Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-22
TELLS THEM OF PITFALLS THAT
CONFRONT THE YOUNG, AND
SUGGESTS REMEDIES.
ATTENDANCE so LARGE
BIGGER ROOM NECESSARY
West Court Room Does Not Begin to
Accommodate the Crowd and Metho.
dist Auditorium is Used-Eyes of
Women Opened to Local Conditions
Makes Appeal for Young Girls.

The west court room was not large
enough to accommodate the audience of
women which gathered Sunday after
noon to attend the meeting addressed
by DR.. Rosa Liebig, city humane Off
Ger and overseer of the poor. When it
was found that the audience was too
LARGE for the seating Accommodations of
the court room, adjournment was talk
en- to the Methodist church. the audi
forum of which was filed.
Mrs. p. n. Hines presided at the
meeting, and introduced DIR. Liebig,
who spoke under the general subject
Of the pitfalls that confronted young
people in Marshalltown, and referred
in this connection to how the women
Of Marshalltown could help in making
cleaner city.
How to Clean Up.
Cleaning up the city," said DR..
Liebig, does not consist OF cleaning
up the refuse from the streets and
alleys and burning it: does not con-
sist of planting a tree here and there
and trailing vines over a lattice. While
this is elevating and cheering. and ap-
.peals to the best there is in US, there
are deeper cesspools to be drained.
and larger garbage piles to be raked
over and aired"
Work Needs Courage.
The speaker said that courage was
necessary to grapple with this situa-
ton, and that cowardice had no place
in the work What you would like
others to do you must have the cour-
age to do yourself. Put your shoulder
to the wheel, and help bear the bur-
den.
Drink at tho Bottom.
In a general statement Mrs. Liebig
called attention to the condition Of
many poor families dn the city, where
children were half clothed and fed, and
said that in nearly every case drink
was at the bottom Of the poverty.
One Case in Fifth Ward.
The doctor told Of one case, over
in the Fifth ward. where the father
and mother were both drinking people.
The mother brought into the world a
child still born, and at the time OF
the woman's confinement the father
was so drunk that he was not able to
call doctor. After the county had
helped the family to food the head of
the house went about, collecting old
iron and when the junk man had paid
him for the scrap the first thing the
man did was to buy beer, which he
and his wife drank. After the little
body Of the babe had been laid out for
burial, the father made known his in
tentions of burying the body in the
back yard, but the ladies' aid society
wouldn't let me do it," the father aft
erwards said. 4t.6
Why Women Have to Work.
DR.. Liebig said that she could re-
member the day when 1T was quite
uncommon to see women going out to
work, or taking in washing at home.
Nowadays, when the head of the
household spends his money for drink,
and refuses to work unless he gets just
so much money for what he does, his
family is neglected, and in order to
keep body and soul together, the chill
dren clothed and fed, the woman has to
get out and work"
Keep Children off Streets.
The mothers Of the city were urged
by the. speaker to keep their children off
the streets. DR.. Liebig said that all
the vile language heard from the
mouths of children on the streets, did
not come from the children of the
.slums, but from some Of the good
homes of the city.
Know Where Girls Are.
Mothers, know where your girls
are" was the advice given the women.
what about the Dirty Devil Club
that existed a few years ago? sIf the
names Of the members of this club had
been published some mothers in Mar
shalltown would have stood aghast.
What about the organization Of
high school girls and boys that met on
Sunday afternoons a few years ago in
the third story of a West Main street
building, and existed until bearded
the lion in his den and threatened to
tell every mother Of every member If
the organization continued?
What about the children under 10