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Wickard on Food
WHO ITiiUaitM Burtwt
121 Umtoo Trait Bu/Mia(
U OOSTER - BORN, dirt - farmer
11 Claude T. Wickard, secretary
of agriculture, sat in his huge office
on the second floor of the depart
ment of agriculture
main building over
looking the Mall,
and, gazing out of
hia window through
the trees onto the
shrubbery - studded
lawn, drew a word
picture to me de
scribing his vision
of a postwar agri
pitlHtra a> nori.
Walter Shead culture different
from any we have
known in this country.
It was as though he could see the
broad acres of his Carroll county
farm in. Indiana, as he spoke, for
spring was in the air, and he was
itching to get back there, to get the
feel of the soil he loves ... to get
into a pair of overalls ... to go look
at a boar pig he has a hankering to
own.
First, he sees in the years to come
a nation of fami'v <ti?eH forms mm- !
er operated, and to make this come
true he cites the record of his Farm
Security administration which has
made more than 36,000 loans to
farm tenants, share croppers and
farm workers enabling them to buy
family-type farms of their own. And
more and more loans are being
made.
He sees food as looming more and
more in importance in the conduct
of world affairs with the American
farmer having a vital stake in the
world peace organization and play
ing a most important part in the eco
nomic reconstruction of the world,
rhis will come about, Mr. Wickard
believes, through the Food and Ag
ricultural Organization of the Unit
ed Nations, the framework of which
was adopted at Hot Springs, Va.,
in May, 1943. Since that time 18
nations have approved the organi
zation and a joint resolution is pend
ing in the house of representatives
as this is written, authorizing the
President to accept membership in
the organization for the United
States. He sees the American farm
er producing to full capacity both
fbod and non-food agricultural prod
ucts and receiving for his work pari
ty or above, prices ... a prosperous
agriculture.
He pietnres a postwar age of
farmers who have learned how
to use their preeioas land wisely
and efficiently, through recog
nized conservation and land-nse
practices ... an age which will
bnild a permanent agriculture
?recognizing new and impor
tant responsibilities to the com
munity, living on the land from
choice rather than from compul
sion and the creation of a
new concept of the dignity of
farm life.
Included in this picture is an
American agriculture freed from
most of its drudgery with new con
veniences, and new horizons for
farm life brought to rural areas
throughout the land through elec
tricity on a new and
broader scale than 1
ever conceived by
the Rural Electrifi
cation administra
tion. As of June.
1944, a little more
than a million farm
homes had been
electrified through
REA; however, it is
me dream of the
secretary of agri- cu?o? wickue
culture to bring
REA service to every farm home in
America and to make electricity
available to some 3,685,000 farms
and rural establishments in the im
mediate five-year period following
the war.
To carry ont this program a
measure has been introduced in
the senate by Senator Seott Lu
cas (D., DM to supplement the
REA act and the Agriealtirral
Appropriations net calling for
appropriations of more than a
ball billion dollars to bo loaned
to REA by the Reconstruction
Finance corporation to facilitate
and expedite electrification of
rmral areas "to improve the
standard of living and the eco
nomic condition of persons re
- siding in rarai areas." The bin,
new before the senate agrieal
tnre and forestry committee,
would provide for 35 minion dol
lars for nseal year ending lime
M. 1945; 156 million for 1946,
2M million for 1947 and 2M mil
lion for 1948.
Instead of the present practice of j
building short electric lines to serve
a certain number of customers, the <
REA program envisions a survey
of a whole area of 20 or more coun
ties at a time, or even larger areas '
. . . the construction of lines to reach 1
all farmers in the area and the con- ,
struction of electric plants, or pur
chase of electricity, if available, to !
supply the whole area.
And last, but not least, there Is
?octal security not only lor form
workers but for form owners ...
community health centers and rural '
knopitols arc a part of this picture, '
\A7 HEN this war la over, and the
* * expected boom in every form
of sport comes along, there is cer
tain to be a big need for much
stronger supervision than we have
today. This includes baseball, rac
ing, football, boxing and basketball
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Others. For these
are the major spec
tator and big money
games.
This isn't a mat
ter of today or next
week or next
month. It is a mat
ter of the big tangle
and scramble that
is coming after the
war is over when
Were win be al- Gr*.tl?nd*lc.
most eouutless prob
lems to face and handle, Including
We return home of millions of serv
icemen, many of these hoping and
expecting to make a living oat of
professional sport.
You can see.what happened when
three or four unknown basket
ball players, in a New York college
almost totally unknown in a na
tional way, almost wrecked baslcet
ball. You can figure what will hap
pen if the same thing occurs to
baseball, boxing, racing and football
an a bigger scale.
Four Big Sports
ne JL*1!. toke them up w order:
Baseball _ In my opinion, base
t. a ru^"k commissioner
who will be given full authority to
act; who will be well known and
respected around the country; who
fa" Ptok up where Judge Landis
left off. A commissioner with
out these qualifications, without
complete authority, would be use
less. It will be too late in case some
scandal breaks. Baseball can't look
for any such supporting combina
tion as Judge Landis and Babe
Ruth to restore public confidence.
?ael"? ~ Racing is a tougher
proble.i to tackle, due to the
jealousies of competing states and
the tremendous taxes they gather in.
Yet it is a well-known fact that even
before racing was stopped, many
chiselers, crooks and gangsters were
edging their way into the richest fi
nancial harvest of all sport, where
well over a billion dollars was bet
through 1944. Where more than a
few jockeys were not above suspi
cion and where general larceny was
on the verge of breaking out at
any moment. This applies to all
racing states.
Only a J. Edgar Hoover could
ei?J? nil"' where an annual salary of
Bto.OOO would be excellent insur
ance. It would take a direct order
'"J". Washington to bring this
2 j Bnt '* mifht be badly
needed at any given time later on.
Fro Football and Boxing
rT??tlba'1?u be almost im
V? ,? any commis
sioner for college football, as so
many sections have their own com
missioners who have different and
conflicting ideals and opinions
JSf P? 'oo'b.U faces as many
problems as any sport. For one
thing, there is the probability of
at least one rival league. Be
Mtnrn! Proble? ?? many
returning stars, who still have a
ye" ?r two years of college play
?ny namb?r 01 these will de
tbrir^Ji T Pr? f00tb,U and '***?
their college careers to the bosky
warffr^*K?22,t 0nly brin* about open
warfare between pro leagues, but
8lso a civil football war between the
colleges and the pros. It can also
lead to any number of scandals.
Itoxtng?Here is one' of sport's ?
greatest needs. Boxing, like racing
ha, been largely a matter o^Ute
regulation. As it is, we have no real
boxmg control. Champions in o^e
state may be thrown out in another
Boxmg and racing are the easiest
?ntfs'a to throw, with more money
to the^ m i? .throwing. Especially
in the general direction of the gam
r ^ 1 mean ^ crooked
gamblers. Boxing needs a com
missmner or a supervisor more than
any Other single sport. And it may
need more very badly later on
much more than it needs one at
the moment.
men?oned four of the
major public sports ? baseball r..
|ng\ football snd b.xing In ?et
Instance they all need a L
sioner who U nationally koowu who
ba? therespect of the
Inrge, who has both honesty and
proved ability, and who will also
J* F1"? Possession of "the trow
ha?d;' when the Iron haLl ^
from '?rm of figurehead or
taking " * 1 nSeleM "*?*?
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Bob Feller Returns
Now that he is back in the state,
Bob Feller will be allowed to pitch
tot his Great Lakes team after two
or more years service in the South
Pacific. Feller deserve hte ???
aIe5^eat?L^e8- nfter a fine war
record. He has had little chance to
get any active pitching since he
won 23 games for Cleveland in 1M1
rtriking out 200 hitters. A lot of
time' +*