Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 8

PREDICAMENT OF THE PRODUCING-CON- SUMING PUBLIC «(Written Specially For The Bulletin.) ‘It -tam’t only the wheat-growers of the nprthwest who are in-trouble because of the - fallure of the railroads to carry thelr crops to market. The millers who grind that wheat in- to flour are about as badiy off. When they've ground what little wheat the roads manage to’ bring to them, they tan't got It hauled away to the eastern markets. At least, so says The North- western Miller, a trade publication de- voted to the milling business and pub- lished -right In the heart of it According to this paper, the north- ‘western ‘millers “are up against the worst transportation muddle they have ever experienced.” For example: One car laft Minneapolis August 2 and reached New York October 16, cleven weeks on the rosd. Several shipments made August or early September are not yet felivered at the scalbuard. Two ship- ments which were made in August are| actuslly lost, no one being able to find out how far they've gol or where they ndw are. Other shipments which were wmade to connect with Kuropean steam- ships- were delayed so that they had to be replaced. fake fleel of grain carriers has been cut down by half. At least one blz Minne- apolls milling company has withdrawn from all attempts to do an export bus- tness, driven out by the cost of freights #nd slowness of delivery, Nice plotures of our boasted trans- portation syscem, eh? Makes us all proud of it, ch? Gives us renewed faith In government control. eh? Fortifies our canviction that rallrozd wages must be| raised, eh? Increases our admiration for the congressmen who make the laws and the “fussy-minded bureaucrats” who en- torce them for railroad regulation, eh?. ©Oh, rats! Not long ago, ome of the wild-eyed radicals in congress, Mr. ‘LaFol s Wisconsln, succeeded, by persiste Ings and sobbings, in getting his tired golleagues to enact a law, supposealy for ‘the’ protection of suffering American railors from the extortions and ili treat- ments of their employers and officers. In order to accomplish this end the law so strait-jackeied and fettered shipowners and ship-masters, so bound them in the matters of wages, hours, eic., that they Bave been, ever since its passage, put &t almost Insuperable disadvantage in sompeting with English, Dutch, Scandi- mavian or even German _shipping, which was subjected to no comparable cestrictions. Now, the additional handi- cap. involved in. at. attempt to enforce Volsteadism on all American vessels threatens to complete the destruction of our infant merchant marine. Already the work of transferring American ships | to. foreign registry has begun. Unless the "subsidy bill is passed, right soon, that process promises to go on with in- sreasing momentum. In other’ words, government meddling with our water-borne commerce has al- reddy brought it to a sick ‘bed: and threatens. to .kill it. unless something powerful In the way of stimulant can be fven it in time to stay death's creep- !IG fingers. similar results have followed in liroad field. =For years. congress has been poking and pushing and fum- biing at the railroads. It has regulated them, and managed them, and sand- bagged thém’; it - has Jerked them one way' and -kicked them another; it has whlloped them with one hand to make them go ahead, adn throttled them with the 'other for going too fast. It has wegulated the wages. they shall pay; it bés fixed the rates they shall charge: it has undertaken to oversee them In thelt fown-sitting -and their .up-rising; it has ‘thrown not only monkey-wrenches, bt crow-bars and bags of cement into thelr machinery. As a resuit they can't Mther draw the farmers’ wheat from North Dakota to Minneapolis, or haul the our from Minneapolis to New York. It's & sweet sort of muddle, now isn’t 2?7 Lack of vessels on lakes and ocean; #ck of cars on land; frelght rates, when syen an nsufficlent number of cars can mustered up, so high as to forbid t_payment o producers for- their grops while compelling or at least per- wifting outrageous .overcharges to- con- fymers. ; And, right In the midst of this comes gews from Chicago that ‘the ‘“brother- Sood of railway and steamship clerks, freight = handlers, express and station employes” is making formal applica- ton to, the labor board for an advance ln wages. Their president is’ reported to have' told the board that their pres- et average yearly wa, 1= “only $1,- §97.76," and they can’t llve'for less than . §1,956.88".a "year. So they want the Bosird to order the roads to raise their pay- to this latter amount. At the same. time, the whale. country W on its hind legs, howling that the callroads must reduce their freight charges. The ides seems to be that the roads thust -cut down their incomes by a quar- tr or a half and, at the samb time, in- kflu their expenses by advancing wag- 'Pllk about the hard ‘lot of the He- brews when their masters tian sompelled them to make bricks ayithout straw ! “The Beneficial : Way Loans For You 3 i el S 3 those of us who have no hxnk ac- nts or securities. - There is fyel to buy, the t:hudran need warm clothing, family . and w shoyld bey remembered with : Meet these obligations the Bene- ficial Way—Consolidate your debts \and pay them off in six to fifteen installments. : Confidential Loans up to CALL, WRITE, OR PHONE 1-6-6-4 ‘Beneficial Loan NEW MARSH BUILDING - NEW-LONDON, CONN. in| Even the capacity of the| Were _they any worse treated than 9'-)0 p. m—-'l‘he"F\:rnlg'n Activities .. e land and watet carriers of ths coun- e Tyt Ol el DL S 'try are being treated right now by ‘the Pharaohs at Washington and elsewhere? Don't get any idea from the foregoing that I'm pleading the cause of the rall- road and the steamship companies. - I care no more for them than I'do for the | Hebrews of 2,600 B. C. I'm pleading for the Amorican people, whose interests the _vote-worshipping congressmen at Washington and the “fussy-minded bureaucrats” _everywhero are using as foot-balis. I'm pleading for the farmers who can't sell thelr crops, mainly because of exorbitant freight rates and_inadequate transporta- tlon facilities. I'm pleading for the |city consumers who are dally robbed on {the right hand and on the lett by ex- | ravagant charges for the same farm | products. I'm pleading for fair play and 8 square deal for all concerned. For both rafl- ronds nnd steamships: for their owners and their employes: but, first of all, for {ths producing-consuming public who out- | number (hem both ten to one gnd whse Interest, are superior to both by at least a milion to one. I put it to any farmer among you; How would you like to have congress at Washington tell you how much land you should plow, haw many pigs you hould keep, how much vou should pay { your hired man and how many hours you ishould iet him work, what colored over- alls you should wear and how many times a weel you should shave? Would you like it? Would it make for better farming? Would it “improve the rela- { tions between capital and labor?" Would lyou vote a second time for the gentle- iman who undertook, without any knowl- edge of your affairs or any skill In your vocation, to “cabin, crib, and confine” |you within limits such as his superlor ignorance imagined advisable? Yet such an Interference in your af- ffairs would be hardly any more dam- aging than government Interference has “ithus far proved to be in transportation | matters. What are we xoing to do abeut #t? Bless you brother, I don't know. I may have my own iueas and theories. ‘But they're not based on sufficient knowledge of the problem to warrant me in adding them to the hodge-podge and muddle of dreams and visions already on the mar- ket. I don’t really know anything more of the actual insides of the mess than the average congressman. And that’s saying a mouthful 1 don’t suppose you do, either. But ain’t it a pity? We farmers can't possibly work up any sympathy for the railroad manag- Jers. They never showed us any. con- Isideration when they had us-under their There's no Tesson to suppose |they would show any more if they !should be given a free hand again. Nor can 1 imagine any farmer -assisting a parcel of railroad employes to get wag- es of $1,956.88 a year because they “can't live on” their present pay of $1,- 397.76. The average farmer is liying on 2 good ‘deal less.than.that—and is ot calling for town help, either. Both sides seem to be out to get all they the getting is good This may Lusiness” for them, -but- It's poor business for. the producer- A - from whom they're both strip- : e undershirt just on the edse of winter. { thumbs. the - whole matter. The first is that government interference with any bus- iness should be underiaken only to pro- tect the outside majority from extor- tions attempted by the inside minori- ty. The second is that such interference should be guided by experts who know the ins and outs of the offending busi- ness as well if not better than its ac- tive managers. Oh, yes; there is one thing more that is fairly clear and getting clearer every day. That is that the present laws regulating railroads and shipping are simply making a bad matter worse. It they're really the best that government- ' {2l wisdom can solve, then we've got to look elsewhere for results. Unless we should undertake the un- heard of and almost unimaginable task lof raising the standard of congressional wisdom. Do ye s'pose such a thing {is possible? THE FARMER. , RADIO PROGRAMS > Friday, Dee. 1, WJZ Newark (360 Meters). 5.30 ». m.—Closing prices on stocks, bonds, grain.. coffee and sugar, 535 p. m-—“Live Steam,” being 2 boiler inspector'’s Derilous adventure. 5.45 p. m.—Conditions of leading In- dustries by R, D. Wychoff. 5.50. p. m.—Resume -of &porting events. 6 ©». m.—Musical program. 7 . m.—*“Bedtime Stories,” by Thorn- ton Burgess. 7.35 p. m.—“American-Bred . Dogs,” by Frank Dole, 8.30 p. m--Recital by Viadimir Ros- ing, Russian tenor. - 9 p. m.—Literary evening. 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