The Greeneville daily sun. (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1918-1920, 1919-09-12
NATURES POTENT AID.

NHAONI = NOAINA AaDs
The governments crop report indicates that the food
yield of the United States this year will be greater than
before The country will have large surplus after
filling every domestic want If Europe should require
foodstus in addition to her own crops there will be
difficulty in obtaining from this country all that may
be needed 1t will not be natures fault if there is
hungry human being in the world.
Yet there hungry human beings, and will be in
many parts of Europe after the harvests in. The
truth that Europe whole is not fully civilized and
has not sense enough to feed itself The spirit of
operation which is second nature to Americans is sadly
lacking in many parts of Europe The people will not
share their surplus with their eighbors They refuse to
ship food to Vienna The Banat Also is oversupplied
while the United States is sending food to places within
stones throw of abundant native supply.
The heartessness of set of Europeans toward
other set living not twenty miles distant phenomenon
that discouraged Americans and took from them all de-
sire to organize perfect continental food-distrbuon
system They discovered grating proteerng and cold
blooded boarding of food furnished by America. An
inquiry into the actual experience of the Americans in
distributing food to Ausrians, Germans and Hungarans
all enemy peoples would bring out information of great
interest the taxpayers who furnished the 500
with which to feed parts of the Europe that sup
posed to be starving.
Notwithstanding the local mistakes and native greed,
however the fact remains that the United States stood
ready to Europes peoples who had suffered from
The United States will do this again, if necessary,
without too strictly counting every bushel of grain Prob
ably the American authorities improved their distribution
system toward the last that they would not be sub
ected to the annoyances which bese the service last
spring.
The huge American crops should have another effect
almost potent for good the removal of danger of
famine, and that is the reduction of prices. When it
learned that the crop 100000 900 bushels
cago, The prices of hogs, and other foods are
steadily diminishing at the great centers and the wave
thus started will widen until it reaches every part of
the country The reduction in the price of food will
force reductions in the prices of other commodities
cording to imperative economic law. Thus nature is
cooperating with the government in hammering prices
down, and it is safe to suggest that nature will be en-
ClCleu 10 most OF the cfedt Tor actual rellef.
Nature, however, does not op off the hoarder the
profteer, the monopost the combiner The govern
ment must attend to those sharks Therefore the coun
try applauds Attorney General Palmer In his task of
preparing and executing broad and effective plans for
sweeping from the channels of supply and demand all
obstacles set up by cunning and greed Mr.. Palmer is
doing something which has direct effect upon the sta
bhty of the country when he helps the people obtain
the necessares of life at fair price Next to the bounty
of nature which keeps famine away, the mos, important
factor in aiding humanity is government policy that
will insure to every square deal in the matter of
prices This will accomplish much in restoring content
ment, and with contentment there will be an end of
ldlotlc schemes for reforming human Misunderstanding
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