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Show S - - . PROVO POST TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1922 THE PROVO POST The Goal of the Future Farmer " Provos Popular Newspaper Published Tuesday and Friday Evenings by . THE POST PUBLISHING COMPANY Phone 13 Entered at the Postofflee at Ptoto, Utah, as Second-clas- s 125 West Center-St- . iEditor NEPHI C. HICKS One Year Six Months Three Months HOLDS AMERICAN FARMER IN looks something like this: 1913: DEATH VALLEY PERIOD. Snbecrlption Rates (In Advance) Government Agricultural Head Gives Hopes for Better Future, However; Declares Farms Must Be Placed on Scientific Basis. and Manager Buying power! 1920: Farm income Buying power Since the current year, thus far, certainly has been no more favorable to the farmer than was 1920, we may gain from the plight of these Indiana farmers a fairly good idea of tie p&kt of the American farmer at large. It should be borne in mind in this connection that the above comparisons are . drawn on the basis of wholesale prices that the farmer at retail and sells at Janly buys and that retail prices are wholesale, still relatively very much higher than wholesale prices. It is also important to note that, though ?ale Prices have fallen since 1920, len much farther than those of other commodities: With these facts in view, it is clear that we have not shown the condition of these Indiana farmers in its worst possible aspect. Some farmers have doubtless done better in the past year and a half than have these men; many, especially in the South, certainly have not On the whole, I done so well. think we may say that the above is a conservative statement of a represen- Matter. By H. C. TAYLOR. Chief of the Bureau of Markets, U. 2 go S. Dept, of Agriculture1. 1.25 Editors Note. H. C. Taylor .78 chief of the Bureau of Markets for the United States Department of Agriculture, is both a scientific and : etter Living SAVE business practices must prevail over the haphazard methods of the era of American agriculture. Knowing this, he will realize that the steady flow of profit necessary to the successful prosecution of hl3 business and the happiness of his family will depend on the way in which he gauges his production with reference to demand, and on the efficiency with which he grows and markets his products, rather than on his skill or luck in handling real estate. Cash and . cus-yea- rs whole-conditio- ns i I I i - ( - m ! ar . j J r CTMTfoySST COMPLETE LINE 28 WEEK ENDING, OCTOBER SLUMP BRINGS GOOD. COPIES 1838 POSTS SWORN CIRCULATION, From this viewpoint, at least, the farmer. While has slump is not an unagricultural of and intensive specialization WEALTH mixed TO since its tendency is to REAL WAGES BOY evil, FARM shake out of the running the type of farmer whose influence has tended When a i certain cattle boat sailed for South America re- - i to keep down the prices of farm proof task Johnson from bull Kansas, the actual county, Hereford understanding a ducts and lower the standard of livcently, purebred which confront the Am- ing on the farm. To the progressive was on board and Bert Hemphill, the Kansas farm boy who erican farmer. He is as recognized farmer, who certainly has been hard raised the bull, held in his hand a check for $1,025.00. one of the men who will light the hit by the slump, this may seem VisIt was the price he received for the bull calf, inBright poor consolation now, but as the growing situaiton develops it seems likely age after seventeen months of1 spare time work that the advantage will swing more out the calf. . and more to hi3 side. The farmer a of a as member Bert got into the purebred cattle business who is fitted to cope with the new Hereford calf club formed in his county. Each member of the situation is the farmer who is able to adjust himself promtly to the new club bought a heifer .which was bred to a good bull. The re- breedas Hereford a start members club the conditions, and who sees that, in the sulting calves gave long run, the cause of agriculture GTS of rural life in general is served and and Three children in the Hemphill family joined the club, or raising the stanby maintaining situation. tative were two sisters a heifer. Berts each on them of dard the farm, rather their father bought living Is it possible to glean any comfort all than too young to take care of their Herefords, so Bert did the work. by surplus profit to using from such a situation? o fland when there bid the weU calf up The price first standbut economic time much it very From the It didnt, take pud ln more bidders than the profits of mIght a8 well admlt onM point it takesstrictly very close study of the j are the on which the Hemphills lRter sold for mo e jor ailwjthat to b 6 bora old of soil will justify. the good times" the toa bias price curves, and perhaps than a thousand dollars. After all, better living is the true ward optimism, to detect signs of imof farmer business. There the In less than three years they have built up a herd of sixteen goal as provement, but it begins to look is no more biting commentary on and source constant of a is which curve has Herefords farm pride the price though purebred our modern life than that cynical has been named Sunnyside Heredipped as low as it is going on this profit.' The Hemphill farmname aphorism to which it has given curswing. ford Farm, and the firm proudly printed on the letterbusiness' is business. That rency MORE OPTIMISTIC. business should become its own head is John A. Hemphill and Son. A wise father finds it easy one as some in is another has There stimview, to synonym, livestock put it, is bred point to keep hisson on a farm which has pure a is the farmer shameful which outlook and from the however, thing, ulate interest in the farming operations.; If we who thinks of the farming business oullIlu as,uuuulJ more definiely encouraging. Young Bert Hemphill is an earnest student of the pure bred and animal husbandry, and a knowi- - urn for the time from the cold, sta- - as having no object beyond mere of the cost of production and of j tfVticaf viewpoint, and "consider The financial success is in a fair way to business. He attends every sale of Hereford cattle within range, edge market conditions. Henceforth we situation from that of human life on miss the best of life. visits the stock shows and fairs, studies the cattle and reads There is a great class of forward-lookin- g He )is becoming an expert in selecting and .uactont thf farm in- its reIfatiT1tT T?at ,we . Hereford literature. wlAi SeMuomsona Hrvl farmers in this country who economics, iliAnoonH a farming basis, rather than as a side ation holds promise strangely in con- - know better than that. We may rest judgmg cattle. He is determined that praising lar calf which was sold to South America is not going to be his assured that these men, in working out the vexing problems that the only achievement. agricultural slump has spawned, will The three heifers which the Hemphills bought cost $325 not be so foolish as to forget that the more the to than them original each. The first sale returned in the long run to make for better question of the financial future of investment. farm homes and a higher standard of American farming is inextricably We think that it is easier to make money from Herefords living on the farm,, but there is an connected with the question of betaspect in which our present loss ter living in the farm home and the than anything else on the farm,, says young Bert. And I am worst is now past. The consuming 'I?sl kadow decide1 sain farm community. going to stick right to the job until we have one of the best public that respect. seems to have no conception herds wie can possibly develop. Ruins identified as those of Nen-druWe are all familiar with the farm- of the plight in which the farmer has so common in the Monastery, one of the earliest been left by the slump in farm prices. er of that All that the consumer knows is that past, whose only idea of efficiency is Christian monasteries in Ireland, retail prives have not come down to to rob the soil to the limit, and whose have been found at Mahee Island, idea of a way to use profits is Strangford Lough, near Belfast. Exlevel, and only anywhere near the pre-wto are no committed them irf more land, and tensive excavations have revealed whom invest to are, he may assume that the farmer is Those heavy responsibilities more still land. Strangely enough, valuable material. Writings, beto them. as a rule, those who are afraid of them or unequal to lieved be of Danish to seem would which origin, have of fact, he is getting smaller this course, Many a man is willing to accept a smaller wage and an hum-- 1 matter been unearthed. to financial at least lead prosperity, returns for his products than he ble station so that he may enjoy the privilege of knocking a boss serves to defeat its own end. The in'dollars in and will that 1913, The game of polo originated in effort to invest farm proor passing the buck to the man higher-up- . buy only about half as much per dol- - continual and from that country It to Persia, bid the more land tends in fits up as 1913 would much world how lar his can dollars. a tell he the as subordinate As long he is over the East, taking root level of land the spread justibeyond price j in and India in Constantinople under better heX wouid do things if heViowere in supreme command be TruFunnrl and the fied return from land, s. by emperors. the Byzantine epartmentf of cost would Yield Ydustei producTf to the , very Increase s, thus things annual analysis of th.e busi-in tion V y increasing tile charge for th my way made an lOO only ness of farms representative different Yve do2a for the past eight use of land. At the same time the Indiana rot really want the leading, directing, designing central But years. In 1913 the average net in- - effort to justify the investment tends ,e for which he is not fit. of these the return for to increase production, irrespective Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown is true for more both labor andfarms capital, was $1503. of market demands. Thus we have business than that of being a king. In 1920 the net income was onlv a vicious circle about which the of bur-- i $1269. However, this failing off farmer chases the , It means the head of any going concern has to carry a his to effort find that not does measure the actual decline profit, only den' his payroll does not share. farmer s income, for in 1920 has increased the price of land and He has to find the money. . He has to fight the market. He (Wholesale prices of commodities oth- - lowered the price of the products of has to face competitors anxious to do him m and plow him j er than farm pr0ducts averaged more the land. The day of this kind of farming under. . Worry may rob him of sleep, while the underling than times as high as is about over. The farmer of the new in 1913. prices knocks off at 5 and presents himself at the window on payday !the corresponding are it: to least at. j and shuts work out . of his mind entirely when he is not on the job. 1920 income to buy ?hnqpknfWthe j2;59 ,lis rhasinehis tail; dollar dog Nothing is easier than to denounce a man who is doing some-- 1 would have bought in 1913. con-thin- g that in effect they serve to put him and for doing it wrong. To help him carry the load is harder sequentiy, with a total smaller by in competition with himself, to lead agriover to a that dollar shrunk and periodically they $200, to talk against him. than He knows that Yn "eiesuon cultural depression. It sometimes seems a mystery why men seek power when , a fundamental industry, is farming ' we observe the penalty they must pay for eminence in the cal- - would that the laborer is worthy of his hire, buy not more than one-thir- d ereA name not is as as and themselves. for that he is entering upon an era draw much would the average upon spotless umny they n 1913sound agronomy and sound which in this basis, the situation ated overnight; it takes a long time to tauild, and there are those old-fashion- ed FOR CASH MOMEY-BU- V soil-exploitati- on imJBS Farm incomet --B- lbs. Sugar lbs. Sugar lb. Sack Turkey Red Flour lb. Sack Patent Flour Meal 9 lb. Sack White or Yellow Com 9 lb. Sack Germade. 7 Gallon size can Pumpkin- Gallon size can Pierces Catsup Gallon size can Tomatoes Gallon size can Cherries 5 lb. Crock Jelly Fancy Dressed Chickens, lb. A No. 1 Salt Bacon, lb 5 lb. Pail Swifts Silver Leaf Lard 2 lb. Pail Snowdrift 4 lb. Pail Snowdrift 8 lb. Pail Snowdrift Quart Bottle New, Honey 7 100 10 48 48 Quart Bottle Barley Malt Syrup 2 Pkgs. None Such Mince Meat 2 Pkgs. Evaporated Royal Ann Cherries Coffee 1 lb. can Country; Club MORE FOR THE MONEY. $8.34 85c $1-4- 0 $1.20 306 35c .35c rjQc "i 75c 45 3QC 22c qc 'a7 c V"1 fic- - 40c NO CHARGE. NO DELIVERY. 450 West Center Sti, Provo. WHO SAID COAL? Why, we have plenty of coal coal to burn, good, clean coal that will burn when you want it to, and make your fire clear and bright when you need it. Dont hold off thinking coal prices are going down no, not that we know of? Let us fill your order now and you will probably save money. Smoot & Spafford PHONE 17 After everybody gets well During the fiscal year ended June who will do the work? 30, 1922, exports from this country totaled in value $3, 770, 000, 000, as against the $6,516,000,000 value of exports in the previous fiscal year. It seems to us that as an Institu-totaleDuring the same period imports in value $2,608,000,000, aS tion marriage is worthy of being 01 the $3j654,000,000 value of alogued with other institutions imports in the previous fiscal year. I learning. a day are making $26 We note that the eastern woman In JPIasterers But then, you must reChicago. who tried to drown her troubles him into the river has failed. member they have to live in Chicago. d cat-again- st I I j will-o-the-wi- two-and-a-h- sp Farmers51 aif Produce - ! - j wlo will snatch it from us in an instant if they can. Gossip that wrecks, rumor that brands, is the sort That socially is preferred. Whether one rules a country, or an industrial enterprise, or a church, or any other institution, one must expect to be assailed by tongues that wag, and are vindictive, and desire to create a sensation rather than to communicate the truth. The responsible thus are pilloried by the irresponsible ; the industrious are defamed by the lazy ; the patriots are lampooned and decried by some utterly wanting in the readiness to serve or sacrifice. Yet there are always those who for dutys sake will take up their cross and carry it. They do not love power because they court mens wonder and mens praise. They are so constituted that they are not content with sinecures, the cushioned places, the safe berths. Those who like to hide, and be secure, and drowse in the shade, always will provide the ambitious with plenty to do. Philadelphia Public Ledger. Have Your Freight Shipped Between PROVO AND SALT LAKE via j , ; THE UTAH CENTRAL TRUCK LINE PROMPT SERVICE ' WE HAUL HOUSEHOLD GOODS When Ordering, Designate Our Line WRECKERS OF PROSPERITY PHONE As industrial activity increases and demand for labor grows, the bfighting hand of the radical labor agitator of the I. W. W. stripeNs again seen trying to create dissatisfaction among the TWO DARK SIDES workers. Cyrus Rasp ran a grocery store In quoting from the I. W. W. revolutionary edict, we find' down on the corner for about 26 the following: We are not satisfied with the fair days wage for years, related old Riley Rezzidew of a fair days work. Such a thing is impossible. Labor produces Petunia, and as he done so utilized all wealth. We are going to do away with capitalism by taking about half of his time in denouncing the public for a lot of thieving hypossession of the land and the machinery of production. We pocrites, who prayed loudly with one dont intend to buy them either. hand on the Sabbath and beat him Commenting on such a statement, the Wyoming State out of his just dues with the other Tribune says : The question would naturally arise in the mind on week days, figgeratively speaking, he ort to know, if of the professional man, the merchant and the teacher, the clerks of course. Said 65 per cent of all that did, anybody and more particularly fifteen or twenty million farmers, by what humanity was intentionally dishonright does the I; W. W. group or any pther group of men claim a est. full and exclusive right to all wealth and to all land? Well, then a feller came along and gave him about twice what it It behooves every good citizen who values his country, wras for his store. And ever his home and family, to stand firm against the propagation of since worth he has been declaring that 90 such doctrines. There is a persistent insiduous movement in per cent of the retailers are and althis country not only to destroy property rights, but the au- ways have been thieves and robbers, and mentioning that he ort to know thority of the courts. if anybody does. And as far as I can make out, hes pretty nearly right on A man may go along for years with a reputation for being both Kansas City propositions. Star. then an and automobile. suddenly buy thrifty J ' ( It would be interesting to hear the fish story of the fish that got away. A prohibitionist may be a spiritualist and still not believe in spirits. 1 Pure-bre- d live stock will replace the crub stock of SouthtAfrica soon, if plans of the secretary of agriculture of Rhodesia mature. Probably nobody is a good loser, but a diplomat pretends to be. When you can get the work 74 One of Our Mottoes: BUY WHERE YOU CAN BUY THE CHEAPEST. That is what we do. If you do this you will be trading at the PEOPLES 8TORE. We are here to make everyone of your pennies count. Our tent is small and our profits are small, thats why we can sell so cheap. 35c Cotton Hose 55c Ladies Silk Lisle Hose Our Price $1.00 Ladies Silk Hose 20c Percale, 36-ilight, yd ., n. How do You Like the 99 Change 25c 45c 75c 16c 16c 5c 15c 20c Gingham, 27-inyd. 5c Shoe Laces, 2 pair 25c Mens Garters 20c Mens Arrow Brand Collars, 2 for 25c 69c $1.0 Mens Knit Ties 98c $1.25 Mens Overalls $2.10 $2.75 Mens Khaki Pants It costs nothing to look. Come and see. Democratic County Co: inn ittee THE PEOPLES STORE 113 North University Avenue (Political Advertisement.) A lot of people take a chance only to find that the chance took them. j I - |