Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1922-01-27

Never before was there so great a heec-
ing of the farmers.
The conditions were most favorable for
the schemers. The men of the soil had
made fine profits in the war period out
of the high prices they received for
their wheat and their corn, their hogs
their beeves, and all their products. Some
country bankers are said to have aided
the plunderers, giving information to
them of the financial condition of pros
pects," acting as bird dogs" to flush
the game for the hunters in search OF
gullible victims.
Persons in cities and industrial dis
tricts who read Of these swindles prob
ably remarked contemptuously "the poor
rubes' and thought no more Of 1t, not
thinking it concerned them.
But it did, and 1t does concern them
No people in America can suffer or be
plundered without the people Of all other
parts Of America being affected to some
degree.
GRICULTURAL implement makers
n today have small sales of their ma
chimes because the farmers have little
buyfng power. If the farmers had not
been robbed they would be in position
to purchase some of the machinery they
need urgently and more men would be
working in agricultural machinery
plants.
The worker in shoe factory, cotton
mill wooden mill or automobile plant
NAV not see how the fleeing Of the
farmers concerned him but 81, 600 100000
taken from the agriculturalists has i'm
paired the buying power of the farm
people in the purchasing Of shoes, OF
clothes of motor cars and thousand
other things.
Not only that but the man in the coal
mine has less work and earns Less
wages when the factories are idle or
operating less than full time and the
men in the steel industry have less en-
ployment when the needs Of general
business are reduced. The railroads have
less traffic. The jobbers, commission
men, retailers and bankers, big and
little, have fewer items to handle.
ITO carry the illustration further the
! butcher, the grocer, ard every sup
plfer in every city, town and village
feels 1t in his purse when anything
happens to reduce the buying power of
any one branch of the American people.
It Is not the poor rubes" alone who
are plundered when any swindle of con-
siderable size is perpetrated on the
people. All the people are robbed Not
until this fact sinks into the conscious
ness of the public will effective measures
be taken to stop this great evil.
The American people need nothing so
much as economic education.
D,oEs quality pay7
IL There is not a commercial or man
ufacturing establishment Of age in
America the success Of which is not
based on quality.
No one can measure the worth of quail
ity.
DR.. Gustavo Munizaga varela, Chilean
consul general in New York, visited
Philadelphia recently. He told with
pride of having bought in Buenos Aires
in 1908 an American hat which he wore
for ten years.
'I wore that all over the world" he
said. when I was consul general in
Belgium that hat won the admiration Of
various men and told them it was made
IN Philadelphia. I do not know how
many persons took the name of the maker
and said they would write to America and
get their hats from the same concern"
Charles S. Caldwell, president of
Philadelphia bank, suggested the consul
general visit the plant where the hat was
made Senior Varela did so. When he
was about to leave, a hat, just like the
one he bought in Buenos Aires, was pre-
Eented to him with the compliments Of
Mr.. Caldwell.
TN 1851 an American made locomotive
! was sent to Chile It was a small af-
fair made By hand. II went IN a san