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Show af? S7 (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) TWO DIRECTIONS FOR FARM INCOME DESPITE THE EFFORTS at crop limitation for the purpose of increasing increas-ing the national farm income by an increase in farm produce prices, and including all government payment pay-ment of bonuses of all kinds, the total farm income In the United States was not as high In 1940 as it was In 1937, but was a trifle better than in 1938 and 1939. In 1940 the total farm Income was Just under $9,000,000,000, about $1,383 for each of the approximately approximate-ly 6,500,000 farms in the nation. The future of the farm income In this country lies in two directions. One is Increased production of the farm products we can, and do to some extent raise in this country, but which we now Import to the extent ex-tent of about $1,500,000,000 each year, and a protected market for such products. In that list there are some 60 items American farmers can raise if properly encouraged to do so. The other opportunity Is the development devel-opment of a greater use of farm products In manufacture. Private enterprise has in the past and will in the future, develop such uses if industrial laboratories are permitted to operate wiinoui wo many oo- i stacles. American farms can, as in the past produce our food, and will in the future produce much of the raw material needed in manufacturing. manufac-turing. ALASKAN'S VIEW RUSSIA, JAPAN, WITHOUT FEAR BRONZED, weather-beaten John Friedland Is an old Alaskan sourdough, sour-dough, typical of the he-men who have for many years braved the rigors of the far northland. John Friedland knows Alaska from the far western tip of the Aleutian islands to the farthest north Point Barrow. For the first time in 35 years, old John recently made a trip to the States and I had an opportunity of a visit with him. He told me that people of Alaska the hardy prospectors, miners, trappers and pioneer farmers have no fear of aggression on the part of Russia, and they have only contempt con-tempt for Japan, looking upon it as a nation of poachers. He said the building of government air fields was welcomed, not as a defense measure, but as a means of Improving Im-proving air transportation in the ter- rlrnrv Withnut nrmpd nrotpction. Friedland said he thought these new air fields would prove quite as con-venient con-venient a landing place for other planes, if any, as for the American planes. But John Friedland had his full measure of Alaskan optimism and was fearful of nothing, unless it might be a reduction in the price of gold, which, if it came, would prove disastrous to Alaskan mining. He came to the States, traveled as far east as Chicago for a visit with old friends, stayed three days and then departed by plane for Candle Creek, Alaska, on the Arctic coast so he might have his big dredges ready for operation with the first glimpse of the summer sun. WHO PAYS? NONE OTHER THAN WE, THE PEOPLE CONGRESS WILL MAKE an ef-fort ef-fort to find more revenue for the fed-i fed-i eral government by enacting new tax laws. The tax on America today as levied by municipal, county, state and federal governments takes 30 cents out of each dollar earned by the American people. And we all pay our proportion, whether or not we receive a tax bill. ' If you rent a house, you pay the landlord's taxes. They are included in your rent bill. If you buy a suit, about 25 per cent of the price is taxes. The same is true of any food you buy, or any other article of merchandise purchased. If you smoke cigarettes, you pay a federal tax of six cents on each package. The government collects from the manufacturer and the merchant. They add the taxes to the price of what they sell, and pass it on to each one of us who buys their products. in Uie CUU, 11 19 IIUV urn 1IV.U muu carry the burden of taxes. It Is the average American the men and women who work for wages, who maintain homes and who support families. Corporations are supposedly heavily heav-ily taxed, but if they could not or did not, pass the taxes along as a part of the price of their product, they would soon be broke and millions mil-lions would be without Jobs. We average Americans pay the cost of government through the things we buy, and the politicians cannot fool us by sending our tax bills to us. WILL THEY WAIT? WE NOW HAVE a navy of 321 fighting ships of various kinds, all in commission. We have on the way or "on order" a total of 368 additional addi-tional fighting ships which, if the defense de-fense program does not bog down, will be ready by 1947. That is sup-posed sup-posed to constitute a navy capable of defending all American coasts at the same time enough ships to de-teat de-teat Hitler, Mussolini and Japan, should they all attack us at the same time, and if they wait another six years. Wl'l they wait? |