Show I Two vo Extremes and Middle Course CourseS I S Presented to People for Choice 4 j Shall we retire 40 to million acres ot of farm land or lower the and purchase each year more goods from abroad Or shall we follow Collow what is termed a scientific middle course Henry A A. Wallace United States secretary of oC agriculture has asked i that and has proceeded sup sup- with the backing of the administration ad- ad ministration to ask the American I people to supply the answer I It would appear that if iC we wish togo togo to go International We must submit to toa toa a radical radic 11 scaling down of oC t tariff walls we must accept more goods from abroad than we have been willing to receive in the past and we must provide provide pro pro- vide for Industrial readjustments It If we would follow the ultra ultra-na- course toward which some think we seem to be he heading under the national recovery administration and the agricultural adjustment administration ad ad- ministration it is pointed out that we will ill have to withdraw permanently from Crom cultivation about acres ot of good farm Carm land or perhaps as many as acres of oC poor land In Tact it is contended that we might have to go o so far lar as to have every plowed field feld licensed and suo su- by government agents an anthus and thus undergo other rl rigid d disciplinary measures which would supplant individual in in- freedom While we wc haven't gone to those lengths some believe that we are on the road leading in that direction Others point to a middle course which offers oUel's a chance for lor drifting a a status which m many people believe now obtains The administration J Is Isnow now employing millions of oC dollars of oC government credit to obtain recovery and a a rational adjustment to a clanged changed world The government has or can obtain 10 to 20 billion dollars to develop elop a coordinated and bal economic system But it i is held this sort of thin thing cannot go ort ort- forever V. V V It If we adopt a planned middle course between a national and In ter- ter national business relationship it 15 4 thought we can follow Collow Secretary Wallaces Wallace's Wal Wal- 5 laces lace's recommendation of oC lowering f tariff walls enough to bring in another an- an n. n other of oC goods annually V Vand V and permanently retract some acres of oC go good d or an equIvalent in land Certain it is that the average citiZen citi- citi zen needs to become better belter informed concerning our economic and govern mental structure Decisions are being be be- ing made so fast policies are b belig g determined with such rapidity that our aVera average e citizen and especially th the V youn younger er generation may wake up a 3 afew few Cew years hence and find living Jiving and laboring conditions any anything thin but d Policies now ed cd will vili affect aUed our lives in more ways V than one It If we would have them tol low constructive l line n we must become be be- come informed keep Informed and J let our desires be News Bureau 5 1 |