Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-09

| is diverted to the far west, or made
at such heights from the earth that
| they are beyond sight and hearing,
| The game hog. the market hunter and
! the pump gun have about completed
the tragedy.
The REASON WHY.
lClarksyille Start
DIR" ]. Scott Stevens of Cedar
| Falls, wants to be member of the
republican state central committee
from the Third district, so the papers
| announce. If he will tell why nearly
all physicians prefix Or In signing
their name, when they claim they do
not believe in advertising. he can have
the Stars support.-Clarksville Star.
The Gazette does not speak under
authority OF DR.. Stevens but Will ven-
ture the remark that the necessities
are not so urgent as to demand an
explanation as why all professional men
make use OF the title honorably won
| by close application in our colleges
and universities.-Cedar Falls Ga
| zette.
Well, we'll, The secret is out. Doc
tors do not believe in advertising be-
cause there are papers like the Ga
zette that do the work for nothing
Then why should the physicians pay
for advertising? a perusal of the
| Gazette does not show that the bank
er, the stonemason. the lawyer, the
carpenter, the merchant and the num-
erous other trades and professional
men get the publicity given the doc
| tors, and certainly, in at least most Of
| the callings, at least as much time
study and money have been expended
| as with the doctors. The Star cannot
agree with the Gazette that profess
sional men are entitled to extra con-
sideration simply because they attend
| college Moreover, we do not think
| they ask it. The newspapers are to
blame to great degree. The fact re-
| mains, however, that physicians are
'sot' against advertising in the reg
ular way.
STATE LAND HOLDINGS.
[Register and Leader.l
Mr.. John Cownie of the state board
of control resents the charge which
was made in the legislature that he
was endeavoring to get the state OF
Iowa into the real estate business by
too much increasing the land holdings
of the state institutions.
Take Eldora for instance" said Mr..
Cownie I'VE have $50 acres of land
there. We need 1000. Why, l should
like nothing better in the way Of a
money making proposition than to
contract with the state to take that
institution with 1000 acres of land and
make 1t self-supnorting. 1t can be
! done with the land without 1t, it
cannot.
The state institution farms are
| models. The state is making more
money and doing better grade of farm
| ing than any other land owner in the
state. 1t is getting close to the Euro
pean methods--that is to the hand hoe
ing idea.
with the boys at the institution at
Eldora, giving the older ones half
day work and half day school. the
state could farm with perfect profit
more than twice the acreage it has. It
could grow twice the products and
simply make saving twice as large
for its own support fund We're the land
holdings increased"
corn to feed the hogs at the Eldora
institution" continued Mr.. Cownie.
Had we the land on which to grow
it, we could have saved that $4,000 and
put 1t into other supplies for the in
mates of the institution. That. it
would seem is a business matter--nor
| the state going into the real estate
business as described by some of the
the state institution land holdings.
1.-THE work is fine thing for the
| boys and giEls at the institution. At
Davenport they thoroughly enjoy it.
The superintendent of the farm can
go into the field and place one boy at
each row of potatoes for instance, and
in half day hand hoe whole lot Of
the crop 1t does them good, they like
1t, and it is work that the state may
well furnish at Il profit both to itself
and to the inmates OF the institution
"When we took the institution over
there was not a hog at Mount Pleas
ant institutions; now there are TOO or
500 of them, the finest animals in the
state The fact is that the stock of
the state farms compares with the
stock of the other farms of the state
all through. In fact, 1T is of a better
grade, / believe.
These are some of the reasons that
there should be more land at some of
| the institutions which need 1t. At
Vinton we have none at all, hardly. ~
small pasture which keeps less cows
than are necessary to furnish all of
| the milk that the institution requires,
so that 1t has to buy milk. When we
| took charge of the institution, in fact.
mon wara hired actlallY hired, to