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Show BEAR RIVER VALLEY LEADER, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24. 1929 "Farmer" Brown Talks runs on banks, ! benefiting the entire community. The billion dol- against embezzlement, and they have dry goods man, or the consumer, or lars. You men, you manufacturers, that law that compels them to pay a J any of them, the farmers 'prosperity all the citizens of a I say you are manufacturers because given percentage m interest. I hey is reflected upon You know the farmThey said, commonwealth. you take the soil, water and sunshine, rebelled against this. and manufacture the world's food sup- "That is depriving us of our liberty.' ers are the best sports in the world. (Continued from page 2) ply and clothing, and have nothing to And when it became a law, they said They would rather have what money say what the manufacturing price of ; it was unconstitutional. They amend can buy then the money. Every time will be. That year it was ed it iifcen times in fourteen years, they get a dollar they would rather quality that year. I would like to your goods billion dollars, all your and made it constitutional, and now go and spend it than keep it. Now know why they raised them one year twenty-on- e to they like it and so do we. It is of a business men should help to buoy up instead of every year. It takes thirty-- wealth. And it took one It prevents the cause that will bring prosperity heads to get it transported to market it It cost you fourteen bil- stabilizing influence. lion dollars and returned you only panics and tragic financial failures. to farmers, and that will reflect in market on the railroad. Thirty-on- e We are not fighting them, we are not the prosperity of all people. heads to get it to market It takes seven billion. the railroads. They are just 14 heads to ice it fighting do in we did I said I wanted to encourage you. what It takes nine Now, my 'friends, heads for commission. That was be- our lettuce organization in an effort as necessary as we are, just as neces- I am not advertising the Bear River fore we organized. That leaves me to stop leaks that individuals had been sary to agriculture as we are to them. Mutual, though I do believe in it, and six heads. I own the land, pay for the hollowing for thirty years. Individuals But we want them to say, we are I think you ought to advertise it. If water and taxes, cultivate, irrigate, had been trying to get that kink out just as necessary as they are. The I lived in this state I would advertise harvest, take it to market ice it pay for 30 years and they were referring manufacturers are just to be consid- I it. I believe you people as producers the freight and I get six heads for it to the courts, and they never would ered as our school problems, our fac ought to advertise your goods. As I my work, educate my family, and be a have gotten relief if they hadn't se- tories, and should be put on just as go over the country and attend va decent American citizen. Sometimes cured farm legislation. The United high standard. And when you hear rious theatres, 1 see curtains dropped we wouldn't get six. Sometimes I got States Farm Bureau went into the people say, "You cant help the farmer with paid advertisements upon them, a bill from the freight office saying, matter and decided that the best way by legislation," we tell them they are but 1 don't see yours. I know why. "Your car didn't pay the freight." to take care of the leakage was to mistaken. They must have it to sur- You dont' have the money to pay. I Let's see if there is anyone here who cover the holes in the sieve, and this vive. know why you haven't the money. The We come down to the American first has had similar experiences. (A half is what it did. It enlarged its caof your business shows dozen hands were raised). I don't pacity in the fact finding commission Federation of Labor, they are pro- a nan selling your products at 80 like to rejoice over anyone else's sor- and those men in turn were able to tected by legislation, by the emigra- cents, and the next third is nothing rows, but I am glad there is somebody do unheard of things for the cotton tion laws, which the Farm Bureau but a big vacant spot, and the last else who has had troubles besides my- association. We used to give our was instrumental in helping to pass. third is a man selling to the consumer self. If you were in the cattle or seed to the ginny, and we thought we Cheap labor can no longer come in for $3.00. And these words on the cotton business you would have that were getting a good value for our and take the place of our labor. They bottom say, "What happened in the experience. products. We didn't know it had any can't come in and reap a bounteous dirk?" Here is an explanation of to the diagram, value. The middle man said, 'I will harvest. Why? Because there is a what happened. They changed that Now, returning where Mr. Hoover made the line and gin the cotton if you will give me the legislative, protective wall over which price from 80 cents to $3.00. Now own they can't climb. We have been ac- we are ready to answer that. We said, "Part of this is controllable and seed. But when we bought aourskilled cused of seeking favoritism. We don't know what happened in the seed and hired part is uncontrollable." And where product and he said that part or crop leaks. Here salesman who knew where the mar- dont' want that. We don't want an dark, but we know a few things that .is what we did in that respect. We kets were and how to get them, he agricultural policy, but we want a na- have happened, and some of them are the 14 heads to seven. That gave us $30 a ton for our seed. After tional policy in which agriculture is legitimate things and can't help but So far we have never happen, and others are unlegitimate 1s half. That sounds like a big sav- we had been organized a little while recognized. mills that had it, and so we are asknig for it, things and should not happen. And ing, seven heads of lettuce, but it we invested in two big oil meant a doubling of our profits. We ground up our product and made oil that we might be placed on equ?l we haven't learned how to solve this reduced this nine to four. But let me seed. And we got 30 dividends on terms with other industries. And if problem, but we believe if we make a you regard that as Bolshevism or un- study we will know what happened in that stock. tell you how we did this little thing And in our warehouses we had patriotic, I want to know about it. I the dark. We have our colleges, our it was group action. The whole proband scientific lem was this our profits were going made ourselves another little saving. am open to conviction. I am learning local organizations, out of that sieve, and we were We have reached the place of limit every day. We doy say this, if we methods, but we have lagged greatly g nothing. And while I am on when we must store our products un- get together and organize and go as behind in the sense of doing what we this, let me quote Virgil Jordan again, til the opportune time for marketing. awe unit and solve our problems, that should in findnig a market for our are the only people who can solve produce. And right here let me quote for he is a great economist. He says, Now maybe you are 100 perfect. If "The farmers of America have not you are, I am in the wrong place, I them, and solve them intelligently. If Henry Hallace, former secretary of had their books balanced since 1913. am wasting time, but I feel that this we don't solve them we will be the agriculture, who coined this phrase, and so will our nation. Oliver "The getting of a market is the other They have not struck a profit. The warehouse matter is vital to the losers, farmers of America are bankrupt." farmers. I know that people, if they Goldsmith said, "A noble peasantry half of agriculture." You farmers in this locality may not knew what the Farm Bureau holds when once destroyed can never be Now, men and women, this type of be in that class, but the average for them, they would not be reticent supplied." That has been true in ev- government was instituted on the thein enrolling in this great organization. ery past age of our history. Every ory that there should be universal edfarmers are up against the wall. On the seventh day of last July the But they have not been informed, nation that has risen to the pinnacle ucation, and you can't maintain a prominence and power has neglect- democratic form of government withFarm Bureau and Lettuce Growers' they don't understand the underlyinga of ed its agriculture, forgotten its peas- out universal education. In the olden association took the kink out of this principle. I don't want to take up antry, and fallen into decay and ob- times educated people came from the discrimination and made it run lot of your time. livion. I don't want to paint a pic- classes, and the masses went illitermethods that the These are some of straight, and they saved $7,500 every ture of depression or pessimism. I ate. But this type of government can day they shipped lettuce and canta- Virgil Jordan and that great indus- would rather a picture that only live with the masses being eduloupe. Every day the sun made tis trial board reached after investiga- would lead youpaint and brighten cated. I was in one of your magnifionward of the some are tion. These across the blue they saved problems trip but here are the prob- cent high schools last night. I could e your spirits, impos-soblAnd, men and women, that isn't that have made statesmanship must be solved, in or- not help but admire, and the money, all. That is what it cost us for 30 to ignore these facts, and states- lems and theycan der that pay your sons and and the people, and the sort of stuff years because we didn't organize. men are at Washington today, wring- daughters you when with work you that was behind it. That is what it cost us to be individ- ing their hands and saying, "We have out on the farm. they Here is one phase of education that ualistic, to bs independent. I have promised the farmers a solution of Let me ask you if you keep ac- is still behind the masses, r.nd that is gone to people and asked them if they their problems. How are we going to counts for the various members of marketing. How many of you men didn't want to join the Farm Bureau. solve them?" They can't solve them. "Not this year," they said. "Why?" There is only one group of people your family. Do you allow your wife that spend twelve months in looking I asked. "I want to be independent," that can solve them. It is as Emer- a salary for her work, and do you pay after your produce can have time to was the answer. What do you think son, the greatest mind America has your son for milking the cows and study marketing conditions and acof a man that will pay $7,500 a day produced, said, "Even God can't bless hoeing in the garden? You are a pe- quire the ability of those who have ost for independence : Let me give a man beyond his capacity to receive." culiar group of farmers if you do. spent a decade in its confines. I How many claim the solution of you another phase of that little para That is just as true economically as Yet, takedo the bankers. whose agriculture is know wives the bringing of the masses you to an ungraph. Maybe 1 better leave that lit- it is spiritually and intellectually. And bankers tle kink in there. This circle shows unless we are organized and ready keep the books for nothing, that you derstanding of their own problems. In there was no agriculture to speak of to hold out our basin for that legis- might have a little less interest to the meantime while you are bringing in New Mexico a hundred years ago. lative blessing, it will go over our pay? How many daughters of bank- the masses up to a point where they ers do you know that are stenogra- can market their own produce, let's That was one hundijle years ago, heads it will be useless. Here is a little picture of how it phers for nothing? How many bank- employ some brains. You employ when you could take your product across the street and trade it for what may come. How we hope it will come ers' sons are tellers for nothing that teachers, sheriffs and lawyers, beyou wanted. You didn't have to turn at least. Here is a circle that sort they might reduce your interest? II cause you haven't the time or the abil to familiarize yourself with their it into money. Whatever you had was of represents the industries of our. am not saying that they should, am proud that they are not. That is ity duties. So why not hire a marketing legal tender. If you had some farm country the railroads are indispensi-bleWe are not fighting the rail- good business. But we don't do that. expert who will do that thing for produce and wanted a suit of clothes you could place a valuation on the roads. They are just as necessary as You are the fellow I am talking to you? I want to encourage you. We want them to be and I am the fellow in that class, too. I don't want you to go in the diproduce and trade it for what you agriculture. wanted. Now that produce has to go prosperous. We want them to be ef- We haven't located enough organized rection that a colored boy did over in across the continent before you can ficient. They have a law guarantee- intelligence to hire the work to be No Man's Land, where the colored per done that has to be done. Now I boys weren't given a chance to beget it exchanged. And 50 years ago ing them five and this circle represents what agricul- cent on their money. Have you any know of one phase of economical ac- come active and win imperishable lauture brought into the world. And it kind of guarantee, or do you have to tivity that is right near you and I rels, and they chafed under it Every took of the whole to mar- take your chance? You don't need dont' have to talk about heads of let- day in the newspapers they saw glowket it. In 1927, this circle represents to answer that, I know it. We will tuce and cottcn that are a long ways ing accounts of the bravery of their what agriculture brought into the call these people bankers. They have away. I am going to talk to you fellow troopers, and still they were about one phase that is right near not given a chance to display their your door and I am going to tell you valor. One night the colonel said, before Mr. Christensen starts, that "Tomorrow morning you will be perthe Utah Farm Bureau has endorsed mitted to go over the top and meet the Bear River Mutual Fire Insur- the enemy face to face.. You will ance company. They can save you even smell the liquid gas and see the money. flash of bayonets." And then he said, Just let me say that my services "You will be close enough to see the are being loaned to your officers. white in the enemies' eyes, but, boys, When they asked the officers of the don't turn back, but remember that exto "What returns association, you there are eight thousand white troops pect?" your chairman of the Farm who are right behind you. So don't Bureau said, "We expect to have the be scared." Mose turned to his colpeople feel better and we expect to ored brother and said, "Do you know have his visit reflected in a bigger what tomorrow morning's paper will We will pay ten cents each for a little inf ormation conmembership." Said the field secre- carry?" He said, "No, suh." The cerning the cream separators in use in this community. tary at Chicago, "If it is reflected in other said, "Well, suh, it is goin' to All we ask is the name of the owner, and his address, a bigger membership, we will feel it say, 'Eight thousand white troops is a good experiment, but if it isn't the make and age of the separator, its serial number, to death'." Now that isn't tramped reflected in a greater enrollment, we the direction I hope you are going in. and the number of cows milked. will feel it is a failure." That is in I hope you are going in the direcyour hands, failure or success. tion that the colored boy was who I want to see the corners of your was about his bugler. He mouths stand up and not drawn down said, boasting we got the best bugler "Rastus, and bring it to our store. Get this information for as like they are now. I want to tell you in the whole American army. Why, a little story about the conduct of a when our bugler many separators as you can, for we pay a dime for I shuts my eyes man in another county in this state. and thinks I is plays each, but the ten cents will be paid only to the boy or to the listnin' He rather disagreed with everything Orchestra play the Symphony girl first bringing information for that particular I said, declared I was deceiving the Rastus said, "Your bugler Rosary." owner and separator. people, leading them on the wrong can't nothin'. Why, when our track and a windjammer, and several bugler play I looks down in my mess plays, If you cannot secure a coupon for each individual sepaother descriptive adjectives. I don't o' beans and says, 'Strawberries, befeel hard, I feel more to ptiy him, have rator, just write down the information required on a You are splashing yo'selves. because he didn't understand the un- the cream blank piece of paper and bring it to our store. right up in mah face'." derlying principle. He reminded me of a fellow that was bitten by a mad dog, and he began to swell up and FILL IN THE BLANK grow black. So they immediately decided to rush him off to a hospital. But instead of going with them, he Owner's Name On Wednesday evening a surprise sat down and began to write. They was given Bishop R. A. Johnparty is bad he it bite a and said, "Well, son his home at Beaver Dam. at .So die. we him had better let Address may Fifty-on- e relatives and friends were writ-nifinish his will." But he kept on and writing. Finally they got there to render cheer and good wishes Make of Separator nervous and said, "Hadn't vou better Age stop writing your will?" "Will, hell!" he exclaimed, "I am writing the Millin rr Serial Number names of the people I am going to bite." And there are a few persons in the world like that. The majority Make of Milker Age of the people are sympathetic if they understand, and I am going to say, as Manufacturers of the Famous as people comprehend this thing fat we are trying to do, that is of a uniBring this in before February 10th "PRIDE OF UTAH" versal betterment, they will join our Tremonton FLOUR Utah worthy cause. I have seen them turn from the most bitter enemies to our most arAlso all Kinds of Mill Stuff. IN THE When I went into the dent workers. The Best Mill in the Bear Service Quality UK AWT OF Glia valley, there happened to be one River Valley. of the biggest men in that country, and he would go out in his car and warn the people against the Farm Highest Cash Trice Paid for Bureau. Within he was three years TREMONTON. UTAH GOOD WHEAT using his gas and car to solicit membership. And I have seen them do EVERYTHINT.'OTFOa THE FARM Near the Depot the same thing by the score. I think TIUHM. , jyil "A I it is likely that business men are only Utah Garland friendly to us. They can see that benefit can't without you agriculture to Farm Bureau world in wealth. it was. It was And we know what a law now against twenty-on- e I Ten Years From Now two-thir- ds It is our opinion that within ten years a service food store will be a curiosity. People the country over, have welcomed the opportunity to eliminate thee insistent and often unsanitary and ignorant grocery clerk, and serve themselves unmolested and satisfactorily in a modern self service food store. v Our Plan Most Perfect r one-thir- d get-thin- $7,-50- 0. three-fourt- two-thir- hs ds There are all kinds of self service stores, some that are not recognizable as being of that type. The O. P. Skaggs System stores have a nation wide reputation for excelling in sanitation, roominess, convenience, and laro assortments to select from. It is a pleasure for either a man or a woman to serve themselves in an O. P. Skaggs System store. Some day you will do it, too, and the sooner you start the more you will save and the greater will be your food pleasures and satisfaction. Try it soon. Try it at our store. aip.gcs&(S(G FOOD STORES to our beloved bishop, who has been suffering for several weeks with an affflicted leg. A splnedid program and lunch, including two freezers of ice cream, were enjoyed and the bishop said it was one of the most enjoyable times of his life. Mr. and Mrs., Arthur J. Saunders delightfull entertained at their home Saturday evening for the members of the .Saturday Evening Bridge club. After cards a dainty luncheon was served. One of the most unique amusements of last week was the dancing party and shower at the Beaver Dam hall, honoring the three couples of newlyweds, namely: Mr. and Mrs. George Johnson, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bowen, and Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bow-ewho resolved to not longer live alone. Many useful and beautiful n presents were on display and the orchestra furnished splendid music for the occasion. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Bigler had as n, Men-do- their welcome guests Thursday and Friday Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simmons of Brigham City, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Simmons and sons Lavell and Ralph of Beaver Dam. Mrs. Harold Bateman of Star Valley, Wyo., is spending a few weeks with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Johnson. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Bowen will make their home in Wellsville for an indefinite period. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Simmons spent a pleasant week with relatives and friends at Bothwell, Beaver Dam, and Collinston. Miss Norma Seal is the charming postmistress and store keeper while Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lefler are combining a day or two in business and pleasure in Ogden. Billy: Say, Tommy, how did you get such a black eye? Tommy: to run. Because I did not choose Safety, silence and simplicity are features of the new Ford e system six-brak- Farm Boys and Girls A. 7k, Attention! 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