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Masonic Meetings
Visitor* Always Welcome.
MARSHALL LODGE NO. 108. A. F.
A. M.—Special communi'jmon l'r dav.
iJsn. 31 at 7:30 p. m. Second degree.
L. PYawr, W. M. John W. Wi lls,
Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER. No. 38. R. A. M.
Monday. Fob. S. 1919 Pest Mas
ters' degree. Oeonre Gregory. H. P.
John W. Wells, secretary.
SPECIAL ASSEMBLY, King Solo-t
man Counoil No. 20, R. A S. M..
Wednesday. Jan. 29. 1919. Rehearsal.
Ira A. Davenport. I. M.: John W.
Welle. recorder.
Spoeial Conclave St. Aldemar Com
mandory Na. 30, K. T..
Tuesday. Keh. I
11. 7:30. Illustrious Artier of the Red
f"ross. J. K. Frederick. commander:
John W. Wells, recorder.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 67 O.E S.
'—Regular meeting Wednesday evening
Feb. 12. 7:30. for business. Mrs. Ar
cher Walton, secretary Mrs. J. F.
Schultz, W. M.
FIRST FLOOR.
MARSHALLTOWN CLUB
C. H. KEMLER. Secretary
SECOND FLOOR.
DR. C. 0. CALLISON
Room* 207-208
Phone 843
House White 528
THIRD FLOOR.
*'DRS. FRENCH AND COBB
"Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat
Specialists
DR. R. R. HANSEN
Rooms 314-315
Ofllce Hours: 11 to 12 to
and 7 to 9 p. m.
Office Phone 101. Home Phone 872.
Physicians and Surgeons
Rooms 302 to 305. Phone 15 for tha
following physician* and surgeons:
DR. M. U. CHESIRE
DR. NELSON MERRILL
DR. H. H. NICHOLS
I DR. GEORGE M. JOHNSON
& Ofr. R. 8. GROSSMAN
L. F. Kellogg," R. J. Andrews
*'. Dentists
Rooms 315 to 317 Phono 14
FOURTH FLOOR
DR. LIERLE
DR. SMIT
Specialists Eye, Ear, Nose
and Throat
GLASSE8 FITTED
.H. F. ECHTERNACHT
Dentist
Suite 416 Telephone 467
DR. WM. F. HAMILTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
406-8 Maaonie Temple
Special Attention to General
Surgery and X-ray Work
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Rooms 414-415 Masonio Temple
Office Hours: 2 to 4 p. m.
DR. RALPH E. KEYSER
8. H. GIMRE N. G. RINDEN
Phone 1078 Phone 1576
GIMRE & RINDEN
REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE
Telephone 145
413 MARSHALLTOWN,
Masonic Temple IOWA
C. R. EDMISTER
ATTORNEY
12 East Main Street, Marshalltown
Phone 437
R. E. TABER
MAX M. MILLS
DENTISTS
Over 10 East Main Street.
Phone 1774
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FARM TMMT UAVHY.
Some unwise persons refer to tei^nt
farming as "slavery." Such expression
Is not only unwina but untrue. A Wo
like other unwtoi' and untruthful as*
.tertians Is disturbing and dangerous.
Th« tenant farmer who knows ^is
business, hiiB tha ambition, thrift and
executive ability to succeed doe* auc
oeed. Those lacking these essentials
fail. That in -juile as true In every
avocation and business us in tenant
farming.
It would lie ideal if every farm were
worked kv its owner, providing: tho
owr.er wriv --"toil farmer. It would
he ici.al
for
Vfiy man to own his own
home. Hi-iv in the mid west a very
large |ivptrtiou o£ persons do own
their own home». They also own
homes to rent. And people rent thetn
as other persons dent farms. Men liv
ing in rented housee succeed in busi
ness, professions and employments.
Men rent ins farms make money. Not
because they own or rent but because
they use their liands and their heads.
A.bout seven-tenths of the farm
owners irt Iowa "rented land" before
they owned farms. The story of the
tenant inside the 30-inch rain belt is
no tale of slavery and oppression. He
fought rents down and the owner
fought rents up. That is part of the
game. And when he had guotl bar
gain he made the most of it. And
later he bought a arm
1-js
own and
perhaps a haif dozen other farms and
he and hid tenant are aruiuns today
over the terms of the lease. The dif
ference is that he's arsuing now from
the landlord's side of the fence.
Of course some landlords are hogs
and some tenants are skinners. But
observation will »-'liotv that these two
come together. They gravitate toward
each other. A sod landlord usually
haa a pood tenant and a good tenant
a good landlord.
Slavery nothing. When a man start3
with a stirring plow #nd a team forty
yeare ago and finishes yesterday with
an obituary stating that the "estate
will total approximately 90,000 con
sisting: largely farm land" what d'ye
mean by slavery?
FIVE FOOT EIGHT FOLKS.
The tailors have come together and
fixed the prope* proportions of a man.
Measured up to the tailor's specifica
tions the right kind of a man is of av
erage size, not to go too much into feet
and inches. He is about five feet eight
inches tall, haa a thirty-sevn inch
chest, etc. In short to be just right he
ought not to take too much cloth or
make extra trouble for the cutter.
Presumably, from the old .saw. there
wore at least nine of the tailors pres
ent as "it takes nine tailors to make a
man.'1.
But the tailors are right without
knowing it. The average man is the
real man. Extra tall or extra short or
stout or slim lie is a special. When
wc get at it right the average man is
the hope of the world. Just common,
ordinary, every day folks keep the old
globe swinging true. The difference
between a genius and a fool isn't al
ways so pateitt that he who runs may
read. "Great ivitH are oft to madness
closs allied and thin partitions do the
bounds divide." Comfortable folks*,
good to live with every day, useful all
the time, average pretty close to the
same measurements. A ready mado
world fits them fairly well and they
fit average communities well. They
are as like as two stalks in a fiHd and
they produce the same kind of corn,
one season after another.
It is those tive foot eight inch folks
that neep factories alive and patronize
business and raise hogs and wheat and
children and populate the schools and
hustle over to the house when some
body is sick and fuss over the chickens
and quarrel over the kids and act ns
pall bearers and pay taxes and go to
cliurc'n and are oorn and die every day
but who carry on their average shoul
ders the great round world in its daily
whirl and its annual circle. Just aver
age five foot eight inch folks.
Naturally the tailors depend on
them. All oC us do. Average folks, all
of us, dependent on average folks in
an average world.
MULTIPLYING THE PHILIPPINES.
We took over the Philippines at the
close of the war In which we had ac
quired thera—and moat of ue have
bpen sorry ever since. The Phitlpyines
were sawed off on us. Like the Irish
man who caught the Tartar we had
them, couldn't ferine them home and
they wouldn't let us go away. So we
have had the Philippines. We have
done some good over there on the
other side of the world but it is doubt
ful if ire have done as much 'as an
other nation directly allied in color
with a couslnsMp of race would have
done. We tool* a colored boy to raise
in a white family—and he has rfever
been and never can he one of the
family. The Philippines have 'been an
ombarrassnnent and a sore finger on
a right hand.
Now we are informed that President
Wilson proposes to add to our troubles
by adoptlcm. He* would Snvolve the
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of tfc» omit ootoaiM. Hums.
ta reported. I feat division «f tha ooloatal
postesslons of Germany between *n
twita nations la opposed to hia Idealistic
understanding ot ths "self determina
tion llf peoples,"
The self determination Idea ia good
as far it goes, it scarcely carries
to the tribes-of the Congo and the
scattered islands of the south seas.
That the I'nited States should not
only assume but seek a partnerahlp
protectorate of German colohlal
possessions la as tha sanatora ex
pressed It "Incredible," involving as it
does Joint responsibility and even
Joint occupation of the territories.
It is an utter reversal of American
policy from Oeorge Washington down.
The president must know, if he la In
any way Informed of the condition of
the American mind that the cense of
the country is directly against snv
proposition involving so much of
difficulty and even danger.
Internationalism can not be carried
to the nth power. A complete inter
nationalism Is as opposed to present
circumstance and as inadvisable as to
attempt to amalgamate the communi
ties of Iowa into an Amama colony.
It would be merely common Justice
to turn the Oerman colonies over to
Belgium under foreclosure of in
demnity debt and permit her to mak'.:
the best bargain she may with them in
a deal with the entente nations.
For the United states to involve it
self in every colonial difficulty that
may arice around the globe iH in
credible. And It will not be done. The
senate still exists.
Topics mf the Times
There is no such thing possible as a
super nation. We have just finished
shooting that conception to pieces. In
its way it was idealism carried out to
the tenth decimal place. And a suptt
internationalism whereby the wori'l
shall be bossed by a trilume is equal
ly impracticable if i'. is not equallj
da ngerous.
i.
The best tiling the president of th?
I'nited States could do would be io
conn home with or without his en
tourage and seek to understand the
thought and puiposes of the country
he represents. l-'ixed in such firm
ground he could be in a position to
relieve embara:Mments bound to mot"
him as Woodtow Wilson at the peace
conference. In short he would stri\t
to represent the composite common I
sense and conclusion of America and I
forget himself lor the time —if possi
ble.
If all the hoggish profiteers and
wasters might be penned for keeps on
Hojj Island the place would be' worth
all and more than it cost.
If that bunch of I. W. Ws. appears
Before an Iowa legislative committee
to plead for the rel flag in this state
and some husky committeeman does
n't wear and use his heaviest boots
there'll be bitter disappointment all
over this grand "commonwealth of
Iowa.''
We aren't seeking a "far flung bat
tle line" or to "hear our drums around
the world" but to see the boys in den
ims again thumping the bang boards
while getting out "100 bushels a day."
That's us all over Mable.
But. because some of the boys shot
craps and enjoyed the game is no rea
son why we should pass a statute maK
ing craps the stale game of Iowa.
And the icemen know now how the
Germans felt just after Chateau
Thierry.
Theoretically of course it's all right
but who's going to boy all those hogs
and hold the pork at arbitrary prices.
You can lead a horse to water but
making him drink is another story.
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES,
"Secretary Lane would reclaim some
of the abandoned farms of the eaat.
He does not ssem to understand that
thts reasons these farms were aban
doned was because they could not be
farmed profitably in competition with
the more fertile prairies of the west."
says Wallace's Farmer. "To put some
of our soldier boys on these eastern
lands and require them to make a
living from thom would be simply to
condemn them to a lit'u of hardship
and slow starvation."
"The sooner the socialists and others
of their ilk get the Idea out of their
cracked brains that they can do as
they please and stay out of Jail, the
better it will be for them." Says the
iMans'on Democrat. "If things keep
going their way in this country it will
not be many years until there will be
an uprising of the people that will
shake the world and when that up
rising is over there will be whole
graveyards full of fellows.who thought
ihe world owed them a living without
work. When the cleaning Is over they
will know they have been cleaned."
"The super-man will now give a
demonstration of his ability to carry
the world's largest mortgage," remarxs
the Burlington Gazette.
"Every time the price of butter
slips a few notches, oleoomargarine is
forced to retreat to previously pre
pared positions." remarks the Des
Moines Register.
The Sioux City Journal informs its
readers that "'An automobile tax to
pay for hard surfaced roads would be
money saved to the gwner rather than
a burdensone taxation" Imposed upon
him."
The JEmmetsburg Democrat fears "It
is going to be tough on President Wil
son when he has to come home. He
has become so used to the ways Of the
courts of Europe and the laudatidn of
a lot of men who have ulterior mo
tives in such things that he will feef
ouh of place as a simple American
president."
"Well, the plan of keeping- people at
home thru the plan-of high passenger
fards did not work," commeate the
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irn.9M.000 tha h«t« for lit*. Aa
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only ran behind
thai amount even with ascaaaiva
fares. We ahuddar to think how much
more the government would have had
to dig up if b* people had stayed at
home and to their own busi-
'ujc——
Iowa Newspapers
no coitroiMriNct history.
[Boon* News-Republican.]
But these periodical spasms of In
vestigation of the packing Interests
have not done much good in the past.
PSYCHOUXUCAL, VIUSAKS.
IDftvaoport Times. 1
Any time tha Germans hate the ex
kaiser for hia crimes against humanity
vell they don't. The Heast of Berlin
was years old Monday, and all over
Germany, in a quiet way, the people
mudo a fuss about hia birthday. Truly,
the psychology of the German mind, at
.home and abroad, is one of the big
problems of the war.
TWO TIMES TW«l 18 rtL'R.
[Des Moines Capital. 1
There ia one great task ahead of the
good roads propagandists, and that is to
convince the people of Iowa of the
fact that the motor vehicle tax, equit
ably increased, can be made to pay
per cent or more of the intercounty
paviu£. When the Iowa farmer knows
this, when he has been convinced that
it is true, the problem of paved roads
sentiment will have been
solved.
completely
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The^e three it-marks are taken at
random from a speech by Senator La
Kollette. on the floor of ihe senate of
the I'nited States late last week. He
ridicules the constitution of the United
States he proclaims his friendrthip for
those who cheered and celebrated when
the Lusitania and its precious cargo of
non-cambatants. women and little chil
dren were murdered: he attempts to
whitewash those, who raped and
pillaged, burned, sacked and wantonly
destroyed wherever they went on
neighboring soil, those who not only
countenanced these vandalisms and
heinious crimes but those who com
mitted them.
It's a bit hard 011 the common,
ordinary, everyday loyal citizen to
think that this sort of thing can go
on unrebuked in the uper house of
our congress, but It certainly does
serve a lot of senators right to be
forced to listen to it if not with the
advice at least wifch the consent of the
senate.
THE DAVIOXPORT SCHOOLS.
[Davenport Democrat.]
Comment which comes to the Demo
crat on the proposition to add a sales
manship course at the Davenport high
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of tha a«uiwniMt tod ektt#«a who
have gona or ara 90(119 out Into oetivt
oommereial aatf (nduatriai lift.
Such a couraa aa Is proposed can
only be of a maximum value to our
younc paopla if it Is a product of ac
tive co-operation between the business
men of the city and Its school author
itlaa. But thare certainly Is no reason
why they should not aot hand In hand.
It la taken for granted that the
school board haa a welcome for propo
sitions that are for the betterment of
the achools and of the young people
whom tha schools ara amtectad to fit
for Ufa., And if a poposltion like this
one can aity to the practical value of
the training offered In our schools
without taking away any of its cultural
elements, it should certainly be not
only welcomed but fostered.
We now have an extensive and val
uable laboratory equipment for voca
tional training. We have a print shop,
a blacksmith shop, a carpenter shop,
a foundry, paint shop, laundry, rooms
for drawing, garment making. cooklnK.
courses In bookkeeping, stenography
and typewriting. To thi» apparently
would need to he added little in order
to efficiently develop course in sales
manship. And for this purpose we be
lieve the school board may command
the unqualified support of the busi
ness Interests of this community. They
are prepared to lend their stores, we
believe, for supplementary training of
those who loarn salesmanship in the
schools, snd give places to those who
are transferred from school to store
with a practical equipment for life ami
a determination to make good behind
the counter or in any department of
commercial effoi t.
The school board should take pains
in this connection to (earn what the
people want and to give it to them.
THE BEST DIVIDENDS.
[Burlington Hawke.ve.]
That the country needs legislation
and vigorous administration to pro
tect the public health has a very
striking demonstration in the convic
tion of James Dorsey. the "million
aire cow king." of Kane county. III. Miuantitles of flowers from friends and
H* bought tubercular cows at tn« admirers In the country across Ihe bor
t'nion stock yards and thruout the|der. where he was formerly well and
state, -and used the mails to defraud favorably known also several dozen
In advertising that they were high-J scurrilous and abusive letters, which
grade Ilolsteins. He shipped the
cows'did
not trouble his holiday qalm since
to his 500-acre farm, where they were I they were carefully sorted out of his
clipped, their horns and hoofs polished itv-iil and thrown awtiy by his servants,
and then sold at fancy j.rtce*. It was The subject of congratulations douht
a triple crlm«—he used the mails
The Ex-Kaiser's Birthday.
The most distinguished resident of
Amerongen, Holland, on Monday cele
brated the completion of his sixtieth
year. In memory of the day came great
less has some trouble in recognizing
defraud, he swindled the buyer, and himself wbfn he looks In the mirror
he Imperiled the heaith of thousand*, nowadays, for he has lately taken to
of people. Kisht years In the federal wearing the undistinguished garb of
penitentiary at I^eavenworth. Kan., civil life, and a \andyke beard has
and a tt.'XJU fine Is nane too heavy a supplanted the bristling mustaches
penaltv
for su-h a criminal. I once so famous. There is, too. the lir-
When will men learn that not oniy He matter of the projected serenade by
is honesty the best policy." but that the village choir, which had to be
the principle of right and of "the abandoned on account of public opin
square deal" pays the best dividends, ion: nnd some disorganization seems
to have been caused in the household
by the recent desertion of a number of
old servants. But. on the whole, it may
doubted if many men of 60 ca-i
celebrate their birthdays In such ex
ternal comfort.
\VITH s»KNATOFUAI. COSSK.NT.
(Burlington Hawke.ve.1
\fter having been thoroughly white
washed within the fortnight, u.v the
I'nited tSates senate, Senator IjaKul
lette considers it high time to break
forth again.
"The constitution for some time has
been a lost document."'
•We have no feeling toward the (Jer
mpns but that of friendship and kind
liness."
"They (the Germans) had nothing to
do with bringing on the war nor Its
prosecution.''
However, it all depends on what
you've been used to. Ten years ago
this same man celebrated his fiftieth
year in Berlin, with kings and grand
dukes flocking to him to pay their
respects and assure him of their loyal
support. Among the innumerable
gratifying incidents which adorned
that occasion were the presentation of
1100,000 by Adolphus Busch to Har
vard I'niversity to found a museum of
Germanic culture in honor of the birth
day. and a gift by the celebrant him
self to the American church in Berlin
of a sumptuously embellished volume
which was regarded by giver and re
celver as the token of an ancient and
valued friendship. To be :iure. this
man's chief servant had lately had to
promise the parliament of his subjects
thut he would keep his master's tongue
In its place but this was a detail of
small account.
Five years ago. on Jan. 27, this
hitrhly placed personage celebrated the
completion of another lustrum. There
were the same throngs of ^cheering
subject*, the same processions of con
gratulatory ambassadors, the same edi
fying spectacle of eminent scientists,
business men of genius, artists and
authors of distinction who counted as
their greatest honor the receipt of a
ribbon from him. There were also an
noying trivialities, of course the civil
administrator of Alsace-Lorraine was
Just resigning 011 account of the feellnff
roused by the incident at Saverne: but
this could hardly mar the day. This
distinguished Individual ruled an em
pire which was absolutely, if not rela
tively. the most powerful ever known
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[By David COry.J
Well, in the last story you remember
that Billy Bunny made Uncle L.ucky
laugh so hard that tbe J«ar old gentle
man rabbit nearly lost hia diamond
horseshoe phi. But he* didn't, for he had
a little fastener on the end of it, you
see. Well, anyway, ater the old gentle
man rabbit stopped laughing. Old Prof.
Crow shut up his little Black Book with
a bang and tew away. 1 guess he was
dreadfully provoked '»l what Billy
Bunny had said.
"Now. what shall we do?" asked
Uncle Lucky and he looked this way
and that way and up and dowrt and
sidewayw. And just-then, all of a Sud
den, a voice said:
Oh, why do you linger.
Just look at my finger.
It's pointing the way to the weat.
So do not delay.
But go on your way.
And when you get home you can rest."
And then an old tin peddler came
out from behind a tree and pointed
with his little Anger down the road.
And after that he took a pan out of
his paok and said:
"Hera's a dishpan, bright and new,
Take it home and cook a stew."
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In Tfce
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ENGLAND
The Sinn F«in delegates in Dublin have declared Ireland (ran
and ara attempting to organise a govanuaant. 8* for ttoa hps
violence, and the British authorities ara taking a* atepaitp sUf
then. The shaded portion on the nap indiantes how audi of tha
included in tha new nation. The people of Ulster, in the nortK are 1
to home rule and an independent Ireland. The map alsa shorn the
that a free and hostile Ireland would be to England. TOe jgrinei|»t
of England trade runs through the Irish sea, almost within sight of the
Irish coast. For this .reason it is not expected that England will allow the
idea of a free Iretaao" to get much beyond the talking stage.
will ever see another birthday. No
doubt, he does not see it in this light
by common consent tbe strongest state
in the world, and supposed to be, in
many ways, the most highly civilized.
He governed his people. In the last an
alysis. according to his own personal
pleasure and they liked it.
Other emperors have fallen as far
and as suddenly, but of no other cau
it be said so confidently that his fall
was entirely his own fault. If he had
let well enough alone he would have
celebrated his birthday In Berlin this
year, amid the same surroundings and
the same enthusiasm. His people were
far gone on a vicious course when he
came to the throne, but if he had spent
his first twenty-five years in holding
them back instead of spurring them on
he would not now be wondering if he
delusions of ijersecution, which seem to
be endemic in the German people, have
not left the imperial family unaffected
he probably regards himself an the vic
tim of an infamous conspiracy of the
whole human race, and perhaps hopes
fhat the friend and patron of Oott will
not be forsaken. But his hope Is a aapall
one the grand jury of civlUaatioa is
preparing the indictment. History
shows no more perfeet illuatfattea of
the old Greek doctrine of Hubris and
Nemesis, of overweening pride lnf»"i
ably punished.—N. Y. Times.
Until the year 1S74 the Japanese used
to vaccinate on the tip of the nose.
Billy Bunny and Hia Fnend&JI
•Not today," said Uncle Lucky, "I'll
wait till miue has a hole in the
bottom." and then be started off again
with Billy Btinny, and pretty soon, not
so very far. they eaw their old friend
the Snow Mas. Ue waa walking along
with a pipe in his m«ith aad a- dress
suit ease in hia hand.
"Helloa, there Mr. ®now Man." said
Uncle I.uclfy. "Get in the #tedmobile,
and ir you're going our way we'll take
you along." 80 the Snow IMan jumped
in and put his dress suit ease under
the seat, and then he felt so happy
that he bc«an to sing—
•'1 wag made by ten little boys,
Oh, ten little boys made me
When they made my eyes with pieces
of cbal
And hollowed my mouth like a great
big hole.
They shouted and laughed with glee.
And then they hunted all thru their
clothes
To find what they could use far my
nose.
But they could find nothing, nothing at
all.
So they made my nose with a little
snowball."
And in the next story, if the 'Snow
Man doesn't melt and run out of the
Snowmobile, I'll tell you what happen
ed after that.
BY BRIGGS
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