The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1933-11-24


in each In 1881 and the totals were
about seven billions. Last year, as
nearly as accurate records can be OBJ
tanned. gross farm income was about
FIVE billions and labor's wage through
factory pay rolls was just about the
same.
From these statistics, compiled year
after year, the government has devel-
oped what the statisticians call an In
dex. 1t is yardstick. a basis. for
measurement. From this index learn
that gross farm income Is just about
half what can properly be called nor
NAL Ian index figure Of 1907, while la
Dor is receiving d total only about So
per cent of that normal amount.
But to get back to those conflicting
interests. Everybody who makes any
thing or grows any
Recovery q thing, in short, every
SIorp Process producer, wants to
get as high a price
as he can for anything he sells. 1t
applies to those who work with their
hands and sell their services. Those
who sell want as high a price as they
can get and those who buy want as
low a price as they can force. Hence.
labor Is making much noise that its
wage Is not high enough and that It's
hours are too long, while In the same
breath labor is saying retail prices are
too high. Farmers get wrought up at
this. They say that retail prices are
high as compared with the returns they
receive, but the attitude of the farmer
also includes sideswipe at labor for
demanding so much.
So it seems to me that there is need
for the patience which is now being
urged. In the first instance, this
thing called recovery admittedly can
not be made an accomplished fact over
night. 1t is a slow process, and It
seems slower than it is. It appears
to take such long time for benefits
to reach the man in the street after
there has been improvement in basic
conditions and among the so-called key
industries. But it is to be remem-
bered that when the depression took
hold, there was shrinkage in income
of those who had put their money into
the great factories or had invested
them in stocks and bonds or tangible
property quite while before the shock
was felt by the man in the street.
Washington observers are expecting
to witness some fireworks to be set off
in the next congress by the diminutive
Senator Carter Glass (Dem.) Of vir-
ginia. The senator is small of stature,
a mite of a man, but that does mot
apply to his mental capacity. He is,
moreover a man who does not get
greatly concerned about ordinary
pieces of legislation. Whenever there
Is bill before the senate dealing with
banking policies or money policies, one
will see the tozzled red head from Vir-
ginia very much in evidence on the
senate floor.
Sometime in the future when the
next generation has grown to matur-
ity, the users Of
CCC Doing lumber. and that Is
yy..e,,1 IVork about all Of us, will
look about them and
observe fine growing timber awaiting
the ak of the woodsman. The picture
before them will be the matured re-
suit of a program about which Presi-
dent Franklin D. Roosevelt dreamed
before he was elevated to the highest
Office in the land. Whether one agrees
with the expenditure Of public funds in
this manner or not, none can say that
his reforestation program will not pro-
duce lumber for the future, and none
can say that 1t will not be sadly need
ed by the time the saplings now being
planted have developed to the point
where they are ready for use.
Mr.. Roosevelt started out in execu-
ton of his refOrestation program as
a means of alternating unemployment.
He proposed that congress create the
civilian conservation corps SO that up
wards of three hundred thousand un-
employed men might be given work
that was of character Of which they
would not be ashamed. He believed
the money paid to them would reduce
suffering among their families and, If
not among their families, would take
that number of men off Of relief rolls
or lift them from the almshouses.
And such 1t has proved to be to the
extent of some two hundred thousand
families and about one hundred thou
sand individual men.
They are working; they are clothed
well and they are fed well. Their
morale is high. according to all per-
sons who have visited the conserva-
tion camps. The men feel that they
are not a burden on society. for the
work they are doing is useful. Conse-
quently. 1t Is the view of those with
whom I have discussed the corps that
these men feel life to be worthwhile.
was reminded of the scope Of the
conservation program, the tree plant
ing plan. the other day when one Of
the numerous boards and commissions