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About The Hood River news. (Hood River, Or.) 1909-current | View Entire Issue (July 24, 1912)
c THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912 ! GOOD ROADS AND THEJARMER W bile tbe fnriner receives as great financial Kiln from good nmli a anyone, says Prof. Krnet Flovtf Ajers. high ay engineer of the O. A. '., be ban tbe ad Jed x litl Iwuifit. L'uiler (irenent condition It U ofteu tmpotuilble ftr hit children to go to m bool rt-iru!&rlr. t farullv to ito to rtn-rrh ni,t 'tirc tbe ruad. are ! dried out. tU d.tor to reach him In time to I-of tao-t be y. or his mall 1 to r divr-i rilirir. With i. i.iiuflr, .:ihnw.t and grndej scUh,:. and larger' tburcbeti aluay follow these Im provement. "It I n it necvary that a great deal of money trct on our high way, but what 1 Invented hoiild I ued tarefully and Intelligently. A few dollar spent at tbe right time will nave repair continue hundred, tend in i hi t of the r.iad where there 1 Do heavy through travel may lie Im proved In tbl way." Mr. Ayres then deserHs-d the pro cess of building and clay road; the Initial grading with a proper crown ami drainage ditches, the dlslrlbu tlon and packing of the clay, spieud Ing of the sand, and ploughing and Cash Grocery Some of Our Prices This Week 15 lbs. best Fruit Sugar for ....$1.00 2 cans Jersey Queen Milk for 15c 3 cans Carnation and Libby Milk for 25c Diamon, Crown and High Flight Flour, sack ..$1.45 Per Barrel $5. CO Special Prices on Fruit Jars Mason Pts. 55c, Qts. 65c, Half G., 85c Economy Pts. 85c, Qts. $1.10, HalfG. $1.40 Shrams Pts. 75c, Qts. 85c, Half G. $1.30 come: to us for bargains L. H. HUGGINS Oregon Lumber WHOLESALE LARGE STOCK OF Band Sawed Lumber on Hand WHICH WILL BE SOLD AT REASONABLE FIGURES CEDAR POSTS CEDAR SHIP LAP and SHINGLES Estimates Furnished. Call on Either Phone DEE, OREGON Davidson lo now ready Hppies Call at office or pbone uo and we will call on you. Apple Paper, Boxes, Twine, Spray, Ice, Etc. Dawteon fruit Co. Hood River, Oregon harrowing It tn lightly ou top. TM type of roud baa given excellent Hat lafartton In the southern and middle twlfrn state., dl't little work of t he ! a. r t tin lief n done a yet til tbe P 'title northwest. It has proved suc cessful In solla ninl climatic con, II ! tlona similar to those found In Ore gon, and there tit art oiiesfloii int to I It value for our rural highway. "Tbe saving In expense over other form of road In no meln Item." ton tli.ued Prof. Ay re. " I be average '"r l4l",-:,My r,MiJ u tut t:s a mile for the iM.i!"! mile In the 1'nlted State, compared with a cost of SlViSt a mile for macadam In 'other wordw. about seven mile of sand clay road can Ik- l.ullt for the tame money a one tulle of plain or water bound macadam. The cost of maluU'tiance In less than for any other form if Improvement except the earth road, and horses and auto mobile alike prefer It to any of the hard surface road. "The road iniint first lie graded and drained carefully, and hotild lie crow ued about one Inch to the foot and Hiuooth a a rag. It tan lie greatly Improved by aildtng Hand eveu If no grading ha 1-een done but tbe expense will tie much greater. The and mut lie harp and toare, but need not lie a clean a I re quired for toncrete. It should be and RETAIL fruit Co. to talh about brought and piled aloug tbe should er of the road tu dry weather when ten ru In if I cheaper, though con struction can Dot U-gln uatll tbe rains soften tbe clay. The cheapest hj 1 to spread the sand 4 to 6 Inched deep over tbe wet clay and let the t rattle mix the material. Kcon omy la the only argument for thin, and an more sand U usually reju!red to till the rut and hole formed by the heavier teams, even thin ad vantage 1" sometimes lost. Tbe road I almost Impassible to heavy loads until tbe sand undclay are thorough ly mixed. "A letter way Is to dp read the nan J evenly to a width of 12 orltt feet, mixing welt with plotigb and barrow. A depth of 6 Indira I enough for light travel, and a foot for heavy loads. Tbe road drat; should lie used often to maintain the crowu and till rut which will form In the lirst few mouth. If the road does Dot compare favorably with gravel or macadam rut soon an tbe sand Is added to the clay. It should not be considered a failure. It con struction U a gradual process, ami the mi rf ace will not be at It Im at In less than ttlx month. It It gets mild ly add more Band; If It in too dry and diiHty more clay Is needed. All that J required for maintenance la the ad.lltlon of i Hule more sand to the clny each year, ami tbe occaloi al UHe of a draic " Keular Sunday excursion to Park- dale. I'leaaant trip for jourwlf and friend!. COMMUNICATION To the editor of the Newtt: In your Immuu of July 10th, U an able editorial touching on the economic, financial find sixlal prob lem, which la like coming onto an oawla. Home or local papers are uaually controlled by tbe accumu lator or thoHe uuinanlnn npeclal In tereats, profeMHlonul polltlclana and ward beelera, who always atand clear and ad vine nalnat dlacuHHlng iueatlona of economic or a social nature that will caufe thoae enjra'd In productive and distributive Indus try to rlae up to think and Inquire why such conditions exlat, what la the matter and where we are? ISelnn a plebeian In the rear ranks without influence or leadership your first proposition attracted my atten tion. "About half the people of the I'nlted Statea are either farmers or are dependeut on the farmer for their livelihood. All people depend for food on the farma." That, of course, means the land, w hich was ot created by man, conaequently, was the nlft of, or a provlHlon made by the Creator or a law of nature at leant. This beliiK an eatabltahed fact the Inquiry arlaes In my mind la It right and juat that the land should be monopolized und owned by. a few, who hold a large area of It out of use for seculatlve purposes at the expense of productive and dis tributive labor which In the lust analyala baa to pay all rent, Interest and profit. Abraham Lincoln In an annual message said, "Labor Is prlorjto and Independent of capital. Capital la only the fruit of labor and could never have existed If labor had not first existed. Labor la the superior of capital and deserves much the higher consideration." This la a companion piece to Lincoln's f imoiis (iettysburg speech which seems to le studiously avoided by Memorial I lay and Fourth of July orators. Nevertheless, It la tenable, underlay ing tbe fundamental principles upon which our civilization Is baaed. Tbe next proposition that at tracted my attention was the Inves tigation by President Taft of the system of lending money to the farm ers of France, (iermany and other Kuroplnn countries, which mines tbe question In my mind why the neces sity of the l.'nlted States fanner be ing deendent on borrowing money and paying Interest thereon to con duct their business wherein they are the original producers of the neces sarles of life upon which all other classes are dea-ndent. It apjears to me to Involve the question of the high price of living whereas com in. dltlca are sold but once for consumption; nil Intermed iate sales M-tween producer and con sumer are speculative adding price only, not value. As a plelielan and worker It occurs to me that this question opens a field for tbe econo mist, university president, professor. graduate and student for Investiga tion aLd determination, where this Intermediate part of the price gia-s and whether or not there Is a reason able rule to eliminate this specula tive price as we have already seen It Is not value. In the editorial there Is an allusion to the rule In Denmark which seems to be flavored somewhat with state socialism; also there Is another al lusion to tbe system of farmers secur ing loans on their crops or crop pro ducts through a system of bunking, and hinted at In one of the planks of the late Chicago Republican plat forms. This so excites my curiosity that I arise to a special privilege of inquiry and aitk If this Is a revival of tbe demand of the (Vala Formers Alliance platform of lvi) and the I'opullst platform adopted at Omaha la ly2. Were those people wrong then and are we right Dow or were they and we both wrong? Many of the bad conditions those people pre dicted bare occurred without any permanent remedy Is-lug provided to eradtcute the evil condition until tbe present plana suggested at Chicago and by President Taft. Another Important question arises In my mind, which for personal grati fication and (Information I am anxious to submit to some of the old 1F- I l I . H ! i veterans, university presidents, pro fessors, graduates and students Is from what source did the govern ment of the Cut teu States secure tbe money with which It paid the soldier for bis service In tbe war of tbe Ke bellton for which be signed the pay roll when tbe money passe J over tbe pay table which was payment in full; and to the contractor for sup plies to put down the rebellion for which tbe contractor receipted all bills In full pay ment. What became of that money? Further, whether or not Tbudeus Stephens, Oliver 1. Morton, "Pig Horn" William ). Kelly of Philadelphia, (Jen. Sam net 3 rz.- . l U -t fJ II t . ' . 1 1 II i Wagons Your demands can be filled at our store r Grain You will want one soon. In vestigate our line I 1 3L o: o IMPLEMENT F. Cary of Cincinnati, Ohio, and many others tu congress were false prophets during 1Mj7 to 1VS9 70 when tbey were raising tbelr voices In the balls of cougress and on tbe stump against approaching dreadful finan cial calamities; many of which we have passed through, which cannot be more accurately d esc rl tied by peo ple who are now living than was pre dicted by those long since dead. Like causes produce like effects, and the above questions are live ques tions of great importance to tbe present generation who suppose they are living tn a "government of the people by the people for the peo Buckeye Cider Presses $17.oo $24.oo $33.oo 1 Drills 1 Jo) COMPANY pie" of which each Is a cltlien and a unit. . i I am personally deeply Interested and wonld consider It of great ad-; vantage to presentjand coming gen- eratlon to have those question dl-i cussed through the local papers uud proved out by good authorities aud upon unquestionable records. j A supplementary or subsidiary) question la what I money, It source i and use and by whom c re a ted, whether for use In commerce or to be bought aud sold la the market tbe , same a oiner commouuies lor a price, called interest measured by it self. M. T. F. T