Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-03
Proposed Removal of the Mem
bership Limitation Will En-
courage Farmer Boys
PLANS FOR IOWA euARDsMEN
Governor cumnoins is Especially Desir-
Gus Of Bringing the Organization Up
to the Standard Which Will Make 1t
in Fact an Auxiliary of the Regu-
lar Army-capital News.
Special to r,mes-Republican.


Des Moines, Oct. 3. = Important
changes are about to be made IN the
regulations for the Iowa national
guard 1t is understood that Gov
eraor Cummins has made special
study of the matter of Improvement OF
the guard and is especially desirous
of bringing the organization up to the
standard which will make it in fact
an auxiliary of the regular army. Ear
ly in his administration he gave IL
out th,.s he would personally attend
every camp and desired that every
member of his military staff should
be a working and active force in tbs
guard. He has become deeply inter-
ested in the WORK of the guard, and
ANYTHING he can do to improve 1t VIII
be, done. 1t is understood that one
of the changes of Importance made
will bss remove the distance limit
in regard 1.-The location of members
of the companies There will be en-
cot,ragement to the farmer boys llv-
ing near the towns in which the COM
panies are located. The rules at pre-
sent limit membership in companies to
persons in the corporation or within
mile of the corporation limits. rms
lirnit will be removed and thus en-
couragement will be given to the farm
boys Then there will be rule made
that in case the reports show that dur
ing any period on which reports are
required the attendance at drill was
below SIS per cent of the company
strength, the company will be muster
ed out. There will also be reform. In
regard to pay at encampments, ana
the hard and fast rule that where a
guardsman is called away from camp
before it is over he cannot receive pay,
will be abandoned, so that on reasons
able showing of necessity a guardsman
NAV be excused. In regard to exam-
nations there will be some modifica-
ton probably abolishing the inflexible
requirement of an examination before
a commission is issued and allowing a
commission to be re-issued or one for
a lower grade without examination.
Then there will be a provision for pay
allowance where an officer is ordered
before military board for examina-
ton. All these are in the direction OF
reforming the regulations to secure
better work i'm the Iowa national
guard These changes, If they are
promulgated, with the new drill regu-
lations to conform to the regular army
are expected to give the Iowa guards.
i,,fa ;,, hot.
the coming winter
But little is known here as to the
operations of the realty company for
merly located here, but which has got
into trouble with the postal authorities
in Florida. The company was incor-
porated after the law of the Twenty
ninth general assembly had been pass
ed, which undertook to forbid the
"horne cooperative" plan of doing bus
mess on payments and guess work. 1t
was incorporated by a minister of the
spell now dead, who presented to
the secretary of the state articles Of in
corporation which were promptly re-
jected. He was astonished, and asked
for explanations. The matter was
talked over frankly and it was pointed
out that his scheme, as outlined in his
original articles was in effect build
ing and loan scheme with the "home
cooperative" attachment. He was
asked to figure out when the "con-
tracts" would nture under his plan
and he estimated it at about sixteen
years. But a computation was made
in the office of secretary of state and
he was shown that it would take from
forty to sixty years to mature the con-
tracts as he had planned. He went
away. and afterwards returned and fill
ed the articles of incorporation, but for
simple realty company to don only a
real estate business. AS such the
company was chartered. When the
law of the last general assembly was
passed, making still more stringent
the regulations Of such companies the
then officers filed a change of name
and moved headquarters out of the
state. 1t is supposed that under the
charter. as a direct real estate company
a business was being done in othe<
states along the line originally outlir
ed by the incorporators and this is
where the federal authorities stepped
in.
1t is found that practically every one
of the "home co-operatiyes' which
was in operation when the iowa legis-
lature started after them few years
ago with a law which a Des Moines
Judge declared to be void, has now
gone out of business or is closing up It's
business. A few have been unable to
get rid of some of the obligations in
CURED and the managers are waiting
for the finish. The law was hard
fought at the start, but has had a
good result in clearing the state OF such
companies.
The state of Iowa has provision Tor
an expert accountant VINO goes over
the books annually in every office ana
checks up to see if the account nave
been kept right. 1t was thru this office