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Show HELP WANTED A government publication sent out monlhly asks, How can the government govern-ment help you in business? The truth Is, business in our country coun-try is almost at the point of being governed to death. A few more trade commissions, commerce commissions, shipping boards, wage boards and what little business is left would vanish. There are now estimated by Ford's Weekly to be fifteen million persons making their living off government in one form and another. A little broom-handle factory in a western state was visited by seventeen seven-teen state and federal inspectors inside in-side of three months. All rode in motor cars paid for by the government, and all burned gas and had all their expenses paid by the government. The ordinary state government has expanded until a half million dollars a year invested in motor vehicles for officials is not uncommon. The taxpayer and the producer are crying not for more help from the government but for less of the endless end-less chain of supervision. HOWL, BROTHERS, HOWL There are old familiar voices saying say-ing the farmer is ruined, the country-is country-is ruined, etc. But improvement in American backbone industries continues in a remarkable way. Agriculture, live stock, mining, lumbering are marching back tp normal. nor-mal. Compared with. December, farm products are climbing steadily in market price. The professionals shake their gory locks and say the farmer has nothing to sell. The lie is given to the pessimist political school by hogs jumping 45 per cent in 60 days. Farmers always have hogs to sell and the real farmer sells products all year around. Sheep and lambs 40 to 70 per cent, wheat and corn 20 per cent, wool 20 per cent, are samples of farm corn-backs. corn-backs. So, shout, brothers, shout. But don't overlook the fact that individual individ-ual initiative is an American trait characterized by the soldiers we sent abroad and is the chief characteristic characteris-tic of Americans at home. |