Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1933-01-12

of the cities would get their jobs back
to manufacture more goods and in
return would get their buying power
back to buy our farm products. This
would naturally make better markets
and higher prices which must be, or
the farming industry will perish and
no one could foretell the results.
Bank failures as well as other bust
hess failures are Also a direct result
of the decline of farm incomes. Farm
incomes in the United States in 1919
was 16 billion dollars, in 1929 II bill
lions. and in 1892 had dropped to
$5.3OO,OOO,O OO, approximately two
thirds of former value, which directly
means the farmers dollar is worth
just about one-third of its former
value, and this is directly the cause
of the farmers terrible condition.
Suggestions are made for farmers
to farm more scientifically and to
organize cooperative marketing, ship
ping associations, stock yard regula-
ton. etc. With all that the farm
problem of today would still be I'M
solved. But as | would have it, is to
organize the farmers and get them to
keep their products at home until at
least cost of production is obtained.
This should not be so hard at pres
sending his products to market he
will not get enough in return to get
along anyway, whereas by getting to-
gether and Withholding their products
for, say three or four weeks, would
give relief of their distress.
saw a fitting joke in the Farm
Journal which reads: "Those crazy
Bolsheviks in Russia will never sue
coed. Why, they haven't even sense
enough to pump all their oil wells at
once and sell it at loss" We must
surely expect to succeed as we are
milking our cows dry every day and
selling the milk at loss, and we are
doing likewise with the rest of our
products.
Big business is organized and they
seem to fare better, they are over
stocked too in many instances, but
they do not sell below cost of prOduc-
ton prices, they can demand so much
or they don't sell.
The Farmers National Holiday AS
ISOLATION which has been started and
made great progress for the short
time it has been going, should be
Joined by all farmers and backed by
our village business men, for all we
are asking for is cost of production
| which should by all means be OBJ
tanned by all farmers so they would
be able to pay their bills and buy
| things needed, that would start bust
ness going again, as we'll as give work
to labor of the factories.
Some will argue over-prOduction is
the cause of the present low prices.
which is not true because they will
buy anything the farmer has to sell,
no one would buy anything which he
cannot sell or use. And there cannot
be Over-productiOn as long as there
is starvation perhaps in the same
block or mile Others will say you
ployed cannot buy, the poor unem-
ployed cannot buy now with prices as
low as they are, for instance if pota-
toes are 25c per bushel and they have
not the 25c they cannot buy anyway
Which then leaves that bushel of pO-
tatoes on the market until some more
fortunate person comes along, who
happens to have a job that perhaps
pays him enough where he could as
well have paid soc for that same
bushel and given that much more re.
turn to the farmer and business man
and the unemployed would have
doubled his chance of getting back tc
work.
| BY getting into the Holiday move.
ment and boosting for its success
great things can be accomplished fol
the betterment of the tillers of the
soil as we'll as the toilers of the fac
tory.
| This movement is nonrolitical but
nevertheless will surely use it:
strength for or against different legis
lative issues in both state and natiOna
government, and always will be work
ing for the betterment of the toilins
masses. Farmers should all get into
this movement to help their fellow
farmers to strive for cost Of produc
ton which would solve their OWL
troubles as we'll as their neighbOrs'.
ALFRED WALBERG.
Route 1, Braham, Mimi.