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DIASGREEK Captain Zadock Sharp and family attended the parade at Wildwood on January 2ndMiss Carrie Shetz and a friend called on the Norton sisters, Ida and Alma, on Thursday. Mrs. Selinda Godfrey, who spent most of her married life here, died at the home of her grandson, Leslie Norton, at Court House, and was buried from there on Friday, in the Baptist Cemetery. Harry Fisher, wife and daughter, of Cape May, motored here and-fcal-led upon their friends, Mr. and MrsJoel Firfier- Mrs. Fisher has been ill for a long time, hut is now slowly improving. Mrs. Turner, of Wildwood, has been the guest of Mrs. Charles Ling over the week end. Mrs- Lewis Hoffiner and friend Mrs. Rider, of Millviljg, attended the funeral of Mrs- Frank Howell, on Saturday. Mrs- F. J. Smith, of Stone Harbor, visited her parents, Mr. and MrsColcman Norton, over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Milliard avis spent Sunday with Mrs- Davis' parents, Mr. >and Mrs- Morris Tomiin, of Goshen. Mrs. Etta Thompson ha* been entertaining relatives from Pleasantville for the past week. Life guards El wood Howell, Edward Scull, Garfield Lloyd and Aaron Smith, of Wild wood, were here Saturday attending the funeral of MrsFrank Howell. Mrs. Anna Smith, of Wildwood, was a njcenh. visitor hereMrs. Stella Woodlin and family, of Leesburg, have been visiting at the home of Charles Howell and family, for the past week. Mrs. Emma McMara, of Philadel- ' phia, spent a part of last week with , Mrs- John Whal, at North Dias. j Mrs- Irene Jackson, of Philadelphia, is now housekeeper for Reeves Douglass. / Mrs- Mrfrgftser^Keim, of Philadelphia, visited Mrs. John Wahl, of NDias and Mrs- Bertha Howell, over Sunday. William Wetherby and wife, of Wildwood, are spending a few days with Mr. Wetherby's mother, Mrs. Milton Whitecar. The regular annual meeting of the Methodist Church was held here Monday evening, January 9th. The Sunday School was organized last week with few changesFred Popper, wife and daughter,, 1 spent New Year's -week with Mr and. ' Mrs. William Bate, of Fishing Creek-' ' Belford Douglass cut down the j, trees in front of his house* t Coleman Wescott, who left here t some time ago for his home in the b south, has been confined to his bed « with a very bad cold. , it AT LAST \l Burglar — One sound from you and;b 111 squeeze you to death! II Antique Flapper — Remember, that's 0 a promiseANNOUNCEMENT * Mr. and Mrs. Charles Henry g Rutherford, of 640 Hughes street, t Cape May, announce the marriage of t their daughter, Edith May, to Mr. 6 William Bristow, of New York- ' Mr. ^ and Mrs- Bristow have left for Ber- c muda where they will spend their a honeymoon and will return to New f York on March 21st. « — « — h WILL SHE WED THE KAISER? ;

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V ■ s r* « 11 some Aspects of the Farmers' Problems : r h By BERNARD M. BARUCH * t 1 ' d (Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly) ; ■■■-*• ___ n

I 'he whole rural world la in a fer- | mot of unrest, and there la an un-p;-.i!le!ed volume and intenalty of detained, If not angry, protest, and an oiinoua swarming of occupational confttnees, Interest groupings, political Elements and propaganda. Such a 1 icnioll cannot but arrest our attends Indeed, It demands our careful sody and examination. It Is not likely that six million aloof and ruggedly I ! jtependent men have come together 1 ail banded themselves Into active uicns, societies, farm bureaus, and so . feih. for no sufficient cause. investigation of the subject conclusively proves that, while there is much : overstatement of grievances and tnla- . exception ofxpCmedles, the farmers a* right In complaining of wrongs • lag endured, and right In holding that ■ it is feasible to relieve their Ills with boefit to the rest of the community. Tils being the case of an Industry 1 tht contributes, in the raw material • firm alone, about one-third of the na- . tiaal annual wealth production and Itthe means of livelihood of about 48 pr cent of the population. It Is obvdus that the subject Is one of grave , cmcera. Not only do the fanners ■ mke up one-half of the nation, but ! tie well-being of the other half de- , pads upon them. So long as we have nations, a wise j . { plitclal economy will aim at a large , 1 dcree of n: ilonal self-sufficiency and ; | s-.f containment- Rome fell when the . ; foil supply was too fur removed from tie belly. ' Like her, we shall destroy 1 utr own agriculture and extend our surces of food distantly und precarl- . (csly. If we do not see to It that our triiiers are well and fairly paid- for . n->lr services. The farm gives the ctioD men as well as food. Cities . drive their vitality and are forever : mewed from the country, but an 1mi f .i'rished countryside exports lutein- . jfh.-e ' and retains unliitelllgence. | Ciiy the lower grades of mentality , ind character will remain on. or seek, | [ ne farm, unless agriculture Is capable j ' i being pursued with contentment and j : dequate compensation. Hence, to em- . ■ itter and Impoverish the farmer is to | ry up and contaminate the vital ! ources of the nation. m ■ The war showed convincingly how J tependent the nation Is on the full j productivity of lira farms. Despite 1 herculean efTorts, agricultural production kept only a few weeks or months 1 thead of consumption, and that only 1 by Increasing the acreage of certain [ staple crops at the cost of reducing that of others. We ought not to for- ] get that lesson when we ponder on ithe farmer's problems. They are truly common problems, and there should I 'be no attempt to deal with them as j they were purely selfish demands of a clear-cut group, antagonistic to the rest of the community. Rather should we consider agriculture In the light of broad national policy. Just as we consider oil, coal, steel, dyestuffa, and so forth, as sinews of national strength. Our growing population and a ^Igher standard of living Increasing food supplies, and more wool, cotton, hides, and the rest. With tha disappearance of free or cheap fertile land, additional acreage and Increased yields can come only from costly effort. This we need not expect frqm an Impoverished or unrural, population. It will not do to take a narrow view j of the rural discontent, or to appraise j from the standpoint of yesterday. : This Is peculiarly an age of flux and •hange and new deals. Because a thing always has been so no longer means that it Is righteous, or always ' shall be so. More, perhaps, thaa ever before, thera Is a widespread feeling that all human relations can be Improved by taking thought, and that It . is not becoming for the reasoning anl- - mal to leave his destiny largely to chance and natural Incidence. Prudent and orderly adjustment of production and distribution in accord, ance with consumption Is recognized as wise management in every business j but that of farming. Yet, I venture j to say, there is no other Industry In which it Is so Important to the pab- ; lie — to the city -dweller — that produc- , tion should be sure, steady, and In- j creasing, and that distribution should j be in proportion to the need. The unorganized farmers naturally act blindly and Impulsively and, In consequence, surfeit and dearth, accompanied by disconcerting price-variations, harass the consumer. One year potatoes rot in the fields because of excess production, and there Is a scarcity of the things that have been displaced to make way for the expansion of the potato acreage; next year the punished farmers mass their fields on some other crop, and potatoes enter the class of luxuries ; and so on. Agriculture Is the greatest and fundamentally the most Important of our American industries. The cities are bur the branches of the tree of national life, the roots of which go deeply Into the land.. We all flourish or decline with the farmer. So, when we of the cities read of the present universal distress of the farmers, of a slump of six billion dollars In the farm value of tbelr «wops In a single year.

of their mobility to meet mortgages or r to pay curreut bills, and how. seeking " relief from/ their Ills, they are planning to form pools, inaugurate farm- £ era" strikes, nnd demand legislation abolishing grain exchange®, private cattle markets, and the like, wo ought . not hastily to brand them as economic heretics and hlghwayoieu, and hurl at them the charge of. being, seekers of special privilege. Rather, we should , ask if their trouble la not ours, and , j see what can be doDe to improve the , 8ltnatlon. Purely from lelf-lnterest, , If for no higher motive, we should , help them. All of us want to get back ( permanently to "normalcy "but is It , reasonable to hope for that condition ( unless onr greatest and most basic lta. | dnstry can be pnt on a sound and solid , permanent foundation? The fawners are not entitled to special privileges; ( bnt are they not right in demanding that they be placed on an equal foot- j Ing with the buyers of their products and with other industries? j I n 1 Let as, then, consider some of the 1 farmer's grievances, and see how far < they are reoL In doing so, we should 1 remember that, while there have been, J and still are. Instances of purposeful ( abuse, the subject shonld not be ap- ( proached with any general Imputation to existing distributive agencies of de- , liberately intentional oppression, bnt ' | rather with the conception that the 1 1 marketing of farm products has not been modernized.An ancient evil, and a persistent one, is the nndergradlng of form products, with the result that what the farmers sell as of one quality Is re- ■ sold as of a higher; That this sort of chicanery shonld persist on any important scale In these days of .bustness integrity would seem almost Incredible, but there Is much evidence that It does so, persist. Even as I . write, the newspapers announce the , ' suspension of several firms from the New York Produce Exchange for ex- . porting to Germany as No. 2 wheat a I j whole shipload of grossly Inferior wheat . mixed with oats, chaff and the like. 1 I Another evil Is that of Inaccurate 1 j weighing of farm products, which, It Is charged. Is sometimes a matter of ( | dishonest Intention and sometimes ot t protective policy on the part of the local buyer, who fears that he may 1 "weigh out" more than he "weighs in." A greater grievance Is that at pres- > ent the field fanner has little or no ' control over the time and conditions ' of marketing his products, with the | result that he is often underpaid for I his products and usually overcharged , for marketing service. The differi ence between what the farmer re1 ceives and what the consumer pays ■ often exceeds all possibility of Justi- '■ flcutlon. To cite a single illustration. 1 Lost year, according to figures attested by the railways and the growers. Georgia watermelon-raisers received | on the average 7.5 cents for a melon, j the railroads got 12." cents for carrying It to Baltimore and the consumer - paid one dollar, leaving 79.8 cents for s the service of marketing and its risks, r as against 20.2 cents for growing and ' transporting. The bard annals of " j farm-life are replete with such com- . | mentarie8 on the crudeness of pres- , ! ent practices. _ i Nature prescribes that the farmer's I "goods" must be finished within two ! or three months of the year, while r financial und storage limitations gen3 erally compel Mm to sell them at the r same time. As a rule, other Industries • are in a continuous process of finish- . ; lng goods for the markets; they dlst tribute as they .produce, and they can . i curtail production without too great 3 | Injury to themselves or the com in u- | olty ; but If the farmer restricts his f output. It Is with disastrous conse- , . quences, both to himself and to the j ] community. s j The average farmer Is busy with 3 production for the major part of the 1 j year, and has nothing to selL The . 1 bulk of bis output comes on the mar- .. ket at once. Because of lack of stor- , j age facilities and of financial support, j 1 the farmer cannot carry his goods . through the year and dispose of them . as they are currently needed. In the j. great majority of cases, farmers have . to entrust storage — In warehouses and i, elevators — and the financial carrying . of their products to others. B Farm products are generally marf keted at a time when there Is a con3 cestlon of both transportation and e finance — when caw and money are ,. scarce. The outcome, In many Ine stances. Is that the farmers not only e sell under pressure, and therefore at a disadvantage, but are compelled to i- take further reductions In net returns, r in order to meet the charges for the e service of storing, transporting, flnanc- ,. Ing, and ultimate marketing — which ,. charges they claim, are oftetl exces r slve, bear heavily on both consumer e and producer, and are under the conI. trel of those performing the services a It Is true that they are relieved of n tha risks of a changing market by r> — ttHig at once ; bnt they are quite wlll'i

tag to take the unfavorable chMC%. . { If the favorable one also is thefra esj ' , they caa retain for themselves a pert of tha service charges that are form. In good years and bod, with vjbJ[ high prices end low. . . . While, In the main, the farmer must - jS® sell, regardless of market coniiHinhk; jBT at the time of the maurity of cretraB| he eannot suspend prodpetthp tatjgjj^M He mast go on producing If he Is to goon living, and If the world la The most he can do ia to cnrteB MpH** -dnctlon a little or alter Its form. that — because he la In the dark as to the probable demand Tor his goods— • be only to Jump from tbe frying Into tbe fire, taking the consumer with him. _ ... , • i Even the dairy farmers, whose pnt la not seasonal, complain that they find themselves at a disadvantage In ™ the marketing of their productions, especially raw milk, because of the costs of distribution, which they must ultimately bear. - m Now that the farmers are sttrrtag, thinking, and uniting as never before eradicate these Ineq nail ties, they are subjected to stern -economic lecand are met with tbe aceaaethmthat they are demanding, and hie the recipients of, special privileges. Ltt us see what privileges the government conferred on the farmers. Much been made of Section 6 ef the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, which purported to permit them to combine .with Immunity, under certain conditions. Admitting that, nominally, this exemption was In tbe nature ef n special privilege,— though I think It wan no -Id appearance rather than In fact; .."ere find that tbe courts hare nullified It judicial interpretation. Why should not the farmers be permitted to accomplish by co-operative methods what other businesses are already doing hy eo -operation In the form of Incorporation? If It be proper for men to form, fusion of existing corporations or otherwise, a corporation that contrdb tbe entire production of a commodity, or a large part of It, why Is it net proper for a group of farmers to unite for the marketing of their common products, either In one or In several selling agencies? Why should lt-he right for a hundred thousand corporal* shareholders to direct 25 or 30 or 40 per cent of an Industry, and wrong for n hundred thousand co-opera tlra farroeffl to control a no larger proportion of the wheat crop/or cotton, er t iny other product? The Department of Agriculture Is often spoken of as a special concession to the farmers, but In Its commercial results. It Is of as much benefit to the buyers and consumers of agricultural products as to the producers, or even more. 1 do not suppose that anyone opposes tbe benefits that the farmers derive from the educational and research work of the department, or the help that It elves them In working out Improved cultural methods and practices, In developing better yielding varieties through breeding and selection. In introducing new varieties from remote parts of the world and adapting them to onr climate and economic condition, knd In devising practical measures for the elimination or control of dangerous and destructive animal and plant diseases, insect pests, and the like. All these things manifestly tend to stimulate and enlarge production, and their general beneficial effects are obvious. It Is complained that, whereas the law restricts Federal Reserve banks to three months' time for commercial paper, the farmer Is allowed six months on his notes. This Is not a special privilege, but merely such a - recognition of business conditions as makes It possible for country "banks to do business with country people. The crop farmer has only one turnover a year, while the merchant and vianufacturer have many. Incidentally, I note, that the Federal Reserve Hoard has Just authorized the Fed--ral Reserve banks to discount export paper for a period of six months, to conform to the Dature of the busli'iie. Farm Loan banks are pointed v n as* .an Instance of special govern.ncnt ■wBfor for fanners. Are they not -otliv the outcome of laudable efforts •o equalize rural end urban condi•ions? And ajiont all tbe government l»es there Is to help set up an administrative organization and lend a little credit at the start. Eventually •be farmers will provide all the capital and carry all the liabilities themselves. It is true that Farm Ix>an bonds are tax exempt; but so are bonds of municipal light and traction plants, and new housing Is to be exerapt from taxation. In New York, for ten yeara. On the other hand, the farmer reads of plans for municipal housing projectsithat run into the billions, of hundreds of millions annually spent on the merchant marine.; he reads that the railways are being favored with Increased rates and virtual guaranties of earnings by the government, with the result to him of an 'ncreased toll on all that be sella and all that be buys. He hears of many manifestations of governmental concern for particular lndastries and Interests. Rescuing the railways from insolvency Is undoubtedly for the benefit of the country as a whole, but what can be of more general benefit than encouragement of ample production /» the principal necessaries of life and their even flow from contented producers to satisfied consumers? While It may be conceded that special governmental aid may be necessary In tbe general interest, we most all agree that it Is difficult to see why agriculture and the production and distribution of farm products are not accorded the tame opportunities that arc provided for other businesses; cap* daily as the enjoyment by the fanner . of such opportunities would appear to be even more contributory to the gen- ( Continued an page five) .A