Show Unjust Difference Between Be- Be I tween hveen Prices Farmers Have To Pay And Those They Get In the gre greatest test and richest country in the world world the the United states states- States States- there are homes which haven't a bath tub It is criminal for forr our great public leaders leaders leaders lead lead- ers to prate about keeping up the American high standard of living when nearly half of all the families in the country are without such a primitive household household household house house- hold necessity as as s running water and a bath The Record is n not t going to do any tall boasting about our great l I country until it is made possible for every home in the land to have haye I f modern conveniences Call that the Record slogan if you like I I anyway its it's one goal to work to Is there any just reason why one one- one one-I I half of or the people should en enjoy joy j I the benefits of modern modem inventions I I I and mass production and the other half be deprived of or them II The manufacturers of plumbing and heating outfits tell us us that there is a great demand right now now I II for their outfits outfits but but that in most I cases the people who need them I i and are anxious to buy them simi simply sim sim- simI I i ply haven't the money Why haven't they the money I Here we have a n great market for industrial products all ready and waiting Our factory warehouses warehouses warehouses ware ware- ware ware- I houses are bursting with articles of every description Our rural population have their products I piled up in the same way But there is such a n. financial gulf gul between between be be- tween the two that they cant can't get together and do business This is I absurd and it has got to stop The relief should start with the I farming industry for the simple reason that that is the hardest I hit of all This is not just somebody's somebody's somebody's some some- body's opinion but it is the fact shown by the figures of all the authorities and admitted now even evenin evenin evenin in the enemy's camp Buying of all manufactured products products products pro pro- ducts is so far below normal that a large number of our big concerns concerns concerns con con- cerns are facing bankruptcy Many others have already been driven to the wall The operations of such concerns are based on big volume of production Many are unable to run on a 3 reduced basis I except at a n. loss At the same time the farmers are operating at a loss i The longer the depression lasts the worse this condition becomes People can can hang on for a while and making making making mak mak- by borrowing begging makI I 1 ing adjustments in in the hope that things will improve But the I limit has now been reached This I is a case where time is not a cure for the evil but makes it worse It must make male it worse until the basic trouble is remedied remedied and and our basic industry is farming Charts show that for every year of the last 10 years the farmer farm farm- er has not had a square deal as compared with the classes whose I products he has to buy in order to live Is it any wonder that he cant can't and wont won't buy as he would like to when he sees that it takes of his money to purchase 50 cents worth of man manufactured goods The farmer at his greenest greenest green green- est cst is not as gre green n as that I If farmers could start buying this would start activities up all along the line Anything therefore therefore therefore there there- fore which will give the farmers I I the wherewithal to buy is good busi business ess for This aidis aid aidis aidis is coming coming but but every day it is withheld means millions of additional additional additional addi addi- and wholly injury in in- in injury jury to trade and industry as a whole Many write that even I I Iare though farmers on the average are receiving 50 per cent of the I p pre e war price this average is deceptive deceptive deceptive de de- because thousands are not getting anywhere near that Fred FredI J. J Jord Jordan n of Lamber Mont reports reports reports re re- ports that in 1913 he shipped 2401 pounds of poultry to Chicago and 1 it was sold for 20 cents a pound I After paying express and commission commission commission commis commis- I sion he had net In 1932 he made a shipment of the same sort but it brought him only net Mr Jordan says he averages only 29 per cent of the pre war price for poultry I IThe IThe The The Pathfinder |