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THE fiAZKITE-TPIFS. HETPNEK. OREGON, THTB9DAY, PRIL 10, 191 P.(.K SIX Uncle Sam WiUHelp Build Good Roads i . - ' i Bv S. M. WILLIAMS. President, Highway Industries AssocLitLm. I 01 1'he H : r : - t i c ui; y. vi!e.. to U as esen Highway ir.d represent :h tint; one r.ili. therefore, is velfare and : dairies a; industries of the ?.-e that it is thtivj Iter th:in a selfish ;tie dceiopnieni e interest of a;id i U;; nation's life. The s Association also : :.iaynio:u of more on wftce earners; and,' ai;o interested, in the access of labor. j wit:- the Highway In-1 :;t;:;on ate more than W hile 1 am in sympathy with the dca oi turning to road building as a! ! butter' employment for labor, road: ) ouiidiitg has a far greater claim upon ; (labor than from the "bufier" view-. ; point. ' ! ' r ; more than two years highway !con:.:ruction of the United States1 I . as at a standstill. Highway o:licia!s I , et e atso prevented trom properiv. .r.aimahiiiig their roads already con- r.uetej, with the result that many i of your states suffered heavy losses in highway investment. Eery eien.ent of loyal citizenship recognized the necessity of co-operation for the one important task ahead of it, but we have won the war. The experiences of the army op erating trucks in all Darts of the also i i,,:r c..p,- auinbf th npnnlp tn CUO chambers of commerce, boards of trade, national and state trade organizations, rot try clubs, traveling men's associations, and state gran ts. Ti.ese organizations are urging not oniy a go-ahead pro-,-,,, tle advantages of highway gram in highway construction, but i transportation and the handicap sur since the middle of December they rounding it due to a lack of properly have passed resolutions in their constructed highways, different organizations to that effect. It also brougnt a realization that Stop our highways should no longer be That liis on Your Ituad inve-itmenis. developed as simply a local conven Representing the business inter- ience, but from a broad viewpoint of ests of the country in highway de- building connected rather than dis velopmen', cur study of this subject connected systems, so that corn has been from the standpoint of in- inanities might be joined together, dustry, and by industry I mean com mercial a?riruit"re and labor. T t - . - .r-- and demonstrated the necessity for highways serving and not mastering transportation. We were five years reaching the present basis of prices, and we can not return to former prices and con-.':';o'-:3 in a f :w months. I doubt if we v."1. at to go back entirely .even if :t were possible. When you consider that at least ','.'. per cent of the cost of road con struction, from the raw materials to the finished road, is labor, 1 do not see where we can expect much re duction in road building so long as the wages and the cost of living re main wheie they are. You can have roads at Jower cost, but not without disturbing labor conditions. Delay Means Addtil Cost. basis as quickly as possible. It is not fair to consider today's prices with those of the days when business men were failing because of the general unrest throughout the country which resulted in cut-throat competition, low wages and of course low cost of materials. The cost of delay in proceeding with road building programs is in my estimation more serious than the in creased cost of construction. One of the main arguments for the $200,000,000 increase in the federal aid was that it would en courage the states to go ahead im mediately with their road building programs by assisting them in meet ing the higher cost of construction,' and to accomplish that, the original federal aid law was amended by in creasing from $10,000 to $20,000 the cost per mile for federal aid parti cipation. More than any other nation on earth we stand in need of good roads and thousands of miles of them. The adjustment of prices to what may be normal levels can be accotn In Vote To (iet Industry, .Start Industry Now. The surest way to secure a re-! panied by prosperity just as great as adjustment of conditions including we have had during the raising of prices will be to start industry going prices providing we keep right on "(io Ahead," Then Go Ahead, and bring it to a normal business doing business. WHV MO UK LA XI)'.' Smne of the departmental ex perts, who are presumed to know all that is knowable about agricul ture, have devised extensive and ex pensive schemes for the redemption of stump land, for the reclamation of desert land, for placing under the plow new empires. Which reminds us of three square rods down by the pasture gate. This little patch by the gate has for years been the afternoon social center of the cows. Waiting for the milk boy, they have gathered there and d'scussed things bovine with quiet complacency. There are forty acres in this pasture. There is more feed burst ing forth from every inch of this few rods than there is in ten times the same area elsewhere in the pasture. If the farmer had his forty acres tike that forty yards square is, he would have the equivalent of four hundred average acres. . We wonder if the experts are not going at this food production thing all wrong. The average farm acre is one- tenth as productive as it can become. . Why draw in, at great expense c. effort and money, new raw acres, when there are so many already .cleared, waiting for a square deal. An acre cleared is just another poor acre, but an acre properly drained, or limed, or fertilized, is three, or five, or ten acres more, j French gardeners employ and sup 1 port four men on an acre. Using , clotches, making a manure mulch two feet deep; growing every inch I of the acre every day in the year, . winter and summer. ; The American farmer requires a hundred and sixty acres to support himself and three tired horses. Intensive farming is the city editor's favorite topic and the prac tical farmer's pet aversion. But to make one acre bear the crop of five is not intensive farming, and it can be done. I And it only takes one-fifth the j seed, one-fifth the tillage, one-fifth the taxes and interest, and less equipment to follow this plan. But it takes knowledge, fertilizer, good seed and thorough cultivation. Your farm goes down to China, why use but the top four inches? WOKTH WHILE WOIIK. For several mornings now we have passed an orchardist working among his trees. A real orchardist, whe handles houghs and branches as an epert horseman handles reins. A bit off that limb, to head it back; a water sprout cut off there; a bad crotch sawed out; every inch of the big tree with its problem, and each carefully solved. Those who love trees and who work with them are fortunate. Given a bright spring day, sharp tools and a patch of orchard of your j should ask more, 1 Year by year you grow your trees. You retard the headstrong; coax the backward, repair the maimed, give tonics to the sick, and a loafing spell to the too vigorous. Year by year you watch the trees through blossom time; through the summer mouths when the fruit slowly fo.ms; through the early autumn when the cheeks of the apple begin to flush, and the winter pears to robe themselves in russet and deep vermillion. , Until the harvest is in the bins, , the trees are mulched in their winter beds, and what was last year but a own to work over, no sane man i bit of tender limb has, under your J guiding care, done its work, borne its fruit, toughened, broadened, be i come something from the nothing ness of air and light. The true orchardist, who rears his trees to perfect bearing and keeps them there with sprays, and fertil izers, and thinning of fruit, and pruning and constant care, deserves well of the world; for his is expert and lovong service for the enjoy 'uetit of his fellows. But whether he profits in pocket or not he does in spirit. We never met a man who had lived the seasons through with fruit trees, that was not humane; content with his life's outlook, and averse to all disputation. BAILEY ASSAILS l)EM(K KATES. Joseph W. Bailey, former repre sentative and senator from Texas, nnd once leader of the Democratic party in the House of Representa ''iv?s, has excoriated the present ad ministration with a forcefulness which has caused consternation among his old colleagues. "For more than a century." he says, "the Democratic party has op posed the creation ot useless offices, but in the last six years Democratic Congresses have created more offi ces and more useless offices than 'vere ever created in the same length of time since the government was organized. For more than a century the Democratic party preached and practiced economy in all public expenditures, but, despis ing our traditions and teachings, a Democratic Congress, even before we engaged in the European war, had spent more money than anv Congress which had ever assembled in the history of the republic. Our fathers were wise enough to know that extravagance breeds corruption, that an extravagant government can no more escape becoming a corrupt government than a spendthrift can escape becoming a bankrupt, and our children will learn this truth in bitter experience." Huys llliea Creek Farm. N. P. Lawson of this city closed a deal with Glenn Boyer the past week for the Ed Day farm on Kliea creek a short distance from Jordan siding. Mr. Boyer has been in possession ot this place for the past two years and it is considered one of the liest places on the creek, being ideally located and welt improved. Mr. Lawson will move on the place at once. 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