We Need a Chamber of Agriculture As
Well As a Chamber of Commerce
By H. A. WHEELER, President U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Unless wo indulge in complete government pat _.r_
nalism, wherein the government becomes the <Vfgjna]
buying and selling agency of everything, we, must con
clude that the system of limited price filing is as unde
sirable as it is un-American and should be now abar* .
cloned with all possible speed.
A word of, suggestion with regard 1o unified r.iaj
kef.ing of natijrral productions., whether they he pre duets
of soil, mirt'c or forest: Violent price dueniatjons due
to overproduction or imperfect marketing facilities
cannot bo in the public interest. (Marketing associa
tioes of producers should be developed and made as legal foe minerals or
timber as for live stock, cereals and fruit.
Furthermore there should he a 'chamber of agriculture, even as there
is a chamber of cornrrveroe. It should be a federation of all of the agri
'cultural associations and farm bureaus. 11 would constitute a great fac
tor in promoting efficiency and would er able industrial production and
agricultural psvrduction through their respective chambers to work
together, whereas we now often find these interests antagonistic because
of the absence of means through which to co-operate.
This brings us to the question M the measure of co-operation which
in the pcrk>5 of readjustment should Ire permitted under government
supervision to all producers of commodities calculated for domestic con
sumption as well as for export
The war taught us many lessons of value, and one of these was that
the practical suspension of trust laws during the war, when manufac
turers of both war and nonwar commodities were brought into intimate
association with each other under government supervision, proved of great
value in producing economies in productive ousts and in use of needed
materials while under the supervision of governmental boards or agencies
prices were stabilized and the public interest served.
In ihe days of readjustment upon which we have entered there is
great necessity for n continuation of these rights of association if compe
tition is successfully met in foreign markets, or competition in the domes
tic market between home production and those that will presently conic
into this country frm foreign producers.
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The Insistent Demand of the People for a
National Budget System
By PAUL M. WARBURG, Federal Reserve Board
The change caused by the war in the chart of the world is probably
no more drastic than the transformation, born of the same cause, that
has taken place in the human mind. Thoughts that, were characterized
as “utopian dreams*’ only four years ago are now being formulated into
actual plans by highly practical men having both feet on the ground.
The national budget idea is a case in point. Sporadic efforts in its
behalf have been made for decades. Both parties stand committed to it.
But it could not take tangible form in the past because conditions and
minds were not ripe for it.
Now they are. The war has done away with stagnation ; it has giv< n
so gigantic a scope to our .political, economic and social problems that on
the one hand it has awakened from lethargy the people's mind that gen
erally bothers very little about the intricacies of government, and on the
other it has imbued our legislators with a realization of their grave
responsibilities.
The problems of government are now so staggering that they are
capable at least of overcoming the point of view of the local or personal
interest. The angle of the bailiwick must now make room for the larger
national interest.
It is the conscious and subconscious recognition of these fact' that
in congress has brought about the crystallization of the thought that we
must modernize our government’s financial methods, and which on the
part of the people has brought about an insistent demand for a national
budget system.
George Bernard Shaw— Poverty is the greatest of evils and the worst
of crimes. Our first duty—a duty to which every other consideration
should be sacrificed—is not to be poor. “Poor but. honesi,” “the respect
able poor,” and such phrases are as intolerable and as immoral as “drunken
but amiable,” “fraudulent but a good after-dinner speaker,” “splendid
criminal,” or the like.
If Lessons of \Var Are Not Forgotten
We Shall Soon Have Good Roads
By O. F. BERKEY, Chicago Automobile Distributor
If the stern lessons we learned in months of war are not s<n>n for
gotten a national system of good and permanent roads will be enjoyed bv
the present generation of Americans.
It is nothing less than a twentieth-century wonder that the automo
bile has attained its present popularity when wo consider the average tvpe
of road on which our 5.000,000 passenger ears must run.
To date the automobile !ms received no stimulus from roads, as in
France and England, unless you except such private projects as the Lin- j
coin and Dixie highways and the progressive work of a few states. The
passenger ear and the motor truck have de veloped in spite of roads.
Like many other automobile dialers, however, 1 am optimistic enough
to believe a new era of permanent road building is upon us.
i\ot only did the government learn the economic value of permanent
roads during the eighteen months we were at war, but there are indica
tions that it is now cognizant of its obligation to build a system of inter
state trunk lines that will serve as military highways.
France demonstrated the importance of good roads. For none but 1
good roads, permanently built and systematically maintained, could have
withstood the travel of the allied armies with their trains of heavy artil
lery and motor lorries. 1 he American soldier knows this, and when he
returns to civilian life he will demand similar highways in this country,
no matter how apathetic he may have been on such issues before he put
CD the khaki of the Yankee doughboy.
pvENING OF THE PERSHING STADIUM IN FRANCE
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Loft to right: Col. Waite C. Johnson, athletic director of the American expeditionary forces and < u.lrmnn me
interallied games committee; General Pershing, President Poincare of France, and French Minister of Marine Le>*
gney insjieeting the allied soldiers taking part in tlie opening day s ceremonies at Pershing stadium. Joinville. 1 11.m o,
near Paris. Kvery allied nation was represented at the opening of the great athletic field, which is intended u* he
a permanent monument to the American army in France.
GREAT CROWD GREETS BRITISH DIRIGIBLE R-34
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The photograph shows hut a portion of the enormous crowd that turned out to see the U-iU, the huge British air
ship, tin its arrival at Mineoia. L. I. The lt-34 made the trip from I.igiund in JOS hours.
WiNS DIVORCE
beautiful Lady Daphne Clifton, for
merly Miss Daphne Rachel Multiot
land, who has been awarded a decree
against her husband. Lord Clifton.
Lord and Lady Clifton were married
In Ill'll!. They have two children.
Lord Clifton is thirty-two years old
toil served during the war as a major
ii the royal artillery.
Haunts Scene of Crimes.
In rhe olden days Devon and Corn
wall w'ere notorious for their win k
ers. who tricked many a gallant \ i s
se! ashore on the roeli-eni irelod coast
h\ false lights. In many places ttie
spectres of ships wrecked in this tnuti
iii r are said to reappear. At l'ri.-st
cove in Cornwall, the ghost of a noto
rious wrecker who was wont to lure
ships ashore hy moving lights in lan
terns. which he hung round the neck
of a lame horse, is said to appear on
stormy nights dinging to the fragm nt
of a wreck, which is dashed violently
on the rocks, eventually disappearing
with the wrecker in a cloud of foam.
Hla Classification.
A man was writing somewhat Impa
tiently in a post office white the young
woman clerk discussed the gossip of
the day with one of tier admirers. ||js
iinnoyauce tiring evident In his coun
tenance. she remarked, with Cockney
- prighthm ss:
"Well veil needn’t took at me as if
I v ere jsiison."
"Nut so much poison as a eon titer
"ritant." tie to-piled gravely.—Loudon
FINNISH LEGION FIGHTING BOLSHEVIK!
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of t lie Finnish lo-ion op rati :i uni list t ht* bolshevik! In North Kus
•iia are litre shown a! a I,alt t!ur u march across, a frozen lake.
MOTORTRUCKS START LONG TRIP
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Here is tli«' start of the long motortruck truln which left Washington
recently on a Journey which is to extend across the continent. The licet of
(50 trucks and 200 men. said to be the longest truck train ever assembled, is In
charge of the motor transport corps. U. is. A.
CONDENSATIONS
Ortlg supplies of various classes are
] very low In the Canary islands.
A reflector concentrates the heat, at
the top of a new electric cook stove.
The service tlajj was never used in
any war previous to the world war.
Tanners around Seymour. Iml.. say
that many of their chickens which
j have fed with a tine relish on 17 year
i UicuttH have died
The* Kskitno Is tin* n;mi»* of » m:itr:>
zlm* published at Nome*. Alaska for
the Kskinlos of Uncle Sum's setile
merits.
Previous to the war Heljjimi cotton !
mills operated about spindles '
of which about JsOO.OtX) could I..- run ;
now.
History shows that previous ,he !
nhdicatlo.. of the kaiser t>f f,
world's most Importuni , wt,,r. 1,1,1 ■
Riven up their places.
INTEREST IN ROADS GROWS
More Attention Now Given to lm~
provemcnt in Highways Than
Ever Before in History.
The gooil roads movement is seeing
a big revival now that, business is
becoming normal. The most Impor
tant program that has recently come
to our attention is thut of the state
oI Michigan, which has Just voted in
favor of a $50,000,000 program that,
when carried out, will place Michigan
on the map Mg so far as go6d roads
| are concerned, writes lilrkett L. Wil
liams. truck sales manager fur a large
motorcar corporation.
Everywhere else yort see nl«o more
interest In good roads than in any
period in our history. It is true to my
that the war and its needs taught us
the value of good roads. Perhaps it
did. Perhaps it brought home to those
dull ears of higher ups the supreme
importance of an intelligent system of
navigable highways. But more and
more it comes home to the man who
studies the situation that back of the
good roads movement must he the or
dinary man, the average man who
pays taxes and votes ami thinks us lie
votes.
The farmer or mm! dweller In cer
tain sections for a long time stood in
the way—he wanted the roads, but lie
didn’t want to pay for them. He did
not realize that in the long run good
roads pay for themselves out of snv
Ings made to the community in haul
age of people and merchandise. But
| the farmer today*ls reckoning in units
! of time.
Yes. he realizes the value of min
utes throughout the season—and he is
just ns keen in conserving time as the
city-bred man who operates a big fac
tory; if anything, he is a bit keener,
for seasons do not wait and crops must
tie sowed and cultivated, reaped and
marketed at the right time. He lias
: convinced himself that time is money.
And he knows that good roads save
lime and that they save tlnje largely
1 because they make it possible to get
satisfactory services from motorcars
and motortrucks. And be is not one
I tilt blind to ttie fact that operating wet
Is largely Influenced by road condl
; lions—that good roads make gasoline
more elastic, rubber and steel more
durable and bring markets nearer, and
; that good roads increase property val
ues out of all proportion to the cost
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Good Roads Are Necessary to Efficient
Operation of Automobiles.
one individual.
Is now back of
of good roads to nny
Therefore, the fanner
road improvement.
Does the city man feel nny interest
is* good rpads? Ask your neighbor.
If he doesn't own an automobile he ex
perts to own one, and he knows all
about where the good roads are and
what they moan. Hut when his influ
ence counts big, the greatest Impetus
lias naturally sprung front the numer
ous army of motorcar owners to whom
motorcar ownership has made the ter
ritory for miles around his neighbor*
hood.
Counties, and. states where good
roads have become a steady part n
progressive program of legislation have
seen values shoot up in the most sur
prising fashion, and this, again, has
brought home the fact that good roads
pay for themselves. Thus It Is natu
ral that the years 1911) and ltf.'O will
see the most stupendous good roads pro
grams Inaugurated In America that the
world lias ever known. This will
result In the wider utility of motor
cars and motortrucks and, of course,
prove a big aid to the solution of *he\
freight traffic problem.
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NEW ROADS COST $8,0Gu„
Utah Plans Extensive Improvement
on Lincoln Highway on Wyoming
Utah Line.
The road law just adopted hy the
Utah state legislature will provide li>
eonneetion with (he federal aid fund
a total of about .V.8,0(Ki.OOO for high
way eonstruetlon in mat state. Pres
• lit plans t ail tor'extensive improve
ment on the Lincoln highway, partlc-j
ulariy between the Wyouting-Utah llaej
vud isall Lake City.