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Attorney-at-Law
8TANFTELD - - OREGON
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Some Aspects of tih
Farmers' Problems
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly)
Now, what Is the fanner asking?
Without trying to catalogue the re
medial measures that have been sug
gested in his behalf, the principal pro
posals that bear directly on the Im
provement of Ids distributing and mar
keting relations may be summarized as
follows :
First: storage warehouses for cot
ton, wool, and tobacco, and elevators
for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet
the maximum demand on them at the
peak of the marketing period. The
farmer thinks that either private capi
tal must furnish these facilities, or the
state must erect and own the eleva
tors and warehouses.
Second: weighing and grading of
agricultural products, and certification
thereof, to he done by Impartial and
disinterested public Inspectors (this Is
already accomplished to some extent
by the federal licensing of weighers
and graders), to eliminate underpay
ing, overcharging, and unfair grading,
and to facilitate the utilization of the
stored products as the basis of credit.
Third : a certainty of credit sufficient
to enable the marketing of products
in an orderly manner.
Fourth: the Department of Agricul
ture should collect, tabulate, summa
rize, and regularly mid frequently pub
lish and distribute to the fanners, full
information from all the markets of
the world, so that they shall be as well
Informed of their selling position as
buyers now are of their buying posi
tion. Fifth : freedom to Integrate the busi
ness of agriculture by means of con
solidated selling agencies, co-ordinating
and co-operating In such way as to
put the farmer on an equal footing
with the large buyers of his products,
and with commercial relations in other
industries.
When a business requires specialized
talent, It has to buy It. So will the
farmers ; and perhaps the best way for
them to get It would be to utilize some
of the present machinery of thelnrg
est established agencies dealing In
farm products. Of course, If he wishes,
the farmer may go further and engage
in flour-milling and other manufacture!
of food products. In my opinion,
however, he would be wise to stop
short of that. Public Interest may be
opposed to nil great Integrations; but,
in Justice, .should they be forbidden to
the farmer and permitted to others?
The corporate form of association can
not now be wholly adapted to his ob
jects and conditions. The looser co
operative form seems more generally
suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be
free, if he finds It desirable and feas
ible, to resort to co-operation with his
fellows atid neighbors, without run
ning afoul of the law. To urge that
i lie farmers should have the same lib
erty to "consolidate and co-ordinate
heir peculiar economic functions,
vhleli other Industries In their fields
enjoy, Is not, however, to concede that
any business integration should have
legislative sanction to exercise monop
llstic power. The American people
ire as firmly opposed to industrial as
fo political autocracy, whether at
tempted by rural or by urban Industry
For lack of united effort the farmers
is a whole are still marketing their
,-rops by antiquated methods, or by no
iiieiloids ;it nil, but they arc surrounded
by a business world thut has been
nodernized to the lust minute and Is
Irelessly striving for efficiency, This
fficieney Is due in large measure to
,!g business, to united business, to in
tegrated business. The farmers now
,eekJ tin- benefits of such largeness, un
oa and integration.
The American fanner is a modern of
be moderns in the use of labor saving
nachlnery, and be hns made vast
trldes In recent years in scientific
tillage and efficient farm management,
iut as a business In contact with other
.usinesses nglreulture Is a "one horse
shay'' in competition with high power
automobiles. The American farmer la
the great eat and most iiitnietitlde of
individualists. While industrial pro
ducts n and all phases of the huge com
inerclnl mechanism and its myriad ac
cessories have urllcuiated iind co-ordi
uited themselves all the way from nat
ural n,w materials to retail sales, the
business of agriculture has gone on In
much the one man fashion of the back
woods of the first port of the nine
tiwntb eantnrv. when the farmer WBt
self su;i-ient and did not depend upon,
or care very much, what the great
world was doing. The result la that
the agricultural group Is almost its
aiucb at a disadvantage In dealing with
other economic groups us the juy farm
er of the funny pages in the bands of
sleek urban confidence mi n. who sell
him acreage In Central Park or the
Chicago city hall. The lenders of the
farmers thoroughly understand this,
and thev lire Intelligently striving to
integrate their Industry so that It will
be on an equal footing with other busi
nesses. As an example of integration, take
the steel Industry, In which the model
Is the United States Hag) Corporation,
with Its Iron mine?,. Its coal mines, Its
lake u ml rail transportation, its oeau
i vessels. Its by-product coke ovens, Its
blast furnaces, its pen hearth and
i Bessemer furnaces, its rolling mills. Its
tube mills and otner iniinufri-turlng
processes that are carried to the hlgh
I est degree of finished production com
' patlble with the Urge trade It has
bum up. All this Is generally conced
ed to be to the advantage of the con
sumer. Nor does the steel corporation
Inconsiderately dump Its products on
the market. On the contrary, it so
acts that It Is frequently a stabilizing
Influence, as is often the case with oth
er large organizations. It Is master of
Its distribution as well as of Its pro
duct!' n. If prices are not satisfactory
the products are held back or produc
tion Is reduced or suspended. It is not
compelled to send a year's work to the
market at one time and take whatever
It can get under such circumstances.
It has one selling policy and its own
export department. Neither are the
grades and qualities of steel determin
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does
the latter hold the scales. In this sin
gle Integration of the steel corporation
Is represented about 40 per cent of the
steel production of America. The rest
Is mostly in the hands of a few large
companies. In ordinary times the
steel corporation, by example, stabilizes
all steel prices. If this Is permissible
(It Is even desirable, because stable
and fair prices ure essential to solid
and continued prosperity) why would
it be wrong for the fanners to utilize
central agencies that would have simi
lar effects on agricultural products?
Something like that Is what they are
aiming at.
Some farmers favored by regional
compactness and contiguity, such as the
eltrus-frult-rulsers of California, al
ready have found a way legally to
merge and sell their products Inte
grally and In accordance with seasonal
and local demand, thus improving
their position und rendering the con
sumer a reliable service of ensured
quality, certain supply, and reasonable
and relatively steady prices. They
have not found it necessary to resort
to any special privilege, or to claim
any exempt! n under the anti-trust
legislation of the state or nation. With
out removing local control, they have
built nji a very efficient marketing
agency. The grain, cotton, and to
bacco farmers, and the producers of
bides and wool, because of their num
bers and the vastness of their regions,
and for other reasons, have found
Integration a more difficult task;
though there are now some thousands
of farmer! co-operative elevators,
warehouses, creameries, and other en
terprises of one sort and another, with
a turn-over of a billion dollers a year.
They are giving the farmers business
experience and training, and, so far
as they go, they meet the need of
honest weighing and fslr grading; but
they do not meet the requirements of
rationally adjusted marketing In any
large und fundamental way.
The next step, which will be a pat
tern for other groups. Is now being
prepared by the grain-raisers through
the establishment of sales media which
shall handle grain separately or col
lectlvely, as the Individual farmer ma
elect. It Is this step the plan of the
'ommlttee of Seventeen which bat
rented so much opposition and It
bought by some to be in conflict wltl
i lie anti trust laws. Though there I
niiw before congress a measure de
Signed to clear up doubt on this point
the grain-producers are not relying 01
my Immunity from anti-trust leglslii
Hon. They desire, and they are en
titled, to co-ordinate their efforts Ju
as effectively as the large business In
terests of the country have done, li
connection with the selling OfganlBI
tlons the United Slates Grain Grower
Incorporated Is drafting a scheme of
financing instrumentalities and luxlll
ary agencies which are Indispensable
to the successful utilization of modern
business methods.
It is essential that the farmer
hould proceed gradually with these
plans, and aim to avoid the error of
scrapping the existing marketing DM
Chlnery, which has been so laboriously
built up by long experience, before
they have a tried uud proved substi
tirte or supplementary mechanism
They must be careful not to become
enmeshed In their own reforms and
loaa the perspective of their place in
the national system. They must guard
against fanatical devotion to new doe
trtnes, and should seek articulation
with the general economic system
rather than Its reckless destruction us
It relates to them.
(Continued Next Week)
NOTICE FOR PURIFICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
r S. LAND OFFICE AT THE
DALLES, OltEOON, JAN. 7, 1922
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
James Richard Johnson, of Hoard
man, Oregon, who, on May 0, 1917.
made Reclamation Homestead Entry
i No. 01X525, for SEVi NE4, being
Unit "D", Section 18, Township 4
North. Range 25-East. Willimette
; Meridian, has filed notice of inten
tion to make three-year Proof, to
establish claim to the land above de
scribed, before C. G .Blayden, United
i States Commissioner, at Boardman,
1 Oregon, on the 7th day of March,
1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
O. H. Warner. Ira Hf.rgcr, Kudolr
Wasiner, Ingvard Jenson Shoubo, al'
of Boardman. Oregon.
J. W. DONNE' LT,
49-2 Register.
BOARDMAN COOKING CLUB
STANDARD ORGANIZATION
Ore. Agriculture College, Corvallis,
Ore., Feb. 8. (Special) Morrow
county had two of the 376 boys' and
gilrs' clubs which finished the work
of the year 1920-21, meeting all the
requirements of a standard club, ac
cording lo H. C. Seymour, state club
leader.
The requirements lor a standard
club are to have live or more inem
oera working on the same project,
otficei's elected from among the mem
oers, an adult local club leader, de
unilo program of work lor the club
year, reports of the work prepared
and filed in the office of the state
oiub leader, at least six regular club
meetings, a local club exhibit, a de
monstration in the community, a
judging team chosen by competition
among the members, at least 70 per
cent of the members completing their
fork and filing reports, an achieve
aent day program held at the close
ii the club year, and a membership
a the farm bureau held by the club
r Us officers.
The 0 4 S 7 club members in Ore
gon were organized into 724 clubs.
Of. this number 376 met the require
ments of the standard clubs, while
.. o-l of these reported 100 per cent
of their members completing their
work, The total value of all pro
ducts produced this year by club
members is $127,359.68. This was
it a total cost of $60,581.13, mak
ing a profit of $66,778.55 a profit
surpassing that of the preceding year
in spite of the fact that the value of
tlie products dropped decidedly with
in the year.
The Boardman cooking club under
the leadership of Miss Frances Beebe
.tnd the Boardman poultry club led
by M. B. Signs were the two Morrow
ounties which finished the year as
itandard organizations.
CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR CON-
YENTION TO BE IX SALEM
The Christian Endeavorers of Ore
gon are making great plans for their
32nd annual convention whichl is
to be held in Salem on February 16,
17, 18, 19. In the past years two
conventions have been held but it
was decided to hold one all-state
gathering this year and the result
has been that an unusual program
has been prepared.
The sessions open Thursday even
ing, the 16th and a welcome will be
Mended to all the endeavorers by
Governor Olcott and Mayor Holver
son of Salem. Dr. Lapsey A. McAfee
of Berkeley, will give the keynote
address.
Friday will open with Bible Study
led by Dr. McAffee, followed by con
ferences on all lines of the Four
Square Campaign. Dr. Harold L
Bowman of Portland, will address :.
general meeting in the afternoon.
Me wil also speak in the evening and
Hits will be a great Intermediate
meeting.
Saturday morning after the Bible
iludy hour general conference will
'e held. A business session comes
xfter the lunch hour followed by
ight seeing trips to all the fioints
it interest about the city. Numerous
a n quels will be held in the evening.
V booster session urging Portland
0 work for the 1925 International
onventlon with an address by Mayor
Ico. L. Baker of Portland, will take
up the evening.
The convention closes Sunday with
1 full day. Separate Senior and In
termediate meetings will be held in
he afternoon with a general meeting
ddie:: cil b Rev. Stivers of Eugene
,nd the Decision service In charge
of Paul Brown.
Dr. McAfee will give the closing
address at the evening service. The
music will be an inspiring part of the
onventlon and will be led by Mrs.
W. E. Wright or Portland. Paul
Brown, the Pacific Coast director,
and LeRoy Robinson, slate president,
will preside at most sessions.
Big Coal Strike Possible.
Washington, D. C, Warning of an
Impending general strike in the coun
try's coal industry was given by Sec
retary Hoover, who declared that the
public should know what to expect
when the national agreements cover
ing the wages and working conditions
of miners expire April 1.
Homestead Entry No. 017047, for
SE& NE W NE Vl SE4
t being unit "B"), Section 24, Town
ship 4-North, Range 24-East, Wil
lamette Meridian, has filed notice
of intention to make three-year
Proof, to establish claim to the land
above described, before C. G. Blay
den, U, S. Commissioner, at Board
man, Oregon, on the 24th day of
February, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Ira Berger, John J. Jenkins, H. H.
Weston, Charles Dillabaugh, all of
Boardman, Oregon.
J. W, DONNELLY,
19-2 Register,
21st day of March, 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Ed Rietmann, Phil Doherty, Bert
Johnson, J. H. Imu3, all of loue,
Oregon.
J. W. DONNELLY,
54-4 Register.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U. S. LAND OFFICE at The Dal
les, Oregon, January 25, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Martin Behui, of lone, Oregon, who,
on December 9, 1918, made Addi
tional Homestead Entry, No. 020211,
orE SWH.NWVi SE and SW4
..'E4, Section 20, Township 2-North,
Wange 25-East, Willamette Meridian,
lias filed notice of intention to make
three-year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
J. A. Waters, United States Commis
sioner, at Heppner, Oregon, on the
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THJK INTERIOR
U. S. LAND OFFICE at The Dal
les. Oregon, January 26, 1922.
NOTICE is hereby given that
Homer J. Cason. of Boarduian, Ore
gon, who, on April 28, 1917, made
Homestead Entry, No. 018530, for
NEV4 NE14 (being Unit "F"), Sec
tion 24, Township 4-North, Range
24-East, Willamette Meridian, has
fllea notice of intention to make
three-year Proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
C. O. Blayden, United States Com
missioner, at Boardman, Oregon, on
the 13th day of March. 1922.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Claud White, Chas. Barnes, Chas.
J. Nizer, O. H. Warner, all of Board
man. Oregon.
J. W. DONNELLY,
54-4 Register.
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$2 For Wheat Is Urged.
Fargo, N. D. Resolutions asking
i congress to fix the price of wheat a'
I $2 a bushel and advocating coordina
tion of existing farm movements mid
I co-operation between farmers' organ
lzallons were adopwd at the closltn
session of the Tri-State Grain Gru
tin convention here.
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTER HH
D B. LAND OFFICE AT Till
DALLES, JAN 9, 1922.
MWfCE IS HEREBY GIVEN tha
Ofcarlea ttlnr. of Boardman, or
gon, who, on January 6, 1917, i..ui
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