Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 23, 1923, Page 2

ae gage ange ica | Ad DR. J, E. REILLY Dentist Office, Nuxoll Block Both Phones PIPOPOPOOD IPI OPSOOOCT OO OS =a DR. J. D. SHINNICK Physician and Surgeon Office over Cottonwood St. Bk. DR. WESLEY F. ORR Physician and Surgeon Office in Simon Bldg. Both Phones SEPSS PISS H OSS E oe DR. C. SOMMER Graduate License VETERINARIAN Deputy State Veterinarian Residence North end of town Both Phones POPOPI SSH S SOHO OS HOSS KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS ¢ Cottonwood Council, 1389 % Meets the first and third Vednesday of each month. Visiting knights welcomed George Terhaar, G. K. Barney Seubert, F. S. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS McKinley Lodge No. 38 Meets every Tuesday evening. R. M. Matthiesen, C. C. John Homar, K. R. and S, THE AMERICAN LEGION Cottonwood Post No, 40 Meets 1st Monday of each month at I. O. O. F. Bert Schroeder, Com. Frank Albers, Adjutant Soameedeasoatoedonteateesecteatontecteateatonteatecdeateateeteedeteeateety FELIX MARTZEN Secretary Treasurer COTTONWOOD N. F. L. A. If it is a loan you want we can accommodate you. 5% per cent for farm loans. Insurance in the Northwest- ern Mutual.—the policy holders company with a clean record and insurance at cost. The less fire the less cost. The more fires the more cost. Every policy holder can cut down cost in a mutual by care- fullness and fire prevention. Dar aosdosdotrssraso rte rdontesoondenteatoetertenteate rion Srelodteate pistededpintrtedoinindetotetiodede bs CPPS OPES OSOS ESOS OOD JOHN REILAND 3 CONTRACTOR & BUILDER Estimates furnished om au; class of Work. Repairing promptly done. Rooke Hotel Has neat clean rooms at 50¢ and 75c per night or $3.00 to $3.50 per week. When you are in Cottonwood give us a trial. “Dad” Rooke, Prop. CATARRH Catarrh is a Local disease greatly in- fluenced by Constitutional conditions. HALL’S CATARRH MEDICINE con- gists of an Ointment which gives Quick Relief by local application, and the Internal Medicine, a Tonic, which acts through the Blood on the Mucous Sur- faces and assists in ridding your System of Catarrh. Sold by druggists for over 40 Years, ¥F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0, CHICKS FOR SALE. The time is now on hand to order baby chicks as we have a | limited hatchery right at home | it would be well to order your chicks now, in order to get them at the time you wish them. White Leghorn baby chicks, $15 per hunderd, Rhode Island Red, $25 per-hundred. 20 per cent with order. Also have agency for Queen incubators and brooder Stoves. S. E. Trautman, Cot- tonwood, Idaho. 6-4 We print butter wrappers. GUARANTEE PRICE URGED deplorab!e conditions upon the farm America; that every- where they had practiced thrift and industry. It was stated to the commit- tee that the farmers held the government responsible in a large measure for the hardships and privations they had suffer- ed in the last three years. Complaint was made that the Government had encouraged the farmers of the country to grow more farm products and more wheat, and they were told that wheat would win the war. It was not only necessary to feed our own armies but our allies were depending upon the farm- ers of this country for bread. So rigid were the rules and regulations in regard to the use of flour that the farmer accept- ed, as did the rest of the coun- try, a lower grade of flour for a time than it had been the custom to use in this country. The farmer has always been patriotic and loyal to his country In response to the call for more wheat and more farm products the farmers of this country made an increase of 26,000,000 acres in 1917, 1918, and 1919. This, together with the surplus of farm products that existed in this country, left an overproduc- tion from which the farmer has suffered to a great extent. As compared with farm values :| in 1919, there has been a shrink- age in the market price of all farm products in the last three years of something more than sixteen billion dollars, vastly more than the actual cost of our railroads and exquipmenit put to- gether. The attention of the comnnit- tee was called to the fact that Congress increased the wages of something over 1,700,000 rail- road employees 106 per cent, and by doing so stabilized the price of labor not only of the railroads but in every other industry and upon the farm as well. The committee’s attention was called to the fact that Congress, through legislation, was respon- sible for horizontal increases on all farm products of 65 per cent, and with the reduction that was made in 1922 the average in- crease to-day is 49 per cent over pre-war freight rates. It was shown that the farm- er’s dollar to-day has only a pur- chasing power of 65 cents on the average, but in some of the grain-growing states of the West the farmer’s dollar has less than 50 per cent of a pre-war purchasing power. A table was submitted show- ing that a very large per cent of the price of the farm products from Idaho to Chicago, Kansas City, and Boston is required to pay the freight. It was shown that it takes 97 per cent of the price of potatoes to pay the freight "to Chicago, 52 per cent of the price of onions, 386 per cent of the price of wheat, 13 per cent of the price of beans, 15 per cent of the price of hogs, and 8.6 per cent of the price of cat- tle, 58 per cent of the price of SEED. We have a complete stock of high grade field and garden seed. We Specalize in Alfalfa, Clover, Grass Seed Just receivéd a car of fancy seed oats, beardless barley. All Seed State Tested Write For Prices MARK MEANS COMPANY Phone 2 Lewiston, Ida. ‘ton goods, only 1% to 214 per hay to pay the freight to Kansas City, and 9 per cent of the ag 4 of wool to pay the freight to Boston. It was shown that on the higher class freight, such as the manufactures of woolen and cot- cent of the value was required to pay the freight from the fact- ories to Idaho, and on the higher class fabrics much less was re- quired. It was shown that to-day the farmer is getting on an average 112 per cent of what he received for his products in 1918, while the wholesale price of all other commodities i s 169 per cent of 1913. The farmers are complaining that the horizontal increase made by the Federal control act and the horizontal increase made by the Interstate Commerce Commission in the freight rates on farm products,* which is the same as on high-priced manu- factured goods, is unfair and un~ just and something unheard of before in railroad rate making. Ever since railroads became a factor in the commerce of this country it has been the practice to fix the freight rate on all com- moditites somewhere near what the product would bear to carry it to market, but in making these horizontal rates no thought or consideration wus given to the raw products of the country where the freight rate becomes a very large factor in the market price. We believe the farmers of America have a right to feel out- raged over forcing them to bear more than a fair share of the up- keep and operation of the rail- roads of the country . A review of the actions of the United States Grain Corporation shows conclusively that the farmers were not treated fairly by that corporation. The farmers of this country believed that when the price ot $2.20 per bushel was made by the Grain Corporation in the pri- mary markets of the country that it was to have been the minimum and not the maximum price, and on the day the price was fixed by the corporation, wheat was selling in Minneapol- is for $2.72 per bushel. The day after it was selling for $2.20 The farmers of the country, we believe very properly, have objected all along to the Govern- ment making a profit or becom- ing a speculator in the price of the products of the soil. After the Government in- creased the price of labor.in our railroads and the price of freight rates, the cost of the wheat crop of 1920 was in exeess of the price fixed by the corporation of $2.26 per bushel, an increase of 6 cents per bushel over the first price fixed by the Government. No other country in the world during the war became a specul- ator in the products of the soil. While Canada fixed a price of $2.15 at the primary markets, the Government remitted to the farmer anything that was ce- ceived over $2.15 a bushel. Ta 1920 the Canadian farmer re- ceived an average of $2.60 a bushel for his wheat, while on this side of the line the farmer was forced to be satisfied with $2.26 a bushel. An effort was made to get some information from the Grain Corporation as to the pro- fits the Government made out of handling the farmers’ wheat during the war. No report has been made by the Grain Corpor- ation up to the present time, and those in charge seem to be able to give very little informa- tion, so the committee is unable to state just how much profit the Government ‘made out of handling. the farmers’ wheat during the war. It was brought to the atten- tion of the committee that while this Government ceased pur- FOR LENT SMOKED SALMON SPICED HERRING WHOLE HERRING CODFISH HOLLAND HERRING SPECIAL—MACARONI—SPECIAL 3 pounds for 25 cents J. V. BAKER & SON Where Quality and Prices Meet chasing wheat on May 1, 1920, the English Great Britain for the crop of |4 1921, two years after the United | 3 States Grain Corporation ceased operations in this country Australia also continued her | 4 guaranty on farm products until | ¥ December 81, 1921. A witness for labor organiza- tions appeared before the com- ° mittee and testified that he was |# there to represent labor organi- zations, and that the laboring |3 men of this country were in fav- or of this measure, and that they | ¢ wanted to see the farmers of the | % country treated fairly, and were | % satisfied that they had not re-|# ceived a fair price in the last three years for many of the apricultural products. The committee’s attention was called to the fact that with great care Congress gave to the railroads a guaranty for six months after the railroads were turned back to the owner equal to the amount earned during the test period of three years previ- ous to Federal control, and that two years after the Esch-Cum- mins bill was passed the commis- sion was forced to fix rates that would earn the railroads 514 per cent and one-half of-1 per cent for betterment, with a privilege of earning 6 per cent and the right to retain a half of any amount earned above 6 per cent. The committee understands that on May 1, 1922, the Inter- state Commerce Commission continued the provisions of the Esch Cumming Act and 5 3-4 per cent was the rate fixed for the railroads to earn on a valua- tion of $18,900,000,000. The committee was reminded that the Government had not only stabilized the price of rail- road labor and railroad rates, but that the Pittman Act, stab- ilizing the price of silver at $1 an ounce, was passed on April 28, 1918. Under that act the Government must still purchase 46,000,000 ounces of domestic silver, which is estimated to be a full year’s production of the silver mines of the United States so the Pittman Act will continue in force and stabilize the price of silver at $1 an ounce until some time in 1924, The committee was reminded that the Senate is now consider- ing a bill for the subsidizing of our merchant marine. Facts were submitted showing that every year this Government is forced to pay out of the Treasury $72,000,000 more than it receives for carrying second- class mail. It was stated that the Government pays $150,000 every week for carrying the Sat- urday Evening Post through the mail, and that it costs the Gov- ernment $7,800,000 more an- nually to distribute that maga- zine to its readers than the own- ers pay to the Government for its transportation. The attention of the commit- tee was also called to the fact that Congress has just appropri- ated $56,000,000 for rivers and harbors. The committee was also re- minded that at the present time the Government is furnishing money to member banks of the Federal reserve at a discount of Aly per cent, which in turn is loaned to the farmers at an in- terest of 12 per cent. The committee bel:eves that the condition of agriculture to- day, and especially the wheat growers, is the result of the in- creased cost of production, of labor and freight rates, for which the Government is entire- ly responsible, and that this should be considered an emer- gency matter, a condition that war alone is responsible for, and that it is to the best interest of the Government for at least three years to stabilize the price of wheat. The Agricultural Committee believes that the best interests of the country will be served by the stabilization of the price of wheat for at least three years, and for that reason it reported Senate bill 4478 favorably, with amendments, and asks that is be eg consideration by the Sen- ate. CALL FOR WOOD BIDS. Bids will be received until Tuesday, February 27, 1923 for the furnishing of 80 cords of four foot wood to be delivered in the school yard, Cottonwood and ricked up by Sept. 1, 1928. Bidder to specify kind of wood he will furnish. M. M. Belknap, clerk Cottgn- wood Independent School Dis- trict No. 8. 8-2 We repair all makes of bat- teries. Cottonwood Garage. 30-tf Government. contin-.|3 ued its bonus to the farmers of |# Will Handle Millinery + We assure our customers that in due time we shall be in a posi- tion to supply your wants in mil- linery. Already we have arranged with some of the best coat houses to ship for your inspec- tion consignments of the sea- son’s newest creations direct from the style centers and you will be pleased to have the op- portunity to shop at home from a line that will compare with the best in the country. DRESS . 3881 Transfer 10575 STANDARD DESIGNER PATTERNS with THE BELROBE 4 Watch our advertisements for announcements. Leggett Mercantile Company He aeteeetet eS SS ne he SL e Think of the back aches it can save mother or wife Sold on easy payments. Ask those who own one. Grangeville Electric light & Power Co, Simon Bros. 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