Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-01
SCHOOLS THANKSGIVING DON.
Isioux City T,.ibune.l

SCHOOLS Thanksgiving DONA-
TlCNS
Isioux City T,ibune.l
The school children Of the city made
their regular thanksgiving donations
TO the poor families Of the city. All
every school building in the city
stacks of vegetables and fruits AMI
other good things to eat We're taken
and conveyed from there to the char
liable Institutions for distribution
among the needy poor, that they might
be provided for on the day of Thanks
giving. a the Hcskins school, on
Panoah street enough supplies We're
taken to provide fifteen worthy fam
lilies on the west side ard the Work OF
distribution was superintended by Mrs
G.. III. Holister, one of the teachers in
the Hoslsins school. The collection
boxes in the hotels for the Boys and
Girls home and other institutions are
being literally remembered by the pub
lie.
3 HEAVY INDEBTEDNESS OF THE
STATE
TChicago Tribune.l
of Indiana KS. the Terre Haute (: In
dianapolis Railroad conlpang- begun
two years ago and still pending. SHOWS
that that railroad is intfeoted Oyer ~ K
100000 to the state Under the special
charter granted to 1t in 1911 and sur
rendered in 1873. since which tifle the
road has been operated anner fsle gen
eral state law, it was provided tn: aft
repaid the full sum invested in build
ing the road, with ten per cent interest,
they should turn over to the state. for
the use of4the common schools what
ever profits the road might earn over
the amount necessary TO pay Givi-
dend of IS per cent on the canital em-
ployed and to provide a surplus re-
serve fund. The evidence shows that
the company during the last SIX years.
of its operation under the special char
ter earned an annual income OF from is.
to 50 per cent on the original cost of
constructing the road, and Kept it ali,
though that charter permitted it 10 sli-
vide only Is per cent amolig its st,ck-
holders. The exact amount claimed by
the state is s2,Qli,0es.
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IsEs.
lDes Afoines Capital.l
Professor Macy Of Grlnnei college.
declares thar The Office of labor COM
missioner oaght to be abolished or filleg.
by a trainAd scientific siatistieian.
Thus far. says Professor Macy, the
governors have filed the Office with
men who made no pretense Of special
training and as 4 result Iowa has been
singled 3ut as q horrible sample of bad
Statistics. He regards the appointment
of a9rnan who has no training as a Iii
rect insult to labor and crime against.
the state.
Without giving endorsement 70 all
the declarations by Professor Macy, il
may be said that the office OF labor.
commissioner has not been brought to-
the high standard of efficiency that WAS
righifullya expected OF 1t. We have no
desire TO criticise past or present Of
ficials. but If an attempt We're made To
accomplish the things that properly be-
long 10 this office. the results would
disarml those who are now demanding
It's abolition. The proposition that al
trained statistieian should be in charge
of the Work is within reason. 1t may
be true that the. commissioners himself
would not need be a specially trained
statistican provided he possessed other
qualifications In a large degree and
would employ a deputy possessing
skill in figures, but it can not be dis
puted that an experienced man's
chances in the matter OF raising the
standard of the Office would be greater
than those Of the inexperienced. When
the law creating this Office was passed
the legislature left much to the inteIi-
gence ofSthe governor.
IOWA INTEREST IN THE BoER
WAR
ICouncli Bluffs Nonpareil.]
There are several Council Bluffs men
who are deeply interested in the South
african war, said commercial
traveller last night at the Grand hotel,
who has just returned from 4 trip
through Missouri that took him into
the Joplin zinc mining district. There
are a large number of Council Bluffs
men who are heavily and profitably
engaged in mining in the district, and
their interest in the Boer fight Hes in
the fact that a large percentage the
output of their mines has gone directly
into the South African gold fields. In
half dozen of the modern and APP
proved processes Of mining zinc, shay
inss are used in collecting the gold
preciDitated in the chemical processes.