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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
the MAN INTHE MAIL CAR.

The railway mail clerks have come
forward with request for q $1,000 per
annum raise in wages and bonus OF
$500 a year for the past three years.
They charge Burleson with defeating
promotions which would have increas
ed their pay and with fighting meri-
torius promotions and all suggestions
for ssalary increases, compare their
wage with that of railroad trainmen
carpenters and plumbers and wind up
by asserting that:
The railway mail clerks should be
the highest paid men on a train and
among the highest paid in the United
States. AS it is, We receive about one
half the amount received by some OF
the trainmen- The clerks are fast
reaching a state Of desperation"
While there is nothing modest in the
size of the raise FOR which they are
asking there is much of Justice oehinc
their assertion that a railway mai
clerks work is hard and dangerous
and that the railway mail clerk should
be we'll paid. The assertion that Burle.
son has cheese pared the clerks is also
true. So far as Burleson Is concerned
neither the clerks, the postal servic'
nor the public has had square deal
the service has been shamefully poor
and the clerks i'll paid And it is evil
dent that when a railway mail clerk re-
ceives half the wage Of some tram
2:aa thG clerk is getting too little or
the trainman too much.
1t is all part Of the muddle to which
this administration brought the coun
try. the tangling Of one public service
thru and about another until It will
require years to unite the knots thai
incompetence. carelessness, party pla,
| and neglect have tied in public ser
| vice. business and private affairs.
1t is evident. however If the sal
aries Of railway mail clerks remair
at pre-war scales that the assertion b.
their federation that the mail clerk
are close TO desperation may he &C
copied as a fact.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
the ONLY TRUE Specific.

Shifting the burden Of the high liv-
ing costs from the shoulders Of one
class to those Of another class is not
a remedy. Whenever one class be it
labor union or manufacturer seeks to
force its income up even to an equal
purchasing power with the pre- war in
come that class is seeking to shift the
burden Of high costs and self denial
to some other class. The goods can
not be had until they are produced.
Everybody should get along with less
goods than he used before the war.
Proflteering just now Is fully as
common among wage workers as
among merchants. Extravaganza be-
cause of unprecedented wages is the
rult rather than the exception.
We should grasp the idea that what
ails the world today is a worldwide
shortage cf goods and that the only
way to repair the wastage OF war is to
increase production OF all things while
at the same time we restrain our con-
sumption to the minimum. We ought
to be on the same wheat sugar and
meat rations now that w were durins
the most acute period Of tho war.
Europe, both neutral and 0slligsren1
countries, was starving in various Do
grees. Whenever earthquake, tornado
or total crop failure ovsrtases . com.
munity other communities always pro.
vide the food and clothing needed IN.
II the local production may be -
sunsd and thoae parts Of tbs vcsit
which have toad and materials mus
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
THIS IS THE BIRTHDAY OF
Sophia Smith,
is 1T YoURSf
is 1T YOURS1
AUG. %, 1895.

AUG. 70, liSo.
The education she could not obtain
for herself, and the cultural advantage
es she could never have. were the
gifts that Sophia Smith gave to girl
hood. Her memorial and her claim to
fame is the college which bears her
name
She was born in Hatfield, Mass. Six
generations back her family came
from England; an ancestor. John
Smith of New England, had been
killed by the Indians: her own father
was a veteran of the revolution.
She was one of seven children, born
at time when 1t was hard enough for
boys to get good education and al
most impossible for girls. The furthest
she went after district schools was
twelve weeks in a school at Hartford,
tho she was the sort to educate her
at home by reading and studying. The
family had always given to charity
indeed. one uncle was famous for hav-
ing established a fund to give MARI :
age portions to poor girls.
Sophia survived her brothers and
sisters Each one, when they died, left
her money, and the sum of this she
left at her death for the foundation of
a college for girls, and TO few chart
ties.
She was deaf from her 40th year on,
and died when she was "a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
WHO WAS UNpE R THE CANOE

n We VANS6
day. Little william took good care Of
it and always turned 1t upside down
on the grassy bank when he wasn't
using 1t.
The strangest noise was going on
inside the overturned canoe-such q
crunching and grinding sound! Ted
dy Postum and Jimmy Coon listened.
They did not dare call out for they
didn't know who could be inside or
what they could be doing.
They came close to the canoe and
even ran over the outside and Jimmie
Coon ventured to scratch gently on the
bottom to see what would happen. and
nothing happened at all.
Sammy Muskrat came out on the
bank, and Chatterbox and little Peter
Rabbit and Ned Chipmunk and Mr..
Owl was there and some of the Squire
rel family. You know how 1t Is when
you stop on the street and look at
something very hard. then in a few
minutes lot az people stop to sea
what you are looking at.
This Is exactly what happened this
evening and before long quite a crowd
Of the little people OF the Great Forest
happened along.
They all got very much excited.
They knew that no boy would be un-
der that boat for SO long time and
so they wondered what animal could
be. So they all Just sat around and
waited to see who 1t was.
Tomorrow-The Ghost.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

Gully Porcupine had the funniest
time and the queer thing about this
relative Of Quilly's was that he was
all white-his. nose. claws. hair and
quilts were all snow white. OF
course you know he was q white por-
cupine when I say quilts. GULLY
Porcupine's eyes were black, but this
white cousin Of his had eyes OF
different color. Do you think they
were pink?
Now this white porcupine scared
the little animals of the Great Forest
nearly to death.
They knew the Weasels cchanged
their coats for white in the winter and
they knew that the Snowshoe Rabbits
did But Jimmy Coon said that no one
had any style at all to wear white
suits in summer. Winter was the
only time to wear white Now Jimmy
Coon knew. for he had visited the
Snowshoe Rabbits in winter and they
were very stylish and elegant people
and always in the best form.
One summer evening. just as 1t was
getting dark, Jimmy Coon and Teddy
Postum were walking along Murmur-
ing Brook and they came to canoe
overturned in the grass.
This canoe belonged to William, the
Farmer boy. He had had 1t at the
seashore the summer before and 1t
was we'll soaked with the sea water.
Now he had 1t In Murmuring
Brock where he padded in 1t every
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
bwa Newspapers
OTHER PEOPLES BUSINESS.

Cedar Rapids GaZette.l
Perhaps the leading. factor of those
that lend tinge Of genuine danger to
the present period Of unrest is the apt
itude with which radicals are inducing
US to butt into other peoples business
as means of bolstering our own.
Never was the tendency 50 strong.
Under existing circumstances it can
do enormous damage. II some influ-
ence or other could step into this stu
alton and get to working and saving.
or trying to save, a large measure OF
unrest would be quieted. And 1t
would be easier to take care of those
contributing factors, once we had be-
gun to take care Of ourselves.
Recently representatives Of certain
farmers organizations sent resolutions
to the president showing that 1t was
the sense of the farm owners and
workers that the people Of this coun-
try had best stop quarrelfng and &c
to work. No sounder advice than tina,
will be given at any time during the
uproar that Ia spreading thru the
country now, and will continue tc
spread until people realize that self
! nrese-v:.!e: Scc= az. % 6sSsss..tt,
come thru the elimination Of others.
There are Industrial and economic
evils here, no one Is foolish enough II
deny that But to proceed on the theo.
ry that each man can rectify his OWL
troubles by deserving them 1onl
enough TO thrust himself into tn
other fellows affairs IL TO go at thu
| trouble wrong end-to.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
A CLAN WHITE COAT.

Clark, the Ida Grove attorney for
the Rathbuns. whose trial for disbar-
ment is just ended was acquitted by
jury Of lawyers and remains in
practice TO do what he did In the
Rathbun trial over again II oppor-
tunity and inclination are afforded.
II will be readily recalled that the
governor under investigation testified
Of pardon. In the Clark trial he re-
versed himself. The laity generally.
expected and assumed that Clark
would be d!sharred. However. for
reasons. doubtless sufficient to the
court and jury OF his peers which
tried him. he was acquitted ana re-
mains lawyer in good standing be-
fore the Iowa bar.
This closes the Rathbun case as
concerns the attorney. The governors
part in II was closed when the judi
ciary committee made its final find
ings. About all that seems to remain
to be done is for the governor to
pardon Rathbun from the pen and let
him chase gayly back to Ida county.
That would close the case and II is
the expectation OF many that II will
be done while the lamp OF executive
clemency" holds out to burn.
Anyhow it will be many long years
before another governor of Iowa
pardons another criminal like Rathbun
under circumstances similar to those
surrounding the notorious miscarriage
of justice attempted in the Rath5un
case.
Still. in connection with the disbar-
ment proceedings it might properly be
asked, as an academic question of
course, where do the duty and re-
sponsibility of citizenship leave off
and the privilege of the attorney be-
gin?'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
Up to the Par1on.

The parson on his way home one
evening to his horrifed surprise found
one Of his flock sitting against a stone
wall, his face radiating o'ermuch cheer.
and a frayed cigar clutched in his fin
gers. Dear me, John, dear me-" said
the parson. Whatever do you sup
pose will happen to you II you 60 on
like this?" "Nothin'. sir. II you (hic)
don't tell 'er!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

The senate committee cut everything
but the shant out OF Shantung.
While cutting costs why not try to
cut some OF the high cost out of state
and national investigations?
How will the shopmen voter That's
one of the crisis that are plentier than
blackberries.
Seems like the girls who put every
thing they earn on their backs" can't
be earning much nowadays. Anyhow
there isn't much on their backs.
Perhaps we can catch up with the
deficit in food and clothing and every
thing else by working six hours where
we used to work ten but how are We
going to do it?
Washington's feat OF throwing a sill
yer dollar across the Potomac was
explained by showing that dollar
went a long way in those days. Bet
you Goliath couldn't heave one Of the
present dollars across Linn creek.
But II folks have to quit using an
thracite on account of the high cost of
labor and profiteering maybe the boys
will not have 10 work even the six
housekeeping anthracite. There is
such q thing as robbing the birds nest.
Mr.. McAdoo is writing very serious
iy of thrift but he doesn't apply it to
the salaries Of movie attorneys.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

AN OLD TRUTH.

a MORALE It
they should call to mind
behind
coin all unload; with merry steps ee them
talked and about the rainy
with all its We kicks
should take
dsgace Gay
Now the time while moneys
ought to sayea A u u
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
divide up with Europe. We can not
escape high costs for every thing.

escape high costs for every thing.
Work and save to save the world
from social CONFUSION Is a. important
as 1t was to win the war. II we had
food rations the rich and the high
wage people could be restrained from
using more than the minimum
amounts OF foods that are the shortest.
Wage workers in all trades should
know that wage prohteering as a left
over from the war which caused shoes
To become munitions is responsible for
some o. the high price Of shoes. The
remedy is to wear old shoes and do as
a high school boy in the most prosper
Gus section of the second ward Is doing
with ease, half sole the shoes for the
entire family. What one handy boy
can do all men can do who have fam
lilies.
The remedy is work and save. Thrift
is the specific.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
Perfect Duties,

Gentleness and cheerfulness, these
come before all mortality; they are the
perfect duties. II your morals make
you dreary. depend upon it they are
wrong. do not say give them up, for
they may be all you have, but conceal
them like a vice, lest they should spoil
the lives Of better and simpler people.
Stevenson.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
What's to Be Oone7

An insurance official declares spin
sters live longer than married women
Married men are also said to live
longer than bachelors But II all men
were married, there would be very
few spinsters. and IL all women were
spinsters. there wouldn't be any mar
ried men. What are We going to do
about it?-New York World.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
bjs Own Detective.

In Schenectady, N. T.. farmer rec
ognized in leather shop the green
hide OF horse which had been stolen
from him but two weeks before BY
means of the hide he traced the thief
and eventually was paid for the horse.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
Fountain Of cheerfuIness.

Be cheerful; do not brood over fond
hopes unrealized, until a, chain. link by
link, is fastened on each thought and
wound round the heart. Nature in
tended you to be the fountain spring
of cheerfulnees and social life, and not
the travelling monument of despair and
melancholy.-Helps.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
Hinht Trade for the Worse.

Socrates thought that II all our mis-
fortunes were laid In one common
heap, whence every one must take an
equal portion, most persons would be
contented to take their own and de-
part,-Plutarch.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
Left Eve for Microscope.

In microscopic work use the left eye
rather than the right, says the Amer-
can Machinist. Astigmatism and other
eye troubles occur more frequently in
the right eye.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
NOT como TO SMASH.
Ioelwein Iowan.1

4 locad pastor N going TO take a.
his topic for NEXT Sundays discourse.
rs Our Country Going 70 Smash -
Well. II depends on what kind OF q
man you meet. az u the answer. There
srs lot % people, naturally peAsimis-
tic snd easily disturbed ~ vast
amount Of silly talk and considerable
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

unwise action among industrial I'D
political lines who think II ID. But
whom you got down underneath all the
form and fuss, you find the homes and
the hearts OF the real folks who love
America and believe In the fundament-
ais OF American liberty and democra-
cy II is surprising that Just as We
have got done Saving democracy for
the world" we find democracy mt home
threatened, 1t is astonishing how chs
lily and unconcernedly and gibly many
people talk about change in govern
ment here. One man recently said to
Us. IL wouldn't be surprised TO see
soviet government in the United States
within six months" Don't worry about
that. The great mass Of thoughtful
liberty loving Americans are saving
little these days but are thinking n
great deal and when IL comes TO n
showdown II II ever does, they will
demonstrate on this side OF the water
as they did on the other; that they
love the glorious banner under which
Washington and Lincoln and Roosevelt
fought and cherish the same kind or
love for the government they each so
fully believe In, as they did, and are
pust as determined that it shall con-
tinue TO exist. The country is not going
to smash
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

"Brotherhoods are a fine thing, but
what the country reeds is a little more
brotherhood between the man who
works with his hands and the man who
works with his head" says the Bur-
lington Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

works with his hands and the man who
works with his head" says the Bur-
| iington Gazette.
The Davenport Times proposes: Let
| us make UP our minds, as a measure
for whatever proposals that may be
made, that America Is going to re-
| main American in every sense of the
! word and that 1t Is not going to be
carried away with theories unless
those theories first meet the test OF
being compatible with Americanism."
As seen by the Traer- Star Clipper
people are striking because prices
are high. and prices are high largely
because people are striking and work
ing shorter hours and getting so much
more pay"
| The Burlington Hawkeye says: "1f
the road to the White House led thru
Mexico. or II it was believed that such
were the case, would we declare war
against the neighboring state even tho
We broke the heart Of the world and
| some pretty strong PROMISES
The Knoxville Journal sees that
| There are as many profiteers in the
ranks OF organized labor as there are
among the capitalists"
THE state food and dairy commits
sioner is going to ask the legislature
for one more COMMISSIONS commits
sion to fix prices" notes the Cedar
Rapids Republican. "Will 1t be any
thing more than one more commits
sion? What can be done by such a
body Of men except to draw down more
salaries? We already have about fifty
commissions in Iowa on which various
duties and responsibilities are unload
ed by officials. Do we need more OF
the same kind"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

Not 20 % Thought Of.
She-"You really should give up
suon;;uS; Z. Affects the hart" HI
by that reasoning ] ought TO give %
YOU also."-Boston Transcript
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
HANDY DIRECTORY
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MASONIC TEMPLE


MARSHALL LODGE NO. ,os a, p
A. M. special communication, Friday
Aux. 70. 1890 o'clock. First decree
A. Z. Frazer, W. NJ; John W. Wells
secretary.
sIoNEr CHAPTER. No. 80 =. .,
NJ, Monday. Aug. Is. at 1880; MARI
Masters degree. George Gregory H.
p; John w. Wells. secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solo
mon Council No. 20. n. d s. NJ MON,
day. sept %. Business session. ara
A. Davenport. I. M; John W. "ehS'
recorder.
s,.ej., conelave 81. kldsr,ar Com
msndery No. 80, X. r, Tuesday sep
Al 1850 p. m. Red Cross and Ml W
y. Frederick. commander; Johh W.
Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. {.
s.--Resular meeting "Wednesday eve
ming, sept. II. at s o'clock ior
ness. Mrs. J. F. Schultz. W. NJ; MIS-
Archer Walton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

Quick Thinker.
But rvS heard that you proposed
to three other girls this month.
er-er-was merely renearsins for my
proposal 10 vnu."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27
THE BEGGARY OF THE SENATE.

THE BEGGARY OF THE SENATE.
Cedar Rapids Republican,
II Is somewhat pitiful spectacle
that the senate of the United States
composed OF two men from each
state, and coordinate with the presi-
dent in treaty making and other pow
ers, should he compelled to beg for the
papers and the Information upon
which It can act and without which
It cannot act unless II consents to be-
come a mere automaton. The other
day they had to pass a resolution
asking for the privilege for seeing a
Polish treaty that the president had
signed for the United States almost
six months ago. OF course, as
treaty it has no binding force until
1t is approved by the senate, but Ii Is
an understanding" OF some kind and
our foreign allies do not always un-
derstand the intricaCies of our home
governm emit. And after the matter
has stood long enough the president
will make the plea that ii would be
humiliating to have the senate undo
his doings. He has followed the idea
of giving them n little information at
a time and treaty at time as sort
OF task for them to do under him
as the schoolmaster In short he
has been trying TO make a naughty
boy if not monkey out of the senate
and we ought 10 be thankful for
the fact that there is some resent
ment left in even some of the sena
tors for II is almost the only reeidium
of legislative independence that we
have left on which to build new
hopes.
The spectacle presented in Wash
ington is certainly an astounding one.
All the boosted open covenants about
which we have talked. or rather
about which the president has talked.
have been contradicted and we have
had a diplomacy that is so secret that
even the secretary of state, Mr.. Lam
sing. who was one of the peace COM
missioners. has over and aver con-
fessed to the congressional commit
tee that he did not exactly know
what was going on at Versailles II
was all in the mind of one man and
in Washington there are doubts
whether 1t was in his mind concrete
" or correctly for he also has been
compelled to admit that he did not
know certain things-and would have
to look them up. It's a spectacle 10
say the least about 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

The Knoxville Journal sees that
There are as many profiteers in the
ranks OF organized labor as there are
among the capitalists"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-27

The senate committee cut everything
but the shan't out OF Shantung.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-05-18
Mrs. Harry X. Vingut
Takes House in Reno
Husband of Caynor's Daughter
Says He Knows of No Proposed
Action for Divorce

Mrs. Harry X. Vingut, daughter of
the late Mayor Gaynor, has arrived in
Reno, New, with her sister, Mrs.
Ralph Isham, of California, a dispatch
received from Reno yesterday said.
1t is reported that Mrs. Vingut will
seek a divorce Mrs. Vingut and her
sister have rented house in Reno
Neither they nor Mrs. Vingut's attor-
neys would make any statement
Mrs. Ningut, who was Miss Edith
Gaynor, marriedw Harry Kermit Vim
gut, of Wilmington, in 1910. Mr. VIM
gut was a member Of the Meadow
brook Club and polo player He is
now i'll of infiammatory rheumatism
and neuritis in the Ross Sanitarium at
Brentwood, L. I. When seen at the
sanitarium yesterday, he said he did
not know where Mrs. Vingut was, but
believed she was in Reno.
Il know Of no divorce action on her
part" he said, "but in all probability
there will be suit for separation
and l assure you I will not contest it
My wife left New York last February
for California to visit her sister. That
was the last l saw or heard Of heI
directly. About five weeks ago an at
torney Informed me of her proposed
action, and indicated separation suit
I am ready to allow her a separation
should she desire it."