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American Agriculturist, August 4,1923 
Editorial Page of the American 
American 
Agriculturist 
Founded 1842 
Henry Morgenthau, Jr .Publisher 
E. R. Eastman .Editor 
Fred W. Ohm ..... Associate Editor 
Gabrielle Elliot .... Household Editor 
Birge Kinne .Advertising Manager 
H. L. Vonderlieth . . . Circulation Manager 
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VOL. 112 August 4, 1923 No. 5 
The Prohibition Vote 
E are now getting upwards of two 
hundred letters and votes on the prohi¬ 
bition issue every day and the number is on 
the increase. Let them come! Before we 
get through we hope to register enough farm 
votes to definitely tell the general public just 
where the farmer stands on this important 
question. On the opposite page are some 
more letters right straight from the shoul¬ 
der. Be sure to read them, and above all, 
be sure to vote, for this is the most interest¬ 
ing and most important problem in America 
to-day. If you will do your part and register 
your opinion, we will do ours and pass that 
opinion on where it will do the most good. 
If you have time, we are glad to have your 
letters, too. We do not have room to print 
them all, nor time to answer them all per¬ 
sonally, but they are all of them helping us 
in determining farm sentiment. We ask the 
writers to accept this statement of apprecia¬ 
tion in place of a personal letter. 
Quantities of ballots will be furnished 
upon application. Get your Grange, any 
lodge or church or church society, providing 
its members are from country districts, to 
send in their vote. We will soon begin to 
print the results. 
Automobile Pests 
VERY good thing leaves evils in its wake. 
The automobile is no exception. Two 
things in particular that the automobile has 
brought, make constant trouble for farm 
people. One of them is the automobile thieves 
who load their cars full of the farmer’s fruit 
and vegetables; and the other is those who 
have so little regard for the beauties of the 
countryside, that they always leave a nasty 
litter of papers and other rubbish behind 
them. 
It is well for our faith in the natural de¬ 
cency of average folks that there are after all 
only a comparatively few in either of the 
above classes, and in order to be perfectly 
fair, we must admit that not all of either 
the automobile thieves or the litterers are 
from the city. It seems to be a trait of cer¬ 
tain people, whether they live in the city or 
country, to throw off all restraint, courtesy 
and responsibility as soon as they get out of 
their own neighborhood. 
The only cure for such hogs—for that’s 
about all either of the classes are—is rapid 
and effective punishment. No person or per¬ 
sons caught stealing should be let off easily. 
On the other hand, let us not inflict punish¬ 
ment where it is not due. Over half of the 
people who go camping in cars are farmers. 
It is unfortunate for these as well as for de¬ 
cent city people, to have to meet with a gruff 
refusal when they ask for some little cour¬ 
tesy, like stopping for a drink or a place to 
camp, because of the prejudice that has been 
aroused by the comparatively few who should 
never be allowed on the highways. 
When Money Fails 
Though marks are produced by the ton in Berlin, 
On the pavements they uselessly flutter, 
And nobody bothers to g-ather them in, 
For the standard of value is butter! 
The people are losing their rose-ruddy tint 
And fast growing lanker and lanker, 
For from Kiel down to Munich the cow is the mint 
And the neighborhood grocer the banker. 
—Montague, in the New York “Tribune.” 
I F you were ship-wrecked on a desert 
island, all the gold or paper money in the 
world could not save you from starvation. 
Germany’s money at the present time is a 
sad example of what happens when the 
money is not backed by fundamental wealth. 
Farmers are the greatest producers of real 
wealth, but it is only in times of great crises 
that individuals and nations realize the fun¬ 
damental importance and neccessity of food 
production. 
Making people realize this fact has been 
one good result of the World War. Not in 
fifty years have the people of all the world 
talked so much about farm problems as they 
have recently. We no longer read in the city 
papers the would-be funny references to the 
hick farmer, or do we hear so much about the 
great amounts of money that farmers make. 
Everywhere there is more sympathy and 
understanding of the problems of the men 
who produce the food that all must have, in 
order to live. 
Market Service Saves Money 
W E are getting a good many letters from 
farmers about our radio service. We 
are very glad that this is appreciated and 
that it is saving our people a lot of money 
by giving them information that helps them 
to market their crops to better advantage. 
Just to refresh your minds, let us again say 
that we are giving two kinds of radio service. 
Every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday 
and Friday morning at 10:50 A. M., east¬ 
ern standard time, we furnish in coopera¬ 
tion with the New York State Department 
of Farms and Markets, through broadcast¬ 
ing station WEAF the latest prices on all 
farm products in the New York City market. 
If there is a radio in your neighborhood, be 
sure to make arrangements with the owner 
to get these quotations. Blanks for taking 
them down will be furnished free of charge 
upon application to American Agriculturist, 
461 Fourth Avenue, New York City. 
Then every Wednesday evening, at 6:50 
P. M., eastern standard time, through broad¬ 
casting station WEAF, we are giving short 
talks on farm subjects by some of the great¬ 
est leaders in America. Among those who 
have already spoken on this program are: 
Enos Lee, President of the New York State 
Farm Bureau Federation; John D. Miller, 
President of the National Milk Producers’ 
Association and Vice-President of the Dairy¬ 
men’s League Cooperative Association; Mrs. 
A. E. Brigden, President of the New York 
State Federation of Home Bureaus; Dr. 
Agriculturist 
Royal S. Copeland, New York State Senator; 
H. J. Kenner, President of the Better Busi¬ 
ness Bureau of New York City; Albert Man¬ 
ning, Master of the New York State Grange; 
Alva Agee, Secretary of Agriculture of New 
Jersey; Miss Gabrielle Elliot, Household 
Editor of American Agriculturist; Herschel 
Jones, formerly chief of the New York City 
office of the State Department of Farms and 
Markets; Jared Van Wagenen, Jr., New 
York State Farmers’ Institute Lecturer and 
contributing writer of American Agricul¬ 
turist; Henry Morgenthau, ex-Ambassador 
to Turkey; Nathan Straus, Jr., Chairman of 
the Agricultural Committee of the New York 
State Senate; F. P. Willits, Secretary of 
Agriculture of Pennsylvania; E. R. East¬ 
man, Editor of American Agriculturist; 
Fred W. Ohm, Associate Editor of Amer¬ 
ican Agriculturist. 
Some of those who will speak jn the near 
future are: H. E. Babcock, General Man¬ 
ager of the G. L. F. Exchange; Berne A. 
Pyrke, Commissioner of the Department of 
Farms and Markets; and R. P. Snyder, Di¬ 
rector of the Bureau of Rural Education of 
the State Department of Education. 
More Emphasis on Eastern Products 
A FEW days ago we were visiting with a 
manufacturer in New York City about 
farmers and farming. The city man ex¬ 
pressed the thought that farmers are not 
getting a square deal, and that it was very 
bad business for the country as a whole that 
agriculture was so out of balance with other 
industries. ‘‘However,” the manufacturer 
added, “this does not mean much to New 
York State because there is really so little 
farming here.” He expressed some surprise, 
and we don’t know yet that he really believed 
us, when we told him that New York State 
is first in the Union in the production of 
many farm crops, that it is the second State 
in the production of a still longer list, and 
that in the total value of all farm products 
raised it ran Iowa in 1921 a close race for 
third position. 
It speaks- little for the Eastern farmer’s 
ability to advertise himself and his business 
that this manufacturer’s viewpoint is typical 
of nearly all city men. For all of them, when 
they think of farming, think of the great 
West and have little knowledge of and give 
little credit to the immense amount of farm 
business that is carried on within a few hun¬ 
dred miles of the largest Eastern cities. 
Much progress has been made in the last 
few years in bringing to city people a knowl¬ 
edge of the unfortunate economic situation 
which now exists on farms. It is not so long 
since farmers were called “baby starvers” 
and “profiteers.” That feeling has largely 
passed away, and city folks have been brought 
to understand, at least in part, some of the 
farmers’ financial difficulties. The next step 
is to educate them to the very great impor¬ 
tance of Eastern agriculture; important to 
them because the products of Eastern farms 
are so near them, and important to Eastern 
farmers because such knowledge and better 
understanding would lead to a better market 
for Eastern products. Therefore, we are 
very much in favor of every movement like 
the proposed Fruit Show to be held in New 
York City next fall, which has for its object 
the advertising and the emphasizing of East¬ 
ern-grown farm products. 
The affection of your dog is unfailing and 
unobtrusive. If you are sad, so is he. If 
you are merry, no one is more willing to leap 
and laugh with you than he. To your dog 
you are never old. To your dog you are never 
poor. Whether you live in a palace or a cot¬ 
tage, he does not care, and fall you as low as 
you may, you are his providence and his 
idol still.— Anonymous. 
