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Let Your Light-So Shine Before Men, That They May See Your Good Works, and Glorify Your Father Which Is in Heaven---St. Matthew 5:16
(Text for today was selected by Dr! Charles W. Daniel. Pastor First Baptist Church. Atlanta) »
TRUTH, JUSTICIS
Georgia Is Awakening to the
Necessity of a Good Roads System
HE official approval given by chambers
T of commerce and boards of trade in
numerous Georgia cities and towns to
the program of good roads legislation,
mapped out by the committee from the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia appointed by Gov
ernor Dorsey, is gratifying to those who have
taken an aetive interest in attempting to
crystallize the universal sentiment in favor of
better roads into some definite action that
will make these roads a reality.
It 18 especially gratifying to note the num
ber of county boards of commissioners that
have declared in favor of a State highway
system, to be made possible under the pro
posed bill; for, there is perhaps no body of
men 8o intimately representing the farmers.
And it is, after all, the FAKMER who is
MOST VITALLY CONCERNED in the
good roads movement--though he has, per
haps, been slow to recognize it.
The county commissioners realize that a
system of main highways, paved and main
tained by the State highway commission by
a State bond issue will relieve them of one
of their greatest problems the building
and maintenance of the less frequently used
roads past the farmers’ gates. For years
they have been foreed to spend the lion's
share of the country’s income upon the main
traveled roads, only to see each summer’s
work washed away by the next winter’s
rains. There has been nothing left to pay
for the roads ‘'into the country.”’ But once
relieved of the upkeep of the MAIN high
ways, the counties will be free to spend
their incomes upon the lesser used country
roads; and within a few years they can give
virtually every farmer a good road —in sum
mer and winter alike—past his own door,
These roads, in most instances, will con
neet with the main highways (as spur rail
roads join their main lines) and the farmer
will he enabled to haul heavier loads, at
Brother Johnson Should Study the
Great Problem of Crop Diversification
The Georgian is in receipt of the foliowing
letter: i
Editor The Georgian:
Now that everybody is giving the farmers
80 much free advice in regard to cotton and
diversified farming, won't some one diversify
his advice and te!l us hayseeders what to plant
in the place of cotton?
Peanuts failed to do what was claimed for
them, so that crop is only a small affair. But
the papers tell us to raise foodstuffs—they will
be at a good price for another year at least.
How do they know? What are the facts now?
Take corn: When a very few years back we
bought Western corn here we paid the West
ern price plus the freight, Now we
sell corn, and we get the Western price
minus about twice the freight. So there
Is nothing to corn as a crop, unless we
turn it into pork. But there again we strike the
rock. When we bought Western meat we paid
the Chicago price plus the freight, but now we
are selling meat and we get the Chicago price
minus five or six times the freight. What we
\, hpg ralsers want to know is, why the Govern.
uom fixes the price for Chicago and other
estern points at 17'; cents and here at Moul
trie the price is even 12 cents for the same
grade of prime hogs.
Again, we want to know if the Southern
farmer is to be forever robbed of everything
he can possibly grow? Moultrie merchants,
clerks and cotton buyers tell me they pay from
35 to 50 cents per pound for meat. The packing
house could afford to pay us 25 cents per
pound for hogs and make big money. | was
here when the Moultrie Packing House was
first conceived, and know what Brooks said
they could accept as a profit and build the
packing house | know there are a lot of ex
cuses, such as our hogs are peanutfed and
that our hogs don't dress out like Western
hogs. Who has any peanuts this time of year?
They have never made any difference here as
between peanut and corn-fed hogs. The truth
Is that a hog fed on peanuts, potatoes and
beans and corn is the best meat on earth,
| frequently think it would be a good thing
_lf the Southern farmers would cut out one
entire crop, except just enough to feed them.
selves. We need relief on the price of hogs as
well as cotton, and | hope you will give the
packing houses an alring.
C. H. JOHNSON.
Moultrie, Ga., Feb. 10, 1919,
Of coursé; if Brother Johnson doesn "%
kndw what he can raise on his farm that will
pay except cotton, and can not possibly find
out, wa should say that he would be wise to
eut his past year's eotton acreage thirty
three and one-third per cent and let the re
mainder of his land go idle
To raise nothing whatever on that land
left over would pay better than to raise eot
ton on it
It may be that he doesn’t receive a fair
price for hogs. That's too bad, too, because
he says he can make the finest hogs on earth
by fattening them on peanuts, corn, beans
and potatoes—which he could raise for that
purpose, if he only could get a price for
the hogs, after he had raised them. He isin a
meluncholy fix—he's like the man who said,
twice the present speed, to his county seat or
market town. This will mean great things
to him -—access to the town for his wife, bet
ter schools for his children, cheaper deliv
ery of the world's merchandise—JFOß GOOD
ROADS WILL MEAN THE ELIMPCA
TION OF LOCAL SHORT HAUL
FREIGHTS ON THE RAILROADS AND A
DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR TRUCK EX
PRESS LINES, WHICH WILL DELIVER
GOODS AT THE FARMER’S GATE AND
RECEIVE HIS PRODUCTS IN RETURN.
Of especial interest to the farmer who has
studied the proposed good roads law is the
method of PAYING THE BILLS for these
permanent main highways.
It is true that they will be an automobil
ist’s paradise—but the automobilist will pay
for them, and the only cost to the farmer
will be the price of his automobile license
tag, if he owns a car, as most progressive
farmers do these days. The proposed lietnse
fee of an average of S2O a car will provide
an income sufficient to pay the interest on
$40,000,000 of bonds and retire them at the
end of twenty years.
Many of the business organizations of
Georgia are advising Govérnor Dorsey to
call an extra session of the present Legisla
ture for some dgte carly in the Spring, in
order that a year’s time may not be lost in
carrying out at least A PART OF the good
roads program and making possible the use
this vear of the $1,300,000 of Federal funds
waiting in Washington until Georgia shall
amend hér State highway system and make
this money available for her roads.
The advocates of the extra session point
out several reasous why that would be pref
erable to leaving good roads legislation to
the next regular session, the principal one
being the likelihood that the bill might be
lost in the inevitable confusion of the clos
ing days, as many other good bills have been.
’ “If I had some ham, I would have some ham
and eggs, if | had some eggs. ™
Still, it will not get him anything to stiek
strietly to cotton, even if he can not find out
what !o\ni‘w that will pay him better than
cotton. If he and the other farmers of the
South stick *to that all-cotton theory, they
will never get a fair price for cotton, nor
for anything else. Wherefore they would
better get out of the farming business en
l tirely.
» Brother Jodhnson, however, CAN raise
something else besides cotton on his farm:
other fapmers, perhaps”some of them in his
neighborhood, are doing it; it likely is true
that even for some of these other crops they
are not yet getting fully fair prices: but
they are not being foreed to aceept suicidal
prices, nevertheless,
The problem of crop diversification pre
sents its difficulties and vexations to he
sure; and, by the way, the State Department
of Agriculture is only too glad to help solve
it for individuals when called upon. Sup
pose Brother Johnson makes inquiry there;
they will tell him what his farm is best
' adapted to.
In the meantime, he should get that eot
ton-cotton-nothing-but-button. notion abso
lutely out of his head. He's a *goner,”’ if he
doesn't
THE COMIC OPERA
EX-KING OF PORTUGAL
“If Portugal needs me,”’ says the exiled
young man who used to he King of that
country, ‘““then I am ready to do my duty.”’
If Portugal needs him!
The most innocent thing that Manuel ever
did was to flirt with a French actress and
make her famous. He has no ability, no
character, no conscience.
The Portuguese might have sorted ‘over
the whole population of Portugal and not
have found anybddy they eould more easily
get along without. He is about as much
needed in Portugal as the Spanish influenza,
But the fact that he thinks he would he
doing his country a favor if he returned to
his royal almshouse is interesting evidence
of what the institution of hereditary Kingship
——and hereditary nobility or privilege of any
kind-—does to man. From a person much
brighter than Manuel, but not of royal blood,
the same statement would be received with
hoots, as evidence of a colossal egotism. But
because Manuel's ancestors have not heen
good for anything for many generations—
that is, because they were royval-—he is taken
seriously,
Even in England the home of Bernard
Shaw, . G. Wells, Keir Hardie and the
Labor party, people turn to look at this in
significant little gentlaman beeause they see
in him rh\mo faint, far suggestion of that
divine right, for asserting which their own
ancestors eut off King Charles’ head.
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ANTI-TOBACCO CRUSADE.
(Tampa Tribune.)
All this taik d/m,n a constitntion
‘ul amendment prouibiting the man
ufacture, sale or importation of to
bacea sounds to The Tribune a gopd
deal like propaganda, and it is just
ahout as tactful a lm'u‘\ of propa
ganda as that which wéd have come
to regard as typically German. No
body with a thimbleful of brains
helieves that there is the slightest
dnnger of a prohinition law of the
kind sueegested, any more than in
telligent people believe there if.an
aflinity between the use of the com
forting weed and the cup that in
ehriates.
With a certain class of hny
haked rul'ur%m's it has been usual
to couple tobacco and brooze, but
such persong have no influence over
either the moralg or the manners
of the people. Tobacco is benefl
cfaly it 1s a solace and a m\nmlanonA
and it is conceded by those who are
best qualified to speak that it con
tributes to the sobrieiy of the na
tion, The use of tobacco never yet
cost any man his fortune—or his
Jjob, nor did it ever awaken the im
pulse to steal or kill,
DEEP STUFF.
(Columbus Enqudfer-Sun,)
“Fast girls are sometimes slow
in ecatching hushands” says The
Conyers Times, Let's see what Jack
Patterson is trying to say, anyway.
Now, ilf he means that other woms
en's hushands are difficult to eatch
by fast girls, we are going to con
sult our lawyer before sayving any
thing, but if he means that it is dif
ficult for them to catch men who
will be %e\r husbands, then that‘is
a horse of another color,
. IF ONLY MIONC WOuLD.
(Macon “elegraph.)
Eye glasses for which a RBritish
patent has been granted can be
folded wnen idle to resemble a
locket and worn on a chain as an
ornament, sayvs a news stem. Now,
If some genius will lope into the
breach and invent eye glasses that
will stick on a fellow’s nose when
sald fellow sneesas before he knows
it, life will take on a brighter hue,
THERE ARE C. P'S§ AND C, P.'S.
(Rome Tribune-Herald)
The Crown Prince Hedjaz is
hanging around the pe confers
ence a good deal bigger than than
the ex-German Crown Prince, who
spends his time fishing on the
coast of Holland,
NOW YOU KNOW, MAYBE.
(Birmingham Age-Herald,)
The Columbia Record waonders
how much more a chorus girl is
paid :an a rural school ma‘am.
- One paid for what she knows,
-the other for what she shows,
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DEAR EDITOR.
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YOU DON'T know it,
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BUT FOR the past week
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OUT HERE in the West,
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I'VE HAD something. \
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THAT THE doctor told me,
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WAS NEARLY the flu,
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AND | couldn't work.
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AND ALL that saved me
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FROM HAVING falled.
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TO SEND back the bacon.
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WAS THE two a day.
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THAT | had written,
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DURING THE weeck before,
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AND THE way 1 date them,
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IT MAKES you think.
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| WRITE one each day.
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AND THE only reason
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I'M TELLING you this,
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IS THE doctor says.
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'M NOT well yet,
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AND I'VE got to be careful,
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AND NOT do anything.
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FOR THE next few days,
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AND | think he's right.
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BECAUSE THE way I feel,
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I'M NOT very happy.
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AND My mind doesn't worl
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AND I'M a little wahhiy,
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AND | want to tel? you,
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THAT IF it should happen,
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YOU DON'T hear from me,
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FOR THE next few days,
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YOU'LL.K.NO'VI I'm resting,
AND W""t':!.l'm going,
THEY HAVE lots of cows,
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AND SCORES of hens,
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AND IT’S all out doors.
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FOR MILES and miles.
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AND DRINKING fresh milk.
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AND‘ EATING fresh eggs.
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AND BREATHING fresh air,
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THE DOCTOR says.
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THAT IN less than a week.
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I CAN drive a plow,
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BUT, OF course, T won't.
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AND, ANYWAY.
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T WILL be’the first time.
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IN THE past five years.
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THAT I'VE quit for a day.
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AND | hate to do it,
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BUT THE way 1 feel.
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THIS VERY minute.
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WHILE I'M sitting here.
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AND WRITING this.
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I'VE GOT to do it
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AND THEN, besides,
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I WANT to ask vou
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IF IT wouldn't be foolish.
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TO PAY a doctor, i
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FOR TELLING you something.
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THAT YOU ought to do.
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AND PARTICULARLY so,
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IF YOU wanted 'to do,
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WHAT THE doctor told you.
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YOU QUGHT to do. g’
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IF YOU get what 1 mean,
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AND IF.)n‘u ll'ov(uuakz‘nu,
FOR JU.ST a few days,
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I'LL BE much obliged.
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. —I THANK vou.
PUBLIC SERYICE
Sinn Fein Policy
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: Defended
By PATRICK E. WALSH.
N a recent communication Mr.
l John Dillon, leader of the Irish
Parliamentary party, condemfis
the Sinn Fein policy of abstention
from the British Parliament,
When Mr. Dillon entered the
British Parliament, in 1880, the pop
ulation of Ireland, according to the
figures of the British Government,
was 5,202,648, The latest British
official figures to hand (1917) set
the population down at 4,337,000—a
loss of 865,648, or over 16 per cent.
During the same period the popula
tion of England has increased ‘by
over 35 per cent,
In 1880, when Mr. Dillon went to
Westminster, the revenue collected
in Ireland by the British Govern
ment was $30,181,213, or $5.80 per
head of the population. For the
year ending March 31, 1918, the
Irish revenue was $134,325,000, or
$30.97 per head. Mr. Thomas Lough,
a British M. P, estimates that the
revenue which the British Govern
ment will extract from Ireland for
the current fiscal year will be $200,-
000,000,
In short, since Mr, Dillon entered
the RBritish Parliament, 28 years
ago, Ireland's population has de
creased by 16 per cent, while her
taxation has increased by only 345
per cent during the same period!
All this should be suflicient to
show the futility of Mr. Dilion's
“penny-wise and dollar-foolish®
policy of Irish attendance at West.
minster, even though there were no
question of national prineiple in
volved, Ireland is outvoted seven to
one in the British Parliament, and
when any question of vital im
portance affecting Ireland comes up
in that Parliament the Irish rep
resentation is powerless, ‘This was
especially evident when the Irish
conscription bill was introduced
during the present year. Mr. Dil
lon and his party, finding that they
were powerless to prevent the pas
sage of this bill, had to adopt the
Sinn Fein policy of abstention. Yet
the people of Ireland, without repe
resentation in the British Parliae
ment, defled the British Governs
ment to enforce the conseription
S e ninen e iRy 5 Miadnde
ited politician, and his utterances
do not count for much in the esti
mation of the Irish people,
" T' l T .
;‘ imely | opics
| of Today
Em_,___.l
By Arthur Brishane,
HROUGH the bright Sahbut‘
T sunshine of .this week
a train, escorted by Gov
ernment guards heavily armed,
came, traveling te the Atlantic
from the Far West, carrying a
load of men described as “I, W,
W, trouble makers, bearded labor
fanatics and red flag supporters,
huddled in crowded berths,”
These men, selected by Govern
ment detectiveg, picked up quletly
; and swiftly, will be shipped from
[ the Unlited States to the countries
! from which they came by this Gov-~
i ernment, which wamts peace for re
! construction. -
, It wag an interesting trainload,
l a new; interesting sight and inel
i dent in United States history.
| One guard in charge of these de
| ported agitators said something
| that may interest Senators who are
| discussing free speech, the espion
| age act and the desirability of reg
! *ulating by law what men say and
‘ write. - .
‘ “We let 'em how! and wave the
| red flag as much as they wanted
| to after we test Seattle, and when
| they found “that they could do it
| without ecausing anybdy trouble
they quit and have been quiet ever.
| .since.”
: Possibly the policy that worked
. well with the agitators locked up
| in the Pullman cars might work
| fairly well throughgut the country.
{ Senators who recently defeated
Mr. Borah's attempt to restore to
life the constitutional guaranty of
free speech said they eouldn’t
! allow free speech or free writing
| becaunse “they must squelch Bol
| shevism.” Has it occurred to Sen
| ators that in Russia, where Bol
| shevism was born, free speech and
| free writing were most effectively
i cquelched by a line of ezars and
| their secret police? Sitting on the
| safety valve didn't work in Russia.
| Why should it work i_n the United
| States?
Z‘ In England, on the other hand,
| where any man can Say anything
! and print anything, wave any flg,
| red, green or purple, they have
l managed to maintain order under.
[ ajfficult conditions. The English
‘1 believe, as did the guard on the
| I. W. W. deportation train, that if
| you “let "emmn howl and wave the
| red flag as much as they want to”
| .they will be content. Dissatisfac
| tion is a force very much like
steam. let it escape in driblets
| and it does little harm. Bottle it
up and you may have trouble.
i While the fereign born agitaters
| were traveling on Sunday, taking
| their last look at the home of the
| free and the land of the brave,
American born ladies were having
| a curious party in Washington.
They had a little doll two feet
long which they called Woodrow
Wilson end burned solemnly in
front of the White House bempao.
as they said, Whodrow Wilson
didn't “force the Senate to pass the
Sweffrage Amendment.”
It is preposterous that this na
tion, which is doing more talking
than all the others put together
about democracy and freedom,
should now be the only Anglo-
Saxon Government in the world
that keeps women political slaves.
¥England, Russia, Hungary, Austria,
Germany treat all women as human
beings, with the right to share in
I making laws that govern thnm./
This country does not. Neverthe
! less, the ladies are foolish and un
| just when they burn the President
’ in effigy. For he has done more
for suffrage than any other man in
| the United States.
| You read that the District and
military police , were assisted by
Boy Scouts, It would be well to
let Boy Scouts keep out of the en
terprises in which women are ar
rested,
In America, where women are
classed as non-voting idiots, In
dians and children, little boys
learn* contempt for women easily
l enough. "To permit them as chil
dren to assist in arresting the
mothers of other beys, and thus
develop early their contempt for
women is rank stupidity and bru
talizes them unnecessarily,
l Food prices are coming down,
because they must. You would
hardly suspect, as you shop for
something to eat, that there is
more food in the United States
‘ than the mouthsof the United
States can use. And Buropean
coyntries are doing their buying
l largely in South American, Aus
' tralin and other places where
prices are lower,
! Here are fl?vu- to cheer up Megh
cost of lving vietims: Pork wil
be cheaper. There are in the
United States now sixteen millions
six hundred thousand more swine
than in 1914, when the war hegan,
and this in spite of the tremendous
shipments to Europe. At an aver
age weight of two hundred pounds
per hog, dressed, that would bhe
thirty-two pounds more pork for
i t'\:ir&';n!;‘v:‘.t;\;‘n)mn and child in the
Dairy cattle have increased
nearly three millions during the
war, and cattle for heef more than
eight and a half millions. The
prices of milk, butter and beef
must come down, in spite of the
most ingenious methods for hold
ing prices up, 4