The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-17

The People ana PF0Itteerin&
 The word profiteering is the most overworked symbolical expression of any ever created. We read in the press and we hear in the pulpit, the pillorying of profit-making. Profitmaking In itself Is not and never has been a thing to be de- nounced or dispised. Profits are just as essential to the business man as both profits and sunshine Is to the farmer. All high prices are laid to proflteering. just as all masked robberies or whippings are now laid to the Ku Klux, and with about the same amount of common sense or reasoning. There is one thing certain, the matter with most all business just now is that there Is not enough profit beginning with the farmer and running through the whole course of human endeavor. The chief reason of there not being enough profit In nearly all human endeavor is the lack of constructive economy in administering our af- fairs. The war spoiled all of us and it's going to take time to get 1t out of our systems. Remember the history of the ancients following their numerous wars.
 k-TOteCtnE tmc Furmcr
 The writer lays claim to at least ordinary intelligence, and Is gem erally able to suggest & reasonal hypothesis for the conduct of the average mind, but recent study of the schedule proposed in the new tariff bill, now before the United States Senate is filled with so many absurdities that no ideas could vis- ualize the whole.
 It seems to me that if every farmer in the United States had a copy of this schedule and would study 1t, there would be good reason for genuine riot throughout the coun- try. The march of Coxeys army on Washington would be a tame affair by comparison.
 For example, there is a protective tariff of s25 per ton on potash. Think of what this means to the American farmer. One of the most neede of plant rood dement's that our farmers must have to maintain our supremacy as an agriculturai country. Just how these western senators from republican agricul- tural states can get away with such doctrine is simply beyond belief.
 Political Farmers
 This pest is almost as plentiful now in Alabama as the bean bug. They may be found in every com munity telling the farmer what he knows about their troubles. He can talk for hours on the economic value of cooperative marketing. He has the latest dope on the boil weevil. The value of crop rotation is his hobby. He can explain the mineral theory of plant nutrition and tell you of the enormous importance of the development of Muscle Shoals. Being a practical farmer himself, he modestly informs the dean planterAthat he alone Is able t6 conserve their interest in the en- actment of needed remedial legis- lation. We have seen much of this species of insect, that often owns a farm, but lives in town or city. Not many of them can or do earn their living filling the soil, but you have to hand 1t to them when 1t comes to diversifying. They prac- tice it in making a comfortable liv- ing for themselves. The moral is. that every farmer ought to have him side line. It's good business. We know it's unsafe to put all the eggs In one basket, yet many of us do 1t.
 Questions and Answers l Q. Tell me how to grow ruta bags I turnips, as have always failed. J. M. 1 Springville.
 A. It requires good. deep. rich moist, loalmy soil. Drill the seed Il rows about three to thYee and one half feet apart. When up thil promptly to six or eight inches apart lCultiyate frequently throughout tn