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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-09
Step Lively corns
Quit With "Gets.|t"

The Great Corn Loosener Of the Age
R = Never Fails-PainIess.
K Watch my step? What's the use!
I 80 along fright side up without care
even with corns, because use Gets
It," the painless, off Ikea banana peel
corn remover tried other ways ga
lore until was blue in the face and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-09

chlid's Pretty ldea.
"Oh, mother!'' cried delighted ur-
chin, watching the sun bre Ok from DO.
hind heavy clouds. "Oh, mamma, do
look! God opened his door"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Mrs. Bingham Left
$75,0OO,OOO Estate
Inventory Shows Personal
Property of $65,322,OO
Kentucky Wants Tax

LOUISVILLE, Feb. 2A.--Mrs. Robert
Worth Bingham, formerly Mrs. Henry
M. Flagler, of New York, who died here
last July, left stocks, bonds, jewelry
and other personal property valued at
$65, 1922, 900, according to an inventory
filed by the administrator, Louisville
trust company, with a special state in
heritance tax appraiser at hearing
yesterday.
The hearing was step in dotermin-
ing the interests of the state in the
estate, estimated, with real estate, to
be worth S75,000,O00, all of which ex-
cept approximately $4,000 is in other
states. If inheritance taxes on the en-
tire estate were collected it has been
estimated that they would produce be-
tween S2,500,000 and $3,OO0,OOO, or
enough to liquidate the current indebt-
edness of the commonwealth
Statements of representatives of both
parties at the hearing, however, indi-
Gated the probability Of a struggle over
the amount. The administrator assert
ed that the right was reserved to con-
test the liability of the estate to col
lection by the state of any inheritance
tax, while special attorneys represent
ing the state indicated that whatever
action necessary to protect it's interest
would be pushed.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
War Posters Shown
At Hotel Ansonia
Many Well Known American
Artists Are Represented
in Exhibition

An exhibition of war posters opens
to-day at the Hotel Ansonia, Broadway
and Seventy Street Many we'll
known American artists are represents
ed by posters made under the direction
Of the Committee of Public Informa-
ton, Division of Pictorial Publicity, of
which Charles Dana Gibson is chair
man. Among other posters exhibited
are "The Navy Needs You," by James
Montgomery Flagg; Howard Chandler
Christie's Gee. I Wish | Were a
Mani" "Help Your Country" by Henry
Reuterdahl, and Charles Dana Gibson S
famous Here He Is, Sir"
These artists have been doing their
bit by creating a spirit of patriotism
throughout the country, and though
Charles Dana Gibson did not think they
were quite vital enough Gin his speech
at Buffalo, whore the posters were eX-
hibited recently), still they have done
wonders in land so far removed from
the actual horrors and miseries of war.
The exhibition will continue through
out the week and is free to the public
every day from D. m. until 10.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Polyglot Labo-
A Prevalent Condition

in every investigation of labor
troubles you will find the Investigators
dwelling upon the problem of the alien.
The Presidents Mediation Commission
found twenty-six nationalities on the
and thirty-two in another. Is it sur
prising that they refused to fly the
American flag at their headquarters
Is it surprising that they considered
this war a capitalstic war, and that
they were permeated with the folly of
half baked internationalism
On the other hand, how can you ex-
pect your practical, energetic American
mine superintendent or manager, with
his hot contempt for this riff-raff of
Europe and its subversive ideas. to
have any patience with its pretensions
to share in management? No wonder
the commission found that it was ofttn
impossible to get employers and en-
ployes into the same room, and that if
they succeeded in that, the two groups
would insist on ignoring each other.
The sea of troubles that overwhelms
Hog Island is in no small measure due
to the unregenerate and unsympathetic
foreigner Rube Allyn, a native Ameri-
can workman, who went to Hog Island
for the same motives that younger men
go to the front, told the Senate Com
merce Committee that most of the SOL
diering and loafng and purposeful in
efficiency at Hog Island was due to q
certain class of foreigners with whom
the yards were cluttered. They talked
disloyalty and studied incompetence.
In proportion as they have been found
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Boyle's Symphonic Fantasia
is Heard at Aeolian Hall

George +. Boyle, who was born in
Australia and is at present a teacher
in the Peabody Conservatory in Balti-
more, was represented at the concert
OF the Symphony Society in Aeolian
Hall yesterday afternoon by "Sym-
phonlc Fantasia,' played for the first
time in New York. Mr.. Boyle had
PREVIOUSLY been known here. by several
His new work needs the "pro-
gramme" which its composer has re-
fused to give it, for it is highly dra-
matte in character. Developed from
striking though not exceptionally
original themes, and scored thickly and
richly with much variety and magma
ton. 1T is piece which provides a
lively quarter of an hour for its hear
ers. Mr. Boyle, rising in his box, ac-
knowiedged the hearty applause of the
audience
Guiomar Novacs. the soloist of the
gramme by her tardy arrival. But
whatever it was that made her late. we
WISH it could happen to many pianists,
who all too rarely show such clearness
of plan and ease of execution. such
moderation and taste, such rhythmic
verve, such poetic sentiment and such
hnesse in the playing of filgree pas
sages as she bestowed on Chopin's F.
minor concerto.
The first symphony of Victor Kolar.
assistant conductor of the orchestra.
which has been heard here before,
completed the programme. 1t is a
work bursting with youthful spirit and
showing a strong kinship with the
music of Mr.. Kolars compatriot.
Smetana, indeed borrowing one of it's
themes from the latter's "Hussite
Poem Always sincere and frequent.
~ moving, it is still little too facile.
little too reminiscent and structu-
rally a little labored May we soon
hear Mr.. kolar's second symphony!
One question in passing: Why are
Mr.. Damrosch's 'celIists privileged to
remain seated while playing "rhe Star
Spangled Banner" while those of Mr..
HaGemau at the Metropolitan stand2
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Quotes Scriptures to
Justify Sunday Show
Mount Vernon Mayor Finds in
Bible Ample Authority for
Benefit Performance

MOUNT VERNON, N. Y, Feb. "a
Mayor Edward F. Brush of Mount Yer
non has decided not to interfere with a
theatrical performance to be held in
Proctor's Mount Vernon Theatre Sunday
evening, March 3, for the benefit of
the Soldiers and Sailors Club Of New
Rochelle. Efforts have been made bv
the Rev. Thomas j. Stephenson, field
secretary of the Lords Day Alliance,
to have the performance called off, and
he made addresses in several churches
in Mount Vernon and New Rochelle last
Sunday denouncing it.
Mayor Brush announced Yesterday
that he would not stop the perform
ance. IL letter apprising Mr. Ste
phenson of his decision Mayor Brush
quoted the following from the Script-
ures:
"The Sabbath was made for man and
not man for the Sabbath" Mark 2,
xvii.
81 will ask you one thing, is it law
full on the Sabbath day to do good or
to do evil? To save life or to destroy
it?" Luke G, tx.
What man shall there be among you
that shall have one sheen and if it fall
into a pit on the Sabbath day will he
not lay hold on it and lift it out; how
much then is a man better than a
sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do
we'll on the Sabbath day" Matthew ~.
xi-xii.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Wilson Sends Thanks
To the Presbyterians

PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 24.--Dr. Will
lam H. Roberts, state clerk Of the Pres
byterian General Assembly, yesterday
made public letter from President
Wilson, thanking the executive COM
mission of the Assembly for the adop-
ton of resolutions pledging support to
the government in the war. The letter
concludes
al am glad to note that they add to
their resolution concerning the sup
port of the government at this time of
crisis a resolution to maintain all the
benevolent, moral and missionary work
of the Church, both at home and
abroad, in the most effective manner
possible"
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Hands to War
industrial Democracy Pointed Out as the Only Preventive
For Labor Famine in America
By Theodore M. knappan

N7AsH1NGToN' Feb. 24.-Every
w cross-scction of the labor
problem reveals big streak
Of alenism. BY the same token, it re-
yeals our war weakness and peculiar
ly American phase Of the labor prob
lem. Fighting modern war-that is,
an industrial war-we must rely large
ly upon foreign born workmen, who are,
we might say, industrial rnercenaries
rather than volunteer soldiers of the
farm and forge.
Moreover, the class struggle between
employer and emnloye takes on the as
pect Of race struggle. The masters
are Americans; the men are "Wops,"
which means non-Americans and also
inferior to Americans. "Wops" are not
likely to be stalwart American patriots.
As rule, the American born American
workman scorns the "Wop" Viewed
by his employer as an impersonal labor
unit and contemned BY his fellow work
ers, the "Wop" has every encourage
ment to intermingle with his kind and
incubate the seeds of the destructive
philosophers he brings with him from
the Old World. Not understood, placed
by his foreign origin outside the pale.
he in his turn neither understands nor
tries to understand
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Presidents Pastor, Like Sunday,
Dramatizes His Talk IN Pulpit
'"e' Executive Is Absent When the Rev. DR.. Taylor Re
""erpres Story of Amos, the Prophet, Who Threat
ened Damascus, in Terms of the Present

ing, from the standpoint of what spirit
ual fare is provided for the man who
directs the nations course.
President Wilson's pastor has large
nose The cheeks are caught by slant
ing lines on both sides of it, and above
IL the eyebrows gather energetically,
as II to help MIN project his words into
the minds of those who hear him. He
is not an unctuous man. He is only a
little the professional minister. His
voice, rather high cultural, lacks alto
gether that artificial information which
makes the piety of so many ministerial
men doubtfully genuine. Indeed. it is
most sincere instrument-bro firm.
direct, without subtleties or hypocrisies
undoubtedly the true echo of the
man.
His bearing has no false elegance to
rob it of force; indeed, it gains force
by lnele,gance: Doubtless this was the
authentic and original DR.. Taylor to-
day, but at least the resemblance to
Sunday may not be missed. Whatever
the source OF his knowledge DR.. Taylor
has learned, like Sunday, how to dram,
atlze his discourses. The story of
Amos, the prophet who threatened tho
wrath of God to Damascus. to GAIA.
Tyre. Edom, Ammon, Moab, Judea and
Israel, as he told it to-day was yis-
IDLY recreated out of the confused mar.
rative in the Bible by his reinterpreta
ton Of the events in the understand
able and we'll colored tcrmy nf the
present.
Amos was a prophet who was ad
mlred IN Judea as thunderer at other
nations, but detested when he becan
to hurl his thunder at the Judeans. Too
Then they turned on him and wanted
him to go back to his vineyards. But
ne refused to go back. A great man
was Amos, in the Judgment of DR.. Tav
Tor, because, against all the pressure
OF maJorties, the sneers of the un
righteous, the attacks of the privileged.
he stood firm in the lonely security Of
his belief
But Amos was only a part of the
tale. There were the people of Judoa
and here Dr. Taylor pointed a lean
hnger at his audience and talked the
Sunday language straight
Il say to you men in uniform who
are here to-day, and to all of yo,1 who
hold significant place in these critical
times, that unless we remember the
Word of God we shall perish. The law
of punishment is incxorable. If we
obey, it is life. If we disobey, it is
death"
After that there was brief blessing
and the congregation rose to sing, "A
Son of God Went Forth to War, a
kingly Grown to Gain"
When the President visits the church
the congregation rises and stands while
Mr.. Wilson walks down the aisle.
through the waiting Secret Service
men, to his motor
Perhaps, some day, DR.. Taylor will
preach another sermon on Amos. It
was much too Illuminating Of the his
tories of single men and of crowds for
any President to miss
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Sacrifices Rank
To Serve in France
Brigadicr General in Hawaiian
Guard Becomes Major in
National Arnv

w WASHINGTON, Feb 23.-Because of
a desire for active service, Brigadier
General Samuel I. Johnson. command
ing the Hawaiian Division of the Ma
tional Guard, has surrendered that
rank and accepted commission as
major in the National Army. Army
orders to-day show that he has been
assigned as adjutant of the 18th In
fantry Brigade, regulars, at Camp Ere
mont. Palo Alto, Cal. The case is the
first on record during the present war.
at least, where a general officer has
voluntarily accented much lower rank
in order to see service at the front.
The order also discloses that the 9th
Division is being mobilized at Camp
Fremont. 1t is understood that Major
General John Morrison, now director
Of military training, General staff, is
to command the division. Brigadier
Generals Joseph D. Leitch and Peter C.
Harris have been assigned to command
the two brigades of infantry already
gathered at the camp.
Probably no director of training will
succeed General Morrison, for the
present at least.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Hammerstein andK ahn
Farley About Opera
Former Inpresario May Re-
enter Field by Desire
of Metropolitan

Oscar Hammcrstcin, former impre-
sario of the Manhattan Opera House
which proved so serious rival to the
Metropolitan that it was bought by the
directors of the latter institution in
l9lO, would be glad to serve as entire
preneur for opera at popular prices in
New York, and Otto Kahn, president Of
the board of directors of the Metro
politan, has said he would be delighted
to have him do so.
The two men have had II friendly
conversation about the matter 80 they
state. Mr.. Kahn has said privately
that although he considered it un-
economic to have another first class
opera company (such as that from Chi
cago) running in competition with the
metropolitan, still he would welcome
an opera company which would attract
people who could not pay Metropolitan
prices. And Mr.. nammerstein, speak
ing to newspaper men, has asserted
that he would be delighted to manage
such popular priced opera company
only as Mr.. Hammerstein explains,
the two possible houses for such an
enterprise arc now in other hands The
Lexington Avenue house, where CALI
Curci made her New York triumph, is
still In the control of the United Book
ing Offices, presumably for the produc-
tlon Of vaudeville. Though he nomin-
ally owns it, he has no control over it
unless Magistrate Groehl, before whom
the matter is pending, decides in his
favor. The Manhattan Opera House.
which he still owns, is leased by Nor
ris Gest. who has until May l to renew
his lease
Mr.. Kahn is in Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr.. Hammcrstein will say no more than
that he would be delighted if the mat
ter of the house could be arranged.
There the matter stands.
Mr.. Hammerstein, by the terms of
the contract which he made with the
Metropolitan directors in 1910, is obi
gated not to attempt to produce first
class opera-that is. anything which
would compete with the Metropolitan
in New York, until 1920.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
Industry Must Be
Democra.ized

In the future our workers must be
Americans or we shall have none. How
TO make the American do real manual
work? Superior pay will not do it, for
d common laborer earns more than the
average Office or store clerk. There
must be given to him the thing the
white collar stands for-dignity and
nride in labor. When he has it he
can get along without the collar at
work and wear it bccomingly after
hours. Recognition of labor is more
than the recognition Of union. 1t is
a recognition of common humanity. To
take such recognition cut Of the realm
of sentimentality means, some say, a
virtual partnership between employer
and employee Others call it industrial
democracy or democratized industry.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
! out and eliminated, efficiency has come
War Animosities
Inspire Italians

They scotfcd at workmcn who were
trying to do their work we'll and foilcd
their efforts by refusing team work
A saving element at Hog Island and
elsewhere has been that there are so
many nations in this war that large
proportion Of the foreign workmen find
that they are on the American side be-
cause their old nations or nationalltics
arc arainst the Germans. Frequent
comment is made on the cordial coop
Grafton of the Italians in all war work.
Allyn's testimony showed that the way
these mon work is inspiring a new re-
spect among American workmen for the
"Dago." There are said to be about
100000 Austrian workmen IN the
United States, largely employed III the
basic industrics-in the iron mines, the
coal mines. the steel mills, the copper
mines. They could paralyze our whole
war effort if they wanted to; but fortu-
nately most of them hate Austria, for
thcv are Austrians only in a political
sense, not III race.
They tell us at the Department of
labor that after the war millions OF
foreign workmen will return to their
native lands. They may be our feet OF
CLAW. but what are we going to DO
without them, when our native born
refuse to d, the hard and dirty work?
A member Of an exemption board told
mo that one Of the disheartening things
borne in on him by his work was that
while most Of the foreign boys had
trades the native born had only jobs.
Antonio has trade, but his son is a
homeless clerk. Antonio's hands are
dirtv. but the son has irrcproachable
mills and a white collar. The white
collar signifies Amer;canism, also an
asniration to a recognition of personal
DIGNITY. bus it also implies economic
weakness.
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
By Ralph Block

"AsHlNGTON, Feb. 24.-Somet;mcs
~ washington the President sits in r
,'e"' square room along with 600 other
''''''"' pe'ngs and listens respectfully
~ man on the platform. who tollfs
vigorously of the sins of all humar
oc'''ss IN general Even President
must ma 1T tircsomc to be in tho richt
All 'he time, so it may be refreshino
experience sometimes to )istcn tn .
scolding
but 1t ought to be a refreshinc ox-
per1ence, TOO. for the man who does tho
taking. Who knows, after all. what
avalanche Of deeds he NAV sct mov;nc
ana ID what tremendous billowinc
echoes his words will come back to
nm. And simply as he may speak and
sometimes with kindly humor. bo dooc
"o' speak without authority. 1t is as
IN ambassador that he appears, and he
draws his power from an invisible
A'ng, before whom all kings bow.
sometimes the pressure of ovorts
keeps the President from the red brick
fresbytcrlar Church on Sixteen+b
street and the Rev DR.. James II Tav-
lor speaks to a less distinguished aud;-
cnce. But he does not sneak anv ,ess
o's'inctivcly. He is one of those rare
ie"'"'hlng men among churchmen of
to-day who still find etched in the Rib]e
remarkable history of human ms
s'ons' aspirations, degradations, VIC
tories and defeats, and he is still 80
sV'rred by this plentitude of material
that his mind discovers evervwbore on
alogies between to-day and that on-
cleht time. But he has not given anv
retirement before the progress Of ra
t'onalistic beliefs. He believes faith
fully in the innate sinfulness Of b,,,o,n
A'"o ana the redemption by blood Yet
'nere is about him kind of generosity
winch persists in ovcrsteppinc +ho
austere limits of his creed to enconroao
ms hearers End give them kindliness
"here he has found their oroo+o.4
wickedness.
breaches on Disaster
To-day DR.. Taylor talked on "The
impending Disaster" and bv it he
plainly meant the disasters that would
come to any people when luxury and
pleasure, the scductions of the senses.
made them forget the ways of the soul
Inc long bench in the third row from
the pulpit did not hold its usual dis.
t'ngulshed occupant. and the craninp
and turning of strangers in the church
would not disclose the President any,
where. But the sermon was interest
New-York tribune., 1918-02-25
On the Screen

Mae Marsh, "thc girl with a thou
sand faces" has left her other nine
hundred and ninety-nine faces behind
her this week and is presenting at the
Strand the innocent, wistful face of a
child of the sea. And how wonderfully
she does it!
The picture is Goldwin version of
Frank l.. Packard's novel, "The Beloved
Traitor" We had fancied from the
title that we were going to witness a
war film, where Miss Marsh would be
the daughter of the regiment and
wave flag and save the hero who was
falsely accused. But this is quite diff
ferent. Not that it matters; people
will go to see Mae Marsh in anything.
Why, we even went to see her twice in
but why speak of it? 1t is past and
Miss Marsh has survived, and her new
picture is delightful.
While, to the lay mind at least, plot.
performance and presentation are of
greater moment than photography,
even the layman is bound to exclaim
at the marvellous views of the sea
which are shown in this picture, and
the excellence Of the titles is another
noteworthy thing.
They are SO much part Of the pict-
ure that you don't think much about
them until the end. That is as it
should be. There are also some clever
little bits which we admired. For in
stance, when Judd, the fisherman, goes
to the city he wears boots and a fisher
mans cap, and nothing could have de-
noted the change in his heart quite so
we'll as having the boots fade into
slick patent feathers, the cap become
Il silk hat and the rod walking stick.
The story is Of Mary Garland, an
orphan, who lives with her uncle and
loves Judd Minnot, fisherman by
trade but an artist by instinct. The
plot is the simplest of them all. Given
q beautiful, wistful little fisher maiden
and stalwart fisher lad who models
things in mud, one knows imm mediately
that presently civilization in the
form Of polished motor car bearing
en- art connoisseur and his daughter
with vamping proclivities is going to
invade the Eden. 1t did.
L. K. Lincoln we liked extremely as
the fisher lad, who learned so rapidly
from Myrna Bliss, who in real life is
Hedda Hopper. George Fawcett is the
magnate who owns the daughter and
the car.
After the car had broken down so
that Judd could get his first glimpse
Of a "real lady" Myrna liked Judd, too.
SO she decided to stay, and then she
persuaded daddy" to put up the money
to send Judd to New York and have his
talent polished. Yes, you have guessed
it. After Judd got to the city he fell
in love with Myrna and forgot all about
Mary-that is why he was blond
traitor. But Mary went to New
York to see Judd and after finding
her the butt Of wild studio party he
decided that he loved Mary better than
Myrna.
Paucity Of plot does not present "The
Beloved Traitor" from being delightful
entertainments
The comedy is James Montgomery