Evening star., 1923-04-26

lY, this country will face Lumber
famine within twenty years. and the
eastern half of the country. within
fifteen years will be commercially
bare OF forests.
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A very important statement hav
come from a committee appointed by
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace 20
consider the agricultural outIook.
The committee has made a careful
study of economic conditions a thev
are likely TO affect farm prosperity
this season
1t cites conditions favorable to our
farm prosperity. especially the in
fiuence of American commercial pros
perity. causing us to buy heavily in
Europe and South America. Even
what we buy in South America en-
ables the South Americans to buy IL
Europe, hence enables Europe to buy
our farm products
That seems an indirect way OF en-
couraging our crop raisers. and tho
farmers will curb their enthusiasm
at such European power of purchase.
1t looks like our lifting ourselves
| over the fence by our own bootstraps.
What is of far greater Importance
urges an American economist of note.
is our domestic prosperity of our
| manufacturing and commercial in
terests. That is what furnishes the
| real market for our farm products 10
acres produce.
How long will our wage-earnerz
enjoy their present full dinner pals
! Is the most important economical
| the city. but also for the farmers,
whose customers they are.
The committee suggests tAat the
only possibility for an Imports at In
crease in purchasing power lies -
the ability of Europe to expand her
manufactured exports"
When Europe does that, says the
economist quoted. il will be in com
petition with Americas manufactured
exports. SO it will be simply an eX
change of American prosperity fo~
increased European prosperity. It Is
difficult to figure out an advantage
in that for American farmers.
| Proximity gives our farmers all the
American market. but that does not
| So operate with the open market OF
Europe. European farmers have the
advantage there over American farm
exports.
AS if clinching the above view oc
| the case, the committee adds: Re
vival in Europe has been much more
| marked in agriculture than in manu-
| featuring"
In other words. the competitors ~
our farmers are more formidable in
Europe lndn competitors OF our
| manufacturers
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The report further declares: "Tha
domestic demand for agricultural
products will be active SO long as thu
present prosperous condition of bus
ness. with full employment cor
tinues- Beyond a period of six t.
| nine months in the future mos
| authorities hesitate to make busines=
| forecasts but most competent oh
| expect general business prosperity To
! last at least six TO nine month,
longer. II this opinion be correct IL
| viii be distinctly more active neX-
so far as the demand for farm
products depends upon the purchases
of American families, not themselves
on farms"
The very high standing as busi-
| ness men and economists Of the per
sonnel OF this committee gives its
report extraordinary significance.
Joseph predicted seven fat years:
the Wallace committee predicts only
about seven fat months There MAJ
be more but the committee refuy,
to take the responsibility Of them.
4 + y p
However. here's to the Girl Scouts
OF America, headed by their national
| president, Mrs. Herbert Hoover.
| They may be little. but oh. my.
J Surely the Daughters OF the Amer-
| can Revolution cannot beat them in
! enthusiastic patriotism nor in all
that makes girlhcod sweet, bouyant
| pure and delightful. 1t was well.
| indeed, that the president general
of the D. A r. took occasion TO
testify that girls of today are just
as good and lovab1e as ever the girls
of any previous generation were.
Somehow the feeling has gone
| forth that to the Girl Scouts we must
| look for leadership In all that is
best in girlhood. just as we have
| learned to look--and not in vain-to
the Boy Scouts for the purest and
best Of AmericaniSm and genuine
! manlinesa Never has there been
! better movement than the scout
movement throughout the world. Its
| appeal Is entirely to the noblest
/ traits that can be found in boyhood
and girlhood.
Copyright. 1923. by p. V. ColIinsl