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Show TH MYSTERY; bm&l!' . - . ' E- - CITIZEN of stabilizing agriculture as a basic industry, would be vastly improved. The Washington opinion today is, for example, that bill has been introduced, that many while the McNary-IIauge- n of those; interested in Washington in pushing that bill have already determined that they do not want it to go through at this short session of congress. They prefer to postpone it till the session beginning December, 1927. In short, in the minds of these people, the passage of the McNary-Hauge- n bill has become secondary to the development of a political campaign to embarrass the president. There is no A: iT i. . a group of college professors, of Columbia that fact The at have solemnly declared and proclaimed; that the 10 'Versify I1(Ved States should at once cancel European; debts, nowowed, not have any serious effect on the- thoughts and the lives of l con?. -- - Beginning with Barney Baruch, a financial pillar, of the the campaign to force Uncle Sain to on .administration, s advtg a free gift of our money, owed to us by. European peoples, lai?er now been going on for several years, and the pronuncia-r- " lnsyto of the college professors is therefore really an incident. tore,fan be said at once and for all that the president, and are firm in their belief that the decision, if ever a decision ie. is made, must originate with, congress and rrgive and forget have nces the facts. Any. shift in our position president. They never result from pronunciamentos no matter how learn-o- f H written or impressively delivered. sral Qur Enropean friends are largely to blame for the determi-le- n American people that money honestly loaned, 0f GSS be honestly and fairly repaid. Each and every tiriie the ht be nopopeans, with pen and pencil perpetrate new , caricatures of el inline Sam as a Shylock, they postpone once again any genuine Isideration of the readjustment of these European national ? con-Gra- : Py . ai alI-o- re n Hts. lan - . - . not to be denied that during, and directly following Jr. war period the United States made loans, not only of ney, but of food and other material without haying a pro-- a 'un of demanding payment. The advances made to the and the others, were aller nations, Poland, ended to be pretty close to free will gifts. .At the time, how-;- r, it was easier to move the stuff by making it a flat charge ' ainst these various nations. .. the Americans, not of the kind who are issuing fphhncia-te- d ttntos, but of the average run, were really anticipating Uncle dry m would confirm title to these gifts, and that : the" food ad-o- f daces would probably we wiped off the ledger. Just when that backirit was beginning to develop our friends from overseas,1 the n nnjglish, French, Italian, began to send unofficial embassadors han d propagandists and lecturers who began to fill our ears with bootlclarations that we had a moral obligation to forgive these stuff. bts outright. ased. The Americans as a whole are patient and long suffering, re eit when it comes to the point where a man who owes us Theymey tells us that we cannot have it, and should be aashamed w to trying to collect it, the Americans as a whole have only one the action. Having loaned their own money, they think the doth or fion as to when and how it should be collected also rests with ts pim. That is why, to speak plainly, each new declaration, i cveiether from bankers or college professors simply adds fuel to h is '3 flame without achieving any real result. States loan our money goo. Did the congress of the United mrdithout proper notes, or did the allies refuse to recognize our tes after they got our money! r Hi We have heard so much about our foreign loans and the inside-- instead of the propaganda )a, k ople would like to know the m.d musli that is being continually spread over the daily tt On. 5 Czecho-Slovak- ia .4 : f-- , , id disp- who loan money generally protect themselves with oper security for the loans. Does congress want us to believe that our money was ined without the best of security? There is something mighty about these loans and the political manipulation since 0j enrange ay lfl3 sent the money across the Atlantic. eople ; . lO'flf U1:a2 POLITICAL ADVISORS. is yfa The opinion in Washington which it must be admitted C.llEten times one far distant from the opinion generally prevailthroughout the country, is to the effect that if the farmers ed mid rid themselves of some of the political advisors who have ected themselves as directors of their agitation that the work other way to construe it. Thus at the beginning, an unhealthy spirit is introduced. It is rather a relief to read an editorial by Henry Wallace in Wallaces Farmer, which, ignoring this underlying determination to use the farm business as a political rather than an agricultural instrument, commends the presidents message to congress, and sets forth that while eastern correspondents have been endeavoring to assert that the presidents words do not mean what they say, adds that for his part, he prefers to take the presidents statements at their face value, and to give the president full credit for a generous interpretation of his phrases. (More talk of that character and less of building up an agricultural club to worry the president, is what the farmers need. Farm products were never higher than they are today. The average consumer does not know who gets the money, but some one gets it. Meats are far above the price they should be. It costs but a few cents a head to graze cattle or sheep on the public domain. While tons of apples again went to waste in our orchards, yet good apples are held at 7 cents' each. Flour, the staff of life, selling at over $4 per hundred, and wages about the same as they ever were. Then when some politician steps to the front and tells us about the poor farmer, we wonder what it is all about. Yes, he has an ax to grind, and he only needs a few years to feather his nest, as the oil scandal which is being aired at Washington, and the prohibition problem is daily giving us proof. Let us avoid all politicians who would make the farmer ,ricli through his propaganda to gain an office. , r , SURPLUS AND PROFITS There is now available in America enough mechanical power to equal the labor of more than thirty slaves for each and every one of us. Leisure and surplus are increasing very rapidly, but it is such a short time since we were pioneers fighting for subsistence and security, that the sudden change finds our minds still attumed to the past. Wc still hold great ability to produce wealth in higher esteem than great ability to use it. .Without clearly seeing the problem before us, we are reproducing at one time all ancient devices, except military conquest, for the use of this rapidly accumulating surplus. Some of these tend to degradation ; others help to enlarge,; to refine, and to preserve all that is best in our character and traditions. Americas chief present needs is to learn liow to become a great people, in its manner of using its surplus. To decrease the trend toward a disintegrating use, and to increase the opposite tendencies, is becoming the chief problem of education and citizenship. American industry can produce far more than is being consumed. If profits arc to grow, consumption must be vastly increased. The simplest and most effective means is appeal to primitive, elemental impulses common to all men. The more elemental the appeal, the wider the market, is good American business doctrine. In making such an appeal American industry is ... . very successful. Elemental desires often are sound. The desire to move freely stimulated the growth of railroads, and of the automobile and industries. Desire to avoid drudgery and to secure personal comfort led to great water supply and sewerage systems, to .modern heating methods, and to many labor-savin- g road-buildi- ng devices. ' On the other hand, vast industries have grown up which |