Iowa County Farmer (Newspaper) - October 5, 1950, Williamsburg, Iowa Bert Hubbell spent a few days hi the Veterans hospital in Des last week for and Merle Schauff and and Herman of North English visit ed Wednesday evening In the Wil liam Brock and Homer Robison are the parents of a son born at the Mercy hospital in Iowa He li named Craig Doug las and weighs 8 lbs They have another son Ronald Iva Paul Wen Arlan Broker and Art Green were Sigourney callers Thursday The officers of are planning to attend the fall Group meeting September 27 at This is an all day NORGE with exclusive System Liberal Allowance DEFROSTS WWII YOU only automatic nwu and work and remain chilled during dt frozen and Ice remain Up per for froien lower for Ice froien Space for 39 of froien M ICE CUBES totaling S huge quantity near at much at a of fruiti and and at bottom handy dry for ADJUSTABLE SHEIF SPACE 19 feet takei whale tall pro handy thelf for Amana Store Phone 2504 Iowa IOWA COlMY FARMER Published at lowd HALBASCH Publisher Iowa Mailed to every farmer in Iowa County by the controlled circula tion Present circulation 2400 Page Price Advertising copy closing date not later than the 18th of any those is tlf that tan be is always a time like this It is Ai It has been will Why are we communists and at the same time their socialistic plans In this country The time is Washington will have td 1950 MODEL lays presumptuous claim that tne book provides students certain basic tools of ft is a WHAT IS THE ANSWER The government has awarded a contract for perman ent visitors facilities and exhi bit building at Shasta The structure will contain an observa tion decks and exhibit This is being done despite the fact that excellent now exist for those who wish to see the dam and the power This is just one minor exam ple of the reckless waste of the taxpayers money that is going on all over the spite of in spite of the de mand for higher and in spite of unpredictable tures for the military forces and for other purposes in connection with the international The most tragic part of it all is that political support and agi tation for nonessential govern ment spending does not seem to have abated one This is par evident in the electric power The socialists in the as they dis like that accurate ac tually using the present crisis as an argument for going ahead with valley authorities through out the country even though pri vate enterprise has demonstrated that it can provide all the power we can use if given the opportun And it can do it without a nickel of tax subsidy and it will create important new sources ol taxation while doing n top of the advocates of the Brannan health social security and the rest of the socialization program are still in full No one can even esti mate cost of these schemes in billions of The world may be in the grav est peril it has ever We need desperately to build our de fenses in all one 01 ANNOUNCING opening of our New Sale Barn IN IOWA October 4 SPECIAL Be on at to hear Terry the yodeling cowboy and his Jerry Smith is from Youve heard now come and see and hear him in Its all The public is OUR NEW SALE BARN Its a new in the old More seating bigger and better sale One finest bams in this A new lunch Its a good place to come if you have livestock to sell or just see one of the best market sales in the EXPECTING A BIG Were expecting a big sale on our opening There already several lots of feeder cattle Included is the Pat McCune herd of Angus steers and heifers which never fail to top their sale and Therell be buyers present for all the feed ers we can get Buyers are coming from other states for this They are looking for feeder Therell be packing house buyers for all the fat Bring in any livestock you have for Therell be plenty of demand for TREATS ON THE HOUSE FOR EVERYONE YOU ARE ALL INVITED Marengo Sale Barn ERNIE Proprietor Countless volumes of fiction have been written about the wild its Texas cattle rustling and driving of herds over long tt makes exciting especially with a little gunplay thrown But how good was the produced in those days If one judges by the pictures of the critters of fifty years com pared with the modern beef ani mals that you see today on the larger ranges as well as small the difference is almost The rangy steer of the twogun story period looks like he would be pretty tough eating compared with the heavy well fattened animals that go to the packing houses There is just about as much dif ference between them as there is between the angular bile of the early and the streamlined product of The meat packing industry and the farmers have been as busy producing new beef models as automobile manufacturers have been producing new car The consumer of meat does not realize He has no idea of the cooperative effort that has taken place between the cattle raiser and the meat packer and the technical advances that have been made in processing meats in order to produce uni form quality that was unknown a few short years Whenever a new wrinkle for a atom bomb is perfected the news is flashed around the world as a great ac But when bread and butter industries such as packing and farming produce a better meat the accom is taken for granted and little or nothing is said about but producing better food is a blessing to the whole human I I THEY CAN STILL TURN BACK More than a decade ago a forty or fifty Fed eral debt was considered by many to be The fact that the country has progressed far beyond this point and the wheels still keep turning raises the question of how far the debt can climb without resulting i Many people are no longer con cerned simply because the debt has soared to astronomical levels with no apparent ill How ever they would do well to con sider the warning of Frederick vice president of the Bank of says there is no mathematical for mula to determine at just what point in an inflationary spiral we pass the point of no Deficit financing almost ably means inflation because the government has to finance the deficits either by printing money or selling treasury obligations to the both of which increase the amount of currency in cir at the same we do not have a corresponding increase in the supply of goods and will have which means cheaper dol The reason that we have no mathematical formula for deter mining how far along this road we can travel without disastrous consequences is that we are deal ing with the changing andun predictable climate of public In a democracy where the individual is supposed to have freedom of this is especially difficult to As long as the mass of the people have faith in the soundness of their money and the credit of the all is But and when the mass of the peo ile lose faith in their money and ne credit of the is not far The Federal government for many years has lived on deficit while giving the peo le the illusion of expanding through liberal wel are programs costing billions of At present the dollar is worth half the value of a few Whether the point of no return has been reached can only be answered by the actions of individual They can still turn back FREEDOM OF INQUIRY It is not the known Commun ists and their followers who pre sent the greatest threat to the United It 18 those citizens who take pride in their alleged capacity to view all sides of a question with the im partial eye of a surgeon while to avoid the expression of personal These in drifters a threat to freedom that is difficult to because in many in stances their veneer of impartial ity hides bitter animosity to the American in other they do wrong And they espouse them subtly in textbooks on and Raymond a well known tafor for Newsweek mar recently a text compilation of articles accom by the authors interpre The net of all these ar declared is that competition is dying or that a few Corporations control economic that only the state must be allowed to save and that government planning s This was and is the philosophy of British There was no effort to include the views of those who disagree with this Open advocacy of ideas is one but presenting those ideas while wearing a cloak of judi impartiality is the height of hypocrisy and deserves nothing but Textbooks in Schools and universities have be come a favorite medium for weakening destroy ing faith in the individual and opening the door to mass coer Freedom of inquiry is basic It should be exer cised by parents as well as pro Our institutions of higher edu cation which enjoy freedom of expression and action should be judged more critically on their textbooks and their with the thought of upholding instead of undermining American tradi Attending Pauls mission fes tival from the Zion congregation were and Lambert Willie and Minnie and Elmer David and Henry Lawrence Ha Henry Haman and El and Delmer Die trich and and Everett Wiedemeier and Mary Ida and Lena John Dietrich and and Cecil Gorsh and and John and Smith and and George and Emil Timmerman and Van and Ed The Baptist church is being spray painted by painters from RECENT FIGURES SHOW FHA OPERATES WELL IN IOWA STATE Clow To Operating And Ownership Interesting facts about the Far mers Home Administration show that in Iowa close to farm ers have operating loans and near ly have farm ownership Operating loans In Iowa amounted to If the books were closed today the gov would not only get back all the dollars the report but about 80 of the in terest It would take just a little over 20 of the interest to pay the The report further says that of the more than used In the farm ownership program there has not been a cent As of July 43 of all FO loans made up to that date had been repaid in Only about 8 of these loans have gone out of the program through sale or re Make Good Farmers The average size of all owner ship loans made in Iowa is for about 150 Borrowers at the time of getting the loan have an overage age of just under 35 The interest rate for real estate loans is 4 over a period of 40 years with one payment a Operating loans bear interest at the rate of 5 for five A very high percentage of bor both FO and have demonstrated given an op they will develop into good farmers and accept their share of community A year there were applications on hand from farmers who wanted to borrow money to carry on farming This year loan applications total ed on June The agency made 601 loans for an average of cmr mi all and wide for Chooie the bid Dont do a mans and all the in Easy to move from crib to crib or from farm to Pocks into posi tion in a jiffy supporting Holds boom rigid ly at any ELEVATOR TOPS FOR AND ORA LEO KELLY Cft Your Dealer Blairstown Marengo Belle 1949 MORE THAN IOWA BOYS AND GIRLS WERE MEMBERS j IOWA GIRLS MAPI NEW POUNDS AND CANNED QUARTS OF VEGETABLES AND MEATS MADE OR RE FINISHED JO HOME ARTICLES IF YOURE BETWEEN THE ASES OF 10 AND 21 YOU CAN BECOME A OF THIS GREAT JOIN A CLUB A BOOSTER STATE BOYS MARKETED MORE THAN HEAD OF ACRES OF CROPS ANP THE PRODUCE OF 190 ACRES 91 GARDEN THIS WOULD FEED WORKING MEN FOR ONE Farmers Coop Livestock Shipping Association Robert IS THE LARGEST YOUTH IM THE WORLD DEDICATED TO THt OF ANP Farm Bureau Service Company YOUR SAFETY IS OUR BUSINESS SEAT COVERS Firestone
