THE HERMISTON HERALD. HERMISTON. OREGON.
THURSDAY. MAY 14. 1936.
FARM CO-OPERATIVE DIVISION |
A
MESSAGE
BREEDER TURKEYS WILL
TO
EVERY MEMBER.
FARMER JOHN TAKES A LOOK.
CANNING
SCHEDULE.
May 18th to 23rd inclusive.
8:30 A.M. to 3:30 P.M.
MONDAY—Asparagus.
TUESDAY—Asparagus.
WEDNESDAY—Asparagus.
THURSDAY—No Canning.
FRIDAY—Asparagus.
SATURDAY—Asparagus.
Canning all week until Saturday
noon. Other products canned by
special arrangement.
HERMISTON CO-OP. CANNERY
WHEAT ALLOTMENT CONTRACT
FIELD INSPECTION CONCLUDED
Field men of the Umatilla County
Wheat Production Control Associa
tion are rapidly concluding the in
spection of farms for compliance
under the discontinued 1936-39
wheat allotment contract program.
In order that no farmers who are
in compliance shall be overlooked,
it is important that any operators
who signed applications for 1936-39
wheat adjustment contracts before
January 6. 1936, and who seeded
before that same date wheat for
1936 harvest, and who had not seed
ed to wheat before that date five
per cent of their 1936 base acreage,
should notify the office of the Wheat
Production Control Association at
Pendleton at once if they have not
been contacted by a field supervisor
this spring. This is very important
in preventing errors looking to the
completion of the discontinued pro
gram. _______ _____
STATE GRANGE OFFICERS AT
UMATILLA POMONA MAY 7TH.
Umatilla Pomona Grange was
held at Myrick Grange hall Thurs
day, May 7th, with Ray Gill, State
Grange Master, as the principal
speaker. The program was arranged
by Mrs. J. M. Richards of Stanfield.
Pomona Grange Lecturer. Mr. Gill
spoke on the initiative petition bills
which included the state bank bill
and state power bill.
Mrs. Chas. Seeliger and Mrs. P. A
Power presented a cake walk num
ber which won first prize for them
at the Oasis theatre on amateur
night recently. They were made up
in black face characters.
A fine representation from Her
miston and Stanfield was present at
the meeting. Among those attend
ing were Mrs. Frank Seeliger. Mr.
and Mrs. Floyd Laird, P. A. Power.
Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dunning. Bill
Kik. Mr. and Mrs. A. E McFarland
and Mrs. Seba Miller of Umatilla,
and *Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Richards.
Mrs. L. F. Wooster and A. S. Power
of Stanfield.
CREDIT
UNION FACTS
HEARD
AROUND THE WORLD.
BE POOLED MAY 20TH.
Delivery of breeder turkeys will
start at 3:00 o’clock in the morning
Wednesday, May 20th, at the ware
house of the Eastern Oregon Turkey
Growers’ association at Hermiston.
Schedules are being made up, and
will be mailed so that turkey grow
ers will receive them on Saturday,
May 16 th.
Growers having breeding stock to
sell in this pool and who have not
notified the association should noti
fy John Jendrzejewski or Assistant
County Agent Sawyer immediately
Any growers not scheduled by card
should bring their birds to the
warehouse before 8:00 o’clock in
the morning. This is extremely im
portant because all birds must be
packed and in the refrigerator car
as early as possible to prevent dam
age by flies.
Turkeys to be killed for this pool
should not have feed for 36 to 48
hours before killing, and the kill
ing should be done as late in the
evening of May 19th as possible. If
birds can be hung outside they will
cool out much better.
In bringing birds to the ware
house, growers are urged to use par
ticular care in keeping the birds
clean and free from blood stains by
using plenty of sacks between layers
in the truck or wagon. This will be
particularly important in cases
where the killing was not complet
ed until late in the evening, and
where the birds had to be picked
for delivery to the warehouse for
the three or four o’clock deliveries.
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By Mauree Sonday.
A very practical method by which
agricultural communities may help
themselves is found in the Coopera
tive Credit Union. This is a coop
erative society organized under state
or national law within a group, the
members of which join together for
the purpose of supplying themselves
with a systematic plan for saving,
even in small amounts, to take care
of their credit needs; saving to be
instituted as the principle feature of
the program.
A credit union law has existed in
Indiana since the year 1923 and a
large number of industrial and mer
cantile organizations were set up
soon after, but not until four years
ago did the agricultural communi
ties become interested in this bank
ing system in connection with their
Farm Bureau Cooperative work.
During this period of very normal
growth thirty county cooperative or
ganizations have established the cre
dit union movement and have grad
ually grown until today we have
over 23,000 members who are sav
ing or being accommodated by cre
dit from these organizations. Paid
in shares have accumulated until
late reports show the amount of
shares in 28 of these organizations
to be $103,000.00. This money has
been loaned to farmers for provident
purposes, for the purchase of seeds,
feeds, fertilizer, farm implements,
etc,, for the running of their homes,
also for emergencies that arise from
time to time.
The establishing of this movement
in the Cooperative set-up has ena
bled a good many organizations to
work on a cash basis and has assis
ted in boosting the sales on the dif
ferent essential farm commodities
handled.
Very few losses have been exper
ienced due to the fact that it is a
neighborhood group banded togeth
er interested in the welfare of their
community and the mutual benefit
derived therefrom.
In the more successful organiza
tions the rate of interest charged to
the member borrowing the money
has been reduced from the maximum
of 1 % per month on the unpaid bal
ance of the loan, which is the limit
under the Indiana law, to 6 and 7
per cent per annum, and still the or
ganization is able to pay the share
holder a dividend of from 4 to 6 per
cent each year. No other invest
ment has shown such a record in re
cent years.
The development has come along
slowly which must necessarily be
the case as there can be no success
ful cooperative effort which is not
based on a patient, sustained educa
tional process . Cooperative enter
prises have never been the product
of spontaneous combustion.
It is
the experience of the individuals
handling the work which safeguards
the organization.
The salvation of the farmer is
within his own keeping. He will
find it in increasing ability to han
dle his own finances and to care
adequately for his own credit needs.
He produces the new wealth of the
country from the soil and his inde
pendence can be assured if he will
but cooperate with his fellow farm
er, right in his own neighborhood
and particularly if he will realize
the possibilities of the rural credit
unions.
The extension of this movement
by educational campaigns having to
do with the way and manner of cre
dit union operation and by perfect
ing legislation will go further to
ward solving the financial problems
of the agriculturist than any form
of government relief that could be
devised.
The farmer for many years pre
ferred to be king of his own domain,
believing that he gave evidence of
strength by minding his own busi
ness and by expecting his neighbor
to do the same. As soon, however,
as he comes to a realization of the
fact that his business is his neigh
bor's business and that the strong
man grows stronger by helping oth
ers then the rural credit union
movement will grow and render the
service in his community that it has
the potential capacity to render:
and
he will grow with It. In every
COOPERATIVE COUNCIL WILL
other phase of human association
MEET SATURDAY. MAY 23RD
the value of cooperative effort had
long since been made definitely man
The Cooperative Council which
ifest.
was organized recently, embracing
Wealth, we should remember, con
all managers and directors of the
local cooperative organizations, will sists of things which are made
meet at the city library, Saturday. available for buman use—not only
May 23rd, at 8:00 o'clock. A11 man for the successful farmer but for
agers and members of the council the next farm owner who baa met
with conflicts end discouragement.
are urged to be present.
Some poet has referred to the first
shot fired at the Battle of Lexing
ton (April 19, 1775) as the “shot
heard round the world.’’ He meant
simply that this particular shot op
ened a new chapter in the eternal
warfare of the ages for political in
dependence.
Occasionally in human history
such a shot fired—something hap
pens which vitally affected the fu
ture history of mankind. When Hen
ry Ford, for example, completed his
first car to sell at a popular price
he not only started something which
revolutionized transportation — but
he did something altogether more
important. He made the first major
demonstration of the profound dis
covery that consumption is the vital
element in economic life; that a
smaller profit on larger sales makes
for the best interests of both pro
ducer and consumer.
And so Raiffeisen fired a shot
round the world when he evolved
his type of cooperative credit socie
ty. He was not the pioneer; others
had experimented before him but it
was his work; motivated by a pas
sion to serve his people, which evol
ved the type of cooperative credit
which works today in counties as
far apart from each other as the
United States and Japan—as India
and Nova Scotia.
How did that happen? Why is It
a fact that as Horace Plunkett, the
great Irish cooperator, has noted
“The credit union idea is a discov
ery as important for the financial
order of the world as steam was for
the industrial order.”
It is relatively simple.
The credit side of banking never
reached the masses of the people in
any country. Credit—in the banking
sense—has always been a privilege
of the relatively few. And yet since
time immemorial the rank and file
of the people have needed the use of
money credit.
Everything is done that human
ingenuity can devise to get people
into debt; once in debt—the aver
age of us have only the high rate
money lender as a source of credit.
Usury has existed since long before
Christ drove the money changers
out of the temple; it is the altoge
ther normal result of a need for
credit coupled with a denial of
credit facilities. The rate of inter
est charge by a usurer is fixed by
two circumstances—the need of the
borrower and the greed of the lend
er. This is because money is the
easiest thing in the world to mono
polize. If my neighbor needs money
and can get it only from me—I have
a complete monopoly of money so
far as he is concerned and I fix the
rate.
Getting people into debt and then
denying them normal credit resour
ces is about as sensible as feeding
them pretzels—without any beer!
And usury cannot be cured by
scolding or prosecuting the usurer;
he waits quietly until the usury in
vestigation is over and then goes
back to his business. The only way
to eliminate usury is by taking the
business away from the usurer.
The credit union should be in the
banking field what the Ford car was
when there was only one car scaled
in price to mass consumption; ft is
mass banking and not In competi
tion with other forms of banking be
cause it banks for the masses who
have always done their credit bank
ing with high rate money lenders.
And there is another reason why
our particular shot has been heard
round the world. The credit union
responds affirmatively to a common
human urge. It is a cooperative or
ganization: it is a non-profit orga
nization: it stresses every good in
stinct in human nature. It reaches
out to average men and women—to
you and to me — and it appeals to
what is highest and best In us. It
was said authoritatively in a certain
Book compiled many years ago and
still a "best seller” that God crea
ted man “little lower than the an
gels.” We are better men and better
women than we ever give ourselves
credit for being.
Elsewise how do you account for
the fact that our credit unions have
come through this depression with
out failures? Why have our people
paid their loans when businesses
and banks were repudiating theirs?
Isn't there something cheerful In
the fact that a survey indicates that
credit unions have suffered no ab
normal losses from bad loans?
The credit union takes the profit
motive out and puts the service mo
tive In and finds that It’s good busi-
nena! It pays!
The brotherhood of man la not an
unattainable idea! It works! That
PAGE FIVE
RE-NOMINATE
Walter M. Pierce
to CONGRESS — At PRIMARY ELECTION — FRIDAY, MAY 15th, 1936
BECAUSE OF
1. His support of the Townsend Plan.
2. His efforts to secure the building of the dam at Umatilla Rapids.
3. His endeavors in behalf of the bill backed by the Grange for the just
distribution of the Bonneville power in the interests of the small consumers.
4. His legislation experience and devotion to his constituents and their
interests.
5. His statements in the Voters’Pamphlet. Read this!
6. His position on the Agriculture and Forestry Committees. He is the
Only Member from the Twelve Western States on these Committees.
7. His knowledge of Farming and Oregon Industries.
8. His support of our administration of which his opponent is a severe
critic.,
.
.
9. And last but not least, for it is one of the very most important, the fact
that “He knows the Ropes,” and is certain to be more useful to Eastern Ore
gon than anyone of less experience.
The magazine Plain Talk for May, 1936, gives Walter M. Pierce a record of 92.8 based on his vote
on fourteen measures which it believes essential to public welfare
They marked him wrong on
only one measure. He had the highest percentage in the Oregon delegation — Senate or House.
On March 21st of this year, a representative of the Townsend National Headquarters came to Mr.
Pierce’s office and handed him the following telegram, addressed to the Second District Congres
sional Board of O.A.R.P. in reply to an inquiry about indorsements:
“Congressman Pierce has done everything possible to support this movement
and has cooperated fully with us. We believe that your duty lies in being
(This ad paid for by Pierce for Congress Club)
fair to him,”
There are now thirty-two coun
ties in Indiana that have Credit
Unions, and the average age Is
about two years, and we find each
and every one of them are enthu
siastic about the prospects of their
Credit Union and Its financial suc-
cess, as well as the service in the
form of credit extended to their
Ours indeed is a shot heard round members.
the world!
These Credit Unions have loaned
to their farmer members more than
THE FARMER’S CREDIT UNION $175,000.00.
is our contention. And we shall al
so prove the virtue of the theory of
equality of opportunity before we
are through. It’s grand American
ism—this credit union. It’s swell re
ligion if, as I saw it once defined,
religion is “the over ruling power of
human love in the conduct of life.”
FOR SALE — PASTURE OF TAME
grasses and clover for a few
horses or cattle. A. D. Smith, 7 mi-
35-tfo
southwest.
PIANO IN STORAGE—EXCEPTION-
al bargain. Small size beautiful
piano for some one In this vicinity.
Terms given. Write Credit Dept.,
P. O. Box 75., Spokane, Wn. 35-4tp
YELLOW DENT SEED CORN FOR
sale. Also grey mare, wt. 1600.
Will have colt in about 4 weeks. F.
3 6-3tp
W Lenz, Hermiston.
By C. H. LASELLE,
Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative.
The development of Credit Unions
in agricultural communities will be
the means of the farmer obtaining
his financial independence, when he
learns to co-operate in the handling
of his finances as well as in other
co-operative organizations for the
handling of his products and the
purchase of the necessities that en-
ter into his operations.
This Credit Union movement among
farmers has only taken hold during
the past four years, and its first in
troduction in Indiana in the pro
motion of this plan within co-opera
tive groups, has proven that this de
velopment may eventually far sur
pass the growth of Credit Unions In
industrial and mercantile groups.
The agricultural movement was
first started in Indiana within or
ganized farming groups in the year
1931, when four county Credit
Unions were chartered and formed
by the Indiana Farm Bureau Coop-
erative Association within the Coun-
ty Farm Bureau organization for the
purpose of an experiment to see
whether or not farmers would take
hold of this financial plan. Within
two years these Credit Unions de
veloped a very satisfactory growth
and other counties became interested
and asked that the State Department
set up Credit Unions in their respec-
tive counties. This was done with-
out any promotion work or sales
campaign and the plan was only
started in the counties that became
interested and asked for their orga-
nization.
WANT ADS
FOR SALE — FOUR HORSES, 7
Years old, 1,300 to 1,400 lbs. E. L.
36-3tp
Smith, Lexington, Ore.
BOURBON RED TURKEY EGGS— ORDER JUNE BABY TURKS NOW.
Prices reduced. "Vlgorbllt” Chicks
C. E. Baker, Hermiston.
38-ltc
in May and June are profit makers.
Hermiston,
USED WATCHES—ELGINS AND "Vigorblit” Hatchery,
34-tfc
Oregon, Phone 661.
Waithams, $5.00 to $10.00. A. W.
Behrman, Jeweler, Hermiston, Ore.
July 1.
FOR SALE OR WILL TRADE FOR
cows, heifers or chickens—1 fil-
ley, 3 yrs.; Large type Polan China
Boar, 1 yr.; 1 Iron wheeled wagon;
2 sets harness; 2 sect, harrow; 1
hand washing machine; 1 sewing
machine; 2 bedsteads, springs; 1
mattress; 1 gal. ice cream freezer;
Oil stove with oven; Home Comfort
Range; 1 small range; 60 lbs. alfal
fa seed; 1 cot and pad; 5 weaner
pig; Ford coupe in good condition.
H. C. SHANKS, Opposite Tilden Fox
37-3tc
Farm. Hermiston.
MAN WANTED FOR RAWLEIGH
Route of 800 families. Write to-
day. Rawlelgh Dept. Ore. 8 5 SA.,
36-3tp
Oakland, Calif.
OIU AKTE:
THE HERMISTON HERALD
SYLVANUS SMITH. JR.
Attorney-At-Law
Stanfield
Oregon
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
Inter-INSURANCE Exchange
C. A. JACKMAN, Local Agent
All Kinds of Auto and Truck
Insurance
Hermiston -
-
Oregon
DR. A. E. MARBLE
CHIROPRACTOR
Office: Two doors west post office
Office Hours: 8 to 12 - 1:30 to 6
Phone 481-------- Hermiston, Ors.
Hermiston Post No. 37
Meets first and third
Thursday. Legion AUkll-
lary meets second and
fourth Thursday.
Legion
Hall.
W. L. Morgan, D. M. D
General Dentistry
X-Ray and Diagnosis
Co-operative Specials!
$1.49
FLOUR -
2
27c
CRACKERS
15c
CORNED BEEF
2
SALMON Pink
25c
CORN
3
25c
PEAS
10c
4 25c
TOILET PAPER
5c
SODA
3
25c
SARDINES
49 lb. sack
Lb. Box
Libby’s
Cans
Golden Bantam
Cans
Large Cans
1000 Sheet
Roles
High Grade Tissue
Dr. A. C. Willcutt
OSTEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN A SURGEON
OSBORN
APARTMENTS
PETERSON & PETERSON
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. S. National Bank Building
Practice In State ft Federal Courte
Pendleton, Ore.
Ron
Full Pound
Large Cans
Hermiston Mercantile Co-operative
HERMISTON, OREGON
Bank Bldg.
Phons t-J
Residence Phons 25-J
Bunday and Evenings by
Appointment
Res. 712 — PHONE — Office 733
DR. F. B. BELT
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office Hours:
Other
10:30 to 12:30 A.M.
Hours by
2 to 5 P.M
Appointment
W. J. WARNER
Attorney-at-Law
Hermiston - Oregon