Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1917-04-06

Tillamook County has improved two
harbors in their county which are
about twenty miles apart. They frs,
improved the largest bay, Tillamook
and later on improved the Nehalem
Bay. They now have two harbors in
their county and have prospered be-
yond all other coast counties. They
have twenty five or more cheese fac
tories, many creameries, and other in.
dustries, a number of big sawmills on
each bay, good rock and plank roads,
leading to every section of the county
We have practically the same climate,
IAbetter soil, more timber lands, as
many rich valleys, and tidelands as
they have. On the South of us Sius-
law, Umpqua, Coos and Bandon Bays
have all been improved by the Govern
ment with the cooperation of the peo.
pie. They are all prosperous communi.
ties, have large payrolls, and are buil.
ing hundreds of miles of gooa roads.
We can do as our sister counties have
done. 1t will not be an experiment
with us. We follow the beaten paths.
DO you want to keep your boys and
girls at home? Or would you rather
they go out among strangers to seek
employment? FIFTY per cent Of the
young men of Lincoln Countz have to
leave home to obtain employment.
Many young men. with families are
compelled to go out side to obtain en-
ployment, leaving their families at
home. Many of our girls have to leave
their homes to obtain employme,.t ,.t else.
where, all because we are a sleepy,
non-progressive people; and there is
no payroll in Lincoln County, and be
cause we have slept on our rights and
not taken advantage of the wonderful
opportunities, that kind violence
has given us, and because we have no,
tried to develop the wonderful natural
resources of our county; and because
we have not all pulled together for Q
better and greater county.
| III you want to keep your boys ant
girls at home under>mother's influence
who will watch over them and hell
make their surroundings pleasant
boost for all improvements. Help max,
a payroll, so the boys and girls won
have to leave home. Boost for goot
roads so that those living in tn,
country can get to town, and thos,
living in town can get out into tn,
country. Thus creating fraternity anc
sociability among all classes.
Boost for harbor improvements. goo,
roads, good homes, a payroll, and pros
perity.
New things move. All the worl,
is moving and improving. Old mel
and old women are contented Will
old ways and old methods. The,
have fought their battles and ar
dreaming Of the past. Young blood 1
looking to the future. They want NOR
conveniences. They want to get here
They want to keep in the great nom,
procession. II they can't move an
progress, keep up with the times. an,
have conveniences at home and /,
their home counties, they will 70 ou
after them. The boy or girl VIII,
lives on the farm and can't get L
town in the winter time occassionally
when the long, dull-rainy days are on
they fret and worry and soon becom
discontented, and then away out int
the world, and soon home ties are for
gotten.
To keep them, we must have pleas
ant surroundings, good roads to get /
town, good schools to give them al
even chance with their city cousins
When they can get into an auto o
buggy and drive over good road te,
miles to town after supper, spend al
hour or two in the city, and home a
bedtime they will have all the conver
fences OF city life, as well as the rea
comforts of farm life, be contente
with mother under the home roof. the
men are better, women are better. boy
and girls are better, family ties wi
not be so often broken there will n
less heartburning, more love, fraterr
ity, better social and moral conditions
better financial conditions, less po,
erty, more happiness. a stronger an
better county, city, state and nationa
Government.
B. r. Jones.