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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
sFIER NEW YEARS.

Next New Years. After New Years
what? A new start?
The world has stopped in its hopes
and ambitions and its common activi-
ties to prove its own civilization. Hav-
ing proved that it is fit to stand as Il
free and christian world is it ready to
begin where il left off?
It will never begin where it left off.
Many things are to DC new and much
that was approved as good is to be cast
into the discard, junked.
We have learned many things in this
war. shall we forget them now that
the war is over?
First We have learned our own
strength. The war brought US into a
phalanx. And we found that united
there was little that We could not do.
That which had been impossible became
every day accomplishment. The i'm
probable changed into certainty.
Much that had been apparently fixed
and immutable before the war shifted
like the sands. We have changed as
individuals and as a people. We think
differently, do differently. look forward
differently, foresee vast changes and
are ready TO make them.
But how shall they be made and how
far shall they reach and how shall they
be kept entirely just to all men? Not
the fact that we have changei and
that other changes are to come dis
turbs US but the knowledge Of our own
past mistakes and the fear of future
mistakes are the disturbing elements
in the public mind as it looks forward
TO reconstruction and reimbursement be-
tween nations and between men.
If we have had one elemental lesson
from the great crisis from which we
have emerged it is that fundamentally
the American people are strong and
righteous and that when they stand to-
Sether in amity and with common
purpose hope becomes accomplishment.
That is the great lesson of the war.
We shall make mistakes: bit the
public when it mistakes has one mighty
saving element-it Confesses it's error
and sets about correcting it. We shall
go on in the coming year with the con-
fdence in ourselves.
There is much to do. A great burden
| is TO be taken up but the shoulders
! that are to bear it are mighty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
TIMEsREPUBl1cAN IOWA. DEcElmER q sis

house as house ought to be kept--dye
spose that those men wouldn't have
honcrcd noisy welcome and hiked
down town as fast as their legs would
let them the minute ma got her SER
vice hat OFT? What would you do I'M
der such ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS her what
shc'3 ike for supper? -
Then those English women have
found out what fine thing. Is Is 10
have your own money" They have
boon drawing wages for work they did
whci Chawies William maintained
the family" in those days when the
aforesaid G. ~. demanded 10 know
What she did with the art crown he
gave her last week, O, there's trouble
ahead for the manly males OF merry
Ga England.
Seems like the women are getting
more independent every day. Some OF
them are not even hunting husbands;
Il they are they are demanding certain
pans and specifications that most OF
US ind itahari TO live up to. Time
was when the women did the clingins
Vine act and depended upon tears as
her most effective weapon. Now she
acts like Foch did when he "wrested
the initiative" The woman has
changed strategy
The gobbleuus viii get us il We don't
watch ont
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
The gxsm. Of Nonssns..

Nonsense could not go 10 further ex-
tremes than i'm this suggestion that the
great fine ships of Germany should be
sunk. The peace conference may make
some novel disposition of the ships. but
II certainly will not be so insane as TO
throw into the sea all the wealth that
Is represented in those ships.
At the very moment when idealists
are suggesting that the German ships
be sunk. Secretary Daniels Is asking
congress for 100000, 900 for new war
ships. What do the taxpayers think Of
the proposition to spend enormous
sums for new ships. while other ships
that would serve the same purpose are
sunk in the sea? The number of Ger
man vessels that would be assigned to
the United States Is, of course. I'M
known, but it is safe TO say that they
would be worth tens OF millions OF dol
lars. Yet sentimentalists would have
the government throw away those ships
and then build others at the taxpay-
ers expense.
The peace conference is a failure in
advance IL ii can not solve such a prob
lem as the disposal of the German
feet--Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Billy Bunny and His Friends

In stght. And tuet then. Ill II sa11GAs
out jumped Jimmy Chipmunk ~ ~
little striped Jacket. THAT pesny -.
longs 10 Jenay Wren. She lost II thb
mosninS."
'.rhea Why dent you take Il TO hsr."
aid the yellow Dog Tramp.
"rm keeping watch till she conss
back" said Timmy ChipmSsk. \ don't
know where she went" And then the
little chipmunk laughed and picked ND
Q ast and stuffed il into the little
pocket in his left check, and after that
he winhed ~ Billy Bunny.
well. there's no use waitin2 here
said the little rabbit. must xet back
to the OLD Brier Patch before sun down
or aothsr VIII worry" And on he start
ed. lippsty lip clipperty clip. but Just
then who, should come by but little
Jenny Wren herself. She wasn't Aging
Oh my. no she was walking slowly
over the ground and looked here and
thS<s and everywhere.
= 'pd you see . bright pshny she
'1es BY that stone,' saide nsjiy Bun
ny 4 .c,pse BY the snail In her little
shell hsa,se." s-s,t. .{sisy ~
SO Jenny Wren hoped over to the
stone and picked up her lost penny. and
in the next story. II she doesn't spend It
for, a lemon ioiiypop FL tell YOU what
happened after that.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Interned.

(written just before the armistice
was signed.
There are thousands OF men in the y.
T.. +.
Who did not volunteer
And plenty more will be going DER
Who'd just as lief stay here.
The m 9st unfortunate man today
Is the fellow who came 30 tine front
And offered MS all to his country's call
And was ready 10 bear the erunt--
But was cast aside and assigned else
whore.
TO requirements or Depot Brigade.
And there To remain till he grew insane
As h. waited in vain FOR aid
For his longod- for chance to go 10
France
Does no. matcrialiZc
He storms ana he lrets, but he never
gets
ills chance Ike the other guys.
The unlurky ones in this great world
W;r
Are not the men who are killed.
Nor the wounded ones-bc they allies
or Huns
No matter what blood they have
spilled:
The most unfortunate man today
Is the man who jumped al a chance
To fight like hell from the tap of the
bell,
But who'll never see service in
Edward Il. Fox in Philadelphia
Public Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

Island, tho the snoru,ous cost can be
justified only by tho need for haste. But
the testimony Of Mr.. YES before, the
senate commerce commission is an I'D
mission OF the failure OF the corpora
ton TO carry out its ambitious plans.
The fifty ships that were TO be COM
pleted By the LIST OF January have
been reduced to three or four The
famous Quistconck. launched last
August in the presence OF the presi-
dent, took the water when only 81 per
cent riveted. and was not completed
for leo days after that. about twice the
average time In American yards. II also
appears that the cost per ton at Hog
Island has been greatly In excess OF the
average Where the major part
of the blame lies we do not pretend to
say. 1t has been obvious from the first,
however, that too little attention has
been paid to the opinions OF practical
shipping men. The wooden ship fiasco
is u convincing proof OF that. and. now
Hog Island emphasizes The futiiity Of
the government policy in another re-
spect- Phila delphia Public Ledger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

planned. On this point the report says:
z A discrepancy of such m1gnitude
would seem to call for q clear explains
'tion from the agent. but this has not
teen furnished,
Why was the agent not compelled to
furnish il? Were the sssistsnty OF the
neer and naval constructor. who were
called in, conducting . painstaksnx
and thorough investigation. or did
they founder in bog Of admintstTa-
tive mismanagement worse than the
Hog Island swamps? The agent lent
no helping hand. Says the report:
The agent has taken the position
that since this was not q commercial
job. but q war job in which speed vas
OF the essence; therefore. in the alb
sence OF positive misconduct or crim'-
nality. the question OF cost Was Of
minor importance.
That is to say. an addition Of 3ss.-
900 400 to the bill was Of minor i'm
portance. The investigators admit
that they can't understand why Hog
Island should have cost - much, but
perhaps the wonder Is that II didn't
cost more. since the agent considered
that the question Of cost was OF
minor Importance" what 10 70 be
done about Il? The view Of interested
parties that zone of the greatest en-
gineerins feats Of the age" the mag
nitude of which the people are called
upon to admire and appreciate. cost
no more than was necessary. can not
be accepted without absolute demon
atration. The arbitration plan recon-
merded by the department OF justice
investigators should not be adopted
until the senate commerce committee.
which is to continue the inquiry after
New Years, has gone 10 the bottom OF
this extraordinary business and elected
the last bit OF evidesce bearing upon
the responsibility Of the Hog leland
builders for presenting such a huge
bill to the government Uncle Sam is
good pay. but he, has no money To
waste.--Eew York Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Strange Story From, Iceland.

A blood cu-dling tale of German
tiendi.hness contemplated but never
carried out is reported by Axel Aabel.
an Icelandic engineer. 1t seems that
a German scientist in Reykjavik,
whose stay IN that city must have
been viewed With alarm by those who
were in has confidence, told Mr.. Aabel
that in few days more Germany
would have bean Irresistible in war. for
she would have made drug fiends Of
all the other nations Of the world
Into Hell-known German brands Of
tooth paste and patent medicines
naturally for export only-habit- form
ing drugs were to be introduced; at
first little, then more. as the habit
grew on the non German victim and
his system craved ever greater guam
titles. Already the test had been made
on natives in Africa, who responded
readily: IL the General Stan had not
been in such hurry German scien-
lists would have made their task an
easy one. for in few years Germany
would have fallen upon a world which
cried for its German tooth paste and
soothing syrup--a world OF "cokeys
and hop fiends" which would have
been helpless when u German ernoar-
go shut of the supply of its pet pois-
on.
But although the tale OF this Teu-
ton all too Teu,on scheme is prooao-
" mere invention Germany did con-
coct and spread thru the world a nap
it. forming drug. ard her leaders In
this war have made good use Of aus
rayages lin other countries. More tnah
half a century ago socialism was IN
vented in Germany: and the ruiers
Of the empire, .foreseeing It's vast pos
sibi,ities in breaking down national
morale, fosterad its propagation abroad
while they did their best 10 stamp out
the habit at home. Meanwhile the m
yentiye scientists were busy TnoSe
whose systems were becoming immune
TO the old MARKHAM formula were as
sauIted by neosocialism OF the Lenine
brand: and when the proper momeh.
arrived the German armies waiAeo
through Russia as through a nation o.
exhausted drug addicts. But IN sew
eral important details the plan went
wrong. The drugs would not ~orh
eyerywbere. Among the American
people. for instance, whose syste'as
had been toughened by their own nome
made panaceas no less than by hei'
own oatent medicines. the German
nh;Itres made hut little impression
And presently there came reactioi.
Morphine and cocaine and their IKE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
ALL YEAR PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
lWlfpr'uo f.uri,r


For year or more Mason City has,
We are Informed, kept her public
schools open :hc year round, and with
apparently satisfactory results Now
the Minneapolis board OF education Is
seriously considering the adoption of
the all-year plan for the schools OF
that city.
Our present system OF Diminishing
school for three months during the
summer period, dates back to the days
when the country school was practice
ally the only educational fountain and
the fountain was sealed up during
the summer because OF the needs of
the farmer. That was before the day
of modern machinery and the help of
the boys and girls was imperatiyeIy
required. When the exigeneies of the
crop season We're past school opened
again and the youths sought wisdom
for a period Of forty weeks.
Under the plan proposed and which
has been tried out in some cities. the
school year will be heightened from
forty to forty-eight weeks. and instead
of dividing the school year into two
semesters, there will be four semesters
vi lNtlS W tSAe tdtH, VAIN one "ePh
OF vacation between each twelve-week
period. 1t is claimed that this short
semester would enable teachers to
classify their pupils much more ad-
vantaseously. A child that deserved
promotion could be more quickly ad-
vanced and one that had been started
too far ahead could be denoted with
out carrying them in classes for a
period OF nearly five months in some
cases as at present.
1t is not the purpose 10 require at
tendance of all students during the full
forty eight weeks period. That Is TO
be optional. Pupils may attend school
the year round and in that case OF
course they derive the benefit Of such
attendance. but only thirty-six weeks
of attendance would be required OF
any pupil. Parents would also be per-
mitted 10 designate the quarters their
children might attend school, based
upon convenience or other reasons.
This plan woult naturally appeal to
the instructor. At present teachers
are paid for forty weeks and during the
summer period they are without en-
ployment and usually under expense.
Al the emu OF Twelve UiOItIlSs LIE MT
savings are not. In many cases, suit
Client TO make the vocation Of teaching
one to be sought after. Under the
ali year plan the teacher would re-
ceive pay for the entire year, except
as she desired a vacation. and. to take
care of this feature substitutes would
he employed so that the aggregate cost
to the district would not be greater
than were the regular corps TO remain
on duty during the entire year.
II is claimed that there would be
saving in cost TO the city. II is point
ed out that the cost Of the summer
pupil would he about 81 per quarter as
against sis per twelve weeks under
existing arrangements. The more pup
lis taking advantage of the all-year
method, the more quickly would they
get diplomas. But, obviously, an i'm
portant advantage would be the en-
abling Of the student eager to GEM
plete his common school education TO
do so by employing three months each
year which At present may often be
frittered away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Ipy David cory.l

You remember In the last story the
little Green Snake osiisd herself In .
ring and swayed back ana fssth, and
than she began to sing:
Under a stone ON the Forest Trail
Close to the home OF . little black snail,
Is bright new penny. - step today
And pick it up on your hoaseward way.
Il WILL said Billy Bunny. and then
he and the Yellow Dog Tramp set out,
and by and bY they sAw little stone
Just ahead Of them. And close beside
Il was q black snail In her little house
which she always carried around with
her. rain or shine,
"Hurrah." cried the little rabbit. now
I will find my fortune" and he pushed
aside tile stone and was just going to
pick up the lslt penny when voice
said:
Don't you touch that penny,
For 1t belongs to Jenny.
To pretty little Jenny Wren
Who lives down in the shady glen
rOh dear me-" sighed Billy Bunny. II
thought could take IT,"
Who are your asked the Yellow
Dog Tramp. looking all around to see
who had spoken. but there was no one
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Tn. Hoo Island Bill.

1t is the conclusion of the depart
ment of justice. after investigating
the Hog Island shipbuilding plant upon
the request of Chairman Hurley OF
the shipping board. that the facts
90 not justify criminal process Mr..
Hurley had suspected that there was
serious DISCRIMINATION and negligence
at HOG Island. He called upon the
attorney general to turn ON the light
The plant, including fifty shipWays.
was to cost $-l.00o.ooe: the Dill is
ss1. OOo, 600. an increase Of 100000
600. Against the difference may be
checked extra expenditure on account
of unfavorable subsoil conditions and
for longer way and piers and add
tonal shop and storage capacity asked
for by the Emergency Fleet Corpora
ton. which the shipping board had
created. to get the work done. The
Emergency Fleet Corporation. il must
be understood. was to find a. firm or
company that would build the shipyard
needed, and afterward the ships. A
contract was made with the American
international Corporation OF New
York. This corporation agreed to buy
SAT acres of land at Hog Island and
build the yard upon the tract. 1t was
to get it's compensation from q per
cent rental for the land. plus per-
centage OF the cost of building the
yard and completing the ships. to
which were TO be added premiums for
early deliveries and foresayinSS ~
cost: hut it was stipulated that there
would, be penalties for delayed deliv-
cries and for increased cost. COM
rlicating post contract ARRANGEMENT
was the understanding. unwritten ac-
cording to the report. that Stone &
Webster and thes New Fork Ship
building Corporation were to be Jointly
interested in the benefits and burdens.
The requisition for longer ways and
piers and for more shop and storage
capacity. together with the cost OF
dealing with newly discovered swaaspy
subsoil conditions. would lesitimateiy
call for revision upward Of the orig
iraI estimate Of $4,000 900. but how
can the stretching OF the total cost to
SCI ,c0O. 900. be accounted for? There
was an accepted revision to 327.0oa.-
900 on Nov. 81. 1917. Che date OF the
contract was Sept. IL. 1919 and in
their findings the investigators speak
of an additional item Of $G.000.000 for
further improvements approved. This
!. oiiid bring the revised estimate to
$4,000 900. There would remain an
excess charge Of S2S.eeo.0oo to be ex-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

gain a hold on their victims because
they offer great initial attractions;
the addict becomes lost in magnif-
Gently impossible dreams whose splen-
dor for long time seems worth the
pain OF awakening. Socialism could
not be stamped out in Germany. Just
as workmen in the tooth paste facto-
ries might have surreptitiously tried
the brands made for export only ana
found attractions not present In the
products for the home market so the
Germans took to socialism and neoso-
cialism. 1t is a rare poison that VIII
no. act on the system OF its own in
veutor.-New York Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Iova Newspapers
WILD PIGEoNS?
burlington Hawkeye.1

McDonough county reports that n
flock of birds resembling wild pig sons
flew over that county recently, south
ward bound II has been held that the
last surviving wild pigeon. Of the kind
that were counted by the billions here
less than nifty years ago, died In q
public garden at Cincinnati a few
years ago. II rs not impossible that
there were tiocks OF these birds that
survived the terrible slaughter. and
that escaped the pot hunters. and that
after all the wild pigeon. that has been
mourned By. many, is not extinct. And
then some one in McDonough county
may have sprung something" on a
correspondent who was looking for a
story.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

nominate the candldates. The cahdi-
dates nominate themselves IN" ouss.
ton OF their ftness b not discussed
and passed upon BY anybody. We might
put up with the great expense Of the
primary II II gave us more efficient
Officers"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Topics Of The Times

Now it is reported from across 'o'
seas that George Creel has resigned
and that Mr.. Wilson Will almost
p.o.,., 1,ac,r,e fallen down and
,;s,., NJ NiIso, have charge of
.u,,.ni,a rr,yn soun TO nuts all tho
Alone with rood roads that we must
49,, -o, tots keen our good school
..a,,,ers. nav them.
II anything would suggest crooNeo
u;o, of b,.,sr ana tho
So oe. that crooked dealing would
hiring
80
Then there's lot OF the fellows VINO
arc more anxious for the welcome they
.xnect from the girl they left behind
them than for the croiN de guerre.
or course 1t Will cost some MONEY ~
build a good road but II taxes money
to buy n tractor and touring cal
and build new mouse. sun Wei
doing it and glad OF 1t.
VI course' as ~, "a
England. There is also deep oce",'
between the two ana enough ioi
ing partnership. There is a kinship
between brothers on different farms
hut each goes on working his own
Mace according to his own best ideas
and interests.
rebuild itself on the war il would be
;s.i, 70 know inst how many
ea.;o,, n,,r, actually got into, the
- 49,, ,,,,,cbine, n har and put.
hi,;+;ors in a cantonmen.
49, ,;a. =, lined wounded and miss
"a professional snorts would
-, 80 - morn canabJe considera-
60, .. Tho claims of nrize- fighting to
,:.;.o,,, as,,b,;sbed in states
Tho. have bitbarto frowned. not upon
Tho snort ~ boxing but on the game
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
Masonic Meetings
Always Welcome.

SlNtOES vSS'Se''~'
MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1903, A. r.
A. NJ Special communication Friday
Dec. -. at 1880 p. m. Third degree.
Il. r. English. W. NJ: John w Wells
secretary,
SIeEET CHAPTER, RE. 50. q. a. ~.
Special convocation Monday. Dec. so,
at $3.50 p. m. Royal Arch degree, with
$40 dinner. followeG by second team
Ira NJ. Davenport. II. Pc John w.
Wells secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY Hir7 Solo.
non Council No. 20. r. & S. NJ. Mon
day. Dec. Is. 1918. $3.50. Regular
business and election OF officers. J. 7.
Forbes. recorder: George Gregory |. NJ.
Special coneiave ST. Aldemar Com.
mande-y No. 81 X. T, Tuesday, Jar
IA, at 7:Sh. Installation OF officers,
J. Z. Frederick. commander; John W.
Wells. recorder.
GENERAL CHAPTER NO. CT, o. e. S.
Special meeting Wednesday evening.
Jan. 8. 1880 for installation. Mrs.
Archer Walton. secretary. Mrs. Cora
Wiley w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

According to classic mythology Clio
was the goddess who ssng q SloeacOs
actions, bestcwing her psaase - -
roeA. An ancient statue HspCeseofs.
her ~ Z beautiful woman with = roll
Of Danuscript and the trumpet Of
fame in her hand. as n recording and
spreading the fame Of heroes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

The Storm Lake Register says $50
far as Mr.. Rawson's adaptability for
the office the goyernorship) is con-
cerned, it can be said that he has often
ben complirlented by the request to
become a candidate. He could not make
any nationwide speaking tours, but he
could give judgment and initiative to
the business affairs OF the state. which
will likely be in need Of some such
attention before Rawson or someone,
else is chosen to attend to them"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

There is a wide difference between
honest difference of opinian and 'un-
selfish difference remarks the
Boone News-Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27
cleanjna laather.

Leather.covered furniture may be
washed with CASTLE soap and lukeWarn
water. The oil in the soap preserves
the leather and helps to keep II ssff.
Gray leather shoes may also b ciseoed
In this way.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-12-27

Iowa hasn't any money in its treas
ury and the state Legislature Will meet
in couple of weeks to see that no
money is accumulated says the
Waterloo Times Tribune.