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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
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First.-What pathetic notes do the
| birds strike?
Seconds the loon at home on
| the ground?
Third.--Does sight play an impor-
| tant part with animals?
:. Answers to Previous Questions.
| First.-iHow can the male and fe-
male cow blackbirds be distin-
Ruished?
AS the cow blackbirds do not mate,
and as therefore there can be little or
no rivalry or competition between
the males, one wonders-in view of
| Darwn's teaching-why one sex
should have brighter and richer
plumage than the other, which is the
| fact. The males are easily distin-
guished from the dull and faded fe-
males by their deep glossy black
coats.
,Second-Does a captured fox show
fear?
The fox is wild and suspicious
creature, but curiously enough, when
YOU suddenly come face to face with
him, when he is held by a trap, or
|
driven by the hound, his expression is
not that of fear, but Of shame and
guilt. He seems to diminish in size
and to be overwhelmed with humili-
alton. The fox has no enemies but
man, and when he is fairly outwitted.
he looks the shame he evidently feels.
Third.-Will common bee ever
sting the queen bee?
| The common bees will never use
their singer upon the queen: If she
is to be disposed of, they starve her
to death; and the queen herself will
sting nothing but royalty-nothlns
but n rival queen. The queen is the
mother bee; it is undoubtedly compli :
! mentinG her to call her a queen and
invest her with regal authority, yet
she is a superb creature, and looks
every inch a queen.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
Topics Of the Times

The story given out by democrat
managers Is that Cox has the full
approval Of the president. Then of
course Cox is for Article 10 and all
1t reads for Including making Euro
pean line fences out Of the dead
bodies of American youth.
80
From Candidate Roosevelt's gush :
ing report Of the meeting between
Cox and Wilson George Creel in his
eushingest moments never had any
thing on Franklin d.
A rumor is about that Governor
Harding of Iowa is ready to help
nominate governor If that nominee
would agree to appoint Harding to
any U. s. senatorship should oppor-
tunity occur. That's about the only
WHY a governor could pay such q
debt to Harding and 1t is up to the
delegates to see that it doesn't work
out.
They say Senator Reed will sup
port the ticket. But II you were bet
which would you consider tho short
end?
While it doesn't exactly say 80 one
gets the impression from Harvey's
Weekly that Its conception of a
gentleman is one who has been
graduated from an Eastern college
and can carry his LIQUOR fairly well.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
FLIES AND FLywHEEls.

A fly sat on the big; fiywheel OF
a thousand horse power engine. An
other fly buzzed by and stopped to
invite him to take a little excursion
1t was nice day and somebody had
dropped molasses jug. NO" replied
the, fly on the wheel, "I~can't leave
this flywheel. The blamed thing
would simply spread apart If wasn't
here In the job. Why they call it a
"flywhee" because Tn looking after
It," So he stayed on the job he
imagined himself necessary to and
after while grew dizzy and fell off
and the janitor swept him up with
the rest Of the. dirt and threw him
out on the Stag pile.
Do you know that lot of men
are like the fly? They imagine they
are holding the world together. Some
men who have been highly success
full In business hold to the opinion
that if they We're to take a day or q
month off the wheel would fly to
pieces and the whole mill stop the
minute they moved from the fly
wheel. So they hang on and whirl
until they fall off and the janitor
sweeps them up.
It's all in their heads. Pure imag-
insltion or egotism or something COM
posed Of both. They don't need to
sit on the flywheel. The forces be-
hind it will keep it whirling. No
one man is an absolute necessity. It
would be a great pity if the flies on
the wheel held the world in motion.
Men come and go, are born and die
ard go to their own places but the
world makes the same number Of
revolutions year after year. It doesn't
even hesitate.
Maybe it's 80 that q new sucker is
born every minute but If that is SO
then it is true that an efficient man
is born every second; otherwise the
suckers would break down the
bridge between today and tomorrow.
A capable man is born every tick
Of the clock, one that can take up
tie job OF carrying his part OF the
worlds activities on his shoulders
and get away with it. That's the
reason we progress.
It's a rather common mistake, that
a. the fly who supposed the flywheel
was made on his account and that
he was responsible for its continual
ton.
There's dot Of flies in the world
and only a few big nywheels.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
HANDY DIRECTORY
-OF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
Masonic Meetings
Visitors Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os, A.
q. A. M, Wednesday, July Fl. First
aegree, Z o'clock sharp. G. G. Jen-
nings, w. NJ; John w. Wells, sec
tetary.l
sTGNEr CHAPTER NO. ss, r. A.
Mr., Monday, July 10. Business session.
Frank T. Nokes, III. p; John W.
Wells. secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL NO.
30, stated assembly: July 10. busi-
ness session. o. c. Fox. master:
holm w. Wells. recorder.
cONC,LAvE ST. ALDEMAR COM
kHANDERY NO. 30, Tuesday, July
10, .. m. Business meeting.
Clyde III. Stewart, commander; John
w. Wells, recorder.
CENT,RAI. CHAPTER NO. 81 o. f.
Special meeting Wednesday,
bully rs, at s, for initiation. Mrs. w.
b. Richards, W. NJ: Mrs. Archer
Walton, secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
ORIGINAL IOWA cox MAN.
TWafer1oO Co,,ria,.

Naturally one of these days in
qufries will be made to find out who
IL the original Cox man In Iowa. The
Courier has located him. His name is
Grossman, editor of the Phoenix, in
our neighboring town Of Waverly
Mr.. Grossman has the title cinched
In an editorial written prior to the
assembling Of the democratic conven-
ton, Mr.. Grossman came out boldly
and not only advocated the nomlnu-
ton Of Gov. Cox but declared him to
be the only man Just fitted for the
ticket. AS we glimpse the situation,
In case Gov. Cox should, by. any un-
expected turn of the wheel Of for
tune, land in the White House, T,di-
tor Grossman Of Waverly may be ex-
psctsd to hear something to his adj
vantage. A man of the vision and the
nerve to call the turn as he did
should be offered nothing less than
the Job of postmaster general, or at
least that Of public printer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
GUARDIAN ANGEL OF the IOWA FARMERS,

The Iowa homestead" 80 called
by It's proprietor Jim Pierce, offers
n method of taking out the stumps OF
broken fence posts that will corn
mend itself to the average lowe
farmer about as Pierce's political
propaganda as a mem Der Of the COM
imittee of AZ appeals to the same
average Iowa farmer. The Homestead
recommends as thrifty and labor
saving and sudden the employment
eff dynamite. Where post has rotted
off, instead of digging few spade
fuls away from the side of the stump
and prying 1t out with the spade as
has been the custom, the Homestead
advises the drilling of a hole along
side the rotted stump with bar or
81 drill and the insertion of .suffi-
cient charge of high explosive 1t
says enough dynamite will blow the
stump right out of the ground. Which
is at least one instance where the
Homestead is probably telling the
truth without distortion of fact
Enough dynamite ought to lift a
chunk of rotten wood out OF post
hole. So that's probably true tho
some folks, under the circumstances,
may now incline toward doubt.
The suggestion opens up a new
and wider vista to the Iowa farmer
and is on par with the paternal and
fraternal helpfulness of Jim Pierce
in his self assumed role. of guardian
and conservator of the Iowa farmer.
No doubt it is entirely new to those
down trodden people, that drag an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
AN IRREVERENT DIVINE.
GDaYAnnnrt narnnnraf

A man can rise no higher than his
education and training. On the other
hand. education can rise no HIGHER
than the man II he lacks training,
and has to be dragged by his educa-
ton. The idea will be suggested in
q comparison of the spectacular invo-
cation offered by a st. Louis divine,
at the Forty Lighters convention,
with the sane and dignified appeals
for spiritual guidance offered by the
divines at the earlier conventions of
Chicago and San Francisco.
1t is very evident that the prayer
of the st. Louis divine was inspired,
not by a roverent sense for the bless
ings of Diety, but rather by an u~e.-
mastering sense for cheap notoriety
and the plaudtts of the rabble. The
divine who can pray In one breath for
divine guidance and in the next de-
clare that I'VE are not concerned with
heaven" has as broad and beautiful
a conception Of sacred things as a
dyspeptic mosquito has Of the ex-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
WHO'S AN ATHEIST?
Council Bluffs Nonpariel. !

The simple dictionary definition
atheist is n man who believes there
is no God. This term is frequently
misused. 1t has been used more fire.
quently in the past than it is used
at present. In past decades some
church men classified all those not
within the folds of some church as
atheists. A few church men went so
far as to classify as atheists all those
outside their own denomination. We
are today far removed from this
archaic definition of the term, or
rather from this narrow interpreta-
ton. Today 1t is probable that not
one man in million in this country
could de properly classified as an
atheist We differ widely in our con-
ceptions and beliefs concerning the
Creato::. We differ in our Judgment
as to the mode and manner Of the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
Do WE WANT IN?
LCedar Rapids Republican.

lNeuaT RdplQS hepuDnCan.I
General Foch says that he wants
no Americans on the Rhine. il they
are not going to fight when there is
fighting again in that region. But
unless the matter is of such ma
ture that the fighting can be approx
ed in America, Americans do not
want to be and should not be in tie
fighting. 1t ought to take new de-
claration of war on the part of con-
sress before Americans are ordered
into the fighting lines. AS whole,
the American people are not sure
that they want to be in the next war,
ii it is to be brought on now. Surely
nations that have been almost ex-
hausted ought to be able to settle
their differences over the damages
to be paid.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

preparation is one Of Importance in
steam raising plants as well. The
cost Of preparing pulverized coal will
vary considerably. as there are sew
eral factors. bearing on the matter,
among which are labor. power, fuel
for drier and repairs. in addition to
interest and depreciation on build
ings and equipment. The energy re-
quired for crushing, drying, elevating
and conveying the pulverized coal
will be about twenty horsepower
hour per ton of coal handled, and
with modern equipment under aver
age conditions the cost will he about
cents per ton-hou At the Inter-
national Nickel Company's smeltery
the average cost of preparing and de-
livering the coal to the furnace, in
1918, was as follows: Labor s0.15;
energy. 1910; repairs, SOFAS; coal
for driving 50 055
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
BLESSINGS.

BLESSINGS.
have blessings
daily
lot of hunting find good
like the deuce but
wish for I've health and oubles
Wahoo
My
out OF killer to lack the
ucets turning
other sob beside the
good ther growing;
still moan hully chee."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
SUGAR PRICES.
HWavcrtv rdopoo5 onf


In Waverly we pay p cents a
pound for sugar. Out west they pay
II cents. In Denver. Colo. they retail
sugar at l6 cents. In Sioux City it has
sold as high as 3S cents. In Mason
City the consumer pays in the neigh
borhood of 80 cents pound for SUI
gar. There is something wrong and
those who are supposed still to be
correcting wrongs for the people do
not seem to care. The president may
not have heard that his subjects
are being mulcted for their sugar and
the attorney general who asked for
and was given a million dollars to
get after the crooks, seems to have
retired in disgust after he lost the
nomination for president which he
sought. He does not care any more,
and the profteers continue to care
more for money than for morals And
there you are. all going to the devil
and asked to repeat the dose under
another name.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

creation Of the universe including
the earth and all its variegated life.
The man today who does not in some
form accept the dictum that there
can be no creation without q creator
would be counted mental pervert
rather that an atheist.
If this term was used to prejudice
voters against Volstead it was with
out much doubt libelous in fact il
not intent on the part of it's authors.
The question, however. will be deter
mined by the court in this case.
From this distance it appears that the
clergyman opponent of Volstead has
been lead by his zeal to make state
ments which were untruthful not be-
cause of intent but because of lack
OF calm consideration of the clear
meaning of the term atheist. Pos
sibly the only justification for the
use of the term was the fact that
Volstead was not or is not a member
of some church.
There will be countrywide interest
in the conclusions of the, courts in
this case.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
THE ANNUAL GAME.
TMOntfcello Express

Now come the powers at Washing
ton who say they know, and report
that there is little danger of coal
famine such as the dealers ana
miners have been predicting. There
is no doubt that the dealers. includ-
ing both the wholesalers and coal
shed operators, have not been dis :
pleased with the reports of scarcity.
both true and false. which have set
the consumers to bidding against
each other. These reports which
start about the same time each year
have been wonderfully effective in
getting householders to fill the bins
with an alacrfty that keeps the prices
up. 1t seems the miner scares the
wholesaler, the wholesaler scares the
retailer, the retailer scares the con-
sumner. and the consumer pays the
additions all along the line.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
Must 3. Worth somsthlne.

In CONFIDENTIAL little talk TO
group of medic al students an eminent
physician took UP The extremely I'm
portant matter Of correct diagnosis
of the maximl m Zee.
THE best rewards" he said. come
of course to the established specialist.
For instance. charge S25 call at
the residence. $40 for IN office con-
sultation and 50 for a telephone con-
sultation"
There was an appreciatiS-e and en-
vious silence, and then a voice from
the back of TIN. amphitileafer, slightly
thiekened, spo ze:
Doc" It asl.ed, "hew rnuch do you
charge fellow for passing you on
the street p, chicago Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
PITIIESS PUBLICITY.


It's queer what one may see when
he hasn't got gun. Frnstance, a
pair sat in front of the editor at the
Lyric, upon recent cool evening.
and the young man Rugged the
young lady thruout the entire
performance, brazenly. openly and
completely.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
fowa Newspapers
THEM WAS TIL HAPPY DAYS
Manson Democrat

Remember when the farmers Of
this part of Iowa refused to buy the
quarter Joining them for IS an acre
because they couldn't raise enough
on 1t to pay the interest and taxes?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

The Charlton Herald Patriot be-
lieves there are scores of such clea;a
minded democrats in Iowa. who will
show their uprightness by repudia-
ting Jim Cox with all the force of
honest manhood-but that does not
save the situation II Tammany joins
hands with the solid south and is
able to elect him. God send that the
women may be permitted to vote this
fall. for if they do Jim Cox is DOOM
ed"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

The Perry Chief notes that There
are number of lightweight polite.
ians in Iowa who are willing to be
considered dark horse candidates for
governor"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

Cost of Puiverizins Coal. =
The following figures were Pfc
pared in connection with the investi-
cation of the use of -pulverized coal
for blast furnaces. but the cost of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
The Windmill
PHILOSOPHY.

PHILOSOPHY.
A philosophic point of view
Possessed, alas! by very few
Far more is worth than countless
bags Of mo aey.
1t is. forSooth, thu golden kew
To tabled gates Of harmony
That bar the way to lands of milk
and honey.
For, as You know, this mortal life
has always been vale Of strife
Since Adam left old Eden in a
hurry.
Unless you find II healing balm
That gives your soul surcease and
Your days will pass in worriment
and scurrs.
And so ] strive with all NV might
To find the philosophie light
That shows the road to saaity and
reason;
Each day l send most fervent pleas
To Plato and to Socrates
To make my life a peaceful sum-
tmer season.
At moments, now and then. it seems
I've realized my fondest dreams
And found the way To peace by
meditation;
draw a solace nd a thrill
From every tree and every rilI.
My heart and soul athrobbing with
elation.
Beneath the starry sky ] roam.
But when / find, on reaching home.
A note like this. my sweet content
ment ceases:
Dear Sir:
Your hank account again
Is oxerdrawn, We remain
My philosophic calm is smashed to
pieces.
TX. Ell.
A lot OF people have quit using
their imagination since delirium tre-
mems became so extensive.
France complains because Ger
many is behind with her coal deliver
les. Gosh-we'vr phoned about ten
places and they're .aH that way.
LIKE THE RE.sT OF LABoREG
IL Asses.
The printers d,,vil loafs all day
Which makes his foreman curse
and rave.
But when he has to carry type.
He calls himself galley -slave.
II you've ever sat for fifteen min
utes with an ek ctrie fan ,playing on
the back of your neck you'll never
again speak &C ntempt,tously OF a
draft dodger
First OF the month thought.-Pov
erty begins at il>ne.
The trouble with the interchurch
world movement was that 1t ought to
have stuck aror nd heaven or some
other place where salvation is free
instead OF going to Pittsburgh.
We see by tht papers that there's
a returned doughboy In New Jersey
who poisons MISUNDERSTANDING drop
dead the minute they bite him. A
fellow like that ought 10 incorporate
and hire himself out to sit on peoples
porches. !.
You don't hare to pay any luxury
tax on ice cream when You get II n
a hotel as part u meal. That's why
Ice cream Is SO cheap IN hotels.
Well, as we look back, we are con-
WINGED that mort Of the dark horses
were night mar es.
ss1,bo m anita n 2 Hefrersrp o,,d InCh
son" must be pretty rasEed by this
time. judging from the number OF
shoulders ION which has deacend-
-
We have seer the picture OF Its
leader and now we are convinced that
hdna says q an gees TO saratsar-
ium Tor q MT, Dut q woman GOES 10
dressmaker-
The goldfish ltys q million sE1s
year, but strive as We VIII Ne can
stir up no spirit OF composition what
ever among our hens.
FOCIOSOFY.
about town Dscause Inoy call the
phone operator grille.
Most women would rather De oou-
ole-faced tnan doupie-cnanneu.
the hook.
Life is more like nightmare
than q nightmare itself.
According 10 tho militant suHra
sgtste, Senator Harding may ef on
his front porcfs TIL the COWS come
home, but he'll have to look out nhru
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

the subject matter of his scandalous
address to Omnipotence, the minister
showed every evidence of religious
degeneracy."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

The Traer Star-Clipper suggests
These powerful young men who
throw the hammers and put the shot
at the school track meets have not
so far distinguished themselves by
pitching hay to the highest NOW in
the barn."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

"The prayer of Rev. George O.
Richmond before the national con-
vention of Forty Fighters is Moth
ing but blasphemy" declares the
Sioux City Journal. THE man who
uttered it is a disgrace to the pulpit
and the ministry. The prayer was a
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

"fhe Des Moines Register continues
to bring out dark horses for tho re-
publican nomination for governor. It's
latest candidates are Charlss A.,
Rawson, Charles F. Curtis, and
Charles McNider. The real Candidates
knowing that the Register is out of
joint with things republican, pay no
attention to the Register office Cos
SIP" says the Monticello Express.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

EVERY man talks about it and then
he does his share Of it, if he gets a
chance-and that is profiteerins. Ev-
en- the unfortunate woman VINE oo.s,
washing knows about it and the wo-
man with a bunch of carrots to sell"
remarks the Cedar Rapids Republic
can.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-07-19

MORE FAMOUS BILLS.
Sweet William.
Home Rule Bill.
Willie winkis.
Monthly Bill
Will U. 3. lfine.
Will o the NVisp.
Bill OF Bill Il Co.
Lenine Il 1rotsly, the FORMER
front page hef dinners, sseem to h1ve
retired to write themselves a nsw
act
Maybe they'll now announce the
restoration OF the Ftomanon regime
II they can fini q Roma.noff.
IF. r. ",
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-03-25
S. PER MONTH
FEEDS ORPHAN
Cleveland H. Dodge Shows What
Near East Relief Can Do in
Efficient Purchasing.

Buying in wholesale lots and under
the most favorable market conditions,
Near East Relief of Madison avenue,
New York city, with representatives In
every state of the Union, has been able
to battle the high cost of living so far
as relief supplies for the suffering mil
lions of the Near East are concerned.
Cleveland a. Dodge, treasurer, In a
statement shows that the committee is
able to provide food for the suffering
people of the Near East at prices much
lower than the average charge here.
A donation of So per month will pro-
vide food for one orphan, $40 per
month provides not only food, but also
clothes and shelter for .one orphan,
and for SIS per month attendance at
school is assured to each orphan in ad.
dition to food, clothing and shelter.
In the appeal for funds to save the
starving remnants of the Armenians
and other western Asia peoples, Neal
East Relief is inviting the American
public to "adopt" an orphan at the
rates given here. Over 100000 home
less children are in need of help In the
Near East. Women's organizations,
lodges, churches and social clubs are
responding to the appeal by adopting
quotas of orphans for support over q
definite period.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1920-03-25
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