The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-21
(MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS,
We heard a most excellent lecture

the speaker pointing out the danger
of looking too high for the things
which are practical. Towns fire.
quently do just this thing. They
overlook the incipient industries
which they have, and which, If cult
waited, and encouraged, may grow to
be important industries; they over
looE the stores in their community
which, in addition to carrying every
thing which is likely to be needed
by the people of the community,
maintain a payroll which is import
ant, the stores and shops of Moscow,
for instance, furnishing employment
at good living wages to several hum
-dred persons. In other words they
overlook the real community founda-
ton, and keep their eyes fixed on
something which is entirely out of
reach. 1t is all very well to aim
high but in striving for something
bigger, community should not neg
1ect what it already has.
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While it seems that to prevent dis
aster to the agricultural industry, in
the wheat districts, the farmer must
have higher price for his products,
the farmer in the northwest has it
in his power to add considerable to
his income by producing crops for
which there is local demand. For |
instance, it is claimed that more than |
RI Of xIvoo I'M
ported into the state of Washington
last year, and it is to be presumed |
that considerable was imported into
Hdahp Oats, in large quantities was
lalso. shipped into the northwest
states. Both of these crops can be
grown to pretty good advantage in
these states. Pork and dairy pro-
ducts are shipped in in considerable
quantities from the outside. The far
.mer must have better price for his
wheat, which is the stable crop in
the Palouse country, bat like the bust
mess man who, when he finds he
tcannot keep his business running on
the profit from the line that he is
handling, augments his income by !.
taking on some other line, the farmer
may well add to his activities the pro-
duction of anything which he can turn
into money on the local. or northwest
market.
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In levying taxes and in shearing
sheep, it is well to stop when you
get down to the skin, says an ex-
change.
THE FARMER AND ORGANIZATION s.
William Allan White, the Kansas y
editor, and a man whose name and II
writings are respected, says that the 81
farmers cake is all dough until he II
has learned the organization game; IL
he must learn the game that fixes 81
prices even though in doing that he b.
will have to give up his mis-quoted u
and enter into COM h;
bination that will produce results; re- OF
suits that if necessary, will bring the pl
world to his door asking for a crust al
If bread. IN
Continuing, the Kansas editor says: az
:" If the farmer doesn't do some tn
hing about it, one thing is sure; no va
me else will. The only thing on on
,arth he can do is organize. Which ga
lie has never been able to do and may
lever be able to do. We
Providence seems to be after the gil
armer with a club in this part of 20
he middle west in this particular co
ear" He related how wheat dried esi
ut in the winter; came up scrawny, COZ
nst sufficient to make it necessary go
, harvest Many acres were flooded CHI
ut; after being cut floods came to
gain and washed away the bundles col
{ grain; the yield ranged from rec
straw to II bushels an acre." and ind
ow just as the farmer is ready to the
arlzet what was salvaged, prices are VIII
sing beat down. OF
The whole business of agriculture wa
lring the last three years, the far the
er has been Debated and the laborer A
flated, has made the farmer look is
bankruptcy as his only relief" the wol
itoria1 continued car
=" Economic failure and dire cir and
instances are grabbing the farmer NAL
the ears and sousing his head in of
e mire, saying to him, get back me6
10 the wallow of peasantry; be If
ID Won must sunnnrf tha world cree