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BOARDMAN, MORROW COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1921.
NUMBER 30
George M. Wilcox
STATE MARKET AGENT
DEPARTMENT
OeorgeM. Wilcox of lies Moines,
Iowa, lins just been appointed edu
cational director of the Near East Ito
llef orphanage schools In Greece, and
v.lll direct the large American prepara
tory und Industrial schools for 1Q.0UQ
"Vildren In Athens, Cnvulla. - Corinth.
S.vra. Cropui and other Greek cities.
He Is a graduate of Cornell, the Unl
versity of Iowa and the teachers' col
lege of Columbia university and is
thirty-four years old.
CKH3WO Your Conversation aCHXK0
'HIGHBROW
"Highbrow" is a slang term
which will work Its way into
the dictionary along with other
words of popular origin now ac
cepted In the best circles.
"Highbrow" means Intellectual.
It Is used both as a noun and
adjective. It is n reference to
the belief that the high fore
head Is a sign of superior In
telllgence.
landing Alone
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men, University of
Illinois.
T'l' TAKES courage and strength to
stand alone Most of us Hnd it
easier to go with the crowd. The
fact that the custom lias become com
UNO is adequate reason for most peo
ple to follow it, wftether the custom
be smoking cigarettes or wearing a
mechanical little gum Arabic curl
over the forehead. Women do not
wear tight skirts and silk stockings
In winter because these are more
comfortable or sanitary, but because
other women wear them. They are
afraid to stand alone.
These are days of unrest and re
volt, and there is very little doubt
that drinking and gambling are pretty
prevalent. When most young fellows
offer an excuse for these Ir.reguhiri
ties It Is mostly the Illogical alibi
that every one else Is doing It, and
that he should not be criticized since
he is as good as the average.
"isn't It wrong?" I ask. "Doesn t
It injure you and your work?"
"Yes," he replies, "but" He
hasn't the courage to stand alone.
He lacks the nerve to admit that he
has principles that make It Impos
sihle for him to do some things am'
still keep faith with himself.
Kranklin had been arrested fo
stealing from his unployers' store
and he asked me to come and see him
"Why d'd you do It?' I asked. (j
had been brought up well, he was hi
no particularly straitened tircum
stances, and he had always borne n
good reputation.
"I could use the things," he an
swered. "and I knew some of the oth
er fellows were doing It."
He was following the crowd, or
thought he was. He had no strength
to stand alone.
By O. E. Spence
State Market Agent, 723 Court House,
Portland, Oregon.
"There is keen opposition to co-
operative movements and the cleav
. age between the farmer and those he
must combat is becoming more and
more acute. If the farmer does not
defend himself now, both by adhering
to the co-operative movement and
otherwise, he will be reduced to
wooden shoes in a comparative short
time.
This is a statement made by Geo.
C. Jewett, secretary of the northwest
branch of the Federal Land bank of
Tacoma, and it Is borne out by the
significant statistics in the 1923 year
book of the U. S. Department of
Agriculture.
In 1880 the percentage of tot tl
farmers who were renters was 25 per
cfent. In 1890 this had jumped to 28,
while ten years later, during which
there 'was a period of agricultural
depression, the tenant percentage
had risen lo 3,". During the next ten
years it increased two per cent and In
1920 the .percentage of tenantry had
gone to 38 per cent. While there are I
no government figures since 1920,
estimates are that the list has length
ened at least ten percent during the
past four years, and that about half
the farms of the nation ate now oper
ated by tenant workers.
By combination power the other
industries of the nation have raised
their prices and profits to the higher
standards of living of the nation.
Labor, thru power of organization,
has maintained Its wage scale a'nd hm
closed the door to immigration and
competition to a large extent. It de
mands a wage scale in keeping with
the advance standards. Manufactur
ing and other industries grant the
scales and thru power of organiza
tion and high protective tariff duties,
si in ply advance prices to correspond.
It in fine for those within the organi
zations, but for common labor which
is unorganized, and for the farming
industries which has nothing to say
about selling price of its products
for these the direction is toward
tenancy and serfdom, and wooden
shoes.
Agriculture needs help to pull up
to the other Industries. It needs the
national marketing legislation to help
it get onto its feet. It needs tht same
degree of tariff protection that other
industries receive. It needs the active
help of all state commercial organ
izations. It must have this help or
agriculture will soon slide back to
I he tenant conditions of Europe. As
conditions are now there are two
standards in our country. A nation
oannot generality prosper under the
double standard.
Getting Out the Wom;.i Voters
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DETAILED REPORT
ON UMATILLA RAPIDS
PROJECT SENT IN
Silk and Lace Un'te
in Fall's Varied Blouse
Sherwln. president of
tile National League of Women Vnl
erg, holding a silver loving cup Which
Is to he awarded hy ihe Natlona'
league to the state league lil'i.
the greatest percentage of Increase in
the vote of IH24 over 1!)2()
At a recent conference of the potato
growers and buyers with the state
market agent, this actual transaction
was reported as illustrating the value
of standard grades. Two barrels of
potatoes were packed and shipped to
the same buyer. Both were graded
under the U. S. standards but In one
was added a peck of smaller potatoes.
The barrel having all standard po
tatoes brot a beter price, altho the
other had the same quanity of No. 1
stock and a peck of smaller stuff
added.
Minnesota is on of the states that
makes co-operation a religion, and
consequently a success. One of its
outstanding movements is an organlz
aiion of 70,000 farmers playing the
butter and dairying game together.
This co-operation controls 4 75 cream
eries, selling 357 cars of butter with
in the year, to the value ofmore than
SUCH IS LIFE
Dan 2elm
3o That was
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Tut TAIL.
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$4,000,000. This association was or
ganized In 1921; it has a net worth
of $215,548; total assets of $679,532.
Player Brings Big Price
new center
The We'll-
Here Is Earl Mc.Noel.v
fielder for the Senators.
Ington club paid 800,000 for him when
they took him away from the Sacra
mento (Cal.) club.
"Here's where I drown a lot of
trouble," said the careful camper,
pouring plenty of water on his camp-fire.
Iceland Retroactive
Iceland has prohibited the importa
tion of shoes. It will return to the
exclusive uses of its owu hairy sea
skin footwear. Nearly all dry goods
are barred, meaning a return to home
spun. Automobiles, motorcycles, tiling
are not to be for the Icelander. This
movement, back to the simple life in
Iceland, now has something of a coun
tenpart in Sweden, which is proposing
rnwreiiist the flood of automobiles
which Is engulfing other parts of the
world. Not rarely an American here
and there wishes he might be clear
of an automobile, radio, telephone
transported world as altogether too
much with him. Such will find Ice
land, if it stiir.ls Una, a real retreat.
Five hundred million pounds of
oleomargarine are sold every year in
the Dotted States. Oregon and Wash
ington are leading (lie way to shut
out these counterfeits. Both states
have passed laws forbidding the use
of milk in these substitutes, and in
i both states the packing interests hare
held up the iawrs on a referendum.
Every farmer and every friend of the
farmer should uphold the law by vot
ing "yes." Once those two state will
make themselves fast and take like
action. The dairy Interests of Oregon
are far greater than the side-line pro
fits of the packing concerns.
Let us print those butter wrappers.
School's Open
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Plana and estimates for the I'mat
illa rapids reclamation project in
Eastern CLogon have been completed
and a detailed report has been sent to
the reclamation service of the depart
ment of the interior at Washington
for approval, according to the' Denver
office of the reclamation service.
reading action ( in Washington on
the report, which is expected In about
30 days, the office here is unable to
give out details of the recommen la
Hons of engineers. Their work includ
ed a field survey and test borings for
the proposed dam Site. The prelimin
ary work was done jointly by enc'n
eers of the federal government and
the slate of Oregon.
Involve Millions
The Umatilla rapids project, which
will Involve the expenditure of sever
al million dollars, lias a three (old
purpose: First, the deepening of the
water in the upper Columbia rivet
making navigation posdble for a dist
ance of 30 miles above the rapid." :
second the development of water
Iiower for the irrigation of between
Ave and sl hundred thousand acre?
of land In the eastern part of Oregon
'hlrd. the production of electric pow
er for commercial purposes,
A fourth phase of the project which
has been proposed would be the erec
tion of a bridge across the Columbia
river near the site of the huge dam,
which will be about two or three
miles above Umatilla, Ore., and the
rapids.
The preliminary survey for the dam
site was made possible by an appro
prialion of $50,000 by the federal
government and $10,000 by Ihe state
of Oregon. The Umatilla rapids pro
jeet association composed of persons
Interested In the development of
irrigation facilities for eastern Ore
gon has been active In urging tlS
federal government to undertake the
Sinnott Has Letter
In a letter from Congressman N. J.
Sinnott, Is the ropy of a letter
he received from Elwood Mead, com
missioner of reclamation service Mr.
Mead'l letter is as follows:
Washington, Aug. 29, 1924.
Hon. N. J. Sinnott,
The Dalles, Oregon.
My Dear Mr. Sinnott :
Replying to your letter of August
19. Inquiring about investigations
and n port on the Umatilla Rapidg
Project:
We have no! heard from the field
partf about this recently and th
most effective way to get the Infer
motion you desire Is to forward your
letter to Mr. Weymouth, our Chief
Engineer at Denver. This has been
done , and he has been asked to
write to you what progress has beer
made and what remains lo he done
Very truly yours,
ELWOOD MEAD,
Commissioner
It will be noted that in the abov
report from Denver no mention Is
made of the need of more mote for
the survey. A report was recently
published io the effect more mone
would be needed but efforts lo secur J
further light on the subject have
thus far been in vain.- -E. O.
That doleful looking fellow you see
tS probably u hairpin manufacturer.
The truth will put That Is why a
woman limps In her new pair of shoes ,
When one wants to dress up a bit
for afternoon or evening, there is
nothing quite so convenient as a
pretty blouse. New ones for fall in
cheerful colors, are all made In the
overblouse style, with sleeves more or
less short, und decorated with lace or
embroidery of beads, or other adorn
lOSntl The styles Hre greatly varied
but most of them slip over the head
and fasten with n snap fastener - and
that Is all there Is to a change of
tullette.
The blouse pictured Is of dark red
crepe de chine with emplacements of
wide filet lace ai the front, and nar
row val luce used for edgings and In
sertions. It has ties of narrow ribbon.
Fine Golf Course on Roof
One of the most unusual open air
golf courses in use today is that which
has been built on the roof of a store
In Atlanta. Ja. This course, accord
ing to a writer In Oood Hardwure, is
surprisingly realistic nnd Is a mighty
busy place. It measures about two
hundred feet long and fifty feet wide,
and has about us much golf atmos
phere us a country club. The course
offers all the hazards, risks and pen
alties of championship golf.
The hardware store which has lm
pro Vised this course on the roof of
Us building on the busiest street In
the city Is doing Its bit to help along
the Increasing popularity of this fine
sport, which Is being played so en
thuslssticnlly throughout the United
Slates, "(live a man a golf club antl
let him strike a hall, and he Is H con
firmed golf fiend," some one has said.
This merchant Is putting that obser
vation to a rigid test.
EXPERIMENT STATION NOTES
By II. K. ii.Hi.
DOW TESTING
In the Ooodlng, Ida., cow testing as
sociation last year the 10 highest pro
ducing cows uv raged 508,1 pounds
of buttsrfat, valued ai 1229.18, while
the ten lowest produoed 136.3pounds,
worth $3.65: a difference of ,'!i9.S
pounds or $1 63.18. It cost $78.95 to
Feed the high producing cows und
$40.42 for the low producing. Tho
good COWS gave a return of $147.93
above the feed cost while the poor
nes returned $2:1.2:1 Each pound of
I Utterfal from the star hoarders cost
9.7 cuts for reed while from tho
high producers it cost only 15.6 cents.
Tht real way to ascertain which are
tl 500 pound cows and Which are
the 13fi pound ones Is to use a mill
scale and BabOOCk tester. There are
enough poor cows In this district to
make a cow testing association an ex
ceedingly profitable Institution.
It sppesrg that the way to hop
across the I'acllic Is to take several
hops.
Not until the millennium arrives will
a bettered product always meuu a bet
tered profit
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feller who gits
something from you
an' lets you realise
he's glttln' It ; a dlp-
lomut gets It without your reuitSuV It.
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