The Tyrone Observer. (Tyrone, Okla.), Vol. 18, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 2, 1922 Page: 4 of 10
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PRICES AMD LAMPS
IN STOCK
THE GENUINE MAZDA LAMP
25 Watt, Clear ♦ • 40c each
40 Watt, Clear • 40c each
50 Watt, Clear • • 40c each
50 Watt White C 4 60c each
60 Watt Clear - • 45c each
75 Watt Clear • 70c each
100 Watt Clear • $1.00 each
100 Watt Daylight C 2 1.15 each
200 Watt Clear 1.90 each
50 Watt Clear, Mill Type 45c each
Electric Irons $5.00 to $7.25 each
Hot Point Sv.eepers, complete $50.00
Fuses (or both city and country plants
Palmer & Kraft
Hogs Wanted
If you hav« hogs to soil «•
or phon«
JOHN DTE ERNEST WOODWARD
128L PW28K
REPAIRING
M your Watch, Clock or
Jewelry needs Repairing bring
or tend it to us.
Our Prices are reasonable
Our Service is prompt
We guarantee our work
Special attention given to
work mailed to us.
We know we can please
you.
Give us a trial.
SFONER-MALONE
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Fine line of bar candy at th
Thomas Variety Store. All le.
Jewelers
liberal
Kansas
Bow about a coaster wagon for that
Boy and girl Palmer A Kraft has a
real assortment.
English Strain Single Comb White
Leghorn efrfrs for sale at 11 00 per
actting or S6 00 per hundred. - Mrs W.
A. King. S7-7t
For Sale-Registered Poland Chins
Boars six months old. — S. Vanghn,
Dombey. Okie. 87-4
The Dempster windmill rua> la
oil and doea not leak out. Sold by
H. W. Cain, Tyrone. Okla. 11-tf.
Crepe paper. S rolls for a quarter
Thomas Variety Store.
Palmer A Kraft'a sales are larger
than they were at this time a year ego
Why? Juat simply beceuee their
prices are in line with Grain prices
Woeb not insured must be endured
ee WRAY today about that insurant
48 tf
Plain white granite eupa and
saucers, for 91.IS per sat. Cups
only 91.10 per set at Thomas Vari-
ety Store.
For Sale-Ten head of horses and
mules. -Hayden Say lor 10 tf
Get your harneaa supplies at Palmer
& Kraft'a Do your repairing before
y in need ti« harness
MONEY MONEY MONEY
Farm
Loans
For best rates and prompt service
SEE
Frank Parkes, Hooker, Okla.
Farmers & Merchants Bank Building
Some Aspects of the
Farmers' Problems
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
nUprlated fross Atlantic Monthly)
The whole r%f%1 wor\4 Is ti a fer
•eat ef aareet. a ad there ta aa un
paralleled voJume sad tateaslty of de-
termlaed. If aot angry, protest, and aa
•cslaooe swarming of occupation*, eo
tor—rea, internet groupings, political
aeveaenta tad prwpefmeda. Sucb s
t smell esau/it but arrest ear ette*-
Mm. Indeed, tt demands ear careful
stoly sad esamtaatioa. U la aot Ilka
I# that an asllllaa alaaf aad rust*"'
ladeoeadsat ssaa bava same together
and banded theaeeleee latu active
aaioaa. aeeiettaa. fana bureaus, aad ae
forth, far ae sufficient causa
tavestlfatlea ef the aabjeet eoacla
alvely proves that while there ta aorfe
overstatement of fHeraaeae and atls
ceaceptloa ef remedies, the farmers
are right la complaining of wrongs
long endured, and rtght in holding that
M la faaaihle ta relieve their Ilia with
baaeSt te the rest of the community
Thla being the rage of aa industry
that eeatrtbstaa, ta the raw material
farm alone, about one-third of the oa
Sloaal annual wealth production and
la the ateaaa of livelihood of about 40
par real ef the population, It la ob
eleaa that the eubjeet ta eoa ef grave
coorera. Not only «a the farmer*
make up one-helf of the nation. but
the well-being ef the ether half de
peade upoa thaau
So long as we have nations, a wise
pel It rial economy will aim at a large
degree ef national eelf-euAclency and
aelf-contalnmenL Rome fell when the
food aupply waa too far removed rroa
the belly. Uke her. we aball destroy
our owa agriculture and extend our
sources ef food dlatantly and precart
eusly, if we do aot sea te It tbst our
farmers are well end fslrly paid for
their servlcea The farm glvea the
nstlon men as well as food Cities
derive tbstr vitality and are forever
reaewed from the country, but an Im-
poverished countryside exports Intelli-
gence aad retains nnlntelllgrnca
Only the lower grsdae of mentsllty
and character will remain oa. or seek,
the farm, unless agriculture Is capable
of being puraued with contentment and
adequate compensation. Hence, to em-
bitter end Impoveiiah the fermer Is to
dry up end contaminate the vital
aourcee ef the aatloa.
The war showed convlactngly bow
dependent the nation Is on the full
productivity of the farms. Despite
hen-ulesa efforts, agricultural produc-
tion kept only a few weeks or months
ahead of consumption, and thst only
by Incresslng the ecreege of certsln
stable crops at the cost of reducing
tliSt of uthere. We ought not to for-
get thst lesson when we ponder on
the farmer's problems. Tliey are truly
common proMeru*. and there should
be no attempt '<> deal with them as
If tliey were purely nelfl*ti ,'emand*
ef a clear-cut group, atitug>>ui ttc tc
the re>t of the ciMumunlty. Bathei
should we cunalder sgrlcnlturs In liu
light of broad national policy. Jus;
aa we consider <>11. coal, steel, d>e
stuffs, slid SO f.rth nc «:ikws of n-
tlonal strength <V r growing r>npuln
tloa and a higher wtandard of llvlnv
dsmand increealng f'«>d supplies. t n
more wool, cotton, hides, und the real
With the disappearance <f free <>>
eheep fertile land, aldltlonal scrivijc
and Increased yields can come on'«
from costly effort. Tl.'.s we seed not
aspect from aa Impoverished or un
happy rural populate*
It will not do to take a narrow view
ef the rural discontent, or to appraise
It from the stsndpolnt of yesterdej
This Is peculiarly an age of flux sn*
ehsnge sad new desls. Beosuss e
thing always hss been so no longer
means that It Is righteous, or slways
ehell be so If ore, per heps, then ever
before, there la a wldespresd feeling
that eli human relations can be Im-
proved by taking thought end that It
la aot becoming for tha reasoning ani-
mal to leare his deetlny largely to
chance and natural Incidence
Prudent and orderly adjustment of
production end distribution In accord
aaco with conaumptlon la recognised
as wise management ta every buelnese
but that of fanning. Yet, I venture
to nay, there la ao other ladustry la
w*lch It la so Importaat to the pub
Uc—to the city-dweller—that produc
tloa should be sura, steady, and In
crossing. aad that distribution ehould
be ta properties ta the need. The un
orgnnlsed fermers naturally act hllnS
ly and Impulnlvely end, in conse
quence, surfeit snd dearth, sccomps
nled by disconcerting price-variations,
hsraas the consumer. One yesr pots
toee rot in the flelde because of excess
production, snd there Is s scarcity of
the things thnt hnve been dlsplsced
to mske way for the expansion of the
potato acreage; next year the punlah
ed farmers maaa their fields on some
other crop, snd potatoes enter the
clase of luxurlea; and ao on.
Agriculture la the greatest and fun
damentally tha moat Important of our
American Induetriee. The cltlea are
but the braachaa of the tree of na
tlonal life, the roots ef which go deep
|y Into the lend. We all flourish or
decline with the fnrroer. So. when we
sf the cities read of the present unl-
veraal diet rasa of the fermers. of a
slump of six billion dollars In the farm
value of their crops In s single year,
ef their laabtiity te meet mortgagee or
to pey current bills, and buw, seeking
relief from their ills, they sre plan
alag te form pools, lasugurmts farm
ere' strikes and demand leglalatloa
aboiiehtag grata eichangca, private
cattle marketa. and the Ilka, w* ought
aot baetlly to brand them as economic
beretha and highwaymen, and burl at
thetn the charge «f being seekers of
special privilege Rather, we should
aak If their trouble la not ours, and
e«-e what can be dona ta improve the
situation. Purely from eeif-lnterest.
If for no higher motive, we should
help them All of us want to get back
permanently to "normalcy;" but Is ll
reasonable to hope for that condition
ualeaa our greateat and most basic la
duetry can be put on a e<>und and s Hd
permanent foundation? The fermers
ere not entitled to apectal prlvllegea.
hut are tbey not right In demanding
thst they be plsced on sn equal foot
ing with the buyers of their products
sad with other industries)
Let na, then, consider some of the
farmer's grlevaocoe. end see bow fnr
tbey are real In doing eo, we ehould
remember thnt, irhlle there have been,
and still are. Inarancaa of pnrpossful
abuse, the subject should aot be sp
prosched with say general Impntatloa
to existing distributive sgenrles of de
Mberately intentional oppression, but
rather with the conception thai the
marketing of fans products has aot
been modernised.
▲n snctent evil, and a persistent
one, le the undergrsdlng of fsrm prod
acta, with tha result thst what the
farmers sell as of one quality is rw
sold ss ef a higher Thst this sort of
chicanery should persist oa sny tm-
portsnt scale In these dsys of bust
nesa integrity would seem almost In
credible, but there le much evidence
that It does so persist. Even ss I
write, the newspapers snnounce the
euspenslon of several firms from the
New York Produce Exchange for ex-
porting to Germany aa No. 2 wheat a
whole shipload of grossly Inferior wheat
mlxsd with oats, chaff and tha like
Another evil Is that of Insccurste
weighing of fsrm products, which, It
la charged, Is sometimes a matter of
dishonest Intention snd sometimes of
protective policy on the pert of the
locel buyer, who fears that he may
"weigh out" more than he "weighs la"
A greater grievance Is thst st prea
ent the field farmer hss little er n<>
control over the time snd conditions
of msrketlng his products with the
reault thst he ts often underpsld for
his products and usually overchsrged
for msrketlng service. The differ
ence between whet the fermer ro-
■ elves snd whst the consumer pays
oftea exceede sll possibility of Jnstl
ficstlea. To dts a single lllustrstloa
last year, according to figures sttest
ed by the railways and the growers
Georgia watermelon ralsera received
oa the everage 7.B cents for s melon
the rallrosds got 12.7 cents for carry
ing tt to Baltimore and the coneumar
paid one dollar, leevlng -79 8 cents for
tbs service of merketlng and Its risks,
aa against 20.2 cents for growing aad
trsnaportlng The hard annals of
farm-life era replete with sucb com
menterlee on the crudesess ef preo
ent prsctlces
Neture prescribes thnt the farmer s
"gooda" must be flolshed within two
or three montha of the year, whll*
financial end storege limitations gen
orally compel him to eel) them at tb
same tlma As a rule, other Industry
are in s continuous process of finish
Ing goods for the markets; they dl
tribute aa they produce, and they can
curtail production without too great
Injury to themselves or the commu
nlty: but If the farmer restricts hl
output, it Is with disastrous conse
quences, both to himself and to th
community.
The average farmer Is busy with
production for the major pari of the
year, and haa nothing to aeil. Th *
bulk of his output comee on the msr
ket et once. Because of lack of stor
age farllltiee and of financial support
tbs fsrmer cannot carry his goods
through ths year and dispose of them
ae they are currently needed. In the
greet majority of cases, farmen have
to entrust storage—In warehouses snd
elevators—and the financial carrying
of their products to others
Parm products sre generally msr
keted st • tims when there Is a coo
geetlon of both transportation and
flnance—when cora snd money are
scarca The outcome. In many tn
stances, la that the farmera not only
sell under pressure, snd therefore at
s dlssdvantago, but are compelled te
take further reductions tn net returns,
in ordsr to meet the charges for the
service of storing, transporting, flnanc
ing, snd ultimate marketing—which
charges they claim, are often excee
slve. bear heavily on both consume*
ind producer, and are under the «>n
trol of those performing the aervicee
tt le true that tliev are relieved of
he risks of s chancing market by
telling ei once; but they are quite will
Do You Know
that farm machinery is
now cheaper figuring
the present prices of
grain than ever before?
Find out what you need
and then get our prices.
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All kinds of feed rolled every Saturday. Elevated back
in wagon while you wait. Can also d your carpenter
work, screens and effects. Service at all times. Call
and see us. Prices right.
Now have burrs for making Corn Meal. Bring
in your corn. Regular grinding days: Tuesdays
and Saturdays.
F. L. Helton Tyrone, Okla.
Blacksmithing at the Old Stand
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