Judge — April 19, 1924 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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Norman Anth: William Morris Houghton William Edgar The indictment of Sinclair for contempt of the Senate makes most of us criminals. Wheat The course of wheat prices since the wheat duty was raised to forty-two cents a bushel a few weeks ago would be a joke if it weren't so close to tragedy. At the moment of writing, May wheat is heing quoted in the Chicago market at cleven cents less than when the President boosted the tariff, hoping to increase the price. ‘The reader will forgive us for referring to our prophecy, that “if... the rate were raised to $1 a bushel the effect would be the same, namely, z: But what a curious light this episode sheds on the strictly “scientific” judgment of the Tariff Commission which, presum- ably after an exhaustive study of all the attendant. cconomic factors here and abroad, solemnly advised the President that the wheat tariff should be raised twelve cents. The law per- mitted fifteen cents, but evidently it was considered that something under the maximum would look * Pst! not to say, pshaw! an increase of more “scienti Still, there is some encouragement in the thought that if the farmer is demanding his hokum in scientific dress his standards must be improving. The T. B. M. Rebecca West, the English novelist, says that men are so bored with their jobs these days that they'll do “any fool thing that promises relief.” The very word “job” implies boredom. A “job” is doing something that usually not you but somebody else wants done, with your eye on the payroll, and doing it day in and day out, week in and week out, Miss West is right—men are indeed bored with their jobs, and not only the men who work for wages but often their bosses as well A friend of ours, a builder, dropped the remark the other y that if he put through a deal he was negotiating he'd have to deny himself to further prospects for a year and a half. We asked him, “Why not increase your staff to take care of all the business that offers?” “Because,” he replied, “I'd simply have a business and be an executive tied to a desk, and what ar out. rin and 4 I want to do is build.” Such heresy! Such a rare, refreshing, sane revolt against the accepted formula that man’s noblest destiny is to become boss of a hopper! It’s making “businesses” out of occupat that has brought a large part of the boredom to our modern world, We are all familiar with the type known as the “tired business ma He's not half so tired as he is bored. And we all know, too, that he'll do “any fool thing that promises relief.” ms Billboards and Vandals ¥ 2 Now that the agitation against the < effacement of our scenery with bill hoards shows signs of success, motorists should remember that billboards are not the only, or even the greatest, menace to the charm of the countryside. Careless, ill-bred picnickers and campers who strew their refuse about and light fires that turn into conflagra ist billboards tions take comes precedence. Complaint ag with very poor grace from those who are willing to defile the bank of a brook or a forest glade with egg shells 1 papers and abandoned tins, and with still poorer grace from those who are not willing to t every precaution against starting forest fires. After all, billboards can always be removed, but not so the sears that fires leave The beauty of this vast country of ours is one of the most important of our natural resources, quite as well worth preserv ing for the nation as a whole as naval oil reserves or water power But far better lease it to our oil ¢ than destroy it once for all ourselves. sites. id tire manufacturers Common Property The antomobile has made this country the common property of all its inhabitants to a degree beyond anything known sinc the Indians roamed at will over its vast So far as the gratif ion of his title to a foot of ny rural scene that suits his fancy 1 title to land “it, The privik domain. senses are concerned, the motorist without land is as much the owne: as the landlord himse' es you a chance to work it or “improv f enjoying it be- longs te to} anyone with a car to get him there and eyes to see, ears nd a nose to smell. this But makes each one of us the custodian of the country’s charm: new proprictorship has its responsibility. Tt really quite th - heaviest responsibility that as a people we have ‘an we check the vandalism for which v famous and demonstrate our right to be ¢: must we be known as barbarians put up in Ford tins? ever borne. are Hed civilized, or A Pean We nominate for the Hall of Fame th neighbor who raises carly more luscious in the vegetable line green pea right off the vine, There is nothing than the tender ad especially when the are still peas requires worthy of a poct and a peas. season is young and the bounties of Natur Morcover, the qualities of character that are quite captain of industry in combination. ‘o begin with, you must have faith that spring is at hand at a time when the weight of For early peas must go into the ground while still about the only vernal symptom is the snuffles. Secondly, mercly to scratch the earth and deposit the seed won't do. Meticulous preparation a novelty. job of raising carly idence is to the contrary. of the soil with plow or spade, with rake, hoe, elbow grease and fertilizer, is essential if you would harvest more peas than you plant. And then patience, abysmal patienc faith, while frost and. cold calen and more the of suspense and he ready with a fresh store of optimism for the ’, our joy in a mess of peas from a neighbor's garden winds mock Only the stoutest heart can survive this peric suceceds frost routine of cultivation once the young shoots have appez Reall is sometimes sicklied o’er with the thought that every represents a drop of his heart's blood. take the peas and he can have the glory. pea However, we'll still