Twin city review. [volume] (Champaign, Ill.) 19??-1929, 1922-11-10
A BONE-HEADED COLLEGE HEAD

Yoa oct, he does. And 50 il comes about thai BY
TIE tine Wisconsin potatoes appear IN tie festsa.
tshls they Ten cents nef tuhef. instead q
= cents PEI eushel That ere eeat Georgia santas
Iaupe when IN brings forty cents n he hash
Joint Two silfefs eheps from thai sixty cent sheep
sell Tor % cents en The plate, The apple. whose
brothers rot hy the millions II efehans. Is marked
ffom FIVE Il ten cents 81 the fruit stand. Butter
milk which is sold n daify sections Ter hes feed At
three cents tie gallon i lsheu out n drug stores
for fse cents PEI glaSsand ten Il eeal fef which
the miners receive dollar II southern Illinois Is
seld te the ehoe stopper n Northern Illinois fof 81
Yes. there is wicked criminal waste
IN the distribution Of farm products sfhefe Is some
thing insane and mafdefouS about system where
corn is burned fer fuel and miners starse for lack
of food. There Is something rotten that II stinks
u heaven when skinned mix Is poured On tie
ground because It does not pa 10 feed Il 10 hegs
while millions ef hungry children not have milk
at twelve cents \ quart
Bet. tell us Who Is responsible for this
hellsh waste and prohteenng IN farm prodnets. 1t
II the wage workers Who strike. moi MlHfuiis. not
malciouss you claim they DO. but Who, IN reality.
strike IN vain endeasor to Keep wages up with the
cost Of hying3 No the people who are Re
sponsihle for the high cost Il living IN the cities
and mining camps and the starvation prices II farm
products in the country are the very same people
with whom you ask tie farmers Il combine 10 smash
The labor unions.
Yes, the farmer sells cheap and buys dear be.
cause the people who stand between producer and
consumer make it their business te buy cheap and
sell dear And because the farmer Is both producer
and consumer and not organized as either he gets
takes what Is offered, when he buys he pays what
Is asked And between taking and paying he Is
going to the devil fast his legs carry him.
The remedy. however Is not the determination Of
labor unions but the determination of business para
stsm As head Of the College of Agriculture, Mr.
Davenport ought TO know that steers heset with ticks
and dogs populated by feas cannot be fattened by
cutting off the tails of squirrels.
1t is not the eheck-on system Sam Gomners'
locks that are keeping the farmers NANCY and
skinny. but the million headed horde of two.egged
parasites and yafmints which suck his life blood
middlemen, wasterpr profit takers, usurers and poll
tcians.
Organize the farmer into cooperative societies.
Give him state-owned elevators. warehouses and
packing slans, credit and market facilities Join
him with the wealth producer In shop. railroad and
mine for the rational distribution of the products OF
toll In short, get rid Of the feas and the dog VIII
take care of himself.
1t is by such methods that the farmers of Den
mark have lifted themselves from land slaves to
lords of their country. II Is BY such methods that
the farmers Of Ireland slowly emerging from
centuries Of starvation and oppression
The etfusion of Mr.. Davenport in the Saturday
Evening Post is the worst piiFe that ever enanated
from the pen of . supposedly scientific nan.
Kill labor unions TO farmersl The very
idea! Why not spray Missouri mules with Paris
ygreen TO destroy the boil weesil in Texas