The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1943-12-31
ECHOES OF AN OLD WAR
NV II n. Homes

washington, D. c., December 81
Congress seems perfectly agreeable
to the idea of providing machinery
so that the armed forces may cast
their votes in the 1914 election. The
New Deal Democrats want the Fed
eral Government to conduct the cleo
ton and Southern Democrats want
the job done through State Govern
ments. Senators from New England,
the Midwest and Western States.
including Democrats and Republicans
defeated an Administrator bill to
erect Federal machinery for the poll
on the grounds that it was unconsti-
tutional
Thus the echoes of the Civil War
are heard among the lawmakers, and
here has been so much bitterness
that one Democratic Senator has
served notice on his colleagues thai
if the Southern Democrats choose
to do SO, they can form separate
political group and throw the 1914
Presidential election into the House
and swing the balance of power-a
la the Hayes-Tilden contest, in which
there was only one vote difference
in the electoral college. That was the
way Hayes was elected.
sss IS
Who Dunit?
Able New Deal and labor union
speakers and writer's. who man the
two best oiled and most powerful
propaganda machines in the nation.
are today busily trying to put the
food producers of this country on the
imitation hot-spot.
Both groups of propagandists, by
the use of repetition of catch phrases
and specious reasoning, and adroi
buck-passing, are trying to persuade
the people that rising living costs are
being forced upon us by food produc
er demands They insist that these
demands make subsidies mandator!
as the only way to make imitation i'm
possible.
Their arguments are thin eye
wash. Higher food prices have beer
caused, not by producer demands
but by the tens of billions of extra
dollars which are burning holes in
the pockets of war workers combin
ed with restricted production caused
by confusing directives issued by
bungling theorists.
Food prices could and would bt
held in check if the Theoretical
Washington pretzel-benders woult
tear up and throw away all of theil
conflicting and senseless regulations
and thus enable the nations fool
producers to do the job they alon
know how to do. Food prices droI
when there is aplentiful supply o.
the things people eat. They rise when
the supply is scarce.
Closely related to this situation
also are the billions of dollars o.
Wild money loose in the nation
This wild money is largely in the
pockets of war workers. It got there
through the Unsuitable demands OF
union labor leaders, with whom the
.abor government in Washingto II
WOTh uduu-lA-udA0. AuS AoUOi AOUu-
ers and Washington officials "dunit, {"
not the food producers.
These groups, having already made
gigantic and tragic mistake now
try to place the blame on the limo
cent food producers. Instead Of ad-
hitting their mistake they now AFRO
gantly insist that the only way tc
meet the critical food situation is te
Use subsidies, that is to say, to Dor
row money to help pay today's food
bill. If this is done our men who to-
lay are fighting for us on the worlds
battle fronts, upon their return home
1t the wars end, will be forced tc
help pay today's home front grocery
bill.
The nations food problem can be
solved if Washington's bunglers
would stop issuing confusing and
lnworkable orders and thus permit
the men who know how to produce
ood to do their job. Subsidies and
ess food are not the answer. More
food is the answer.