Show Released by Western FARMING IS NOT MERE OWNERSHIP THE VALUE OF ACRES as farm land is determined by the price at which the products of those acres can be not for a year but over a considerable period of In with food products selling at extremely high farm land prices not values doubled and trebled Farmers mortgaged their home acres to buy more acres with the expectation of continued profits j resulting from a continuance of high i i Insurance companies and t banks loaned money on the basis of those high land They bid ravenously for the privilege of ing such By with the war over and the edge taken off the food demand i in the high prices for food products but the unpaid mortgage was still hanging i over the head of the At normal prices for his crops he could neither reduce the principal nor pay the The land he had bought was not worth in peacetime what he had paid for it in The farmer had gambled and He had expected high food prices to but could not control the law of supply and The banks and insurance companies took over thousands of farms on which they could not realize the value of the money Again there is a world-wide demand on America for food Again there is an abnormal price for food though not nearly so high as the price of Again the price of farm land is shooting but this time it is not the experienced farmer who is Now it is the man from the city who is attempting to hedge on the threatened When it is all when the last shot has been when the starving people of a war-torn world have been when food prices are again back to then it is probable the experienced farmer can add to his home acres at a bargain price The city sadder and will be moving back to the He will have discovered that successful farming must have back of it a FEDERAL PAYROLLS STILL GOING UP THE NUMBER of bureaus of the federal government grow week by week by executive Despite the efforts of the Byrd committee to reduce the civilian expenditures of the the number of civilian employees increase each As long as last December the total amounted to and it is now well beyond the three million To that great army of the government paid as salaries in December a total of Of that total of civilian are in Washington in another are employed by Uie District of To that the government paid in December the net sum of to which the District of Columbia added The federal government has distributed throughout the states a total of civilian exclusive of those in Their job is largely that of regulating the activities of the American people In the number of civilian the federal government is if it has not the number of such employees of all of OUT local and State Last December there were employed by all of our county and state govern-I ments a total of people That included municipal and state police forces and all school To these employees was paid a total of in as compared with the federal government's civilian payroll of What the end is to be is definitely up to the American RECOGNITION FOR CHINA IT WOULD SAVE for the j only government we recognize if congress should grant to the Chinese the same immigration privileges granted people of nations other than those of the Orient Under the quota as now Chinese immigrants could enter the United States in any one The number is but according China the same treatment as other nations means much to the It would abrogate that idea of from which China has suffered for many She has earned that WHEN STATESMANSHIP must become subservient to the cheap game of politics it will be good-by to statesmanship and the republic will cease to WE DO NOT NEED to care what form of government Germany or any other Axis nation may have so long as we are careful to see that they have no facilities or opportunity to again prepare for If they want a let them have but put a guard over the |