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THE GAZETTE-TIMES, HEPPNER, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 8, 1923.
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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
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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
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their war rifle policies to lap are
urr d to renirttttte their insurance.
If in good health, only two months
bark premiums need be paid.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Campbell of So
cial Ridge spent a few hours in the
city on Saturday. During the good
in January, Mr. Campbell
weath
was laid up with injuries be received
to his foot and ankle when his plow
team acted up. and he faileld to get
a lot of plowing done that he con
templated. He states that crops in
his locality never appeared in better
condition at this time of year, and the
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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. PHELPS, Secretary
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Bonrd along with otlior Industry, tuken from them uy wniu i oouove is
Central Market
Have You Tried Our Home-Cured
Hams and Bacon?
THEY ARE GOOD
Fish Every Tuesday and Thursday
PRIME BEEF, PORK, VEAL
AND MUTTON
Central Market
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Van Heusen Collar
50c
Hardeman Hats
$5.00
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FLOUR
Crown, per barrel $9.00
White River, per barrel $8.55
MEAT
Fancy Bacon, per pound 30c
Bacon Back, per pound 28c
LARD
10 Pounds $2.00
5 Pounds $1.05
Bulk 182c
APPLES, Per Box $1.25
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