OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1913
OREGON EQUITY .NEW
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STATE OFFICERS
President Win. Schulmerich of
Washington Co.
Vice-President Wm Grisenthwaite
of Clackamas Co.
Sec. TreasF. G. Buchanan of
Clackamas Co.
Directors: A. R. Lyman of Mult
nomah Co; F. M. Hall of Columbia
Co; P. H. McMahon of Yamhill Co;
J. W. Smith of Clackamas Co; E. E.
Hellyer of Washington Co. The Pres
ident and Vice. President are direct
ors also.
CLACKAMAS COUNTY OFFICERS
Pres. S. L. Casto of Carus Local.
Vice. Pres. J. H. Bowerman of Da
mascus Local.
Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchanan of Mt
Pleasant Local.
Directors: W. J. Bowerman of
Sunny side Local; J. ,C. Royer of Da
mascus Local; Wm. Grisenthwaite of
Beaver Creek Local.
LOCAL OFFICERS OF CLACKA-MASCO.
Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield. Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater R. 1.
Beaver Creek: Pres. Fred Kamar
ath; Sec. W. W. Harris, Oregon City
R. 3.
Canby: Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec.
R. C. Brodie, Canby R. 3.
Carus: Pres. A. J. Kelnhofer; Sec.
S. L. Casto, Oregon City R. 3.
Clackamas: Pres. J. A. Sieben;
Sec. Frank Haberlach, Clackamas
Oregon. ;
Clarkes: Pres. Albert Gasser; Sec
John L. Gard, Oregon City R. 4.
Colton: Pres. J. E. Sandall; Sec
W. S. Gorbett, Colton, Oregon.
Damascus: Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec.
H. T. Burr, Clackamas R. 1.
Eagle Creek: Pres. W. G. Glover,
Sec C. C. Longwell, Barton R. 1.
Highland Local Pres. M. E. Han
dle; Sec. S. S. Palmer.
Laurel Ridge Local Union Pres. G.
C. Heiple; Sec. N. E. Linn, Estacada,
Rt. 1.
Logan: Pres. W. E. Cromer; Sec.
P. M. Kirchem, Oregon City R. 2.
Macksburg: Pres. C. D. Keesling,
Sec. J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
Maple Lane: Pres. H. M. Robbins,
Sec G. F. Mighells, Oregon City R. 3.
Mt. Pleasant: Pres. P. W. Mere
dith; Sec. F. G. Buchanan, Oregon
City, Oregon.
New Era: Pres. Aug. Staeheley;
Sec. C. B. Riverman, Oregon City, R.
1.
Needy: Pres. J. D. Ritter; Sec E.
Werner, Aurora, R. 2.
Shubel: Pres. Chas. A. Menke;
Sec. Elmer Swope, Oregon City R. 4.
Stone: Pres. T. E. Brown; Sec
M. J. Byers, Clackamas R. 1.
Sunnyside: Pres. R. P. Grady;
Sec. E. E. Oeslschlager, Clackamas R.
1.
West Butteville: Pres. James Par
ett; Sec. J. R. Woolworth, Newberg,
R. 2.
Wilsonville: Pres. M. C. Young;
Sec. R. B. Seely, Sherwood, R. 5.
QUIT KICKING AND BOOST
Warehouse Plan Will Benefit All Far
mers and Should Go.
Oregon City, Oregon,
July 15, 1913
To the Editor:
The County Union meeting last Sat
urday certainly emphasis-ed the need
of hanging together first, last and all
the time. We need more confidence
in the men whom we choose to handle
our business and more ability to keep
our attention centered on the larger
phases of the problems confronting
us. Petty differences and mistakes
should not be allowed to push them
selves between us and success.
We have in the past heard a great
deal of kick about a few small things
of no importance simply because a
few men let these things obstruct
their view of "the progress we are
making.
For instance some people have been
absolutely positive that the Equity
Warehouse Company is due to fall.
Consequently they are lcudly lament
ing the five dallars invented in stock.
As a matter of fact each one of us
could lose fifty or ever a hundred
dollars in our effort to boost the
Warehouse Company to success and
consider that we would only have, a
small start on the sum we will lose
in the years to come should the Equity
Warehouse actually fail.
And look at the matter from the
other side we find that these chronic
knockers are themselves the only
visable obstacle laying between the
undertaking and success
Some men have a grat howl to
raise about the price we pay for men
to sit in the office. They are earning
their pay so long as they are doing
the work placed before them. It is
not a question of how much, but does
the man earn what he gets ? It is cer
tainly cheaper to pay a man three
hundred dollars a month and have him
earn it than it is to pay another man
fifty dollars for doing forty -five dol
lars worth of work. We must have
men large enough for the position and
then pay them accordingly.
It would appear much better for
the men starting up co-operative
stores and warehouses in their wood
sheds to help remedy and defects
that may be found in the Warehouse
Company. Instead of that each one
must start his own ware house and do
all possible harm by advertising the
failures of the state union. It may
be a cinch that the man who invests
money in these propositions will not
lose it, but it is not a cinch that the
men back of the schemes are large
enough to do business for the whole
state. If they actually have the abil
ity they should get out where their
services will be of benefit to the
whole.
Some make the statement that the
State Union is not legal acording to
the equity standard. What is the dif
ference whether it is made up of three
or five counties so long as we have
sufficient business to handle. The
same reason applied to our locals
would put us all out of business.
The Equity plan requires that locals
shall be organized at marketing cen
ters and not at school houses.
What a little optimism will do is
well shown by the way Beaver Creek
local has offered its support to the
Warehouse Company. Previous to
Saturday, th.e members had been sub
jected to the wails emanating from
the facial apertures of the men who
are so perniciously weilding their
pedal appendages. Consequently all
were rather dubious. However, after
being enlightened as to the real state
of affairs, each one was anxious to
contribute his moral and financial sup
port to the proposition.
It is to be hoped the effect will be
the same in all the other locals. Let
us quit the kicking and all boost the
only proposition that is big and
broad enough to do us any good.
W. W. Harris.
EQUITY SPARKS
The farmers af Oregon are working
together.
Farmers all over the United States
are organizing.
We are paying too much for what
we have to buy and selling too cheap
what we have to sell.
We will have the power to set a few
prices ourselves instead of the other
fellow when we are organized.
The president of our O. A. C. met
with us at our state meeting and gave
us a good talk. He says we are on the
the right track.
Why should not our state board of
directors co-operate with national
headquarters and send some organi
zers into the state of Washington, as
well as all over Oregon. We should
spread the gospel everywhere.
The Courier has been adopted by
the state union as the state organ, and
now the way to make it useful is for
the active members to use it. Use it
just like you owned it and it was
yours. Send in the Equity news from
your county union and your locals.
We can tell each other now what
we are doing and propose things to
be done.
Dr. Withycombe of our Stale Agri
cultural College told us why we had
to rob our soil to get crops to sell
and got' so little for them we could
not afford to buy potash and nitrogen
to build up our soil and if this sys
tem was allowed to run on our farm
ers will become poorer and poorer and
so will their farms.
Why should a farmers college be
devoted to teaching lawyers and doc
tors. The president of our 0. A. C.
tells us the legislature has so tied
up the money given to our college
that they are not allowed to spend
any part of it in helping the farmer to
make his crops. The Equity is to
have a legislature committee who will
look after this.
Our board of directors have a lot of
work before them and they are sup
posed to do this on their own expense
without pay. There will be no money
in the state treasury until a revival
is inaugurated and new members are
brought in by the thousands. This re
quires organizers and No. 1 organ
izers are scarce as our national of
ficers would like a few hundred.
MINORITY RULE.
The fact that our government
Is now In the hunds of a party
which iiolled only a minority of
the votes nt the lust election pre
sentM a problem of Importance.
This condition Is not a new one,
but It Is attracting a great deal
of attention all over the world.
The imimsltlon of the will of the
majority upon a whole people Is
a doctrine In whose defense
much bus been and much may
be said. But the Imposition of
the will of the minority upon
the whole people cannot be J us ti
ded In the same way. The so
lution which a great many wise
men are looking upon with favor
Is some scheme of proportional
representation which will give
every party as much representa
tion In the legislature as the
number of Its rotes would 'en
title it to. Such a scheme would
give every body of men of reason
able numbers holding some defi
nite political doctrine at least
some representation even though
they might not be numerous
enough to carry the elections in a
single district Nicholas Murray
Butler.
Causes of Stomach Trouble
Sedentary habits, lack of outdoor
exercise, insufficient mastication of
food, constipation, a torpid liver, wor
rv and anxetv. overea tins'. Dartakine
of food and drink not suited to your
age and occupation. Correct your hab
its and take Chamberlain's Tablets
and you will soon be well again. For
Cut Out the Robber Cows
In no system of farming is the ad
vantage of bookkeeeping so necessary
as in dairying and stock raising. It
was brought ont some time ago that
the average milch cow in the state of
Minnesota did not pay her own way,
It has been brought in the recent dis
cussion of high prices in the east that
the average farmer gets no more re
turn for conducting a dairy industry
than the value of the manure pile.
This manure pile which he surveys
as his net profits at the end of each
year must - go back to the land to
continue dairying another year for
the same results. Dairying for the
manure pile is bad business, and is
too prevailent, but the farmers them
selves don't know it, in the vast ma
jority of cases. In every herd there
are robber cows that produce 99-
cent dollars or even 75-cent dollars.
There is only one way to catch these
robber cows with the goods on them,
and that one way is in bookkeeping.
Many dairymen have adopted a sys
tem of records for each cow, and they
are the dairymen who are getting rich
while their brothers are growing
poorer every year.
Clackamas county has a business
agent and he has made extensive in
quiry and found a market for potatoes
and could dispose of 500 carloads this
fall if we had them. Every county
union should have a county business
agent and save every dollar you can
for the farmer. The farmer is the
most important man in American in
dustry.
PRES. CASTO'S SUGGESTION
Have Next County Meeting Open To
Public General.
July 21, 1913
Editor Equity News:
As president of the County Union
I wish to express my appreciation of
the manner in which the delegates and
others took part in the proceedings
of the meeting at Beaver Creek. The
large attendence present was .indeed
a pleasant surprise, as July is one of
the farmer's most busy months and
many of them feel that they cannot
sacrifice a single day at this time, and
yet I believe the old adage "nothing
ventured, nothing gained," is appli
cable to the farmer as well as any
others. It is a question in my mind
which was the gainer, the one who
made the venture and attended the
meeting, or the one who stayed at
home and reaped the hay. It surely
was a revelation to take note of the
keenness and enthusiasm everywhere
manifest. It is significant of the fact
that many of the farmers are fully
alive to the necessity of doing some
thing to accomplish their complete
emancipation. I only hope that our
enthusiasm will not deminish when
the novelty will have worn away.
I. would like to ask what our mem
bers think of making our next meet
ing an open one and inviting, yes
urging every farmer in the county to
attend. Should this be agreeable to
the majority I will make an effort
to get a good speaker on farm co-operation.
I will also endeivor to have
a musical program to relieve the busi
ness monotony.
As we had no invitation from any
local to hold our next meeting would
invite the locals to send invitations to
our board of directors who have the
task of choosing the iext meeting
place.
S. L. Casto.
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THE OPTIMIST.
If we are looking for good we can
generally And It The universe itself
Is good. All we need to discover that
fact is to relate ourselves to It In the
right way.
Pessimism Is usually a case of In
growing egotism.
The world has not treated us In the
way we Imagine we should be treated;
hence we take n dyspeptic view of
things generally.
For the most part pessimism is self
advertised failure.
When we think everything and every
body else Is wrong people will con
clude that we are wrong, and In so do
ing they will hit the sore spot.
I know a man who is always predict
ing dire calamities that never happen.
He Is a failure.
The Bume man Is forever talking of
the things be once did.
I know another man who lets the
things ho is doing now speak for them
selves. He is a success.
He Is also an optimist.
There are dire things happening to
the world earthquakes, fires, floods
and dlsasters-but there are so many
optimists that they repair the Injury
and build better than before.
Sun Francisco Is a greater city than
she was when a slip In the earth's
crust laid her low.
I ha,ve no doubt that the many cities
that recently suffered from cyclone
and flood will be better five years
hence than before the elements struck
them. They are filled with American
optimists, who have the will that tri
umphs over accident.
Whether or not optimism Is always
Justlfled, It generally Justifies Itself. It
helps to make the good in which It be
lieves. Moreover, the optimist escapes a
whole flock of forebodings about im
aginary Ills.
SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN.
Many good people seem to be alarm
ed because there are a number of new
cults in the world.
Why, bless these dear, timid souls,
there have always been new cults.
Some of them have succeeded and have
become the accepted doctrines of the
race. Others have disappeared.
But there was never much really to
be feared from any of them.
Today we are in a state of transition.
A new .generation Is coming to the
front and is Insisting on re-ezamlning
everything religion, politics, business.
Industry, labor, therapeutics and even
our systems of finance and taxation.
The young men of our age are not
content to take the word of the past.
They want to know for themselves.
The so called new cults are merely
efforts to Improve conditions.
Personally I believe In some of them,
and In others I do not believe, but I
am not afraid of any of them.
If they are not good they will not
last Meantime they will make people
think.
Truth Is not so puny that it need
fear one fad or a thousand. It out
lives all fads. For If the fads have
any substantial reason for being they
succeed and cease to be fads, and If
they have not they disappear and cease
to be anything at all.
For centuries a lot of good people
have said that man never could fly,
but man Is flying. Now a number of
other good people are disturbed be
cause so many aviators are killed.
Well, that Is sad and deplorable, but
through this tragic experience we are
learning how to Improve the aeroplane1
so that danger Is decreased. In time
It may become as safe to ride In the
air as on the earth or the sea.
Others are troubled because of food
cults, healing cults, suffrnglst cults, the
labor movement, the new woman move
ment, shifting standards as to matri
mony, socialism and what not. There
Is nothing to-be afraid of In all these
things. Most of them profess to seek
better ways and better days. They
provoke discussion. Eventually we
will sift out the chaff from the wheat,
and whatever contribution of good any
MAN'S DUTY.
The duty of a man Is to be
useful to his fellow men; If pos
sible, to be useful to many of
them; falling this, to be useful
to his neighbors, and, failing
them, to himself, for when he
helps others he advances the
general Interests of mankind.
Just as he who makes himself
a worse man does barm not only
to himself, but to all those to
whom he might have done good
if he had niude himself a better
one', so he who deserves well of
himself does good to others by
the very fact that he 1b prepar
ing what will be of Bervlce to
men. Seneca.
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Canned Salmon, 1-lb. cans
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25 lbs. good rice foy 1.25
Dried Peaches, per lb 08c
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