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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
CHURCH CENSUS LOSSES.

The church census shows a slump
which TO H. K Carroll, LID, writing
in the Christian Herald. zig a very
grave showing" He states that in
crease of members. the chief sign of
theiI prosperity, mas COME DOWN "
$4,000, which is less than the small
est advance known for at least thir-
ty years, and it may even prove to
be less than the smallest for fifty
years. The only year that is COM
parable with last year was 1918. An
alyzing the returns for 1919, he finds
that only about forty denominations
have any increase at all, and for
most Of these it is below normal But
1t is the denominations reporting ac-
tual decreases which give special
significance to the year. and make it
practically year Of losses.
Commenting editorially on the sit
uation the Christian Herald wants to
know why any losses at all and why
are gains so few and SO small and
then proceeds to answer:
mot because there are no converts
to he made. Not because the whole
population Is already in the church.
The church never had larger and
fairer field for its evangelistic activi-
ties. 1t never had more urgent call
to do its utmost to evangelize the
multitudes. A growing proportion of
these muItitudes should be on the
side of the church. Organized labor
is not as friendly to the church as 1t
once WAS, nor as it should be. Boil
shevism. anarch.sIr, and the LIZ. IKE g re
actively propagating the seeds of
atheism. They greatly aggravate
the difficulties confronting the
church In the cities.
Thanks to the surveys made by
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HANDY DIRECTORY
OF THE
MASONIC TEMPLE
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
TWO STRIKE PROPOSITIONS.

The switchmen's strike is IAN I'M
authorized and Illegal strike and the
government has been appealed to for
assistance in suppressing it.
Unauthorized by whom? By the
officers of the brotherhoods. What
is illegal about it? 1t is Illegal under
the rules and regulations and Or
ganization laws Of the railway
unions.
Naturally. reading that the switch
mems strike is illegal" the ordinary
reader OF newspapers might conclude
that it was against the laws of the
United States or of the state and
states in which it is in progress.
Not so. There is no law to pre-
vent strikes which shall tie up the
means Of transportation. Such
provision was Introduced in the rail-
road bill over which reprisal is be-
ing made on Senator Cummins in
iowa Dut II was eliminated before
the bill was passed.
1t is going to be hard for the COM
mon, every day citizen, who belongs
to that indefinite mass we term the
public and who suffers when strikes
choke railroads whether called by
switchmen or by the allied railway
unions, it is going to be very hard
for him to understand why a strike
unauthorized and Illegal under union
laws shouldn't be made Illegal under
the federal laws when it is a menace
to the entire public, wage workers,
salaried persons and business and
industrials.
If the government can assist to
regulate the switchnen's strike why
not all railroad strikes? Whats
wrong with either proposition?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
A STORY OF AN IOWA FARM.

[l4.son City Globe Gazette.l
He came to this country from
northern Germany, about 20 years
ago, bringing with him a wife ana
i've or six red checked, fair skinned
riaXen haired children and that was
all. save two stout hearts, the native
thrift of northern Europe and a de-
termination to get on in the world
as SO many other. immigrants had
done. AS soon as he arrived he took
the first job that he could get. which
was working on the section on the
railroad.
But land hunger is born into tn
people of northern Europe and ne
soon had enough accumulated to rent
a small farm on shares.
Everybody worked with the father
in this case and he was SO good :
renter that he had no difficulty IN
keeping d place once rented, or II
getting a larger farm as soon as he
had the means of operating one. He
has seldom changed farms but he
moved last spring TO 40 acre place
bought and paid cash for. part o.
the money coming from two carloads
of steers which he sold in Chicag
for about $4,000. He is not niue,
past the half century mark. but he
has raised a family of healthy, in
dustrious boys and girls. The boy
are taking the lease of the renten
land off his hands and he and hi
wife are retiring to a 40 acre farm
all his own and are living In a fur
mace heated, electric lighted farm
home which will be on paved roau
If the present plans go thru, and
they drive a fiivver and they will
keep COWS and hogs and poultry So
that their H. c. Of l.. will be about
down TO zero and the good wife will
have a garden that will produce
about everything that grows in the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
LOOK TO THE RECORD

A promise is one thing. Keeping
it is another. A promissory note is
promise to pay. Paying II is an
other thing. Some men when they
need accommodation will promise
anything 10 get II. Others look for
ward to the day OF maturity and
promise only that which they can
perform. The record of the bor-
rover goes far to establish his
credit.
Some politicians are ready to make
affirmative answers TO every demand
one and another organization make
upon them. They want present
credit and accommodation.
But can they pay? Have they paid
Is their record such as to induce
complete confidence? Any candi-
date may sign a questionable. The
man who expects to let his note go
to protest IS quickest TO sign. He
Aaures that he has all TO gain and
little to lose.
Go deep into the records Of candi-
Gates. Back track them. They have
records Of one or another kind. The
man who has no record at all need
not be considered
Farmers never hire farm man
ayers on promises made by the ap-
pl:cant. They look up his record.
Farmers will do we'll to look up the
records of candidates before accept
ing profuse promises. Profusion of
premise and complete readiness OF
acquiescence almost invariably ends
in disappointment or betrayal
It would be possible TO point TO an
example not outside of Iowa where
promises were thick and ready to
good roads and mud roads. drys and
vets, and the utter disappointment
that followed But that is another
story and one that is very near its
end
Examine the abstract. What's the
record?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
MAN BUILDING.
No. accompanying the Two Machines.


In the chart which l have present
ed compared the positive traits of
character with important parts OF
the automobile.
Now, let me show how close this
comparison is:
First of all, compared initiative
with the self-starter. Initiative Is
that quality which makes US ou
things Of our own volition. Some
ton, others are equipped with self
starters-they have initiative.
l will show in later articles how to
develop initiative and all the other
positive traits which go to make up
the successful man or woman. A.,
present want to show this compare
son between the two machines" and
the Importance of realizing that you
must use these traits If YOU are 10
grow to big things.
Ambition in the human machine
is like the accelerator on the auto
mobile. IL you have real eager ambi-
ton you put on speed-you are
equipped with an accelerator. Your
ambition makes you leap ahead of
the jogging procession just as the
automobile shoots forward when you
press on the accelerator.
Tact-that's the human steering
wheel. II enables you TO guide your
way skilfully past the bad places
in the road. An automobile with n
faulty steering wheel would ne ever
lastingly in trouble-the person lack
ing in tact Is eyerlastingly in trou-
BILE.
Industry is the engine. Unless the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
lowa Newspapers
LET EN- STRIKE WHO WILL.
Cedar RAPIDS Republican

IL they want TO strike again, let
them do il. We still say. let every
one strike and when we have all
been hit, maybe we will have more
sense than We sem to have accum-
ulated so far. There is no use in
going into mental alarms when
someone proposes to strike some
where. We have become tired of
alarms. Let the worst happen TO us,
II ii must and the sooner il happens
the sooner we may hope 10 come to
our senses. IL we are forever going
to be scared out of our wits by such
threats and demonstrations we will
wind up in international insane
asylum. 1t is going to be impossible
in this world TO continue forever Civ
ing everyone what he wants. The
world is so fun of spoiled children
Eow that there is room for no more.
some fathers-that every spoiled
child can not be humored.
And of what benefit is il 10 mark
up first one thing and then another.
If the marking UP is going TO take
Whatever is extracted from someone
else? 1t Is easy enough 10 say, you
must pay me so much. but after
while it is going to be asked. what
am | going TO pay it with? So far
we have been passing what may be
called the bunk around in a circle
and as long as the circle endures we
seem TO be able to do that and to
so on thinking that we are having
high old time of prosperity. But
some time or other there is going to
be a break in the circle-and then
what viii happen? When you were
child, did you ever see a row of
dominoes go down-and wasn't il
fun? But may be 1t will not be so
much fun for adults.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
Ar.vyers 10 Previous Questions.

Answers TO Previous Questions.
/. How does tickling affect
trout?
Here comes the trout that must
be caught with tickling" 6hake-
speare says. He knew that fact 30
well known to poachers. ind known
also 70 many an American schools
boy, namely, that trout likes TO De
tickled, or behaves as II he did, and
that by gently tickling his sides and
belly YOU can so mesmerize him. as II
were, that he will allow you to get
your hands In position to clasp MIN
firmly.
Q. What are gums" in the south?
I once asked a negro child II they
caught any rabbits. "Oh. yes We
catches dem in gums. What are
gums?" asked. "See dat down dare?
OATS a gum" I saw a rude box
trap made Of rough boards. 1t seems
these traps, and many other things,
such as beehives. and tubs, etc.. are
frequently made In the south from
hollow gum-tree; hence the name mas
come to have wide application.
8, What are the predominating
colors of eggs OF birds building open
nests and concealed nests?
The favorite ground tint OF the eggs
of birds that build open nests Is
greenish blue; sometimes the blue
predominates, sometimes the green:
while the eggs of birds that build
concealed nests, or lay in dark cavi-
ties. are generally white, as Is the
case with the eggs Of all our wood
peckers, for instance. The eggs OF
the bluebird are blush white.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
THE BUSINESS DOCTOR
sy HAROLD WHITEHEAD.
Professor Of Sales Relations In the College OF Business
Administration OF Boston University, Boston, Macs.

tinuously, no progress Is made. An
| engine that runs jerkily. with "back-
fires" brings the car to n standstill.
You come to a standstill when you
cease to be industrious.
Efficiency. That Is surely the Diff
ferential. For the possible one or
two readers who do not possess an
automobile let us say that the differ
entail Ia u continuance which makes
1t possible for an automobile to turn
corners safely and easily. II you
think for a moment you will realize
that when an auto turns a corner the
outside" wheel covers more ground
than the inside" wheel The differ
entail attached to the rear axle Is
a clever contrivance which takes up
the difference so that there Is no
skidding or slipping. II enables the
car to take curve with no loss Of
energy-that is efficiency, for eff
cheney is the ability to effect results
without waste motion.
The next on our list Is carefulness.
which has for its counterpart in the
automobile the horn. The horn warns
Of danger-danger to the car driver
and to others nearby. The careful
driver uses his horn for self-protec-
ton. II he were careless and failed
to sound his horn he is liable to get
into a smashup-and he will be at
fault because he was careless.
Surely there is no need to carry
the comparison further.
l will close today's story with self
control-that is the quality which
prevents you going too far in the
wrong direction. It is the brake
the brake on extravaganza, reckless
living and all the foolish emotions
and impulses which, If not checked
lead to disaster.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
Topics of the Times

The Des Moines Homestead notes
that the first of our sainted dead are
now on the seas euroute home frcm
France" They are our sainted dead.
They were our noble living and dying
when the Homestead was advising
tightwads that they were under no
legal obligation to buy bond:
Editor Goldthwaite OF the Boone
News who has been in Door health
for some time is back on the JOB ana
again in charge of his editorial page.
little volume containing a bio
graphical sketch of Prof. Jesse MaG!'
of Grinnell College and memorial ID
dresses. letters and kilograms OF con-
dolence has been issued. 1t is beau
tiful and we'll earned tribute 70 VeSE
useful man whose spirit and iaoor
will be long manifest in the college
of his love and the state of Iowa.
We have the spectacle of Secretary
Colbv's mind trotting side by side
with that of the president as a little
boy would go down town WIN
grandpa"
What's the difference to the man
who buys a $50 suit whether one man
gets $3.50 of his money and another
&c, ting
and that's trouble enough without
fussing over who got how much OF II.
That Chicago convention would De
a good one for the young voter to at,
tend. He'd never forget it.
The new serial begins today on an
other page. 1t is story for enter
tainment. an absorbing mystery story
that keeps the reader guessing to the
very close. Begin with the first chap
ters of the abandoned Room once
begun there is no quitting 1t until the
curiosity of the reader is sausned IN
the last chapter.
Johnson hasn't achieved much pop
ularity in Iowa but if Johnson and
Wilson were to run against each 9TH
er the state would pile up Johnson
majority that would remind OF NC
Kiniev's and Roosevelt's old time
Iowa majorities.
Tr.uru a. squirt uI Can
good road bad it isn't good road.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

the Interchurch World Movement
wc know how and where the church
Is encountering difficulty In living up
TO its privileges and opportunities.
It's divine call to the proclamation OF
the gospel to the unconverted Is Oh
supreme moment, and nothing else
no success In other lines-wil an
swer. The very hope OF the Churcn
OF Christ depends upon faithful, En-
fective evangelization. Education
hos pitals, asylums-all excellent as
fruits of the Spirit-can not take tne
place OF the saving OF the lost, TOT
which Christ came into the world
Let the church 60 back with zeal ana
devotion to the work of salvation
The church succeeds when II does
this, even II II falls in other thinss'
and II fails, II It succeeds In other
things and does not succeed In this.
There will be some disagreement
with the inferred suggestion that the
churches have overdone education
hospitals and asylums and good
works. Those are things the church
must do II It is TO I'LL its place in
modern life. Perhaps the churches
are competing too much for great
funds with which to accomplish
great things in the lines mentioned
and paying too much attention to the
raising of money and too little TO
evanSelization but there is no good
reason why effective work may not
be done in both. Evangelizauon
without flesh and blood practically
lacks the appeal and is more or less
ephemeraI. The demand is that
things shall be done. And 1t may
be mentioned here that the salvation
Army is not losing ground in the e.
timation of those who should make
up church censuses.
There is no tendency away from
religion. There was never a time
when men were more religiously in
clined. That UNCONVENTIONAL mem
bership is not increasing does not
run counter TO this assertion. II does
suggest, however, that something is
not funStioning just as it should.
One reason which might be
brought forward for lack of increase
is in the multiplication of denomina-
tons and the over churching of COM
munities The competition in build
ing churches. by placing two or three
rot widely variant denominations
in small communities has not been
useful. When merely to keep up the
organization is a burden on meager
membership il is not likely that
much constructive and community
service will result.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

And not a few who have given
thought to the reasons for the large
plurality of protest attribute it TO
resentment because of the enforce
ment of prohibition under the eigh-
teenth amendment.
1t is not probable that any consid-
cradle number of the voters were
moved 10 support the socialist tick
ct on account OF all of these reasons.
Ii is more likely that one man was
influenced by one thing and another
by another. There are so many things
that are different from the conditions
that prevailed heretofore that any
party. such as the socialists. which
appealed to this spirit of discomfort
WAS bound to get large support.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
Ripping Rhymes
By WALT MASON
THE SPRING cHoRE.

valleys
which stable
s a.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

ers Of the twenty-eight states repre-
sented at the Chicago meeting were
OF one mind as to this. They want
arbitration boards that will do JUS
tice to the workman and 70 the en-
ployer, and just as quickly as this
machinery can be set up, they want
an end by law to strikes In neces-
sary industries. II we read Alright
the minds OF the farmers OF the
country. they are not going 10 rest
until this matter Is settled In the
way Indicated"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

doing nicely under the high cost OF
living, for their takings are keeping
pace with mounting prices, and pos
sibly getting ahead little. But the
common people. who are neither Of
the aristocracy OF labor MI line poor-
age of capital, are victimlzed. II will
not last foreycr.-Washingto Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
Battleship Brevities

The supedreadnought Maryland Is
the fourth electrically propelled bat
tleship of the navy.
1t is 624 feet long, weighs $4,000
tons and has n total fuel capacity of
about 100000 gallons of oil and the
first battleship to mount 16-inch
guns
Four huge electric motors, twelve
feet in diameter. weighing sixty-two
tons and producing 1000 horse power.
reyolve the propellers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

temperate zone and there will not be
the least speck of envy in their make
up for they have arrived at the goal
they started out to make 20 years
ago when they landed in Iowa.
home of their own and there Is not
a dollar got by speculation in it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
WHAT DOES A CONGRESSMAN

WHAT DOES A CONGRESSMAN
! LAUGH AT?
| Clipped right out Of the Congress
sional Record.)
Mr.. Greene, Of Vermont: was
going to see IL the gentleman would
stay hitched. In the committee room
I thought that the gentleman's mind
was "a mind that was going along
| with mine" (Laughter)
Mr.. Harrison: I did go along with
the gentleman. That is the trouble
When I got up here on the floor l
thought I was hitched. but now
can not find the hitching post.
(Laughter.)
Mr.. Clark, Of Missouri: Does the
gentleman think he could get those
| same officers to remain in the arm,
in a time of peace?
Mr.. Kearns: One Of them las.
evening stated that he was willing
to stay.
Mr.. Clark, Of Missouri: He is no
good. (Laughter.)
Mr.. Kahn: Well, the term "cru-
sader" IL one that has been used for
many centuries. The word in our
day. I fear, has fallen from its high
estate. Almost everybody nowadays
claims to be a crusader, even the fell
lows who believe in prohibition.
Naughter.) So the word. in my
opinion, has become very cheap.
(Laughter.)
Mr.. White, OF Kansas: I see that
the hands of the clock above the
speakers desk are still. and I won
dered II 1t is the purpose Of the pro-
ponents of this bill that II shall stand
there as the sun above the mountain
at the command Of Joshua, until
they had slaughtered the enemies of
Israel. Is 1t the purpose OF the pro-
ponents Of this bill to stop the clock
until the innocents who oppose it
are slaughtered? Otherwise, It dis
tracts the attention of the commit
tee when the chairman has to look
at this clock in order to ascertain the
time. (Laughter.)
For undiluted modesty the crown
goes to the legislators who voted TO
raise their own salaries and the
transit director who paid himself for
the advice he gave himself.
When Alex Berkman, Emma Gold.
man & Co. reached Bolshevikia they
could find neither food nor shelter.
Then - wonder of wonders they
sought work and couldn't even find
that, Red heaven isn't all It's crack-
ed up to be.
Cheerful fGaiE.
When you get old and bent and
gray,
Your eyesight may depart.
But then you'll have the paper read
Without the comic part.
Chancellor Mueller, OF Germany.
says he 10 going to get after the re-
dictionary elements there with san
iron broom" America might profit /
by treating the radical groups here
with scrnbbinE brush and some
good cleaning powder.
Still, there's hope for Washington
at that With scarcely more than 4
couple Of years OF demonstration 1t
has decided that the bolshevik sam.
bassador 10 undesirable.
Literary folk in England seem to
be divided into two groups-the
younger authors who write books
and the older ana iirmiy establishes
novelists who write prefaces. i
ZOO LYRIC.
Upon the flea, 20 small ana iight
With envy now we leer;
II we could have his job and bite
The porcinc profiteer! n s
L The apex OF fame In this world,
after all comes when they begin q
hail the work OF rivals q ''even set.
Z ter than your own lThs ~ so,,r ~, ls
servation. Not our experience N
Ri still ~ isn:t sscla \ rotten solsss
ulns ~ thu NJ n .s u
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES..

The Sioux City Journal says: "The
republicans are receiving Herbert
Hoover into party trust much as the
early Christians received Paul into
their conferences when he returned
TO Jerusalem after his conversion"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

Part of the reconstruction pro-
Crane of the British Y. W. c. A.
is the establishing of a Working Wo-
mans college with the object of in
creasing the workers personal inter-
est and enjoyment of life rather than
vocational training or increasing of
industrial efficiency. The curriculum
of the college will include literature,
history. elementary science. hygiene.
psychology and religion.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

In these parched days, we won't
quite understand why an organiza-
ton with so alluring name needs
advertise to obtain enlistments
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-12

1. Can cows eat poison ivy with
out iii effects
Q. In what peculiar way do pigeons
feed their young?
8. Are weeds easily discouraged