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SUBSIDY PAYMENT MOST
BE PAID BY TAXPAYERS
THOSE OF US who are not on
the receiving end, and most of us
are in that class, may feel the pay
ment of subsidies by the federal
government does not concern us.
But each individual of us is con
cerned. We do the paying.
The subsidy payments any
one may receive comes out of
our pockets. The tsxes, direct
and indirect, that we pay is the
government's only source of
revenue. For each million dol
lars in subsidies paid by the fed
eral government, there must
be a million dollars in taxes col
lected from as regardless of who
receives the subsidy payments.
An effort was made to pay the
producers of lumber a subsidy, both
to make meeting the cost of produc
tion possible, and to hold the price
of lumber for the consumer down
to the OPA ceiling.
With such a subsidy in effect Jones
finds it possible to build that new
home he wants. He can get the
lumber, and he can get it at that
reasonable OPA ceiling price.
A neighbor. Brown, lives in a
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to build, but cannot finance such
a project. Brown, both directly
and indirectly, pays taxes to
the federal government. Some
portion of the taxes collected
from him is used to pay the sub
sidy on the lumber used In the
Jones home. Brown may feel
that he has no Interest In the
subject of government paid sub
sidies, but he has. It is through
such a system that he pays a
part of the construction cost of
the Jones home.
Both the lumber mill owner and
Jones would be on the receiving
end of a subsidy on lumber. To the
mill owner it would make no differ
ence whether his cost of production
came from a government subsidy,
or from an increased price to Jones
for the lumber he needs. To Jones
a subsidy meant not only the op
portunity to secure the desired lum
ber, but to secure it at a lower
price. Jones profited, the mill own
er did not lose, but how about
Brown? If he stops to think about
his place in the subsidy racket, be
will not approve.
In the operation of the vari
ous subsidies congress, or the
executive department, have
foisted upon us, most of us are
Browns. We pay bat do not re
eeive. Wonder If President Tru
man thought of that when he
nrged a subsidy on lumber, or
possibly he wanted to build a
house. A majority of the mem
bers of the house of representa
tires were Browns.
INFLATION COSTS HAVE
MOUNTED STEADILY
THE INTRICACIES of economics
and the higher mathematics need
ed to follow economic trends, are
beyond my depth. I can, however,
read and understand such facts as
those presented by O. J. Arnold,
president of Northwestern National
Life Insurance company at Minne
apolis. From that statement I get
the information that during the five
years, 1940 to 1945, the inflationary
price we have paid for commodi
ties has cost American families, as
an average, $2,530. To that will be
added for 1946 another $830.
The basis of the inflation that
has been so expensive is too much
circulating currency and credit. The
cause for such a condition is large
ly the 66,300 million dollars of fed
eral borrowings from the banks.
The banks turned much of that cred
it into circulating currency, and
from it we have inflation. From that
inflation we have labor troubles,
higher wages, again higher prices
and more inflation. It is all a vicious
circle which the government is sup
posed to control, but has not en-,
?rely succeeded.
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r THE FARMER wonld prefer to
; receive all of the price of Ms
product directly ratner than nave
a portion of it come to him in
directly in the form of a sub
sidy. In either case, the con
sumer pays, bat the subsidy is
covered up, and all consumers
do not realize they are paying
It. All subsidies must come from
the pockets of the taxpayers,
and we are all taxpayers. Polit
ical honesty would permit thi
direct price raise, and cut out
the subsidies. The fanner would
prefer tt that way.
NO MATTER WHAT it may be
called, the English-speaking people
I do stick together. Blood is thicker
than water, though we may fight
among ourselves.
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SOME YEARS AGO. A wealthy
citizen of Omaha, whose hobby had
been raising orchids, offered his
collection to the city. He did not
combine with that a fund for main
taining the collection. The city
fathers considered the cost at up
keep and said "no." We need some
of that same careful consideration
of up-keep at Washington. It is easy
to establish new bureaus, but ex
pensive to keep them going.
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Adjournment of Congress
Will Give Breathing Spell
WITH the Easter recess out of
the way, as things are shap
ing up now, congress may adjourn
about August 1 to give its members
a chance to build their political
fences for the November elections.
All representatives and a third of
the senators must face the voters
this fall.
It may be a good thing, for with
congress in recess until after the
first of the year, the nation can get
down to work for real production
without the disturbing influences of
proposed legislation in the imme
diate offing.
Furthermore, everything congress
has tackled this year has been ap
proached from the political angle.
The members have been loath to
take a stand on any controversial
snbject which might change a
vote one way or another. As a re
sult, the administration program
has been hamstrung . . . continu
ation of social reforms has been de- ;
dnwspdio Uviclniinn hat !
been pigeonholed, made innocuous
or jnst held In committees without
action.
Between now and August 1 impor
tant things may be expected to hap
pen. President Truman's popularity,
at bottom as he finished his first
year in office, will be on the up
grade from now on. Increased
production of consumer goods, hold
ing the line on inflation, relax
ing of price controls from time to
time as scarcity of goods eases, con
tinued heavy demand for farm prod
ucts at good prices, "and a generally '
satisfying foreign policy, all will
tend to make foa greater good feel
ing toward the President. The low
point was reached during the senate
hearing on the Pauley nomination.
Little Drastic Legislation
Congress will extend the draft with
curtailments on age limits, no fath
ers, increased pay and shorter serv
ice; the veterans housing bill may
become law, with some subsidy in
cluded, and price ceilings on new
homes, probably not on existing
homes; the Presidents peacetime
military training bill likely will not
be enacted this year. There is every
likelihood, despite the President's
demand and his castigation of navy
lobbying, that the army-navy merg
er will not be voted, at least until
alter congress reconvenes. In spite
of opposition ol the farm organiza
tions, food subsidies may be ex
tended until January 1st; OPA will
be continued but with great trim
ming of its power. The Pace bill
making farm labor a part of the
parity price likely will not get
through the senate although it has
been passed twice by the house. The
minimum wage bill, meaningless in
its present form with the Russell
parity amendment, will be vetoed,
is announced by the President.
Another fair employment
practices bin, beaten in the
senate by a southern filibuster,
likely wUl come np in the honse
but win not get far. Amend
ments to the social security
laws may not be considered and
neither wiU various health
measures, such as a compul
sory tax for doctors and hospital
bills. There may be some addi
tional appropriations for pubUe
health and hospitals in federal
grants to be matched by the
states. The fifty minion dollar
school lunch bill passed by the
house likely will be upped in the
senate to provide more money,
up to a hundred million.
The power lobby has effectively
bottled up the various regional au
; thority bUls for the Missouri valley,
the Columbia river valley and oth
ers, and in all probability there will
be no vote on any of these meas
| ures this year.
Will Approve British Loan
Our guess is that the British loan
will be given congressional approv
al after some of the opposition con
gressmen get their spleen on th?
question out of their systems.
1 And there's another important
measure, one which the President
has several times pointed to, anc
that's the matter of Presidential
succession. President Truman i!
planning a trip to the Philippines or
July 4 ... he is planning othei
forays about the country, but he ap
pears to be a healthy individual, sc
the congress will probably le'
action on this legislation slide also
in spite of the uncertainty whict
now exists over legal succession h
the Presidency.
i There is a rash of labor reforn
bills and some in mild form stan<
some chance of passage. But mos
assuredly there will be no drastk
anti-labor legislation before the elec
tions in November. That would in
deed be fool-hardy from a politics
standpoint.
In the meantime there are rumor
1 around Washington that Sec. Clin
' ton Anderson will resign his }ob m
bead of USDA. From all the infor
mation, however, that your Horn
Towa Reporter can obtain, the sec
retary will not resign, although h
' probably does feel like it."
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THE present year may not be the
golden age of sport as far as out
standing ability goes. I can see little
chance that it will produce master
pieces even ciose
to Babe Ruth, Jack
Dempsey, Bobby
7 ones, Tommy
iitchcock, Rogers
rlomsby, Bill Til
len, Red Grange
ind Man o' War.
(Jot to overlook
Earl Sande.
But the year on
ihead will outcla<"-g
the postwar perio .
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conflict when itj
:omes to the matter of attendance
and the actual amount of gold or
Its equivalent taken in at the turn
itiles.
This 1940 season will make all
other past years look like the tag
end of a depression so far as
crowds and cash are concerned. The
recent basketball season flattened
all past attendance records. We
have had over 50,000 people clam
oring to pay $20 a seat for a non
title fight, meaning Graxiano and
Servo.
California and Florida race tracks
nave left the past far behind in this
same respect. Two Alabama foot
ball squads, made up from Ala
bama players, recently fought it out
before 25,000 spectators in Birming
ham. Racing at Jamaica has al
reniiv token Inn0 leans bevond last
year's earlier marks.
The super-brilliant stars who fol
lowed the last world war may be
missing, but there are still enough
good ones to keep the human mass
rolling in the general direction of
the next show, whatever game it
might happen to be.
Only Warming Up
But these matters are only in the
warm-up division. The real harvest
from the golden crop is still on
beyond us.
Baseball expects to shatter all
past crowd records by a wide mar
gin. The Yankees hope to play be
fore something approximating two
million at home. The Dodgers would
be right alongside if there was only
enough parking room for the human
frame. The Giants won't be far
away if their ball club holds up.
The 450 million dollar bet at New
York tracks last season is likely to
reach or pass 550 million dollars
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mis year, we nave seen cruwueu
Derby and Preakness years before,
but nothing to what this next May
will offer in these two better than
100 thousand dollar tests. The
Yankee stadium hasn't the attend
ance space to equal the crowds that
saw the two Tunney - Dempsey
shows, but the Louis-Conn meeting
will outdraw both financially in the
way of extra carloads of cash. They
are already talking about Grazi
ano being involved in a million dol
lar gate and the rock-fisted entry
hasn't even a title.
The United States Golf associ
ation is dead sure that the open
at Canterbury, Cleveland, in June
and the amateur at Baltusrol in
September will run up far higher
figures than either has ever drawn
in the past. The crowds who want
to see a contest have already far
outgrown the limited spaces through
spring and summer and fall.
On a recent tour of the southeast
we were often asked how long the
money wonld hold oat. Apparently
It Is going to hold out for at least
another year. No one can say yet
In Jnst what fighting shape either
Louis or Conn will be, but the rush
to contribute at least three million
dollars is still nnder way with the
contest coming late in June.
Apparently it isn't the entry list
but the game that is drawing them
out. As far as one can see neither
the Derby nor the Preakness nor
; the Belmont has any Count Fleet
or any Whirlaway or Alsab run
ning. No outstanding star has yet
shown for these events, but this
won't affect the size of the populace
i on hand.
Baseball eomes nearer approach
ing mc orsi guiarn age in playing
> class. For baseball still has the Car
dinals, DiMaggio, Ted Williams,
Bob Feller and man; others with a
high standard of excellence, includ
ing Newhouser and Wafcefleld of
the Tigers.
Some one recently asked how
large the crowds would be if Ruth,
Dempsey, Jones, Tildeti, Hornsby,
were back in their prime. The
answer is they couldn't be any
larger for the simple reason there
isn't any more room. Today they'll
rush to see anything at any price.
Apparently everything is worth $50
?except $50.
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Genius in Sports
What is this "know-how," this
genius or instinct for superlative
play in sport? Ty Cobb's father was
a Georgia Judge who had no particu
lar interest in any game. Ty Cobb's
children had no interest in baseball.
Yet Bill Tilden once told me that
young Ty Cobb might have been a
. tennis champion.
| Old man DiMaggio never had the
slightest Idea at what baseball
Imeant. Yet^he^oduced Joe, Dom
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