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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 26, 1914)
Antler's Theatre MONDAY, JANUARY 26 Event Extraordinary JOHN J. HOLLAND OFFERS THE MOST TALKED OF PLAY IN YEARS By EUGENE WALTER author of "Paid in Full" "The Easiest Way", "Fine Feathers" etc. THE PLAY THAT HELD NEW YORK & CHICAGO SPELLBOUND ONE WHOLE SEASON A Story of the Great Hudson Bay Country, Redol ent with the atmosphere of the Canadian Woods EXCELLENT CAST, ELABORATE SCENIC PRODUCTION Seats on sale at Box Office PRICES; $1.00, 75c AND 50a 73 jAcre Farm in Looking Glass For Sale at $4,500 Easy Terms. Part in bearing Italian Prunes. 2 acres in best variety apples. Plenty of wood and water. Deep Soil. W. H. RICHARDSON 217 PERKINS BLDG. gj&SO PROPERTY LISTED TWOMOkE $850 Fuys a pood modern 5-room house on one of the best resi dence streets lu Kosebiirj, 2 large Iotst paved street, fine view and very nico locution. Hest buy In Koseburg. PERR1NE & MARSTERS, 401 Cass Street They are beverages that please even the most critical, for they are delicious and pure, being madj from the purest materials and under the nust sanitary conditions. You are invited to call and inspect our plant any timeyoufind it convenient. ROSEBURG SODA WORKS Phone 1S6. Authorized bottler for genuine "Hires" Root Beer. We deliver to any part of town. Ask For Douglas County Creamery Butter And "Patronize a'rjome Industry" DOUGLAS COUNTY CREAMERY ROS EBURG, OREGO UNLESS FIRST CLASS BARGAINS $2,700 Ituys 10 acres of fine Inml ad joining city limits of ltoseburg, O acres in cultivation, 5 acre in young orchard and berries, well fenced, 2 good springs, set buildings, horse, cow, tools, fowls, hack, etc. Always have an am ple supply of our sup erior carbonated be verages on hand. EXTENSION OF FLAY6R0UNDS Orientals Are Adopting tha ! Idea From America. PLAYGROUNDS OF THE EAST A Sacramento Business Man Tells of Introducing American System In the East Filipino Legislature Quick to Appreciate Work Toward Social Bet terment. On a recent trip nroiiiid the world C. M. Goethe, a business man of Sacra mento, Oil., sought to spread among missionaries and the Readers of tlie "new east," the message of the Amer ican movement for play and recreation. Prior to this journey he had establish ed a playground at nn orphanage lu i Sacramento ami helped to organize the playground work of the city. Mr. ami Mrs. Goethe are now hacking play ground work In Calcutta until a point is reached where the government will take it over, and they are also con tributing the American share toward a playground leader In Korea. Mr. Goethe has written an article for the Survey ou the spread of the Amer ican recreation movement In the coun tries In the orient. In which he says that China shows the most progress. The title of Ids subject Is "Exporting Playgrounds." In the course of It he says; "Hecreatlon Is a world need. -To what extent has our splendid Ameri can recreation movement spread to the countries of the orient? There are only n few little beginnings. A start has been made In Manila. Through the co-operation of the Young Men's Christian association ami the Play ground and Recreation association, a committee was appointed by Acting Governor General Gilbert, who granted an appropriation for an experimental playground In the Tomlo, a congested district. Success came at the very first. The attendance ran into thou sands. "The effort now Is for a complete Manila system, and then should come extension throughout the islands. The . a. A, AN EXAMPLE FOlt TI1E EAHT. Filipino legislature Is quick to appreci ate work toward social betterment Members return to their homes with strong convictions that their towns should have the same improvements as the capital. "Talk of the typical Chlneso mer chant of Singapore or Penang, owner of tin mines and plantations of pine apple nnd rubber, with one son perhaps at Princeton, another at Oxford, who poured his wealth Into Chinn to back the theories of Sun Vat Sen against the Manchu. How his knowledge of American institutions surprises you. nnd how eager he Is to lenrn of Ameri can playgrounds! The soil here await the playground seed. It will itrow as luxuriantly as the Imnanss on his es tate." Mr. Goethe tells how he has started to organize a playground In a suburb of Calcutta, which will be the And playground In overcrowded India, and (roe on to say: "The whole value of such experi mental work mnst be educational. A pood field for another playground Is Bombay, center of the wealthy Par sees. We criticise them for their tow ers of silence, where bodies of the dead are exposed to the vultures. We crlt Idsp them for giving funds to hospi tals for sick dogs and neglecting no ma n needs. Rut they are u benevolent U-ople, and they have that shrewd in telllaence which gives them the con trol of great Industrie, such as tic vast Bombay cotton mills. They need only to have knowledge of American playgrounds to start them at work. "Publicity Is needed. When a break fast food manufacturer want to dem onstrate Its merits he plans ti cam paign costing hundreds of thousands. If there was nn opportunity to make 1 cent a year on each of India's 3O0, (0,no0. how American capital would he poured In! Vet a very niorioM sum teiit In a campaign of education s h s the Playtmnnd association conduct In thl country wou'd sfart these peo pl working lo help themselves." BETTER ROADS AND "BACK J TO THE LAND." J J If we had better roads we could easily get people to "see J America tirst." IK tit the real prob- iem Is to feed America llrst. to" enable the farmer to bring his produce to the consumer at a cheaper cost to both. The ques- thui of better roads, therefore, is not one of furnishing more con- J venient highways fur automobile J tourists. It is true that when we J better and Increase our roads the automobile will grow lu impor- t a uce. not as a plaything of the richer classes, but as the most convenient vehicle of business. J Itctlcr roads will turn the tide of o alTairs. so that instead of having J people lieeing from the farm to the elty we will have the masses 9 moving from the city back to the land. , o J The crux of the question is not whether we want better roads. J We all agree on that. We differ only on the best methods of tin- J proving them. D. W. Shackle- ford. STEADY GROWTH OF GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT. Summary of Report on Good Roads by Secretary of Agriculture. In the annual report of the secretnry of agriculture a special chapter Is de voted to good roads. For twenty years. It is .vtated. there has been a steady growth in the good roads movement, so that today about thirty-four states have highway commissions or some other form of highway ngouey. State appropriations for road wocU have in creased from S'J.OOO.nOO ten years ago to SJo.ntRUHM) in 1DI2. The relation of the federal government to road con struction and mad management is pointed out. The federal government should take the lead In investigational and experimental work and should de velop principles of co-operation with the states In matters of educational and deiuonstratlonal work. It seems desirable that the federal government should deal with the state as the low est unit through an expert highway commission as Its agency. This policy would eliminate the dilUculty of the federal government's determining lo cal issues as well as the danger of un due centralized federal control. In or der to stimulate this policy and to pre vent undue luruads on the federal treasury federal aid whenever extend ed for construction and maintenance should be furnished on condition thai the states provide an appropriation at least double that voted by the federal government. This would furnish nn automatic check. The plan should pro vide for maintenance as well as con struction in order to prevent the possi bility of the construction of roads many of which may wear out before the bonds placed upon them tire paid. The secretary raises the question as lo what roads should he Improved. He says that the roads of greatest eco nomic and social Importance are those over which the products of the farm can he taken to the nearest railway station and which minister to the other social and economic needs of the com munity. It Is pointed out that no fed ernl funds should be expended on any project until n scheme of road con struction and inn hit run lice within a state has been developed and agreed upon by the proper representatives ot the state and of the federal govern ment. OHIO WAKING UP. Court Decision Gives State Nine Thousand Miles of Highways. i The state of Ohio, which heretofore ; has not rpdtc kept pace with other j units of the country in the matter of good roads, seems mm' In a position to j do at least as well as any other state, j this as a result of a recent decision of ! the supreme court declaring the I lite, rond tax law valid. Much the same i system Is to be followed there as In j other states, the central government I hHiig the lender and the counties con- ; tributing and cooperating. The tax will raise VL.Min.O0n this year, to which add $.VK.(I00 or more 1 from t ho auto licenses and large con- trlbuilotis by the counties. Present plans contemplate the construction of ! more than luiOo miles of highways, j which Is about one-tenth of the entire I road mileage of the state. GENESIS OF A GOOD ROAD. In am lent rtmt the nfoorlirlns m Walked lAMflern le between the for- J m I'Ht tree", t Their f"-t. tn tlm-, Imprfixspd the e.irth nnd ptuile. J The route bcvttn a trait. 0 '.Vhpn iHfer whito rnon timu to roh . iho it I Of rrilm nnd room, th-y brought iMiVintu tti trr-nd That course and nip a cud for aft J ermuh, The mill heciin.e a path. Whn Khttut Perkins Betllfd on JJ hi clHtiit l'p Turkey crk. oni day h! m nirhtmrw carpc And hfii-pi turn clear a way to his flhod; ? The pnth tecfiai a road. ! t Whrn Van De R"ektT bounht the turner' u loam And built hlnnclf a country man nion horr The tM mrpped In and pared . th.it hlKtmay hH. Tls now a boulevard. Itoberttia Lore. WEST ROSEBURG GROCERY We can save you monsy on your grocery bill. Ourjatock is FRESH and COMPLETE. Phone your need. Prompt delivery and satisfac tory assured. AM our goods guaranteed.! " Ve (!ivo Itroehiirtt Trading ChockH" DOWELL & BENEDICK PHONE 29" OPEN FOR ROOM I. BELL H VV. A. ACKLEY, TAILOR j BEAR SEZ: Delicious! 'Try It! THE BEST EVER! Kippered Herring Norway Herring Milkner's Herring Kippered Salmon If you taste it once 3'ou'll order more Everything good at MARSHALL'S "the pure food store" PHONE 1S4 Phone 245 Commercial Abstract Co Abstracts of Title Filing Papers Prepared Insurance, Etc. Bonds ot all Kinds Furnished Money to Loan on Improved Farm Property llrar I'lrt Trilxt & SnviiiRS Dnnk lililg ItOHKItUKQ, OltHOON You Are Entitled to the Best AND Roseburg Steam Laundry Is where you get the best. Try us and be convinced. 438 N. JacKson Strcef 53 PREMIUM PARLORS Roseburg Trading ChecKs Are the only Trading Stamps or Checks that do not take a large amount of money OUT OF ROSEBURG livery dollar invested in them remains AT HOME There are at this time $60,000 worth in circulation All Cash Savers to the Consumer Think Carefully What This Savings Means And trade vheiyou get stamps thai are good in exchange at 53 stores. 53 Roseburg 53 PREMIUM c. rb PREMIUM PARLORS tamp U). PARLORS BUSINESS SISTERS' BUILDING All work flrat-cloM THE Phone 79 53 PREMIUM PARLORS