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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Yanks S,rorn, Back
Area of British War
Zone in Flanders

Correspondence Associated Press.]
Headquarters American Troops With
the British Forces in France, June To-
American soldiers are now spread all
over the back areas of the British zone
in France. So thick are they it is i'm
possible TO miss them cut ot doors. #
groups on the road they are seen sit
ting in circles around British non
commissioned officers listening to lee
lures on quick firing, or doing gas mask
drill in the meadows.
There are columns of Americans
hiking" along the valleys beside fast
running trout streams and up and down
or around the hills with which these
areas are studded. You see them off
duty in all the farm yards and up all
the lanes. They are wandering about
on the by roads getting the lay of the
land and sometimes stepping aside to
gather the peoples, blue bells, daisies
and buttercups that make the French
countryside look like a huge bouquet
at this season.
There are Americans in the villages
buying knick -knacks, hunting the
scarce American smoking tobacco or
sitting with children in doorways get
ting first notions of French from their
picture books. They are on an impro-
vised diamond, in pasture with bat and
ball occasionally. not often, for sporting
articles are quite as scarce as American
tobacco here where the American
Young Mems Christian Association has
not yet penetrated effectively.
American airs are heard everywhere
sung, whistled or played on an IN
strument that is quite as strange to
these parts as were the bagpipes four
years ago-the mouth organ.
The pipes and the mouth organ come
together frequently where the Scotch
and Americans are billeted in such
proximity as to facilitate an exchange
OF amenities. If the overseas boys
haven't yet learned to appreciate all
the beauties of the pipes, the Scotch
men dance to almost any kind Of music.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
NEW HUN SHELL DEVICE.
Bursting Charge Mixed While Projecti'e
Is in Flight.

Correspondents Associated Press.l
Paris, June 2o.-That the bursting
charge Of shells from the German long
range guns is mixed while the pro-
jectiles are in actual flight is the belief
of French scientists. according to
technical journal published here.
When the Smelling of Paris began it
was noticed that the explosion of a
shell produced cloud of black smoke
mixed with a little that was white and
accompanied by strong smell of ether
RECENTLY the smoke has been entirely
white and very light, the ether odor
persisting.
No shell that failed to- explode has
been found. nor even an entire fuse
indicating how delicate and reliable the
explosive is. This fact leads experts to
suppose that the shell is charged with
two liquid explosives. separated by the
perforated PARTITION which is known to
exist in the centerof the projectile.
When the shell is fred at high
angle the liquid in the upper end COM
bines with that in the lower chamber
and churned by the violent rotation
produces at the moment Of impact.
three minutes later "a perfect mixture.
This would explain. it is said, the abil-
ity of~the charge to resist the enor--
nous shock when fired and the re-
marka BILE uniformity of the explosions
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Abandon Marx
Theones For Tho.e
of Pan-G German Origin

London. June S. (By Man.)--"Neo-
"Marxism" is the name applied by the
Frankfurter zeitung to the remarkable
reaction undergone by an apparently
increasing section of German social
lists. whereby Karl Marks principles
have been abandoned in favor of what
Is virtually pan Germnnisn.
The chief organ of the new school
is the Glocke. Of which the chief
writer is DR.. Paul Lensch. The Neue
Ieit. formerly In the hands OF the So
cialist minority. is following in the
same course. trying also, with the
hearty support Of pan German papers,
to give new meanings to Marks
doctrines. The Voerwaerts and other
official organs of the socialist majority
still profess the international" idea,
altho in practice they support the
German government.
According to the Frankfurter Zeitung
much attention has been attracted to a
book by Herr Renner. an Austrian
German. called "Marxism. War and In
ternationale." Renner denounces the
morale Judgment point Of view" and
TcSaTuS war as the COlllpletlOn OF MS
torial and especially economic pro-
cesses. He says:
1T is not impossible that IN the
future also the world will find order
thru warlike selection-that the power
which proves itself to be the strongest
organization is also summoned by his
tory to perform the greatest work OF
organization and to be by right the
highest power, the Judge, administra-
tor and law -giver Of the peoples"
This appears to be the view of
Lensch and his supporters. They say
they are sick of ethical flowers, and
the F'rankfurter Zeitung puts it, rid
icule any resolute will to peace and
and peace by negotiation and declare
the right of self determination of the
peoples and parliamentarism to be
barren catchwords."
The attempt, the Frankfurter paper
points out, to reconcile socialism with
pan Germansm Is built upon the
theory that the only factors in the
world that really mater are economic
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22

:. washington. July 22.-vUnder the
new $4,000. 100000 war revenue bill.
which the house ways and means COM
mittee began considering last week in
secret session, the American taxpayer
vii be able to determine the exact toll
taken from him, to support the war.
Chairman SKitchin announced that
direct taxation on all citizens was con-
templated as the easiest way OF finding
ing additional revenue.
For the first time in the countrys his
tory. all taxation bills are to be merged
in one single measure as far as pos
sfhle. Taxpayer, after the pas
sage Of the new bill, which will be
re ported to congress some time n
September, by understanding this sins
gle piece of legislation, Will be able
to estimate the war tax levy against
him individuaiiy.
III flaming the new tax law the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL.
Greatest Istitution Of the Kind to Be
Opened at Cedar Falls.

Special to Times Republican.
Cedar Falls. July ga vocational
high school is to be established at
teachers college in September, 1T was
learned at the college office today. 1t
Is to be the first of Its kind in this
section and, according to plans. the
greatest in that line in the middle
west. 1t is launched in response to the
need for more vocational training
emphasized by the war. 1t is called a
junior high school and enrolls pupils
entering the seventh grade. 1t offers
three-year course. But three-years in
this junior high school is equal to five
years in any other.
It will be opened in the training
school building, where the senior high
school Is also conducted. In addition
to vocational training Of an intensive
kind, it also will include dress making,
millinery and allied arts, Is domestic
science, etc, the pupils will be taught
Spanish and French by corps of the
best instructors obtainable. The new
school will open Sept. II.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22

Amsterdam. July 23.--The independ-
cnce Day message OF David r. Francis.
the American Ambassador at Moscow
to the Russian people. moves the Berlip
vorwarts TO the following strong com.
ment.
This is straight blow in the faca
OF the soviet government, which can be
hereafter under no misrepresentation 40
to What to expect IN the present ana
future from the United Stats. 1t 10
nothing but blunt intentional provoca-
ton. and nothing remains for the sovice
government but to demand t':e recall oe
the ambassador
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Probate Notice.

Office OF the clerk of the District
court. State OF Iowa. Marshall county
SIS.
District court Sept term. A. D.. 1918.
To whom it May Concern:
You ana eaCn or you are nerepy
notified to appear at the court house
in Marshalltown, Iowa, in said county.
at o'clock a, m, on the second day OF
September, 1918 to attend the proof OF
and probating an instrument In writing
purportng to be the last will and tesla
ment of Gunder Thomas late OF Mar
shall county. Iowa. deceased. at which
time and place you will appear and
show cause. If any, why said will should
not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof. / have hereto
subscribed my name and AFFIXED the
seal OF the District court. this 18th day
of July. A. d. 1918.
G. w. Gilbert.
Clerk Of the District Court.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
BETHLEHEM NOTES SOLD.
Finance Board Not Required to Furnish
Part Of Issue.

New York. July 22.-The syndicate
managers the s5O.000.000 issue OF I
per cent serial notes of the Bethlehem
Steel Corporation, which were offered
for public subscription on Monday
morning, announced Saturday that all
this notes had been Sold. In the cir
cumstances the war snance corpora.
ton will not be ca,lcl on to supplT The
$4,000. 006 which 1t agreed to furnish
In the event that the Banners did nor
succeed in dispos'1., Of more than $780,
0O0,0 OF the notes. The Bethlehem
Steel notes, maturing lam one to five
years. were offe-el at prices to yield
from IN to7X per cent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22

house committee will enter fields tira
never before have been explored by
the adventurous American
No Tax On Brakefast Table.
At the opening session hare was a
general discussion of the FAX IN IN
comes. excess profits and Injuries, but
not conclusion upon any particular
item was reached
The only new suggestion In the con-
fidential print OF the tentative bill Is
as to taxes on candy and firearms. hut
no rate of taxation Is proposed. None
Of the long list Of luxuries which the
treasury proposed for taxation is in
Guided. They will be taken up later.
Members Of the committee believe
many probably will be discarded. No
tax vii be levied upon the "break-
fast table or upon such commodities
as sugar, tea, cotton, lumber. wheat
and oil, according to members.
This bill will coordinate all eX-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22

listing tax laws and make It possible
for the taxpayers TO determine the
amount OF his war tax and to pay
them all In lump sum-" said Chair
man Kitchin.
All Direct Taxation.
However. Mr.. Kithin did not say
exactly what he meant. He intended
to make clear that the taxpayer, by
provisions OF the BILL will have the
opportunity to learn what his war
taxes are to the final cent and not
through tho hands OF war profiteers.'
For instance. the new bill will permit
the payment OF the tax on tobacco di-
rectly ACROSS the counter. instead of
indirectly through the tobacco dealer.
Profit taxes also will be easily esti-
mated II the majority OF the COM
mttee has It's way the measure will
assess a direct tax OF so per cent on all
excess profits due the war. altho this
British and Canadian idea was fought
by Mr.. 'Kitchin at the last session.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
IOWA DIRECTOR OF FEDERAL
BUREAU NAMES OFFICIALS
FOR IOWA DISTRICTS.
FORM ORGANIZATION
& IL IN EVERY COUNTY
Work In Cooperation With Ten Fed.
sraI.state Employment Offices IN
pistribution Of Labor-Functions Of
Reserve Set Forth by Director in
Statement Announcing Appointments
necia1 10 rimes- Republican.

Special to Times
Des Moines, July 22.-The appoint
ment Of four district agents Of the
United States public service reserve,
who will perfect the organization IN
every county Of the state, has been an
nounced by H. ]. Metcalf, director of
the public service reserve for Iowa.
The appointments were made by the
federal department at Washington and
the men will receive nominal pay.
Governor Harding is cooperating in
the work. The men and their district
are:
J. J. Book, Of Dubuque. northeastern
Iowa; Charles P. Parker, of Ottumwa,
southeastern Iowa: g. D. Walter. of
Bedford, southwestern Iowa; and H. G..
Beam, Of Sioux City, northwestern
Iowa. The men will start to work at
once.
Function Of Reserve Service.
The public service reserve works in
cooperation with the ten federal state
employment offices over the state. The
employment offices are charged with
the duty Of distributing labor The
public service reserve, which is an in
tegral part of the United States en-
p1oyment service. Is charged with the
duty Of recruiting labor to be distribut-
ed by the employment offices. The
functions Of the reserve, as set forth
by State Director H. J. Metcalf, are:
i. TO furnish directly To the army.
navy and other governmental depart
ments men OF specified training.
g. To recruit generally skilled and
Gcss!!.,ii!.!ccaa labor ffoT war industries III
the districts where there are no en-
ployment offices to both recruit and
distribute labor under the direction of
the employment service.
49, To register men in specified
trades in which we know that there
will be q demand In order that they
may be readily furnished when needad
by the industries engaged in manufac-
turing war materials.
Provide Essential Employment.
~. To assist in transferring men
who are working in non essential oc-
in manufacturing war materials.
49, Through its county directors and
enrolment agents to prevent ruinous
: lSCHu AStu6 dLAOuB tuc wax uluuSITleS ny
reporting to the federal director Of the
state any wrongful methods employed
! in that respect, such as activities Of
private labor scouts
&C. Through It's agents to report on
request, the condition Of the supply Of
labor in any given community and to
furnish information as to wages. hours
and housing conditions.
~. Through its agents to act as the
promoter in organizing community as
sociations Of employers, employment
managers and representatives Of wage
earners to bring about reduction of
turnover Of labor and the cessation Of
indiscriminate labor recruiting"
The reserve already has county
agents in every county Of the state
The district organizers will assist
these men in recruiting and listing la
Dor of all kinds in their respective
counties.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
IOWA CITY BOY RECOVERING.
Everett Williams Writes Of Exper.
fence In Hun Gas Attack.

Iowa City, July "a stirring letter
from Everett Williams. son Of Mrs. T.,
G. Williams. says the Iowa Citl soldier
who was gassed in France, Is recover
ing In a hospital over there. He says
in part: "My back and lungs are sore
and the skin is peeling off my neck
and back, but am improving.
when we were gassed, we were
sleeping in holes dug in the ground.
About midnight the sentry awakened
ue and we wore our masks the rest of
the night.
"In fact one could not sleep. 40 shells
were bursting all around us. cutting
down large trees wherever they hit.
My dugout was FIVE feet back of one
big tree that was hit q
when stepped out of my dugout 1t
crumbled right in. We were shelled
to flnish.' as We were changing our
positions. and gassed~ awfullyl."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Napoleon Nsws Items.

Special to Times Republican,
MapletonS July 22.E Word was re-
ceived Saturday of the death OF @. A.
Smith at his home in Chicago. Mr..
Smith was former resident OF Maple
ton and was large owner Of Monona
county land. IN
Miss Louisa Bridges and Harry Nc
Donald were married at the home OF
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. L.
L. Bridge, Rev. J. M. Williams official
ing. They will make their home at
Omaha.
John r. WEIGH sold his fine home on
Eighth street to Theodore Schoenherr.
to give possession Sept. 10. consider
alton $4,000.
M. NJ. Beachler & Son have sold the
Napleton Auto Company's business to
r. S. Butler and r. Berry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
BIG SHIP PLANT FOR QUEBEC.
Frech Syndicate Forms $1,000, 900 Cor
poration to Build Vessels,

! Quebec. Canada, July PA new
shipbuilding concern. capitalized .at
$5,00O.0o0. has been formed and Will
operate a large shipyard on the ST.
Lawrence river. opposite Quebec City.
The new corporation will take over
the affairs of number Of existing
concerns.
The syndicate will comprise the
Federal Shipbuilding Company of Sar-
MIA, the Dominion Shipbuilding Com
pany Of CollingWood. Dussault q
Hutchinson Of Lewis. and a number OF
old French capital interests. The firm
will build steel vessels for the French
government. The building of docks
and yards has already begun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
TURN OVER INDIAN SCHOOL.
Carlisle to Be Used by War Depart
ment as HospitaI


Washington, July 22.-The Carlisle
(R) Indian School has been perma-
nently abandoned ana turned over to
the war department for hospital pur-
poses and for tibet rehabilitation and
re-education Of sick end wounded SOL
oilers. Announcement by Secretary
Lane that the plant, originally an
army barracks assigned to the interior
department until again needed, has
been returned to the war department,
was stated by Cato Sells, commission
err of Indian affairs to mean that the
famous school would cease to exist and
its 700 students transferred to Indian
schools N The west
The fact that virtually all Indians
five in the west is adduced as the rea-
son for closing the famous school, al
tho the Carlisle students, as mat
ter Of fact, always came from the
west.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
PLEA FOR co-oPERATIoh.
Business Men and Farmers Must Pull
Together, Says Pearson.


Together, Says Pearson.
Special to Times Republican.
Ames. July 22.-Business men and
farmers should not be pulling in
opposite directions, but in the same
direction, President r. A. Pearson, of
Iowa State College, now assisting the
United States department Of agricul-
ture, told the National Wholesale Gro
GERS convention this past week. Their
interests demand closer co-opera tion
he said, and the war emergency de-
mands it,
Business men who want to help
keep agriculture on sound basis; and
all business men who know their bust
ness do, may cooperate with the far
MGR in at least half dozen ways"
said President Pearson.
First, every business community
should make an active campaign to
find the men. employed in stores and
offices who have been trained in farm
work and who can be spared to assist
on the farms during the peak OF the
load. In harvest season almost every
able bodied worker who is not in mill
tary service should be on the farm.
Second, in some sections the
: assistance OF business men is NEEDED
ito help the public see that some in
creased prices of agricultural products
eggs, for instance, are legitimate. Be-.
cause Of misunderstanding there have
been boycotts and much harm has re-
suited.
Third, wholesale grocers and retail
grocers can accomplish much toward
inducing the public to consume food
produced at home or nearby. 1t Is Just
as unreasonable for canned peas to be
shipped both ways across the country
as for coal to- be SO shipped. Also. far
mers need to be encouraged to produce
more articles that can be consumed in
their locality.
Fourth. particularly, the public
should be encouraged to use food pro-
ducts that are both good and cheap.
At the present time this includes dairy
products. The dairy industry has suf-
fered severely because OF the reduced
consumption. Of milk and milk pro-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22

wan, of settlers from the Pacific coast
and middle western states who did not
wait to discover the governments in
tentlons as regards lands adjacent to-
railroad lines. but have either pur-
chased outright at nigh prices or
pushed on to the frontier in advance of
the wave of soldier settlers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Littia Funeral Sunday.

SpVCldI 20 IIIHeS-IttVllUlINdII.
Iowa City, July 22.-The funeral or
the late Dr. Lawrence w. Littig was
held in Iowa City, Sunday afternoon.
at st. Mary's church. Very Rev. A. j.
Schultz dean of the Iowa City deanery.
OBLIGATED. The attendance was very
large, friends coming from miles
around, including physicians. surgeons
and laymen who knew the Inflated
doctor in other cities. The interment
was made in Oakland cemetery Iowa
City.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
HELD ON LARCENY CHARGE.
Earl Melton Arrested For Alleged
Robbery Of Iowa City Store.
Snecial to Times -Renuhlican

SpSS'di W 1llHeS-ItepuDlCdH.
Iowa City, July 22.-Ear, Melton.
arrested in Davenport and brought to.
Iowa City. is in the county Jail here
awaiting hearing in the justice court.
He lacks bond of $500, wherefore
Justice Ewing sent him to cell pend
ing another arraignment. The police
have recovered large, quantities Of
razors. knives, watches, etc., at his
home in his possession. and buried in
the woods near the Iowa river. The
Cache" detectives aver was revealed
to them by Melton, himself, after he
was brought hitler from Davenport.
The stolen goods, about $500 worth in
all, were taken from W. s.. Thomas
hardware store, last spring.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Appointed Camp Secretary.

SpeCIaI 10 IImeS1FepUDIlcan.
Iowa City, July 22.-Raymond Sla-
vata. of Iowa City, has been appointed
by the supreme secretary OF the
Knights of Columbus of America as
secretary of the K.NC. camp at Camp
Funston, Fort Riley, Kan. He will 80
thither ere long.
Governor Harding has appointed
Judge Ralph Otto. of Iowa City, chair
man of the johnson county legal ad-
visory board to assist the draft board
and selected men.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
Open. kand to Soldiers.

Winnipeg, July IA great land
rush in western Canada began July 2,
with the opening to settlement OF
many valuable Parcels OF government
lands to returned soldiers and mem
bers Of the canadian expeditionary
force. The movement serves as a
climax to the unprecedented influx to
the Peace river country, the Nechago
valley .of Bi fish Columbia, and the
PRINCE Albert district Of Saskatche-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
NEW FIELD FOR WOMEN.
Called Into Service Of Express Com.
panies at Sioux City.


panies at Sioux City.
Special to Times Republican.
Sioux City, July 22.-The shortage Of
men is such that express companies
are having a hard time to keep their
stuff moving. Saturday the American
Railway Express Company applied to
Mrs. Lillian Larimore, director Of the
women's division of the federal bureau.
to supply it with five women for office
work, freight calling and the loading of
small packages. Mrs. Larimore ex-
poets to be able to supply the demand
Women in France and England are
doing heavy work." said Mrs. Larimore,
but American women still remain to
be educated to those lines. More and
more women will be employed by the
express companies as they lose their
men. II this experiment proves sue
cessful."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-22
BECOMES HUMAN TORCH.
EmpIoye of Stanton Newspaper DAN
gerousIy Burned.
cu..:.1 81 yr;,,oo~ pon,Jihifror

Special to Timee-RepWbiicaE
Stanton, July 22.-George Wickstrom,
employed in the Office of the Stanton
Call became human torch when gas
olene which had saturated his CLOTH
ing caught fire and before the flames
could be extinguished he was painfully
and dangerously burned He was re-
pairing a gasolene stove used In the
office to melt type metal, broken
feed pipe being the cause OF the
trouble. Flames shot four feet above
his head. He rolled over on the
ground and men attracted by his cries
assisted in extinguishing the flames.