The Western news. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1933-current, 1933-11-23

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 yardstiek, 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 total only about %
per cent Of that normal amount.
But to get back to those conflicting
interests. Everybody who makes any
thing or grows any,
Recovery a thing, In short, every
Slou Process, producer, wants TO
get as high 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 price as they
can get and those who buy want as
low price as they can force. Hence,
labor Is making much noise that Its
wage Is not high enough and that Its
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 a sidesWipe at labor for
demanding so much.
So 1t 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 It Is slow process, and 1t
seems slower than 1t Is. 1t 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 1t 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 dimlnutlve
Senator Carter Glass (Dem.) of VIr-
gInia. The senator Is small Of stature,
mite of 8 man, but that does not
apply to his mental capacity. He Is,
moreover, a man who does not get
greatly concerned about ordinary
pieces OF legislation. Whenever there
Is a 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 matnr-
ity, the users OF
Gee Doing lumber, and that Is
Useful Work about all Of US, vii,
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 Ii
this manner or not, none can say tha
his reforestation program will not pro
= duce lumber for the future, and nons
can say that Ii will not be sadly need
ed by the time the sapllngs now beint
planted have developed to the poin
where they are ready for use.
Mr. Roosevelt started out In execu
ton OF his reforestation program al
a means OF allevlating unemployment
He proposed that congress create TIL
civilian conservation corps so that up
| wards of three hundred thousand TN
: employed men might be given worl
that was of character OF which the.
| would not be ashamed. He believe,
the money paid to them would reduc
/ suffering among their families and.
j not among their families, would TAX
, that number of men off OF relief roll
/, or lift them from the almshouses
r And such 1t has proved to be to tn
+ extent of, some two hundred thousan
| families and about one hundred thou
. sand individual men.
I They are working; they are clothe
Q well and they are fed well. Thei
! morale Is high, according to all pei
i sons who have visited the conserve
|, ton camps. The men feel that the
r are not burden on society, for tn
work they are doing Is useful. Conss
! | ouently, Ii Is the view of those wit
Z whom | have discussed the corps this
e these men feel life to be worthwhile.
l | was reminded of the scope of tn
v conservation program, the tree plan
d ing plan, the other day when one {
Z the numerous boards and commission
around Washington announced al
e prevail OF purchase OF land for use {
"a ..n.orynfiop rorpQ Tho commit