Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-06-23
LOCAL COMMENT

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| The Council Bluffs school board is
| very seriously considering the adop-
| ton of the cap and gown costume for
senior classes in the high school Dur
| ing the past three years the gradua-
| ton expenses have been onerous ex-
cept to the Weather graduates, and
! these expenses have increased until
the incomes OF working people and
those OF moderate means are seriously
affected. The sweet girl graduate or
| Council Bluffs schools found il neces-
sary this year 10 buy three entire suits.
| one for the junior dance, one for the
| alumni reception and another for the
| graduating exercises Some went fur
| Their and bought an outfit for the bac-
cnlaureate sermon. The individual ex-
penses of this years class ran from $40
to $3.50. Then the class pin, 50: class
| book. s1.25; invitations and tickets
We're added TO the expense. Poor AMI
foolish parents will be paying eradua-
ton debts long after the daughter has
found a place for herself
There is a lot of snobbery in all this
1t is on the same line as sending a
school girl to school deliberately dress
ed in silks and satins If there is one
institution on earth that should be es-
sentially democratic ii Is the public
school. 1t is not a place for ostenta.
ton and the display of wealth he
pity Is that in every community some
fail to realize this or refuse to act upon
it, Take, for instance, the man earn
s35 a month on delivery wagon pay
ing SO to $3.50 per month rent, with
three to five children to feed and
clothe His girls are bright, likable
and popular in their classes. Add the
expenses of graduation in even the
most conservative towns to his daily
expense. and IL he has a new SO suit
that year somebody will give it to him.
Forty dollars was the least any gradu-
ate in Council Bluffs cost her parents.
1t was a months wages for the aver
age worker.
The Council Bluffs school board may
naturally and wisely take notice. and
other school boards wisely follow its
example. Men and women with pride
much to give their own what all the
other girls have" 1t is the duty Of
school boards to curb lavish expendi-
ture by the nouveaux riches when 1t
Expresses honest people trying to edu-
cate their children and humiliates the
poor.
On Tuesday of the coming week
Marshalltown will entertain one of the
big circuses of the country. A few
suggestions are always opportune pre-
ceding the advent of circus day, and in
needing them the public may be better
off when the circus departs. This is
not to intimate that the circus fosters
any organized gang of criminals, ever
ready to burglarize houses during the
parade and performances, awaiting d
chance to pick pockets or a f-,us to
get the unsuspecting to bite on attrac-
tive bats. This sort of business is no
longer a part of a respecting circus
management
While circus owners may do every.
thing in their power to prevent crime
there are always more or less Grimm
ais accompanying them. These the peo
pie must guard against. Be a little
more careful in leaving homes, pay
more attention to window fastenings
and door latches. Don't make it easy
for the pick pocket to steal watches or
jewelry, and be sure and leave all
money, excepting what is actually
needed where burglars can't get it. I.
is largely carelessness that causes such
rich harvests of ,pickpockets and bur-
glars on circus days. The police will
do their duty, but they are not omni
present.
1t took the grocers' picnic to bring
the rain this year. after two never
fail" signs had failed. The Gentry
show and park opening have been sure
rain getters in years past, but this
year it was up to the grocers. The
rain in this section was as tho gold
dollars had fallen.
The Philadelphia sensation of the
week, the capture of the kndnaper of
Freddie Muth, son Of Quaker City
jeweler, is a marked example of the
power of the press in assisting officers
Of the law. When the police depart
ment had failed, and the lads life
was threatened if the officers We're
not called off, the newspapers of
entered into a conspiracy
with the police and wilfully printed a
flake" story that was successful in
throwing the kidnaper off his guard
and effecting his capture. 1t was the
most unique bit of work in modern
journalism, and the mayor of Phila-
delphia, chief of police and father of
the boy have all publicly thanked the
newspa pers for their work. Officers
can mot learn too soon that taking
the newspapers into their confidence
will work only to their assistance
and benefit
If Mayor Ingledue isn't careful he
will find himself SO popular in New
York City that Tammany will be
him out as a candidate.
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1t is hoped that the school enumer-
alton this year will be thorough and
show the increase that is indicated by
all other methods of figuring.