Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-03-02
LOCAL COMMENT

The introduction of herd Of
thoroughbred dairy cattle to this COM
munity is of more than private interest
as Its effect may be to make Of this a
dairy center with all of the attendant
increase in productive wealth from
our farms, increased population en-
gagged upon our farms and increased
business for our town. The CONNER
cial club could we'll afford to coax the
Western Grocer Company to start a
| condensed milk factory and the present
| plant Of the old buggy factory would
| make an ideal plant for that kind OF a
business. The demand for condensed
milk in Europe even after the war is
going to be tremendous for twenty
years at least as it will take that long
to restore the herds, which have been
destroyed there.
The boosters Of Council Bluffs and
Omaha held big meeting Wednesday
evening to launch home owners
campaign in both cities. A drive is to
be made turnout both cities to induce
wage earners to own their own homes
and the local building and loan asso-
Citations are to be used to finance those
who enlist in the home owners club.
Marshalltown's commercial club could
well afford to put on such a drive here
as home owning builds stability Of
credits at the stores and permanency
and efficiency in the shops. Few people,
not even business men, realize the pos
sibilitieS in our local savings and loan
association. For instance anyone who
will pay SIS per month into this asso-
citation for eleven years may draw
pension Of s25 per month as long
thereafter as he may live, as long as
his wife may live and when both are
gone his heirs will receive $4,000 in
cash. He may start paying at any
age and without medical examination.
If he wants to own a $4,000 home he
may pay for it in full for s1,625 paid
into the association at the rate Of
$3.50 per month plus interest upon the
loan. The difference or profit Of 1915
represents the earnings at compound
interest.
On one of the principal business
streets of Los Angeles inn the heart OF
the activities of that remarkable city
Of half a million people is the chick
store. In its show windows are brood
ers alive with chicks only few days
old and inside the store are long rows
Of incubators and breeders filled with
chicks of every denomination imasin-
able from the ubiquitous Leghorn which
spots the landscape in California to the
back downs of the Plymouth Rock.
7 al Ia b,-t No hS
the basket or by the thousand at that
store almost any day just like eggs at
the wholesale market and it Is a sight
TO attract endless professions Of sight
seers. Back Of the store somewhere is
the chick factory with its batteries OF
incubators turning out chicks for the
market. The incident IS mentioned
here as a suggestion for the local
poultry association which could If it
would tablish a war emergency mar
ket for day old chicks this spring.
When the Liberty loan drive is on in
May practically every farmer will sub
scribe for a bond at Az per cent even
tho money may cost him per cent and
when the Red Cross calls for its war
will come thru 100 per cent. Why then
should not every farmer take on his
quota of spring wheat acreage ana
extra brood Sows- and let the profits or
losses run what they will? We would
be merely serving our government be-
hind the lines while our boys serve at
the front.
The machinists union has voted to
invest SO a month in war savings
stamps and as an expression Of loyalty
it is Q. K. but in amount 1t is little
more than each machinist should be
doing for himself and his family. Most
machnists in this city are earning
more money than they ever earned be-
fore and the government has asked for
$500 Of it from every family Of six dur
ing the current calendar year to be
used in the war. Other machinists have
enlisted at soldiers pay, board lodging
and clothes during the period Of the
war. What are the rest Of US doing to
help win the war? This obligation,
however, is no more applicable to ma
chinists than to any other class Of
citizens who draw more than a COM
mon laborers pay. This is everybody's
war.
When the people Of Grinnell can go
out in these war times and raise $780,
600 in pledges for new hospital in a
week in spite Of the offer Of denom-
national hospital to them free and
transporta ton prepaid we should not
fear to ask for the support funds we
need to keep our Y. NJ. c. A. our 7. w.
c. A., our hospitals. our churches and
all of our public institutions going dur
ing the war.