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1 THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923. PAGE THREE VJH6NJ A LOT OF F6LLER5 llLu i jj NeaD a Lot of FrigmDS brand their goods bo the buyer will know the amount of pur wool and the amount of ihoddy in each gar ment. Thia U of more importance to the man in the city than to the man who Belli the wool. The Farm Bloc believe! that a for eign market for our eurplus farm product! ii vital to the farmer'! pros perity, and we are doing our best to aecure legislat'm that will aid in find ing buyers for our surplus foodstuffs in Europe. Something must be done to make a market for American pro ducts. Fifteen per cent of our farm output must find a market outside of the United States if we are to save our farm industry and properly main tain our own food supply. Can Now Pay Insurance Premiums at Portland War risk insurance service has been established in connection with the United States Veterans' Bureau in Portland, bureau officials have an nounced. Miss Metta Walker has been named insurance cashier. In stead of sending premium payment to Washington, D. C, war veterans of Oregon are entitled to take advan tage of the branch office service. Loans on policies and other mat ters relative to government insurance are also handled at the Portland of fice in the Myler building. There are Bcveral thousand ex-service peo ple in this sub-district carrying war insurance. Those who have allowed L Mdll IS KEYNOTE 10 PROSPERITY Leader of Farm Bloc in Congress Tellls Why Farmers Must Get Economic Justice Before Any Other In dustry Can Reasonably Expect "Good Times." Written Specially for The Gazette-Times By ARTHUR CAPPER, U S. Senator from Kansas Washington, March f. For many years the United States Gov ernment has been content to let agriculture take care of itself. Far mers have gone on producing under many handicaps that might easily have been removed. The result has been disaster that in the last two years has overtaken the farmers, caused billions of dollars in losses by shrinkage in the value of farm products, and has been seriously det rimental to business throughout the land. The need of a constructive national program looking to the rehabil itation of agriculture is regarded by the Farm Bloc as imperative. It is now generally accepted that prosperity must come first to the farms before it can prevail in the city. Farming Is the only business left that buys at retail and sells at whole sale; that pays what is asked when it buys and accepts what is offered when it sells. The farmer remains merely a producer of the necessaries of human life. He gets but one-third of every dol lar paid by the consumer for the pro ducts of the farm. Our expensive, antiquated and inefficient marketing system takes the other two-thirds. The enactment of constructive, wholesome, progressive legislation, which will bring about better condi tions agriculturally is the mission of the Farm Bloc in Congress. As a member of that body I think I may say with perfect candor that there is nothing dark, sinister, nor forbidding In its makeup or its purposes. It is not political. It is for things rather than against them, for the city man as well aa the country man. It is working for honest industry, honest finance, honest commerce, honest ag riculture, honest Inbor, Bnd wishes to cooperate with all of these. Agriculture Basla of All Prosperity, The charge has been made by met ropolitan newspapers of the East thnt the Farm Bloc seeks class legislation. That its aim is to profit agriculture, no matter at what cost to other in dustry. The men who make that charge lost sight of the fundamental fact that agriculture is basic, that what contributes to its prosperity and well being unquestionably bene fits all industry. When agriculture Is profitable the nation is prosperous, In legislation the farmer, is not on titled to any more consideration than any other class: but he is entitled to just as much. The Farm Bloc does not recognize the right of any class to have an advantage at the expense of another group or of the population whole. The Farm Bloc believes that the best way to mend the present situa. tion and provide for the future is to increaso the producer's profit by shortening the road to market. Ona way to accomplish this is through cooperative marketing. The rocently published roport of the Federal Trade Commission shows that the gambling transactions in grain amount some years to more than twenty billion bushels, or throe times all the grain produced in the world. The public has made ip Its mind that the Chicago Hoard of Trade's poker playing, using the country's food supply bs the stakes, Is tho most wanton, most wicked, most destruc tive game of chnnco In the world, and It is now proposing to stop it by the Capper-Tlchnor law, which places grain exchanges under federal con trol. The Farm Bloc moasuro which had strongest onnosition wn the amend mont to tho Fedornl Reserve Act, pro vlding that ngrlculturo Bhould bo rep an unwarrantable interpretation of the Transportation Act by the Inter state Commerce Commission. The Farm Bloc is giving its sup port to the Truth-in-Fabrics bill to compel all makers of clothing to ommerce and finance. Wall Street bankers opposed it bitterly, claiming this is "class legislation." No one seems to think it "class leg- slntion" for commerce, finance and manufacturing to be represented on the Federal Kesorve Board, and, of course, it is not. Then why should t be considered class legislation for agriculture, which is the lament and most vital industry of all, to be so represented? For a long while the big five pack er combine absolutely controlled the livestock markets and fixed the prices to suit themselves. As a result of the efforts of the Farm Bloc the pack ing industry is now under govern ment control, and, as a matter of fact, tho pnekers and everybody else now concede thnt it is a good law. One of the most Important meas ures in the Farm Bloc program was the bill for the revival of the War Finance Corporation, making one bil- loin dollars available for loans to farmers and stockmen. This logisl tion saved thousands of producers from bankruptcy. Practical Financing Is Pressing Problem. The Farm Bloc still has many Im portnnt things to accomplish. One of them Is a credit plan which will be of speedy and immense value to the farm nc industry. The Hloc is en deavoring to have enacted into law a system of one, two and three-year credit for farmers, based on farm products as collateral. We cannot have any niiteroni sys tem of orderly marketing until we have a different system of financing. We cannot build up a system of sane marketing until we have a systom of credits peculiarly adapted to the needs of agriculture. Agriculture is at the mercy 01 those who control credit, and many who exert thnt control are not par ticularly In sympathy wilh agricul ture. Thousands of farmers and stockmen have been ruined in the past two or three years by this lack of credit. Tho agricultural credit plan before this Congress, based on warehouse receipts as collateral security, will make moro money, at loworWntcrcst rates, available for financing the slow turnover of tho fnrms, which will givo the fnrme'r another opportunity to go ahead wilh his work with a fnlr chanco to make good. If that la ac complished It will monn cheaper food, moro work, reopened faclorles and mills and a return of good times, Lower Freight Raton Vital to All Classes. Tho Farm Bloc believes railway freight rates arc too high and must come down. It is using all tho In fluence it can cnmmnnd to bring this nhout. Tho city Is just as vitally interested in lessening cost of car- rvlnir food supplies. One of tho measures endorsed by tho Bloc would restore to stnto rail A Small Investment that is Conservative, Safe and Profitable A sales corporation functioning for one of America's oldest and bent known manufacturer)!, offers legit imate, wife, and exceptionally prof itable opportunity to a few small investor ($100 to $00) in this dis trict. A Guaranteed 35 Jt MerchandisePremium AT ONCE! This in addition to the substantial dividends your invent ment calls for. 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He states that crops in his locality never appeared in better condition at this time of year, and the reault should be an abundant har- jvet the coming fall. JJEST IK THELONO AUIj ask II ANOTHER way Silvertowni savei Their construction gaina you more milei from a gallon of gaaolinel MARTIN REID HEPPNER, ORECON Legal Guarantee Giveru IVo need of Knife no pain continue wo Ask to see Gle-o-nis File Treatment. PATTERSON & SON Main Street -:- Heppner, Oregon Odd Fellows Attention All Odd Fellows in Morrow County are invit ed to attend the last "get-together" meeting for the season, with Willow Lodge WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14th 7:30 p. m. Official visitation for all Morrow county lodges by Grand Master S. F. Bowman. Initiation and Degree Work. Let's make this the banner meeting of the year WILLOW LODGE NO. 66 A. M. 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