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to County « WceUy «jj as , Medium (o r the Advancement ol Ihe Public Good.
VOL. XXVIH. NO. 12.
Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
(Reprinted <tM Atlantic Monthly)
(Continued From Last Week.)
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To take t tolerant and sympathetic
view ot the farmers’ strivings for bet
ter thing* Is not to give a blanket
endorsement to any specific plan, and
•till less to applaud the vagaries of
•oms of their leaders and groups.
Neither should we, on the other hand,
allow the froth of bitter agitation,
false economic*, and mistaken radical
las* to conceal the facts of the farm
ersf disadvantages, and the practicabil
ity of eliminating them by well-con
etdered measures - It may be that the
fiamers will Dot show the business
sagacity and develop the wise leader
ship to carry through sound plans; but
that possibility, does not lustify the
obstruction of their upward efforts.
We, as city people, see In high and
speculatively manipulated prices,
spoilage, waste, scarcity, the results
of defective distribution of farm prod
ucts. Sheald it not occur to us that
we have a common Interest with the
farmer In his attempts to attain a de
gree df efficibncj in distribution cor
responding tq his efficiency in produc
tion? Do not the recent fluctuations
the May wheat option, apparently
-1*> -norutal interaction of
supply and demand, offer a timely
proof of the need of; some such stabil
ising agency as the grain growers have
U) contemplation? *
It Is contended : that, if their pro
posed organizations be perfected and
epetwted, the farmprs will have in
tk*4c h«tid*j.^^twrdme«t rtat will be
capable of dangerous abuse. We are
told that It wiu be possible to pervert
It to arbitrary and * oppressive price
fixing from Its legitimate use of order
ing and stabilizing the flow of farm
products to the market, to the mutual
benefit of producer and consumer. I
have no apprehensions on this point.
la the first plaoe, a loose organiza
tion, such as any ,union of farmer*
must be at best, ettnnot be so arbi
trarily and promptly controlled aa a
great corporation. The one is a lum
bering democracy and the other an agile
autocracy. In the second place, with
all possible power of org '.nizatlon, the
farmers cannot succeed to any great
extent, or for any considerable length
of time, In fixing prices. The great
law of supply and demand works in
various and surprising ways, to the
undoing of the best laid plans that
attempt to toll it. In the third place,
their power will avail the farmers
nothing if it be abused. In our time
and country power is of value to its
possessor only so long as it Is not
abused. It is fair to say that I have
eeen no algns In responsible’ quarters
of a disposition to dictate prices.
There seems, on the contrary, to be a
commonly beneficial purpose to realize
a stability that win glv-- an orderly
%n4. abundant flow of farm
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RECORD 1
GIBSON. OA., WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1, 1922.
utbsusmnWinS S»i„ „
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In r view of - the . supreme Importance
to the national well-being of a pros
perous and contented agricultural pop
ulatlon, we should be prepared to go
a long way In assisting the*.farmers to
get an equitable share of the wealth
they produce, through the lnaugura
tlon of reforms that will procure a
continuous and Increasing stream ol
farm products. They are far from get
ting a fair share now. Considering
his capital and the long hours of labor
put In by the average farmer and Ills
family, be Is remunerated less than
any other occupational class, with tto
possible exception of teachers, felt
gious and lay. Though we know that
the present general distress of the
farmers Is exceptional and Is linked
with the Inevitable economic readjust
meat following the war. It represent' must be
remembered that, although
Ing one-third of the Industrial product
and half the total population • of the
nation, the rural communities ordl
narily enjoy but a fifth to a quarter of
the net annual national gain. Notwith
standing the taste of prosperity that
the fanners had during the war, there
is today a lower Standard of living
among the cotton farmers of the South
than In any other pursuit In the country,
In conclusion, it seems to me that the
farmers are chiefly striving for a gen
erally beneficial integration of their
business, of the same kind and charac
ter that other business enjoys., if It
should be found on examlhatloh tlwi
the attainment of this end require*
methods different from those ,widen'
other activities have followed for the
same purpose should we not sympa
thetically consider the , plea for the
rlght to co-operate, If only from out
own enlightened self Interest, In ob
taining an abundant and steady flow ol i
products? *
farm
In examining the agricultural sltua
tlon with a view to Sts Improvement,
we shall be most helpful if we main
tain a detached and Judicial viewpoint
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Over Jarnagin’s Drug Store Phone 111 Warrenton, Ga.
remembering that existing wrongs tasty
be chiefly an accident of unsymmfftrl
cel economic growth instead of a Crea
tion of malevolent design and consplra
cy. We Americans are prone, as ^Pro
fessor David Friday well WaftMfaad says ltt his
adinikable book, "Profits,
Prides," to seek a “criminal undesirably Intent be
hind every difficult and eco
nomlc situation.* I can positively as
sert from my contact with men of
large affairs, Including banker*, that.
as a whole, they art endeavoring to
fulfill as they see them the obligations
that go with their power. Preoccupied
with the grave problem* and heavy
tasks of their own immediate affairs,
they have not turned their thoughtful
“ g?,
culture. It may he said, suffer* ither from
th elr ^o preoccupation purposeful and neglect exploitation
th>n m any
by them. They Ought «®W to difficulties, begin to
respond to the farmers’
which they must realise are thelif own.
On the other hand, my contacts with
the farmers have filled me with rasped;
for them—for their sanity, their pa
tlence, their balance. Within th* last
yaar, and particularly at a meeting
called by the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture and at another called by
the Committee of Seventeen, th|„ have
met many of the leaders of new
farm movement, and I endeavoring testify gn all
sincerity that they are t«
deal with their problems, not as pro
moters of a narrow^ class Intent, not
as exploiter* of the hapless consumer.
not as merciless monopolists,i but as
honest ment bent on the Improvement f
of the common weal.
We can and rauat meet sd*h m,
and such a Cause ib’-ss half way.. The
business Is-our bus -.the dath
business,
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The Paeumonia Month
March is a typical pneumonia month
and usually gives a high rate of mortal
ity for winter, the.dlsease. After* 1 •and
hard _
the system loses mutch cf
it* resistance and people grow rardess.
When ever? cold.no matter how alight,
is given prompt and intelligent atten
tion, 'thW tJT–ifch "ies» 4*lger to
pneumonia. It should be borne in
jnnind that pneumonia is a germ disease
aud Breeds in the throat. Chamber
lain 's Cough Remedy is an expecto
rant and cleans out the germ ladened
musus and not only cures a cold but
prevents its resulting in pneumonia.
It is pleasant to take. Children take
it willingly.
(AdvartUNunmo
The Cheviot Hills.
The Cheviot taltls. celebrated In his
tory and romance, are In Northumber
land, England, and In Roxburghshire,
Scotland. The range la 35 miles long.
The,highest,peak is Cheviot hlli, 2,678
feet
WONDERS
OF AMERICA
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THE PYRAMIDS
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westen/nilnoi^n^' * °° * 6te<l , ' uat •“ dlsiuQct "onthr
fro P°“ at ^«mpidae what is said
. *? matni ?g work °®
w,,* ^ rth 0ld Mexlco -
hsw los, SfSSSfiLfSKSii
8cl,nU,u hftv « f«»ed to establish the
^finite period of time which their
construction represents. That these
®onumenta of prehistoric man direct
G connect us with a vanished jieApu
ot whose history we know Little or
nothing there Is. of course, no question
It thought by some that the so
called missions of California, many o*
which are falling Into decay are as
Infanta compared with these ancletn
pile* of earth which stand in min.
evidence of the fact that, years be
fore modern civilization, this section
primitive was the seat of an empire of a most
race,
The greateat of these mounds Is
known, locally, aa Monk’s mound (leg.
end has tt that a colony of Tratmlst
m t»k» once lived upon It) It la
more than 100 feet hich i.’h,, covers bIt.
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