640 
May 6, 1922 
The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Things To Think About 
Cutting Out Useless Middlemen 
It appears to me that the consumer is 
responsible for the existence of the “mid¬ 
dleman.*’ yet I read on page 854 that the 
situation is politically controlled, and it. 
is for the farmers themselves to correct 
it. I have not the time to study the mat¬ 
ter as I would like to. hut. viewing it. 
from my knowledge of conditions in Buf¬ 
falo, I agree with you that there is too 
much politics in it, and my idea would 
he to eliminate this factor, something as 
was done with the liquor question, by 
pointing out to large employers of labor 
the benefits to accrue to them by having 
their employes better fed and at. a reduced 
price. This, it seems to me. will bring 
about what the farmer is after. 1 feel 
that it is the business of the farmer to 
produce, and that lu’s sates should he made 
as near his home as possible, whether 
through a co-operative association. Grange 
or otherwise, and that the consumer 
should purchase through these agencies 
with the minimum of expense. 
Instead of haying a central market in 
the cities, I would propose several dis¬ 
tributing stations, where shipments could 
he received iu carload lots, these stations 
to be owned, and possibly operated, by 
the city, somewhat like the parcel post 
by the Government. They could take over 
the business of delivering milk, have the 
prices of produce advertised in the daily 
papers, then the housewife, if she did not 
care to go to the market personally, could 
leave her order, to he picked rip by the 
milk deliveryman, and thus it could he 
arranged for delivery later. Take the 
street railway companies, for instance, 
who are probably held by their men for 
better wages on account of high living 
costs. They would benefit by having a 
much smaller number of delivery wagons 
to contend with, and thus give better 
service to the public generally. Also, they 
would not he annoyed or delayed by per¬ 
sons getting on and off their cars with 
heavy loads of produce in busy hours <>f 
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Why Remain an Alien? 
It is not often I disagree with The R. 
N.-Y., but your editorial on the taxing of 
aliens is, to my way of thinking, so ab¬ 
solutely wrong that I cannot let the mat¬ 
ter pass without protest. The undesir¬ 
able preponderance of aliens at present in 
the country is something which can easily 
be corrected by a wise system of limita¬ 
tion and inspection at ports of entry, and 
it is unjust to harrass those already in 
the country. So far from believing the 
alien “an expensive luxury,” I believe 
this immigration is essential to the life of 
any healthy nation, and all history will 
bear me out in this statement. 
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than a threshing job well done. Good, clean, fast threshing, day after day, without loss or delay, 
and at low cost, requires certain important qualities in a machine. All these qualities are found 
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Because of these and other, good qualities, 
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help for farm women was very hard to 
obtain, and immigrant servants a prob¬ 
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(Sunday) for a student who wished to 
spent her vacation in the country ar.d 
earn her hoard by part-time assistance 
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The answers to our advertisement num¬ 
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