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Designed For Those it The Top
There's still talk about limiting income
taxes to 25 percent of income. It is indeed
apparent that the plan is being advanced
mostly in behalf of those at the top of our
economic ladder.
All kinds of arguments have been and arc
still being advanced for the limited income
tax take, but not one word has been spoken
in the name of masses. Possibly, the big boys
would get more sympathy if they proposed
to lower sales taxes, excise taxes and the
thousands of other taxes that are paid in
greater proportion by the little folks. But
the cause of the little guy means nothing to
those who would feather their own nests
with a 25 percent income tax limit.
Yes. taxes are high, but it is a lot easier
to understand how one with a large income
can live after paying 50 or 75 percent income
taxes than it is to understand how one with
an inadequate income can live, taxes or no
taxes.
Sti/t/torls ire l ital
News & Observer
After nearly two decades farmers have
coifie to take government price supports for
granted and recently have devoted their en
ergies to denouncing price ceilings without
stopping to think that price supports might
be endangered by that opposition.
The opening of the tobacco season in the
Eastern Carolina Belt this week has shown
that price supports are vital to tobacco far
mers. Opening day prices were below expec
tations and lower than could be justified for
tobacco of average quality. There are, in
deed, indications that higher prices may be
expected from later and better tobacco on
the warehouse floors. v
A' few weeks ago farm leaders were wor
rying about ceilings on tobacco and were us
ing their fears as an excuse for opposing ceil
ings which would have limited beef produc
ers to 125 per cent of parity, a figure that
Representative Harold D. Cooley this week
told the North Carolina Food Dealers the
beef producers ‘‘could not stand.”
Those fears have now evaporated and far
mers would be thankful to be getting ‘‘pari
ty”, w'hich now stands at 56.2 cents a pound.
So far the average has been nearer the sup
port price of 50.7 cents and if there had been
no support the price would have been con
siderably lower. As it is, the government
financed Stabilization Corporation is now
taking 18 percent of the crop at the support
price, which in some instances was as much
as twice the highest bid by any other buyer.
Beef producers may not be able to stand
prices as low as 125 per cent of parity. But
tobacco growers are “standing ’ prices well
below parity and if support prices were tak
en away from them tiny would have to
‘ stand” prices a great deal lower. Growers
attribute the drop in prices from last year
(when the opening day average for higher
quality offerings w as 58 cents as compared
with 52 cents this year) as being largely due
to a 14 per cent yierease in acreage, which
the buyers themselves requested. That in
crease has resulted in a crop estimated at
476 million pounds as compared wdth 422
million last vear. This small increase is only
a fraction ot the increase that would be in
evitable if the controls, upon which supports
are based, should be abandoned.
Yet, it is impossible for any fairminded
person to contend that farmers should be
protected against unjustly low' prices and
that there should not be any protection, even
in wartime, for consumers against unjustly
highprices.
The next time price controls are before
Congress farmers should think upon these
things instead of following blindly leaders
w ho are intent upon eating their cake and
having it, too.
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All Right For Some
All Wrong For Olliers
There is a movement being advanced by
some of the ordinarily conservative group to
increase merchant marine subsidies. Possf
blv the subsidies are in order, but when a
senator in Washington can't understand it
is just as important to raise food as it is to
haul food, lie has no business in or even near -
Washington.
Some of those who are new crying for
merchant marine subsidies have branded as
socialistic every phase of the farm program.
And anyone who says the farm program is
•socialistic and then turns and favors subsi
dies for just about everybody else is just a
tool in the hands of the big boys.
Before more subsidies are voted the mari
time commission, let the big boys explain
away the Debar Steam Line deal.
IT hot Is Cooperation?
By Ruth Taylor
In every time of national crisis or emerg
ency, we are urged to "cooperate”. The word
is used almost as though it were magic, as
if, when by some happy chance we should
achieve a state of cooperation, all our trou
bles would disappear. It really doesn’t need
a national emergency to tell us that. We
know perfectly well that if all groups in this
country, or in the world, would work togeth
er, nine-tenths of our difficulties would dis
appear.
But with the repetition of the word co
operation has come confusion. Each group
wants its opponents to cooperate with it -
only when they say cooperate they generally
mean give in. And each group unfortunate
ly uses as an axcuse for its own shortcom
ings, the statement that the other side won’t
cooperate, forgetting that there must be a
real “give and take” attitude, not merely the
will to take.
Let’s not try to determine where the
blame lies, but get back to the fact of just
what cooperation is. According to the dic
tionary it is “joint action - working togeth
er”.
The Communists don’t think we can do
it. They fear freedom. They believe that a
nation of free men will not cooperate, that
they will pull in a thousand different and
selfish directions at once - and get nowhere.
But they are ignorant of the basic meaning
of cooperation.
Cooperation is a joint action. It means that
all will have to freely and intelligently move
together, like a machine where each part
has its particular function to fulfill, but also
like a machine that is built correctly, so that
each part is capable of taking up its share
of the stress and strain.
Organized Labor knows the value of coop
eration. The gains it has made for all work
ingmen are evidence of the power of coop
eration. The same principles that have made
labor organizations effective need now to be
applied to national affairs. Organized Labor
proved its point by making the organized
workingmen more valuable to Capita! than
the unorganized, and it did this by making
its individual members better equipped for
their work. The emphasis in cooperation
should be not on what the other person has
not done, but upon constructive working to
gether.
By all means let us cooperate - but coop
erate by each doing the full measure of his
share in the work for the common good. Co
operate not in comparison with an other’s
cooperation with you - but to the fullest ex
tent of your own powers. The command is,
as it always has been, “Give and it shall be
given unto you For with the same measure
ye mete withal it shall me measured to you
again.”
Robbery
It has been claimed that large-scale buying
makes for lower prices, But when the mili
tary stepped into the market to buy more
than eleven million pairs of combat boots the
price jumped from $7.82 to $16. Some blame
♦he military for the robber;,, declaring that
the military has an absurd system of buying.
On the other hand, it looks as if the military
was maneuvered into a vulnerable position
and -given a terrific price sock.
Maybe, the whole deal was based on sup
ply and demand, but the demand for profit
seems to have held the commanding position,
making the sale look like armed robbery.
Changes
Electric Light and Power Magazine says
“Electric power has changed farming from
a livelihood into an industry.”
Well, the change there is not yet complete
in this section, but it has been great, to be
sure. An even greater change and one the
magazine says nothing about, was that one
which “invited” electric power from the ur
ban areas to the rural areas. For a long time,
power and light for the farmer were some
thing to be desired but not practical.
Society is no comfort to one not sociable.
—Shakespeare.
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