Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-14
LOCAL COMMENT

Let the consolidation of rural dis
tricts with Marshalltown come for
school purposes The children of the
rural vicinity are entitled to all OF the
advantages OF our ma gnificent school
system for country and town are all
Of one family. The only problem to be
solved is to distribute eQuitably the
tax burden. We should have and we
will some day have auto buses as
warm and as convenient as interurban
cars. bringing children from five miles
out, into town to school. Most of the
business men and the bankers and the
doctors of the next generation are to
come from the rural school population
Of today. Let that population have
the best there is in education and let
their parents pay for it as they are
perfectly willing to do.
So conscious are we becoming that
our city corporation lines should
never mark boundaries for social well
fare movements or institutions that
even the Y. NJ c. A, is taking on coun-
try work as well as its work within the
city. The churches of this city should
grasp the idea and draw into their
societies more of the surrounding rural
population. The feed sheds and
garages should be crowded on Sunday
morning fully as much as on Saturday
afternoon. but at present they are not.
In many county seat town there are
as many teams tied around the square
during church services as on Saturday
and that should be the condition here.
Let's get together and see and know
more of each other, we people of the
town and of the farm. We are all the
same kind of people after all.
The school board is asking for funds
for a much needed new school build
ing to relieve congestion in the high
school. but it's demand is too timid and
too small. We want play grounds
around the next school that is built
and with the limited amount of money
asked for the new building must des-
troy a play ground already owned
rather than provide additional out door
fresh air grounds for future genera
tions of young people. Let the board
buy ground elsewhere for new build
ing or buy more ground in the high
school block Let there be no back
ward movement as TO play grounds. As
a people We can not afford to spend all
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kids need the out-of door life.
The local ice crop will be in the ice
house by next week and that should
us that the corn crop was
placed in the cribs last fall as ii always
has been. Iowa never fails on its two
main crops of corn and ice and yet we
never fail to worry about them just the
same.
DR.. Devine's idea Of a central tuber-
culosis farm to serve the people of five
counties is practicable and sound. This
is a central point easily accessible from
several counties. Five counties with
the $4,000 per annum each as allowed
by law can do more with $4,000 than
they can do severaliy with the sans
money in FIVE parts. A farm for tuber-
cular patients in advanced stages
could be equipped with the best known
medical science and it should be done.
The great problem Of life Is not to get
rich, but to live the best life and So
ciety as a whole ID responsible for
the welfare of Its members. What is
not possible 10 the individual should be
by the public and this farm
hos ital for tubercular patients is one
Of the kind for cooperative atten-