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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 30, 1913)
HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1913 TO THE LOYAL MEN AND WOMEN OF HOOD RIVER COUNTY We don't believe you want to cast your ballot to unjustly discredit your fellow citizens or your community. In the heat of a controversy such as is now in progress over the recall election, personal prejudice, misrepresentation and rumor are allowed to take the place of facts and to err judgment. Mole hills are magnified into mountains and be fore calm judgment arrives grave injustice can be done individuals and great harm re sult to the community at large. Therefor before you vote to remove from office on triv ial charges those whom you have regularly elected to positions of honor and trust, think well and think long. Above all think for the general welfare and away from a move ment designed to engender hatred, disrupt the community and accomplish nothing in the way of public good. With this in mind we call your attention to the charges brought against the county court, which we find unfair, unsustained and untrue. We find that the charge of financial mismanagement is untrue because the present county court has freed the county of debt. We find that charges of extravagant expenditure of road funds is untrue because only $28,000 has been spent this year on the 240 miles of highways in the county includ ing labor, material, bridges and surveys and that the roads of the county are in a better condition generally than at any time in its history. Also, that the road oiling was done economically and thoroughly. We find that the charge that the Winan's bridge is unsafe, is unsustained be cause practical bridge men have declared it not only safe but an economical investment to the county. The charge of unitemized accounts, etc., we consider too trivial to be made any part of a basis for a recall election. In order to correct some the erroneous ideas that are being circulated we publish below some individual statements. SAYS WINAN'S BRIDGE IS SAFE AND GOOD INVESTMENT To the People of Hood River County: I want to say a few words about the Winan's bridge in connection with the recall election. I am not a politician, neither have I any axes to grind with the county court, but it doesn't seem possible that in a county in which there are so many smart and pre sumably fairminded men that they would attempt to put the county court out of office on any such charge as a defect in a cheap bridge. Now, as a matter of fact, as I am build ing a saw mill above this bridge and will haul heavier loads over it than any one else I have inspected it carefully and believe it to be absolutely safe. If anyone can show me where this bridge isn't safe I will fix it for the county free of charge. I have one piece of machinery to haul over it weighing five and a half tons and it is therefore up to me to know and I feel perfectly safe in taking it across this structure. I have inspected and hauled as heavy loads over bridges in Hood River County for the last thirty years as any man in it and feel therefore, that I know what I am talking about. The Winans bridge is a good, stout, well built structure made of heavy round fir free of defects and if the contractors who built it want to build any more at the price, which I understand was $1,780, 1 would like to hire them to build a bridge for me that I have got to put across the Hood River below the forks. As to the pier which there is so much fuss about, if it , was knocked out entirely the bridge would still be safe. Looking at it another way if a very small part of the money that it will cost the county to hold this recall election was spent in making what repairs some think necessary the county would be ahead hundreds of dollars. To discredit and put out of office our county court on a flimsey pretext of this kind would be a disgrace to the county and the people that live in it. Yours truly, FRANK DAVENPORT, Sr. MARSHALL NOT NOW EMPLOYED BY COUNTY COURT The statement by the promoters of Ihe recall that C. K. Marshall, formerly road master of Hood River County, is still in the employ of the present county court is abso lutely untrue. The statement also being used as campaign material that if we are re elected that he will be re-employed the first of the year is without foundation. We wish to say further, however, that at the time we were asked to summarily dis miss Mr. Marshall we did not believe we would be doing justice to the county at large, ourselves or Mr. Marshall, to ask for his resignation while he was still responsible for un completed road work. G. R. CASTNER, County Judge. G. A. McCURDY, J. R. PUTNAM, Commissioners. j& j& COUNTY OUT OF DEBT j& The folloming statement of the County's finances just issued by County Treas urer Bishop refutes the charges of mismanagement being circulated by the promoters of the recall and shows that the present county court has freed the county of debt. The statement which covers the past two years is as follows: November 1, 1911, there was a balance in the general fund of $4,286.85,' and a de ficit in the road fund of $1,134.10. On November 1, 1912, the balance in the general fund was $19,285.50. Of this amount there was paid to the state 117,715, leaving a balance of $1,570.50. The deficit in the road fund Nov. 1, 1912, was .$3,496.72. On October 23, 1913, there was a balance in the general fund of $13,576.03. Of this amount $6,375.25 is due the state, leaving a balance in this fund of $7,200.75, and a balance instead of a deficit in the road fund of $9,630.03, making a lotal surplus in the county treasury of $16,830.78. Therefore, for the first time in its history, the county is out of debt. BROKE BRIDGE PIER WITH ROCKS, THEN TOOK PICTURES Anton Flint, Road Supervisor in the Dee District, in which the Winans bridge is located, and who visited the structure shortly after the pictures now being used to dis credit it were taken, says: "I don't want to mix in this discussion except for what I believe is right. The facts are that after these pictures were taken I found that some one had taken a num ber of hard pebbles weighing four or five pounds, to be found near the bridge, and used them to hammer off the corners of the bridge pier. Also that the natural earth and root foundation near the pier had been dug away and left scattered around on the ground. These pebbles were big and hard enough to hammer off the corners of any kind of con crete structure ever made. Whoever did it, willfully destroyed the county property." Will you vote to put out of office, through misrepresentation, men whose records are clean T We believe you will not. -TAXPAYERS' ASSOCIATION COMMITTEE. Exterminatin The Barde and Levitt BANKRUPT STO GK I Ml It's An ill Wind That Doesn't Blow Somebody Some Good This is the greatest sale, from point of values in the history of the State. A bargain barbecue with out pier or parallel. Cleaning shelves and counters at any sacrificed, this is the order of The Federal Creditors Co., and what must and will be accom plished. We are cutting, slashing and annihilating prices. Let the loss be what it may, cold type never be fore told a story of such wanton sacrifice, and such new, clean merchandise as this, and for the Benefit of the busy public, we of fer to keep this store open evenings until 9 P. M. In order to justify yourself come and see the bargains we offer. The Federal Creditors Co. OaK Street, between 1st and 2nd Sts. flood River, - - Oreg'oii AS OTHERS SEE THE ROAD PROBLEM (From the Oregon City Enterprise) Hood River is added to the list of those cities that has awakened to the necessity for better roads. It has suf fered long with chuck holes and mud puddles. For years it has paid the an nual tax of transportation through mud and slush and has seen the loss that piles up on the farmer and lessens his profit for his goods. mow, it nas star lea a Doom ior Bet ter highways through the county and has undertaken to contribute toward the construction of the roadway along the Columbia river. Such a move is in accord with the progressive spirits of the time. "Because our fathers didn't have them" is no longer any reason why we should not have better roads. Because our fathers happened to come across the plains in ox carts is nu reason why we shouldn't ride on the most luxurious sleepers that the trans continental trains possess. Just because the hrst settlers of the city did not have sidewalks is no valid reason why we should not have them. Because the first doctors knew little about surgery and modern methods of practice is not a valid excuse why we should turn down the advancements of science and the advantages now offered to use by the progress of medicine. So many things have been the stum bling block in the way of progress that we haven't had good roads before. So many of us have figured that be cause we never have had those things before, we never can have them. New ideas, new tchemes, anything that shows originality and progress seem to be particularly offensive to some peo ple. They can't get used to a new scheme just because they never heard of that scheme before. They can't un derstand anything that hasn't been worn in the rut of antiquity nor handed down from generations of the fathers. Such an idea is a stone at tne en trance to the way of progress. It stands in the way of everything that is planned lor public betterment. it keeps the town, the city, the country in tne same'old rut year after year and decade after decade, just because some of the citizens are of the fossil variety that won't stand for anything in the way of progressive ideas. Hood River is having that trouble in the campaign for better highways. Jackson county has had that experience in its fight for a $500,000 bond issue for better roads. Every county of the state has the same old trouble. That species seems to be a common garden variety. But thanks to the spirit of education that is now prevailing in the country and state, the people are awakening to the necessity for better highways and have seen the tremendous cost that is annually taxed against the farmer for the mud holes ana chuck holes that he now has to meet The annual tax that the farmer pays to the county may be so high that he believes the board of commissioners are robbing him He immediately comes before that board and tells it flatly that it is confiscating his property, that he is charged with taxes that he cannot bear and that there is no chance for the farmer in the west at all. All of these things have been heard by the county boards of equalization year after year in every one of the counties of the state. But the same f aimer will lie supine ly on his back and rest content with the roads that nature gave him and that have scarcely been touched by the hand of man since the time that the first pioneer ox carta mado their way across the county. In some parts of the country today the original Oregon trail stands just as it was when the teams and ox carts made their way across the plains in the early days. Not a bit of improvement nas ever ueen maue upon it, not a stone marks that greatest ol all national highways. But today, all over the country we hear of the campaigns for better roads. The people have seen the light. They have now begun to understand the mud tax that is assessed against them every year -not by county courts and state tax boardsbut by the sink, mud hole. and rut in the highway that added to the cost, cuts down the profits, multi plies the load, and decreases the weight that can be carried to market. Never will the farms of the west re ceive their greatest prosperity and the fullest measure of good times that the hand of nature has given them until the people fully awake to the necessity for better roads and then build them. Mrs. Beaumont Again Heads Organization Portland, Ore., October 24. 1913. To the Editor: On Wednesday, Oct. 22, a meeting was held of members of the Multnomah and Willamette Chap ters, Daughters of the American Revo lution, at the home of the state regent, Mrs. John r . Beaumont. 481 E. both street, north, Portland, to organize "The Oregon Mate Conference, Daugh ters of the American Revolution." The by-laws were presented by a committee, voted upon and accepted, the annual meetings to be held in March. A nominating committee sub mitted the following state officers, and all were unanimously elected: State Regent Mrs. John F. Beau mont. Vice Regent Mrs. James N. Davis. Kec. Sec-Mrs. William D. Scott. Cor. Sec Mrs. R. S. Stearns. Treas. Miss Eleanor E. Gile. Chaplain Miss Martha Little. HiBtoiian-Mrs. W. C. Witzel. Auditor Mrs. E. U. Titus. Assisting Registrar Mrs. W. E. Newsome. Retiring State Regent Mrs. Wallace McCamant. The executive board consists of the state officers, chairman of state com mittees, the regent of each chapter or her representative, and a vice oresi- dent general, when a resident of Ore gon. Before the March meeting, the state regent expects to organize chapters in Albany and Eugene. May Hood River have a chapter, in the near future. Carrie R. Beaumont, State Regent of Oregon. OLD LETTER GIVES nr. ADAMS DATA A Marvelous Fscape "My little boy had a marvelous es cape," writes P. F. Bastiams, of Prince Albert, Cape of Good Hope. "It oc curred in the middle of the night. He got a very severe attack of croup. As luck would have it, I bad a large bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy in the house. Aftor following directions for an hour and twenty minutes he was through all danger. ' cold by all dealers. Job printing at the Glacier office. E. L. Smith, in going over a number of old papers last week, discovered a letter received by him almost a half century ago from Prof. Edgar McClure, of the University of Oregon, and con taining measurements of the topogra phy of the Mount Adams region, which will be of interest to the people of the Mad-Colubmia district. Prof. McClure Inter lost his life while climbing Mount Rainier. The letter is given in full below: "Eugene, Ore, July SO, 1895. "Hon E. L. Smith, Hood River, Ore. "Dear Sir: Agreeable to a promise made to you at Trout Lake early in the present month, I send you my figures on the elevation of Mount Adams. "I have made nine estimates by each of two methods first by a translation of 1'lantamour'a tables and second by Guyot's tables. I used as a base Port land, Seattle and Eugene separately. "The elevations averaged given by Plantamour's tables 12,446.6 feet as the height of the summit of Mount Adams above sea level- by Guyot's tables, ; 12,401.9 feet above sea level. A mean of these two is 12424.2, which is certainly very close to the true fig ure. "Elevation of camp at Trout Lake, 1854 feet; elevation at camp foot of mountain, 6714.2 feet. The figures given by the hydrographic office at Portland are 11,906. This, I believe, is due to the fact that it is difficult to determine the true summit from the base of the mountain where triangula tion is done. Very truly yours, Edgar McClure." PIANO CONTEST CREATES INTEREST A great interest is being created by the Bragg Mercantile Co. in the con test they are conducting for their patrons, as prizes to the winners of which they will give away a $400 Clax ton piano and innumerable other hand some presents, including two handsome articles of silverware. One vote is given for each cent's worth of purchase. 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