The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1945-07-20
A SPEEDY BEGINNING
BY j. e. Jones

|
before the Senate by President Tru
man. Within few days the baptis-
NAL hearings began in one of the
| largest Senate rooms, and the cor
respondent of this newspaper was
among those present at the opening
sessions. Edward r. Stettinius was
as clear and successful in explaining
the Charter to the Senators as he had
been in guiding it on the way to ap-
prevail by the United Nations at San
Francisco. Senators Connally and
Vandenburg fortified the statement
by the recent Secretary of State and
agreed with Stettinius that mo
country has a greater stake than
ours"
| At that very moment our Presi
dent and his party of officials and
staff were crossing the Atlantic
Ocean on the way to the Potsdam
Conference where the meeting of
Truman, Churchill and Stain is ex-
pected to put the stamp of approval
on the labors of fifty United Nations
at San Francisco.
There is general satisfaction in the
assurances of Mr.. Stettinius that
1.-THE five major nations proved at
San Francisco beyond the shadow of
any doubt that they can work sue
cessfully and in unity with each
other and with tie other nations
under this Charter" This seems to
clinch the fact that all nations are
agreed on the one major object to
preserve permanent peace"
| That's a bargain! 1t differs from
the peace of World War 1 which
amounted only to an agreement by
four heads of governments-an ar
rangement that the United States
Senate refused to approve. BUT, the
| fifty United Nations have learned
terrible lesson. 1t may be expected
that those nations will live up to
their role and obligations and work
successfully and in unity with each
other and with the other nations un-
der this Charter"
| Our Government has been doing
more than its full part-in war and
in arranging for permanent peace.
And all of us pray that this time:
''It shall not happen again"
National Food Allotment
A new measure before Congress is
credited to Senators Aiken of Ver-
mont and LaFollette of Wisconsin,
and Representatives LaFollette OF In
diana and Voorhis of California.
| When Statesmen spread over the Ma
ton agree on broad subject like
''Tke National Food Allotment" it
is a hopeful beginning. In advocacy
of the measure Congressman Voorhis
observed that the outstanding differ
ence between American agriculture
| on the one hand and American In
dustry on the other is briefly this:
The farmers of the country produce
an abundance of food all the time
They produce that abundance in
times of depression the same as they
produce it in times of prosperity.
| He called attention to the fact that
between 1929 and 1892 the Ameri-
can economy took terrific tailspin.
In those years the production of
agricultural machinery declined sc
per cent, the price of agricultural
machinery fell IL per cent, the pro-
duction of farm crops declined per
cent, and the price of farm crops de-
clined 54 per cent. Undoubtedly farm
| machinery should always be avail
able to the farmer who needs it so
sorely. But, time marches on, land
the farmer plants, anyway, whatever
the economic outlook, and if nature
is kind he produces an abundant
yield. Industry, on the other hand,
decides from day to day low must it
is going to produce, and decides that
on the basis of what the economic
outlook is. The darker the economic
outlook and, therefore, the greater
the need of the Nation as whole for
abundant production and increased
employment the less likely it is on
the whole that any individual indus
trial producer will find it desirable
or, shall we say, possible, from his
personal point of view to produce
abundantly," stated Representative
Voorhis, and he also observed: "Tt e
farmer, however, produces an abund-
ance under all circumstances. The
supply of foodstuffs in our country is
always ample. And in time of depres-
sion the farmer follows one economic
practice, namely, abundant produc-
ton, upon which recovery of the
Nation can be built"
Evidently the hackers of the Ma
tional Food Allotment bills want
jobs on the farms for returning vet
Grams, and constructive methods of
progress in agriculture, which means
that we cannot expect to continue
the processes of lifting ourselves out
Il Of tho hnla hax nnl.. a1uIa hnatst a.a1