Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-01-23 | Page 6 | False Alarm

FALSE ALARM. We do not believe there is any merit in the contention that if the corn in the four states of Iowa, Illinois, Indiana and- Ohio is not moved to market at once it will spoil, aud it looks like an attempt to embarrass the director general gen-eral of the railroads as much as possible pos-sible at the outset of his administration. administra-tion. Anyone who has ever lived in the corn-growing states knows that the farmers, . some of them at least, frequently fre-quently hold their corn for many months, in the hope of getting higher prices, and if there is any danger of its spoiling on their hands they seem perfectly willing to take the risk. As a matter of fact, there are many millions mil-lions of bushels of corn constantly or hand in this country, and we dare say there will be the usual amount left over when an accounting is made nexl summer. Moreover, we are eatisfico that even if transportation is providec a great number of farmers will refus( to sell, it is true that cars have beoL lacking and that the movement of th corn crop to market has been some what slow. At the same time, it i: ;ross exaggeration to say that the con -.v ill spoil unless everything else is al (lowed to go to pot while all available cars are being used in the corn-grow- j :i:g s'ates. j