Show I I r Released by Western Newspaper Union MORE PRODUCTION NEEDED NOT A VICIOUS CIRCLE WHAT AMERICA needs now and for the future is more production More l production should start on the farms It should supply for us those farm products we are now Importing ImportIng Importing Import- Import Ing to the extent of a billion and one-half one dollars a year and which can be raised In the United States Tho The science of must be encouraged to find new commercial uses for farm crops and for present farm wastes Doing these things means increased revenue for the farmers more Jobs for workmen more opportunities for the Investment Investment Invest Invest- 1 ment of ot capital in business business-a a higher high- high i er standard of living for all i I America needs in its national i i legislative bodies bodles men of vision j men who will strive for the general good rather than for partisan adI advantage advantage ad ad- I vantage men who will think of all allI I groups plan legislation to ben benefit i all aU instead of laws that take from one in hi order to give to another We cannot establish and maintain 1 that degree of ot prosperity and wellI well well- I being to which we are entitled by any policy of appeasement oJ of minorities To give the farmer more for his wheat by charging the thc workman more for his bread but creates a vicious circle which in inevitably inevitably inevitably in- in leads to inflation and the ruin of al aU all Through a policy of in increased increased increased in- in creased production that leads to increased increased increased in in- creased demand and consumption we wc can benefit all the farmer the workman business and the general general general gen gen- eral public There are In America men capable capable capable capa capa- ble of solving our production problem problem problem lem and they are the men needed In congress Who in your town your country your district would measure measure meas meas- ure up to such standards EVERYBODY CLIMBS ABOARD NATIONAL SPEED WAGON IT IS A SWIFT WORLD in which we are living and there Is no place in which new speed records are being being belag be be- ing lag established more frequently than thanin in congress When I first began taking notice of what happened in Washington it would take a whole session of congress congress congress con con- gress with days and weeks and months of at talk to spend the from rom five to seven hundred million dollars dollars dollars dol dol- lars then needed to run the governmental governmental govern govern- mental machine In that there would be the customary pork that might account for as much as 25 or million but to make up for it it there would be a few dollars cut out here and there One year I remember they even refused to buy pocket pocketknives pocketknives pocketknives knives for the senators It is different in these days of speed To keep pace with or exceed exceed exceed ex ex- ex- ex the speed of those fighting planes we are sending to Europe the senate recently passed out 10 billions billions billions-billions billions not thousands or even millIons in millions in Just 80 minutes and they did It unanimously every sena senator tor was on the speed wagon That little item was on top tap of 2 billions that had been spent during I Ithe the present session before the last small item came along And the session is probably only half halt over another half year In which to establish establish establish es es- new and greater speed rec rec- What that 32 billions mean to you and me and to our wives and children is just about which each one of us will have to pay CONSIDER YOUR MERCHANTS TOWN ASSETS WOMEN OF THE neighborhood patronized the food chains for their light packaged goods on which they saved a cent or two The chains did not deliver but the women could carry the light packages For the heavier staples patronage went to the independents because they delivered They were used as asa asa asa a convenience The Independents could not deliver and live on sales of staples only and In time many went out of business Because we could not get food deliveries we had to sell our home and move but selling was a lem People did not want to buy buytor for tor the same reason that we wanted to sell Lack of delivery conveniences conveniences conveniences con con- forced down the value of real estate All of that was in a large city but exactly the same thing happens in any rural community where people people people peo peo- use their local stores only as a convenience but go to other centers to make their larger purchases Local merchants Cannot cannot live as merely a convenience and ad when the te local market place is gone real estate values are rl gone and the social social social so so- cial and cultural center goes It pays to consider the future EGG PRICES AMERICA IS SHIPPING vast quantities of eggs and egg products to England for which this country pays England would pay cash for eggs from Canada For the eggs we consume we are paying about 10 cents a dozen more than the Canadian Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian people pay for theirs We have an egg shortage Canada has not but our poultry raisers are profiting profiting and those of us who buy pay for eggs which go to England and also pay the Increase on those we ve con consume con on- on sume |