The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925, September 07, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextSolsonE S 11 VOLUME III. BOARDMAX, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1923 NUMBER 30. MARKET AGENT ON WHY FARMER GETS NO PRICE It is indeed an extraordinary eco nomic condition that wages and all living expenses should steadily ad vance, month after month, while the products c!' .hc farm, on . ;J '.nil lions depend lor food, are so kw that the most of them bring less than the cost of production to the growers. All industries except agriculture are generally prosperous; there is nation-wide demand for labor, and wages in most industries are high. 1 Farming alone seems to have col- j lapsed. Wheat at one dollar a bu- shel, with other farm products at I present prices, would be all right for producers if other products were In proportion. As the unjust situ ation now is, the grower gets less than it costs him to produce wheat, I beef, apples, small fruits and many other products, while he has to pay nearly double for implements and other working and living necesities. A binder that cost the farmer $175 in 1!I14 now costs $260, according to the statistics of Charles T. Mich-j aels; a sulky plow that was $35 is I now $54; a wagon that retailed fori $80 before the war now costs $135 j and labor that cost the farmer $1.50 per day now conies at double that scale. Wheat at 90 cents per bushel to the farmer, when freight is deducted, Is 1 V2 cents per pound, while the wholesale price on middlings ($38 at this writing, $30 at the mill) is nearly two cents per pound a high er price than the grower gets for his whole wheat. While the grower gets but 1 cents for wheat the price of flour is nearly four cents per pound and the price of bread from seven to nine cents. The obvious cause of this unequal condition of values is that nearly all industries of the country are so strongly organized they can fix and maintain selling prices, and labor likewise through organization can demand and obtain high wages. Only unorganized labor has a low wag! scale. And the manifest remedy for the deflated and desperate condition the farmers are in, is to follow the rule of big business industries and big labor organizations and refuse to take the deflation of the whole na tion. Farmers can just as well regu late their production and determine a fair price for their goods as the shoe manufacturer, the implement factory, the oil combinations, the sugar trust or any other of the price controllers of the country's neces sities. Hut there Is a limit to the price that any combination may exact there is a limit to what the public will stand. Nearly all combinations of capital recognize a dead line and fear a public buyers' strike. All over the United States farmers are taking up the one remedy that seems will give then relief from the present unbalanced and unjust condition that is forced upon them - co-operation. If they will use this group organization to help con sumers as well as themselves, they GUY FLEOER -.X ' iM mm GOOD CIGARETTES GENUINE "Bull" DURHAM TOBACCO Guy F!enner, head of the Idaho Reclamation association, who put over the American Falls reservoir pro ect by which the entire town of American Falls, Ida., will be moved to higher ground and the largest Irriga. Hon storage dam in the United States will be built i.i nave greatly helped the prosper ity of the country as well. If they tso the combination power for the price for products, wilhout working ;o reform the distributing system i hey will have accomplished little for : tanrnt good. There is far too great a spread Otween the producer and the con sumer. Farm co-operators have a great opportunity in their organiz ations to invade this middle profit field and reorg;ize the wasteful r.nd expensive system. Consumers have equal opportunity to cooper- te with the growers and come half way for the- (products. With he two-thirds middle expenses between hem cut to the barest necessary ex- icnse, and with perhaps producers nd consumers being their own mid dle men between the grower and the retailer, then price-control on the art of the farmer to the extent of a fair return for his labor, would not add to the high retail prices, 'gainst which the homes are now protesting. Mercury Stops Hoot .Maggots Control of root maggots ou cab Sage is reported successful by a Cor- allis gardener with a single appli cation of dilute bichloride of nier- !Ury solution. He used the poison at the rate of one antiseptic tablet bichloride of mercury to one quart of water, by scraping a little dirt from about the roots of the infested abbage and pouring in enough of the solution to run down the stalk cell. The agricultural college uses a solution of 1 ounce of corrosive ublimate to 12 gallons of water frith one or two reapplicatioos at 5 to 7 day Intervals. The root mag gots are bad at this season on broc- oli, kale, and cauliflower, in some Oregon districts. Coolidge Urges Public to Give Funds. Washington, I). C. The United States moved swiftly to bring the full forte of the government and the peo ple to the aid of stricken Japan. While government executive depart ments were directed to assist in the work, the public was urged In an ap peal issued by President Coolidge to oniribute funds through the Amer ican Red Cross for aiding the unfor 'unate and giving relief to the people jf Japan. PRIZE LIST FOR HOUXD-VP WILL UK GRKATER THIS YEAR The prise list for the Pendleton Round-Up to be held September 20, 21 and 2 2, will be greater this year than ever before. All everts will command their cash and merchandise prizes, but in ad dition four beautiful saddles, tri umphs of the saddlemaker's art, will be given. One presented by the Union Pacific System, is for the win ner of t he world's championship bucking contest. Another, present ed by Hamley & Co., ia for the win ner of Northwest bucking contest, while a third, presented by Happy Canyon, the night show held during the Round-Up, will be presented the winer of the steer roping. The fourth saddle will bo a lad'es' saddle, presented by k Kader Shrine teraple of Portland 'o the winner of the ladies' relay race on Thursday, the first day of the Round-Up. Th3 Shrii.ors, a thousand strong, arc to be in Pendleton on the Wednesday preceding the Round-Up for a big Wild West ceremonial, and will re main on Thursday to see the show. They will come to Pendleton in three special trains from Porlland. This year will mark a precedent for a prize is being offered the mean est backer at the big show. Tho prize will be a bag of Umatilla coun ty oaf;, and the donor is Phillip Ash ton Rollins, author of "The Cowboy," cM whose articles have appeared in the Saturday Evening Post and other publications. He visiteu the Round-l'p last year and decided that the buckers, which share honors with tthe human performers, should re ceive a prize for their efforts. The' bag of oats will bear a silver plate with the name of the donor and of the lucky winner. Garden crops can be made to suc ceed even on the expose sand cliff roils of the Oregon coast region. The Yaquina Head lighthouse, authori ties have grown splendid vegetables this year, reports A. C. Ilouquet, pro fessor of Vegetable gardening at the College . Thty used the fertilizer nitrate of soda 150 pounds, super phosphate 300 pounds, and muriate of potash 150 pounds, for one acre recommended by the extension Ber vice for those soils, and the insed control methods of the station cheesecloMi screens and corrosive Ulblimat solution for control of root maggots. Copper carbonate treatment for control of smut on oats and barley has not been found satisfactory In other states trying it out. The hull with which the surface of the ker nel is covered prevents actual con tact of the seed with I he dust. Coolidge Will Not Recognize Soviet. Washington, D. C The United States government, under President Coolidge as under President Harding, will await evidence of the existence of a government in Russia in accord with American standards before granting diplomatic recognition to that country. This stand was an nounced officially at the White House. President Draws First Pay Check. Washington. D. C President Cool Idge drew his first pay check as pres ident Saturday. It was $5833. 23 tor 2b days' service as president. Read the home paper. THE MARKETS Portland Wheat Hard white, $1.06; soft white and western white, $1.05; bard winter, $1.01; northern spring, $1.02; western red, $1.01. Hay Alfalfa, $16 ton; cheat, 1188 14; valley timothy, $18(fpl9; eastern Oregon timothy, $". Butterfat 49c. Eggs- Ranch, 2S fi 32c. Cheese Prices to jobbers, f. o. b Tillamook; THpletB, 27c; longhorns and loaf, 28c per lb. Cattle Choice steers. $7l5f7r,ii; medium to good steers, $G.507. Hogs Prime light, $1010.25; smooth heavy, $8.500.9.75. Sheep East of mountain lambs. $10j 10.75; choice valley lambs, $1(J8 10.50. t Seattle. Wheat No. 1 hard white, $1.00; No. 1 soft white, $1.06; No. 1 western white, $1.06; No. 1 red winter. $1.03; No. 1 western red, $1.03; No. 1 north ern spring, $1.03; No. 1 blue-stem. $1.07. Eggs Ranch 34c. Butterfat 4749c. Cattle-Prime light steers, $7i 7.75 ; medium to good, $6 507. Hogs Prime light, $9.60& 10.60; smooth heavies, $8.CO9.60. Cheese Washington cream brick 22 23c; Washington triplets, 22c; Washington Young Am- a, 23c; Tillamook triplets, f. o. b., 27c. Washington hav growers TO COMPLETE OIl(i AX17. i I'lOX The figures submitted to the meet ing of the Northwest Hay associa tion in Yakima Saturday night, Aug. 25ih, seem to indicate that with the present rate of progress the mem bership campaign will be completed easily before September 15th, ac cording to L. A. Hunt. Tin- new organization will have 75 per cent of the alfalfa hay in the four alfalfa producing counties of the state.and it is expected with this tonnage that they will be able to Stabilize market prices to a very con siderable extent. Their plans for financing are much nioie complete than that of the Ore gon association. Many growers in the alfalfa pro ducing sret ions of Umatilla county are Continually asking how soon the campaign will start in this state; i but it is probable that this will not be started until after the 15th of September. . The Board of Directors of tho Or-' egon association are working on a revision in their present plan of op eration which will give Oregon growers all the advantages available under the new Washington plan. Why Have Diphtheria? By Frederick D. Strieker, M. D., Col-j laborating Epidemiologist with Oregon State Hoard of Health. There was a time, not many years ; ago when a case of diphtheria was almost pathognomonic of death Its elf. The fatal outcome was the, more certain if the victim happened to be a young child. The disease ttas1 held in such abhorence that the pronouncement of the diagnosis In a home was sufficient to cause the sudden collapse of anxious mothers. ; About thirty years ago, as the re-' suit of prolonged and tireless efforts j on the part of scientific medicine, providence rewarded their efforts and a remedy for the dreaded mal ady was perfected. The diphtheria antitoxin was specific in its action, and its remits o rlnin, provided the clement of time was not overlooked. As the result of this discovery the death rate from diphtheria has been reduced 85 per cent. While we have had a specific rem edy for the disease for about three decades, not until tho last half dec ade has there been available a pre ventive for the disease that is Just 1 as specific as the curative agent. Toxin-antitoxin administered suboitlan-j eOUSly in three doses of one c. c. I each at seven day intervals will pro- 1 tect an individual against the con- traction of the disease. The use of! the toxin-ant Itoxln causes no illness The younger the Individual the less severe the reaction. Children are more susceptible to the disease and to Its fatal results than adults. Sixty-four per cent of. all the deaths from the disease In Oregon occur before thefiflh year. The time to administer the toxin-1 antitoxin is early; in the second six six months of age. If every child was given toxin-ant lloxin before the eighteenth month, practically all the diphtheria cases and deaths could be tlimlnaied. About seventy live per cent of all children in the grades at school are susceptible to the dis ease. With the opening of schools there comes increased contacts and incrtased probabilities of the disease being contracted. Why run the risk of having the school year Interrupte d, sickness, unnecessary expense, grief and possibly death? You are re sponsible for your child's life. Are you going to juggle that responsibil ity and jeopardize- a life ? Hoard man Needs Stockyards s Jess Lower shipped a carleiad of cattle to The Dalles last week. It is the first carload off the project. As the re' is no place to load stock here he drove thorn to Castle and there Isn't much more there. Jess hopes the next carload he has will find stockyards at Hoanlman, so he won't have to call all the men off the state highway work to help put his bovlnes aboard the cars. A. T. Herelm was a visitor at Pen-' die-ton Wednesday. MAJ. MAX C. TYLER Maj. Max C. Tyler of the Army En gineer corps, who has been In charge of the Washington engineering distriot for the iast six years, has been or dered to duty at Florence Ala.. In connection with the development of the government Muscle Shoals project. Alumni Reunion The' alumni ot the' Boardman high SChOOol bad a wry pleasant reunion on Monday evening at the- green heiuso. All the graduates who are bore attended ami enioysd a toast Indeed they roasted wienies, toasted marshmallows, ate melons to reple tion, played games ami bad a jolly time in general. Each alumnus was U IfHflg Od to ask a guest. Those present were: Bellfl Packard, Edna Brotles, Ethel BrOyiOS, Dorothy Boardman, Doris Healy, Howard Packard, Arthur Al len, Lauren Cummins, Opal Wag 'ner, Paul Hatch and Carl Marly. Mr. Mulkey chaperoniel. Loganberry vines are ; n 1 1 gener ally ' trained to a wire trellis in ail districts. Posts seven feet long are sit 2 to 2V4 feet deep In the rows 30 fe'e't apart. Eithe r two or throe No. 12 or 14 wires are used. In the three-Wire trellis the' wires are run at about the 2 or 3 foot and the 5 foot levels. Tho lower wire is loo low to hold the fruiting wood, but Is useful In k' oping the' cane1 bases In pla:e. Qrapes in Oregon must be pioked when entirely dry, as these' pioked leiist will dtvelOP decay In a short time'. Tho best lime is in the! boat Of I be' day. Crapes handle! more' easily when the ste-ms arc slightly wilted, as is most likely to be the condition When transpiration is ieiest rapid. BRIEF GENERAL MEWS Construction work on tho Hood River While' Salmon Columbia river bridge' be gan Wednesday, Princess Anastasla, wife of Prince Christopher of Greece and formerly Mrs. William B. Ee-eAs, wldeiw of the American tiu plate magnate, died in he r London heme. People eif south Dakota saved be tween 1600,000 and $800,000 during the- month eif August em the-lr gasoline bills as a result eif the' price war start ed by (leiverneir McMnster. The first of the special 2-e-ent stamps StrUCM off by the pout off lee department as a memorial to Presi dent Harding were placed em sale In Marion, Ohio, Mr. Harding's home town. An effort to reinstate a constitu tional amendment that would emtlaw private; and parochial schools in Mich igan fallnd. Secretary eif State- Deland sunouncod after cbeoktng ove;r peti tions filed at his office. The petitions carried Bt,tM names, Whereas fiX,3U7 are required. AetSMl cemstrue:tlein of the Natrein e uteiff, freim Kirk to OekriaaJJ, Or., was begun when John Hampshire, ceintracteir of Grants Pads, Or., under teiok the Initial work eif cleaning, grub bing ane' grading for this line north from Kirk, It was announced by the Southern Pacific company. SCHOOL STARTS NEXT MONDAY SEPTEMBER I0TH The Boa rd man school opens Mon day, Sept. 10th The following are the teachers employed for the ensu ing year: Primary Miss Barbara Hlxson. Third and Fourth Miss Juunl'a Wolfe. Fifth and SlxthMIss Louise Sears, Seventh and Eighth Mrs. Ethel Mulkey. Manual Training J. H. driggs. Domestic Art Miss Jennie Mar vin. Mathematics and English Mrs. ' tly Crowdsr, Principal p. j. Mulkey. All the teachers have- been trn'" 1 for their respective work. Of ih.' rew teachers. Misses Hlxson and Wolfe arc from the' Monmouth Nor- i in 1 . Miss Sears from Bellingham Normal, and Miss Marvin i nil Mr. OriggS from the O.A.C. PTIss Wolfe will also have' charge' of the' Veical Music. School children shottld ilftug lunches from home' until cafeteria Is opened, which ' Ml be done' as quickly as arrangements can be made. All who have books feir sale that are ;n .-iiiiei condition should bring them Monday. High schoeil students, es- i' hilly, should bring old books, so classes can be organizes! as eiulckly as possible. Mr. Maeombef Is getting the' school building "Spick and span" for the opening, and we trust that pupils, tsacbers, and patrons will all help to keep it neat. Tbe- teachers eeittage' is also being put in readiness for the four (; I e rs who will occupy It . Miss a HiXSOn, Wolfe', Sears anel Marvin are planning on making It their home 'lining the school year. Dairy Herdsmen Register The' first application tor re-glstry in the dairy herdsmen's course at O.A.C. has been reeelve-d from Chas. E. Reynolds, a former student now living at Los Angeles. Tho pur DOSe eif the' course- is to eiualify men for management anel care of the iiiil for most effective' production ami breeding, it is strictly limited ii fewer than a dosen students to al low practice work with the college he'rds, anel extends from January 2 'o July 12. Early registration Is the einly safe' way to Insure a place In the course, Potato Mosaic Studied Plans for Ktuely of potato meisalc, a disease of great severity In many parts of the country now making lieeavv inroads Into Ore gon, have- been made by Dr. (i. K K. Link of the federal depart mee'iit of agriculture, and the O.A.C. experiment station through lis department of plant path ology. Inve st igat 'oils will be In ehaigi' eif M. B. McKay, peitato elis oaie specialist at the college. Leslie Packard and Chas. Barnes returned the first of the wi'e-k from a Week's hunting Dear Pilot Rock. While in Pilot Rock they we-ree guests of Mr. anel Mrs. City Lee. To know- how good a cigarette really can be madi you must try a- LUCKY STRIKE 'IT'S TOASTED' Let us print those butter wrappers.