The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1927-10-06
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My Dear Reed:
On the last page of the current
issue of your paper / read a let
ter-a short note of advise to US
jewellers of the sticks.
Fan me, Ralphl For Gods sake
FAM 1t is the Eleventh million (if
you don't believe that, count 'em)
"Peon of Success" that has been
published in the last ten years,
all of which, like the colored
preacher, merely yell in differ
ent place with each repetition and
inevitably bark back to that more
or less euphonious couplet, "The
Cow, the Pig, and the Hem And
they all bear the unmistakable
trade mark of that ancient rhyme
beginning
''In our little town, o sad to tell"
and ending
Gall talking freely, and thru their
hats,
Doing the thing they are expert at
Giving advice to the farmer"
Nor do I intend to scorn that
famous trio. owe a debt of graft
tude to two of the members. The
cause of this eruption is the APP
parent brain stagnation of these
imitation advisers. Your humble
advisee has long since realized
that more production or diversi-
fication can never emancipate the
farmers of Kennewick or any 9TH
er locality. Heretofore we have
been So busy tending the cow, the
pig and the hen that we have ne
elected the other end-marketing.
We have been the most progress
sive producers in the world. Using
down-to-date industrial methods we
have multiplied production until
we are literally drowning in the
overplus of this production. At the
same time we have stupidity per-
mitted other groups to saddle US
with an antiquated marketing sys-
tenn whose only reason for exist
ance is profit" Service to the
consumer or fair living for the
producer are recognized only when
necessity makes temporary de-
mand.
What then is the solution of the
denouement? COOPERATION. Yes
that is it; real honest-to-goodness
cooperation. / lived in Kennewick
when it was born to Kennewick;
watched its natal throes and its
early expansion; The Produce Co..
The Yakima Valley Fruit Growers
Assn, The Frui tExchange, The
Assn, The Fruit Exchange, The
ion. And / watched when warmad
management capped by nonchalant
farmers and friendly" banks and
business men allowed most of
these concerns to go "flooey" with
the utmost complacency.
And I'm still watching in the
Year of Our Lord 1927 and cyni-
cally wondering whether the farm
ers and, for that matter, any well
meaning, constructive business
man can longer fail to appreciate
that we have been chasing phan-
HON and have rounded-to far off
the course. Then realizing that.
we have failed are willing to dig
in and boost the New Era. the CO.
operative Age. Il can mean the diff
ference of million in dollars and
contentment to practically every
one concerned. Cold logic demands
that, while not entirely forgetting
production, We must go to it's log
zeal conclusion and keep our goods,
'sIn the hands of friend from
end to end.n Diversity if you will.
The whole agricultural world is
doing it. But don't expect pana-
cea for all our ills. About the time
most Of us get thoroly diversified
accumulate dairy herds, pure bred
sires, cattle barns, silos, pastures,
poultry houses, hog houses, more
pastures with hog tight fences and
other essentials of diversified farm
ing there will have developed 9TH
er more or less anticipated flaws
in the RECEIPT for success, unless
we remember the ultimate end of
the road MARKETING.
Regretting that you probably
now have headache, / remain.
Still deeply interested in Ken
newick.