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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
T.-R. BULLETIN
The Weather.

The Weather.
Sun rises Dec. 20 at 7:20, sets at 4:SS.
enthusiastically fair tonight and
Saturday, except probably light snow
in west portion; continued cold.
Range OF temperature at MARSHALL
town: Thursday, SO and below; We'd
nesday, 80 and 12: Dec. 81, 1915, Is and
zero. At I this morning, below; yes
terday. 2S above.
PAGE ONE. s.
Telcsraphic News:
Allies Reject Peace Term ;
France and Great Britai' : .ccord.
German Attacks at ver .epulsed.
Bolsheviki Seize Petrs Banks.
War Board to Oper9 .ilroads.
More American So, : Killed.
PAGES TWO. TH . AND FIVE.
Iowa News: :
Answers to Inc lax Questions.
Held as Allen En-. ny.
Firebhgs Busy at. Coon Rapids.
Death Held as an Act Of Providence.
Farm News.
PAGE FOUR.
War News and Comment:
To Draft Men Who Are Specialists.
Gun Factories Would Sell to u. s.
PAGE SIX.
Editorial:
The Danger Of Coal Shortage.
Mob Law at Audubon.
Federal Unification OF Rails.
Topics and Iowa Opinion.
PAGES SEVEN, EIGHT. NINE, TEN
AND ELEVEN.
City News:
Canvass City For Red Cross.
Householders Hear Fuel Talk.
Flick Slate For Club Primary.
Registered Men Delinquent.
Towns In Red Cross Race.
Girl Hurt in Auto Accident.
PAGE TWELVE.
Markets and General:
Grains Sell Lower.
Ban on December Option.
Cattle Firm.
Slump in Hog Prices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28

The finest leather goods are pro-.
duced at Cham Cham Foo. in China
The leather 10 made from lizard
shark, dolphin and snake skins.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
pEs MONIES COAL ss.7s.

Increase Of 60 Cents Per Ton orderee
by Federal Fuel Administrator.
Des Moines, Dec. 2S.-Charles Web
ster, fuel administrator for Iowa, re-
ceived telegraphic information from
washington today that Federal Admin
istrator Garfield had raised the retail
price OF coal In Des Moines to s5.75 a
ton. The price previously had beer
$5.15.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
COLD WAVE TO CONTINUE.
No Relief in Sight For Few 0ays-4S
Below, in Saskatchewan.

Chicago, Dec. 2S.-The severe cold
prevalent over most OF this forecast
district win continue two or three days
according to the forecast Of the
weather bureau, which reported the
lowest temperature last night was ls
below at Prince Albert, Sask.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
IN
RUSS CAPITAL
SEIZE BANKS
Soldiers Take Possession Of
All Private Insti-
tutions.
ARREST OFFICIALS
WHO DEFY THEM

Branch Of National City Bank Of New
York Among Those Soixsd-Amsricsn
Director Refuses to Deliver Keys, 10
Arrested and Later Rsleassd--eank
Still Under Guard-Bolshsvik Claims
Reports Were Jussisd.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28

In63l. Dec. ZS.-Ffance VIII NOT &C.
eept ! peace based on conditions before
NE war. Foreign Minister Pinchon de-
elsred IA reply in tho chamber OF de-
Yutiss yesterday to the peace terms OF
n central powers, outlined to Russia.
He asserted that Germany was en-
deavoring to involve France in it,
negotiations with the bolsheviki and
nat the war could 90 on. whether or
not Russia made separate peace.
me foreign milister said Germany
wisaa seeking to protract'th negotia-
tsons with the Russians. re-establish-
siMs commercial relations in the mean
time. believing that in their way the
ssolslaytkt might be checltmated later.
i; Asloriea takes Her Place.
SSoSrine TO the terms which the
esatralspower ofrefed to. the Russians,
(6u6a1sa5eA today he sdld: A
Germany Is trying to involve us in
llef inaximalist negotiations. After
SlafferinE as we have we can not ae-
cept peace based on the status quo. By
agreement with our allies we are ready
to discuss direct propositions regarding
peace, but this is Indirect.
Russia can treat for separate peace
With cur enemies or not. In either case
j the war for.us will continue. An ally
k6s failed. and that an ally who in
pfeceeding years carried of great VIC
carries. II il . great success for our
senemies, but another ally has come:
from the othsr end Of the world q
democracy has risen against Germany's
nppetite for conquest.
.sAt the conference In Paris q pro-
graM was drawn up and in consequence
unity Of action on the part Of the allies
Win make itself felt. Even in Macedonia
Germany and her allies have under
taken the impossible task Of conquer
inx the world; the world will conquer
them.
ssfn this role France will have played
great role. for rs Roosevelt has said.
she VIII have saved humanity
France Not Compromised.
m. Pichon declared that the secret
treaties published by the bolsheviki had
had not compromised France. He said
the German diplomats who pretended
B 10 show indignation were the very men
who sought to negotiate . secret treaty
Z with the old regime in Russia: who at
teHpted to draw Mexico into war
aeainst the United States. and organic
"a plots In Argentina.
After referring to the German declar-
aflon that Alsace and Lorraine would
never be surrendered. NJ. Pichon said:
aThe question Of Alsace-Lorraine
dcs1 not AFFECT France alone. It is q
world question. It 6 not q territorial
problem. }but q moral problem, and its
solution depends whether or not the
World shall have durable peace"
This statement was greeted with ap-
pIanse. .ssThe occupation Of Jerusalem.
I M. pichon said. was q victory for the
c1xilixe6 world. He added that the city
Noull Sbe. 1iven an international status
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28

From 50 to 10 per cent osi No worlds
production OF copper Is used during
normal times IN the electrical indus
try.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28

Coincident with the taking over OF
the railroads President Wilson is cele-
brating his 61st birthday today. No
special ceremony was planned at the
White House. as the war time rush OF
work makes impossible any deviation
of the presidents daily routine.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
GLASS FOUND IN
CAMP DODGE RICE
Food Supply Of Soldiers Shows Evil
dsnee Of Plot TO kill OF Members Of
National Army-colored TO Blend
With Rice and Make Detection
Difficult.

Camp Dodge, Dec. 2S.--Particles OF
glass were found in large quantities Of
rice stored in food depot here today.
according to an announcement by divt-
sion headquarters. The glass was color
ed to blend with the rice and make de-
+aotinn difficult The rice is OF the
same brand as the canned tomatoes IN
which glass was found yesterday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
Wilson, Birthday.

road economy and the pooling I
froiuhf
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-28
E0relgn Secretary Pinchon
4 y uoelares France Can Not !.
Accept Status Quo.
I v Ar WILL GO ON
DESPITE RUSSIA
plashsN eays Mighty Power Has Come
Eerward from Across Seas TO Take
plaoe q Former Aily-Prsmisr Lloyd
0ssfss lntimatss That War Aims Of
Alliss Ar Not Mst In Proffsr Of Cen
Nj Powers. Z, -

Warrington, Dec. 2S.-No official
lnformaAien, informal or otherwise,
~ The. peace terms being discussed
] 6stvsoen che bolshsviki and csntra!
ooysees had reached the govern.
ss,snk 4sday, and officials declared
49, had not sven an intimation
q heW er when 70 expect them.
The attitude Of the government
was unchanged.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22

The Nations one Job is to make war
with every ounce Of mental, moral
physical and financial strength Noth-
ing else counts now.
War, war, vigorous, aggressive, an
powerful war, is our one supreme WORK.
To that end the fullest measure OF the
Nations life must be given and upon
II the utmost potentalltles Of cur re-
sources be concentrated and consecrai-
ed. Danish everything else but INC
things which arm us with the power 10
strike for life and liberty.
This means, crowd every coal mine
TO the utmost Of its capacity; run every
furnace and steel plant as though the
Nation'e life depended upon it, which
it does; build every ship, big and small,
steel and wood, for which men and
materials can be found and count not
the cost; run every cotton mill to its
limit.
Produce every bale OF cotton, every
bushel Of grain that can be grown
raise livestock and poultry, and Keep
on raising them, for our Allies are hum
CRY, and soon will starve If we cannot
supply them bread and meat.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
MONDAY, OCTOBER .22, 1917.
Have you money? Spend it-shootl
Buy a bond and Tin the Teutl
AI.sATIANs ANn GEnMANY.

"a VERY time the Germans take time from futhlossncss
II and from depressing the Belgans Poles and Serbs
they themselves by procalmng to the world that
they viii always hold Asace-Lorraine and that in this
they are justified, this territory, which they took
from France in 1870 originally German territory
and belonged Of right TO the German In other
words they hold that they simply restored to Germany
what Germanys.
For justification they like TO point TO the German
names Of the towns and the German OF many OF
the people. Unfortunately for them this kind OF ex-
cuse does not advance their very much.
SO far the towns concerned as Asace-Lorroino
has been under the Prussan heel for the last forty years
has not hard to impose German names and place
their names on all the official maps.
The fact remains that In their hearts the people of
these conquered provinces remain French They remain
loyal to the trcolor.
mere glance at history to Show how many
Alsatlans with distinctly German-sounding names were
loyal OF France and did their best to lgh Germany
and Gormanism
It was Reubell who Identified Asace with the cause Of
the French revolution. It the Pfenes who dstin-
guIshed themselves In Frances foreign affairs. 1t was
Keber who saved Napoleons army in important bat
Tie. II Rapp Napoleons ade-de-camp, who de-
moshed the last Of the Prssan forces at Jena. 1t
Dietrich, mayor Of stassburs, in whose house Rouge
de Lsle wrote the immortal "Marselllalse."
1t Erckmann who colaborated with Chatrlan in
Tho many gorlfying French vaor and French
arms. It Keller who a deputy in the German
Rechstag, early 1871, made the famous exclama-
tion, I'VE French"
Finally, zisin and Waltz, collaborating at "iansl"
The great caricaturists who have made the Germans
vince by the keen edge Of their poisoned pencils and
who have also the inside Of German jails a
suit.
Note-al these men had German-soundng names. All
Of them loved France and true to her. All Of them
fought in various ways by arms by pen, by speech
against the Prussan oppressor And they merely repre-
sented the great body Of opinion.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
THE ENORMOUS INCREASE
IN FREIGHT TRAFFIC

traflc than they were two years ago
with perhaps 1 10 per cent more To-
cOmotves and cars.
"Of course. business was compare
lively dull at this time two years ago.
There were 265,OOO surplus freight cars
on August 4, 1885, on the other hand,
there is a car shortage now; but there
would be a vastly larger number or
untitled acquisitions for cars II there
had not been within the last two years
an enormous increase in the efficiency
with which railway equipment is oper-
ated.
1--WE note that the coal mine oper-
ators Of the country have a friend In
official life at Washington. The United
States Geological Survey has issued a
statement TO the press dated October fl,
which bears the caption, Coal Mines
Doing Their Bit Daily output Of Coal
Breaks All Records to Meet This Years
Demands 1917 Tonnage Promises to
Exceed 1915 Records BY % Per Cent
II the coal mines are doing their bit
by increasing their output 25 per cent
as compared with 1915, what may be
said for the railways, which are hand
ling 80 per cent. more trafilc than IN
1918? The record being made by the
mines is fine, and deserves all the COM
mendatlon which can be bestowed upon
/ it. We could wish, however, that there
was some government department
(which would show as much pride re-
gardlng what the railways are doing
az the Geological Survey very prop
erly shows regarding what the mine:
are doing, for the achievement Of th'
railways is relatively greater than that
OF the Mines"
Evening journal., 1917-10-22

'ln the month OF July the railways
Of the United states handled az per
cent. more freight irafllc than In July,
1915 and 40 per cent more than in
July. 1914 says the Railway Age Ga
zotte "rhe Railroads War Board has
Just issued statistics showing that the
ton mileage OF freight handled In July.
1917, was POP per cent. more than 10
was in the same month Of 1916. This
increase In the traffic handled reflects
q remarkable performance in view Of
the fact that the tratllc Of 1916 far sur
passed all records up TO that time. Be
cause 1916 was a record year, 10 Is
necessary 10 compare the results being
obtained now with those OF years prior
TO 1916 In order TO realize fully the
magnitude OF the achievements Of the
railways In handling the present vol
ume Of business as well as they are.
The increase I'm freight traffic in July,
1917, over July, 1915, exceeded the am
nual freight business Of the railways OF
Japan, Spain, Sweden, New South
Wales Switzerland and Brazil COM
bned.
1T should be borne in mind that
there has been almost no increase in
railway facilities within the last two
years. There was an actual decrease
in the number OF locomotives and
freight cars In service on June 30. 1916
as compared with the number In SER
vice on June 30. 1915. The number OF
locomotives and freight cars has in
creased within the last year. but the
number now In service certainly is moi
more than i-2 per cent more than II
was two Years ago. In other words, the
roads are !landllng 80 per cent. more
Evening journal., 1917-10-22

Evidences Of the complete collapse
OF the German propaganda in South
America accumulate each day. This
propaganda begun in peace time with
the use Of all the means in the hands
Of the German oversee service, was
continued after the war by German
agents with the expenditure OF large
sums Of money. The result OF all this
effort has been perhaps no better
shown than In the refusal Of the little
state Of Ecuador TO receive the German
Minsler dismissed from Peru and in
the announcement by the Government
Of Uruguay as the reason of Its break
with Germany OF the necessity OF es-
pousing the cause OF the defenders Of
Justice. democracy and small nation
alitles."
The United States has made no es-
pcclal effort TO align the Latin Amer
lean countries with the Allies; 1t has
not attempted to urge its action, the
action Of the dominant Power In the
Western Hemisphere, upon them as a
reason that they should make he same
choice. Yet the statement Of the aims
OF the Allies as made by this Govern
ment had an especial appeal to all
those states. They saw in the triumph
OF militarism and the spread Of Hohcn-
zolcrnlsm a menace TO their own ma
tional existence. Cuba and Panama
aligned themselves ageinst Germany on
the day after the United States de-
claration Of war. They were followed
by all the Central American states ex-
cept Salvador breaking OF diplomatic
relations with Berlin. or South Amer
lean States there remain on friendly
terms with Germany only Colombia
and Venezuela in the north and Argen-
tina and Chile in the south.
The loss OF Brazil falls especially
hard upon Germany, for she had plant
ed colonies in the country and had as
sduOusly endeavOred to build up a
/ South American trade through Rio dc
Janelro. The reason Of her hold on the
two northern States, Colombia anc
Venezuela, has been explained on the
grounds Of pique against the United
states growing out of the establishment
OF the republic of Panama. The eX
planatlon Of the stand taken by Presi
dent Irigoyen of Argentina is not ye
forthcoming. The people have demand
J ed break with Germany, and both th'
House and Senate, after the disclosures
in the Luxburg affair, voted for sever
ing diplomatic relations. These unlte'
demands, Il is believed, will soon pre-
vail over the technical objections o
the President and Argentina will fol
low the example of Brazil and Peru
Even Chile, with a wealthy German
class and an army trained and dlrecte'
by German officers. has expressed ii
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
WHY RUSSIA r,per.

VA llh tle New York Times, Independent Democratic
w preaching protection for Russia and free trd Co..
the United States, how long viii the Anerio,D ,
lIeves in America First" remain silent vvlr, protssS
Wilson's free trade arin commission and his FREQ ,,
Congress holding control Of tariff discussion and le,,
tion7
The Times has deprecated tariff discussion in America
as "untimey and absurd" Yet in IFS issue Of the AN
nast for October s. 1917 the Times discusses Russian
economic problems giving extensive information regard
ing the manner in which Germany secured domination
over Russian industry and marks the path Russia
follow II It is TO be economically fee Says the Annalst
Russias tariff wall has always existed for fiscal rather
than protective purposes
That is also true OF The present tariff law in the United
States 1t was enacted as tariff for only and
its authors boased that It contained not particle OF
protection That was practically true except that
Southern products protected. Continuing the An
nallst says
ut too early to predict what may be the foreign
policy OF the Russia from and industrial
viewpoint but It is safe to assert that readjustment
of the countrys tariff schedules must be preliminary to
any effective plan OF upbuding."
If tariff wall that existed for fiscal protective
purposes permitted the economic enslavcment OF Russia
ana readusment OF those tarin schedules must be
ssnmlnary to any effective plan OF upbuding' in that
70 NM please tell why It Is "untimely and absurd
.est> ssoe' % putting the American tarn back on pro
S. II SS"eern over the economic future OF
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
The Nations Supreme Task
tFrom The Manufacturers RccoFdl.

Make guns, the biggest and the bestl
produce explosives without llmiti
crowd all the potentiallties Of chemls-
try 20 the last notch Of human energy;
expand railroads; build permanent
highways; make money with all possi-
BILE energy and turn 1t into Liberty
Bonds, and into Red Cross or kindred
interests.
Work, work, work. and keep on
working, be you day labOrer, mechanic,
clerk, banker, manufacturer, merchant,
capitalist preacher or teacher, or what
ever may be your occupation. All that
you have, all that you prize In life, all
honor Of womanhood-your women, be
Il remembered-the safety Of the pratt
ling baby, the child yet unborn, the
religion Of Christ, civilization, your
own America, Land of Liberty, the
home of the free, are now staked upon
how you meet your individual respon-
sibillty In this, earth's supremest hour,
You cannot, you dare not shirk. You
cannot throw the burden upon others,
From the women. the babies, your
country. your God, comes the call to
you in thunder tones to do your duty
| and do 1t now.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
ORGANIZE CHILDREN
FOR RED cross SERVICE
BY the United Press
IVA CrTTNrnn nog

BY the United Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. s2.-Belgium
and France are to be more to Ameri-
can school children this winter than
the places geography tells about. The
amusing little French and Belgian chill
dren, with their peculiar dresses. caps
and shoes will be brothers and sis
ters.
From the great sum OF spending
money which American children re-
ceive a fund is to be raised for the
boys and girls of Belgium and France
whose fathers have fallen in battle
Whenever a school anywhere in
America has given a fund equal to
twenty-five for each pupil, or when
the children themselves have made ar
ticles worth that, the school VIII be
made an auxiliary OF the Red Cross and
membership buttons given the pupils.
The assistance given the Red Cross
by school children throughout the
United states. last year, prompted the
War Council TO undertake the organi-
zation OF American children for Red
Cross service.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22

SPtANiNN VI itNAhDS fON hhohiso = WI AS'"-'
TT Is solemny telegraphed from Fort Worth Texas,
that Poolvne Parker county, has raised si2i65O as
reward for the capture OF the Kaiser and that prac
caly every man resident contributed.
All OF which sounds good and patriotic, but Is nothing
OF the SORT The thought that the place for that
si265O every other Kaiser reward In this cou-
try is Liberty Loan bonds.
In effect every citizen who buys Liberty Loan bonds
is Offering way to scotch the Kaiser. Follow the dollars
subscribed for bonds The money is paid into the treas
ury Uncle sam uses IL TO train, equip and transport
soldiers to the batteneds of France lie it to buy
clothing ammunition food for the soldiers Every rifle
bullet sped on Its way TO the German trenches Is paid
for by money raised this way.
The dollars raised for the Liberty Loan make the night
for liberty possible. More than that every dollar Is
aimed directly at the Kaiser and all the savagery bru-
taty and menace that he stands for It is by our dollars
that we will conquer him.
It Is immaterial whether he is captured. The feat
would be almost impossible. What is material is that the
army which keeps him where he is shall be defeated.
What is material is that Americans, in company with
Frenchmen Brons and Italians shall carry this
victorious end.
Such end viii probably mean the restoration OF the
German people to their own. It viii mean rule by the
people instead OF by the ohenzoern tribe. It will mean
that the Germans having been taught terrible lesson
by the armed democraces Of the world will have done
with military machines dreams Of empire, visions OF loot
and conquest and will get down TO solid constructive
instead Of destructive work.
Evening journal., 1917-10-22

Russia and dsapprovol OF any discussion Of the economic
future OF America? We enjoyed economic prosperity
long operating under a protective tariff We
suffered depression the party Of free trade
acquired control OF the Government We were saved
from that depression only by the outbreak OF the war;
which shut Off foreign competition and provided
markets for our products. The opened the closed
doors OF our factories and put fires in the cold furnaces
OF our mills The called laborers from the soup
houses the ranks Of useful and wellpald toll. But
shall we rest content with the contemplation Of that tenn
porary rescue from depression? Shall we expend our
energies upon pointing out the road Russia must travel
neglect to determine safer course for ourselvesY
II So why9 Is IL pure partlsanshp-an unwllllngness
to acknowledge a long-contnued economic error2
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
MILLS IDLE HERE. ALSO.

UNITED STATES Consul Charles L. Hoover located at
~ san Paulo Brazil reports that In the territory which
he studying almost every branch manufacturing pros
pered during 1916.
"Ths was especially true Of the cotton mills which
did not work at more than nifty per cent capacity before
the war"
Mr. Hoover represents nation whose cotton mills were
working far than fun capacity before the war
began due largely to the fact that our markets were
opened TO The cotton manufactures OF Europe.
We are all wondering what the situation Will be when
| cotton factories
Evening journal., 1917-10-22
Spirit of the
DeIn10rUid Press
TOMATOES.

LUNA lONaIs
From the Dover Index.
Because Of unusually high prices, the
tomato crop has netted the growers Of
Kent county a very large sum Of money
and we are glad of it. For some reason
our soil does not seem to produce the
large crops Of tomatoes that were pro-
duced years ago. The prices OF this
year should be an incentive TO grow
ers TO pay more attention to the pre-
paration Of soil, manuring and fertiliz-
ing, seed and other things that are
called to,ther attention by the Expert
ment Station and the County Agent.
II is worth while to try to avoid blight
and to grow the largest crop possible
on each acre. II Is not increased acreage
that Is needed but increased produc-
tlon on the acreage Of this year.