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Show I . . ATfTt33Sa Ideas from ether editors From the Eufaula Tribune, Eu-raula., Eu-raula., Alabama: Nearly three million mil-lion horses and mules have disappeared disap-peared from Cotton Belt (arms In the past twelve years They have been replaced by tractors. It takes about three acres to supply sup-ply teed for s horse or mule and this means that approximately eight million acres of land have been released (or crops certainly not tor cotton in view of the overproduction over-production at this time. No doubt, a goodly portion of the "liberated" land will be used in growing feed for cattle and hogs. This Is true in Barbour county where hundreds of farmers have turned to growing livestock. From the South Pasadena Review, Re-view, South Pasadena, California: What happens when the family budget doesn't balancer Most likely you eat beans tor a while, or dodge bill collectors. The Federal government has a handy little gimmick, perfected over the past two decades, to get around that problem. They Just create more money. That's called "deficit financing." If an individual does It. the name Is "counterfeiting." "counterfeit-ing." Everytime the government goes Into the hole and creates more money to finance Itself, an Invisible hand sneaks Into your pocket and takes some money out Since 1932. when the government first began to "deficit finance" In n big way. that Invisible hand has dipped 48 cents of buying power out of every dollar In every wallet, bank account. ac-count. Insurance policy and piggy bank In the country. That's why It's Important to balance bal-ance the budget So let's do a little more worrying worry-ing about it And maybe write a Congressman now and then when he shows the courage to refuse Federal Fed-eral tax money for a local project that could be privately financed Prom the News-Journal, Mann-field, Mann-field, Ohio: Politics Is too dirty a game for an honest man to have anything to do with. This remark . . . expresses one of the most dangerous viewpoints in the United Statea. If politics, the art of government gov-ernment is left to the dishonest, our government will be eaten away by rottenness, and be replaced by some regime which does not represent repre-sent the people such as communism. commu-nism. From the Dally Herald. Oska-loosa. Oska-loosa. Iowa: The Western railroads cooperating with the government's drought relief program put into effect on July t a 50 per cent reduction re-duction in freight rates on live stock feed to the stricken south western states |