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L. MONTERESTELLI
Marble and Granite
Works
PENDLETON, OREGON
Fine Monument and Cemetery Work
All parties interested in getting work in my line
should pet mv prices
placing their orders
All Work
The Byers Chop Mill
(Formerly 80HEMM-3 MILL)
STEAM ROLLED BARLEY AND WHEAT
After the 20th of September will handle Gasoline, Coal
Oil and Lubricating Oil
You Will Find Prompt and Satisfactory Service Here
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3 bolts installed, and eliminate your bearing trou-
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r satisfaction. Made for all cars and trucks.
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1 every six months. Then when
opportunity presents itself you
will be prepared to meet it.
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Exclusive and first pictures from Rome showing the new Pope,
Pius XI, blessing the people in front of the Vatican, immediately after
is election to succeed the late Pope Benedict. Upper picture is a close
up of His Holiness on the balcony surrounded by some of the Cardi
nals who elected him. Lower picture shows crowd receiving blessing.
These pictures were made with a special Ulcphoto camera.
FARMERS NEED CASH RETURNS, IT HI
ED FARM VALUES, TP REVIVE PROSPERITY
When prices of commodities go
up the only recourse is to
curtail buying because the
farmer's labor is not reward
ed except in assets he cannot
liquidate without closing up
shop. Lack of income the
stumbling block to trading
that spells a revival of bus
iness activity.
By Cyrus H. McCormick,
Chairman International Harvester
Company.
The importance of agriculture in
its relation to the problems of re
construction and as the principal
foundation of real prosperity is more
fully recognized today by the nation
as a whole than since the middle of
the last century. This recognition
should make possible the solution of
some of the farmer's problems which
in the past have been understood by
few except those actually engaged in
farming.
The agricultural problem, how
ever, is deeper than is indicated by
current discussions in the press and
elsewhere, which treat it purely as a
present emergency.
In my judgment, the root of the
trouble is in the fact that America's
farmers have not received adequate
compensation for their effort, as
compared with the compensation in
other vocations.
The accumulated wealth of our
agricultural classes largely repre
sents enhanced land values rather
than the earnings from their labor
or the profits from their investment.
The farmer should have a fair re
turn for his services as compared
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with the earnings of any other class,
and if we exclude the item of en
hanced land values he has not re
ceived this return even in better
times.
Perhaps the most serious aspect
of the agricultural situation is that
the farmers' fixed expenses, which
;he manufacturer would call over
head or burden, are now much high
er than they have ever been before.
The single item of farm taxes in
many localities is higher today than
the rental on the same farm would
have been a comparatively short time
ago. Again, especially with the
younger farmers, land has been ac
quired during recent years at a high
valuation, and present crop returns
cannot meet the taxes and interest
charges. These overhead or fixed
expenses are beyond the farmer's
control, and constitute a problem that
is more serious to him than the dif
ference between the values of what
he sells and what he buys.
Curtailment Only Recourse.
The only recourse of the Ameri
can farmers in the'eurrent period of
distress is one that he and many
others have employed before that
is, heavy curtailment of buying.
Farmer's purchases were far below
normal in 1921, and they remain at
low levels. Meanwhile the prices
of practically everything the far
mers buy have been constantly work
ing lower until we now find that the
single item of increased cost of trans
portation almost, if not wholly, rep
resents the reduction of the purchas
ing power of a given unit of farm
produce lOday, as compared wiui the
pre-war period. This increased trans
portation cost decreases the price of
what the farmer has to sell and also
increases the cost of what he must
buy.
While the farmer has endeavored
to meet the present situation by tem
porarily buying less, he cannot in that
way escape the burden of fixed
charges, based on enhanced land val
ues, which must be met regardless of
the price he obtains for his products.
One solution of the problem that
suggests itself is a better system of
marketing farm products. The de
vising of such a system would pre
sent more difficulties than those that
have 1een met by co-operative ef
forts like the various growers asso
ciations of California, but they are
not insuperable. If foodstuffs can be
carried over when there is a surplus
that not only will stabilize agricul
ture, but will provide insurance
against a possible food shortage in
the following year.
Food Shortage Not Impossible.
Even though crops are now sell
ing below cost of production, it is
not visionary to consider the possi
bility of a food shortage.
America has repeatedly been an
importer of wheat in the past. The
indications today are that while the
1921 crop was sold below a fair
price, the surplus going abroad at
less than the cost of production, it
is possible and even probable that
we shall be importing wheat in 1 922.
Aside from the question of food sup
ply, these facts constitute powerful
argument for a better system of crop
marketing.
Under such a system the farmer
could avoid the necessity of selling
under pressure at too low a price,
and the world's greatest grain grow
ing nation would be spared the econ
omic absurdity of importing wheat
to meet its domestic requirements.
Why Not Insure Againt Short
age? Nations and municipalities pro
vide sinking funds against future
contingencies. Any well managed
business builds up reserves in pros
perous times against such a period
of strain as the present. Why, then,
should not we make an effort to pro.
vide a reserve as insurance against
shortage of the essentials of life.
when such a provision would in a
great measure stabilize the value of
the farmer's crops and also would
protect the whole people against the
distress that would inevitably follow
any serious shortage in the world's
food production?
Much study and considerable time
would be required to put such a plan
into operation. Imediate relief for
our agricultural classes might be
found in better financing in making
available of sufficient funds at reas
onable rates, and thus enabling the
farmers to "carry on" until the con
ditions improve. There are ample
funds in the country seeking invest
ment and there could be no safer ba
sis of investment than the credits
of the American farmer.
Immediate financial relief should
not be considered solely as "first
aid" treatment. If funds were more
readily available in emergencies at
more equitable rates of interest, the
necessity for forced marketing of
crops would disappear and the mar
keting would be done more system
atically, with a consequent gain in
the average orice received.
In some ot the older countries
r,rain crops are not rushed to mar
ket in any such brief period as with
us, but are stacked in sheds or under
other cover and are threshed and
I marketed throughout the year. With
better storage facilities and financ
ing the American farmer could, by
a similar process, avoid some of the
I loss incurred by throwing almost the
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Poem
llOyUncle John
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OUR ARCH ENEMY
I view the fiend of Discontent with
shudder and alarm. ... 1 realize
the vast extent of this old monster's
harm. No walk of life may be im
mune from pangs of discontent,
from barren wastes of sandy dune, to
Doric battlement.
It spreads among the favored few,
where fortune left her smile, and
scatters seeds of strife anew, among
the rank and file. ... It strikes the
soldier, late returned fom victory's
bloody field, and where the patriot
WOUNDED ASK PRESIDENT NOT TO FORGET
Wounded and disabled soldier are supporter of the bonus for all
but not to the exclusion of special legislation for disabled. A deleg.
tion of wounded from the Walter Reed hospital, Washington, was ap
pointed to call on the President and Congress asking that pending leg.
Islation aimed to assist them be not overlooked in handling the bonus
question. The picture shows the delegation leaving the White House.
tcort?d by the Preaident.
M THE BANDS ON SOME
CIGARS NOWDAYS
BURN BETTER 'N
TH' TCRAC.r.n
entire grain crop upon the market
within a short period and thereby de
pressing the price.
Let us not deceive ourselves into
thinking that our agricultural prob
lem will be solved if the farmer is
restored to the relative position he
occupied before the war. The far
mer cannot hope through future
years to obtain in the enhanced value
of farm lands the reward for his
heavy toil. This may occur in some
localities, but in the main that condi
tion has passed and the farmer must
now receive a better and more de
pendable return for his efforts than
in the past if he or the rest of us are
to enjoy real prosperity in the fu
ture. Homey Philosophy or 1922.
If we'd all had a chance to buy a
ticket to be present at the beginning
of the world there'd been such a rush
some of us would have had to take
back seats on the ocean. Just figure
how you'd look on in wonder, the
thrill you'd feel, the desire to plunge
into the greatness of a land and ex
plore its possibilities. Imagine the
compelling wish you'd feel to do
something, to be a part of the plan.
Why not realize that a new world
opens every day at sunrise, that its
opportunities are there just as virgin
as they ever were, just as filled with
the possibility of doing something
worth while? What do you say if we
all get up bright and early next Mon
day morning, watch the sun come up
an' think hard; and then break away
and go to work harder? Boy, the
world will be worth millions more
if we all do it.
Red Haired Chap Used to !
"Devil" Joseph's Police,
Wm. O'Rourke of.Pendleton was.
in Joseph on business the past week, 1
returning home on Sunday. Mr. 0'-1
Rourke was formerly a resident of
Joseph, making his home here for a
time with an uncle. The Herald man
knew Mr. O'Rourke in Heppner,
where the debonaire young Irishman
mingled with kith and kin for sev
eral years. It was in Heppner that
William told us about some of his
escapades in Joseph. Doubtless there
are some young men residine here
now who participated in the Hallow-
een and other petty outbreaks in
which young O'Rourke and the late
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fires have burned, the arch-fiend
stands revealed.
The tenets writ in. sight of Cod,
to guide our glorious land, must feel
the foul, blasphemous rod, in dis
contentment's hand. . . . 'Mid bless
ings, countless as the stars, where
heav'n and home are blent, the foe
of mankind bursts his bars, -the
curse of discontent!
Gus Schuler were leading characters
of the cast. There may be some who
remember an occasion wherein the
young men spent considerable time
in the cooling waters of one of the
irrigation ditches hiding from the
game warden for a breach of the
game laws of the state. b'Rourke
i:, not up in the world very far so
far as inches are concerned, but he
is as full of ambition as an Irishman
with red hair can be, and that's say
ing something. When the call to arms
came a few years ago, William was
amongst those who desired to serve
his adopted country. His first attempt
to get into the service was blocked
because of his height. This did not
deter him, or even discourage him.
He took exercises tending to add to
his inches, sought admission into first
one branch of the service and anoth
ei and finally was accepted in one of
the non-combatant divisions. There's
nothing of the slacker about that
chap Joseph Herald.
Civil Service Examination.
The U. S. Civil Service Commis
sion announces an Acting Assistant
Surgeon examination to fill vacan
cies in the position of Acting Assist
ant Surgeon, at $480 a year, for part
time, to $2400 and $3000 a year for
full time, U. S. Public Health Ser
vice, throughout the Eleventh Civil
Service District; receipt of applica
tions to close March 18, 1922.
For further information and appli
cation blank apply to the Secretary,
Local Board of Civil Service Exam
iners, at any first or second class post
office, or to the Secretary, Eleventh
U. S. Civil Service District, 303 P.
0. Building, Seattle, Washington.
"Make your banker your best
friend," is the advice of the farm
management department to farmers.
"Keep him informed as to what you
are doing. Always advise with him
first when you need to obtain a
lean." 0. A. C. Experiment station.
PIANO TUITION Experienced,
capable tuition by Mrs. Bessie Bruce
Gihh, at the Wattenhurgcr house, tf.
KANSAS WILL JAZZ
IF SHE GOVERNS
Helen Pettigrew, pretty blue
,e'yed miss of twenty, wants to be
'governor of Kansas. She is head
of an Anti-War Club. Her cam
paign for the governorship is being
managed by 1 younger sister. Her
platform includes opposition to all
"Blue Laws." She also believes in
jazz music, beer and light wines for
those who want 'em; that women
ihould smoke if they wish and dresa
1 they please.
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