Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-05

!. LOCAL COMMENT

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= Members OF the city Federation Of
Womens Clubs are worked up over the
refusal Of the supervisors to employ
woman to scrub out and sweep the
women's public comfort station. One
Of them, making protest TO the T. r.,
when asked if no woman were en-
ployed to care for the station, an
swered with giggle nobody but Jess
Painter 1t appears that serious OBJ
lection is offered to male janitos fol
the womans section of the comfort
station, that woman may De hired
for $25 month to give It attention
twice day, which seems none too
often during the heated term. What
the federated women want ls an al
lowance for the station which will per-
NIT the superintendent of the rest
room to hire female help to scrub out
the station when il is needed. As the
caretaker Of the rest rool, draws but
$25 monthly, it scarcely seems her
duty even If she had the time to do it.
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The contention Of the women seems
to be unanswerable except by COM
pliance with their request. The place
needs attention. Moreover, frequented
as it is by strangers and children and
persons of all ages, it needs some SUI
pervision. 1t doesn't seem that an ex-
penditure OF $50 month for the care
of the rest room and comfort station
would break the county of Marshall
and 1t does appear that the women of
the county and the strangers within
our gates have a right to demand that
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ployed.
1t Is always a pretty good plan to
finish job as you go along. That
suggests that the sidewalks where
paving was done last year should be
finished to the curling. On certain
streets the walks lack several feet If
reaching the curb at crossings, ard
thus in wet times afford a mud hole
to cross between the dry footing of the
sidewalk and that Of the paving. It
Is an annoyance to residents and those
who pass on those streets and one
which might quickly be avoided by the
simple process Of finishing the job that
was begun nearly a year ago.
Another just criticism relative to
paved streets comes from residents OF
streets that have been paved for years
and are not kept clean. People liv-
ing on unpaved streets have been
heard to declare that they would be
glad to pay for paving in order to be
rid OF the clouds of dust that roll into
open houses every time an automobile
PUSHES by. While 1t Is true that on
paved streets the situation is not as
bad as on the unpaved thoroughfares,
much improvement could be made in
keeping paved streets clean. They are
not cleaned often enough in the resi-
dence section, and when refuse rs
swept in piles it lies around often
times so long that it is scattered by
the wind before the wagons are SEM
to pick it up. Paved streets should
premium accruing from the investment
in the paving.
That auto accidents are not more
common Of an evening is matter for
marvel. The powerful electric lights
on the modern higher class car simply
blind any driver or pedestrian ap-
preaching them. On q narrow grade
like that leading past the packing
house on Marion street the wonder is
that the eye dazzlers are able to get
by each other without ditching them
selves.
There is no need Of It. Every sucn
car should be equipped with DINNERS
under compulsion and penalty for the
driver who falls to use them when
meeting other cars or teams on the
highways. In fact there is no need of
lights so powerful as constitute the
headlight equipment Of some cars. A
DINNER ordinance that would stand up
would be good, but statute would
be better.
With infantile paralysis still raging
in the east, utmost care should be
taken in cases OF sickness where in
fants die following brief illnesses.
Early symptoms Of infantile paralysis
can not be diagnosed. They resemble
symptoms Of other illnesses that in
fants are heir to. Consequently, when
deaths result after an Illness of few
hours or days. it wiuld be wise to pro-
hibit public funerals and take precau-