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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
THINGS WE LEARNED UNDER PRESSURE.

We are learning that we are a big
country and that the states that COM
prise it are big states. We used 10
boast Of course but had not gone thru
the experience Of doing big things in a
big way. We had that experience in
this war. have learned that even q
small city and community can 10 grea:
things greatly under the spur OF dire
emergency. We have also learned
that il takes big money TO do big
thing well. More than that we have
discovered that IN Iowa We have
money. Still more the war hiss taught
Us and that is that the home is only
one unit. That the county and state
are also units and the country al large
the great sum made up by the units;
that a heave no and an altogether puts
big things over and that after Ne have
pulled and pushed together to put over
a big public thing We are all glad md
proud We did It
So when We contemplate system OF
good roads in Iowa We see il thru eyes
different from those who looked IT II
before the war. We have studied
things learned things in the past two
years and the biggest thing We have
learned is our own strength as a county
state and a country. So when We
see the heavy task OF building good
road system over the state We know
that We carried heavier loads easily on
tn, whole and tina: We can sna tch the
the highway problem haldheaded with
out straining ourselves.
Conditions change. They have
changed before in Iowa There was q
time when railroads were she prime
necessity and essential 70 progress and
prosperity. It requires an aged man
10 look back to the time when men
prayed for a railroad and paid as they
prayed. But the roads came creeping
thru and land values rose and men who
had been land poor found themselves
/ rich in the rise Of values. That was
because the railroad had moved the
farm to within five or ten miles Of
the hog market which before had been
a $50 mile drive with drove.
Motor vehicles and the better roads
| that the drag has made moved the
farm and the farm home within half
hour or so Of markets and amusements
/ and schools-unless il rains or SHOWS
or freezes the roads into humps and
! calthrops Of steel. Then the farm moves
/ back ten, twenty or forty miles By
! Compa rison with good road. And
| now the need OF Iowa is to move the
! farm up against the town and the
town close to the farm and keep them
there every day in the year.
When that is done Iowa tarnlands
will take on an added value jIst as
they did when the railroad had been
! finished and the 'bullgine" came toot-
! ing into town. 1t is the next essential
step in the progress OF the so.te
The conclusion is that it shall e
done, that it will require money 10
DO it but that 1t is worth the money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

In his own mind what sort % roAes
are needed in Iowa, or else he thought
more OF being elected speaker OF the
house than OF securing good roads for
Iowa.
In either case he has shown just the
spirit that has prevented Iowa from
having the best roads. What Iowa
needs and must have Is definite road
policy and road program. II must DO
determined just what is NECESSARY TO
secure these roads. Then this pro-
gram must not be sidc-trackcd In the
interests of one man or group of men.
Roads are roads and policies. to use
Messrs. Potash and Perlmutters
favorite expression, is something else
asuin," and when an effort is made
10 mix them. why the roads suffer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
Topics Of the Times

Another argument IN favor OF good
roads is the way Harding shifted from
mud to hard surface when he saw that
he might be able to go farther On the
hard road.
How does It come that soldiers OF
the government obey orisn unques-
tioningly while employees Of the gov
eminent whose service is imperatiyely
necessary can strike whenever The
spirit or some agitator moves them?
Is 1t the difference between $50 a month
and $50 a day?
II you mad been drafted from a rented
farm and left your hocks without a
fold and the plowshare III the furrow
you'd be mighty anxious - gc- back
six weeks beore springs work begins
instead of wandering up and down a
camp at $50 month wondering
whether the landlord wouldn't get tired
holding It for you and find another
tenant.
II that peace conference expects The
senate and the people Of this country
to ratify its acts the best thing 1t an
do Is to act openly and keep an ear
to the ground. The undercurrent OF re-
sentiment is strong on this side the
pond.
Also II you were stuck in a little
dirty village 1000 miles away from
home when the days work was ovei
you might feel impatiense when you
read Of the delay and derbsration over
tables Get with gold plate. There's such
a difference between army grub and
kinS'c kitchen and between having
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

Adoo. Marshall. or Daniels. for in
stance, withaut putting "a question
mark after the suggestion"
1t is not the frst time such situ-
alton has existed. The personalities Of
Mr.. Roosevelt and Mr.. Wilson have
more to do with It than perhaps The
Sun imagines. As long rs there is {.
man Of dominating qualities in a
party, there - not much room for
other men. even though they may be
perfectly good presidential materis.
When Blaine. Tilden and Cleveland
we're in the ascendancy-not TO go
back SO far rs the time OF Jackson
some newspapers might have published
just such an article as the one from
which We quote. Yet II was not SO
much a dearth Of the qualities Of lead
ership as the holding OF them in abey-
ance In the presence Of q towering
figure.
(. for instance. Tilden had been
younger and had been able to remain
the salient figure In the democratic
party, Grover Cleveland misht never
have had the opportunity to demon
strate his great qualities. They were
not generally known. He was nomi-
mated because OF his availability. aud
his ability to command his party had
to be demonstrated later. II Tiiden
had been Of Clevelands age. Cleve-
land might never have gotten further
than the sovernorship OF New Yorn.
In the same way Blaine % overshad-
owed his party that all other person
aiities Were lost; and yet after his
death his party found leaders in Nc
Kinley and Roosevelt
II u possible, therefore. that there
are men capable Of leadership In the
republican party. not geniuses lbs
Roosevelt, but able leaders, who wiil
come out into the light. Neverthe-
less. the whole course OF political HIS
tory tends to confirm the Baltimore
SUMS belief that none OF the men who
show signs OF striking ability is Ike
ly to be selected, that Lodge anh
Borah, for instance. are reasonably
sure to Be passed over for less knos~
men. That has been almost invariably
the case when q great personality has
been removed from politics.
AZ for the democratic party, IL has
at present . towering figure In the
person OF Woodrow Wilson. 1t Is
quite true that ne obliterates all the
other democrats. Just as Cleveland did
IN his time. II Mr.. Wilson is content
with two tsrmA he viii leave the
democratic party In precisely the same
condition as the republicans, and The
Suns description OF the situation VIII
be correct.-New York Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
WHAT THE Y. NJ. UNDERTOOK
rCaa.r Papids Republican,


,.-,,.r :, the Springfield Repubh-
can, replying TO the popular H'io.V"
ception about the army canteen ""ien
the Y. NJ. c. 4. took over, prlngs OUT
some pertinent points that may nave
ESCAPED the attention OF other crlties'
He says:
7, was rot service provided oy
American money. freely given TOT SOL
diers' comforts, not such service as
has brought such universal praise 10
the local Red Cross canteen corps; IL
vas an old army institution. attached
10 army posts and still operated by
the army In this country. General
persh,ng. wishing 10 use for more mar
rt,aI purposes the officers and men re-
ou,red for this canteen, asked the
Young Mems Christian association 10
take II over. and operate ii as II had
ALWAYS been operated-as an army IN
s.i.ution. in which things were to De
sold for what they cost.
In no sense was II supposed TO be
a mar. OF the "Y' activities for which
American money was freely given
The canteen was always unpopular
with the old army men: the more
might IL expect 10 be. when conducted
nv civilian body. with the new SOL
diers apt 10 misapprehend Its nature
as civilians have rnisapprehended II.
The "Y" probably knew this when II
accepted the Job: their willingness
should bring them credit, not criticism
In other words. the Y. NJ. c. A. al
the request OF General Pershing. who
needed military men for more usefu
work undertook to administer an IN
stitutinn which had always been un
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

popular with army men. One Is sur
prised at the mere willingness OF an
inexperienced organization. as the
Y. NJ. c. A. necessarily was, undertake
ing such a work. 1t cannot have been
done because President Mott and his
associates coveted such work, but 1t
must have been done because they
wanted to do their duty and to COM
ply with the wishes Of the American
general who confessed ne NEEDED the
men who were then employed In the
caRteeas.
1t was not the intention Of General
Pershing that the Y. M. c. A. should
give the goods In the canteens away.
but to sell them at cost, as II is done
In the army. As q matter OF fact the
Y. II. c. A. was not able to make even
the costs out OF the canteens, for by
the last Of October they were over
half a million dollars behind.
The appropriately Of the canteen In
the army. We are told. 10 general.
There is always someone ready TO
whisper that the goods are sold too
high. Someone Is always alleged to
be making money out Of their pit
tances of money. And then the goods
sold to them are never quite satisfac-
tory. or they want something that they
cannot get. The goods must often be
unsatisfactory for they have TO be
transported over long distances and
they are subject to many exposures
and so on. In any event. we are told
that the average army kicks on its
canteen.
institution over to lot OF fresh y. N.
G. A. kids" or older fellows In long
coats and long faces. one can readily
isee what the attitude Of the average
soldier might become. The one sur
prising thing IL that the Y. N. c. A
permitted itself to undertake such
sonerous tasks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
The happiest Man
Happlest man

Happiest man
! ever see
Was my Uncle Sam
From Kansas
Never wore
No collar.
Linen or otherwise.
Owned his own farm
Made his own money.
Lived a. ne damn pleased
An worshipped God
AcCOrdin' 10 his
own conscience.
Don -. Se!tz.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
New Leaders.

Both parties have fa.ien upon lean
years" remarks the Baltimore Sun.
in an article entitled The Dearth OF
Party Leadership" With Roosevelt
gone. It thinks. there 10 NO man Vt
dominating qualities n his party.
As to its most eminent men, TAFT,
Root, and Hughes. The Sun holds
that the party would be taking lons
and desperate chances II 1t nomi-
mated any one Of the three for presi-
dent. The talents Of Bofah. Cum
minis. and Lodge are acknowledged.
but none Of them carnes tho torch
Of leadership" The Pershing boom,
our Baltimore friend says. II caused
by the realization Of this poverty Ia
leadership"
1T is day Of small men with the
Democrats as we'll" Leaving out the
president. presumably because II
thinks he would not accept renoni-
nation, The Baltimore Sun cannot md
Anybody In that party who 80 avail
able. It denes anybody to name NC
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

The banana plant yields 70 tines
moro BY weight than the potato and
1873 times moro than wheat. 1t bears
two crops . year. No insect will At
tack 1. and 1t 10 immune from dis
nssO
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

OF course Briton and American are
hnsmen, cousins IL you will, but that's
no reason why they should have the
Monroe Doctrine to play with more
than courtesy provide that n cousins
children should play with our looking
glass and hammer to keep them in
.opd humor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

The Des Moires Capital says 1T has
been suggested that the Panama canal
De named after Col. Theodore Aouss-
Welt. lnasmuch as the canal might not
have been started and surely not
finished except for the co.oners aid
and torcefUlness, we think that the
suggestion is appropriate"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

The attorney general who resigned
Was a Texas man, bat the Lone star
state sim has MIR Burlesou left. And
then there IL always Col. House, who
is more than member OF the cabinet,
who is the other president, or the
presidents alter ego. whichever you
may want 10 put It." remarks the
Gear Rapids Republican
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

What Will become Of the prohibit
ton party alter national prohibition is
accomplished puzzles the Sioux city
journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

The Dubuque Telegraph Herald re-
sentfully observes Thinking to ridicule
him, Governor Harding refers to Mr.
McAdoo as the crown prince Thus
does the governor of Iowa masquerade
in borrowed Wit Uttered by him, 1t
lacks even the virtue OF originality"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

your encourage Win you ana S~pate'
ton from homo and wife and mother
and babies and DO on.
The United States language in the
schools-and everywhere else for the
matter OF that's the seed OF real
American citizenship,
Gary. steel magnate says this coun-
Try is in for Ave years OF great pros
peri,y. Let's hope that Mr.. Gary wasn't
thinking OF the steel Industry alone but
that he meant all OF US.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

To the Council Bluffs Nonpariel il
is manifest that Governor Harding is
labOrinG under the handicap of his
previous attitude on many Of the
questions now IN issue. He is not
strong and never has been on the pro-
hib!tion OF the liquor traffic. He could
not be expected TO grow enthusiastic
over the approach OF dry nation
which has reached this status with
him in the role OF neutral Two years
ago MI. Harding campaigned for gov
ernor on the premise that he was OPP
posed to paved country roads. His en-
thusiasm on this subject is now damp
ened, no doubt, by disinclination to
offend his old friends"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-17

Arch McF'arlane, of Waterloo.
speaker Of the Iowa house said he was
neither a hard roads candidate nor
mud roads candidate for speaker. But
that was before the caucus which
nominated him. Now let's hope that he
hits the ball for hard roads, in one
form or another and n one place or
another. but preferably all over the
state" says the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-29

munity be safcguardcd and protected
against the recurrence Of such un..
lawful attacks" Mayor Edwards,
who was present, stated that Mr..
Samucls had entered plea Of guilty
before him. He asserted also that
he would use every effort to peep
down disorder in the city.
Remarks made by Prof. Brooks at
the meeting were heartily anplauded.
The resolutions described the ac-
ton Of Mr.. Samucls rs "unwarrantcd
and detrimental to the best interest
of our school and the citizenship Of
town and community"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-29
ATTACK ON PROFESSOR
STRONGLY CONDEMNED
BY EDGEFIELD CITIZENS

Edgeiield, Oct. 24.-As Il result of
the attack made upon superintendent
BROOKS, OF the Edgcfcld graded
schools by f. w. Samucls, a mass
meeting of citizens was held this
afternoon and resolutions were adopt
ed condcmning the act of Mr.. Samulcs
in the scvcreSt terms.
The mayor and council were call
ed upon in the resolutions "to see that
the citizenship of our town and COM
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-29
Popular Disfavor.

Delegates urged that the high cost
OF living and other problems be
pressed for immediate solution before
dissolution, but strong majority of
the representatives, it was said, felt
that the conference virtually came to
an end with the withdrawal of the la
Dor group Wednesday and that the
public group was not sufficiently rep
resentative to undertake general
program and also was handicapped
by popular disfavor.
The industrial board plan of Sccre-
tary Wilson which met favor among
the delegates, provided for boards of
employers and employees in each in
dustry, with a general board of ap-
peals, and, as q final resort in cases
OF dispute, an umpire chosen by the
parties to the dispute or from a stand
ing list ftwcnty named by the Prcsi-
dent
Several public representatives were
not present at the final session. Of
these, Judge Ebert II, Gary, chair
man of the United States Steel Cor
poration, went to New York Wednes
day noon and did not return, and ]. ].
FORESTER, president of the Order of
Railway Clerks, Withdrew following
similar action on the part of repre-
sentatIvcs of organized labor.
Secretary Lane, who first suggested
the industrial conference and who was
selected as its chairman, said today
he believed the President would or
ganiZe new conference which would
cndeavor to bring about basis for
industrial peace. Mr.. Lane said the in
dustrial disputes which have been held
IN abeyance pending the outcome of
the original conference probably
would and should be further post.
poned
Officials of the American Federation
OF abor, however, were not so ooti.
inlstic rs to the disputes. They cx
planet while action in a number cf
pending controversies mas been held
mp al the Presidents sdpgestion,
labor generally has not been optimis
TIC as to the results of this effort to-
trlng about industrial peace and they
wc"c inclined to the belief chat moth
ing was to be gained by further de-
laying the issues.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1919-10-29
PUBLIC GROUP VOTES TO
BREAK UP CONFERENCE
Declines to Carry on Work for Which
Meeting Was Called
NOW PRESIDENTS MOVE
May Call New Conference in an Effort
to Bring Industrial Peace
to the Country.

Washington, Oct. 24.-With a recon-
mendation to President Wilson that he
create commission to carry on the
work which the National Industrial
Conference was unable to accomplish,
the public group, the last remaining
element o fthe body, finally adjourned
tonight.
Despite two attempts by Mr.. Wilson
to save from dissolution the gathering
tonight's adjournment brought to a
formal close the conference, called ly
the executive to find some common
ground Of cooperation between labor
and canital, on the outcome of which
were held in allegiance strikes affect
ing the entire industrial life of the
nation.
The report of the public representa-
tives, declining to assume the task for
which the original gathering was
called, was transmitted to the White
House through Chairman Bernard NJ.
Baruch, in the form of a thousand
word letter. No information was
forthcoming as to the Presidents
next move to bring industrial peace
to the country
The report of the public group,
made public tonight by Chairman
Baruch, summarized the proceedings
of the fourteen days the conference
was in session, put the stamp of ap-
proval on the plan for industrial
boards, suggested by Secretary of
Labor Wilson, and recommended the
calling of another body containing in
dustrial experts to undertake the
peace adjustment. 1t was drafted by
committee of five delegates, of which
John ID. Rockefeller, Jr., was chair
man. Although four or five con-
ferees were opposed to final adjourn
ment, only Dr.. Charles w. Elliot, pre-
sldent emeritus of Harvard Univer
sity voted against the motion on final
tpSt
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-02-04
COLLEGES TO CONTINUE
MILITARY TRAINING

The War Department announces
that Notwithstanding the demobiliza-
tion of the Students Army Training
Corps the colleges Of the country will
not discontinue military training but
will direct attention to the Reserve
Officers Training Corps.
The announcement continues as
follows; Before the war there were
about 1t5 units of the Reserve Off
GERS Training Corps in various col
leges. About 100 of these are now
being reestabllshed and applications
have been received for about 200
new units. Hence something like
three-fifths of the 500 institutions in
the Students Army Training Corps
will start at once with units of the
Reserve Officers Training Corps.
zone important change in the or
ganigation of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps Is now being worked
out. This change in regulations will
allow the units to specialize in train
ing officer material for the various
corps of the Army, such as the Field
Artillery, Engineer, Signal Corps,
Coast Artillery, Ordnance, Medical
Corps, and Military Aeronautics, in
stead of the uniform training for
Infantry, which was the rule before
the war.
"In addition to the collegiate units
plans are now under way to estab-
lish junior units in secondary schools.
City High School Corps are already
established In Boston, Chicago, Dem
yer, and large number of other
cities.
The change from the Students
Army Training Corps to the Reserve
Officers Training Corps is being
made so rapidly that large part of
the equipment used in the various in
for the Students Army
Corps will be kept on hand
to be used for the Reserve Officers !
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-02-04
sALvAGiNG WAR HEROES
GAINING IN POPULARITY

Altho this awful war has disabled
millions Of soldiers the world is not
to have, after the war, the spectacle
of such unfortunates eking out hu-
initiating and precarious existence as
beggars, makers of useless "souve-
Mrs, pencll-peddlers, ETC., or as re-
cipients of pauperizlng pittances in
the form Of pensions. That such con-
ditions have existed in this and 9th
er countries after other wars has
seldom, II ever, been due to national
ingratitude, but rather to the fact
that people really did not know how
to handle such unfortunate situat-
ions.
Now all this is changed. Humanity
has been awakened by the very mag
nitude of the destructiveness of this
war and has undertaken worldwide
conservation movement for the SAL
yaging OF disabled soldiers. The Bel
gians were the first to begin this
work. From the very start the un-
dertaking was tremendous. The task
Of rehabilitating the thousands of
Belgian wounded alone seemed al
most impossible, especially since
there were no plans nor precedents
to follow and only very meagre and
unsuitable means with which to car
ry out any plan. There were simply
the seemingly endless numbers of
destitute, dazed, despairing soldiers
who needed to be fed, mended and
taught to forget their woes. 1t was
at once apparent that. If they were to
be saved. their minds must be occu-
pied. France needed workers and It |
was found that, Notwithstanding
their wounds, most of these unfortun-
ates could do good work in useful oc-
cupations. 1t was also found that
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Training Corps. The administration
Of the Reserve Officers Training
Corps has been placed In the hands
Of the Committee on Education AMI
Special Training, which operates un-
der the training and instruction
branch of the War Plans Division Of
the General Staff. The COMMITTEES
will attempt to make available largo
amount of scientific and technical
material which has been developed
by the experience of the war. and In
all units of the Reserve Officers
Training Corps special emphasis will
be placed on physical training and
mass athletics"