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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Great Tragic comedv. +

BY INC NSSOCIated Press.
Berlin. Thursday, Jan. :. 10 p. M
The curtain is still up on the great
tragic comedy, Berlin. the madhousc,"
as a majority socialist editor called it
yesterday.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Attempt on Life ef Or. kramarx.
rn,, EJavas a 4ency1

Basle, Jan. 9--An attempt has been
made at Prague to assassinate DR..
Karl Kramaz, the Zec'to- -Slovak pre-
mier. Eight revolver shots were fired
at him, none Of which. however, took
effect. sss S
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
just 4 Rival Govern mert.

Y Berne, ian. s.Telegraphic reports
| from Berlin today state that the rebels
there have formed a new government
urdcr the title OF "the revolutionary
coma1ittee." !. This committee COM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Hindy Not In Berlin.

DN VTTV NSSVVtdTVW TVSEs1
Berlin Tuesday, Jan. S.-Thc report
that Field Marshal Won Hindenburg Is
In Berlin Is denied In government
circles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
T..R. BULLETIN
NEWS OF THE DAY
The Weather.

w VV0tNVFs
Sun rises Jan. 10 at 7:29. sets at <<e.
Iowa - Fair tonight and Friday
colder In extreme east portion tonight.
warmer Friday.
Range Of temperature at Marshall
town: Wednesday. 81 and 3; Tuesday,
c5 and 4: Jan. 8. 1918. Is and below,
Al Z this morning. Is; yesterday, ..
PAGE ONE.
Tsiesrsphic News:
Peace Awaits Stability of Enemy
Nations.
Ebert Government Reported ever-
Railroad Managers Prcsep'
New York Harbor Tls :, BY
Hss'sa FACES TWO Az ace,
Iowa News: ~ 50
Iowa Factories - or War Crisis,
Youthful Elor - aught.
srcakershipN Mt Narrcws to
Three. "
Amana Leader DENIES Disloyaity.
PAGE FOUR.
War News and Comment:
Seeking to Restore Prestige OF 'y."
Decoy Ships Play Havoc.
War Camp Funds DO Much Good,
PAGE six.
EDITORIAL:
How Does He Like His Company"
The Whisky Huns Offensive.
intellectual Bolshevism.
PAGES SEVEN. NINE, TEN,
ELEVEN.
City News:
Albion Soldier Dead Overseas.
Floyd Grigcs Dies following Wounds
Arney TO Head r. c. NJ. A,
War Aids in Divorce Evil.
General and Brief city News.
PAGE TWELVE.
Markets and Generak
Sharp Slump in Com.
Oats Sell Lower.
Cattle Generally steady.
Hogs Weak and Lower.
Berger and Pals Convicted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

kssp Sunny.
Store = little sunshine IN your heart
and the gray days will b sasief-Co.
lunbia State.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
In the Days News

Leonor F. Loree, who would
solve the railroad problem by a
revision Of the interstate COM
merce law, is q railroad man OF
long and varied career. Born in
Illinois in 1858. he went east for
his education, and after gradual
ing at Rutgers college he entered
the employ OF the Pennsylvania
railroad as q rodman, later became
a chairman and was soon elevated
to the transit. Step by step he
continued to advance until he be
came a division superintendent.
When the Pennsylvania gained con-
troll of the Baltimore & Ohio he
was detailed to that road and in
1901 he was elected its president.
From the Baltimore & Ohio he
went to the Rock Island system.
at the highest salary ever paid a
railroad president up TO that time.
1t was while he was with the Rock
Island that Mr.. Loree was "discov
cred" by z. H. Hartman, who took
him east and made him president
Of the Delaware & Hudson, OF
which road he has since remained
the executive head.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

a practical solution for number Of unsatis-
factory features of the treaty. Probably he
would be delighted if the senate could find a
better ole" in the Shantung affair
The more the senate hears about the con-
ditions under which the treaty was drawn the
better wilF'be its appreciation Of the Difficult
ties that the American delegates were up
against. In the disposition of shantung they
faced the alternative Of acceptance or the re-
pudiation OF the promises OF our friends, with
eventual renewal Of hostilities an ultimate GER
tainty and with japan probably allied with the
central powers. Most anybody, under the cir
cumstances, would have done what the Ameri-
cans did
II the senate is to figure out a better way
it will have TO give less thought to trying to
thwart the president and more thought to the
subject before it.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

AS manufacturer of automobiles and
tractors and in devising methods OF getting the
most effective publicity for his business Henry
Ford stands in class by himself. Otherwise,
it appears, his education started about the
time he began million dollar libel suit. He
won astonishing success in his special field be-
cause he had nerve and self assurance to back
his knowledge. When he undertook, however
to lead his fellows in peace making and politi-
cal reform his nerve was a liability, instead Of
an asset His admission that he knows little
or nothing about history and considers it
bunk" and his inability to define words of
common usage convey no reelection upon his
integrity, but they do suggest that he should
have begun at the bottom in learning about
men he did in learning about automobiles.
Mr.. Ford expresses vast contempt for those
who misuse the power OF wealth, but uncon-
sciously he falls into common error of that
class when he excuses his ignorance on the
ground that it is easier to hire brains than
to cultivate them That is perversion OF
the uses of money and it is dangerous besides,
as Mr.. Ford's experience has so strikingly
shown
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

The president has shown his good faith in
inviting Republican senator's to confer with
him in regard to the peace treaty. The man
ner in which they receive his suggestion will
tell definitely whether their controlling desire
is to seek the best interests of the world in
general and the United States in particular,
or to accomplish the downfall Of Woodrow Will
son and the discrediting Of his supporters.
Until the treaty was drafted the advice Of
so unwieldly a body as the senate. with its
lack Of facilities for becoming fully informed
as to facts and policies. could have been Of no
use Now is the time for mature consideration
and the senate can hardly refuse to avail itself
of the knowledge Of the man who knows more
about the matter than any other American.
perhaps more than any other Individual.
Those who are hostile to the president seek
to create the impression that he is opposed to
all changes, for then any point they make will
have the appearance of triumph. In all like
lihood Mr.. Wilson will be the first to welcome
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
T r A VELE T T E
By Niksah.
The City Furthest South.

Punta Arenas is the southern
most city in the world. This title
does not carry with it any of the
warmth suggested in the word
south, for Punta Arenas is nearer
to the south pole than to the trop-
les. Overcoats and furs are in order
in Punta Arenas all the year round
even in January and February,
which are summer months down
there. Following the inverted cal
endar of that part Of the globe, July
and August bring to Punta Arenas
enough snow, wind, and ice to leave
no room for doubt that the south
ceases to be warm before it
reaches this latitude.
The worlds most southern city is
on the Strait of Magellan, in Chile,
which makes it 800 miles further
south than Cape Town, Africa's
city nearest the Pole. Punta Arenas
is a great fur trading and sheep
raising center Sheep raising is es-
peciaIly appropriate in this locality
for the wool on a sleeps back
grows thicker and longer in cold
climates.
In appearance Punta Arenas is
like an Alaskan mining town. 1t
has electric lights and theatres and
an unusually large quota of sa-
looms. The town did at one time
have an attack of gold fever but it
soon discovered that there was
more money in trading and sheep
raising than in gold mining in that
part of the world. Still it has never
quite lost it's mining camp atmos-
phere.
A couple of hundred miles to the
south of Punta Arenas there is still
another town in Argentina. TERRA
dea Fuego. but this struggling little
colony has never risen up to con-
test the title Nearest TO the Pole"
held by prosperous Punta Arenas.
There is a cold limit beyond which
civilized man is at a hopeless dis
advantage in his efforts to adapt
himself to his surroundings. Punta
Arenas seems to be located just
within the southern dead line.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
HEALTH tn K8
sY WILLIAM Ar. -! BRlA RAJ! r1D.
Diphtheria.

Diphtheria.
Babies less than a year old rare
ly have diphtheria. 1t is most fire.
quently seen in children four to
twelve years old. 1t prevails chief
ly in the autumn after the opening
of the schools. About 1 per cent
OF apparently healthy school chill
dren harbor the diphtheria germs
in nose or throat and these car
riers" are capable of transmitting
the disease to non-immune chill
fected. Children with running
nose, particularly a one-sided pur-
ulent nasal discharge, are likely 10
be carriers" OF course, any child
with a running nose or cough or
slight sore throat or alleged cold. I"
no matter how slight, should be ex-
cluded from school.
Before antitoxin was discovered
(1S90) the toxin (poison) of diph-
iberia proved fatal to one OF each
three persons attacked by the dis
ease. Paralysis of throat or pal
ate or certain eye muscles or face
muscles, or OF a limb, occurred
about twenty times more frequent
ly than we see it today-althougn
ignorant and wilful people often
intimate that paralysis is caused
by antitoxini Antitoxin not only
prevents paralysis and other ser
ious complications or sequels of
diphtheria, but also saves life if
used early and in sufficiently large
dnaa A dnsa IF loss than 10 mn
units Of antitoxin is scarcely worth
giving; a dose OF 10000 units is
reasonable curative dose for a
young child with diphtheria. Too
much can do no harm; too little
may prove disastrous.
A child with an acute sore throat
and considerable fever probably
has not diphtheria. A child with a
mild sore throat and slight fever
ishness more likely has diphtheria.
Untreated diphtheria kills as a
poison kills, and not by choking,
as a rule. The poison of diph-
iberia, if not promptly neutraliZed
by the antidote (antitoxin) causes
degeneration of the heart muscle,
which is the chief cause of death
from exhaustion in diphtheria.
Progressive state health depart
ments now furnish the best diph-
iberia antitoxin free or at a nom
inal cost of 25 cents for a dose.
There is no reason why antitoxin
should ever cost more than the
poorest family can afford. A very
large dose given very early is not
only economy, but safety for the
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
ad'sBit O. Verse
SETTLING DOWN.

1t took . long while in the max
ing, this war that we're settling just
now: it smouldered for years with
ambitions and fears before it broke
into a row; so you can't expect
folks in a moment to patch up the
hurts and the sacrs or to speed
up their gaze in a few passing days
to the radiant height of the stars.
We sit in our Offices coy, and won
der: What ails the poor simps
When peace is at hand. why howl
like the band7 Why keep putting
up rawlings and crimps?" But it
isn't so awful a matter when you've
got your think works cool and
calm. For the worlds settling
down and adjusting it's crown while
applying the ointment and balm.
We're in for q long siege of .rou-
bIe," we hear the lean pessimist
wall, but the worlds pulling strong
to get back the old song while it
shoVels the rocks from it's trail.
1t can't all be done in a minute,
but it's bound to come right N
due time: and the world will for
get its grim worry and fret, and get
back on its journey sublime.
GLEN BRADSHAW.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
Today's Anniversaries

1749-ColoneI Peter Gansevoor.
who held Fort Stanwix
against the British and In
dians, born at Albany, n. Y.
Died there July ., 1912.
1s24-Tench Coke, famous publ
cist, who was the first to
urge the people of the south
to cultivate cotton, died in
Philadelphia. Born there
May %, 1855.
1S56-Sixty-six persons killed and
100 injured in the wreck of
Sunday school excursion
train near Philadelphia.
1S64-General Johnston was sue
ceeded by General Hood in
the defense of Atlanta
Richard Cartwright's
unrestricted reciprocity res
olution was voted down. in
the Dominion house of com
mons.
190o-Two hundred lives lost in an
eruption OF the Japanese
volcano, Mount Alma.
1915-Von Mackensen broke the
Lublin-Cholm line at Kras-
nostaw.
1917-Austre Germans started r
counter offensive against the
Russians in Galicia.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

In their accounts Of the first De Valera
meetings in Chicago the morning newspapers
of that city stated that the name Of President
Wilson was Kissed. This is emphatically de-
MED by those who were present and circula-
ton of the report is deplored by members of
the De Valera party, who feel no resentment
because the case OF Ireland was not specifically
mentioned in the peace compact, and who, in
fact, freely admit that such thing would have
been impractical.
The issue becomes one of veracity in which
the newspapers in question, actuated as they
are known to be, by motives of an Interior ma
ture, and in the habit, as the public is aware,
of coloring their news for political ends, can
hardly hope to win the popular decision.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
HIS BETTER SELF.
BY RALPH HAMILTON.
Copyright, 1919. by the Wester

copyright, 1919, by the western
Newspaper Union)
A little girl of six was screaming
out in a transport Of mingled grief
and fright. sobbing as though her
heart would bFeaE A brave-faced
lad supported her with one arm,
while he shook the fist of the other
at a grizzled, sullen-faced old man
who held the bride of a horse he
had just led across a neatly planted
space about twenty feet square at
the edge Of vacant lot.
you're a bear-a great big,
ugly, wicked monster" shouted the
boy. 1T was a peace garden, and
we were working to send the things
we raised to the starving children
in Europe"
well, you impudent young ras-
cal" grated out the man, this hap
pens to be my property, and if l
want to lead my horse across it I'll
do it Who gave you permission to
come and camp down on my land
with your rubbish patch of truck?
eEVery decent man in town who
had a lot he wasn't using!" retort-
ed the lad doughty.
The harsh-eyed old man seemed
to take a malicious delight in his
invasion of the chiIdren's cherish
ed garden plat. As the horse nibbled
The tender sprouts and sank his
heavy roofs deep into the carefully
prepared soil the little girl became
pos1iNe hystericaL Her champion
reached over. picked up stone and
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
TIHIIEs DAILY SHORT STORY

hurled it at their ruthless torment
or. The missile grazed the latter
but struck the flank OF the horse,
who started and kicked out. There
was a crack and a groan, and Mark
Blair lay prone on the ground with
a broken limb.
The lad, vainly endeavoring to
soothe his distracted companion,
led her from the spot. A man from
the house nearby hurried over to the
side of the writhing victim of his
own meanness. In a few moments
Blair was borne to his home and a
physician was sent for
Mark Blair was a Grabbed, lonely
old man who seemed to hate every
body, and particularly the man who
had married his niece, Elsie Day
ton. She had run away with Walden
Throop and had married against the
will of her tyrant relative. From
that hour Blair had disowned her,
had never recognized her husband.
and so acute was the situation
that when little Lucy came to the
welded pair he never spoke of her
nor noticed her, nor had the Throops
ever enlightened her as to the iden-
tity of the relative who ignored her.
1t was this same child whose lit
tie garden had been devastated, one
of many created by the patriotic
children of the town. 1t was located
a short distance from the Throop
home, and Lucy ard her boy friend
had devoted all kinds of care upon
its culture. Before the day was
over there had cut into the soul OF
Mark Blair like knife the knowl-
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

and the onions are up, and the
beans, and the peas, and I never
saw a garden grow so quick. Oh.
| know it's fairies work."
The TROOPS soon learned of the
hidden hand that had wrought all
this reparation. They took the de-
lighted Lucy over to view her
precious truck patch. She was left
to surmise that its destruction was
hideous dream and its present
magnifcence the work Of kindly
nature.
A week later the Throops learned
that Blair had left town for a health
resort There came from him a note
to Elsie:
When l get some of the mean
ness out of my system" the old
man wrote, 81 shall come to see you
and ask the dear little angel so
cruelty offened to call me grandpa.
In the meantime. having learned
that Walden's employer has found
it necessary to advertise for a part
ner to secure more capital, have
purchased that interest for him.
and if he will call on my lawyer he
may become full fledged business
man. and, hope, a successful
one"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
inflammation Of n RunIOn-


Please tell me something that
will remove the soreness and in
Illumination from a bunion Miss
J. C. d.
Ansver-Dressings kept moist
with alcohol, or il that it not OBJ
tainable, with witch hazel extract
worn over night. Bunion never
happens when properly fitted shoes
are worn.
Yeast Is q Food.
started taking one yeast cake
twice a day after food some three
months ago. / found that they
have completely relieved my con-
stipation, and besides have
gained IA pounds in weight. Is
there any harm in continuing
them? (B. b.
Answer-No. Yeast a foed g..
very nourishing and chock full Of
uric acid forming material. 1t is
rich in vitamil, tends to make the
bowel more active and to cause in
crease OF weight. Never causes
gas" or distension las might be
ina gined). Often seems to clear
up acne (pimples) and obstinate
recurring boils. Has no effect as
far as l know on impure blood :"
whatever that may be. One ordi-
nary compressed yeast cake after
each meal or after two meals,
taken mixed with water or tea OF
broth or fruit juice, as preferred,
in fluid form, for six weeks or
longer, is the average dose.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

edge that his inhumanity had led
to a serious result. After the physi-
clan he had sent for had set his
broken limb Blair heard him say to
the housekeeper:
81 will call again later in. the
evening. l have another urgent
case, that little Throop girl Some
body destroyed her garden and she
condition"
In his uneasy bed Mark Blair
souirmed and groaned. The next
day another remark of the doctor
penetrated the hard shell of his
seIfishness.
I'VE have finally quieted that
poor little mite up at TROOPS" he
heard the ply sician say. For hours
she was in a delirium, constantly
calling out about her garden. She
is still ill with the shock and fever,
but we have soothed her by telling
ker that the garden is all right, and
have promised to take her over to
see it just as soon as she is better"
For the first time in his life Mark
Blair counseled with his own soul.
His past life and it's ignobIe mo-
tives arraigned him as a culprit. 1t
was the next morning when he call
ed his man of all work and fmpart-
ed to him secret instructions which
were the first measures of his
atonement. That night the most ex-
traordinary garden ever was had
superseded the one devastated
Its been made smooth as q
floor" narrated Lucy's boy friend,
and all shut in with little fence,
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
The Ice Situation.

Nobody expects Rock Island ice dealers to
sell at a loss a product which they have to
buy in the open market. So long as they re-
frain from marking up their stocks already on
hand or what they manufacture from day to
day to a price level based competitive pur-
chases elsewhere they will be doing all that
can be reasonably expected of them. They are
engaged in business, not philanthropy and are
entitled to a fair and reasonable reward.
The fact remains, however, that private en-
terprise has fallen down in the manufacture
and sale of ice in the city. 1t has not met the
demands of its field. If it had done so it would
not be necessary to keep the price level here
habitualIy above that in other cities. There
would be enough of supply SO that the annual
cry about a prospective famine would not go
up about this time every year. 1t would not
be necessary for local consumers to bid
against each other for the available supply or
for local dealers to go out and pay a premium
for the surplus of some other community,
standing the heavy loss Of shipping in the heat
Of midsummer, to meet the needs Of the public.
Conditions this year are exceptional, it may
be argued, but so were they last year. The
exceptional" has come to be the rule in the
ice business in Rock Island in recent years.
The real trouble seems to be that the trade
ditional plant capacity is needed to stabilize
matters Under such circumstances the pro-
posal for the city to go into the game with
factory OF its own is meeting with good deal
OF favor
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17
Today's Events

Today is the 175th anniversary OF
the birth OF Elbridge Gerry. signer
of the Declaration OF Independence
governor of Massachusetts and
vice president of the United States
A wide range of agricultural
problems will be discussed at the
annual session of the Texas farm
ers' congress, which assembled at
the state agricultural college today
for a three day session.
The development of northwest
lands and the own your Gown
home" movement are among the
topics to receive attention at the
Interstate Realty association con-
vention. which is to meet at Vic
toria. B. c., today with an attend
ance of delegates from Idaho, Ore
gon, Montana, Washington, British
Columbia and Alberta
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-07-17

patient. If the dose is sufficient,
one dose is curative.
The attending physicians opin-
ion is still more reliable than the
report of the bacteriologist who
has merely examined a culture
from the throat. The culture often
proves positive" (diphtheria
germs presently when the patient is
obviously not i'll Of diphtheria or
perhaps quite recovered from the
sore throat. However, a physician
who sees no evidence of diphtheria
today may find such evidence de-
veloped at his next visit. The cul-
ture is valuable as a protection to
public health and should therefore
be made in every case if there he
the slightest suspicious of diph-
iberia.
The physician may now deter
mine definitely, by means of a
simple test called the Schick test,
whether any individual is immune
to diphtheria, and he can immun-
ize a susceptible individual by
means OF -dphtheria vaccination.