The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1921-09-08

W ROtt I llillCit w chAP tIol lhSiC I'D
no Justification in the attempt 70
change the control of the property.
The United States has been work
ing itself into a glorious state of
martyrdom because industry and agri-
culture have been suffering from de-
pressions. The problem of disposing
of our surplus cotton has been worry,
ing officials, and Mr.. Hoover says that
it is a well recognized fact that people
buy food before they buy textiles.
This splendid authority on ~rationing
says that there is a marked tendency
in Europe to live on their own food
resources, and make their harvest
stretch as far as possible through the
year. Mr.. Hoover also says that there
! are at present sixty million Europeans
under food restraint, %rationing or
similar systems" That Europe is not
going TO be a buyer Of our products
is certain because the European har-
vests are good and likely will be suffi-
cient TO meet most of their needs.
According to Mr.. Hoover, Europe
found the money somehow to take
a billion dollars in food from the
United States in the last eleven and
a half months.
The debt owing to the United States
by foreign governments amounts to
$1l, OOO, 900, 900. These loans were put
through under the direction of Secre-
tary of the Treasury McAdoo during
the war. The foreign governments
have not evidenced any ability, and
little willingness, to pay us their debt,
and there are a lot Of people who
are falling in with the Irish sing-song
that Great Britain should begin to
pay. The business of adjusting our
affairs with European countries calls
for a good deal Of negotiation, and in
order to expedite the matter the sec.
rotary of the treasury has asked for
authority to make the adjustment Of
the war debt. He has submitted evil
dence to the effect that these matters
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speak, since they call for the services
OF a tinancier Of ability to make the
best terms possible with a world that
Is practically bankrupt. The secretary
OF the treasury says that the reports
that there will be a lower rate of in
terest given on the war debts is a
mistake, and he has also made it
plain by his repeated utterances that
he does not intend to accept worth
less German, Austrian and Turkish
bonds in payment of these debts.
The country was to have had a new
tariff bill, according to the political
wiseacres, last spring. The ways and
means committee of the house has
found so many changes in basic con-
ditions since the passage of the
Payne-Aldrich law. that the making
OF new schedules has required months
instead OF weeks. And when the work
was reported there was no one to say
that they thought a perfect bill had
been arranged. But the measure went
to the republican caucus and to the
house in the usual perfunctory man.
ner. 1t will be recalled that when the
Underwood tariff bill was submitted
to the house OF representatives that
1t was called a perfect" bill by Presi.
dent Wilson, who in those days was
IN the habit of demanding the pas.
sage OF party measures. Something
like $50 amendments, as we recall it.
were made in the senate. After this
the bill was doctored in conference"
and finally passed. Some of the prin.
cipal objections to the present bill re.
late to manufactured products, among
which is the lumber schedule.
BOTHERED babies are at a ~disadvan.
tage with those who secure their food
in the good old-fashioned way, accord.
ing to statements made by the chill.
dren's bureau of the United States
government. The investigations by
the bureau have not only indicated the
United States, but many of the for.
SAoA SouutiiCo, anu III every instance
1t is found that the mortality rate has
increased under bottle feeding. An
important part Of the statement by
the children's bureau says that in the
overcrowded and poverty stricken dis
tricts of New York, Chicago, and other
large cities, where COWS and their
milk, and the prepared foods, are diff.
hcult to get because Of their expense.
that there is a resultant increase in
the number of babies who live since
necessity compels that they should re-
ceive the kind of milk that nature
provides for infants. The report EN-.
phasizes the Importance to the nursing
mother and her family of an adequate
income in order that the mother NAV
have proper nourishment and freedom
from overwork and from strain and
worry that are inevitably attached to
an insufficient income.
At the United States department Of
agriculture a scientist is bred for
every phase Of plant, vegetable and