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Show KHeased by Western Newspaper Union.) MORE PRODUCTION NEEDED NOT A VICIOUS CIRCLE! WHAT AMERICA needs now and for the future is more production. More production should start on the farms. It should supply for us those farm products we are now Importing Import-ing to the extent of a billion and one-half dollars a year and which can be raised In the United States. The science of chemurgy must be encouraged to find new commercial uses for farm crops and for present farm wastes. Doing these things means Increased revenue for the farmers, more Jdbs for workmen, more opportunities for the investment invest-ment of capital In business a higher high-er standard of living for all. America needs in its national legislative bodies men of vision, men who will strive for the general good, rather than for partisan advantage, ad-vantage, men who will think of all groups, plan legislation to benefit all. instead of laws that take from one in order to give to another. We cannot establish and maintain that degree of prosperity and well-being well-being to which we are entitled by 'any policy of appeasement of minorities. To give the farmer more for his wheat by charging the workman more for his bread but creates a vicious circle which inevitably in-evitably leads to inflation and the ruin of all. Through a policy of increased in-creased production that leads to increased in-creased demand and consumption, we can benefit all, the farmer, the workman, business and the general gen-eral public. There are in America men capable capa-ble of solving our production problem, prob-lem, and they are the men needed in congress. Who in your town, your country, your district would measure meas-ure up to such standards? EVERYBODY CLIMBS ABOARD NATIONAL SPEED WAGON IT IS A SWIFT WORLD in which we are living, and there is no place in which new speed records are being be-ing established more frequently than in congress. When I first began taking notice of what happened in Washington, it would take a whole session of congress, con-gress, with days and weeks and months of talk, to spend the from five to seven hundred million dollars dol-lars then needed to run the governmental govern-mental machine. In that there would be the customary "pork" that might account for as much as 25 or 3C million, but to make up for it, there would be a few dollars cut out here and there. One year, I remember, they even refused to buy pocket knives for the senators. It is different in these days of speed. To keep pace with, or exceed, ex-ceed, the speed of those fighting planes we are sending to Europe, the senate recently passed out 10 billions billions, not thousands or even millions in just 80 minutes, and they did it unanimously, every senator was on the speed wagon. That little item was on top of 22 billions that had been spent during the present session before the last small item came along. And the session is probably only half over, another half year in which to establish es-tablish new and greater speed records. rec-ords. What that 32 billions mean to you and me and to our wives and children is just about $250, which each one of us will have to pay. CONSIDER YOUR MERCHANTS, TOWN ASSETS WOMEN OF THE neighborhood patronized the food chains for their light packaged goods on which they saved a cent or two. The chains did not deliver, but the women could carry the light packages. For the heavier staples, patronage went to the independents because they delivered. They were used as a convenience. The independents could not deliver and live on sales of staples only and in time many went out of business. Because we could not get food deliveries, we had to sell our home and move, but selling was a prob-'m. prob-'m. People did not want to buy fur the same reason that we wanted to sell. Lack of delivery con- veniences forced down the value of i real estate. j AH of that was in a large city, ! but exactly the same thing happens j i- any rural community where peo-' I pIe u:;e th local stores only as a convcn;mce, but go to other centers o make their larger purchases. Local merchants cannot live as j merely a convenience and when the loca market place is gone, real i estate values are gone and the so-j so-j c and cultural center goes Pays to consider the future. j EGG PRICES ! AMERICA IS SHIPPING vast ies of eggs and egodVu ? ' frEnK'"nd wou,d Pay cash for ;bS frum Canada. For the eggs cnur we are paying 8b0Ut 5 dhn n " mre than the Cana-di.in Cana-di.in People pay for theirs w "Eg shortage, Canada has not Jut our poultry raisers are profiting a,d h0e us who buy pay for , Pay ft, mcreaseon those we con! |