Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-10-12
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. LOCAL COMMENT


Subscribers TO the T.-R. In Marshall
town must soon get their subscription
accounts paid ahead or the publishers
will not be permitted Ny the war in
dustries board to send them any news
papers. This is a war order designed
to reduce the consumption of print
paper by cutting of everybody who
has not paid for the paper he gets II
cverturns the T.-R's. established busi-
ness policy but can easily be complied
with by the subscriber II he will pay
each month for the month ahead In
stead of for the >Inonth behind. The
publisher Is given no option. He must
comply or get no print paper from the
mills. Today the war board at Wash
ington tells publisher how much
paper he can have. what mill be must
buy it from and the price he must pay,
There is a war on.
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This city went under quarantine be-
fore there was much danger OF an
epidemic. II people will be loyal to
the public welfare and conduct them
salves so carefully as to avoid the
spread of contagiop We can soon re-
sumo our normal life without any I'M
necessary professions TO the cemetery
This influenza is probably the old
fashioned grip but this year it has
assumed violent form in that it at
tacks the lungs and developes pneu-
monia at the least provocation. Liter
ally speaking it is not to be sneezed at
Go to bed. Stay at home. Live and
let live.
The demand for return to the old
fashioned city government is about as
much out of date as the petition
which was filed. The city council
ought to have this list of signers
checked and reduced to net live voters
before il is even considered. In the
old days of electing councilmen TO rep
resent wards and spend a few even
ings playing politics while some clerks
ran the public business during the day
il never got us any better men npop
an average than We have had under
the commission plan. The only differ
ence has been that in former days
even our high class men gave so little
of their personal attention to the citys
business that their greater efficiency
was not applied to public affairs while
under the present plan even a mediocre
citizen can do fairly we'll because he
works on the job every day and all
day. He learns something about the
city's business in a few years. II we
want TO reform we should go forward
Unsteady of backward and try out the
city manager plan which Is akin 10 the
ii oh oil ~
necessary for the successful conduct
Of private business.
That war camp community house in
which two Marshall county soldiers
found two Marshalltown girls volun-
teering their services way down in New
York is one OF the activities Of the war
camp community service which carries
or in the cantonment towns outside
Of the camps much the same kind OF
work for the soldiers as the Y--M. G. A.
and X. c., do inside Of the army camps
Ii seeks to so with the boys when on
camp leave and help them to see the
town right President Wilson's union
drive for funds allows this branch of
welfare work SIS, cents out of each 80
raised next month.
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Marshalltown does not approve OF
the expansion Of the Rude Auto Com
pany's business which turns Perry
Rude over 70 Cedar Rapids. It is a
transfer of capital assets which ought
not to have been allowed by the war
industries board. Rude had command
ed a place of influence in the civic life
Of Marshalltown which gave him leaH-
ership in the best activities of this,
community. For the sake Of this city
which was willing to appreciate him
he should have PLACED 4 Cedar Rapids
man at the head of his Cedar Rapids
house and kept his own headquarters
here. Mrs. Rude ought to have SO
ordered it TO be done.