The midland journal., 1946-05-03
CLATRvOYANT POLITICIANS
RV i. F.. Jones

thinkers seemed to observe the first
anniversary of Mr.. Truman as Presi-
dent by echoing the belief that
everything is going all right. no
one need worry about the future of
America or any other Nation"-plus
a sort of general acclaim that they
will live happily ever after"
The Communistic challenges of the
Soviet must not be approved. The
cock-eyed notions that new ways of
making living in the United States
without working will have to be
dumped into the sewer.
I'VE. the people" need to return
to defense of the Republican and
Democratic systems of Government,
and to recognition of the legitimate
rights of labor and capital" In
short, the clairvoyants have had their
day, and the future of America" is
unsafe in their hands. America is still
the land of unlimited opportunities
but Americans will have to get back
to the old ways described as life, lib
erty and happiness. In other words,
it's high time to stop blowing soap
bubbles, and chasing around after
clairvoyant politicians.
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Efforts To Rule The Farmers
Farm credit can be made an in
strumept to be used "as big stick"
in the opinion of Representative Gill
lie of Indiana. And it may be used for
still more disastrous purposes accord
ing to the Congressman, who has ex-
pressed his fear that there exists so
muck politics in the Agricultural De-
partment that there is drift toward
socialization of agriculture. Repre-
sentative Hope of Kansas, is of the
opinion that the Department of Agri-
culture wants to "use the coercive in
fuence of agriculture credit to line
up farmers on farm programs
Looking backward dozen years it
| is easy to recall the revolutionary
Government measures when little
pigs were killed by hundreds of thou
sands under the pretense that it was
| helpful to the farmers.
| Agriculture credit was intiatiOnary,
| to large degree, under Henry Wall
lace. Perhaps there is a hangover
tkat brought the lower House of
Congress into the picture in passing
bill by vote of 239 to 80 to take
the various lending agencies out of
the Department of Agriculture,
That was not partisan measure
not by a long shot-because the
Chairman of the Committee that
wrote it was Democrat Representa-
tive J. w. Flanagan of Virginia.
| 1t remained for Representative
Reece of Tennessee to reverse the gem
eral understanding of political liber-
ais. He declared: "Today In the Uni
| ted States the true Liberal is the
| man who fights encroachment by the
Federal Government upon the free
dom of its citizens There is a little
nugget of liberal truthful and sound
reasoning-we need more of them in
Congress.
Know They Rest In Peace
To lens of thousands of American
families. during the war years, came
kilograms from the War Department,
1--WE deeply regret to inform you. -"
The shock of the loss of loved
one was soon followed by the realiza-
ton that many thousand miles sepa-
rated the family from the burial
place on foreign soil. The memories
whick the families held so dear were
haunted by the bewilderment con-
cerning the final resting place and
the care of the grave which could be
neither viewed nor decorated be-
cause Of distance.
Cooperating with the Memorial
Division of the Quarter Master Corps,
the American Legion has acted as a
haven to those who seek comfort in
obtaining information relating to tie
final resting place of our war dead
Each day into the Graves Registra-
| tion Division of the Legion come re-
| quests from mothers, wives and fam
lilies. letters asking, "where is he
buried?", >, twas my son given the
last rights?", was a chaplain
of my sons faith PRESENT." To these
troubled families goes a personal let
ter of sympathy and all the vital in
formation obtainable. Because most
of the families will never be able to
visit the army cemetery, a picture
goes with the letter. Tke picture of
that sacred ground which is part of
| America even though it be surround
ed by foreign soil, the final resting
lplace of Americas war dead.
| Hundreds of thousands of dollars
have been set aside in a trust fund by
the American Legion which is used
exclusively for the decoration of
graves overseas. This assurance to
the families that TIE row on row of
white crosses and Stars of David will
never be neglected or forgotten is a
Ifulfillment of the Legion's pledge to
consecrate and sanctify their devo-
tion to their fallen comrades.
In tie field of public safety, The
keystone Automobile Club distribu-