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Show pa f.ltl&i. JJLSijll.. .... Li Released by Western Newspaper Union. INDIANA COUNTRY EDITOR BUILT CHEMURGIC TRADE THE LAST TIME I VISITED with Wheeler .McMillen, something over a year ago, he was wearing, as he expressed it, skim milk clothes. That included his hat and an attractive attrac-tive tie. His garb of that day represented, at least partially, the realization of bis ambition. As a boy, on Ohio and Indiana farms, he worried about the waste of farm products On his own Indiana farm he saw much the farm produced unutilized. The corn stalks, the grain straw, the skim milk and other things brought no financial return. re-turn. As the editor of an Indiana country newspaper, he continued to think and write about those farm wastes. Later, as the editor of a (arm publication of national circulation, circu-lation, he solicited aid in finding a solution for the farm waste problem, and along with that, a use in industry indus-try of farm products that would increase in-crease the farmer's market. .. The result was the Chemurgic council, of which Henry Ford has been an enthusiastic backer. Under Un-der Wheeler McMillen's guidance guid-ance that organization has found many industrial uses for farm products, including farm wastes. Some of these are still, more or less, in the experimental stage, though their practicability has been demonstrated. Many others have passed the experimental stage, and are in daily use in the production of commodities, they form the basis of many plastics, in fact, make such plastics possible. What were but a few years ago farm wastes, today to-day are used In the production of automobile upholstering material. ma-terial. The industrial use of soy beans have made of that plant a major farm crop in the United States. The days of throwing away the corn stalks, the straw, the skim milk and other farm wastes are about over. No other one man is so much responsible for this revolution in farm markets, respresenting increased in-creased farm revenues, as is Wheeler McMillen, editor of the Farm Journal. Wheeler McMillen insists the great majority of American farmers do not want government hand-outs for not producing; that they do want, and .re entitled to, a profitable market mar-ket for what, and all, they do produce. pro-duce. To secure that market the products of the farm must be utilized for more than food purposes. pur-poses. They must have 'a place in Industry. He is a practical farmer of the "dirt" variety, and has applied ap-plied his own farm needs to all the farms of the nation. The countless innovations in peacetime commodities, that will now be coming along, will utilize in their production, to a very considerable consider-able extent, the products of the farms, thanks, largely, to Wheeler McM;llen. Government Family Thrives On Milk of Patronage HOW THE GOVERNMENT family grows. A new bureau is. born of an emergency. It grows and thrives on the milk of patronage, paid for by the tax payers money. The emergency emer-gency passes. The purpose for which the new bureau or department was born ceases to exist. As a bureau, It is abolished, but the patronage appointed individuals who were, during the emergency, feeding on tax payers milk are not deprived of their sustenance. They are but switched to another nipple. That is what happened in the case of OWI. Its thousands of American employees em-ployees in foreign lands have been switched from the OWI nipple to that of the state department. It is but a repetition of the same methods that have marked the creation of that enormous institution we call government. The expense goes on. The tax payer continues to pay. A NEW YORK CITY friend, Edward Anthony, publisher of - the Woman's Flome Companion, sent me a book of pictures of New York City. It Is a photographic photo-graphic debunking of the glamour, glam-our, romance, adventure and success to be found In a metropolitan metro-politan center. It is a book the boys and girls of rural America should sec and consider. It would quickly demonstrate to them that a great city does pot constitute con-stitute a success mecca. Those pictures depict the life of that three-fourths of New York that Is cither on the edges of, or in, the gutters. Seeing those pictures pic-tures would keep many a rural youth In the clean environment of the home town. PRIVATE ENTERPRISE is prom-ised prom-ised a chance to provide the CO million mil-lion Jobs it Is enUrmittd will be needed. "But," gays the political big vin. "If private enterprise foils government vlll have to tiike ovor." Vlth the rules and rnul;ition provided pro-vided ti iriuV.K It i hard lis pocr.lbla for private cnterprinu to succeed It would fceern thot;o funking the rules ore h'pliift K'jV'-i nrnent will file over. That wfldd he very much In line with the wishes of n riidlenl rilnorl.y, who wunt a government phjnnwl economy. |