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-VUG 11.
H. E.
McAULIFFE. Editor and
Mgr.
.hould he petting off anything lik • a? lightly as we arc? i
Don’t we all know that Germany v.culd have r.-.ade us |
.;;-d p.-y til! it hurt, ar.d hurt very much? Don’t we j
ill know t.
much as wi
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Gen .any would have made us pay just a
would have been able to pay?
itednt of tiie United States is about $24,-
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Let s Kccd Up Good Rjads
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ward continued r ud road, work in G orgiu
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Purchasing Power Decline
?r we hear self-st; led authorities re-
an | fkiuroe, about the increased pur-
From ever;' nusui
luting so-cr. Ii;• • fact:
id.asinj; power he dollar. 1"'ey do not take into con-
side rat ion e ' runic facts which establish tile reel rela
tive power of the coin of the realm.
It lias 1 ■ :i2 sin - been an ^disputed fact that the ac
tual, and pi ter.tla! v vilth of the world la that which comes
or mine. In other words, real wealth is
f mother earth and net some artificial
>. men.
Ueffl, for---.,
the production
sta uiai d set up
l-«>t (trass ts 1 to grow one year and the world would
Is- dc itn yed by f nine. I.et agriculture in any section
fa. and tile streetslof the most populous cities of the sec
tion will became ties'':ted and housos, stores, and all other
r'ac »s of business will close without delay.
! 100,000,000; of this amount about $10 000,000,00o is j
I iue us on loans made to foreign countries. Previous to !
I entering the war the debt of the United States was (in ;
j 1913, according to the World Almanac) a little mere j
than a billion dollars. This indicates that the war, if
1 our debt had not increased between 1913 and 1917, coat
j up approximately $13,000,000,000. Tins tremendous
rcost was largely due to the hurried manner in which
| preparation had to be made, and the consequent extrava-
! .anee ar.d wastefulness. In the emergency that con
fronted us the cost was not counted. What we wanetd
vas results, regardless of the cert. I? we had gond
,u. it in a ouiet, business-like manner far more offi-
• pr'[ ti- a ion could and would have been made at a
; cob But v.o v ote in a hurry. We had to be.
N w. do ar.y of those who are grumbling and growling
i.out the debt we are having to pay regret that the Unit-
d States took the course it did?
Is there one among then: who would have preferred
, at the United States sit still and let Germany come
across and take possession of our country, laying tribute
iere and there and everywhere?
There are other tilings to be considered in this matter
that aie of far more importance than the debt we are
now paying.
This debt would have been far greater if Germany had
won the war.
THE GREAT PURCHASING POWER OF SOUTHERN
AGRICULTURE.
(From The Atlanta Journal.)
The purchasing power of Southern agriculture, accord
ing to the Progressive Farmer, on a basis of crop values
for 1920 is more than two and a half billion dollars.
"The purchasing power of a community or an individual,”
it is explained, “is equal to its or his surplus production,
uoh surplus representing the volume of exchange value.
The potentiality of the purchasing power is limited by
the value of the commodities for which the surplus must
be exchanged.” Thus the purchasing power of the far
mers of the South will be found in the value of the sur
plus which they produce above home needs, while its po-
tential forte will uepcr.d on the prices of the things the
farmers wish to buy.
The aggregate purchasing power, as thus defined, of
the thirteen states included in the study is $2,610,127,-
909.000, which amounts to almost one-fourth of the na
tional wealth of Belgium today and to more than one-
tiiird of the national wealth of the entire Union in the
decade before the War Between the States. In this vast I
„otal Texas leads with $527,301,000. Next comes North j
Carolina with $256,892,000, then Oklahoma with $250,-
443.000, and then Georgia.
This state’s purchasing power is estimated at $232,-
153.000, which is forty-seven per cent of its total pro
duction, $493,139,000. The items of this total, as cal
culated by Mr. F. W. Gist, statistician of the Progressive
Farmer’s Research Department, are well worth noting.
Cotton accounts for only $122,850,000; food products
represent $370,309,000, of which $150,000,000 are live
stock products. Corn, oats, wheat and rye make up $98,-
472,000 of the total value, while sweet potatoes, sugar
cane and sorghum contribute $24,351,000. Vegetables,
fruits and nuts add fifty-three million. Evidently Geor
gia is not dependent on cotton.
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Yet we find rhe#e authorities telling the great public
about tiie iucr-M ed buying power of the dollar The fin-
e '.led product !■> always the marketable product. Hogs
m- 'it b turned Tito .pork, cattle into beef, wheat into flour,
eern into men. cotton into cloth, and so on down the line.
Today statistics shw tliu an acre of cotton has ben 61 per
cent of the >!}• mg power it had fiv.V years average prior
to tiie inception of tiie wo rld war, or from 1909 to 1914.
Wheat has omy 84 per cent, corn com os tn between cotton
a .d wheal, so ,i es hay and other farm products.
The du line la purchasing power of farm products has
. ached its lowest stage. It ran not well recode further,
v.’e must have a trend upward. Unless this situation
ci ines about, he economic stability of the country will be
Horionslv imp.,wed.
—O-
SUPPOSE GERMANY HAD WON
(From The Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
Those who are complaining on account of the fact that
n ich of the ta:-: money that is being collected goes to pay
the cost of pa t wars, which cost includes, pensions, in
surance, expenses incurred in preparing, etc., and who
are making quite a hullabaloo over 1 it, declaring in the
same breath that 38 per cent of it goes to pay for these
wars and for future wars, should pause a moment and
think:
Suppose Germany had won the lute war.
As previously pointed out 68 per cent of the myney
goes to pay for past wurs, all of them being included,
while only 2:> ?r enr goes to pay for continuing present
projects and construction in order that we may be pre
pared to avert war in the future—not that we are pre
paring to wag ar, for we are not There isn’t the re
motest intento on the part of the United States to en
gage in a \v v th ar.y nation.
Touching the Southern group as a whole, Mr. Gist
shows that it has an acreage value of crops second only
to that of the Eastern States and that it furnished thirty-
two and six-tenths per cent of the nation’s entire crop
acreage and thirty-six and two-tenths per cent of all the
crop values produced in 1920. For the North the total
crop value was $2,282,952,000, or $25.70; for the East
$1,498,446,000, or fi56.20 an acre; for the West $2,317,-
861,000, or $22.45; for the South, $3,765,699,000, or
$32.10. (
Important as it is to press forward for greater effi
ciency and productiveness in Southern agriculture and
.'or wiser use of the wonderous gifts with which nature has
endowed this region, it is well r.ow and then to look about
us and take courage from thiugs already achieved. That
the South as a whole has trusted too largely to cotton is
not to be denied, nor the need of further diversification
gainsaid; but be it noted at the same time that she pro
duced last year more than eight hundred and thirty-seven
million dollars’ worth of corn, nearly one and a half bil
lion dollars’ worth of live stock and related products, be
sides many hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of oth
er food staples, all of which bulks far greater than her
approximately eight hundred and sixty-nine million for
cotton and one hundred and twenty-eight million for
cotton seed.
To overlook or to minimize these significant facts is
to miss one of the most cogent and effectual of arguments
for diversifying and rotating crop# and making the
South’s independence of cotton still more secure. For if
so much has been accomplished in these fields by Southern
farmers as a whole, why should individuals who still lag
under a one-crop tyranny hesitate to break free and go
•forward? The spirit of enterprise, of progress, of sci
ence is vigorously astir in Southern agriculture; elsewise
But. let u# consider the cost of past wars, especially the ’ these rich record': of varied production and of purchasing
latest war—to. vjrld war. That is the war that cost the ,. „ , , , _ „
United States much. As stated 6s per cent of the tax P ° Wtr COUld ” 0t haVe been 8Cored - To faster that »PW*
money goes v nay the expenses of past wars. | "beie already it burns and to indie it afresh in other
Suppose Germany had won the recent war, what would niinds is the surest means of making the South continu-
have been th ,*sult? Does anybody ruppose that we j ally more fruitful, more prosperous, more progressive.
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