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Show &Srtho DESK t''HE"s From The Valley Farmer, Bay City, Mich.: The federal government govern-ment can't run the nation's farms, and its ineptitude has been brilliantly bril-liantly demonstrated by the failure fail-ure of one farm program after another for the past 30 years. The taxpayers now have a $2.7 billion investment, not counting storage and handling charges, in 1.4 billion bil-lion bushels of wheat and feed grains almost a three-year domestic do-mestic supply. It has been estimated that the administration's new farm program pro-gram could cut wheat surpluses 225 million bushels a year. If accepted ac-cepted by Congress and the farmers, farm-ers, the new plan will enforce rigid production controls and marketing mar-keting quotas on both wheat and feed grains. The Secretary of Agriculture has said that a provision providing provid-ing jail sentences for farmers who fail to keep proper records will strengthen the program. This highlights an interesting point about benefits from government that all groups seeking or accepting accept-ing federal largess should take to heart. Federal control follows federal fed-eral money. One thing is sure. If you accept political favors, you had better control enough votes to put the fear of the polls into the politicians granting them. Otherwise the road may become rocky, indeed. And now, jail is suggested as an indoctrination method in the U.S.A. There can't be free farmers when government controls eliminate elimi-nate the free market system-agriculture system-agriculture will wind up as some form of communal project, under the thumb of a political boss. j From the South Pasadena Re-view, Re-view, South Pasadena, Calif.: Dc- mands for unreasonably short! work hours and higher and higher ,1 wages will be the incentive for the invention and use of more and more labor-saving equipment. Will the next step be to pay some people for not working in order to reduce a labor surplus the same as some farmers are paid to not plant in order to prevent pre-vent overproduction? Our economy can stand the strain of inflation up to a point just like a balloon then boom and we start over. There is no hedge against a wooden nickel. |