OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915.
News of the County and Suburbs
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Local and County Items of Interest to Our Readers
An Awful Blot
CHERRYVILLE
The hunter's moon is here.
From this time on we will have
general autumn weather.
Everybody particularly the house
wives are storing their cellars and
pantrys full of all kinds of canned
fruits and preserves. Never was
there such an abundance of every'
thing in this line,
Frank Stone, lately returned from
eastern Washington, where he has
been employed in the harvest fields
says that the crop of wheat was fine
all over the Palouse and Big Bend
counties, averaging fully 30 bushels
to the acre. The elevators are full
and one elevator has 11,000 sacks pil
ed on the ground, as there is but
little being shipped out. The price
is around 80 cents and very littl
moving at that, as the price seems to
be tending downward.
Rev. Runyan, who lately returned
from the Salem Conference on the
railroad land grant question, says the
people won a notable victory, as the
resolution calling upon lawyers to en
force the sale of the land forthwith at
$2.50 an acre to actual settlers in
tracts of not more than 1G0 acres, and
this without regard to the amount
of timber on any particular tract was
carried without a "cheep" from those
opposed. Before calling for an ex
pression from the delegates A. W,
Lafferty told them that if there was
any manner of doubt about the viva
voce vote about to be taken he would
demand a roll call and put every one
on record and those present and not
voting would be considered as oppos
ed. There were a good many voted
aye, but a big bunch sat sullen in
their seats and did not vote at all,
as there was not a single naye heard.
The battle is not over yet by any
means, as the railroad attorneys have
a whole bag full of tricks to spring
on the people later on. Mr. Runyan
says that he was not at all pleased
with the conduct and arguments of
State Treasurer Kay, the residary leg
atee of Gov. Withycombe on this
occasion, and the people will remem
ber his course in this matter on his
political plans for the future. Nei
ther did he like the proposition pro
posed by Representative Schuebcl, of
this county, whom he says he will
not vote for again although he has
always been a Republican. He speaks
in the warmest praise of the line of
talk put up by the Hon. Walter Dim
mick, and believes he is alright. He
certainly talked right at thi sconfer
ence. The Governor read a sort of
Miss Lizzie Mollycoddle, milk and
water sort of an address, in which he
deprecated the idea of advising Con
gress as to the people's course to pur
sue in this controversy, as it was
rather in the nature of an insult to
their dignity. The right to petition
Congress is not denied nor abridged
to the humblest citizen in the land.
Congressmen are our servants not
our masters.
The huckleberries brought down
from the I'laza up on the headwaters
of the Clackamas are the finest and
largest ever seen
The Literary Society will begin its
general work about Thanksgiving
time. Those outside of school are in
vited to help.
The Epworth League held a busi
ness meeting Wednesday evening for
the purpose of electing new officers.
Some of the Epworth Lague mem
bers will Begin to practice for their
play on Friday evening. The enter
tainment is for the purpose of rais.
ing money to help pay for the church
organ.
Later about Christmas time the
firemen will give a play for the bene
fit of the fire hall.
The skating rink is still open. Th
owner gave a masquerade party last
baturday evening. Prizes were giv
en for the best dressed and for the
shabbiest dressed couple. The prizes
were carried off by Miss Ella Parker
and her lady friend of Oregon City,
and John and Lawney Logsdon.
Lwald Leisman's new house is just
about complete. It is one of the fin
est houses in the town.
H. Berdine and family have been
on a visit to Mulino for a few days.
Mrs. Cobb and children are making
a tour of the bast, and will later re
turn to the San Francisco fair.
HAZELIA
Miss Jewel, Hazelia's new "School
Marm,'' spent the week-end with her
home folks, in Portland
W. H. Zivney is spending his.vaca-
tion nuntmg in the mountains.
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Lortz, of Port
land, were luncheon guests of Mrs
Lortz s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John
son, Sunday.
Miss Harriet Duncan will leave Sat
urday for George, Ore., where she
will teach school this winter.
Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Boutz of Rock
Bottom farm, are the proud parents
of a baby boy, born Sept. 14th.
Mrs. I' red Lehman was a caller on
Mrs. W. II. Zivney Friday.
Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, who for
merly lived on the Johnson farm,
have moved to Portland.
We are sorry to note that Mrs,
Neilson's mother, who has been ill
is no better at this writing.
Mr. and Mrs. Max McMahon have
been visitign at the John Wanker
ome.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Borland were
Sunday visitors at the Charley Larson
home.
Miss Marion Eastman and Miss
Blanche Duncan are attending Lin
coln High School in Portland.
John Wanker bailed straw for Mr.
Theo. Steinhiller two days last week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Anderson, of Con
cordia, Kans., are hiuse guests of Mr.
and Mrs. Fritz Hultberg. Mr. An
derson is Mrs. Hultberg's brother.
Herbert Duncan and Garton East
man are attending school in Oswego.
Little Miss Glendora Hultberg is ill
at this Writing,
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HONEST INSPECTOR
NOT ENCOURAGED
Local Juries Won't Convict, Says
Mrs. Florence Kelley.
STRIKING GAINS IN
CHILD LABOR LAWS
Off Year For Legislation, but
Children Not Neglected.
SHE WANTS A FEDERAL LAW.
Mrs. MacMahon and Mrs. Eastma
were callers of Mrs. S. S. Buotz Wed
nesday.
Miss Harriet Duncan gave a birth
dav nartv for thn Stnr nf I'nilihil, ,-,-,
One picker and ri.llJU f it,,,i, e,i.. ou..i ,t
h KHflf fill 11 hex aVinf n itn r, rr nK t.An . ... w
..-..vw v-uu u, whom she js tne teacher) Saturday
in a big patch up there that was the afternoon. She had 8 few outsid;
utai, inuiaui ui meat no ever lasted. f,pStH tn hnln nvti,.inr0 i H. ,..
Henry Ford said he never knew a LPamea. A 'delicintiH hmor, ,no Ja
bad man all they want is a littl
kindness and consideration and em
pioyment at decent living wages
When we cease being swine and can
nibals living off of the poor, we can
begin to call ourselves human beings
if not Christians. Ford is the only
rich man wo have on record of in
all history that used his employees
right. He takes all the convicts out
of the state penitentiary in Michi
gan as soon as their time is up and
give them a job at good wages and
makes decent, honest, industrious men
of them. This man, although not
professing Christianity at all, is of
more benefit to mankind than 10,000
Hilly Sundays.
WILLAMETTE
The doors of Millamette School are
open again, with 154 pupils enrolled
for the coining year. The opening
ceremonies were brief, and only the
advanced pupils were gathered to
gether in the Assembly room, where
Mr. Ihompsou, the present chairman
of the Willamette School Board spoke
to the pupils, urging them to make
the most of their time and profit
from the instruction of the your. The
newly clouted principal, 0. F. Romig,
was then introduced to the pupils
assembled, after which all the teachers
went to their respective rooms nnd
classified and registered their pupils.
Mrs. Oriteser, assistant principal nnd
Mrs. Roland, who teaches music and
domestic art, were the only touchers
who had taught the previous year.
Misses Elizabeth Christie, Emily L.
Marshall and Elizabeth Wirt, are the
new teachers in the grades, and each
has started off her work with that
onergy and enthusiasm which is sure
to succeed. In all there are one hun
dred fifty-four pupils enrolled, which
is a good showing for the Willamette
.school. Mr. Hinchman, a mechanic
living in Oregon City, is to have
charge of the work in manual train
ing. He will have a large class in
this department.
. The pupils and teachers appreciate
the many improvements, which the
School Board have made, among which
are the cement walks leading to the
various entrances of the school house,
the new sanitary drinking fountain,
installed just outside the main en
trance door and the addition to the
play apparatus. It can justly be said
that the Willamette School has as
complete supply of play apparatus as
can be found at any school in the
County.
It has also been decided that the
supply of equipment be increased and
all the other conditions be' complied
with to make the high . school un
accredited school of a two year
course. i
to the little guests.
Mrs. Alfred Thomas has been visit
ing with her mother at Lafayette
Uregon.
Miss Norma Meinder, who taught
school at Hazelia last winter, will
teach at Heppner this year.
Archie Worthington is very busy
tnese days marketing cauliflower
Mrs. F. Hultberg and Mr. and Mrs,
Anderson were Portland visitors Sun
day
The Misses Mary and Jean Wilson
were visiting at their Uncle's in Port
land last week.
II. Borland nnd Mr. and Mrs. C. C
Horland were among the Hazeliates
to be seen at the Canby fair Wednes
day.
The Grange fair at Oswego will be
held on the second of October. Every.
one cordially invited to attend.
Mrs. lletrick is visiting at the
I' rank Whitton home.
Miss Lucille Duncan is teaching
school out near the coast this year
Jinzolia Sunday Schoolday is held
ut H):,l() a. in. Everybody is cordial
invited to attend.
Mr. Fisher, Tualatin butcher, has
worked up quite a trade route, ho de-
lvering lresh meat in this vicinitv
twice u week.
FAST CLACKAMAS
Most of the natives from these
parts were at Oregon City last Satur
day attending the road mectinc called
by the county court.
Mr. Tong is moving into his new
house.
Clarence Enghouse and Earl Hover
are attending high school at Oregon
l ity.
Mrs. II. II. Blake entertained visit
ors from Portland last Saturday.
Franz Keisnor is applying' paint
to Melvin Berger's new house nmv
that we have such fine weather for
such work.
Otto and Amelia Klinkey are at
tending school in District No. 9 this
term.
B. R. Smith, of Portland, is going
to move into the new house he built
last summer. We are getting to be
some suburb.
The fine rain we had last Sunday
afternoon was appreciated bv every
one, but enough did not fall. Come
again.
The construction train on our rail
road is doing a rushing business these
days.
Child labor laws will not be enforced
until there is a federal law which the
government will enforce. So Mrs.
Florence Kelley told the Eleventh An
nual Conference on Child Labor at Us
recent Sau Frautisco meeting. During
her wide and vurled experience Mrs.
Kelley has accumulated many exam
ples of why a state child labor law
can never be properly euforced and
why the federal government must take
a hand In it.
"After a state child labor law is on
the statute books the difficulties of the
Inspectors ure ouly a part of the obsta
cles that confront the state In getting
that law enforced. If an inspector
works very hard he Is commonly re
moved that is, If ho works hurd nnd
honestly and ably. I have watched In
spectors working hard, honestly and
ably being removed for thirty-three
years. One who does uot work hurd
and ably and honestly will probably be
emoved anyhow when the politics of
the state changes.
"While the Inspector is working hurd.
ably and honestly it Is exceedingly dif
ficult to get a law enforced, If prosecu
tion is required, because local magis
trates ure usually reluctant to enforce
It und local juries to uphold It. Some
ears ago we were prosecuting In Chi
cago a certain sweater who had em
ployed sixteen girls Illegally. A dozen
witnesses were subpoenaed, and they
11 swore cheerfully that the law had
been kept, although they knew that
they had been working illegally that
day.
"The justice thought it a merry Jest
that we could not get warrants against
those perjured witnesses. He said, 'If
I were going to choke my office up
with perjury suits against witnesses
In minor cases we would not get any
business done,' so those perjured wit
nesses went scot free."
As a further illustration Mrs. Kelley
spoke of the difficulty the New York
State Department of Labor has expert
enced in the past two years in prose
cutlng canners. The trouble was not
with perjured witnesses there, but with
local Juries. The local Juries would
not convict because most of them were
fanners who sell their goods to the
canneries and hud no Idea of partlcl
puling In the punishment of their cus
(outers. "That condition Is so wide.
spread throughout New York, New Jer
sey, Maryland and Delaware." said
Mrs. Kelley, "that there Is no present
hope of enforcing the child labor law
In the canneries of those states with
local jurors In local courts.
"I do not sliitro the millennial belief
that wo shall in any near future have
our laws obeyed by the agreement of
employers and employees In Industries
In which the employees are unorganlz
ed. I.uws are obeyed only where there
ure powerful organizations of workers
to compel obedience. But where there
Is a body of helpless aliens, as in most
sweated Industries, or in remote vll-
uges fur from the searchlight it will
take a groat deal of evidence to con
vince me that all employers will vol
untarily obey the child labor law. Our
nimodlale need Is the passage of a
federal child labor law to enable the
federal government to enforce the
law."
EDUCATION LAWS IN SOUTH.
tV federal law would not only pro
tect people outside of North Carolina
from receiving goods manufactured by
children In North Carolina, but It
would protect people In t lint state from
having to buy tenement goods from
New York. Owen It. Love-Joy.
If you want to see white children In
ninny KOtitlU'i'ii.comutiiiiUlcs you must
go before sunrise and catch thorn on
heir way to the cotton mills. Only
olorod children are to be seen going
o and from school.
If the eight hour day really took all
illdieii under sixteen out of the fac
tories we should not have to work to
ward a sixteen year uge limit. Owen
1!. I.nvejoy.
MOLALLA
While Peter Faurie was hauling
clover to a huller on his farm one day
lust week the teum became frightened
when the engine blew off steam and
ran away. Mr. Faurie was thrown
out of the wagon and badly bruised.
The following were the prize win
ners at the grange picnic Saturday
of last week: high jump, Leo Shaver
and Emery Waldon tied at 5 feet 2
inches; broad jump, Buzz Hungnte and
Jess Mitts tied; pie eating contest,
Val Harless; ladies' nail driving con
test, Mrs. Jess Mitts, Mrs.. Bryant:
potato race, Harold Jackson, Clarence
Cochran; 100-yard dash, Leo Shaver,
Emery Walden; sack race, Viv Dun-
ion, waiter layior; Jacties' sewing
contest, Mrs. Wold, Mrs. Bryant.
A new compilation of child labor
laws which will be Issued shortly by
the National Child Labor Committee
contains the legislation enacted in 1015.
Although this last year was a reac
tionary one for sociul welfare legisla
tion, the National Child Labor Com
mittee feels that there were some strik
ing gains In child labor laws.
Two states which have hitherto defied
all efforts to raise their standards
Pennsylvania and Alabama have
yielded to the pressure of public opin
ion. Alabama has a fourteen year
limit for all gainful occupations, to go
Into effect In September, 1010, Instead
of her former twelve year limit for
factories only. A sixteen year limit
for dangerous occupations Is Included
la the law, as well as a twelve year
limit for boys and an eighteen year
limit for girls in street work.
The striking feature of Pennsylva
nia's new law is the continuation
school clnuse, which requires children
of fourteen and fifteen who are regu
larly employed to attend continuation
schools eight hours a week. Other iin
portant features are the twenty-one
year limit for night messengers, phys
ical examination and the completion of
the sixth grade before a work permit
can be secured, and the regulation of
street work.
Michigan hud an unusunl experience,
The age limit for common gainful oe.
cupatlons was raised from fourteen to
fifteen AT THE REQUEST OF THE
EMPLOYERS. The bill was drafted
and the campaign directed by them
In addition to raising the age limit, It
raises the grade which a child must
complete before n work permit can be
secured from the fourth to the sixth
grade.
uompuisory education laws were
passed by three southern states. The
Florida and South Carolina laws are
local option only, but the Texas law
Is state wide.
California and Iowa strengthened
their laws by Including provisions for
the regulation of street work and the
night messenger service. In addition
to the street work clause Iowa passed
an eight hour day for children under
sixteen and strengthened her work
permit provisions. A written statement
front the employer, saying that he in
tenus to employ tue child, is now
necessary before a child can secure a
work permit. A similar clause was
Incorporated this year In the Rhode
Island law and a street work pro
vision enacted establishing a twelve
year limit for boys und a sixteen year
limit for girls engaged In selling news
papers or merchandise.
Nevada created the office of labor
commissioner to enforce the child labor
law, and Wyoming enacted n nine hour
day for children under fourteen In all
gainful occupations. In fact, there wus
a gain In every state but one of those
which passed laws this year affecting
children. Tennessee weakened Its law
by exempting canneries from prac
tically all provisions of the law. But
nn attempt to repeal the Arkansas law-
was defeated, so that, on the whole,
the National Child l.nbor Committee
feels that the; child labor legislation ttf
1015 represents steady progress.
'You Can Do Better for Less. on Third Street"
Store Opens
8:30 A. M.
Saturdays at
9 A. M.
Pacific Phone
Marshall 5080
The Most in Value
The Best in Quality
THE MOST IN VALU1
THE BEST IN QUALITY
Store Closes
:5:30 P. M.
Saturdays a.
6 P, M.
Home Phone
A 2112
Surprising Values in Smart Autumn
Suits and Coats
"Maximum Style at Minimum Cost"
This rule holds good here, even at the season's opening,
when, perhaps, you only expect to find exclusive styles
and broad varieties. Come profit by an early selection
lllllHii!l!!ll!i!l!H
Women's and Misses'
COATS
At $15.00
SEVERAL OF THE MOST POPULAR NEW
STYLES IN FINE ALL-WOOL MATERIALS IN
BROWN, GREEN AND GRAY MIXTURES
CRAVENETTED COATS IN BELTED EF
FECTS, CONVERTIBLE COLLAR, EXTRA
WELL TAILORED THROUGHOUT AND WITH
WELL-LINED SLEEVES AND BACK ALL
SIZES ESPECIALLY PRICED FOR THIS
SALE AT $15.
SUITS
At $18.50
AN UNRIVALED SHOWING OF THE LATEST
STYLES, INCLUDING THOSE WITH BOX
BACK, FUR TRIMMED, ETC. THEY COME
IN POPLINS AND OTHER FASHIONABLE
MATERIALS IN NAVY, BROWN, BLACK AND
GREEN THEY ARE PERFECT FITTING
GARMENTS WITH YARN-DYED SATIN OR
PEAU DE CYGNE LINING. NOW $18.50.
Dainty Crepe de Chine and Georgette Waists at $3.98
JUST RECEIVED THE LATEST NEW-STYLE WAISTS OF FINE QUALITY CREPE DE CHINE
AND THE NEW GEORGETTE CREPE THEY COME IN WHITE, FLESH AND COMBINATION
COLORS ALL SIZES WAISTS OF $5.00 QUALITY PRICED HERE AT $3.98.
Ninety-five per cent of the children
In the Baltimore Truant School have
been street workers. Forty-threo per
cent of the boys In the Maryland Stnte
Reform School For Delinquent Boys
havo been engaged In street work,
recent pamphlet Issued by the Na
tional Child Labor Committee states
that over 17.000 children under sixteen
were reported engaged In mining oc-
upatlons by the 1010 census of occu
pations.
day after a few weeks visit with Mr. hends his power and the social and
and Mrs. M. E. Kandle. ! economic revolution would be here in
Frank Nickolas went to Oregon forty eight hours.
City Saturday. I In my last contribution I stated
Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Kandle and Mr. facts most tf you farmers will hys
and Mrs. C. C. Kandle motored to tericaily dispute, but none can dis
Tillamook Monday for a' two weeks Prove. Why is it that the person
outing, or more properly the group, that per-
Mrs. E. A. Frost and son returned 7 " . . . , T,
to her home in Oregon City last Fri
day after a few days visit with her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tom Kirk.
PARKPLACE
Merle Blood, who was -at "The
Home" with typhoid fever, has spent
two weeks with his grandmother, Mrs.
A. M. Brayton, and is now so improv
ed that he is nearly ready for school.
Mr. and Mrs. Mac. Rivers are at
Hood River packing apples.
Parkplace school started on the 21st
with four teachers. Miss Volstedt is
principal, and Miss Hanson, Miss An
derson and Miss Chadbourne as assistants.
Miss Marie Holmes, who is teaching
school at Ranier, made a short visit
with her parents and friends here
She is quite successful with her school
and giving good satisfaction. She
one of the most talented young ladies
from around here.
Mrs. Christian Schuebel and her
mother, Mrs. Beatie, attended the
grange here Saturday, Sept. 25.
JOHN STARK'S VIEWPOINT
If we had no child labor we should
have very much less tuberculosis; we
should have very much less alcoholism
ml fewer diseases of the mind and
the nervous system.-Dr. S. Adolphus
KnofT.
HIGHLAND
A number of young folks from here
attended the dance at Linn's Mill Sat-
rday night.
Miss Elsie Schram spent Friday
and Saturday visiting friends in Ore
gon City.
Jimmie Hanhart visited friends in
Portland Saturday.
Miss Bertha Whitcomb, our teach
er, spent Saturday and Sunday at her
home in Parkplace.
Mr. and Mrs. John Welsh return
ed to their home in Arleta last Thurs-
Something like thirty-five yean
ago a young woman of my acquain
tance went out into service that l
she became a "hired girl." This was
matter of economic necessity an
not a matter of freedom of choice
Her "duties"' were general house
work and, of course, included cooking
and serving meals to the employing
family. She told me that many times
he did not get enough to eat. While
never told her I did not believe her,
that was a fact. I was intimately
acquainted with her and that is the
only thing she ever told me that I
id not believe. I attributed it all
to her self-consciousness, that is, her
intense self abnegation, and modesty
working on her imagination in such
maner that she refrained from eat
ing her fill. I have lived a little spell
since then and learred. Have been
told by other girls that such a con
dition was perhaps more the rule than
the exception. ,
I did nqt at that time know and
perhaps you do not know, that such a
condition is consistent and a philo
sophical result of the present econom
ic system. That were the worker to
receive the full product of effort
want could not exist in chronic form;
that is to say, want could only be
temporary as a result of some disas
ter such as a flood, fire or earth
quake. Neither would there be any
idlers, let us say like Harry Thaw.
Perhaps you will wonder what all this
unimportant hired girl has to do with
"rural credits.' It is however as im
portant as any other phase of social
economy and when studied out the
connection becomes plain. I want to
make an important observation which
you will all promptly dispute.
I have often thought how I would
like to organize all the hired girls, or
to speak more correcty, wish all the
hired girls would comprehend the
situation so they would act like one
man that is, a man who compre.
the least? This is a fact, whether
the group works in any strata of
industry or amid any environment.
If you are dealing in the prime neces
sities of life, say selling groceries,
your labor is exacting and returns
are small. If you are selling jewelry
you labor leisurely and returns are
large. Why I
That the farmers are the most nec
essary group of workers will not be
disputed this side of Newport News
may be taken for granted without ar
gument. That they are the poorest
paid, the hardest worked and the most
deprived of "civilization" is usually
disputed by lying, political bums, and
often, too, by farmers whose vanity
has been properly brought up by
these social pirates. All other per
sons, whether farmers or not, know
this to be indisputable. One of the
pet and popular lies is "the independ
ent farmer." That some few persons
may be so classed in a practical sense
is not disputed. The farmer who tills
his own soil is a vanishing quantity.
Other forms of agriculture are dis
placing him. "The bold peasantry, its
country's pride" is fast vanishing,
and we have an impoverished renter,
a mortgage victim or an explaited
wage earner, which seems to be be
coming more in practice of late years.
As yet the farm workers, taken as a
group, are as a tennis ball thrown
about. Freight rates are ready made
for them, the price upon all things
they buy are made generally far
from the local market, where these
goods are delivered to the ultimate
user. Upon nothing he sells does h
set a price and being usually in debt
he is compelled to accept the offered
price.
In debt!" Why should the most
industrious person or group be
.1-1-. n m . i .
ueoi: 10 wnom is tne larmer in
debt? Not to the producer, but to
the nonproducer. In my childhood I
was taught that industry and economy
brings riches. For many years after
I learned to scrape my face with a
cheap razor I believed it to be true
and made heroic attempts to catch
up with this reputed truism, and I see
many a ragged bent-back dragging a
so-called "head" about which seems
to contain nothing more than this lie
mixed up with some fossilized patriot
ism. Year in and year out these
hopeful but analytic persons toil
amid distressing surroundings, always
hoping for their reward, which usual
ly comes in a coffin much more elab
orate than their living conditions
were, and lowered to the care of un
iscriminating white worms, while the
oyal neighbors sing "Shall We Gather
at the River" when perhaps in many
years he "just could not spare the
time to go fishing on a hot after
noon." Then flowers are put in
abundance with four feet of dirt be
tween, tho in conscious life he "didn't
have no time to bother with no flow
ers." It hurts, I know, to have the
truth told, but you don't get it often.
The masters are on guard to see that
you are nicely flattered and your tired
minds are disattracted from facts.
The farmer is often told, and
pleased to believe himself to be a
capitalist. He bears the same re
semblance to a capitalist that a
"wiggletail" bears to a whale. In a
like manner we often see some con.
tractor imagine himself to be an "em
ployer of labor," when he is merely a
go-between and a cheap one at that.
That the farmer should be as nearly
independent as any person on earth
would seem logical when it is con
sidered that he produces the prime
necessities of life. But he has been
robbed of his birthright by the man
ipulation of the complex factors of
society. It is therefore clearly the
duty of society to restor the same.
The most important factor in so
ciety today is the function of credit
often called money. This factor is
in the control of those who toil not,
but by its control avail themselves of
the choicest products of labor. The
farmer can, when he comprehends his
power, and can grasp the idea that in
order to retain these products he
must revolutionize the fundamentals
of social economy, and then only will
he be free. I have read that forty
three percent of our congressmen are
elected by farmr vote directly. Yet
I could not see any real effort to ben
efit the farmer but from one of them,
and he, like myself, could not get
support for his ideas, from the farm
ers. These rubes turn to the profes
sional politician for hot air. Take
the farm credit program proposed by
the leaders of farmer societies. All
of them are only an injury to us be
cause all propose the perpetration of
debt and the right of private exploita
tion. I shall present a similar plan
for the extermination of farm in.
debtedness and I am positive all these
"leaders" will promptly oppose it be
cause "they have their reward" for
keeping the farmers in the subject
class. Not many farmers will endorse
this new plan because their leaders
do not, and are too tired to think the
matter out themselves. A few, how
ever, will comprehend this plan and
as a little leaven will leaven a whole
loaf this idea will grow.
Think it over, son of the sod. Those
who would be free themselves must
strike the blow.
JOHN F. STARK.
Few Rats in Germany
Farm and Fireside says: "Few rats
exist in Germany. If any appear in a
building the police are notified and
they send an official rat catcher. No
charge is made for his services."
And what does the official rat.
catcher do with them? It is a cinch
that they are not wasted, for nothing
is wasted in Germany.
The Courier has a full line of Letral
Blanks for sale. If you are in need
of Legal Blanks you will find that it
will pay you to come to the Courier.
OLDER BUT STRONGER
To be healthv
forty, is sound advice, because in the
strength of middle life we too nftpn inrt
that neglected colds, or careless treat
ment of slight aches and pains, simply
undermine strength and bring chronic
weakness for later years.
To be strone'er when nlrW
blood pure and rich and active with the
strength-building and blood-nourishing
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food, a tonic and a medicine tn ten c
blood rich, alleviate rheomaHon aH
avoid sickness. No alcohol in Scott's-
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J,