Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-30
FARMLAND WAGES
ON HIGHER LEVEL
Survey Shows Pay Compares
FavorabIy With That OF
Industrial Workers.
BY JOHN F. SINCLAIR.

| Special Dispatch to The Star.
| NEW YORK. May 30--It vas Henry
! Ford who started the move towards the
HIGHER wage scale in America. Years
! ego when ne announced a 1ve-dollar
minimum daily wage. many other en-
| ployers Of labor declared he was head
ing for disaster.
| But II was not long before they fol-
! lowed suit and today high wages are
chanpioned by most of the larger en-
! ployers of labor on the ground, pri
r1arily. that increased purchasing power
results, which In turn brings on more
prosperity.
The question now is, will Henry Ford
do the same in Europe a. he did in the
United States He has asked the in
| ternational labor office at Geneva for
| costs Of living and Ali other factors
| dealing with the standard of living. for
| the purpose, it is said, of establishing
| the same real wages for all Ford en-
| ployes in Europe.
There are many economic observers
who believe the business will show an
| expansion in Europe over the next
| decade comparable to that which has
been shown in the United States during
the last ten years.
This new Ford move may be the en-.
! terins wedge in that development.
| How do industrial wages and farm
wages compare?
A survey Just completed by the Bureau
Of Agricultural Economics of the United
| states Department OF Agriculture, coz.
erihg ain farm employers widely H..
Gated. shows that the average wage. II.
Guiding "perquisites," amounts to s76f0
a month.
| This compares very favorably with the
, average wage Of the industrial workers
! throughout the Nation. Farm hands re-
ceive the highest compensation In the
Pacific States-about S104.e3 A month.
including perquisite4, The mountain
States are next Wit ssos4. and the
New England States follow with s6B.15.
| The American infostrisl worker, 1t is
true. receives m1ge actual cash. but at
the end of the Year, 1t is doubtful II he
| receives more real wages than the aver
| age farm worker in the United States.
Higher farm wages have developed
rapidly with the expansion and growth
of farm machinery Before the machine
era 1t often took 10 men to do what two
can do today. Naturally wages are
higher under such conditions. But when
the prosperity Of the farmer becomes
more pronounced than It ia. 40 that he,
too. will more equitably share In the
prosperity OF the Nation. wages for farm
| labor will doubtless share In the rise.
Judge J. NJ. Proskauer Of New York
who has had large experience In Grim
| inAl cases for the New York bar said
that "the object OF criminal law is not
| TO punish crime, but to protect society
from the depredations OF the criminal"
This judge believes psychiatry will be
Of very great service IN the future ad-
r1iriistration Of law. He believes that
the functions OF the court should be to
| determine whether the person commit
ted the act--and when that is done the
| courts duty is over. And, further, that
/ no jury should be allowed to determine
whether a person is sane or insane.
when the wisest Of the medical profess
zion would themselves be unable to de-
liver such Q categoric Judgment.
| 1T is not the Sentinentalist who is
the scientist" says the Judge. Certain
" 1t is not too much to ask that with
respect at least to youthful offenders,
the administration of justice should be-
| gin to work hand In hand with the
psyehiatrist for the reclamation Of val
| liable human material"
The National Law Enforcement Com
mission might we'll make this one of
their major subjects.
The commissioners OF Cascade Coun-
~. Mont, have asked Carl Shelton. q
lean, muscular young cowboy, to round
up eu OF the wild horses in the county.
30 SHELTON, born In the COW coun-
try, ID assembling 10 miles out Of
Great Falls, beside a big water hole.
q group of some Of the best Of the old
riders left in Montana
There are six or seven thousand
wild horses on the Cascade Range -
shelton declares. "T'll bring In 5000
or more Of them"
It is one OF the largest round up
jobs ever undertaken. If the wild
horses rounded UP are branded, they
will be advertised, and the owners can
secure them by paying SIS head round
| ip fee and the taxes. Others will be
sold to the highest bidders for work
and saddle horses. The balance will
be tanned by the heroic Shelton and his
group and shipped all over the United
! States.
Young Skeletons Summer work Is cut
out for him.
| tCopyrizht, 1929. By North American News
! paper AllisnesD