Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-13
FINE DINNER AND
BETTER SPEECHES
At CLUB MEETING


dinner of the Board of Governors of
the Commercial Club was served and
surrounded ut the Marion last night
and was the very finest vet both in
the way of menu, which ranged from
salads through solids to the incarnadine
loganberry pie ard juicy crimson water.
melon fo.:Jwed by scratching matches
and the heaven ascending smoke.
This was the part of the affair that
appealed to appetite, but gith it was a
flow of good sensible talk on several
matters. Harley O. White. Of the Board
of Governors, presided and did. If
gracefully and with much tact end
aplomb, whatever that is.
G. f. Arney, promotion or immiora.
tion cgent for the Northern Pacific
spoke at some length but {arcilIy cs
to the benefits TO be derived from ir.
tlux Of population, and the neces.i-v
Of steady cffor; to keep the resources
end attractions Of Oregon before the
people of the middle Wes; espeeially
but also before the whole court1v Fie
ooint out that western Oregon had
never grown as it should, and willie
not attempting to give all the r.; ore
Why, suggested that il was lcrccly Iuc
10 two causes-lack of steady ana er.
thosicSic boosting work on the rrrt
Ut valley people, and partly lespeciallv
u recent years. TO the high price a
iends that made their requirement ~
he newcomer, unless he was prett.
we'll fixed, an impossibilitv. He de-.
'cribed the methods used by his CON.
oanv in getting settlers located clorr
IT'S lines and said that his COMPANY
"o1ld gladly process any Crod"ct,
crown in the valley, and display then
/ 2roperly labeled with name Of grove,
and location in all parts Of the Uriycf
states where its agents visited. rnf
would do this free, besides those bav.
ing samples cf fruits or ANYTHING els,
for display could send the same 10 rbc
company at Spokane free Of chsrg,
through the Northern Express com
I pany. He suggested that every Ore
/ gonian going east should load IN or
information about tine state and ar
] parts of it, so that he would be able
to handout correct and detailed irfnr.
nation when asked about it, which he
would find would be frequently.
lie Spoke of Roads.
he was heartily applaudod and wa,
followed by State Highway Enginec,
Bowlby, who spoke on what the state
was doing in the way of road brild.
ing. fine road was being built !,
jackson county from the California
line to short distance north of Cen.
tral Point. The 100000 raised by that
county would complete about 30 miles
OF road. Twelve miles are graded and
TINS part or the work will be done by
November, and the road completed
next summer. He, also described what
the other counties that bonded have
done, and stated the state had CHARGE
OF nearly million and three quarters
dollars donated by counties which it
was expending in said counties. He
also spoke of the effort the state was
making to standardize the steel bridges
IN the state, and said there were abopt
~ such bridges now under construc |
ton. This would save the eounties
large sums, as it was found "thc
bridge companies did poor work fo,
good pay or good work for double
pay, - and this would be changed and
the counties would be able TO got
bridge work done at fair rates under
the new plan. He spoke at consider.
able length as to the benefits that
would be derived from first.class roads .
and said the money left in the country
by tourists was as near "velvet'' as
any that could be placed in that class.
He also described the steel bridge here
and said it was necessary that new |
one be built. The present bridge !,
unsafe, and while it may last wear or
TWO, or even more, yet it had reached |
a stage where it was liable to 90 at
any time. The life of bridge is like
that of a person, he said, in that while
1t can be seen that the end is near.
no one can foretell just when death will
happen. His remarks were interesting
from start to finish, and the diners
showed their appreciation "audiblv. ,,
Lawmaker Speaks.
The toastmaster then introduced Mr.
'Ren, independent candidate for GOV.
ernor, whom the audience generonslv
gave a hearty welcome and then did it
some more. He said he wanted TO make
an open free confession at the start
He had noticed the other candidates
for the governorship had, according to
their statements, been just naturally
forced to get into the race bv their
friends. "It was not that way in nv
case" b" said he. ~ am running on nv
own initiative" Che smiled as he psed
the word) "and not only has no one
asked me to run, but l do not even
know if very many o< them want me
to run. " He went on to say that this
country had not now and never had q
representative form of government
Denmark, Tasmania, the French repub.
lie, none of the governments started
after ours had used our form as a nat.
tern. He did not say where they were
any better for this, but seemed to think
that was sufficient demonstration that
our system was wrong. He also said
many people did not think the people
were capable of self government and
then, although he did not intend so do. ,
ing, showed that he was of that num-
Der, for he wanted to show them and
to have his plans adopted by them in.
stead of the present system. He said