Pueblo chieftain., 1921-11-28

Not much loca. encouragement can
be derived from Saturdays smart re-
vivaI in grains, which wound up a
week of fitful and hesitating movement
in the whole food list. What gave
cause for the apparent Improvement
was the crazy dreaming over alleged
events twenty thousand miles away,
Those Chicago grain gamblers would
be in touch with the moon. II they
could get a wire that far. Their atten-
tion seems to he directed more upon
| Argentine and Australia than upon
America. Weather away down in the
Patagonia region is live news to them.
a prominent feature of the Chicago
grain trade last week was the pur-
chase of considerable quantities of
wheat by Japan from Australia. Thus
we see that even the sharps of the
windy city are locoed by the unac-
countabIe craze over Japan which up
sets the sanity of the navy and of the
diplomats. The "booger" of our child
| hood. the gobins and demons of an
specter of n dinky little island inhab-
tied by dinky little people.
But neither Eighty notions or sin
lister manipulation can permanently
distort the inevitable logic of supply
and demand. and that other great
Tfuge for civilized people-the calming
and comforting force of compensa-
| tions. 1t is out here in the adventurous
west we get the most good out of this
philosophy OF compensations. Even in
the weather. the precipitation. tho
climate. nature demonstrates a Won
derful evcning-up process.
1t Is distressing to note that there
are hundreds OF farmers between here
and the Kansas line who have in their
bins tons OF wheat and in their fields
tons of corn yet their lands are adver-
tised in the delinquent tax list. They
can not sell the grain at any adequate
prices. on the other hand look at tho
rescue work performed in the last few
years by the great dairying industry
which has done so much to make east
ern Colorado habitable. Tho grain traf
fic will probably regulate Itself within
, n few months. with or without the OBJ
servaiion OF eastern market traders:
livestock speculations will do the
| same; but the immense benefit to this
region from the cream production and
Its dozen Subdivisions has come to
stay.
The most spectacular and the most
practical slow-speed pictures that
could be thrown upon the western
farm screen right now would he those
OF the 4-foot snow which smothered
the entire Denver region about this
time seven years ago. Good thing if we
cast half OF Colorado with n share
of the tcrrors Of those records from
beyond tho divide. Our Pueblo end of
I the picture showed only l6 inches of
that tremendous storm, Colorado
Springs two feet. but the point to he
impressed upon our too confiding ton.
dcrfoot nciEhbors out on the Highland
prairics and down along tho Afisha II,
is the treachcrous nature of the fall
climate In impctuous Colorado.
Whatever shelters. whatever fuel,
whatever wraps and blankets aud
boots arc desirable. nny way ask tho
Boy Scouts for their motto Be Pre-
pared and paint IL in 2-foot letters
/ on the side of tho barn.
! Neat square boxes of crackers and
smoothly built dry goods packages.
carefully loaded in box cars. and the
sliding doors locked. would seem 10 be
pretty snug. When such cars were
/ opened after the blizzard about Janu-
ary 4. 1855. standing alongside the
! stone depot in the center of Pueblo.
snow was found packed as hard in the
tiny 'intcrs,ies between those boxes
+, in tho center Of each car as II 1t had
been blasted in by thc power OF the
last June Hood. What we're trying to
tell you is that you have not the faint
est idea OF what n blizzard is. even IL
You have lived hero twenty years,
and that IL may he crankng up right
now, up Mt Medicine Hat.
Bc prepared. and bo thankful. Such
slow easy progress of the approach of
| winter has been the cruWning bcuc-
fit from n kind Providence In a season
which was the most remarkable mix
up We ever saw. \ premature winter
would have badly tested our faith. but
II did not come, except to the degree
! of a wholly beneficial snowfall of a
week ago.
Nickcrman brothers, Looms, Georges