Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-08
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NAIL BONES DISCONTINUED.
Shenandoah Sentinel.

NAIL BONES DISCONTINUED.
shenandoah Sentinell
One feature of ehe rural mail service
has proved a failure. and will be dis
continued in most instances. We refer
to the use OF the government mail
boxes. The theory was that the letters
in the country should be deposited in
these boxes at convenient localities be-
cause of the greater safety TO the mail,
but experience has proven that the far
mers rarely use them Some of the
boxes do not receive one letter a wear.
The patrons put the letters in their own
private boxes for dispatch to the post
Office
The various inspectors are instructed
to investigate and in those cases where
the government boxes are seldom used
to recommend their discontinuance.
The inspector who recently visited the
Shenandoah rcstes recommended that
all the boxes be taken up and on Mon
day of this week an order was received
to take them up and return them TO the
department.
STATE INSTITUTIONS EXPENSES.
IRegister and Leader.l
In spite of the fact that they save
greatly on purchasing their coal sup
ply, and that their diet is not SO ex-
pensive in some respects as at our own
state institutions. the state institutions
of Illinois record no saving per capita
in cost of operation over those of Iowa
said Judge G.. S. Robinson, of the state
board of control. who was in his office
Monday, having returned from an eX
tended trip. during which he visited the
Illinois Soldiers Home at Quincy. the
hospital for the insane and the school
for the deaf, at Jacksonville. ILL.,, and
the hospital for the chronic insane at
Bartonyille. TIE same state. Judge
Robinson also visited the MI. Pleasant
hospital and the Fort Madison peniten
tiary in Iowa. and was present at a re-
union of his old regiment, the One Hun
dred and Fifteenth Illinois, which was
held during the progress of the state
fair at Springfield, Ill.
Take for example, the comparative
cost OF coal supply fora year" said
Judge Robinson. The cost of coal for
the Cherokee hospital is three times as
great as that secured for the Barton
vile institution. where 1t costs Sl.S4
per ton That means a difference per
capita of over IS per month AT hide
pendence coal costs So a ton, which is
nearer the price paid at the Iowa in
stitutions. than the price at Cherokee.
but even here the price is 81 per capita
per month more than at Bartonviile.
Again, where the Iowa board re-
auires grain fed steers to furnish beef
for consumption, in the state insutu-
tons. the Illinois board uses COW meat.
1t also makes use of butterine, whereas
we have creamery butter. These items
make some difference in the expense
account. and the fact that the per cap
tia cost in Iowa is no more than chat
in Illinois, is a fact worthy of note. The
sum allowed Per capita for the opera
ton of the Iowa hospitals is 81 per
month for all. with the exception OF
Cherokee where it is $1a.
ANENT .'HOUSE CLEANING.
INDEPENDENCE Bulletin-Journal]
Ii has been stated, and it is true, that
there has been house cleaning since
the advent OF Mr. Cummins into office.
And the statement is no imputatlor
against the great majority of the men
who opposed his aspirations, either.
1t is an axiom that new broom
sweeps clean. This is especially true
in politics. 1t is also true that While
the great majority, or the ruling fac
ton of a party, is always composed Of
honest men. yet long continuance IN
att n
or that faction, corrupt and designing
politicians who place their own lnef-
est above that OF the public service.
sooner or later such men breed scan
dals, and then it remains TO be seen
if the party is strong enough TO purge
itself If there is such a stirring OF
the waters as to throw them of the
party may take on renewed NE IL
the inside rings are strong enough
TO prevent this then sooner OF later the
party goes down TO defeat.
Iowa republican politics was long
dominated by a machine that dictated
practically all Of the nominations. The
result was that some lnefncleht, ana
practically corrupt candidates secured
nominations for services rendered, ana
the party suffered. They were pafn-
acles who received favors because they
could be hauled. Mr.. Cummins was
a new man who was not i'll favor with
the old machine. Naturally he was
surrounded by able gentlemen VINO
were dissatisfied with the party man
agement, or he could not have sue
ceeded. Such men, as a rule. are not
grafters. and therefore they have work
ed many reforms After time, even
tho that crowd may continue to con-
troll. they Will be succeeded one day by
the same class as Is spoken or above.
Here and there will turn up scandal,
and one of these days there Will be an
other house cleaning, and another set
of new men will be placed in charge.
That has always been the history of
politics and always will be.