Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-28
IS ruling RADICAL!
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL coMPELs
FINANCE COMMITTEE TO MOVE
TO pEs MONIES.
REFUSES TO ALLOW BILLS
FOR MILEAGE TO HOMES
Iowa Has No State FIas-Dairy Do.
partment Attempting to Interest
Southern Iowa in Dairyins-supreme
Court Decision on Mulct Tax of In
terest to All Iowa Cities.

Special to Times
Des Moines, Oct. 2S.-When the
members of the finance committee of
the state board Of education move to
Des Moines there will be no further
difficulties over their expense accounts
with the members of the executive
council and there will be no friction
between the committee and the council
over the matter, because the councils
word is law
None of the members as yet has
moved to Des Moines. 1t is understood,
however. that they all intend to move
here. Their first accounts include rail-
road fare between their homes and Des
Moiaes and meals and lodging while
they are staying in Des Moines. The
council has taken the view that their
board bills are TO be paid only when
they are away from home on business
Tor the stale and their homes are as
sunled TO be in Des Moines Further
more their railroad fares can not be
paid between Des Moines and their
travelling on state business but are
merely going home to visit their fami-
lies.
The strictness of the councils ruling
is. however, reviving some discussion
Of its act in approving the pharmacy
commission expenses for making out
questions when each commissioner put
in a Dill for full time tho one OF them
all the work. The action of the coun-
Gil in refusing to approve a bill for a
bath for member OF the board of pa
role when away from home tho APP
proving bills for hotel rooms with
baths is also recalled. OF course the
expense for a hotel room with bath
room attached is no less than to take
q room without a bath room attached
4 and secure the bath at a barber shop.
| Some OF the leading members of the
executive council are known to take
rooms with bath rooms attached while
travelling about the state.
Has Iowa got a state flag? National
guard men say it has Application to
the governors office from the manager
I of the World building in New York for
a sample of the flag SO as to display
one from the top of the building on
Iowa holidays was answered to the eff
feet that the state has no flag. At least
the legislature has never acted to adopt
Il one.
When Horace Boies was governor
Gen. James Rush Lincoln designed a
4 square flag with a hawks head in the
middle of it CARRYING out the Hawk
4 ~,
4 Boies when he attended the worlds fair
/ in Chicago in 1898.
An effort is being made by H. R.
| Wright state dairy commissioner, and
the dairy instructors of the agricul-
tural college at Ames to interest the
4 farmers of southern Iowa in dairying.
The northern part of Iowa has always
been in the lead in the dairy business
tho there is room for improvement but
the southern part of the state has been
behind the times. To remedy this a
dairy special has been sent out over
the Burlington lines in the southern
part of the state to stir things up.
Dairying is associated with con-
i servation of the soil. 1t is presented
TO the farmers by Professors Van Pelt
and Bliss anu IOlul-luSStu VI lIle III
tional department of agriculture ant
Dairy Commissioner Wright on thell
trips about the state that the soil in
Germany and Holland and many Euro
pean countries is richer now after hun
dreds of years of continual use than il
was originally simply because The
farmers there keep cows and do dairy
ing.
The southern part Of the state ha:
less creameries than any other section
1t is desired by the dairy specials t.
stir interest and induce the building
of more creameries and also to instruc
the farmers as to the keeping of COW:
and how to determine the profitabl,
ones. The Babcock test determines tht
amount of butter fat in milk and the
sole value of the milk is the amount o.