The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1919-09-19
SELFISH AUTOMOBILISTS

SELFISH AUTOMOBILES
There would be a much better feel
ing in the hearts of those who do
not drive automobiles, if those who
do drive them were less selfish. One
is often led to believe that owning
and driving a car tends to make the
driver more selfish and less thought
full of the rights of others. One gets
a curious but interesting insight into
human weakness by watching the
drivers of cars. There are many kinds
of hogs driving cars everywhere.
There is the ''road hog who never
given an inche of the road if he (and
sometimes it is a she) can help it.
Then there is the hog who will pass
men women and children on the
roads without ever offering to give
them a ride, and there are the speed
fiends and many kinds of pests, who
drive cars.
If every driver of car when not
too heavily loaded would offer ride
to pedestrian, trudging YEARLY
along the road, be the pedestrian
man, woman or child, it would soften
the hearts of those who walk and
make them think more kindly of those
who drive Every automobile driver
ought to give the entire road for a
loaded wagon, if it is possible to do
so. The farmer with heavy load of
grain cannot turn out easily to let an
automobile pass and when forced to
do so, ie there is room for the car to
pass without this, he feels resent
ment.
There ought to be better feeling
between owners and drivers of cars
and those who do not own or drive
one. Nine times out of 10 the i'll |
feeling that is so often APPARENT, is
the fault of the owner or driver of the |
car and could easily be avoided by a
little more courtesy.
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SOME MORE FOOL STATEMENTS
Dan Morgan, of Spokane, is out
with a statement probably intended
to help the farmers of the northwest,
but which will injure them in the Il
minds of fair minded and honest peo-
pie. Morgan, who claims to be farm
ing $500 acres of land in the Column
bia basin, makes the statement that it
costs $1.67A q bushel to produce
wheat IN tho por+bu,oc+ Mo+o tbo+
fraction, three quarters of cent.
That ought to make it conclusive and
ought to convince the reader that Mr.
Morgan has made careful and ac-
curate study of wheat growing, to
get the cost down to fraction of a
cent.
But if this is not convincing enough
Mr.. Morgan will furnish figures. In
fact he does furnish figures-lots of
them. He has arranged them to
prove his statement and the figures
10 prove it, and they remind us of
he old saying that Figures do not
lie, hut figurers do.
The statement is so absurd that it
S not worth refuting. 1t is only
worthy of ridicule We all know
hat if it really costs $167A cents
Der bushel to produce wheat in the
inland Empire farm land would not
Re worth two bits an acre and every
armer who raised wheat would be
n the poor house. Wheat has been
.rown in the Inland Empire for 40
ears and the price during that 40
ears has not averaged 80 cents
ushel, yet farmers have grown rich
nd farm lands have advanced to
100 and S165 per acre. If it cost 1
nywhere near the figures Mr.. Morg- II
n has submitted in published !
in the Idaho Farmer, the :.
lrmers of the Inland Empire would
ave lost an average of 87A cents
n bushel on all wheat produced in
years. How long could a farmer
and that?
Such silly, false and misleading
atements only tend to discredit
cry statement made in favor of the
rmery and hurts their cause. News
lpers ought to refuse to publish
oh rot.
If Mr. Morgan's statement were
ne the Palouse country and the In