Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-07-18
GETS
No VACATIONS
Practically All the Summer
Will Be Devoted to Chau-
tauqua Addresses
MANY DATES HAVE BEEN MADE
Ex-Governor Packard, Of Marshall
town, Will Preside at the Recipro-
city Convention in Chicago August
17-Many Boys ParoIed From Indus
trial School Returned.

trial School Returned.
Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines. July 18.-At least a
score of invitations have reached the
governors office yesterday and today
asking him to make dates for address,
es. The governor Is taking no recogni-
ton of the hot weather and has map
ped out a summers work that most
governors would more than hesitate
at. A great many invitations that are
arriving now will have to be refused.
Between now and August "a. the gov
ernor has dates which on the average
will keep him speaking one day in ev-
cry three. 9 For the first part of that
period he will speak every day in a
number of instances and some OF his
vacant dates for the close Of the period
will likely be taken soon. Today the
governor in attending a meeting Of the
iliidLlCG GCOlIllHlllCC GU tAAC e0GosC NOAAS9S
at Ames. After that his speaking dates
for July are: 81, Iowa Falls; ~,
Bloomfield; 26. Pennington. For Aug
ust: 2, Glenwood: 3. Kellerton old set
tiers; S, Sioux Rapids; 9. Redfeld; 10,
Atlantic; 10. Clarinda: 16, Cass County
Veterans, Association at Grant: ".
reciprocity conference at Chicago; %,
| Wick; "a, Belle PLANE. September l.
Strawberry Point; Z. West Union dis
trict fair. July 20 and 20. and Aug. 8
are governors day at the encampment
Of the national guard regiment here.
Ex-Governor Packard. Of MARSHALL
town, Is to preside at the reciprocity
conference at Chicago, the date Of
which was changed to Aug. II, so that
| it would be possible for Governor Cum
MINIS to attend the meeting. The selec-
ton of Governor Packard Is both a
tribute to the ability Of Governor
Packard, and a recognition of the
movement in this state for reciprocity
The friends Of Governor Packard are
quite pleased at his selection He was
induced to take the Craftsmanship OF
the meeting thru Governor Cummins
who was asked by the leaders of the
movement in Chicago to use his in
fiuence and invite Governor Packard to
accept the place.
There are more boys paroled from
| the Eldora industrial school being re-
turned to that institution now than
formerly and this state Of affairs is due
| it is believed to the fact that the state
thru the state agent. Miss Clara Lun-
beck, is keeping closer wach over the
bays. When boy is paroled Miss
Lunbeck first investigates the place to
which he Is going and later makes Wis
| its to see that the boy is treated right
and given a proper chance. There Is a
leheory among those whose business 1t
| is to look after incorrigible boys that
| the boy in by far the great majority
Of cases is started on a downward
| path because his home surrounding
are either bad or weak. Either he Is
raised bad or else his parents exercise
no restraint. OF course 1t is admitted
that In many cases boys are naturally
bad in spite OF proper efforts of good
parents, but it is claimed that the per
| cent of such compared to the others is
small and that the Iowa boys If prop
erly brought up would with few excep-
tions, be good boys. There is really
more work than one agent can do to
look after all the wards OF the state
that are paroled and for that reason
Miss Lunbeck has devoted great part
Of her attention to the school for boys
at Eldora. A boy was returned last
week who had been out of the school
was engaged 1t would have taken
more than one week to have learned
that the boy was not doing properly.
He was returned, not on complaint OF
the people he was placed with, but on
the discovery of Miss Lunbeck that he
was not working as he should and the
people he was placed with didn't seem
able to get him started. For this rea-
son the number of paroled boys is lar-
ger under the present methods than
formerly.
Miss Lunbeck and the officials of the
Eldora school are glad to find such an
affectionate feeling on the part of the
boys for the school. They are treated
properly while at the school and
letters are continually reaching Miss
Lunbeck from the boys telling how
lonesome they are for the school at
Eldora. At the same time there is a
fear that the boys think more of the
school than they should. For the most
part the boys sent to Eldora are boys
that have none too good surroundings
at their homes asd the better moral
atmosphere and good treatment at the
school generally is In such marked
contrast to their former surroundings
that it is quite natural that they
should be loath to leave 1t. At least
score of letters reached Miss Lun-
beck the first of this month from boys
who regretted that they could not
spend the Fourth at the school at Ell
dora and about halt. dozen did re-
turn and enjoyed the day there. The
Fourth is full day for the boys
starting with a short chapel exercise
in the morning and lasting till night
with one round of sports and amuse-
ment, but with none OF the explosives
and the boys take to It and seem to