Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-11
TWO YEARS RENTALS
TO REPAIR DAMAGE
Earth Opens and Settles and Buildings
Are Cracked in Many Plaess-Len-
den Resrsts Inability. Of Or. Wiley
to Attend Food consress-Ass Limit
May es Forced on Rhodes Athletes.

!. age than good, according to reports
made by numerous landlords.
| They assert that the long drouth
has played the part OF loEg-sustained
earthquake with the heavy rains act
ing as the Anal shake. So severe has
been the action on many buildings that
! the repair bills will equal the renta;
i for the next two years.
! The shrinkage Of the clay and other
subsoiis has been so great that In
some places whole streets OF houses
have developed threatening cracks
drainage systems have been dtsorgan-
ized.. and building inspectors are hav-
ing the busiest times Of their careers.
/ The damage to the London suburbs has
been especially severe. There has been
wholesale subsistence in a number OF
Herdfordshire villages. and some Of the
finest old homes in the clay districts
Of the Midlands are threatened with
destruction. Architects and builders
attribute the disturbances solely to the
shrinkage OF the subsoil. which Is much
worse on the clay soils which normally
hold the most water.
General regret is felt that DR.. Har-
vey ". Wiley. chief of the bureau Of
chemistry of the United States depart
ment Of agriculture was not able to
accept the invitation Of the council Of
the pure food and health society Of
great Britain to preside at their ma
tional congress to be held here next
March. DR.. Wiley Is well known in
England both for his advocacy OF pure
food laws at home and for his attend
ance here at numerous congresses held
in connection with applied chemistry
and food aduitera ton.
It IL hoped. at the coming congress.
to formulate practical proposals for the
standardixing 'os food stuffs, for the
definition Of what are legitimate and
illegitimate manufacturing processes.
for the proper distribution Of food for
sale for the codiflcation Of existing
laws, and for the Capitalization OF the
work OF inspection in the local govern
ment board. 80
The society will endeavor to present
a strong legislative program to the
government, the chief feature Of which
will seek to correct the abuses alleged
to have grown up on account OF the
food and drug inspectors working only
under local authority. So lax have
rome OF the local authorities become
that It said the law IL dead letter in
several places.
An age limit and not the length Of
residence at the college o. university
the rule which will regulate the eligi-
At AF
athletic teams.
At present the rule is that no ath-
lete is qualified to gain the coveted half
or full blue by representing Oxford on
the playing field. after he has COM
pleted four years residence. Some
Rhodes scholars have already COM
foreign or colonial university before
reaching oxford and thru them inter-
varsity play tends to develop into
case OF men versus boys. In consid-
ering this evil the authorities at first
thought OF ruling that in the future
the four-year rule should apply to any
university at which the scholars were
in attendance, SO Rhodes man. who
had been in college three years before
reaching Oxford would only be eligible
for one years play there. Owning to
the difficulty Of determining what con-
stitutes a school of university standing
this solution has been dropped. The
plan now most favored il the substitu-
ton of an age limit and 1t Is believed
tlAt before long a rule will be adopted
that no man more than Is years Of
age may represent either Oxford or
Cambridge. This ruling would still
give the Rhodes scholars an advantage
Of two years over the students Matric-
ulating from United Kingdom schools.
The new submarine cable telephone
which the British postoffice is laying