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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
WILL PROTECT NEGRO.
gUnserupu!ous Persons Preyins on
PROSPEROUS Southern Blacks.

L
Prosperous Southern Blacks.
Dallas, Tex, Aug. l.--EXplohation of
| the southern negro who has reached a
neWssstagei of iSrosperity as a result of
record cotton sprices and high wages
of the past few years has gained such
proportions that federal and state au-
thorties are, preparing for a drhe on
persons who swindle the negro out of
government war securities.
Unscrupulo,is statesmen have flooded
the south. telling the negro that his
liberty tbondsawar savings and thrift
stamps are OF less than face values
and offering 20 take them in exchange
for oil or mine stock or dazzling bits
of jeweiry.
Negroes allathru the south bought
freely of government securities Some
times they, did not know just what
they were buying, negro leaders, say,
but knew the. government wanted
money and.i quickly enIptied iheir
purses. SON esS bought they Werssgiv-
ing instead Of investing.
They were. better off than ever be-
fore. Those who had farmed on
shares the preceding years had OBJ
tanned more money for their cotton
than they. eycr expected to, possess
and those who worked for wages in
the fields were paid twice the wages
Of a few years ago.
A letter just sent out by Prof F. L.
R,ackshear II the negro extension
work in Texas says negroes are be-
I ing offered, cheap and often worthless
goods with the assurance that their
savings stamps and, berry honda ara
not of par Value and will not be for
several years. 1t is then casually sux-
gested by statesmen that the negro
may be dead before his holdings reach
par value and emphasis is laid on the
enjoyment he Mould get by Immediate
purchase of their goods, possibly
cheap trinkets, a worthless sewing
machine or i.usical Instrument.
Professor !slackshear has written
circular letters sto the leaders OF the
race in the state urging immediate ac-r
ton to stamp cut the evil by a cam
paign of education.
The investigation 30 far has not dis
closed enemy Tropagands, behind, thu
exploitation but the injurious effect on
the \ government campaigns has
aroused the ire of state and federal of,
ficials
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

49,. .Er - 1 j y 4
almost, of the Eurasian continent.
Thus the historian has been given
a large and interesting mile post to
build in the future. but for the average
American. the news OF the day shows
that this interest is purely abstract It
having been definitely decided. upon
due and formal consideration, that a
complete defeat Of Germany was nec-
essary to democracy In the world, the
nation has not even remembered prec-
edents OF history or, traditions of the
past. 5
Apparently, the man least inclined to
consider that have beenS the soldiers
who have gone grayely but with good
cheer into the valley OF the shadow
overseas, and there are making good
the purpose.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
GAIUn LAKE is BIG AFFAIR
Reese rvoIr, Built by Americans, Far
outdoes Anything Else, That the
Il World Has Known.

TIE government fisheries bureau Is
planting Gatln lake with fishes. !, The
first shipment for the purpose. made
by Steamer tile other day, consisted OF
catfish, sunfish, carp and black bass.
all OF lingering" size. The bass were
spianteds IN the Chagres fiEeE the prin-
scipa tributary OK the lake.
8 a Pharaoh Of the twelfth dynasty
constructed ii reservoir tknown today
% Lake Meeris) which scovered So
sqha re- miles. Itswas Id sartincal lake,
regarded in its day 40 ,sone Of the
onders OF the world, and was de-
signed stsregulate the flow OF the Nile.
In dts ,wax.it was the most remark
able engineering achievement of an
tfQuty. Bat GGtun lake. on. the line
Of the Panama canal. beats 1t. being
about three times as big. Its object
10 slntlar-iaameiy. to take care Of
the food waters of the Chagres river
and prevent them from doing mis-
chief.
& Gatun lake. 10 the largest artificial
body Of water ever known In the
world. It is. in fact the most ihpor-
tan feature Of the tranststhmian
canal. extending two-thirds Of the dis
tame from the Caribbean sea to the
Pacific ocean.
II. occupies a basin that vas dry
land before the canal was built; and
because the area covered by it is very
hilly and geographically irregular,
1t stretches ina multiple of arnds far
up into its rnarshy shores.
One reason why Its shores are
mal'shy IL that In Its shadows there
develops with astonishing luxuriance
kind Of grass which sends out run
ners in all directions. On this, account
its banks IRE not easily accessible
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Allied A;rplanes
Soon to Carry Bombs;
Effective War Weapon

Correspondence Associated Press.]
With the American Army in England,
Aug. ALMOST every airplane used by
the allies soon will carry bombs Elk
perts in aerial warfare are convinced
that the general efficiency of the corps
will be increased If bombing device
is added to every plane sent out, even
tho it be of the type once intended
only for recognizance work, and Amer;
leans now training in England are be-
ing as carefully drilled in bombing as
in handling a machine gun.
Lessons learned during the resistance
offered in the recent offensive have
served to increase the already high re-
gard of both British and American Off
GERS in the. air service for the low
flying bomb carrying craft, and, over
the camps and countryside where
aviators are being trained. planes are in
evidence almost every hour, dipping
down from high in the air and skim
ming the nearby country, barely miss
ing treetops and houses. 1t is the new
err lesson they are learning, and OBJ
servers back from the front where the
allied planes did such remarkable work
not only In scouting and distracting the
enemy but actually in breaking up for
nations and at points checking the on
ward movement have urged concentra-
ton on that form of training.
British trainers, detailed to American
aviation camps, have been liberal in
their praise-of the new niers froR over
seas, their only criticism being that the
Americans are "a bit too KEEN Their
tendency has been to go in for flying
stunts rather too early in training, but
even this the trainers have admitted
is a valuable fault. altho one, not to be
encouraged.
1t has been pointed out to thSAmerf-
cans that team, work as we'll as in
|diyidual efficiency is a prime requisite
and the Americans have steadied them
selves to the routine their trainers have
found makes for general advancement
! If not for Individual applause. Fancy
flying, the acrobatic work that once
found favor and drew heavy gate re-
ceipts at aerial exhibitions in the
United States, still is taught but the
learning of that form of flying also has
come to be regarded merely as routine
and wholly incident to the steady low
flying desirable for attacking camps
and troops in formal ton.
Accidents have occurred In the camps
| where the Americans are being trained
and few men have been killed but
the records show that the percentage
| is far less in England than in the
United States. Those in training here
are inclined to attribute the difference
| more to luck than to anything else, al
| tho there also is pointed out the prob
| ability that the average airplane used
in England is better made machine
! than the average that has been used in
the United States.
The bombing devices being attached
to virtually every plane il, not the con-
trivance that was used in the earlier
days OF the war. That used then was
little more than a mechanism that sre-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
EalJLl

We had a new experiences the other
day when we picked % two boatloads
Of survivors from the. tcfpedoed
without warning. win ny they wese
pretty glad to see us whsns We bore
down on them. AZ Ne neared. they b.
gan to paddle franticaily. rs though
fearful we should be snatched away
from them at the last moment Tho
crew we're mostly Arabs and LAycAfAt
and the first mate, \ typical comicsmag+
azine Irishman. delivered himself a
the following: "Sure. toward the lase,
some o thin haythens gifts down -
their knees snd starts calling on Al
lah; but I SEE, sex I: Git mp afore I
swat We wild the ax-handie, - benight-
ed haythen; sure II this boat gits
saved 7 win be the Holy Virgin does
1T or none at all. at all. Git up SCI
IAN American Officer. Ia the Attain
fie,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Americans Fighting
ii Six Countries,
All il, Europe

Washington. Aug. 1.-The war map
with its trench lines struggling athwart
international boundaries shows Amer
lean dghting men holding their foot
fng on strangely alien soils. AS it now
stands army units Of the United States
are at their grim work in six countries.
France, Germany. &ussia, Austria,
italy and Belgium.
The swelling vcIume OF their move
ment overseas has been SO necessary
asresponse to the emergency OF the ma
tom responsibility, so thoroughly i'm
spilled Ny the original war declaration,
and - entirely natural a picture to y
people prepared by three years obser-
walton OF world war, that it may take
historians perspective TO visualize
completely the departure from tradi-
tions and the smashing of presidents
that the movement involved.
Checking the six, American artillery
has beer reported on the French line
opposite Mulhausen. several miles in
side the border of the German empire.
In Austria, the olive-drab uniform
supports Italian sectors which swing
round the toe of Lake Garda, and the
American filters have unanswered over
the Venetian lowlands where the Aus
trian drive was forced back this spring.
In Belgium. they have gone over the
top with Australians and in France
their forces in action now can be
counted by army corps. In Russia. at
Nladivostock and now on the frozen
reaches, OF the Thurman coast they are
putting disciplined force behind the
manifold manifestations Of national
purpose. Likewise, in England, Scot
land, and Ireland. they fill up the
school camps and prepare themselves
for action.
These men. drafted nearly all, are
the agents in the fart flung journeyings
) OF nation whose military history has
shown more than one instance in
which volunteers, ordered to cross a
boundary have sat down, private and
officer alike, to. debate the constitu-
honality Of a warlike expedition to for
eign soil, and still more instances
where militia organizations have sue
cessfully5 opposed national attempts to
send them beyond their own state lines.
Yet today, under the urge of the war
resolution which directed the admins
Atration ito exert all OF its power and
employ all OF its resources to carry on
war against the imperial German gov
eminent and to bring the conflict to a
successful conclusion drafted men and
volunteers have not raised a single
protest Of serious import
II was not until January Of the pres
ant year that the supreme court for
nerly Construed the constitution to al
ow any sort OF war operation the ma
ion desired to carry on, The court
,aid of contentious opposing that view
4 that they were too frivolous 70,
j notice..
Yet long before the decision the first
1rafted American had fallen in battle
1 overseas and legjons more had
streameti after him TO every quarter.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
TINES REPUBLICAN, MAKSHALITt,WN, IOWA AUGUST 1918

leased the projectIie, allowing IT to fail
at a point approximately near the tar
get. The device now being used is one
with which the operator may with
much practice become almost as pro-
icient in craftsmanship as an artillery
man is with his gun. Almost every fight
plane will carry bombs of at least
twenty five pounds and from the heavier
types there will be hurled the huge con-
tainers of high explosive not materially
different from those used by the Ger
mans in some of the more recent raids.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Erea Of cha.n.

Any adult suffering from cougn, cold
or bronchitis. is invited to call at the
Old Reliable drug store and get abso-
lutely free, sample bottle of Boschee's
German Syrup, a soothing and healing
remedy for all lung troubles. which has
q successful record Of fifty years. Gives
the patient a good nights rest free
from coughing. with free expectoration
A standard medicine for fifty years.
For sale in all civilized countries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Three seasona ln Year.

The Egyptian yearfwas divided into
three seasons. These were Shalt. the
season Of waters, being the time occu-
pied by the rising spread and recess
sion OF the Nile; Pirut, the season Of
vegetation the Shonmu, the season Of
harvest! These seasons are supposed
to have been arranged by the god Thot
Each season was divided into four
months and they were known In Official
documents by numbers only. Thus we
have the first second, third and fourth
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

months Of Shalt the mouths Of each Of
the other seasons being designated In
the same manner. Each month. how
ever, had patron god and the people
ordinarily gave to It, In their daily In
tercourse, the name OF its god. These
deity names OF the months we're tran
scribed into Greek. then Into Arabic
,and are, now largely, used by the CAris-
tian Inhabitants OF Egypt In pre6u.
ence to the Mussu.man appenations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

American Base Hospital No 6.
France. June is tBy MaiD-"B
please let me so back to set my
brother"
A young German fellow aged about
% was captured. He was received into
American lines and-wonder of won
ders-was given a cigaret and allowed
to live. The Americans were wild
fighters. not afraid of anything in the
world.
He expected to be shot momentarily
Nothing happened The lies told him
about Americans killing all prisoners.
aud all Of the other kultur tales, were
disapproved.
The reaction from the belief that he
ives captured to be murdered was so
great that he threw temerity aside and
accosted an officer. .
1t was a colonel.
"Please." he >quavered, 'sMay I go
over and get my brother as a pris-
oner?"
The colonel asked why he should. be
{ trusted.
'sir. my brother will be killed. muir
dered by insane orders. I would like
him safe, a prisoner with me. He is
younger than !, mere boy.
Captain Offers 70 Bring Company.
The colonel permitted the boy to go
back. 1t was an odd chance that he
would return. An hour later two Ger
mans. unarmed hands over head. came
lodging across no mans land. willing
. prisoners
At another point German captain
was captured. He gave, or rather had.
valuable information. He. too, was
ready to quit
In fact, he begged to be permitted to
go over to the German lines and get
his company and bring them back un-
armed ana willing prisoners.
However. he was a German officer.
and too valuable to risk such tenn
porarys release.
$50 Voluntarily Surrender.
Yet these two items show the state
/ OF mind of the German forces who
have been opposing. or rather have
Tense of the American lines.
At apDther point $50 Germans
walled over and gave themselves up.
L. lS lIIS nigh 1HNllSlIy pOWeTS anu
the German rnoneyed people who are
keeping us IN this war" said one pris-
oner.
thousands OF German soldiers
would give themselves up. We know
the French have told the Americans
not to take any prisoners. We have
also been told the Americans never
take any prisoners. hut Kill everyone.
We have been He'd &c" this prisoner
continued I'VE are sick Of the war,
so is all Germany"
Aospitat Patients Swap Yarns.
Boys in from the front are today
{ limping around the corridors Of this
great hospital, hunting up pals, swap
ping yarns and Just generally living
embodiment Of that old college yell.
Are we downhearted. No."
Smiles. grins, American laughs
everywhere.
You hear tales which make the
!. weirdest fancy Of fiction writer's Of all
ages sound like Sunday school lessons.
when I Ieft on the 18th we were
pushing the Hum back, and burying
their dead in the territory we took
from them. Why the yellow
haven't got the CUTS to fght." said one
1 chap out of the engineers.
Nssws Filters Thru.
It has been established as fact be-
s Wound any question that the Germans
have actually chained men to machine
guns or feldpieces to make them fight.
There you have the difference be-
tween the boche and Americans. It
has been, almost necessary at times to
chain the .'buddies" to keep them from
private little engagements of their own.
From all sides you hear stories OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Human Nature.

It is human nature to want to throw
something. The babe of yesterday
which startedfn by throwing its dishes
on the floor is today throwing ball.
tomorrow he will be throwing a brick
and 1t won't be long before he is man
throwing the bull.-Philadelphia In,
quirer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
Ruvino "on Tiekn

Buying "on tick" IS not new slang
but goes back to the seventeenth cen-
fury. 1t is stated in. letter dated
1861: THE Mermaid Tavern is late
~ broke, our ticks amounting. to
1900" And in another document a
little later it is said: Every one
runs upon tick"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

Pity the Sorrows Of The poers
IT is reported that 5000. 600 worth
fjewelry was stolen In New York last
cay. Horrible! Now we shall have
. spend q lot Of time worrying over
be sorrows Of the. poor people from
shom It was stolen.-Dayton News
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01
And ProbabIx Spoke rruth,

Miily"Men are more conceites'
than women Billy Nonsense. Ey,
cry man at some time in, his life has
told some woman he wasn't WORTHY o
her.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

shows some of Englands gunners
stripped to the waist under oroiling
sun. shifting a six -inch howitzer while
Smelling German position and giving
their men and the American infantry q
chance to land another telling blow.
The lower photo shows French artil-.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

House Many Centuries Old.
What Is believed to be. the oldest In.
habited residence In the world il Z
mansion in Germany that Was built Ia
700.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

[lerists mounting field piece. the tyAs
which has been psed to great advant-
age m hurting big shells at the retreat
ing enemy The French. despite mo
apparent rugged nature Of the country.
have pittle trouble noving the mAn-
moth guns.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-08-01

be overcome
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-03
OLDEST OFFICE BOY NEVER
LATE: NEVER LOAFS ON JOB

When an office boy can't get Off
TO 10 To tho circus with the oil
stall about grandmother sick" he's
a kid out OF luck.
That's the fix Grant I. Tasgart IL
In. He's No years old-the most ven
cradle office boy In tho world. bar
none. Aud office boys. his age,
cant refer 60 grandmothers. and
get away with H.
Taggart. after nm active life aa
stage driver and miner and poll
tician In Northern California. tried
TO enlist at tho outbreak Of tho war.
but. for some reason or other. was
refused, nltho he told the recruiting
officer that. n they'd put him on a
horse. he'd "stick there TIL we get
Co Berlin"
stunning inactivity. he went 20
W. r. AiberEcr. vice prcsident and
general manager OF tho Key
Route" big traction system on the
east shore OF san Francisco bay.
Haven't anything for you unless
you want to be my office boy" naid
the traction official.
AN right" replied TnRgart Per
haps II will release younger man
for active service over there"
lilo got the job. and Aibcrger snys
he's the best office boy he ever had.
Hes always on the Job,
A quarter OF century ago he
was member Of the Legislature and
served three terms aH Shasta county
clerk and ono. an clerk OF tho MI.
prprue court. lie ~ now a candidate
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-03
MOTHERS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

o W Angora
nd l rusa "a IT,
But -veraly b-fo. the ser got he
"N~rtoisn" anywhere tho
Ny wi and We a travelled SOME
grandeur that Home
for things at home
made search
didn't thing match the Presbyterian church
coioEnss.
Abbeys. ehok full % human bones
where's the hhinT
sunday
go service. eating
o archtraVc~ pretty,
And hon dcan fail Equatorial perch
add "YoU ought rrSh1ierisn church,
They us m Of floors
tnrr-ted and hg all outdoora
had laid
a old place had
nd responded. Very pretty
would hostile auk
Now closest search.
modern ixins tho Presbyterian church
,h~y,o to to tho and
It's
OF Creation
rsuch puny mother Its pretty,
nu In don't be greedy
Andi n ONE cncyeiopcciy.
nd IA resrarch
Of tho Presbyterian church
OF course okcd hers and. ONE a
told tho her Very pretty
her committee
But a is iookin at
ia ~ cornmonoHt old hat
Presbyterian church,
Copyright 1919 n. y. ~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1918-08-03

In France and England they re
gard II ~ already a settled Ihlng
that after the war Belgium shall
once again be placed under their eco
nomlo surerainty. As opposed to
this. Germany will take tho stand
point that ahe and Belgium AFRO unit
ed by system Of nerves and mus
Gle. that cannot be broken except to
the sovorcst injury Of both.
Tho railways from the southwest
20 IN. Scheldt. as also the line from
Cologne via AK la chapelle. Liegc
and Brussels 20 the coast. which con.
sutute what one may term "the iron
Rhine" mean for Germany commu
nication with the FREQ ocean and
with the world market which No can
never abandon
Germany would 10 committing
suicide were she Ia allow the door to
the open ocean TO be closed and To
hand tho key to an enemy. Tho iiel
gian railways and ports mus, remain
In German hands. or. at least. they
must 10 placed permanently under
German influences. Otherwise We
should have TO look toward Holland
for oompcnnationN