Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-06-07
Local Comment

Inc supreme court OF Iowa mas held
that the attorney general was right III
demanding that his assistant attorney
appear before the grand jury in Mar
shall county and that Judge Bradshaw
was in error in denying that right or
that County Attorney Daily was wrong
in objecting. This is the law of Iowa
row that the supreme court has spok
en- but in this ar:icuiaf case il is also
by far the best public policy. The
Times Republican has believed that it
was mistake for the county attorney
to object. law or no law. for the states
attorney was there to enforce the law
and to assist in doing the same work
for which the county attorney had
been elected. The county attorney
should have welcomed the state attor-
ney as an assistant rather than to
have objected to him as competitor.
EVERYBODY knows that the state attor
neN was here to enforce the law and
for the county attorney TO object and
protest seems to put MIN In the atti-
tude of Directing to the Jaws vigorous
enforcement. He did not DO himself jus
tlce. Likewise With the court. II is far
better public policy TO give the state
attorney the benefit of the doubt as to
his rights because he was mere in the
name of the state to enforce the Law.
Times have changed in recent years.
We are depending more and more upon
the viSOr of state prosecutor than
upon the local official influenced by
| local claInor. In some states we even
have d state constabulary to assist in
our law enforcement.
4
Every property owner interested in
street paving should watch the process
of cutting thru concrete paving on East
Main street. When he has seen with
his own eyes how much of job it is
to get thru that pavement with spe-
cial machine driven by q steam engine
! he will have fair idea of the APP
proximate life of a seven inch concrete
! slab under the wear OF ordinary street
traffic. 1t is confidently predicted that
much of the concrete of today in our
streets will be doing service as pave
ment twenty five and even fifty years
hence. One thing is also certain, our
| brick and asphalt which cost nearly
twice as much to install are calling
| for renewal in fourteen years and less.
If the new road law had done moth :
ing else than to stir up an interest in
road Improvement sufficient to start
/ farmers to promise to gravel their
roads and to bring 100 OF them to town
to discuss the matter, ii would have
accomplished something. If we could
keep up this contest over securing the
location of a county road for year
farmer could be interested in a road
with a paved center, especially if the
! board Of supervisors would guarantee
| to build it at a total expense of not to
| exceed $50 per annum to a quarter
section of land AUDITING, which ii could
easily afford to do.
| &
! That was somewhat noteworthy a.
| Hannibal. No, where the commercial
club Of the town put on the campaign
! for new Y. NJ. c. A. building as a
big event in boosting for their town.
They called it a character factory and
insisted that they were building a new
! factory for Hannibal. However, the
facts are that they were literally cor
/ rect in their scheme for no one thing
! does more for the factory interests of
Il town than the building of young men
of efficiency and dependabiIity in char
acter. Employers the world over.
whether church men themselves or
non church goers. Invariably prefer
young men of Y. NJ. C. A. proclivities
as the best kind of an Investment in
| their factories. It Is conspicuously true
in Marshalltown and great railway
iicc-narations make business Of sup