Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1919-08-13

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Sea Power" HI. ! or =. +
War Savings stamps and taxation
subscribed to at great sacrifice by the
American people, who have had noI
word to say IN the disposition Of their
ships. The price paid for the 100
steamers, approximately $4,000, 900,
by the New York concern, II said tot
be greatly below their building cost.
-: No Money For Farmers. =.
While hundreds Of millions of dol.
lars have been appropriated for the
army and navy; while indeterminate
amounts are being squandered In OK.
tending material aid" to Kolchak, I'M
whom the people of the United States,
barring few Russian investors, have
no interest whatsoever; while war
with Mexico is being openly urged By
. few interested jingoes, and while no.
pretense is being made of getting cost
value from the private interests to
whom the government merchant ma
rine is being handed-bills of the most
vital need to the people of this coun-
try are being shelved "for lack OF
funds.'
A case In point is the bill recently
introduced by Representative Sinclair
Of North Dakota calling for an ap-:
preparation Of $5,000,000 for the relief
OF drouth sufferers In the northwest.
ern states. Sinclair has been pointed
~ told by Representative Good, chair
man Of the appropriations committee,
that strict economy has got to be ex-
ercised now in making appropriations.
New Park Proposed.
Mr.. Sinclair has plunged into the
complex work Of congress with a will
and has already far outdistanced
many of the new members in getting
under the surface of things and max.
ing the wishes of his constituents felt
In Washington. A bill Of his, intro
duced last week, calling for the crea-
ton Of national park in the Killdeer
mountains, has been very favorably
received at the interior department as
a logical step forward in the splendid
policy Of national park development.
The park proposed by Mr.. Sinclair
would cover $4,000 acres and include
territory rich in historic memories Of
the Indian wars. The bill providing
it's establishment carries out the re-
cent decentralization Of congress by
the North Dakota legislature for such
q step.
Eastern Views on Wheat.
The startling ignorance in the East
OF farm conditions and problems was
never more clearly shown than in the
propaganda now springing up for re-
peal of the wheat guarantee, appar-
emily in the belief that $3.50 or even
1926 wheat is an artiflcially stimu-
lated price, and that If this guaran.
tee was removed the price of wheat
would fall below 81 bushel and bring
bread back to cents the standard
loaf. In its leading editorial on this
theme on August the New York Sun
indicated the belief that all that is
necessary to reduce the high cost of
living is the removal of the wheat
guarantee.
7 Farmers representatives in Wash.
ington are inclined to agree that re-
moval of the guarantee has much to
commend 1t, but they are busily call
ing to the attention of congress that
the first result will be to raise and
not lower the price of wheat. Mr..
Hoover's estimates of prices ranging
from 50 to $3.50 a bushel are now
generally accepted. In the meantime
Washington is gradually waking up to
the realization that the menace of de.
creased production through inability
of the farmer to make living out
Of present returns fs very real one
Free Potash Asked.
Farmers of the East and South, who
have suffered severely from the lack
of proper fertilizers during the war;
are uniting in campaign to lift the
embargo on the shipment of potash
from Germany to this country. TIC
attain this end Charles A. Lyman, SEQ
rotary of the National Board of Farm
Organizations, and T. G. Atkinson oil
the National Grange have just sent 6
joint letter to Vance Mccormick, chair
/ man Of the war trade board, telling
him that removal Of the potash impor
restrictions is necessary step in any
campaign to cut the cost of living.
OusIey Resigns.
. Following closely on the heels o.
the ex-director of markets, Charles
Brand Assistant Secretary Clarenc,
Ousley has just resigned from the de
partment of agriculture. It is RI
ported that he Is to edit Sea Power
q periodical devoted to building up ,
tremendous navy for the Unite'
States. Just who 10 back Of Sea Pow
or it 10 impossible to say.
According to Doctor w. J. Spillman
former chief Of farm management II
the department Of agriculture, . dele
CATION of Texas farmers not long ag'
told Mr.. Ousley to his face, ut an in
terview when Spillman was present
that they considered him (Ousley)
traitor to the farmers" This ma.
account for Mr. Ousley's failing t
return to his agricultural exteusio,
work at the Texas state college, whic
he left when he came to the depart
ment. 49,. ~.
Many who declare that the govern
{ ment must protect the people agains
the merciless proffteers are the fri
!. to join the howl Of disloyalty againl
any man who makes ! real gesture
!, that direction. T.