The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06
value of their stocks and bonds, is se,ooo'- 100 in excess.
 POLITICIANS AND FARMERS

coo in excess.
 POLITICIANS AND FARMERS The farmers are yet to be heard from,
 and in such way that tn epoliticlans VIII be compelled to take heed. Already tarih- CTS organizations are complaining that the politicians who are now actively en-
 gagged in presidential politics seem to have given little heed to the condition fin which the farmers of the United states now find themselves. Yet it is easy to demonstrate that the farms of the United
 States constitute the greatest asset the
 naion has The farmers say that It IS cutie as essential that the government ald the farmers in securing good prices TOT their products and in aiding productlon, as it is to see that te workmen anu trainmen get a certain number or ooliars for eight hours work. Statement wa.
 made this morning that the boil weeV.
 has cost the nation many hunoreos oA
 millions of dollars by reason or us ray
 ages of the cotton crop And yet the pol-
 iticians who are in public life, and none
 of those who have not yet succeedeu III
 getting into public life, have been at ail
 interested in the proposition that tle
 government appropriate sulIlcIens
 amount of money in order to destroy tiii9
 pest of the cotton fields.
 A high authority recently sald the ldo
 tories are robbing the farms in the sehse
 that they are attracting labor rom the
 farms to the industries. Farm laoor
 has diycovered that it can make hucn
 more money, working shorter hours aiu producing less, if it obtains employ llene @ in the manufacturing establishments Ane drain is steady one so steady that ar ready it threatens the nation With ao9o
 lute food shortage. As people we ale getting periliously near the rocks, anu we are going to run afoul of them uh!eS9 the government give the farmers Ian show. It is a fact which has occaSioi'et occa . much comment here that not any olle oA
 those who hope to attain the presiue tial nomination, nor any Of thelr csaln paign managers, seems to nave hao tl slightest apprehension Of what tne a7i cultural problem in this country Is. ANOTHER KIND OF DEFLATloN Inst before Decoration Day one or the largest and most conspicuously Iasiiloii able hotels in New York caused US eih ployes to say to the guests, ou ' no longer have meals in thls hotel U,
 any rooms," for it is to be cioseu ano t,1rned into offices There would nave been more embarrassment felt last win ter. and in fact during the entire perloo or the war. had this hotel closed US doors then instead of now. For apparent lys the deflation influence has allecteu ',ie New York hotels. Until recently uiey have been overcrowded, and It was "iii trepidation that traVelers who iiNs secured reservations by telegraph ap preached the desk of the room clerk Ill | the hope of securing rooms. Now tnere ] is room in plenty. and it is not eNpialneu hv inc approach of the summer season because heretofore even In the very ho' weather the New York hotels were over crowded. It probably is due to the
 changed disposition of the people wno ,o i are not spending money as they did, put | who on the other hand are beginning the nra ctica of thrift