Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 280, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1913 — What It Was For. [ARTICLE]

What It Was For.

“This is a fine city hall you have planned,” said the chairman of the commssion, “but there’s one thing that my fellow members of the board and X have been unable to understand. Your plans show a little booth or anterroom just outside the main entrance. What is that for?” "That?” replied the architect, "Oh, that’s a place in which the officials may check their consciences when they go into office.”