Editorial
charlotte Tabor journal & dixie farm news
Published Weekly at Charlotte. N. C._
A. SUll*. Editor and Publisher W. M Witter, Aaaoc^te Editor
Catered as second-elan* mail matter September 11, 1981, at the Post
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APPOINTS CITIZENS FOOD COMMITTEE TO MAP
VOLUNTARY PLAN
President Truman advocated a voluntary “Waste less
program by every American citizen to combat the price
situation in the United States and help alleviate the grave
world food shortage.
The President appointed a 26-man Citizens Food Com
mittee to study the situation and recommend measures
to'implement the conservation policy, termed imperative
by Mr. Truman. . , ,
AFL President William Green was named a member of
the committee which will be headed by Charles Luckman.*,
president of Lever Brothers Company, large soap manu
facturers.
In his statement on the food situation, Mr. Truman said:
“There is one immediate and personal thing each of us
can do. We can start now to conserve by being more selec
tive in foods we buy, particularly livestock products whose
production requires large quantities of grain.
“Such action on Our part will do; two things. We will
save on our family budget and we will help others who are
in desperate need,
“I am confident that the American people, realizing the
extreme seriousness of the situation, will comply fully.”
Mr. Truman made public a report from the cabinet com
mittee on world food problems which, he said “stressed the
urgency of doing everything possible to meet the problems
at home and abroad.”
The President said the committee made it clear that
‘’definite steps to conserve on use of foodstuffs at home and
reduce the feeding of grain to livestock will be essential if
we are to make our fullest contribution toward meeting
minimum foreign needs and at the same time relieve the
upward pressure on prices at home.”
The President asked the Citizens Food Committee to
meet at the earliest possible date to develop plans for
carrying out the conservation program. He said:
* “At the same time I am establishing a wording organi
zation which will mobilize the resources of the Government
in support of the over-all program. 1 will also confer with
the congressional leaders of both parties regarding legisla
tive action which may bp. necessary.
The President urged conservation on the part of each in
dividual citizen as-an interim program, until detailed recom
mendations are presented by the Citizens Food Committee.
Mr.' Luckman, chairman of the committee, predicted the
American people would win “this war against starvation
as they have won all wars." ,
The Citizens Food Committee, he adaed, Would have no
authority to enforce its recommendations hut could act
only in an advisory capacity. President Truman, he said,
expected the committee to “contribute some guidance” to
the Government in connection with worldwide problem of
food shortages. * .
Mr. Luckman said the 140,000,000 people of the United
States were his “real” committee. These people, he said,
never yet had failed in time of food crisis and they would
not fail this time.
“It doesn’t do much good to win a war against totalitar
ianism if you’re going to lose against starvation,” he said.
“The American people have won every war they’ve been in
and they will win this war against starvation.”
AFL COUNCIL ENDORSES PAYROLL SAVINGS PLAN
The AFL Executive Council, ir. its report to the con
vention, emphatically endorsed.the continuation on a per
manent voluntary basis of the Treasury Department’s Pay
roll Savings Plan for the purchase of U. S. savings bonds.
The Council said its policy was predicated upon the
abundant evidence of the degree to which wage earners
learned to appreciate the virtues of systematic thrift
through experience gained during the war.
At the present time, the report stated approximately
5 1-2 million wage earners are purchasing on a voluntary’
basis over $110,000,000 worth of savings bonds every
month.
WAGE-HOUR LAW SUITS DOUBLED IN TWO YEARS
Law suits alleging violations of the Federal wage-hour
law doubled-in the last two years, without counting any
of the portal-to-portal back pay claims filed during the
past year.
This was revealed in a report of the administrative of
fices of the Federal court system submitted at the opening
session of the annual judicial conference of senior circuit
court judges.
Last Polio Health Hint:
Avoid Sudden Chilling!
Sauta chilling tack at
plunging late nU water •> a
vary hot day should be avoided
as the sixth aad teal health
precaution that should ho oh
Juo iluough Ikptcwhtr tin
National Foundation (or Infan
tile Paralysis cautions through
Its local chapter.
SeientUk research loanced
hy March of Dimes foods has
shown that when laboratory
animals exposed to the polio
virus were suddenly chilled,
disease as did a control croup which had been prelected from
sudden temperature chances.
Therefore, take no chances. To he on the safe side avoid
sadden chillinc. the National Foundation advises.
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tute majority rule for all determ
inations.”
The Council recommended furth
er direct representation and con
sultation with labor in United
Nations agencies.
High Cost of Living
Inflation is having a serious
and destructive effect upon the
entire national economy, the Ex
ecutive Council warned. The up
ward surge of living costs has
wiped out gains in wage rates and
forced workers to dig into their
savings to an alarming degree.
Even with almost full employ
ment, the Council found, pros
perity for the masses of the Amer
ican people is still far beyond
l reach. High prices have forced
l families to abandon plans to pur
chase many products they need.
thus drying up the rest market
for manufactured goods which
must be sustained for a balanced
economy.
The Executive Council urged the
extension of consumer co-opera
tives to ease the pressure of
high living costs on wage earners
and to force prices down.
FARBEN CHEMICAL FIRM
SUBSIDIZED BY HITLER
Nurenberg, Germany.—The I. G.
Far ben chemical combine obtained
more than $1,220,000,000 in cred
its and subsidies from the Nazi
government for its enthusiastic
part in Hitler’s four-year plan of
war preparation, according to
documents intoduced in the Bar
ben war crimes trial.
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