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Show money put on the Arrow Trail to benefit a section by touritt transcontinental transcon-tinental travel? (Common sense tells you, local roads should be urged Just as much as combined effort can secure se-cure legislation, political consideration, considera-tion, and financing.) FARM LEGISLATION The National Farm Bureau Ques-tlonalre Ques-tlonalre asks: 1. Do you favor commodity financing finan-cing based on bonded warehouse receipts? re-ceipts? (Our answer: Yea, a warehouse ware-house located in Millard County, with the local banks having full security for their financial advances, 1b a marked advantage to our community.) commun-ity.) 2. Do you favor livestock financing based on an adequate pledge of animals ani-mals and feed? (Our answer: Yea. We wan to see three carloada of well bred stuff shipped In here, but only to those who can show ample feed, barn housing, and ability to win out, To.do that we will finance In any of several different wayB; get backing from a creamery to pay back by milk checks for purchase; better yet, keep from that entanglement If the farmer farm-er objects by getting the money locally, local-ly, based on approved security which will pass rediscount long enough to see the initial start made; or any community way suitable.) 3. Do you favor a personal rural credits system? (Our answer: Banks can make money only as they lend. - They are not shutting down on your loans, Mr. Faramer, except as they in turn have to. They want to lend to you; dividends is why they are In business. And dividends are not possible except as loans are made.) 4. Priority for loans for basis production. pro-duction. (Coai mining, pig iron industry, in-dustry, coke, coal, gas, ship building yes, for all basic production. Don't kick when the other basic producer also gets his loan. We are not a nation of farmers only.) 6. What about tax-free securities? (Why, If to sell Government bonds In order to raise funda for the Federal Farm Loan Lands Banks to be loaned to the farmers, the Government has to make the added Inducement of "tax free," are you going to raise your own Interest rate 1 per cent or more just because you fancy something some-thing wrong in "tax free"? The very purpose of that act was to get you your money cheap; and another basic producer, his money cheap; both appealing ap-pealing to the o; an market with inducements in-ducements as to why that form of Investment should be taken by the man of money. Yes. we favor "tax free securities until we see in operation opera-tion the ill effects of Its abuse. 7 and 8. Do you favor Excess Profits Pro-fits Tax over what la called "A Sales Tax"? (We think you favor Excess Profits tax. Beware of oratory to make the worst appear the better reason.) 9. Freight rates and railroad wages will come down. Must come down. There's your answer. Organised Organ-ised labor Is seen In that phase using Its organization to make the farmer pay the toll for the benefit of the railroad worker. Someone must pay the fiddler. It's according to who dances what we favor and what we fight against. We want organized labor If it gets the farmer more for his product, you say. but don't want ll If It gets the railroad man more for his. which . the farmer has to pay. It's according to whether we dance or whether we pay the fiddler, what good time we have. 10. Do you favor (specifically) . Delta roads In and out of the sugar beet district, bafre you wish to see that movement thwarted and the |