The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-23
GETTING SOME OF THE GRAFT.

OOInE VI lIlI Oie]AA l.
Growers of sugar beets are form
ing an organization like the Farmers
Union, for the purpose Of fixing the
prices of sugar beets. They have
been getting $40 per ton and made
money by raising beets at that price
But the sugar trust has almost doubl-
ed the price ofsugar and now the pro-
ducers want part of this graft stolen
from the public. The organization in
Washington state has fixed SIS per ton
as the price for sugar beets and will
raisers evidently are going on the
same theory that the shipyard workers
OF Pacific coast yards did year ago
when they struck for higher wage.
They were getting unusually high
wages before they struck but they
knew the ship builders were grating
the government and they. demanded
some of the graft. Here's hoping the
Farmers. are more successful than the
shipyard workers. The Washington
Farmer, in commenting on this move
ment says:
'sNow comes reliable news of
movement to organize countrywide
association of sugar beet farmers to
fight the sugar trust. To that end,
joint convention of farmers organiza-
tons has been called to meet in Den
yer on January 26. The call is issued
by the Farmers unions of Nebraska
and Colorado, the State oranges of
Washington and Colorado, the Inter
mountain Farmers association, the
Mountain States Beet Growers assoc
iation, and more than dozen other
cooperative farmers organizations.
The call declares that the country is
producing less than one-fourth of the
sugar consumed in it, and declares
the clutches of few powerful corpor-
ations, which are so organized and
united as to form a most menacing
trust 1t is charged that the trust,
in stress of war, sought and obtained |
special privileges at the expense of |
beet growers, whereby it gained en-
ormous profits, and has sought to pre-
vent the growth of the beet sugar in
dustry in this country
"The evolved objects of this move
ment to organize the sugar beet grow
ns-c af tha riu lo .
support of. dozen powerful farm as
sociations are entirely praiseworthy.
The purpose is declared to be to ex-
pand and preserve the sugar beet
industry, reduce the shortage and re-
store normal prices. If the organiza-
ton adheres to these objects, it will
deserve and will have the cordial sup
port of the consumers"
l. w. w. MEMBERSHIP A CRIME.
That the l. w. w. is becoming less !
and less popular in the northwest is i
indicated by the fact that jury in the i.
Thurston county court at Olympia, :
recently convicted tive t
members of that organization under l
the states criminal syndicalism law
merely because they were members
of the /. w. W. organization The case +
was brought as a test case to establish S
the fact that in the state of Washing t
ton the /. w. w. is an outlaw organ :
ization. The jury that rendered the a
verdict was composed of seven farm o
BIS, three members of labor unions ann I
Dne nonuIfion workman. !.
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APPLIES IN MANY PLACES. f
total of 5000 Chicagoans are re-
ported to have become converted in II
/ 6O-day evenagelistic campaign Any
ime Chicagoan becomes converted II
It's a safe bet he has his fingers cross c.
,d.-Portland Oregonian. !. ~
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That much good has been accom- k
,lished by the Farmers and House
,eepers' week program at the Uni
ersity of Idaho is certain. Every -
ne who attended these settings has i
cen benefited The university and II
he experiment station and the agricul- 81
ural college have done splendid p
ork They have offered and have Civ al