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Show Let Europe Build Our Warships The United States Is falling far behind of its treaty strength Navy and In the interest of economy, a considerable curtailment of expenditures expend-itures has been made at the expense of our fighting fleet. Several foreign governments insist that they are unable to pay war debts owing to the United States in gold and economists point to the fact that trade barriers prevent payment pay-ment in goods. Why not allow these debtor nations to build fighting ships for the American navy and bring It up to full strength without additional expense to American taxpayers. tax-payers. For example, they might pay some of their debt by building cruisers, and the French, who have recently commissioned several excellent submarines, sub-marines, might construct some on account. Even Italy, whose shipyards ship-yards have launched two of the largest liners on the seas, might be able to give us a few squadrons of destroyers. Roosevelt's Basic Fact Americans may be interested move in what President-elect Roosevelt thinks than they were in what . Candidate Roosevelt said. In the January issue of a magazine maga-zine Gov. Roosevelt explains "Your New National Leadership," and it is interesting to find him on record with this: "The basic fact is thai . the farmers, must immediately get a living income from the domestic market. I intend to attack the problem where it is most urgent-. urgent-. in wheat and cotton, for these are the money crops of one-third of our people." This ought to be good news to agriculturalists, who are anxiously waiting for something to better their lot. Moreover, the president-elect . says, "an artificial or even temporary tempor-ary measure to create this benefit for agriculture is justified." That future American prosperity must have .ts root in the soil is about admitted by everybody today. That American farmers have need of some assistancee to escape the economic pit in which they find themselves is also admitted. The debte centers on how to afford adequate ade-quate relief, and the question is yet to be answered. |