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I'm the Guy
You Let Do It!
M REALLY beginning to run your
country — your state, your county
and your town, too! You don't like
that, do you? But haven't you been
saying, "I haven't got the time. Let
George do it?" So . . . I'm doing it.
As long as vein ele> nothing more
''Wil complain, I'm sitting pretty. The
°nly thing that will ever get rid of me
■"id the political gang I control is for
C°u who call yourselves real Americans to start running your own gox-
*nment. Von talk a lot about sclf-
SOVernment, but most of it i.s just so
'""eh talk. Almost 50 per cent of
foil didn't even bother tei vote at the
'•1st presidential election. You even let
"fiy machine pick your candidates for
Vou __ right from the- top down to
J0|u' precinct captains. Do you call
'ut self-government?
,. Do you wonder why SO many pub-
I1-' officials are corrupt? Don't you
now why so many crooks, grafters
'"d other criminals receive little or no
Punishment from the courts? It i.s
^""I'le - the crooks are part of my
^'l(-'hine. and my machine elects or
WPoints the judges. No one ever bites
'"e hand that feeds him!
,,'on max not realize it, but I paved
,nc' Wax for Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini
incl all the- rest eil the big shots. You
n°H' how 1 did it - by getting the
'""'I people tei take care of then
«elv,
(,s and the bad bens tei take care
everybody else. That's the easiest
wax tei mess up any government. Remember what Edmund Burke said:
"The only thing necessary lor the triumph eif evil i.s that good men elo
nothing!"
I'm sure glad you're letting me
handle things for you. Why not! You
don't have to worry your heads over
things like resolutions, hills, proposed
amendments, writing letters to congressmen,
Just lceive it to me. 1 study all of
those things, and nix1 hoys see that the
congressmen get plenty eif mail — the
right kind of mail.
Frankly, I don't see why you need
worry about registering or paying poll
taxes. Most of you probably wont
anyhow. But then, most of vein jug-
heads don't even know your Constitution! That's ;i scrap of paper made for
the horse' and buggy days. Just you
keep living in your fairy-tale constitutional dream world. Anel while you're
floating along on those sale little
clouds, we'll bring the Constitution
up to date for you. (Hal I
1 know what I want — I'm George!
I'm quite
countryl
a guy
I'm running this
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Food for Fighting
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ij 'Se of permanent transportation tie-
However, the' Department of
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Hfcj'pulture is aware' of this problem,
VH| 's "Considering the selection of less
fyji??rable locations — locations which
it, °e suitable lor civil defense needs
l'""'i'geneies.
■i' j"n defense prep.nations we have
, *d to take iiiio account the penna-
■ ee of the damage that would re-
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K '' to take into account the perma-
iil],t11' "f the damage that would re-
- ''o,n an H-bomb attack. If 60 per
"1 on,- industry were knocked out
V'° "rsf attack, it would bo knocked
^(Permanently. Not only would the
tii-s")"1'>'- destroy factories and I'acili-
\\\t tniV """''l knock out the
t||t>. s. that make the machines for
(' factories and facilities. Anel, fur-
's Fom xi \, ws. .Iiiiic. 1956
llier, the- same- bombs would demolish
the shops that tool such plants, and
they would put out eif commission the
foundries and steel mills that handle
the1 raw metal leir the tools.
In many eases the- rebuilding job
would have to start right down at the
raw metal level. There' is senne storage
eil industrial tools in our civil defense
effort. This program should be encouraged.
At the same time we should consider that we would not be able to
work with the tools in storage unless
we had food te) eat and warm clothing
to wear. II we hail lo divide our time
between "scrounging" for food and
burying those who couldn't scrounge
quite Bard enough, we would never
get around to using the' teiols. \\Y
would be caught in a cruel circle of
poverty — our hands tied in the' pro
duction of the elemental commodities
for survival.
It should follow, then, that it is
essential to our individual and national survival that xvc have ample
stocks eif these elemental commodities
stored, both on an individual family
level and on a national and community level. One of the best moves in
the interest of national defense that
our federal government could possibly
make would be to turn the farm surplus pile over tei the civil defense administrator for distribution to every
community and every home in the
nation.
Actually, it is on the home and
neighborhood level that these stocks
will he needed in the event of a national catastrophe. Especially should
these items be stored in those areas
that are not high priority targets fen
the enemy. It is to these areas theit we
will have to evacuate millions of out-
civilian population if there is ever an
attack or even a direct threat of em
attack.
Of course, not all the commodities
in the .surplus pile would lend themselves to storage for civil defense.
Many would, however — perhaps
enough te> eliminate the surplus problem if these stocks were turned over
for this purpose. A good deal of the
cotton surplus, for example, could go
to making bandages, sheets, sheet
blankets, clothing, ancl even tents to
be stiiied in every community lor civil
defense.
Freed of the surplus problem, the
Department of Agriculture could devote itself more fully to research on
processing and storage techniques.
Commodities that we don't know how
to steire now might have future Strategic storage value.
One bright aspect regarding the entire situation i.s that in the supply of
farm products and other essential consumer goods we have a tremendous
advantage over our potential enemies.
The Russians are' catching up in many
phases of armament ancl industrial
production, but the one area where
they seem incapable of overtaking us
is in farm production. It seems that a
farmer must remain free in order tee
produce. The Russian farmers resisted
collectivization from the beginning.
Many of them slaughtered their livestock rather than turn it oxer to the
state. Bulganin isn't lee-ding his people-
as well with c-onununized farms as
Tsar Nicholas did vv ith the downtrodden peasants.
If we- will recognize the food front
now. while we've- got one that is recognizable, and enter into a program of
strategic storage eif agricultural products anil other consumer goods lor sur-
v iveil. we will be doing much towards
keeping our farmers free now and
insuring our own future freedom. END
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