Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-22
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
referring to the measure introduced
IN congress to increase the salaries of
the members from five thousand to
seventy-flve hundred dollars per am
mum, the Mitchell County Press argues
that the services of Il progressive
| member is easily worth seventy five
hundreds per annum, but the fellow
with standpat disposition should
stand pat on salary as we'll as on other
| matters"
The editor of the Pocahontas Sun
who has been in the profession of
teaching, speaking of failures to pass
the state examination, says: Judging
| from our experience in exam
ming thousands of teachers. we
will hazard the guess that not
one-half of one per cent of that
number were high school graduates. In
| this county, and that includes the Man
son school, 1t has been rare thing for
high school graduate to fail at a
teachers examination. The new state
law favors the high school graduate"
|
that about the only Chance there is
him to hang himself or else be too poor
to hire lawyer. That's the moral to
be drawn from the courts fiasco in
connection with the trial of Busse, who
murdered his wife and then tried to
burn her body to cover up his crime,
over In Butler county five years ago"
| Noting a proposition to increase the
numbeor of Iowa supreme court judges
to seven, to avoid the possibility of a
deadlock, the Ackley World suggests:
"Why not cut it down to three. That
number could do the work and still
have plenty of loafing time"
The Britt News pessimistically COM
plans that "a whole lot of fellows all
over Iowa will meet at Des Moines on
the first Monday in January, for a
three months holiday. The principal
things they will do will be to draw
their salary and per diem and probably
return home on a pass"
The Eldora Ledger sees a growing
belief that il the petit jury were dis
placed by board Of three, or more
judges. men competent and .versed in
the law and rules OF evidence, a great
reform would be established in the ad-
ministration Of law"
Think of John d. Rockefeller as a
follower of Jesus!" exclaims the Ode
bolt Chronicle.
The plentitude Of presidential mes
sages suggests to the Cedar Rapids
Republican the possibility that Roose-
welt '.is simply training for the edi-
torship of weekly magazine after he
gets out of office"
Remarlsing that Governor Cummins
Is in Washington, the Davenport Dem
ocrat assures it's readers that "he has
no designs on making permanent ar
engagements with the boarding houses.
That may come, however, in the course
of a little time" admits the Demo
crat.
"The pretorian guard and their SYM
pathizers are lining UP against state
wide primary measure" observes the
Waterloo Courier. But the legislature
is committed to the reform, the people
demand it, and it will come"
Barred Out.
"Yvette Guilbert," said theatrical
manager, received me in Paris. She
was busy studying for her American
tour, and for the George Moore play
of Esther Waters that she is soon to
produce.
"She told me a pretty story of a
tiny American millionaire she had met
the day before-a little millionaire OF
6 or Z years.
'"This youngster, calling on her with
his mother, suddenly interrupted his
play to ask:
Mamma, am rich?'
"'Well' his mother answered, smil-
ing and embarrassed, you're not poor
Pshaw! he exclaimed, his face
clouding over. THAT bars me out,
then. Nurse read to me this morning
that the Salvation Army was going to
distribute $4,000 in toys and candy this
winter, but it is for poor children
only"