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Show THK SAUNA SUN. SAUNA. PTAII For Hard Workers and (Copy for This Department Supplied by tbe American Legion News Service.) Hard Walkers Everywhere t $1,000, HAS BEEN PASSED 000-MAR- ' 1. ,y " r V;- ' ,v U 'v ' v4 '4 ; A ' r4'. 4' w Jr- ' .?, . v P v X - :! v f t , f . 1 y, - ; ... t"V 'A v ' ' - 4k H ,' - ' , ,'C , , . l-- V , , At the conclusion of 'the' preliminary stages of tlie active canvass for the American Legion's $5,000,000 endowment fund for disnWed ' veterans and orphans of the World war., tlie $1,000, 000-i- ark had been passed, according to National Commander James A. Drain, Nine states had gone over tlie top, completing their quotas. In most cases with a substantial oversubscription. Kentucky was the first state to 'complete. its quota, oversubscribing it by 50 per cent. TenniFsee and Arkansas followed .closely. The first Northern state .to raise Its proportion (if tlie a fund was North Dakota. South was not far behind. Other states which completed their quotas In the n early stages of the .nation-wid- e were. North Carolina, Utah and ' Nevada. Avon Park,- Florida town with a population of S90, claims to he the only city in- tlie country to have trebled Its 'quota in two hours. The town raised $1,503 against a quota of, $425 by noon of the first day and pushed on. A total of $917 was subscribed Ln the first ten', minutes. George G. Baumgartner, Civil war veteran of Phoenix, Ariz., sent in a check for $5. He said he would send that amount each month. The first contribution at Tucson was from the Associated Federal Students at the University of Arizona,- who gave half the funds in' their treasury. . Attaches of tlie United States Vet-- ' eran's bureau office at Minneapolis, Minn.,, pledged themselves to' raise $3, WO. Patients and attaches nt tlie United States Veterans hospital No. 99, at Excelsior Springs; Mo., con tributed $150. Employees of the Den ver (Colo.) office of tlie veterans bu reau pledged $225 to- the fund, every person .'making a contribution. Votaxv-Swanpost No. 45S at Neoga, 111., raised Its quota in the face of many difficulties. This farming community had been having hard times. A bank had failed with a large loss. Funds nnd supplies had been sent In large quantities to the victims of the terrilde tornado which struck just south of the town last spring. But the quota was raised. Many governors are taking an active part Ip the work for the fund. Among those who have recently accepted the chairmanship 'of their state committees are: Franklin S. Billings, Vermont; John J. Blaine, Wisconsin; Alvin T. Fuller. Massachusetts; Albert C. Ritchie, Legionnaire,' Maryland; George S. Siizer. New Jersey, and Alfred F. Smith, New York. Former governors are also active In the work. Among those more recently accepting places on state committees are: Clianning II. Cox, Massachu setts.; Frederick D. Gardner. Missouri; Carey Ilardee, Florida; A. II, Longino, Mississippi; Nathan L. Miller, New York; David I. Walsh, Massachusetts; diaries S. Whitman, New York. n - ?:: ';,- 4,'V - K - ,V, ,,, iav Sh'sst&i ; ttu? sXliSinrAiiatris zivjzATi Da-kot- a i Wwttfw : ,fc ' '' 4 . z1 & ;;:?4r(i A '; t? ir&WfZZ'''' cam.-pnig- r4's 1:y v'-B- f ' i. ' J, 7,'. ' w fay. ;'& '? M-'-J T ;;y : - ' ' , - rv4 - " The American Farm On the Junk Heap By FRANK 6. LOW-DEFurin Ult ni'icuHiirp is (lccnylng. have tuir.kruiilcles in rfccnt more tlmn (iOO jior cnt. to tiio I onirtiiint of the nvonigo funner could since , P Imve obtained a larger-incomhired himself out as IliltU if a farmhand. In considerable portions of the agricultural area farms cannot lie sold for tlie value of ttie improveFarm improvement ments alone. everywhere 1ms practically ceased. And though the attendance in other courses In our Universities and colleges has largely Increased since the war, the number of students in agricultural courses lias decreased about a third. Abandoned farms, which in the New Kngland states excited so much comment u few yeurs ago, are now found in eonsideratde und Increasing puuiher in every state of the 1'nion. And yet despite these facts, which are gathered from the records, there lias been a- persistent effort during all these years of farm distress. to minimize the seriousness of the agricultural situation'. Interviews from prominent linnnolers, urtl-le- s in magazines one going so faY, I recall, as to characterize t lie agricultural. depression a mytli ; have appeared with astonishing regularity during all this time, denying Unit there lias been a serious situation upon the farm, or announcing eonlldontly that tlie farmer's troubles were' over, and that tlie future was fissured. Whatever may be. tlie popular, opinion in tlie eitii's.upon the subject, tlie ablest farm economists generally agree that the farm situation is desperate. This they think grows out of tlie great disparity, between the prices of tlie things tlie farmer 1ms to sell and the prices of the tilings lie lias to buy. They can see no permanent relief Until tliis disparity They think that It may take from fifteen to twenty years to effect lids adjustment if no tiling is consciously, dene to. help the situation. They expect this to lie brought .about by the natural increase in our population und by tlie running down of tlie great farm plant of America. At tlie end of that time they toll us there 'will be another maladjustment of prices, hut this time In favor of tlie farmer, with a great and unwholesome increase in tlie tost of living to tlie consuming classes, with its attendant distress. A few months ago tlie Department of Agriculture issued its statement of tlie estimated value of farm crops for tlie lust year. This was heralded us. another proof that agriculture had come into its own. For it found t hut tlie total value of the farm s of fl billion crops for the your was dollars in excess of the value of the crops of the year before. Tills, of course, wus welcome news. The report, however, disclosed-somvery perplexing facts. To illustrate, the corn crop was nbout TO per cent smaller than tlie crop of tlie preceding year. Tlie total value, however, exceeded that of tlie preceding crop by almost $l00,tH0,(XH). And . every one knows that the quality' of this year's preceding cop was far below tlie quality' e crop. And yet, tinder a marketing system .which P ;s claimed Is one of the most notew orthy achievements of this commercial age, the sniuller crop of inferior corn was worth more In the market. than the large and superior crop of the year before. The cause of this lesser and Inferior crop was a cold, wet summer. It was n summer disastrous ' for corn, but very favorable to the grow th of grasses In meadpyjind. pasture. There was. Therefore, an Increase In the production of milk, with the' result that something like1 100,0(0,0K) than 4 pounds more of butter was produced In in the year before. This was hut about 5 per cent of the total annual production of butter In . tile United States. It created a surplus, however, on account of Increased domestic consumption of only about 50, OM, 000 pounds, or 2Vi per cent, ns com-- , pared with tire surplus of tlie year before. This relatively small increase, due to the same wet days and cold nights which so seriously injured Hie corn crop, resulted In a decrease of the price of butter from 20 to 25 per cent. Now "suppose that the corn growers and milk producers had been completely organized during these years, do you believe that this depressing and puz7.1ing condition would have come about? It Is safe to say that the larger part of the ji-ar- s Agrl-cullur- o, lie-b- ad. three-quarter- e of-tli- 19-1- . Thm Wonder Soto for IVear Wmmrm twlem . as long as bant laathar and for a Better Heel U.S. SPRiyC-STC- ' i f r ',$' i WORTH ZT'OO, HiZyiiATS TJiTKTlO j,aTS QTlT bumper corn, crop- - of 192:5 was sold at a price did not cover the cost of production.. If corn growers had been Organized and found that the market would not receive their corn at what It cost them to produce it they would not have dumped the larger part of tlie crop upon the market in a few brief months.. They would have sold .sparingly. They would have stored tlie remainder, knowing full well tlmt seasons of bountiful production are always followed by seasons of low production, and that at no distant (lay they would receive a profitable price for their corn. As it was, only a few of the corn farmers were aide to hold their coni for tlie higher prices which t hey hail rightly anticipated and which were later received. Of. course, even If organized, they, could not have expected to receive ns much per bushel for a 2,0(10, 000, crop as for n 2,400,000,000-bushe- l crop. They would doubtless have asked a .somewhat smaller price, hut ttiey certainly would have asked h price and have received It which would have. made tlie 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn worth more to them tlmn tlie very next year bushels if poor, corn actually brought In tlie market. In of tier words, tlie com farmers, if organized, would have' adjusted the supply to the actual demand. And they would have made tills adjust-liiebefore' the price became .demoralized. In fact,, the adjustment was made later, hut only after the great hulk of the crop had left the .farmers" bands. It cannot too often be stated that the supply of any commodity which affects tlie price Is not tlie entire stock of flic commodity In existence, but only that portion of if which Is offered for sale nt n given price. And so, If the dairy farmers had some way by which (hey could have taken last year the Incubus of fiO.CKiO.Oon, or outside loo.Ooo.ooo, pounds of butter off tlie market, It Is almost, certain, in the opinion of. experts, that flits depression In tlie great dairy Industry would not have occurred. If, In other words, this added 50,0tHi.(HK or-If you please, 1'.',0( 10,000 pounds of butter had- been purchased nt a cost, say, of $50,000,0(10 and stored by tlie farmers themselves, awaiting 'a season of' less luscious grasses, tlie dairy farmers of America would have received as a return upon their large' Investment, and their labors ninny million dollars more tlmn they actually did receive. And so I say tin's 'report from (lie Department of Agriculture discloses erv perplexing facts. Now, I. produce both corn and milk upon my farm. I feed the larger part of my corn In the form of silage to my cows. I sell If, therefore. In tlie form of milk. - I receive considerably less for It than I did a year ago. And. so these glowing figures of the increased vaiue of tlie corn crop over which tlie flnnnetui writers of the great metropolitan dailies gloat do not comfort me nUieit.. I am In- deed puzzled to know what to do. I have been" taught that to produce 9(1 bushels of corn to the. here Is a liner achievement than to pro!uee"4.V I like to see the. milk pail brimming, full w ith sweet, pure milk. Unit when I see. 4,5 bushels of corn worth more than 450 bushels of corn, and when I s see the milk pall but full worth more than the. brimming pail of another year, I become confused inid hardly know wlmt to do. Last summer the cotton crop, particularly In the Southwest, severely for lack of rain.' And then one day life heavens opened and the rnins descended. As n result, tlie government, which before had estimated the crop at 12,400,000 hales! increased tlie estimate. to 13.000,000 bale's.-Tills less ttian 5 per cent in the was an inerease-oyield. 'and yet. because of this estimated Increase, the .price declined In the market 20 per. cent. This .meant tlmt the total crop of the larger estimate was worth less In the' market by $300,000,000 than the crop by the lesser estimate. And yet at that ' very time the world needed cotton as It hint 'not .needed it before spire 'the VlvIl War. And. this. . paradox was die result of a timely, sain, Now1; there Is .tin music sweeter to'm v ears than the patter of raindrops upon the roof hrenking a drought In the summer time, and yet, tiv save my life, I- cannot tell whether that rain is' a sweet and fragrant henrer'of- a benefit or bankruptcy.' .When the, hot summer winds scorch the fields, i. do not know whether to pray for rein or to thank the Almighty for the unbroken drought: Sometlilng is wrong with of mar ketlng when the aggregate money value of a larger crop of ft prime necessity is smaller than the vn?ue of. n smaller crop. There are' untold thousands of men and women and children who need more cotton to clothe them than Is .produced in the world today. To say, therefore, that 12,400.000 hnles of cotton' are worth more than 13,000,000 bales Is to condemn a system of marketing- - whirh so -- . which ooo-lni.sh- ' 2,400,-OOO.Oo- O nt at-th- , two-third- - f . tueas-uresvalu- e. ' Our agricultural colleges, und our Department of Agriculture have constantly urged larger production. They have assumed, and naturally I think, tlint the more wheat and eorn we rals6 the fewer hungry mouths there will tie and that the more cotton we produce the fewer people will be obliged to go naked or hut half clothed. For whatever economists may say ns to surplus we know tliut there really has never been too much of food or too much of clothing for a needy world. And of course It follows tlmt the larger the production ier unit, the cheaper will the product be. But when large production Is used to drive prices down so ns to make large production less profitable than small production, large production will not continue, and the world will therefore have to pay more for the necessaries of life. This therefore la the' consumer's problem as well ns the producer's. It has been shown aguln and again that competition, when It goes to. the extent of forcing prices below the cost of production. In the end is ns disastrous to the consumer ns to the producer hirn-sel- f. The demoralization of an Industry which Inevitably follows results In an Increased cost of production which the consumers finally must meet. Organization Is a most powerful factor In human progress. The economist as long ngo as Adam Smith found In organization the key to Industrial growth. Organization means the difference between the'mob and a highly organized progressive society. In the modern world, the farmer alone has been the last to realize the value of organization for Its own suite. And therefore It happens that when the farmers In any. community organize for any purpose, they soon find that there are other benefits derived In addition to the one that was their special aim. A finer community life, a widening of neighbors and associates, a sympathies with-theibroadening of their outlook upon the world, a new sense of t Sip dignity nnd worth of their calling, nn elevation of tlie ablest and worthiest among them to places of leadership, are among the . of fanners organizations. Agriculture has emerged from Its primitive state- -- It must therefore conform to those practices which have been found necessary to tlie In ail other success of other great industries. fields of commerce, unrestricted, free nnd open competition in the marketing of products has been gradually disappearing. Agriculture, therefore, finds itself with Its millions of members freely competing nmong themselves while it Is obliged to sell Its products In a highly organized Industrial and commercial world. Now, If the farmers are to put themselves upon terms of equality with tlie great Industries of tlie country they,' too, must organize. It Is not deslr- able that they should Imitate the great Industries, adopt tlie corporate form of organization and operate their farms through corporate management. It would weaken our whole social structure If our millions of farmers were to surrender their Individualism In this way. Nor Is It necessary. While mqcli improved efficiency In production Is still possible, tlie farmers have made and are making constant progress In tills resjieet. The problems which press hardest upon him today tire concerned with the marketing of his products at a price which will enable lilni to live and to go on producing. He n must find some' wny to restore the proper the prices he receives for his the prices lie pays fos other .conjmodl-fles.tt- .: Brazils Food Factories Producing foodstuffs occupies, tha greatest numter of factories in Brazil, while clothing is next, ceramics, wood- working, furniture and textiles following in order. k . . APKISONER ln trim Ga., American Legion Endowment Fund, National Headquarters American Legion, Indianapolis, 2nd. Dear Comrade.:: I herewith enclose a check for $15 ns my contribution towards the celestial- fund that has been undertaken by the 'American Legion, for the purpose that carries the high ideals of the noble work of the organization. May I ask you to kindly place this small amount to the alloted quota that-Irequired from the state of Rhode Island organizations of the American Legion. I regret exceedingly,- due to my present position, I cannot give to you my physical assistance for the success of this drive, hut assure you of my sincere good wishes and confidence in your work. Your comrade, etc." s seeking to avoid the Operation of tlie law of svrply and demand. Quite the reverse Is true. Thosti who advocate this'. form of marketing are seeking only to create conditions hy which that law. Will operate fully its between the seller nnd the b'vyer of farm products. At present It does not. f: Farmers marketing associations, Some have however, are making real progress. fa'iledJ! Doubtless others sill will fall. The mortality Among them, how ever., has been no greater than among new business' organizations of; any' other kind of which. I know. We have been gatji-erin- g ti large fund of experience which will enable not only those already organized, hut new ones yet to be, to avoid largely the errors of the past. They are destined one day to eecupy the entire field, for there Is no other wny out. Just when that, happy day. shall. come no man can tell. It depends largely upon the farmers themselves. Tills Is not the problem ot agriculture alone. It Is the proldrtn of all. Because there ran be no prosperity unless all the principal . Industries which go to make up the commercial world, keeping step with qne 'another, shall march . abreast. .. j Ambition ' hack ln the old days at St. It A couple of perspiring neNazaire. gro stevedores, had stopped work for a chat. "Boy," said tlie first, "what yo-awant nios when yo-aam discharged rinu'de nhmy? mah ritle mos of ail, replied .the second. YiV ritle? . Whaflfo' yo vants. yo . rifle?" 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