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The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12
Preparedness Day For Jackson

JACKSON. Mich. June about
10000 persons are expected 10 be
in line in the preparedness day pa
rade here Wednesday Twelve
bands have been engaged. Aero
plane flights are 10 be made by l..
Normberg. until recently engaged in
government service along the Mex
lean border An aerial attack upon
an unprotected city is TO be demon.
strated
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12

OF gallons OF paint properly applied
VIII make a great difference in the
appearance Of dwelling"
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-06-12

PrintinE-the DTRi~ neat ktnd-thht
In rig ht-Ttmes Jon DeDt.-Nsin asa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
MARSHALL COUNTY FAIR.

County fairs in Iowa are reported as
having been notably successful this
season. The early fair is not usually
an extremely good fair because it can
not afford a complete display OF pro-
ducts and depends mainly on amuse-
ments and horse racing This season,
however, all fairs have been especially
successful in point OF attendance. etc.
Weather has been one assisting
cause. While il has been hot and dry
rain has not interfered with the fairs
and people have dared the heat and de-
ned the aust to take an outing.
If an early fair, which depends great
iy on amusements for its crowds may
bring extra ordinary numbers of people
together in hot and dusty weather-a
finished fair like that held annually in
Marshall county should break all rec
ords this season. Perhaps outside the
state fair and that interstate fair at
Sioux City no fair in Iowa can compare
cellence and variety of farm products
shown, in fire cattle and hogs and in
the amusement features offered as side
attractions.
Side attractions is the correct term
when amusements are mentioned in
connection with Marshall county fair.
Ife main reason for a fair is as an ex-
position OF the fertility and progress Of
the county in which it is held. The
pride OF Marshall county's fair is rooted
in the fact that its hogs >nd cattle
come home from state exposicions with
the blue ribbons of supreme excellence
haunting their triumph, that the Gif-
ference between the Marshall county
fair and the state fair-acknowledsed
OF premier rank in state fairs--is of
quantity and not Of quality. Marshall
county holds an agricultural fair; it
throws in I the same prlca of admis-
sion variety of amusenen1 features
ana series OF racing events euual to
those scheduled at most Of The inter
state and state fairs. II s a ma rkeI
fair, known abroad sor lis quality ard
satisfying features.
Moreover it isn't a private corpora
ton. 1t belongs to the county,
is county institution. It there
was ever opposition to the ownership
of the fair grounds and the installation
of the fair as county institution it
seems to have been completely sub
merged in the justifiable pride the
whole county takes in holding the Dost
county fair in the state and one of the
best in any county in the United States.
Marshall county fair has always been
successful. If this is an extraordinary
year for county fairs Marshall county
fair should be extraordinarily success
full,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
TIMES REPUBLICAN, MARsHALLTowN IOWA AUGUST IA 1915.

too short Of probationary term this
year. But that isn't the way theyh hn-
derstand Il, Their feeling is that They
merely maintained their own self re-
spect by refusing to part entirely with
consistency on the booze question.
The astonishing thing about one
Charles Evan Hughes Is the way he
found his voice right after the nomin-
alton. II he keeps up that gait maybe
we will get we'll enough acquainted to
call him Charley or Ev. after awhile.
Mr.. Harding it appears by his record
in the legislature insisted so strongly
on paved and macadamized roads as to
introduce and crowd thru an amend
ment to the road laws forcing the
abutting farms to pay not less than so
per cent Of the cost Of such roads. Did
ever political fox double on his tracks
like Foxy Grandpa Harding?
Nobody believes Harding could order
the saloons back into Iowa and nobody
has said so. Even the brewers do not
expect SO much Of him. But there is a
strong conviction, based upon Hard
inS's record that he would do SO If he
could and that the illegitimatized sa-
loon will flourish unchecked founded
on Mr.. Harding's announced policy OF
non-interference with local authorities
And there is nothing better asked by
the brewer and those who look for
ward to a return of the saloon by rea-
son of disgust with laws which are not
enforced and which no attempt is made
to enforce.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
The Taxpayers League

who it's real leaders are and what their
motives are.
The fact is Iowa is taxed enormous
~, and nobody has been more insistent
in pointing out this fact and calling for
a remedy than the Register and the
other newspapers Of the state which
favor progressive road policy and a
progressive policy all along the line.
The Register has been among the first
to call the states attention to the fact
that the local taxing bodies have raised
the total levies this year over last by
more than 100000. and last years
taxes were excessive-far higher than
the good roads states are paying.
Here is an illustration of what ails
Iowa. and every intelligent taxpayer
knows it. We quote from the Manson
Journal:
Many taxpayers in this county were
surprised last January when they
learned that it was necessary to issue
$4,000 in bonds 20 take UP the float
ing debt Of Calhoun county, which
was caused largely by the mismanage>
ment of Supervisor Coady, before h.
retired from Office. This surprise will
that these were not the first bonds Isl
sued to take up the floating debt. Some
three years ago another batch of bonds
was sold, amounting to $4,000 and are
still outstanding, making total of
$4,000 of bonds issued to carry OF
the regular county business aside from
the court house bends which were is
sued by the consent Of the people. This
makes the county debt almost a quar-
ter million dollars, one-haif of which
was contracted without the knowledge
or consent Of the taxpayers. How do
you like this kind Of public official,
Mr.. Taxpayer"
Every bridge contractor. every agent
for some patent .culvert, everybody
who did business in the old days with
the county board, every mossback in
the community, is a hacker of the tax
payers league. On the other hand,
men who are demanding a progressive
policy for the state are, as a rule, the
biggest farm owners and the biggest
taxpayers on land in the county.
If Senator Doran or any other mem
Der Of this organization Is willing to
debate the real facts of taxation In
Iowa, The columns of the Register are
open to him. But We wish 20 serve
notice right now that we propose to hit
a head wherever we see 1t among the
fellows who are misrepresenting pro-
gressive Iowa, either to help the rail-
:cad= get out of having their share.
or the bridge contractors to put their
hands again in the county treasury.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
Topics of the Times

The following expression as to road
newspaper published in town but APP
peared in the Country Gentleman, a
farm paper Of nationwide circulation.
In the farmers best interest this farm
paper says: Good roads are a good
thing in themselves, huge saving for
the farmer who transports his crops
to market; but their economic value
does not end there. Real estate ex-
perts estimate that for every dollar
spent on good roads property values
are increased from $3.50 to 81. The ad-
-vantages in rural America are more
than twofold. The farm-owning farmer
who today opposes any well-pianned
appropriation for good roads deserves
to join the. goats III the untrodden
mountain crass.'
The party to the dispute that re-
fuses arbitration of the threatened
strike is certain to be in bad" with the
public that must suffer. The fairies;
way and In the end the most advan-
tageous plan is to treat the public
fairly. And nothing could be more I'M
fair and inimical to public interests
than big strike at this time.
The Ackley World, pro saloon DEM
ocratic. says it is a pretty hard matter
to please the prohibtionists. What's
the difference in the difficulty pro and
con? Nothing will please the wide
openers but unlimited license and moth
ing will please the prohibitionists but
saIloonless state. And still, the wet
outfit insists that liquor is not an issue
in Iowa. Liquor will always be an issue
as long as hope exists that the big
profits of the liquor traffic and the easy
money and graft that accompany the
saloon may be brought back to saloons
and piggers and easy money sharks OF
Iowa.
1t is said that 32, 600 republicans have
signed up to vote for Meredith Still.
Mr.. Harding seems to have the best off
it. Wasn't Ii estimated that 10000
booze shops voted for him in the re-
publican primaries?
1.-THE Methodist minister's, says the the
Rolfe Arrow, will eventually find that
they took the democratic party on far
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
scientious public service. or you must

scientious public service. or you must
renounce the primary system. s
1t is all bosf1.
One does not entirely yield up his
power of choice when he helps his
party to nominate candidates. One
need not stultify himself in order to
participate in practical politics. The
ethics neither of the convention nor
of the primary require men to be parts
Of machine, without the power Of
thinking for themselves. Under the con-
vention system, boiling was not I'M
common; under the primary. it Is
perhaps even less uncommon.
Boiling may be poor politics, but
it is sometimes excellent patriotism.
Beginning with the days OF Andrew
Jackson. there arose in the United
States, a system of partisan politics
such as no other country has ever
known in any age. In the worst days
of that partisanship loyalty to party
was a fighting matter, boiling was
treason, and the dicta of resolutions
committee determined the political
views of millions of partisans Such
were conditions in the decade or more
following the civil war.
But of late years there has been
more independence in voting. Wheth-
er this has been due to the. primary
as We suspect, or to the wider reading
of newspa pers. as may we'll be. there
is no doubt that voters refuse much
more generally nowadays to let party
leaders do their thinking for them.
And the day will come when the ex-
IRENE craftsmanship of our history,
now happily past, will be regarded as
a sort of dark ages Of American poll
tics.
No, esteemed Journal some Iowa
republicans will cross over to Mere
dith; and they Will remain both con-
sistent primary advocates and pretty
good republicans, in the long run.
1t is up to the individual voter to de-
termine whether the situation war
rants extreme measures: we are not
advising. We are merely maintain
ing that asvoter may believe that the
primary is the right and just method
of making nominations, and yet dis
approve and reject some occasional,
sporadic results OF the primary.
bolt not at air may be in the poll
ticians decalog, but 1t is not in the
patriots.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
rYannus verticaiis

Length, nine inches. The white
edge Of the feather on zach side Of the
tail disting cuisines this from al other
fiycatchers except the gray and sal
mon-colored scissortail Of TexaA
Range: Breeds from Minnesota,
Kansas. and Texas to the Pacific
ocean and from northern Mexico to-
southern Canada; winters from Mex
leo to Guatemala.
Habits and economic status: The
Arkansas kingbird is not so domestic
as It's eastern relative and seems to
prefer the hill country with scattered
oaks rather than the orchard or the
vicinity of ranch buildings, but It
sometimes places its rude and con-
spicuous nest in trees on village
streets. The birds yearly food is com
posed of 81 per cent animal matter
and 10 per cent vegetable. The AMI;
NAL food 10 composed almost entirely
of insects. Like the eastern speciess
1t has been accused of destroying
honeybees to q harmful extent. and re-
mains Of honeybees were found to
constitute Ave per cent of the food Of
the individuals examined, but nearly
all those eaten were drones. Bees
and wasps, in general, are the biggest
item of food (3S per cent?, grasshop-
pers and crickets stand next, go per
cent?, and beetles, mostly Of noxious
species, constitute IA per cent Of the
food. The vegetable food consists
mostly of fruit, such as the elder and
other berries, with a few seeds. This
bird should be strictly preserved. i
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14

cred the fear the farmers had Of bur-
densome taxation. then for the votes
he could get the man who had helped
to enact a paved road law became the
mud road candidate. But on the side
he satisfied the rpad boosters in the
cities that they need not fear him on
the road question so the city vote was
delivered TO him on the booze issue
and the farmer vote came to him on
the mud road issue. He got them go
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
The BUSINESS ElELo.

N>ellneT poor wheat IepOItS iloI uii
certainty about the outcome Of media
ton between railway employees and
managers halts trade, which proceeds
at an unusually good pace. Indeed, the
central idea is that the outlook for fall
is otherwise most encouraging. that
lessened cereal crop yields will be OFF,
set by high prices, that export trade
in most products is enormous, and
that buying power having been so
would have proved well-nigh disas-
trous in most ordinary years can be
endured with comparative eauanimty.
Even in the northwest the mast af-
fected section as respects adverse
wheat crop conditions, buying seems
to be marked by what may be termed
a go-ahead policy, orders sf)r future
delivery being heavy. In a few places
in the west, it is true, there is a dis
position to await corn crop develop
ments.
incidentally. merchants excursions
have brought numerous buyers to
leading markets, with the result that
house trade in dry goods, clothing and
shoes has expanded in noteworthy de-
gree, and the fact that road sales are
growing satisfactorily suggests that
interior distributors fear goods
famine in textiles later on. At the
same time essential staples are in
steady call for prompt shipment and
retail trade in summer wearing APP
parel has been helped by warm wealth
er a swell as by clearance sales. Some
retail dealers are inclined to go slow
about stocking up heavily, but fears
Of a paucity Of goods impels them to
play sure, rather than conservatively.
The disposition to buy slow is re-
hected in some southern reports COM
ing from storm-swept areas. Industry
does not give back in any Of its I'M
wcnted activity. except, of course.
where labor employed has been unable
to withstand heat. While the steel
situation is one in which sellers views
as to prices dominate. new buying is
light, and it is to be observed that
makers OF agricultural implements ex-
pect to experience loss Of % per cent
in their sales as the result of higher
prices.
Concurrently, there has been some
reselling OF steel by fabricators Of
structural material. But in this quar-
ter, as in the textile markets, sold-up
conditions enable producers to view
with Indifference such GIBBS as occur IN
the tide of demand.
supply, wages continue to rise, and in
some cases labor is less efficient. Coz
lections are fair to good, and the ad-
vance in the price OF cotton has i'm
proved southern payments. Money is
in better demand, but rates are not
any higher, and it is deemed certain
that the smart rise in wheat will ne
cesSitate the use of more money for
crop-moving purposes. 4
Bank clearings are lighter than those
Of last week. tho being more than one
fifth larger than those of last year.
and Of course. greatly in excess of
payments Of two years ago. Railway
freight traffic is heavy, and predictions
of famine in cars this fall are more
fantile paralysis cut down eastern pas
senger traffic.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
WHEN HARDING WAS FOR PAVED ROADS

7 am fighting a s1O0,0OO,O00 bond
issue for paved roads, Mr.. Harding
told the farmers and got away with it,
altho no such bond issue had ever been
proposed. Il am proud to be introduced
as the mud road candidate" he replied
in Lucas county in southern Iowa and
he got away with it down there be-
cause nobody had had time to dig up
his legislative record on roads
Now come the democrats with Mr.
Harding's road record and it seems
that in the legislature ne was for paved
roads to be assessed up 10 the far
mers TO the extent Of half their cost
and he tried TO give to the cities all of
the l-miil levy upon city property
which IS now split half to the country
and half TO the town. Mr. Harding
may reply that he was representing a
district in which a large city had more
votes than the country but this is his
record as to roads.
>
erai assembly there was enacted a law
providing for the creation Of special
assessment districts for the paving
or macadamizing" of permanent high
ways. In its original form as S. +. 27l
1t provided that as much as half Of the
cost could be assessed to the land
nearby but this was not satisfactory
TO Mr.. Harding. He considered that a
paved road past mans farm was OF
real benefit to the farm SO he intro
duced an amendment which was
adopted making it necessary under the
law to assess not less than 80 per cent
OF the cost thereof on abutting or ad-'
jacent property as provided in this
act"
The assessment OF hail the cost o;
paved roads to the farmer was so
drastic that no roads were ever built
under the law and the present state
highway law, which Mr.. Harding would
abolish, repealed his special paved
road law together with its 80 per cent
tax upon the farmer for paved roads.
In the legislative session of 1909 Mr..
Harding Introduced a bill which would
give TO the cities all Of the county road
tax which was paid by owners of
property lying within the city. The
farmer contingent rebelled at this and
finally a compromise was effected
which is, operative in the law of to-
day giving the city half of the proceeds
Of the 1-mill county road levy and
giving the other half 20 the county to
be used upon roads outside of the city.
It is not strange then at the begin
ming of the primary campaign Mr..
Harding should have told an audience
in Sioux City that the way to get good
roads was to do as they were then do
ing in Sioux City. to form special dis
tricts anu ASSESS the cost to the prop
erty nearby This was his belief until
he got out into the country. discov-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
THE SUMMER COLD.

The summer cold is blood relative
or natures criminal masterpiece, the
grip, but is not so full Of enthusiasm
and general debility as the latter.
People can have the grip every winter
and after while will be able to tell it
from an liberated tooth without con-
sulting the family doctor. but the sum
mer cold will pass entire families by
Tor several years, only to land on some
loved member and cause him to resem-
Bile hay fever victim who has fallen
heir to the pink eye.
The summer cold is caused by
trif1ing with the laws OF nature in the
matter of underwear. Why is it that
a man will wear long, feyerish under
wear until the Fourth of July and then
change suddenly to the light, airy,
one- piece suit. only to run into nine
days OF weather that would raise hoar
frost on a polar bear? If more wives
would compel their husbands to wear
thick, beaver-board underclothes the
year around we would not have so
many employees laying off during the
dog days with nose like the head
light of a Mogul engine, Nobody ever
heard Of Zulu Islander taking cold
In August because of wearing too little
underwear. which proves that we have
a lot to learn from the unlettered and
ring-nosed heathen
The summer cold starts with a
series of low. premonitory sneezes
which sound like splitting kindling
with the knee cap. The summer
sneeze is a deceptive. article and GIBBS
and flows with great rapidly. 1t will
remain in a lurking attitude for sew
eral hours and make the owner be-
lieve that the last quinine capsule has
hit the target, then Will suddenly be-
gin TO explode in a high pitched STAG
cato, interrupting an important tele-
phone conversation and causing SOD
cents worth of overtime. This can be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14
Masonic Meetings.
Visitors always welcome,

STATED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No los. A F. 4 \. NJ. Reg
ular business Friday, Aug. IS. p. m.
John ". Wells, Secretary; B. o. F'razey,
w NJ.
SiGNET CHAPTER. Ne. 50. r. A. n.
Stated convocation Monday evening.
Aug. 81. Regular business. Carl
Schaffner. H. P; John W. Wells, sec
rotary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo,
mon Council No. 90. r. & S. NJ. Mon
day. Aug. d: regular business. 1. T.
FORBES. Recorder. George Gregory. I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE, St. Aldemar
Commandery No. so, K T. Tuesday.
Aug. %, ) p. M: regular business. l.
T. Forbes, Recorder; H. c. Mueller,
Commander.
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81. o. E.
S,-Regular meeting Wednesday, Aug.
Is, at p. m. Cor business. Eliza 3
Battin, secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell
". NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-14

te a hit when down the street he travels on high
stepping feet. To pat his head we gladly reach,
his lustrous hair, and wish we had ten bones to
spare, so we could buy dog like that, and give
him latchkeys to our fiat. But when seedy dog
comes near, dog with sores upon his ear, dog
with eyes that do not match, and fleas that make
him madly scratch, we kick him swiftly with our
feet, and hoist him half way down the street;
Men leave the Office store and shack, to kick him
round a block and back. IT'S likewise with the
human skate, for whom the rocks or roses wait,
who gladness knows, or sorrow bears, according
to the front he wears. You may have sterling
worth to burn, and think mems plaudits YOU
if you wear seedy shirt, some flying rocks are