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adDY GUY STILL 'MAM AND -MS ~J.A.STlLMAJ*, Amýr MioW7W& ALEXAMDER STJLLMA#4PL FIIPAMt4R "*ee JAM 4 A.STiL.LMAtINY BAr4KfR ~5dddetails of the average ?or divorce, :epudlating 1fOtS Ziejfeld's Follies, where it is said ansit are destructive, but est son, Guy Stilisnan, now tw Stiba first mnet her. It is w tponeA of th prniasyears old, and- naming a French- charged Stiliinan maintained 8 sep. th ames A.Silca ase at' Canadian guide as a torespondent. arate heone for Mrs. Leeds. The Yokhas the whole nation Mrs. Stillman filed a counter sotilt real fight centcrs around the claim 1egg~stfinancial .sastitutions~ old baby, as' carespondeat. Mis. ed L. Stillans prsidenorte ofLeneds s lsnc .Les o iteGu sun o'nei Ntn Ci.ty Bak f terfan er cightagebeaumths in: of tbr tilbuan :milions has uedhis 'wi. Ledswas formr stageni~''ý:;:3 beaut :in ______________ý: OF DEPRESSION ON RMER NOT VNDERSTOOD, C. Wallace, secretary of agr&i-, bas issued the following state the agricultural situation: me speak first of the agricul uation in general. I think it get an understanding of this, work of the department of will become apparent. We roach it from two angles ent conditions, which are y unusual ,and second, condi phich may develop in the fu whether the people, of the 'dalize just what has happened farmers of the producing sec Take the grain and Mve-stock country of the central west, plc, and I speak of this be It is the region with which I am familiar, and also because it is regiop which agves us. our great crops. We have the finest civilization, taken as a whole, worid has ever peen; our farmers very high in 'intelligence; produce more per man than al any other farmers in the world; have adopted the most advanced of extensive farming yet devel Netwtthbtanding all this, they now In a most trying period and patering severe financial losses. aethroughout the nation, ee those, In the south and west aerincing exactly the same l# The cotton farmers of the the rice farmers the cattle and growers of the far west; the t growers-all are pasting this, same valley of discour. t nad financial stress. ple who are not familiar with tuture find it hard to understand .ltuatfon. They refuse to be ievo "the depression is %`serious as it) ýe They point t the high qil. # cur land, to ties h prices at farm products waee selli g to this heavy dropp to the a;ge, of &'utomobiles owned by #1, to the apparent wealth and on every side, and they - efise :k*seriously what the farmers say ng their troubles. a are two usees 9Ftt rs d agricultural deprpasipe IS h cost of productionlM We nclude all the 'tactors wirch y enter into the cost of pro we find, for example that the of producing a bushel of corn in the greatest corn state, was tIan 90 cents. This includes 9' lad cost, the labor cost, and ev $ iz else which . sht to ble in -e.a y people say, 'You are figa ihg' lad at an inflated price. You not do that. The farmer did 00, that price for the li. e. $lvidends on water.' true that the land Cargr.e is = ed on the basis of its vulue4 hgo, but it is also true that the i In land prices was not nearly _ t as many people snppose I ar of the occasional sales at . an acre and assume that resents the average. Nothing , *Port. The average advance in t e of our rich corn-belt land I about 60 per cent above pre s aues. It must be remembered s in the principal corn states E f the land is farmed by ten- s the.ae tenants mostly had to I on the basis of the advanced 2 ~tls. It is true, further, that ~tit the land charge altogether1 a which the farmer can ght 4a SZhel of corn is still consider- 4 what it cost him to produce f largest item of cost in corn 5 on Is no00 land, but labor. ( ' mae Have Prospered t man who has been farminj a land and who has save4 his e baa prospered. The five years e 1920 were profitable years, h ly to the grain farmer 1; ho f ~4fortunate as to have good he, exercisedi ordinary iqtclh d he srade more money thab - bfore made at farming. The' a Wrem not so. protitable fa thflb Ilv'e-stock farmer. The man who )' giew bhi own lyre stock and own grain And fed his grain to the live t- Stock, on the whole, made money. e- althopgh not as much as it he had sold the grain Instead of feeding it. i- The man who bought the live stock if and bought the grain and fel the a, grain to the live stock, on the aver )f age, lost money. When hogs were 'e selling at $20 per hundred-weight ev - erybody seemed to think the hog 'e febder was growing rich, but most 1. of the time when hogs were selling a- at those high figures the men who had to buy the grain to feed the hogs ;e :at malty, . d . Price Drop Disproportionate c- "The second cause of the farmer's k trouble is this; Prices of farm pro-I t, ducts have dropped out of all pro d- portion to the prices of other -things, n as well as out of all proportion to the .s cost of production. Lt "For example, the price of corn and it oats to-day on the Iowa farm is about 5, 20 per cent below the normal price s of these crop. before t'e war. The present price. of fat cattle: and of hogs i- Is from 20 to 25 per cent above the perwpr normal, if we take Chicago e prices, but on. the farm the prices of b. both cattle and hogs are down to pro war normal. d - "Now, note the prices of some of 3. the things the farmer must buy: Wag es of farm hands are about 100 per t cent above the prewar normal, ratl. a -road rates are from 70 tO 9@ per eent e above prewar normal such basic corn d modities as pig iron, coke, petrqleuim, a lumber, Portand ceaeut, tee far" g, above the ,pr war IozagNtre 1es r- to 150, and in some ease,, 2b per cent above the prewar uormal. Fact h ory wages and rata 1Wsges are d both more than ' Yoet above o the prewar normsas t In other words, iw rnier is se onng the things Ices at t pt4ces no higher =,as i4 -great sur f plts crops, lower than thee -'pouwar a fppirmal, he must buy' practcl y ev y erthing he needs at pries, 'it 50 I to 160 per cent above the irewtn asqr e mad. The severe agrkileltn res tsSion is inevitalge as _ eh a condition exists, and thi l ion - will =ertainly be' co -lufie o, in s dustay and business 'e rally. "It-d's a situation wbil, should ilhia r Menge the very best thought of the entire1 nation. If it ,contlnues, the trouble will be cothm ed to evm r eryone. We, are brot r one of an a other. Anything who turts the farmer will very soon be communi- I .lcard. to all of our citizens . The - farmers represent prebgb . o aoj per-cent of the pop ittid) Axf h its which a ously aft ther buy a power will bring trouble to the pea l ple wh omake or deal in the things the farm* ..u1 . ~ "It is a test d zur" edrn c visi#ati 2 ea '; country is in the period ofwhat al-. most might be called economic chaos b oaunae o our great surplugfood- sup-I ply," while across -the seas fn botft directions almost half the world Is sufferdng fromp the want of ood:" if our statemen had given more thought to getting th9 world back on a sound eoo oipi4 basis an; perhap.: haed .pei lest tia e on idalisatlc schemnes and theories they would have render- - ed a greater contribution to the peace and orderlines and happiness of- the , people of the earth. Must Find Outlet for Surphus - 1"Now, as to .this present situation, -~surely the duty of the de~partmansx of 4agriculture is evident. We should do everything possible to find an outlet for this great food surplus. We should search for ways to produce more cheaply- Our scientifie seen :should4 try to find a new use fox ~r surplus erops, We shohl4 help dpvelop more I efficient marketinig systems, straight ening curves and lowering the grades between the producer and the econ sumer. It is a time for every man who can heip totake hold. As ia the da's. wlgth we dragged our fire as (ps s bybagd to U ueene ofthi-fire end ev ary good citizen rushed out and took hold of the long xope and sd hdf -it, so we must do now. Every good citi zene, no matter in what busines he may be engaged, should do what he can to help the farmers through this period of depression, not for the sake of helping the farmer alone but for the sake of helping himself. We connot hope to reach no pal conditions until we arrive on a price level which will be fair to all our peo pie and all products. Farm products must come down u til the normal re lation between thems has been restor ed:- Thia talk of bringing prices, wlether farm prices or other prices balk to the prewar normal is moral ly. wrong and economically impossible We incurred a heavy national debt on the, inflated prices. It we could forme all prices, back to the ,pre-war normal-which we can not- it would be equivalent to just about doubling that debt. We can pay off our debts much easier if we maintian a price 'level more nearly the level at which the debts were incurred. Of course the excessively high' prices which pre vailing during the war can not con tinue, but if we should try to bring about a level, say. TO' per cent above the prewar normal ,everybody would }be better off. "We will get through this pe iod. The nation is not going bankrupt. The farmers are not going bankrupt. Neith er are they going to lie down on their' job. Gradually farm prices will be brought into fair relation with other Obicesad we 6wili go ahead hitting'on all cylinders. But there is another thing in the along run-a more impor taht phase of our' agtibnltu'al prob lem whichr we-gave been slow in con sidering. Let me sketch briefly the development of our agriculture. (Parmre Often Produce at Loss "The farmers of the United States during the past 7T years have, on. the average, produced and sold grnn Ani live stock at lass than the cost of pro { duction if 'we flake intoa consideration all the factor' which properly enter into aroduption beots. What ' mean Is that If the farmer, would practice a sound system of business economy, charging a fair interest on the capital Invested, both in his farm equipment a fair wage for "ateal. labor ex pended on the againSt his re ceipts floti the ma ketil ofis sncrqps it will be taund iat he has -'t re ceived for them enough to cover his actual costs. We will omit the val ue. of the fertility of his soil, which Is, in effect, a portion of his capital and which he has marketed in his crops, bue which we will simply throw in for good meaeurej, although this mt ,e ?eillacbd If op production istyo b pint iped. I ow that Ad4 a atatemenit of this kind is made many people question it.,. They think of individusi -farmaprs whom they have a who iave .becoore very "I~e* t o "est Iin speaking of the averag 1 r, he-farmers as a mass and the statement I have just made Is an absolutely truthful satement wwhick has been abundantly corroborat ed by scientific Investigation. "The, fsrmerp have been able and wliling to sell their crops at less than the actual cost of production because, firstth y" ve beerwiln to accept the valt of the farm as a home, as * placr to -raise -their children, as a part of the substantial reward for their work; and second, because as our po pulation has itnreised' thers has been a steady Increake in the_ value of the faiun land. In times 'past, therefore, the young farmer who could get 'eftugh /ahead' to ituake-t -aery srall paynleist ol 'a piece' of lbndL--anough to give him a foothold--and who-had a lot of hard work In him and who had a good wife, as most of them hare, haSt bt s able,. ba-l ivingr very eeonio micaily, denying himself and his wife th luxurles and flasety of the comforts of li-fe ,to hang on,' paying out on the farm ,and finally to see It growing in 'to 'a valualble piece of property, "During all this perlod we have ben a 'great surplus ood iModuclng na tioga, We lays bad to qomapete- with the farmersewheaMrl f the great consuming markets and take prices fixed by that competition. Another result of this great surplus 'o food was to stimulate our Industrial devel opment and to build up our commer cial enterprises of all kinds, until now more than one-balt of all our people liy in the citie$ and industrial cee. ters. Consumption Overtakes Prqduction "The steady increase in the value of our land and the relatively low prices for farm produc:.u has caused a constant drift of young farmers to the towns and cities, where they thought they could secure better pay for their labor and could see better opportun: ties to advance themselves in a mater ial way. In some of our heaviest pro duc ng states there arp nit - s 'rany people on the farms today as tl-re were 30 or 40 years ago. This move meat was fully justified by the cities It will continue as .'.ng as he c t±rs offer greater fiaancial ..-is; grea ter opportunities for :d va t -ment, more comfortable living conditions, and better social, educatlo milr a d re ligious privileges. It is the inevit able result of economic condirtima, rt 1 no amount of talk extolling the beauty of farm life can stuo n. Nor has this relative decline in the produ - ing population been a very serious matter up to the present tim':. Cer tainly It has not been serious from the farmers' viewpoint. We have *na*le great advances in methods of produc tion. The development of labor-sav ing machinery has enabled us to in crease our production per man. Not. withstanding our Increase in total po pultion and the decrease in farm po pulation and the decrease in farm po steadily Increased food production per thousand of total population. This increase has come both from 'the use of labor-saving machinery and from bringing into cultivation new areas of fertile land. We can not keep up this gait in the future. (lonsumption has alomst overtaken production under normal world conditions. Reclamation Depends on Prices TMost of our fertile land which can be farmed profitably without expen sive reclamation has been taken up. We still have large areas of swame land and dry land nd cut-over lands but these lands can not be profitably reclaimed and formed unless we can depends upon higher relative prices for farm products than prevailed be fore the war. 4o, also, we can great ly increase the productive power of a large area of the land in surplus pro ducing states, provided *e can de pend upon prices which will cover-the Increased eypense. Under our system of farming we have produced far more per man than almost any other nation but we have not produced nearly as much per acre as -in the nations of western Europe, for example. Our greatest increase. of food production In the future must come from. increas ing our acre yields, but this, in turn, depends upon prices which will justify the Increased csast. "The farmer is the one man engag ed in a big business who has had no voice in firing the price of the things he produces. He has been com pelled take whatever prices he could get. His coat of production has not a any time, been considered in deter mining this price. In times of small croaps prices have somethimes been high. In times of large crops prices frequently have been ruinously low. VeW large crops as a rule, give the fatsper fewer dollars than small crops. Fai-ming seems to be one biusiness in whelh large production Is always " " n alised. "No doubt when we get throe ;h 'bis period of world readjustment .ad get squared away on an' orderly basis there will be a gradual increase in the value of farm - land ,provided our na but this increase will be much slower tional policy is fair to agriculture, than in times past. The speculative value'has been taken out of the land. The farmer can no longer depend upon the increase in the value of his farm to make good loses suffered through 1is farming operations year by year. Farmers' crops must sell higher rela tively in the future than in the past. Fertility Nation's Greatest Asset "We seem to have been goiag o.' the theory that the fertility of our soil, especially in the great corn and and tame grass country, is inerhaust Ible. To the nation this is a most dangerous theory. We must .et about In earnest the development of an agri cultural policy which will enable us to .feed our people at fair prices and at the same time retain the fertility of our soil ,our greatest national ma terial asset. "The increase in tenancy has aroused Treat concern. Many pedple seem to think that tenancy is in it self an ev4i. Not necessarily so. As land advances tenancy increases. has always been true everywhere, and it is not necesarily a bad thing in Itself. The farmer who has a lim Ited working capital can tar better afford to rerit than to own after the land has reached a fairly stable value based on Its productive power. Men are willing to invest their money, in land and accept a very low rate of interest because of the security of the the investment, but there are evils which grow out of the tenancy sys tem which must be corrected. "It we are to make this 4 self-sus taining nation agriculturally, as Pres Ident Harding put it ip one of his epeecehs theer Is no time to be lost in studying these great problems. It is not aquestion at production alone; it is as question of the farmer being able to sell what he produces at a price which will justify him in continuing Mohair suits with real style- Tailored bylHar Schaftfer & Marx A great many men don't wear summer clothing because they think they'can't get the right style and fit; that's true of most summer clothing but we've found the remedy: fine summer fabrics tailored by Hart Schaffner & Marx. Just come in today and try on one of these Hart Schaffner & Marx mohair suits; they'll be a rev elation; you'll get the style and fit you expect with the comfort that you wamt in summer-satis faction is guaranteed too. N And they're low priced when you consider that you'll get two or three seasons service out of them. $22.50 - $25.00- $30.00 Spring Furnishings for the Well dressed Man Just received; white crepe de chine and Jersey shirts; logical for summer wear- Knit tires of pure silk; Clocked dloisery; black solid colors or stripes; on white} white on black varied combinations- or green oni brown. $)00 to $175 $L5O WINSBERG'S "The Quality Shop" to produce.. We are the best prodiac era in the world, but our sales system is very bad, indeed. We must study everything which influences both pro duction and imLaq. We must look into the matter of competition from farmers of foreign lands, where the agriculture Is still being exploited and where the standard of living are very -mumh below the standards which we demand for our people. We must look -into world conditions, both of supply and demand, and pioduee more intelligently and adjust our va rious crops to the probable needs. We must look into the administration of our credit machinery. Those who control the finance of the country and who have in their power to in fluence ,either directly or indirectly, the extension of credit can exercise a large amount of control over the prices of farm products. The same. thing is true of the administration of our transporttion systems. Through the simple device of regulating the flow of cars the prices of farm pro ducts can be sent up or down at the will of those who exeroise such con trol. We had some costly experiences along this line during the war. "In short, the people of the nation must come to understand that our prosperity as a nation depends upon a prosperous and wholesome agricul ture. "I can not now speak in detail of the, many lines of work in the depart ment of agriculture. We have here a mangnificent body ' of men and a Splendid organisation. We are going .ry to use the scientific and` practica. knowledge of these men whenever it ma best be used to promote the agri nulture of the nation." U. D. C. MEMBERS ARE ASKED TO COMMUNICATE Mrs. J. 1. Chapman of Krotz springs, who was in Opelousas Tuas lay, has requested us to ask all mem aers of Gordon chapter of the United Daaghtelrsof the Confedeiacy to com uanicte with her, giving their nagnes tad addresses. Mrs. Arthur Weber, state president At the Louisiana division of the U. D. C., is anxious to find out who are members of the local chapter as she wishes every member to maunlcate. w5th her at once. A meeting will soon be called at Opelousas. One, drawback about giving the re publicans all the rope they want is DLAVERs The Mark that Inuresthe Resu " Be certain that the board you buy for your walls and pilings is Beaver Board. W * ve found from our own experiepcp that this well known building product gives the best'resuk. Beaver Board is made from.` pure spruce fibre, -thoroughly shredded and built up into con venient, knodess panels. kw""s Yet Can't a ospt evrw easily and cleanly put up on Board nmwe an e" tats studding or over old walls. sL m**ark i don the t , is attractive, durable, sansitry of the bosed ,yest bMr. and, once up, it is always u p. tfWe can supply You wih th genuine Beaver Board -szed Wayfor applying. It is \" " edby the Beairer aide-markao the back of e A. C.$SkHesLmberCoLWd. Opelousas, La. they *Ml not p1Y ba.' ±bs ±as v, but hamstring the whqos bi dv eos'' trr.\ Referrtn$ a question to the iftt, state commerce oommuison- at .:; assures It a period of d igu itd: re pose.