Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-07-13

| Speaking of President Harding's
itinerary In Alaska. tho press dis
patches tell us that he will go from
Juneau to Seward, (which Is a three
day voyage" Ships cross the Allan
tic in less than six days. Thence he
| will take the government railroad to
Fairbanks. "a two-day Journey"
| Trains take four days to cross CONT
| mental America from New York to
| San Francisco. Alaska is a country OF
magnificent distances.
at the continued investment Of the
| public in automobiles and other luxu-
! ries in the past year. The records
show S12s.000,00 paid to the govern
| ment in taxes on sales of automobiles
| and accessories in the last eleven
| months. This is an increase of $685.
100000 over the previous year and
| to $4,000. 600, 900 for automobiles alone.
| Taxes for the summer months are
| double what they were for corre-
| spending months of last year.
/ More is being spent for candy and
| other non-essentials than ever be-
| fore. Even the farmers are accused
| of spending, although maybe they are
| confused with rural population"
| which includes not merely farmers.
| but all who do not live in cities ex-
| ceeding $500 population. 1t is in
| consistent with known conditions of
| agriculture to report that farmers are
, spending for luxuries when 1t Is no.
| torious that the farms are not break
| ing even" on expenses. 1t Is in the
regions of high wages that spending
is running riot.
With wheat selling at 81 a bushel
in Chicago, the Mississippi valley
/ bushel on the farm. 1t costs about
SIS an acre to raise wheat and the
crop averages about fourteen bushels
per acre. Fourteen times 10 cents is
| $3.50. making the net loss $500 per
| acre. Perhaps that is why some "ex-
| perts' are figuring out that the farm
ers are buying automobiles and other
luxuries. OF course, IL sounds big
when statisticians tell us how many
| billions of dollars the farmers get
| for their crops. 1t Is like the expla-
! nation which a certain clothier gave
| for the very attractive price he put
| on the suit OF clothes on the bargain
counter. The clothes cost s17.14 a
suit, but he could afford to sell the m
| for s12.9s because of his great vol
| ume of business"
Hurrah! Salute the flag. 1t no
longer protects the crews of Ameri-
can ships. and when the question is
asked, who won the war of 1922"
it is answered on the Leviathan, 1.-The
| British" But hurrah. The flag is
still there" There was a food riot in
Berlin and thousands OF hungry Ger
/ mans were looting groceries and the
| markets. overturning the stands OF
| the money changers and scattering
! marks-and remarks-about promis-
| cuously. There was one male Bar
bara Frietchie who flung up Old Glory
and shouted:
! II have a lot of canned goods from
| Chicago to sell on commission. and.
therefore. 1 consider that my shop is
d, Too bad II he didn't know the rest
!, Of the challenge Of brave Barbara
Frietchie. that he might have ex
| claimed:
Shoot, II you must this old hot dog
| But spare, already, the Yanks canned hog.
| X X
| Flour takes another tumble in
| prices and reaches its lowest level in
eight years. Within that eight years
bread was sold at the general price
of 8 cents a loaf, but today it is 8
cents. Flour Is the principal ingre-
dent of bread. Sugar is down cents
a pound wholesale. as compared with
last February. How much retail?
] Copyright 1923 by p V. Collins)