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Show Ktlad by Weitern Newpapr Union.) A BILL OF IMPORTANCE TO FARMERS A BILL of great importanct to the American people was recently Introduced In the house of represen-tatives represen-tatives - H.R. 4591 - by Congress-man Congress-man August H. Andersen of Minnesota. Minne-sota. H.R. 4591 does not call for billions of expenditures; It has nothing to do with the production of war materials; ma-terials; it has nothing to do with partisanship, but it will r.ot be easy to get it through congress. The bill provides for the discovery, discov-ery, introduction into this country, breeding and testing of agricultural crops for utilization in industry and manufacturing, and for replacement of surplus agricultural crops. That bill, if and when enacted Into law, will be the foundation on which a permanent solution of the American Amer-ican farm problem can be built It would provide for crops for which a market would be available. It would make the farmer Independent of government doles, but would insure in-sure adequate farm revenue from year to year. It would make the farmer Independent of Washington and for that reason, it will be a hard bill to pass. No one doubts the existence of hundreds of soil products that can be utilized In industry, as tung nuts, soy beans, castor beans, hemp and others are now being used. Under the proposed law, they would be found and applied to industry through chemical research, to be conducted largely at state universities. universi-ties. It is a simple and practical plan on which to build a permanent solution solu-tion of the American farm problem and is one the farmers want. The farmer asks for a market for such things as he can raise, not necessarily neces-sarily for what he now raises. He wants to produce and be paid for what he produces, not to be paid for not producing. The enactment of Congressman Andersen's bill would be a definite first step in that direction. A SYSTEM THAT CREATES, THAT'S AMERICAN SYSTEM I HAVE A FRIEND who, as a young man, started a manufacturing manufactur-ing business on the proverbial "shoe string." Through energy and executive ex-ecutive and sales ability he made it a success. Today he operates plants in three states and provides employment employ-ment for more than 2,000 people. Over the years he has, as we would say, amassed wealth for himself. him-self. In reality he has added materially to the national wealth and in the distribution of our national annual income. His ability has very largely helped to provide for the maintenance of some 2,000 American Ameri-can homes food, shelter and clothing cloth-ing for 2,000 families. That friend is getting well along in years now, and some day, like all of us, will pass away, but he will leave behind the plants which rep- resent an increase in the national wealth and the more than 2,000 jobs he created. They will go on. The experience of that friend represents rep-resents the operation of the American Amer-ican system of free competition, the American way of life. It has been operating since the first colonists arrived ar-rived on our Atlantic coast Because Be-cause it is a creative system, it has made America the most prosperous nation in the world. It is a system that creates and divides, and what it creates, it leaves for use by posterity. HALF-WAY MEASURES WON'T GET RESULTS WE AMERICANS all too frequently frequent-ly attempt to accomplish big results with half-way measures. We are ! seldom willing to look any problem squarely in the face and take full measures for solving it at one time. We try to do it piecemeal. Our problem today is to prevent i inflation. To do that we say to the manufacturer-and later it will include in-clude the farmer-'-you can charge un.y so much for your product " We do not say to the workman that he can charge only so much for his time. Ae do not say to government-Deficit spending for non-es-scntials must stop," or "fix a defi-nite defi-nite hm,t on government borrow-"IBs. borrow-"IBs. or "The tax load on the man-creased"" man-creased"" forrncr 'mui "t be to- To stop with only a limitation on tr.e pnee that may be charged for corr mod.ties will not do ail the job' Without the other things, it will be but killing the Eoose l'at golden eggs. ' AIR MINDED FARM BOYS aS TS " 'So the onehal ff ,h 8 SCh1S report fullv T arm. 7 StUdentS co from e farms nd many airplane clubs "e being formed bv farm hi They fly hght pianeXh rcan Te 'nded in ordinary pasture fle", SACRIFICES |