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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
POURING IN AND POURING OUT.

Mr.. Roosevelt (referring to the
nominee for vice-president and not
to any member OF the regular Roose-
yelts) Candidate Roosevelt then IN
his speech OF acceptance was kind
enough to admit that republicans
were in the army and that the garden
variety Of republicans furnished mon
+ey to help win the war.
It is true, republicans did fight and
die, not as republicans but as patriots
and republicans did pour in their
money, not as republicans but as
citizens Of a common country. While
they were doing that Mr.. Roosevelts
party and president were managing
and controlling the money thus pour
ed in by a common citizenship and
refusing any part in the management
Of affairs to all but democrats and
democrats subservient to the single
minded administration.
81 s republicans and democrats and
men Of all parties paid, are paying
and must pay the cost Of the war.
What did Mr.. Roosevelt's party do
with the money? How and for what
did it spend 1t and what Of It's stew
ardship7
It spent more than billion dollars
for aviation and airplanes and not a
single fighting plane was at the Am
erican front when the armistice was
signed The aviation program and
expenditure resulted in 21S De Havi-
lands that Pershing condemned and
that aviators gave the name of
Flaming coffins." Check $1,o51,b11.-
9Ss.
It spent fifty millions on spruce
production and then bought 92.6 Of
the spruce supply from independents.
It spent about ten millions on spruce
railroads that never hauled log.
Check that.
It spent eyer sixty millions on a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10

powder plant at Nitro w. Va. that
did not produce pound of powder
used in the war. After the war stores
of personal property valued at ten
millians and the plant itself werc
sold for eight and one-half millions.
Check expenditure Of s7o,o0o.0 900 and
salvage Of eight millions.
A $4,000, 900 plant at Nashville
produced no powder used in the war.
The Hercules Powder company got
$11.293,737. It produced no powder
used In the>war
One hundred and sixteen millions
were spent on nitrate plants that
never produced a pound Of nitrates
used In the war.
It ordered 41.100,152 pairs OF shoes
and received deliveries of 32.227450
pairs. for 3.513.s37 men.
It bought and received 50o,326
double sets of harness and 110,S2S
single sets. We had, in all. during the
period Of the war 5S0,1s2 horses, of
which only 67,s4s were shipped over
seas and $4,000 died.
It bought 945, 200 saddles and had.
in all, s6,41s cavalry horses.
It bought for our ordnance officers,
12.5l0s complete sets OF spur straps.
about SO sets for each officer.
Those are few items out OF 4
multitude of such expenditures.
The money poured in to win the
war" war poured out, under demo-
cratic management.
T Mr.. Roosevelt and his colleagues
and the contractors know where II
went. The people are beginning to
find out.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
Railroad Freight Rates and Prices

Many think that the railways de-
served higher rates. but dread the
effect on the cost Of living. The con-
nection between rates and prices Is
far less close than between wages and
prices, and yet there was not the OPP
position to doubling the railways
wage bill that there is to the In
crease Of rates. At first the railways
modestly asked for per cent adj
vance. After three years they asked
10 per cent. Now they get something
less than threefold the larger demand.
which is still moderate. Various cal
culations~ made OF the times the
$1,soo,000, 900 of Increased rates will
be reduplicated in cost to the ulti-
mate consumer. They are all worth
less, in the opinions Of authorities SO
different as the department OF Justice.
the economist Lauclt and Daniel Will
lard, president OF the railway which
suffered perhaps more than any other
by government diversion OF It's facili-
ties to service of the people at the
cost OF the shareholders.
There will be no great dependence
upon prosecutions by the department
or justice to keep the rate increases
from being reflected in goods prices
The law Is puny protection against
economic movements up or down.
Mr.. Lauck. the mirens' cost expert,
consistently argues for the Increase
OF wages. Both increases, ne thinks,
ought to come outfot profits, and the
charge upon the consumers ought to
be "infinitesimal." So railway presi-
dents argued before him. There Is no
doubt that profiteers would be glad
to cover increases oil. prices with the
mantle Of the rate Increase, and that
many Will seek to DID 30. Whoever is
asked to pay higher price because
Of the rate increase has right TO
feel that his intelligence Is insulted.
Railway rates are reckoned In mills.
They reach the dignity or cents only
on cases, carcasses and carload lots.
Countless articles are sold with ma
tional advertising at the same prices
everywhere, regardless OF freight
considerations. In multitudes OF cases
wholesalers prices are made from a
basing point, with freight added.
They and the retailers know to q
fraction what the addition is. They
are bold who dare to add the freight
on 4 case Of shoes to each pair. or on
lambs carcass to an order OF chops
In restaurant. Buyers who endure
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BUSINESS VS.. popul,sr FORMERS.

Iowa people can congratulate
themselves that its farm bureau
movement has taken the form OF
sane and common sense business eff
fort to improve the farming business
instead Of the chimerical, socialistic
and dangerous program of the nom
partisan league or North Dakota
which, has come very close to cap
turing the republican party Of the
neishhoring state Of Minnesota in
spite OF the fact that some of it's
leaders have actually been tried and
found guilty Of disloyal utterances
during the war.
In the recent primaries in Mime
sofa the socialistic farmer movement
came within very few votes OF
naming one Of its own radicals for
governor on the republican ticket.
As It was the non- partisan league
candidate carried flfty-four out OF
eighty-six counties for governor and
half OF the congressional districts OF.
that state. The league has nomin-
ated its members for ninety out OF
ri places to be filed in the lower
house OF the Minnesota legislature.
Here in Iowa the farm bureau In
fiuence Is credited with having tipped
the convention balance to Kendall for
governor which was It's right to. do
but the difference Is made up In the
political and economic doctrines OF
the two organizations. In the north
ern states socialistic demagogs or
agitators influence the prejudices Of
renter class Of farmers against all
business enterprises which are not
on that farm. According to their
doctrine every man who makes his
living by rendering business service
to farmers in free competition With
the world is q leech upon the farming
business and all kinds Of paternalis-
tic, socialistic impracticable schemes
are. financed with public money until
taxes In North Dakota have more
than doubled. So great . public
menace has this modern populistic
movement become that the saner
element has caused the democrats
and republicans to combine in North
Dakota to drive the radicals out.
Here In Iowa the farm bureau
movement Is being managed by
farmers who own their farms. They
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
TObn BURROUGHS
/, s N s's::

1. Are birds Of brilliant plumago
usually self conscious?
2. Will crab that has shed it's
shell try to bite?
3. What effect has midsummer
heat on trees?
Answers to Yesterdays Questions.
I. DO birds Of the same species
always sing alike?
Tho song sparrow displays a more
marked individuality in it's song than
any bird with which I am acquainted.
Birds of the same species generally
all sing alike, but I have observed
numerous song sparrows with songs
peculiarly their own. Among a large
troop of them in April my attention,
was attracted to one that was a
master songster. The strain was re-
markably prolonged, intricate and
animated. and far surpassed anything
ever before heard from that source.
2. What are the characteristics or
midsummer?
The characteristic sounds OF mid
summer are the sharp, whirrfngs Greg
cendo Of the cicada, or harvest fly,
and the rasping. stridulous notes of
the nocturnal insects. More than
that. the grass and the grain, at this
season have become hard. The tim
othy stalk is like a Ale; the rye straw
is glazed with flint: the grasshopers
snap sharply as they fly up in, front
OF you; the bird songs have ceased;
the ground craclsles under foot.
3. VIII Gagged animal soon learn
that 1t can not escape?
How long 1t takes a Gagged bird OF
beast to learn that it can not escape!
What man would see at a glance
1t takes weeks or months to pound
into the captive bird. or squirrel, OF
coon. When the prisoner ceases to
struggle. it is probably not because
1t has Mt last come to understand the
situation. but because 1t Is discour-
aged. 1t is checked, bat not enlight-
ened.
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that extortion are simple and foolish.
Tho best reason Is that given by
Daniel Willard. The railways will be
able to improve their service to such
an extent that the profits on new
business will be able to absorb the
rate increase. The cost of paying the
rate increase and getting service will
be less than having lower rates with
service unobtainable at any price
The possibility Of moving freight
at the fixed rate has been
such that water rates are act
ually above all rail rates and
producers have moved bulky and
Weighty goods by motor at prices
which make the increased freight
rates look cheap. The cost of rates
Kept below the cost OF service results
In the disqualification Of trade and
the congestion of credit. The increase
OF rates is "infinitesimal" when COM
pared. not with the price of goods, in
Mr.. Lauck's manner, but with the
loss OF profits by inability to do bust
| ness on any terms. When two million
tons OF steel are piled for lack of
| cars, when hundreds of millions Of
DOLLARS worth OF goods are tied up in
| freight embargoes, when building
stops for lack of materials and there
| Is q shortage of millions of tons of
| coal. there results lack of earn
ings and wages and profits which
makes the increase OF rates look
even smaller than the comparison of
it with the increase Of wages which
preceded It.
When the railway wages were last
raised It was remarked that the In
crease was the final phase OF the
wage rise, for another could not be
endured The same may be said of
the rate increase. In both cases the
increases have been capitalized at
the ume'when they will do most good
to those who will receive them and
least harm to those who must pay
them. The efficiency OF labor viii be
| increased when workers are no long
er melted to unrest by uneconomic
wages paid to war workers from tax
money on scale which no CONNER
cial business can rival. Railway
workers no longer will be dissatisfied
because they are underpaid In COM
parison with ship riveters. And In
many other trades from now on
wages will be leyeled to what business
can afford, not to what duress can
exact. Production will be Increased
In all TRADES as well as In railway
freights. and the price recession will
make good the decline In wages. Mr..
Gompers is welcome to resist and
resist and resist, No one will Join
the issue with him. But the fedora
ton no more than congress or the
| Interstate Commerce Commission can
| control an economic movement as
| resistless as the tides.-New York
| Times.
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EVIDENCES or PRICE Rrac1,o.

- " ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IS varied In character and recogni-
ton Of the changed conditions. which
Tor some time past have been in pro-
cess Of development, is now more
general. Doubts as. to the genuine
ness OF the price reaction steadily
diminish as successive weekly and
monthly comparisons OF wholesale
quotations disclose continued yield
ing, and the sharply increased COM
mercial mortality, as revealed In
statistics of failure, is an added in
dication OF the transition that ID now
in progress.
While the raise in railroad freight
rates. which has influenced sentiment
favorably, may tend to retard the
dehations OF some prices, yet other
elements are operating to depress the
markets for different important COM
modities, and the conviction grows
stronger that the lessened consump-
tive demands will cause lower prices
In many instances. Purchasing II,
anticipation OF forward requirements
is stu restricted OF practically absent
in leading lines, 5refectins the dispo.
sition Of buyers to await further soon-
cessions, and the effects Of the recent
cancellations and revisionss OF orders
are now more clearly apparent in the
appreciable curtailment Of production
at many manufacturing establish
ments.
With the stoppage OF considerable
machinery at textile plants and else.
where. the tide Of unemployment is
rising, and retail distribution thruout
the country. altho OF well-sustained
volume, Is no longer featured BY
widespread extravaganza in personal
expenditures. The Increased efforts
to move stocks Of goods. moreover.
are significant Of the reversal Of SEN
timent among sellers, and there is
continued evidence that the tightness
of money in forcing liquidation In
not few quarters.
In an ordinary year Improvement
in crop prospects such as has lately
been witnessed would be expected to
stimulate bushes activity: but price
considerations remain the dominant
factor in the present situation. and
the hoped-for commercial revival is
vet to make Its appearance.
For the twelfth consecutive week,
o representative list Of Wholesale
commodity quotations exhibits more
recessions than advances. and Dun's
index number on August touched
the lowest point last January. The
latest compilation, at $252,2sS, Is 81
per cent below the total Of q month
ptevious, and is IL per cent under
the top level og $26S.S32 OF May l.
this year. Not only does the present
index number figure mark the hrst
stable decline since the high record
was established, but the current price
yielding contrasts sharply with the
tendency ofsa year ago, when con-
siderable raise was witnessed. While
prices are appreciabE higher now
than at the earlier period, the margin
of increase has narrowed materially.
having been reduced from 11.4 per
cent on July, i to IA per cent on
August 1. Most of last months
downward readjustnent in the index
number occurred in breadstuffs and
dairy and garden prpducts, altho the
clothing class experienced further
recession.
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'Ripbli:ng Rhymes
By WALTZ MASON
sUPERFLulTIEs.

am always making the things
rainent
kinds
to the birds denounce the Of living
my
friends they
together buying junk
all
tenderH will
webs fromo urb i
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
understand the rights 81 nr,vate

understand the rights OF private
property and the economic necessity
for the private ownership Of prop
erty. They are out to boost their
own business by sane, common sense
and practical business methods; no.
to destroy all other business that
heretofore has been rendering service
which individual faslners have CON
sidered sugficiently valuable to at
tract their patronage. what they
do they do their own resources as
capable business men should do and
they do not seek the socialistic resort
to government ownership ana SOW
eminent tax support to boost the
advantage Of their business class.
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Health Talk No. so
CHIROPRACTIC FOR
THE FACTORY MAN
By r. B. BLEAN, DC.
cHAs STEFAN.

! Loss of time due TO Ill health is
responsible for good many men be-
ing irregular at their jobs. It II also
responsible for asgood deal OF appsr-
entity careless work beng o0ns. s.. 5
A man may not be able to 50 to
work, and for this reason loses time.
It affects him and his family II A.
fects the organization he is working
for. and often cuts down production.
or Is responsible for costly mistakes
due to inexperienced help.
Sickness or III health In the home
OF the working man, whether himself
or member Of his family, il not only
a hardship on that family. but entails
a loss to the Arm and indirectly AZ
fects all OF us, because IN the aggre-
gate thruout the country industrial
losses due to sickness, amount to an
enormous figure and are ONE item in
the lack of production and the high
cost OF living.
Anything that will restore health
and prevent disease is worth looking
into.
There are thousands upon thou
sands OF factory people thru out the
country, who have come to know that
adjustments will
remove the cause Of most OF their
physical ills and do it more quickly
and permanently, than any other
known method.
Factory managers, superintendent
and toremen In many establishments
are learning the value OF CHIRo-
PRACTIC In getting men back to
work at the earliest possible time. In
fact there are factories where
Is retained to
look after spinal defects Of the en-
ployes. It being, recognized that these
slight defects are the underlying
cause of almost every ailment. aside
from, traumatic injuries.
A CHIRoPRACTIC adjustment
takes but few minutes OF time. can
be taken in the evening after supper,
and is the factory mans best bet for
getting back on the Job in the short
est possible time.
CHIRoPRACTIC does not fail to
give satisfaction, because the adjust
ment Of the spine removes the real
cause OF diseas.
cause Of disease.
Next talk will be
cHIRoPRAcTlc A UNIVERSAL
HEALTH METHOD.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
HANDY DIRECTORY
s OF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Welc,,ms.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os. A.
F. A. NJ, Tuesday, Aug. 10. Third
degree, Z o'clock, sharp. G. 9 Jen-
nings, w. NJ; John ". Wells secre-
tary.
sfGNET CHAPTER NO. 50, r. A.
M. Monday, August 16. Business
session Frank T. Noles, III P.;
John w. Wells, secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
20. stated assembly: Aug. 10. busi-
ness session. John w. Wells, re-
'corder.
ATTENTION. KNIGHTS TEN
{ PI.AR: Sir Knight, NJ G. T. VOLTS
funeral at Methodist church We'd
nesday, Aug. II, at 4 p. m. Form at
! Masonic Temple at $3.50 p. m. Bring
your cars. Clyde n. Stewart, COM
spander.
CENrRAL CHAPTER NO. " O.
e. s. Regular meeting Wedre sday
Aug II, at 8, for business. Mrs. w
a ]. Richards, w. NJ: Mrs. Archer
3 Walton, secretary.
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TTIEMj WAS THE DAYS.
Magic

Magic.
We didn't call 1t magic. In fact,
we didn't call it anything at all. We
just believed in it. as the savage,
whose little brethren we were, trust
ed In his totem and his medicine bag.
Boyhood was all hedged about with
this magic strange taboos. signs, In
carnations and spells. 70 them, with
no exhortation whatever we gave an
unquestioning credence far more SOL
Ia than that with which we greeted
statements thundsred from the pulpit
on the Sabbath.
You should never step on cracks
in a pavement. Why not. no ole could
explain further than 20 say It would
be bad luck" But you shouldn't and
you never did. Until the self-con-
scionsness OF adolescence overlook
you. you always went across side-
walk with, the strange. cratic gait
of one far gone with locomotor at
axia.
I II you carried horse chestnut IN
your pocket, you never had rheurrla-
tism. You never heard Of a boy hay-
ing rheumatism, anyway-but maybe
they all carried horse chestnuts in
their pockets.
Z You always wet your head before
lgoing in swimming. II you did that
you never got cramps.
YOU would no more fish without
first splitting on your bait than you
would appear today at a society
tblow out without your pants. oniis-
sion Of the expectoratfon was sin
agaipst the social order and it was
also foolish, for anyone knew you
couldn't catch any fish unless you
anointed the bait properly.
Corn silk, dried and, smoked, was
q sure preventative Of yellow fever.
We are still convinced that no self
respecting germ would live in its
fumes.
Angle worm OIL made you "soople"
| If you didn't mind the smell. This
remedy was manufactured by CATCH
ing the worms, washing them, and
then leaving them in a bottle in the
hot sun for several days until the
oil had been tried out OF them. We
never used it ourself, possibly be-
cause Of the conviction that our fam
lily wouldn't let us in the house II we
did.
Milkweed Juice cured warts; slip
perry ellum deepened your voice; Il
you swallowed watermelon seed,
like as not 1t would sprout and grow
in your stomach.
There were many more. Who can
say that the convictions we hold to-
day will not seem just as foolish to
us twenty years from now?
The allies have intervened In the
Russo-Polish conflict. The league
apparently Is of the belief that no
war should go further than Just so
| far.
The wireless telephone is making
such rapid progress that pretty soon
we won't need the ouija board at all.
ZOO LYRIC.
The cassowary walks and runs
In manner shy and scary,
For man has made with traps and
guns
The cassowary wary.
| & Britain Is said to be interested in
| q mechanical device to raise the
Lusitania. It's cinch she would be
| more enthusiastic over one to sink
Ireland.
As candidate for the presidential
nomination, a queller Of radicals and
a reducer of the high cost of living,
| equally successful.
F. F. "
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The textile industry Of France en-

The textile industry of France en-
ployed about $4,000 men in 1914, of
which only s per cent had returned
by July, 1919. Last December, how
ever, more than 33 per cent were
back to work, or about four times as
many as in July. Six times as many
miners were at work in December as
in July, and twice as many in hard
ware and metal factories.
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IONA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil Is
convinced that ''The whole unfortu-
nate mess In which wasfind ourselves
and the rest OF the world following
the war Is largely due to the vanity
and egotism Of one man ana his
initials are Woodrow Wilson
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10
Bulgarian Blood Tea"

Will add many years to your life.
Purifes the Blood, Flushes the Kid
neys. Gently Moves the Bowels and /
Sweetens the Stomach. Try 1t Just
,once-you will never use anything
else. Drueeists and Grocers Every
where.
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When It is understood that riot
Ing VIII be put down instantly and
guilty parties will be punished to the
full extent OF the law, we will have
no further arguments by brick bats
and clubs. Such arguments can not
be tolerated" predicts the Boone
News Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-10

AS the Perry Chief sees 1t "The
premier optimist Is the man who can
dream OF lower prices after the new
freight rates go into effectS
The Jefferson Bee noting that the
public accepts the announcement of
the new railroad rates without much
excitement, forecasts that there will
be groanings and wailings when the
schedules become actually effective"