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I S 5 Opinions 1 I Comment of the American Press Consumers Farmers and Meat Under the caption What Could We Ve Expect Sam McKelvie writes of at the fact that 10 thousand housewives in Los An Angeles re recently re- re declared war on the high cost of Jiving particularly living particularly meats Striking housewives is exactly what may be expected in a planned program of food scarcity editorializes Mr Mc- Mc Kelvie On the tho other hand we remember remember ber that farmers struck and se serIous serious se- se rious uprisings threatened throughout the farm belt during a recent period of at extravagant and undirected production Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps Mr McKelvie remembers hearing of the farm holiday move move- ment It is indeed unfortunate that there should be this clash of interests between the housewives housewives housewives house house- wives and the producers of ot foodstuffs foodstuffs food food- stuffs stutts but we have never heard of any means of raising the price of at wheat and beef beet and pork without without with- with out iut making the housewife pay the Increased cost Mr McKelvie who is greatly concerned over the striking housewives may know lenow some method of keeping the farmers satisfied while the tho prices of ot their products are at tho the lowest levels in 50 years yeara as they were three years ago but we have always s 's found the tho farmers unreasonable enough to like good prices If It he has discovered some means of at giving the farmers armer the prices es they need to keep them from bankruptcy without making malting the housewife pay the tho cost he said nothing about it back in 1930 when he was a member of the celebrated farm tarm board At that time he was following the nefarIous nefarious nefarious ne ne- ne- ne farious practice of at making wheat scarce so that tho the housewives would have to pay more for I bread As we recall it Mr McKelvie's McKelvie's Mc- Mc Kelvie's farm board was buying great quantities of wheat and storing it away so that the consumers consumers consumers con con- sumers would have to pay more money for what was left lett on the market Personally we are not as greatly concerned about housewives housewives' housewives housewives' housewives housewives' house house- wives' wives strikes as Mr falls City Journal Man in the iho Mass MassAn MassAn MassAn An estimate of ot the total unemployed unemployed in the western world as contained in the New English Weekly places the tho number at 40 million The English periodical uses an Illustration which we wo shall adapt for Chattanooga pur pur- poses Suppose that wo we mobilize these 40 million and set them marchin marching march march- in lag ing in columns of at four at the army rate of marching Suppose Suppose Sup Sup- pose the head of the column olumn at this moment were passing Market Mar Mar- ket street at Ninth If they marched continuously day ay sand and night the tall tail of that great column column col col- col- col nina would pass that street corner just six months from now We Ve could easily enough solve the problem of these 40 million If it wo we woo could distribute the earths earth's products Sir Norman Angel Angell In his new book bemoans the fact that Brazil burns coffee Canada burns wheat t but neither burns the coal of the British miner who goes without coffee and wheat What a world If a man in the he individual were as helpless helpless helpless' as asman asman asman man in the mass we should stumble stumble stumble ble over starving men on the highways Chattanooga Chattanooga Tennessee Tennes Tennes- see ceo News O. O OK K One touch of or the telephone has made the whole world O 0 K con con- Over the network of at wires and cables that web the United States Euro Europe South America and andAsia andAsia Asia daily th there r float loat the voices of ot t telephone operators of ot many lands They all speak English and they un universally use the all corn word that is not a word wordin in any language Spell It Okay or Okeh or use the original symbols O 0 K it means the same thing in all languages lan lan- Whether it originated with the unlettered magnate who used the symbols to express All AIl Correct Cor Cor- r according to his own weird notion of ot spelling or because Aux Awe Cayes was th tha port from which fine liquor us used d to come the Are Arc you jou ou there girls of or England and the Hello girls of America share sharen n a p perfect understanding of O 0 K with their sisters the world over o It seems a pity that nations cannot cannot cannot can can- not bring their ideals into such harmony of at understanding The telephone girL have made friends across oceans and paraphrasing paraphrasing paraphrasing para para- phrasing have grappled them to their hearts ts not with hoops of ot steel but with c cobwebs of ot wire O. O K County City Merger Success At a time when public demand for tor economy and efficiency in government gov go is increasing It Il is pertinent pertinent perti pert nent to note the experience experIenc of ot Denver In the fi field ld of ot county city consolidation It is described inthe inthe in inthe the National Municipal Review by Lashley Luhley Grey Harvey of ot Adams State Teachers Teachers' college Consolidation took place in 1916 though it had been authorized 14 M years previously b by an amendment to the state slate constitution which was nullified by a ruling of ot the state supreme court The court reversed revered its decision in 1911 Consolidation Consolidation Con Con- made the elimination elimination dim dim- nation of ot much duplication beS be- be ci c- c S i tween city and county offices Thus such county posts as those of at sheriff treasurer recorder surveyor surveyor sur sur- su superintendent of schools etc were ver merged with corresponding corresponding corre corre- offices in the city The courts set sel up by statute were not nol disturbed by the merger Many of the former elective posts now have become become- appointive but a number remain elect elective electie e and the people have the additional checks of ot initiative referendum and recall re re- call There is little doubt that thal city city- county con consolidation in D Denver nver is one of the most successful in inthe inthe inthe the country the writer concludes Such a movement to clear away the duplication of offices and functions tunc- tunc is a most sensible step The people are the beneficiaries in more efficient government at lower low er cost painful though it may beto be beto beto to the politicians to S see official posts reduced in num number St. St. r.-St. St St. Louis Post Dispatch |