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Show MARKETS AND RECOVERY. Every facility that adds to the ease, rapidity and cheapness of distribution quickens commerce and increases the sum of human happiness the world over, according to the Grain Committee Commit-tee on National Affairs, which some months ago made a comprehensive survey of farm and market problems. prob-lems. In its report to congress it was also declared that "every blunder that slows down or impedes world distri-but'on distri-but'on becomes a crime against humanity." hu-manity." The conclusions of the committee com-mittee are based on the idea, now generally accepted, that man-made barriers are largely responsible for surplus in one spot and want in another. It becomes increasingly evident, therefore, that, the most important problem to be solved by world spates- j men is how to move the surplus of one country to the market which human hu-man need always provides in another. Legislative tinkering with time-tried, time-tried, and efficient marketing machinery, machin-ery, including the grain exchanges, has been a detriment to agriculture, instead of a help. The threat of further fur-ther restrictions can serve only to ag-grava'e ag-grava'e an already difficult situation. In the opinion of most experienced observers, free and open grain markets mar-kets in this country, and the opening of export channels closed by political blundering of past years, will bring prosperity to the American farmer, and thereby hasten recovery for the country at large. |