The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1919-02-06
Taake Turned Down.

! State Insurance Commissioner J.
+, z. Take, who was appointed by
Governor Harding to fill the place
! of Emory English, resigned, was
reapponted by the governor recent
ly and his name was sent to the
| tee on investigation OF the APP
pointee reported Thursday morning
! and for two hours on Friday morn,
the senators were behind locked
doors secretly discussing the matter
of confirmation with the result that
Mr.. Take was turned down. Charges
I against him were strongly presented
who claimed he was dlscourteous
and incompetent and everything
else. 1t is said some personal feel
ing may have entered into the mat
| ter also.
Road Legislation Coming.
Regardless of all other reports reports
we, believe. some real road legi s :,
session Of the General Assembly.
But it will be rewriting of all the
highway laws as well as the auto
license and motor tax laws. Road
bills of dozen different kinds and
bearing on various small phases OF
the road question have been offered
in both houses, but they. would
would not get the state out of the
mud. With millions of federal
money sure to come to Iowa, the
disposition is to get a practical road
making program started here that
will meet the requirements of the
government and secure this help.
A joint meeting of the highways
recently indicated that bills will be
soon forthcoming that will be care
fully considered and fully meet the
situation. The county option fea-
ture of bond issues will, however, be
about all in that line. that, will come
out of it in the end. Legislators
may be said to generally favor the
roads possible, but they will not per.
NIT it to be done without vote of
the people most directly concerned.
Like paving in cities, it is regarded
as matter of but a year or two
more when every locality will be
favoring hard-surfaced roads OF
either concrete or other permanent
construction. The farm truck is
here to stay, and farm trucks de-
mand good roads
State Veterinarian Resigned.
DR.. J. l. Gibson, state veterinarian
of Iowa for most of the past eight,
cen or twenty years, has resigned
his position and will engage. as
manager of large serum business
in Illinois. There is movement on
foot among the veterinarians, horse
terested over the state, to have a
board of seven named to guard and
handle the health of the stock of
the state, somewhat after the plan
of the state health board. Whether
this will be accomplished or not is
hard to say. but if it is not the state
of Iowa will certainly have to pay
it's state veterinarian salary in
stead of only his family's board;
DR.. Gibson has made the office OF
veterinary real department in
Iowa and has done it on a salary Of
$500 a year-about what some OF
the stenographers and clerks in Of
fees now receive.
The plan for securing new
S750,0O0 temple of Justice and law
library for the establishment of the
northeast corner Of the extended
capitol grounds was neatly projected
this week in a bill providing for
grand memorial to the Iowa soldiers
the aforesaid building to be the
memorial. That sort Of camouflage
ought to get by with it. 1T is hard
for any legislator to shoot at our
own soldiers and sailors.
The appropriations committees
have already discovered that the
habit of thinking and TALKING in
millions, which was developed in
the late war activities, remains with
to an extent that is hard to keep
down. The amounts asked for ev-
G. L. Caswell.