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THE GRADY COUNTY
WASHINGTON BELLES IN “RADIUM DANCE 1
TO MARKET FARM PRODUCTS
Problem la Monumental One and So
lution Lies In Farmer Owning
the Cold Storage Plants.
(Dy PETEK RADFORD, National Doo-
turor, Farmers' Union ot America.)
Tho consumor dostroyB wealth; tho
producor oreatoa It. Any Investigation
or Btudy ot our oconomlo problems
must bo approached from tho stand
point of the producer boforo a solution
can bo found. We cnn only build our
civilization through tho producer. It
wo follow the consumer, destruction
lies In our pathway.
Tho producer Is tho moat capable
and tho only unlvorBal olttzen In civil
ization. Ho cannot holp himself with
out helping all mankind. The element
of soUlshneBS that dominates every
other class of Industry Is impossible
In his business. The. producer really
lmB more to fear from Inflated prices
of his product than the consumer for
high prices will Inevitably result In
an Increase in production and will au
tomatically lower the prices ofttlmes
below the cost of production and Jeo
pardize tho very life ot tho Industry.
The Interests of tho producor are an
tagonistic to exorbitantly high prices
and llkewlBO the best Interests of tho
consumer are hostile/ to abnormally
low prices.
The price should bo one that the
farmer can afford to raise the stuff
and tho consumer can afford to buy
It.
We aro a government by consumers
and for consumers,, and our lnwB and
customs conform to hlB requirements,
and as long sb this condition prevails
there will always be strife and rebel
lion due to the Incompetency of our
economic system.
The business affairs of this nation
are bed-ridden with Investigations. It
Is the consumer's fad to Investigate
everything and everybody and call
anything a crime that does not con
tribute towards lowering prices.
The problem of marketing farm
products Is a monumental one and Its
complete solution 'lies In the farmer
owning or controlling cold storage
plants, warehouses and proper equip
ment for holding his surplus until
there Is a market demand. So long
as the storage facilities are In the
hands of tho middlemen, there will bo
artificial manipulation of prices and
the producer and consumer will be
come Joint victims of his avarice.
It wub a sad day for the farmers of
thlB nation when they shut the cellar
door, closed the smokehouse and tore
down their granaries and turned their
warehouses over to private enterprise,
making It possible for trusts and com
bines to feast, fatten and gamble upon
their products. We should have built
co-operative storage plants, ware
houses, elevators, creameries, etc.,
and to do so will require a system of
co-operative laws adapted to the bus
iness of farming and In the transition
from Individual to community effort
we will need the support of tha gov
ernment and tho co-operation of all
agencies that aro friendly to the far
mer.
WHAT FARMERS’ CLUBS ARE
EXERCISES MARK BREAKING OF
GROUND FOR MONUMENT TO
MARTYRED PRESIDENT.
TO ERECT A MARBLE SHAFT
Imagination Is power.
Cheap eyeglasses cost too much.
Tho ''tired" man Is quickly retired.
Warmth plus grooming equals feed.
A man who le all wind soldom comes
to blOWB.
The world Is Just on the threshold of
progress 1
One new wrinkle In the sock moans
two In the brow.
Many a sheep Is mUslng on account
ot a dog-gone reason-
There’s room at the top because
somebody Is always coming down.
Some people never could reach the
top because tho elevator Isn't running.
Don’t allow yourself to be carried
away by enthusiasm, unloss yon have
a return ticket.
Farmers should gb Into partnership
with their boys or glrls v and go Into
the poultry business.
There Is quite some difference be
tween the pull of the politician and
the pull of a good team.
Farming'Is simply a business propo
sition. To be successful the farmer
must run his farm on a business basU.
Now since the free 'rural delivery
has been established lots of farmers
are hard put to find a reasonable ex
cuse for going to town.
Some men work as though they
were afraid If they raised a big crop
It "Would overstock the market, and
knock the bottom out of prices.
The farmer whose early slumbers
were disturbed last summer by sounds
of his neighbors at work In the fields
should move to prevent his winter’s
rest being broken by the loud jingle
of the lot of money they received for
their crops.
Joe Blackburn, Ex-Senator and Con.
federate Officer, Sinks FlrBt
Spade In Breaking Ground.
Washington.—Whilo freezing winds
swept across tho Potomac from tho
Virginia hills whdre stands the Loo
mansion at Arlington, a bareheaded
.Confederate officer opened tho sim
ple exercises that marked tho break
ing ot tlie ground for the construction
of the marble memorial tho nation
Is about to erect to Abraham Lincoln.
The one hundred and fifth anniversary
ot Lincoln's birth was chosen for tho
breaking of the ground from which tho
$2,000,00s structure will rise ns rap
idly as the contractors can push tho
work.
Only a small group gathered to wit
ness' the significant event. Joseph C.
S. Blackburn, former senator from
Kentucky, was the first to sink a
spade Into the ground, and then with
uncovered head he spoke In high prniso
of the memory of the president against
whom he fought a half century ago.
“This memorial will show that Lin-.
coin IS now regarded as the greatest
of nil Amerlcnns," said Senator Black
burn, "end that ho is so hold by the
South ns well ns the North, Today
we let the country know that this
great work has been begun and will
be carried on steadily until its com
pletion."
M. F. Comer, Toledo, Ohio; Col. W.
W. Harts, Lieut. J. A. O’Connor, U. S.
A.; H. A. Valle, John Betliuno and
Henry Bacon ' sought turns with tho
spade for the honor of aiding In start
ing the building of the memorial.
In the senate It was n Southerner
who made tho motion to adjourn out
of respect to the memory of Lincoln,
motion was made without pre-arrange
ment by Senator Overman, North Car
olina, following the reading of tho for
mer president’s Gettysburg address by
Senator Bradley, Kentucky. It was
Senator Kenyon, Idwa, who had sug
gested tho senate well might pauso
a moment to observe tho anniversary.
The house, too, paused in Its delib
erations to pay Its respect to the mem
ory of the great omancipator.
Once a year In Washington an elaborate amateur theatrical performance Is given. This winter It Is cnlled “Co-
bin,” and’one ot Its features Is the "radium dance” by the four young ladles here photographed.. From loft to
it they are: Audrey Johnson, Frances Miller, Anne Pennopacker and Anne Darslo.
AMERICANS FLEEING FROM MANZANILLO
REDUCE THE COST OF LIVING
Peasant Farmers of Germany Have
Co-Operative Agricultural Banks
Called Raiffeisen System.
They have in Germany an Idea for
reducing the cost of living. It Is call
ed the Raiffeisen system. In effect it
has united the peasant farmers ot
Germany Into co-operative agricul
tural banks, which in 1909 did the Im
mense business of more than $16,000,-
000, as reported by the International
Institute of Agriculture at Rome,
says the New York World.
The Raiffeisen system unites the
farmers of any locality in a co-opera
tive banking association which lends
money to members and others. The
Schulze Deutsche system Is a pro
prietary variation ot this plan, work
ed with share capital. Under the old
Landschaft syBtem farmers unite their
land and other assets to get co-opera
tive credit and borrow outside capital
In large sums instead of borrowing in
dividually in small sums.
The advantage of all these systems
Is that the broader based credit of
many men associated enjoys a lower
Interest rate than any borrower could
alone secure. The Landschaften are
140 years old, though they reached Im
posing magnitude o.nly within the last
half century.
CORN EXHIBIT FROM SOUTH
RURALES GUARDING MEXICO CITY
COUNTESS DE B0URTIER
Southern Railway Makes Attractive
Showing of South's Corn
Record at Dallas.
Dallas, Texas.—An exhibit attract
ing much favorable comment among
visitors to the National Corn Exposi
tion, which was held In tills city, was
that made by the Southern Railway,
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Queen and
Crescent Route, Georgia Southern and
Florida Railway and Virginia and
Southwestern Railway, showing what
Southeastern farmers have accomplish
ed In. growing corn, and displaying ag
ricultural products from all tho nlno
states in the -Southeast along tho
Southern Railway and allied lines.
With a single exception, no other rail
ways in the country made exhibits at
the exposition, and the Southern’s ex
hibit was the only one from most of
the Southeastern Btates, only three
of which wore represented through
their state colleges.
The exhibit consisted of corn grown
along the lines of the various roads,
and, to a great extent, by farmers
who raised their crops, under super
vision of field agents of the railway-
companies' Department of Farm Im
provement Work. Grains, grasses, hay,
cotton, vegetables and othor agricul
tural products and apples and other
fruits, both fresh and In jars, all
grown in the South, were displayed.
A folder containing information
about the corn growing record of the
South, Issued by the Lapd and Indus
trial Department of Southern Railway-
Company, was handed visitors to the
Corn Exposition, and Is also being dis
tributed throughout tho country for
the purpose of attracting desirable set
tlors to the Southeast.
Organization Is Necessary for Propnr
Discussion of Any Important
■ Matter In Community.
A farmers' club' Is an Informal as
sociation of a group of people in a
community for the Improvement of
themselves and their homes In partic
ular and'the community in general.
We believe In the farmers’ Clbb be
cause we believe that the next great
development In agriculture will be
along the line of co-operatloif for
greater, efficiency In production and in
marketing. ,
A farmers’ club may be of vital Im
portance to a community socially, edu
cationally and financially.
No Important development le likely
to come unless a group of people get
together and work for It. Schools,
ronds and churches all come as a re
sult of a community spirit which de
termines to bring about Improvement.
There are many lines along which
Improvement is difficult or Impossible
without united effort on the part of
several or all of tho people in the
community and almost any reasonable
Improvement Is possible by community
effort.
Young people are more likely to be
satisfied to stay In a community if
they are shown how they may bo In
fluential In Its Improvement, as they
certainly can be If aroused to see the
possibilities and power of united effort.
FARM LOANS IN CALIFORNIA
Money Raised by Issuing Bonds
Against Mortgages — Similar
Scheme at Ardmore, Okla.
A credit corporation has been or
ganized In San Francisco, Cal., to
make long time loans to. farmers In
that state. The corporation plans to
make - ten-year loans to farmers,
which, however, the farmers may have
the option of paying back any time
before the loan expires. The money
for the loans, says the Oklahoma Far
mer, will bo raised by Issuing bonds
against tho mortgages and the Inter
est which tho farmer has to pay will
depend upon tho price received for
these bonds. In no circumstances,
however, will the lending company
charge the farmers more than 2 per
cent.-above what It has to pay for the
money which It lends him.
A similar corporation Is planned at
Ardmore, Okla.,'which promises to be
successful. Many farmers In Okla
homa are paying 10 to 12 per cent.
Interest for money on short loans and
they should form credit associations
and arrange to protect themselves
against usurious rates of Interest.
<1 icxviu
rasas®
Huerta's rurales aboard a train bound south to protect Mexico City from
the rebels threatening the capital from that direction.
DESIGNED TO FLY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC
Spirit Is Necessary.
Ft Is useless to try to establish sys
tems of co-operation In this country
before the farmers are filled with tho
co-operative spirit This Is- a funda
mental principle upon which success
ful co-operation Is built and there ard
hundreds of peoplo in every commu
nity that have not the right attitude
toward this line of work. Get the
people in line, get them Into the neces
sary attitude and then show them how
it can be done.
Ex-Bandit Jennings’ Platform.
Oklahoma City, Okla.—A1 J. Jen
nings, a former bandit, but now a
candidate for governor of Oklahoma,
gav'/out Ills platform. It contains,
sixty words. “My platform Is fidelity
to the people, real honesty. in offlco
end that tho law shall bo no respecter
of persons. When these principles are
truly and honestly carried into effect,
all Interests will' be Subserved and
taxes will be reduced.' In all my life,
-I never have betrayed a confidence.
If the people confido In me, God being
my judge, I’ll not betray them.”
Recognition for Peruvian Rebels.
P Washington—Secretary Bryan has
directed American Minister McMillan
at Lima to recognize the new provis
ional government of Peru on behalf ot
tho United States. • This action was
taken on the application of the Peru
vian legation. Secretary Brynu de
clined to discuss the matter, Indi
cating that he did not care to he put
In the position of appearing to fore
stall criticism of his action, and pre
ferred to let the facts speak for them
selves. The Peruvian government was
reorganized, recently.
Co-Operation In Wisconsin. •
The farmers of Grant county, Wis
consin, have organized and are to try
the co-operative grinding of UmeBtone.
The college of agriculture of the Uni
versity of Wisconsin Is to aid In . the
movement. A small transportable
grinding machine will bo taken from
farm to farm. In this way It Is figured,
that the annual expense for lime can
bo reduced to each member of the
association.
Countess de Bourtler, wife of tho
military attache to tho French embas
sy at Washington, Is one of the recent
arrivals in tha national capital and
Attracts much attention by wearing
the latest creations of the Parisian
modistes.
Co-operative Laundry.
At tho Farmers’ Co-operative laun
dry at Catfleld, Minn., 126 families
have washing done each week, Includ
ing the Ironing. That Is the kind of
co-operation that pays and demon
strates the utility ot close co-opera
tion.
' Modern Tommy Tuckers.
Tho door in one of the most popu
lar restaurants in Boston slowly open
ed at noon while half a hundred diners
wero eating and a small voice piped:
“Any slngln’?”
“No," replied a waitress, and the
owner of the voice, a boy of eleven
years, walked down tho street to an
other restaurant.
It Is becoming a regular practice
by boys to sing for tho diners for a
little loose change. One boy told me
that he made $3 In one night recently
singing In restaurants.
For Co-operative Markets.
Co-operative markets, through which
produce will be sold direct from the
farmer to the consumer, have been
planned by the Society of Equity, In
floaslou at Kansas City, Kan. Dele
gates from eight of the middle west
Btates were present - ' Up to this time
the union has devoted most of Its ef
forts to acquiring elevators and sell
ing most of the grain direct to the
millers.
Name Adds Dignity.
A namo for tho farm adds dignity
to your work and will stimulate a
greater spirit of pride and feeling of
-co-operation athong the young folks
in tho home.
First sketoh of the gigantic hydroplane being built, to carry out Rodman
Wanamalter's plan of crossing the ocean this summer. The hydro was de
signed by Glenn Curtiss and will have a boat hull 36 feet long, entirely In
closed.. The 200-horsepower motor will be put right up in the bow
, Eggs First.
Breed for usefulness first:
fore beauty.
F
aimers’ Educational
and Co-Operative
Union of America
Matters sf Especial Moment t
—J the Progressive Agriculturist