(^FARMERS’ EDUCATIONAL^
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CO-OPERATIVE UNION
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From all quarters comes tte cheer
ti'K news that the great Farmers’ Un
ion is moving onward with rapid
progress, even the great Hearst jour
nals of Chicago, New York and San
Francisco, have awakened to the im
portance of the Farmers’ Unon and
are devoting considerable space to
write-ups of the various State orgaui
•zations mnd the 'effective work being
done by each. Thus it wih be seen
that by a strict adherence to the prin
ciples upon which the Union is found
♦hi and by a due observance of the
business ability of the national and
State officials, wo have won our way
into the hearts and minds of even the
gpeat business centers of the coun
try. Our success is assured by no
better evidence than is mauifested by
the onward progress and the reputa
ble mention by the great leading jour
nals, of the order and its work. De
voted exclusively to business as is the
aim and purpose of the Union, every
auxiliary of business enterprise in
America must recognize force and ef
fective business ability of the farmer
as a class. It has been frequently
said in years past and gone that you
could not organize the Farmers effec
tively for they would not stick to
gether. This, was in the main true,
considered from a political view, but
we are today only in our infancy of
the first practical test of a business
■organization of the farmers and we
Joel confident that the business pow
er and accomplishments manifested
by the organization today are suffi
ciently strong to dispell from the
minds of any “doubting Thomas” this
«nd idea that the farmer won’t stick.—
Arkansas Union Tribune.
A trip across the country a few
days since revealed at least ninety
per cent of tne implements and vehi
cles of the farmers out in the hot sun,
which had just been preceded by a
rain. That same farmer who wilfully
destroys his tools and implements
would be arrested if he took an axe
and chopped them up, but the destruc
tion by weather, which is no less a
crime, goes on all over the country,
and only the farmer and his family
ever suffer for it. What? Not on
your life. When anything is destroy
ed that was of use or that would have
been of use, the whole nation and the
whole world is that much poorer. No
one has a right to destroy the wealth j
of the world. One man's possessions j
is only a temporary loan, under earth
ly conditions, and his use is rightfully
limited to the best use of the things
of which he is capable.
Don’t forget that the farmer is one
man and the planter is an entirely uif
ferent sort of a fellow. The farmer
works on the farm and is a farmer,
but the planter is one who has a farm
worked, just the same as a manufac
turer has a factory run by a bunch
of operatives. One is a business
investment, the same as a stock com
pany or a stock of goods bought for
sale. The real farmer is the man who
plows the soil and depends upon the
farm for his living. It is for the
farmer that the Farmers' Union was
organized, and in its purely primal
condition, it fits his conditions. Keep
out all the frills and furbelows of the
farmer who does not really farm,
and the organization will be one ot
the largest benefit to the farmer; ’ ut
till it with the plans of the specula
tive farmer, and the real farmer will
lose out. Tne interests of the two
classes do not run parallel.
Cut out the political intrieguing. It
will ruin any order in the world.
There is nothing in politics in the
final count, even to those who make a
business of it. How much less there
could be to those who cannot hope to
be more than hewers bf wood or draw
ers of water to the political bosses?
Cut it all out. and take the best thing
that comes along, regardless of the
bosses.
Keep it in mind thai the mere mak
ing of a big crop is not any surety ot
getting Its value. Diversify, and then
you will have little to apprehend from
any outside force or circumstances.
Don’t fall out with your union
simply because the union has not
made capitalists of all its members.
The union is more largely interested
in the getting of the right sort of
thinkiifg and the right sort of living
for its members that it is in the ac- |
cumulation of mere dollars. Then
there has always been some men who
“didn’t seem to get along” under any j
circumstances, and some of these are
in the union, but they are in the way
of improvement.
Now is the time to see to it that
you have plenty of peas in sight for
the summer planting. Nothing else
on earth yields so large a return for
the land and labor as a crop of peas.
There isn’t a thing on the farm that
will not turn down almost anything
else for a feed of peas, and the nutri
ment is probably the richest of all hay
feeds. (
During the cool mornings followed
by hot days, don't neglect the young
chickens. They will amply pay for
all the trouble they cause.
There is no use in organizing a un
ion if you are not dead in earnest
about the value of organizing and the
good that can come to the organiza
tion from the working together of you
and your neighbers and 'me and my
neighbors. Get yourself up to the
sticking point before you start, and
then keep the pot aboiling all the
time.
In cotton sections, and that is all of
the South, the special work of the
Union has been along lines of better
ment of the conditions appertaining to
that crop, but the Union is big enough
to go all round.
Co-operate in all the things that
will be helpful to your fellow-workers.
Do this in work, talk and in thought,
and the ideal Union man is not far
from your own self.
We are not hearing of enough farm
ers' picnics where only farmers are to
do the “spieling.” It is time that
farmers cut out the professional politi
cal wind-jammers and put up some of
their own men to do the talking.
While you are planting cotton, re
member that you are having some aw
ful strong competition. When you
plant something for the family to eat.
or something for the stock to con
sume, you have little or no competi
tion. See the point?
Lives in Railway Carriage.
In a railway carriage perched on a
cliff overhanging the Severn, near
Rridgenorth, England, lives Henry
Hudson, a man who has traveled ex
tensively, published more than one
novel and written for scientific maga- |
xines. He adopted his strange mode
of life partly from a love of nature.
He builds coracles, which he sends to
Norway, and has invented socks made
from wood, which are being consid- ,
ered by the British military author- 1
Itlea.
Greek Custom Traced to Turks.
The custom that prevails in Greece
of carrying a body to the grave in a
coffin which allows the face to be
visible is said to have originated when i
the Turks dominated the land.
Sacrifice of Horses.
The average number of horses
killed in Spanish bull fights every
year exceeds 5,000, while from 1,000
to 1.200 bulls are sacrificed.
Life’s Delicate Balance.
The great double danger of taking
life too easily and taking it too hard,
how difficult it is to balance that.—
Robert Louis StevenBon.
First English Fireproof House.
The first fireproof house seen 1b
England was built by David Hartley in
1778. Iron and copper plates were
laid between double floors.
English Trains Running Faster.
The number of flfty-six-mile-an-hour
runs on English railways increased
from twenty-two In 1904 to forty-five
last year.
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SZZ President Security Hank Vice-Pres. Northw’u. Nat’l. Bank
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B. F. Nelson
2^ Nelson-Tuthill Lumber Co.
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