THE HXBMX8TOH HERJLLD. MKUMISTON, OREGON. YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN WHO THINK CLEARLY THE GREATEST DEMAND OFAMERICAN BUSINESS B a n k e r* A ssociation P resid en t G ives the F iv e Essential* o f Sound T h in k in g in Business— G re a te r O p p o rtu n ity T h a n E v e r B e fo re fo r Y o u n g People W it h E d u c a tio n a l T ra in in g and P o w er to A n a ly z e P roblem s. EARLY BIRD GETS RICH EGG RATION February Chicks Should Make Rapid Growth. Leghorn chicks hatched In Febru­ ary should be fed rations that make for continual rapid growth. Is the ad­ vice offered by the poultry department NLY half a century ago Michael Pupin, a shepherd boy, of the New Jersey Agricultural col­ guarded his flocks by night among the fields of Serbia. lege. Thieves often lurked in the bordering cornfields awaiting an op­ Pullets from early hatched chicks portunity to make off with a part of the cannot be expected to produce a prof­ herd. Serbian boys were taught a method itable number of eggs during the sum­ of signalling one another for warning and mer and fall. If their growth Is stunt­ in any manner. Any good baby help. Each carried a knife with a long ed ration will prove satisfactory wooden handle which he would thrust deep chick until the birds are eight or ten weeks into the ground and in case cattle thieves old. that date, the specialists approached he would strike the wooden advise After that they be placed upon a ra­ handle. The sound would be transmitted tion similar to a good laying ration, through the ground to other boys some dis­ but containing a larger amount of tance away who could hear and interpret minerals. To have the bird come Into production as soon as possible and at the message. “Why is it,” Pupin asked his mother, the same time have her continue her “that we can signal this way? Why is it the body growth is the poultryman’s aim. No matter how they are fed, Feb­ sound can be heard through the ground, but not through the air? Why is it the sig­ ruary hatched birds can always be to go through a moult In the nals can be heard in the pasture land so expected fall. They can use this period much better than in the plowed fields?” late for any Increase In weight or growth The boy’s mother could not answer his ques­ that has not been accomplished pre­ tions, nor could the village teacher. How­ viously. CRAIG a HAZLE WOOO ever, having an eager mind and great de­ One must remember that an early termination, the boy decided to go to America, where he might hatched bird is an entirely different win an education and find out the answers to these and other Individual from a late hutched bird. perplexing questions. Hundreds of other boys under the same The later hatches should have a much circumstances and with the same set slower development In order to pre­ of conditions merely accepted these Business Require* an Open Mind vent an early winter moult, but with things without once questioning them Second, among the essentials tor the early hatched stock the aim Is to Just because they had always done sound thinking I would write down an get all of the eggs possible before the them that way. open mind. We have mentioned free­ early winter moult. The Land of Education and Success ing our minds from the influence of tradition. Let us think also without So a penniless Immigrant boy from prejudice of personal feelings, de­ Feed Turkey Breeders Serbia at the age of fifteen landed in sires or consequence. Let us seek for Vigorous Poults New York in 1874 and, years later, only the truth. Mere surface reason­ Too much corn In the turkey's win­ having worked his way through Co­ ing must be discounted. Old “can'ts” lumbia University, concentrated the and “don’ts” must be thrown Into the ter ration may make the birds too fat wonder and simplicity of his mind discard. A man who ha* an open for the production of eggs of high upon the problem of sound, which mind will do a great many things be­ hatchability. Some breeders feed 3 bad puzzled him as a shepherd boy. parts of oats to 1 of corn and find cause he doesn't know they can’t be The results of his thinking—what he that the stock come through the win­ done. has accomplished for the long dis­ The third essential to sound think­ ter In condition to produce vigorous tance telephone and for radio commu­ ing Is knowledge—a. thorough, com­ poults. Equal parts of corn, wheat nication by his Inventions—are known prehensive understanding of all the and oats make a good grain ration the world over. "If during the past factors Involved in a problem. It has for turkey breeding stock. The ad twenty-two years this company had been said that most problems answer dltion of cull vegetables, and alfalfa been compelled to do without one in­ themselves when the facts have been or clover Is necessary until the turk­ vention of Michael Pupin,” an official gathered. A well known student and eys can forage in the spring. of the American Telephone and Tele­ teacher of business describes the Before the turkey hens begin to lay. graph Company once said, "and yet method of attacking a problem as tear­ It often pay* to give them a hopper give the same service it is gtvlng to­ ing it down, reassembling the prob­ of the same balanced laying mash day It would have had to»apeid at lem and drawing the conclusion. which Is used for the chickens. Where least $100,000,000 more than It has ex­ There can be nothing bnt guess work they have had nothing hut grain they pended." or intuition unless the unknown quan­ may be reluctant to eat the mash but These Inventions, in which millions tities are discovered. If It is kept before them, some of the of dollars of capital have been invest­ As a fourth essential sound think­ mash will probably be eaten and It ed, were the result of the thinking of ing requires the capacity to general­ will help to improve egg production a mere country lad who had the sim­ ize. How often we have seen men and keep up the vigor of the turkey plicity to wonder, the determination sweating and confused before a mass hens while they are laying. Keep a to know and the power to apply what of details which they were utterly un­ hopper of oyster shells before the he learned. able to classify and crystallize. We turkey hens to help In producing firm Stimulating the Imagination and have the problem of sorting out the shells on the egg* and reduce break- thinking is the greatest purpose of ed­ relevant, attaining a perspective and age In the nests. ucation. What American business reaching a conclusion that can be de­ Feeding the turkey breeding stock need* more than anything else Is fended against any attack. To cer­ on soil away from the chickens Is a young men and women to think—Indi­ tain minds this procedure oomes natu­ help In preventing blackhead and oth­ viduals who are not mentally anchored rally; to others training in the solu­ er turkey diseases. Diseases are often to tradition, who do not merely appro­ tion of complicated problems point* spread through the medium of the priate other people's idea«, but who the way out droppings which have contaminated The Time for Action are hard, purposeful thinkers, inde­ the feed. Some losses may be pre­ Fifth among the essentials of sound vented by feeding both the grain and pendent and unprejudiced, with the ability to concentrate and strike thinking 1« the power to apply. A few the mash in hoppers so that none of Individuals have minds that travel at the feed will touch soil which might straight for the heart of a problem. random or in circles. Some have be contaminated with disease. Business Need* Folk Who Think mind* that even refuse to budge. But America has astounded the world by there are still others who naturally ot Its readiness in casting aside tradi­ through training have minds that can tional viewpoints, disregarding tradi­ be directed straight through to the tional difficulties and pioneering new practical application of their thoughts. shortcut formulas in the realm of They refuse to compromise or to be business. Business is undergoing thwarted in purpose before definite It pays to rid hens of worms. epochal changes. application ot their idea* has been • • • Business problems are crowding In achieved. One water fountain Is needed to upon ns so rapidly that the executive It Is possible, I believe, for young know* not where to look for adequate people to train themselves to an In­ each 25 chicks. • • • help or relief. With the enormous In­ quisitive attitude, an open mind and A hot, stuffy brooder house Is as crease in size and Intricacy of busi­ the ability to classify and interpret ness affairs the problem* have become material step by step from the begin­ undesirable for chicks as it Is for the so complicated and the mass of infor­ ning of a problem to Its final solution attendant e • • mation necessary to their solution so and application. Hqre, then, is the Cod liver oil isn’t Just a fad. I: great that the "days are not long thought I would leave—the paramount enough.” The demand for managerial need of business Is sound thinking. helps to remedy the Inck of sunshine and executive ability is rushing ahead Some may think I have overstated the and green feed at this time of year. • • • —the opportunity for young men and case, have set too high a standard. women who have the professional They may feel that they are merely If there were losses from bacillar? training and who develop genuine cogs in a machine. That, too, I* a white diarrhea last year It I* not safe thinking power Is greater than ever. part of the problem. The only way to to use Infertile eggs for the- young All business feel« the same crying solve that is to find time and place in poultry this spring unless the eggs are need for the men who see clearly and the day’s work for thinking. go well cooked or baked that all bacilli think conclusively. Wherever we look are destroyed. • • • —manufacturing, wholesaling, retail­ SCHOOL SAVINGS BANK­ ing. banking, financing—new forces Warm water is fine for hens In cold •re at work. Vast movements are un­ weather. A safely-heated water fonn ING MOVEMENT REACHES der way and executive* are seeking tain will return several times its cost IMPRESSIVE PROPORTIONS light upon perplexing problems dally. In eggs. Let ns consider briefly the five es­ • • • Almost 14,000 of America’s schools sential* of a sound thinker. If I were If the litter gets damp In a short looking for a young man of exception­ now have school saving* banking time It means poor ventilation—ami al promise I should hope, first, to find plans In operation, and about four then there’s danger of roup. A straw In him the simplicity to wonder. Ev­ million pupils are learning systematic loft overhead will help. • • • ery great advancement In business saving* through this type of thrift, has been made by men who dared to with deposit* In excess of $20,000.000, It pays to study your flock and recent reports of the American Bank­ wonder, who had the courage to in­ make the birds like you. Doubters quire into present procedure and who ers Association's Savings Bank Divi­ nisy Isugh, but hens will lay heller had the audacity to ask whether some­ sion show. The schools Included In for a caretaker that they know well thing that had been done a certain the reports are attended by 4.609.815 and are glad to see. • • • way for a long time might not be pupils, of whom $.980,237 are partici­ wrong. Although the history of Amer­ pants In the school saving* banking It I* not considered good practice ica's progress from Its very discovery plan* as depositors. During the ye to take breeding cockerels from the to the present time has shown th i these pupils received Interest In the same brood from which you get yout value of an Inquiring mind, there Is amount of $947.(10 on their deposits. pullets. The reports gathered by the assort- s e e still an Inevitable tendency In most men to accept la a docile manner the atlon also show that there are 38 dt It Is said that If alfalfa hay la used opinion«, methods, supposed tacts, lee In the United States in which a for hens’ nests and scattered around procedure* and proceases of the past full 100 per cent of the grammar foe chicken coop« the chicken miter With due reverence to the effort, the school enrollment Is participating In will beat a hasty retreat. spirit, the accomplishments of the school saving* banking. The figure* • • s past let ns make It our rule that ev­ covering high school* show that In 47 Protein derived from animal sources cities 100 per cent of the attendanee erything be looked at with the cl such as meat products and milk. Is 01 la this class are school savers. taeotfoala* mlad «( the «dentist greater value to the hen than protein from vegetable feeds, aa■■■■■■■■■■■ o o o o o o o o o 00 m t . ffMVRBMMQÌIM THE ANNUAL ST. PATRICK’S DANCE Given by the I. O. O. F. Three Link Club HERMISTON AUDITORIUM Regular old-time and modern Jazz music. W e will please all regard­ less of age. Make Whoopee with the Whoopee Seranders Lunch Will be Served by the Rebekahs x > 0 z! > 0 < t > 0 0