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V/E NEED EXPERTS.
questionable whether the young
Portland. Seattle, Tacoma and Spo
and in Maine 30 cents or I cent less.
LOWLY, perhaps, we are com-
man who is trained as a city man
kane for the annual city festivals.
In New York and Pennsylvania and
ager will have many cities clamor
iug to the realization that wo
They are omnivorous readers.
adjoining states the average price
ing for his services.
need experts to manage our
They go to school at our agricul
was 28 t 32 cents or from 7 to 4
•ities.
But, in another sense, men
tural colleges.
cents less. On the coast from Mary,
trained to be city managers will
There seems no argument.
Why should men of that type
land to South Carolina the prices
be our most valuable citizens.
It' it pays the big and little cor
lead an “ exclusively bucolic exist
were either the same or 1 cent high
They will be the men to check up
porations, why not the big and
ence ' ’I
er, ranging from ?5 to 38 cents, i
on dishonest or ignorant munici
little cities, which are nothing but
They don’t.
Georgia farmers receiving 26 cents
pal governments.
corporations—only on a larger
3o we can’t ulmit Mr. Mac-
fT mv ,t0 i“ave gi‘ined 1 cen‘> while
sealer
For it is well to say that in these
L evy’s exception.
the Honda farmers received 2 cents
days of much cries of “ graft,”
In a recent booklet by the Uni
Not only is it easier to be good
n pound less or 33 cents. In the
versity i f Oregon called “ Choos-
“ g r a ft” is merely often iguorance.
in the country but men and women
balance of the states, with a few ex-
And the man trained as a city
ing a Calling,1' the management of
are better in the country.
ceptions where the price was stable,
executive has the training to teach
cities is outlined as a new profes-
And why shouldn't they bot
farmers apparently were receiving
our cities a better way.
siou and one that awaits the col
Their interests are wider. They
from 1 eent to 5 cents less a pound,
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lege educated student along sjiecial
have most of the advantages of the
except that in Montana the price
lines.
TIME BLOCKS TOR HORSES.
city and mighty few of its dis
was 1 eent more, in Arizona 6 eents
Many of our cities have come to
T IS interesting to compare the
advantages.
1<?ss and in Oregon 7 cents less.
the commission plan, but it seems
treatment of city horses with
I t ’s a realization of that which
T he farm prices for eggs on May
likely that the commission will be
those in the country.
started the “ back to the farm ”
1 were 16.8 eents a dozen, or about
come eventually a governing body
The country horse is treated just
movement.
.7 of a eent higher on an average
an:1 that a trained expert of execu
as any other worker, with care and
But we thank Mr. MacLevy for
,
a i ? ha countrT *ban on May 1,
tive powers will be engaged to do
consideration.
his remarks, anyway.
1913, or an increase of about 4.3 per
the actual management and super
The city horse is a piece of
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cent. In most of the states the price
vision.
abused machinery.
A STRONG CONTRAST.
was tho same, or varied only by
In the smaller cities this plan
The country horse, tho farm
ifteen thousand b e r r y
1 cent one way or the other. Ia '
seems ideal. Tbo only question is
horse, is rarely, if ever, over
pickers are required this year
Moniana, however, eggs on Mav I,
whether in the larger cities such an
worked.
to
harvest the million-dollar
1914, were 18 cents or 4 eents
exectltive would have the power to
The city horse is ever over
crop of the Puyallup and Sumner
e e“Per than the preceding year,
“ hire aud fire’’ that the cor
worked.
Fruit Growers ’ Asoseiations.
while in Now Mexico they were 23
poration executive possesses. Of
In spite of the passing of mini
That is the organization Senator
eents or 4 cent, higher on an aver
course, until we decide to banish
mum wago laws and maximum
Paulhamus built.
age.
politics from our city administra
hour laws, the city horse at times
And built well.
The price paid to farmers for
tions that would be impossible.
still has its 36 hour shift.
Last year the Puyallup Valley
chickens on May 1 was 12.5 eents
Smalle. cities have come to the
The tired cab horse doses sleep
sold $1,000,000 worth of berries.
or about .7 of a cent a pound higb-
front already with evidence of the
ily on its stand.
This year the crop will be $1,-
er m 1914 than in 1913, or an in
value of a city manager.
The delivery horse drops from
125,000 in all probability.
crease of about 5.9 per cent. Tho
At the last Convention of North
the heat and exhaustion.
Last year the hop fields of Cali-
variation in the price of chickens
west Municipalities experts spoke
So the Anti-Cruelty Society of
fornia were tied up with riots. The
was commonly less than 1 cent per
glowingly of the work of the man
Chicago is taking action.
pickers rioted because of grossly
pound
The principal variations
ager o f the little country town of
Of course, it won't actually in
unsanitary conditions, inadequate
from this were Delaware, where
Milton, Oregon. This man appears
stall time clocks for horses.
water supply and bad living ar
there was a decrease of 11 cents a
to l»e a | radical engineer. Un
Yet, metaphorically, that is what
pound to 14.5 eents, West V lrg S i!
rangements.
doubtedly such training is valuable.
is being done.
Why, the son of one of the hop
wnere there was an increase of 1 2
La Grande, Oregon, is another
A campaign is on to give the
cents a pound to J34
growers bad the water privilege
town that seems to be finding sue
horse a square deal, a fair share of
and
water
wa3
sold
at
five
cents
Carolina an increase of 1.5 cents to
cess with the City Manager
sleep, a fair Bhare of rest.
a glass.
12.5 cents and South Carolina lo
Up in Alberta there is the town
Those who overwork their horses
Do you blame those pickers for
increase of 2.3 cents to 15 cents.
of Red Deer. The City Manager
will be prosecuted for cruelty to
rioting f
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animals.
there is called the Commissioner.
It s a different storv at Puval-
COUNTRY BOYS' CREED
He is appointed by tho Mayor and
Hero s to that Anti Cruelty So
lup.
Council.
ciety. May it win out I
I N KBY Mhoolhouso in Prince
Arriving in Sumner or Puyallup,
Here we have another type. Com
I Edward County, Va„ a placard
the pickers find wagons waiting to
missioner Stevenson of Red Deer is
containing a creed for (()<
TOWN, COUNTRY AND
haul them and their camping out
American country boy .-„„1 dedi-
a trained executive. He is more or
HEALTH.
fit—bedding and cooking utensils
less ignorant of practical work. But
eated to the Boys’ Corn Club of Vir
ecently Collier *• Weekly
—to the fields.
he has employed those who know.
ginia has been posted. It reads;
asked this question:
Arrived at the fields, the pickers
Subject only to the Council, he has
I believe that the country which
“ Is it much easier to be good
find cabins fitted with cooking
full charge of affairs.
rod made is more beautiful than
in tho country than in the c ity ! ”
stoves and bunks. Water is conven
The result in remarkable. While
tie city which man made; that life
In a later issue a letter was pub
ient at hand and plentiful.
other towns in Western Canada aro
out of doors and in touch with tho
lished from Mr. MacLevy, a teach
Representatives of tho grocers
suffering from extortionate taxes
earth is the natural life of man I
er of physicai culture, who thus
and meat dealers of the nearest
believe that work wit» nature’ is
and general mal administration,
answers in a decided affirmative:
town
call
for
their
orders
and
make
Red Deer's levy is but 15 mills. It
more inspiring than work with the
‘For years I have conducted a
deliveries the same day.
has parked streets, city parks, good
inost intricate machinery. 1 believe
gymnasium in the heart of New
For
their
work
of
picking,
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sewerage and water systems.
that tbe dignity of labor depend,
York and a health-bnilding physi
cents a crate is paid.
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All over Canada the work of
not on what yon do, |)Ut how you
cal culture plant in a Long Island
This season will see hnndreds of
Commissioner Stevenson has been
do it; that opportunity corses to «
rural community, and I have had
the same pickers alighting from
lauded. Now his daily duties aro
boy on the farm as often as to a boy
■abundant opportunity to compare
trains in Puyallup and Sumner that
*» the city; that life is | nrgor
impeded regularly by delegations
the effects of city and country life
alighted
last
year
and
the
year
be
from other cities who “ want sheo
freer and happier on the farm than
on the health and morals of men.
fore. They expect to spend a profit
wheels qo wound’’; who wish to
in the town; that my success de
Health and morals— they come to
able season; to many of them it is a
know if they can’t go and do like
pends not upon my location, but
holiday.
pretty near being the same. The
wise.
upon myself; not upon my dreams
invalid may be a near angel, and
There
will
be
the
same
story
to
but upon what I actually do; not
The city manager idea originated
the strong, virile specimen of hu
tell in th e. Northwest next hop
In tiermany. Thera it has been a
upon
luck, but upon pluck, | b„.
manity a near fiend, but they are
picking season.
marked success. Germans judge by
I'eve ,n working when you work and
the exceptions that prove the rule.
We
are
not
fond
of
tbe
California
results and pay by results. Tho man
m play,ng when you pl.y, and „
way.
“ Most bad people are aiek peo
who makes a succors in a small city
giving and demanding a square deal
ple, and most sick people are sick
Incidentally, we wonder if the
is certain to receive a call to a
in every act of life .”
because they have neglected and
way of the Northwest doesn’t pay
larger municipality. If he has the
disregarded the laws of right liv
better
than
the
California
plan.
right qualities he will be pr- noted
WHAT NEXT’
ing, such as exercise, fresh air, deep
from city to city, .adding as he goee,
ccording io
breathing, plain and nutritious
MORE
FIGURES.
Increased remuneration and In
limes, an English chemist ha.
nourishment, regular hours, aad
HE CROP reports of the Bureau
creased honor.
discovered a process of manu
more exercise. The city man can,
of Statistics (Crop Estimates)
Discussing the city manager, Pro
factoring synthetically . pnrc and
if he wills, observe all those laws,
of the U. 8. Department of
fessor Bowers, the University of
wholesome milk of high nutritive
and lire a long, happy, useful and
agriculture show the average prices
Oregon municipal experta, says:
vslne from the soja or soy bean.
moral life, bnt he is not as likely
pail to the farmers m various states
“ Ho cannot succeed if be ex
It is reported that excellent
to do so as the man who spends at
for batter, eggs and chickens, on
pects political heelers to do high-
cheese and buetter have been msnn-
least a part of the time in tho
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191$,
and
as
compared
with
elaas work. A glance into the fu
factored from this artificial milk.
country. On the other hand, an ex
the similar estimates oa May 1
ture reveals a calling here which
These contentions may be true
clusively bucolic existence occa
1913. Apparently farmers are ob
^tbe young man of the present day
but it is questionable if the method
sionally
tends
to
ignorance,
taining
on
an
average
less
for
their
has »till a chance to enter on the
the good Lord devised, a dairy eow,
bigotry, and narrowness of vision,
butter and slightly more for their
ground floor and which will lead
can
t manufacture milk more eco.
and so may lead to ill health and
ftn
nnairinv..
1
.
eggs and chickens.
to positions of dignity and honor.
viciousness. ”
nomically, provided she is givco the
The
average
price
paid
to
the
“ Conrsea of training suggested
right kind of raw materials.
Of course, Mr. MacLevy is quite
farmer tor butter on May 1, 1914
for city managerships are eco
right.
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was 23.8 cents, or 3.2 cents less a
nomics, political science, sociology,
A CHINA PERIL.
But we wonder where he got that
history, commerce, English and
pound than the average price paid
ONDON game buyers have been
idea about the “ exclusively bneolie
Journalism.' ’
oa May 1, 1913. In the New Eng
existence ” f
I warned that many of the part
land States farmers of New Harrfv
But it is a matter for doubt If
There “ a in ’t no sieh thing” ia
ridges and pheasants shipped
the young man who prepares him-
shire
seem
to
have
received
on
an
the Northwest.
there from China are killed in wood
•elf for the calling of city man
average 33 ’ents or 1 eent more a
and field by poisoned bait.
Farmers out here, Mr MacLevy,
ager will find hit reward for many
pound, while ia Conneetieut they
American egg buyers are hereby
are never exclusively bneolie.
yuan in A n . Sen.
were paid 30 eente or 8 cents lees a
Many of them have automobiles
warned that thousands of Chinese
True, the spirit of change teems
pound; in Vermont 29 eents and
They visit their friends. They see
eggs are being shipped to this coun
•e be in the air.
Rhode Island 32 cent« or 6 cents
try and these antique, germ laden, '
pI*Z* ln d motion pictures ia tbe
T»t looked at commercially i t in
leas a pound, and in Massachusetts
yellow perils are likely to be sold as
cuy. They are regular visitors te
M ««ate or I cents less a pound,
the real American artida
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