Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-08
INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATE
TALKS ON GROWING DAN.
GERS OF RApicALlsM.
EDUCATION AND DIG
STICK PROPER REMEDY
Disappearance Of Homo Owner
= Largely Responsible fer Prsssnt
Day condltions--Tsaoh American
ism In Public Sehoeis--Dr crewdsv
and Othsrs on Program. /

y. r. A>cciHDs u outAkA8IotAs SehuA~
date for nomination for governor on
the repEblicAn ticket and formerly
state food administrator, was the
principal speaker Saturday night At
the annual dinner Of post p, Travel
ers' Protective Association, Of this
city, at which the state officers Of
the association wore guests. The
dinner at the Pilgrim hotel followed
a successful drive for members and .
conference Of tho state executive
committee for tho purpose Of arrans
ing the program for the state con-
yention to De held here in May.
"KeeoinS America Safe from Boil
shevism' might have been the title
of Mr.. Deems address. He pleaded
for loyal AmerioAnism and cradica-
ton OF radicalism thru education.
Referring to President Wilson at the
commencement Of his address, MI.
Deems said: "Idealism 10 the dream
Of better things: common sense Ii
the quality that makes them come
true. The president does net seem
to be able to make them come true
Education and 1elshsvism.
Education Is accumulated expert
ence." said Mr.. Deems, "A college
course Is but an incident in educa-
ton" He spoke briefly on education
as il Applies today. There are. re
said, $4,000 public schools in the
United States closed for want of
teachers; there are $1,000 teachers In
schools who can not pass the re-
quirement examinations, and l4a.oc>
teachers have left the profession be-
cause they can make more In other
work.
The public school, said Mr.. Deems.
Is the most important Institution In
the country. yet It receives the least
attention from the general pnslic-
The greatest crime today. he added.
is the neg ect of the public schools.
Colleges and RadioaIism.
In some sections Of the country.
however, the college has become the
spawning bed Of radioalisrn, he said.
| The report Of the chief OF the secret
service Of the department Of Massa-
chusetts, showing the condition in
eastern colleges, was read in part.
College soyiets arc quite the fad
! in New England. and number thou
sands of professors and students In
their membership. Nineteen colleges
in Boston alone are infected With
such radical organizations. This
! state of Affairs does not now exist
! in western colleges, altho there has
been a tendency toward radica!isn
I been free from such un-Amerioap
doctrines In the event Of trouble
growing out Of radical teachings, Ny.
Deems said. the natiSA must look for
support ia tho middle west. Nowhere
I in the country perhaps. Is there less
radicalisn than In Iowa.
Ths Six Hour Day.
'Insisrence Of working a six hour
! day for Ave days q week. in this
| day for Ave days OF a week, in this
| CRISIS" said the speaker, borders On
treason. A nation, ene-hAlf working
and one-half starving can not bong
| endure"
While one class Of lAbor 10 toll
ing ten OF fifteen hours a day, Mr..
Deems pointed out, another class 10
endesvorins to cut its hours Of work
down to q minimum, resulting in de-
creased production and < general
feeling Of unrest.
The bolshevik cancer Ia extending.
even TO tho agricultural districts OF
Iowa, and MI. Deems related an ex-
pericnce with a young farmer In
southern Iowa who had become .
worsh!per at tho soviet shrine.
appearance Of the Home.
Disappearance Of the home is
one Of the main causes fer the in
crease in rad!caIisn. Mr.. Deems SAID.
At the beginning of tho nineteenth
century less than per cont OF the
American peaople were tenants; I'D