The Hermiston herald., February 02, 1922, Image 5

THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON.
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Ing to take the unfavorable chance.
farming and stockraising as well as
If the favorable one also Is theirs and
other citizens throughout both Mor­
they can retain for themselves a part
row and Umatilla counties, I may
J of the service charges that are uni­
help some little to Initiate some very
form, In good years and bad, with
much needed and desirable legisla­
high prices and low.
tion if I am elected to this position
While, in the main, the farmer must
in the Legislature.
t
sell, regardless of market conditions,
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J. Perry Conder.
at the time of the maturity of crops,
Pendleton
8:00 12:00 4:00
he cannot suspend production In toto.
_
Paid Adv.
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
Echo
9:15 1:15 5:15
} He must go on producing If he Is to go (Reprinted from the Heppner Qaxette-Timea
of January 26th, 1«2)
on living, and if the world Is to exist.
Stanfield
9:30 1:35 5:35
Lodge Activities
The most he can do Is to curtail pro­ Editor The Gazette-Times:
Hermiston
9:55 1:55 5:55
Thursday evening the State Grand
duction a little or alter Its form, and
Into Umatilla 10:15 2:15 6:15
Wish to commend the article np-
Chancellor, Leif S. Finseth, and the
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly)
that—because he Is In the dark as to
the probable demand for his goods— | pearing on first page of the last or State Grand Keeper of Records and
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may be only to Jump from the frying current number of your paper, Jan. Seals, W alter B. Gleason, paid an of- Umatilla
8:00 12:00 4:00
jl9
,'
1922,
in
which
you,
discussing
of their Inability to meet mortgages or pan Into the fire, taking the consumer
I
Hermiston
8:20 12:20 4:20
fiscal
visit
to
the
local
Kinghts
of
! the political situation relative to a
The whole rural world Is In a fer­ to pay current bills, and how, seeking with him.
8:45 12:45 4:46
Stanfield
Pythias
lodge.
This
was
a
very
im­
Even the dairy farmers, whose out­ candidate seeking the nomination at
ment of unrest, and there Is an un­ relief from their Ills, they are plan­
Echo
9:00 1:00 5:00
portant
event
for
the
local
lodge.
ning
to
form
pools,
Inaugurate
farm­
put
Is
not
seasonal,
complain
that
they
i the May primaries for Joint repre­
paralleled volume and intensity of de­
ers’ strikes, and demand legislation find themselves at a disadvantage In
After the meeting refreshments were Into Pendleton 10:15 2:16 6:15
termined, If not angry, protest, and an abolishing grain exchanges, private the marketing of their productions, sentative for Morrow and Umatilla
served.
TWO TRIPS SUNDAY
ominous swarming of occupational con­ cattle markets, and the like, we ought especially raw milk, because of the counties in the Oregon legislature,
Leaving Pendleton 8 a. m. and
ferences, Interest groupings, political not hastily to brand them as economic high costs of distribution, which they make use of the statem ent— which
They Appeal to Our Sympathies
4 p. m.
j no one will question—*'So far this
movements and propaganda. Such a heretics and highwaymen, and hurl at must ultimately bear.
The bilious and dyspeptic are con­ Leaving Umatilla 8 a. m. and
paper has heard no mention of any
turmoil cannot but arrest our atten­ them the charge of being seekers of
4 p. m.
one for this place from our own coun­ sta n t'su ffe re rs and appeal to our
tion. Indeed, It demands our careful special privilege. Rather, we should
Ill
Phone 868
7 22 Cottonwood
Now that the farmers are stirring, ty. Mr. Woodson has declared that sympathies. Many such, however,
study and examination. It Is not like­ ask If their trouble Is not ours, and
ly that six million aloof and ruggedly see what con he done to Improve the thinking, and uniting ns never before he feels he has done his full duty by have been completely restored to We Deliver Parcels at Way Points
Independent men have come together situation. Purely from self-interest. to eradicate these Inequalities, they his fellow citizens both here and In health by the use of Chamberlain’s
If for no higher motive, we should
FA R ES
and bunded themselves Into active help them. All of us want to get back are subjected to stern economic lec­ Umatilla by standing for this office Tablets, These tablets strengthen
P n n d ln t o n t o I c h o . 8 1 .0 0
tures,
and
are
met
with
the
accusation
the
stomach,
invigorate
the
liver
and
unions, societies, farm bureaus, and so permanently to " n o rm a lc y b u t Is It
P e n d l e t o n t o S t a n f i e l d , 8 1 .2 5
that they are demanding, and are the at two elections and serving them as
forth, for no sufficient cause.
P e n d l e t o n t o H e r m i s t o n , 8 1 .6 0
reasopable to hope for that condition recipients of, special privileges. Let a legislator, a place, by the way, that Improve the digestion. They also
cause
a
gentle
movement
of
the
bow­
P e n d l e t o n t o U m a t i l l a , S1.7 8
Investigation of the subject conclu­ unless our greatest and most basic In us see what privileges the government he has so well filled, and In which he
els.
When
you
have
any
trouble
with
sively proves that, while there is much dustry can be put on a sound and solid has conferred on the farmers. Much has set so high a mark, that It will be
overstatement of grievances and mis­ permanent foundation? The farmers has been made of Section 6 of the no easy task for another to take his your stomach, give them a trial.
Station at Hotel Oregon and
conception of remedies, the farmers are not entitled to special privileges; Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which pur­ place, so the field is now an open one.
Hotel Hermiston
but
are
they
not
right
In
demanding
ported to permit thorn to combine with
are right in complaining of wrongs
Genius Blazed in A ge
that they be placed on an equal foot­ immunity, under certain conditions. Heretofore, Umatilla county folks
long endured, and right In holding that ing with the buyers of their products
Goethe was more Ilian eighty «1»
have conceded the joint representa­
Admitting that, nominally, this ex­ tive to this county as this Is all we he wrote the second im n of
W ant Ads Bring Results
It is feasible to relieve their Ills with and with other industries?
emption was In the nature of a special
benefit to the rest of the community.
have,
and
for
our
part
we
should
be
privilege,—though I think It was so In
This being the case of an Industry
appearance rather than In fact,—we glad to see a strong man from this
II
that contributes, in the raw material
Let us, then, consider some of the find that the courts have nullified It county put fourth.”
form alone, ubout one-tldrd of the na­ farmer’s grievances, and see how far by Judicial Interpretation. Why should
Having resided for about a quarter
tional annual wealth production and they are real. In doing so, we should not the farmers be permitted to ac­ of a century, half of my life time, In
Is the means of livelihood of about 49 remember that, while there have been, complish by co-operative methods what Oregon, visited the Legislature often
per cent of the population, It Is ob and still are, Instances of purposeful other businesses are already doing by at Salem and taken part In Its pro­
co-operation in the form of Incorpora­
vious that the subject Is one of grave
E ch o , O r e g o n
cedure and otherwise been Intimate­
concern. Not only do the farmers abuse, the subject should not be ap­ tion? If it be proper for men to form,
make up one-half of the nation, bul proached with any general Imputation by fusion of existing corporations or ly associated w ith the law makers, I
the well-being of the other half de to existing distributive agencies of de­ otherwise, a corporation thnt controls have no personal ambitions of a po­
liberately intentional oppression, but the entire production of a commodity, litical nature, but I thing It my duty
pends upon them.
M ANUFACTURERS O F
So long as we have nations, a wise rather with the conception that the or a large part of It, why Is It not and so desire to announce to the re­
politcial economy will aim nt a large marketing of farm products has not proper for a group of farmers to unite publican voters of Morrow and Uma-
for the marketing of their common 11Ilia, counties th a t I will seek the
degree of national self-sufficiency and been modernized.
products, either in one or In several
self-containment. Rome fell when the
An ancient evil, and a persistent selling
agencies? Why should it be nomination at the May primaries.
food supply was too far removed from one, Is the undergrading of farm prod­
Having traveled extensively in all
right
for
a hundred thousand corporate
the belly. Like her, we shall destroy
our own agriculture and extend our ucts, with the result that what the shareholders to direct 25 or 30 or 40 .sections of the entire state of Ore­
sources of food distantly and precari­ farmers sell as of one quality Is re­ per cent of an Industry, and wrong for gon, and thus become personally ac­
ously, If we do not see to It that our sold as of a higher. That this sort of a hundred thousand co-operative quainted with manw of her citizens
farmers nre well and fairly paid for chicanery should persist on any Im­ farmers to control a no larger propor­ i and problems, having resided contin­
The Superior Product of Scientific Milling
their services. The farm gives the portant scale In these days of busi­ tion of the wheat crop, or cotton, or uously for the past thirteen years In
any
other
product?
nation men ns well as food. Cities ness integrity would seem almost In­
Morrow county where I have an eight
Makes Better Bread
The Department of Agriculture Is
derive their vitality and are forever credible, but there Is much evidence
hundred-acre
wheat
ranch,
and
have
renewed from the country, but an im that It does so persist. Even as I often spoken of ns a special concession
Try a Sack
poverlslied countryside exports intelli­ write, the newspapers announce the to the farmers, but In Its commercial wrestled with the problems common
results, It Is of ns much benefit to the to the farmer and the stockman and
gence and retains unintelligence.
Only the lower grades of mentality suspension of several firms from the buyers and consumers of agricultural having had extensive Interests and
and character will remain on, or seek, New York Produce Exchange for ex­ products ns to the producers, or even experience in the stockratsing busi­
the farm, unless agriculture is capable porting to Germany as No. 2 wheat a more. I do not suppose that anyone ness before coming to Morrow county
of being pursued with contentment and whole shipload of grossly Inferior wheal opposes the benefits that the farmers .and having met in a professional and
derive from the educational and re­ business way the men engaged tn
adequate compensation. Hence, to em mixed with oats, chaff and the like.
bitter and Impoverish the farmer is to
Another evil is that of inaccurate search work of the department, or the
dry up and contaminate the vital weighing of farm products, which. It help that it gives them In working out
sources of the nation.
Is charged, Is sometimes a matter of Improved cultural methods and prac­
The war showed convincingly how- dishonest Intention and sometimes of tices, In developing better yielding va­
rieties through breeding and selection.
dependent the nation is on the full
productivity of the farms. Despite protective policy on the part of the In Introducing new varieties from re­
local
buyer,
who
fears
that
he
may
mote parts of the world and adapting
herculean efforts, agricultural produc­
tion kept only a few weeks or months "weigh out” more than he “weighs In." them fo our climate and economic con­
A greater grievance Is that at pres­ dition, and In devising practical meas
ahead of consumption, and that only
by increasing the acreage of certain ent the field farmer has little or no ures for the elimination or control of
staple crops at the cost of reducing control over the time and conditions dangerous and destructive animal and
that of others. We ought not to for­ of marketing his products, with the plant diseases, Insect pests, and the
get that lesson when we ponder on result that he Is often underpaid for like. All these things manifestly tend
to stimulate and enlarge production,
the farmer's problems. They are truly
common problems, and there should his products and usually overcharged and their general beneficial effects are
be no attempt to deal with them as for marketing service. The differ­ obvious.
It Is complained that, whereas the
If they were purely selfish demands ence between what the farmer re­
of a clear-cut group, antagonistic to ceives and what the consumer pays law restricts Federal Reserve banks
the rest of the community. Rather often exceeds all possibility of Justi­ to three months' time for commercial
should we consider agriculture in the fication. To cite a single Illustration. paper, the farmer Is allowed six
light of broad national policy, Just Last year, according to figures attest­ months on his notes. This Is not a
as we consider oil, coal, steel, dye­ ed by the railways and the growers, special privilege, but merely such a
CHEAP GOOD BOND
stuffs, and so forth, as sinews of na­ Georgln watermelon-raisers received recognition of business conditions as
PAPER
PAPER
tional strength. Our growing popula­ on the nverage 7.5 cents for a melon, makes It possible for country bunks
to do business with country people.
tion and a higher standard of living
Labor:
Fifty
letters
a
day
the
railroads
got
12.7
cents
for
carry­
The crop fanner has only one turn­
demand Increasing food supplies, and
more wool, cotton, hides, and the rest. ing It to Baltimore and the consumer over a year, while the merchant and
per stenographer a t
With the disappearance of free or paid one dollar, leaving 79 8 cents for manufacturer have many. Incidental
$.0727
$.0707
$20
per w e e k ..........
cheap fertile land, additional acreage the service of marketing and Its risks, ly, I note that the Federal Reserve
and Increased yields can come only ns against 20.2 cents for growing and Board hns Just authorized the Fed
from costly effort. This we need not transporting. The hard annals of eral Reserve banks to discount export
Overhead : Service m ainte­
expect from an Impoverished or un farm-life are replete with such com­ paper for a period of six months, to '
happy rural population.
mentaries on the crudeness of pres­ conform to the nature of the busi­
nance of Stenogra­
It will not do to take a narrow view
ness.
The Farm Loan banks are pointed
of the rural discontent, or to appraise ent practices.
phic Dept. is 100 per
Nature prescribes that the farmer’s to as an Instance of special govern­
It from the standpoint of yesterday.
.0727
.0727
cent
of labor cost...
This Is peculiarly an age of flux and “goods” must be finished within two ment favor for fanners. Are they not
change and new deals. Because a or three months of the year, while rather the outcome of laudable efforts
thing always has been so no longer financial and storage limitations gen­ to equalize rural and urban condi­
means that It Is righteous, or always erally compel him to sell them at the tions? And about all the government
Postage: A fixed charge on
shall be so. More, perhaps, than ever same time. As a rule, other Industries does there is to help set up an ad­
cheap or fine letters
are
In
a
continuous
process
of
finish­
ministrative organization and lend a
before, there is a w-idespread feeling
that all human relations can be Im­ ing goods for the markets; they dis­ little credit at the start. Eventually
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alike .......................
proved by taking thought, and that It tribute as they produce, and they can the farmers will provide all the capi­
Is not becoming for the reasoning ani­ curtail production without too great tal and carry all the liabilities them-
mal to leave his destiny largely to Injury to themselves or the commu­ selve«. It Is true that Farm Loan
.0062
.0062
Printing: On orders of 1000
nity; but If the farmer restricts his bonds áre tax exempt; but so are
chance and natural Incidence.
Prudent and orderly adjustment of output, It Is with disastrous conse­ bonds of municipal light and traction
production and distribution In accord­ quences, both to himself and to the plants, and new housing Is to be ex­
empt from taxation, In New York, for
ance with consumption Is recognized community.
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Paper and Envelopes
The average farmer Is busy with ten years.
as wise management In every business
On the other hand, the farmer reads
but that of farming. Yet, I venture production for the major part of the
$.1760
$.1819
to say, there Is no other Industry In year, and has nothing to sell. The of plans for municipal housing proj­
Total cost
which It Is so Important to the pub­ bulk of his output comes on the mar­ ects that run Into the billions, of hun­
lic—to the city-dweller—that produc­ ket at once. Because of lack of stor­ dreds of millions annually spent on
tion should be sure, steady, and In­ age facilities and or financial support, the merchant marine; he reads that
creasing, and that distribution should the former cannot carry his goods the railways are being favored with
be In proportion to the need. The un­ through the year and dispose of them Increased rates and ylrtual guaranties
organized farmers naturally act blind­ as they are currently needed. In the of earnings by the government, with
ly and Impulsively and. In conse­ great majority of cases, farmers have the result to him of an 'ncreased toll
quence, surfeit and dearth, accompa­ to entrust storage—in warehouses and on all that he aells and all that he
nied by disconcerting prlce-varlntlons, elevators—and the financial carrying buys; He hear« of many manifests
tlons of governmental concern for par­
harass the consumer. One year pota­ of thetr products to others.
Farm products are generally mar ; ticular Industries and Interests Res­
toes rot in the fields because of excess
production, and there 1« a scarcity of keted at a time when there Is a con cuing the railways from Insolvency la
the things that have been displaced gestlon of both transportation and undoubtedly for the benefit of the
to make way for the expansion of the finance—when cars and money are country as a wh le, but what can be
potato acreage: next year the punish­ scarce. The outcome. In many In­ of more general benefit than encour­
The difference of less than a cent a letter is hardly a saving, in
ed farmers mass their fields on some stances, la that the farmers not only agement of ample production of the
sell
under
pressure,
and
therefore
at
principal
necessaries
of
life
and
their
other crop, and potatoes enter the
consideration of the world of difference in the look of the letters.
a disadvantage, but are compelled to eve« flow from contented producers to
class of luxuries; and so on.
take
further
reductions
In
net
returns,
satisfied consumers?
Agriculture Is the greatest and fun
While It may be conceded that
damentally the m«»i Important of onr in order to meet the charges for the
American Industries. The cities are service of storing, transporting, flnanc «pedal governmental aid may be nec­
but the branches of the tree of na­ Ing, and ultimate marketing—which essary In the general Interest, w e must
tional life, the roots of which go deep­ charges they claim, are often exces all agree that It Is difficult to see why
ly Into the land. We all flourish or slve, bear heavily on both consumer agriculture and the production and dis­
decline with the fanner. So, when we and producer, and are under the con tribution of farm products are not ac­
of the dtles read of the present uni trol of those performing the services corded the same opportunities that are
THE HOME OF GOOD PRINTING
versai distress of the fermera, of a It la true that they are relieved of provided for other businesses; espe­
•lump of six billion dollars in the fartr. I he risks o f -a chsaglng market by cially as the enjoyment by the farmer
value of their crops in a single year. selling at once; but they are quit« wll' of such opportunities would appear to
ba aven more contributory to the gen- ,
(Conttaei oa po«« 1)
Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
DR. CONDER IN
RACE FOR RE­
PRESENTATIVE
Pendleton and
Umatilla Stage
Echo Flour Mills
*r
High Grade Patent
B lu e S te m F lo u r
DEALERS IN GRAIN AND FEED
t
The things you must
pay for in every letter
Using a low grade bond instead of a high grade
bond paper makes the total unavoid­
able cost $.1760
THE HERMISTON HERALD