Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-04
The Strawpi1e



f, be a carpenter or doctor. should he find
! temporary employment on a building
or in a physicians office
AS Henry Wallace we'll says, Such
a man may find a place In the coal
mines, or may be auSht to pick or
anges or to weed uSa beets or to do
the lower grades of work in mills and
factories, but the idea OF q man who
never drove a horse in hts Life. who
mflEed q COW. and never handled
a piece of machinery, being an efficient
n profitable worker on the farm until
he has been educated to IT, Is simply
absurd and ridiculous"
So here We are, with two distinct
men. one a professional, the other
anything, or rather nothing. and gener
ally the latter demands the same or
about the same wage hat the former
does, and not infrequently the former
is asked or expected to work for about
the same a the latter asks.
lis Is wrong, just as D as any
other distinct injustice. Il one OF these
hobo ~no11en1ttes can hammond S25 or
$50 a month the trained, experienced
farm hand who IA hitch up. feed,
care for and handle from -four to eight
! BOO0 IA VI 6Qs A4UQ Oh IdIIU INA.
chinery, or work, and direct the work
in any field on the whole farm, as
! many a regulation hired man can when
the owner is away, ought to command
at least two if not three tines these
wages. The br1cklayer gets from IS to
81 a day, but the p~iceed-up help who
Carries the brick or mortar to him, or
leads the horse that pulls It to his
level, Is glad II he can get 81, or even
less. The carpenter gets $3.50 or $50
| per day, while the ~nondescript help
who can barely howell and whe the
dirt from the cellar, 10 glad to get $3.50
OF a little more. Why should his
trained expert with horses. land, stock
and machinery not be paid for his edu-
cation and experience Just as other ex-
perts are?
There is not a single good reason
why, only that average farming may
not pay a profit to warrant It. Their
by all pay the hobo less. but do
not put the two men on the same basis.
But can not we pay the expert, No. l
hired mar a little Ore When the
writer was just beginning TO do a
mans work in the lumber woods. on
the river" and about the farm, it took
five Of us to bind after a John p.
Nanny. Walter A. Wood, or other
reaper. 1t took a good man to drive
the reaper, and a still better one to
pitch Off" and two more TO carry to-
gether the bundles and shock them.
Now a good man used to horses
and machinery Will care for the team
and machine inc go into the field alone
and cut bind and carry together
ready for shocking. more grain than
the whole crew of eight men used
| TO without the ShncIaor ~, attha~ -
And so 1t is with the weeder and the
hoe. the check row planter and the
Old way. the mower and the scythe. the
cuitivasors and the ttreshing achine
n we get as high, yes much higher
prices for our grain and other products
as a rule, tina we did then.
we know all about this hired man
business from all sides; We were hired
for a good many years. and for a. good
many more we have hired others. and
We know that, as a rula enough differ
ence is not made between the really
expert hired man and the mere helper.
Leaking Grain Cars.
Here Is the way the Northwest
iFarmer of Winnipeg goes after the
leak1ng car business:
IN our last issue we agreed to pub
lish free OF charge q list Of all grain
cars reported to US as being noticed
by anyone in the process Of leaking
ihis VIII put the owner in hne to re-
cover Tor his loss from the rai~oad
company We also offered to paw 81
IN cash TO any person who thus fur
n1shed the evidence that would enable
n OF our subscribers to collect for
such a loss. we will not, Of course
publish the. names OF those who send
US the Information, but can supply the
! names and addresses Of such persons
II desired. to the wner of the car
when we hear from him. We desire
every person who notices a car leaking
anywhere to carefully note the car
number. the road to which it belongs,
and Inform US OF these and such other
facts - are of material Importance
In the case.
Sin this issue we have the following
leakages to report: Car No. 1850,
c. p. r, observed at Regina, on Sept.
81. leakage due to draw bal pulling
out, fully fifty. bushels lost. Car Nc.
41134. observed at Regina, on Sept.
"a, leaking badly from q hole about
one inch In diameter.
If any a d knows who owns
these cars, we ahould like to hear from
him. we wish to get In touch with the
owner.
AL cars loaded with wheat, should
be looked over with the greatest care
not only before loading. but afterward,
and II possIDio efse. @ .-c He.n
switched about the yard and placed in
the train. Then, II not before, a leak
| IL almost certain to show up.