Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-30
LOCAL COMMENT

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The doctors at the Y. NJ. C. A. md
that round shoulders and hollow chests
are altogether too prevalent among the
boys of the town. Every lad entering
the gym Is to be examined and assign
ed to work that will develop him in the
parts that need improvement the most.
Is that not a work worth while?
Town life does not give the race,the
chance for developing physique that
farm life used to do and even In this
great agricultural state of Iowa we
now have more people living In our
towns than are living on farms. The
farm boy always learns to ride horse
| and that tends to straighten lads
spine and to throw back his Shout
| ders The town lad rides a bicycle and
stoops over his handle bars. The farm
lad has chores to do out of doors apd
seeks his recreation in the woodlot or
| along the creek out of doors. The town
boy goes in for wireless. photography
| or some other indoor pastime. The
town boy does not have fair chance
and is to be pitied. hence we have the
Y. M. c. A. to help him in the uneven
race with the farm boy. He once had
better school, but now the farm boy
is going to the consolidated school and
even the Y. NJ. C. A. is being carried
out to the farm boy.
There will be big membership
campaign on next week when men will
be asked to join the Y. NJ. c. A. What
is true as to the town boy is also true
of the town man. Sitting at a desk or
standing around in store develops
paunch on a man but retards his diges-
ton. There is fun to be had in the Y.
M. c. A. which Will add many years to
mans life and he ought to be there.
49,
Parents on the farms should encour-
age and aid their boys to enter the
baby beef contests. 1t is worth invest
ing money in the enterprise. We. all
of US. want our boys to acquire prac-
teal knowledge and above all we want
to stimulate in them keen interest in
something besides idle play. The baby
beef and the corn growing contests Of
fer the opportunity. Likewise the pre-
miums on poultry at the fair. \ prize
winning boy or girl is very apt to be-
come a prize winning man or woman
and a prize winning man or woman in
the family IS a comfort and JOY in
days of gray hairs
The total tax levy for next year upon
property within the city of MARSHALL
town will be increased one mill and the
levy for next year will be 116 mills. The
schools are responsible. They call for
an increase of % mills. The state levy
is the same while the city levy has in
fact been reduced half a mill even after
adding 1 mill for the new paving that
has been done this year. There is a
transfer of bridge funds from county
to city which has relieved city proper
ty Of 5 mills county bridge tax and
added 3 mills city bridge tax so that
the tax receipts will show gain of 2,5
mills in the city levy and a reduction
of mills in the county levy. This
means that the total county levy has
increased one mill over last year. Real
values. however. are increasing much
faster than assessed values, so 1t is
probable that the taxes paid are not
increased in proportion to the selling
value of the property upon which taxes
are levied.
Mr.. Harding spoke in this county
Tuesday. The Times Republican pre-
dicted that he would try to arouse
prejudice by telling farmers that he
was fighting paved roads and he did.
When he visited Rhodes during the
primary campaign he told the mer-
chants of that village that the reason
the business men of Maryhalltown
wanted good roadsswas to draw all the
trade to the big town. Everywhere he
goes he appeals to prejudice. When in
the legislature he voted for paved
road bill and amended it himself 50 as
to assess not less than SO per cent
which meant half or more of the cost
of a paved road to adjacent land. No
body has ever proposed a paved road
except by majority vote of the people
in the locality in which the road Is TO
be built, so Harding is not only stulti-
flying himself but he is trying to de-
ceive somebody by fighting a DOGGY
man.
He said in his address some things
that are not true. For instance, In
diana has found that paved roads cost
lot of money. Their taxes have gone
up and the value of the land has gone
down." The correct and official infor-
nation as to Indiana is on file in the
T.-R. Office and their land has not gone
down in value. Indiana has very few
paved roads but more graveled roads
than any other sta-e in the union. Half
OF all their roads have been surfaced
and Indiana has no state highway
commission nor state supervision Of
any kind All OF their road work has