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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
Power Of Bio auns.

We hear much and have read moro
about the power OF big runs and havoc
they create. yet very few people really
understand the immense power behind
one of these modern engines OF de-
struction. What, for instance, do you
understand by the power Of a fifteen-
Inch gun? Here Is an illustration.
Take wall twelve inches thick and
made Of the hardest steel: then take an
automobile and drive seven miles away
from the wall. Arrived at that point
you will md big gun aimed at tho
wall you have left seven mics behind
and which you can not see. Go over to
the gun and pull the lanyard. The
steel that you release by pulling this
lanyard viii travel thru the air the
entire distance you have come by auto-
mobile and will go right thru the
Itwelve-inch steel wall.
The most powerful land guns ever
made are the German howitxers, o.
I1s.5-inch guns. The most Formidable
steel and concrete forts are cracked
open by those huge guns a. tho they
were made Of paper. Naval guns cAA
not be developed to tho Same sise -
land guns because 1t Is more dinicuH
to handle one Of these aboard a SHIP
For that reason the greatest enective
range with naval gun Is from etsht %
ten miles. The largest naval gun IS
the f1ftecn-inch gun on the famous
British superdreadnought Queen Eliza
beth. while the German 42-centimeter
howitzer which reduced Antwerp ana
other fortresses believed impregnable.:
Is the most powerful land gun. The
sreat guns aboard the Queen Elisabeth
IRE pro1ectileA which weigh . ton. THO
United States. however. now has guns
defending the Panama canal and New
York, which hurl thru the air a mass
OF metal Weighing almost 400 pounds
more than the British superdread-
noughts guns.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
DON'T REPEAT IT THERE.

Reports from Montgomery county are
that Kelly's second trial is to begin
in about three weeks.
Where? At Red Oak? Why?
Are we TO have a repetition Of the
farce which bordered always on the
edge of tragedy? What possibility is
in prospect that Kelly can be tried in
Montgomery county and tried properly
without Interference with the court and
prosecutors?
When Tom Denison was tried for
completely in the diamond robbery in
Harrison county there was no such
excitement and partisansh!p in Har-
rison as characterizes the Kelly case
There was no agitator holding mass
meetings and kindling inf,ammable
minds. Neither was any prominent
citizen Of that county openly accused
Of the crime But it was a notorious
case and had aroused the state and
the Denison case was venued to Mont
gomery county out Of Harrison.
II there Is no way or purpose of
holding the second Kelly trial outside
Of Montgomery county il would be
much better to call the insane COM
missioners together. adjudge the man
insane and send him into restraint For
it is not to be expected that the new
trial will accomplish more than the
first in clearing up the crime Of which
Kelly is accused 1t may, however, in
the state of excitement it Is likely to
exaggerate, lead to acts and incidents
that shall put all Iowa to shame
The people Of this state want no
further exhibitions like that first trial.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
NEXT YEARS POLITICS.
Epella Chronicle

The politicians among the republican
brethren are already sparring for posi-
ton at the primary next spring, There
10 little likelihood that democrats can
elect state ticket in Iowa, and the
Chronicle for one hopes the republicans
will be patriotic enough to put up men
that will be generally accepted as suit
able for the offices sought. that the
Democrat may not feel the necessity Of
entering into partisan contest at this
time when the service Of the nation de-
mands so much Of our attention. We
believe there are republicans who
would be accepted almost without a
contest for governor and the other
principal offices of the state, and that
the members Of that party can not
show their patriotism in better way
than by RELOCATING to. the rear the
bunch of cheap, politicians who have
dominated their counsels in recent
months. Iowa will, in all likelihood,
have enough on hand next summer
without a bitter fight to redeem the
state from the hands OF this gang, and,
since it Is a family matter among re-
publicans, they ought to settle 1t in
their own primary. OF course, II they
leave the state in control Of the pres
ent crowd. there will be nothing for
democrats to do but
night them. We may not win at the
polls, but we shall at least be able to
look in the mirror without sense OF
shame.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
JUDGE SMITHS BOND PLAN.

Former Judge and Congressman
Walter 1. Smith would force every per-
son able to subscribe to the war loan to
buy the quota Of bonds his wealth calls
ton. The former congressman's plan
would have congress provide for a di-
rect tax on all real and personal prop
erty in the United States from the
amount to double the amount Of each
loan. This would have to be appor-
toned to the states according to thci,
population in compliance with the
constitution Of the United States. He
would allow evemntinns TO each citi
zen to the amount OF $4,000 and pro
vide that persons who had subscribed
and paid 20 per cent of their sub
scriptions should be credited with the
full amount subscribed.
Judge Smith cited instances Of men
who came to Council Bluffs-the
judges home city-pra ctical paupers
and have gained wealth, Of a farmer
who sold his farm for s75, 900 on which
he had gained at least $4,000 The
frst had taken bonds 70 the amount
of 5000. the second had bought $500
worth. Against those he set anothe,
man worth very much less than either
Of them who had taken $40, 900 in bonds
and borrowed most OF the money tc
take them with. So the judge, who is
one of the best lawyers in the state
was a leading congressman and a
Judge Of the United States court OF
appeals suggests and will urge the
legislation he outlines upon congress
He argues thus:
Under this system everybody would
have to pay his share but the man who
subscribed 1t would get a bond for Il
and Inc man who failed to eunscrih.
would pay the same share or more bu
get no bond. This could be passed be.
fore the next bond issue.
IL WOulu uO AOll8CA 10 ACCC6Sd1
to keep orators out on every STUMP
telling people what they ought t.
know, their patriotic duty, and beg
ging them to do what they ought t,
do without heing begged. but ever,
loan would be oversubscribed be.
cause there are many men who ar
not subject to taxation at all who sub
scribe to the loans, there would b.
many who were within the exemption
OF $1,000, and the generous would sub
scribe their share.
The man OF means who won't sub
scribe because he thinks he can max
a few more pennies out Of his money Z
the expense OF starving our boys in tn
trenches and making them go withou
adequate clothing, should simply b
made to do SO and such a law woul
do it. II the government can drai
1.-THE most valuable asset Of the people
their sons, why can not II draft
small portion OF the wealth RI tho ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

thu war without self-interest or
thought of conquest, and whose VIC
tory means the victory Of all they are
fghting for.
So anyone who calls himself an
American may we'll De PROUD. MO
should neither be talking blatantly nor
Whispering in corners to fellows OF
his kind, against his country or Ms
allies.
He should have no hesitancy IN re-
pudiating the kaiser and all his WORKS.
The time has passed for talking
about the falseness OF stories OF Ger
man atrocities. or defending ruthless
submarine warfare.
Stories OF German atrocities have
been substantiated and score piled
nm against German militarism that
impugns the intelligence as well as
the Amsricanism Of every citizen VINO
still denies them and who taxes ths
role of apologist for the military pro-
gram OF the junkers.
No citizens OF Davenport needs Tor
a day to let his Americanism be
questioned.
II he thinks II Is. the columns OF
The Democrat are Wluc opeH ao' ohs
declaration OF sincere Americanism
that he wants to make.
He can put himself on the right side
with a hundred plain, sincere words.
The Liberty Loan compaign and the
Four Minute men want the support OF
his efforts and his voice. The Req
Cross and an endless number OF ave-
nues of effort invite his time ana
labor. Any man or group when
chooses to stand aside while the great
mass OF loyal Americans arc moving
forward makes his own choice.
But there is test, and = standard
1t requires that one give his whole
heart to his country in this hour OF
her need, and have no other wish or
purpose but that she and her allies
may win this war and help to set up
again the ideal Of democracy IN
world which without our yielding up
OF blood and treasure could scarcely
have saved them.
When every citizen OF Davenport
can take this test. and pass, there VIII
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
his DAYS OEATnLiST,

\ Seventy lives were lost yesterday
when a German submarine torpedoed
an American transport.
1t is the first drops Of the great
storm that approaches. Startling as
it was when it stared at us from the
headlines it is only the beginning. the
small beginnings Of the terrible head
lines that we are to look upon soon.
Perhaps it will bring us to a partial
| realization of what Is before us. So
far we have merely accepted as fact
that We are at war. We have not felt
war yet. We have known that men
were dying in millions across the seas,
that people were straining every nerve
Of men and OF wealth, that nations
were being destroyed, countries laid
but We have not felt their pain and
sorrow. We have merely recognized
it as we do when we pass a hospital
where the sick lie and suffering exists.
We know 1t Is there but we do not
feel it. 1t isn't ours. But this is ours
and the lists that shall soon crowd the
columns shall be ours.
We are beginning to feel. We are
turning to face our trial.
The boys on ahead realize it. They
understand very largely what they are
to face. And Of all the letters coming
home to be read eagerly by those who
receive them not one that this editor
has seen voices a desire to avoid the
trial.
Shall We eralze it. Shall we. safe
from the hidden death that turks be-
meath every wave and hides behind
every hill turn from pleasure and the
pursuit of smaller things to fall in as
a reserve behind the boys. Shall we
offer freely that destroyers may guard
the transports, that such safety as war
can afford and money purchase shall
guard our sons?
Fight or pay. Fight or protect. The
war game that plays with lives and
treasure as it's pawns Is on.
Seventy Americans died yesterday at
Prussian hands. Seven thousand may
die tomorrow. What are you doing for
your country?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
Good morning, Mr.. Happy Sun,
Where have you been all n1ghtf
Where do you eo I'd like to know,
no hfda vo,1r froldpn LIGHT.

Where have you bcGn aA hishti
Where do you eo I'd like to know,
To hide your golden light.
Well, it used to puzzle me when !
was q little boy, too, so we neeon
think it strange that Billy Bunny won
dered where Mr.. Happy Sun kept him.
self all thru the night. But Mr.. Happy
Sun didn't say word; he kept on
smiling just the same, and then all the
flowers woke up and the birds began 70
sing and the little brooks to run more
swiftly toward the big blue ocean. Ana
then Cocky Docky at the OLD farm
smiled to himself and strutted about
the barnyard, for he thought that ne
had walked up Mr. Happy Sun by
Growing, On so early In the morning
when it was still and dark ana cool
and Willie Wind was hardly stlrrlns
on the Pleasant Meadow in the frienu-
Nv Forest, and maybe not at all.
And then Mrs Bunny rang the RS
,np hell and after a little while longer
she rang the breakfast bell, so the little
rabbit got up. and after he had compea
his hair down the middle OF his back
and washed his face and paws anu
curled his whiskers and polished ms
boots, and oh dear me! What else oiu
he wear. Oh, yes. after he had dusteu
hts knapsack and wiped his candy
cane, he hoped down to breakfast anu n,s
after that he started OF Tor the Wv
Mill Pond.
You see. he wanted to say good
to Uncle Bullfrog, for the day pefore
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
Topics of the Times

II Garfield bows to the demands OF
the operators and strikers he might as
we'll keep on going toward the door.
The Russ government Is to go to
Moscow. The general impression was
that It was going further and to a
hotter location.
Henry Ford and the Ford company
it takes 100 purchasers like that to
take up the first billion.
The death list of the torpedoed troop
boat contains the name Of no army or
ships officer. but half the soldiers and
sailors seem to have persisted. Let's
hope 1t wasn't officers first to the
boats.
Don't get the notion that the loan Is
gift. It is simply cracking good
investment for the financier and a
thrifty and savings proposition for the
average person.
OF course il the state had actually
gone wet and the saloons were to come
back it would relieve the demand for
coal.
It's going to be pretty hard to meet
the boys when they come home again
with the answer that we didn't buy n
bond or two. A man would have to
s.!5: :==-:cc ha:c== Is ::,3 h!E ::::: %:
anything like that.
The Sigourney Review figures out
that consistency requires the governor
to call an extra session Of the as
sembly, repeal the prohibition laws and
turn the wet dogs loose. Well, how
would we all like that or wasn't that
what we meant when we voted Mon
day?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
The Price!


In Jail?
What's that you say?
A murderer, my boy?
God
No! 1t can not be!
Father have mercy!
1t is true.
A saloon brawl,
Hot argument. from whiskey feveret
brains
The flashing knife
And the red smear in the sawdust
OF a har-room floor.
My boy, my little lad!
No--hold,
HIS mother must not know
She must but how can face her?
, Her boy.
Why I remember
When he was just a little shaver
At the polls with me he said
Glow wise l deemed it then)
Il vote wet-like papa"
Poor lad, how could he know
That the men who laughed
Voted his doom?
My boy, my child
A felon!
A mothers broken heart,
What a price
For Personal liberty"
j. E. Chrisman, Albion, Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

Robbie Redbreast had told him that The
old gentleman frog was going to his
winter home In the soft warm mud ct
the bottom Of the pond. and the little
rabbit wanted to see Uncle Bullfrog be-
fore he took the trip altho OF course It
wasn't very long journey for the Old
Mill Pond wasn't very deep.
Well, as the little rabbit hoped along
across the Pleasant Meadow he heard
Professor Grow calling his scholars to
school:
"Caw. cav, come TO school,
II you don't you'n be fool,
Learn to read and learn to spell,
And learn your alphabet as we'll
'.Oh. dear me-" sighed the little rab-
hit urn afraid / won't have time TO
say good bye to Uncle Bullfrog. shall
be late to school, know shall. ana
then I'll be kept in at recess. 30 ne
hoped faster and faster until by and
by he was going 90 fast that he couldn't
stop and II he hadn't Jumped into g
haystack really think he'd have gone
so far away that he never would nave
come back. And then the school bell
began to rings
Hurry up ana come to school.
study hard obey each rule.
Strive to learn just all you can
Sos to be a learned man.
And IN tho next story you shall hear
whether the little rabbit was kept In o
recess.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
Iowa Newspapers


At meeting of the Iowa state no.
tel and restaurant men held at the
Russell Lamson Hotel in Waterloo on
Sunday plans were made for putting
in execution what these men viii call
meatless and wheatless days. The plan
contemplatees having one meatless and
one wheatless day in the hotels each
week. My, but won't some OF the boys
out on their first trip, and just aching
to find something to kick about raise
a rumpus when they strike town on
meatless or wheatless day? Won't
they just tell the landlord what they
are paying their good money for?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

pie when few Of them want to hold
their money to loan to their neigh
bors?
That Is q contagious suggestion and
argument. 1t Is likely to have force
with congressman and be favored by
a government whenever that govern
ment finds bonds hard to sell. It will
appeal strongly to those who have
bought and are willing to buy bonds
as a patriotic duty. The way to avoid
it is to come across.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
Masonic Meetings
vjsitors always welcome.

y" Visitors always We'eo"e
MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1903 A. T. d
A. M-Stated communication, Friday
Oct. ~. 1880 o'clock. Regular meetlhs'
John ". Wells, secretary: w. H STEM
er, w. M.
sIeNET CHAPTER, No. 50, r. A., NJ
Stated eonvocation Monday evenings
Oct. 20, at 7:3o o'clock. Business SEES
sion. Carl shatrner, H P: John W.
Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 90 r. 4 8. NJ, Mon
day Sept. II. 1880. Regular business.
l. r. Forbes. recorder; George Gregory
NJ
STATED coNcALVE, st. Aldemar
-cr1r,andery. No. &C. X. T.. TUESDAY.
Oct. %, 7:3o .. m. Regular business, l.
r. Forbes. recorder: H. c. Mueller
commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. ~ O. &
s.-Spectal meeting for Initiation on
Wednesday, Oct. 81, 1880. Mrs George
Downing. secretary: Mrs. J. E. Fred
erick, W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
CLOSE YOUR NASAL CUTOUTS.
Knoxville EXPRESS

The Bloomfield Democrat says the
Clarinda Democrat editor doesn't like
to hear the exhaust of an auto, and
He has hit upon novel plan OF pub
fishing the numbers OF automobiles
which pass the church he attends with
the cutouts OPEN" 1t would seem mueA
more decorous for the Ciarinda editor
to close his cutouts while attending
church. It's all right for preacher 10
open his cutout occasionally, especially
when taking an oratorical hill on hisn'
but a layman, and democrat at that'
hasn't any business raising such ois-
turbance. Let him snore gently II ne
must. but none Of the open cutout style
of soft palate calesthenics.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

be generous scitiEsns willing to donate
the use Of their lots for gardens. But
II the renting Of q garden Is to be q
business proposition the owner Is. 1t
would seem. entitled to some return.
Yet an owner must not expect to OBJ
tain interest on the value Of his va
cant lots from garden rentals, for the
lots don't get their value from their ca
pacity for producing vegetables, but
from their location and quality as
building lots.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
LOTS AND GARDENS.

lbuDuQue lliloo-SooAhoA'J
Persons who operated successruI
gardens this year on property owned
by others are already making arrange
nents with the lot-owners Tor the
use Of the gardens next year. It ID
reported that in some cases. owners
seeing the success Of gardens on their
lots this year. are asking exoroitane
rentals for 1918. Such an action Is, OF
COURSE, discreditable. 1t Is to be hoped
that owners Of vacant property Will De
reasonable about this matter.
On the other hand II gardens Tor
the town people are TO become
permanent Institution. as we sincerely
hope they will, as far as possible, peo-
Ole must realize that the owners OF va
cant property are entitled to some rea-
sonable fee for the use OF their prop
erty. Undoubtedly there will always
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
RIPPING RHYMES
by Wait Mason
THE OLD G oMPLAiNT.

winter spuds n.vo
things like these 30
buy every
must buy my W some
weahersips ana wool anu
OF the nal come
t1rhe hard-ea help some poor sa~
ding aid we want
In
Widow Skate px Tne
when
And you
them with an open paho' -
cries with soupbones sandwiches and pies
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
FIRED WHITES ILLNESS.

Iowans would like to hear gooo
new. from the hospital at Ottumwa'
where the Hon. Frede e. White is
confined by illness. Mr.. White was
formerly one Of the democratic leaders
OF the state, and the candidate OF his
party for governor He was born IN
Germany and speaks the German Ian :
guage fluently. and was planning 70
tour the state for the success OF the
Liberty Loan and the promotion OF
straight American sentiment In Ger
man-American communities. Just pc
fore he was taken Ill In OttumWa ne
made an address there In which ne
paid his respects to the kaiser In
manner that left no one in doubt as
TO where he stood.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

| be no moro trials for sedition, no moro
wallaces will DO brought here and we
shall be the united community OF good
Americans and good neaghDors that
we ought to be.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20

personal use, In their homes and clubs.
IF the official count upholds present
returns, the people of Iowa may take
1t for granted that the liquor question
has been restored to politics with a
bang" says the Sioux City Tribune.
Those who have taken sufficient in
terest to get out and vote against the
prohibitory amendment will not stop
at that. They will use heir showing or
strength for all itGis worth. The ma
jority Of politicians are quite amen
able to majority expressions, regard
less of moral issues, and no one can
predict with certainty what may or
may not happen during the next few
years.
The Burlington Hawkeye suggests
that "the defeat OF the amendment may
have an unfavorable bearing upon
Governor Harding's political future. IL
will be Of record that the mishap oc-
CURED during his administration. he
may not be responsible for the result,
but 1t would have been a prestige to
be coveted if the amendment had car
ried while he was governor. AS Skill
full a politician as the governor is rec
ognized to be would have deftly turned
the event to good account. But that
Is not so easily done with conditions
reversed-it will necesstate too much
explaining. Explanations seldom carry
primaries and elections"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-20
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Knoxville Journal Opposed the
repeal Of the mulct law and 1t now be-
lieves that the repeal was a mistake
Under that law the state succeeded in
banishing TIKI open saloon from all but
few counties in the state, yet forty
four counties said at Mondays election
that they were in fact wet. 1t is too
early to forecast the political effect Of
the election but 1t is easy to forsee
trouble, dissatisfaction and confusion"
Some change in Pella since the
days of the 80 per cent saloon petition"
exclaims the Pella Chronicle.
The Sac Sun predicts that "the old
wet and dry fight will be on next year
in every legislative district in Iowa."
lone thing everyone can be sure OF
and that is that the liquor question is
thrown into Iowa politics with renewed
vigor. From now on the liquor ques-
ton will be the most worked question
in politics." says the Tama News.
NOW. Just a word OF warning" says
the Cedar Rapids Gazette. 1T has been
demonstrated 70 ynn drys that the II
quor issue Is not q dead issue in Iowa,
nor is it likely to become such an issue
for many years to come, therefore II
you expect to meet and defeat the
enemy you must select a common
ground and fight 1t out as politicians
The enemy has served sufficient warn
| ing that he is vet strong. The cleo
1 - - al o. r,H IL No
away. It may be q wet one"
"But AZ should not be considered q
victory for the saloon as an institution
It should be considered more . victory
for personal liberty" phrase muci
abused" says the Waterloo Times
Tribune. Thousands. aye tens d
thousands OF people who are not friend