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The Boardman Mirror
Boardman, Oregon
MARK A. CLEVELAND, Publisher
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE-
J. C. Ballenger and family re
turned last week from Seaside. Mrs.
Ballenger and Maxine have been down
there several weeks and Mr. Ballen
ger motored down the latter part of
August. ,
Entered as second-class matter Feb
11, 1921, at the poBtomce at Board
man, Ore., under act of Mar. 3, 1879
The teacherage is being renovated
and put in order for the teachers,
some of whom are expected Friday.
Mr. Goodwin kalsomined the kitchen
and living room, both of which were
badly smoked.
LOCAL
NOTES
Arlington
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A Leathers of
Hermiston stopped at the J. F. Gor
ham home Wednesday while on their
way home from a tour through west-
rn Washington.
J. C. Ballenger was an
visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Irene Sprague was a Hepp
ner visitor this week.
ttBoardman -
The Aid met Wednesday at the
hurch. The afternooji was spent
n slewing again . Some business
was transacted. Next meeting will be
September 19th. The) play which
was scheduled ror this weeK was
postponed temporarily
George Storey made a business
trip to Hermiston Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs. Chaffee were callers
at the Garrett home Sunday.
L. V. Woodard of The Dalles was
in town the first of the week.
Mr. Beck and family of Dufur are
again located in Boardman, living
in the F. L. Brown house. Mr. Beck
will drljl the long-talked-of tolwn,
well, It is understood, and has his
machinery and outfit on the ground
now, just back of the Advent church
on the lot purchased by the city.
The Marty family moved this week
to one of Frank Cramer's cottages.
Mrs. Deweese and Mrs. Root
called on Mrs. Glenn Carpenter Sun
day afternoon.
Eugene Cummins returned Wed
nesday for a month's visit with rel
atives at Oregon City.
Mrs. Blayden, Mrs. Klages. and
Mth. (iorham were entertained at the
Rand home on Saturday
Paul Hatch, who is working in
Baker, came down to visit his par
ents on Sunday returning Monday
night.
Mrs. Eugene Cummins) returned
home Wednesday after several weeks
home Wednesday after averal wesk
absence.
Mrs. Tlchenor and daughter, who
visited last week at the Koyal Rund
home, left on Monday for their home
In Portland.
(Hen Garrett drove to Condon and
Hardman with a load of melons on
Monday. The roads were very rough
he says.
Mr. and Mrs. Ford E. Stokes of
Stockton, Cal., are visiting at the R
S. Davis home. Mr. Stokes is Mrs
Davis' uncle
Grace Maxine, the baby daughter
of Mr. and Mrs Charles Wicklander
was christened at
church recently.
tho community'
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Mr. and Mrs. Fred Edmunds left
Wednesday In their car for thir
home, after spending a few weeks
here at their country home.
Mth. Hopkins and children re
turned to town, after staying with
Mrs. Cox the last two months while
Mr. Cox was uway harvesting.
The Ladies Aid will hold a sale of
nprons and girls' school dresses in
the bank rooms on Saturday. Sept
8th. Sale will begin at 10:30,
COOPERATIVE FARM
MARKETING NOTES
Progress of the Movement to
"Put Farming on Par With
Other Big Business."
Mrs. J. C. Ballenger has been suf
fering with an abscess on her cheek
ince her return from the coast. On
Monday night the Ballengers and
Nate-Macombers drove to Hermiston
where Mrs. Ballenger consulted Dr.
Illsley, who gave her. an electrical
treatment.
Prof. P. J. Mulkey and wife, Mrs.
Gladys Gibbons and Norma returned
Tuesday evcplng from Monmouth.
Mr. and Mrs. Mulkey and the latter's
mother enjoyed a trip via Ford to
Yellowstone Park this summer and
Mrs. Gibbons and Norma spent sev
eral weeks on the beach at Newport.
All are feeling fit and report a de
lightful vacation.
Ceo. Wicklander and family, Chas.
Nlzer and wife, A. W. Cobb, George
and R, C. Mitchell, Chas. Wickland
er and sons, Carl and Hector, C. H
Dillabough, Mr. and Mrs. Packard,
Ethel Broyles, Mr. and Mrs. Hatch
all motored to Hermiston Thursday
to attend the Field day exercises at
the Kxperimnt station.
A pamphlet and questionnaire on co
operative farm marketing recently is
sued by the State Bank Division,
American Bankers Association, has
brought out valuable information on
the subject from bankers, farmers and
state agricultural departments. It is
being used as a campaign document In
the organization of co-operative mar
keting associations in various sections
of the country, farmers having adopt
ed Us slogan: "Put Agriculture on a
Par with Other Big Business."
The movement on the part of farm
ers toward co-operative marketing as
l. cure for their present economic
plight is natlcn-wide. There has been
notable progress in the development
of such associations, some conspicu
ously successful ones being in opera
tion at the present time. There have
also been some disastrous failures
among these ventures in co-operative
marketing, which is the inevitable ac
companiment of the progress of any
movement. The "Banker - Farmer,"
published by the American Bankers
Association, says:
"Cause and effect are operative !n
co-operative marketing as truly as
they are in every other business enter
prise. An association will not neces
sarily succeed or fail merely because
it is a co-operative association, but be
cause it conforms to or transgresses
from the underlying principles of suc
cessful business operation. The movt
ment itself Is of great national import
and the bankers of the country can
materially aid or retard its progress.
The responsibility of leadership in
rural communities rests very largely
with the country banker. It is his
duty to be informed on all matters re
lating to the farmers' well-being."
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Modern conditions are such that ag
riculture cannot be successful by in
dividual effort. To regain its position
as a basic industry, and as a force in
national affairs, agriculture must de
pend upon organization and co-opera
tion for ecouomic production, for eco
nomic marketing and tor the estab
llshment of Its proper relationship 1b
community life. Howard Leonard,
President, Illinois Agricultural Association.
O. H. Warner and wife were great
ly surprised Sunday evening when
one of the tourists who spent the
night at the Warner auto camp
proved to be a former acquaintance
of 35 years ago, Philip Abbey, now of
Hood's Canal, Wash., but whom the
Warner's knew In Montana. Mr.
Abbey had lived at Hood's Canal for
the last ten years until a year ago he
returned to Iowa, but is now on his
way back to Hood's Canal, having
been on the road Blnce May. Tney
spent a very enjoyable evening to
nether reminiscing.
Dr. W. J. Miller, specialist eye. ear,
nose and throat of Portland will
be In Honrdman Sept. 17th (Mon
day) to do work in his line.
Earl Cramer has returned after
having spent several weeks in the
wheat country hauling wheat with
his truck. He has the contract again
this year driving the East End school
bus.
IRRIGON NEWS ITEMS
Plenty of news these days but ev
erybody too busy to tell about the
doings.
Mrs. Barr of Alberta, Canada, and
MIbb Gladys Williams of Walla Wal
la, Wash., are guests of Mr. and Mrs.
R. F. Williams this week. These
ladles are sisters of Mr. Williams
and motored over Monday from Wul
la Walla, where Mr. Williams had
gone a day or two previously to at
tend to some business matters.
A goodly number of newcomers
during he past week, but the writer
has not learnd the names of these
parties. McCoy house and Ives' have
been occupied (luring the week.
With a program of speeches, after a
picnic lunch in the Dufur city park,
the first completed unit of The Dalles-
California highway in Wasco county
was formally thrown open last week.
Th road connects The Dalles and
Dufur.
Bedding charges of $1 a stock car
and 1.50 for double-deck cars, in ef
fect on northwest railroads, are at
acked In a suit filed with the Inter
state commerce commission last week
by tie Northwestern Livestock Ship
pers' Traffic league, William Pullman,
president; the Cattle & Horse Rais
ers' asBociation of Oregon, Mr. Poll
man also being president, and the
Portland Livestock exchange, Leo
(Hiolson, president.
Judging a Great
Institution by
Small Defects
J. H. Puelicher
By J. H. PUELICHER
President American Bankers Asso-elation.
It would be difficult to find a bank
er, understanding thoroughly the Fed
eral Reserve System, willing to admit
that w e could
continue a first
class commercial
nation, without
.the Federal Re
serve Banks, or
mechanisms sim
ilar to them. Yet
there is antag
onism to the Fed
e r a 1 Reserve
Banks based in a
measure on some
minor mistakes In administration, but
more generally on a misunderstanding
of their purposes, of what should be
expectd of such a system.
The banker, as much as any man, is
to blame for tho present misconcep
tion. He found Federal Reserve
Banks a ready scapegoat to blame for
no matter what happened. if it
seemed desirable to refuse or cp 11 a
loan it was easy to say that the Fed
eral Reserve Bank wished it, although
it should have been refused because
contrary to good banking practice.
Most of all was the system Gained
for the fact that violent in.'iation
which hundreds of business nun and
bunkers hoped might be continued
forever was finally checked by putting
up Federal Reserve interest rates.
There were those who blamed the
system for not having put up the rate
soon enough and others who blamed
it because it put up the rate at all.
The penalty for thus blaming every
business mishap on this valuable sys
tem may be the loss of its much
needed benefits. If we wish to save
the present bank of the United States
from the fate of its two predecessors
we must make known to America, to
its rank and file, the splendid useful
ness of these institutions.
We must admit at the outset that
in their administration mistakes have
been made, that governors of Fed
eral Reserve Banks and members of
the Federal Reserve Board are human
beings, and in the administration of
the affairs of any institution by
human beings mistakes will be made,
but these have been so insignificant
as compared with the outstanding
usefulness of the institutions them
selves that they should be judged by
the good which they have performed,
which, after all, has been along the
line of their designed achievement,
rather than by those errors which
time and experience can easily eliminate.
With a view of restoring water
transportation on the Willamette riv
er as far south as Salem, J. E. Exon,
C. Bluhm and James L. Bacon have
leased from the Portland Navigation
company the boat Northwestern.
Union Pacific Taxes
$36,306 A Day
Union Pacific Svstem taxes practically trebled between
1912 and 1922, or from$4,668,S75 to $13,251,552.
Our 1922 taxes amounted to $36,306 a day. This
would have paid for W all-steel box cars every day or a
modern freight or passenger locomotive every other day.
Union Pacific System tax payments since 1900 have been
as follows:
Year
4-1900
f 1910
-!-1912
1917
1920
1921
1922
State and Federal
County taxes taxes Total
$1,256,839 $ $ 1,256,839
3,205,969 346,792 3,552,761
4,336,265 332,610 4,668,875
6,121.174 3,113,962 9,235,136
9,841,767 4,250,331 14,092,098
9,878,649 2,968,506 12,847,155
9,831,822 3,419,730 13,251,552
iO. Calendar year ending Dec-
fFiscal year ending June
ember 31.
Union Pacific System taxes for 1922 consumed 6.87
cents out of every dollar of gross earnings and 27.03
cents oiu of every dollar of net earnings.
Toial itixes paid by all railroads of the United States In
1922 were $304,885,1 58, which was almost as much
a? the COSt of digging the Panama Canal. Taxes exceed
ed cash dividends paid by the railroads in each year
si nee 1!" 7, or the entire . e of running the United
States Government in 19 '.hey amounted to 5.4 per
cent of (lie entire gross earnings.
Railroads are the largest tax payers in many states.
In some counties railroad taxes equal one-half the total.
Some of the tax money provided by the railroads is
used to build and maintain highways on which trackless
competitors operate. Some of these highway transpor
tation routes serve as feeders for the railroads, but in
most cases they take tonnage from the rail lines, and the
taxes levied on the railroads and their trackless competi
tors are often unjustly apportioned.
Senator Borah, speaking In Congress last December,
said:
"It will be very difficult to reduce freight rates If we con
tinue in this country to increase taxes upon the ra Broads as
we have for the last four years These public utilities must
collect this money from but one source, and that is from
those who shfp."
Railroads, like other businesses, must pay taxes.
Th;y are willing to pay their share, but they ask that the
tax burden be equitably distributed, and that the public
appreciate that taxation is an element of increasing
importance in railway costs.
The price of transportation is bound to keep pace
With the cost of transportation. We are bonding every
effort to reduce the cost.
Constructive suggestions arc alway
welcome
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Omaha, Nebraska,
September 1, 192 3.
R. GRAY,
President.
Brood sows, to farrow soon, bred to
Big Orion Sensation. Also some
fine quality 4 month old shoats, pric
ed right. Chas W. Powell Irrl
gon, Oregon.
RANCH FOR SALE 20 acres, 10,
teres in fruit and alfalfa. Terms. J
1 miles west of Umatilla. M. C.
Stewart au31tf
Hotel Dorian , Pendleton,
tho house of welcome.
is still
WOODSON & SWEEK
ATTORNEY8-AT-LAW
Masonic Building
Hcppner, Oregon.
A. H. SWITZER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Arlington, Oregon
Dr. A. H. Johnston
Physclan and Surgeon
Calls answered at all hours
In Boardman Wednesday and Satur
day mornings.
Office phone M 151 Res. M 332
Arlington, Oregon.
COMMUNITY CHURCH SERVICE
Every SuntTay
Sunday School 10:30 a. in.
Church Service 11:30 a. m.
Christian Liideavor 7:30 p. m.
All are welcome.
REV. It. S. HUGHES, Paator.
Head the home paper.
Mr and Mrs. Chas. Miirkham moved
Into the Doering house the first of
the week; vacated by W. M. Castle,
who left for Portland Tuesday. Mr.
Markham is taking Mr. Castle's place
as ditch rider
Mrs. Mabel Morehouse went to
Portland Saturday, after spending
the summer helping Mrs Sprague
at the service station. Delia Olson
Is taking her place After a week
in Portland she will return to her
home In Medford.
The American Legion Auxiliary
met. at Mm. Maromber's Tuesday
evening to elect a delegate to the
convention at Seaside, as the one who
was elected before could not attend
Mrs. Crawford was elected but had
to refuse as the sheep would not
stay In the pasture without help.
Mrs. Crawfod Is expecting one of
her brothers here any time to Btay
through the winter. George Hous
ton Is working on the U. S. dredge
boat, "Clatsop," near Astoria, and
Charles is on the dredge boat, "Wa
klakum" near Rainier, Ore.
The Association has now shipped
seven carloads of mixed watermel
ons and Pride of Irrlgon cantaloupes.
but expect to move the rest by truck
and express There Is not enough
Kleekly Sweet watermelons left now
to load carloads with cantaloupes.!
and the other varieties are not suit-1
able for our markets.
Mr. Brown Is making great prog
ress In leveling Ceo. C. Howard's
acreage, and they expect to Row al
falfa to several acres Saturday.
ITALIAN PRI NKS. Ready about
Sept. 1st. A large crop of fine
quality Please bring your own
containers as usual. Ten-acre or
chard. ! H wiles north of Herm
iston. Ore. E. L DAVIS
W ANTED- Fresh eggs and chickens.
French Cafe, Pendleton. au31tf
XOTIUE FOR PUBLICATION
Department of the Interior, U. S.
Land Office at The Dalles, Ore. Aug.
9. 1923.
NOTICE Is hereby biven that Paul
M. Smith, of Boardman, Ore., who
on Sept. 10, 1918, made Homestead
F.ntry, No. 020063. for NK Vi BW ,
being Unit "E" Umatilla Project,
Section 8, Township 4 North, Range
25 East, Willamette Meridian, has
field notice of intention to make
three year proof, to establish claim
to the land above described, before
C. G. Blayden, United States Com
missioner, at Boardman. Ore., on the
ISth dny of September. 1923.
Claimant names as witnesses:
Nick Faler, O. H. Warner, I.
Skoubo, J. R. Johnson, all of Board
man. Ore.
J. W. DONNELLY,
nulTseH Register.
S. E. NOTSON
ATTORNEY-AT -I, AW
Office In Court House
HEPPXER - - OREGON
ARLINGTON NATIONAL !
BANK I
CAPITAL AND SURPLUS
$73,000.00
OFFICERS
A. Wheelhouse, Pres. S. A. Rossier, Vice-Pres.
H. M. Cox, Cashier Chas. F. Story, Ass't Cashier
ARLINGTON
OREGON
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J. C. Ballenger::
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Highway Inn
0. H WARNER, Proprietor
Roardman, Oregon
Wholesome Home Cooking
Best place to eat between The Dalles and
Pendleton
The Best is none too good
Try our Sherwin-Williams paints
and varnishes. There is none bet
ter. also-
We have a complete line of
Cedar Flume Stock
Building Material
Builders' Hardware
Cement, Lime, Wood, Coal, Posts
W. A. MURCHIE
Roardman. Oregon.
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