The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-03-19

action among farmers, and are not
hostile to legitimate cooperative work,
it is known that they resent dictation
from these groups. The story is COM
ing into Washington that certain ma
tional organizations of cooperatives
are protesting with the cry that
''there is too much Hoover in the gov
eminent"
1t was understood that Mr.. Jardine
met with the approval of Hoover be-
fore he was finally invited into the
Cabinet by the President. Mr.. Cool
idge and Mr.. Hoover share the opin-
ion, it is said, that new methods of
administration must be introduced in
the Department of Agriculture, to
assure the highest efficiency. Owing
to the fact that the late Secretary
Wallace differed with Mr.. Hoover on
reorganization of the Federal de-
partments, changes of this kind were
necessarily deferred. The new Sec
rotary and his Cabinet colleague are
not at odds over jurisdiction. AS a
consequence, the team work is di-
rected primarily to making the de-
partment more useful to the farmers
and the consuming public. The two
Cabinet officers are in general agree
ment that the farmer must pay more
attention to the improved marketing
methods.
In an interview today Secretary
Jardine summarized his position very
briefly when he said: "What we all
need to do is to talk less tommyrot
and throw fewer monkey wrenches
into other peoples machinery. We
want to stop trying to line up one
group against toher groups. We
want to work together. Americans
should be cooperating, not quarrel
ing with each other over the interests
of this group or that" If applied
in the right way, cooperation can
make of American farming big,
voluntarily unified, permanent and
profitable business, in a
way that no paternalistic legislation
could possibly do" He implies, that
the farm organization fight among
themselves too much.
The airing of the political liner II
the Senate has produced interesting
news stories and editorial comment
throughout the country. Nobody
seems to know just what will really
happen when Congress settles down
to business next winter. The Warren
matter has taken some of the wind
from the sails of the Administration.
1t appeared for time with the APP
parent majority of votes, that moth
ing could stem the expressed wishes
of the executive branch of the gov
eminent. Those whose Republican
ism was more or less rightly ques-
toned united with the Democrats
and programs were suddenly revised
to meet the emergency. The control
was shown up as "paper," not an
actual, majority. The Senators
whose activities savored OF political
heresy had their innings. Yet the
majority denoted them and general
ly neglected to place the dissenters
on important committees.
In boom times little heed is paid
to changes in the prices of foods. The
Bureau OF Labor StatlSClcS issued
statement this week showing that in
II cities retail prices of food have
decreased since Jan. Is. The cuts
we're particularly noteworthy in Lit
tie Rock, Butte, Kansas City and
There is room for fur
Their reductions. Compared with av-
erage cost for the year of 1923 the
retail price of foodstuffs on February
Is was 81 per cent higher in Birm-
ngham, So per cent in Baltimore,
Washington and Scranton, A per
cent at Little Rock. The dollar does |
not buy much these days. The gov
and private agencies believe
hat the solution of the distribution
problem will bring essential cuts for
t will eliminate many middlemen's
profits.