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President Woodrow Wilson said: "When I hear Americans begging to be assisted by the Government, I wonder where they were born? I wonder how long they have breathed the free air of America? I wonder where their papers of spiritual naturalization are?"

Dr. Edwin Nourse, one of America's most respected economists, warns: "Monetary and fiscal tricks have no power of magic, but are "*"ttln.ft road to misery."

Chief Justice Nelson Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court said: "Whenever in history the freedom of any people has been reduced, the next step in the progress of absolutism and decay has been to make them dependents on Government favor, and the public treisury. Bounties and subsidies are the convenient and insidious instruments of absolute power. They have no place in the government of afreepeople."

General Ike Eisenhower said: "Very firmly I believe that the great army of persons who urge greater add greater dependence upon the federal treasury are really more dangerous to our form of government than any external threat that can possibly be arralred*against us."

The last quotation is from a letter written by the then General, early in 1949 to a member of Congress, which came as something of a bombshell to the "let the government do it" gang in Washington. It was quoted in this column on July 15, 1949. In this same column on March l, 1951, we quoted the General as saying in public utterances of recent date that he "deplored rewards without effort in our present way of life," and thought "harvests without planting are all wrong."

Naturally a lot of the small fry in Congress rose up on their hind legs and assaulted Ike for speaking his honest opinion in favor of free enterprise. From the way the jackasses went to nibbling at him you would have thought he was a bale of hay. All of which had no effect on him, and his former utterances showed plainly that the something-for-nothing formula would have hard sledding if he came to ponrer. Well, he came ! ***

We know, of course, that everyone has not been in agreement with the opinions concerning socialistic matters with the four splendid authorities quoted above. Early in the thirties the late demented New Ded came along, and sub. sidies and bounties and grants-in-aid from federal government to American citizens became as popuLar and pro- miscuous in America as pig tracks around an East Texas schoolhouse. Old John Enterpriser, who had been in cbarge of our affairs for more than a hundred years, went out thc window, and with him went that "silly old sornout philosophy of supply and demand." And in his place came Sam Subsidy, and Bill Bounty, and Gimme Gimme, who did everything different from the way it had dways been done, and had billions of government Eoney with which to finance their ventures into*"1"?c wondcrl,and.

They killed little pigs and paid cash for them, in a world that was hungry; they plowed under food and clothing crops, and paid cash for them; they paid freeborn and previously sane American citizens NOT to raise cropo on tteir l'ands. Almost everything they did reflected against our national sanity and infringed*or*o* nationd solvcncy.

Weird philosophies reared ttreir heads. The political drugstores were filled with strange panaceas, promising to drag prosperity back by the horns. The logic for all these strange nostrums was explained to this writer many times by many of the queer doctors. The troublc was nobody ever came along who *"1U :*Ofa the cxpl,anations.

As a shining exa'nple of what went on in ttose days, there came a suggestion from the higher-ups in tte Agdculture Department that will still be a record as long as the world lasts. It was suggested ttat, sincc work aninals on the farms were scarce, the Government should supply the farmers with mare mules ttat were in foal, thus giving the tillers of the soil both the work animals and their increment. ***

How red some faces must havc becn when practical farmers explained to them tbat mare mules are not productivc of their kind; that they are, in fact, without pride of ancestry, and without hope of postcrity. Things havcnt been that bad since ttrose strange days, but up to now old John Enterpriser has never bcen allowcd to takc chargc of things in our agriculturd operations. Legalized subeidies assumed the odor of sanctity, and there still prevails tte opinion that unless we put cash crutchcs under our farmers they will fall down and go boorn, and the rest of us will go withthem'

From the days of Hcnry Wdlace ttrough those of "Baldy" Brannan, thc "something-for-nothing" nostrum to cure our agriculturd ills and furnish the farmcr with Cadillacs, has been as contagious as the spirit of holiness at a religious revival. And the fact-finder who has dared to point out the inadequacy of thc nostnnnq eycn thougb hc acted without partisan prejudice, often became the geographical center'of a cyclone of elderly verbal eggs and a tornado of aged tomatoes..F ,r *

For twenty consecutive years beginning with 1933, a basic and constant struggle has been going on between the backers of a planned economy and the something-for-nothing formula on one side, and the free enterprise system on the other. We have heard innumerable planners sound off with assumed wisdom on the subject of capital, labor, and business, many of whom never had any capital, never performed any labor, and never transacted any business. Yet, because of the insidious lure of something-for-nothing, the planners have stayed tali in the saddle; and old Supplyand-Demand has had to stay hidden out, waiting for his emanciPation daY' ,< * ,(

For many years the'principal recipient of the subsidies and bounties of his fellow Americans, has been the farmer. We read in Proverbs in the Good Book: "FIe that tilleth his land shall be satisfied with bread, but he that followeth vain persons shall be void of understanding." Which philosophy might have been all right in Bible days, but it doesn't go now. The rule that all our citizens must join together and pay additional taxes in order to guarantee prices and profits to the tillers of the soil, has been going on so long now that most*folks have quit asking why?

Part of the income taxes we pay goes to supply the cash for subsidies; and then we go into the store to buy food and pay the subsidies all over again in the shape of high prices created by government supports. And then if governmentaccumulated food spoils, as so much of it has, or is practically given away just to get rid of it, the consumer is taxed once again to make up the loss. At least twice and often three times every American taxpayer pays for the government-provided subsidies for farmers.

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"On what food hath they fed this Caesar that he hath grown so great?" So asks Mr. Shakespeare; first name William. It's easy to answer that one. They have fed him on subsidies, on profits that were never earned, and food crops that were sold to that generous old relative, IJncle Sam, but denied to Mr. John American, who would sure like to grease his lips with some of the unheard-of mountain of butter this Government now owns.

Food scandals based on subsidies of various kinds have mofe in a steady parade for twenty years. One of the biggest and most shocking ones concernd lrctatoes, purchascd in vast quantities from the farmer just to line his pockets and keep high the price of potatoes; but denied as food to a hungry world; all to help the farmer. Right now, it's butter. Our Constitution declares that dl men are created equal; but in the last two decades we have added this line: except farmers. Citizens of other prcrsuasions have cried aloud countless times those words of Scripture-"Am I my brother's keeper?" And the answer withheld until the last two decades, has Fnally come: "If he is a farmer, you sure are !"

Of course, it's legal. Years ago, Congress decided that the farmer must become a government ward, and be government protected. To make certain that fariners would get high prices for their products, they enacted a price support program. This program works in two ways, one the outright purchase of surpluses, the second through a loan program. Under the latter the farmer takes a government "loan"-ion't laugh, Mr. Taxpayer! What have you got to laugh at? The loan is on certain crops, such as wheat or corn. If the market rises higher than the loan price, the farmer sells his product, pays off the loan, and keeps the profit. If it drops and the loan is called, he simply lets the government take it over.

As a result of these J" :J" of support for farmers, the government now owns almost all the butter in the country, together with shocking quantities of other farm products. It owns about one hundred million pounds of butter, and vast amounts of other eatables such as han, bacon, turkeys, cheese; it owns corn, and cotton and wheat in vast quantities, also. Recent estimates indicate that the government today has investments and commitments for farm products running at least to one billion dollars, and maYbetwo' * * *

And today the press of the nation is well headlined with the vital question: "What are we going to do about it?" We have some rays of light, we taxpayers. Judging from his remarks and writings before becoming President, there is every reason to believe that Ike is "agin" a lot of this stuff. And now, we have a new Secretary of Agriculture named Ezra Benson who is struggling with one of the

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FoR A BETTER AMERTcA! \$l/ sv pport tu ni or lchievemEnf' biggest economic jobs in history; how to get this something-for-nothing monstrosity moving back toward economic sanity. He frankly thinks the system is bad. He thinks the butter makers have priced themselves out of the market, priced a lot of substitutes into the market, and priced the American taxpayer in general and the American housewife in particular, into a hell of a mess. Same is true of other commodities, such as wool, cotton and others. ***

If you are not a farmer nor one who carries a torch for the farmers of the nation, you will probably ask and continue to ask what part of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, or the Ten Commandments put the farmers into one economic basket, and the rest of the nation into another? You will want to know the why of a lot of these things' well anyway, we .r. il .li" iron control swamp right up to our armpits. And that's only one of the tough ones that President Ike is working to unravel. He has made a swell start at the biggest unraveling, unsnarling, and untangling operation since Hercules tackled thc stablc with the hard-to-spell na'ne. We have lived under a scries of emergencies for twenty years, and now we are starting to emerge from the emergencies. Pray let it be soon !

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The fact is that nations, like individuals, get into jams a step at a time. This nation is definitely in a jam with regard to price controls of farm products. ft never dreamed in the beginning of the farm subsidy business that the present mess could ever happen. A subsidy is an emergency; or at least it was always supposed to be until now.

The asylums are filled ini ttl" who could figure out a better pl'an for handling our agricultural problem than the one that got us into this jam. But it will take the smartest brains in the nation to figure how to get us out.

Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Golf Toumamcnt M.y 15 at Hacienda Country Club

On Friday, I\{ay 15, 1953, members of Los Angeles HooHoo Club No. 2 will hold their monthly meeting at the Hacienda Countrv Club, La Habra, California. A golf tournament is scheduled by host Dee Esslev and tee off time starting at 10:59 a.m. has been arranged s'ith the club manager. The evening entertainment rvill get underrvav promptlv at 609 p.m. and dinner rvill be served at 7:09 p.m. sharp.

Dee Esslel', Jim Forgie and Harvey Koll have completed the arrangernents for the event and Snark Don Bufkin has set the menu and program for the evening entertainment.

Hacienda Countrv CIub is located east of \\'hittier. north of La Habra. off of U. S. Highrvav lol and nrernbers are to look for the highrvay marking after thev pass through East \\/hittier for direction to the club proper. Reservations must be made by calling Margaret Gimmel. DUnkirk 2-7912, so that Dee 'rvill be able to inform the club chef just hon' manv are expected for the sn'ell feast he has prepared.