Milford chronicle., 1946-09-13
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One commentator remarked late in the war that
the soybean highly versatile CROP appeared to be
substitute for everything. The legume's record
pretty we'll bears this estimate
But midwest growers and professors received
notice the other day that the Government believes
the time is ripe for placing the crop its in
unrestricted market \ Department of Agriculture
official told the American Soybean Association which
met in St. Louis that there would be subsidy
covering the l947 crop and that government controls
would be lifted.
This is an abrupt change for cinderella" crop
that performed valuable services in dozens of
ways. Most regional observers feel, however, that
demand for the bean will remain high despite the
absence of artificial props. It's versatility provides
the
The soybean has come into wide use recently as
human food and for livestock feeding. It's indust
rial uses are numerous AS substitute for meat
rather than for wheat flour soya meal contains
protein than and has high fat content; served
green, the bean sprouts rich in Nitamln A. The
protein feed which remain after the soybeans oil has
been extracted was used widely during the
augment the diet of livestock.
With the nations supply of fats and oil still
short, soybeans he p fill the postwar gap between
supply and demand 1t ranks alongside of peanuts
as an oil source and the uses for the oil almost
limtless, in the view of research experts.
Wartime necessity sent considerable amount
of soybean oil into paints and varnishes drying
oil Some time ago, the Department of Agriculture
announced that rorepol, reasonably good rubber
substitute, could be made from soya oil well as
from oil.
Soybean farmers regardless of governmental sub
sdies may expect an increasing market tor this
versatile crop.
THE ESSENCE OF Christianity is the mpor-
tance of the individual And that doctrine has been
the foundation in law of all nations whose material
progress has been greatest.
The first real step forward in individual free
dom was the Magma Carta, which has deeply colored
the history of the world Its perfect expression
is found in the Declaration of independence and the
Constitution of the United States which carried the
ideal of freedom distance further. These docu-
ments say in effect, that man as an individual as
person. is important and that he has certain funda-
mental and eternal tights which cannot be aborgat-
ed by in the represented by the
1t is not coincidental that governments based
the theory that the is all important and the
individual unimportant have inevitably destroyed OF
submerged religion and Christianity. For this kind
of government must itself into fake religion
Its goals wholly material Hitler knew that wher
he scoffed Christianity and said that the ideal OF
Nazism the one true deity for the German peo
the opium of the people.
Our government was based on a spiritual concept
not material concept. Yet unprecedented matera
progress has been made here. The reasons ar plain
The man who is individually important cti
zen IS the man who becomes economically impor
tant as a worker. He is the thinking man, the dont
He is the antithesis of the regimented man.
The great lesson of history is that all nstitu
tions-rehgion, industry, the arts and crafts-mus
remain free will remain free There b
no compromise with oppression, matter wha
form it may take. Government domination of tn
individual business is slavery. The basic idea upol
which free enterprise system is the Chris
tian phlosophy-the importance of the individual
A fiery y-tempered business man wrote the fol
lowing letter:
"Sir: My secretary, being lady, cannot typ
what / think about you |, being gentleman, can
not say it. You, being neither, will understan