Norwich bulletin., 1922-11-24

condition which confronted us. Here, in this wheat-movir- matter, seems to be a condition: a concrete fact, much more substantial and much more i'm portant than any theory.
 Canadian farmers get their wheat moved-ten million bushels a day, in an emergency North Dakota farmers see their wheat wasting on the fields they've toiled over, and their hopes Of income enough to pay interest and taxes vanishing in thin air.
 There must be a reason for the diner ence.
 Some weeks ago, commenting on tho extent and effects Of government inter ference with railroad management in this country, The Toledo. O., Blade re- marked that governmental control of industry in this country hasn't been very wisely exercised the last eight or ten years.
 For" said The Blade, "it has gone very largely out of the hands of broad. minded Inen into the power of fussy- minded bureaucrats. These bureaucrats are far less troubled over the efficient running of the railroads, for example, and the continued development of trans portation than they are about the re- ports dealing with rninutiae, the filling out of forms, the obedience to rules that play no vital part in speeding ship ments and getting passengers 10 their destinations. They. have reduced capa- ble executives to drudging clerks. They have bound their red-tape over industry so that it is hampered in obtaining new capital, forced to forego enterprise and frequently reduced to despair through i the pigheadedness of the Washington ] bureaus
 don't know, whether you who read l this are radical or conservative, repub- | lican or democrat, ''Wet" or dry tail or short, fat or skinny Nor do I care. You're an American, loving your cocn- | try and desiring it's continued welfare. You don't want to see Mexico or Egypt or even Canada cutting in ahead of Un- ! cle Sam and giving him their dust. You've got an idea that his place is at | the head of the procession-not among the lame dogs in the ditch at the side | of the road.
 Wherefore it would seem as if thi, little matter of Fort William and its ten million bushel wheat. shipmen; might be- worth a second thought. Ii l they can do such things with Saskatche- wan wheat at Fort William, Canada | why can't we do as well or even better I with North Dakota wheat at Duluth, U s. A.? Both parts are Oh the same Lake Superior; both have adequate docking l facilities both are reached by sAvera 1 railroads As a matter of fact, Dulutf | is nearer North Dakota than Fort Will liam is to Saskatchewan.
 | You may think it's a long way tS | Lake Superior and the Thunder Bay district of Ontario in which Fort vii I liam is situated. Or to Duluth ant North Dakota. So it is And you ma, say that you're not called upon to ge excited over things so far away d i that. All right, don't get excited, then Keep as calm as clam under thre feet of mud and six feet of salt water
 But the price of bread and whea flour are of some interest, right her in Connecticut. And that price depend largely on the adequacy, certainty an celerity of the movement of wheat iron North Dakota and the other grain growing states to the east. If you government, through its bureaucrats has So red-taped and muddled the rail roads that they can't function efficient ly, can't get capital, can't manage thei own employees; can't deliver the good. can't do extra work in unusual emer
 gencies-isn't 1t about time you ir
 structed your government to get a nov
 on those bureaucrats ana i'll thei places with less "fussy -rnirded'' men?
 In long chain it doesn,t matte
 whether the weak link is right unde
 your eyes or out of sight at the ethe
 end, If any one link breaks your wt1ol
 chain is no good, regardless Of whie
 THE FARMER.