KEEP UP 1CHICAN THE NEWS NEWS On New» Interesting to A Progressive Newspaper Farmer* Through the For Michigan Farm Farm News Homes A Newspaper; For Michigan Farmers K[|."|vy CENTS PER VKAU SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932 FIVE CENTS PER COPY Issued Semi-Monthly AGR. HAS MODEST Reform Money, Tariff and BUREAU'S BINDER Revalue Dollar, Boost Prices $15 TAX LIMIT SHARE OF TOTAL Taxes Is Farm Bureau Plea TWINE TO COME Nat'l Farm Bureau Program HELPS INDIANA IN U.S.DEP'1 FUNDS Resolutions Also Ask Protection for Bank Deposi- tors; Support Farm Board and Qo-operative FROM U.S. PLANT Bureau Declares U. S. Should Act to Restore Average of 1920-29 Prices; Events of LARGE TAX CUT Of 306 Millions, Farm Service Marketing Program Annual Meeting at Chicago Levy to Be '$42,000,000 Less Gets 30; Federal Road Canadian Agreement Ends and Bureau Turns Work to Than in '32 ; Tax Group Aid $212,421,775 Chicago—Spund and Honest Money is the title of the first resolution Chicago—Increase in price levels through reform of the money situation, Explains adopted by the 14th'annual meeting of the American Farm Bureau Federation U. S. \ndustry tax reduction through economies in government and tax levy reforms, and 1 Washington—According to the an- at Chicago, December 5-7. tariff reforms were major recommendations of the 14th antnual meeting Indianapolis—Indiana ' c i t i z e n .s Sec'y C. L. Brody of Farm Bureau nual report of the Secretary of the The resolution urges the revaluation of gold and a reduction of the- Services, Inc., announces that the of the American Farm Bureau Federation here, December 5-7. will pay $42,000,000 less taxes la U. S. Department of Agriculture, amount of gold in the dollar to permit adoption of the average price level Money Reform 1933 than In \V%2, according to the the total expenditures and obliga- between 1920-29, based on Department of Labor commodity index figures. Farm Bureau's 1933 binder twine Declaring that the Glass-Steagall and other finance bills have utterly Indiana Taxpayers Ass'n. tions for the Department in 1932 The intent is to reistore the purchasing power of the people and enable them will be made by one of the largest failed to stop the fall in commodity prices, and that purchasing and debt What has happened? A most im- were $306,400,098. Itf is interest- to pay their debts. mills in the United States. For several years the Bureau bought paying powers of the people are so low that greater disasters threaten, the portant thing was the adoption Of a ing to note that 69.33 /c of that total or $212,4 21,77 5 are Federal The Glass-Steagall bill aided banks, but has failed to stop^the fall of twine from a Canadian plant accord- American Farm Bureau resolved that the price of fine gold should be in- tax limitation of $15 per thousand aid monies to States for highway commodity prices; the Federal Reserve by opposing the Goldsborough bill ing to an agreement which was not crecised to $30 per ounce, the amount of gold in the dollar should be reduced dollars of valuation by a special ses- sion of the Iudiana legislature in. construction purposes for the bene- mandate to restore 1926 price levels has stepped aside, the Farm Bureau said. renewed on its expiration recently. to 16 grains, that coinage of gold should cease and gc*ld coin be*calfed in fit of the entire public, aud for "The situation on twine and other and converted to bars for exchange and redemption purposes; the Farm early 1932. Gold actually fluctuates greatly in its actual value and purchasing power. Six counties applied the tax limi- some strange reason, are classified A sliding scale for the valuation pi gold to maintain an even valuation of commodities past year," has changed during the Bureau resolved that the United States shoud establish a commodity price Mr. Brody said to Mich- tation both in letter and spirit. as an appropriation for Agriculture! goods and la"bor is the only way to perpetuate the gold standard, the Farm igan co-operative ass'n managers level to be the average of 1920-29, using Department of Labor commodity The Dep't of Agriculture classifies Bureau declared. index figures for that purpose, and advance or lower the price of gold to recently. *The recent Ottawa Trade maintain that price level within a 5f/r limit. taxes in 1932 and plans to get along its 1932 disbursements as follows: Conference has aligned Canada with with $ 1 71,•;4 1 in 1!)33. Of 1,591 liiiral Credits "In 1929," said Prof. G. F. War-* Roads, Federal .aid, $212,421,775. Farm Bureau urges one head for all government agricultural credit ma- the British Empire against trade ren of Cornell, speaking on the governmental units in Indiana that Emergency seed loans, etc., $10,808,829. with the United States and To States for Exp. Stations, extension chinery with long and short term credit divisions. Urges means foj* refi- peoples outside the British Empjro Stabilization of the Measure of other Fertilizer Monopoly on levy and collect taxes, 231 of them will have a total rate of $15 per work, etc., $16,040,065. nJancing farm mortgages on long term basis at low interest. except when the advantage is all Value, "the relation between wealth Way Out in the U. S.thousand in 1933, the ass'n said. Services to gen'l public.—Food & drug Agr'l Surpluses • and debts was 3 to less than 2. To- ACT, meat inspection, weather bureaus, their way. The war debt cancella- day, debts represent so close to the 16S units will have rates less than conservation of forests and (tame, regula- Farm Bureau advocates amend- Ottawa Bureau Speaks tion movement efforts belong with value of all property that a large Not many years ago Chilean nitrate $15 per thousand and 95 will havo tion of markets, etc., $36,372,082. ments to Marketing Act to secure the movement to trim the United part of the debts never can be paid. the world. dictated producers nitrogen prices for rates slightly higher. Services to gen'l publlc.-xFood & Drug plant, animal breeding, feeding, market- control of crop surpluses and on On Budget and Salaries States. German and French pro- The Association credits drastic ing, insect and pest controls, research to basis that will restore to producer "We have arranged that the ducers similarly dictated potash economies brought about since develop new uses, new ruarkets for pro- Grand Haven—At its recent annual Farm Bureau's 1933 twine shall be prices. American farmers had there- 1 !•:>!>, the peak year of high taxes. ducts, market and crop reports, co-opera- meeting the Ottawa County Farm Bu- manufactured in this country. It tion of markets, etc., $36,372,082. fore to pay high prices for two essen- Since then citizens have taken real Total, $306,400,098. reau commended the board of super- will employe home dapital and home tial fertilizing materials. For the interest In their own affairs. The The Department of Agriculture visors for reducing the Ottawa county labor which is important. It will third principal ingredient in fertiliz- Indiana Farm Bureau's tax reduc- reported as income from its 1932 budget by $300,000. It regretted that be real Farm Bureau quality and ers, namely, phosphate, the United tion program in rural communities work a total of $23,517,317. In- the board failed to continue a small fully equal to that v> handled last States depends on its own mines. Dis- 1Sf commended. The public took note cluded was $16,182,418 repaid by appropriation for agricultural agent year. Ohio, Michigan and Indiana coveries by U. S. Dep't of Agriculture I ° , l h n association's reminder that farmers on previous • emergency work. • Farm Bureaus have comibined. their have helped to place the United States lie can appeal from levies and bud- seeds, fertilizer and other loans. The Ottawa Bureau pledged full sup- binder twine purchasing power this well on the road to independence in gets it tilings too high. Other income is fees accruing from port to a movement to restore the year for the benefit of farmers and fertilizer materials. So far as nifro- In Indiana in 1933 each of tho 9 2 regulatory services, income from sugar beet industry in that section and their co-operatives in the three en is concerned the monopoly is over; counties national forests grazing, etc., for re-open the Holland beet sugar plant. states. The Michigan State Farm research in the. department fostered 1932, will levy less (axes than in classifying cotton, etc., and fines The Ottawa Bureau also recom- Bureau authorizes no one but itself ranging from 16% less in La the production in the United States of Porte county to 70.3% less in War- from violations of regulatory laws mended abolishment of the state police to offar binder twine as, "Farm Bu- cheap nitrogen from • the air by a wick county. The average reduction which the Dep't enforces. as a duplication of the police service reau Twine", said M'. Brody. synthetic ammonia process. Though in levy for the state will be 30% [that should be performed by the sher- Officers and the executive com- this country continues to import most and the decrease in valuation will iff's office. It asked repeal of the law mittee of Farm Bureau Services of its potash, it has a substantial and be about 21% under 193 2. Represented Michigan requiring motorists to take out newwho authorized the Farm Bureau's growing potash industry, and Ameri- Total valuation of all taxable* in at A.F.B.F. Convention drivers' licenses every three years at change from Canadian to U. S.-made can production promises shortly to be Indiana as estimated for 1933 tax $1.00. twine are: the controlling factor in domestic levies is $3,995,843,838, a shrink; Among those representing the Mich- The Bureau observed that salaries Ray Allen, manager of Oxford Co- prices. of all county officiate and school operative Elevator, President; Wm. of $1,077,397,238 from 1931. All igan State Farm Bureau at the 14th Indiana taxing1 units levied a total annual meeting of the American Farm teachers are excessive in light of farm Zonnebelt, manager of Holland Co- prices and 15 cents an hour for labor operative company, Vice Presideiit; of $145,647,092 in 1880, which Bureau Federation at Chicago, Dec. 5-7 were President M. L. Noon, a di- and stated that salaries should be Alfred George, manager of St.,Joe PRESIDENT O'NEAL Federal Land Banks dropped to $140,069,591 for 19J2 ''Our Strength Lies in Unity." rector of the American Farm Bureau M. L. NOON brought into line. Valley Berghouse, Shipping mamager Ass'n of and Thomas Falmouth "The price level must be raised to Carry Many Farmers morewhich and in 1933. is to drop $42,000,000 and scheduled to preside over the Resolutions Discussion Chairman Co-operative Ass'n. | the debt level, or the debt level Total valuation of all property convention when its resolutions were at least his pre-war purchasing Michigan Alfalfa Seed must be lowered to the price level. Washington, D. C.—Federal Land for taxation purposes in Michigan offered; Michigan Farm Bureau direct- power for domestic requirements of This is a matter of grim reality that Banks have extension agreements with is $6,614,000,000 according to the ors Waldo Phillips of Decatur and Jiis most important cash crops. Yields Lower in 1932 Handkerchief Was Once cannot be turned off by psychology, over 60,000 delinquent borrowers of auditor general, upon which Mich- Mrs. Edith Wagar of Carleton, dele- gates from Michigan, and Secretary Tariff Bureau urges revision of tariffs Lansing—Average production of for- Forbidden to Masses 'confidence or government lending. the 12 banks at this date and, in addi- igan levied $2.")4,000,000 for the 'France reduced the weight of tion, the banks are carrying thousands year 1931-32 and will levy about Clark L. Brody. Miss Beatrice Brody to provide agriculture protection agfe crop seeds in Michigan in 1932 as The handkerchief does not come to gold in the franc by four-fifths so of other borrowers with whom such $228,000,000 for 1932-3;i, a reduc- sang at the annual dinner of the Farm from substitution as well as on spe- estimated by Verne Church of the 'U. us from China, as is generally believ- that when our prices are 100, heragreements have not been made," said tion of about $26,000,000. Bureau. cific commodities. S. Crop Reporting Service for Michi- ed, but from Italy. It is only 360 price level is about 500. The pres- the Farm Loan board recently. Taxation gan is estimated Nov. 1 as follows: years ago that the handkerchief of a ent outlook is that England will "Congress did not attempt to pro- Tax reforms to reach wealth that alfalfa, 1.7 bushels per acre; red and Venetian lady was considered a great probably reduce the amount of gold vide for a general moratorium on Co-op Offers $10 for a Name Our Increased Use of Milk /in the pound by 30 to 50%. The farm loans but provided $125,000,000 escapes paying tax. Opposed to alsike clovers, 1.4 bushels per acre; curiosity. The handkerchief crossed . , . . , . , , The Constantine Co-operative Lengthens Life Expectancy sales tax. sweet clover, 3.75 bushels; timothy, 3 the Alps and was received with great United States reduced the weight of Bank Deposits Guarantee bushels per acre. j gold in the dollar by 6.25% in 1934. of extensions in proper cases. Accord- C r e a m e r y o f M i c h i g a n a n d e I g h t In _ additional capital to be used for j - . Milk and its proper use in the diet For such complete revision of the Estimates of the total alfalfa and favor at the court of France. By reducing the weight of gold in ingly it has been necessary for the diana co-operative creameries at of Americans i^ listed as one factor Rational commercial banking struc- clover seed acreage and production Handkerchiefs were then made of the dollar any desired price level Portland, Angola, .Marion, Kewan- banks to differentiate between the na, Columbus, Middlebury, Orleans which has done much to increase the ture as is essential to secure full will be available in the December re- cambric or lawn and. bordered with can be established." farmer who wants to pay and can't and Rusbville operating together, average span of life to a prospective protection of depositors. Venetian lace. The sachet was soon Full text of Prof. Warren's remark, port. The 1932 alfalfa seed yield was introduced into France and a little able address on the Money situa- and the one who can pay and does are searching for a suitable name 58 years for babies born this year, Credit Unions much lower than in 1931. able address on tlif money sUua- not do so. It has been the policy of for their organization and will pay Avhereas when George Washington was For enactment of a national credit later both the handkerchief and the pubished in the-Farm News Dec. 24. sachet made their way into Germany the banks before entering into these $10 to the person auggeatiog it. inaugurated life expectancy was only union law. Agriculture and the Tariff agreements to consider each case on 35 years. A century after Washing- Philippine Independence Congressmen Once Paid but only persons of quality could make Henry A. Wallace,, editor of Wal- its individual merits. The banks are iesMinnesota co-operative creamer- ton's time it was 43 years and in 1910, For independence to Philippine Mileage Forty Cents per Mile use of them for there was a published lace's Farmer of Iowa, and son of particularly anxious to serve actual nameoperating together adopted the "Land O' hakes Creameries". 51 years. edict forbidding the use of them the former Secretary of- Agriculture, Islands this short session of Con- among the trading classes. farmers who are making an honest Suggested names should be sent to gress. For immediate duties on The mileage for members of Con said: effort to meet their obligations and E. L. Martin, <>oi Indiana Farm BE NOT MISl NDIIISTOOI) Philippine sugar, vegetable oils; etc. gress has changed several times since "Unfortunately for agriculture have a desire to retain their homes. Bureau Bldg., Indianapolis. Transportation thaf body began to function. In 1791 PERHAPS s o most of the tariffs given her are In this connection it is interesting "Don't forget that when you are Neither the railroads nor busses the rate was" 30 cents per mile; in Young peaple were more rwpect- immed*iately or' in the long fun are to note that a majority of the borrow- 'You must live today at your talking over the 'phone, the other and trucks should be permitted to 1795, 35 cents per mile;* in 1818, 40 iful of their elders in the old days. worthless paper tariffs. Cotton ers are recognizing their obligations very best; the work of the world is party cannot see you and it stands crowd the other out through pro- cents per mile; in 18S6, 20 cents per Perhaps because they had more to wheat and lard obviously can never and paying their installments when!I done by few; God asks that a part you in hand to make 'your voice hibitive limitations, regulations, mile, and in 1932, 15 cents per mile,. respect.—Boston Transcript. benefit from a tariff so long as we (Continued on pag< (Contirtued on pag< due." the Farm Loan Board said. be done by you." 'look pleasant'." Foreign Trade No Depression principal of the debt. But if we ever their produce to rot in " their Let I s Examine the idea Debt Scare ;old they could scrape together and Half of It Written Off barns. We Have Enough Bad LO.U.'S ask for payment in money or' goods, then the loans must be defaulted and "In my acceptance add: The speaker would have us believe pare. Then when the gold came to Quite naturally the American public hat cancellation of some "annual pay- an end there was nothing to do except presumed that Europe would begin Since the War, Wilson Says become "bad". That doctrine sounds strange to the mind of a Michigan stated the exact reverse of this ment" could be used to expand the o pay us with their notes. Those paying her debts promptly. Instead, proposal. I said, it for some par- 'markets for American agriculture notes were accepted by the United there ensued Several years of quib- • tanner or business man. "\\e have ticular annual payment we are and labor and the restoration and itates government. To get money, bling over this and that with the final been taught that debts, when due, offered some other tangible form- maintenance of our prosperity". Be- dith which to pay American farmers result that Uneie Sam scaled down the In Ten Years the U. S. Financed Eight Billions must be paid. Interest must be paid. of compensation, such as the ex- ore cancelling the two hundred fifty, or wheat, and American factories for claims to about half, and agreed to of Goods to Europe" for Which We Have Jf we fail'in the payment of either, the creditor takes our pledged securi- pansion of markets for American or three hundred million dollars due war supplies our own government sold spread payment over a term of sixty us annually, it might be wise for iberty and other bonds to us, and years or more. On the surface every- Paper That May Not Be Paid ties away from us, and the sheriff American citizens to examine into the used the proceeds to settle with our body seemed satisfied and we settled Why. Discuss Payment! sells the*m. But foreign debts, so we 'foreign market" that we are so skil- own people for the supplies sold to down into pleased expectation of re- Editor'a Note—This article on for- It would seem that the payment for are told, are mysteriously different. fully and so covertly advised to seek. Europe. ceiving our dues. eign Trad.- by Lucius K. Wilson Is a They are to be "paid" by making more We have had considerable experience timely comment on proposals that an the goods should be a matter of suffi- It should not require genius to per- But Europe still needed food, after Increase in our foreign trade would cient importance to call for attention. loans. The international banker has with that foreign market. Before the :eive that the close of the World War the War was done. She wanted many dispose of surpluses and end the corners of the land. Uncle Sam ship- process we are to find prosperity in "Does this mean that foreign loans are inherently vicious? Must "And in connection with agri- flict the British government asked its cial leaders who controlled the col- ped goods abroad at an unparalleled trading with other countries. culture I may mention the ques- people to turn their American secur- In the same breath that foreign they always leadtt>destruction or ities over to. the government in return umns of the daily press, and who filled rate from 1919 until 1929. No tion of war debts. I do not ap- with cunning propaganda. among the average citizens, inquired trade is* prescribed as the sadly be- end in cancellation? The trouble prove cancellation of these debts. for, British bonds, and the patriotic re- the colunms lated cure for the depression, we are is not with the loans. They be- sponse enabled Britain to send the se- In 1920, everything appeared lovely. as to how the goods were being come bad only when the lender at- I certainly do^ not approve the 'America 'had half the gold of the bought. Whfc paid for them, and how told that all the rest of the world is proposal of our opponents to lower curities to America to buy food, muni- worse off than we are. Yet we are to tempts to collect more than he LUCIUS tions and supplies. France and the World; our factories were running was it done? keeps on Leading", our tariffs in order that by profits overtime; wages were high; farm More lioods ior I. O. l . \ grow rich by trading with bankrupt gained from a flood of goods into agriculture aud labor and the.re- other allies followed suit. But the peoples! We are to find an outlet fpr Pay With Another Loan prices were strong; and Europe owed Year after year, following the War, the United States this debt should storation and maintenance of our American securities possessed by Eur us so much money that even ordinary we shipped to Europe more goods than our surplus production from farms To, make this intelligible to a lav- be transferred to our workers by prosperity, then I am sure our cit- opeans did not last very long in feed and factories ' by shipping the goods reader, let me explain what it means. putting them out of jernployment citizens stuck out their chests with she sent us. The paper balaix izens would consider isuch st-pro- ing the unmeasured demands af the the pride of international capitalists trade was in our favor, and tb> to Europe. How is Europe to pay us Foreign loans are "good" so long as and to our farmers by forcing: posal." War. Next, the Allies sent us all the for the goods? w^ accept I. O. U.'.s for interest and TWO UKCKMBKK 10. i;,;{2 M I C H I G A N FARM XKtVS Foreign Trade no Cure Sold, But Account Is ll.nl Wool Market Picks But of course, we must not allow For Depression, Debts Europe to help us, in our dis.tre- Boston- According to the Nati( NEWS out bursting >!itiniio incompetent system of distri- For th<> kitchen floor. Is what I'd like to get. It did not seem to occur to anyone bution, we cannot-permit the people And that old cracked cook-stovr I've us* forevw more. "But, a s I was savin', of Europe to return to us. the goods E. E. UNGREN Editor and Business Manager in America that we were sending great cargoes of valuable commodi- they had of us. We cannot even con- '/But you d i d n ' t tell m e , " She continues <>n. I would ike just lini' Some electric g a d g e t s To ease this work of mine. Silver King Coal / Subscription 50 cents per year; 3 years for $1. in Advance ties—machinery, tools, food and cot-tinue to trade with other peoples in "Answer me my queston." is big, blocky, clean burning. ton—to Europe and were getting the World because we dare not allow "Weil." I says, "I swan." " S o m e t h i n g hew a n d shiny— Anything would do. Ask your coal dealer for a trial ton. Vol. X SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932 No. 23 nothing in return except questionable them to send us as many goods as we •'I'd reiniest some weather But, Hiram, just you answer Republic Fuel Company paper for all the boasted "balance of send them. And since they have no Like fhose years ago When wp always figured on What I'm askin' you. BAY CITY and LANSING Office, trade". Each year we sent Europe money with which to buy our goods—,? A three-inch trackin' snow. "What you want for Christinas? about a half billion dollars worth of Surely we live in strange times with What's it goin' to be? The Farm Mortgage Debt •'.Vice crisp ('hristmas weather —; 1 can't quizz all evening," goods, in excess of all she shipped to millions of our own people living in: &nappy-llke ami clear Aiaitliy says, says f us. Over a period of ten years this want, while we are overwhelmed with "Mortgage dent pjrmses upon American agriculture today with ex- ception severity, ' Sec'y Arthur M. Hyde of the U. S. Department of excess mounted to somewhere arouncV surplus products of home make, and Makes ideal sleighing For Santa and his devr. ' "1 d'know," 1 answers, Tryin' not: to snooze. "All right then," says Martliv, Tune in Agriculture, tells the public in his annual report, made public Dec. 1. seven or eight billion dollars, which while Europe owes us enough to feed "1 can't make the weather," "Total farm mortgage debt in the United States has increased from Europe owed to us, for goods bought and clothe and shelter these same dis-' Martliy answers bi "Til get you what I choose." WOWO 3.8 billion dollars in l!)10 to 7.9 billions in 1920 and 9.5 billions in 192S. from us after the War. Instead of tressed millions. If the ancient Greek Since then it has fallen slightly, largely as a result of foreclosures. The paying her debts to us, she kept on in-Gods, who dwelt upon the crest of Fort Wayne, Indiana 1930 census reported 42% of all owner-operated farms mortgaged as creasing the debts at tremendous Mount Olympus could look down on working at top speed. There would be and ruin the exchange of goods and 1160 Kilocycles compared with 37.2% in 1920. speed. this race of blind and stupid men, they no unemployment. services, we shall continue to pay a Just how America was profiting would laugh themselves into a spasm. This idea of working long days, and fearful price, for our credulity and "Foreclosures are all too prevalent. They are blighting the hopes Foreign Trade Kxchaujre of Goods exhausting the resources of his endignorance. "Eternal vigilance is the KAl'H MONDAY > O O \ of men who can get as much out of the land as anyone could. Keeping* from foreign trade that took seven or 11:45 C. T. 12:45 E. T. eight billion dollars of real wealth, in Some day—perhaps sooner than ap- of the island, just for the sake of gath- price of Liberty," but one cannot be efficient farm owners on their own property and in their own homes pears likely—we may discover that ering a lot of worthless notes, did not ten years, and gave nothing in return vigilant in economic matters without is to the interest of both debtors and creditors. It is also to the interest a strike A. so favorably. He shook his of the Nation. except some bad notes or bonds is a foreign trade has to be an exchange of head, unconvinced, at the advice of the enough study to keep abreast of the FARM BUREAU bit difficult for an ordinary mortal to goods, in which' exchange we receive Big Bankers. But they assured him times. And studying is about the last POULTRY BROADCAST "Much thortgSkg* indebtedness has grown burdensome from forces understand. Oun international bank- goods just as desirable and just as that all the trouble was easily ex- thing that Farmers and business men largely outside the farmers control. Federal aid in the field of farm CtrecHt has helped in the matter of relief. But more needs to be donje. ers, however, never ceased assuring us valuable as we send abroad. There plained. There was "a maldistri- will undertake. Feeding Questions that we were the "lending nation of can be no such thing as a "balance of bution of the stock of gold," so they The powers of our credit institutions must be broadened and legal re- the world" and that wt must live up trade" payable in gold year after year. .said. If he would give the gold back Senate Is Praised by Answered strictions relaxed so that in an emergency like the present, farmers to the new dignity as the "great cred- to one nation, by all the other nations to B. so that B. 'could begin buying can be given a fighting chance to hold their iliomes." itor country". That talk sounded so of the world. The stock df .gold is goods once more, that, so the Big Washington News Man Dec. 12—Fall Paralysis, etc. The mortgage debt situation, the greatest decline in farm and in- prosperous that we fell for it. dustrial incomes in 70 years and but slight relief in the annual tax soon exhausted. The entire supply of Banks ^feaid, would start foreign trade Ann Arbor—The United States Sen- Dec. 19-7-Pickouts and Blowouts. Behind (he Scenes gold in the world, outside of the Unit- right up again. ate is the greatest defender of na- burden are bringing to a climax a domestic situation that is far more Behind tine scenes the international ed States is scarcely more than six serious than any other problem before us today. Parable Has Happy Ending tional democracy today and its pres- bankers were carrying on a highly billion dollars. In ten years follow- ent membership would compare fav- profitable business at the expense of ing the close of the World War we That night Mr. A mulled this ad- A Change in the Agricultural Bulletin Service the American people: When a Ger- built up a "balance of trade" against vice over in his mind,, and the next orably with that in "any period in the ...^ ..v—t: t declared Paul Y. The U. S. Department of Agriculture says that during the latter part man firm wished to buy American ma- Europe one third greater than that en- day called all his followers together j •»—< of the St. w U«J_* - of 19;>2 it is reducing by 30% tys cost of distributing agricultural in- chinery, it would prepare a series of tire stock of gold. Now, Germany is and laid before them the idea of re- Louis Post-Dispatch in his address be- formation, the most significant change being a restriction in the free notes for the amount required, plus telling ys flatly that she does not have turning to B. all the gold they had re- fore editor members of the University distribution of bulletins, which has been cut in half. the commission for the international the gold to pay ua. and will not try toceived for the goods sent to B. in the Press Club of Michigan, meeting in banker. The noteswould be delivered pay us unless we will accept goods. years gone. He showed them how that Farmers and others direct as many as 1,000,000 inquiries per month in New York, and the bank would sell Shall >Ve Repeat It? system would equip B. to buy a great Criticism of the Senate .on the to the Department for information, which can best be furnished in'the popular bulletin-; which cost about 1^4 cents each. They are the cheapest them to more or less gullible Ameri- Suppose we return to the absurd many goods rigfot away, and thus put ground that it spends too much time and mctft efficient method of reply. By law. the function of the Depart- can investors, or to country banks. foreign trade policy of the past ten all of A.'s followers back at work. The!on discussion and investigation is ment of Agricultural is the dissemination of information. Every inquiry The "shaving" which the international years, and once; more ship goods meeting was about ready to ado'p*! s h o r t T l g h S declared' AndTrson, be" must be answered. Where bulletins are not available, inquiries have bankers kept for themselves on for- abroad at a tremendous rate, while the idea when one man, with a sense cause only by such means fair laws to be answered by letter. The average cost of such individual letters eign loans was outrageously big, and, we receive nothing in return except ol humor arose, and asked whether! affecting the whole national welfare in detail is about 26 cents each. as you will observe, it was paid in pieces of paper called notes. What hereg was any objection to all of them may be decided upon. The Senate a vacation good«American dollars. Commissions will be the ultimate limit of that' 'or two or three' through its investigating committees Will those Congressmen and private elevator operators who hate y e a i S W h i l e B- a m h i s f o l l o w e r running to twenty, thirty and even financial silliness? Yet our leaders :t h e w h e a t > f e d t h el n s a n d cs raised j which have uncovered graft and bulletins on co-operative marketing and have condemned all department of agriculture bulletins as wasteful now contend that a 26 cent letter forty per cent were not unknown. Headache in This Collection Job solemnly insist that we must'export °S " t the; abuse of privilege during the last the products of labor, so that we may | l u m b e i - u t o o k s o m e t i m e for this j decade, has Tendered exceptional serv- CONFIDENCE 1 is a better investment of the people's money than a l ^ cent bulletin? The Department is endeavoring to reduce all its operating expenses American banking firms, doing an have plenty of'Vork. It never oc- i P ^ ° international business,' made unholy curs to them that the break-down ro heads 8al of i the to Percolate through the; ice to American traditions of popular men present, but it soak- government, he said. WINS to conform with present financial conditions. It will expapd its press profits out of the "foreign trade" as it in our own system of distributing fed in finally. Then they passed a Speaking as a Washington observ- 'HE relations between a and radio service somewhat to .supplement the existing bulletins publi- was handled from the close of the the products of labor must be re- resolution asking B. and his followers er, Anderson, stated that the House of farmer and his Federal to return the equivalent of all the cation service. In the meantime the Department has suggested a plan War up to 1930. But the American paired. Nor does any leader rise up goods that had been supplied to them, Representatives is at present an in- Land Bank are based on mutual which if adopted by all Government departments issuing bulletins, would ferior legislative •>body because of its people were made distinctly poorer. to suggest that the wealth we are— for which notes had been issued. confidence. The Bank has shown offer bulletins for sale and probably place such service on a self-paying unwieldy size, antiquated rules of We shipped to Europe vast quantities and have been—sending to other peo- •When the Big Bankers on the ship procedure which hamper free discus- basis. of real wealth for which we never ples, year after year, might come in heard of this action, they sailed away sion and the tendency of party mem- confidence both in the farm and have received a grain of recompense. handy^ at home, if used to feed, clothe the farmer by making him a in disgost. But A. and his followers bers to follow without question the di- Dr. Friday Discusses Taxes With Educators What is more, we never will receive and house our own unemployed. had several years of leisure in which j rections of their floor leaders and the long-term loan on liberal terms. payments Europe as a whole has no Parable of Exchange Dr. David Friday, statistical advisor to the United States Treasury lo devise a wonderful educational sys- [ executive branch of the national gov- The farmer has well-founded gold with which to settle the debt, Here is a simple parable of two ernment. and former president of the Michigan State College, addressed the high and we have not thought out a way to men, who were shipwrecked on an is- tern, to study the arts, to undertake confidence that the Bank will school principals of the Michigan Education Ass'n at Lansing last week. scientific research on such a scale allow her to pay us in goods. land in the temperate zone. Mr. A. show a sympathetic understand- He was quoted by the press as saying: that they revolutionized every process Farm Bureau's Warehouse The moment anyone proposes to established himself at one end of the ing of his problems. The $15 per thousand tax limitation amendment will raise of manufacture; to develope music; $166,000,001* less from property taxes than in 1930. That will permit European people to pay us in island, and Mr. R at the other. Mr and to study civics. By the time they Stores Sugar, Wool, Beans ruin the educational system, cut teachers' salaries to half the goods, there goes up a wail that it A. planted crops and tended them had collected from B. in goods, the More than 2,600,000 lbs. of Michigan The farmer knows that he re- 1!»29 levels. "will put American labor out of carefully. Mr. B. found a little stream i debt represented by the notes, the beet sugar, manufactured through the ceives individual consideration work". No one attempts to analyze where he could pan a limited amount followers of A. had advanced then co-operative arrangement of central of his problem. This individual With that portion of Dr. Friday's address, we disagree. Dr. Friday that wail to ascertain whether it con- of gold. Later two boatloads of cast- civilization tremenduously, and were Michigan sugar beet producers and the arrived at that sum by applying $15 per thousand to a total property tains a lick of sense. It sounds well aways landed on the island. One boat- ready to go back to work with ma- sugar plant,,at Lansing, is in storage consideration instills the confi- valuation of $6,605,000,000 for 1932. It is true that all taxing u-nits in in a political campaign, and undoubt- load joined A. and one joined B. chines which multiplied productivity at the Shiawassee Street Warehouse of dence bo!h for the maintenance the State levied $266,0 million dollars owed by the taxing units. willing to be deceived.by it. chines. B. and his colony wanted The news of this factured' by the Lansing plant this pervasive pros- season. The Shiawassee street ware- FEDERAL T*he tax limitation amendment provides that 'additional levies shall be these things, so they bought them, made to pay interest and retire such debts. It has been estimated that \\v Were Santa (laus—Why Not Allow Knropc to Be? I pci II.J icani'U lO tut mainland. The house is also storing wool for the perity leaked to the paying with gold as long as the s u p - | B i g Bankers heard of it. A yacht Michigan Co-operative Wool Market- L A N D BANKS such additional levies would add $10 or more per thousand to the $15 Let us suppose we had a system of ply of gold lasted. When the gold; brought a dozen international bankers ing Ass'n and beans for the members are located at limit until such debts are retired. distribution in America that would gave out, they paid with notes. to the island. In a few years the I °^ *he Michigan Bean Growers, Inc., Springfield, Mass. New Orleans, La. Another $10 per thousand would cut Dr. Friday's $166,000,000 loss actually spreads goods "into the hands , When Money Kan Out Mr." A. was in a quandary. He had prosperity was gone. The Farm Bureau Supply Store con- Baltimore, Md. Omaha, Neb. in revenue to $100,000,000. Dr. Friday said that it will be necessary to of people who were willing to work We Work to (>ive Away ducts a large business in feeds, ferti- Columbia, S. C. Wichita, Kan. reduce the present average rate of $32.36 per thousand to about $25 for intelligently and relax intelligently*. been taught that it was wrong to "im- If, and "when, the American people lizers, seeds and other farm supplies Louisville, Ky. Houston, Tex. *•., uiiu wiicii, tut; American people St. Paul, Minn. Spokane, Wash. lit.".'!, whieh has been what the tax limitation amendment supporters ex- Let us also indulge, ourselves for a port" goods from R's end of the te-lnnd a way to distribute the products at the warehouse at 728 East Shiawas- pected. In that efafee, said Dr. Friday, we would have $100,000,000 lees moment, in a bit of critical imagina- land. A.'s A 's whole whnio theory of *^«-J- tvtonfv «f trade was St. Louis. Mo. Berkeley, Cat. of hand and brain intelligently, so see street, Lansing. tax income than in 1929 or 1930. His recommendations for new revenue tion. Suppose there was a very great to build up » favorable "balance of, that we may allow foreign nations to and savings to meet a $100,000,000 shrink in total taxes are: Santa Glaus, who would go over to trade" and get gold in payment. A.! s e n ( i u s a s many goods as we export $20,900,000 in new revenue from a 2 ' ' tax on sales in Europe—to France and tell the people did not know what to do. He did not! to them, we will enjoy the comforts Michigan. A sales tax is practical and certain, according to to pay part of their American debt by Dr. Friday, whereas an income tax has proved itself to be worthless in depredsion. placing in his pack two Paris gowns* with hose and hat to match, for American *voman; then to Germany several sons and a group then it is entirely possible that Ameri- of hired men who must be kept busy. can farmers may be deluded into ris- Flatten •"10,000 less expenditures on highways. Gas tux and license fees now amount to $45,000,000 annually. We were spending $70,000,600. Highways are developed .so that local governments should be able to get along on their share of and pick up the marvelous German The only way to furnish them work ing early and working late in. their toys, instruments; or the cutlery or the scientific was to keep them raising pork or efforts to produce foodstuffs or cotton, then to England and wheat and (hitting lumber. to be exported in exchange for pieces the Peaks lay in two suits of excellent English We Did Something Like -This * of paper. With the present ridiculous the automobile tax funds. Needlessly, year after year, worsted for each man and boy in So. Mr. A. determined to ask the ad- breakdown inythe ordinary processes $25,000,000 nni.st be saved by cities and counties through America; then to Italy and Czecho- vice of some great bankers and poli- of distribution^-, in America, we are economy. tuberculosis takes its great slovakia and Greece for further addi- ticians who were passing on a ship. afraid to permit the peoples of other "Mi,ooo should be saved in the school system. In 1929 tions to his pack. When fully loaded He signalled them and put the matter countries to work for us. We actually toll. No other disease kills the local school tax plus the primary fund yielded $105,000,- Santa Claus would return to America up to them. They were instantly ready lack the sense to receive what they as many persons in the 006. Of that $90,0(>o.ooo went for salaries, fuel, other opera- and the next morning the people of with advice. They told A. to cancel would send to us, without further tions, *ir,.ooo,noo lor interest and debt payments. If we America would wake up to the pleased all the notes that B. had given him, cost. We don't know what to do with most productive period of Khali save $80,000,000 there, Dr. Friday said, salaries must surprise of having a year's stock of and-then start al{ over again, taking the blessings of abund,alice. life—15 to 45. Examine 1M- reduced one-third below the 1!»29 level, which ha-; come clothes and amusements and educa- new notes for new goods to be shipped If one is to judge the futur.e by the about in most districts. tional devices lying in a neat pile on to Bt's end of the island. In fact, some immediate past, there is no economic the peaks. Startling? Yes, It is true that if valuations continue to drop, the $15 tax limitation the back porch. Would that drive you of the Big Bankers and their statisti- absurdity that may not be prescribed for tuberculosis can be amendment will raise less revenue as time goes on. It should also into utter despair? Or~would you have cians advised A. to "loan B. all the by our political and our banking lead- prevent us from getting in any deeper. In time the debt retirement the good sense to welcome the help? gold that B. had paid to A. in the ers, eagerly seconded by profession- avoided and cured. Help provision of the amendment should enable us to get our $850',000,000 For ten years after the close of the course of their trading over the years". al economists and statisticians. TJn- flatten these peaks. Your in public debts paid. In the meantime, it should be noted1 that while the World War America was the giant The;i, with the gold in hand, B. could lesa farmers and business men mani- total tax levied in 1936 was L'rtG millions, for the year 19.',o-:;2 it was Santa Claus for Europe. In his pack once more buy all that A. and his hir-fest an instant willingness to study health tomorrow may 1 $254,000,000 and for lit: ,:.'-:!:; it is abou,t $228,000,000. There's 38 millions was an astonishing amount of food, ed men could raise. That would keep the fundamentals of money and credit, depend on your as- of the 100 we needn't worry about. * machinery, and raw materials, all of everybody on A.'s end of the island as those two intangible powers rule which were delivered on the back sistance today. Hr. Friday considers the $15 tax limitation amendment "ill-advised and violent" but he warned the educators that other "violent" measures steps of the largest and richest cor- will be forthcoming unless property gets relief. porations in Germany, France and Food Value of Potatoes Cow Worth Keeping Is bonds, central Europe. ! In return, we have some pieces of paper called notes and that today are worth about the Live Stock Men! About That of Silage Entitled to Her Grain same price as a poor grade of wall Buy your feeders . . . Finance your purchases . . . Sell paper. them finished . . . Co-operatively all the way . . . I t Pays! tain about the same Any dairy cow that is worth keep- Let us indulge in one more critifcal foods as oorn silage. They are best ing is entitled to one pound of grain supposition. Right now, when Ameri- You can send your stock to Detroit or East Buffalo yards and sell it direct to the packers through the Michigan Live Stock Ex-" suifed to feed hegs but can be^given in iy [\\<2 pounds of milk she gives, can cities—Michigan cities as well as change, which is as near to you as your nearest shipping ass'n or limited quant i it tie, sheep, and it' the milk tests less, than 3M>r', but- others—are facing bankruptcy in their member who is affiliated with us. Get the FULL RETURNS from horses. When fed to pigs potatoes terfat. and one pound of grain to every efforts to raise enough money to meet your stock. should be boiled or steamed and mixed 3 pounds of milk if the butterfat con- the welfare necessities of the coming with a protein-rich grain. They may tent is higher. To get what milk is winter, what would happen if Europe Some 20.000 farmers, belonging to 150 Michigan shipping ass'ns, have at Buffalo and Detroit their own sales offices, top notch sales- be given in small amounts raw with k> from feeding roughage and would return U> us some part of the men, and handle a large volume of stock on both markets. .w potatoes Mteve about feeding little or no grain is a mistake, goods that she took from us in the last Ask about our purchasing service on feeder cattle, calves, lamtos I5VRS.25VR$. 45Y*S. same veJ for dairy for with a little thought and care and ten years? Suppose she were to re- 'bey should be cleaned, sMcvd a little experimentation dairymen ca*n turn the food and the clothes—or send from range or markets. Ask about eur credit corporation and 6% Government money. THE N A T I O N A t , STATE AND LOCAL and fed with grain in amounts up to still affori I grain. us clothes and housing equivalent to thirty or thirty five pounds a day. Returns to patrons guaranteed by 160,000 i>ond TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATIONS what we ^ent her in the last ten years? meeting IT. B. Government requlreroents r amounts, potatoes OF THE UNITED STAJES Damp litter in a hen house is Do you realize that it would be suffic- uality of the milk, 3IKHI(«A> LIVK STOCK FX( H. PB0DUCBB8 CO-OP A8OTI N ork College of likely to result from over-i.rowd- ient to feed, clothe and house our Detroit ng. army of unemployed for the next five East Buffalo, \ . V. Agriculture. BUY CHRISTMAS SEALS , t T rnn.iv. m:< KMHKK 10. m*. THREE ..XVVSSIK ANNUAL Ml.lTIXc CoU tv" Farm Bureau will be held al NEW LEGUME CROP o ., Paying $2 for YOUNGSTERS OFF salary reductions during this p< from 10 to 8 3 ' , j I >Asino McCurtly Park, Cbrnnna, ''J'V.jsday. • >«•<•• " ; - A t t h e afternoon i a representative from the B pure!111 and one from the S . - Buy City will speak. BEING DEVELOPED Feed Cost, College Says ! Reports from 691 Herds Show butterfat prices. despite exceedingly low milk and CHICAGO CONGRESS accepted by those remaining. An oustainUng Jluring the year was an agreement with the Farmers Union and Nation- accomplishment FRESH GINGERBREAD College Adapting Lespedeza, That, and Tendency to al Grange for a unified program on a The stale Leaders 45 4-H'Clum Members Rep- national policy for Agriculture, which Ing po l.LIJTKIt- High Protein Legume, Too Little Protein ATBg To So. Michigan New leading herds also appear resented Michigan in was presented to Congress in a spoons riimanion an nut- By .1. C. BALfZER, this month in a comparison of pro- Contests G-point program, which is still be- meg. thoroughly Add n 11 and pour Into a shallow | .cording to tin* eenstii bureau duction results from all Michigan fore Congress. Organized agriculture IN! pan. Bake '_• hum derate • 1,304,0^7 or 9.9 per Lansing—A n<_\v pasture Dairy Specialist, State College. herd improvement organizations East Lansing—The names of 15 favors: oven ah. of the 13,216,828 foreign-born crop of special value on the lighter East Lansing .Michigan dairy- while the Straub herd of South Ber- are neglecting to feed rations rien association led the September 4-H club members from Michigan 1. strengthening the Marketing M . persons iiimw ten years of soils of the southern counties in tomencows that are sufficient to permit herds with were the State delegation to the Na- 2. Tax reforms; opposes sales tax. ESCALLOPED CORN I t a b l e s p o o n s Hour, 4 t a b l e s p o o n s Imt- in the S t a l e s c a n n e i t h - .Michigan possibly will be the result cups m i l k . 2 n i p s corn, V4 t e a s p o o n Of plADt breeding experiments by the economical milk and butterfat pro- age followed closely by the G. S. tional Club Congress in Chicago Money reform for stabilized dol- salt and ' , teaspoon each of paprika and 1 *6 er re ad or. write. Dept1. of Agriculture and of duction, says A. C. Baltzer, exten- ColTman herd of Branch county Nov. 26 to Dec. 3. fit-Id trials made by Michigan gtate sion dairyman, Michigan State Col- with 4">.2S pounds fat and the \Y. These boys and girls competed lar. 4. Tariff equality fov agriculture. celery salt. i orn and i.., white sauce of milk, butter and flour, then add seasoning and M- in moderate oven, Collide with an early strain of Ko- lege. The latest reports from Mich- F. Jordan herd of South Baton with fpr national championships in t;he 5. Curbing speculation in food prod- Money rean lespedeza. . igan Dairy Herd Improvement 44.49 pounds, the October totals re- many projects included in boys a,nd Previous 'known strains of leaped,- Ass'ns reveal that rations are gen- veal only one of these herds among from the 48 states and from Canada girls club work. The entire group ucts. C. Philippine indepeml. Money catches more flies than ; vinegar, and you cannot do bttsi- eza would not' mature north of the erally low in protein. the leading three for the state. A i ness with a man when you art- Credit southern boundary of Michigan au c u p s s l i c e d s w e e t p o t a t o e s . ££ t e a s p o o n s a l t , a, l i t t l e HOUSE-LIGHTING $1.00 Prepaid good st^nd the next year. No seed of the new strain is available for Places of Scenic Wonders in Chicago competitions. pepper, i tablespoons sugar, - tablespoons fat and 1 cup water. Put in a baking dish f Delegates from Michigan were and cover ami hake 1 % hours in a mod- COOKING IRONING AND distribution. Karl Larson, Alba; Dorothy Hassel- erate oven. MICHIGAN FARM NEWS Further trials of the plant will be | Big Trees, Canyons, Glaciers single Washington is the largest accessible bring, Standish; Mary Huyden, Bl- 221 No. Cedar St. Lansing, Mich. made by the farm crops department Geysers, Volcanoes Are peak glacier system, having berta; Wendell Cox, Coldwater; LEFT-OVER CHICKEN 28 glaciers, some of very large size; Carl Moore, Quincy; James Bow- a p 2o o nc us p ds o udri,c eld t ecaosopkoeodn cs ha li tc,k ean , l i t ".'t l e lpa nh lp. -- BUY with Confidence! of Michigan State College. The de- partment can estimate the value of To Be Seen 4 8 square miles of glacier. 50 to man, Bronson; Carel Elliott, Cold- 500 feet thick and most wonderful water; Elizabeth Gillan, Dowagi&c. 9 USE with Confidence! the crop in this state only after further trials. Probably the plant America has 17 National Parks, subalpine wildflower fields. June Hungerford, Sault Ste. Farmers Buying RECOMMEND with will not mature north of the south \each be ijl Plait Park in southern Oklahoma . ? . . a n outstanding beauty (has many sulphur' springs of re- .Marie: Vera White, Rapid River; Guide Confidence! FOR. half of the state. spot and, different than the others. puted medicinal value. Crater Lake Park in southern Ore- petty McPherson, Leon Schmalzried and George Ba,ll, Rapid River; Rates on Application BEAUTIFULLY Rockey Mountain Park in north Levering; Kirstine Sorenson. Har- Monuments DESIGNED FARM BUREAU SERVICES gon is a collapsed volcano. It has central Colorado is the heart of the Reform Money, Tariff, , no inlet or outlet. Sides by the Rockies with snowy peaks bor Springs; Tyyne Salo, Ironv. • nonuments of the most beautiful granlt* Lansing, Michigan 11,000 Ross Baker, Jonesville; Emil Pork- md marble. Call or write. We employ* Taxes, is Bureau's Idea lake are 1,000 ft. high. The lava to 14,250 feet high, ka. Atlantic Mine: Alma Stecker Largest monument ao salesmen. You save the difference works in Westerr or see jour local Farm (Continued from page 1) ^formations are most interesting. Sequoia in the east central part and Luella Krauss, Sebewaing; Mel- Michigan. SIMPSON GRANITE WORKS chargis. Railroad consolidation General Grant Park in middle 1358 W. Leonard, Grand Rapids. Bureau Distributor of California is sometimes called vin Aspholm and Ever Johnson, should be encouraged. State and easterly California was created to the Big Tree National Park because Federal restrictions on rail round preserve the celebrated General here can be found the several hun- Iron River; Antoinette Briggs, P< n- trip, excursions and special rates tree, a giant redwood 33 ft. dred Sequoia trees over 10 feet in toga. ' should be modified. Railroads Jn diameter. diameter. There are towering Richard Bird, Belding; Jack Tan- should be allowed feeder bus and Glacier National Park in north- mountain ranges, great precipices ner, Jackson; Forrest Dixs6n, j truck lines without use of subsidiary western Montana is a rugged moun- and mile-long , caves ot delicate Munith; Elvis Dutcher, Alto; Clar- corporations; should be allowed tain region of Alpine character. beauty. ence Klahn, Lowell; Alma Adams. NATURE jright of pick-up and delivery in less There are 250 glacier-fed lakes, 60 than carlots if not done below cost small glaciers, precipices thousands important wild animal preserve. Sparta; Clara Olsen, Sands; Clara Sully's I}ill in North Pakota is an Potter, Stephenson; Clinton Muivy MADE-THEM.. of service. of feet deep and marvelous scenery. and Elton Palfrey, Freeland: John Wind Cave is .in Soijth Dakota Economy In Gorernmeiri Grand Canyon is in north central and is a cavern having many miles Weatherby and Francis Terwilliger, Balancing budget can be best ac- Arizona where can be found the of galleries and numerous chambers Howard City. complished by every reasonable greatest example of erosion and the of considerable size containing many Peter Wierengo and Emil economy and as few new taxes as most sublime spectacle in the world. peculiar formations. Muskegon; Marian Ch/istiai possible. Gov't agr'l services should not be sacrificed in greater propor- kansas embraces 46 hot springs Hot Springs Park in central Ar- Fruitport; Effie Palmer, Yellowstone, located in Wyoming, Leonard Siudara, Rochester; Bene- Montana and Idaho is the most wide- dict Voss, White Pine; Fern Wel- Fremont; no TWO are alike tion than other services and depart- possessing curative properties. Here ly known of all and has more gey- ments. may be found"•" many hotels and sers than all the rest of -the world zien and Oma Balmopa, Fieelangrip on the throat of the nation. •The cost of government has come OSWALD the RABBIT production costs, by buying Largest Number Since construction. to foe nearly one-third of all trie A Cartoon Comedy In 1925 fewer states had gasoline 'earnings of all the people. | — low-priced feed for poultry, frequently result in a drop Classified Ads The War taxes and the gasoline tax revenues "Dangerous taxation affects every were about one-fourth of those in 1930. class. The poor man may pay no Two Feature Picture Plays Classified Advertisements are cash East Lansing—Michigan's county In 1926 gas tax and license fee reve- taxes directly, yet he pays to the in egg production below with order at the following rates: 4 cents per word for one edition. Ads agricultural agent program was test- nues together accounted for about hilt in all he buys, and in rent, arid By Accomplished Farmer Players the profitable mark. to appear in two or more editions ed for its merits in boards of super- _.v , of the total highway costs. take the rate of 3 cents per word per visors meetings and in general elec- in loss of his job. Many farmers Mofe often than not the best quality feed is the edition. ' POULTRY tions this fall. Sixty-six counties will have coun- 'You Can Make It 1 pay half of all they earn in taxes," Admiral Byrd said. The Farm Bureau reaffirmed its 1931 Taxation policy, urging Con- HORSE SENSE ty agricultural agents for the en- cheapest. It gets egg pro- FOR SAM':-- liAUCK TYPE GIANT suing year, equal to the largest This is the title of three booklets gress to appcinf a Nat'l Tax Com- ' mission representing every major and duction up and keeps it .ckin number in service any year except of plans and specifications on' wooden group and with foremost tax ducks from 12 lb. stock. Emma up, as well as promotes good Simpson, Owosso, K-f, Michigan. health, and does it all with during the war when every county articles handy in the home, in the (H-22-2t-p) had an agr'l agent as a war meas- barn, for outdoor picnic grounds, for ure. camps and articles for- sale. Several authorities recommend a sound and now co-ordinated allowed tax system which will prevent wholesale exemptions millions of taxable THE BENEFACTOR less feed per fowl. BABY CHICKS Boards of supervisors made ap- hundred articles described include persons and wealth and will re- place the almost unrestricted com- LEGHORN CHICKS—PRICES RCES C CUT 9c 9 propriations for agr'l agent work in work benches, china racks, roadside petition between states and the TO BE PRESENTED AT THESE PLACES AND DATES This is certainly always true ft ordered^now d d w for s p r springi g Shipment. Shipm Shipment (!uar- 61 (!uar- counties. In three counties display stands, rack for canned goods, rederal Government for taxes with ord«red now for nteed tox outlay others. Records d to t 836 836 a policy of co-operation in the in- SAGINAW COUNTY ST. JOSEPH COUNTY with P I L O T BRAfs'D i-KHs. UarKain prices on pullets, liens. voters decided by large majorities trellis, kitchen utility cabinet, many terests of the taxpayers. The Constantine, Sat.. Dec. 17, Bureau favors leaving tax sched- , Saginaw, Tues., Dec. 13, 8 p. m. Catalog free, George B. Ferrisi 927 Union, f.o continue the agent in the largest things that bov\s like to make for ules in the present revenue law 2 & 8 p. m. E. T. OYSTER S H E L L . It is G r a n d R a p i d s , . M i c h i g a n . < 11-i.'L*--_'t-:-Jll>> election vote in the history of those themselves and for the home, and a Moose Hall, 220 N. Hamilton High School alone until time has developed the '. the lowest cost oyster shell counties. In two counties private booklet of things for the family that efficient of the present rates, etc. ARENAC COUNTY VAN BUREN COUNTY "AMERICAN" CHICKS WITH THEIR -ideal E.. A. O'Neal said, ".Sim- Standisn. Wed., Dec. 14, 2 p. m. Decatur*, Mon,, D obtainable because every 'h"i> roiit record, offer bigger profits t<> you. subscriptions by individuals and or- has a camp or cottage in the Woods. tuple Theatre t- of White Leghorns, Barred or ganizations will complete th< State Titles of the books are, "You Canple justice requires that the nation 8 p. m. C. T. , pound of it can be eaten A'hito Rocks, u. I. Reds. All Heavies BAY COUNTY Town Hall ml A. A. Leghorns blobd tested. Heavy and federal funds to carry on the Make Ii for ^ Profit" and "You Canrecognize its obligation to the b'y laying hens. There's no agr'l agent program. Make It. Vol. 1." which has uses for er. • For twenty centuries the pray- Eay City, Wed., Dec. 14, 8 p. m. MACOMB COUNTY Irhmaruiel Lutheran Hall Mt. Clemens, Tues., Dec. 20, 8 p. m. waste in it, no poisonous second hand boxes and odd pieces of er has gone up. 'Give us this day High School lumber, and "You Can Make It for our daily bread' and yei how rarely JACKSON COUNTY matter; and it assimilates have tho people thought of wh; Jackson, Thui's., Dec. 15, 8 p. m. LAPEER COUNTY Camp and Cottage." The booklets prayer implies. Farmers have Lapeer, Wed., Dec. 21, 8 p. m. easily and quickly. WANTED—FARM WORK •————»~. West Intermediate High School Michigan & Blackstone Sts. M. E. church may be had for 5 cents each. Address sponded. Providence has man WANTED— FARM WORK BY MAU-, the National Committee on Wood CALHOUN COUNTY It's safe ahd profitable to led man 29, one chid. Dairy farn Jfrience. Alfred Jon MERRYJIHRISTMAS Utilization, Dep't of Commerce. Wash- ble, but the energy and pi work of the farmer provides that Allegan, ALLEGAN COUNTY Fri., Dec. 12, 2 p. m. E. T. Albion, Thurs., Dec. 22, 8 p. m. High Sohoc! insist upon having PILOT t.. Lansing, Mich. I12-10-ltt ington, D. C. , Griswold Auditorium South Haven, Fri., Dec. 16, 8 p. m. ST. JOSEPH COUNTY BRAND. WANTED—WORK ON QRNEftAL O1J "Our strength lies in unity. A , E. T. Centerville, Fri., Dec. 23, 8 p. m. airy farm by young married man. No Putting on the Dog challenge is offered to eyery mem- High School High School [jjlaren. Don't smoke or swear. Rajr i.mil Ewlng-, 3SO9 South Cedar St., Lan- Fii-^t came the "realtor" then the ber to go out with the spirit of invi- (12-10-lt) "mortician", later th« "beautician", tation asking progressive farm meji This Program is Presented by the " - ' " - 1 " WANTED, FARM WORK BY MAN « . followed by the "bootician". then the and women everywhere to join with i a I ; i , , l , ' «iith fartiy. Can do any kind "pedicure". Now we notice- on the us in support of our organization State Farm Insurance Companies Forked in milk ,...,... , dump wagons in one of our cities their for the purpose of carrying through erience on dairy farm. iixxl worker. Glen Myers, Good milker. ang, Chesaning, emblem "Kiley and Mcfowan, Tnickol- the program we have adopted. If Blooraington, 111. (12-10-lt) we will to do, victory will be ours.'' Mich. In its annual report the American and the KAUM WORK B ¥ MONTH »'ll (y MOTOR OIL PLANT Of Slade j106 per cent to 89 per cent of the and tleorge* of White Cloud, vice president,4 follows: lumbus, Middlebury, "Rushville, Or- named acting dean of the agricultural Warren of Fremont, see leans and Angola, together with the division Dec. 2 by President Shaw to Board. pre-war (1912-1014) average. More 1929 $11.950,000,0:00 Professord Anthony and than two-thirds of the States report- rejtary of the Newaygo County Farm Bureau at the annual meeting held 1930 9,403,000,000 Constantino, Michigan, Co-operative replace Prof. J. F. Cox, whose resigna- continue in their present duties"? will i ed lower than pre-war levels. i:t-'i 6,955,000,aoo Creamery, have established an asso- tion was asked by the State Board of dition to their new responsibin,?11' Indiana Distributors Delivered here Nov. ,19. Mr. Hansen and Fred 1932 5,240,000,000 ciation which they expect will become Agrculture Nov. 25, following an in- President Shaw said. ll The current decline in farm-land Acklin of Newaygo were returned to The % 17,800 Five-Gallon important in improving their markets, vestigation of charges against the values started not from a relatively the board of directors. The County majorlive stock industry took the part of the reduction in 1!U2 efficiency of their plants, etc. Their Cans in Week high level ibut trom a relatively low Farm Bureau reported itself In sound in returns first success has been saving several Board of Agriculture. Judge Carr of level. In that respect it differs financial condition and a membership sheep and from cattle hogs and thousands of dollars in purchasing the Ingham circuit court as a one-man from the first post-war slump. In list of substantial farmers. A reso- Cotton and from dairy products. grand jury, found no cause for action. By /.'.l v i:. ALLEN The last week of November, Kx- large measure the decline in farm lution endorsed the board of supervis- most among the cotton seed suffered crops. supplies as a group. The Coldwater, Michigan, Dairy Company has become A separate investigation conducted by a representative of the Attorney Gen- Silver King Coa] is big, blocky, clean burning. ecutive-Secretary ('. L. Brody, ac- land values after 1920 liquidated a ors' action in retaining the county interested in the group, which hopes companied by the Executive board wave of speculation. The current agricultural agent. , All pullets molt three times be- to interest many creameries in In- eral's office resulted in a similar re- Ask your coal dealer for a trial ton of the Farm Bureau Services, Inc., decline reflects a writing down of fore acquiring adult plumage. Pul- diana and Michigan. C. ,R. George of port. Republic Fuel Company consisting of William Zounebelt of values to correspond with a lower If Ignorance is bliss, it is some- lets molting this fall are just . get- the Marion, Ind., Producers Creamery Professor Albert Nelson of the BAY CITY and LANSING Offi cei Holland co-operative Association, commodity price level. times wise to be foolish. ting 'ready for production. Co., is secretary of the group. Journalism Dep't becomes acting head Alfred George of Buchanan, man- ager of three co-operatives center- ing about Buchanan, and Ray E. Allen, manager of Oxford Co-opera- tive Elevator met with similar ex- ecutives of the Indiana and Ohio Farm Bureaus at Indianapolis. Our Seed Guarantee Protects You An interesting feature of the meeting was a visit to' the blending plant of the Michigan-Indiana-Ohio' Farm Bureaus' which is owned) jointlv by the three organizations. Oil is received In tank cars direct from the oil fields, and stored in Every sealed bag of Farm Bureau seeds contains an envelope From its beginning 12 years ago, Farm Bureau has stood behind large vats until needed. It is made into three grades of lubricating oil with the request that the farmer save a sample of the seed, and note its seed with a CASH guarantee that the vitality, description, ori- (Mioco, Bureau and Triad) for autos, trucks and tractors. Here I the lot number and other information from the seed tag.' We also gin and purity are exactly as represented to the farmer. also is made transmission . grease, j cup grease, and axle grease for provide a postcard, asking the farmer to register his crop of Farm FARM BUREAU SEED GUARANTEE wagons. Bureau alfalfa or clover at our office. "Farm Bureau Services, Inc., of Lansing, Michigan, guarantees the The blending plant is very effici vitality, description, origin and purity of its Farm" Bureau Brands of ently managed by Mr. Ever^on. Ii early fall through his direction the Seeds to be as represented An the price card and analysis tag to the full 280 Indiana truck drivers put on a amount of the purchase price if received by the customer in our original, campaign to sell as many as pos sealed and branded bags." sible of 5 gallon cans of lubricating oils. In five weeks the 280 distribu- tors sold and delivered 17,800 five Compare our guarantee with the "disclaimer" on the price list gallon cans to the farmers of In- and.seed tag of nearly every other brand of seed. It reads: diana. The committee left the plant "We give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the description, thoroughly convinced that the Farm I'.uieau Oils are just about the best quality, productiveness, or any other matter of any seed we send out and ever. will not be in any way responsible for the crop.'' While at Indianapolis, Mr. Brody and the committee also had a meet- ing with the officials of the Tennes- It is not strange that as farmers become acquainted with the see Corporation, which makes ferti- policy behind Farm Bureau seeds, they adopt Farm Bureau seeds. lizers exclusively for the Farm Bu- reaus of the three states. Farm Bureau alfalfa and clovers are domestic, northern grown and The committe returned home don't winter-kill. Farm Bureau is aboutthe largest handler of al- feeling that the contacts made at Farm Bureau Alfalfa for Heavy Yields Year after Year these conferences were very much worth the time and effort put forth falfa in Michigan. You're safe with Farm Bureau seeds. to attend them. SHRINK IN AGR1 PRICES GREATEST We Had 3 Choices IN 70 YRS.-HYDE Farmers Witness Terriffic Fall There are three oil In Purchasing Power of The People refining processes. We Washington—The current depres- sion has caused greater shrinkage 'roht. use the best,—the long in demand for farm commodities, in farm-commodity prices, and in farm residuum. Our oils are incomes than has any similar decline recorded in the last 70 years. Consumption of the more expen- With Mermash 16% wax free—laugh at zero, sive commodities has declined- Con- sumption of the cheaper commodi- Egg prices have been working up toward 40 cents per dozen, and may get there any day. We hope they will do much better as start easy, save motors. ties has remained practically un- changed, and indeed, in some cases the winter progresses. haa increased. Nevertheless, prices . 5 Gal. Cans of all commodities, have fallen. The difference between the cost of eggs and your selling price or in Drums Farmers have had to take terrific price cuts to remove their goods. is your pay. Nov. 26 we told you that a farmer buying his Mermash at your MIOCO The situation has demonstrated 16% aind other supplies from the Lansing Farm Bureau Supply Farm Bureau 100% Paraffin Base, Mid-continent Oil again the old truth that it takes store sold $126.72 in eggs for October. His feed costs, including Dealer purchasing power, as well as con- cracked corn, oyster shell and grit, were $54.98. His profit was sumption, to keep prices up. Farmers have witnessed a precipi- $71.74 for the month. tate fall in purchasing power. The factory pay-roll index for the H. DeYoung of Ellsworth, Mich., a feeder of Mermash .16%, BUREAU PENN United States, for example, was 50 told us that his egg production costs in winter were: January, 12c per cent lower in the fir«t quarter per dozen; February l i e ; March 10c. His hens gave 60% produc- 100% Bradford, Pennsylvania Crude of 1!>32 than in the first quarter of tion and up. . 1028. Railroad pay rolls were about 4 0 per cent lower, and con- Mr. Hood wrote us that he began with Mermash 18% in Feb- struction pay rolls about 80 per cent WHY THEY COST LESS *' lower. ruary with 50'•, egg production. In March it was 72%, April 78%. Farm Bureau oils and their 30 to 35c per Generally speaking, it was the His records since 1919 show no production equalling these figures. qt. brothers, owned by the great oil firms, :iamp in foreign countries. lh some of the principal countries that take Eggs are up. Mermash is not. Mermash supplies an iodine come from the same fields. Farm Bureau American farm products, employ- ration lacking in other feeds and in Michigan grown grains and oils cost you less because Michigan, Ohio ment and consumer buying power and Indiana Farm Bureaus own a co-opera- declined more than in the United animal products. You can depend on Mermash 16% for more eggs, States. Our agricultural exports larger eggs, more extras and a healthier flock. It's a complete mash, tive blending and distributing plant. therefore had to fall in volume, and ready to be fed with scratch grains. A better buy now than ever. even more in value. In the two crop years 1925-30 and 1930-31, farm exports from , the United States declined twice a? much in value as In volume. This meant that American farmers were When 5 Lbs. Equals 40 Lbs. exporting their surpluses at bar- gain prices. Even so, great surplus- 5 Lbs. of the Cod ^Liver Oil in ' ' Farm Bureau Poultry feeds WITH Heavy Duty-Low Price es remained unsold. But for price Cod Liver Oil" has the Vitamin D value of 40 lbs. of ordinary cod liver cuts, the surpluses would have been oil. mountain high. FAKM BUREAU TIRES and tubes are first line products Reduced buying power abroad This remarkable concentration of Vitamin D is attained by special was not the only cause of the drop processes. Farm Bureau uses NOPCO XX in our Poultry Feeds WITH made for us by the Mohawk Rubber Co., known nationally in our agricultural exports. In- Cod Liver Oil because the Vitamin D in this high grade product is creased farm production in Europe cheaper to the feeder, since much less oil is required. for 19 years for the quality and long wear of its tires. and elsewhere had a great deal to do with it. So did import restric- Records of 25 years show that in out fall and.winter months we have tions established by foreign , coun- up to 175 hours less sunshine per month than in summer. Vitality of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana Farm Bureau supply services tries because of their reduced buy- poultry and all other living things is affected. Egg production is lowered. ing power and because of their de-l Farm Bureau poultry feeds with cod liver oil are the best source of combining their large purchasing power, are able to offer you sire to maintain their gold reserves, j Vitamin D—the sunshine vitamin, to keep egg production up where it Recent export statistics bear out FARM BUREAU long wearing, heavy duty tires at prices what I emphasized in my report last belongs. year, namely, the impossibility of that are a substantial sayings for their quality. Ask to see maintaining our. agricultural export these tires at your Farm Bureau dealer's. trade at the volume it reached dur- ing the World War and immediately ter. Capital Account iculture has also lost heavily In its capital account. The total value of all capital employed in agri- cultural production as of January >, LftSl, was |4<,339,000,000, as com- (I with $.8,249,000,000 on Jan. 1. l!*30. a decline of about 24 per Ask For FARM BUREAU Coal For Farm Bureau Supplies Ask For FARM BUREAU a Farmers' equities in their Salt SEE YOUR CO-OP OR FARM BUREAU DEALER Fence property decline along with their! current incomes, so that their finan- Oyster Shell Write Us If You Have No Dealer Lime cial security as welt as their stand- FARM BUREAU SERVICES, Inc., Lansing, Mich. Greases ard of living is impaired. Farm real-estate values continued fall in ueaHy all parti of the