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tioh? Do fioTlne Fecfchi fliittuatldns
In the May wheat option, apparently the lives of most of the people whom
unrelated to normal interaction of he serves, and their real character
Established 1876
supply and demand, offer a timely becomes known to him if he is the!
Published Every Evening Except
proof of the need of some such Stabil­ least observing. As a rural route i
Sunday .
izing agency as the grain growers have mail carrier I come into contact with
THE ASHLAND PRINTING- CO.
in contemplation?
many classes of people. My route
It is contended that, If their pro­ begins within the incorporate limits
OFFICIAL CITY AND COUNTY
PAPER
posed organizations be perfected and of a small town beautifully situated
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operated, the farmers will have In
at the head of a picturesque valley
their hands an instrument that will be
Subscription Price Delivered in City:
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
capable of dangerous abuse. We are in the foothills of the Cascade moun­
One month ............................... $ .65
told that It will be possible to pervert tains, and extends up for several
Three m o n th s........................... 1.95
41x months ............................... 3.75
It to arbitrary and oppressive price- miles into the hills.
People of various nationalities and
One year ................................. 7.50
fixing from Its legitimate use of order­
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly)
Mail and Kura* Routes
occupations
were patrons of the
ing and stabilizing the flow of farm
jue month ............................... $ .65
products to the market, to the mutual route, making it a fairly good cross
Three months ........................... 1-95
benefit of producer and consumer. I section of humanity. For the most
Six months ............................... 3.50
part these were people unknown out­
One year ................................. 6.5C
patiblë "with the Targe trade it has have no apprehensions on this point.
(Continued From Yesterday.)
built up. All this Is generally conced­
In the first place, a loose organiza­ side of the community in which they
ADVERTISING RATES
ed
to
be
to
the
advantage
of
the
con­
tion, such as any union of farmers lived. Yet, wrapped up in each In­
IV
Display Advertising
Now, what is the farmer asking? sumer. Nor does the steel corporation must be at best, cannot be so arbi­ dividual was a story of intense in­
Single Insertion, each inch.......... 30c
Without trying to catalogue the re­ Inconsiderately dump its products on trarily and promptly controlled as a terest which only awaits the telling.
YEARLY CONTRACTS
medial measures that have been sug­ the market. On the contrary. It so great corporation. The one is a lum­ The following sketches are intended
Display Advertising
One time a week............................ 27 f t c gested In his behalf, the principal pro­ acts that It Is frequently a stabilizing bering democracy and the other an agile to give just a glimpse of a few of
Two times a week........................... 25 c posals that bear directly on the Im­ Influence, as Is often the case with oth­ autocracy. In the second place, with
Every other day..............................20 e provement of hls distributing and mar­ er large organizations. It is master of all possible power of orgmizatlon, the these interesting characters.
Local Readers
ANDY
keting relations may be summarized as Its distribution as well as of its pro­ farmers cannot succeed to any great
duction. If prices are not satisfactory extent, or for any considerable length
Each line, each tim e...................10c follows:—
A
part
of
the
way my route fol-!
To run every other dfay for one
First: storage warehouses for «cot­ the products are held back or produc­ of time, In fixing prices. The great lowed the winding course of a creek, i
month, each line, each time. . 7c ton, wool, and tobacco, and elevators tion Is reduced or suspended. It Is not law of supply and demand works in
To run every issue for one month
for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet compelled to send a year’s work to the various and surprising ways, to the on the banks of which the Indian
or more, each line, each tim e .. 5c the maximum demand on them at the market at one time and take whatever undoing of the best laid plans that hunted and fished in days gone by.
Classified Column
peak of the marketing period. The It can get under such circumstances. attempt to foil It. In the third place, Near the end of the route there is !
One cent the word each time.
thinks that either private capi­ It has one selling policy and its own their power will avail the farmers a little cabin sitting back a hundred
To run every issue for one month fanner
tal must furnish these facilities, or the export department. Neither are the nothing If It be abused. In our time yards or more from the road. From
or more, %c the word each time.
9tate must erect and own the eleva­ grades and qualities of steel determin­ and country power Is of value to its quite a distance I could see the
Legal Rate
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does possessor only so long as It Is not
First time, per 8-point line........ 10c tors and warehouses
the latter hold the scales. In this sin­ abused. It Is fair to say that I have smoke from its old rock chimney
Second:
weighing
and
grading
of
Each subsequent time, per 8-
gle
integration of the steel corporation seen no signs In responsible quarters curling up through the tree tops.
point line ................................. 6c agricultural products, and certification is represented
about 40 per cent of the of a disposition to dictate prices.
This is where my old friend Andy
Card of th a n k s ..........................$1.00 thereof, to be done by Impartial and ;
steel
production
of America. The rest There seems, on the contrary, to be a lives. Now Andy is old enough to
disinterested public Inspectors (this Is !
Obituaries, the l i n e ...................
already accomplished to some extent is mostly In the hands of a few large commonly beneficial purpose to realize be my father, yet I always call him
Fraternal Orders and Societies
Advertising for fraternal orders by the federal licensing of weighers companies. In ordinary times the a stability that will glv'1 an orderly Andy, just as if we had been boys
or societies charging a regular initi­ and graders), to eliminate underpay­ steel corporation, by example, stabilizes and abundant flow of farm products
ation fee and dues, no discount. Re­ ing, overcharging, and unfair grading, all steel prices. If this Is permissible to the consumer and ensure reasonable together. He appears to have come
ligious and benevolent orders will be and to facilitate the utilization of the . (It is even desirable, because stable and dependable returns to the pro­ down from an earlier age, and to
charged the regular rate for all ad stored products as the basis of credit. I and fair prices are essential to solid ducer.
have grown up with the surrounding
vertlsing when an admission or other
In view of the supreme Importance mountains. He ha/? iA-obably not
Third: a certainty of credit sufficient and continued prosperity) why would
charge Is made.
to enable the marketing of products It be wrong for the farmers to utilize to the national well-being of a pros­ been out of these hills a dozen times
central agencies that would have simi­ perous and contented agricultural pop­
In an orderly manner.
What Constitutes Advertising
In the last half century. I saw him
lar
effects on agricultural products?
Fourth: the Department of Agricul­
In order to allay a mlsunderstand-
ulation,
we
should
be
prepared
to
go
once in the little town at the foot
Something like that Is what they are
ng among some as to what consti- ture should collect, tabulate, summa­ aiming nt.
a long way In assisting the farmers t<> of the valley. He was uneasy and
rize,
and
regularly
and
frequently
pub­
utes news and what advertising,
Some farmers favored by regional get an equitable share of the wealth seemed out of harmony with hls sur­
ve print this very simple rule, which lish and distribute to the farmers, full
they produce, through the Inaugura­
b used by newspapers to differenti­ Information from all the markets of compactness and contiguity, such as the tion of reforms that will procure a roundings, and appeared anxious to
ate between them: “ALL future the world, so that they shall be as well cltrus-frult-ralsers of California, al­ continuous and Increasing stream of get back to his native hills.
ivents, where an admission charge Informed of their selling position as ready have found a way legally to farm products. They are far from get
Andy is rather profane, yet h is'
b made or a collection is taken IS buyers now are of their buying posi­ merge and sell their products Inte­
grally and In accordance with seasonal ting a fair share now. Considering swearing does not shock one like j
ADVERTISING.” This applies to tion.
capital and the long hours of labor that of some people; for it seems;
irganizatlons and societies of every
Fifth: freedom to integrate the busi­ and local demand, thus Improving his
put
In by the average farmer and bis
Lind as well as to individuals.
ness of agriculture by means of con­ their position and rendering the con­
perfectly natural, just as his breath­
All reports of such activities after solidated selling agencies, co-ordinat­ sumer a reliable service of ensured family, he Is remunerated less than ing. He does not burst forth in a ■
hey have occurred is newB.
ing and co-operating In such way as to quality, certain supply, and reasonable any other occupational class, with the
All coming social or organization put the farmer on an equal footing and relatively steady prices. They possible exception of teachers, reli­ fit of profanity like the sudden ex- ;
nestings of societies where no with the large buyers of hls products, have not found It necessary to resort gious and lay. Though we know that plosion of a gas pipe. It is more I
nonay contribution is solicited, initi­ and with commercial relations In other to any special privilege, or to claim the present general distress of the modulated live the even and subdued
ation charged, or collecton taken IS Industries.
any exemption under the anti-trust farmers is exceptional and is linked report of the exhaust when the muf­
the inevitable economic readjust­
4EWS.
_______________ ___
When a business -equires specialized legislation of the state or nation. With­ with
ment
following the war, It must be fler is closed and your motor has
out
removing
local
control,
they
have
Entered at the Ashland, Oregon, talent, It has to buy It. So will the
remembered that, although represent­ idled down. He told me that an
?ostoffice as Second-class Mall Mat- farmers; and perhapa the best way for built up a very efficient marketing ing one-third of the Industrial product older boy taught him to swear. Af­
them to get It would be to utilize some agency. The grain, cotton, and to­
half the total population of the ter giving him a few choice samples,!
of the present machinery of the larg­ bacco farmers, and thé producers of and
nation,
the rural communities ordi­ the older boy said, “Them’s the i
hides
and
wool,
because
of
their
num­
est established agencies dealing in
f5uMMEBpLAY6R0UND~
narily
enjoy
but a fifth to a quarter of words to use, if you want to be a
bers
and
the
vastness
of
their
regions,
farm products. Of course, if he wishes,
the
net
annual
national gain. Notwith­
of A merica
the farmer may go further and engage and for other reasons, have found standing the taste
of prosperity that man.” Andy proceeded to make use-
in flour-milling and other manufactures integration a more difficult task ; the farmers had during
the war, there of them, and is now a man of more!
of food products. In my opinion, though there are now some thousands is today a lower standard
of living than three score years and ten.
however, he would be wise to atop of farmer’s co-operative elevators, among the cotton farmers of the
South
While Andy is thoroughly honest
short of that. Public Interest may be warehouses, creameries, and other en­ than In any other pursuit In the country.
in
all his dealings, he does not claim
terprises
of
one
sort
and
another,
with
opposed to all great Integrations; but.
In conclusion, It seems to me that the to be religious. He told me once
in Justice, should they be forbidden to a turn-over of a billion dollers a year. farmers
are chiefly striving for a gen­
the farmer and permitted to others? They are giving the farmers business erally beneficial
integration of their that he expected to go to hell when
experience
and
training,
and,
so
far
The
corporate
form
of
association
can­
WASHINGTON A
of the same kind and charac­ he died, but he did not appear the
.BRITISH COUjr
not now be wholly adapted to hls ob­ as they go, they meet the need of business,
ter
that
other
enjoys.
It least perturbed about it. In fact,!
1IGHT. COOL DAYS L
!l
jects and conditions. The looser co­ honest weighing and fair grading ; but should be found business
on
examination
that
IA RESTFUL SLEEP EVERY NIGHT.
operative form seems more generally they do not meet the requirements of the attainment of this end requires he is not bothered with doubts about;
suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be rationally adjusted marketing in any methods different from those which the present or the future. He lies
down to rest at night “untroubled by
free, If he finds It desirable and feas­ large and fundamental way.
other
activities
have
followed
for
the
KNOCK PROBLEMS APART
The
next
step,
which
will
be
a
pat­
ible, to resort to co operation with hls
same purpose should we not sympa­ a spark.”
fellows and neighbors, without run­ tern for other gmups, la now being thetically
Andy is a good listener, which Is
consider the plea for the
hy the grain-raisers through
* The only way to dispose of a ning afoul of the law. To urge that prepared
more
than can be said of many peo­
the establishment of sales media which right to co-operate, If only from our
problem is to solve it—not worry the farmers should have the same lib­ shall handle grain separately or col­ own enlightened self Interest, in ob­ ple. Whatever you may be saying
erty to consolidate and co-ordinate
about it. Worry never solved a their peculiar economic functions, lectively, as the individual farmer may taining an abundant and steady flow ol he gives you respectful attention,
porblem; but clear-headed, cheerful which other Industries in their fields elect. It is this step—the plan of the farm products?
and keeps responding with a nod of
In examining the agricultural sltua
reasoning has. Worry .clouds the enjoy, is not, however, to concede that Committee of Seventeen—which has
tlon with a view to Its Improvement, the head, and saying: "Yes, yes,
brain and makes clear thinking dif­ any business Integration should have created so much opposition and is we
shall be most helpful if we main­ yes, you did; you say you did; yes,
legislative sanction to exercise monop­ thought by some to be In conflict with
ficult—often impossible.
the anti-trust laws. Though there Is tain a detached and Judicial viewpoint, yes, oil did, ou did; the hell you
When trouble appears, keep the olistic power. The American people now before congress a measure de­ remembering that existing wrongs may did.”
as firmly opposed to Industrial as
mind clear, exert effort with one ob­ are
chiefly an accident of unsymmetri-
Andy’s views of life are largely
to political autocracy, whether at­ signed to clear up doubt on this point, be
ject only in view—make decisions, tempted by rural or by urban industry. the grain-producers are not relying on cal economic growth instead of a crea­ original. He did not get them from
make them logically and reasonably.
For lack of united effort the farmers any immunity from anti-trust legisla­ tion of malevolent design and conspira­ ministers, lawyers or doctors. He
We Americans are prone, as Pro­
Above all, do not get confused and as a whole are still marketing their tion. They desire, and they are en­ cy.
fessor
David Friday well says In hls has had very little to do with these
titled,
to
co-ordinate
their
efforts
just
panicky. Analyze each item of that crops by antiquated methods, or by no as effectively as the large business In­ admirable book, “Profits, Wages and eminent individuals. He has doubt­
trouble, one by one, not as a whole. methods at all, but they are surrounded terests of the country have done. In Prices,” to seek a “criminal Intent be­ less never heard of the great names
a business world that has been
A big problem Is nothing but a by
modernized to the last minute and is connection with the selling organiza­ hind every difficult and undesirable eco­ that adorn the pages of philosophy.
lot of little problems clinging to­ tirelessly striving for efficiency. This tions the United States Grain Growers nomic situation.” I can positively as­ He has never bothered his head
gether. Knock them apart. Settle efficiency Is due In large measure to Incorporated Is drafting a scheme of sert from my contact with men of about any of the fundamental con­
them one by one and it is suprising big business, to united business, to In­ financing instrumentalities and auxili­ large affairs, Including bankers, that, ceptions of life, but he has a philos­
tegrated business. The farmers now ary agencies which are indispensable as a whole, they are endeavoring to ophy all hls own, and, if it seems
how they disappear.
to the successful utilization of modern fulfill as they see them the obligations
Solve all problems and they no seek the benefits of such largeness, un­ business methods.
that go with their power. Preoccupied rather homely, it nevertheless serves
and Integration.
longer exist. Worry about them and ion The
with the grave problems and heavy his purpose. If his ideas are quaint,
It
is
essential
that
the
farmers
American farmer Is a modern of
tasks of their own immediate affairs, they have the advantage of origi­
they remain forever.
should
proceed
gradually
with
these
the moderns In the use of labor saving
they
have not turned their thoughtful nality, which is more than can be
machinery, and he has made vast plans, and aim to avoid the error of
personal
attention or their construc­
scrapping
the
existing
marketing
ma­
strides in recent years In scientific
NEW TIME CARD IN
tive
abilities
to the deficiencies of agri­ said of the ideas of some of our
chinery,
which
has
been
so
laboriously
tillage
and
efficient
farm
management,
EFFECT NEXT SUNDAY
business organization. Agri­ congressmen.
but as a business In contact with other built up by long experience, before cultural
Andy is a fatalist. But so were
culture, It may be said, suffers from
businesses aglrculture is a “one horse they have a tried and proved substi­ their
preoccupation
and
neglect
rather
the
ancient Greeks. And while their
tute
or
supplementary
mechanism.
The Southern Pacific company is shay” In competition with high power They must be careful not to become than from any purposeful exploitation tragic poets taught that man is the
making a few changes in its time at automobiles. The American former Is enmeshed In their own reforms and by them. They ought now to begin to blind instrument of the gods, Andy
greatest and most Intractable of
respond to the farmers’ difficulties, merely says that, “wha| happqfhs
Ashland, effective Sunday, February th<
individualists. While Industrial pro­ lose the perspective of their place In which
they must realize are their own.
the
national
system.
They
must
guard
12. No changes are made in the duction and all phases of the huge com­
On
the
other hand, my contacts with will happen whether it hanpens or
against
fanatical
devotion
to
new
doc­
time of train 53, which is due at mercial mechanism and Its myriad ac­
the
farmers
have filled me with respect not.” Besides being a fatalist, he is
4:20 p. m., in train 15, due at 11:30 cessories have articulated and co-ordi­ trines, and should seek articulation for them—for
their sanity, their pa­ also a pessimist. It was one day in
the general economic system
p. m., or train 54 due hare at 4:40 nated themselves all the way from nat­ with
tience,
their
balance.
Within the last February as I drove up the valley on
rather than Its reckless destruction as
p. m. A slight change In the other ural raw materials to retail sales, the It relates to them.
year,
and
particularly
at a meeting my daily rounds with the mail that
business of agriculture has gone on In
called by the Kansas State Board of I saw him along the road repairing
train schedules are as follows: Train much the one man fashion of the back-
Agriculture and at another called b.v
11 is due 15 minutes earlier than woods of the first part of the nine­
the
of Seventeen, I have an old rail fence. The day was
heretofore, arriving at 4:30 instead teenth century, when the farmer was
To take a tolerant and sympathetic met Committee
many of the leaders of the new balmy and springlike, just such a
of 4:45 a. m. Train 13 arrives 15 self sufficient and did not depend upo: , view of the farmers’ strivings for bet­ farm movement, and I testify In all day as makes you thankful for the
minutes later, the new arrival time or care very much, what the great ter things is not to give a blanket sincerity that they are endeavoring to joy of living.
being 10 a. m. Train 16 will depart world was doing. The result Is that endorsement to any specific plan, and deal with their problems, not as pro­
‘‘Good morning, Andy,” I said,
the agricultural group is • almost as still less to applaud the vagaries of
in the future at 7 p. m. Train 14 much at a disadvantage in dealing with some of their leaders and groups moters of a narrow class interest, not “This is a beautiful day.”
will depart one hour earlier, or at other economic groups as the Jay farm­ Neither should we, on the other hand, as exploiters of the hapless consumer,
Now, it does not require a great
5:30 a. m., and train 12 will depart er of the funny pages in the hands of allow the froth of bitter agitation, not as merciless monopolists, but as deal of intelligence to speak of the
honest ment bent on the Improvement
sleek urban confidence men, who sell false economics, and mistaken radical­ of
at 8:15 a. m. in the future.
weather, for, like the poor, it is
the common weal.
him acreage In Central Park or the ism to conceal the facts of the farm­
We
can
and
must
meet
such
men
something
we always have with us.
Chicago city hall. The leaders of the ers’ disadvantages, and the practicabil­ and such a cause half way. Their,
PAULINES FREDERICK MARRIES
Andy
looked
up and explored the
farmers thoroughly understand this, ity of eliminating them by well-con
DR. RUTHERFORD OF SEATTLE and they are intelligently striving to sldered measures. It may be that the business Is our business—the nation’s heavens for indications of rain. But
not a cloud was to be seen. Then
integrate their Industry so that it will farmers will not show the business business.
I
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sagacity
and
develop
the
wise
leader­
be
on
an
equal
footing
with
other
busi­
he felt a gentle breeze blowing
SANTA ANA. Calif., Feb. 8.—
ship to carry through sound plans; but
nesses.
against
his cheek, and he said, “Yes
Pauline Frederick, motion picture
As an example of Integration, take that possibility does not Justify the
but
that
wind portends rain.”
J u st Folks !
actress, formerly well known on the the steel industry, in which the model obstruction of their upward efforts.
The
next
day he was again at his
stage, was married here Saturday Is the United States Steel Corporation, We, as city people, see In high an 1
work along the old rail fence, his
evening to C. A. Rutherford, of Seat­ with its Iron mines. Its coal mines, Its speculatively
manipulated
prlcca,
-By-
long,
gray beard flowing in the
lake
and
rail
transportation,
its
ocean
spoilage, waste, scarcity, the results
tle, whom she said was her second
JOHN HERBERT DORAN
vessels,
its
by-product
coke
ovens,
its
breeze.
of
defective
distribution
of
farm
pn-d-
counsln, and known to her all of
If one Is hunting a field for the
furnaces, its open hearth and ucts. Should it not occur to us that
“Another beautiful day,” I called
her life. Miss Frederick returned blast
Bessemer furnaces, Its rolling mills, its we have a common Interest with the study of human nature, I can recom­ as I approached, wondering what
quietly to Los Angeles and said she tube mills and other manufacturing farmer In hls attempts to attain a de­ mend to him some branches of the
expected to resume work in a studio processes that are carried to the high­ gree of efficiency In distribution cor- postal service. A postman soon be­ answer he could give this time. He
est degree of finished production com- responding to hls efficiency In produc- comes intimately acquainted with
there*
(Continued on Page Three)
Ashland
Tidings
Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
tv'edhesdny, February a, tósi?
anwram
SBOI
Pauline Frederick
“MADAME X”
IN
In “ Madame X,” Pauline Frederick gives
the greatest performance of her career.
This picture has been called greater than
the play, which ran for years and stands
as one of the most sensational successes
of the theatre.
Friday—Saturday—
-in “ THE FOX’
Sunday—Monday—
-in “ DOUBLING FOR ROMEO”
asaa
IMPROVED SERVICE
and
IMPORTANT CHANGES
in
PASSENGER TRAIN SCHEDULES
Sunday, February 12th
MAIN LINE:
“ The S hasta” schedules shoiiened one hour.
“ San Francisco Express,” No. 13, arrives San Fran­
cisco 8:10 A. M.
(Note:
More convenient arrival time at San Francisco.)
Important Changes at Ashland
NORTHBOUND:
No. 14 for Portland Lv. Ashland 5:30 A. M. Ar. Portland 8:15 P. M.
No. 12 for Portland Lv. Ashland 8:15 A. M. Ar. Portland 8:30 P. M.
No. 16 for Portland Lv. Ashland 7:00 P. M. Ar. Portland 9:15 A. M.
SOUTHBOUND:
No. 11 for San Francisco leaves Ashland 4:45 A. M.
No. 13 for San Francisco, leaves Ashland 10:15 A. M.
No important change in schedules of trains not mentioned.
For further particulars ask Agents, or secure copy of timf ta­
bles covering all changes.
Southern Pacific Lines
JOHN M. SCOTT,
General Passenger Agent
SOME SNAPS IN
USED CARS
I Ford Coupe, ’21..................................................$550.00
1 Buick B u g .......................................................... 75.00
A dandy Ford ....................................................... 225.00
One 1918 Chalmers Touring, excellent condition, at a
bargain.
And several others including a Dort, a Reo Touring and
two Ford Touring cars.
SERVICE GARAGE
A. C. CROSSMAN
Phone 606
M EDFO RD
22 S. Fir St.
OPEN ALL NIGHT
First Class Used Cars
at a Knockdown Price
One 1918 Model Chevrolet .................................. $185.00
One 1916 Ford with 1922 license ........................$165.00
One 1921 Ford Touring at .................................$350.00
One 1920 Chevrolet Touring at ........................ $400.00
One 1918 Chevrolet Touring at ........................ $225.00
THESE ARE ALL SPECIAL BARGAINS
Ashland Auto Co.
One the Plaza
Phone 72