r a » f . ¿ ¿iW 1 ¿.KI HUE. A gJeat love is sometimes a blee-1 ing in a man’s life. In .Senator Staufiold’e it was a cures. H is I ■ 7 W«. M at Baker was for women and | wine. Instead of facing the evi­ |1 a year la advance dence when accused of beiog drunk Arrearages. 12^»c a inontq and disorderly he forfeited hie bail. AdvertiM og, 20c an in c h ; nodiacoun lor lim e or apace ; no charge (or com No efforts be oan make now will I poaiiar>n changes. win prohibitionists’ votes in the | Linn l a "P a le-fo i Paravrapha,” to a llaa. primaries or anywhere else. * • a4vartiam g dlaffulaad aa nawa. RUSAL ENTERPRISE 25 The Great Outdoors ja *• 1»g»«i1>r*—Not neutral—nawa paper, published e»eiy Weduesday, W here Bread, Meat, Clothing, Health and Vigorous Hum anity are Produced the W orld s Farm Credit Unions U. S. May Juggle A Coast Success Pay Income Tax Price of Surplus Strawberry Center In Co-operation PARADISE RESTORED “ You can’t make people Washington, D. C.—National agri- good by statute,” sneers the Fresh-flavored F ruit Can Washington, D. C.—The administra- cultural credit corporations have been!Uon.g Urm rellef program wI„ be anti-prohibitionist. No, but a Be Had at Any Time held subject to income taxation in a broadened to provide for some ma statute can make a murderer ruling by A. W. Gregg, solicitor ot in­ chlnery for handling surplus crops. of the Year stop being bad if it succeeds ternal revenue. When the information Just what form this new aid will in hanging him. And statutes leaked out observers saw it as a new take has not been determined but both have made many a town a BARRELERS WANT 400 TONS element in the rural credit problem. President Coolidge and Secretary Jar­ good place to live in which The ruling held that if the agri­ dine have reached the conclusion that A representative of Baker, was a "hell hole” before we Kelly and MacLaughlin aws in cultural credit corporations were en­ surplus crops present one of the had prohibition. titled to exemption at all this must | Albany Wednesday to contract! come under section 231 of the act. dominating problems of agriculture and that some governmental step Albert B. Fall got into the cab- |f ° r 11,500 barrels of berries and then asserted: must be taken to afford relief. "National agricultural credit cor­ net and Teapot Dome was stolen I from that section next year on Tremendous pressure has been porations are not exempt from Income hrough government by party. a three-year contract at prices taxation under section 231 of the brought to bear recently on the ad­ ministration by the congressional farm that will insure the growers a revenue act of 1924.” „ _ , t , bloc and western agricultural leaders good profit. Stanfield Works for Attention called , - , commission , , ... . . . . . . was . , ' in the ruling' to create a federal with that section 231 specifically 1 . .. ... . Mr. Stenberg, the local man to the fact Big Grazing Grab .. v ■ powers to direct the disposition of sur- carried the revenue act exemptions (January Sunset Magazine) . ager, has more than 100 acres to certain forms of mutual and govern- , plus farm crops in a way which would enable the producers to at least get They are at it again. The big raw berries in the vicinity mental agencies of finance. It was sug Ithe cogt Qf productloD. Houge bag fellows among the ci Itle and sheep 101 Albany. He wants 200 gested a . significant that the provi-1 Heretofore the men of the far west, counting on I «'ores more planted this coming ? T T a th? for“ ation| been silent on the subject, bu, after agricultural credit cor- K a . the wave of conservation and I year it possible. The company of the national .n ... ... ¡the President had conferred with Sec- , . ,, . reaction sweeping round the world, is making five-year contracts poration failed to mention the ex -' I retary Jardine, it was disclosed that onsider this a propitious time to I on not less than five acre emptlon from taxation which had been the administration was prepared to in­ granted to federal intermediate credit ry to take a large slice out of the yards dorse conservative legislation foster- people's most valuable property, The company reports having banks, federal farm loan associations Ing the sale of surplus crops in the ex­ he national forests. At the Salt signed a contract recently with and federal farm loan banks as ap­ port trade with a government com­ ake convention they decided to one of the largest preserving plicable to the newly authorized mission as a directing agency. isk congress fora law wheh would companies in the United States agency. The Issue was brought to a head a ake control of the grazing in the to furnish on a three-year con- (ew hours before the departure for Sweet peas blooming outdoors at Des Moines of the Iowa congressional i.t.onal forest from the »crest tract 5000 barrels of straw- One ef the most favored spots on earth, agriculturally, is Lion county. Already it has achieved nation-wide recognition aa the home of registered Jersey and other cattle and Kizer's sheep havi taken the cream of the prizes at eastern shows. Frank Portei takes a few of his red polls to fairs up and sown the coast every fal and brings home the bacon. A co-operative creamery at our county seat made a record at the national dairy show this year and Schere’s corn, from Brownsville, won Oat at the state fair. Flex experts tell us that there ir more soil in Linn county adapted with the elimate, to producing th» choicest fiber, than in any equal area known, Now it has been demonstrated that the queen of fruits, the royal strawberry, can be preset ved, with its full fresh flavor, for years, ard enjoyed at any season of the year, 3000 b , ™ and the demonstration haa beer erv.ee and hand it over to these berri tock men now having revocable rasnb j 9n(m u , made here in Linn county. We permits. Under the legislation 2 ° ° ° barre Sr ° f cannot long monopolize it, but tl e »roposed these permits not only i » -P, err’t S and 1500 call for 400 tons next year ie e vould become irrevocable, but t J°Kanberries. golden opportunity. See “ Linn eitain grazing areas would ba I bast w eeks Lebanon Ex- the World’* Strawberry Center,” esigoed in perpetuity to present I P.1 ess ®ai« : 1 en gallons of the olders, thereby blocking the way Is trawberries that were bar- on this page. o any reapportionment and bar-lf? ,, ^ere last year by Baker, ing small newcomers. In effect ,e lley & MacLaughlin were FAKE FIGURES PERSIST be grazing rights of public prop- Riven out in samples at Reeves would be deeded to the present Bros.’ grocery last Saturday to The yarn that $10,000,000 rty sers forever. nearly five hundred people. in investments or projected in It is signifleani that the senate Believing th at it would be a vestments in industries in Ore­ •ublic lands committee, which has good idea to acquaint the peo- gon were withdrawn or can­ been holdia« hearings and inviting pie here with the deliciousness celed in the year of the in­ lomplaints from stockmen, is of their own product. Ralph come tax on account of that uided tn its activities by Senator Scroggin, buyer for the barrel- Christmas time is a rare thing even In the mild climate of Oregon, but at Sweet Home, George Flanagan Jr. showed a bouquet of these flowers which he had picked In his yard. delegation, members of which were In­ vited to attend a meeting there of farmers and bankers to discuss means ot marketing the surplus corn crop. THE MARKETS Four-Dollars-a-Year Men Portland Wheat—Big Bend bluestem, »1.58; hard white, soft white and western white, »1.57; hard winter, northern spring, and western red, »1.53. Hay—Alfalfa, »19.50@20 ton; valley timothy, »19@19.50; eastern Oregon timothy, »21@22. Butterfat—44c shippers' track. Eggs—Ranch, 26@29Hc. OreRon' Senator ing firm, was instrumental in Cheese—Prices f. o. b. Tillamook; n.nfleld is the west’s outstanding having the ten-gallon keg sent Triplets. 31c; loaf. 32c per lb. beep baron The forest »erv.ee here for sampling, and it sure- Cattle—Steers, good »7.85@8.25. ' as compelled undents regulations iv w as „ rpvt>i f , Hogs—Medium to choice, »11 so® ojfeut down the number of s h e e p T h Z f avne ( h l un by Stanfield companies on the J?™ ’ JSWe?t‘ »12.25. Sheep—Lambs, medium to choice, ational forests | "ess, the goodness and the shape of the bernes were all »12.50® 14.25. levy, the figures being “con­ firmed by documentary evi­ dence,” is revived in the inter est of the tax shirkers’ cam­ paign in the coming election. That “documentary evi­ dence” was promised during the last income-tax campaign, . . _ .there and there is no one who but was cautiously withheld w >n doubt and the names of its signers U p H S r l t t a willd° "»»•»«* f h a t A i ? ° ° d Lm a r k e t wil1 b e kept dark until too near the claim for it - found throughout the years to voting hour for an investiga­ rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness come for all that can be pro- duced. tion of its genuineness and rauaed by Catarrh. their sincerity to be made. F I «U, In letter t0 p o w ers sent One of the underwriters of F. J. CHENEY &. c o . . Toledo. Ohio I Out today by Beker, Kelley & that "evidence” was an east­ MacLaughlin, they say among ern firm which had ordered Before or After Christmas other things: the closing of its egg-buying Imagine, folks, our berries branch at Seattle. A little Krydtoks are a delight to the e y e |’n eastem markets. Are you scrutiny showed that the M$5 days ir. the year. urprised that they sell well? branch was closed, not on ac­ the invisible bifocals for netr P ou can understand perhaps count of the income tax, for tnd far. our enormous demand and our it had no income, but because capacity for tons and tons. it could not get enough eggs “Last season we barreled to pay expenses. The Pacific one hundred and ninety tons Coast Co-operative Poultry here. Next year we will be Producers were shipping sev­ disappointed if we cannot have eral carloads east for its one. four hundred tons. You can And Pacific coast noultrvmen readily see how much cheapet were getting the dollars which berries can be taken to mar­ it had hoped to salt down. ket in big 500-pound barrels Another bugaboo was the than any other way. Your statement th at eastern wool cost of marketing is cut— re­ men refused to send buyers to flected to the consumer and Oregon on account of the in­ grower — and no wonder one pu,,«„ grows come tax. This was as bald E. C. Meade, O more and the other eats a falsehood as the other. The more. Does this not mean Optician prosperity Pacific Co-operative Wool- H. Albro, to our berry cen­ ALBANY OREGON. ters ? growers, one of the most flour­ ishing farmers’ commercial o r­ “We invite you to come to ganizations, was getting the our warehouse next May. See wool and paying five or six our big electric washer scrub D ELBER T STARR cents more to its members than Funeral and dry each berry, mix sugar Director and Licensed the speculators would offer. nnd berries, our coopers head Embalmer It has just made final pay­ up the barrels. It’s all simple, B ro w n s v ille , Oregon ments for last year’s wool and only one has to know how. Call C. P. STarroao, Halsey, the growers are rejoicing over Then the real marketing com­ or U lL a a a T S ta x a Brownsville its (and their) financial suc­ mences. We have a worthy cess. product — it must be kept A large part of the remain­ that way, the consumer locat­ der of this "documentary evi­ W R IG H T & C O . ed and finally the barrel de­ dence” was quite as mislead­ livered to him as you have F u n e ra l D ire c to rs ing. [ found the product to be. We W. I,, Wright, Harrisburg It is doubtful if Portland in­ are equipped to do this and Mrs. J. C. Bramwell, Halsey terests can pull the wool over you have the berries. enough farmers’ eyes in the atch your acreage and coming campaign to save the barreling plant grow!’’ tax shirkers and snddle prop­ Modern vmcago w m m Wrices n it nigh Mark. erty owners with a double Chicago. III.—Wheat prices Jumped share of the taxes. B arber Shop more than 5 centa a bushel Saturday Oregon is enjoying contin­ Laundrv sent Tuesdays to the highest level yet this season ued prosperity. The income Xgeticy H ub Cleaning Works May delivery sold at »17» * bushel tax did not halt it and will not. and December above »l.»o. Reports of The time is coming when those ABE S PLACE fresh damage to crop* In Argentina who profit by handling the were at hand, and it was also cur­ farm ers’ products will pay TOSSING & TOSSING rent talk that mills in the United their tax on that profit and States have aa a rule no more than a LAWYERS wlu>n there , will be fewer of «0-day supply of wheat In their eleva­ H-iIs»y and Brownsville th fm 'ta k in g toll between the tor*. farm and the city dining table, i Oregon H a ir s C a ta r r h sampled them wh° H it J ... _ A J I o il r n v i o n r l I k n i 4 -U 8eattle. Wheat—Soft white, western white, Big Beqd bluestem, »1.59; hard winter, western red, northern spring. »1.55. Hay—Alfalfa, »25; D. C.. »28; tim­ othy. »20; mixed hay, »24. Butter—Creamery. 43 @ 47c. Eggs—Ranch, 38 @ 40c. Hogs—Prime. »12.15® 12.35. Cattle—Prime steers. »7.75@8.00. Cheese—Oregon fancy, 28c; Oregon standards 25c; Washington triplets 28c. Forty.nine year* ago the first ncandescent lamp wae demonetra- ed. The etatgy distributed as lectricity in the United state* is vailabie at an average cost of »4 er yea r par man. The four-dollart-a-year meo are the most efficient workers the world has ever known. They don't watch the clock and they uever beard of an eight-hour day. They are many-banded and every hand is a right hand. They will per. form any number of jobs simulta­ neously, They will run the sewiag machine upstairs, sweep the floors downstairs, cook dinner in the kitchen, wash the dishes in the pantry, make ice in the back ball, light the dining-room fire, iron clothes in the basement, snmraon you to the front door aud carry a message to the other side of the world, and do it all at oue and the same time. In the United States there are 808,880,000 of these fonr-dollars- a-year men, hired out to 16,377,905 employer*. They are spreading from city to hamlet, to farm. The day will come when they will be available everywhere. They are “ the eons of light.” A Spark Lighted in Linn County Illum ines the Great Northwest Two of the outstanding successes in the struggle for co-operative marketing of farm producía aud the elimination of the rake-off taken by a line of rapacious mid­ dlemen between the farmer and the consumer are the poultrymen’e and the wool and mohair grower**' organizations. Both these eturdy youngsters are entitled to the label: “ made in Oregon.” Below are a few quotations from bulletins issued to members by the Pacific Co-operative Wool Growers Dec. 18 and 23» The co-operative bad its incep- lion through a call by agricultural leaders at Albany in 1921. The association has shown marvelous growth and cover* the states of Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Cali­ fornia and Nevada, with wool stocks in Portland, San Francisco and Boston, and salesmen visiting the worsted and woolen mills in New England and Pennsylvania. It has over three thousand mem­ bers and handles between six and seven million pounds of wool por annum. Du* to the orderly system of marketing the graded wool* during the period in which manufacturer* were supplying their requirements the association baa been able to secure full prices, showing an in­ crease over last year on the fine and medium wools of 3 8-4 cents a pound and on the coarse wool* of approximately 4 l-4c. While the return* are a little later than last year, the member» have been well paid for the additional wait in sharply increared prices aud have received the benefit of direct Belling te the mills. The expanse ba* been reduoed year by year and shows a further reduction this year of about ten per cent, 1 be baling, grading, storage, insurance, reweighing and cartage for farm fioek wool costs a fraction over 2 1-Jc per pound The storage ie a little higher than last year owing to a longer period in the warehou«e, but this has been many fold overcome by the sharply iucreased price* received. Mohair The mohair growers who pooled their 1925 «lips received a Christ­ mas distribution in cash covering the veer’s sales. The price* received are eatiefac- ory, considering the difficult con­ ditions which have existed. These 8pokane. pertain more particularly to the r-rceil Sneed spent his vaca­ choicer grade*. A large manufac­ Hogs—Good to choice, »11.75® 12 00. tion with home folks. Cattle—Prime steers, »7.50®8.00. turer ie quoted ai follows : The mohair situation it qnite different from anything w* have experienced for a long time The market on long mohair, most of which comei from abroad, ba* been so high and the competition on our product* so keen that w* Attractive prices are given on halFton have changed our prvcees to as to make it possible to uee all lots or more of fall Texas mohair. Having estak- lished this process in our mill, and having figured our cost* on this KERR’S OR FISHER'S EGG PRODUCER basis, we shall not be in a position for some time to pay any premium for long mohair.” Molasses in barrel lots. Private information is that a < number of manufacturers are not i using the kid and No. 1 mohair they purchased, but are holding uutil conditions restore them to I demand. O. W . F R U M Th« New Contracts The new marketing agreement permits growers to withdraw after iwo year*. It hae beeu signed by owners of more than 600,000 sheep tnd goats. A m e ric a n E a g le Fire Insurance Co. Hay in worth ju st as much in storage as you mirght get for it in case of fire. Th ) A m erican Eagle Fire Insurance com pan/ will pay you 8j% of the cash value in easel of loss Iiy fire. C. P. STAFFORD, A gent L. A. Morris, potato inspec­ tor for Columbia county, says the inspection law is protec­ tion to growers, retailers and consumers and that when they understand it better they will all heartily observe it and boasts that Columbia county heads all others of the state in observance, and th at not a retail merchant in the whole county will handle a sack of potatoes th at is not branded with the grower's name and address and the grade. If the counties generally would do as Columbia county has done the | law would be fully enforced.