Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-22
Local Comment

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lMarshalltown men who want TO make
good living without working for
somebody else should listen to the
wants of the canning factory and pickle
factory. These two institutions furnish
Marshalltown with cash market for
produce which not one town In sew
eral hundred can offer and our people
ought to take advantage of the oppor-
tunity. There is big money in truck
farming and bigger money If several
COWS are kept besides. 1t will beat the
wages of skilled mechanics.
The keeping of COWS also offers its
suggestions to those who are promot-
ing meat boycott. Labor unions in the
large cities are organizing clubs whose
members agree to quit eating meat for
month. 1t is said that as many as
10000 have signed UP in Kansas City
and that in Cleveland meat fell off 10
cents per hundred pounds as the result
of the boycott. There is no question
that the price of meat will come down
when people quit eating it but such
economy is as ridiculous as biting of
ones nose to spite ones face. The nine
hour Gay gives every wage worker in
this city an opportunity to supply a
family of six with all the meat. butter
and eggs they can eat and absolutely
free of cost if he will only make the
effort. Every building lot in town Will
stable two cows and a few hens. One
ha, -,'. ~ ,i,1r
will take care of them. The profit on
two cows over and above cost OF feed
even at present terrific prices for feed
will pay the butchers bill and furnish
the butter, while the skim milk viii
feed the chickens and produce the eggs
There are men in town VINO have kept
cows on the side to earn them as much
as their salaries at their place OF bus
mess. The T.-R. can name store clerks
who have bought and Paid for their
homes out of their COWS in the stable
ana the potatoes they have raised on
back lots ana on vacant lots rented.
There is no editorial idealis.n nor guess
work about this suggestion for the
T--R. has examined the records of wage
workers in this city Who have kept
COWS and rented vacant lots for truck
patclls and the profits are from actual
EXP erienee. The price OF meat, butter
ana eggs for a big family can be re
ducei to zero by any man in MARSHALL
town who viii do few chores. ana
he need not rob his stomach TO carry
on The boycott.
The facts are that the high
price OF butter and eggs has been
caused largely by the prosperity of the
farmer removing the necessity for him
milking twenty COWS in order to lift
a mortgage. Help in the house on q
farm can not be had and as soon as a
farmer prospers and finds that he does
not have TO do this work ne saves his
wife from that much 1rudgery This
has been going on all over Iowa and the
west while the consuming population
has been gaining by the millions every
year and by further millions in their
increased ability to buy by reason OF
better wages and more universal ea-
ployment. The farmer doesn't have 10
keep twenty cows to supply fifty fam
lilies in town SO he has quit There
is nothing left for the wage worker to
DO bat to keep one or two for himself
ard until he does so the price of butter
and eggs is going 10 distress US all.
| In line with these suggestions as to
! domestic economy il should also be re-
iHlembere that the price Of the av-
eTags residence lot in town will buy
three acres of ground about six blocks
farther ont and the bicycle destroys the
difference in distance. The right kind o.
q wage worker can increase his income
80 per cent if he only has the nerve
The decision of the Iowa Contra
management 70 build $4,000 store.
house at Marshalltown disposes of tine
question Of location of the shops. Thi.
scare will never be sprung by future
arrangements.
Ambitious candidates should no
grow nervous since the primary does
not come until June instead of Marc;
as formerly. June IS Alg ways OF
from January.
( If the Marzhalitown club succeed:
in establishing creamery here il vii
1E d sd41dric al acquisition GS
factory. 4 creamery can easily pa,
out 100000. per annum for milk ant
cream and the money will circulate il
trade the same as a pay roll for 49,
mea.
~ Denison, Texas, the Board 0
Trade has done some real construc
tive work. They drew up road lav
and had it passed by the Texas legisla
ture permitting people to create specia
road districts by two thirds vote 70
the purpose Of issuing long time bond
and making special assessments 70
permanent road improvement The
they educated their home people t
create a special road district taking il
the town Of Denison and the count
for six miles around Now they hay
just voted s25o,o00 Of forty year AZ pc
cent bonds for building permanen
gravel roads on ten of the principa
highways leading into town and TO
about six miles out on each. The wor
will be let to experienced road con