Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-23
TlMA's WOOD YARD
SOUGHT 70 RELIEVE SUFFERING
BUT GOT NO THANKS.
ooea VINO orsanl.ed Company to Sup
ply Pvsi Without Profit Even Come
N ssr critieism-o~ins lndustry's
ossatnsss Shown BY 1000 Feet Of
Wassns Lined W at Tama.
Special to r.mes-Republ,can.


lot in business section Of Tama there
Is long rick Of cordwood and big
pile Of unsawed poles; the visible ev-
idence Of eleven mems efforts to pro-
tect their city and it's people at q time
when fuel famine threatened physical
suffering and serious disturbance to
business activities.
II was a unique plan that Mayor
Hixson and ten associate volunteers
adopted for the relief of Tama when
her supply began TO run low. They
met and formed Corporation" for
dealing in wood to be used for fuel.
The capital stock consisted Of eleven
contributions OF $50 each and finan-
cial profit had no place in the desires
and purposes of the promoters, FOR
everything was TO be, and was, sold AT
actual cost. A committee was APP
pointed TO buy wood wherever prac-
ticable and to employ men to transport
II to town. Twenty cords OF the sup
ply was hauled from a point as far as
eight miles from town. As the loads
came In they were sold to any one
eral hundred cords SO handled was de-
iiyered direct 10 consumers from the
place where it was cut. When the
strike ended the concern found itself
with certain amount OF fuel on hana
as mentioned at the beginning OF this
article. II may yet be sold at cost
and Il may not The incorporates
are induiring of each other as 70
whether or not they are subject TO an
assessment in case OF future loss. out
they are clear on the point that they
rendered valuable service TO the COM
munity without any attempt to make
anybody pay them a profit for their
outlay or work; a rare thing in these
days of grabbing while the grab
bling Is good"
One of these eleven men was
warned by friend that he and his
associates surely would be subjected
TO susptcion as to the rectttude OF their
intentions and sure enough faint IN
dications OF this did appear. It Is
said that few were certain that
somebody was making money out OF
the deal and one man noticed that a
little Of the wood was rotten and not
worth what the committee paid for
it."
Early residents of the country tell
about the long strings Of teams and
wagons that used to stand before the
grain elevator loaded, in the earlier
DAYS, with wheat, and at q later time
with corn or oats awaiting their turns"
10 unload. The same thing happened
here ono day last week except that
this time 1t was hogs instead OF grain.
At the local Cudahy Bros. Company
line of loaded wagons more than 1,Ooo
feet in length stood at one time In the
company yards, and when they were
unloaded the pens contained enough
for twenty six carloads all raised In
this one community. Great, indeed Is
the swine growing industry OF Iowa.
In a conversation between travel
ing grain buyer and railroad sta
ton agent the former declared that w
per cent of the box cars on the ROAD
were unfit for loading with grain. that
they might be all right for saw logs
but that they would not hold shelled
corn or small grain. The agent an
ewered that this was the result Of the
pooling OF cars. He explained that
other days when a car was found to
foe in need Of repair the necessary
work was done and charged up 10 the
company to whom the Ger belonged
but that under the present system OF
management there Is nobody to charge
the bill to, therefore the repairs are
not made, with the result that ship
pers everywhere are complaining OF
the condition Of grain cars.
The travelling man certainly mas
had his full share OF inconvenience as
the result Of the late curtailment OF
train service and the accompanying
period of snowbound country roads.
Men who worked" twelve 10 fifteen
towns a week under ordinary circum-
stances were able TO reach less than
half the usual number and the COM
mon greeting of these men was,
Where did you cime from and how
did you get in?" They got in any
way they could Some told of hiring
farmers with bob-sleds and in one
case two men walked from Mel
bourne to Rhodes. two Marshall coun-
ty towns five miles apart. The life OF
the commercial traveller is not as 1t
was q few years ago. There Is mucn
more walking and carrying grips now
and more eating at lunch counters as
transfer outfits and hotel accommoda-
tions have faded away.
A..t oil
Ing stock selling salesman what he
thought Of the latters profession and
IN the course of his remarks made this
pofnti T always have been skeptical
in the matter Of buying stock in
concsrn TO be created in opposition to
long established corporations. You
! men receive anywhere frorA 20 per
4 cent to 40 per cent Of the amount col
Z isctsd on the stock you sell. How "
the remainder to be used by men OF
lesser experience than their compel
ftors In Z way to make q prot,t for tho
investor? Always a big profit too. else
there would be no stock Sold"
A young business man made a good
answer to an invitation to invest IN
IN outside concern the other day when
he said: Il have . little business here
which II capable Of expansion. Why
should I divert needed capital from
ny own business TO that OF another
70 DO 10 would DO IN admission that
/ ought to be Ut work for somebody
K clio rather than for myself" O. d
! Wilson.
Musks4 Worth Fortune.
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