The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, November 15, 1920, Page 16

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War Profiteers, Exchange Rate Proves Too High m|RAIN gamblers on the Minneapolis Chamber of Board- of Trade state that one of the chief rea- sons . why the price of wheat is low is because Europe, in spite of a short food supply, is mak- ing few ,purchases. The reason for lessened European purchases, it is stated, is the exchange situation. -In normal times“the British pound is worth $4.86 in American money and the French franc and the Italian lire are each worth 20 cents. At the present time, however, the British pound is worth only $3.46, the French franc only 6% cents and the Italian lire a little less than 4 cents. If exchange were normal a bushel of wheat, costing $2.37 in American money at New York, would cost 9 shillings 9 pence in British money. The actual cosf in British money at the present rate of exchange is 13 shillings 8 pence ($3.30). g If exchange were normal a bushel would cost 12 franecs in French money. At the present rate of ex- change the cost is 36 francs ($7.20). If exchange were normal a bushel would cost 12 lira in Italian money. At the present rate of.exchange the cost is 60 lira ($12). The reason that exports are falling off, it appears, is that England can not afford to buy wheat at $3.30 (plus freight), France can not afford to pay $7.20 and Italy can not afford to pay $12 a bushel. The reason for the distorted rate of exchange is that the world’s gold sup- ply is dislocated. During the world war the United States sold all the war Commerce -and Chicago - supplies to Great Britain, Italy and France for which these countries could spend cash and then loaned them bil- lions of dollars on the condition that they use this credit exclusively in the purchase of supplies in the United States, The result was that this coun- try gained the major portion of the world’s gold supply. - The currency of Great Britain, France and Italy, hav- ing little gold reserves to back it up, depreciated in value, and-the fact that these countries were obliged to repay the United States’ billions of dollars depreciated the currency still further. The result is that the currency of these countries is of so little value in foreign exchange that in the case of Italy ‘money is wotth less than one- fifth of what it formerly was. Profiteering munition ‘makers dur- ing the war piled up billions of dol- lars in profits and now have made it impossible for the American farmer ' to sell his product abroad. On the other hand, the distorted condition of foreign exchange has made it possible for Canadian wheat growers and Scandinavian butter pro- ducers to market their products in the United States at a profit, thus further beating down the price received by the American producer. . The exchange situation does mnot fully explain the slump in the prices offered American food produders. It is an evidence, however, that the pow- ers of government have been used to help munition profiteers, ‘internation bankers and other “business men” and that the American farmer has again been made the goat, principally be- cause he was not represented promi- nently enough in our government. Facts on Government Railroad Control (Continued from page 6) by 67,290,562 passenger train miles through the elimination of duplicate and unnecessary trains, and the num- ber of passengers carried one mile had risen from 89,361,369,062 in 1917 to 42,498,248,256 in 1918 and continued to increase during 1919, when 46,200,000, 000 passengers were carried one mile. .- The policy of rerouting freight also resulted in an enormous reduction of the freight car mileage. Consolidated ticket offices, many of which still sur- vive, had been established. A univer- sal mileage book had been introduced. Time “tables had been standardized and abridged. -Unnecessary advertis- ing had been discontinued. The purchasing of supplies costing an average of .fully $100,000,000 a month or $1;200,000,000 a year had been consolidated and co-ordinated. Great economies in buying were there- by rendered possible. Standardized plans for the.construction of freight cars and locomotives had been adopted. A serious and earnest effort was be- by Dun’s Index- Number increased about 90 per cent, it is plain that the United States railroad administration succeeded in providing the American people with the chéapest transporta- tion they had ever enjoyed, measuring the cost of that transportation in terms of the commodities carried, which is to say that while the railroads were un- der the control of the government a bushel of wheat or a bale of cotton or a ton of coal or anything else was car- ried for a smaller proportion of #s value than ever before in the history of the country. -l 2 This is the more remarkable since the increase in the cost of living made it necessary and just that the director general should raise the hourly wages of the railway employes an average of about 100 per cent over what they were receiving when the government took over the roads on January 1, 1918, Despite the fact that the ddvance in wages was paid as from January 1, 1918, while the advance in rates only. took effect five and one-half months ing made to devise and apply a plan \i\iter, the net revenue earned by the that would insure. to the employes prompt and adequate compensation for injuries received in the performance of their duties and provide pensions for the disabled and old age insurance for the superannuated. - R For the first five and one-half months of government-control there was no change in rates, but in June, 1918, freight rates were advanced an average of 28 per cent and passenger rates were increased an average of 18 per cent. , : These were the only advances in either freight or passenger rates or- dered or - established by the railroad" *administration - during’' the 26 ‘months that it controlled the railways. - As the average price of commodities as shown ilroads and’ other properties under the control of the railroad administra- tion during the first year of govern- ment operation was only $236,184,940 less than the rental paid by the gov- .ernment. ; Because of the' slackening of busi- ness activity that followed the armis- tice there was less traffic for the roads to carry during the last 14 months of government operation, and the deficit for that period was $663,771,604. The total “loss” incurred by the govern- ment in operating the roads during the entire ‘26 months they were under the management of the railroad adminis- tration was, therefore, $899,956,444. This,is an average of $34,600,000 per mont}h, or $415200,0® a year, It is PAGE SIXTEEN | + \ ADVERTISEMENTS Simple Mixture = -| Makes Hens Lay -} 3 By W S. Burgess. Any poultry raiser can. greatly in- crease his profits,” easily and qmckly; by taking advantage of the 35 y_eaalX experience of a successful poultrym A life long study of egg production has resulted in-a secret formula of buttermilk and other valuable ingredi- ents that puts pep into lazy hens. Us- ers report increases of two.to seven times as many eggs. This secret formula is now put up in tablet form and is called Combs’ But- termilk Compound Tablets. Simply feed in water or mix with feed. 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