You Can't Keep It

HELLO FOLKS — You owe it to yourself, I guess, — To be a brilliant, huge success.

And after that, you owe it to — The Internal Bureau of Revenue.

 – Stephen Schlitzer

Seven days of dieting makes one weak.

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LAST WEEK I wrote the teenage Commandments; This week I'll give you the Modern Ten Commandments, as written by Kenneth S. Learey:

1— Thou shalt revive they faith in thyself, in man and in God. Believe in the ultimate goodness of all things. Your future lies under your own cloak.

2— Thou shalt not look like a graven image. Smile sometimes. It take less effort than scowling.

3— Thou shalt not curse this world. Dare to be different. Do the best you can with what you have.

4— Remember every day to make it happy. Do a good deed or a dozen, daily. Save Sunday for the great things of the soul. 

5— Honor thy children. Play and pray with them. Make your house a home. Home is where home is.

6— Thou shalt not kill thyself with worry. Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

7— Thous shalt be honest. It will soon be in fashion again. The luxury of integrity is yours. 

8— Thou shalt love thine enemies. You made them. To have friends be one. Dynamic brotherhood is more powerful that the atomic bomb.

9— Though shalt take on the marks of greatness. Link you life with a great cause. The joy of living is found in giving. Care and hare.

10— Thou shalt contribute to civilization today; tomorrow may be too late. Eternity is now. Immortality is here.

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ACCORDING TO my figures we received an even three inches of precipitation during April. Two tenths of an inch of it came in the form of snow.

This is another late spring but I believe most of the oats were seeded in April.

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WHAT ARE the chances of success in the holding actions of the NFO? I say very slim. Suppose that all the farmers cooperated in the holding actions; the livestock is still there and gaining at the rate of about two pounds a day with the quality of meat going down every day. 

Livestock cannot be held indefinitely. Most farmers have to sell within a week or so in order to get profitable prices for the products. Adding inefficient weight to an animal, hoping for an improvement in price, seldom pays. 

Besides that there are imports galore that are waiting to be shipped in here at our prices. Would 90 per cent of the population stand for tariffs that would make their food costs go up? There are many families who do not buy enough meat now and if prices could be forced up 5 to 10 cents a pound they would eat less than ever.

Before prices could be raised much there would have to be strict production curbs. Are we ready for them?

Besides all this there are the anti-trust laws that we would surely run up against. The big electric companies found out what happened when they tried to subvert those laws.