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THE UNITED AMERICAN
APRIL 1925
of China merely beyond the threshold. These two peoples tion stationed in each. He will cover his territory
have one thing in common — they are weary of war and and report on the supply of cattle, the feed situation,
internal strife. Their geographic proximity lends color production and marketing of cattle. Prices are to be
to mutuality. The weariness in China is not all from quoted by the association from time to time, corres­
internal sources — there is a tinge of weariness of ponding to conditions of supply and demand, but the
foreign intrigue. The “disinterested” nations with cattle man is to have the right to fix a minimum price
their “friendly” counsel has not been all in the interest for his cattle, the only stipulation being that such price
of Christianizing China. The great natural resources of set by the farmer shall never be lower than the lowest
the. empire may be suspected of having furnished a association price set for the same grade and quality
greater attraction for the “friendly” counsel from of stock.
everywhere than the soul-rescuing needs of the Chinese.
Scales of prices quoted by the association are to
The vital nerve center of the new Russia in its be based on United States Government standard
future development will undoubtedly be the Trans- grades, and each set of prices is to include freight
Siberian Railway, with the gateway at Vladivostok. charges to the larger markets. Producers are to be
This port is destined to become the Siberian trade mart. paid according to the ranch or shipping point weight
In Russia’s natural contact with the Orient there of their cattle, after allowance has been made for shrink­
is more than a geographic significance. Though age. Packers are required to place their orders with
white of skin, there is a tinge of Oriental psychology the association, stating the number and grade of cattle
about the Russians. That these elements will go a needed to meet their requirements.
long way toward establishing a closer contact between
A deduction of not more than two per cent of the
the people of Oriental Asia and the people of Russia, of gross sales prices of the cattle is reserved for financing
marketing operations, and profits are pro-rated yearly
that there can be no doubt.
The present form of government in Russia, how­ on the basis of business transacted.
This plan eliminates individual purchasing forces,
ever, will hardly succeed in cementing ties of political
and commercial friendship with the nations of the a detail which, under the old system, cost one million
world, not even in the Orient, not so long as it continues dollars annually in California. The new marketing
to sow its seeds of political unrest and revolution in plan reduces this expenditure by eighty per cent,
every country where a Russian is permitted to enter. officials claim. The packers will henceforth pay the
As a political doctrine Communism is the last price quoted by the association, an arrangement ex­
word in demogoguery. It is the extremely extreme pected to prove particularly advantageous to small
prototype of the absolute autocratic state under which producers.
most of the Russians now living have been trained.
The dictatorial ruler is an abomination to any people, OLD INDIAN SCOUT WATCHES REDSKINS IN FLIVVERS
whether he is the autocratic czar or the democratic
HE CHEYENNES and the Apaches are civilized now, but
Tommy Shanley still has his eyes on them, as in the
proletar.
they were scalp hunters.
There is ample evidence of determination in the days At when
82 Tommy sits near the G. A. R. home at Oklahoma
Slav mind of today. Centuries of trials and tribula­ City and trains his field glasses on the paved highway that
tions have molded patience > and fortitude. These runs past the gates to the city’s most popular outdoor resorts,
virtues are costly attributes in a people. Back of these and there he sees hundreds of Indians riding in flivvers.
there are promises. These promises are written by Sixty years ago he was the “Kid Scout” and one of seventy
who fought and successfully resisted 1,000 Cheyennes
the goddess of destiny and endorsed by the hand of soldiers
and Arapahoes at Beecher Island, in 'Colorado, near the
providence.
Kansas line.
T
He joined the scouting service in August, 1868, under
Captain Allison J. Pilley, just in time to be ordered to Colonel
CO-OPERATIVE MARKETING PROGRESS IN
George A. Forsythe’s command at Kearney, Neb., a part of
CALIFORNIA
the force under General Sheridan, whose headquarters were
¿20-OPERATIVE marketing in California has ap- at Leavenworth, Kansas.
The detachment of seventy men was sent to find the main
parently become a fixed institution among the
body of Indians. They found them, unexpectedly, and lost
producers in every field.
scouts before they could dig in. From behind breast­
The most recent aquisition to the Co-operative thirty
works they stood off the Indians for seven days and succeeded
Marketing plan is the California Cattlemen’s Associa­ in killing Roman Nose, the Indian chieftain, who fought with
tion which through its board of directors went on spear and shield.
Shanley enlisted with the Nineteenth Kansas Cavalry, the
record last month, adopting the plan. This means that
the largest remaining group of marketers in that state, only volunteer regiment organized to.fight the Indians. On
way to join Sheridan at Fort Supply, Okla., the regiment
heretofore unorganized, have adopted the co-operative the
became lost and lived on hackberries for days. Shanley was
method for the distribution of their products.
one of a group who volunteered to find Sheridan, and found
Based on estimates, about ninety per cent of the him after a 200-mile hike without rations.
At Fort Supply Tommy was detailed to go with General
beef cattle in California are represented by signatures
Custer to fight the Cheyennes. With that command he
to the contract, ninety-five per cent in Arizona, ninety drove
an ammunition wagon.
per cent in Nevada and fifty per cent in Utah.
And now the old veteran who risked his life the hundred
Tiie plan is to invite Southern Oregon to join the times in making the country safe against the native savages,
co-operative organization in this field, according to sits in his honored old-age retreat in the G. A. R. home in
officials of the Association, which has headquarters a reminiscent mood as he sees the children of the red-skin
scalp-hunters frolic according to the white men’s fashion,
in San Francisco.
while the little speedy broncho — the wild Indian’s delight—
The marketing plan divides California into twelve has been suceeded by the flivver, the means of rapid motion
production districts, with an employe of the associa- that is so dear to the heart of the civilized Indian of today.