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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
AN.ALYzING THE BURDEN.
Jefferson Bee.1

The april draw" is in relative pro-
portion to the amounts paid in, divid-
ed according to the millage in each of
the various townships. For instance
the total levy for all state purposes is
40 mills. The county levy is 14.1 mills.
The total township levies very some
what, altho not far from an average OF
SO mills. With reference to the coun-
ty levy item 1t il hardly fair to call 1t
14.1 tor the reason that this item has
in 1t the mill county road, and the 2
mill county road building. which event.
ually, goes back to each township in
crlverts and road work. OF the county
levy also the bridge levy OF 4 mills
likewise apportions back to local benz
efit in proportion to the needs Of the To-
cality, the river and creek townships.
OF course, getting larger proportion
than townships where no streams OF
consequence appear. On the whole,
however, the people Of each township
get the use OF such bridges when pass
ing that way. To various extents the
itownships benefit also in the 1evies for
county school Il mild, insane Cd, poor
fl,2) and soldiers relief (.2), the total
OF all these funds being 10.1 mills. This
sum deducted from the county levy
leaves only mills which goes exclus-
lively for county purposes.
Thus, to be more yoncrete We Wouis
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
WELCOMING NEWCOMERS.

When Mr.. and Mrs. Jones and the little
Jones' moved into Onetown along with
other Jones' and Thompsons and john
sons and Browns they were invited to
attend a big hurrah to be given In
their honor at the town hall Of the
opera house Of q theater or . coliseum
and orators told them how filled with
a great Joy the town was to see them.
how the people Of the city were ovsr-
joyed to know that so much intelli-
gence and wealth and social prominence
had been added to "our CITY," Speaker
after speaker shattered the gush while
Mamma Jones smiled and bridled and
Pa Jones swellsd up and wished the
folks where they moved from might see
and hear his welcome home and the
little Jones' eyes stuck out Of theil
heads. And when the hurrah was ovel
and everyone on the program had
spoken and Eousaushed the Jones' 60
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
PAYING FOR PAVING.

The Charles City Press says: 'The
city property owner should no more
be compelled to pay all the expense
of street paving in front of his prop
erty than a farmer should be compelled
to pay for improving the roads passing
by his farm"
Which may be set down as an alb
stract expression of simple Justice.
However, absolute justice in the
division of cost is hard to accomplish.
The law, as the lawyers are prone to
assert is straight edge which fills up
some inequalities and cuts off others.
1t strives to get as close to equality, in
theory, as the lay of the ground will
let it.
The point is that the progressive
householder wants paving before his
house and will pay if he must to get
1t. Sometimes he doesn't want to
pay for it. If ne is landlord figuring
on rentals he is often in opposition to
improvements which cost him part Of
his interest returns. If he is in
Strengthened circumstances he wonders
how he is going to pay for it. And if
he doesn't use the paving to drive
over he fails to see why he should pay
the entire cost of an Improvement
which others are to use.
But under the scheme Of absolute
equality of cost the paving fails to
come. When the majority OF the
property owners desire paving and are
ready to stand the expense because
they want it it is up to the minority
to come across. 1t is a penalty which
men pay for living on progressive
streets in progressive communities.
The new law helps some on outlying
streets by approximating the simple
justice called for by the Press. But
those who want paving and want 1t
when they want it will have to go on
paying most of the cost of the i'm
provement and those who do not want
it when in a minority as to numbers
and influence will have to conform to
the desire Of the majority.
How would the Press arrange to
divide equally the cost Of paving and
still get the street paved against the
general distaste toward raise in the
tax millage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
CANNED HISTORY.

John Bunny is dead. Yet he is not
so dead as other actors are. The pub
lie has lost such men as Booth and
Mansfield. but 1t has not lost Bunny.
The public may still laugh at his clever
work, until the films wear out beyond
possibility Of reproduction, and when
will that be? There will be Bunny
'trevivals' as there were Sheridan re-
vivals. The movie has made the
pantomime actor almost as permanent
an institution as the written words OF
a ay-wright.-Clinton Herald.
But preservation OF John Bunny's
smile is an incident and at most not
a mighty incident in the things the
moving picture film shall immortalize
for the uses and behoof and COM
partnership Of the coming generations.
Johns smile like John himself Is as
grass and shall fade as the leaf. The
film has greater service.
If the picture machine and its ad-
junct the photograph had been IN
operation the voice and action OF
Cicero in his denunciat!on Of Cataline
might be as familiar to US as that OF
William Jennings Bryan whose ora
tory has rung in the ears Of practically
every man, woman and child who at
tends political meetings or goes to
chautauouas The barons would sign
the Magma Charta before our eyes.
We should see and hear Webster pro-
claim this nation as forever indis-
souIable and Lincoln at Gettysburg.
And more, much more that we have all
wished that we might have seen and
heard. When we realize all that such
reproductions would mean to US we
can understand what the moving pic
ture film may mean to the future
when il raises from the past the men
and the methods and the lives that
are living today when We have been
dust for ten generations.
The mummies OF the Egyptian
dynasties are mainly curious. They
are merely relics, gruesome, unat-
tractiye, morbid membranes that
men lived and died and strove to defeat
decay. The moving picture is the men
alive, the life Of period in full swing
It is a dead generation galvanized n
to the semblance Of life that later gen.
erations may know and see how II
| lived and moved in its daily round.
The moving picture film Is the silc
of the generations. 1t is canned his
t0TJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

homo about o'clock in the morning
convinced that they were conauerins
heroes and that Onetown was the only
town ever.
Mrs. Jones got ready to receive calls
from prominent citisens' wives the next
day and sat down to wait the door bell
and sat until she got tired and never
heard anything at the front door until
the carrier threw the evening paper
against it. And went on waiting.
Mr.. Jones went down town chesty
and full Of vinegar. Nobody seemed to
recognize him as q newcomer in whose
advent the entire city joins with pride
and satisfaction" In fact nobody saw
him except a couple OF sharks who
wanted to sell him some lots six miles
out at $1,000 a lot. When he came
home he was tired. Got his supper
and went to bed grouchy.
The little Jones boy came home with
bloody nose and the little Jones girl
cried because the other girls had shifted
at her clothes
The contrast between the oratory and
the actualities was too great.
Another Jones family moved to
Marshalltown. Nobody met them at the
train and they had to pay the dray-
man themselves for moving the stuff
from the car. But a few days after
a
things Strengthened out one or two
Of the neighbor women ran in and
chatted The next week she went to
the ladies' aid and down to the women's
club and called back on two or three
neighbors The little Jones came home
bloody but victorious and Sissy said
he'd like the town. Had been over to
the Marshalltown Club and around
town in few places and liked the way
the men called each other by their first
names. And they lived happily in that
town ten years and cried when the
firm moved him to the bigger town
and the bigger job. And to this day
they call Marshaltlown back home"
The point Of this little fable which
isn't at all fable is that nobody is
fooled with a counterfeit of friendli-
ness and that you must deliver the real
goods, Oratory is one thing and home
cooking another. Friendliness isn't a
business but an emotion and happiness
is state of mind. A CHEEKY hello"
across the street of morning, a chatty
real interest in folks because they are
folks like the rest of US brings home
the bacon where oratory doesn't make
a grease spot.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
MR.. kERR,s KINDLY WORD.

Times Republican. Marshalltown,
Iowa: My Dear Sir-Your editorial in
a recent issue of the Times Republican
on Dreams Which Have Come True,
impressed me to the extent that am
writing you. The Times Republican
should be congratulated because of the
facts contained in that editorial, for it
often happens that pioneers in any
cause have rough shedding, and when
victory does come the credit goes to
others, and many times to others who
did not reach the firing line until vic
tory was in sight. But the Times Re-
publican has not faltered because Of
such possibility. and it has labored on
content to do it's duty as it saw fit, and
let reward. If any was due. fall where
it would. and accept as best it could a
condition well depicted by little verse
that it was my privilege to learn many
years ago:
Then to side with truth is noble,
When we share her wretched crust,
Ere her cause bring fame and profit
And it's noble to be just,
Then it's this the brave man chooses
And the coward stands aside,
Waiting, in his abject spirit,
Till his Lord is crucif1ed."
While it is wise and just for the
imes-Republican to seek to have
credit go where 1t rightfully belongs it
Is not un1nindful of the aid and COM
fort it has received at the hands Of
friends who have sustained it as the
years have come and gone, nor is 1t
losing sight of the fact that in battle
we'll fought and in victory fairly won,
there is GLORY enough for ALL Sin
cerely yours, William G. Kerr, Grundy
Center, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
Topics of the Times

The Iowa City Republican along with
most of the newspapers of the state
believed the Rainsbargers should be
paroled. Why not parole or pardon
them? There has been more express
sion Of the propriety Of such aH act
than over any other case of it's kind
in the history of the state.
II everybody enjoyed a lawsuit as
Roosevelt seems to do we'd have to
elect three times as many judges as a
pledge to happiness and content,nent.
If England retains the booze while
Russia cuts it out, Russia will hold a
big advantage inc tn future clash be-
Ween the two. For Russia Is England's
next opponent in war.
Omaha and Jim Dahlman are synon-
omous. A town is no better than its
mayor.
Gardner Cowles lack OF confirma-
ton by the senate is not unique. The
senate turned Rood down after Shaw
had named him for the control board
and Connor when Carroll appointed
him to the same place.
After war is abolished the peace So
ciety can turn its attention to assault
and battery.
The impression given by the chief
witness for the defense is that he tried
to reform Messrs. Barnes and Plat
and didn't get along well with the job.
There isn't any middle way as the
democrats will discover. When a mans
dry he's dry and when he's wet he's
wet.
It was rather nervy thing to de-
| stroy the Standard Oil Ship but at that
there's some satisfaction in knowing
that there are spots on the earth and
the waters under the earth that the
Standard has to take an even chance
! in.
Well, who'll earn fame by m aking the
| first retraction under the Caswell law?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
isalx.. DAN Blue skies.

Tho sky Of Italy 10 noted for it,
cleafnesA The blue IL deeper not be-
cause the dust there is finer than In
tho northern countries, but because
IN the countries Of the North, due to
the greater GOODNESS Of the air, the
vspor more readily condenses upon tho
dust particles. The dust particles thus
become larger and consequently not 20
OfIect1sS In turning back the blue rays
alone, but others are also reflected.
and . grayish effect 10 produced. In
D single location the blue Of the sky
may appear bluer ct one time than an
pthsr. The sky IL oftentimss said to
- vsrJ blue when some white cumu-
- clouds are outlined against It The
by = then q deep blue By contrast
WITH the brilliant white. After .
bhoWr, when the lower stratum Of air
y washod Of its coarse dust particles,
. leeD@ md purer blue II the result
E1eNsl AaeaxinA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
WHERE THE LEAKS ARE.
tDes Moines Tribune.l

lDes Moines Tribune.1
Little by little the debate over ex-
travagant taxation and extravagant
public management is getting around
to home base.
Here is the Marengo Sentinel say
ing something out in meeting that
ought to be said in every county:
The state levy has been cut Just
a shade of a mill. But the county
dads have spent more Iowa county
money, needlessly, in the letting of
bridge and culvert work than will be
saved by the reduction Of this mill on
the state levy The Sentinel is begin
ming to feel that the high and ever in
creasing taxes result from the spend
ing OF money at home and not the
extravagant spending Of money by the
legislature. Letting bridge work at
other than the lowest bidder, paying
damages to man who is injured in q
scuffle with another man, paying re-
pair bills on useless machinery, and
other items in line with these are a
few of the ways III which the money is
spent"
Just at this time attention is fixed
on Polk county, where for the second
time house cleaning is in progress
in the county board.
But Polk county is not the only one
where moderate application OF the
Cosson law would bring designations.
It is claimed by those who ought to
know that in IS per cent Of the coun-
ties one or more members Of the
| county board are subject to removal
in many instances for taking serious
liberties with the peoples money.
And this is not altogether the fault
Of the individual board member. I,
is the inevitable consequence of trying
| to do big business in way that was
planned for little business.
The county board as we have 1t was
all well enough in the old days wher
there was little to do, and everybody
felt it his duty to help do this little az
| a matter Of public enterprise.
But today when every county is q
big business, when the county ex.
| penditures run into the hundreds OF
| thousands Of dollars, the old volun-
teer board is as out Of date as a ten
year old automobile.
| Even in a presidential year Iowa
| ought not to allow all the attention tc
| be drawn away from the need Of
changes in our governmental ma
chinery here at home. The next legis-
lature should be elected to do some
| thing to simplify the machinery Of
local administration.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

pie own nearly 1000 automobiles, and
that means that hundreds Of tires must
be vulcanized every year. One young
man saw the opportunity, erected a
little building. equipped it with the
necessary tools, and he's now working
day and night to keep up with his OPP
portunity. What that man is doing,
any other boy with real ambition to
make living for himself can do. Don't
wait for someone to come and point
the opportunity out to you, Hunt 1t
UP yourself. If you haven't the initia-
tive to find your own opportunity, you
wouldn't make good II it was discov-
cred for you
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.
rOsage News.1

Every young fellow who loafs
around Usage gives as an excuse for
his idleness that There's nothing for
q fellow to do here" Probably II Osage
offered thousand opportunities where
1t now offers one the same excuse
would be given by the boys or man who
doesn't know an opportunity when he
sees it. Usage does have oDportunit-
les, many OF them. Somebody is con-
tinually taking advantage of them, too.
Al an instance, for a long time there
has been good opening here for q
vulcanizing shop. Mitchell county peo-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

say that the general county levy of 4
mills and the state levy of 40 mills is
what each township pays for which 1t
does not see direct benefits" Thus. In
Greenbrier township. where the levy 10
33 mills. Of the $9.546.2S paid In by the
farmers Of that township during the
first three months Of the year. only
about $4,000 went to the county and
state. while the balance $6.946 Is. pro-
portionately. what IL paid for the use
and benefit of the township itself. In
other words the township pays $4,000
Of the sum for the privilege OF being
an integral part Of the best county IN
the best state in the union. What pro-
portion OF this $500 eventually goes
to the direct use Of the citizens Of
Greenbrier is hard to figure out.
For instance, the county mills go
for official salaries, district court ex-
penses. bounties on wild animals, jail
expense, assessors salaries. Justice
fees, court Jurors. and the like. AS an
integral part OF the county Greenbrier
township contributes Its share toward
these necessary county expenses. which
after all, are made possible by an as
ISOLATION Of townships forming coun-
W. IlS1Sh SowhoAAps SsAOAS - $1,000 -
its relative value In return az its por-
ton Of maintaining the county organ
ization, and the same may be said. In
a more indirect way. Of the state levy.
For instance. 1t costs the state GER
tain amount to maintain the offices
and books and clerks Of the auto IL
cense fund. This fund is apportioned
back to counties according to the
number OF townships in each county.
This comes back as a benefit to each
township, as the fund is to be spent
upon county highways running thru
each township. The levies for state
schools and colleges has relative
benefit to each township. or, at least.
to such Of the population as go away
to these schools.
A good many people say they receive
no benefit from the state schools, but
when we come to dissecting that ques-
ton, as applied to taxation, state
schools are probably worth the very
small amount relatively that they cost
each country taxpayer, as are the town
ship and district schools. We would
save much tax money by abolishing all
schools, the expense Of which II al
ways more than half q mans tax, and
yet who would favor abolishing all
schools on the theory that we did not
absolutely need them! The stae fund
goes to maintain the state and supreme
courts, state offices. and other COM
monwealth expense that, to more or
less degree, benefits each township.
So the man who thinks he is
indicted" for taxes from which he de-
rives no benefits, Will find that his ideas
are true to only very infinitesimal
degree The only item we could sug-
gest as coming anywhere near this
claim Is that Of capitol extension :
which costs each owner Of $50 acres Of
land a total Of s.. And It would be
hard to find any citizen In the county
who is not "victimized to this amount
every month in the year in some linz
Of expense. or personal extravaganza,
that he. himself. could avoid by his
own act and option.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
lnsanIty.

A4g SVO0uuSys l44s
The statistics Of insanity show that
the minds Of men and women arei
often made aberTant through the.
steady drive Of environment, IN which
the simple life and the spuEFing city
life ass equally ct fault The figures
show the pr capita Of insanity differs
little In city and country. Rural soli.
tuds and the abnormal NE Of the city.
ara alike responsible for mental dir.
eases. II - % bad for man 70 bs too
much alone - It u for him to DO sur.
rounded BY psrfsrvid life. The his.
tory Of the race. the Inquiries Of ~
vsstisators and the judgment Of spe.
ctalists IN tho disease Of mind ana
body toll 10 that the. ven tsmpersA
life. void Of sxcssseS, r. the plane
upon which mon ana women best 81
dare IN msntal and bodily health; =
tsmpeesncs OF action IN N environ
nsnt IN which the individual = nsithsf
submerged by human secisty NOR q.
hcAsd frun Il
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
Masonic Meetings.
spEc,AL COMMUNICATION


Marshall Lodge, No. los A F. & A. NJ
Work in first degree Tuesday, May T.
1880 p. m. John w. Wells, secretary
w. H. Steiner, w. NJ.
slGNEr CHAPTER. No. 50, r. "A. M
Regular convocation Monday, Aprn u 10
L. 8. Kilborn. H. P; JohA w.
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No. 20. R. S. Nj. Monu .
after the third Sunday. l. i.
recorder: George Gregory 1. l. 1'
REGULAR coNcLAvE, St Alosma
Commandery No. 80. X -. nnsinsss
a : Mcfarland, Rec, George Gregory
E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Central cn May
Ter 1si p. M Business. Anna Anna. DOWNS WI NJ,
secretary es Mary Black Collins W. ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

N Y 4
and asks, well. isn't It about time
that the country had . president from
the west of the Mississippir'
1T u now claimed that Lieutenant
Governor Harding will become . cam
didate for congress from the eleventh
district. Just 80 he never becomes
governor Of Iowa it will be all right
down this way" says the Eldora
Herald.
Take tin can, go into the back
yard and dig some bait-don't matter
whether you get bite or not, the ex-
ercise will be beneficial-try it." adj
vises the Manson Democrat.
"As long as the people elect freaks
back as members Of the state legis-
lature we will have freak legislature.
Not all the bills passed at the Thirty
sixth session were freaks, but some Of
them were and the freakiest of the
bunch, was the anti tipping BILL" says
the Knoxville Journal.
1.-THE discussion of the state printer
affair" asserts the Iowa City Republi-
can, serves to call renewed attention
that a lot of Iowa newspapers can al
ways be depended upon to defend any
graft found around the state house"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

Syracuse, N. Y.-considerable inters
est attaches to the testimony Of Charles
F. Murphy, leader Of Tammany Hall. In
the suit for libel brought by William
Barnes, Jr, against former President
Theodore Roosevelt. The libel suit y
based on the charge made by MI.
Roosevelt that Mr.. Barnes and MT.
Murphy were in an .'unholy alliance t9
corrupt the will Of the people" Mur-
phys testimony and cross examination
are expected to be among the sensa-
tional features OF this sensational trial
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
Iona Newspapers
IMPORTANT NEWS.

A fellow in town has discovered a
very simple method to insure a weed
less garden. His idea is to plant the
seed SO close that there is no room
left for the weeds. The idea seems
scientific and agronomatical enough,
and we regret that our Wife got our
garden planted before we heard about
it,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS A CORD.
Manson Democrat

Twelve years ago the editor Of this
paper planted some Carolina poplar
saplinss on his residence lot, and this
week one OF them had to be cut down
TO allow room for an addition to the
house. Yesterday Charley Smith cut
up the tree with his circular saw and
1t made almost a cord Of good fire.
wood. The original sapling cost
20 cents and it didn't cost one cent to
grow it. Cheap fuel.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

agreed that she wants slice Of Aus
trian territory. Ro1mania's soldiers
are regarded as among the best in Eu-
rope. The last time Roumania was at
war was in 1873, when she helped Rus
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

The Upton Advertiser sees promise
that Senator Cummins will have solid
dAlegations from many western states
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-01

ola against Turkey. 1t IS claimed tha4
she won that war for Russia. In thu
accompanying cut are shown two Of
the most recent photos Of Roumania.1
troops.