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Show - COMMENTS - FARMERS ABOUT FED UP Many large dairies have gono out of business. Many more in the nation are having to rely for its food on the family farm where the members get up in the early hours milk the cows, tend to the farming) during the day, milk the cows at night, and at a late hour call it a day, go to bed, and get up to do the job all over1 again, seven days a week. If the farmers worked the short hours and received the high pay of workers in war industries who constantly striking strik-ing for eve nhigher wages, those workers would probably be paying a dollar a quart for milk. There are two good places to put strikers today in the Army and on the farms. They would get an idea of what real work is. NEVER TOO LITTLE OR TOO LATE The people have been so busy listening to political attacks at-tacks on the electric light and power industry for so many "years past that som,e remarkable facts in connection with it have gone almost unnoticed. For example, while wages have advanced to record highs since 1933 and living costs have jumped in proportion, the price of electricity has actually dropped 22 per cent in that period. There has been no rationing or shortage of electric elec-tric power, as there has been of other commodities. Power has been too little or too late. This is in sharp' contrast to many other vital necessities. |