The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-06-11
AMERICA MAY PROFIT BY HARD
SHIPS ENDURED BY CANADA

Our great northern neighbor-Can-
ada-has felt the effects of the Euro
pean war great deal more than the
United States, says the State Market
ing Bureau That country has been In
II from the start. A half million o.
its men are in the trenches, thousands
have died, and other thousands are
permanently disabled and must con-
tinue to suffer Other sacrifices have
been made, including very heavy
debts. The recently issued report OF
commission appointed to investigate
the cost of living in the Dominion
contains information of value to the
people of our country. 1t says thai
1.-The cost of living had increased 30 per
cent during the fifteen years preced-
ing the war.
The causes of the increase are CIV
en- as follows:
Increase in the gold supply, which
reduces the purchasing power OF
money; manifold forms OF eXtrava
gance and waste, public and private,
Individual and social; restricted sup
ply following upon disproportionate
urban development, as compared with
rural development; uneconomic meth
Iods of distribution and marketing of
products higher standards of living
by both rich and poor; inefficient SER
vice and lack of vocational training
ito the gospel OF ease" which has per-
: meated the national life of the Anglo
Saxon race; to uneconomical house
hold expenditures and to the effect
, of mergers, trusts and combines
The suggestions of the commission
, as to a remedy are worthy of consid
Grafton in Florida, the South, and thu
whole Union in substance they arr
as follows:
Encouragement of land settlement
greater attention to mixed farming
j improved live stock; home gardens
a Increased production with the stand
i. ardization and improvement in tn
quantity of farm products, togethe
with cooperation in their distribu
ton; the extension q TIE parcel pos
IS system, and the making of goo
: roads, cheaper and more accessible
> working capital; comprehensiv
&c system of vocational training i
q schools to promote greater efticienc
-e of service in all lines; and bette
understanding of the fundamentt
principles of production, marketin
I'd and purchase.
as The improvements proposed a,
lg fundamental are every one wort
OF striving for, as essential to comic
IS. and prosperity, Money is not all tn
er should be conserved on the farm
to Grain, hay, meat dried and cann'
he vegetables and fruit, syrup, seeds al
Is many other products, may be save
ng stored, and kept for future use TT
ct. safe plan is to manage ones farm
en- that the owner will save somethil
of above expenses from every Gro
lal Then no one will be dependent up
as loan agents and credit stores for
It" living In Florida it is possible
49, have products growing in eve
to month, for table use and for the ma
ty, ket.
ad There is one thing abundant
ng Florida, and moreover it is free, T
of war has had no effect on the SUPP
re. of fresh air 1t is as plentiful and
AN cheap as it ever was and it is ],
,st as essential to the welfare of the fa'
est and town family as pure food and v
Id ter and in what State is there mt
ms abundant supply of good water
nm rivers and lakes and underground
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