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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-17
HOGS AOLO At
LATE DECLINES
MARKET ABOUT STEADY WITH
SATURDAYS AVERAGE
QUOTATIONS.
TOP REcEpEs BELOW
RECENT HIGH OF SIS
Stesrs Unsvsnly Higher, Advance
Ranging From is to 10 Cents
Strong Market For 'Calves-Sheep
IS to so Cents Higher, Lambs Show
ing Greatest Gain.

Chicago. Feb. 17-Swine today were
mostly steady at Saturdays average,
which was a decline compared to the
earlier days of the week. Top has
receded below SIS, bulk selling within
range Of sl745 to $3.50.
The unofficial average weight of all
hogs received at Chicago last week
stands at 2S5 lbs. being lbs lighter
than week ago. 3 lbs. heavier than
corresponding week n year ago and
30 lbs heavier than two years ago. On
the first three days Of the week very
few light weights were received. but
with higher prices for this kind the
last three days saw an over supply.
which pulled the average weight down
conside rably. However. the weeks
average stands well above the eight
year average of 22l lbs.
The top Of s1S.15 was Is cents higher
than the best recorded the previous
week and the highest price paid this
year. As compared with correspond
ing week a year ago the top last week
stands sf.25 higher.
The average price last week Of s17.s5
was s1.75 higher than corresponding
week a year ago. which goes to show
that the price range is considerably
narrower at this time than a year ago.
Top hog prices at twelve principal
markets averaged all the way from
$3.50 the first day Of the week to
$1s.o5 on Friday. with a drop to $500
on Saturday. The high price of the
week was reached at Buffalo when
$1,000 was paid at that market on both
was S17.25 paid at ST. Paul on each
day OF the week, with the exception of
Friday.
Cattle.
Cattle were unevenly higher, the ad-
vance ranging from Is to 40 cents
There was a strong market for calves.
Weather has been very favorable for
shipping, but It has been adverse to
healthy retail trade and this is re-
Elected continually in the demand for
shipping. Some Of the big declines
have been due to the fluctuating de-
mand from eastern consuming centers
and these most often hit the n-be-
tween kind. ..
A total Of 1000 cattle were received
at Chicago last week. being 1900 larg-
er than previous week. $500 larger
than a year ago and 1900 larger than
two years ago.
Seven principal western markets, in
GLIDING Chicago. reported a combined
total Of $4,000 being considerably
larger than previous week. when only
169. 900 were received. AS compared
with a year and two years ago this
number was 1000 and $4,000 larger,
respectively.
Sheep.
Sheep generally were IS to so cents
higher. lambs showing the greatest ad-
vance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-17


Commencing at 10: 80 o'clock a. M,
the following property, to-wit:
20 HEAD OF HoRSES-Team of
bay mares coming and years old
weight 5000; bay coach horse, years
old. weight 1900: l gray horse. years
old, weight 1900; black driving horse.
s years old weight 1850: team 2 year
old colts: / two year old colt: sucking
colt; gray mare, years old. weight
1850; roam mare years old. weight
1850; smooth mouth work horse; 3 year
old colt . year old colts; black mare.
years old sound: pair black matched
seldings, 4 and years old. sound and
well broke: black mare S years old; l
bay mare smooth mouth.
"a HEAD OF CATTlE-12 head Of
steers, weight 600 lbs: % heifers.
weight $50 lbs: 3 good calves: yearl
ing past Shorthorn bull. A fine buT) \
of cattle.
SO Hogs-11 Duroc brood sows; 20
pigs
10 Sheep-1s ewes and one choice
buck.
Farm Implements, etc.
Usual sale terms-No property TO be
removed until settled for.
Lunch at noon.
EDMUND kEOPPEL AND OTHERS;
A. p. Mason Auet. e. N. Stark, Clerk.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-17
- 2 -hD OF STEEP - 7
HAY, GRAIN AND SILAGE

Five hundred bushels Of corn; s tons
of hay. and about 10 tons of good rich
corn silagc, and - bushels Of good
seed corn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-02-17
Chicago Potato Market.

Potatoes-LoWer.
Minnesota. Wisconsin and Michigan.
bulk. 1.55Gl.iO: sacks, l 55@1.6O.
Peceipts-1j cars.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
What Italy Suffered

Few Americans fully realize the
sacrifices made by Italy during the
war. Were it not SO, denunciations
Of her as "imperialist" might be less
frequent. The statement of Italian
needs made by DR.. Quartieri, head
of the Italian delegation to the In
ternational Trade Conference at At
lantic City, should prove enlighten-
ing. The truth has been partly told
before, but never so fully and con-
vincingly. Every one knows, pre-
sumably, that Italy had to draw
more heavily upon her resources
than almost any other country
among the Allies, that she has q
heavy burden Of taxation and a
staggering load Of debt. What has
been largely overlooked is that she
also has devastated area of large
extent to rebuild, and that the con-
ditions here are quite as serious as
in France and Belgium.
A territory of some three and "a
half million acres, occupied by near
~ million and half people, was
overrun by the enemy. More than
one-half Of Venezia lies east of the
Piave. The whole of Udine and
Bellune, and part of Treviso, Vicen-
"a and Venice, suffered the extreme
penalties Of Hun warfare. They
were prosperous provinces, agricul-
turally and industrially. The damage
done will foot up to nearly three
billion lire. 1t needs no argument to
show how difficult is the task which
confronts the Italian government.
Besides the immediate necessity of
the housing problem, large amount
of livestock must be supplied, and
new machinery.
The Italians have gone to work
with an energy that discouragement
cannot check. In spite of the scar.
city and high cost of building mate.
rial, temporary shelters have been
erected, partly with the help Of the
army. But the undertaking is more
than can be accomplished by italy
alone. If the rest of the country
had not also suffered from the war
these devastated regions might draw
supplies from it. But it's resources
too, are heavily depleted. There was
such dire need Of fuel at one time
that even the olive trees were sacri.
feed. The devotion of Italy to the
common cause should not go un.
needed or unrewarded.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25

but as souvenirs Of the war have
certa IN poignant significance Two ac-
comp'ished etchers count heavily in
the show-Mme. Marie Jules Destrecs
and M. Pierre Nuyttens. The latter
has already won considerable repute
here through his portraits. Both he
and Nine. Destrees are sound in execu-
ton and picturesque in effect. Their
prints, too numerous to be traversed IN
detail, are notable as evidences OF the
essentially modern, vitalized character
of Belgian art
Besides the pictures there are mis-
cellaneous articles made by Antwerp
craftsmen as contribution TO tho
Fund OF Belgian War Orphans.--em-
broideries, laccs, objects wrought in
metal and so on-and there are few
items OF curious interest, like the com-
plete set of that famous news pa per
which was printed in secret and sue
cessfully circulated throughout Bel
gium under the very noses % the Hun
invaders. An exhibit which will. at
tract coed deal of attention is the
Eaisers personal war banner, taken
from his motor car when he crossed
the Belgian border on his flight INTO
Holland. Naturally the show brings ua
Its revcrberations Of the war. N, one
can see it without emotion, without
grateful thoughts for the nation which
first bore the brunt of the German Mt
tack. But it should especially evoke
appreciation of what Belgium does in
the arts Of peace. It is earnestly to be
hoped that the exhibition NAV prove
the precursor Of another and more
comprehensive disclosure Of the inertia
OF an Interesting school
The works in This exhibir.on are for
sale. The proceeds will be devoted TO
The benefit fund Of 1.-THE War Inyalids. :"
II has been opened, rs we l.svc said
under Official patronage, and this morn
ing there Will be q reception for the
King and Queen OF the Belgians in the
galleries.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
should unite on terms dictated by
themselves the public might be worse

should unite on terms dictated by
themselves the public might be worse
off than if they continued to quarrel
over the details Of control in in
dustry. They are both minorities.
The public constitutes the vast ma
jority. Its concern in any broad in
dustrial settlement is therefore par
amount. 1t might easily find the
two groups which it is supposed to
stand between united in opposition
to it.
The public is unorganized. The
government is supposed to represent
it, but doesn't do so in practice. If
the government is to hold aloof as
final arbiter in the settlement, then
the public ought to have the largest
voice in the conference. It's repre-
sentatives could at least insist on
respect for the neglected theory
that the greatest good of the great
est number is the aim of democratic
society, and that an industrial set
tlement which benefits the great ma
jorlty is more to be desired than one
which works for the exclusive benefit
Of small, though highly organized,
minorities.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
The Mayors Troubles

Such sympathy as Is naturally
evoked by any dounderer in
morass goes out to Mayor Hylan.
Friend Hearst is fighting Friend
Murphy, and "our mutual friend"
finds it difficult to preserve even an
unstable neutrality. With a sicken-
ing feeling he realizes that Hearst
fiatters him not altogether because
ne loves him. He feels it necessary
70 STICK by Hearst as his only spar
IN raging sea. But the cuts on his
oeiabored back, marks of the Hearst
ra"hlde, tell him that Hearst is not
always an easy taskmaster. The
episode OF the toad and the jellyfish
IS dim in memory, and the cane that
saved the life Of the toad in hapnv
Palm Beach days swishes about the
poor Mayors ears.
Then Governor Smith has tho had
taste to take seriously the attacks
Of Hearst and the Mayor. Whv
couldn't "Al" have seen that it was
stage play 30 far AS the Mayor ia
concerned? Doesn't he know he is
creating within the Mayor an agony
OF indeclsion as to whether he shall
flop to Tammany or glue to Hearst?
Such mental disturbance furrows
new lines Of care even on sanguine
countenance. 1t is mean Of tho Gov
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Patches of Honor

That Chicago Old Clothes Society
is serious and earnest organiza-
ton and purposes to work hard, but
needs moral support if it's precepts
are to be accepted. A few eccentric
folk are always glad to be out at
the elbow or down at the heel or
otherwise queer. 1t is simply their
peculiar way Of feeding their ego.
Most of US have the herd instinct too
strongly to differ in any such sacred
affairs as trouser creases or the tex
ture Of a suit. So societies and chap
ters and clubs by all means!
England is leading the way with
"old clothes leagues" societies
pledged to the slogan, "No more
new clothes till prices go down."
Patches, the turning Of old suits, new
Innings, form the ritual of the faith.
1t is high time America got busy
along this interesting path. A lot
of people are practicing such econ
omies of necessity, regretfully, apol-
ogetically. The proper spirit is to
practice the Old Clothes creed with
pride and publicity, whether you
need to or not. The country needs
to save as it never did before.
There must be revision Of ex-
penditures, of our notions of pernlls-
sib.e luxuries, for every one sooner
or later, whatever ones income.
The old order has changed. The
sooner every one voluntarily and
frankly recognizes the fact and
starts to live on the new basis---of
careful, economical expenditure for
everything, from clubs to clothes
from automobiles to movies--thc bet
ter for US and those who come after
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
ishly obey the strike call, and thereby
cause temporary inconvenience, but
the strike will be pulverized.
Most to Lose

The greatest pity of the present
battle over German propaganda un-
der the guise Of German opera is the
damage the dispute may do to the
cause of our own Americans Of Ger
man birth or inheritance.
AS was inevitable, this ill-man-
nered, brazen insistence upon Ger
man revival meetings even before
peace is signed has stirred the most
violent hatreds and animosities. The
letters Of our readers express the
natural and inevitable emotions en-
gendered by such behavior.
Now, this attitude is entirely JUS
titled toward the singers and leaders
who are responsible for this arrogant
Haunting Of German defiance.
1t is quite unjustifed as ap-
piled toward those true Ameri-
cans Of German blood who
have maintained an answering
loyalty to America in pecul-
iarly tragic position and who ask
nothing else now than that in the
slow years to come a rcgenerated
Germany may prove its new spirit
and regain by its works the trust
and respect of the world. These
citizens are not boasting Of an un-
broken Germany or Haunting their
old nationalism. If they wish to
hear German music sung again they
wish it to be on it's merits, in re-
sponse to popular demand, and not
degraded by singers whose Prus-
sianism is notorious.
The best thing that could happen
for these fellow-citizens Of ours
would be the collapse of the present
opera through failure Of popular
support. They should certainly use
their every influence to end the i'll
fated and arrogant venture. They
have least to gain and most to lose
by such g recrudescencc of Hun
nishneSS.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Partners

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: First let me tell YOU how re.
heved | am to find that l am not the
only woman who has felt reluctance
to being registered a "houscwifc" at
the voting booth, having had q shame
faced idea that | was the only woman
in New York who felt that way Now
that | know there are others I'll con-
fcss to the weakness and tell how
sidesteppcd the difficulty.
You see, feeling sort of topnotchy
over at last finding myself a Republi-
can voter of the State of New York.
thought that | ought to be something
more dignilicd than u housewife, and
hearing the two women who precede ed
me declaring themselves to be such
firmly decided that would not 90
into those four books under that title
But what to be, with only q minute to
decide, was the question, and such
titles as Fright bower" running mate. =
dump boss" doll baby" and queen
D~N t~SfASN tAiAOASH NY IliIu, ana II
was not until the fatal question was
asked and the man sat with pen poised
in the air that remembered that
lick stamps, answer the phone and run
errands in M husbands Office some
times, and boldly announced myself
his "otiice assistant"
Now why not let us call ourselves
the consulting partner" gentlemen ?
Even if you don't care rap for our
opinions, you'll get them anyway and
quite often you listen to them. Or, bet
ter STILL why not substitute "home
keeper" or "home maker?
There's something sweet and ele-
waiting about that which lifts it out of
the commonplace, which the name
housewife" however essential, suc-
gests. Think it over.
ONE OF THEM.
Brooklyn, Oct. 21. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Craftsmanship

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: The letter of "ShopwoYk
Teacher" in recent issue strikes ct
the heart of good deal Of the present
discomfort.
Professionally I come into contact
with great many Of the trades allied
with architecture and high class period
furniture production. Everywhere one
goes it is the same thing Most Of the
present workers are foreigners and
men well past their prime who came to
this country in their y3uth There 10
no young american blood TO take their
places when they drop out Of line.
Why is it considered derogatory FOR
an American boy to work at bench
and learn to become a carpentero Are
there not just as many opportunities
for him ultimately to own a shop and
take large contracts RS in any Of the
other walks of life? Why is it trat the
crafts IN this country are considered
beneath the dignity of the native man
and woman?
am proud to say was once a pupil
at that wonderful institution in London
for giving workshop training in the
various crafts known us the Con-
ira School, Of Arts and Crafts, South
ampton Row. enjoyed the distinction
OF being the only girl pupil in class
Of forty men, but rolled Up my
sleeves and in the carpentry class
learned to make mortise and tenon
JOINTS with the rest Of them.
/ firmly believe that emancipation
from the ugly furniture Louis This
and That" foisted on the unwary at
every angle can only come ahen
Americans OF both sexes get down TO
brass tacks' IN designing and making
furniture which is an expression Of
this country's needs, and not some
thlng imported and exotic
BRITANNIA.
New York. Oct. %. 1919.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25

ernor to persist in answering Hearst
slanders in utter disregard Of the
banana peel he thus slips under the
Mayors footsteps. A politician as
seasoned as the Governor should
understand he is creating situa-
tion that will force the amputation
of one or the other Of the Mayors
political legs
There are other worries. The
Mayors vision Of himself as a
blessed millennial child leading the
lamb and lion of industrial collisions
is rudely broken by both sides join
ing in pelting him; disagrceing as to
other matters, steamship managers
and piermen seem in hearty concord
as to the Mayors qualities. No won-
der his honor feels soul revulsion
when he hears the word "longshore-
man." Was ever a paciicator SO
beset!
Other troubles intrude. There is
Wallstein, with his loathsome liking
for facts and vile accuracy, pub
fishing long list of salary increases
for high-priced Hylan appointees,
whereas, in his capacity Of friend
OF the taxpayer, the Mayor yells that
those in receipt of $4,000 or more a
year must suffer along with their
present compensation. Why can't a
mayor be let alone in peace and
quiet as he satisfies his friends and
at the same time poses as ar econ
omizer?
And, as if Wallstein were not
a sufficient pest, along comes
Comptroller Craig, declaring that
the salary increases, for which the
Mayor disclaims responsibility, were
included in the budget without the
Comptroller's knowledge and after
the document had been dispatched to
the printer! Then there is the item
of the abolition Of the City CHAM
berlain's Office, an unnecessary bur
den on the finance department, but
whose incumbent is a Hylan ap-
pointee. The Comptroller admits
that as a chamberlain the present
chamberlain is good musician, and
it is Objectionable for him to men
ton the matter further.
The Mayor, as Tammany- Hearst
neutral, as pacifer and as an
economizer, is a first class letter
writer and should be left alone to
pursue his speciality. In 1917 New
York expressed it's opinion of the
best Mayor it ever had, and his sue
cessor may, it would seem, justly ask
to be unmolested as he labors at the
laudable ambition of proving himself
the worst, or as near the worst as
he is able to be.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
The Real Party in Interest

Developments at the Industrial
conference dispeled one illusion. It
has corrected false impressions as
TO the public's proper share in the
conference. The public was origi-
nally regarded as group standing
between capital and organized labor
AS a third and more or less sub
sidiary interest mediating between
the two dominant ones.
The publics concern is decper
and broader than that. 1t wants to
see capital and organized labor es-
tablish harmonious relations. but
harmonious relations which will
lead to maximum production. 1t
doesn't want to see harmonious rela-
tions which will mean declining
production at rising prices. From
the public's point Of view, the ideal
state In industry is that in which
high wages can be maintained in
conjunction with adequate produc-
tion.
The unions, at present, seem more
eager to advance wages than to
speed up production. The coal
miners are even trying to institute
regime Of curtailed production,
with higher prices for the consumer,
while at the same time they are
asking for larger compensation.
1helr demands are less in contraven-
ton Of the interest Of the employers
than they are of the interest of the
pubic, for increased costs of pro-
ductlon would be quickly shifted by
the employer to the consumer.
II the employers and union labor
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
Stripping Slesvig

Hoarding and profteering still
flourish in all parts of the Ger
man Reich, and the German govern
ment appears to face helpless an
illicit traffic in all kinds Of goods
which is going on almost demonstra-
lively and with full publicity in the
newspaper press. But there is one
part of the country where the Ebert
administration seems determined to
stand for no fooling, and that part
in Slesvig, more particularly the dis
tricts which, according to the peace
treaty, will fall to Denmark, as
there can be no doubt in regard to
the outcome of the plebiscite.
The Prussian authorities in Sles-
Wig are displaying a vigor most un-
usual in these days of after-war
1oissez-}aire in ferreting out boarded
stores of all rts---foodstutfs, fod-
der, fertilizers and chemicals espe-
cially. According to the Vossische
Zeitatn9, which denounces the "hoard-
ing craze" Of Slesvig Danes in most
emphatic terms, the confiscated sup
plies will be transferred without
delay to German farmers, who need
them only too urgently"
Such, at least, is the German YER
sion Of the matter What. in fact,
has been and still is going on in
Slesvig is a systematic campaign
Of official pillage, aiming at strip
ping the province bare before the
transfer to Denmark. The Danish
press is constantly printing stories
of these seizures, and also of the
grant Of government land in Sles-
Wig to private individuals. In a
word, the Germans are acting just
as they did in France and Belgium
in the time Of the great retreat,
when they carried off everything of
value and movable.
The London Times reports a raid
made on the Slesvig towns of Aaben-
raa (Apenrade) and Sonderborg.
"The Prussian authorities" we are
told, care confscating not only those
stocks of goods which have been
boarded in Slesvig for speculative
purposes, but also the legitimate
stores of local merchants, especially
at Aabenraa and Sonderborg. The
latter town was raided and fertil-
izers worth 975,00O were taken. The
raid was planned on a comprehensive
scale, motor lorries being in readi-
ness to carry off the goods
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
The Coming Tower
POLICE COURT ANTHOLOGY

John Warner
I tell you, Judge l don't want to reform.
II man can't take friendly drink
Without his wife bringing him up to court.
He's not man I say.
I won't support this woman after she
Has acted this way.
She thinks | should support her, Judge. and
yet
She won't live with me
If that's the way the SYSTEMS going to work.
I'm through with il.
Go on and send me to tho workhouse, Judge
| don't care.
l6
Hcrrtet Warner
Your Honor. 7 have baby girl,
Just six months old.
Do you think want her to grow 10.
And have the other children point at her,
And say, Your father is jail bird?
Don't send him to the workhouse, please.
Your Honor,
Just send him home to US.
We've got to live and we are lost
If he will not support US.
Rather than see my little girl
Shamed by her fathers being sent TO Jail.
III take the law into my own hands.
And kill him. B. G. yR
Mr.. Fl. w. Boynton is writing Of
Nina Wilcox Putnam's "Believe You
Me-" and observes that her speech is
that free and easy American which.
as Mr.. H. L. Mencken has pointed out
in his recent book, The American Lam
guage, is by no means without its
own grammar and syntax. Only two or
three story-writers have had the cour-
age to reproduce this speech in all its
glorious emancipation from the vehicle
still labeled English" Who, Mr.. Boyn-
ton, are these two or three coura geous
writer's? And why not cite them?
Speaking again Of the Return of the
Book, if the borrowers will return our
Mrs. Thompson" by W. B. Maxwell,
and Rupert Hughes's ain Little Town"
practically all will be forgiven.
New-York tribune., 1919-10-25
For an Education

From The Seattle Post-Fntelfi7cnccr)
Men are said TO be sleeping five in
bed in the Greek rooming houses at
the university, which probably is as
picturesque an illustration of the
crowded conditions at our center Of
learning as could be given.