fa PUBLISHED 8T WlW-HETlH TUBUSHINO COMPANY LLOYD RICHES. Editor MALHEUR COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER gpulal Commanlte CarraapoiMUiita. Jsasn ker Ocesaa BlaW Bdltuial Auodation. PUBLISHED EV15RY BATUKDAY AT VALB, MALHEUR COUNTY. OREGON Xntsvari at tha Vale, Oregon,' poatofflea n Seoonft Clee. Mad Matter. SUBaKUaFTlON BATES IN ADVANCE OHM YEAR m ADVANCE) 3.00 mra tsar jnot in advance)- .6 OaaeAi and Foretell Bubierlpttona. Poel tawsajd Prank Ho Prtntliw OtwtMl sa AO Job Prlnttn. Prka Lldl A FITTING MONUMENT OF PROGRESS. In the average run of communi ties strangers are proudly shown the fine public library, the excep tionally splendid school buildings, the beautiful city park, or whatever monument has been erected to the enterprise of the community. But were you, as a stranger, to go into the 642 largo and small com munitits of Minnesota in the dairy section, you would be taken first to the co-operative creamery and the proud resident would point it out to you as the most fitting monument to the progress of the community, Minnesota Is the - principal dairj state of the Union and its pinnacle of eminence . In the production and sale of this remunerative product has been reached, according to Earl Christmas writing in a current issue of The Dearborn Independent through the effectiveness of the co operative creameries. "The value of dairy products in Minnesota in 1920 was more than 1200,000,000, according to a recent compilation by the State Dairy and Food Commission,'' says Mr. Christ mas. "That exceeds in value by a wide margin the output of the iron mines in this greatest of iron-pro ducing states. It equals the value of all the products of the great Minneapolis flour mills, manufac tured from wheat gathered over most of the Northwest and Canada It exceeds by $33,600,000 the com Lined value of the wheat, oats, corn barley and rye in Minnesota, accord ing to the state dairy statisticians. "The state has great natural re sources such as grass and clover, The climate, too, is favorable. . But the chief factor in this unusual do velopment, I should say, is the co operative creamery. The co-opera tive creamery has made dairying profitable in Minnesota. In Wiscon Bon it was the cheese factory. But Minnesota pinned its hope on butter and the co-operative creamery ha3 made possible its great progress. "And here is the significant thine about these Minnesota co-operative creameries. The co-operative cream ery returns to the producing farmer 91.8 per cent of all moneys received for butter. The independent cream ery returns but 89.3 per cent and centralisters but 80.4 per cent. "To see the wealth accruing to the farmers in the butter-making busi ness one . needs but take a trip through the co-operative creameries. Extensive buildings house plants with the most modern equipment. In many Minnesota towns, the co operative creamery is the most por tentious building to be seen." The farmers of the ..Warmsprings project are interested in diversified farming and the dairy cow as the principol machine of production on their diversified farm. It has been estimated by Alf Chester, of the Vale Meat Company, that tftere is enough cream produced right now on the project to supply a small cream ery. Why not a co-operative cream ery at Vale? THE HAMMERS ARE BUSY. Most Bmall towns have a few "knockers" and Vale is no exception to the rule. It Is not difficult to understand the mental make-up of n man who never boosts his own com munity but always knocks every project started to muke better huHi ness or living conditions. Ho if small and narrow, that's all. But the unfortunate part of it is that he is usually so small and narrow that it does no good to try and make a booster out of him. About the only definition of a "good knocker" is the old pioneer definition (f a "good Indian." Some people are so mentally con structed that they would rather live In poverty all thoir lives if the rund to prosperity they blazed could be traveled by their neighbors. Business has turned the corner. 1922 is t paved rood. Step on her. Let's go. j DKOP THE FAIR. v The best thing Portland and Ore t gon an do is to drop the 102.1 Fair f and tend to business. Events so far have more than confirmed every forecaat made by J The Voter as to the HI effect of at- tempting to proceed with the untimo- 1 venture. J There will be no disgrace attach , Ing cither to Oregon or Portland if the project is dropped now, for the I difficulties and general conditions J entirely justify his abandonment on . Its marks. Rather, sensible people j throughout the world, in so far as they bear of it, will commend our f tt and city for good sense In knowing enough to turn away from an undertaking when events have demonstrated its - biappropriateness to- bunines conditions as they prevail here and all throughout the world. If a man starts a new venture, and conditions prove especially tin favorable, his banker does not hesi tate to advise him to lay the project aside for a few years and mean while devote his energies to holding his main business . togother and building it up. While an enthusi astic business man hates to swallow the bitter pill of advice of this kind, as it is a lot more fun to try to carry on in the face of probable dis aster, no dishonor attaches to his following such sound advice. Rather he is to be complimented and honor ed for his common sense and for not persisting in risks which the times have made almost too hazard ous. The proponents of the fair. likewise, cannot be criticized if they follow this common sense plan. They have done their utmost. They will be condemned only if they persist in an attempt which conditions have doomed. Supposing the enthusiasts cannot give up the big idea what then? Either the fair must be financed mainly by private subscription in Portland in the near future, or the chance must be taken of the people of the state voting the taxes for it at the November election. Portland business men and prop erty owners are in no shape- to put up $5,000,000 or more for any un necessary purpose, and while we have no doubt that millions would be Ijjif it came to that, the hardship on many would be altogether too heavy, Business is on thin ice. Even our most solid financial institutions are having to . exercise extraordinary care. This is no time to ask our bankers, manufacturers, merchants and the few property-owners who have any money left to put up mil lions for any public subscription. So far as voting taxes is concern ed, any further attempt to vote a property tax is doomed to defeat, The state is in no mood to accept such an additional burden on top of the taxes which already must be faced, especially as from 20 per cent to 40 per cent of taxes are de linquent in some counties. To try to vote the fair tax onto gasoline, when all the money that can be raised from gasoline is need ed for completion of our state high way system, is to fly in the face of a public sentiment that is determin ed 1 that the road system be com pleted. Jo try to vote-an income tax tc finance the fair would be equally difficult. Income taxes are toe heavy now, and the active protest that would go up against adding to them would defeat the move. We may have to have on income tax in erder to relieve property of some of the existing tax burdens, but there is no sound business excuse for vot ing it In order to finance a fair. There are other sources of taxa tion, but the same kind of objection exists to all of them based on the inopportuneness of the purpose, to say nothing of the outrageous prin ciple of voting taxes on general or special property. The verdict would not come till November, 1922, unless by some un expected twist the ' measures go on the ballot in May, which at this writing seems Impossible. And in November, with an adverse verdict, the- fair would have to be abandon ed then or else financed by private scbscription in Portland. Why per sist in the face of such a prospect? In proportion as the people of Portland gradually are learning the point of view of the outside state with reference to the fair, they are becoming reconciled to the idea tha' the project is untimely. Indifference as to whether it is held is very gen eral, even with the man on the street. "I was strong for the fair, but 1 don't care now," is the comment heard pretty much everywhere in Portland. In the face of this feel ing of indifference, the financing of the fair or even the voting of tuxes for it will become increaisingly diffi cult. rome or ine people who ore so wrapped up in the fair idea thut it is religion with thorn ure still trying to bolster it up by every method. They try to muke it appear that public sentiment is still strong for it. An example is the Portland Tel egram, which sent wires to a num- lier of out-of-town citizens, a-sklng for expressions. In every instance, the recipient of the telegraphic in quiry was already strongly on record in fuvor of or interested in tho ex position project. Several were among those numed on the Board of Direct ors of the Fair. To the unitiated render, tho replies received from these hund-pickod outsiders might appeal as indicating that some reul sentiment exists out in Oregon in behalf of holding the fair. Some day Telegram readers will grow tired of being continually deceived. This is simply a typical instance ot the kind of deception ordinarily practiced by that newspaper. Sentiment out in the state so far as the fair is concerned is mainly indifferent as yet. Of those few who have taken position for orj against it, thonu opposed are in the majority. Those who are indiffer ent are certain to swing, moat of them, into the opposition. The fiiianclul condition prevailing in their home neighborhoods will lx the main Influence to swing thrm, but other influence will be at work which cannot be offset The primary nominating campaign is to come soon. What is set forth from plat' form and press during that cam paign will tend to arouse the state against the fair, and to some extent against Portland for trying to vote $2,000,000 onto the outside for a fair to be held in Portland. To drop the fair project will be to give the wound a chance to heal. To persist in the fair project will be to open the wound wide, and friction unquestionably will ensue that will split the state more or less against Portland. It is not for the interest either of Oregon or Portland to per sist in an issue which threatens such sinister results. Aside from who is at fault, the fact remains that the fair tax proposal raised sectional issues which it would be far better to bury and bury deep. Reports of what happened at Salem during tht special session are certain to be set forth and rehashed all through the primary nominating compaign as well as the fair cam paign, should the issue of the fair be maintained. Some of these re ports will be distorted and exagger ated until they do far more harm to Oregon, Portland and the fair than they would were the simple truth told. It would be better to drop the whole business rather than stir the mess up, for it was a mess. So far as any evil happening to Portland or Oregon by abandoning the fair is concerned, there will be nona greater than the humiliation felt by a man who quits drinking after boasting that he would drink the town dry. Outside of Oregon, few people have heard of the fair. The resolutions passed by Congress made hardly a dent. The polite let ters exchanged with governors of other states will have been forgot ten, even if they are remembered to now. True, Seattle, Spokane, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other competing cities have done their ut most to encourage Portland to go ahead with the fair, as our com- petitors will gain pretty much the entire benefit of a Coast fair with out the expense or tremendous ef fort necessary to the holding of it. We may have to stand a bit of ridi cule from them, but we are used to that and are growing industrially at a rate that justifies their envious flings. We will live through all the sarcasm they may feel disposed to waste on us. At that, our quitting the fair at this time will not give them the chance to joke that they will have if we hold a $6,000,000 fair, for a $6,000,000 fair after San Francisco will be worse than a joke if we call it a world's fair. And if we do not call it a world's fair, what's the use of deluding ourselves into the notion that any foreign countries except Japan and possibly China will be handsomely represented here? Honor and common Bense dictate the dropping of the fair project while the dropping is good. Oregon Voter. . COOLING MILK REDUCES LOSS Natural lea Can Be Harvested on Ma jority of Farms and Is Most Profitable Crop. (Prepared by tha United State Department of Asrloultura.) Customer This milk Is sour. Milk Inspector Your bacteria count Is too high. Cheesemaker I can't make good cheese out of this milk. Buttennaker We .can't use this cream, Hurts, doesn't It? Tet that Is what happens regularly every year when can after ran of milk arrives at tho milk plant or creamery sour. One creamery returned over $2,600 worth of milk and cream In oue year to farmers. A milk plant received nearly 50,000 gallons of sour milk In one year. Why? Because the milk was held and shipped at too high a temperature and the bacteria In it multiplied so ; rapidly that the milk soured before it arrived. j fooling milk on the farm will re- j uucv tins loss, ah mm is required is a supply of lee and a little care. Nat ural lee can be harvested on farms whereSA .pur cent of our milk Is pro- dncefl; anff It lTone of tne. real fay ing crops of the furin. Few tools are required ;i and for the average farm two. saws, two pair of tWH, two Ice hooks, : one pointed bar, and one straight board for marking :i'.iould he sufficient. The first thing to do Is to provide a place to store the ice. If Ice Is scarce and hard to put up, It would probably be well to build an Ire limisp, plans for which may be obtained from the dairy division, .United Stales Depart ment of Agriculture. When Ice li abundant mid easily harvested. It may be cheaiKT to disregard the shrinkage factor and store It In a pit. cellar, shed, or other place, and Insulate It with sawdust or shavings. If this Is done, 20 to 50 per cent additional lee should be provided to allow for shrinkage. Where cream only Is to be cooled, al low at least one-half ton of lee per cow. For cooling milk, allow 1 tons per cow. These quantities should be enough to leave a margin for house hold use; but It Is better to have too much than too little. Whenever prac ticable, build the Ice house In the form of a cube, allowing 45 cubic feet of space for each ton of Ice. The pond or stream selected for cut ting Ice should of course be free from dirt or contamination from barnyards, privies, or refuse heaps. The lee ''' "''Jp I f ' Vy " cTose"" Together- possible, and?" all cracks and air spaces filled In with sawdust. Cakes that are cut squarely and are uniform In size ant shape pack together with less air space and are convenient to handle. The cost of Ice Is smali, and the work generally comes during alack season. There Is little reason, therefore, why every farmer In the natural-Ice section should not have Ice with which to cool bis dairy products, and to make such delicacies as Ice cream, Iced tea. Iced buttermilk. Iced fruit and vegetables, -etc., possible on the farm. Detailed Information on harvesting and storing Ice will be found In Farm ers' Bulletin 1078, "Harvesting and Storing Ice on the Farm," which may be obtained on request from the Uni ted States Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Enterprise Want Ads will bring results. Cost but a few cents Build Your Own I (C? in. 1 Cutting Ice for Cooling Dairy Products In Summer. should be kept clear of snow, as snow retards freezing. 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