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. . . THE PEOPLES FORUM . . . GoafcFor Germany Dear Sirs: If Germany is crushed by military might, two basic alternatives will confront the world's leadership: 1. To partially destroy and to...
...F. S. Kinder Denver, Colo...
...Big Five Again Dear Sirs: With the irresistible rise of de Gaulle there will be a big five rather than a big four at the end of World War II...
...Postal employes have not had a permanent increase in basic salaries since 1925...
...One year after Armistice day, German cannon were pounding Riga with the approval of Russia's former allies...
...Gould not The Progressive publish articles by men with a definite plan and scientific program for functional society ? It seems to me that more attention could be given to the basic cause of our political disease and less attention given to the symptoms...
...It is cumbersome and expensive to administer, arid so far has not increased to any appreciable extent the number of farm owners...
...If the world's present turmoil constitutes the social metamorpho-Isis from an economy of scarcity to an economy of abundance, why do we not "turn necessity to glorious gain" by deliberately venturing into this 'social experiment of assisting the German people in rebuilding from the ashes of this conflagration a state more advanced in peaceful productivity than the world has yet known...
...It's incredible, shameful, wrong, yet true...
...in fact, they are forbidden by law to do so...
...Lawrence S. Brey Milwaukee, Wis...
...Bacon believe that so-called good Americans will not follow any leader into the next war...
...the President by proclamation or Congress by concurrent resolution shall declare the war at an end...
...By so doing the acid criticism of its columns would take on constructive meaning- to the reader...
...Too, it must not be forgotten that, while economic planning may, if not carefully controlled, create Stalins, it is the chaos of panic, hunger, and insecurity which breeds Hitlers...
...Sweden typifies great social efficiency and considerable scientific understanding...
...Which reminds us that there was a Big Five after World War I. And the personnel of the first Quints...
...Source Of Liberalism Dear Sirs: I don't know the identity of the person who subscribed in my behalf, but someone deserves a lot of thanks...
...We must make up our minds, and do it quickly...
...Leo Cherne, in The Rest of Your Life, paints a very gloomy though accurate picture of what may possibly—will almost certainly—take place after the war, if we allow industry and business free rein...
...Keep up the grand work...
...Judge Peirson M. Hall, Los Angeles, in Glen Smiley case...
...Parity for wheat is based on the 1910-14 price level when much more hand labor was required than now...
...Have we no better answer to the honest man than to place him in a steel cage when his honesty leads him to do a thing we disapprove...
...A. E. Campbell Winfield, Tex...
...Charity suffereth long, and is kind...
...Eventually it did much to involve both countries in war...
...What people in any country, our own included, have the right to refuse to follow the warmongers (leaders) when they decide the time to war is ripe, and will prove profitable to them in one way or another ? And in what country, our own included, are there not enthusiastic followers of the "leaders," especially young fellows who have been bamboozled into believing their leaders would never ask them to kill and be killed for selfish reasons but only in "defense of country...
...Postal employes have always been dependable public servants — always loyal to their employer — the people of the United States — and their Government...
...Danger Signals On The Farm Front By PAUL MABRY THE WAY things are going now, there will be a serious farm problem for most of the remainder of the 1940s, and, like the farm problem of the 1930s, it will be one of burdensome "surpluses...
...THE PEOPLES FORUM . . . GoafcFor Germany Dear Sirs: If Germany is crushed by military might, two basic alternatives will confront the world's leadership: 1. To partially destroy and to control Germany...
...yet we continued to sell war goods to Germany and Italy, which they used in helping Franco in his conquest of Spain...
...I would begin by exempting the first $1,000 valuation of each and every landed estate from taxation...
...The disarmament of Germany .would be the first consideration in .the case of either alternative...
...However, before 1939 the size of the surpluses so disturbed Mr...
...This is rank injustice...
...The leaders in the different political parties have stressed the necessity of doing something about it, and yet most of them seem to have no definite plan as to how it can best be done...
...Ultimates In Planning Dear Sirs: It should be fairly obvious to anyone who has watched the antics and inanities of the past few decades that if we, as a people, are to have a decent and livable standard of living, some measure of far-sighted economic planning and social control is absolutely necessary...
...In 1943, crop acreage approximated 351 million acres...
...Something more is to be said regarding our relations to the war in Spain...
...If Mr...
...Even though to defend their country they must be shipped thousands of miles" from home to destroy millions of innocent and helpless people...
...the second $25,000 worth at one-half of one per cent...
...In either alternative, the problem of agricultural surpluses would be greatly aggravated...
...the third $25,000 worth at three-fourths of one per cent...
...They must buy all their uniforms...
...Little actual benefit comes from this raise due to the cost of living up 50 per cent as compared to January, 1942, increased income taxes, increased retirement deductions, etc...
...2 Sheridan, Wyo...
...If this judgment is correct, our Federal penitentiaries' are filled with men (more than 4,000) sent there for honest acts—men who are paying a price for obeying their consciences rather than the laws of men in the circumstances related to their imprisonment...
...The latter had adopted certain liberal policies looking toward better educational and economic opportunities for the common people of Spain...
...In the event of ultimates, which threat is worse...
...will certainly not be delegated by the United Nations...
...Will Churchill...
...Surpluses are likely to accumulate even if this nation maintains the Utopia of full employment during peacetime...
...The Bureau of Agricultural Economics is well aware that the prospects for full employment during peacetime are dubious...
...Wheeler, which you published on Nov...
...Nor is it generally realized that these surpluses accumulated despite the unprecedented droughts of 1934 and 1936, each of which burned up about a billion bushels of corn and cut all production in the wheat and corn belts...
...Charles Norton Boston, Mass...
...I like them all even though I might not agree with their opinions at all times...
...It led Britain to encourage Hitler's war designs...
...The BAE estimates that if Germany collapses in the next month or two, 13,000,000 or 14,-000,000 acres above the 1943 acreage will be planted next year...
...I find each copy ve.ry interesting and informative and while I agree with your articles in many cases, I also disagree with many of them...
...Greed's Reward Dear Sirs: If it is one of the ways of Providence that nations shall be punished for wrong-doing, this war with Japan is doubtless our punishment for having continued for four years selling oil and scrap iron to Japan...
...And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give.my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing...
...Richard Larson Spokane, Wash...
...However, by Oct...
...Good' And 'Bad' Americans Dear Sirs: In a letter appearing in the People's Forum in The Progressive of Oct...
...For example, the carryover of corn fell from 338,-000,000 bushels on Oct...
...It entails sacrifices of what we have come to regard as our economic rights under the "American way of life," whatever that means...
...The wheat farmers are facing trouble and plenty of it, but the cotton farmers, unless a more realistic program is developed, are facing the destruction of their industry...
...The Congress of the United States decreed by law that postal workers shall be victimized on overtime pay to the tune of millions of dollars a year through the use of the old longer work-week used prior to the 40-hour week...
...Wheeler's expose of the radio industry was magnificent...
...but the greatest of these is charity...
...The Greatest Of These' Dear Sirs: Everywhere one goes these days one hears or sees the handiwork of hate which has become an abomination of desolation of the present generation...
...spiritually they are dead...
...Keep up your good work as I agree with most of it...
...This provision, little noticed in the argument over other portions of the bill, permits the Commodity Credit Corporation, WFA fiscal agency, to dump farm surpluses at will...
...Family-Sized Farms Dear Sirs: For a number of years past we have been hearing a great deal about preserving and encouraging the family-sized farm...
...Let us, hear from, them...
...They never think of striking as do workers in private industry...
...A Critical Problem Undoubtedly more acres will be put into cultivation after the war...
...Albin Peterson Chicago, 111...
...Its concern for justice and right in the postwar world should be heralded by all Americans...
...This legislation makes surpluses in certain farm commodities almost certain regardless of full employment...
...And it must be admitted that history would seem to justify many of their fears...
...Generally, this is because it tends to strengthen an already strong centralized Government, since it creates additional Government bureaus and puts a large measure of control of the nation in the hands of a minority...
...Will Roosevelt...
...The Bureau of Agricultural Economics, the War Food Administration's fact finding agency, estimates that with full employment after the war, a total output of agricultural products not greatly different from our 1943 production will be required...
...The War Food Administration and the Department of Agriculture know what is coming, but they don't know what to do about it...
...Pvt...
...By 1950, because of improved seed, better methods of cultivation and the like, the BAE estimates that only 320 million acres will be required to turn out our 1943 volume of farm products...
...The Post Office motto, "The mail must go" means literally just this to the hard-working boys in the blue-gray uniform...
...And completely ignored was Russia's 168 million, Russia, the only ally that had invaded Germany, Russia that had lost more men than any other two of the Allies...
...But if he demands freedom of his fearful neighbor, he must also allow the honest "criminal" of today to go free...
...Isn't it about time that the Christian church, the idealists in international thought, preached the ideals of brotherhood...
...Pass This Paper On...
...The following portion of Scripture is one of many that runs through my mind daily, and it is taken from Corinthians, Book I, Chapter 13...
...Pass This Paper On...
...Wheat is planted and harvested mechanically...
...In following the Golden Rule there are two ways open...
...It Will Make New Friends...
...Most of the thinking has revolved „ about the first of these alternatives...
...Undoubtedly, they would be forced to do the same thing if another serious slump came along...
...The boys in the blue-gray uniform are subjected to all kinds of weather...
...Will we...
...And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge...
...In these, the liberals see the road toward totalitarianism, and hence draw back in a fright...
...Pass This Paper On...
...There is little question, however, that the power will be used to get rid of wheat, cotton, and other surpluses and we are likely to precipitate an agricultural trade war as fierce and deadly as any of the dumping programs which helped to bring on World War II...
...First, the acreage needed to raise enough food and fiber for us all under conditions of full employment will shrink because of improved technology...
...They better had, or else...
...says: "Even the so-called good - Germans will follow any leader into the next war with the same enthusiasm they have always followed their leaders into wars...
...it may barter-or sell on credit...
...Or is this so-called "security league" merely a screen behind which and by which the connivers of power politics and "spheres of influence" are working to set up their empire of world domination ? Are the people of the world again being "sold down the river" as they were at Versailles...
...The cotton outlook, partly because of a high loan, is even worse than that for wheat...
...Plea For Postal Workers Dear Sirs: One of the most deserving yet most neglected groups of workers in the United States is Uncle Sam's great essential Civilian Army employed in the far-flung postal system...
...Through a weird, antiquated, and unjust method of computing overtime, postal workers are penalized 20 per cent on hourly compensation as compared to the hourly rate determined by basic salary and the 40-hour week...
...The Parity Loans The Ever-Normal Granary was supposed to work something like a reservoir, storing up surpluses in times of excessive production for use in times of need...
...With the advent of World War II, emphasis shifted so quickly from surplus to scarcity that most people have forgotten that the country was contending with an acute agricultural surplus problem in 1939...
...Guardian Dear Sirs: You are doing a thrilling job back home...
...Italy...
...Right now their weary backs are breaking under an unprecedented volume of wartime mail...
...Bacon is consistent, he must believe that the enthusiastic American followers of their leader into his war are "bad" Americans and the 8,000 Americans who refused to follow are "good" Americans...
...A Real Newspaper' Dear Sirs: I consider The Progressive the best buy in our country in the way of a newspaper, and do not wish to miss a single issue...
...Wicked, ungrateful Russia, after saving her erstwhile' betrayers from destruction is actually threatening to re-annex part of what was taken from her to the agonizing groans of righteous Red-baiters...
...Contemptible Dear Sirs: The Progressive's cowardly refusal to take a stand in the Presidential campaign was contemptible beyond description...
...B. U. Hiestbr Ottawa, 111...
...Informative Dear Sirs: I have been receiving The Progressive for nearly six months now...
...I cannot quite understand the people who ask that their subscription be cancelled because you leave your columns open to those of conflicting views or opinions...
...Wallace that he spoke sympathetically of the problems faced by Herbert Hoover's P^arm Board...
...R. K. England CO's In Prison Dear Sirs: Recently a Federal judge expressed confidence that all but a very few of the conscientious objectors whom he had seen sent to prison were sincere in believing that they had done the right thing under the circumstances...
...That is Sweden...
...For this reason I shall renew my subscription...
...In this so-called Christian nation, a form of godlessness has become a national religion and is based on self-righteousness and covetous-ness...
...Cpl...
...While a temporary emergency measure granting a $300 annual bonus was passed last year, it expires in June, 1945...
...Will Stalin...
...All through the year the Big Five had waged an undeclared and un-publicized war against their former comrade-in-arms, wresting from her East Poland, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and shutting her off from the Baltic Sea...
...If we are to have no more war, why the need for forts and soldiers...
...How silly...
...1, 1934 to 65,000,000 on Oct...
...C. J. Arlund San Mateo, Calif...
...The farm always has been the dumping ground for the city's unemployed...
...4715 granting the $400 annual wage-raise...
...We must make up our minds whether the sacrifices that go with Government planning and control are not better than the chaos, insecurity, poverty, and moral degradation that result from the cavortings of "free" enterprise on the loose...
...Obviously, we will need to cut down on wheat production regardless of what happens...
...Is it possible...
...No Choice Dear Sirs: I enjoy The Progressive very much...
...Let there be justice...
...16, Paul V. Bacon of Boston, Mass., under the caption "Warped on Germans...
...But the Government, through its 90 per cent o'f parity loan program on wheat, extending for two years after the war, underwrites the fact that the United States will produce more wheat than it needs...
...Such a tax would not only encourage farm ownership, but it would also encourage home ownership in our cities and villages...
...Malcolm A. Green Austin, Tex...
...Would not Lincoln have advocated some such course...
...The 90 per cent of parity program applies to a whole series of commodities other than cotton and wheat...
...During the depression in the early 1930s, the farmers tried to offset ruinous prices by increasing production, thereby depressing prices still further...
...President Roosevelt has been quoted as saying that he was tricked into entering into the neutrality pact...
...The Granary supplies proved invaluable when war came along...
...1, 1935...
...Let us help these long suffering and deserving postal workers get a square deal by writing our Senators and Representatives in Washington to support Senate Bill No...
...And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three...
...Thus far, the Administration's only plan for dealing with these surpluses is to dump them abroad in defiance of the Atlantic Charter, Article 7 of the Lend-Lease agreements, and all the assurances about tearing down trade barriers and restoring trade that have been reiterated in high places during the past few years...
...To many it has become a gospel, it saturates the newspapers, the periodicals, the current books in libraries, the radio.programs, and public meetings...
...The prospective farm problem is greatly complicated by existing legislation...
...Do you continue to point out the symptoms of "price and profit" and offer no design for better social function...
...Ernie Crook Hamburg, la...
...Phil La Fol-lette's articles...
...It is up to the Government, or not at all...
...The loan and support prices extend not only for two years after the fall of Japan, but for two years from the Jan...
...Let there be flowers for the worthy living...
...As a friendly suggestion to ray fellow readers of The Progressive: Obtain and digest the scientific, paper, "Man-Hours and Distribution," by sending to 155 East 44th Street, New York, N. Y. You will then be able to place constructive interpretations upon the brilliant work done by the staff of The Progressive...
...Charles Mackintosh Los Angeles, Calif...
...Certainly Norman Thomas came closest to representing the La Follette progressive ideals, and he richly merited your support...
...If a doctor were to work on a patient's symptoms rather than search into the cause of the disturbance, he would be guilty of trespass and fraud...
...This time it is not prosperity that it just around the corner...
...What have other political leaders to offer as a substitute for the Farm Security Act...
...I would like to commend your paper for the excellent article, "The Shocking Truth About Radio" by Sen...
...No private organization, no matter how capable, could possibly get Congress to enact suitable legislation...
...Charity here means Christian love...
...Some 200 million select men the world over will have been driven into battle against each other before the close of ihis present war, and this serves to demonstr"ate that the harvest of hate is only more hate in greater abundance...
...2. To reconstruct from her ruins a model of social organization for the world economy of tomorrow...
...However, many who call themselves "liberals," as well as the conservatives of business (who have their own reasons for opposing such legislation), have a genuine fear of such Government control over our economic and social life...
...The agency now is busily engaged in a set of calculations as to what would happen under conditions of "intermediate employment" or a national income of 105 billion dollars, and also during "serious depression" or an income around 58 billion dollars...
...But there is one nation to which the rebuilding of Germany along peaceful and otherwise socially efficient lines might well be delegated...
...Change your feeling of despair to thoughts of progress...
...The results are inescapable and a few of its marks are the ever increasing number of delinquency institutions, prisons, insane asylums, mental institutions, hospitals, broken homes, and hungry people in a land of plenty...
...If you thirst for the truth, read the Bible daily and live according to its teachings, "For the fear of the Lord, Jesus Christ, is the beginning of wisdom...
...The job should be thorough and permanent...
...The Progressive is read by many who salute you as a guardian of the principles for which we fight...
...Her .disarmament would be a blessing to herself as well.as the world...
...No sooner would such a law be enacted than the big land owners would begin to divide up and sell off their excess land in tracts to suit their would-be purchasers and their ability to pay for it...
...For it was the 8,000 who resisted the unbridled power of the American war machine and it was the enthusiastic (and not so enthusiastic) millions who submitted to it...
...There are some 8,000 "good" Americans who have refused to follow their "leader" into the present war because they recognize that all wars are evil and barbaric, but many of them are persecuted and tortured as are the "good" Germans of which there were many who did not follow their leader...
...Postal workers and especially letter carriers have one of the hardest physical jobs as well as one of the most monotonous...
...Does Mr...
...Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal...
...Sweden has known no war for 126 years...
...It would be simpler and less expensive to administer than the income tax because land titles are a matter of record...
...What acknowledgment do you make of a blueprint for progress...
...Therefore, wheat at 90 per cent of parity is a very profitable crop, comparatively speaking, and so long as such a high loan is available there will be more wheat produced than is needed...
...If a map believes in placing those whom he thinks dangerous to his society in steel cages, he must cheerfully accept being placed in a steel cage by his fearful neighbor...
...Second, there promises to be chronic over-production of a few major commodities like wheat and cotton whether there is full employment or not...
...The high loan and support program, however, will act to preserve the status quo at the end of the war and will not only prevent shifts that are desirable, but will prevent reductions in some of the crops we do not need...
...China's millions did not count...
...The fact that fewer acres will be needed to raise enough food and fiber under conditions of full employment worries the most optimistic...
...If it were working satisfactorily, why should there be any further clamor for legislation along that line...
...charity envieth not...
...It Will Make New Friendsl Wants Blueprint Dear Sirs: I find that other readers also ask the question, "Just what is the policy of The Progressive...
...Farmers are facing the unpleasant fact that within a few years 40 to 50 million acres more ¦ than are needed will be turning out food and fiber...
...This will be true in the extremely unlikely event that there is full employment, and the 150 billion national income that goes along with it...
...1, 1939, this carryover had increased to 584,000,000 bushels, or more than three times the 1929 carryover...
...6. This article is very enlightening and I urge everyone to read it intelligently...
...This cleared the way for the overthrow of the Spanish republic by Franco with the aid of Hitler and Mussolini...
...The English Tories had made large investments in Spanish metal mines, and they believed their investments would be safer under the conservative regime of Gen...
...1 following the date on whic...
...Already plans for export subsidies on...
...Since the armistice period may continue indefinitely, this may mean 90 per cent of parity for a whole series of agricultural commodities for several years after Germany and Japan actually are defeated...
...Francis Bryan Chicago, 111...
...Such a law would not be any more radical than our present graduated income tax...
...That goal could be accomplished...
...It is also true that under our present economic set-up, the only agency capable of originating and enforcing such planning is the Federal Government...
...Morris R. Mitchell Clarkesville, Ga...
...Discussion please...
...In hard times, the exodus toward rural areas increases...
...The United States, Japan, Great Britain, France...
...Under a neutrality pact we refused arms to the republican government of Spain with which to defend itself...
...and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing...
...1882 and House Bill No...
...My wife looks forward each week to reading Mrs...
...and its multitude of followers are heady, high-minded, and able to see the mote in their neighbor's eye, but not the beam in their own eyes...
...And now can you believe it...
...Greed led our people in the case of Japan to help build up her military power...
...The English Tory government induced France and the United States to enter the so-called neutrality pact...
...The loan on cotton now is 95 per cent of parity and 20 or 25 million bales of cotton in Government hands a few years after the war is not too fanciful a prospect if we follow the path we now are traveling...
...John McWilliams Rt...
...We know she was using these supplies in bludgeoning, robbing, and enslaving the weak and innocent people of China...
...It Will Make New Friend...
...It would automatically break up large land holdings and place the ownership of the land in the possession of those most deserving to hold it...
...This will be true because of two factors...
...At least we get lots of news that we do not get in our daily papers...
...Otherwise, there will be an agricultural catastrophe, for no farm programs can continue to pile surpluses higher and higher each year at the expense of taxpayers...
...I enjoy all the different writers and I have no choice...
...the fourth $25,000 worth at the rate of one per cent and all values above $100,000 held in a single estate at two per cent...
...Questions Dear Sirs: If the advocates of a "world security" league (chief among whom is the President of the United States) believe their organization will prevent war and maintain peace, why the demand by the Commander-in-Chief that we retain and fortify all the islands of all the seas and resort to compulsory military service, conscripting our 17-year-old yeuths...
...It may develop that another series of fierce droughts' or another war will come along to dispose of the farm surpluses that seem almost certain to pile up in the late 1940s, or more rational farm programs than those now existing may be developed...
...Sweden's neutral position in the present conflict is an added important quality...
...But—think of the alternative...
...The CCC may not only sell at reduced prices for cash...
...charity vaunteth not.itself...
...Constant inspection and constant policing to insure this end...
...E. T. Becher Mineola, N. Y. * * * Pass This Paper On...
...The Progressive could become a powerful factor in public education if it would give more attention to the relation between our technological equipment, man-hours, and distribution...
...Most workers in private industry now draw time and one-half for hours over 40 a week...
...Then I would tax the next $24,000 valuation at one-fourth of one per cent...
...We must learn to think in terms of our own power age and use scientific thought to push aside the useless confusion of an orderless history...
...It seems to me that the time is drawing near for the awakening of the people...
...On the other hand, cotton will have to lower its price or see synthetics, like rayon, take the home market, to say nothing of foreign cotton taking over the export market...
...They are ever learning, but never able to come to the knowledge of truth...
...Walter E. Currah Tacoma, Wash...
...The Germans are said to have boasted that their campaign in Spain was merely a rehearsal for larger ventures later, and so it proved...
...J. M. G. Camp Crowder, Me...
...The second should be the goal...
...If we do not want the widespread unemployment, the breadlines, and tragic insecurity of the 1920's and 1930's, we must make plans to avoid them, and further, must carry those plans out...
...If it were not for the fact postal workers get a lot of overtime hours, above 40 per week, their plight would be distressing indeed...
...If The Progressive continues to hold a place in education it must not sidestep the basic cause of failure in our monetary system...
...Even With Full Employment' To reiterate, even with full employment after the war there would be need for a sizeable reduction in cotton and wheat production and some other crops, and also a sizeable increase in dairy production and in certain fruits and vegetables...
...A newspaper to meet their demands would in every way be inimical to all concepts of democracy, but would be ideal under any dictator, as long as it expressed itself in conformity with His Highness' wishes...
...For instance, even with full employment, only about 770 million bushels of wheat will be required annually after the war, as compared with the 880,000,000 produced in 1943 and the more than one billion produced in 1934...
...The story of wheat is similar and in cotton, the carryover had become so excessive and exports had declined so sharply by 1939, that Henry Wallace resorted to an export subsidy on cotton in violation of all his theories on foreign trade...
...At least, wheat is likely to hold the home market, even if the high domestic price will keep it out of the world market in the absence of an export subsidy...
...They never stop —never complain...
...As was so vividly demonstrated in pre-war years, "free" enterprise or "private" capitalism cannot be depended upon to take care of itself, let alone the rest of us...
...Franco than under the Spanish republican government...
...It is true the present Administration, some seven years ago, had the Farm Security Act passed as its solution of the problem, but so far it has utterly failed to accomplish anything of value...
...Recently, Marvin Jones, War Food Administrator, persuaded Congress to put an export subsidy provision into the Surplus Property Act...
...This is a fair question...
...Thus we assisted indirectly in establishing a totalitarian regime in Spain...
...I have long advocated as my solution of this problem a graduated tax on land values the same as we now have on incomes and inheritances...
...it must not transgress the very nature of progressive thought...
...The Progressive is my only source of liberal thought now...
...Praise For Wheeler Dear Sirs: Sen...
...What a combination...
...A similar statement could be made about our war with Germany...
...Some of them are corn, rice, peanuts, tobacco, hogs, eggs, chickens, milk, butterfat, and potatoes...
...Jones' aides say that he had only in mind getting rid of some of the stocks of food that had been piling up for Army and Navy use...
...It Will Make New Friends...
...Post Offices all over the United States are short-handed and simply overwhelmed with business...
...A static history has nothing to teach us of the dynamic possibilities in this age of energy conversion...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 47
