The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1962-03-22

Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Mckenzie
! and children visited Mr.. and Mrs.
I Stephen Dewitt, Tuesday.
Mr. and Mrs Milton Dewitt and
| children, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen
Dewitt visited Mr.. and Mrs. Clar-
ence Dewitt, Mt. Lake Park, Sat
urday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs Harry Slagle. Mr..
and Mrs. Earl Bishop and Mr. and
Mrs. Okey Hoff visited Mr.. and
Mrs. Milton Dewitt. Sunday.
farm subsidy program has been a
colossal and costly failure Despite
the fact that we are paying out
over $4,000, 100000 a year on the
farm program, it has added nothing
to the farmers net income, nor has
it alleviated the farm surplus prob
lem. So, what do we do? Scrap il?
No indeed We're asked to enlarge
and expand the silly system. Here
tofore. only 20 percent of agricul-
ture has come under government
control and subsidy. Now, it looks
as though the Administration wants
TO take control of the other 80 per-
! cent of agricultural The Admins
tration has sent to Congress an
amazing message on agriculture
and a bill to implement what it
wants: the harshest production con-
trolls and penalties in history. The
new program in effect, would put
| the producers of milk, turkeys, feed
basis, and live animals might be
expected to follow in order to avoid
grain production The feed grain
| controls would cover not only corn.
but oats. grain sorghums, barley and
rye. The Secretary of Agriculture
would be empowered to dictate
when and where wheat could be sub
stituted for feed grain. The new
program would give the Secretary
of Agriculture sweeping authority
| to establish acreage allOtmentS. set
price supports, order mandatory
land retirement, set marketing
quotas, and specify fines-making
the Secretary farm Gar with an
iron hand
The proposed program eventual
ly would make every American con-
sumner dependent upon the Federal
government for his food supply
with the government determining
who could grow how much of what
crop at a price set by the Govern
ment. The taxpayer would be sad
died with huge additional sums to
| take more land out of production
The consumer would be forced to
pay higher prices because of the
Governments artificial price pro-
gram. The American farmer would
become little more than an eco
nomic serf, dependent upon the
Government for his livelihood. The
proposed program would destroy
farming as a way of life as we have
known it in America.
l hope the hearings scheduled by
the Committee on Agriculture will
awaken the American people to the
danger head.
Rejecting Basic American Princi-
ples-One of the basic concepts of
our founding fathers was that gov
eminent should do only those things
that the people cannot do for them
selves" Another was that man has
, the dignity and sacred right to de-
, termine his own destiny as an in
dividual, with the least interference
from government" The philosophy
! that the least government is the best
government is today rejected by
some people. Their actions indicate
that they look upon our citizens as
not intelligent enough to spend their
own money properly. They seem to
think that the Government should
take the money through taxation
| and then buy the welfare and Sc
curity which they think the people
| are not smart enough to buy for
themselves.
Socialistic Legislation; Socialism;
Then Communism-Every time a
piece of socialistic legislation gets
through Congress, the United States
loses a battle. Nikita Khrushchev
said: I'VE cannot expect the Amer
leans to jump from Capitalism to
| Communism. However, we can as
sist their elected leaders in giving
Americans small doses of socialism
until they suddenly awake to find
they have Communism"
| The Communist Party boasts that
it can put into Washington in 70
hours $4,000 letters on any issue It
chooses.
James Madison, speaking before
the Virginia legislative assembly in
1777 said. Sinop tho oanara1 nivili-