Show d W R 1 I 1 d 0 T released by bv w a abern newspaper union PAY PAX FARMER FOR RAISING THINGS WE NOW IMPORT THE EFFORT to solve the A american farm arm problem cost the united states last year that was seven seve n times the cost for 1933 for 1940 the total amounted to an average of per farm but the farmers did not got get all of that county count administration costs amounted to an average of just about per county that county administration cost represented 8 6 per cent of the to total t al government a appropriation an increase from vh 2 per cent in 1033 1935 these county adi ministration costs do not cover the salaries ali irles of county agents and still the farm problem Is not solved we ha have gaveon veon on ha hand nd today more than 61 one ie full years average crop of cot ton and practically one years crop oP of wheat with the surplus in all products growing each year our w world 0 rid markets marbeth decreasing and nd agricultural rl ri imports from other countries continuing and in some lines increasing inci easing each year we are arc importing agricultural ri products which we can and t to some extent do rals raise 0 in this co country ry to the extent of la 14 billion dollars if the american farmer was encouraged to raise the products we are arc now importing if he wire were paid asdall price for raising them and then given a protected market in which to sell them we might find a solution to the american farm problem the farmer is not seeking government charity he la is asking only fair play manufacturers were givon given protected markets to offset the wage scales in this coit country ascom as compared ath othi other nations the american farmer wants the some same kind of consideration and should he get it would be better of off financially than ho he is now even though the government is paying him tor limiting p production TO I 1 an amount that for far exceeds the entire cost of government 25 years isago agaj tho the american farmer would pro pre efer to bi be paid for what dedoes he does rath cr than tor for what he does not do he stand on disown hla own feet when thata that Is at atall all possible blei some day both major political politic iiI parties may make that discovery 0 1 U S willi WILL BE ONLY CREDITOR NATION LATE IN OCTOBER of 1918 andre tardieu then a member of the french cabinet said to me in i n paris trance cannot aga again inbe be the cusp cus tomer of america that she has been in the past our lack of resources hlll aw ill borce force us to td produce brodu ce our own foods aust and our bui own rw raw materi materials alit we ile must grow our cotton in the niger villey valley of africa and in indo china more intensive C cultivation of french or or french colonial farms arms ainest must produce our foods unless america is willing to finance us Thattis that Is just what happened to the foreign marker markel ot of american form farm products not nol only in france but in other european nations i when the present war is over there will be nothing left in europe with which i to buy the united states will be theone the one big creditor the world we must learn the methods of a creditor nation wemusa we must buy if we would sell and we must not make the american farm farmer er cairy carry all the load today we buy farm products from foreign countries counti ica that we may sell those countries manufactured products that Is ia not fair to the american i lariner farmer ile ho is entitled to his home ni market arket A GRE GREAT AT MAN IN COUNTRY journalism f AS I 1 PASSED through oregon city ore recently I 1 recalled one of the he outstanding men of country journalism who died about a year ago edward E brodie and his oregon city enquirer aided materi ally in making oregon city the thriving little city it is edward brodle brodie and his newspaper led the tha way and people of 0 the comman community I 1 ity foil followed ed that lead I 1 knew edward brodie in ninny many places throughout the notion nation and the world president hording harding sent him to slam siam as american minister later he was transferred to finland and was a favorite with the alio finnish people he served the national editorial association as its ita president and did much for the advancement of country journalism he knew the value of rural america to the nation and the value of the newspaper to the rural community ile he was one of the great men of country journalism ddn PAYING BRIDGE JUSTUS CRAEMER railroad commissioner of california Cal fornia proposes p oses as tk a defense measure that thai we the golden gate bridge be turned over to the federal government subject to the debt it carries the government pei permitted bitted the building ol of the bridge on condition that no tolls be charged to federal employees including officers and men of the army navy marine corps and other government services because of that condition mort more then than one third of those using thi the bridge do not pay |