Show I INSIDE STUFF Politics I andt and t Finance t WASHINGTON By Dy George Geore Durno I Here are two samples of the comment comment com corn ment appearing in weekly newspapers h in the heart of the farm holiday movement A few years ago the plea was to raise two stalks where one grew be be- fore Now the thc Idea seems to be to tomake make two paupers exist where one existed ex cx- isted bet before ore 1 Remember the good old days when a fellow could own a horse and cow without being considered well off ofU A South Dakota weekly reports that over 1500 Beadle county people are arc seeking jobs on public w works projects alone The county's population is NOTS Yet listen to the views of a central Ohio farmer whose acre farm arm went into the red fed last year for the first time The farm strike does not seem sem to Interest or concern anybody of importance im fin- fon ortance inthis section In my opinion opine I ion it will never succeed in jn accomplishing pUshing anything my thing of consequence Farmers are too widely scattered and md have too many diverse Interests to act lin Jn unity anyhow What benefits the farmer of the central west may be a detriment to those in this region l For or instance they are grain producers and Interested Interested Inter Inter- ested in boosting the price of grain and its byproducts The dairy farmer of the east who is b about as much manufacturer as producer producer pro pro- ducer buys the feeds of the western farmer and manufactures them into milk and eggs eggs etc and of course is interested in keeping the prices downA downA down a A A strike to be successful must st have a big majority behind it t and Continued on Paw Page Two wo o INSIDE STUFF Continued Continued from Pue Onel I It t must act in unity Farmers are arc not built milt that way a a Here are observations of the same farmer incidentally a rock ribbed Republican on the likelihood of a widespread milk strike Milk strikes never have accomplished pushed anything to my knowledge The consumer can get along without milk better than the farmer can get along without the money he usually gets for it Milk is the most perishable of all farm products and Is a dead loss to the producer if held one day A farmer soon gets cold feet after he helas has las dumped his ht milk a few times or even fed ted it to to what hogs he be may have He usually decides his own par par- situation demands that he absolutely absolutely absolutely must ship his milk to market market- although everyone everone else should keep his ais at home And dont don't forget his cows keep right on eating feed while hes he's dumping milk NEW YORK I By J James mes McMullin I The partners of a leading investment I ranking banking firm w want to form a Sound Money league They trotted around recently to the big banks and said their firm finn would put jut up a for the cause if the banks would do likewise The banks wished them godspeed but didn't chip in Next came a trip to Chicago to induce induce induce in in- duce some prominent mid midwesterner westerner to head t the projected league leacue and 2nd remove remove re reo re- re move the curse of Us its Wall Street origin But the Chicagoans approached approached ap ap- ap- ap showed a lamentable lack of enthusiasm and the promoters returned returned re reo re- re turned empty empty handed Now they're wondering where they go from here STEAM ROLLER The New York chamber of commerce com corn merce resolution favoring favorInI a return to gold was another move In the same game jame The chamber is not a Wall WallStreet WallStreet WallStreet Street institution but Wall Street used a heavy hand to drive the resolution resolution tion through All members of the committee which drafted it are Interested in either commercial or investment banking and advance notice of ot the meeting to approve it was very short for the membership as a whole The result was a packed jury Well known Wall street leaders took pains to stay suy away but their firms were well represented An economist from the committee for the nation urged delay to give the full membership a chance to study the resolution The steam roller flattened him quicker than you could say gold standard So what looked like a spontaneous protest from a group representative of statewide industry was nothing of the sort |