CAN'T "POINT WITH PRIDE"
Very Few Meat Markets and Restau
rants are Clean and Sanitary
Deputies from the office of J. D.
Mickle, Food and Dairy Commission
er, have spent three days in Oregon
City investigating every place where
food products are manufactured or
sold They use in their inspection
work a new card system that gives
credit for every detail in the construc
tion as well as in cleanliness.
The score card is based on one hun
dred points for a perfect plant. Some
of the places where Oregon City peo
ple get their food do not score very
complimentary, others are classed by
the inspector as being very good.
The following is in substance the
report of Sheriff Schrock and Fullen
wider to their chief: We find one of
the markets that of Farr Bros, in ex
ceptionally good condition; with that
of R. Petzold a close second. The
latter has the cleanest slaughter
house we have seen for Some months
Mr. Strebigs occupies the other ex
treme, being the filthiest we have
ever seen. He has been given one
week time to place his market in first
class shape and is now busily at work
cleaning and repairing. His slaughter
house is in better shape than that of
Kloostra which brings his score to
tal, several points above the latter.
P. A. Kloostra has also been given
one weeks time to make some much
needed change to his slaughter house
The score of Ave markets, four with
slaughter houses included as follows:
Farr Brothers, Market and slaugh
ter house, C8 points; R. Petzold, Mar
ket and slaughter house. 68 points;
Flora Cornelius, Market alone, 62.4
points; H. W. Streibig, Market and
slaughter house, 34.5 points; P. A.
Kloostra, Market and slaughter house,
A. Brown, 7th 66.4 points.
There are four Candy factories in
Oregon City, all small plants and not
in satisfactory condition as is seen by
the score. Mrs. Newton and T. F.
Troon conduct their factories in con'
nection with their homes and are very
careless about cleanliness.
The other two are poorly lighted
and poorly ventilated buildings. Utt
er lack ot realization ot the respon
sibility that rests on them is the
cause for the great carelessness.
The Score: Mrs. Nettie Miller, 68
points; Mrs. J. Newton, The Spa
Candy Factory, 41.8 points; H. Bur-
gonye, The Falls, 38 points; W. F.
troop, 7th. Street, 29 points.
There are two small bakeries in
Oregon City, one in very good con
dition, the other we believe to be a
hopeless case. The buildings occupl
ed Mr. Holodosos is utterly unfit in its
present condition for a bakery and
while Mr. George Harding, the owner,
is now repairing it, it is hardly possi
ble to make it a fit place for a bak
ery. It is doubtful whether Mr. Holo-
dosos can ever be taught to conduct
any plant in a sanatary way. Wishing
to give him a n opportunity to make
good we have given him one weeks
time.
Score: Ed. Young and Company,
7th Street Bakery, 70.5 points; John
Holodosos, 502 Water Street, 14.4
points.
The sanatary conditionary condi-
'tions of the Dairies furnishing the
Oregon City milk supply have im
proved since the inspection in the
spring. Notwithstanding the im
provements that have been made
there is still room for more. "A
dairy cannot be too clean."
The following score compose the
conditions of the Oregon City dairies
with those of a perfect dairy, taking
into consideration and equipment of
the dairy and the cleanliness of
methods.
Hazelwood Dairy, Chris Naegli
80.6, very good; Green Point Dairy,
Gus Englebrecht, barn and milk room
not completed 75.8, good; Maple
Springs Dairy, L. Hartke, new barn
under construction 67.3, good; E. W.
Wallbaum 60.1, fair.
In eating houses Oregon City is
blessed with a good variety. As in al
most every other city, there are
some eating housees operated by
people who understand the buisness,
and take great pride in their work.
They deserve greater credit than we
can give them. Others are operated
by people who know little and care
less about cleanliness than they do
for the almighty dollar.
It also be stated in passing? that
Oregon City is the worst rat infested
town we have seen.Rats and ram
shackle buildings together no doubt
are a great menace to the health of
Oregon City people.
The score of the eating houses
Home Restaurant, John Leary,
Main Street, 84.7 points; Electric Ho-
tel. J. J. Tobin, Main Street, 78.0
points; Willamette Hotel, R. B. Mo
ses, 72.1 points; Cliff House, S. J.
Dickson, 59.8 points; J. E. Armstrong,
9th & Main, 56.2; Portland House, M,
Beck, Main jStreet, 55.7 points; Bridge
Hotel, 110 Seventh Street, 55.4 points;
Brunswick Restaurant, B. W. Silcox,
. 46.4; Woodbine Hotel, Mrs. C. H. Jer
emiah, 46.1; J .Van Vorst, "7th and
Water, 45.5; City Restaurant, Young
Chun, Main Street, 45.0; The Falls, H.
Burgoyne, Main Street, 42.5; Chop
House, r . Price, 31.6.
. The groceries are in fairly good
condition. However a little more care
should be exercised in keeping fruit,
vegetables, smoked meaty etc., protect
ed from flies and dust. Consumers
can do a great deal of good by re-
fusing to buy from a grocer who is
careless in such matters. Butter ab-
sorbs odors very rapidly and its rapid
deterioration is often due to its asso
ciation with other comodities in the
grocery. The Harris grocery is the
only one we found that did not have
a special ice box for butter.
We found the County Health Of
ficer, Dr. J. A. Van Brakle very active
and anxious to co-operate with us. De
puty Prosecuting Attorney Stipp is
also a live wire on the sanitation
squad.
M. S. Shrock.
G. H. Fullenwider.
The Family Cough Medicine
In every home there should be a
bottle of Dr. King's New Discovery,
ready for immediate use when any
member of the family contracts a
cold or a cough. Prompt use will stop
the spread of sickness. S. A. Stid of
Mason, Mich., writes: "My whole
family depends upon Dr. King's New
Discovery as the best cough and cold
medicine in the world. Two 50c bot
tles cured me of pneumonia." Thous
ands of other, families have been
equally benefited and depend entirely
upon Dr. King's New Discovery to
1 cure their coughs, colds, throat and
lung troubles. Every dose helps. Price
50c and $1.00. All druggists. . H. E.
Bucklen & Co. Philadelphia or St
Louis.
Leon DesLarzes, violin teacher, 714
Jefferson Street, Phone Main 112.
ENTERTAINING A GUEST
How a Farmer Made a City Chap
Thoroughly Enjoy Himself
A e-entleman of the legal persuas
ion (and by the way an old friend,
but a gay man,) came out to make us
a visit and as he put it to "recreate,"
have a little shooting and an out-of-door
vacation. We made up our minds
that the "vacation" part was only a
figure of speech and as he said that
any assistance which he could render
us in any way of help, he would be
only too glad to do that made us
wonaer wnen ne was going w uu uie
shooting.
He "lucidated" a good deal that first
evening on the law, for he was young,
and as he was trying to dig an exis
tence from out between the stumps
and rocks it was very interesting, but
as he had placed a box of very good
cigars on the mantle and told me to
help myselt, 1 told him 1 had very neari
given up the habit of smoking, but
for company's sake I would smoke
a little with him. I kept him going as
long as I could as I liked the flavor of
the weed he had brougnt.
But finally he thot he would retire
to bed and wanted to know what time
we arose. I told him I would call him.
I suppose it was about the time that
he got to sleep that I told him that
breakfast was ready he thought
there was some mistake, but we as
sured him it was alright. He told my
wife that a very small poached egg
and a cup of coffee was an ample
breakfast for him. 1 passed him the
bacon but he declined with thanks. I
was busy thinking how he was going
to live through until noon on that
but did not say anything.
After we had another cigar or two
he seemed anxious to "recreate."
I gave him a thin pair of gloves, as
his hands were too soft, and told him
we would go out and get in the shade
of a 7 foot cross-cut saw handle until
noon. Long about 8 or 9 o'clock he
caught the whiff of bacon frying, but
I told him breakfast was over and if
a whiff came to him it was cabbage
and greens, but I believe if he had
the chance he could have eaten a large
egg. We had a couple of cigars and
while we were smoking he said he be
lieved his hands were too sore to saw
any more that day, and they did look
a little raw. I told him alright. He
could harrow for the rest of the day
as he could place the lines across his
back, and all he would have to do was
to follow the horses as they would
drag the harrow.
He ate more for dinner than he had
for breakfast and when he came limp
ing in at evening he said he had been
smelling fried onions for two or three
hours and wanted to know if we had
any for supper. I told him no, but if
he wanted to do a little shooting 1
could tell him where there was a covey
of grouse. I did not just understand
what he said but it commenced with
ad.
After supper, and he was not so
particular what it was he ate, he said
he thought he would not light a cigar
as he never cared to relight one after
it went out and that he would go- to
be'd without smoking. .
That gave me a pointer, for if their
is anything good to me in a cigar it is
to light it and smoke a few whiffs
at it and then lay it down and let the
nicotine saturate it, and relight it and
have a good smoke. 1 told my wife he
was smoking too much that was the
matter with him so as he was out of
the way I put in the evening lighting
cigars and laying them aside as I did
not know how long he could stay. I
guess I would have overdone it if my
wife had not sneaked out a few when
I left the room.
Next morning there wits nothing
left of him but his appetite and as he
he said he slept all right. I could not
understand how it was that he did
not want to harrow or saw wood, so
I told him if he did not care to saw
wood or harrow he could get the lad
der and pick apples that day or else
pick up prunes. As. the prunes require
stooping, picking apples seemed to ap
peal to him as the easier, although he
did not say anything, but just before
dinner he fell out of a tree and
sprained his wrist and one of his an
kles very bad, but managed to eat
some, and after dinner 1 went to get
him a cigar, but the box was empty.
He said he thot if I would hitch up
and take him to the depot he would
go home and try to get a job on a
foot ball team and rest up a little. As
I was afraid he would fall back on re
lit cigars I took him.
Dodge is O. K. O. K. means some
marriages, some birtns, no aeatns.
For Dodge is healthy.
No thefts, no crimes, hence no ar
rests, And in prunes and apples wealthy.
Where to put. or how to' realize
On what we have raised, is the ques
. tion.
Ben Benson of the law firm of Ben
son & Benson, of Portland, was a
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin for
several days last wees.
Dodge is out of a post office and
the nresent incumbent will not take
it for longer will probably be the
means of giving us a rural route.
Respectfully,
"You See."
Children- Cry
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OREGON CITY COURIKR, THURSDAY, OCT.
BSEN (EMT
STICK!
If a business of magnitude, a, com
bination of interests of business men
is undertaken, the first thing is to
look it over and determine if it is
feasible, practicable and profitable.
If it is so determined, then the men
get together AND IT GOES.
These men determine a course and
they will stick to that policy until
they win or go broke and, they usu
ally win.
There does not have to be mission
aries sent out to preach the "hang
on" gospel, nor to plead with those
who lack kidney and spines.
When the word "go" Is given, these
men go, and they never look back or
quit going until they win or go aown.
But these men are brought up ac
cording to strict rules of the business
game, and when they once decide on
a move, their training holds, them to
it.
Rut the matter of eetting the far
mers to organize for mutual benefit,
to induce them to co-operate, buy to
gether, sell together and eliminate
the useless go-between and waste, ex
pensesthis is a hard proposition, for
the reasons there must be so large an
organization to have effective strength
and for the -further reason that a
farmer has never been trained along
these modern business lines.
There is today a movement for the
organization and betterment of the
conditions ot tne larmers in uregon.
Its splendid success or dismal fail
ure will depend entirely on the individ
ual farmer.
If they quit at the quarter poll they
will go back to the stable and stay
there.
If they will stick, stick through
thick and thin, stick in the face, of dis
couragements and stick when it means
sacrifice and go down in the pocket
book if they will play this game un
til they get more organization and
more strength, then they will win out,
they will be a power in Oregon.
If any of you Equity men are get
ting cold feet because the returns
for your $2 assessment hasn't been $3,
look a little farther ahead and get a
new toe hold. ' '
When you feel discouraged because
returns are not coming as fast as you
had anticipated, then just look at Ida
ho, and go to it.
Uregon has 1400 Equity members.
Idaho has 10,000.
Idaho has an organization with a
push behind it, and the country's big
gest combinations, like the Studebak
er Co., the consolidated Wagon &
Machine Co., are bowing down before
them and giving them about what
they ask for.
Idaho farmers are getting results
pocketbook results, and they are a
power in business and politics.
Idaho has a legislative committee
that is on the job at every day's : ses
sion and the legislature has several
thinks and considerations 1 before it
puts through anything . those ten
thousand Equity men are not going to
approve of.
The Courier wants to say to the
Equity men of Oregon, stay with it.
Keep your eye on idano.
See what Hood River apple growers
have done.
Note the great success of the Cal
ifornia orange and lemon growers.
SUCK!
There will be mistakes made and vou
will get in bad on some things. There
will be times when these may cost
you a little money, but if you will
hang on and stay with it; if you will
keep steadily extending the Equity
and increasing its strength, just so
surely will come out of it results the
kind that will raise your nose off the
grindstone and take you out of the
hole of having the other fellow tell
yod what you shall sell the stuff you
raise for, and what you hall pay for
tne stun you buy.
Stay with the organization and
build it up where you will have a hand
in fixing things.
Brown.
LET US HIT BACK
Not Farmers Produce Alone Should
be Inspected, Condemned and Confis
cated
Editor Courier:
As Clackamas County has millions
of horse power going to waste enough
to supply all the heat, light and pow
er now used in Clackamas ' County.
Only a few of us as yet see the won
derful advantages to the farmer and
other poor people in using this power.
in connection with this 1 wish to say
that we have still a greater power
than that going to waste and this
power extends all over the United
States and is capable of making every
farmer independent. Capable of mak
ing every laborer a home owner with
peace and plenty.
1 his power is the political power
vested in the ballot of the working
people.
Now in order to use this power all
must pull in one direction. The way we
have been using our franchise has
done us no good, but harm, because
we let half of our power pull one way
and the other hair of our power pull
the other way, which only results in
a tug of war among ourselves and the
millionaire walks off with all the leg
islation and appropriations of money,
land and jobs of all kinds, and we are
allowed to raise the game birds and
the sports from the cityc ome out
with their trained dogs and kill them
in front of your door, -sometimes on
Sunday. If they kill a pig, horse, cow
or calf, it will cost you more to collect
it than the stock would sell for at
high prices.
These dudes from the city are em
ployed at good salaries by the Horti
cultural society to have your orchard
grubbed and the bill is charged up to
you. This is confiscating your propr
erty without just compensation and
making you pay for the confiscating.
They now say if your dried prunes
have the brown rot they too will be
confiscated and all prune orchards are
infested "more oi less with brown rot
so it means confiscating all the prunes
of Oregon. They confiscated my neigh
hor's whole dairy because he washed
his containers in well water. We
should raise a fund and defend this
man in the courts.
We are the farmers of Oregon and
should control the farming legislation
all the boards of agriculture and hor
ticulture and pass stringent laws for
the inspection of rubber goods, woolen
goods and all other property on the
market that we have to buy at trust
prices, and compel the manufacturers
to stamp them exactly what they are
and what they contain.
We should have the State and Nat
ional Government furnish 'commiss
ions to ascertain the labor cost of pro-
ducing these articles and regulate
prices accordingly. Also transporta
tion should be regulated the same way.
If we fail to have our political power
pull in this' direction we will have all
our. products confiscated by city dudes
who will go back to Oregon City and
drink river water, have typhoid, pay
all they get for the job to the doctors'
medical association and die, never
knowing that they were helping to
lift, a curtain showing the people a
new world where the people ruled.
P. W. Meredith.
The Louisiana Way
Louisiana farmers in many . local
ities have organized hog shipping
clubs for marketing their products.
They have found such an arrangement
of great value, especially to those
farmers who have small quantities of
certain products for disposition. The
Louisiana Swine Breeders' Association
is pushing the . movement and new
clubs are being formed all over the
StThe local club operates as follows:
A date is announced by the local sec
retary as shipping day, and on that
day all members who are ready bring
in their hogs, and load a car or two
cars, as the supply justifies. A special
mark is put on each lot, so each far
mer will receive pay for his own pro
duct, as each lot . is. sold separately.
By intelligent co-operation the far
mers arrange their affairs so that' all
have hogs to market at the same time,
tnd- they try to have their shipments
as nearly uniform as possible.. Ship
ments are made direct to commission
firms of know ability and integrity.
This is the right kind of business
progress; and when these local clubs
are all federated into a national as
sociation, so they can have much
greater control over the markets, by
a thoroughly intelligent system of
distribution, still greater benefits will
be possible. , .. ; , .. -
From the New Oregon President
I believe the Equity plan to be the
thing farmers throughout the United
States have been in need oi. we ex
pect ereat things of this organiza
tion, iust started in Oregon, and in
tend to work to help make it the
greatest of all farmers' organizations.
We- already have hundreds ,oi entnus
iastic members,' and hope, before
snriner opens, to double our member
ship. Wm. Grisenthwaite, ; President
State Union, Oregon. -
.'EQUITY MEN, ATTENTION
Mr. WniV Griesehthwaite' of Route
3, Oregon City, Ore., was chosen by
the members of the recent State Con
vention of the F. S. E. to represent
Oregon as a member On the National
Board of Directors.
All Equity members in Oregon
should clip the blank ballot that ap
pears, in the Up-To-Date farmer,
place Mr. Grisenthwaite s name nere
on and forward same to National
Headquarters at once. This is a very
important matter if we' wish to get
a member on the Board of Directors.
Attend to it at once, as the; ballots
must be at Indianappplis'on or before
Nov. 5. Ever member Of- Lquity is
morally bound to comply with this
request. .
I ours,.
! 'Casta
Yours for the Asking
I notice in the Courier that several
membersof the Farmers' Society of
Eouitv desired copies of the Home
Tax Exemption measure. If any per
son will give me their names ana aa-
dress I will be pleased to forward a
conv of the same ' together with a
brief leaflet; Blank initiative petition
for signatures also sent to whoever
will try' to circulate' it.
rti i.
f, sincerely,
.Alfred D. Cridge
Secretary Home-Tax Exemption Le
ague. Ut4 n;ast 4za JNortn roruanu,
Oregon.
STATE AND COUNTY OFFICERS
Publicity Committee
P. W. Meredith. Oregon City, R. 1.;
John F: Stark, Oregon Uty, K. a; w,
W. Harris, Oregon Uty K. d.
State UHicerg
Pres. Wm. . Grisenthwaite, - Oregon
rit.v. Rt. 3 : Sec. Treaa X . U. JSU
rnnan: Directors: A.- R. . Lyman,
Gresham, Ore; F. M. Hall, Clatskan-
ie, Ore; E. L. Heiiyer, ceaverton, a.
2: P. H. McMahon, Newberg ,R. 2;
J. W. Smith, Aurora, R. 1.
C ackamas Co. union unicers
Pres. S. L. Casto, Oregon City, R,
3? Vice Pres. J. H. Bowerman, UacK-
amas, R. 1; Sec. Treas. F. G. Buchan-
nan, Uregon Uty. directors: w.
Rniurmsn. Clackamas. R. 1: J. C,
Rover. Clackamas, R. 1; Wm. Gria-
ent.hwait.. Orecon City R. 3.
Clackamas to. Local unicers
Alberta Pres. Jesse Mayfield; Sec.
Ferris Mayfield, Springwater, R. 1.
Beaver Creek Pres. Fred Kamerath;
Sec. W. W.' Harris, Oregon City R. S;
Canby Pres. Geo. Koehler; Sec. R.
C. Brodie, Canby,- K. a; uirus rreu.
A. J. Kelnhofer, Sec.' S. L. Casto,
Oregon City, R. 3; Clackamas Pres.
A. Steben;.ec. w. -a., iaywaiv,
Clackamas, Oregon ; Clarkes Pres.
Albert Gasser; Sec. John L. Gard, Or
egon City, it. 4; Colton ires. J.
Sandall; Sec. W. S. Corbett, Col ton,
Oregon; Currinsville Pres G. C. He-
lple; Bee. JN. Kj. umn, cstacauu, a. x,
Damascus Pres. J. C. Royer; Sec. C.
C. Longwell, Barton R. 1; Highland-i-Pres.
M. E. Kandle; Sec. P. M. Kir
chem, Oregon City, R. 2; Macksburg
fres. C. U. Keesung; oec. J. w.
Smith. Aurora. R. 1; Maple Lane
Pres. H. M. Robbins; Sec. G. F, Mig
hells, Oregon City, R. 3; Molalla
Pres. J. W. Thomas; Sec. I. M. Toliver,
Molalla,. Ore;- Mt,- Pleasan Pres. P.
W. Meredith; Sec. F. G. Buchanan,
Oregon City, Ore; Mew Jra ires, a,
Staehelev: Sec. C.'.B Beverman, Ore
gon City,-R.'l; 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; bee. M. J.
Bvers. Clackamas. R. 1: Sunnyside
Pres..R. P. Grady; Sec E. E. Oehl
chlaeirer. Clackamas Rt. 1: Viola
Pres. James Parett; Sea. J. R. Wool
worth. Newberg. R. 2; Wilsonville
Pres. M. C. C. Young; ' Sec. R. B.
Seely, Sherwood, R. f. , .
Gkildrjen dy.
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTORIA
23, 1913
NEWS
EQUITY. STATE MEETING
Matters Disposed of by Delegates in
Portland Saturday
Meeting called to order by Pres.
Grisenthwaite.
N. H. Jones. J. W. Moore, and Os
car Whitecotton appointed committee
on resolutions.
Committee on credentials reported
27 delegates present.
. Moved and supported that certain
other delegates present not supplied
with credentials be seated. Carried.
Talk by the Pres. concerning leg
islation.
Moved and supported that the next
State Convention be held at Oregon
City. Carried.
Report of the resolutionsc ommittee.
Resolution offered by Mr. Schmitke
to raise the initiation fee to $10.00
85.00 of Which should go to pay for
a share of stock in the Equity Ware
house Co.
Motion made and supported that
the resolution be tabled and the Sec.
be instructed to notify each local to
take action on the matter and report
at the next state meeting. Carried.
Election of a member of the btate
Board to fill the vacancy left by the
resignation of Mr. Schulmerich.
.1. Schmitke nominated am unan
imously elected. .
Moved and supported that jur.
Grisenthwaite be allowed $3.00 per
dav and expenses for any time he
may find it necessary to spend in his
work as fres. of the state union.
Carried.
Motion made and supported that the
State Board be authorized to adopt
any plan they may see fit to furnish
funds to send a delegate to the Nat
ional Convention. Carried.
Resolutions adopted:
Be it resolved that the organizers
be requested by the State Board to
organize as described by the Ritual
of the first and second degrees.
Resolved that this state Convention
endorse the Holme's $1500 exemption
amerfdment.
Resolved by the Farmers Society of
Equity of the State of Oregon that we
heartily endorse the efforts of Sen
ator Harry Lane to eliminate the re
strictions from the manufacture of de
natured alcohol. .
Whereas, the State of Oregon has
appropriated $150,000 to the World's
Fair to be held at San Francisco and
Whereas the farmers are expected to
furnish the major part of the exhibit,
be it resolved that the State Sec. be
instructed to correspond with those in
authority and secure such funds and
co-operaion as the Farmers' Society
of Equity is entitled to in proportion
to taxation and prepare an exhibit
worthy of the ' possibilities of the
State of Orecron.
The State Grange having appointed
a committee for the purpose mention
ed in this resolution and no steps haV'
ing been taken by them to date,
therefore be it resolved that the
Farmers Society of Equity assembled
in State Convention elect or appoint
a committee to confer with the Gran
ge, Farmers Union, and Federation of
Labor to further the steps toward the
better co-operation among its mem
bers in both buying and selling and
to take the necessary steps to get the
delegates together in time to report
at the next State Convention.
Believing that the interests of the
Farmers Society of Equity can be
benefited by reports of our State
meetings being published in the large
newspapers of the State, and belieV'
ing that absent members will be pleaS'
ed with the opportunity of knowing
what took place at said meetings,
therefore be it resolved that the Sec.
give to the Portland newspapers such
revised reports of the meetings as in
his judgement will be a benefit to the
society.
- Resolved that this Btate inaugurate
a campaign to have a member from
Oregon on the national board of di
rectors. ; Resolved that this State Convention
provide some means of sending a del
egate from Oregon to represent each
local in the state, in the National
Convention at Indianapolis.
Motion made and supported that the
Convention indorse Mr. Grisenthwaite
for National director. Carried.
A committee appointed by Governor
West at the suggestion of Dr. C. J.
Owens. Director of the American Com
mission, met in the Imperial Hotel,
Portland, to discuss and report on the
agricultural needs of Oregon. The
members present were H. G. Start
weather, Milwaukie; Geo. F. Rogers,
Salem; A. P. Davis, LaGrande, and H.
MacPherson, Corvallis. In . addition
Messrs. H. F. Cutting of Portland and
Win; Grisenthwaite, representing the
Farmers Society of Equity, were pres
ent as consulting members.
After considerable discussion, the
committee settled upon the following
as the paramount agricultural needs
of the State of Uregon:
1) Cheaper Credit: Interest rates
are too high, and in general, terms
of repayment are not adapted to
farm conditions. The state and nation
al governments should take a hand
in securing a .system wmcn win pro
vide loans for the farmer upon mort
?a?es and other collateral at rates
and upon terms which ensure the pro
motion of the great fundamental in
dustry.
12) ' State Guarantee oi L.ano n
ties: Steps should be taken to secure
compulsory uniformity of land regis-
teration is necessary to cneapen tne
transfer of property and secure sim
plicity and safety in pledging land as
a, security for credit.
(3) Co-operative Laws: The pres.
ent co-ooerative law of Oregon is
auite unsatisfactory. Careful prepa
ration should be maoe to irame a
suitable law to be presented at the
next meeting of the Legislature.
(4) The Federation of Farmers
Organizations: Various plans were
discussed for the federation of the
farmers' -organizations of the State,
especially with a view to securing a
more efficient and economical system
of marketing farm products. The
members of various organizations
present resolved to bend their efforts
toward bringing about such, a federa
tion. (5) Better Country Roads: One of
the worse handicaps to Oregon Agri
culture is the bad condition of our
country roads. Plans should be worked
out, if possible, to secure both federal
and . state aid in building up a sys
tem of highways.
The first four of these resolutions
were adopted by the State Convention.
Better Country Roads was rejected on
the ground that the federal and state
aid would be applied on the state high
ways that would be of little benefit to
the great majority of the farmers who
pay the tax.
F. G. Buchanan,
Sec.
EQUITY EDITORIALS
1 '". (P, W. Meredith.)"
One dollar a pound for beefsteak.
Not what the farmer gets but what
the consumer is going to pay accor
ding to the packers. ;
The packers paid one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars for one supper
in Chicago and if their lunch and
breakfast cost the same they have a
right to kick on the high cost of liv
ing. . ,
They want the government to raise
beef FOR THEM TO SELL and they
appropriate one hundred thousand
dollars to teach the farmers how to
raise cheaper beef for them to sell at
one dollar a pound. '
Once upon a time I raised beef for
Uncle Sam and also sold it for him
at retail at 8c per pound and he paid
me $00 per month for doing it. I won
der if the packers would cut alfalfa
and round steak for $60 per?
We have some wholesalers in Port
land that don't want to sell their
goods or bads to the Equity Ware
house Co., and now we Equity farmers
must by some other brands and maybe
other people will too.
Ihese Portland wholesalers are on
a par with the Chicago packers for
they too would like to have peoplf
raise stuff for them to sell, but they
seem to be a little too d particu
lar who they sell to. ......
This move for our Portland whole
salers or part of them, seems to be
bordering on a combination in re
straint of trade. Front street got into
a little trouble last spring and these
wholesalers have forgotten all about
it. They think Wickersham or some
other sham is Attorney General still.
If these wholesalers will kindly send
us a list of what brands they carry
and what country stores buy of them
we will give them space on the Equity
page to aid us hayseeds in complying
with all wishes of theirs as regards
patronage. It may be they have other
friends who would also comply in
this matter.
We may be able to get what infor
mation we need from the Equity
Warehouse Co. or the printing house
which furnished the labels for the
California fruit raised in Oregon, or
some one employed there to relable
goods. We could enquiro of the food
inspector.
When any organized set of people
tell the organized farmers that they
do not want to sell to them it seems
to me that for courtesy and fraternity
that we should take particular pains
to comply with their wishes and not
insist for one minute. That would
seem like we grew up out in the
country with common folks and not
up on modern business methods and
etiquette.
We ought to have our own brands
and patronage ourselves and not be
worrying the hie out of these whole
salers who have troubles plenty of
their own, with the future not the
brightest and have people raise stuff
for us to sell. The good book says "all
things come to those who wait. I
think it refered to pure water.
The first trust w we encounter when
we come into this world is the doc
tors' trust and the last one is the cof
fin trust, and between them are one
thousand and eighteen others and with
all their help we can't find the cause
of the high cost of living.
Some people think the
farmer is
prices for
getting such exhorbitant
everything is the reason
why Don-
gress has now taken the tariff off of
what the farmer produces, and it can
come in from all the corners of the
earth on the ship trust and go over
the railroad trust to the Commission
Trust to be delivered to the Whole
salers' trust and so on down to the
Retail Merchants' Association and you
can buy it, O! so much cheaper. The
packers say $1.U0 per. lb.
The Packers paid twenty thou
sand dollars for entertainment at
their hard times supper in Chicago
and it was not advertised as educa
tional, raligious or benevolent but as
they are The better class of citizens
we would not even hint that there
was anything wrong in entertaining
a. packer twenty thousand dollars
worth.
Some people think the cause of the
high cost of living is the high cost
of land, but you all know here that
$500 land raises 50c strawberries and
15c spuds, and at tho same time down
in the Ozark Mountains of Missouri
$50 land raises $2.00 strawberries and
$1.00 spuds. All this land belongs to
little farmers and down on the million
aires' land in Mexico they are rais
ing Well! Weill Weill I get off here.
"I have been somewhat costive, but
Doan's Regulets give just the results
I desire. They act mildly and regulate
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Altoona, ra.
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If you'll try Drifted Snow in baking your next
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Ask your grocer to send you a sack. It doesn't
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; Special Meeting at Mt. Pleasant
Mt. Pleasant Equity will meet Fri-
day night at the school house. This is
a special meeting for important busi
ness. Every momber is requested to be
present.
P. W. Meredith
'" " ' Pres.
CRYING FOR HELP
Lots of It in Oregon City But Daily
Growing Less ,,
The kidneys often cry for help.
Not another organ in the whole
body more delicately constructed;
Not one more important to health.
The kidneys are the filters of the
blood.
When they fail the blood becomes -foul
and poisonous.
There can be no health where there
is poisoned blood. t
Backache is one of the frequent in
dications of kidney trouble.
. It is often the kidney's croy for
help. Heed it.
Read what Doan's Kidney Pills
have done for overworked kidneys.
Read what Doan's have done for
Oregon City people. '
Mrs. John Beers, 204 Centre St.,
Oregon City, Ore., says: "Doan's Kid
ney Pills quickly relieved me of kid
ney and bladder trouble, evinced by
pain in my back and a tired feeling.
I can do my work without becoming
worn-out and I "am better in every
respect."
For ale by all dealers. Price 6Q
cents. Foster-Milburne Co., Buffalo.;
New York, sole . agents for United .
States. .
Remember the name Doan's and .
take no other. '
Nogi's Nerv Tonic.
Having been dedicated to the pro
fesijinu of arms, General Nogl was
taken, while still. a small boy, to see a
criminal decapitated nnd was rebuked
for BhmUlerlng at tho spectacle. After
nightfall, when all was davknens and
silence, he was required to go alone to
the bmlnl ground and bring buck the
culprit's head. The ordeal was de
signed to strengthen his nerves and
teach him to fenr nothing, living or
dead. Francis B. Lcnpp In Atlantic.
Our Language.
An Intelligent foreigner Is said to
have expressed himself after the fol
lowing fashion on the absurdities of.
the English language: "When I dis
covered that I was quick, I was fast;
If I stood Arm, I was fast; if I spent
too freely, I was fust, and that not to
eat was to fast. , 1 was discouraged.
But when I came across the senteuce,
The first one won one $1 prize,' I was
tempted to give up English and learn
some other language."
Neatly Turned.
Jack I hear that you called on your
girl's father. How did you come out?
Tom So so! I said to him, "Mr. X., I
love your daughter." ne said, "So do
I; now let's talk of something else."
Jack-A lid then- Tom-Then-well,
we talked 'of something else. Boston
Transcript.
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If you want to contribute directly to
the occurrence of capillary bronchitis
and pneumonia use cough medicines
that contain codine, morphine, heroin
and other sedatives when you have a
cough or cold. An expectorant like
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is needed. That cleans out the culture
beds or breeding places for the germs
of pneumonia and other germ diseas
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sults from a cold when Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy ia used. It has a world
wider reputation for its cures. It con
tains no morphine or other sedative.
For sale by Huntley Bros. Co.
SEVERE BRONCHIAL COUGH
Doctors Feared Lung Trouble,
Restored to Health by VinoL
The medical profession does not be
lieve that lung troubles are Inherited,
but a person may Inherit a weakness
or tendency to them. -
Mrs. Kate Heckman, Springfield,
Ohio, says: "A few years ago I was
In a Tery bad run-down condition, and
the physician told me I had consump
tion. I tried another physician, and
he told me I bad ulcers on my right
lung. I quit the physicians and
started on Vlnol. Today I am
perfectly healthy, and that Is why 1
recommend 'Vlnol'."
Vlnol soothes and heals the Inflam
ed surfaces and allays the cough,
Vlnol creates an appetite, strengthens
the digestive organs and gives the
patient strength to throw off in
cipient pulmonary diseases. .
Try a bottle of Vlnol with the nn
derstandlng that your money will be
returned If It does not help you.
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