The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1911 Page: 4 of 8
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Kavorad by nature, Miwd by I'rorU
dance. uJmired by tlie world .-very-
body « friend and noliody a avowed en-
emy, endowed wi-b inarveloua physical
vi«or. animate l<y <>u<h enterprirt- ar. no
other nation baa ever h«wn. flattered
and toasted the earth over, we should
bo supremely happy, J$ut we ain't.
We fret and fum<- because a dynpep
tic. railroad president talks peisimihti-
—Ji ■ call v or the futur<- ,f be wac in
ul Hl.\spired or bad any l tter o| |« rtumtv of
| foreseeing thinga in advance of their
advent than the rent of the community 1
who make no pretence to being pre 1
•cient.
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•mnches in all the principal cities
THURSDAY. JANUARY 26. 1911.
UNCLE SAM'S MATERIAL WEALTH
Two hundred and ninety nine yearn
ago thifc month on the cold, bleak hboree
of Cape Cod Hay, Mat*., the intrepid
little band of passengers who reverent
ly diwuibarked there from the May-
flower two months before were battling
against the pangn of hunger and tor
mented by the menace of ultimat<
starvation.
Out of that name harbor for the last
three months half a hundred huge
shipn, weighed down with grain, have
gone forth to feed and nourish the
world.
There are now 92,000,000 of us where
there were but 103 in 1020. Out of the
virgin noil of the wilderness that once
stretched westward from Cape Cod to
the Pacific seaboard have sprung thin
year agricultural products worth $8,000,-
000 a record never before attained by
any single nation in the world in any
one year.
Our national wealth has grown from
$750,000,000 in 1791 to the prodigous
sum of $125,000,000,000 on January 1st
last—twice that of the United King-
dom of Great Uritian, Scotland and Ire-
land and threo timeH that of either
France or Germany, our three closest
competitors. Despite our enormous
growth in population we now have
per capita of $1,850 where wo had but
$183 in 1791. We are the world's great-
est manufacturers as its most extensive
and richest agriculturalists. We mine
more coal and extract more gold, silver,
oopper, and iron out of the ground than
any two countries in the universe. We
are prosperous beyond the most extrav-
agant picture ever painted in fancy by
fertile human imagination. Unable to
profitably employ all our own capital at
home, wo use our surplus millions to
or built two houses where there
[one before. Like the flea on tb<
the pessimist is inevitable. While his
persistent propensity of reminding us of
his presence may intermittently annoy
and harras, when all is said and done,
he cuts little ice. |J„w literally true
this is was never more forcibly or inter-
estingly emphasized than in the figures
of our national material pre-eminence
now available. He indeed must be a
<iueer American who in the contompla-
tion of the stupendous development of
his country and its epochal achieve-
ments does not feel a sense of patriotic
exaltion as he reads and studies the
significance of,the record of its growth
and transcending accomplishment*,
since that intrepid little band of pil-
grims braved the terrors of the sea to
plant their standard on our then inhos-
pitable shores.
the Intestate Commerce Comroiiwion:
W, ('. Brown, president of the New
\<-rk I entral; B. l\ Yoakum, chairman
of the executive oomiuitteeof the Frisco
'line,: Walter Pag.-, editor of the
Worl j' Work, and Alfred Nobs of the
American Society of Civil Engineers.
STRfcET AND ROAD WORK.
Throughout the Southwest there ir: a |
j disposition on the part of the people to
| impiove street-. ao<l roads. They are
I realizing more and more the economical I
value of such improvements. The da>
has dawned in which the country's
further development depends almost
entirely upon the building of roads;
throughout the rural districts and the
improvement of streets in our cities.
When roads are macadamized and
was : streets paved adjacent property values
dog [soar, says the Industrial Record.
There is one great retarding feature
of.this magnificent program, it seems.
Our city governments are prone to pave
some of the streets of our cities with
the very best of materials, while other i
streets, just a« thickly populated, are
given no attention whatever. It is the
same way with roads. Often ono or I
two roads are highly improved in a
countyjjwhile others are simply impass-
able. The result is that certain portions
of our cities and counties increase in
value while other sections remain at a
standstill. This practice has called
forth a great deal of criticism on the
I^rt of the people generally in both
LOSS ON FAULTY ROADS.
BAKING
POWDER
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Bales iire iti..«in« daily,
modern baking powder.
Have you tried it?
Calumet if highest
moderate in £
Reeeiyed Hi(he>l Award
World ,. Pure Food Ejipo«itiori.
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CHICAGO
Forty million dollars a year is the loss
that the American people sustain
through faulty and inadequate publi
road construction, according to L, W
Page, director of the Public Roads Divi-
sion of the Department of Agriculture
Mr. Page is also president of the
American Association for Highway Im-
provement, which was organized
Washington (D. C) recently. "There
has been too much laok of system
road construction,'' Bays Mr. Page, and
the efforts in behalf of the good roads
movement have been too scattered to
bring results. This annual loss of $40,-
000,000 is but a small part of our total
annual loss through bad roads. I
should say that the burden which bad
roads impose upon us annually in the
waytof excessive cost of transportation
reaches the impressive total of $200,000,-
000 or $1,000,000,000 every four years.
"The American Association of High-
way Improvement has been organizt d
for the purpose of lifting this great
burden through a Nation wide effort.
Uur plana comternplate the following
line of action:
"To correlate and harmonize the
efforts of all existing organizations
working fur road improvement.
"To arouse and stimulate sentiment
for road improvement.
"To strive for wise, equitable and
uniform road legislation in every State.
"To aid in bringing about efficient
road administration in the States and
their subdivisions, involving the intro-
duction of skilled supervision and the
elimination of politics from the man-
agement of the public roads.
"To seek continuous and systematic
maintenance of all roads, the classifica-
tion of all roads according to traffic re-
uirements, payment of road taxes in
cash and the adoption of the principle
of State aid and State supervision.
"To adopt the correlation of all road
construction so that the important roads
of each county shall connect with those
of the adjoining counties, and the im-
portant roads of each State shall con-
nect with those of adjoining States,"
The American Association for High-
city and county and has been one of the
greatest drawbacks to universal road
building with which the country has to
contend. People living in districts that
have no hope of receiving such improve-
ments do not have much inclination to
vote bonds and otherwise push forward
a movement which will cost them some-
thing without giving them any material
benefits.
The first duty of a city is to make its
streets fairly respectable and then to
take up the matter of paving and push
the move as rapidly as possi le consis-
tent with the funds at hand and eco-
nomical methods.
Streets and roads are the greatest
economical factors in the development
of the Southwest today. If sufficient
bonds could be voted for the improve-
ment of every street and every road in
the country the increase in the value of
property, economical transportation,
etc., would far more than pay off the
bonds in the time usually required.
Such a move will bring more immigrants
to the; Southwest than any other in-
ducement that could be offered. There
is a real delight in traveling over paved
streets and improved roads. Bad roads
and impassable streets are an eyesore to
be avoided at every turn when possible,
t is to be hoped that vthe next few
years will witness universal improve-
ments of the streets of our cities and
the roads of our counties.
WAIT!
For Wey's
Big Auction Sale
of
Fire Damaged
Implements
[Saturday Feb. 4
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COMMISSION GOVERNMENT.
COINAGE FOR LAST YEAR,
A NEW GOAT.
Here lately you may have observed
that the moving picture shows are shar-
ing the burden formerly carried mostly
by the dime novel and the cigarette,
says the Atchison Globe. Formerly
when a boy went wrong and stepped
from loafing around the depot to looting
the express office, it was said he got his
hunch from reading about Jesse James,
and his depraved nature from smoking
cigarettes. The girl who drifted down
the primrose path was believed to have
obtained a biased view of life from read-
ing Bertha M, Clay and other high
class works about lords and loafers
which made her discontented with the
old homestead. But now the picture
show comes in for its share of the
blame.
It is true [ that the moving picture
houses occasionally put on something
worse than the Jeffries-Johnson mill, if
Commission forms of government,
such as Oklahoma City will adopt or re-
ject in a short time, are growing in favor
throughout the United States. In many
states the county government is being
made practically the same, says the
Oklahoma City Times.
The commission plan means to con
centrate both executive and legislative
powers in a single board of a few mem-
bers. The mayor is the head and pre-
siding^officer of the commission, but in
most plans this office has less concentra-
tion of power and responsibility than in ' $
coined. More than 6.000,000 pieces
rP. - . rT . j were coined for the Philippine Islands
' States dur". and nearI-v 1,000,030 pieces were coined
ing 1910 coined 8111,500,000 in coin of J on centract for Costa Rica
which nearly $105,000 000 was in gold.!
The total coinage of silver was com-j Mrs. F. M. Williatos, who had been
paratively insignificant, it being less visiting her sister, Mrs. J. D. Morse
than 000,000, while $3,000,000 worth several weeks, departed for home Thurs
of pennies and five cent pieces were day morning. '
——
way Improvement, which has entered you are thinking of uplift influences, or
| upon this important work, has estab-. the lack of them, instead of the hopes
lished permanent offices in Washington j of the white race, but the fact remains
| and is anxious to get in touch with that the moral tone of a community
state and county officials having charge usually comes close to that handed dow n
of highway improvements. It is as- by its ancestors, and frequently shows
•ambling at its offices in that city com-< something better. No general rule
plete information on every phase of the j seems to apply, except that one about
public road question, which information j the sow's ear and the silk purse. In any
if to be made available to all persons j place there are people who go the wrong
( interested in good roads. I way, and.tinding excuses for their con-
I he officers and directors of the as-j duct doesn't help matters much. Until
sociation include many of the leading i the people learn that the wrong way is
men in the country, among these being | the hardest way, there won't be much
j Hon. Lee McClung, treasurer of the improvemeat. notwithstanding the use of
United States; Commissioner Harlan of | lids of various varieties.
the plan now in force. Greater power
is centered in the entire board, which
divides^among its members the execu-
tive functions, and collectively enacts
thei'legislation.
The commission plan, by centering the
power among half a dozen men, makes
for greater promptitude in deciding
municipal questions and putting the
decisions into force. The federal plan
makes far more deliberation. The ad-
vantages and disadvantages of each are
inevitably J joined together. The en-
largement of powers to use necessarily
carries with it the enlargement of
powers to abuse. On the other hand,
checks^and restraints against abuse can
be maintained under a proper charter.
The commission plan will greatly in-
crease the power of good men when
elected to perform city work promptly
and energetically, and it will increase in
equal degree the power of bad or incom-
pentent men, when elected, to plunder,
spoil and waste.
But what every one should beware of
is the tendency to think that any
particular form of government contains
within itself a certain charm^of alembic
that willjtransmute bad or indifferent
government into good. Time and effort
have been wasted over this delusion
with regard to municipalities.
'Good or bad government does not de-
pend on its form. The vital force under
any form of government is in the cla9s
of men the people elect to the im-
portant places. If they elect upright and
able uien there will be good government
no matter how obsolete the form. If
they elect dishonest men. there will be
bad government under the most, perfect
form.
The Walton Mortgage Co.
Always have money on hand to loan on
Farms. Our only business is making Real
Estate Loans, hence, we are always in a
position to look after the interests of the
borrower. Principal and Interest all Pay-
able at Our Office. No delay in getting your
money. See us]| before making arrange-
ments for a loan.
OFFICE WITH
HOME STATE BANK
HOBART, OKLAHOMA
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Benedict, Roy. The Hobart Republican. (Hobart, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 26, 1911, newspaper, January 26, 1911; (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc236077/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.