Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-24
! LOCAL COMMENT

and those thruout the county, 10 JOIN
in making this Fourth OF July the one
big celebration in the county'o history.
Independence Day this year means
more to this nation than any other In
many years for since the last OBJ
servance n more lasting independence
has been established thru victory in
the world war. Let US not forget how
ever, that we may celebrate without
dynamite and gun powder. and not
consider that, because this is sort OF a
special" Fourth of July, we may run
riot and take chance of life and limb.
Let us have Fourth that will break
all records for a real thanksgiving cell
ebration, but let Ii be sane Fourth.
Announcement that the graduating
class of the Marshalltown high school
will pass the ninety mark this year Is
situation that is indeed gratifying.
Last year eighty three young people
finished their high school courses. and
the class was the largest the school
had ever known. That record Is to be
broken this year. The gradual in
crease each year shows healthy
growth, and speaks well not only for
the standing OF the school as medium
Of education, but for the growth Of the
city. The growth also forecasts the
rapidly approaching need of another
high school, for the present building
this year was taxed almost to its ca
pacity. With a larger seventh grade
entering the preparatory department
of the high school next year, and as the
ot{ k2 zts a
greater number of pupils to provide
for, there is ahead of Marshalltown
before very long the building Of new
high school, if the young people are to
be cared for properly.
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If there are people in Marsha lltown
who think that new hotel is not
needed. and it is said that there are,
they should glance over the registers
of the three principal hotels last We'd
nesday night. AS early as s o'clock
they will find that there was not a
room available in either Of the hotels.
At least this was the situation that a
travelling man found when he reached
the city expecting to stop over night
and call on his trade the following
morning. He went to one then to the
other, and finally to the third. only to
stop somewhere he hunted out the
cheaper-pr places and did finally
find a room in one Of the hotels OF the
station district. While some Marshall
town people may declare that new
hotel is, not needed. this travelling man
Is of the opinion that If new hotel
afforded hundred or more rooms they
would be filled practically every night.
and the three hotels already operating
would find their rooms filled, as they
are now. am5s
The shooting Of a policeman by a
man suspected Of being bootlegger
again illustrates the danger that the
Times Republican has pointed out so
often, that there is a tendency on the
part of the department Of public safe
ty to be too free and easy. There are
too many men hanging about the
streets whom one can not help but
know are not earning their livings hon.
estly. They are well dressed and are
known to have no occupations. Most
Of us have to work these days to make
both ends meet, so when one sees a
man day after day, within nothing to
do, and yet Is able to enjoy the COM
forts Of life as tho he worked every
day, the natural superstition is that
this man is not Straight" The police
know these men as well. If not better,
than the rest Of us, and the thing to do
is to put stop to their practices,
whether selling liquor illegally or
gambling. No good to any community
can como from booze selling or gamb-
ling. and the sooner a firm hand is laid
down on both, the sooner will be les
sened the danger of policeman being
shot while in the line Of duty.