The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1917-07-27
rHz ABUSE OF COLD STORAGE.

rHg ABUSE OF COLI STORAGE.
II IL announced that 1t . recent Washington confer
anes. between department Of agriculture representatives
and cold sosase heads, the latter pledged their help in the
governments proposed food survey.
Now tia. 10 all very nice. 1t ts good to know just
Row many tons Of beef and poultry and eggs and butter are
in cold storage. Uncle Sam can get out . perfect beautiful
statistical report showing how many hundred per cent.
increases there are in various stored foods.
But We want something more than reports. We can't
feed On figures. Statistics are rather q meager diet.
You can't make = roast or = soup out Of them. You can't
fry them with onions.
What We would like to seen is some method of COM
peiins the cold storage people and their chief customers
III: food sharks, to unload, 80 that food can be purchased
at . reasonable price. We are not keen to eat this years
chickens next year at double price. We prefer this sum-
mer's eggs this summer, not winter after next.
- The solemn, sickening, wamning truth about this cold
storage business is that one Of the finest of mans inven-
tions has been perverted. 1t should be a means Of saw
ing summer food excess for winter dearth, a method where
by, cutting out waste and rot, food is made cheaper
the year.
But that is where the food spectators come in with
their dirty hands, they heard the food away from the
psople. By means Of cold storage they beat the law Of sup
ply and demand. Before cold storage, the supply had to
be sold. Now the supply is held.
The demand is allowed to grow and grow until the
price is forced far beyond what it should be.
The farmer who raised the food does not get the extra
profit. Every cent squeezed from the ultimate consumer
gets into the capacious pockets Of the middlemen gam
blers.
The way to remedy the evil is to regulate cold stor.
age. Fix a time limit beyond which food cannot be held
and the market viii automatically right itself.-vicks-
burg Evening Post.
M N IA ~ IA "a "a
sANE CENSORSHIP.
Under the Espionage Bill, ~post.ofice officials have
wide powers to forbid the free use Of the mails to publ
cations. In the exercise Of these powers, a high degree o.
judicial fairness is necessary.
Americans are highly patriotic today because their diff
~ferenees Of opinion have been threshed out by public dis
cussion, not by secret conspiracy. The more patriotic
they are the less they will welcome any limitation of thu
freedom Of the press.
So far, the Withholding Of mail privileges has beer
printing Of articles calculated to discourage recruiting il
the cause given. The danger lies in the elasticity will
which this charge can be stretched by bureaucratic minds
to cover varied expressions Of opinion.
Americans can be calculated upon to do their utmos
to carry the war through to victory; but it must not b
forgotten that it is a wal for world liberty; and our tgh
for the freedom Of other peoples should not be suffere
to excuse any needless entertainments on our own.
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GIVING TILL. IT HURTS.
Among those who have given most literally, in proper
people in moderate circumstances.
Instance after instance is met with where the iucom
barely sufficient to meet a family's needs has been gener
ously shared with those who are battling for all human:t,
"Give till it hurts!" has been the solgan of such can
vases. The head of the family making seventy five dolla,
= month who gives ten dollars of that to the Red Cros
is prompted by = generous, thoroughgoing love of hi
fellow-man.
There are many who give more largely who do nc
make q 1.-THE the sacrifice.
IT,. The world owes a debt to the cheerful giver, the sir
|eere siver, the siver who "gives till It hurts"
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wANrED-AN OFFICIAL sPANKER~
A1dtficult problem for the military authorities is pr
vided by silly girls who make ALFRED nuisances of then
,eelves about forts and camps.
9 There are the girls who are merely thoughtless ar
venturesome; there are others with more sinister motive
Both classes constitute an influence demoralizing to di
~cipline.
The tendency of silly girls to gush over the unifor
II not oil bad; but this is a time to exercise patriotic sci
restraint. This war is a serious business; and anythi,
that ~interferes ~needlessly with military training isn't
BE- tolerated.
An ohcial spanker with full power to inAict publ
punishment would probably put a stop to the NUISANCE.
.Us LOCAL ADVERTISING.
A. large mail order house recently gave out the fl
lowing information:
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