Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-09
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Marshalltown has had another taste
of the carnival this week, and If the
members OF the city council have tax
en- the. proper interest in the affair
they will have decided by the time the
weeks engagement Is closed whethe!
! or not they again want TO open the
doors to carnival attractions, or Wheth-
or they wish to continue the policy
established few years ago. in barring
Carnivals as an amusement enterprise.
Granting that this weeks carnival
has been as clean as could be desired
for a carnival, and that there has been
nothing really Objectionable from
moral standpoint, the fact remains that
the carnival is not a desirable form OF
amusement. To be true, 1t has at
tracted crowds of people, and many OF
the best people of the city, who have
visited the grounds, perhaps thru curl
osity. and to satisfy themselves that
carnivalI are still Carnivals. When ali
is said that can be said for the carni-
walls. the deduction must be made that
q town is better off without them. In
the case of the present carnival the
only fact that commended II TO the
good graces of the city council was
that the local post of the American
Legion was deriving benefit wltn
which TO help finance the state conVen-
ton in the event that MarshalltoWn is
chosen as the meeting place. With the
opportunity arising ii was hard for the
council to refuse the legion a chance
to make a little easy money. However,
the big end of what has been contrib
uted by the public does to out-of-
town interests and concessioners. and
war prices have been paid for very
common and ordinary entertainment.
The appearance in the city OF case
of infantile paralysis should De
warning to the health department TO
take every precaution against spread
of the disease. Positive diagnoses Oh
cases should not be awaited by the at
tending physicians before taking ordi-
nary precautionary measures, and II
symptoms are at all suspicious IL Is
| better to err on the safe side. Wait
! ing to find out for sure that a patient
| really has some contagious disease is
too much like putting off administer
| ing antitoxin in secere cases OF tonsi-
! Iitis. where the antitoNin could do no
! harm. and lack of incubation means
death when il is finany determined
| that the tonsilitis is diphtheria.
! If the newly created Constable Duns
! is given the support he Is entitled TO
as an officer, the chances are that
! there will be some active prosecutions
| tor violation OF motoring and motor
| license laws buns has taken much in
! terest in law violators, and already mas
reported a great many as private
citizen. He has the number of a
| great many who are operating without
! the proper numbering of their cars.
| There is no good reason why one auto
mobile owner should be entitled to run
on old numbers, one number. or no
numbers at all, while another car
owner obeys the law and spends his
| good money to insure the proper IL
censing Of his car.
| The general public will hope to see
a speedy settlement Of the railway
shipments strike, in which the people
of Marshalltown are especially inter-
ested from the fact that in the neigh-
! borhood of 500 of her citizens have lett
their work in the local railroad shops.
A strike is always regrettable, ana
always there is diversity OF opinion
as to whether the actual necessity ex-
lists. It is to be hoped that the local
members of the federated railway
shipments unions, and the car shop
employees. will see the wisdom OF re-
turning TO work pending a settlement:
thru the government railway adminl'
stration. as their international officers
have asked. If the strike is held 10 pe
unauthorized the men here can not
hope to gain, and they have much 10
lose.
| DR.. Billiard. osteopath. 20 West Main