Show JUST MILLING AROUND under the caption what we need the durango her ald democrat editorially gives utterance to the following one of our exchanges points out that if every child in the united states received all the milk needed for proper growth and health there would be no need of any farm relief legislation or crop control if every family used butter there would be a scarcity here are a couple of facts often overlooked by those who are seeking to find a way to return the farmer to prosperity too many agricultural experts are seeking a mathematical formula which ch will give the growers of the nation a short cut to prosperity such a cut has never been found and never will be what the farmers of the united states need do is not to grow less but to seek an outlet for what they already produce there are millions of people in the country who do not get enough to eat desorte descue the fact that there Is is no starvation that this is a fact need not be gleaned alone from the reports of charitable and sociological surveys there are over persons in the united states unemployed those who do not work are unable to buy what they might otherwise purchase in the way of food and clothing if those in the united states who want to work could be given jobs then the demand for our foodstuffs would increase to the point where the farm problem could be easily solved the answer to the puzzle is more jobs not raising less produce when so many people already do not have enough to eat not trying to seek markets in alien lands when the biggest potential market in the world lies here before us in the united states the sooner those in authority begin to realize this the sooner our agricultural problem willibe on the way to solution and to create more jobs we must not hire men to produce less we want to restore business confidence by curtailing extravagance and keep uncle sam out of competition with private enterprises enterprise I 1 the editor of the herald democrat just like a few million other people in this country realizes that there is is something wrong with our economic system they realize that in a rich country like this with unlimited natural resources ample plant and equipment and the most highly trained personnel in the world there should not be millions of jobless people dependent upon the government for a subsistence living and deprived of all the better things of life that there should not be starving children on the one hand and immense surpluses on the other being destroyed to prevent the lowering of prices below the cost of production that we need more jots jobs but that the only new jobs being bein 9 created are by the government supported by borrowed capital and an ever increasing bonded indebtedness they know or should realize that under our profit system industry is not interested in ca creating more jobs but in the mechanization of their plants with a view to reducing their payrolls pay rolls and increasing their profits unmindful of the fact that by this method they are undermining the purchasing power of the people and destroying the best market the world has ever produced all kinds of patent recovery recipes guaranteed to cure our economic ills have been tried buchas such as the repeal of the prohibition amendment but it proved only a drop in the bucket when it was accomplished and the economic situation continues to become worse and worse involved the exchange quoted from proposes to cure all the economic ills of the farmer by furnishing the children as much milk as they require which is a grossly exaggerated estimate though it would undoubtedly help but unless jobs and decent wages can be found for the unemployed there ip is no means of financing the milk campaign except by more government borrowing and there theres is no place to look bormore for more jobs except to the federal government industry is already producing more goods than it can sell with an ever narrowing personnel and payroll pay roll to a profit minded employer there is no point in hiring more men than he needs in order to give jobs to the jobless and so like the cat that chases its tail the economic soothsayers and quacks go round and 7 round without really getting anywhere there are fundamental remedies that could be applied which chich would bring order out of chaos but the haves and the politicians who serve them will not consider them they will not release the unfair advantages they have surrounded themselves with without a death struggle so powerful is the selfish profit motive and so far no leadership has been developed bigand big and courageous enough to seriously challenge these corrupt interests first and foremost of which is is the federal reserve national bank system the most gigantic and unwarranted usurpation of power that the world has ever seen another is the unlimited system afi of incomes and fortunes which permits a mere handful of people to virtually own and control the world by means of their wealth the interest or usury principle is the vehicle by which they have reached their stupendous proportions our ex exchange chancre concludes its summary with the statement we want to restore business confidence by curtailing extravagance trava gance and keep uncle sam out of competition with private enterprise we feel sure that uncle sam has no desire to enter business in competition with private enterprise but but if if industry can not or will not furnish places for the unemployed and uncle sam is compelled to do so despite the fact that he is 45 billions in debt is it just and right to insist that he employs these entirely in nonprofit unproductive lines would it not be far saner to set them to work producing the things they require in in order to live dont you see that uncle sam is being forced into an inescapable box canyon |