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Show THE BULLETIN WEEKLY New AAA' Alabama Plan' Promoies Soil Betterment BAUKHAGE i I0aSi Crop Payments Based on Land Improvement; Roosevelt Suggests U. S. 'Loan War Material to England. NEWS ANALYSIS By NATIONAL AFFAIRS Edward C. Wayne Halifax Named British Envoy to U. S. As Eden Gets Foreign Minister Post; U. S. Defense Set-U- p Revised in Effort To Speed Up Industrial Production Revievttd by CARTER FIELD British bombers damage to German tear production greater than reported . . . Irish refuse to aid Britain, emphasize necessity of strict neutrality. (EDITOR'S NOTE Kara aalalaaa ara aapraaaa la laaaa lamaa, tha ra ttaaa of tha aawa aaalyat aal Bat BaaaaaarU at Ik la aawaaaaar.) ' by Wtatara Mawapapor "- -' Nat I Fnrm and Horn Hour Commentator. (Ralaaaad bjr Wcattm Ntwipapcr Union.) WASHINGTON. You may have heard about the "Alabama plan" of the Triple A which some have said is an attempt of reverting the policy of paying farmeri for "not doing" and rewarding them for "doing." X find that the department of agriculture doesn't go that far. Of- maintain heavy equipment required terracing. However, groups of farmers can form an association to buy this equipment snd can pay their share on the basis of the amount of time they use it That is the story told from the In standpoint of the Triple A. You are VICUY, FRAXCE better able to Judge its merits than I am. Of course, if you have any views you would like to express, 1 would be only too glad to bear them. Shown here is Fernarul Di Brinon, French ambassador in Ger- Paris, who act' in g under orders of the t rench Chief of State Philippe Pe tal n, delivered to the Ger- mans, Franee's refusal to make anv changes in the French cabinet or to take back the ousted Pierre Laval. man-occupi- -- state-wid- -- TRENDS ar long-await- 1935-3- well-balanc- ( ... goal-lin- - well-plann- state-wid- half-smi- le erosion-resistin- g e, d five-ye- ar The WASHINGTON. One-fift- lei-tin- cross-Chann- el ".) HIGHLIGHTS ...in $480,-000,0- two-thir- two most encouraging phases of the war, from the standpoint of hoping that Britain holds out are that Germany is suf fering s great deal more In damage to her own war production than any dispatches have Indicated, and that the Italian fiasco in Greece has post poned a successful attack on Egypt and Sues until next winter. British production of airplanes has been badly hurt by the German air raids, but Imports from the United States now amount to slightly above 300 fighters and bombers a month. Ibis is behind schedule, incidentally. United States production of all classes of planes is about 200 a month behind schedule. But the number of combat planes is now actually above 300 each month, and this number is being slowly increased' each month. Sometime in early summer, assuming Britain holds out there will be a sharp Increase in production. A little later, depending entirely on how rapidly the Detroit group of automobile people get into actual production, there win be another sharp rise. OUTLOOK IS ENCOURAGING It is an a question of whether Britain can take it until quantity deliveries begin. Information in diplomatic circles here now Is more encouraging on that than at any time in the last she months, and this de spite the bed news about the damage to plants in Britain. While President Roosevelt touts about our own national defense needof our production of ing one-haplanes, actually practically an tha fighting planes are being sent to Britain. This Is not as as it sounds. Our army and navy want training planes for student pi lots far more than they want fighting planes. This situation is likely to continue for some time to come. But while Germany's production of planes has been cut down as a result of British bombing, according to confidential reports received here, the Nazi losses have not been heavy in the last couple of months. Had they continued the mass raids they began in early September, according to at least one observer, they would have won the war in a month. But there is another side of that picture. Had their losses continued at the rate of 200 a day, they might have lost their air superiority before they won the war. ficials there describe it rather, as paying farmers less for "not doing" but assuring them benefits for taking part in a constructive program. This is the way one member of President Announces the Triple A tells the story: 'Loaned Aid to Britain Down in Alabama they're trying, It was late as I hurried across e on a basis, an experiment the paved space in front of the ex in balanced farming that may even- ecutive offices. The waiting room tually be a pattern for farm pro- was jammed. Overcoats were piled grams in other areas. If s known as high on the huge mahogany table the "Alabama Plan" and it's simply presented to the President by the a plan based on good farming prac- Philippine General Aguinaldo. tices, which over a period, We were soon crowding through SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND A "Pioneer" squad is shown march provides for building up the soil and the Inner waiting room and across ing te work after a night raid on a Midlands town. The duty of these men otherwise improving the individual the hall and into the President's oval is to clean the debris and make roads They also demolish parts AIRPLANES At San Diego, Con farm to the point where it becomes office. The moment I had wormed of buildingsupleft standing by the bombs passable. but which might censtitnte a has-- solidated Aircraft corporation an a productive unit my way forward and looked at the ard. Often they work right through the raid while bombs drop. nounced a $14,000,000 building proj The Alabama plan is not compliPresident I was sure he had someect doubling its present capacity. cated. It is part of the AAA farm thing important to say. He wasn't At Liver more, Calif., The fall of Salum forced an entry WINE program. It carries further than laughing and chatting with the men BOSS: Into Italian territory, and the Brit- Schenley Import corporation gave ever before the conservation work pushed close around his desk. He Becomes Servant ish, using the German tactics of the impetus to the American wine in done under the AAA program. As looked very serious. fight through Flanders, shot ahead dustry by purchasing the Crests as Halifax Viscount of Selection under previous AAA programs, the last reporter had come British ambassador te the United down the coastal roads 175 miles Blanca Wine company. Finally farmers will receive conservation In. The President began to speak. within the border, completely sur PRODUCTION At Washington. payments for planting within their He spoke slowly, deliberately; in- States was a case of the boss be- rounding and cutting off some 20, the Federal Reserve board reported acreage allotments of special crops, formally but seriously, announcing coming the servant and vice versa, 000 troops In Bardia, principal port that during November industrial profor Anthony Eden was named as such as cotton, tobacco, peanuts, his Bardia was placed in a state of duction hit a record high, 133 per plan for lending or most likely candidate for succession unand However, potatoes. wheat, 8 average. leasing Implements of war to Great to Halifax's post as foreign sec seige, and the British main forces cent of the Alabama Plan, in Britain. der the after leaving sufficient men to pros ARMS Af Washington, British of retary. operation for the first time in 1M1, ecute the reduction of Bardia, later ficials completed a master list of Because I had to broadcast almost Halifax left the cabinet the last full payments made to Alabama to be reinforced from the rear, $3,000,000,000 in new war orders to was I afterward kept Immediately of the Chamberlain appeasement farmers will be contingent upon carpushed on toward Tobruk and be placed in the U. S., including wrote as but I taking notes, crew, a man lor rying out of certain good farming busy Derna. 12,000 combat planes.down the words mat would be his- whose scalp the Britpractices. Marshal Grazlani and his main tory some day, I suddenly felt that ish Planned Conservation. forces were still able to keep ahead GREEK: nothing was real around me. howled had of the British, but the latter claimed Aims Revised The difference between the Alafor months without Roosevelt Tells Story. enormous numbers of prisoners, bama Plan and the general conserThe Greek war cry of "Tirana by It couldn't be that the other side success. killed and wounded Italians, totaling vation program is about the differcon Washington Christmss" had to be revised, when ac all around 30,000, booty, ence between going into a cafeteria of the world was burning up that ceded great abilthe Italian resistance stiffened, and the complished with a British loss of and picking out a dish or two that a proud nation which claimed to ity of the great amnew skirted Evzones had to fight ahead was Seas Seven the begging only 1,000. you especially like and sitting down rule bassador, and preevery inch of the way at bayonet was for I that en actually would writing help the where Germans Just meaL Heretofore, to a for success dicted a of on a down copy paper piece ter the picture in the Battle of Africa point farmers in Alabama and other him here, while adWhether it was German reinforce It to that help. bring gigantic was not clear, with the British na plan to have them had available states Ameri- that mitting or not was not clear, but as the ment How to too was grasp. big simply val forces apparently in charge of certain practices which they could scouni can opinion Italians nesred the hopping off and snd coastline the unmolested, use to earn the payments available could any one human being hope at thepublic Halifax outset might places they fought harder and the under the farm program. They to sit down and draw up a scheme recall his appeasement tactics be- the better ports either in British Greek advance, while continuing of peo hands or under siege. have used many of these but natur- that involved these millions fore Munich. was not aa spectacular. steady, answer criss must the that ple, ally they have not always picked out Britain CLAUSE SIX: that announced was It Greeks The reminded one of de beliefs, the best combination of practices cross, conflicting hopes, e football team nearing the might add the post of minister to half of the desires mands and globe? for the land. That was the cafeteria staff in Washington. Both am- And National Defense its stiffened a defense, and meeting on forming my pencil kept method of soil conservation. Under When President Roosevelt wants Enormously important objectives were bassador and minister had been the to do the Alabama Plan, the conservation words and suddenly I saw they anec something drastic and final had been achieved, however, Pograbut Paris custom in Britain's office, a little down simple writing an and something that has not been detz on the north and Argirocastro program worked out for each farm dote about a lot of men in a smoking hitherto Washington has had only done before, he has a system all his on the south, Porto Edda and other represents a balanced type of farmambassador. meal car making bets. own. to ing. That's the has been Eden what Just up fallen Into their vital more unreal but This seemed still He calls his advisers in, tells hands.points hsving type of conservation. It is the President's way of trying in Egypt and the near East has them what he legal wants to do, and then Not only is the conservation well to Maps showed a good third of Al illustrate frightfully complicated never been made clear, but it must planned for each year, but It is things with very simple, everyday have been successful, because ob has them find a law for it bania taken back from the Italian He has created a new Job, called invaders. worked out for five years In advance. servers pointed to the fact that B. E. Immediate objectives experiences. He told how, when he were the port town of Valpna, and The Alabama Plan, like most was the young assistant secretary of (before Eden) things had been at the Office for Emergency Produc tion Management and put into it the inland bases of Tepelini and parts of the farm program, came the navy back in 1914, war In Europe a standstill In the eastern Mediter-ar- William S. Knudsen, wizard automo Chimara. from suggestions from farmers was suddenly declared and he was ranean sector, and after Anthony bile man, with instruc the production sudden of on a the rived scene, Greek generals claimed the Ital themselves who have observed the hurrying back to Washington. tions that he is to be the "czar" for ians had moved out of Klisura, but the rose British Fascists, and up, pelted the farm of program operation In the smoking car with him were and sailed them way back into U. S. defense, and all lights extend that the Greeks were not entering made suggestions on it from time a number of brokers and bankers ing before him will be green lights. the town until the Fascists had been to time. Alabama farmers have felt "the best economic brains of the Libya. Knudsen took the Job (which he stormed from their positions on the The British effort against the Do the need for more planning and country" the President called them. had before the new order) almost crowned was also heights to the rear. more balance in their conservation They were saying that no war could decanese islands his new authority, and told and of grabbed deal with a success, AAA Former Greek army officers now has great the work and program last long. The bankers could stop Eden is believed to have had a fin- America to "roll up its sleeves and in the United States placed utmost been adapted to make it possible it In two and a half months for no go to work" building planes and mu e importance on the conquest of Tepefor this experiment in nation could fight long without ger in that pie as well. So now he Is to be brought back nitions. lini, an important road junction conservation to be undertaken be money in the bank. "There must be no appeasement from his present minister as 1941. foreign in point They stated categorically that ginning Money Net Essential. post as secretary for war, and this he said, and he called the war in if the Greeks capture Tepelini, fur The Alabama farmers who want "irreconcilable" in charac ther Italian resistance in Albania This, the President said, showed will be odd, for he will go back into Europe this type of program believe that and asked the nation to "recog ter, under held a he Chamberlain, Job would be impossible. beliefs the accepted a farmer who does not take care of how wrong nize the full gravity of the crisis' he which he because and vacated On the other side, experienced he that were. shows, said, not the full should History receive his soil in additional power men pointed out that beno country ever lost a war because openly expressed himself as out of which resulted military benefits under the farm program. with the then premier's being given to his organization. and toward the coast sympathy of Tepelini of lack yond money. One writer said that seven line the Albanian plains, and it was Requirements of Plan. on describing appeasement policy. went he And then months ago, when Knudsen was givHere's what the Alabama farmer in this territory that the Fascists' lending or leasing im- SECONDS: en the defense chairmanship, he mechanized forces, especially if aid' has to do to avoid deductions in his his plan for plements of war to Great Britain of his and ed by German tanks and dive bombconservation payments for 1941: gave that funny instead of lending money. He had In the Ring 1. Grow asked President Roosevelt "who's ers, might succeed in halting the crops no notes before him but it was plain each year on an acreage equal to he had Italy was not perhaps, knocked he boss?' The President said "I Greek advance. plenty of thought on out of the war by England-Greecspent of am." And Knudsen took the job. his cent 25 least cropland. at per The British fleet boldly ranged up his plan, that it was the result of but her seconds, at 2. Properly terrace all cropland any rate, jumped it was said with misgivings. and down Italy's private Adriatic, and study thought into the ring. Presence 'of large These misgivings have been more in the farm having a slope in excess bombing Valona with thousand-pounWhatever the merits of the plan numbers of German troops was con than justified in the defense indusof 2 per cent naval shells and receiving no one to be seemed merit its firmed in many quarters, 3. Establish or maintain perennial may be, try lag. Now. it is held. Mr. Roose- answering fire. The outcome still velt has said to Mr. Knudsen, in was in doubt though dispatches conPurpose of these wss a bit dubicrops on at least one this: it stilled for a while at least acre for each IS acres of cropland, something that came very near hys ous, but consensus was that some effect "I was wrong before. Now tinued to favor Greece. 4. Establish or maintain permanent teria in Washington and what might would be used in actual fighting in you are the boss!" And now Knud in England, too. the Battle of Greece and the Battle sen will go ahead with full HOOVER: authority, pasture on at least one acre for each have been hysteria For while it did not increase by one of Africa, and that others would be As to Clause Six, and the part ft 15 acres of cropland. Speaks Again played, some of the Washingtonians Requirement No. 1 has to be car- machine gun bullet, immediate aid to employed to bolster home morale. Herbert Hoover, announcing himGermany, in admitting official aid questioned the President's authority ried out each year, of course, but Britain It promised them "econom and restored their to Italy, let it be known that Axis to give Knudsen supreme power. He self ss definitely and forever out of numbers 2, 3, and 4 are to be done ic h of morale. politics, took the speaker's stand over a partners must strnd together, and pointed to the Second Reorganization period. totin to II Duce's aid act that not the did de under And again to appeal for a general U. S. too, that Now, the 3, act it stilled, aending the requirements points angry give and 4 must be carried out each year. mands of the pressure groups in this tering armies Germany was but re- President this power specifically, but sentiment in favor of making plans to feed Europe's hungry without country which would push us right up paying aid sent to her by Italy in acting under its authoi ity the PresiDeductions in the farmer's conthe any of the food get into Gerof "hundreds and an form of issued the of war. dent to order executive verge pilots on They very will made be servation payments stomachs. man WAS he for London to if could (which do) planes bombing." empowered hardly complain the basis of 5 per cent of the payThe former hero of Belgian reIt was too early for the general Clause Six of this order read ment for each 10 per cent by which was satisfied. And yet on the other In the event of a national lief told the people he believed this he fails to carry out the 1941 require- side of the picture, it did not even effect of these reinforcements to be imply a single immediate act which noted in the war reports. British emergency, or threat of a national could be accomplished, but that it ments. would not be the work of a week or The Alabama Plan Is resulting in would bring us sny nearer the war mechanized forces, backed by naval emergency, (the President may cremonth but would require months a office Mediterranean and manwere from such at the we the then moment for for guns by ate) emergency among farmers more of planning before it could be car from naval as over and made it con the the shall de President clear President that agement army planes cases. For example, operain many ried out tors of small farms are not able to gress would have to pass upon it head, pushed on rapidly into Libya. termine." Millions of men, women and chilHe also made it clear that dren in the overrun countries of Euit would not be presented to the old rope will be facing real hunger, cold congress for any hasty action. It the week's news starvation before the next harand Farm Credit must await the convening of the new vest and if lives are to be saved, WASHINGTON. The volume congress when you folks have had said Hoover, America must do tha time to think it over. of financing through the Farm BERMUDA The British have tak, A few years sgo America was saving. The plan may be, as some of the Credit administration was larger overbuilt and real estate was going en from the SS Excamblon Oscar Hoover's statement as to tha imcritics say, the most bald of subterIn 1940 than for several years 35. R. Stabler. a the shin's a housing shortage barber, begging. Today be obtained of starvation went unchallIt minence Farmers may German-borimpracn utterly fuges. past naturalized American is one of the bottlenecks of defense tical. But It has postponed rancor of credit during the first and news dispatches from citizen. a few enged, Here are reports: ous discussion and discord in this Industry. nine months of the year comShanghai, for Instance, told of 12,900 MALTA Prince Philip of Greece Seattle (plane center) reports corin the to 9418.000,000 country which would have served as pared w be memoer urn sleepoi me royal family bodies being found, deed from staraid and comfort to the totalitarian "this time next year they'll responding period of 1939. A furof them tne to British in tents." armed forces. vation, more than join nations which seize with Joy any ex ing ther increase may also be an He's 19 snd has been assigned to Chinese children, in six months has Reck (arsenal) III., Island, lack of unity In ample of the active duty on a batiieshlp. acute shortage of housing. alone in the one city. democracy. five-ye- WNU Sarvica.) (Bell Syndlcata lf one-sid- ed SUBMARINE BASE UNLIKELY The government of Eire is very Inquisitive about the source of the information of one of the military experts who writes a newspaper column, and who recently asserted that he "knew" the Germans were using Galway as a base for sub- marine operations. The Dublin government contends that the Germans could not possibly use any Irish base without everybody knowing about It In particular, officials of the Irish government insist the topography around Galway la such that a canoe could not enter and leave the harbor without a lot of people seeing it and wondering whose canoe It was. Incidentally, it is represented that the Irish living in Ireland, or Eire as they Insist upon calling it ara much more friendly to the British today than the third and fourth generations of Irish living in the United States. There has been no such mellowing of feeling on the pert of the American Irish as has transformed the Irish back in the home country sine Eire has been a separate nation. Britain is Eire's best customer, particularly for the huge supplies of foodstuffs that the Irish produce. DENT BASES TO BRITAIN In fact the only thorn among the roses, until quite recently, was the fact that the South Irish still wanted to take over Ulster. Lately there has been concern about Winston Churchill's statement indicating that Britain needed Irish ports for bases. On this, the position of the Dublin government is as the ancient law of the Medes and Persians. Nothing doing. The Irish would fight "anybody." it is asserted, who attempted to occupy any of their solL As they see the moment Britain occupied any of their ports or bases their entire country would be subject to German bombing. They point out that they do not have adequate defenses against bombing. Even Britain, which has lots of defenses, Is not able to prevent the bombers doing a great deal of damage, they insist wberess Eire has virtually no defenses. There is a very keen realization In Eire of their defenseless condition against an attack In force by either of the belligerents. AU they could hope to do, they think, is to resort to guerilla warfare. it |