Evening Star Newspaper, October 28, 1923, Page 10

Wheat ‘Surplus’ Greatest Fake ‘In History, Representative Say Edward S. Little Declares Farmer Victim of Greatest Ruse Speculator ’ Ever Engineered. BY EDWARD S. LITTLE, Member of ‘Congress from Kansas. Prior to the June harvest this year | when wheat was selling at above a dollar a bushel, it was heralded around that we would have an enor- mous and tremendous surplus of wheat and that therefore we would get a very low price for wheat because we would have more than we could use. The crop began to come in and presently it was au- thoritatively declared that we would have a 200,000,000 bushel surplus in the United States, and a 400,000,000 bushel surplus in the world at large As the farmers brought in the wheat —needing the money—they were told that only 70 cents could be paid for wheat because there would be mil- lions of bushels go to waste, and the early wheat wiis sold from 70 cents to 80 cents. As a matter of fact, there was no surplus of wheat whatever, and wheat would have brought $1. bushel if the law of supply and mand had ruled instead of this whes bubble, evidently originated by the wheat speculators who wished th farmers to sell for a small price. There was even a terriffic effort to| convince the farmers that they should raisg less wheat. As a result the farmers lost millions upon millions of dollars. This surplus bubble is the biggest and cruelest fake ever per- petrated in this country. There ha never been the silghtest excuse any moment for this sinister and h: terical propaganda of a surplus wheat bubble. Mr. Wallace has never given out any figures that went to show that there was too much wheat. Let us examine the flgures given me by the Department of Agriculture. Shows Crops Below Normal. The Wall Street Journal of October 9 says that the world’s wheat crop for this year is 3,343,000,000 bushels. We will ‘compare this with the world product before the war when times were normal, for the six years from -1910 o 1915, inclusive. The Department of Agriculture figures show that for those six years every year the world’s wheat | crop averaged 3,855,000,000 bushels. 1f | the | the | five you subtract this year's alleged crop of 3,343,000,000 bushels from the average in those six normal years before the | war you will find that those years ave aged 512,000,000 bushels more than this | year's crop. Instead of having a world | surplus of 400,000.000 bushels, as th vicious pagandists _declared, world is 512,000.000 bushels behind normal crops. There never was willful and deliberate falsehood petrated at the expense of an cent people. The smallest world" six years was 253,000.000 bushels greater than this year's world crop, as s by the Wall Street Journal. In the world crop was 4,195.000,000 bushe as against this year's crop of 3,343,000 000. In 1915 the world raised a crbp of the _pel inno- s crop of those | | 4.263.000.000 bushels, which is 820 000, 000 bushels more than this year's crop. Comparine this vear with that normal vear. the world has 920.000.000 bushels less than it hod then. This widely . THE SUNDAY per capita this year; they will eat about 670,000,000 bushels and the United States will have a deficit of some 80,000,000 bushels they will “have to import, unless they eat.up their carry-over in full. In eight years, between 1900 and 1921, we averaged five and elght- {tenths bushels per capita. If we eat ‘that mych this year as we did three years ago, we will eat 638,000,000 bushels, 43,000,000 bushels more than | we have to eat. Have Nothing Left. In 1901-02, 1902-03, 1903-04, 1904-05, | 1905-06, 1906-07, 1907-08, 19080 1915-16 and 1920 the American peo- ple ate an average of over five and | one-half bushels per. capita. Thus if they eat as much this year per capita as they have caten practically half of the time during the present cen- | tury, they will eat 605,000,000 bushels | this year, which it"is practically cer- | tain ‘they will do, the wheat buyers for STAR, lying about this and téll th ple frankly that there is Ho surplus at all in"the world or ja the United States, ‘allace’s fie- ures prove. gust 21 a Wash- ington dispatch in the Denver News woltl-.d as follows frém Secretary allace: “Thousands of American farmers will go bankrupt with wheat selling at considerably less than the Dolzloof production” and “Eurobe will n- tinue to buy large quantities of us me time.' ‘The figures herein ar> all secured from his department and there is ab- solutely no earthly exéuse for any man to clalm further that there is a bushel of wheat too much in this country. If the metropslitan papers will give Wallace's figurés to the pub- lic, the fable about a surplus will dis- appear and the law of supply and demand will govern and the farmers will soon be getting from $1.26 up Last July wheat in Kansas and Colo- spread and_evidently exnensive Dron- i o line made wheat 50 cheap. If they 'rado was selling from 70 cents to 80 aeanda by the wheat speculators is the most tremendous and ‘awful fabrication the world ever experienced and 'yet these wheat speculators have been at- tackine me because I venture to call attention to the fieures presented by Departmnt of Aericulture. About one-third of the Russian erop is in. cinded in this Wall Street Journal esti- ith the “rest of Enron s year we should add to world’s crop the entire Russinn cron for 1824, the world's crop of 1914 would still be 94.000,000 bushels more than this year's world crop. 1 shonld think these wheat propagandists wou'd Avead the judement of Ananias and the thunderbolts of a just God North America’s Crop. Secretary Wallace tells me that the TUnited States raised bushels of wheat less this year than it did last. and that the Canadians ~aim to have raised 70.000.000 bush- els more than last vear. Thus North Ameriea contribnted 11.000.000 bush- ela less to the world's cron this vear than it d'd last year, and there goes another fake. In 1910 the United States produced bushels of wheat. This it produred 781.000.000. only $1.000.000 bushels more than in 1910 Yet the Un tates has 18.000.000 neople more than it did in 1910, when they disposed of 700.000,000 bushels. If these 15.000.000 people consume the reasonable amount of flve and one- half bushels per capita this year, they will eat 135000000 bushels of wheat in excess of what the people ate in 6. To meet that demand the ited States should have produced .000.000 bushels of wheat this car instead of only 781,000,000 We are shy 54,000,000 bushéls of wheat that we ought to have to feed the pronle as well as we did in 1910 The United States produced 781,- £00,000 bushels this year. For the ears from 1909 to 1914 the farm- ers sowed an average of 79.000,000 bushels per annum. For eight year: from 1914 to 1922, the farmers sow an average of 94.000.000 bushels per annum. They will p, year about 86.000,000 bushels of wheat. Subtracting that from the total crop of 781.000.000, the farmers will have 685,000,000 bushels left. Export and Stock Feed. We have already exported 55.000.- bushels, which leaves the farm- at £40.000,000. Mr. Fred most _prominent in Kansas City, has said over signature that the farmers d 50,000,000 hels to stock. will cut the 640,000,000 bushels 0 bushels. the Uni of wheat bushel, . 1916, 6. are 110,000,000 people in the United tates. If they eat over six bushels grain to ed States ate ver 5 in §1.000.000 | nbably sow this | eat this 605,000,000 busheis, we wiil | jbe compfRlled during this crop year to | import 15,000,000 bushels of wheat, or {do witwout during the last of ‘the year. We will have just enough of our own to feed us for the first fifty- one weeks, and there will be no wheat of our own left for the last week of this crop year except the carry-over which goes every vear and will go over about the same this year as it did last year. The average consumption per capita lin the United States for the vears from the beginning of the twentieth century until 1921 was flvé and three- tenths bushels per capita. If the peo- ple eat just as they have been eat- ing all this century, in effect they : { will consume 583000000 bushels of wheat, and they will retain just 12,- 000.000 bushels for further export, which they will have sold to Eu- rope befo hristmas anyway t June in the Daily Kansan I called attention to the fact that the italk of a surplus that depreciated wheat In value was without founda-~ tion. On the same day in Washing- ton Eugene Meyer made a similar | statement saying also that Canad: and the United States had each pro- duced less wheat this year than last !yes Nevertheless, the rampant tor- nt of paid propaganda roared on, d the farmers’ wheat sold for from 70 to 30 cents a bushel. This month Mr. Meyer repeated that, saying, “There is no alarming surplus of wheat in the United States, if it |should be proved that there Is any surplus at all” Frank Mondell, late republican leader of the House, con- firmed Me views. The time has ‘come when honest men_should quit Cap with the RED fap” cannot sepa- rate from the cap because it is wire- s titched through the_cap. There is a0 hole tinderneath the cap, and it can be used re. peatedly. When snapped ‘into place it becomes 1 per- foct seal and pro- tects the milk from all contami- | |, ¥ mikman can get these o ‘i all Jobbers or The American Dairy || Comipany,” Wash.ngton, D. C. OUR $5 CLUB NOW CONSISTS OF OVER TWO HUN- DRED MEMBERS, Surely that itself is a recommendation of the Club and our Pianos. The Club has many advantages that are unusual. Come to our store. Investigate. We will be glad to explain just how easy it is to own a Piano, Bnabe Warerooms 1330 G Street cents, but the buyers have gradually learned that the surplus story was foolish, and wheat has advanced from 70 _cents to $1.00 a bushel. If there were any waste wheat, do you think it would go up from 70 cents to $1.00 in three months of its own volition? Of} courge not. .The whole thing has been a gigantic rob- bery. Let's tell the trith and give people the facts and gét a -reason- able price for wheat instead of sell ing It below cost. ARMY AIRMEN’S PLANS. Long-Distance Flight : by Three| Planes in Schedule. Winter plans of the Army afr serv- ice include a flight of three planes: tfrom France Fleld, Parnama Canal Zone, to Guatemala City and return. Stops will be made at the princ'pal cities of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Hon- duras, Salvador and Guatemal 1t is expected that the flight will open A mew method of rapld -transporta- tion between the mouthwestern re- Dion: ot Feanos BRIt by, M study of the route of ‘e "x';‘rfa‘,'z';:e; ! WASHINGTON, D. O, OCTOBER 28, 1923~PART 1. HEALTH AID GIVEN T0 70 GOVERNMENTS Rockefeller Foundation Work Ex- tending to Many Parts of World. Malaria Fought. Reports of the International health ! board of the Rockefeller Foundation | show that the board is now In co- operative work with the governments of seventy states and countries. A review of the activities of this| great International health organiza- | tion gives an outline of the fight that Is being made against all classes of malarial fevers at home and abroad, , besides the extension of conty health work In the United States and Brazil. 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