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

posed to the guaranty law. OF course,
nobody else would oppose 1t.
The first effect Is to make all bank
ers more careful about the kind II
banking neishbors they have. 1t is SAFE
so say. At leass, fifty bankers in Min.
neaotA knew from the day Schaffer
launched into the banking field that he
was wild cat banker. With d
bank guaranty law. where they particI :
pate in the losses. Schaffer never
would have gotten start in banking
Under the bank guaranty law, banks
are required to set aside each year A
small amount to a guaranty fund.
based on the deposits Of the bans
The money stays In the bank unless
called on to pay depositors in event of
failure.
When bank fails the examiner
takes over the bank books and pays
the amount of depositors Just as fas,
rs the books are balanced The guar
apty fund held by tho banks being
drawn on proportionately to pay the
deposisors. The banks business is
speedily wound up and the salvage Is
turned back to replace the guaranty
fund.
The business in the community goes
or ~ usual. Nearly always the bani:
doesn't fail, because the ncighbor banks
that always know Of shaky banking
methods step in before conditions &c,
very bad.
Banking business is much better and
deposits greater II South Dakota with
depositors guaranteed. Failures are
at an absolute minimum.
The Schaffer bank failures could not
have happened in South Dakota under
our present guaranty law.
Bank failures under the Minnesota
conditions. and as Sort., Dakota Was
formerly and as Iowa and most other
states stiIl continue, are fertile fields
for expensive litigation.
With an expensive set Of officials
winding mp small banks. court cost;
and expenses usually al, out of pro-
portion to the size Of the business
there is little hope for the depositor
and usually none at all for the stock
holder.
In the meantime. the thrifty man
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
usAvs,sss,r ~ IN las,s.Avsaa.

The burden " responsibility mas
shifted TO the Iowa legislature.
From the report OF Mr. Kennedy
special investigator In the Rathpan
case, 4, Is plain that evidence before
the grand jury of Ida county went
much farther Than the snilt OF RAIN
bun. Members OF the assembly are
convinced that something Is rotten IN
Denmark. No matter how closely
guarded a grand jury room may De
much leaks out OF II TO We whispered
about. Much whispering has been go
ing on between members Of this as
semDly. They, better than any othei.'
know what the whispers have said.
They also have whispered to friends
Perhaps the leakage from the grand
Jury room ana the mouth to ear re-
ports have magnified themselves
That is usually true; but too much mas
been said and whispered to be PASSED
over unless the assembly and It's mem
nSrS desire ~ tliaSN Wv fe'N $500
the burden of the goat,
The attorney generals office mas
gone as far as il may. 1t can not re-
veal the testimony of the grand jury
room. But the assembly may orins
before 1t the witnesses. of whom the
list has been furnished II, by the at
,orney generals Office, and thus salts
fy itself and Its constituencies that
none guilty of serious offense against
the laws and the integrity of the STATE
has been whitewashed while a youth
has been sent 10 prison, however Just
IT, under life sentence.
The legislature should pursue this
investigation with sincerity and open
mind seeking only the facts and with
out reckoning on the fall Of the chips
yithou, heat or political antmus or
purpose except to do even handed JUS
ttice and protect public service. Al
can not afford to do less. The thing
has gone far teyond personal and fac
,;onal and political friendships and dis
likes, Ii may involve the good name
OF the state and the, legislature OF the
state.
The governor, himself. should insist
on and even order il in his authority
an omen and honest investigation. the
elder Rathbun sffirms that the lawyer
ne .muioyed TO secure the pardon tand
who got it, told him part Of the So,0oo
fee" was TO go to the governor. II
seems to be up to the governor 10
prove that Clark lied TO Rathoun "
that Rathbun he'd about what ne says
Clark told him.
Ii is also time to dror the puma
about the governors enemies. Inc
.x-.e-ss, are demanding full anu
ccnplete turning inside out OF the
Parbbun case even more emphaticaliy
than the so-called enemies" II Is not
question now Of friends or Of EN-
mies, but Of tie good name OF Iowa.
ANYHOW il is up TO the legislature OF
Iowa in way that car not De ae-
gently avoided even if the assembly
wished 10 evade it. 49,.
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ro>lef nh11 - D0nng01c hocoUee n
aoaanpt puo1sse ~ ~. 9NGvPore -.
|tsuaiRG 20 30 sasber IN spir4t 'bscauss
Ernest laathbun has sons 70 the PEN
tteutiary end Justice nRally 10 90 b
done" In thu case 0f Ida county's now
famous crtminsl Gaze. In other words.
inasmuch IN young Rathbun. tho VIC
tim Of his own folly, now he's become
the goat In the case, the governors re-
naming friends are willing to let the
Ida Grove boy carry the whole load.
Hes In the penissntiAry anyhow. so
why not Let him hold the bag. That
friends want TO feel about Il,
But the Rathbun case IN not closed.
The reformatory doors are closed be-
hind Rathbun, but that Ia all, The
people do not yet know why he was
pardoned, They do not know whether
the governor made an error In judy
ment or Of some other sort. All they
do know In that an error was made.
an error that was outrageously rank.
This talk about being unable to prove
the situation to the bottom is bosh.
The great trouble " that whenever any
probe that has anything whatsoever
TO do with politics once Is begun. hea-
ven only knows how far 1t will go or
how many II will hit. So the polite
ans are afraid Of 1t, woefully afraid.
Bnt to say that, though everyone
thinks there should be a probe. there
doesn't seem to be any way of push
ing a thorough Investigation is to utter
the ridiculous.
A few days ago Attorney General
Havner was quoted as saying that he
would get to the bottom of this Rath
bun pardon case if IT took him all
summer. He should stick to that de-
cision. The state will demand 1t. The
bottom Of the case is what is wanted.
not only the presence of 'Rathbun at
Anamosa. Rathbun's incarceration
Just begins to plumb the situation.
Let's 80 on down.
Mr.. Havner Ia asking $4,000 a year
to inforce the law in Iowa. That in :
dictates firm and commendable deter
mination. Let's have further indica-
ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
As 70 SOLDIERS MEMORIALS.

Haste In adopting plans for soldiers
There is no need of haste. On the
contrary good judgment argues for
time to fully canvass ard decide m
order that the memorial when erected
may be wor.hy of the men and thu
time II commentaries.
Tho fear that unless memorials are
rushed Immediately the public Will
forget and oppose the necessary ex-
penditures for that purpose is unbound
ed The memorials will ne built. They
well be better built and better select
ed than If rushed upon first sugges-
ton and und!sested plans.
Further, there are abroad two
millions of men and more vitality inter-
ested in the memorials that shall be
erected and who should be given a
voice in their selection and approve
their cost. They must help pay tor
them. And ii Is reasonah BILE TO assume
that the man whose services are to be
thus memorialized will desire a fitting
memorial and be willing TO pay what
such a memorial is worth.
There is no occasion for haste and
overmuch hurry. The danger that the
country will forget or turn from the
soldiers Is born out Of Ignorance. When
practically every family in the land
has furnished a soldier forgetfulness
will be long time coming.
When we build our memorials let
them be true memorials, useful lasting
and worthy OF the grea. war and its
men and moving impulses,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
Minnesota Banking.

Minnesota . row suffering from the
failure Of fourteen state banks. -Four.
teen communities will be unsettled and
! the whole state will be more or less
disturbed because fourteen small banks
were allowed to fail. Nothing upsets
a community like bank failure. =.
Old and young are taught TO be
thrifty. Money in the bank Is in the
minds Of the people (and should be
in fact) as rafe as a United Status
government bond
That Is Just the way il is in South
Dakota under our bank guaranty law.
In Minnesota the statement came out
Capital impaired" next, Capital
wiped out: then mysterious disa,-
pearance OF funds then suits and
counter suits and injunctions, .arresls,
scandal, with the accompanying Choir
us OF the banking department explain
ing how 1t happened and why they
were not TO blame. Then comes hunt
ing down the goat" big headlineA
with now and then a little information
seeptng thru.
A Chicago report from Minneapolis
banks says, Have Nothing to do With
Schaffer.''
Then the camoufiage OF big preJu-
diced banks marrying to the lesisia-
tive body, now in session, asking for
q bill prohibiting a line OF ,(crookeO
banks under one management, forget
ting that fourteen failed individual
hanks are just as bad on the deposi.
tors as fourteen banks with group
owned stock.
What Minnesota needs is BANK
guarantee law, just like South Dako-
ta's.
Public opinion fought for such nearly
ten years ago before seeing law en-
acted. Some If the best and biggest
bankers in the state fought the law.
Now. after i fair test, there isn't a
sizeaale banae- in all the state op-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

who has toiled during his lifetime to
earn competence for his wife and
children can tutn over in his grave
and see his widow turned out Of her
home in her declining years. while the
children, away 10 college must hurry
back to behold the wreck and share
the grief which was no fault OF theirs.
Newlyweds that have saved for d
home can rent instead and damn the
laws OF their state and he good SUB
jects for bolsheviki propagandists.
Why? Because the good citizens OF
Minnesota failed to protect their own
deserving people against being ex-
plotted by wild cat" bankers.
The remedy? Now, this very ses-
sion, while the iron is hot, pass bank
guaranty law protecting all depositors
absolutely.
Do not be side-tracked by any sub
stitute measure that merely shuts of
line banks" That isn't q remedy;
that's camouflago.
Why is South Dakota interested.
Look at North Dakota Tor the answer.
II the sane, progressive thinking tpeo-
pie OF state do not pass wholesome
progressive laws, the radical. danger
GUS, socialistic element may get con-
troll and pass laws tina. are extreme
and dangerous and administered by q
dangerously controlled element.
When Minnesota Was scared blue
by the Townieyites las. year. South
Dakota stood like . stone wall with
never fear. because South Dakota.
In the words of Theodore Roosevelt.
had IN the past ten years enacted the
best and mos. prosressive lsstslation
Of any state IN the union
Our reactionary and standpat neigh
Dor states are menace to us: that
is why South Dakota Is interested.
When the sand dunes OF our neigh
Dor states breed grasshoppers. We SUI
fer with them from the pests. Bank
failures are breeders Of discomfort.
Minnesota should apply the remedy
now.-Watertown. S. D.. Public Opin-
ion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
Topics OF the Times

That this and that idea Is taxing
boId- is a common headline. Let's gun
i6eaing for a time and take hoia oi
conditions instead Of theories ard get
the country at to live IN. Too much
ideaing and too little humping OF
hacks makes America tired. Let's have
less idealizing and more action.
Don't smile at the decorations On
soldiers sleeve. You'd give great
deal to have the right to wear them on
your own.
OF course Germany can't pay what
she can't pay; but do you imagine II
she had won that there would nave
been any sum too great or any time too
long for her to demand payment? She
meant to control the revenues OF the
world and bring the profits Of the
earth to Berlin.
Senator Thompson, Of Burlington
and Des Moines county Is enraged be-
cause Des Moines hotel charged him
$3.50 for two services Of ham and
eggs. He might drop around to Bur-
lington caravanseries and see how he
comes out. Anyway what was the mat
ter with baked hash or macaroni with
cheese and why two orders. Of h. and e.
when Europe needs all our fats?
II the president talked about the OPP
ponents Of his league as reported when
he is said to be anxious 70 hang them
.hc suggestion is that be got a touch
of dyspepsia off that gold dinner SER
vice of Georges.
Kingdom Gould, old Jays grandson,
has been cited for gallantry over there.
And Bill Thaw is an ace among the
flyers. The American family usually
can furnish at least one member worth
while.
The same women who watched the
windows along the street to see that
the Red Cross cards and the food
pledges were up are now watching the
same windows and, remarking that "she
hasn't washed them because she still
has the cards up"
Another reason why the war should
be closed up and iiquidated as quickly
as possible Is that 1t cost US s1,0e5,-
in February and is likely to cost more
| in March.
Chicago Is urging Carter Harrison
! to hecn1ne an independent candidate
for mayor against Thompson. It has
always been mighty hard to beat "a
Harrison in Chicago. But then, that
seems to go for Thompson too.
Naturally Mr.. Baker felt kindly
toward conscientious directors. He had
| conscientious objections himself.
The bird known as the heron Is some
times called the esret. Now II Will
son would remove one of the rs" from
his Heron, and PLACE II before egrst
n ii l.. .
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Weleome.

VNtSoFe Always "S'SS
MARSHALL LODGE NO. tos, a. r
A. NJ, special communication Friday
March Z at $50 p. m. Second degree'
A. L. Frazer, W. M; John W. Veins
secretary.
eleNET CHAPTER. Nc. SO, r. A. NJ
Monday, March II. Business session
George Gregory, H. p; John W. Welis'
secretary.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. G. s. NJ
Monday. March 10. 1919. Supper NJ
$3.50 followed by Royal and Select
Masters degrees. Ira A. Davenport
I. NJ: John W. Wells, recorder.
Special conelave ST. Alderman Com
mandery No. so. X, T, Tuesday, March
(, 1880. Order of the Red Cross. J. f.
Frederick, commander: John w. Wells
recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. e7 o.E.s.
Regular meeting Wednesday evening
March ~. 1850 for business. Mrs.
Archer Walton, secretary; Mrs. ]. F.
Schultz, NJ. W.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

D.
Precedent wilson declavss the league
will not interfere with the Monroe
doctrine. II this be true. than there
that effect" argues the Waterloo Cour-
Ter.
The Cedar Falls Record says
Friends OF tho governor are at a loss
To understand mis- attitude In the Rath-
bun case. The more confident were
suer that the Des Moines Register had
found mares nest, that at the proper
time the governor would spring sa
alibi To the utter confusion Of his ene-
mics But nothing Of the kind H.
happened. whe further ono got into the
case the darker IL looked for the gov
ernor. The governor certainly owes
II TO himself ~ make somv explanation
Of his extraordinary coaduct In this
natter
The grossest blunders made in our
war preparations are not directly
chargeable' u congress" says the
Sioux City Journal. Il; Is a pleasure
to be able 10 say some ming In com :
.htHNhNiVA "a ~ view W. ~
versal chorus OF detract,on. In Its
closing hours, II has proved a ftzzie'
tut 1, was not wholly bad. 1t Is COM
forting 10 think 1t might have been
worse. II Woodrow had not run away
and deserted 4. the record might have
been altogether creditable. Therefore
let him share inc blame"
Some folks are inclined ia dispar-
axe the Iowa brand of weather. but
there is one consolation, as John +,
Lacey used TO say, Iowa breeds
strong race of men and women-they
have to be strong to stand IT," re-
marks the Upton Advertiser.
To the Abba Union THE way Hav-
rcr puts it over the criminals in Iowa
II looks like he understands the law
O, the Hawkeye state to perfection. He
has no love Cor the wroagdoer."
TT is alleged that the governor
stated that Havner was not governor
o. Iowa and never would be-" How
ever that may be, the attorney general
has q blame sight better chance OF
being governor than Harding has OF
being reelected to that high office,
concludes the logan Observer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
MADE HIS OWN HOLE.

Some superficial observers say the
Des Moines Newspapers have put Gov
ernor Harding In a hole in the Ratn-
bun pardon case This statement Is
grossly inaccurate. Said newspapers
found the governor in hole which ne
entered voluntarily and OF his own Tree
will and accord, and they simply puo-
rshed the facts as they existed. Inc
newspapers didn't urge nor preVaii
,,,,on the governor to issue the pardon
which started the holy show
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
WELL Kow ABOUT IT?

And Harding? Is the governor 10
rest on the case? His best friends
must admit that he is in a bad light.
He says that Iavner believes himself
the governor, attorney general, court.
bailif and jury IN the matter. WHAT
is ne going to do about It. Let It rest,
with Havner 30 acting? Is Havner
then everything that the governor says
he believes himself to be?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
Iowa Newspapers
But WHAT EMOTION!
IOelwcin Register.l

IUeIWCln hegfSler.J
The pardon was not "a political act
or else I. would never have been grant
ed. It looks very much as though II
was an act Of emotion. without care
fully looking into the evidence
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

Several thousand fresh water fish
from the United States have been dis
tributed in Gatun lake in an expert
ment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

beer no WORK" .psppssitisn osaases o.
these employsd ~ ord tn Dessona'
sympathy with the liquor interssss.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
EXCELLENT ADVICE

II the parents OF young daughters ID
most small towns would take adVant
age of the privileges afforded them TO
take a walk occasionally to the depots
a. the said towns about the time TIE
trains come in especially on sundays >,
they might gather a considerable iuno
O. information. 1t is not the provinces
OF the newspaper man to tell all No
knows or sees or hears. because the
game avenues are open 10 EVERYBODY
\ good deal is learned by visiting a.
pots. 49,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
CHARITY, CHURCH AND SOCIETY
(0elXein ReRisterO

(Oelwein Register)
In a recent lecture in this city Beau
champ referred to the fact that the
greater part of the relief OF the SICK
and distressed is done by the secret
societies and not by the church. In d
| Sunday morning sermon an Oelweih
ma stor stated that in the early days
os The church this was dlfferent-the
church looked after the afflicted.
Some clergymen are feminist secret
societies affirming, that their works
are not good. Others object to them
because they take the husband away
from home o'night and detract the az
! tention OF the man from the churcn.
Some allege that the societies. secret
and fraternal, are in a measure re-
| sponsible for the lack OF interest In
the church on the part of largge
number of workmen.
| If the workmen to a large extent
absent themselves from the church, 1t
NAV he because the church has per-
| mitted the societies to perform the
major part Of the humanitarian work
while continuing to declare the doc
| trines-to preach rather than practice.
1t may be that some churches have
! fallen into the custom OF being per-
fectiy willing to ''iet George do 1T
! using the name OF certain societies In
thss place &c George.
! ~ may Se as 10; 10 pei mt
| cieties that represent to a certain de-
gree the Good Samaritan In the world
to perform works of mercy and assis-
lance, but the church cannot afford TO
permit the societies to monopolize 1t.
There should be in every church "a
committee whose business 1t IL to LOOK
after the sick and afflicted and thus
carry out the teaching Of the Nazarene
in that respect.
| The church should he something
more than a religious club where Its
members assemble to hear the preach
ing Of the gospel, for the world desires
| to see that gospel exemplified In acts
Preaching and practice should go hand
! in hand. We recall the teaching OF the
! Son Of Man wherein he spoke very
emphatically Of those who saw the
man afflicted and yhnngere,l and did
not minister unto him. To those who
did not minister to the afflicted were
the words Depart" but unto those
who ministered were the words Of ep-
probation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03
. OH NO! NOT FINIsHEDl

lN6QdT 1S1pIOB IdZECCe.J ~
"A few Of the newspapers that have
stood by Governor Harding through
thick and thin, over hard shedding and
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

To the Abba Union THE way Hav-
rcr puts it over the criminals in Iowa
II looks like he understands the law
O, the Hawkeye state to perfection. lie
has no love Cor the wroagdoer."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-03

Kingdom Gould, old Jays grandson.
has been cited for gallantry over there.
And Bill Thaw is an ace among the
flyers. The American family usually
can furnish at least one member worth
while.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-01
Swiss 24-Hour Clock.

The 24-hour clock is to be intro
duced into Switzerland after the
war, according to ice CONSUL Frank
Bohr, who reports from Zurich
The Swiss federal council, under
ate Of April 10, 1918, has decreed
that the Swiss transportation sys-
TENS, the management Of the tele-
graph systems, the customs service
the federal government works and
the remaining institutions under fed
eral government management shall
upon return to normal conditions
but not before May /, 1919 cstab-
lish the 24-hour day, numbering
the hours from l to "a, beginning al
midnight"
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-01
OIL MEN INTERESTED I'M NEWS FROM ALL DIRECTIO

Forty-four, section l6-15-12 is dry
at 2l75 feet.
The Eastern Oil Co. is drilling at
1900 feet, No 2 on the fee piece in
section 3l-l4-12.
At Haskell
Bob Allison ct al have succeeded
in shutting off the water in their
deep test in section 4-15-l5 which
came from above and appear to have
we'll better than first estimated.
The Caney River Gas Co. has a
0-barrel we'll No. 6 Howard, Sec
ton 19-l5-l6 in a sand found from
1220-40 feet.
Not Fair Average.
The above report of the drilling
which includes the district west Of
Okmulgee and west of Beggs, IS
not up to the average of compile
tions from these districts. The fact
is the new development is about
as lively as anything witnessed
since Gushing was at its height, and
and the trends have become outlined
so that there is a reasonable chance
for sure results. 1t has been though:
for long time that the drilling
would develop lot of small pools
extending toward the northwest or
toward the Cushing field, but TINS
seems to be an exploded theory AID
while all the little pools have from
northwest to a southeast direction
the general trend is north and south
Range II is the newest and best
bet in that vicinity.
In the CARRIER District.
There are about 200 wells drilling
and rigs up in the district which in
cludes CARRIER and Billings. The pro
duction has held up remarkably wei
and gaining 2 little in both of thesl
new pools. There are wells being
drilled with the express purpose OF
finding a connection between the
Blackwell and the CARRIER fields, an,
there are other wells drilling thai
are looking for an extension OF the
original Ponca City Pool.