Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-07
GETTING RID OF ARMY POSTS.
ISio,1y CITY Inurrall


/ GETTING RID OF ARMY POSTS.
tSioux City Journall
If we are to get rid of the unstra-
tegic and uneconomio federal army
7 We should. the most hopeful plan
would be to tackle the job IN the
; schedule by schedule" principle by
which President Taft is proposing to
revise the tariff. Right now pro-
pcsal 20 eliminate ere or two useless
army posts. thu least defensible OF the
lot probably would be good politics.
Il would hurt the feelings of one OF
, two localities, hut it would mean Il
roa! star, on an economy program
something that coGld pc pointed to
! With pride in ever Gjet-!c, or state ex-
/ cept the enc OF two affected. The rep
! resentat;ves II NAM states would not
( like the lob CT explaining why they
voted 20 save the public money ana
! Increase the efficiency of the army at
& the expense o. c,e or Two far away
! cnnnunif' c5. For years congress has
BEEN irving to &C: rid Of fourteen su-
pcraUoug pension agencies. 1t has yet
. to get rid of cne Of them. If it had
Z
time fourteen ears ago, it might now
/ be rid of all OF them
! Whatever may become OF Secretary
Stimson's Recommendation if it be
pushed, it will not be square dea,
/ to blame the poor congressman for
! failing to fan in lire for such whole
! sale economy. In voting against it the
! congressman wlll be only carrying out
g ~ Sch -
to which 'Ic is ra.ponsible. He is a
politician. and It is politically discreet
/ for him to do VIA. his people expect
of him.
HOW THEY GRAvELED THE ROAD.
{; William G. Roberts in Des Moines
| Register and Leader.]
! AS per your request. l am sending
YOU some figures on the cost Of gravel
ine roads as we find it in our locality.
Last summer a few of the boys wanted
to see the road just east OF Panora
graveled to Bays branch a distance Of
about three quarters of a mile. 1t
was talked over in my store and after
the boys left drew up an article some
I thing like this:
I We. the undersigned agree to pay
purpose of grave:ing the read from the
east line of Panora to Bays branch
said amounts to be paid either in cash
or labor within sixty days.
! The first two men that were solicited
! subscribed theh auline of forty loads
Of gravel.
| The third man objected to hauling
any unless they extended into town
L. a nd
/ would do that he would pay for the
hauling of sixty loads. One of the
parties that had already donated forty
said he would add thirty more loads If
Z the extension was made, so we added
this one-quarter mile to our list.
!, 1t took but few hours work to get
the hauling all donated for this mile
of road.
/! Then the men in Panora were So
licited for cash to pay the shovelers.
We met with no refusals, all contribut-
ing to this fund. and the cash was soon
raised to pay the shvvelers. Later on
we saw the township trustees and they
agreed to pay for the gravel provided
it could be bought at 10 cents per
yard.
About this time two Of the farmers
I
in to see us and wanted us to do the
same with their part of the road as we
had agreed to with those living near
town. We told them II they would Sc
cure the hauling of at least 300 loads
I've would guarantee the gravel and the
loading of same The next day these
two men got busy among their neigh
bors and reported that night that they
had the pledge Of 400 loads During
this time the boys near town were
hauling their part and this enthused
others and in short time we had
enough hauling and cash pledged to
gravel seven miles OF road IN Cass
township. You can't build roads I'M
less you get what 10 called road fever
and once you get it your neighbors all
catch 1t that come In contact with you.
Now as to the cost Of putting this
gravel on the road. 1t is about as fol-
lows in and near Panora. In other To-
calities 1t might be different, according
to what you will have to pay for the
gravel. Here we get all we want at
10 cents per yard and, in my judgment.
this il a great plenty in any locality In
Guthrie county. In the first place, have
your roadbed we'll rounded before plac-
ing the gravel on, also have the bitches
at both sides we'll cleaned for drainage
In putting this gravel on after the
roadbed was in shape to receive 1t we
placed one load end to end. We figure
that yard Of gravel will cover ten
lineal feet. Therefore, 1t will take b2s
loads to the mile. We ind in hauling
that the average team will walk about
thirty miles per day with load We
paid 10 cents per yard for shoveling al
the pit or 81 per day. We find that