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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
a Kitchen QUESTIONABLE
tPhiladehhaa Public Ledger.

To come right down to brass tacl1s.
there is one big. pressing and persist
ent question which every man and
every woman-especially every woman
whose duty 1t Is to make frequent
purchases Of the necessities Of life is
constantly asking. and that question
is:
why Is 1t TINT our various war aNl-
thor1tles. who intervene ictatoriully--
ana rightly So--in almost every other
activity OF life, can not protect tho
domestic purchaser from what seems
systematic extortlon?,
We regulate very nearly everything
IN this country now, save and except
the most important thing Of all-the
cost of our living expenses. It may
DC economically impossible to regulate
that The humble housewife who goes
forth to buy the family dinner and
hnds that every mortal item on her
list has gone UP since last week u
quite willing to be shown that the
government can regulate what the coal
man can charge for coal, what the
munition maker can charge for shells
what the fasnfcr can charge for his
wheat, what the railway can charg.
Tor transportation. who shall get steel.
when we shall eat beef, what we shall
eat In place OF wheat, and q Thousand
other delicate points In out daily
lie, but can net regulate what the
grocer shall charge her for butter and
eggs. orwhat the butcher shall ask. for
lamb. or how much the fish -mongcr
shall get for fish. She IS not only WIZ
ln&-she asks Eothing so veheniently
as that she shall be shown.
She is 100 per cent loyal sana the,
some. She will go without accps-
TONED purchases most cheerfully II
she is assured that 1t will help "win
tho war" She puts her pin money
into thrift stamps, but she asks that
she be taken out Of the baby class and
put into the adult class, and told All
about 1t.
:. 1t would be ludicrous-if 1t were not
IN so many cases not far from tragic
now the prices Of common neceesities
OF life shoot skyward the moment thar
they are mentioned by the authorities
IN any way. The government aa "a
GO slow on meat. The allies need AZ.
Eat fish" And Immediately we have
notning but lying, fish, soaring so high
that their oldest friends can no longer
recognize them, A certain amount at
this would naturally be due to those
ancient enemies Of humanity. supply
ana demand; but it Is hard to and a
housewife or restaurant patron who
neieves that 1t is all due to this. It
IS TOO sudden, Alpine and unanimous
But that Is not the worst. Whom the
good word comes that we have met
the demand for meat and that we can
now eat 1t again, does the price 81
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fish fall? Not 50 you'd notice! Once
a price gets UP it seems utterly UNI
aIble to climb down again. 1t goes VI
3oyotisly like sleyrocket, but Il
lIfakes Vt dangerously dizzy even Il
look down.
We are going to have fine oppor-
t1lnity now to Judge the exact relation
In these cases between supply and dc.
mand. Hoover has sent out tho haap,
word that We need no longer deny our.
selves wheat. While we were sayinp
wheat to feed Durope-and we did 1,
tnag1kiicently and effectively - TIM
tr1ce for what little we were permitted
to buy awaited. and the portions o,
wheat products served in the hotels
and restaurants approached the van.
1shing point Bread became q LUXURY
VIII bread now become cheap? VIII
the cost Of wheat products 20 back
to the old figures2 VIII the norton,
served return TO the good old whole.
some sizes? The housewife will be-
lieve 1t when she, sees It.
Naturally the housewife asks ones.
lions. The housewife Is the purchas-
ing agent OF the home. Men make
money come, but women make II gr
and they are compelled to make It &c
a very, very long way these DAYS.
The housewife wants to know:
why prices always go UP and neve,
come down.
why. when the government com.
mnnds her to eat.certain foods, 1t does
not take any visible steps. to preven,
the vendors Of these foods from max
:" them 80 dear that she simply can
& 80 - "
why foods which are not put on the
war index seem mystcriously to be-
come as scarce and costly as those
which are.
why the substitutes she Ia com.
PEELED to take in order to get a small
allotment OF wheat she really want,
so up IN price like an American avia.
tor trying to get above a Hun raider
When we are not shipping a pound O,
tnem to- Europe and are ,presumabl,
producing at teast as much as ever.
Why the price OF articles alread,
manufactured and In stock go I'D. tho
the merchant would have sold then
gladly at tire old price if they had noa
oeen mentioned" in some way in 8
government order.
Why the government can not pre.
vent TINS when they know they are
ABOUT to issue an explosive order.
why the government can reRa,lats
the things that the government buys
'put not the things that the unknown
housewife buys.
why the government can regulat,
the prices and distribution OF som,
Things but not of others--apparentl,
not the very things she, the non-eco.
.li tne non -proffteering. the unor.
ganized housewife, wants to b,u
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
RIPPLING RHYMES
BY Walt Maso,,
THE KAISER.


things
shadow dkens door Your
Bill
other eschw until that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
Billy Bunny and His Friends
[By David Cory.Jl


Well, It was miKb'-/lucky that the two
little rabbits lid get gasoline from
the porcupine in the story before this
Tor II they hadn't might have moth
ing more to tell you. For without gaso-
lene the Luckmobile won't go, and II
that wonderful automobile doesn't 60
why nothing exciting happens to Uncle
Lucky and Billy Bunny.
Well II you remember as we'll as dc
the Yellow Dog Tramp and the grass
hopper were both travelling with Uncle
Lucky and Billy Bunny, but where they
were all going, none OF them knew
They, were Just out for good time.
you see. And pretty soon the grass
hopper began to play on his left hind
leg. and the music sounded so sweet
that they all began to sing, and these
are the words of the song:
Pack your troubles in your dress sui.
case.
Go to the country. and get freckles on
your face,
Get up with the boosters and go to bed
at ten.
Help to feed the turkeys and the piggiee
in the pen,
Milk the cows at evening and in the
morning, too.
Then come back to the city when your
VACATIONS through.
Well after that, they came to little
town called RASPBERRY Center where they
made all sorts Of raspberry jam and pre-
serves. So the old gentleman rabbit
stopped before little store and went in
to buy something. And the first thing
he saw were lot Of little white pepper
mint candy hearts on which were print
ed in red letters pretty little verses, &c
he picked out one for Billy Bunny. And
this is what was written on his little
candy:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
TASTING the cup.

Tho allies pushed the German armies
beck eleven miles farther on another
front By yesterday evenings reports.
Imagine the rage and terror with
which the continued reverses Of the
German arms are received in Germany
that part OF Germany which Is per-
mitted to know anything about It.
The revulsion must be hard to bear
from the frantic JOY which accom-
panied the successful onslaught Of the
first great German offensive when the
British bull-dogged back day by day
holding of the elated hordes OF the
kaiser.
Germany is just beginning to taste
the bitterness of defeat. The cup re-
mains for her to drink to the dregs and
it must be drained to the last bitter
drop.
What a change from the hilarity with
which Germany received the news OF
the accomplished murder Of the women
and children Of the 1lusitania, the
shameless assassination Of school chill
dren at their books in unprotected
school houses, the unspeakable ravages
Of Belgium and north Francei
Whine? Certainly they will whine
when the iron comes home to their
souls. The brute always whines when
he is conquered, the hangman agonizes
when the rope is fixed for his own exc
cution.
There will come time when Ger
many, brutal, constituencies and bloody
Germany, will stand before the world
with hands uplifted crying 'kamerad''
as her brutal soldiery stands before TIT,
bayonets Of brave men. She will plead
for mercy endeayor to suborn states
men. strive to steal advantage where
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
Il love a little rabbit
Who has the Ice cream ha

W AhO Aico SAAS ASOt SASoAA iittOlSs
And on the one Uncle Lucky picked
out for the Yellow Dog Tramp was
printed:
1T love the merry world to roam
And the leafy forest is my home"
But after that II took the old gentle.
man rabbit a long time to find the right
kind OF a verse for the grasshopper.
oh, dear me-" sighed Uncle Lucky
as he heard Billy Bunny shout from
the Luckymobile. "Oh, please hurry up,
Uncle Lucky! What shall I dor And
then the kind saleslay. who was
funny little guinea pig, said. let me
help you. Mr.. Lucky Lefthindfoot. And
would you believe It, IN less than Ave
hundred short seconds she handed .
little candy to the dear old gentlemas
rabbit. and this 10 what he read:
THE grasshopper plays q lovely tune
To the big round candy peppermint
moon"
"Ha, hat" laughed Uncle Lucky.
That's fne." SO he had each candy
put in separate bag and then ne
hoped out to the Luckymobile and
Jumped in, and away they went. md
after mile or three. tho old gentleman
rabbit gave them their candies. Well.
sir! That little grasshopper was SO
tickled with his that he told Uncle
Lucky all about a wonderful clover
patch. where the clover tops were pink
and white and nobody came when the
moon was bright And in the next story
I'll tell you how the old gentleman rab-
bit and Billy Bunny went to that clover
patch one night and weretneariy caught
BY Robber Hawk.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
Topics q the Times

Tho Beriiners were forced to turn
over a million or two or suits Of clothes
to tho government. Must be strong
organization OF associated tailors in
Germany.
One Of the greatest dangers now is
that we win forget at tho close Of the
war tho outrage with which It was be-
gun.
Unc' Henry watterson left a slogan
as he retired: "Now and ever to hell
with the Hohenxollern and the Haps-
burg"
II you ara right stand for It. but
strive to be sure you are right. II you
ca,a't be sure be as sure as you can
ana 1t is better to err on the side OF
loyalty and the var than 10 lean over
backward fearing TO offend an enemy
or tho friend Of an enemy.
Tho war has brought about a differ
ent relationship between Ex-Pressdent
Taft and the people generally. 1r. Taft
working hard at war task Is differ
ent person and differently considered
from Candidate Taft. But that is true
also Of lot OF M big and little.
We are very much lflee a quiet man
who strives to avoid trouble but who
becomes tigerishly active when SOME
body punches him in the nose. When
you stir such man up in such way
the succeeding activities are usually
marked and extreme.
Perhaps II they take the newspaper
men to war we shall get some inside
stun from over there. What's censor
to q fellow who can get all the indict-
nents out of a grand jury forty minutes
after the session?
Now they say good paper can be
made from grapevines. Probably. A lot
of telegraph news comes that way to
some newspapers.
T When We have called an army of
proportfonate number to our population
With ENGLAND we shall have $4,000. 900
men under arms. And every now and
then some misinformcd person wonders
whether England IL doing her best!
There's just one logical way to con-
slider Germany and that II as q GRIM
inal. For Germany Is criminal among
nations. And she should be punished
under the criminal code.
1 Do YOU suppose that the mistakes
made In the last law will assist to a
better law or that they'll merely go on
and make another batch OF mistakes?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
/ ~now We CRAVE MAI, >

A Manshalltown boy writing from his
station overseas on an American mine
laying ship uses these workt: "How
No crave MALI" No complaint but the
Statement . Thousand times more elo-
duent than complaint would be.
II It IL eloquent With longing 1t ID
also moro eloquent Of accusation against
US. here at home. negiectful, occupied
in our own selfish interests and neg.
iectful OF those lads afar on among
strangers and dangers. How they
crave mail those lads who left their
school and their play, dropped youth
like q garment from their shoulders
and put on the uniform at the first can
Of their country. home boys away from
home and, friends: how they crave
mail.
They long for the personal touch,
the knowledge that home folies ars
thtnakins Of them a. they roam, they
want to be missed 1t home. God
kAsws they ,ue miaasd and that Dill
lsws sEs damp With tears IL longing
fer tsn and prayers riss he 4 foun-
and day from lipe, long un-
q to pray that they may be
and come back hume again
who love them and wait Tor
tAsm But they want to know it. They
crave mali. -Hbw We crave natl.-
Take Il home. Think Of Il. Be self
condemned, each and all cf US VINO
sldrk the plain duty, that should be
and II = Joy. Of writing a word or Two
toSa sailor or q soldier. What 4 little
thing It = to do and how much II
means TO the boys half ! world away.
Flow they crave mail;
The government has denied the news-
papers right to furnish the boys free
copies. Why none knows but the wa
dom that is responsible for the order.
But the boys crave the newspapers a.
they crave letters. They seize bundle
Of the old home papers and ydevour
them. See that they get them.
Give ear to the lad who breaks out
impulsively to his friend How we
crave mail" Consider that his crayius
is the craving Of every other man ana
boy out In front Of us and behind whom
We continue in safety to count gains
and speculate on future profits. the de-
tenders Of our liberties and our homes
the boys afield and afioat
There are more ways than one Of
being . Stacker. Think It over. The
boys crave mail.
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thought that the war cannot last for
ever, and hat peace must come at last,
while that same thought fills his sleep
less nights with horror. for by now he
must Know, at least subconsciously.
what the only possible peace means for
him and his house. In dreadful truth.
war for him is peace, and peace 10 the
end OF everything hdA values.-New
York Times,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
FOOL RULINGS,
[Boone Independently

tEooHe lHuepeHuenC.J
In the attempt to muzzle the press
and nullify the good it is doing some
7x0 autocrats are using every little
petty device they can think of to ham
per the newspapers OF, the country.
Their latest ruling is that publishers
can not send papers free to their BOYS
in the field. The soldier must pay for.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
THIS YEARS. porAroEs.

t-"e9oh lily SlODe.GnZette.l
There is prospect OF an unusual crop
OF most everything this year but 1t will
be little less than crime to waste any
OF 1t. Last year proilteelssnot many
miles from Mason City stored their
potatoes and held them Tor practically
u prohibitory price, This spring they
gave them away to get them out of the
cellars. Tho same people win be In
different to conserving their crop but it
should DO nothing less than sedition to
allow any food stun to go to waste. The
more that can be conserved from the
gardens the moro wheat and other
FOOD stuffs capable OF shipment can be
sent to the boys abroad and the armies
OF our allies. With us tho war has
just begun. Everybody should save
With more care than last year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10

How Did He Dare to Say III
Reason, when of the nom Teutonic
variety, totters ,on it's often mentioned
throne and saves itself with difficulty,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10

his duty like man, is, more than we
can understand. He will go thru life
branded.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

5-5I
The Cedar Rapids Republican con-
siders that "McAdoo proposition to tax
war profits Of the excessive kind al
high as 80 per cent Is commendalble.
Most Of these war profits are unjust
and Il they who have collected them
retain q fifth Of them they will still
be that much ahead. which is too
much In many cases. This IS not a
time In which men ought to be try
ing to make themselves richer. II a
man can come out of this war period
with his Anances unimpaired he ought
to consider hiinseK lucky And II he
is going to emerge from this war a
war made millionaire he may consider
himself in disgrace, as 1t will be
viewed by the men who are coming
back from the front having offered
their lives for $40 month"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10

Overeating kills people physically
kills them financially
and dissipation kills them morally
sums up the Mason City Globe Ga
zette. In either case they are some
dead"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
IOWA CHERRY ORCHARDS.
rpclla Cthrouirla


This section OF Iowa Is going 10
have very little fruit this year. and
the saane may be true OF several years
in the future. The last two winters
have been severe for orchards, and the
dry weather early this season seems
to have damaged the remaining trees.
Apple blossoms were abundant, where
the trees were living, but the fruit is
either mostly fallen of or gnarly and
wormy. Tho trees seem to lack vi
tality, duo probably to the early
drouth. The prospects are that many
appae trees Will die before another
summer from what has already been
suffered. Right here In, Pella we see
the decrease in the amount OF cher
ries raised. A few years ago. thous-
ands OF baslsers OF cherries were ship
ped out OF Pella to all parts of the
state. while this year there were al
most none. In years gone by, the
shipment Of single day has exceed
ed the entire amount shipped this
year. Pella will have few. II any,
more cherries to ship until new trees
are planted. This part Of the state
will need to reset the orchards thor
oughly before we may expect to raise
any apples here. We have In Marioa
county much land that wfll be better
for orchards than for anything else.
Son,esoS 1t Is near Peha. too. There
is land on the river bluffs that Is too
badly washed 10 make even good pas
lures. which would be hne for a young
orchard. These hilisIdes sch along
with the rest OF the farm for q big
price, and then they are allowed to lie
useless. To plant them in orchards
would retard 'he washing away OF the
land, and In time they would gain in
huuus and. other elements Of plant
growth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10

Transient junk men should be com
PEELED to prove their reliability, put
up bond for their conduct and then
pay a reasonable license fee for the
privilege of p .stering housewives" in
sists the Cedar Falls Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10

Secretary Baker will recommend
that the draft age be made from Is
to 45 years. All right, hut take the
men from 81 to IS first. Every day
some OF them pass the rs year limit.
This is the anly chance to get them.
The boys are growing into it, any
way" says the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-10
WOMEN sTRpEr CAR MEN.


At Mason City tho street railway
company has applications from y
dozen young women who are aspiring
to Jobs as motormen or Conductors.
~ story went out from Charles City 70
tho effect that q young woman there
had accepted u Job on the cars and
was running steadily. OF course. the
Mason City girls do not propose to
let any Charles City girl get ahead Of
them. Just ut present the Mason
City company has a sufficient force OF
men to man and operate It's cars. It
Is possible that later on some women
may DO employed. II any Of these
girls have gotten the idea into their
heads that the motounan has a snap
or that a conductors life is altogether
a happy one they have another guess
coming. When they tackle the JOB.
they will be undeceived. Many mon
begin with tho idea TINT the work is
light 1t is not at all likely that the
average girl or woman will make a
good motor1nln or a first class con-
ductor Nor that many Of them would
last thru long, hard Iowa winter
The hours are long and there Is much
to contend with that does not become
apparent to the superficial observer.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-07-12
HUNS ASK MERCY
WHEN AIR BOMBS
RETURN MEDICINE
Rhine Towns Want Allies TO
DeSiSt In Air Raids,

GENEVA, July l2-Another cam
paign has bsyr undertaken along the
Rhine IN order to prevent allied bonn
bardment Of Rhine towns.
The landtag OF the duchy of Baden
has been asked to pass resolution
requesting the government OF the
Grand Duchy 10 exercise is influence
with the imperial authorities TO come
10 an arrangement with the belliger-
ents TO abandon on both sides the
aerial bombardment of towns outside
the rome OF military operations. In a
speech in the landtag in favor Of the
proposition, Deputy Narun declared
that aerial attacks on localities behind
the front serve no Military purpose
and that only innocent women and
children suffer.
In commenting on thi' new cam
pa'gn, the Lausanne Gazette declares
that the Germans since the beginning
OF ,he war have bombarded London
and Paris with zeppeins and air
planes many more than 100 times while
the allies during three years for ari-
ous reasons. were unable to reply, but
did not whine. Now the Germans, il
add, after only few months OF
bombardmcnt OF their open towns, are
CRYING: "Kamerad'
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and Mrs J +. Robertson. Mr and
Mrs. { NJ. Flora. Mr.. and Mrs Frank
Meyer, Mr. and Mrs. +. p. Gould Mr..
and Mrs Paul Walker Mr. and Mrs.
y. B. Wclty, Mr. and Mrs George
Sutton, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Stiles,
Mr.. and Mrs. Joe Reeme, Mr. and Mrs.
NJ. G. Gaha. Mr. and Mrs L. NJ
Baughman. Mr. and Mrs. J. Henry
Johnson, Mr.. and Mrs II + Thomp-
son, Mr.. and Mrs Charles Ward, Mr.
and Mrs. f. l.. Julian Mr and Mr.,
J. +. Cooley J X Middaugh and Mr
and Mrs. J. A. McNeese
Special guests Of the evening vii
be Dr. and Mrs Phil {. Baird, Mr.
and Mrs Edwin Vaile Mcintyre, Mr.
and Mrs Frank Nelson. Mrs. Mar
Gunther, Miss Inez kilRore. Miss Ann'
Keaton of Boston Miss Gertrude Ward
Miss Mildred Dects, Miss Iris Baugh-
man, Miss Ruby Could. Miss Eliza
beth Gould. Miss Mary OvcrholSer
MiSs Moreno Stanton Miss Eleanor
Smith, Miss Anna Gum, and Phi
Baird.
Miss Lucille Mckee Of l2OI North
Broadway proved a delightful young
hostess this afternoon when she enter
tanned members Of the High links club
on the wide veranda OF the Country
club.
The club members who joined Miss
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Miss Louise York Of Denver Col,
Miss Nina Penn. Miss Janet Stuart
Miss airline Smith OF Kansas City and
Miss Geraldine Grennan.
= -
Mr. and Mrs George NJ Sutton o'
J207 Classen boulevard entertained
with an informal dinner last evening
their guests being DR. and Mrs Phi
C. Baird and Nj and Mrs Edwin +
Mckay
Es
Owing 10 the recent indisposiiion oi
Mrs II. i Daulton Of 4l9 West Eighth
street, the O'Clock luncheon which
Mrs. Daulton was 10 have rendered
members Of the L. {. T club today
has been postponed until Wednesday
August IA
A crowd OF the younger Get enjoyed
a picnic supper last evening at North
east park, motoring out and returning
during the cool o. the evening Ihos,
who formed the informal party are
Miss Glory Huckins, Miss lcanet,,
Sparrow Miss Margaret Hoffman. Mis-
Mary Louise Coates, MIS-, Ruth Bulk