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Show WORLD NEEDS ALL PRODUCTS BUT TRADE IS SHACKLED "Somewhere in the world there is a need for everything that is produced," declared Alfred S. Goss, Master of the National Grange, an organization of farmers. far-mers. Undoubtedly, there is a need throughout the world for all that industry and agriculture can produce. Moreover, production on a scale sufficient to supply the reasonable needs of all peoples will utilize enormous volumes of raw materials. The problem of international trade depends upon the willingness willing-ness of peoples and nations to swap goods with other peoples and nations. No nation can be a seller and not a buyer without destroying de-stroying the balance upon which continued international trade depends. de-pends. Mr. Goss thinks that it would be fine if we could discover a way to get products to the proper people peo-ple at a price which they can afford af-ford to pay. There is no use to become mixed up about prices when the fundamentals of commerce com-merce reveal that it is a swapping process. The greatest barrier to the swapping of goods and services is the existence of high tariffs which effectively prevent nations from getting rid of surpluses on advantageous ad-vantageous terms. The United States set the world an example in its devotion to a high protective protec-tive policy and, just before the second World War, the other nations na-tions of the world followed our example and attempted to protect their industries and interests. The cumbersome system of tariffs, tar-iffs, quotas, exchange regulations and other controls complicate the process of making international trade free. It may be necessary to move gradually in the direction of unlimited swapping between peoples peo-ples and nations but no one should be more interested in this development devel-opment than the farmers of the United States whose future welfare wel-fare and prosperity seem to depend de-pend upon discovering a way to get rid of. their surplus produc- |