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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (May 27, 1921)
f VJOKT $TA'-0 The Boardman Mirror Boardman, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY .Mrs. CIair' I. Hurler, Local Editor MAIIK A. CLEVELAND, Publisher 12.00 PBB YEAR IN' ADVANCE Entered as second-class matter Feb 11, 19?1, at the post oflice at Hoard man, Ore., under act of Mar 3, 1879 CO-OPERATION "punning in the future will no looser DC a ma iter of brute force. Ii will he a bUliRftM for brains, or ganization, intelligence." Heads as il it were talien from an editorial Writ I en yesterday, or a speech by some extension worker out in the held. The quotation represents the vision of one John Skinner, editor of I he American Farmer, the first edition of which appeared in Haiti more in April, 18 2 1. Just 100 years ago. The thing of chief Interest now, perhaps, is found in the fact that the editor, Influenced doubtless by the current discussions around him, began writing LOO years ago about the subject which has never ceased since his day to engage the attention of thoughtful people everywhere. Investigation shows thai men have been trying all these years to achieve the perfect organisation for agri culture, and they still are trying. The minds of farmers today are turned, tor the most part, toward cooperation as a means of reaching success. Just how far they may go with their efforts Is a disputed mat ter. Many business men. many of the great COhSUmlng public, appear to question the farmers' right to protect themselves in this way, for getting that every branch of bus) ness has done precisely this thing. "There are about lfi.000 farmers' Organisations in this country today," said Ceorge Livingston, chief of the Bureau of Markets, United States Department of Agriculture. "These organisation! have a membership of approximately 2,000,000. A move ment so widespread should benefit both producers and consumers. Once the public believes cooperative mar keting, for Instance, will result In belter quality, a standardisation of products and packing, the reduction Of waste, the public will wish to do Its pari to encourage such united effort Everything should he done to discourage a seemingly growing be lief that such organizations are for I he purpose of conlrollng prices. The public should he brought Jo Under stand that farmers are organizing to get lor themselves and their hUU tiles a fair reward for the labor th) have put into production, with tin' object of having higher stand aids of living, better homes, schools, and churches Although he may nut know it, every man in town or city has a close, personal interest in the success of American agriculture. It Is, or should be, a cycle 111 results: belter tanning, better prices, be cause the strength of the cities, as all IhOUghlfUl persons know, lies In the strength of the country, by which I mean tin- rural regions." In his weekly conference with re presentatives of the press recently, Becretajr) Wallace, of the United Stales Department of Agriculture, said in apeaktnaj ot the meeting of the Committee of Seventeen In Chi cago: "There seems to be a fear that the farmers will go to piice fixtagi tun I think this fear is un founded. Tho Chicago fathering should give reassurance as to the furiiicrs' ability to bring about a monopoly. It should be remember ed compulsoo pooling of agricul tural products was rejected, and that the final vote gave a majority for optional pooling The conference gave hopes of much improvement in grain marketing methods." We here let the dear reader in on how we are fast becoming wealthy: "A child is born in the neighbor hood; the editor gives the loud lunged youngster and the happy parents a sendoff and gets $0.00. It is christened and the minister gets $5 and the editor gets $0.00. The. editor blushes and tells a dozen lies about the beautiful and accom plished bride. The minister gets $10 and a piece of cake, and the edi tor gets $0.00. In the course of time she dies; the doctor gets from ?15 to $100, the minister gets per haps another $5, the undertaker from $75 to $200. the editor print! an obituary two columns long and a card of thanks and gets $0.0n. No wonder so many country editors get rich. Have you paid your subscription? Over In Wasco a merchant adver i ises thusly: NEED THE DOUCII! It is rumored that a certain young society lady of this city kneads bread with her gloves on. This Incident may be peculiar, but there are others. We need bread with our shoes on. We need bread with our pants on, and unless we get in a few of our outstanding accounts we'll need bread without a, darn thing on, and this city will be a garden of Eden If collections don't improve very shortly. YOU can do much to prevent tills by the early -il l t lenient of your account. THE WOULD PROBLEM The big event of the past week is the acceptance by Cerniany ot the indemnity by the Allies, as agreed upon at the Council of the League of Nations. One wonders if this is the last of the dreadful conflict which cost the nation $ 1 1 .((00,000,000, and near a million lives, and held the world in a grip of terror for so many, many months. We were told that it would be the last, and that we would make the world safe for democracy - and our President was determined to carry out the hopes of the peace-loving world, entered and helped to win the war, and attempted to form a "mid league to prevent future con flicts. The opposition to his plan promised the voters that a league would be formed, but not in ac cordance with the President's cove nant The people were led to believe that Article 10 was dangerous and Would compel us to take up arms regardless of the vote of your con gress whenever a nation was at lacked or got into trouble. Article lo guarantee! the integ rity of smaller nations and their right to govern themselves, and the tight ot the combined nations to see to it that right is upheld, Before arms are resorted to the question involved in list he referred to tin' Various home governments or Congress. The misunderstanding of this ar ticle seems to be Responsible for the failure of the electorate to vote for the League of Nations. Hut there Is no question In the mind of the people that some kind el world league to prevent future wars was advocated and promised by the present administration. Third one distinguished Republi cans said "It was not a question of no league, but as to whether we will accept certain provisions in the present league." Vinl now cumes our distinguished Ambassador to Great Britain, Col. Harvey, and tells us that we never intended to onter ,a league of any Wind. ; He says It is absurd to think of such a thing. What are we to think of such a statement? France Is about to declare war on Germany over the Sllesian question. Russia and Germany have a secret alliance they are both the enemy of France, the country we fought with to save the world for demo cracy. But Is it safe? We may want to enter the league of nations some day and it may be too late. Germany has promised to pay the $66,000,000,000. How is she going to do it? We must help her to de cide. Woodrow Wilson said "We are not at war with the German peo ple but the Kaiser, the landlords and the military'- leaders of Ger many," These are responsible for the world war. They or their kind exist In every country, but have not gone the length of the German lead ers. The Kaiser Is drawing $3,000, 000 in rents from his estates in Ger many. The landlords of Prussia are retaining an army recruited from the ranks of the retired army to protect their, vast holdings from the Bol sheviki elements of Germany and Russia. Are they paying the price? Will keeping out of war affairs settle them. Let us hope one wiser than Col. Harvey will help to de cide this thing. C. H. M. At the top are the" tennis courts, OieTe the diplomatic circle meets dally for afternoon tea. The most strikingly original feature of Prague Is the "Hradchany," an acropolis of towers, churches and pal aces dominating the capital. From the time that Prague was reduced to a city of secotidary Importance the palaces of the "Hradchany" were prac tlcolly abandoned. Now and then some archduke In disgrace, some prince In exile, would establish him self In one or another of them for a time. The ex-Emperor Charles, while a student at the University of Prague, an archduke with apparently no chance of ever coming to the throne, lived there. All these palaces, once abandoned, deserted, are today occupied by the president of the republic and the dif ferent ministers. President Masaryk received me In that same sumptuous drawing room which had once been the salon of the Emperor Charles. PRAGUE CITY OF PALACES United States Minister Crane Livoo in One of Them, Which He, Himself, Purchased. Prague, capital of Czecho slovakia, is pre-eminently a city of palaces. As soon as one has crossed the Moldava by the old Charles bridge the quaint est, most picturesque bridge ia the world, with its gates flanked with towers and its group of beautiful stat ues udoruiug the parapet one finds one's self iu a quarter of the city en tirely given to palaces, where lu nar row old streets, crooked and grass grown, und about tranquil, silent squares rise the spleudid facades of seigneurial dwellings. Whan, following the signing of the peuee, England, America, France and ltuly were looking for quarters for their diplomatic representatives, these palaces were just what was needed for housing the legations, Raymond Recoul.v writes lu Scribner's. France took over the palace belonging to the Buquoys, a Flemish family which came to Hohcuilu lifter the battle of La Montague Blanche and cast lu their fortunes w ith those of the I laps burgs. The United Statea minister, Mr, Crane, has bought with his own money the magnificent palace of the Schon born. The chateau is less beautiful, less elegant, perhaps, than the Buquoy palace, but the gardens are marvelous. They rise In terrace after terrace to a hill which overlooks the entire city. Nature's Jewel Boxes. The northwestern part of Uruguay Is a newly discovered field for the pro duction of amethysts, which occnr In "geodes." The geodes, so plentiful that they are picked up In the fields, are carried on mulebuck or In carts to the nearest railway station and shipped In barrels to Salto, whence they ore transported by river boat to Mountevldeo. Naturally It will be asked, "what Is a geode?" Originally, It was a hole in a rock. Water percolating through the reck deposited silica, making a lining for the cavity. The lining grew thick er and thicker, and after a long time, if the rock were broken or "weathered" to pieces, a hard, nodule would drop out. The nodule Is a geode; and If, as sometimes happens, the silica hna formed crystals Inside of It. colored by metallic salts, the geode Is a little jewel box containing amethysts. A beautiful statuette, eight Inches high, of a woman dancing, has recent ly been plnced In the Morgan Gem hall of the American Museum of Nat ural History In New York city. It la carved out of a perfect block of trans lucent sapphlrlne, blue quartz, from Uruguay. 7 BOARDMAN: The Hub of 33,000 fertile acres under U. S. Reclamation Service. The Gate way to the Great John Day with its 110, "00 acres to be made abundantly produc tive by your governments unequalled engineering skill. BOAHDMAN: A progressive town of pro gressive people in a wonderfully progressive community, where everybodys slogan is "DO IT," is situated 170 miles east of Port land, Ore., on the Columbia River, the Col umbia Highway and the main line of the Union Pacific Transcontinental Railway. Have you surveyed our community? If you dream of sunshine, flowers, fertile fields and a comfortable home, "DO IT." Czara Peculiar "Joke." Peter the Great admitted the whole world to the curious entertainments to which he added strange and some times gross touches of hie own Inven tion. Yakov Eurgeney, the court jest er, was engaged to marry the daugh ter of a sexton. At Peter's command the hr'de and groom rode to church In the Czar's best velvet coach. Then behind them formed a procession, the members being the highest dignitaries It ad the most eminent patricians In all Russia. Each was mounted. Their steeds were oxen, asses, pigs and big dogs. Some of the Important men and women were dressed In their finest robes. Others were costumed In sack ing of glazed linen or catskln caftan, with straw boots and other strange and curious accessories of such an out landish toilette. Now is the time to Subscribe for the Boardman Mirror ASSIST THE BOARDMAN MIRROR IN GETTING MORE SUBSCRIBERS It. N Stankiici.u, P resilient KALlii A Hoi tk Cu-nliler Fkank Suian, 1st Vice President M K Lino, tni Vice-President Bank of Stanfield CAPITAL STOCK $25,000.00 Four Per Cent Interest Paid on Time Certificates of Deposit. f HAUTAUQU A ELLISON -WHITE II MAKE CHAUTAUQUA WEEK YOUR VACATION WEEK MUSIC Chautauqua is a veritable Festival of Music. Witepskie's Concert Orchestra, prominent Chicago organization, will present t wo con certs on the last day. Then there is Olive McCormick, noted color atura soprano, as soloist with the orchestra in the evening; The Apollo Duo, The Margaret Reynold Concert company and The Valda Four. Eight concerts in all certainly the music alone ia far more than the cost of the season ticket. J L E CTURES inree notante lectures appear on tne i-nauiauqua program tins season Pres. James A. Hums, "Hums of the Mountains," one of the most interesting men on the American platform. Is scheduled for the second night. Mrs. Taylor Z Marshall, a prominent Eastern lecturer, brings I highly inspirational appeal in "Levers That Move the World." Oarveth Wells, English explorer, comes with an il lustrated lecture of intense interest on the Malay Peninsula. EXTERT A IXMEXT An entertainment event or cardinal importance Is scheduled for the third night in a big play production presented by The Keighley N. w York Players with an all-proressional cast. Another enter tainment feature of note rests in the coming of Richard P. Camp bell, known as "The Western James Whitcomb Riley." He has written two books of delightful verse and will present readings In character from his own works. Third afternoon. 60ARDNAN Townsite Co. E. P. DODD, Pres. City Lots for Sale at Proper Prices ii Season Tickets on Sale Soon I1 ITS, JKi.OO; Student.-. JH..V1; Child's. 1.00. No War Tax. ll.l.l'STIt ATK1) rKOGHA.MS NOW IUCIXU MSTKHU'TKD Watch for Yours! Stanfield, June 21-25 M MUM I iitmttN Boardman is a New Town But Not a Boom Town Ideally located on railroad and Columbia river, far enough away from any large town to naturally become the trading center of a wonderful growing country. 1