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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
Billy Bunny and His Friends

taken all right And as the elephant
wouldn't kepe his head still, but kept
swinging 1t back and forth, Just as he
did In the circus, the picture man got
out an iron headrest and placed II
back OF the elephants head and
screwed 1t tight, so that he couldn't
wiggle his head and spoil the picture.
Then the photographer said:
Now. look pleasant, II you please,
And be sure you do not sneeze.
Hold your trunk up like a rifle!
Billy Bunny, smile a trifle!
Watch for brides, II you please,
Till the rubber ball I squeeze!
After that he went into q dark room.
while Billy Bunny and the elephant
looked at the pictures Of Daddy Fox
and his family.
When the photographs were finished
Billy Bunny and the elephant thought
they looked lovely in the little pink
frames. But before they left the
photographer took off the door SO that
the elephant wouldn't have TO squeeze
SO hard to get out!
your camera takes a very good pic
tire" said Billy Bunny, which pleased
the travelling photographer very much
And II his camera doesn't take the
measles before tomorrow. 80 that it
has to call In the Doctor Bird, I'll tell
you next time-well, just wait and see,
for don't know myself Just this min
ute what IL going to happen!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
TINES. REpUBLICAN MARsHALLrowN IOWA: MARCH / 1917

Harding. represents merely the lack
OF working balance to carry owen
certain debts from the time they be-
como due to the time when money
especially appropriated TOR the purpose
of paying them becomes collectaible. 1t
was explained by the house committee
on retrenchment and reform. There is
q possibility that means will be
adopted to remedy this lack.
The governors request for 100000
to be spent in checking UP valuations
Of railroads in Iowa, after the work Of
Interstate commerce commission val
ues Is completed. has not been acted
upon Representative Rowley's ait
tack on capitol extension, this time
manifested in the form Of a bin to SELL
part of the recently acquired Des
Moines acreage. seems likely to waste
dts strength. The senate approved a
ssa1utary amendment TO the primary
law which would restore to the state
convention the power to nominate all
state officers except governor Upon
announcement by Attorney General
Havner that all laws remaining on the
statute book at the expiration OF the
Legislative session win be enforced a
fight was begun over the Iowa 'Eblue
laws" which it is proposed to repeal.
III enforced these statutes would make
Ehe average Iowa city on Sunday not
only "bone dry" but grave dead" in
the opinion of not small proportion
Of citizens. So far the repeal forces
have met no success.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
An American.

An American is one
Who not only shouts "Old Glory!" but
feels it:
Who pursues a practical. not passive
democracy;
Who not only likes to thrive with ms
country, but is ready to die Cor II;
Who would not barter its tiniest blade
of grass for the wealth OF
universe:
Who respects it's institutions VINO ooes
not deride them:
Who has the courage OF his convict
ions, not the acquiescence II his
expediency:
Who believes In principle. not the stui-
tifcation of IT.
Who can be generously sympathetlc
without being patronizing;
Who rocks the cradle with one hand
and balances his books with the
other;
Who is childlike with you in success,
and stanch in adversely;
Who loves one woman and honors all;
Who Is mild with the simple. but a
rock NTH THE sophisticated
Who can pat puppy that despatched
his trousers;
Who is square with himself. and lenient
toward ignorance;
Who is fair to labor. and iabors fairly;
Who is humble in his achievement. and
generous with his praise;
Who can be a stalwart champion as
well as an innocent bystander;
Who believes in adequate prepared
ness, and will cheerfully dig up
his share when the bills fall due;
Who observes the intent, not the letter.
Of the law;
Who can be gallant to scrubwoman,
and Indifferent to the naughty:
who is as fastidious about his moral
shirt cuffs as his Numbered
linen;
Who eats his own embalmed beef. and
forwards the better cuts to those
who serve his country.
Who tries to be kind to every race and
color and creed, because he has
no wish to draw distinction
among those who will serve
him III the piiIcii.
Emil G. Bolz in the New York Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
CONQUEST OF The U. 5. 4.

If. as asserted by the dispatches this
morning, an offensive alliance between
Germany and Mexico against the
I United States has been In existence
for some time to the knowledge of our
state department the question will be
asked why congress has not been in
! formed OF the fact.
II Germany has attempted 10 dispose
as eventual spoil Of war to Mexico the
upshot will be that Germany will have
| lost at once every patriotic American
sympathizer with her in the oversee
struggle without distinction to previ-
Gus nationality or utilization.
Ii makes small difference that Mex
| leo was offered what she can neither
seize or hold even with such aid as
Germany might afford her which at
present is none at all. The public mind
IS not likely to argue Germanys des-
| peration but TO center on the fact
mi1itarism has proposed conquest and
division Of the United States of Amer
ica
An alliance such as the dispatches
outline, formed of Germany, Mexico
and Japan would be presently formi-
dable because of Japan. Mexico would
simply afford a base Of operations
against the United States and furnish
soldiers TO be trained by the military
skill Of Japan or Of Germany. With
Jap army--if such an alliance is to
De considered at all-in Mexico led by
training fighting men. Jap fleet
threatening the Pacific slope and the
| Gulf of California as a base for such
fleet the situation would be serious
enough to call out all the resources
available for defense
With all due regard and respect for
Secretary Lansing and the president
and their respective abilities and
without depreciation OF their patriot
| ism and desire 10 serve the country 1t
would add to the confidence of the
country if a secretary of state more
in the class of Blaine or Hay were to
| have the portfolio. We have come
upon perilous times. We need our
| greatest in council that the confidence
Of the people may run high and strong
! in its counseors The president needs
great men about him. However wise
he and others may esteem himself the
| fact--if it is a fact-that the Mexican
government while carrying on long
| drawn negotiation with the United
| States was entering into an interna-
tional conspiracy of conquest suggests
the need Of advisers Of foresight and
positive opinions and of purposeful
decision.
The Associated Press has done the
American people a great service in in
| forming them of the dangers that ac-
| cumulate about our borders. To pro-
| pose and plan a conquest OF the United
States is to bring the people Of this
country shoulder to shoulder. We shall
defend ourselves
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
A FRIEND OF THE GOOD OLD DAYS.

The proposal to make a five or ten
year closed season on game birds in
Iowa viii set many older persons re-
mer1bering days when native game
birds were in vast numbers and the
gunner's sport an open one to all who
cared to go afeld with dog and gun.
And the first the real sportsman will
remember and most regret are the bird
dogs he knew in those days, the faith
full companions he owned-for a good
bird dog was companion and not a
slave, a participation in the sport and
a friend all the year round.
Those old bird dogs we used to know
and associate with-for association is
the right word-what days Of sport
their names recall. old Sport and Don
and Shot and Grouse. English, Law.
crack, Irish and pointer-were masters
Of their trade, experts in their line,
blessed with uncanny noses and en-
dowed with an intelligence which COM
pared well with that which directed
them and with courage and purpose
fulaess that won not only admiration
but love.
They were not merely dogs but COM
panions. They went afield gladly.
They were sportsmen themselves and
worked to the limit of endurance for
the lsue sport of the thing. High
strung, wise. Intelligent, faithful, true
as steel in their friendships and as
strong and sturdy in their dislikes and
hatrsas tho old time bird deg came az
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
Topics of the Times

The idea Of Mexico taking over
Texas irresistibly reminds Of the Irish
man who caught O. Tartar He didn't
bring him in because the Tartar
wouldn't let him. 1t also reminds Of an
old acquaintance rather notorious for
lack Of piety whose wife suggested to
him that she'd like to join the church.
why yes, Lucy" he replied, Join the
church IL you want to but"-thought-
fully-"won't you have a HI OF time
living religion with me?"
$50
And our double faced friends across
the southern border need something to
keep in mind. That outfit lacks round
ing up and corrallins.
Colonel Bryan is an example Of haH"
quickly an incident like that conspi-
racy can change a pacifist to a fight
ing man.
The proposal to cut out the library
commission IL Of q piece with the policy
of making bluff at economy by cut
ting or q small expense to make a
showing that will permit asking for a
500, wad.
Add to the slogan ''he kept US out
of war" this other The kept the news
ava; IRON, congress-"
Laurence Jones' speaking to colored
men in Mississippi told them plainly
that if they were going north to find
equality they wouldn't find 1t. Mr..
Jones knows and the southern negro
may well heed his words. There Is no
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
Farmers eettins Rich.

1.-THE farmer of the west and nortn-
west is undoubtedly entitled to a Pc
Rod Of good times, for he had many
lean year when mortgages piled on
one another" remarked ]. A. Strobe
real estate man Of Washington
state, at the Ralieth. But the ques.
ton is now whether he is entitled te
unreasonable profits. and in my opin.
ion, he is not. When ! went wes'
many ears ago the state Of Washing
ton was almost a barren waste. The
farmer was fortunatesto get 10 cents
pound for his butter. Today the TAR
mers of that section are the men 81
affairs and the once desert area - no"
the richest farming district Of tbs
northwest.
an Alaska farners--and there are
farmers in sAlaska--are receiving 5e
cents d pound for their butter and $40
a ton for their potatoes, Conditions
have changed nightly in thirty years
A quarter of century ago ~ u were
a alll e. q y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
SUGGESTS SUPREME JUDGE.

| IDeS Moines Capitai.1
| Judge B. l. Salinger who holds a
seat on the supreme bench, advocates
| increasing the number of supreme
| judges. The number is seven at the
| present time, and Judge Salinger
wants to make it eight. He says there
! Is too much work to do. We do not
know how the lawyers feel in regard
! to it. but we would think that each
| judge could review 125 cases per year.
| If this could be done there are judges
| enough.
1t is not generally known that when
a litigant takes a case to the supreme
| court, he secures the judgment Of one
man only. He does not secure the
opinion of the supreme court. He
secures the opinion OF one member OF
the supreme court. 1t seldom happens
that full bench considers a case
The papers in the cases are handed out
by the chief justice, and the suhordi-
mates take their separate jobs and go
no work
Therefore Justice Salinger moves TO
create another supreme court by APP
pointing one man vino Will take his
bunch of cases and review them.
This system. while not generally
known. is not popular with the laymen.
1.-THE average litigant thinks the su-
preme court ought to be SUI
spreme court, and that when n man gets
thru with the supreme court he ought
10 feel that he has had the Judgment
t,f seven men.
1t would be a good plan to place
some additional limits on the right to
appeal from the lower courts. This
would reduce the work of the supreme
court, and would serve the state.
The supreme Judges ought to move
out Of the state house. They ought to
get more fresh air. They have no right
to have bedrooms in the state house.
1T is violation of good taste. It is
"a violation OF self respect. The farther
'the supreme court gets from politics
and the other departments Of the state
government. the better
Suppose a proposition were pending
TO have twenty -tive teachers domiciled
in the East and West High school
buildings. The people would think this
was improper Suppose 1t We're sug-
gested that the district judges have
bed rooms and bathing facilities In the
court house. what would the average
Inhabitants say? We believe there are
enough supreme judges at present, and
We believe the entire court would be
benefited by closing the bedrooms in
the state house.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
LOOKING UP Spies.
dubuque Times journal

llDuDu1ue i
Uncle Sans secret service agents
claim they have list OF 10000 persons
suspected OF being spies and that they
can lay their hands on them If war Is
declared on Germany. This statement
Is very interesting, but it becomes
more interesting when our secret serV-
ice agents say they have had the CO.
operation of secret agents from Scot
land yard, the British detective system.
II we have foreign spies in this coun-
try it Is we'll to keep an eye on them.
If our secret service have discovered
them and recorded their whereabouts
good service has been rendered. but
what people would like to know is how
does It happen that our secret 'ervice
and Scotland yard were working to-
gether.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
NAMES JUDGE DAWLEG.
ICedar RAPIDS Republican,.

With a vacancy on the bench Of the
supreme court Of the state, to be filled
nv the governor untfl an election can
be had in the regular course of politics,
we would like TO name as one TO be
considered. r. f. Dawley, OF this city
His name has often been suggested
and often been considered. His fitness
for such an office is so eminent that he
can not but occur to men Of thought IN
all parts of the state. Among all the
lawyers Of the state we can hardly
think Of one who would so satisfactor-
ilv fiji the office that the death OF
Judge IDeemer has made vacant
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
London,rs Long for Light.

1t is noticeable that wherever an OBJ
server goes in London one subject
comes uppermost sooner or later. That
is the aspect Of London when lighti
were turned up once more. The uni3
versatility of the longing for a lighted
London again is remarkable. The
night that peace Is declared, remarked
an assistant in a BARRIERS shop near thu
Strand, IT shall take my kids out in the
pram to look at the lights" Don't
you worry" retorted skeptical Gust
toner, "by the time peace is declared
your kids will be able to take YOU
out."-LondOn Globe. }
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
STATE RIGHTS.
rp,rlin 0foD Ha wkeye,

State. rights decided in 1865? Far
from it. In all human probability
state rights will go on forever. That Is
as long as there Is a United States OF
America. And perhaps it Is just az
we'll that such be the case. There will
be evil times in store for the land
when the people are no longer interest
ed in public affairs, and IN their re-
spective states and communities. IN
the states there are the same problems
as in the nation, the question OF the
authority of the state over the counties
and the cities and towns. The home
rule agitation in so many OF our states,
what is It but state right. applied to
local affairs? And there seems little
doubt that the home rule movement Is
making a healthy growth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
TUE "RHPEAETRs.

~Iuy OSuAHS~A'J
The Pitt johnson bill, backed by the
governor, would set up highway
commissioner in Des Moines In place
of the highway commission at Ames
would restore to boards Of supervisors
the sole authority to initiate road
Legislation in their counties and would
prohHbit bond issues for road Improve
ments. except in cases OF emergency.
The Elwood IMackie amendment would
preserve the commission, but would
restore to county authorities the mi
tiating authority. Form letters from
taxpayers will be used during the
present recess to swing doubtful
Legislators into line for the admins
tration measure. It apears that the
Pitt Johnston bill may get past the
house, but probabilities are that the
senate hurdle will prove too high.
A shortage Of $1,000. 900 in the state
treasury. pointed out by Governor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

to the method Of warfare. The trench
reduces the need of cavalry. whereas
the enormous amount Of shell nre has
increased the need Of held-gun horses.
in April OF last year there were no
real cavalry horses available IN Amer
lea. In the beginning it was possible
to get several thousand in Kentucky;
today it would be possible to get hardly
a carload. The same holds good IN
other states. "-Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

more sense Of colored equality In the
north than in, the south and nothing
like the Patience with the childish
type of color.
Also, old Inhabitants who remem-
Der civil war prices may now so down
to the "Y" at the stockyards and see
that old acquaintance the s1S hog come
In.
The mistake seems to have been that
the Germans didn't inferno those ships
In Mexico.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
A BAD COMBINATION.
rCedar Rapids Republican

ICedar Raplus RepubIlrHH'l
Whenever that putrid "reminiscences.
Harry X. Thaw. gets into trouble his
family Is willing to have him adjudged
insane to escape the consequences. And
then as soon as he is in the asylum
they begin maneuyers, backed with
money. to get him released. What an
unfortunate thing It Is to have man
both rich and degenerate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

successful agricultural country the onsI
making the assertion would be laughed
at, yet I am sure that Alaska is go-t
ing to have population of successful
farmers. / have seen herds Of cattle
In that north country made fat from
tha native forage; l have seen grain
mature and splendid crops Of all the:
harder varieties of vegetables -
Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

across the Hellespont with chagrin
written all over his profile. Leonidas
did not die in vain. as he had fur
nished the impassioned high school.
graduate with some OF the most livid
eloquence and weird rhetoric ever un-
corked from an opera house stage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
POTATOES AND POETRY.

The potato has heretofore been lath-
er a plebeian in this country. but at
present It takes rank with the chry-
santhemum and other aristocratic
growths. And that being the case. the
poet will soon begin to give 1t attention
and to sing its praises.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

Time to take hint from the Pilgrim
fathers" advises the Burlington Ga
zette, when succotash and honliny
made UP the humble board"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

The Sioux City Journal recalls, 1T
isn't great many years since lot of
good men were afraid of j. Barleycorn
on account Of what he could do to them
in politics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

William Jennings Bryan can laugh
best when somebody in Iowa springs
that grape juice joke now" remarks the
Muscatine Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
Iona Newspapers
WHERE THEY COME FROM.
Burlington Gazette

Farm boys are quickest TO join the
army, say recruiting men. But most or
the patriotic noise comes from the
cities
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01

The Cedar Rapids Republican COM
ments on the increase of public eating
places and upon the number of men
who now eat their monday lunches
down town, as well as their breakfasts,
The man who now wanders back
| home for his noon meal" the Republi-
can continues. is rare indeed; he be-
longs distinctly to the very old school,
The Republican suggests that perhaps
the scarcity of domestic help has had
something to do with it.
When they (the teachers) ask the
state or the city to grant them what
| they need they are hidden to wait a
while" says the Burlington Hawkeye.
That means an indefinite number Of
years. And when they talk of doing
something for themselves in practical
way they are told: oh, no, that would
never do. You are not laborers, you
are not mechanics. You are public
servants. and therefore should belong
to no organizations that can possibly be
of benefit to you That would be in
compatible with your public position.
ETC."
Not only will there he neat and HieS
soon, but there will be a crop of dande
lions" predicts a Joy assassin in the
Council Bluffs Nonparel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
LEoNlpAs.
,sQ Moes-sa6 aIp6 ~ Se0lk4 C

household word, and autographs and
kodak pictures of the deceased We're
eagerly sought after. His death
aroused so much Indignation that the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-01
Masonic Meetings
Visitors always welcome

MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1903 A. F. &
a. M.-Special communication. WORK
in Second degree Friday, March ;, 1870
p. m. John W. Wells, secretary; W. H
Steiner, W. NJ.
slGNET CHAPTER. No. 50. r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday evening
March 5, 1880 o'clock. Mark Masters
degree Carl Shatfner, Fl. P: John W.
Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20. f. & S. NJ. Mon
day. March 10. Regular business. l. t.
Forbes. Recorder: George Gregory
J. NJ.
SPECIAL cCNCLAVE, St. Aldemar
Commandery, No. so, K. T TUESDAY
March S. for work. 100 p, m. T.
Forbes, recorder; H. C Mueller, COM
mander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E.
S.--Regular meeting for business We'd
nesday, March IA, at -:3o p. N. Mrs.
George Downing, secretary; Mrs. j. E.
Frederick W. NJ.
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ser, Louisville, KY; and Mr.. Leon c.
Palmer, Montgomery, Ala, will each
speak several times.
Music a Special Feature.
It has been customary for several
wears to feature the music at the
State Convention. Prof. E. 0. EXCEL,
of Chicago, ILL.,, one of Americas fore
most musicians will have full charge
of the convention muse. He brings
with him Prof. w. P. Edwin, Ia
nous pianist of Chicago. The Meth
odist Ouartette of Rome, Ca, is also
on the program several times.
Delegates and Entertainment.
All delegates will pay registration
fee of Leo and then be given a pack
age containing a souvenir program
notebook, song book and several 9TH
err things necessary to make the time
snent at the convention pleasant and
profitable. They will then be assigned
homes On the Harvard pland-lodglng
and breakfast free.