Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — IT SURELY NEEDED IT [ARTICLE]

IT SURELY NEEDED IT

IT’S POOR ECONOMY TO SPARE PAINT AT EXPENSE OF BUILDING. The current issue of the Remington Press has the following comment on the redecorating of the county court house: “A series of repairs and redecorating on the wholesale is being conducted at the county court house, and a taxpayer tells us that ‘it is not right,’ and ' wants us to give them h for it. That’s all right, brother, object to this expense all you want to. You know how much good it will do you, don’t you? You recollect, perhaps, that you objected when they dynamited the old court house down (which was condemned by an expert architect who had an ax to grind) and built the new building, and* you know how much good it did, don’t you. Well, it’s an even gamble that all the objections that the south end of the county can raise against anything they wish to do at the court house, only makes it that much more certain that they will do it. Isn’t it so?”