The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-04-07
Isl s. TAKING THE RUSSIAN ROUTE!


IsU.S s. TAKING THE RUSSIAN ROUTE?
According to the Soviet newspaper
Pravda, the official organ of the Commun-
list party, in its issue of December 9Th,
1888
Before the war there were III Russia,
100000 horses
100000 cattle
100000 hogs
113,O00,0OO sheep
At the present time there are only,
100000 horses
100000 cattle
100000 hogs
100000 sheep
Is the United States taking the. Russian
route?
Walter Lippman comments on Senator
Borah's appraisal of the agricultural and
industrial policies OF the government in
this paragraph:
mo more pertinent thing has been said, none
that strikes more deeply into the roots of our cur
rent difficulties than Senator Borahs protest
against a policy of destruction, of restraint upon
initiative, upon energy and upon production. The
notion that we are devastated by oyerproductlon
and that the road of prosperity IS to produce less
of everything that has assumed the proportions of
mass delusion. We have the government reduc-
ing agricultural production. We have the NRA
codes tolerating approving all manner of
schemes to produce less manufactured goods, We
have the Administration as a whole, the Congress,
and the American Federation of Labor all pos
sesSed of the idea that the way to remedy unem-
ployment is to keep reducing hours Of work inns
is the economy Of bedlam." . + ,,a,,, az
LippInan calls the governments eco
nomic policies 'fhe economy of bedlam,
which is one of the truest and most stIik-
ing estimates that has been made OF the
program Of the radicals.
In this connection let us examine the adj
vice offered BY DR.. James 6. K. Mcclure
in The Farmers Federation News, to Yves.
tern North Carolina farmers. DR.. Mcclure
probably knows as much about agriculture
and economics as any man connected with
the United States Agricultural Depart
1nent Here are his views on farm pr6duc-
ton:
''The farmers of Western North Carolina must
plan to make every acre count in 1894. There is
no over-production of farm products IN the South
ern Appa1achians. The facts of the case are that
Western North Carolina imports hay, feedstuffs,
grains, flour, canned goods, beef, eggs, butter,
onions beans, potatoes, and other vegetables, and
all these are brought into Western North Carolina
in car loads. There is no overproduction of farm
commodities in Western North Carolina. The only
crop in which it is claimed there is an 0verproduc-
ton in this section is hurley tobacco.
THE farmers of Western North Carolina must
not be msled' by the idea that is now sweeping
the country that prosperity can be brought back
by reducing production. This idea crops up in
every depression. The farmers of Western North
Carolina are not over-producers and the only way
that the farmers of Western North Carolina can
improve their situation is by increasing production
of the things we use in Western North Carolina.
Feedstuffs and foodstufs are brought into Western
North Carolina by the carload and money is shipped
out almost by the carload, to pay for these things.
No people can buy itself rich and each farmer in
Western North Carolina must increase the produc-
ton of his farm in order to improve living condi-
tions in this section. -... ...,
"An EngShman named Hautrey tells that
TO seek rise in prices through general restric
ton of production would be to treat this problem
of poverty in the midst of plenty by eliminating
the plenty instead of the poverty