The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1917-03-02
THE LOGIC OF EMPTY sTOMACAs

america rst We appeal to you for mercy and Justice
Our children are starving Come down with the prices
Unce Sam why feed murderers? Feed your own chdren
Open the warehouses We demand food for children"
"Never mind Riverside Drive Mr. Mayor want onions,
potatoes chickens too We don't want rice want real food
Sample uerances, these which were Haunted from hum
deds banners and hurled from thousands Of hroats Of hag
gard hungerrong New York and Philadelphia women in the
teeth restraining officers Of the law the squa nched faces
Of their children which they held alof bearing pathetic tes
mony to the indubtable sincerity of their petition.
And momentous words they and matter for SOLDERING
thought regardless Of the degree Of mistaken blind hyera
with which they have been uttered to with any concern
for the present state Of social economies inequalities OF sta
ton and fortune and the extent to which government may be
made effective to prevent the widening Of such differences be
yond of what according to nature and therefore
inevitable Their moentouness consists in that they the
expressions of people at physical crisis which Identifies them
with practically ali of u.s. when under the same circumstances
People who are reaching the point where the human reverng to
type the elemental instinct Of sepreservaon ceases to dis
tnquish nicely owho or what responsible for its pvaton
reck to consequences in attempting to relieve it.
AS to what to do in the situation is where as the
doctors might say it is much easier to diagnose than prognoe
tell what to prescribe with permanent in view cash
sop will likely in opinion in time temporarily tide the
try the breakers and should be thrown here and there
ash say for looks like there have been shipments of
necessities abroad which would render embargo future
exports imperative So it is merely question Of paying pro
dlces and dealers their prices in the Of instances
believe they will be found to be legitimate And there e
IDENTIFY sufficient food products in this country.
But convinced the country will not have clear sailing
any large national SCALE till there radical advances in
food production distribution and domestic economy
The late James Hill who might be presumed to speak with
authority to the status Of transportation necessities
compared with the stagnaon railroad construction unless
reoect billions expended for further expansion
this country might expect to be in the throes of such blockade
conronts He also held and the builder Of Empire
of the Northwest conceded to know considerable things about
cereals that unless wheat yield of ID bushels per acre.
brought much that of Europe which is about double that
figure would before long have to look abroad for bread
stuff.
But the great reform which the present crisis shows to be
sadly needed and along which line many of doubt
another culpabe is abatement of domestic il
opa customs az regards what are properly acCepabe Al e
e and or less wu dietary ignorance of food equiva
lents from nutritive point of view.
Considering the cheapneSS of chemical knowledge think of
did numbers of the New York rioters camong for
potatoes nearly the entire chemical constituent of which can
supplied from the pump and turning up their noses
which, almost alone maintains excellent physical vgor hun
dreds of millions of the human Wonder how many such
people ever tried to fatten hog potatoes And that oo
when any Farmers Institute lecturer will tell u.s. we give the
porer the best part of the ber the same as we do fo our
cereal products the gutenous covering.
Prescient thinkers hold coming to time when gov
eminent will set the price of commodities well labor AS
seem be approaching compulsory minimum wage regime
not easy to how logically escape the other horn
OF the dilemma minimum price to producers food and other
vital necessities.
There is now such want of system and disproporton be-
tween the purchasing of the remuneration of employees
in terms of the necessary factors of their vhood one wear with
another that the present predamen with many as regards
their difficulty of maintenance may arise almost any time
this were regulated and unformzed there would appar
emily be no complaint whether got $ or even ST. day
AT least 1t the testimony of with whom we
have talked who not infected with ngrowing politics that
he Jared well better with his single dollar during our So
called "soup-house" eras as he does today.