Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-15
LOCAL COMMENT

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All hats OF TO the Elks just now for
the charity work they have assumed
! in taking unto themselves the Job OF
! raising the salvation Army debt.
Hello. Bill with rising accent on
the Bill means more than an invita-
ton to q good time 1t. means spe-
ciflc application or exemplification Of
a brotherhood creed. The work Of the
Salvation Army appeals to the average
Elk with more force than does the
work Of any other church For this
year and next the Salvation Army is
to be the Elks' church: the army will
do the church work and the Elks will
! be a sort OF contributing brother In
law. Mr.. Ingledue was right in his
plan, too, for IL the lodge was to take
charge Of this undertaking 1t was up to
the lodge to do the work. A $4,000
campaign did not call for as many
| workers as did $4,000 campaign.
However, those of us who are not Elks
should not sit back smugly and let the
brotherhood produce all the aims. E!ks
as a rule are subject to pubic call
| outside OF their order and they re-
spond. If an Elks committee visits you
for the Salvation Army simply LOOK
pleasant and put your name down for
something. The fact that you are
! called upon is evidence enough that
you are looked upon by your neighbors
| as one who is and can be public spir-
/ tied and to be held in that kind of es-
/ TEEN is worth the price of a subscrip-
! ton. The average Elk is glad that he
is alive and he is willing to pay for
| his good luck, but there is no reason
! why an Elk should have any the best
/ of the rest of us.
| seemingly small! fuss over the
| county engineer Is largely due to not
| temper and neglect to transact COM
mission business in the formal meet
! ings of the county commission. rms
is a lesson which nearly every farmer
has to learn. His business has been
| one man business. Within his line
fences his own word has always been
law and he has decided for himself
every problem that has arisen. When
he becomes one of a commission his
habit of pulling as single driver fol-
lows him without hty knowing 1t. Had
Mfr. Maytag been more deliberate IN
I his procedure and he'd the question OF
1.-THE engineers fitness been brought UP
| for decision by the Whole board In reg
7 ular session the occasion for personal
faltercations would: never have arisen
| A ma jority of the board would nave
been either. with. Maytag or against
him and the. employees would have un-
derstood just where they. were at In
subordination would not have occurred
''a' -
AS to the right OF a board of super
y;sors to select it's own employees there
should be little question:. That is what
the board Is for and 1T, Is up to the
board to employ the kind of men the
board thinks best fitted for the SER
[ vice required. But it. should be the
whole board which decides and each
SUPERVISORS. name should. be recorded
as to how he stood on the question
Tho Marshalltown Grub surprised
itself with the unexpected increase in
it's membership and many man
! thinks that something mysterious has
happened to the men of this town to
make them more loyal and more OPP
timistic. They are more, optimistic 70
be sure. for things are looking up IN
Marshalltown but tits sudden jump In
membership is due primarily to the
fact that a lot of good men Went OUT
AFTER thenasr~- Marshalltown has never
yet failed Il respond when buRct. OF
determined men went after something
Good craftsmanship moved the stock
this time as It always has DONE
| The remark has been made that the
club must do something now or bust.
The club will do whatever any booster
club can do and there has never been
time since it's organization when II
would not have done as much but 1t
does not lie within the power of
booster club to make brick without
straw or to build factories before the
opportunity arrives for factory to
be built. The club does do many
things for a town when it entertains
large groups Of visiting delegates and
sends them away as talking advertise
ments for Marshalltown. The cluo
does things for it's town when it pro-
notes such civic Improvement as the
new boulevard around the court house
or investigates and approves public
utility franchise which has given Mar
shalltown the lowest electric light.
power and gas rates Of any city or IT'S
/ class and street railway extensions.
But new factories are built by men
who have money and knowledge to put
into the manufacturing business II
any such should knock at our door the
Marshalltown Club will make them
dout,v welcome and until they DO
knock for admittance do not demand
that a booster club build new factories
without the opportunity which some
factory man with money must first
bring to town.
The ladies of the Second ward are
entitled to all that they have asked
of the school board when they request
that an obsolete and decidedly un-
, healthful heating plant be improved IN
the Rogers school and play ground
be provided. Were we living in Mas
sachusetts. Pennsylvania, Ohio. New
Jersey, Indiana, Virginia. Louisiana.
Tennessee, New Mexico, or either OF
the Carolinas, we would find either
state law or board Of health rule
absolutely prohibiting such a heating
plant as exists in this Rogers school
for the reason that the old direct steam
plant fails to provide an adequate sup
Div OF fresh air for the children. The
result is that where one child in
room is affected with any disease he
ia allowed to poison the air OF the
school room, which air is then breathed
several times over by every other child
in tho room until the disease runs
| thru the school" as we call it. The
steam coils along the walls are so near