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Show THE --PROGRESSIVE OPINION " Politics Seen as Key in Farm Subsidy Problem Acceptable Compromise Lacking; Presiden-tial Veto Forecast for Any Bill Banning Use of 'Economic Stimulant.' By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. rF 'hi ' WNTJ Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. The administration is In the midst of one of its fiercest contests to "hold the line" against stabilization. It is the old question of subsidies for farm products and it looks like a fight to the death. The house agriculture committee, with Representative Steagall and others swinging over to the Republican side, is backing the bill which would renew the appro-priations for the Commodity Credit corporation and cut out the subsidies to processors, distributors and some direct cash aid to farmers. The ' present legislation expires in Janu-- ary. A presidential veto is taken for granted for any bill banning the use of subsidies. Administration sup- - porters believe that such a veto can be sustained, but they see a tough, bitter fight ahead, The key to the whole difficulty is violent partisanship. Successful pol- - itics is like successful living in the family, in the community, in the world it depends on the ability to compromise. In this fight, there seems to be no one able to work out an acceptable compromise. Already the feeling is bitter. . Cost of Living Complicating the problem is, as usual, labor's insistence that the cost of living has gone up higher than statistics show, that the Little Steel formula is no longer a fair yardstick for wage increases since decisions of the War Labor board, plus in-sistence of the director of stabiliza-tion, hold down wages while the ad-- j ministration has not carried out its promises to roll back the living costs. The farm organizations and the processors and the distributors op-pose the roll-bac- They don't put it that way. They say they oppose subsidies for rolling back consumer prices. They argue that subsidies to increase production and support prices in a free market are all right and are horses of another color. The President sees no difference, Subsidies which permit the govern ment to buy up commodities or make loans at a minimum price when the market price dips below that figure are all right, say the farm bloc, but, they claim, the "new" subsidies go further than that in that they mean payments direct to the processor and distributor and also buying and selling by the govern-ment." This, they claim, is in itself inflationary because it means pay-ments out of the treasury. They say they don't believe that the money will get back to the farmer, that it means "grocery bills paid by the government," with very little real saving to the consumer, and finally, which is the real rub, it means too much government control. Subsidies and Votes Of course, there is the point that the politician doesn't like to mention nobody who depends on votes wants to be in a position later on of having to remove those benefits. An-other point, not stressed, is that sub-- j sidies to processors mean that the government has a right to look into the books of private industry. ' But to the President, it is subsi-dies or inflation.' At a recent press and radio conference, the President said that he got the head of the Farm Bureau federation, Edward O'Neil, to admit that letting prices go up in a free market, which the govern-ment says would have to be the al-- j ternative of the subsidy if the farmer ' was to get the incentive for in creased production, would mean a little inflation. The President then told the story about the man who took just a "little" cocaine. He soon became an addict. It was then that a woman report-er, known for her spicy questions, asked if the President didn't think that if his measure was carried we might become subsidy addicts. The President didn't seem to think so. He pointed out that agriculture has been getting subsidies since 1933. Whether or not there is danger in any of this mild economic stimulant which the administration feels is a wartime necessity, everybody ad-mits that runaway inflation must be avoided if possible. The whole com-plicated machinery of stabilization was created to prevent it. The proponents of the subsidy plan say that the fight against them is purely political. They say the Re-publicans naturally take the side op-posite to the administration because they can win some farm votes as champions of higher prices to farm-ers if they take this stand. On the other hand, they believe that the bill will be vetoed eventually and the Democrats say the veto will be sustained. If so, the Republicans will not be criticized for supporting a measure which is defeated. And the Democratic sup-port in the house agriculture com-mittee, subsidy supporters say, was "bought" by allowing the present subsidies for the products grown in districts of the congressmen who supported the bill, to stand. The administration followers say that it seems strange for the Re-publicans to raise a cry against sub-sidies when tariffs are subsidies. They mention the sugar "subsidy." As for complaint that the subsidy on agricultural products would not reach the farmer, they call attention to the milk subsidies at present in operation where the man who milks the cow gets the subsidy direct. Meanwhile, we know that the cost of living has already gone up. We, know that we need full production of foodstuffs. We know that many farmers can't get the feed required to raise the stock or to fatten it to its most efficient weight for slaugh-ter. Payment of any money out by the treasury does mean more money in circulation but the subsidy pro-ponents point to the kind of inflation we get when prices aren't controlled. The administration says it is better to control a few processors and even if Uncle Sam has to snoop into their books to see he isn't cheated, than to let that vicious spiral of prices and living costs start to mount. In the next weeks you will hear a lot more of these arguments. Food Contribution The other day when I stepped into the broadcasting studio just as the Farm and Home Hour had ended, I found some cookies, some Brown Betty and a meat loaf sandwich wait-ing. These samples had been saved from a more elaborate layout of good things made with soy beans which had been the subject of the F & H broadcast. I ate them with pleasure. Al-though the meat loaf was 25 per cent soy grits, it tasted exactly like meat to me. The cookies and the Brown Betty were excellent. Soy flour and soy grits the bread had some soy flour in it are both on the market ready to contribute vitamins, mineral, protein, vim and vigor to our food, reducing the con-sumption of scarcer and more ex-pensive products. A saving of from 20 to 25 per cent in meat and still having almost identical food values is nothing to be sneezed at. Soy, it is pointed out, is not a substitute but a supplement to other foods and you would be surprised how many tasty dishes can be pro-duced with it. The Bureau of Hu-man Nutrition and Home Economics has a handy little pamphlet contain-ing recipes, and you can get one by writing to the bureau, care of the department of agriculture, Washing-ton, D. C. There are recipes for mint loaf, chile con carne, suggestions for use of soy with vegetables when they are served as a main dish; soy in sauces and mixed with cereals to give a richer protein diet many sugges-tions for making what you have go further and accomplish more. A Letter Frankly, when I get a letter that makes me real mad, I sometimes mention it on the air. I shouldn't ever do it, I suppose, because I usu-ally get a flood of sympathy which perhaps I don't deserve but one of the best replies I ever had was from a man in Spearfish, S. D., who wrote to me as follows: "Each morning at 11 a. m. MfPT, t tune you in. Now, I may be mistaken, yet it seems to me that at times you think some of the letters you receive are 'hitting below the belt' which has always been considered cowardly and unjustified. But in a great many cases, if we don't hit below the belt, we just make a total miss as it seems that some of the stuff that is put out for us to fol-low shows that there is NOTHING above the belt to hit at" WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Allies Prepare Heavy Blows in Italy; Jugo-Sla- v Guerrillas Threaten Nazis Despite Outbreaks of Factional War; New Cattle Subsidy Plan Is Announced (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union'B news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.; Released by Western Newspaper Union. VETS:' Schooling 'Asked of a Following recommendations committee of educators, President Roosevelt asked congress to appro-priate one billion dollars for school-ing of vets with six months service after the war. man or woman Any qualified of would be eligible for one year study in a college or other educa-tional institution, with the govern-ment paying the tuition and $50 liv-ing expenses for every single per-son. A married man would receive $75, with $10 extra for each child. For persons with special aptitudes, it was proposed that the government finance their education up to three years States would be in control vets for of the program, certifying assistance. About 8 per cent of the personnel of the armed services would take advantage of the educa-tional opportunity, it was said. People Make News i Vs'. " v" &3: - 1 Decorated for merito-rious service as a gun-ner in a .bombing raid over France, Capt. Clark Gable returned to the U. S. with 50,000 feet of colored film of army combat missions mrAt. fiiiomw territory. Gable was to return to Gabe Hollywood to touch up Riding in jeep, Gen. Dwight Eisenhower (left) and Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark pause during front line tour to chat with British soldiers on Bren gun carrier. the pictures. , One of the youngest gobs ever to see action , with the V. S. fleet, j Walter ("Fuzzy") Cad- - J walader was discharged from service when his true age was discov- - ; ered to be 15. Young CATTLE: New Subsidy To stabilize livestock prices at present market levels, the govern-ment announced a new subsidy plan for processors and slaughterers. Under the program, subsidies of 50 cents will be paid on common cattle selling between $10 and $11 per hundredweight, and for cutter and canner classes ranging from $7.45 to $8.45 per hundredweight. For good grade cattle selling be-tween $14.25 to $15.25 per hundred-weight, a $1.45 subsidy will be paid, while for medium class stock bring-ing from $12 to $13, a 90 per cent grant will be made. To discourage production of choice to prime beef, a subsidy of $1 will be paid on grades from $15 to $16 per hundredweight. To slaughterers who do not process a new subsidy of 80 cents per hundredweight was estab-lished. Slaughterers buying cattle below or above the stated prices will have their subsidies reduced by a similar amount PACIFIC: Neiv Blows While Lieut. Gen. George C. Ken-ney-air force continued pounding Cadwalader had gone off to the wars at 14. Cadwalader RUSSIA: Reds Tighten Noose German armies fought desperate-ly to draw themselves from the noose Russia's surging forces were attempting to pull tight in the great bend of the Dnieper river. To the south, the Reds spilled over the flat steppes west of fallen Melito-pol, and raced to thwart Germany's withdrawal of its forces from the Crimea. Action' along the whole southern front centered around the Russians' attempts to surround and smash the German armies threatened with en-circlement from the rear, and the Nazis' desperate efforts to hold off the Reds with heavy counter-attack-s while the bulk of their troops dropped back to the west, on the edge of the 1941 European border, FOOD: Japanese ou-tposts inthe Southwest Eacif-ic- , Admiral Chester W. Nim-it- z promised the seizure of islands which would give the U. S. fleet control of the en-emy's home wa-ters. No sooner had s Admiral Nimitz, ' as commander in chief of the EUROPE: Prepare Attack in Italy Lieut. Gen. Mark Clark's Fifth army edged into position for a grand assault upon the Germans' new de-fenses along the 2,500-fo- high Mas-sic- o ridge in southern Italy, while the Nazis prepared to 'meet the charge by massing artillery and mor-tars on the front. On the Adriatic side of the battle-lin- e to the east, Gen. Bernard Mont-gomery's Eighth' army also drew up into position for the next big blow by crossing the short Trigno river at several points. Meanwhile there were indications that the Germans might be planning a strong counter-offensiv- e of their own somewhere in central Italy. Allied reconnaissance reported the steady flow of Nazi troops and ma-teriel from the north toward the bat-tle zone. No such counter-offensiv- e was expected, however, unless the Germans' defense weakened Allied attackers and drew them into open country where Tank Specialist Er-wi- n Rommel could maneuver ar-mor. Nazis Fight Guerrillas , Pesky guerrilla activity in Jugo-slavia commanded the attention of the Germans, with Marshal Rom-mel dispatching strong mechanized forces to quell the armed bands dis-rupting communications and de-stroying industrial plants. But the effectiveness of Jugo-Sla- v guerrillas was threatened by anoth-er outbreak of factional dissension between the forces of King Peter's government and the new "freedom army" of Tito Broz, which recently was organized and has fought independently. While the two political organiza-tions reportedly have been harass-ing the Germans from one end of Jugoslavia to the other, they also have been accusing one another of collaborating with the Nazis. Broz' faction sentenced 17 persons to death for such collaboration, including a former Jugo-Sla- v general. In attempting to wipe out the two guerrilla armies, the German ar-mored columns drove into the hilly country to which Jugo-Sla- v riflemen retire for cover. TAXES: Plan 2 Billion More Opposed to any form of sales tax, the house ways and means commit-tee was prepared to report a new tax bill for congressional approval, yielding only two billion dollars of revenue instead of the WA billion dollars asked by the treasury. Of the two billion dollars, 600 mil-lion would be raised by new liquor taxes. Levies on spirits would be boosted to $10 a gallon, on beer to $8 per barrel, and on wine from five cents to $1 a gallon. Other revenue would be obtained by increasing postal rates to three cents on local mail, air-ma- il to 10 cents an ounce, money orders 10 to 37 cents, insured mail 10 to 70 cents, and COD mail 24 cents to $2.40. Gen-eral admissions would be raised to three cents for every 10 cents; elec-tric light bulbs and tubes would be taxed to 13 per cent of the retail price, and there would be a levy of 20 per cent of the charge on bowl-ing, and $20 yer billiard table. If a salej tax were enacted, the CIO had warned that it would de-mand wage increases to cover addi-tional purchase costs. Adm. Nimitz Margarine Tax Because of growing opposition from the dairy bloc, a stiff fight loomed in congress over the pro-posal to eliminate federal taxes and restrictions on margarine. While mpre consumption of whole milk was N advocated, with "good" margarine substituted for butter, Representative August Andresen (Minn.) declared additional feed would supply sufficient milk for all purposes. Consultant to the food and drug administration, Dr. A. J. Carlson of the University of Chicago, stated that present "good" margarine has nu-tritional values equal to butter, and tax laws strike at the poorer classes in most need of adequate nutrition. When the margarine tax was first enacted, he said, there was occa-sional fraud in the sale of the prod-uct and there was less information on nutrition. Because cottonseed oil is an in-gredient of margarine, there were charges that the congressional cot-ton bloc was interested in repealing the tax and restrictions. INSURANCE: Monopoly Question With the controversy of whether or not the insurance business consti- - f l Pacific fleet, made his state-ment than it was reported that U. S. forces opened a drive on the Japs' last impor-tant stronghold of Bougainville in the Solomons by landing on Mono island to the south of the big base. tutes a monopoly brought up again with the Supreme court scheduled to pass on the ques-tion, Attorney Gen-eral Francis Biddle urged congress to defeat a bill de-signed to exempt in-surance companies from provisions of Gen. Kenney Aiming at ieea-e-r points which have been supplying Jap positions in the Southwest Pacific, Lieutenant General Kenney' s airmen have pul-verized such strategic shipping cen-ters as Rabaul on New Britain is-lam., on which 500 tons of bombs were dumped in a five-da- y period. PAY BOOST: Offered Miners With 48,000 miners out on wildcat strikes, the United Mine Workers policy committee was summoned to meet for consideration of the War Labor board's proposal for granting the nation's 550,000 miners a $1.12 daily wage boost. The WLB's proposal differed from the contract drawn between the Illi-nois Coal Operators and the UMW under which the miners would re-ceive a $1.50 daily pay increase, with compensation for underground trav-el time. Acceptance 'of the would result in wage increases of as much as $10 per week for 46 hours, it was said, while it was feared rejection would lead to a gen-eral mine strike with presidential in-tervention. Atty. Gen. e anti-tru- laws. Biddle Under terms of the bill, the anti- trust laws would not be as construed regulating insurance, or as im-pairing state regulation of that busi-ness. "It would establish a dangerous precedent," 'Biddle said, "under which other groups of special Inter- ests might apply for and receive immunity from the anti-tru- laws-thu- s by a process of attrition, whit-tling away the gains made toward preserving and strengthening the system of free enterprise " LIFT BLACKOUT: Coasts Affected Coastal cities can turn their light on again. The war and navy de partments have withdrawn the order requiring a partial blackout along the waterfronts, to prevent our shins being silhouetted against the skv Such clearly outlined ships were an easy target for prowling submarines Because the submarine peril much reduced, the military l believe the blackout no longer nece! sary, it was announced. The orrir was effective November 1 FARM INCOME: Trim Debts More Prudent than in the last war farmers are applying much of their greatly increased incomes to reduc mg their mortgages and other7b,i gallons, a department of agriculhir " official said recently. Abo lion dollars in l been mortgage paid off since 1, htdded This, he commented, is in TiT contrast with the First "P period when farm mortgage 1,," instead of declining, S' $4,700,000,000 to $7,10O,0oTo0O. f m SEWBNG CQKCILf Mi 8314 jp' "'"".""'V For Every Day. MAKE this dress un for everv day service you'll not get tired of it after constant jvear. 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To dry a pair of silk stockings without creases or pin marks, clip a couple of clothes pins to a towel rack, slip the stockings over them and spread the pins apart to stretch and spread the hose smoothly. Make a sauce for cottage pud-ding out of left-ov- fruit juice by dissolving cornstarch in cold wa-ter and adding it to the fruit juice and cooking it for a few minutes. Grape juice frosting is delicious and different. Put' three table-spoons grape juice into a pint bowl, then stir in 1 to 1 cups of confectioner's sugar till mixture is thick enough to spread on your cake. After yarn has been steamed for removing kinks, wind it on a cake rack. It is not only easier to han-dle that way, but can readily be hung on the line to dry. Shingle roofs should be kept well painted or stained as a protection against destruction by the ele- ments and to insure against the developments of expensive and leaks. Aluminum utensils can be cleaned by boiling vinegar water in them or cooking in them some acid food like tomatoes or rhubarb They never should be scoured with gritty powders nor an attempt made to clean them with soda, lhe soda just makes matters worse and the gritty powders injure the HIGHLIGHTS in the week's news ORE: Low-grad- e mines producing metals other than iron and copper were ordered closed down by the War Production board. Officials ex-plain that production of several vital metals has outstripped the need. Premium prices to some mine own-ers were withdrawn, and imports of some ores banned. Hardest hit are "war baby" mines yielding bauxite, lead, chrome and molybdenum. FORD: A son has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford II in Detroit. The mother, the former Josephine Ford, is the daughter of the late Edsel Ford, and granddaugh-ter of Henry Ford. It was their first child. PLANES: Despite gaudy imagi-nary pictures, the airplane will not replace the automobile for common transportation, C. Bedell Munro, oresident of Pennsylvania Central irlines, says. Original cost, oper- - ting expense, and traffic problems ;ill hold down the private ownership f planes, he explains. FRUIT: The air lines will haul fresh fruit in quantity after the war, predicts Sigmund Janas, president of Colonial Airlines. He believes that this swift transportation will eliminate the need of heavy packing and icing. NORMANDIE: The former French luxury liner, the Normandie, has been completely refitted and turned over to the navy. SHOES: A new process for manu-facturing shoe sole material has been developed by a company that makes woven products and frictions materials. The method is in the laboratory stage yet, but tests have proved it satisfactory. PRISONERS: Wounded British and German war prisoners are be-ing exchanged in small numbers through Spanish mediation, a report from Barcelona states. The trans-fer is part of an exchange agree-ment under which 4,340 Allied pris-oners and 835 Germans were re-patriated. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Nazi occupation authorities in Hol-land have even cut the Dutch horse-me-ration one-thir- The weekly ' meat ration coupons, which' used to be good for 150 grams of horsemeat, now are good for only 100 grams, or about two ounces, according to a re-port published in a German language daily in Holland. The cut means a great deal to the Dutch, whose liv- - ing standards have lowered. ' Government payments by check will soon be at a rate of more than 300,000,000 a year, or an average of a million checks each working day, W. A. Julian, treasurer of the Unit-ed States, reports. Bayonet warfare has proved so ; distasteful to the Japanese that at one point in the fighting on New Guinea, panic-stricke- n enemy troops ' chose to leap off a 150-fo- cliff rather than face the bayonets of Australian infantrymen, the Mel-bourne rndio said. Collecting spider web for precision sighting instruments is one of the duties performed by women in the British Auxiliary Territorial service. Because corn fields are excellent hide-out- s for partisans, the Croat minister for the interior has ordered all farmers to cut their fields by the end of this month. If they are not cut by then, they will be burned. Only one out of every ten Amer-icans thinks there's no chance at all for a union of nations to prevent wars in the future, according to a survey made by the National Opinion Research Center, University of Den-ver. Twice as many Chinese students are enrolled in college and technical schools as at the outbreak of the war, according to the Chungking ra-dio which says there are now 63,605 students compared with 31,188 at the beginning of the war. |