The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947, 1917-02-01

As stated In last weeks Argus II n
'cannery is started in our community
on the cooperative deposit check sys-
TEN, those deposit certificates can be
printed and gotten up in a book form
similar TO our bank checks right here
by our own printers thus keeping our
money at home In the making OF them
and thus always keeping a supply on
hand to all requirements needed such
checks when rendered TO the farmer
for his produce at the cannery would
be accepted by him when once he Is
convinced that such checks will bo
accepted by the business houses OF
Ontario, blacksmiths. carpenters.
painters, lawyers, doctors. ministers.
men and women generally. Why. be-
Gauss the grocery merchants will 40
their counter same an money TO
certain extent. This certain extent
will vary according 10 the amount OF
canned goods tho merchant secs NJ
TO supply himself with, but no furth-
or providing OF course u such goods
meet with the merchants approval as
20 quality and price of the goods
which necessarily can and would be
looked after by the canncry manage
ment. Quality and price naturally
would find their own permanent mar
ket, our checks would naturally circu-
late In our own community according
To the amount OF those goods used In
our own community. Next In order
would be our neighboring towns to
be supplied In the same manner.
first 10 avoid unnecessary and waste,
ful expense In shipments OF goods To
farther markets. Second. To create
a larger circulation with our cooper
ative checks-nOw II win be obvious
To any thinking man or woman that
has the oommunity's interests and
welfare at heart and that has the
mental oapabillty of grasping the Inn
portance OF move OF this sort. that
first OF all. II opens a home market
for farm products for which our sur
rounding flye and ten acre tracts are
especially adapted. First. because
such tracts can by no means compete
with the larger farms and cheaper
lands In trying 10 raise hay. corn,
hogs. cattle, horses or grain. Second,
in supplying work for a larger num-
ber of farmers In raising comodities
better adapted and more paying with
our system of intensive forming and
we'll adapted to our productive soils
and our favorable climate ranising
truck, and giving needed employment
10 number of our own ci'yens, some !
OF vhcm spend a grsa' daa' of their |
time looking for Jobs. and ia some ia |
stances 1t would relieve an unneces-
sary burden on the tax payers OF the
county. Third, our cooperative |
checks would greatly help in supply
ing a much needed circulating medi- ]
um which in conjunction withour leg
al tender money would necessarily |
bring all our business nearer to a
cash basis, old debts would then be
easier collected and apid, taxes could
more readily be paid by our farmers
and others because of larger volume
of money at hand in the local banks
and In the community in general,
such money kept at home by supply
ing our home merchants with home
raised and home made goods and by
them bought and distributed by a
home made money. This identical
home made money or checks can al
ways be supplied in needed quantities
for home use. on the natural and COM
mon sense principle, that the more
numerous the varieties OF such home (
raised and home made products for
the supply of our home needs, the
greater the volume OF money would
be kept at home and the greater the
bulk of or volume of all such goods
produced at home after supplying our
home demands and exported to 9th
er markets in exchange for other
goods OF equal value, the greater
would the balanco be in ontario's
favor, and necessarily the more pros
perity and the more general. would
such prosperity become among all OF
our citizens. The organization of
cooperative deposit check system as
here described would be the most eff