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WHY?
A modern dairy farm is au expensive establishment,
A typical one in New York state, for example, involves
an average investment of from $11,000 to $12,000, ac
cording to the New York State College of Agriculture.
Probably this would be typical for practically any other
section of the country. To operate a business of this
size requires more than a knowledge of farming. It re
quires a thorough knowledge of technical problems of
marketing. That is why modern farmers relv more and
more on their marketing cooperatives.
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"DELEGATION RUNNING RIOT"
The Brookings Institution recently published a pam
phlet called "Government and Economic Life," by Lev
erett S. Lyon and Victor Abramsori. In its conclusion,
it says: "To the degree that we make the responsibili
ties of government more complicated and extensive,
those who believe in democracy will do well to remem
ber that in government, quite as readily as in private
administration, there can be, in Justice Cardoza's words,
'delegation running riot'; and that the 'curse of big
ness,' of which Justice Brandeis has written so bril
liantly, can blight an industrial empire under the con
trol of government as effectively as it can one under tin
management of private citizens."
There, in a sentence, is the great issue that this coun
try faces now. In our efforts to cure the scattered
abuses of private enteiprise, are we to accept the infi
nitely greater abuses that, always come from government
grown too great? In our zeal to make ourselves secure
against alien dictatorship, are we unknowingly to per
mit the establishment of a domestic brand of dictator
ship which will destroy us, as a democracy !
GET FIRE ON THE RUN
Here's a date to mark on your calendar ? October
6 to 12.
During that period, Fire Prevention Week will be ob
served this year. And that Week isn't something to
idly notice, then forget. Fire Prevention Week is car
ried on for you ? and for all the other people of this
country. It is carried on for your business, and every
other man's business. It marks an intensive effort to
awaken the American people to the terrible waste fire
leaves behind it-r-and to show how fire may be conquered.
Fire Prevention Week is far more than usually im
portant this year. Today, largely due to the rearma
ment drive, industrial production is on the upward
curve, and is slated to go rapidly higher as the drive
gains impetus. And the record shows that the danger
of fire increases as production increases. That means
that fire, if njot controlled, can be a very real danger to
our defense plans. It takes an intricate industrial ma
chine to make the weapons we need today ? all the agen
cies of manufacture, transportation and assembly must
work with the precision of pistqns. One bad fire in one
key factory might delay for months the production of
weapons we sorely lack.
On top of that, special precautions must be taken
against the arsonist and the saboteur ? as our experience
in other times of crisis grimly proves. Authorities ex
pect efforts to sabotage the defense program ? and fire
is always regarded as a handy weapon by the purpose
ful destroyer.
Fire Prevention Week should be observed by all of
us--*by every man and -woman able to read and listen
and learn. This is one place where all, old and young,
can be of great aid to the national defense program.
Do your part! ' ?+ \ . . ~ ..
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BEFORE INDUSTRY CAN PRODUCE
When the American industrial and business machine
begins to roll on a mass production basis on behalf of
national defense, few doubt that it will show the world
something new in military mechanical might. Tanks,
airplanes, cannon, armaments of all kinds and varieties,
will come off the assembly lines faster than men can be
trained to operate them.
However, there are stumbling blocks in the path of
industry and business today that did not exist during
World War I. They are not problems of invention and
production technique which can be grappled with in
laboratory and office. They are the result of too much
law-making. Industry and business is wrapped in red
tape as never before. Virtually every operation falls
under the alert surveillance of some commission, com
mittee or tax bureau. Whole departments, costly in the
extreme, are maintained by every sizable enterprise
solely to compile data required by nation and ^ local
.units of government. This is a dangerous condition.
Industiy and business is proceeding with national de
fense, however, in spite of artificial handicaps. Man
agements are going ahead with expansion plana running
into tens of millions of dollars. In return they are ask
ing cooperation from govern to the extent of writing off
inevitable losses agaimt taxes in the event that plant
expansion programs are "unsupported by armament
demands.
Every step that can be taken to protect and encour
age industry and business during this critical period
should be taken. Punitive political attack for the sake
of votes should cease. Bankrupt industries are of no
benefit to labor, the public or anyone else. Unproduc
tive industries, crippled by too much red tape, can be
disastrous at a time when the National Guard is train
ing with "gaspipe" cannon.
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SCIENTIFIC SHOPPING
The alert housewife can do a great deal toward mak
ing budget dollars stretch ? and toward keeping mer
chants 011 their toes in trying to out-serve each other. 1
A recent issue of Consumers' Guide, a publication of
the Department of Agriculture, offers the housewife some
excellent shopping advice. It is certainly simple and
obvious. Here are a few of the suggestions:
1. Plan before you market? check supplies in your
larder and left-overs in your refrigerator,
2. Shop around and compare prices ? watch the
newspaper for specials. *?
3. Always buy by grade whenever possible. Grades
are your guarantee of the quality you want and are
paying for.
4. Be sure that the scales in any store you patronize
carry the seal that shows they have been inspected and
approved by your weights and measures official.
5. Look for the net weight on packaged foods. Com
pare the cost per ounce of different brands and contain
ers to determine which is the better buy. Be on your
guard against off-sized packages.
6. Take home the trimmings. Scraps trimmed from
your meat purchase can be profitably used in various
ways.
A buying public which makess its marketing tours with
its eyes open, and with the basic knowledge that en
ables it to buy to the best advantage, can be easily ex
ploited, Scientific shopping helps stimulate competi
tion between all kinds of stores-^chain and independ
ent, variety stores, super-markets and all the rest ? to
the end that the housewife gets more for her money.
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Latest polls indicate that this, as forecast, may be
one of the closest elections in a long time ? margin be
tween Roosevelt and Willkie in big key states is only
tine to five per cent. Yet there will not be much activity
for another month ? both sides a^e afraid of bringing
their drives to a climax too early, thus paving the way
for a let-down tlifrt iflight lose them legions of on-the
fence voters.
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