Show rf r- r f i Er E h r- r Billion More of Lend lease ase I. I 4 1 For Agricultural Agriculture Products I v 1 But Its It's Some Job to Decide What Should Be Ordered Curtailed and What Expanded on Farms 1 By BAUKHAGE National Farm and Home Hour our Commentator Service 1343 II Street N- N W N-W V Washington D. D C. C Y By the time this is in print another another another an an- other billion dollars will probably be allocated from the lend-lease lend fund to buy farm products When word of this was impending the well-prepared well legions of the department department department de de- de- de of agriculture pushed the button and started one of the biggest campaigns in the history of farm- farm dom to turn the product of field and pasture sty and coop and creamery toward their most effective goals These goals are the expansion of production of those products which are needed for shipment to England for commercial export and for home use And Andt jt it takes a nice eye and a sharp pencil to figure out in advance just what to expand what products to curtail so the farmer farm farm- er will come out right with enough to sell and yet et without a glut on his hands Of course milk and poultry products products products prod prod- are high on the list of British needs There are pork products too And all edible fats And meat We Ve have to have enough meat for home consumption of course and that has to be figured in and when it comes to fats we face a possible shortage at home because imports are cut off Take coconut oil Normally Normally Normally Nor Nor- mally we use tons of that and we are not getting it now I A series of meetings of members of the department of agriculture and other employees of state agriculture organizations and others started with the September 1 gathering in Salt Lake City Then they moved eastward September eastward September 18 in Chicago on the twenty-second twenty in New York and one in Memphis on the twenty- twenty eighth These meetings are designed to instruct those who will go out and contact the farmers with regard to the need for expansion of production in certain lines and the curtailment curtailment curtailment curtail curtail- ment in certain others It has taken takena I a long time to find out just lust what Great Britain needs from us But Undersecretary of Agriculture Paul Appleby and Triple A Administrator tor R R. R M M. Evans have been in England England Eng Eng- land for some time and they have Eng I managed to get together with the British food ministry and iron things out Meanwhile the experts here have been figuring out just what we need for ourselves and for commercial commercial commercial commer commer- cial export and as well as the farm capacity to fill the need A Quick Glimpse At New Super-Board Super Who are the seven super-men super who make up the new super-board super in charge of the defense program Their composite name is which stands as you probably know by this time for supply priorities and allocation board Henry Wallace chairman Intelligent Intelligent Intelligent Intelli Intelli- gent unpopular with extreme New Dealers and conservatives therefore therefore therefore there there- fore the road presumably er ere A man who can listen to two sides of a question and who has made the Triple A whether you like it or not work Donald Nelson executive director Successful business man believer in defense can get on with New Deal Deal- ers Members William Knudsen successful successful successful suc suc- efficient master automobile producer Not so good at planning planning planning plan plan- ning but he wont won't have to Sidney Hillman successful labor leader shorn of many of his powers but free to do the administrative work he is capable of doing The secretaries of war and navy Stimson and Knox both Republicans cans both with competent cooperative cooperative cooperative opera co tive staff men under them Harry Hopkins close e friend of the President hampered by ill health able to say no to the President Leon Henderson Here is probably the most controversial subject on the board However I have heard many who disagreed with him thoroughly thoroughly thoroughly thor thor- speak of his abilities with respect H He is a forceful figure Eight men with the greatest task of production ever put on any group of men in America Upon their success success success suc suc- cess or failure ma may mat depend the shape of f the world to come The Business of Government Never Ceases In the news room of the National Broadcasting company in Washington Washing Washing- ton there is a bulletin board About 24 hours before one of those red dates on the calendar come along the boss' boss secretary puts a notice on the board It reads Monday September 1 or Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day December 25 or whatever the red-letter red day is will be a holiday Broadcasting will continue as usual The last sentence is a reminder to announcers entertainers commentators commentators commentators and engineers that while the rest of the world will be fishing or loafing or motoring the lithe show must go on The news tickers will keep up their monotonous chatter the endless endless endless end end- less lengths of yellow paper with their multifold chronicle of the human human human hu hu- hu- hu man comedy comedy and and tragedy will tragedy will unroll unroll unroll un un- un- un roll jerkily from the tireless machines machines machines ma ma- chines for those who care to listen the story will go out over o the air Shortly after the last time one of those broadcasting as usual messages messages messages mes mes- sages was put on the bulletin board oard oarda a message came over the news tick tick- ers It read tiCk I Washington Representative Representative Cartwright Cartwright Cartwright Cart- Cart wright of Oklahoma Says 12 Congressmen Congressmen Congressmen Con Con- gressmen Died During the Last Six Months From Worry and Overwork Therefore Reasons Cartwright Congress Congress Congress Con Con- gress Needs a Rest The day before I had received a aletter aletter aletter letter from one of my listeners complaining complaining complaining com com- about the President going off fishing and spending so many week-ends week in Hyde Park Well Mr Cartwright may be wrong when he says that all those congressmen died of overwork Some of them I happen happen happen hap hap- pen to know did wear themselves out at their jobs And for more than one government official regardless regardless regardless re re- re- re of holidays government goes on as usual As for the President his job goes goeson on at Hyde Park with very little interlude For instance It is Friday Friday Friday Fri Fri- day in Washington about 4 45 in the afternoon The White House news conference is over overhand and reporters are slowly filing out ut of the oval office office office of of- fice which their combined bodily heat has warmed beyond the best efforts efforts efforts ef ef- ef- ef forts of the cooling system to com com- bat I A Few on Platform Long before it is time for the special special special cial train to pull out of Union station station station sta sta- sta- sta tion a few favored citizens are on the platform The secret service has been busy A special police detail is waving cars away from the south entrance to the waiting room reserved reserved reserved re re- re- re served for special parties A whole crew of railroad men detectives and others whose functions are mysterious ous to the layman are hurrying about The newsmen who are to accompany accompany accompany pany the President on the trip arrive arrive arrive ar ar- ar- ar rive and take their places in the dining dining dining din din- ing car This car is the busiest on the train The genial Clarence Queen dusky chef has a well- well stocked larder The President wont won't use the diner tonight It is nearly 11 and a secret service man comes up and whispers whispers whispers whis whis- pers in the ear of William Hassett the secretary who usually accompanies accompanies accompanies nies the President to Hyde Park while Secretary Early holds the fort fortin fortin fortin in Washington Hassett hurries off In a few moments moments moments mo mo- ments a limousine drives right up to the private car It stops opposite th the ramp which has been set up up from the floor to the platform of the car The President without ceremony ceremony ceremony cere cere- mony of any kind makes his way up the ramp alone There will be a alast alast alast last word with Ha Hassett sett perhaps a I lemonade and the presidential valet val val- et et- will be called to the compart compart- ment The secret service men will take up their vigil The train pulls puns out Business Goes On The lights in the diner and in the club car will burn long There are I Isome some early morning stories to be written by the reporters But in the Presidents President's car where the secretaries secretaries secretaries secreta secreta- ries and other staff workers have their compartments there will be silence Next morning the President will breakfast at his home in Hyde Park and out will come the brief case again There will be trips around the estate perhaps a picnic in which the newsmen and the neighborhood joins loins as they always do on Labor day But between times there will be phone calls to Washington and frequently official visitors Govern Government ent goes on |