Show I e Released by y Western Newspaper Union SOME SOi REMINDERS OF OLD WAR NO 1 SPEECHES DIGGING THROUGH some old rubbish a 3 few days ago I discovered discovered discovered ered a number of clippings from English papers containing accounts of the visit of a party of American journalists of which I was one During the days spent in England that party of Americans listened to many maJy speeches and in view of in in- intervening intervening intervening and present-day present events these clippings made interesting reading Arthur Balfour in a speech made at a luncheon forecast the difficult problems to be faced at the peace peace table and what would happen in the future should hatred have a place in peace negotiations The kind of peace he warned against was made and his prophecy for the future has been realized in a second World war Lord Northcliffe in a speech at ata a luncheon in the London Times building forecast a League of Nations Na Na- Nations Nations that with America as a par par- participant participant participant would solve all future international problems America did not join the League and the League did not prevent a second World war Admiral Sims commanding the th American navy in the work of the British navy He lie said there were never more than 13 German subs at sea at any anyone one time and that England had some vessels of various classes searching for these subs and protecting merchant mer mer- merchant merchant chant ships Admiral Sims said it was the English navy that would make victory for the Allied cause possible by maintaining control of the seas It was true at that time and is true again now with just about the same conditions World War I and the peace that grew out of it did not prevent war but rather encouraged more wars including the present conflict What will follow the peace of this war only the future can tell The sentiment now in the democracies is for generous gen gen- generous generous erous terms with Roosevelt Church Roosevelt Roosevelt-Ch ill pronouncement cement as a basis but the bombs are still falling With victory the hatreds of Europe may again as in 1919 dominate the peace terms S o 0 FARMERS DEFINITELY AFFECTED AFFECT AFFECT- ED BY RAILROAD WAGES THE FARMER is the one producer pro pro- producer producer ducer in America who ho does des not not and n cannot his commodity will be sold He sows in the spring with a hope that Nature will enable him to produce a crop and consumer demand will assure him a fair price When with the assistance of Nature his acres have produced a crop he must reap in the fall regardless of what the price may be The price is made at Chicago at Tidewater or at Liverpool and the farmer pays the transportation From the price paid is deducted the delivery costs The manufacturer can and does docs fix the price at which he will sell his product If there is not a con con- consumer consumer consumer sumer demand at the price he names he can lay layoff off his help close his factory and await aw tit better conditions To the price the manufacturer manufacturer manu manu- manufacturer names the local merchant adds the cost of transportation of the product in fixing his price to the consumer The farmer pays the freight on what he sells and also on what he buys The farmer has a definite financial finan finan- financial financial cial interest in the proposed wage increase asked by the railroad em em- employees employees employees of the nation That increase represents more than the railroads are earning They cannot absorb it and continue to operate It means increased cost of transportation on what the farmer sells and on what he buys He will get less for what his factory his acres produce and pay more for the commodities of other the factories factories the things he and his family need and use and the equipment needed to operate his farm The increased freight both ways will amount to a considerable number of dollars a year for every everyone everyone everyone one of the more than six million farms arms in America Without that proposed increase the average railroad rail rail- railroad railroad road employee is far better off finan finan- financially financially financially than is the average farmer who collectively will pay a con con- considerable considerable considerable portion of the increase S e e 0 WHERES WHERE'S THE TIlE CEILING WHAT DOES a surplus of food and continuously increasing prices mean if not inflation Where is the ceil ceil- ceiling ceiling ing they talk about and over what farmer can can- cannot cannot cannot The is it to be placed not be the only one who is to be limited in the price he receives e eSTATES STATES PILE IT UP ALSO FOR 1930 the per capita state slate tax collections averaged 1452 and by 1940 had jumped to 2302 With the exception of but a few states the reasonably even In was increase Missouri the jump as reported by bythe bythe bythe Tax Foundation was from 1061 the and in Ala Ala- Alabama Alabama Alabama 1930 to in 1940 in from to Aside bama these states the range of 1940 from collections was from tax state in South Nevada down to 1438 in Carolina and 1480 m in Nebraska Some increases are ar not nt Uncle Sams |