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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
IT'S THE PEOPLES MONEY.
Waterloo Times-Tribunel

Returning from Europe Frank A.
Vanderlip finds that 1t is the sense Of
Europe-or rather. the finapciers Of
Europe-that America cancel the debt
owed by European countries to the
United States. 1t is Just matter Of
a little $4,000, 100000. The theory Is
that Europe bore about all the suffer-
ing to make the world safe for de-
mocracy" and therefore the people OF
this country should stand a greater
share Of the financial burden.
Unhappily one or two Of our talk
alive senators suggested some time
ago that the debt OF France be cam
celled. Ii the debt of France were to
be cancelled there was no reason why
the debt OF other nations be not also
cancelled. Perhaps, as to Belgium this
country will never try hard to collect
its obligations. They may be cancelled
In time and without regret on the part
Of any American. But a great, great
many Americans would object, II
movement were inaugurated to cancel
the debt Of any other nation.
Europe must bear in mind that 1t
was Europe that started the thing and
that it was United States that put an
end to It, Had the United States not
come to the rescue there would prob
ably have been a different ending. II
was the United States with its power
full resources OF men and goods that
bolstered up what would probably
have resulted in lost cause. 1t Is no
secret that France was pretty well
thru and that the British could not
have lasted another great campaign.
Italy had been badly licked. Then the
resources OF the United States were
thrown into the balance and it was
only. a question OF time. Had the spir-
It's not been bolstered up when they
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
Topics of the Time S

Five legislators sought notice by
voting against the suffrage ratifica-
ton. We must get into the hmelight
one way or another.
Young Ted Roosevelt is a candidate
for the New York assembly. New
York will do we'll to accept him. The
Roosevelts are a mighty useful fami-
~. a.sS
Certainly ladies, you can begin with
my fellow citizens" now.
Anna Howard Shaw died just as the
battle was won; but she died in the
front rank.
School children in Iowa are still
buying savings stamps. What about
their elders? It's a thrifty thing to do.
Friday Is an unlucky day but there's
nothing unlucky about knee high corn.
Every time the republicans have
tried to discredit the president or his
administration they have ignominious-
ly failed.-Winterset News.
Republicans haven't tried. They
didn't need to. The administration at
tended to it.
Two and three-quarters beer Is the
brewers Fiume.
Say cut it out please. Story county
Is sorry. She'll never do it again.
North Dakota has taken over every.
thing but the weather. However. the
weather Is the main thing in NORTH
Dakota
Nations, like men, find it hard t.
bear prosperity and pre-eminence
That is why Germany is hunting a jot
in shirt sleeves.
80 t lii.l
The actual reasons that the George
Washington has the safety and free.
dom Of the seas are fighting men or
fighting ships. That's why the sea!
are free.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
SIASElEsS B0sH.

With the advent OF prohibition the
church militant faces a new duty and
new responsibility. The saloon was
the clubhouse Of poor men. They met
In II for cheerful conviviality gem
orally denied them alsewhere--Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
The church militant and its duty
toward all men may be accepted at Its
face value but the bosh about the
saloon as a club house for poor men
who could not find cheerful con-
VITALITY elsewhere is utterly without
foundation in fact. 1t is one OF the
sophisms accepted by those who write
perfunctorily.
The saloon was never CLUB
house" though some clubs have
closely Appropriated saloons.
The cheerful conviviality" wasn't
there The gang was The mon who
dubbed" at the saloon went there be-
cause they craved drink and found
their own kind to drink with. The
cheerful conviviality" of the saloon
cost more than membership in any
good club, times and times over. But
at decent clubs drunkenness and open
profanity and obscenity are frowned
upon. The saloon Club patron could
have found Cheerful conviviality"
cheaper and better elsewhere He
didn't want that kind. The difference
was in the men. Given an equal de-
sire to be picked one day after an
other one man went qaietly to club
and stewed himself without publicity
and in a more or less orderly way: the
other went to the saloon where he
could roar and weep and booze among
his own kind. The saloon atmosphere
attracted him.
\ poor man isn't different from
other men. He has character, often
the better character. This bosh about
poor mans clubs" should be cut out.
There's neither sense nor truth in it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
JIMMIE ARRAN0Es ThE SPORTS.


want any one to tell him that on that
very day, as the last event OF the
sports, he was to- swim. and that oil
the little people OF the Great Forest
were to see him.
Peter would have died Of fright II
he had ever dreamt OF such an awful
'thingl
Myl you should have seen all the
little animals who lived near Mirror
Pond or Murmuring Brook. sitting
around the shore and waiting for the
sports to begin.
Mr.. Mud Turtle was one OF tho
Judges and he sat on his log Just az
II he were in an anchored boat and
Mr. Jim Crow was the starter.
The Offers and the Beavers md
Benny Mink and his family and the
Squirrels and the Frogs peeped out
Of the edge Of the pond ard oil the
Muskrats, and Mr.. Porcupine too.
helped Mr.. Jim Grow to start the
races. Mr.. Jim Crow made the an.
nouncements and Mr.. Porcupine made
them step lively or at least 60 into the
water for the races and not keep any
one waiting.
You would have loved to have been
there. Every one. who was any one.
was there In a front seat.
Prizes OF all kinds, but always of
someting good to eat, because these
pleased everybody were given out
by Mr.. Owl.
And just as they were fairly start
ed who do you think appeared?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

After Mr.. Red Fox had eaten three
eggs to see II they were fresh, and
after Jimmie Coon had. paid him the
six eggs agreed upon. and made the
promise to pay him three more when
Peter should have been chased Into
Mirror Pond. day was set for these
great water sports1
1t waa q queer thing that the very
one who was to be the principle GER
former didn't know any thing about
it! That person was Peter Rabbit.
II IL very strange how he never
heard q word and that II .was kept
such secret, when 80 many people
knew II. ts w 3t
One reason was that other races
were arranged. The Beavers and the
Offers were to have race and Sam
my Muskrat and his two cousins.
Another reason was that Chatter
box. the Red Squirrel, was away on
an errand. He was sent to show the
way to the two Snow Shoe Rabbits.
who lived so far away. II took them
two whole nights to run to Mirror
Pond from their home In the deep
woods. You remember that they were
coming to take care Of their cousin
Peter Rabbit.
Chatterbox loved to talk every.
thing over with everybody and 30
when there was any kind Of a secret
he always had to be sent away to
keep the secret.
On the day OF the sports, Jimmie
Coon ana Teddy Postum kept close
to little Peter Rabbit for they didn't
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

Ex- Secretary Allen, ex-secretary by
request, is out with a newspaper COM
munication attempting to show that he
was the victim of political enmity. end
Ing with the following paragraph;
The desire OF my critics was to cast
me into the political junk heap. for sell
fish purposes, and II in the midst OF the
legislative turmoil last winter, grow
ing out of the investigation OF public
officials, there has been one, who said
anything to reflect on either my per-
sonal or official conduct, let him look
in the mirror and see the face OF Moan
when his sons went into his tent back
ward,
Just what Is intended by the biblical
parallel Is not entirely clear. In that
historical jag of Mr.. Noah things got
badly mussed up about the office Of the
Ark and Ararat Co. 1t is probable that
correspondence and checks and things
were neglected and that everything
was all cluttered up and at heads and
tails. That was the case In the auto
department as per report of the senate
committee. Still the parallel fails In
one respect. Noah seems to have been
a very competent person with consid-
cradle executive ability when he was
sober. There is no record that ami
mails had to stand around for months
waiting for their numbers. Noah had
a weakness. He went on hurrah aft
er the big business was out OF the way
but so far nobody has ever charged
that the old man wasn't up to his Job
when he wasn't drinking. The whole
Noah family seems to have been a
pretty competent bunch. When they
had a big job on they did it. Even Ham
could check in and check out the men
agerie with ordinary clerical accuracy
and promptitude and Ham was the
poorest Of the lot and seems to have
been put upon a good deal by the 9TH
ers. So that part OF the parallel
doesn't hold good in this latest lesis-
lative deluge.
Diminishing scripturaI and historical
allusion and getting down to the brass
tacks of the present Mr.. Aliens plea
and protest can not stand against the
report Of the investigating senators.
They found what they found. 1t was
enough to induce Mr.. Allen himself to
get out Of the way. II the report had
been unjust or the investigation a plot
of personal or political enmity Mr.. Al
len should have fought his case then
instead Of now. The plea Of political
enmities" and plots" is the sure refuge
of those who have little else to urge in
their defense. 1t was urged in the In
vestigation Of the Rathburn pardon
and helped considerably. But the facts
stand in both Investigations. Perhaps
had Allen taken o chance he too might
have got by. But the facts would re-
main in his case as in the other.
Really the best thing Mr.. Allen can
do will be to consider "the incident
closed" and happily SO for the people
OF the state who desire service and
mayhap for himself. And 1t might be
suggested that If he Is to seek paral-
lels that Of Noah Is not good one.
Noah had snap. He may have been a
thirsty soul but he ran his own busi-
ness and did it well.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
WORK.

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have
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machine fanced was glad
mansized cho 10
make and hear the od
and things like those; the an ne NAG
the toll all ~ goes
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
SAVE THE SCHOOLS.

SAVE THE SCHOOLS.
tCedar Rapids Evening Tines.]
Some day we will learn that even
our school system can be made the
center OF too many prepagandas.
There are enthusiasts Of all kinds who
have been dreaming Of making the
school houses Of the country over into
their pet promoters Of all their schemes
and ideas. One wants this and the
other wants that. Medical men, So
cialists, moralists of all kinds are in
vading the schools Of tbs people.
They are all like the little foxes that
destroy the tender vines.
Some day we will have an awaken
ing Of the, old time common sense and
then we will re-dedicate the schools to
the purposes for which they were es-
tablished. The primary purposes OF
the schools are to make children able
to provide for themselves in the way
Of reading and thinking. 1t is not to
make them think as this or that set
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
IF THEY GAME TO THE FOURTH.

If you were true medium" and the
ghosts of grandfather and great uncle
John on your mothers side could be
your guests at the celebration on the
Fourth Of July, 1919. they would keep
you busy answering questions. First
they'd want to know when the parade
Of the calithumplans would come off.
what congressman was to speak and
where the platform had been built,
what girls had been chosen for the
float representing the states and who
for the Goddess Of Liberty, what law
yer or school teacher was to read the
declaration Of independence and why
the boys weren't firing the anvils.
They'd complain that things didn't
seem as lively as in the old days, tell
you how they used to get up on July
drive twenty miles to the big celebra-
ton. they and their girls, how they
iiitNN c" H'SAS i4S VI dL letSt d up
buggy for the day and had Give dollars
that they meant to spend every cent
Of. They might go into detail as to
the ivory rings on the harness and
say something about old Bet and
Badly, team that never was passed
with fair footing"-for those old fell
lows used to run horses on the way
home from celebrations and teams
were famous in a story which had
held the road and never been headed.
An SO on and so forth-in the morning.
But you'd have your inning later in
the day when the tours and SKIES and
Fights and twelves came racing into
town and andfather and uncle asked
you what they were and what had be-
come of the horses. Then you'd tell
them that their three or four hour drive
had been shortened to forty minutes
or even to % If the driver was reckless
and the road good. You would enjoy
seeing their eyes bug out at the autos
and the tailor made farmers and farm
! crosses. They wouldn't be able to tell
town folks and country folks apart I'M
less by their tan. You'd enjoy theih
amazement and wonder when the air.
plane circ1ed overhead and the drone
of its mighty engines struck their ears
and drew their eyes skyward. You'd
tell them how he flew over from Dixon
Illinois, a couple Of hundred miles in
couple of hours. And then you'd re-
late the transatlantic flights and cas-
ually remark that a British dirig lble
was due to land on this side at ZIP. M,
this afternoon.
When you told them that the aver
age automobile of the thousands that
lined the streets cost about $4,000 and
that there was one for every eight
people in Iowa perhaps your statement
would ;;,r ;srn-n viii, T. grain uf salt.
They'd protest that $4,000 would buy
an Improved quarter section" of the
best land in the state. Then you'd tell
them that land was selling for $500 an
acre all over northern Iowa, that hogs
were better than $21 a hundred, wheat
1925 bushel and 80 on. Then you'd
be lucky If they didn't leave you as an
unconsionable liar and go hunting
around for facts by themselves.
The pilgrims came to an whatsoever
ed land; but it wasn't. stranger than
Iowa would be to grandfather and ouf
maternal great uncle John. But
If they quit you cold they might
run across certain Montour farmer
and taxleaguer and have pretty
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
A Leaf From if

This is how high school girl recent
~ parsed the sentence, He kissed me-"
He" she began, with fond ling
ering over the word that brought the
crimson to her cheeks, lis a pronohn,
third person, singular number, mascu-
line gender, gentleman and pretty
well off. universally considered good
catch. Kissed Is q verb, trans.t.ye,
indicative mood, indicating affection,
first and third persons. plural number,
and governed by circumstances. Me-
oh, well, everybody knows mel"
and she sat duwn.---Oaiisas News. 55
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
AT ,2S, 900 A MILE.
INT. Vernon Record,I

n" IMt. VERNON HeCUru,I
While Linn county was arguing as
TO what mile of paving would really
cost Blackhawk county was advertise
ing for bids. The result was bid Of
s2,s7, which the state highway COM
mission refused to ratify claiming n
price Of not to exceed $3.50 yard
should be obtained. As there are ap-
prosimately 10000 square yards in a
mile Of paving eighteen feet wide, II
can be very readily figured out that.
at the high figure the paving would
not cost but about $4,000 mile. while
at the lower figure 1t would run only
a little over $4,000. Not $4,000 TO
$4,000 as many opponents Of paved
roads have claimed,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

good time rsgrsttins the pAssins
Of the old days OF horse drawn
vehicles and twelve inch piows and
prairie roads without bridges and pre-
dieting disaster along with telephones
and mail routes and good roads and all
modern aids and convenience to
living.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

What Makes the osyssr Spout
Geysers were long mystery. What
makes Ola Faithful, the most famous
OF all geysers. spout a column OF water
and vapor hundreds Of feet into the
air at regular intervals OF I'VE minutes
or 50? !.
The problem has been solved, and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

|ot Ssylowe want them 70 think Rad,
inG and writing ana arithmetic. WITH
wholesome morals and fsrvid Amsri-
can patriotism. these are the fandk-
msntals OF common school Systems.
And what We add more ought to be
carefully guarded. or we shall turn out
lopsided generation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
owa Newspapers
EVERYBODY WANTS 1T,

Webster City Freeman Journall
The way voters are endorsing paved
roads wherever the proposition is sub
mitted indicates that farmers. as well
provement
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

"Do you wonder at wealthy Iowa
men moving 70 California these days.
where they have good roads the whole
year thru ?" asks the storm Lake Reg
lister. with Iowa seething In mud
most OF the year II IL up 10 those who
have tho means and the inclination to
seek other surroundings. Can You
blame them
The Rock Rapids Review says.F'Tt is
not so much a question whether Lyon
county can afford to pave as whether
IL can afford not to pave. After the ex-
perience OF the past several months no
one can say that dirt roads ate good
enough. To continue to waste money
by patching up tho roads under the
old system Is q crime. 1t Is too much
like pouring water into a rat hole.
To gravel the roads B only little bet
ter. The only way to solve the road
problem 10 to solve It right"
The Humboldt Republican. remark
ing that someone stated that hard sur
faced roads can not win out because
the farms are against them, says, 1T
Is true that part of the farmers are
against them, and 1t Is also true that
part of the farmers are wrong. They
are wrong just as the farmers OF
Crawford county were wrong some ten
years ago when they passed resolu
ton pledging themselves not to trade
with any merchant who owned an au-
tomobile. Time demonstrated the fool
ishness of this resolution. and time will
demonstrate the foolishness Of the dirt
road advocates"
1T liz not yet clear to all OF us that
the British could not have prevented
the sinking Of the German ships which
were interned in their waters" says
the Cedar Rapids Republican. ITO say
that they lacked the power to prevent
the Germans from bossing what they
had SURRENDERED seems to many rather
silly. There Is no amount Of reason
that can convince any sensible man
that they-should have placed the Ger
man seamen on their honor. when they
knew that honor was not a high thing |
among them--and from their view
point, was there not left little pride |
In saying that they defrauded the eue- |
mics Of their preyT'
why not one set Of clocks for the |
country and another for the city," |
asks the Des Moines Capital.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
RISES TO INQUIRE
ma rIoN Rapicter1

ASS6ASs
Why 60 cents pound TO the con-
sumner for bacon and all kinds of meats
in proportion with 2s2.000.0o0 pounds
under government lock and key and
the country full Of livestock? This IL
a pertinent inquiry for information
Orly
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
LET US SING BY THE WAY.

Mr. Deems Of Burlington says right
out that he's going to be next govern
or Of Iowa. A fellow like that is
happy in his candidacy-which Is q
fine thing for Deems.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03
HANDY DIRECTORY
o. THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
a Masonic Meetings
1" Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os A. r.
4. NJ, special communication Monday
July Z, 1880" D. m. Second degree
A. L. Frazer. w. NJ; John w. Wells
secretary.
sIoNET CHAPTER. No. SO r. A.
NJ, Monday, July 81, monthly business
meeting. George Gregory, H. III
John w. Wells. secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo.
mon Council No. 20, r. q s. NJ, Mon
day, July n. Business session. ira
A. Davenport. I. M; John W. Wehs'
recorder.
Special conclave ST. Aidemar Com
mandery No. 50, K. T. "Wednesday
July 2. at 1880 p. m. Order or the
Temple. J. z. Frederick, commanders
John w. Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, Q. {.
S-Regular meeting Wednesday eve
ming, July 10, at 8 o'clock for business.
Mrs. j. F. Schultz. w. NJ; Mrs Archer
Walton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-03

why not one set of clocks for the
country and another for the city,"
asks the Des Moines Capital.
The sun., 1919-09-18
NIXON READY TO AID
HYLAN'S BUS LINES
Commissioner Says He Will
Not Try to 0bstruct Mayors
Scheme.
TRANSFERS ARE TO STOP
They Will Be Given at Only
Three Points After
October 16.

Public Service Commissioner Lewis
Nixon yesterday. in declaring that he
would take no obstructive position in the
effort that is being made by the Mayor
to have bus lines substituted for the
storage battery lines. again stated his
attitude on the general transit situation
The Commissioner declared he was at
all times ready to cooperate with the
Mayor In securing rather than destroy
ing service. The Commissioner would
interpose no technicalities in the way
Of any service the city might endeavor
to extend. He added that there were
many conditions covering the grants that
can be made by the city, but short
cuts would be permitted wherever pos
sible.
Because Of the refusal of the Pub
lie Service Commission to permit a
charge of 2 cents for transfers between
the surface lines Of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company and the subway and
elevated lines operated by its sub
sidiary. the New York Consolidated has
served notice that on October 16 they
will discontinue giving such transfers
except at three points
The Public Service Commission has
decided that as II has no power to force
transfers between the surface and the
overground and underground lines 1t
could not legally grant permission for a
charge for the same.
The three points where the transfers
will be continued are at Eighty-sixtH
sii eet and Fourth avenue. where the duai
contracts provide for an exchange be-
tween the subway and the Third ave-
nue. and the Fifth avenue surface lines
al Broadway and Marcy avenue, and at
Sands street. where transfers are ex-
changed when there is an interruption
of either service.
Among the points where transfers will
TO abolished are:
Between the Brighton Beach elevated
line and the surface cars at Prospect
Park, at Church avenue and at Ave-
nue. G.
Between the Bay Ridge elevated and
| the surface cars at Sixty-ffth street
and the surface cars and the elevated
lines at Thirty-sixth street and Fifth
avenue.
Between the Culver elevated and the
Church avenue cars at Thirteenth ave-
nue. and Thirty-seventh street, and the
| Reid avenue cars, and the Sixteenth ave-
hue cars ut the Sixteenth street station
Between the West End elevated and
| the Norton's Point line at Coney Island
ard the West End surface lines at
Eighty fourth street and Eighteenth ave-
rue.
Between the Myrtle avenue elevated
md the surface lines at Ridgewood
Fresh Pond and Metropolitan avenue.
Between the Norton's Point surface
| line and the Sea Beach, Brighton ana
Culver elevated lines as well as the West
| lind elevated.
Between the Nostrand-Culver and
| Tompkins- Culver surface lines and the
Church avenue and the Sixteenth ave
| nue. surface lines, at which points the
! former operate over q steam road right
/ II way.