Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-07-07

Why should the small town merchant vote
for a good road to- his big competitors store
in the big town?
Because hard roads have never hurt the
small town merchant in states that have sur
faced nearly half of all their roads. Mud keeps
trade away from small town and sends it to
the mail order house when that trade might
roll into the small town store over the same
hard road that leads to the big town. Mechan-
les, retired farmers, travelling men and even
capitalists have shown a preference for. the
small town as place in which to live when
they had a paved road to the big town Tor
their business, employment or amusement err
rands. Nobody likes the big town as a home
but nobody likes to be narooned for eight
months in small town; on q farm or any other
place. Hard roads always have helped the
small town as well as the large town and al
ways will. -2di % - .sr t
Why should a wage worker in Marshalltown
vote to pave roads for the farmers? r. j:
1t costs him nothing except auto licenses
which he must pay anyway if we stay in the
it possible for the farmers to deliver produce
to the town cheaper, the cost of living in town
will come down and wage workers with their
autos can live out in the country where living
in town. Millions for paving means millions
for labor, as paving. is mostly labor anyway.
Uncle Sam is going to spend eight millions
somewhere in Iowa, so why not near Mar
shalltown? ,-S, r.-sa
= But doesn't the wage worker in town some
how pay for roads by the farms?
Yes. The tax levy Of 8 mills for secondary
county roads is paid on city property and only
half Of one mill comes back to the city roads
but this tax is fixed by law and must be paid
cense and it must all be spent on primary roads
outside Of town but the auto license must be
paid anyway. Voting eyes" to accept Uncle
SAINTS money for paving country roads will not
change the tax. 1t merely brings back into
our own county the auto license we will pay
anyway plus an equal amount Of Uncle Sans
money collected from his. tax upon incomes and
corporation profits. If our county voted mo"
we would pay the same auto license but some
other county would get Uncle Sans money.
roads when he does not believe paved roads
practicable for farming community? o..
The law does not give us an opportunity to
vote our convictions as to paved roads. We
Sans money. plus an equal amount of auto
money or lose it. Uncle Sans engineers are
the ones who decide whether we must pave or
put gravel on the primary system Of military
money or waive it for some other county to
accept and if we vote to accept we can then
apply for whatever some other county refuses.
Who would look gift horse in the mouth?
Take It or lose it. Vote yes and pay no
Pay the same auto license and income tax and
get none or very little of either for Marshall
county or take our fair share of many millions
plus all we can grab from other counties with
out any increase in the general tax, that is the
proposition, is it? .~,
Yes, that is. it., T.
Then vote eyes" and some day hope our
laws will enable any of us on any road to
form a. road district for any kind Of road we
want and improve it for our own benefit.
That is the law now in many states but on
July II we are voting to accept Uncle Sans
money, plus an equal amount of auto license
money for system of military and post roads
to serve all The people. Until we get this done
we will have to get along with gravel on sec
ondary roads or stick in the mud.
and the assessment of 25 per cent Of the cost
to nearby land: but there is not money enough
available in the county or township funds to
pay the public's share of the cost unless bonds
are issued. $500