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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Topics " the Times

Mr.. McFarlane stradiles the road
question in his candidacy for the
speakership. Straddling has been
winning play but it's question
whether it will continue to win.
A man named Storms has been re-
leased from the penitentiary after haV-
ing served twenty years for murder
He should have chosen his crime bet
ter. Had il been rape he might have
got By without serving a day II ne
could command the right influence L"
one way or another.
Posting Arthur Brisbane at Mil
waukee may have been. in the line o.
| preparation 70, the big assault. Arthur
| Ia fine brewers arst aid package.
II Germany needs a further Illus
tration Of how hard the allies can hit
she IL going the right way about u
get It
When the peace terms have beer
! signed we shall have done our ful
duty By Europe and 1t might be the
sens!ble thing 70 come home and har'
vest the crops, leaving the nations o.
Europe to harvest the bolsheviki
Europe with Germany hog tied shoulc
be able 20 looZ after Europe very wei
and We have a whole hemisphere .
our own TO zee %.
Mr. Byyan's voice IL still unheard
Waiting Tor the cfAutAuqua season Il
open probably. Conversation il cast
With the orator Of the Platte.
The Cedar Rapids papers seem Il
consider the AIaana society tar from
disloyai The editor of the Republican
says he made rs.Sonal investigation
and came away natisfed. However
Jarnigan usually knows fairly wei
what he II talking about. And Their
We are again.
sescretary McAdoo's report a. =
government ovnerrhip OF railroads
out. 1t admits that rates have BEEF
boosted 1000 millions within the yea
which Is an extra and new tax upo
the people equal to the entire cost Q
, running the United States government
in times OF peace. However, he ex
plains that unified control has brough
about economies OF IS millions and h
B predicts that in one more year rate
q car be reduced 100 millions or 10 pc
1 cent OF their recent increase. EmDloyc
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
wow po.s NE LIKE HIS COMPANY,

Victor Berger and four other socia!-
:st leaders have been found guilty OF
conspiracy TO violate the espionage
law and viii! he sentenced to terms in
prison running from one one 20 twenty
wears, given fines up to $4,000, or
both. They were found guilty Of pub
LEGATION and circulation OF seditioIs
articles and delivering public speeches
interfering win the draft and calcu-
lated 10 emaarass the conduct OF the
var
Berger and his coterie deserve Sc
we're and bitter punishment That they
vii, receive their deserts from Judge
Lands need not be questioned. It $
the Lands va to fl the penalty 10
the crime
Despite the character Of Berger
crime Wisconsin, or TO BE- more exact
Milwaukee, elected him &c the United
States congress in time Of war.
Those who peddled Bergers pUolica :
tons and STUFF prom llgated by the
Berger type Of socialist over Iowa may
well stop 70 consider the position
wherein the conviction Of Berger and
his seilow-criminals leaves themselves.
Berger, socialist congressman
Gerner. secretary o. the socialist
party. Engdahl, editor Of the Aneri-
can Socialist, official organ Of the ST.
cialist party. kruse. national secretar;
o, the Young Peoples Socialist
League, Tucker, a director Of the liz
eratu-e department Of the sociai!s:
party and author OF srdiuous pam
phle,s-how does the respectable and
patriotic citizen who had allied HIM
SELF with partisan socialism like his
company?
And how would he Ike TO continue
10 Keep it for me coming decade:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

buildings on furm and buiidinsu FOR
a factory. Then We need machinery
to put into the factory. We must
Rave these thinss before we can pro-
duce the many things that we enjoy
today. without them we would be set
hack to the conditions OF the man
shipwrecked on an island who must
wear goatskins for his coat and eat
pensuins eggs.
Our capital in tmde such as build
inss, machinery, railroads. engines,
tools are all saved mp by one genera
ton and handed down to the next.
Abolish the right 10 bequeath them
to ones children and men would stop
work at a very early age or they would
cult saving or they would give away
their property before death which
would evade the purpose Of abolishing
the right.
There must he private gain in this
world for those who work and sacri-
flee 10 save or men will not try to
build up anything, farm, a bushes.
or an estate. II everybody lived up
all ne made there would be nothing
saved or accumulated for others to
use as capital in producing other
goods The time has come in our ma
tonal life to return 10 the teaching OF
thrift as preached in Ben Franklin's
day instead OF worrying about what
few men may do with large property.
So long as only three men out of 100
ever leave any estate of more than
SO. 900, while seven out Of eight men
at sixty five years Of age are depend
ent upon their relatives for support
the real problem Is the old problem OF
how 10 get ahead in the world. Let US
not so dispose OF the estates Of three
men out OF hundred that We make
all men dependent upon their rela-
tives at an early age. II would be too
much Of a load for those in middle
life.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

Well. Billy Bunny was dreadfuiiy
frightened when he heard that deep
growly voice inside the stump.
.'Who nre your asked the little rab-
bit. II didn't mean to get snow all over
your floor, but ! was running away
from the Millers boy"
rs that true?" said the deep growiS
voice. We'll. then, ! won't hurt you
For don't like the Millers boy. not the
least little bit" And then. who do yon
suppose came out OF the old hollow
stump? You never guess 70 I'll tell
YOU right away. II was the Friendly
Brown Bear. Yes, sir. That's just VINO
Il was. And the reason he had been SO
cross at first was because he had just
gone to sleep for long winters nap
why are you here instead Of your
nice, cory caveT" asked the little rao-
bit, And the Friendly Brown Bear said;
The Miller's boy smoked me out. Tie
built a fire just inside my front door
and pretty soon the smoke got so thick
that had to come out. But ne DION
catch me. No Stree.
I knocked him down as run out OF my
front door
with a good hard swing OF my right
front paw.
And while he was kicking about IN the
snow,
I scooted away on my lett hind toe"
well. why don't you 90 back7~ asked
Billy Bunny He won't think your 90
that"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
osmsSilizins Tks knittsrs.

New York World: There will be no
chevronA, red. yellow, silver or blue. for
the army officially and honorably dis
charged by the Red Cross on Saturday.
This host. now free after seventeen
months Of active service. was made up
from the knitting women OF the nation.
rallied by thousands. without conscrip-
ton or even selective draft. And they
established the knitting needle Armly In
support Of the bayonet wherever tho
cause OF world right was being up
held.
Some figures are printed about the
work Of these knitters. II appears that
In a year and Ave months OF activity
American women added 100000
sweaters, socks, wristlets and other
knitted necessaries to the resources OF
our soldier bodies. Such record
speaks eloquentiy Of nimble flngers: not
less eloquentiy Of faithful. tender
hearts. The women OF the flying need
les knew no degrees in sisterhood.
paused at no obstacles Of time. strength
and patience. They recognized need
of the hour and met 1t with tireless en-
deavor.
Under one standard Of organisation
and another. the wives. sisters. moth
ers and swesthearts Of America have
done wonderful things In the war Just
past. Some have won distinction for
courage In nurses work under FIRE.
Some have fed or sunE to or Otherwise
cheered the boys at the very front OF
the hghting Not to all OF them has
come noisy fAme. Perhaps It IN TO the
knitters that the quietest praise OF all
has fallen. Nevertheless, so long az
there II memory for the Knights Of the
Battle Line: there = no danger At all
that the Ladies' OF the Busy Needles
VIM b forgotten. .
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
SOME MORE INTELLECTUAL Dol sHEyIssM

The outcome Of modern discomfort
which has led 10 the extreme Of Boil
sheV!k rule in Russia, IL biting at the
throat % Germany during It's period
u governmental chaos and Ia. broken
ont in the American congress in its
tax laws has inspired a book by Eu-
gene Read advocating the abolition Of
inheritance and Of the right to be-
queath property 10 ones heirs.
The writer argues that the worldly
comforts Of life. food. raiment, shelter
and pleasure are created from the Ia
Dor Of today; that no person should In
hert property because the possession
Of such property would enable him 70
command the labor Of others withou.
having labored himself for such com
mand. Accumulated property or e.
tates would all go to the state ins,ead
Of a per cent Of estates which govern
ments now claim In their taxes upon
inherttances.
1t is a modification Of the socialist,
| idea that there should be no private
ownership OF property at all and Il
would lead almost az swiftly to a con.
dition of society such as the Bolshev!ki
have brought about in Russia wherein
| there Is no food and none that care II
| sow for the reason that there IL no an.
surance that they may reap. Farm.
ers do not care to sweat at the.
farming II some hobo or I w. W..witi
club can come along and appropri
ate the crop when it Is raised.
| Abolish the right OF inheritance ant
more harm would be done to societ.
than to the heirs. II k true tina
young men who start with nothing US
ually succeed better than the sons o
rich fathers but each generation live
better, produces more comforts Of III
and progresses because Of the thing
which are saved and left over fror
! one generation to another. We nee
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
HADN'T CAUGHT HIS HARE.
Newton Sews.1

A bashtul young man stfoiieo 'n'o
the office Of the county auditor ING
otter day. The auditor walked up |.
me counter to ascertain the wants VI
the young man. The bashfui your.
stated that he wanted to get malnea
and he desired a license. He was H.
formed that he would have to go 10
the office OF the clerk OF the 1T
court for that kind Of a license Ina.
the only kind of license issued IN INC
auditors office was hunting llcens.
That's Just T." the young man saio.
e. want a hunting license, l ha7en'
found the girl yet
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

Judge Hutchinson and County Attorney
Murphy signed. expecting that the
governor might possibly reduce the
sentence to 10 or 20 years imr1son-
ment. But as far as a complete pa'don
without the guilty parties serving
single day in prison, that was never
dreamed of by anyone but the at
torneys for the defense and Governor
Harding As for the record IN the case
IL was about as bad. as disgusting, ana
as rotten as a record could De. u
showed no extenuating circumstances
even II their could be such a thing ~
extenuating circumstances in connec-
ton with this most heinous OF crimes.
II Governor Harding stands On the
record, ne has chosen dangerous
grounds, indeed. 1t is anticipated thar
the governor will also pardon OMeara'
for consistencys sake at least. unless
deferred by the storm Of criticism over
Rathburn's pardon.
On every hand the Homesteads
representative found nothing but the
bitterest condemnation Of the govern
or's astounding action. Ida Grove
newspaper men. merchants, bankers
lHDOrlng men. ~itHOuS ~
or other afYlictions. could not nno
words in which TO voice their indigna-
ton. They were temporarily stunned.
but insist that the matter shall not be
allowed TO drop. There Ii talk OF
mass meeting and a memorial to the
governor and the legislature. There
il also a demand that the pardonins
law be changed. so that pardon
cannot be secretly granted. without the
prosecuting attorneys being notihed
and a chance given to make showing
in opposition.
Many ugly rumors are afoat In IDA
county. II II said that a large sum OF
money was offered TO the father Of the
prosecuting witness to drop the eAse:
that young Rathburn- had Boosted that
It cost his father $1,000 to 81 him
free: and that political pulls and m
fuence were freely used. 1t 10 said that
IL IT had not been for the fact that 1oa
Grove was under the cloud OF many
deaths from infiuensa epidemic and the
war. popular indignation might easily
have famed into violent action.
At all events the whole mess stands.
for all time to come. a. one Of the most
vicious miscarriaEes OF Justice that
ever soiled the pages OF lowa's criminal
records. We hear much OF the laws
delays" and OF the spirit OF lawlessness
it breeds. but I think nothing could go
further towards breeding the mon
shirt. the reign Of terror and the sub
stitution Of violence for the orderly
processes Of law than such spectacle
OF self-confessed rap'st beins
granted a pardon. by the chief execu-
tive OF Iowa Chimself a lawyer) with
out having to spend one minute w
punishment for a crime worse than
rnurder-a crime for which there Is nc
expiation. What an example 1t holds w
before the farm boys Of Iowa. who have
been taught respect for the law.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
HARDING'S ROPE PARDON.
iowa Homestead

recently sent one Of my trusted
associates to Ida county to investigate
the facts. TO look up the record. 10
talk with the leading actors IN this
drama Of human life that amounts 20
a tragedy. He found that, instead OF
recommending a pardon the trial judge
and county attorney had merely signed
one Of the regular. printed forms. t'r
the Communication Of the sentence, DIX
not for full pardon. 1t Is frequent
procedure, when a person has been
given the extreme sentence ut the law.
such as life Imprisonment, for the trial
Judge and prosecuting attorney to re-
commend to the governor that the
sentence be commuted-that is, made
a little less severe. For this there are
regular printed blank forms, and II
was one Of these, as stated above, thas
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Iowa Newspapers
TRY HIM AGAIN.
IGlidien Graphic.]

While Specializing on what the com
ing legislature might do, At i not arn!ss
To suggest that the nonpartisan lua!-
cary law should be repealed. rms
was consented 10 two years ago o.
both the house and the senate, out the
governor saw ct TO veto II. The ies-
islature should at least give Nj. HARD
ing a chance 20 do 1t again. The non
partisan judiciary law has been on she
statute books long enough to prove us
failure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Masonic Meetings

~ Visitors Always Welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE NO. fos, A. r.
A. M.-Special communication FRIDAY
Jan. 10, at $50 p m. Third degree
A. 1. Frazer, w. NJ; John W. Wells
secretary.
sieNEr CHAPTER. No. 70, r. A. ~
Special convocation Thursday. Jan =
at 1880 D. m, installation Of OFFICERS
Ira NJ. Davenport, II p; John W.
Well secretary.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY. King Solo
ron Council No. 20, r. & S. NJ, Thurs
dnv. Jan. 9. Installationof oNiceTS'
john w, Wells. recorder; George Greg
ory. |. NJ.
e,eeiai conoiave ST. Aldemar COM
r,anderv No. 80. X. r. Tuesday Jan
II ut $50. Installation OF oHicers'
]. = Frederick, commander; John w
Wells. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E S,
Regular meeting Wednesday evening
IAN. Is. 1870. for business. Mrs. wal
ton. secretary; Mrs. J. F. Schultz
w NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

got 10 millions Of the 1000 million
incrsass. Materials, supplies and fuel
cost leo millions moro than formerly
and the people have been no cheerful
and willing to contribute 1000 millions
extra for railroad service that ne thinks
the new arrangement should be ex-
tended for Ave years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
EARTHQUAKES ~ wNRELEss.
o<atisa 70 d conneetsd
WIZ osoesstswn obsesvatesy.

Uktabliahmeut Of . branch seisno-
logtoal observing station in Guatemala
City, ths center OF N area OF high seis.
mieity, has been determined upon by
Father Francis A. Tondorf. director OF
the Georgetown University seismoaog-
ical observatory.
Instruments utilized in the artic by
the Croker Land expedition have been
transferred to the tropics and will be
installed by Claudio Urrut'a, OF Z the
National University OF Guatemala ana
chief consulting engineer OF the Guate-
malan government.
The new station II expected TO be OF
bieh scientific value. It Is planned TO
connect 1t by radio with new wireless
station to be established 1T George
town.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
ROAD IMPROVEMENT.
fGihIer Tribune.

The road question is the uppermose
,oc.1 o,e in Iowa now. The matter VI
finance Is the frs, and most import
an, part Of the problem TO solve. me
people have mad their financial vision
5roadened by the war The necessity
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
Venetian oondoIas.

- ~ not until the end Of the sew
tnth century that the Venetian
I6oia assumed its present simple
md somberness Of color. A vain
21nut has been made to introduce
"a n other countries, but 1t has ap-
iagSatly resisted all Efforts at &C
$500 atiqn. ...-.......-.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
.xNocKING THE HOSPITALS,

kNAIShkENe AAA'S
ICedar Rapids Republican,
=, 10 nm eaxy matter to place hos
pital in "A wrong light BEFORE u so'i
munity and the surrounding couhlls'
creating prejudices against II tna' al.
harmful. Their are always pers'n'
ready to believe the worst OF hospita''
for hospitals cannot always DO "na'
everyone thinks they ought TO 49,
Some persons there are who thinh
that n hospital is a public charity anu
thai everyone who applies ought TO ne
on red for In them. with no questions
asked. II hospitals did that theS
would soon be out Of business. anu
few would patronize them. Botn nos
pi,als here do lots OF charity WORK.
They do their share OF that Kino Vi
work and more. too. But where IL Is
nossib,e the friends OF the applicant
or bis relatives, the city or the county
or the state or the government that Is
charged in the matter should cooper
ate in the paying OF the expenses, io'
neither hospital has money enough 10
do all such work and carry the pur-
den Of il financially. The hospitals
are supported by the paying patients
or nearly so. The managers, however
we'll disposed they may feel, cannot
run a hospital on good intentions. Coal,
for instance, costs money nowadays and
u takes a great many tons. They, how
ever. have n right to ask all applicants,
their relatives or their friends, or the
community TO help provide the funds.
But where these can not he providen
for the hospitals provide them IN all
worthy cases In one of the hospitals OF
the city recently a soldier who mad
been left stranded was taken in ana
cared for including a constant attend
ant. for many days. Before the proper
military authoritles-which had peeh
negligent 10 some extent-calcd Tor IN
the bill Of actual costs was sixty dol
lars TO the hospital. for which II re
ceived not so much as an expression OF
thanks from anyone, not even from
those who had been negligent. And the
good women IN the hospital asked Tor
none and were not grieved because OF
their well doing for a human being in
distress.
Another source OF frequent misun-
dcrstandlngs is in the refusal OF hosp
itals TO take certain cases that the un-
informed public and the public that
does the fault finding ones are apt 20
cite. There are loathsome and con-
tagious cases that hospitals OF a gen.
eraI nature cannot accept. These hosp
itaIs are used for children and Ior
mothers in childbirth. and how Is u
possible TO expose those to such barred
diseases How long would II take 20
make a hospital impossible and to put
II out Of the running entirely. gen
eral hospital cannot expect to have IL
self ruined for all others by the min
istration that a few call for. These
few must be otherwise provided Tor IN
order that the many may not be en-
dargercd. But the fault finders are
never able to take that view. Thfy
do not want to be reasonable or even
inst
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

The Waterloo Courier says Mr.. Nc
Adoo is unquestionably in favor of the
return of the railroads 10 their owners
at once and in our Judgment his att-
tude and that OF the president has had
that ultimate purpose in view. In COM
mon fairness 10 the railroads this gov
eminent should do one OF two Things
Immediately: take the lines over per
r,arently, or surrender control.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

The Russian mother contributes mob
" her share. She customarily has any
where from six to twelve children. OF
which one-thjrd die.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

Three OF the much Wanted ship
yards turned out four vessels. Nc
wonder Gen. Goethals quit the job in
disgust" says the Sioux City Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

tor raising large sums has famiSiarsSee
sAsm with Nc figures. They ass nss
% gunshy about bonds - formerly
Most Of them have even touched bonus
without being hurt. For this reason
we believe they will be ready to give
their financial support to any reas-
enable plan that may be devised Tor
improving the highways. Illinois, f1o-
rida and many other states that have
no deeper soil or richer mud nave
found ways and means to make xo.u
roads. and Iowa will not permit itself
10 lag far behind. We don't FANCY
that the people will be ready a. once
TO engage in any gigantic undertaShS,
but we are confident that they VIII
produce the means to build good gra-
vel roads and maintain them. me
present condition OF the roads mas
rendered unnecessary any arsu'"en'
that something should be DONE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

And yet II might be just IN well for
the government TO perfect it's mail SER
vice so that It's railroad trains would
run somewhere near on time. instead of
monkeying with an air postal route"
suggests the Humboldt Republican.
AFTER all while the world applauded
when Mr.. Hoover told a pair Of Ger
mans to 30 to hell. Still" remarks the
Cedar Rapids Republican. that is not
the epitome OF human wisdom in the
way Of advice. Anyone can tell any
one, else to 60 to hell, whatever Is
meant by that expression. 1t expresses
a certain flippant Americanism that
We should not extend to too many sub
iects or to too many men,"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

The Mason City Globe Gazette is
getting new light and more theories on
the proposition OF government owner
ship of the rail roads. This isn't
matter Of what the railroad officials
want or what the employees want, but
what $4,000 900 Of other people want
insists the Globe Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

The Waverly Republican. observing
that II is suggested in one Of our state
exchanges that Iowa will vote bonds
for roads in the course Of time, says,
The best Involvement toward this ac-
complishment would be TO hit upon a
plan by which the expenditure OF road
taxes should be carefully and honestly
done without any waste. carelessness
or extravaganza. One thing is sure;
More and better work must be done
upon the Iowa highways or else the
road and bridge taxes must be re-
duced."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-09

Nothing is so true as the fact that
no single man is necessary TO human
enterprise. The country seems to get
along as we'll without as with a presi-
dent" observes the Boone News Re
publican.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1919-11-27

The greater ,ne necessity Tor Savi
the greater your opportunity %
The InteIliEencef Want Ada