In Day« of Poor Richard
(Continued from page 2)
and costards and jelllea and tarta and
floating island» and Madeira wine.
Il
la for you to Induce the people of
FfiOsdelphla te begin to save. We
need to learn Franklin'» philosophy of
thrift."
Colonel Washington was a member
of the Virginia delegation. Jack wrote
that be was In uniform, blue coat and
red walttcoat and breech»»; that be
waa a big man »tandlng very erect
and about «lx feet, two Inches In
height; that his eg»» were blue, hl»
complexion light and rather florid, tils
face »lightly pock marked, hla brown
hair tinged with g ray; that he had the
largest hands, save those of Solomon
Blnkus, that he had ever seen. His
letter contains these Informing words
" I never quite realised the full
meaning of the word 'dignity' until I
saw this man and heard his deep rich
voice. There was a kind of magnlfl
cence In his manner and person when
he said:
" 'I w ill raise one thousand men
toward the relief of Boston and sub
«1st them at my own expense.'
"That was all be said and It was the
most eloquent speech made In the con
ventlon. Thereafter, he was the cen
tral figure In that congress of trusted
men. It Is also evident that he will be
the central figure on thia side of tbe
ocean when the storm breaks. Next
day, he announced that he was, ns yet,
opposed to any definite move toward
Independence. So the delegates con
tented themselves with a declaration
of rights opposing Importations and
especially slaves."
When the congress adjourned Octo
ber twenty-sixth to meet again on the
tenth of May, there was little hope pf
peace among those who had bad a
part In its proceedings.
Jack, who knew the conditions In
England, knew also that war would
come soon, and freely expressed his
views.
Letters had come from Margaret
giving him the welcome news that
Lionel Clarke had recovered and an
nouncing that her own little revolu
tion had achieved success. She nnd
her father would he taking ship for
Boston In December. Jack had urged
that she try to Induce him to start at
once, fearing that December would be
too late, and so it fell out. When tbe
news of tU» congress reached London,
the king made new plana. H e began
to prepare for war, Sir Benjamin
Hare, who was to be the first deputy
of General Gage, was assigned to a
brigade and Immediately put his regi
ments in training for service overseas.
He had spent six months In America
and was supposed, In England, to have
learned the art of bush fighting. Such
was the easy optimism of the cheer
fu l young minister of war, and his
confreres, In the house of lords. After
the arrival of the King W illiam at
Gravesend on the eighth of December,
no English women went down to the
sea In ships for a long time. There
after the water roads were thought to
be only for fighting men. Jack's hope
was that armed resistance would con
vince the British of their folly.
(To
be continued)
Several times prohibits a
officers in eastern OrcRnn
approached a suspected building
but were driven away by a power*
ful atnell of aknult. Finally one
threw discretion to tbe perfumed
winds and entered
He found a
i t II with a capacity of 20 gallons
a day and several barrels, in one
of which was a skunk. Tbe unoon«
sbiotr had employed his four-
footed brother to give the alarm
and brnadetst an odor that would
con pletr y k ill that of tbe ragsh
nnd rout ln v u t i^ a t o r '.
FARM
CO-OPERATIVE
SELLING
By GLENN G. HAYES
T J E N R Y JACKSON has a rice plan-
tstlon In Arkansas—200 scree of
the finest fields In the state. And he
made money on those scree until the
armistice was signed. That marked
the turn in rice profits. That year
the rice market took a downward
shoot and for two years nothing could
turn It from its course.
It was in October of 1920. For two
months Henry Jackson had been hold
ing his creditors off with a "wait till
my rice check comes." Then one day
the long-expected letter came. I t was
waiting in the mall box at the cross
roads when Henry drove home from
town—a long, slim thin envelope with
the miller’s name In one corner. Out
enrae the white slip.
It wasn't a
check at all. I t was a bill for rice
storage with a large "kindly remit"
across Its face.
And Jackson wasn't the only Arkan-
sas farmer who received a “kindly re
mit" notice Instead of a green bank
draft.
That particular crop was the most
expensive that had ever been raised
In Arkansas. Labor prices were the
highest. The seed rices planted In the
spring had been unusually expensive.
Everything that had gone into the
making of the 1920 rice crop was at
peak prices. Rice farmers all over the
state had enlarged their operations to
the last notch. They had mortgaged
their land, their homes and their
stock—everything they had, to borrow
money to plant rice. They expected a
boom In rice prices and they got leas
than had ever before been paid for
a rice crop.
Practically the same thing happened
In Louisiana and Texas, the fither two
great rice-producing areas of the
South.
Everything went to pieces.
The depression spared no one. no busi
ness, throughout the length and tbe
breadth of the rice-producing districts.
Co-operation, the Magic Word.
Southern rice growers were down
and out. They were reedy to sell
their acres for mere nothing— anything
to get out of the rice Industry. It was
In the dark hour that the farm bureau
proposed a way out— co-operative mar
keting was the suggestion. The magic
word co-operation brought the dased
rice farmers back to consciousness.
For the first time they set about to
nnalyxe their markets and find out
Just where the trouble lay. It wasn't
hard to discover.
Rice fanners sold their rough prod
uct to the buyers, who In turn dis
posed of It to the miller» nnd some
times they sold It themselves direct
to the m illers They knew that both
the buyers and the millers were spec
ulators. The term miller and specu
lator had become aynouyraoua In the
rice business. They knew that there
were over Of* rice mills In America
and that 88 per cent of them were coe-
trolled by lees than twenty men. It
wasn't any secret that this little group
of millers had In their power the com
plete price control. A t long as the
market had paid a living wage with an
occasional extra spill for good measure
the rice men merely grumbled among
themselves and did nothing.
In 1911 they had tried organisation.
The Southern Rice Growers' associa
tion was formed in Louisian« ’*> act
Reserve District No. 12
Rapt rt of condition of tae
bank
at Halsey, in the state of Oregon, at the close of business March 31, 1921.
RESOURCES
1. Losns and discounts, including rediscounts shown in items 29 and
30, if a n y ........ ...................................... .................................................$138,813.46
2. Overdrafts secured and unsecured......... ......... .............. . . . . . . —
14.57
J. U. S. government securities owned, including thoae shown in
items 30 and 35, if an y. . . . . . . . . . . -------. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
2,100
4. Other bonds, warrants and securities, including foreign govern
ment, State, municipal, corporation, etc., including those shown
in items 30 and 35, if any . ----------- -— . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,621.88
a>. Banking house,$2.743 , furniture and fixtures,$3724.......... ..................
A.447.00
*9. (ab) Cash on hand in vault and due from hanks, bankers
'and trust companies designated and approved reserve agents of
thia hank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . — . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -------- - 32,758.34
11, Checks on banks outside city or town of reporting bank and other
cash ite m s ..______________________________________________
20
Total cash and due from banks, items 8, 9, 10 and 11, $32,803.54 _ _ _ _ _ _
Total ..................... ................ ....................... ..
........................ 194,8*0 15
L IA IL IT IB S
16 Capital stock paid i n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . -
17. Surplus fund--- ---------------------- --------------- . . . . . . . . . . ------------------
IS. (a) Undivided profit»_________ __________ . . . . . . . . . . . . $3 996 66
(b) Leas curreut expenses, interest and tsxespaid.---------- 2,252.46
D k m a n d DxrosiTS. other than banks, subject to reserve i
23. Individual deposits subject to check, mefnding deposits due the
state of Oregon, county, cities or other public funds . . . . . — . .
24. Demand certificates of deposit outstanding........ ............................. .
25. Cashier's checks of this bank outstanding payable on demand . . . .
20,000 08
14,000 o#
1,654 20
58.384.52
320 76
1,709.77
T o ta l of demand deposits, other than bask deposits, subject
to reserve, items 23, 24, 25, 26, $92.41.4 05
T im s ano S a vin g s D xsosits . subject to reserve and payable oa
demand or subject to notice ;
34,067.22
27. T im e certificates of deposit outstanding_____. . . . . . . . ___ . . . . --------
31,723 68
28. Savings deposits, payable subject to notice _________ ______ ____
Iota I of time and Savings deposits payable on demand or
subject to notice, items 27 and 28, $65,790.90
a
Total ........ ........................................................................................ $194.86« IS
State of Oregon, county of Linn, sa.
/
I. B M. Bond, cashier of the above-named bank, do solemnly swear that the
above statement is trne to the best of mv knowledge and belief.
It M. Bond. Caahier
Correct—Attest: C. H. Koontz, D Taylor. L. D Taylor, Directors
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 7th day of A p ril, 1924
Amor A. Tussing, Notary Public.
My commission expires 3-13-23.
'w»«
4 i
Fisk and Gates rires
A ll kinds of accessories
W illard battery set vice
Special equipment for handling wrecked cars
J’
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,
HA l.SRY BNTFRA RISE
ftw a re . >«-f -Levs.
PAGE
K tb a rty if) ir » c to r y —
3
Continued
H ALLS’
selves u n i i ould nuike them tyrants
over others If -ortune were to give
’ hem the r-.-t.iix
F L O R A L & M U S IC S H O P
We grow our own cut flowers
Gold handed. Rubrum and other hardy
lily bulbs now on band.
Nice geraniums every Saturday,
Fbone I6b[
^ //ib a n y jj/^ ir e c t o r y
HALSEY GARAGE
Residence, nights, lFx
It) 1924
Self-love —ik e s men blolUe them
Trouble calls given prompt attentirn any time and any where
One-Half Rice Sold Through
Cooperative Plan.
halsey sta te
.
HALSEY A U T O M O B IL E
GARAGE
R E P A IR IN G
<©. l f t t i . T F«rt«ra N « w ap ap«r U l l o a )
Charter No49
•
A P R IL
eceew g ae ieeacb
A L B E R T F O O T E Prop.
Phone 312 V
Satisfaction guaranteed
T h is is good advice: ' ' l l you live
l'rice $3,50
Albany, trade i l l Albany ; if you live
F R E D B. J O N E S
in some other town, trade in that tow n.'"
Hut in these automobile days many re
siding elsewhere find it advisable to do
at least part of their buying in tbe
ALBANY
larger town
Those who go to Albany
to transact business w ill find the firms Piano Tuner for lending music stores ie
Albany
named below ready to fill their require
me tits w ith courtesy an 1 fairness.
ill
as a growers' selling agent in deal
This way of selling was almost like
ing with the millers. The organiza a public auction.
The association
tion was fairly well supported, but It wasn’t a real producer*' co-operative
didn't accomplish much. Then came But It did give good results for about
the dark days ot 1920. The aaaocla- flve years, but In 1920 It failed be
tlwn, urged by lt i membera, tried to cause the millers were afraid to buy
find a way out. A plan of toll milling the crop. The association was forced
waa tried, under which the growers to adopt a new plan. Toll mllltnx
tamed tbefr rice» over to millers, who was tried. This meant selling pol-
cleaned and milled and sold them, ) Ished rice. Most of the growers were
keeping a liberal amount for toll. That j working their land on a one-year
finished tbe growers. Under this syn- lease, and this prevented the asKocla-
tem came thoae bills for handling, with . tton from buying and operating its
thalr big lettered "please remit" print i own mills. But the tolls plan didn't
ed across the face. The prices for the ; work out, so they fixed up the original
the finest grades were so low that It j plan under a new name—tbe Rice
seldom paid to haul them to tbe mills. i Growers' Association of California.
The association had failed complete The one-year contract was lengthened
ly; the only thing left to do was to to five; that was the one big change
reorganise, not as a bargaining associa j In the plan. Tbe title of the rice w as
tion. but as a full-fledged co-operative j to pass to the association upon deliv-
marketing association capable ot con j ary, but the original plan of selling
trolling Its own markets. This was a I each lot separately was retained. Tbe
stiff Job for the growers were few In ! association continued to refer all bids
number and the rice growing areas | to the growers for acceptance. The
were scattered In various parts of I War Finance corporation made them
| a substantial loan and the plan
Louisiana. Arkansas and Texas
leaders sprang up here snd there ! worked. There was no dumping of
and offered themselves and »heir serv rice on the market In 1921. That year
ices to the cause. In place of the old the association handled more than
association a new movement was or 1,800,000 bags of the 1921 crop and
ganlred— the Arkansas Rice Growers' told them tor an average of $2.85.
Co-operative association.
This was which was almost 40 cents per bag
started In January, 1921
The cam higher than was made by the uu
paign was carried on with grim deter organized rice growers of Texas anil
ruination and In less than 90 days 800 Louisiana.
growers, representing 80 per cent of
Under One Contract.
the acreage of the state, were signed
Texas
and Louisiana saw what co
up and In time to market the 1921
operative marketing was doing for
crop.
Arkansas and California growers; they
Baaed an Fiva-Ytar Contract.
derided to give the marketing game h
The association was based on a five- whirl for themselves
In 1922 the
year contract covering all the rice Louisiana Farm Bureau Rice Growers'
produced by the signer The title to Co-operative association was organ
the rice passes to tbe association upon Ized. It waa an exact pattern of the
delivery The crop la pooled by grades Arkansas association. A similar plan
nnd varieties over an entire season's Is now being worked out for east
holdings. In this way the returns are Texas. When Louisiana and Texas
equalized among the members. It Is a groups are well under way, It Is
nonstock,
nonprofit
organisation, planned to co-ordinate the three
much the same as that of the other southern state associations tinder one
snccessNil producers' co operatives.
ovqyhead machine.
The association began marketing
the rice In the rough. They denned
and milled it and then sold It to whole
sale dealers. The old time speculative
buyer and miller were eliminated. For
a few weeks thngs went along well
enough. The first rice sold over the
association's tables brought $1.30 per
bushel. Then came the smash In the
market. It dropped and kejH on drop
ping—till offers were hovering around
an 88-cent basis and there were few
offerings at that figure. The condition
continued. It began to grow worse.
I t didn't pay to sell rice In the
rough; there were too many Interme
diate fees. The farmers must take
over the mills and market their own
rice In the clean. Thia was Just the
situation that the organizers of the
marketing company had expected from
the beginning; and they were prepared
te meet It. Although the association
had no mills or money, the milling
problem was easily solved. Tentative
contracts with several large rice mills
were made through which to mill tbe
rice of the co-operative membera when
It no longer paid the organization to
aell the rice In tbe rough. The War
Finance corporation offered to loan the
rice growers SO per cent of the market
vgloe of the rice a t It was delivered
This money was to be used for the
first sdvanre payments to the grow
ers. The other payments were not to
be made until the cleaned rice waa on
tbe market.
Made Mors Than Neighbors.
The rice farmers of Arkansas began
their milling operations In the last
week of November, 1921. This was
not until the bulk of the choice rice
In the state bad been sold to outside
mills In the rough All that was left
was the lower grades, but even with
these the association averaged on all
grades and varieties a fraction over
90 cents a bushel. Tbe bulk of the
entire crop In 1920 had gone at 35
cents per boahel. During 1921 the as
sociation handled 137,700,000 pounds
of rice, for which Its growers netted
$3,000/100. The Arkansas rice grow
ers received more for their rice than
the growers of any other section. They
made from 10 to 38 per cent more
than their neighbors In Louisians.
In 1907 It waa discovered that the
swamp land of tbs Upper Sacramento
valley would grow rice. The Japanese
immediately took advantage of these
acres, renting them on a one-year
lease. Then they pitched In with their
Oriental pugnacity to make rice pro
duction pay. As the California rice
Industry developed there grew up wtlb
It an organisation h alf co-operative.
Tbs Japanese needed someone to
aell their product for them. In 1915
the Pacific Rice Growers' association
was organised, to serve merely as an
agent with tbe exclusive right to sell
all the members' rice. The grower,
however, bad the privilege of accept
ing or rejecting the bide. Under this
system each grower's rice was kept
separately snd was accounted for »ep
erstely sfter »he expenses of hsndllng
bed keen s u b t r a c t e d . ____ ____ .
>
Piano Tuning and Repairing
FURNITURE AND
A lb a n y Bakery, 321 Lyon street,
• * Test one-pound loaf of bread made.
5 cents.
farm machinery
Wedding cakes to order.
bought, »old and exchanged at all times
A lb an y Floral Co.
4 *. snd plants.
Cut flowers
B E N T. S U D T E L L
Floral art for every
Phone 76-R, 123 N. Broadalbin at., Albany
and ail occasions.
______________ Flower phone 458 I
A Iban v
A> sets.
sets
Electric
Stnro.
Radio I
Electric w in n g
Delco l ight
producta 202 Seeond
G lr n n W il l a r d
lue B ird
B
W m .
h ö f l ic h
A'/
n
SHOE O
SERVICE
R e s ta u ra n t, 309 L yo n f
s trje i. Eat here when in Albany, j
Open trom 6 to 2 and 5 to 8
B lount .
M rs .
Shoes that cost less per month of wear
it U K fi W * C K
B
PHO NO G RAPH S
at
Halsey Happenings
W O O D W O R T H ’S
(Continued from page 1)
rtav en p o rl M taio com pany offers
-■-^bargains:
Saxaphone, good as new
Holton Cornet. Holton Slide. K ing
Slide. Used Pianos.
HStbttrn Bros.— Two b ig grocery
E
A movement is cn foot to try to
have the governor save Russell Hec
ker from the gallows.
Lebanon has postponed appropriat
stores, 212 W. First and 225 South I
Mam. Good merchandise at the rig ht ing
j $140 toward the cost of the Clear
I-akc preliminary survey.
prices.
ilms
F
developed
and
printed.
W e m ail them rig ht back to you.
Woodworth Drug Company, Albany, O r
egon.
irst garage going north.
F
Tires, accessories, oils, gasoline,
repair work.
W . H . HULBURT.
'O K U S A L E S
AND
S E R V IC E
Tires and accessories
Repairs
M r, nd Mrs. Thomas Jackson are
home from their winter in sunny C ali
fornia and glad to be at Lake Creek,
Oregon.
W . J. Carey was down from Eu
gene the last of the week.
He de
clares that that cancer has entirely
disappeared and the place where it
waa is healing over.
Tha very best quality of aluminum
ware Is offered at one-third o ff regu
o rtm iller Furniture Co., fu rn i lar price during the ten days begin
ture, rugs, linoleum, stoves ranges. ning thia morning.
So says an ad
Funeral directors. 4"7 43.1 west First vertisement in this paper.
K ir
k
I' o l l a k M otor C o .
F
Rice farmers are putting their faith
In cooperative marketing. They are street, Albany, Oregon.
J. B Hughes came up from Ash
giving It a trial lease on their rice
U L L E R G R O C E R Y . 2115 Lyon
land Saturday for a visit at his old
fields. In 1021 not one pound of the
(Successor to Stenberg Bros.)
stamping ground at Brownsville
Ho
2,000,000,000 pounds of rice produced
Groceries
Fruits
Produce
says Ashland is growing even faster
annually In the United States was sold Phone 2b3R
on the co-operative plan. During the
than Eugene, e.nd that's more than
W S E X A U E R , auto and geu-
years 1922 and 1923 one-lialf of all the
some.
« eral oaiater
paiater
rice produced was sold through co
Get iny estímate.
Wednesday evening Mrs. M. M.
operative growers' associations.
201 E. First street
Ward of this city, while visiting her
daughter in Albany, fell down stairs
olman a jackson
»»X» 9 » * ♦ * * ♦ ♦ ♦ * » * * v ♦ ♦ » » ♦ » **
G rocery— B. .kcry to the basement, sustaining Severn
Everything in the line of eats
bruises but breaking no bones.
She
Opposite Postoffice
is 82 years old.
F
F
H
Ju st arrived !
Largo shipm ent of
Pabcolin
R u gs
Al! new patterns
E. L. STIFF Furniture
<3
Albany, Oregon
ub Candy Co., Firat street, next
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W hy suffer from
h eadache?
Have vour eyes
examined
B. T . F R E N C H
Optometrist, with
F . M.
F r e n c h & S ons
J E W E L E R S — O P T IC IA N S
Albany, Oregon
Tw intex Frames
door to Blain Clothing Co.
Noon lunches.
Home made candy and ice Cream,
w
The w ill of 0 . I. Lora which wss
executed five years ago, has been filed
for probate.
It leaves the 297 aers
(or probate. It leaves the 297 acris
to the widow during her life, after
which the two daughters are to have
7!» acres each and the two sons 75 and
Mrs. Isom is administra
f yuo have ft ienria they should 72 acres.
trix.
have your photograph.
Clifford's Studio
Aubrey
Tuusing's
infant
died
3.13 West First street, Albany.
Thursday and was buried Friday in
AUNKTO elect ric cd
the fam ily lot in the Masonic ceme
Official Strömberg carburetor serv
Miss Bonita Tussing of Salem
ice station.
Conservative prices. A ll tery.
work guaranteed
119-121 W. Second. and Dcrn Tussing and w ife of Eu
en and money are best when gene were at the funeral and came
busy. Make your dollars work in home from there with their parents,
our savings department. A lb a n y S ta tb
A. A Tussing and w ile aud stayed
B a n k . Under government supervision.
in H alsey th a t n ig h t.
H ub Cleaning Wotlts,
Inc.
Cor. Fourth ami Lyon
Master Dyers nnd Cleaners
Made - T o - Measure Clothes
I
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M
M
iller Motor Sales
M
Oakland and Jewett cars
Supplies and aecessertes
First and Baker Ms.
Albany, Oregon
urphy Motor Co.
M
Bttick and
Chevrolet automobiles. Tires and
accessories.
Albany, Oregon. Phone 290
R oscoe
amks hardware ,
the
W IN C H E S TE R S T O K E
322 w. First st.
Mr. Minton of the Hub Cleaning
Works .Albany, was in town Saturday,
looking after business and placing ad
vertising matter.
The company car
ries a card in our Albany directory
and is also mentioned In the card of
M iller’s barber shop, and M r. Minton
says Halsey is the second town In the
county, outside of Albany, In amount
of business done with the Huh.
You w ill like Twintex, and we
Miss Hwyes, school reporter, was
haye a complete stock. The «hell
s. f .IL B E R I A SON
not responsible fo r the statement In
• Builders' snd rhelf h ard *a re , g ar last weeks' school notes that the in
frame with the naw temp'e with
den locls. crockery and glassware.
the Shur-on guarantee.
terpretation of the French playa at
S
New Stock.
New low prices.
T IM K O N T H E S H O E D O C TO R
S
Second street, opposite Ham ilton's
store.
"Sudden Service."
ald o Anderson A B o n. d is trib
W
Rialto hall tomorrow night would be
"pictures."
The school notes were
set on a linotype.
The operator used
an "a" for the "o" in the last syllable
of " stereopt'.ci u.”
This is an v ro r so
frequent that the proofreader expects
utors and dealers (or M axw ell, Chal
it when lhat word is used. The print
mers. Essex, Hudson A llupm obite cars.
Accessories. Supellee. 1st A Broadalbin. er who corrected it could not get the
FARM LOANS
Meade & Albro,
W iite for booklet describing our 20-
vear Rural Credit Amortized l-oaus. takenly understood it. That stereop-
1 he loan pays mit in 20 payments, re
Hung lii f principal. Cheap r«ies. No ticon interprestion is to be in words.
O ptom etriits, M anufacturing Opticians delay-
Albany, Oregon
Halsey Meat Market
The market whoro von al
ways got tho host io
meat«.
W . F. C A R T E R
words of the llnotvpe line into a line
of type, so he (hanged the wording
and expressed the idea a t he mis
_
llp.AM L a n d Co.,
See it.
(Continued on pace 4)
I.LI Lyon St.. Albany, Ore
FARM LOANS
at lowest rate of interest
Prompt
uouneou. treatment
v e s .-v -u
Prompt service,
service. Courteous
WM B a in , Rocm 5, First Savings Bank
boiloing, Albany
/ •
H a l l ’ s C a ta r r h
M ed icin e
Treatm ent, both
c“ t ^
f(>(ty fe>rK 5 ^ 3
P. I.
f £
^
druggists.
C H E N E Y fit C O , Toledo, Ohio
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