Show economic highlights ax I 1 that atti affert r the lh iiii IH ow fr iloilo plot dividend d and C I 1 wr k 0 mill tax little of t 1 hinl 1111 inter arob gewo from frain loca leal welfare mn ian proposes god mya filyis ilia alio old proverb it proves A c filet that hns has tile ot of agriculture and high government of giddy rua dismayed main administration program for the mariller fa riller has been crop and ngo ago reduction working on the tilt ory that unless drastic action were taken tile lie american market would lio be glutted with agricultural surplus os for ninny many years to conic thus keeping prices nt at bankrupt lovola levels itei were taken to kill pigs plow under wheat and cotti cotton ltv WINO to adjust dein fuld and supply suii ply the government paid out cheeka to talling mill ionn to farmers ill i order to recompense them for crops thus destroyed everything went along well tin tit til the power flower of god appeared in the form of tile the worst drought in generations i the wheat rind and cotton croom of whole states were literally burned to dust cattle died of thirst and starvation high winds wind whirled away seed and torro topsoil top soil oll making limiting a desert of what had been the finest and anil richest form farm land in the country I 1 outside of tile afflicted areas tile iho Ainer american ienn people lintl hail little idea f of what the result of this would be they rend read the headlines felt pity for tile lie farmers choro whoso years in coln coine eliad lind vanished agreed that the government should administer relief eliut they did not realize was that lot tho drought following upon mado campaign to destroy produce had the crop surplus Hiir into a crop crol deficit and that roenna means but one thing soaring food prices to the consumer private crol ex cv ports by ahat hat it will take flye or six B years to make up for the crops we davd lost everyone Eve ot of these the a e experts are of the belief that alini dur ing tile coming winter food prices wll wil im be higher than for hinfey yeara when tile the national income if la still I 1 heavily depressed and millions of families are earning just enough to 1 got get by on oil contains tile the fruits of po tent fill tragedy president roosevelt secretary wallace and others havo have said that all tho power of government will be used to prevent profiteering that the consumer will be protected but no law exists which can keep farmers from hanging onto what crops they have left in the hope of higher prices no power power haa ban yet been called callad into play that can prevent spec all along the lipe from farm to grocery aturo washington la worried and un cert certain nin and lit hi the meantime the government Is in the odd position of forcing crop reduction on one hand while administering relief to crop sufferers Buff erera on the otherl tho the hand of politics not too wall veiled la Is beginning to Appe appear arAia in many supposedly dispassionate imir surveys of the business situation it is an ancient axiom that any smart statistician con can produce that I 1 will provo prove almost anything it Is equally fly axle axiomatic matle that you con can color tile tho truo true facts concerning business I 1 by either overstatement or if understatement without ac actual tua r telling an untruth republican sympathizers are now seeking coking to make tho the public believe that business Is bad to la getting worse democratic backers are trying to persuade it that business la Is recovering that definite ment la Is taking place all the time the truth as Is so often the case lies between these extremes of opinion business Is still suffering from the summer decline but in some fields production Is above what tile the normal saas seasonal onal expectancy would have led us to expect prices for many commodities seem fairly steady those of agriculture due to drought well up and rising basic heavy industries notably steel and lumber are at very low ebbs however main fly in the afie ointment Is still labor trouble hy by the time this la IA rend read some textile workers may linny have walked out paralyzing the industry whether they do or not t Is not especially Import important antso BO far ns as the long view Is concerned the lie net fact to be kept lit in mind Is that labor has been made dissatisfied and forces are arc at work to keep keell trouble brewing lit in a campaign to unionize industry per cent the appeal made to labor Is that it if jt jass loses low its cause will lie be set back a century on the ho othe hand conservative leaders bellevo believe ism and strikes will shake public confidence lit in organized labor ai at tills this time that mediation Is better i than foree force a continued on an race row |