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streets show that only about nva GU

streets show that only about nve out
OF hundred are able 10 succeed. In
a race in which only Ave in the hun
dred can win there must be ex-
ceptional inducement In the way OF
gains or profits TO attract hundred
entries just as purses have TO be made
liberal and large at the county iair
TO attract entries for good horse
race.
Socialism fundamentally Is pro-
test against the natural law OF the
survival of the fttest. without the
natural law there can be no selection
and Improvement Of conditions or Of
the race.
What we need and what we should
demand Is opportunity for the In
dividual TO succeed. That opportunity
can not be made too wide or too high.
1t is the distinction between
America and the countries whence
men come seeking the opportunities to
which We are horn. Opportunity for
the individual is the active principle
of American manhood and American
success. Control of opportunity by
and special favor for any class, or
ganized or unorganized, is a round
about return TO feudism.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

Poor little Club Ursus lay snuffling
and whining on the bank. Just worn
out from his swimming experience. His
dear mother licked him all over and
he soon sat up and took notice.
Jimmie Coon" said Teddy Possum.
II always heard that things were as
easy as falling off log, and / don't
see that II was easy for Club to fall
off that log"
Yes, It Is easy to fall Off log.
only club wouldn't let go. and his
claws stuck tight to the old log for
he was afraid he would fall"
Now Aunt Matilda ursus was get
ting lunch for her hungry and OK
hausted family, for they were so worn
out with their long swimming lesson
that she thought they must have re-
cess. She found an old dead tree, and
tore off the bark and picked out the
white grubs and showed each cub how
to find his lunch.
A big ant hill about three feet high
was close by, and Aunt Matilda would
put in her huge paw and claw out a
handful and eat up the running ants.
Then each little bear would do eaxctiy
as she did Now you know that bears
like ants very much. They have q
eour taste and bears consider them as
pickles. So you see that those bears
had really meat for lunch. Those fat
white grubs were the meat, and the
ants were the pickles.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
THIS is THE BIRTHDAY OF
Robert Southey,
AUG, IL, IVA.
is IT YOURS7

AUG. IL, lIT9.
Had Robert Southey lived in a more
broad minded age, his family would
have been much greater. for he was
too much influenced by his times A
biographer says OF that period, south
cy's age was bounded and had little
sympathy for anything beyond itself
and its own narrow interests; 1t was
violently Tory, narrowly Protestant,
defiantly English"
Southey was the son of an unsuc-
cessful linen draper and was born In
Bristol. England. At 3 he was put in
the care of maiden aunt, whimsical
despotic old lady. Thru the help OF
relations. he got an excellent education
He met Coleridge at college and want
ed to join him in the Utopian scheme
of founding a colony on the banks OF
the Susquehanna, in the United states.
With Coleridge he met Robert Lo-
veil. who had married Mary Flick
er. ColerIdge married one of her SIS
tiers and Southey the other, and OUT
Of this relationship there grew up
the colony at Keswick. where Southey
finally found himself supporting MS
own and Coleridge's children, too, ano
where the poet Wordsworth was ar
intimate friend and nelghbor.
Southey meanwhile had gone to Port
ueal. mad written its history. published
several collections of poems and go'
into a lifelong quarrel with Byron
who called him n ballad monger." His
prose is admitted to be unusually fine
even by Byron His Common Place
Book ana mis- Life Of Nelson" are "a
nous. His Letters show him tc
have been tender-heartcd, loyal anc
gallant. j..
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
LUN cH

Those little bears, tho. liked to eaA
Just as much as you do and they liked
something sweet for good dessert
but not every day was there a sweet
dessert.
Sometimes, on day when there was
too much work to do, there wouldn't
DO any dessert at all. That good kin.
dergarten teacher had kind heart.
tho, and she thought those little cubs
deserved a good dessert.
SO Aunt Matilda led her little pri-
vate school to another hollow tree
that she had noticed some time before
and into which bees were flying and
buzzing. She put in her great paw and
drew II out and she had great pieces
of honey comb, and the sweet honey
was dripping from II.
Aunt Matilda stood up high and heis
the honey out Of reach and those tive
little bears had to jump high to Set
any. II was a very pretty sight and
that lovely family made a game Of II.
Jimmy Coon said: We'll. my father
always said to us that we must be
cheerful when we eat. for It makes cui
food digest better"
well, you are pretty smart, Jim
my Coon. II you remember all your
father ever told you. All I can see IL
that Mother Ursus gets most of the
honey!"
Tomorrow-Aun Matilda Is Scared.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
regulations

court for violating traffic regulations
Is the petty fine imposed.
This statement. made q few DAYS
ago by a motorist at first occasioned
surprise. But II II true.
When a man fourishes . sun In
public street he 10 generally sent to
Jail or hned a sufficient amount to
make him remember to be more care
full in the future. He may not have
fired the gun nor endangered human
life but TO let him OF would be setting
a bad example. When someone kicks
In a store window or casts a brick int
an electrolier or steals q Goa. or picks
a pocket, courts as rule arc inclined
to let him of with less. punishment
than is doled out to the gun-man
But, when an autoist cuts q corner,
does Barney Oldneld thru a resi-
dence street or runs without lights he
is generally assessed 3s.35 or $495 or
some other such absurd amount.
Every time a car cuts a corner or
speeds or runs without lights 1t Is d
threat against human life. Therefore
the driver has committed a more seri-
Gus offense than the pick pocket,
But the motorist Is confident that,
after such a threat against human life.
when he appears before the police
magistrate he will receive less punish
men than the youngster who swipes a
few oranges from a fruit stand. As a
result arrest, except for the publ
city occasioned, holds little terrors
to the careless motorist or the driver
who has no regard for the right or
the lives of others. The fine is merely
pestiferops and serves neither as a
warning TO others nor al lesson
to the offender. In many cases the Of.
fender declares afterwards that he
would rather pay the puny little hne
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
THIS GOOD WORLD.


when
rotten this days win
He
stale could stand
who'll record of each day that's dark IT. ana W.
the landscape
outweghs
lived
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
Topics of the Times

This profteer business laps all the
way up like shingle roof.
One way Of reducing the cost of
living would be to take taxes off
necessities instead of theater tickets
and soda water.
Governor Harding, it Is said has
"indisputable evidence" Of profiteer-
ing in Iowa. Well, the governor had
indisputable evidence" Of Rathbun's
guilt, didn't he?,
The shoe manufacturers blame the
hide dealers for the arbitrary raise in
shoe prices. It's time a few hides
we're hung on the fence.
But suppose the public were to
strike against high prices, cut down
all expenses to the living limit for Six
weeks, do you think anything would
be doing in raising prices arbitrarily
on the seventh week?
According to a Milwaukee dispatch
Governor w. L. Harding OF Iowa is
tho most potential republican candi-
date for president among nationa
! capital poiiricians, SAID Joseph q
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
"A LIVING DEMONSTRATION"

The New York sun presents as "a
living demonstration" and as most
convincing, living argument in favor
or private ownership OF great trans
portation lines the sharp contrast be-
tween the operation of our railways
and those of Canada. 1t declares that
the Canadian lines have been subject
ed to the test OF war in more severe
and heavier tests than our own and
that the railroad service of Canada
has emerged triumphant stronger
than ever and greater, too. in popular
ity."
The Sun says:
IL gave good service to the govern
ment, at reasonable costs. Beyond
that it afforded very substantial fl
nancial aid; S4O,00O.OOO of its stock
was loaned 70 the government and IL
bought, of the second Canadian loan,
SEAT 900 of bonds The British gov
eminent has not yet paid for its SER
vice in full; nevertheless the road is
prosperous and financially sound.
Nor has it done this by any inordl-
nate raise in prices to the public. The
shipper and passenger are pleased, as
they are getting good service. On the
other hand its employees are well paid
and have their full share in its pros
perity. Threatened labor troubles were
settled in advance, and il has had no
strikes such as ours. Its men got the
equivalent of the "McAdoo scale" as
soon as ours did and they had receiv-
ed earlier advances
All this has been done by wise, in
telligent. honest individual manage
ment. Does any sane human being i'm
agtne it could be duplicated under our
method OF muddle? Are we so much
less intelligent and capable than our
Canadian cousins? z
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

ing. Either OF these crimes IL reachable
thru laws now on tho statute books
| The tumbling of speculative prices In
food commodities Is prima facia evil
| dtnce that some of the price infla-
tIon Is chargeablc to speculation. An
| embargo on food exports and a limita-
| ton on the amount of foods allowed
/ In storage would get close to some OF
the trouble. An embargo would be
drastic in effect, but 1t would not
| bring any hardship on Europe because
other food producing countries are
| available to II. Argentina can supply
| both bread and meat. Australia has
abundance of export wheat, and the
| Canadian crop win be on the market
within few weeks. The United States
! fed Europe thru the war. II cannot
be expected TO feed It in times of peace
IT the expense OF the American con-
summer. Yet the high prices Of foods
! In this country are in part due TO ex-
cesslve competitive prices paid In
Europe.
High transportation charges have
! added material percentage to the
cost OF food commodities. Yet the
president has been considering the in
crease OF suCn charges rs remedy fof
the high cost Of living to railroad en-
ployes who demand higher wages,
half score of things have combined to
create the present prices. Remedying
one of them will not remedy the 9TH
ers. The process must be comprehen-
sive and thorough, tho conservative.
But Il must be expeditions. For the
president 10 tell congress that it must
: do something, without pointing out the
specific things to be done and the
manner of doing them, will amount to
nothing hut n waste of words. For
congress. by resolution, to direct the
president or any other branch of gov
eminent to remedy the evils without
specifying the evil and the way II may
be reached, Is only adding verblage to
an already overburdened record.
The plan to sell wheat below the
guaranteed price, suggested by adj
ministration supporters, but vetoed by
julius II. Barnes, director of the fed
cral grain corporation, would be only
flimsy expedient. The people might
get an infinitesimal reduction in the.
cost of flour and bread, but they would
have to pay the tax to make up the
difference between what the wheat
sold for and the guaranteed price.
They would pay this on the articles OF
necessity upon which a war tax Is
imposed II the price of flour should
be lowered 81 a barrel. It would be
but a drop in the bucket in the general
reduction expected by the people, and
whatever reduction they realized would
have to be returned in the form of war
taxes.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
ANDREW CARNEGIE.


Algored the Horatlo Alger who used
to write those thrilling stories of the
newsboy who invariably became a
eminent and prominent citizen thru
thrift, ambition and honest shrewd-
ness. Alger might have started with
a peasant home in scotland, the rent
due and no oatmeal in the house and
ended with an iron master. That
would have been fiction. But Carnegie
started his story somewhat after
the same fashion as the child of power
ty in Scotland, crossed to a country of
opportunity, became the greatest iron
master of his time. was once the rich
est man in the world, had the car OF
rulers and lawmakers, stood out before
the civilized world as a personality.
There was no fiction about 1t. He lived
it,
Shrewd canny, plain and above all
capable Carnegie had the vision OF
great wealth at a time when to acquire
great wealth was popularity consider
ed the ultimate test of success. He also
had the tenacity of purpose to reach
the goal he had set for himself He
had more. He had the innes sense Of
duty and desire to serve that cheap
ened his immense wealth after he had
accumulated it. Having made his
money it lost it's highest charm. He
remained unsatisfed. His sense of
dissatisfaction with himself as a
money master manifested itself in con-
fession, in effort to serve greatly, gifts
to cities and offers to governments.
The temple at the Hague was merely
a symptom OF his unrest and realiza-
ton that the possession of great
wealth is not even creditable unless it
serves purposes beyond the selfishness
of its possessor..
Carnegie was a type of his time, his
operations, like those of Rockefeller,
were the common business operations
Of that day carried to the nth power.
Our judgment as to much that was
done and the manner in. which it was
accomplished in those days has under
gone change. We object to much
and to the manner of the things that
were done in that time but 1t is fair
to recall that it was a day of granting
huge tracts of territory to railroad
builders and of privilege to industri-
ais and of the beginning of trusts and
| combinations. Carnegie did in a big
way what other men were doing in
their way large and small. 1t was the
mighty development period succeeding
the civil war when the one thing in
! mind was development. 1t was then
| that we raped the forests of theiI
lumber to build homes and fences on
the farms that were TO create prairie
| SLlpiTe between the "dOdsH anu tHc
| Rockies. The iron master took priv
ilege as his rights when It was offered
! Out Of all the privilege pressed upon
every great developing and organizing
mind came mighty fortunes. 1t is Il
| Carnegie's credit that he first of all The
mutt milionaires realized that hi!
money was not entirely mis- own.
Still remains the example of Car
negie as an illustration Of commo,
| opportunity in America, opportunit,
that exists as fully and as thorough!
free to all as it did when the Scotcl
woman brought her lad across in tn
steerage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
Two ,hInes He Rsmsmbsrsd.

The proprietor and editor Of CO..
tain local paper had been indulging n
q little plain talk and prophesying dis
astsr to the little town II certain i'm.
provements and sanitary reforms were
not forthwith adopted. A local par.
son sided with the rural council which
neglected these things and, after Ger.
mon evidently pointed at the nevspa.
per man, said: "You should remem'
Der the fate of Balaam." Il do"
was the prompt reply from the pew.
"and also remember who II was that
warned the prophet"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
NOBODY KNOWS.

NOBOD1 hNUWS.
ISioux City Journal
The difficulty of the whole high
price problem is that no one knows
what the trouble is. Not knowing
what It is, the application of the pro-
rer remedy is difficult. There is
general belief that much of the infla
ton is due to profiteering and hoard
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

than face hearing "altho ! wasn't
guilty"
And that is why the decent auto
driver, the man who desires to So
traffic laws that motorist and pedes-
trian alike must obey, feels that there
should be q full and complete hearing
in every case and II the law has been
violated a good stif hns or Jail sen.
tence imposed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
oarruIous Husbands.

0arruIous Husbands.
Don't expect 4 wife always 10 be
the listener" advises Winifred Black.
Certainly not. Wives have to sleeD
occasionally. The fact IL. the lav
ought to punish those ganulous hus
bands who talk their wives to death
Houston Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

Daily Thought
Ee calm In arguing: for fePceness
makes error . fault and truth A.
eouftcsy.-Herbcrt.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
HANDY DIRECTORY
- OF TH9 -
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
vIsitors Always Welcome

MARSHALL LODGE NO. lob A. y
A, NJ. stated communication, Fri
day, Aug. Is, s o'clock. Business eGs-
sion. A. L. Frazer, w. NJ; John W.
Wells. secretary,
sIoNET CHAPTER, No. ss r. A.
: NJ, Monday, Aug. Is, monthly business
meeting. George Gregory, H. ~
John w. Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo.
mon Council No. 20, r. a s, NJ, Mon
day. Aug 10. Business session. IRA
A. Davenport. !. NJ; John W. Wehs'
recorder.
Stated coneIavs St. Aldsrar Com
msndery No. 80, X. T. Tuesday Aug
10, at D. m. J. f, Frederick COM
mande-; John w. Wells, recorder
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81, o. G.
s.-Regular meeting Wednesday eve
ming, August 49, at o'clock for ousi-
ness Mrs. J. F. Schultz. w. M; Mrs
Archer Walton, secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.


There has to be some regard Tor
outgO as well as income, points OUT
the Davenport Times. Net income
is increased in two ways, by saving
and by getting more wages. All at
tention seems now TO be focused upon
getting more wages when at least haii
of the duty OF the individual In tryihs
to make both ends meet ought TO De
directed to the practice or reasohao'e
personal and family economy
The demand for the elimination OF
private capital from the control oil the
railroads and turn them over TO the
labor organizations is merely the open
ing gun. The issue is the nationalist
ton of all industry--in other words,
communistic or socialistic government
and Industrial organization, declares
the Knoxville journal. Private proper
ty is to be destroyed in America as II
has been in Russia, if the present de-
mands of labor shall be acCeded TO-
The Cedar Rapids Republican says
1T was bad business for the govern
ment to act as a food hoarder. That
has helped to send the prices up. But
the government seems to have done II
thru the fear of lowering the prices II
It should release what it held. NOW
the government has other fears, just
the contrary ones"
The Burlington Gazette susgeststhat
This sale of surplus stocks of food
by the government would be a lot
more popular if we could have il
charged"
The Sioux City Jorunal thinks that
1T is likely that in the end, the rail-
road administration will grant the In
crease in wages demanded by the rail-
way shopmen as the easiest solution
of a difficult problem. forcing one OF
two counterbalancing courses on the
nation. The increase in wages will
have to be met by an increase in
transportation rates or by an appro-
priation from the federal treasury OF
money paid by the people in the form
of war taxes and Victory bond pur-
Chases."
The reason he is called middle
man is now being shown. He's getting
it from above and below" explains the
Perry Chief.
The Des Moines Capital says The
government management Of railroa DIS
at the present time represents political
cowardice. The danger now Is in pol
itical cowardice. Two political parties
are anxious to elect the next president.
The chances are that both of them are
afraid of their shadows and when con-
fronted by the powerful, railroad
brot herhood' their knees grow weak"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
But NOT DEMOBILIZED.
IperrN Chief.1

PERRY ChieTl
Governor Harding and Attorney
General Havner attended a meeting
Yesterday in lDes Moines. And 1t was
a quiet. peaceful meeting. refuting the
statement that the entire world Is al
war
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12
Iowa Newspapers
BETWEEN JIM AND BILL.

sioux Ilty JOUflIdI,J
The question Of VINO writes Jim
Pierce's own opinions in the Home
stead will never attract as much in
terest as whether Shakespeare wrote
the plays attributed to him has.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

MERELY PESTIFEROUS.
Huntington Hawkeye.
The thing that makes motorists so
indignant when they are hailed into
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

Davies. former chairman OF the fed
eral trade commission. on his way tc
Madison from WASHINGTON today
The humor Of the statement Is toe
evident to require comment
A considerable number OF county
papers predict a strong primary vote
for Havner. And those county eal-
tors know about what their home
folks are talking and thinking the
more we hear the more II listens like
"a convention settlement Of the nomi-
nation,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

The reason he is called a middle
man is now being shown. He's getting
it from above and below" explains the
Perry Chief.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-12

The Burlington Gazette suggeststhat
This sale of surplus stocks of food
by the government would be a lot
more popular if we could have il
charged"
The Carlisle independent., 1919-10-16
COMMISSIONERS SALE

Notice is hereby given, That in pur- suance of the authority and directions contained in the decretal order of the Chancery Court of Lonoke County, made and entered on the 4th day of Au gust, A. D. 1919 in certain cause eNo. 3221 then pending therein between J. $. Savage, complainant, and Lillie May Campbell, Sarah Emily Campbell, Law renee Woodrow Campbell and Charles Author Campbell defendants, the un- dersigned, as Commissioner of said Court, will offer for sale at public ven- due to the highest bidder, at the west door or entrance of the County Court house, in which said Court is held, in the County of Lonoke within the hours prescribed by law for judicial sales, on Friday the 14th day of November, A D. 1919, the following described real estate to-wit:
 The Northeast Quarter (NE1-4) of the Southwest Quarter (SW1-4) of See tion Thity-six (36). Township Two t2l
 North, Range Seven i(7l West, Lonoke
 County, Arkansas, containing forty 40l acres more or less, in lonoke Coun- lty Arkansas.
 TERMS OF SALE.s On a credit of
 three months, the purchaser being re- quired to execute bond as required by law and the order and decree of said
 Court in said cause, with approved se-
 eurity, bearing interest at the rate of
 10 per cent per annum from date Of
 sale until paid, and lien being retain
 ed on the premises sold to secure the
 payment of the purchase money. l Given under my hand this 18th day
 of October, A. D. 1919.
 A. G. Sexton, 23-3t Commissioner in Chancery