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.
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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
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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.
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THAT
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3. GUARANTEED IN WRITING AGAINST ROAD HA
ZARDS FOR 12 MONTHS BY U. S. RUBBER PRO
DUCTS, INC.
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