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Show Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Pratt Steaks and Cattle 1 The New York restaurant proprietor pro-prietor who recently revised his bill of fare to indicate a drastic rise in the price ef sirloin steak, and then added parenthetically, "It is not worth it," waa perfectly Justified by the facta. The chances are that most restaurant keepera are doing the beat they can. They wince in the pocketbook every time a person orders a ateak. Offhand, there might appear to be no sensible reason why good steaks and roasts should not be available for most purses, for this is a famous beef-growing country. But there are very good reasons. The blame does not lie in the avarice of the restaurant restau-rant keeper, or the corner butcher, butch-er, or the commission merchants, the packing houses or the distributors. dis-tributors. Mr. Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture and advocate ad-vocate of the ever-normal granary, gran-ary, at whoee behest hundreds of thousands of beef cattle were slam during the years of the great drouth, can rightfully claim aome of the blame, and yet even ha cannot claim alL The reason Ilea simply In the evolution ef the beef industry. Most of the best beef comes from high-grade white-faced Hereforda. The entire picture of the business busi-ness haa changed eince the days when the great herds belonging , to the cattle barons roamed the , graaay plains. A dry year can be ruinous: so can a winter in which too much food must be purchased. That la why ao many raisers of beef cattle go broke. If thla country needs an ever-normal ever-normal granary surely it also needa an ever-normal system of raising beef, a dream which requires re-quires all the long-range planning plan-ning that our best minds can muster. The New York Herald-Tribune. Herald-Tribune. Prospecting the Ego A 14-year-old boy who has kept Boston in panic by switching babies In their carriages while their mothers were marketing, has been caught and aent to psychopathic psy-chopathic hospital for observation. observa-tion. We hope that his IQ will throw light on a deep mystery. An earlier and more naive age would have shown him the difference differ-ence between the back of a hair brush and a nickel's worth of strap oiL Now. thanks, to progress, prog-ress, we may, from hia distinction distinc-tion between a rat trap and a streamlined locomotive. what the brownies tell him in dreams and whether his grand paw chawed tobacker. learn something about the mysterious impulse that causes a mischievous urchin to switch babies in their carriages. The San Franciaco Chronicle, a. Popular Diamonds It isn't any increase in young love, hard-headed diamond merchants mer-chants have decided, which has caused a phenomenal increase in their sales during ths last couple of months. The sale of engagement engage-ment rings hasn't gone up much. But other transactions in diamonds dia-monds have risen 21 per cent over last year. This, they conclude, con-clude, means that Jittery people with spare cash figure ths gems are the safest investment in the world. Diamonds do offer certain advantage ad-vantage which nothing else can offer. They have good looks as well as value. A bond Is a piece of paper. A coin is a disc with a certain amount of metal of varying vary-ing and highly variable financial finan-cial worth. Currency ia something for congress to play with. Furs deteriorate. Nothing but theft can happen to a diamond. Of course, it doesnt pass around freely in circulation and help trade. Yet It remains at a pretty .constant figure. It can be traded for easentMUS. Therc'e only one reason, probably, prob-ably, why diamonda haven't been used for money. It is too easy to make past ones. The Los Angeles An-geles Tunes. |