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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 wi elected by Dr) Charles W. Daniel, Pastor First Baptist Church, Atlanta) \ .
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 nr}flifying to those who have
taken an active interest n attempting to
ervstallize the universal sentiment in favor of
better roads into some definite action that
will make these roads a reality. *
It is especially gratifving to note the num
ber of county hoards of commissioners that
have declared in favor of a State highway
systeni, to be made possible under the pro
posed bill; for, there is perhaps no body of
men so intimately représenting the farmers.
And it s, after all, the FARMER 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
svstem of main highways, paved and main
tained by the State highway commission by
# State bond issue, will relieve them of one
of their greatest problems -the building
and maitenance of the less frequently used
roads past the'farmers’ gates. For yvears
they have been foreed to spend the lion's
share of the country’s income nupon the main
traveled roads, only to see cach summer’s
work wasied 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 comties 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
wer and winter alike —past his own door,
These roads, in most instances, will eon
neci with the mam highways (as spur rail
roads join their main lines) and the farmer
will be enabled to haul heavier loads, at
Brother Johnson Should Study the
Great Problem of Crop Diversification
The Georgian 18 in receipt of the following
letter:
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 tell 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
tun -~ it into pork. But there again we gtrike 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
hog raisers want to know is, why the Govern.
ment fixes the price for Chicago and other
Western points at 174 cents and here at Mou!
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 sald
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
if 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 airing.
C. H. JOHNSON
Moultrie, Ga., Feb. 10, 1919,
Of course, if Brother Johnson doesn't
know what he can raise on his farm that will
pay except cotton, and can not possibly find
out, we should say that he would be wise to
eut his past year's cotton 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 cot
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 isina
melancholy fix—he's like the man who said,
TRUTEH, JUSTIC]
« ATELANTA®THGEORGIAN +
twice the present speed,; to his county seat or
market togwn. This will mean great things
to him —aceess to the town for his wife, bet
ter schools for his children, cheaper deliv
ery of the world's merchandise—FOß GOOD
ROADS WILL MEAN THE ELIMINA
TION- OF - LOCAL SHORT HAUL
FREIGHTS ON THE I‘AIIAR.UAI)S AND A
DEVELOPMENT OF MOTOR TRUCK EX.
PRESS LINES, WHICH WILIL 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 antomobile license
tag, if he owns a car, as most progressive
farmers do these days. The proposed lictnse
fee of an average of %20 a car will provide
an ineome sufficient to pay the interest on
$40,000,000 of bonds and retire them at e
end of twenty years.
Many of the business organizations of
Georgia are advising Governor Dorsey to
call an extra session of the present Legisla
ture for some date early 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 year of the $1,300,000 of Federal funds
waiting in Washington until Georgia shall
amend her State highway system and make
this money availabl® for her roads.
The advocates of the extra session point
out several reasons why that would be pref
vr:'hlo to leaving good roads legislation to
the next regular session, the principal one
being the likelihood that the bill might be
losg in the inevitable confusion of the clos
ing days, as many other good hills 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 stick
strietly to cotton, even if he can not find out
what to raise 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
tirely. .
Brother Johnson, however, CAN raise
. something else besides cotton on his farm:
other farmers, perhaps some of them in his
neighhorhood, are doing it it likely 1s 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, neyertheless,
The problem of erop 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 Johunson makes inquiry there;
they will tell him what his farm is hest
adapted to. ~
In the meantime, he should get that_cot
ton-cotton-nothing-but-ecotton notion abso
lutely out of his head. He's a **goner,”’ if he
doesn’t
THE COMIE OPERA
EX-KING OF PORTUGAL
“1f Portugal needs me,”’ says the exiled
voung man who used to he King of that
country, “*then I am ready to do my duty.”
If Portugal needs him! g
The most innocent thing that Manuel ever
did was to flirt with a French actress and
make her famous. He has no ability. no
l"\flra("(‘l'. no ('flnfl('i(‘“(‘(‘.
The Portuguese might have sorted over
the whole population of Portugal and not
have found anybody they could 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 be
doing his country a favor if he returned to
his royval 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 roval hlood,
the same statement would be received with
hoots, as evidence of a colossal egotism. But
hecause 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 gentleman because they see
in him some faint, far suggestion of Jhat
divine right, for asserting which their own
ancestors eut off King Charles’ head.
Thursday, February 13, 1919
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Comment .
ANTI-TOBACCO CRUSADE.
(Tampa Tribune.) %
Al this taik about a constitution
&l amendment prohibiting the man
ufacture, safe or importation of to
bhacco sounds to The Tribvne a good
deal like propaganda, and it is just
about as tactful a form of propa
ganda as that which we have come
to regard as tyvpically German., No
body with a thimbleful of brains
believes that there is the slightest
danger of a prohibition law of the
kind shegested, any more than in
tellizent people believe there is an
affinity between the use of the com
forting weed and the cup that in
ehriates.
With a certain class of half
baked reformers it has heen usnal
to couple tobacco and brooze, but
such persons have no influence over
either the morals or the manners
of the people. Tobacco is benefi
cial, it is a selace and a consolation,
and it is conceded Hy those who are
best qualified to speak that it con
tributes to the sobriety of the na
tion, The use of tobacco never yet
¢ost any man, his fortune--or his
job, nor Aid it ever awaken the im
pulse to steal or Kilk
DEEP STUFF.
¢ (Columbus Enquirer-Sun.)
“Fast girls are semetimes slow
in catehing husbands,” says The
Conyers Times, Let's see what Jack
Patterson is trying to say, anyway.
Now, if he means that other wom
en's husbands are difficult to catch
by fast girls, we are going to con
silt our lawyer hefore saying any -
thing, but if he means that Ir~\s dis -
ficuit for them to eatch men! who
will be their hushands, then that is
n horse of another. color,
IF ONLY SOMEONE WOULD.
(Macon Telegraph.) )
Eyve glasses for which a British
patent has beef granted can be
folded wnen idle to resemble a
locket and worn on a chain as an
ornament, says a news item. Now,
if some gening will lope into the
breach and invent eve glasses that
will stick on a fellow's nose when
said fellow sneeges before he knows
it, lite will take on a brighter hue,
THERE ARE C. P’S AND C. P.'S,
(Rome- Tribune-Herald,)
The Crown Prince of Hedjaz is
hanging around the peace confer
ence a good deal bigger man than
the ex-German Cfiwn Prince, who
spends his time fishing, on the
coast of Holland,
NOW YOU KNOW, MAYBE.
(Birmingham Age-Herald.)
The Columbia Record wonders
how much ‘more a chorus girl is
paid th a rural school ma'am,
One is “&'.m 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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T.HAT THE doctor told me,
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WAS NEARLY thLe flu. .
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AND | couldn’t work,
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AND ALL that saved me.
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FROM HAVING failed,
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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,
it 6 8
DURING THE week before,
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AND THE way I 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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I'M NOT well yet.
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AND I'VE got to be careful,
s g o
AND NOT do anything.
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FOR THE next few days,
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AND -l 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 work.
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AND I'M a little wahhly,
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AND | want to tell you.
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THAT IF it should happen.
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YOou .DO‘N'T h."m' from me.
.
FOR THE next few days,
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YOU’LL-K:dO:N I'm resting,
AND WF.CE?E I'm going,
.
THEY HAVE lots of cows,
' AND SCQRES of hens.
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AND IT’S all out doors.
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FOR MILES and miles.
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l 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 savs.
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THAT IN less than a week,
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l I CAN drive a plow.
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l BUT, OF tourge, I won't,
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AND, ANYWAY.
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’ IT WILL be the first’time,
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IN THE pastMive years,
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THAT I'VE quit for a day,
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' AND 1| hate to do it
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| BUT THE way I feel,
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. THIS VERY minute.
‘ oA iy
j 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 you
IF IT wouldn't be foolish,
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TO PAY a doctor, .
¥ 5
FOR TELLING vou somethinz,
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THAT YOU ought todo.
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AND THEN not do it,
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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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YQU OUGHT to do.
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IF YOU get 'what I mean,
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AND IF you'll excuge me,
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FOR JU.ST a few days,
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'LL BE much obliged.
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& —| THANK vou
PUBLIC SERYVICE
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" Sinn Fein Policy
1 Defended
i By PATRICK E. WALSH.
N a rncen\cohxmunimtion Mr.
l John Dillon, leader of the Irish
Parliamentary "{T:Trty. condemns
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
| ficures 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
i tien of England hasg increased by
; over 35 per cent,
In 1880 _wHen Mr. Dillon went to
Westminster, the revenue collected
in Ireland by the PBritish Govern
- ment was $30,181,213, or $5.80 per
~ head of the populatien. For the
year ending March 31, 1918, the
Irish revenue was $134 325,000, or
$20.97 per head. Mr. Thomas Lough,
a 4 British M. P.,, estimates that the
revenue which the British Govern
- ment will extract from Ireland for
the current fiscal vear will be $200,-
000,000,
In short, since Mr. Dillon entered
the British Parliament, 28 years
ago, Ireland’s population has de
creased by 16 per cent, while her
taxation has increased hy only 345
per cent during the same period!
¢+ All this shounld be suflicient to
show the- futility of Mr. Dljlon's
dpvnny-\\'me and dollar-foolish"”
policy of Irish attendance at West
minster, even though there were no
question of national principle in
volved. Ireland is outvoted seven to
one ir 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 *hat they
were powerlesg to prevent the pas
sage of this bill, had to adopt the
Sinn Fein policy of abstention. Yet
the people of Ireland, without, rep
resentation i the British Parlia
ment, defied the British Govern
ment to enforce the conscription
ac.t\llr. Dillon is already a discred
ited politician, and hig utterances
do not count for much in the esti
mation of the Irish people. §
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. Timely Topics “
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By Arthur Brisbane.
HROUGH the bright Sabbaths
_T sunshine of this week
; a train, escorted by Gov
#rnment guards -heavily armed,
came, traveling to the Atlantic
from the Far West, carrying a
load of -men described as “I. W,
W. trouble makers, bearded labor
fanatics and red flag supportgrls,
huddled in crowded berths.”
These men, selected by Govern
ment dete.gtives, picked up quietly
and swiftly, will be shipped from
the United States to the countries
from which they came by this Gov
ernment, which wants peace for re
construction,
It was an interesting trainload,
a new, interesting sight and inci
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 howl and wave the
red flag as much as they wanted
\lO after we left Seattle, and when:*
they fourld that they could do it
without causing anybdy trouble
they quit and have been quiet ever.
.since.” P
Possibly the policy that worked
well with the agitators locked up
in the Pullman cars might work
fairly well throughout the country.
Senators who recently defeated
Mr. Borah's attempt to restore to
life the constitutional guaranty of
free speech said they couldn’t
allow free speech or free writing
because “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
squelched by a line of czars and
their seexet police? Sitting on the
safety valve didn’t work in Russia.
Why should it work in the United
States? \ /
In England, on the other hand,
where any man can say anything
and print anything, wave any fig,
red, green or purple, they ‘have
managed to maintain order under
difficult conditions. The English
believe, as did the guard on the
/1. W. W. deportation train, that if
you “let 'em 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. .
While the foreign born agitators
were traveling on Sunday, taking
their last look at the home of the
free and the land of the ,hra\'e,
American born ladies were having
a curious party in Washington.
They had -a little doll two feet
long which they called Woodrow
Wilson and burned solemnly in
front of the White House because,
as they said, Woodrow Wilson
(‘:i(‘.tw't “force the Senate to pass the
Suffrage Amendment.”
It is preposterous that this na
tion, which is doing more talkihg
than all the\athers put together
about democracy and, freedom,®
should now be the only Anglog
Saxon Government in the wor]d\
that keeps women political slaves.
Fngland, Russia, Hungary, Austria,
Germany treat all women as human
beings, with the right>to share in
ymaking laws that govern them.
This country does not. Neverthe
less, the ladies are foolish and un
,iu* when they burn the President
in efligy. 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, oy 5
In America, where women are
classed as non-voting idiots, In
dians ' and children, little boys
learn contempt for women easily
enough. To permit them as chil
dren to assist in Arresting the
mothers of other bhoys, and thus
develop early their contempt for
women is rank stupidity and bru-.
talizes them unnecessarily.
KFood 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 European
countries are doing ler buying
largely in South Amfrican, Aus
tralia and other places where
prices are lower,
Here are facts to &heer up howh
cost of living vietims: Poark will
be cheaper. There are in the
United States now sgixteen millions
six hundred thousand more swine
than in 1914, when the war began,
:{y this in spite of the tremendous
shfpments to Europe. At an aver
age weight of two hundred pounds
per hog, dressed, that wbuld be
thirty-two pounds more pork for
every man, woman and child in the
United States.
. Dairy cattle have increased
nearly three millions during thes
war, and cattle for Beef more than
eight and & half millions. The
prices of milk, butter and beef
must come down, in spite of tho
most ingentous methods for imm
*ing prices up. g