The Washington times., 1921-09-24

! TING MORE MONEY THAN HE USED III GET
The higher cost of living means among other thing
that the farmer who used to be the verge of bankruptcy
loaded with mortgages and WORRIES is getting great de
than he used to get and is happier than he used to
10 emphasize the farmers poverty they used to say ting
when the farmer ate chicken, 'the chicken SICK
the farmer sick"
That meant that the farmer would not eat chicken
less he himself i'll, unless 'the chicken sick
total loss. ~.
Conditions have changed for the farmer. He eats
chickens that hardy and flourshing. He onge-
lives on skinned milk and salt pork.
Agricultural machinery, and agricultural science augnr
IN hundreds OF admirable colleges enable him 10 grow ore
hundred bushels where he used to grow he Sc
more for each bushel *.
Better roads-due largely the bicycle and the auto
mobilemake easier for him 10 get his goods to market
Farmers unions oranges and other organizations have
enabled the farmers to work together instead of being
cheated separatelyha has made better prices for t.
farmers and better profits. -. 81
The rural free delivery carrying the Of the day o
the farmers including the latest ideas in agriculture
the latest prices of his products have protected him against
dishonest dealers. |
The telephone connecting the farms and the stores
time is money.
The telephone and the rural free delivery by the way
have also cut down by about oneha the amount of insanity
among farmers wives.
The greatest wealth of the nation, incomparably is the
wealth that the farmer produces This year. fortunately
HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO THE NATION BY THEl
FARMERS IN ACTUAL VALUE. THOUSANDS OF
MILLIONS OF BUSHELS OF GRAIN HAVE BEEN
TAKEN OUT OF THE FERTILE EARTH TO FEED THE
PEOPLE DIRECTLY AND TO FEED AND FATTEN
THE ANIMALS THAT THE PEOPLE WILL EAT.
The farmers wife was once DOOR, worn-out woman be
fore she had reached thirty Eighteen hours day h
days work in And her husband little bett
off, The only excitement in the old days was the can
meeting highly beneficial, but slightly dolefu
meeting week
Now the farmers wife, when her husband is an alb
has her literary and social club. Her daughter
lightly touching real piano with intelligent fingers An
her grown-up is working a mechanical musical instr
ment with his heavy feet.
There is red automobile in the barn. the foks 20 int
town to attend theaters public meetings. and look
generally.
The life that the saddes the hardest the leas
remunerave of ALL the life of farmer the life that was
led in ignorance of the outside world and of true farming
ITSELF is rapidly becoming life of independence of hap
piness, life guaranteed against want life that is reayI
worth while and toward which the weary dwelers in the
cities begin by the millions to turn longing eyes,
When you think OF the high cost of living, remember that
in part at least the meaning of the higher prices THAT
THE FARMER is BEGINNING TO GET SOMETHING
FOR HIS WORK.
No grudges, should grudge, him that When YOU
read that pork "ve weight cattle on the hoof " sell
for prices higher than known before except in
war time reading that the that actually pro-
duce the animals getting something for their trouble
No one grudges them that.
VI clClZen Is 10 sure the
on higher cost of living ACTUALLY GOES TO THE MAN
WHO DOES THE WORK. The problem is not to cut dowp
themer not to put potatoes back to thirty cents bushe
corn to fifty cents |
The problem is to make sure that the farmer gets we'll
paid for what he does; that the middeman the railroad
those that handle what other produce and that create
no values, do not get the largest part of it.
The high cost of living should make the thousbtful
citizen do something better than merely complain It is
the duty of citizens in the big cities to mite AS THE
FARMERS HAVE UNIFIED, and by chhaneninr dstrihu