The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1939-01-19

land or Virginia and that his
ouCleS were to solicit more bus
mess or more beetS but in view
or the late ruling Of that aug
uSt department it would seem
that his services could be very
graclously dispensed with. That
IS OF course, provided, he is not
a lame duck and needs SuSten-
ance.
Then there is 20. E. Mulliken,
IN charge of labor matters IN
the Sugar division" Now this
position is not just clear. Do
they have labor troubles in the
sugar section of the agricultural
department? Surely if they do
they would not send him here
to tell us what we must pay.
the hours we must work and all
that stuff.
Then there is B. H. Benidt,
in general charge of sugar beet
payments, performance a d
similar matters in the sugar
section" Think of that fellow
fooling away his time attending
meetings when thousands of
growers are burning up thous-
ands of dollars worth of gas
driving to the poStoffices and
performance offices to learn
about their beet payments and
when they performed a long
time ago and the sugar is piled
so high here that the United
States financers of Cuban sugar
production are having a little
trouble getting congress to find
a place to store it here. You
know, when they get it stored
here it seems to have a passage
through the Agricultural de-
partment to the channels OF
trade.
Then there is &C. M. Nichol-
son, in charge of work regard
ing fair prices and contracts for
sugar beetS and sugar cane"
He really should be a busy
boy these days but somehow I
don't believe his services are
valuable because he just has a
title without anything to do, he
doesn't even need. an office.
You know, Red, competition IS
the best regulator of prices we
can have and if they would
Just put an embargo on foreign
sugar coming into the United
States, and then let this fair
price man find the cost of SUI
gar production in the United
States, add to that a fair prof
it for the producer and process
sor and then estimate the sugar
needed from foreign production
to supply our requirements and
get Uncle Sam to 60 on the for
eign market and buy it at the
best possible price, bring it to
the United States and put on
the American market at the
price at which our home sugar
is sold, Uncle Sam would make
enough money on the foreign
sugar to send all our congress-
men on a trip to Europe, and
we would get along fine with
out the distinguished Washing
tonians.
Then there is &C. R. Oviatt,
assigned by the sugar division
to administer sugar beet pay
ments and performance in the
North Central States including
Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Ne
braSka and South Dakota-ap-
parently just a paid observer"
I notice also that these gentle
men are direct from Washing
ton.
I see by the paper also that
witnesses are being called at the
hearing, are questioned concern
ing changes they deem neces-
sary for the 1889 crop, in wages
and price. This ought to be a
very interesting meeting partic-
ularly when YOU recall the evil
dence given last year on these
subjects and the rulings of the
agricultural department. The
only subject not fully determ-
ined seems to be the hours the
farmers NAV work and the prof
it they make.
Seems to me that one of the
resolutions of the farm prob
lem is a five hour day for the
farmer. He really don't need to
work that long because Mr.. Wal
lace has taken care of his work
for him and these Washington,
D. c., farmers really need prac-
tical farming experience to go
along with their technique so
we should let them do this
farming for a spell.
Red. you are probably Just
sort of becoming new tangled
and will be able to operate
your farm from Washington
some of these days, anyway I
hope you will still have time
between these meetings and
conferences to have an old
fashioned chat and not get sat
urated with too many of those
big words and phrases that