The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1921-02-28
WILLIAMSBURG HEARS
ANALYSIS OF GRAIN
And STOCK PRICES

WILLIAMSBURG. o.. Feb. 2S.-"Fer-
tilizer which sold at $32 a ton last
year would sell at about s13 this year
if it had come down i'll proportion to
the farmers own prices" said d. w.
Galehouse. speaking at the farmers
institute Saturday.
In careful analysis of the drop in
grain and stock prices and COMPARE
son of the reductions Of manufactured
products, Galehouse showed an aver
age cut of So per cent in the farm
commodity prices and cuts OF only six
TO % per cent in articles the farmers
must buy In many cases drops in
farm prices were accompanied by a
rise in living costs in the city. Pal
mer's price drive IN the West last
year caused fall of six cents pound
in hog prices in one day, while the
price of bacon rose two cents a pound
in Columbus the same day. The next
time Palmer offered to put on a price
drive, the governors of the states con-
cerned telegraphed him to stay in
Washington.
Points Relation.
Pointing out the lack of relation be-
tween farm prices and living costs,
Galehouse said, Farm prices have
dropped 60 per cent between Septem-
Der. 1919, and September 3, 1920. and
living costs in the city raised "a per
cent Wool dropped Is per cent and
clothing cost 12.4 per cent more. Heat
and light cost Ala per cent more,
building material, 70 per cent; metals
and metal products, 20.9 per cent;
house furnishings, 47.8 per cent more"
Giving a concrete example of the
effect the drop has had on one farmer,
the speaker said: "a farmer with 1000
pounds of wool at 60 cents, 500 bushels
of corn at $1.45, and 600 bushels of
oats at 81 received $1,925 last year.
This year at present prices he will get
$709, a cut of GO per cent. To meet
typical example, has cut from $475 to
$445, a cut of 6 per cent. Nor has
farm machinery come down in proper
ton to farm prices and one company
even promised 10 per cent raise. l
will fix up my old machinery rather
than buy at present prices"
Urges School Laws.
Miss Olga Anna Jones, who spoke
next, included in her address an elo-
quent appeal for better school laws
for Ohio. "Ohio ranks first in base
ball, second in autos, third in sheep,
fourth in horses, fifth in crop Values
and twelfth in education, of all the
states in the Union" she said.
The new law which Miss Jones ad-
vocated would provide one county tru-
ant officer on full time, instead of 20
or 80 school directors giving part time.
Miss Jones read a clipping from a
newspaper of 1877 which scathingly
denounced the Ohio compulsory educa
ton law, just passed in that year, as
evidence that progressive measures al
ways find opposition. yet, in spite
of this low, so long on our books, there
were whole families of children who
did not attend school in this state last
year" Miss Jones stated.
williamsburg Girl.
Miss Jones is williamsburg girl OF
whom the community is proud. She is
the daughter of Amos Jones of Hol
lansburg, was reared in that commun
ity, and is now the woman's editor on
Columbus newspaper.
Another address by George H
Young, gave the evidences by which a
laying hen might be judged. and evi
IDENTIFY struck a popular chord as there
were many questions asked after he
finished.
Two songs by the ladies' quart cite
with encores and a solo by Mildred
Moore, which also was encored, fur
nished music for the program, and the
final session of the institute CLOSED
with the pronunciation of the benedic
ton Of Reverend Arrik.