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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18

Aaona-F1fty years ago J. B. Win
KEEL and MtAs Jane Riebhotf were unit
ed In marriage at the Michael Riebhoft
home in Union township ~ 2a.. Todd,
pastor Of the Algona Methodist church
In that early day. Mr.. and Mrs. Win
kel are pioneers OF kossuth county
and the greater part OF their life has
been spent in Algona. Mr.. Winkei
stated that on the day OF their we'd
ding they drove TO the Riebhoff homs
with a sleigh. there being about two
feet Of snow only the immediate fam
liz assisted IN celebrating the golden
wedding OF these highly respected old
citizens at their home on East Call
street. e. I,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
poLLlyER HIsH SCHOOL COLLEGE,

The people Of Fort Dodge have voted
$500 600 in bonds for new high school
and are now engaged IN tactional con-
troversy as 20 what part Of town shall
De favored with the location Of the
buildings. This question Of the loca-
ton Is Incidental TO the larger one as
to what kind Of plant IS TO he built
with s6o0. 900.
For Dodge IS a city Of 10000 people
It must now have as many high school
students as there are college students
attending Grinnen College. Cornell
College at Mount Vernon, or Coe Col
Iege at Cedar Rapids. Before the
bonds come due Fort Dodge will have
doubled In population and will have
twice az many young people going to
high school Within Ave years under
the road law about to be enacted every
main road leading out Of Fort Dodge
will he paved for several miles and
the children o. the farm homes will
drive back and forth 10 the Fort
Dodge high school in those $3.50 auto
mobiles which Henry Ford Is going to
build next year. A blind man with a
mental vision can see nearly 1000
students for q high school in Fort
Dodge before the new paint is fairly
worn
Two thousand students IS school
population equal to the attendance at
Ames only a few years ago. 1t de
mands a high school college. Let the
people of Fort Dodge lead the world
and establish Dolliver High School
/ College on not less than forty acres Of
ground with athletic park, beautiful
! campus and up-to-date college style
! Of architecture IL Which several build
| ings are grouped around spacious
grounds. Then erect the high schoo
/ college auditorium large enough t.
serve the city as a community audi
! forum for grand concerts. conventions
J k1ftI EA LidD. '"SS
! Broader, the high school course unit
those who must become wage earners
! at IS years Of age may have the ad'
vantage of business course anc
| those who wish to strive for a col
| Tege education may take one or two
years Of a college course at the high
school college without expense of room
and board away from home. Six nun.
bred thousand dollars Is enough
money to erect a respectable college
complete in every detail and For
Dodge has the students to fill an ordi'
nary college. Fort Dodge. lead off ant
do something worth while with $780,
900.
DON'T FORGET 'LrTTEE' ONES.
Cedar Rapids Gazette.)
While we boast Of the big men o.
this war who were former Iowans. lei
VI not forget some Of tho fellows Of
lesser light Somewhere in France
there lie sleeping upwards Of i've hun.
bred men who died while serving il
Iowa's Rainbow division regiment, tn.
1ssth. They may not besas we'll know,
in name, but their decide are not ex-
celIed by any man Of fame. And lows
lost many men who fought In othe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
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Tho Knut-fts simply absurd. What
IN the use Of showing me these low-cut
collars. Do you mean TO say you keep
nothing taIierf
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
IOWA OPT MON AND NOTES.

There is one very comforting thlns
about this approaching victory loah'
remarks the Waterloo Courier--'1t Is
the last \ year ago, when we were
getting ready 10 dig down deep for the
third liberty loan, we expected four or
five more OF the same kind. We can
thank our boys with the punch tha'
TINS winds up the deal far as pun
Tic bond issues may be concerned.
Harmony in the senate on the
League Of Nations plan seemed TO IN
volve az many notes Of discord as
Richard Strauss symphony" muses.
Muse the musical editor Of the Mason
City Globe Gazette.
The Waterloo Times Tribune thinks
that Mr. Debs wants all TO under
stand as he goes to prison, that II
this whole country wants 10 continue
TO he wrong he has done all he could
Golfers in other Iowa cities may also
have experienced the same feelings as
those in Davenport, OF whom the Dem
ocrat says were given serious con-
Germ when they found they had 10 list
their winnings from wagers on their
1915 games of golf" No mention rs
made OF other harmless pastime,
however, as they may refer to Daveu-
port.
The Newton News wonders no"
many youngsters in Germany will be
named Foch during the next five years.
Speaking of hell. what do you
think Of the present condition OF Iowa
roads," asks the Council Bluffs Nom
pariel
The Palo Alto Reporter Is concerned
over the prospects OF Boston brewers
manufacturing alcoholic drops now
that IL has been announced the brew
ers are going to turn their breweries
into candy factories.
Secretary w. g. Allen is another
who knows just how it feels to be in
an automobile accident" remarks the
Perry Chief.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18

Secretary w. g. Allen is another
who knows just how ii feels to be in
an automobile accident" remarks the
Perry Chief.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18

The Waterloo Times Tribune thinks
that Mr.. Debs wants all TO under
stand as he goes to prison, that II
this whole country wants 10 continue
to be wrong he has done all he could.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18

Speaking of hell. what do you
think Of the present condition OF Iowa
roads," asks the Council Bluffs Nom
pa riel
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

veil which the wind and the rain tear
apart little more each day.
x
Along road lined with stiff and shiv-
erlng poplars, little behind our lines,
the heroes waited. They were there, the
pollus-from simple soldier to general,
fraternally mingled, all cited in orders
of the day The commander-in-ch chief
was TO come to give them the accolade
and to fasten on their breasts the Croix
de Guerre with palms, the military medal
or the Star of the Brave. CASTOR, his
heart beating fast, was there, more ex-
cited than he was on the frightful day
when by his bravery he had won his
citation
The trumpets sounded. A gray auto
mobile arrived. Thick-set and smiling,
the generalissimo descended from the
machine. CASTOR saw nothing more.
Emotion robbed him of all sense of re-
ality. Tears ran down his face. Sud-
denly he felt the caress of the supreme
chiefs white mustache. He rocked on
his feet and then Strengthened up. He
now had on his coat the badge of hero
ism
my fiancee!"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02
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"A profound inferiority seems to infect
this novel by Arnold Bennett-inferiority,
that is to say, to his own finer creations
1t IS not less skilful than the 'Clayhanger'
series. On the whole it is near the head
OF his list for knowing craftsmanship Nor
IS its subject matter less significant Mr..
Benefits triumph so far has always been
e reveal significance in the supposedly
dull and mean-spirited bourgeoisie, and
George Edwin Cannon, his new preoccupa-
ton, sshourgeois to the bone. The In
feriority, If such it is, springs from lack
ri serious insight into the London variety
Of that middle class life about which the
earlier Mr.. Bennett was so inspired. The
London variety is piquant and exciting to
Mr Bennett, but IL Is not second nature to
him to write about t-and Mr.. Bennett
has the kind Of emotional slowness that
needs immense security before it can ex-
pand. The Roll-Call,' it need hardly be
said, Is inescapably interesting. 1t is
sharply colored in detail and adroitly plot
ted out whole. But for all it's distinc-
ton, for all it's fashiness and Apostle
ness, it IL mcagre in just those psychology
ic&l and emotional certitudes that Mr.. Ben
netts preoccupation with the bourgeoisie
leads one TO expect.
1.-THE Roll-CalP really marks Mr.. Ben
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

CASTOR will never know what strange
force constrained him to utter that cry,
to quit the ranks and to hurry forward.
He had just seen Luce, his Luce, his
midinette, on whose corsage the general
was pinning the Croix de Guerre. Every
thing happened as in dream. AS he
approached the general raised his cap
and, like courtier, kissed the hand OF
the working girl who had shown herself
a heroine.
Luce fell into Gastons arms under
the fatherly eyes of Joffre
"You have found each other here?
Well, my children, since you love each
other l give you both eight days fur
Tough to go and get married"
Luce entered the salon on Gaston's
arm.
To his mother and father, frozen in
wardly with surprise and displeasure,
but retaining outwardly their equanim
ity and poise, the lieutenant said gaily:
my dear parents, l present you my
fiancee. She has shown at Arras such
devotion and courage that they have
cited her in an order of the day. We
have been decorated at the same time,
and the generalissimo has ordered us to
go and get married"
Then Gaston's father turned to hts
wife:
II don't think, my dear, that we can
dlsobey an order of Papa Joffre"
But the mother couldn't answer. She
was crying too hard and had all she
could do to press together in her arms
the engineer and the midinette.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

The reviewer goes on in judgment:

ne reviewer goes Oh III Judgment.
"The book is not, we think, quite on the
level with its predecessors. 1t is certainly
not to be compared with the first of the
series. George is less thoroughly con-
ceived than that marvellousy real Edwin,
and all his adventures, while they are more
diversified, are considerably more sketchy.
The accumulation of details has been done
with care less minute and perhaps little
less passionate. Mr.. Bennett in a word,
has put less work and less of himself into
;he book. 1t seems to hold position mid
way between his more ambitious novels,
such as 'Clayhanger' and The Old Wives
Tale and the intermediate and less elabo-
rate though still characteristic works, such
as The Card and The Lions Share But,
as he could not in any case have avoided
doing, he has put much of himself, both Of
his creative virtues and of his mere lido
syncrasies, into the book George is, of
course, youth from the Five Towns who
comes to London to pursue his fortune
this time in architects office. He is, the
reader need hardly be told, inwardly timid
and inexperienced, yet outwardly confident
and determined, whatever may happen to
him, to appear to all beholders as grasping
firmly the reins of the situation. Luck and his
native parts colaborate to give him always
what he desires, and at very tender age
he miracuously wins great competition
and becomes famous To this fame he adds
promising, though not very substantial,
material success, and just as promise is
developing into performance he throws it
aside, becomes second lieutenant in
territorial battery, the junior of bov Of
twcnty-four and the aversion of a typically
.nilitarst colonel whose caprice sends
George off on "a wild and diotic errand
The volume closes with George warm and
happy in the consciousness of having by
accident brought the GRAND to successful
conclusion"
Francis Hackett, writing of "The Roll
Call'' in "The New Republic" is not so
mild in his evaluation. Away from the
Five Towns Mr.. Bennett creates without
Inspiration. the critic finds.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

Mr.. Krehbiel of The Tribune writes
interestingly of Medtner
The music which challenged the most
serious interest yesterday (outside of that
which for a sentimental reason attached to
that of Mr.. Rachmaninoff HIMSELF was that
of Medtner. This was not because he is the
least known of the three, although he has
remained practically q stranger to our con-
cert lists, but because of the originality and
beauty of the pieces played. They were a
so-caled fragment entitled 'Tragedie' and
three short pieces labelled Fairy Stories
Fecund in melodic thought, markedly modern
in harmony, they yet disclosed a masters
appreciation of the value of logical pro-
cedure and form. In this latter respect they
were paired by the composers own compost
tons, which opened and closed the concert
"a set Of variations a theme by Chopin
and six studies entitled 'Tableaux' The
theme, we think, was that of the Prelude in
C minor, the twentieth of the set of twenty
four, and it was presented in a number of
varied and extremely interesting phases,
which compassed large gamut of emotional
phases, though it never carried us far out
side the magic realm into which the creator
of the theme led Mr.. Rachmaninoff's
playing was full of strong grace and elo-
quence, masterful, appealing, convincing"
AS for Rachmaninoff, Mr. Krehbiel
says:
1--WE question if there is chord in Mr..
Rachmaninoffs soul which could be made
to vibrate in response to frivolous appeal
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

men had decorated with pine branches.
Then came the hour of retreat-an
hour of clenched teeth and clenched fists
OF a swift change of front. CASTOR
next trained his guns on the marshes of
st. Gond, into which the Breton regi-
ments had driven the Prussian Guard
Then came the wild pursuit of the beaten
enemy amid the joyous clamors Of
France, spreading her wings in the
heaven of victory.
In the trenches near to Arras. CASTOR
having put his cannon under cover, was
able to correspond regularly with his
family and to make inquiries about Luce.
HIS mother, whose love had been rein
forced by separation and daily anguish.
wrote him beautiful letters. She was
tender to him. She was glad to tell him
what they knew at the house where he
lived and what they said of the girl he
loved.
Luce, after many wanderings, had
reached Arras again. She had volun-
teered to care for the wounded. She
l1ved with some other heroic women in
the cellars, under an incessant rain of
proJectllcs. The city was dying. 1t was
being destroyed shred by shred, like a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

sworn to conquer, to wait and to marry.
They saw each other secretly, and their
love, being very strong and deep, re-
manned pure. Luce was of poor but hon
est stock. CASTOR had loyal heart.
* *
The war came
On the evening of August 2 CASTOR
was at Versailles, alongside his four rs
guns, ardent, mad with enthusiasm. Be-
ing an engineer of arts and manufact-
ures, ne knew better than most others
the power and precision of our field ar
tlllery. One great concern weighed on
him, however. Luce had been in the
north for two weeks on visit to an old
aunt. Who knows whether his darling
had been able't return to Paris ON the
last civilian trains?
For time action, rapid and terrible
chased all the lovers preoccupations out
OF his mind. He took part in the ener-
getic French offensive in Alsace-Lor-
raine. He moved down whole ranks of
Germans. He drenched battalions of
them with fire. He paraded on a trot
through the streets of Mulhouse his gray
pieces, the wheels of which the artillery
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

~ ACHMANINOFF made his third
public appearance in New York
AA Sunday in an all Russian pro-
gramme, and earlier critical i'm
pressions of his austerity seem to have
been confirmed by this latest perform
ance. Medtner, a composer not widely
known here, was given rather impress
sive Interpretation by the Russian COM
poser, but reviewers appear to differ as
to the value of the compositions. Mr..
Finck of "The Evening Post" who does
not often show sympathy with modern
Russian music, says of Rachmaninoff'
own variations on a theme of Chopin's
that sit was extremely clever work and
playing, to be sure; but too much is too
much"
Mr.. Finck continues:
with this piece however, and with his
six etudes which ended the programme, Mr..
Rachmannoff achieved an easy victory over
the other numbers listed the Sonata, opus
10, and some preludes and etudes by Scria-
bine, followed by two compositions by N.
Medtncr: 'Tragedie' and three Fairy
Stories" Medtner, like Bolshevsm, is Rus
sian Of German parentagc; but he is quite
harmless; also dull; and so is Scriabine
who is often compared to Chopin. The
trouble is that his hazelnuts, which look
much like Chopin's, are all hollow"
Mr.. Huneker, signally open to new
impulses, commented in "The Tines:
"Mr. Rachmaninoff gave his sharp minor
prelude, hailed with applause at the first
booming bass note, among three final encores.
His own opening variations on a Chopin
theme were gracefully done; his final 'Etudes
Tableaux' suggested pictures of Russia at
a gallop on the march, echoes of the
labyrinthine dialogues of lovers, or Virgin
figures from sacred ikons.
"Mcdtner'sr Tragedy Fragment which
brought bravo from the boxes, was more
like mad scene for piano, contrasting
With the same composers naively descriptive
Fairy Stories' Scriabine's Sonata Fan
taisie' ran, to the more exotic style, rolling
up mountains of notes like SNOWFALL sud-
denly turned to fantastic shapes Of the ten
other Scrabine pieces, preludes and etudes,
one of the last named, from Op AZ, shared
with Rachmaninoff's famous encore the hon.
ors of the day"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

CHE had golden hair, an amusing
little retrousse nose, cleaning
~ white teeth, eyes of forget-me-not
blue, graceful carriage and a
dainty figure. She was twenty years
old, and her name was Luce.
He, CASTOR, was tall, solid, distn-
guished looking and dark. He had beau
tiful eyes and caressing voice, and was
twenty-six.
They lived in the same house. They
liked each other, so it was said. But
Gaston's parents, as soon as a resident
of the Quarter had told them the secret
of this idyl, uttered loud protests. His
mamma gave him to understand that
she had not scraped and saved to send
him to the high school, to have him
learn dancing, fencing and the violin,
to put him through college and to make
an engineer of him, with the sole object
of seeing him marry midnette. She
added that she had picked out for him
an exquisite young girl who had a dot
ah! dot that was real dot. Gastons
papa had drawn him into corner, after
offering him cigar, and had nurmured
to him, between puffs
You understand. She's fine, little
Luce; fine. But don't marry her. Not
a midinette! No! A little sweetheart?
Yes. Breakfasts in the country. Pleas
ant memories. But nothing serious.
Make good, respectable, bourgeois mar
riagc. Besides, you need the money!"
CASTOR and Luce, in spite Of all, had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

"A ER. BENNETT is on us again
N with a novel; he has his fc-
- IA ton coming from the presses
so regularly now that the end
OF season and beginning Of another can
almost be known by his temperance.
A reviewer in "The New Statesman" a
London weekly, finds certain method in
Mr.. Benefits novel writing.
"The modern historian has brought the
practice of his art-he is usually pleased
to call it a science-to such a pitch of con-
sciertiousness that he frequently spends
three years in the composition of an octave
volume describing the events of year.
This evolution of method, which has finally
deprived him of his chance of ever coping
with all the sylables Of recorded time, has
not yet been observed in the novel; and,
since Mr.. Bennett closes his new novel at
the end of 1914, it may be supposed that
he has an excellent chance Of bringing the
chronicles OF the Clayhanger family down
actually to the moment at which he writes
the last sentence of some future novel.
'Clayhanger,' it will be remembered, be-
gan somewhere before the date OF Mr..
C,ladstone's first Home Rule bill; and it,
with its successors, 'Hilda Lessways' and
These Twain covered large section Of
he lives of the two protagonists. Now
Mr.. Bennett picks up the story of Hlda's
son, by her first invalid marriage, George
Cannon, in early July, 1901, and as he
leaves him in anything but final manner
on the last page, after having given him a
brief taste of life in the artillery, no
doubt there is more to come. Certainly
the existence of character abandoned in
such a position is more precarious than
ever was that of Edwin and Hilda; but Mr.
Bennett thoughtfully provides George with
three daughters, so there is no need for the
'Clayhanger' epos to come to an end be-
fore its creator so desires"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02

ing the thermometer into which the con-
ductor spits, the telephone meets in cx-
tremes. A window will change the sub
ject for standing room only
Yet, in spite of a Sunday ceiling to
the same schedule, condensed into the
bucket of a Melba lip-stick, the traffic
cop will empty the ladder to an equal
number of rounds. This bandagc is the
legislature of taxis to taxidermists,
hanging the dessert for bricklayers to
little remains of cube root The uptown
exit may, or may not, be in manuscript,
but as result of the binomial theorem
of closing time, the water mains, when
ever they are directed to funerals, will
make a vacuum flash
WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-03-02


o. ~; enere are sradati0ns in the seriouss.,
Oh MS attitude to his art. At his first ,s.s ''
ne was all the master interpreter en.ssS
IN the task OF expounding some of tbs se
winch has his reverence, as it had b.s y
reverence OF generations before him A. +"
second ne seemed to feel, or at least h.
US think so, that he was hired en..~. '4s'
whose business it was, with as little sac,,s
OF dignity as possible, to make the liz
music which his employers deemed dss;s',
In his third recital, which took place - w
negie Hall yesterday afternoon. he ro.. sS'
the junction which is evidently most ~ =
taste This time, however, he presented .
self as an exponent of the nations, -,
OF music to which he belongs-the Rus,;.'