The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1920-05-20

EDen EnOUgh ChlldTen
road through desert
There is normal production in one thing alone
garages In some Of these communities the farmers have
managed to grow truck but because Of unproduction
Of freight they cannot get to ship this truck
North The railway car building shops have been under
producing for two years.
Because Of the high price Of lumber hundreds of
farmers have gone to logging. They drag these logs
through the mud to the railroad depots They cannot
ship them to Memphis other saw mill points because
there The banks in their communities cannot
be paid because they get bill Of adng which
they can attach draft.
In the country we saw good many old hogs, but few
pigs In the country about the usual number of
cows, but few calves
Speaking about cows suggests milk Night before
last we boarded train bound fro mChicago to New Or
leans. 1t fast train 1t II cars and coaches
always count the number of in train just
as we do the number OF stories skyScraper) The
four first cars were unusual in appearance They
cross between refrigerator and express car Be
ing on speaking terms with the conductors and desiring
demand the greater respect Of the other passengers we
we called him by his first name and asked him if he was
hauling munitions in these to the Mexican border
He told us these were loaded with milk They were
picked up in central Illinois and bound for New Orleans
Thus New Orleans must get its milk from the bags of
cows almost thousand miles away. The that gave
this milk have been fed dry hay grain and sage and
kept up in barn until this good day. In New Orleans ter
rtory can run on the grass all winter and give
summer quantum Of milk the year around
There is underproduction Of milk in the New Or
leans territory
A quart Of milk can be produced down South for 70
per cent OF the cost of production in the North THAT is
if milk intelligence controls the dairy man.)
On these little journeys impresses by the un-
reproduction OF everything animal and vegeta
bile.
Twenty years from now the babies and little children
will be the young and young women Of the country
They will be expected to fill the fields and the factories
and the counting rooms They will be expected to man
q1dW roiIu
millions of aeroplanes that will be expected to be in the
air. Unless there is radical change the grass and weeds
will cover the railroads and their rails will be rust be-
cause there will not be enough Young men and vonp wo
men to them. There will be fewer fields titled be-
cause there will be fewer tlers. There will be fewer
counting rooms because there will be little use for money
Money only has its value thing to exchange for
something to eat There will be little to eat or
wear because there will not be enough people engaged
in growing things to eat to have any surplus to SELL
Twenty years ago Colonel Roosevelt began to make
big noise about the underpfoducton of children High
broWs and upters said that in the interest of more IN
teigent civilization the American family ought to be
smaller They pointed with pride to the small New Eng
land family and to the low out put of children the fam
lilies OF the Vassartes the Harvardtes and the Yaeites
They said the foreigners who were here and the la
boring classes could produce plenty Of children to drive
the coaches sweep out the halls fire the furnaces milk
the cows and otherwise make it SO that the superior class
of women could lecture in the womens clubs and the s
peror class Of could teach in the universities con
duct high finance and lecture on the benefits of birth CON
troll without being bothered by teethng and mewing
babies.
We are beginning to experience that which Roosevelt
warned against The sin Of underproducon has extend
ed from humans throughout all the creative activities Of
life we should produce more Of everything are
lost
The Lord smiles on land filled with little children
B. just read United States official report that
the potato crop Of America this year would be per cent
off, and that the bean crop would be 20 per cent under
normal The lack of potatoes and beans lost the war to
Germany Beans and potatoes the big factors in
the allied victory Wars won on full stomachs Hun
ger kills civilization and breeds chaos
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
The editorial from the Commercial Appeal which was