Norwich bulletin., 1912-08-20
GEORGE PECK BELIEVES
 PROSPERITY WILL CONTINUE
The High Cost of Living Must Be Met by Raising More Stuff, Sugar 5ests and Cattle.

"The only people who are bowling about politics and ruin and posst- bilities of disaster If this or that one isn't elected are the politicians them selves, who want fat jobs. and they're the very fellows who ought not have them" said George Peck (brother of Seth L. Peck and uncle of Henry c. Peck of this city) president of the Michigan Savings bank, who celebrat- ed the 55th anniversary of his arrival in Detroit Friday noon says the De- troit Free Press of last Saturday,
 I've just gotten back from trip to Alaska and British Columbia and saw some wonderful country which they are booming inordinately, and all I've got to say is that Detroit is good enough for me. l don't believe there's any great interest in politics. There never has been such deep laid magnifi- cent prosperity in the history of the world as we have built up in this country in the last 50 years.
 No election of a president can af- feet this in the least. It's my belief that this country can support two hundred millions of people comfort ably. We do need back to the land movement. We've got to raise more stuff
 Here in Michigan we ought to be raising cattle and sheep and the things we consume One reason for the cost of living is that we have to pay so much for shipping these things so far. I don't believe the tariff has so very much to do with it as some try to make out. of course it ought to be reduced on certain articles but on the whole 1t isn't bad.
 HThare'G work for aVeryOne who wants to work The banks were never 80 perfectly sound. prosperity is wide spread and deep seated. Nobody need fear anything and we're going right ahead. When 1 think Of the way this city has progressed, solidly and per manently, it seems incredible. Ii was 55 years ago today at noon that came to Detroit from Utica, N. r. Two hours after I arrived we were doing business in the dry goods store on the corner of Jefferson and Woodward, Everything had been prepared for me
 MT, Peck will celebrate his 18th birthday on the 9th of November.
 T never worked harder than I'm doing right now. I don't believe I'd be well and strong at my age If I had indulged in liquor and the smoking habit. My business success? Oh, I guess I can attribute that to the fact that I wasn't afraid to go ahead. I'm mighty glad I chose Detroit for a home"
 Canada.
 To the Kansas City (Mo) Post, in which city Mir. Peck was on AIg 12 for a visit to the George Peck Dry Goods Co.. of which he is president.
 Canada" he said, 'ts being boomed and boosted to the sky. My advice to the prospective investor in Canada is that he spend a year there before he invests a dollar It Is not merely sa in spots, but clear across to the coast.
 The preparations being made by the coast cities for the wonderful growth the completion of the Panama canal will inspire were dwelt on and MT Peck got back closer home.
 Undoubtedly the tariff needs fixing, he said when he brought the subject up of his own accord. There are, of course, features of it that are bad, but to blame the tariff for the high cost of living is absurd. The expenses of the government must be met in some way, and in some manner the people have to pay them. Whether it is m tariff or some other way, it matters not, they have to be paid
 Get Back to the Soil.
 "One thing Is certain, and that is the soil has got to be made to produce more abundantly. That means that more will have to get back to the soil. Take sugar, for instance, the most necessary, the most widely used, and the most nutritious of foods. Micifi- gan produces geo. .000, ,0o0 pounds a year but 1t uses more, Every state ckn he made to produce more than 1t uses but none one of them does. It Is so ali along the line"
 Speaking of sugar beets brought him to the subject of cattle raising through reference to the value of the sugar beet pulp for cattle feed, The disposition of this waste was a problem to the sugar manufacturers at first. It seemed to be good for nothing, Then Philadel- phia manufacturers started buying il fer few dollars a ton and making rum of it. Later it brought $6 a tof for alcohol Last year Germany bought all tha hest hulb it eAuId eAf in fh1