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THE HOOD RIVER NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 24, 1912
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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
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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
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Wagons
Your demands can be filled
at our store
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Grain
You will want one soon. In
vestigate our line
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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
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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.
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