OCR Text |
Show tuv. inn CTTT. LEHI. UTAH I ScalloDS frxr V. iWMtMSiCfefV 1 VMtAJSM weekly news analysis F,' I.' Egg Glut Calls Attention To chool-Lunch Question ' House'of Representatives Decides Against Spending Taxpayers' Money on Food for ! School Children After July 1. By BAUKIIAGE News Analyst arid Commentator. VFXV Service, Union Trust Building Washington, D. C. You have often heard the lament when guests came and the larder was bare: "If we only had some ham and had some eggs, we could have ham and eggs." If we had the man power and the machinery, equipment and distribution, distribu-tion, we could step up American food production until, by 1954, we could feed 380 million people. That Is what the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture says. Last year, we raised enough to feed 170 million. I Today, Washington is worrying over two problems brought into focus by that little "if." This time we have over-production of one food product: eggs. Government agents are hurrying around trying to find a means of absorbing them. America has more eggs than were ever laid on these fair shores in our history, enough to have rolled some on the White House lawn on Easter Monday if the President had permitted such a wastage, which he wouldn't . The government Is buying eggs right and left (600 thousand cases of shell eggs, 13 million pounds of powdered pow-dered eggs since January 1) to support sup-port the farmer's price, and giving some away and here is where problem number two, which I said Washington was worrying about, comes in. We are giving away eggs to state and federal institutions and also for school lunches. After July 1, school lunches, supported by the federal government, will be no more if the senate follows the action of the house and refuses the appropriation appropri-ation for that purpose. And regardless re-gardless of eggs, there Is developing develop-ing the other situation over which certain people In Washington are worried. I'll go into that later, but first, let us look at the egg glut We are told that we could feed a lot more people If we had the man power, equipment and machinery to produce the food. In the case of eggs, we could consume far more If we had the man power to run the drying equipment to produce the powdered eggs for the military forces and lend-lease although those Institutions now consume 400 million pounds of egg-powder a year, and eggs run about three dozen to one pound of powder. About Hen Power In this case, the man power doesn't match the hen power. A contraption con-traption called a cyclone drier dries eggs. All you have to do is to crack the egg and drop it into a container and let the artificial breezes blow, but lt'i hard to get crackers. One Kansas City drier who has a wage ceiling of 50 cents an hour for his crackers, has to compete with an airplane plant in the neighborhood which has a 50 cents an hour ceiling, ceil-ing, for work no less attractive to young ladies than breaking eggs. Right now, the country boasts the biggest hen population it ever had and egg production is 80 per cent higher than it was just before the war. Ever since March, something has gotten into the hens that has made them step up their production produc-tion feed was supposed to be hard to get so it couldn't have been something they ate. Maybe it's Just patriotism. Anyhow, the War Food administration is buying all the eggs it can, and now it is giving egtfs to schools for school lunches and to state and federal Institutions, not entirely because it has a generous gen-erous heart but because it wants to support the price to the farmer who (as usual) hasn't been getting the benefit of the retail prices which, in many places, have stayed up even In the face of the greater supply. Washington, however, was able to buy eggs for the Easter rabbit this year, 18 cents a dozen cheaper than they were In March. This egg glut has brought into sharp focus the school-lunch question ques-tion which is of considerable concern con-cern to the Office of Education as well as the War Food administration. adminis-tration. The present laying spree of the hens will not last forever, and there will be no eggs to throw around later on. And anyhow, the house of representatives has decided that even if there were a surplus of eggs and other food products, it does not approve of spending the taxpayers' money on school lunches even if the four or five million school children chil-dren won't get hot lunches after July 1 of this year. Not all the parents of all of the four or five millions of school children chil-dren are taxpayers. In fact, the truth is that many of them are too poor to buy a decent, 'or In some cases any, lunch for their children. The richer ones who can afford a lunch will have to be satisfied with a cold one and the chances are they won't get nearly as healthy a one as if it were provided by a school where parent-teacher and other groups have seen to it that a balanced bal-anced diet is provided. Educatora Worried This worries the Office of Education Educa-tion which is still working on congress con-gress to get , an appropriation through to continue the school lunch Idea. School lunches started as "made work" back in the days of depression depres-sion and the WPA. The original idea was to provide employment for women. But as the idea developed, it was discovered that here was an opportunity to do two things; to improve im-prove the health of school children and to absorb farm surpluses. So the WPA furnished the woman power and some equipment and the Department . of Agriculture furnished fur-nished the food. For awhile, the department de-partment took the actual responsibility responsi-bility of buying the food and delivering de-livering It. Later, when the WPA went out of business, and in many cases local sponsors took care of the service, the Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture merely contributed a certain amount of money (nine cents per child, matched by nine cents from the local community). This came out of funds provided for the purchase pur-chase of surplus commodities and the school bought the food itself. The proponents of the school lunch point out that on the principle that as a twig Is bent the tree is inclined, in-clined, furnishing a balanced lunch to school children will build good eating habits which will affect the whole community. It also points out that now that so many schools, especially espe-cially in rural areas, have been consolidated con-solidated with one school and bus service drawing children from many distant places, children can't go home to get a good hot lunch. Many can't afford to bring food with them. Of course, the community ought to look after this question itself and in most communities great interest has been shown and local authorities authori-ties have cooperated. But in the poorer communities which have the greatest need, it is impossible, and even in the richer locations it isn't easy, to get money for things per-taining per-taining to the schools as school teachers' salaries all over the country coun-try testify. Unless the appropriation bill now before the Senate Appropriations committee is accepted and passed by both houses, the next time the hens step up production, the school children won't benefit nor will they feast at federal expense even il other farm products are so plentiful plenti-ful the government has to buy them up to protect prices. Newt From London The London Daily Mail sets up a little special edition for the United States a digest It is photographed In London on microfilm, flown over to this country, enlarged to a four to six page brochure, about the size of ordinary typewritten sheets. I do not know how large a circulation cir-culation it has obtained so far or whether it is achieving its purpose of mutual understanding but it often contains some rather Interesting items. For instance: John Henry Jones, a 40-year-old steel smelter, came to America with other British trade unionists to visit our war factories. The Daily Mail quotes his reply to one of his wife's questions when he got back: "How about wages? Is the American worker really better off than the British worker?" And this is what Mr. Jones replied: "Taking a chap with the same size house, same number of children, chil-dren, doing the same job as his counterpart over here No. Our house here would cost $18 a month clear, in rent A similar house in the States would run away with $30 a month." National Income Reaches Record Level With Farm Total at $19,690,000,000; House Group Pigeonholes 4-F Draft; Snow, Floods Menace Midwest Farms (EDITOR'S NOTE: When pinion arc expressed In thee A' Wentern Newspaper Union s ncwi analyals and not necessarily of thia newspaper. it e lea sea uy vycoicm iicouucj umuu. .JVmHWlVSCW" yv - . .,.j,.v. " .. . : V.v .-J. New Britain Doughboy clutter around bogged jeep to give it lift from heavy New Britain mud after rain which stopped hostilities on both sides. DRAFT: 4-Fs Spared Declaring that selective service and the Manpower commission already al-ready possessed enough authority to" deal with labor problems, Representative Repre-sentative May (Ky.) announced that house military affairs committee pigeonholed the proposal to draft 4-Fs into work battalions if they failed to take essential employment. "We heard testimony by army and navy officials that the manpower situation is critical, but then Man power Commissioner McNutt told us there is no labor shortage and that new controls are not needed," Representative Rep-resentative Costello (Calif.) said. 4-Fs could be influenced into entering en-tering essential war work if the army adopted a policy of inducting them for limited service if they remained re-mained in unimportant occupations, Representative Costello added. Vets First, Ford Says Declaring that civilians have "made a lot of money out of this war and the servicemen serv-icemen have made nothing," Henry Ford promised that vets would receive first call on employment in his plants when peace comes. Hoping that other industrialists industrial-ists would follow the same policy, Ford said that when his com- ii Henry Ford pany starts producing cars again, all a vet need do is "to come in and go to work." EUROPE: ' Sevastopol Besieged Their retreat across the Crimea ended, German and Romanian troops backed into the historic base of Sevastopol, while Russian forces pressed against the city's outer defenses de-fenses and their aircraft trained their sights on Axis evacuation vessels ves-sels in the harbor. The Russian advance in the Crimea Cri-mea highlighted Europe's warfare, with U. S. and British bombers concentrating con-centrating on the continued bombardment bom-bardment of German industries and communications in the west to prepare pre-pare the invasion path, and Allied forces sparring in Italy for openings in the Nazi guard below Rome. As Russia laid siege to Sevastopol, other Red forces encountered stiffening stiff-ening Axis resistance in Romania and southeastern Poland, where mixed German, Romanian and Hungarian Hun-garian armies went onto the offensive offen-sive to launch local counterattacks. Diplomats Curbed Taking no chances on the leakage of any military Information to the Axis, the British government prohibited pro-hibited the departure of any eutral diplomatic officials from the United Kingdom and also assumed censorship censor-ship of any of their dispatches. In taking the extraordinary action which was approved by the U. S. and Russia, the British explained that any leakage not only might impair im-pair Allied operations, but also might complicate relations with the countries whose nationals divulged any information. The British action followed on the heels of the Allies' further restriction restric-tion of communications with neutral Eire. BRIEFS . . . by.Baukhage Gasoline needs in this war are SO times greater than in the last one, according to the U. S. Petroleum Petro-leum Administration for War. Since Dunkirk, more than 14.000,-600 14.000,-600 food packages have been sent by or through the British Red Cross to British prisoners of war in Europe, the British Information services report Fifty per cent of the outdoor advertising ad-vertising space in the city of Madrid must be reserved for the use of Spain's totalitarian party to present messages of the Phalangists. One million fewer work accidents in the next 12 months is the goai set by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins for attainment by Americcn labor and management. AGRICULTURE: Stormy Weather Unseasonal snowstorms and flood' waters sweeping through the great plains area of the West and Illinois menaced sheep and cattle and retarded re-tarded field work, but promised re lief to some of Nebraska's winter wheat plantings, needing moisture. Because of a shortage of protein feeds through the winter, stockmen feared cattle would be hard pressed by the wet, heavy snowfall and attendant at-tendant cold weather. In eastern Colorado, heavy calf and lamb losses were reported as a result of a deep snowfall that extended to Wyoming and New Mexico. In Illinois, farmers prepared to move their stock to higher ground in the Sangamon river valley as lowlands low-lands flooded, and downstream at Beardstown, townsfolk anxiously scanned the water gauge as the crest of the Illinois river rose near the 20-foot mark. Lighter Hoga With corn and other small grain disappearing rapidly on the nation's farms, lighter hogs already are be ing marketed, the U. S. Department of Agriculture disclosed. With corn being consumed at a rate of 295,000,000 bushels a month since January, stocks were down to 1,113,549,000 bushels on April 1, com pared with 1,374,748,000 a year ago. Also as of April 1, wheat stocks totaled 217,684,000 bushels against 325,387,000 a year ago, and oats supplies sup-plies stood at 418,255,000 bushels against 709,170,000 as of January 1 With farmers selling hogs .in the largest volume in the country's history, his-tory, weights received at the seven biggest markets have averaged 13 pounds less than in April, 1943. PACIFIC: India in Spotlight In the Pacific area, the spotlight continued focused on India, where British and Indian troops fought with desperation to check the Jap's steady advance on the all-important Bengal- Assam railroad supplying Lieut. Gen. Joseph Stilwell's U. S. and Chi nese forces in northern Burma. While the fighting in India flared to new intensity, U. S. bombers ranged the length of the Pacific, hammering at enemy installations on the Kurile islands to the north of Japan, and blasting the foe's es' tablishments at Truk, doorway to the Nips' major Asiatic holdings. Bitter fighting in India occurred in the mile-high Naga hills where the Japs were closest to the vital Ben. gal-Assam- railroad, and equally hard fighting went on to the south near Imphal, where rolling plains allowed the use of tanks. NATIONAL INCOME: Record Levels With heavy increases in industrial wages and salaries, federal payrolls and farm returns, national income soared to $147,900,000,000 In 1943, the department of commerce esti- mated With income at double the 1939 figure, the department computed that private industry paid out $80,000,000,000 of wages and salaries. Farm income was estimated at $19,690,000,000. Corporate profits of $8,900,000,000 were indicated. As the growth of national income slowed during the last three months of 1943, there were signs the nation's economic activity had reached its peak. HIGHLIGHTS . . in the week's news CENTENARIAN: Mrs. Adelheid T. Hiller of Mason City, 111., is dead at the age of 100. She would have reached her 101st birthday on July 4. Up until a few weeks ago, she did her own housework. She was born in Germany. WHISKY: The state of Virginia has purchased 27,500 barrels of whisky, whis-ky, to be sold through 102 state-owned state-owned stores. STOCKS: Hints of invasion on the continent of Europe, and uncertainty about the Burma campaign forced stocks sharply downward in N York, and other markets follow suit Losses ran to three points active issues. Holders decided lighten their portfolios, on the the ory that the "Big Push" would be disturbing factor to business for next several months. a the AUTO OUTPUT: Waits on War c;ticr tnppther in Washington, V. C, representatives of nine automobile automo-bile companies and top executives ol the War Production board huddled over plans for future resumption ui civilian auto output, with emphasis lfacture following the defeat of either Germany or Japan. with thp industry's manpower situ- ntinn oasins and companies fearing wholesale unemployment when mu nitions production tapers off, tne ex- nitiii rptnrned to their plants to take under study requirements of materials, space and tools ior resuming re-suming civilian output, and the time that would be needed to get ma chinery and set it up. Aithnntrh no nuotas for different manufacturers were discussed, some evppntivps favored a production oi 2,000,000 cars during the early stages. U. S. OIL: More Seen Possibilities of new discoveries and more efficient production methods meth-ods should assure the U. S. of suffi cient oil for the future, Socony-Vac- uum President John A. Brown tola stockholders during the course of a report on 1943 operations of the company, com-pany, showing a profit of $35,944,983. Besides discoveries from ordinary explorations and wildcat drilling, Brown said, additional crude oil should become available through bet ter production technique and secon dary recovery methods. At prices no higher than the average aver-age dealers' prices of 1918-22, exclusive ex-clusive of taxation, gas can be produced pro-duced from coal, Brown declared. COLD STORAGE: Big Holdings ; " Cold storage holdings of meat and lard reached all-time highs on April 1, but because of a reduction of point values, there were heavy withdrawals with-drawals of frozen fruits and vegetables. vege-tables. Of total meat holdings of 1,273,-145,000 1,273,-145,000 pounds, beef stocks amounted amount-ed to 296,380,000 pounds and pork 748,651,000 pounds. Lard holdings aggregated ag-gregated 400,999,000 pounds. Despite heavy withdrawals, frozen fruits stocks totaled 161,221,-000 161,221,-000 pounds and frozen vegetables 129,767,000 pounds. There were 82,038,000 pounds of butter on hand along with 149,942,000 pounds of cheese, 4,416,000 cases of shell eggs, and 168,036,000 pounds of frozen poultry. SHIPPING: Neiv Rates Continuing its policy of keeping shipping profits in line, the War Shipping administration prepared new charter rates for vessels taken over by the government. Under the new WSA rates, a basic charter fee of $1.25 per deadweight ton per month will be paid for use of the vessel, with all operating expenses, ex-penses, including crew hire, borne by the government. Under time charter rates, the basic fee of $1.25 will be paid plus $1,425 per deadweight dead-weight ton per month for operating expenses. In setting the purchase value of old vessels, a basic level of $56.25 per deadweight ton will be paid, compared with the present $65. SKY GIANT: Good Time Piloted by the Transcontinental and Western Air President Jack Frye, and the millionaire mil-lionaire motion picture pic-ture and aviation executive Howard Hughes, the 40-ton Lockheed Constellation Constella-tion airship flew the 2,467 miles from Burbank, Cal Washington, D. in the record time of 6 hours and 58 minutes. Averaging 355 miles an hour and slightly favored by II I f t t . ,j nun if'- 1 to C. Howard Hughes tailwinris at heights from 15,000 to 19,000 feet, the shark-shaped Constellation carried car-ried 17 passengers, although it accommodations for 40 more. Spon sored Dy i wa, uie Constellation was to be turned over to the army for transport CHICKS: Record Number A record number of chicks were hatched in commercial plants during dur-ing March in the face of a sharp - 1C vlKV 0I eggs. ESti. mated output is 284,915,000, compared com-pared with the previous high mark of 274,953,000 in 1943. For the first three months of this year, however total number of baby chicks was 1 3 per cent below last year. The break in egg prices causeo considerable cancellation of orders for young chickens, dealers said and a surplus of chicks for March was reported from most sections of the country. ITALY Because of the increasing is suance of paper money, the Italian lira is taking a tumble in German-occupied German-occupied Italy, and Fascist r utK0ri ties fear further depreciation mav spiral diSaStrUS Mationary Spurring the use of paper mone, is the continued hoarding 0f eor! per and nickles because of the metallic value, with the public rl sorting to use of postage stamps and perforated cards fnr ys and ! street car fares. and Candid Shot of a Man Doing a CoVm: Harold Lloyd is no sissy, but he plays with a doll. The toy has an interesting and tragic history. Harold Har-old was a long-time friend of Lil ian Leitzel, the lovely circus aenalist. Shi fell to her death in Copenhagen several years ago while performing her famed act . . . Her mother took the costume in which Lillian was killed and cut it up into me mentos for the star's Closest mcuu. Some received pin-cushions, others got similar tiny tokens . . . Lloyd was sent a mue aou uv. the material. It is one oi nis u enured en-ured possessions. r.rnnchn Marx was singing the praises of one of the movie firms re cently. "They're aDsoiuieiy wy: he said. "When they make a lousy picturenone of the other film com-panies com-panies can come near it!" Have a Debunker: Novelist Rose Wilder Lane told a reporter she isn't earning money because she doesn't want to pay income tax to support government agencies, Including the Writer's War board . . . Lady, the writers who work for that board take no fees for their work. The taxes may pay salaries of people you dislike, but taxes also support the army, navy and marine corps, which protect Americans such as Rose Wilder Lane. Have some irony: "Strange Fruit," the exciting novel which has been banned in Boston (the cradle of Yan-keeism), Yan-keeism), was written by a Southerner Southern-er and Dreaches equality . . . The current Magazine Digest credits Sid Sheldon with the anecdote about "Tootsie Rolls" being on a Russian menu. "Tootsie Rolls?" asked the guest "What's Tootsie Rolls?" .. The reply: "Lend-Lease!" . When it appeared here months ago the locale was Italy . . . Will Mr. Sheldon kindly forward the check he took for that one to the Red Cross? .... That's peachy. "The Adventures of Mark Twain" movie makers had considerable material ma-terial to go on because Mark Twain is one of the few modern authors who had more books written about him; than those he wrote. Mr. Twain wrote 24 volumes. He had 305 written writ-ten about him . . . Bert Six, the f movie photographer, was taking a likeness of a character. "Okay," said Bert, "I've finished. You can look unpleasant again" ... Jimmy Starr's book, "The Corpse Came C. O. ! D.," is a click . . . Paul Hen-reid Hen-reid and Hedy Lamarr were rehearsing re-hearsing love technique for scenes in "The Conspirators" . . . Mrs. Henreid was watching with others . . . She got a howl when she called out: "Paul you ought to try that kissing technique at home some time!" . . . Of all things: Radio station KPAS in Hollywood interrupts inter-rupts their midday preacher with race results! Lave Letter Dep't: The colyum thanks the Poly Spotlight's Instructor Instruc-tor of Journalism (of Riverside, Cal-ifornia) Cal-ifornia) for the press pass. It reads: "Press Club, Poly Spotlight Reporter's Re-porter's Pass. This certifies that Walter Winchell is a member of the Journalism classes of The Riverside Polytechnic High School, and a staff reporter for The Spotlight' All courtesies cour-tesies extended for obtaining or for-warding for-warding news will be appreciated. Signed: F. Wayne Coons (Journalism (Journal-ism instructor) and Bill CornwelL editor." The pass expires in 1950. Thank you very much. But by 1950 you boys and girls will be making mak-ing and writing the news . . . How-ever, How-ever, I will always treasure it and tack it on the back of my wheel chair. Bob Dunn, one of the better cartoonists, car-toonists, sends this Bed-time Story to Keep the Baby Awake: A Big Front Door wh0 was a Daddy Door hfld Little Son who was a Little Door So the Daddy Door wanted to measure meas-ure the Little Door to see if he was growing. So he stood the Baby Door iLf inSlBy and marked on the "m AndLthat s all children should wash their necks. Now go to sleep, d'ya hear? 6 R' !"ny motion Pre Party hUSS6U Was cached S h P.Snme1Wh maliciously, malicious-ly, mat lovely pearls! Are thev genuine?" Rosalia nodded ' Of course, you can always tell by biting them." said the cat Here, let me see " teeth feal PCarlS fabe TilV'f 'rner's "In Our screens all th? flashed on the troTerZ meSZn? girls 0ut Parker of tw " Star,et Elea"or tlr-bas pup to it- "tin,- , , . incK. She says 'ioJ'T rath6r b break'" a',0r 'ting or a Plays dead" " ..8,rolls and Jack Warner' P'acy," S3JS fellow', St " Utti8 the other words" lthUt usi"g sharp upDoards.Winri. or round srallrmt,. ia PC ueeporsh, convex or concave; aiSo 1 for cornices over windows? room, bath, kitchen, dinirie T dinette and living room. IK L IF . . fr-ul I ' PLYWOOO ORf coMPoamon BOARD-USE Al COPING SAW OR TAKE TO A IWO OO WORKING 5HO! PATTERN PIEf f i TO BE COMBINED AS NEEDEr used also to frame or to frame cupboards of many dif types ranging from gay cupboards to a dignified b- front for the living room. You can have all the sc; you want even in these t They may be cut out of any wood or, if that is not avai composition board may be It is easy to cut simple R" designs by hand with a copim' 6 NOTE: Mrs. Spears has made tern with 10 basic scallop and sn signs with illustrated directions fc bining them in many different j windows and cupboards of all sizes suggestions for using scallops for decoration are also included, a pattern No. 207 and' enclose is Address: MRS. RUTH WYETH SPEUi Bedford Hills ncii Drawer 10 Enclose 15 cents for Patten' 207. Name ., Address Possible Oil Producers In addition to Alabama and G gia, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota the Dakota s are known to havs deriving formations that s.1 bring them over to the oil-pr: ing side of the ledger. Mast already a producer, and new! are being added to establ sources in neighboring Canada Mexico. afpy th ton oca Colling Chickens Culling chickens for egg pr, tion qualities has become in re years a widespread practice. feed bill is thereby reduced ancihij saving, combined with the P-4.4-s bility of slightly better prodirlr . because of the less crowded tions, usually results in a hi: profit per bird than if the flock not been culled. Slow Recoil A rubber band or a steel sp; has an elasticity which express self in a quick snap. Nylon ropf contrast, has a slow, gentle bec Under the stress of a sudden: the nylon rope stretches rapidlj recovers slowly, the action de: in the perfect shock absorber. Washing Made Easy Marines en route to foreign it- have a simple way of doing t-washinp. t-washinp. fMnfhes are tied on a line and heaved overboard. T1- rmrnirur in Mi salt water doeiPP ihorough a job as any washing f" chine. ;Qie "jc ft i :y m piew i jeiephc paid M si icklii Fr; "Put fe'sei 4 o: mto Cut Building Time In 1940 it took 444 men one r o build a four-motored bomber pany cut that down to 70 tf in 1942 to 25 men, ana m 17 men. ouse, r-;thi akin "My iaow gteec pat 1 Jiores Rash Soothe, e0'v" l sdair diaper rash-ofW vent it with Mf !0e the astringent b sister powder. Get Me " Eden Broaden at Thirty Men usually begin to deer; in height after the age of 4 Me "aw FERRY'S" When you garden for abundant" plant Ferry'i Seedi. Many out log vegetable arietie are 00 t your local Ferry'i dealer. FERRY-MORSE SEED CO. DETROIT - SANHtANO9 constTpation SLOW YOU VP When bowels are fluggwh feel irritable, headachy, do do - chew FEEN-A-MINT.. rhwino.D..n latrativa. SlW I. FEEN-A-MINT befora r.A directions ileep ithout bel)(J6 turbed. Next morning 8eny.e'i' relief, helping you feel '-, yr' FEEN-A-MINT. Tartes Sft, and economical A generous l3SOU' em FEEIJ-A-MIHT A |