Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-10

will result In material advances, and
should clarity the atmosphere. The
minimum wage for grade teachers
this year OF 3775 will be Increased to
$1,000 next year. and tho maximum
from $3.50 to $i210. Principals salaries
now $1,000 will 80 up to $3.50 next
year. The high school schedule Is yet
to DO prepared, and increases will be
shown there.
Some dissatisfaction still IL looked
for among teachers, as between those
who have had long service in tho To-
cal schools and those who have come
to the schools within very recent
years. To those teachers who claim
unfairness In the ratio OF salary as
between old and new teachers, an
Investigation Of conditions in all in
that the situation Is tho same every
where, and can not be overcome I'M
der the present shortage of labor. In
dustries today are paying much high
er wages for help less skilled than
was paid before tho war. and the in
creases to less skilled help in all
lines are greater in proportion every
where.
The best thing board, management.
and teaching force can do for the
good of tho schools and in fairness to
the public, which Is anxious to see a
fair and reasonable adjustment of the
difficulty. Is to settle upon an agree
ment in business-like way, giving
and taking on both sides. The schools
can not afford any other manner Of
settlement; neither can the teachers
and the board. OF couse there will
be radical advisers to both sides of
the controversy, but this is not a time
for radicalism, but for the exercise Of
sane and common sense and fairness
to each other and the public. There
should be little difficulty in reaching
a Just and equitable basis of set
Element II a give and take
policy is pursued and that must be
the basis Of settlement of any con-
troversy.
The Times Republican, a week ago,
tried to prepare the public for the
shock Of disappointment in the census
returns. but the T.-R. must confess
that the shock was greater than an
ticipated. That the enumeration in
this city was a fiasco rs apparent by
a little figuring. To snow falling
off Of Sc people in the last five years,
when, in that time, o42 new houses
have been built in this city, and all
of them are occupied, the figures Of
the federal census can not be accept
ed in any way but a joke. 1t is not
likely that a recount would be per-
mitted, for If permitted here recounts
would have to be made practically
everywhere. The inefficiency Of the
method of taking the census is
shown up, together with the lack of
interest on the part or business men
to lend their concerted aid to the
enumerators. to the end that prac-
tically an absolute check on popula-
ton could be secured.
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Opinions Of the medical profess
sion Of the city as to the proper
method OF procedure to improve con-
ditions for caring for contagious dis
eases, bear out what the Times Re
publican advised several weeks ago
in dealing with the detention hos
pital question. The opinions Of the
doctors of the city should have
weight with the board Of supervisors
The physicians should be the advis-
ers on the question Of the public
/ fu %
the needs, and the supervisors should
be willing to do away with make
shifts and build a hospital that will
answer those needs for years to
come.
In the closing down Of the packing
house as the result Of the strike, the
expected has happened. The instI-
tuition may never be opened again.
The Lennox Machine Companys
shop disappeared from Marshalltown
forever when a .strike struck it, and
II grew up In new and more fav-
orable community, to become a place
Of steel construction, furnishing en-
ploymsnt for many men. Within re-
cent months an officer Of the Ryer-
son Company. which bought the Len
nox Machine Company's business,
said to . Marshalltown man: Had
we had police protection during the
strike we would Scw be employing
L500 men in our factory in your
city"
About the only inducement to Chi
cago men to start a packing house
or q machine shop in Marshalltown
is to get away from labor troubles. |
II they must suffer strikes. and
face q mob without what they con-
slider adequate police protection, they |
might as we'll do it in a city under
their personal supervision as to be
deviled with the same annoyances |
800 miles away. The owners Of the
packing house have done what own
ers Of other factories IN Marshall
town should do when they have a de-
termined strike on; they have closed
down. Had they attempted to run
there would probably have been vio-
lence, and It would not have been re-
strained very effectively by the off,
GERS Of tho law. The employers would
nave Dsen compelled TO furnish
their own protection, which would
have brought on Industrial war. 1t
Is better for the peace Of the COM
munity to have the factory closed
down, Until the public sentiment Of
a community insists that its citizens
be protected when they are willing
to work in its factories in time of
Industrial controversy, that commun-
itv d0AS mot dAaerve fo have factor, |