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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER Increased Food Demands Face Nation As Lease-LenBill Spurs Consumption d By RAYMOND MITCHELL What will the CHICAGO. bill and Uncle Sams i Lease-Len-d own fast moving defense pro-- ) gram mean to American agri- culture? I With $7,000,000,000 for all-oI aid to Britain now added to the J pyramiding total of $33,000,-- j 000,000 in congressional for defense and rearm--. ament, this question is assum- ing growing importance. i (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) J ns Proving That Doctors Dont Know Everything Every farm family in America f has a stake in the situation. Food is as much a weapon as planes, The extent to tanks and ships. which it is used is a matter of close concern to everyone on or near a j farm. Three fairly definite answers have I already emerged. These are, how-- f ever, dependent on a big If I If Britain is able to stand the batter-- I Nazi air raids, if she ing of I can stave off invasion and survive t the deadly attacks on her shipping e 4 until American aid can be-- i come really effective: 1. Americas farm export mar-ket lost since Scandinavia, the Low-- i Countries and France fell may be I partially restored through the Feed I Britain provisions of the Lease-Len- d bill.' 2. The demand for farm products at home will be considerably increased. 3. Price levels will move upward. Food Increasingly Important. Lets look abroad, first. Under the terms of the Lease-Len- d bill, Britain does not need to consider either price or ability to pay in making food purchases here. Up to now her expenditures have been for munitions only. Food has been imported from the Dominions. The job of feeding Britain is in the hands of the Surplus Marketing administration of the U. S. department of agriculture the same agency that superintends distribution of food for emergency relief here at home. To provide supplies ordered by Britain it merely has to increase the food orders being constantly issued ' for domestic relief. British authorities have placed pork, lard, evaporated and dried milk, cheese, dried fruits, fruit all-o- ut life-lin- Lady Police Chief Preserves Order In Missouri Town PARMA, MO. The only police officer on duty here during the day and the chief of the police fjrce at all times thats Maggie Porter, attractive gun toter who not only preserves order in Parma, but whos an expert cook, as well! Folks in Parma claim, so far as they know, that she is the only woman chief of police in the U. S. A. But Chief Porter disclaims any credit for her unique role. I was appointed town marshal after the death of my father, John W. Porter, who was serving his second term in that office, she ex- plains. It all sounds simple, but what Miss Porter fails to say is that all through his administration she was her fathers right hand man, keeping his books and even helping him on the street when the town was crowded with visitors. When Mr. Porter could no longer carry on his duties, his daughter pinned the badge of authority on her coat lapel, strapped his around her waist, and proceeded to do everythin ig from making arrests to handling the tax collections that go with the duties in Parma. And after his death, the city council of this community of 1,200 persons voted to make her successor to Mr. Porter, and shell hold the job at least until the next election. Chief Porter, who works with W. B. Morgan, business-ma- n mayor of Parma, and four male council members, is the towns only daytime police officer. She has a night marshal and often appoints a deputy to work with him. - And on Saturday nights, she remains on duty until nearly . midnight, ready to direct the work of law enforcing. er $10,000-a-ye- ar chief-of-poli- Trouble? Occasionally, Chief Porter says, when some outsider comes to town, gets drunk and starts showing off. Asked what her most exciting duty had been, Chief Porter said, without much hesitation, Tracking down the criminal who shot my night marshal, W. T. Wormack, cr. December 22, 1940. When running rods through your Nut meats may be removed curtains put a thimble on the end from the shell without breaking of the rod. It will run through the kernel if hot water is poured more easily. over the nuts and allowed to remain through the night. To keep down the cost of operating a mechanical refrigerator it is Never scrape kitchen utensils' important to watch ' the frost on with a knife. Use a stiff brush the cooling unit and defrost dipped in scouring powder to reoften as it is necessary. move stains and burns. For best results in painting a If short of eggs when making new brick wall, use a paint made scrambled eggs for the gang, add with a Portland cement base. It a tablespoon of fine bread cr comes in powder form and is cracker crumbs for each egg scrt mixed with water. up to half eggs and half crumbs. ut appro-priatio- OpN? A doctors telephone rang when he was trying to go to sleep. The caller was in a wild state of alarm. My wife, doctor! he shouted. Two-Fift- Returned that out of every 10 dresses bought in the United States, four are returned for exchange or refund. A survey has shown Height of Buildings Its The Empire State building is 1,248 her appendix. Youd better come round quick. feet high; the Eiffel Tower is 974 Keep her quiet in bed, said feet high and the Washington monuthe doctor, and Ill come around ment is 555 feet high. tomorrow. dicitis. The job of feeding tion. This organization tic relief. This carload constantly being moved Britain is in the hands of the Surplus Marketing administrahas had considerable experience providing supplies for domesof oranges is but a small part of the huge quantities of food under their supervision throughout the country. She hasnt got appen- No Free Jail The husband became even wildThe California legislature has er, however, insisting that the doc- been petitioned to pass an enabling tor should come at once. law permitting charges to prisoners Look here, said the doctor at for food and lodging. last, you know that I took out Not Members of Church her appendix three years ago, and Presidents Thomas Jefferson and nobody has two appendixes. Ever heard of anybody having Abraham Lincoln did not claim a two wives? asked the husband. membership in any particular church. juices and vegetables on the top of now at the highest point since the their shopping list. The number of outbreak of the war. items will be expanded as opportuniAll of the foregoing factors will ties arise. probably combine to boost the cash Other Countries Ask Aid. farm income of American farmers Britain will not be the only bene- above the 1940 totals. Some of this Mothers Best 'Teachers ficiary. Finland needs food badly income gain will, of course, be offSo Youve Tried Everything? and has already negotiated a $5,000,-00- 0 set by the higher costs for farm Women who have raised children labor and for the products the and are still miserable with stomach are considered the best school credit with the Export-Impobank for food purchases if shipping farmer buys. Fertilizer is about he according to some authorgas ! Spoils your sleep, and you hardly teachers, is available. That is just a beginonly commodity that has not regisities. Tablets ADLA eat. dare bring ning if further credit can be provid- tered a sharp price rise since 1933. ed. Spain and unoccupied France QUICK relief. Your druggist has Laid 318 Eggs Overexpansion Dangerous. A single comb white leghorn hen are on the list, too. How much they ADLA Tablets. Get them today. How long the defense programs laid 318 eggs in 365 days at the Kanget will depend on British blockade stimulus to industry and agriculture sas State college poultry farm. policy. Indications are that it will will endure is problematical. This Idea and Work be tempered by American opinion. hinges to a good extent on how long Success is nothing but a good Now lets glance at the home marPreventing Curdles the European war continues. But idea coupled with hard work. If mayonnaise curdles in the makket. Agriculture has already felt in months to come American farm- Balzac. ing, add a few drops of cold water the defense programs stimulating ers will have an opportunity to to the curdled mixture. impact. It will feel it even more strengthen their position and fortify in months to come. There is an in- themselves for the future. To do creasing demand for farm products. this some straight thinking will be Americans are buying more and required. Of essential importance is eating more because they have that farmers avoid overexpansion money to spend. Still more cereals, and the pitfall of easy profits that meats, fats, dairy products, fruits may later turn into losses. The first and woolens will be needed. World war taught us some bitter lesReports from the U. S. depart- sons about that. Surpluses that have ment of commerce show that a rise burdened agriculture ever since can in emloyment is invariably be traced to World war days. by a rise in the conWhat can farmers do to make sumption of meats, dairy and poul- agriculture one of the most effectry products along with fruits and tive weapons in Democracys arvegetables. senal? Defense Spending Rises. For one thing, they can develop How the defense program is in- ways and means of making their fluencing industrial activity, employproduction more efficient. An im- -' ment and consumer income is portant step in this direction is to shown by the fact that defense ex- take stock of their soil fertility. For with penditures rose from an average of the country-wid- e $7,000,000 a day last September to the AAA program, fewer acres are more than $21,000,000 a day last being tilled. This means that farmmonth. These expenditures have ers should employ soil management not hit full stride yet, for many ap- methods that will produce higher propriations have been slow getting yields from fewer acres. Such a into circulation because contracts procedure will reduce production had to be let. When it is considered costs and improve the quality of the that payrolls represent from 45 to 70 crop. Such a program means excare in concernper cent of defense expenditures, the ercising future level of industrial activity ing the fertility of the soil by practices which not only prevent waste of may be gauged. Thus the consumer buying power fertility, but actually help restore it. Soil Fertility Declines. generated by the defense program is likely to be felt in the form of a America has used up the original bigger cash income on most Amer- fertility of its soil much more rapidican farms this year. ly than it has replaced it. Constant It is natural that the increased de- croppings, after genermand for food and raw materials ation, have generation removed vast quantities should be reflected in a rising trend of phosphorus and potash. Copr. 1MI hy Kfllott Company in wholesale prices. A recent bu- Wenitrogen, have lagged far behind Europe reau of labor statistical report in soil conservation. shows that wholesale commodity Nations abroad use from 2lA to 20 prices are swinging upward and are times as much commercial Influence of Absence One Action plant food per acre as does the United Absence diminishes little pasman feels Every States for fertilizing crop land and sions and increases great ones, as that all the beautiful instinctively sentiments plowable pasture. wind extinguishes candles and in the world weigh less than a Based on the average rate of de- fans a fire. La Rochefoucauld. single lovely action. Lowell. pletion, American farms will lose 29,000,000 tons of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash in 1941 due to the removal of plant foods by growing crops, through livestock grazing and by leaching, according to an estimate of the Middlewest Soil Improvement committee. In the effort to defend and build up the productivity of' their soil, farmers of the United States have one advantage they didnt possess 25 years ago during the first World war. Then we faced a fertilizer shortage because we were almost entirely dependent on Germany for potash and on Chile for natural ni-trates. Today, thanks to the teamiwork of science and American inADDS JOY TO YOUR MEALS dustry, we are producing our own we and foods can maintain plant our independence in this respect for an indefinite period. If national emergencies grow more acute and American farmers All in Silence the Be prepared Bright Outlook signal to Chief of Police Maggie Porter, who not hear A wife can say endless To temperance every day is scolding land for eventutheir ready any run of the get only handles a policemans disconcerting things, and she hits bright; and every hour is propimill jobs with ease and effectiveness, but ality, they will know it can be done or misses; but a silent woman tious to diligence. Samuel who manages a boys baseball team and if they have enlisted under the bansays everything. H. G. Wells. ner of soil imorovement. likes to coole. tool rt far-seei- iPf iy i eiWUs |