Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-11
LOCAL COMMENT


A dedication of large addition to
the Deaconess hospital is to take place
next Wednesday, at which time fitting
recognition of the completion of a hos
pital costing 100000 will be made.
Marshalltown citizons have been called
upon to contribute so small part of
the total invesmcnt> that this may be
| looked upon as new enterprise
bringing an investment of outside
capital. It's service, however, is being
rendered to all of central Iowa. The
Deaconess hospital has grown faster
than any business enterprise in our
city and demonstrates that there was
II demand for its services. The cost of
it's service is far more than can be
paid by the patients who receive it.
hence the future has been anticipated
and mortgased in it's erection. Money
has been borrowed in large sums
which must be paid by the benefac-,
tions of the future. Let there be
generous response from everyone who
wants to contribute something to ale
viate suffering.
About the most valuable one person
on the teachers payroll of our pubic
school system is the school nurse. She
is on guard to detect the first signs OF
contagious disease so as to protect the
school from epidemics 1t is her buSl-
ness to find out what child is sick and
what arc it's symptoms. When there
are not cases of sickness enough to oc-
supy her attention it is her business TO
examine the children for throat. eye
and ear troubles which are unknown
20 parents but which retard the enid
in his school work. 1t has been dis
covered that more children lag behind
in school because of defective vision,
or adenoids, than from subnormal
mentality. and it is the trained nurses
business to find out what it is that ais
the children. We have fire nlarshals
TO inspect fire hazards. Our pure food
inspector inSpectS the ground feed sold
for our cattle. The dairy inspector
upon very rare occasions inSpects the
quality of our milk. Quite often we
have the city water examined. Only
too often the revenue collector sends
man to inspect our profits for the col
lection OF an income tax. Our boilers
are always inspected and likewise our
machinery which might be dangerous.
Even the oil we burn is inspected, hut
we have been long time coming TOT
realize the need for trained inspection
of the physical condition of the chill
dren we herd together in public
schools The Marshalltown school
board has inaugurated a service that
viii DC worth hundred times its cost.
While it was merely an incident in
the general voting the defeat of Super
visor Lynch will contribute to prog
ress. II will be another year before
Lynch's term expires but he has
learned that his do nothing policy has
been rebuked What the people want
in their public service is action. They
would rather a supervisor go forward
and make some mistakes than not to
go at all. and Mr.. Lynch can read from
the vote a popular instruction for his
board to do something. The majority
of citizens want their public service
well rendered and the man who thinks
that he was put into Office to stop the
public service m the hope Of reducing
L xes usually finds the rear exit yawn-
ing before him.
Superintendent Palmer has a dream
that some day some benevolent person
of large means will build a vocational!
school in this city into which may be
put those young people who do not
take readily to book learning but who
would progress at a trade, absorbing
some book schooling gradually as they
went along. Many a young person
could be saved for an education who
would otherwise go to driving gro.
Gers cart before the public schools
had done their work for him. Des
Mones has such school now and
likewise many another city. Marshall
town is waiting for memorial to be
erected to some one of its pioneers and
tTlderS.
so many Inquiries have been madc
as 20 why the tountT's steam shove! Is
standing on the Swearingen land on
the Marietta lbion road all winter
that it should be explained that this
piece of valuable machinery has been
erccteG as a monument to promises
never fulfilled. The ono mill tax ha"-