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GREATEST PROBLEM
WE ARE LONG ON PRODUCTION,
SHORT ON DISTRIBUTION.
By Peter Radford
Lecturer National Farmers’ Union.
The economic distribution of farm
products Is today the world’s greatest
problem and the war, while it has
brought its hardships, has clearly em
phasized the importance of distribu
tion as a factor in American agricul
ture and promises to glfe the farm
ers the co-operation of the govern
ment and the business men the
solution of their marketing problem.
This result will, in a measure, com
pensate us for our war losses, for the
business Interests and government
have been in the main assisting al
most exclusively on the production
side of agriculture. While the depart
ment of agriculture has been dumping
tons of literature on the farmer telling
him how to produce, the farmer has
been dumping tons of products in the
nation’s garbage can for want of a
market.
The World Will Never Starve.
At no time since Adam and Eve
were driven from the Garden of Eden
have the inhabitants of this world
suffered from lack of production, but
some people have gone hungry from
the day of creation to this good hour
for the lack of proper distribution.
Slight variations in production have
forced a change in -diet and one local
ity has felt the pinch of want, while
another surfeited, but the world as a
whole has ever been a land of plenty.
We now have less than one-tenth of
the tillable land of the earth's surface
under cultivation, and we not only
have this surplus area to draw on but
It is safe to estimate that In case of
dire necessity one-half the earth’s
population could at the present time
knock their living out of the trees
of the forest gather It from wild
vines and draw it from streams. No
one should become alarmed; the
world will never starve.
The consumer has always feared
that the producer would not supply
him and his fright has found expres
sion on the statute books of our states
and nations and the farmer has been
urged to produce recklessly and with
out reference to a market, and regard
less of the demands of the consumer.
Back to the 8oll.
The city people have been urging
each other to move back to the farm,
but very few of them have moved.
We welcome our city cousins back to
the soil and this earth’s surface con
tains 16,092,160,000 idle acres of till
able land where they can make a
living by tickling the earth with a ■
forked stick, but we do not need them
so far as increasing production is con
cerned; we now have all the producer*
we can use. The city man has very [
erroneous ideas of agricultural condl
ter recover wun great »*!»«»*«■.>• i »*—
tions. The,commonly accepted theory
that we are short on production is all
wrong. Our annual increase in pro
duction far exceeds that of our in
crease in population.
The World as a Farm.
Taking the world as one big farm,
we find two billion acres of land in
cultivation. Of this amount there is
approximately 750,000,000 acres on the
western and 1,260,000.000 acres on the
eastern hemisphere, in cultivation.
ThiB estimate, of course, does not in
clude grazing lands, forests, etc.,
where large quantities of meat are
produced.
The world’s annual crop approxi
mates fifteen billion bushels of ce
reals, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty-five million tons of meat.
The average annual world crop for
the past five years, compared with the
previous five years, is as follows:
Past Half Previous Half
Crops— Decade. Decade.
Corn (Bu.) 3,934,174,000 3,403,655,000
WheatfBn.) 3,522,769,000 3,257,526,000
Oats (Bu.) 4,120,017,000 3,508,316,000
Cotton(Bales) 19,863,800 17,541,200
The world shows an average in
crease in cereal production of 13 per
cent during the past decade, compared
with the previous five years, while the
world’s population shows an increase
of only three per cent.
The gain in production far exceeds
that of our increase in population, and
it is safe to estimate that the farmer
can easily increase production 25 per
cent if a remunerative market can he
found for the products. In textile
fibres the world shows an Increase
during the past half decade in produc
tion of 15 per cent against a popula
tion increase of three per cent.
The people of this nation should
address themselves to the subject of
Improved facilities for distribution.
Over-production and crop mortgage
force the farmers into ruinous com
petition with each other. The remedy
lies in organisation and in co-opera
tion in marketing.
Wouldn’t Do In America.
A woman from Germany waa visit
ing little Herman’s mother one day.
Herman was trying to make a kite. He
asked the guest if ake knew how to
make a tail for his kite. She told him
She did not know how the little Amer
ican boys made tails for their kites,
but she knew how the little German
boys made them. She knotted up
some strips of paper, and when he
saw it he said: “Oh, my, that will
never fly In America."
His Time Had Come.
Again that ringing In his ears! It
iras the warning he had dreaded. He
knew his time had come. Yet, al
though he had started at the sound, he
teemed half-dazed ajid wholly careless
sf the consequences. But still the
ringing in his ears! "Drat it!4*- he
Inally said, and springing from, bed
the careworn commuter shat eff the
ilarm clock and proceeded to dress for
he 7:10 train.—Puck.
THE NORTHWESTERN
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of time paid for, If publishers shall be notified; otherwise the subscription
will remain in force at the designated subscription price. Every subscriber
must understand that these conditions are made a part of the contract
between publisher and subscriber.
Now comes the cry of starving multitudes in Mex
ico because of the ravages of war in that benighted
country. If the United States expects to keep up its
lick in feeding the starving people of the war coun
tries and feed its thousands upon thousands of unem
ployed and starving in its own country, it will have
to go*some. The distress in Mexico is said to rival the
distress in the European theater of war.
It will be of interest to wrestling fans to know
that Owen Daily, the lightweight champion, lost to
John Mackie, the Boston Finn, the 22nd instant at
Lincoln, Mackie taking Daily’s measure in the first
fall in one hour and forty-seven minutes and the sec
in some twenty minutes. There is never a man but
finds one better, it seems.
Without appearing to be personal, about the
worst joke ever perpetrated upon the Nebraska State
Editorial Association, was when a number of the dem
ocratic members of the association made it possible
by their votes to have foisted upon the association
its present president. Nuff sed.
A fire from a picture film machine at Morning- •
side, Iowa, last Sunday evening caused the death of
the operator, a student at the college there, Hiljis
Williams, aged 17 years. The house was crowded but
all escaped, with but few injured, and the fire was put
out without much damage.
Terre Haute is in the throes of political and legal
troubles. The mayor of that city, Don M. Roberts,
and 125 other democratic politicians have been in
dicted by a federal grand jury for election irregulari
ties. Can it be that pure democracy has fallen from
its high pedestal?
A great fight between English and German sea
and air craft took place off the English coast last Fri
day in broad daylight, when seven English naval and
sea planes and several submarines attacked the Ger
man warships. The loss was not made known.
Central City suffered a $50,000 fire last Sunday
morning, the Gladfelter opera house being totally de
stroyed, with several firms therein losing all their
stocks of goods. It was the heaviest loss by fire in the
history of tbe city.
It is claimed that the German losses in the war
up to the present time aggregate two million men, and
the Austria-Hungary casulties are calculated at a mil
lion and a half of officers and men.
It is claimed the cost of the primary and regular
elections last year in Kansas exceeded 70 cents per
vote. Will some one figure out the cost of the same
for Nebraska?
A report of a Filipino revolution comes to us
through Washington dispatches, but later reports are
to the effect that it had been squelched without much
trouble.
And now comes the report that Belgium is to be
Wiped off the map of countries and to be annexed as
^ part of Germany.
i
WHAT THE RAILROADS DO
WITH THEIR INCOME
Why They Are Considered the Great Business
Barometer of the Nation.
In contemplating the crisis which
confronts the railroads at<the present
t me, and which was briefly explained
in last week's article, it is important
for the reader to realize that the rail
roads and the public face each other
under radically changed conditions
today from those which prevailed a
few years ago. The abuses and scan
dals which have been aired before the
Interstate Commence Commission
during recent months were perpetrat
ed for the most part under the old
regime of a dozen or so years ago,
and can never be repeated under the
conditions which now prevail. On the
one hand, the Interstate Commerce
Commission and the different states,
either through their Public Utility
Commissions or Legislatures, say
what rates the railroads shall charge
for service. In addition to this, a pro
posal is now pending in Congress to
give the government the right to in
vestigate all new interstate securities
before they can be placed upon the
market, while similar authority is al
ready being exercised within the
states by the different public utility
commissions. This means that the
last vestige of control over their fi
nances will have been taken away
from the railroads and that hence
forth their fate will lie absolutely in
the hollow of the people’s hands. In
this connection, we wish to again re
mind the reader that the hundreds of
honest railroad officials throughout
the country—men who have managed
their properties without a breath of
scandal or public criticism—should
not be condemned because of the mis
deeds of the few. With an aroused
public conscience on the one hand
and scores of railroad officials
throughout the country sincerely and
actively co-operating with the differ
ent public authorities on the other,
we can safely let by-gones be by-gones
—wipe the slate, and, with a square
deal for the people, the investor and
the railroads alike, “start over again.”
The President’s Anxiety
In last week’s article we quoted a
portion of President Wilson’s recent
reply to a group of Eastern railroad
executives. That the President has
become profoundly concerned over the
present crisis which confronts the
transportation companies is once
more made strikingly apparent in his
letter concerning the inauguration of
the new banking system to Secretary
McAdoo a few days ago, in which he
said:
“The railroads of the country are
almost as much affected (by the war)
not so much because their business is
curtailed as because their credit is
called in question by doubt as to their
earning capacity. There is no other
Interest so central to the business
welfare of the country as this. No
doubt, in the light of the new day,
with its new understandings,tbe prob
lem of the railroads will also be met
and dealt with in a spirit of candor
and justice.”
Like utterances have come from
scores of other prominent public men
and financiers during the last few
weeks—men woo are above making a
selfish plea for any private or corpo
rate interest and whose sole desire is
that American business shall emerge
from the present precarious situation
withoutdisaster. Under these circum
stances it is tbe merest folly for any
citizen to treat the present crisis
lightly or flippantly, for we are pass
ing through a period in which the
financial resources of every nation in
the world will be tested as never be
fore.
Where Bailroad Receipts Go.
In order that the reader may reali
ize what a tremendous factor the rail
roads are in the every day business
life of the nation and what they mean
to its prosperity, we wish to analyze
briefly what becomes of the average
year’s railroad income, Just as the
idea has prevailed in the minds of
many that the railroads are owned
by a few rich men, so the thought
has also found deep root that they
collect millions of dollars from the
public which go into the coffers of a
handful of millionaires, and which
are permanently withdrawn from the
thrift and industry of the people.
At the close of the fiscal year end
ing June 30,1913, the records at Wash
ington show that the railroads of th$
United States had collected a gross
income from all branches of theif
sevice amounting to S3,118,929,31&
Of this sum, 11,373,830,589 was paU
out for labor—or, to put it in another
way, almost 60 cents out of every dol
lar they took in was immediately paid
out to the hundreds of thousands of
men and women whom they employ
in the conduct of their business. For
maintenance of way, equipment, de
pots, etc., they disbursed $929,167,491
—or almost another thousand million
dollars—and in this vast item the
reader can grasp what railroad pros
perity means to the great steel mills,
the lumber and coal industry, the big
car and locomotive building concerns,
and other sources of railroad supplies.
In taxes they paid out the enormous
sum of $123,682,118, which helped to
maintain the public schools, public -
highways and other revenue expenses I
of eyery state, county and incorpo- I
rated town and city in the country
After the interest had been paid on
their funded debt and all otoer char
acters of expense had been met, they
had $153,426,670 left out of which to
declare dividends and to use as a sur
plus fund for emergencies and im
provements of one kind and another.
In other words, after the railroads
got through paying for their labor,
steel, lumber, coal, interest and other
necessary expenses, the above little
more than $153,000,000 was all the sur
plus they had left for themselves out
of an income of more than three bil
lion dollars—and this, too, upon prop
erties worth the gigantic sum of
twenty billion dollars, or less than 1
per cent upon the total capital in
vested in the railroads of the country.
Thus it can be seen that on the basis
of the present rates the railroads pay
back to the public in one way and
another practically every dollar they
receive for service.
(Continued on Eighth Page)
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Notice To Creditors.
State of Nebraska,)
tSS.
Sherman County. )
In the County Court
In the Matter of the Estate of Ma
thilda Beushausen, Deceased.
To the Creditors of Said Estate:
You are hereby notified, that I wiil
sit attihe County Court room in Loup
City, of said County, on the 17th day
of July, W15, to receive and examine
all claims against said Estate, with a
view to their adjustment and allow
ance. The time limited for the pre
sentation of claims against said Es
tate is the 17th day of July A.D.1915,
and the time limited for payment of
debts is the 18th day of December.
1915.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said County Court, this 18th day of
December, 1914.
E. A. Smith.
[skal] County Judge
Last pub. Jan 14.
Order of Hearing and Notice on
Petition for Settlement of Account.
State of Nebraska,
ca,1
f, J
SS.
Sherman County, .
In the County Court
of Sherman county, Nebraska
To the heirs, legatees, devisees; and
to all persons interested in the estate
of George L. Zigler, deceased:
On reading the petition of Mattie
D. Zigler, praying a final settlement,
and allowance of her account filed in
this Court on the 17th day of Decem
ber 1914.and for decree of cou rt for dis
tribution of residue of^ptr- u.ul
property and possession of r.-al
estate- it is hereby ordered
that y»u and all persons in
terested in said matter may, anti d„.
appear at the County Court to be held
in and for said County, on the 9tl,.
day of January A D. 1915,at 10 o’clock
A M., to show cause, if any the re be.
why the prayer of the petitioner
should not be granted, Und that notice
of the pendency of said petition and
the hearing thereof be given to all
persons interested in said matter by
publishing a copy of this order in the
Loup City, Northwestern a weekly
newspaper printed in said county, for
3 successive weeks prior to said day of
hearing.
Dated Jlecember 19tb, 1914.
[seal] E. A. Smith.
County Judge.
Last pub. Jan. 7.
Notice to Creditors
State of Nebraska. 1
VSS.
Sherman CouDty,. )
In the County Court.
In the Matter of the Estate of Juli
ette Waite, deceased.
To the creditors of said estate:
You are hereby notified that I will
sit at the county court room in Loup
City, in said county, on the 31st dav
of March 1915, at 10 o'clock a. m. and
the 6th. day of July 1915,
to receive and examine all claims
against said estate, with a view to
their adjustment and allowance.
The time limited for the presentation
of claims against said estate is the
6th day of July. A. D. 1915, and
the time limited for payment of debts
is one year from the 24th day oi Nov
ember 1914.
Witness my hand and the seal of
said county court, this 7th day of
December, 1914 E. A. Smith,
[seal] County Judge.
Order of Hearing on Petition for
Appointment of Administrator
In the County Courtof Sherman Conn
tv, Nebraska.
State of Nebraska, 1
-SS.
Sherman County, 1
In the matter of the estate of Johan
F. W. Jaeschke, deceased.
On reading and tiling the petition of
Martin Jaeschke and Herman Jaeseh
ke praying thatAdministr ation of said
Estate maybe granted to John F. W.
Jaeschke. as administrator.
Ordered, that January 11th. A. D.
1915, at one o’clock p. m.'. is assigned
for hearing said petition, when all
persons interested in said matter
may appear at a County Court to be
held in and for said County, and show
cause why the prayer of petitioner
should not be granted: and that
notice of the pendency of said peti
tion and the hearing thereof be given
to all persons interested in said mat
ter by publishing a copy of this Order
in the Loup City Northwestern, a
weekly newspaper printed in said
county. 3 successive weeks prior to
said day of hearing.
Dated December 22nd 1914.
E. A. Smith.
[seal] County J udge
Last pub. Jan. 7
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