Milford chronicle., 1956-01-13
IISE OuR OWN REINDEER!

USE OUR OWN REINDEER!
The principal farming regions oil this
country are distant from the oceans. but
those oceans and the u S.-fag merchant
ships that ply them, are vitality important to
American agriculture. Anyone who doubts
that would do well to read a factual study
released by the Committee OF American
Steamship Lines. 80
Some l25 per cent of Americas $15,OOO,-
100000 export trade comes from cur farm
lands Because Of the urgent need 10 ais
pose of the agricultural surpluses, the IarIl-
er's dependence on a strong u. 5. merchant
marine is greater tnan ever.
CpecifcallV wheat farmers work every
fourth acre for foreign customers, and COT
ton producers every fifth acre. Nearly nan
Of all the whole dried milk produced IN
America goes to foreign ports, as does zU
per cent Of the tobacco. And the volume OF
farm exports is rising swiftly. From July
through September Of last year, these ex-
ports increased 20 per cent over the same
period in 1854.
Am of the vast flood of exports must move
by ship-and it is obvious that 1t would De
folly to place our dependence on foreign ner-
chant marines This casts a revealing lgnl
s On the efforts of certain foreign countries
TO bring about repeal of the Cargo Prefer
pnce Act. commonly known as the 5O-ol
law. which provides that half Of all govern
ri,ent-fnanced cargOes must be carried II
American ships-if those ships are avail
able and at reasonable rates. AS the Com
mittee accurately puts 1t, Some forelgl
maritime interests !. want to deprive oanC;
Claus of the right to use his own reindeer
in delivering u S. aid cargoes overseas.
Happily, American agriculture isn't IKE
" to be deluded By these efforts-as is evl
denced by the fact that the National Grang
and other farm organizations have strongl,
endorsed $3.50.
TWO SICK MEN OF EUROPE
s'The Sick Man of Europe was nam
long given the old Turkish sultanate. lneft
cient and corrupt, it could control its sub
iects only by periodical massacres. In
great powers of the West eyed its dyln
struggles calculatingly, trying to determln
the time when it would be easy to put a
end to the invalids precariOus life and d.
vide up his inheritance. This might haV
been done at almost any time, could the pow
ers have agreed among themselves VIII
should have what.
Little by little outlying portions won the
freedom, chiefly through the connlvance
Western powers. Finally, just DeIore Wor Wor
War ]. a revolution expelled the last sulta
and a second revolution, after the war, MAJ
Mustapha Kemal dictator. He thorough
Westernized the country, and now Turk
can count her independence safe as long
no major world crisis occurs.
France is NOW a new SICK Man. WlIn
people as gifted as any in the world, posses
mo strong ecor5Ihic resources, and with
record of achievement in both statesmansh
and war, France is nov on dead center I
people are torn by factions, none OF whl
will cooperate with any other. The gOvel
naents are mere caretakers, who carry on
dinary governmental functions but cam
Law down a policy and execute it.
The new elections, which 1t was nor
might remedy-matters, have merely lnten
fed the situation The Communists and rlt
wing extremists have gained at the expel
OF the center parties, which in turn are
yided by personal antagOnisms.
Like Turkey, France has already
many outlying possessions. IndO-Chlna
gone. and North Africa is out. France
parently cannot be counted on in any Eu
pean crisis till her citizens hate one anot
less than they Go outsiders.
SSS0&@
STIRRING UP TROUBLE
Great Britain is the latest target OF
Wet Foreign Minister Moltov. In a spe
made to the inhabitants of the MediterT
can island of Malta, he told them that
Maltese are Italian by race and should