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S H lU LURK K S f LADI W WARNS RN 1 ANGE I M MN N Nt t Prices P ces and 1 n ages rr 7 A h her et c Workday V l l fid Shorter i l Economic Crisis fete retell U ll Suffer cr j Cities es to c P l py r. r David Da Lawrence Salt Lake 1 o 0 b bY The rho lt a 1 ti t Herald te r n eco eco- i c. c Deb n D. sh m tong as an inevitable mc crash is coming or of living int In- In cost of cc the nigh hUh Wages wag an and andr It moro more demand for of oC farm scarcity t s of labor production of ot clouts r hOU tr r sad need to be bo moro more s tart stuffs farmers err err-cd ihan among amon time the a at- at unrest e a e Is no na of the United tr States tats toral 1 citizen used In n g the fire to ho no 1 rd ryas as last week to the theof allS fers gi en ice depart depart- of the postoffice f of IO 1 Is there ther s the theus i but distress over I Ian t and S growing which h the economics us circle In days is travel- travel I hU I Irest applied so often to rest l ss been Bolshevists and t ot of of organized got gov wor word Is resented b by the tho eat that Hut organization omen farm tarm of 0 dissatisfaction wIthal with a dissatisfaction Fi that a would woul ou have been a ae at al condItions and that It If uno un phra o o e accurate orate it Will be In the city as n a tnt co orate ot of rural causes Cities CUlts In El Soldier Prof T. T G C. Atkeson es eson on Wash's Wash Wash- d dies s s IlS of the National Nationale on member or of Prest Pres recently a ge e and nd oK first Industrial peace t clan clash the present analyze I al Interests ls and his ex- ex ti tr and ryr aU all the more Interesting lor Is on I preno pre pre- believes CS Congress Cons can se he be and Md because he doe doesn't nt I care no the th L' L elt city ae un vices workman for less leas for refusing than he I I I U DJ lm hA can get bet s incidental incidental- n reveals I States that fa t the United arm army i lot Its returned of th the lie bo boys s soud Sit that hard hardly 1 per cent tho the farms before used oud to work on gone back to the tho country serious erious that Is can readily be Si N when hen it is realized that fully of ot the Amer- Amer of tb the member membership came from forces tarns farm U k questionnaire of or the to flee ment said aid Professor A Atkeson for or nineteen years ears was Va de dean n. n of VIrL VIr- VIr Ir- Ir College of or West L shows s 's plainly how city people been ken mi misled as to country countr con con- con con- i i. i I dislike the word unrest The rt fI are simply distressed sed at their I C ID D ny Inability to cultivate the land cannot accomplish what they like lite to do The Tho labor market making it Impossible for fort forto t to f feed d the country Somebody fO 0 hungry hung Unrest n nay ay come as fete in the city Firmer Firmer Ire Are le Inability to lo obtain farm labor serious thing thine Before the tho Ith the farmer furner trained his children bind help In the country Now ow owne tie the attractive city wages the ther Kr r 00 boys bos who were In the army do doh h to return to the country and andt il t t blame them or an anybody bod else Slob Hying hag in the city If higher wages l obtainable o there But city people realize that as farm la labor bOI gets t the e country must begin offer offer- higher r wages S and thus costs of oC lion will wUI rise Add to that the Lost cost of distribution ana ama you ou see ritti are going up Why rcck- rcck food Is the cheapest p of t all Our city friends ought lIt lie that about aboul farmers I Ind ally J Thc They cannot The They are helpless bethey be- be pit they ha have hare c to take what is 18 of- of I know that nobody ever er dis- dis or-I or ot of what v.-Ml lie had to sell either cither kW or l labor bor or commo commodities for tor less t taught ought he could get Jel We Wo alj aU r e t returns murns- We Ko should reco- reco f liis as a I fundamental fact Well i normal source of farm tarm labor the labor the o ci of farmers farmers ls Is almost gone The bots who ho went into the army taU Otte or of the world orld an and anil l city Ity v life ue up a against c city eily ty comS comI com com- S I o been bot lured red by II sod and ih trim hat y-hat at appears to lot them hem a more attractive e life lite I am am told that of or men about 1 per cent appear to have ha gone one back to the tho farms Large V iRe Lure Workers Also AlQ Q farm laborers do o riot not ot wish to stay it II the country if It ice ilC ne city offers them better hetter opportunities Normally 1 a farm laborer gets for Cor his Ins da days day's s work the equivalent alent of a i bushel of ot wheat The rhe other day I had some carpenter work done at my house in the cH city and what I 1 paid for or ten hours hours' work worle would have ha bought a barrel harrel of ot flour Jour and a a. half bushel hushel of wheat what A man is a fool for staying in the tho country if it he can get g-ct that much more In the ell city But some da day those high wages fellows fellows fel fellows fel- fel lows are going to wake up and find that there isn't enough h food to go around at an any price It Is somewhat Wee like conditions after the time civil war when we tte paid 8 S a heg eg for cut nails for or about four years ears and then suddenly sudden sudden- ly h the price dropped to about 90 cents a keg tte Ye had been selling wheat at 3 a bushel and then it came down to toCO toGo CO Go cents a bushel And certain persons persons persons per per- sons got ot hurt in the crash Greater Production Needed d There is little use uso In talking talking- about U the hl high h cost of living when you ou consider consider consider con con- sider the time high cost of city labor The Tho cost of oC distribution moreover moreo Is all alt out of proportion to th the cost of oto food product production IOn What we wo need Is increased production everywhere e in tho the cit city as aswell aswell aswell well as the farm arm Instead o of agitating ag for shorter hours and more pay It t would he be much better it If e everybody rn fn tho time cities titles and factories worked harder for tho the present present present pres pres- ent high scale of ot wages wages In the theme same me connection Judge Ju gc O. O GSmith G G. Smith of or Nebraska president of or the National Farmers' Farmers congress cong told his colleagues at their gathering here that the actual condition o of winter wheat today showed a falling of off of or about 33 POT pct cent The leaders of or time the farm organizations and and they all aU have ha na na- national lional headquarters here Insist here insist also that persons are crowding every cry hit hilt of or housing space in time the city while in the outlying districts and suburbs there arc are plenty of or vacant houses Get Small As for the time t talk about ahou t profiteering nv amon among farmers Professor pointed to the statement just t Issued bv hy bythe hythe the the- department of ot agriculture which sa says say The rhe average rag c not net in ome o of 32 farms In the richest part of or Iowa with no I allowance whatever for tor interest on the Investment in land and equipment was 3 80 If 5 6 per cent be allowed for tor I interest on the Investment at the value of ot the land Jan before the so called boom there is left an nn average e of ot only 1124 to pay for the labor of ot the farmer himself hum him I self and anti for the risk to tho ho business On the basis of or average values o of land landin in August Aug 1919 there would b be left an atm average of ot only l l to pa pay th the I Interest on the value of oC the land and andI equipment I The fact is that the prices of food rose rosa and the rise in land values fol tol- lowed Prices of fo food d production have moved up In about the same proportion as general g prices and in response to the same samo world-wide world causes war causes war scarcities and currency Inflation If It prices of ot farm products product were wore to any degree deg lower than they are they would woul be entirely out of line with the prices s sI of If other products I Ilig ninh mn h eD So So the the viewpoint o of tho the government appears to conform to that of ot the thes s of or tho the farmers org Well what will what will bo lc dono done There Thera isn't anything thing to be done Professor Atkeson said Things must take their natural course persons course persons Inthe Inthe in the tho cities will not be bo convinced any other wU way There will be a big smash and prices will fall faB t then hen persons will drift rift bulk buik to the farms firms and there will willI willbe willbo be bo more labor to cultivate the time land antip anti and I p produce Iod uc food |
