Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-24

an absolutely free man, with pledges
| to nobody for anything, official or
| otherwise.
BUILD SOMETHING.
tGrundy Democrat.]
! A good per cent of our people look
| upon the arrival of the first of March
each year with as much dread as the
farmer looks forward to a visit of
swarms of grasshoppers during harvest
time. The dread that the first of
March brings is because it is the an
rual moving day for large share OF
those who haven't homes of their own.
There is but one safe relief from this
annual moving drudgery and that is for
renters to build homes of their own.
At least half of the people in this town
who live in rented houses could have
homes of their own if they placed their
energy and resources into the getting
of one.
There are people who can afford
house of their own who keep on rent
ing as a matter of economy. 1t may DE
little cheaper to rent than to own
home from a money standpoint. bug
! from e standpoint of comfort and per-
sonal satisfaction that one derives from
a knowledge that the roof over his
head is his own as long as he wishes
to retain it makes up in good measure
the difference in cost between renting
and owning home.
People who once own a home are
forever over the renting habit. The
renter who is afraid that the owned
home costs him more should bear that
in mind.
There are good building lots in all
parts OF the town. They can be bought
at a reasonable price Building mater
ial is as low this year as It is likely
to be again. This town is growing
and property values are growing with
it. This viii be good year to build
home II you haven't one of your own
now. IF you put j, off for another year
You Will deprive yourself for another
year of the pleasures and comforts that
home owning has for YOU. II you
haven't money enough TO complete the
kind OF home you have been plan
ring on. if you are straight and saving,
you can borrow the amount you are
ca!c-: TIC .;ccny ,nu borrow NAV be
the making of you. 1, may compel you
to get the saving habit. and there are
few habits that if You stay within rea-
sonable limits are better for you.
Build something this year and
year later you will feel as comfortable
on the eve Of March l as the farmer
feels when he drives over the country
in his automobile in the summer time.
CLIFFORD THoRNE'S BEGINNING.
washington Press.l
A long and lonesome row the Regis
ter and Leader is hoeing for the COVER
norship. When the mud sticks to its
feet and weeds grow too fast and the
awful blues are coming on 1t takes to
the taliest shade tree and entertains
the birds with feats Of intellectual
legerdernain. It's latest exploit in this
lire is comparison OF Thorne and
Holden. 1t says Thorne has made good
as railroad commissioner and therefore
Holden will make good as governor.
Now that is an argument that would
jar the Stats off the fence. II II were
not for the facts this would settle it.
In 1905 the writer went as a delegate
to the interstate commerce convention
at Chicago. which was the first fight
n ade for freight rate regulation. He
gave Thorne a copy OF the report OF
that convention and started him in the
STUDY Of rates. Thorne took to it like
duck does TO water and soon became
a ve-itable crank on freight rates. He
followed this with long experience in
the Standard Oil and Corn Belt Meat
Producers cases and before he ever
became a candidate for railroad com
missioner ne was one OF the best rate
experts in the country. He is success
sui because he knows his business thru
years OF hard application. Supposing
ne had put in all those years testing
seed corn, would that have fitted him
for his present duties? He might have
made a greater seed corn expert than
Holden but he could not have handled
the rate cases. Thorne sought an Of
fee he was qualified to ill and in line
with the work he was doing. Holden
has quit a position he was highly quail
flied to fill and is seeking one he knows
nothing about. If the farmers of Iowa
we're called upon TO choose between
Thorne and Holden as to which should
handle their rate cases, every one
would take T'horne On the other hand.
liz II were question OF seed corn, all
would take Holden. The farmers OF
Iowa are called upon to decide SINH
lar case right now. Clarke has been
their faithful servant in matters OF
government and has also become a.
valuable expert. He is asking to con-
tinue in the same line of work. Holden
wants to quit his old job and have
Clarke turned out SO he can learn
new one. Every farmer who talks 10
US saws Holden had better stay where
he belongs.
Dense Ignorance Of Church Work.
Instead of any pronounced criticism
for what they failed to do. which is