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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
NATIONAL LAsRAroRy EXPERIMENTS

With the proposal Of the packers
to sell their interests in the various
stockyards to a corporation to be
formed comes objection from the
federal trade commission which in
slsts That the accomplishment OF tho
proposition would complicate ana
render conditions worse instead OF
better. To this the packers reply
that any plan which will work will
not be disagreeable to them.
Wallaces' Farmer, commenting
upon the situation, suggests that a
sensible way would be to make the
yards part Of the common carrier
system and 6ive the railroads some
way TO finance them. That it points
out would put them under the inter-
state commerce commission. 1t notes
that the cooperative plan whereby
| the stockmen of the country would
raise the thirty or forty millions to
buy the yards does not appeal to the
more experienced stockmeA They
are not anxious to put their money
into such a venture.
One cause for the shyness tof the
stockmen to that plan is the uncer-
tainty, of a cooperative company OF
such magnitude. Another is the pos
sibiiity that the packers might move
| their packing houses ind leave the
yards stranded.
Suggestion OF government stock
yards or government controlled or
, managed stockyards carries the mind
irresistably to the costly fiasco OF
government railroad control. The
| burned child breads the fire.
Much was promised and much
hoped when Attorney General Pal
mer and the administration rolled UP
sleeves and like Mr.. Wrinkle an
nounced that 1t was "goins to begin. .
The result is canvassed in Wallaces'
thus:
The fact is tho. Attorney General
Paimer's meddling In the contro-
versy with the packers did us no
good: he did not help the producers
and he did not help the consumers.
On the contrary, he did harm. He
was meddlesome nuisance. He had
the packers promise to keep out of
the retail meat business and thus
eliminated tho most promising
agency for reducing the cost Of dis
tribution He interfered with their
vegetable packing operations and
thus reduced the competition for
fruit growers. He forbade them to
compete with the wholesale grocers
and thus added to distributing costs.
He has offered no constructive sug-
gestions for working out his order
compelling them to sell their stock
yards holdings.
Taking the stockyards control
away from the packers Is an easy
matter. The packers themselves an
nounce their readiness to accept any
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
TIE TAX on TURNOVER.

It is estimated that d tax OF / per
cent upon the gross sales Of every
business paid monthly by the seller
would not increase prices more than
AZ per cent above wha,: they would
be were there no war taxes to pay
whereas the present profits taxes are
estimated to have added at least %
per cent to what prices, would be
without them. Whereas most busi-
ness concerns must now employ tax
experts in order to make out their
returns and the government keeps
an army Of checkers prying into
mems books for years back simple
sales book that any accountant could
keep would determine the sales tax
and thousands Of tax experts would
have to enter productive pursuits.
It is estimated that tax OF ! per
cent on gross sales to be paid by the
seller would yield so much revenue
that all excess profits taxes could be
abolished and the war-t.lx on per-
sonal incomes reduced to a normal
flat rate income tax easily computed
by the. tax payer. II this were done
much OF the extravaganza In BUSH
ness now caused by the desire to
keep profits away from the govern
ment would be eliminated and the
earnings OF wealthy men which
should be re-invested in productive,
wage paying enterprise would not
now be driven into tax free govern
ment bonds. Rich men with sur
plus earnings to invest would not be
barred from financing new enter
prises and expansion OF old enter
prises as they are now by rates on
large incomes which drive men out Of
business into land speculations. The
money of estates and of wealthy
families could return to farm loan
investment from which 1t has been
driven away by the confiscatory war
tax on large incomes.
The candidates OF both parties for
president having declared In favor
OF a change in the excess profits tax
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
By WALT MASON
THE FISHERS.

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The fishers sailing look like
homeward
fairly
young dangers round starting Oh they
wigh and they stalwart ladies
know all Neptunes glor
full OF They
visit yelling.
hoary farmer OF the sea old
will
where the Is flying always
winners It only needed bff
disease
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
Radiant September

Radiant September.
We are drinking the wine OF the ages
From cups that are briming over
With the sweet of q honey unbought
with money,
Distilled from the heart of a clover
The flowers afringe on the wayside
Are in raiment of purple and gold;
TO the rough hewn edge of the old
stone ledge 1
The clinging brier vines hold.
We are breaking life's fine elixir
In the watt of the perfumed breeze
The sudden showers, tl.e sunlit hours,
The rustles of leaves on the trees.
The fathomless blue OF, the heaven.
The beauty and bloom Of the day,
Are making US young-they are wax
ing the tongue
OF the years that have passed
away.
IT'S the radiant rare September,
With the clusters ripe on the vine
With scents that pingle in spicy tin
a gle
4 On the hil1side's glimmering line.
And summers step behind us,
And aut,Imn's a thought before,
And each fleet sweet day that we
meet on the way
i the angel at the door.
-Harper's Bazaar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
HANDY DIRECTORY
of THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
u Masonic Meetings
~ Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 10S. A.
F. A. NJ, Wednesday. Sept. %. Third
degree, o'clock sharp. c: G. Jen-
nings. w. NJ; John w. Wells, secre-
tary.
sIdNET CHAPTER NO, 3s. Royal
Arch degree. Monday, Sept 81. 1880
o'clock. Refreshments served. Frank
T. Nokes, II. P; John w. Wells, sec
rotary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
90 stated assembly; Sept. 20, bust
ness session. Election OF master.
John W. Wells. recorder.
CONCLAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERY NO. 30. Tuesday, Sept.
2s, 1880 D. m. Order of the Temple.
Clyde II. Stewart, commander; John
W. Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO 81 Q.
p. S. Regular meeting "Wednesday,
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81 o.
! =. s. Regular meeting Wednesday
Oct, Il, at 1880 o'clock, for business.
Mrs. w. J.. Richards, w. M; Mrs.
Archer Walton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
the FORWARD MARCH OF THE FARM.

Country life must be raised out OF
the monotony. 1t is not enough that
a farmer should make money His
life should be personally satisfactory.
It is up to the farmer individually
and collectively 70 boost his business.
We must interest ourseif with put
ting rural life on more attractive
and higher plane,rather than depre-
eating the real attractions of other
society.
The above are quotations from a
bulletin issued by the American Farm
Bureau.
To older men who have seen fifty
years OF agriculture and agricultural
conditions in Iowa and sister states
this is not only an advance program
but an expression direct from the
progress that has been made In life
on the farms.
Looking back over the decades.
farm life forty years ago was
sentence to imprisonment at hard
labor. The material advantages OF
the farm were little and less thar
little. It's burdens were heavy. Like
the Israeiite slaves OF Egypt the
farmer OF forty years ago and later
made bricks without straw. Looking
back upon those days and conditions
return to the farm life Of that
period and later periods as we'll
would be unbearable.
Comparison Is good for the soul of
the farmer OF 1920. The straw stable
has given place to the big roomy
comfortable barn. The haystack in
the meadow has been moved into the
NOV. The little house thru which
the wind Vhistled in winter and
where the doors were "corked" with
rags on windy days while the chunk
stove REDEEMED in an effort to drive
back the frost has given place 70 the
farm mansion with It's furnace or hot
water heat. The old kerosene lamp
with its No. 2 burner disappeared
long ago and the "high line" or the
farm electric plant makes the house
light as day. The consolidated school
has replaced the hovel at the four
corners with its scanty equipment
and its battered walls and desks. The
telephone brings the neighborhood
farms to the doorstep and abolishes
distance. The automobile has moved
the farm from ten miles out In the
country to the city limits. Man ana
woman and child on the farm have
been enfranchised. It is a marvellous
change. It Is emancipation.
When the road that offers quick
transportation every day in the year
has been finally builded: when the
school centers have multiplied to
give every farm It's proper educa-
tional advantages; when the farm
communities discover the social pos-
sibilities that lie In their own hands;
when the boys come back from Ames
with the scientific equipment that
high priced land requires what
then?
/ Then other problems and other op-
portunities will present themselves
for settlement. Other comforts and
advances will appeal. The farm has
found its, goal and ia striking its gait.
The time arrives when country life
on the farm shall be the most de-
sirable to the most people.
The rursl life commission will not
do it, The farm bureaus will not
accomplish it; they are merely the
vehicles of progress. 1T is up to the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

ing or suggesting d tribunal selected
by and depending on a league OF ma
lions which the people Of the United
States have made up their minds not
to accept in lieu OF their own judy
ment and their own power.
Nor do we believe that any such
purpose as turks behind Mr.. Roots
conception OF a league born court can
for a moment be entertained by SEN
ator Harding when it's significance
has become apparent.-New York
Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
Answers to Yesterdays Question

Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
]. Why is the crow so cunning?
II you ask me why the crow is so
cunning. I shall be put to 1t for an
adequate answer. His Jet black
plumage exposes him alike winter
and summer This drawback he has
had to meet by added wit. but I can
think Of no other way in which he
is handicapped. do not know that
he has any natural enemies; yet he
is one of the most suspicious of the
fowls of the air.
2. How does fox usually act
when pursued by a hound?
The fox usually keeps half mile
ahead, regulating his speed by that
of the hound, occasionally pausing a
moment to divert himself with a
mouse, or to contemplate the land
scape, or to listen for his pursner.
r. the hound presses him too closely,
he leads off from mountain to noun
tain. and so generally escapes the
hunter; but If the pursuit be slow,
he plays about some ridge or peak,
and falls prey. tho not an easy one,
to the experienced sportsman.
3. When do insects go into winter
quarters?
Insects go into winter quarters by
or before October; the humble bee.
hornet: and wasp. But here only
royalty escapes; the queen-mother
alone forsees the night OF winter
coming and the morning of spring
beyond. The rest of the tribe try
gypsying for a while, but perish in
the first frosts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Plans for regulating the water Of
the Upper Nile for irrigation are in
tended to provide the water neces-
sary to enable both Egypt and the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

farmer individually and collectively
to boost his business" ana seize for
himself the best in life. And he Is
reaching with both hands.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Member of The Associated Press
The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled
n the use for republication of all news ole-
patches credited to it or not otherwise cred
tied in this paper and also the local news
published herein.
All rights OF republication Of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

fair plan. Having gone SO far the
real question arises. The theory of
great cooperative enterprises and
the history of such attempts do not
march together much better than the
history OF government owned rail-
roads and the history OF government
management of transportation lines.
We get back to the efficiency ques-
ton between public and private
ownership and management and the
difficulties involved in that question.
We are IN mood for experiments
in government and In business. mix
ing oil manner Of diverse elements
under the heat of unrest and neces-
sity and we should go cautiously
step by step keeping in mind the
ever present danger OF explosions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Most OF the shipping of the port OF
London has been loaded and dis
charged at Tilbury. twenty six miles
down the Thames, but London has
been made a real port recently by
the construction of an enormous con-
crete dock In the very heart of the
metropolis.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
John Burroughs
+, s N s's::

I. Do cowbirds tho reared by fos-
ter parents flock together in the fall?
2. Why does a walk seem longer
when first taken than when it be-
comes familiar?
8. What are the markings OF the
deer mouse?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

MERE PREJUDICE.
I seldom seek the smoking car
It's atmosphere repels.
like to smoke my own cigar.
Not everybody's else.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

zoo LYRIC.
The elephant is covered DER
With most expensive leather
When he is pleased, you'll hear him
roar
And wag both ends together
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

get yourself talked about by using
copperas for snake bite or having
your warts removed with silver nj
trate. Then It got SO you had to de-
velop delerium tremons and take the
gold cure. But nowadays to be In
style you've got to get q cancer SO
you can have it treated with radium.
The government invites everyone
who is in doubt as to whether he Is a
draft dodger to write to Washing ton
for information Our guess is that
the well-known postoffice will man
age to stagger up under the flood OF
replies.
Out in Denver when they can't get
shoot each other up and wreck a few
steel framed office buildings. But any
Denyerite will tell you it's merely ex-
hilaration due to the rarefied atmos-
phere.
Edna says she had her eyes ex-
amined the other day by a young
| man in the downtown district. blu,
| she doesn't think he was an oculist
POKER PORTRAITS.
A bird who should be filled witr
shame
Is Percy ]. McSwome.
! He .borrows money all the game
And borrows carfare home.
Considering Burleson, Daniels
Palmer and other steady performers
in the cabinet, a columnist looks for
| ward with no special sense of thank
fulness to a change OF admiration.
Our idea Of the appropriate Is per-
fectly expressed in recent New
York police order which attaches De-
tective Pousse to the cafe squad. 4
When we read of a hotel proprie-
tor held up and robbed by a burglar
guest our interest is merely aca-
demic. 1t could never have been
more than question as to which
would beat the other to it.
IF. F. v.
No League Born Court!
No scheme of international juris-
prudence that is superimposed upon
q Wilson league iof nations or that
grows out Of ther covenant upon
which President Wilson and Cover
nor Cox insist can be made by any
jugglery Of phrase or any sophistry
of logic acceptable to the American
sentiment that is now SO imperiously
manifesting itself whenever and
wherever it gets a chance at the
ballot box.
This is the plain fact of the case.
1t is not within the intellectual pow
ers of Elihu Root, great tho they are,
to make the fact any different. If
Mr.. Root thinks the contrary, his
thought does not represent the youth
and vigor of the party. He is not
I'M touch with the people and is not
in their world. He does not represent
them and is not in sympathy with
them.
It is not within the purpose of the
republican national platform to at
tempt to make the fact any different.
I'VE pledge the coming republican
administration" says the party's
code Of creed, "to such agreements
with the other nations of the world
as shall meet the full duty Of Ameri-
ca. to civilization and humanity, in
with American ideals,
and without surrendering the right Of
the American people to exercise it's
Judgment and its power in favor of
justice and peace"
There is not word here indicat-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

The government has discovered
that prices are falling, but the shop
keepers don't know a thing about it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

teeth into The Hague tribunal and
then combine it with the league
Sounds like job of bridge work.
The following dastardly outrage
culled verbatim from the news re-
ports Of New York car strike,
shows us the sort OF thing we may
expect when the social revolution is
in full swing: This apparently in
furiated the hissers, many OF whom
papers in menacing manner"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

The Spanish church has been bar
red to all scanti1y dressed women.
Over here church seems to be the
one place where they insist on wear
ing all the clothes they've got.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

When we see what they're charg-
ing for gas and tires and repairs and
storage, we get more and more rec
orciled to our auto-less poverty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
zoo LYRIC.

Anyway, prohibition has made the
price prohibitive.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
The Wlndmill

The department Of justice an
nounces that since it launched it's
campaign against profiteers it has
obtained 151 convictions. Strikes us
as considerably under one half Of
per cent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24
Little, drops OF sugar,
Little cuts In shoes,
Give the thieving profiteers
The "cost Of living blues"

There was time when You could
get yourself talked about by using
copperas for snake bite or having
your warts removed with silver nj
trate. Then It got SO you had to de-
velop delerium tremons and take the
gold cure. But nowadays to be In
style you've got to get cancer so
you can have it treated with radium.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Tho shortage OF cotton is greatest
In the grades for the finest kinds OF
cloth.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

We'd be more thrilled over the
candidates promise to reduce in
come taxes next year if we had any
assurance it would be necessary for
US to file return.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Life is just series of crises. II
the human race has nothing to wor
ry about it worries because life is
SO carefree that something must be
wrong. We used to fret about the
Germans and then it was the reds
and then it was the Germans again
and then the reds in their turn.
Meanwhile labor unrest developed
and we turned pale about that. Then
the housing shortage doomed up and
then--but why continue? Crises,
like the Door. are always with US !
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Al 6iamese people enter the
priesthood for time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

The government invites everyone.
who is in doubt as to whether he is
draft dodger to write to Washington
for information. Our guess is that
the wen-known postoffice will man
age to stagger up under the flood OF
replies.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

It's awfully nice of us Americans
to keep butting in on the Irish situ-
alton. especially when we remember
how coldly England left us alone
when we had Philippine problem
on our hands.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Mari has been used las fertilizer
from very early times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Edna says she had her eyes ex-
amined the other day by young
man in the downtown district but
she doesn't think he was an oculist.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

POKER PORTRAITS.
A bird who should be filed witr
shame
Is Percy ]. McSwome.
He .borrows money all the game
And borrows carfare home.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-09-24

Out in Denver when they can't get
aboard the street cars they begin to
shoot each other up and wreck few
steel framed office buildings. But any
Denverite will tell you it's merely ex-
hilaration due to the rarefied atmos-
phere.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-16

Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Erwin, Jr., and
their son of Sacramento, CAL, are in
Caldwell this week visiting with their
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w. Erwin.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1920-11-16
LYCEUM COURSE
OPENS THURSDAY
Indian Music to Feature
Seasons First En-
tertainment.

Indian music will feature the first
number on the Caldwell lyceum course
which will be presented at the Metho-
dist church Thursday evening at 8
O'Clock when Little Symphony or
chestra will present a program pre-
pared by Thurlow Iieurance who has
made a life study of Indian music.
With the orchestra are four violinists,
two cellos, a pianist and a soprano.
OF the program and its interpreta-
ton Of Indian music, the following is
written by critics:
NO one ever dreamed there was
any real music in the American In
dian until Thurlow Lieurance began
to study the tribal melodies of the
Red Man,
During the past few years Mr..
Lieurance has convinced the musical
public of this-and other countries
that in the old Indian chants, war
songs and dances of the first Ameri-
cans, there is not only an alluring
charm, but real musical background
as WELL Upon this setting Mr.. Lieur-
ance has contributed some gems Of
modern music, among them being his
famous Waters of Minnetonka" and
the Indian Love Song" favorite Of
Julia Culp, Alice Nelson and others.
"Mr. Lieurance has vision of the
future of the music of the American
Indian He has probably the largest
collection of American music in ex-
istence. Il am convinced" said Mr.
Lieurance recently "that the Ameri-
can Indian has theme for every ac-
tivity and characteristic of his life.
His best songs are his spiritual songs
and his flute or flagelot, is his only
real musical instrument"
I'm the Little Symphony, organized
by Mr.. Lieurance, will be heard sew
eral of Mr.. Lieurance's own numbers,
interpreted under his own direction,
even though the noted musician is
not with his company. While Mr..
Lieurance is. unable to travel personal
ly with his organization, he has a
noted understudy in Mr.. Harold
Lewis, conductor and pianist with this
organization"
Reserved seat tickets are on sale
today at Harmon's Drug store. The
next lycemum number will not be
presented until February IA when the
Gardiner Jubilee company will be
here. 4