Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-10
Local Comment
Observation-Disclosures.

The high cost of living has associ-
ated with itself the added problem of
no place In which TO live for the teach =
ers in our public schools, For soute
inexplicable reason this fall the teach
ers have found it almost Impossible to
obtain rooms and board Rooms have
been slowly offered at exceedingly high
prices and board Is simply not 10 be
had in private homes. Some OF the
teachers have resorted to the restaur-
ants but the best places have refused
meal tickets and the teachers attracted
here by fairly generous salaries find the
salary swiftly melting away. Some OF
them are considering the renting OF a
furnished house and hiring help to keep
house on the community plan Others
are talking about looking for other
jobs. The school board had better adj
vertise for board and rooms for It's
teachers or a teachers dormitory win
be necessary There are rooms in town
and there are people who would fur
nish the board If It was generally
known how badly the accommo dations
were needed.
While it thus seems necessary 10 re-
mind the public that our teachers must
be properly housed and fed it should
not be forgotten that even those who
are comfortably situated still have
valid claims upon our people for social
recognition y teacher in our public
schools must he refined and educated
to secure her employment and she
would be an ornament to any social
gathering she comes here a stranger
to perform the highest class OF ser
vice which we ever seek OF others and
she should be welcomed with some
personal recognition Of herself as q
person. as a guest These remarks are
addressed to every woman who COM
Piles an invitation list or entevtains in
her home.
About tn, only nciden, that married
the JOY ana good will Of the Labor Day
picnic was an unfortunate and wholly
mprovoked rehearsal of political quar-
rels in public address.
Herman and his friends on the coun-
ell 'have now put the mayor and Mr
Mack where they must either put up
or shut up 50 TAR as the MAPS are Coz
cerEed. The mayor Grandioquently
store Mack's authority to make the
them before oct l. AT u special meet
ing Herman presented the necessary
ordinance and now it is up TO Mack
and the mayor to produce the maps.
1t is unfortunate that a few members
of a city council should have to ride
over the opposition of other members
and over the political sharp practices
of their mayor to get an employee to do
so vitality necessary piece OF work as
the preparation of these. charts. As
Herman stated in open council Mack
was once discharged and re-employed
upon the express condition that he pre-
pare the charts. For more than six
years he has Ia lied to do 1t. altho he
was under promise to do so and the
city ordinances provided that he must
do so. Two years and a half ago. after
the mayor had had three years in
Which to make Mack do his duty the
council passed a resolution calling for
the charts but the mayor and the neg
ligent employe simply laughed at the
council. Now. when Herman demands
that something be done, the mayor digs
up an ordinance which none of the
Council seemed to fully understand at
the time. but which had the effect of
furnishing Mack Il side door exit. In
stead of cooperating with Herman in
forcing Mack to do a work which the
mayor admits is very necessary he
rushes to Mack's defense and tries to
hunniliate Herman. 1T beats the Dutch
what some men VIZ do but In this case
1t di[l' Z"
In All we'll regulated cities maps and
charts of the sewer and water mains
are as necessary to the city records as
the cash books. Upon such charts are
indicated the streets that have sewers
and water mains. the exact size of each
main, the direction OF fab the exact
location and size OF each hydrant, man
hole and tap, the depth of each main
from grade line and every neces-
sary datum whereby n plumber can go
to the chart and locate any main or
house service in the city. AS il now is
every plumber and everybody else must
go to Mack. If Mack chooses to give
the information in detail the plumber
is grateful; If not he must dig. The
city engineer, who might assist. can't
get so much as civil recognition on the
street For eight or ten years Mack
mas Deen permitted 70 suppress tnlS IN
formation until it will cost the city
thousands of dollars to dig up her wa
ter and sewer mains in order 10 obtain
the records With the Dutchman on
his trail he will make bluff at max
ing charts but the real data which
ought to be there will be lacking just
so long as Mack has the protection of a
mayor
And 1t was the same with the lost
sewer pipe. Altho thrte meetings have
been held since the council called for
information as TO the loss of several
car loads of pipe which Mack was or
dered to protect. he has not appeared
nor has the mayor attempted to bring
him before the council. THE council
be damned" thinks the employee. 20 X -
acts the mayor.
The announcement that the Western
Grocer Mills would place Merritt
Greene Jr, In charge OF their factory
farms and that they wouiiti ss;:e- the
dairying business means more for this
community than appears upon the sur
face. The farms alone are going to
greatly increase local employment and
the diaries will simply start an industry
which will develop into n community
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