Dear Editor
DEAR EDITOR PRICE SUPPORTS E. G. Shinner's corrective for the absurdities of our farm policy ["For Permanent Farm Prosperity," NL, April 11] is a half-reform. It would continue the subsidies for...
...Singh would deeply appreciate the support of all admirers of the late Gandhi...
...Bohn's intended purpose was accomplished...
...Cohn was associated with McCarthy...
...Shinner's article should be sent to every Congressman so that they might be stimulated to rewrite our farm laws...
...It is a problem of rotten boroughs and unequal representation...
...The fact that he helped convict more Communists than any lawyer in the U.S...
...Doesn't Frederick Martin Stern realize that, thanks to the development of thermonuclear rockets of transcontinental and transoceanic range, an aggressor doesn't need to dispatch at ship or embark an infantryman in order to destroy an enemy in an unannounced blitz...
...This all smells like wicked laissez-faire...
...THE NEW LEADER, March 21], his pat on the back for ADA, and similar articles rather clearly indicate that he writes an "Alsop" column for THE NEW LEADER...
...He very frankly stated that Matusow's ''object was to show that Roy Cohn was a skunk...
...That "a well-regulated militia" is "necessary to the security of a free state" was a commonplace when the Bill of Rights was adopted...
...When I got through reading the long Matusow article, I saw that Dr...
...A farm vote equals four or five city votes, and nothing sensible can be done about agriculture while that lasts...
...It left the dominant thought that he and Matusow believe that "Roy Cohn was skunk...
...Bohn did a good job on Cohn but a very poor job on Matusow, an admitted false witness and perhaps a planted Communist, whose testimony you could not give the slightest credence...
...Farm areas are heavily over-represented not only in the Senate, but also in the House, whose district lines are determined by state legislatures, themselves outrageously unrepresentative...
...Bohn liked, although it came from the sewers...
...It is wrong not because it helps the farmers or costs the rest of us money but because it would tend to check the rise in labor productivity and hence the standard of living...
...3. Production would decline to the level of demand, eliminating surpluses...
...would have six consequences: 1. Prices would fall to around world market levels, thus lowering the cost of living for the non-farm 90 per cent of the population and making possible the free international movement of farm commodities...
...It is the weakness of all arguments which attempt to show that the cold war can be kept cold and yet be won...
...It would continue the subsidies for small producers and reduce them for large, its aim being to preserve the obsolescent family farm...
...Philadelphia, Miss...
...If the Russians have matched our "Atlas,'' a robot missile of 9,000 miles range with an alleged 800-mile altitude of flight, members of any citizen army would be no more effective in national defense than the housewives of our nation armed with brooms...
...Buffalo, N. Y. C. I. CLAFLIN Proponents of citizen armies in a thermonuclear age make me laugh...
...I am sure Mr...
...But Mr...
...Much poor land could be reconverted to pasture and forest, reducing the threat of duststorms, floods, and erosion...
...Bohn deprecates guilt by association, it is undoubtedly the basis for his hatred of Cohn...
...Stern's plan strikes me as the least unconvincing I have yet seen...
...That it can now be implemented in time to influence the course of events is a sanguine hope, but I am not the one to discourage it...
...Farming is a business and should be run on business principles and include business risks...
...He begins with the forecast that the Soviet rulers will not relinquish for atomic warfare ''a strategy that has yielded them . . . THE NEW LEADER welcomes comment and criticism on any of its features, but letters should not exceed 300 words...
...I wonder, however, whether Mr...
...It would be just as sensible to subsidize small, high-cost bakers, shoemakers and car manufacturers...
...He smeared Cohn...
...Although Dr...
...Copies of Mr...
...4. Efficient producers would tend to expand at the expense of the inefficient, reducing the number of farms, 5. Foods and fibers, natural and synthetic, would compete for consumer acceptance on an even basis: e.g., butter and margarine, cotton and rayon...
...Schenectady, N. Y. HERBERT M. MERRILL...
...The weakness in the argument is obvious...
...Bohn...
...Brooklyn, N. Y. NATHAN D. SHAPIRO GANDHI I thought that readers of THE NEW LEADER would like to know that a personal friend of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi has established a Gandhi Memorial Association...
...excellent results...
...BUFORD W.POSEY CITIZEN ARMY Frederick Martin Stern's article, "Why We Need a Citizen Army" [THE NEW LEADER, April 18], puts into clear, concise and cogent form a thesis which deserves far more attention than it has yet received...
...Outright abolition of all price supports, subsidies, quotas, etc...
...6. Area in cultivation would decline...
...His address is: Mr...
...Actually, the farm problem is political, not economic...
...Nobody is compelled to be a farmer...
...2. The Government would save money...
...does not seem to impress Dr...
...The modern, liberal approach is to spend billions more on irrigation dams, in order to increase the surpluses which can be dumped abroad—at heavy loss—to antagonize more people...
...He then argues that the adoption of his thesis would effectively counter that strategy—but, instead of inferring that they would then turn to atomic warfare, leaps to the conclusion that they '"would have to accept 'coexistence' and ultimately renounce their aggressive schemes...
...Yet, a serious and consistent attempt to implement the idea has hardly yet been envisioned, let alone undertaken...
...Philadelphia M. BERKOWITZ MATUSOW William E. Bohn's article, "Who Created Matusow...
...J. J. Singh, Chairman, Gandhi Memorial Association, 40 East 49th Street, New York 17, New York...
...New York City VICTOR FOX Section Two of the April 11 New Leader was one of the most important articles that has appeared in the magazine for quite some time...
...Stern's optimistic conclusion does not contradict one of his premises...
...Matusow did something Dr...
Vol. 38 • April 1955 • No. 17
