Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1920-02-13

CARNATIONS and make their profits?"
Il reckon they do, but that re-
minds me: Bert Daniels says the plan
is Jim dandy and he would back it,
if the association was going to get
control of so per cent of the wheat
before it started. He says that 25
per cent amt enough to do any
good"
will he dig in and help to get the
! so per cent to sign?" asked Faith.
You know the association wants to
get so, yes 100 per cent of the wheat
raisers to join But the all import
ant thing is to get the plan in opera
ton this year, and it takes less time
and is a good deal easier to sign up
20 per cent of the wheat than to sign
UP 80 per cent. | don't believe that
these people who keep praising the
main features of the plan but finding
fault with some minor detail really
want to have it started. Who is this
Bert Daniels and what does he do?"
why, he owns two or three big
f2lms, which he rents. He lives in
town and loans money to folks who
need it SO bad that they are willing
to pay high interest on it and |
guess he buys and sells considerable
wheat on his own hook"
L thought so" remarked Faith.
and that explains why he pretends
10 f1vo, the plan but keeps knocking
it Ii he opposed it openly everyone
would see the reason and he would
have nc influence. BY the way.
wasn't he the man who made Won so
much trouble when you were organ
izing your Farmers Union Ware
house company. [ am sure he called
on you one evening and spent a
couple OF hours telling what a fine
idea it would be for the farmers to
run their own warehouse, but adyis-
Ing you not 10 take stock because the
capital was not large enough. And
afterwards you found out that he
had made the same talk to all our
nelghbors and that all the time he
was trying to buy for himself the
warehouse on which the company had
secured an option.
That's Just what he did, the dirty
skunk. | remember now, and | ain t
going to give much weight to what
he says. but your speaking of the
warehouse company reminds me. Joe
Kane says he would boost this new
cooperative marketing scheme hard.
only it is going to put our company
out of business and we can't stand
for that. Why, you know | put in
hundred dollars and last season my
dividend was SIS. 1 call that a
pretty good investment"
So it is, but how much wheat did
you raise last year,"
about $500 bushels"
And you sold it for $2.03 to men
who knew that 1t would be worth
$3.50 in a little while. Suppose that
this marketing association with the
same knowledge, had sold your crop
for you at. say 1888 a bushel, how
much would you have been ahead?"
About $3.50 l reckon"
And yet you would let your SIS
dividend stand in the way of your
making so times that amount. Oh.
father, how can you let the little
things blind you so to the bigger op-
portuni'ies?
Maybe your dad is an old fossil
but tell you when l can make a dol
lar without breaking my back to earn
it, that dollar looks mighty good to
me.
Have you ever thought that if
you had received all the dollars you
have earned by raising wheat, per-
haps you wouldn't have to be break
ing your poor old back now?"
No, / haven't had much time to
figure these things out, but what
gets me is that so many men who are
friendly to this new plan find differ
ent weak points in it. Now, l was
talking with Bill Jones, the hard
ware man, about it and he says it's
one OF the best plans he ever heard
OF and if he was raising wheat he
would Join the association in a min
ute, if the contract only bound a man
to sign up his wheat for a shorter or
Longer time than six years. He says
six years is too long for an expert
ment and not long enough if the ex-
pertinent works out. He says he
wouldn't advise any farmer to join
unless he can sign up for not more
than one year or not laSs fboD IN