Show 0 I 1 1 IN W jr h 11 I 1 I 1 IA lk I 1 I 1 p 11 V 0 iri 2 I 1 wa 1 P A 1 i 1 01 I 1 10 4 r by newspaper union A FARM PLAN TO PAY FOR GROWN INURING THE PROGRESS of tho the presidential campaign wheeler me millen alllen editor in chief of farm journal sent to all candidates tor for 1 congress an outline of a now farm I 1 I 1 plan which lie he calls tho the incentive payment plan I 1 I 1 american agricultural imports I 1 amount to about ono one and one half billion dollars a year practically all of that could bo be raised in this country if the farmers were encouraged to do so mr Mc MIllens idea Is to pay farmers for raising the things wo now import instead of paying t them hem for not raising products of which we have a surplus for example we import large quantities of castor beans and castor bean oil castor beans can bo be raised in practically all sections of the united states mr mcmillen would offer farmers an Ingen incentive tive by paying them tor for each acre of castor beans they plant and assure them tho the american market for their product lie ile knows such a positive program would appeal to farmers more than the present negative one of paying tot toe not doing things our agricultural imports cover a wide range including such items as vegetable oils lax flax hemp coarse wools wood pulp sugar etc with the incentive payments mr me mc millen also proposes to pay farmers for farm and soll soil improvements such incentive payments while greatly reducing the cost to the government ern ment would add materially ta to the present farm income and would appeal to farmers it would remove all semblance of form farm regimentation wheeler mcmillen knows farming dirt farming lie he has spread manure and guided the plow over ahls I 1 his own own aar acres es in indiana ohio and new jersey ile he knows farm people lie he knew them as the editor of an indiana country weekly newspaper and as editor of farm journal numbers his farmer friends by the thousands As organizer and president of the american chemurgic conference he knows the application of farm products to industry it would bo be well for any political party to listen to this man when he talks of farms and farming ile he con can give them poi pointers on castor beans and other possible farm crops and on what the farmer thinks about MACHINES COME FIRST IN preparedness MACHINES AND MEN not men and machines ore are the component parts aft f the army of today machines come first they are the first essential without machines guns tanks motorized transport planes men are helpless and d defenseless e fen seless mar man all the atlantic seacoast with men only and they could not prevent the tha landing of an invading force prepared with both machines and men we will enill not stop enemy airplane raids with pieces of stovepipe as antiaircraft anti aircraft guns our infantry will be worthless it if equip equipped ped with pieces of gas pipe instead of rifles our artillery cannot prevent the advance with logs mounted on wheels instead of modern cann cannon on walls without modern guns behind them tire are not worth much as fortifications ficat ions to be effective the soldier of today needs accurate and complete knowledge of the mechanized equipment with which he is to fight more thin than to execute tours fours right or fours daft he must know how to aim a rifle he will not learn that with apiece a piece of gas pipe he must know the mechanism and operation of an antiaircraft anti aircraft gun he will not learn that with a piece of stovepipe to assemble an army of a million or more men into to whose hands we cannot place the modern equipment that Is needed in warfare la is putting the cart before the horse to auvon put an army of a million men into camp and maintain it tor for a year will cost at least a billion dollars why not put pui that billion dollars into equipment and when we have it then call that million or more men into in to camp to teach them how to use it our first job is to provide the machines of 61 war tor for our men to use 0 0 0 GOOD VISION FRANK EDGECOMB blind editor of the geneva neb signal sees ahead only a better end brighter future for america ile he gets a truer view through tigh his mind than many of us get through our eyes 0 0 SEES PU RIL IN GIVING UP THE HIE philippines CAPT JOHN CRAIG of underwater r movie fame has just returned to this country from a photographic expedition through the philippine islands lie he is strongly urging that america hold onto the island of mindanao in that group I 1 the moro natives insist they will never submit to being ruled by the Tago logs dof of luzon that the artier arber i lean ican go government promised to retain the Isla island iia and they submitted to Ameil can n rule on that baris v V ak 4 4 1 1 i 1 |