The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1914-09-03
FALSE ECONOMY

view of aboishng the office of county agrcuurast
port is nauthenc and hope that is groundess
Taxes high and instances doubtless burdensome
but the work that has done through this
the last years adjustment of the work at this time
advised unwise curtaent of and false
One why budensome and out proportion
the Of the farm the lack of systematic farm
agement scientific methods This is due lack of in
dustry enterprise part They but
facing problems which the farmers of section must
face requires time to ascertain the which
agricultural district best adapted This knowledge might be
acquired the poddg of haphazard and
hit Development but the best that be hoped from
following such plan indefinite and uncertain results The
farmer too busy with the actual manual labor of the
farm to make study of the conditions under which he abor
become thoroughly familiar with conditions they exist
his twenty 160 and still fail the equally
knowledge of relationship that his conditions
conditions which his neighbor farms His
farm be poughed sewed and harvested thing of
and by itself but part of general and comprehensive scheme
Casually it might that it makes little difference to the
potatogrower White Bluffs whether not farmer at Finley
growing the CROP It becomes serious matter how
ever White Bluffs farmers potatoes and dozen
Finley farmers potatoes when there is marketing posi-
bes for the output from only six such farms The farms of
county other county section the country
brought production only through definite
fully planned scheme of agriculture The duty of the county
ricuraist in brief is to work out this PLAN Anything which
delays hners this work detrimental to the growth and
prosperity of the county The adjustment of the Office of county
agricutrast at this time not only just delay but
money that expended for this work
the last two years will be in great measure lost.
If the report that the Tax Payers Union is seeking
the adjustment of the oc and sincerely hope
the union has most wise and foolish
tude and absolutely niica to the for which it
supposed doesn't much what
his he can't make enough off of his pay
curtament of his earning capacities different from
increase in his taxes
WASTE NOT ECONOMY
IN VIEW caused by the war in
Europe it is held by members that
eminent should economic by withholding appropriations for
river and harbor The river and harbor
paton bill is pending and the against its
sage appealing members who have studied the situation
The failure to make river and harbor appropriations would
be extravaganza, and not economy.
Throughout the United States projects way
ing from nearly completed works of great Importance
the works of wherever they Only the soute works
the engineers carefully planned and thoroughly executed
withstand the elements.
The abandonment of these habut levees DAMS locks
vement dredgng breakwates and other improvements would
throwing millions that have already been spent But
it would would the repetition of
food disasters the shoang of habo and rivers and the stop
page of navigation and commerce in many places.
Human life well property is involved in this bill The
work under floods the Mississippi and Ohio val
eys essentially esavng work which should not be inter
rupted It above questions of and
the proportions of solemn patriotic duty No for
the nations demand for instant action following the ire
mendous floods in the Ohio valley few months It
congress should ahead without regard to
everything possible to safeguard human life from the
of the floods.
engineers of the United States army very
properly directed attention to the urgent necessity of continuing
appropriations for carrying forward the works hand
knows better than other the United States
how exaagant and wasteu it would be suspend operations
on the mighty works under his charge
Congress should economic where it do with safety
results but the abrupt breaking off great for
the conservation of human life and property economy
is extravaganza and waste.-Washington Cd. CO. Post
former prime minister of France has been fighting the
ranks enlisted An American politician would expect
to be colonel at least iii
Speaking of why boys leave home-some day somebody
should write book why preachers leave home to