Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-22
LOCAL COMMENT

Have you done all you pledged your
self to do. or all you can do. in helping
win this war by loaning your, money
to the government? II not day, off,
cially designated, is open to you next
week. On Friday, June s, known the
| country over as national war savings
day, the president of these United
| States has asked that all persons who
have not subscribed to the loan will do
so. There is no safer investment than
the stamps, which bear 4 per cent in
terest, compounded quarterly. They
will mature Jan. /, 1923, but If such
thing should happen that the money is
needed before that time, it may be Sc
cured by giving ten days notice at the
postoffice. The stamps are free from
all taxes, and when registered are in
sured against loss. They can not fall
in value below the price paid for them.
Pay the postoffice visit next Friday
and see that you are enrolled in the list
Of those who are loaning to Uncle Sam.
Marshaiitown is going to celebrate
the Fourth sanely this year. There will
be no continuous explosions of crackers
anu DTeWO1kS,f lOT ~ IN SOliciuSASu Vii
patriotic to- burn powder. What OBJ
servance is planned is one that will
appeal to patriotism, and will be fitting
to the present day Of war. The day
also should be one of prayer for the
boys over there: for the boys who are
helping make this nations natal day a
day that may be celebrated by future
generations. Let us on this 1920 ami
versary Of our nations birth thank God
that our nation still lives and ask Him
to bring about the end of the titanic
struggle for the independence of the
world.
Old newspaper files tell many tales
that now are amusing, as well as those
that would cause CONSERVATION and
bring tears. One pf the most
striking things shown in the days of
twenty five years ago. as compared to
the present, day. is the difference in
the method Of giving when emergency
demands. Twenty five years ago.
early next month, Iowa was shocked
by the terrible news of tornado that
practically wiped out the little town
of Pomeroy, in northwestern Iowa! The
state was called upon for financial aid
to succor the injured and homeless.
Communities responded, but in way
that now would bring shame to pros
porous Iowa. In a local subscription
list containing $50 names there was
but one subscription above a dollar,
and that was for IS. Imagine some
thing of the same kind demanding at
tention today Imagine also bank or
a prosperous individual who would ex-
p;=ct 70 get ofess with 9 dollar s,ibscrip-
ton. Yet the people in those days, or
most Of them, were as able TO give
proportionately as they are today. Then
we were not educated to giving today
we are. The war has opened our eyes.
and there is no place in the community
any more for the tightwad.
Johnny" Green. Pottawatttamie
Indian chief who befriended the early
whites of this county, has been i'm
mortalized by a monument erected to
his memory by the local historical So
ciety. The probabilities are that
"Johnny's" bones are not bleaching
beneath the sod marked by the monu-
ment. but perhaps that makes no diff
ference. Johnny has been dead so
many years tlldl lie heS iS"ShSu 49,
happy hunting ground long, long ago.
and without doubt he has long since
forgotten that he ever was on earth.
While it is a pretty tribute to the req
man who befriended our forefathers at
a time when they needed help, 1t Is 10
be regretted that the historical society
could not have made absolutely certain
the exact spot where the Indian was
laid to rest If the exact point could
not have been learned by little dig
cling. or even if 1t had, it would have
been far better to~have erected the
monument on the court house lawn,
where it would have been assured per-
manent care, and where generations
yet unborn might see it and learn OF
Johnny" Green. Hidden where 1t IS
in years to come the chances are that
the monument will be forgotten. Com
paratively few people will ever take
the trouble to go to such an out-of-the-
way place to see it. In the east and
south. where there are historical mon
uments at almost every way one turns.
the slabs are erected where people may
see them, not hidden on side hill TO
be overgrown by underbrush and trees.
Perhaps some day the future perpetu-
ators of local history may see fit to
move the monument to- public site and
thus preserve the memory OF
Wal Wai-wa.
Mrs. B. F. Grips and children, OF
Albion, who came Thursday to visit