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Show THE BULLETIN Bruckart's Wathin&ton Digest Itt-s- t honors lato Eilirnr Wa!I;u--. otali- lishod un all-lie rword as tho au thor of bost soiling fiction. Robert Van Gvl.lvr in the Now York Time says, "No other writor, not eviu Scott or Dirkens, was no widely read by his contemporaries." Tlit Whole Farm Program for 19 10 to Be Broadened, AAA Announces ADVENTURERS' CLUB Soil Conservation to Be Stressed ; Increased Opportunities Given for Participation by Small Farmers; Folks Are Awakening to Fact Waste Must Re Paid For. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WKU Service, National Press Bide, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. A press release has just come to my desk from the Agricultural Adjustment administration. It outlines the farm program for 194a That is next year. The statement from the AAA press bureau announced that the 1940 farm program was evolved at a three-daconference of "approximately 100 AAA and others interested." acting for all of the millions of farmers. It explained that the whole farm program is to be broadened, but I will quote the opening paragraph, which is, of course, official: "Increased emphasis on soil conservation, increased opportunities for participation by small farmers and greater responsibility of administration by the farmer committees are included." I have watched the AAA officials operate for five or six years. They are still struggling for that more abundant life and, therefore, I have observed the changes with some curiosity. Also, there has been a certain amount of humor in what they have done not humorous for the farmers but for an onlooker whose life savings and hopes were not directly at stake. There never has been a dull moment. Sometimes, the antics have resembled the mpvements of whirling dervishes of the desert in their most fervent moments of prayer; other times have produced attitudes on the part of the officials and their underlings that strangely resembled d a and very stubborn mule that my father once owned, and then, again, there would be forthcoming schemes so fantastic that only a person wearing the degree of doctor of philosophy could have read the words without turning to Mr. Webster's unabridged edition of the dictionary. They have gone from the doctrine of scarcity to the doctrine of some other extreme and most things in between, always requiring, however, that the farmer must sign up a contract with a lot of do's and don't's. y farmer-committeem- mouse-colore- Just a Word of Praise For AAA Administrators That I may not be accused of being a common scold, let me give the AAA administrators a word of praise just here. The soil building and soil conservation phases of the program likely are going to be valuable although I fail to understand why anybody thinks it is necessary to pay a farmer to keep his own land in. good shape. But, skipping my own thoughts on that, there is justification for governmental interest in helping to restore soil on a national scale because our nation is going on for a number of years we hope. Then, too. there Is argument favorable to a policy of government encouragement in the planting of trees, a program of reforestation. There is, of course, that famous "parity" business. There is a fund g of $225,000,000 which a bunch of congressmen put into law. From it, the AAA officials can pay farmers producing wheat, cotton, corn, tobacco and rice certain sums if the price of these commodities is less than "75 per cent of parity." We have had that one before and after many trials there are still many hundreds of versions of "parity." It has put the money out There Is no doubt about that The AAA men made sure that all of It went out but some of the methods of calculations, of appraisals, of discriminations among farmers, of do's and don't's and just plain bureaucratic regimentation make a fellow diszy. I cannot help wondering what those who live a hundred years from now will say when they read the vote-gettin- current records. They may find some new words that will properly describe the mess. AAA Now Comes the Pay-O- ff On the 1940 Farm Program Next comes "commercial vegetables." There is to be designation, as this year, of "commercial vegetable counties," the designation, of course, to be done by AAA officials. - Commercial vegetable farmers, after they sign up and do as they are told, will get payments, too, and I hope the arrangement will make the green onions that my wife buys from the commercial vegetable man who calls at our door somewhat less spongy. And now, we give you the payoff on the 1940 program. Next year, any farmer who grows a vegetable garden will get $2 two whole dollars that are still highly regarded by me if he and does as he is told by the AAA master farmers. If he fails to grow that vegetable garden, he will be docked 12. The government will get it too. Uncle Sam's boys are good at that To make sure about getting that $2 fine, the AAA will deduct it from whatever other pay- ment that the farmer has earned. The regulations have not been is-- sued yet to I cannot report to you in advance what you will have to do to get your $2. The AAA may possibly tell you that you have to grow so many rows of radishes, so many hills of beans of two or more types maybe some pole beans if you have planted trees under the reforestation program. Or they may tell you to produce so many yards of spinach, and there must be carrots and peas, because children must eat carrots and peas. And potatoes! I want to warn the AAA about potatoes. Maine and Idaho voters may kick about including potatoes in the list of "must" vegetables. In the South, there ought to be melons, for there is nothing like a good ripe watermelon. Medical men advise squash in the diet along with rutabagas. As a special favor to me. I am going to ask that onions be included and planted alongside that row of tomato vines. Will Extend Law as Far as Language Can Be Stretched Of course, as I said, the regula-tion- s have not been issued and so 1 do not know what will constitute a vegetable garden "within the meaning of this act" as the official rules will say. On this point however, I think it can be said safely now that the regulations will extend the law just as far as human ingenuity can stretch language. The idea will be to embrace as many of the farmers as can be brought under the newest and rawest of the schemes for regimenting the farmers of the nation. None will be overlooked, except perhaps those like myself whose farm consists of a backyard some 60 feet deep wherein are crowded flowers that I love. I guess that I will not get any payment for planting trees, either. But the real reason I resent this $2 payment is that it represents a gigantic reduction in the price of votes. I think those AAA men haven't learned much about politics. They've gone sissy. The new price sounds like a fire sale. They ought to know that no votes induced by that price will stay put But to get serious about this thing, this new atrocity that is being put over in the name of farm aid, it ought to be said that never in all recorded history has there been any such thing attempted before. That of course, is no answer. It is an answer, however, to say that some governmental policies, like the actions of some private persons, are so utterly ludicrous that they hardly warrant discussion. Further, we ought to remind ourselves that in this instance a government supposed to serve all of the people, is To my undertaking the course. mind, the fact that government is doing it makes it perfection on the asinine side. Folks Awakening to Fact That Waste Must Be Paid For waste in more forms in the last few years than ever happened in our nation or any other. Folks throughout the country are awakening to the fact that this waste has to be paid for, because taxes are beginning to sneak up on them from the most unexpected directions. There will be more. Of that there can be no doubt Meanwhile, instead of slowing up federal spending, we find AAA paying $2 for a garden. There should be something in the way of aid for We have witnessed those who grow window boxes. It was only the other day that the treasury released final figures on its condition at the end of the fiscal year, July 1. Those figures showed that the government had spent 13,500.000,000 more in the last 12 months than it had taken in by taxa tion. Shortly, thereafter, a private issued a statement organization showing income and taxes of 163 Those figures great corporations. which were claimed to be official revealed that only about half of those corporations had made enough money in the last year to meet their tax bills. In some instances, the taxes paid by those corporations amounted to as much as three times the Income that was left to them after they had paid their workers and their overhead expenses. Thus, it seems to me that when our government Is running so far behind; when it Is already taking from its citizens as much or more than they earn in taxes and when more taxes are as certain as death is to all of us, when these conditions exist it is about time to take stock and see where we are going to end up. The future is not so black but that we can see streaks of light In It and these problems can be solved. They can be solved rather simply, too, if as In the case of the vegetable gardens we stop to figure that government Is going to take several times $2 for every vegetable garden brought under this new scheme of ." Beleaaed by Western Newspaper Union. I -- HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURSELF. Guy Wire Prntr,li Tho uy wire of polo along high and o!.--f whoif frequently are way by a pi jirnt eit through which ihe wire U run. The pipe protects tho wire by forming a sheath for it, ami also provide grvater visibility for those who are inclined to xtun-bl- o over the wires. Baldheaded Haircut. No one has ever lieen able to ex Army Mwfits In Poland, men unfit for ihc army plain why baldheaued nitn have their hair cut more often than other must work one week a year without pay in building roods. PK'n. Answers. Breath of Doom EVERYBODY: A. Kollins of Decatur, 111., is a refrigerator repairman, and he knows the ins and outs of mechanical re- HELLO frigerating systems and can tell you just what makes them go. John learned that business with an eye to making his bread and butter out of it. But there came a time when he had to use every doggone bit of the knowledge he had acquired to save his life. But, in the end, it was a penknife that saved the day. Without it, all of John's technical skill would have been of little use in the battle against the icy breath of doom which he and his helper found themselves fighting. John's knowledge told him what not to do, but knowing what not to do isn't enough when death is clamping down and slowly wringing the life out of you. It all happened in Springfield, 111. On March 31, 1936, John Kollins was called over there to make some repairs in the refrigerating plant of the Morris Fish Market. He got there early In the morning with his helper, and they worked hard all day on the job. temThe market had several cooler rooms carrying peratures and one room, called a sharp fish freezer, that went down to 10 or 15 degrees below zero when the machinery was working. Evening was coming on, and till their Job wasn't finished. The market had closed and every one had gone home before John finally got the machinery working properly. He still had to test It though, and he turned the controls on full and he and his helper climbed out of the basement and went up through the big, empty market to the sharp freezer room to see how rapidly the machine was bringing the temperature down. below-freezin- g Find Catch Broken on Freezer Door. When they got to the freezer door, John noticed again that the catch was broken. There was an old pair of Ice tongs hanging nearby, to open it in case it stuck. 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The pulp from sweet SO Eaat 4th Knuth St Salt Lake City. potato starch has been shown by chemists to be valuable aa cattle FURNITURE LINOLEUM feed and it may play an important Floor Covering Inlaid ..Tc an. yd. AH . part in southern agriculture. Then, suddenly, the big blade of the knife broke! made a mental note of it He had even told his helper to be careful in closing that door behind him. But now, as John walked in, his helper, following behind him, gave the door a thoughtless bang. Locked In! And In a small, cramped room whose temperature was rapidly going down! Going to 15 below sere! Not even an Eskimo could live through a night In the open at such a temperature, and John and his helper, dressed in ordinary working clothes, knew that they'd be frozen to death long before morning. "My heart almost failed me right then and there," says John, "but if it hadn't been for my knowledge of the structure of this freezer, we might have died before we even had half a chance to try to get out My helper was all for taking a big block of ice and trying to ram the door down, but I knew better than to try it The door was too strong, and. If we failed to get out on the first try, it would be the end. "I had built this plant eight years before. I knew the ammonia colls would not stand much Jarring without springing a teak. And once the ammonia got In, we'd have choked to death before we had a chance to freeze." No that was out The only thing those two lads could do was cling to straws. They MIGHT just possibly be alive in the morning. Only Tool Is Two-BIad- ed knife. Anything to keep their minds off the death that was clutching at them one degree at a time. They started hacking away at the plaster that coated the walls, cutting a hole about eight inches in diameter. It didn't take long to cut through the plaster. It was only half an inch thick. But back of that was eight inches of cork. "We took tarns discing." says John, "and made progress little by little. But, all this time, the machine was running la the basement and the temperature was going down. It went from fiveto ten to fifteen below, and our hands became numb as we worked. Then, suddenly, the big blade of the knife broke. For an hour they kept up their intermittent shouting. John was yelling "Police." and his helper was Just crying "Help!" It was alm'ost 10 o'clock by that time, and John had lost all hope. And then, suddenly. they got an answer. "Where are you?" A man, parking his car in the alley beside the market had heard them. The fellow broke in a windew, found the freezer, and used the old Ice tongs to pry open the door. "He didn't know what to de about us," says John, "until L la my delirium, began yelling 'Police!' again. He thought that was a good Idea and called the cope." The police arrived and gave the two men stimulants. Before it was over, the newspaper photographers had arrived and they had to go back into that freezer again to pose for pictures. But that time they made darned certain that the door wouldn t slam shut on them. (Released by Wiitcra Newspaper Union.) Ancient Totem Pole The totem pole In Seattle's Pioneer Square was carved from a single cedar tree by a tribe of Indians inhabiting Tongass island, southeastern Alaska. It Is 60 feet high and 8 feet in circumference and was Intended as a monument to a distinguished family. The pole stood for nearly a century on Tongass island and was discovered by a party of Seattle businessmen in August t8W. and removed to that city. French Clairvoyants On January 1. 1899, Madame Thebes, a French clairvoyante, pre dicted the death of the president of He died the following France. month. 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