Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-29
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Shenandoah Sentinel Post

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shenandoah Sentinel Post.l
There is very little race prejudice
in Shenandoah. We have but few
colored citizens and those few are good,
respectable citizens. When Russell Col
Inns mother died last week the white
people showed their kindness and APP
probation by a profusion of flowers
and many attended the funeral When
a colored family has tried so hard to live
right and do right and have been so
uniformly courteous as Mr.. Collins and
his family have it is right that the
white people should show their APP
probation and give them encoura ge-
ment. The Collins children are bright
and clean, and have been taught good
manners. They go to school and are
| treated we'll by the sclloolmates and
teachers. But when one of the classes
at school went down to the skating
ring and all the class was admitted
except the one colored boy, it hurt 1t
may be that public sentiment demands
the drawing of a color line at such
places. but it is not right White men
manners or are no cleaner that that
colored boy are admitted to the skating
rink without question We can not
blame the managers of the skating rink
If the patrons demand the drawing Of
the color line. They are running it
for the money and they must have
pa irons, but the public sentiment is,
wrong. Character and gentlemanly be-
havior should be the standard of ad-
mission, not a God given color.
ROADS TO PUBLISH TIMETABLES.
[Cedar Rapids Republican,
In New York there is a public ser
vice commission, the creation of Gov
ernor Hughes, which seems to be able
to take sensible view of some things.
The newspapers of that state, gener
ally, have refused to publish railroad
time tables. They hold that such tables
come under advertising matter, that
while it is convenience for their read
ers, it is just as much advertising as
a dry goods bulletin with prices at
tached, which also is convenience for
readers. In many of the large cities
the railroads pay for the publication of
their time tables, but. generally, they
have refused to do so. The New York
, commission cites the fact that many
other matters are required to be pub-
lished by law and it thinks that time
tables should caome under this head
The remarks of the commission on this
subject are as follows:
No better or more ever present
means of making information readily
accessible at all times and to all people
has ever been discovered than the local
newspapers. which can always be
found in every house and nearly every
place of business. The commission be-
lieves it to be wholly reasonable to re-
quire the steam railroad corporations
to use this means of informing the
public and giving the public notice
which the law justly requires. A no.
tice which fails to reach those fol
whose benefit 1t is required is in effect
no notice, and notice of train depart
ure which is not available to one de-
string to use the train is useless to that
person. 1t is not thought that the ex.
i pense involved would so great as tt
demand serious consideration. Ii
numerous and diverse cases whert
publicity is deemed essential the ust
of newspapers is required by law. The
custom for many years has shown its
utility in the case under consideration
The commission has not been able
to satisfy itself that it has power
to require the publication of local time
tables in newspapers, and recommend.
the enactment of a law requiring al
operating steam railroad corporations
having a station in any village or cit,
; in which a newspaper is published t,
publish in such newspaper or news
} papers a proper, table showing the tim
of arrival and departure of ali reg ia ia;
passenger trains at such station.
, Newspapers will naturally aid in til,
enactment Of such law and if it L
. carried out in New York it will 500,
spread to other states. Newspaper
, have Jared, on the whole, badly in tn
reform legislation Of the past fou
years. Their right to make contracts
for instance. has been curtailed, witt
, railroad companies. The corrupt poll
} ticians who had been using and abus
| ing the railroad pass when they wer
threatened with the extinction OF TIL
pass turned around to punish the news
papers because they believed the news
papers were responsible for the arols
, Ing Of the public conscience. SO the.
made the laws that took away tn
| newspaper publishers right to contrac
( for advertising paid in trade Their
) was neither sense nor justice in sue
r enactments and restrictions. The Nes
: York suggestion will, therefore NEE
with the more favor.
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