The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1919-09-09
All Possible Light Must Be Thrown Upon
Great Economic and Moral Issues of Hour

sent out from Washington the other
day, Tor instance, that there were
enough eggs in cold storage in this
country to meet all of the require
ments for as much as % days, and
this was held up as an awful example
| of profiteering in cold storage of eggs.
Ii we have only enough eggs in cold
| storage to supply the needs of the
country for % days, We are desperate
ly short of what we should have.
Within few weeks we shall reach
point where the hens will stop lay
Ing, where the supply of eggs will be
far below the, actual requirements.
and then IL we have but 22-day
supply on hand, the prices now pre-
vailing for eggs, or the prices of last
winter. when throughout the country
they sold at 80 and 80 cents per doz-
en-, Will seem trifing small as COM
, pared with what the consumer will
then pay. This is a question which
enters into the cost of living and.
therefore, papers that want to do
their duty to readers and to their
country must discuss the high prices
of foodstuffs and the reasons there
, for.
Broadly speaking, everything which
enters into shaping the policy of the
country as to protection or free trade.
immigration from Europe or from
China, the League of Nations or no
League of Nations, peace or war, pre-
paredness. or non-preparedness, are in
sense political questions, and any
man who thinks that a publication
such as the Manufacturers Record
should not discuss all of these issues,
and without the slightest party bias
try to throw what light is possible
on them, shows a very small appreci-
atom of the times in which we are
living and the influences of these
questions as to whether America and
civilization itself shall live or die
Less than three years ago, John r.
Mott. the great leader of the Young
Mems Christian Association. on his
return from his fourth visit to Rus
sia said that Russia had really more
great men In it than any country he
mad visited, and he had visited many
more great men indeed than he had
round In America. Neither he nor any
one else at that time could have
thought 1t possible that in less than
three years Russia would be in such
chaos as the world has possibly never
seen.
Shortly before his retirement Presi-
dent Diaz said to the writer and to
some friends who were visiting him
In his home in the City of Mexico.
that Mexico had reached a point in
educational and material develop-
ment where revolutions would never
again be possible. Diaz was firmly
convinced that for all time to come
Mexico was going to be one of the
! great outstanding civilized CONNER
cfal and industrial nations nj tbe
world, and he had broad views as to
the marvellous achievements that
Mexico would make. There was then
not one-tenth the danger of such
conditions in Mexico as we have seen
Tor the last four years, and there is
In the United States today.
If there are any readers OF the
manufacturers Record, or OF the other
class publications, who take so mar
row view OF these mighty world in
fuences which are now at work that
they do not want their class publica
lions to discuss them, we can onIy
say that so far as the Manufacturers
RECORD is concerned it expects to
continue as IL has for the last five
years to devote all the energy and
all the influence at its command IN
the discussion Of every problem which
pears upon the salvation OF America
the development of the nations busi-
ness, and OF It's very existence as a
republic from the tremendous dam
gers which we face.
We have an abiding faith in tho
overruling Providence OF Almighty
Eod In saving this country. but we do
nor heiieve that even the Almighty
VIII save man against his will nor
that the Almighty will save a nation
unless Its people do their part. There
is an old story that may not be imam
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