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PAGE TWO /LUCK™ ISTRIKEi A new size package I Ten for 10c. Very convenient. Dealer* carry both; lOforlOo; 20 for 20c. It's toasted. YELM COMMUNITY PLANS FERTILIZER FIELD DAY SHOW Demonstration of the use of fertil llser at a field day to be held at 2 o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday Jane 28, on the farm of L. M. Gold smith at Yelm has been arranged, according to E. B. Stookey, county agriculturist. Farmers from all yarta of Thurston county are urged to be present at this event. "The fertiliser demonstration plot la one of the most outstanding ! Lave over seen," said Mr. Stookey this miming "It will make an interesting M ow not only for the people of Yelm com inanity, but will also reveal a miracle to every farmer in the county. Yelm •■pacts to see a large delegation come froln Olympia to see what can be tone on Yelm prairie with the proper' handling of fertiliser." ▲ farewell reception in honor ot Father John Mally will be given by fifca members ot St. Michael's Congre gation at 8 o'clock this evening in ffca Chnrch hall, Tenth and Colombia fltraats. Father Mally will leave this Mr 4* Km 10 to eater upon his maw work at Wapato. Everyone «M(s Father Mally snceeas la hit mow field ot work. importer* exporters, travelers— ■nip and sail under the Stan and Stripes THERE are today few ports in the world of Importance to shippers or travelers, which cannot be wachrd by ships that sail under the Stars and Stripes. President Harding has •aid that, "We cannot sell < successfully where we do not carry". The American Merchant Marine that once almost vanished is again an established and important carrier of the world's com* You can ship or sail any where in American ships designed for utmost com i fort and safety. 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TAO LOCK MttH Ml NMMMt Founded by John Miller Murphy «= - SUISCHLPTION PRICE, 52.00 .A VKJJB GAMBLERS IN FARM PRODUCTS The 67th congress, which convened in April, will, 1 sincerely hope, adopt adequate measures to abolish the gambling in grain, cotton and other farm products. Gambling in farm products, particularly short selling annually by professional gamblers in the grain and cotton ex changes is one of the most vicious and harmful things in all American commercial and industrial life today. It must be stopped. The bill to abolish gambling in farm products, which I introduced in the recent short session, never reached a vote. There was a tre mendous demand for its enactment. I believe that no agricultural legislation in the congress ever has received as many petitions with as many names asking a measure's enactment, as did this anti-gambling bill. The new bill, to succeed the old anti-gambling bill, has been improved and is, I believe, a more capable measure than the previously proposed law. If this subject of gambling were simply an abstract, theoretical question, without application to our fellow human beings, I would be opposed to it, from principle, form a decent notion of justice and fair play. But as this gambling in grain and cotton touches the most inti mate welfare of every man, woman and child in this country, as it absolutely reaches right down into the farm home and gambles with the products on which those farm homes depend for a living for their women and children, as it is so intimate and so all-grasping in its greed, I am fighting for it. In a year Chicago receives on an average 325 million bushels of grain. In a year there are sold on an average on the Chicago Board of Trade 18 billion bushels of grain for "future delivery." In other words, in a year the dealers on the Chicago Board of Trade sell for "future delivery" more than 51 times as much grain as comes to the Chicago market. In a year they agree to. deliver on future contracts more grain than there is wheat, corn, oats, rye and barley grown in the whole world in a year. They sell what doesn't exist. Further, although, so far as the Chicago market goes, 325 million bushels of grain are delivered there annually, not all of that is avail able for delivery on these future sales and it is authoritatively slated that of all these future trades made on the Chicago Board of Trade more than 99 per cent of them are not followed by actual delivery of grain-. Less than 1 per cent or 28-100 of 1 per cent, of these future "trades" in grain acually result in delivery of grain, authoritative reports declare. The foregoing figures should be enough to condemn the mon strous gambling game that has grown up in the grain and cotton exchanges, for those figures are typically representative of the gamb ling on the grain and cotton exchanges. What chance has a farmer to maek a fair profit, even a living, out of his grain or cotton when he must "go up against" a loaded-dice game such as the short sellers fix up against him in their sales of billions of dollars worth of farm prod ucts that do not exist. Once a year the grain and cotton growers have the trunover in their business. Once a year, in other words, corates the market time /or them and they go to market to sell the products that have taken a year of work and wating and hazards to produce. When they get to market they find that market dominated by and in the hands of a group of gamblers whose whole concern is, not to render an honest service for an honest fee, but to grab every penny they can by any turn of the market that they can bring about by fair means or by manipulation. Last year after harvest the farmers of America had almost 200 million bushels of wheat to sell. When they began to take it to mar ket what did they find f They found that the Chicago Board of Trade which is a steel and stone building facing on paved streets, had more wheat to sell than existed or was produced in all the world in a year. They found that the Chicago Board of Trade sells annually for "future delivery" nine billion bushels of wheat and that the nine billion bush els of wheat that the 'Chicago Board of Trade sells every year for "future delivery" is approximately three times as much wheat as the whole world produces in a year. Could anything be more damnable f Here are the millions of grain growers coming to market with toil-hardened hands and an honest product, rightfully expecting to get a fair price for their wheat. Here are a bunch of soft, fat gamblers, who come to market with "future sales," with nothing but wind, and hammer down the price of the honest grain that the worker has produced. To make it Clearer, suppose the automobile industry were subject to the Chicago Board of Trade, just as is the wheat-growing industry. Suppose the auotmobile industry had a yea*ly crop of two" million automobile and when it came time to market that crop of automo biles, and even before the crop was ready for market, the speculators on the Chicago Board of Trade began selling "future" automobiles, and continued to sell "future" automobiles until they had sold 22Vj million "future" automobiles, or 20% million more than- existed in the new crop. What chance would the automobile business have with that kind of a price making machine in competition with it? Every time the automobile dealer-tried to sell one automobile there would be the Chicago Board of Trade competing with 11 "future" automobiles. A ridiculous comparison? Not at all. If you are a grain pro ducer you realze that it all to accurately parallels the short selling of grain. Xo matter how much or how little the farmer produces or what he may expect to receive, according to the supply and demand, there stands the Chicago Board of Trade and its gang of speculators and every year "produces" three times as much wheat as the world produces. For every bushel of wheat produced in the world there stands the Chicago Board of Trade with three phantom bushels of wheat, with three bushels of wheat that do not exist, and they figure those three bushels of ghost wheat into the world's supply and ham mer down the pi'ice that the producer receives. And the speculative short seller, who sells what he doesn't own. what he cannot own for it is not within his reach and often doesn't exist, he does it entirely under cover of one of the cheapest, meanest little devices ever used in business ;namely, a phrase, "intent to de liver. ' How can he deliver what dof sn't exist? He knows he doesn't intend to deliver. The records of the Chicago Board of Trade show THE WASHINGTON STANDARD. OLVMPIA. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1921 that on his future sales he delivers 011 an average only 28-100 of 1 per ••ent of the grain "sold." The Chicago futures market sells 18 billionbushels of grain an nually at values of 15 to 2 Obillion dolars. The Louisiana Lottery did a maximum annual business of about 60 million dollars, while specu lation on the Chicago Board of Trade runs into more than 15 billion dollars. Monte Carlo, said to be the world's greatest gambling resort, has gross receipts of but 10 to 12 million dollars yearly and net % re ceipts of half that.—Arthur Capper. UNEMPLOYMENT 4- Why should there be five million men in this great country of ours out of employment? Our people must live; they must continue to eat, wear clothes, live in houses ,have amusement and diversion, just as they did when times were better a few months ago. "Why have we stopped producing the things that people need and are willing to pay for? Or, are we still producing them, but doing it with less help? This is a good country. It is productive. It has unlimited re sources, which will yield their riches to man as readily as ever before. What, then, is the matter? It is evident that there is no natural reason why men should not be living as well this year as they did last. Nature is just as boun tiful. The cause must be artificial conditions produced by something, or somebody outside of nature. If this be true, will not someone tell us what the condition is that makes the trouble, and how it may be remedied T Of what use are our political economists if they cannot tell us these things! If they can tell us but will not, they are worse than useless. THE COUNCIL IN BEBBION The League of Nations council, now in session at Geneva, is the first meeting since President Harding's definite announcement that the United States would not go into the League. It remains to be worked out just how the forty-two nations which make up the League will function without the United States, which in reality was the guiding nation in founding the League. If they can "go it alone" without the ideals of this country, then we will be compelled to join them later on. But if it prove that they are so steeped in secret diplomacy and greed as to make the League impossible, it will remain for this country to take the lead in disarm ament or in an association of nations, or some other method of attempt ing to avoid future wars. In view of the attitude of congress at present the outlook is not bright. FIGHTERS AND FIGHTERS Fistic fans are specHlatinß at a lively rate on the result of the coming fight between Georges Carpentier, the French war hero, and Jack Dempsey, the American "fighter" who failed to fight for his country. The money is on Dempsey, but popular sympathy and favor is un-! questionably with the Frenchman. National pride should prompt a person to root for his country man, provided that countryman is one worthy of the name But— Carpentier quit fighting in the ring in order to fight the enemies of his country. He is a man, regardless of what some may think of his calling. This is a good country, because the majority of its citizens are good people. Say what you will, you ean't have a bad country with all the people good, nor a good country with most of the people bad. Are yu helping to make your city, your state and*your nation better! t. 88 a memor y test do you remember who is vice president of the United States! From Other America la (Una Charles Edward Russell tells a strange B tory of Canton, China—the ancient, most oriental of all cities in the Orient. It has long been famous as a human hive of 2,000,000 people, where there was no space for a quar ter that many," a hive of narrow, swarming alleys and overhanging houses and indescribable smells and noises and crowds—the most alien sight, perhaps, that an American could find anywhere In the world. Canton is being rebuilt The Chi nese themselves got tired of It, and started in to make Canton a modern city. Today there are fine, new streets, 80 to 120 feet wide, cut through the old, swarmtng alleys and mole-burrows. The waterfront has been made one of the handsomest in the world, with big, modern build ings and a parkway three miles long. The city wall has been leveled, and In its place there ig a boulevard rival ling those of Paris. Thousands and thousands of shacks have been swept away. Instead of the little, dingy shops of old, there are great depart ment stores, equal, Russell says, to any in Europe. The open sewer that ran through the heart of the city has been covered with masonry and made into a driveway. On every Bide are seen the steam roller and the pile driver and the concerte mixer. All this has been done in two years and the work goes steadily ahead. Millions upon millions are being spent. And the Chinese themselves are furnishing the money. They pay the expense with funds from the sale of lands that became public with the overthrow of the empire, and other public moneys, and with a levy ou property owners whose land is ben efitted by the Improvements. The city has a commission form of government, modeled after the Amer ican plan. It has 40 daily newspa- pers. It has modern schools, In which all the higher grades are taught English. All the Inspiration of this big movement, by the way, Is American. And we used to say that China never changed, and never would! The story of Canton I s at the same time a revelation and a reminder of the value to America of Chinese trust and friendship.—Tribune. MISSIONARY TO SPEAK AT UNITED CHURCHES ' Rev. John K. Browne, who for 38 years was a missionary in Harpoot, Turkey, will give a lecture on Turkey at the United Churches at the morn ing service Sunday. Rev. Browne is also a member of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. SBeeman Tractor • Replaces the horse da large and small farms, truck fame, fruit farms and berry farms. It will Plow, Harrow and Cultivate, haul Lawn Mowers, Carts, Wagons, Mowing Ma chines, Just as easy as it will run your Pump, Cream Sepa rator, Churn, Washing Ma chine, Feed Grinder and Clr> It trots from Job te Jab under its own power. Perhaps you are going to buy a seed drill this spring, It so eome in and let's talk over the John Deer drills— A DRILL ADAPTABLE TO EVERT PURPOSE P. J. O'BRIEN FARM iMPmmrrs AND BLAOKBMXTHXVG Corner Third ud Columbia FARMER LEGISLATION PLACES HEAVY BURDEN ON STATE OFFICIALS Director French Given Wide Range of Authority by Recent Laws MUST REVIEW ALL FORMS OF CONTRACTS Many Organisations Taking Advan tage of Sapiro Law Going Into Effect Thursday On Thursday, June 9, the so-called Sapiro law passed by the 1921 ses sion of the legislature, goes into effect. The' Sapiro law provides for the creation of cooperative farm marketing associations under the supervision of Director E. L. French of the department of agriculture, ; who is also director of farm market ing. Among other duties imposed of assisting in the formation of these on the director by this law is that i corporations and passing upon the | form of the contracts between them ! and the growers. | While the law is not yet in effect, [ a good many organizations are now I in process of formation, and quite a number of the proposed forms of | contracts- have been submitted to 1 Director French for his opinion j whether they are such as he could approve. These forms of contracts have been submitted to the attorney general to ascertain whether they comply with the terms of the new law. The department of agriculture is drafting a form of such contracts . between the associations and grow-. I ers which, if it meets the approval | of the attorney general, will be sug gested to the new organisations as | the basis of such contracts 4s they are to prepare, with such modifica tions as may be necessary on ac count of the variety of products | which each association may handle. Supervises Farm Credits. > Another new law which also goes into effect June 9 Is that act au- J thorlzlng the creation of farm credit ! associations. There are no indica tions yet how many such associations are in process of formation. Such associations, if formed, are to be more immediately under the direc tion and supervision of the director of agriculture and numerous duties in connection with them are imposed upon him by the law. No associa tion can be formed unless Director French sees the necessity for It. He must pass upon the by-laws of the different corporations so that they can be as nearly uniform as possible. They can issue none of the proposed credit notes, without the authority of the director. He must make a full investigation and determine, from all available data, what is a fair market price of the crops which it is proposed to use as the basis of credit. He is also sequlred to make general rules and regulations gov erning the Issuance of such notes and for the proper administration and enforcement of the act. Until it is definitely known whetner any such credit associations are to be formed requiring the assistance of the de partment of agriculture, it is prac tically impossible to make more than a tentative start toward providing machinery for the work. Don't let a blase from your match start a blase In the forest.