Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-25
LOCAL COMMENT


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Citizens of this town are making
much unnecessary work for the loya
committee which is soliciting for rooms
for q thousand Y. NJ. c. A. boys BY
holding back. Many a person has hat
it in his mind to offer to take two OF
| more boys in his house IL 1t becomes
absolutely necessary but he is hoping
that rooms enough will be found with.
out his If one person We're all that
harbors ,his bright idea Nof letting th'
other fellow volunteer there would be
very little trouble. but there is moth
ing exclusive or original in the will
| ingness to shirk. So many have
thought of the same thing at the same
time that the committee is in actual
distress. With less than 700 delegates
I accommodated and 1000 coming what
arc we going to do with the other 800:
The time has arrived for those who
had hoped that this job could be put
over without them to come forward
Everybody must lift at burden like
this. Already there is as much gossip
being INDUCED at the expense of those
who nave held back as there is regard
ing those who wait for CONSUMPTION in
time of war.
| What is true in :, e sacrifice of con-
venience for two days in the homes
| is also true as to the sacrifice of time
by business men for the hospital cam
paign. Man after man is holding back
in the hope that he can shift his share
of the public burden on to some other
fellow and the other fellow is trying
the same thing. The result is that
! workers are not coming forward with
the Willingness that characterizes Mar
| shalltown--If everybody would respond
promptly to the call to duty there
would bes thirty teams in the field of
| five men each. The entire amount will
be raised in total of approximately
500 separate subscriptions, hence each
team need secure less than twenty
subscriptions in two days. Numbers in
the campaign make the load easy for
all Nobody knows that he will not
be the very next to call upon this hos
pital to save his life or that of his kin
and no man can rightfully shirk fair
share of the work of raising money for
such an institution. When the Y. M.
G. A or u church appeals for aid there
are always those who excuse them
selves because they are not in sympa
thy with religious work. but the man
who can not enthuse over the Samari-
tanism of a public hospital has no just
claim to the benefits of civilized and
orga society. He ought to be liv-
ing alone in the wlds like the BUSH
man. If he tried to ride in a public
conveyance without paying his fare he
would be put off and he has no more
moral right to the protection which the
presence of "a modern hospital gives to
him without doing his part than he
has to the protection of private prop
erty without taxation or to the use of
the postoffice without paying postage.
A public hospital pays its running eX-
penses only out of it's fees for service.
Somebody must contribute the plant
as a benevolence. Everybody can't
contribute a large amount but any
body can help in the canvass and most
everybody can give a little. Let's do
not get to passing the buck for our
slogan in Marshalltown.
The first district of concrete paving
has been accepted and assessed with
a surprisingly few DIRECTORS. The city
council is to be congratulated upon the
care it has exercised in making the
assessments so equitable as to please
so many people.
The Grinnell He has arisen to de-
fend the high priced. patented pave
men laid in that city. Admitting that
the Grinnell pavement is possibly
wearing out a little" the Herald ex-
plains that the coating of tar and sand
is being put on at this time because
the company was here and nr"i
wouldn't be here again in ten years"
This is an admission of another I'M
pOrtant defect in any asphalt pave
ment which requires special equip
ment with which to make repairs. I'm
til city becomes so large that it can
afford to maintain a complete mixing
plant and machinery for laying asphalt
il should not lay paving which requires
such a plant for its repairs. Not only
has our cheaper concrete failed to show
the wear that the higher priced, pat
ented asphalt has in Grinnell in the
same period: not only will six per cent
interest on the money we have saved
in the difference in first cost pay for
recoating ours every two years, but we
can repair our concrete payements at
any time at minimum cost without
waiting ten years for a contractor to
come back with a special plant for
mixing asphalt. The GrinneD Herald
sneers at our concrete as being rough
and "billowy" but our own people seem
to be emnently satisfied. We have
the money saved up out. OF the first
cost to take out the "billows' when
ever we get ready to put on the same
flush coat of asphalt which Grinnell
has been compelled TO put on already
pieces.
At last the STR, cars are running
across the viaduct to the Linn creek
bridge on the south side and the rails
have been bought for the new line into
the Third ward next summer. AS soon
as a new bridge can be erected over
Linn creek the street cars will run to
May street and possibly farther. We
are to have a seven and half minute
schedule on Main street. Our street
car service is keeping pace with the
growth of the town.
The editor of thi. newspaper was the
guest of the commercial club of Jeffer-
son this week. The occasion was
banquet to celebrate the progress of
the town. A court house costing $780,
G60 was nearly completed. Eighty
thousand dollars had been voted for
a new high school and five and half
miles of new paving had been laid al
in town of $500 people. Besides the
taxes for these improvements $4,000 in
contributions had been raised and ex-