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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
CHEAP PORK AND GREENS.

britt Tribune1
With all the bowling about the scare
ity of food, there is one relief that no
one has noticed and that is pork and
greens. This is one Of the finest dishes
ever set before man. There are millions
OF dandelions everywhere and easily
obtained. There are millions OF pigs that
nave long useless tails. Our plan is 10
amputate all the pigs tails dress them
nicely, salt them down for a few days
and then have pork and greens at not
one cent OF outlay. We figure that these
pork and greens viii last until the bean
crop Is ripe, then we will have a new
set Of tails on the spring crop of pigs
and can have pork and beans in the
fall. Try it, everybody.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
Iona Newspapers
ON THE TRAIL.
Manson Democrat

In the Forty Years Ago. news in the
Sioux City Journal there appeared one
day last week the announcement Of a
temperance convention to be held in
Cherokee, under the auspices of the
Good Templars. with David Brandt
of Iowa City, grand secretary, present
to aid in the work" Can it be that
this is the same Dave Brant We all
know so we'll as a rather liberal sort
OF a fellOW2
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

Here is betting that Teddy can whip
any three Of the men who are keeping
him out of the war; offers the Bows
Advocate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
SAVING COAL.

LA 'cipuTt DcIuOcTdI.J
Just now. with coal selling in May
at figure above the winter price, one
reads with interest that in compact
little England, the Daylight Saving
plan this year will save 100000 tons
of coal
Ii it would save that to England, II
would save many times that amount
to the United States.
II we arose an hour earlier, began
work an hour earlier, quit work an
hpur earlier and went to bed an hou,
earlier, it would automatically take an
hours burden off the street railways
the electric light and electric powe,
companies, the owl car would rur
an hour earlier, and people would be
sleeping instead Of using lights gen.
Grated by coal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

semblsd for an o'clock dinner regard
Ing him with disgust, not unmixed with
alarm.
The children's party, was next door,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

What would men say II women
played croque: II the alleys like the
men pitch morse shoes inquiries the
Washington, Iowa, Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
h.pniIv Situated.

jected from the army as undersized TO
reflect that they are just the kind who
can plant potatoes without getting
backache.-Clevel Plain Dealer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
Waste Of Words

s.Politeness costs nothing" "Ordi-
n1afly that's true. But it costs some
thing IN time every time the telephone
operator mistakes my please for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

Not So Funny After All.
Canon Anger was very fond Of chill
dren. and set out one night to attend a
party given ''by children for children"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

the most prolific scamp who sings in
our peighborhood. Nobody knows as
many tunes as he does.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01
Greet AMBITIONS.

1Eoat people would succeed in small
tkfasas Il they were not troubled with
/, atoat ambitions. Longfellow
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

IF the sale OF cigarets is an evil as
many people believe, very little relief
is provided by a mulct tax says the
Sioux City Tribune. That Is merely
repetition Of the bunglesome sytem
applied to the booze business. Selling
cigarets either is legitimate or lille
Ultimate business. Its actual status
should be determined and then 1t
should be handled according to that
finding. A convincing showing as to
the degenerating influences and physi-
cal injuries of cigaret smoking would
warrant some protection to future
generations. Otherwise, interference
does not seem in order"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

1.-THE unmarried man OF from 81 to
30 years who develops a limp between
now and June will expect to be
greeted with darkling looks and most
unjust suspicious" says the Sioux City
Journal. Such development in the
case Of married man. OF course, is
expected now and then"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-06-01

"The controversy over Sabbath OBJ
servance is one that has many angles,
concludes the Iowa City tctiZen. we
shall lose nothing by remembering that
the problem is to save for everybody as
far as possible his day Of rest
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Patriotism by the Yard

The hagmakers, if we can believe the
Federal Trade Commission, have taken ad-
vantage of a patriotic crisis to practise
extortion. It would be hard to cite more
unpleasant example of the triumph Of
greed. A dealer in the starry emblem of
America would share, one might suppose,
in the emotions which the sight of the flag
arouses in the rest of us. Surrounded
daily by the Stars and Stripes, he might
even be expected to lack little Of the
average sordidness Of human nature. In
stead, it is charged, he has been among the
foremost of the cormorants who fatten at
time like this on the idealsm Of their
countrymen.
His appears to be another example Of
the familiarity which breeds contempt. In
daily contact with the flag as an article Of
commerce one may become blind, it seems,
to the red, white and blue, to the stars
and stripes, to the ardors and visions of a
people which sleep in its folds. The flag
dealer comes to see merely square OF
bunting, whose colors are fast or not, ac-
cording to grade, and whose size multiphes
it's price. Patriotism he measures in the
scales Of supply and demand. He knows
it, he encourages it, he lives on it. But he
gauges it in yards Of cloth.
The government may be trusted, we
hope, to curb his price agreements, to con-
fiscate his excess profits and possibly to
regulate his entire industry. But even
should he continue his gorging of the sac
rament, one can only pity him. Who would
care to be swine, however full the trough,
could he be man?
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Tonnage Losses

The recent rise in the number Of British
vessels sunk by U-boats has led, as usual,
to a renewal of the demand for further
information about the losses in tonnage.
Lord Beresford, who has constantly pro-
tested against the Admiralty's method Of
tabulating the weekly returns, speaks Of
the shortage as Every dangerous" and
again urges the government to let the
whole truth be known, the question of ton
mage being of far more Importance than
the number of vessels sunk.
His own estimate seems to conform pref
ty nearly with the calculations of some
other observers, and though it is conceiv-
ably exaggerated there is no way Of de-
termining the tonnage with certainty. At
the most favorable reckoning the British
losses alone can hardly amount to less than
100000 tons since the beginning Of 1917,
and the losses of the allied countries and
of neutrals must be added to these. Lord
Beresford believes that in all about 4,OOO,-
900 tons of shipping were destroyed in the
first six months of the year, and as there
is not the slightest hope of securing new
shipping at the rate of 100000 year, or
anything approaching it, the state of af-
fairs by next spring may be extremely
grave.
1t is unfortunate that in too many dis
cussions of this matter arguments are
based on the German prediction of a mill.
ion tons a month. The prediction has GER
tainly proved false; yet nothing could be
more foolish than to conclude that the
campaign must be failure because an
idle boast is still unfulflled. Another error
lies in counting too much on numbers, as
if a falling off IN vessels sunk necessarily
implied improvement, whereas in many in
stances the difference in tonnage lost may
be relatively insignificant
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
"Conhdential information"

4 newspaper correspondent at Wash
ington imparts what is supposed to be the
true explanation of the British Admiralty's
tardiness in accepting the advice of some
thoughtful strategists in the matter Of
Zeebrugge. 1t is said to come from "a
military source" possessed Of confidential
information" showing chat the water off
Zeebrugge is extremely shallow" and that
the real base is not at Zeebrugge itself,
but about thirty miles up the Bruges
Canal, near Bruges," where bomb-proof
shelters have been constructed for the pro-
lection of the troublesome submarines
which it is so desirable to destroy.
What is true in this confidential in
formation" has been pretty generally
known for a long time. 1t would indeed
be wonderful if no one had hitherto dis
covered that there were sandbanks in the
neighborhood of that port, for it is only
necessary to look at a chart of the coast to
be convinced of the fact. AS to Bruges, it
is a good way off, but thirty miles is
stretching it much too far. 1t is there, no
doubt, that the Germans have many of
their destroyers and submarines, and they
can hardly be reached from the sea, though
the distance from Zeebrugge is not thirty
miles, but much less than ten.
In reality, however, Zeebrugge has re-
peatedly been bombarded, notwithstanding
the supposed hesitation" Of the British
Admiralty, but it is apparently only under
exceptional conditions that such attacks
can be carried out with any prospect Of
success. The destruction Of the harbor of
Bruges would obviously be a most desirable
achievement, but perhaps impossible with
out the cooperation Of land forces. Short
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
A Resolution

From Punch
I'll tell YOU what mean TO do
When these our wars shall cease TO rage;
I'll 90 where summer skies are blue
And spring enjoys her heritage;
I shall not work for fame or wage,
But wear a large black silk cravat,
A velvet coat that's gray with age
Beneath a high-crowned broad-brimmed hat
I'll journey to some Tuscan town
And rent palace for a song,
And all the walls I'll whitewash down
Some day when | am feeling strong;
And there I'll pass my days among
Ny books, and when my reading pals
And summer days are overlong,
I'll daub up frescos on the walls.
The world may go her divers ways
The while ! draw or write or smoke,
Happy to live laborious days
There among simple painter folk;
To wed the olive and the oak,
Most patiently to WOO the Muse,
And wear great big Tuscan cloak
To guard against the heavy dews.
Between the olive and the vine
I'll make heroic mock of Mars,
And drink at even golden wine
And afterward harangue the stars
In little gems of fervid speech,
And smoke impossible cigars
Which cost at least three Soidi each.
Let more ambitious spirits spin
The web of life for veal or woe
Whilst | above my violin
Shall sit and watch the vale below,
All crimson in the afterglow
And when the patient stars grow bright
I'll draw across the strings my bow
Till Chopin ushers in the night.
Such things as these | mean TO do
When Peace once more resumes her sway
To walk bsrefooted through the dew
And while the sunlit hours away,
If haply | may find some gay
Conceit to light sombre mind,
As gracious as a summer day,
As wayward as an April wind.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
To the Boys Who Fight
To the Editor of The Tribune.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: May | be allowed to write a line on
the subject of the American soldier? All
day yesterday battalion drilled in front of
my house, and |, who, am proud to saw.
come Of race of gallant soldiers, am more
than happy to salute the American boys with
my unqualified admiration. In general de-
pertinent, drill and marching they are as fit
and trim as the fighting men Of any other
allied nationality who are to-day fighting
women's battles all over the earth. Plebeian.
avaricious, atrocious old Fritz, who looks
(as one hears from his descendants) down
from the Happy Fields-one would think
from historic accounts of his many eccen-
tricities that he looked up from the flames
Of Gehenna-must swear like the army in
Flanders as he views the splendid apnear-
snce and general equipment of these men.
However, we women for whom these gall
liant men are fighting all have shrines in
our hearts where we on occasions hold
silent sanctuary. Let us set apart a dav in
each week for fasting. Let US neither eat
nor drink from sundown to sundown. Let
US have in our souls only high thoughts
and amlable deeds and all that makes a
woman. And as there is something more
in Promethean fire than we dream of in
our work-a-day philosophy, let US burn
candles in church, chapel or on sacred
hearth for love of the brave boys all over
the world who are fighting for our sakes
the beast Of the Apocalypse and his litter
Of decadent sons in the trenches in France.
Let us burn candle for the sake of the
brave boys of all lands who are gallantly
and cheerfully going into hell fire in be-
loved France for our sakes. Let US do more.
Let us put money into a Golfer, the money
we save By fasting, to be given to the Girl
Left Behind Me-" MARIE STUART
New York, July 81, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
No Stigma in Conscription

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: I have argued very strongly since
the declaration of war that the selective draft
system would be the most sensible and
practical method Of obtaining an army. Re-
Gently / have noted with great dspleasure
the attitude of some OF our well-meaning
American citizens in respect to the young
men who are now about to be drafted under
the conscription act
While it is true that every credit in the
world should be given to the man who vol
unteers, still, are we to look upon the young
man who is now being drafted as slack
er" or are we to consider him as good
patriot as the man who volunteers? Per-
sonally, | have among my acquaintances
many good Americans whose names appear
among the first to be called and who | know
are inspired with the same ideals and love
for their country as the average American.
Instead of volunteering at this late hour to
avoid that "much-feared" stigma that is ap-
piled to the conscrpt, they are proudly
awaiting their turn to be called to enlist
in the army that is to make this world safe
for democracy. SAMUEL HAGAN.
New York, July %, 1917
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
For Transatlantic Airplanes

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Two years ago to-day through the
columns. of your paper | called attention to
the availability of the land grant colleges
as aviation schools and of some of them as
submarine schools. To-day five of the eight
| mentioned have been made national avia-
tion schools, with the addition of sixth at
the University of Texas.
May venture on another suggestion which
I have not seen broached as yet? We are to
build, we are told, strong burden-carryinp
aeroplanes-to 20 on raids with tons of ex-
plosives. In these days of difficult trans
oceanic transportation, in the design OF those
machines may not some consideration be
given to having them, replacing their load of
bombs with fuel, able to proceed to the other
side under their own motive powers7 They
must be built to stand almost anything.
Cannot this also be accomplished?
GEORGE N. COLE.
New York, July 26, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30

profteers. 1t only begins TO utilize the
most obvious and most equitable source OF
war revenue.
1t would be better to increase the excess
profits tax all along the line than to in
crease the normal income tax beyond 4
per cent. Those in whose pockets the war
is putting money are being favored by the
bill, as it stands, to an unreasonable ex-
tent. Their extra gains greatly overbal-
ance all the new taxes which they have to
bear. They stand unscathed, while the
average normal income tax payer has his
tax burden doubled Crippled, if the rate
goes to 6 per cent?, and may also find his
income actually decreased because Of the
war.
After a while everybody must pay. But
let us start with a tax scheme which does
its best to wipe out determinations in
favor of war benefciaries and puts all
contributors TO the cost of the war as
nearly as may be on an equitable basis.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
New Form for Newspapers

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Mr.. Briggs's cartoon showing a man
struggling with newspaper to turn new
page is so true to life that il ought to sug-
gest an improvement in the physical features
Of the ordinary newspaper.
Probably the most of newspaper reading is
done in crowded cars. 1t is next TO i'm
possible to turn the leaves without Topping
ones arms at full length and in other peo-
pies faces.
IL the sheets were cut into halves and
printed crosswise, like "The Times maga-
zine section, the leaves could be easily
turned and the paper read in comfort.
Papers are always folded and handled in
this form. so that virtually the lower half
of the front page becomes the back page and
thus defeats the idea Of large front page.
GEORGE NJ. BEERBOWER.
New York, July 25, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Preaching Love for the Enemy


These are trying days for the divines OF
all nations, but especially for those who
hold that at all costs they must continue 70
love their enemies and contrive somehow
to find fitting place for war in the gospel
of peace. For the German pastors the dit .
ficulties are inconsiderable, because from
the beginning their leaders made 1t PLAIN
that Germany was not on the same footlng
with ordinary nations and could not there
fore be governed by the common standards
of conduct. If they hated it was with
German hate and if they committed muir
der it was in divine cause. Even IN their
excursions against helpless civilians the
airmen were blessed, for were not the Yep
pelins formally promoted to the celestial!
hierarchy, little below the Seraphin.?
In other countries the compromise is not
so easily worked, and the inability OF the
clergy to adapt their doctrine to the de-
mand for reprisals has of late been
cause of offence to many hot-headed and
revengeful people in England. The Arch
bishop of Canterbury himself expressed
open disapproval of the project, and since
he set the example some minor prelateS
and many priests Of the Church Of Eng
land have been signing petitions against IT,
The effect on those who hold the opposite
view has been most unfortunate. Let the
bishops stick to their belfries" cries the
Duke of Argyll in towering rage, and,
indeed, he finds not few who agree with
him in wishing for the old Tudor days
when bishops "were but dumb dogs"
But not all laymen agree with the duke
Some are seriously alarmed at the growing
dislike displayed on all sides against the
Germans, whom they ought as good Chris
tians to love, even though they be obliged
to kill them. Thus Lord Hugh Cecil at
recent meeting of the House Of Laymen OF
the Province of Canterbury warned his fel-
low-churchman that, whatever any one
might saw, they "were not entitled to hate
Germans" but, on the contrary, were
bound to love them and to defeat them IN
this war for the good Of the whole OF
Chrstendom." 1t was hard doctrine,
and it is greatly to be feared that some OF
his hearers found it beyond their powers.
But what has enraged the revengetul
above all else Of late is the attempt of the
Lower House of Canterbury Convocation
to abolish the 58th Psalm from the Prayer
Book. 1t is singular that imprecations
which have been tolerated cheerfully for
hundreds of years should suddenly prove
distasteful to-day, but so it seems to be,
for in answer to one who defends the
psalm the Archdeacon of Gloucester asks
plaintively: "Does he really wish to see
the teeth of the ungodly broken in their
mouths?" There is no doubt that many
will answer cheerfully that they do and
that when they pray in church on Sundays
for victory the breaking of teeth and the
shifting of jawbones are among the very
least of the evils implied. They will even
90 so far with the Psalmist as to rejoice au
the sight of vengeance, and the Duke OF
ARGYLL for one would doubtless be willing
even to wash his footsteps in the blood OF
the ungodly. The bishops and archdeacons
do not seem as yet to have made many
ro+abla converts
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Germans Forehanded in Prayer

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Will you permit me to answer as fol-
lows, through your columns, your corre-
spondent, Mr. Louis Tracy? In The Tribune
of this morning he suggests that the people
of all the countries allied against the Cen
tral Empires unite on a certain day IN
prayer for victory.
call his attention to DR.. J. P. Bangs
"Hurrah and Hallelujah" and Mr.. William
Archer's "Gems of German Thoaght." These
books are compilations of sermons and lect-
ures by German clergymen and professors.
From them we learn that the Deity to whom
ne wants prayers offered in behalf Of the
Allied cause is "the German God"
As in other fields, the Germans here went
ahead and made full preparation long be-
fore we got ready or thought of getting
ready. Incidentally, in this matter of part
nership with super-mundane powers, the
Germans, from Emperor William down or
up, have made themselves the laughing stock
of the rest of the world. Let US not try
to emulate them in presumptuous folly.
II he hopes TO stimulate men and women
to united action by getting them all to-
gether in asking for victory, the psychology
is understandable; but then, why place the
suggestion on another and unrelated ground?
Why, say, as he does, in effect, that he
expects to change the purpose of the "Un-
changeable," to turn into uncontemplated
channels the energies Of being that he
holds TO be "the same yesterday, to-day and
forever? Which does he hope to do, add
to the knowledge of the "All-wise" or FLIP
the moral sense of the "All-good"?
EDWIN C. WALKER.
New York, July 81, 1917
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
"A Time for Courage
France, July Q, 1911,
" Of The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: am writing to thank you for your
splendid editorial in this mornings paper
entitled "a Time Tor Courage" II 1t has the
same effect upon other readers that 1t had
rnon me il will serve to put new courage into
large number of people. You are right IN
s.yirg "it is time for the people of the
IrniteJ states to seek TO acquire something
of tho spirit and something of the determl-
,,o,ion Of the French soldiers, who said at
Verdun, They shall not pass!'"
Although the present undertaking Is lar
Greater one than we have ever engaged IN,
let us remember as Americans that what we
have set out to do in the past we have done
II is time for sober thought but also a
time for confidence and resolute purpose
JOHN H. FIELD.
New York, July %, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
Mr.. White Upheld
the Editor of The Trihune-

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The great dailes of this city are so
full of war news and other matter appertain-
ing to this stupendous world war that the
average reader finds time to read but a small
part of it and only glance at the headlines
of the rest Of it,
Under such circumstances it was highly
refreshing to read (multum in parvo) what
the Hon. A. D. White had to say in to-days
Tribune.
In my opinion there is good hard horse
sense-common sense, that most uncommon
thing in all this world-in every line of
what Mr.. White said And heartily com.
mend its careful reading by everybody.
JAMES C. JENKINS.
New York, July 26, 1917.
New-York tribune., 1917-07-30
"A Splendid Poster"
o .he Editor of The Tribune.

To .he Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In to-days TribIne-"Not TO make
war, but to destroy it"-"And if there were
any other honorable way, I'd take it"-and
note the. expression on Uncle Sans face-the
entire sketch-a picture!
Excellent! Excellent! One of the finest
and strongest sentiments yet brought out
and excellently portrayed. What a splendid
poster! 1t should be submitted for that pur-
pose,
What food for reflection in those few
words for doubter and pacihst! What a
powerful base for argument against those
Of the U-boats who "go to murder, not to
fight" A. NJ.
New York, July %, 1917.