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History from the files of The
Mail Tribune 10. 20. 30 and
10 years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
Juna 17. 1946
(It was Monday)
Wolf Patrol, Boy Scout Troop
4, Oak Grove district, collected
105 cans of food and $73.88 in
cash in Thursday's collection for
the Emergency Famine Relief
drive.
From Arthur 'Perry's Ye
Smudge Pot column: This is
"Tourist School" week. The
tourist can find the schoolhouse,
but not a room.
20 YEARS AGO
Juna 17. 1936
(It was Wednesday)
The California Oregon Power
company remitted $31,250.88, its
second quarterly tax payment in
Jackson county, Monday.
Auto license fees at one-half
the annual rates will be accepted
by the sheriffs office on and
after Saturday, June 20.
30 YEARS AGO
Juna 17, 1926
(It was Thursday)
The Dr. R. W. Clancy orchard
will become the property of the
Rogue River company, the deal
completed by John Pike, presi
dent, and Franklin Otis, vice
president
Contracts for furniture and
furnishings for the new high
school let by school board.
40 YEARS AGO
Juna 17. 1916
(It was Saturday)
Postmaster Ralph Woodford to
remain in office although his
term expired June 13, until a
successor is named.
The school election will be
held Monday, June 19, for se
lection of a new school director
to replace J. W. Lawton, whose
term expires.
What's the Answer?
1. The U.S. government has or
hasn't protested Britain's deci
sion to relax restrictions on
trade with Red China?
2. Annual world production of
diamonds is about 2'i tons, 200
carats, or 2,000 grains troy?
3. When the Senate applies
cloture to a bill, it rejects the
bill, passes it, limits debate on
it, puts it on ice until next year,
or forbids amendments to it?
4. Libya in North Africa is or
isn't a member of the Arab
League?
5. The American Army's
Nike anti-aircraft weapon was
named for a Greek goddess, an
Egyptian river, or an anti-Czar-1st
terrorist group?
6. Nearly (a) 250, (b) 400, (c)
500, or (d) 650 tugboats are
needed to dock ocean liners and
push or haul barges, car floats,
etc., around N.Y. harbor?
7. Soviet Russia fingerprints
only criminals; right or wrong?
Tha Answers: 1. Has not pro
tasted. 2. About 2Vi tons, most
ly for 'industrial use. 3. Limits
debate on it, 4. Is a member. S.
Greek goddess of victory. 6.
Nearly 500 on N.Y. side (ex
cluding NJ. side) 7. Wrong (So
viet seamen are fingerprinted
for passports).
Former Marion County
District Attorney Dies
Salem (U.PJ Wiliam H. Trin
dle, 77-year-old former Marion
county district attorney, died at
a hospital here Thursday. The
longtime Salem attorney had
been in ill health for the past
six years.
MAIL TRIBUNE
Private Power Propaganda
The esteemed Salem Capital Journal has a brand
new definition of "Give Away."
It is not mining the U.S. forest reserves for timber
at $5 per acre, or granting oil leases on wild life pre
serves for nothing; it is urging public power develop
ment at Hells Canyon instead of handing over the
Snake river to the Idaho Power company.
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THE "JOURNAL" clinches this argument by asking
why soak the taxpayers of the country millions of
dollars for constructing one high dam, when the Idaho
Power company will construct three small dams for
free?
And it cites the cost in taxes in part, as follows,
if federal construction were authorized : Oregon, $4,
400,000; Illinois, $35,000,000; Indiana, $11,000,000;
Massachusetts, $15,000,000; New York, $65,000,000;
Ohio, $37,000,000; Pennsylvania $35,000,000; and
so on and so forth to presumably a total of over $400,
000,000. WHY indeed?
We can see only three or four reasons, to-wit :
No. 1 : A federal dam at Hells Canyon would be
self-liquidating that is the $470,000,000 cost would
be paid back to the government through the years so
the cost to the taxpayers would be ultimately exactly
nothing.
No. 2: At the end of that period the power pro
ject, moreover, would not be the property of some
Boston corporation to continue its high rates indefin
itely but the property of the people the taxpayers,
the consumers.
No. 3 : All this would take time, but during ALL
that time as evidenced by TV A, Bonneville and Grand
Coulee, the maximum power would be available to the
people at the minimum cost, instead of the minimum
power at the maximum cost. And the great need is
more power and cheaper power.
And that has meant in the areas affected, as it
would along the Snake and Columbia rivers, more
rapid development, industrially and agriculturally,
increased populations and greater prosperity for all.
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fF COURSE, the private power companies deny
this, and no one can blame them but it is surpris
ing to find so many, not members of the private util
ity lobby, swallowing the propaganda, bait, hook and
sinker.
We wish more of them would look up the facts for
after all the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
The truth is public power development where mul
tiple projects are feasible have benefitted tremen
dously the regions affected, and would do the same
at Hells Canyon. It would moreover do what the pri
vate power companies will NOT do.
As Gordon C. Clapp of the Tennessee Valley Au
thority declared only a few years ago, quote :
"Some of the things being demonstrated here low elec-
trie rates for example have an important influence on the
price of electricity elsewhere. The low TVA rates prompt
many electricity consumers to ask why they have to pay
more for electricity where they live. This question makes
some private utility executives uncomfortable and occasion
ally very vocal
"In fact, there is a well-organized campaign it has been
going on for a long time now In fuU cry trying to make
people believe throughout this region where TVA electricity
sparks a growing enterprise they are getting a federal hand
out a subsidy from the Federal Treasury This
view has been expressed in high places and along the street
.... Some who voice this notion are no doubt well-intentioned
but they are also misinformed. Every cent the gov
- eminent advances will be repaid and is being repaid above
the agreed schedule, TVA also is paying large sums in lieu
of local taxes. Our wholesale rate in fact is only a fraction
of a cent lower than the private utility wholesale rate. The
rub is in the low retail rate charged by distributors
They are cunning enough to realize that if they can smear
TVA, TVA may have difficulty in getting capital for new
power plants and needed expansion which will benefit them
and slowly but surely raise the power rates Let
me say in all seriousness that whether you people want to
return to the old system is your decision. But may I add we
who have been in this hassle quite a while do not believe
the people of Tennessee Valley or the United States, are
as gullible as the private power gentlemen seem to believe."
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VR. CLAPP proved to be right as far as the people
A of Tennessee were concerned. We are convinced
that ultimately he will prove to be just as correct re
garding the people of the United States. R.W.R.
Public vs. Private Power
The most frequent argument against public power
is the charge of socialism "creeping" or otherwise.
This is ex-President Hoover's strong belief. In
fact, if Mr. Hoover had his way, not only would there
be no more public power projects at Hells Canyon or
anywhere else, but all those now in existence would
be condemned and turned over to the private power
combine at a "fair and reasonable price,"
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TT TAKES NO great prophetic powers to see what
A the final result of such a procedure would be
there would be a 100 private power monopoly, and
"the good old days" of charging all the traffic will
bear would be in the ascendancy again.
There might be some state control left via public
utilitv commissions but as exnerienrp in Oroo-nn hoc
demonstrated, such controls
oi compeuuon exists, are
effective.
But there is no rloilht
such a policy would delight the ultra-conservative
ngm wing oi tne uur, send the private-power lobby
into iovful hysterics, and boost utilitv storks in tha
general direction of the stratosphere.
DUT IN SPITE of the reactionary atmosphere of
JJ ' greed now prevailing this department has a hunch
the Insull dream of Paradise will somehow never come
to pass. :
There are tides of ebb and flow in politics as well
as in the ocean. For nearly four vears the tide asainst
public power, in the country as a whole has been
Sunday, Jan 17, 1938
when a complete absence
iar very far from being
that trip lmriTorrioriraKrm nt
Today and
By Walter
THE QUESTION OF
DISABILITY
Mr. Adams and Mr. Hagerty
would not be human if they
were not thinking at all about
how this sec
ond illness
will affect the
election. But
they have,
pre sumably,
had something
more immedi
ate in mind
during the
first few days.
Waiter uppmann They have
been at great pains to establish
the fact that in the technical
sense pf the word the President
is not disabled, that he is able
"to discharge the powers and
duties" of his office. To do this,
they have brought him official
documents to be signed and de
cisions to which he could say yes
or no.
They have been applying the
lessons they learned from the
firsts days of the Denver period.
As it happened then, not only
Messrs. Adams and Hagerty but
the Attorney General as weU
were away on vacation when the
President was stricken. For a
few days there was the greatest
uncertainty both as to how bad
ly the President was disabled
and as to whether or not, and in
what degree, the Vice President
was supposed to act.
But when, later that week,
Mr. Adams and Mr. Brownell
had returned to Washington,
they took a very important de
cision. They decided that the
President, though he could not
then do any. serious work, was
not in the legal sense disabled.
This meant that there need be
no delegation of substantial
power to the Vice President, and
that in fact a regency consisting
of the White House staff and the
senior Cabinet officials would
be able to administer the office
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not exceed 400 words.
Veterans' Benefits
To the Editor: As a citizen of
the United States I hold to the
belief that, as such, I have an
inherent right to criticize my
Government, or officer thereof,
whether the lowliest clerk or the
Head of State.
Take Herbert Hoover, for in
stance. He was strictly a 'Do
Nothing President'
By no means could he be
called a popular President.
He was hated while in office by
Republicans and Democrats
alike, and when he tried to se
cure a second term was emphat
ically repudiated by an over
whelming vote of the people. He
is 'persona non grata' to the
common man to this day.
After the death of F. D. Roose
velt, Truman fell heir to the
Presidency. A brainstorm struck
him. He decided to do something
about it, so established the in
famous Economy Commission.
Who did he appoint as chairman?
Why, the Great and Only (Thank
Heaven) Hoover, and gave him
the privilege of calling his own
assistants. A greater blunder he,
Truman, could not have made,
as later events proved. All were
opposed to veterans benefits.
The report of this Commission
was not made until Eisenhower
became President, and such a
report.
Of all things they singled out
the Veteran and his benefits.
Cut out all benefits except to
such as 'could prove' service
connection injuries or sickness.
Closed nineteen veterans hos
pitals and most of the domicil
iary homes, such as Camp White,
here in Jackson county.
If such action is taken by the
Republican administration 1 1
will parallel the same thing done
while F.D.R. was president It
was carried out. The result?
As a direct result around 400
Spanish War Veterans commit
ted suicide. Despair seized them.
They saw nothing but suffering
and death before them. To make
the whole matter really dis
graceful, many service men
were stripped of 'issue' outer
garments and expelled from
homes in underwear. Nice????
Eh!!!
The people were aroused to
do something.
Many thousands of letters
smothered Congress. It saw the
light. The old laws were re-enacted,
vetoed by F.D.R., passed
over his veto. The first time It
happened to him in his first term.
Again the Commission. It re
ported to Ike. He liked it.
Another Commission. Brad-
strong, and we don't deny the prospects of a high dam
at Hells Canyon are not very bright, as of today, but
ultimately this tide is going to turn, and when it does
our prediction is, it will be not only sudden but suffi
ciently strong to sweep the Hoover concept of social
ism versus public power and the public welfare into
oblivion for a long time to come perhaps forever.
And the reason will be a very familiar one to-wit:
"You can't fool aU the people all the time.'
Tomorrow
Lippmann
of the President.
Last week, they applied the
same decision as to how to carry
on during the President's ill
ness. Having learned from ex
perience, they did not allow the
question to arise as to whether
the President was disabled and
unable, to discharge his powers
and duties.
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THERE is no settled law as to
what is to be done when the
President of the United States
is ill. Congress has been trying,
rather listlessly and not very
diligently, to write such a law.
It is not an easy thing to do.
One of the main difficulties
is that there is no objective, no
black and white distinction be
tween being able and being dis
abled. There are variations all
the way from being somewhat
below par to being helpless. In
the President's case, for exam
ple, the ability to sign a few
documents is for legal purposes
sufficient proof, that, though in
fact he cannot do any serious
work, he is not disabled. It
would be impossible to write a
law which looked behind these
formalities. For who could be
given the power to look behind
the formalities?
How far in fact, apart from
the formalities, the President is
able to administer his office is
not a legal question. It is a po
litical question. In a formal
sense a President who can sign
documents brought to him is ad
ministering his office. During
an illness and a period of can
valescence, this formal and legal
view is sufficient and it cannot
be effectively challenged.
But the country will have no
illusions about it. It will realize
that until the President has re
covered, he will not be discharg
ing the real responsibilities of
his office.
Copyright, New York Her
ald Tribune Inc.
Letters submitted for publication must
ley's. Report? The same thing.
So Ike, like HST, forgot his cam
paign promises and strikes at
the 'inarticulate' (presumably)
Veteran.
Almost none of them can se
cure a living dole from social
security which is supposed to
take over the VA. '
However, it does not matter.
The retired Gen. Bradley is safe
with his income. Retired officers
are not affected.
So the common veteran may
"root hog, or die," and to blazes
with him.
Are you Veterans going to do
nothing? Are you going to let
the Republican administration
put it oyer on you?
A. L.- Unger,
634 Pennsylvania ave.,
Medford, Ore.
Thanks
To the Editor: We wish to ex-
press our thanks to you for the
publicity given our organization
this past year. We feel that it
has greatly aided our program
and informed the public of its
many phases.
Our thanks go especially to
Mrs. Olive Starcher who gave
our articles that "professional"
touch and who so generously
gave us the needed space.
Many thanks again.
Mrs. Herb Gifford,
President, American
Legion Auxiliary.
Mrs. Ross Minneci,
Publicity Chairman.
National Parks
To the Editor: From the Pur
ple Mountain in Killarney, from
the moors of Scotland, from Lor
na Doone's Devonshire across
Holland to the Germany' that
sings, even on ship in the China
Sea, "Roeselein auf der Haide,"
to Denmark's Aalborg, the heath
er now is "in the Purple."
The little kingdom on the Bal
tic to which Saxon King Alfred
once paid "Danegeld" (you can
see his crudely minted coins in
Visby Museum) is an example of
how our National Parks concept
has been radiated world-wide.
Belgian Congo has King Albert
National park. (He was our guest
in Yosemite.) Uganda dedicated
Queen Elizabeth II National
park at the coronation.
Ceylon saves wild elephants,
also peacocks, from big game
hunter extinction in Ruhuna
also Wilpattu N. P. It is hoped
the Java tiger can be rescued
from extinction on Undung Ku
lon. Denmark's Rebild National
park has interest for Americans
R.W.R.
Matter of Fact By Stewart Alsop
QUESTION OF DISABILITY
Washington President Eisen
hower will announce that he is
still a candidate even before he
leaves Walter
if the confi
dent expecta
tion of the Re
publican high
command are
fulfilled.
The reasons
for making
such an an
n o uncement
immediately will certainly be
urged on the President as soon
as he is well enough to discuss
the matter, if they have not been
already. These reasons are ob
vious enough.
Another long period of specu
lation about the President's in
tentions, like that which fol
lowed the President's' heart at
tack last autumn, would have
the most damaging political ef
fects. It would generate anew
the old sub-surface divisions in
the Republican party. Worst of
all, weeks of such will-he-won't-
he speculation would . focus all
attention on the so-called
"health issue," which is the last
thing the Republican leadership
wants.
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HIS top advisers express abso
lute confidence that the
President will agree that the
matter must be disposed of im
mediately, for national and in
ternational as well as political
reasons. They are sure that, in
the next few days, he will eith
er issue a statement announcing
his continued candidacy or au
thorize Presidential Press Sec
retary James Hagerty or another
high Administration official to
do so in his name.
In fact, the confidence that
the President wiU soon author
ize a "positive" statement is so
absolute that it suggests that the
President may already have in
dicated his intention not to with
draw. At any rate, there is not
the slightest visible tendency
even to consider altering the
present Republican campaign
plants. And these plans are
geared In every possible way to
an Eisenhower candidacy. '
Word has already gone out,
for example, that the San Fran
cisco convention will be limited
to three days," instead of the tra
ditional four or five. The whole
convention has been planned in
advance in remarkable detail,
and the proceedings are all tail
ored to lead up to the dramatic
climax of the President's accept
ance speech.
rpHE whole campaign thereaft-
- er will be built wholly
around the President. The high
lights of the campaign are to be
a small number of major Presi
dential radio and television
broadcasts, probably six. The
subject matter of these . six
broadcasts is already being care
fully canvassed, and some ini
tial rough drafting has actually
started.
Each of the broadcasts is
planned to last half an hour.
but the President himself is ex
pected to take not more than 20
or 22 minutes of this time. The
rest will be devoted to giving
the broadcasts variety and pace,
with interchanges between the
President and Administration of
ficials, visual demonstrations of
facts and figures, and so on.
This is in line with the accept
ed theory that televiewers will
not listen to long, formal set
speeches, even by the President
of the United States. Negotia
tions are also under way for the
best television hours for the
Presidential broadcasts. One
matter remains unsettled the
point of origin of the broadcasts.
Even before his recent illness,
a non - whistlestop, television
campaign had been planned for
the President but in the last
few weeks before his sudden op
eration, the President had begun
acting like a warhorse scenting
battle, and the campaign plans
were revised to allow for a num
ber of airborne forays to the
husUngs. 'Whether this will hap
pen again in the new circum
stances remains to be seen. But
the planners hope that the Pres
ident will fly to key points,
especially . Chicago and New
York, for at least two or three
of his' broadcasts.
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OTHER aspects of the cam
paign have also been pre
planned in surprising detail. The
Vice President's campaign,
which will be managed for the
first time by the national com
mittee, is being carefully block
ed out already. And a series of
five minute "spots," introduced
by the President and presenting
in serial form the achievements
because Denmark, (which has
furnished U.S-A. so many desir
able immigrants), celebrates our
4th of July there. Chief Justice
Warren gave its 1955 address.
When writer was at one celebra
tion there were unfurled also
California's Bear Flag, Texas
Lone Star Banner, the standards
of the 46 other states.
Why not add a few new Na
tional park visits in this sum
mar's automobiling? They con
stitute an example of American
Know How exported to many
lands.
C. M. Goethe,
Seventh and J sts.,
Sacramento, Calif.
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Stewart Alsop
of the Eisenhower administra
tion, is another likely feature of
what will be a new kind of Pres
idential campaign.
Obviously, the heart and soul
of this new kind of campaign is
the candidacy of Dwight D.
Ensenhower. If the President
were to witnoraw, me wnoie
campaign would simply blow up
in the face of the RepuDiican
leadership. But those who
should know those who were
right about the President's in
tentions last time are serenely
confident that nothing of the
sort wiU happen. They are sure,
on the contrary, not only that
the President is still a candidate.
but that he wiU publicly confirm
his candidacy within the next
few days.
Copyright 1956 The New
York Herald Tribune, Inc.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
Here is a bit of news that is at
least interesting:
In a sharp break with tradi
tion, members of the Oregon
Cattlemen's association have
voted in favor of a federal sub
sidy. The association's secretary
Ed Coles has just announced in
Prineville that final returns of
a membership poll show 322 in
favor of a federal price support
program and 275 against it.
The association has tradition-
aUy opposed a subsidy program
for the catUe industry. In the
past, opposition has been record
ed by resolution at association
conventions. At the 1956 conven
tion, however, the delegates
deadlocked on the price support
issue, and a poll of the member
ship was decided upon.
In announcing the result the
association's secretary says 1,300
ballots were sent out. The com
bined yes and no vote just an
nounced totals only 597.
Whether that means approxim
ately half of the members ab
stained from voting on the issue
doesn't appear.
THE feeling of those who voted
in favor of a subsidy is at
least understandable. Cattle
prices have faUen sharply in re
cent years, frices of what tne
cattlemen have to buy have not
fallen correspondingly. That
means that the cattle Industry,
along with the farming industry
in general, has been whipsawed
between falling prices for what
it has to sell and at least station
ary if not actually rising prices
for what it has to buy.
A situation like that Creates
unrest
THERE is no mystery about
what has happened to the
cattle industry.
When we came out of the
gloomy 30's, the number of mil
lions of cattle in the United
States was somewhere down in
the low 40's. There came then
the war. War stimulated meat
consumption, as war always
does. As demand rose, prices
rose.
During the war, meat was ra
tioned. Following a curious
quirk of human nature, ration
ing whetted our appetites for
meat. It seems to be true that
what is scarce is always desir
able. At nny rate, everybody
WANTED MEAT. Our meat
appetite continued after the
war, and when rationing was
ended consumption began to
soar. When price controls were
removed, prices rose as a result
of the sharply rising demand.
The number of cattle on the
ranges and on the farms rose
correspondingly. The total num
ber of millions of animals crept
up through the 50's, through
the 60's, through the 70's and
finally weU up into the 80's. All
this time people continued to
eat meat at a rate never before
approached, but eventuaUy sup
ply caught up with demand.
SO prices began to fall.
Thev have continued lo faU.
They have now reached the
point where there is distress in
the cattle industry. What shall
we do about it? ShaU we subsi
dize beef prices? If we do that,
we shall undoubtedly have to
subsidize pork prices, lamb
prices and in the end POUL
TRY prices.
LET'S take a realistic look at
the situation. What is needed
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Virgil rU Wilkes
Lynn Colby
133 S. Central Ph. 2-9322
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POTLUCK
(By M-T Staff and
Contributors)
A classified ad In our favor
ite newspaper offers for sale
a 3-year-old Labrador dog,
"fully trained to whistle at
hand signals."
Sounds more like a wolf.
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A group of Medford business
men interested in Front street
property attended the last meet
ing of the city council to see what
could be done to obtain general
usage of the correct name for
the street D'Anjou rather
than the name Front which
many feel has connotations un
befitting the street's potential
ities. One councilman asked. "Do
you think all street names should
be returned to their original
names if they aren't already?"
UI course," one of the bus
inessmen replied.
"You're a Republican, I as
sume?" the councilman asked.
The answer was "yes."
"Do you know the original
name of Crater Lake avenue?"
the council member continued.
"No," said the businessman.
"Roosevelt avenue," the coun
cilman informed him.
This, of course, raises the in
teresting question as to whether
it should revert to the original
name, and if so, whether it would
be TR or FDR thus honored. '
A man we know was walk-
ing down the street looking
for the office of an optometrist.
He went right by it and
walked a block further before
discovering his mistake.
"What I need," he remarked,
"are glasses."
There was a litUe editorial in
the paper the other day, pointing
out that there are a number, a
growing number, of special
weeks, days and months. Today,
for instance, is Father's day,
which is pretty well accepted,
particularly by businesses selling
gifts which appeal to mature
men.
We are informed of another
observance, via a hand-out from
a public relations office. Nation
al Hot Dog Month, we are told,
is July.
'We are asking the editorial
writers of the leading newspa
pers in the country," the letter
said,, "to consider the idea of
paying their respects to our na-t
tional dish some time during
July."
This leading newspaper has
considered the proposal, and re
jected it. But we would be re
miss if we did not report that
the American people will eat an
estimated one billion pounds of
hot dogs this year. The hand-out
tells us that's enough hot dog
mileage to go to the moon.
Not a bad idea.
a a a
"Research work," our glos
sary of federalese tells us, is .
"hunting for the guy who
moved the files."
, a a a
The Times That Warm Our
Heart Department
Like the other night when we
drove up behind an Austin (the
English version of an automobile)
and read pasted on its back end
signs saying, "Join the National
Guard," "Speed Kills," and "If
You Can Read This You're Too
Close," and then watched as the
lady in the driver's seat made a
right-turn signal and turned the
little car in a beautiful curve into
the left-hand street, right under
the big sign hanging next to the
stop lights: "NO LEFT TURN.",
is to bring the supply of meat
back into balance with the de
mand for meat. If that is to be
done, the number of meat ani
mals on the farms and the ranges
must be reduced.
But
If we subsidize meat to the
point where production of more
of it is PROFITABLE the num
ber of meat animals on tha
farms and the ranges wiU be
INCREASED ' instead of being
reduced. The next step will be
filling the cold storage ware
houses with SURPLUS meat '
The next step after that will be .
building MORE warehouses. f
The end result will be accumu-
lating surpluses of meat that will
hang over the markets of the
future like a dark thundercloud.
Here ore
EXAMPLES
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J Retirement Income far
you and your wife.
9 A debt-fret home if
you should die.
t Protection until the
children art grown.
4 Income for your widow
after the children are
grown.
An education for your
children.
Cart for the children
if your wife should die.
Opportunity for your
children funds when
they need them most.
M Business security if a
partner or keyemployee
die.
There's a Stats Farm Life In
surance Plan to meet your
exact mens ana budget!
STATI FARM Agent