIVING
Magic City Prospering Today
as Never Before and as Few
Others Are Prospering.
DAY TO BE COMMUNICATED
Church Services Arranged for
This Morning; Entertain
ment in Evening.

Again THANKSGIVING day has come
and Tulsa never had so much reason
TO be thankful. Tulsa has had a
great year. Her siXty-five thousand
citizens are prosperous and healthy
and happy-banks teeming with
money industries humming, stores do
ing record smashing business, schools
flourishing, everybody working. wages
higher than ever before, great build
ings going up. indicating the solid and
permanent basis on which the city
rests. farmers prosperous, food plen-
tiful, turkeys for eVerybody-why
shouldn't Tulsa be thankful?
The great day will be appropriately
celebrated. Services will be held In
RE the churches during the forenoon
and In the afternoon there will be an
amusement program of such diversity
Of attractions that suit every taste.
Rig Football Game at $3.50.
The big outdoor feature will be the
football game between Kendall and
Phillips university at the Kendall
park at $3.50.
Nearly nll the theaters offer special
Thanksgiving entertainment and have
made special arrangements to handle
the thousands who will flock into
them during the afternoon and night.
Many Tulsans will go into the coun-
try for a days hunting or will visit
in other cities, and hundreds from
nearby towns will come to Tulsa to
spend the day.
There will be thousands OF Thanks
giving dinners in Tulsa and In the
Tulsa district. and family reunions
wlll as usual, be feature Of the day.
One Sad Feature.
One sad feature will mark the day
in Tulsa, however, as 1t will In every
other city and town In the nation. AZ
| hundreds of tables when the bard
of al birds Is carved today there will
be vacant chair, maybe two or three
silent reminders of the tragic war
into which the nation has been
plunged. Many young men of Tulsa
arc at tho army training camps. pre-
pairing themselves for the grim bust
ness OF war, and their absence fronl
the family table today will be the
only cloud on Thanksgiving happiness
| They could not come home-the gov
| ernment could no<-afford to disorgan-
I ize their work of preparation by CIV
| ing them leaves of absence to enjoy
! Thanksgiving day at home.
However, the soldier boys will not
be forgotten Not only will Uncle
| Sam set special Thanksgiving dinners
| at all the army cantonments. but
| many of the boys from Tulsa will re-
ceive THANKSGIVING remembrance:
| from home.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
MIND UNBALANCED
WHEN SHOT FIRED
Mrs. de Saulles Irrational at
Time of Shooting, Physi-
clans Declare.

MINEOLA, N. Y, Nov. 2S.-Taking
OF testimony In the trial OF Mrs.
Blanca de Saulles, on n charge OF MUIR
dering her divorced husband, John
l.. de Saulles, neared an end In su-
preme court here today.
DR.. Smith Ely Jeliffe, widely
known alienist, and DR.. Louis C. John
son. styled "A physiological chemist"
told of diagnoses which they made OF
Mrs de Saulles' condition shortly after
the tragedy on the night OF August 3
at de Saulles' Long Island home Their
evidence tended to support the
Chilean womans claim that she was
not accountable for her actions when
she fired the revolver shots which
killed her former husband.
X-Ray Shows Fracture.
Incidental to their examination an
X-ray photograph purportlng to show
that Mrs. de Saulles also was suffer-
ing from brain pressure, resulting
from a frectured skull, was introduced
in evidence.
Miss SuZann Monteau. Mrs. de
Saulles maid, was the only other wit
ness examined today.
As to the manner In which Mrs. de
Saulles fired the shots and whether
de Saulles was facing her or had
, turned away. the witness seemed con-
fused Previously she had said her
mistress took the revolver from her
pocket and fired In a deliberate man
ner that she shot three times, and
de Saulles did not move" whereupon
she fired twice more. Today she In
dicated the shooting was done In n
flash. as tho the defendant was
actuated by sudden impulse.
Hypothyrcosis Substantiatcd.
The testimony OF DR.. J. Sherman
Wright, Mrs. de Saulles' physician
during her three months imprison-
ment and that OF Doctors Jeliffe and
johnson, all tended to show she had
symptoms OF "a marked hypothyroid
condition" when they examined the
defendant a few days after her arrest.
The witnesses bore out Mrs de
Saulles' contention that she knew
nothing OF her surroundings in the
Jail until several days after the shoot
ing. They said that when they ex-
amined the defendant. she seemed lr-
rational and could not make coherent
replies to their questions.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
WLLISTAS RIDDLE
FEDERAL FORCES
Dynamite Train, Seize $50, 900,
Kill Guard, Rout Big
Relief Forces.

Ell PASO, Texas, Nov. 2S.-Fran-
cisco Villas followers were reported
to have dynamited Mexican federal
pay train, killing the paymaster-ge gem
eral, attacking and defeating a train
load of federals from Juarez, cut the
railroad and federal telegraph lines
and captured many horses, rifles and
other elements Monday according to
reliable and confirmed information
which was received here late today
from Mexico.
The attack on the pay train was
said to have occurred at El Mocho
station. 65 miles north Of Chihuahua
City where large dynamite mine was
placed under "A rail- destroying the
engine and tender and wrecking the
pay train. General Chavez. who was
on the train en- route from Chihuahua
| City to Sonora, ran to the door to dis
cover the cause of the wreck when he
was struck four times, one bullet
penetrating his forehead and three
entering his body, according to the
reports.
OF his troop escort OF seventy men,
thirty escaped, including six wounded,
who were brought to JuareZ late last
night and given treatment at the
military hospital. On this train was
said to have been $4,000 in Mexican
currency and $4,000 gold. which was
to have been paid to the troops along
the road. Thes, sums were seized by
the Villa forces.
After seizing the railroad station al
Ell Mocho, villa was said to have
placed an experienced railroad train
dispatcher In the telegraph office and
had him report the line open at that
point. This resulted In the train APP
preaching the station without warn
ing.
The same day another band of villa
followers was reported to have en-
gagged a troop train from Juarez car
rying five hundred troops formerly
stationed at Ojinaga. This attack was
reported to have occurred at Gallego
10 miles south of Juarez. After q
fight of five hours the federals were
forced to retire toward Moctezuma
altho they succeeded in driving off TIL,
Villa attackers with heavy losses OF
both sides. They were forced Il
abandon their trains and cavalr,
horses numberoing $50, according I,
these reports. A captain nmed Martir
Ruiz was reported killed in this fight
They telegraphed to Juarez yesterda!
for reinforcements and a train wa!
sent from JuareZ.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1917-11-29
RED CROSS SEALS TO
GO ON SALE IN CITY
Annual Drive" Starts Today ;
Hope to Raise $4,000 in
Community.

Red Cross Christmas seals will be
placed on sale in Tulsa today in stores.
railroad stations. the post office and
elsewhere. The seals sell for cent
apiece. 1t is hoped to raise $4,000
in Tulsa this season from the sale of
the seals.
Ninety per cent Of the funds go to
the Oklahoma association for the pre-
vention of tuberculosis to aid 1t in es-
tablishing clinics. dispensaries and
nurses thruout the commonwealth.
The rest goes to the national organi-
cation to pay for printing the seals. etc.
on account of the increase in tuber-
culosis cases in the state more money
will be needed this year than ever be-
fore. Everyone is urged to buy three
times as many seals as last year. Place
them on all your letters and packages.