La Grande evening observer., February 16, 1912, Image 4

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LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1912.
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BRUCE DENNiS
Editer and Owner.
KPtfcred at the postoffice at La Grande
' a second'Claog matter,' '
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HOW ABOl'T JMRT MOADS!
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A few men Ju Oregon, crazed by the
-desire for power and imbued with that
, fever for spending public money,- are
fathering a proposed law which
. means bonded ' Indebtedness to this
state for several generations to come.
They want to step from the present:
conditions of highway into rock roads' I tern.
road' as the most -practical solution to
the good roads .problem In Kansas, at
least for pinny, years to come. The
rock road Is, of -course, desirable in
many localities and I would put noth
ing In the way of the construction of
stone, and macadam roads In those
thickly settled communities-' where
land- is valuable, where an abundance
of rock ean be had within two or three
miles, and where the county or townr
ship will noi be overburdened by an
outlay of $3,000 a mile. "But the fur
ther J go into this good roads que
tlon the more-firmly convinced I be
come that continuous and Intelligent
road dragging Is the cheapest, sim
plest, most effective method of im
proving our highways and is unquee-1
ably the best method known for arous
ing public sentiment on the good
roads Question.1 The drag has so
many advantages over any other sys-
The claims made by Its advo-
whlch Is extravagant to the extent of
property confiscation. -'
Why does not someone advocate the
making of dirt roads according to sci
entific methods? Other states much
cates are not based on visionary the
ories but on actual results obtained
by' work. 'Marvelous' Is the only, word
that In any measure describes the re
sults secured by persistent dragging.
-wealthier than Oregon cannot afford 'a thoughtful, conscientious trial will
rock roads, but they do build dI:C convince the moBt skeptical that It
roads of value.1 To give ad Idea of can be successfully done. And If the
what another state Is doing, we quote earth road la kept good It will al-
from a speech delivered by Arthur ways be good.' Right here, I might
Capper, a safe an 4 able.- man, .' who Is, entyahslze the point, too, that all: oth-
eandldate for governor of -Kansas er states are building narrow roads
-where the road question has been fc rather , than wide expensive roads
leading one for' yeafi.t.'.Mr,' Capper And ityls 'undoubtedly tfte'.wlBe thing
ays: ' . "to do.-' Vvr-'. -")
"I am a champion of the well "Few of us, I bellev. appreciate
drained, . persistently dragged earth the wastfulness of our present system.
- ----- It la probable that more money is
, wasted-In the building of roads than
In'alJ the oth'er. forms of public work.
It Is, wasted almost entirely through
misdirected " ,nd ' unskilled effort,
through work in thd wrong places, or
at the wrong (time,--through 'the im
proper use of both good and bad tools,
a.nd our universal lack of system In
bothi construction and maintenance.
If Is waste in the extreme to work
the road with a big machine and leave
it untouched for two or three years
thereafter, ' Undoubtedly we have too
many Inexperienced, lncomeptent, in
efficient subordinate road officials.:
"A road when built, must toe main
tained, and It requires as much knowl
edge and more nerslstence to main-
,talnAlt In proper shapfe at a minimum
cose than H does to construct It In, (he
first instance in most' cases.'. This is
. particularly true In Kansas where ev
eryone la engaged In making money
planting crops In virgin soil,: buying
new machinery and believing that
none of these things will ever . give
out. We are rabidly finding, however
that we must replace what the plant
takes from the soil, that we must ro
tate our crops; that we must point and
repair our road machinery and- keep
It under coverand that we must main
tain and repair our roads as careful
ly as we do the roofs of our houses
or thoy will disintegrate, rot out and
disappear.
"To bring this about I - believe we
need a practical, sensible road law
that can- be' enforced, one that will
compel a strict oversight of tho home
rond by some responsible person In
each community and which will tend
to make o( this road, as time goes on,
a .first-class highway. This compul
sory feature should be strop?. -It
seem j to me It Is the key to the pros-
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v"A man living in town Is not ex- sand and one lively mlchance and
pected to work on the streets with- grotesquencles of the romantic tale,
out pay, and I am not one of those1 The volatile New York has rushed to
persons who expects a busy, : hard this romantic atmosphere to escape
working farmer , to work the. public the prosaic facts of modern urban
rdad during crop season, even in tho jife. But probably only to the stolid
front of his own iplace, without com- metropolitan Is the metropolis pro
pensatlon. That some farmers do solgaic: As a fact the city's news of a
voluntarily, and even more than this, I single day contains more strange, ro
ls; greatly to their, credit as men of j mantle incidents than the wildest ori-
vuihic spun,.- ' ', ental extravaganza. ' Were
a cubic inch. - There were but a few Crea, Frank A.' Chase, S. Harry Rush,
Items picked at random from -' tnc Victor M. Smith and Frederick V.
news columns. Phinney. The two last named are in-
; ."It is entirely probable that enough Dickens, whose centenary Father
money . is regularly " squandered In
this misdirected or non-directed tin
kering on Kansas roads to carry on a
system of efficient rond improvement
and maintenance In each locality, at
a little or no increase of expense, and
that the Teal road problem in Kansas
at the present time is to get an effi
cient roaa-worklng system under the papers A recent
direction of the sate hljrhwav enirl-! followlne items.
Old Gotham Landmark Ibized.
New York, Feb. 16. The Jewelers
'Exchange bildlng,. one of the oldest
structures In New York, In the heart
of the financial district, is at last to
be torn down to make way for a sky
scraper. . The place dates from 1750.
It is really a group of buildings con-
Charlea structed about a rear courtyard. In
Knickerbocker 'recently observed,
alive, and writing In- New York In
stead of London, today, he would un
questionably rouse the great body of
New Yorkers - to this constant out
pourings of romance at their - very
doors. Little glimpses of this romance
peer out of the columns of the news-
day produced the
A multimillionaire
spectors general from Idaho.
R. Edward Plnney, K. C. C. H., ven
erable master or Albert Mackey Lodgvi
of Perfection, was presiding ofliicer, 1
being assisted by Charles H Voss, if.
C. C. H., ceremonial officer,' and Ern
est M. Flood, presenting officei The
knights commanders of the court of
honor In attendance were Mayor Wm..
J. HIndley, Richard B. Harris and
the old days It was .occupied by law- prank p Weymouth -Adolph A. Kraft
vara' rtfrtnaa hut tlm nttnKnAitn mnim
headed the receptIon committee.
neef which will make every dollar Of died intestate, and one of his nephews
money expended count. Once we et who was to receive two and a half
such a system the rest will be easy, millions, wns discovered living in des
Let a farmer see he is actually get- tltutlon in a mean tenement. He had
tln$ something for his share of the just borrowed a quarter from a nelgh-
rond money and I believe he will soon bor and his wife was In the work-
become as much of a go6d roads eu- .house. A. lively millionaire, 74 years
thuslast as the best of us. Consider ) old. an" athlete and a jiu jltsu expert.
the long years he has been paving
road taxes and what little evidence he
has seen of his money afterward In
actual rond work, even where It was
long and sorely needed, and it will
not be difficult to appreciate that he
needs to be convinced his road money
will be sanely and sensibly expended
before he can reasonably be expected
to develop much enthusiasm as a
good roads crank." , ,
La Grande National Bank
LA GRANDE, OREGON.
CAPITAL . . . $ 100.000.00 ;
SURPLUS - , . ' .: . 115,000.00
RESOURCES , .-. 1,000,000.00
United States Depository
IS THE M
was found to have married a girl of
20. A clerk who had his salary rais
ed Immediately went home and com
mitted, suicide. A life Insurance com
pany discovered that a man supposed
to have died 14 years ago, at which
time the company paid his' wife 'a pol-
out or died off one by one and Jewelry
trades moved In Aaron Burr had an
office there, about 1812, "but the roomy
fireplace . where he Is said to have
brewed a famous hot punch has long
since vanished. It Is also said that
the place was once a hotel and that
Washington spent a night in one of
the rooms. There was, at that time,
a handsome fountain playing in the
court and bridges across It connected
the front and rear buildings. Later
the original Gordon Bennett was a
tenant and was evicted for failure to
pay his rent. For a time one of the
cellar vaults was occupied by a Scotch
man, known as "Lord ? palmeTston'';
who sold a famous brew of ale ami
still more famous mutton pies. '
Odd Futon (Jlven. : '
Spokane, Feb. 1G. When jewels of
elaborate design and .-' workmanship
were presented to 10 members of the
Scottish Rite in Spokane, who have
attained the degree of Inspectors gen
eral honorarium (33 Hon.) In the
New York, Feb. it!, New York the
atre goers apparently wish their plays
to transport them far from the me
tropolis' these days. Anything 'extolc
Is received with acclaim. Two rival
Broadway playhouses, a few blocks
apart, offer ,plays representing scenes
from the Arabian Nights and those
are flaying to full capacity nt all per
formances. Enthusiastic audiences
follow keenly the , animated nr:V
jjbesques of caliphs and clowns, beg
II gars transformed to wealthy nobles,
! I ragged revenge stalking Its prey, and
J stabblngs and drownings, lovers smug
' icy of $1S50 on his life, was still alive.
The man had been In the employ of
the company during the 14 years, and
lives just a few doors, from its main presence of 1,000 members of the Ma
office. A wealthy. Yukon mlne'r camo sonic order and their families at Ma'
to, town, engaged a suite at a smart! sonic temple the night of February S,
Broadway hotel, washed his only un-' there was perfi rmed a ceremonial ."or
dershlrt. a red1 flannel affair; and hung which there Is no official ritual or
it out of , the window to dry, so that ; precedent in Masonic history. The
several thousand; persons gathered to praters honored at this'' unique pre
s'tare, and traffic was blocked. At ri sentatlon, which was followed by a
, book sale a bibliophile paid $3,800 for1 banquet, are: ,
a tiny pamphlet containing Shake- tr. Elmer D. Olmsted, William A
speare"s "Venus .and Adonis." This Acuff, Charles E. Grove, .John H. Shaw
amounted to $165 a page, or $1800 James M. Fitzpatrlek, William S. Mo-
"The highest athuorlty of the rite
Informs us there Is no official cere
monial for the presentation of jewels, v
as heretofore there has been no such .
occasion," said Mr. Plnney, "In con
sequence we arrange the ceremony -according
to our best judgment as
to. what was proper and fitting. The .
brethren In Spokane are to be con- -,
gratulated by members of the order
everywhere for Initiating so interest
ing an event, which will long be re
membered, "The purpose. of Inviting the.mem
bers of the three blue lodges and vis- -iting
members .was to interest -them 5
In Scottish "rite Masonry." :
Dissolution Wns Error.
Pasadena,' Feb. 16. That the gov
ment has acted unwisely In dissolving
the Standard Oil Is the opinion of Geo.
Perkins, Morgan's former right hand
man, who Is here today. . He says that
while the - Standard was . under , one
head there was a chance for govern
mental supervision, but that the gov
ernment supervision now is difficult
when the headsare scattered, v.
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