The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-04-17
THE PEOPLES SAY

An evening paper comes out with an articles captioned: Who Grabs the Big Rake-of on Meat, New American Puzzle"
 The farmer, the packer. the retailer and the railroad, sob. weep. cry. and declare. Not IT.
 The Department of Agriculture steps in, as a matter of course (its got to keep busy -<me way(, and tries to pin the blame upon some guilty person or faction,
 The article finishes by giving it up in these words: ''All the government's S experts and the ultimate consumers chant the old refrain, Somebody's Getting It, Getting It. but the iden- tity of the getter is more obscure than a cotton stocking in these silken and woolen days"
 There are thousands and>thousands
 of men in this country that know the
 answer, including the experts of the Department of Agriculture, but they to try to tell the multitude the truth
 because the multitude, which is the
 public and includes the thousands and thousands of men who know the truth don't want to hear the truth, for if tn e
 truth were told they are themselveS eS
 to blame.
 The thief himself crying, Stop thief"
 Besides the public wouldn't remedy
 the conditions if they knew how to
 remedy them.
 If man who gets drunk is told that he will regret it the next morning does he refrain from getting drunk :? Not if he can get the drink. A man will spend all Saturday aft ernoon cleaning the weeds out of his lawn and plume himself on his i'm dustry and all day Sunday the wind will blow weed seeds, from the vacant lot next door, onto his lawn and he will have another chance to show the
 neighbors what an industrious cuss he Is.
 Does that man care anything about the weeds in the vacant lot next door? You bet he don't Hes got all he can do to keep his dooryard clean and, besides, it ain't his lot and it ain't none of his business" The fact of the matter is. the farm CT, the packer, the retailer nor the railroads are to blame, the blame rests upon all of them and upon the public. Wheat flour has been brought to the perfect ?" state. in which web uy it today, by the addition of numerous innovations and new methods and of them are most detrimental to the strength giving quality of the flour, but each adds to it's cost. 1 These innovations and new meth 1 odS are represented to us as great advances in the flour industry, won derful new milling methods. etc, etc The fact of the matter is they are all exploitation of the public and the l food stuffs.
 Advertise anything sufficiently and | the public will think it Is nectar of 1 the Gods" even if it is nothing but | ''bug-juice."
 Our civilization has become so com l plex (bromidic but true, nevertheless) and silly (truer stil), that we have brought these conditions upon our selves.
 Garry a virtue to excess and it be- comes a vice. What this country needs is more hard work and less machinery; more 1 food and less French pastry; more commonsenSe and plain thinking and | less nonsense and s3de-stepping. What the Irishman said about Ire | land Not being Ireland any more" il | true of America for America ism America any more, as far as the peo | pIe are concerned, we are nation O. | bug hunters chasing money bugs w1tf | butterfly nets.
 A nation with a bale of greenback.
 tied in front of it's nose trying to catcf up.
 | there is 3. dollar tied to it. 1 OLD IRRTTA