Gunnison news-champion., 1921-09-09
II. +. LAKE JR. WRITES
OF EASTERN CONDITIONS

] he following inter- sLIHa, letter was
received this week from Henry r.
Lake Jr.,wrItten while en-FJuts 20 his
old home IN Michigan, where he was
called By the death Of ms uncle, f.
". MursonT The letter vas written
ahile aboard the Burlington train:
On the Burlington,
August %. 1921.
4 5ea Of corn, Not Just here and
there field Of corn. waving. lush
green. yellow tas5.led corn as far as
the eye can reach
Part Of the time the vision is rcliev-
81 by wheat, pa-ture, or black patches
Of lyaas $500 an acre farm soil
turned up BY the tractor for Septsm-
beFs planting Of winter grain, yet
corn and hog-, the two things that
made Iowa rich As well as famous,
are prominent In the landscape seen
from Windows Of the flying Overland
Express.
Whether anyone will get wealthy
from IOwa's farms is an open question
this year. Prices are low and going
]. lower As the traveller talks with
the Middle Western farmer, the lat
ter does Mt grow enthusiastic over 1921
lpriccs for the tremendous crops that
Mother Nature pours from her lap.
Lake live stock N our own state, in
stead Of raising prices as was prOEls-
cd, since the emergency tarf has
been three months IN operation,
prices have continued 90 steadily fall
on the things the farmer produces be
, cause his market, hls great outlet for
surplus production. 'ay abroad, and
foreign nations, Il not unable 10 buy,
have laid rU baFgOcs Tn retaliation
q fDr ,hr emergency tariff.
No crthctess, il IS an inspiration TO
. -.e thou auds OF miles Of bumper
. crops reaching maturity ia this natur-
! al gFauary Of the world, and 10 think
with feeling Of pude that this won
deful land is America To realize
We possess land and people that
in combination have in less than a
century built from the untrOd wilder
5 ness these maTvcllOusly fertile and
( well kept farms, equipped with the
= most up-tO-dats machinery, the beau
tiful cities and towns, the railroads,
the manufactures and all that makes
up the Middle West.
2 Travel IT, unusually heavy, but this
( train is mostly psopled with we!i-to-do
: castarucrs returning from California.
e Occasionally some one from an outing
IN Colorado, Wyoming and Montana,
, but California has done the adycrtls-
ing and gct5 the bulk OF the trade.
TO be urc, mid summer is not an cs-
z p,ca prOplt.uus time TO visit the
{ coast. but here you see the psychology
Of suggestion contained in ADVERTISING.
: California" Is the golden word, first
g in anyonc's mind Ehen he acquires
the leisure and price. The leisure
I comes with Summer vacation q
y al. k..gg4a II TTfFR
workers in the cities observe more
religiously every year. The price is
; still wartime high, but that does not
. seem TO deter the travel in spite of a
: universal cry Of hard times.
Speaking Of "hard times" the writ
Ter discovers that it Is specter more
feared than present. There are less
silk shirts and similar extravagences,
but nearly everyone seems to have the
price of a thing they really want. II
would seem against the natural order
Of things for nation with the re
sources, the abundant crops and the
5 transportation system OF these United
States TO long remain in the slough
:. Of financial despondency-
y However, the class one meets on
Burlington coach or diner, or Pullman,
is not the class who would be supPos-
ed to suffer from u temporary financial
, stringcncy. Their word might not be
the only evidence Of hand times nor
!. the most accurate index Of stringency
of credits.
Illinois, thru which we are now
speeding, furnishes the same landscape
OF corn, corn. corn, corn, with breath
ing spaces arranged for the home, live
stock, and other grain crops. Not
many potatoes Either this is not a
potato belt or the tales of crop failure
are only too true. Late blight as well
rs July drought have in many locali-
ties killed the vines to the ground.
There is no doubt about Colorado
farmers, with their extra large crop
of fine tubers having the edge on the
Middle West in this particular.
ITO be continued)