Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-24
CITES AND SMALLPOX
Telling the Truth About the Sit
uation Proves Decidedly
the Best Plan.
Attempts to Suppress the News
Generally Results in Ex-
aggerated Reports.
Vacation Schools for the Poor in
Des Moines-.The Prohibi.
tion Campaign.
Special to Times Republican.

| Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, June 24.-some of the
newspapers of the state having got into
a controversy over the smallpox situa-
ton comparisons are being made which
can be of little value. The Cedar Rap
ids people appear to feel offended be-
cause some of the Des Moines papers
have mentioned smallpox in connection
| with the holding of the republican state
convention. AS matter of fact it was
strongly urged against Des Moines at
| the time the state committee considered
/ the location of the convention, that
| there was a great deal of smallpox in
the city. All of which was true but
had practically nothing TO do with the
/ location of the convention. In fact there
1 was time last winter when there was
4 probably a hundred cases of smallpox
| in Des Moines and men We're found on
| the streets every few days freely
! ninglng with crowds who had the,
4 smallpox. But there was no scare about
| II. The situationin Cedar Rapids would
| have to become decidedly worse before
/ any of the crowd of Des Mones enthu-
i siasts planning 10 90 "a cedar Eanids
/ could be induced TO give UP the journey,
/ to which they look forward with pleas
ant anticipations. The effort to suppress
news of the smallpox situation N Des
/ Moines last winter failed. Itis not gem
orally known but it is true that when
4 the smallpox situation was at its worst
tht. merchants and business men called
irsss ~ ~. ,,.s,,.s,,a,,ars ,rbay
laid II do,y, cold and hard that unless
tbase business managers converted
tb.ir ,su.s n,,hlisbips arenc,es ;nto
news s,,rnrssstnr INSTITUTIONS and shut
/ ofs i,ae ,rdi,,, ,b..s 50 Ii,,oy tho adj
vartissrs would ston a5ver,isinp Thav
said nv ,oiebt . we.,l a., 90 az snutIi-
,a,io, of ,be neu.s vo,,ld ,niura hnsi-
4 nass Ranrasentatives of two of the
4 daily news,aner. agreed informally ia
4 become agents Tor the suppression ,f
\ the news TO accommodates the ner-
\ chants and advertisers. Two Others re-
A fusee, datly and declared that they owed
I. a duty 10 the pubic as we'll as to the
! advertisers and thev would continue to
! publish the news fearlesslv no matter
4 that the advertisers thought The,
4 pointed out that an attein,,t TO suppress
news especially unfavorabie news. all
! ways results in exapgefat,ati reuorts po-
truth should be proclaimed. Thera was
Il A eon1uro,nfse ans, the newspapers all
agreed that while they would no. sun
q press the news they Mould avoid sensa
I tionallsm. and this satisfied the adyer-
4 tisers.
Vacation schools have been onanad in
j Des AIoines for the benefit of tbs poor
children living in the down town nor
tiors Of the CITY who would otherwise
snsnd the summer IN iGiine about the
\ streets and getting into misehief These
summer of vacation schools are hAls in
a public school building most c,nyen-
/ vientIv located They are in charge Of
y useful things TO the bovs and girls under
4 fourteen wears of ace. Three of tbs
teachers are raid from. a fund raised for
that purpose but much of the work Incl
/ dent 10 the schools is done With a phil
anthropfc motive The first week bf the
vacation schools over POO children an
rolled and the number viii be largely
4 Increased. These schools ara proving
q great success and the city of I0rS
AIaires viii hardly again be without
them.
The organization Of another paper
4 railroad here-the Des SIoines & south
ern--incorporated with capital of
I $3.50. .OeO BY F w. Cherry. of Dess sNIoines
/ 80, % !, ,,,a,.S,, o. o,sis.,l5,ea ;,i
Gates in the mind of many that the war
\ fare between conflicting railroad inter-
ests has become so intensified of late
that it is doubtful if there will be much
railroad building. Ths new line TO Ne
vada is sure to be constructed as the
| contracts have been let. but the situa
4 tion south of the city is not SO clear.
III is generally believed the new com
4 pany is put UP to friehten others out
of a certain field.
sss
The purpose of making an attempt To
revive at this time the interest of Iowa
republicans in the presidential cam
paign of 1904 is made plain by the ap-
psarance in the columns of his home
I'll. T.. y.