Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-28
= In OLD PLACES.


When one visits neighborhood with
which he had many years before been
familiar. there is one thing he is apt to
take particular notice OF and that thing
Is this: He finds the people referring
to this one and that one as old Mr.. So
and-So or old Mrs So and So-per-
sons whom he had known as members
Of the youthful circle. The effect on
the mind of this reference suggesting
the greater age is clearly shocking, and
when these once boys and girls are met
in their homes and beheld as the staid
fathers and mothers OF families the oc-
casionaL observer does not fail to real
lie anew the rapid and changeful
flight OF time.
Yet the babe OF today Is the young
man Of tomorrow. and the young man
OF tomorrow IL the father of the day
after. the days representing feet-footed
generations Of men. There Is a song
called Forty Years Ago." which de-
picts in versal melody the feelings OF
a man who went back to his childhood
home after an absence OF forty years.
He stood on the schoolground where he
had played az a careless boy ana
looked about him for reminders Of his
youthful past. He was q stranger In
strange land, the which he realized
keenly when he knelt down at the old
Inside spring and saw in the water his
own wrinkled face and whitened locks.
And so it is, we see the changes in
others, and often they shock US. too.
while they in turn, no doubt. might as
clearly bear witness as to what Father
Time has done to US. but may not be-
cause Of the delicacy OF their senti-
ments.
WHAT EVERYBODY KNOWS.
tDes Moines Register and Leader1
Everybody knows that the general
assessment of property will never be
lowered, no matter who is elected
governor. The equalization in as
sessments was long overdue in Iowa,
and the executive council was con-
sentative TO q degree in estimating
land values.
Everybody knows that capitol ex-
tension will never be abandoned, no
matter who is elected governor. That
something must be done has been
known TO every legislature for years
Many have preferred that the dogs
tail should be cut off by inches, but
| now that II is OF at one fell stroke
nobody will attempt to patch It on
again.
! Everybody knows that eight-ninths
| Of all taxes in the country townships
are levied by the local taxing bodies
and sixteen eighteenths in cities and
towns. In the very nature OF the case
/ If taxes are high, local taxing bodies
! have had q hand in IT.
! of the townships OF the state the town
! ship road tax will equal the entire
state tax. And that, after the mair
roads have been taken over by the
county boards. :.
| Everybody knows that half mil
tax il Just as heavy a burden wheI
levied by the township board as wnei
! levied by the state. Because half
mill levy for the state runs into nun
dreds Of thousands does not make
any heavier to the individual taxpayer
Everybody knows that county boardi
1 and school boards and township poaro'
are notoriously careless ana extraVa
CANT. A comparison OF levies IN nelsh
/ boring towns and townships and coun
ties will show variations that are un
explaina Bile.
i Everybody KNOWS mai LteiA6SAs ~
{! form always begins at home
But what everybody knows is no
! what everybody acts upon. That Is tn
reason wo do not have better govern
ment and better management OF publ
affairs.
4 M1IRPFIYs OFFENSIVE ACTIVITY
Manson Democrat
This newspaper takes the positio
that any federal officeholder OF tn
4 dignity OF Louis Murphy is overstep
ping the bounds Of official properiet
"a making what practically amounts
demand in the following letter
!, which. II Is alleged. he caused to
/, sent 70 a few postmasters and otnei
. whom he depends on AZ rusty heuten
!. ants in his bailiwick.
Dubuque. Iowa. April II. Dear Sir
Connolly has decided
!. be a candidate in the democratic pr
. mary for United States senator. In
, decision il final.
He has requested me TO ask you
;. ss.end . district conference as feE
/ resentaaive from your county 10
held In Dubuque. 1T the DUBUQUE Clu