Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-11-17
Preliminary Arrangements Are
Made For Annual Meeting to
Be Held at Des Moines
WILL BE GREAT ENcAMPMENT
Fully GOO Members of the Society Of
tho Army Of tho Philippines Will At
tend and Reunion Of Fifty First lows
viii be Held at Same Time = BIZ
snniai Reports.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. 17.--PrelIminary
arrangements have already been made
for the annual meeting of the National
Society OF the Army OF the Philippines
to be held In Des Moines next August.
Fully 600 members are expected to att
tend the three days session and in ad-
dition there will be held the first an
rual meeting of the Fifty first Iowa
regiment which saw service in
Luzon. The committees are now at
work raising the $4,000 required. The
first day will be devoted to the regis
tration Of visitors and smoker and
vaudeville entertainment at the Elks
club house. The afternoon OF the Sec
ond will witness an elaborate enter
tainment and reception at Fort DeS
Moines where the 900 members OF the
Eleventh cavalry will entertain the
guests The evening Of the second day
will be devoted to the annual ban-
quet where covers will be laid for 500
PtVRISs ~ 40 S0bCGISN4 S4iAI OALS AASSNS
Ing will he the most successful IN THE
history Of the veterans. Gov. Cuni-
minis, Congressman Hull and Colonel
Thomas, Of the Eleventh cavalry, are
on the committee on invitations and 1t
Is expected that Gen. Nelson A. Miles,
Gen. A. r. Chafcee, Gen, s.. B. M.
Young, Lloyd Wheaton, Gen. j. +. Bell,
"Jackey'' Smith and ]. M. Bell will be
present. Delegates will come from
fifty local camps Of the order scat
tered throughout the central west ard
the five camps In the Philippines will
also be represented.
"A partial list OF the reports issued
biennially and annually by the various
state departments shows that there are
$4,000 volumes issued at total cost
OF $38,4S5.34 at an average cost OF 46
cents volume. There Is considerable
speculation on the part OF q number
whether or not there might ibe q very
considerable saving In the matter Of
annual and biennial reports. The fig
ures given are for a list Of reports, the
cost of which Is ascertained from the
report of the executive council. Some
Of the reports in the list are annual
and some biennial. There are a NUM-
ber OF the minor reports that are not
given at all that would help to swell
the list. Again the report of the exe-
cutive council as to the cost is not all
ways clear. Where an edition Of 1000
volumes OF a report are issued the cost
of binding 1000 or 1900 lis given only.
The real question Is what ever be-
comes of the reports. They are sent to
various persons who ask dor them.
They are Furnished to the newspapers
and by them the leading facts are pub
ltshed from the reports. A few vol
u1nes OF each report are bound in
leather and flied away in the depart
ment for preservation and sent to the
state library there to repose for years
without reference. It ds of course
granted that the lnforrn..ofon contained
In the reports should he IN shape so
that the public ana the Legislature can
have access to it but there are un-
doubtedly hundreds of volumes that
never become Of any service to man
kind.
Here is list OF the volumes that has
been prepared from the executive coun-
nfy rapor$.