THE MADRAS PIONEER
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Thursday, September 26, 1912.
Attend the Institute
The announcement elsewhere
in this issue of The Pioneer o
the approaching visit of theofiic
ers of the demonstration farm
will meet with the hearty appro
val of all Northern Crook County
farmers. Not everyone has been
able to visit the demonstration
farms, and the next best thing
is to have the men in charge
bring to us the results of their
season's 'labors. The idea of
"taking the school to the farm
er" is one that is gaining favor
daily with the farming public.
There are those who cannot af
ford, through financial straits or
pressure of work at home, to
make a trip to the farms and see
for themselves the results of sci
entific tillage of the soil, but
there are very few who cannot
spare a day to attend an institute
near home and profit from the
advice that they will be given
A generous attendance at the
meeting held under the auspices
of the demonstration farm offic
lals will result not merely m
present profit to those attend
ing, but tend greatly to stimu
late the establishment and main
tenance of more demonstration
farms and experiment stations
"The proof of the pudding is the
eating thereof," and the proof
of the worth of the demonstra
tion farm lies in the extent to
which its lessons and teachings
are taken advantage of in the
community in which it is con
ducted. The progressive farmer
will be on hand at the institute.
Circulating Profits
In the last few years people
have gotten used to seeing things
that were never seen a few years
ago; they hear of things that
they never heard of before, and
they read of things they never
read of or expected to read of.
But, with all th- changes, inven
tions, and improvements that the
last decade has brought about
there is one thing that has not
yet materialized a man who
owed money to a mail order
house.
V hen you get the money this
fall for the big crop that you
have raised this year, what are
you going to do with it? Are you
going to spend a little extra with
the rren along Main Street at
home?
When you had sickness among
the kids last winter, who was it
that gave you credit for services
and medicine? Did Montgomery
Ward hear of your troubles and
send you a family medicine chest
and a copy of "Every Man His
Own Doctor", and tell you to
send the money when you were
able, or did you call on someone
locally for the favor? When the
hens got busy and laid more
eurgs than you could use, was it
John M. Smyth who traded you
flour and sugar and shoes for
them, or was it somebody dowi
the street?
Who fed you and waited for
the money until the crop was
made? Was it the shiny headed
Jew, Mr. Rosenwald, who oper
ates under the name of Sears
Roebuck & Co. ? Not on your
sweet life. Who was it bought
the gray mare's colt because it
had the making of a good deliv
ery horse? Not the mail order
houses they didn't know what
good leather the old mare's colts
have in 'em; besides, they use
auto trucks. Much juniper on
your place? It's blamed good
wood, but they don't use it in
Chicago. You can turn a load
into ready money here in town,
though. It's the same way with
everything that you buy or that
you sell. The community that
practises home trading is the
most prosperous. The money
and profits go round and round.
Business reciprocity is the se
cret of prosperity.
You can figure this out for,
yourself: When you spend a
dollar at home you get another
crack at that dollar later on, your
self: when you send a dollar to
Chicago, it is "Katy, bar the
door."
Mexico and Intervention
The splendid patience of the
United States wi h Mexico is be
coming exhausted. President
Madero and his anemic govern
ment have been given a strong
hint of this fact Notice has
been served upon him that it is
high time for a betterment in the
conditions of his country.
Whether he is able to reduce
present chaos to order is a mat
ter to be questioned. If he is not
able to do so, then the burden
mnst fall upon the shoulders of
the American people. The Un
ited States Goverment, during
several years has followed a strict
Dolicv of " hands off ". The
Mexican covernment has been
given every opportunity to ad
iust itself and cret the ship of
state off the reefs of anarchy
and revolution. This Govern
mennt has even co-operated, so
far as possible, with Madero
and his generals, but, with
every opportunity ana assist
ance. the conditions in Mexico
have not improved. In fact,
they have grown steadily worse
until at present they are little
short of intolerable.
In the event President Madero
cannot, in a final drawing up of
his forces, stem the progress of
National dissolution, then the
course of the United States must
be that of ' intervention. Our
alternative is repudiation of the
Monroe Doctrine, we warn other
nations from the American conl
inent, we assume at the same
time responsibility for the lives
and property of foreigners.
Should intervention become
necessary, the seriousness ot
the task is not to be underesti
mated. Mexico is a country of
approximately 14,000,000 peo
ple, the majority of them of
ndian or mixed blood. The total
area is 767,000 square miles, and
there are some twenty -seven
states, two territories and a Fed
eral district. In the various
branches of the military service
there are more than 100,000 men
The rebel cause has fully-25,000
men operating in organized
bands. That the whole force.
Federal and rebel, would unite in
opposing the efforts of the Unit
ed States to give a helping hand
has frequently been asserted by
the Mexicans. Our own military
experts do not underrate the
scope of the task. War College
estimates of the force of our first
armies of invasion place the num
ber at 200,000 men, comprising
the entire Regular Army and
National Guard, both organiza
tions brought up to a war basis.
The War College plan, .for use
in event of necessity, entails the
dispatch of three divisions into
Mexico simultaneously. One
would strike from Vera Cruz, on
the east Coast, one would have
its base on El Paso, and a third
would penetrate from the West
Coast. There is little doubt but
that general engagements would
fmv Thft Mexicans have
I not the organization, equipment
or spirit sitccesstuuy to oppose
the American armies. Yet guer
1 ilia warfare would continue re
lentlessly. It would be the Phil
ippine campaign over again on
an immensely jarger, more ex
npnnivp nnd deadlier scale. The
fwaa
Mexican people, with their in
tense hatred of the gringo, would
yield stubbornly. The re-estab
lishmnt of order would not be
complete, it is highly probable
until a military protectorate had
been established in every state
and district of the country. It is
a task that would require from
two to five years, military ex
perts are agreed, and the toll in"
human life would be heavy.
Intervention is a thing vastly
to be hoped against But if the
Mexican people do not speedily
recover some semblance of Na
tional balance, then in
tional welfare, we must
the burden Oregonian.
THE BEST FARMING IMP
A DP rAPpiPn BY US "RPST Rv
; 1 av 1 icsrorw
LEMFii
the Na
take up
Training the Oregon Girl
Oregon Agricultural College,
Corvallis. Ore.. Sent. 24. "A
mother who trains her duagh
ter for a societybud' will re
gret it in her maturer years; but
the mother who trains and teach
es her daughter to become a. good
mother and housewife will : later
be loved, respected and Vener
ated by that daughter, as the
latter herself reaps the benfit of
the training and teaching in
after years," says an editorial in
a recent number of the Myrtle
Point Enterprise.
"The mothers of the country
should think about these things
much more than they do, and
thus do better work as true home
builders for future generations.
In her home one woman can do
far more for the uplift of human
ity than did a thousand suffrag
ettes in London who, in smashing
windows made only material for
sensational stories for the yellow
journals of the world, or than
could a thousand Carrie Nations
with a thousand hatchets and
thousand votes."
The Oregon Agricultural Col
ege does not pretend to educate
young women for careers as Car
rie Nations and suffragettes;
it does graduate each year large.
classes of young women prepared
to administer efficiently a whole
some, happy home, and in i
most economical way. The de
partment of domestic science and
art opened its class work Tuesday
morning, Sept. 24. The domestic
SECOND ANNUAL
Redmond Potato Show
AND FAIR
TO BE HELD AT
REDMOND, ORE.
FRIDAY and SATURDAY
October 1 1 th and 1 2th
. i
Liberal Premiums will be given
on Potatoes and all kinds
of Farm Produce
Competition open to qny
person in Crook County
For further particulars send for premium list to
A.J.HANEY, SEC. REDMOND COMMERCIAL CLUB
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ntral Oregon Mercantile Co. M
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science work inctu'.les courses in
simple food preparation, more
advanced cookery, invalid diet
and refreshments, laundering,
the serving of meals, catnpeook
ery, food for children, house
sanitation, household adminis
tration, home nursing, marketing,
the study of home problems, a
course on the evolution pf the
house which gives something of
the history of home-making, and
special training in the theory and
practice pf teaching domestic
science for those who wish to
take instructional positions after
leaving college.
In the domestic art department
the sewing classes learn some
thing of spinning and weaving
and the fundamentals of the art
and then learn to make under
wear, to darn aiidirfdndpto make
simple dresses and later rr.ore
elaborate costumes, to embroider
and crochet garments and house
hold articles, to. care for their
clothing, to draft patterns, to do
tailoring and designing, to make
their own hats and trim them;
they learn basketry and nig
weaving, stenciling and differ
ent kinds of handwork; they
study house construction and dec
oration; and are given, if they
desire, special training for teach
ing these branches.
Thus .the girl who has complet
ed the four-year course in house
hold economics is well prepared
to establish and carry on a home
of her own, or to teach other
girls, in the schools and colleges
oi ,ui state, me requisites oi a
proper education for holne
making.
thousands of young Douglas
fir trees will be planted in the
forest reserves of Oregon and
Washington this winter. Twelve
thousands acres are to be refor
ested and reseeded. For this
purpose 90.0000 saplings, mostly
two years old, will be used, also
a large quantity of seed. In the
Siuslaw Mountians 6,000 acres
will be planted and in the Mount
Hood region 15,0000 acres addi
tional.
25 per cent
DISCI
ON
LUMBER, LATH, SHINGLES
BUILDING PAPER, DOORS
WI N DOWS, MOULDING,etc
TRUSTEE IN BANKRUPTCY OFFERS
THE ABOVE DISCOUNT FOR CASH
FOR LIMITED PERIOD
Oregon Central Lbr. & Supply.
OttoC. Pierce. Trustee's Agt, METOLIUS,!
KEEP IN MIN
THE FOLLOWING EVEI
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LandProdKUi
Eight Annual
Central Oregon Fair
PRINEVILLE
October 16 to 19
International
Dry Farming Congrcu
LETHBRIDGE
October 21 to 26
November!
Eastern capital is. seeking in
vestment in Oregon timber. It
is stated on good authority that
over $12,000,000 has been invest
ed in Oregon timber bonds since
January 1. These bonds are now
said to be in favor with Eastern
investors and the ability to real
ize on standing timber by the
bonding method has proved of
benefit to the Pacific Northwest.
Caught (i Had Cold.
'Last winter my wo enuL'ht n vury
bud cold and tho wuy io couiriicd wuh
Boiriethjiig drqudful," writer MrH. Surnh
E, Duncan, of Tipton, Iowa, "Wo
thought Burp ho was goinir Into con
sumption. Wo bought juHt one bottlo
or Uiamnurluiirn Cougn Remedy and
that one bottlo atopped hlu cpugh and
cured Ula cold completely." For aulu
by all dealers. .
MR. FARMER:
You have grown and harvested the
! ,'. most bounteous crop that Central Or
egon has ever known. Your duties
to the soil are not over. You owe it
to the soil and to yourselfthat the
products of its fertility and your cl
forts be advertised throughout the
land. Such advertising cannot help
but repay you manyfold in increased
- . market demand for your products and
- enhanced land valuation. You ar
invited to participate to any extent
you may see fit at the events named
above. They are exceptional oppor-
- tunitles for demonstrating to the wj
, vestor and homeseckcr the wonde u
'. richness of Northern CrojcJg
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