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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-11
Range, of Chicago Grain Prices.

~ Chicago, Sept IL.
Corn-sept- opened at 1881; high
est, l.5s: lowest, I.53; closed. 1.53;
Dec, opened at 1851: highest 127i
lowest, 1.25; closed. l.25.
Oats-Sept- opened at 60; highest
ssH; lowest, ssI, closed. $50; Dec
opened at T1A; highest, 717si lowest
70M, closed, II.
Pork-Sept, closed, 42I Oct, opened
at $3.50: highest, 1910; lowest, $3.50;
closed, 1910.
Lard-Oct-, opened at 25.4o, highest,
1855: lowest, 25.S7; closed. 1850; Jan,
opened at 22.5o; highest 1850, lowest,
$3.50; closed, 22.75.
Ribs-Oct.. opened at 2o.5o@r high
est, 2os0; lowest, 2o.25; closed, 2o.6o;
JAN, opened at 1920: highest, 1882;
lowest, 1920; closed, 1917.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-11
CLOSING OUT
PUBLIC SALE

Having decided to quit farming.
will sell ut public auction on the Frank
Keables farm. five miles west Of Gill
man. and two miles east and one half
milo south of Laurel, on
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-11

ing In Frume between Italian and
Jugo Slav troops. Tho allies were
compelled to intervene. The riotinS 10
continuing.
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MAasHALLrowN MARKETS.
Prices Paid For Hogs, Grains, Produce
Hides and Wool.


Prices quoted below are quoted by
Marshalltown dealers Of hogs. grains.
produce, hides and WOOL as bought by
dealers from farmers who use this city
as their market.
HOGS. ......
The following prices are quoted by
Roberts & Oake for hogs in wagon
loads delivered at the packing house
the day quotation is made. phones 1s5
and 1873, subject. however. to market
changes:
Choice prime hogs, 1880. .21s.76
Choice light hogs, 10000. ..... 1850
Choice light hogs. 14o-175. 1850
rChoice smooth packers. $50 800. 1925
Heavy smooth packers. 3Oo-350.. 1910
Heavy smooth packers. 350-i00.. 1880
Heavy packers and stays ...... 11.5o
GRAINS.
Benedict Flour and Feed Company
will pay the following prices at its
place Of business in this city. subject.
however. to market changes:
Oats-.so -
Corn-1.54.
Marshalltown Milling Company. go,
South First avenue. quotes the follow
ing prices on wheat:
Good milling wheat sos
FARMERS PRODUCE.
Reynolds and Sheldon quote the fol-
lowing prices:
Butter-50.
Eggs-40.
HIDES. WOOL AND FURs.
Fl. willard. Son & Company report
| the following prices paid for hides
| wool. and furs:
Cattle hides, 1920 cents.
Horse hides. $1OG12
Medium wool. isaac cents.
Coarse wool. 3563S cents.
Fine western. 32@36 cents.
Rioting in Fiume.
London Sept. 11.-Unconfrmed re-
ports received here tell OF serious riot
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PIebiscite in Taschen Mining District.

PIebiscite in Taschen Mining ClstrIct.
Paris, Sept. ia plan for the set
tlement Of the question OF the Teschen
mining district. in dispute between
Poland and Czecho- Slovakia, was
adopted by the supreme council at the
session today. It was agreed that a
plebiscite be taken in the district.
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k.nsa, citv Live Stock.

Chicago. Sept. ll.--cattle-Estimat
ed receipts for today, $4,000: 1000
calves; beef steers Is to 80 cents
lower.
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CHICAGO Grain Close.

Chicago. Sept. IL.
Corn-No. I mixed, 1864 916; No.
/ white. 15T9l5T%J No. mixed, l.eS
@lSSJa; No. 2 white. 1853 II 91.57&;
No. 2 yellow, 1861 @15s; No. 8 mixed
1.5s61.5s1s; No. 8 white, L56; No. 4
yellow, 1.55k915Sh; No. s yellow
1.s5; No. 8, mixed. 1!5491.54H: No. s
yellow, 1854 @1y57: sample grade. l.4S
! @1.54A.
Oats-No. 2, 671s; No. 2 white, ee&
OF; No. white. 6T4 970&: stand
ard, s51s.
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NNlcES ALSO BEARiShlY AZ
FEcTEp BY FURTHER BREAK
IN HOO MARKET
DEALERS FEAR INDUSTRIAL
rlEup THRU STRIKE
! Packers Announce That Great Britain
! 10 Dropping Out Of American Meat
Market, Which Lowers Aoys-oats
and Provisions Follow Lead Of Grain
and Hogs.

Chicago, Sept. il.-Sharpiy lower
prices in the corn market today re-
suited from the strike ultimatum Is
sued by the steel workers. Prices were
also bearishly affected by new break
in the hog market. In this connection
packers announced that Great Britain
was dropping out Of the American
meat market. Opening prices when
ranged from y TO 2& cents lower. with
September at $685. to $3.50 and De-
cember at s12s1s to s1.27 were fol-
lowed by additional setoacks.
Liquidation by holders carried the
September delivery down cents. De-
cember and May kept within normal
limits but December touched low
level for the season. Prices closed
nervous, with September at s1.53 to
1884 and December at s1.25h to
s1.25S.
Oats.
Oats gave way with corn. Openings
were II cent down with September
at 71k to 714, and were followed by
additional losses.
Provisions.
Provisions were lower, due to the
break in hogs and grain.
Subsequently talk OF export business
with Germany brought about rally.
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HOGS AGAIN MOVE
TO LOWER BASIS
ANOTHER HALF DOLLAR DE-
CLINE IN PRICES AT
.. CHICAGO YARDS.
PACKERS SAY BRITAIN
Is OUT OF MARKET

inclination of Farmers to Rush Hogs
to Market Also Factor in Price Drop
Top Gees Down to S1s Per Hun
dredweisht - Cattle Prices Hold
Steady-Sheep Sell Lower.
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Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, Sept. II.
Cattle-Estimated receipts for today
$4,000; market, steady. ..
Heavy beef steers, medium
i nlAinn
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Rioting in Fiume.
London Sept. 11.-Unconfirmed re-
ports received here tell OF serious riot
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Open. High. Low. Close. Close
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Famous
MaCkenSen "PhaIanx"

Won Mackensen proved in Galicia that
a sufficient artillery concentration could
completely destroy surface trenches. But
he also proved that picked infantry could
drive through all the trench lines of an
enemy shaken by tremendous lombard
ment The Mackensen "phaanx"-the
forerunner of the Won Falkenhayn and
Won Hutier "shock troop" formations
became as famous as Mackensens mobile
heavy batteries, doing field artillery SER
vice.
The British at Neuve Chapele attacked
onc-mile front, using 300 big guns.
Won Mackensen massed about 1000 guns
on front Of several miles. The German
official reports fix the length Of the line
broken through on May at eleven miles.
But the fire was largely concentrated on
the enemy's centre before Gorlce The
bombardmeDt lasted four hours and when
the support troops moved forward there
were no Russian trenches left. Dimi-
triefFs army melted away. The Biala
River line, in front Of Gorlicc, was com
pletely uncovered. Nor was DmitrieT
able to make stand at the next river.
the Wisloka, or st the Wistok still fur
thcr back
BruslloR's rear was now exposed. Bv
rapid retreat he cxtricatcd himself,
losing only one division. His army and
Dimitreff's eventually rallied on the line
OF the San. But the Russians couldn't
hold on that line. They lost Jaroslav
and Przemysl and retreated again in con-
fusion to positions covering Lemberg.
The Battle of the Dunajec and the
operations directly following it cost the
Russians we'll over 100000 prisoners.
Yet conditions which applied only on the
eastern front had made Won Macken-
sens new offensive method seem more
destructive and irresistible than it really
was. 1t caught the Russian armies at
moment when their fighting strength was
fast cbbing away. German power in
artillery was magnifcd by extraordinary
Russian weakness in that all important
arm.
General Basil Courko, at one time
chief OF the Russian Imperial Staff and
At another time commander in chief of
the western armies, says in his book.
War and Revolution in Russ:e":
"kor months lin 1o15) batteries IN
action daily did not receive more than
four shells per gun per day Empty
parks were thsn brought UP. and there
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Out of the Frying Pan
Into the Fire

But in escaping the peril of strong
Germany which obsessed our leaders who
made the armistice, which obsessed all
minds in Paris at many moments, the
conquerors of the Kaiser have only fled
to new danger. We have almost fin
ished computing how much Germany
owes us and there is not living man in
Paris who has the remotest faith that
we shall ever be able to collect even an
insignificant fragment Of our bill. We
have permitted our debtor to become
totally bankrupt. We have permitted
him not merely to lose the larger portion
Of his capacity to work but also the de
sire and the incentive to work. The
German has laid down his tools. aban-
doned his desk. economic paralysis Is all
over Germany, and Of course the liquid
capital Of Germany avhi1able to meet
foreign obligations is inlbitesmaI
This, after all, is the teoJ tregedy Of
the situntlon which now eonfronts the
Paris conference.
| have said all this with reference to
the German domestic condition because
] am anxious that my American readers
should understand how greatly Germany
has changed between the 1th of No
vember and the 18th of March. We have
now in fact to speculate as to whether
there is any authority capable of sign
ing the name Of Germans to the Peace
of Versailles.
The simple truth is that Germany re-
mains to-day as great Il mystery as in
1914 or 1916 1T remains as great
peril, not in a military sense, but in an
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
German
Shuggishness

General Won Hoffman,, one of the
ablest Of Won Hindenburg's lieutenants
has attributed the comparative failure
OF the Eastern campaign of 1915 to Won
Falkenhayn's poor judgment in not
directing his main attack against Kovno,
instead Of Warsaw. Kovno was the kew
to the Russian northern front. Had it
fallen first, Won Hoffman, holds, the Rus
sian armies exposed in the Warsaw
salient and in western Galicia would
have been enveloped and peace of sur
render would have been forced on Russia
by the end Of 1915.
But here again the factor of German
sluggshness enters. Could that slug
gishness have been overcome any more
successfully by an offensive in the north
than by an offensive in the south7 Ger
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
,tr0ng or Germany Weak: Which Shall It Be?

would have expected. In November Ger
many had to accept whatever was offered
and knew it. Unhappily, the Allies were
not equally informed on the German
situation.
In the first phase following the Ger
man surrender victorious Europe, tenn
porarily escaping from the fear which
militaristic Germany had inspired dur
ing four and half years of war, gave
itself up to the equally paralyzing night
mare of German Bolshevism. 1t neg
lected to take precautions against
militaristic Germany in the future be-
cause it was afraid of contributing to
producing a Bolshevst Germany in the
present.
The result of these hesitations was
temporary revival of the old German
spirit, probably far more apparent than
real. Despite their domestic chaos and
their ever mounting internal disorders,
the Germans temporarily talked in the
tone and in the language which for more
than four and half years had alarmed
a Europe which had then perceived these
words to be backed up by all the enor-
nous forces of the armies of Hindenburg
and Ludendorff. Apprehension of Boil
shevism in Germany disappeared. Fear
of Bismarckian Germany returned ten
fold, and at this stage the Entente hest
tated to take steps calculated to check
Bolshevsm, such as feeding the Ger
mans. lest they should in fact save mill
tarism.
We have come now to d third phase.
To-day 1t is becoming clearer and clearer
that the old Germany Is doomed, that the
dsntegfation marches day by day. that
something apprexmatipg Russian chaos,
however temporary, Is now weilnigh In
evitnbe, Unlike Russia, Germany is not
yet breaking up into separate states.
There Is no evidence available that there
is any probability of break between
the North and South, between Protestant
and Catholic Germany, between Prus-
sia on the one hand and Bavaria, Baden
and Wirttemberg on the other, such as
was widely expected at an earlier period.
What is apparent is that the economic
and social disintegration of the whole
German Empire is becoming more and
more complete.
In this situation the Allies have at
last undertaken to do little of what
they should have done in totaity three
months ago. They now purpose to serve
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Fall of
Len1berg

After Przemysl was rctaken by the
Germans and the line of the San was
forced the Russians made temporary
stand on the Grodek line covering Lem
berg. Won Mackensen didn't trv to
break this line He turned it on the
northern end by battering his way to
Rawa Russka, where Russky had broken
Auffenberg's defence Of Lemberg in Sep
tember, 1914. The Galician capital fell
on June %. Its loss and the loss Of
Rawa Russka exposed the Russian armies
in the Warsaw salient to flank attack
coming from the south
This salient was beyond the true Rus
sian military frontier and had been held
since August, 1914, only because the
Russian armies had covered it on its
weak southern face by overrunning Ga
lcia. Now three groups of German Aus
tro- Hungarian armies were closing i'm on
the enveopcd Polish angle, Of which
Warsaw was the apex. The most danger
Gus attack was that from the south. in
the direction Of LubIin I.ubln fell on
July 80. a few days earlier Won Hin
dcnburg broke through the Narew River
line, on the northern face, and Prince
Leopold Of Bavaria got acrogs the Vistuln
north Of lvanRorod Warsaw was
evacuated Oh August i. BY August 10
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

partly, perhaps. Or else the ladies with
whom we go to the theatre are abnormal.
And can 1t be true that managers who arc
80 willy as to cater to the masculine taste
with such growing success are so ackinp
IN tact as to fail to provide for the fem
inine element?
Instead of ii chorus of magnificently mad
dcnng mermads let us decorate the stage
with cohort OF captivating, cavorting
cave-mcn. Down with tho spangles and
t'nsel of ballroom dresses; 4 bas the silken
sheen Of holeproof hosiery; farewell fluff,
pun and rufe Raise high the club of tho
primitive wfe-hunter, handsome with the
strength Of the untamed brute. In lieu Of
ball dresses the shaggy cloak of n tigers
skin or mems fashions in the time Of King
David.
AT the end of her just TRADE Miss Clarke
lets the cat out of the bag "Womcn have
ut last, thanks to the war per augusta ad
augusta, come into their own. 1t ia again
possible, as in Elizabethan days, TO wit
ness of play where the players are all. or
practically all msx."
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
The Real
Squeeze

Having said all this. | desire now to
pass to the simple and practical question
OF the changes in Germany's political
frontiers which are envisaged in the first
draft Of the preliminary peace terms.
Germany Is to lose outright Alsaee- Lor-
taihe, with an area which together with
that Of the Saar coal district slightly
exceeds 5000 square miles and al ante
war population Of 2,260000. She Is 10
lose the Danish speaking portion Of
Scheswg with upward Of 1000 square
miles and approximately 100000 people,
although the question Of the extent Of
the area and OF the number Of people
taken will depend upon the vote of the
inhabitants, and some of the southern
districts, including the city of Flens-
burg, may choose to remain German.
She is to lose her province of Posen prac-
tically entire, with an area of 1000
square miles and population of 2,00O,-
600, together with a strip of Upper
Siesa which will contain several thou
sand square miles and 100000 people.
In sum Germany will lose thus outright
between 90 900 and $4,000 square miles,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Gern1any's
Five Months Gain

On the Baltic coast the Prussian from
tiers had been extended to the Gulf OF
Riga. Within the German lines south
from the Gulf of Riga to the border Of
Galicia were included the province Of
Courland, the governments OF Kovno
Grodno and Wilma, all of Poland, and
part of Volhynia. The area of the terri
tory overrun exceeded 100000 square
miles. Its population was in excess Of
20,000,000. In five months campaign
Germany had expanded her own area
nearly half and added nearly third
to her population.
After the conquest of Serbia, Monte
negro and Albania, which was soon to
follow, one could say, speaking broadly,
that the ends of moderate and rational
German military policy had been at
tanned. The Teuton state called into
being at the end Of 1915 was one which
needed no sea power and no overseas col
onies. 1t could not be strangled by hos
tile sea power. IL took intelligent ac'
count Of the advantages and the liniita'
tions Of Gcrmany's geographical posi-
ton. II could be maintained by land
power alone. And German land power
was ample to maintain IT, 1t could also
be defended and enlarged a. slight cost,
because Of Germany's vast superiority In
military organization over Russia, her
sole competitor for mastery in Eastern
Europe and Central Asia.
But Won Falkenhayn, still chief OF
staff, took the superficial view that hay.
ing cleared and stabilized the eastern
front he could afford to resume the Of
fensive in the West. He was confident
Of repeating at the expense of France
the easy Russian and Balkan triumphs
of 1915. Hence the futile and wasteful
experiment at Verdun, where Germany
incurred ten times the losses which the
capture of Riga would have involved and
probably two or three times the losses
which would have been incurred N
breaking the entire Russian northern
front and capturing Petrograd. And han
the Germans entered Petrograd in 1910
Russia might have been put out of the
war year earlier, either by surrender
or revolution, and the military situation
of the Entente would have become deS-
perate. Destiny had other plans, how
ever, which were to be fulfilled through
the arrogance and obstinacy of Gcrmsh
leadership.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

the Russian tradition Of steadfastness
and GOODNESS in retreat again indicated
itself. The cavalry divisions behind
Wilma could not close the trap. The
Russian infantry slipped out with mod
crate losses.
This failure to make the Cann@ the
ory work puzzled the German critics.
One Of the frankest and most competent
of them - the military writer of the
'Frankfurter Zeitung" admitted that
the same phenomenon occurred in all the
great German enveloping operations: at
the Marine, in Poland, in Serbia, in Ru-
mania and at Caporetto. The mouth of
the sack in which the enemy was caught
neve1 was closed. Nor could this writer
find any convincing explanation Of Ger
man failure to realize the Gamma con-
ception. He could only advance the ex-
cuse of inadequate transport and con-
gestion of communications
This exculpation has received the
stamp of high German official authority
For Lieutenant General Baron Won Frey
tag Loringhoven engagingly puts forth
something very like it when he says in
his deductions From the World War" :
ut was proved on the Marine that the
age of armies numbering millions, with
their improved armament and the widely
extended fronts which they necessitate.
engenders very special conditions. On
the Vstua and in Galicia in October,
1914, at Lodz and after the winter bat
tie at the Masurian Lakes, as we'll as In
the autumn of 1915 at Wilma, the same
phenomena always made their appear
ance, even though the conditions Of ex-
tent and character Of the ground, as we'll
as the main course Of events, were in
each case completely different. Forces
which suffice to achieve victory and even
TO destroy strong sections Of the cnemy's
forces prove inadequate for She attain
ineht Of the complete success which is
desired"
But this was not the case with the
Allies in Palestine or in Macedonia in
1913, or with Fochs final offensive. In
the first two complete SUCCESS" was
attained. In the last it was on the
point of attainment when Ludendorff
asked for an armstice.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30
Opening for Bright Young Cave-Man

tho spectacle OF tired business man less
musical show. For too long. she pro-
claims. has the feminine psycholoey been
overlooked entirely and the day for the
change has come. What is sauce for the
gahder has been proving sawdust for the
goose.
thus, we are told, on the stage it is not
always the handsome, accomplished man
who wins the beautiful heroine; rather IL
is more frequently the plain, average fell
low. For this there Is subtle reason. We
males are wont to place ourselves in the
heros place; now, not being in the main
race of Adonscs or Apollos. it would
make us uncomfortable, as an audience. to
see paragon OF masculine beauty and
learning walk off with the cherished beauty
OF our dreams AS embodied on tho stapo
Hence the authors or managers wisely
that is, If they may be suspected of wisdom
Cater to US and indirectly fatter our
masculine inferiority by showing our plain.
average selves capturing the beauty of the
show.
4s the plaintiff in the case right? Only
New-York tribune., 1919-03-30

upon Germany preliminary terms OF
peace which shall be in fact, in all but
name, the definite terms. They have
practically decided the frontiers of the
new Germany. They are approaching an
agreement upon the sum which Germany
must pay and the manner in which it
must be paid. They are practically fin
ished with fixing the regulations to cover
German disarmament now and future
military Importance.
Yet it is plain now in Paris how great
was the blunder in November and in all
subsequent weeks. There was always
the fatal dilemma "Shall we save Ger
many to pay at the risk of her being
peril or shall we permit her to fall into
chaos, becoming thus powerlcss but also
incapable Of paying?" In the absence of
any settled policy on the part of the
Entente nations Germany was permitted
to sink into revolution. We could not
make tip Our minds to give her the raw
materials to start her factories. We could
not decide to remove the blockade and
let her population go back to work. In
this we were stopped by the fact that to
permit her TO do this would be to enable
her TO exploit to her own interest her
destruction Of French industries and
Belgian factories. The monstrous un-
fairness Of such "A course was patent, but
it was not less plain that II we did not
permit her to go to work she would not
tI ff, t>,tf hon
would presently become accustomed to
idleness and unwilling to 20 back to
work.
This is what has happened Apprehen-
sion Of militaristic Germany during the
next ten or fifteen years may be now
dismissed as idle. Germany can't fight
and Germany won't fight. The national
spirit is at least temporarily broken
confidence in national leaders, in old pol