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By Peter Radford, National 1
Lecturer, Farmers' Vn- !
iou, Fort Worth, Tex.
Farmers to Ask Federal Aid.
Port Worth, Texas, Sept 12 With
representation from more than two
thirds of the states In the Union, the
eleventh annual meeting of the Far
mers' Educational and Co-Operative
Union of America came to a close in
this city after a three days session.
The keynote, of the convention was
the action of the body in voting to
ask direct aid from the government
in the present crisis which confronts
the American farmer s.s a result of
the titanic struggle across the water.
A plan was formulated whereby the
Federal government will be asked to
tide the farmers over the emergency,
and a committee was appointed to
go to Washington to consult with
Federal authorities relative to the
situation.
A high tribute was paid to the
work of Peter Bradford by National
President, C. S. Barrett, in his open
ing address to the convention
who declared that It was the Radford
type of men which keep one's faith
sound, his courage high and renews
his faith in humanity. He stated
that Mr. Radford had been, of Inval
uable assistance to mm in nis worn
and that his wise counsel and sugges
tions had materially assisted him in
the solution of problems confronting
the national work.
The National Union has strong and
active organizations in twenty-seven
states of the Union and is composed
of a membership numbering eight
million. Tho officers of the Union
were unanimously re-elected for the
coming yctr, as follows: President
C. S. Barrett, Georgia; Vice-Presi
dent, A. V. Swift, Oregon; Secretary-Treasurer,
A. C. Davis, Arkan
sas. Profitable Prices for Farm Products
The greatest encouragement that
can be given agriculture is profitable
prices for farm produccts. Crop des
troylng Insects have been a stubborn
enemy, and Jupiter Pluvius has play
ed many pranks on the furmer, but
there is no pestilence like low prices;
they will sap the life-blood of an in
dustry.
It is one of the most pitiful sights
in the twentieth century civilization
to see a farmer after he hag raised a
crop sit helplessly by and wath the
bulls and bears of Europe and Amer
ica trample over It, and yet If the
farmer will only organize and co-operate
he can successfully fence out
these animals that devastate his pro
ducts after the harvest.
The Orgon farmer needs co-opera
tion as badly as diversification.
The World's Greatest Financier.
The world's greatest financier is
the Orgon farmer's housewife. Her
daily investments exceed in shrewd
ness the clever transactions of Wall
Street and no business concern or
corporation, however ably officered
has ever been able to approach her
in economy. She is the Nation's
ablest trader and her transactions
more nearly reflect the progress and
prosperity, of the country, than the
reports of our clearing houses.
All legislation, financial or other
wise, ought to be so plain that the
housewife can understand it. Our
legislators, state and national, .shoot
so far over the head of the average
citizen that those who are unable
to employ an attorney and accept his
statements in blind faith, must for
ever remain in Ignorance of our
laws. Of course we have so many
laws that no human can expect to
read them and survive the ordeal,
but any person who feels an irre
sistable impulse to legislate, should
try his proposed law on his neighbor
and get it down where the common
people can understand it before at
tempting to put it on the statute
books.
Ability, Not Quantity, Pays In
Farming.
No farmer gets rich by the quan
tlty of production. It Is the price he
gets for his products and economy
and business judgment displayed In
management that makes the farm
er wealthy.
We cannot pass a law that will
increase the price of production or
reduce the cost of plowing the land
and marketing the crop. We must
depend upon factories and transpor
tation facilities for marketing our
products and upon improved mechan
ical appliances and the business abil
ity of the farmer to reduce the cost
of production, and to more Intelli
gently market his products.
The Men Behind the Plow.
The eleventh annual meeting of
the National Farmers' Union was 1b
session for three days at Fort Worth,
Texas, last week. The delegates
attending the meeting came from
more than two-thirds of the states
in the Union and every branch of ag
ricultural endeavor wag represented.
The wheat farmer from the North
west, the corn grower from the Mid
dle West, the tobacco farmer from
the Virginias and the cotton farmer
from the Sunny South all held
counsel together aad were united in
their effort to solve the grave prob
lem which now confronts the Amer-
lean farmer. Coming, as they did, i
direct from the soil, with their hands ,
brown from exposure and their j
minds attuned to the needs of the
hour, there was no chance for dis
sentlon among their ranks and there
was a complete harmony and unity of
thought and action, such as befit tho
class which feeds and clothes the
world.
Farm Facts
Where there Is a silo there is
prosperity.
There is not enough of the com
munity spirit among our rural dis
tricts.
The need of the rural communities
today is intelligent and consecrated
leadership.
The farm is the power house of
all progress and the birthplace of all
that is noble.
The laws relating to business are
wholly uusuited to the transactions
of the farmer.
The farm is the nursery of civil
ization and tho parsonage of all re
ligious denominations.
The waste of effort through im
practical methods of farming is tho
greatest tragedy of the age.
Co-operation between practical
farmers and proficient business men
will eliminate Ignorance and preju
dice. Something is wrong in our mar
keting system when a small crop
brings more money than a bounti
ful one.
The farmer asks no special priv
ileges. The business of farming only
wants the same opportunities afford
ed other lines of industry.
Tho nation's menu must be made
up from the fields, pastures, orchards
and eardehs, and to tarm intelli
gently the farmer must know what
is needed.
It is as much a duty of the country
pastor to exhort us to own a home
while on earth as it is to inspire us
to build a mansion in the skies..
U'r must clve the same care and
consideration to a system of co-operative
laws, extending to the farmer
the facilities adapted to his business
that is jiow afforded corporations.
The rural nress. the pulpit and the
school are a trinity of powerful
influences that the larmer must uttl
izo to their fullest capacity before
he can occupy a commanding post
tion in public affairs.
Farm tenancy is the greatest men
ace now confronting the nation and
can only be checked by affording
the tenant and the laborer facilities
for acquiring property and by re
ducing the high rates of interest
which are now sapping the vitality
of agriculture.
' Under the present system of
marketing farm products, it is pos
sible and often occurs, that people
in one part of the United' States lit
erally' starve for the want of a pro
duct, while the same product in an
other part of the nation is wasting
for want of a market.
The Morrow County Fair.
Next week Morrow County will
hold a fair. At that time she will
display to tho world the wonders of
her resources and they are many. At
one time a part of the great Eastern
Oregon desert and later a ralt of
Umatilla county. This section of the
country "has been steadily finding it
self and becoming more and more
productive each year. Today Mor
row county is a rich agricultural
community. Broad wheat fields cov
.er its hills where the soil is deep
and rich. Its foothill ranges are the
best in the Northwest and in the
production of beef cattle alone it
takes first rank with tho larger coun
ties of Oregon. . Not only does it pro
duce beef cattle in'large quantities,
but also mutton and dairy herds. For
many years Morrow county has been
noted for the excellence of its dairy
herds and also the excellence of its
beef herds.
Morrow county stockmen were
among tho very first In the entire
Northwest to improve the breed of
beef cattle. Long before the big
ranges were cut down in Eastern
Oregon Morrow county had a repu
tation for thoroughbred cattlo The
country tributary to Heppner pro
duces an immense amount of beef,
wool and mutton each year.
There are many other fertl'e re
sources of the county which will ail
have a showing in the coming fair.
To the old timer a trip to Heppner
at this time will be well worth the
time and money while to the younger
generation it will be p. surprlso.
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THE PROPOSED EIGHT
HOUR LAW COLUMN !
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Oregon Newspapers Decidedly
Against This Initiative
Measure.
Work Xot Killed by Cluck.
Commenting on the recent editor
ial in the Rural Spirit wherein it was
stated that enactment or defeat of
tho proposed eight-hour law is up to
the farmers, the Tillamook Headlight
says:
"The Rural Spirit is wrong. If
the law is enacted it will be because
the politicians fooled the farmers
with the Oregon system. The law is
apt to carry because all the unem
ployed and. tho employees as well
will vote as a unit for the law. A
large Dumber of dairymen were in
favor of the eight hour law for coun
ty and municipal employes. As long
as the county pays the bill, it is O.
K., but now that the bill is to be in
troduced that will effect the farmers,
they are un in arms against It."
Eight hours a day for county or
municipal employes is purely a mat
ter of interest to taxpayers. Every
onepays taxes directly or indirectly.
If these taxpayers see fit to enact
eight hour legislation for county and
municipal work, they pay the bill
and it ' is their privilege to limit
hours of labor as they see fit. Muni
cipal or county work 'is of an artifi
cial nature. It can therefore be reg
ulated. That which is not done to
day may be attended to tomorrow.
Farming is a work of seasons.
Season ,1s based upon natural law.
Man-made laws cannot regulate sea
sons. We have no eight hour fruit,
no twenty-four hour cows, and no
rainfall that can bo governed by
laws. Weeds grow and must be cut.
The ground bakes after the rainfall
and must be harrowed at once else
moisture Is lost. In some parts of
Oregon it requires more than eight
hours to make the trip to freight cars
with grain. Farm work is peculiar
to itself. In no other work does
timliness count for so much and fre
quently what is not done today can
not be done' tomorrow.
Tho work of the mine, the mill,
factory, shop, office or store can be
done by two or three shifts a day
with no loss in ftutput or in quality
of product. But the cow that is
milked with a change of workmen
twice a day becomes unprofitable.
There are weeks when more, than
eight hours a day are required on
Oregon farms and there are weeks
when a less number of hours serve
to complete the work.
.The enactment of the eight hour
law for Oregon as it is written, will
not create more jobs for more men
and lengthen the period of work In
the country. It will cause one far
mer to exchange work with another
farmer. It will render Idle more
ian half the farm hands In Oregon.
It will result In many a fruit or
dairy farm falling into the hands of
the industrious Japs. The farm
hands and the farmers will make
common cause in defeating the pro
posed eight hour law iu Oregon.
Rural Spirit.
v Reat It.
' On the November ballot there Is a
proposed eight-hour law. It pre
scribes a universal work day of eight
hours for everybody in the state.
Failure 'of an officer to enforce it re
sults in his dismissal from office for
malfeasance. It ought to be beaten.
If passed and enforced, It would
destroy the agricultural interests of
the state. It would either put farm
ers out of business or cause them to
rise In a body to overthrow the
measure.
Under its terms, no employe in
any capacity can work more than
eight hours a day. A dairy farmer
Lcould not run his lwsiness without
employing two sets of hands. That
would double the cost of dairy pro-
duets or put the dairyman out of bus
iness. In nine if not in ten cases out
of ten, it would drive the dairyman
either out of business or out of Ore
gon.
The same would he true of Irri
gation farmers. Their crops might
be burning up for need of water. But
with the eight-hour law in effect,
the water would have to be shut off
whether the crops, were saved or not
saved.
In ' the busy harvesting season,
farmers almost universally work ex
tremely long hours.- The labor sup
ply and the limited number of har
vesting machines make such hours
necessary. Many a time the work
begins at five or six a. m. and does
trt end until darkness, especially in
the threshing season. There is al
ways extreme haste in cutting and
threshing the grain because of the
peril of the early rains.
If the eight-hour law passes, it
would be a calamity to harvesters.
The number of men would have to
be doubled by placing on two shifts.
There wouldn't be men enough to
supply the demand. There wouldn't
be a farmer In Oregon who could af
ford the added expense.
The law would be a worse pest on
Oregon farmers than would the Hes
sian fly or weevil In the wheat.
Vote 321 no. Oregon Journal.
Among the many measures to be
voted on this fall Is one initiative
bill that is hard to defend from any
viewpoint, It is the Universal Con
stitutional Eight Hour Day Amend-
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ment and It In about the most harsh
and unyielding piece of legislation
ever proposed. By this bill no em
ployer in any line of work whatso
ever, from college professor to farm
laborer, may give work to any per
son for more than eight hours in any
day or more than 4 8 hours In any
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ceive a unanimous negative vote.
Enterprise Record Chieftain.
Oregon has had enough of freak
legislation. Thove is no demand for
a law such as is proposed. All In
dustries in which it Is practicable to
employ the eight hour day are now
on the, basi, or else tending that
way. Oregon l.eeds a char.ee to as
similate the laws she has, before
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