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L3l ORADE : EVENING OBSERVER.
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1917.
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LABOR AND $2 WHEAT.
Senator James II. Brady j of Idaho, is a practical farmer.
He has experienced many demonstrations of the increas
ing price of labor, and says that he is now paying from
three to four dollars a day for men whom formerly he
could secure for two dollars. Men engaged in irrigation
work on his farms Senator Brady is compelled to pay $110
a month and board, which is fifty per cent more .than he
. had to pay before the war. In view of those facts, and the
corresponding increase in the price of farming materials,
Mr. Brady thinks that the guaranteed price in the food bill
of $ 2 a bushel for wheat is not at all excessive, and will give
the farmers no more profit than they have been accus
tomed to. Senator Brady was an earnest advocate of that
measure, and did everything in his power to hasten its en
actment. O ' '
WISCONSIN UNWAVERING.
It is a pleasing relief, after the remarks of certain Sen
ators, to read the memorial of the Legislature of Wiscon
sin which was presented to the House the-. other day ly
Congressman Edward E. Browne of that State. The 'doc
ument pledges the loyal support of the state of Wisconsin
and its citizens to the President and the government in the
pi ( recution of the war. There is, perhaps, a larger Ger-mnn-Ameriean
population in Wisconsin than in nnv other
state, but that. the sentiment of those citizens and of the
state at large is patriotically supporting the war is amplv
demonsrated by the action of the legislature. '
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Those three points have been kept before us in gathering fall
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You need all wool for long wear and for its shape-keeping
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LIBERTY BONDS PREFERRED STOCK.
,t Likening the United States to a great corporation with
more than a hundred millipn stock holders and with capi
tal stock and resources of more than two hundred fifty
billions of dollars, and an annual income of fify billions of
dollars, each American citizen is a stock .holder in this
great corporation. Even those whose only assets are their
earning capacity own shares in our public 'domain and
property and are working on a profit sharing basis with a
tote and a voice in the management of the corporation and
with the right to acquire more stock at any time.
A Liberty Loan Bond may be likened to a share of pre
ferred stock in this gigantic corporation. Like preferred
stock in other corporations it may not return, at times,
so large a dividend as common stock, but the dividend from
it is certain and sure.' Ttjs stock that pays 3 1-2 per cent
dividend but the stock and dividend cannot he taxed and
while crop failures may decrease the farmer's dividend
from his land some years to less than nothing, and vari
ous causes may lessen or destroy dividends from all other
sorts of property, the dividends from the Liberty Loan
Bond is certain and sure, subject to no failure or diminu
tion. ,j,
The owner of a Liberty Loan Bond holds written tangi
ble evidence of being a preferred stock holder in the United
States, the greatest, the'most glorious, the most honorable
and the most successful corporation in the world. v.- He
holds the certificate of being a citizen willing to support
Ins government and to lend money to his country when
it needs it and calls for it.
There is honor in being the owner of a Liberty Loan
Bond as well as profit. '
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Supporting' the
Government
This is a time for every citizen to support the
United States Government and ninny are doing so
at considerable cost or sacrifice to themselves.
We have joined the Federal Reserve Banking: Sys
tem established by the Government to give greater
financial stability and strength to the member banks
and protection to their depositors.
You can give j-mir support to this great Govern
ment enterprise arid also obtain its protection for
your money by becoming one of our depositors.
Member
Federal Reserve
System
La Grande National Bank
THE CHILDREN HAVE THEIR RIGHTS.
What a rush we are all iu. How we "hurry, flurry aud
bluster. That really is doing nothing but shortening our
lives and making us a race of neurasthenics. It is well to
speed up, to work fast, but take care to do things well
while you are doing them. One of the serious problems
before us at the present time is preserving our racial
strength and virility. There is no doubt that in certain
quarters, degeneracy has been commencing to rear its ugly
head. The causes of this is the fast life we have been
leading. Eating too much, drinking too much, violating
the laws of nature, burning the candle at both ends.
It really approaches a national disgrace the number of
our young men that are not eligible for military service; it
approaches a national disgrace the number of business
men who arc examined for life insurance and rejected.
The answer to this, if we wish to preserve our nation and
not go sinking into the luxury that ate up Rome, is clean
living and clean thinking, exercise in the open air, daily
bathing, sleeping in the open air; healthful habits of eat
ing; temperance; medical inspection in the schools; regu
lar medical inspection by all of their bodies, their teeth,
their tonsils, noses, etc. Tt also involves some state policy
in regard to eugenics and probably forbidding marriage of
insane, teebie minciecl, etc., and the isolation of defec
tives, fcparta was a military nation and it practiced eu
genics right at the start; if a habe were not fit it was al
lowed to perish. It is certain that if we are to survive we
shall have to become a military nation, we shall have to
raise our physical standards instead of lowering them.
It is impossible to do much with our older people who are
now paying the penalty for the lives they have lead. But
we can start in with the children in the schools; we can
start them toward bavins good teeth, good noses and
sound lungs to breathe with ; we can have them looked over
oy competent medical men and have their little minor de
fects straightened out before their little bodies are de
formed. This is a work for us to do right here at home;
it is not one of those long distance thcorcctical reforms'
over which there is so much wind wasted but a real, con
crete reform that will cost little but which will save every
Home money in doctor's bills and produce happiness in
M-vinn uic iiitie ioiks propenv looKed alter. This is their
heritage; we are criminals if we do not Innl- nffnt-
carefully and promptly. It should start with medical in
spection in the public schools.
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into detail on 'ways you can protect your dried fruits and
vegetables and tells you what dangers to look out for.
There are two kinds of moths that will attack them.
They are more likely to get into the fruit while they are
drying than after they are packed away. This is particu
larly true of drying in the sun.,,., t.: -,. , . .......
' One is the Indian meal moth. ' It is the most destruc
tive of the two. It is about 3-8 of an inch long and has
a cloaked appearance, one-third gray and the rest copper
brown. The fig moth is about the same size but all dark neutral
gray. .y .
Along with these usually comes, a minute, flattened cho
colate brown beetle. It does considerable damage.
Their eggs hatch on the fruit in the form of whitish or
pinkish grublike caterpillars. If these are stored away
with the fruit they will propogate and produce thousands
of their kind in the storage bins.
Hence, pack your stuff in small boxes to prevent the
moths spreading, if there are any in a particular part
of the product. Store in a cool, dry place.
In sun drying, if the drying racks are screened early in
the evening and at night, the cheesecloth or fly screen bat
ten down and the dried fruits and vegetables stored in
tight paper sacks in a cool place, rio'danger need ordinar
ily be feared from these insects. ;
As an added precaution, the dried product may be
heated, before being packed, to 140 f. long enough to allow
the heat to penetrate through it. This will kill the eggs
of the insects. If you do this, store it promptly, to pre
vent infestation.
OREGON MUST CONSERVE HAY CROPS.
FOOD DRYING- SERIES.
(Bv George Martin, United Press Staff Correspondent
Washington, Aug. 21.-Tn this article Uncle Sam goes
From all indications, Oregon this year must use every
effort within its power to conserve its hay crop. The de
struction of our hay means less meat for the boys in
France; higher prices for those at home.
How is the hay in your barn? Is it "sweating"? If
your system was clogged, if the pores couldn't cast off the
waste material, a physician might say you had a fever.
If your stack can't eliminate the waste material, if the
vegetable matter that begins its fermentation in the field,
is cut off from an adequate supply of air, preventing,
proper circulation through the stack, your hay will be suf
fering from fever. Real "Hay Fever". ;"
It behooves every man to bear in mind that sweating
hay produces spontaneous combustion. The chemical pro
cess which begins in the field continues in the stack. The
hay in the center turns yellow and chars. The charred de-
mains sucks what little oxygen there is from the stack;
Ruin is the reward of reaping.
You, who take the field by tilling the field, remember
this: Six feet from the bottom of the stack is the danger
point. The weight above presses out the air beneath. Your
bit is cultivation not aviation. Remember the heat of
the sun beats the boom of the gun.
A stack or mow burned by spontaneous combustion is a.
challenge to your ability, an acknowledgement of your
carelessness and neglect.
Not the trenches, hut the furrows': not the submarines.
but the mowing machine will tell the tale.
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