Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-07-14

round boy athlete In Humboldt? This
week Mr.. Plank will begin q series Of
tests to determine this The contest
VIII include running. high jump and
broad jump. rope climbing, pull up,
Dali throwing. etc. This is open to boys
OF all ages. There win be baseball at
the diamond in the park In the even
ing II those interested will get together
and organize team. Remember. this
Is everybody's play ground with games
ana recreation for all ages. See the
daily bulletins in the postoffice, and
then come out.
PROVIDE FOR THE TuBERCULAR.
dubuque Telegraph Herald.l
No matter what financial problems
confront. it. the imperative duty is up
on the board Of supervisors to erect
a hospital for the care of persons af-
flicted with tuberculosis.
Hehe are two children, one four and
half and the other seven years of
age, second and third respectively in
family Of three to be stricken
down. They will not be received at
Oakdale. they have been denied adj
mission at Iowa City. The hospitals
VIII not take them. The board can
arrange for their care in private on
the basis OF s10.50 week for each
patient. as provided by law, but pri-
vate care means more conta gion and
new sufferers.
So long as we make no provision for
the care Of the tubercular we fail in
a humane duty that no consideration
should avail against fulfilling. If hog
cholera broke out on Dubuque coun-
ty farm there would be expert care
by the state and possibly the national
governments. 1t is literal truth that
we make better provision for the care
OF diseased stock than for human be-
ings diseased with consumption.
Repeatedly for the last three years
the need OF making provision for vic
tins Of the White Plague has been
pointed out Until now responsibility
for their care was spread over many.
Now it rests squarely upon the board
Of supervisors. put there by enact
ment Of the last legislature. The
board. comprising humane and SYM
pathetic men, will not evade nor seek
to shunt it. 1t need have no doubt
that public opinion will strongly sup
port its decision to build a hospital for
the tubercular to meet the needs of
OF the future, as we'll. There can be no
defense for a society that negects the
care of it's sick.
AN ERROR AS TO ADVERTISING.
THE Sac SUM-
The fact Of the matter is. no pub
Usher can legally refuse to accept
any legitimate advertising offered him
If the advertiser is willing to pay the
publishers regular and published price.
AS soon as such advertising is refused
the newspaper is liable to be barred
from the second class privileges Of
the United States mails
The foregoing quotation appears in
the Farnhamville Index. AN essen
TALLY equivalent statement has APP
peared in many Of the Suns ex-
changes. While in a sense that state
ment is correct, the fact Is practically
speaking. that no publisher is required
to take an advertisement that he does
not want in his newspaper He is not
required to take any advertising and
may publish his newspaper week after
week without a line of paid matter in
1t. He may limit the advertising to
column. or half column. or five
inches and, if he is publishing a
legitimate newspaper. there is no
danger that he will be barred from
the mails.
There is not a newspaper publisher
in Iowa who needs to take che adver-
tisements of the big department stores
in order to get the second-class mail
privileges for his newspaper. There
is not a newspaper publisher in the
United States who needles to take the
advertising of the brewers and distil-
lers in order that his paper may be
sent through the mails. The Sun has
never carried department store ad-
vertising, neither has 1t carried liquor
advertising For years it has declined
to accept the advertisements of certain
classes of remedies and of the itinerant
physician who makes speciality OF
secret diseases. The publishers OF the
Sun have their own reasons for making
these determinations and no questions
have ever been asked them by the pest
Office department. However. II they
were running a department store, or
something Of the kind. and the greater
part of the newspaper were devoted 70
pushing that business, and their COM
petitors in the same line were excluded,
there would be different story to tell.
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