Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-07-21

There should be no occasion for a
rush upon the local exemption board to
obtain exemption from the draft. Each
man drawn will receive a notice in due
| time to appear for examination. If he
can claim exemption under the rules
has he came present it then. Otherwise
| he should take his physical examination
and wait until he actually passes that
| before, he applies for exemption for
any special cause. This application will
then go to the higher board for the
northern Iowa district for decision. The
local board can exempt only for causes
stated in the rules already printed.
The net quota to be called from this
| county of 226 is far below the estimates
that were made Not having sent any
national guard companies it was pre-
sumed that the quota for Marshall
county would approximate 900 but
when all deductions were made for en-
listments in the regular army our net
was reduced to 226. This means that
men will be called for examination in
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drawn until 226 have been actually TAX
en- into the army. This draft may reach
as far down the list as the five hun
dredth number drawn in the lottery
depending altogether upon the proper
ton entitled to exemption.
| Farmers who have cows should lose
no time joining the COW testing asso-
citation. In these days Of feed costing
more for one COW than it used to cost
for two the time has arrived to know
whether the COW is giving back as much
as she receives. Every man who runs
factory successfully keeps some kind
Of record Of production for each man
employed and for each machine oper-
ated. If he did not have some such
| information as to who earned his wage
and who did not the factory manager
would go broke.
There should be no difficulty in park
| ing automobiles in spaces marked off
on the pavement. The plan works per-
fectly in large cities and the larger
the city the more necessity of parking
in the center of the street so as to
avoid the danger and the accidents that
have laways followed any plan for
backing cars in or out. The plan pro-
posed for Church street is a makeshift
and will avoid destroying the present
pavement which gives it excuse. An
other plan would be to make the cinder
drive inside the court house grounds
wider so as to park cars there. This
would be the cheapest plan and accom-
modate more cars than any yet pro-
posed.
The citizens of this town want some
action on the part Of the city council
TO protect the water supply pipe with
a dam and to provide more wells This
is the time of year for low water and
work on the dam ought to be in pro-
sress now. We have gotten along for
twenty years with the chain Of small
wells and could exist for several years
more with few more small wells. 1t is
immaterial whether they be six inches
or twelve inches lin diameter for the
main essential is that they should be
some greater in number. Whatever is
to be done should be done at once II
there is any doubt as to the best thing
to be done employ competent en-
gineer who has made speciality of city
water supplies and let him direct the
digging.
Increased print paper. postage and
labor expense will cost the Times Re-
publican $4,000. more next year upon
the same volume of business and 1t is
needless to say that some of this in
creased expense must be shared with
the patrons. How much and in what
preparation as between readers and ad-
verisers will be announced later. The
T-R family, both inside and outside of
the office has been extremely FORUM
ate for the past year in the protection
It has had from an old contract for pa
rcr which has held over. The rise in
print paper hit the publishing business
over a year ago and every daily news
paper in Iowa except the Des Moines
Capital and the Times Republican has
suffered war prices for year past.
These two newspapers happened to
have contracts for more than q years
supply at the old price and the patrons
of the Times Republican have received
the benefit for a year in no change in
prices, During that period the subscrp-
ton prices Of all daily newspapers in
Iowa have been increased and in Dies
Moines the second increase goes into
effect August /.