Milford chronicle., 1947-01-03
E PLURIBUS UNUM. Just what does

E PLURIBUS UNUM. Just what does
1t mean? One created from many. An idea,
born OF natural law, translated by the fore
fathers of this nation into a living concrete
way of life. Freedom of the press Free
dom of ideas. Freedom to accomplish the
impossible by hitherto impossible means.
Freedom to make the luxuries of the class
es the staples of the masses. Thus was Gre
ated a nation of states and regions, populat-
ed by citizens of every racial strain under
the sun whose most valuable asset is partici-
patton in the greatest wealth-creatng in
duStrlal and commercial system ever exist
ing under any government. This is drama.
This is a success story. This is Aladdins
lamp at work. This is the magic carpet
This is the land where dreams come true
Advertising to the world the nation that is
the United States of America shows that
the meaning of "E Purbus Unum'' is moth
ing more OF less than the focal point of all
product and service advertising The great
est piece of copy ever written and printed on
paper is the Constitution of the U.S.A. That
Constitution is reflected in every business,
big and little, from the little grocer to the
merchant prince, or from gas station to the
entire oil industry. Consider the work cf
consolidating, expanding and dramatizing
the U.S.A. as it is done through the power
of the printing press. Think of the labor
that would have appalled, Hercules, done in
paper mills. Be inspired by the fact that
no matter what your business is, or where
it is, OF when it started, it is part of "E
Pluribus Unum'' expandabe by the consid-
cred use OF good printing on good paper.
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THE VIRTUAL DENISE of OPA is
saving the American taxpayer over 81 ,000,-
100000 year: That billion is the money
that used to be paid out to producers as sub
sides i'll the days of all-inclusive price con-
troll.
The subsidy was a means of providing
the consumer something as less than its go
ing market value-and then collecting the
difference from him at the end of the year
by adding it to his tax bill. For the last fis-
cal year, Congress appropriated $7000OO,-
600 for meat subsidies, $3.50 900 900 for dali
ry products and S215,00O 600 for flour.
The elimination of OPA resulted in i'm
mediate price rises to offset the discontinued
subsldles-the consumer again paid the full
cost OF what he purchased at the time of
purchase. That was responsible for most
OF the price increases that followed decOn-
troll.
The end of these subsidies is healthy
sign. The subsidy principle may be justi-
led as an emergency meaSure-and in some
special instances it may have to be used in
normal times to encourage the production Of
figh-cost products desired by the govern
ment. But to subsidze part of the cost of
producing and selling common commodities,
such as foods, is to dstOrt the price picture
and to place the economy on a false and
shifting foundation. We are attaining
more stabilized price structure now, based
upon today's cost of doing business. Elm
ination of the subsidy, like the elimination
OF price cOntral itself, was an unavoidable
Cto in itoli1 1ip +oo Il; e
supply and demand
THE RURAL ELECTRIFICATION Ad-
mlnlstratiOn has received wide publicity as
the great white hope of American agricul-
ture so far as eectronic power is concerned
1t has received enormous grants of money
from the Federal treasury, and has been
started with an army of unsupported job
holders. So 1t may come as news to many
people to learn that the REA is along way
behind unsubsidiZed private utility industry
in the job of delivering power to rural Am
erica.
AT present, about 60 per cent of electrified
farms get their power from the private util-
tiles, 35 per cent from the REA, and 5 per
cent from municipal systems.
The utility industry, owned by hundreds
of thousands of individual investors, has
voluntarily taken upon itself the task of
making power available, as rapidly as possi-
BILE, to all the farmers of the United States
1t is giving that task what amounts to an
Al priority. To that end, it has made $780,
100000 available for needed construction
and equipment. The program is national in
scope and will be felt in every state. By the
end of 1913, if the utilities are able to obtain
materials, all but very small minority of
our farms will have power line within easy
reach.
Few farmers need to be sold on the value
OF electricity as an ally to help both in doing
the work of farming and in improving the
farm famllys way of living. 1t is the cheap
est OF servants 1t is always on CALL And
the industry which supplies it has a record
OF unbroken, ever-improving service to the
nation in war and in peace.