Show SHOW FARMERS HOW BETTER METHODS OF MARK MARKET U I 1 INO ING TO BE TAUGHT BY THE government NEW BUREAU IS PROPOSED operative cooperative co selling by parmera farmers will result in great benefits not only to the producer but to the con can su umer mer as ai well by GEORGE CLINTON washington thero there to is now in th the 0 agricultural department a new division known as aa the rural organization service its ila chief T N carver who has baa just been appointed was until recently a professor pro feasor at harvard arvard Il university it if secretary ot of agriculture houston has his bis way professor carver probably will be made mada the chief ot of another new bureau to bo be known a as S the bureau ot at markets there Is a already a bureau of markets organization but it Is unofficial and mr air houston will ask congress to give defan definite ite approval with a definite appropriation for or a bureau ot of this kind just what the new service will do in detail has not yet been determined but it Is well known that a 4 primary duty will be to study the economics ot of the marketing ot of products it la is known that secretary ot of agriculture houston with the complete sympathy ot at president wilson will interest him sek seg particularly in an attempt to cut down the cost ot of living by cutting out inefficient and methods in marketing the products of the tarm farm dr gorbe K X holmes who ta ia tho statistician of the aba divis division loh of 6 production digil alq has found out that thi the M 2 amot pay pay M tuf r S vegetables fruit poultry and dairy brad acts about twice as much as the farmer receives for them what farmer should do dr holmes has said on this matter A survey of the systems at 0 marketing farm products clearly discovers what tho the farmers can best do to their advantage they must associate themselves together for the purpose ot of as tem dembling bling their individual contributions ot at products to consider means of in carload lots of obtaining market news news at places to which it Is practicable to send their products bro tro ducts to sell bell in a considerable number of mar bets it if not in many markets nod to secure the various ther other 1 i economic econom lo gains of associative pel ng 13 hut ut farmers need boma help lii ift establishing associations they always need a leader for such purposes and there may be no leader A division of markets rould could perform excellent excelle nt service in helping farmers or to help themselves to organize marketing associations these associations ciati clat iOns ons could either handle their products until sold in various markets or could ship their products to a non cooperative co marketing agency which would take charge of the entire bustness business of distributing from a central receiving point it seems not always feasible to market products operatively cooperatively co or at any ny rate the producers are not always disposed to do so BO Ho llo weyer wever that may be there are many non co operative marketing agencies in this country that are performing excellent service for or farmers and some of them are doing business of immense proportions I 1 A division ot of markets equipped with a corps of competent field agents could get into touch with farmers for the purpose of promoting tho the organization of at marketing associations wherever the farmers request assistance or information the agent could meet the assembled farmers and practically organize them it they desired it can hardly be doubted that this service can be successfully performed and eventually with results greatly beneficial to farmers the traveling field beld agents also could perform good service in examining into the affairs of weak and unsuccessful marketing associations and advise changes for their improvement to probo probe civil service it to Is virtually settled that there Is to be a sweeping investigation of the tha civil service law under which thousands upon thousands of at americans hold their places of course there will be a feeling that the investigation Is prompted by the desire of the dominant party to create vacancies for party workers but it seems likely that any tuch investigation would affect comparatively few ew of the holders of minor i positions under the civil service and would strike only a few of the heads and it would strike nobody it if an inquiry should divulge that there Is nothing wrong with the system as an it stands an matters are it seems seema that nearly everybody in congress irrespective ot of party wants to see the civil service law revised this is plain because every evely once in a while criticism to IB heard of the civil service system from tho the mouths of democrats republicans antl progressives Progress ives while debates are on a in either cither house the civil service commission always has baa insisted that nod partisanship methods have been bean to absolutely in the giving of appointments to men who apply under the aba civil service law and the tha probability is everybody says that nn an investigation will show EMS to be the fact tho the tible t ible members say with ith the civil service system la 14 not net so BO much that incompetent men get into office rr that thai favorit favoritism isih is in marking examinations as that many amP amplo loYes yea take advantage of 04 kit 0 4 tact fact thit the f are ara under civil service anti anil think they are there for life te to loaf in n breir belr toba lobit that la ia to anc ansi sat touch working serried as they thin thick 6 it i la necessary to SIVO give allu ym 0 tu box t their i air positions practical knowledge needed men alen interested in the pate safeguarding guarding at 0 the civil service law say that it has been shown many times that persons who can pass the best civil service examinations do not always make the best employed emp loyes this means ot of course that a good many men have book boob learning which enables them to get into the servi ceby by the examination route but when they get in it la Is found that their book learning la Is not anywhere near so much service to the government as practical knowledge would be more and more the civil service chiefs have attempted to make the examinations practical but even the best tests of practical linow knowledge ledge tall fall at times when they are reduced to question form an investigation of at the civil service which it Is promised will be made will go deep into all questions and it la Is believed that the committee of congress which will conduct the inquiry will be able to recommend new legislation when the next session of con gross gress opens in december president wilson it Is said favors an investigation tion As As has been sa eald id it to Is charged that a great many employed emp loyes under the tha civil service lose their ambition to work ork as soon as aa they are covered by the law when it comes to a question of promotion political favoritism still rules in places in the departments part ments and so no frequently a man who Is lazy it if lie he happens to be a favorite with someone in authority can get ge promotion while an abbl bious man doing twice as good work as the other can get no promotion this to la a part of the system which congress says must be changed joya JOY of official life A united states senator told mo a few days ago that out of hla his salary of 0 he wai was abla aali during the first year of his lencum bano bane to keep tor for himself only 2800 lie he said that ho did abt giva the jhb money away but that he was obliged because of the importunities of patronage hunters huntera to spend virtually all ot of its hla time which was not spent in the senate chamber in the work of seeing men in authority in an endeavor to get government places for constituents who thought they dof da served them and that this necessitated his big paying the greater part ot at his salary for extra clerks stenographers and the like in order that the multitudinous things could bo be done which a senator Is supposed ordinarily to do for himself this gives game some mea of what a senator or a member of the tha house has to do when he be first comes to washington it is especially true just at the present time when there has been a change of administration it Is probably no exaggeration to say that every democratic senator and every democratic member of at the hou housa of representatives has in his bis office 1000 applications for places under the government ern ment and each maker of an application catlon seemingly believes that he Is the only proper person to whom a job should be given I 1 the patronage bus business brass la is driving some of the members of congress pretty close to the distraction point they do not know what to do they do not like to offend the place seekers and yet they know that offense in a majority of cais cabs will be taken for as aa one senator put at it no man or woman bel believes leves chii that any other mat man or woman should be given the places which the first farat man and wom have asked for busy asking for jobs the senator who said that he was able to keep less than of his pay for himself declared that from the day he came to washington after the now administration was inaugurated he be had dono done little else than tramp tho the streets or ride in street cars from department to department asking for a job here and a job there for this man or tor for that man the senator said eald 1 I am sick alck unto death of it and yet I 1 cant help myself nor is there as far as I 1 can see any way out of the whole miserable condition of things in about six or eight months it la is probable pio bable that most of the places which are now sought by patronage seekers because of the change of administration will be filled and tho the senators and representatives will get some relief but it must bo be remember ed that there are a great many appointive poin tive positions under tho the government which have a cle definite finite term ot of years to run and so BO it is that even after the bulk of the tha places have been filled there still will be post maa ter herships shIps collector ships and a dozen or so other positions which will coma cam vacant from time to time and over which seators and representatives must worry now when one remembers remember that there may te ta a change of ad administration on march 4 1917 the whole story ot of the past two r months and of at the coming six or eight months will be repeated it if another barty should come into power it will be repeated in part it if the democrats romald remain la in power but with another man than mr wilson as ae president of the united states the wear and tear of the seek ipg ing business tells not only on senat aeria tora 0 r a and represent atiles but on the president and on the cabinet officers mr wilson put up hla his blan of no office seek rs need apply long ago but he h listen to tha the reports of tho the cabinet officers on an the patronage patro oage matter and act as the court ot of last resort as between this mon min and that man the cabocel officers atheni seares are ar to give over several hours houra every day to ther duty ditty of cc tearing bearing why by smith Is a much better bit tr map rr r the ration oil of collector a oi it port ct um 14 I 1 jaba |