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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
Iowa Newspapers
FRATERNAL AMENITIES.
IIPella Chronicle. ]

A friend says that man recently
came into his office with a bologna
sausage wrapped up in Pella Booster
and that it was the best thing he ever
cav in that paper.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
Concerning the Farmer.

Let us not be deceived by poIiti-
cians or self conceit Farmers are
not perfect. Nor have they monop-
oily upon honesty and integrity. As q
ciass have the uTI f;iiitthiiffai as @ee!!
rs the faithful. the deserving as we'll
Ms the slothful, the dishonest as we'll
as the honest. Men are not perfect
In any ccupation.--Fvrh"nge
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
LIKE j. RUFUS wALLlNGFoRD.

tPella ChroniCle.l
It's hard for us TO take the Non
partisan League" seriously. For an
organization to come into a rural COM
munity and endeavor to get the
horny handed sons of toll to dig up
SIC in real money for the privilege OF
joining a political party is too much
like J. Rufus Wal'ingford or the comic
movies to be treated with anything but
ridicule. 1t is said TO have worked
among the lonely homesteaders in
North Dakota, where just to belong to
something is considered relief from
the monotony of existence. Also the
Swedes of Minnesota may have fallen
for it; but that an Iowa farmer who
rides to town in a six cylinder car and
has an income tax should pay tribute
to a cheap graft like that-well, we'll
have to be shown that's all.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
THE RuINAToN OF THBM.

About the most silly expression we
ever heard was that we don't want
the children to work as hard as we
had to-" Why the hard work was what
made you worth while and it is the
only thing that will make your KIDS
worth while. 1t is all right to give
the boy and girl better preparation
than the old folks had-times have
changed and the better preparation is
necessary to give the coming genera
tion an equal chance. but don't tell
them they will not have to work. That
has ruined more than one boy and
more than likely a girl or two.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
]. M. HOLT
Attorney-at-L Law

Attorney-at-Law
rs West Main Street, Marshailtown, la.
General law practice. Careful atten-
ton given to EXAMINATION OF Alb.
STRACTS and the management Of
ESTATES and PROBATE, matters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
DON'T DEBATE-TAKE II
Estate Line Herald.

The Shenandoah Sentinel-P tells
Of a member of the Junior Red Cross
in that town who was long in joining
the ranks. The spirit was willing. but
the money was lacking. One day he
appeared with surplus of pennies
which he offered his teacher. Where
did you get all these?" she asked.
Matched pennies and won them last
night" was the answer. The pennies
were accepted, and the Sen tinel Post
raises the question of tainted money,
but votes in the negative itself. This
reminds the Herald Of a story: \
preacher in the wild and woolly west
was soliciting funds for his church
when well-known gambler. with a
wink to the bystanders, stepped up to
him and said: PEARSON. here's 300
won at poker last night. If you wiE
accept it, you can have it, Thanks"
said the preacher, as he pocseted the
money, God moves in mysterious
way His wonders to perform Moral:
Never look gift horse in the mouth"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11

eff the Japs want to get into the
east end of Russia, for the GOOD
lords sake let them go says the Britt
Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11

The Knoxville Express suspects that
there is more exuberant too.Ishness
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
BE STOPPED BY PRAYER.
TDeS Moines CAPITAL.

The people Of the United States put
in two and half years praying and
waving handkercniefs and shouting for
peace when the country ought to have
been at war. Now the people of the
United States must put in two and
half years OF blood red war when we
should be praying and shouting for
peace. There are some people VINO
shouted for peace two years and half
who tried to pray the Germans out Of
the fighting mood. They are attempt
ing the same thing even now. They
are like the Russians. They think
when they announce that they won't
fight that Germany won't fight. But
as soon as Russia announced that she
wouldn't fight Germany ordered out
her armies and commenced shooting
the Russians as tho they were jack
rabbits. The citizens of the United
States have made the mistake OF cup
posing that the men and women who
manage Germany have hearts, while
they have neither hearts nor consci-
ences: they only have guns and am
billions. And what would you think of
a country which Boldly announces that
a crime committed in the. interest OF
the government is not a crime !? Gov
ernments ought to set examples of
honesty instead OF proclaiming that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11

"The senate of the commonwealth
er--statc Of Wisconsin having OFFICIALLY
condemned him, let the dark, grim
pail Of silence fall again" advises the
Sioux City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11

To the Anamosa Eureka: 1T begins
to look as though Congressman Good
OF this district will have no opposition
for a denomination. He holds the
pivot of the Fifth district vote, in Linn
county, and while he holds his fances
together there he hasn't much to worry
about
The worst feature of the league
entire program is that the leaders are
hiding behind the skirts of the farm
ers" points out the Gledden Graphic.
When one of them is arrested on a
charge OF disloyalty he immediate
ly sets up the cry that the farmer
is being prosecuted. What an m
suit to the intelligent farmer OF the
middle west to try to make it appear
that he approves of such pro-German
actions! They may get by with such
stuff with some of the North Dakota
farmers but we believe the Iowa farm
ers is far too intelligent to be LED
astray by the league or it's teach
inSs. Our guess is that they VIII
keep their sixteen dollars and buy
war savings stamps rather than 10
turn the money into the Golfers OF the
North Dakota agitators."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
Member Of the Associated Press.

The Associated Press is exclusively entitled
to the use for republication of all news dis,
patches credited to it not otherwise crediteo
in this paper and also the local news pub
lished herein.
All rights OF republication of special dea'
patches herein are also reserved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
TIE Collar Ron.

II has been noticed that the collar
bone is more frequently broken than
any other bone in the body
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11

than fraft In this coffee fo- soldiers
fund. Nobody ever heard complaint
that the government rations do not
contain plenty OF excellent coffee al
ways" says the Express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-11
THIRD FLOOR.
DRS. FRENCH AND COBB
Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialists

Physicians and Surgeons
Room. 3o2 TO sos. Phone IS for the
following physicians and surgeons,
Or. M. u. CHESlRE
DR.. NELSON MERRILL
Or. II. n. NICHOLS
DR.. GEORGE M. JOHNSON
OR. q. s. GRoSSMAN
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06

state office at Columbus to the camp
office will make it possible to handle
applications from men from any part
Of the state.
The number of men needed i'm
mediately in any city, the kind of
work, hours, pay, etc, are all avail
able for men from that city. They
will be referred to work they find
acceptable through the Employment
Office in their home town.
Many of the 10000 men who are
expected to be demobilized during the
next two weeks will find their jobs
waiting for them, it is believed
Many, however, will not, and it is fol
these that the Employment Office is
being operated.
Men at Camp Sherman from Penn
sylvania, Indiana, Michigan and other
states will be handled through work
ing arrangements made with federal
employment directors Of these states
by the Ohio Central Office of the U
S. Employment Service.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
TAKE OLD MEN BACK-PLEA TO
EMPLOYERS

Columbus, O.-A plea to employers
to take back, as far as possible, former
employees who answered the call to
the army, has been issued by the U. S.
Employment Service for Ohio in con-
nection with the opening of an en-
ployment office at Camp Sherman for
the purpose of assisting men to jobs
as they are demobilized. Arrange
ments are being worked out by which
these employees now in camp may be
brought in touch with their old en-
ployers, if such is desired.
A plea also was issued to employers
of Ohio, small as we'll as large, to
register their labor needs, with the
nearest U. S. Employment Office at
once and to keep the Employment
Office posted as to any changes in
their needs during the coming weeks.
Over 10000 men are to be demobil-
lied at Camp Sherman during the
next few weeks and the Employment
Service is geared at top speed to
prevent, as far as possible, unemploy
ment resulting from rehabilitation.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
A. F. OF L. WILL CALL WORLD
LABOR CONGRESS

Washington. - Complying with in
structions of several conventions, the
A. F. of L. executive council will issue
invitations to the trade union move
ments of all nations to join with the
A. F. of L. in an international labor
conference to be held at the same time
and place that the peace conference
between the warning nations is held.
The purpose of this conference is
to consider and help in peace discus
sions and to establish new Inter-
national Trade Union Federation.
AS the A. F. of L. convention has
declared that at least five delegates
shall attend this conference, the exc
cutive council has selected the fol-
lowing from it's membership to rep
resent the wage workers of North
America:
President Gompers, Vice President
Duncan, Vice Presiden Alpine, Vice
President Duffy, and Vice President
Green.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
Employment Service
Placing Peace Labor

Washington. = Secretary of Labor
Wilson has asked the 1900 community
labor boards of the United States en-
ployment service to stick to their
posts "until the last unit of our fight
ing forces overseas shall have been
brought back to appropriate pursuits
of peace and the last man to be with
drawn from war service shall have
been given an opportunity of employ
ment for which he is best fitted to
serve"
"There is no instrumentality at the
governments disposal" continues the
cabinet official, $50 well equipped to
help in the process of transition from
war to peace as the community labor
boards, and at no time since the be-
ginning Of the war has the need of
such services been so urgent or the
duties imposed upon these capable of
performing them so imperative"
1t is proposed that these community
labor boards, through which workers
in .non-war work have been recruited
for war industry, will now be utilized
in the replacement in industry of both
soldiers and civilian war workers.
They will be used to gather informa-
ton in industrial localities necessary
to an intellect rehabilitation of the
army and war industry and the re-
distribution of workers. Arrange
ments have been made with the wal
department and the war industries
board whereby the community labor
boards in large industrial centers will
issue weekly reports on labor condi-
tions in their communities.
In supporting this plan Secretary OF
Labor Wilson says the country faces
the obligation to return to suitable
employment those whom, under the
stress of war, it induced to enter its
services in the field or in the factory
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
u. S. EMPLOYMENT SERVICE FOR
OHIO

Chillicothe, O.-Discharged soldiers
who haven't work to go to will be
given a chance to get in touch with a
job before they leave Camp Sherman
for home. AS far as possible, these
jobs will be in their home towns.
U. S. Employment machinery, which
has been set up in the central "Y'
auditorium, began functioning in con-
nection with the departure of the first
discharged soldiers for home. A com
plete corps of experienced employ
ment men, with the labor needs OF
practically every community in the
state at hand, are prepared to handle
applicants promptly.
Notices posted through the camp
and slides at camp picture shows anC
"Y" movies are calling the attention
of soldiers to the facilities offered al
the employment office and urging
them to ask about job before they
start home. Announcement of the
plans for helping the men to jobs are
also to be issued by company com
manders in the form of orders of the
day.
Daily reports of the labor needs Of
cities and communities through the
state, made by the local U. S. Employ
ment Offices and cleared through the
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
OrientaIS Can't Mold
American Sea Spirit

Washington.-Unit States Sena-
tor Fletcher, of Florida, chairman of
the important senate committee on
commerce, is alert to the value of the
seamen's law in developing an Ameri-
can merchant marine by making the
sea attractive to American boys.
Opponents of the seamen's law have
never abandoned hope of destroying
this legislation Their program for
merchant marine is ship subsidies
and the employment of the world S
cheapest labor to man American ships.
Senator Fletcher, together with other
friends of the seamen's law, realize
that this policy can not create an
American spirit that was so evident
in the early sea history of our country
In a recent statement on this sub
ject, Senator Fletcher said:
"The seamen's act of March 5,
1915, was the first emphatic declar-
alton by congress that the rights AID
interests of our seamen should have
recognition and be maintained. The
old policy drove Americans off the
ocean. 1t knocked our sea legs from
under us. The new policy is to call
our men back and say to them, You
shall be treated as decent citizens
"When they foreign vessel owners)
find their sailors leaving them in
American ports in order to obtain
American wages they will pay these
:, wages and we will soon equalize the
cost of operating American and for
eign vessels through raising wages
instead of by the old method, under
the former policy, of lowering wages
to the point of causing men to aban-
don the sea-"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
IMPORTANT RULING
l.. S. WAR LABOR BOARD HAS
EXTENSIVE POWER
Prior Appeal to State Commission
Bars Action is Opinion of
National Chairman

Neutrality-suspicious. Chairmen Taft
and Walsh of the national war labor
board have ruled that their board has
jurisdiction in the case of the Mime
apolis Steel & Machinery company VS..
its employees and it has no jurisdiction
in the case of the Twin City Rapid
Transit company versus its employees.
In both cases the employers insisted
that the board has no jurisdiction and
that existing Minnesota mediation
agencies are sufficient.
In the first named case the joint
chairmen hold that even if there is
state machinery to adjust the dispute,
the workers have elected to come to
the war labor board, and though
double jurisdiction results, this is not
an unusual procedure, as it exists in
state and federal courts of law. The
chairmen say:
"Does the fact that there is another
tribunal under state organization, as
above described to which complainants
(the employes) might have applied,
but to which they have not applied,
and which has taken no cognizance
of this controversy, oust this board
from the jurisdiction conferred upon
! it by the president? We have no hes
itation in answering this question in
the negative"
In the street car case the employees
plea that the board take jurisdiction
and hear evidence that an award may
be made is denied on the ground that
the Minnesota public safety commits
sion has considered the dispute at the
instance of the employees, and the
case, therefore, is still within the
jurisdiction of that body.
Probably in no case considered by
the national war labor board has so
much feeling developed as in these
Minneapolis disputes, because of an
especially bitter opposition to trade
unionism by large employing inter-
ests in that city and the workers
opposition to the state public safety
commission, which has arbitrarily ex-
tended an authority conferred upon it
by the state legislature. The original
intention was to aid in winning the
war, but the commission quickly
adopted an anti-union attitude, that
was indorsed by large employers.
Summed up, the boards decision
would indicate that workers may ap-
peal to the national war labor board
if they have not previously taken ad-
vantage of the mediation and concil-
iation machinery of their own state.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
UPHOLDS UNIONISM
SUPREMACY NOT MEASURED BY
GOLD OR COMMERCE
Industrial Power of Any Nation In
Proportion to Its Political
and Military Base

New York.-The trade union theory
that industrial power is the essential
factor in social movements and po-
itical success is strikingly illustrated
in an article written by ]. r. Finlay,
mining engineer of this city, and pub
lished in the Engineering and Mining
Journal, current issue.
The writer makes no appeal to emo
tion or sentiment, but declares, in the
bluntest manner possible, that ma
ton without industrial power is an
international nonentity, both from a
business, a political and military
standpoint.
AS an argument in support of trade
unionism, the article is a classic. 1t
rebuffs those who have attempted to
associate the unions with activities
that would dilute organized labor's
bedrock theory-industria power.
Mr.. Finlay says:
"The war has proved one thing so
thoroughly that we may take it for an
axiom-namely, that the mass of mill
tary power is about equal to the mass
of industrial power. The same organ
izing forces that create one create the
other. A weak industrial nation is
not a great military nation, and the
people who try to make it SO will find
that they are building up sophistry
On the other hand, a strong industrial
nation is not necessarily military
one, but that is a matter Of its own
option. 1t can be, whenever it wants
to be; and it will want to be whenever
it feels a necessity strong enough.
"Another axiom is that political
international infuence-is in
proportion to this interchangeable in
dustrial or military power. | say
power, not the assertion of power, OF
the use of it. The fact that some
clever leader in an inferior nation
may attract great attention in inter,
national affairs, and give his country
the appearance of power, may be
due wholly to the fact that some SUI
perior nation does not oppose him. Il
may have no reason to, or it may moi
have leader who can use it's power
another axiom is that the indus
trial power of a nation is not meas
ured by gold or by foreign trade OF
by bank statements. 1t is simply the
producing capacity of the people
which will be a function of their num-
bers multiplied by their efficiency anc
again by their national resources"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
TO RESUME U. S. BUILDING

Washington. = The ban on public
building construction has been lifted
by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo,
who directs subordinates to invite
bids for the construction of new
buildings and extensions authorized
by congress.
"The resumption of construction
work by the government" says Mr..
McAdoo, twill contribute toward
facilitating the industrial transition
of the country from war to a peace
basis, and should serve to encourage
others to undertake without delay the
fulfillment of the many and varied
industrial peace needs of the country"
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1918-12-06
LABOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS
Committee of California UniOniSts Offer COmpre-
henSive Reconstruction Plan

Land Taxation-Tax idle land and
land held for speculation for the pur-
pose Of placing "a larger share of the
burden of taxation on monopolistic
wealth at it's chief source"
State Land Colonization-To give
"tO those of our soldiers who so de-
sire an opportunity of gaining di-
rect economic interest in the soil they
have defended with their lives"
Public Ownership-"W insist upon
public ownership of public utilities
and all properties incidental to their
operation We demand retention by
the federal government of the rail
roads, express and telegraph COM
panies."
Manning Our Merchant Marine
"The merchant and naval seamen
who served our country in time Of
war-who voluntarily manned our
ships bound for submarine-infested
waters-must be given the same pro-
lection against competition with cheap
| Oriental labor as is given to the work
ers ashore. The seamen's act, instead
of weakened, should be strengthened
to the end that our young men who
have recently responded to the call
of the sea will be encouraged to re-
main there and make it their life
work"
Labor Representation-All appoint
i've state commissions should include
representatives of labor, because, it
is stated, "the issues drawn by the
aftermath of war make it more and
more apparent that labor cannot, with
assurance, look for the best pTotec-
ton Of its interests in matters of gov
ernment to any group outside itself. .
Progressive State Government -
eve insist that there shall be no
curtailment in the progressive and
humanitarian work of our state gov
ernment. Certain reactionaly forces
under the guise of economy, are right
now attempting to muddle and be-
cloud this issue. But they must not
be permitted to make thrift and
economy a slogan for reaction. We
want still better laws for the pro-
lection of the workers. To be spe-
cifc we demand the enactment of
every measure enumerated in the
platform of the California union of
producers and consumers.
The union referred to is an alliance
Of the California state federation OF
labor, the farmers educational and
cooperative union and the Pacific CO.
Operative league.
The economic and political plat
form of this alliance includes tax or
idle land, public ownership, co-opera-
tive organizations, absent voters law
farmer and labor representation or
state boards and commissions, anti
injunction law, state health insurance
county experiment stations for the
development of horticulture and agri-
culture, free public employment bu-
reaus, development of irrigation sys.
TENS and constitutional sanction fol
safety laws.