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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20
CUMMINS AND THE WORKERS.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,

AZ to tho complaint OF the laboring
men against Senator Cummins and
the railroad settlement. they Of all
have The least to complain Of. They
have had an increase Of 32.s In wages
which Is almost a third, while the
people who pay the freight and pas
senger rates have paid that much
more. ana while those who have
their money invested in railroads?
During much, Of the time they have
had no dividends at all on some of
the roads no dividends have been
paid for many years Is that fair7
II 1t u system under which the rail-
roads can be kept up7
This whole railroad issue a. now
presented In politics 10 grossly unfair
and |, II also unwise. At this time
we are much more in need OF a pol
icy Of building up transportation.
The first formal duel An England
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20
HANDY DIRECTORY
-oF TINE
MASONIC TEMPLE
I Masonic Meetings
* Waters Always Welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE NO. 1os, A.
r. A. NJ. Friday. May 81, at o'clock
sharp. First degree. c. G. Jennings,
W. NJ: John W. Wells, secretary.
sIaNET CHAPTER NO. IS. r. A.
M, Thursday, May 20, p. m. Royal
Arch. Frank 4. Nokes, n. p; John
w. wells, secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL. NO.
20, stated assembly; May II, busi-
ness session. O. 9. For. master;
John w. Wells. recorder.
CoNCLAvD ST. ALDEMAR COM
MANDERY NO. 80, Tuesday, May
25, 7:30 p. m. Red Cross. Clyde II.
Stewart, commander: John W. Wells
recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER No.-s7,o. e,
&. Special meeting Wednesday, June
:. at 3, for initiation. Mrs. w. j.
Richards. ". M: Mr.. Archer Wal
ton. soprstary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20

have no opportunity Of buying this
surplusf
Colonel Davis. That II the point
exactly.
Mr.. Reavis. And that was done
to to protect the csnnersf
Colonel Davis. Yes, sir"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20

their work AZ since tie new forces
started doing business Mt the old
stand.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20
LIFE,

ASA0 ~
Conscience
n mosquito
Buxxint: round
And round.
You swat at It
With excuses.
But II lodges
And follows you
Here, there and
Everywhere.
Z-z-x-S-z-S.
We need new pair OF shoes this
month ard the only way for u to
get them seems to be by starting one
Of these campaigns.
The aversion OF the old guard
either to surrendering or dying is
most discouraging.
zoo LYRIC.
Tho serpcnts make me chilly feel.
] can not help but praise
The way in which they'll eat a meal,
Then sleep for days and days.
WHY PHONES ARD TIED UP.
500 p. m. Guess who this isi"
S:0b p. nj. 'Haw! Hawi IT'S not
Mame!"
$40 p. m. mo, I Amt got blue eyes, .
Sis p. M Jaw, amt you the kid
der"
$50 p. m. That's what they all cay"
s:2b p. nj. "Yop, yer right. This IL
her."
$3.50 p. nj. How didya guess 20
quickf'
The great American rag 10 wiping
it's way across the face OF the earth.
Every little nation has it, brand Of
synocopation.
In Russia It's the fox trotslky.
In Siberia It's tho one-steppe.
Adam IL probably the only genu-
Inc homogeneous male the we'll
known human race ever produced.
,Anr yet. such human perversity,
that scandalous story about Lilith II
still being whispered around.
The vogue for Theda Bara films Is
spreading. Westward the course OF
vampire takes its way!
F.v.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20
Topics Of the Times ls

No more pamphlets ON infant
care" to BE- published by the govern
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20

Member Of The Associated Press.
to the use for republication of all news dis
pstchss credited to It or not otherwise cred
it,sd In this paper and also the local news
published herein.
All rights of republication of special dis
patches herein are also reserved.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20

The first formal duel An England
took place SIS years ago.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20
Wonder What Brand New Strap Hat Thinks About
By BRIGGS

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Wc~'T That TIVE
: l 1'ohJ'v VANe ANY
COMFORT Az. Al.
Ha PAID G,aHt SUCKS
EoN Ma >. I HAPeeN
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Cost NY EASreNr
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-20

Z 3llo& AROUND
SoM9TtIiAJ6 EsGRca
AID rAoAo'S GosM6
70 "a \ 6UpoeM COST
o. WIND CoM1 AloAJ4
AND Glow Me- orr
INTO vAa Street
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Tribute to MIR. HARNESS.
burlington Free Press.)

'Machinery", the leading industrial
publication of the United States, has
this to say of Mr.. Hartness in its Oc-
tober number:
flames Hardness, president of the
Jones & Lamson Machine company,
Springfield. Vt, received the Republi-
can nomination for governor of Yer
mont in the primary election held Sept.
IA, running far ahead of the other three
contestants. In Vermont the Republican
nomination for the governorship is equiv
alent to election.
The platform on which Mr.. Hardness
appealed to the electors of the state was
constructive and progressive one. 1t
advocated such measures as would de-
velop the industrial resources of the
state and thereby insure the prosperity
OF the entire population. Two of his OPP
ponentS were seasoned politicians, and
Mr.. HARNESSES victory at the polls is
therefore q distinct tribute to the man.
Efforts were made to discredit his indus
trial platform with the farmers, but the
straightforward statements made by Mr..
Hardness convinced them that industrial
prosperity means prosperity for those
engaged IN agricultural pursuits as we'll.
Mr.. Hardness will bring a new set
Of ideas with him into the political at
mosphere of Vermont. An unusually
clear thinker, and a man of straightfor-
the methods of the engineer rather than
those of the politician to the affairs of
the state. Doubtless he will meet much
opposition from Old-line politicians; but
the same indomitable will which insured
his great success in the industrial field,
will enable him to put into operation
the progressive ideas incorporated in his
platform.
Mr.. Hardness has been equally sue
cessful as a business man and as an en-
gineer. having also made a name for
himself in the field of science-an unus-
ual combination of ability.
IF more men of this type were Sc
lected by the people for public office,
our state and national governments
would be administered on business in
stead of political lines. Mr.. Hardness
will have the best wishes not only of
the whole machine tool industry, but
also of the mechanical engineering work
in which he is well known, having served
in many capacities in the American So
ciety of Mechanical Engineers, and as
its president in 1914. Tt is safe to
predict that the record of Mr.. Hardness
as governor of Vermont will be as not
able as his record as engineer. inventor.
manufacturer, scientist and business
man"
That is a significant and deserved
tribute from an authority entirely dis
interested, but fully informed relative to
Nermont's next governor.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
In the DAYS News.

One of the figures brought prominently
into the public eye by the strike of the
British coal miners is Lord Joicey, the
ain and the largest individual coal pro-
Queer in the world Lord Joicey, who is
nearing his seventy-ffth year, has been
intimately connected with the coal in
dustry since he was ten years old, when
he became office boy for his father, a
small mine owner. At q he had practic-
ing property and soon afterward he be-
gan to add to his holdings by the pur-
chase of other mines. The output of two
companies which he practically owns
amounts to some 100000 tons year,
and he has besides large interests in other
coal companies. Lord ,Joicey first en-
tered parliament in 1886 as Radical and
a Radical he has remained ever since.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Some Election Oddities.

Atheists are not permitted to vote
in North Carolina.
.Duelists and their abettors'' are
barred from voting in Michigan.
Several of the states penalize pauper-
ism by taking away the voting privilege.
In 1896 John Adams defeated Thomas
Jefferson for the presidency by two cleo
toral votes.
Thomas Jefferson and John Quincy
Adams we've elected to the presidency by
the house of representatives, neither
having had majority of electoral votes.
Non-taxpayers cannot vote in Penn
sylvania, nor can persons dishonorably
discharged from the service of the United
States.
Each state is entitled to and elects
presidential electors equal in number to
its senator's and representatives in con-
gress combined.
Alexander Hamilton proposed that
the President of the United States be
elected for life Others in the consti-
tutional convention favored two or three
presidents instead of one.
As nearly every state bars convicts
from voting and there are upwards of
100000 convicts in the prisons of the
United States, election day will mean
nothing to a whole army of them.
In 1900 Thomas Jefferson and Aaron
Burr each received 113 electoral votes
for the presidency. The choice then de-
FOlFeu upon the mousse OF representatives,
where Jefferson received the votes of 10
states, Burr four. and two voted blanks.
New York. in 1891, was the first state
to fix upon THE Tuesday after the first
Monday of November" as election day.
Previous to that time the elections in the
various states were held on the first
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of
November.
The initial letter of the surname of
the Democratic presidential candidate,
Governor Cox, recalls the fact that
Cleveland was the only presidential as
pirant whose surname began with CO.
who was successful. George Clinton.
Dewitt Clinton, Crawford, Clay, Cass,
Cooper and number of other aspir-
ants who had "C' as the initial letter
of their surnames failed of their ambi-
ton.
In 1886 no candidate for vice presi-
dent received a majority of the votes of
the electoral college, the election devolv-
ing upon the senate, which elected Rich
ard M. Johnson by a vote of SO to 16,
his opponent being Francis Gaynor. As
the vice president would succeed the
president in the event of the presidents
death or Impeachment, the election was
potentially as significant in respect to
the Importance of a few ELECTORAL votes
as an election for a president directly.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Where Father Beats Prexy.
Holyoke Transcript. J


A straw vote of the eastern colleges
has been taken and much to the surprise
of the world it shows the young men at
the several colleges to be Overwhelmingly
in favor of Harding for president. At
the same time the faculty of the colleges
are intellectually inclined to follow the
college professor attitude of President
Wilson and do what Wilson wants. They
seem to believe like Mr.. Wilson that the
United States of America should be gov
erned like a young mans college.
The American college is in the main
an autocracy. If the boys do not do
what Prexy wants done, if they do not
keep up to the literary demands of the
institution and pass exams as the in
stituti0n says they must-out they GO.
The college president, sometimes consult
ing his faculty, sometimes not doing so,
is one of the most autocratic people in
the world. He can say, and with good
reason, that If he did not keep an upper
hand things would be chaotic. The boys
would get to doing the things they would
want to do.
President Wilson has been president
just this way-a consummatc autocrat,
whose every gesture in the way of autoc-
racy pIeaSes the college president because
that is the way he runs his college.
But the point is that at the several
colleges which show such an immense
lead for Harding the young men are
gathered from all parts of the country.
They are voting the way father and
mother have influenced them. They are
listening not to prexy. but to father and
m0ther-which gives a promise of world
safety.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27

on his fork, and ma sed Wont you have
another peece of cake, Mr.. Hewsi
Well, / don't know, / don't know, RELY
I've eaten so mulch I'm quite full, if l
may imploy a vulgar Expression, sed Mr..
Hews. And he looked at the exter
slice, saying, / don't know, / don't know,
it was delicious cake / must admit.
Me thinking, Aw heck. And / sed,
They say if you take the last peece you're
libel to be a old maid.
Benny, keep your opinion to yourself,
sed ma.
Well, ha ha ha, / think I've had enuff,
Id hate to wake up some morning and
find myself an old maid, ha ha ha, sed
Mr.. Hews.
Well how about you, Mrs. Hews,
wont you finish this peece? sed ma, and
Mrs. Hews sed, Yes, | bleeVe / will,
thanks.
Me thinking, Heck, gosh shaHg it.
WITCH jest then Mrs. Hews sed, No, /
bleeye / wont, thanks. Making me feel
better, and Mrs. Hews sed, How do
you feel in the matter, Benny Don't
you think you could manage that exter
slice?
| mite maybe, don't know. I sed
wunting to seem bashfill in frunt of
cOmpinny, and ma sed. Wen he's unde-
cided its sure sign hes had enuff, /
propose we all ajern to the .parlor.
WITCH they all started to do. and Nora
came in to take the things off the table
and the ferst thing she took off was the
exter peece of cake with Expression
as if she was going to eat it herself.
Proving watts the use of hesitating?
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Vermont Fnrs.

Huntington Free Press.)
One line of endeavOr, which will suf-
fer as keenly as any this year because
of the downward trend of prices, is the
hunting and trapping industry, which
grew TO unheard of proportions in Yer
mont last year and allowed a rich har-
vest for the men and boys who knew the
ways of the woods. Last year furs in
the fall sold for prices, in most cases,
three times their former figure, and in
the case of muskrats the figure received
was often 20 times the price paid in
hold out no such promises this year and
it is. doubtful if many hunters are sue
cessful in getting much of an income.
Last year many school boys in some
weeks made as high as SD in trapping
Skunks and mluskratS. The prices have
not yet been made up for this year. but
there is no double that the figure will be
far below that of last year and it is
doubtful if it will compare favorably
with those of many years in the past.
The bottom has dropped out of the raw
fur market and the effect of the depres-
sion in London, st. Louis and other fur
trading centers will be felt in the back
woods of Vermont. There was a grave
danger of the extinction of some of the
game when prices were high. The
slaughter on muskrats. in particular.
was enormous. 1t is thought that when
the trapping grows less profitable the
number engaging in the business will be
much smaller and the animals will have
a chance to get back to their former
numbers. fz- -#
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27

So much has been said regarding the
league of nations during the present
campaign that little thought has been
given to the prohigate waste practiced
bv the present administration. Congress
man T. L. Greene has given Vermont
audiences some information on the sub
iect. He states that Investigations at
Washington show that every horse in
the army was provided with - shoes,
four horse brushes. two saddles. two sets
Of doubfp and one set of single harness
and that a branding iron was purchased
for every two horses. This is only a
sample of the wasteful extravaganza by
various departments of the government.
1t is stated that in the ordnance bu-
than Great Britain had for her entire ma
val and military forces when the armis-
tice was signed. There were at that
time in Washington 117,454 government
employees, thousands of whom kept short
hours and did little or nothing during
the working hours Eight months later
there were 100614 federal employees in
Washington, a shrinkage of only IT,
600 and seven months after that the
number was 1O0,11O, a reduction of only
JO4 in that period.
Before the war the government en-
ployes outside of Washington were 800,
563. A year after the close of the war
they were 76O110 or nearly double.
This great force has been at the service
of the administration during the cam
paign and a tremendous expense to the
taxpayers Of the country.
What such government is costing is
shown by Republican national head
quarters in Chicago. The official figures
for government expenditures for the last
fiscal year, as given out by the treasury
department, were $6.766 444,461. PIac-
ing the price of wheat at $220 a bushel
corn at 81 cents. oats at 50 cents and
potatoes at So a bushel Figures in ex-
cess of the actual market quOtations)
it would take the entire estimated crop
Of wheat, corn, oats and potatoes for
this season and Is, 400 farms valued at
$4,000 each to pay this amount.
Can the country afford to maintain
government that absorbs in one year
the value Of such a large proportion of
its crop production and of its farming
lands? To a great majority of the vot-
ers cognizant of the facts it seems i'm
possible, and they confidently believe
this proaigatc waste by the present adj
ministration will be effectually rebuked
by heavy majoritics for the Republican
national, senatorial and congressional
tickets.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Today S Events

Anniversary of the birth of Theodore
Roosevelt
Fiftieth anniversary of the surrender
of Metz to the Germans.
Tonight there will be a total eclipse of
the moon, visible throughout Australia,
Asia and the Indian ocean.
Iowa today is to dedicate new State
park of 900 acres, located in the bend of
the Des Monies river, near Keosaugua
Senator Harding is to close the first
day Of his final campaign tour with a
speech tonight in the city of Cleveland.
a special meeting of the house of bish-
ops of the Protestant Episcopal church
meets at St. Louis today to take action
upon the suspension of the late bishop of
Delaware, and various other matters.
Delegates from all the theological sem
inaries in America have been invited to
attend today's formal Inauguration of DIR.
James A. Beebe as president of Boston
university school of theology.
Prices charged for food by hotels and
restaurants of Massachusetts viii be the
subject of an investigation by a special
federal grand jury which has been sum
moned to convene in Boston today for
this purpose.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Today's Anniversaries.

lS38-John d. Long, governor of Massa-
chusetts and secretary of the navy
during the Spanish war, born at
Buckfield, Me. Died at bingham,
Mass, Aug Is, 1915.
I856-Opening of the Grand Trunk rail
way from Montreal to Toronto.
l858-Theodore Roosevelt, twenty-sixth
president of the United States,
born in New York city. Died at
Oyster Bay, n. Y, Jan. 9, 1919.
1860 Christine Nilsson made her oper-
attic debut in Paris.
l870-Marshal Bazains surrendered Metz
and his army to the Germans.
I89l-The New York court of appeals de-
cided the celebrated Tilden will
case in favor Of the natural heirs.
l899-Florence Marryat, popular English
novelist, died in London. Born
July 9,lS38.
l9I7-Twenty thousand women marched
in suffrage parade in New York
city
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Daylight Saving.
lGreenfeld Recorler.l }


The fact that the period of daylight
saving ends next Saturday night will
start people thinking over the question
of whether they desire it another year.
In Rhode Island there seems to have
been a determined effort started to con
Connecticut decided opposition to any
further time changing has developed.
There has been less dissatisfaction than
was anticipated in this state over the
mix-up caused by the use of the two
times the farming communities eyinc-
ing practically all of it. If Connect
cut fails to adopt it next year and Yer
mont and New Hampshire hold to
standard time as they have this season,
there will be less reason for Massachu-
sets to do So For it still remains true,
that unless large blocks of territory
adopt daylight saving, it's use by one
state or so causes more or less confu-
sion and inconvenience.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27

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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27

Out in Nebraska an aviator has been
arrested for reckless driving, and there
being no laws in that state governing
the plotting of airplanes he is to be dealt
with under a statute called the run
away team" law. Vermont has a case
pending in Washington county court
against the owner of an airplanc and has
no laws governing damages FROM flying
machines. 1t looks as if it was up to
the coming legislators to produce some
as they are quite likely to be needed in
the future
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
stay outside and view the inspiring %
scenery of Essex Junction.

Paper suits, 'overcoats, collars, cuffs
and raincoats, made in Germany, are be-
ing displayed this week at the Boston
custom house. Old-time New Englanders
are well acquainted with paper collars
and it is possible the high price of lin
en- and laundry may revive interest in
them, but paper overcoats in this eli
mate have a sort of a chilly sound and
we should take a large umbrella along
with a paper raincoat.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Today's Birthdays.

Giovanni Giolitti, the present premier
of Italy, born in Piedmont, IS years ago
today.
Charley Ledoux, noted French pugilist
now in America, born in France, -
years ago today.
Viola Allen, long a leading actress. OF
the American stage, born at Huntsville,
Ala, 81 years ago today.
Gen. Christopher Columbus Andrews
one OF the few surviving general officers
of the Union army, born at HILLSIDE
rough, \. H., 81 years ago today.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Brave and RosourcefuI.
BARRE Times. J

Score one for the bravery of the Sax
tons River woman who. when she found
her Respondent husband trying to COM
NIT suicide by hanging, rushed into the
house, got a sharp knife sawed the rope,
carried the limp form into the house,
used first aid remedies and finally
brought the man to consciousness al
though his eyes were set and the jaw
had dropped in the process of approach
ing death. 1t was indeed a brave and a
resourceful woman who could carry out
stress.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1920-10-27
Little Benny's
Note Book
BY LEE PAPE.

We had compinny for suppir yestid-
day, being Mr.. and Mrs. Hews, and we
had some peetchy chocklit cake for dir
2ert. being one slice for everybody and
one slice left over. me thinking, G, |
hope nobody elts wunts the other slice,
gosh that's the best part of the meel.
And | started to watch everybody $
Impression vile they was eating their
slice to see how easy it was going down
and Mr.. Hews finished his slice ferst
on account OF taking sutch big hunkfnlls