Milford chronicle., 1920-10-29
The NATIONAL CAPITAL
ENOUGH FOR EVERYBODY
By J. f. Jones

enough to go around. II is good log
ic that this condition will make to-
ward cheaper prices. There are a
great many instances that bear out
this theory While the time has evil
IDENTIFY arrived when the competition
among dealers for goods at any price
and among employers for laborers at
any wage, has passed, it does not nee
essarily follow that there have been
any revolutionary changes in values.
The result is that the profiteers have
less chance to sell their goods at un-
reasonable prices, while the jack-of-
all-trades can no longer buy a ham
mer and a saw and demand ten dol
lars day as a carpenter skilled in
his work. Apparently it is a sorry
business for merchants in many lines
to dispose of goods they have purchas-
ed at inflated prices at the new fig
ures that are being found to be reas-
enable.
The most graphic instance in this |
connection surrounds sugar. The !
local merchants have made an awful |
fuss about accommodating themsel- |
YES to the new conditions and the new
prices, even though the loss was
slight. Poor little Cuba" has grown /
so rich out Of sugar profiteering dur |
ing the war that its sugar growers !
are in the doldrums because the con-
sumers of sugar in the United States |
and elsewhere have forced down their |
prices. One of the largest Cuban |
banks has suspended operations, and |
the rich Islanders are just now real
izing that their heyday is over. On
a less exaggerated scale these same
Z conditions rf s,,
dustries throughout the United States.
Nevertheless, it must not be inferred
that the pre-war prices will be re-
stored. Mr.. Ford. with his fifty or
sixty million dollars profits each
year is doubtless able to sell "fiv-
ers" at the old price while paying
the new rates of wages to his en-
ployees-and he can still keep out of
the poor house. other automobile
manufacturers may do the same
thing, but in most of the industrial
lines. and in agriculture, this policy
will be impossible.
It is obvious that the new read
| iustment is well under way. and the
fact is being rapidly accomplished. It
| is just as clear that it will not be
/ predicated on the plan which is
plausible for Mr.. Ford and a few
manufacturers Ike him who made alb Z
normal profits both before and during J
the war period. !
HydrOelectric Possibilities I
It has been shown that a great Z
power system drawing its electrical a
energy from steam and water genera
tion, would save 3O.0OOO0O tons of
coal annually, representing $1500OO.- :,
600, the labor of more than 10000 mi -
ners and the release of vast railroad !,
carrying capacity for other freight. y
Such project stretching from Wash =
ingtOn to Boston and drawing its .
electrical energy from steam and wa -
ter generation, is the design of the ?,
Government. which is developing :,
plans to meet the new era in power y.
development which it is thought will h
result from the waterpOwer legisla- W
tiOn passed at the last session of -
Congress. Scientific men say that it W W
is almost unbelievable that a progress 9,
sive people like those in the United
States should cling to methods that
are as antique as the ox-cart by in
sisting upon digging and transporting su
coal and TObbing Mother Earth of all 81
her natural mineral resources, when Ft
all that is needed is the development ph
Of water powers on streams which di
for centuries have awaited develop q
ment. re
The Great Lakes Project EI le.
For more than twenty-five years
people along the Great Lakes have
been agitating a waterway through
he st. Lawrence to the Ocean. Can
ida is thoroughly in accord .with the .
project and has made extensive de- as
'elopments of the river to permit its -, -,
lse by vessels drawing twenty-five 10 10
eet or more of water. The project uSi
las not been very active in late years az az
hOugh it is the subject of pending lne lne
egislation in Congress. If Oppo- sV1
itiOn is the life of endeaYor there
nay be something doing that will put NJ.
he waterways project in the fore a1l
round. A plan has been worked out @ auo
or series of canals to make the "Si
akes-to-ocean route an exclusively
.merican project. 1t appears in some , .ne
uarters that New York State regards my my
he st. Lawrence route as inimical to 'ioi
he Erie Canal. Other broad-minded ~ ~
eOple say that eventually the st. Vi
awrence route and the waterway W.
trough United States territory will uay
9th be developed. From an engineer rs
lg standpoint neither scheme is as '"I
ifficult as was the building of the
anama Canal. From the head of sup
le Great Lakes there are coming wy
ories at this time showing how easy ~ MS
would be to transport the grain alIe
ops of the Northwest by water, if
e routes were open to the Atlantic anu anu
aboard. Inasmuch as there is an wee &c
United lack of transportation facili- ~. ~
IS, this argument is doabtless hav- isi, 81,
g its effect. and may influence Con- NM Al
ess in bringing the lakes-to-ocean 1ill
oject to the front at the coming ses- ga "a
IN of Congress. M
Railway RecuperatiOn defn
ALI traffic records were broken the Mi
'ek of September 25 when 994, ,6S7 an al
rs were loaded. Shortage of cars MI
ant shortage of goods, particularly ling /
coal. Among the surprising turns Ell
the railroad situation is the fact sever
It in Chicago it has been discover Mi.
that there are from 10 to is per phia
It more men on the railroad pay her a
Is, particularly in the clerical and Lis
lipment departments, than are ter, i
'ded. The Pennsylvania railroad MIR
llso understood to have found that C. T.
y had a superfluous number of last
Dloyees in some divisions of the Pre-
*. Thus, it appears that the rail- passe
ds, during the sixteen months that Law
= were under Government control, man,
ted to copy the inefficient methods San
l..s.,