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About The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1917-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1917)
THE SCIO TRIBUNE WH) KVtWl THCRSPAY »T r. l . t>t'cx;«a, xvrroa and raor Entered at the poeCofltee at Scio, Oregon as second cteas matter. HlTMCajmoN. IN ADVANCS at 1.76 < nd or vaaa SIX MONTH* 11.60 _______ ___ .78 APVKrrnatNo matw Local advertising. per line------- fie Display advertising. per inch 16c Display advertising, long time, see manager. Extended marriage or death notice* twr line __________ 3c Special rate* na long time dieplay advertising. VALUE OF COOPERATION Saturday evening The Tribune man had the pleasure of attending a Farmers' Union ter cream social, at Riveraid« school building, situated on Crabtree crock on the Scio-San derson bridge road. While listen ing to the program, the value of cooperative effort was suggested to our mind, bccaueo the entire found ation of Farmers’ Unionism is built upon and aruund cooperative effort. Cooperation simply mean* a har monious working of all to accomp lish ■ common purpose. The found ation stone in the structure of mod ern civilization ia cooperation. We are. all of us, more dependent upon the efforts of each other than w» think or realize. When civilization was in its primitive state, men were more independent of -their fellows than now. Their wants were few and which nature, in her abundance, supplied and all that primitive man hail to do, was to go out and ateza what he desired or wanted. Senator thinks he is currying favor with hi* German roetitiient* by his manner of voting If Wisconsin German* are hke other German- Americans, a large majority of them are truly loyal to the guvemment of their adoption. They believe io and preserving of fruit*, etc., be-' a democratic form of government, cause that wa* their particular field els* they would never become nat of activity. They could tell you in uralized citizen* of the U. 9. They, a most instructive manner, about no doubt, would rejoice to see the the care of the dairy and the breed Hohenzoller* driven from the Ger ing of stock, but never a word about man throne, and the German people the manufacture of the milk into he given a free democrati? form of article» of commerce, or the con Government. Therefore Senator It verting of the wheat into flour or A. I a Follette is mi*represent*ng breakfast foods. Why. three farm them. He is. in a measure. justify er* and their families came to the ing Germany in her harterou* treat entertainment mostly in autos and ment of Belgium and the ruthless what could they be expected to destruction of innocroi human live* know about the struggles and hard bv her Zcpalins »nd undersea boat* Senator LaFollette is a disappoint- ships of the early pioneer We were impressed with the im- menl to many American people out- portanc,- of cooperation Whether side of hi* own state and they will harmonious or not, the farmer mint feel relieved ween he retire* to pri- cooperate with the manufacturer, vat* life, the merchant the tradesmen, etc for ' each must have what the other pro NEW CHANCELLOR'S SPEECH duces. They are absolutely d coend - ent upon each other. Chancellor Michaell*' speech to Then if cooperation tea neerssity. the lte-ich»tng confirms the worst which it is. in economies of the mod impressions in regard to the crisis ern business world which include* which put him in office. He repeat* the farmer, i* it not highly important the same falsehoods about respon* that this cooperation be made as ibilily fur the war which have be«*n harmonious as possible by fair deal uttered by Germany from the first. ing and a desire on the part of all He insist* on a conqueror’s peace to treat the other fellow with hon and, like hi* predecaaaor, he glasses esty of purooee and free of any so over Germany’s aggressive aims un called trade trickery? Nor can we der the euphemism of “guarantee " demand honesty and fair dealing on He penuet* in misstating the facte the part of other* unless we con about the allied blockade in order cede a* much ourselves. We can to justify the submarine war, In not deceive others in the quality of I defiance of truth he predict* succeas farm product*, if w* expect to be for the submarines in starving the treated fairly by the merchant, allies before American force* can be manufacturer or tradesman In a put In the field and before Russian word, we must cooperate forces can be I «organized to make The purposes of the Farmer's allied supremacy decisive, He doe* Union, or the Grange are manifold this to keep alive in the ilerman and meritorious. They are both ed»| people the delusive hope of victory. ucatiuiial and social. They should The one grain of truth in his speech be of financial benefit In the cooper j1(| that the food situ ative marketing of crops, i . _ lion In (>ermany to bad. but he pre- poultry, etc., and in the buy ing of i I diet* relief from this year's crop in many farm supplies. But. to get fan* of the known fact that it is the full benefit, farmers must hon worse than that of 1916. estly represent what they have to Comparison of the Chancellor** ■ell and prepare their product* in speech, )K»int by point, with known th* best and most prc*entabte con facta will prove that Pruswanism is dition. They expect fair treatment 1 still supreme in Germany, that it from the manufacturer or merchant and should be willing to render fair still cling* to it* aim to destroy free treatment tn other*. A fair and dom by *cientifically applied methods just cooperate effort should be the of barbarism, that it still holds the puipoae of all. for all are either pro German people in thraldom by force i and fn!i--hood. and that democracy ducer* or consumers. can only be made safe by it* de struction. sloth, which was worn by men or i women. They could Dot have even told of the many proceser* r<-|Uirvd to make the doth for the men or the delicate fabrics for th* women. They ceuldktell you all about farm ing. crop condition*, or the canning' But with the advance of civiliza tion. men found that they were be coming more dependent on each other. Each found that he was bet ter adopted to do some thing* than others. Some found that they were better fitted to cultivate the soil than to build houses, wield a blacksmith hammer or sell goods from behind a counter, lit nee men became co operative intuitively, («cause each achieved greater success in his chosen field of activity and could en joy the fruit* of his neighbor*’ ac SENATOR LAFOLLETTE “The concentration of the Russian tivity. by allowing that neighbor to army compelled Germany to seize partake of the result* of hl* own A few months ago The Tribune theswnrd.” J labor. This exchange of commod had a very high conception of the The Russian army was mobilised ities. created the necessity of money ability and truenes* to the common againat Austria, not against Ger with which to faciliate exchanges. people, of United State* Senator many. until Germany began to mob Even a short 100 year* ago. condi LwFollette. We have been com ilize though the German alliance tion* forced men to be more inde pelled to revise that opinion and to with Austria justified mobilization pende rt than now. But then co conclude that he ha* degenerated against Germany also. But priority , operation, existed in the member* into a mere faultfinder and a block i of a family. The mother* spun and to aenatorial business. We thought of mobilization is unimportant by wove th* cloth which supplied the that he wa* an American, »pelled comparison with the conduct of member* of the family with cloth with a large sized capital A. But Germany in the negotiation* which The outstanding ing and the father tanned the »kin* hi* objection to the war in it* many I preceded the war fncts arc that the entire power», i ami made the shoes, etc. But it phase* a* brought out in the nu joined by Germany’* ally. Italy,' soon I-reame developed that factor» merous senate bills, shows him to be oríes could make the doth and fash a little American if, indeed, he is ; strove for mediation between Aus ion the clothing, tan the hide and not pro-German in hi* personal opin tria and Serbia, and that Germany make the shoe«, better than the ions. Elected a* a republican, on rejected all their ovorturca. that, fathers and mothers and the family many measure* he ha* proven his when Austria showed signs of reach- ‘ loom and shoe shop passed. To-day political independence by voting with ing an agreement with Russia. Ger the mother who can spin and weave the democrat* on many important many forced her hand by declaring I war on Russia first; that Germany the linen for her own or daughter’* measures. However, hi* adverse drvam s, or the father who could tea vote* on nearly all measure« per wu ready for war, while the other Germany pre the leather and make the family taining to the war. destroy* the few powers were not. vent«! mediation, was ready for war •hoes are proper curiowtie* to place vote* for administration bills, and and iiegan «rar. Germany wanted In a musetum. Indeed few mother* his opppdtion to many recent bills war. -Oregonian. can even make the dresse s where desired by President Wilson, stamps the good* are furnished, or the fa him as an obstructor and a* repre Germany, and especially her war ther even repair the shoe*. All ia sentative *f the German empire relegated to the dnwnaker, suit rather than that of American dem lords, exmess then selves a* having manufacturer or the shoe factory, ocracy. He could not cast vol« contempt for the military ability of for even our local shoemaker* no more in accordance with the wishes United State* soldier* and sailor*. longer make shoes or boot*. They of the Kaiser, than he ha* don* in Just what ha* inspired this notion is have degenerated into mere shoe hi* opposition to the war. the draft, something unknown to anybody ex cept these German war lord*. As a cobler*. That audience of farm«*, etc. The stat* of Wisconsin has a large ' matter of fact, the United State* their wives and children, could not population It may be the,ha* never lost a war. True, we t have shown a particle of home-made, I have never "met up" with the Ger mans. but a* we have met the troop* of Fairland a couple of time* and held our own with them «nd the English seem now a good match for German troop*. «he (Germany! ha* no re*M>n tn despiae the American Sammys.” General Pershing has but a small army of some 80.000 mm over there now and these have not been *rnt to the trench«*a* yet. > Rut later on w hen the National! Guard troops are »ent over and the new army of a half milliom men follows, ths- American troops can make quite a showing in the trench Don’t trifle with your eye- If es. Nor is there any doubt but they need attention, come and ive what the American soldier will give a thorough examination and glass'.* a good account of himself when he properly fitted. One thing is faces the Germans war •ure, the*«- German E. C. MEADE lord* will OFTDMLTHlsr have to revise the ir opmioo* of the : 829 W. Second St., American soldier. Albany. 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