New Britain herald., 1919-08-19
aving of boatloads of bans mas to rot

leaving of boat1oads of bans mas to rot at the wharves of our ports of entry2 The holding in storage. great stocks of food when the market is depleted? Why the instant rise in price of every article of food recommended by the food administrator to take the place of meat during the war? Why these and countless other devices to ks8p prices at tie top notch and prevent any reduction in cost to the consum- CT. All this transpiring while at the. same time there are millions of people standing in need of these things but una ble to get them because the high price forbids.
 No combination to mairtain prices? Tell it to the visitor from the planet Mars. but don't m ention it 10 the man or woman who buys supplies for a ! family.
 No combination among wholesalers or middlemen? Why the strong op- position from that quarter to the es tablishment of city markets where the consumer can purchase direct from the producer?
 There is a remedy for this unsatis- factory condition. And the American people can apply it. Through the es- tablishment of municipal markets the farmer and market gardener can bring their products to a central dis tributing point and be assured of a h sale and the consumer can go and buy these products direct or with but one interme ediary and that the muni- cipality. The establishment by the municipalities of storage warehouses where products when in surplus can be kept until the glut is past Fur A1. I.- nicipal stores for the handling of gen. eral merchandise, where manufacture ed goods can be handled on the same basis. Through such a plan at least two intermediates could he dispensed with and their profits saved. A municipal market could be es- tablshed right here in New Britain if majority of it's citizens say the word United effort could put 1t in operation very quickly.
 As for the middleman, Iel him go to work for a while who re he can pro- duce something. He has been living fat by simply taking the things Peter Jones raises and John Smith makes .and handing them to Joe Jackson, ir1- cIdentally taking for hlniself all the | profit the exchange will bear. Cap tain Kidd has nothing on these mod ern pirates in fact the captain would look like white angel alongside of his majesty of the eleven foot in com parison. A period to their opera tions is set their time is passing like that of the rLmseller; let them go with our choisest blessings. To press home the thought presents ed in the beginning of this article, let me repeat: It is folly to expect the a man content with A standard of living that permits of no progress toward the more complete attainment of the desirable things of life. ,s
 But let us as a majority, feel that we are gaining, that those who have plenty are willing to see the rest of us have aplenty tco, from the lowest to the highest and democratic insti- tutes are safe. Defraud us of these modest realizations of hope and you extend an open invitation to all the "isms" that run rampant throughout the world today.
 We must work together for this end. "Co-operation of all for the benefit of all," is the battle cry that will carry confusion and destructioR to the organized interests that prey upon the life blood of their fellows, and make a moakery of free institu- tions At the same time it will sound the death knell of anarchy. It is just as much to the interest of employers as employees that it be adopted. If we will become fellow workers in the honest field of life, each willing to dos his or her share toward the general good, life will be worth livng indeed.
 AN EMPLOYE a