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THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1935. PAGE THREE NEW CORN-HOG FEATURES FARM CO OPERATIVE DIVISION A MESSAGE ••••••********• • NO MEN CAN ACT WITH EE- ♦ ♦ FECT WHO DO NOT ACT IN • ♦ CONCERT; NO MEN CAN ACT ♦ • IN CONCERT WHO DO NOT ♦ ♦ ACT WITH CONFIDENCE; NO ♦ ♦ MEN CAN ACT WITH CON- ♦ ♦ FIDENCE WHO ARE NOT ♦ ♦ BOUND TOGETHER WITH • ♦ COMMON OPINIONS, COMMON ♦ ♦ AFFECTIONS, AND COMMON ♦ ♦ INTERESTS —BURKE. (Eng- ♦ ♦ lish Author) ♦ TO EVERY MEMBER. There are five stores in San Diego County. One in Carlsbad is among the best in the state. Composed of laboring class whites and Mexicans it does a weekly business of $700 and is the largest store in town. A co-operative in San Diego with 400 members does a weekly business of $750, and is now sponsoring the es tablishment of several other stores. WANT ADS FOR SALE OR TRADE—2 H. P. single phase General Electric mo tor. Will trade for 1 H. P. motor. Inquire at Herald Office. 7-tfp ANNUAL PROJECT FARM BUREAU THOR ELECTRIC WASHING DISCUSSED WITH AAA MEN. A preliminary outline of what the new corn-bog adjustment contracts are likely to contain has been re- ceived from Washington by the O.S. C. extension service. Latest news tells of the result of a conference ot producers and state agricultural specialists held in Washington this month where provisions were dis last year bought and killed almost 1,000,000 dairy cows. All the gain ot that slaughter has been lost. "Butter production is down 35,- 000,000 pounds. Oleo production is up 100,000,000 pounds. The price of butter is off two cents a pound from last year. Oleomargarine has been manufac tured for 60 years. Up to 1935 it bad stolen only 200,000,000 pounds of the butter market. In 1935 it will steal another 200,000,000 pounds—• the record of 60 years equaled in one year. "While farmers, particularly dairy farmers, are snarling at each other over the fences that mark the boun dary between this organization or that or this individual and that or ganization. the basic factors that make our price structure are being destroyed or molded to the benefit of others by distributors, manufac turers and politicians.” Mr. Sexauer urged dairy farmers to unite to fight the oleo battle, concluding, “maybe If we could tackle this one together, others might not seem so difficult.” MA- chine; Monarch electric range; circulator heater. Mrs. Ruby Mc- 12-3tp cussed. Millan, Hermiston. The Umatilla Project Farm Bur Recommendations from that con eau will hold its annual meeting, MANURE SPREADER. FANNING ference include approval of a two- Saturday, November 30, at 8:00 p.m. Mill for sale cheap; or trade for year voluntary contract instead of in the Hermiston Union church. hogs or fat yearling. Sam Carson, another for a single year, and one Reports will be heard from project Hermiston. 13-3tc which will permit Increase in hog leaders and officers will be elected production this next year up to the WANT TO TRADE GOOD SADDLE full amount of the producer's base. Oakland Has Biggest Co-op. for the ensuing year. In the San Joaquin Valley a group horse for good cow. M. T. Ma- A motion picture machine has That would mean a permitted 30 Is forming In Bakersfield, one is been purchased and It will be tried tott, Hermiston. 13-ltp per cent increase, though such an ••************• functioning in Fresno and two in out at this meeting. Visitors are al ALFALFA HAY FOR SALE—ABOUT amount is not expected by those fa Madera. One of the latter was es ways welcome. 1 140 tons. Inquire at Eugene miliar with the situation, who say tablished in 1928 and did a business CONSUMERS’ CO-OPERATIVES C. M. JACKSON, Secretary. Ranch, Westland. 13-3tp that the drouth-enforced liquidation of 860,000 last year. DEVELOPING IN CALIFORNIA of breeding stock makes it impossi Three small stores in the city of ble for any major hog producing NOTICE! How consumers' co-operatives are San Francisco, one in San Raphael, state to attain this maximum next up Planting Space Affects Moisture. one in Palo Alto and one In Oakland Cream trucks will not pick developing in California today, part- t BOARDMAN NEWS 1 year. ly as a result of the agitation for Up- are believed to be the only ones in cream on Thanksgiving Day. Each THE DALLES—A difference in By RACHEL J. BARLOW Recommended corn adjustment is ton Sinclair’s Epic plan and the fail the Bay region. The last named co route will be one day late, begin- about the same as at present, the planting distance of as little as five Mr. and Mrs. L. V. Root and Ver ure to accomplish this plan through operative is the largest in the state. nlng Friday, Nov. 29. The Thurs- non were called to Seattle Tuesday proposed being to allow benefits on feet apparently has considerable in political means,. is told by Clark It has over 1500 members and does day pick-up will be made on Friday by the death of Mr. Root's brother. an optional adjustment of from 10 fluence on the amount of soli mois Kerr in a report made to the Emer a business of more than $4000.00 a (Stanfield); the Friday pick-up will Mrs. J. E. Barlow was in charge of to 30 per cent, with each signer com ture available to fruit trees, says be made on Saturday (Boardman); the post office during Mrs. Root’s gency Relief Administration of that week. pelled to plant at least 25 per cent County Agent W. Wray Lawrence. Most of these co-operatives buy the Saturday pick-up will be made absence. state. According to Mr. Kerr’s re- of his base. The plan includes keep Soil samples were taken this sum Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Pettys spent port, which is dated June 14„ 1935, and sell only food, although others on Sunday (Columbia). Only one several days here last week at the ing the adjustment payments at 35c mer in 17 sweet cherry orchards, 4 approximately 100 consumers’ coop handle automobile accessories, cloth trip on each route will be late. Macomber home. a bushel for the estimated yield on peach orchards, 5 apricot orchards, erative groups are known to be op ing, laundry, cleaning and pressing, Trucks will continue as before, be Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Surface and the acres retired. 2 prune orchards and 1 apple or erating stores in California at the hardware, lumber, wood, gasoline and ginning on Monday, December 2nd. children and Mrs. Earl Cramer of chard. In most of the bearing cher The plan for making hog pay During the Christmas week the Spokane visited a short time Wed precent time. These groups have a oil, chicken feed, etc. Several are nesday at the Frank Cramer home. ments will be entirely changed if ry orchards, with trees set 30 feet membership of about 10,000 family producing vegetables, canning or trucks will again run on this same They were on their way to Dufur, the new recommendations are adop apart, the wilting point was reached cutting wood. Halt a dozen issue schedule, missing Wednesday, Or., where heads and single persons. Many oth the former will visit Mrs. ted. A flat adjustment payment of about Angust 1, while in bearing or er groups are in various stages of or regular news sheets, and most issue (Christmas day), running' one day Surface’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C.M. $2.50 for each hog produced up to chards with trees set 40 feet apart news letters to members. The cen late during the balance of Christmas Brown. Mrs. Cramer plans to visit ganization. her sister Mrs. Harry Van Arsdale half of the signer’s base is the propo the wilting point was not reached The average co-operative store ap tral wholesalers and a dozen or more week. sal. While no benefit payments until after October 1. In the better at Redmond. individual stores are labeling their Respectfully, M. G. Hedwall, Mgr. pears to have been in existence for Mrs. Smith Hollinger is in Long would be made on anything above cared for of the latter orchards, the produce with their own brands. Most (Nov. 21—28) about six months; has about 100 ac view, Wn., with her son Louis who 50 per cent, the grower could pro wilting point was not reached this frequently labeled by the co-opera tive members who purchase an av is recovering from a painful injury season. tives are coffee, candy, canned goods Notice to Customers. received when a large sliver ran duce and sell any amount up to his erage of $2.50 worth of commodities 100 per cent. and jam. Six or eight have develop jnto his eye. He was working in a apiece each week; sells groceries, Custom grinding will be done for sawmill at the time. The group unanimously approved ed lists of "co-operating” profession vegetables and often meats; and is customers at the Farm Bureau Co- al men and merchants, and request Mr. and Mrs. Guy Haise motored using the appraisal method of estab A. W. CHRISTOPHERSON Increasing its membership and sales operative on any day except Monday to Wasco Friday to visit their son. lishing corn-hog bases, so that equi their members to deal with them. steadily. About two-thirds of these Physician and Surgeon and Saturday, Henry Sommerer, Myron Haise. They have been guests table bases may be assigned to pro Would Change the System. during the past week at the Sturm co-operatives are following Roch ducers regardless of past participa A very large proportion of the manager, announced. home. — Bank Building — dale principles or similar plans; one- members in nearly all the groups Truman Messenger of Condon was tion in a contract. Community com third are operating on a cost-plus have been members of Epic clubs, Credit Union Service. mitteemen would be given more pow Office Honrs — 9-12 and 2-5 a Boardman visitor Friday. basis, i.e., selling at cost plus hand Utopian cells or other liberal orga Mrs. Bryce Dillabough spent sev er under this plan to make assign The Hermiston Oregon Credit ling charges. ments within the limits of the coun nizations, and buy co-operatively as Union office will be open every Fri eral days in Portland last week. L. A. Has Most Co-ops. Mrs. I. L. Stout and Geo. Beards ty quota. much for the purpose of, reforming day between 2:00 and 4:00 o’clock W. J. WARNER Los Angeles County is the chief the present economic system peace P. M. The office will be found In the ley were Hermiston visitors Satur The proposed plan is designed to day. •enter of development. Nearly three- fully through the extension of the Grange Co-operative building. hold corn production in bounds and Attorney-at-Law Rev. and Mrs. H. B. Thomas, Mrs. fourths of the groups in the State co-operative method, as for the sav J. M. Allen and Mrs. Eva Warner increase hog production as rapidly are located there. One store in ings which may be made. Members of Boardman and Rev. W. O. Miller as possible without letting it go to Hermiston - Oregon THE COOPERATIVE WAY. Glendale with 300 members is doing are chiefly from the lower middle of Umatilla motored to La Grande former ruinous extremes deemed det Thursday to attend a field day meet rimental to both producers and con a weekly business of 1500 and has class and the skilled laboring class, I am a confirmed optimist regard ing of the Presbyterian church. They been organized three months. Ano it appears from brief observation. remained in La Grande over night sumers. -- - - —e = ther store in North Hollywood has Perhaps one-fourth of them are now ing the future of cooperation in this because DR. A. E. MARBLE of the dense tog and icy country. There has never been any almost 500 members and a weekly unemployed. Four or five groups roads in the mountains. COWS LOSE JOBS AS OLEO CHIROPRACTOR business of $1000. In Van Nuys the are partly Mexican, the others are question in my mind as to the ulti •Harry Thorpe and son Isaac mo SALES DOUBLE DURING 1935 Office: Two doors west post office co-operative store has 275 members entirely of white Americans. A num mate place that soundly operated co- tored to Portland last week on busi who purchase $500 worth of commo ber of the leaders have been connect operatives will have in the farm bus ness. Oleomargarine sales in the United Office Hours: $ to 1$ - 1:30 to 6 Mr. Kinball, Federal Land Bank States increased 100 per cent, or dities each week. This latter group ed with co-operatives In England, iness world and the effect they will Phone 481------- Hermiston, Ore. 101,000,000 pounds during the first have upon the farmers’ welfare. agent, was in town Friday. has organized branches in Sunland. Denmark and elsewhere. six months of 1935, and 1,000,000 Miss Imogene Wilson, Miss Vir Upon the foundations now being laid Roscoe and Westwood. ginia Compton and Teddy Wilson cows lost their jobs, reports Fred H. A second chain of stores is affilia THE IMPORTANCE OF CONSUMER for the building and further develop accompanied Dallas Wilson of En Sexauer, president of the dairymen’s Hermiston Post No. 37 ment of the cooperative movement, ted with the “American Unit.” The terprise to Portland last week to at League Cooperative Association, Inc. Meets first and third ECONOMICS. there will be noticeable progress and tend the boxing tournament in which "Farmers lost the market of 101,- seven or eight affiliated stores are . Legion Auxil- Dave Johnston of Boardman, boxing worthy achievements along definite 000,000 pounds of butter when oleo under contract to buy from the cen (A new subject, "The Principles of meets second and for the Multnomah Athletic club of sales were doubled, ” said Mr. Sax- tral group which exacts a heavy ser Consumer Economics.” has been ad trends in the next few years. These Portland, won the heavyweight ch auer. "Cows lost their jobs when fourth Thursday. vice charge. This central organiza ded to the curriculum of Lake View trends appear to me somewhat as ampionship in the Diamond Belt the market for their product was Legion Hall. follows: Tournament. In the spring Johnston lost. Neither the cows nor the farm tion appears to be “racketeering” on Evening School, Chicago, this fall. 1. Member-ownership and mem will compete in Chicago tourna- ers are yet aware of their loss, but the contemporary interest in consu Mr. Dean is the teacher, and the au mente. the farmers will know when they be mers’ co-operation. thor of the following is a student). ber-control will be much more evi W. L. Morgan, D. M. D. Charles Dillon and son Warren gin to receive milk checks that are dent in the future than at present. Another central wholesale in Los Consumer Economics is the scien motored to Portland last Tuesday small because of low butter and milk General Dentistry 2. It follows there will be pro Angeles is buying for thirty or forty tific study of that phase of econo The cows won't know it taking a load of turkeys to market. prices. X-Ray and Diagnosis member stores and is based on Roch mics dealing with the ultimate end gressively less government finance, Mrs. Howard Bates spent several even after cheap butter makes cheap cows and they are sent to the but Bank Bldg. Phene S-J influence, and participation in the days in La Grande last week and dale principles. It has a large ware of production, which is consumption. Residence Phone 25-J Mrs. C. Wilson, formerly of cher. house which serves as a stock room What then is consumption? Con organization and actual operation of visited "Since January 1st, 200,000,000 Boardman, who is seriously ill. Sunday and Evenings by and as headquarters for a newly sumption is the use of any goods or cooperatives. pounds ot butter substitute have The carnival given in the gymna Appointment formed gasoline and oil co-operative. services produced or made available 3. Increasingly more emphasis sium Saturday evening by the bas been produced. That is double the The wholesale does a business of sev for the satisfaction of human needs will be placed upon better trained ketball boys was a huge success. A amount produced last year during eral hundred dollars a week but does It is not only the eating of food or men and upon sound business man large crowd attended and patronized the corresponding period. "Two million cows and their own not buy in sufficient volume as yet the burning of coal that we can see agement for the successful opera the many concessions. This was the first of such type of entertainment ers working together for six months to obtain substantial savings for its disappear before our eyes, but It is tion of cooperatives. given here and was greatly enjoyed. could just about produce that much members. The wholesale was estab the weaving of clothes, the use of OSTEOPATHIC 4. Ways will be found to return Mrs. Olive Atteberry left Friday 'spread for bread’. Last year butter lished in the spring of 1935 by a drugs and medicine, going to school, more beneficial interests to members for Marshfield, Or., where she will substitutes had 11 per cent of the PHYSICIAN & SURGEON convention of consumers’ co-opera getting our hair cut. using the tele and definite lines of demarcation visit her son and family. She plans ‘spread for bread’ market. This year OSBORN APARTMENTS tive leaders, which formed a central phone, or anything that requires the will be much more evident between to be with her daughter In Califor it has 21 per cent. “The United States government federation with weekly meetings. In performance of a service or the de members and non-members than at nia for Christmas. close co-operation with this federa livery of a commodity. From the present. tions is the Southern California Co cradle to the grave we are consumers 5. Much closer relations will be operative Council, composed of lead in every single second we live. A Classified Directory of developed between business coopera Are we all producers? We may or ing local citizens, which is recog tives and general farm organizations nized as a district league by the Co- may not be producers, for like the with a view to solidifying farm rep Reliable Business and Pro operative League of the U. S. A. This bees, we have queens, workers and resentation in constructive programs fessional People This News Council publishes frequent bulletins, drones, but all of us are consumers. for the advancement of agriculture, distributes literature for the nation Even if we are producers, we pro 6. There will be more complete paper Recommends to You— al league, reviews the constitutions duce on an average only about one- and by-laws of individual groups in third of our working life, or eight recognition of and understanding process of formation, and attempts to out of the twenty-four hours of the ot the respective functions to be per keep the movement free from exploi day. not counting time off for Sun formed by producer cooperatives and LOCALLY OWNED JAMES R. FERGUSON days and holidays. Our working life by so-called consumer cooperatives. BEST SERVICE AND BODY tation. NATIONALLY KNOWN This will result in a corresponding is only about half of our average Start Small. "Shoes for the Entire Family” DEPT. IN EASTERN OREGON “Smiling Associated Servies" Most of the Los Angeles groups span of life, therefore we can see understanding of the conflict of ob started as buying clubs. In the case that we should be quite a bit more, jectives which is now apparent be Buster Brown Shoe Store A Good Place to Buy East Court & Mill Phone 197J of one store recently visited, the "consumer-minded” than "producer- | tween these two types of associa 725 Main Street Pendleton Used Cars and Trucks. tions. members pooled their money to buy minded.” ten pounds of sugar each, which was Many of us are not producers but1 7. Essential adjustments concern distributed to them at the meeting are dependent upon a relative, ing production and distribution of OREGON CAFE SERVICE SALES of the following week. Last week friend, agency, or government bu farm products will center more MEALS AT ALL HOURS J f FLNNIY COMPANY, Iocorportea its business amounted to $125 and reau for our consumer needs. As largely In cooperative efforts of farm Steaks - Chop Suey - Noodles Bring your friends here and show instead of meeting once a week in a students of consumer economics, we people. Pendleton, Oregon. DENNIS MOTOR CO. them what you consider the member’s home to buy groceries, it will find out that our effort to ob 8. There will be a marked ad best cafe in the city. SHOP & SAVE PHONE 526 PENDLETON now has its own building which is tain an income as producers Is to a vance in the development of rural Phons 605 632 Main Street open for purchasing for three hours large extent a struggle to command home services which will tend to each day. Goods on its shelves are goods and services. When In spend raise the standards of rural living. BANISH PILES FOREVER worth $150. Savings during the first ing that income, money is not spent THE H & H SHOP 9. Far-reaching economic and so Pendleton Iron Works twelve weeks amounted to 10 per Intelligently if It fails to provide a cial community activities will be sti Guaranteed or Your Money Back General Repair * Foundry Work MINNIE M. HENDERSON, Prop. Latest Scientific Proven Method eent. of the total purchases. just return in consumer goods for mulated by the growth and progrese Electric and Acetylene Welding In Orange County present devel labor expended in acquiring that in of cooperation. Hemstitching - Baby Articles Hydrogen Irrigation Pumps Dr. R. B. Brundage MEETING NOVEMBER 30. Dr. A. C. Willcutt WHO is WHO m PENDLETON PENNEY'S opment is limited to semi-autono mous consumer sections of ths self help cooperatives, of which about ten or twelve have established con- sumera' cooperative departments. An American Co-operative Union in come. hence the net result is as though teas money had been received in the first place. We all know what we would do if onr pay envelope wan short a few dollars. We would do something about it. But that is ex Santa Ana. organized with much actly what happens when we do not So let us do publicity, fallad recently because of spend Intelligently poor management after two months something about It. activity. J. W. Bauler, Chicago. HL 10. Cooperative councils and un ions of closely related lines of coop eration will continue to join hands with other types of farm organiza tions tn working for constructive legislation essential for the welfare of agriculture. Bond Bldg.-Roost 14 Phone 148 ChMdran's Wearing Apparel 740 Main St. - - Phone 601 Hawkinson Tread BREER 1935 Service 505 East Court St. Phone 170 Cyril J. Kruger, Manager NEW MILES FOR OLD! Why retire your tires while they are still young? East Alta Street BONDED - - INSURED Portland • Pendleton Motor Freight, Inc. Personal Service Pendleton Hermiston Phone 369 Phone 852
