Arizona republican., 1921-12-07

ways of employment and carrying the credit, let us choose the latter. Sometimes we appraise largest the human i'll most vivid in our minds. We have been giving, and are giv- ing now, of our influence and ap- peals to minimize the likelihood of war and throw off the crus>@ng bur dens of ornaments. It is all very earnest, with national soul impell- ing. But a people unemployed and gaunt with hunger, face 6 situation quite as disheartening as war and our greater obligation today Is to do the governments part toward resum- ing productivity and promoting for tunate and remunerative employ ment..
 Agricultural Relief
 Something more than tariff pro- lection is required by American agri- culture. To the farm has come the earlier and the heavier burdens of readjustment. There is actual de- precision in our agricultural industry, while agricultural prosperity is ab- solutely essential to the general pros- perity of the country.
 Congress has sought very earnest ly to provide relief. It has promptly given such temporary relief as has been possible. but the call is insist t4iA TUT AltG II. IT IS inevitable that large crops lower the prices and short crops advance them. No legislation can cure that funda- mental law. But there must be some economic solution for the excessive variation in returns for agricultural al production.
 Tt is rather shocking 10 be told and to have the statement strongly supported, that 9.000.0 bales of cot ton, raised on American plantations in a given year, actually will be 13.000.00e bales would have been. Equally shocking is the statement that 700.000.000 bushels of wheat. raised by American farmers would bring them more money than a bil- lion bushels. Yet these are not ex- aggrated statements. In a world where there are tens of millions who need food and clothing. which they cannot get, such a condition is sure to-1ndict the social system which i makes it possible.
 Cooperative Marketing
 "In the main the remedy lies in 1 distribution and marketing. Every | proper encouragement should be | given to the cooperative marketing | programs. These have proven very l helpful to the cooperating communi- ' ties in Europe. In Russia the co | operative community has become a l recognized bulwark of law and order ! and saved individualism from engulf- | ment In social paralysis. Ultimately | they will be accredited with the sal ! yation of the Russian state.
 There Is the appeal for this ex- pertinent. Why not try it? None challenges the right of the farmer to a larger share of the consumers pay for his product, no one can dis pute that we cannot live without the farmer. He is justified in rebelling | against the transportation cost. Given a fair return for his labor, he will have less occasion to appeal for ! financial aid: and given assurance | that ,his labors shall not be in vain, We assure all the people of a preduc- ton sufficient to meet our national | requirement. and guard against dis aster.
 Back to Farm Movement | 'The base of the pyramid of civ | ilization which rests upon the soil is shrinking through the drift of pop ulation from farm to city. For a 1 generation we have been expressing | more or less concern about this ten dency. Economists have warned and ] statesmen have deplored. We thought l for a time that modern conveniences l and the more intimate contact would halt the movement. but it has gone steadily on. Perhaps only grim necessity will correct it but we ought | to find d less drastic remedy.
 "The existing scheme of adjusting
 freight rates has been favoring the 1 passing points, until industries are
 attracted to some centers and re- pelled from others. A great volume
 of uneconomic and wasteful trans portation has attended and the costs ! increased accordingly. The grain 1 milling and meat packing industries
 afford ample illustration, and the attending concentration is readily | apparent. The menaces in concern l tration are not limited to the re- 1 tarding influences on agriculture Manifestly the conditions and terms | of railway transportation ought not | be permitted to increase the unde- sirable tendency.
 Transportation Problem
 | We have a just pride in our great | cities, but We shall find a greater | pride in the nation which has a ] larger distribution of it's population l into the country. where comparative ] ly self sufficient smaller communi- . ties may blend agricultural and man 1 ufacturing interests in harmonious helpfuIness and enhanced good for { tune. Such a movement contem- ! plates no destruction or things - wrought. of investments made, u