Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-09
FINDS FAVOR
CAUSE MEETING WITH SMALL oP-
8 POSITION AMONG PEOPLE
OF IOWA.
SOME SLIGHT OBJECTION
AMONG LIBERAL ELEMENT
Only Opposition Comes From Those
Who Fear Reform Forces Will Be
Strengthened by Women's Votes
Some Confusion Regarding Law Call
ing For Annuities to Blind.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Aug. 9.-Iowa women
suftragists are finding a ready re-
Spouse to their efforts to promote the
wornen's suffrage cause thruout the
state. according TO the leaders here 1t
is not necessary for the women TO
adopt the militant spirit in order to
win in this state, the leaders say. Prac-
tically everywhere they go they find
the women who take an interest in the
questions of the day are awake to the
suffrage cause and the men are not
opposing il except where 1t is feared
the women may further reforms along
moral lines which those catering TO the
liberal element oppose.
Mrs. f, w. Dodson, formerly county
auditor of Polk county, is promoting
the organization work turnout the
state. She goes to Jackson county
this week for a speaking campaign IN
that county. The local organization IN
Jackson county already has arranged
the dates, The first meeting Will be
at Maluoketa on Aug. i. Other work
ers who are going out from here are
Miss Flora Dunlap. former member OF
the Des Moines school board and in
charge of the Roadside settlement
work here: Miss Elizabeth Perkins and
Mrs. Rose Lawless Guiher.
One OF the problems which the SUI
aGists are facing is TO keep the IN
terest OF the women OF the state
aroused in the suffrage movement ana
in their opportunity TO vote on 1t al
the next general election. When there
Iare moral questions at stake the WON
en- are interested, but purely political
questions which have burt little loca!
application or the personal ambitions
of party leaders do not appeal to
them.
The attorney generals office has
been asked to explain the law passed
by the last general assembly with rel
erence to counties paying an annuity
of $3.50 per year TO blind persons. The
law reads county clerk when as
matter of fact this state does not nave
county clerks. altho the clerk OF the
district court is commonly so called.
This is an error and came about from
the fact that the law was copied from
that of another state where they DO
have county clerks. The law provides
that blind persons over y in the case
of men and over Is in the case of wom-
! en-, who have an income less than 5000
| a year and are not county charges or
Inmates OF any state home, can receive
! an annuity from the county of not to
exceed $50 per year. The law pro-
vides that the application must be filed
with the county clerk. Attorney
! General Cosson has ruled that this law
makes it mandatory on the clerk to
register the names of the blind in his
county and that a transcript Of the
same should be furnished the county
auditor and that he on his own motion
should make a Duplicate record for the
benefit OF the supervisors
| Iowa apple growers who make a
! business of growing and marketing
high class apples will have little diff
ficulty in finding a satisfactory market
for their fruit this fall, in the opinion
| of Wesley Greene secretary Of the
state horticultural society The crop
is large here but in many other locali-
/ ties the crop is not so good and the
apple crop in the United States is 49,
GOO.00 bushels short, according to Mr..
Greene's figures. The Dakotas and Ne
! braska take a good many Iowa apples
as well as some of the other north
west states Iowa men have succeeded
/ in establishing good outlets for their
apples because of the superior quality.