The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1910-02-17
STRICT ECONOMY
ED|CT OF BOARD
In no Other Way Can Inmates Of
State Institutions be Fed.
THE PER CAPITA is TOO LOW
Druggists In Danger Of Losing Per
mits. The Students Right to Vote.
The Making Of the Lists for the
June Primary, as Defined by
Attorney Byers.
(Bureau Iowa Eyening Press.l


Des Moines, Feb. 16.--The problem
of feeding the inmates of the various
state institutions has reached an ac
ute stage and only by the strictesi
economy can the state board of con
troll provide the same high class food
for the 1 inmates which they have
been accustomed to. This is the sub
stance of statement made by John
Cownie. chairman of the board of con
troll. He declares that, while prices
had risen enormously that in some
of the insane hospitals, ami at the
soldiers home at Marshalltown, the
allowance per capita was fully twenty
five per cent less than 1t was In 1893
when prices were at rock bottom. He
says that only the most scientific
methods. which enables the state to
get their supplies at low prices, and
the fact that the state farm produced
good crops, saved the wards of the
state from hunger this winter. The
board of control will ask the next
legislature to increase the per capita
allowance at the institution, and in
the meantime the board must econom-
ize in order to keep the state wards
well fed. Should serious situation
arise and there be crop failure the
outlook at the state institutions
would be anything but pleasant.
However, with good crops and no fur
ther advance in prices the state
board is confident that it can wealth
er the storm until the legislature
meets again and makes provision for
larger per capita allowance at the
state institutions.
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Numerous druggists in Des Moines
and over the state may be deprived
of their liquor permits for a period of
five years under the ruling made by
the supreme court in the Marshall
town saloon cases recently.
In this case the court held that If
a person accused of selling liquor IL
legally comes into court and permits
permanent injunction to issue
against him without consent and
without going into the merits of the
charge, this act shall constitute an
admission of guilt.
Under the Moon law a person found
guilty Of violating the liquor law
loses the right to sell liquor for per-
iod of five years.
1t is the opinion of Special Counsel
George Cosson of the attorney gener-
ais office, and of other prominent
lawyers in Des Moines, that all drug
gists who permitted injunctions to
issue against them since the Moon
law became effective. are in a danger
GUS position.
While the court did not pass upon
the drug store phase of the law 1t
stated that there is no doubt that it
applies, as the drug stores are includ-
ed in the sentence in which saloons
are mentioned. II the law Is good
against the saloons, it Is good against
the druggists, it is pointed out.
In the past 1t has been the habit
of many druggists not to fight the
issuance of a permanent injunction
against them restraining them from
the Illegal sale of liquor. They
would assert that they never had sold
liquor Illegally, hence an injunction
would not effect them in the least. 1t
was not understood that such action
was equivalent to plea of guilty.
All druggists who have done this since
July 4, 1909, are said to be liable
under the Moon law.
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The district court at Cedar Rapids
has decided an interesting case
from Mt Vernon. A student at Cor
nell college brought suit against a
judge of election, demanding $500
damages, because the judge would not
accept his ballot at the last election.
The court upholds the election Off
cial. The student has right to vote
if he be of the voting age, but his
vote must be cast at his home and
not where he happens to be attending
college. The decision seems fair and
just. and is in line with former de-
cisions and with the generally &C
cepted view. The coliege student
does not become citizen Of the
town where he is attending college,
and his connection with and interest
in the town vanishes as soon as his
college days are over. Why should
he have the right to take part in
managing the affairs of a community
in which he has no interest.
In an opinion on the duty of the
county auditors In making up the al
phabetical list of voters for the June
primary, the Attorney General By
ers today holds that ,all who voted at
the June primary and also at the
special primary of November, 1908,
must be listed in the poll book to be
used at the coming June primary. His
decision is to the effect that those
who declared their party affiliations
at the November. 1908, primary are
the only voters who are qualified to
vote at the coming June primary. The
party afiliation In the two leading
parties. That is, 1.-THE voter declared
hts aH,tiafion nj the June primary