THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1937
FARM CO-OPERATIVE DIVISION
A
Ladies Postpone Meeting.
:AGE FIVE
THE HERMISTON HERALD, HERMISTON, OREGON.
MESSAGE
TO
E^ERY MEMBER.
CO-OP PURCHASES BY
MILLION FARMERS
The Farm Bureau Ladies Auxilia-
ry has postponed its meeting sche
duled for Friday, January 15th, un
Co-operative purchases of farm
til February 5th. The same com
mittee will serve at this meeting as groups in the 1935-36 marketing
year amounted to 1309,000,000. The
announced previously.
scope of this co-operatively managed
MORROW POMONA
distributive business may be well
visualized by noting that it almost
duplicated the grand total of all re
PROFITABLE MEET
tail sales in Oregon in the calendar
year 1935. The Census Bureau
Morrow County Pomona Grange placed the year’s total of Oregon re
met Saturday, January 2nd, with tail trade at *335,000,000.
Greenfield grange at Boardman in
In a survey conducted by Farm
all day session. A brief business ses
Credit Administration, reports were
sion in the morning was followed by
received from 2,112 farmers’ pur
a chicken dinner. Following dinner
chasing co-ops, created for the pur
the meeting was turned over to the
pose of buying goods, commodities
worthy lecturer for the following
and supplies for their members. To
program :
tal of their buying was *214,000,-
Song, “America,” by the audience; 000. In addition, *68,000,000 of
talk, “New Year’s Resolutions,” purchases for members was reported
Worthy Lecturer, Vida Hellker; talk by co-ops whose chief activity is
"Weed Control,” Claud Hanscom, that of marketing products of the
master Umatilla Pomona; play, farms. The volume of this consu
"Socks and Social Engagements,” mer co-op business was the highest
Mrs. Lindsay and Helen Lindsay; on record and was almost 25 per
poem, “New Year’s Musings,” by the cent above that of the preceding
author, Mrs. Ella Shell; talk, “Aims marketing year.
and Accomplishments of Eastern
Approximately 1,000,000 farmers in
Oregon Wheat League,” Harvey Mil
45 cf the 48 states belong to coopera
ler; accordion solo, C. W. Kruse;
tively owned and managed purchas
reading, “Mein Herman,” Naomi
ing associations. The number of
Black; talk, “Ready,” Mrs. Minnie
these reporting rose in 12 months
McFarland, master Morrow Pomon? : from 1,906 to 2,112. From New
closing song. “Silent Night,” by the York state 150 such associations re
audience.
ported purchases totaling $42,000,-
Talks during the day were many 000, giving that state the lead In
and interesting. Mr. Hanscom, mas volume. Minnesota topped New
ter of Umatilla Pomona and mem York in number of these consumer
ber of the state grange agricultural co-ops with 211—114,000 members
committee, spoke on the grange pro —but was second in volume of busi
gram for the coming year, covering ness, purchases totaling *20,020,000.
co-operative buying and selling, In Massachusetts and Missouri the
weed control and rodent control.
associations handled *16,400,000 of
Harvey Miller of the Eastern Ore purchases. Wisconsin, Illinois, In
gon Wheat league outlined the his diana, California and Iowa ranked
tory of the league and the influence next in order. Co-op purchases in
it now has throughout the state. The California amounted to *13,460,000.
league has secured the elimination The summarized report did not give
of the tax on grain bags, premiums figures for Oregon or Washington.
on protein wheat, establishment of
Oil and gasoline are most common
experiment stations, and a crop con ly distributed co-operatively. Fifty-
trol program. They are interested five per cent of reporting associa
in the problem of taxation and the tions handle oil and gas; 42 per cent
lowering of freight rates.
feedstuffs; 30 per cent obtain seeds;
Pomona Master Minnie McFar 25 per cent, fertilizer: 12 per cent
land's talk covered the various coal. No data were provided on the
things which are used to broadcast extent of general merchandising.
sound effects, such as broom corn ■ The survey, as indicated, covered
used for fire and grape seeds for only farm groups.
r in machine.
State Deputy Chas, Wicklander | ANNUAL LAUNDRY
spoke of the accomplishments of the
grange. That the grange was in fa CANNERY MEETING
vor of rural credits, rural electrifi-
The annual meeting of the mem-
cation, water transportation, lower
freight rites, reorganization of fed- ers of the Hermiston Co-operative
e-al departments and a program for Laundry & Cannery will be held at
peace. Mr. Wicklander spoke or the the ‘ihrary Saturday, January 16th,
youth movement baronet sponsored $37, at 2:00 o’clock In the after-
h ■ the state grange for which 1171 noon, for the purpose of electing
pl tes wore seld. and the praises , three directors.
given it by 4-H club and F. F. A. I
MRS. CATHERINE SOMMERER.
members and speakers who attend-
Secretary-Treasurer.
ed. We must keep up an interest in
youth work as they will be the ones CERTIFICATES OF
who will tike o-r places in the per
haps not too distant future. Mr. EQUITY BEING PAID
Wicklander also told of the national
grange going on record on soil con
On and after December 15, 1936,
servation and crop insurance for certificates of equity Nos. 84 to
farm crops against drouth and other 94, inclusive, issue of 1926, will be
things ruinous to crops.
paid at the office of the Farm Bu
Master Minnie McFarland and reau Co-operative of Hermiston.
Paul Smith, overseer of Greenfield
Certificates must be presented at
grange, spoke on rural electrifica time of payment, properly endorsed.
tion with power from Bonneville
HENRY M. SOMMERER,
dam.
Secretary.
The annual reports of the Pomona
officers were read and the commit
ADDRESS
tees for 1937 were appointed by the
By J. P. Warbasse
master.
Morrow County Pomona accepted President, The Cooperative League
the invitation to go to Pendleton.
of the U. S. A.
February 4th, to put on the fifth
Shortly after the World War., Sir
degree and install officers for Uma
tilla county. Greenfield grange will Aukland Geddes, British Ambassa
dor to the United States, said to an
put on the tableaux.
In the Pomona contest, Dorothy American audience:
"In Europe we know that an age
Brady placed first with 90 points
is dying.
Here in America it
and Ida Brace second with eighty
would be easy to miss the signs
eight points.
of the coming change, but I have
The committee on resolutions re
little doubt that it will come.”
ported favorably for gas tax for
As was the case before the fall of
mail routes and school bus roads.
It was voted to suspend the coun the Roman Empire, before the Fren
cil meetings for an indefinite period. ch Revolution, and before every his
Wm. Kik of Umatilla was elected toric collapse of an economic system,
to fill out the unexpired term of those who thought they were advan
taged by the existing conditions
gatekeeper.
Following the supper Greenfield | not only wished for the continua
grange conferred the fifth degree ¡ tion of these conditions, but refused
to believe that they were coming to
on eight candidates.
A vote of appreciation was given | an end. So It Is today. Those very
Greenfield grange for their hospital- elements in our society, whose acti
Ity. They were also complimented vities are responsible for the disin
on the new two-story addition to tegration of a business system, re-
their hall, which is 20 x 50 feet, fuse to recognize the signs of decay.
Collapse Private Profit Business.
containing dining room and kitchen
The failure of 10.000 banks in
on the first floor and a hall for
small meetings on the second floor sixteen years, the literal Insolvency
Rhea Creek grange will be hosts of a business fabric, the growing
for the next meeting which will be demoralization of the people due to
unemployment and a substandard of
April 3rd. the first Saturday.
The evening closed with dancing living, the artificial prosperity of
prosperity
which was enjoyed by all.—Heppner living, the artificial
brought by mortaging the futura,
Gazette-Times.
and the evidence of a prostrate
country moving with inevitable cer
tainty toward its next prostration
are circumstances which prompt
thoughtful citizens to think in terms
of remedial and constructive poli
cies, even in the presence of a tem
porary artificial amelioration.
You who are assembled here at
this Congress of The Cooperative
League in the Interest of efficiency
in business have done more than
cogitate upon remedial measures.
You represent those who not only
have thought, but who have then
added action to their thinking. You
are laying your hands to the task of
building security.
The cooperative method of busi
ness, which you delegates represent
is wholly constructive. In contrast
with the hostilities of profit busi
ness which lead to the destruction
of other businesses and to the wars
which destroy civilization itself, the
friendly methods of cooperative so
cieties indicate that an economic
system can be based upon the very
virtues which give humanity Its
strength.
Cooperative Stability.
Consumers’ Cooperative business
is the most stable business in the
world. When we examine the coun
tries in which cooperation is most
highly developed, there we find
business most secure. With profit
business collapsing on every side, it
is noteworthy that in such countries
as Sweden and Finland, with great
cooperative movements, no failure
of a cooperative business has occur
red during these past six fateful
years.
More than 30,000 new workers
were taken on in the British coop
erative movement from 1929 to
1933. Today the employees number
over 300,000, twice as many as at
the beginning of the World War.
This is the picture throughout the
world. This is cooperation’s answer
to unemployment.
In our own country, where our
cooperative statistics are regrettably
inadequate, we still have abundant
evidence of cooperative superiority.
Among the 1500 societies in member
ship in The Cooperative League, the
failures, during the past six years,
have been inconsiderable when com
pared numerically and proportion
ately with the failures in competing
profit business. There are no instan
ces of our cooperative consumer’s
wholesales failing; but there are
striking instances of the failure of
competing private profit wholesales;
and in some cases the cooperative
wholesales have bought the build
ings of their insolvent competitors
and have gone on with the expan
sion of cooperative business.
In the United States, with the ex
ception of the Postal Savings Banks,
the 5,000 cooperative banks are the
safest credit businesses in the coun
try. Their smallness is not essential
to their safety, for as they grow
larger their soundness is not lost.
It is the same with cooperative in
surance, now the most efficient,
the most equitable, and the cheap
est insurance in the world.
When we examine the multitude
of other cooperative businesses, we
find similar excellence of service,
security, and economy. This is true
in distribution and in production, in
medical service and in recreation, as
well as in the public utilities such
as electric supply.
DRESSED TURKEYS
WANTED
We will receive dressed turkeys
at Union Pacific depot
HERMISTON, OREGON
Friday, Jan. 15th
Saturday, Jan. 16th
Swift & Company
A. A. DISQUE, Grader
• •• •••• ••*•••• ♦
of W. J. Warner, my attorney, in
Hermiston, Oregon, verified as the
law directs, within six months from
the date hereof.
Dated this 24th day of December,
1936.
L. W. DIXSON,
Executor.
(Dec. 24—Jan. 21)
LAND SALE NOTICE.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
the undersigned, Sheriff of Umatil
la County, Oregon, by virtue of an
order duly made and entered here
in by the County Court of Umatil
la County. Oregon, on the 18th day
of November, 1936, will, on the 23
day of January, 1937, at the hour
of ten o’clock in the forenoon, sell
to the highest bidder for cash in
hand, at the front door of the Uma
tilla County Court House, Pendle
ton, Oregon, subject to a minimum
price of *50.00 therefor, to be paid
in cash, at the time of sale, the fol
lowing described parcel of land,
heretofore by Umatilla County, Ore
gon, acquired for delinquent taxes,
towit:
W* of NW% of NW% of SB%
Section 10, Township 4, N. R. 28,
EWM., Umatilla County, Oregon.
R. E. GOAD, Sheriff.
J. A. Carney, Deputy Sheriff.
(Dec. 24—Jan. 21)
300,000 POSITIONS - SOCIAL SE-
curity Act creating thousands of
•
STANFIELD
•
❖
By Sophronia Rhea
• openings for bookkeepers, account
ants, clerks, etc., for government,
Mrs. M. Refvem, Mrs. Jas. Lane, state and industrial positions. Spec
Mrs. Frank Sloan and Miss Elva Ber ial training now available. Write
20-tfc
ry attended Eastern Star in Hermle, Box 38, Hermiston Herald.
ton Tuesday evening.
The Monday Bridge club was held
No. 9281.
Reserve Did. No. 12
Get Your Lumber, Cement
at the home of Mrs. F. B. Stuart this
REPORT OF CONDITION OF
week.
and Nails at
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
The Rebekah's held their regular of Hermiston, in the State of Oregon, at the close
Wholesale Prices
meeting Monday night at the lodge of business December 31, 1936.
by Ordering from
hall. Installation of officers was [Published in response to call made by Comptrol-
J. C. HOSKINS, Stanfield, Ore.
lei
of
the
Currency,
under
Section
5211,
held.
U. S. Revised Statutes]
Phone 28F4
Mr. and Mrs. Carl W. Rhea were
RESOURCES
Hermiston visitors Sunday.
Loans and discounts
$115,989.59
Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Heyden, Overdrafts ..........
None
Phil Quinby and Mary Rhea were United States Gov. securities owned.......... 30,500.00
bonds, stocks, securities, etc......................... 4,923.23
dinner guests at the Jas. F. Lane Other
Banking house. ............................................ 8,000.00
At Prices you can Pay!
home Sunday.
Real estate owned other than banking
SEE
house.................................................. 3,240.00
Mrs. F. A. Baker was called to
with Federal Reserve Bank ... 17,885.24
RADIO
LOUIE
Spokane Monday by the death of her Reserve
Cash and due from banks..............
247,826.68
sister, Miss Katherine McKaskey, Other Assets................................................. 548.27
who died at her home in Spokane
Total ............
$427,912.96
Monday morning of heart trouble.
Watch & Clock Repairing
LIABILITIES
Mrs. Sloan Spencer and small son
Spectacle Frames $2.50
came home Tuesday from the Her Demand deposits.......................................... 216,461.14
Time Deposits ................................
105.218.21
miston General hospital.
A. W. BEHRMAN
Public funds of States, counties, etc.
48,827.45
Five new boys arrived Tuesday to Due to banks including cashier’s checks
WATCHMAKER
outstanding ..................................... 4,156.63
be enrolled in the CCC camp in
HERMISTON
OREGON
Secured
by
pledge
of
loans
Stanfield.
and—or investment ... $13,797.94
Tom and Bob Refvem, Rex and
Not secured by pledge of
Max Richardson and Bob Rhea were
loans and—or investment 360,860.49
on the sick list last week.
Total Deposits $874,658.48
Mrs. Ila Wallace and Sophronia Capital stock paid in................................... 25,000.00
Common Stock, 250 shares,
—Expert Radio Service—
Rhea were dinner guests at the G.
par $100.00 per share
E. Greathouse home Monday even Surplus
.................................................. 10.000.00
TWO DOORS EAST OF
Undivided profits---- net
17,754.58
ing.
LEGION HALL - EAST MAIN
500.00
The Stanfield basketball teams Reserves for contingencies...............
met the Ione teams on their home
Total
$427,912.96
floor Saturday night. The girls U. S. Government.Obligations
$15,000.00
V. R. “Bob” RUNNION
were victorious with a score of 24 Pledged against State, county,
municipal deposits*
15,000.00
AUCTIONEER
to 16, and the boys were defeated. State and
of Oregon
1
FARM SALES AND LIVE STOCK
County of Umatilla I
*
A SPECIALTY
I, A. H. Norton, cashier of the above named
bank, do solemnly swear that the above statement
Make Dates at My Expense
is true to the best of my knowledge and belief.
Heppner. Oregon
Phone 452
RADIANT HEATERS
Radio Louie
WANT AOS
ALFALFA HAY FOR SALE- MRS.
Gretchen Purdy.
21-2tp
FOR SALE OR TRADE— A GQOD
cow, fresh February 1st; Can use
hay rack, spring tooth harrow. C. W.
Ruping, Stanfield, close to depot.
ROOMS 50c AND APARTMENT TO
let. Phone 15-J, Carter Apts. 21-2tc
A. H. NORTON, Cashier.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 8th day
of January, 1937.
W. J. Warner, Notary Public for Oregon.
My commission expires November 19, 1940.
Correct—Attest:
W. L. HAMM
F. B. SWAYZE.
R. ALEXANDER
Directors
FARMERS AUTOMOBILE
Inter-INSURANCE Exchange
C. A. JACKMAN, Local Agent
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
DR A E MARBLE
IN THE COUNTY COURT OF THE
FOR RENT—FURNISHED HOUSE-
STATE OF OREGON FOR UMA
keeping apartments. Mrs. Joe
TILLA COUNTY.
Dyer, Phone 78-R.
21-ltc
In the Matter of the Estate of An
FOR SALE OR TRADE - A GOOD
cow, fresh February 1st; can use na B. Willard, Deceased.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that
hay rake, spring tooth harrow. C.
W. Ruping, Stanfield, close to depot. the undersigned has been appointed
21-3tp Executor of the Last will and Tes
tament of Anna B. Willard, De
FOR SALE OR TRADE SIX FEED- ceased, and has qualified as the law
er pigs and one buck sheep to directs. All persons having claims
trade for cow. C. A. Binder, Her against said estate are required to
Cooperation Proves Superiority.
19-ltp present the same to me at the office
This result is to be expected be miston.
cause cooperation can take root,
grow, and develop only as it proves
its superiority to the existing me
thods with which it must compete.
If the cooperative method can dem
onstrate its superiority as a way of
business, it expands; and only then.
THE FARMER'S CASH STORE
The steady growth and the penetra
SPECIALS FOR FRIDAY, SATURDAY and MONDAY!
tion of this movement into all the
corners of the world testify to its
values.
BORENE 2 lare 69c
FIG BARS 2 1b*. 25e
We have a voluble business ele
pkgs.
ment in this country, who are poor
ly informed on cooperative business
CRYSTAL WHITE
CARROTS 6 ,h" 17e
as well as on the fundamentals of
SOAP
7 bars 25e
economics, and who find fault with
cooperation. The most egregious de
BANANAS 3 lh" 23e
fect which this uniformed element
COD FISH 1 ,b 24e
lays to the cooperatives is that they
drive the existing merchant out of
MJB COFFEE ,b 23e
WEINERS 1 ,b 18e
business. Let us examine the facts.
SHAW'S
large Churn Type Jar
In the United States we run along
CATSUP ruby
104
with some 20,000 business failures
4‘
$1.25
Brand
a year. The total losses from these
failures are around *500.000,000
POUND CHILI BRICK
234
SUGAR
16 ibs. $1.00
each year—sometimes less, sometimes
100 lbs $5.79
more. In retail distribution, we see
that 22 per cent more fail during
SODA
1 box 5e
the second year. Nearly half of the
PEARL
4 h’ 53e
merchants who go Into business In
SALT
2* ’•* 10e
Shortening
the United States fail during the
first five years, and 85 per cent of
PEANUT BUTTER 2 lbs. 294
them have failed in the first seven
Sunny Jim
GLOVES Pair for 15e
teen years. The cooperatives did
not put them out of business; they
(Concluded next week)
Hermiston Mercantile Co-operative
All Kinds of Auto and Truck
Insurance
Hermiston -
-
Oregon
CHIROPRACTOR
Office: Two doors west post office
Office Hours: 8 to 12 - 1:30 to 4
Phone 481------- Hermiston. Ore.
Hermiston Post No. il
Meets first and third
Thursday. Legion Auxil
iary meets second and
fourth Thursday.
Legion Hall.
W. L. Morgan, D. M. D.
General Dentistry
X-Ray and Diagnosis
Bank Bldg.
Phono » I
Residence Phone 25-J
Sunday and Evenings by
Appointment
Dr. A. C. Willcutt
OSTEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
OSBORN APARTMENTS
PETERSON & PETERSON
ATTORNEYS AT LAW
U. 8. National Bank Building
Practice In State A Federal Courts
Pendleton, Ore.
DR F. B. BELT
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON
Office Hours:
Other
10:30 to 12:30 A.M. Hours by
2 to 5 P.M.
Appointment
Res. 712 — PHONE — Office 733
w. J. WARNER
Attorney-at-Law
Hermiston - Oregon