The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-10-03
GOVERNMENT EFFORTS TO RESTORE
PROSPERITY

Lasting improvement in business and
normal prosperity will come in this coun-
try from Opportunities offered by private
q capital and business and industry" and
not from the "bounties and bonuses of gov
ernmental favor and charity according
to the views of the Charlotte Observer OF
fered in an editorial of this date. The OF
server discusses the government program
to decrease the supply of hogs in the coun-
trv and the disposition which is to be made
of the pork product, in the following para
graphs:
North Carolina is soon to receive from the FED
eral government more than 100000 pounds of pork
to give away to the needy and destitute during the
winter, Orders issued by Mrs. O'Berry, furnished
her by the National Relief Department. are to the
effect that this meat is to be additional to, and not
in lieu of, what grocery orders are now being as
pensed containing meat alotments. 1t is to be
over and above everything else that has been count
ed normal supply of rations apportioned for re-
lief purposes
Here is phenomenon, in the presence of which
there is not much to be done except to speculate
@ in wonderment Certainly, if the government is
has also. acted properly and judciously in turning
over this vast supply to the relief administration
in Washington for use this winter in its field OF
service.
The anomaly, however, of the issue remains
clear. This meat was not primarily secured for this
purpose. 1t was made available only because IN
the minds of the leaders of the agricultural de,
partment in Washington, multiplied tons of this
Ill h OH off ha order
enable producers to get out from under the burden
of a sagging and distressed market
That was the original and fundamental reason
for its availability and turn this surplus to some
such good account as utilizing it for supplying the
mouths of the hungry of America was, obviously
a far more sensible course than to have dumped
it into the river.
But how long and to what further extent car
this brand of economics be followed in America?
Is the time speedily to come or is it indefinitely
out in the future when normal consumption de-
mands for this product and for all others of which
there is such a distressingly large surplus will be
proportional to the production?
These are inquiries that press for consideration
and for an answer. The sane balance must even
tually be restored between the sources of produc-
ton and: the sources of consumption-not only
with meat, but with wheat, with cotton, with to-
bacco with every commodity of which there is noa
a surplusage.
The administration is wisely trying to expert
ment in new devations from the old grooves OF
economic philosophy. 1t may succeed or it may
not, but at best whatever its accomplishments, only
temporary virtue will attach to them.
Prosperity and balanced business and profitable
production will come to stay only when that con
dition of social and economic life is returned by
which hungry mouths disappear not by the boun
ties and bonuses of governmental favor and char
ity but when able-bodied men and women can carr
their bread by the sweat of their brow; not from
the artificial jobs created by government, but b!
opportunities offered by private capital and bust
ness and industry.