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Show J M' "IE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN A,'. Office Alpine Publishing Company Building Phone 8. AMERICAN FORK GTTOEK A PKOOnKSSIVK. INDEPENDENT PUBLICATION Enured in the Post Offiee at American Fork, Utah, as second-class . ' matter. Subscription rates. $2.."i( prr year in advance. Advertisement rates: Display. 30. -cents a column inch. Legal notices and readers, letr.il rates or 10 cents per eight-point line per in-tcrtion. in-tcrtion. "Want nU. Katf -l tits per word ca-h, insertion.' Payment must accompany advertisement. " A. F. OAIKFOKI). .Ill - ----- - -EDITOR ALL SIGNS POINT TO CONTINUED PROSPERITY " - New records were established in many trade and industrial lines in H'2C. according to a report .just made publio'by the Federal Reserve Re-serve Hoard on economic conditions throughout the country. And these new records of prosperity were established under such conditions condi-tions that there is every promise that there will be continued stability and progress throughout the present year. The board "especially emphasized the fact that although there was general great activity throughout the year the fluctuation in price level, in the wholesale lines was less than in any year since 1!)13. ' At the end of the year, despite the heavy movements, during the year, ' the stocks in the hands of wholesalers and retailers were but four per cent greater than at the end of 1924. The amount of building daring 1925 was twenty-five per cent greater than in 1924, but the C08t of building was no higner and the prices of building materials ' remained about the same. "Similarly," the board said, "notwithstanding the increased out- " put of automobiles, which was considerably larger than in any previous year, automobile prices were lower at the end of 1925 than a year earlier. "The large increase in the volume of productive activity in 1925, especially in manufacturing and building, was thus not accompanied by a ride in prices and indicates a high degree of elasticity in the productive power of industry, which has enabled it to supply an increased in-creased demand for its products at a relatively constant level of prices." The board stated that nearly all the important industries were more active in 192") than in 1924. with the largest growth in the ; building industry and in the production of commodities required in the construction and equipment of new buildings. "Demand for goods by consumers," it stated," both urban and rural, was sustained throughout the vear nriil wh reflci-trwl in l:irtf. volume of distribution of commodities, both at wholesale and retail." 0 , "UNITED WE STAND" Nothing is more important to our town and Ftah county than th ' . X . 1 " 1 - .. ... prosperity or me people in our community and nothing will contribute contri-bute so much toward the prosperity of a community, a country or a State as co-operation. Work together. If you can help vour neigh bor without injury to yourself, help him; you will profit by it in the end even though you can see no direct benefit from your act. Don't 'be a bunch of static disrupting the even flow of co-operation in vour i . . . ... nome lown or community u you want it to prosper. I tali county as a whole is just entering the greatest era of prosperity in its historv if we will only get together and stay together and forget petty per- nonnimes in wonting ior tne general good tr all. PUBLIC ASSET ) . - A ni'U'vtiJiTwir wikt-tlii- ,f i.h,i.. .,,.1.1:.. i I, i... .. ..v ,.v ... ,,n .muni- j 7i (i ('num.- iiM-i, ii eiironici.es the news of its section and town. It tells more briefly of the doings oiuie world. Jt boosts worthy public movements and sometimes worthy private objects. It gives space to dub news, to church news, to business news. During a time of public stress.' like the late war. it gives without stint of its space to further the objects of the govern ment ami promote patriotism. Si Hi Planning to Build This Spring What's stopping you? Haven't quite enough money to go ahead? Need a Loan , Ur is it Advice youseek in attending to tne financial details as applied to building a home of your own? Consider this Bank at your Service then, We'll be glad to let you have the necessary Loan at a reasonable rate of interest. Or if it's mere information and direction you wish, just come. ahead and consult us. A five minute talk will convince you of our sincerity and desire to see you carry out your plans in every detail. ' Bank of American Fork 33 Years Successful Banking. A STRONG JUNK Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi . Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi Hi . menta. As President of the American Farm Dureau Federation ft farmers' owned and operated service organization organi-zation I have been asked to summarize summar-ize the farmers' viewpoint on co-operative marketing. I find . no better way to do this than to 'briefly detail some of the outstanding steps that their own marketing machinery. farmers have taken In establishing We find Two-thirds of the entire tobacco crop moving to market" through co operative channels Nitiety per cent of the California raisins, 85 per cent of the prunes and nearly 80 per cent of the peaches and apricots approximately 80 per cent of the entire American production of dried fruits are mar keted co-operatively Fully 75 per cent of the citrus fruit produced in the United States hand led by co-operatives Twenty per cent of the American cotton crop under contract to mem bers of the American Cotton Brokers' Exchange Pour thousand live shipping assocl ations in north central states handling fully 25 per cent of the livestock sold on the terminal markets One co-oerative, the National Live Stock Producers' Association with fourteen terminals handling over $100,000,000 worth of live stock in 1923 Five thousand two hundred sixteen farmers' elevators capitalized at $90,' 000,000 and handling annually $625,-000,000 $625,-000,000 worth of grain. These are some of the startling figures that bring home to us the present .magnitude of co-operative marketingniovement. The farmer is beginning to merchandise his product. In addition to this - detail of the construction- of the selling organization organiza-tion necessary to the orderly marketing market-ing of the farmers' product farmers Hi4HiffiHiHi4HiHi4HiHiHiHiHiHiHiHi What The Fanner Thinks About Co-oper ative Marketing ARE YOU SOUR ON THE WORLD? Take an inventory of your own feelinsrs oeeasionallv If vmi fin. that you are in a habit of trying to entertain your friends whom you meet by airing your real or fancied grievances against the persons nmnu you uo not UKe, you are convincing them of nothing more than that you are slipping. Any person who is soured on the world has lost His emeiency. ' " 0- The Prince of Wales should be furnished a mule to ride They never fall down. Their heels are the only things you have to watch. With The Missionaries 4Sneyd Street. : ' - Cardiff, Wales Febraury 6, 1926. Mr. A. F. Oaisford Jr., Editor, American Fork Citizen, American Fork, Utah. Dear Sir: For a long time I have been enjoy, ing the interesting weekly letters you have sent'' me l the form of "The Citizen", and . am- now writing to thank you for them, Among those of us who come from so.called ""srimll towns", there is sometimes- a little good natured rivalry an lo the com. paratlv. 'merits of our respective home papers. I am pleased to say that I have not had to concede superiority super-iority in the case of any of them. We of American Fork have reason for being proud of the paper that rcpre. sents us. From the many strange names I road in the paper now It Is evident that American Fork has grown during,the short time that 1 have been away from there. Although there ' are several mis sionaries Jrom. American Fork in the British Mission, I have met! only two Uius far,- those. bln,,Eldei, Xenaata, 3:.SHjtn.. sine returned. rrant JBdsr Melvln J. Grant The first eighteen months in England were spent in the Bristol Conference and I was station, ed successively in Cheltenham. . Ply. moth and Bristol. . Since last Novem. ber I have been laboring in the Welsh Conference, being stationed In Cardiff. There are manji f,ups and downs" In missionary life, but there are more "ups" than "downs" and the time I have spent here has been very profitable to me if to no one else and has given me a great deal of Joy Utah and the 'Mormons" are still scare words to many English people and to hear them express their sympathy sym-pathy for the "downtrodden and en. xlaved women of Utah" would be amusing, were it not for the fact that many people who might accept and profit by the Gospel are kept from in-vesugatlng in-vesugatlng It by such foolish stories. In years gone by Wales was noted for th religious zeal of it" people, but at the present time, In common with England, the indifference. to re. lifion Is very marked. In an economic econo-mic way conditions are verybad. Coal mining and shipping Is the prln. ( ip:il source of employment in South Wales and the coal trade has not been normal since the war. As consequence thousands are out of employment em-ployment and poverty is prevalent everywhere. The work of the Church here is going steadily forward. We meet many people, not members of the Church, who have relatives or friends In Utah. The past winter has beea quite severe, both for cold and rata,whlch interferes some with the work, but the weather is moderatini now. Again thanking you for theCltlien and with best wishes for yourself and associates. I am Sincerely your brother, Peter J. Clarke. Hy O. E. Bradfute, Former President of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The farmer is seeking the same sane analytical solution of farm prob lems as is made in .banking, manu facturing and .other industries. Group production1, 'group capital, and group distribution are characteristics characteris-tics of normal industry today. The farmer's rate of exchange ip below par. The very force of hi economic distress in those after-the-war-deflation ilays when his exchange rate dropped so low painfully jerked, him away from the plow handles and into a consciousness of the interlock ing relations of all Industry. He realized that splendid isolation did not exist. He realized that certain things happened to his product after It left the farm which magically enhanced en-hanced Its value before it reached the consumer. He came to realize that certain arrangements which eat Isfactorily met the requirements o? merchant and manufacturers did not serve so adequately the farmer. Farmer's Analysis Coming into the knowledge of all of these things .the farmer has set about to analyze the situation and then, in the light of this analysts to find the correctives. In the first agonies of the post-war deflation many farmers were led astray by gllb-tongued orators and would-be farm champions. There was much talk of "cost Jplus profit," cost of production," "merchandising versus dumping," aqd. Ppce fixing. There are still some word followers, but for the most part the great 90 per cent of suhstantiai ciear minsing farmers now vision a great successful lndeoendent American agriculture 1 llf I lilt 4 Lsw is RIDE THE "OREM LINE" FOR Safety AND Economy For convenience and economy buy COM. TICKETS OR r PER MILEAGE BOOKS Jj C MILE WEEK-END EXCURSIONS PER ILE Minimum rare SO cents. Heated car service for protection of-psrtttuWs :rtrttaht.-"'-rt;- Ask agent for particulars. Salt Lake & Utah R. R. Henry 1. Moore and D. P. Abercromble, Receivers based on five essential steps: 1. Careful selection of seed and sires. 2. Soil building coupled with proper safeguards against destructive destruc-tive agents. 3. Lowering in cost of production produc-tion through the application of modern mod-ern practices and appliances. 4. The construction of a selling organization vrhieli wilt . .place th; farmer!' product, graded, standardized, standard-ized, 'and guaranteed, on the market in an orderly manner. .". A constant education of the in dustry through various institutions, such as the Department of Agricul-" ture, College of Agriculture, Vocation al Agricultural Training, Boys' and Girls' Club Work, FarmJureaus, and others. American farmers full well realize that marketing and production cannot can-not be divided. The are one and the same. Each of the five steps enumerated are steps on the road to market. They mean to the nation the constant, steady production and distribution of all agricultural pro ducts. To the farmer they mean a constant, steady Income, which will enable the American farmer to maintain the same standard of living that is maintained by other classes of American citizenry. Co-operative marketing limited to the fourth step enumerated, that of constructing a selling organization to place agricultural production in an orderly fashion upon the market, is no new thing. It, however, received its great impetus in the after-the-war period of depression. It was the farmers' challenge to the 37 cent dol lar the joint congressional Inquiry commission reported December, 1921, that farmers received 37 cents of each dollar paid for food products at retail. 1 During the war American farmers made tremendous strides In the application ap-plication of scientific knowledge to wards Increase in production. The war ended, and agriculture with this efficient production found Itself with no self-controlled merchandising system. sys-tem. Farm production was disorganized disorgan-ized into six million units. Each unit distinctly Independent. Not one in a position to market properly Its product pro-duct or products. Not one with facilities of holding its products and distributing the safe1 over the entire twelve monthR of consumption. The result was inevitable. There is no need to mention here that agriculture is the greatest business busi-ness In America. Nor need It be mentioned that the total valuation of agriculture In the United States 78.W)O,0OO.OOO 1, greater than the combined valuation of manufacturers, rl!rpi8fl.8,...baDJii1ajid.,..mlne,..,T..Nos does space here permit a- sketch of the economic difficulties that finally brought home to. the farmer the possibilities offered in orderly man ketlng. Every banker In the country knows only too well that 'story. Co-operative Marketing Accomplish SATURDAYMARCII 27, 1926 telllgettWfmate of the world mar ket foHt particular commodity, 'IS.... j. staariiration of quality. The producer "I marketer, being one and the saae. fermlu of an intelligent Eradlnjnd standardization of pro ducts. Tn1 Production cf a product to exKdy meet the consumers' de mand. 3. MsrUting based on contract Contacts kermlt permanent business relations aid acqulstlon of necessary stortf frilltles and provide sound methods It financing and stabilize of the co-operative. 4. Opratlon on non-stock and non profit usls. This eliminates the speoilatte element. 5. Otfanfzatlon of producers only. An orrtilzatlon of producers only pennlufcomplete unity of purpose. Coveratlve Marketing Good Business Practice Co-crratlve marketing means mere the Incoming: of good business s to the farm industry. Agri. cultui already leads all other Indus- efficiency of production. Agrt- cult is now determined to bring ame efficiency into -it men sing practices. the opening paragraphs of this irtca i oneny enumerated tne nve pridples which the American farmer relies are fundamental to the build-in build-in f the great successful, independ- eit agriculture, l nave, at some th detailed the fourth of these clples. In doing so, I do not n to bring It out of focus. As j j ssldent of the American Farm w reau Federation I try to sense the L etling of the million farmers who r rake up the membership In our f t- oganizatlon. I believe that in this is. yar, 1926, farmers are fully aware f"- tat all five steps are equally esential. The farmer is but apply- ig the best and safest of business iractices to hla Industry. I firmly believe that the application of these Mall cha a 1A1IUV1D - UIUUU.k lOMIHini i UHtH1.ln1A ...111 1 l,.ln. mm rf. . have come to know the value and the f"uu'" u c.o, necessity of proper finance, of trans-farm ,n Amerl a happy, prosperous nnrtAttnn and nr wpurrh Tt,ro..ehnome. TO on 8 IOUnaailon OI ha;. ,.,w,i th ,. rV., happy farm f .0 A tie Wi ll tri Ing to secure the co-ordination of aL transportation facilities so (that th most economical and most rapii transportation of the farmers' pit-ducts pit-ducts from farm to market may le secured. Through legislative effort organized farmers have secu I . . .11. l J lecalization of credit proof ChHIp tn ftSrfrnlfnre In .fi ll is credit le latjot enacted both nationally and in stites making possible the proper consruc-tion consruc-tion of farmer owned and controlled marketing machinery. Group Idea In research the farmer is demand ing the same sane, careful, aialyti-cal aialyti-cal study he made of his prtblems as has been applied to bankinr, rail roading, merchandising, manufacturing, manufactur-ing, mining all the other lndjstrles. Group production, group capital and group distribution are the distin guishing characteristics of no-mal in dustry today. Upon the grcup idea the commerce and industry of the nation has been built. Faming has been the one exception to tha rule of group effort. Individual production has been the peculiar trait of fanning. Every farmer not only recognizes this Individualism In-dividualism but holds .it as an ideal. Every farmer pictures the country as a great happy land settled by individual in-dividual farmers, these farms run by their own proprietors. This individual ideal holds as true today as it did two decades ago. The problem is then to find how this In dividual production can be fitted into this system of grouv finance and group marketing. Significant Characteristics. There are certain! significant characteristics char-acteristics that have been developed by successful co-operatives. These may be summarized ai follows: 1. Organized 5 by" ' roinmodlties. Organization by conmodity makes H possible for growers to mike an in- .omes can this great nation of ours hope long to endure. More Dollars PER HEN Simply add 1-1 K pounds of Pratti Poultry Regulator to 100 pounds o( any mash. If 5 to 10 timet the cost of Regulate Regu-late is not returned in extra eggs every penny ol your money is cheerfully returned. re-turned. Half a century of Pratt experience experi-ence bat made Regulator the one natural na-tural tonic. Regulator buildt flock vitality. Make your birds strong to resist roup and cold weather disease. Regulator alone can stand up under this maimg guarantee. ifir Poultry iYP Regulator ToOgrCutomcn: Wt TUnJ MinJ frmm FnJtf fUfitttr mMtnJititily. Euktr yo tri man tui from ikt Jmm4 hrdj m mm your MMy. Sold and CuoraWsW by CHIPMAN MERCANTILE CO. 1 mi .. L V I Y TA HOARD I I Sr CaaasM ' 1 " " ptnt mm mll- OttoO.ObW A. V. WATKDfS ! LAWYER 4 j. Provo, Suit 2 Union Building, . 32 West Canter Street. Business days except Tuesdays and 4 Fridays. . . Amercani r orK oanK ot Am. Fork ' Tuesdays and Fridays. 4 YOU MAY TAKE YOUR CHOICE1 120 acres R0 aires first-class alfalfa, the balance in good fanning condition. 120 shares Lehi Primary water, GO shares Provo Reservoir Primary water, GO shares Provo Reservoir Late Primary water. A 9-room house, 3 good cellars, silo, 200 tons of first class aj'alfa hay, all kinds of farm implements, 2 (rood teams with larness and wagons. The water rights and 'improvements arf Vorth the niowy, with 120 acres of first-class first-class land thrown i for . - . $20,000.00 or , j , A HO acre peet farm Ul plowed in first-class condition, ready to plant. Ctood for hel lettuce, cabbage, celery, or any kind of garden truck, with tyo teams and all neceRsarj; farmmachin-, ' efyr"Av iod" brW ings all for ?'" :.t 7 ;C.: 77- yJUJBtiOjQO' fb,UOC.ou casB oaiaice on easy terms. Decide now and see r JAMES H. CLARKE Phone 162-w ! : . American Pork, Utah SVSSB4rWVCO if- f t J & -F!J |