Let's Face Facts
Republicans Promise
Farmers Fair Share
Of National Income
By BARROW LYONS
' A -*•''i Sljff Cofejpondent
WASHINGTON. D. C.
There is a plank in t: e Republican
ftgrictiitiit.il platform t at goes to
the heart of what the farmer wants.
It reads: "V.V prep, -v ... an
American market price to the Amer
ican fartr.tr and t: • protect:.n of
such pi.ee !'V :r. .i's if support
prices, commodity 1 ans. er a com*
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6 ..•■ -v. v • r • :. rm.T
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and dem md as the pt n iple price
dotcm:mar* A'' ..,.i ti-e rank
does ret n nt .: 1 t.-v T : ees.
viewed in the light of this plank's
history. pat.:> re and parity sn
ct Mie arc in p..
rr realizes that to pr sper, a way
and that form incon e must be held
in fair relation t > the income (' labor
and busint ss. Of course, this means
that an equitable shore should go
also to 1 ibor and t • b isir ess. Obyi
ery •..• d« t rrnine wliat income acta-
Of el t\
i'. ngn ss is the only b dy in a po
sit. iti it pass final judgment on
u....t r >:. art each, al
tl- . r and v.- :u - may raise
i>. v ■•- ie .: ,1 at .t 74 per cent
i,:t ■ v • ur s-:i en e. n fr« n; rural
are ,- \-.yhev.\ if tl > ;m{ licatior.S
»f t: i> p ank .ire squarely faced, it
hi 1- ; : b ill ! r t t farmer
T. . ; r.k i • : ' ? • i as
tli' i;.* ; it h i {•« en wr.tten I v nny
lr.ti it ! .it ••.re t t \rv i'.ase
fart:, products at low prices, such
Govern r Burke B. Hickenlooper of
]. '.v.i wi.ii w.: the i : .r:••.n nf tl'aj
assured me in r. long interview in
Chicago that no pressure was
brought up n the committee by com
mercial interests tr Influence the
farm plank.
"The nvnittoe held reg : «r.al
he:.i rgs in f: . Salt Lake City
and New York " he said, "and no
where wa.- ,t approached by milling,
packing rr railway interests—at
least to the b>-t of my knowledge,
tind I tn iik I would know."
This idea f protecting 'he farm
er's share of national nceme prob
ably is typical of the rejuvenated Re
publican party. Superficially it does
not fit into the picture of the Repub
lican party as the party of the great
industrial interests. It implies that
the share of the farmer has been
too small ir. the past, which i in
only mean that the share of someone
else has been too great.
Stand on Labor
At the hearing held by the agri
cultural subcommittee it was clear
that the Grange and the Farmers
Union felt that the share of many
underpaid industrial workers had
not been too great. The American
Farm Bureau federation has not tak
en as generous a stand toward labor.
Certainly, the plank needs definition
and clarification in respect to some
of its implications. Governor Hick
enloopei said he believed industry
was beginning to accept the idea
that adequate income for the farmer
and industrial worker was good for
industry also.
Another extremely interesting
plank is that which declares for "ar
rangemen's which will enable farm
ers to make necessary adjustments
in production of any given basic
crop, only if domestic surpluses
should become abnormal and exceed
manageable proportions."
Apparently there is a limit even to
the political concept of an economy
of abundance. It may be presumed
that one of the evidences of surpluses
becoming unmanageable would be
the tendency for market prices to
fall below support price.
In other words, production is to
be controlled only when development
of new uses for a commodity, gov
ernment purchases of surpluses and
commodity loans fail to do the job.
We hope those remedies never prove
to be too late to sustain farm in
come in "fair and equitable com
parison with labor, business and in
dustry."
"Sound irrigation projects admin
istered as far as possible at state
and regional levels," is included in
the last paragraph of the farm plat
form. This is an extremely con
troversial plank, and straddles a se
rious conflict. In the Central Valley
of California, where large corpora
tion farms have been highly devel
oped, the big farmers are anxious
to modify the operation of the Rec
lamation act, which makes it nec
essary for farms of more than 160
acres to dispose of trie balance of
land above that amount, if they re
ceive water from the new projecj,
Big Pull Behind Allied Push y
Nut far behind the Allied Fifth and Eighth armies who arc pushing the
Germans out of Italy come the hundreds of refugee families who are tak
ing the road back to their homes. This family is typical. Lacking trans
portation. tSie family uses its man (and woman) power to haul its worldly
possessions on a farm cart.
])raii£ Naeli Osten in Reverse
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The Red army's drive to coincide with the Allied invasion of western
Europe has brought the Russians nearly 200 miles nearer to Berlin. The
map above shows how the Russians put the squeeze on strategic Minsk,
gateway to Warsaw and Berlin. All routes of escape, except dirt roatls
through marshes and forests, fell into Russian hands.
Veterans at New Secret Base
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Sergt. G. S. McCall nf Augusta, Ga.. meets two young Russian women
Soldiers at one of the new secret air bases in Russia being used by V. S.
planes for shuttle bombing. Both women are 21 years old and veterans
of the battles of Leningrad and Stalingrad. Several of these bases are
now being operated by V. S. air forces in Russia.
Rocket Ramp Abandoned l>y Nazis
American engineers are shown surveying a 700-foot steel and con
crete unfinished ramp in Normandy, which is believed to have been
planned for use by the Germans as a launching site for rocket bombs.
Assembly line of concrete mixers abandoned by the Nazis are in the
background. Not enough and too late was the story of this Nazi effort.
THE DANRI'RY REPORTER. DANRI'RY. N. C.. TUIKSI) \V. JM.V L'O. I'>"
Chinese Wasli Day
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After a hard clay in the field crow
ing food for Maj. C.en. Claire Chen
nault's air troops. Chinese farm
women wash their elothes in a small
stream, before setting night meal.
China is furnishing all food required
by the Ameriean aviators.
Tennis Stars Meet
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I'our world's tennis stars partici
pated in tennis matches at Haver
ford, Pa. Above. Alice ."Marble,
America's No. 1 champion, and Mary
llardwick, England's No. 1 cham
pion. shake hands. Match was held
in interest of selling more war
bonds.
'Chute Doesn't Open
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When his 'chute didn't open, a
paratrooper at Camp McArthur
grabbed at the chute of bis buddy.
Both paratroopers hit the earth hard
but were not seriously injured in the
fall.
German War Youth
This "baby-faced" Nazi youth
captured by Allied armies at Cher
bourg;, although only 16, is a finished
product of Nazi schooling and ideolo
gy and well taught in the art and sci
ence of war.
The .Vcu- York and
lliillxut'txl Seme:
Faces Ah«(it Cilnmmorvillo: A 1
Jolson ypt 111 inil.rS a squad . - 't I'. S.
Marines at t!c IVvcrlv Hills Hotel
pool Hrtv Havis and Sir y
Morcor.thau Ht -.i•'• .U !!'•«' u'"f> rr i•!
nu n at thr llo'lvwn 1 Cauti on
D:tiah Shore- tl r;>!-.««« nm. dittos
for thi'in I' 'nita liranvi •
sliowinu' Lt .»■>• Wadr the im
niajjii ians Kt °* all r.:«TUlcd '•
that New iJ'.i n > crackup ■ '
Logan's r. nl ' .rs as sin; ti
phont ,i "Thn' v l I-Yrling t** '*'
China-Burma-Hi dia sector via the
Mail Call program, which isn't
heard bv 1 t here
Veil :;.ea La' e. •. as al I'. »'
!n« to t: « r!v ' - Ki'id ■' • -
man's and Phil 0 man's crews at i
the M anil i) I-■ v« :>■ M. ri
tir.lle (VHiI.:" t ; Wair.i-'
t T.v s in• end-, i 1 y Marim • :n the
Clc v. r Cl.ib Miriam II•: s
at La II:;» \\:' ' ' I i i !i'!ar;t e •: -
panii'ti. ui:o "■ \i r was it> :v.t • a«
lii r favorite r He's a (">!« k
i PM 1! •!«■ and Ins Ji ti
ny Wi -mulli-r !-.air-do "No
era i k>." ii» v. n uit Ji a t'- ri; •t :i
--ins tinker. "I'ti ■i■ • ■ tti a | natt | ic*
turo."
Marshal Ilonimi'l (acceniinC to
Britishers who made il-.cu escape
back tu our '.me has asi nse i {
luimor. he thinks . He n.a ie
several Hr.'i«h nil.' eis attend lis
frequent lectures, during which he
ufTected a pose t!..it the Rattle '
Africa was a spoiling cvrnt. lit
would ni\o lh i prisoners a t -1:-
monial dinner u t!: all the p> :v.p Ic
could muster on tin desert. Big en
trances. place car.is, intr* tucti-•; s,
salutes an i so en And tl.en,
while tie Gcrni.iii stall dined tn x
ccllent cuisine, ti.i Hritish prist r.i : ;
were serwd a ir.eal consisting «'f
their own K rations captured w:t!i
them. Hommi 1 also delighted .n
pointing out tiieir triors anl wi.y
they were captives. He was askt d
by a correspcr.dent: "To what !o
you credit your success? 11 >w will
the enemy C7er heat you"" . .
With a gleam in his nionoelid eve
Ronmiol replied: "The CJcrman
Army is great because of its great
organization. I know exactly wi-en
I will enter a town. (>!.• month
ahead I know what suite 1 vviil 1 ave
in which hoto'.. If. however. S"ie.e
day, I march into a place and po lo
my suite and find ai other Herman
general—then 1 will know we are
licked!"
The "Oklahoma" east is r« ported
doing so much ad libbing tl.at "tla y
are s|>oiling the show." Guild ex
ecs slirun and say: "Look nt the
box office" . . . The New York Post
Otlice has broV.cn all records in the
district. To date this year it has
done business totaling 103 millions
. . . The book now on FDK's bid
side table is "Rendezvous with Des
tiny." The only comment on the
book appeared in a Chicago paper
briefly and a story in the Christian
Science Monitor. Not a single re
view has appeared on it yet . . .
Hepburn's newest interest, they say,
is a famed polo player . . Add
ditty similarities: "Time Waits for
No One" and "Tales from Vienna
Woods" . . . Lana Turner won't
bark about it until she sees it here,
but those delicious canapes Ray
Bourbon served with cocktails the
other sundown were made from dog
food . . . R-R-RufT-Ruffff!
The Late Watch: Shirley Ross
end her husband, Kenneth Dolan
(who parted last season), are hap
pier than ever. They reconciled aft
er he was quoted here as saying the
fault was all his because: "I neglect
ed my wife instead of my clients"
. . . There will be a copyright war
over U. S. rights to the song popular
with the troops, "Lili Mariene" . . .
Douglas Miller, who wrote "You
Can't Do Business With Hitler,"
told OWI chiefs that the war with
Germany wiU last at least another
year and with Japan two . . . T.
Casey, the B'klyn Citizen editor,
has written two songs with Johnny
Tucker of Hook and Ladder Co. 117
in Astoria ... All major networks
banned the song, "Don't Change
Horses," which has nothing to do
; with politics. It has been networked
since April. The authors wrote
j "Mairzy Doats."
Quotation Marksmanship: Noel
Coward: The most terrifying thing
to a man is a woman who cries in
advance . . . E. Hemingway: The
saddest thing in the world is the af
fection of man and woman; the most
i fortunate ending is by death . . .
J. Porter: She whines him around
her finger . . . Mable Bandy: Eye-
I lashes that could sweep the cobwebs
from any man's heart . . . L. Corn
-1 ing: Low clouds on the verge of
, tears.
Sallies in Our Alley: Bob Dunn's
office boy requested the afternoon
| off (on the day of a double-header)
i saying: "Boss—my grandmother—"
. . . Dunn cut him short: "Oh, come
now, son. You're not going to pull
that chestnut about your grandmoth
er being dead?" . . . "No, sir,"
was the reply. "She's home on fur
lough!" . . . At La Conga some
velvet-knockers were gabbing abort
a gal whose beauty was in dispute
. . . "She looks," said an admirir,
"like something from Vogue I" . . .
"a rejection slip."
J Indeed. Brotherly Love
j f5 a Wonderful Thing
j The young window-cleaner was
! rerv much in love, and his sighing
i ind moodiness got on his friend's
| serves.
"For goodness* sake, ask the girt
lo marry you and settle the mat
| ler," snapped Bill. "You can't
keep yotir mind on your job while
you're so unsettled."
Jim promised to propose that
night and to tell Bill the result the
Dext day. The following morning
Jim looked gloomier than ever.
"She said she was very sorry,
but she couldn't dream of marry,
big a window - cleaner," lie
groaned. "She's in love with an-
Mlier chap, but she'll regard me
bs a brother, and wants my broth
tr'.y help. They're going to cli>pe
lei!, nvw ni'.'.ht, and I'm lending
them my ladder!"
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