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PERKINS JOURNAL
Published every Tburs0alF ! the
PERKINS PU13LISIt'ING COMPANY
133 S. Main Street
Perkins, Olda. 74059
Louis G. O'Haver
Harland B. v¢ll$
Daniel D, Draper Jr.
1Ruhy Disney
Chairman of the Board
Co-Publisher and Editor
Co-PublisheI and Editor
Society Editor and Office Mgr.
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Second Class postage paid at Perkins. OkIahonm, 74059
i
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t
llenry Bellmen
Tiae present drive by the Ame-
rican National Cattlemen's As-
sociation to bring supplies of
beef in line with demand there-
by raising the price of live an-
imals np to a profitable level
combined xdth the thus far ab-
ortive efforts of the National
Farmers Organization to destroy
n]itk and withhold trickles of
the hogs and other commodities
from the market may be the
first wave of the future for ag-
ricultm'e generally. Both of
these efforts reveal disappoint-
meat and disillusionment with
govermnent farm programs and
show that f(md producers are be-
comint increasingly aware of
their own power and responsi-
bility in farm product pricing.
Market prices which retnrn
producers less income than the
costs of production are no joke
for eithcl, producer or consumer.
It takes hard, cold cash and lots
of it to meet the out of pocket
costs that go with producing a
crop or an aninml product in
these times. Gone are tlae days
when a farmer using virgin land,
his family's labor and the horses,
grain and hay from his own ac-
res could produce nmst o.f the
prodncts for his own table and a
snrphs for a family or two in the
neighboring village or town.
Commercial agriculture dema-
nds effecient, expensive machi-
nery, hugh amounts of store
bought fertilizer, costly petrol-
eum products, labor paid for at
rates high enough to meet corn-
potion from industrial employers,
high priced chemicals to control
TIlE PERILINS JOURNAL
ineets and.'ov weeds, cash dol-
lars to pay interest and property
taxes and money for a wide ran-
ge of incidental expenses which
do not seem incidental at all
when income is less than the
costs o production.
City workers went through
such a time in the 1920"s and
1930's and the results are still
bein,g felt in the wage and hour
bargaining between corporations
and labor unions. It made no
sense to the prodncers of Amer-
ica's industrial plenty to be paid
so po(n:ly that they could not
afford to purchase the products
of their own labor. Collective
barbaining was developed as the
answer and in spite of its occ-
assional abuse and the human
imperfections of the system
there is little liklihood that it
will be ' discarded.
TomBerry
savs
./
it nmkes no sen.<e at all to
farmers that the thirty or so
cents per bushel which repre-
sents all their "take home pay':
can be wiped out without the
price of bread coming down ex-en
a penny a loaf. It makes no
sense to the cattle raisers that
the savings of a lifetime can be
wiped out 'by :a break in the live
animal market while the price
of steak and hamburgel, at the
meat market remains about st-
eady.
Food producers are becoming
fever and lm:ger' s6 that the ef-'
feels of negative farm economics
are more intense. Also the
problem of achieving collective
marketing results arc no/ as
difficult as was once the case.
These and other factors strongly
indicate that the' present genera-
tion of fanrmrs and livesRmk
producers will find a method of
stabilizing farm prices at a fair
level so that consumers can be
assured of plentiful, high qual-
ity food and so producers can be
certain that the labor of a year
or a lifetilne will not be lost
through price flucttmtion caused
by some obscure economic or
political event.
I have a very umasuat and in-
teresting neighbor, "Cyclone
Jones," who has been studying
and working, trying to figure
out a method to track down cy-
clones. He says that in a few
years these stomns will be con-
trolled. If his theory works
out the way he plans, he will go
doWn-in history as being the
first man who ever put a cy-
clone in a cellar,
Did you ever stop to think
that generally the more a per-
son acquires the more he acts
lik a dog? If you give a dog
one bone tm will sit down and
quietly eat it, but if you throw
down 6 or 7 times as many as
he can eat he will be so busy
running back and forth hiding
and burying the bones he won't
eat anything---and as a result
becomes nervous and confused.
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"NEWS ,MND VIEWS OF THE CIMARRON VALLEY"
PERKINS
JUNE
if possibte one
little song every daY, 1
thing worth while
glance at
By doing this it
you in the frame of
something good about
You know it
become an
in Payne County
longer marries for
worse -- She
or less.
There is one thing
• iced about
if a woman has a
band, she will be
h:ading him off for
Now I am only
work in the yard
allowed to make anY
Mrs. took me out
and showed me
ors she had planted.
led ate to a
had told her nothing
She had some floVCr&
a little crab grass
She pointed to the
"What do you
You told me you
anything to grow
automatically put
ner, in the category
I heard two old
and one old settler 5
know when our
state visited in
zuela, the
his disposal was
safety with heaVY
let - proof glass
They were afraid
shoot him."
oke up, ',If our
doesn't change o ne
our diplomats.
visiting, will be
i , . j , H, ,, ii !
- ACROSS
1. Trance
6. Shawt i
Anti- :
install°
a ment ,
plan: i
4 wdd.'
12. Greedy
13. Ejected
15. Shade Of
brown
16. Cattail
17. Toward
:18. A divlalo$
og the
I/nlted
Kingdom
0. Exclsma-
tlon •
21. Unit o1
work
2. Anneal
23. ReachU
acrofts
26. Conseerdt@
27. Footed
vses
28. Chinese
pagod
29. Deity •
30. Apartment
houses
without
elevators
34. Close to
35. Sham
36. Rodent
37. Entertairt
39. Girl's
name
40. Inflam-
matory
42, Pecans,
wRlnuts,
almonds,
etc.
43. Wate
tra _
t. Freshet part
. Stately old 20. Shade
dance 22. Burst
3. Ogling: - ing
4. Youth "'\\; helht
5. Roman ', of
50's anti-
6. Auxiliary air-
verb craft
q. Trick artil-
8. Conslgaee: lery
abbr. 2& 8ucro
Barrett
Browning,
for one
11. Not old 26. Largo
:14. Treats bundle
with 28. P,erve,
drugs: M. 30. See l&
", 6. Sailors acrosa
Ib "
5 19
29 -o
) A
31. Wild sheep
24. Ovgardc of India
litrogeno 2. Priest /
compound 33. Remain
5. ConJunctio $5. Datum
. African
antelope
89. Cover
41. Twofold:
prefix .
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The Perkins Journal
Perkins, Oldahoma
May 25,
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