The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-07-23
IT'S TIME IT WAS SAID


teal leaders will not. Our great me
tropolitan newspapers will not. 81
may a little country daily raise it;
voice.
We are doing business with
busted world and we are spending
money like drunken miners-and We
are hoping we can go on in this mac
course if we can only put the farmer
also in the money spending game
says the Idaho Statesman
Magnus Johnson put himself in the
senate on this theory by telling the
farmers he was going to give them
as much pay as New York brick
layer gets, but if he does, the brick
layer will ask for more. It is easy
to say this should not happen because
wages are too high already, and they
are, but still they are not doing the
workingman any good. His cost OF
living has gone as high as his wages.
Are not the railroad employees asking
for wartime pay, claiming the pre-
sent pay does not meet living ex-
penses?
Nor are high prices doing the mer-
chant any good We get about cents
for beef here, while the retail butcher
in the east gets about so or 90 cents
for it. But Armour & Co. loses MIL
lions in handling the meat from the
ranges to that butcher, and even at
the enormous retail price, the butcher
says he is making no money.
The trouble is this: We have been
pyramiding expenses in the greatest
luxury jag ever known. Today In the
United States there are four times
as many automobiles as in the rest
of the world and we have added
many other luxuries and fr1lls TO |
what we call necessary living ex-
penses. To meet the bill we have
all boosted our incomes but the far
mer He cannot.
We cannot go on this way II the
producer-the farmer-is not pros
porous. His product takes world
made price and one made by world
that is very poor and frugal AND
with income restricted by world
prices, the farmer cannot pay the
price he is now charged for commodi-
ties and keep living.
The country cannot long go on
without the farmer. So what must
we do? This: Manufacturing and
distribution must scale down salaries,
wages and prices to a point that will
not only enable the farmer to live but
encourage him to live.
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WHAT THE PEOPLE WANT
The man who won the senatorial
election in Minnesota the other day
1idn't pay any attention to the world
court, the Preparations problems, the
of Europe, and all that
sort of stuff. He doesn't know any
hing about these great international
questions; but that didn't make any
Inference. He talked to the people
bout their own immediate problems.
Nobody knows much about them, per-
,aps. The point is that these are
he things that the people all over
he country are really interested IN,
nd thew don't care anything about
he troubles of the world at large.
ur aspiring world statesmen will do
rell to take notice. Other elections
re coming along and some of them
ill want to go back. Their chances
,r success will be better if they
rick to the United States and its af-
hrs. or the affairs of their own
district or state.-Yaki-
"a Republic.
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1t is difficult to estimate how many
oscow people drove long distances
,sterday to streams where they
light go in swimming, or to other
WINS which maintain swimming
,ols. so that they might have cool
unge. 1t is unfortunate that Mos
". with it's many advantages, does
4 have a good swimming pool.
Ith an adequate swimming pool,
ople would come to Moscow to
end a Sunday, or for drive on a
MINER evening, instead of Moscow
,pIe going elsewhere. The move
mt for a swimming pool has been
rted several times, but so far
sn't gotten beyond the blueprint
ge. It might be well to take the
tier up again now, looking to some