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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
LOOK uvls IOWA FIRST.

II the recent failure Of land
company dealing in high priced lands
thousands OF miles away from Iowa
brings lesson IL is that home In
speculations ticl<lish places to put
money earned In Iowa. How much
loss will follow those purchases of
far west acreages, made in good faith
and betrayed, depends upon the kind
of settlement possible to make but
those who accepted the florid prom
Uses and false assertions of sales
men bought trouble.
Iowa land is high, no doubt OF
that, but Iowa land is still a good
investment It is safe.
The purchaser OF an Iowa farm
demands abstracts and has title
thoroughly Investigated. That does
not seem 10 follow in some purchases
OF foreign lands. The glib salesman
often gets by.
Yet there are good investments in
lands outside of Iowa and honest
firms that sell them. If a man is
to make investments of that char
acter outside the state caution should
send him TO buy of statesmen whom
he knows and Of firms whose integ-
rity has been proved TO his own
satisfaction.
But when all is said and done no
land investment made as an invest
ment and not as gamble beats
Iowa soil, and Iowa opportunity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

ciation has announced that at pres
ent prices for raw wool there can
not possibly Be TO exceed ~ worth
Of wool In SITS suit OF clothes. but
before the raw wool gets into a suit
many wooden mills are paying 10
per cent quartely dividends or at the
rate OF 20 per cent per annum. Food
profiteers are mere amateurs COM
pared with their friends In the CLOTH
Ing and shoe industries.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
scores a shoe factory for making as
high az 500 per cent profit on some
of its shoes as the result OF paying
a bonus to its statesmen for all they
could get from the retailer in excess
of the regular price OF their shoes.
The New York Times meets the
prediction of an advance in shoes
with the statement that shortage
in hides does not exist, that imports
of skins are on the increase and that
the slaughter OF cattle because OF
falling prices for live stock is add
ing 70 the supply Of leather.
The whole trouble, of course, Is
that the demand temporarily exceeds
the supply and so long as the seller
is absolute dictator of the market
anything is possible in price. Com
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
PRic's AFFECTING BUSINESS.

With Increasing force, the price
question governs business operations
in various channels. and waiting for
further marget dehation has lately
become a more noticeable feature OF
the general situation.
Exceptions TO this condition are
not absent, appearing conspiciously
in iron and steel and IN certain other
industries. but the main tendency IS
clearly toward growing conservatism
and caution among buyers. many or
whom are more disposed to purchase
for immediate and Well defined needs
than in anticipation OF future re-
quirements. Doubts among some
sellers regarding the holding power
Of prices moreover, have found tan
gfble expression in offerings of goods
for forward delivery at lower quo
tations than those now current, and
resales at concessions of merchan-
disc previously taken on speculation
have afforded another indication of
the present trend of sentiment.
Rejecting these characteristics.
which have not been unforeseen in
some quarters, Dun's list Of whole
sale prices last week, for the fourth
consecutive week, discloses more re-
cessions than advances; and it is
significant that the declines are be-
ginning to cover a wider range Of
commodities, and that consumers are
deriving some benefit from the re-
auctions. While the severe storms
Of the winter, with their accompany
ing restraint on production and dis
tribution. have had a decided bearing
on the recent slackening Of business
activities in the east and in some
other parts of the country, yet the
fundamental causes of the slowing
down process have manifested them
selves in the movement toward
credit contraction thru closer control
of banking accommodation, in the
impediments to export trade result.
ing from the extraordinary deprecia-
! ton Of foreign exchange, and in thu
more general recognition Of the fac
that prices still remain on an un.
natural basis, and that readjustmen
! is inevitable.
The sellers no longer dominat'
about all markets and that man.
buyers are not now competing keen
ly for available supplies, but arr
holding off for pice reaction, is /,
phase that had been plainly fore
Swallowed, and is one which ma.
conceivably bring more WHOLESOME
economic conditions.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
FOUNDATION S.

All the beautiful houses and homes
of charity and correction in the city
of Cleveland am located in the
suburbs. where there is plenty of
fresh air and sunshine and natural
ness.
Twenty-Five years were required to
complete the JOB of erecting all the
necessary buildings.
II the task had been an ordinary
business venture, there would have
been nothing unusual about it-but
remember, this was a public matter
and in the nature of things the men
in power AT the beginning of the
work could not hope to maintain Of
fee for that length of time.
The mayor and commissioner Of
charity and correction, who were re-
sponsible for the work, discussed the
matter at length. Granted they could
begin the work of erecting the build
ings in the suburbs-but was 1t not
probable that the next administra-
ton would kill or change the plans
and so spoil the whole project?
Said the mayor to the comm's-
sioner: Go ahead and spend the ap-
preparation as If you were going to
carry the work thru to completion.
Lay all your foundations. Lay them
so completely that those who follow
will have to continue the work along
the lines Of the original plans. The
public will see that the money spent
in foundation will not be wasted
thru being left incomplete, so that
once the foundations are we'll and
completely laid, we may rest assured
that the plans will be executed. Who
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
Topics of the Times

Might as well stop worrying over
farmers strike. The American
farmer never was fool enough to
bite off his own nose to spite his
face; but he's beginning to lay GER
tain plans with view to get what's
coming to him.
The trouble with the vice presiden-
CIV Ia that we've poked run at it until
capable men look upon 1t as more OF
a humiliation than an honor. But
maybe Wen try to be good or better
now.
It viii not be long now until the
hired man begins to look at the sun
and listen for the dinner bell.
When an unknown and pleasant
spoken person calls you up and in
forms you that your name has been
given him by one Of your friends
who has urged him to offer you Il
wonderful opportunity in q splendid
proposition connected with oil fields
don't grant the interview but go and
interview the friend" with an elm
club.
Major Dalrymple marched into
Iron county like the Mother Goose
leader with twice ten thousand men
and then marched out again. In the
modern vernacular he walked right
in and looked around and walked
right out again.
The Des Moines police force is to
be Investigated" It's great game,
Investigating" police forces but
some day. somewhere there's bound
to be an investigation that will in
vestigate not only in Des Moines but
elsewhere. Then after that the set
tlement the treaty and finally the
millennium.
Now speculation may begin on how
long Colby will last. 1t seems to de-
pend on Colby. Baker can show him
! how.
Congress has put off the compul-
sorry training feature of the army bill
to a special session. Special session.
special session, why. isn't there some
talk of a special session in Iowa?
Perhaps the reason a letter takes
| double or triple time to go between
points, or doesn't go at all, is because
the mail clerks are so busy with
partisan stuff sent out under a
Thanking privilege that should have
1 been abolished before Abraham Lin
| coin was elected.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

it's half over and yell, "whatinells
goin' on here? and proceed to make
a speech on how long they have been
democrats and what splendid yeoman
service they have rendered 9TH par
ty Nv Wa-a-shington, Lincoln, Grow,
err Cle-e-velund and lastly. but by no
means Ieastly, my fellow countrymun.
Willyum Jennings Bryan, tn
g-r-r-ay-test living American, an
never received or even asked for as
much as fourth-ciass postoffice"
Wonder if any Of them will come to
necktie or without their hair
combed? Do you suppose any Of
them Will feel as much like murder
ing Horace Greedy Cue. that militant.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
AMERIcANlZE.

A certain small tannery land
doubtless q typical one) has q labor
turnover which sometimes reaches
the appalling figure Of 80 per cent in
two weeks!
That means that every month
enough people are hired and leave
to run the tannery.
The principal reason In that no
Americans work there or win work
there while the iiliterAts hot-blood-
ed foreign element predominate.
The tannery can't fire the present
force and hire a new. one of Eng
lish- speaking Americans-there's the
union.
The tannery I refer to employs
Turks and Greeks--and altho the
work requires no special training or
skill, they average over $50 n week.
They can't speak English, many
can't tell the time. They come to
work when the whistle blows, and
when both hands of the clock point
upward 1t means eat"
Fights are frequent. Hot blood,
childish simplicity. and elemental
passions make il difficult to reason
with them-and they can't read or
write or speak English.
When the Turks get a few thou
sand dollars boarded up. they return
to Turkey-perhaps to buy a harem.
They live in herds and spend less
money in month than a self-re-
speeding American earning the same
money would spend in forty-eight
hours!
Such people are of little value to
America-but it's not their fault Ig-
norance of English is the basic
trouble, for inability to understand
the language makes II impossible
for them to understand what Amer
lea is and stands for.
BY all means let illiterate immi-
grants enter America but insist that
they shall learn the English language
right away-make that condition
of entrance.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
Iowa Newspapers

TOUGH TIMES FOR OLD-TIMERS-
Manson Democrat
The democratic state convention at
Des Moines next wednesday will be
the first political convention ever held
in Iowa with women delegates in at
tendance. 1t will be a novel feature
and We are wondering what some OF
the old timers will do and say and
how they will act in the presence Of
lovely women. Wonder il any
Of them will hunt up poker game
early in the evening and come stag
gering into the district caucus when
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
THE AUTO SHOWS.

Each displayed those works
made The Limousine In Drew
green with Il hope buy
gorgeous noble plan suggests lifelong
just such bus as this And
bet had the wad Ia
scoh ALL the big and small the
brine haply you've
the
and gorgeous isad walk the
floor old tin that
myEo must do ssF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
FOLK OF ANY TOWN.


There arc physicians and there are
surgeons
In our town-pompous men with .
pompous offices
Done in mahogany and white enamel
And then there is Joshua Graham
Brown, NJ. D.
Old DR.. Brown has seen the younger
Wax rich. while he has little here
below. III
To the others theretsome many who
And many who are well, for their
offices rs,
Are like drawing rooms in their
splendor.
But, Dr. Brown doles out his pills
and hisfadvice
In dingy rooms, all musty In their
. age.
With high-backed chairs that speak
OF days long gone.
When young Tom Maynard was
stricken sorely
They called the best physicians in
the town:
They summoned specialists from
other cities:
But all shok their heads and said
there was no hope.
Then, in despair. they sent for DR..
Brown.
For two whole days and two whole
nights
Old DR.. Brown sat by the bedside,
Watching and waiting, nursing each
slender chance,
Fighting off. time and again. the
clutches OF death,
Until young Tom was savedand
then
Went back to his dingy rooms, all
musty with age.
For DR.. Brown has little here below.
coNUNDRUM. !.
What II It that's black and white
and red all over7
No, dear children--not "a news
paper" The answer il "poor old
Russia" any day this winter.
There's many a slip twixt the hip
and the lip. 4
WHILE THE YEAST CONTINUES
TO FERMENT.
The price Of bread has risen again.
Well, as Marie Antoinette once said:
LET them eat cake!"
Mars appears to have been sig
mailing US by wireless II human ma
ture runs unchanged from planet to
planet, our heavenly neighbor is
probably trying TO tell us:
Your canals are rotten. Look at
oursi"
EVOLUTION.
We salways have some High Class
Il Menace with ,is. s
First 1t was the writer with the
Poison Pen. s
Then came the wielder OF the
Poison Needle.
After that there was the Tango
Lizard.
Followed Dy the SOCIAL Gan80ter.
|. Now it's the Parlor Bolsheyik.
Lots Of folk with no literary taste
to speak OF arc searching mighty
hard for the edx best CELLAR
4 We haven't heard about any move
ment TO make Jan. II - national
holiday to be- known - volstead
Day. 81 "a
Most Of the white hopes these days
are wet hopes. u
Not including William Bryan. Of
course. s q x F. F. ".
The theory OF eclipses was known
70 the Chinese 12o years before
Christina egas
mt
.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

!. what bird iikes grape yuicef
II. What causes certain Adriatic
animals to turn white In winter9
III. What are the peculiar charac-
teristics Of the sensitive plantf
Ansssrs - Vssesrday's ouestlens.
I How often does the bush SPAR
row sings
I. have for two seasons timed the
little bush sparrow a. he sings about
my Vineyards and found that for
many hours day. and every day In
the month from April to midsummer.
no sings his song regularly SIX times
u minute. making several thousand
times day, extending probably over
one hundred days.
II. What II the sociological order Of
animal Mfef
All animal life lowest In orsaniaa-
ton 10 earliest In time and vice
versa Thus the sponges are later
than the protosoa, the corais sue
coed the sponges. the sea- urchins
come after the corals, the shell-fsh
follow the sea-urchins, the articu-
lates are later than the shell-fish, the
vertebrates are later than the articu-
lates. Among the former. the am
phibian follows tho fish, the reptile
follows the amphibian. the mammal
follows the reptile, the nonplacental
mammals arc followed by the
placentai.
III. II a pine tree loses its lead
ing branch, how Is tho loss repaired!
When the pine or the spruce tree
loses It's central and leading shoot.
does the tree start q new bud ana
then develop q new shoot to take the
place Of the lost leaderf No,
branch from the first rins OF
branches below. probably the most
vigorous Of the whori. 10 promoted to
the leadership. Slowly 1t rises up
and in two or three years 1t reaches
the upright position and Is leading
the tree upward.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
ii aea.h to make the rentals.

to death to make the rentals.
We need a whole lot OF common
sense on farms as we'll az IN other
parts Of the world, and fhe land
owners who exact the rices that
have been talked Of are tho biggest
profteers in the land and also the
biggest fools. In two or three ways
they are helping XIII the goose that
may lay good eggs for them, IL not
golden eggs. The man who owns
land can otn expect much more IN
come than a government brond pro,
duces, when it comes to net ana
when he figures on much more ne Is
beating himself-as well as the man
who cultivates his land.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES,

IF there shall be a labor party Of
any formidable proportions in our
political life, it goes without saying
that there will arise a farmers
party" concludes the Dubuque Tele-
graph Herald.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

ever may be in power"
OF course, the probability is that
the scheme would have been carried
thru in any case, but 1t 1t safe
to say that the foundation work Of
the commissioner insured the COM
pletion Of the buildings.
Build the foundation of your career
thoroughly and to a well conceived
plan and your success is assured II
you continue building on that foun-
dation.
So many people have ill-planned
foundations scattered all over the
place, but none Of them are solid
enough 10 sustain the weight Of per-
manent buildings.
What makes good foundation for
a business success? knowledge. sta
bility, good nature, honesty vision,
foresight, enthusiasm, patience. team
work, determination, good health,
common sense.
And the tool which builds the
foundation Is hard work.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
c,o.h., RIaped For W..hins.

The Chinese wear clothes which
differ so radically from the clothes
of other nations that the American
manufactures Of wearing apparel VIII
find the Chinese market for his goods
limited mostly to foreigners and 20
the comparatively few Chinese VINO
have adopted foreign dress. Chinese
clothes are largely made at home.
being merely basted together. ana
they are ripped apart each time they
are washed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
HANDY DIRECTORY
-0F the -
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitsrs Always Welcome,

~ Viestors Always We'ooms.
MARSHALL LODGE NO. los A.
~. A. NJ. Monday March !. at 7
O'Clock sharp. Third degree. c. C.
ysnninss. w. NJ; John w. Wells. SEQ
rotary.
sroNEr CHAPTER, No. 80. r. A.
M. Monday, Feb. 10. 1890. Business
ccuvocation. Frank r. Nokes. II. p
John w. Wells. secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL No.
20. Stated assembly Monday, Feb. H.
business session. o. c. Fox, master;
John W. Wells. recorder.
coNCLAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
NANDERY No. so X. T.. Tuesday
March 3, 1850 o'clock. The Temple.
clyde Fl. Stewart, commander; John
w. Wells. recorder
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81 q. r.
q. Special meeting Monday. March
Is, school Of instruction at 1880.
initiation AZ 1880, dinner at $50. Mrs.
W. J. Richards. w. NJ; Mrs, Archer
walton, secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
FOOLISH LAND RENTALS.

ICedar Rapids Republican,
From Iowa City they have sent out
a boast that one man has rented 10
acres OF land in johnson county for
$40 an acre-or "A, 5000 for a patch Of
land IN s>county that has some lands
that are not as good as others.
That. In our opinion, Is nothing to
boast Of. The owner OF the land who
exacted such a rental is q proflteer
and the man who agreed to pay 1t 10
something Of an easy mark. We speak
now and here generally. There may
be something special aDout that piece
Of land. It may have deposits or
equipments or uses Of which we
know nothing and therefore We can
not pass judgment on them.
But generally speaking, as lands
and products run, forty dollars an
acre rent is not only impossible. but
1t is criminally ridiculous The man
who farms the land can not afford to
pay and the man who owns the land
can not afford to ask him to pay 1t,
for he will have to crop the land to
death. II he planted all the land in
corn and cultivated 1t intensively he
could not make such a rental and
have anything left for himself. II he
used it for pasture-and1 an acre and
half Is well required for a steer
he would have put 1920 worth of
gain on the steer during the six
months the pasture is available for
cattle, that is IL he would have as
much as half for himself. No steer
can make such a gain-and on top
of 1t cattle may go down.
All this talk about high rents Is
so much nonsense. Tine owner OF the
land is in no case, unless II Is spe-
cial case, entitled to more than haff
of the proceeds Of land. and the
renter and cultivator is entitled to all
of the other half. Even twenty or
fifteen dollars an acre is q foolish
bargain fora tenant. for he may not
be able to make 1t, for he has 20
take many chances in growing crops.
And the SRner Of the land can no
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

Things were never in such a mix
UP state as they are this year." says
the Boone News-Republican plat
form makers are going to have an
Herculean task"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
Stolen Fruit.

Stolen Fruit
From Hardware Age, New York City.
There's a building boom coming,
either that or there are to be lot
of tents sold next season. New Or
leans Is short 5000 homes; Birming-
ham needs 5000 additional dwellings;
Pittsburgh could use 10000; Cincin-
natl, 1000; Kansas City, 1000;
Minneapolis, 5000, and Duluth 1000.
These are just high spots. When
every city in the country Is short OF
houses you may be sure the towns
and villages are suffering similarly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

why the national government and
states have not long before this
adopted a good budget plan IL
mystery which the Mason City
Globe Gazette does not attempt to
explain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
See q LAWYER.

am thinking seriously of patent
ing an article used in the automo-
bile trade. / find that there IL an
other article used for the same pur-
pose, but of different design. Must
all parts, or just one. be different to
have patent granted? s. X.
l strongly advice you not to at
tempt to patent this without first
seeing q good patent attorney. It IL
much better to pay him his small
fee to see that you don't transgress
in any way than to pay some other
lawyer a large fee to get you out of
any trouble into which your igno-
rance may lead you.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27
The w ndn,ill:
POOR FTsHi

"a. .
Oh! A maiden went a-fishing
In the matrimonial ocean,
For = mate was she a-wishing
With q surplus OF emotion:
So she dropped her bait In azure
And the fish she hooked were fish T,
like these:
The Lobster.
He took her here. he took her there.
He took her darned near every
where,
And when he'd spent his last red
She said she hated him--and went
The Minnow.
He quickly heard her call.
He hurried from his shack;
But he was poor and small
And so she threw him back.
The Trout
For him she deity angled.
She played him day and night
But never found him tangled
He didn't even bite.
The Eel.
She vamped him and she charmed
him,
She swore he wouldn't slip,
But ere she could have harmed him.
He wiggled thru her grip.
The Shark.
It seemed like love 1t sight.
His courtship fairly sped.
But when he tried to bite.
She called for help and fed.
The Wealxfish.
Before his zeal could pale,
Before his gills could falter.
She grabbed him by the tail
And rushed him TO the altar.
L. q. b.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

Tho worlds largest glacier v the
Muir In Alaska.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-02-27

/. 80 long a. our fllftsrats inhabi-
tants are left iliitersts, % long VIII
they be governed by petty 'posses"
who VIII use them for selfish pur-
poses. 30 long ~ they Are illiterate.
they will DO material for exploita-
ton - and such treatment makes
dangerous and disloyal mon OF them.
for-naturally-they feel that II 10 q
case OF sveryons for himself and ths
devil catch the hinAermOsG
Make the learning Of English an
immediate task. for thru that kncwi-
edge will come . trusr understand
ing Of democracy. II will turn In
habitants whose one object In life Ii
to make enough money to go back
home. into Americans. II will elevate
the standard OF living Of the un-
fortunate ones who have never been
encouraged to climb out of the ami
mal-like existence which they were
born in.
It will Americanise. 4.