Weekly journal-miner., 1920-05-05

he would never have another cOngre- gation to preach to if he did am gong to tell you what the strikers never think about while they are planning May Day strikes to terrorize the world.
 l dare to tell you because l am like the woman my mother used to have for a neighbor ill a sod cabin on the Kansas prairies-she was holding down a homestead in defiance of drouth and grasshoppers and wearing out her old clothes just as it is so fashionable to do nowadays. It wasn't so fashionable. then so some one made fun of her and she told them that she Wasn't running for office nor trying to get married and it didn't matter what she wore."
 Out here on our little piece of Ari-
 ia soil we can manage to raise enouhg to eat, and can wear out ole clothes, and so 1 can defy the strike spirit and tell the truth which might fly needs telling without fear.
 We farmers are literally In on the ground floor"-and about next Dee ember these terrorists who are plan ming to raise Hell on May Day-I don't apologize to anyone for that word because 1t expresses the whole truth-are going to have an awful pain right iu the place where mashed potatoes would cure it-and they are going to think a little about why other folks cant raise enough pota- toes to go around while they are all so busy raising the other thing.
 l want every reader to do some bedrock thinking while tell you why potatoes so poor that our Duroc- Jersey pig who is named for future (we hope) governor of Arizona wouldn't eat them ii we put them in his trough, are selling for ten cents a pound i'll local stores and are the best the merchants can get.
 We have farmed right here in Ari- zona for thirty-eight years and l know farming conditions ill all parts of the state by the seeing of my own eyes, not by what some political theo- rlst or May Day striker tells the world.
 In the heart of Arizoua's finest potato belt there is a ranch owned by a man who has been in Arizona long enough 10 have a right to enter tho Pioneers Home. lie
 'dippy" about potato growing, studies seed, soil, methods, varieties, year by year; but he isn't capitalist-he ls just a man who likes to farm and who took up a piece of wild Arizona lane that never had blow mark on it and by steady, patient labor is turning it into a spot that can produce a lot of food for some of the world $ hungry people.
 He hasn't made much real money because it takes about all he makes year by year to put the land in better shape, fence it securely, buy good tools, and develop that piece ot raw mountainside into a home.
 He isn't cheating anybody out ot piece of land because there are some thousands of acres of land i'll the same region just as good and only waiting some hard work to be food producing asset of the state.
 He cannot do all the work on the farm 50 he hires help at the standard wages of the section, works the stand ard hours. and feeds and lodges his men as comfortably as himselt-ln the same house and at the same table.
 Last fall he had fine field of spuds big smooth fellows that would be strapped lip at bit pound i'll local markets today. To let them mature perfectly he left them in the ground till the season was so, far advancec that prompt work was necessary to get them dug and housed before freezing weather.
 His hired men, whom he had been paving the standard wages all sum mcr, also sized up the situation, Seeing that he must either have help or see his valuable food crop frozen in the ground they struck for large advance in wages ant even demand ed that a half grown boy, son of one Jf them. should also have iull wages for what he could do.
 This rancher was an old-fashioned AmcriCan-hc fired the whole crew, picked up what Mexicans he could get in a hurry, and with poor and in- adequate help he harvested Xha' potatoes he could and the rest iFo7. in the ground Today those s,Ii.ia. workmcu are paying ten cents % pound for potatoes poorer th"a the. culls of his field.
 This very thing. in one form and happens to farmers in every part of the United States. Because dependable help cannot be had enough food rots and freezes every year iuI the country 10 lleey evcrybody's din ner pot full the whole year through. That is one thing for those May Day strikers to think about while thcyI are laid off work.
 Two years ago a group of farmers in an adjoining state where fine potatoes are grown planted most Of their. land to that crop. They had a wonderful yield of finest quality.