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I don't chew tobacco myself, but what a kick I got out of a remark on that subject made by a famous crew coach, Jim Rice, of Columbia. He said that plenty of unkind remarks are made about tobacco, but that if Adam had had a big chew of tobacco in his mouth when he was offered the apple, it might have changed the entire course of human history.

' The build it, and fix it, and paint it yourself campaign has become a national crusade. This sign was seen on the front of a Texas lumber yard: "Do it yourself ! It costs more, but it's fun !"

And if it's a smart thought with regard to taxes you are looking for, take this one,, now going the rounds. One man says: "Wish I had an income of a million dollars a year." And the other say: "I'd a lot rather have the taxes cn it." And so, in fact, he would. Nine times rather.

First prize, in our opinion, for the best introduction of the year 1953, of a luncheon speaker of renown, goes to Theodore F. Koop, who was President of the Washington Press Club during that time. He was presenting as speaker of the occasion, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Benson, ancl the toastmaster said of Benson: "He is trying to foist revolutionary ideas of free enterprise on a planned agricultural economy. Why, I'even hear that he approves the law of supply and demand. You are familiar with that law -as long as the treasury supplies the money, the farmers will demand it.,'

The bitter fact concerning that supposedly humorous introduction is that every word of it is true. Benson IS trying to invest some semblance of free enterprise into our agricultural economy, which IS planned economy, that works with its nose thumbed toward the law of supply and demand, and so long as the U.S. treasury will supply the billions, the farmers will demand them. Not a very happy conclusion-but can its truth be questioned?

I get just a bit ill every time I think of permanent subsidies in this once land of the free and home of the brave ! Yet we've got 'em ! Got 'em galore ! That once great American, that stalwart citizen, that sound timber in our democratic life, the farmer, has become a permanent ward of the federal government ! That once proud man is on relief ! Right now battles rage on that subject, yet no one-not one- raises his voice to suggest that subsidies should be temporary. They should be strictly for emergencies, and for no other purpose. The farm subsidies were inaugurated for temporary relief and for no other purpose. But look at them today!

Taken by and large, a subsidy is just an unintelligent e'ffort to evade an issue. Issues should be met-never evaded. For the government to pay part of the cost of a pound of butter, a loaf of bread,, or a sack of potatoes at a time when the consumer is better able to pay the full price than ever before, is just plain silly, indefensible in logic and in equity. Subsidies, when they become chronic, are political axes; bribes,

The last figures I read on the subject say that the federal government today owns two and one-half billion dollars worth of surplus food and other agricultural products, and has an additional two billion dollars loaned against crops that it will most certainly become possessed of. That's four and one-half billions of dollars the taxpayers have put out to keep the price of food high to the housewife, and profitable to the subsidy-getting producer. And in addition it costs several hundred thousands 9f dollars every day for storage and handling. Better read those figures over again. f know you'll enjoy*them.

One of the recently announced aims of President Ike's administration, is a definite change in our agricultural subsidy law. I'mr for'him on that issue. He is trying to do what a good swimmer does when he gets caught in an off-shore ocean rip-tide. If he tries to buck that terrific tide, it will kill him. Often they find good swimmers drowned and dead on the top of the water, because they bucked the tide, and it couldn't be done. But the man who knows how, instead of directly bucking the rip and trying to swim back to shore, swims with the tide, and angles his way toward the edge of the tide, and thence to shore. That, is seems to me, is what President Ike is trying to do right now with this agricultural subsidy problem.

If he tried directly a O""O *rtng billions away to farmers those millions of agriculturalists might well destroy him and his administration. They've "never had it so good," and giving up that easy money is something they would battle hard against. So it is suggested that we retreat a certain distance from this ninety per cent parity plan that has built up those incredible surpluses, and make a bit of a start toward the old law of supply and demand.