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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1918
Page
3
Justice of the peace F F Knapp challenges a proposed municipal court, arguing it serves lawyers and promoters rather than ordinary citizens. He warns voters to scrutinize promoters and asserts costs and legal maneuvering would burden the poor with higher fees and appeals.
The author argues current police court fines cover salaries of mayor, police judge, clerk, chief of police, city engineer, and councilmen, with progress toward city attorney pay. He warns against creating salaried positions before census conditions reach 20 000 population, foreseeing changes by 1924 and urging postponement until actual need exists.
H C Schultz cashier of Commercial National bank has been drafted for war work and appointed secretary and organizer for the seventh district of Iowa. J M Grim Cedar Rapids is named chairman with Sherman DeWolf Reinbeck as vice chairman for the district covering Bremer Buchanan Tama Johnson Iowa Linn Black Hawk Grundy and Benton counties. H E Kloster Waterloo is drafted as publicity manager for the district. The group steps into the third Liberty Loan drive with a call for sacrifice and service.
About 100 American women physicians will depart within days for France to treat children of the Allies. Specialists in tuberculosis and pediatrics will staff the effort funded by the American Women's Hospital society. Dr. Gertrude A. Walker urged urgent care, noting many areas have lacked physicians for years. A mass meeting was held to plan fundraising.
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