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PAGE FOCR TUB P A XKTTR-TTM KS. HEPPNER. ORB.. THURSDAY, MAT 3, 1317 MANY ADVANTAGES PROFESSIONAL COLUMN Dr. H.T, ALLISON Physician Surgeon Office in Gunn Building. HEPPNER, OREGON FH0HJ90D ROADS Investigation By Government Shows Such Expenditures Are Justified. A HOUS OPER 13 Tie Big High Class Vaudeville and Comedy Drama Complete Change of Program Nightly -- The Show That is Different. Admission Monday Evening FREE The Oldest Lady and Gentleman in the Opera House Mon day Evening Will Each be Given a Valuable Present Children Not Admitted Unless Accompanied By Parents THE TILLERS OF THE SOIL HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY April 26, 1917. Mr. Vawter Crawford, The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Ore. Dear Mr. Crawford: In this great time, when every citi BslaaallaalltfcakBSM STAR THEATER THURSDAY ONLY THE IRON CHWT HEARST-PATHE NEWS: New Artillery Tractor and other important war news LUKE AND THE MERMAIDS OUR REGULAR BLUEBIRD PROGRAM FRIDAY Admission 10 and 20 Cents SATURDAY ONLY TANGO, THE BEAR WITH THE HUMAN BRAIN Speaks and Sings and Roller Skates Also Paramount Feature with Glendon Hale in "The Old Homestead" SEE Not Mary Pickford, but you surely will think she is Mary's twin sister. A Good Comedy Also 15 and 25 Cents "GLORY yy medians. Seven STAR PICTURES PLEASE 31 One Week Commencing Monday, May 7,, 1917 zen most do his part, the President has made his chief appeal to the men who live on the land. He is right In doing so, for the safety of bur country just now is in the hands of oar far mers. What I mean it not merely our safety and the safety of our Al lies in the matter of food. I mean that the safety of the United States against foreign invasion hangs on against German arms will be won or SUNDAY Featuring Juanita ed by Kolb & Dill, Acts. 15 and i mm lost fa Frxace the war against' atar the decision of the farmers of the forty-eight States. The two great weapons in this war are arms and starvation. ' The war vation win be won or lost in America. The Kaiser cannot whip the French and English armies and the English navy while England has food. But it is still possible that the German submarines may be able to keepfood i'l ESSES Hansen, support the famous corn- 25 Cents. Phone Main 522 r ST Slow enough from reaching England to starve her into submission. If the submarines win, the first item in the Kaiser's terms of peace will be the English fleet. With the English fleet In his possession, the Kaiser will be master of the world. What will happen to us then? Every man who stops to think , will know the answer. We shall have money, food, labor, land every thing that is desirable in the world except the power to protect what we have. Experts estimate that it will take up nine months to get ready to meet a German army of even 150, 000 men, with modern artillery. Un der the circumstances, would the Germans treat us better than thev have already treated Belgium and France? Even if the armies of our Allies should crush the Cerman military power this summer, before the short age of food can reach the point of want, the world would still need vast quantities of American food. But if they do not, only one course can make us safe, and that is to grow food enough on our farms for our selves and our Allies, and put ships enough on the sea to carry the food in spite of the submarines, to the men who are fighting our fight. If the war lasts beyond this sum mer, it will be the American farmer who will win or lose the war, who will overcome militarism and autoc racy, or allow them to spread and control the world, ourselves includ ed. This is no fanciful picture, but so ber fact. Many a man will make light of it until he comes to think it over, but I venture to say that few will treat it lightly after careful thought. It is no more impossible than the great War itself appeared to be, only a few days before it be gan. , It is true that we can greatly in crease the available food supply out of grain now used in making liquors, and by reducing household waste. But when these two things are done, and done thoroughly, they will not be enough. . The final decision will still rest in the hands of the men who raise our food in the first place. The clear duty of the Nation is to guarantee the farmers a fair price for their crops when grown, and a reasonable supply of labor at harvest The clear duty of the farmer is to raise food enough to win this war for democracy against Kalserism. No such responsibility has ever rested on any class of men since the world began as rests today on the farmers of America. Sincerely yours, GIFFORD PINCHOT. ( TREASURER'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that all out standing county warrants up to and Including April 30, will be paid upon presentation at my office.' T. J. HUMPHREYS, County Treasurer. ' Dated this 3rd day of May, 1916, at' Heppner, Oregon. Dr. J. G. Turner, the Portland eye specialist, is In the city today. Miss Josephine Richardson went to Portland Wednesday to spend two weeks visiting with friends. Investigations conducted by the TJnlted States Department of Agricul ture prove conclusively that good roads Increase school attendance, im prove social conditions and enlarge business transactions, while the sell ing price of tillable farm land Increas es more than the total cost of the im provements. Discussing these sub jects, the Weekly News Letter, pub lished by the Department of Agricul ture, had the foltowlag: "A 15 per cent inererse In the pro portion of the available children at tending schools took place following the construction of good roads in eight counties studied by the Orrice of Pab 11c Roads and Rural Iv.n i'H rrins of the Department. " lu. !. :,., )'.. mont in roads was followed i ) iii e. ral of the counties, the report shows, by con solidation of a number of the little ono-rooni schools iuto graded schools, which give the pupil b. tier education al advantages; b V. iiau-nt of various InduoU-ics, aiid by social im provements due to tiuiicr intercourse. These Improveiurnu are related close ly to increases in land valuta and de creases In hauling costB, effects also traced to the construction of improved roads. The studies were made in Spottsylvanla, Dinwiddle, Lee and Wise Counties, Virginia; Franklin County, New York; Dallas County, Alabama; Lauderdale County, Missis slppl, and Manatee County, Florida. "To determine as far as possible the exact dollars and cents effect on a county of the Improvement of bad roads, specialists of the office of Pub lic Roads and Rural Engineering of the Department made economic sur veys in eight counties in each of the years from 1910 to 1915, Inclusive. "This study of the Increaso in the values of farm lands in the eight coun ties reveals the rather Interesting fact that following the Improvement of the main market roads the increase la the selling price of tillable farm lands served by the roads has amounted to from one to three times the total cost of the Improvements. The increase in values in those instances which were recorded ranged from 63 per cent to 80 per cent In Spottsylvanla Co., Va.; from 68 to 194 per cent In Dinwiddle Co., Va.; from 70 to 80 per cent in Lee Co., Va.; 25 to 100 in Wise Co., Va.; t to 114 in Franklin Co., N. Y.; 50 to 100 In Dallas Co., Ala.; 25 to 50 iu Lauderdale Co., Miss., and from 50 to 100 in Manatee Co., Fla. The estimates of increase were based for the most part upon the territory within a dis tance of one mile on each side of the roads Improved." t These same investigations by the Department of Agriculture disclosed that in the last. 12 years there has been an Increase of more than 250 per cent In the total outlay for roads and bridges in the United States. WHY EVERY COUNTY SHOULD VOTE BONDS There Is an excellent reason why every voter In every county In the State outside of Multnomah County should vote for the $6,000,009 road bond bill. Here it is: Multnomah County has paved her roads. The $6,000,000 paving fund will all be expended outside of Multnomah County. Multnomah County pays 40 per cent of the automobile license and the quarter-mill state road tax, which means she will pay 40 per cent of the $6,000,000 bonds. Her contribution to the other counties for roads will be $2,400,000. Your county will get more back from these bonds than it will contrib ute. WILL BE NO CHANCE TO JUGGLE THE BIDS The State Highway Commission has formulated a general policy in the mat ter of letting contracts for road work In co-operation with the counties as contemplated in he $6,000,000 road bond bill. It has been decided that the Commission sitting with the coun ty court will let the contracts In the county In which the work Is to be done, All bids are to be received on the day of award from the bidders or agents directly on the day of opening and read in the presence of the bid ders. The object aimed at Is to pre clude any charge of the bids having been tampered with. Farmers not residing on any of the roads to be improved under the road bond bill should not for that reason oppose the bond measure. With ths approval by the voters of the bond is sue, every each farmer will derive a two-fold benefit. In the firBt place, he will be brought that much closer to a hard-surfaced road. - Secondly, the money now expended on the main toads will be available for the im provement of the connecting roads. Surely, the farmer, regardless of bis residence with respect to the main trunk roads, cannot help but recognize that he will be benefited by the ex penditure of funds raised by the pro posed bond issue. Young men are being continually urged to "Get back to the Farm." but they are expected to wade in mud up to their knees to get there. Vote for the $6,000,000 bond measure and help make the farm .more accessible to la bor as well as to the markets. Dr. N. E. WLNNARD Physician A Sargeon ' Office In Fair Building HEPPNER - - OREGON A. D. McMURDO, M. D. 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