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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
II HAPPENED Al WEBSTER CITY.

Webster City now knows that coal
is scarce, To paraphrase an advertts-
ing slogan Her toes knows" for Web
ster Citys toes have been frosted
Factories. public utilities, school
houses, business and even homes were
cold
Now there Is as much money avail
able to buy coal with In Webster City
as in any ather town Of its size in the
United States The banks and the
pocketbooks We're full Of 1t and pretty
nearly everybody has credit in Webster
City That didn't get any coal when
the coal was gone. The fire went out.
And when the coal was all" as the
PENNSYLVANIA Dutch say, You couldn't
have heated the house with a $4,000
bill. That's just how much money is
worth when there isn't a scutue OF
coal left and rome to be had until the
miners get out and the railroads hrins
it thru the drifts.
Probably those were in Webster City
who had dismissed the warnings Of the
coal cOnservat!onists with a wave of
the hand and the loose assertion that
20, we've got plenty of coal here The
ancestors Of those same fellows airiry
predicted that the beginning Of the
Flood was only a shower
1t wouldn't have mattered so much II
the food and the freeze had caught
only those cocksure parties that know
i; all by pure instinct and without IN
vestigation or Information. That's the
trouble. Flood and coal famine do not
take account Of desert. When the
water gets high enough we all swim
or drown and when the weather drops
down to twenty below we fire UP or
freeze. All Of us.
And do you notice In this conserv-
alton of coal that The essential bust
nesses and industries are the ones that
make the grand effort to save coal and
that the on-essential ind parasitic
businesses insist on peculiar privilege?
Il is time to think. time for the pri-
vate citizen and the industriahst owner
and employee to investigate and think
It over. When the shop shuts down
rot only the profits but the wages stop
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
Topics of the Times

That Russian news stuff should be
brought to the attention of the ad
clubs.
The suggestion is that Mr.. B., would
be effective in 3-nch emplacement
but that a larger caliber gun Is neces-
sary for the long range work.
Nevertheless an ak In the hand beats
a rifle in the factory when the bear Is
mad and coming your way; and
Lewis gun would stop a German charge
better than a Browning that hasn't
been assembled. It's like the Texan
man who assured the tourist that when
he needed gun In Texas he needed
it bad and right away.
Wall street is inclined now to the be-
lief that some $4,000. 100000 in bonds
will be offered next month. and another
$4,000, 900, 900 in June. AS to the next
interest rate. that is troublesome
problem. AS the outstanding 4 per
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
has been common property Tor weeks
and perhaps months.

ana perhaps months.
England tried out the same stupid GEN.
sorship. The result was disaster in war,
The result was disaster in war
wreck of ministries, change Of leaders
and in time disregard of the censor
ship. When Britain knew the situa-
ton the British settled down to the
strict business of war, unified, deter
mined. strong. And so will we.
The press has given itself unre-
servedly to the winning Of the war. 1t
has offered and given millions and
millions of dollars worth Of its adver-
Using space, devoted its news columns
and its editorial pages to the bond
sales. 1t is true to the government and
to the administration without regard
to party. But it has a duty to the
country, a responsibility Of it's own. 1t
reserves and deserves the right and
the duty to tell important news and
discuss important policies and explain
situations as it sees them when it can
be done without advantage to the
enemy and with advantage to the
United States Of America.
This country can not afford czarism
of the press. 1t will not grant It and
should not grant it, The press is as
much to be trusted as aQy other
estate
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
RIPPING RHYMES
By Wait Mason
allI,a PROPHECY.

said
m Allies
you'll Britain
will mno!
What old England
We've ships to the bottom
dod don't care
needed days triumph to be win
hit ceiling
England kneng in less than years Oh
food 1T
spite OF all
floating tho
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
Masonic Meetings

VOlSofo AIW1yS "o'oo"e'
MARSHALL LODGE. No. 1903. A. F. &
A. M.-Regular communication, Friday
Jan. IS, 1870 o'clock. John w. Wells
secretary: B. E. English. W. M.
sIeNET CHAPTER, Ma. 80. r. A. NJ
Stated convocation Monday evening
Jan. 81. at 1880 o'clock. Business SEES
sion. Ira A. Davenport, H. P; John
w. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ, Mon
day. Jan. q, 1918, 7:30 p. m. Regular
business. l. T. Forbes, recorder: George
Gregory, I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE. St. AIdemar
Commandery, No. 30, X. r, Tuesday,
Jan. %, 1918, 7:30 p. N. Regular
business. I. T. Forbes, recorder; J. f.
Frederichs, commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. E.
S.-Regular meeting for business and
installation of officers wednesday,
Jan. 16. 1880 p. m. Mrs. George
Downing. secretary: Mrs. =. E. Fred
erick. w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
IMPERIALISM OVER PROPER PUBLICITY.

The bill giving the federal trade COM
mission power to supervise production
and regular distribution of print paper
was defeated in the senate. Previous
10 that the amendment placing such
power in the hands OF the president
has been defeated Senators saw in
both propositions an indirect manner
Of attaining lie and death power over
publicity which was asked and rejected
by the previous session.
IN short Il the Chicago Tribune
couldn't get news print paper Il couldn't
print news.
Just why the administration should
persist in attempting to gain an alb
soiut.sn1 over the press Of the country
is not plain from the standpoint Of high
motives. From the beginning of the
var the obsess!on appears to have
gr.pped official Washington that the
press should be handcuSed and leg
ship. And yet the press has main
,a!ned willing self censorship and an
uHexampled self repression purely from
patriotism and at times against its
own better understanding Of the people
and the situation. For the newspapers
and the men who make them DO know
and understand the people they serve
have their being in the WASHINGTON
atmosphere
Instead o: handing the press over
to an autoc:acy empowered to deny
the first necessity Of material to all
out the su5servIent newspapers much
| Of the present censorship should be
lifted. AS thinss stand the people are
disturbed and bew!ldered. There Is
much that might be published without
interference with military plans which
would relieve bew!iderment even tho
1t left disturbed minds. The fact is
that the foolish censorship which has
| been attempted has been one OF the
prime causes OF the delays and of the
lack Of complete unity behind the war.
II the people Of America may have the
truth and the whole truth outside of
| information actually to our military
disadvantage no lack Of unity will be
found. When they realize the true sit
uation they will meet It. And they
should have the facts Of the situation
here and abroad
The mails are loaded with alleged
press stuff sent out from this and that
governmental or semi governmental
department and bureau. Some of it
needs to be printed and is printed Most
OF it isn't newspaper stuff and never
was and never should be. So the waste
baskets are full Of good bond paper
and the efforts Of innumerable type
writer's and copyists. Most Of the stuff
Is not written by editors. Most of it
Is not written by newspaper men. Most
OF it is plain Junk and :s ;an,;;sa when
lit reaches its destination. Much OF II
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16

asked the expert squirrel shooter.
"He should be physically At and able
to handle gun"
II can I'LL those requirements all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16

and we can follow that out thru all
the peregrinations Of a dollar around
town. And dollar travels some
A week of snow blockade would set
all Iowa freezing. Just begin think
ing there
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-16
Modern Warfare.

Every man should be sufficiently
trained to rlght for his country II the
need should ever arise said the advo-
cate Of preparedness.
"Just what do you mean by that!
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Need for Food Production.

Farmers and their families who have
exerted themselves to an unsual ex-
tent to produce for war purposes may
not be so much inclined to exert them
selves to an unusual extent in peace
times. The impulse or the motive of
patriotism has been removed, or at least
will be no more than the ordinary kind
ly concern for the welfare Of the whole
brotherhood Of men. That is a very
beautiful sentiment, but it does not al
ways work to the stimulation of extra
ordinary energy. Under norma condi-
tons the price or the prospective profit
of an undertaking is the handspring Of
action. with continuing high wages
and with undated attractions in the
city places it may be a long time before
full proceedings Is restored in the rural
places. Indeed, it is by no means i'm
possible that only the stimulation OF ex-
traordinary prices for food will bring
about the necessary production. 1t may
come to pass that farming will become
so profitable that city people will be
induced to undertake II as a livelihood
in spite of It's disadvantages and its
isolation; in fact, that is the surest
means of restoring the equilibrium be-
tween country and city. the disturb
"aIce Of which has caused 30 much Ia
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13

ing somewhat from the restraint Of fed
eral departmental custom to utter a
word of warning against certain ten
denotes of this hour Of reconstruction.
| hardly know whether to be more
alarmed or more amused AT the IRE
quent expression OF assumption that
the government hereafter VIII do THIS
or that which heretofore has been done
by individuals or groups Of individuals
in the enjoyment Of ME, liberty and
the pursuit OF happiness. The dan
ger Is not that the body polite VIII
initiate, but that it Will accept as a
foregone conclusion many vagaries that
would dissolve under the acid test OF
critical analysis.
1t Is perfectly clear 20 any unbiased
and observing mind that the war has
taught us new uses for governmental
organization, and that the government,
both federal and stale, Will more and
more do for the citizen in all the fields
Of welfare what he can not do for
himself. II Is equally clear that policies
of government will be less and less
controlled by traditions and outworn
rules adopted when there seemed to be
reason to fear that Gemocracles might
degenerate into mobs. I have no fear
Of Bolshevik communism In enlightened
America, but ] do fear the hasty en-
bracing OF 80 many new devices, con
lIdIS " HuIldI IlllpSpDH9 anu E'N'l ~
mental faculty, which gain support
merely because they are new and be-
cause the sweep OF governmental war
activities carries the u~nthinking mind
into a state Of ComplaCent acceptance
Of the novel and the daring The gov.
eminent has discharged IT, war tasks
SO well n has exercised so many pre-
negatives that there Is II disposition to
assume that the government Can do all
things well and that there is "A virtue
inherent In the government which Is not
Inherent in the people, That is the
German fallacy of "all might or gov
ernmeRtal omnipotence and omnis-
ciencc. and when put to the test In Il
democracy 1t will prove as ~disappOtnt-
ing. and may be as %tyranniCal. as in
autocracy.
This world will still be a world Of
struggle and sin. Neither congresses
nor leagues of peace can create pros
perity, for that Ia the product Of labor,
manual and mental, nor decree right
eousness, for that Is Of the spirit, per
sonal and subjective. Industry and
! morality are still the means of com
fort and culture in earthly existence,
and no form of government or society
that the wit Of man can invent will
take their place. As well expect the
soil to yield its product without break
ing and c~ultiYating or children to be
born without travail and old age to
come without weakness.
1t took us two and IA half years to
discover that our fa,c was bound w
in the fate Of other free peoples, Let
us not make the mistake of assuming
that, having slain one monster, all mon
sters are exterminated. Above all, lei
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13

us not assume that the United States
-uIn IL "a. sreal snd only Jack the
Giant Killer, For my part, feel most
humble In the presence OF other ma
lions that suffered the agohles OF near
Crucirixiou before we realized our peru
and our duty
Tho lesson for us az n people Is hat
our form of government and our mass
virtues nave been indicated. we nave
not attained perfection, but we are on
tho right way Of progress n happl-
ness. Our next forward step, 1t seems
TO me. Is to make our government more
useful to ourselves without abandoning
our oDportunitIes for individual achieve
ment, and to make ourselves more help-
ful to one another. Cooperative Rroup
action viii serve better than patefnal-
ism, for ii will give the strength OF the
mass without surrenderiUg individual
rights or local powers.
We discovered n short year or so &
that much Of our idealistic thinking
about sociological problems, both do
nestle and foreign, had strangely over
looked certain facts ana conditions OF
realism. In many OF our universities
! and colleges the very well springs OF
thought had been poisoned by a malign
German purpose to make the Whoie
world paCifist and nonrosistant to her
purpose Of conquest, Many men Of in
telleCtual attainment had brought them
| selves to profess n sublimated concept
Of nternationalism without love OF
| country or rate. Even now there are
those who would revive the cult of so
| Cialism that has proved impotent for
peace in Germany and II another name
for anarchy In Russia. In spite of these
tragic demonstrations Of fallacy, the de
fusion persists that some new social
order may take the place Of police
power, that the fiat OF government may
supply the lack Of personal energy and
virtue that this blessed land is In the
grip Of capitalistic Conspirators.
Let us set ourselves firmly against all
such misChieVOus nuttsense, or II Will
work our uudoing This la the freest
country upon the earth; this Is the best
government ever devised by the wis
dom OF man under the providence Of
God. 1t has just saved the world from
bondage and shame. its service, Its
strength and its leadership have won
the gratitude and the admiration Of all
civilized and aspiring people; at this
very moment its arm is the miRhtiest,
it's voice the most persuasive and its
stature the tallest in all the earth. Let
us ConseCrate our lives anew to its
ideals, let US swear our children to
cherish and defend II as our fathers
in blood and sacrifice. wrought II and
as we in Our turn have preserved II,
and thus humbly and resoluteiy, with
Gods help. let us strive 20 prove worthy
Of the victory We a won,
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
MOURNED FOR DEAD
SERGEANT IS ALIVE

Believed to be dead since Nov. II,
Sergt. R. NJ. Williams. son OF Mrs. Alice
G. Williams, $50 Cambridge street,
wrote home Thursday to his mother the
welcome news that he was recovering
from severe wounds received on that
date.
Mrs. Williams had been informed in
a letter from France that Sergt. Will
liams had died of his wounds. In Sergt.
Williams letter he told how a large
shell, bursting while he was engaged
in cleaning out machine gun nests, split
the flesh and bone in his leg.
He has been in France fore than a
year and in the scrap a little over 10
months. He is a brother to City De-
tective Ira Williams.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
A PLEASURE TO
RECOMMEND It
Arkansas Woman Says Lung
Vita Best Medicine She
Ever Saw.
CONVINCED BY FEW DOSES
No One Will Be Disappointed
If They Give It a Trial,
She Says.
CONVINCED BY FEW DOSES

1T affords me pleasure to recon-
mend Lung-Vita to anyone suffering
with any form of throat trouble. A
few doses convinced me of its curative
powers says Mrs, j. A. Clark, for
merry of Eat South Wellington, Mem
phis, Tenn, but now of Dermott, Ark.
For colds, coughs and soreness in
the chest, Lung-Vita is the best medi-
cine I ever used. l think it is the best
medicine l have ever used of any kind.
Anyone using it for any of the above
complaints will not be disappointed in
giving it a trial"
LAng-Vita is highly recommended
for coughs, colds, asthma, whooping
cough and bronchial troubles. 1t gives
quick relief, and the relief is perma-
nent. The medicine is perfectly harm
less and n child can take it. Is eco
nomical, too-a small bottle will last
a long time.
Your druggist or dealer should handle
Lung-V H. but if he won't supply you,
write n Bhville Medicine Co, Nashville,
Tenn, for free booklet. adv.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Must Look Ahead.

: He Is a foolish mar who makes pre-
else predictions of economic develop
ments, especially in a time Of such wide
waste and dislocation. Still, we must do
our best to see a little way INTO the
future or we will be merely Laundering
in daily confusion. 1t is plain to be seen
that the food supplies produced in 1918,
including those in Australia, India and
Argentina, now to be moved by released
ocean tonnage, will not be more than a
scant sufficiency If conditions will per
nit orderly distribution. Not only are
the eupboards empty, but the very
cracks are empty n appetites are ra
venous. Looking beyond this years
production, my guess is that European
production of cereals will appreCiably
increase next year compared with this
year, though It can hardly reach the
pre-war volume because of the loss OF
| man power, the lack Of implements,
work stock, seeds and fertilizers, and
the dire need for labor to reconstruct
habitations and industries. | am as
suming that Middle Europe will soor
come to order. Certain it Is that We
must furnish Europe with large supplies
| OF meats and fats until such time as she
| can restore her herds.
While European rehabilitation may
be effected Immediately, our 1000 OO(
men In France can hardly be demobil'
lied in time to restore normal farm la
Dor conditions for the next years plant
ino and cultivation.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Specter of Starvation.

Such experiences throw agriculture
into the perspective OF a new-or rather
and old but Experimentation of vast
significance. Not once, but several times
during the last four fateful years, the
cause of civilization and human freedom
as 1t Is conceived by democratic peoples
trembled and staggered in the faintness
of neal famine. 1t was news of hunger
at home as much as seductive German
propagandism in Italia lrredenta that
caused the Italian debacle last autumn.
1t was hunger as well as ignorance that
caused the Russian collapse. The Lon
don Daily News lately has said, only
those in the inner councils of the min
istry of food know how the speCter Of
starvation haunted us last winter, how
~perilously near we were to disaster, how
our fate and the fate of our allies hung
upon the capacity of the United States
to feed US" 1t was near famine as
well as near military exhaustion that
caused Bulgaria, Austria n Germany
to abandon autocracy, embrace democ-
racy and accept the humiliating peace
Of the utterly beaten. The food crisis
had been approaching for years before
the war because the world in general
and the United States in particular had
begun to worship idols of wealth in the
fashion Of speculative commerce, indus
trial exploitation and easy living En-
Cept for the efforts of a few scientists
and economists. who were almost as n
voice crying in the wilderness, every en-
lightened nation except Germany had
been guilty Of more or less neglect Of
agriculture, and Germany had developed
it only as the instrument Of a malign
purpose of world war. 1t Is to the eN-
erlasting credit of the United States,
through the wisdom of the United
States department of agriculture and
the land grant agricultural colleges, that
we had an organization sufficient for
the emergencies, The American farm
ers in spite Of reduced man power and
increasing difficulties responded to that
leadership with increased acreage and
harder work, and the American people
responded cheerfully to the appeals and
the regulations Of the food adminIstra-
ton and so, on The whole, we contrived
to save the world from the dominion of
the beast
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
HAD REASONS.

"Jurd R~ackledaffer's oldest girl got
married last night" related Gap John.
son, Of Rumpus Ridge, Ark, who was
in Tumlinville on a shopping expedi-
ton.
"Ah' Who was the happy man?
asked the editor OF the Torch OF Lib.
erty.
"Jurd, reckon Leastways, when
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
LINCOLN BIRTHPLACE MAN SAYS vim
HEPATICA CURED HIS RHEUMATISM
Had Suffered for Six Years Without ReIief-Took Vim
HepatiCa Prescription Which Quickly Cured Him.

James S. Daugherty, well-known con-
tractor and builder near Lincoln Birth
place, ~Hodgensville, Ky, say he feels
better than he ever did since he was a
young man, and can do more work as
the result of taking Vim Hepatica.
Il had rheumatism and indigestion
very badly for five or six years, but
could get no relief" writes Mr.. Daugh-
erty. SBy taking Vim Hepatica l have
been made to feel so much better that
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13

| do. more work than since / was a
young man. | gladly recommend the
great Vim Hepatica prescription to any
one In my condition."
Just such testimony as this is COMING
in from every quarter where people are
taking his truly wonderful remedy
Come in. get a bottle, and try it on our
recommendation.
Weiss Pharmacy. Main street and
Unlon avenue, this city. adv
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13

rid by his place this morning | seen
him standing on his head in a fence
corner with his heels waving in the
air. And, as Jurd is all of 10 years
old, | don't low that grief would drive
him to cutting such capers as that"
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Still Their Favorite

Cigars-Samelson's Tadema, Extra or
Julia Marlowe, in Xmas boxes. An
sizes and prices. adv,
-lmlILn N. l-mnm-an ---nn-n --nrnuu1-u.u. NJ.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-12-13
Why Hesitate?

You know he wants Samelson's fine
Havana cigars Xmas. Julia Marlowe,
Tadema or Extra Order tbem now.
Carolina watchman. [volume] (Salisbury, N.C.) 1871-1937, 1918-05-22
Ne RV0US
PR0SrR RATION
May be Overcome by Lydia
E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound - This
Letter Proves 1t.

West Philadelphia, Pa. -"During the
thirty years have been married, | have