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Hoarding Of Commodities Is Both Foolish And Dangerous By DEWITT MACKENZIE AP Foreign Analyst A lot of Americans are allowing themselves to become panicky and are rushing around buying commodities of various sorts which they propose to hoard as protection against a bugbear of possible war-shortages. The scare-buyers (or at least a good many of them) naturally don't realize it but by such hoarding they are giving aid and comfort to the enemy. They are playing straight into Communist hands. - That's blunt language, but it's well that the facts be faced before Wad., July 26, 1950 Th4 N.wi-R.vltw, Ro.eburg, Or.. 9 crave damage has been done. There is no law against hoarding at this writing, but the law of common sense ought to bar it. "But," demands a reader, "how on earth can the fact that I stow away a few extra pounds of food stuffs be of aid to Russia?" Well, it's this way: widespread hoarding either by hoseholders or by profit-making dealers, is terri bly damaging to a country's econ omy. One of the main features of Moscow's strategy for spread of Communism is to create economic stress among the Western powers, especially the United States. Ability to maintain military pre paredness obviously depends on economic fitness. So if the Reds could wreck us economically, they would have softened us up so that we would be vulnerable to assault. Thus anything which damages the economy of America is an ante to the Communist kitty. Hoarding upsets the normal trade of the country by creating a scarcity of commodities on, the market. Non-hoarders are made to suffer for their patriotism because of their inability to buy necessities And widespread horading might even deprive the government of things which were needed for over seas operations. Hoarder Also Hurt One ridiculous aspect of hoard ing is that it actually hurts the hoarder. His hoarding forces prices up so that while he is hanging onto his hundred pounds of sugar ne nas to pay more for what he buys for current consumption. We shouldn't forget what President Truman had to say about hoard ing in his broadcast last week: "That is foolish. I sav it is fool ish, and it's selfish, very selfish. because hoarding results in en tirely unnecessary local shortages. Hoarding food is especially fool ish. There is plenty of food in this country. . . We have to fear only those shortages which we ourselves artuically create." Every civilian citizen should be just as much a part of our national defense in times of stress like these as is the soldier at the front. Civilians are lucky not to be on the firing line in Korea, and the least Americans can do is contrib ute their best to maintenance of this country's economic strength and morale. Four Get Sentences For Traffic In Marijuana YAKIMA, July 26 UP Pleading guilty to narcotics charges, two men and two teen-age youths were given sentences Monday ranging from 30 days to a maximum of 10 years. The 10-year maximums were giv en to Rafael Nieto, 47, charged with illegal possession of mari juana, and to Richard Henry Chap- pa, 34, charged with unlawful sale I of the drug. Nieto was sentenced 1 to the penitentiary. Chanoa to the reformatory. The actual length of ! tneir terms will be set by the state board of prison terms and paroles. Alex Garcia and Eli Rico, both 18 and residents of Wapato, were placed on probation for three years. Garcia was sentenced to 90 days and Rico to 30 days in the county jail. The four were arrested recently in connection with the reported sale of marijuana to Yakima high scnooi students. 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