Show I 1 1 14 b y WRIGHT A P A T T E R 5 0 N released by petern newspaper union TWO directions FOR FARM INCOME DESPITE THE EFFORTS at crop limitation for or the purpose of increasing the national farm income by an am increase in farm produce prices and including all government payment of bonuses of all kinds the total farm income in the united states was not as high in 1940 as it was in 1937 but was a trifle better than in 1938 end and 1930 1939 in 1840 1940 the total farm income was waa just under about 1383 for each of the approximately farms in the nation the future of the farm income in this country lies in two directions one is increased production of the farm prod products acte we can and do to some extent exten raise in this country but which we now import to the extent of about each year and a protected market for such products in that list there a are r a some 60 items american farmers can raise if properly encouraged g ed to do so the other opportunity is the devel development of a greater use of farm products in manufacture private enterprise has in the past and will in the future develop such uses if industrial laboratories are permitted to operate without too many obstacles st american farms can as in the past produce our food and will in the future produce much of the raw material needed in manufacturing ALASKANS VIE VIEW RUSSIA JAPAN WITHOUT FEAR BRONZED weather beaten john friedland is an old alaskan sourdough typical of the hemen he men who have for many years braved the we rigors 0 of f the tar far northland john friedland knows alaska from the far western tip of the al aleutian e autian I 1 lands islands a to the farthest north point barrow for the first time in 35 years old john recently made a trip to the states and I 1 bad an opportunity of a visit with him he told me that people of alaska the hardy prospectors miners trappers and pioneer farmers have no fear of aggression on the part of russia and they have only contempt tor for japan looking upon it as a nation of poachers he said the building of government air fields was welcomed not as a defense measure but as a means ot of improving air transportation in the territory rit 0 ry without armed protection fr friedland said he thought these new air fields would prove quite as convenient a landing place for other planes it if any as for or the american planes but john friedland had hf his s fuu full measure of ala alaskan optimism and was tearful fearful of nothing unless it 11 might be a reduction in the price of 0 gold which if 11 it came would prove disastrous to alaskan mining he came to the states traveled travale d as far east as chicago lor for a visit with old friends stayed three days and then departed by plane for or candle creek alaska on the arctic coast so ill he might have his big dredges ready lor for operation with the first glimpse of the summer sun WHO PAYS NONE OTHER THAN WE THE PEOPLE CONGRESS WILL MAKE an effort to find more revenue tor for the federal government by eri enacting acting new tax laws the tax on america today as levied by municipal county state and federal governments takes 30 cents out of each dollar earned by the american people and we all pay our proportion whether or not we receive a tax bill it if you rent a house you pay the landlords taxes they are included in your rent bill it if you buy a suit about b t 25 per cent of the price Is aae taxes the same is true of any food you buy uy or any other article ot of merchandise purchased it if you smoke cigarettes you pay a federal tax of six cents on each package the government collects from the manufacturer and the merchant they sad add the taxes to the price of what they sell and pass it on to each one of af us who buys their products in the end it Is not the rich who carry the burden of taxes it is the average e american the men and women who work for wages who main maintain maln homes and who support families corporations are supposedly heavily taxed but it if they could not or did not pass the taxes along as a part of the price of their products product they would soon be broke and millions would be without jobs we average americans pay the cost of government through the things we buy and the politicians canno cannot t tool fool us by sending our tax bills to us WILL THEY WAIT WE NOW HAVE a navy of fighting ships of various kinds all in commission we have on the way or on order a total of additional fighting ships which if the defense program does not bog down will be ready by 1947 2947 that Is supposed to constitute a navy capable ot of defending all american coasts at the name time enough ships to defeat hitler mussolini and japan should they all attack us at the same time and if they wait another six be years yeara will they wait |