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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
MELVILLE STONES REcoLLEcrIoNs

Melville Stone, long head OF the
Associated Press and like Henry
watterson dean emeritus Of news
peperdom, like Mr.. Watterson Is
writing his recollections Of the
mighty formative period which in
cludes the lifetime OF man grown
old and beyond the three score and
ten OF scriptural limit. Mr.. stones
"reminiscences bid to be vastly more
interesting to middle western people
than Mr.. watteNon's for Stone Is
of the middle west and has watched
Il grow from the time when Illinois
was the far west and Iowa the far
flung frontier OF the nation, when
Fort Dodge was an army post and
Council Bluffs an Quitting point on
the trail across the Great American
desert which long ago became the
great American garden. The periodi-
cal in which stones "reminiscences
sections OF the copyrighted articles
to the press for republication favor
Of which the newspapers should full
ly avail themselves; for Stone Is
writing the intimate history and bio
graphy of this country from the civil
war period.
A liberal extract from Mr.. stones
first article is given in another COL
umn.
His should be a wonderful story
a new Arabian Nights tale of a mar
vel and miracle Of development in
one mans lifetime. 1t is history be-
fore the bark and moss has grown on
it. the story Of any eye witness, re-
lation and not a book, the difference
between flesh and blood and statuary,
between the anatomy of the past and
the functioning of the life of the past.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
THE BUSINESS FIELD

Some of the weeks developments,
the sharp recovery Of sterling ex-
change ana the return of the rail-
roads to private operation among
them. have influenced business SEN
timent favorably and the multiplying
evidences Of commodity price reac-
ton mark . more wholesome condi-
ton.
That prices, in general, are under
a greater measure of restraint,
comprehensive list Of wholesale quo
tations has clearly demonstrated;
and actual yielding has appeared in
some quarters where buoyancy had
long been the outstanding feature.
Such tendencies az these. II disap-
pointing to some interests, are only
what might have been expected to
follow the great rise Of prices that
occurred during the war era and
afterward, and not few buyers,
quick to sense the change in some
markets, and believing that the price
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
AS TO PALMER.~
Tnnhnnna Ttp,ae Jonrpat I

lDupUQue llUleS-JOuTIdl.I
This country is sick and tired OF
the activities of its attorney general.
A Mitchell Palmer. However much
of hero he may be to the Anti
Saloon League leaders, the Chicago
packers. directors of the Southern
Pacific railroad. ct al, the people
have had enough Of him.
Palmer went into office making
promises right and left. He would
reduce the cost of living. He would
Jail the profiteers. He would fix the
red menace. all right. And the
country waited for these things to
happen. We have been waiting for
eleven months.
Here Is a short summary Of what
Palmer has done, and failed to do:
1. He has not jailed any profiteers
Instead he has compromised with the
packing trust. in a manner very
satisfactory to the packers. 1t is
doubtful II Swift. or Armour himself,
acting in Palmer's place. could have
suited them better.
2. He has failed TO prosecute the
famous oil-land cases against the
Southern Pacific, that his predeces-
sor. Gregory. had well under way.
3. BY wholesale raids that have
Melted far more innocent people than
they have real seditionists or anarch-
lists; by makig martyrs OF these
people: by blundering deportations
that divided families and left strand
ed mothers with children in their
arms. shock to the American sense
Of fair play and decency: by devising
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

Ana srsstsd NJ withs ~1lellA lGsl-
VILE. how ere your And not 10 -
outdons. ! replied TO the stranger;
'tGlaA 70 - yosI Fra Ebsrtus.s
Later In the evening we had an op.
portunity 70 become acquainted.
Then on May I. 1915. a. was leav.
Ing the Lusitania, which was about
TO sail on her final. fatal trip. at the
foot of the gangpiank encountered
Hubbard and his wife. We chat
ted for q moment. We spoke OF the
threatening !. advertisement In the
morning papers, cautioning people
against taking passage on the ship.
"well, II they sink her." laughed
Hubbard. II will have chance some
day to meet the kaiser In hell" And
with that we parted. at this our Sec
ond and last meeting. As Is well
known, Hubbard and his wife per-
ished when the ship went down.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
Topics of the Times

When they fall out other folks get
their dues in reading the politica!
correspondence Of one Of them
printed by the other. See Jim
Pierce's revelations of Harding )
correspondence. But how and where
were those private letters secured
for publication?
Looks like spring and feels like
spring, but you never can tell in
Iowa
It was a long time between drinks
for certain governors but it will be
a longer time between Governor
Edwards and the White House.
That aggvating newspaper, the
Marengo Sentinel in its defence OF
Mr.. Havner and boost for his can
didacy says that. Not less than
forty editors OF the state have been
caught automob!ling bulge across
one or the other of the state lines
during the past three yeaw; they
have been caught by Havner's men.
At least three editors of the state
have been caught in the process OF
loving some other mems wives. The
forty and the three are now opposed
to the candidacy of Havner.' Now
that the Sentinel has aroused an un-
quenchable curiosity it should sat-
isfy it by giving names and cur
cumstances. who Who and especi-
ally who's the dauntless three? Why
spoil q good story?
That Lowden will in all proba bility
have the Iowa delegation doesn't
change the fact that General Wood
is a popular man and candidate in
! this state.
! No, the stock dividend does not
apply to live stock though it has
much to do with lambs
After the reservations have been
decided or dropped the senate might
! take up the question of Herbert
Hoovers party identification. That
would last until election day.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
John Burroughs
& Nss''sss.:

1. What birds are commonly seen
In Georgian
2. Is honey the bees first quest In
springf
s.-Do most Of the birds feed on in
sects or on seeds and fruits7
Ans~srs to Yesterdays Questions.
i.-wir all the seeds from n.y.
Bird flower produce the hybrid
strain?
II q hybrid which results from the
crossing Of two varieties that diner
from each other only in one specific
character. as In color, or tallnes. or
shortness. be planted, one-foarth OF
the seeds will take on the character
of ona grnndparert and one-fonrth
take on the character of the other,
and tho other two-fourths Of them
will take on the character of the n.y.
brid.
Allow do sparrows scratch for
seed?
When the dry grass and weeds
cover the seed a song sparrow may
been seen now and then executing
quick movement upon 1t with both
feet, a short double jump forwards
and backwards. This ID the way the
sparrow scratches-a crude and
awkward way. certainly. She has not
vet learned to stand alternately upon
one foot and scratch with the other,
as do the hen and all other true
scratchers, and she probably never
will.
S.-Do toads originate, like frogs.
from tadpolesf
1t seems well established that both
common toads and tree-toads pass
the first period Of their lives In wat
er as tadpoles. and that both under
go their metamorphosis when very
small. AS soon as the change is eff
fected, the little toads leave the wat
er and scatter themselves over the
country with remarkable rapidity
travelling chiefly by night, but show
ing themselves In the day time after
showers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
Ripping Rhymes
Bv WALT MASON
By WALT MASON
NO APPETITE.


tired of primes and saw am ueo
And the dame COOKS
her knife and whes
repeating ancient mene
he tires OF other
dinner made pulses aVe
oh it heard it's welcome bastk
umy then was
than hunger that are felt by
in vanished
whizzng wings;
Of Dame VINO
she fes the raooi'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

and advocating gag laws against
free speech and free press, and In
defiance of the constituticn-by all
of this tomfoolery he has made the
red menace a thousand times more
sinister than 1t ever could have been
otherwise.
1 Ry his action in the coal strike
he has revived the theory Of govern
ment court Injunction, long since
hateful to, and long since discarded
by. America
5. It is true Palmer promises
glibly to enforce the new dry laws
which he has undoubtedly favored.
But that, still, is only promising.
From the way he has started is looks
as tho. even If he does 1t. it will be a
mighty expensive process.
Palmer has failed. The people
are tired Of him. But he gives no
signs of knowing II. He even allows
himself to be named as q presidential
candidate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
HANDY DIRECTORY
-or TNG-
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO, 1os A
- A. M. Friday, March IL, at 7
O'Clock sharp. Second degree. G. c.
Jennings, w. NJ; John w. Wells sec
Rotary.
srGNET CHAPTER, No. "a. r. A.
NJ. Monday, Feb. 10, 1880. Business
convocation. Frank T. Nokes, n. II
John w. Wells, secretary.
KING SOLOMON Council. No.
20. stated assembly Monday. Feb. 10,
business session. o. G. Fox. master:
John w. Wells. recorder.
coNcLAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERY No. 40 x. T., Tuesday
March 10. 1880 o'clock. The Temple.
49, VI stewart commander: John
w. Wells. recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81 q. w.
a. Special meeting Monday, March
fs. school Of instruction at $3.50
initiation at 7.so. dinner at $3.50. Mrs
". ). Richards, W. NJ; Mrs Archer
walton. secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
DID He FAIL?

DID HE FAIL?
webster City -Journal.l
The Associated Packing Company
cused OF buying real estate at one
figure >and putting it in It's assets
at an advance of several hundreds Of
thousands of dollars. This concern
had salesman in Webster City not
long ago. Whether or not he sold
any stock here the Freeman-Journal
doesn't know, but IL he didn't he is
the first blue sky artist that ever fell
down in this bailiwick.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
HUNTS FOR CAMpNGNERS.

HINTS FOR CAMPIdGNERS.
It's q terrible time for candidates.
So many things are happening that
they are almost forced to have opin-
ions and even to express them.
Here, then, are a few suggestions
that might make their thorny road
easier:
II believe in an open winter, with
few billiards., and cool summer,
with plenty of ice. This weather is
sue, my countrymen, Is all-important
and l shall not allow my opponents
to cast it aside"
II earnestly advocate higher wages
and a lower cost OF living. This can
to say, by increasing pay and reduc-
ing prices. l have not time to dwell
upon this subject tonight"
Il can not urge too strongly the
merits OF honesty and virtue. What
ever my opponents may contend,
believe firmly and shall continue to
believe, that crime must be punish
ed, and punished relentlessly. I do
not except murder and mayhem"
II have always stood. and shall
always stand, / hope, against dis
ease. To cite recent instance,
believe that influenza should be
fought with all the power at our
command-fought to the last ditch"
Can It be possible that the suf-
fragette who used to heave bricks
thru plate glass windows Is now the
suffragist who helps build plat
forms?
Edna says she met chap recently
who took her to board Of education
lecture and bought her bag OF &ea-
nuts on the way home. She thinks
he must have money-judging from
the way he spends It.
About the meanest thing father
can do nowadays is to die and leave
his children an inherited taste for>
liquor.
The confusion of tongues that pre-
ceeded the cessation Of work on the
tower of Babel must have been a
peace conference.
HEROES WE KNOW. Bas
We know a man who shrinks and
ehakeAyEs8
When anybody mentions strife.
hBefore all other folks he quakes,
But gosh, how he can slug his
wife!
Popular sports: Hunting blind pigs
by moonshine.
Anybody with double chin these
days must be profitser. j.
Lots or people think prohibition ID
still an issue. Wait until their cel-
lars are empty. 81
The guzzle-muscle, which It, took.
generations Of cocktails to develop,
Is now as useless az the appendix.
BY the way what's become Of ali
the water-wagons?
II It isn't booze It's ouija boards.
We must have spirits one way or
another. N An .stS f. II. ". Z.
The statement has been made that
4. 000. 900 Germans have volunteered
for service in France in the work ofs
~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
Iova Newspapers
SOME JOLLI NhuMD.

SOME JOLLY CROWD.
PERRY Chief.l
A social item in the Dexter Sem
tinel is headed Mrs. Moore enter
tains the d. It's And in q town
where 1t never was anything but dry.
too.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Leslie NJ. Shaw, it appears, is re-
siding in Washington" notes the
Council Bluff Nonpareil and predicts:
! IF the republicans ave successful in
I the next election it will doubtless be
| found that all the barracks in the
capital are filed with ex-office hold
! ing republicans, who. like Micawber,
are just waiting around with the
thought that something may happen
which will make their services es-,
sential to the salvation of the coun-
| try"
"The last person to object to boz
nus for soldiers should be he who
was too busy profiteering during the
war to fight" says the Burlington
Gazette.
1.-The New Jersey legislature legal
ICES the manufacture and sale OF
beer. The only thing now for New
Jersey to do is prove that it's not
part of the Unitsdf States" suggests
the waterloo Times-Tribune.
lis the iowa IarIner reauy ana
willing to toss his land into the COM
munity Jack pot into which the edi-
tor will flip his pencil and the car
penter his hammer and saw when we
nationalize our land and industries.
a. we vii do II the socialists have
other way?" asks the Davenport
Democrat. IF not why fall for their
wiles, or for the wiles Of Jim Pearce.
who Is hand in glove with themT
Largest reindeer are those found
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

Shipyards in the San Francisco
district employ more than so,eoo
workmen-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

We must have spirits one way or
another. s5s Al .iS F., r. "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
PRAYER OF THANKSGIVING.

All-seeing One--we thank thee for
the fact that thou permittest to ex-
ist on this, our sphere:
Bolshevism;
The kaiser;
The high cost of living;
All manner of political idiocies:
Party conventions;
Rent profiteers and their brethren;
Arrogant and work-abhorring work
ers;
The weather;
Income taxes:
And multitude of foibles and
vanities to which the human race
readily falls victim. For their pres
ence we praise thee; for their con-
tinuation we implore thee. For If
they were eliminated, oh. All-Power-
full, how would humble column
conductor ever get anything to write
about?
Il Z. y
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

The statement has been made that
4. 000. 900 Germans have volunteered
for service in France in the work of
restoring the cities Of northern
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

II it isn't booze It's ouija boards.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

Largest reindeer are those found
nearest the pole.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

BY the way. what's become Of all
the water-wagons?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

The guzzle-muscle. which It took.
generations Of cocktails to develop,
Is now as useless as the appendix.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10
The w ndn,ill|
SPRING FEVER.

Jones and MCPHERSON? This 10 Smith.
OF johnson Brothers. Lissen here;
You're getting awful careless with
Our orders lately Think that we're
A firm you can impose upon?
We want that shipment now; today.
Get that? Come thru or else we're
done
with you. We've sick Of this delay.
How soft and sweet the breexes
come!
II must be springtime back at home.
Two fours are eight and ono ID nine;
Nine into thirty-eight Ia four.
And two left over. Georgia pine
Is up In price. I ought to roar
About that at the lumber yard
Four eight and ten are twenty two
The terms they ask are much too
hard.
never saw tine sky more blue.
I'll bet that Bills begun to plough
The north ten-acre lot by now.
Miss Simmons, take letter, please:
Williams & Hopkins, Tauton. Mass.
Dear Sirs: A few moro days like
these
win wake young brilliant threads Of
Along the, river-cross that out!
Hum! Yours Of even date at hand
And contents noted-in about
A week the hills and meadow land
VIII wake to hear the robin sing,
All, Cod You want your home In
spring!
II see by the papers" says Uncle
Abimelech Bogardus. of Preakness,
N. j.. shat they're going to have a
dentists office in the new death
house in Sing Sing prison, New York
state. Gosh! AS If the lectric chair
wasn't enough!"
After debating statement to the
effect that he Is not candidate for
the nomination, the average patriot
Immediately turns his attention to
the compilation of series of
speeches telling what his platform
ought to be If they want to build
him one.
There are only two things" says
the landlord. that can force me to
raise rents this fall. One of them is
& house shc-t.aassss;; :he ether IS q
scarcity of tenants"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

Lots OF people think prohibition II
still an issue. Wait until their cel-
lars. are empty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

That Lowden viii in all proba bility
have the Iowa delegation doesn't
change the fact that General Wood
is a popular man and candidate in
this state,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-10

There are only two things" says
the landlord. that can force me to
raise rents this fall. One of them is
& house shc-tass;; :i:s ether Is q
scarcity of tenants"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
WOULD ASK BRYAN -
r. TO LEAVE PARTY

New York, Feb. 26.-Unless Will
liam Jennings Bryan cooperates sc
that the Democratic party may
"squarely present" the prohibition is
sue ''to all the people Of the coun.
try" Governor Edwards Of New
Jersey, in an address here tonight al
dinner Of the Society of Arts and
Sciences, declared that "it is only
air to suggests" to Mr.. Bryan that
ie "leave the party and take up his
roper place in the prohibition par.
y" - Fl. 49,.
Referring to the passage of the
Jew Jersey House of Assembly OF
the bill regulating the manufacture
nd sale of beer for beverage pur.
oses, Governor Edwars said: -.
"At the present time there is
very indication that this bill will be
passed by the Senate next Monday
night, in which event / will promptly
pprove the same as Governor of the
State"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
w. J. HARAHAN HAS
4 RETIRED AS HEAD
i OF SEABOARD ROAD

Atlanta, Feb. 25.- Following
numerous rumors as to changes in the
officials Of the Southern and Sea-
board Air Line railroads, several re-
ports as to certain changes and pro-
motions affecting these two lines
were officially confirmed Wednesday.
Announcement was made by Off
eials Of the Seaboard that w. j.
.Harahan, for a number of years
president Of that line has retired, and
s. Davies Warfield, formerly chair
man of the board of directors, has
been named president and chairman
of the board. Mr.. Warfield Eas long
been recognized as one Of the ablest
railroad financiers and executives Of
the country, and his presidency Of
the Seaboard properties is expected
by officials of that line to result in a
most progressive policy.
So far as can be ascertained, there
is no foundation to the widespread
rumor that change will occur in
the presidency Of the Southern.
Fairfax Harrison, president at this
time, has not resigned, and unless he
does, it Is said, there will be no
change. It3Iis unofficially understood
that H. W. Miller, vice president Of
the Southern, and one of the leading
railroad men of the country, who has
been located in Atlanta for number
of years, will leave here to take up
his work in some other city, presum-
ably in the same capacity, but no in
formation could be obtained as to
where he will go from Atlanta or who
f any one, will succeed his as re-
preventative of the executive depart
nent of the Southern in Atlanta.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
READING FROM PSALMS
is TEST FOR IMMIGRANT

New York, Special to Washington
Evening Star.
Uncle Sam will soon be conducting
great classes in reading the Psalms
almost at the foot Of the Statue of
Liberty. The pre-war practice Of ex-
amining all steerage immigrants at
Ellis Island, instead Of on shipboard,
has been restored. ~
\ "More than 1000 men and women
will read from the Psalms at the is
land daily, and Miss Liberty, who
stands stones throw from the is
land slip, could hear if she were in
carnate. I,
Reading from the Psalms is the lit
eracy test for admission to this coun-
try which went into effect in May,
1917, and is now receiving it's first
real trial, because immigration dur
ing the war was small. The law pro-
vides that an immigrant, with few
exceptions, must be able to read from
thirty to forty words in any language
he or she desires. The department of
labor devised the Psalm test as the
fairest for all.
Verses in All Languages.
immigration inspectors are equip
ped with cards in all languages with
verses from the Psalms printed on
them. All types of script are repre-
sented-German, Arabic, Hebrew,
Japanese, Russian, and so on, except
Chinese, for that nationality is not
permitted to immigrate.
Lest any alien learn parrot-like the
verse of the Psalm that friend in
this country had to read, the inspec-
tors have at least forty different
verses in each language-one verse
to a card.
Primary examination at the island
will require many more employees.
immigration authorities have esti-
mated that it will take $1,000,000
more annually to increase the force
to a proper size,. as well as to raise
salaries of present employees so that
skilled workers will not leave the
service for private SemploYment
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1920-02-27
WOUND PROVES FATAL

Newberry, Feb. 26.-A sad tragedy
occurred yesterday afternoon seven
miles northwest of the, city, near the
school. Charles and Joseph
Fullmon, aged 13 and 10, sons of D.
C. Fullmon, were returning from
school, when they met two OF their
young schoolmates, about the same
age, Claude and James Matthews,
sons of Clarence A. Matthews, who
were out hunting, having slipped the
gun from the house without the con-
sent of their parents. They had been
permitted to stay at home yesterday
because of the flu. While the boys
were together in the road the gun of
Claude Matthews went off accidently
and the entire load of shot struck
Joseph Fullmon in the breast and
stomach. He fingered till this morn
ing at 4 o'clock and died. The coro-
ner's jury found that it was an acci-
dent and Claude Matthews was re-
leased on bond of $500. The dead
boy will be buried tomorrow morn
ing at II o'clock at Jalapa.