THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
THURSDAY, MARCH 5, 1936
WANT ADS
FARM CO-OPERATIVE DIVISION
JA
MESSAGE
TO
EVERY
SOCIAL EFFECTS OF COOPERA ment when help was most needed.
TION IN EUROPE.
(From the Consumer’s Co-op.)
(Continued from last week.)
Promotion of Democracy.
All this points to the powerful in-
fluence of cooperation in the promo
tion of democracy. The cooperative
movement was essentially democra
tic in origin. It has proved that
democracy can be successfully ap
plied to business, a significant fact
to those who believe that apart from
industrial democracy, enduring po
litical democracy is impossible.
Solution of the Trust Problem.
To insure industrial democracy it
will be necessary for the copoera-
tive institutions to hold their own
against the large combinations of
capital whose profits go to the few
instead of to the many. That there
is a menace to the public welfare in
the concentration of wealth in the
hands of a few is keenly realized by
the people in the old countries. They
are also aware of the potency of the
cooperative movement for the doubt
ful if a joint stock corporation can
conduct its affairs with an economy
equalling that of the cooperative
societies. As compared with the
trusts, the leaders and high officials
in the movement receive smaller sa
laries, though on the other hand,
the ordinary laborers receive larger
pay.
A cooperative enterprise. there-
fore, has a greater goodwill from the
laborer than does the business of
the Joint stock corporation. His in-
terest in the business increases his
efficiency and the superior service
rendered by him constitutes an off-
set to the larger amount paid him
in wages.
Where the movement has been
long under way, cooperators will be
under no disadvantage in the ! mat-
ter of control of capital. The I Brit-
ish cooperative societies have capi-
tai in abundance. Where the : move-
ment is so well established, it is dif
ficult to see how trusts can success
fully compete with it. When it
comes to a test between combina
tions which distribute their profits
among the people, and those whose
profits are not controlled by the
people, there is little question as to
which will enjoy the popular favor,
a most important factor in deter
mining the outcome of a competi
tive struggle.
Promotion of Political Efficiency.
The educational effect of the co-
operative system is such as to give
the wage earners a keen interest in
public affairs and to cause them to
realize their own power and respon
sibility in them. It is confidently
asserted that seventy per cent of
the cooperators are on the side of
political progress. Cooperation is
becoming one of the strongest aids
to efficiency in political democracy.
The members of a great interna
tional business organization will un
derstand the folly of going to war
with one another. Among coopera
tors there is a minimum of mutual
suspicion. With them the recogni
tion of brotherhood and community
of Interest is a habit of mind. Add
to this their Increased intelligence,
larger information, broader outlook,
and Increased political efficiency,
and we must recognize that the
bonds which hold the people of the
earth together in peace will be
strengthened as the cooperative
movement advances throughout the
world.
Promotion of Brotherhood and
Religion.
The experience of the cooperative
movement indicates that the appli
cation of right ethics to business re
sults well, not only to business it-
self, but to the character of those
engaged in it and to all parts of the
social fabric.
It is natural that sound principles
of economic justice and the spirit of
brotherhood should create enthu
siasm in those who are engaged in
the movement. In the cooperative
enterprises therefore laborers are
more contented, enjoy their world
better and labor and live with more
zest.
Large numbers of capable execu-
fives are engaged in the movement
at great personal sacrifice to them-
selves of time and money. There
are men. who. although managing
a business of $30,000.000 to $50,-
000,000 a year, have never received
a salary of more than $1.500 to
$2,000.
The Part Played by the Church.
In many of the cooperative enter
prises it was found that the clergy
men have played an important part.
This was particularly true in the be-
BABY CHICKS—ORDER NOW FOR
future delivery. Custom hatching
hen and turkey eggs. “VIGORBILT”
Poultry Farm & Hatchery.
24-tfc
FOR
SALE
—
GOOD
ALFALFA
HAY.
Membership Fees Due.
2nd and 3rd cuttings, 5 miles
To the members of the Umatilla northeast from Hermiston. A. W.
Project Farm Bureau:
Purdy.
26-3tc
The yearly fee for the members of
the Umatilla Project Farm Bureau USED WATCHES — ELGINS AND
is due March 1, and if unpaid will
Waithams, priced from $5.00 to
become delinquent 30 days there $10.00. A. W. Behrman, Jeweler,
after. The amount is $1.00 and is Hermiston, Ore.
28-tfc
payable at the Farm Bureau Co-op
erative. This fee entitles the mem WILL BE IN THE MARKET FOR
ber to the benefits of trading at
Wool and Hides about March 1st.
our various cooperative organiza Will pay market prices. E. P. Dodd.
tions and the money collected is used
25-4tp
to promote and help various com Hermiston.
munity enterprises.
FOR SALE—YELLOW CORN. R. W.
Yours truly,
Bartley. Stanfield, Ore.
27-3tp
C. M. JACKSON, Sec.
MEMBER.
The sympathetic participation in
and promotion of the cooperative
movement on the part of the church
is a logical and almost necessary re
suit of the existence of a movement
of such a character, since many of
the ends for which the church is
striving are effectually accomplished
by these institutions, while these in
stitutions in their purpose and en
deavors, necessarily command the
sympathy and allegiance of every
sincere and disinterested church
man.
Westland Grange Dance.
The Westland Grange will spon-
sor a dance Saturday, March 7th, in
the grange hall at Westland, Every
body is welcome and a good time is
assured.
CROPS DISCUSSION HEARD BY
BLUE RIBBON CALF CLUB.
The Blue Ribbon Calf club held a
meeting at Lois Hutchison's home
February 29. There was a short
business meeting, at which several
contests were discussed. W. A. Saw
Notice of Annual Meeting of Her yer. assistant county agent, was able
to be present at this meeting, and
after the business meeting, he led
miston Mercantile Co-operative.
in a very interesting discussion on
"Crops to be planted for feeding dai
The annual meeting of the Her ry cattle.” Several members were
miston Mercantile Co-operative will unable to be present because of ill-
be held in the basement room of the ness.
library, Friday evening, March 13,
at 8:00 o’clock.
Calf Club Chooses Slogan.
There were not sufficient mem
The Columbia Winners Calf club
bers present at the previous meeting
for a quorum. All members are re- met at the home of Bernard Jendrze-
quested to be present as several jewski last Saturday afternoon at
matters of importance will be dis- which time a short business session
cussed, including a change in the by- was held. The slogan, “Do aud Suc
laws, and the election of two direc- ceed,” was chosen by members pres
ent. Following business session re
tors.
freshments were served.
NEW BUILDINGS RISE ON
VARIETY OF POTATOES
CO-OP SKYLINE, 1935.
TESTED FOR FLAVORS.
(Co-op. League News Service)
The dawn of 1936 shows some
thing new on America’s skyline.
In 1935, two million American
co-operators spent a million dollars
for plants and buildings. From Buf
falo to Seattle, the strong swing to
ward consumers’ co-operation has
cast the outlines of new plants and
warehouses against the murky back
ground of the depression. Six co-
operative wholesales built or bought
new plants during the year.
(Re-printed from a recent article in
“Country Home”.)
"In testing new varieties of pota
toes for flavor, the government con
ducts eating tests. A recent one,
for instance, required the sending to
Washington of samples of one varie-
ty from seventeen different states
and Canada, in each of which places
it had been tried out in test plots.
This is to gauge the effect of differ
ent soils and climate on the flavor
of this new variety. When all the
potatoes were on hand, they were
cooked, and five judges sat down at
the table and pronounced judgment
on how they stacked up in taste ap
peal with two standard varieties.
They were not told which was
which, either. The taste experts
gave the new variety a high rating.
It was Katahdin. one of the most
important varieties introduced in re
cent years and highly resistant to
mild Mosaic...........................................
. . . . Tests over a four year
period, taking Green Mountains as
a standard as 100%, gave Katahdin
99.2% and cobblers 93.0% . . .
The Farm Bureau Co-operative of
Hermiston is bringing in a car of
certified Katahdins, which will be
distributed soon.
C. C. W. Leads Off
January, in Superior, Wis., saw
the Central Co-operative Wholesale
moving into its new $100,000 build
ing which it had bought after the
privately owned wholesale concern
which built it had fallen under the
blows of the depression. Central
Co-operative Wholesale, serving 130
co-operative stores in northern Min
nesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, has
come through business slumps and
the competition of the chains trium
phantly.
February, 1935, saw the comple
tion of the $300,000 addition to the
Eastern States Farmers Exchange
co-operative feed mill in Buffalo.
The Exchange bought the Buffalo
mills in 1926. The $300,000 addi
tion is the proof of a business that
grew steadily during the depression
years to a $12,000,000 volume in
1934.
In May the Grange Co-operative
Wholesale of Seattle moved into its
new $20,000 home. During the
years of the depression it had or
ganized co-operatives in Oregon,
Washington and Idaho, and this year
celebrated its success with its new
headquarters as well as the pur
chase of a $76,000 flour mill at Da
venport, near Spokane, that a pri
vate concern had been unable to
keep going.
July in Omaha saw the completion
of the new $150,000 home for the
growing wholesale and retail busi
ness of the Nebraska Farmers Union
State Exchange. Almost at the same
time the Farmers Union Central Ex
change was completing its new $80,-
000 warehouse and oil-blending
plant in St. Paul. This co-operative
went Into the oil business in 1929.
In the six years of the depression It
grew from limited office space in
downtown St. Paul to- this plant
built by the 110.000 farmer-owners.
Business jumped from $2,000,000 in
1934 to $4,000.000 in 1935.
In August the Consumers’ Co-op
erative Association. North Kansas
City, moved into a plant built by a
private concern in 1929 at a cost of
$250,000. This was the same con
cern that turned down co-operative
business in 1929 as too small to
bother with. But the co-op grew
during the depression. In the first
six months of 1935 it did a business
of $1,100.000 compared with $900,
000 in the same period in 1934.
Volume Increases Great
A total business of $365,000,000
was transacted by consumers’ co-op
eratives in 1933. Partial statistics
reveal tremendous increases in 1935.
The co-operative buildings are be
ginning to change the shape and ap-
pearance of the national skyline.
Grange Social Success.
very successful basket social
was given at the Westland Grange
last week and those contributing
numbers on the program which was
given during the evening are list-
ed as follows:
A clever skit entitled, "On the
Road to Westland,” was given by
Walter and Ralph Isaacson, Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence Berry, Mr. and Mrs.
Gilbert Smith, Gerald Rood and Mrs.
Frank Ayers; Musical numbers by
Walter and Ralph Isaacson; Cake
walk, negro dance by Mrs. Mary
Power and Mrs. Margaret Seeliger;
Musical numbers by George and
Raymond Knapp and Harold and
Floyd Laird; A play, “In Want of a
Servant,” by Mr. and Mrs. Wayne
Mulkins, Loretta Mulkins, Esther
and Sophia Keikkala and Mrs. Mar
garet Seeliger; Gilbert Smith auc
tioned the baskets and Ed Dunning,
Al Kennings and Ralph Richards
were judges of the 25 beautiful bas-
kets.
ors Saturday.
Dell Christley is ill at his home
this week.
Mr. and Mrs. Bugle of Stanfield
and Mr. and Mrs. Charley Clark of
Hermiston visited at the John Con
rad home Sunday.
Henry Harper, who has been em
ployed at Christley’s ranch, left
this week for San Diego, Calif., to
join the Marines.
Herbert Stillings is employed at
the Pearson ranch this week.
The Grey children are ill at their
home with the measles.
L. W. Dixson, who has been ill
for some time is greatly improved.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamon and family
and Thelma Winchester of Pendle
ton. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hammer and
family. Mrs. Tom Wilson and Miss
Etna Wilson of Hermiston were vis
itors at the L. Hammer home Sun
day.
The Misses Gloria and Louise
Pelletier were Saturday visitors at
the Christley home.
Mrs. Margaret Carter, mother of
Mrs. Laura Morris, who has been ill
for some time, was taken to the Her
miston General hospital Saturday.
Mrs. J. H. Reid visited at the
Alpha Christley home Saturday af
ternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Jack of
San Francisco are visiting at the
Lathrop home. Mrs. Smith is Mrs.
Lathrop’s cousin.
Mr. and Mrs. Addleman and fam
ily and Jack Allen were Sunday din
ner guests at the John Conrad home.
Phyllis Ferris was an all night
guest at the J. H. Pearson home Fri
day.
Mrs. Blum, who has been visiting
her sister, Mrs. Laura Morris, re
turned to her home in La Grande.
Richard Rainwater was a dinner
guest at the Tom Wilson home Tues
day evening.
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IRRIGON NEWS
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By Mrs. W. C. Isom
Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Allen have
moved to the Benefiel place and will
farm it this season for Gus Hallett,
who purchased it recently.
Mrs. Don Kenney and children,
who have been in Portland for some
time, returned last Tuesday.
Miss Vonna Jones visited Miss Bil
ly Markham Tuesday.
The Irrigon high school basketball
team motored to Arlington Friday
where they played the Lexington
team, winning the game but lost to
the Condon high school team Satur
day. Wayne Caldwell was chosen
for Irrigon all star. The Irrigon
grade team has done fine work all
season and with Weston was chosen
Centennial
SilK-SIFTED ;
Family Flour
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COLUMBIA NEWS
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By MARMANE HAMMER.
Mr. and Mrs. O. Fox and daughter
Kathleen and sons Herbert and Har
old of Milton were week end guests
at the Pete Beamer and John Con
rad homes. Mrs. Fox is a sister of
John Conrad and Mr. Fox Is a broth
er of Mrs. Beamer.
Rosemary and Frances Keller of
Pendleton visited at their home in
Columbia district this week end.
Mrs. Blum of La Grande is visit
ing at the home of Mrs. Laura Mor
ris. Mrs. Blum and Mrs. Morris are
sisters.
Arilds Foster and Lois Hutchison
were Sunday dinner guests at the
home of Nellie Hooker.
Mrs. Alice Wells Is visiting in
Pendleton with her daughter.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Hughes visited
at the Loren Hughes home Sunday
in Stanfield.
Charley Wells is employed at the
A. Christley home this week.
George Pearson and Mrs. J. H.
Pearson were business visitors In
Umapine this week end.
Carl Hammer, L. Hammer and Mr.
Cook were Pendleton business visit-
ARE
YOU
ADVANTAGE
TAKING
OF
OUR
LOW
PRICES?
IF NOT, WHY NOT?
March 6th, 7th and 9th.
Macaroni or Spaghetti 4 LBS. FOR 24c
Beans - Red or White 10 LBS. 33c
3 Large Cans 24c
Sardines or Snacks
OATS Quick or Regular
Lb. Sack 35c
Lb. Sack 28c
CORN MEAL
Crackers damasi 2sx 26c 6 Lb. Box 79c
Tomatoes, Corn or Peas Large Cans
Hills Bros.
Lb.
COFFEE
21c
COFFEE Co-operative 17c LB. 3 LBS. 50c
MILK Borden's Irradiated 14 Large Cans 95c
BACON SQUARES
Lb. 23c
SLICED BACON , SWIFT'S
lb. 39c
FLOUR
HARDWHEAT • 49 lb. Sack
$1.43
Hermiston Mercantile Co-op
HERMISTON, OREGON
as favorites to play in the finals at
Walla Walla Tuesday. Both the
high school team and grades mo
tored to Walla Walla Tuesday where
the high school team will play the
Pasco team.
Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Coe of Echo
were dinner guests of Mr. and Mrs.
Jess Oliver Sunday.
The revival meetings conducted
by the Weller sisters will continue
throughout the week.
Harry Smith had the misfortune
of wrecking his car while working
with some pipe last week.
Mrs. B. P. Rand and Mrs. Geo.
Rand visited Mrs. James Warner
Sunday.
DR. A. E. MARBLE
CHIROPRACTOR
Office: Two doors west post office
Office Hours: 8 to 13 - 1:30 to I
Phone 481------- Hermiston, Ore.
............ .---------------------------.
Hermiston Post No.
37.
Meets first and third
. Legion Auxil-
meets second and
fourth Thursday.
Legion Hall.
ARE YOU MISERABLE?
W. L. Morgan, D. M. D.
Mrs. Frank Schatz of
3217 South 43rd St.,
Tacoma, Wash., said:
“I was a young girl
when I started to take
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite
Prescription. At that
time I went thru
agony at periods. I
would be in bed two
and three days each
time. I
severe headaches and was not
able to eat. After taking the ‘Favorite Pre-
scription’ I had an appetite and soon felt
so much better in every way.” Buy now I
General Dentistry
X-Ray and Diagnosis
Bank Bldg.
Phone 9-J
Residence Phone 25-J
Sunday and Evenings by
Appointment
Dr. A. C. Willcutt
Res. 712 — PHONE — Office 733
OSTEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
DR. F. B. BELT
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office Hours:
Other
10:30 to 12:30 A.M. Hours by
2 to 5 P.M.
Appointment
OSBORN APARTMENTS
W. J. WARNER
PETERSON & PETERSON
Attorney-at-Law
Hermiston - Oregon
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. S. National Bank Building
Practice in State & Federal Courts
Pendleton, Ore.
CENTENNIAL *SILK-SinED’FLOUR
Sold at
Farm Bureau Co-operative
(ENTENNIA|
V FLOUNINOPLS co he
COPY OF A
LETTER WRITTEN TO
Wool Growers’ Auxiliary.
The next regular meeting of the
Wool Growers’ Auxiliary will be
held Friday, March 6. At the last
meeting plans were made for a dance
to be held Saturday. March 7, in
Echo, with music furnished by Bran
stetter’s orchestra. The dance will
be known as the "Sheep Herder’s
Ball.”
PAGE THREE
Mr. J. R. Moon,
Centennial Flouring Mills Co.,
Spokane, Wash.
Dear Mr. Moon:
I am writing you this letter because I feel so grateful to the Centennial Mills. Of all the years
we have lived here I had never used any of your Silk-Sifted flour, and it is only because of one of
my neighbors who is using it, that I am a booster.
We had been using other flour and apparently getting along alright, but after seeing my
neighbor's bakings, I soon discovered that I was not getting all that I should out of my own bak-
Ings, so I had my husband bring home a sack of Silk-Sifted flour and you will be interested in
what happened.
I made my bread as usual and noticed how the sponge seemed to have so much more lite to it.
The dough was so pure white, and it filled my pans so much fuller. After working the dough and
placing it back in the pans to raise, it just seemed to pop up. But, when I took it out of the
oven I received my real surprise. The loaves were so big and full, the crust such a beautiful brown,
that my folks could not understand such an improvement.
After the bread had cooled sufficiently to slice, I noted the grain was so smooth, and the color
so white. Another thing I noticed in particular how much finer Silk-Sifted flour is as compared
to the flour I had been using, and for which I paid just as much money.
As I try to do all my baking on one day of the week, I made up cinnamon rolls, doughnuts and
cake the same morning, and imagine my surprise when my husband complimented me by telling
me that it was even better than hie mother had made. Coming from him means more than you realize.
I had always used a soft pastry flour for my cakes and sweet things, but now I use Silk-Sifted
for all my baking. Each time I bake it turns out just as satisfactorily as the first time.
Am happy to tell you that through my neighbor I discovered this fine flour, and you can count
on me to tell all my friends, for I am very proud of my baking, and am beginning to build up an
enviable reputation as a home baker. In closing, I wish to say again that I do not believe Centen-
nial Silk-Sifted flour can be equalled.
Yours very sincerely,
Mrs. M. Lang.
W 901 Shannov Ave.,
(This ad paid for in full by the
Spokane, Wash.
Centennial Flouring Mills Company)