For Controls Or Against?

HELLO FOLKS — The nicest thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

"When you speak of Heaven" the lecturer on public speaking advised the class, "let your face light up with a heavenly gleam, let your eyees shine with reflected glory. But when you speak of Hell, your ordinary expression will do."

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FARMER'S WILL have a chance to vote on the choice of corn program they want to have for the next year and future years at a referendum to be held next Tuesday, the 25th.

The choice will be whether we want the same program that we have had the past years with corn, grown under the government controls, set at a prices of around $1.25 a bushel, or whether we want a new program that will abolish all alottments and set the price at approximately $1.10 for 1959.

The old program is the number 2 choice. The new program is the No. 1 on the ballot.

This year farmers have planted mostly as they pleased, with only about 20 per cent of the farmers staying under the allotment and getting the higher price. The number of farmers staying under government controls planted approximately 13 per cent of the total acreage.

Those figures show pretty much what farmers are thinking. That are not at all satisfied with controls. They have seen the cotton farmers lose their markets to foreign countries and plant corn instead. They have seen the tobacco market go off to South Africa and the wheat acreage go to non-wheat states. While they sit there and can't get off first base with their own crops.

The corn farmers have watched the rice, cotton, tobacco and wheat farmers grow corn and feed up the livestock that they would ordinarily handle. They now see the cotton farmers calling for lower supports on cotton so that he can get the market back that he lost to synthetics and foreign growers.

Farmers left with a free hand in this will probably vote government controls. However, there is a good chance that special interest groups will pour on the heat and get many to vote against their best judgment as happened in the last referendum when a two-thirds majority was required. Then more farmers voted against higher supports but the heat applied by the special interest groups who stood to make fortunes on grain storage was enough to keep the referendum from passing.

My suggestion is for all farmers to vote for Program No 1. at the election Nov. 25.

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The Weather Man

Consider calmly, if you can. The weather-beaten weatherman.

If he says rain and it is sunny, we ridicule him, think it's funny.

If he said fair and skies are grim, our day is spoiled, and we b[la]me him.

If he said fair and fair's the clime, we say we knew it all the time.

Although he charges his highs and lows and studies figures ranger in rows.

And telephones a friend long-distance and checks with capable assistants.

And takes a final hurried glance, he knows he doesn't have a chance.