Show 4 I NATIONAL MEN AND IRS AFFAIRS I ISome I II Some Reasons Why Both Farmer and Consumer Are Hard Hit New Story on Senator 1 T n By ROBERT T SMALL SL Special Correspondent of Examiner Copyright 19 1926 6 by Consolidated Press ires Association JOW OW that thai everyone If is I more orI orless orless or NO N NOW less concerned not to SO say alarmed over the farm situation I suggested remedies of ot all sorts are pouring into Washington Gener Generally ally speaking there I Is a disposition to lun a t tho the middleman It is II I claimed there Is la too grea great L a I stretch streich between producer and andI consumer or as Representative I Nelson of Wisconsin puts It I Tho The farmers are unable to live 11 on what they get for tor their product and the people generally lire are Un- Un Unable un unable I Ion able to pay what I la charged for It This Thia sounds Bounds somewhat ous I 1 ous but It Is none the tho less true I IThe cost of servicing farm prod prod- prod prod-I products lucIa Is entirely out of line with the cost of raising the said products 11 ond an nil Ithe I Ithe the prices paid the farmer I It costs three to four fouz times as much to set a quart of milk out out- Outside side an on apartment door In the city of New Now York as Is In paid for th that t milk on an upstate farm The cost coat of handling all varieties of perish perIsh- perIshable perishable able ablo goods goode In any large city Is enormous The city chap has no sympathy for the farmer because he feels feela h ite heIs Is paying robber prices for the farmers farmer's goods good The farmer fanner has no love for tor the city because lie says he must sell always In a low priced market and when he goes gocs to town he has to pay I prices for tor everything he buys The farmer as al well as the city man Is I paying the tho heavy leavy cost of han han operative Co marketing schemes may help the farmer eventually to get ii a fair Calr profit for his hll hi wares warel but they will never bring the pro pro- I producer ducer within hailing distance of ot thel the selling price Middlemen are aC 1 ac- ac accused ac accused of making all the profits yet yetI the price paid by the ultimate eon con con consumer I sumer covers covers II a a multitude of ex- ex expensive ex x expensive pensive operations It Is all a part 1 of the complex lIfo life which Is being led today by the American people To understand the complexity of It I all one need go no further than Ihan to ponder the problem of supplying New York City or Chicago with fresh milk every morning The apartment dweller Insists upon hay hay- haying hav ing this milk left loft at his door or put on the dumb waiter walter each morning Naturally lie ho cannot Journey far Car Into the country to make the pur pur- pur- pur purchases chases ches direct Some Somo of the milk trains reaching New York City travel hundreds of ot mile miles Retail shop shops chops are becoming dally daily more elaborate and consequently more expensive to maintain Yet I Ithe the trade goes Invariably to the tile I hop with the moat most attractive lit fit IShOP I fitI tinge fit it la is easy to see therefore I that the tile retail price paid by the I city dweller lisa has no ito direct relation n whatever to the cost coat of production That Is but one factor The cost of handling the cost coat of ot the he I cost of keeping stocks stocka on hand hand- hand these are some Bome of the called so-called co farni problems Every so often a II new story up In Washington having to do with the late Senator Edward 0 O Wol- Wol Wolcott Wol-cott Wol Volcott cott of Colorado Ithe Inasmuch as aa Ed Walcott has ha been dead these thc man many years the tho can hardly be called new newyet yet they sparkle with a 0 which gives them freshness far above most of the stories which belong to this day and time The latest of o the Wolcott recollections recollection recollection lection finds the old senator and aid the time one Representative George Cook at a luncheon table Clearly It was a luncheon for Cor business lne 3 or political purposes purpose only Even at that conversation lagged After ACier ono one of the silences Cook turned to the senator Ed he lie drawled I guess I lIke you oU bu bUt I like your brother a damned eight sight better Well George replied the sen aen senator ator without lifting his eyes eye If you only had a brother I know I would like him a 8 damned sight better than I do you Of a a piece with the German factory story Invented by byan byan byan an Ingenious British propagandist during the World war Is the tho con con- constantly con constantly recurring tale of the mur der of Baron Daron von n n Germanys Germany's ace of aces acell after lifter ho he hall hail been shot down over the tho British h tines lines The charge Is that you von landed safely enough and had climbed out of ot his hll plane when a British soldier rushing up and exclaiming We have got you at youat last whipped out his hl hi revolver re antI and shot the airman dead The story I la fanciful and u untrue In the first place von ion would have been too tine fine a prisoner too great a trophy to lose Jose If It the BrItish soldier could have recognized the tho man at all he lie would above everything e else have recognized the honor flonor of taking him a prIsoner himIn rather than shooting him In the second econ l place there thero was no great hatred amoni among the men ot of the tho battle front Most of the hat hat- hat hating ing was waa done at home It Is per per- per perfectly true that men about to sur- sur surrender sur surrender ur- ur render were often killed In the heat of battle It Is too much to ex cx- cx expect that men charging a machine gun are going to grant Immunity to the crew which has been pour pour- ing pouring lead Into their ranks and sur ur sur- sur surrenders surrenders renders only when all II chance of further killing Is la gone But mur der such a as al that described In the tale was not done There Is the further gruesome yarn that 1 l tancel unknown sr s- s si dieg Is a German private from a German grave by n mistake stake All Isto these thoe how difficult It Is i to let go of the war Certainly they are created with a Calculated cruelty |