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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (July 25, 1912)
THE MADRAS PIONEER Published every. Thursday by PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Subscription Rates One year $1.50 Six months 80 Three months 50 Entered as second class matter A igust 29. 1904, at the Postof fice at Madras, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March 6, 1379. Thursday, July 25, 1912. Opportunity Lies Westward "Go west, young man." Near lv or auite half a century has - - passe i since Horace Greeley ut tere 1 this sacre advice. Millions of young men have profited by it. The West has grown and blos somed and prospered. Today the same advice is repeated by five great financiers of the East. The West still possesses bound less opportunities. They are here to be grasped by young men of energy and attainments. On July 14 the New York World piblished a full page sy nposium of the opinions it had received from men of promi nence in the fields of politics, business and. finance. These opinions were given in response to the query "What should the youn? college graduate do?" Most specific of any as to locat ing for life's endeavor is the answer given by Thomas W. Tjawson, the Boston financier. " Vere I graduating today from college east, west or south, " he says, ' ' I would head for the great undeveloped Northwest. I would buy my ticket for Portland, Ore gon." A. B. Hepburn, chairman of the board of directors of the Chase National Bank of New York, mentions Oregon, with Washington, Montana, Idaho and British Columbia. "I should say," he continues, "that for a yojnj man just leaving college the most promising field is in the Northwest and that in re gard to a calling or profession to follow he may just as well fol low his own inclination, for pro viding he is eager to work he will find abundant opportunity in a hundred directions." "Be self-reliant, keep minute accounts and go west of Chi cago," in brief is the advice given by William Sherer mana ger of the New York Clearing House Association. B. F. Bush, president of the Missouri Pacific Railroad, de clares that the best chances for success lie west of the Mississip pi River. From F. L. Wilk, banker and railroad man of Chicago, comes the opinion that for a young man thrown upon his own resources the West and Northwest offer the best opportunities. Of the seven men quoted, only one James G. Cannon, president of the Fourth National Bank, New York City, specifically ad vises the young man to ramain in the East. "Stay right at home and be a farmer in New York State," he says in effect. Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana urges young men to take up scientific farming. In deed, this opening is pointed out by nearly all the writers as one of the most promising of the day. There is more than one signi ficance in the suggestions. These men are successful in life, ob servant of conditions, in touch with the industrial, commercial and financial phases of every large locality. Doubtless their 1 recommendations will promote settlement of lands where it is most needed. Moreover, there is an implied indorsement there in of Western development enter prises. These financiers have spoken their confidence in the Northwest. Their opinions ought to make easier the obtaining of capital for worthy, legitimate enterprises. "Go west young man" has been sound advice for 50 years. It will remain sound advice until a century or more has sustained the nronhetic vision of the m who first gave it to the world. Oregonian. an "Going Abrond" The Eastern man lives so close to the Atlantic coast that he forgets his country has any other boundary line. In a dim, distant way he has heard there are cities and rivers and forests out West, but that there is anything of interest there he doubts. He does not know if St Louis is situated at the mouth of the Rio Grande or at the headwaters of the St Lawrence, but he does know (note his pompous tread!) just how much enjoyment there is in a trip up the Nile. The big trees of California awaken no desire to see them. "I am more interested," he says, "in the Black Forest of Ger many." He knows that somewhere in the West there is a town devoted to the flouring industry, but speaking of flour reminds him of loaves of bread you can get abroad that are half a yard long. The petrified forests of the West fail to awaken his interest, and any illusion to that great freak of nature, that immense chasm across Mother Nature's face, the Grand Canyon of Ari zona, is met with his opinion that such descriptions are exag gerated. Down in the bottom of his heart he thinks this Grand Canyon of Arizona is so narrow a real live man from New York Gould jump it and have breath to spare. Somewhere up in the State of New York they are building a dam. "Wonderful, wonderful!' he exclaims, and refuses to credit the immensity of the great irri gation ditch that is making the cactus-covered plains of the West blossom like the rose. Up there in the Dakotas there are ranches so immense the own er says a week's goodbye to his family when he starts to cross one, and a prosperous farmer's domains are so extensive he does not know their exact acre age himself. But -all this and more, counts for nothing with the Easterner. He has been abroad. He is going again. The chateaus oi France are more interesting to him than the cliff dwellers of New Mexico In a patriotic red, white and blue way, he knows the political and agricultural possibilities of the land lying west of the Mis- sissippi, and the war norse in him prances and paws at any hint of foreign invasion. But that there are any scenic de lights out there worth his while is something beyond his two-by- four comprehension. He has the European habit. He is infected with the going- abroad germ. He goes every time he can afford the time and money, and just as often when he can't. He sends his wife and daughter that they may not be socially handicapped when they meet other wives and daughters who have been "over." When he can't send them, his wife and daughters get up alluring pam phlets showing pictures of Napoleon's tomb and the Colise um. These they send out West, with the information that they have engaged in conducting tour ists' parties at so much per. These pamphlets announce that the woman who will take tourists under her travel wing at so much per is well versed in all the foreign languages, and is a lady of culture and refinement. It is a rare opportunity, the pamphlet says, to see Europe with so much culture thrown in. In some sections of the United States, notably the rural sec tions the charge is made that some women become missionaries so that they can get a trip abroad WlUi-uAjJUJioca ymu, wob; iiuui-j inir of the farewell teas given by the church sewing circle before they depart. In the East the woman who wants to go abroad adopts the role of guide, and beckons lo the untraveled West to come with their pockotbooks, and go under her wing. If the charge against the mis sionary is true, which it isn't, it can at least be said of her that she dbesn't expect to take her family along. The cultured and refined East ern woman hopes to make enough out of the Western purse to take her entire family and the dog. It is anything and any means to see Europe in the East. It is the Promised Land of the tourist who sails away leaving greater scenic delights in his own coun try uncredited and unseen. He has put his own land last. The fact is recorded to his hu miliation and shame. Chicago American. GOOD WORK DONE ON THE WAUB0NSIE TRAIL Public Spirited Citizens Along Iti Route Accomplishing Wonders. The Wnubonsle trnil Is an earth road extending across the southern tier of counties In Iowa. Its Improve ment has been undertaken by an or ganization known as the Waubonsie Trail association, -which styles itself as the "promoter of the short way back to the farm." The association has a membership of over 1,200' and has accomplished much in the work it has undertaken. The ten counties traversed by the" Waubonsie trail are the southern counties of Iowa and adjoin Missouri. It is the hope of its promoters that thu road will at some time form the Iowa link In a transcontinental highway. No attempt has been made to con struct stone roadways over any por- SECTION OP TIIE WAUIIONSIE Tit AIL BE FOBE IMPROVEMENT. tion of the route. The efforts of the association are confined to grading, dragging, constructing proper bridges and culverts and doing such other work as Is necessary to put into good condition and maintain an earth road. In Iowa there is a state law which provides that township trustees shall see that the roads are properly drag ged at stated times after rains. One of the things the association Is doing is securing pledges from citizens to oppose any candidate for ofllee who will not do his best to have this law enforced or who In any way works against the campaign for good roads. In addition to the Influence brought to bear by the association on the road officials in the several counties and towns traversed by the road to vcork for its Improvement, the farmer mem bers have pledged themselves to drag the road after ruins. At one time last June when an olllcial inspection of SAME ROAD TWO MONTHS TjATEB. the road was being made 75 per cent of Its entire length was dragged with in twenty-four hours. An Important branch of the work be ing done is the replacement of Improp er bridges by structures suited to the conditions. It is stated that there are on the road nearly a hundred small bridges of spans up to twenty feet for which tile of threo feet diameter or less can be substituted advantageous ly. In many cases these bridges crosn streams draining less than a quarter section of land, much of which Is com. paratlvely level. What Is being accomplished along the 28(1 mile road Is best shown by tha accompanying illustrations. How It Is Done. Cook Why didn't you come last Mon day for yer dinner? Beggar-Why, 1 heard that you were washing and your mistress was doing the cooking, File- gende Illalter. As Ho 8aw It. Miss niche 1 lost my heart Inst night, pa. I uccepted Mr, 'oori. Mr. Itiche-H'm! i'ou didn't lose your heart you inuvt bnvu lost your head. 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