The Coquille Valley sentinel., May 21, 1926, Page 4, Image 4

THE COQUILLE
VALLET SENTINEL, COQUILLE, OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY JI, 1926.
J cut out twenty-nine of the forty’ va-
i rieties, the dealer that had carried
200,000 tons found he needed only 76,-
000, while <4,500,000 of annual waste
had been elided from the nation’s in­
dustry.
Plow-bolts would seem normally to
be about as simple a thing as man
could devise, and one plow-bolt about
like another. Yet fifteen hundred va­
rieties of them were manufactured in
the United States. The imp of the
perverse could hardly have gone fur­
ther. When a farmer bought a plow
with a certain kind of bolt and the
figures that soar and sums that daz­ time came to renew that bolt he must
zle. In 1921 the Federated American get one of the original kind if the
Engineering Society experts, headed country had to be raked to find it.
by Mr. Hoover, did exactly this. Say the plows sold in one farming
They undertook a survey of condi­ community comprised 400 kinds of
tions in six great typical American bolts, the dealer in that town must
industries and laid bare things that keep on hand all of the 400, although
struck the attentive into an amazed of half of them he might not sell a
■ cent’s worth in ten years. Joy must
silence.
They found the preventable waste have been unconfined in those pre­
in these industries ranged from 29 cincts when a committee knocked out
to 64 per cent, the average waste 44 per cent of the plow-bolts.
Then what? A Company that op­
among them all being 49 per cent, or
erates a chain of hotels cut • thirty
nearly one half their total, effort.
What were these six industries? styles of glassware to ten, «fifteen
Textiles, metals, boots and khoos, designs of carpet to three, all. .pat­
prihting, bujlding, men’s ready-made terns of table-linen to one, and sim­
clplhing—six that were supposed to plified nearly two hundred ( other
Thus it released
be among*''the most carefully man­ items of supply.
aged of all that make our industrial from former inventories <360,000 aryl
saved <100,000. And the guest? In­
greatness.
From this shattering fact they de­ deed, worry not about the guest. He
duced another. They concluded that was doing quite well, thank you. The
the total of preventable waste in all twenty extra styles of glassware and
American industry must be some­ the twelve extra carpet-patterns had
He never
thing like ten billion dollars a year. meant -nothing to him.
This was our first broad gage en­ missed them nor any other of these
lightenment on a momentous subject. retrenchments.
The total cost of all government in
A company that owned a chain of
the United States, fédéral, state, and drug-stores, decided to do a little
municipal, is only six billion dollar^ revolutionizing on its own account,
a year; so that if all of it were waste, reduced its stock to varieties most in
graft, and incompetence we should demand and cut out the moribund or
not lose as much in it as we lose an­ inactive items. Twenty-two thousand
nually in business. Ten billion dol­ varities of commodities that it form­
lars a year—it is the total cost of all erly carried came down to 10,000.
government, plus the cost of all au­ Whereupon this company increased
tomobiles sold here in a year, plus its volume of business 40 per cent, its
the cost of all the gasoline sold to turnover 70 per cent, decreased its in­
run them, plus the cost of all the vestment account 14 per cent, and its
American homes built in a year. Ten inventory 56 per cent. With these
billion dollars, and all waste.
savings it was able to increase its
How waste? Waste in competition wage rate J00 per cent.
How the American People Have Learnec
to Cut Out Useless Styles of Goods
Since the World War and Saved
All Its Costs Time and Again.
The Sentinel’s senior editor used to
read a good many of Charles Edward
Russell’s so-called muck-raking maga­
zine articles a generation ago; but
none of his exposes of graft in gov­
ernment and in business then inter­
ested me more than the article he
wrote for the last Century in which
he showed how the American people
since the world war have been saving
more a year than that war cost
them—more than 10 billions a year,
not 10 millions>but ten times a thous­
and millions of dollars each year.
It seemed incredible to me at first
and scarcely more than a wild
guess, but after a little while I read
it a. second time and concluded - that
Russell was right, ad he used to be
in the muck-raking days:
The Federal Department of Com­
merce and the Chamber of Commerce
of the United States, being the chief
revolutionists, have united in certain
wide-spread, searching, and unques­
tionable investigations, from which
business—in the mass— emerges con­
victed of bewildering extravagance
and waste, and poor old government
which we have always regarded as
doddering and incompetent, treads
the stage in the role of teaching busi-
, ness how to be efficient.
Such is the fact, however incred­
ible—and unpalatable.
But even
this result of the new day will seem
like a by-product when compared
with others, attained or indicated,
for these are of a nature to remind'
one of the introduction of steam-
driven machinery and the first day of
iron ships.
Jt
the Wa*.lmiustmz.Board of
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. man that started the upheaval. In nobody at all, in duplications, sep-
the days of war stress, there was no templications, efforts to sell the un-
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-possible production with the utmost , of it, after the War Industries had
possible celerity was the incessant shown the better way. Not because
pressure from an inevitable demand. , of anybody’s will or anybody’s in-
«-tse»
ing recorded here may . sound like
fantasy, but are not. Industries that
have experimented with the new or-
i l e i iuHUiran?y'°Te t w rei”s<wwe;> w i mi
change. The reason is sinfple enough.
It is the concentrated salesmanship
and the elimination of scattered ef-
M 1A4U.1 J..UAU..<! A t*r«-4
COUNTY AGENT’S WORK
Root Demonstrations
A" series of root crop demonstra­
tions of particular interest to Coos
county dairymen have been arranged
Ly County Agricultural Agent C. R.
Richards during the past two weeks.
The demonstrations jre put under
the direction of'experts of the Oregon
Agricultural College and will deter­
mine the «est varieties of root crops,
as well as the best fertilizers for root
crops in this section.
The plan of each démonstrations is
to plant 16 varieties of roots, includ­
ing mangels, carrots, rutabaga« and
turnips in 1-20 acre plots, the tows
running lengthwise of the field. This
field then is divided crossways «nd
one fourth of the area is left unfertil­
ized, one-fourth has barnyard manure
applied at the rate of 10-20 tons an
acre, one fourth receives in addition
to barnyard manure superphosphate
fertilizer a', the rate of 400 pounds
per acre.
The fourth plot has in addition to
■the manu t and super ph osphate, lime
added1 at. the rate of 1 1-2 tons per
acre.
‘
“This plan will show each of the 16
.varieties of roots under four diffeicnt
conditions of fertility and should give
us some very interesting results,”
says Mr. Richards.
At two of the demonstrations -1-8
acre plots treated with a complcte.“4-
10-10” commercial fertilizer at the
rate of 400 pounds per acre will be
added.
During the harvest season, field
meetings of farmers living in the vi­
cinity of each of the demonstration
fields will be held so that the pro­
gress of cash variety and method of
fertilizing can be observed. In the
fall at harvest time the yields of the
plots will be weighed and compared
The locations of the demonstration
plots were chosen - as representative
of the. three districts in which they
are located.
Beet Demonstrations
The farm of Vern Lundy, near the
Lundy co-operative cheese factory on
the South Fork of the Coquille river
near Myrtle Point is the location of
THAT BRING MORE
VALUE TO YOU
Careful management is one.
Holding expenses
down; avoiding waste, so that the money you
spend here goes into quality, riot ‘’overhead”—
are some of the others.
Avoiding inferior merchandise to sell at a price is
... .A
a fixed policy here:'
Ypu can get good values
only in good quality.
COQUILLE
When Better Merchandise Is Made We Will Sell It
for Economical Transportation
Wnm planted onthe farm- of Kay
Smith across the river from Riverton
on the lower river, while the third
demnoslration is established on the
?ara' ¿1 HMfÿ LIHUIUHI
Inlet north of North Bend.
Blueberries
A hat manufacturer was making
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if, t.hi
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aivl ” and carrying 3486 varitiee- qd -men s <ng arranged by C.R. Richards, coun­
_ once. The..-Wax Board . ukaaed the ik
uixt? f mrhn
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vnrn n «vil
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vy.
ty ¿agriCMltuoiL aynt, prove * succbes-
manufacturers to drop everything one other thing, which was the in­ hats, varieties In style, grade, and
ful during the he*t three years. Three
but. strict essentials, and at once re­ nate reluctance of the American to color. His factory, like so many
sets of blueberry plants of 12 plants
markable discoveries were made in co-operate. “Every man for him­ others, ran virtually on part time.
the number of things, processes, self” was proving but a dumb-bell That hr to say, he had a rush season each, including seven varieties, have
been received by Mr. Richards from
commodities, and machineries we motto. Look at the results.
to get out hats for the spring trade a New Jersey Nursery company in­
could easily get along without
The always lengthening list of in­ and a rush season to get them out for
Throughout all this period the Na­ dustries remade now include« many the fall trade, and beteween these terested in having the trials con­
tional Chamber was the close ally that directly affect people’s lives and were weeks when the factory was all ducted and have been located at three
farms in different part« of the coun-
and assistant of the board in securing households' budgets.
Range-boilers but closed. He summoned to meet
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every quickening betterment. When afford one illustration. At the outset him many of his leading customers
Blueberriets
sell
for
very
high prices
♦he war wax'over, when the ’board of the efficiency campaign the manu­ and proposed to cut down his varieties
ceased from troubling and the hlgh- facturers were making 130 varieties. to about six hundred, if I remembei on eastern markets, it is said, as high
pressurists were at rest, the dis­ To produce them was a heavy’burden; correctly, to make these all the year ah 45 to 56 cents a quart being real­
ciplined producing agencies began to to store and try to distribute them around, and to ship them as they ized. The average price for the ber­
relapse. But executives in the cham­ another. As for the poor retailer, to might be needed.,—He said that with ries on the New York market is said
ber had been taking good and care­ carry them, Account for them, protect these reductions, if the customers to have been more than <10.00 per
ful note of all that reform had meant. them, and have capital invested would order direct instead of waiting crate, (32 quarts), for the last eight
They said what was good for produc­ in th&n, were so many items in the for a traveling salesman to pick up years. Being, a firm, solid fruit, the
tion in war times must be good fob load he must try to shift, by one route the order they had already decided blueberry stands shipping well, so
production in peace times.
They or another, to the consumer’s totter­ upon, the factory could save 40 per would be a useful addition to the.ber­
turned to the Department of Com­ ing back. There was a national con­ cent, which he proposed to apportion­ ry crops of Coos county.
A. C. Chase of the Holt-Chase can­
merce, where they found the glad ference, a committee, a report, and ed fairly among the consumer, the
hand of Secretary Hoover thrust 117 varieties of range-boilers disap­ dealer, and himself. The dealers ac­ ning company at Myrtle Point was
instrumental in obtaining the trial
through the door at them, and to­ peared into the past
cepted with pleasure on their brows,
gether they complotted the revolution.
Of hot-water storage-tanks there and the whole program went through sets of plants for Coos county and
All intimations of waste must be were 120 kinds. A committee cut out exactly as the manufacturer had out­ stated that they should be successful
in this region.
made with tact and caution. The De­ 106 of them and so slammed the door lined it.
Among its beneficiaries
The three co-operating growers
partment of Comerce of the United on Old Man Waste.
were the workmen in the hat factory.
States government is without man­
Hardware manufacturing under They now had continuous work and have agreed to make a report eaeh
datory powers. It cannot order any went a great , change. Of the simple no periods of unemployment, all the year on September first, for three
years which will be sufficient time for
factory to cease to make useless tack and the unassuming nail 426 year around.
the crop to prove its merit«, it is be­
• things; it cannot interfere in any way kinds were being made and marketed
In boots and shoes one manufac­
with our precious right to waste our —more or less. A committee buried turer found he had three grades and lieved.
“There is not much doubt but that
own as we will. If we should attempt 247 or these. Of shovels, scoops, and 2600 styles in each grade. He cut this
anything of that kind, up would rise spades there were 4460 varieties on to one grade and 100 styles. Then he the blueberry will thrive in Coos
the deafening howl of insulted free­ the market? One of these might dif­ discovered that he had cut his pro­ county,? says Mr. Richards, “as they
men in all parts of our broad land. fer from another in the glory of curve duction cokt 31 per cent, overhead require a distinctly acid soil. Wild
Captains of industry are not in the or angle indiscernible to the layman’s 28 per cent, inventories 26 per cent, blueberries grow in abundance in
way of being told where they get off. eye, but each had its own pattern, and cost to consu..*er 27 per cent. He some places in the county now, while
Rather their habit is to do them­ each meant time and labor lost when was selling 22 per cent more of wo­ the huckleberry, a plant related to
the blueberry sorely thrives here.”
selves the telling.
-*■’ its pattern displaced another on the men’s shoes and 80
E. R. Forrest, whose berry farm
So the revolutionists go round to machine, each required handling, stor­ men’s.
on the Powers road north of Broad­
work. When the conference meets, ing, invoicing; each meant so much
In great things and in small, to
bent, was chosen for one of the dem­
the department and the chamber are in taxes, insurance, storage-space, plug up the leaks
is the word now.
onstrations. He will try the plants
Roasts, wonderful Steaka, delicious
prepared for it with the statistics and and idle capital. A committee went There used to be
150 varieties of
on typical river bottom soil.
facta .that show the waste. The con- through the list and actually knocked
Chops
—of which we always carry an
men’s collars on the markete; a little
The second trial was established
erence usually takes one good look out 4076 of the 4460 verities. Nine­
ample, fresh supply—have made this
dtudy cut them to twenty-five. There
at these and appoints a committee to ty-two per cent were found on inves­ were 200 varieties of certain lines of at the farm of A. T. Morrison on the
market a shopping place for particular
Marshfield highway near Coquille
consider the spillage and how it may tigation to be redundant. It is two
canned goods; study» reduced them to
housewives.
You, likewise, can be sat­
where the plants will be grown on
be stopped. It is a wise committee; it years since this breaking of old idols twenty-two.
isfied here.
bench land.
*
does not need to be argued or lured was effected. The nation’s digging,
Four hundred and sixty varieties of
out of tradition’s lethal grip. It re­ scooping, and spading have gone on cotton duck came down to ninety-
Soil near a cranberry bog ’will be
ports a plan, the conference adopts as before, but about ten million dol­ four; 179 varieties of electric lamp tried in the third demonstration which
the report to go into effect on a cer­ lars’ worth of lost motion preliminary banes to six. A committee found 1114 will be located on the L. C. Eaton
tain date as a trade agreement, and to'the digging, scooping, and spading
varieties of brass lavatory and sink farm about seven miles south of Ban­
the next thing the retailer knows, in­ has been laid aside forever.
traps on the market and recommend­ don.
stead of being bothered with twenty­
The use of concrete in building op­ ed that 1042 of these be dropped. In
“This will give us three distinct
seven kinds of wash-boilers, there is erations has necessitated steel rein­
lumber 60 per cent of the varieties types ’of soil for the trials,” says ,
but one.
forcing bars, of which about 600,000 made and offered for sale were cut County Agent Richards, “not only
New Stamp Issues
All this, being the affair of one tons are sold annually in the United
philatelists is the five-cent stamp
out and all the rest standardised. The will the trials determine the suitabil­
trade, nobody else pays attention to. States. ' In the days of hit-or-miss
to
be issued soon to mark the unveil­
The
special
two-cent
stamp
mark
­
ity
of
the
crop
to
this
region,
but
it
out «><’ all the rest standardized. The
Yet day by day we pay attention to a .when there were forty varieties of
economies that resulted astonished wiM show which kind of land is best i ing the 150th anniversary of the ing of a statute in Washington, D. C.,
thousand things that are nothing to steel reinforcing bars, some dealers even the revolutionists.
for their culture.”
.
i signing of the declaration of inde­ to John Ericcson, designer and in­
us compared with this. For if we felt obliged to carry as much as 160,-
pendence, which is to be. celebrated ventor of the Monitor, famous civil
multiply the wasteful
conditions 000 or even 200,000 tons, for which
Americans carry
approximately with, a sesqui-centanndal exposition at war craft. The date for issuing this
about wash-boilers into every product the needless costs in space, time, la­
$55,000,000,OpO-Tn life insurance poli­ Philadelphia, has bpen*issued by the stamp has not been announced.
of every factory, and follow along bor, and capital were reflected in the
cies, and moÇ than 160 persons have postoffice department and may be re­
where that leads, at home and abroad cost of building and thence into the
individual policies of a million dollars ceived here
Radio Hardware.
Batteries and tubes at
Another issue of special interest tobording
•—where shall we fetch up? Among tenant’s rent. After a committee had
and more.
Coquille Motor Co
QUALITY AT LOW COST
EXCELLENT
City Meat Market