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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
MEXICAN ouTRAGEs TOLD.
Senate investigating Committee Hears
Head of American Colony in Mexico.

San Antonio, Tex, Jan. Il.-G. r.
Blalock. formerly the heac OF an Amer
lean colony and tho first witness today
before the senate investigating COM
mittee, told the committee OF the mur-
der Of five Americana and abandon
ment of property in his colony. Mr..
Blalock, founder OF colony In Ta-
maulipas, told the committee how the
community he had established had
dwindled from hundred families to
a half-dozen caretakers.
Many Mexicans have been requested
to place before the committee their
opinions Of conditions in Mexico and
their suggestions for remedying them.
Chairman A. B. Fall, Of Arizona, will
not cross into Mexico.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
BAD FIRE At KALoNA.

Entire Town Threatened With Do.
struction-Loss $4,000.
Kalona, ia, Jan. 14--Fire belfeved
to have started from spontaneous COM
bustion threatened the destruction Of
the entire town early today. The dam
age Is estimated at $4,000.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
SENATORS DEFEND ACTIONS.
Reply to Charges OF ineffeiency Mada
by Senator Kinq,

Washington, Jan. l4.-Senator King
democrat. Utah. today replied to the at
tack made on the senate yesterday by
Senator Williams, of Mississippi, who
charged 1t was failing to function.
Senator King said sae service OF SEN
ators might not be measured only by
attendance on the floor, adding:
with twenty committees meeting Il
is not possible for all senators to be
On the floor at all times.
Senator Kenyon told the senate that
Senator Williams was not recorded as
voting yesterday on two out OF three
roll calls.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
eurasois Heads eenate.

Paris, Jan. 1%.-Leon 8urgeo!s was
elected president Of tho senate on the
third ballot taken today. He received
lI7 votes, ~, against l2s for Antonin
Dubost. the retiring president OF ths
senate. Justin de Selves former for
eisn minister, withdrew from the race
after tho second ballot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
MARTIAL LAW THRUOUT GERMANY
ern Reserve University, Case School OF
Applied Science and st, Ignatius Col
lege,

Cedar Rapids. Jan. IA comprom-
Use on the peace treaty and immediate
ratification with reservations was fa-
vorcd by students of Coe College in
the vote taken yesterday. One hun
dred nineteen students favored the
treaty with tho Lodge resolutions,
while ESQ favored Immediate reserva-
tions with a compromise.
Cornell College voted In favor of a
compromise by sixteen majority.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
/, eeaoh heads Engineers.

p Washington. Jan. 14.--Col. Lansing
n. Beach was nominated today to be
ohicf OF army engineers.
Colonel Beach succeeds Major Gem
ernl Black, retired. He waS appointed
to West Peint from Iowa In 1879. He
rsASheA his present rank In 1919.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
RAID ON Y. M. G. A. HOTEL

Sixty Alleged Criminals Sought Ref.
u9e Hoping Place Was Immune
Chicago, Jan. 1a.-sixty men taken
In q raid on the Y. NJ. G. A. hotel were
up for investigation today In connec-
ton with the round up Of criminals
The raid was made on instructions
from the chief Of detectives, who said
It 'was hoped to capture criminals
who have sought safety there as be-
ing immune" Approximately 1000
men have been arrested In the last
three days.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

not been a single dependent at tho
county poor house for the last six
months. today Leased the farm for
grazing purposes under an agreement
that the renter shall caro- for any de-
pendent sent there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
Vote in Various sehooIa

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, JAM. '4-Five hundred and
eight qrinnell college students ana
faculty voted Inter collegiate treaty
Referendum Two hundred and thirty
six favored compromise between
Lodge and the democratic reservation;
21S favored ratification Of the league
and treaty without reservations or
of the treaty but only with Lodge res
ervations, and six were opposed to rati-
flea Ion Of the league and treaty In any
form.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
More Than Twenty Killed.

Paris, Jan. il.--Martial law has
been declared In Germany excepting
Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemburg and
Baden, according to Berlin advices.
Berne dispatches say that during the
dem monstration before the Reichstag
building yesterday two policemen
were killed and two others wounded.
Twenty members of the crowd who
: ''attemptsd 10 rush into the building
were killed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
Heror.d Aft.r Lono Service.

Clinton, Jan. 14.--W. W. Cook was
elected president OF the Peoples Trust
and Savings Bank. Cook entered the
bank twenty -four years. ago ct sal
ary OF et0 O. month.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

ed to ,5S5 bales OF flint and 2o0,o60
bales of Iinters. the census bureau an
nounced today. The consumption in
December 1919, amounted to 472.SIS
bales of lint and 10,4S5 bales of linters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
CAN'T MOVE LIQUOR STOCKS.
iowan Must Leave Liquor in It's Pre-,
ent Location Says MaIonsy.

ent location Says Mabonsy.
Des -sfoines, Jan. 14-Private stocks
OF liquor stored by Iowa residents
must be kept In their present locations,
Thomas Afal0ney, oe Council Bluffs,
federal prohibition Inspector OF Iowa
has announced. SssSesss
The federal prohibition laws will be
enforced rigidly IN it-we. hs-aayn No
transportation oe fntoxicants will be
permitted under the law. It Is, possi-
BILE those with a supply will be asked
to prove they had It before July /,
1919.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
p,l;e. a.t.Ie Whi,kv ThIsve,

st. Paul, Jan. 14.-Jaok Burke. for.
mer pugilist. Is dying from q bullet
wound In tho head and two man are
under arrest NJ the rssuit Of = police
battle with alleged whisky thieves"
early today. 5s.a..,l
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

Columbus; o.. Jan. IA large ma
jorlty OF the students at Ohio State
University here favor tho ratification
of the league Of nations and the peace
treaty with the reservations made by
Senator Lodge. according to inconn-
plete returns from yesterdays vote at
the university.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
M,sLEAp FOREIGNERS,
Get Financial Support Thru Fake 50.
eiai Csntsrs and Clubs.

New York, Jan. 14.Ignorant for
eigners have been "lured" into COM
munists camps on the pretense that
they were Joining community social
party for dances and other recrea-
tions, agents of the department Of
Justice said today. Financial support
has been secured from persons who
were told they were supporting social
centers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

Cleveland, Jan, H. Compronlias Of
some sort on reservations offered for
the sake Of ratification Of ti,s league
|of nations covenant was carried BY
almost 4 tworthirds vote Of AppreM-
mately t1,6t0 college students aud
teachers Of cslvAand IN . collegiate
referendum conducted today ct west
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
WILSON DEMOS TO MEET.

Followers to Make Effort to Counter.
act Effects of sryan's Visit.
Des Moines. Jan. A.-Anothsr demo-
cratic meeting, to which members of
the party from all over the state have
been invited, will he held Thursday
afternoon and evening. The notice Of
the meeting was made public last night
by W. J. Reynolds. OF Creston. state
chairman J. Hamilton Lewis, Of Illi-
nols, is expected to be the chief speak
err
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

Plcasantville. Jan. 14.-Robbers en-
tered the First National Bank hers
some time last night and took federal
bonds and stamps valued at $4,000.
A key evidently was used to get into
the bank building. The bonds and
stamps taken were property Of patrons
Of the bank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

Iowa--Aostiy cloudy tcnieht And
Thursday, probably with lisAt snow
ana waSNsS II nortAaAst
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
NEW JURY CAN'T AGREE.

Fail To eRaoh VerdIot in Harry New
Case--Not Dismissed.
Los Angeles. Jan. 1.-THE jury IN
the case of Harry S. New, on trial here
for the past month charged with the
murder of Miss Freda Lesser, reported
at 10 g. m. today that 1t had been
unable to agree. Judge Gavin, q.
Craig ordered the jurors to retire
again for further dellberation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

nspore cstten censumpslon. K
n lWashtngtou. jan. ll-C Cetts1 con.
tspneA AaliNo DscsmbaE. 1919 azAoune-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14

Beloit, Wis. Jan. 14--EtShty out OF
29S students at Beloit College, who
were asked to state their views on the
peace treaty and league of nations,
voted In favor Of ratification Of the
pact with reservations urged by the
majority In the senate. Sixty favored
ratification leaving the league question
open. Nfty-sfx voted for compromises
pressed by mild reservationists. Only
six voted against ratification, one be-
ing French girl attending the college.
Chicago, JAM 14-Results OF North
western University's contribution to
the intercollegiate treaty. referendum
were announced last night rs follows:
For ratification without amsndments
or reservations. 1la. For compromise to
effect ratification without binding tho
nations into league, as suggested by
Senator Hitchcock, 80. For any COM
promise making possible immediate
ratification, 81. For separate pence
with Germany at once. the league OF
nations to be settled later, as suggest
ed by Senator Lodge, A. For ratiftcas'
ton with the reservations voted by the
Senate, 38. Against ratification Of any
sort. II. Both faculty members and stu !.
dents voted.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-01-14
ROBBERS GET $50, 900
FROM IOWA BANK

Bond. and stamps Taken From P'rst
National At PIsassntvilIe - Stolen
Securities Property Of Patrons OF
1ank-Thievss Had key to Outer
Door.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
Love Triumphant
Young Man Dehes Family
to Marry Girl

a FANOR1TE figure in fiction is
/ ~ the young mother with child
=. unhonored with legal father.
Peter B. Kyne, in his kindred of the
Dust (Cosmopolitan), contrves TO ap-
proach this triangle from a new slant.
He places Nan Brent, his heroine, in a
little lumber town in the far-away state
of Washington, and with her are her
father and her little son of mysterious
origin. The three live in a small house,
almost shack, on the pile of refuse
sawdust near the river that flows to
the sea. Young Donald McKaye, who
has been comrade of Nan when the
two we're children, falls in love with
her and preciptates a battle with his
father, mother and two sisters. Old
Hector Mckaye, the best drawn figure
in the novel, is the lumber king of the
town, Port Agnew, and his pride re-
celves many a shrewd thrust in the
stubborn determination Of Donald to
continue to love and eventually to wed
the girl Nan.
hlndred or the Dust" Is pretty
good story, we'll told and punctuated
with lively scenes and racy dialogue
that reveals characters. It's fault is in it's
tendency toward windy speech Here is
a sample: Tell him that l am not go
ing to leave Port Agnew, because that
would predicate a sense of guilt on nv
part and lend some support to the
popular assumption" etc, and that,
too. from young chap in a mood of in
tense feeling.
Kyne should prune away such an
absurd bromide as "Old Hector's face
went white" This went white" went
gray or went pale" is getting to be
too frequent for a phrase that is i'm
possible when analyzed.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

NJ OVA SCOTIA seems to breed ,
queer kind of people if we car
take the word Of Archie p
McKirshnie, the author of "A Son of
Courage" (Rcilly & Lec).
We cannot decide whether this stor,
was meant for the department of adult
or Juvenile literature and. as il has
notnlng to recommend it, it hardly de-
serves niche in either place.
The plot is slow and disjointed. con-
cerning itself with a lost will which
after much forced excitement turns
up quite naturally in safe deposit
vault.
Inc characters seem little unreal
100. Harsh parents who continuallv
peat thelr sons under the slightest
provocatlon-an old Irish drunkard who
suddenly makes resolution to SVEN,
oh-and sticks to it--and lastly. Billy
wilson, the young hero, who is n very
real and ovable boy, although not con
sis'ehe throughout. Most boys like
duck shooting. hate school and have
such V'Vid lmaginations that they can
see ghosts come out of haunted houses
put thcre arc not many boys of twelve
or thirteen Chilly is still attending the
village schooD who seriously contcm.
plate matrimony and definitely select
their mate.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
A Mountain of Iron
Industrial Strife the Background for Clement
Woods First Novel

on Paul Judson's doorstep. Outside of
his tendency to spill gore a trifle too
recklessly the authors account Of the
strike is powerful and realistic There
is very natural touch in the scene
where the tired and disgruntled strikers
turn fercely upon Pelham when some
of their treacherous leaders, bribed by
the company, produce evidence that he
acted as strike breaker while he was
in college.
One of the most promising characters
in the story is Paul Judson, the ambi-
tious, aggressive business man. 1t is
unfortunate that, as the strike pro-
crosses, the author allows him to slip
back into an unnatural and dehuman-
lied type-an impersonation of the sins
Of the capitalist system
Mr.. Wood often permits himself to
indulge in poetic license with his YER
biage. He is bit too free with such
expressions as "his car sliced the
friendly night that lay heavy on the
hill road" At the same time there are
vlvldness and genuine beauty in some
OF his word pictures. He makes very
effective use of the picturesque, somber
aspects Of the mountain, which some
times becomes almost silent figure in
the story.
Mountain" is far from . finished
product Of literary art. For first
novel, however, it is considerably better
than the average. AS in his poetry,
MIR. Wood gives abundant promise of
better things to como.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

claim among Its admirers ho.h H.
and men, for 1t is book that ab,ds.
on that ground OF high adve,,us'
camped upon by youngsters and cr..
boards. ss'
"Hiker Joy" Is the street nam. .
Brooklyn hoy vino, homeless ana
outcast, roamer by day and a slesr..
IN empty boxes at night, vet bs. :.
HIM spirit of pugnacious strusc,. :.
win through TO better things. Con.
molly permits him to tell his own s.o,'
and his diction is a treat. Bv a.;
dent, on the Brooklyn water front /.
comes upon the hiding place of Co,
man spies during the late war. and =,
once falls into the center of wbirl -
adventure. Connolly promptly got,
Hlker out at sea, on James B''s ov,,
domain, and sends the boy speedin.
through daredevil escapades i, r
boat, IN aeroplane and on Br,,,.,
fishing boat in the North Sea. VIZ.
Hiker is Bill Green. already famous :,
Connolly annals, and the two siys
Helnie merry run from start n
finish.
Connolly has, in a high degree. n.
ability to write a story that sween,
along under high wind and yet r..
mains faithful to the essentials Of
narrative demanding logical develor.
ment. His pages are absolutely trns
to the lore of the sea, its majestic
stretches, its moods of change under
sun and stars, its wrath and its rs.
pentance.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

E. P. Dutton & Co., fol
lows out the conventional lines of the
story with a background of industrial
strife. For some reason the radicals
seem to have monopolized this brand
of fiction. Outside of John Hays "The
Breadwlnners" it is difficult to recall
any notable presentation of the en-
ployer's case in American literature
On the other hand, there is a very ex-
tensive output of novels and stories
| good, bad and Indifferent, which seek to
dramatize labor's struggle against
capital.
Mr.. Wood traces the life of his hero
Pelham Judson, almost from the cradle
Pelham's father, Paul, is a Southerner
of old family who possesses a very
modern talent for making money. Pei
ham is dreamy, absent-minded boy
who comes into frequent clashes with
his stern and prosaic father. When
he returns from Yale, a mining engi-
neer, he is given post in one of his
fathers mines, for Paul Judson is
practically the master of the great
mountain, rich in iron, which over
shadows the town of Adamsville
Pelham becomes converted to So
cialism by meeting a young lady of
radical tendencies and reading H. G..
Wells. Naturally his relations with
his father, who is the conventionally
ruthless captain Of industry, become
strained, and there is a complete breach
when the young man takes a leading
part In organizing strike of the
miners
When he was boy Richard Wagner
wrote tragic drama in which he re-
ligiously killed off all the characters
Mr.. Wood follows somewhat the same
method in describing the strike. Cas-
ualties come thick and fast on both
sides, and after the strike is crushed
veteran Socialist commits hari kari
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
w the Predominant Note In Robert Fr0st's Poetr

anything has been published from the
pen OF this great man. But in the cur
rent issue Of "Harpor's Magazine" he
has broken his long silence with q
group Of poems that make an event in
literature. These, which are offered as
representative Of the broad range of
his work, have been described by Mr..
Frost himself as "big bear, little hear
and middle-sized bear" The author
does not enlighten US, however, as to
which bear is which. I make no guess
at his own preferences; most readers,
| imagine, will give tue first place to
"Place for Third" for its quito cold
humor. For my part like best the
two shorter pieces that follow,
FOR ONCE, THEN, SOMETHING
Others tuunt ono .0tth having knelt at
WelL-curbs
A!,ooys sorong to tAS Npht 80 ~evsr
seeing
Deeper down In tho .cen tha7, .ohers thu
tcoter
Gives ono bach IN a shk,,Ino suyfnc.
picture
Me myself in tho summer heove. oodNke.
Looking out Of tcreath Of form and
cloud-pufs.
ONCE, ,rhen trying 10Th chin agoi7,st a
1oell-curb,
discerned, as I thought, beyond the
picture,
Through tho picture, a something 4ohfte,
uncertain,
Something more Of tho depths-ond then
/ lost it.
Voter came to vebuks ths too clear
Wdter.
Ono drop fell from Jern, and to q
rippls
Shook whatever It soos lay tAsre at bot
tom,
Blurred 1t, blotted t out. What .oas
that toh{tenesss
TRUTH 4 pebble Of quostsi For onoe,
then, something.
FRAGMENTARY BLUE
Why mako go much Of frugmentary blue
IN here or there a bird or b1tterAy,
Or foWer, or Uedring stone, or open
eye,
When heaven presents IN sheets the
solid bluc?
Since earth is earth, perhaps, not heoven
Gas get
Though some sdvants mako earth tn
ct1tde the sky,
And blue so fur above US comes 80
high,
1t only gives one wtsh for blue wh4t
leave these poems without comment
There is much that could say and could
wish to say about them or about the
whole body of his work. But the limita-
tions of space forbid The special quail
ity of his humor with which | have not
been able to deal at length makes me
covet him as a neighbor AS l know
that shall never possess him as such,
will get as much compensation as pos
sible by keeping his poems within arms
reach on my bookcase
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
The Spirit Of New England
An English Writer Is Delighted to Discover
His American Co-Worker
BY Theodore Maynard
Athor Of "poem "Carven From tho Laurel Tree." eto

" DO not think that I am so much
f. to be blamed as pitied that
hardly knew moro about Robert
Frost than his name until week
ago. Because American poets are prac-
tically never published In England un-
less (like Edgar Lee Masters or Amy
LowelN they are taken up by those
interested in promoting a particular
technical school, or unless 0ike Vachel
Lindsay they possess an energetic
English friend to push their fortunes.
While Robert Frost has his circle of
English admirers, he has also an Eng
lish publisher whose chief function
seems to be to prevent him from be-
coming known in my country. 1t is,
therefore, as the newest of Frost en-
thusasts that l write this article.
The happy occasion of my enthus-
asm is the publication Of "A Group of
Poems in the July number of Harp
er's Magazine" About these four
poems ! shall, later, have something
further to say. At this point, I would
like to confess that they sent me off
post-haste to find all of Frosts works
that could. Having found his three
books, "a Boys WILL" North of Bos-
ton" and Mountain Interval" (Henry
Holt & Coz, have read them straight
which I with the traditional zeal of
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

IN m OUNTA1N," Clemen t
NE W o DIS hrst novel,
which Is published by
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

II DO not think that I am so much
to be blamed as pitied that
hardly knew moro about Robert
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27
A Lost Will

OVA SCOTIA seems to breed a
~ queer kind of people if we can
take the word Of Archia p
New-York tribune., 1920-06-27

A Boys Adventures in the
War

AMES B. CONNOLLY has done 1t
~ hauled, and come home before the
again; sailed from the mark close
wind a winner. His "Hiker JOY"
(Scribners) is delight, and will