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Show ! KIWANIS CLUBS -1 .OF THREE CITIES ;' ' HEARC.H.AUai!;! ! 1 ! ; Ohio Sui;ir M;i n Discusses ': i Suar i"(H'ls at Tri-Club j j ict:t;n;-. : ! 1 1 1 iMH'-ri'V. ii s'; :: r v. I ni.h ;i f- :; I ' fnr.N !'- m::!v r-.mp it J. -?i l.i iho ;: s...r:,l,.,l n-.ar I ri-M. !.! aUo (.'"f. rs i nor Snii!!Mi ((, ll'r p '.: fa!'l:l ! , ilisi revs. 'harlrv I f . AM. i'rr-:- : di-ii! i'!' ihi- l-';nni'W SrtL:;tr r-nn- , :tny. of I i.-l'iaiK-r. (ilii.r. said in nil adili'rsv Thurxiay v i-nhm bi! , lli' K iwa his clnhs ni" Si .r i i k: vi i If, j Span Kb Fork and Provo in Hotel j ' ( I.ob.Tis. : ! " i.r ari.-iiltii!'::! i roi;!ili- have . ltfcn caused pii m -i m 1 1 y by di-p!e- t ion of iiur s i 1 fen : lit y, I hp .::h : ' - n si :i t i T LTowin' of wiieat and . other crops biLrb in niiii'T::! el"- i' nients. .Thf-ie crop-: have been soid ' at less tluiii ciisr ot' production, if : the cost of the juiheral eleineniS) ; I hey contain were conn; eil. ; "SiiL-ar. on iho odier band, la!;. '3 no ft-rt ility from the soil, t "in mica mi-ca My it is, nothing but cai'lon and water. The mmar beet L'els t he j water from the rain and lite carbon ! from the carbon dioxide in the air jthroiiiib the action of snnsliiue on the green loaves nf the plant. ''Sunsliliie and rain are inex- ' ha ust ible." i lie speaker declared, ' "and Ameri-a should follow the ' :iirri-ullural pra-tice of Germany, I Franco, Denmark and lieltrium. and 1 raise more of such farm product s as do not exhaust the soil, inslead of so much wheat, corn and other i crops that are low in price and are j I hard. on soil fertility." While sugar beets take fertile i soil, the speaker explained that tops and crown are left on the 3 ground to be plowed under and the ; pulp, after sugar is extracted, is put 3 back on the land as feed for dairy I cattle. '3) j "In 1020 alone," said the speaker, -E i "the people of the United States f IIO.OOO.OIM) of us went to Cuga ;j J and handed over $9OO,OiMi.O00 for the t'j sunshine and rain over Cuba in the V form of sugar, just is if we didn't ,'j have any of our own." . j t Mr. Allen urged his hearers to in- i sist that their congressmen support , such laws as will foster the produe- j ' tion of food products that come ! from the Inexhaustible materials, ; :, not from the exhaustible mineral ' matter of the soil. ; , The present sugar tariff of $1.70 ' j per 1(K) pounds is none too high for the protection of the American farmer against the black labor nnd cheap living conditions of foreign countries, be said. Yet the Cuban I sugar interests want it still further ' reduced, so they can in turn cut the price so low during three i , months when domestic sugar is on i the market, that the American farmer will be forced out of the i sugar business. Then with no coin-I coin-I petition, the speaker charged, the trust could boost the price as high as they liked. , Branding as n myth the idea that j governmental stimulation of the ' American sugar crop or tariff raises the price of sugar, the speaker as- ;, sorted that in reality sugar iF al- , ways lowest in price at the time ,1 the domestic crop is going on the i market in competition with the imports im-ports from Cuba. "A week after Ohio nnd Michl- 1 gan sugar factories began to grind beets last fall, they offered sugar as far east ns Buffalo at JK) cents I a hundred pounds less than the price quoted on the New York stock exchange. But the sugar grown in America was practically all sold and consumed by the middle of February and then the price advanced ad-vanced because the entire supply j was in the hands of the sugar trust , the seven refineries in Xew York: i which control the Cuban sugar iin- ports. j "When sugar goes so high, the housewives organize boycotts but ! j they have no effect. The price does not drop until the home-grown crop goes on the market, and then it i drops immediately. During the , months of November, December and ' I January last year the home sugar f I crop saved the American people- : $tfO.KKUXM) on their sugar bill. But I through the summer New York eap-( eap-( Ital will dictate the price on the , basin of Cuban sugar. , "The late President Harding said ' the way to reduce the high price of sugar was to grow more at home. Every year his policy is proved." Mr. Allen explained that with proper encouragement, beet growers grow-ers in this state could not only grow all the sugar the state needs, but could also furnish her neighbors. ; And in doing so the farmers would bo selling only sunshine and rain, ' instead of the exhaustible mineral ; ' matter of the soil. The speaker heads 1,200 ' Ohio ; : farmers who are building their own sugar factory on a co-operative basis. |