FOOD BURNED.

Grey River Argus, 3 April 1922, Page 8

FOOD BURNED.

WHILE WORKER* 1 STARVE. Des .Moines, la. Much lowa, corn lia ” been sold at 20 to. 22 cents, and sumo as low Us 17 cents a. bushel this ,<lear. but this is not the lowest price at uhic-h th,, grain has ever been sold "i the state, according to Charles I) | R-ed, director of the Rwa weather | '■''"l- service. lie says that in I JH!»6 corn sold to,, n cents a bushel. However," he explains, -'ll cents a bushel corn vva,s produced in 1896 on 1:111,1 worth only 30 to -10 dollars an at it, tt here, to-day hi,nd is worth at,out five times that much. The farmers arc relatively five, times as bad mt." Retd advises farmers to "burn 17l; '"t -mil instead of 8 dollar coal.” He says he- th.es not take the sentimental viewpoint, hut gives pis advice from a, purely cermomical standpoint. “It is cheaper to burn 17-cent corn,’’ he declared, “than to haul it to town ami haul coal bark to the farm." S<> if ls . Tt dot's not pay to take the food to the starving Russian people-, it pays better to use- it as fuel and let the people hunger'. That is capitalism with a vengeance, I