Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-21
Local Comment

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Let US hope that the next short
course will devote one entire day to
consideration of the good roads prob
lem as applied to Marshall county
The poultry show proved such sue
cess that it might be we'll to promote
a series Of livestock auction sales at
the big fair grounds barn. Almost
anything will win in Marshalltown if it
Is pushed
Mayor Ingledue is right on the water
question when he suggests metering
every service and revising the rates
but he Is not excuSable for u,tcring so
insolent a remark as that directed
against the .Marshalltown TroWel Com.
pany This company is one OF the in :
stitutions Of which Marshalltown is
proud. Two Marshalltown boys start
ing as mechanics and finally associat-
ing themselves with successful sales
man have developed q factory with q
pay roll Of $4,000 per annum and man.
ufacture tools, which are sold all over
tho United States. The mayor might
not have believed their claim for ex-
cess water charges to be Just but under
no provocation should he ever express
. desire to get rid" Of valuable en-
ploying institutions not even when the
proprietors vote against him.
However. we can never have a bust
ness administration Of our water de-
partment until there IL a meter, on
every service in town and mon pay for
what they get just as they do when
they buy groceries. II the water reve-
nues are more than enough to pay OPP
Grating expenses and retire the bonds
the rates should come down The
troWel company is demanding equality
in rates and, Of course can force it un-
der the law. 1t would. perhaps, be bet
ter to adjust the entire schedule and
meet this company with some reasona-
bic settlement. As to how to meet the
expense Of meters in a question. II we
were to start over again the ideal
method would be to install the meters
as part of the water works system and
charge rates for water high enough to
meet the cost. In this way the water
consumer would pay for his meter
without knowing 1t. But some 400
consumers have now paid for their
meters and to charge the remain ing
900 needed to the water works fund
would amount to asking the 400 who
have paid for meters to chip in on 900
more for some other fellows which is
manifeetly unfair. hence It will prob
ably follow that the remaining meters
will have to be charged to the consum-
ers direct but upon easy payments. II
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mitted to install them as is now done
there can be no hardship about 1t. Met
ers on every water service should Ike
the rule.
Not since DR.. Devine led a movement
for free text books in MarshalItown
has an important a reform been insti-
tuted In our public schools as the I'M
auSuration Of . course in domestic
science. elementary nursing and sew
Ing. sixty per cent of the high school
population will always remain femin.
ine. Notwithstanding the prevailing
ambition Of a 16-year-ol old girl to some
day marry rich and escape housework.
the irony of fate will continue to put
80 per cent OF them hard at work at
applied domestic science in less than
two years from their graduation day
1t makes no difference whether thew
enter homes in which every member
does his own work or homes in which
help Is employed. the woman who is
in domestic science will be
a failure in life. Even the woman who
insists upon boarding very soon needs
to know something about n,r.,ng. in
fact the rudiments OF domestic science
and sewing along with the three
RS" should be made compulsory in
every high school course.
People who attend the theaters have
q just complaint as to the wholly in
adequate street car service. One car
will not hold all the passengers bound
for West Main street without crowdinE
several on to a red hot stove where
clothing has been burned and
often the cars are 10 poorly ventilated
~ to be actually offensive. There should
be at least one cor for North Third
street. In fact . company with any
enterprise at all would provide sew
eral CAPS on each line even IL for no
other purpose than 70 gain popular
favor