Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-11

country prosperity is not, but they are
not numerous, and wherever business
depression reignS there is a distinct and
positive reason for it, nor can it be
charged to this or that political party,
but rather to passing of the old order
to changing conditions that make effort
in certain directions useless, that force
men in one industry to look elsewhere
for employment.
Everything changes. Evolution is
steady and continuous. Every inven-
ton of Importance has improved con-
ditionS at the expense of some one
although some have greatly increased
the opportunities of employment.
Naturally every one affected needs
relief or quick personal action in seek
ing and obtaining relief in some form
There is only one way to assure am
pie supplies from the farms of the
country and that is by operating our
farms.
Farm aid is keeping the Lawmakers
of the Nation on edge to find the means
of solving the trouble. If the farmers
could but share in the retailers profits,
they would be. much better satisfied.
Helps for the Farmer.
The Agriculture Department is an
aid in advising on crop planting, anal
Uses of soil, ETC., but the advice is not
always followed One good year for a
farm product brings a greatly increased
acreage in the next. The urge of d.
verSifled farming has been long and
most inSiStent, and wherever it has been
undertaken appeals for aid have not
been very serious.
The department has spent much
money and time in urging the agricul-
turist to feed cheap corn to cattle and
hogs and here again, if followed, no re-
lief is necessary.
From Wisconsin and other dairy
States reports are of prosperity and
contentment, always providing the les
son of quality StockS-superiority over
scrubs has been learned. One good
blooded cow is worth herd of scrubs.
With The cotton planters of the
Southern section the case is different
and the remedy will be much harder to
find, if, indeed, there is a panacea for
their woes.
Their troubles, too, are as deep as
those of the textile workers Of the coun-
try and elsewhere and practically have
been brought about in part, by the
same causes.
Blame Dame Fashion.
Charge much distress to the silhouette,
the edicts of fashion that send women
to the maSseuse, to the vibratory ma
chimes and from their meals half
starved. Blame yet another strong fac
tor-rayon, a much cheaper substitute
for silk, wearing perhaps better and
costing materially less. 1t is so cheap 1t
is competitor on cotton.
Blame hte general indiSpoSition OF
the women of the world to wearing
many clothes, fewer cottonS, silk hose,
smaller skirts and general restriction in
in all lines of clothing unless abbreviated
and expensive What's the remedy?
Here is a nut to crack as hard as farm
relief
For a time the boil weevil did its
share at reducing cotton acreage and
worried our Southern friends, and they
are worried today. The acreage is am
pie and modern invention, sled that
skids through the tops of the ripe cot
fast that increased acreage has flooded
the market
It is the same story everywhere where
machinery has been introduced. 1t
drives out labor, hand labor, and then
increased production grows apace, and
If the demand for the product holds up
employs more men than ever the more
primitive methods employed.
1t would seem as If we might hope
for the return of the age of reason
to the women of the Nation, to longer
skirts, more clothes generally, perhaps
the mixed and entirely cotton hosiery,
and also perhaps the return OF the full
meal in aid of the farmers Utopia.
But while you are waiting for these
DEVELOPMENTS you are likely to exceed
the record in the matter OF age and in
the end make small Roadway.
Automobiles a Mixed Blessing.
While the automobiles have taken
heavy toll of life and limb, they have
opened a new and great industrial field,
in which American effort has made
great strides to the employment Of
thousands of men, hundreds of thou
sands, the use of large rental space,
side lines that are profitable and has
generally been great industrial bless
ing to this country
It has given renewed life to the steel
and iron business and has been gen.
orally very valuable, If somewhat de-
moralizing. 1t is certainly one industry
that does not peed help-even in the
slightest.
Union Troubles in Coal.
The coal business has long been de-
moralized, particularly by evolution, the
introduction of the labor-saving fuel
oil, and also by labor troubles, con-
slant striking and turmoil until oil,
easy to handle, little more expensive,
perhaps, but without waste and sew
eral landings, has largely forced coal
into a secondary position.
Union heads, by their demands, force
coal users to look elsewhere for sub
stitute-and have themselves largely to
blame for the plight of the unfortunate
miners. The Government may have
to give speedy aid here, perhaps aid in
removal and introduction to some new
means of making an independent liv-
ing 1t is another nut to crack, that
the interested parties seem unable to
solve.
In Florida, ruined by boom, the
people want old-time prosperity back
and believe it will come. They are not
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