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.
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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. The votes are
counted each Wednesday and are placed
in the show window of tne store each
Friday. 1 he names of the many misses
whe are participating are not being
made pubilc, each one being assigned a
number.
On Wednesdays special voting privi
leges are given when one purchases
certain articles. The contest will
probably be very close and will cause
a widespread campaign for the leading
candidates.
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