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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 give 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 j
been dumping tons of products in the i
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nation's garbage can ior want vl 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, i
Slight variations in production have j
forced a change in diet and one local-;
Ity has felt the pinch of want, while :
another surfeited, but the world as a k
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-lialf the earth's j
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 i
one should become alarmed; the j
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
land 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 Soil.
The city people have been urging
each other to move back to the farm,
but vefy few of them have moved. J
We welcome our city cousins back to
,the soil and this earth's surface con
tains 16,092,160,000 idle awes 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 producers
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we can use. The city man has very
erroneous idesis of agricultural condi
tions. The commonly accepted theory
that we are slort on production is all
wrong. Our f.nnual 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. 0;* this amount there is
approximately 750,000,000 acres on the
western and 1,260,000,000 acres on the
eastern hemisphere, in cultivation.
This 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 ot ce
reaYs, thirteen billion pounds of fibre
and sixty-five million tons of meat.
The average animal world crop for
4he past five years, compared with the
previous five years, is as follows:
Past Hdlf Previous Half
Crops? Decade. Decade.
Corn (Bu.) 3,934,174,000 3,403,655,000
Wheat(Bu.) 3,522,769,000 3,257,526,000
Oats (Bu.) 4,120,017,000 3,508,?15,000
Cotton (Bales) 19,863,800 17,541,200
Tne 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 prpduction 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 be
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
v adaresS 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 organization and in co-opera
tion in marketing.
Removing Fcreign Bodies in the Eye,
Usually the eye can take care of it
self as the lid is very quick to close
and protect it from foreign substances.
But there are times when a tiny bit
will get embedded and if you are far
from a doctor, home-made helps must
be applied. Occasionally you find a
family medicine which contains an
eyestone, but its use by an amateur is
never recommended by an oculist. It
has been discovered that the most j fl
comforting thing in the case of some- j v
thing in the eye, is to have a friend |
apply his or her tongue to the eyeball. I *
Tt fives immediate relief! the foreien I ^
body is found at once and taken out, j ?
the warmth of the tongue is very | ^
grateful to the inflamed surface, and !
the secretions of the tongue are very : ^
healing, as is well known. The red- i s
ness leaves in a few minutes. This : 0
safe suggestion is generally available! c
and is worth remembering.
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HIS EXPERIENCE
By PETER HICKUM.
I don't propose to make myself ex
;ra ridiculous by calling myself a
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n this secluded grove must not b
iscribed to poverty or misanthropy
is I own several nice farms and would
jraciously permit any middle-aged lady
;o superintend the said real estate and
ny piano; but my solitary life is due
o my two besetting sins?having
oved too many girls, and having been
.00 good.
I am myself too far advanced in
ife to gain benefit from my sad expe
ience, but it might be of value to
hose who are not too old to learn.
My childhood shall be skipped, with
he laconic allusion that I wasn't the
vorst boy in my native village on the
thine.
When a^ked what I intended to
nake of myself, I always answered
iy looking at the nearest girl handy,
tfy father, who was a physician ol
:onsiderable fame, had a burning de
lire to have me, his son Peter, be
:ome a doctor of medicine and sur
gery. He sent me at the early age of
eventeen to a celebrated medical col
ege, accompanied by his warmest
veil-wishes and a bundle of rules in
egard to my behavior while away
rom home. My arrival at the seat of
earning caused some head-shaking
.mong the skull-capped professors and
onsiderable giggling among the stu
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yas ordered to occupy a dark corner
if the Bchool-room?all to myself?
vhere I was. told to study the anat
my of a grinning monkey, and to tell
^hat I knew about the bones when
he teacher came around.
But, alas! I was disturbed In my
natomical studies by a rattling noise
n the back yard. Casting my eyes
rom my subject into the back yard,
espied a fair maiden pumping cis
ern water with all her might. She
joked up and I again looked down,
ntil the fair pumper had filled the
iucket and pumped my heart clear
ato the back yard.
I forgot to peruse any moro the
rightful skeleton, but my eyes con
tantly explored the contents of that
atal back yard. , .
The fair pumper, my first love, was
een by me no more. I pined and be
ame haggard-looking; my teachers
Bit my pulse and shipped me home
without delay.
I recovered from the fever In about
wp months, and went to a circus. I
ecame greatly interested in the wax
gures of Cain, who killed Abel, and
1 the eleven good apostles.
Bui.the curtain rose, when, lo and
lehola! there stood a lassie iwith
hining golden hair. I loved her with
ut the least preliminaries, and
ouldn't sleep for many nights on ac
quit of_the charming circus-girl. _
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I TiiPif.1T ernfgrateTTo (Rf? country,
| where I have been entirely too good,
| and loved fair damsels by the score.
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j my whole early apple crop to those
i three Sand Hill ladies the oldest
! would reciprocate my ardent affection?
But she snubbed me as soon as the
early apples ceased coming.
And that preacher's daughter, whom
i I first saw and loved at the Oak Hill
? camp-meeting. She came near spitting
, In my face.
The Dipperman girl held out seduc
[ tive inducements until, when I popped
- the question, she crawled away with
[ my bleeding heart, telling me that she
, couldn't leave her parents for such a
, forlorn-looking wretch as I was.
| The Fulton countv girl smiled as
long as I let her father have his own
L way with my corn and hogs, but talked
bad to me as soon as I vetoed his
, thievish proceedings.
I don't wish to mention the four
school-marms I once dearly but vainly
adored, nor will I tell the particulars
| about my short marriage with an ex
war-widow, who cost me $7 for the
knot-tying and $700 for loosening it. j
I am now nearly seventy years of 1
age, lead a frugal life, supply several
, destitute widows with fuel, and live
a hermit life in this patch of timber
which some sarcastic local newspa
per writer christened Misery Grove,
because, as he fiendishly explained,
"Old Peter is a miser in misery."
I will persist that I would be as
happy as the majority if I were equal
ly mean. But the way it stands I am
, without a peer in this section, by rea
son of having loved too many girls,
and having practiced that other be
setting sin, not having been good
enough to myself, but too good to
others.
When Iceland Went Dry.
The first European parliament to en
force teetotalism was that of Iceland,
where a law was passed two years ago
prohibiting the importation or sale of
intoxicating liquors; One effect of this
measure was to deprive the foreign
consuls at Reykjavik of their drink, so
they protested to the governor, point
ing out that such a deprivation consti
tuted an Infringement of the rights of
diplomacy. Permission was thereupon
granted the consuls to import beer,
wine and spirits, provided these fluids
are consumed only on the premises to
which they are consigned. Moreover,
the total amount imported by each
consul must not exceed 800 liters in
a year, and the quantity required must
be imported in one consignment. Only
the representatives of France and
Norway benefit by this concession.
The other consuls are unpaid, and, be
lllg JLiaUYUb ui xueiauu, wcic cAyi 0001;
excluded from its benefits.
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Light Has Lasted Long.
In the sheriff's vault in Vancouver,
Wash., there is an incandescent light
which has been in -use for 22 years,
and is still good. It is -burned only
when the vault is opened, but at
times has been going for a day or
two at a time.
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G. PARTH
NAN VISITS EUROPE
By DOROTHY DOUGLAS.
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Copyright, 1914, by the McCIure News
paper Syndicate.
When Nan went on her first visit to
Europe she had not the slightest hint
that she would arrive in a land 'hrown
into the horrors of war. She had
taken her trip across the ocean on a
long delayed holiday and had expected
to find only joy and merriment, for
Nan had a way of meeting happiness
half way wherever she went.
But in Belgium she had fled from
the advance of the common enemy
into Paris and from the gay city she
had enjoyed a scant three weeks when
with hundreds of other Americans
she had scrambled onto safer Eng
lish soil.
London was a haven of -refuge to
Nan, who had smelled the smoke of
battle and heard the boom of dis
tant fire. She had seen pitiful little
families of Belgian refugees fleeing
along the roads from devastated
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ty and all hope and going they knew
not where.
But London was waiting with open
arms to receive all of the weary refu
gees from the courageous little coun
try, and Nan found herself again face
to face with the realities of war.
There were no less than a dozen of
these Belgians sheltered in hospitable
homes in Norland square.
It was in the acre of green park
belonging to the square that Nan be
came acquainted with little Jean
Loman, a Belgian cmid wno naa oeen
brought over from the devastated city
of Louvain.
Jean's mother was a French lady,
who was sleeping beneath a flower
garden in Belgium. Her father was
a soldier, MaJ. Albert Leman.
From that moment on Jean and
Nan became fast friends. They
romped and played and went on long
'bus ride's- through the city anc? out
Into country lanes.
When the wounded soldiers beg'an
to arrive in trainloads, Nan could no
more have left the city of London
than she could have cut off her own
right hand. She simply had to re
main. Something held her, she knew
not what.
It was during the sixth week of the
war that Nan discovered little Jean
Leman's photograph on the front page
of the Sketch. Major Leman was
anxiously seeking news of his little
girl and had asked the papers to as
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wait to have her breakfast but went
quickly Into the boarding house next
door in search of Jean.
Nan explained as swiftly as possi
ble in her improved French that Dad
dy Soldier was in London and that he |
was looking for his little girl.
"We will go down this morning
when you have eaten your nice break
fast," Nap, told, her and went off_to
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ascertain"th^ locatlonof the King Ed- (
ward VII hospital and the quickest
way of getting there.
Jean chatted incessantly on the j
journey down; she was so excited j
that Nan felt her own calm engulf
i her as if for the purpose of steadying |
the child. Consequently, when they i
arrived at the hospital and ap-1
proached the big Relgian officer
whose head was swathed in bandages
| and one arm pinned in like fashion j
| to his side, it was Nan who displayed
a most wonderful calm. Major Leman I
broke down emotionally ? perhaps
more than he had during the entire
: weeks of fierce fighting?when Jean
j was swept into his uninjured arm. ;
Over her head, which he held against
his breast, he looked at Nan and made
swift apology for having conversed
in a foreign tongue.
"One is apt to forget convention in
moments of great emotion," he added, i
"In a moment I will thank you for I
having cared for my little Jean."
"You are not going away from me !
: again, ai*e you?" Jean was asking her
father.
"Yes, dearie, as soon as this arm is
better, and the more often Miss Nan- j
ny brings you down to see me the i
sooner I can get back to help the sol
diers at the front."
So it was that during the long hours
of convalescence Nan came to know
love. The emotion was so great and
wonderful that Nan was shocked at
her own weakness before the attack.
Jean did not know what her father
and Nan were talking about, nor why
her father swept Nan so suddenly into
his arms, but she smiled for the pic
[ ture was pleasing and Jean knew that
all was well.
Light Humor.
In the latter half of the eighteenth
century one of the members of a little
scientific society in Liverpool, Eng
land, laid a curious wager. He bet a
brother scientist that he would read a
newspaper by the light of a farthing
dip at a distance of 30 feet. The B. S.,
finding the feat difficult at even a sixth
of the distance, cheerfully accepted
the wager.
The layer merely coated the inside
of a shallow wooden box with sloping
pieces of looking glass, so as to form
a concave lens, placed behind his farth
ing dip and readily deciphered the
small print at the stipulated distance.
The experiment was witnessed by-a
Liverpool dockmaster. He was a think* |
ing man and saw great possibilities in (
this learned jest. He straightway j
adapted the principle to lighthouse re-1
quirements and forthwith the modern:
reflex light, with its mites of reflected'
range and untold life-saving powers,
eprang into being.
Memory.
The brain is like a phonograph. It
is full of records and you need only
to set the needle and touch the spring
of memory to hear its melody. Of
course this leaves you with consider
able responsibility as to the choice of
records with which you stock up.
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