Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-11
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BY Congressman John Phillips


a little of this and a little of
that:
We should not confuse the prob
lens of food prices and food sup
plies. High prices for farm prod
ucts, or even the assurance of the
cost of production to the farmer
will not in themselves grow food
stuffs. We have a habit in this
nation of Jranslating our problems
into money equivalents; we seem
70 think that money will win a
war, or money will protect OH
freedoms, or money will solve the
food shortages The thing we must
realize about the latter now is that
there will be shortages, due to con-
ditions and to regulations that are
now in the immediate past. The
thing to do is to get our coats off,
and in a hurry, if the nation Is
no. going hungry.
CONGRESS- ATTENDANCE
Low
"AbSenteeism" in the lncls+" &c
is not the only place where that
is causing trouble. A Washington
paper reports considerable worry
among majority party leaders be-
cause of poor attendance at sessions
of Congress. On an appropriation
bill last week the paper reported
an average attendance of 35 on
that side OF the House, compared
to more than a hundred on the mi
nority side There is something
stirring on the Hill
In ten years the Congress of the
United States has passed 1900
laws. In the same ten years there
has been 1865 executive orders, each
ere having the effect Of law This
is interesting for two reasons, first,
to show how great the trend has
been towards government by regu-
latiOn, and second. to compare the
number Of laws passed by Congress
with the number passed by any
state legislature The California
legislature passed, in the same time,
5l63 laws.
With fish in the ocean, from
which meal can be made, and the
urgent demands for meal for cat
tie and poultry feeds, California
should extend its fishing laws un-
der the emergency. The fish are
plentiful this year; feed is simply
on-eXistent. One car of fish meal
made on the coast saves how many
cars from cross country travel?
This is, if we had the cars, AND
if other meal were available The
Commodities Credit Corporation
committed itself to furnish soy
bean meal. L doesn't do US anv
good now to criticize the C.C.C. 1t
may relieve Our feelings, hut it
doesn't feed the cattle and the
chickens. There are 80 thousand
bales Of cotton. still on the stalks,
standing in the cotton fields Of Cal
ifornia. COttonseel oil will save
poultry and feed cattle Get it off,
and get the fish.
Don't wait for someone in an ad-
ministrative agency in Washington
n save Is; the war will be over by
then, and we may not have won il,
we wait for these agencies TO win
it for US The price of liberty is
SpOnSibility. We're all in the same
boat; whether Congress passed its
authority and responsibility over
TO the administrative department;
or whether the people were disin-
terested; or whether some agencies
grabbed more power than it was
intended for them to have; all that
means nothing now. Do you re-
member the Potash and Perlmutter
stories? What was it Abe used to
say? when the milk is spoilt, it
makes no difference who left the
refrigerator door open, MaWruss. 3"
Practically every language has in
/ it the proverb: God helps those
who help themselves. The Span
ish put it little more realistically,
IF man folds his arms, God will go
to sleep"