Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-28
PROPOSED ADVANCE IN FREIGHT
RATES IN IOWA WOULD
BURDEN CONSUMERS.
BOOST MAY BE DELAYED
BY INTERSTATE BOARD
Final Decision Not Probable Until AZ.
ter Report on Valuations is Sub.
mittsd-FootbaIl Started in Anamosa
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Legal TO Advsr-
tiss Bad Credit Accounts for Sale.
Special to- Times-Republican.

| Special to- Times Republican,.
| Des Moines, Oct. 2S.-It would cost
the people of Iowa practically million
dollars year if the proposed advance
In freight rates on the railroads should
be permitted to go into effect. This is
conservative estimate based on in
Vestigation as to the total of freight
rates paid on goods consumed in
Iowa.
1t will be recalled that some time ago
the interstate commerce commission
ordered suspension of the proposed
schedules in which an arbitrary ad-
vance of per cent was to be asked by
the railroads. But for the suspension
order the rates would have gone into
effect next month The sum involved
is nearly as great as that proposed
two years ago in the effor: of the rail-
roads to secure a 10 per cent increase
on the rates in the classified freight.
The Iowa commission and others on
behalf Of western shippers asked the
interstate commerce to hold up the
rates and investigate. When this was
done the railroads withdrew their ask
ings. Later they asked the per cent
horizontal increase as An amendment
to their first proposal. This has also
been held up.
1t is expected that the Interstate
commerce commission will refuse to
permit the increase until after the re-
port is made on the valuation of the
railroads. At the time Of the askings
for the 10 per cent advance the rail-
roads were unable to make any show
ing Of necessity for the advance. Now
they will make a showing, but this
may also be Offset by statistics show
ing how the income of the railroads
under present rates has been increas-
ing.
Football playing has been started In
the state reformatory at Anamosa and
the report is there is great rivalry for
the honor of wearing the college col
ors and the proper sweater showing
ability to make a place on the team.
Players are selected only from those
in the first grade, so that refusal to
conform fully to the rules Of the insti-
tuition bars the student from a chance
to get on the squad. Playing has been
INDUCED in freely of late and the men
are said to take quite as much in
terest in it as in baseball or other
diversions which are allowed.
A collection agency in a middle class
Iowa city has written state officials to
find out If it would be legal to publish
in the newspapers list of accounts
for sale1'with the names Of the per-
sons owing the accounts and sums
claimed to be owed. The agency will
not get any official sanction on such
methods.
1t has been held that credit as
ISOLATION may not publish a blacklist
of persons to whom credit shall not be
given. and that an association which
has in it's bylaws a rule for publica-
ton of the names Of persons whose
credit is not good can not be incorpo-
rated legally in Iowa.
Publication in the newspapers Of the
state of alleged bad accounts for sale
would be only another way Of indicat-
ing a blacklist, or list Of those whom
the merchants should avoid, so it is
held.