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Show Republicans Should Waich Taclics Of Isolationists There is danger that the Republicans Re-publicans in Congress will permit per-mit isolationist leaders to utilize the same methods that they aaopted after World War I for the purpose of discrediting American participation in World War II by attempting to persuade the people of this country that they could have stayed out of the war with honor and safety. Lets pass over the argument about the first great conflict and concentrate a bit on the war that has just ended. Senator Brooks, of Illinois, asserts that this country "was led into war." Naturally, any country that becomes be-comes involved in warfare is led. For this the people can give thanks. Even the British, when threatened by Axis domination, were "led" and it is fortunate for them that the nation developed devel-oped capable leaders. The Illinois Senator, however, we suspect, rather hopes to get over the idea that the United States went into war unnecessarily unneces-sarily because of its 'leadership.' He would persuade those whose loved ones sacrificed their lives that their heroism was unnecessary. unneces-sary. He would make us, as a people, disgusted with war, and foolish in our thinking about wise preparedness for war. While we arc thoroughly behind be-hind any investigation that seeks to uncover crooked dealing, deal-ing, excessive war profits and skullduggery, we are against any so-called injuiry if it is to be used as a sounding board to besmirch be-smirch the leaders of our war effort, For the same reason we have called attention to insidious publicity pub-licity of some columnists, seeking seek-ing to ridicule "brass-hats." This carelessly used term is employed employ-ed to stir up prejudice against the only class of experts who are in a position to intelligently ap-1 praise the defense needs of the nation. The complete answer to those who for partisan motives would besmirch the war leadership of our late President, is to remind the people of the country where they would be if the Axis had won the war. It is generally ad-1 mitted that this was a distinct possibility without our participa-' tion. Frankly, those who would have preferred an Axis victory are justified in lambasting F. D. Roosevelt because of his magnificent magni-ficent contribution to the victory of the democratic powers. Nobody No-body else should join them in their namecalling. Huge Crop Surpluses Loom As Threat To U. S. Farmers Secretary of Agriculture Clinton Clin-ton P. Anderson warns that crop production in the United States must be reduced soon or that serious postwar surplus problems will develop. It is entirely probable that the secretary is right. After the first World War the farmers of this country produced crops that piled pil-ed up huge surpluses, leading to disastrous prices and agricultural agricul-tural distress everywhere. It was pointed out, at the time, that acreage and production were increased, in-creased, during the war, to meet war needs and that, with other nations returning to normal production, pro-duction, the world could not consume con-sume the production of its farms. Facing the threat of overproduction overpro-duction there is only one sensible i course for farmers to adopt and-that and-that is to cut down production." The so-called economic experts will loudly tell us that wealth jlies in increased production, but this is only a part truth. It ap- .plies only when increased production pro-duction leads to increased in- ' come. Every farmer knows that bumper crops have depressed 'market prices and that, very often, of-ten, small crops bring the farmers farm-ers more money than large ones. The United Nations appointed a commission to look into the ag-ricultural ag-ricultural outlook. It has warned ' ithat, if nothing is done to ab-, ab-, sorb the greatly increased production pro-duction stimulated by the recent rec-ent war, the world may find itself it-self in 'a greater disaster than in 1929." Mr.. Anderson, speaking speak-ing bluntly, asserts that this nation na-tion "can't afford to have farmers farm-ers again go through a period such as thev did after the first World War." I |