The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1918-05-16
OUR IMMEDIATE NEED

OuH 1MndED1ATE NEED
In his beated program for food production issued
after the middle of February Secretary Houston said the sup
ply Of dairy produce shoud be maintained to meet the needs
OF this country and help supply the increasing demands OF
the Allies Also that the number of beef animals should be
maintained and in where is clearly the best and
farm practice, should be increased
1t is strange commentary the mental process OF the
various gentlemen who have been making many appeals and
suggestions the farmer patriot that most of them have
failed to take into consideration the fact that the farmer the
of business in need of capital and surplus to carry
on and laborer who paid from week to week And
til this point of view undergoe radical shift results
ing be unsatisfactory because is impossible for business
man, whether he be farmer who handles and manu-
features the farmers products to work successfully except
under the rules that govern all business.
The who handle the products of the farms practical
~ assured of fair return the money invested and the sal
AIRY of management that to the farmer himself far
out of reach the Some of them absolutely
sured that the balance will be the right sde the rate
of profit being Why the be given
the producers of essential food productsf
The producer of meat has always been obliged sit
gaming table, With the exception of the hog growers who
have been given by the Food Administration
these producers taking the usual chances year the
packers made profits but the beef producers got
extra big dose of the medicine that has often made them sick
One big catteman of the Southwest who knows the situation
from top to bottom that seventy percent of the beef
producers lost during the past and badly
in need of bracer
The chorus of dissatisfaction been sweed by sheepmen
and hog who have out at the little end Of
the horn, in spite of minimum price that maintained
a confusion of counsel
Months ago from the Food Administration
that the producers interests would not suffer- that efforts
would be made to keep prices stable and high enough to
fair profit But the rapid price fluctuations have made
dizzy and the present attitude of producers proof
that they have a lot of aattire bank accounts
Why in the of horse such condition permitted
to continue while packers mers and other manufacturers
have been allowed definite profit permitted to go their
unammeed way which, by the very nature of the business
assures profit in these tmesf
1t not thing make the producer the
goat in peacemes but in warmes is reckless suicide
Promises of fair protswhich necessary protsshoud
be made good The fundamental difficulty with almost
everyone who deals with the farmers problems that he tries
to view them essentially different from those of other bust
AS matter of fact the farmer the BASIC MAN
UFACTURER of the country and his problems must first be
approached from the business point of view And they
not of the gentlemen who dispose of them with
few kind words and of the hand think
tally simpler but rather complex than those of the bust
who handles and works up the farmers products
farther along the line That why successful farmer
SCENTS just about the best type of business brains that
have in the United States today-Counry Gentleman