Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-12-13

candle TO what can b done n No.
sAalltown II old Man BlissaF6 WIN juss
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The city funds were not prepared for
draSging foads 20 late into the wintSt
and yet there u no public service
20 important for the good Of the town
just now. Commissioners Herman 10
to be commended for going at It at
this time but the Marshalltown club
ought to come to the city's relief and
help out what It IAN.
The N~orweSians, who plan to build
q church. should look into the property
which the Congregationalists have to
sell. There should be q rare bargain
there which ought to appeal to q
dinavian thrift. II the site 10 not sat
isfactory this church can be placed on
the site already owned by the Nor
wegians and the lot thus vacated can
be sold for commercial purposes. In
making these community Investments
a people should see to 1t that nothins
of real value is DESTROYED
Auto owners pretty generally are
complying with the mayors request
to park cars in the new boulevard
prepared for that purpose and the re-
lief to Main street is already very no
ticeable. Let others do likewise now
and not leave their cars standing IN
front Of their places Of business all
day. Those who wish to stand their
teams on the new street should also
stand them in the vehicle strip along
side Of III autos and keep the tranic
open. Let's everybody work
together for e%verybody's else comfort
People in town who complain about
the high price Of Eggs during the an
nual vacation period Of hens find very
little sympathy with those who nave
hens OF their own in the back lot
Jim Hill insists that the sole trouble
with our high cost of living Is that not
enough of us are willing to raise the
food. We all want to live in ease IN
town and have the other fellow do the
farming. When it comes to our egg
and poultry supply it Is entirely within
the power of every family living on a
full sized city lot to produce Its own.
II they do not do 1t let them hustle TOT
eggs the best way they can. me
poultry show in Forney's a next
week will give US a forceable demon
stration Of what many OF our people
are doing and there will be a large <
hibit there Of what ten year Old poys
can do in the poultry business when
the grownups are too Indifferent to 90
1t themselves.
President Main, OF Grinneil College
is a Congregationalist and ne Is a!so
somewhat Of an economist. He noios
that our public enterprises which ne
calls community values arc &c. .ecs..
ing the same increase in support WNich
has come to private property values.
Plainly put he means that men are not
taxing themselves for their puoiic IN
stitutons as heavily according to their
increased and hat they are not
giving to churches. colleges and chaf-
ity in the same increased mou az
they are acquiring wealth for them
selves. President Main has in mind the
men who left New England sixty years
z to found a college on the prairies
OF the west and who assessed them
selves so per cent and sometimes mose
Of all their possessions to create a
community value which a been len
QSTlUk SctV1CS " IAS
times and to their childrens' children
and will continue to render such ser
vice SO long as this government shah
protect property in this country. Those
O. US who think thai paved roads IN
Marshall county would cost 100 much,
or who fear to buy 4 whole bio * OF
ground around q school house for play
grounds in prepetuity OF who think
tina. the Congregationalists. h Y. NJ.
c.. A.. tho German Eyangelicals, the
Baptists or others have overbuiit
should stop to take account Of prop
erty values. 1t 10 altogether improo-
able that anyone has assessed himseaf
to exceed 5 per cent for n one OF
these community values and II every
body would assess himself half as IL
the debts on all OF these community in
vestments would be wiped out tomor-
row morning with q large surplus I"
spare for a Y. ". G. A. or some other
community investment which would be
worth more to the whole people than
more land would be to the individual.
4
That President Main has the facts
back Of him vas amply illustrated IN
that old letter Of Grandfather Beeson
written in 1860 about lands selling near
Albion at $500 per acre which are now
known to be worth 5000 per acre. We
build larger churches now and larger
schools because there are more OF VI
but when we own 5000 and no n OF
US liz giving to Jul public enterprises
thirty times as much as our grand
fathers did who owned IS land. Neither
are we investing thirty times as much
in our roads. II we did we would have
them paved or grayeled as they are be-
ing paved and graveled in almost every
state in the union except a half dozen
states in Inc corn belt.