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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09
Save Frui. Pit. and Nut sh.,,,,

Gas masks are necessary to win the
war and TO make good ones we must
have carbon made from nutshells and
fruit pits. The following are neces-
sary: Peach stones, apricot. prune,
plum, cherry and olive pits. date
seeds: butternut walnut. hickory and
brazil nut shells. Whole nuts can be
used, but the food value Of the kerr
nels should be utilized. Drying is very
important. Prunes are a universal
breakfast dish. Put a pail in the corner
for Uncle sam and fill ii with prune
pits and turn it over to the Red Cross.
Deliver TO telephone shop in the rear
of Marshalltown State Bank. Marshall
County Chapter Red Cross.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09

Members Of the state board Of con-
troll and State Architect H F. Lie6Oe
spent Tuesday at the sohdierT home
making their sesni-annual trip Of In
spection. They called on COMMUNICATE
n. C. whitehii1. who is a patient At 81.
Thomas hospital recovering steadily
from an operation for gall bladder
trouble. In the evening the board went
TO Eldora.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09
Notice to Violin Pup;ls.

l have taken the classes formerly
taught by Mrs. Richards, studied
under Mrs. Richards and graduate OF
American Conservatory OF Music, Chi
cago. viii be here Wednesdays and
Saturdays, room 215 Masonic temple.
Mabel Funke.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09
SWINE CONGRESS MEETING.
Plans for Winter Show to BE Made
Thursday NiQht

Plans for the second annual Mar
shalltown Swine and Corn Congress,
that is to be held the third week in
December. are to be made at a meet
ing Of the officers and directors that
is 10 be held at the Marshalltown Club
Thursday evening at 8 o'clock
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09
In the Police Court.

Galloway Johnson and I. L. Brown.
colored. mixed in what developed into
a combined bare fist fight and wrestling
match in front Of the. court house Tues
day afternoon that resulted in the ar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09

We have car Of good potatoes at
West End Feed Barn. Prize - 20 ~
bushel. Bring your. sacks. = =.
Wheater. IN gss
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09

Minnesota potatoes SIS per busAea
at the store, s1.3s delivered at your
door. Flowers Market Grocery,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09
CHARGES ARE DISMISSED.
Of Joe Tito and Leo Paeano
Is Dropped.

County Attorney Scott, acting with
the consent of Judge Cummings, has
dismissed the charges against Joe Tito
and Leo Pagano, Italians, who were in
dicted for attempted criminal assault
on Bernice Schraeder. a pupil of the
Abbott school. County Attorney Scott
said corroborative evidence was lack
ing to successfully prosecute the cases.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09

AeeweS ckaetelse ooeselao,
~ aooual mestlag Of ~ 49,.
eaoted CAbSatSes WIN - held - the =.
II. c. a. FsiAay evening at 1880 when
rspSrts for - year WIN ~ made ana
officers WIN b elected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-09

Henry McNeal and family, Of New
Sharon, and E P. Miller and family.
of Marshalltown, were guests Sunday
of their relatives, the A. J. Pence fam
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Pure and Simple Ignorance.

TT oWARD E. COFFIN. head of the
III aviation board, said in Detroit the
other day:
THE Liberty motor is a powerful and
sure one. An attack on it could only be
based on acknowledgements as ridic-
ulous as the vacuum story illustrates.
Two drummers, seated in the
smoker, got into an angry argument
about the action of the vacuum brake.
What stops the train,' roared the
first drummer, is the imitation of the
tube or pipe
"'Rot! yelled the second drummer.
You're off your eggs! It's the output
of the exhaust that pulls her up
"They wrangled long while without
coming to any agreement, and then,
when the train drew in at the terminus.
they decided to submit their two view
pofats for settlement to the engineer.
The engineer, his face very dirty,
leaned condescendingly from the win
dow of his cab and listened with an at
tentive frown to the two drummers'
statement of their argument. Then he
chuck1ed, shook his head and said:
Well, gents, you're both wrong
about the workin' of the vacuum brake.
Yet the things very simple and easy to
understand. Ye see, it's like this. When
we want to stop her we just turn this
here tap. and then we fill the pipe with
vacuum"
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elegant business in asphalt paving
cent asphalt. y'understand. the bad
reputation which candy has got it in
the eighth ward is going to spread
finally when the candy feller starts in
10 make contracts for state roads, cam
dy gets black eye in the state also.
the candy dealer would go to Wash
ington and put over a rotten deal on
the national government, understand
me, and then people like you and me
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Cold on the Brain.

ID ING LARDNER of Chicago said ON
Nv his return from France:
I'm France today the coal restric.
tions are severe. You are cold in the
hotels, in the restaurants and in tho
theaters. Each family is held down to
200 pounds of coal a month. Think OF
that!
You think of the cold all the time
when you're indoors in France. Yes. all
the time you think of nothing but the
cold.
Il said to shivering young lady on
her return from church one Sunday
morning in Paris:
We'll. what was the text%
'She answered with chattering teeth.
as she buried her hands deeper in her
muff: =
".B-r-r! The text wasL'Many are
cold, but few are frozen"
Evening star., 1918-01-13
Abe and Morris ON "St1all 1t Be Dry or Ext

there's a whole lot OF people which is
making living out of it, like bar
tenders aud fellers working in distil-
leries, and il they get thrown out OF
work. y'understand, their wives and
children is going to be just as hungry
as if the fellers lost their jobs in a
respectable business like pants o.
plumbers supplies
Say" Morris exclaimed. "if you're
going TO have sympathy for people
which would get thrown out of jobs
by prohibition. Abe. don't use it all
up on bartenders and fellers working
in distilleries, because there's a whole
lot of other crooks whose families are
going to be short OF spending money
when liquor selling stops. Take them
boys which is running poker rooms,
faro games ard roulette wheels, and
alcohol is just as necessary to their
operation as ether is to stomach spe-
ci.list's. because the human bankroll
Abe; the success OF removing it en-
tirely depends on the giving of the
anesthetic. Then, there is the lawyers
criminal, accident and divorce-and
it don't make no difference how their
clients fell or what they fell from
positions in banks, moving street cars
could wish for derstand-schnapps
done it. Abe, and when schnapps goes.
Abe. the practice Of some lawyers goes
with it,
We'll. they still got their diplomas,
Mawruss." Abe said. land even though
schnapps is prohibited, Mawruss. there
will be enough people left with the
real estate habit to give them shysters
a living anyhow. but you take them
fellers which has got millions of dol
lars invested in machinery for the
manufacture of headache medicine,
Mawruss, and before they will be able
to figure out how they can use their
plies, they're going to be their own
best customers, which little did them
felIers think when they put on their
bottles
KEEP IN 4 DRY PLACE, WE'LL
CORKED
that people was going to take them so
seriously as to put 'em right out of
business, understand"
But there's also large number of
people which is going to lose their jobs
on account of this here prohibition,
Abe, and if they get the sympathy of
these American sitsons which is lay
ing awake nights worrying about how
the czar is getting along. Abe, it would
be big already. I am talking about the
Evening star., 1918-01-13

with mhff1ed engines from the postes de
secours to the hospitals.
We had to feel our road. We We're
like blind men driving automobiles.
over country torn up by shells, choked
with debris, filled with water holes and
with transport moving. We were blind
men. and We don't know to this day
how we came through it," said Lloyd G..
Blynn, former newspaper man OF
Philadelphia and veteran of the serv-
ice.
'yerdun." he continued. remains in
the memory Of every member of the
dozen sections as record of utmost
French exertion and suffering and
fortitude. They held. No nation has
ever held better. think If you ask any
American ambulance driver what i'm
pressed him most, he would say the
depth of the dark nights and the terri
BILE courage of the French. The wound
ed never groaned or cried out. They
struggled through or died in our am
balances, and the only sound that ever
reached our ears was the word 'douce-
ment-doucement.' when the ambu-
lances hit the rough places in the
roads.
"Verdun, I believe, brought us closer
to the enemy than any other sector. We
had our casualties. too Edward Kelly
of Philadelphia was killed there, on the
open road close to Marie. The story of
his death has been told, but no one has
ever done justice to Bob Gooch or
Oliver Perry or the others who went
out to get Roswell Sanders. who was
wounded. and the wounded Frenchmen
who We're waiting for the ambulance
which never arrived.
Robert N. Gooch was a Rhodes
scholar. from Virginia. and one Of the
best drivers in the service. He went
out on that road while it was still un-
der the fire of the guns which killed
Kelly. He went by himself, too. with
no one to walk in front of his ambu-
lance to guide him through the shell
holes. There was one. 'treacherous
place filled with water. but he went
right through it and didn't stop for
shells or anything until he had found
Sanders lying near Kelly, and brought
him in. Then he went out again,
through the same fire, and brought the
two wounded Frenchmen back.
Meanwhile Perry, our chief, had had
a telephone call telling him of the acci-
dent. and had started his own ambulance
out on the road. 1t was a case OF the
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in stock II the customer hadn't nerved
cocktails. understand me. Automobiles
is the same way. Mawruss, and IL the
engineering department of the big au-
tomobile concerns isonow busy on the
problem of making alcohol a substi-
tute for gasoline, Mawruss. you can
bet your life that the sales department
is just as busy trying to find out some-
thing which will be substitute for al
Evening star., 1918-01-13

An0 7Es. MAwRUss." Abe Potash
w NJ said the day after the pro-
Is hibition amendment was
adopted by the House of Representa-
tives. there's lot of people going
hibition which in reality is living ex-
amples of the terrible effects not drink
suppose any one wanted to argue that
way-Whereas if you was TO put the
peop1e wise which is actually respon-
sibie for the country going dry. yum
derstand, they would be too indignant
to call YOU liar before they could hit
you with anything that lay most handy
behind the bar from an ice pick TO an
empty bottle. understand me-.
II always had an idea myself tina.
what was responsible for prohibition.
Abe. was that the people is sore at
BOOZE Morris Perlmutter retorted.
sure, ] know" Abe said, but the
people would ne just SO sore at candy
If the fellers which runs candy stores
acted the way saloon keepers does,
which you take candy feller or
Teller in the cough drop business. and
we would say his name is Harris Fine.
y'understand. and instead of attending
to the store and poisoning people nit
candy. he goes to work to get up the
Harris Fine Association and gives all
the eighteen-dollar-a- policemen
in the neighborhocd to understand that
it's equivalent to ten dollars in their
pockets if they wouldn't take it so par
ticular when members of the Harris
Fine Association commits q little thing
like murder or something. verstehst du
mich, why the people in the same block
which wasn't members OF the Harris
Fine Association weald begin to think
that candy WAS getting to have a bad
influence on the nefshborhood. yum
Gerstand
Then if Harris Fine was to run for
alderman and all the loafers of the
eighth ward or whatever ward he was
alderman of was to meet in the back
room of his candy store, Mawruss, the
respectable leu:e which couldn't go past
Harris Fines candy store without
hearing somebody talking rotten Ian
guage, would go home and say that
It was shame and q disgrace that the
eighth ward should got to have candy
stores in it. Tafterwards when he has
been an alderman for some time Nav
russ. and Harris Fine begins to make
q fortune out of the garbage removal
contracts by not removing garbage
y.Nnderstand, and also as side line
to candy and ice cream soda, does an
Evening star., 1918-01-13

from JCuTleS0n t1uTtSDlse WSS
rid of the enemy. The Germans had fed.
Six months earlier the military critics
warned France that the struggle for the
Ladies' road was another Terdun. and
the fate of the allies was once more fiuc-
tuating with the tide of battle on the
slopes of famous ridge.
The Chenain des Danes was won by
French infantry, French artillery and
500 American college boys, who carried
every one of the millions of shells used
in the fight, every log. every inch of
barbed wire and every bomb and grenade
They represented transport. communica-
tons, the left arm of Mars behind the
trenches.
France knows these SEQ as the first
American belligerents. France-the
strength of France in the field--knows
their companions, the 1900 other Ameri-
can college boys. as Les Anis de France, .
the friends of France from the first days
of the war. The 1900 were ambulance
men From Flanders and the Somme.
from the Champagne, from Nerdun and
Lorraine and from Soloniki. the wounded
poilus have been carried on blood-soaked
stretchers in swaying ambulanceS under
shrapnel hail and bursting shells. to safety
and recovery, by those "ambulanciers
AInericains"
They came as volunteers, a few for the
adventure all for love of France The
record of these 5000 is not merely hard
work or suffering brave deeds some
times rewarded with the Croix de Guerre ::
the young men in America have given life
and limb as well for the cause of France.
Twelve were killed in the field, many
were wounded, and, as with the armies of
all nations. there is another list of sick
ness and death as the additional price
they paid.
The ambulance work began with the
war. In October. 1914, the first unit was
organized in London and came to France
Evening star., 1918-01-13

nothing to do with it, because it doesn't
make no difference to whisky. whether
a feller voted for Wilson oder Hughes.
1t would just as .lieve ruin the health
and prospects of a republican as a
democrat"
whisky might" Abe admitted, "but
how about beer and light wines. Nav
russ, which you know as well as I do.
NIawruss. a 1oafer must got to drink an
awful lot of beer before he gets drunk"
Wei. that's what makes the brew
cry business good. Abe" Morris said.
But don't You think, in a great num-
Evening star., 1918-01-13

sauench it without making an aqua
rum out of myself exactly
"Aber what about light wines?" Abe
inquired "they don't harm an awful
lot of people, Mawruss.'
''rhey don't harm an awful lot o.
people for the same reason that there
ain't much pneumonia caused by peo-
pie getting damp from using finger
bowls, Abe" Morris said. because so
far as 1 could see the American peo-
pie feels the same way about light
wines as they do about finger bowls.
They could use 'em and they could let
'enl alone and they feel whole lot
more comfortable when they're letting
'em clone than when they're using
en-
Well. Iii tell you, Mawruss, Abe
said. II think n great many people
which is prejudiced against light wines
on account of heartburn is laying it
to the wine instead of the seventy-five
cent italian table d'hote dinner which
goes with it,
YES, and it's just as likely to be the
cocktail which went before it as the
glass of brandy which came after it.
light wine. Abe" Morris declared
They usually amt the only numbers
on the program, aud the felior which
starts in on beer and light wines. Abe
soon gets such a big repertoire of
drinks that he's performing on the
bottle day and night, understand.
which saloonkeepers knows better than
anybody else. Abe. because if you would
ask saloonkeeper oder a bartender to
have something. y'understand, it's q
hundred to one proposition that he
takes a cigar and not a glass beer"
Sure. 1 know Abe agreed. but
once a bartender draws a glass beer.
before he could use it again, he's got
to mark off so much for deteriorating
that it's practically total loss, where
as he could always put cigar back in
the case and sell it to somebody else
for full price in the usual course of
business
We'll, that's what makes the saloon
business a swindle and not a business.
Abe" Morris said. Just imagine, Abe.
if you and me. as women's outergar-
ment manufacturers, was to lay in a
line of readymade mems overcoats in
the expectation that after a customer
has bought from us big order he is
going to blow me to a forty regular
and you to a forty-four stout. which
we would put right back in stock as
soon as his back Is turned
''Rut even if the liquor business would
be dirty business. Mawruss.' Abe
said, you've got to consider that
Evening star., 1918-01-13

temperance lectures" Morris declared,
(which if it wouldn't. be for them fell
1ers pretty near convincing everybody
that no one could be happy and sober
at the same time. Abe, it's my idee that
we would of had this here prohibition
schon long since ago already, because
those temperance lecturers got their
arguments against drinking schnapps
SO mixed up with Sunday base ball.
playing billiards and going to theay-.
Evening star., 1918-01-13

United States Army had taken over
the ambulance work and incorporated it
into the regular militarized Red Cross,
these men are now entering the avia-
tion, artillery, transport and other serV-
ices.
II wouldn't go back to the 'camions
for a million dollars, is the usual eX-
preston, land l wouldn't take a mill
lion for my experiences.
venturous American spirit, for the am
bulance or canton man is till to be
found who had not applied at the
American aviation headquarters in
Avenue Montaigne for medical
Evening star., 1918-01-13

rilla, has shot down five boches. Har-
old Willis, Lafayette fiier. was taken
prisoner by the Germans. Lief Barclay
is a member now of the Franco-Ameri-
can escadrille. j. M. Mcconnell, who
left the ambulance in 1915, became a
pilot and was killed at Ham
Together the ambulance services have
contributed to America the nucleus of
a flying service skilled, quick-witted,
young, alert, college boys. who are to-
day becoming accomplished aviators
and tomorrow will lead the American
aerial armadas
Copyright, 1918, by Edward MarshaIl)
Evening star., 1918-01-13

any rating so that the show can SET
out at 11:05. y'understand.~ but when
enough states has adopted the pfohibi.
ton amendment to pull 1t into effect,
Abe. the Midnight Fcllies as q business
fixtures and mass-kerseno cherries.s
We'll. so far as I'm concerned, any
show that starts in at IL o'clock would
always have to get along without my
trade. prohibition or no prohibition.S
Evening star., 1918-01-13

mitted to go into the field in April. 1915,
and in April, 1917, after the American
declaration of war, was further privileged
to engage in military operations. that is.
the camon service behind the Chemin des
Danes. Eight hundred served in the lat
ter, and the total number ON the rolls OF
the organization is 1000. A. Piatt An
drew. formerly assistant secretary of the
United States Treasury. and for two years
treasurer of the American Red Cross,
was inspector general of the field service,
in charge of all its operations.
The French war Office at first was re-
luctant to permit the Americans to go to
the front The country remaining neutral.
it was thought inexpedient to permit its
of which close contact with the fighting
gave maIy opportunities, and unfair to
expose the boys to the dangers which
only those conscripted as soldiers had
hitherto faced.
From April, 1915, the history of the
ambulance is the history of the French
participation in the war. Every campaign
found the Americans more in number,
more experienced, better equipped They
wore the French helmet and the French
gas mask and their uniforms were khaki.
With the poilus they learned the need of
the mask at the battle of the Yser in 1915,
for they, too. suffered at the first Ger
man gas attack.
4
American youths. In February. 1916.
when the poilu said to the boche, You
shall not pass" and thousands followed
thousands into the breaches the Germans
made in the defenses, the a1nbulances
crept closer and closer to the lines. Many
time they hid amid the ruins. less than
two miles from the front trenches. in ad-
vance of the big French guns, and al
ways in danger of bombardment.
1.-The boche would just as soon shell an
ambulance containing wounded as attack
a company of advancing men, Norton
Harjes driver who had been through the
long battle. said. and the confirmation
could be seen in cars shattered along the
roadways.
Verdun in many respects was a Cruel
ing. nerve-shattering test for the American
Evening star., 1918-01-13
At the BoIsheviki's Expense.

A SENATOR said at recent luncheons
~ THE Leninists Of Russia are In the
pay of Germany. but what are they
being paid with? Why, with forged
ruble notes.
Thus. at least on the eastern battle
front. the Germans can truly olhin b
be forging ahead. = ss=s-
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make dash for it with our man got
out and cranked her. No sooner did the
motor start purring than another sharp
er but rhythmic sound came upon me.
The Germans had turned their machine
guns on the ambulance.
"My brancardier had not arrived. |
lay down fiat ON the side of the hill and
listened to the rattle OF the gun. The
bullets came tearing through the top of
that machine, regularly, viciously. For
a full half hour the bullets flew about,
and all the while the motor kept hum
ming.
"I guess the boche heard the motor de-
flying him, for he never stopped pouring
bullets into the top of the ambulance UNI
til he was certain he had got US. When
fed. ] may add frankly that | did not
enjoy the machine gun at all Under
shell fire you have a chance always to
get to shelter, because they are trying
to pick you out from a distance Of miles
but the machine gun is yo.r personal
enemy, ard means you every time
1t was at Nerdun. too, that AN Amer
lean ambulance driver charged German
trench. The tale is told with many
romantic garnishngs. Some say the
auto came back full of German prisoners
who had cried 'Famerad'; others declare
the attack of the automobile opened u
breach in the enemy lines. The truth is
that the ambulance driver lost his way
At amy rate, be drove right over the
French line and into 10 mans land. where
Fritz. who had not yet made the ac-
quaintance Of =. tank. srert = tl7.st to~ions
half hour. How the driver got past the
sentry, who guarded tire road. which
ended abruptly in the line Of trenches
and how he pulled through the barbed
wire, has never been explained. but the
Vertlun men all know that one Of the;~
number. if he cares to admit ii. can
boast of driving right into the battlefield
At Verdun in 1916 the American
Field Service had ten ambulance sec
tions and the Norton-Harjes almost an
equal number. The sections were shift
ed frequently. relieving British ambu-
lances or in turn being relieved by
French. Section No. 3 of the A F. s.
was stationed in 1915 at Hart
mannsweilerkopf and carried all the
wounded in the guerilla warfare that
lasted for long time in reconquered
Alsace.
It was here that the first American
was killed in the European war He