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It is a good thing that The Wall Street Journal, -The New York Times, and The Washington Post were not leading newspapers in Egypt during the time that Joseph, who was, among other things, Secretary of Agriculture to the Pharaoh. For if they had been and had their editorials been heeded, the biblical stories of the seven fat years and the seven lean years would never have been written, and the wisdom and foresight of Joseph never have been noted.
These three papers in our time persistently attack the farm program. The Journal, especially, which found little difficulty with the bail-outs of the Pennsylvania Rail-, road, of Chrysler, of major banks, is distressed over the prospect of significant government aid for the nearly 25 percent of the American farmers who are in trouble, victims of inflation, past and present, and of depressed farm prices, and the failure of a series of adminstrations’ sound fiscal and trade policies bearing on the agricultural economy.
“There are too many farmers,” in any case, says one editorial. “And displaced farmers,” because they have managerial experience, continues the same editorial, can “more readily” find employment outside agriculture. “The world no longer needs American agricultural production” says another article, because the backward and low producing nations of the past (Mexico and India, they cite as examples) have improved their agriculture. This word would come as a surprise to the undernourished multitudes of both Mexico and India, and would cer
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