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About The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1918)
War, Food and Prices Upon their request, this article is given by The Weekly for this issue to the service of the Federal Food Administration to* Georgia. Did you ever stop to wonder why food prices are high in war times? Or have you just com plained about the fact that they are high, and then wondered why In the world the government hasn’t stepped in and brought them back to the ante-bellum level ? The next time you complai i about prices, stop to think of the farmer who grew the things you are buying. Do you know that he is paying $2 50 or $2.00 a day for labor he could get before the war for $1 or $1.25 —and that he is having a mighty hard time get ting anybody at all ? Do you know that every railroad in the country is congested and that i< is much more difficult to get farm products to market than it was a year ago? Do you know that the man who buys food from the farmers and the distributes it to the wholesale dealers, has to pay much more for his labor than lie did before the war. And do you know that all of his necessary ex penses have been on the ascend ant? Do you know that the wholesale dealer is paying wages and salaries that he could scarcely have dreamed of a few years ago? —and that the same thing is true of the retailers ? And then, on the other hand, when you “wonder why the gov ernment hasn’t taken a hand,” have you stopped io consider that prices have risen on a much low er scale than has rules in other wars? Have you thought when you paid nine or ten cents for sugar, with the country going through an actual sugar famine, that it would have gone much higher had not the government, through the United States Food Administration, taken measures to stabilize the market ? Have you stopped to wonder why the whole sale price of flour is less than sll a barrel, when it went &s high as sls last summer and threatened to keep mounting? Have you re membered that the farmer is get ting more money out of $lO or sll flour today than he got out of sl4 or sls flour six months ago? No, you haven’t thought of those things. You just know that prices are high, and that you wonder why “somebody doesn’t do some thing about it.” If you stopped to think, maybe your tone would change from complaint to wonder. Prices are high, but the wonder is that they are not far higher, when you come to think of it. People complain about war time prices. They complain because they are asked to reduce their Consumption of meats, wheat, sugar and fats. They complain because some of the substitutes cost more than the food they are asked to save for their associates on the othpr side of the ocean. All right, suppose that we grant their complaint about prices. But then let us look at the thing from another angel. Prices are high. There is no way to get around that. War time prices have al ways been high. They always will be high. But if we ate only the things we liked fully as well as the things we must save, and if we ate only the substitutes that were cheaper, how much of a sac rifice would we be making in or der to help win this war? Suppose that the men who are supplying our ammunition said it was disgraceful to pay high prices for steel when wood was so much cheaper. And then just suppose that they used the wood to make our guns and our shells —it’s much cheaper and could be painted and smoothed down to look like steel. How lonfcf do you think our [armies could stay in the trenches with wooden nuns and wooden (shells? They could stay just about as long as they could if we made prices the excuse for taking food out of their mouths. Prices or no prices, they must eat to win this war. Those peo ple need beef, pork and mutton, wheat, sugar and fats. If we fail to save in order that they may have them, we could just as well close down our steel plants and send them shells made of wood. Where there is war, food cap not be produced. A steel plow helps production, but steel is not a good cultivator when it breaks the land in the form of a shell. That has been shown in France, Italy, Belgium and all of the other countries shattered by battle. But a nation can be at war and still maintain production, if the battle lines do not encroach on the farms. That has been shown in Germany and is being shown in the United States. We have been charged with the tremem dous task of feeding our associ ates in this war, of maintaining production on a scale that will meet our actual needs and still leave enough to fill the gap be tween Europe’s production and consumption. The only solution is to reduce our own use of the [foods most needed abroad. We must employ substitutues for beef, I pork and mutton, wheat, sugar and fats. This war is as much ours as it is Europe’s and there is no reason why we should ask Europe to bear all of the sacri fices and deprivations. Zionism Under Way. “All Jews are young now,” said Nathan Straus at the New York Zionists’ meeting Sunday evening. He referred to the rejuvenating hope that Jewish national ambi tion places in the promise of Brit ain to permit a reconstruction of the State of Israel. The enthusiasm of the men who hope for such a State is impres sive. It suggests how great a change the result might work in the standing of their kind. From the position of a race scattered, of many tongues, hardly a people, it is no small enterprise to attain the rank of a nation. The undertak ing is under way, however, and has progressed slowly for years. The capture of Jerusalem gives it mighty impetus. Britain cannot do better for. herself and for Palestine than en courage the foundation there of an autonomous Jewish State. Christendom, reserving its Holy Sepulchre, would gain the services of a zealous guardian with com mon interests. The Zionists’ sue cess would protect Syria from the Turks. Zionism should appeal to the majority as something more than a Jewish question. —New York Sun. Let us all, men, women and children, firmly resolve to do our part in backing up our soldier boys to win—raise food, put up money, do any and everything passible, and be ready to welcome those who return and take care of the families of those whom fate brings not home again. Catarrhal Deafness Cannot Be Cureu by local applications as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure catarrhal deafness, and that is by a constitutional remedy. Catarrhal Deafness is caused by an in flamed condition of the mucous lining- of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube is inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed. Deafness is the result. Unless the inflammation can bo reduced and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Many cases of deafness are caused by catarrh, which is an inflamed condition of the mucous sur faces. Hall's Catarrh Cure acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the sys tem. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Catarrhal Deafness that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Circulars , free. All Druggists. 75c. F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. O. Bells of Bethlehem. New Year editorial in Atlanta Journal: There is a gleam of starlike prophecy in the fact that today foot- the first time in seven hun dred years the chimes of Bethle hem will ring their message heav enward beneath a Christian flag. From the gray spired Church of the Nativity the sign of the Turk has fallen, as darkness falls beneath the dawn gold, and wor shippers v\ul enter under the wel coming colors of Christendom. There, in the little town amongst the shepherd hills, where the first Christmas song was sung and the first Christmas hearts were joyful, the spirit of that kindly long ago broods again undisturbed. The place of the Manger and the Babe rests in the keeping of nations that believe in the rights of the | lowly, in the nobleness of a free j and aspiring humanly, in peace •and good will among men. “Peace and goodwill!” The! words fall strangely on ttie storm and strife of this iron Christmas tide. And yet if the thunder of the Allied battle-front be inter preted aright, if it be transposed in terms of the purpose and faith behind it, does it not become a mighty prayer that that the song of the heavenly host may be brought back to the world as ev lasting concord ? Not in vain will be the vast sac rifice if this war puts an end to war and opens the way to world wide good - will and enduring peace. It is to that divinely or dered mission that we of America, together with our Allies, are ded icated today. And when we hear the bells of Bethlehem, for the first time in seven centuries, from beneath a flag that floats true to their music, our souls take fresh courage and fresh faith. Had the Grip Three Weeks. With January comes lagrippe. Lingering colds seem to settle in the system, causing one to ache all over, feel feeverish and chilly, tired, heavy and drooping. Mrs. Tyles, Henderson, Ky, writes: “My daughter had lagrippe for three weeks. I had the doctor and bought medicine and none of it did any good. I gave her Foley’s Honey and Tar and now she is all right. I have toia all my friends about it.” Insist on the genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar. The Mc- Donough Drug Co. The Atlanta Constitution, Daily and Sunday, 1 year only $4.50. W. G. 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