THE OREGON STATESMAN. SALEM, OREGON.
TTiITOSPAY MORXIXO. SEPTEMBER 9, 1920
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SALEM IS A GRAIN, MARKET CENTER
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1 The growing; of wheathas been carried .on so long that the
plant is not known in the wild state, but botanists believe it
had its home in the central parts of Asia. Its cultivation
fM harV of recorded historv. and it has formed the prin-
rinal breadstuff of all civilized nations. The Bible and the!
Egyptian ana t,nmese recoras lesiuy iu u: uiuujuiior ui
cultivation. Wheat, next to rice, is the most largely used of
any grain .The United States is the greatest grower; Great
Britain produces the largest amount to the acre.
Barley is more widely distributed than any other grain.
"And the flax and the barley were smitten; for the barley
was in the ear, and the flax was boiled," is recorded in Exo
dus 9.31, the oldest record of this grainwhich is the most
distributed of anv Grain, irrowine as hieh as 14.000
feet above sea level.
Rye is the basis of the black bread of northern Europe;
but it is also a profitable crop in other parts of the world,
including the Salem district.
, The growing of. oats is a very ancient art, reaching its
perfection, perhaps, in Scotlanduntil it has lately been
found that the Willamette valley product is superior to mil
others, for milling purposes ; for high class breakfast foods.
And the Willamette valley oats run higher in weight than
any other; not even excepting the Scotch product.
Car load lots of the Willamette valley oats are constantly
going to the Eastern breakfast food factories, whose mana-
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..." thia apctinn for their nurnoses. This fact furnishes the basis
for a suggestion that ought to be heeded by our fanners who
produce this premier product of the world.
They should organize to get better prices, and at the
same time to furnish a still better product. Better methods
of selection and cultivation, and grading, will accomplish
this together with our superior soil and climate for the
growing of a superior grain of this kind for the purposes
named. " -
Advertising will help; and the leading breakfast food
manufacturers would soon come to this. It would be money
in their pockets to exploit the best oats raised in the world
Willamette valley oats. .
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Newsy Notes of State
Industrial Growth
Drivers9 License Permits
Are Totaled by Secretary
Morattention should be paid, too, by the farmers of the
Salem district, to the production of more and better wheat.
barley, and rye always in rotation" with clover and other
legumesand corn and other crops.
Saleiri is already a considerable grain market. It should
be a better and a bigger one, and this will come about with
the intelligent co-operation of the farmers.
In this connection. Dr. T. N. Carver, of the United States
Department of Agriculture, once told the story of an aged
savage who, after having lived in civilized communities most
of his life, returned in his, old age to his native tribe, saying
that he had tried civilization for 40 years and it wasn't worth
the trouble. Much of the philosophy of civilization is summed
up in that remark. Civilization consists largely in taking
trouble. Genius, in the individual, has been said to consist
in the capacity for taking infinite pains in one's work. It is
this capacity which marks the superior race as well as the
superior individual; They who find the taking of pains too
burdensome to be bprne, will naturally decide that civiliza
tion is not worth the trouble. They who do not find it so
very burdensome Jo "take pains, will naturally decide that
civilization is worth the trouble, and will therefore become
civilized.
This principle applies to every stage of civiliaztion and
progress. The greatest advancement is made by those who
are capable of taking greatest pains.
It applies especially to agricultural progress.
It is more trouble to select seed, and to select it in the
field than in the bin. It is more trouble to test cows than not
to test them, to keep accounts than not to keep them, to di
ersify or rotate crops than not to diversify or rotate, to mix
fertilizers intelligently than to buy them already mixed, to
co-operate with one's pigheaded neighbors, especially if one
is hiniself a little pig-headed, than to go it alone. '
. it s also more profitable.
In all these and a multitude of other cases it is found that
it pays to take trouble.
There is probably no part of the farmer's business where
tnis needs to be so much emphasized as in his buying and
selling. It is so much less trouble to buy all one's supplies
at retail as they are needed than to clan ahead and hnv.nt
wholesale, and to sell one's products at wholesale and in bulk
to the nearest buyer than to work out a better marketing
scheme, that this practice of buying everything at retail and
selling everything at wholesale has become almost universal.
It takes a very rich soil, or very hard work on the farmer's
part, or both, to make up the losses resulting from this sys
tem. The farmer is becoming, almost in the same sense as
the manufacturer, a buyer of raw material such a3 fertilizers.
seeds, feeds, machinery, live stock, etc. What manufacturer
would expect to prosper if he depended upon the retail
stores to supply him with his raw materials as they were
needed and at retail prices? How many manufacturers would
expect to prosper if they did not have selling agencies but
waited for buyers to come -around and offer to buy their
products after they were finished? -
Of almost equal importance is the question of making the
farm.. garden, poultry yard, orchard, and dairy support the
farmer's family. All these thinars require the taking of
trouble. It is less trouble to put all one's time on a money
crop, to haul it to town and sell it, and to haul home from
the store everything which the family consumes than to give
attention to gardens, fruits, poultry, pigs, and cows.
It is also less profitable.
The products which the farmer's family consumes are sold
to the best market in the world.
The farmer should credit to the garden, the orchard, the
poultry yard, the cow, and the pig-pen the retail prices which
he Would otherwise pay for food, not half so good, bought at
retail.
Needless to say, these things must be carefully planned and
managed.
That requires the taking of trouble.
Farmers who are not competent, or willing, to take Daln3
in planning and managing these parts of their business will
probably do quite as well by going on the old wav of hauline
Lall their stuff to market and hauling home again the goods
wnicn tne iamny consumes. But their lack of prosperity
will be due to the fact that, like the aged savage already re-
that the new fashion, if it must
come, will take it a time
And now the Taitais are all
"het up" over tbo high cost cf
living. It Is a common grievance
that appears to make the whole
world akin.
Both the leading parties have
indorsed the national budget plan
There Is nothing lo da now but
to ret something to put Into the
budget.
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A Texas widow says that her
last ropoal was from r movie
fan who said be neJd some on
to console him on account of the
marriage of Mary rickford
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. The population of .he United
States Is made up mostly of tbois
who make and sell automobiles,
those who buy and use them
those who produce moving pic
tures and those who stand in line
to pay to see them shorn n. This
is a mad world, my masters.
f No. Owendolin. that pale-faced
young man with the far-away look
la his eyes is not spiritual-minded
t all he is merely a clgarette-
amoker.
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It is claimed the Los Angeles
ta some of the farthest beer In
the country and that it is neces
sary to drink enough to float
battleship to develop any kick
Los Angeles Times.
Forty-four borne runs hy Babe
Ruth four - eleven - forty - four,
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
Your Fortune
Some day, perh'aps sooner than you anticipate,
your family may come into outright possession of
that fortune of yours. HAVE YOU DENIED THEM
the wise provisions, only possible in a Will, for
Its permanent benefit lo them? Have you taken
teps to place the RIGHT MANAGEMENT in
charge when you step out?
, I Let us talk this matter over ith you.
Capital National Bank
TRUST DEPARTMENT
SALEM :: OREGON '
Best oats in the world.
That is something to make Sa
lem feel her oats.
And there Is a chance to Rive
the Willamette valley a great deal
of advertising, and the erowers
much profit, through the raising
of still better oats by Improving
on the best oats produced in the
world.
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It will not go against the grain
to make Salem a great grain mar.
ket, either.
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Some one says Cox Is the first
millionaire and- the first choice of
Tammany Hall ever nominated for
the presidency of the United
States.
He is certainly the first nomi
nee of a major party to appeal to
the Reds, as he did on Tuesday In
the Dakotas. .speaking to the Non
partisan League bunch, and tell
A million trees planted, a to
tal of 1.340.000 seedlings, prin
cipally Douglas fir. were planted
on the forests of Oregon and
Washington In the liscal year
t-nding June 30. according to a
report which has Just bn com
pleted by the United States forest
service.
At a conservative estimate.
Oregon's four hundred and fifty
billion feet of standing Umber
is worth $500,000,000 on the
rtuuip. Harvested and cut Into
lumber, its value is Increased 20
fold and becomes ten billion dol
lars. ..Millers are to be allowed to
ship 48,000 pounds, minimum
carloads.
Co-oieratIve momevent neces
sary to revive dairy ' Industry.
Production declines.
lien Employes of two lumber
l companies receive $42,000 bon
uses In 1920.
Farm labor continues very
scarce as laborers are at summer
resorts.
Sheridan Contract let for a
4000 fruit packing plant.
Toledo Government spruce
holdings, sawmill and two log
ging roads sold for $2,400,000.
Drain cannery leased and will
operate this season.
Education act gives 4 300 ex-
soldiers $529,087 bonus.
La Grande O. W. R. & N. Co.
adds 10 large Mallet locomotives
here.
The Dalles to have electrically
Illuminated preat white way.
Nyffca to have large commun
ity park.
Portland to have new three-
story fire station.
East St. Johns to have cross-
arm plant, turning out carload
daily.
Klamath Falls Mint Industry
yields 60 pounds to acre, worth
$900.
Contract let for bridge across
Molalla riv.er at Dickey prairie.
Grants Pass to have Carnegie
library.
One hundred banks In cattle
livestock.
Albany to Junction state high
way to cost $1.(80.000.
Ladd esUte builds five modern
homes near Reed college.
Portland district estimates 99.-
444.000 wheat yield for 1920.
Hecpner Deposit of white al
kali earth for road surface new
industry here.
Pendleton Terminal trackage
at Reith. three miles west, to be
doubled.
Langlols and Port Orford will
open union high schools this fall.
Spring salmon pack at Colum
bia river points 27.540.500
pounds; value of pack. $6,719,-
300.
Highway completed betVn
Hood River and Portland.
Eugene University of Oregon
to have a school of music build
ing. Glenbraok mill .resuming oper
ations ready to saw In October.
Auburn Work on new $50.
000 hosiVtal to begin Immedi
ately. Oregon's census shows growth
of 110.520.
Ballston 100 acres of clover
estimated to yield 36.000 lbs. of
clover seed, to bring $16,000.
Banks to have new $32,000
Catholie church. -
Astoria to have $3300 school
building.
Portland Northwestern Knit
ting Mills decided upon this city
as the location for Its plant, after
looking over the entire Pacific
coast.
Applications for automobile
drivers' licenses to the number of
120.000 have been received! at
the secretary of state's office and
102.000 have been Issued.
Scretary of State Kozer ex
pects lo have the remainder of
the licenses in the mail by about
September 15. although
oate can be fixed.
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THE FARMER'S DAY
YOU might say that every Fanner has his
day. It comes when the Uborionj days of
harvest are done and he sees his products
marketed and the money in hand.
Bnt what has made it possible for him
and cultivate and harvest throughout
months proceeding?
Unless he has unlimited capital, you will
ally find some good banking
services that hare played an
important part.
to plant ;
the long , J
SALEM
OREGON
erred to, they have concluded that civilization and DrOf?res& n. mirht to h able to antlify
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are noi wortn tne trouble.
But after all, when one once eeU accustomed to taking
pains it ceases to be painful to keep on.
it is oniy me Deginnmg rrom which we shrink.
When one gets into the habit of keeDinc accounts, of ro
tating and diversifying crops, of making the farm feed the
iamuy, ana running co-operative enterprises, it is not half
as much trouble as it was feared that it would be. The real
test oi a man s quality is his ability to begin taking pains.
FUTUKK I1ATKS.
SrptemWr 10. Friiliy D. !ich C1
via. Prohibition rndilt fur vire-pmi-irnt,
to pk im 8lo.
September 13. MndT Mtls( of -orisU
membership of Salem Commercial
eloh.
September 14. Taeadar Graad jary
meet a.
September 1 1. TdmJst Cherriaa
metin.
Heptemher 15. Wednetda Cberriaat
SO to VaarOOTer.
September 17 0. A. R. PuaitHattaa
da open meeting.
September 1. gatardar Moetiac of
Marios County Rriub)iraa CVatral Com
mittee. Salem.
September IS, Saadar All eonntr pie
ate, ander aanptre Mario Ooantj Com
BnnitT Federal inn, Spwnra Landing.
September 21. Taenday Cherriaa
meeting.
September 17. lo October Oreroa
ttato fair. . ,
September 80. Tharvdar September
fcabr clinie at Commercial claK
Xovomber Z. TneadavEleettoa aav.
October 4, Monday Salem schools
them it is not his idea to prose
cute radicals.
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The Sew York Herald and Sun
says of the "sluh fund" fiasco of
Cox: "It has resulted in putting
himself, his calibre, his character.
bis personal fitness, at the front
as 1 the main issue of the cam
paign."
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In losing Itev. U. N. Avison. Sa
lem is parting with one of the
most eloquent and most brainy
pulpit orators she has ever had
and this is said without disparage
ment of many other able preachers
of the past and present who have
; graced and now occupy our city
I pulpits. Dr. Avison will be miased
by many who arenot Included In
the membership of the Methodist
church.
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Chief Justice Edward Dour las
White has been eager to retire for
a long time. He would have done
so four years ago had Hughes been
elected, but so great was White's
dislike for President Wilson that
he was unwilling to give him the
privilege of filling this great
place. Mr. White Is now in his
76th year. Boston Herald.
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Bidders for the Hog Island ship
yard must deposit a certified
check for 11.000.000 with their
bid in order to have it considered.
That limits the bidders to the
plumbers.
Each separate photograph on a
motion-picture film is under one
square men in size. Tnls means
that when the picture is thrown on
a screen 20x22 feet In size it Is
magnified more than 53,000
times.
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The decision of the Portsmouth
(N. H.) veteran firemen's associa
tion to abandon the historic red
shirt for the "sport" shirt threat
ens a picturesque Institution which
has nothing to do with revolution
or "radlcamni." It Is to be hoped
for the finals in the game of Ala
bam a golf.
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The American Association of
Toy Manufacturers assures the
children that Santa Claus will get
his Christmas supply at present
prices . That Is certainly a little
rift in the cloud of high prices.
There Is a housing qnestion. of
course, but everybody seen-s to
have some place to stay. Will
somebody kindly explain?
Pat Oi've traced me ancestry
back to an Irish king.
Mike Sure that's alsy. What
chanct has a dead man to defend
himself? Detroit Free Press.
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Correct Lubrication is a science.
The recommendations of our Board
of Lubrication Engineers embodied
in the Zerolene Correct Lubrication
Chart are designed to better the per
formance and lengthen the life of
trucks, tractors and automobiles. Get
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