Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-01-14
PUBLIC MIND Is UNDERGOING
MARKED CHANGES REGARD.
ING HIGHWAYS. Z
LONGTIME BONDS
GROWING IN, FAVOR.
Farmers and Land Owners Gradually
Being Converted to Necessity Of Get.
ting Out Of the Mud-Cisrion Far.
msr Makes ProNt Raising Tura;ps-
c. e. Wilson's OBSERVATIONS.
Special TO Times Republican.

Special 10 Times Republican,
Clarion, Jan. lf.-Public sentiment in
the matter of road Improvement in
Iowa is undergoing a very evident
change these days. Supporters Of the
bond issue plan of constructing perrsa-
nent highways are appearing every
where and 1t is safe to say that a ma
jority of the ,o,crs of this section q.
inc country both In tow, and country
are ready fo. progressive road legis-
iation and regard road Improvement as
the next big accomplishment of the
day. Commanding the Times Republl-
car the other day wCI known citI-
zen of this town said / own several
hundred acres OF land in Iowa and if i
bond issue would injure other land
owners it would injure me. However,
l am convinced that this Is the best
and cheapest way to get better roads
That Illinois election was Just a be-
ginning Of what we may expect to SEE
happen all over .he country. The Iowa
farmer is not going to remain salts
ned with the iaost Indispensable roads
in the country nor is the Iowa business
man who has just been treated to az
experience with the effect of impass-
able roads that he will remember
awhile. And this from a man almost
or quite in the retired farmer class.
instances of similar expressions fro.n
men in various occupations are becom-
ing common and contrast noticeably
with what some Of these same men
were saying on the subject year or
two ago.
Two Clalon men were exchanging
experiences in small farming the other
day. One had tried sugar beets on
small field near town. He said they
could be profitably srown if the
grower made that his principal crop of
the season but declared that beet rails
ing, as side line" is bound to result
in failure every time. Tie other man
is town lot farmer. He planted Il
quarter acre tract to turnips last
spring-for his cows. Finding a de-
mand for them from neighbors 70:
table use he began to sell off his crop
at 81 per bushcl. People kept coming
for bushel lots until he had sold 800
worth off the little patch of grounu.
II kept about forty bushels he con-
cluded, ''and l could have sold them to
farmers il hal had time tc haul them
out into the country This man is
planning to plant two acres Of pea.
ground" to onions next spring, declar-
ing this to be ideal soil for onion cultI-
walton. fr tg
Moving picture films and metropoli-
tan dailies have been the mediums
thru which various soldiers from the
new world" were identified by par
ents, other relatives and friends as
they filled the stations assigned them
respectively in the great war across the
sea. We read of these instances and
regard them as possible and probably
for the most part true. local in
stance Of this kinds about which there
can be no doubt occurred some months
ago when James Campbell, business
man OF Goldneld, Iowa. opening to the
war page" Of his Times Republican
saw a picture IN which Maj. Gen. Will
liam G. Ham was portrayed in the
act of reviewing his "Thirty-seSond
division of regulars" on, ground in
cluded in that hfst little portion Of
Alsace Lorraine that was wreSted
from Germany. Now it happens tina:
the military chieftain mentioned is IL
brother of Mrs. Campbell whom, altho
she has not seen her distinguished re-
lative in more than twenty years, had
no difficulty IN recognizing as soon as
she glanced at the picture. General
Ham has seen military service In an
earlier war period, having played
part in the land operations against
Manila in the Spanish american war
The little town Of Goldfeld sent an I'M
usually large number Of boys to the
war front four of whom sacrifcee
their lives for the cause in which they
served.
MANY men If many minds" wrote
the school master on the black paint
ed wall behind his desk many years
ago, copy for the school, 1T is
fine day." said the landlady, my coal
bill will be ligh. II this weather lasts
awhile" TOO warm today, we vii!
pay for this later" SAID the man In
the street Great weather we are haF-
ing, saves feed remarked town
dweller who owns a farm and who IS
buying $3.50 corn to feed lot of cattie
and hogs for market NO weather for
me-" complained the ice man as ne
scraped the snow of his ice field above
the river dam. "Ice is only three to
six inches thick and isn't doing any
thing under this snow 1--WE ought 10
be thankful Cor this Beautiful weather
that shortens the winter" argued the
pious old gentleman who can't stand
the cold any more. 1T would be bet
ter If it would freeze and stay froze,'
the "fiu" will be worse again" insist
ed another. ana so it goes. No matter
what the subject we are of many
minds" as the teacher wrote.
c. E. Wilson.
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