Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-15
Topics of the Times.

Leon Browns deserved pT01lOllOH 10
a managing editorship comes at the
end on an excellent apprenticeship we'll
served and is well deserved. Mr.. Brown
is one of the best of political reporters
and good all round newspaper man.
$50
F. w. Beckman who has left the SER
vice of the Des Moines Register and
Leader where he has for some years
been managing editor will be missed
among the hustling fraternity which
begins and finished completed pro-
duct in the days work. Beck" has
found more congenial job but he will
miss the exciting strain that is the
charm of newspaper work. the daily
gamble with the wires and the events
of a globe He is a clean square sort
and will succeed.
Alfred Austin expresses fear Of
women in politics. Alfred expresses
what all men have felt but have been
afraid to express. And why only in pol
itics?
Congressman Lilley, of Connecticut,
is also congressman and is doing his
best to hold on to both jobs as long as
he can. Governor Lilley is a daisy.
Limited segregation, or compromise
between complete segregation and CO.
education, is to be tried in the public
schools of Colorado Springs. Col The
experiment is first to be conducted this
Spring in the high school Beginning
Feb 1, boys will be separated from the
girls in recitation classes, as far as is
practicable. The plan will be carried
out slowly and results will be carefully
noted. If satisfactory, the segregation
will be more widely extended, and ulti-
mately may be established in the gram
mar schools, beginning with the sew
enth and eighth grades. The decision of
the school board to try this experiment
was the result of opinions expressed at
a general meeting of the $50 teachers
of the district.
\. OnQer dl dCU' VI rlIlG 'ldSIf ScuSIclI SiS
sembly two of the progressive cities of
our state have dispensed with the cum
bersome old methods of city govern
ment and have placed their affairs I'M
der the control of commission. In my
estimation this is the most important
reform in municipal government that
has ever been attempted anywhere. In
my opinion the right of adopting this
form of government should be extended
to all our first class and second class
cities, without exception.-Governor
Garst.s Annual Message.
Clarion has a, dentist named Theo-
dore Roosevelt. The Roosevelts all
seem to run to teeth.
The Jefferson Standard has installed
a typograph and is smuggling hard at
the news.
Comparison of conditions in Iowa
and elsewhere does not encourage emil
grafton. At Winnipeg there are hun
dreds of men out of employment, and
their condition is made worse by the
bitter cold which is commonly some 20
degrees worse than the temperature in
this part Of Iowa. The mayor of Win
nipeg proposes to meet the situation
by opening>a cord wood camp The men
would be the better off for the work
and there would be something to show
for the money expended. When an Iowa
man saws wood for anyone but himself
ne figures the time at 25 cents an hour.
And gets II.
Many states limit the time their as
semblies can remain in session. There
are but eleven which fail to do so, and
Iowa is one Of them. The common du-
ration of state legislative session is
sixty days, tho few states extend it
to ninety days. Alabama insists that
the business must be done In fifty
days; Indiana likewise. Oregon cuts
the period down to forty days: so does
South Carolina. West Virginia is par
G.-- L..