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Show THE mTT I.ETIN. BINGHAM. VTA " Canadian, U. S. Colleges Offer Plan for Prosperity Two Schools Offer Prescription for Post-war Depression in Pamphlet Entitled 'The Midcontinent and the Peace I ' MT y '' '$ 1 By BAUKIIAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator, WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Out of the part of the world farth-est from the fighting, literally and figuratively, has come an interest-ing international prescription for the cure of the world's post-wa- r hea-dachethe spell of depression that we have to be ready for. The formula Is summarized in a e pamphlet that I wish every-one could read. The title is "The Midcontinent and the Peace." The cover is an earthy brown embel-lished with alternating rows of gold-en grain sheaves, fat porkers and trucks. It is a report made Jointly by the Universities of Minnesota and Mani-toba. It has nothing to do with de-partments of state, it has no official status beyond the fact that the American and Canadian governors asked their respective state univer-sities te do the Job. It is a splendid example of the recognition of the common Interests of two important areas lying on op-posite sides of an International boundary line. The gist of the report is this: I. Western Europe must arrange greatly te increase its imports of wheat, lard and pork after the war. II. Canada and the United States must reorganize their automobile-producin- g industries so that a maxi-mum employment in Canadian fac-tories can be maintained; cost of autos be reduced to Canadian buy-ers and American car output In-creased. HI. Agriculture In the prairie provinces of Canada and the central northwest United States must con-tinue along the lines of agricul-tural specialization developed out of necessity during the war. The Connection Now, at first glance, the connec-tion between these steps may not be evident, hut the report makes the whole effort clear and also shows how the program can be car-ried out There is nothing new or revolutionary in the methods dis-cussed, nor in the reasoning con-cerning their results, but a striking assemblage of data gathered and arranged in such a manner that it offers what appears to be a logical are fairly simple maintenance oi the same type of specialization now going on. The plan for Europe is more complicated but since the question of whether the people of western Europe eat at all for the next few years, depends largely on what Russia, the United States and the other grain producing countries do, these countries may be able to get western European countries to do what we want. According to the Midcontinent planners, an arrangement should be made whereby western Europe for a period perhaps 15 years would absorb our surplus wheat, pork, lard and other farm products. Pro-duction of these products would be stopped in western Europe and re-sources saved would be put to ef-ficient use. The producing countries would assist in reorganizing Euro-pean agriculture to this changeover. .The producing countries would also agree to reduce certain tariffs so that the Europeans can pay for the agricultural products they absorb with goods they can make. (Of course, there Is the tough spot.) As for changeovers in agriculture, it is pointed out that they are not new. Minnesota was once the great-est wheat producing state in the country. That Is no longer true. "Mixed farming" has greatly in-creased. Diversified farming rose In Denmark and improved the stand-ard of her people these changes come about automatically because the new type introduced pays bet-ter. Similar changes, it is implied, could be brought about by ukase, too. Unfortunately, space does not per-mit a detailed review of this report but quite as important as its actual content are the forces which initiat-ed it in the first place, it brings to our consciousness the mutual inter-ests of this country and our northern neighbor which are plain to any American familiar with Canada and her people but which many in both countries ignore. Again, it shows how groups in two separate coun-tries can get together and work out steps mutually beneficial and like-wise advantageous to the whole world. The most important thing of all, however, is the emphasis on the fact that domestic problems are fre-quently International problems. program oi action. In the first place, the report shows how domestic economic policies (the ones I briefly summarized in the three points above) are, in fact international policies. It demon-strates with figures and explanation that "sound and strong Internal economies in Canada and the United States" must have "resoundingly Important effects on the external world." Examples offered to prove this in-clude the figures which show how the rise and fall of demand in Can-ada and the United States affected other parts of the world up to and after the depression hit us in 1929. In less than three decades, im-ports in the United States of ten different commodities increased from 300 to 1,700 million dollars worth. Take silk: the yearly aver-- V V V Diary of a Broadcaster Let me tell you of another crazy rumor story that I heard today. It is so old that it has whiskers but people up and down this land are listening and believing it. A reliable, otherwise hardheaded man told me that an acquaintance of his wife had a, friend or relative who had a letter from her boy, a prisoner in Japan. The boy said that he was being well treated and then made a reference to his stamp collection. ' He had none, so the remark got the people to thinking they repeat- - j ed it "then the FBI or somebody" took the letter, steamed off the stamp, and under It was written Well, before the man finished tell-ing it I said: "I know what was under it They've cut my tongue age importation of silk bought by the United States from 1901-0- 5 amount-ed to 45 million dollars. In 1929, it had jumped to 432 million dol-lars. But when the depression struck, it fell to 114 million dollars In 1932. The total imports of the ten com-modities dropped from 1,718 mil-lion to 534 million dollars and you can imagine what happened in the producing countries when these markets disappeared. One Interesting point brought out Is that in this period of expanding trade (both import and export) in which Canada and the United States shared, the MUTUAL interests of the two countries greatly IN-CREASED and their competitive in-terests declined. Industry Predominant The report shows how agricul-ture has ceased to be our greatest source of wealth, how industry has beepme nt and to main-tain our agriculture, a healthy con-dition of industry must be main-tained. The old statement is quot-ed: "Tell me the amount of factory payrolls and I will tell you the price of meat and butter." The plans for our own agriculture out" How did I guess? Well, I heard that story a dozen times in the last World war. But to make sure, I made a few inquiries, simply to check the pro-cedure. In the first place, prisoners of war don't use stamps. They can't write direct to their next of kin. The messages all are relayed through the International Red Cross anyhow. Before we got into the last war, I was sitting on top of a Fifth avenue bus in New York, reading an article, by David Lawrence, which reported how the department of justice had run down a story to the effect that sweaters knitted for the Red Cross were sold to soldiers. The bus stopped a Liberty Bond orator was making a speech I listened. He was telling the same story that the department of Justice had run down and found it had absolutely NO basis whatever. Remember this before you repeat these charming fantasies. Enlist-ment in the WACS, as fine a corps of American women as were ever gathered together, has been slowed down by a cheap and dirty story made out of whole cloth and passed from one drooling lascivious mouth to another. j Nation's Food Producers Achieve 1943 Goals, Elevate Sights to Meet Next Year's Demands Farmers Beat Floods, Cold and Drought to Reap Record Crops America's farmers have done it again! Last year the skeptics said they'd never meet their goals. So the farmers tipped food production 13 per cent over 1941, for a record total of 28 per cent more than the aver-age for the five years before the war! V ords are anticipated this season. The peanut harvest is expected to set an all-tim- e high with a total of 2.986,-450,0- pounds. 35 per cent more than the 1942 record and almost 2 times the average for the ten-yea- r period from 1932 through 1941. Dry bean growers will harvest a record crop from a record acreage 23 million bags of 100 pounds each, or an Increase of 17 per cent over last year's peak and 59 per cent over the average. Another record will be set when estimates of 10 million bags for the dry pea crop are realized. Last year's crop was seven million bags. Potatoes dug this year will total some 443.067,000 bushels, another fruits will be consumed in larger per capita quantities than last year, but will not match the 1941 record Among the meats, civilians will get a larger per capita supply ol pork during the current year but less of the other meats such as beef and veal, lamb and mutton. Nearly two-thir- of the prospective 1943-4- 4 supply of all meats combined has been allocated to civilian use, 63 pounds out of every 100. This amounts to 66 pounds out of every 100 of beef, 80 pounds of veal . 89 pounds of pork, and 65 out of 100 pounds of mutton. The large amount of pork available, despite the ap-parently small allocation per 100 pounds, is due to the unusually large . . 1 Came Farm Mobilization day in 1943 and the skeptics were sure it couldn't possibly be done that time. So the farmers decided which of the most-neede- d crops they could grow the best and planted the greatest acreage in 11 years! They brought together the largest numbers of livestock and poultry in history, and pushed egg, meat and poultry production to a new peak. Today they are exhibiting a na-tional food basket containing 4 per cent more than the 1942 record pro-duction, and 31 per cent more than the yearly average for 1935-3- Now those farmers face another growing year and doubtless anoth-er crop of skeptics who haven't learned, after seven consecutive years of record food production, that American farmers know what they are doing. They attack the problem of raising food for war with the same spirit the American fighting man displays on the field of battle. And, like that fighting man, they get results! Estimated production figures for 1943 are significant. Despite a late and rather unfavorable spring, de-structive floods in the corn belt and other hindrances such as labor and machinery shortages, nearly 352 million acres are being harvested. Total crop production is slightly less than 1942's record harvest, but 15 per cent greater than the five-ye-average of 1935-3- 9. Food crop acreage under cultiva-tion in 1943 exceeds the 1942 acreage by about 3 per cent The decrease In crop production is largely attrib-utable to smaller yields per acre on certain crops, although some plant-ings were lost through the floods, and others came to maturity but could not be harvested for lack of ."hands" or machines, or both. Livestock for food shows an esti-mated 8 per cent increase over the 1942 record, and 22 per cent over the previous record set in 1941. An increase of more than one-thir- or 38 per cent is estimated over the average for 1935-3- Lowered food crop figures are more than offset by the livestock in-crease, to push total food production in 1943 about 4 per cent above the 1942 record, and 31 per cent over the five-ye- period average of 1935-3- Meat Output Tops Record. Production of all meats for the year is estimated at an all-tim- e high of more than 23 billion pounds, an 8 per cent increase over 1942 and 44 per cent more than the aver-age for the earlier five-ye-ar period. Pork production will exceed that of 1942 by about 18 per cent but it is expected that beef and veaL and lamb and mutton will show totals slightly below last year. Both poultry and eggs will mark a record production, if an antici-pated four billion pounds of chicken is reached and the hens lay their expected five billion dozen eggs. These results would push poultry fig-ures 34 per cent above 1942 and 72 per cent above the 1935-3- 9 average, with eggs going 13 per cent over last year's record and about 43 per cent over the previous five-ye-period. Milk and milk products are ex-pected to show considerable fluctua-tion. Maintaining of milk for hu-man consumption at an expected level only about 1 per cent less than in 1942 a record consumption will lower production of cheese and evaporated milk about 13 per cent from last year. Government restric-tions on the use of milk solids will reduce ice cream production about 20 per cent although butter produc-tion is expected to be upped about 4 per cent over 1942. Housewives will be encouraged by estimates on production of edible fat and oils, exclusive of butter, at about 10 per cent higher than 1942. The increase for lard is set at 15 per cent for compounds and vege-table cooking fats at 12 per cent and margarine at about 46 per cent Among the field crops many rec- - The total food supplies produced by American farmers are divided, or allocated, as the accountants say, among four big groups. These are the civilian population of the country, who get the biggest share, the servicemen in training camps and on the fighting fronts, our A-llies, who get help through Lend-Leas- e, and lastly our territories, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Alaska. Small quantities included under this last heading also go to Central and South American nations that are ac-tive In the Allied cause. jlfllS I It's Like This Over There I L-- By BOB TROUT ' CBS Ntw Rfporur. New York looks like a movie set, after London. Years of clothes have made British civilians a little shabby. I thought Brit-ain's women did a wonderful Job of keeping themselves attractive on coupons, but the bright colors of Miss and Mrs. New Yorker's clothes made me blink. With one clothing coupon in England, a man can buy two handkerchiefs or one necktie or a one-fourt- h of a bathing suit. An "austerity" suit costs more than a half year's coupon allowance. Britain's blitz days are over but London still hears the siren, some-times two or three times a week. In London, it's never practice. The Germans haven't sent real bombing planes over London for a long time, only fighter bombers. They are speedy enough to avoid the defend-ing fighters a fair proportion of the time. Their bombs cause pain and misery but don't slow British war production. Heavy RAF bombers which frequently visit Germany car-ry bombs that weigh 8.000 pounds. That is heavier than the German fighter-bomber- s that attack Britain. The first American soldiers to ar-rive in the British Isles in this war landed in Northern Ireland. The secret was so well kept that most of the Irishmen who saw the troops didn't know who they were at first. Especially as they didn't look much like the Americans the Irish people have grown used to seeing at "the latest film at the cinema." Some of the Americans evened the score; they didn't know where they were. The British have been very kind to the American soldiers, although rationing leaves them little with which to be kind. But courtesy and hospitality are not rationed. It's a real treat for an American corre-spondent in Britain to have lunch at a U. S. Army camp. Strange how that Army food is improved by the simple trick of eating it 3,000 miles from home. And eating it after some months of eating boiled brus-sel- s sprouts, boiled potatoes (boiling doesn't require precious grease). And sausages that are 37 per cent meat no more, by law. Note on American influence In Britain: A British tabloid newspa-per printed this advice in a column of recipes: "Some of you have been growing corn (maize), and now you can use it for a delicious dish which will make a real change for you. Remove the green leaves. Put the corn into boiling salted water, cover with a lid, and boil gently until soft. To test when cooked: squeeze a grain with your fingers. To serve: should the corn be too long for your vege-table dish with a lid, wrap it in a napkin, put on a plate or dish, and serve at once. Spread a very little margarine along the cobs, take both ends in your hands and gnaw the grains off. It is good fun." Movies and theaters are doing a big business, and there always seems to be a "busker" available to entertain those who stand in line waiting for the doors to open. Thea-ters start usually at 6 p. m. so that playgoers can get home early, in case there is a "spot of bother." British reactions to certain scenes in featured American pictures are interesting. For instance, in "Ma-jor and the Minor," when Ginger Rogers broke an egg on Robert Benchley's forehead, groans went up from the British audience all over the house. But in "Sullivan's Trav-els," when Joel sniffs a frying pan containing five beautiful eggs, there were no groans. The entire audi-ence, instantly and broke simultaneously, into a long loud sigh: In one rural area, U. S. troops who had built themselves a small movie theater invited the local townsfolk to join them in watching the pic- tures in the long cold winter eve-nings. Some of the local people had never seen a movie before. One man, much impressed by the elegance and luxury of the home-niad- e "theater," said: "Why, they've even got a fire in there." I saw "Watch on the Rhine" in London a couple of months ago. All the action takes place in Washing- - whVV had meant to noce toes English cast spoke the with a Potomac accent But ftS7 notice because aU 1 could S2i aS 11131 actr con-ML- S d00r Polling - nv.rkuui, movHh? SUnmer with cl Kht iV-ar- until nearly mld-- in winter blackout be-- toe blacT ln tHe 8fternoon and is still on when you get aLwede,mrni,,g- - Pedtri;nS are havT! flash"ghts if they LrchfeToV'T by tyin ha ersS0hrrtrthelenS' and e Point-- ahead But ChV is kind to omS rTCiTv "Strn-e- e th. ,t . , can SALT Urn '""V NPJANREI, IwestminsterQ SALT LK2 cm SCHOURShlP-- C CURRICUU--J general EdjCatim Secretarial HIGH SCHOOUUth, College Preparatory DORMITORIES DINING The fun and art of fiv, together. ECONOMY OF EXPENSE- -1 FOR INFORMATION Pres,den Robert D Westminster CoH S'ltUkCilr5,1tt I Shipping Dried Because so much oft! ing shipped abroad todsj dried, dehydrated or co any American freight!: fim size is able to carry annual yield of nearly ' age farms, or, rough; acres. Jn if back aches need of diureti Functional kidney diJtnrbua of diuretic aid mtj caiw ache! May cause urinirf w quent, yet scanty and wn"2 lose sleep from "getting ps may (eel dizzy, nerfou, In such cases, yoo w1 kidney action ait. So systemically or ortwiw? Gold Medal Capsules. W mous for prompt action lor ) care to use them onlymW do aubstitutes. 35 V 1 SNAPPYFA jg) BUB Thereat, about ,r.e. and vin Jj that eontala Hovea brasHi"" Brazil, l og"W bast for commoreWP Don't keep yoJft with th. Hres, Drive-- It a short leally. This L willpr.v.ntd.t j rmy ujsS bar. If l "Z, 1944 trud. " , menta per ; 63 per --J? j the amount of . of the war. BIGooflj Farmers' Scoreboard for the Year luff" VfU ! t I Estimotei for 1943 how WAi JW I V CHICKENS 34 percent MORE lY I X thon in 1942 Vs 1 EGGS 1 3 percent MORE 1 ji & i DRIED PEAS- -40 percent MORE J 'Y t'ts ' k - VJ JLAW 1 5 percent MORE U'l MEAT 8 percent MORE I r& JjM9mf DRY BEANS 17 percent MORE 1 if0AltM (CrTRUSFRUrrS-6percentM0R- E f feRlml WHEAT ,5percw,,LESS i record and a sizable increase over the 1942 harvest of 371,150,000 bush-els. Sweet potatoes are expected to exceed last year's crop by 24 per cent for a total of 81,255,000 bushels. Although truck crops for process-ing will be about the same in the aggregate as in 1942, three of the four principal processing crops show marked increases. Processors can anticipate a harvest of 11 per cent more snap beans, 7 per cent more green peas and 4 per cent more sweet corn. Beets, a less impor-tant crop, also show an increase. Tomatoes, the fourth of the leading vegetables for processing, will prob-ably be down about 2 per cent below last season's supply. Where the Food Goes. Now that the farmers have come through with another topnotch har-vest, what is going to happen to all this food? Well, civilians will get poundage of pork available for mar-keting. Total meat allocation for civilians, out of the more than 23 billion pounds produced, is 13 bil-lion pounds. The armed services will get 3.9 billion, lend-leas- e 3.2 billion and reserves and other needs, 1.4 billion pounds. The major portion of meat going to lend-leas- e is pork. Marvin Jones, war food adminis-trator, has pointed out that in spite of the United States' enormous pro-duction record, short supplies of va-rious foods will arise from time to time, and some foods will maintain a constant shortage. "In fact," says Jones, "no matter how much we increase production, the requirements for foods by our fighting forces, our home front and our Allies will outdistance the sup-ply." Planning for Next Year. The busy farmer knows that rec-ord demands are absorbing his rec ord food production and asking for more. He has no time for resting on his laurels after another success-ful year. Even as he harvests his 1943 crops he is planning the sowing of some 380 million acres in 1944, an increase of about 5 per cent over this year. In addition, he must make sure of sufficient pasture for his livestock, which will push the farm acreage in 1944 over the bil-lion mark, an increase of 18 million acres over 1942. He has to plan the maintenance of high levels on pro-duction of meat dairy products and eggs, too. Once there were limits on the amount of food for which farmers could find a ready market, at home or abroad. In the world at war to-day there might be said to be no limit to his market. It's production that is now of first account for the farmer, not where he ran coil ,v, most of it a good, round 75 per cent of the total Of the remainder, some 13 per cent will go to the armed services, 10 per cent to lend-leas- e and 2 per cent to other out-lets. The civilian portion is about equal to the average amount of food consumed In the years 1935-3- Civilian per capita consumption in 1943 compares favorably with con-sumption during that period and is greater for many commodities. For example, preliminary esti-mates of per capita consumption are larger than 1941 record year for consumption on most foods for chickens, eggs, fluid milk and cream, margarine, potatoes, sweet potatoes, dry edible beans, and the grain crops: wheat, rye, milled rice, corn, oats and barley. While total fats and oils consumption will be about 1 point less than 1941, it will show an increase of slightly more than 1 point over 1942. Canned Juices, dried fruits and fresh citrus I . J L" i X , I liS ma inn ill i4'rWl.JJ .. nuab he raises. For this reason, he's looking ahead to plan his own crops for the best use of as much acreage as he can plant Every farm crop grown in 1944 will be a war crop, except for a few special crops already much curtailed. Greater emphasis will be placed on cereals, including an Increase in wheat acreage, and there will be special need for more soybeans, dry beans, the dry peas, flax, potatoes, canning crops and feed crops. Conservation practices to increase production next year will be empha-size- d under the agricultural conser-vation program carried out by the Agricultural Adjustment agency of the department of agriculture. These practices include measures to assist farmers to reach and main- tain maximum productivity of their land, without jeopardizing produc- tion in succeeding years. After the farmer has set up his own farm plan, the AAA committee-men, both county and communitv will assist him in obtaining equip! ment, materials such as fertilizers and other items essential to getting the production job done. Women who are taking over the many difficult Jobs deserve a large share of the credit far the enormous crops being harvested despite man-power shortages. Mrs. Elden King binds oat's en her farm near Arling-ton, Ohio. Ettyleae Colon (j, Ethylene is already by citrus growers to eci rapidly. It Is now repcrte ame gas and also m f propylene have doubled of growth of potatoes wk lingi are treated were much it numerous and contained j centages of vitamin C I The Lncky Bi When the master-aUr- : a ship for cleanliness vi finds clothes or ether lit they do not beloni the; placed in what li bci "Lucky Bag"-t- he delia get them back only by of otherwise they are iu I B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Bombers that will dwarf in size our present Flying Fortresses, armed with heavy caliber cannon of an entirely new principle of op-eration and capable of carrying half a carload of bombs across the At-lantic and returning non-sto- p, are some of the revolutionary aircraft developments predicted for the near future by Gen. H. H, Arnold of the U. S. army air forces. "By the hundreds of thousands, boys and girls who in other times would have completed high school. are now leaving the school before graduation to go to work," says the Educational Policies commission of the National Education association. Entries of aliens during the fiscal year ending June 30. 1943, were the lowest in 80 year". How Food Is Divided Up CWUIaa Military Allies MFAT cio Territories etc. CANNED VEGETABLES 70 26 1 2V U CANNED FRUITSJUICES 53 40 5. l (Exclusive of citrus) ' 0 50 EGGS 70 10 14 0 , 8. BUTTER 78 15 i? CHEESE 55 11 19 0'f CANNED MILK . . . 45 32 12 . !' DRY BEANS .... 50 l6 16 f |