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FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1922.

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FARMERS’ UNION EXPLAINS ITSELF

Executive Asserts Organization Is Working for Good of All—City and Farm

Defensive Mobilization of Farm Owners Seeking What City Already Enjoys

BY J. W. CLOVERDALE,

Secretary

American Farm

Federation

Bureau

Editor’s Note—J. W. Cloverdale is secretary of the American Farm Bureau Federation, an organization that seems to be a combination of an agricultural union and farm Board of Commerce. After one has read his article one may do some thinking on a line very different.than the one suggested by the daily Washington stories of the “Agricultural Bloc.” Mr. Cloverdale seems to know what he is talking about and there is a strong suspicion that his words are not all propaganda for the farmer, either.

Organized America looks at organizing agriculture and says a bit offendedly, “Oh, so you’re doing it too.” The two-thirds of America seems to resent the adoption by the other third of the tactics of the majority. It is interesting that in this country of Fire Fighter’s Leagues, Restaurant Employee’s Alliances, Organized Window Washers, Wall Street solidarity, Club, Federations, Engineering Brotherhoods, Political Party devotion, Steel Corporations, Janitors’ Unions, Labor Strikes, Bankers’ Associations, Women’s Rights, Manufacturer’s Blocs and Undertakers’ Agreements, the advent of organized agriculture into the struggle for self-preservation should even cause a ripple on the pond. But as quiet and conservative and as sane as the defensive mobilization of "farmers has been, a surprising amount of the world is informed—if not oh the reasons, the necessity, and

justice of dt, upon the fact that trie . , toilers of the soil are uniting. The i partisan, _ non-secret, organization greatest agricultural orgfanization, the I representing the whole farm populaFarm Bureau movement, has a million ^ pn > nien, women, and children.

sales tax—a tax which would hit hardest the consuming middle classes. The regulation of the Packers and the grain, exchanges merely takes away unfair privileges of two other classes. The entire public benefits by this leveling of power. The Farm Loan fund is no gift. It is a loan which requires interest and credit. The farmer’s peculiar business situation of long time turnovers is accommodated in order that he may continue to produce with once-a-year sales. While legislation and transportation are subjects in which the farmers are vitally interested, the real reason for organization, and the one in which the Farm Bureau is most active, is the adjustment of the farmer’s marketing system—one end of his business that he has neglected, lo these

many years!

The Farm Bureau is a voluntary cooperative association having for its object the well-being! of agriculture, economically, educationally and socially. Its purpose is to assist, in making the farm business more profitable, the farm home more comfortable and attractive, and the community a better place in which to live. It seeks to perform, in an organized way, certain essential activities which cannot be accomjilished through individual effort The county Farm Bureau is an organization of farmers and their families co-operating with the state and federal government in all of their extension activities in agriculture and

home economics.

The Bureau’s Work

It brings to the federal department of agriculture and the agricultural college the farmers’ viewpoint, and likewise serves as an agency through which the services of these great public institutions can be made readily available to the people. It serves to develop and popularize the best known practices in agriculture and home economics. The Farm Bureau is a non-

and a half farmer-members working for our common gpod in 47 states in the Union who invite the questioners to come in and scrutinize. .Perhaps that is what has caused the interest —this unusual openhouse policy.

Matters of View-point

Another interesting phenomena is the fact that each industry and class preaches v/ithin its own ranks the efficiency of organization as a positive cure for all economic and governmental ills, but firmly believes that organization in other classes is really responsible for the difficulties that be-

set the country.

Organization has met organization, clashed, clinched and compromised. —Wiiiff- thg %'rfeak came-in 192$: after capital had raised the prices on commodities and labor had raised its wages and capital had let the public pay for the same and labor had raised again, it was the unarmored farmer, really quite an innocent bystander at that time, who got a thrust in the ribs from both swords. And both capital and labor are beginning to pay for the deed. All industries are paying, or having to pay in the reactionary finnciai wave—due to the absence of purchasing power with 55 per cent of the population for the farmer’s unpreparedness. Prices would have lowered more normally had the farmer been braced for the lancing). The great American city bootblack who pays $2.00 a month to belong to a union which dictates whether or not > he shall shine shoes, when, and for v/hat price, and whose knowledge of farm jjfe has been gained from popular songs, slaps a rag across your calfskin (which brought the cattle breeder 13 certs and the shoe dealer S13) answers your question about organized agriculture with a wisdjpm born of ignorance and says enviously “Sure, the farmers are all rich—look what food is worth.” Whereupon if you happen to be a produce man you explain righteously that you only make a cent or two on a sale and that you have to have something for your, services. If a farmer is getting his ^hoes shined he sighs w T earily and says that it is the produce dealers’ associations that are responsible. Statistics are on the farmers’ side—• they show that the prices on the products lie sells are only 13 per cent higher than the 1913—before-the-war times, prices, while the food that is available to the consumer is 39 per cent or three times as higjh. The Agricultural Bloc The dry-goods storekeeper, who belongs to the retailer’s union and mercantiler’s association, etc., and runs his business according to rules laid down by the other city merchants, reads a column or two concerning the much-heralded Agricultural Bloc and wonders virtually how long the public is going/ t° stand for what he terms “class legislation”. Let it be said to his credit thrjt he does not know himself that he has been doing business under the protection of a manufacturer’s bloc—a bloc which has kept a restrictive tariff on imports, morphined the Truth-in-Fabric bill, and fostered a sentimentality over our infant industries, ever since those good old days when the storekeeper’s grandafather traded 5 cent red calico to the trappers for $50 furs. Speaking of manufacturers vs farmers, the December record of wholesale prices, as made public on Jan. 19 by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics shows that in comparison to the farmers’ 13 per cent advancement since 1913 cloth and clothing; is still 85 per cent above normal. Building material is 103 per cent higher and household furnishings are still touring the zenith at 118 pgr cent above pre war prices. Fuel and lighting cost 87 per cent more and chemicals and drugs are 01j per cent above. The farmers, who are soberly getting together to see what can be done about it, are at the bottom of the list with

13 per cent.

Against Sales Tax Agriculture has beep against the

The county Farm Bureau, the state Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation are striving to cut out waste in marketing by co-opera-tion. They are trying to bring about grain marketing through the U. S. Grain Growers, Inc., by signing up five year contracts for all their grain. They are promotingj co-operative livestock maketing through the National Livestock Producers’ Association recently established and cptton marketing through the American Cotton Growers Exchange. A farmers’ national Dairy Marketing Committee of Eleven is working out a plan for cooperative Dairy Marketing. The vegetable growers, fruit growers, and wool growers are organizing for efficient' selling, for self-protection, for the bet-

terment of civilization.

WITHOUT STREET ADDRESS YOUR MAIL IS DELAYED AT OFFICE OF DELIVERY

The Dead Letter Office has been In existence ever since Ben Franklin started our postal service. Even then people addressed mail to Mr. Ezekiel Sraithers, “Atlantic Coast,” and expected Ben to know just where Zeke lived. Perhaps they had Zeke’s address In letters up in the garret, maybe a chest full of ’em, but then it was easier to let Ben hunt Zeke. Today people are addressing letters to John Smith, New York, N. Y., or Chicago, 111., thinking Uncle Sam can locate him, which Is just as incomplete as was Zeke’s address of yore. The Postoffioe Department asks you to put the nuSTrttoer and street in the address. It helpt' you.

How do you expect the Postal Clerk to know whether you mean Trinidad, California, or Trinidad, Colorado? ALWAYS SPELL OUT THE NAME OF THE STATE IN FULL IN THE ADDRESS.

“MORE

BUSINESS IN GOVERNMENT”

This apt phrase was used in President Harding’s first message to Congress and applies particularly in postal management where postmasters are being impressed with the fact that they are managers of local branches of the biggest business in the world.

HERE COMES A STRANGER!

Let’s make our post office look neat, Mr. Postmaster. Straighten up the rural letter box, Mr. Farmer. Tidy up some, Mr. Rural Carrier. First impressions are lasting. Maybe Mr. Stranger, taking notice of these improvements, will come back, bringing you benefits. Start these with “POSTAL IMPROVEMENT WEEK” May 1-0.

HUMANIZING THE POSTAL SERVICE f

“There is no unimportant person or 1 part of our service. It is a total of human units and their co-operation is! the key to its success. In its last analysis, postal duties are accommodations performed for our neighbors and friends and should be so regarded, rather than as a hired service per-i formed for an absentee employer.”—; Postmaster General Hubert Wjork. ,

THE COME-BACK

By Dr. Frank Crane I find that the way I am treated in the day’s work depends upon the state of mind I bring into it. If I enter a circle of men whom I take to be superior to me, I am likely to be snubbed. If I impute to them the feeling that I am inferior I will not fail to be inferior. If I am self-confident, I awake confidence. If I cringe, I make others want to step on me. If I am cheerful, cheerfulness is handed me by others. If I am grouchy and snappy, they will bite me. People go at me about the way I go at them. There is a law in physics to the effect that action is equal to reaction. The ball rebounds from the wall with precisely the force with which it was thrown against the wall. And if I approach a man with politeness, I usually receive politeness. I get from this world a smile for a smile, a kick for a kick, love foe love and hate for hate. Of course there are exceptions to this rule. But. if there were no rules there would be no exceptions. And the difference between the man who knows how to play a game and wins regularly—any game, including poker, business and the game of life—and the man who steadily loses is that the wise man sticks to the rules and'the law of averages, and the fool “has a hunch” and stakes his all on the exceptions. A good definition of a fool is one who thinks that this time doesn't count. My tablets, therefore! Meet it is I set it down that I am getting what is coming to me. This is a world of law. Chance is only to be found in the dictionary. In the bright lexicon of fact there^s no such word. If I am potulant, unrestful, irritable, unsatisfied, wretched and bored— I know the crop, and might have expected the harvest when I sowed that seed of self-indulgence, lack of will, moral cowardice and general selfishness. If I am lonely, it was I ^vho drove hearts away. If I am bitter, it was I who skimped the sugar-bowl. If I am persecuted, it was I who brought it on by my cantankeibusness. The loving are beloved. The generous are helped. The considerate are considered. The bully by and by is bullied, the smasher smashed. And the end of the hog is the slaughter house. There are no victims of fate. The hero always rises above tragedy. The noble soul is nev6r more serene than when all creation thinks it has downed him.

Copyright 1922—by Dr. Frank Crane.

Roup Is Now Said To Attack Chickens

Disease Formerly Thought to be Confined to Mature Birds; Treatment Given

Reports reach the Ohio State University’s Poultry Department of cases of roup in baby chicks. Previously it was not thoug'fit that the disease attacked other than mature birds. Oscar V. Brumley of the Vetrinary College, who has been consulted, says that it is impossible for chicks to have roup. He sugests: giving triple sulpho carbolate tablets once a week as long as the trouble lasts. “Dissolve 30 grains in a quart of water and let the chicks drink it all day,” Dr. Brumley says. “Most

druggists keep these tablets.” “Also, keep the brooder house clean and spray it occasionally with a coal tar disinfectant, and keep a quantity of-fine ehitiloa uef ore lhe chicks in an open feeder. It is not necessary to mix charcoal with the mash.” Roup is said to be caught by the chicks from mature stock not passed on by heredity, thru the egg. For poultry owners with roup in their laying stock, special precautions are advised. “In some cases, it may be wise not to let the person who attends to the chicks enter the hen house, or come in contact with the mature birds.”

MOTHER DOOMS SON

London—Through Henry Smythe, a bank messenger, stole $1,500 to aid his sick mother, she urged the court to show no leniency to him. As a result of her testimony he was sent to pri-

Wally Must Win His Spurs in Musical “Gasoline Alley'

POSTAL mVEM WEEK IS OBSERVED

May 1 Sees Inaugurated First General Campaign of Kind in Service.

Without the Postal Service, business would languish in a day, and be at a standstill in a week. Pubiic opinion would die of dry rot. Sectional hatred or prejudice only would flourish, and narrow-mindedness thrive. It is, the biggest distinctive business In the world and it comes nearer to the innermost interests of a greater number of men and women than any other institution on earth. No private business, however widespread, touches so many lives so often or sharply; no church reaches into so many souls, flutters so many pulses, has so many human beings .dependent on Its ministrations. “Postal Improvement Week” has been set for May 1, by the Postmaster General. This is the first general campaign of its kind in the Postal Service for several decades. Business men and their organizations, large users of the mail, newspapers, motion pictures, advertisers, and the entire organization of 32G,000 postal workers are to be enlisted in this country-w^e campaign of interest in postal improvements. Your help is vital. Address your letters plainly with pen or typewriter. Give street address. Spell out name of State, don’t abbreviate. Put your return address in the upper left hand corner of envelope (not on the back) and always lock at your letter before dropping in the mail to see if it is properly addressed. This care In the use of the mails is for your benefit and speeds up the dispatch and delivery of mail matter. If you have any complaints of poor service make them to your postmaster. He has instructions to investigate them and report to the department.

COURTESY

TNDIANAPOLIS, IND—When Wally Reid, the famous movie performer, J. swoops down on the training camp of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before the 500-mile race Tuesday, May 30, in which he is entered he will find he has more competition than mere speed brushes over the bricks of the historic Hoosier course. Yes, Sir! In the daily entertainments he will discover that his saxophone, from which he blows jazzy, soulful notes, will be in direct rivalry with Eddie Hearne’s talking machine, the mouth organ of Eddie Pullen, the after-lunch speeches of Tom Alley and the flashy claim for attention from Roscoe Sarles’s loud-colored shirts and other noisy accessories of raiment. The movie star is well liked by the race drivers but despite his popularity he will have to go through the initiation stunts of a driver making his debut in the Speedway’s “gasoline alley.”

It sticks in human relations like postage stamps on letters. The POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT expects it to be used by its postmasters and employees in dealing with the public. Help them in its use beginning with POSTAL IMPROVEMENT WEEK, May 1-6, 1922.

THANK YOU

FRIENDS FOR ROYAL EXILES

Madrid—Friends of ex-Emperor Carl and ex-Empress Zita are raising a fund to relieve the royal exiles from their poverty at Funchal.

U. S. Bureau of Markets and Crop Estimates Washington, D. C. For the week ending April 26, 1922. Fruits and Vegetables Potato markets continued weak in the east but firm in midwestern cities and at shipping points. Arrivals heavy in east; lighter in midwest. New York and northern sacked round whites down 25-50c in eastern markets at $1.30-1.75 per 100 lbs. Carlot sales at Chicago up 5c at $1.60-1.70. Bulk stock weak in Philadelphia at $1.40-1.45. Prices steady in north cenj tral producing sections at $1.30-1.45'. j Maine shipping points 65-70c. Florida i Spaulding Rose No. 1 barrels down j 75c fob Hastings at $4.50; down $1 ; in northern markets at $5-6; lower * in Chicago at $7. , Lousiana strawberries up $1 per 24 pint crate in Chicago at $3.50-3.75; some stock $4-4.25 Pittsburg. North Carolina’s firm at 20-30c per quart in leading northern markets. Alabama Klondikes about steady at $4-4.25, 24 quart crate. Apples best grade eastern Baldwins dull but nearly steady at $7.50-8 per bbl. Northwestern ext\a fancy ! boxed winesaps dull and steady at ‘ $3-3.25. Arrivals moderate in most markets. Livestock and Meats Chicago hog prices firm to 20c higher. Beef steers generally steady to 25c higher; butcher cows and heifers firm to 20c higher. Feeder steers 15-25c higher, veal calves generally 50c higher. Fat lambs gained $1; fat ewes 50c-$l; yearlings 25-75c. April 26 Chicago prices; hogs, top $10.65; bulk of sales $10-10.65; medium and good beef steers $7.65-8; butcher cows and heifers $4.50-8.60; feeder steers $6-7.75; light and medium weight veal calves $6-8.25; fat lambs $12-14.75; yearlings $10-13; fat ewes $7-9.75. Stocker and feeder shipments from 12 important markets during the week April 21 were: cattle and calves 47,845; hogs 11,303, sheep 6,304. Hay Market generally firm because of light receipts. Notices of country shipments indicate a continued light movement and prices are firm at most markets. Quoted April 26: No. 1 timothy New York $31.50, Pittsburg $24, Cincinnati $23.50, Chicago $26. Feed Market continues quiet. Production wheat feeds light and equal to demand quiet. Corn feeds steady on light demand. Production gluten feed reported normal with demand good. Quoted April 26; bran $24, middlings $24.25, Minneapolis; gluten $32.65, white hominy $22 Chicago; 36% cottonseed meal $44 Memphis, $48.75 Cincinnati. Grain Market strong first half of week, with July wheat selling at new high on crop but heavy liquidation the last three days influenced by slow demand and falling off in buying support resulted in price declines for the week. Chicago Mey wheat down 3c closing at $1.40; Chicago May corn down 1c at 60^c. Principal market factors were strenglth in Liverpool, big export business, more favorable domestic and foreign crop news. World available wheat supplies decreased 3.710.000 bushels for the week and is 162.869.000 bushels compared with 12 ,- 403.000 bushels last year. Closing prices in Chicagjo cash market: No: 2 red winter wheat $1.41; No. 2 hard winter wheat $1.39; No. 2 mixed corn 61c; No. 2 yellow corn 61c; No. 3 white oats 32c. Average farm prices: No. 2 mixed corn in central Iowa 48c; No. 1 dark northern wheat in central North Dakota $1.44 1 / 4; No. 2 hard winter wheat in central Kansas $1.25. For the week Minneapolis May wheat up 1c closing at $1.52 1 /4 Kansas City May wheat down 3%c at $1.25 ;l /4 ; Winnipeg May wheat down l^c at $1.39. Dairy Products Butter markets steady to firm. Prices show but little change and are practically unchanged. Supplies in market clearing readily but dealers are selling freely to avoid accumulation. Closing prices 92 score: New York and Boston 39%c; Chicagjo 3Sc; Philadelphia 40c.

TITLED WHIST EXPERTS London—The Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Granard are ranked as the two best women bridge whist players.

MINISTER WED 2 WEEKS

Edinburgh—Suing for divorce, Rev. Victor F. Lindsay testified his wife left him two weeks after their marriage and refused to return. A decree was granted.

WRONG VICTIM Paris—M. Francois Coget, a railway inspector, was murdered by mistake. His slayers thought he was a messenger expected to board a train at Castres with $12,000 on him.

MORMON ELDERS BEATEN

Cardiff—Two Mormon elders who attempted to secure converts among girl factory workers here through noon sermons were beaten by the young women. v

WOMEN AS JUDGES? Paris—The Chamber of Deputies is expected to kill the bill permitting women to become judges. Intense opposition to the measure has developed.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE KING CONSTANTINE FAILS

Bucharest—Behind the arrest and detention of a number of servants in the employ of King Constantine of Greece was an attempted assassinatipn, says a private letter received from Athens. It adds that some of the food to be served to the King had been poisoned, but a loyal servant saw the act and caused the arrest of a fellow worker, who confessed the entire conspiracy.

$350,000,000 RATS

London—Lord Aberconway estimates that the food consumed or spoiled by rats in England cost about $350,000,000 yearly.

HAVE YOU SPRING FEVER?

London—“Work should be regarded as a privilege and not as an affliction,” is the assertion of a famous English psychologist.

Specialization Keynote ot the Coining Ohio State Fair

With premium lists, catalogues, items on their way to the printers the State Fair Mamagement has once more swung) into line for the fall offensive. Last year’s economic conditions for a time threatened seriously the success of Ohio’s great exposition, yet attendance and interest were far in excess of those in other states. This fallt, with, agriculturists beginning to reach firm footing once more, the magnitude of the crowds and exhibits should only be limited by the size of the grounds. Plans have been completed for the entertaining and housing of the largyest assembly of Buckeye citizens in year. Attractions will be as varied and elaborate as heretofore, while the livestock competition is bound to be keener since prizes have been increased all along the line. Products of the factory, field and fireside will be displayed in even greater numbers and the racing program, carrying purses aggregating almost $17,000.00. insures a filled grand stand. Specialization has always been the keynote of Ohio’s State fairs. Rather than spread its premium awards of $125,000.00 over countless minor breeds and classss, the management has chosen a few foremost and most representative types and made the prizesi the most attractive in the country. Few people realize that the week of August 28th will find in| Columbus America’s largest shorthorn Belgian and Percheron Shows and the World’s Largest Sheep show. Other fairs may spend more money f o)r cattle or htorges but not for the breeds which Ohio excels in. All down the line this high quality of competition is in evidence and that the Presidential State is respected for her type of show, is shown by the entries which annually pour in from all parts of the United States, and Canada. Such an exposition, belonging to the people as it does, must consider the widely different tastes of its patrons. . It is Ohio’s boast that the representative of any age, sex, or color can find in her 115 acres of exhibition/ slpace many features that will not only entertain but will educate, to a better understanding of Ohio’s prpgress and inspire the beholder to an active part in the forward march of a great and noble state. This year’s fair will be under the direction of Director of Agriculture L. J. Taber and State Fair Manager Ed S. Wilson. Mr. Wilson comes to Columbus from Canton with a splendid record of service in the Stark County Fa'r back cf him.

THEY LOSE

Leaders of farm orgamzations are beginning to realize that tariff makin the interest of the farmer as illustrated in the emergency tariff law and in the bill now pending in the senate is a bunco game. The agricultural bloc may have got everything it demanded, but its product is wholly unsatisfactory to prominent agricultural leaders outside congress. The head of the American Farm Organization bureau declared on the day following the submission of the senate bill by the finance committee that “the farmer would have been better satisfied with lower rates on some of the things he has to buy, than with the top-notch duties on the things he has to sell.” The managing director of the Farmers’ National Conference went much farther in the direction of denunciation. He characterized the bill as “the worst of many gold bricks han,ded farmers by the present administration.” The farmers have had nearly a year of high protection on staple agricultural products during which time they have convinced themselves that the protection failed to protect. The price of agricultural products which for the most part are produced in excess of this nation’s needs within its own boundaries is unaffected by tariff legislation. The wheat farmer, the cotton farmer and the tobacco farmer as a consequence has little to gain from the emergency law or from the pending measure that leaves the agricultural schedule but little changed. The cost of securing these schedules has been the pledged supporc on the part of the agricultural interests in congress for high duties on sugar, hides, wool and woolens and other commodities that are heavily imported and in which amount of the duty plus will be passed on to the consumer. The farmer accordingly in the purchase of these commodities and others in which protection actually affects price will bear the brunt of the burden while enjoying little or no advantages from the high duties on his produce. Recent statements by agricultural leaders regarding the pending tariff measure are indicative of a growing appreciation of the fundamental principles underlying tariff making and their effects. When those principles come to be generally understood there will be will be little chance for incongruous tariff acts as that of 1922 promises to be. —Cleveland Plain Dealer

NO STOCKINGS ON STAGE

Lonnon—In one revue now beingt presented here there are sixty girls who wear no stockings. This is a big saving for the management.

IN SAND TO HIS NECK Swansea—Trapped in the quicksands of Llanelly, James Morgan had sunk to his neck when rescued. In fifteen minutes the tide would have drowned him.