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White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Corn Hog Directors To
Do Away with Red Tape

The corn-hog application blank and
contract will be offered to Benton
county corn and hog producers as one
document, made as short and direct as
possible, says e. @. Drudle, county
agent. This will save valuable time and
greatly speed up the program.
Should farmer produce one COM
modify and not the other, he can sign
the contract and receive the benefits
on the one commodity. If he grows less
than ten acres of corn, he may sign
up for the benefit payments on hogs
if eligible, but he must not increase
his pork production. Any farmer who
grows less than ten acres Of corn or
three filters of pigs year is not
eligible to receive a contract
Since the corn and hog adjustment
plan is combined in one contract
farmers who sign up will form one
county production control association
to administer the plan on both crops
Cost of local administration will be
taken out of the corn and hog adjust
ment payments on pro-rata basis.
In making out the contract, the
grower will fill out the first part of
the blank and sign it as the applica-
ton. Then the county allotment COM
mittee will summarize the figures and
make any necessary adjustment. The
grower then signs the second portion
and the document is forwarded to
Washington, D. c., for acceptance as
an official contract.
The contract calls for reducing the
1884 corn acreage at least 20 per cent
below the average production for the
past two years, and reducing the lit
tiers narrowed and hogs marketed dur
ing the same period by at least Is per
cent.
Any corn or hog grower who is eli
gible to come under the plan and who
did not attend one of the meetings
held recently should contact one of the
three committeeman or the county
agent directly, says Mr.. Durdle. The
committeeman selected are: S. v. Fan
ming, White Bluffs, White Bluffs-Han-
ford district; E. G. Copeland, Richland
Kennewick to Hover area; j. S. Albin
Prosser. Benton City Prosser district
Contact with the county agent may be
made by letter from any point in the
county.
A number of applications were made
at the three meetings held recently
A second series of meetings will be
held in the near future at which time
applications and contracts will be COM
pleted. Every grower eligible, whether
for corn or hogs, should become IA
miliar with the plan and if interested
should make his contract with either
committeeman or county agent so as
to be ready for this second meeting,
Mr.. Durdle says.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Certificates Are Necessary
Before Obtaining Loans
(By County Agent E. c. DurMe)

A memorandum has just been re-
ceived explaining that parties who have
not come under reduction programs
requesting credit through farm credit
administration will be required to Sc
cure certificates from the county coun-
Gil before loans will be granted. 1t will
be the duty of this county council to
check up and see that the party ask
ing for loan is not increasing produce
ton of any of the basic commodities
over previous years. We do not have
definite information as to personnel of
the county council or just how it will
be set up as yet.
Farmers already signed up under re-
duction contracts, since they have al
ready agreed not to increase produc-
ton in basic commodities will not need
to secure this certificate.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Production Loan
Unit Formed By
Four Counties
b. sALyINI ELECTED INCORPOR.
ATOR FROM WHITE BLUFFS
HANFORD DISTRICT

Ranchers of Benton, Yakima, Kitti-
tas and a portion of Klickitat counties
met last Friday in Yakima to form a
production credit unit, in order that
farmers of this area might receive pro-
duction loans during the coming sea-
son.
A group of 20 incorporators was
elected and this group in turn chose
from their number a board of nine
directors. B. Salvini of Hanford was
elected as incorporation from the White
Bluffs Hanford district. The ALLEGATION
of incorporators was on the basis of
loans by the regional agricultural cor
poration last year, this district being
accorded one Of the twenty mine. All
of the group are farmers, II being
fruit growers, seven diversified farmers,
two dairymen, two livestock men and
one poultryman.
Application for a charter for the
Yakima Valley Production Credit As
ISOLATION, as the unit is to be named,
has been prepared and forwarded to
Washington, D. c., by officials of the
Production Credit Corporation of Spo-
kane When this charter is received,
the board of directors will hold an
other meeting to complete details Of
operation.
Plans provide for 100000 in capital
stock, Is per cent of which will be sub
scribed by borrowers and rs per cent
by the intermediate Credit Bank Of
Spokane The association will be able
to borrow four to five times as much
as it's capital stock, which will make
approximately $4,000 coo avaiisssJae to
growers of this area for production
loans during the coming year.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Gold Miners Arrested for
Planning Others Dirt

Trouble among gold miners, COM
mon occurrence in the early days,
sprang up again this week when Will
liam Thomas and w. d. Kelso were
arrested on a warrant sworn to by
Frank Dawson.
The two men were charged with
trespassing on property leased by Daw-
son near Priest Rapids. The property
is owned by the state, and Thomas and
Kelso were panning for gold there.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Events of the Week
Saturday. January 81

Saturday, January n
Basketball game, White Bluffs Finley,
high school gym, 7:30 pm.
Dance, Liberty Hall, 800 pm.
Monday, January 20
Meeting to organize baseball team.
P.P.&L. Co. Office, 800 pm.
Tuesday, January 30
Birthday Ball for the President, Han
ford high school gym, 900 pm.
Thursday, February
Address, "Welfare of the Child" Mrs
Williams, Hanford high school, 200
Ladies' Aid meeting, Planters hotel.
Episcopal church services, at home oil
Mrs. J. q. Lloyd.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Poultry Production May
Be Brought Under AAA
(By County Agent E. c. Durdle)

Whether depression times or other
factors were responsible, attendance at
the poultry schools during the past
week indicate that poultrymen possibly
are not as much interested in discus
sion of poultry production and mar
keting problems as they were a few
years back. Attendance at the Prosser
school, while little better than last
year, did not come up to what could
be reasonably expected from poultry
people, at least from the standpoint
of the extension agent. The same might
be said of attendance of turkey pro-
ducers in the school held at Pasco.
The extension service is being given
to understand that there can be no
let-up in the program for the extension
of information on more economical
production of all commodities coming
under the Adjustment Act. Undoubt-
edly the same thing is true of the poul-
try enterprise which may be brought
under the act in the not distant flu
ture. Any shift in reduction in the
quantity production of agricultural
commodities in the end apparently is to
be accepted by reduction of acres where
the soil and general conditions are such
that an economical farm unit will be
impossible or even difficult to main
tain.
Mr.. Buchanan in his discussion of
reduction in laying house mortality
emphasized problem that is of pri-
mary Importance to many of the poul-
trymen. The same might be said of
the discussion of problems Of improv-
ing feeding practices, as well as the
other topics covered by Wayne Mil
Ter of the western Washington station
and Mr. Buchanan at both meetings
If the program at the poultry schools
and other meetings held is not fitting
into the program of the individual
poultrymen, then the extension service
of this county will more than welcome
any suggestions or constructive critic
ism made on the part of any poultry
man in the county. The poultry in
dustry in this county is too important
for the individual poultryman to be
missing opportunities which are being
or may be afforded through the extern
sion service to help solve problems
which we know and the poultrymen
are willing to admit exist. The pro-
gram of the immediate future demands
so much time of the agent that 1t is
going to be impossible for us IN help
ing any individual enterprise to dc
much more than offer assistance
through meetings. We trust that we
may have the interest of every grower
concerned when these meetings are
held.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
Will Make Plans For
Years Baseball Team

Baseball players and fans who are
anxious to form baseball team at
White Bluffs this year will meet Mon
day evening, January 20, at eight
o'clock at the P. P. 81 l.. company
offices. Plans for the coming season
will be made at this time. Everyone
interested in baseball is urged to at
tend this meeting.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25

Questionnaires were sent out by the
local booster committee the first OF
the week to ascertain the public SEN
timent in regard to forming a COM
munity organization here. The COM
mittee has received a number OF re-
plies already, and is anxious that all
who received these letters return them
at once.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25

Precipitation during the week was
as follows: January 10, 10; January
10, 08 of an inch.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-01-25
THE WEATHER

Temperatures during the past week,
as recorded at the government wea-
ther station in Hanford, were:
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

WORLDS greatest need?" The financier
would doubtless file an answer some
thing like this: "The worlds greatest
need is return to economic pros
perity." The college president would
doubtless reply that education is our
greatest need. Social workers en-
gagged in labors to reinforce humanity
with high moral purposes would ac-
claim character as the worlds most
desperate need. All very good. The
trouble is that none of these questions
go to the root of the matter. The
world may need all of these things
but the greatest need is the power to
bring about these results. 1t is nor
difficult for physician to write a
prescription after he has made the
diagnosis Were we to make dag
nosls OF the worlds moral and eco.
nomic condition today, we would soon
discover that the greatest need is not
for things" but for "spirit''-an atti-
tude of mind and heart.
The spirit of good will is basic to
"A oSoiioinlC, socldl ana moral fecOV-
cry. Our racial problem is solved
when the spirit of good will removes
our prejudice against those not of our
blood. The economic problem is solved
when the spirit of good will removes
the danger of that doctrine that only
the fittest have a right to survive.
The spirit of international good will
solves for us the problem of universal
peace. We have tried peace pacts,
courts of Justice, and gentlemen's agree
ments. We fought war to end war.
We failed miserably. Why not try the
method Of the Prince of Peace, the
spirit OF good will"?
g. Western Newspaper Union.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

Down in the southwest, DR.. D. o.
Nugent of Lewis, one of the followers,
can be counted upon as a member who
will fight proposals tending to wreck
both the party and the state; and
Senator E. N. Steele of Thurston should
be included in this same group. These
two southwest men with the help of
Senators Fred Norman and Frank
Barnes, Republican holdovers will keep
the old Third Congressional district
out of the extremely radical column.
X X X
The state highway code has been
drafted. 1t has already started roar
of protest County commissioners and
cities that feel some of the motor We
hicle fund will slip out of their fingers
are starting the wailing.
The highway code will become the
wailing wall at the coming session.
1t treads on too many toes.
However, the taxpayers haven't been
heard from. The fact that the state
wants to take over and control road
expenditures, wiping out needless waste
and duplication of equipment and ma
chinery, will cause them to consider
most seriously the new program.
When any office holder sees some
political patronage sliding out from
under hand, he yells long, loud and
earnestly. This is politics.
X X X
Then again the sheriffs of the state
are starting their lament. The pro-
posals to wipe out their offices and
transfer law enforcement duties to a
state police, brings forth protests.
Sheriffs don't like the idea of having
their offices knocked into cooked hat
any more than do county engineers
who would walk the plank under the
new highway code, and other tax
groups proposals.
During the campign there were many
talks made about tax reduction and
consultations and Examinations of du-
plications in government.
Now the time is rapidly approaching
to make good. 1t is being discovered
that consolidation means abolition Of
jobs; abolition of Implications carries
the threat of curtailment in political
patronage. Curtailment of appropria-
lions means still further reduction in
personnel at the public pay trough.
No wonder the going promises to be
hard here next month for many OF
the old and newly elected law makers
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

House and Senate members are at
this time opposed to the sales tax,
those who have so stated have done
so with mental reservations so they
can change their minds after the COM
plete picture of the state financial
condition has been charted out before
them.
1t looks at this time as if the COM
ing session in the Senate was going
to develop new Democratic leaders for
the future.
The feeling is fairly general that
A. M. Murfin, Sunnyside editor, al
though not very friendly with the gov
ernor and his administration, is going
to be one of the powerful factors in
keeping the party on an even keel
at the coming session.
He will be ably assisted by G. nifty"
Garrett by the way, another country
newspaper editor, who is finishing his
four-year term and is not candi-
date for reelection.
third newspaper editor, K w.
Reardon of Monroe, is to be counted
in Murfin, Garrett and Reardon, as
trained newspaper men, will not be
subject to easy stampede, or to pres
sure or threats from any faction.
X y X
In addition to the three newspaper
editors, and outside of the Republican
ranks, the Senate will have Walter
Ronald, John Ferryman, John Worun1
and Charles II. Todd among the old
members as well as some of the young
STEERS or new men, senators like Joe
Drumheller, Fred Duggan and w. R..
Orndorf of Spokane; George H. Gan
non of Whitman and Dave Mcmillan
OF Stevens, a son of a former state
senator who was recognized during his
years in that body as a tried Demo-
GRAFT, safe and sound as new silver
dollar.
The Westsiders voting in the DEM
ocratlc ranks went somewhat wild and
woolly. King county selected left wing
ers for the upper house, although Earl
Maxwell, one of the new men, refused
to be dragged into their picture. Pierce
county elected all left wingers in the
Senate with the exception of Ralph
Metcalf, Republican.
Hence it is towards the eastside with
any help that can be weaned away
from westside left wingers that the
Democrats must look if they stay on
an even keel.
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

Within the next few weeks, the
Washington state legislature will again
convene, and for the go days that the
body is in session, the chief topic Of
interest, among farmers, wage earners,
professional men and everyone In gen.
eral, will be the laws which are brought
before the body. Believing that the
readers of the Spokesman will be In
terested In a political observers fore
cast, Of the session, we are publishing
this week an article by Jimmie <.
Browne OF the Voters Aid League Press
Service. The opinions expressed by the
writer do not, of course, necessarily CO.
incide with the editorial policy Of the
Spokesman.
~
Bills by the tens of hundreds will
be poured into the hoppers Of the SEN
ate and house within the next forty
days.
When the 1885 session Of the legis-
lature convenes it is going to find
scores of proposed laws already drafted,
just awaiting the formal organization
before the flood gates are opened.
Included among these measures will
be found all kinds and conditions
liquor, relief, taxes, flood control, min
ing codes, highway codes, insurance
laws, gasoline laws, regulatory mea-
sures, agricultural acts, state banking
laws, school bills, old age pensions, in
dustrial insurance and labor bills, state
welfare proposals; amendments to the
initiative, election law amendments,
new criminal codes, and last but not
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

come to ones desk.
They are sent by
students pursuing
advance courses of
study, by business
concerns and pro-
fessional institu-
tions. and in some
cases are sent as
advertising propa-
ganda. o f tn e
many received, we
cannot remember
one which serious
ly asked the i'm
portant question,
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27

The handling of loan money by the production
credit associations during the past year has re-
ceived much censure. With the disbanding of the
Regional Agricultural Credit Corporation follow
ing the 1888 season, many growers believed that
the new loan set-up for the following seasons
should adopt an extremely liberal policy in view
OF the existing emergency, and loan money to
tide the growers over for another season simply
because they needed and wanted it.
The new loan corporations, however, while using
government money to get underway, were created
as permanent organizations, to operate on funds
borrowed from private capital, and were forced
to classify many loans as too risky to HANDLE even
though it was a more or less arbitrary classical
ton. Many growers who urgently needed outside
financing for the production of their crops were
unable to borrow from the associations due to
conditions which they had not considered unfavor-
able.
The production credit associations are now en-
tering upon their second year of operation, and
through the experience of last season have been
able to eliminate much of the red tape and to
formulate policies which will liberalize the loan
procedure and at the same time make it easier
to draw the line between good and bad loans
Each grower who borrows from the association
becomes stakeholder, putting up SIS in stock for
every 800 borrowed, and is given voice in the
adoption OF policies by the association. A grower
who borows but $500 has one VOTE which is all
the grower who borrows $4,000 has This gives
the man who is farming few acres as much of
voice in the affairs of the association as the man
who farms on a large scale.
For this reason, growers who have obtained
loans from the association should be sure to attend
the coming meeting of the Yakima Valley Pro-
duction Credit Association at Yakima january Z,
that they may take their part in formulating the
loan policy for the future. Growers who wish to-
obtain loans from the organization during the
coming should also attend the meeting.
that they may become familiar with the
purposes and policies of the organization and ia
cilitate the obtaining of a loan if desired
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27
HAPPY NEW YEAR,

Ring out the old, ring in the new!'' It seems
but such a short time ago that we were hailing
the advent of the year 1884, with its renewed
hopes for better times, and now 1884 is the old
year that we are through with and 1885 whose
advent we garland with our aspirations.
Although are likely to identify this past
year as of grief and disappointment, on ma
ture consideration there are many aspects of it
which show that times are improving. Farm prices
still low, unemployment has not been cured
and discomfort is widespread, but in many fields
improvement has been noted. The larger centers
c are Po te 81 tne
to be sure-on the mend
conditions reached and passed it's ebb; it is now
list return to the flood 1t is tickle tide and
it's speed cannot well be prophecied. But that it
is flood tide should be enough to cheer us and
make the New Year happier and brighter one
White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1934-12-27
The Worlds
Greatest Need
By
LEONARD A. BARRETT

Questionnaires seeking information
on every conceivable subject frequently
The Washington times., 1934-10-01
Employment Dip
Slight in Steel
Industry

Although steel mill output de.
clined per cent in August COM
pared with July, employment was
only S per cent less than July
and total pay rolls were less than
2 per cent under the preceding
month, the American Iron and
Steel Institute report. The aver.
age number of hours worked per
man increased during August, as
did average earnings per hour,
the report shows.
The number Of wage earners
employed in August was 364,583,
as compared with 383,673 in July
Wages, exclusive of salaried EN-.
ployes, totaled $25, 691, $50 in Au-
gust, against $26,15O,272 in July.
Average hours worked per week
by wage earners increased from
24.4 in July to Is in August.
Average earnings per hour in Au.
gust increased to 63.5 cents, only
slightly less than the all-time
record of 64.8 cents per hour es.
tablished in April, 1884.
The steel industry had a total
employment in August of 404, 1893
compared with 424,126 in July.
The total pay roll for the month
was $34,362,288, only 2 per cent
lower than the July pay roll OF
$34,913,521.
The Washington times., 1934-10-01
SOUND MONEY
PLANS GIVEN

Sound money" was the slogan
of two diverse bodies which re-
leased for publication today their
demands, formulated prior to
President Roosevelt's radio talk,
that congressional candidates in
dorse their programs.
Sound money" under the pro-
gram of the newly formed Sound
Money League" whose president
is Robert L. Owen, formerly
United States Senator. devolves,
its leader stated in announcing its
formation, upon the creation of a
Federal central bank.
Sound money in the congress
sional campaign program Of the
Economists National Committee
on Monetary Policy consists
largely in reversing the monetary
stand Of the Administration, re-
pealing currency provisions of the
Thomas amendment, returning to
an outright gold standard ana CO.
operating in the international
sterilization of currencies.
The Sound Money League in
asserting it's sponsorship of the
central bank idea, for the ade-
quate supply of credit and cur
rency of equitable purchasing
power, declared that purpose could
be accomplished without initiation
and without the bank becoming a
competitor to the private banking
institutions of the country.
Fifty-three members Of the
Economists National Committee
on Monetary Policy, which has
SO members, endorsed the report
calling for endorsement Of
"sound-money" candidates for
Congress who oppose any further
weakening of our currency struc-
ture, any further devaluation Of
our monetary unit. any further
pro-silverd measures, paper-money
initiation in every form, bimetal-
ism, symmetalism and the COM
modify dollar.
They will endorse candidates
who will vote for repeal of all the
currency provisions of the
Thomas amendment and who in
sist on a return to IAN outright
gold standard with a unit of
weight not less than the present
Is 5-21 grains of standard gold"
The committee states its belief
that unless these changes are
made this country may be
plunged into IAN orgy Of currency
initiation which will eliminate
in disaster and in the impoverish-
ment Of the great mass of our
people"