The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-08-31
MARYLAND, MY MARYLAND"
BY j. T.. Jones

The rich agricultural areas of
Chevy when free from gas rations we
pointed her into the Free State"
We had not gone 20 miles outside of
Washington, d. c., before we found
that the number of fine blooded cows
and fat, healthy steers were doubled
the wars Before tie day was done
we decided there'll be plenty of meat
butter and other dairy products.
When Frederick count was
reached we were in the heart of one
of the richest agricultural regions in
the whole United States. Our wonder
ment increased, as we contrasted and
compared this day with other days
when we toured Iowa, and wondered
if any other place in the world would
ever produce so much corn.
Had we been doing a la Rip Van
Wrinkle these years without realizing
that agriculture had gone through
all the stages of pre-reconversiOn and
| reconversion, and established itself
on high levels as great business
enterprise? We passed rich fields i'll
| which tractors and their implements
were cultivating the soil; tillers re
placed plows, weeders covered more
than SO acres of land day, disc har
rows performed miracles in coopera
ton with the tractors. Sweep rakes
were lowered and put up TIE hay, OF
shocked grain into neat bundles; and
the disc pillow made the old mold
board type look like relic out OF
Colonial days. These new machines
solved the family wood supply and
soil scoops dug ponds, drained ditch
es and arranged other matters. Har-
rows, corn pickers, threshers, and the
marvellous new combine" seemed to
conquer every kind of job. Here we
were, on the very tail of the war
with bird's-eye view, genuinely en-
Unused over the sights of flexible
| farming-faster, easier, more profit
able"
The wonderful thing about this
new farming business" is that mos
any one of these machines will do
the work of a half dozen or a dozen
men. There is no doubt about i'll
saw it done time and time again.
| This march of progress extends
across the Nation to the Golden Gate
on the Pacific, to the Sunny South
to New England and all the States
of our Country.
| Don't Be Optimistic About Taxes
| We taxpayers must continue to pay
and pay and pay. Most of the talk
about tax relief is imagination. The
cold fact is that billions will be
called for to take care of commit
.ment of tie Government abroad, at
home, and to ease up the slack in
military expenses, and for the big
purpose Of pulling our partner-na-
lions out of the mud.
| Dependable estimates in Washing
ton are that war spending for the
fiscal year ending June 80, 1916, will
be 46 billion dollars. The costs oil
mastering out the war, and provid-
ing aid to veterans, besides keeping
four or five million men in uniform
through the current fiscal year will
run into more billions of dollars.
| Neighbor, we hate to tell you that
taxes will continue to be way up for
several years. So, prepare to meet
your tax collector, and don't expect
him to slice anything off the bill
for long time to come.
He's Won The Republicans
Down in Washington the funny
folks are kidding the Republicans,
| telling them that "they are all fol-
Truman" At the same time most OF
the Democrats are backing theiI
party leader. And when one of those
Commentators explains the politi-
cal situation over a Washington ra-
dio he shortcuts by saying that the
President hasn't made any bad mis-
takes" to which they add that he has
done good job in handling the war
situation, and Strengthening out af
fairs that relate to the peace. In fact
Truman is generally spoken of in
Washington as "a regular man of the