Arizona republican., 1920-12-28
Country Economy Vs. City Extravagance

CHICAGO, H., Dec. 24-Today the l farmer receives only 14 cents for the calf hide which enters in 2 SIP pair of shoes, and the skilled workman gets S1.66 for making them, so that the cost in reaching the consumer is over $10. A big strong man cannot pack enough steer hides into shoe shop to- day, to pay for one pair of shoes. An ordinary bag of wool weighs 200 pounds and one man cannot handle it. If he could the entire lot would not buy a suit of tailored clothes weighing 3 F pounds,
 It takes four bushels of my corn at present country prices to half sole my shoes, and half a wagon load to pay my hotel bill here for two days.
 I could not carry into one of your thirst parlors enough cabbage to pur- chase a glass of soda water.
 Thousands of bushels of apples are rotting in Ohio orchards this minute. while apples are sold at 10 cents apiece by your Chicago fruit vendors.
 Dark Virginia tobacco of & good grade is dowr as low as cent a pound, ss testified before the senate agricul tural committee.
 Two thousand sheep sold recently in a Chicago stockyard. and neted the shipper only 34 cents a head.
 furniture salesman told recently of two trips he made from Toledo to De- troit In May, taking two days to do it. he booked s26.o60 in orders; in No yember, his business over the same route amounted to just s23.75.
 Tie average farmer in America has not made as much this entire season as the average coal miner has in one day.
 Idaho hay, along the lines of the Un- H~~ %@A tho freight rate is almost equal to the selling price in Omaha. Adding the cost of baling and hauling to the sell ing price the cost has exceeded the value of the hay at the Missouri River markets. The hay stays in Idaho while the railroad hauls empty cars past those ranches and loses all revenue.
 Thus George NJ Wilber Marysville | Ohio, farmer who may be called into the next United States cabinet as sec. retary of agriculture. pictured rura conditions today to Chicago business men in an address delivered Wednes- day noon at the Association of Com. merce luncheon at Hotel La Sale. Hi subject was Country Economy vs. Cit, l Extravagance.'
 1 Declaring that spending orgies of cit. l people are bound to cease, as already d | the case in the country, MT Wilber in ] 1 back to business. He said that it's re l turn will be hastened by general adop 1 tiou of a get-to- work policy, practice o 1 economy to the same degree as befor ! the war and the turning of money t the succor of legitimate enterprises.
 Fundamental conditions are sound ] he asserted. Government crop report 1 scarcely a week old tell of yields ap proximating records in almost ever hue The surest argument for brigh future is the prevailing sense of con finement among all classes.
 What we must remember is that n amount of work or talk at Washington where recently elected officials wi
 take charge soon. can solve the situa tion unless you and do our full share i T we produce more, sell at q narrowe margin, recognize that certain lossc are inevitable, and therefore the soone accepted the sooner ended. by the tim
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 be back in the swing of commercis