The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-04-03
WE MUST NOT FORGET

WE MUST NOT FORGET
1t was indeed fitting that with the
arrival of the last of Americas sol
der dead from France, services in
commemoration of their heroism and
sacrifice should be held throughout
the United States. 1t is not so long
ago that American communities
where those boys had perhaps been
born and reared, were bidding them
farewell and starting them on their
journey to fight for freedom and
right, the love, admiration and best
wishes of the community going with
them. Those boys have been brought
back to their communities at the re-
quest of parents or relatives who
desire that they shall rest in Ameri-
can soil, and it is fitting that not
only the home community, but all
America should take cognizance of
their return. They are the wars real
heroes-the boys who made the SUI
preme sacrifice. Yesterday, as their
comrades and thousands of citizens of
America assembled in a thousand
communities to honor their memory,
with flags at half mast and muffled
drums, there was a feeling of deep
reverence and love in the heart of
every loyal American and back of
that feeling was the pledge that the
sacrifice of these brave boys, and the
other thousands who lie in foreign
soil, where they fell in the cause of
freedom, will never be forgotten, and
that We in our lives and in the Amer
icanism which we hand down to our
children, will uphold the ideals for
which they gave their lives. We must
tions to forget why these brave boys
gave their lives.
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SPECULATION IN FOOD STUFFS. |
There has always been the feeling |
on the part of many that speculation /
in food stuffs is abused and that both |
the producer and the consumer suf-
fer. 1t is true that if prices to the |
consumer advance to an unreasonable /
figure, the producer is not likely to
the additional price will probably be
absorbed before it gets back to him.
Also if prices are extremely lew the
consumer scarcely ever gets the full
benefit. These extremes would thus
seem to operate in favor of some por-
lion of the line of dealers between the
grower and the user.
An eastern writer takes this view
If the situation.
The tendency of speculation is to
prevent these fluctuations from going
% extremes. If prices the wholesale
lealers will pay are very low, the
'peculator steps in and says the fig
Up. And if they are unreasonably
high, he sells short and helps break
hem. Thus the speculative market
consists of two opposing forces, one
perating in behalf of the producer
md one in behalf of the consumer
'hese two forces tend to balance
ach other, and create what is a fair
rice, existing demand and supply
onsidered, Were it not for this re-
training force, in a time of large
upp1y and slack demand, prices
rould break so far as to bankrupt
lany producers. The tendency is
nus to stabilize the price and keep
relatively even, which must be for
ne interest of both producers and
onsumers. Probably another effect
to reduce wholesale profits and
eep them within reason.
The producer will fare better in the
ing run on a market that keeps +,
long fairly near level, than in one il
Inject to violent extremes on which n
? cannot figure. There are no doubt =
ouses in the speculative markets,
Id there are too many middlemen. :
hese uneconomical methods should :.
} cut out by the movement of farm i
s to market comparatively. But the 5
'untry would be worse off if specu- 0
tive trading were abolished. a
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A G. Townley, father Of the Nom 9
rtisan league, handed in his resig !,
ton last week, and plan for re- r.
ganization is now under way by s;
1ich the "boneheads" Gas Townley e,
aracterizes his former lieutenants) II
pc to launch a new party under
rogressive' banner. AS Townley
Is the brains of the organization, :.
2 "boneheads" will drift around =
e a ship without a rudder, and in !
; coming campaign will cut a sor- "a
vfu1 figure in states where they th
md easy picking" for the last few u
ars when it came to Fleeing The ST