The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-08-02

take it as soon as he wants to-
"Who is this coming across the
field?"
THAT is our field superintendent;
our personal and official adviser"
do you have any troubles over
matters of laredo any of the grow
ers get rocks and unnecessary
amounts of dirt into their loads oil
beets?"
"None at all. That would add to
the operating expense, and would
reduce the amount of our dividends
and everybody is anxious to save
losses of every kind"
do you farmers find time to
look after the business end of the
business?"
1--WE all study our monthly bulle-
tins and quarterly and annual state
ments as they came to us showing
what has been done"
How do you know that the books
are kept right and dividends made
honestly"
'We have an annual audit of ev-
erything by an expert, and that in
cludes the audit of the dividend AS
for that, we are not worried-we
wonder where all the dividend mon
ey comes from, it is so satisfactory. ;"
do the farmers have a more
friendly feeling toward the institu-
ton than they did before they owned
the controlling interest?'
Eyes. We all say our now in
stead of they as before. We used
to devote some thought to matters
of protecting ourselves against be-
ing taken advantage of, and we spent
much time in winter attending meet
moil trying to reach an agreement
as to the price of beets. They used
to refuse to meet with us or to rec
ognize our representatives unless
we called ourselves the farm bureau
and they tried to pack the farm bu-
reau directorate and make it the
court to decide matters of difference
between us"
you don't have such meetings
any more?"
1--WE have meetings-yes. But we
don't waste any time over the di-
vision of production. We spend our
time studying and learning the ways
to make greater yields and less OPP
Grating expense; more sugar and
quicker delivery of beets before the
fall storms set in; saving time in
harvest to be directed into fall plow-
ing and preparation for spring. We
study a hundred savings and as
many ways to speed up production
and save time. We have so much
more to divide it wipes out our
troubles we used to have, and any
way, if we felt that we were receiv-
ing too little for beets we know
that we shall receive the rest of it
thru the stock dividend, so it is not
lost; we merely find it in the other
pocket"
"Do people study efficiency and
economies very much more than they
did under the old system?"
eve never studied that part of
it at all until we were taken into
the management. In fact we some
times got so disguised with the way
things went we did things out Of re-
sentiment that added to the operat-
ing expense. If we saw things going
to waste we made no effort to pre-
vent it or to advise anyone of it.
Now we don't wait to tell some
body-we lay hold and fix it,"
do the factory employees take an
interest in operation? Are they
stockholders too?"
About half of them are. We see
to it that home people get in and
occupy positions of trust and over
sight There are always some home
folks that can be spared to work in
the factory, and they help oversee
and report things that need to be
brought to the attention of the man
agement. Their presence among the
workers is a great stimulant to the
others, and it improves the morale
of the whole force. We would not
think of operating the factory with
disinterested, transient people. And
the factory of today is built so that
the great bulk of the waste and the
chances for waste are left out. If
you visit the factory or get somebody
to sit down and explain some of the
main features of saving, you will
realize why we are so keen to make
still other improvements and econ
omies. 1t has become a fascinating
study to us and adds intense inter
est to our quarterly meetings"
A Joke on Your Friend
Have kept you too long? l just
want to tell you joke on Mr.. Aus
tin. He is such a good old skee-
ticks you can't help liking him if
he does get off wrong sometimes.
When Judge Charles E. Hughes
was on his western tour during the
presidential campaign of 1916, when
Wilson was keeping us out of war,