The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1954 Page: 5 of 12
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Tke B«yi or County Banner
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THE BANMIK BUILDING
Seymour, Text*
PaklliM Iwry Thon4>r by
the bajnnw runu&HiNo co.
o. C. HARMBQH * GBKX CMRIXBl, Ownara and PuMMmn
O. cT HARRISON, Editor
GXNE UAiWXR, BuilnM Uuuiw
«■ 6«cond Claw matter October S, IBM at the Pm\ Otticm at
aaorraour. Tex** und»r the Act of March S, 1W0.
NATIONAL EDITORIAL
•UBBCRilPTION RATES: In Baylor and Knox Counties and Megargel,
Texas, 1 year $2 00; 0 months $120, 3 months 7Bc. Outside thla
area: 1 year »2.S0; 6 months |1J»; 3 months #0c.
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FARM PRICE SUPPORTS
So much has been Maid on the subject of the national government
giving a subsidy to the farmers that perhaps this paper should de-
clare itself, i'or the records. Unhappily, The Banner will not be
able to give a satisfactory solution of the matter; which will put
us in the same boat with all the rest. And il' we should happen to
come up with the right decision, the plan would not be adopted;
for political rea!sons or otherwise. So, any discussion at all rrtay be
time wasted; unless, perchance, we might help our readers to rea'li/.e
some of the tremendous difficulties that aire involved, And if any
of tihese readers imagine they have the answer, wrapped up in a
neat package, they might as well ibecome disillusioned. As a matter
of plain fact, there may not be any right answer.
If there should really be a solution of the problem, it would be
tied up with a lot of other questions of like nature. Before we had
cleared up the muddy waters, we would 'be finding out that a large
per cent of our population had become involved, with squawks
everywhere, and lots of people feeling that they were ruined and
their m'eans of livelihood taken away. This whole nation has become
a big baby, apparently large enough in size to go to work and take
care ol' himself. Instead of that, he wants to be coddled and to take
his milk from a bottle furnished by Washington. There are benefits
on top of benefits; and for some time it has just seen fed that the
nation's capital has been concerned more with adding pap bottles to
its list than with trying to find methods of maintaining our 'solvency.
And there must be a check on the thing somewhere, lest this peo-
ple become just so many wards of the governrrtent, and so many that
in the end we cannot be supported.
Pardon us if we have seemed to get off the subject of farm aid.
Farm aid may not be justified in theory, and it might not be im prac-
tice. On the practical side, a paternalistic government has been ac-
cumulating a fairly nice stock of farnt products, in the effort to
maintain prices. To be more specific, the 'government now owns
sorn six billion dollars worth of things the farms have produced, and
the carrying of this stuff has become a sizable burden itttelf. Dis-
asters to the farmers have been prevented through the years, but
government purchases seen? to have accomplished only temporary re-
lief. In spite of the stocks taken off the,market, the markets have
not been maintained. And always there is a leery eye pointed to-
ward these surpluses, and wondering what will eventually become
of them. The now president is not in favor of destroying them, and
ihe is right. Why dump them in the ocean, and then get up early in
the m'orning and work hard to produce more of the same?
(Farmers are entitled to their pap, the same as anybody else; but
supported prices create almost as many problems as they solve. The
guaranteed price is supposed to be high enough to enable the pro-
ducer to make some kind of profit on his operations. All right; with
profits guaranteed, we'll insure that there will be more production.
It might even be that sonfe of the rest of us who may not be doing
well at the job we aire on now, would decide to try fanning. (Maybe
wc were reared on a farm, and sort of like the business anyway).
During the three wars, there was some question about enough sup-
plies being produced to feed ourselves and part of the allies. When
the war was over, the needs were less; and the boys came back from
v/ar, adding their services to a situation that was going to require
less manpower.
Anybody can state the difficulties; the hard part is to chart the
way out of them. The old saying, "Let nature take her course," might
help a little; and Father Tinrfle often helps out on hard situations.
Drastic measures are not the answer; and whatever changes are made
should be over a sufficient period of time to allow for a gradual ad-
justment. But if the whole problem of government supports is to
bo reviewed sensibly, then we'd better proceed on the theory of get-
ting the government out of the supporting business. You can t get
around the stubborn fact that the people must support the govern-
ment; and not the other way around.
In order for this article not to be too n?uch like begging the ques-
tion. let's end it with one faint suggestion as a future approach to
the farm problem. There are a few farmers around (his town who
piece out their incomes with certain kinds of work in town. Henry
Ford had the idea of placing his factory workers on a few acres of
ground, enabling them to produce part of their living. The old law
of supply and demand is hard to defeat. When you make what some-
body else wants, then he is goinig to pay you for it.
SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS
Right along the line of benefits of every kind to be paid by the
federal government, we have this business of social security pay-
ments. They pay you for not having a job, for being old, or blind,
or sick, or losing a leg, etc., etc. And the thing has gotten to be such
an integral part of the nation's economy scheme that it is said no
political party would dare even to suggest that the benefits should
be taken away, or even decreased So what Now, President Eisen-
hower has suggested, in his message to Congress, that the social se-
curity structure be broadened, to take in millions more: and with a
gradual increase in the amount of social security payment, by the
employers and also by the employed. Probaby Banner readers
might proceed to the conclusion that this paper woipd be op-
posed to more of this kind of business, or even be in favor of
abolishing federal guarantees to laborers and other beneficiaries.
Well we never did quite fall in with former President Roosevelt'j
idea of •security from cadle to the grave, and we still confess to a
certain amount of reluctance to the idea of people not working for
their own living
Knox County Rebuilds
Highway 277 From
Baylor to Haskell Lines
Advertisement for bids on the
widening and improvement of U.
S. Highway 277 through Knox
County was Issued this week by
the Texas Highway Department.
Bids will be received until » a.
m. Wednesday, January 20, and
then publicly opened and read.
This project will complete most
of the highway improvement on
277 from Wichita Falls to Abilene,
and the widening will make this
heavily traveled road safer for
motorists.
The project calls for construc-
tion of 13.252 miles from the Bay-
lor County line to the Haskell
County line.
Plans and specifications are
available at the office of H. T.
Cunningham, resident engineer,
at Munday.
Mr. Cunning am stated the road
bad will be widened from It to
44 feet, with soil cement con-
struction Twenty-four feat of the
width will be black topped, with
nine feet surfaced shoulders on
each side. The Lake Creek bridge
will be widened from 30 to 40 feet,
Cunningham said.
Highway Department estimates
are that this project will cost over
a half-million dollars.
The project also calls for wid-
ening of the highway through
Munday, with the curb and gut-
ter set beak to 80-feet width far
three blocks within the city.—Mun-
day Times.
The abovo item Is good news to
all towns along Highways 377 from
Wichita Falls to Abilene The Knox
Counrty gap is the only mileage still
uncontracted in the ISO-Mile
stretch from Wichita Falle to Abi-
lene; and wthen this has been im-
proved there is bound to be a
still greater traffic over this very
>rtant line of communication,
e whole line has been worked
over, at a great cost, except this
Knox County distance and that be-
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The
John Hancock Farm & Ranch Loans
Insurance and Real Estate
J. E. 'Gene' Culver Insurance Agency
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tween Seymour and the Baylor- weather permits.
Knox line. And this part has been
contracted, with work on it well
advsnced. The winter waather will
slow down the Baylor portion of
the work, but the working craw
that is located hare will be kept
on the Job at all times when the
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Harrison, O. C. The Baylor County Banner (Seymour, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 28, 1954, newspaper, January 28, 1954; Seymour, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth429844/m1/5/?q=%221964~%22&rotate=270: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Baylor County Free Library.