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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04

too high--that two pairs OF shoes q
year. instead OF three would do. He
also thought the estimate was too high
for sugar and other items. Mr.. Morris
ought to read about the plan adopted
by Henry Ford. Mr.. Ford employed
thousands Of what are cllled Ignorant
foreigners" He increass~ .neir wages
and puts them into night schools, also
requiring every man to save a GER
tain proportion of his wages. The re-
suit is that Mr.. Ford has made skilled
workmen out Of the ignorant men; has
given them a new interest in lie. he
has also Americanized his employees
to the great advantage Of the country
We trust the investigation at Chicago
may awaken such young men as Nell
son Morris. aged rs, to the possibilities
of his industry in the direction OF help
ing the human race. The late Mark
Hanna dealt with these so called '1g-
norant foreigns" as If they were real
human beings and he never had
trouble with any of them. The pack
ing industry is wonderful in it's organ
ization and achievement In fact 1t IS
necessary for the country to have It.
The old plan Of killing hogs at home
is out of date and would be wasteful.
But the managers of these great or
Sanizations must be brought to under
stand their obligations to society. They
must make good citizens and good vot-
ers out of their employees and they
must give the children of parents who
are employed in packing houses a
chance to do something TOR themselves
and to get en- letter plane Of life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
tBy David Cory.l

Well Robbie Redbreast has just
stopped talking to me over the phone
SO I'm going to tell what that dread :
full thing was which happened to Uncle
Luckys house, as mentioned in the
last story. But before begin, let me
tell you what Robbie Redbreast told me
He said that Mrs. Redbreast had five
little blue eggs in their nest and had
promised to lay another one To-
morrow.
Well, now that I've had time to
think, I'll tell you what the two little
rabbits saw when they reached the
front gate Of Uncle Lucky's place. The
big tall brick chimney had fallen down
and smashed the little front porch all
to pieces. Wasn't that q shame? And
the croquet box, which stood under the
front window, was broken open and all
the balls were scattered over the front
lawn.
oh dear, oh dear, and q good cry
behind my blue silk polkadot handker-
chief" said Uncle Lucky. And then he
put the Luckymobile away In the
garage and went into the back door,
for he couldn't get in the front way.
YOU Know, because tnere was Dlk
tremendous pile Of bricks there, you
see.
"T'il help you fix your chimney" said
the Yellow Dog Tramp, who you re-
member was with Uncle Lucky in the
last story, and I'm going to keep him
in this story, can tell you, until he
mends that chimney, for it does a
tramp good to work once year, they
tell me. and sometimes a little oftener
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
Our Lesson.

The Russian menace is pitifuliy
broken. And as 1t lies there prone and
hurt we shall all begin for the first
time to realize what 1t was.
1t was not what anybody thought it
was.
1t was not the bear that walked like
a man.
1t was not the F'rankenstein monster
Germany imagined it to be.
1t was all the time the most naive,
wistful and confiding human thing in
the whole world.
people. It's attempts to touch their
hearts and souls, even on the battle
front with grooming Of freedom and
fraternity will be eternally pathetic.
And when 1t had failed in this. ard
with a gesture of infinite contempt
turned its back and started home, re-
fusing either to fight or to sign an inn
possible treaty Of peace-in that mo-
ment it produced one Of the gorgeous
pictures OF this war. one that will be
the despair of historians.
No German could understand it.
A German does not know what nom
resistance means. 1t may be trickery,
cowardice or hypocrisy, or all three to-
gether; he takes the coat also and
smites the other cheek, and then de-
mands for himself indemnities.
A German does not understand peace
by negotiation. He knows only subjec-
ton.
A German does not understand what
other people mean by propaganda He
thinks in terms Of corruption and In
trigue.
II Germany had only known how,
she might have enormously stimulated
among her enemies the thought of
peace by negotiation. She had only to
be generous with Russia But she does
not comprehend generosity to fallen
foe. She safes her lust upon the help
less.
And yet there Is talk in this country
Of peace by negotiation.-New York
Tribune
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
NOW TINE REQ CROSS MEETS EMERGENCIES.

Emergencies are what the American
Red Cross thrives upon. The proof OF
this assertion. says Captain Ednyfed
II. Williams, of Chicago, who is back
from France, is found in the way the
Red Cross is meeting the shortage Of
shipping.
His work over there was in the pur-
chasing department of the Red Cross.
AS the space on ships became less and
less available for the transportation OF
Red Cross supplies, it was necessary to
buy as much material in Europe as
possible.
1.-The Red Cross buys supplies in
France, England and Italy, and will do
so in Spain when negotiations are COM
pleted, because our government needs
every inch Of space on ships to trans
port troops and munitions" he ex-
planned. Everything is bought on
strictly business basis by men specially
trained in American industries, work
ing generally without pay.
"Our ability to give relief to Italy
when the Austro Germans suddenly
swooped down upon them last autumn
is accounted for in this policy of keep
ing our warehouses in France stocked
up Had we sat down and waited for
the time when enough ships would
have been available to get all our goods
from America the Italians would have
suffered UNNECESSARILY and possibly
would not have rallied as they did
following our relief work.
Every ton Of supplies we buy in
Europe makes one more ton available
for the American army and one more
ton available for the shipment from
America Of surgical dressings and 9TH
err Red Cross supplies made by Ameri-
can women"
Captain Williams confirms the re-
ports of all other officers who have
been to France, that the Red Cross has
sustained the French people and army
wonderfully and that they are ready
for the trying days ahead.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
Topics of the Times

The government tells a man that it
needs his body and he brings it in and
takes it with him to camps and forts
and trenches. Why fuss then when
the government tells US to bring and
extra sack d flour that we stored away
to keep somebody else from getting
to it first?
The last meeting OF the Iowa Press
Association missed Bernard Murphy.
And the next meeting will miss him
still more.
the use Of poison gases suggests that
we have found a way to make their
use ineffective. There is nothing too
cruel or damIable for them to use If
it is to the advantage Of themselves.
Half the world doesn't know row the
ather half lives Worse TRAN that 1t
doesn't seem to care whether it lives
or not
The Abba Republican believes it
would be well to renominate all the
state officers this year from the gov
ernor down, including Secretary Allen,
in order to eliminate all opportunity
for petty differences. But Allen ism
party difference. He's a general an
noyance.
Well, those Canadians didn't boot
much harder than the Americans did
when the secretary of state explained
that he had to get what he could out
of chautauqua platforms in order to
meet the high cost Of living.
Correspondents to the Sioux Clay
Journal are arguing over whether or
not Jim Pierce is a pest Huh!
When Fallstaff went recruiting it is
not Of evidence that he bought a
string of automobiles to do it with.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
What Nav Come

All sorts of economies were prac-
ticed. says Rhodes in his history Of
the civil! war, describing economic con-
ditions north and south while the fray
was thickest. Coffee and sugar rose
enormously in price. Many families
mixed roasted dandeion root with
pure coffee, while others made their
morning beverage from parched corn
or rye; some substituted brown for
white sugar. One by one luxuries dis
appeared from the table and few were
ashamed of their frugal repasts. The
wearing of plain, clothes became
fashion as well as virtue The north
was for the most part a community of
simple living. Opera was only occa-
sional, theaters were few. and the
amusements took on character adapt
cd to the life. A popular lecture. a
concert, church sociable with a cha
rade turning on some striking event
of the war, a gathering of young men
and women to scrape lint for the
wounded, a visit perhaps to a neigh
boring camp to witness a dress parade
of volunteers-these were the diver
sions from the overpowering anxiety
weighing upor the people. Personal
grief was added to the rational anxi-
ETY.. ="
War was war in those days. The suf-
ferings the confederates went thru be-
fore they surrendered warns us against
expecting our present enemies to give
way under distress too soon. Potatoes
We're Sc bushel in the south, and d
pair Of boots cost as much as our
present day army officers have to pay
for their cavalry and artillery boots.
s25 to $50 pair. A turkey sold in 1864
for $50, transcending present prices
quite substantially. Labor in the north
was scarce then, of course, as now,
and the women took Up mems work.
particularly on the farms, to a greater
extent than they have had to do thus
far in the present war.
One who reads or remembers what
the peoples suffered in the course Of
that war can see that we have not yet
girded ourselves seriously to fight in
this country. On the whole. we are
living about as usual in the United
States. Prices are high, but expanded
credit keeps the money supply in step
with prices. In about two years, or
perhaps three, If the present war goes
SO long, we may find ourselves reduced
to such serious business as prevailed
in the later years Of the civil war. (.
! One thing in connection with that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
HUGH wsRrHERmAN.k KILLED IN ACTION,

Marshall county turns toward Car
roll in a common grief and writes the
name of Hugh Weatherman side by
side with that of Merle Hay.
The war has come home to us. We
have made good our pledge to liberty
and democracy by the supreme sacri-
fee.
How Hugh Weatherman fell we do
not know. The brief words of the
wires say that he fell in action. Details
are lacking. But we know that he died
as Americans die in battle and that
he died for all Of us.
Where mother sits weeping over
her son this community groups itself:
for he was more than her son, he is
the son and brother and friend of ev-
cry loyal man and woman in this COM
munity and state and nation. He was
ours also and her grief is ours.
SO also our pride is hers. It is not
given to every man to die nobly under
the eyes of the world for great cause
While the records Of our race exist in
Marshall county and in Iowa and in
America the name of Hugh Weather
man shall live and remain.
How humble all our puny efforts
seem beside this mighty sacrifice How
cheap our contributions and how COM
mon all cur labons are under the shad-
ow of the greatness of Hugh Weather
man, who also so loved the world"
that he gave his life that it shall re-
main free. How slight our sacrifices
seem beside the superlative sacrifice
that gave we'll beloved son that lib
erty and human rights should not per-
ish from this earth.
The deep and abiding sympathy of
Hugh Weatherman. 1t shares their
sorrow today as it shall share the
pride that must and shall be theirs in
their sons courage and nobility. In all
history none have died better than he
for he died in the van of the greatest
movement toward human liberty and
the rights Of men. Some comfort that
truth should bring even in the poig-
nancy of their first grief.
Honor to Hugh Weatherman' brave
life and noble death. May God send US
all a passing SO brave and faithful.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04

war Is especially calculated to give us
hope. In that war, rs an this. the eco
nomic and population superiority was
with the north, yet for q long time the
south seemed to get the best Of the
war. In the north the war had far
more opposition than this war has. The
south was dealt its fatal blow, as at
Antietam, long before It could be seen
that the blow had been a staggering
one. So now Germany seems to move
blithely along, Notwithstanding the
Marne and verdun. Yet 1t Is a matter
of figures, as it was in the civil war,
that Germany must be the f1rst to sue
cumb. We need but be patient Lin.
coin, withstanding the Horace Greeleys
and their demands for d premature
peace, or q logged Grant, plodding on
in the face OF popular lmpatience and
criticism, to see this thing success
fully thru.-Lincoln Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
RIPPING RHYMES
Bv Walt Mason.
FOUR YEARS AGO.

the
to lead them
the Most
Of
beehng conplaag
the dreamed
Four the farmers moved
And they'd have laughed with silly on had any ons
unfurled the OF wrath be tasted
safe endeavor till al the Wal
and theirs hem
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
CROSS PURPOSES.

The war department press agencies
ought to get together. A day or two
ago came an inspired news story from
the American sector in France, trans
mitted by the Associated Press and un-
questionably authentic, stating that
the Germans enjoy practically COM
plete control Of the air in that sector,
crossing and recrossing the loines at
viii and lazily photographing every
thing back Of the American positions.
Lack of aerial strength to repel them
was emphasized in the story and it
was clearly stated that this lack was
a cause of disappointment to the com
handing officers of the American
units.
There was not, after all, anything
very new or very startling in the story.
Numerous references to the aerial
fighting since the Americans took over
part Of the Lorraine line had already
given an indication that the Germans
were superior overhead. AS the war
department later pointed out. the
French squadrillas would undoubtedly
be available if imperatively needed on
the short Yankee line. And the guam
tity of fighting planes available in
either the allied or German camp Is
so limited in proportion to the whole
front that it is always possible for one
SIDE or the other by temporary con-
centration to obtain supremacy for a
little while in any chosen sector.
The reasonable assumption Is that
the story about German aerial supre-
macy, which was absolutely correct in
its statements, was issued primarily
for the purpose Of re- emphasizing to
Americans at home the need and i'm
portance OF speed in aerial prepara-
tons.
But about the same time this story
was published-on the same day, It
may have been-the war department
issued typically rosy statement to
the effect that American battleplanes
at last were being sent to Europe. and
that they were several weeks not be-
hind but ahead of schedule. Getting
down to brass lacks. the object Of that
story was also the press agents object.
1t was to encourage Americans at home
with the rate of aerial progress and to
build up the morale of optimism. In
cidentally, no doubt, there was some
thought that the war department itself
might thereby be in measure vim
Dictated.
SO we had on the one hand a story
that things were looking rather bad
in an aerial way, and the object of
that story was to make Americans
tighten their lips and hitch up their
trousers and spit on their hands and
dig in. And we had on the other hand
a story that things were better even
than we had hoped for in an aerial
way, and the object of that story was
to make Americans grin and hitch up
their trousers and spit on their hands
and dig in. The contradictory methods
are both right in their proper time, but
when they are employed Simultaneous
ly it fuses the folks in the war de-
partment. and confuses the folks in
the factories. The benefit of both
schemes is destroyed by too much sub
sequent explaining. Can't we have a
little co-ordinating in our propaganda,
too
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
Masonic Meetings
vieltc-. A!...y. Ms!esms.

MARSHALL LODGE No, 1oa.-spe-
cial communication Friday evening"
March !, at 1880 o'clock. Work in third
degree. r. r. English, w. M; J. W..
Wells. secretary.
SlGNET CHAPTER, Ma. SO, r. A. M.
Special convocation Monday evening,
March 4, at O'clock. Past and MOST
Excellent degrees Ira A. Davenport
H. p: John w, Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ, Mon
day, March 10, 1918, 1880 p. m. Regular
business. I. r. Forbes, recorder; George
Gregory I. NJ.
SPECIAL coNcLAVE. St. Aldenar
mandsry-Tuesday, March 5. 1913
1880 p. m. For work: Order of the Red
Cross. T. T. Forbes. recorder; John E.
Frederick. commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER, No. 81, o. E.
S.-Reguiar meeting for business We'd
nesdAy evening March 10, at 1870
O'Clock. Mrs. Archer Walton, secre-
tary; Mrs. Cora Wiley, W. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
ors.rsd Peculiar Tomb.

The following peculiar Instructions
with regard to his burial were found
in the will Of the late Rev. James
Thornton Newbury, OF Killanick REQ
tory. County Wexford. recently. De-
ceased objected to being inferred in
any OF tho churchyards in his parish.
On the ground that they were over
crowded. His comm vas not to be
screwed Or nailed down, nor buried
In the ground. but in = raised tomb
Of brick. seven feet wide and eight
feet high, and In the roof thereof, .
piece OF thick plateglass was to be in
serted. not less than Is inches in d.
ameter. and the tomb was to be en-
closed with strong iron ratings.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04

politeness and blow out the light
whether he wants promissory note or
a mortgage on the farm for every debt
an association may create or any other
obligation that has possibilities in It
for the other fellow. And that 1t seems
should so with airy proposed member
ship in political party that asks SIG
membership fees and furnishes a cloud
of canvassers each with an automobile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
PACKING HOUSE WAGES.

lDCS hoiACS ~1pitdi.J
The laboring men working in the
packing houses Of Chicago and other
packing centers are usually called Gig
norant foreigners" with whom it is i'm
possible 10 consult or reason. Their
employers say that they are so ignor-
ant that they are led into wrong doing
by unfair and unwise leaders, therefore
they oppose the unionizing Of the
packing house men.
An investigation is now in progress
in Chicago relative to the compensa-
ton made TO what might be called COM
mon labor. Nelson Morris, 26 years
old, chairman Of the Morris & Co.
packing house. thought that the wages
were high enough. Young Mr. Norris
thought that the working man and his
wife and three children ought to live
on less than s1,28S per year. He
thought several items of expense were
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
purA.

p0S0,
Nine MAsteriinck in her quaint
witty way. was talking to . Boston ~
porter about feminine cruelty. There
10 NO such thing - feminine cruelty
she SAID. Women, It 10 true. wear the
feathers Of birds. but they are uncon-
scious OF The birds sullerings, and.
- your Old proverb says. What the
eye don't 80 the heart don't grievA'
Men when they ret . bssfSteak %
slip On thsar gloves. are unconscious
OF the slaughtered bullocks and the
murdered kid-and Just % Am IN
conscious whsn, an Icy January morn
Ing. wrap round my neck . SOFT
farm fur-whsthsr II b fur Of pole.
cat or Russian sable my dealer alone
known"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
WHEN THE SMOOTH STRANGER DRIVES IN.

When the smooth stranger comes
along and desires to stop over night or
for dinner and after the chores are
done and supper disposed of brings up
a scheme to separate the farmer from
his coin that is a good time for the
lady OF the house to remark that the
strangers bed is ready and for Mr.,
Farmer to blow out the light. 1t is the
safe way. And after breakfast safety
first indicates that the best way is tc
say goodby without arguing the case.
That's the lesson of history and history
repeats itself.
Going into history there were
pleasant persons many years ago who
came around with bohemian oats"
Say, there were oats that would revolu-
tionize the farmers lot and make SO
Jingle where one lonesome dollar kept
silence all alone in the right hand
trousers pocket. The farmers fell for
It in droves. Not that farmers are
easier than other folks for city men are
bunked every day and they say the
greatest hunting ground for boobs is
right in the heart Of the metropolis.
They gave orders that turned up as
prommissory notes in the hands OF
innocent purchasers separated from
real money, took agencies" and gen.
orally got trimmed for millions, yes
millions. Then there was the the
cloth agent. Remember him? He had
samples Of goods at prices below the
dreams OF avaric iousness. Sometimes
he limited that those imported cloths
were struggled and farmers fell for
that just as professional men do for
the smooth Cubano from Key West or
Havana whose father owns a cigar
factory and has smuggled him in q
few thousands of the finest cigars to
sell on the sly that he may continue
his college course in the states. Stung
again. All Of tkem were filled with
philanthropic solicitude for the far
mers hard lot and filled with rage at
the local merchandizers who practically
exploited them. They knew the situa-
ton. The hand of every other was
All others were robbers and oppressors
save only themselves and they were
filed with holy endeayor to ameliorate
those horrid conditions. Indeed they
were thus travelling around at great
expense to themselves inspired by the
hope that they might bring a little JOY
and happiness with them. But the
same old promissory note turned up al
the hank or in the hands Of collec.
tor who was sorry beyond words abou
Il when the farmer told him how it was
but had to get the money because OF
the innocent purchaser Say, if thi:
editor had all the money that those
smooth. sly, sneaking grafters have
taken out Of the farmers of thi!
country there would need to be no bono
canvasses. He could lend the countr.
all the war requires.
So when man comes along can
vassins for anything from oats t.
political memberships at SO much pc
the thing to do is to treat him switl
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
WHEN DOCTORS DISAGREE.

Council Bluffs NonparciLI
Mr. Hoover said railroad congestion
was interfering with food delivery.
Mr.. McAdoo Indignantly repudiated
the suggestion and said Mr.. Hoover
had only to point out the location Of
the foodstuffs and the railroads would
get them. 1t is only one more illustra-
ton OF lack Of conference at Washing
ton. In every branch Of war work the
different departments are either over
tapping or SO far apart that they do
not touch, even at the edges. But
one would think that in two such in
ter dependent sections as the railroads
and the food administration there
would be perfect understanding before
statement was given out-or enough
Of an understanding to keep the pub
lie from guessing. at least.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-04
rr,s Valuable In comm.ros.

To the casual observer there II nttI1
connection between campho- and Gin
namon. ret . tree Of the Cinnamo.
mum family was not long ago dir
covered in New South Wales. whose
leaves produce an oil from which the
camphor Of commerce can be extract.
ed. From one particular Australian
tree can DO obtained an oil that 10
quite different from anything yet ~
tracted in the way OF Cajaputs. 1t con
tains . substance from which. II it,
chemical combination could bs altered
q fraction. "vlnillin" might be ex.
tractsd. vanillin - the davering used
In vanilla Ice cream and chocolates.