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THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1935. WANT ADS FARM CO-OPERATIVE DIVISION JA MESSAGE TO EVERY MEMBER THE FARMERS BECOME CO-OP ERATIVE CONSUMERS. PAGE THREE THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. Canning Schedule JULY 8 to J. P. Warbasse, President of 1:00 to 3:30 P. M. 8:00 to 11:00 A. M. The Cooperative League. MONDAY—No. 2 % can Beans No. 2% can Peas The farmer is naturally conserva No. 2 can Peas TUESDAY—No. 2 can Beans No. 2 12 can Beans WEDNESDAY—No. 2 12 can Beets tive. He is much alone. He thinks No. 2 12 - Chicken & Beef THURSDAY—No Canning in individualistic terms. He wants FRIDAY—No. 2 can Beans No Canning. to own a piece of land that is ex No Canning SATURDAY—No. 2 1 can Beans clusively his. His income is from Corn will be coming in soon. If you have any to can before we | the sale of his produce, the product list it on this schedule, call us and we will make arrangements to can of his labor; and he wants the best it for you. Apricots and berries can be processed at most any time, | price possible. That means the but remember we run the No. 2 can on Tuesday and Friday. All other | highest price. This leads him to days No. 2 % can. ward tariffs and the other exped Now the farmer, having gone in UMATILLA COUNTY GRANGE ients for increasing prices. That tends to put him in sympathy with to consumers’ cooperation, takes COUNCIL WILL MEET SATURDAY. with him this tradition and this profit business. The Umatilla County Grange practice—learned in the school of Council will hold a meeting tn the Farm Marketing Associations. marketing. The foremost and ablest library at Pendleton, Saturday, July Economic experience moves the of his leaders, from the standpoint 6, at 10:00 o’clock. Group meetings of Masters, Lecturers, Secretaries Intelligent farmer to unite with his of intelligence, vision, and social and H. E. C. chairman and agricul conscience, are entering the consu neighbors for joint marketing of tural chairman are to be held in the their produce. He is driven to this mers’ movement. These are the best morning. The meeting is open to all Grange by the exactions of the middleman, type of farm executives and leaders. who fix the price of the things he But with them goes something of the members. 99 --- has to sell. His marketing associa old psychology either in themselves Grange Changes Meeting Time. tions, interested in high prices, nat or in their associates. The old dif Stanfield Grange No. 657 has urally make alliance with other ferences are taken along into the changed its meeting nights to the Consumers ’ Cooperative Movement. marketing agencies with similar second and fourth Monday nights of aims. This thrown his leaders into Here they will, in time, be ironed each month, starting at 8:00 P. M. next meeting will be Monday, association with chambers of com out and harmonized. But the pro The July 10._.. merce and other marketing business. cess of adjustment must needs be These bodies, with which the far slow. It will not be difficult, be NATURAL PARASITES MAY mers* organization comes in contact, cause of the natural harmonizing CHECK ALFALFA LOOPERS. are conservative and reactionary and tendency of consumers’ cooperation. The alfalfa looper, of which there often corrupt and corrupting. Farm has been no previous serious out A Basis for Farm Unity. ers’ organization officials, acting break in Oregon for the past 20 Consumers’ cooperation is based years, apparently got a head start and thinking in profit terms, tend to covet good salaries and to oppose on mutual aid and business for ser on its parasite this spring, and has been reported as doing appreciable what is inimical to the profit sys vice. The purpose is not to get damage to crops in many parts of money but to get things and servi tem. the Willamette valley during the This is the price the farmer must ces. Societies do not compete eco past few weeks. Warnings and con measures have been issued by pay for that part of his business nomically; they cooperate. Over trol entomologists of the Oregon State which interests him in the pursuit lapping is not countenanced. Socie college experiment station. of money. It is not his fault; it is ties federate to form larger bodies The first generation of this loop for mutual protection which are er, scientifically known as the Plu- the fault of an economic system. The marketing organizations, as charged with the duty of control sia Californica. is nbw about over, however, reports Dr. Don C. Mote, business enterprises, get the farmer over regional jurisdictions. Only head of the entomology department, better prices. They are absolutely mutual help, and never hostility, is and indications are that the pests’ essential in this capitalistic society a consumers’ cooperative principle. natural parasites will keep the sec The Consumers’ Cooperative Move ond generation in check. Few co to save him from isolation and serf ment supplies the ground upon coons are now being found that do dom. Business that preys upon the not have one or more parasites in farmer likes to catch the one who which the members of all farm or them, he says. ganizations may meet upon a com The alfalfa looper belongs to the has strayed away from the group. Marketing organization is his only mon basis. People of all parties and cutworm group and looks somewhat creeds here join hands as consumers. like a measuring worm. It is about hope. It helps his income. But now the personal preferences of an inch long, generally green in col the banker comes upon the scene. Here members are respected In order to or with pale wavy white lines down The farmer, like most people. Is at make a common cause in the building the middle of the back and white the banker’s mercy. The banker rai of a united consumers' movement. lines along each side. They seem to prefer the hay ses prices for everybody, lowers the One of the most hopeful signs of fields, especially alfalfa, while it Is purchasing power of money, con progress and emancipation of the green, but after the hay is cut and classes is to be seen in the trols credit, and ultimately gets the useful adjustments of tnis most difficult there is nothing more there for them farmer’s farm. problem now in progress in the Con to feed on they move out and begin ravenous feeding on corn and All of the above activities of the sumers’ Cooperative Movement. It their is upon this mutual ground that the truck crops or any other succulent farmer, of his allies, and of his ene farmers ’ organizations are learning plants, sometimes including orna mies, are tending to increase prices. the essential lessons of unity and, mentals and fruit trees. Dr. Mote says. This touches him as a consumer. He brotherhood. When found in hay fields the Farm leaders, who want to rise had thought that money was the loopers are controlled by spreading above the motives that keep farmers great end. He had believed that if separated into contending factions, a poison brar mash around after the he could only get plenty of money are encouraging the farmers to unite hay is cut. This bait is made as for his produce all would be well. in The Cooperative League. Here, as follows: cearse wheat bran, 25 lbs.; 12 pound; white arsenic or par But even in the presence of success consumers, is the possibility of a salt is green 1 pound • syrup or brow n great united agricultural movement ful marketing organization he has in the United States. Here, as con segar 1 pint, and enough water to found his problem Is not solved. sumers, the farmers are cooperating make a crumbly mash. Another bait When wheat brought three dollars a to get. not money, but the things is made of 16 pounds coarse wheat bran: 1 pound of sodium fluoride: bushel, the banks still got his farm. they need for their own service. And 2 quarts motitses and about 2 gal- when they have learned how to sup of Wi’-t ply themselves with the things and ions The Farmer Discovers He is a Where the pests have already the services they need, they will dis moved on to garden and other crops. cover that they have solved the Dr. Mote Consumer. recommends lead arsenate great economic problem. dust, composed of 30 pounds of lead Slowly it has been driven home ------ -e =- dust and 70 pounds hydrated lime, to the farmer that he is a consumer. CO-OP GLEANINGS or one of the fluosilicates may be When the fanner discovered himself used, he says. These should not be By E. H. Dunning. as a consumer, he made the greatest used on lettuce or spinach or the edible portions of other vegetables, discovery ever made in the field of Professor Paul H. Douglas of the agriculture. This is more important University of Chicago in an address however, and Dr. Mote suggests nyrethrum or derris dust, which may than discoveries about vaccines, rust published in the Journal of Home be obtained from local dealers, for Economics says. "Another develop or blight. It revealed to him his such crops. place in the economic world. Now ment which we sorely need in this country is a growth in Consumers’ COMMONWEALTH REVIEW he is moving forward, because he is Cooperation and in Credit Unions." GIVES FAVORABLE SURVEY. organizing as a consumer. His lead ers are catching the vision of a dif Mr. J. Llukku, General Manager Despite the unfavorable situation ferent motive in industry and of a of the Cooperative Trading Compa created by the lumber strike and un- | better kind of society. But in his ny of Waukegan, Illinois, describes certainty regarding pending legisla- organization as a consumer are cer in an article in the May 4 issue of tion. business in the Portland area the Epworth Herald what the Coop tain peculiar conditions which have erative Trading Company means as during May showed remarkable sta been brought in from the past. a beacon light to lead the way to a bility according to the June issue The commercial spirit of market Cooperative Economic Democracy: of Commonwealth, Inc. Business I don’t consider the lower prices ing organizations, based on econo “ and better quality of goods our Survey. Activity in industries de mic competition, has resulted in greatest contribution. I suppose our pendent upon lumber for their source competition among farmers and greatest accomplishment has been of raw material were somewhat cur their groups. This has resulted in the establishment of an experiment tailed. Furniture factories and duplication of national farmers’ as station where the relationships be wood-working plants closed during tween producers and consumers— sociations—all attempting much the among the hardest that our civiliza part of the month. Other industrial same functions, and each with sepa tion has to solve—are being worked lines, however, seemed to be affec- | rate overhead, duplication of effort, out successfully. In the midst of so ted little. and hostility toward one another. cial economic antagonism between Retail trade showed unexpected At the heads of the farm organiza the farmers and their exploiters on strength during May after a disap tions are officials—national, state the one hand and consumers and pointing early spring and. it was on the other, the small and county, harboring these animo- profiteers experiment of our cooperative has thought, surpassed the correspond sities. been an object lesson. As a great ing 1934 month by about 10 or 15 The rank and file of farmers have American has put it. the great thing per cent. Wholesale trade, however, everything in common. They could is not so much where we stand as was reported as being slower due to in what direction we are going. be friends and good neighbors. Their There are some of us who believe the possibility of lower prices as a interests would be served by the that the world Is going in the direc result of the Supreme Court's NIRA amalgamation of their several orga tion of cooperation, that It cannot decision. Retailers bought cautious ly In anticipation of this develop nizations into one. With a united go any other and escape chaos.” farm organization in the United ment. The California Cooperative Cour Oregon's brightest spot, said Da States, the farmers would be in a ell reports that a central coopera strategic position incomparably tive buying agency, which in time vid Eccles, editor of Business Sur stronger than anything ever dreamed will become the Cooperative Whole for California has been set up of. What prevents their union? The sale In connection with the Cooperative fact that each official with his job Council. It to already nerving 30 and its power, is forced to use his cooperative atores and fifty coopera Influence to keep alive loyalty to the tive buying clubs which have been organisation. And this to at the ex- organized since the formation of th* council late in 1934. The Council’s penso of a greater loyalty—oyalt cooperative pamphlet "Action" has to the farmers, loyalty to sgrieul- had a second printing because of the great demand. ture. vey. to eastern Oregon. That sec tion to lee affected by the lumber strike and its trade is extremely ac tive. Purchases, it to said, are in large measure for cash. However. Eccles believes that th* undereur- rent of business to strongly toward recovery at this time despite labor troubles and uncertainties. PLATFORM SCALES; 2 DAVEN- ports, good condition. Hermiston New & Second Hand Store. 43-tfc UPSTAIRS APARTMENT FURN- ished with ice box. Carter Apart ments. 44-ltp FOR SALE—4-WHEEL TRAILER, licensed, two ton; fair tires. J. S. RESERVED SEATS FOR COACH White, Irrigon. 45-ltp PASSENGERS ON UNION PACIFIC. DAVENPORT; PLATFORM SCALES. A new service, never offered by saddle. Hermiston New & Second railroads before, will be provided Hand Store. 44-tfc for coach passengers on the Union Pacific Streamliner, it was an SADDLE HORSES OR WORK nounced today by W. S. Basinger, horses for sale. See Marian Hen passenger traffic manager of the derson, Hermiston. Phone 561. 40-tfc Union Pacific System. Beginning at once, coach passen gers will be assigned reserved seats when their tickets are purchased, thus insuring each a seat on jour- neys on the Streamliner between Portland and Chicago in either di rection. Heretofore only Pullman and Parlor car passengers have been assigned space, Indlvually reserved, on transcontinental trains. A meth od of quick ascertainment of avail able apace has been worked out by the Union Pacific whereby ticket agents in any section of the coun try may assign the reserved coach seats at the time the tickets are ac quired. TIRE PRICES THAT SHOUT! I PLUS FREE TUBI I Liberal Trade-In Allowances on I An I Æ™ U. S. ROYAL U. S. PEERLESS GUARANTEE 1. GUARANTEED BY QUALITY PRODUCTS. . » 2. GUARANTEED BY PERFORMANCE RECORDS. ■ 3. GUARANTEED IN WRITING AGAINST ROAD HA ZARDS FOR 12 MONTHS BY U. S. RUBBER PRO DUCTS, INC. J 4. LIFETIME GUARANTEE. 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