The Fort Peck press., 1937-01-21

means of reducing artificial barriers
to commerce and reopening the
channels of international trade"
Preservation of the generally
favorable ratio of prices and wage
rates"
Maintenance of prevailing hours
of labor "as the only means OF
meeting the production require
ments involved in restoring dur
ing the next few years the stand
ards of living of the laboring masses
and promoting the economic ad-
vancement of the nation as a
whole
Elimination of private and public
industrial practices (which tend to
restrict output or to prevent the in
crease of productive efficiency"
Shifting of the emphasis in agri-
cultural policy from restricted out
put and rising prices to the abun-
dant furnishings of the supplies of
raw materials and foodstuffs re-
quired by gradually expanding mar
kets."
a LF M. LANDON retired from
\ public office, turning over the
governorship of Kansas to Walter
A. HuXman, a Democrat He let
it be known that he had purchased
two suburban tracts totaling $50
acres west of Topeka and will build
there house of colonial type where
he and Mrs. Landon and their chill
dren will reside. Until the place
is completed they will make their
home with Mrs. Landon's mother,
Mrs. S. E. Cobb, in Topeka.
CUGAR professors are making
y "unduly high profits, accord
ing to Secretary of Agriculture
Henry A. Wallace, and so he pro-
poses a tax of $40 to $50 a ton on
all sugar processed in the United
States. This, he says, will be sug-
gested to congress. Mr. Wallace
says the profits are from 10 to u
per cent and he estimates that the
tax would yield approximately S70,-
600, 900 year. Of this about $13,-
900, 600 would go to producers in
benefit payments.
The secretary believes the sugar
professors have been "uniustly en-
riched' under the quota system
which rations imports and is sup
posed to maintain the domestic
price against foreign competition.
y RECOMMENDATIONS for legis-
- latlVe action during the pres |
ent session of congress have been |
presented to the President and con-
greSS by the executive committee
of the American Farm Bureau fed
GRAFTON. The program involves the
ever-normal granary, commodity
loans, adjustment of production
to effective demand, soil conserva-
ton, the Strengthening of market
ing agreements, postponement of
state administration of the soil con-
servation and domestic allotment
act until 1910, and permanent"
revenue policy to meet the cost
of these measures.
T 7 NCLE SAM has begun storing
" his gold in the bomb-proof de-
pository built at Fort Knox, Ken
lucky. The first train, heavily
guarded, carried about 5000, ,000,-
300 of the precious metal from the
mint and it was re-
ceived by the motorized Seventh
cavalry and put in the great vaults.
The gold was forwarded by the
Post Office department as parcel
post and the treasury will have
o pay the postage.
4 ENCOURAGEMENT is made by
the United States Maritime
that it will dispose of
our shipping lines by June 20 next.
they now operate 36 vessels in di-
ect competition with private Amer
can shipping.
The lines and the routes they
erve are: Cosmopolitan Shipping
Inc, operating the Amer
can France line serving French
orts; the Southg Nelsin Corpo- |
alton operating the American
hampton Roads-Y Yankee and Ori- |,
lie lines serving Germany and the
Tnited Kingdom; the Roosevelt
teamship Company, Inc, operat- II
lg the American pioneer line servA Is
lg Australia, India and the far
asst, and c. H. Sprague & Son, Inc,
perating the American Republics
ne serving the east coast of South
merica. q