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The Huron Expositor, 1920-12-10, Page 11920 Our List Will bea Range of Useful Articles Which Sensible Persons Give to Other Sensible People. o, and before 1 every gift omfort and x buying on it over. 71{r WINTER OR SUIT, 3, OR SKIRT WAIST ti are the lowest. bring you here. its are of un - genuineness cative fashion. and Milliner SILKS We have some )iendid values in _,ngths of silk citable f o` r waists and dress - s. s-.1311 may con - hide this is just ghat you "will ;eve some friend kfter seeing our .ssortment. S1ER. GIFT GLOVES. xchange hosiery LIS after Christ - at are not 'right right color. This to all grades, silk, cotton, wool. tt KERCHIEFS oo1, CANNOT THINK f THING E LSE TO MAN, WOMAN OR i IS ALWAYS SAFE HANDKERCHIEFS, LEY SHOULD BE r ; T. THE Mae - SSTORE. I. - Its. ti E STORE '1FTY-FOURTH YEAR 1. WHOLE NUMBER 2765 t. Do Your Christmas Shopping 4 . at Greig Clothing Company's an 's Closing--Up-Sale and SAVE 25 to 50 per cent, of your outlay. Think of the Hundreds of Gift Articles (all substantial and useful), which.: we are offering at this Great Sale. Invest any amount you desire from 25c. to $100.00 and you can't paake a mistake here, and remember this feature at our sale -25c does the work :of 50c.; $1:00 does the work of $2.00, and $5.00 gibe work of $10.00 and so on . in like proportions, no mutter what your purchase may be. • GIFTS FOR MEN. Silk Knit Neckwear, Silk Knit Scarfs, Fancy Pullover Sweaters and Coat Sweaters, Fancy Shirts, Sox, Caps, Underwear, Handkerchiefs, Pyjamas, Overcoat, Suit, Fur Coat—Hundreds of others to- choose from. DELIGHT THE BOY :WITH A Mackinaw Coat, Warm ;Stockings, -a. Cap, Ties,Gloves, Shirt, Suit, Overcoat, Sweaters and n Pullovers, - Fancy Mitts. FOR WOMEN. Set of Furs, Handsome Coat, Muff, Wool Knit- ted Jacket, Silk Scarf. FOR GIRLS. Dandy Coat . Sweaters, Wool Sets, Coats, Set White and light color Furs. Think of the Joy you bring to the heart and in- cidentally the comfort to the body of the happy re- cipient of any of ` these. , Specialofice After thirty years of continuedmercantile business in the Town of Seaforth, during which period we have conducted many big sales, we have positively decided to retire from mercantile business, and in so doing this Last Grand ° Final Hale shall eclipse all former efforts in every respect -greater volume of goods - offered, as mostour ° new Fall Goods have been passed into stock as we could not cancel Fall orders. r Prices are clashed as never before. We have terminated the lease of our store and all goods .must be sold. - The Greig Clothing Co, f� f EAFORTH,- FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920. $2.00 A Year in Advance McLean Bra's., Publishers WJiAT ORGANIZATION HAS f!e board. Three days of agrument DONE FOR U.' S. FARMER were necessary before ` - the . board ei reed to equip two sh}ps,`for-handl- ng grain.grain.The cost proved to be but .53,000 each. The thing ' .•wprked. Leber) all thirty -sib; steel ships on the lakes under control of the board were equipped at a cost of only $1;800 apiece. One of these ships is able to bring down the equivalent of two 1 For in that town the 'directors, Bele- trainloads of ° wheat at a trip,, so gates and executive committee of the many ears were zeleaaed to handle Am=erican Farm Bureau Federation other `freight. - will tla;sseinble for the second annual - Shortly after this Mr. Silver sat meeting of this, the newest, largest in the lobby of a• hotel ui W ashing- and most- potential of all farm or- ton telling the story 10 a friend. ° A ndizations ever set in motion in this yuan, overhearing him, spoke ups "Why don't yon do something When delegates . from more than 1 about the wooden boats?" thirty states met at Chicago a year "Why," said Sliver, "I did; not ago,' adopted • a tentative •form of know we had any."`' . ' organization and elected Jim Howard, "Why, yes," =answered the an. an Iowa farmer, as temporary •presi-"Ever since 1916 u fleet ofwooden dent, the federation faced the world vessels has been tied up in the docks an unknown factor. Theorganize- at . Detroit 4 out of comeniasion be - ton,. its aims and purposes, were un- cause, under a rate granted the rail- known . misunderstopd(' or underesti- roads and made possible by_ the work - mated. r ings of the LaFollette Seamen's $ill, To -day it is known from one end the railroads have been permitted to of the country to the other. Its haul grain from Chicago to Buffalo officers are put on the front pages for 3.8 cents and to charge ten cents of big city newspapers when they from Buffalo to - New York City. This come to toevn and are invited to ad- has driven all wheat shipments from dress the most influential gatherings the lakes to the railroads. For four in the land. Presidential candidates, years, over the war period, with so cabinet members,. congressmen, gov- much depending upon transportation, ' ernors, other men high - in affairs, these boats have remained idle be listen to the Farm Bureau with re- -cause no one has seen fit to do any- spect, and' some of them; if the truth thing.'", were known, with fear. The bureau Amazed, Silver went to the Ship - has taken its place as a- great na- ping Board and found that, this was tional farm voice. - - true. Boats sufficient to carry 123,- There 23;There is a certain club in Washing- 000,000 bushels of wheat at one trip toe which, from time' to time, in-- had been idle for four years, Tice iluential men are invited to address, railroads said they were short 100, -•No reporters being present, ' the 000 cars. The Farm Bureau had opeakers are at liberty to "talk' quite found three-quarters of them. The freely, and discuss matters of official Illinois Agricultural Association or semiofficial nature. found most of the other 25,000; but Fifteen minutes after one of these that is another story. meetingshad closed Gray Silver, With a governor front et .Middle- Washingto 'representative of the Western state who had heard. of the American' /Farm Bureau Federation, situation ' and wanted to help, the was called on the telephone by a -man Farm Bureau nien went to see cert who has a sympathetic - interest in tai influential railway officials in the welfare of the livestock farmers Washington to demand that some - of the country. He had just come . thing be. done to change the - rates, from the club meeting, he said, and put these boats to work hauling wheat he told Mr. Silver that a certain an government official in addressing the far club had said that the'Shipping Board Th was planning tit break the high price of meat in this country by equipping do a line of - ships with refrigerator space, hauling cheap meat from hi Argentina and Australia and throw; th ing it on the markets of the United. A States. in Early next morning Mr. Silver was an at the offices of the Shipping Board. sh From his=, description of ,;what follow • fo ed he must have made noise enough 'wi m o f far- pe with the volume to comport wit v w i mer interest which he represents. Unable to secure . audience with the sh official he had come to see, he served ar notice on a subordinate that yo he would send out a statement to the ei farmers of the nation regarding the te alleged to have been made yo et the meeting the previous night un=less theShipping Board cared to ti make an official statement on the w nutter.• th Shortly afterward a statement ap- le peered declaring that the Shipping Board did not have any plans nor in did it contemplate any for equipping v ships to being meat into the country. m Thus was the natter cleared up r promptly, because the Farm Bureau p Federation had its ear to the ground T in Washington and had the voice of e a million and a half farmers with r which to back up its request • for a b quick hearing. - In the past. year it has been the task of J. ` R. Howard, president of t the federation, to speak for the farm- n ers of America in a large way to q business, to organized labor and to b industry. From comparative dbscur- r ity as an Iowa farmer, Howard has s been carried forward in his position as Farm Bureau executive to the place an where he has become a national figure. i For example, he addressed the United States Chamber of Commerce at its e .summer meeting. Thus organized business of -America listened to the s organized farmers. n Howard, Silver and other offs ers ti of the federation have been quilted in the greatest daily newspapers in the land. Influential magazines have come to them for facts or for opinions. Both national political parties have sought their disinterested advice. These men have done much in one year's time to elevate agriculture as a whole to a higher plane, to help .it take its due place as our greatest national industry. This is the big- gest single achievement of the Amer- ican Farm Bureau Federation. There More im- mediate hovb�ever, other and mo mediate results that bear telling. The American Farm Bureau Fed- erationican represented the Ameri has r e res - P farmer in national affairs in a way that he has never been represented before. Speaking as a single voice for its more than a million.. members, it has, through its Washington office, compelled attention to thenprmenml e problems of the farmer—the big, problems that concern agriculture and the nation as a whole. For - instance, when the bureau learned that big steel boats on the Great Lakes were making trips with- out full loads of freight, their car- goes mainly boxes and packages that could 'be handled easily, the United States Shipping Board was asked why these vessels - were not hauling wheat. There was a great freight congestion and tie-up. Cars 'were short everywhere, and here was some- thing that might relieve the shortage and help the farriers of the Middle West who wanted their wheat and hogs hauled to market. The boats had no bulkheads for handling, grain, and it would take $5000 a boat to build them in, said One million five hundred thousand farmers in particular and some si.; million farmers- in - general will hay : their eyes focused on Indianapolis next week. , Many of the remaining ninety --odd million Americans' will turn' their eyes in- the same direction. he.ideal :mr-s Drift Lighten the work of the house- hold by washing the clothes electrically. See our Electric Washing Machines, The Famous 1900 Ca- taract with the figure eight movement, and the 1900 Agitator,also the Perfection Electric Washer on the market The best machines The Big Hardware H. EDGE d release railway cars to haul other m products from the Middle West. e railroaders . smiled at the visi- tors. They said it was impossible to anything. - "Now like here"—Mr. -Silver quotes mself. "Do you railway men know at the farmer members of the merican Farm Bureau Federation, a referendum, voted almost un= owner- ip against government wn i ip of railroads? But do you thin the r. a. minute that, if I went .to ,h th the stotet of what yot tfieii=have emitted to -be done in wartime, they their cion in reverse a ould not re ort order? The farmers ri ht now f chat efor re with you. Here's a u to do something for thein. You ther do it or the Farm Bureau will e11 the farmers of America that u leave refused, and why." Whereupon those railway execu- vesilooked at eath other again, but ith a different sort of smile on eir faces. The Farm Bureau men eft. ti Two days later, for the first time history, the railroads, of their own olition, went to the Interstate Com- erce Commission and asked that ates be adjusted to the basis of ermitting a competing water rate. he commission not only did this but ven gave the boats a differential ate, and now the wooden boats are ack in commission on the lakes and, whenever required, are hauling grain. How different this is from the story old some years ago when old: Com- modore Vanderbilt, over the sante uestion of competing freight lines etween Chicago and New -York, in eply . to reporters, was . quoted as eying: "The public be damned." Had the full increase in freight d passenge=r rates asked by the •ailroads been allowed, the total would have been .far greater than ven the $1,500,000,000 granted and the American farmer would have he houldered a heavier burden than ow carries of the advanced cost . of ransportation, The American Farm Bureau Federation, however, appro- priated funds to investigate the claims of the railroads and retained Clifford Thorne, the well known at- torneyt it at the hear One Week honogrp Special This splendid big phonograph in ma- hogany or fumed -oak cases, fitted with double doors, record shelves and cas- tors. Universal tone arm enabling you to play all makes of records. Height 46 inches, width 20 inches, depth 21 inches. With 40 Records For $168 less than $400 an agent. Had this provision gone though the entire county -agent system in the United been wrecked. The would have States o Ste s Farm Bureau exerted the influence that not only . put the original appro- priation back in the bill but increased it by $500,000. When Congress -was considering the railroad bill and 'union, labor was. clamoring for ofnission of any refer- ence to strikes or arbitration, confer- ence committees of the House and Senate agreed to submit a bill pro- viding no means of adjustment of labor difficulties and omitting -every reference to the prevention of strikes. The Farm Bureau spoke the - word that it asserts put the arbitration - adjustment provision back itt the bill as finally passed over the protests of 'the united labor unions. Still another illustration of how the Farm Bureau .has been on the job for the . farmers of all sections of the country is an incident in connec- tion with the Agricultural Appropria- tions Bill. One day just at the -close of the session, when only five mem- bers were on the floor of the Senate and after all hearings of the agri- cultural committees were -over and there was no time for discussion, an amendment to the bill was introduc- ed whereby the number of cotton grades permitted by law would be reduced just one-half. Now this amendment would mean nothing to a Corn - Belt farmer who try really needs. When 'Congress gets down to busi- ness this winter it will find a number of bills ready for its consideration, The Capper-Voistead Bill has been amended so that, as it now stands, it is doubtful if farmers could actually own and operate a milk route of their any real own or, in fact, ,ha'=re . a y co- operation. The 14to an Tax Bill will ke brought up again to saddle a tax of_ one per cent. in addition to all other taxes, on the shoulders of the farmer on all land values above $10,000. Digests of these and a runt- ber of other bills have already been prepared and a plan of campaign worked out.The Farm Bureau is ready for ;congress. There was a meeting in New York City in late October of the second National Industrial Tax Conference, at which representatives ' of the lead- ing industries, banks and financial in- terests of the country were present, An effort' was made to indorse the above-mentioned tax bill, which would levy an additional tax on farm lands of a billion dollars a year, and to indorse the proposed tax of one per cent. of sales on all commoditie , both wholesale and retail, estimated to raise another billion dollars, a good - part of it from farmers. President Howard, of the American Farm Bureau Federation, and H. C. McKenzie, of NEW York, appeared and made such vigorous protests that some of the leading financiers and tax might hear of it. Nor would it get authorities of th' ,,entry such as a potato grower of Maine or an Otto H. Kahn, Pt . S. Adams, of orchardman in Oregon at all excited: ; Yale, and Prof. E. I:. A. Seligman, But to the cotton farmer of the South of Columbia University, sided with it -was of fundamental importance. - them, and the conference ended by In days of old this last-minute plan strongly condemning both proposals. might have worked. But no more. The- big business interests of the When the Farm. Bureau discovered ` country thus recognized the import - what fled' happened, it took prompt - ance -of agriculture and added Mr. McKenzie to the taxation committee to represent farrti interests. The net result of all of these things has been that in just one year's time the American Farm Bureau Federa- tion, by virtue of its firm stand on these questions of nation-wide im- portance, its practical service in the interests of the farrier, backed by its solid and widespread membership, national 'n a leadership i hasassumed e p We can only ask you to hear this in- action. Gray Silver wrote a letter strument in our demonstrating room to be convinced of the value we offer. HEAR IT THIS WEEK. n- to the chairman of the Agricultural Committee'of the Senafe, telling hints what had happened and how. This letter was mimeographed and a copy -placed on the desk of every member of Congress with the declara- tion that if that amendment went through without having been acted on by the regular committees in due E. Umbach, Phm.B. "The Recall Store" PHONE 28 SEAFORTH paper as collateral. Among other things claimed as ac- complishments in a national way by the Farm Bureau has been the secur- ing of aid appropriation of half a million dollars to fight the corn borer and for • a quarantine against this pest. It prevented certain interests from securing title to valuable cot- tonizona. lands in Ari I,stn seting, when Congress was in t this rhe the blizzarris, the car of one milkoxi f thousand session, it cut the proposed appro- ` bu strikes had :event- paid-up members. There are now °priations. for county -agent work to shortage and thep eel. Spring was at hand, the gtound thirty-four states that have been ad- B the end to the federation. ready, but no .seed. The railroads miffed�' could do nothing, and ruin stared of 'next week's meeting these may . course the nation would be told how s' o the_ farmers of America. it had been- engineered. 'The item way for was promptly stricken out of the bill This had not been done at the ex- —the Farre Bureau had saved the pense er to the detriment of other day for the cotton farmers. organizations already in -the field. One day last spring when Mr. Sil- Rather , there, have been co-operation ver came down to hes office, he found and friendship between the Farm a stack of telegrams on his desk from Bureau officials and. leaders of the potato growers on Long Island, say- old national organizations. ing they were unable to get seed But perhaps the most important pAtoes from Maine, In previous thing accomplished by the American years seed potatoes had been hauled federation ha% been the building up total down front Maine during the winter, of its membership. There is a tl111111'1111,i (, i 1111=1111111 • Y Christmas Gifts That Last. r s And with Xmas only two weeks away, you will be inter- = ested to know that we never before were able to secure so • excellent an assortment of E :Xmas Gifts and at such ream = onable prices. We suggest • for your consideration: Ladies' Diamond. Ring.. $25,00 Ladies' 14k gold Pearl Necklet ...1..... 9.00 • Ladles 10k Gold Pearl Brooch 3. 4.00 • Ladies' 14k Pearl Rings 2.50 tmn Ladies' Ivory Manicure �- Setts 4.50 .Ladies' Gold mounted l Watermen Pen 3.50 ''olid Gold -Cuff - Links4.00 = olidSGold Pearl Tie Pins 2.00 F.. Gold Filled Vest Chains 2.00 ;; - Gent's Gold Filled Watch 15.00 • Gold Filled Wrist Watch 12.00 But, better still, visit our • store andsee the these men in the face. They appeal- ed to the 'American Farm Bureau Federation for help have increased to forty. By that time Iowa will have completed' its drive for 144,000 members. Illinois The bureau. ,wired them to send a now has more than 100,000, and Mich - man at once with the full facts. With ;.igen, Ohio; Indiana and New York this man it went to . the Amnerican ' are close behind. • Railway Association offices in Wash- ington, an organization, that unof- ficially but nevertheless effectively influences the movement of freight C`cars in the country, ,and presented) especially true in New England, in the case. This body declared it could a section where such action was s do nothing. But the Farm Bureau thought impossible a year ago. advanced arguments that brought 'an This organization work and the order for the diversion of 100 adds- membership campaign have been tional box cars a day to Maine above carred on by the individual states the normal car movement• there. With- rather than by the national federa- in fifty-two hours after the order had 1 tion. The federation, however, has gone forth cars. loaded with Maine I helped to plan the campaign. The eed potatoes were on their way to officers and the executive committee Long Island. Then fertilizers were have devoted a good share of their needed, a second visit was made, and tune to aiding in the work. 500 cars were secured for this pur-een out- linedA cfor comprehensive f the funlan hasd mentals pose. When the sugar -beet growers of ' of agricultural problems en a scale never before attempted by any or- ganization or government agency, and this study has been put into the lands of the best -equipped men in the land. Three major projects have been outlined and set under way. These are: First, the establishment of a permanent bureau of farm economics; second, the appointment of a perm- anent to anent .committee of seventeen study thoroughly the question of grain marketing; and third, a permanent committee of fifteen. to make a simi- lar study of livest ck marketing. This bureau of farm economics will be under the supervision of the fol- lowing commission: Dr. Eugene Dav- enport, of the University of Illinois, Senator Arthur Capper, of Rama James N. McBride, frorme' ly director of the Michigan State Bureau of Markets; Xenophon Caverna, of Mis- souri; Dr. G. F. Warren, of Cornell University; and Belfry A. Wallace. of Wallace's Farmer, Des Moises, in Iowa. This commission elected Mr. McBride as president and Mr. Wal- lace as secretary. As the first step in a solution of the grain -marketing question, Presi- dent Howard appointed the eommittee the sugar -beet growers of the state of seventeen, representing all inter- ested organizations, to -work out some system whereby the farmer :night market his own product through hitt owns organizations. The committee was selected from among names submitted by the vari- ous farm organizations. This committee of seventeen held its first meeting at Chicago in Oe- tober and divided its .work into five main divisions, each to be in charge of a subcommittee: Co-operatatve marketing methods, coats of market- ing, storage and transportation, c- sumption and export, finance, The question of marleetinng of live- stock looms as 'large fn the 3 of incorporate farm planks is their plat- the farmer as _ does that of grain . Many states have followed the lead of the Middle West and have re organized on a basis of five or ten. dollar memberships. This has been MIN NoPli _IWOIAN 111101 MinMEIMIKNMI 9 one of the Western states asked for = .a sliding scale contract - for growing • this year's crop, a contract that would = insure them a fair price for their product, they were greatly disturbed • by the report that the Attorney -Gen- .= eral's office bad declared such a con- = tract would be in violation of the Federal antitrust laws. It is assert- ed that they were shown what per- = - ported to be a telegram from Week- = ington pronouncing the sliding -scale = agreement to be illegal. 10.11 40.111 A member of the American Farm 9 Bureau Federation's executive com- , to represent - t entire stock a mittee, in company with local farm- ing, before the Interstate Commerce o .- of Christmas Goods. i bureau representatives, came to Commission. Mr. Thorne was the = Every article positively guar- Washington and the matter was laid before the Attorney -General's office. only one who argued that the in- = anteed. They were informed that the propos - creases asked were excessive. In rendering its decision the commie- ' = - red S S oven - e = ed contract appeared to be entirely sign fixed the book value of the rail- = � g legal; that no telegram to the con- Depart - roads at $1,140,000,000 less than the - trary had been sent from the Depart- = meet of Justice. amount on which the railroad exec- 9 con - Jeweler, and Optician therates be = SEAFORTH to farmers as well as to other ship-_ militant mood. Without Issuer Marriage Licensee. •- lay, the sliding -scale contracts with pees, for which the federation, so _The Store with the Xmas stock = the farmers were signed. It is ably represented at the hearings, can s the on de - fairly claim much credit. �- dared this prompt work part Another outstanding achievement151111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111f1" of the Farm Bureau officials saved was the securing of credits for farm- $2,000,000 this yr; also that'it ks ers. Specifically the federation takes � ably explains the increase of thous-, prob- credit for persuading the Federal Re- � s-��•'''°' ��• � ands of acres in the crop. serve Board ::to direct banks.to ac- Speaking as a national voice for cept storage -warehouse receipts for agriculture, the Farm Bureau has wool or wheat as collateral on loans, brought justice to the farmers in a Also following its presentation of�way never known- before. It has facts, the board deposited to finance fought the battles of the farmers of rn banks to de- pees, 041111 Armed with a letter setting forth new _ asked that ane utives _ home o based. This resulted in a big saving Et Phone 194. Evenings 10. - these facts, they returned _ further ox Social in Middle-Weste the moving of the" grain crop. More fundamentally, the federation has made a study of the whole mat- ter of farm credits_ and has secured the approval of the Federal -Reserve Board and of the - Secretary of the Treasury to the principle - than the farmer is entitled to credit to finance his crops during the year of produc- tion and over a period of one year of consumption of that crop so financed. A bill has been prepared and approv- ed that will be submitted to: Congress town -to -town roads rather than the t this winter, ' classifying farm notes ' farm -market which the coun- and requiring banks to accept farm A Box Social will be held under the auspices of the Epworth League, in the Methodist Church Basement, on Tuesday, December 14th, at 8 p.m. sharp. A good pro- gramme is provided and a hearty welcome awaits you. Ladies please bring boxes. ADMISSION FREE. "God Save the King" the West, of Long Island and of Georgia—wherever there was need or wherever it was possible to do so. Realizing that to take a partisan stand in politics would be the end of its influence, the Farm Bureau .Fed- eration has remained aloof from. such. - However, it went openly to both po- litical parties and influenced thein to forms. It further asked for specific planks against the Townsend Road Bill contending that_ it would build .0 marketing. A permanent committee of fifteen, not announced as this is written,- composed of representatives (Continued" on page 4)