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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
MAKE YOUR BIDS GENTLEMEN.

What is year or FIVE years of life
worth? Bid please. What would you
pay for five years OF reasonably
healthy and active life if the decision
between life and death were to be
made for you today? The devil in his
biblico- analysis Of Jobs
Psychological probabilities set a price
when he said skin for skin all that
a man hath Will he give for his life"
The other day young woman Of
- asserted thar she'd rather die than
go TO a consumptive's sanatorium and
make a fight for life. She thought Il
was true when she said it but she
will regret her decision bitterly If she
keeps 10 it. When her day arrives
she will count all that might have been
in the years ahead and regret that she
failed to take her chance.
Sti1l, how many business men are
doing precisely as she is doing, trad
irg years Of life for ease or appetite
or an extra dollar or two If the round
up were to be made by the physicians
and every man who Is throwing away
five to ten years Of active life were to
be listed the roster would read like a
casualty list after a battle. If every
man who is eating Ike harvest hand
and sitting all day at a desk. smoking
like a furnace and spending his leis-
ure in an easy chair and refusing ex-
erc!se mere tagged with the number of
years they are paying for the
privileges that they assume to take
with nature the aggregate Of lost
lives would appal US.
Hard work doesn't break men. All
work and no play, all ease and no
work kill men ten and twenty years
before their time. The waste of life
in America is the greatest waste of
wasteful country. We follow one use
ful man after another to his grave
years before he should have gone there
among ourselves that he died too early
and go pack to waste our own lives
after the same manner and follow the
same road that leads to the same place
TOO soon.
There is multitude of men between
40 and 80 vino are shrinking f-crn
physical exercise as the young woman
shrank from the sanatorium and its
rigid regimen. And SO doing they are
paying the highest price the world
knows.
TO get back to the original question,
how much would you consider five or
ten years of reasonably active, healthy.
useful life worth to you if you had to
die tomorrow or pay the price. Bid up
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Fight!

Every pacif1st is an enemy. Every
one who stands for negotiated peace
Is giving aid and comfort to our foes.
A peace that would leave unsettled
the vital issues of the war would only
be an armistice.
Within two decades the world would
be plunged into a sim bloodier war
and our children would be driven to
finish the struggle for freedom which,
in our cowardice, we left incomplete.
Woe to England, France and Amer
lea il they leave such legacy to the
next generation!
Already we have talked too much
peace. The frequency Of our peace
definitions Berlin and Vienna inter-
pref as signs Of weakness
Among the armies at the front there
are no illusions. Soldiers know but
one way to win. The allied armies in
France know they can make Germany
taste the bitterness Of defeat.
II presidents and premiers had less
to say about peace the end would
sooner be IN sight.
Germany and Austria are whipped
to their knees. All the world knows it.
The Teuton military lords know it,
but by a gigantic bluff they hope to
discourage the enemy.
The more we talk about peace, the
more we play their game Famine and
economic ruin stare the central pow
ers in the face. Their armies may still
be fed, but even a Hindenburg can not
maintain indefinitely strong fighting
army with a home background Of I'M
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
COOL HEADS. NOT MYSTERIES.

In New York a serious contest Is on
between those who desire to turn Cen
trail park into a training ground Tor
trench fighting thereby cutting up the
beautiful park into trenches and de-
stroying the labors of years and those
who desire to retain the beauty OF that
great breathing spot. Those who favor
it urge that there is nothing that we
should not sacrifice to win the war.
The park defenders point out that the
trench school may be otherwise located
without interfering with its efficiency
or delaying victory.
The case is similar to that of the
Council Bluffs man who plowed up a
large and beautiful lawn to put it into
potatoes Notwithstanding that plenty
of ground was conveniently available
for potatoes and that for the cost Of
replacing the lawn he might have
rented and raised ten acres of the
tubers.
The spectacular always appeals. The
commonplace. every day, plugging
along attracts slight attention. But it
is the every day plugging that counts
in the long run.
There is SO far no occasion TO plow
up lawns and destroy parks that have
taken years to build and to grow.
Needless destruction at home is not
sacrifice for the war but a foolish
straining after effect without cause.
On the contrary we should preserve all
the beauty that we have builded SO
far as possible. a fine park is like
fine cathedral or public building. If
desperate need arises we would tear
it down stone by stone 10 strengthen
the lines of our warfare; but TO de-
stroy merely that we may have the
false sense OF sacrifice is a different
thing entirely.
The war will be over ard done some
day. Wars can not last forever. II
is one of our duties at home TO pre-
serve as we'll as we may all that the
men have left behind them who are
gone out in front in defense of this
country, to retain and preserve and
keep alive all that is best and beau
tiful that they may return to enjoy it.
All this is our duty without forgetting
that when emergency demands and
necessity arises no sacrifice is TOO
great and that nothing shall be denied
10 the demands Of this war and TO ac-
the success Of our armies.
Mysteries, however, are uncalled for
and useless and in the way. Let's keep
our heads cool and our hands busy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
NO NO MANS LAND.
Huntington Hawk -Eye,1

The time has passed when real
Americans can or will temporize with
disloyalists or luke warm supporters
of the government.
There are constant reports of citi-
zenS taking the law into their own
hands, forcing suspected neighbors to
kiss the flag, giving suspects coats of
yellow paint or tar and feathers.
Other suspects are taken before
boards or committees and escape real
punishment by being permitted to
make donation to the Red Cross or
by buying war savings stamps or
liberty bonds. Here and there a dis
loyal official is removed from office
as in the recent case of Judge Crum
OF Montana.
y few long term prison sentences or
perhaps an execution now and then
would have more wholesome effect.
If man insults woman he is not
going to be set free upon kneeing and
kissing her.
Just why then should the flag of
our country be sailed by the profane
kiss forced from disloya1 lips? Sim
ilarly, it Is difficult to understand
why donation to that great insti-
tuition, founded upon mercy, love,
charity, human kindness, the Ameri-
can Red Cross, should purge anyone
charged with disloyalty to the United
States
Money ought not be permitted to
buy immunity from a just punish
ment for that most heinous of crimes,
disloyalty to the country's flag and all
that that flag symbolizes.
The Hawk-Eye does not approve Of
mob law but the Hawk Eye does be-
lieve that all persons suspected of
disloyalty should be given a prompt
legal hearing and dealt with by the
properly constituted authorities. If
these authorities are at all remiss or
dilatory in their duty, the Hawk-Eye
believes they should be removed and
their places filed by real Americans
without delay. AS for proof of guilt or
innocence, the difficulty there is not
great. At the present time 1T is gen.
orally conceded that there are but two
classes in America, loyal. patriotic
citizens, anxious and willing to aid in
any way possible in the successful
prosecution Of the war and disloyal-
lists.
There is no middle ground.
mo mans land" does not exist In
citizenship, loyal and patriotism.
The choice rests entirely with the
individual. He can take his stand
with either side he chooses. If his Sc
lection puts him outside of the wire Of
the Americans and Americas allies,
he should take the consequences.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Topics of the Times

A man can not be half patriotic,
1t isn't on the books. Those who are
not actively for America and her allies
are against US A man must either
walk or be carried if ne is to get any
where and this is a poor time for any
person to insist on being carried.
If the congress does make $3.50
price on wheat the president proposes
to veto it. And the wheat is needed
daily for supplies and for seed. Don t
hold wheat in expectation of a higher
price The chances are all against
more than the price set by the presi-
dent. Of course Iowa hasn't enough
for seed anyway so that doesn't bother
Iowa much. And Iowa is going to raise
wheat as patriotic general principle
whatever the price may be.
Trading with Japan steel to build
more ships for ships already built
looks like good business from every
point Of view
Keep the wheatless days whatever
you are doing as to the allowance Of
11a pounds week. There will be
those who vii emouge on the deal more
than enough to use up your saving;
and anyhow why shouldn't we stand
shoulder to shoulder in obeying the re-
tanning leadership in patriotic activity.
If everybody pulls on the rope at the
same time things move differently and
everyone of US who stands aside in
vites another to stand with him. 1t isn't
just fair to the man who obeys and
stays inside his pound and half OF
course but what's a question OF IN
dividual annoyance or unfairness in
the present extremity. We are all
under fire and it's the luck of some OF
US 10 get harder nit than others. The
big thing is to keep the line as straight
as possible and maintain the defense
II is a perfectly sane and truthful
statement that those who are not for
the allies are against America.
Well which are you going to do, put
the clock back or ahead?
Also perhaps you nave noticed that
the British king seems perfectly salts
fed to turn over details of the war to
men VINO know a great deal more
about it than he does Sometimes a
king shows a lot of sense and good
judgment in subordinating his ambi-
lions and desire to be boss TO the
exigenciee of his country.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

derfed or starving wives and chill
dren.
If we quit now "all the dead" as
former Attorney General James M.
Beck says will have died in vain" A
nehotiated peace will mean the end of
all liberal civilization holds dear.
Nothing we may have to endure
now" says Rudyard Kipling. will
weigh one featherweight compared
what we shall most certainly have to
suffer If for any cause we fail Of vic
tory"
The most dangerous feature Of the
war situation is not submarine ruth
lessness or the lack of tonnage, but
the persistent discussion Of peace.
We must end the war by lighting,
not by peace addresses Thus only can
we secure a ueace worthy the name
Leslie's Weekly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Flower 1onea

We hear more and more about the
form and color Of musical sounds and
tone combinations. First thing you
know we will all be seeing music in.
stead Of hearing It, and ths critics
will be writing about Winkemhunk's
symphony in blue and Flingemosky's
purple sonatas, says the Los Angeles
Times. Great pianists Will hurl noun.
tains Of floral beauty at their audi.
ences, and the master violinist will
watt sweet lilies and lilacs Of sound
across the footlights. Birds will cease
to MARBLE and will start to painting.
The skyiark's note will become q cord
of gold connecting earth and heaven
and the poet will refer to the mocking-
birds medley as an exquisite rainbow
of song.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Billy Bunny and His Friends

Never MIND" said Billy Bunny, why
don't you go down to the three ana
one cent store and buy some new
feathers? saw some lovely green
ones there" And this sort OF cheered
up the miserable Polly Parrot and she
started OF for Rabbitville at once, and
maybe she got some green feathers,
for I think they had some left over
from ST. Patrick's day.
Well, as soon as she was gone, the
little rabbit hoped along, and as he
passed under a little bush he heard a
voice say
I'm just little Gravity bug,
My cousin is tiny slug,
My uncle Is a lazy snail
And carries his house upon his tail.s
TIA! Hal" laughed Billy Bunny.
Nov know who you are. You're q
rose bug. But you'll have to, wait un-
til Miss South Wind brings the wilt
roses. But she will, never fear" And
then he hoped away. for he just
couldn't stand still this lovely spring
day. For everything was awakening.
The sap was running up the tree
trunks and the little buds were turn
ing into leaves on. the twigs. The
ferns were putting on their green lace
dresses, and the toadstools were rails
ing their umbrella tops to keep their
feet from getting wet when the clouds
dropped the rain down from the hiSA
gray sky. And all the earth smese
damp and fresh, and the forest was
turning tender green, and the
feathered folk wer picking up pieces
OF moss and twigs and building nests
to hold pretty blue and green eggs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
BY David Cory.l

Well, promised you in the last
story story If Mr.. Friendly Brown
Bear didn't buy himself a new fur
overcoat 1 would tell Mrs. Busy Bee
not to give him any honey this sum-
mer. But I didn't have to. for Mr..
Friendly Bear went down to the three
and one cent store and bought himself
a lovely new brown fur overcoat, and
he certainly needed 1t after sleeping
all winter in his old one. And when he
showed it to Billy Bunny, that little
rabbit told him it was very becoming
and fitted him like the paper on the
wall in our nursery, where roses grow
on pretty green vines right up to the
border where little white lambs play
on the grass and a winding brook
flows down to the big blue ocean.
And now, since I've started this
story, III tell you about Billy Bunny
who, after he had looked at Mr..
Friendly Bear and he had looked at
himself in the mirror OF the Babbling
Brook, started off thru the Friendly
Forest, clipperty clip, liperty lip. until
he came to fallen tree which Mr..
North Wind had blown down just be-
fore Christmas day. And who do you
suppose was sitting on it! You'll never
guess, even If gave You until the next
story. so I'll tell you right away Why,
it was the Poll Parrot who long ago
had kept house for the naughty rob-
bers. And she was crying all by her
self and saying:
"Oh, I'm so unhappy l can't think
My feathers all are turning pink
They used to be as green as grass,
But now they're pink, alas! alas!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
CARRY ON.

Havey bought two
Don't TX beauty have surely done
Doubtless
splendid on! For duty never ended carry on
flies in his attic finds his ulur
stalled on What tho been digging dollars larry
till the Teutons
busted the
vindcated till
What gold when hass
aref signing?
boysar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

service man had him spotted, and he
would have heard something drop ere
this If he had not declared himself out
Of It for good. He will now have to
face his victims and this may be fully
as unpleasant as to face the secret
service man. And whether or no they
can get the six dollars back from Kali
Wig is also problematical. 1t may be
that If they are determined enough and
use the right methods that Kalvig
will have to put up the stuff that he
has got from them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
a.s.ie...ke,. Ra%fiA

The rattle of the rattlesnake is de.
veloped from the single conical scale
or epidermal spine. which in most
snakes forms the internal tegument of
the tail. The bone on which the root
of the rattle rests consists Of the last
caudal vertebra and is covered with
skin which is the beginning Of the
rattle in young rattesnakes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Evolution.

The processes OF evolution have
worked for myriads OF years to devel.
op form Of living beauty, until tho
wanton destructiveness Of man inter.
venes. and-an aux. or dodo, or q pas
sengcr pigeon. Is forever erased from
the roll Of living things. 1t Is a loss
OF which the mind cannot bear to
think Exchange
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Ao.sed with Mother.

Gerald's mother had tried to make
him understand what conscience Is
and had told him not to cross the
street on his wheel. One day she said.
Gerald, when you crossed the street
today, didn't wee small voice tell
you that It was wrong7" Eyes. ma"
he replied. II guess It did, but my We
iocipede tweeked so much I couldn't
hear it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Al q Very Early pate.

An early English visitor to Boston
recorded that you no sooner enter a
taphouse than you find constable at
your elbow who prescribes the guam
tity you may drink" he also men
toned getting for fourpence "a quart
Of cider spiced and sweetened with
sugar"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
THE y. P. LEAGUE IN HANCOCK.
britt Tribune.1

The n, +. LEAGUE IN han SOGf
britt Tribune.1
Numerous men who have been roped
in by the Non partisan league are
now doing all they can to get out OF
II. There are at least one dozen men IN
German township who have signed
a petition to the head officers OF that
disreputable organization for clearance
papers OF course they are out the
money paid, but they are going to be
well satisfied il they can get clear
ance from it. Some of these men were
roped in who are as loyal as any man
can be. They Joined under the mis-
representation that 1t would be good
thing to have an organization by
which they could get better prices for
their grain or most anything else that
could be put up by the fellows to get
the fees that were paid them for
getting the members. Kalvig of
kanawha vas the fellow who did the
most of the work around here. He is
socialist, and harped this in season
and out The secret service man was
after him, but he came in recently
and declared that he was done and
would work the deal no farther. Just
how he will come out with the fellows
he has induced to get into the deal re-
mains to be seen, at present it looks as
tho they were about as mad as 1t Is
necessary, or comfortable for him.
Monday another batch of these vic
Tins were in and papers were for
warded to the head officers Of the
Non partisan league asking for
withdra wal. Whether or no the join
ing of this league also included join
ing of the socialist party or Of the l..
W. w. the fact is that these three
societies are hand in gloce together. 1t
was a disloyal gang into which this
Kalvig has been working. The secret
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

all tunes OF day. says tne pIit' LII
bune.
"Remarking that street car COM
panies which are using women as con-
ductors declare they find the women
more honest than men," the Sioux CITY
Tribune suggests. If such is the case
it might be a good idea also to put
few women on railway boards of ri
rectors."
To the Grundy Democrat. ut would
seem that the soldiers in France should
have the opportunity to vote at the fall
election. What man on earth has
greater right to express his convictions
with the ballot?"
1T is a mighty bad policy commu-
mites to drive disloyal persons to 9TH
err communities. If a man is disloyal
ne should be taken care OF and not
shaved into some other town or neigh
borhood Let every city, hamlet ana
township take care of its own skunks.
advices the Webster City Freeman
Journal
The Manson Democrat advises that
at will be all right to test your SEED
corn Just as soon as you get some seed
corn to test"
The Knoxville Journal says: The
people are ready to endure all the pri-
vations necessary, to furnished the
money in unlimited quantities, to trust
to leadership and abandon party. to
furnish the soldiers by the millions and
all that they ask in return is that those
charged with the responsibility OF
leadership shall cut out partisan poll
tics and personal vanity and produce
tangible results. When will the ad-
ministration at Washington wake up
to the solemn truths Of the situation?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

Pipe of compressed celluiose is now
being used abroad. 1t answers many
purposes, but will not do for steam
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

nor waste time in elaboration as to
supporting him. He stands for the
better things in all public and private
relations"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

THAT new mysterious German can
non is a Hun OF gum" says the Sioux
City Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES..

IF the Greater Iowa Association
would let the Nonpartisan league alone
it would die out in Iowa. says the
Boone ws-Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

yellow paint may not make pro-
German loyal but it gives him a
reputation that will never be lived
down" says the Algona Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30
Iowa Newspapers
BE SURE YOU'RE RIGHT
Manson Democrat

Do not accuse man Of being a pro-
German unless you are positive that ne
is one and you can prove it The charge
is a most serious one at this time, as 1t
places a man in the lowest category OF
citizenship and makes him an object
Of contempt, ridicule and ostracism
However. if you know a man Is pro-
German, don't hesitate to say so on
every occasion you can. She him no
mercy or pity, but let the world know
of his disloyalty to the Stars and
Stripes and thus punish him as ne de-
serves.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

one third the amount Of grain they
have been using. 1t Is about time
the boozers should do some sacrificing
and submit to boozeless day once in
a long WHILE" says the Monticello Ex-
press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

mo one would suspect that war
was raging to see the autos whirling
lang the streets every day and nearly
all times of day Says the Britt TIL
bune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

Most men in Claude Porter's place
as United States district attorney
would thing twice before resigning to
run for governor on the democratic
ticket; but that is Claude's affair"
comments the Knoxville Express. THE
democrats viii not need to think twice
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

"Oh, I'm so unhappy I can't think.
My feathers all are turning pink
They used to be as green as grass,
But now they're pink, alas! alas!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

Well which are you going to do, put
the clock back or ahead?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-30

The Manson Democrat advises that
ct will be all right to test Your seed
corn just as soon as you get some seed
corn to test"