Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-11-29
nEs MONIES BOOSTER" COMMIT
TEE FIGHT BECOMING
INTERESTING.
SUPERVISORS, NOT SCHOOL
BOARD, MADE TAX LEVY
Board Turns Trick on Committee BY
Employing Its Former Attorneys to
Defend Injunction Suit-lnterferenee
With Food Inspectors Laid Before
Attorney General.
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Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov, 29.-The district
court will very likely, when the booster
committee injunction case is reached,
decide that the school board of Des
MONIES is not the proper organization
to attack if it is desired to evade the
payment of taxes for school house pur-
poses in the city. The attorneys have
looked the matter up and find that the
s106,00O was levied in fact by the
board Of supervisors and not by Inc
school board, and that the levy was
made exactly like the annual lev!es
have been made from time inlmemorial
here There was no irregularity. and
the most that can be said perhaps is
that the school board did not observe
all the technical, tho generally obsolete,
details Of the procedure. nor did the
school board demand all the technical
details.
1t does not appear that there Is any
accusation that the money was m
properly asked for or was TO be used
for any purpose other than to meet the
needs of the school district.
The school board turned a neat trick
on it's enemies by employing the law
firm of Guernsey, Parker & Miller.
which has been in most of its con-
trovereies in the court the legal advls-
ers for the Greater Des Moines COM
mittee.
A peculiar state of affairs developed
here in that following the commence
ment of two suits against the school
board as a part Of the general line Of
attack, two Of the local newspapers
came out in editorials virtually pro-
testing against the school board en-
ploying attorneys to appear in court
and defend the Injunction and man
Gamus cases One newspaper INSISTED
that in regard TO one OF the cases the
board ought to permit the injunction -
be issued and the other newspaper
urged that the board ought not to de-
1end in the matter Of an order 10 COM
pei it to abandon its temporary quar-
tiers. But the board took the ground
that the issues ought to be tried out
fairly in court and should not be de-
cided by default DEGREES TO set pre-
cedents with little regard to the stat
utes.
The fight is again becoming decidedly
Interesting as between the officials of
the school district and the booster
committee which seek to direct when
shall be done in school board matters.
The outcome will be watched with
great interest.
Attorney General Cosson has been
re- he
connected with the attempt Of lawyers
and others in Mills county to interfere
in unwarranted manner with the state
pure God inspectors in the perform
ance of their duty by means Of &C
cusations against the pure food depart
menr and by other means. Pretense
was made of causing the arrest OF
state official engaged in enforcement
of the law. II is a question whether
or not some counter action may not be
taken that will change the attitude Of
the courts of that county toward the
state laws
DR. A. z. Kepford of the state tuber-
culosis department, is helping along
the early closing movement as part
of the social service and better health
movement One step in the direction
of better health, especially for hun
cred OF girls in the stores, Is to have
thes hopping over early and thus to
void the terrible strain Of the last
few weeks before Christmas. DR.. KEEP
ford has addressed a letter to mayors
of cities suggesting some Of these
things for use in connection with
proclamatons calling attention to the
need of early Christmas shopping.
"The ideal place for a professional
man to retire after years Of labor said
Judge ]. C. Cook, lis on farm, an
Iowa farm"
Judge Cook has been here looking VI
some matters with reference to a law
suit as between the Milwaukee and
Wabash railroads and +. NJ. Hubbell
and the Des Moines Union on the 9th
err involving the control OF the Des
Moines union depot and certain tracks
in Des Moines.
Il am engaged in the trial of my last
case" continued the Judge. When one
has been in his chosen vocation life
time. as I have, commencing at the
age of Il in active practice, he be-
comes weary of his work no matter
how fascinating it is, When am thru
with the case in which I am now TAX
ing part I shall retire
The railroad case referred to is in
the supreme court. The clients OF
Judge Cook virtually insist that a mile
or two of railroad in Des Moines was
surreptitiously taken from them and
annexed to the Des Moines Union with
out due compensation.
CALL DOWN CORRESPONDENT
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