The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1922-01-05

Or. Such = hen will lay IL dozen eggs
the year round. One dozen eggs are
now worth two bushels Of corn, and
IL dozen are worth "a bushels, which
IL al an acre will produce ordinarily
With 80 good hens farmer has added
30 acres to his holdings. OF course,
the figures may not hold good six
months from now.
THERE 10 . great hullabaloo about
the Ao-called agricultural bloc in
congress, and = certain class pretend
TO be fearful that when the farmers
ret organized 30 that they are able to
control the marketing Of their pro-
ducts they win be just a. grasping
a. any other trust and will take Ad-
vantage Of their power just As other
trusts do. Such Is certainly not the
purpose Of the farmers organization
and there Ia not even 4 remote posi-
bility that this would be the outcome
That the farmers have need of ef-
fective organization Ia perfectly evil
dent. and the difficulty Of getting
them to organize effectively Is Just
~ evident. No one reed 70 he afraid
Of their forming an air-tight monop-
oily and forcing the remainder of the
people to pay exorbitant prices for
farm products. When farmers are
prosperous the whole nation Is pros
porous and whom they are not pros
porous al other lines Of legitimate
husiness suffer, sooner or later ~ =
result. No one need to worry for
fear the farmers will get = strangle
hold on the country. The strangle
hold seems to be the other way. The
farmers with their tongues hanging
out are trying TO get loose instead Of
trying 70 strangls anybody else. The
trouble with the farmer 10 that he
won't stick. He runs after every
movement that he IL led to believe is
his salvation instead Of sticking to
one national organization. There are
today too many farm organizations
working often At cross purposes and
spending = great deal Of money with
out getting much in the way Of re-
suits. The organization backing the
agricultural bloc in congress is on the
right track and should be supported.
That organization is the Farm Bureau
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CRIMINAL courts, whose principal
business is to punish the guilty,
to operate without any
standards Of punishment They
ought to make the punishment At the
rhine, but they don't. Every other '
institution has ixed standards-from
he profession Of medicine to the
.rade Of horseshoeing. The other day
! Philadelphia court sent one man up
or 10 years for raising 81 bank
tote to $40. The same day the court '
'snt up for only one year two men $
rho had defrauded the governments t
fleet corporation Of $780, ;
100. Ten years for an So fraud; one =
rear Tor 100000 fraud. Do judges
how good judgmentl
THE Nonpartisan movement for D
state socialism in North Dakota "
las been wrecked on the rocks that v
AVE battered to pieces many a move I"
nent that had in it great possibili- a
les for enlarging the field Of public
ervice by government activity. And
very such wreck increases the divi- o
'ulty for those sane and safe reforms Il
shich might well be Incorporated into d
he general scheme Of government q
or the bettermert Of social and busi- Il
lsss conditions in every state in the z
MON. For these failures deepen the n
'abtc distrust in the possibility Of e
'0vernment ever being able to do any u
hing except to play partisan politics.
2ALKING down the street with q e,
friend the other morning after 4 p
9An, ~ wondered If there were Il
~ a. ~ old-fashioned sleighs in il
M TAsrs may be, but It is doubt 81
Y IL eA-tine sleigh, with its il