Evening star., 1923-07-27

, q total OF 210,000.000 more bushels
than our markets. including the ex-
port market, can ahAbrb. That is
why the farmers now want the gov
ernment to take the 20p.0oo.oo bush
els off their hands. Next year. II
! the 200.000.000 bushels were carried
by the government. the individual
farmers would still think that their
acreage In wheat was not excessive,
and we would be asked to pile up in
government warehouses another guam
tity, against which bonds would be
issued to make loans to the farmers.
The solution of the predicament lies
in reducing OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
wheat arrangement year. Perhaps
the pendulum will swing the other
way. and wheat Will be SO reduced in
1924 that prices will run up beyond
present calculation. This is the teach
ing Of the economists of all the
boards and the Department of Agri-
culture, not one of whom indorses the
specialization of the government as
proposed.
Under the terms of the Volstead
law. If a farmer makes and sells
sweet cider and the buyer thereof
permits it to ferment and become in
| toxicating and has 1t in his possess
sion or drinks it or permits his
enemy to drink 1t, the law holds the
original farmer responsible. and he
may be fined $1,000 or sent to the
penitentiary for ten years for each
offense.
Should that apply only to the sweet
and rosy apple, or be extendeo TO
grain? II the farmer raises barley or
rye and sells 1t. and later 1T become s
Intoxicating. shall we not penailze
the farmer? If he had never raised
the grain. wouldn't he have lodged
responsibility? In logical sequence
IL the excess wheat and the propa-
ganda of the millers induce the pub
lie to "eat an extra slice Of bread
daily" and that brings on indigestion
or causes obesity, shall we not seek
damages from the farmer!
In a recent issue, Capital Keynotes
made the statement that oleomarga-
rine contains no vitamins. That state
ment has been challenged by the Sec
retary of the oleomargarine interests
In Washington, Mr. J. S. Abbott, who
AYERS that "one type of oleomargarine
| is nutritively the equivalent or put-
| ter - The other type OF oleo-
| margarine does not contain measur-
able quantity of 'vitamin A, but II
does contain about half as much OF
| the recently discovered 1ourtn via =
min, or 'vitamin D. as the pest graoe
! Of butter"
The writer is not posted on
the recently discovered fourth
vitamin, d.. but bases his state
ment on information gathered with,
| in the last two years from the heao
of the dairy school Of the School OF
Agriculture Of Iowa who stated
| There is no vitamin in oleo-
margarine" This Is confirmed by
| DR.. Rogers Of the laboratory OF tnt
Agriculture, so far as concerns the
pure oleomargarin oils: They contain
no yitamins" DIR. Rogers states, no."
ever, that some so-called oleomar-
garines contain a mixture OF as mgr
as 80 per cent butter. and that the
5utter of. course, contains vitamins
Also. there is some milk mixed IN
which contains vitamins. See Thom
sons Outline Of Science, pages il3e
and 1139. The absence or suHicienl
yitamins in food tends TO result IT
scurvy ricketts,. though their presence
| Is not assurance of perfect oiet'
Those were serious words quoted bJ
Secretary Hughes in his letter tc
President Gompers regarding recogni'
ton of soviet Russia-the country
which Senator Brookhart rates a.
having the most stable government II
the world, except one. Mr.. Hughes
| quoted words of Lenin, Trotsky ant
| others, predicting a world revolution
| involving both Europe and America
| Lenin: THE outlook for world revolu.
| tion will not be good, but excellent
Trotsky: That means. comrades. tina
revolution Is coming in Europe a!
well as in America, Systematically
step by step, stubbornly and witt
! gnashing Of teeth. in both camps. 1
will be long protracted, cruel anC
| sanguinary."
How many patriotic Americans arr
eager for entangling recognition o
a regime which avows a purpose u
| foment an overthrow Of this and al
other governments?
| Copyright. 1929, by p. V. Collins)