St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1913-10-08
PRESS COMMENT
Argentina Beef

e3~--NAAA&A A1<CA
In agreement with the Boston
Globe the Landmark regards it as
an absurdity that a country of so
great territorial area as the United
States should be looking to Argen-
tina for an additional supply of
beef. The importation of Argentina
beef will naturally tend to lower
present prices but it also means the
sending OF so much money out of
the country. At present quotations
it does seem that the growing of
beef cattle would pay here in New
England, and that there are farm
ers even here in Vermont who are
considering this matter had a peril
nent illustration at the recent state
fair by the exhibit OF several beef
herds such as Polled Angus, Short
horns and Herefords. West Wind
scr has fine herd of the first nam
ed, while of the second named there
are several in the state. While it is
true that if the selling of whole milk
and cream for butter means a check
every month it also means that there
is grain bill to pay, additional hired
help and an exacting personal atten-
ton to the work and business. A
deal OF this care and extra expense
is done away with in the growing of
cattle for beef.-[The Landmark.
States Should Have Contest
The action of the public service
commission in promptly carrying
to the supreme court of the United
States the question of the exclusive
jurisdiction of the commission and
the state courts in the regulation of
public service corporations doing
business wholly within this state is
to be heartily commended. The case
is an outgrowth of the appeal taken
to the federal district court by the
Rutland railroad in the matter of
the Vergennes station, which it was
ordered to build by the Vermont
public service board. The federal
court took Jurisdiction, which, in
the natural course, means that prac-
tically all orders of the commission
will drag their endless way through
federal litigation, delaying, hamper
ing and defeating the proper regu-
1ation of common carriers by state
authority. This is the very purpose
of the appeal, not to secure justice,
else it would have been carried to
the state supreme court, as the law
provides. The test will determine
whether our carefully devised public
servive commission is potent or i'm
potent to do the things expected of
it. 1t is hardly conceivable that
the highest court of the land will
deny the states the right to regulate
their strictly local affairs, under
due process.-[H Herald and News.
Wasting Good Food
According to the president of the
Master Butchers association of Am
erica, a fourth of all the meat killed
for the table is wasted. Poor people
refuse to be satisfied with chuck and
round steaks and do not practice
economy in meat consumption. There
is no doubt that there is a good deal
of truth in the statement, for a very
large part of the people of the coun-
try judge the quality of what they
eat by the price they have to pay.
There are many chances to buy meat
at a reasonable price, but because
the unwise purchaser is of the opin-
10 nthat the kind that costs the most
must be the best, they are not proper
ly improved.
Those who understand cooking
meat properly can get delicious
meals from low priced meat. If they
were served such meat and didn't
know what it cost they would pro-
nounce it fine, but they feel ashamed
to purchase what is within their