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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
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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
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Speaks and Sings and Roller Skates
Also Paramount Feature with Glendon Hale in
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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
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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
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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.
Physician A Surgeon
Office, in Patterson Drug Store '
HEPPNER :: :-: OREGON
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DENTIST
Permanently located In the Odd
Fellows building, Rooms 4 and S.
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Portland, Oregon.
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