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The Detroit times., 1917-05-22

cess. ~ vii have defeC-s that are
an the more serious for being md
den striking proof % his has
been Afforded by The many fatal col
.apses % concrete structures Con
crete never has been and never viii
De- a popular building material fpr
homes
Sfucco has enjoyed a vogue n re-
cent wears bur lis virtues are Heet.
ng I'm plain language II is a sham
U pretends 20 be solid. substantial
freproof while IN fact 20 is quite
tbe opposite Stucco adds practical.
ly nothing 90 the SAFETY 81 The house
~ is only surface dressing and
aFords little real protection against
FIRE and time.
II IS not until We come 20 brick
that ge and the .deai material The
improvement ia brick manufacture
has enabled The architect 10 bring
about & wonderful revival in brick
house construction The durability
~ brick is attested by the expert
enCe az Ions centuries OF use. Il is
made by FIRE and Ere cannot harm
&C. The brick house. costing only
a triAe more than the frame house
never has 20 De painted Is heated
more cheaply than any other kind
hardly ever needs repairs. and in
stead OF depreciating grows more
valuable year hy year
And now an inventive genius has
devised What Is known as Fisklock
hrick. which gives Tho appearance
NJ 'he finest tapesrr, brick bur
prov dos double hollow wall With
a face brick surface n consists Of
TWO solid masonry walls each three
.uo5e, thick not thin fragile shells
easily Hgnc'gred 10y a blow or shat
stored by FIRE and water
The double walls are separated
By a tvoinch air space vet are
bound nseparsbly together by webs
made integral with 'ho brick itself
there are no metal ties to cor
rode break or pull out Every
brick s both a header and a
srretcher
This material is especially de-
signed FOR medium priced houses.
The Detroit building commission
has passed favorably upon this ma
terisi after thQro and exhaustive
, tests
ore OF The largest rubber COM
panies Akron. a.. recently select.
I'd this material FOR 70 houses. End
nE that If uss cheaper than a brick
~ 81 N backed up with hollow
Tile
The Puritan Brick & Tiles com
pany Of 40 TO Farwell building
are The distributors Of this material
IN Michigan and northern Ohio. and
have Al their Office sample walls ~
. Fisslock shoa nE the different col
ors iu which IL can be furnished
They also have a large amount OF
literature pertaining 20 this uA
terra which they will very glad
furnish on request
The Detroit times., 1917-05-22

Women employed IN the wanst
district ia New York CRY are to
have luncheon club OF their own
conducted along the same lines AS
those Of bankers. lawyers and bust
ness men
The Detroit times., 1917-05-22
339 MILLS
IN OPERATION
Michigan Saws .001 ,533 Feet
Board Measure During
1915

a total computed lumber cut Tor
me United States IN 1916 OF 59.s01.-
600 600 board feet is announced by
me forest service. This figure is
based on reports received up ~
April ij from 1901 sawmills our
Of me 3oosi believed 10 nave oper-
afed last year ~ is estimated that
The actual car was slightly ia excess
~ 10000 600 roo feet An earlier 90.
innate. based on partial reports. in
dicated a total output Of ALSO. 600.
600 feef The figures nov given are
regarded AZ practical final The
state or Washington was again the
largest producer with a lumber cut
Of tt9- 9s1 900 feet Louisiana was
second. with 5000. 900 .0oO feet and
Mississippi third. With 2,730. 900 600
feet Southern yelloV pine. with a
total Of lf975,000. 600 feet. forms
31.s Dor cent % the entire cut Doug
las Or. ITS nearest competitor is
credited With 5.416.O00 COO while
oak. with a cut Of 2.50o 600 oo0. is
third
Production In 1916 vas. 30 is stat.
cd hampered by a general lack of
shipping s3cHlfIes and local unia
torabie weather conditions which
tended toward curtainment
The number of active mills in
Michigan reporting pas $50. and tho
reported .quanu'y ~ production
$1,000 feet board measure Vss i00f.
..e ud Tho computed quantity vas
1.2100f0 10 feet board measure
The Detroit times., 1917-05-22

Mrs G. 70 Mathis. Alabama's "a
nous woman farmer is touring her
state In tho inercst OF the bigger
crop movement
The Detroit times., 1917-05-22

Tho students and faculty ~ Wei.
lesley college arc. rledglng them
selves 20 cease eating candy and
Ice cream between meals. 20 choose
sensible" clothes and shoes 20 drill
ono hour week. and 70 help The
lighting forces BY Red Cross work
and similar activities
The Detroit times., 1917-05-22

Tho Builders & Traders Athletic
club 's PLANNING Saturday after
neon OUTING ~ lakeside near W
clemens. on juno q u fhe weathe-
ia favorable There will DO soft
haU ramer. and other events and
An appetizing feast in tho evening
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
A WOMANs PART.

No doubt it is true that big fac
tories can make Red Cross supplies
cheaper than women can buy material
and give their labor. But there is
service which money can not buy, JOY
of service that can not be sold or pur-
chased, and that labor put into Red
Cross supplies by her own hands class
ifies this to the woman whose heart
is with the wounded and who longs to
have an actual part in relieving suf-
fering and saving the lives of the boys
afield and in the hospital wards.
She can find that happiness of ser
vice at the sewing rooms of the Red
Cross. 1t must bring a wholesome
happiness to know that with her own
hands and with her heart in the work
she has made handages that shall hind
wounds and hold the life in mangied
and helpless forms. She stitches her
hopes therein; her hands reach across
the seas in help and healing, and all
she sends forth in mercy carries with
it her prayers. No factory can do 1t
for her, more than factories and alien
fingers can fashion and shape her first
baby clothes. For both have her love
and hopes in them
And the woman who puts her loving
and patriotic labor into Red Cross sup
plies gains much by her employment.
She has the feeling that she has shared
in some part. Her accomplishment,
the actual touch of her own hands in
that labor bring her a tender salts
faction that she shall find priceless to
her own soul. For Whitman knew
when he said:
Each man to himself and each wo-
man to herself.
Such is the word OF the past and
present, and the word Of Immortality.
No one can acquire for another-not
one.
Not one can grow for another-not
one.
The song Is to the singer and comes
back most to him.
The love is to the lover and comes
back most 10 him.
The gift is to the giver and comes
back most to hint can not fall
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
Ripping Rhymes
" WALT MASON
ANONYMOUS.

get some fierce communications
about my warlike rhymes; my talks
about the scrapping nations 1t seems.
are simply crimes. IF you're 80 fond
Of red disaster. why don't you go and
fight, and Europe's plains with carnage
plaster? Thus many people write.
And some are men who thus assail me.
and some are worthy danes; and in
onething they never fail me-they do
not sign their names. I've had a thou
sand bitter letters since first this war
uprose, from readers who are chronic
fretters cause we must come to blows.
They talk as tho they'd like to Jail me
TOR boosting warlike games; and in one
thing they do not fail me-they never
sign their names. oh, readers Of this
moral papers, this clean. uplifting
sheet, il you don't like my daily caper.
Jump on me with both feet But be
good sports. ard when you're jumping.
let me know who you are; 1t will in
spire me when Tn humping to write
new songs Of war. With caustic words
you lam and whale me. a. toll IN my
names; and in one thing you never
fail me-you do not sign your names.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17

II think I'll take ride in my air.
ship" said Billy Bunny one beautiful
sunshiny morning, as he stood outside
the front door in the Old Brier Patch.
Now do be careful" said his mother,
anxiously for she didn't believe in little
Dummies flying in airships or anything
else. The proper place for them was
either on the Pleasant Meadow or in the
Friendly Forest. And maybe she was
right, for after something happens We
generally think mother is right.
Don't worry about me-" replied the
little rabbit, as he hoped down to the
barn where he kept his aircraft, the
same one he had bought for three dol
lars from the Jay Bird you remember,
some umpty-leven stories ago.
Well, he was soon flying gracefully
over the Old Brier Patch while his dear
mother shaded her eyes with her right
paw and wiggled her pink nose for fear
her little bunny boy would fall. Oh,
dear me! hope some Of the little boys
who read this story won't worry their
dear kind mammas by flying in air ma
chimes or balloons or aeroplanes or
zeppelins or any other FLYING machines
whose names can't think of Just now.
Everything was going very smoothly
with Billy Bunny, when all Of a sud
den. just like that, Willie Wind got
ver' boisterous Yes sir! He just twist
ed that airship around and around until
the little rabbit got so dizzy he couldn't
see. and then. Of course, he couldn't
steer and after that the dirship did
Just exactly what ii wanted to do. and
when people do just what they want to-.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
Iona Newspapers
COAL ESToRTI6N.

MASON City Globe Gazette.l
The Britt Tribune shows the fallacy
Of the extortionate price of coal. Soft
coal" il says, can be bought in Britt
at 81 per ton for Miller Creek. Soft
coal, you know, il down IS at the mine
This leaves IS per ton for freight ard
handling How is that, Governor Hard
ing? Blue Gem is $40 per ton, semi
anthracite is $40 per ton, Campbell S
Creek is SO per ton and washed Illinois
coal is $50 per ton. Four dollars AID
80 cents 10 get il here and pay for
handling, SIS at the mines. Who dom
know that these prices are simply
highway robbery? Nothing else II
this government can't do some;hiaS
thar win stop this robbery it had bet
ter sell out and let the robbers have
the whole country II there is any
way 10 stop this 'thuggery" let's for
Gods sake, organize and stop 1t. Ii
is All Insult TO common sense. These
prices are from 81 TO 81 per ton above
last year prices. Let every paper in
Iowa take up the matter and get either
justice or anarchy. nothing else VIII
ever succeed with the cursed monop-
olistic coal barons.' Go to it, Bre'r
Bailey. Get that snare drum and sound
the long roll. We are all with you to
asht the coal and food barons.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
LOOK OUT FOR AUSTRIA.
lTama News.l

Ausfria's present behavior IS very
danserous. The dual monarchy Is
again playing the role Of a rastai
hidden in the body of a suffering man
and unless the diplomats OF the allies
remain painstakingiy xAtchfui the
Hapsburgs might slip one over on
the world when the peace terms are
made.
A few days ago from Vienna came
dispatches to the effect that Austria
realizes that she needs closer re'a.
tons with Serbia, Montenegro and
the other Balkan states. The dis
patch was so worded that those VINO
are unfamiliar with Austrian h.s-
tory would infer that Austria wants
to be the big brothers ot the Serbs
Montenegrins. Roumanians anG BIi-
CARS. 1t is notorious fact that
Austria maintains a balance of power
by urging the Bohemians TO haze
the Germans. the Germans to hate
the Bohemians. the Hungarians to
Cypress the Slovaks, the Slovaks to
hate the Hungarians and all the oth-
ers 10 look upon the Croatians Win
contempt. and SO on with the otheE
small nations which lof centuries
were ruled By Austria and we're
kept in ignorance until some OF them
fought so bravely that they won at
leas, the right to education and cul-
ture.
There is nothing in Austr:a's his
tory to show that she helped any
small nation TO progress AT the peace
conference she will talk closer re-
lations, but she will really strive for
another grip on her neighbors. If she
gets grip she will not practice closer
relations, but will try to ensiaye as she
has always done.
When the democracies Of the WORTH
dictate the terms OF peace. they must
devote a great part Of their judgment
to Austria, for unless the power o.
Austria is reduced the war will have
been fought in vain. And it will be re-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
Billy Bunny and His Friend.

lit isn't so pleasant for everybody else.
And the first thing the little rAbbit1
knew he was caught hard and fast on
the top OF big factory chimney. One
OF those round, tall brick chimneys.1
you know. that 60 way up into the sky
and smoke like the funnel OF tramp
steamer.
"Oh, dear! Oh, dearl' cried the lit-\
tie rabbit. and he began to choke and
cough, and the tears ran out OF his eyssS
and his little white fur coat got al
dirty, and in few minutes he looked
Just like little colored rabbit!
Well, sir, there would be no moro
stores about Billy Bunny and his
friends IL Uncle Lucky Lefthindfoot'A{
circus hadn't been in the town where]
the chimney was. And It was a mighty
lucky thing that tine Circus Elephant
happened to look up and see what was
the matter. And as soon as he did hel
called all the monkeys and told them
to clumb up that chimney as fast as|
they could and push the airship off,
And then he stood down below and
called up thru his long trunk like al
man with a megaphone at Z baseball
game: Don't get frightened, little rab
bit, we'll save YOU" And pretty soonJ
the monkeys reached the top, and then
they showed and pushed, and pushed
and showed. until the airship slid off
and flew away. And in the next story
I'm going to see that he doesn't flyl
near any more chimneys. for those
monkeys can't be leaving the circusv
every minute you know, to rescue lit
tie rabbits.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
MY GARDEN GATE.

Clematis white and roses circling the
garden gate,
Tiny nests in their branches, where
the robins mate,
Screened by leaves and petals from the
suns hot ray,
Guarded at night by the starlight, un'
der the milky way.
Did l dream when I planted the flow
ers and arched them overhead
Just for artistic beauty-I had builded
an altar instead?
For under the shsltering roses, and un-
der the stars pure light
The girl with the cheeks of peach blow
pledged her troth tonight
Twas Just the same old story, always
and ever new,
The girl at the gate with the love-light
cleaning from eyes of blue,
The white flowers turning to heaven,
recording the same old vow,
And the same stars streaming bless
ing on the girl of then and now.
This morning the rose and clematis are
filling with fragrance the air,
The old gate down by the garden open
with reverent care,
Every bud and blossom seems bending
as If in prayer,
Since the girl with the love light in her
eyes, planted an altar there.
Pictorial Review.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
THE COAL SITUATION.

Coal and coal prices and delivery al
the mines constitute subjects Of seri-
GUS discussion in and out Of the pub
lie prints. The board Of control OF
the state has been told by operators
that they do not care TO take the state
contracts as the state requires delivery
or At prices which the state might con-
slider reasonable. Private purchasers
meet even greater embarrassment The
retail dealer is between the devil Of
the operators and the deep sea Of his
trade. Altogether the situation is one
which the public is not fully informed
upon and upon which little light is be-
ing shed by officials whose privilege
and business Il is to inform them
selves and the consuming public.
Indiana's state commission investi-
gated and reported fully its findings
and conclusions. The conclusions Of
that body were TO the effect that the
mines were playing both ends against
the middle to the extent OF all the
traffic would bear.
1t will be a very easy matter to clear
up the situation in Iowa so far as put
ting the people in possession Of the
actual facts is concerned. It will not
be hard to discover what efforts the
mines are making, whether the short
age of labor complained of is actual or
created for a purpose. The cost OF
digging should pc also very easy to
establish because it has been thor
oughly gone into in districts where
conditions are similar to those in Iowa.
II appears, that the reductions prom :
ised were not reductions at all: that
dealers pay as much for coal at the
mines as previous to the gold brick
r,leaens SO freely offered as "reduc-
tons" The dealer bought coal al
cfeaply before as after. On one rs
linois coal the price at the mine had
been $3.50 ton. Naturally the con-
sumner expected a local reduction when
the operators made their bluff OF re-
duction. However. the dealer continued
TO pay 1880 at the mines and is still
paving It. And that price is precisely
twice the old price. 1t is fair to the
dealer and to the public itself that the
lsI y . rs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
FATHER TO THE THOUGHT.

Those who are building upon distur-
bance in Germany as indicative of an
early peace may take warning against
over confidence. Germany is still ap-
parentIy far from serious revolt against
the kaiser and the war party Certain
concessions may be offered, such as
changes IN the voting system extending
the franchise but the main stem OF
uilitarism is still sturdy and unbend-
ing. The war will be continued in the
hope of advantage which will afford
Germany opportunity to make better
terms than would be possible at pres
sent and Germany Will continue TO De
controlled by the Prussian element
for months to come. Such is the out
look as viewed by those in position to
see most clearly.
We all hope for peace 10 come. The
wish is father 10 the thought that
peace may be at hand-but there is
no peace in sight. When peace comes
with it must arrive the surety of its
permanence. That includes the sup
preston OF Prussianism, and suppress
sion OF Prussianism means military
subjugation Of Germany. That is the
only logical end Of the war with peace
permanently guaranteed.
The world was in danger. a Pris-
sian dream OF empire threatens it. 1t
has awakened to the Prussian peril
and proposes to put an end to it. And
the war will last until the conception
OF a wholesale piracy of the globe
has been crushed and exploded There
is no other turning.
And Germany will continue 10 fight
under the lash Of its autocracy and
under the grip Of a mistaken idea until
the military machine Is dismantled.
The captured Germans found chained
like galley slaves to their cannon are
symbolic Of the mental chains that a
half century OF military domination
Of schools, churches. colleges, com
munities has forged upon the German
mind.
The war is not over II will not be
over until an allied army enters Ant
wsp.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
Topics of the Times

II you meet up with crowd OF eager
faced, hard working, perspiring men at
a cross roads it isn't revolt or riot
but just a section Of the new Iowa
highway patrol service.
Just the same, IL cutting out the
booze and the dramshop is good thing
for a town it would be good thing
for a nation. Eventually, why not now?
Under the shadow Of the great strug-
gle the Wiikerson- Havner war has TO
content itself with the back pages
along with the Mexican revolutions,
prize fight challenges and such like.
Best thing the L ". ". can do is to
go to work somewhere in America and
keep its mouth shut. Folks seem to De
getting uneasy over the L w W.
The Roosevelt family is getting pref
ty thoroughly into the war as individ-
uais. But the regret remains active
that petty politics kept the leading
American citizen out of place OF high
| usefulness.
Germany hasn't yet realized that
there was only one Bismarck and that
he is dead.
The farmer who refuses to take the
| time to show town boy how to work
on the farm doesn't deserve help in
emergency. The farmer who does take
the time lays up treasures Of efficient
assistance for the future.
The census proposition which boosts
the north for CONSUMPTION purposes
and relieves the south proportionately
is warning against loud population
claims and census padding. The cities
are now in the position of the fisher
man who related to a stranger his sue
cess and sales OF fish and boosted of
Illegal methods. Said the stranger at
the close Of the relation, I'm the game
| warden" Replied the fisherman, We'll
any of the neighbors will tell you I'm
the blankety blankest liar in this
county"
| We are rapidly arriving at the point
when incompetent and politics playing
officials will be unable to get their
bluffs -. We shall insist that some
body who can run shall do the running.
| Governor Goodrich Of Indiana would
have the federal government fix coal
prices. 1t not he proposes calling a
special session Of the Indiana legisla-
ture and doing the Job at home. Also
Governor Goodrich seems to have a
very practical .unlvr standing oi cuaii
mining and it's costs.
| The militiamen will get two months
training before being sent to France.
Be good to the boys while they stay.
incidentally see that they have clothes
to cover them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
Masonic Meetings
vl,itor, always welcome.

~\ visftoro always We'eo"e.
MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1903 A: F. q
A. M-special communication "orH
IA third degree Wednesday July le'
a m. John ", Wells. secretary
". H. Steiner. ". NJ.
s,eNEr CHAPTER. No. 3d. r. A. NJ
stated convooa..cn Monday eVen!ns'
Suly is. at 8 o'clock. Business
Carl Shaffner. H P; John W.
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
NON Council No. 20. r. & :. NJ Mon
day. July Is. s .. m Regular ooslness
I T. Forbes. Recorder: George Greg
ory I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAvE. st, Alderman
commandery. No. 80. K T. TUESDAY y
July II, 1880. Regular business l.
Forbes. recorder: H. c. Mueller. COM
mander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. Q: E.
A-Reeular meeting for business "eo
ne.dav. July II, at p. m. Mrs: Georse
Downing. secretary; Mrs. J. Z. rreu
erfck. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-17
SUPERVISORS THINK AGAIN.
rDayenport Democrat.

The board of supervisors, we I'M
derstand. gave assurance to members
Of the women's club who waited upon
the board. that they would give fur
Their consideration to their proposed
program of publishing the names OF
those to whom was extended county
relief, before they put it into erect.
OF course the board could hardly do
otherwise, without admitting incom-
petence to intelligently manage the
county poor fund. AT the best the prop
osition to give publicity to all the
country.s charities was a makeshift
an admission that something was
wrong with the country;s programme
Of charities, and that the board, had
not the ability and the courage 10
find out what was wrong and apply
proper remedy. Charged with duty
of assisting the poor OF the country,
the board proposed to dodge 1t. 1t
would reduce expenditures by making
it impossible for the sensitive to ac-
cept help, and leave the callous, con-
sistent and continuous charity-taker
on the list.
Such a proposition evidently origi-
mated in Scott county. but we are not
proud of it. So far as we know no
other county ever sugg ested 1t or tried
it. and it Is not the kind of an ex-
pedient which Scott county should
originate and adopt.
WANTED-A SPINE HOSPITAL.
burlington Gazette.
What is badly needed in many COM
munities in this broad land at the
present time is spine hospital where
the good old-time American spines
could be manufactured and made over
An alarming portion Of our population
has deteriorated into an inyertebrate
condition. The spines that gave such
good service in 1778 and in the sixties
and during the Spanish american war
have gone out Of fashion in many To-
calities. Instead Of the ramrod back
5oo...e design we proudly boosted about
there Is nothing but a strtngy SUBJ
stance, composed mostly Of mush.
This spinal state Is caused mainly
by a growth Of insenate ease. germs
of selfishness. German parasites, lack
OF red American blood and other
things. Usually one good application
Of the war remedy has served In for
mer epidemics OF this kind to effect
cure, but in the present case the
malady is slow to respond to the treat
ment. q
Old DR.. Uncle Sam IL r,lzzled He