Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-11

of the teacher Of that particular room.
Nine teachers are employed and this
card directory is of great convenience.
And now for a closing statement that
probably can be said of few school
houses in Iowa. The white washed
walls inside OF this big building are
absolutely free from all pencil marks.
Not a vulgar inscription anywhere.
The boys of Rockford may not be any
better than other boys, but sure it is
their schoolhouse walls are entirely
free from this kind of indecency and
vulgarity.
Speaking Of schools, naturally sug-
gests mentioning what has often oc-
Cured to the writer in his travels over
the state; this referring to towns
where colleges are located. In every
instance such towns are noticeable fos
the tone of prevailing sobriety, tenn
perance and general decency. This
was suggested again at Nora Springs
yesterday. AS one walks the business
streets, there's no college In sight. No
crowds of students are on the streets
or any gathering to tell a stranger he
is in a college town. But the influence
Of the college upon the town is more
felt than shown. Any community that
wants college located there, any lot
of citizens that want a college and are
willing to make money inducements
for it to be located there, is composed
of class of citizens that go to make
up a model town in many respects. It's
both cause and effect. And, not only
is there a "tone," an indescribab.e
something that makes the business
men more on the gentlemanly order.
but this tone" works INTO practical
form. College towns have better side
walks, better churches, better public
buildings. College towns have better
painted houses, better kept lawns. And
college towns in Iowa, with few
notable exceptions, get along without
saloons Don't find the open saloon
necessary ito draw trade to the town. :
All this of course opens up a field for
wide discussion. But the facts can
not be disputed. Perhaps the location
of college in such towns, is not the
cause of these pleasurabe things in
life. The question is open to argu.
ment, but just the same college town
is "a nice place to live in and raise
a family
In this moralizing vein, cones the
remarkable interest shown in the late
prize fight as we'll as in all previous
smuggling matches. The writer was in
another college town when the news
papers arrived giving an account of the
last "forty-two rounds fight And
these decent, moral, respectable peo-
pie, students, citizens and business
men, all were talking it over. No one
expressed any disgust over the pub
lished details. He ought to have lost
the fight when he persistently. struck
foul blows Surprising Roosevelfs
son was witnessing a prize fight; what
Of it?" II don't think white mar
ought to fight niger, even in a
prize fight And such remarks were
heard all of the forenoon. 1t was
subject of more interest to these good
people than Bryan's last speech,
Roosevelt's phonetic message, the
bomb throwing in Russia, or even the
capture of Stensland. If one touch
of pity makes the whole world akin,
surely prize fight. the detailed &C
counts thereof, and the interest there
in, shows that even in these nice col
lege towns, there's considerable of the
old Adam in our make-up.