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From the More head (Ay.) Rowan County Newt, as quoted in The Congressional Record:
“Although stocks are not paying dividends to make them better buys than they haven been on many other occasions, in other bull markets, today there is certainly more speculation and general talk about the market among the average citizen.”
Abolishing Tariff Walls
From the Pleasant Hill (Mo.) Times, quoting from a letter written to Sen. Stuart Symington by Reverend Albert Danter:
“It is a crime that cries to heaven for vengeance tb allow surpluses to rot or to call for lowered production when millions of human beings are hungry and starving .... I would like to suggest one solution at least: the lowering or, perhaps, the abolishing of our tariff walls. The peoples of other countries cannot buy the thinp they need from qs unless we in turn buy their products ... While we turn our backs on our neighbors, Soviet Russia grows fat on world trade.” Free Trade Essential
From the Seaside (Ore.) Signal, as quoted in the Congressional Record: “If the United States takes the lead in promoting expanded trade, we can develop the economies of the western nations to the point where communism will lose its appeal ... we cannot continue to maintain a free economy without free trade. Our productive ability has become so great that only a worldwide market, free of all restrictions and barriers, can support full employment . . . most American production will compete with any in the world and will sell in competition to that of
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