Milford chronicle., 1946-11-29


from Democratic weakness rather than from Rep
ubcan strength. Even though the Truman Ham
egan political blunders were numerous, analysts are
convinced that political genius could have cleared
up the which they inherited from the lengthy
Roosevelt administration 1t of chickens
come home to rooSt. Not one sins gle problem was
ever solved by the New Deal during its ascendency
to power. 1t only through the of the mpreg-
nable financial strength of the Treasury, which it
used to borrow and borrow, and by the gentle rain
of checks that it able to postpone the evil day
of settlement. No nation in history has used the
famous formula of tax and and spend and spend
and elect and elect as did our nation under the New
Deal. The first of Truman's troubles when
he backed the OPA bureaucrats the limit. His
second bunglng job his effort to placate rad
ca labor and the PAC, which wanted agriculture
to supply cheap food while it enjoyed the highest
real wages ever paid by any country at any time.
Through this step the support of the farmer was
lost
The housewives and general public were enraged
scarcties of many commodities in land OF plenty
Many voters did not understand the implications
of totalitarianism inherent in the New Deal phlo
sophy, but the absurdity of abundance OF cattle
and hogs on the hoof and the block was
clear to all. Large segments of organized labor de-
serted the Democrats for the first time in fourteen
years. This was brought on by several causes. The
break began last May when Mr.. Truman aienated
large numbers of trades unioniss by his threat of
drafting the men into the armed forces. Their
number was quietly augmented by thousands OF
union who firing OF union leaders who had
become drunk with power. The Negroes very
largely returned TO the Republican Party in the
protest which swept from coast to coast.
1t is clear that the New Deal quack govern
mental remedies, with its regimentated and planned
mode of life has been repudiated. Republican STRAIT
egsts now in the saddle will do we'll not to seek to
hoodwnk the public by promising them the i'm
possible. The people should be told the truth After
having been made to believe that black white and
that two and two make five for fourteen years, 4
truthful approach to public questions is certainly
good strategy and good ethics. No government on
earth can produce wealth without work or creative
industry The credit of the Federal government
has been impaired by New Deal expenditures
before the war and other incomprehensibe sums
spent in prosecuting the Public works pro-
grams and social experimenting wait until
such time the government is in better financial
condition to assume the burden. Labor must be told
that only through profitable Business operation can
their high standard of wages be maintained. Both
manag cement and labor must work together. Every
one must be told the blunt truth that we cannot
juggle ourselves of the in through
the political hocus pocus of the past few years We
have all got get down to work and produce
something besides monkey wrenches to throw into
the political machinery. The government owes 1t
to us to give us a sound currency; that pr-
vate enterprise is encouraged by policy of taxation
which does not destroy incentive by confiscating
profits The road ahead is hard and long, but if
the Republicans now in command will use courage
and wisdom in guiding Nation through the
troubled waters ahead, shall emerge better and
stronger country in which to live.
WHEN THE EARLIEST American settlers were
cutting down and saving boards that
they could build their houses, they said that there
were enough trees to last forever.
A couple of centuries later the settlers in Ohio
and other States saying that there enough
trees to ''last forever. Only fifty years ago the
people in Michigan and Alabama and Louisiana
were saying that there enough last
forever.
When Theodore Roosevelt was President more
than 40 years ago, a conference of the Nation
leading inudstriaistS was convened at the White
House. Great umbermen who operating in
the Middle West predicted at that great gathering
that such timber pine would be scarce through
out the entire United States in fifty years. No
paid very much attention the prophecy which
has already come true Wisconsin, Minnesota anC
other Northern States have practically exhausted
their tremendous timber that would "last forever"
The lumber mills are still doing bu iness il
Washington, Oregon and other Western and South
States But the white pine producers have re
Gently given notice that their boards will probabl,
sell in the near future at $50 thousand boar(
feet Black market operators placed such lumbe
the market high SIS thousand boart
feet Those prices be quite a boost from
prices ranging from SIS to $40 a thousand feet il
Wisconsin and Minnesota the beginning of tn
present century.
The original forest area of the United State
is estimated to have covered S2OOOO,OOO acres o
nearly half of the land area of the United States
The present area of commercial forest land was off
cialy estimated in 1910 46 ,697,00 acres wit
only l2O,S32,OO0 of saw timber areas. Their
15S National Forests which operated O.
the basis of sustained yield" of timber. That re
minds us of the bereft farmer who locked his bar
after his horse has been stolen.