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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
PROMINENCE AND POLITICS.

The first thing Charley McN!der
knows he'll be nominated for some
political office whether he wants to be
or not.-Waterloo Times Tribune.
It Is hard for the average American
to get away from the idea that about
the only payment useful and earnest
man has IN view is political office
Perhaps 1t is harder for the average
democrat than for other Americans for
an office seems to mean more to those
who waited long for a chance at the
loaves and fishes than to others who
have tasted political preference
But Charley McNider, who has done
and is doing real and unselfsn work
FOR the country probably hasn't wor-
ried himself over nomination to an
office. The probabilities are that he
will not borrow that kind Of trouble,
at least while he has the real work in
hand and is doing 1t. If that bee
should enter his bonnet very large
part Of his present usefulness would
be lost. The man who tries to ride the
horse Of unselfsh public service and
the selfish hack of politics at the same
time usually splits in the middle.
Let's get away from that obsession
that the only path to prominence is
via political office, at beast during
the war. The honest fact is that few
years in politics usually spoils man
for service and sacrifice. We do not
get our McNiders and their Tx from
the professional political herd. Real
leadership generally isn't by any
means necessarily political and is al
ways removed from the pettiness of
partisan politics.
Charles McNider is altogether to
useful a man to waste in the street
scramble Of politics. There are other
useful men too valuable to waste tina;
way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
Under the War Test,

How the supposedly thoughtless are
emerging from butterfiyhood. How the
futile and the fatuous are achieving the
sublime. Each day there come stories
of the incredible doings, whether at
In front or behind the lines. of those
from whom nothing but the trivial or
the craven thing was expected. The
coward dofrs the mask he wore and dis
closes the hero. The mere bunoon is
translated to the saint or the martyr
Of sudden the immature become the
adult, and those not thought to be fit
for responsibility take up their burden
and carry on" without faltering, like
the wisest veterans Of all. War sud
denly discloses. not merely the ravag-
ing beastliness of brutes, but the sing
ufar and shining nob1eness of human
kind that-in the long run-vastly out
weighs and outcounts the evil. We
dwell so close to horror that we do not
see the other side. The glory as Of
angels is hidden by the black cloud Of
Apollyon's darkiing pinions; but it is
only in the narrow valley Of the
shadow, it is only for this brief term.
that men call years This too will
pass 1t Is still Gods world and we
are still his children. 1t is for us to
prove who and whose were are
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
AMERICA SAYS YES"

! When The co~c.r!. IS asked for All
army of 100000 its answer is, Yes,
5000 600 or 10000 600 if necessary
Money? Yes. all that is needed to con-
tinue and win this war Sacrifice
Yes. To all questions as TO the willing
ness and determination Of this coun-
try to win this war. yes
But with these answers comes a de-
life and every dollar. If we are to give
freely we must have the best minds.
the greatest skill, the strongest guild :
ance. We want at home the service of
all the best regardless of politics and
personal preferences. We must have
no scandals that faint our war work,
we demand the services of the able
without distinction of partisanship or
individual regard. The war must be
pressed home. Consumption must in
clude all of us. great and small, con-
scription of money. CONSUMPTION of
cry force that brings the end nearer"
America is fully awake to this war.
1t is willing to pay its price in blood
and treasure. 1t is also awakening to
the universal conclusion and deter
mination that only the qualified shall
manage the vital affairs of the country
in this crisis.
Five million men? They await the
word. Billions OF money? 1t is as
ready as the men. Determination to
win the war and win it right? It is
here and fully arrived. And with il
comes a determination as stern that
this war must and shall be managed
by those best able and most capable
| to manage it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

factory. representing the work and
accommodations of lifetime. reduced
to scrap or carted off. The farmer In
northern France sees his farm, vine
yard and orchard reduced literally to
a desert that twenty years Of toll can
not restore. Another people are so re-
stricted in the use of fats, milk and
nourishing food that not only famine
but the most terrible diseases fasten
upon them. All these people know
what sacrifice means.
Our country is overlooking with al
most eevry conceivable variety of food
and supplies of all kinds. There is a
scarcity of two or thre articles COM
posing the American diet, and in the
use Of these for a short time, we must
be restricted. but in their place are
many substitutes in abundance. all
healthful, nourishing and palatable.
Senator Williams of mississippi, re-
Gently speaking OF the wheat situa-
ton, remarked that during a period of
about three years the people of the
Confederacy never saw any white
flour at all, and were happy If they
could get any kind OF food that would
keep body and soul together. They
did not count even that as sacrifice
What some of our people have de-
clared, with a glow OF patriotic fervor
to be their sacrifices" were not
sacrifices at all. They were not even
worthy to be placed in the category Of
Inconvenience
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
NICE GIRLS" AND NICE BOYS"

That Gertrude Simmons and Violet
Williams were residents of Marshall
town confers distinction on this city.
Next time you pass the little group
remember the Salvation Army lasses
who went about their work of loving
kindness careless of poison gas and
shell fire on the field Of Secheprey.
All men (and women) are possible
heroes" More than that. men and
women with high purpose are probable
heroes when the stern occasion for
heroism arises. And so the little Sal
walton Army lasses who thumped a
tambourine aand picked at guitar on
a street corner in Marshalltown. I'M
known and unnoticed, fell naturally in
to the ranks of heroines who shall live
in the history of their country. For
the incident at Seicheprey will not fade
from the annals Of brave American ser
vice.
Hats of in Marshalltown to Gertrude
simmons and Violet Williams. Hats
of around the world where men and
women honor self-sacrifice and gives
itself no heed nor counts life or labor
or treasure against the duty of the
hour.
One man who knew them in Mar
shaIltown said, They were nice little
girls" God bless our nice little girls
and our nice boys" who are the heroes
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
The Air Craft Scandal
Editorial in New York rimes.I

Editorial in New York Times.1
Mr.. GutEon Borglum's arraignment OF
the aircraft board calls loudly for at
ktention and action at Washington. The
spending of nearly $1,000,000,000 with
out the delivery of serviceable plane.
the wasting of a year of time when, ms
everybody knows, in war the victory
may turn upon the question of time, the
deliberate receptions practiced upon
the officers of the government, the con-
tinual misleading of the public, these
are matters where the truth is not a
thing to be hidden away in reports. but
must be made plain in the sight of all
the people.
Mr.. Borglum was appointed by the
president to make a special investiga-
ton of the work of the aircraft board
and the signal corps. His report to
the president has not been made public.
in his statement, published in tho
Times of Sunday, he makes charges so
serious that there can be no question
about the imperative need Of an in
vestigation, criminal 1t may be, certain
ly one that shall disclose all attainable
facts. Mr.. Borglum says that:
THE chief signal officer was the Off
cial rubber stamp for group of Amer
lean junkers, necessary to them to re-
lease nearly $1,000,O0O,0O0, which they
placed precisely as they in their uni
formed advisory capacity chose and
distributed to their own or affiliated in
terests, all to serve common plan and
purpose, and all under a contract sys-
tenn so ingenious that it could in time
absorb the entire appropriation and not
deliver a serviceable plane-and this.
in fact, it has largely accomplished"
If all this be true, it is not a case of
common profteering; the outlines are
those Of a giant conspiracy to defraud
the government and the people. Mr..
Borglum says that 1t Is ''the mechanical
phenomenon of history" by which we
suppose he means the Liberty motor,
that has blocked the way" and that
at has been the most lucrative me-
chanical experiment ever conceived"
He speaks of the aircraft boards I'M
fair. unjustified and, in the nations
emergency, criminal corralling of con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
AN IMPOTENT JURY.


The editor and assistant editors of
The Masses, a socialist newspaper
published in New York that worked
hard to obstruct the consumption ac-
tivities of the government, have had
their journey to federal prison post
roned by q weak kneed Jury that could
not agree on verdict.
The evidence in the shape of printed
statements in the vile sheet were on
hand and all that remained to do was
to fnd the defendants guilty Of the
crime of which they had been proven
guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Max Eastman, the editor during the
course Of the trial experienced won
derful change of heart. He told the
court that he now believed the war was
all right and that he should have been
given his liberty when he made this
declaration. Eastman's declaration is
typical of that Of many others who
practice lip patriotism.
Altho President Wilson opposed the
transferring to the military authors
ties of the right to try all violations
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
NEEDED IN WASHINGTON.
1Sioux City Journal.l

lS!ouA SISs ootlii iai'J
Owing, no doubt, to shipping delays,
the fifty veterans OF Pershins's army
and the $50 Alpine chasseurs that are
to take part in the liberty loan cam
paign have arrived at New York only
as the campaign is about to close.
They have ahead Of them approximate
~ a week of activity, however; and
II is fortunate under that circumstance
that they landed at an Atlantic and not
a Pacific port. 1t is in the east that
reinforcements are needed.
The American detachment Is to be
split up into squads that will travel
by forced marches, figuratively speak
ing, to Boston. Philadelphia, Chicago.
and washington. 1t is to be hoped an
especially large squad OF especially
ugly fighters makes the Washington
trip. If anywhere in the United States
there Is need for looking on warriors
mug it Is in Washington. It ought to
be positive relief after the long
monotony Of seeing nothing but paci-
fists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
Topics Of the Times

Speaking Of earthquakes and ground
tremors there's something of the sort
due in mittel Europa pretty soon.
If we are going to need a 5000. 00t
army a year from now we'd better be-
gin making it now. or course soldiers
aren't airplanes but they require some
making.
If Senator Gore was right when he
said that Oklahoma farmers are pillow
ing under wheat because an increase in
price was refused he certainly made a
shameful confession as to Oklahoma
farmers.
Heavy gun fire is begun by Germans
in the region of Lys.' And heavy lies
are begun by Germans in all regions.
The country would feel better If Gen
eral Wood were chief of staff in France
instead of an officer of whome the av-
erage American has never heard his
name
Notice also that while Chicago ie al
ways little ahead of us in displaying
flags that Iowa is always ahead of her
at the receiving teller's window.
Germany says that she torpedoes
hospital ships because they ARE used
to carry combatants." Which is of
course another German lie. Perhaps
that is the reason why Germany bombs
school house and Red Cross hospitals.
The quarrel between Mr.. Harding and
Justin Doran isn't important this year
except as to getting Mr.. Dorans name
into the papers. And that is still less
important,
That Hohenzollern family keeps up
it's 1000 percent average Of batting
"saf e'
No trouble getting high school boys
into the war The difficulty is to keep
them out until they've got thru high
school
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
[By David cory.l
Wear your last years bonnet
With the faded ribbon on 1t;
Don't you buy single thing
Except Saving Stamp this spring.

I. And Just as soon as she finished this
song Old Mother Maybe frightened the
string on her three-year- and a half old
bonnet and poked one Of her claws
through hole in her mitt.
II haven't bought single thing at
the Three and One Cent Store this
spring" answered Billy Bunny. and he
swung his little striped candy cane up
and down, and then he wiggled his lit
tie pink nose thirteen times, and aftet
that he scratched his left ear with hi
right hand foot, and by that time Old
Mother Mischief didn't know what to
say, she was so puzzled to know what
the little rabbit would do next that she
forgot to scold.
And just then Uncle Lucky the dear
old gentleman rabbit. you know. drove
up in his Luckymobile
"Honk, tonk 1onk." went the horn.
Gracious mel" exclaimed Old
I'm not used to new tangled things like
Luokymobiles." and then the Old Lady
Maybe folded her shawl around her
shoulders and looked scornfully at
Uncle Lucky
"My dear ma'am.~ said Uncle Lucky.
people with wings have little need for
Lucky:anhilas. but when one has to de-
pend on his old rheumatic legs 4 tell
you there's nothing better than an auto
mobile"
But Old Mother Maybe only shook
her head and flew away. And then
Billy Bunny hoped into the Luckymo-
bile and away they went, Uncle Lucky
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
Iowa Newspapers
LATE IN LOCKING THE BARN.
TDes Moines Capital.1

Congress has been subjected to great
criticism on war preparatory matters
Preparing for war by the United States
is a good deal like locking the barn
after the horse Is stolen" Congress
has done pretty well considering the
volume of work the war has placed
upon its shoulders.
The United States was woefully I'M
prepared for war when the Spanish
American war was begun, was badly
equipped for war at the beginning OF
the European war, and unless America
awakes" to the needs of the world posi-
ton she has assumed, she will be I'M
prepared when the time comes again.
Advocates Of universal military
training think that trained force of
men will do more to prevent war and
to stop it after it has started than any
other factor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

tracts among q few: colossal contr bets
which have been let to people who are
even at this writing unprepared t, filI
their contracts" He insists that There
should be a proper judicial inquiry with
power to summon persons and a[pers
in order to build and rivet dhainI
Of evidence of ignorance, lack of }plan
or purpose beyond the misuse Of funds.
a general and colossal profiteering,l and.
what is thousand times worse, or !
criminal neglect and indifference to-
ward delivery to our troops of neces
sary war implements they wera
charged to create, of constantly and
willfully deceiving the president and =
the country as to the true state Of
their work"
In the month OF June, 1917, the press
Of the country was appealed to to urge
upon congress the necessity for the
passage Of the bill appropriating $780,
100000 for aircraft production. The
newspapers Loyalty took up the work,
congress with equal loyalty responded.
The appropriation bill was passed.
Neither the press nor congress lilies to
be put In the position OF even uAcon-
sciously and with the best intent fur
thering the predatory designs OF
profiteering contractors. or of aiding in
the procurement OF such an enormous
sum of money to be squandered by ig-
norant and incompetent persons. The
people should not submit to 1t feSat
hundreds Of millions Of their mone5
be wasted In this fashion without n =
knowing who ia responsible fort&p
crime. The thing has seemed sd III
credible that conjecture has beenxctIb
that there must be something vhe9e
than mere incompetence or ineff1cie Al.
that there has been an actual desitsf
obstruct the work. We do not know
whether Mr.. Borglum's investigation
discloses anything like knavery, Iwitf
intent to aid the enemy. but even i
there was no Intentional obstruction
the enemy has been distinctly aideF. II
IL enough that public funds have been
squandered. and to a very large
amount. For that somebody if re
sponsible, and whoever it is should b1
exposed and htly punished.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
scHwAB ON THE JOB.


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while wreste We hem and
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him humping This mighty has come MAN to
Farewell doubt and mental foolish nar and
NJ schwab is the lob the tire early riser and he'll
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
Masonic Meetings
vI,fto-s Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1903, A. r
and A. M-Special communlcat'oli
Friday, May 10, 1880 p. m. Work IN
second degree. 3. E. English, V" NJ
John w. Wells, secretary
SIGNET CHAPTER, No. 50, 4. A. NJ
Stated convocation Monday evening
April %. Business session, cioCh
Ira A. Davenport, II. p; John W.
Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No, co. r. S. NJ" Mon
day, May 20, 1918. 500 p. m. Regular
business. I. T. Forbes, recorder: George
Gregory l. NJ.
Special concIave, St A'demar
commandery, No. 80, x. 7" Monday
MAY s, s D. IN. Rehearsal and drill
]. f. Frederick, commander; l. L.
Forbes, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER, No 81, Q. {.
S.-Reguiar meeting Wednesday even
ing May Is. 1918. Picnic dinner al 6'3''
business at S. Mrs. Archer Walton
secretary: Mrs Cora Wiley, w NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

The ironwork plates OF many factory
floors are apt to become slippery and
unsafe, and to obviate this powdered
sal ammoniac is used as corroding
agent A small quantity Is mixed thor
oughly with large quantity OF fine
sand. and this mixture is sprinkled over
the floor so that all parts are covered.
The surface is dampened with water
ing can and left to lie over a week
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
IN Shall pee.ns

The meats of pecan nuts may easily
be removed II they are frst placed in
pan and boiling water poured over
them, says the Western Christian Ad-
vocate. Allow them to remain in the
water for 20 or 80 minutes. When the
nuts are cracked the meats come out
without trouble and are usually whole.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
He Sent This With Them.

Goodbye old field glasses" and fare
you well
It may be forever, perchance, who can
tell.
Together we have climbed the noun
tains high,
And looked DER the plains where
earth meets the sky,
And now that l send you to the boys
over there"
Show clear and distinct Is my wish
and my prayer.
And when you come back from wher-
ever You roam,
A report syou must make to your old
pal at home.
And altho Of your doings may never
learn,
TIL the war Is all over, you must never
return.
George H. Hamiin. Grinnell.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
USING THE WRONG WORD.

Not infrequently, these days. pa
tierce becomes somewhat strained
when people register petulance and If
ritation and indulge in fault-fnding
because OF the alleged Sacrifices
they are compelled to make by reason
of abnormal conditions growing out
Of the war.
The ESlgian sees his business, his
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

Already contingents of wounded
Yankee soldiers are arriving on Amer
lean shores. Woe be to the fellow who
is foolish enough to say anything dis
paraging Of those boys" says the
Manson Democrat. "He will surely
have to come to a quick reckoning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
AMERICANIZING AMERICA.

lDeS MOlueS Capital
There are towns In Iowa bearing the
following names: Germania, Berlin,
and Hamburg. A correspondent sug-
gests that these names be changed to
good American names. There was q
big mercantile establishment in Boone
called the "Gecmania Dry Goods Com
pany'' but the Americanism of the pro-
prietors suggested that they change
the name to American Dry Goods
Company" which was done. Our COR
respondent suggests while names
Of streets and postoffices are being
cleaned up that Iowa should do her
part. When the war began there were
streets in Berlin with English names.
Every such street has had new name
given to it. Even Victoria street,
named for the emperor's grandmother,
has been changed. Everything which
Americanizes America should be
adopted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

of the espionage act. his most ardent
supporters are inclined to wish that
Eastman and his fellow cattle had been
arraigned in military court instead
OF a civil tribunal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

then swept up, and the rust c9atin|
formed by the treatment is found \
last for several weeks, after which It'd
process is repeated.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

Colonel oRosevelt will appreciate
the support of Iowas delegation in the
next national convention" predicts the
Sioux City Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04

The editor of the Des Moines Cap
ital saw the work of the Salvation
Army in Europe in 1915, and says he
.'is fully in sympathy with that work
and fully realizes that the Salvation
Army the war 7. NJ. c. A. and the Reo
Cross combined can not do too much
for the moral and physical comfort OF
the soldiers at the front
"some men refuse to fight or to pay
on religious grounds. Very well.
agrees the Pella Cronicie. Let the
government then refuse to harbor such
persons within its borders or to offer
them any prot ection Of the laws what
ever, on the grounds that they are by
their actions giving comport to the
enemies of the nation. 1t is time for
men to realize that citizenship in a
country Ike the United States Is
privilege that has been bought ana
paid for dearly and not something
that they are Inherently entitled TO-
We must pay our passage on the snip
OF state 5uet as truly as anywhere
else"
The Grundy Republican recalls that
1t has SAID seNerai tliiles oeiote -
some of our cabinet members ceased
any more foolish than some OF these
trite savings put out by cabinet mem
bers every time there Is serious
situation in France. 1t would be
mighty good thing for the cabinet, for
congress, and for the average Amerl-
can citizen as well, to hang up motto
reading Let your talk be yea and nay
nav and for al to try and live up to
t."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-05-04
X&H%%*R
8 Now Located at
5 Masonic Temple
ROOM 2oo
8 r. w. CHAMBERLAIN


Il II easy in the world to live after
he worlds opinion; 1t Is easy in soil
tude to live after our own; but the
treat MAJ lie he, who In the midst OF
The crowd, keeps, with perfect sweet
asss, the independence Of solitude