Show Prevailing P r re e V a i I i n g Opinions 0 pin ion 5 S Comment of the American Press Massachusetts and Virginia Faneuil hall han is the lithe cradle of ot American liberty and is so so accounted accounted accounted ac ac- ac- ac counted in song and story in folklore folklore folklore folk folk- lore and legend and in the Imp imperishable imperishable im Im- im- im p perishable entablature of fact And Faneuil hall haUls is in Boston and Boston is in Massachusetts even as Plymouth Rock where the lithe heavy night hung dark the hillsand hills hillsand hillsand and nd waters oer o'er when a band of exiles moored their bark on the wild New England shore What were the dude ranchers down in Jamestown doing on that Wal- Wal purgis twilight which Felicia Hemans has told us us' us about Ask Samuel Adams Ask John Han Han- ock cock Ask the galloping Paul Revere Climb up to the top of ot Bunker Hill monument and ask uk Daniel Webster If It you ask uk us well we'll frankly toll toU you the landed gentry at Jamestown were drinking drinking drink drink- ing lug mint juleps and thanking the Lord they were wore Virginians St. St St. t. t Louis Post Diet Dictators fors tors' tors and nd St Statesmen The Tho modern state has haJI its lu humane humane humano hu- hu mane mano and its inhumane sides aides Dictators like Hitler and Mussolini Musso Musso- lint lini who frankly accept its in inhumane inhumane inhumane in- in humane functions and seem to specialize in them appear to experience experience ex ex- little if It any mental montal conflict con con- con con- filet But humane gentlemen who attempt to reconcile the and to run an inhumane system in a humane manner find themselves like Woodrow Wilson like Rene Viviani like Walter Valter In conflict with their p peoples oples and with themselves A gentleman who in private life Ufe is a man of ot scrupulous honor may maybe maybe maybe be required in his capacity as a public official to authorize deeds which his conscience must abhor The rate at which the western democracies have been devouring their statesmen is a fact whose implications are worth examining Why should statesmanship be fatal to an honorable man man man-Bos- Bos Bos Boston Boston ton Globe Figures of Speech The hopeful citizens of ot Alberta who voted for social credit and anda a 25 25 bonus per month per adult have been disillusioned They not only have not received the tho dividends dividends divi divi- promised by Premier Aberhart Aberhart Aber Aber- hart before the election but they seethe see tho stage set for higher taxes Still sun worse Aberhart now has haa de declared declared de- de dared that the 25 item mentioned mentioned men men- in in the campaign was merely a figure of ot speech nothing concrete at all aU just a rough idea of f what social credit could do if and when it got started S The Montreal Star has looked into the tha matter and ind finds that Aberhart is right in a a manner of speaking peaking It was wu a figure figure 25 25 an and it was was wasa a speech several leveral speeches peeches in fact sa says sars tho the Star More rore specifically it cites an extract extract ex ex- tract from Aberhart's campaign manual Each LEach citizen will receive a 11 passbook in which at the beginning beginning beginning be be- ginning of each month will be entered the basic dividend for that month IS say lay 25 25 Will the dividends always remain at 25 a month No We Wo believe that the dividends will increase a as the standard of living rues rises IIi In this episode there thero should be bea a text for tor warning the followers of Dr Townsend Townsend Townsend-St. St St. Louis Post- Post Dispatch Source of Farm Income Cash income for farmers in January was according according according accord accord- ing to figures just released d by bythe the depart department ent of ot agriculture Of this sum only about came f from om processing tax benefit payments In January 1935 farm income was of ot which 70 10 o- o was in benefit payments the A A A being then in lathe the heyday heyday heyday hey hey- day of at its iu power Thus do the departments department's own fig figures res continue to give the thelie lie to its p policies Ucles They demonstrate Incontrovertibly incontrovertibly incontrovertibly in- in controvertibly that the real Increase in increase increase in- in crease in farm tarm Income came came from farm products not under A A A control The same conclusion is reached in the virtually suppressed re reports reports reports re- re ports of ot the bureau of agricultural tural economics which discovered six abc months ago that the average cotton grower got less in actual cash not cash not counting the loss of ot markets under markets under A A A than he would have o received without it This is due partly to the fact that the big money in benefits went to the big growers the impracticability of at maintaining maintaining maintain maintain- ing an artificial price level against world comp 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