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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (May 23, 1919)
HIIU. Mt Mil, mm. THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON GIVE IT YOUR SUPPORT The people of Oregon will have an opportunity to make an investment on June third that will pay a bigger return than any reasonable person could hope for or expect. They are asked to authorize the issuance of $2,500,000 in bonds, the proceeds of which will be used in the construction of what will be known as the Roosevelt Highway along the Coast line of this state from Astoria to the California line. The proceeds from the bonds will be used only if the United States government will appropriate a like amount for this same highway. This will be a return of 100 per cent to the state on its investment. The voters of Klamath county will be asked to vote fav orably on this question, and The Herald hopes that there will not be a single vote cast against it. For we of Eastern Oregon can fully sympathize with our fellow citizens in the extreme western part of this state. Like ourselves, they have been one of the lost tribes of Oregon. Separated from the central and more populous part of the state by natural barriers as we have been, they were almost forgot ten by their more fortunate neighbors, until now, when.the great changes that are taking place have forced attention in their direction, and they have hopes of becoming an ac tive part of what is going to be the greatest state on the Coast. Like a sleeping giant, Oregon is at last awakening, and we believe the beginning of the great era of develop ment is at hand. In this program of upbuilding Klamath County must be found leading the procession. To do so, one of its first acts must be united support of the Roosevelt Highway. Build the Roosevelt Highwway and open to the world God's Paradise. Make accessible to the homeseeker and homebuilder real homestead possibilities. Make it possi ble for Oregon to say to the soldier, the sailor, the honest working man who is planning for the future, to the young man who wants to return to the soil, to the renting farmer who yearns to have a place of his own : "Come to Oregon ! Come to our Coast counties, where you will find that for which you are looking, where forty acres will give to you the home, the living the life you seek ! Come where God in his omnipotent power has created a paradise that daily, by its beauty and splendor, glorifies Him, that welcomes you and will satisfy the yearning that has lead you on and on in a fruitless quest!" The Roosevelt Highway will make it possible for you to view scenic wonders that you have never dreamed of. It will make that section of the state the Mecca of tourists from all parts of the globe. It will open up the most pro ductive agricultural part of Oregon. It will place on the tax rolls increased values sufficient to retire these bonds many times over, so that property owners from other parts of the state will never have to pay one cent towards the interest and retirement of these bonds. Further, this increase in values will be sufficient to not only retire these bonds but will materially contribute towards the retire ment of other bonds that have been or may be issued. Looking at it from a purely cold-blooded, selfish, business point of view, the construction of this highway will help us as much as it will the counties thru which it passes and will be as great a benefit to the state as a whole as a thru trunk railroad. 1 Another reason for the construction of this highway is its answer to the demand for farms for the soldiers. Either we are ingrates or patriotic citizens who want to show our appreciation and gratitude for that which the soldiers have done for us. Here we have a chance, at absolutely no cost to us, of opening up an empire filled with farming lands, where forty acres will enable a man to live in luxury and where thousands of the men who have lost their health for us will have an opportunity to regain it. God never created a man or a woman who would vote against such a proposi tion, for no evil thing ever came from His hands. Another reason why we of Klamath County should vote for the Roosevelt Highway is the fact that the people of the Coast counties will vote to authorize the State to guar antee irrigation bonds. This authorization entails no cost to the taxpayer. It only creates confidence in the security offered, which is always greater than the liability. It will enable Eastern Oregon to go to the bond buyers and say: "Our State has investigated our propositiqn ; it knows it is a feasible one ; it guarantees our bonds." Back of those bonds will be the millions of actes of land that will be made productive through irrigation, and just as the lands of the state pay off the Reclamation Service costs, so will the lands reclaimed under these bonds pay them off, and be free from the curse of governmental sup ervision, wastefulness, incompetency and mistakes. When you support the Roosevelt Highway you are help ing yourself; and a man must possess a peculiar twist of mind if he refuses to help himself, especially when it costs him nothing. These are some of the reasons why The Herald believes every voter in Klamath County should VOTE 310 YES PAOK TIIIl KB ft t it '