The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-02-24
AN FACTOR

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Herald, gives expression to one of tn
great factors in developing a com
munity, fixing the price of the farm
lands and determining to a great ex
tent the success of the merchant:
What fixes the value OF farm land
Not the fertility of the soil alone
because there is a marked difference
in the selling price of equally ricl
land in different sections OF the coun
try. The location of the land, it,
proximity to a trading center or rail
road or school and the social status
of the community are all factors il
determining it's value.
One of the most important of these
factors is proximity to a trading point
and the kind of trading point cuts
a big figure in the equation. Farm
land, located neal a thriving, pro-
gressive town, commands a higher
price thar land adjacent to a stagna-
ting town. 1t is therefore to the in
terests of the residents of any farm
ing community to do all in their pow
er to stimulate the growth and de-
velopment of their trading center.
The better the stores and the larger
the stocks carried, the higher the
standard Of the schools, the more
active the churches and fraternal or
CARNATIONS, the greater the volume
of sales in any trading point, the
more valuable will become the farm
ing land surrounding that point.
There is always a demand for land in
the vicinity of a growing and enter
prising town and a demand for land
stimulates the price.
A spirit Of cooperation and good
will between the business men and
the farmers is highly essential to the
development of any trading center.
If the farmers knock the town and
bestow their patronage elsewhere,
they are standing in their own light
and are impairing their OWL inter-
ests, because they are blocking, in
stead of helping along, a development
which would add value to every one
of their acres and provide advantages
for every member of their families.
If they have grievances and will talk
them over frankly with the business
men, the chances are very strong that
the causes of complaint would be
promptly removed or adjusted. 1t is
certainly worth while to attempt to
reach an understanding. There are
two sides to every question and it is
foolish to jump at conclusions before
getting the other fellows viewpoint.
The abnormal business conditions
obtaining during the war aroused a
lot of hostility toward and suspicion
of the retailers among the consumers,
much of which was not justified. But
spirit of mutual confidence and good
will between the farmers and mer-
chants can be established the better
It will be for all concerned.
BY helping to make Pullman a
larger trading center the farmers Of
his community will be adding to the
of their land and to the adj
7antages within the reach of their
wives and children.
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Albert J. Beveridge, of Indiana, has
announced himself a republican can
lidate for the United States senate.
,everidge represented his state in the
enate for one term some years ago.
that time he became almost a ma
ional figure and in the early days of
ested as presidential timber. He got
ut of line with the republican party
nd almost dropped from sight for a
lumber of years, politically" after
the senate. He is a clean man
an able man and Indiana would
use nothing by sending him to the
snate again. His Judgment is more
nature than when he entered the
enate some 10 years years ago as a
oung mar and he would probably be
SIS inclined to revolutionize things
enerally and would therefore come
carer putting cross some of the
ings which he advocates.
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The flapper in her Tapping galosh
ID a chance to get frost bitten this
Warm weather will come
.entually, however, and then the
apper will cover the expanse of
ok, back and front, that has been
posed during the winter, with a
inner fur and maybe will continue
wear ~galoshes, only having them
oked up instead of Tapping. 1t is
atifying to know that the younger
fho foir.-cox dracc ithaca timas in