Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1919-05-23

Looking at the land of the isolated
coast country, thro' the eyes of a
woman pioneer who has lived the life
who has seen the suffering that comes
from the great silence of Nature only,
silence deep and sullen, save for the
tuneful colony of wild-birds or the
fash Of .eaping 'abbits, my advice
would be, until we have better roads.
to all women, not to try homestead!ng
thougAtleSsly. The hardships that
constantly beset the way of the con-
QuerCrs Of any new land will try the
metal of women as it never does a
man, the long mOnotonous nights are
thing Of terror even TO those who
have the capacity to endure for a
time. Any woman who has had this
experience holds a brief for those
who have qualified for the job of
opening the way in the wilderness for
the homes that will some day come.
Year after year these faithful women
have made their fight against the lon
illness of utter isolation, and they have
been able to do so only because they
hold in their hearts the world old
dream Of Motherhood, the fierce fam
ing desire that their children, their
beloved children, will have some
chance in life and not be caught IN
the shadows Of poverty because of the
undeveloped land, that they will not
be unable to travel because there are
no roads The immeasurable bravery
of these women with all the dulled
but not dead agony of their heart
breaking yearning Tor the social life
OF their own kind IS past all under
standing. Many of they have seen
with always this hope before them,
of better roads and fully developed
land that will blossom and bloom and
bud with long looked for prosperity.
Here, way off in the Wilderness, far
from the fringe of our civilization, is
the arena where these women have
fought their own lives and incinations
fought their own souls and come nave
gone down to defeat in the struggle,
and today are being cared for in our
Asylums, while others have emerged
graver, more mature then their years
should make them, leaving behind
them something of themselves as their
tribute to the scheme of life itself.
Here lays the penetralia of this iso-
lated country, the weak fCrtification
against the world itself, the place
where they have accomplished their
work their only pride and eXultation
being in the knowledge that they are
leaving behind them a land which
when touched by the magic wand of
good reads will undergo a wonderful
change and will bloom with the green
Vi hCluo WI SslluCuo
that will furnish fruits to tempt even
an epicure and satisfy the hunger of
the hardy pioneer.
Truly today it is land where, as
Paddy says 'the hand of white man
has never trod,' but where the land
will be like sheets of shimmering sum 4,
shine with fields of golden grain, when !
the country is opened up with good
roads. Today 1t lies full Of promise
for a new start in life, for the man
whose vocabulary holds no such word
as defeat, and nowhere are the pos
sibilities greater and the opportunities
better for the man who wants to own
a place of his own, than ther in this
same isolated land, which will be NO
longer isolated when the great Roose-
velt Highway is built. The disagree
able features will then melt like the
dew before the dawn and the land
will be transformed into beautiful
homes and the blazing splendor Of the
coming dawn Of prosperity will open
the splendid gates Of success. Not a
canyon where the sun shines warm in
the summer and the soft spring water
gurgles from the rock but will be bene-
fitted by this read, and all womanhood
will rejoice and spread her apprecia-
tion Of the blessings that fall to the
lot of the faithful who pitched their
tents where the progressive people
will one day erect their summer cot
tages So vote for the Roosevelt High
way and lift up your eyes and vision
the land as it will then be.
Rosemary Schenck