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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
THIS is THE BIRTHDAY OF
Louis XVII,
IS 1T YOURS?
MARCH, 81 1855.

More Of romance has attached itself
to the name Of Louis XVII OF France
than 10 any other king. He was the
son of Louis XVI. and Marie Anetoi-
nette and was born in Versailles. be-
coming dauphin Of France when he
when the French revolution broke out
he was confined with his whole family
in the temple.
There were hundreds Of plans for
his escape, FOR on his fathers death,
he naturally was considered king by
the royalists. He was given into the
keeping Of cobbler and his wife, who
in spite of rumors, seemed to have
been fond OF BIN. One tale runs that
they smugglad him to freedom by
carrying him off in basket. 1t If
a known fact that they disappeared
suddenly, and from the time of their
disappearance the dauphin-or the boy
deaf mute wac was supposed to have
been substituted for hlm-neithel
spoke nor seemed to understand any
thing.
The tales run that the dauphin was
confined in a dark cell and that he died
of a disease of long standing. Yet II
is known that whatever the disease
was, it must have come suddenly
Those who buried him had never seen
him alive, so could not know whether
1t was the dauphin they buried or not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
WHY HAVE a BOXING LAW?
Harrington Gazette.


The so-called boxing bill has been
defea'ed in the Iowa legislature. II
should have been defeated for the
simple reason that it was a weak and
wobbly excuse, and would have taken
the punch out of the manly art OF
self defense, as it is called. The law
makers of Iowa, like those of other
states. are timid creatures. A merge
eyed cavern mouthed "reformer' can
emit noises that Will frighten rub
ber-collared statesman under the bed,
while the logical. lucid arguments OF
real human beings will be lost utterly
on him. This was indicated by the
manner in which the critter SHE'D at
the excuse for boxing bill
But what's the use of having box
ing bill? Prize fights sponsored by
every Tom, Dick and Harry, crooked
and every other kind. are being staged
in Iowa nightly Nowhere are they
more advertised than in the city OF
Des Moines, where public fights ere
held at frequent intervals, without in
reference from Attorney General
Havner.
There should be some law regulat-
ing boxing to keep the sport out OF
the clutches. at least partially, OF
crooks. The Gazette believes that the
present law prohibiting exhibitions
for gain should be repealed and each
city be permitted to regulate its ring
contests.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
HARPIE STOCK SAL EMsk.

Chicago is conducting a roundup OF
and many a waitress or old couple
are getting part Of their money back
as the harpies are made to let go of
what is left of their feast
But Chicago is catching only few
Of the vuItures Of prey that promise
to make carton of the peoples liberty
bonds. Why can't the average person
be made TO see that a liberty bond is
almost the same as so much currency?
The bond is the governments promise
to pay on a future day from taxes TO
be levied, while paper currency is the
governments promise to pay on de-
mand from assets held by the federal
reserve banks or from gold in the
| treasury vaults.
People should never invest liberty
bonds in anything in which they would
fear to put currency. People, in fact.
should never invest in any new COM
pany unless they can afford to lose.
All new ventures are hazardous. The
promoters may prove to be successful
and they may not. Let investors who
can afford the risk of losing their
principal stake the experiment. Small
investors who have savings which
they can not afford to lose should
never put their money into industrial
enterprises except those already es-
tablished as going successes and then
only in the preferred claims upon both
a surplus should take all the chance.
The average victim Of the stock
salesman is overly persuaded. He sue
cumbs to craftsmanship. He does not
realize that he is attacked by strong
| er mind and that he yields to superior
| mental force when he is persuaded to
invest in another mans business en-
| terprise. II he would wait until he
could pursue as careful investigation
as tho buying farm he would save
| himself, but too often he signs and
| investigates afterwards
Old p. d. Armour, once said that
any fool could make a million but that
it required a mighty smart man to
keep what he had made and it was
as true in denominations of hundred
! dollars as In millions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
Mr., PoRcupiNE TAKES A DARE.

Dick otter had arranged for Tom
and Jerry Beaver to bring lot o,
sheets OF white birch bark, and hide
it in the bushes near the toboggar
slide, just before the big show began
When all vas ready Dick Otter
called out, M. Porcupinc, challenge
you to slide down my new toboggan
dare you"
Now, Mr.. Porcupine was very fool
ish 70 take that dare. for Il is very
silly thing ever to take a dare" Mr.
Porcupine rolled himself UP into @
little ball at the top of that toboggan
ready to roll down.
Do you know what re looked like
when he was rolled up IN a little ball
You couldn't guess.
Well, he looked Just like your srea,
grandmother's pin cushion, filled with
big pins and needles. only about ten
times as big. And ali the little people
opened their eyes very wide, and held
their breath to see Mr.. Porcupine roll
down the big toboggan. But just al
Mr.. Porcupine began to roll, slowly al
first, Dick Otter beckoncd to his help
ers Tom and Jerry Beaver. to spread
the big sheets OF white tirch bark or
the slide. in front OF Mr.. Porcupine--
for him to roll over!
And what do you suppose happened
Why, the quilts of Mr.. Porcupine stucA
into the white sheets Of birch bark
and stuck fast because Of the barbs
in his quilts. And as Mr.. Porcupine
rolled faster and faster, every white
sheet of birch bark stuck fast to his
auills, until he looked like white
ghost in rags! And he looked almost
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
TWO KINDS or HOUSING sIlls.

A housing bill has passed the Iowa
legislature which establishes regula-
lions az to light and ventilation for
dwellings and seeks 10 lessen conges-
ton In slum districts. but there is an
other bill pending which should not
become "a law. 1t provides for loanins
money TO soldiers who want to build
houses on the installment plan.
There is no occasion in iowa for
government loans either for house
building or farm land buying. The
federal farm land banks and life in
suranCe companies offer all the money
that is needed for land buying. Any
more money would initiate land values
to the breaking point by making reck-
less speculation possible. Building and
loan associations, savings banks and
real estate syudicates make home own
ing on the installment plan so easy
and available that we do not need 70
risk the loaning of millions OF pubic
money by politicians in state office.
With a secretary Of state under in
vestigation by the Legislature for neg
ligence and the suspected loss of
100000. in unsolicited auto licenses
and a governor on trial before a legis-
lative committee suspected of selling
pardon for self confessed criminal
we can well hesitate before we turn
over large sums to the state executive
council, made up Of such men, to be
loaned to political friends If it were
SO desired.
II the state of Iowa wants TO do
something for its soldiers let bonus
be paid direct TO every man from the
service regardless OF how he may vote
when state officers are running for
reelection.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

is again going to- be a patriotic loan.
AS far as can be ascertained it is
also going to be a profitable invest
ment. You will not be called upon to
make a wartime sacrifice when you
subscribe to this loan Rather will
you be given an opportunity TO share
in a very profitable investment. Under
general conditions that would not be
the case, the cast would grab an in
vestment of that kind before the mid
die west got peep at 1t.
SO get ready for the fifth loan. 1t
will be the last. II may be the last
chance you will ever get to buy Unit
ed States government bonds at par.
Buy all You think you can buy and
then buy a few more.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
Topics of the Times

With may corn at $3.50 and the
wheat price guaranteed many of our
farmers have decided TO try it again
for at least one more season.
Save up for, the victory loan in
April. Your allotment will not be
less than it was in the fourth liberty
loan unless you are gutter.
If all the business men in Marshall
town intend TO advertise who are ad-
yising others to do SO the T.-R. will
telegraph for a new press.
Governor Harding admitted yester-
day on examination that he believed
young Rathbun guilty OF the crime Of
rape but he did not explain why the
pardon was granted.
Ford's much advertised philan-
minority stockholders of the Ford
Motor Company.
Government ownership always looks
best to those who never managed a
business of their own. From the out
side 1t always looks simple and easy
to run a hotel, newspaper or public
utility.
The government may not be asking
for war gardens to help win the war
but our citizens will need a war garden
this year to help pay for the war.
High school students who think that
they have a Just grievance throw
away all their rights when they try
to take over the management Of the
school themselves. No high schoo
was ever yet managed successfully b!
boys IS to 1S years OF age. When il
comes to a show down as to whether
the teachers or the boys are to~r the
school the teachers will win every
time and the merits Of the origtna
grievance are lost in the larger issue.
Farmers who would Ike to get ou'
of the mud should know that the ne"
road bill which will become a law pro-
yides for the formation of road dis
tricts for the crawling of township
| or county roads whereby the bene'
fitted property, township and county
will share the cost.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

| ,cns voyaxs snd kspt ths wheat ia
months In storsgA
Servings sst the grover up n csss-
ness and put the plow In the farmers
| hands.
All the wealth In the world began
| with somebody's savings. All that we
call civilization was planted anu
watered by savings.
Until men learn to save, they we're
savages. clad in skins and living on
what they could kill or wearing fix
leaves and living on fruit in the
tropics. 1t was when they began TO
have something ahead that they
started to he better than savages.
when yo' turn on the electric light
or pick up the telephone or start new
rec ord on the photograph. IL In not
only somebody's work yesterday or
last year that YOU are using--it is last
years work, built on the work of the
preceding generation, built on the work
OF a hundred years ago. built on the
work OF men who lived before America
was discovered, before Rome and
Egypt and Babylon.
For Inc man who made the electri"
light could not have done IL without
the steam engine. and the man who
made the steam engine could not have
done II without the forge, and the man
who first forged iron was living on
food raised with the help OF wooden
plows.
But, in every case, the accumulation
of wealth began with somebody's saw
ing-getting a little ahead nc start
for going further ahead.
Today the only way We can get
ahead-any OF us or all OF US together
is by saving.
II we were to build a railroad, we
should have to furnish a living 10 the
men who grade the way and lay the
rails, TO the men who dig the ore and
make the steel. and all the others who
work on track or equipment.
Their living is paid to them as WAGES
but what those workers really get is
food and clothing and other goods that
somebody has saved.
So when we save. we do something
besides get ahead in the world on our
own account. We set other people to
work making things to shove this
world little further ahead Whatever
we save in one way or another Is
mingled with the general prosperity
fund by which the world advances.
Now, five dollars doesn't seem very
much to make the world move faster,
and quarter looks foolish.
But all the wealth in the world is
founded on savings-sayings much less
than a quarter-savings. OF pennies
and farthings and sous. And every
quarter and every penny and every
farthing is made of human strength.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
A Masonic Meetings
~ vfsitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NC. tos 4. r.
A. NJ, special communication Friday
March rs at 1890 p. H. first degree
A. L. Fraxer, w. M John w. Wells
secretary.
sIGNEr CHAPTER, No. SO r. A,
NJ, Monday, March "a. Mark Mast
srs degree. George Gregory, II. p;
John w. Webs, Secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ, Mon
day, April u. 1919. Business meet
ing. Ira A. Davenport, l. NJ; John
w, Wells, recorder.
Stated Conciavs ST. Aldemar Com
mandery No. 80, K r. Easter service
Methodist church, April 20. J. f. Fred
erick, commander; John w. Wells, re-
corder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81 o. E.
Especial meeting Saturday, April T..
School of instruction at ? p. m, dinner
at s: 80 and initiation at s o'clock Mrs.
Archer Walton. secretary; Mrs ]. F.
Schultz, w. VI.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

four times his ordinary st3a
But he was rolling down AZ fast a.
sheet lightning, and when he struck
the water you would have thought it
was your mothers big clothes basket.
filed with white clothes tor the wash
The sight was so funny that an tho
little people rolled on the ground and
were doubled up with laughter And
when Mr.. Porcupine struck the water.
made the biggest splash GREG seen or
heard at Mirror Pond
And the funniest thing thsm hap
pened that you ever heard Of In your
life; The wind was blowing hard, and
It caught Mr.. Porcupins - the big
sheets Of white birch-bark spread out
in the breeze, and It waited M. Por-
cupins out into the middle OF Mirror
Pond. He tried ITO como about" but
he couldn't trim his sails. He had no
anchor, and he sailed Ike q water
logged schooner before the wind
He was very angry and very much
frightened. and he could SEQ all the
little people lying on the bank. and
kicking up their heeh In delight, and
he could hear their laughter, and it
made him grind his teeth In ragA
After some more sailing, poor Mr.
water-logged Porcupine reached the
opposite shore, and dragged himself
slowly up the bank, and thru the trees,
looking like an immense turtle with q
big white shell on his back or like
some one who had stolen the clothes
line when the wash was out!
Tomorrow-Jimmie Coon Brings
Some News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
THE VICTORY LOAN,
Huntington Hawkeye.1

The new loan, which is to be called
the victory loan" will be offered
April 81 to May 10. Many Of the de-
tails are still undecided.
The thing is to be ready when II
does come. Let Us oversubscribe 1t
again, AS we have done before, let
us prove that We have the capacity
the power TO come back" Let the
whole country 90 over the top. And
for various reasons. The government
needs the mordy. 1t needs the money
just as urgently as it did the other
loans. The boys have to be brought
home, and the war work must be An
ished or wound up in some fashion.
There is money needed for a thous-
and things.
Besides the fifth loan will be show
ing that the people stand by their gov
eminent. That they endorse the war,
and the part we did therein. So this
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
BOOZE AND WATER.

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all will
will
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

If he escaped. he either did die soon
afterwards, or he lived in safe OBJ
sucrity. One tale goes that he turned
up in New York and lived among the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
gE||2E sg sA

Indians. There have been hundreds OF
pretenders to his name but no solu-
ton Of the mystery of his life has
ever become known.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

'sWhat has become Of the phrase
Making the world safe for democra-
cyT" asks the Burlington Hawkeye
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

The bolshevists who figure on run
ming the universe will md the tirst
hundred years the hardest" thinks the
Des Moines Register.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

which comments: There are so many
kinds of democracy, or so many things
that pass for democracy. that it seems
10 have been deemed eXpedient to
shelve that phrase for the present.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

The Perry ,,aief believes that Homer
thy neighbor as myself was written
before city politics was invented.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

With war declared by Hungary
against the allies. the Davenport Times
considers that these are strenuous days
for the peace conference. but advises
that every boly sit steady in the
boat"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

If boIshevism conquers the world
It won't be worth reconquering.' de-
clares the Burlington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

Judging from the size Of the income
taxes and the victory loan this coun-
try has an indemnity to pay also,
says the Boone News Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-27

The democratic Waterloo Times
Tribune believes that because Joe
Bailey has left the democratic party
his leaving makes things that much
safer for democracy
The Washington herald., 1919-05-01

husband, Charles Winninger made a
emies:" Eleanor Painters husband.
Louis Graveure. is coming money on
the concert stage with his unusual
baritone voice, and Tom Richards. who
sings the heroic role in 'The Lady in
He'd" the new musical comedy which
comes to Polls Sunday. is the hus-
hand OF Lulu Glaser, who is now rest
ing while her husband gets his pay.
Booth Harrington. author of the fa-
nous "Penrod'' stories which have
recently found their way onto the
stage. confessed the other day that
he had derived the principal ideas
which he used in the creation of the
central character from his own am
bilious exploits while he was a boy
In his native city Of Indiana polls.
Many OF the minor characters, he
said, were taken from children and
adults who are at present or who
have been his neighbors.
Il think that perhaps I drew some
OF them too sharply" he said. for
l couldn't help noticing that imme-
diately after the appearance Of a new
Penrod story certain Of our neighbors
would grow distant and refuse to
The Washington herald., 1919-05-01
Sam Shipnaan, Satirist
By EARLE DORSEY.

AT the end of the Horses" Mr. Samuel Ship
mans fourth and latest play which gathering
this week, quite willing suggestion
Mr. Shipman had deliberately offered up play the altar of
scntllant dialogue.
The first other words had nothing specially
noteworthy or novel, from dramaturgc of
cpochal its storytelling specially
illustration of Ee and observe it was
SIMPLY the beginning OF rather little
phistcated.
Looking the other side pctu-the purely verbal and
doge sdew found oursd enchaned yea fascinated by the
rppng flowing quality Mr. Shipman had
put into the mouths of his The thing of
proportion Here what pay
rs vehicle for of the penetrating English
that has reverberaed local fooghts hadozen
So with these thoughts uppermost strod into the lobby
at the end OF Act and CHANGING Author Shipman
constrained to venture the opinion that Mr. Spmans play
dialogue Mr. Shpmans bespoke his
though he gave but feeble voice a disclaimer
Then Act which proved impressions
utterly but revealed Mr. Shpman credtabe
light revealed parts story teller of no mean
ntropection 1t showed also that Shpman had gone to At
lane City idea off his merely to increase
his exehequer and the number of Shpman plays Broadway
Dark Horses, other words forth, some
the idea that the plodder
1t also endeavors to interpret in stage new
facet of the old tortoise-andhare primarily it man
Mr. Shipmans belief in the theory this world is
the watch after ALL and ideals any old dreamer is
a man to keep
For instance:
Dark Horses" college boys and four college
girls who the graduation to pool their Joint
the end of three and divide their
pregraduaon Morgan of the
future another visions of the White House, third is to
great symphonies fourth build bridge the At
lantic and the fifth the on the classics
though he is generally rated and man who
his merits entitled but earnings of his
associates
The furnishes the act and in the
CONTINUED ON PAGE SEVEN
The Washington herald., 1919-05-01

II American movie fans could visit
the home Of charming little Enid
Bennett. they would cease to wonder
at the deftness OF her fingers in
moulding clay as the scuiptress in
The Law of Men," the picture which
VIII De displayed at Loew's Columbia
today.
Miss Bennett's home is filled with
clever bits of sculpture and pottery
which are the product of her own in
dustry. Most OF them were made sew
erai years ago in Australia, from
which country she came to America.
A few are the product of more re-
cent years, but her time has been so
occupied in picture making the lasr
Iew years that she has had little op,
portunity to follow her pet diversion.
There is one clever piece of pot
terry on Miss Bennett's wall which
Is not OF her own making. 1t is
one she prizes most highly. The piece
Is IN the shape Of. a boomerang with
ngures Of q graceful girl embossed
thereon. II was presented to her on
the night OF her last theatrical an
pearance In her native land. Australia,
and carried with 1t the significance
Of the boomerans--come back again.
The Washington herald., 1919-05-01

pass even the accustomed time of day
with me: and others. if they did sa-
lutte, gave me awfully black looks
at the same time"
IF an actor has a personality it
is bound to shine through the char
acter he is representing and it is
well that il should" says George
Arliss. the distinguished English
actor. who is this season presenting
a noteworthy double bill. THE Mol
lusc." by Hubert Henry Davies. and
"A Well-Remembcred Voice." a
powerfully occult dramatic play by
Sir James NJ. Barrie.
Il really think that playgoers
like to trace the man, as they know
him on the stage. in the different
parts he plays" continued Mr.. Ar
Iiss. who Is also a believer that
''the playwright manufactures the
part. the player interprets it, but
that the audience helps to create
it. Art in acting is Disgusting the
art you use and so an actor is the
product of the sentiments and sensi-
bilities of his audience. quite pos
sibly their reflection"
The Washington herald., 1919-05-01

the season. following the decision OF
Miss Sarah Hyatt and Miss Violet
Buckley to follow the Orpheum vaude-
willie circuit next year. The two young
women. who are the featured stars
with the Monte Carlo Girls at the
Lyceum Theater This week. have
signed contracts with Gus Edwards
to do a sister" act.
Miss Hyatt has been in burlesque
several seasons, but her carly stage
career had to do with vaudeville and
comedy stock. She played in THE
Red Widow" in 1910 and then had two
years work In vaudeville.
Miss Buckley is working her second
season in burlesque. Last year she
was with the same company and be-
fore that engagement had appeared
in minor roles with dramatic road
shows.
Johnny Hodgins is writing a musical
sketch for Miss Hyatt and Miss
Buckley and they will rehearse the
bit during summer vacation.
Stage husbands seem to be forging
tc the front of late. Geraldine Far
rar's husband. Lou Tellegen. has been
starring successfully: Blanche Rings