Judge — November 21, 1931 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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JUDGE A PRACTICAL PROSPERITY D' an Eprror, Most of the plans and schemes going round these days to end the depression are too theoretical. They sound all right on paper, but they just won't k in practice. The successful plan to lead this great nation back to prosperity must have punch. It must be daring. It must be as big as the situation which has brought our hundred million peo- ple to their present depressed state of mind, My plan is this, and it is the only one I know of that is a real practical scheme that is bound to work. Have cach citizen over ten years old wri nd let each Congressman send out special- ly big packages. Now everybody knows that beans is one of the easiest and fastest grow- to his Congressman for seeds, s. ing crops and before you can. sa Herbert Hoover every citizen of the United States will have a yard full of big, rich and healthy beans. New here is where the punch comes in—the real keystone of my plan. We will then have not only enough beans to keep every soul in the coun- try in food for the rest of the year, which will end all hunger and need, but we'll all have many more beans than we can conveniently eat. In other words, everybody will have lots more beans than they want. Well, then. Have Congress organ- ize a Federal Bean Loan Board, sim- ilar to the present Farm Board, and agree to buy up all the surplus beans that anybody has in the United States y a nominal figure of 40 or 50 cents a pound. Figuring an aver. five by forty-five fee lot of twenty- » fair growing weather and not too voracious a per- sonal bean appetite and what would it mean? Simply this: that every. citi the United States over ten would hav a surplus crop of beans anywhere from four hundred to five hundred pounds in a singk season, and at forty or fifty cents per pound that would inean an individual income of more than two hundred and fifty dollars apicce every year. irit the Department of Agricul- ture supplying the bean. sceds and with the ordinary household food requirements being taken care of out of the crops themselves, this would be almost all clear profit and money in the pocke ts of every. man ‘and woman in the cou ntry. Also, every one knows that all we need to stop this depression and bring back prosperity is a good, forceful and practical plan for helping our people get money in their pockets with which to buy new clothes and radios and automobiles and what-not. And if this plan of mine is only carried out properly and quickly a if it works as it is above described, you will sce the wheels of industry spinning a mile a minute once more before April Fool's Day. I beg to remain, yours for prompt and practical action, Ricuarp WaLiace DONALD . \MeKeS “Thank Heaven we have someone to lean on!” comicbooks.com