The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1922-06-29
CITIZENS ASKED TO
MAKE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Hood River. Ore, June q. lg22.

Hood River, Ore, June "a. 1922.
Mr. Citizen: At a recent meeting
of the Commercial Club. the writer
was appointed chairman to solicit
funds as follows: Lost Lake Road,
81, 500; Northwest Tourist Association,
$3.50: Commercial Club, publicity.
81, 600. This money asked for is wholly
for the benefit of Hood River county.
The 81, 800 asked for the Lost Lake
road is to match like sum from the
roads department of the u. S. Forestry
Service. which offered to go $3.50 with
the county in sum up to S4 900, all of
which is to be spent in Hood River
county on the lost Lake road outside
Of the forest boundary. The county
court was able to meet only 50, 500 of
the $4, 009. The committee from the
Commercial Club promised to endeavor
to raise the balance by subscription.
Can we afford to lose this gift of
81, 900 from the Forestry Department?
Ii means an So, 900 Improvement on the
Lost Lake road. which as you know is
Hood River county's recreation ground.
There will be thousands Of gallons of
blackberries and huckleberries to be
garnered in that section this summer,
in addition to the recreatiOnal feature.
The $3.50 for the Northwest Tourist
Association is Hood River county's
quota of the Frank Branch Riley tour
fund, promised last fall when it was
decided by the association to send MIR.
Riley east on a lecturing tour. You
have no doubt read in the press from
time to time about the wonderful sue
cess Of this tour; the immense audi
ences addressed all over the eastern
section of the United States. We will
reap the benefit of these lectures in
proportion to other sections of the
Northwest. This is quite evident from
the fact that number of conventions
will be held in the Northwest this year
and that the selecting Of the Northwest
as the meeting point was to great
degree due to Mr.. Riley'a lectures and
alluring pictures of our wonderful seem
ic attractions coupled with our splendid
climate.
The 81. 900 asked for the Commercial
Club is for publicity purposes. For the
past several years the club has been
hard pressed for funds and it has been
necessary for the officers of the club at
various times 10 solicit fuEas feom the
business and professional men of the
city. Just at the present time the club
Il In urgent need Of funds TO carry on
the work of advertising our country
and the products thereof, which cannot
be done without expending some money.
We know that this summer we viii
be visited by several hundred fruit buy
ers; that approximately 300 travelling
passenger agents from all over the
United States and Canada will visit as.
Both of these aggregations are splen-
did advertising mediums. Then there
is also an excursion party of lao Tex
ans coming on their way to Alaska.
They will stop at Hood River and drive
by autos to Portland over the Highway.
They are asking nothing from us in the
way of entertainment, but your Com
mercial Club must be on the job and
show this party some attention. re-
member when the first Texan stopped
here TO look US over, Joe ID. Thomson
and myself entertained the man. The
result was that last year 40 of them
came west, had breakfast at our hotels
and motored over the Highway to Port
land. Those 40 went home and boosted
for the Northwest and the Highway.
What will il be next year? II takes
a certain amount of money to handle
all these propositions even though they
ask for nothing and your Commercial
Club should have the funds necessary
to function. If every citizen would
take out a membership in the CONNER
cial Club il would not be necessary to
solicit funds. We have been gong
ahead at q rapid pace. Are we going
to drop into the discard? | am certain
that you will help. The solicitors are
as follows: City Of Hood River, p. +.
Clark, C. o. Huelat and Earl Franz
Belmont Barrett district, E. w. Birge
Frankton, j. r. Nickelsen: Oak Grove,
G. E. Graves; Dee. r. A. Collins; Up
per Valley. NJ. o. BOe; Pine Grove. A.
w. Peters. These men are donating
their time and energy, so please make
up your mind what you are going to
give and have il ready for them or
mail il to them, or If you 50 desire. to
me direct One public spirited citizen
has contributed $3.50; one corporation,
$50; Game Association, $25; one sal
aried citizen, $40. J. II. Fredricy,
Chairman Roads Committee,
Hood River County Commercial Club.