This wag at the bottom of the fight
built up by long experience, before
they have a tried and proved substi­
efficiency la d u e 'In large measure to
tute or supplementary mechanism.
big buslneas, to united business, to in-
They must be careful not to become
I tegrated business. The farmers now
enmeshed In their own reforms snd
geek the benefits of such largeness, un­
lose the perspective of their place In
ion snd Integration.
I
The American farm er la a modern of the national system They must guard
against fanatical devotion to new doc­
the moderns In the use of labor saving
trines. and should seek articulation
machinery, and he has made vast
with the general economic system
strides In recent years In scientific
I tillage snd efficient farm management, rather than Its reckless destruction as
hut as a business In contact with other It relates to them.
businesses aglrculture la a "oDe horse
HUttUtS AVtNGt BtNtr-ACIUK
shay” In competition with high power
automobiles. The American farm er Is
D ow n-and O uters D rag In M an fo r
the greatest and moat intractable of
S tealing S tickpin From
Individualists. W hile Industrial pro-
Social W o rker.
ductlon and all phases of the huge com­
mercial mechanism and Its myriad ac­
New York.— The down and-outers of
cessories have articulated and co-ordi­
nated themselves all the way from nat­ the Rowery scoured lodging houses
and poolrooms and then dragged be­
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ural raw materials to retail
sales, _ the
business of agriculture has gone on In
fore the police a man whom they ac­
much the one man fashion of the back-
cused of having snatched a $128 stick
woods of the first part of the nlne-
pin from Herm an Muller, a soda)
reenrh century, when the farm er was
worker. In an east-side restaurant eg/ly
sufficient and did not depend upon, today.
i of
very much, what the great
M uller was following hla weekly cue
world
_
world was
was do
doing.
The _ ________
result 13 that tom of distributing free “feeds” to the
the agricultural group Is almost as
economically unlucky, with the an-
much at a disadvantage In dealing
v
_ with
fortu rate ones telling him their troubles
other economic groups as the Jay form ­
during the meal, when two of bis guests
e r of the funny pages In the bands of
set upon him and escaped with the pin.
sleek urban confidence men, who sell
A detective to whom M uller reported
him acreage In Central Park or the
Chicago city hall
The leaders of the his loss climbed on a table and told the
farmers thoroughly understand thia, doun-and-outers that It was a shame
and they are Intelligently striving to for their benefactor to be treated so
Integrate their industry go that It will shabbily and that If they did not get
the culprits they would have him
be on an equal footing with other busl
to reckon with.
nesses.
betwoon Ramsey Mllholland and Wea-
l**y Render, and the diplomatic ex­
changes Immediate!) preceding bostill-
tlea were charmingly frank and un-
hypocritical, although quite as mixed
op and off the-lssue as I f they hud
been prepared by p,ofessl»nal foreign
office men. Ramsey and Fred Mitchell
and four other boyg waylaid young
Render on the atreet a fter school, In
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
tending jocosities rather than violence,
hot the victim proved sensitive “Too
take yonr ole hand* off o’ me I" he
«aid ffercely, aa they began to push
Since so many young people wear
(R e p rin ted fro m A tla n tic M o n th ly )
him about among them.
glasses, the old idea tqat they make a
“Ole dirty W eal" they hoaraely bel I
person look old is seldom mentioned.
The truth is that pntting off wearing
lowed and squawked, In their chang '
glasses when they are needed is what
— 'gswvwr. .
»«"I gooff than In the case of other
Ing vob ea
“Washes Ida ears I” . .
makes many people's faces look older
— —
Industries. The spirit of American
“Waghea hla neck !" . . . Dora Yocum
than they are.
’ III
democracy is nnnlterahly opposed.
told hlg mama to turn the hone on I
Now that the farm ers are Stirring. al,lte ,o snar?ed special privilege and
him I”
Wegley broke from them and hacked thinking, and uniting as never before ,o the • pae' al Privilege of unequal op-
away, twinging hla «trapped hooka In Io eradicate these Inequalities, they Po r,u n lty <hat arises autom atically
a dangeroua circle. “ You keep o ff'” are subjected to stern economic lec- ,r 0 "' M** ,al,ura *« correct glaring
tures, and are met with the accusation • eonom’ e Insqualltlsa
I am opp aed
he warned them
“I got aa much
right to my pera’nal appearance ng that they are demanding, and are the t0 ,b * Injection of government Into
recipients of. special privileges
L et business, but I do believe that It Is an
anybody I”
A L B A N Y . OBC&.
us see what privileges the government Msent1** function of democratic gov-
Thia richly fed their humor, and
has conferred on tbs Termers
Much
* rDDlent to equalize opportunity so
they rioted round him, keeping outside'
H a ro ld A lb ro .
has been made o f A c tio n ff o f the
as 11 ls w'lthln ,,a power to do so,
the swinging hooks at the end of the
Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which pur- | wheth* r by the repeal of archaic
M a n u fa c tu rin g o p tic ia n .
atrap.
"I'ers'nal appearance'!” . .
ported to permit them to combine with atatut*s or the enactment of modern
“ Y o w l Ole dirty Wee, he's got per-
I f the anti-trust laws keep the
Immunity, under certain conditions
g'nal appearance!" . . . “ Who went
farm ers from endeavoring scientifically
Admitting that, nominally, this ex
and bought it for you, Wes?”
emptlon was In the nature of a special
,ntearatp their Industry while other
"Nobody bought It for him.
Dora
privilege,— though I think It was so In ! "
flnd a way ,o m w t m<*lern
Yocum took and give him one I”
appearance rather than In fact,— we ,
,2 "* * ] ,h_2u ,i v,olat,nk * u<’h »tat- j
“You leave ladles' names alone!"
utes
rhen ■.
It would
> e< >>...
... seem reasonable
find that the courts hsve nullified It , ■
cried the chivalrous Wesley.
“Yon
by Judicial Interpretation. Why should to find a way for the farm ers to meet
ought Io know heller, on the public J
them under the same conditions. The
As an example o f Integration, take
not the farmers he perm itted to sc-
atreet, you— pupa!"
Fumes From Still K ill Girl.
the steel Industry, In which the model
,
compllsh by co-operative methods what law should operate equally In fact Re
D etroit, Mich.— Fumes from a whisky
n P WBa * aerlona affront,, at lenst other businesses are already doing by pairing the economic structure on one Is the United States Steel Corporation,
H A IT H P V
Xf I,
11 at I > <1' vj
a u i.
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aide Is no Injustice to the other side
to Ramsey Mllholland's way of think
with Its Iron mines, Its coal mines, Its still killed Grace Bartoleta, three years
operation In the form of Incorpora
Ing; for Ramsey, also now proved
lake and rail transportation. Its ocenn old. L ittle hope is held for the re­
Hon? If It be proper for men to form, which is In good repair.
We have traveled a long way from
sensitive.
He quieted his friends— I hy fusion of existing cnrpoyatlons or
vessels, its by-product coke ovens, Its covery of her two sisters and mother,
the old conception o f government as blast furnaces, Its open hearth and who were also overcome.
“Shut u p !”— and advanced toward
Otherwise, H corporation that controls
merely
a
defensive
and
policing
agency
;
Wesley. “You look here! Who you
Bessemer furnaces, Its rolling mills, its
the entire production of a commodity.
M ore Teachers Than Soldiers.
callin’ ‘pups'?"
! or a large part of It, why la It not and regulative, corrective, or equalis­ tube mills and other manufacturing
M. F r e n c h & S ons
Costa Rica Is unique among modern
“Everybody!"
Wesley
hotly
re
ALBANY
OREG.
proper for a group of farmers to unite ing legislation, which apparently Is of processes that are carried to the high­
nations, Inasmuch ns It has more
turned. "Everybody ihat goes arnnnd
for the m arketing of their common a special nature. Is often of the most i est degree o f finished production com
mentioning ladles' names on the pub
porlhle with the large trade It has teachers than II das soldiers.
products, either In one or In several general beneficial consequences. Even
the First Congress passed a tn rlff act
lie streets are pups!”
selling agencies? Why should It he »ho»
built up. A ll this la g generally
conced-
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w-s.s
en era lly co
* «vowed ly for tile protection ’ ed to be to the advantage of the
They are are they?" Ramsey as ; right for n hundred thousand corporate Ls
m
anufacturers;
hut
Hvo
«umm»
j
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.
n
u
factu
rers;
but
a
protective
shareholders to direct 25 or 80 or 40
hotlv demanded “ Well, you Just look
sumer Nor does the steel corporation
here a minute; my own father men ! per cent of an Industry, and wrong for tariff always has been defended ns a Inconsiderately dump Its products on
means
of
promoting
the
general
good
the market.
On the contrary, It so
a
hundred
thousand
co-operative
tlona my mother's name on the public
farmers to control a no larger propor­ through a p articu lar approach; and
acts that It Is frequently a stabilizing
s tr e e ts w h en ever he wants to. and you
the statute bonks are filled with acta
tion of the wheat crop, or cotton, or
Influence, as Is often the case with oth­
Just try callin' my father a pup, and
for the benefit of shipping, commerce,
er large organizations. It Is master of
you won’t know what happened to any other product?
and labor.
Its distribution as well as of Its pro­
y o u !”
The Departm ent of Agriculture Is
duction. I f prices are not satisfactory
often spoken of as a special concession
"W h at'll you do about It?"
the products are held hack or produc­
IV
to the farmers, but in tts commercial
“I'll put n new head on you,” said
tion Is reduced or suspended. It is not
Now, what Is the farm er asking?
Ramsey. “That's what I'll do, bet 'HUse
results. It Is of as much benefit to the
anybody that calls my father or moth
''».vers mid consumers of agricultural W ithout trying to catalogue the re­ compelled to send a year’s work to the
er a pup— “
j products as to the producers, or even medial measures that have lieen sug­ market at one tim e and take whatever
It can get under such circumstances.
"Oh, shut up! I wasn't talkin ’ shout
more
1 <’ n not ""PPn|w that anyone gested In hla behalf, the principal pro
It has one selling policy and Its own
<i
opposes the benefits that the farmers posais that bear directly on the Im
your ole father and mother. I said
exp rt department.
N either are the
derive from the educational and re­ provement of his distributing and mar
everybody that mentioned Dora Yo­
search work of the department, or the ketlng relations may be summarized as grades and qualities of steel determ in­
cum's name on the public streets was
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does
help that It gives them In working out follows ;—
" pup, and I mean It I Everybody that
the la tte r hold the scales. In this sin
F irs t: storage warehouses for cot
Improved cultural methods and prac­
mentions Dots Yocum's mime on the
gle Integration of the steel corporation
tices, In developing better yielding va- ton, wool, and tobacco, and elevntnrs
pub—"
Is represented about 40 per cent of Ihe
rletles through breeding and selection. for grain, of sufficient capacity to m eet
“Dora Yocum I" said Ramsey. " I got
steel production of America. The rest
In Introducing new varieties from re­ the maximum demand on them at the
a perfect right to say It anywhere I
Is mostly In the hands of a few large
The
mote parts of the world sn(L adapting peak of the m arketing period
want to, Dora Yocum, Dora Yocum,
them to our climate and economic con­ fanner thinks that either private capl I companies.
In ordinary times the
Dora Yocum !— "
dition, and In devls'ng practical meas
tai must furnish these facilities, nr the I steel corporation, by example, stabilizes
“All right then, you're a pup!"
all steel prices. I f this Is permissible
lires for the elim ination or control of state must erect and own the eleva
Rmnse.v charged upon him and re­ dangerous and destructive animal and tors and warehouses
| (It Is even desirable, because stable
ceived a suffocating blow full In the
plant diseases. Insect pests, and the
Second: weighing and grading of | and fa ir prices are essential to solid
fin e not from Mr. Bender's fist but
and continued prosperity) why would
like
All these things manifestly tend agricultural producta, and certification
from the solid bundle of hooks al the
It be wrong for the farm ers to utilize
to stim ulate and enlarge production, thereof, (o be done by Im partial and
end of the strap. Ramsey saw eight
and their general beneficial effects are disinterested public Inspectors (This Is central agencies that would have slml
nr ten objectives Instantly: there were
la r effects on agricultural products?
obvious
alrendv accomplished to gome extent
Wesley Renders standing full length In
Something like that Is what they are
It la complained that, whereas the by the federal licensing of weighers
the a ir on top of other Wesley Hen
aiming at.
law restricts Federal Reserve hanks snd graders), to elim inate underpay­
ders. and more Wesley Benders slg
Some farmers favored by regional
to three months' tim e for commercial ing, overcharging, and u n fa ir grading
sagged out sidewise from still othei
paper, the fan n er Is all t wed six and to fac ilita te the u tilizatio n of the compactness and contiguity, such as the
Wesley
Benders;
nevertheless, he
cltrus-frult-ralsers of California, si
months on hla notes
This Is not a stored products as the basis of credit
found one of these and It proved to be
ready have found a way legally to
T hird : a certainty o'f credit sufficient
special privilege, but merely such a
flesh
He engaged It wildly at tlstl
merge and sell their products Inte­
i e. (ignition of huslneaa conditions aa to enable the marketing o f products
cuffs; pounded It upon the countenance
g rally and In accordance with seasonal
makes It possible for country hanks In an orderly manner
and drove It away. Then he sat down
and local demand, thus Improving
Fourth : the Departm ent of Agrlcnl-
to do business with country people
upon the curbstone and, with Ills dlszi
their position and rendering the con
O il S to v e s
” chp* l * r than wood and an oil heater gives m m
The crop farm er has only one turn­ ture should collect, tabulate, snmma
fort in a bedroom on a cold morning.
*
C° m
eyes shut, leaned forward for the het
sumer a reliable service o f ensured
over a year, while the merchant and rise, and regularly and frequently pnh
I« r accommodation of tils ensanguined . mannfactnrer have many. Incidental
quality, certain supply, and reasonable
llsh and distribute to the farmers, full
ho,,s* w'fe '»az much ent.tled to modern
nose
The)
ly, I note that the Federal Reserve Inform ation from all the m arkets of and relatively steady prices
equipnwut as the grain grower
hsve not found It necessary to resort
the world, so that they shall he as well
Wesley had retreated to the other I Hoard has Just authorized the Fed
side of the street holding a grimy
* rBl R « * r v e hanks to discount export Informed o f th e ir selling position as to any special privilege, or to claim
handkerchief Io the midmost parts of | P"Ppv (or a period of six months, to buyers now are of their buying posi
any exemption under the antl-trusl
tlon
legislation of the state or nation. W ith
his pallid face "There, you nle d— n conform to the nature of the busl
nets.
F if t h : freedom to Integrate the busl­ out removing local coatrol, they have
pup!" he shouted. In a voice which
built up a very efficient marketing
threatened a sob.
“I guess that'll
The Farm Loan banks are pointed neas of agriculture by means o f con
agency.
The grain, totton. and to
to as an Instnnco of special govern­ solldsled selling agenclei, co-ordlnat
leach you to he careful how you men
hacco farmers, and the producers of
ment favor for farmers. Are they not ing and co operating In such way as to
tlon Dora Yocum's name on the public
hides snd wool, because of their nutn
rather the outcome of laudable efforts put the farm er on an equal footing
streets!"
her* and the vastness o f their regions
to equalize rural and urban condi­ with the large buyers of his products
At this, Ramsey made a motion ns
and for other reasons, have found
tions? And about all the government and with commercial relations In other
If to rise and pursue, whereupon Wes
industries
Integration a more difficult task
does there la to help set up an ad
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ley fled, walling hack over Ids shoulder
though there are now some thousands
m lnlstratlve organization and lend a
When a business requires specialized
as he ran, "You wall till I ketch yon
of fa rm e rs
co-operative elevators
little credit at the stgrt. Eventually talent. It has to buy It. So w ill the
’ Ion* ° n
public at reels and
warehouses, creameries, and other en
the farmers w ill provide all the capi­ fa rm e rs ; and perhaps the best way fnr
terprlses of one sort and another, with
tal and carry all the liabilities them­ them to get It would he to utilize some
His voice was lost in an outburst of
a turn over of a billion dollers a year
selves
It Is true that Farm Loan of the present machinery of the larg
hooting from hla former f. lends, wlm
They are giving the farm ers business
bonds are tax exem pt; hut so are eat cstshllshod agencies dealing In
aymputhetlcully
surrounded
tin
bonds of municipal light and traction i f“ rm producta O f coarse. I f he wishes
experience and training, and, so fai I
wounded Ramsey. Rut In n measure,
as they go, they meet the need of
plants, and new housing la to he ex
the farm er may go fu rth er and engage
at least, the chivalrous fugitive had
honest weighing and fa ir grading; but
empt from taxation. In New York, for In fiour-mllllng and other manufactures
won Ids point. He was routed and
ten years.
they do not meet the requirements of
of food products.
In my opinion
outdone, yet what survived the da»
rationally adjusted m arketing In any
On the ether hand, the farm er reade however, he would he wise to stop
was a minor, which became a sort of
short of that
Public Interest m ar he large and fundamental way.
of plan* for municipal housing proj
tenuous legend among those Interest
The next step, which w ill he g pat
opposed to all great Integratio ns; 'hut
ects Ihst run Into the billions, of hun
ed There had been a fight over Dorn
ilreds of millions annually spent on In Justice, should they, he forbidden to tern for other gronps. It now being
Yocum II app eared and Ramsey Mil
prepared hy the graln-rslsers through
(he merchant m arine; ha reads that the farm er and permitted to othersi
holland had attempted to maintain
the establishment of sale» media which
the railways are being favored with The corporate fofm of association can
something derogatory to the lady
Increas.d rates snd virtual guarantiee no’ n<" T *»« »h o lly adapted tn hl» oh
,hÄl1 handl* I ra >® separately or col
while Wesley defended her as a
of earning» hy the government, with , **rta and conditi- ns
The looser co , !*oHvely, a t the Individual farm er ms-
knightly youth should.
thé result t - him of an 'nereased toll operative form seems more generali»
rt* c t I f ’* th,a atpP - f h e plan of th
U _ . he
— sell*
-.11. and W all
.. that he I aitlla
h l.
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.
* I pAmmlttwa
-.B a Seventeen—
-
The hoys, unmindful of proper gu|
Committee of
which ha«
on all
all • that
” ,1*abl*
Therefore,
he wishes
to” he
lanlry, supported Ramsey on aecoua
created so much opposition and Is
buys
He hears of many manifesta
frec ,f hp
» desirable and feas
of the way he had i>erslnte<1 In It kit
Hons of governmental concern for par­ Ihle, to resort to co-operation with his thought by some to he in conflict with
the stuffin’ out of Wesley Bender aft
Ihe anil trust laws
Though there Is
fellows and neighbors, w ith nt run
ticular Industries and Interests. Res
receiving that prelim inary wallop t> i
now before eongreaa a measnre do
nlng the railw ays from insolvency Is nln* a ,oul of the law. To urge that
undoubtedly for the benefit of the I ,ha formers should have the ______
same _ lib
Wesley's hlackjuck bundle of bocks
” «ned to clear up donht on this point
The girls putted and championed Wes
country aa a whols, hut what ran he erty to consolidate snd co-ordinate lhe ’ raln Producers are not relying on
ley; they talked outrageously of his
their peculiar economic
of more general benefit than eneour
any immunity from anti-trust legists
functions
agemenl of ample production of the » hl<‘I> "«I>sr Industries In their fields
conqueror: flereelv declaring th it h.
' “ d th ,y a r* « •
tilled, to co-ordinate th eir efforts Just
principal necessaries of life and their | pnJnT- '»
however, to concede that
ought to he arrested; and for week»
a t effectively at the large business
even flow from contented producer« te any business Intègre »Ion should hate
they maintained a new maimer toward
sallefled consumers?
' legislative
—
—
terests o f the country have dene
|n
sanction to exercise ■ mop
him. They kepi their facial expre«
W hile It may be conceded that ollstlc power
The American people connection with the .ellln g organ!».
** p l sa Impediments to the adv site* o
Hons the United States Grain Grower-
special governmental aid may be nec
are as firmly opposed to industrial at
team ing she did not even look d.-muri
- N |R ..- i S O N s W H Y you should
Incorporated I . drafting . scheme of
eaaary tu the general Interest, we mu»’ to political autocracy, whether at
you should save rtg u ls rly a part of your .neome
all
agree
that
It
Is
difficult
to
see
whv
tempted
by
rural
or
hy
urban
Industry
financing
Instrum
entalities
and
auxlll
V
o n t Home
Old Afje
(To he continued!
Sickness
agriculture and the production and dl*
For lack o f nnlted effort the fa rm e d
* ry aF*nrlp" »hlch are Indispensable
Yeu r Bu«ineM
lo ve* tr lent«
Insurance
trlhutlon
of
farm
products
are
not
ac
ts a whole are »Mil m arketing their ,0 ,h * « ’ <'<*»♦»> utilization o f modem
A4..CS ?h«t Count*.
Educatiou
Automobile
corded (he same opportunities that are crops by antiquated methods or hy no l”,slnMa ™»»hods
Travel
A d -'c is like snow; the softer It
Cb a rae ter
” ** p” ’ n’ la l that t h . farmers
provided tor other businesses; eape methods at all hut they are surrounded
falls the longer It dwells upon and
M ake your dreams come true. Start bow ,
d a lly as the enjoyment hy the farm er hy a business world that has been ’d*"'’ ''1 Fr''r rod gradually with these
»he deeper I» sinks Into the mind —
of such opportunities would appear to modernlxed to the last minute aud Is p ,,n *' ,n d alm 10 aT<*d the error of
potei Idfk»
4
per cent interest and no worry
more cootrthutorjr to the gee
' ha « « I M marketing m .
Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
Keep Your Eyes Young
(Optometrist.
We make a
Specialty of
Friendship,
Engagement and
Wedding
Rings
Pulverizers & Fanning Mills
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Granite and Alminum Ware «« kitchen pleasure».
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