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‘the RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 11, 1919 
DUPONT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES J 
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LEST WE FORGET 
An idea fathered by the American Forestry Associa¬ 
tion is gaining great impetus and favor in the United States. 
It is that trees shall be planted in parks and along high¬ 
ways in honor of our soldiers and sailors, both as memori¬ 
als to the dead and as tributes to the living for their service 
to their country in time of stress. 
The marker suggested is shield shaped, inscribed : “ Memorial 
Tree—World War, 1917-18—John A. Doe, Co. M, 327 Inf.” 
The cost of planting a tree is so small, that every hero may have 
one to keep green his memory in his home community long after the 
present generation has passed on. The great expense of marble or 
granite shafts would render that form of universal memorial impractical. 
In his pamphlet presenting this idea, President Pack of the 
A. F. A. says: ' 
“At best a tree along a highway is somewhat at a dis¬ 
advantage.” 
The hard road surface prevents a normal supply of moisture 
from reaching its roots. Therefore, to prevent these trees from being 
cut down in the flower of their youth, as were many of the boys for 
whom they stand as memorials, these trees should be planted in the 
way to give them the best possible chance for life. That way is 
THE RED CROSS WAY 
The process is safe and simple. Anybody can understand it; 
anyone can do it. 
Our free Handbook of Explosives No. 30 describes and illustrates 
the method. It is not a new idea. Many prominent nurserymen en¬ 
dorse it; millions of fruit, shade and ornamental trees have been planted 
in blasted holes in this country. 
Write for the Booklet now before you forget it; then start a 
Memorial Tree Planting movement in your community. You have 
your war heroes to honor. 
E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & CO. 
Wilmington, Delaware 
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Things To Think About 
The object of this department is to give readers a chance to express themselves on farm 
matters. Not long articles can be used—just short, pointed opinions or suggestions. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER does not always endorse what is printed here. You might 
call this a mental safety valve. 
National Organization of Farm Bureaus 
At the great risk of being called a 
“knocker,” and all that, which charges I 
might be able to weather, I want to say 
that I believe it all wrong to establish a 
national organization of Farm Bureaus 
on any such scale of expense as is pro¬ 
posed and being very actively worked for 
at the present time. It is proposed to es¬ 
tablish such afi organization at a cost of 
50 cents to each Farm Bureau member, 
and Farm Bureaus are being everywhere 
asked. I believe, to increase, their member¬ 
ship dues to meet that expense. Let us 
see what this means. It means something 
like $30,000 a year from the State of New 
York, and perhaps $400,000 for the whole 
country. Viewed in another light, it 
means that out of a membership fee of 
say $2 a year, one quarter shall be divert¬ 
ed' from the regular county work and put 
into offices and office equipment and ste¬ 
nographers and the maintenance of a 
board at Washington. Is this the work 
the Farm Bureaus of the country were 
designed to do, or can best do? 
I do not question the propriety of hav¬ 
ing the Farm Bureaus of the country on 
occasion represented ,.t Washington, for 
which there should be ample money pro¬ 
vided by the Farm Bureau membership. 
In fact, I believe there should he a per¬ 
manent office maintained by farmers in 
Washington, but I very seriously doubt 
if it is a proper function of the Farm Bu¬ 
reaus to maintain such an office. The less 
the Farm Bureaus can have to do with 
legislation the better. The abiding prin¬ 
ciple with all Farm Bureaus should be to 
‘saw wood.” The plain truth is there are 
already so many different organizations of 
farmers permanently in Washington that 
they quarrel among themselves as to 
who’s who. Statesmen must find it diffi¬ 
cult to know whom to treat with. It is 
not so in labor’s highly efficient single bu¬ 
reau in Washington, and it should not be 
so with farmers’ representation there. 
Columbia Co., N. Y. datus c. smith. 
In my judgment the trouble with the 
farm representation at Washington, and 
other places for that matter, is that the 
bureaus there and the men who get there 
(or at least most of them) are self-ap¬ 
pointed representatives of farmers. The 
purposes that they assume to represent 
do not originate with farmers, and for 
the most part farmers are either indiffei’- 
ent to them or in some cases opposed to 
them. In other words, the spokesmen 
many times are putting up a pretense and 
have not been sent there by farmers, nor 
do they have a farm sentiment back of 
them, and this is probably one of the 
reasons why they have had little or no 
real influence either at Albany or at 
Washington. If we had real democratic 
farm organizations, run and supported by 
! farmers themselves, and representatives 
j selected and sent with a message, we 
would get greater results. Of course in 
this case there would be the danger that 
the self-appointed men now on the job 
would be the ones selected by the volun¬ 
tary act of the membership of the organi¬ 
zations, and this is probably one of the 
reasons why we are unable to get a real 
democratic administration in so many of 
our farm organizations. S. c. 
and quicklv converted from a vise to a drill, and 
in itself takes the place of several high priced 
tools. Main body and jaws are of cast iron, 
with sliding draw bar. Vise handle and drill 
mandrel of high carbon steel and cutting off 
hardie is high grade tool steel. Anvil face and 
jaws are ground, polished and lacquered. A 
chuck is also regularly furnished with the outfit. 
Length over all fully extended, 28 inches. Width 
5 % ins. Height 8)4 ins. Width of jaws. 3)4 ins. 
Shipped from factory in Northern Missouri. 
Shipping weight about 48 lbs. 
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Enclosed find $1.00. Send the Majestic Anvil.'Vise and Drill 
Outfit No. 453AN127 on free trial. If not satisfactory, will send 
it back in 30 days and you pay transportation both ways, and re¬ 
fund my $1. Otherwise will pay $1.00 per month until $5.75 is paid. 
This is not a question for bitter feeling 
and strong words, but a plain business 
proposition. The laborer is foolish if he 
works on a farm for less than his labor 
is worth, and the farmer has only himself 
to blame if he keeps on producing at a 
loss. The farmer should in a common 
sense way take care of himself. 
Kentucky. geo. m. taylor. 
The statement of the New York Grange 
does not, in my opinion, go far enough. 
To force down, by organized effort, the 
price of every product that comes from 
the soil, while the prices of other pro¬ 
ducts remain stationary, should be de¬ 
nounced for what it is, viz., confiscation, 
pure and simple. l. ruppin. 
Pennsylvania. 
I was much interested lately in reading 
the declaration made by the State Grange 
at Syracuse, on page 1387. It holds the 
general sentiment of many farmers I have 
talked to, both before and after it was 
made. I cannot understand the declara¬ 
tion nor the sentiment that prompted it. 
I thought it liad been shown that the 
cause of the predicament of both farmer 
and city worker was the great waste in 
handling and a vast number of middle¬ 
men, each gouging out his toll until there 
was nothing much left at either end of 
the line. 
There is enough being paid for farm 
products in the cities to make farmers 
rich if they got a just share of it. To at¬ 
tempt to better conditions by demanding 
lower wages in (he cities appears the 
height of folly. True, it might force some 
labor out into the country so that more 
might be produced, but, if you cannot 
make ends meet on your present produc¬ 
tion, how much could you get from the 
dealers if you produced more? 
_ It surely is not labor that steals con¬ 
signments. buys up storage space to force 
you to sell, furnishes poor fertilizer and 
worthless chemicals, and pulls a hundred 
and one of the tricks used to beat farm¬ 
ers! There has been much printed lately 
in Ttte It. N.-Y. about a better under¬ 
standing between eountry and city. Why 
not start in by finding out a little of the 
actual conditions of city life, especially 
the life of the worker, who is your main 
customer in the end? You never caught 
any flies with vinegar, did you? 
New York. Paul taylor. 
The New York Grange Statement 
I was much interested in the extract 
from the statement of the New York State 
Grange, printed on page 13S7. Now, I 
do not feel that as farmers we have any 
quarrel with the city laboring man. The 
latter has simply through organization 
gradually increased his wages and bet¬ 
tered his conditions of employment. If 
the farmer is not satisfied with what he 
is getting, the advice of the laboring man 
to him would be to form a union and 
strike. In other words, the way for the 
farmers to get their rights is not to. plead 
with the general public to see the justice 
of their cause, or to depend on some gov¬ 
ernmental authority to decide what is a 
fair profit for each man to make, but sim¬ 
ply to organize and not produce any com¬ 
modity unless they can get a reasonable 
price for it. There has been too much 
tnusliy thinking about the farmers’ place 
in the industrial fabric. There has beeu 
a feeling that it was the duty of the farm¬ 
er to feed the country as cheaply as pos¬ 
sible. People felt toward him somewhat 
as toward a minister; that he had certain 
duties to the public and should not thiuk 
too much about his remuneration.. That 
is true in time of war, but in time of 
peace it should he clearly recognized that 
farming is simply a business; that men 
go into it to make a living for their fam¬ 
ilies, just as they go into the business of 
making shoes or driving street cars. Many 
farmers employ other men. I cannot see 
that a laborer is under any obligation to 
work for a farmer for less than he could 
get for the same grade of work elsewhere. 
The farmer should not ask him to do so. 
As a cold business proposition, no one 
would expect the farmers to do business 
at a loss. Therefore, the farmers should 
determine the prices that they will have 
to obtain for their different crops to pay 
t. eir labor adequate* wages and to make 
a reasonable profit, and simply not pro¬ 
duce any crops for which such a price can¬ 
not be secured. 
Adjustment of Farm Labor 
The New York Sun, in speaking of the 
way Germany is proceeding to win hack 
her old trade advantage, says: 
While American workers by hundreds 
of thousands are throwing away their 
tools or for the most part only playing 
with, them, the workers of Germany are 
digging for all they are worth. The more 
testimony we get on the revival of Ger¬ 
man production and the renewal of the 
German hunt for foreign markets, the 
plainer it becomes that, unless American 
producers get back to work on the old 
basis of hard licks and big results, we 
are. doomed to a trade invasion by the 
nation which less than a year ago seemed 
to be crumbling under the guns of Foch’s 
allied armies. 
There is no question about that. While 
workmen in this country are striking and 
holding up production, the Germans are 
steadily at work organizing for a larger 
production than ever before. This coun¬ 
try will be left in the industrial race if 
the present condition is kept up, and that 
will affect all classes injuriously. The 
unorganized farmers have been told to go 
to work and increase their production 
without any guarantee of profit. On the 
other hand, organized labor proposes to 
limit production so as to increase prices 
and wages. 
A note from the Kansas Agricultural 
College says: 
The boycott of labor and the return of 
the farm to a family production basis was 
the radical solution of the farm labor 
problem suggested by II. B. Walker, irri¬ 
gation engineer, at the State Irrigation 
Congress. All delegates at the convention 
voiced the opinion that the demand of or¬ 
ganized labor for shorter hours and more 
pay was the most serious problem with 
which the farmer, especially the irrigating 
farmer, is now facing. 
“We can’t have the farmer work 18 
hours to feed the laborer ou a six-hour 
day basis,” Mr. Walker continued. “Much 
of the labor shortage today is not due so 
much to lack of men as it is to the recent 
rapid decrease in the working hours, to¬ 
gether with inefficient services rendered. 
“Intensive, one-family farming must 
come into more general favor. By this it 
is understood that the farm will be oper¬ 
ated by the immediate membevs of the 
family on a large or small “ ’Ae, depend¬ 
ing primarily upon the siz- A' the family. 
This affords au interests, independent, 
operating unit, with the same point of 
view. It would be the most efficient pro¬ 
ductive basis for the greatest net probe 
to the family.” 
