Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1922-11-16
From Pilot Knob.

The election being over, it is to be
hoped that everything will soon be
quiet, and that the daily papers will
soon be able to give us some interest
ing news besides Reed and Brewster.
The election certainly is an object
lesson. 1t clearly shows that the peo-
Gle every where, regardless of race,
Lolor or previous condition of servi-
Jude, are tired and sick of Old Plu-
ocracy, and have given him a severe
rebuke. That is about all the ques-
ton there is to it. When we have
all the people, regardless of politics,
thinking along any certain line, it is
not long until some tangible results
are accomplished. Itdoes not require
any certain knowledge of either poll
teal economy or technique psychol-
ogY; there is within the average
person a certain innate principle that
teaches him or her just when it is
time to strike a decisive blow. Vox
populi: vox Del.
@John Mckinney, who has employ
ment at Flat River, visited his broth
ers here Sunday last, returning home
on No. 80.
Our good friend, David Mckinney,
is quite sick at this writing. W. hope
that he may soon recover.
Mr.. Chris Amelung recently pur-
chased a fine new piano.
Mr.. Conley left here last Tuesday
night on a trip to Kentucky.
The Baptist church building is near
ing completion, and when completed
will be one of the finest in Iron coun-
ty.
Our attention is called to a letter in
last weeks REGISTER from DR.. Mil
ford Riggs, of the Baptist Home, in
which he, / presume, fires a shot at
your writer for what he had to say in
a former letter to the REGISTER CON
corning the physical and financial
condition of Mr.. James Billedo, who
three months ago, was seriously Grip
pied while he was working on the
Baptist Home building. At the time
I wrote that paragraph, was not at
all %conversant with the facts in the
case, and did so purely from the fact
that my attention had been respect
fully called to the matter by very re-
sponsible people, both at Pilot Knob
and Ironton. Mr.. Riggs calls it Gun
favorable criticism" and then goes
on to eulogize the Baptist Home CON
siderably. Now, as to the merits or
dement's of the Baptist Home, I do
not now wish to discuss that ques-
tian. Mr.. Billedo told me today that
he had never received a single penny
from the t'employer's liability insur-
ance to cover cases of this kind" He
further informed me that had it not
been for the kindness of friends al
Pilot Knob and Ironton that he and
his family certainly should have suf-
fered from want of the absolute neces-
saries of life. He is a good man, has
a good wife and family, and | thought
it but Justice to them to state thai
"either the Baptist Home or the con-
tractor, under whom he was working
at the time he vas so seriously Grip
pied, should be responsible for all the
necessary expenses until such time as
he should be able to work" 1t ap-
peared to me, as we'll as to many
other thinking people, that such fact
is absolutely true. I did not, nor dc
not, desire to attack the moral OF
financial status of the Baptist Home,
and / believe that l am, as MI. Riggs
says to the Editor of the REGISTER
"broad- minded enough to see not only
the Homes moral worth as a philan.
thropic institution, but also its worth
as an economical asset to the com
munity,"
Now, il the Baptist Home wishes tt
air this question further, / trust The
matter may be taken up with MIR
Billedo, for he and his friends fee
that he has not been shown a prope
"philanthropicn spirit from those re
sponsible for his accident. ?.
Job-work, all kinds, at this office.