Milford chronicle., 1927-07-08
MILFORD, FRIDAY, JULY s, 1922

statements of officers of the railway
train service brotherhoods are to be
believed.
Railroad employees, through their
train service brotherhoods, are try
ing by arbitration to compel the rail-
roads to increase the wages of tram
men, and when the railroads ans
wered that farmers were complain
ing and demanding lower rates and
that wage increases would necessl-
tate rate increases, w. c. Whitney,
Vice President of the Brotherhood OF
Railroad Trainmen had this to say:
81 firmly believe that the farmer
has progressed more rapidly than
the railroad man or any other man
who works for a daily or monthly
wage. According to an investigation
I have recently made, approximately
81 per cent of the Nebraska farmers
own automobiles and SO per cent
have telephones, and what is true IN
this respect in Nebraska is very
largely true in Iowa, Minnesota ana
other granger states. Their homes
are equipped with bathrooms, cleo
trio lights and other modern conVen-
fences, very largely to the same ex-
tent as the better classes in the Cit
les. 1t is a matter of common know
ledge that hundreds of farmers are
retiring annually and moving to the
towns and cities to live in comfort
and ease."
This is stronger talk against rate
reduction and in favor of rate in
crease on farm products, than any
railroad ever presented. 1t does not
harmonize with the stories of dis
tress presented by the advocates OF
farm relief legislation.
Farm relief advocates may say
that the railroad employees are talk
ing to justify an increase in their
wages, and the other will answer
that the politicians are talking to in
crease their votes, with the farmer
between the two millstones.
WE HEAR a great deal about the
enactment of too many laws and it
is true that the country seems to be
engulfed biennially in a veritable
food of new legislation. One result,
is, so we are told, that law enforce
ment is made very difficult. This is
doubtless true, but the very fact
that it is true, makes it more the
duty of every good citizen to see
that he obeys the law himself. One
good way to prevent the enactment
of more unnecessary and foolish
laws is to enforce all laws which are
on the statute books, and so bring
about a reaction against the ten
dency to make too many new laws.
Many of our leading jurists are
warning us that the flouting of the
laws of the country is now becom-
ing a national peril. Touching upon
this point Attorney General Sar-
gent recently said in an address be-
fore the Pennsylvania Bar Associa-
ton:
when intelligent, education men
hold up to ridicule the rules for its
conduct which society makes and
devote their intelligence, wit and
resources to make crime and GRIM
inals attractive, it is to be expected
that the thoughtless, the ignorant,
the vicious, will try and get rid Of
the oppressor of the criminal, in
any way, by any means, that Will be
most effective.
"Day by day, because some one
plays for the doing of it and be-
cause the great body of law-abiding
citizens is complaisant and says
nothing to show it's approval, flip
pant, jeering writer's, publishers,
soap-box orators and cabaret per-
formers sow the wind and society
reaps it all in whirlwinds which
blast and destroy"
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AT THE BEGINNING of the pres
ent year there were approximately
100000 telephones on farms of the
United States, which means that A
out of every hundred farms are
equipped with telephones. There can
be no question but what the tele-
phone is rapidly becoming more and
more essential to successful farm
operation.
The United States far surpasses
all European countries in the extent
of telephone development on its
farms. In fact, farmers telephones
which have played large part in
breaking down the isolation of rural
America, are almost unknown in
Europe.
There are more telephones on
farms in the United States than
there are total telephones in the en-
tire countries of France, Germany
and Russia, combined. Just one
more indication that the United
States is a good place in which to
live.