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Show . Prevailing Opinions Comment of the American Preis ' Potato Program No Joke Since the farm administration once burnt its fingers with a hot potato, in the form of an attempted attempt-ed dictatorial control of virtually the entire domestic crop, it might be thought it had learned a lesson. les-son. But here it is back again with another plan to accomplish the same result, although with persuasion replacing the comput-aion comput-aion that the farmers and the country would not stand for. Reliance is placed on the tempting tempt-ing cash bonuses of from 4 to cents a bushel on the restricted crops of potatoes next year. But Secretary Wallace has first taken a referendum to ascertain whether wheth-er the potato farmers would like more money for producing less which ui a good deal like asking wage-earners or salaried men if they would accept higher pay for shorter hours. The results of this referendum are supposed to be quite impressive. impres-sive. Not merely but SO per cent of the votes cast favored the handout. Bread may be the staff of life, but tbe humble potato runs it a close second. There are . other farm commodities on which, the price could be artificially boosted without inflicting such hardship on the poor. The irony of this potato plan is that it hits the luckless consumer two ways. He must pay taxes to meet the subsidy to the farmer! so that they can afford to grow ' less potatoes. Then he must pay higher prices for the potatoes made scarcer through his enforced en-forced liberality. The whole potato scheme would have made a great theme for Gilbert Gil-bert and Sullivan except for the fact that the consumers wouldn't have found it so funny. Tbe Phd-adelphia Phd-adelphia Inquirer. The Gout According to the public prints. Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain Cham-berlain is confined to his home with an attack of gout. It is an astounding statement. The gout! Gout is not supposed to exist any more. Newspaper men never hear it cited as a reason -why some great statesman did not show up at a funeral. It never, nowadays, afflicts af-flicts heroes of fiction, which is supposed to be a perfect mirror of society. Where did it go between be-tween the days when Victoria was a young girl and those when Albert Al-bert Edward'was a young blade? All the first four Georges had It George V never heard ef it. It all goes to show that Neville Ne-ville Chamberlain ts unique, and something more than that, the perfect and complete Englishman, even though he has ' to go bark 100 years to round -up all the qualities of John BulL San Francisco Fran-cisco Chronicle. ' . Blaze Under Control It can now be stated definitely, that Flaming Youth has been extinguished. ex-tinguished. Flaming Youth was a problem that arose in the 1920s whenever people got tired of talking about the stock market. Flaming Youth went in for necking (as it was called in those quaint days), and it was either headed for hell en roller skates or else it was experiencing experi-encing a Great Emancipation and adopting a Wholesome Approach to Life, depending on how you looked at It. Whatever it was. It's over. A dispatch comes from Syracuse university telling bow the girls there are furnishing their sorority house. They charge the boys for goodnight kisses. The money is dropped in a bowl by the door. There are lower rates over weekends. week-ends. Some superficial moralists may be shocked by 'this, but they shouldn't be. The Syracuse arrangement ar-rangement should provide an excellent ex-cellent morality chart for youth. If the price goes op we'll know that the world is on its way back to kissing games at the church aociaL -The very fact that the market has been organised indicates that the Moral Anarchy of the 1910s is coming to an end. If a -sorority can control the kisses ef Its members, mem-bers, even parents have a chance. New York Post ' |