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TTOME ANT) FARM MAGAZINE SFCTTON’
♦
A. S. Benson telle of C anadian
m arts fe<l by best of main high
€> ways. He advocates perm anency
of construction and explains the
♦ progress and expenditures of
<» ( 'larko C ounty and K ing County,
*> W ashington.
larg er portion of th e people in the city
figuro th a t tho road problem does not
concern them , b u t it a ffe c ts every man,
woman and child, both in the city and
country.
Vso of tho Country Road.
y et who has turned down the idea a fte r
it was thoroughly explained to him.
People in all w alks of life would bene
f it by building good roads. Tho average
cost o f m acadam road is about $5,500
per mile. If there is heavy tra ffic on
it, it costs about $1,000 a mile for main
tenance. In ten years this m eans $15,-
000, and in the m eantim e you have not
had a good road. Wo ean get paved
roads for $100,000 a mile w ith a free
m aintenance for ten years. Does the
proposition look unreasonable! I am
not guess when I give these figures—
th ey are verified easily.
TH E STO RY OF
A STU DENT
No. 3.
lie next took a course in Shorthand
and T ypew riting, making m ost gratifying
progress- thanks to the personal attention
given each individual student by every on«
of our teachers.
Success in life is practically assured
every hard working, w illin g student.
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W hile tho city person may never ride
on tho country roads, he m ust not for
g et th a t nearly ev ery th in g he uses has
to bo hauled over some cou n try road.
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Although M ultnom ah C ounty does not
R tjC ' n has been w ritten lately and have very much farm in g land, it is a
fcsfj g reat in te re st taken in the e ffo rts very w ealthy county, about 40 per cent
B U S IN E S S COLLEGE
Portland, Oregon.
by press and public to s ta rt pub o f the w ealth o f the en tire S tate of
I. M Walker, President
lie m arkets. We need these m arkets, Oregon being in its borders.
a practical. profitable trade ia independent.
Write us. No trouble to answer.
and the sooner th e b etter, b u t th ere is
Then, too, th ere is a very rich fa rm W rite or call for reference«, takes only few
With yoor Diplnma you («4 ■ Go«4 Poutran
a phase in th e question of public m ar
m onths to learn P osition s guaranteed. Watch
ing country all around us. W ith the making, Engraving, Optical School.
k e ts often overlooked, namely th eir re
In te rsta te bridge built, ( larko County, 2 16 Commonwealth Bldg., 6th and A nkeny
lation to and in te r dependency on good
W ashington, will bo as close to P o rt
Portland, Oi -sgon.
roads. One is possible w ithout the other,
land as any of our Oregon counties.
b u t w ithout good public roads, m arkets
’’Schooling in youth should invariably be
Borne of ■ ur O regonians m ay not re a l
lose th e ir effici« ncy. P< rm anent roads
directed to prepare a person in the best way
iz e w hat th a t means, b u t C larke C ounty
for the best permanent occupation for which
in conjunction with public m arkets, in-
he is cap ab le’ ’—PresidentC. W Eliot.
has very rich farm ing lanos and it is
my opinion, will do more to solvo the
aw ay ahead of M ultnom ah C ounty on
This is the Mission of the
Every young man and woman in the North
problem of high cost of living in less
perm anent road
•onstruction.
They w est, who thinks of bu sin ess as a career,
tim e and w ith g reater efficiency than
havo about four tim es as much paved should send for our free booklet “ T he Step
a n y th in g else.
county roads as M ultnom ah C ounty and ping Stone to S u cc e ss.’ ’ Get the facts about
W hile in C anada last fall I saw the are building more as fa s t as possible.
Forly.sixth School Year Opens
tha
public m ark ets o f the Dominion in Mow th e n , w hat is th e an sw er! M ult
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P I J f l B E R i8 th , 1014
operation. T here the farin< rs drove as nomah County is w orth about 20 tim es
W rite for illustrated loopage Book
fa r as 25 mil« •: with th eir produce. One as mueh as C larke County. W ith one-
let, “ T he L ife C areer ," and for Cata
fa rm e r won I I cornu one day, bringing th ird of the population and tw o fifth s
log containing full information.
his n eig h b o r's produce as well as his o f th e w ealth of th e e n tire S ta te of
Degree Courses — A G R IC U L T U R E :
own, and sell his n eig h b o r's fo odstuffs Oregon, we should lead th e way.
Agronomy, Animal Husbandry, Dairy Hus
fo r him, and on the following day the
bandry, Poultry Husbandry, Horticulture.
Autoists Interested.
neighbor wo ¡1«! t ike his turn. M arkets
The most modern methods of instruction Agriculture for Teachers. FORESTRY,
Borne
people
will
say,
“
I
w
ant
good
w ere held th ree days a week, in them
roads so th a t I can ride around in my and the best teachers obtainable, both in L ogging E ngineering . H ome E co
th e consum er could purchase tho best
nomics : Domestic Science, Domestic Art,
autom obile.” I am fo rtu n a te enough to a b ility and experience.
ENGINEERING:
Electrical, Irrigation,
of produce and tho freshest a t rem ark
E
fficien
cy
—
the
watchword
in
modern
busi
Highway, Mechanical, Chemical, Mining.
oblv cheap | rices. B ut d o n ’t overlook own an autom obile and riding around
the watchw ord in th is school. Rapid Ceramics. C O M M E R C E . PHARMACY.
in it is w hat firs t sta rte d me th in k in g
one fa c t they have good roads.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS.
ab o u t roads; and th e more I look into progress combined w ith thoroughness. In
M arkets N eed B etter Roads.
it tho more im pressed I am w ith the nu tsh ell— our courses are as short as any
Vocational Co«n«-Agriculture, Dairy
I believe th at th e m arkets are not g re a t b enefit good roads will be to good courses can be-—and com pleting a course ing. Home Masers’ Course, Industrial
gr.ing to bi' th e b en efit th a t some peo everyone.
guarantees gettin g a position. W rite today Arts, Forestry, Business Short Course.
pH expect until we get b e tte r roads,
to C. E. CARLTON, Principal.
School o f Music—Piano, String, Band,
M
ultnom
ah
C
ounty
has
ab
o
u
t
500
roads th a t can be dep< ruled - n, th a t car»
Voice Culture.
CENTRAL B U ILD IN G
miles
of
county
road.
W
ith
a
2-mill
b r used every day in the y ear with
Portland
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Oregon
F irm e r 1 Busmesj Course by M i l l Free.
oasv g ru b
so th at the farm er can levy fo r road purposes fo r four or five
Address THK REGISTRAR,
years,
every
one
of
its
county
roads
haul large loads. Then he will be able
rtw-I-16 to 9-0)
Corvallis. (lreron
could
be
paved.
W
ith
an
eig
h
t
or
ten
to haul much more cheaply. The money
y
e
a
r
m
aintenance
th
a
t
would
mean
a
which now goes into a nttid tax would
be save«!. I have been inform ed th a t v ery light road tax a fte r th a t. J u s t
tlio mini tax in the U nited S ta te s each thin k of it. In th e la st ten y ears M u lt
y e a r is larger th an the tax es th a t we nomah C ounty hs spent $2,000,000 on
M A U D S L DECKER, A. M.
T h irty N inth Year
pay for all our form s of governm ent roads, w ith no p erm anent roads y et.
Principal.
W
ith
th
a
t
same
am
ount
we
could
now
New Buildings—New Equipment
combined.
pave all our county roads, over which
Additions to Faculty
404 Comm onwealth Ruilding,
\ ou must rem em oer th a t the fa rm p ractically ev ery th in g we use could be
Liberal A rts
Journalism
P ortland, Oregon.
ers who are going to b ring produco to hauled much more cheaply th a n now.
and Sciences Law
th e public m arket cannot bring it ou
These roads can all be m ade p erm a
Commerce
A rchitecture
Tf you could only realize how
railro ad train s, steam boats or electric nent w ithout h u rtin g anyone. A 2 mill
and Finance T eaching
cars, but must haul it with th eir own levy m eans $2 on each $1,000 of a s I V P O II T -1 V T it is to have
Medicine
G raduate School
vehicles, w hether team or auto truck. sessed v alu atio n , or a 2 mill levy each PERSONAL and P R IV A T E in
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W hen the
ad problem is b e tte r under y e a r fo r five y ears would mean $10 on structions, I am sure you would
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stood by Hi«' people at large everybody eaeh $1000 of assessed v aluation. Can come to the only place SUCH in
Eugene, Oregon.
will be “ h o w lin g ” for good roads. The anyone say he will not b en efit th a t struction can be had in Portland.
The Man Who K now s
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OLLEGE
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in U s e d C a rs
“ A n»-.l car bought from tho
W inton Company is worth 30
prr rout m iro than its duplicate
anyw here r ise ." We hear thia
atalem ent every day. The rea-
son is plain when it is rem em
bered th st no traded in car ia
offered here for sale until it has
been thoroughly overhauled in
our own »hops by W inton ex
perts and brought up to tlia
W inton standard of autom obile
excellence.
I f you can appreciate what
th is enhanced value means you
w ill send NOW for our com
plete list o f high grade “ used”
rar bargains.
It goes w ithout saying that a
re built car o f high grade manu
facture which has been operated
only 10 per cent o f its real m ile
age. to s t can he purchased st SO
per cent o f the original pri e
w ill prove far more satisfactory
and much less expensive than
a cheap car bought new.
V ery little money w ill NOW
buy one e f th ese rebuilt ear»
that w ill g iv e the heat aatisfae-
tton in both serv ice and appear
ance Send today for our latest
com plete bargain lis t
- THE —
W INTON MOTOR CAR CO.
Portland. Oregon
Spokane W ash
Seattle. Wash.
much in proportion to w h atev er is his
assessed v a lu a tio n !
W ashington Leads.
The S ta te o f W’ashington is a t least
y ears ahead o f Oregon on th e road
problem. W hile tax es are h igher in
B eattie th an P o rtlan d , Samuel H ill tells
me one ean live more cheaply th ere
th an in P o rtlan d , owing to its paved
county roads and public m arkets. Do
we w an t to lag along behind S e a ttle !
Look a t Los Angeles. W i‘h a popu
lation o f over 500,000. Ju s t a few years
Iago it was no larg er th an P o rtlan d
Good roads are w hat b u ilt it up. Los
Angeles has a good w in ter clim ate, b u t
it never am ounted to an y th in g as a
d raw in g card till th ey bu ilt good roads.
'T he S ta te o f C alifo rn ia and its counties
jure th is y ear spending $40,000,000 on
roads. K in g C ounty, W ashington, is
spending $5,500,000 th is y ear on roads.
Are we to lag behind everybody else!
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If Yor. Enroll Before September 1st.
BEMlNGTOi TYPEWRITER COMPANY.
86 B ioadw ay. P ortland. Ore.
IVe cun Sane imu Money
Reduced rite» on Household Gunda. Plano.
A utom obile, eio
Thrr-ngh consolidated cars
deltrery
nod
Rober M a c h in e ry Co.
care/u,
haudliug.
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K W
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Vibrators and Boad
Smoothers;
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Victor Boat.
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RHETORIC, ORATORY AND DRAMATIC ART
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An Important Problem.
I believe the road question is the
most im p o rtan t problem b efo re th e
A m erican people to d ay ; more im portant
th an ta r iff , currency or an y th in g else.
Good, high class roads will do more to
w ard reg u latin g ra te s on railroads than
the R ailroad Commission ean ever hope
to accom plish, and th is will not h u rt the
Irilroads. either, because these county
roads will be th e m eans o f developing
I th e ru ral d is tric ts and consequently
m ake mere business. I am sure th e ra il
roads would fa r ra th e r have th e county
i roads to reg u late th e ir rates th an to
have th e R ailroad C om m ission's regula
tion, w ith th eir im practical ideas.
D id you ever stop to th in k th a t about
ISO per cent o f th e money spent for
I roads goes for lab o r T hus we build
'ro ad s and keep the money, also. T hat
n, if we build good, perm anent roads
.th a t will last, we nave th e roads and
¡t h e money also. 1 have never m et a man
$5 for ihr>e m ouths. Remington No. 0 or
No 7; Smith Premier. No 2 or No. 4; risib le
Remington. Monarch. Smith Premier, $3 per
month deliver«» suyw here Rebuilt m achines
sold on easy pn /m en ts
COMING WEST
prompt
•a
T Y P E W R IT E R S
RENT a T ypew riter from the m anufacturers,
GOING EAST or
insuring
University of Oregon
CONTINUOUS FORENOON C L A 8SE 8
IN D IV ID U A L WORK AFTERNOON AND EV ENINGS
A P U B L IC CLASS EVERY MONDAY EVENING
r
Fall Term Opens October 13, 1914
Individual Work Basins September 9
EMMA WILSON GILLESPIE, Principal.
534 Morrison Street.
Phones Main 6034. A 4*72.
'OLMES
1887
TO
1914
L*
27th
YEAR
Portland, Oregon.
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