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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
THE GREAT BATTLE.

The strain OF the first days of the
drive has eased not only on the front
but here in America where fear Of a
great disaster mingled with confidence
in the ability Of the allies to hold their
lines and defeat the German objective
which was to smash the defense.
The great battle is still on and will
continue for days or weeks and per-
haps months but the outlook appears
much more favorable for the allied
cause. The defense has held and kept
its lines and its morale intact. Ger
many has failed in her great objective
which was primarily to administer
crushing defeat The allies are strong,
have suffered comparatively as one to
four or Eve in losses and the latest
news this morning leaves the situation
hopeful.
Much is expected from the appoint
ment Of General F'och to supreme
command. He was Jofre's chief OF
staff when the first great drive was
checked at the gates Of Paris It is
the opinion Of military men that the
credit of that turning and the success
full battle on the Marine belongs very
largely to Foch.
Foch is considered a master Of at
70 ThaS ha 10 fJav
e un1uesticncd His appointment COM
ing as it does with the checking Of the
German assault is taken to indicate
a counter attack by the allies. That
the drive is nearing exhaustion seems
evident. The Germans are being held.
Their gains are not along the line but
here and there at points and many OF
those points are recaptured and held
by the allied forces. Their attack at
Arras was a defeat. It failed fully.
They have gained nothing Of advant-
age against the French lines. They
have failed to roll up the British
lines everywhere. Here and there they
have broken thru or bent but the lines
have Strengthened again. So there
is foundation for belief that
the drive has been brought prac-
t!caily to a stapdstill and that the
ground fought over had been granted
by allied seneralship in exchange fol
the bloody toll taken in the retire
ment Instead of ordering dinners in
Paris and promising a German army
in Paris by April the tone has
changed and Ludendorf, master tacti-
| clan ard architect Of the campaign, is
saving that NO one can foresee what
| the result will be -
Militarists agree that counter at.
| tack is planned and will be made soon
! The Germans are now out in the open
They, desired it and drove for it. Blu
| f'ucf is agreed upon as master o
4 open fighting He is in supreme com
(! -nand. He can handle his troops as /;
swordsman his weapon. That advant
! age so far has been Germany's. Will
command has been conferred in Ger
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
Masonic Meetings
vlsite-s Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1903, A. F.
and A. M.-Special communication Fri
day, April 5. 1880 p. m. Work in the
second degree. B. E. English, w. M;
John W. Wells, secretary.
slGNET cHAPER, No. SO, r. A. NJ
Special convocation. Monday evening
March 25. at 1880 o'clock. Mark Mas
ter's degree Ira A. Davenport II. r;
John W. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. 4 s. NJ, Mon
day, April %, 1918, T:S0 p. m. Regular
business. I. T. Forbes, recorder: George
Gregory. I. NJ.
Stated Communication, St. Alderar
commandery, No. 30. X. t. Tuesday,
April %, s p. N. Regular business.
J. E. Frederick, commander: I. T.
Forbes. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81. o. (.
Especial meeting for initiation We'd
nesday evening, April 8, at 1880 o'clock.
Mrs. Archer Walton secretary: Mrs.
Cora Wiley. W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
LOSING AT THE BUNG,

The United States food administra-
ton makes the following request:
MANY thousand families thruout
the land are now using no wheat pro-
ducts whatever. except a very small
amount for cooking purposes, and are
doing so in perfect health and salts
faction. There is no reason why all OF
the American people who are able to
cock IN their own households Cannot
subsiSt perfectly well with the use OF
less wheat products than one and one
half pounds a week, and We specially
ask the well-to- do householder in the
country to follow this additional pro-
gram in order that we may provide the
ports OF the community less able to
adapt themselves to SO large proper
ton of substitutes
There is no hardship involved in the
above request because a we'll known
family OF ten in this city has lived well
since January on less than on pound
of wheat flour per person per week but
hundreds of other families are being
driven to the bakers for bread who can
not afford TO buy big bills OF substi-
tutes and the government is actually
losing ground in its conservation of
wheat by forcing the many to buy it
while the few are trying to conserve it.
What is needed in this wheat pro-
gram is the regulation of the price of
substitutes sc that the many will ac-
tualIy save money by conserving on
wheat. Until that is done our govern
rnent will be unable to deliver on its
promises to the allies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
To the American Farmer.

A beggared world is standing at your
door,
Reaching its empty hands for daily
bread,
Praying. trusting that it will be fed
From the bounty of your goodly
store.
Your kindred nations on their foreign
shore
With offerings no man may count
have bled
Their trampled plains and wheat
fields blossom red
With ylories that shall live forever.
more.
Let cleaning plowshares be you,
bayonet
The sunrise song Of lark your bugle
call,
The drops you shed may be bu,
honest sweat,
And in the charge you make you may
not fall.
Forth to the field, In mercy save us
yet.
o tillers of the soil, you feed US all.
-Mabelu Kingsley Richardson in the
Minneapolis Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

materiaIized there wouldn't be smell
of kraut or limberger left in the world
by this time,
: Wen. did you lose an hours sleep
or go to bed by the clock?
There are 100000 Smiths in the
army. OF course when the casualty
lists are printed there will be no sus-
pense anywhere when John Smiths
name appears among the killed or
wounded.
Insurance companies in the state
are taking an active interest in the
war savings stamp campaign. Insur-
ance solicitors from practically every
company operating in the state have
been appointed as stamp sales solicit
tors. The solicitor is provided with
the government blue pledge card and
solicits for, stamps at the same time
he solicits insurance.
The person Of limited means who
invests all he can save in war savings
stamps does his share just as truly
as the weather. man who buys a
quantity Of liberty bonds. Millions
who could not aord to invest in the
larger bonds are given an opportunity
thru the war savings stamp plan to
aid their country. The two campaigns
arc in reality b,it one-that of financ.
ing for victory.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

When the older mechanics die on
there will be none to take their places.
Now the boy who knows nothing OF a
trade expects to get as large wages the
first week as the trained men got fifty
years ago. They are not worth their
salt at first and SO very few OF them
get positions where they can really
learn to become useful mechanics. The
Sentinel Post has tried out boys one
after another who would leave us be-
cause they could get larger wages for
few weeks at unskilled labor rather
than stick to the job here and be able
in a few years to command twice or
three times the salary they can get for
unskilled labor. They can not sec
ahead farther than the next week or
month Parents are to blame to a
great extent because they do not
think for the boys and make them
work at some trade that will make
them efficient industrial workers in
the years to come.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
Io,Da Newspapers
NO APPRENTICES.
Shenandoah Sentinel-Post.1

Years ago it was the custom for
boys to be apprenticed in printing Of
fees machine shops or any kind Of
work ships requiring skilled labor. The
boy would work for year for moth
ing. The second year he would get
perhaps a dollar a week and the mex,
year two or three dollars per week. 1t
was not until he had served four or five
years that he could begin to draw reg
ular wages. Yet in spite of these Gus
toms there were plenty of boys eager
to accept them and to learn mechan-
ical trades. But all this has changed
A large proportion of the boys prefer
to loaf and smoke cigarets. or to work
at some common labor a few days in
the year to get a little spending money
never looking ahead to the time when
they Will need to know a good trade
In this shiftless and illogical course
most parents encourage their boys
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
RIPPING RHYMES
BY Walt Mason
SPRING oc cuPATloNs.


OF
He Is plant
all he
anguish in grief
house is disgrace
cleaning handling out the dope; and she Dolls
his supper hall
the
budin book In the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
ROUNDING up THE rOAFERs.

Maryland led off with law that
serds idlers between IS and so years
of age to work willingly or unwill-
ingly. New Jersey and West Virginia
fell in behind Maryland and now New
York is considering a bill Of the same
kind The Maryland law refuses to
let any loafer lounge around whether
he is vagrant or millionaire. Between
IS and so something must be doing or
the state volunteers 10 find something
to do and see that it is done.
OF course it will be a law hard to
enforce hut Il it clears put the loafing
contingent in the pool halls and from
the benches wherever benches offer
aid and comfort to the loafer it will
help some. over in New Jersey the
governor has issued proclamation to
sheriffs and officers that every male
idler in the state gets to work or goes
to jail-but you know how governors
are prone to proclaim and how much
louder their whisper is than their
proclamation.
But when men are being taken fore
IDLY if need be from their homes and
occupation to defend the country it
would be a shame to Iowa TO permit
the loafing contingent 70 continue to
fill the chairs and benches in long
rows at the pool halls and lie about
on the grass Of parks and court house
lawns too strong to work" while nee
essary activities in town and country
languish for lack of labor.
It may not be possible to use those
fellows at real jobs. A man who
doesn't want to work is poor hand
to pay wages but each road patrolman
in Iowa will Be able to find places
where a properly supervised gang OF
loafers could be of much use with the
necessary propulsive force behind
:hem. And there is plenty of work
that cities and towns can do very well
with the right kind Of officers to
guide counsel and direct the contin-
gent that otherwise would never eat
bread in the sweat OF their bro~s
but manage to get bread Just the
same.
To see a husky loafer lying about
when other men are working hard for
themselves and In a patriotic spirit
is like seeing some fellow with inhu-
entail friends and wholesome re-
gard for his own skin manage an oc-
cupational exemption for himself while
a dozen others whose circumstances
match those surrounding his case
march away to camps and war. 1t
grinds to see husky loafers lying about
when labor rs imperative to produce
ton in all lines. fat and usually impu-
dent on the bread that other men
earn. They may not be the kind OF
help farmers or factories desire but
the fact Of their impudent and lazy
presence under the eye annoys anc
enrages.
It isn't enough to say that they
shall work or not eat. They all find
somebody weak enough to feed them
The thing to do with them is to SEN
tence them to three months hard
labor on the highways and put the
right man over them to see that the
work is done. Az course OF treat
| ment it would cure respectable per.
centage Of them and those who failed
| to respond to first treatment could
be classed as chronic and continue I'M
til the medicine took effect.
| Those eastern states and their ex.
| pertinent are worth watching. Better
yet the experiment is worth trying on
at home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
Topics Of the Times

One of the amusing as well as
annoying things OF this war lis to hear
Mr.. House smugly giving MS personal
approval OF the appointment Of Cen
eral F'och.
Death penalty for spies LIS demanded
in bill to be brought before congress.
But II in the meantime some general
commanding catches one Of those Hun.
snakes mousing around il might be
well to let a gun 20 or by accident
However II Japan were to slip QUIET
ly over into Siberia and sit down TO
wait nobody would care TO disturb her
meditation.
New Ships Planned to Defeat Teu-
tons II one -tenth of the plans had
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

Some farmers are exceedingly
peculiar declares the Perry Chief
"They will object to business men run
ming the business affairs of the state
or nation and believe everything they
read in a farm paper edited by a man
who never did any farm work in his
life"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
Perfect Philosophy.

And as for me, let what will come,
I can receive no damage from it, I'M
less think 1t calamity; ard it is In
my power to think 1t none, if l so de-
cide.-Marcus Aurelius.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES,

IT the Kenyon speaking tour Of
Iowa was a political move it seems to
have delivered the goods" observes
the Sioux City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

First report that peach buds have
been killed is in. Ordinarily. this
means big crop at big price remarks
the Burlington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
At the Reception.

At The Reception.
'What strange manners that author
has" Yes. Ii you didn't know he
was literary lion you'd mistake him
for an educated pig."-Boston Trans
crIpt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

The Panora Eedette feared at the
outset that the Greater Iowa Associa-
tons Campaign against the Nonparti-
san league would do the league more
good than harm. but now that Jim
Pierce has begun to muckrake the
Greater Iowa Association. the vedette
says, it looks as il the benefits would
be split fifty fifty,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01
bue.eksts roiax

hsmpsly eAanp have been Grmy k by and
man for
American sent
ahpst tcn a their under N rs.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

Winter is over and the spring time
season is here. But the month OF April
this year is going to be the coolest
one slackers have ever experienced
since old Hec was a pup AYERS the
Council Bluffs Noapareil. And May
will not be Gambit better for them.
for Red Cross drive is staged for
that month"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-01

"A man certainly must be a wor-
shipper Of Andrew Jackson who is will
ing to take up the thankless and hope
les task of running for governor OF
Iowa on the democratic side OF the
track twice" admits the TraerStar-
Clipper
AT last one pos tmaster has been
| fred who gave utterances to remarks
not strictly loyal remarks the Month
cello Epress. There are others"
The Washington times., 1918-03-12

same stops, cutting out stops at Tenth
and Twelfth streets.
Elimination of a few stops Is rec
commended for both Eleventh and
Ninth street cars in the regions be-
tween L and G streets.
Beeler insists that smoking should
be stopped on all closed cars.
New Automobile Regulations.
Major Pullman will consider the
Beeler hints as to traffic and make
recommendations, but it was not
thought today that he will suggest
the radical changes that Mr.. Beeler
desires. The traffic squad is already
trying to widen the traffic channel
on F and C streets by pasting plac-
ards on all machines requiring that
they be parked parallel with the
Curbs and putting a stop to- angle
parking. which is. declared to be the
main source of the trouble.
1t Is doubtful IL Majer Pullman
will agree with the recommendations
that all parking be stopped on + and
G streets between Ninth and Four
teenth. Business men will also OBJ
Ject to this. Major Pullman is con-
sidering giving automobiles the right
to park parallel on those streets for
not longer than thirty minutes at a
time. He contemplates rearrange-
ment OF parking and traffic regula-
tiUns not only for + and G streets,
but for Fourteenth, Fifteenth, New
York avenue, and II street in the busi-
ness section.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
CAR LINE DELAYS
ON v. R. & f. LAID
TO AUTO PARKING
fcoatinued on Page ?. Column II

CONTINUED on Page 2. Column II
lief can be had only by making ef.
fective the following measures:
Traffic officers must give street
cars precedence at all Intersections,
passing them in pairs, II possible, es-
pecially in the busy hours.
Parking of automobiles must
be limited to permit freer movement
of cars and as a protection to the
public.
3-certain portions OF the streets
must be limited to one-way vehic-
ular traffic.
4-Equipment OF the company must
be so distributed as to put cars OF
the same type on different streets.
Cars of greatest capacity and
highest speed must be used on the
principal routes.
6.-Stopping places must be com
bined and reduced to the smallest
number that will accommodate the
public.
T.-Double-berthing must be en-
ployed at all stops in this territory.
S.-Loading PLATFORMS must be pro-
vided wherever possible. and zones Of
safety established elsewhere.
9-Front-end inspectors must be
used at every possible place and in
spectors should aid in loading cars.
10.-A, OF cars, which will
be reported upon later, should follow
as soon as practicable.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
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The Washington times., 1918-03-12
PATRIOTICPROGRAM
PLANNED BY HOME
DEFENSE LEAGUE

Save food.
Produce food.
Buy Liberty bonds.
Buy war savings stamps.
Look after the comfort OF SOL
diers.
Urge women to engage in Red
Cross work.
Urge men to enlist in the army
and the navy.
Assist the police in maintain
ing order in the event of an
emergency.
These are the war commands laid
down at the regular meeting Of the
Home Defense League Of the Sixth
precinct at the station house on New
Jersey avenue last night The pro-
gram, presented by DIR ]. T. Pender-
gast, calls for every citizen to do his
part in regard to dependent families
of our fighting men and in looking
out fo= the welfare OF wounded SOL
diers when they return to Washing
ton.
\ number of rallies are to be held
in the several churches Of the pre-
cinct
Tho hour has struck, my country
men. let us be up and doing that II
may not be said in the years to come
that we failed our nation in the honr
OF need" said James s. Mccarthy in
sounding the keynote of the evening
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
NORTHEAST PLANS
FIGHT ON ". B. ga.
LOOPPROPOSITION

II the Northeast Citizens Associa-
tion has its way. cars Of the wash
Ington, Baltimore and Annapolis cleo
trio line will cease to rumble. through
thoroughfares OF the Capital and win
be prohibited from sticking their
tenders over the District line near
Chesapeake Junction. Severe criticism
Of the company was voiced at last
nights meeting Of the association. (
The association also voiced dis
approval OF the proposition to. loop
the Washington. Baltimore and An
nSpolis cars around New Masonic
Temple in Gaze they continue to run
into town, y, 70 49, =
A committee consisting Of Evan n.
TuekSk, pfesIdent: James H. Wood.
and Dr.. L. D: waiter was appointed
to. appear before the, House District
Committee and Sindorsel Congressman
Johnson's garbage, dfsposal bill. An
other committee compoSed Of Mrs. /.
H. Brown. Mrs, G. "A. wood, and Mrs.
J. d. Evans was cl1osen to, look up
rooms in the northeastssection which
might be used by Government en-
ployes.s 90. :. - - =
The association approved Nthe prop
osition that the Washington Rail-
way and Electric Company and Cap
ital Traction Company be merged.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
Parking Dangerous.

Dwelling upon automobile parking,
Mr.. BeeIer says it is frequently so
dense that It is difficult for passeng-
ers to reach the cars they want TO
take, and is very dangerous to the
public. He says that automobiles are
often left at the same spot all day
long.
BeeIer recommends that no parking
be allowed on F and G. streets, be-
tween Ninth and Fourteenth and on
Ninth between F and G. streets: that
those discharging or taking on pas
sengers be required 20 stop parallel
with the curb, commercial vehicles to
stand only long enough to transact
business.
Beeler makes the radical recon-
mendation also that + street, between
Seventh and Ninth be closed to west
bound traffic; that G street, between
Seventh and Ninth, be closed to east
bound traffic, and that Ninth, between
F and G, be closed to northbound
traffic. This. he says should apply
to all vehicles except those of the
Patent Office.
Cutting Down the Stops.
II the Beeler program should be
adopted westbound cars on F street
would stop on the far side of Ninth
street; nearside of Eleventh street;
nearside OF Thirteenth street: nears ,
of Fourteenth street: midway be-
tween G. street and New York avenue.
Eastbound cars would stop midway
between G. and New York avenue; +
and Fourteenth; Thirteenth, farside:
Twelfth, same; Eleventh, same;
Ninth, same.
East and west bound cars on G
street would make practically the
The Washington times., 1918-03-12
Complains About Parking.

Mr.. BeeIer insists that the parking
of vehicles in the streets referred to
greatly narrows the traffic channel,
so that vehicles can not and do not
turn off the car tracks, delaying cars
to a serious extent, causing punching
and irregular service to all parts OF
the city. The number OF cars that
can pass through this portion OF the
street railway system, he insists, de-
termines the service that can be rem
dered on the remainder of the lines.
From the various lines passing
through this section the railway com
pany obtains So per cent Of its re-
celpts. Many sections Of the city are
dependent on these lines for trans
portation between their homes and
places of business.
The number OF track intersections
in this region, Mr.. Beeler finds,
prove a serious Limitation on the num-
Der of cars that may be run over the
main routes. No more cars can be
run than can be passed over the cross
lngs.
the railway company mikes up fast
and slow cars on the same line. II
has not attempted to segregate equip
ment. The time tables are made UP
to suit the slowest cars, which de-
termine the running time. THE re-
suit has been to give poor service
everywhere" Fast cars crawl along
behind slow ones.
The Washington times., 1918-03-12

LARGE HALL, centrally located, suitable for
lodge purpoSea. dancing. etc.t aV1iIablo
niEhta u and 9Th Tuesdays and Saturdays,
4 AondAys.- Phone Line. IA. fStt-So