Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-14

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pers. The Pella Chronicle recently re-
marked that: Parents should welcome
as we'll as respect the compulsory
school attendance. Heretofore it read
that your children must attend sixteen
consecutive weeks. The new law makes
attendance compulsory for twentyfour
consecutive weeks, for all children be-
tween the ages of II and IA, inclusive
'If this school district has a boy or
girl that has to be led up to the
trough, let the parents start them in
with the others, keep them off the
streets, treat them kindly at home, en-
courage them in their studies, 'brag
on them if need be and we assure you
the school board has employed corp
Of teachers that will keep that child
of yours in school the rest of the year.
What this means is plainly dem
Dnstated to your own every day life.
Mr.. Parent, you know what you can
do for that child and your good judg-
ment on any of the little troubles that
may arise, and your fixed resolve to
keep them in school,, will some day
have the boy or girl talking about their
father or mother in a way that would
swell YOU up with pride and sweet
scented conscience twenty years from
Sept. 6, 1909. Do your duty and remem-
Der the law
And here is the problem to solve. AS
a result of such loafing these pre-
cocious youngsters become bloody
toughs' and delight in giving an ex-
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ty before the crowds at the depots on
the arrival of the trains. And men that
ought to know better encourage them
to repeat and excel a previous TRADE
of obscenity that would shock the kid
raised on the bowery. In many cases
these boys are the sons of some poor
widow that has not all control of her
child. No one feels like Interfering
and so winter and summer the boy. in
steead of having twenty-four consecu-
tive Weeks of schooling, hardly has
] twenty-four consecutive days Where
a parent fails to act in such cases there
is authority that should act. Every lit
! tie town can not have a truant official,
but every little town should wake up
and stop this street education that fills
our penitentiaries.
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Towns adjoining Marshalltown are
we'll pleased with the ordinance passed
last week preventing minors, habitual
drunkards and graduates from all
liquor cure establishments from visit
ing places where intoxicating liquors
are sold
This ordinance which was passed
under suspension of the rules makes
il a misdemeanor for any of these
/ classes to visit saloon or other place
where intoxicating liquor is sold, and
I fixes a penalty of from s. to 500 ror
each otfense and in default the Offend
| ing parties are to be sent to Jail. Ii
was suggested that under the wording
of the ordinance it might be construed
as being an offense for d minor TO visit
a drug store where liquors are sold
The suggestion, however was not seri-
ously considered by the council
Every member of the council was
heartily in favor of the ordinance. on
the theory that it could possibly dc
no harm and might result in much
good. A copy of the ordinance is TO be
posted in every saloon.
| A similar ordinance is in effect in
Sioux City and other cities of the state
Similar action is being taken by the
! liquor interests all along the line, and
for once, prohibitionists and the ANTS
| agree. A business man from an adj
! joining town said to the writer, cts
the best job Marshalltown has evel
done. We try to keep our bootleggers
we watch the express office; our drug
| gists are fairly well observing the
pharmacy law, but we cannot prevent
a crowd of young men coming back
here drunk on the evening train filled
with Marshalltown whisky, and bring
ing with them pint bottles containing
enough to keep up the spree until mid
night. Many of them are minors. Mer
too. we have at least two "habitua
drunkards" that is. if going to Mar
shaltown every Saturday and coming
home drunk every Saturday makes
such men .'habitual drunkards,' anc
some one in this town will test the
legality of this Marshalltown city or.
dinance."
Assuming that this scribe knows al
about it at least a dozen inquirers have
put this question to the writer. What's
the final result in town of the BILLY
Sunday meetings? Now as the writer
has been up in Minnesota for the pas
four weeks, he was not posted so he
asked the same question to a leve
headed business man who was MOI
converted by Billy" He said, "the
whole thing has died out The saloons
have not been closed, but these meet
ings left a lot of active workers ant
some money to work along legal lines
to keep up an agitation and prosecu-
ton of all cases of law breaking where
there is a probability of conviction
Furthermore the Billy" Sunday meet
ings here did not leave any bad feel
ings among the business men. NJ
such trouble in this line as occurred il
Ottumwa. AS to the conversions, ont
thing / do know, there are many ac-
tive church workers today in Mar.
shalltoWn that year ago were entirel,
different men. Whether these meeting.
We're worth what they cost or not,
don't know. Some say "to save" on,
man is worth to the community $4,000
Figured that way Marshalltown is wa,
ahead of the game
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