The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
RESTLESS HUMANITY SLOWING
DOWN
BY j. E. Jones

gates of Eastern cities and hung
around for a time to enjo, the sights
and highlights. But the crowds have
been thinning out in Washington and
elsewhere. That means that more and
more folks are going back home to
take up the duties of life wi ere they
left off before they went overseas.
Reports from the West Coast show
that while the major cities along the
Pacific Ocean had been crowded to
the limit that the visitors and linger-
ers who saw the sights of Los Ange-
les, Seattle and places in between,
are repeating the same formula as
that on the Eastern coast. Mighty
changes are taking place in the heart
of America and along its borders,
not only in manufacturing chemical
and oil districts, but also in recovery
of arid districts, in the development
of natural resources.
There has been huge planning for
housing and figures accurately show
that there has been an increase of
occupied dwelling units by families
of nearly 25 per cent in urban locali-
ties, and 20 per cent in rural districts
within very few years. The birth
rate in 1914, despite TIE war, in
creased at the total rate of percent.
"America, The Beautiful
OF the total land area in the Uni
ted States that is farmed, one-twelfth
or approximately 81 million acres are
served by organized drainage enter
prises.
Corn continues to be the principal
crop, with wheat, hay and cotton as
crops The number of farms accord
ing to the United States Census, in
January 1916, was 6,S12,350.
Thirty-one power plants built un-
der the authority of the Bureau of
Reclamation have installed capacity
of 1917 billion kilowatt hours of
electric energy. These projects serve
the multiple purpose of irrigation,
flood control, improved navigation,
power, domestic and municipal water
supplies. The best known develop
ments are the Boulder Canyon pro-
ject, the Columbia Basin and the
Central Valley development. Agrcul-
tural wealth of Arizona, Nevada,
| Washington, California and other
| Western States has travelled upwards
beyond Imagination. Nearly 5,0O0,-
900 persons live in areas where re-
clamation systems are operated and
more than 80 thousand farms are on
TIE projects So, in war as well as in
peace, America Marches On.
Our People Should Be Well Fed
| 1t is PERFECTLY natural that our
ipeople want to go the limit in feeding
starving people who have been vic
tins of the great World War. But
when it comes to bringing the pro-
cess down to slices of bread, pieces of
meat, minimumS of sugar and syn
thetic foods and fruit juices, plus in
ferior paper towels, etc, ETC., etc.
that's when reason breaks company
with orders from brass hats and ad
ministrators holding political posi-
lions.
Some People Believe In Fairies
Chester Bowles is credited with
/ believing that TIE Office of Price Ad-
ministraton is being properly direct
ed for the purpose of combating in
f1ation Some people still believe in
fairies. The Bowles organization
spends most of it's time in trying to
enforce theories that have been tried
and failed altogether too many times
since Government agencies began ex-
horting the public to do things diff
ferent from the way they had learn
ed how" during the past 800 years.
| Wages And Prices
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
declared that "a most important
step toward achieving amicable labor
management relations is the re-en-
actment of an effective price control
act by June 80" The general public
knows, even if some top men in the
government ignore the fact, that
whenever the professional labor lead
ers succeed with their strikes for
higher wages that prices automatic
ally are higher, and that the people
pay the iffderences in absorbing the
increased costs. Mr.. ScEwellenbach
isn't convincing when he talks that
kind of stuff.
Why deny the existing imitation
that has already swept over the ma
ton and is doing dirty damage every
where. The interests of labor and
management are identical, and that
strike controls and price controls
should be adjusted together in all
Federal or State Legislation.
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