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WMkington, D. C., June 28.—
A tmiae, taMt-bilstering week
drew to a clone with tbe puvern-
rmwkt'n subsidy program practi-
^«tUy counted out by Congr^s.
Rlghligbta o{ tbe battle whicb
has been waged to determine
whether American agriculture
Wats'to remain tree from more
hireaucratic dictations were the
waited front presented by tbe ma
jor farm organizations and tbe
Wmnoiodity groups, and tbe sud-
^4en swing In tbe Senate behind
the Clark amendment to the bill
renewing the Commodity Credit
Corporation Act.
The Clark (D. Mo.) amend
'}4t/Ss drastic in the extreme, it
[nocks^out Section 2 (e) of th»
f| original PVice Contract Act. It was
on the authority contained in this
! Section that the government has
|7 been basing its right to pay sub
sides of all kinds. The farm peo
ple were the first to admit that
the Clark action went too far.
They insisted upon modification.
Certain war-essential materials
obviously must be subsidized in
order to obtain necessary produc
tion. Among these items are
copper, oil, certain forms of
transportation, domestic vegetable
fats and oils, wheat for feed pur
poses, etc.
I points'have been spent by the
j people there will still be goods
left over. Goss calls this ratlon-i
ing to a surplus. This surptns will
put tbe law of supply and demand ‘
back into effect and thus autO'
matically bold down prices. ^
The Grange Master pointed out '
that a revival of'the food stamp i
plan, if necessary to meet tbe
problems of people with small
fixed incomes, would put money
exactly where it was needed. He
asserted that this would do more
good at a small fraction of the
cost of subsidies. Under tbe stamp
plan neither undeserving farmen,
nor wealthy consumers would :»e
subsidized.
These ceal miners are riwwa working on Ihofr yfetory gardenn
leaving their posts in the mines. For the sewn* .ttate eWin a.moirtli
Tirtnaliy aB mines employing tJMW members were pamyxei by
of mamwwer. A nation-wide dlm-ont to eUmlnate all now^^npw
of electricity and a 2S per cent curtailment of aH train travel wero asen-
Boned as possible coal saving devices shonid they be necessary.
AGREKyiKNT REACHED—
Finally, it was agreed that a
protective amendment should be
added to the Clark proposal in or
der] to handle these emergency
notion problems. W’Tiether
'tBW would be accomplished by
passage in f'e Senate of the Gil-
lette-jViken amendment, which
makes specific exceptions in its
prohibition aga inst the use of CCC
funds for subsidies, or whether it
would be done by a proposal be-
i ing worked out by Sen. O’Mahoney
(D. 'Wyo.) was not certain.
Over on the House' side. Rep.
■Walcott (Hep. Mich.) had written
an amendment to the Hou.se CCC
bill which was acceptable to all
the interested groups. His pro-
Msal.s did approximately what
ifie Gillette-.\iken amendment
OPpsed to do on the Senate side,
flterestiu.g feature of the bat-
aver subsidies is the fact that
party lines have been ripped as-
sunder. The people’s representa-
tivs on Capitol Hill are becoming
more acutely aware each day th; t
they are no longer Democrats nr
Republicans or Independents.
They are working hard to think
out the ’nest answers to the tough
problems which are crowding
down upon the nation as the war
continues. .And each Senator and
Representative has his ear very
close to the ground to find out
what his folks hack home are
thinking and what they want.
Telegrams, letters and phone calls
are having a tremendous effect on
Congress.
■MORE PtTM’ER .4DV(K1ATED—
In the House a final Section
was added to the CCC bill giving
power to the War Food Adminis
trator ‘‘to increase the price” of
any commodity at his discretion.
Behind the scene story is that the
advocates of giving Food Ad
ministrator Chester Davis the
power he sorely needs to proper
ly conduct his office are fearful
that Davis may be forced out of
his job. If a new Administrator
w'as appointed, who was not sym
pathetic to the farm philosophy,
any legislation giving unrestricted
powers to the office might very
well boomerang.
With this in mind, the leaders
decided to extend WFA powers
only on the ‘‘up’’ side. They were
taking no chances on letting in
roll-back by the back door.
In the meantime, the House
Agricultural Committpe voted 18-'
9 to recommend a bill to Congress
giiing absolute control over every
phace of food and agriculture to
I the War Food .Administrator. To
this, every responsible 'farmer
would no doubt say. ‘‘.Amen!”—if
they were certain that Chester
Davis would continue to be the
-Administrator.
It is understood from respon
sible soitfces that Davis has al
ready placed his resignation on
the President’s des'a. If it is ac
cepted. talk is that either Milo
Perkins or Roy Hendrickson will
be appointed to take his plate —
but that Hatry Hopkins of the
War Mobilization Committee will
he the real food “Czar.”
Wii A ikT'Vg rkTITDC culled by Mrs. Anna Rdsen-
lYl AIN I i5ULiLelI!ilv3  berg regional director of the
GET DISCHARGES V\ai Mua Power commission.
He cited figures showing that
New York—A total of 1,100-
000 men will have been discharg
ed from the armed services be
tween 1940 and the end of 194:!
fer all causes, says Colonel Le\vi.s
Sanders, chief of the employ-
nvent service of the Selective Ser
vice system of New York.
Of this number 500,000 were
cischarged up to the end of 1942.
Colonel Sanders said at a confer
ence on man power rehrbilita-
of a representative group of 4,-
714 men. 19.77 percent were le‘
out for psychoneurosis—the larg
est single cause. He s id tattle
injuries constituted only a smull
percentage of the causes of dis
charge.
Mrs;H.'.lt. YaU»' returned home
.'Sunday after taklnc treStment Bc!
I Tbe Wilkes HosnUliJ'for
sdT
' Mr. WfilMrd of OC
Navy, Corpus Ctaristii'Tejuuij!-
t vWtlng his pkrents, ^r. knd
rs. D.'Loolcshill and other
Velattvek of this plAce^^.
U^^a’iid Mrs. T..'K;'lLudi^^
pmen" Luther^'ef; Jeffe^on.;
'4r)Mted In the home of_j. B.
er, Sunday. / ’ ^ '■
After spendUK % tesr’days hpre
with>h)s family, Mr.'Cly4« Wjsteh
has, returned to Ba!ahrli^e‘‘'ild.,
vh^e! he is Stationed In- the U.
.ft: Navy.
’ Mr;-and Mrs. R.^D. IFellbOTn
and smell son, JMk, viklled
tlirw'st Mt. Zlpn ^nday. T
-.■’'Mr; Coy Rogers returned home
^iday efter spending a few days
in Aberdeen, Md.
Mr. Vernon Triplett, who holds
a position in Baltimore, Md., vis
ited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. D.
M. Triplett at Mt. Zion last week.
He also spent a few hours here
with friends and relatives.
Mr. Bill Bledsoe, of Todd, with
a friend, Mr. Joe Cox, spent a few
.hours in the community Thursday
visiting relatives. Both boys ex
pect to be inducted into the army
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LAST-MINUTE WAR NEWS DAILY
The Kenya Government guaran
tees minimum returns per acre
from carkain crops planted this
year. , ' ..
ISSl E IS  LEAK—
ritfit issue is not >vlu*tlier thei’e
shall'le inflation or no inflation
as the sub.sidy .supporters aiv
trying to make it !tppe>ir. The is
sue is the best way to hold infla
tion down to a minimum.
Final form of the Commodity
bill will undoubtedly be deter
mined after the House and Sen
ate pass tbeir respective bills.
Each branch will then, appoint
key members from their Banking
and Currency C-oramittees to con
fer and draw up the bill in its
final form. Thus, even though
satisfactory legislation is passed
in both Houses, no one dares re
lax until the final bill has been
drawn by the conferees and pas
sive is obtained in both the Sen-
aiilp‘-and. House.
It'irf freely forecast that the
Frmldent will veto any meaure
that kills the government’s sub
sidy program. His veto message
is expected to be red hot—much
more severe than the one which
said, ‘‘Nof” to the Bankhead bill
early this spring. He will pre-
linmably again ask what the farm
leaders have to offer in place of
subsidies?
CORN IS REQUISITIONED—
For many months this column
has been warning against the dis
aster which would inevitably over
whelm us if the method of deal
ing with the corn situation was
not changed. When temporary
price ceilings of around $1.00
Chicago base were first clamped
on. leaders of the industry tore
into Washington «ind warned
proper officials of ihe eventual
outcome of such a procedure. This
column went alon.g with those
leaders 100 per cent.
However, the warnings were
ignored and the order made per-
in.'iiient at $1.07 Chicago. Result
has been an almost complete stop
page of trading in corn. .As long
as farmers could feed the cereal
to hogs end sell the hogs at an
equivalent of from $1.S7 (cur
rent ratio) to around $1.60 (ra
tio at the time the first OPA or
der went into effect) no one was
going to sell corn on the open
market for $1.07. As a result,
terrible shortages of corn feed
for dairymen and poultrymen
have developed, .At the same
time, owners of grain in terminal
elevators have refused to sell
their holdings at the $1.07 ceil-
98 GIVE.S .ANSWER—
ilready jumps Ahead, Albert
3088, National Grange Master,
te to the President offering a
else program in p4ace of the
sidy approach.
loss said that price ceilings
subsidies have always failed
check inflation because they
jrge the inflationary gap by
•easing purchasing power while
wikag production.
H|b asserted that the best
;hod of licking the problem
face is to do everything pos-
e to increase production. If,
>n this Isjlone, and high tax-
and savings have not closed
gap between purchasing pow-
In the people’s hands and the
)unt of goods available, goods
Id be rationed in order to ob-
falr dlstrlbntion. This rat-
g sKoBld he~ eondueted in
A way that when ail ratior
ing, for. rightly or wrongly, they
felt that at some future time the
log j«m mu.st be broken and that
they would receive a fairer pric,!
for their holdings.
But the OPA has refused to
raise the price, and now tbe War
I Food Administration, under the
; War Powers Act. has ordered U.
S. attorneys to make out requisi
tion orders for all grain in ter-
I mlnal elevators in 15 key cities.
: The owners will be paid at the
^celling price of $1.07.
I It is the opinion of those close
to the feed situation that this will
bring relief to the commercial re
fineries for at most four weeks,
but that it will be of little if any
help to the poultry and dairy
groups.
OVEH —OVER D.AIJE—
There is still a persistent feel
ing here that in case of all other
’’sources of subsidy money are cut
off. the government may turn to
Section 1 of the first War Pow
ers Act and pay subsidies out of'
that part of the 25 billion dollars |
of lend-lease money which is not
restricted. At the moment, this
would apparently amount to
around 10 billion dollars.
Fruit growers in New 2^1and
are .protesting against a govern
ment order requiring them to de
liver one-half their apricot crop
to the armed forces at prices they
say are below the cost of produc
tion.
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T’S a weird-looking contraption. I’ll ad
mit. But when you think what aviation
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now, it begins to look pretty wonderful!
“It’s a plant for a new-type process for
making aviation gas and synthetic rubber
material from petroleum. It makes more gal
lons of belter gas than any process ever did
before. It makes both the gas and the
synthetic rubber material at once,
which is mighty important right now!
“It’s a fluid catalytic cracking unit Our
Esso research workers who developed it call
it a ‘cal cracker.’ But we did that long befwe
the war, back in the I930’s—and that’s why I
call it a statue of liberty.
“It’s a working monument to the power of
American freedom and progresi.
“It’s another of those keys to vital war
production that got discovered in the
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