, 1921-12-06

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world has been experiencing. Our IN
employment, which gave us deep con.
Germ. only q few weeks ago. has
grown en~couragingly less and new as
and renewed confidence will
attend the congressional declaration
that American industry VIII be held
secure
NATION EARNEST IN
PEACE ENDEAvORS.
Much aAs been aid about the pro-
tective policy for ourselves making II
impossible for our debtors to dis
charge their obligations to us. This
is a contention not now pressing for
decision. IL We must choose between
a people in idleness pressing for h
payment OF indebtness. or a people re-
Stunning the normal ways OF employ.
ment and carrying the credit. let us
choose the latter. Sometimes we ap-
praise largest the human I'll most
vivid in u minds. We have been
giving. and are giving now. Of our in
fluence and appeals to minimize the
likelihood OF war and throw off the
crushing burdens of armament II Is
all very earnest. with n national sou
lmpeliing. But a people unemployed
and gaunt with hunger. face a situa'
ton quite as disheartening As war
and our greater obligation today is to
do The governments part toward re-
Stunning productivity and promoting
fortunate and remunerative employ
ment.
Something more than tariff pro-
lection is required by American ayr
culture. To the farm has come the
| earlier and the heavier burdens OF
readjustment. There is actual de.
precision in our agriculture industry,
while agricultural prosperity is abso
lutely essential to the general pros
pcrity of the country.
PERMANENT RELIEF
FOR FARMERS URGENT.
Congress has sought very earnestly
to provide relief. 1t has promptly
given such temporary relief as hal
been possible. but the call Is insistent
for the solution. II is In
evitable that large crops lower the
prices and short crop advance them.
No legislation can cure the fundamen
Lal law. buI AlltIt ldo OC sVAAt 49,
nomic solution for the excessive var
iation in returns for Agricultural pro
iuction.
II is rather shocking to be told and
10 have the statement strongly sup
| ported. that 5000. 900 bales OF cotton,
raised on American plantations in q
given year, actually Will DO worth
| more to the producers than $4,000. 00o
bales would have been. Equally shock
ing is the statement that 100000. 600
bushels of wheat. raised by American
! ,srmers would bring them
money h a billion bushels. Yet
lthese are not exaggerated statements
In n world where there are tens OF
, millions who nee food and clothing.
which they car not get. such a condi-
ton is sure to indict the social system
which makes II possible.
In the main the remedy lies in dis
II. button and marketing. Every proper
encouragement should he given to the
| cooperative marketing programs.
| These have proven very helpful to
| the cooperating communities in Eu
rope. In Russia the cooperative com
munity has become a recognized bu'
| wark of law and order. and saved In
dividualism from engulfment in So
| cial paralysis. Ultimately they win
be a~ccerdited with the salvation Of
| the Russian state.
COOPERATING MARKETING
| URGED AS SOLUTION.
There is the appeal for this expert
ment. Why not try it7 None chal-
ienges the right OF the farmer to a
larger share of the consumers pay
for his porduct. no one can dispute
that we can not 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 fl
nancial aid; and given assurance that
his labors shall not be in vain. we as
sure ala the people of n production
sufficient to meet our national re-
qulrement and guard against disaster.
The base of the pyramid of civil
~ization which rests upon the soil is
springing through the drift of popu'
iation from farm to city. For a gen
Grafton we have been expressing more
or less concern about this tendency.
Economists have warned and states
men have deplored. We thought fol
a time that modern conveniences and
the more intimate contact would halt
the movement. but IL has gone stead
lily on. Perhaps only grim necessity
will correct it but we ought to find
a less drastic remedy.
BASIC POINTS ARE
FAVORED BY RAILROADS.
The existing scheme OF adjusting
freight rates has been favoring the
basing points, until industries are at.
tracted 10 some c~enters and repealed
from others. A great volume of un-
economic and wasteful transportation
has attended and the cost increased
accordingly. The grain milling and