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*-_________lL ANY PIANO regardless of age and condition, by scientific treat ment, according to its individual nature and de mands, can be made to sound and act like I new one. Nothing stands still under the ran- everything is on the move to better or worse; so the pianos are subjected to that law. Many pianos, long before they get half way toward the best end of tone they can give, are on the downward move. Science of acoustics and mechanics in the instru menial world always is looking forward to better harmony in music, ; nd improvement in the tone of instruments. Shouldn't the tuner, as well, be 00 the move with the evolution of music and instru ments In many eases one intelligent treatment of a pin.no will produce radical improvement of tone and ac tion, hat most pianos* require several treatments. For better tone, harmony and action of your piano leave your order for P. G. STAPRAN At Baum's Music House, or Phone 47 WILL BE IN TOWN ANOTHER WEEK &/>e Pullman Herald WM. GOODYEAR, Editor and Publisher KARL P. ALLEN, News Editor Published every Friday at Pullman, Washington, and entered at the Pullman post office as second class matter $1.50 per years payable in advance; 75 cents for six months PULLMAN, WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY 27. 1920 PURELY A WHEAT GROWERS MOVEMENT . An attempt is being made by some of the enemies of the plan for the co operative marketing of wheat to cre ate the impression that the move ment was originated and is being pro moted by men who are not wheat growers. This is a misleading state ment, which is not borne out by the facts, which are, in brief, as follows: .When A. A. Elmore, state presi dent of the Farmers Union, was in California a few months ago on of ficial business, he became very much interested in the beneficial results which had been attained by the farm ers of that state through the co operative marketing of their pro ducts. He met Mr. Aaron Sapiro, the legal adviser of a number of the co-operative associations, and found that he, in compliance with the re quest of some prominent wheat growers of the United States, was working out a plan for the applica tion of the co-operative system to the marketing of wheat. Mr. Elmore invited Mr. Sapiro to attend the approaching state conven tion of the Farmers Union, and to outline the plan to the wheat grow ers. They were so favorably im pressed with the idea that, after a protracted discussion, the conven tion, by unanimous vote, empowered President Elmore to appoint a com mittee of IS wheat growers to work out the details of a definite plan of organization for presentation to the farmers of Washington, Oregon and Idaho. This committee, with the help of an advisory committee of warehousemen and assisted by Mr. Sapiro, as a legal adviser, developed the proposed Wheat Growers associ ation, and mapped out the plan of presenting It to the farmers of the three states for ratification. Realizing the necessity of having the plan clearly explained and of having the articles of association and the form of contract properly drawn, they employed Mr. Sapiro to do this work. Also realizing the necessity ot securing proper publicity, they employed Mr. J. F. Langner of the Portland (Ore.) Journal, a publicity expert, who had enjoyed wide ex perience in conducting co-operative marketing campaigns. Both of these gentlemen are working on a con tingent fee basis, their compensation to be fixed by the results attained in the sign-up campaign. They are not the promoters of the plan, but are employed by the real promoters, the committee created by the wheat growers themselves, to do certain work for which they are peculiarly fitted by their training and experi ence. They are not managing the campaign but working under the su pervision and direction of the organi zation committee. There is no justi fication for the assertion that the co operative marketing of wheat system is being promoted by or for the bene fit of anyone except the wheat grow ers themselves. They are sponsor ing the system and, if it succeeds, they will be beneficiaries. No out side interests or persons are trying | to force the plan upon the wheat grower.. :>a, ;>« The promotion campaign now in progress is a campaign solely of the wheat growers by the wheat growers and for the wheat growers. WM. GOODYEAR. A FEARLESS OFFICIAL Few public officials in the United States have shown as much courage or made as good a record as District Attorney Francis A. Garrecht of Spo kane. He has not hesitated to prose cute prominent and influential citi zens nor to force powerful corpora tions to obey the law. Not only has he had the courage to proceed against them, hut he has conducted the cases with such ability that he has won nearly all of them. Here is the record: He convicted Russell G. Belden and A. Eugene Weyland of defraud ing the public through a coal min ing swindle. Moth of these men were prominent in the social and financial circles of Spokane and they moved heaven and earth to secure an ac quittal. He convicted (Jail Smith and sev eral other officials of the defunct Northwest General Trading company for perpetrating a swindle on the stockholders of the company despite the fact that neither money nor in fluence was lacking in their defense. He has secured the indictment of Walter J. Nicholls and several of his associates on a charge of promoting the sale of worthless stocks. Mr. Nicholls holds a prominent position in Spokane and powerful pressure was brought to bear in his behalf. He has secured the indictment of several of the wealthiest and most influential merchants of Spokane on charges of profiteering and has thereby incurred the bitter dis pleasure of the fashionable set" and is not receiving any support or encouragement from the newspapers of the Falls City. He libeled 10,000 tons of coke made by the Spokane Falls Gaslight company, which was being hoarded for higher prices, and forced its sale to the people as, a saving of $1.00 a ton. He libeled some 7.*. tons of poultry held in cold storage, most of it owned by the Armour company, and forced its sale to the consumers at 20 cents a pound. He forced the Utah-Idaho Sugar company, which is supposed to be controlled by the Mormon church, to distribute at $15 per hundred 53,000 sacks of sugar which were being held at the Sunnyside and Toppenish plants to force up prices. It takes real courage to tackle the Armours and the Mormon church and the prominent and wealthy resi dents of one's home city, and it re quires a high order of ability to win in court over the cleverest legal tal ent which such clients can employ. Big business and fashionable society , are prone to regard such attacks up . on the members of their exclusive circles is rank Umerity and to visit their displeasure upon any audacious . individual who dares to make them, but the plain people, who admire courage and ability and fidelity to i duty In a public official, are.saying ; of District Attorn. Garrecht "Well I done, thou good and faithful ser vant. ' WM. GOODYEAR. ...-.-■-■ WHY* SIX YEARS? Would you, Mr. Wheat Grower, prefer to delegate for six years the power to sell your wheat to a mar keting expert employed by you and your neighbors to secure the fair I i price for your grain, or would you prefer to continue for the rest of your life to go on Bellini it yourself | for whatever the speculators say they can afford to pay you? The time has come when you must answer that question. Next June the government guaranteed price will cease to be effective and then you will be confronted with just two al ternatives. Either you must go back to the old system of dumping your wheat blindly on a* market about which you know little or nothing, 01 you must join In establishing a new system which is fairer to the pro ducers. II any change Is to be made, now is the opportune time to make it. for if the country once goes back to the pre-war system of grain mar keting that system is likely to re main in force for another genera tion. A sound and fair plan for the co operative marketing of wheat has been carefully worked out and will be placed in operation if enough of the wheat growers give it their sup port and delegate the authority to sell their wheat to the association for a period of six year. Why six years? Why not one year or three years? There are several very excellent reasons. It would not pay to build up an organization for a business which might not. last more than one year. It would be impos sible to secure the services of men of the requisite ability and experi ence to handle the business for a period of two or three years. Men of the calibre needed to success fully manage the affairs of an asso ciation selling annually from 5, --000,000 to 50,000,000 bushels of wheat, are not looking for tempor ary jobs. They do not care to be come identified with any organiza tion which does not give promise of permanency and corresponding op portunities for growth and develop ment. The speculators,-who are certain to bitterly oppose the new system be cause it threatens to diminish and eventually eliminate their profits, could well afford to concentrate their money and efforts in waging a terrific campaign for two or three years to discredit and destroy the. co-operative association. They can not afford to maintain such a cam paign for six years. When millers, exporters or foreign buyers form business connections with the association, they will want to know that they can secure wheat from it, not for one or two or three years, but for a long period of time. Obviously it will require several years to bring the new system to its maximum of efficiency and to de velop its full possibilities. If ample time is not given for the plan to fully demonstrate its worth, before the wheat growers are asked to renew their contracts, the propoganda cam paign would have to be made all over again. These are some of the reasons why the wheat growers are asked to sign up their wheat for six years. But the reason which must appeal to any sensible man as the strongest of all is that it is better for the wheat growers to co-operate for six years in employing competent men to se cure for them what their crop is worth, rather than to go on for the lest of their lives selling their wheat 1 to men employed to buy it for as much less man it is worth as pos sible, it is a case of working to -1 gether for six years or being worked I tor a lifetime WM. GOODYEAR. WANTED—Agents for Pullman ,and vicinity. Good proposition. Pre vious experience unnecessary. Free school of instruction. Address . Massachusetts Bonding and lnsur ( ance company. Accident and Health | department, Saginaw, Mich. Capital $1,300,000. feb2o-27 FOR SALE — 9-room plastered, . modern house, i 1-2 lots, barn, hen ihouse; reasonable price; on High St. Cora E. 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CHAPMAN WILL SHOW YOU HOW Phone 1001 Fellow Wheat Growers: Pursuant to an unanimous resolution of the delegates at. the last annual meeting of the Farmers Union, ordering the organization of a purely non profit co-operative marketing association, we, the committee appointed to organize such an association and the advisors, thereto, in the best interests ot th.« wheat growers of Washington, recommend to you the WASHINGTON WHEAT GROWERS ASSOCIATION A purely co-operative marketing as- raising the price to the consumer— sociation, nonprofit and- without eliminate the profits of unnecessary capital stock. middlemen, which rightly belong to We secured the services of the great- ourselves. For this is what the same est authority on co-operative market- plan has done for the associated farm ing in the country—Aaron Sapiro, at- «rs of California, the most successful torney of San Francisco—counsel in farmers' organizations in existence. chief of many of the biggest and most Experience has proved that organiza successful farm marketing assocla- tions fail because the members do not TM ,ions hand themselves together for a suf- . | We spent days and nights with Sa- flcient period of time to make success piro—We— wheat growers who have certain. The contract permits us to the same problems as you havethe devote all of our time to production same difficulties— selling in the same and hire an expert to do our marketing market —and doing our business as for us. you do. Organizations with capital stock We believe in the association and upon which profits are made are not that it will solve every marketing co-operative, because someone gets an problem of our wheat —minimize spec- extra dividend. ,«,,* ulation—stabilize our market—get us The plan will be fully explained to a better price for our wheat without^ you at each one of the following MEETINGS Oakesdale March Ist Pullman .March 2nd Colfax ..March 3rd . ALL MEETINGS OPEN AT 1:00 P. M. Do not hesitate to join- do not lies- company which will lose money in Rate 0 ask questions— but ask them dividends out of our wheat after we of men who know and are like your- are properly organized, self— wheat growers, who are not spec- Do not guess and do not Join until ulators, who are not interested in some you know exactly what we are doing. Those who signed the original contracts are: Walter J. Robinson, Pomeroy. Wash. R. V. Peringer, Belmont, Wash. \ Aimer McCurtaln, Davenport. Wash. N. B. Atkinson, Waitsburg, Wash . • \ H. J. Herman. Genesee, Idaho B. T. Manchester, Winona, Wash. | Mark F. Mendenhall, Walla Walla • C. N. Campbell, Bridgeport, Wash. , . -c-.^ H. Jurgenson, Wilbur, Wash. J. S. Klemgard. Pullman, Wash. H. E. Ooldsworthy, Rosalia, Wash. The Organization Committee of the Washington Wheat Growers .. Association is: N. B. Atkinson, Waitsburg H. E. Goldsworthy, Rosalia Mike Tanner, Davenport Chas. Flat hers, Prescott R. V, Peringer, Oakesdale H. Jurgenson, Wilbur ; , Kf*m: F. A. Maxwell, Dayton A. A. Elmore, Spokane Paul Oehschlaeger, Connell W. J. Robinson, Pomeroy E. D. 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