Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1924-07-19
WHEAT IS GOING UP.
EUGENE MYER JR. In CHARGE.
BEER AND SHIPS.
MORE THAN AIR MAIL SERVICE.

The Department of Agriculture
says farmers all lost money on their
wheat last year. 1t cost S1.24 a
bushel TO grow it. The average price
was 90 cents. Unless all signs fail,
farmers will get all. the wheat costs
this year and a good deal more.
Many sections of the country pro
ducing fewer than 10 bushels OF
wheat to the acre, with labor and
fertilizer costing what they do. 1t Is
hand to see how wheat can pay,
even at S1.24. The Republican plan
IA TO force the price to $3.50. How
many votes would that be worth!
If farmers have any wheat up-
sold from the last crOp-they usually
have none when the price goes up
Let them hang on to 1t. And II they
are wise they will hold for high
prices the wheat now being threshed.
When the really big people want
wheat to go Up, as they do now, 1t
goes M. They have the power to
make It 60. It Is not like one In
dividual, professional wheat gam
bier, or little pool, trying to hight
the wolves Of the short side"
Other grains, corn especially, and
cotton and stocks, will travel upward
with the wheat. What Republican
victory, BIG VICTORY, demands Is
q prosperity boom. You'll have It.
Readers may remember that this
writer. when cotton was below 25.
snnouneed that II would travel up
10 80. II did, moving steadily and
higher than 80. What the big fell
lows want really happens.
Eugene Myer, Jr., able young cid-
zen of many millions, Is in charge
OF the plan to put up. the prices OF
wheat and Of other farm products to
make farmers happy, and enable the
Government to lend them mtre
money. q
DON'T GAMBLE, HOWEVER. 1t
is virtuous to pray that farmers
may have better times and bet er
prices. It's foolish to gamble on f..
No little man is smart enough or
qutcl enough to survive in tlat
De1ca.
elf gou happen to come In contact
with Eugene Myer, Jrp who 10 now
t1ayshng through the west, you
might get valuable information. 1t
Is said be intends to put the average
value Of cattle up $40 head. That
would hafp some.
A time 70 coming when lack OF
American owned ships will cost US
more billions than that same lack
cost In the last war.
The various brands of beer, reli-
giop, foreign entanglements, ETC., all
have their Importance.
But none Is as important as the
safety of the country. And that de-
ponds on ships. ON the water foe
carrying goods and troops, ABOVE
the water and UNDER the water,
for fighting.
A little while ago we were beg
ging England to make room for our
soldiers in her ships, and paying
English shipping companies first
cabin rates for less than Storage
accommodation for American sol
diers sent over to help England and
France.
But all that seems to be forgotten.
DR.. E. Lyman Fisk, scientific
authority, says alcohol is liabil-
ity." Tests prove that moderate
drinkers do not live longer than
total abstainers:" That's interesting
and important
However, those on the other side
of the fence say Mere LENGTH Of
life is not the important thing. 1t
doesn't matter so much how LONG
you live, as how EFFICIENTLY you
I've"
The younger Pitt, for instance,
undoubtedly drank himself to death
But while he lived he kept Napoleon
Bonaparte out Of England. And
that was more important to English
men than having him live to be one
hundred and fifty would have been.
Again, it may be said that if he
HAD drunk only water, he might
have been twice as good q Prime
Minister in addition to living to be
a hundred.
About these things we, as yet,
know nothing.
While you are sleeping, tiiers for
the post Office are crossing the con-
tinent, guided by light patches"
blazing with lights Of many million
candle power Eventually, of course,
that lighting will be cheap. 1t is
OILY a question Of power. of bor-
rowing from the sun in the daytime
enough energy to duplicate sunlight
ftebly at night. @
aPostmaster General New is to be
&C ngratulated on his. excellent work
in developing the aerial mail deliv-
cry. What he does for q greater mail
delivery, while most important, is
CT far less value than his admirable
" rk in developing the American
faiaS mSshiae and American fiiers.
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