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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (April 26, 1917)
HOOD jtlVflft GLACIER. tHUllSDAV,- APWL 26, 191? DOIi'T FORGET THE GOOD JADS RALLY ANOTHER AHTI-BOIID ISSUEJXPLODED Opponents J Maliciously Allege That Only a Few Counties DC j Governor and Highway Com missioners Included in List of Speakers. Wiil Benefit 7 To OaMerj o Ford Cars: The Ford Motor Company,- of Detroit, appointed us" authorized agents for Ford cars in this territory, to properly represent Ford inter ests, to give service 1o Ford owners. The Company in return demands that we equip and maintain an adequate service station, employing com petent Ford mechanics, using only genuine Ford-made materials and charging regular Ford prices. This is the service we are giving to Ford owners. Material work manship prices, the standard of each guaranteed. When your Ford car needs attention, bring it to us, and get the benefit of expert Ford mechanics. We give you the assurance of genu ine Ford service, wit 1 genuine Ford made parts. Ford Cars-Runabout $345; Touring Car $360; Coupelet $505; Town Car $595; Sedan $645, all f. o. b. Detroit Gilbert & DeWitt Incorporated From Portland, Ore. to Portland, Me. Sales of the ROYAL Typewriters in the past year have increased with amazing rapidity. The ROYAL has K'come the standard machine for such big- corporations as the Pennsyl vania Railway System, Metropolitan newspaper offices and the business offices of our own Uncle Sam. The ROYAL has the lightest touch is the easiest running andisthemost durable of all typewriters. When the ROYAL arrives, the repair man departs. There's a Reason. We will tell you why. The ROYAL is made in two models No. 10, The Master Model for office work, and No. 5, a machine that is a little smaller but just the thing for the rancher. The ROYAL makes letter writing a pleasure, and it is a pleasure for your correspondent to get a letter typed as only ROYAL can. The Glacier has taken the Hood River County agency and will take pleasure in showing you the simplest and most durable typewriter made if you will just call at the office. Holstein Cows for Sale Thirty Holstein Cows and Heifers, heavy milkers, fresh and coming fresh; also Registered Bull. Finest herd in this section. Cash or terms. E. V.D.PAUL, Trout Lake, Washington. A DOLLAR'S WORTH FOR A DOLLAR SPENT Assurance Is Given That All Funds Will Be Economi cally Expended. In tb election of Highway Engineer at an annual salary of $3600, the State Highway Commission threw another bombshell into the camp of those opposing the road bond bill. Opponents of this measure had been predicting that a 15000 or $6000 man would be given this job. The action of the Commissioners In this import ant matter only corroborates the as surance previously given that they will safely and economically expend all funds entrusted to them. It is entire ly in keeping with the announced policy of the Commission that it will give a dollar's worth of value for every dollar expended in all matters connected with road construction. Mr. Nunn, the Highway Engineer, was se lected because of bis efficiency. He has had years of experience in road building and the records of his work show the most satisfactory results at a low cost to those footing the bills. Governor Wlthycombe and Highway Commissioners Benson, Thompson, and Adams are included in the list ot speakers for the Statewide Good Roads Rally to be held in Portland, Saturday, April 28th. The committee in charge of the gathering also plans to have fiva-mlnute talks by a num ber of Mayors from various Oregon cities. Representation at the meeting will be unlimited. Every club and organiza tion throughout the state that is in terested In good roads and is favor able to the road bond bill has been Invited to send as many representa tives as flud It possible to attend the rally. The railroads have granted a special rate of one and one third fare for the round trip, based on the certificate plan, for those attending tbe meeting. Reports from throughout the state in dicate that the attendance will be large. IS MR. SPENCE CONSISTENT? Pour years ago C. E. Spence, Master of the Grange, advocated the Grange bill which proposed the Issuance ot 6 per cent bonds by counties for con struction of permanent roads, the bonds to be paid by direct tax levy. Mr. Spence is now vigorously op posing the road bond bill which pro poses isulxg 18,000,000 twenty-five-year 4 per cent bonds for hard-surfaced roads. A direct tax is not Imposed tor the retirement of these bonds. Ample revenue to pay the Interest and retire the bonds at maturity is already pro Tided by law from the Increased auto mobile licenses and the existing one fourth mill state road tax which has been a fixed tax against all property In the state for the last four years. In other words, the bill to be passed npon by the voters at the June elec tion will not Increase tbe general taxes of the individual. If Mr. Spence was right in 1911 be la wrong now. MILITARY PREPAREDNESS Moving of heavy gun carriages, and leavy loads of ammunitions and army supplies, necessitates better roads than at present are available in Oregon. If bur state is exposed to attack, th rallread facilities are not .as well adapted to carrying heavy guns as are improved highways, and it Is up to Oregon to get Its through trunk roads la shape to facilitate the move ment of supplies. Should the railroad centers become too congested, owing to war burdens, r should they fall Into the hands ot aa enemy, the through roads would be the only means ot communication left te get supplies from place to place la the Interior. Farmers would of necessity depend npon the through roads for marketing their crops. Every resident of Oregon will see the neces sities ot the situation once this is called to his attention and will see the bearing this haa oa the road ques tion to be voted upon June 4th. The Dalles Chronicle. Butterwrsppers at Glacier office. GOOD ROAD POINTERS County money now spent on trunk lines will be used on laterals and other less traveled roads if the good roads bond issue Is voted by the people at the June election. Clackamas County, the home of C. E. Spence, Grange Leader, who is op posing the road bond bill, Is reported to have spent 13,000,001) on roads In the last ten years and has three or four miles of Improved roads to show for it. . Vote for the roads bonds June 4th. It Is good business. n In 1910 the people of California vot ed bonds to the amount of $18,000, 000 for good roads by a small majority. Last Fall by a 4 to 1 vote they approv ed a further bond issue of $15,000, 000 for the same purpose. Callfornlana know a good investment when they see it. ' "Stop renting your roads buy them." "Paying as we grow Is better than paying as we go" was one of tbe point ed remarks of Highway Commission er Adams when he recently addressed a meeting of Portland Realty men. People won't go back to the -farm until they have roada to get there. Assist the "Back to the Farm" move ment by voting for the road bond bill at the June election. -.- Place the burden of building the roads on those who wear them out the automobiles. Tbe state license on automobiles has been doubled and the owners of these machines are willing to pay the increased fee. All they ask is that the money so raised shall be expended in construction of good roads. Vote for the road bond bill and assist to bring that about. Auto license fees alone will pay all the costs principal and interest ot the $6,000,000 road bond bill and leave a substantial balance for other roads. And all this without an additional cent of taxation for the farmer. Every automobile owner in the state should vote for the $6,000,000 road bond bill. His license tax was doubled by the last legislature and he will have to pay the Increased fee anyway. If the road bonds are voted at the special election in. June, the money derived therefrom is to be expended In the construction of a system of state-wide hard-surfaced roads. Will the people from the interior be benefitted, inquires J. F. Hutcha son, of Douglas County, In a communi cation to the Roseburg News. There Is no question about that, he replies In answering his own question. Tbe bonds mean better roads for every section ot the county and better roads mean many things. The farm or ranch can be sold for more money if one wishes to sell. Marketing Is facilitated and the cost Is lessened. The sooner we get permanent roads the sooner will taxes grow less. Good roads cost less to maintain. If we dump our money each year into a few mud holes and keep it up from year to year we have benefitted no one, not even tbe men who fill the mud holes, for they have to pay part of the taxes, too. "To our way of thinking," says the Hlllsboro Independent, "perhaps the chief argument in favor of the road bonds is that the cities and towns as well as an additional proportion of the total valuation will pay the largest share, and tbe burden will be shifted from the farmer's 26 per cent to the remaining 74. Not only that, but tbe complaint that the city automoblllet has worn out the roads ha did not pay tor is met and in the future he will travel the road that cost him more than was paid by the farm he passes and In addition the fat total of his automobile licenses, a proportion of which was returned to his own county, will now pay the Interest on the loan he made to build the roads." ?I 0-W. R. 4 N. Co. Time Table WEST BOUND No. II, Soo-Spokane-Portland 6 No. 19, Port. P. S. Exp., 8 No. 1, Portland Local 2 No. 17, Ore. A Wash. Limited 4 .00 a. tn. :54 a. ni. M p. m. :48 p. m. EAST BOUND No. 6, Salt Lake Express 1:10 a. tn. No. 2, Pendleton Local 10:30 . m. No. 18, Ore. & Wash. Ltd 12:10 p. m. No. 12, Spokane-Port. Pass.. 8:4(1 p. m. No. 4, Portland-Paget Pound 9:06 p. m. J. H. FREDRICY. Agent. No tresspassing and no hunting signs at this office. ' In an attempt to array different counties against the $6,000,000 road bond bill, opponents of the measure are maliciously alleging that few counties will be able to avail them selves of the bond measure for the reason that the cost of preparing roads for bard-surfacing under the terms of the bond bill will exceed the actual cost of hard-surfacing and, therefore, be greater than those coun ties can afford. Meeting this misrepresentation, the Bute Highway Commission at Its re cent meeting in Salem reiterated Its previously announced policy on this subject. All that will be required of the counties under this policy will be the preparation of grade ot the roads to be hard-surfaced. This means that a county will merely need to bring a road to grade and drain It before the state applies the hard surfacing. The rock base Is considered a part of the hard-surfacing and will be built by the state, assures the Highway Commission. POLK COUNTY IS FOR GOOD ROADS "The people of my county are Just about ready to adopt the good roads slogan of the Clatsop County enthusi asts 'Make It Unanimous' so far as the $6,000,000 road bond bill Is con cerned," reports C. L. Hawley, a farm er and stockgrower of McCoy, Polk County. "Of course, the voters of my home county are not a unit for the measure, but I find very little opposi tion to it. "I think I am safe in saying that un der the present system of road con struction in this state and considering the amount of money we have expend ed on them, the roads of Polk County compare favorably with those ot any other county in the state. But we are not satisfied. We want more and bet ter roads and believe the proposed bond measure offers a practical plan for inaugurating an era of permanent road construction from which every section of the state will benefit with out Increasing direct taxes. "When It comes to a choice between being In mud up to our knees or be ing in debt up to our knees my people are willing to assume something of a financial obligation if it will insure getting us out of the mire." Harvey G. Starkweather, of Milwau kie, Clackamas County, for 23 years a member of the Grange and who as sisted in drafting the rural credits leg islation in this state, has the follow ing to say In approval of the pending $6,000,000 road bond bill: "I am not prepared to say whether this bill is as good as the one pro posed by the State Grange committee or not, but the question now up to tbe Oregon voter is upon the bond issue, and speaking from the standpoint' of a farmer and Granger since 1894 I feel that the state's interest will be best served by an affirmative vote on the measure next June, and I sincere ly hope when the whole question has been carefully studied that the Grang ers of the State, including the State Master, will be found on the side of progress, assisting to pull Oregon out of the mud. "A good road is a thing that will last forever, when properly kept in repair," remarks an exchange. "The next generation has no right to be enjoying an improvement that their fathers sweat to pay cash for. Tbe children of today can use the improv ed roads in going to school so why shouldn't they help pay for them. Un der a bonding system the cost is dis tributed over a long period of years and is more just than a pay-as-you-go system which means a heavy tax up on the farmers ot today if roads are really made good, or it means a con tinual tinkering with the roads and eventually getting no real Improvement." In an editorial indorsing the good roads bond bill, the Portland Journal said in part: Shall we go on wasting tax money in the tilling ot mud holes or shall we concentrate our expenditures on the most important roads and when they are made efficient pass on to the next in Importance and so on? Shall we continue to spend forty or fifty million dollars during the next ten years without system, as at pres ent, or shall we spend that amount In a business-like way on some definite plan? We can not get away ' from the fact that we must spend for good roads wether we have them or not. The state bonding act (good roads) does not mean that an indeptedness will be incurred. It means that the state will use its credit to build a hard surface road in different parts of the state which the. revenue from automobile licenses will pay for la years to come. It does not mean In creased taxation. It ought to meaa a reduction of taxes for has not the old system of filling up mud holes been an extravagant and useless expendi ture of the taxpayers' money. Silver ton Tribune. City Home for Sale at a Bargain I will sell my place on cor ner of Front and Sherman Sts. for $2,500, $1,000 down and balance on reasonable terms. An excellent home location for a business man. W. A. LOCKMAN, Address Hood River, Oregon, R. F. D. No. 2. a! 2 1 , .: ; w . - :: I . : - ' ' $ iif.-,. V' J ' - - ' "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," at the GEM, Sat. & Sun., Apr. 28-29 K I LI This EMiks Before it. Hills Your Profitf It's Aphis, and is destroying Apple profits every- t at 111 a where. Already regarded by many growers the most destructive apple insect. It weakens the trees and in. itira till fruit Yin ran mnfrcA Ankia Rrl Rim I nf Hopper and other soft-bodied, sap-sucking insects with If 1 1 1 lAphfs Manufactured by The Kentucky Tobacco Product Co., In corporatcd, Louisville, Ky. Can be used with Lime-Sul. phur. Arsenate of Lead, Bordeaux and other sprays as recommended. Ivlay be used separately, it desired, and at almost any time. Mixes perfectly with water. Costs about one cent per gallon diluted for the trees. Recommended by Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Station.. Guaranteed by us and its manufacturers. Free Spray Chart and Booklets showing- when and how to spray, and how to pro. tect trees, vines and vegetables irom insect pests. Hood River - (White Salmon) Apple Growers Ass'n. Fruit Growers Exchange. 'GOODJpVEAR fAVEf? T Sim?.- tv S ... y .u. ..--ii Motor With Arf Easy Mind The most important thing that I can do to ensure your complete satisfaction with your tires is to sell you a Goodyear Tire-Saver Kit. With the Kit in your tool box you are prepared for any thing that can happen to your tires short of complete ruin. You knon you will get back home in your own car. The Kit is a neat, compact canvas roll containing all first, aids-to-tires, such as tire putly, self-cure tube patches, inside protection patch, outside pro tection patch, cement, talc, friction tape, valve parts and pressure gauge. You know they are all there because they are all together. Get it next time you buy gasoline. I'll show you what it is to motor with an easy mind. E. A. FRANZ CO. Anderson Undertaking Co. C. 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