Evening star., 1923-08-11

the financial end of the government
thus play into the hands OF professional
grain gamblers, asks Senator Capper.
The farmers, scared by the advice
oump their grain. which is exactly what
the gamblers foresee. The grain passes
out OF the hands of grain producers and
then, when no more is coming to mar
ket, the bulls squeeze the shorts" and
up go the prices-when they will do
the farmer no good. because he has
been advised to dump his holdings ana
ne has assumed that the government
was not only wise, but honest and dis
| interested.
Cost Of production" says Senator
Capper, ''is not vet known for this
year. but it is probable that it will be
little, If any, lower than for the crop
of 1922, which was S1.36 a bushel
From this it is easy to see that wheat
| at so cents results in a net loss of 56
| cents a bushel. Unless the market ad-
vances We have lost $50, 900 600 on this
years crop in Kansas alone.
Farmers thought that the interme-
| dlate credit banks would aid in build
ing safeguards around the marketing of
agricultural products, which would help
tide us through discouraging times
| But there is nothing helpful that l can
ing down prices to a level far below
cost of production" declares the sena-
| tor.
If the coal strike looms menacing
there appears probability that it will
call for Il special session of Congress
for the purpose of meeting the crisis by
giving adequate power to the President
to act in commanding the situation.
There is already law which enables
the Secretary OF Dor to take drastic
steps to stop strike in any OF the
major. industries. but those who are on
| that the present law might be made
| more efficient in the protection of the
public.
Will Senator Borah win the Box prize
of 100000 for the best solution of the
problem OF how to stop wars throughout
the world? If so, his idea is such a SIM
pie one that any of the rest of us
| might have thought of it first
The means he will use are identical
! with the secret of Sir Joshua Reynolds
| in painting his pictures. A noble fop
asked him what he mixed with his
paints to make the pictures so beauti-
ful and the curt answer was, Brains"
That is what the senator from Idaho
now recommends to Mr.. Box for cannon
fodder to use in firing world salute
to peace. Load the cannon and fire a
broadsde of brains"
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'tThe ingenuity of the human brain
has been taxed for 5000 years." says
Senator Borah, ''to find the best means
| and methods for carrying on war. Now
let us arouse the conscience and har-
ness the genius of the human family In
an effort to find plan for permanent
peace.
| What sort of loose thinking is the
| senator guilty OF in starting to make
world peace with just "brains"-as IL
| he were painting picture to hang in
salon? He ends by confessing that tho
vehicle for carrying the rainbow to can.
vas is insufficient to stop the storm OF
''man's inhumanity to man." which
makes countless thousands mourn.
mot brains" but conscience-con.
science of would-be world pirates, con-
science of war-lord plotters, conscience
of William II. of a Napoleon I, Of y
conquering Caesar and Alexander, and
Darius and Xerxes. All these had a
| modicum Of brains, but how much con-
science did they manifest?
| Look to the world plotters OF TODAY.
Are they not shrewd? Have they not
| keen brains? They will organize with
brains world tragedy. If they had
half the conscience that they have OF
| brains" there would be no more war
| in this generation. How sententious it
is to say: Brains will end war"
It would be worth, not 500, 900, but
billions upon billions. If any one
would rise up and tell how to put the
| love of thy neighbor as thyself" into
the hearts OF plotters and counterA
plotters. in Europe, Asia, Africa and
| all America.
Copyright. 1923. by Paul ". collisA.a }