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Show Your Freedom Or Your Shirt Pressure from the folks back home has resulted in a new meat program. War Mobllzation and Reconversion with the OPA, WFA. OES. the Army Director Vinson, in consultation and the Defense Supplies Corporation, Corpora-tion, has made recommendations which revolve around increased subsides, sub-sides, while price ceilings remain untouched. How long this method cf taxing people to pay for their food, can hold th Ud on prices which the consumer should rightfully pay to meet the cost of production, remains re-mains to be seen. The Senate Agricultural Ag-ricultural Commlttre? In Its report on the meat situation and the government gov-ernment agencies handling the same finds that the past policy of the agencies which discouraged the feeding feed-ing of cattle( has contributed to meat shortages, and states: "The way to stmulate the feed-, er to plac; cattle on feed. . . .until j they are finished is to give him a price sufficient. . . .to do the job' and to earn a reasonable profit." i Th!s nation must soon d?clde how far it will go with a government, "planned economy ." You can't long! mix it and a free economy one or the other must eventually give away. Under a planned economy, we will eventually lose our freedom cf action; under free competition we might lose our shirt temporarily, but still have a chance to recover It. Higher subsidies are just another form of Inflation via the tax route. |