Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-29
! LOCAL COMMENT

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There are $500 homes in this city
which require fuel. II the average cost
OF heating were as low as $50 for the
winter. when many burn three times
that much. the fuel bill outside OF
business places would be S175,o00. A
saving OF 10 per cent can be made
without much effort, That would pay
for fifty loaves of bread In every home
in the city. Fuel experts are telling
people how to manage their firing
which Is valuable information. but
there Is oven greater waste of fuel in
the leakage Of heat from the average
house. Storm sash. window strips, door
strips building paper over exposed
places double doors or the locking and
calking of a door which Is not ahso-
lutely needed in severe weather will all
save fuel. The closing of certain rooms
during January and February which
can be shut OF for few weeks will
save more fuel. pampers in smoke
pipes will keep large per cent of heat
from going up the chimney and many
a small but necessary repair about the
heating plant will so increase Its ef-
ficiency that fuel can be saved. Wher-
ever the entire house is TO be heated
from one PLANT the proper balance Is
an Important equation In the prob
lem, for house Is often overheate in
order to force Gp the temperature In
some one room BY changing the plant
slightly 50 as 10 favor the coa0 room
or coTrec. deficiency there - heat
er need NOT be forced and fuel viii be
saved. Forced firing sends much Of the
fuel up the chimney 81 smoke. That
is why diversified heaters pay for them
selves IN the fuel they save,
And again I. Is pertinent to remark
that il is a. eytrsvasance IN 20 below
weather 70 try TO heat a house to so
above so SIS 20 make Il comfortable for
8 .hinly clad won,an. Felt slippers and
a sweater would earn 100 per cent per
month on their coss :n the fuel they
save When school conrenes there
should be a Thermometer in every room
and one child il each room appointed
temperature monitor to watch the Their
mometer and report 10 the 5anitor the
moment the temperature rises above IS
degrees. The teacher. too, had better
wear a sweater. Much of our waste
OF fuel and our high cost OF heating Is
due to our carelessness and our fool
ishness, when the furnace company of
this city first entered the Canadian
Northwest with its furnaces the man
agement became alarmed because deal
ers thruout Canada were not ordering
any larger furnaces in proportion to
house sizes than were used in the
states and Canadian winters were
known to stay down to 40 below much
OF the time. Two officers of the COM
pany made a'hurried trip to Winnipeg
IN the winter to correc. so dangerous
an error before 1t was too late and
came back chagrined. By the use OF
building paper as heavy as a board In
house construction, BY universal use Of
storm sash, storm closets at the doors
and extreme care in making buildings
weather proof furnaces We're able to
heat larger houses in a 40 below coun-
try than they did in the Iowa climate
and to this day there has never been
any trouble heating houses in Canada
with Iowa furnaces.
The two engineers sent here this
week by Iowa State College to help
us save fuel are entitled to the thanks
of the community for their work They
exerted extreme effort at their task
and made their technical instruction
both interesting and helpful.
The big swine show will be on next
week and il deserves the patronage Of
all breeders OF mortgage filters In these
parts. The hog is going to be worth
government bonds while the war lasts
and he is entitled to the respect and
homage Of the entire population. City
people who long ago were. compelled to
deny themselves pork should go and
view the species that to them has be-
come extinct and the farm people
should be there with the same curiosity
and thrill Of anticipation that animates
tourist visiting the money vaults at
the treasury building in Washington.
Let's raise hogs all over the farm next
year and when corn is worth more than
dollar a bushel It Is a waste OF corn
dollars to raise anything but good
hogs. Go to the swine and corn show.
1t means more corn and better hogs
next year, more money to the farmer
and more food to help win the war.
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and then there is the human species
who is. fat with prosperity and yet
holds ont on the Red Cross and other
war funds when the government which
has made all of his wealth possible is
calling for help. He, too, may be at
the swine show but people should show
him plainly that they prefer the society
Of the other hog, who. altho in q pen,
is at least going to wal.