Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-07-06
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A Marshalltown man who claims to
have witnessed every big parade and
Fourth Of July celebration in this city
during the past fifty years remarked
Thursday: you can quote me as say
ing that today's parade was the biggest
and best Marshalltown has ever SEEN"
It was grand expression Of the uni
versal desire of our people to be patri-
otto. It was a quiet, serious and dig
nified demonstration and It pleased
everybody far more than the old fash
Toned noisy kind Of q celebration.
Peoples minds were on the world crisis
In France.
And how much saner and more
sensible to have thousands Of people
assembled in town on holiday without
q single drunk In evidence to disturb
decent people. One can not refrain
from contrasting conditions with those
Of few years ago when empty bottles
were strewn about the streets and men
were won't to display their degradation,
much to the disgust of the great major
ity. Now we are all one happy family
| living cleaner and more wholesome
lives. Our streets and public grounds
belong to the women and the children
and to decency. instead of being in
tested with coarse and sometimes dan
gerous rowdies.
Statesmen for outside investments
should be requested to move on when
they arrive in Marshalltown. These
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mining stocks or stocks in new and
venture<pme corporations. The liberty
loan in The fall will demand approx
mately double the assessment upon
everybody that was necessary for the
last one. The army "Y'' fund will call
for $4,000 from this county IN October.
There are yet quarter OF a million
dollars to be invested in war savings
stamps by the people of this county
this year to meet our quota. There Is
a war on, so let's conserve our capital
for war Investment as well as to con-
serve in foods.
Now that the draft is taking men
with dependent wives it is. time for the
home service work Of the Red Cross
to receive greater attention. The county
should be organized and districted so
that personal visitation could be made
upon the dependents Of every enlisted
man to see that none are in need Of
friends or aid at home.
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State Center has shown every other
precinct the way out OF its war savings
stamp problem. State Center found it
self at the tail end of the procession
with no work done and a $4,000 allot-
iI1eT,tt IL NETT The committee simply
apportioned the burden equitably among
the people in the township. A letter
was sent to each person stating the
amount Of his allotment with instruc-
lions to call at the postoffice and buy
the stated amount less stamps already
purchased, which could be. deducted
from the total, and in one, day without
canyassing State Center went over the
top. Here in Marshalltown people can
expect an assessment of this kind in
the late fall for our purchases within
the city are not keeping up to require
ments.
New York, st. Paul, Minneapolis, De-
troit, Denver, Boston, Memphis, New
Orleans, Montgomery, Baltimore, New
ark, Los Angeles. Portland and Oak
land are among the larger cities which
have recently adopted the one delivery
per day as a war conservation plan.
The books Of the big department stores
show a saving of IS per cent in the men
used and 40 per cent in the truck oper-
ating expense. BY limiting the return
OF merchandise to a three-day period
an averag e reduction OF SO per cent has
been made in the amount returned.
Marshalltown has yet to see what Its
people can save by the same methods.
Look! The merry-go-round will be
In full swing at Albion tonight (Satur-
day.. Fine drive. Don't fail to come
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