Show r M y M L y i i i.- i. i TJI g V V T f 1 j tc J ff FF F j 4 Farm Labor Situation tl t I Is Given Careful Study I I I I Government Devises Plan for Complete j Utilization of Local Workers to Aid in I Nations Nation's Victory for Campaign I II I fly Ily ni GE I National Farm Farm and anil mr Hour Mohr I Service 1343 II Street N W N-W W Wellington I n D. D C. C As the New Now Year reports report are ore beginning to como cone In to the Federal Fed eral cral Security here from supervisors of ot farm place ment In the 40 en states Those These reports report state Just what the Ule formers farmers In each ench state slate arc nrc going to need nerd In the way of labor this spring and how these state supervisors who ore are on the ground studying the question feel tee I IUle the Ule problem ought to be met mol Meanwhile Washington has been working on a general program whose goal coal Is the complete utilization tion of all local labor This means tint that ever every conceivable reservoir of Is to be man and man woman woman power tapped to make this good earth corth of ol ours yield Its utmost for the food food- for victory for victory campaign Students members of the Ule and the NY NYA A and every other group organized or orv v unorganized Is to be called upon to keep the chow line tine going for democracy democracy democracy racy at nt arms Nobody knows better than the Ule folks who arc are out recruiting for tor the Ule farm battalions that y you u cant can't Just push a man through the barn door or into a 0 pasture and und call him a n farmer It takes training and that thatis is part of the UlO plan master which Is b Isnow Isnow now being worked out But meanwhile there arc are a lot of ot people who have had farming experience experience ex ex- who are available skilled or semi skilled And then there are some Jobs which dont don't need skills r I but do require mass employment for short periods An Oregon Plan Take rake what happened out In Oregon this last lost fall tall for instance Oregon- Oregon Jans jan have already talu taken n hold of tills this farm placement Idea and made It work Along came the snap bean crop and a n drastic shortage hortage of hands They were found in every walk of life ute It meant temporary closing up of a lot of shops and businesses busi busl nesses flosses and other enterprises but they Uley got the crop in and they didn't paralyze the communities It couldn't have been done though with the best of will if there hadn't been a sound plan behind it The farmers now have two competitors competitors competitors com com- for labor the factory and military service Industry has always always always al al- ways offered higher wages Dut But present farm wages arc up higher than 1 n they have been In 11 years So the farm hand cant can't complain on that fuat score And the real patriot is the fue one who docs does what he can do dobest dobest dobest best for Uncle Sam Then there arc are still sUII a 0 lot of ot farm- farm trained workers who have drifted to the cities where they have not secured employment or they thy ha have e found themselves misfits The United United Unit Unit- ed States employment agencies are going after these people and ond are going to lure them out of ol their flats back bock into the fields As a Nation Went to War As the new year begins and I 1 look back at the notes I wrote down after that climactic Sunda Sunday when we received received received re re- re- re word that the Japanese had hall made their surprise attack on Hawaii they seem very dull and drab Dut But some of the memories are very keen klen This in spite of ot the Uie fact that ever since then life lite has hns been running at nt such a n rapid rate each day each hour and frequently each minute that it has been blen difficult difficult difficult dif dif- to see anything but the Ule very vivid present I have a memory of Sunday of ot a n brisk sunny winter day Then leisurely lei surely breakfast the morning papers papers pa pa- pers pen the radio the preparation to lose Jose myself in the outdoors for tor a few hours hours hours-a a walk which might have made me miss those first dramatic moments at the White House Hut I stopped to chat with my father who lives near me The phone rang ranc while 1 paused hat and COlt coat already on In the span of a few tew moments I was standing with a half halt a II dozen other reporters hurriedly haled from their Sunday rest resl in the altice of Stephen Early in the Executive Wing of ot the White House First said Early ver very seriously I are there any correspondents of German or Japanese newspapers here There were not He lie read readus us a few details of the Hawaiian attack at tack which he had Just received from the President hastily pencilled on n a memo The first announcements announce announce- announcements ments which he had hild received at nt his home he had phoned to the press asso associations lations and radio networks and ond then he had hurried to the White WhiteHouse Whitehouse HouseAs House As soon oon as 09 J Earlys Early's brief announcement announcement announcement announce announce- ment was over we rushed out mgt of his across the lobby and ond Into the press room where the press o associations asso ISO ISO- and the radio companies have private telephone lines linos to their local offices A little inter an nn NBC engineer had a microphone attached at nt- ached to one of ot our lines and ami I was able oble to make the first news broadcast broadcast broad brond cast ever sent from the White House From Irom then Ulen on I hardly left my chair except for tor moments to relieve my assistant and and one of the NBC newsmen who were keeping In touch with the state department across the Uie street and later Inter Interviewing members of the cabinet and congressional congressional con con- gressional l leaders nt at the Ule front entrance entrance entrance en en- trance of the White House louse The TIle White House press room is arranged to accommodate about a n dozen men who arc regularly stationed sta there Within n a few tew hours after the Ule first announcement of the Ule Japanese attack It was Jammed with 50 or more people reporters people reporters radio men messenger boys Tie The noise was so great that the microphone microphone microphone micro micro- phone had to be stepped down to avoid catching the Uie roar and confusion confusion confusion sion and I 1 was forced to speak ina Inn in inn n a low volet voice this this gave the effect of suppressed excitement which was greater than I really felt although the Uie events were exciting enough Outside the crowds were solemn quiet The sidewalk Immediately In it front of the White House was roped off olY and the Uie side streets were closed The crowd edged as ns near as ns it could peering at the lighted windows across the wide lawns They could see nothing but they were satisfied to watch Only very late Inte as they began to break up did the they begin to sing Their emotions needed an outlet then I watched America go to war seriously seriously seriously seri seri- but not as ns I had seen France rance and Germany go sadly go-sadly sadly resentfully and with wilh a sullen and deadening apathy Washington's Bridges And a Hobby Holby Every time I 1 cross one of Washington's Wash Wash- ington's beautiful bridges these days my thoughts go back to a n slim young man onus who was a 0 sophomore in college when I graduated He lie distinguished distinguished distinguished dis dis- dis- dis himself by winning the thu Julius medal tor for oratory no no mean achievement for tor a n foreigner for for- eigner elgner And this young man mun was a n foreigner About a II year ago he ho visited me It Il was the first time I had seen him since college and I never would have recognized the thu fat tat little man in glasses as the slim Kasai Kasal member of Ule to Japanese diet lie He put his arms about me and called me dear college male It Il was wall quite touching And lie ht produced areal n a real bah ooh bow us as he presented present present- ed cd a n delicate little fan to my wife wite Then he disappeared for tor a long longtime longtime longtime time and und I 1 didn't hear of him again I until he turned up in Washington lashington I with a n shower of will good interviews in the local papers Just before his wily colleague Mr Kurusu appeared ap op poured on the Uie scene to operate his famous string shot pin pla play Basal Kasal hurried hurried hurried hur hur- ried back to Japan Kasai Kasat was n a great student of ol America of Theodore Roosevelt Ho lie was supposed supposed to love lovu America deeply deep deep- ly I 1 have no doubt hu ht admired usHe us Uli He Ue certainly went to great gnat lengths to interpret this country to his eau o I have no means of 01 knowing hat t he really thought but Uie Ule point of this story is an incident which seems so utterly incredible that it Is an excuse for all nil misunderstanding of the Japanese It is simply too good to tobe tobe tobe be true and yet it is Kasai on his last visit was calling call ing at ut the house of a n mutual friend in Washington who ulio asked if it he could do anything to make miko Mr Kasai's Kasal's visit more valuable Oh yes Kasai Kasal replied with his little eyes sparkling behind hi him glasses some time liml 1 I should like to have you ou take me about in your jour our car carand carand and point paint out some of your beautiful bridges in the capital You sec my hobby is photography and I should like to take pictures of them hem So Sn far tar th the h beautiful bridges are still sUll here |