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The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-27
Disse minatiOn Of Information.

The dissemination Of information AZ TO
tn. location OF individual markets Tor
individual farmers IL to be undertaken
by the Post Offce Department. 1t Is pos
sble that "A series of bulletins. possibly
I'm the form of postcard hearing the
names and addresses of farmers In the
vicinity of certain city and the classes
Of the commodities they wish Ia market.
will be distributed by the mail carrier
among the residents of the city at regular
periods.
These bulletins will vary with the sea-
sons. and by examining her bulletin in the
morning the housewife may have AS wide
"A range for selecting for the next day s
dinner as IL she visited the local market
with "A market basket on her arm.
Furthermore she will be enabled to COM
pare the cost OF fresh eggs via parcel post
from a farmer nifty or 100 miles away
with what she would have to pay at n
nearby grocery store without the salts
faction OF knowing that they came 10 her
kitchen direct from the farnfSard
The printing and distributing OF what
the departmental experts refer 10 AS II
want to sell" Il want 10 buy" cards is
to be undertaken by the Post office De-
partm.nt. but the information to be con-
veyed by them is to b" gathered by the
office of markets OF the Department of
Agriculture. The office OF markets Is in
charge of Charles J. Brand, who is super
intending the investigation looking to-
ward the evolution OF commodity con-
tainers especially adapted to parcel post
transportation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-27
PARCEL POST TO CUT
THE COST OF LIVING
Plans to Make Marketing Cheap
Being Prepared by Fed.
eral Experts.
BLOW AT MIDDLEMEN
Egg and Butter Containers De-
vised to Cost Little
and Last Long.

WASHINGTON. Jan. 2s.--Experts Of the
Post Office Department and the Depart
ment of Agriculture. are at work upon
n series of Investigations which the ex-
perts believe will accomplish more to-
ward reducing the cost OF living than any
thing that has yet been proposed.
Their experiments contemplate the use
OF the parcel post in the transportation Of
commodities directly from the producer to
the consumer.
. The first report on these Investigations
will soon be made public by the Depart
ment OF Agriculture and officials OF this
Department already are rejoicing over the
prospects.
Postmaster General Burleson and Sec
Rotary Houston believe snat the use of the
parcel post as the direct means OF de-
livery from the consumer to the producer,
through doing away with the niddieman
and his profits. will bring the cost Oh the
market basket provisions down consider
ably
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-27
HOUSE PASSES RED LIGHT BILL.
1t COncurs with senate In Remov.
ing Vice District.

WAsHINGroN, Jan. 26--Without a dis
senting vote the House passed this after.
noon the Kenyon "red light" bill. doing
away with the vice dstric, In the national
capital. which contains about sixty-eight
disordcriy houses with 300 inmates
The Senate has already passed the
measure
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-27
Egg Containers.

MIR Brands investigation in regard to
new type of egg containers have been
practically completed. lie has sixty types
OF containers, any one of which he be-
lieyes would meet the needs Of the sit
uation In the last six weeks special
agents of the office of markets have
shipped more than 500 dozen eggs from
various farming districts to nearby CEN
tres of population,
The Investigation with regard to egg
containers was concluded in December
when representatives of the Department
shipped LAG dozens In approved types of
containers and only nine OF the eggs were
broken.
These types of containers will be de-
scribed in detail In coming bulletin
from the Department The containers
are 80 inexpensive that il would be prac-
ticable to throw them away after the first
shipment but it is said that they are 80
durable that they may be made to serve
for several shipments.
Another kind of container in regard to
which the Investigations have given much
satisfaction Is one for butter Mr., Brand
said tonight that types of butter cans
lacauered and enamelled on the inside
had been produced by can manufacturers
which would solve the problem OF butter
transportation through the mails.
This contaner. Mr.. Brand said, also
will be 80 cheap as to permit Of being
thrown away after being used once. but
it will be possible to use It several times.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-27

There are two phases OF the plan TO in
crease the usefulness OF the parcel post
In this way.
The first OF these is TO evolve more
satisfactory containers for eggs. butter
vegetables and other farm products de-
sired to be sent directly from the tarni
TO the individuals kitchen by way or the
parcel post.
The second and more important step "a
be taken is the development OF a compre-
hensive system of telling consumers where
they can purchase within accessible dis-
tances the necessary articles without goa
ing To the middieman and also of inform
ing the producer OF the exact locations of
individual markets FOR the products.
A problem. the solution of which bears
directly upon the success Of both phases
of this plan. Is what experts caH the
"sta nds rdization of supply
Il is realized by the rostmaster-,ien"ra
as we'll AS by the experts OF the DEPART
N.nt OF Agriculture t.at in the absence
of personal contact between the producer
and the consumer which now exists be-
tween the housewife and the market man,
IL will be necessary for the housewife 10
know In advances approximately the exact
cost ~ the goods she Is to receive by
parcel post
In other words the farmer must stand
nraize his vegetables as far as pracu-
CaDlt ne llluSk titSfils us 49, es''' $1,000
tain on. quality for the butter from week
to week.
II is realized that this standardization
of products by the farmer himself IN.
wolves the taking over by the farmer or
certain of the present functions OF the
commission merchant and mlddleinats
Officials recognize that this will result IN
"A need for education on the part of the
farmer along the lines OF Standardization.
Preparations are therefore being made 10
enable the farmer TO instruct himself in
this direction.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
THEY KNEW HOW.

THE OTHER day we took a trip
with one Of those excursions
Of city men off to build roads for a
day.
We appreciated the interest they
were showing in good roads-an in.
terest which has spread all over the
Northwest-but we did not think
there would be much real work
done.
Said we:
When these chaps get out on to
road they will hardly know the
handle from the blade of a shovel;
they won't know how to hold a
pick, or push a wheelbarrow.
We were wrong.
Horribly wrong.
Nearly everyone of those chaps
working on roads knew how to
WELD spade better than our hired
man.
And they did far more work than
ne ever did in the same time,
When the day was over, thew
weren't tired out, their hands
weren't covered with blisters. They
had almost enjoyed themselves.
So we dug into this thing. This
was what we learned.
Ninety per cent of these bank.
ers, merchants, real estate men.
railroad men, advertising men, or
what not, were not new to the game
Most Of them had plowed behind
old Black Bess.
A big percentage of them had
dug potatoes out of the 4o-acre
patch.
They were farmers boys come to
the city.
Why shouldn t they know how to
hold a spadei Hadn' t they done it
often enough at homei
And why should they get blisters.
although they didn't wear gloves;
Who ever heard of a farmer with
blistered handsl
To them this work on the roads
was a great, human experience. A
greater, human experience. perhans
because there was no tomorrow.
They were getting back to first
principles. They had brought vivid.
y back to them the days on the
farm.
That is why they enjoyed the
road bosses ordering them about
viciously.
They heard the call of the soil
again.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
WHO ARE THE WINNERS?

MR.. vANDEL1P, a New York
H banker, blames the farmers
Ignorance for the high cost of liv.
ing.
Mr.. vanderlip evidently is not
aware that it is the farmer and
the former farmer and the farmers
sons who are to be found in all
ranks of industry, showing the Van
derlips how to be efficient and less
ignorant.
Abraham Lincoln was a farmers
boy 80 was Andrew Carnegie. So
was Henry Ford.
They are too numerous to men.
tion-these farmer boys who are
showing business men how to be
efficient.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07

without assistance. He promptly
organized the Ford Motor Com.
pany, holding 25} per cent Of the
100000 capital stock, and the first
Ford car known to the world was
placed on the road in June, 1903.
In 1906 Mr.. Ford realized that he
needed absolutely free control to
carry out his policies, and bought
up stock to bring his holdings up
to 81 per cent Of the entire shares.
Later he increased his holdings to
5SA per cent Of the 100000 capi-
tai stock.
Yes, Henry got there, all right.
But he worked, and rich as he is,
he is working yet.
Maybe the secret is this: Henry
liked to work.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
SPRING ROAD WORK.

0OAD supervisors and engineers
~ are now getting ready for the
spring road work, the annual cam.
paign of this time.
How many Of them study the
subject scientifically
In many sections it has always
been customary to scrape or shovel
the dirt, mud or dust from the gut.
ters into the middle Of the road.
And after the first heavy rain.
storm, things are just as they were.
or even worse than before.
The United States Department of
Agriculture, as well as many aeri.
cultural colleges, has issued a mum.
Der OF valuable bulletins describ.
ing the exact kind of treatment for
each exact kind Of road.
Every available scrap of such
literature should be studied by road
builders.
As well as the articles in your
farm papers.
Then we shall not hear Of the
supervisor who would persist in
putting the wrong kind of gravel on
his road; the gravel that would NOT
bind and that turned to sand.
We would not have one stretch
remarkable for its goodness and the
next remarkable for its vileness.
We should have better roads, the
kind of roads We are paying for.
And there would be no "mud
tax for the farmer to pay
Each road is an individual prob.
lem. 1t should be SO studied.
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Then proceed to turn over the
farm management to still another
company, making the original cor
poration a parent organization.
Next dispose of bonds covering
the farm, stock and everything else
possible to bond, and sell more
bonds covering the "assets" of the
individual corporations.
(This might be efficiency" but
1t would also make the 2-cent egg
cost the consumer at least 10 cents).
However, as Mr.. Vanderlip has
brought up the question of the re-
sponsibility for the high cost of
living, we propose to tell him few
home truths.
Money to the speculator at S per
cent and to the farmer at 10 per
per cent-loaned by Mr.. vanderlip
and his fellow bankers-helps to
make farm produce more costly.
High freight rates Ito make that
100 per cent efficiency Mr.. Van.
derlip was talking of) aids little
more in raising the cost of living.
The inefficiency Of Mr.. Wander.
lips railroad friends who force
their roads to pay dividends on
watered stock is a factor helping to
make freight rates high.
AS a matter Of fact-and in sober
earnest-the farmer is no worse.
and possibly no better, than the
rest of humanity.
There are good and bad farmers.
There are farmers who farm by
rote and farmers who farm with
brains
Our agricultural colleges are help.
ing the farmer to farm with brains.
All in all, the farmer is solving
his own problems.
But he is not likely to look to
advice from Mr.. Vinderlip.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
vAco1NATE YOUR TREES.

nON'T brother about smudge pots
- to protect your trees next
spring from early spring frosts.
Just vaccinate them.
That is all that is needed.
At, least, so says DR.. Paul s.
Hunter, Of Denver, secretary of the
Colorado State Board Of Health.
Unfortunately, DR.. Hunter has
not his vaccine ready yet.
He hopes to develop serum from
the sap Of the hardy mountain
columbine.
We maintain an open mind.
Maybe, Dr.. Hunter is right, but
we intend to have our smudges
ready next year.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
ARE FARMERS INErrIcENT7
MR. FRANK A. VANDERBILT,
N1 president Of the National

~. rhANh "A. VANDERBILT,
H1 president of the National
City Bank Of New York,
awoke the other morning.
He remembered clearly he had
spoken at dinner the night before
Of the American Cotton Manufac.
turers' Association.
But we fear it was not until the
papers came to his bedside that Mr..
Vanderlip realized-or remembered
what few remarks be had made
at that social gathering.
Thus did the papers quote Mr..
Vanderlip:
Ignorance and inefficiency
among the country's farmers, rather
than big business, make up the
fundamental cause Of the high cost
Of living"
Interesting, isn't iti how these
magnates always slough it off onto
the farmer. And at a big dinner,
too. But to resume with Banker
Vanderlip's remarks:
"Land is being utilized with but
40 per cent of efficiency, yet the
farmer is not held culpable-he is
not answerable to society, as is the
railroad manager who produces any.
thing less than 100 per cent"
Then Mr.. vanderlip, who is a
banker, let us again remind you,
went on to read kindly little
homily to farmers. He advised they
be intelligent, thrifty and efficient,
and that they conduct their busi.
ness intelligently.
Altogether, Mr.. vanderlip made
just those remarks we should have
expected from him.
OF course, this is all very well,
but
Seems to us that sometime ago an
old Roman writer said:
Let the shoemaker stick to his
last.n
Which being interpreted means:
Mind your own business.
Probably, if some Of the leading
farmers of the Northwest were to
tell Mr.. vanderlip that
Ignorance and inefficiency
among the bank presidents of the
country are responsible for the
many bank failures that occur from
time to time,' we believe Mr..
Vanderlip would find the shoe on
the other foot.
OF course, from the standpoint
of Mr.. vanderlip, farmers are in.
efficient for they do not
Sell out their farms at 10 times
their real value to corporation,
holding, however, controlling in
terest in stock.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07
CLEANLINESS Is COMING.

CLEANLINESS is coming,
" Every day we are appreciat.
ing its Importance.
Clean hands, clean thoughts, clean
lives. s'0an
Then Godliness.
Every day we learn sometime
Dr. F. Fl. Orton, of the Minnesota
University faculty, utters a sur.
prlsing statement when he saws.
The mouth is the greatest portal
or entry for infectious diseases in
the human system, with the excep.
ton of the sting of insects"
Sounds startling, but we believe
the doctor is right.
"Dr. osler has declared, con.
tlnues DR.. Orton, "that if he were
asked what was doing greater harm,
alcoholism or the unhygienic mouth.
ne would say it was the unhygienic
mouth -
What simple thing it is too.
to have clean mouth,
And, by the way, we should all
visit v, the dentist once in while.
me time to go is before the tooth.
ache comes.
And we should pay him ungrudp.
ingly.
The dentist has to live and he il
aoing good service in the cause of
public health.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07

DosH and pull are hard pair to
y beat-that's why so many
farmers are riding in automobiles.
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THE STORY OF A FARMER BOY.

Let us study the life of one sue
cessful man.
Born on a farm in 1863 this
boy saw developed passion for
things mechanical.
To follow his natural bent he
entered machine shop at the age
Of sixteen, as an apprentice.
At the same time he worked
nights with watch and jewelry
repairer.
Yes, Henry was sixteen year Of
age, but instead of Sparkling"
the girls, going to shows and
dances, Henry went home, tired
and dusty from the machine shop,
and then helped the jeweler at
night.
He could look out and see the
bright lights-the girls passing and
smiling coquettishly at the little
studious drudge.
But Henry toiled on.
He loved machinery.
Nine months as an apprentice
and Henry went to work at a
steam engine factory.
In two years he was master Of
the machinists trade.
Then he started out to sell the
Westinghouse portable steam en-
gine. This he did in summers.
He soon got an idea. He would
invent portable farm locomotive.
At the end Of two years work
Of this nature Henry's father gave
him 40 acres Of land. This 40
acres was largely forest land, and
young Ford bought a circular saw.
mill, rented portable engine to
drive it, and went to work for a
Harvester company, setting up and
repairing portable farm engines in
the summer and ran his saw.mill in
the winters.
At the end of his twenty-fourth
year, he married. Immediately fol-
lowing his marriage he built
home with his own lumber on his
farm, did some farming, sawed
and sold lumber, and began to build
steam road carriage in his leisure
moments.
Henry was not lazy.
Boiler after boiler was tried for
this road-carriage, but none of
them was entirely satisfactory to
their designer, who, concluding that
the steam engine was not the best
driver for road passenger vehicle,
finally abandoned his first and only
steam-car when he was twenty
six.
But he was not discouraged. He
didn't cuss the government, or the
times, or his .neighbors for his
failure. At the same time he gave
up his life as farmer, moved to
Detroit and obtained employment
as engineer for the Detroit Edison
Illuminating Company, attaining
the position, eventually, as chief
engineer. This position he held for
seven years; his nights were spent
in his little machine shop in the
barn back of his home.
Henry was still working nights.
In that barn shop Henry built
the first Ford gas engine driven
passenger car. This first Ford car
was placed on the road in the early
part Of 1893, ran well, and could do
Is or 80 miles per hour.
In 1895 Henry Ford began his
second gas-engine car. This was
placed on the road in 1898. In the
same year Mr.. Ford left the Edi.
son Company and the Detroit Au.
tomobile Company was organized
in which he held one-sixth Of the
stock and drew salary of $10O a
month as engineer in charge.
One hundred dollars a month for
Henry Fordl
But Henry didn't kick. He still
worked.
In 1901 he left the Detroit Au.
tomobile Company (which after.
wards became the Cadillac Auto
bile Company, bought a shop, and
began the construction of four
cylinder car; this was on the road
in 1902, and was built entirely
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-05-07

L Is wise farmer who knows il
U is hard to invent an excuse
without infringing on the other fell.
lows patent.
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Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-11
TheIndeterminate Sentence and
the Hope That 1t Holds Out
to the Criminal

discussion brutates of the Georgia Convict sys
developing of far than local significance
growing upon of ightthinlng peo-
pie of this that the attitude of the State toward law
breakers and maeacto ought find great enlightenment in
the relation of the gospel toward sinners The Divine law
eded the human law and the Savior the greatest and the
simplest that world Christian
civilization who follow the creeds and standards laid down
Sinai of Galee fail read
their application into the conditions and obligations of the
present.
In the law which the foundation of all law there is not
line which shuts eten the door of hope in the face of any
sinner
Nor should there be the law which make for ourselves
everlasting barrier against the return of awbreakr the
paths recud and usefulness whenever the human system
any criminal shall bring FORTH through the discipline of legitimate
punishment fruits meet for repentance 1t would incon
guous and inconsistent for Christian civilization that he should
be denied the opportunities for ultimate civic and social sal
walton that the spiritual sinner promised in the Divine plan of
redemption
utterly impossible escape logic gather
ing along moral lines indetemna sentence
of criminals No will plead for the luxurious treat
of those who grossly violate the law Under the moral
those who sin suffer the physically spiritually
which the Almighty has ordained And those who violate
society should bear the punishment however sen which
the law OF the State has decided to be requisite for the vndca
tion of its safety repression others
It is right that the civic criminal should suffer is right
that he should be confined right that his punishment should
be extended to the length Of time and to the degree of punish
ment which his condition demands But the age inevitably
advance toward the conclusion that when criminal from
the light and the freshness of the air. and the enjoyment of the
association of his family and friends to suffer loneliness priva
on and that the human and yet immortal soul within
him must be given chance and ultimately be saved
in the realm of society and citizenship
The Georgian unhesitatngly fings down this challenge
the philanthropy and of the times which
live The of the
be ndeemnate The decree which shuts liberty
light from the awbreaker should be followed by the document
spread before every prison walls making plain that the
strait and way, however long of diligence of duty
of self sacrifice of good will rebound peaceful fruits of
penanc which through long short who has nned
against the State may purchase and receive his forgiveness from
the State
Whatever is less than this not akin to the gospel Of the
Fathers or the phlanthropies of the just.
Atlanta Georgian., 1914-02-11
Judge Price Gilbert and His
New Career

The purchase of The Columbus Enqurer-Sun by Judge
Price Gilbert brings the upper ranks of journalism Georgia
vre that will stand for the very best and strongest
things in civilization.
Judge Gilbert has made the bench of Georgia of
which any citizen might be prouda reputation for reud for
justice for kndness for fearessne and for equity which
speaks well for the the judiciary and the majesty the
law He has been throughout his district the synonym of that
justice which while always sincere also tempered with mercy
his long training the discriminating conception of right
and wrong of justice and injustice of righteousness and
nquiy equps him admirable degree for giving great
and great the old and distinguished journal
whose fortunes he will hereafter preside.
The Georgian cordially congatuates Judge Gilbert upon his
honorable and useful the bench and cordially vel
him the reinforcement of good and good
living in the columns of the press,