Let's Face Facts
Steadier Farm Incomes
Throughout the World
Proposed in New Plan
By BARROW LYONS
■ WNU Stoff Correspondent
WASHINGTON, D. C.
While American industry is
strengthening its position in world
trade through promotion of inter
national cartels, it might be a good
idea for farmers to take a look at
the world agricultural situation to
discover how t!'i r interests are in
volved.
First, however, if there is ar - '
doubt about the future of world car-
Barrow Lyons S: V! • a public
bo i.nt r.ed atti
tude t- w c.rd c. r.suu ei •
In UU'i. the in i .atrial commis
sion, the first con gro.-Moral body to
investigate ;.o' i ■>, h.eld that
groat combir.it iis ii industry were
i - i re to stay, an i tli.it it would be
inadvisable tr "bust" thorn. Con
trol m the public interest was
recommended. There may be some
question as to how cllective social
i r.trr.s have been, but tie great
combinations are w t:i! here.
We have r-i.. hed a similar point
r w in ro! it. r to international car
tels. We are not going to break
t! em HI no matt' r how much our
Jib* rals n ay d« .-:re it. In fact, we
are going t . i in tie organisa
tion ■'f carte's, possibly before the
war • r.us
Farmers Mus-t Decide
( 1 \ . i> ( ■ o !« r farmers
to ! • n ! t.. k :• •• r.ii:i nally :n
respect to agriculture, f. r if they
di n't. 'v fi iff.! «s rs «:!l do
a brief 1 ok .it t: •• wheat market,
for that is still the ch . : farm prod-
UI t IT itt-rr .i'.'. N.! t: :E.
Lee Marshall, WFA director of
distribute n, on a r ci nt visit toKan
' 1 •'.:■! 1.11 v I we would
ei.tor t . i r v. . r v. a carry
. \ r • .. bu.-l els >f
v • it c npari i with about 40,000,•
i 0b :• lit sn Julv i. 1918, during
the last year of World War I. But
\\ it h. • ■ *i i aft r tie last war?
Aln i ry nation ; .rir.j the war
k fi a- oil its whe.it acreage, and
lifter tie war surpluses began to
pile up year after year until t - e
pi'.i'e nf wheat Aas so low, no
w '.eat f.irn er could operate profit
ably We may dispose of this sur
plus to a hungry Europe, but world
wheat productive capacity is t "iay
far beyond world economic pi wer
to purchase.
Now we are seeking security of
farm income. If there is a world
surplus of wheat after the war. as
there is very likely to be after a
few years of rebuilding, it will re
quire a lot more than passing a
few laws to keep wheat at parity.
Depression for wheat farmers would
be like an infection which recog
nized no national boundaries.
insurance Fund
So the idea has been advanced,
that an international insurance fund
be set up to protect agricultural in
come throughout the world from the
extremes of the economic cycle.
This fund wouid perform three ex
tremely important functions:
1. It would obtain from participat
ing countries periodic reports on
production, inventories, current
marketings and probable demand
for agricultural commodities which
er.ter foreign trade in largest vol
umes. These data would make pos
sible the determination of normal
production, consumption, price lev
els and trends, and would form the
basis for intelligent international
and national planning in relation to
the commodities covered;
2. The fund would stockpile agri
cultural commodities that are im
portant in world trade when crops
were good, and distribute these
when crops w ere poor, thus creating
more even Row of materials enter
ing world trade. This would have a
stabilizing influence to world com
mercial relations. And,
3. The fund would accumulate
cash through assessments on nation
al governments, when income was
high, and distribute cash when in
come was low, thu6 helping to main
tain more stable income and pur
chasing power for the great mass
of producers of agricultural prod
ucts throughout the world.
This idea has been worked out in
some detail by Dr. Morris A. Cope
land, chief of the munitions division,
bureau of planning and statistics of
the War Production board.
• • •
Probably by the time Dr. Cope
land's plan has reached the diplo
matic level it will be something al
together different. But until some
thing like this is done, the danger
of chaotic world agricultural con
ditions will be a distinct threat—not
just to foreign farmers—but to
every American larmer as well.
If, through his farm organiza
tions, the American farmer should
take an interest in international in
come stability, on a reasonably high
level, he would be moving in th»
direction oX aeU-protection.
THE DANM'RY REPORTER. DAXHI KY. X. ( .. TUI'RSDAY. Jl'l/V l.t. Ifllt
Japs Feel U. S. Might at Saipan
The army lands nn Saipan beachhead to reinforce troops on newly acquired base as shown in upper
right photo, i.ower right shows J.ip tank knocked out by leathernecks when they first landed at Saipan. The
infantry does its part at Saipan. I.eft shows them surveying ruins of Jap sugar retincry wrecked by Yank
aerial bombs before our troops landed.
Dewev and Bricker at Chicago
It's Dewey and Bricker and an impressive scene in the Chicago stadium as the Republican national con
vention delegates stampeded when Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York accepted the presidential nomi
nation. Gov. John W. Bricker of Ohio proved just as popular with the delegates as he clasped bands with
Dewey, following his acceptance of the vice presidency nomination.
Tornado Scatters Homes in East
Wash basins and dresser drawers form part of the general wreck
age, when the tornado struck B avenue. Liberty borough, Pittsburgh.
Houses were lifted completely from foundations and furnishings llung far
and wide. I.ist of dead and injured was reported at 151 dead and 1,100
Injured in the worst disaster in Pennsylvania's history, since the Johns
town Hood. Thousands were taken care of by Ked Cross rushed to the
scene.
Yanks Hunt Snipers
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Taking care to keep well down out of harm's way, American sol
diers take part in a sniper bunt somewhere in France. The soldier in
the foreground pokes his helmet up over the edge of the ditch, hoping
nnd asking (or the sniper to take a shot so his position can be located.
I Snipers toon surrender when located.
| Voted for MacArtliur
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Grant A. Rittor, a farmer from
Rcloit, Wis., pictured at his seat in
Chicago stadium after he had cast
one ballot for Gen. Douglas Mac-
Arthur for president. Governor
Dewey received every other vote of
the 1,057 cast.
;
Finnish Prisoners
Finnish officers and men taken
prisoners on the Karelian Isthmus
are shown being marched to pris
oner of war enclosures. In the back
ground are some of the fortifica
tions of the Finnish defense aone. _j
FBltrms and G-Mancuvrrt
In the gangster film about Roger
Touhy and his gang the producers
lost a few good tricks which appar
ently the gov't agents didn't tell
them about—after Touhy and his
mob were recaptured. ... I" rix
ample: When the FBI went into the
rooms of two of the gang—they
didn't notice a match stuck at the
top of the door. . . . To let the
gang know if anyone entered during
their absence. One mobster had
started opening the door when he
realized the planted match was
gone. ... So lie started firing his
revolver. . . . The agent came out
shooting ton, and two of Toul'.\ S
pals were hit by the marksman and
went to heaven.
Then there's the episode tn the
butcher shop. ... A uniformed
chaufiour turns out to be one of
the Touhy gangsters. He went to
purchase meat in the nt ighborhood
for Touhy (and the others) who
didn't risk coming out of the house.
. . . The butcher shop, however, was
stalled by G-Men. . . . After a signal
from one butcher a bike-rider
G-Man tailed the chauffeur to the
scene where Touhy was hiding. . • •
But the confederate was not dis
guised as a chauffeur in the actual
kidnap. . . . The movie people a|>-
parently didn't want to otTend the
devout by sticking to the facts. . . .
The disguise worn by the gangster
in the meat shop was that of a
priest.
The average newspaper read
er, recalling Touhy's mob, will
think the snatched man is the
rieh Jake the Barber, victim of
that gang. . . . But in the film
the producers purposely switched
things to give the story more
pep. . . . Jake the Barber's
real tortures cannot be screened
or even written about—so vile
were they. ... So for the screen
the authors and director bor
rowed several interesting items
from the kidnappings of a
wealthy youth named llosenthal
(in New York! and the I'rschel
snatch in the West. . . . All the
kidnappers are now rusting and
rotting in prison on sentences
lor lite.
The most frightful moment in Di
rector J. Edgar louver's entire life
happened that tcnible 5 in the
morning—when the niijht was still
black. . . . Iloover and some of the
agents attacked the Touhy mob
from the rear of the building other
FBI men covered the front. . . . Mr.
Hoover, revolver in paw, climbed
: over the back fence and tread softly
to the back door, where he let out
i the most piercing shriek ever heard
| anywhere in the whole world. ... It
seems that a poor, little, inoffen
sive, sleeping black cat was stepped
on by the most famed of all G-Men,
and it let out one screcteh, which
the startled G-Man tried to out-hol
ler.
FBI agents the other day were in
vestigating a theft of gov't-owned
cigarettes destined for overseas
shipment. . . . The foreman, who
had denied any knowledge of the
theft, produced a package of cigar
ettes bearing a give-away gov't
label. . . . The agent, who had
mooched a cigarette with a definite
purpose, forthwith arrested the
foreman, who was charged with the
crime.
One of the problems confront
ing the FBI these days is the
apprehension of individuals ob
taining money fraudulently un
der the Servicemen's Depend
ents Allowance Act. Sixty-nine
convictions have resulted during
the first ten months of the 1941
fiscal year. An oddity ui the
FBl's files on this subject has
to do with a l.ouisvide, Ky.,
woman who, when questioned
by FBI agents, offered to return
fourteen $5O checks she got ille
gally, but hadn't spent. She said
she had kept all the checks ex
cept one, which the soldier him
self cashed, and that she was
i most willing to return them to
the Government.
> The alertness of G-Men was dem
j onstrated again the other day in
Los Angeles. An agent spied a man
on the street whom he recognized as
a fugitive—a wanted notice had been
issued a few days before. Although
, the suspect produced phony selec
: tive service cards, the G-Man was
! persistent and took his fingerprints,
whereupon the fugitive admitted his
identity as Walter Ray Carroll,
wanted in Washington State in con
nection with a $25,000 narcotics rob
bery.
Among the latest rackets dis
covered by the John Edgar
Hoovers is that one used by
some fortmne-tellers to swindle
gullible draft-dodgers. . . . The
G-Wbizzers nabbed one fortune
teller in Texas. . . . She got
neat fees "for keeping men out
of the army." . . . Her hocus
pocus, however, was not very
effective. . . . Host of her
suckers were inducted, anyhow.
And she was inducted into a
Federal hoosegow, where she
can't predict her release.
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