6 THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946 THE EAGLE, VERNONIA, ORE.
Money Ain't
The Only Thing
RONA MORRIS WORKMAN
ROCKING W RANCH
Recently I heard a “city guy”
make the remark that “it’s just
a waste of time and money to
raise your own garden stuff.”
That idea wasn't original with
him; I have 4ieard it before, and
even read something along that
line in an article in Reader’s Di
gest, but this time it set me
athinkin’. It b possible that if
you have to hire your ground
worked up, buy fertdizer, and
then hire a man to cultivate your
garden crops, it is less expensive
to trot to the' nearest market for
your lettuce and onions, or what-
have-you. I cannot speak with
authority as to this since I must
admit that even when I lived in
town and hired the preliminary
work done, I did not figure th?
cost too closely. I knew I would
have my garden regardless, for
to me the assets of a garden,
like so many other things in life,
cannot be figured on merely a
mcney basis.
Of course a garden takes work,
but swinging a hoe doesn’t strain
the muscles more than swinging
a golf club. It may be less glam
orous, but, in my case at least,
is more satisfactory. In my gar
den I have something to show for
my efforts besides three or four
lost balls, a sense of futile fury,
and a card that I don’t care to
exhibit in public. Furthermore,
you can’t lie about a garden as
you can! about your golf game,
which helps keep the conscience
clean.
It may be easier—if you have
plenty of money, for which most
of us have to work—to buy your
“garden truck” in a grocery store
—if they have it—but it is much
more delightful to plant seeds,
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watch them grow, then go into
your garden and pul! a head of
lettuce, collect a few fresh green
onions, a bunch of red radishes,
crisp and cool, a tiny squash, to be
sliced and dipped in egg and
bread crumbs and fried to tempt
ing crispness, or test the grains
on the sweet com until you find
the ears that are exactly right,
and certainly gathering ripe black
boysen-berries from your own
vines is far more fun than car
rying them home in a little wood
en box from the grocery store
—about five to the box and thir
ty cents, please. O well, every
man to his own way of thinking.
There are such a number of
things that people would never
do if they figured every thing
according to money value. I have
read that it costs folks in the ave
rage income clae= about sixteen
thousand dollars to rear a child
to eighteen years. That would
figure out for the Big Boss and
me a total of approximately Six
ty-four thousand dollars.
Fig
ured merely on the basis of mon
ey, w>e have sunk that cash into
something which will not pay us
even one per cent interest, fir our
four are1 now busily accumulating
a number of sixteen-thousar.d-dol-
lar liabilities of their own, but
figured in the terms of love and
experience, of happiness and
laughter and spiritual growth, we
could have bought no other bonds
paying so high a rate of interest.
It has also been explained to
me by those who profess to un
derstand the deep and blood-curd
ling secrets of finance, how it is
much cheaper io rent the house
you live in than to own your own
home. If you rent, they say,
your landlord has to pay for re
pairs, dig deep into his jeans
for taxes and all the other money
takers, and you are free. Free
for what? What will your so-
called freedom give you that will
equal the feel of your own bit
of earth under your feet? Will it
give you the privilege of planting
your own roses in your own soil,
of sitting by your own hearth
stone, or making that house into
a home where your children and
you can learn the security of own
ership, or sinking the roots of
your lives deep into the place
where you are living? No. To
make a home, a real home, ‘•here
must be the feeling of ownership.
You cannot build that intangible
something into your dwelling
place if you carry always within
your mind the thought that you
may be ejected in favor of some
one who will pay a higher rental,
or that you will be moving soon
to a more convenient place, or one
with a less cantankerous landlord.
Better to pay taxes-—you can al
ways growl about them, to make
your own repairs—those the land
lord make never suit you anyway,
and as for the other things that
take money, well, you would spend
it on something and perhaps on
trifles that would give you far
less pleasure, besides, you are
paying the landlord’s taxes and
repair bills when you pay your
rent. A landlord doesn't rent
his house for love of humanity.
Money is something we need
in the present condition of things,
but, in spite of its having been
made into a god before which peo
ple grovel, it cannot buy the real
things of life, and at the present
time it, doesn’t seem able to buy
much of anything. Some of these
days we, as a people, are going to
see that our great Money-god
has very wobbly clay feet and
then maybe we will work out an
other system. To keep money on
the throne and to make money
to placate him, we must always
create a scarcity. In a land so
rich as ours, if we keep prices
up, as we have to do in order to
make money, food must be wasted
or destroyed, valuable products
hidden away and not utilized,
there must be bad distribution,
hunger and need, and thus people
sell their birthright of plenty’ and
security for a few dirty dollar
bills, and then wonder why they
have so little.
But who am I to meddle with
such deep questions? I am only
a woman who works in her gar
den, and sometimes dares think
a little.
Wiring Tips Helpful for
Anticipated Extra Loads
(Note: The following article is
presented by the West Oregon
Electric Cooperative and The
Eagle as a public service to con
sumers who are anticipating elec
tric service or who are contem
plating changes in their present
wiring systems.)
“Many of you are adding new
appliances these days and are go
ing to be buying more as electrical
equipment comes on the market.
This is a good time. to check up
on whether or not your present
wiring job will handle safely
and effipiently the extra load of
all the equipment you are plan
ning to add. You may need larger
size wire, different circuit ar
rangements or additional conven
ience outlets. It may be possible
that mai.n service entrance to your
farm, is too small for your future
loads.
Your wiring contractor
or your co-op wiring adviser can
help you on these points.
“Here are some things to notice
in laying out a revised home wir
ing system: Provide for a three-
way switch by every doorway, en
abling one to turn on the celling
light as ho enters the room and
to turn it off as be leaves by
another doorway; provide for
heavy-duty outlets (240 volts) in
the kitchen for the range and in
the workroom for a water heater;
provide a three-way switch on the
back porch to control the porch
light and the yard light so that
both can be turned, on and off
for maximum safety and conven
ience; provide for sufficient con
venience outlets in each room
for lefficient use of electricity.
(It is estimated that 95 per cent
of the electrified homes in the
United States lack sufficient con
venience outlets.)
“The barn and other farm build
ings should be wired so as to aid
tin production of livestock and
other farm products. Adequate
light is essential because of the
large amount of time spent in the
barn during the early morning
and late evenings. Place lights
over dark stairways, hay mow
ladders and alleyways to prevent
accidents..
Install vapor-proof
fixtures in dusty feed rooms and
haymows to prevent dust explo-
sons.
“All outlets erving loads of %
hp or more should be wired for
240 volts. If one large motor—
such as a 5 hp—-is to operate such
machines as, your feed frinder,
hay drier, ensilage cutter, or
other heavy equipment, it is best
to use a heavy-duty (portable)
power cable and move the motor
from one location to another on
a cart. This eliminates the expense
of several large power-outlet in
stallations and makes the use of
power equipment more flexible.
“The water pump should be sup
plied with electricity from the
yard pole, so that in case of fire
anywhere on the farmstead, pow-
er would be continuously available
to operate the pump. It might be
necessary to disconnect power to
the house or bam in the event of
fire.
.
“These are just a few tips on
farmstead wiring. Your co-op has
information on wiring and will
be glad to advise you if you need
help.”
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