The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1919-11-29

UF294N Let US Work hardf or W want
H HAII1N There is one important sentiment to be added to the above
NSMaN toast, which doesn't sound quite so poetic. 1t is this: After
UNXS We have worked hard for what We want. let us be sensible
NAMED for me off be women Who .aSrossaa IN no @ pa,s 10y ~ - nas re-
in Reno recently, to speak right u tim eetn " and call a spade a
spade. Miss Jessie R. Haver. legislative agent of the National Consumers
League, said at hat meeting. according to the enc nrinted in The silver
State last Saturday: The present high prices we're brought about largely
by propaganda o the part of wholesalers and retailers" and she blamed
the packers OF the country for much of this propaganda.
IT'S not the wages of labor that is increasing prices" declared Miss
Haver; it is the people themselves. led IN by propaganda"
Propaganda has come to meal something sinister to the American read
ing public. The word apparently now means. to the popular consciousness.
the circulation Of false information which is calculated to have much the
same effect a a plain hodup. Take the car-shortage and coal-strke
propaganda of the fuel barons. for instance. 1t a invented a quarter of
"a eenturya by Mark Hanna down in the Hooking valley, but for many
years it a not recognized by public or press. for what it raj and is-for
it is still working. The same old story brings home the bacon.
The popular propaganda in these postwar times is Shortage" There
is the coal shortage, and the sugar shortage. and the steel shortage and the
shortage in textiles and leather, and drugs. and labor, and every conceiy-
stocks Oh hand do ct verify The shortage tories h+ tna uueuD anu 81
work just the same. People, it seems, would rather believe what thew
re told thar go to the mental trouble of going after the truth in figures
which do not le" The reflection is o the propaganda.
The shortage propaganda is the outcome of the "drve" which found
70 much favor when the good people of the land were prepared to support
every scheme which came forth IS patriotism" sharpers, detecting the
mood of the public. launched drives" for their personal benefit and got
away with them The reasoning TO the Shortage" idea is simple. People
uioucai STOOD fr everything which came to them under the gmse of
a wartime necessity, and so far they have been cajoled into elievinp thew
must stand and deliver under the plea o wars consequences.
The thing has become IN epidemic. and consequences bid fair to be
disastrous The first shortage" to be uncovered, than a yea ago.
"a ina proeiaime by the leather trust After great stacks of hides had
Deen accumulated until there was no longer storage places fol the exae-
serated stocks Of leather, people began o weakly demand explanation
to cry that they were behind with orders; that war demands bad m
them; and they made the people believe III. so,a M% u.manus no swamped
NiHans. Nw tht hat particular shortage" is thoroughly exploded in
the public mind, the shoe me can boldly forth from their camouaape and
sy thy re willing to make cheaper and more serviceable shoes bt that
the onsume VIII not buy them. Something fancy and travaea and
rail and foolish is demanded.
Aho lat is tn fact Through some perversfy which is not understand
aoe or logically expainabe, thu consumer himself is demanding higher and
hign pnces is supporting those who take advantage of his eccen-
tncry When meat is raisedt W cent a pound, mar a family immediately
ie@s' inc Yields o a inordinate appetite for meat When ugar is boos,ed
nt one can b e und to deny himself, or herself the indulgence in candy
reopi KICK pt BUY Just the sam They don't like to be robbed. but thew
refuse to forego a bit o selfindulgence.
Take the item of meat. Probably a large maioritv o. o,..u. -.
Wiling to admit, and many frequently declare, that the people Of his oun
Certain, also, ht a meat strike of a cOunle of uaobc, d~oHo. -,, -,
bring Inc packers down to earth, o would result in disclosing conntions
81 rouen In ue way Of wiIhul destruction of food a s. to call forth orrectivo
measures teach the public a lasting lesson.
Haro INES INC high prices are altogether matters of Individual cmn-
iousnes h m a who will not deny himself. but who crficizes others
for selfIndulgence, is the man who makes propaganda possible lie is the
on to whom the shortage" and drive" arthts look With confidence ,or
te success O their schemes. Try that o your victroa.
III Malheur (Oregon) County Enterprise celebrated its tentb an,ivorsorvI
november 20 with a very credhabe issue of fourteen pages. From Vail
mere the Enterprise is published, in the county adjoining Humboldt on the
north to winnemucca is a distance o son 800 miles by road. and no rail
especially in the East realize that there ire such stretches of onen corntrv
SAID maj IT IS or than a equal distance south from winnemucca to the
next eastand-west railroad. Malheur and Humboldt counties altboroh Ill
dinerent states, have much of common interest, and should be better AL
quanted The acquaintance must com through ranchers.
w e have all read advertisements Tor grocery clerks who mmt bel
good E fiat cornet players. and school teachers who must be able to teach
lawn tennis, and printers who must be able to sing tenor rim te choir: hut
he advertisement from northern Manitoba for e minister WIN .Yo,., =. ii
good poker player. would strike n as at least unusual i