Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-12
WON'T ACCEPT Old
STYLE UNIFORMS
General Thrift Will Stand For
Rights of Iowa National
Guard
MONEY TO lowAs CREDIT
In National Treasury-Thrift Suspects
That War Department is Trying to
Favor the Regular Army, Which
Looks Down Upon the Guard-Pa-
roles For Industrial School Boys.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. April IL. = Gen. w. II.
| Thrift is determined that the Iowa
national guard shall not accept the old
style uniform and is sure that is what
the war department is trying to force
all the guard to do. "rhe regular army
looks down on the guard. They give
it a second place and think the worn
out equipment should be given to 1t.
When new arms are adopted all the
old style on hand is to be worked Off
onto the guard. / don't propose to
submit to it. In this uniform mat
ter. they are trying first to equip the
regular army with the new uniform
and after that will equip the guard.
The factories can't work fast enough
to equip the regular army all at once,
and it will be some time yet before
the regular army is all equipped. But
they expect the guard to accept tne
OLD style of uniform till that supply
Is worked off and then viii equip the
guard But Iowa has enough money
to it's credit now in the national treas
ury to equip it with uniforms and UNI
forms are what we need. Ii we accept
the old style it will be five years be-
| fore the guard will be in need OF uni
| forms again or before we Will nave
| enough money to our credit to pur-
chase uniforms. don't propose to ac-
cept anything but the new style OIL
! uniform The guard as matter OF
fact has more influence in politics than
the regular army has,
| Miss Clare Lunbeck HAS received
| new list Of forty-six boys that are
| 5i.ortly to be paroled from the Eldora
| industrial school. The Ildora school
has a regular system OF merits that
are given for good behavior and when
! a bow is ready to be paroled it is be-
cause he has won the right by good
| behavior. At Eldora the boys look
forward to their parole with great
deal of anticipation. They know as
we'll as the superintendent when the
| parole is coming and unlike the girls
at Mitchellville are always anxious to
get out and go to their folks. AS
soon as a list is prepared for parole
| it becomes the duty of Miss Lunbeck
to investigate each case and determine
| whether or not the home is proper
| place for the child to be. sent to. Some
times after the boy has been placed
| in the school the parents move to
some other state or in some cases Gle
and another home must be found for
the boy. In a great many cases the
| home was principally responsible for
the boy going bad in the first place
and being sent to the school and then
another home must be found for the
| boy. Boys are never turned loose from
I the school aimlessly to drift for them
| selves.
| In many cases the superintendent is
| familiar with the circumstances of the
condition of the boys home and the
| Investigation is not needed. After be-
| ing given the list of the boys to be
paroled Miss Lunbeek visits the in
stitution and makes the acquaintance
| of such boys as she has not already
| known. She talks with them and finds
| out where the parents are living, If
| they have moved, ard then visits the
home If there is a possibility that the
boy will go there. Miss Lunbeck finds
that the boys are always truthful with
the one exception that they will
occasionally exaggerate the con-
| ditions of their home. If they
have come from farm the farm is al
most invariably large one and If their
father has kept store in some little
81 ;V,1,o or;o1, ,11yo 1ar store This
however, is in most instances not the
fault of the boys. In many instances
they have been away from their farms
and stores for several years and the
things of youth invariably look larger
than they seem in later life. only
month ago Miss Lunbeck received a list
of about forty boys and all but few
of these have been placed in homes
or at employment. The plan followed
at Mitchellville is different. There the
girls are not usually allowed to leave
the school till they are OF age unless
there are particular circumstances
They go out whenever the superinten-
dent from his personal knowledge of
the girl believes it best.
One of the most interesting things
stated by Ray Ststnnard Baker VINO is
In the city for McClure's magazine, to
write a series of articles on the rail-
road question, is his confirmation of
the report that Lincoln Steffens is to
come to Iowa to write up the politics
of the state, much in the same manner
that he has done in other states. The
story that Mr.. Stefens was coming
has already been published in these
columns. Mr.. Baker states that he will
be here as soon as he can get around
to ii and may come this year. 1t is be-
lieyed that treated as Mr.. Steffens has
treated the question in other states the
publication of the information he VIII
gather will do much toward riddlng the
state of what impurities there are In its
politics and keeping it pure in the fu-
ture.
Mr.. Baker toiay is at Ames, where