THE fiAZKITE-TPIFS. HETPNEK. OREGON, THTB9DAY, PRIL 10, 191
P.(.K SIX
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i Bv S. M. WILLIAMS. President, Highway Industries AssocLitLm.
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dairies a;
industries of the
?.-e that it is thtivj
Iter th:in a selfish
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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
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our highways should no longer be
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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.
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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
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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. The con
sideration mentioned in the deal was
f 18,000.
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