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Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
By GEORGE E. ROBERT:
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In an industrial forecast for 1922 it is necessary to consider the causes of the depression, chief among which is the unbalanced relationship be- tween the prices of farm and other primary products on the one hand, and the prices of manufactured goods, transportation service and various other products and services on the other hand.
 The final estimates of the Depart ment of Agriculture upon the 1921 crops give them market value to the farmers $8,O00,0 100000 below the value of the crop of 1918 and $3,4OO,000,000 below the value of the crop of 1920. These are figures of great significance. The farmers have produced nearly as much in quantity, but it has been valued in the exchanges at less than one-half the figures of 1919. AS other prod ucts and services have not declined in like degree, the farmers must buy much less, and all the industries are suffering in consequence.
 It is useless to expect a return to E normal conditions while this dispar- ity of compensation between great bodies of producers exist. It IS un- fair and it establishes an effective blockage against revival of busi- ness. It is time that the business community took cognizance of the situation, and set itself to the task of correcting it. The argument that stock on hand was purchased at high CT prices has lost whatever force 1t ever had. Merchants who are inter ested in the return of prosperity should do their part for it, and one of their duties is to reduce operating costs.
 In large part the situation is chargeable to the action of organ ized labor in clinging to the wartime wage rates. Raw materials and food stuffs have had a great decline at wholesale, but between the wholesale markets and consumers the cost of handling and manufacturing has not declined in like proportions. The effect is to obstruct the distribution of goods and throw millions of wage S~A~ same time keeping up the cost of living on the entire wage-earning population. In the aggregate there is no gain, but great loss, to the wage-earners as class.
 Railroad Wages
 The railroad companies are strug- gling with a difficult situation, and although their efforts are in the public interest they have little help from the public. Railroad wages in shops and for common labor are so far above the wages paid for similar work along their lines that the com panies find it practicable to make important savings by contracting for their repairs and much other work. The New York Central has contracted for freight-handling at some of it's terminals, and the Erie has con- tracted for track-maintenance over a portion of it's line. The operation of railway repair shops always has been regarded as matter of policy within the discretion of the manage ment. If company can save money by operating it's own shops it should do so, and by the same reasoning if
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
Nutrition In Fruits.

Fruits are chiefly valuable for their sugar, acids and salts. Bananas, dates, figs, prunes and grapes, owing to their large amount of sugar, are the most nutritious. Apples, lemons and oranges are valuable for their potash salts, and oranges and lemons, es- pecially, are valuable for their citric acid Some fruits contain two or more acids, such as strawberries, raspber- ries, gooseberries and cherries. These fruits contain both citric and nialic acids
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

money can be saved by letting ou' the work, that should be done. The railroads are maintained primarily to give service to the public, and the public is entitled to have them oper. ated upon a level of costs correspond. ing to what the public pays and re. ceives for like labors and services Continuity of service and merit in service may we'll be recognized, but compensation should be based upon the value of services rendered. Any other system would make railroad employees a favored class, at the ex- pense, not of the railroad companies, but of the public, including millions of people who have less pay than the railroad men.
 We have a letter from Mont gomery, Ala, in which the writer says:
 "The producers are forced to sell beef for from # to cents per pound and hides for from 1 to 3 cents and the consumers pay from 25 to 40 cents per pound for steak and from $8 to $15 per pair for shoes. The same is true of all other products. The negro porters on rail way trains get a salary of from $100 to $2OO per month for eight hours of easy work day; while the farm laborers work from 10 to IA hours a day in the dew and cold and receive a salary of from $8 to $15 per month, and the farmer loses money paying that salary. Something is radically wrong and I fear the result will not be good for our country"
 The prospect is for cessation of coal-mining when existing contracts expire on April 1st. The pay for mining coal is so far above what it was before the war that the price of coal is one of the most serious ob- stacles to the general reduction of living costs and the revival of indus try. The increased cost of coal and increased cost of transportation are causing more unemployment and more hardships in this country than any other two influences that can be named. No predictions can be ven tured as to when industry will be running full time so long as it labors under such handicaps.
 Agricultural Conditions
 Conditions in the agricultural sec tions are far from inspiring, but in the cotton country the feeling is a little better. The final government estimate upon the cotton crop is 8,340,000 bales, which compares with the October estimate of 6,537,OOO bales, an increase that might have been expected to play smash with the market. The explanation given for this extraordinary revision is that the Department of Agriculture was crippled in the bureau of estimates by a reduction of it's force of investi- gators, and was misled as to the acreage planted in cotton. The gin nings proved the inaccuracy of the October estimate, and the conclusion seems to be forced that the acreage curtailment was much less than claimed by the organizers of the movement.
 The first effect of the revised esti- mate was to cause cotton to sell off, January contracts going under IT cents, but since then with good con-
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ditions in the cotton goods trade
 prices have advanced about two cents
 the pound. Exports of cotton since
 June have been we'll above those of
 the corresponding months of last
 year, and there is some feeling in the
 British cotton trade that world
 stocks of cotton goods are low and
 that better buying is not far off.
 Trade in India is unfavorably
 affected by the patriotic boycott of
 British goods.
 The Governments final report
 makes this country's production of wheat about 54,O0O,000 bushels above former figuers. Exports for the
 twenty-five weeks ended December
 22, as reported by Bradstreet's ag- gregated 231, 100000 bushels against 8,OOO,O0O in the corresponding time last year. The market has been unsettled and f1uctuating, but at the end of December was upon about the same level as at the beginning. The worlds needs and supplies seems to be closely balanced in this crop, but the growing crop in this country is rated at low condition.
 The West has a surplus of corn which rests heavily upon the market, but prices have held their own during the past month, and gained couple of cents, partly on the strength of prospective purchases for Russia. Cattle are depressed, but hogs around $7 per hundred-weight in Chicago yield a fair return to the farmer who has grown good crop of corn. Dairy products also are bringing fair prices.
 Farmers who own their lard and are out of debt can get along very we'll under present conditions, al though local taxes have been pushed up in recent years unit! they are as much as rent was twenty years ago. Farmers who went into debt for land at the prices ruling two years ago have an interest charge which cannot be met from the land. This will be the first year in a great many in which numerous defaults will occur in the payment of interest upon farm 
 There is good reason to believe that present prices for farm products are about the lowest that will be seen. The last two seasons have been un- usually favorable for the grain crops. The carry-over of wheat certainly will not be large and the growing crop has poor start. It would be re- to have another bumper corn yield after three great crops, | and there is reason to believe that | less corn will be planted this year Moreover, it is likely that the hog crop will be increased. During the | years when corn brought high prices, it became the popular thing to sell | corn and a good many farmers got | out of hogs. They are likely to get | back to a more evenly balanced agri- with more milch cows, more pigs, more grass and forage crops and more scientific culture.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
AMERICAN LEGION NOTES

Jim (Sailor) White, the strong man of the Navy, is in the habit of pulling loadei freight ears with his teeth and cacking railroad spikes between his :l,umb anu forefnger. When he entered State headquarters of the American Legion, he offered to lift desks and things with one hand, he wanted to tear up radiators by their roots, he wanted to bash in the front of iron safes.
 He was out of job, and his ener- gy, with no outlet, was becoming terrific. The Legion succeeded in placing him-opening and closing doors in a club.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

Rah-rahs have supplanted dough- boy battle cries with 100 former sol- diers who have enrolled as students in colleges and universities of Wis consin. The service men are going to school again under the provisions of a state bonus which allows them $50 month for four years along with their education.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

President Harding has received the first consignment of cherries from the Argentine to arrive in the Uni ted States. They were brought from Rio de Janiero by the steamship American Legion, which broke all records between that port and New York by 10 day run.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

The famous surgeons, Drs. William and Charles Mayo, will treat former soldiers of the world war in a $200,- 900 hospital which the American Legion posts of Minnesota will erect. Patients will be charged according to their ability to pay, as determined by Legion officials.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

"a hold so firm that in 1914, the Kaiser W S con- vinced that, with the aid of his chem ists, he was in a position to conquer the world.
 Creative chemists the successors of Perkin-lately have been called tn c Poets of Science" because their inn agination has found in coal tar the fra
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

All that the Veterans Bureau has accomplished in disqualification and rehabilitation of ex-soldiers will be wrecked if medical reserve officers are placed on a civilian status, ac- cording to John Thomas Taylor, vice chairman of the American Legion's legislative committee, who is protest ing the recommendation of the Blu reau of Efficiency. Behind the rec ommendation is an attempt to make the treatment of the disabled man a football of politics., Taylor declares.
 The sunny south appeals to jobless ex-service men, according to statis- tics of the American Legion employ
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

To aid in combating the dope" evil which has invaded a number of eX-service hospitals in California, the American Legion is working with the Narcotic Control Association. James A. Johnston, warden of the California state prison, is president of the organization.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

Loans, without security and at low rate of interest, will be provided for sick and wounded eX-service men by a big rotating fund, plans for which are being worked out at na- tional headquarters of the American Legion. Ex-soldiers who do not need the ready cash from Government compensation would contribute their bonus to the fund.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

A national archives building in which would be assembled all the records of the World War is the aim of the American Legion's committee on memorials. A bronze tablet erected to a comrade who gives his life Gin line of duty", upholding law and order, is a further recommends tion of the committee.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

Government nurses will not rank with "scrub maids" if a protest to the Senate made by John Thomas Taylor, of the legislative committee of the American Legion, bears fruit Taylor objects strenuously to the section of the pending reconsideration bill which he says twill tend to lower the nursing profession in the eyes of the public"
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grance of the rose, the explosive that wounds and the medicine that heals,
 the bitterness of hemlock and the sweetness of honey. In a recent address in Edinburgh the president of the Chemical Section of the British As sociation for the Advancement of Science, urging the correlation of ccho-
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

English and civics will be taught at American Legion posts in Greater New York, at the request of the Board of Education. This furthers the Americanization campaign al- ready under way.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

All states are planning exhibits in connection with the conference of American Legion officials to be held at national headquarters January 19 and 20. The conference will be attended by General Pershing, Secre- tary Denby, and a representative of President Harding.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12
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Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

Army discipline" is not imposed upon sick and wounded ex-soldiers under Government treatment, C. R. Forbes, director of the Veterans Bureau, has informed the American Legion. A disabled soldier is not A. W. O. L. merely beca~3e h, leaves a Government hospital with, ..t con sent of physicians, His only penalty is that he must foot his own transpor- tation bill if he wishes to return.
Connecticut western news., 1922-01-12

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ment bureau at Birmingham, Ala, which recently registered 145 men from all parts of the country and only 105 residents of Birmingham.
 A thousand dollars, farm experi- ence, and an agreeable wife are the requisites of an applicant for a tract on the state soldier land settlement project. The applicants wife must signify her willingness to take up rustic pursuits, according to m an- nouncement from American Legion headquarters. This is designed to preclude unsuccessful experiments.
Gunnison news-champion., 1922-10-20
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Mr.. Rockwell, in speaking Of the Re
| publican platform. asked the people "a
judge the future by the past in re-
gard to the carrying out Of the plat
form and stated that Congress hAd
done what it could for the farmer by
taking care Of cattle, wool and hides
in the tariff. In regard to taxes he
went on to say that he had been q
member Of the finance committee in
the last legislature and had made m
exhaustive study Of the same and
found that il the entire state govern
ment were cut out il would not reduce
taxes more than one mill, that 53 pei
cent Of the present tax is u local tax
z per cent for state schools, 25 pei
cent for county and state roads and
the remaining Is per cent for every
thing else including state hospitals
penitentiaries, reformatories, etc.
He had one idea of his own to nd
vance-a state income tax-which he
said would not affect anyone in Gun
nison county as only incomes Of from
$500 to 5000 and over would be
taxed.
Mr.. Rockwell, in speaking in behalf
of Mr.. Griffith, said that the people
were wont to call the Republican
ticket the Western slope ticket ms the
candidate for governor had lived at
Montrose five years and at Grand
Junction seven years although he has
lived in Denver for the past ten years,
Mr.. Rockwell is the present senator
from this district and stated that il
elected lieutenant governor il would
not interfere with him remaining as
the representative Of the people Of the
district
Mr.. Rockwell asked the people To
read over the bill number three of the
proposed amendments to the constitu-
tion that is an act to alter the sena-
torial and representative districts and
revise the apportionment of members
Of the general assembly. This bill
will make five senator's and eight
representatives less on the Western
slope, giving them to Denver mostly.
No mining county in the state would
have an exclusive representative under
this amendment.
In introducing Mr.. Griffith. Chair
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man Gray poke Of him as oar next
governor. He opened BY saying thatI
be had often been . candidate for Of
flee but had never had the pleasure
lof speaking in Gunnison. He praised
our Normal school and said that IL
elected il would be the one school on
the Western slope that would receive
his support The Democratic platform
was attacked from every angle: IT'S
failure TO mention the Eighteenth
amendment and the abolishment Of the
state rangers, etc. However, his main
attacked was on william e. Sweet,
the Democratic candidate for govern
OF. Mr.. Sweets speeches, as reported
in the various papers, came in for VI
.tuperation in q manner that could
only be handled by one Of Mr.. Grif-
fith's oratorical ability. The living
wage Mr.. Sweet proposes, according
to Mr.. Griffith. cannot be put over but
the Republicans have remedied that
by passing the tariff bill, and that the
Sweet plan is nothing more than a
paper program.
In referring TO the Democratic plat
form, he said il was socialistic and
radical. He told why he thought the
warehouse idea was wrong, saying
that the proposal to use the armories
was out OF the question. He stated
that the $4,000 armory building just
completed with the taxpayers money
at Golden would not hold more than
the potato crop from one 80 acre
farm, that the idea could never be put
across because IL was radical change
in government and would be . failure
unless all other states did the same
thing and that in case II were put
through the state would be stepping
in to conduct the farmers business.
Much time was spent on the ranger
question, the main point Of which we
gathered was that the army had not
cost more than $l45,000 during the
past year and they have given pro-
lection TO every man that wished to
work, whether he was taking another
mans job or not.
The tariff was lauded as the savior
for the American people. Mr.. Griffith
claimed that il was partial to the
West and the farmer. The miners
are receiving a great benefit from It
and favorable difference has already
been noted at Ouray and Telluride.
Merle Vincent, Republican candi-
date for Congress-, did not arrive as
scheduled although the cause Of his
failure was not announced.
The Normal band played several Sc
lections on the strets before the open
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Mr.. and Mrs- E. n. Collins expect
to leave next week for Boulder, where
they will spend the winter with their
daughter. Miss Margaret, who II st-
tending the State University. They
have rented house 1t 106S 18th St.
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Dishonest Republican Propaganda

Dishonest Republican Propaganda
Wasenburg Isdependent-
The Republicans scared stiff The only they
the operators big
Whenever ey TO of ou or a s
strike
issue has Mysteries days week because the Democratic
platform defs the expensive and shcup rangers
breath print honest word the subject Of the
TT lsh the effective instrument of law enforce
scope Cooradothe inevitable prelude
non just note few aa s effective instrument of law
enforcement Meaning the of The Chieftan
these the most fragrant to be found in
downright heishness Then call them the effective nstrS
Grandma Wilder editor of the Cheftain says
want ito give trouble makers and criminal e0nspraors free
The Democrats almost to and woman thousands Of Re-
Guiding Something like seSenegs Of coorados citizens favor
and the abolition of the than useless
taxes This is what sister Wilder would have
The statement that the shoup THE effective in
srument of law is shameful insult to every
fort the tide against the the Cheftain plainly
state be trusted inefficient and fit for
nothing but to draw their salaries and obey the OF
serespecting sheriff policeman in the state look
Chieftan the Walsenburg World serving their
They showing the people how utterly inconsistent
completely they the of the big
they stand convicted of ataloging
majority citizens the state being utterly and
completely bad.
said before vote for the Republican ticket
the and high while vote for the
Democratic ticket vote against the and Republican
extravaganza.
While finding their gubernatora candi
date sweet mors the Republicans finding him very Bit
ter-sweet one. And there you are
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Telluride Joarna-Repubican sheets throughout the state
evoting great deal Mr. Sweet down
boosting Mr. Griffith All of which tells its story
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Telluride JOurnaThe does not expect the tariff
bill make history. They passed for the Of making
m votes just about like the vetoed soldier bonus
measure will.
Detroit N@csThe perfect hecopter will enable plane to
vertically and rapidly instead of ascending gradually In
understood to be looking the Fordney tariff
bill for pointers.
Telluride Journa-Two grabbed the pens used by Hard
ing signing the Fordney tariff BILL 1t is reported
MacNder national commander of the American
Legion refused the pen with which the president vetoed the
bonus bill.
Columbus Ohio State yournaLSenator Lodge he knew
Colonel Roosevelt intimately for thirty and heard
him damn anything of that kind and guess
gressve could go with Cabot for thirty and
he wouldn't under circumstances whatsoever
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Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
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