TI .UMOW HEADLIGHT. AUGUST 19. 1920.
Close the Condensai^
(Oregon Voter)
"The condensary will be forced to
close or look for their milk supply
outside of the League membership or
engage in dairying themselves." Fo­
regoing is rhe prospect outlined by
Powers Patriot for the dairymen of
Coquille Valley, who now are almost
unanimously joined in 5 >4-year ex-
] elusive marketing contracts with
Oregon Dairymen's League member­
ship. The condensary referred to is
; the Nestles Food Co. plant Bandon,
which hitherto has provided a mar­
I
ket tor the dairymen of the Coquille
Valley.
Just what the dairymen of that
valley will gain by banding together
in an agreement that will force a con-
> densary to close is a question diffi­
cult to answer. The condensary pays
the market price for the milk it buys.
The dairymen cannot expect the full
market price from the Dairy League,
for the reason that the League can­
not market the product at more than
the market price, and from this price
it makes all its deductions from the
pay checks it sends to its dairymen.
With tile condensary out of business,
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the dairymen would be entirely at
the mercy of management or misma­
nagement of the League. With the
condensary remaining in business,
the dairymen would gain all the ben­
efits of competition for their product,
and either could sell it to the con­
densary or to any other purchaser,
according to the price offered,—pro­
vided, of course, they were not tied
up by the 5^-year contract with the
League. Tied up, they lose all the
benefits of an open competitive de­
mand ,and must settle down for five
and a half years to take what what a
co-operative body can pay them, un­
stimulated by the competition of any
other potential purchaser.
If the foregoing analysis is correct,
why did the Coquille Valley dairy­
men tie themselves up so tight?
t he reason is well set forth in the
remark made by President Alma D.
Katz of the dairy league in address­
ing the dairymen. He is quoted by
Powers Patriot: "Giving up the long
end of the bacon is need be at pre­
sent, and taking the short end, that
they in the future might get the long
end permanently and definitely.”
It was the hope of ultimately get­
ting a higher price for their product
through tying up for 5 54 years with
the League that animated the Co­
30 x 3’4 Goodyear Double-Cure
Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes cost no more than the price
quille dairymen to forego the advant­
Fabric, All-Weather Tread
you are asked to pay for tubes of less merit — why risk costly
age of an open competitive depiand
casings when such sure protection is available?
30x354 Goodyear Single-Cure
fortified by the existence of a con­
Fabric, Anti-Skid Tread________
30x3*/» size in waterproof bag
densary in their midst. Admittedly,
they forego some price advantages
at first, and experience shows that
the present sacrifice of price on the
part- of League members is a mater­
ial item. But they are willing to
n gamble, and hope for the reward in
•j j the way of a higher price in the
11 long run. They take all the risk of
' the gamble, too, for all expenses and
j mistakes of League management
must be paid out of the price the
League receives for the dairymen’s
i product. The deductions are made
monthly, as the milk is paid for.
There is no one else to pay these
costs, or take these risks, except the
dairymen themselves.
These risks Include not only the
ordinary problems of business man­
agement of a cooperative r
ing
I agency that is in competiti.,., with
the world, but also the risk of the
adventure of the League by-products
corporation into the manufacturing
business. Whatever losses are incur-!
red through this adventure into a ;
highly competitive and specialized
i field must be borne by the dairy
' league members. It may have been ]
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| what they were doing when they j
j shouldered all these risks.
Certain it is that by the iron-clad ' Higher Freight Rates Hurt in Many peaches, pears or plums.
European Appreciation of American row will not help the man needing
Nor that only. The expense of the
554-year contract they entered into,1
money.
Assistance.
Many Ways
kitchen and the table is likely to be
; they equipped the League manage-]
With the U. S. Government paying
The query what Europe now 6 per cent for money what chance
merit with all of the capital, credit, J Some special pleader, in comment­ increased. The housewife who can
i and confidence necessary to embark ' ing on the rise of $1,500,000,000 in not afford to preserve fruit, on ac­ thinks of the United States has would individuals in Oregon stand
in a big business adventure. If with 1 their rates for service, assured the count of Its increased cost and that thrust itself on many Americans dur­ to get it at 4 and 5 per cent?
the milk assured, the expense assured dear public that increased cost of of sugar, will, if she wants preserved ing the 18 months of our wrangling
Franklin T. Griffith, Pres., of Port­
and the captial assured—all at the transportation would add only a few fruit, have to buy it ready made over the treaty of peace and the lea­ land Ry. Lt. & Power Co., says the
risk of the dairymen who signed the cents annually to the running ex­ from the grocers and will have to gue of nations. Intelligent citizens measure would literally ruin the
contract the League management penses of each Amercian. A dispatch pay more for their goods then than of the United States realize that our state. It would close industries and
' cannot in the long run give a far from Wenatchee supplies caustic now, because the increased cost of moral declension since the war and throw thousands of men out of work.
, greater return to the dairymen than comment as to the validity of such fruits and berries bears down on the our plague of partizanship do not ex­
manufacturers also.—Spokesman Re­ press the real and lasting attitude of
j they could hope for in an open com- assurance.
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To Stop Abuse of Initiative
our people. But can foreigners grasp
; petitive market, it is because of the
The Wentachee article deals with view.
the underlying truth?
inherent difficulty of the whole plan. a higher rate on apple shipments, re­
Amendment Number 4 on the bal­
The Paris Figaro makes a reassur­
I That difficulty is found mainly In the entry proposed by the interstate Significance of the Early Primaries.
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ing reply in the affirmative. Discus­ lots in California at the coming elect­
problems of a co-operative body em­ com. :erce commission, and the prob­
The results of the state primaries sing what it styles the true America ion in November has been framed aa
ploying salaried managers of suffi­ able results of the heavier burden on
cient business capacity, training and the orchardists furnish a clear illus­ are accumulating to an extent that it delcares that there occur occasions | a direct blow at the Single Tax agi­
experience to enable them to compete tration of what follows when any provides interesting indication of the when a nation is superior to its pol- i tation, which lias gone on in Cali­
successfully with private enterprise shipper is compelled to pay out more national political trend. The Kansas itics. The feeling and belief of a fornia for ten years or more.
vote is especially Important. In Kan­ people are not when faithfully ex-; If this amendment is adopted any
1 that is privately controlled by the cash for freighting.
'
sas radical labor and other extremist
j business men who own it. If the
The orchardlsts there, the shippers elements concentrated their strength pressd by its politicians, rulers or future effort to effect legisation or
statesmen. The America in which I change laws pertaining to taxation
1 League can win out in the long run of fruit, protest against the freight
to prevent the renomination of Gov­ Europe had come to have so firm a ’ will require an initiative petition
I in the face of difficulty like this, its charge on apples being increased by
ernor Henry Allen, who incurred faith exists yet and continues the ] c^nta,Jn*n^ ^5 per cent of the number
1 management will deserve vast credit. 25 per cent, in some cases by 33 1-3
I of voters voting at the last previous
Private business will be looking to per cent, above the present charge. their displeasure by instituting com­ same.
The humaneness of Americans, the 6eneral election. At present only I
such an able management as a re­ They state that the special rates pro­ pulsory arbitration of labor disputes.
cruiting ground for money-maker«. posed, if put into effect, will cost the Yet Governor Allen won in the pri­ Parlsan Journalist avers, remains ! P*1 cent is re«iuired.
maries by 130,000 votes. The Kansas
The opponents of the
IL« single t«
growers of fruit betwteen $1,350,000 radicals also lost their fight against what it had been. He cites in proof
believe
that
this
will
prove
an effect­
the
numberless
charities
that
Amer-
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Morali vi. Manners in Alice Lake and $1,875,000 more for railway ser-' Senator Curtis and the republican re­ ican workers and American money ual permanent bar to further at-
vice
annually
than
they
now
pay.
An
Film
presentatives, whose sin was that
taxers to foist
increase of 25 per cent was made on­ they had voted for the Esch-Cumm­ continue to carry on in France. Last tempts of the single
upon tie
I
this
iniquitous
measure
year,
for
istance,
the
Red
Cross
ex
­
Alice Lake, who created such sens­ ly two years ago and provoked a pro­ ins railway regulation bill..
I
people
of
California.
pended
nearly
twice
th
e
sum
there
ational success this season in Metro's test that is under consideration yet
In Texas, Minnesota and even
Those opposed to the single t»1
productions of "Should A Woman by the interstate commerce commis­ North Dakota there have been simil­ that it had spent the year before. confidently expect to defeat the sin­
Figaro
believes
that
such
sustained
sion.
The
new
increase
has
already
Tell?” and “Shore Arces" is to be
ar instances of overrated radical str­
gle tax amendment again this year,
seen in a new role at the Gem Thea­ led niuny shippers at Wenatchee to ength. What happened was that the beneficence reflects the true America. also to carry amendment No. 4 on
tre on Friday and Saturday, August prepare to use Seattle-Panama-New loyal element not only stood by its
the ballot, which they anticipate wiU
27 and 28 when the new Metro spe­ York steamers, instead of the trans­ principles, but went to the polls and
Would Ruin the State
prevent any further activities on tb«
cial “The Misfit Wife” will be the 1 continental railways, to send their voted for them, something that does
single taxers in California.
fruit to eastern markets. The first not always happen. Radical hope of
feature.
In many localities throughout Ore­
Already, they say, the state h*»
effect
to
the
rise
in
railway
prices
is
"The Misfit Wife" Is a young west­
political control in any state is based gon meetings have been called for suffered from the efforts of the single
to
threuten
the
carriers
with
loss
of
ern manicurist who marries into a
on a light primary vote, which en­ discussion ameng farmers and busi­ taxers, during the past ten or more
wealthy eastern family, a family ex­ business.
ables them to use their strength as ness men, of a constitutional amend­
The result, if the rises in 1918 and an organized minority to good ad- ment. proposed by Initiative which is years, and the one supreme effort
cessively careful of Its manners, its
now is to be made to stop the
1920
be
sustained,
will
not
stop
MMRt and Its traditions. The little
vantage. The plan of capturing par­ to limit the legal rate of interest ful movement for all time to
there.
Th
e
effects
will
only
have
be
­
westerner discovers the family isn't |
ty machinery in behalf of extreme to be charged in the state of Oregon
Oregon could well follow Califor-!
quite so careful of its morals. Her ! gun to make themselves felt. They doctrines can not succeed where ev- to 4 per cent on all moneys after nia’s example In proposing a ehang«
husband's young step-mother, who touch, not Wenatchee alone, but the ry voter does his best to get to the they become due. and 5 per cent on in its laws to require a larger P«r I
has scorned her as "the misfit", has! whole of the Inland Empire, the Pac­ primaries.
what are known as contract loans, tentage of voters on initiative
been carrying on an affair with a ific northwest and the entire country.
Another noteworthy phase of the The measure will go before the vot­ tions and stop the abuse of the 1*^
man-about-town. The young wife. '1 he rulings hit not only the grow­ primaries so far is the drift shown ers at the general election to be held
atlve by continually brlngiAi ttJ
In an effort to save her, is caught in ers of grains and fruits, but the dis­ towatd republicanism. It is the re­ Tuesday, November 2.
measures such as single t«r *hic* ]
tributors
and
the
consumers.
Every
a compromising position.
publican primaries in almost every
It
is
estimated
that
70
per
cent
of
has
been voted down by IncresniM I
Alive Lake will play "The Misfit housekeeper and every family are af­ case that have drawn the biggest money loaned in Oregon comes from majorities
for ten years but »
I
Wife". It is n part said to afford her fected directly.
votes and developed the closest con­
The orcbardlst. if he Is to make tests, the general opinion seeming to outside the state and this would be can always be put on the next •*" I
unusual opportunities.
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money over the new scale of freight be that republican nomination is eq­ withdrawn over night if such a mea­ lot by a few radical theorists.
sure as this should pass.
The country has no objection to charges, must charge a higher price uivalent to election.
About th« worst thing that MJ
The wording of the proposed mea­
Mr. Harding's porch being a listen­ for his products from tree *nd vine.
sure appears to benefit the borrower been said about Governor Cox ugj*
ing post on the one condition that he The distributors must charge more
Mr. Burleson has one consolation
doee not pick up any of those voices for their services. Ths consumer —he'll have very little mall to worry by Riving him cheap interest rates now 1« that ho is Newton D. Bak**
but low rates wit horn money to bor- Meal for a PreeMaat.
In the nlr which Mr. Wilson heard.
must pay mor« for bls berries, apples. over after March 4 next.
Small Cars—and the Declining
Cost of Tire Mileage
You are aware, of course, that dur­
ing the last ten years, Goodyear has
been able steadily to increase the
amount of mileage built into its tires*
Do you realize, also, that this in­
crease has been accomplished with­
out extra cost to the user—that
Goodyear Tires are priced no higher
today than in 1910?
In no tire in the Goodyear line is
the declining cost of mileage more
evident than in the present 30x3-,
30x31/6- and 31x4-inch size Good­
year Tires made especially for small
cars.
If you own a Ford, Chevrolet, Dort,
Maxwell or other car taking these
sizes, go to your nearest Service
Station for Goodyear Tires—get the
exceptional worth and endurance
that Goodyear builds into them
Dr. E. L. Glaisver,
VETERINARIAN
County Dairy Herd Inspector
HELL PHONE, MAIN 3.
MUTUAL PHONE
CITY TRANSFER
DISTANCE! HAULING
TIRES, TUBES AND ASSESSORIES.
I-O-O-F- BUILDING
BOTH PHONES.
the motorists
of the Pacific
Coagt use
^Zerolene
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
CCALIFOAXIA )
r
Corred lubrication
grade far
each type
of engine
H. C. BOONE, Special Agent,Standard Oil Co.
BAYOCEAN SHEET METAL WORKS
TILLAMOOK, ORE.
ment here.
We Give Goodyear Service
C. F. PANKOW, Proprietor.
More than half
Juggling
prices is not our forte, as it Is with
Borne. We don't try to take advant­
age of slack production, rising mar­
kets, abnormal demand, and tempor­
ary conditions. You can always be
sure of rlgh prices and fair treat­
Goodyeai Service Station for Tillamook City is at the
STAR GARAGE
LOCAL AND! LONG
1
$23^