Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-20
Topics of the Times

| to vote upon $1,000,UOO ROAD prO1ec'
which has been planned. with great
| deal Of ingenuity. State bonds are
proposed to be issued for that amount
! and the money used to build thru
routes from city to city but no tax OF
any kind Is to be levied to pay the
bonds. The plan Is to use only the
normal increase in automobile licenses
which are to come in the future. The
present revenue from auto licenses is
to be left with the counties, no increase
in taxes Is to be levied, 100000 will
be made available for roads at once
and the future increase in the num-
ber Of cars is to pay the bill.
now be solved by an expedition into
Mexico. When we are thru with that
job we will have an army large enough
for the most militant and it will be
equipped.
Nobody but owners of automobiles
have any right to complain about the
state highway commission for its ex-
penses are paid entirely from per
cent Of the auto license fund. Prop
erty taxes could not be reduced by
abolishing the highway commission for
they are not used to pay It's bills.
When one has millions few mill
lions more or less are of small import
ance, so Mrs. Aston walks away from
the income from 100000 and seeks
the happiness OF living with Mr.. Dicks.
It will cost huge sum to pacry
Mexico but when 1t has been done a
tremendous pasture will have been
opened up to the production of beef.
This generation may yet see pic
turesque life on the cattle range re-
enacted.
When the G. A. r. veterans gather
in Marshalltown today there will be a
new war to talk about.
If no serious eventualities follow the
mobilization Of the guard 1t will still
have been worth the trouble as a test
of the readiness and willingness of the
militia; but the prospect is for real
trouble and the further prospect Is that
when it is over we shall have made al
end Of the annoyance and danger that
has lowered over the southern border.
g., oil a
taste and good sense in refusing to
discuss the Mexican situation. At pres
ent it isn't his job.
When Webster City offers 200 men
from her population to guard the border
or go farther If necessary 1t Is an an
swer to the jingoes who have been
sandering Iowa patriotism. There is
never lack Of enlistments when the
need arrives in Iowa.
If any good reason can be advanced
for publicity of such cases at the Orpet
trial it is that Of warning.
Some of the veterans seem to be able
to resist the attack or old age as sue
cessfully as they held the lines at
Gettysburg. 1t is astonishing how many
of the men who were soldiers at the
front fifty odd years ago retain their
strength and defy the siege of time.
That $4,000 listed by Harding failed
to include the expenses of the Des
Moines headquarters, where 1t is stated
about $4,000 was put in circulation
Now Joe Allen could spend 100000 and
have plenty left for rainy day. We
know where Joe got the $4,000 but
there are expenditures that arouse mild
| wonderment as to how it was done
If the recruiting officer would take
| them he could organize pretty fail
regiment of civil war veterans fer SER
vice in Mexico or any other place or
earth where the American flag needs
defenders right here in Marshalltowr
today and tomorrow.