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Show ----------- · ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------~---------------------------. ever grown in the history of his farm, because he was a good farmer. When it came to fall and grain was harvested, he loaded it into a truck and rode down to Ak- • ron to sell it, and the feed guy said, "Look, Tom, I have always bought your produce and I can give you 49 cents a bushel for this wheat, but 1 have to take back 47 cents a bushel in taxes." And Filburn said, "You are crazy. There can't be any such law," and the feed guy said, ..There is such a law and I would land in jail if I didn't take the taxes, and l can't buy your wheat.'' Well, Filburn turned around and went home and he sat down and thought, "This is a hell of a note in America," bl,lt the manufacturers didn't care what happened to Filburn because they never thought it would ever happen to them, so they just let him sweat. Filburn thought awhile ctnd said, "I know what I will do. I don't have to sell wheat I will feed this wheat to some hogs and then I will sell the bogs." That's good American sense, isn't it? So he went out behind the barn and whispered in the ears of five big sows that he had intended to sell and told them the boy friend would be around Saturday night. Later on, there were 70 head of little pigs on Filburn's farm and he was feeding them wheat. You know, there wasn't a thing wrong with that wheat be~ cause these pigs ate it with relish and grew fa~ Later Filburn sold them and made enough expenses for his third daughter at the University of Ohio, and he and his wife were happy with the toil of farmers. Mary Filburn's face was 1ean and tan. She had probably never been in a beauty parlor in her life, her nails were broken off, but she had that clear glint in her eye that comes from living close to nature and nature's God. With pride she looked upon her children as they were growing over in the nearby city and they' TilE SENTINEL, MIDVALE, UTAH Page Seven FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1946 Our Priceless Heritage •• • An address by CARL TAYLOR, P r esident Waukesha (Wis.) Stat'31 Bank, before the national conven1ion of the wholesale h ardware asaociations. March 12, at Atlan t ic City, N. J. • • • • ' • Installment 3 Listen, there are some people who craticize America. Some of them do it selfishly from abroad; some of them do it ignorantly from · at home, and they call us isola-' tionists and say we don't have a feeling for the world, but twice in my lifetime I have seen America give away more food to the other nations of the earth than all the rest ·of the other nations of the earth ever gave away in all the history of mankind. We are the best food-producing people on earth and we give away more of it than any other people. A hundred years ago nobody ever had enough clothing because it was too big a job to pick cottonseed out of cotton lint, but an American schoolteacher 18 years . old invented a machine where you could tum a crank and separate cottonseed from cotton lint. Because Eli Whitney was an American, we, for the first time in the world, had clothing enough to give us comfort and some to spare. And twice in my lifetime we have sent to the other nations of the earth more clothing for nothing than all the rest o.f the world ever gave away in all the history of mankind. The Scripture says that those who treat the Lord bes.t are those who see their fellowmen hungry and feed them, and naked and clothe them. America has led· the world in that procedure. There is no end to it. About 107 years ago, a little boy was born on a fann in Michigan-some say Ohio-- and he dreamed that he could take lightning and take electricity out of it up in the sky and drive that electricity through some substance in a glass tike this one and make light. Now. men have been afraid of lightning since the dawn of time because of the danger which was within it. This fellow thought he could take lightning and take electricity out of it up in the sky and drive that electricity through some substance in a glass like thLs one and make light. Now, men have been afraid of lightning since the dawn of time because it always damaged and killed and destroyed. They have been afraid of the dark because of the danger which was within it. This fellow thought he could take electricity, run it through a substance and make light, and he set about to do it. Everybody thought he was a fool but in America you have a right to do what you want and so they'let him go ahead trying to make a friend out of the two great natural enemies. He tried a long time. Finally he was thrown in jail once for 30 days so he wOuLdn't electrocute anybody. But in America you have a right to be a fool if you want to be. That's why we still have the New Deal. Tom Edison tried 44, 000 separate substances before he found one Ulat would make light, and finally, because he lived in America where men are free, we had light. We think nothing about getting into our automobiles and turning a little button on the dash and the light going 300 yards down the road ahead of us to guide us safely home. Tonj~t I am going to fly into Milwau.Kt.;:, and over the City of Milwaukee when I see the great horseshoe of light I know in a young guy in the cockpit of the plane will send a message to the ground and over 80 acres of ground will become daylight to enable this plane to come down as gently as a robin on a nest in the springtime because Edison lived in America and had freedom to do with his life what he wanted to do. I want to tell you what I think we are doing to that freedom here in America. First of all we will take a look at agriculture. After the First World War a YOWlg second lieutenant who had been in the battle ot Chateau Thierry came home to his native land, married a girl, bought an 88-acre farm on time and started to pay for it and spent 20 years farming, paying for that !arm. They sent two daughters through the University of Ohio and had the third one in the University of Ohio. That farmer's name was Tom Fitburn. In 1935, three; of his neighbors came over to him and said, .. Tom, we are growing too much wheat and as a result We are not making any money. Those city slickers who manufacture products are robbing us of our wheat and they are controlling production and selling us back products at an exorbitant price. Now the e-overnment is going to help us organize and we are going to grow less wheat, we will half starve those city slickers and make them pay us enough for the wheat we grow and we can get even with them." Well, Filburn thought it over, talked with his wife a little while, and they being good Baptist Christians, he thought to himself, there are hungry people in India, hungry people in China; maybe we are responsible to produce it. And so Filburn called up his neighbors and said, uweu, boys, it is all right with me if you do it, but it just doesn't seem fit in with what I think is America and I don't think I will go along with you.'' They said, "Okey, Tom, that's your privilege, but you will learn better." The next year they came back and said, "Tom, it didn't work last year because we didn't cut down production enough. So the Government now has set aside six hundred inillion dollars-'' this is peacetime, mind you, whqn there was no thought of waruthe Governmebt has set aside six hundred million dollars and this year if we don't grow wheat they will give you twenty-two dollars an acre for the land that you don't grow wheat on and you can grow something else on that same land." And Filburn thought it over. After awhile he called the boys up and said, "You know, Mary and I talked abou~ it and there are hungry people in China, hungry people in India, and we belieTe it is our duty to grow food. We won't go along with you this year even though we might make a little money.'' Well, the sun shone and the rain fell and Filbuen had a good crop. The next year these fellows came back to Filburn and said, "Look, Tom, the first time we asked you you wouldn't go along . The second time we wanted to pay you and you wouldn't go along. This time you will have to go along because there is a law passed that says if you grow wheat beyond what we tell you you can grow, you will have to pay a tax per bushel at whatever rate the Government sets." And Filburn says, "Well, now, boys, I fought for the freedom o( the world and the freedom of America. You might do that in Russia. I suppose you could do it in Germany under Hitler or in Italy under Mussolini, but you can't do it in America. So I am sorry, boys, I can't go along with you.'' They threat~ ened him, but he went on back home. The next spring the sun shone and the rains fell and Filbunl grew the biggest wheat crop on the same acres that he had were happy. Two weeks later a big automobile puU~d up into the farmyard, a couple of men got out and strolled over to Filburn, who was sitting on the fence chewing a piece of straw, and said, "We are looking for Tom Filburn." He said, "I reckon I am him.'' They said, "Well, here is a summons from the Government o.f the United States, Mr Filburn. You are accused of being a criminal." And he said, "What djd I do to make Jne a criminal?" They said, "You fed that wheat to those pigs; you sold those pigs; and you never paid the tax on that wheat." He said, "You are crazy; you can't do that in America.'' Well, in about three weeks he was in Federal Court and the judge looked at him and said, "Mr Filburn, you are a criminal." He still didn't believe it. He tried it in the Federal Court of Appeals, and two of the three judges there (recently appointed) looked at him and said, "Mr Filburn, you are a criminal," and he still didn't believe it. So he appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. And in the Supreme Court of the United States seven of the judges recently appointed looked at him and said, 11 Mr Filburn, you are a criminal.'' And today Tom Filburn is a criminal in the United States subject to two years in the Federal Penitentiary and a fine of $5,000 for the awful crime of having grown wheat in a world that was starting to become hungry and having fed it to pigs in a world that was starting to become hungry. And so he is a criminal. So is every other farmer who wants to operate freely in America. But the manufacturers of hardware didn't care because they didn't think it would ever get around to them. But it has, and now the Government of the United. States, with the war out of the way, in peacetime says to every person in the country whateve::- he does, "This is how much you can get for what you sell and this is how much you are going to pay tor what you buy. If you get the costs for what you sell too far above what you buy, that's your hard 1uck, and if you get caught in the sqeeze where you have to pay more than you can sen for, that's your hard luck." (To be continued next week> The Way RHEUMATISM and ARTHRITIS I suffered for years and am so thankfu l that I found relief from this terrible affliction that I wilt gladly answer anyone writing me for information. Mrs. Anna Pautz, P.O. Box 825, Vancouver, Wash. Pd.Adv.-NUE·OVO Laboratories G ENE RATOR EXCHANGES FUEL PUMP EXCHANGES OIL FILTERS, SPARK PLUGS F AN BELTS, RADIATOR HOSE BRAKE FLUID BRAKE PARTS. BATIERIES Soup• 298 ~.,id. G EN ERATOR REGULATORS a nd CUT· OUTS TIRES a nd TUBES COILS a nd CONDE NSERS POINTS, BRUSHES DISTRIBUTOR CAPS H AND SEPARATOR OIL F LY and ANIMAL SPRAY 36 West Center 14¢ 31¢ 30¢ 18¢ 37¢ 69¢ Fruit Juic11 BLEND 0' GOLD 8~:~~!r.&" o•. 39¢ OLD SOUTH _'".~~~~-r~~-~.. 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Send today for Carol Drake's 20-page 1946 Canning Guide.Thiscompleteandco lor~ ful manual contains thorough directions about canning and freezing all kinds of food .•• f~:uits, vegetables, meats. poultry, fish. How to make jams, jellies and preserves; directions for mak· mg pickles and relishes everything you need to see you through the entire can~ ning season is included in this concise, authoritative booklet. And it's all yours for a dime. Just send lOc in coin or stamps with the coupon below to Carol Drake, FLAVOR PERFECT MEATS Try Safeway meats; every cut is guaranteed to please Lamb Roast Shoulder Square 33,J Cuts ···-··---A Pot RoaSt Shouldor 261 i Short Ribs ~~~r.,~~t~'~.Jb. 17¢ ! Prime Rib Roast i'ii~?1't: 32¢ Out AA Grade lb. TYPICAL SAFEWA Y VALUES MEL CARLSON. M!Jr. JACK'S DeLuxe LUNCH Midvale Garage AMMONIA .. ~~~~..':~.".'.b~:~....ouart CLIMAX .-:o:·u~~·s.:~~:.-...34 oz. Jor WINDEX .~.'~~-~··~::-.... •o o•. 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