Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-11-03

!; LOCAL COMMENT

! shall and that Is cause for congratula-
7 ton All but FIVE communities in the
/ county met their allotments or over
subscribed and the others could easily
! have done so had the soliciting been
! better Organized. Even IN the vicinity
of state Center where the greatest de-
ficiency occurred the farmers would
have taken the full amount of bonds
had the solicitors realized from the
| start that $500 was too small an
amount from large land owners to
make up the required total. When the
situation was finally understood and
So. 900 rolled in on the last day it was
seen that state Center could have been
as patriotic as any other part of the
countv, The Gilman campaign was
perhaps, the best organized of any and
it's oversubsCription showed It's etfec-
tivoness in results. There the total
AMOUNT required was prorated accord
ing to the number of acres OF land
owned within that community. Every
man was asked to subscribe according
to the acres he owned and the fun
quota was easily raised. Dunbar Hav-
erhul and Vancleve came so near to
their full quotas that one or two men
in each community could have taken
the difference Of about $4,000 in each
PLACE and saved the reputation of their
neghbors It ought to have been done
The Rhodes community needs to be
re-organized. There was no excuse for
failure 10 subscribe by almost half the
allotment. The people Of that neigh
bCdhood are able and willing enough
il the soliciting is properly done. The
soliciting is the secret of success In
every case and experienc in two cam
pagns has shown that it is high time
now that influential farmers were
volunteering to aid in the soliciting
work There is no reason why
the business man in town should
do all the work and his full share OF
the buying as we'll The next cam
paigu will be on in February and it is
time now to be calling for strong
soliciting COMMITTEES of farmers from
every rural delivery route in the
county. This is every mans war.
There has been considerable preach
ing to the farmer during this bond
campaign but experience has shown
that he needs IL. When the estimates
were being made for the Marshalltown
district it was ascertained that APP
proximately half of all the deposits in
Manshaltown banks were owned by
farmers and half by men living in
town. This would indicate that half
o1 the Liberty bonds should be taken
by farmers banking in Marshalltown
and half by men in town. The cam
pa!gn closed with $685., 500 sold in town
and S17G3 $50 SID to farmers who hank
in Marsha1<own. The town man beat |
his country cousin two TO one in |
his measure of patriotism as compared |
u his deposits in the banks.
MarshalItown and other communities |
in the county now have fuel COM !
mittee with power to regulate the sale |
and distribution of fuel. There are two !
angles to the fuel problem and the |
danger Of oyercharge is only one. It |
will be necessary for the committee to !
inform itself at once as to the cost Of |
fuel at the mines, freight. carriage and |
overhead costs so as to regulate the |
selling price but it will he equally az |
necessary h institute some clearing |
house system to prevent boarding II |
is the mad rush Of the towards for the |
door that does all the damage in any
panic. There will be plenty Of fuel for |
all il the towards can be kept from !
boarding. Last summer was the |
time Ia put in a winters supply but the |
summer Is gone and winter is here.
Now no man should be permitted to |
buy more than his immediate neSds |
and the dealers should be required 10 |
stock up for the inevitable snow
blockade in January.
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While we have government food |
commission and a fuel commission it |
was unfortunate that the local CO.
operative effort to reduce the h. c. OF !. |
should have appropriated the name /
commission which can easily be mis- |
understood 1t is not government en-
terprise, was net intended to be and
is entirely legitimate in it's object altho
as a rule, these CO. operative efforts
have Hut proved as successful in dis
tribUting merchandise as rIIeIi p.v...3
tiers always hope. Often. however, they !
excite competition among retailers and
competition Is the life of trade from
the consumers standpoint,
\ new plan of merchandising has
been announced by at least one grocer
which ought to prove far more lasting
for it has made good in other places.
He has cast out all cost of delivery and /
of losses in credit accounts from his
selling prices. Everything In his store
is now marked down to net cash prices
(. o. b. the store. People can buy
groceries of him at discount If they I
will pay cash and do their own de-
liyering. II they want the grocer TO
deliver an extra charge Of 8 cents Is |
added and If they want to buy over
the phone and run bill they can do
that too st net prices by paying an
extra charge of 1 cent on each dollar
charged to their account, This Is the |
basket grocery plan which has sue
ceeded 50 well in California. 1t results
in real reduction of about 10 per
cent in the cost of food as compared to
credit and delivery stores in the same |
towns out there. 1t releases the sure
pay customer from paying for the dead |
beats groceries or from the enforced
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