Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1916-02-29

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A glimpse Into the windows Of our
bet fruit shops In winter reveals such .
profusion of fine things that midwinter
seems impossible, were the snov not
covering the ground and the icicles
hanging from the eornioes and window
frames.
For instance, In ous widow last win
tar there we're French artichokes TO
sembling great green hop blossomss bot
house English caeumbers, bright rcd
tomatoes, basket Of fresh mushrooms,
large clusters Of Black Hamburg grapes
bedded deep in green tissue paper, white
California gfspes, richly colored japan
ess persimmons grown In our southern
states, with plenty Of golden oranges.
tiny kumquais, pale grape fruit, red tan.
Rerines, pears Of the palest green and
others dark russet In color, Oregon
apples, South African melons, and odd
est Of all-fresh figs! thres for . quarter
of dollarl Figs OF the purple kind are
not rare even In our eastern cities, In
summer, bot they arc unusual in winter.
In nearby window we're fresh stray.
berries; and CARCASS OF venison. WHO
ducks, and bear attracted many spects-
tors.
Surely the abundance Of oar land 10
not appreciated, and it would seem - II
NO one should 90 hungry; Jet, food 10
wasted that might feed and delight
countless thousands who suffer. Co
operation and the organic alton and di-
rection Of industry 10 what Ii needed.
Last summer in some parts OF Maryland
and other states peaches could not be
picked for lack of labor, and cherries
and grapes we're allowed to waste on the
branches. In 1898, in Chicago, when
sixty thousand men were desperate
from idleness and soup kitchens were
started, it 30 happened 10 Louisiana that
the price Was 20 low for sugar and the
markets such that II did not pay 10
haul the crop Of syrup, 30 1t Was given
away and the negroes surfeited upon II
and the stock we're fed with II, hogs
heads Of syrup were emptied into plan
tation bitches; the stream emptied into
the bayous and the molasses killed the
fsh, rendering the water foul and sick.
ening the cattle and the people, until
the state government had to intervene to
stop IL; thus . years. staple crop wa
wasted. Ii could have been bought and
quickly shipped to Chicago and other
points where it could have been used ~
comfort the hungry.
The fruit from many orchards goes to
waste, % also do Wild berries for lack oI
pickers and movable canneries. Seasons
vary; some years the blackberry and
blueberry crop 10 prodigious and in parts
of the South there are wild strawberries
worth quitting up."
II We do not conserve our resources,
We will 10 time come down to grinding
want. We need wise organization and
direction of industry and conservation
of resources of all kinds, food, fuel and
timber and the precious water that gives
us these.
In the early days, when men battfed
with the Indians, at least there was
standing timber which men might hew
down for homes, fish and game and wild
fruits for the taking, skins for clothing,
and maple sugar for sweetening the wild
cranberries an other fruits,-it was q
rough and adventuresome life, but at
least, men we're brave, and women had
bones in which to live and rear theiI
families and die.