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Show " 7 V 7 1 THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH n 8 m 1 SPENCER BROS: & CO. Rich County's Largest Store , u 8 DEALERS IN EVERYTHING LatK Nails To Hay Derricks Safty Pins To Caskets Continued From Last Week self sufiioient and did not depend upon, or care very much, wlmt the great world was doing. The result is that the agricultural group is almost as much at a disadvantage in dealing with other economic groups a? the jay farmer t.f the funny pages in the hands of sleek urban confidence tnen, who sell him acreage in Central Park or the Chicago city hah. The leaders of the farmers understand tills, atiJ ti cy are intelligently sl.'i 'ng to integrate their Industry so tli.it it will be on an equal footing with other busithm-um-li'- , nesses. abstraction of their upward effort, fie. as city peupln, see In high and specula! ive'y manipulated prices, spoila c. waste, scarcity, the results of deletie dlsirt'intlnn of farm pr Should it mu occur to us that we have a common interest with the farmer In Ids attempts to attain a degree of efficiency in distribution c. to his efficiency in production? Do not the recent fluctuations in the May wheat option, apparently unrelated to normal interaction of supply and demand, offer a timely proof of the need of some such stabilizing agency as the grain growers have Our Busine: s Is Good I In As an example of integration, take contemplation? It is contended that, if their prothe steel Industry, In which the model is the United States Steel Corporation, posed organizations be perfected and with its Iron mines, its coal mines, its operated, the farmers will have in lake and rail transportation, its ocean their bands an Instrument that will be coke ovens, its capable of vessels, its dangerous abuse. AVe arc blast furnaces, its open lienrtb and told Bessemer furnaces, its rolling mills, its it that it will be possible to perveit to arbitrary and tube mills and other manufacturing oppressive priceOUR GOODS JAKE ALWAYS FRESH from Its legitimate use of orderfixing processes that are carried to the highand OUR PRICES WILL MEET ALL COMest degree of finished production com ing stabilizing the flow of farm patilde with the large trade it has products to the market, to the mutual PETITION, OUR STEADY CUSTOMERS built up. All this is generally concedbenefit of producer and consumer. 1 ed to he to the advantage of the conhave no apprehensions on this point. KNOW THIS FACT AND sumer. Nor d es the steel corporation In the first place, a loose organizaInconsiderately dump Its products on tion, such as any union of farmers V the market. On the contrary, it so must be pt best, cannot be so arbi acts that it Is frequently a stabilizing o trarily and promptly controlled as s influence, as is often the case with othgreat corporation. The one is a lumI GO $ er large organizations. It is master of bering democracy and the other an agile Its distribution as well as of Its In the second place, wiih autocracy. n. If prices are not satisfactory all possible power of org .nization, the the products are held back or produc- farmers cannot succeed to any great tion is reduced or suspended. It is not extent, or for any considerable length compelled to send a years work to the of time, in fixing prices. The groat market at one time and take whatever law of supply and demand works in c.111 it get under such circumstances. various and surprising ways, to the It lias one selling policy and Its own undoing of the best laid plans that HIND QUAUJERS:OF BEEF (b) lie exp- rt department. Neither are the attempt to foil It. In the third place, FRONT QUARTERS OF BEEF fa) 8c grades and qualities of steel determintlieir power will avail the farmers ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does nothing if it be abased. In our time FRESH SALMON & HALIBUT t all times 'he latter Bold the scales. In this sin- and country power is of value to its gle integration of the steel corporation possessor only so long as It Is not is represented about 40 per cent of the abused. It is fair to say that I have CALL IN AND COMPARE OUR PRICES BEFORE Steel production cf America, The rest seen no signs in responsible quarters BUYING ELSEWHERE. WE ABSOLUTLY KNOW is mostly in the hands of a few large of a disposition to dictate prices. In ordinary times the There seems, on the companies. IP WILL PAY YOU,- - AND THRIFT CALLS FOR contrary, to be a steel corporation, by example, stabilizes commonly beneficial purpose to realize INVESTIGATION. all steel prices. If tills is permissible a stability that will glvi an orderly (it is even desirable, because stable and abundant flow of farm products and fair prices are essential to solid to tlie consumer and ensure reasonable and continued prosperity) why would and dependable returns to the proit be wrong for the farmers to utilize ducer. central agencies that would have simiIn iew of the supreme Importame lar effects on agricultural products? to the national f a prosSomething like that is what they are ONLY UP TO; DATE MARKET IN THE COUNTY and contented agrS9(fii..il popperous at. aiming Some farmers favored by regional ulation, we should be prepared to g PHONE NUMBER 86 r (impactless and contiguity, such as the a long way in assisting the f.i.-- i iers t an equitable share of the wealth of CalifoVnia, al- get ready have found a way legally to they produce, through the of reforms that will procure a merge and sell their products inte- grail v and in accordance with seasonal ( (intinimr.s and increasing stream of and local demand, thus improving farm products. They are far fr. m get-ti; a fair share now. Considering their position and rendering the con- tils capital and the long hours of labor ; sumer a reliable service of ensured quality, certain Supply, and reasonable put in by tlie average farmer and his family, he is remunerated less than and relatiyely steady prices. CAR LOTS A SPECIALTY They ABSOLUTLY RELIABLE have not found It necessary to resort any other occupational class, with the rt of Office and Ware house on County Rond possible cxceptii teachers, to any special privilege, or to claim and lay. Though we know that any exemption under the anti-truthe present general distress of the legislation of the State or nation. Without removing local control, they have farmers is exceptional and is linked with the inevitable economic readjust built up a very efficient marketing ment following the war, it must be The grain, cotton, .and toagency. bacco farmers, and the producers of remembered that, a! though representWholesale & Retail Dealer In d of tlie industrial product ing hides and wool, because of tlieir numhalf the the total population of bers and the vast 1103s of their regions, and tides, Furs, Pelts, Wool, Junk, Scrap 011, Metal, Rubbeis, Bones and Rags ordi and for other reasons, have found nation, the rural communities REFERENCE STeCKGKWEUS BANK EVANSTON' WYOMING integration a jnore difficult task ; narily enjoy but a fifth to a quarter of lOifice Phone Notwithnet 83 W national the annual gain. though there are m w some thousands Will StOll Wy0' Residence Phone 38 R of farmers elevators, standing the taste of prosperity that We and R ipiir all kinds of Tan , Make the farmers had during the war, theie warehouses, creameries, and other enia of lower standard a living Robes Furs Coats and etc. today , Rugs , , Gloves terprises of one sort and another, with a turn-ove- r of a billion dollers a year. among the cotton farmers of the South GIVE US A TRIAL WORK GUARANTEED They are giving the farmers business than in any other pursuit in the country In conclusion, It seems to me that tiie f experience and training, and, so far as they go, they meet the need of fanners are chiefly striving for a gen honest Weighing and fair grading ; but eraliy beneficial integration of their they do not meet the requirements of business, of the same kind and characrationally adjusted marketing in any ter that other business enjojs. If it should be found on examination that large and fundamental way. The next step, which will be a pat- - the attainment of this end requires tern for other groups, Is now being ' methods different from those which through other activities have followed for the prepared by the grain-raiser- s 1 the establishment of sales media which same purpose should we not sympn the shall handle grain separately or colthetically consider the plea if only from our 1 right to lectively, as the Individual farmer may i led. It is this step the plan of the own enlightened self Interest, in ah Committee of Seventeen which has taining an abundant and steady flow of created so much opposition and Is farm products? In examining the agricultural situn thought by some to be In conflict with the anti-trulaws. Though there is tion with a view to its Improvement, we shall be most helpful If we mainnow before congress a measure de-- ! a detached and judicial viewpoint, tain on to this doubt clear signed up point, are not relying on remembering that existing wrongs may the any immunity from anti-trulegisla- - be chiefly an accident of unsymmetrl-ca- l t economic growth instead of a creation. They desire, and they are en-- 1 their efforts Just tion of malevolent design and conspiratitled, to h as effectively as the large business in-- ! cy. Ye Americans are prone, as Prohis in. terests of the country have done. In fessor David Friday well says 1 connection with the selling organlza- - admirable book, Profits, Wages and bea intent criminal seek to United Grain tions the .States Growers Prices, ecoIncorporated Is drafting a scheme of hind every difficult and undesirable asnomic situation." I can positively financing Instrumentalities and auxiliof ary agencies which are indispensable sert from my contact with men Do you realize the importance of your rubbers? Tbey to the successful utilization of modern large affairs, including bankers, that, keep your feet dry, prevent falls on icy walks, protect as a whole, they are endeavoring tc business methods. It is essential that the farmers fulfill as they see them the obligations your shoes from destructive soakings. should proceed gradually with these that go with their power. Preoccupied V Ball-Ban- d Rubbers do all these things, and tbey plans, and aim to avoid the error of with the grave problems and heavy also give Longest Wear, at Lowest Cost per you inr.nedi.ite affairs, tasks of their own scrapping the existing marketing maWear. their not turned Days thoughtful have so been which lias laboriously they chinery, built up by long experience, before personal attention or tlieir constructive abilities to the deficiencies of ngrl they have a tried and proved substicultural business organization Agritute or supplementary mechanism. culture, it may be said, suffers from They must be careful not to become enmeshed in their own reforms and their preoccup.nl! n and neglect rather lose the perspective of their place in than from any purposeful exploitation the national system. They must guard by them. They ought now to begin to respond to the farmer., difihmities, against fanatical devotion to new docWe sell ' Ball-Ban- d Rubbers because they are strong which they must realize are tlieir own trines, and should seek articulation g and durable, and We have with On the other hand, my contacts with the general economic system who customers ask filled with me Rubbers the for have respect always many the farmers destruction as reckless its rather than with the Red Ball Trade Mark, because they know it for them for tlieir sanity, their pait relates to them. "" stands for Quality. tience, their balance. Within tlie last year," and particularly at a meeting V Sizes and styles, for men. women and children. called by the Kansas State Board of To take a tolerant and sympathetic '& called at another and by Agriculture view of the fanners strivings for betI have of Seventeen, ter things is not io give a blanket the Committee $ of the leaders of tlie new endorsement to any specific plan, and met many in and all I movement, rt testify still less to applaud the vagaries of farm to are I. that they endeavoring sincerity and leaders some of tlieir groups. problems, not as proNeither should we, on the other hand, deal with atheir moters of narrow class interest, not allow the froth of bitter agitation, as exploiters of the hapless consumer, false economics', and mistaken radicalnot as merciless monopolists, but as farmism to conceal the facts of the honest ment bent on the improvement ers disadvantages, and the practicabilot the common weal. ity of eliminating them by We can and must meet such men measures. It may be that the cause half way. Their farmers will not show the business ipt suchIs aour business1the nations j bwlneaa 1 leader-the wise and develop sagacity feMlness. sound ; bat to carry through plans ship mm that possibility does aot justify the BECAUSE 8 8 EACH BOTTLE PURCHASED On All Cash Sales Amounting To And Over We Give GOOD PRICES ON ALL SOAP pro-duc- WATCH FOR OUR MAGAZINE WINDOW 8II Our Patrons Know Our U, S. Brand Of Rubber Goods FORBIDDEN FRUIT Try Health A s' We Quote Now 8 8 8 For Beaverage City Meat Market weil-beit&- $$$ 9 a $$$$$$$$0 v 9 Buy Your 9 u $ $Q r $ $ Sweets At j Tl)e 11 st Harry Volk cne-thir- J igtstseaggisa; nfeSEsag; -- n , j PER YEAR $1.50 . RICH COUNT! NEWS ! st grain-produce- 3E st saar83 m OATS s'?? WANTED IN TRADE '1 !sq j well-fittin- WILL MAKE YOU 600D PRIGFS ON ALL KINDS g. h OF FIRST CUSS MFRCHANISE Sold By . Blyth & Fargo co. Evanston good-lookin- II Wyoming Rich County Furniture Co. I mm |