The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-10-16
NEW DAY MAY DAWN FOR
FARMERS
BY J. E. Jones

fellow starts dreaming about farm
ing he gets visions of it's becoming
real business, instead of a three
way gamble with weather condi-
tions, market prices, and consump-
ton of farm products.
Yes sir, he sees visions that might
come true if things work out--of a
city banker driving into his garage
riding in motor car body made
from part of farmers soya bean
crop; of trucks and pleasure cars
running on a new high-powered fuel
made in part, at least, out of the
distillation of common farm grains;
of paints made with oils pressed
from products grown on the soil of
good American farms. If the farmer
could add to the present market for
food another market which takes
farm crops and converts them into
industrial products, he could level
out many of the peaks and valleys
in farm prices and stabilize farm
prosperity within living levels.
1t looks as if the farmer might
come into his own in many new ways
when the present war is won First,
if industrial employment can be
kept at reasonably high levels, farm
prices will stay up and farmers will
not have to suffer the bottom-of-
the-gutter price levels of the great
depression. Second, if the big indus
trial companies can be induced, with
the technical encouragement of the
Farm Chemurgic Council, for ex-
ample to pursue further research
into the chemical transformation of
farm crops into industrial products,
a new day is almost certain to dawn
for American farmers.
The immediatee after-the-war-
future of both of these develop
ments, it seems to us is tied up to
just one thing-the amount of re-
serves which American manufac-
turers will have available when the
time comes to shift from war pro-
duction back to the products of
peace. If manufacturers come out
of the war with the cash to do it,
they will make the shift-Over to
peace production with the least pos
sible dislocation of labor and the
shortest possible period of idleness.
This will mean continued purchasing
power for the working man and that
means good times for the farmer.
Reserves of cash also will give them
she needed millions to put into farm
,esearch to develop the new chemi
al uses for farm products.
Fortunately the Senate has before
t now a proposal to compel manu-
acturing corporations to invest
1919 of their war profits in special
recovery Bonds, which bear no in
crest until after the war is won, and
which can not be bought or sold or
used as collateral for loan until
after victory is proclaimed. The
scheme will help to tax the excess
sive profits out of war, it gives the
government the funds right now
when it needs them to prosecute the
war; and it provides that when the
Wal 0POA0AA6 NC0oCO, LAC AAdShaA0S
-urer may sell the Recovery Bonds
and put the money to work imme-
iiately shifting over from war pro-
duction to peace production and to
continue the research which prom
ises to convert troublesome farm
SURPRISES into profitable industrial
products.
Everybody Busy 'Nuff Everywhere
The official figures of employment
throughout the nation are rather
staggering. Everybody working, in
Guiding father! That is largely due
to the fact that every state and near
ly every county has products that
are needed by manufacturers of
clothing, the packers and retailers
of meat, the paper and paperboard
mills; the Gamers of fruits, vege-
tables, meat and fish; the workers
who create furniture, ships, chem
icals, tobacco products, machine
tools, electrical articles, carpets,
rugs, boots, shoes, silverware and
jewelry and all the natural products
of the surface of the earth and
minerals underneath, that are called
for in war production.
It's pretty hard job to fix our
prices and wages. 1t is a hard job
to say what profits manufacturers
will get.
The points of this item is intend
ed to convey to our readers that
there are very few dead spots in this
vast Republic. No wonder it's get
ting out of balance!