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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21

allel case.
Who ever heard of q man commit
ting murder or rape or felonious as
sault ''while under the Influence Of
tobacco?"
Who ever heard of a mans child
rem going without shoes because he
spent all his money or--tobacco?
Who ever heard OF q woman's ruin
made possible because she had been
piled with-tobacco"? ~ 5t
Who ever heard Of half dozen men
sitting round a table Of an evening
and each one Of them compelled to
smoke six cigars before ne quit. In
order that each one might have an OPP
portunity to treat?
Who ever saw man so much
slave to tobacco that II he smoked
three cigarets in succession he was
sure to go home-is at ala Keeling.
befuddled imbecile because he could
not control his appetite and stop
smoking?
Who ever heard OF a Wife and child
rem dreading The husband and fathers
return on Saturday night because he
was sure to nave smoked too much as
soon as he got his pay envelope?
Smoking may be an unwise habit.
1t Is unquestionably bad for the i'm
mature. The non-smoker may be
healthier, more thrifty, more pleasing
to the senses of his near associates,
more efficient, longer lived. But we
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21

jitncy TO . cents over In Cedar Rapids
the other day and in one month paid
on the company's yiproporticn OF the
national debt. fNt
When Jawn d. In the good old days
tackled on one penny 10 the price OF
kerosene he had to nick another bank
To handle the proceeds
A. butcher who had pine counter
In corner store In 81. Louis sixteen
years ago started shortchanging his
customers out of one penny on each
purchase. claiming he was short OF
cents. II was all In the way you spell
IL, He now owns a chain OF short
changing stores on every other corner
of that sad town.
And his system has been adopted
with uniform success by. the second
generation Of white-aproned calfkill-
ers, who admit II is wrong to steal
after dark.
Out in Colorado before they began
to use pennies In making change every.
body had money. Then someone
brought in a sack of pennies and the
poor houses began to nj up.
They had to put an Indians head on
the penny. He was the only bird they
couldn't get 1t away from. He was
too light sleeper and too fast a run
ner.
Moral-Dont let the other fellow
save your pennies. A thrift stamp a
day will make the poorhouse advertise
for business.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21

the psoDle gathsred here on The hanks
Of the gyeat river that they had cros-
sed the briny In these slow ploddins
vessels, sometimes requiring several
weeks for the trip; and often they had
come to New Orleans. as this one did.
and up the Mississippi by slow stages
on the palatial river steamers Of those
days.
Another large class we're those who
had come across the country by wagon,
or down the Ohio and up the Missis-
sippi by an all-water route that was
much used. Such experiences are sell
dom written into family history nova
days. and for that reason they lack
the SAVIOR Of those pioneer days when
to come west was one OF life's great
adventures and challenge future
which called for fortitude and courage
and red blood.
They came to America In sail.
boat and landed at New Orleans"
The obituary writer will have little
use for that line few years hence.
He was n +s'er." and He crossed the
plains when herds OF buffalo covered
them as far az the eye could reach"
or few who are left can that be writ
ten. The automobile and the airplane
have succeeded the sailboat and the
the covered wawgon, and soon wen
have more who have ridden In the air
plane than behind the mules of the
emigrant's chariot. The old days and
the old things are passing away; and
for all that we shall ride above the
clouds, who shall say that there Is
more Of romance In these new tangled
things than clings to the old?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
BETWEEN GAS AND TROLLEY.

Commenting on the shipping of the
rails of a railway stub line built years
ago out of Clarinda an Iowa news
paper thinks it strange that abandoned
lines are not used for interurbans in
stead of being dismantled and sold for
what they will bring.
However it Is not strange. The in
terurban. like the street car is up
against the individual transportation
the automobile affords and the pros
pect Of truck transfer Of freight over
considerable distances. Within twenty
or thirty miles of the good sized trad
ing point the auto does the business
when the roads are good. Interurbans
can not thrive on the traffic that re-
mains. Further, the prospect is for
good roads all the year round in Iowa
and that means disaster to interurban
short hauls of passengers and freight.
In the smaller cities the automobile
is a bugbear to street car lines, not
only as regards those who own ma
chimes but as to the number of people
carried By passing acquaintances who
otherwise would have paid their fare
on the street car. And as the number
Of autos grows so the loss of fare
from this ca use increases.
The number of travelling men who
make their territories in cars regularly
is increasing great. Livery auto traffic
increases. With sond roads the in
crease will be proportionate. And IL
all works against the interurban.
The need is not for more interurbans
but for main roads for motor trans
portation. Now that it will be supplied
soon the interurban does not appeal to
capital and the necessity for interur
ban lines is passing.
Given a good road every day in the
year and the gas engine will have put
the trolley line between cities in a bad
box. Some expert or alleged expert
states that the operative cost of gaso-
lene cars over good roads and Of trolley
lines is practically 100 per cent in favor
of the gas car. How true that is only
experts know but if it is correct it
| warns capital away from interurban
enterprises.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
4 ,asrry ssss ,tsislAruAI

The legislature which has just adj
journed II entitled to much credit for
Accomplishment. Among the most i'm
portant is the highway legislation,
While II Is not up to the expectations
of the good roads advocates II Is a
long way on from the mud roads OPP
position and loosens the tail holt OF
that crowd on road legislation In this
state, II is u good start. Another
excellent provision Is the distribution
of number plates from county points
instead of from the a'pital. The legis-
lature accomplished much considering
the check upon It's legislative activi-
tics made by the investigation OF
Harding.
Pres dental suffrage for women is
to but It is step toward equal sun
rage the minimum wage for teachers
Is not especially notable except as a
movement In the right direction. The
minimum as set is pretty much like
declaring u minimum lower than the
average minimum established by COM
petition and in effect before the law
was made. The repeal of that nom
partisan judiciary law was u needed
reform.
It did many things IL should, some
things II should not and left undone
some things it should have done; but
this was very good assembly and
promises we'll for the future. The
state is probably better satisfied with
it and its work than with any as
sembly Of recent years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
'EIOdFd ISSHD IHL

lS4oOA SIls Vpui mall
The parole of Leroy Chase. who was
serving a twentyyear term in the
penitentiary for a series Of robberies
and holdups in this city. so numerous
that they would have been deemed in
credible but for the fact that the Grim
inal admitted them and they were
verified in the majority OF instances
by the recovery OF the stolen property,
calls attention to one OF the defects
in the principle OF executive pardon
and parole. Both are supposed to be
founded in mercy applied to the Grim
inal who has some eXtenuating circum-
stances in his favor or whose eXem-
plary conduct after the service of the
major portion Of his sentence is such
that additional time to the standa I'd
credit for such conduct is justifable.
The trouble in cases like that OF
Chase. and it is only an illustration Of
many. is that the communities which
suffered from the acts of the criminal
are not consulted about the course to
be pursued in reference to- him. He
is pardoned or temporarily set free
with no publicity. The people who
knew his conduct and the degree of
crjminality which he displayed have
no opportunity TO protest against his
release. No pardon or parole should
be granted until notice Of the appiica-
ton has been given publicity by means
of an official publication In ne~ispa per
OF general circulation in the commun-
ity in which the crime was committed.
Criminal reformers say this would pre-
vent many justifable reliefs by arous-
ing against the criminal all the local
hostility his acts engendered
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
THIS is THE BIRTHDAY OF
John Muir,
is 1T YOURS2
is 1T YOURs7
APRIL 81. 1898.

John Muir. one of the greatest natur-
alists OF the country, was born In
Dunbar, Scotland. one of the family
OF eight children. When he was IL
the family decided to try their luck in
the new world, so they came to the
United States and pushed as far west
as Wisconsin. All this was wild land
In those days. John Muir and his
brothers helped clear farm from the
wilderness. and 1t is likely that the
future great mans love OF flowers and
plants developed then.
However, he seemed at that time to
be more interested in mathematics.
He spent his leisure working out prob
lens on pieces of bark and chips OF
wood from the felled trees, and ne
used to rise after midnight-folks went
to bed at sunset then-and make mill
wheels and clocks and furniture. He
managed after a time to get a college
education. then he promptly disap-
peared into the wilderness. showing up
at long intervals to wotk on farms long
enough to earn money for bread-then
he would disappear again. Trampins
always. he went thru the west and
Canada studying plant life, down thru
the east to Florida and Cuba, over
Panama and up into California finally
settling in the Yosemite valley. Here
he started a mill to make his living.
while he classified notes taken on his
long wanderings. He guided Emerson
thru the Yosemite and Emerson wrote
OF him He Is more wonderful than
Thoreau."
Professorships were offered him but
he always refused. prcferring a life
among wild nature and study, to teach
ing. He made a particular study OF
the glacial period and found sixty five
small residual glaciers on High Sierra.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
Topics of the Times
Have you ,ead Heron

Have you ,ead Heron?
Strenuous efforts are being made to
-eha affiliate the governor by discred-
iting the judiciary committee; but the
case was tried openly and the evidence
published, such as was fit to print and
the public has settled it's verdict. 1t
will not change its mind.
Most states prohibit banks from
paying interest on dormant savings
accounts after certain period-usu-
ally about twenty years. Here's why.
If some person deposited a few dollars
at compound interest and went off and
left it, even one small account would
in time absorb all the money in the
world. Such is the power of com
pound interest.
Who's a Democrat" demands ex-
Senator Bailey Of Texas Why Col.
House, Of course.
The new bond is fine for a rainy
day; and it draws the same AZ per
cent on sunshiny ones too.
80
There is only one real, genuine and
everlasting friend that a girl has at
siXteen.--Cedar Rapids Republican.
Does the Republican refer indirectly
to the governor of Iowa:
Take one of those private stills fr
instance, a drinking husband and a
thrifty wife. Let her brew the stuff,
sell it to him at two bits a snort,
bank the money. hasten collection of
the life insurance, why couldn't she
live happy and carefree ever after?
John Burrough splitting wood on
his eighty-second birthday suggests
that it's time the Burroughs family put
in a gas stove.
Remember that we bid high as a
cats back for victory, would have it
at any cost. Now we must pay for it
and it's worth the money, even if bill
lions Of it were wasted.
Plant tree on Arbor day-if there's
place LETT to plant it. In this city
of shade and foliage, however. most OF
us have trees to spare.
The peace conference promised as
freely as the war airplane promoters
10 IaIi no Ia
OF a product.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
UBeeA dVenture8 81 YS|
TX AernY Coon EkH
MafeS&& 6{RNsSsf ~
Mr.. ~go FOX TINES TO EAT 1HE .sRloE,


Now Mr.. Red Fox Is awfully cunniAe
and swift. And Mr.. Red Fox loves to
eat otter meat. He had seen Dick
Otter swimming up the Big River Oh
his trip to see the Great World; ahG
he said to himself. How I would like
TO catch Dick Otter! I'll watch out for
him when he comes back. and I'll hide
near the falls. and I'll grab him. when
ne Ia walking on land"
You know Mr.. Fox doesn't like 20
swim, and he knew Dick Otter could
whip him In the Big River. Dick Otter
was ahead, and Betsy was close be-
hind Dick. And just as Betsy got near
biz tree. Mr.. Red Fox darted out
with spring and grabbed Betsy ~
carry her on to his den, to eat her for
his breakfast. Betsy gave o sudden
scream. "Oh. Dick. save me! 1t IL the
awful Mr.. Red Fox!" And wish you
could have seen the hair rise right up
on the neck of Dick Otter! Why, he
was never as angry before In his life.
And he gave an awful growl. and he
leaped upon Mr.. Red Fox like flash
OF lightning. and when Mr.. Red FOX
felt tho sharp teeth Of Dick otter
biting his neck, he let 10 Of Betsy. aRd
pounced upon Dick otter.
Tomorrow-Dick Otter Saves Betsy
From the Red Fox.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
Old Pilot Mound,


Above the hills-above the trees
stand upon your crest and try
Ito follow up such thoughts as these
Just now and when did mother eartn
Travail, and groan, and give you
birth?
Lcng long ago the Indian bands
Stood on your top and gazed away
with keen eyes shaded by their hands
They saw the plains see today,
And often from your peaks have ran
To rob some moving caravan.
They tell me that your ample NAV
Holds many a red mans crumbltns
bones
When time was young and might was
law,
Thay fought with arrows, clubs and
stones,
And signal fires here have given
Their fiery tips to earth and heaven
Tho progress boastful man achieves
Is not apparent from your crest;
The same gay songsters mongst the
leaves
Stnl mate, and sing and build their
pests;
Aad circling round your silent form
Stiu clashes loud the thunder sorm!
Farewell old Mound, Old Tomb Adieu!
Today I've met with savage bands
I've wandered back where time was
new
Arl seem to grasp their swarthy
hands,
Sun, unreyCalcd. you hold, I know
Great secrets of the long ago.
NJ
fate
OF indian love ana Indian hate.
Into your ears the waT-Cry rang
And soft she-voices when they sang
OF gallant braves All this hold fast.
Grim old Custodian of the past
Elmer Ellsworth Preston. Perry, IA.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
Little Benny's Notebook
By LEE PAPE.

Me and Pubs Simkins and Leroy
Shooster was hawking along yestidday
aftirnoon and We saw a man trying
to get in a house and not being able
to on account of the key not working,
us fellows stopping and watching him
a vile, Pubs wispering, 9, fellows, do
You think he's berglar?
He's sertny acting Suspicious, all
rite. l whispered, and Leroy Shooster
whispered. He's berglar all rite, look
at the way his hats pulled down over
bis eyes.
Wich the Man kepp on trying to
tern the key IN the lock and saying
things to .hnaelf, being short wide
MYSTERIOUS looking man. and Pubs
Simkins whispered, Ask him a question,
sumbody, and see how he ansers.
Wich I asked him one, going up and
saying, Do you live there. mister?
No, the EmDriss of China lives heer.
sed the man terning GROUND mad
looking. An went back and whispered
to Pubs and Leroy Shooster, Did you
heer that?-if that amt Suspicious
anser, wat is? Sumbody elts ask him
one now.
WITCH Pubs Simkins went UP and
did, saying. Arc you having mutch
trubble gettin in, mister?
Do YOU know ware the neerest hos
pital is? sed the man looking fearse as
enything, and Pubs sed, Yes sir, and
the man sed, Well there's going to be
some battered up kids carried there
pritty soon. Proberly meening us, and
me and Pubs and Leroy Shooster
quick wawked away, me saying. Let's
hunt for a cop and tell him. WITCH we
started to do and pritty soon we saw
F'latfoot standing on corner looking
as il he diden. know which way he
wanted to go next and Pubs sed, Hay,
do you wunt to catch berglar, there's
one trying to get In house down
there. ...... .....
Down ware? said Flatfoot. WITCH we
took him down and showed him and
the man was still there shaking the
key III the keynote and saying Things
to himself. F1atfoot saying, Good az
tirnoon, Mr.. Buzby.
Good AFTERNOON, confownd this blast
ed key, wen it gets to sticking like this
I cant do thing with it, sed the, man.
WITCH lest then 1t worked and the man
went in and slammed the door after
him as IL he was still mad, wien ne
proberly was.
II you kids amt eny better at your
lessins than you are at discovering
berglars you'll never amouat to mutcn
sed F1atfoot- And he wawked away
swinging his club and looking as II ne
thawt he knew everything, and US
fellows kepp on wawking, feeling as II
we dident know hardly enything.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
THE sApoEsT HOUR.


ought
but would rather yell
know
in There always in reach
punch keys aho his friends declare his tai
the tale One things beyond
I'm bound to trl and murder
negho and gather round shack
they ride rail-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
lowa Newspapers
BUSINESS AT ANAMOSA
TAnsmpsa ,Journal.l

The local prison is filling up fast
and will soon pass the seven hundred
mark which is nearly the highest II,
the history Of the institution. Aside
from this there are several hundred
more out on parole. This condition
Is not confined to Iowa but the crime
wave is world wide according to news
dispatches. The condition was antic-
ipated, as such conditions of disorder
usually follow war. The poverty and
privations caused by war, the embit-
tering Of man against man and the
general disturbance Of normal life con
ditions are the principal causes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
Who Said mo Politician p

There's nobody" said q Washing
ton lobbyist, who can get rid Of an
unfortunate caller so quickly and at
the same time so smoothly as the
president. Once at a reception a man
held up the long line Of guests wait
ing to shake the presidents hand
while he recounted some tedious yarn
Or other. The president stood about
four minutes Of this. Then he gave
q start. But my dear sir, am
monopolizing you!' he said."-The
Argonaut
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
What a Cent Will Do.

Some highbrow scientist has esti-
mated that the penny slot machines
which take in money after the gum has
played out bring revenue of forty
three bushels Of five dollar bills every
year to the careless owners. ;
They raised street car fares from a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
b. ;l ~ H. ~

do not believe that taken by and large
the smoking Of tobacco Is such a men
ace to society that the smokers sup
ply OF "the weed" should be kept from
him by the force OF governmental ac-
ton. That is precisely what We have
believed-and\ do believe--about the
drinking OF alcohol. That Is another
story.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
Too Delicate For Gary

Such delicate nuisances Of tone
shading down to the vanishing point
Gary Cnd) Post.
Any writer who tries to use the
word nuance in Gary would better
stick around and read the proof
Chicago Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
TOBACCO NEXT?

New York independently
On July / alcohol is to make its
final bow and retire gracefully from
the American scene. Already we hear
that plans are under way to convince
the American people that tobacco
should follow suit. What about it?
Is It a parallel case? Ought We who
have strongly favored the prohibition
Of the manufacture and sale Of alco-
holic drinks to use our influence also
for the prohibition OF the growing and
sale Of tobacco? .
We do not think so. II Is not par
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
" SHE CAME IN A SAILBoAT."
Davenport Democrat. I


4 Davenport lady whose death was
recorded Monday belonged to that
lessening group of Americans who
came over from Europe in sailing YES
sells. We heard Of them much more
frequently years ago, when it was part
| of the history of large proportion OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21

According 20 the best modern au-
thorities. the Sc called amber found in
Syria, India and Madagascar Is not
amber at ALL hut a resin. nearly allied
to copaI, which Is the product of loaf
bearing trees growing At the present
day. True amber is the resin OF acic-
ular trees long since extinct.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-21
A Masonic Meetings
~ Visitors Always Welcome.


MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1903 A. F.
A. NJ, special communication Friday
April %, at 1880 p, m. Second degree.
A. l.. Frazer. w. NJ; John w. Wells
secretary.
sIoNET CHAPTER. No. SO R. A.
NJ, Monday April 81, s o'clock, Bust
ness meeting. George Gregory, H. T.
John w. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ, Mon
day, April 81 1919. Business meet
ing. Ira A. Davenport, !. NJ; John
w. Wells, recorder.
Stated concIave ST. Aldemar Com y
nnandery No. 80, X. r. Easter service
Methodist church. April 90. J. F. Fred
erick, commander; John w. Wells, re-
corder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81 o. E.
S.-Regular meeting April 10 at 500
for business. Mrs. Archer Walton,
secretary; Mrs. ]. +. Schultz. w. NJ
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-04-19
EN- FL sANAToRIo.

Hace apenas una quincena que dimos
en- estas mismas columnas la noticia de
haber sido operada con brillante resul-
tado en- Ell "Sanatorio de Puerto Ri
co.., la honorable dana seiiora Andrea
Caballero, madre poiitica del Presidente
de la Camara de Representatives. don
Juan B. Huyke.
Hoy tenemos el sentimiento dc comu-
nicar a nuestras lectoras, que la distin-
guida enferma ha vuelto ocupar su
lecho en- Ell Sanatorio.
Demas esta decir cuanto deseamos su
total restablecimiento.
El Mundo. [volume] (San Juan, P.R.) 1919-1990, 1919-04-19
DEsPosoRIos ELEGANTEs.


Y quien hay@ tenido la oportuni-
dad de vivir, siquiera un dia, en- esa
bellisima pOblacion, joya dc nuestras
montalas, que lleva un nombre heroi-
CO: iLaresl, podra darss una idea de
10 apropiado del escenario para reali-
gar los esponsales dc Pedro Agudo Y
Maria Luisa Vilella.
Boda que apadrinaron la hermana
de la novia, seiora Camelia Vilella de
Cancio y ell respectable caballero don
Pedro Arzuaga.
Un duelo reciente en- la familia del
novio fue motive de que la boda sc ce-
lebrara en- familia. De ahf que Ia ce-
remonia no estuviese revestida de toda
la pompa digna del ilustre hogar de
los, esposos Vilella-Malaret
No obssante ell hogar parecia un jar
din; mejor que un jardin, un bosque
de rosas.
Y aquel altar donde Sc acerc6 Ma
ria Luisa, como la princesa de una ba-
lada de ensuefio, era una gruta: ALI
Sc bendecia ell miagro del amor como
sclo puede realizarse en- los corazones
de Pedro y Maria Luisa.
Y el cronista que no pudo llevar su
bouquet" dc orquideas, pone eli es-
ia nota los mas mobiles sentimientos que
recoge de su jardin interior los ofre-
ce a sus amigos neno de emoci6n de
sinceridad y de hondo afecto.
GASToN PARIS.
Abril 17-191O.