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Show T11K GOVERNMENT AND WHEAT Serious minded people people who act in accordance with judgment instead of hysterical emotion recognize rec-ognize that the possession and exercise exer-cise of power carriers wih its responsibility. res-ponsibility. This remark is made preliminary to comment upon the recent prediction of a great wheat buyer that the price of wheat will go to ?2 a bushel, if it does, thp good fortune will bring joy to the hearts of wheat farmers. But it will also bring some criticism from consumers con-sumers of bread, who will have to pay a higher price for what they buy. They will be asking the government to- limit the price of wheat. A few months ago there were a lot of farmers who wanted the government gov-ernment to undertake the fixing of the price of wheat that is. to fix a minimum nrico. Now. if the government govern-ment asserts and exercises the rigbt and power to fix a minimum price for wheat, it must also assert and exercise exer-cise the nower to fix a maximum price. And if that is to he done as to wheat. It must be done wi'h regard to all other essential commodities. To do all this weu'd reenn the pm-nloymtnt pm-nloymtnt of a vast pnmhr of officials for the dptrmin 'inn of fnir prices.' a series of higher hoards to which i appeals rc.uH he taken, and also an j army of rnfrrnv' officials ten J times morn pur,-,.-... ,-,,,; tVnn those em-j ploved to enforce 'he prohibition t I !flw. I All these thlr- - const. torn "ons I that should he kept in mind liv r-llj thos" who aro inclined to get hvs-j terical fin dsdvortito Government i control as the solution for evt-ri- industrial in-dustrial problem. Tie-re is cause for reassurance in the fact that win n socialistic rem--dies were proposed In congr.-.,:--, a vast majority of the farmers themselves them-selves looked with disfavor upon liicm. The recent rise in the price of grain has proven that government intervention was not what was needed. need-ed. Those farmers who kept their heads, even in the face of distressing distress-ing adversity, have been vindicated. |