Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-10-29
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. III. FELTON,

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BY MRS. W. FL. FELTON,
Poems of Nature and Country Life:
"Jog on, JehOsophat"
Roads get rougher every mile;
Jog on, Jehosophat, and show some
style!
Mules gone lame, an the hens
won't lay,
Corn's way down, an wheat won't
pay;
Hogs no better; steers too cheap;
Cows quit milkin'; meat won't keep;
Looks some gloomy, I'll admit
Jog on, Jehosophat, we amt done
yit!
Suns not shinin' as. it should;
Moon amt ighti1' like it could;
Air seems heavy; water punk;
Tests your mettle; shows your
spunk;
No use stoppin' to debate
jog. on, Jehosophat,,' it's gittin' late!
Wheels all wabble, axle's bent;
Dashboard's broken; top all rent;
Roads some better-not so rough
Trot! Gosh ding We! That's the stuff!
Old trays movin' right good speed
Jog on, Jehosophat, you're some old
steed!
Roads smoothed out till it don't
seem true
Jog jon, Jehosophat, we've pulled
through!
Anonymous.
Selling Goods Cheap at Government
Stores
AS everybody who reads the news
papers and who has looked over
and possibly made purchases Of
goods that were bought by the
United States government ito sup
port the American army in Europe)
knows, these goods have been
thrown on the market for prices.
far below the prices that American
farmers must now get Wor their
products or go bankrupt-or quit
the business of farming. Millions
upon millions of pounds Of wool
were bought by the war directors
and piled in warehouses that have
never been used for the purposes
indicated-and the prices at which
this Accumulated wool were finally
sold for was so far below what the
present wool grower expected to get
or asked for what had cost him,
maybe twice or three times what
the warehouse wool was sold for,
that he had to take similar price
colo LOT oil
Millions upon millions of pounds
of meat have actually been return
ed from abroad and sold for almost
any old price. What has been the.
result?
The American farmer has sent
car loads of sheep and cattle to
Chicago from the west, and re-
ceived from these train loads a price
so insignificant that many said
they had better have fattened their
hogs on it at home.
The American western farmer has
to hold his corn, raised last year,
because the railroad rates are so
high that he cannot pay for trans
portation and get single dollar OF
profit. Corn is so cheap and coal so
dear, these corn raisers will be
obliged to burn corn in their stoves
and furnaces, because they cannot
even exchange a dollars worth of
corn for a dollars worth of fuel.
The same difficulty obtains with
western wheat. Transportation is
the fatal problem, and yet we have
an Interstate railroad commission,
which was instituted or organized
to equalize these identical matters.
And the expense of this commission
is something fierce-when their pay
must come out of suffering taxpay-
ers. Because of excessive freight
rates, corn is selling in the west at
II cents a bushel. The Iowa farmer
can burn coal if he pays eleven dol
lars a ton for fuel, but he can burn
his corn at 81 ton and do without
coal, because he simply cannot af-
ford to buy it.
Southern cotton was down to z
cents a pound last May. If we had
grown a 0,000-bale crop in 1921,
it would sell below that price today.
Railroad men% on the Pennsyl-
vania system, are getting the fol-
lowing wages, if congress members,
who claim to know, are telling the
truth: Through freight conductor
gets S5.SU per Odys "A passenger CpA-
ductor gets for every $50 mile run,
$6.4O per day. On the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad the engineers get $8.48
per day. The engineers on big Mo
gul engines get $40 per day. A
yard conductor gets $6.12 per day, a
yard brakeman, $50 per day;
through freight brakemen get $4.21
per day. How does this appear to
you? Yet these well-paid workers,
as compared to the farmers, who get |
next to nothing for whole years
crop because the railroads charge |
extortionate prices for freight and
passenger service), are not going to
hold up the entire railroad business
of this country within a weeks time!
I am only one old woman and only |
speak for myself, but if I was the |
president of these United States, 1
would call out the militia and run |
the railroads a spell under army con-
troll and then count up the "cost |
and carriage" and then settle the |
matter by equalizing the pay of rail-
road employees and decreasing trans
portation charges until farmers