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Show HI THE BULLETIN, BINGHAM CANYON, UTAH National Service Act Is Answer to War Disputes 'Too Many Cooks' Root of Labor Disputes; Pressure Groups, Individuals Unwilling To Lay Aside Financial Desires. By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. And so finally, the man with the long cigarette holder, just back from the world batticfronts where wasn't the argument, but was, where world maps were being where America's at-titude and action was about to re-write history, became a little im-patient. The Action Date "We have come to the action date," said the President, "we have been talking here since Sunday. If you can't take action by agreement, I will have to take action by my-self." He took it and he took the rail-roads. To say that Washington was not surprised would be to misjudge Washington. The root of the whole trouble in this and all the labor disputes has been that there were too many cooks. The trouble with the confus-ing statements which come out of Washington is that there are too many cooks. And yet, we have that paradox that when there are Ui many people handling war proV lems, the only cure so far has bee to substitute too tew to pass th buck te one man the President. The aaswer to that is that one man simply cannot do it all. The war is toe far away from us. We cannot lay aside our personal and natural desire to make as much money out of it as the next fellow. This has gone on from the begin-ningemployer, making his profits, essential labor demanding and get-ting his high wages, the farmer, his Incentive, and then those who fol-low after, shouting, "you did it for them, do it for me!" Not one group is blameless, only those who have been unable to bring pressure, hesitated to do so. And, for the most part, each group sin-cerely believing that it was getting no more than its Just due, the rest were the profiteers, the chiselers. The solution? At this writing, a National Service Act that will order who does what and for how much just as it is in the army. WNU Service, Union Trust Building, Washington, D. C. Why did the President order the army to take over the railroads? You can get seven reasons from seven different presidential advisors. I won't repeat them, I will name three. First, the epitome of those the po-litically minded probably gave; it will be a good thing for 1944. That is the sum total of a number of of the master minds who are advising concerning the political campaign which is ahead of us. There are two other reasons which some of the time-hardene- d officials in Washington offer (aside from the threat, real or fancied, to the war ef-fort). These officials let the political stream flow over them. They are more interested in getting the par-ticular job assigned to them done than flgurlng out its political effects. Needless to say, they belong to that large, conscientious army which most people outside of Washington forget exists, an army of peoale wise or unwise in their judgments but beholden to no political party for their positions. These are the two probable rea-sons they offered; first: The roads were seized as a threat agadast other industrialists who might make trouble in accepting tersns of future labor wage deci-sions, such demands for increases which caa't be easily dodged (per-haps just demands, perhaps act, depending tm who holds the scales). The second reason offered is this: Simply hecause many of the Pres-ident's present labor advisers have had little or no experience in labor relations, in the methods of labor leaders. Misunderstanding I There are a number of signs which might point to reason one as the one ' which tarned the scales, but, like most ef the other motivating forces In anany of the recent labor deci-sions, they spring from the same oil as does reason two: misunder-standing of the methods of labor leaders. You will recall that William Green, A. F. of L. chieftain, when he made what since seems to have been an attack on the Marshall statement that threats of An Abiding Peace Common Sense Treatment Books on the postwar world can almost be described as the only commodity of which there is now surplus production, but this is one "Towards anAbiding Peace" that can be taken seriously. R. M. Mac-Ive- r, professor in Columbia univer-sity, for one thing writes a clear, simple unprofessorial language, say. ing what he means directly and with-out qualifications. He is for a world order but is too practical to believe you can have it by just writing a world constitu-tion. He wants a temporary peace which in a way carries on from the war alliance, and then a second stage in which we move to real in-ternational control. Furthermore, he thinks that sooner or later our present enemies must be taken in unless we are going to let the third World war slowly fester. An international order is an inter-national order to Mr. Maclver. There are no weasel words. Mr. Maclver has worked out his plans in some detail. There is a lot of common sense in "Towards an strikes might prolong the war, stat-ed flatly that the railroad unions had never intended to strike. That statement isn't questioned in spite of the angry denials of the railroad union leaders. It is what you heard in every railroad office from every old time councilor and advisor in Washington before the roads were taken over. Unfortunately, the whole situation is reminiscent of the conversation concerning the dog. The dog growled. The owner said, "Don't be frightened, I know he won't bite you." "But," replied his friend, "does the dog know it?" You see the friend had no under-standing of dogs. If you had slipped into the White House on a certain day not long before the deadline for the strike call of the recalcitrant un-ions (enginemen and firemen, and conductors) had been reached, you too might have been alarmed. The union representatives (I am told) were making a noise very rrwich like a dog that is going to bite. Now the old timers were used to the noise. But the two gentlemen upon whom the President leans for advice in matters of stabilization Involving wage and price boosts, Messrs. Byrnes and Vinson, were not accustomed to the sound. They did not know that a labor leader's bark is often worse than his bite. ("There never was the faintest possibility of an actual walkout on the nation's railroads." William Green.) Messrs. Byrnes and Vinson be-lieved what they heard and it was plenty. That experience, I thiak I can say, is authentic. The labor lead-ers emphatically and enthusiastical-ly threatened, Messrs. Vinson and Byrnes took the warning growl for a real threat Others of the Presi-dent's council were convinced that there was excuse enough to do something which they thought would be advantageous for political rea-sons. Amoing reace on a subject on which a good deal of pretentious philosophizing is being done. Bond-Sellin- g Plan Rep. Richard P. Gale of Minne-sota has fi plan for increasing bond sales to individual citizens the sales which it is most important to make. He thinks h is a cheap and easy way for the government to increase sales and interest in sales on the part of the average man. Senator Guffey offered a similar plan. Periodically, at intervals not greater than three months, he wxmld have the treasury make a drawing. And the person holding the winning number he would be a bondholder, of course, would get a prize of from a hundred to 25 thousand dollars. It wouldn't be a lottery because nobody could lose you would have your bond for the money you invest-ed and your bond would be your ticket Powerful Allies Aid Farmer in Battle Against Bugs, Infection and Erqsion ;M fw 4 f2i - '" Experiment Stations, County Agents Fight Crop Destroyers. How the farmer fares in his never-endin- g battle against insect pests, weather, disease, erosion and the thousand and one other hazards farm life is heir to, will largely determine how well he succeeds in meet-ing Uncle Sam's ever-increasi-call for more production of foods, dairy products , fibers and fats. Luckily, the farmer has his own army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, and air force to battle and vanquish his enemies. Who com-prise these armed forces? The agri-- . and nutritional troubles of crops, plants and foods are legion. How the army of scientists from the land grant colleges has fought and won battles for the farmer against these and other adversaries forms a fascinating tale. Make Seed Germinate. When Iowa farmers reported sweet clover seed didn't germinate proper-ly, the state agricultural experiment station discovered the cause was hard seed and made a scarifier that corrected the trouble. That was 30 years ago and was the forerunner of many more modern devices and methods, the most recent of which is a process by the Fort Hays, Kan., station for "waking" buffalo grass seed. Then there was that matter of "Laryngot racheitis" down in New Jersey. Sounds professorish, doesn't It? But it has an earthy connotation GRASSHOPPERS and locusts are among the worst scourges in many farming regions. 1888 the investigations in coopera-tion with Texas which made control of Texas fever tick possible. A mysterious livestock disease, ob-served by Marco Polo in China more than 600 years ago, which afflicted army horses at Fort Randall, Neb., was explained only in 1931. The trouble is caused by feed grown on soil containing selenium. The South Dakota station has announced con-trol and remedies. The list of achievements is almost endless. Substitutes for pyrethrum have been produced by the Dela-ware station. Beginning in 1900 the West Virginia station worked out the fly-fre- e date for controlling Hessian fly. Tennessee discovered and in-troduced cryolite to replace scarce arsenicals as an insecticide. Mon-- cultural experiment stations and the extension services of his state land grant colleges. The way these services help the farmer to combat any production troubles old or new that come his way, is described by M. N. Beeler, In the current issue of Capper's Farmer. "The trouble which meets a man at any dawn or in the dead of night may be as old as Bang's disease (brought to America by Cortez in 1521) or Hessian fly (introduced into the colonies by German hirelings during the Revolution)," writes Mr. Beeler. "It may be as new as late potato blight in the Red river val-ley, or the attack of European corn borer in Illinois. Trouble may be as persistent as bindweed, smut, codling moth or boll weevil, as complicat-ed as malnutrition originating In lTTTytTTT "Ti" 'Tuirnr maw wnj'Vimw to any ppultryman who has lost 20 to 60 per cent of his floek. The New Jersey station found an inoculation that protects the birds from this disease. A shortage of spraying machinery threatened the crop of certain Penn-sylvania potato growers in 1942. The state college extension service met that threat by organizing 50 spray rings to serve 1,500 farms and pro-tect 10,000 acres. An average of 30 farmers used each machine. In-creased production was estimated at 1,376,000 bushels. So the story goes. One of the troubles that plagues farmers on the plains is "poisoning" of cattle by wheat pasture. The Oklahoma sta-tion investigated and recommended a remedy which included feeding a little dry roughage. The Kansas col-lege not only discovered a success- - S ' , r - ' 'i . 4 y f tana instituted the feeding of io-dized salt during pregnancy to pre-vent goiter losses of new-bor- n pigs, lambs, calves and colts. Nebraska checked the potency of commercial serums offered in control of swine erysipelas, with resultant standard-ization of effective protection. By breeding a wilt-resista- cot-ton strain, the Alabama station saved the cotton-growin- g industry of the southern part of the state. Purdue experiment station in Indi-ana has produced a new Hessian-fl- y resistant wheat. New York has announced a new organic spray which kills late fruit blooms, ma-terially reduces the hand labor of thinning, and induces annual bear-ing in varieties which normally pro-duce fruit every other year. Develop Borer-Resista- nt Corn. The Ohio. station has demonstrat-ed that milk- fever can be greatly reduced by feeding four ounces of irradiated yeast daily to cows for four weeks before and one week aft-er freshening. Another Ohio sta-tion project was the development of borer-resista- nt corn hybrids. Experiments at Pennsylvania and elsewhere disclose that fowl paraly-sis, which caused a $43,000,000 loss in 10 poultry states one year, can be controlled by selective, breeding and culling. But lest any farmer get the no-tion that the scientific research job has been completed and that he can get along without it, Mr. Beeler suggests that he remember just one menace wheat rust. "Ceres was a stem rust resistant variety distributed by North Dakota in 1926," he points out. "By 1933 it occupied 5,000,000 acres. But cer-tain physiologic races of rust in-creased and laid it low. Then the Minnesota station brought out Thatcher in 1934. It spread to acres in the United States and Canada by 1940. Now Thatcher is on the way out, because of sus-ceptibility to leaf rust. But the Min-nesota station announces New-hatc- h, outyielding Thatcher by 36 per cent for three years, to be .. - released in 1944 EROSION, though slow and unspectacular, lowers land productivity tremendously. This Kansas field, too steep to terrace, was planted with corn in 1942. There was no protective covering sown on it. Wind and rain scraped another layer off the already thin topsoil in the spring of 1943. Land like this should be in pasture. poor soil, as evident as a grass-hopper scourge, as mysterious as baby pig disease, as commonplace as labor shortage, as rare as foot and mouth disease, as little as ants hi the kitchen, as big as a com-plete management and production program." Assistance Is at Hand. But whatever the difficulty, help in most cases is no farther away than the county extension agent, or the land grant college, Mr. Beeler points out. Potentialities for trou-ble can be appreciated when such an every-da- y animal as the hog is sub-ject to more than 60 afflictions. Poul-try may succumb to any one or a combination of 69. The Indiana ex-periment station lists 18 common enemies of corn within that state in the category of diseases. And an Ohio report credits these same dis-eases with a 19,000,000-bush- yield reduction in a single year. This ful treatment for black-le- g in calves, in 1914, but through extension it so increased the use that dosage costs declined from 50 to 10 cents. This station likewise introduced copper carbonate treatment of bunt smut of wheat, sorghums and millet. When the New England coastal hurricane damaged 10 to 75 per cent of trees in farm orchards, the exten-sion service of Rhode Island, Con-necticut and Massachusetts worked out a rehabilitation program that saved thousands of trees. Control Fever Tick. Colorado potato growers were faced with an infestation of bacterial ring in 1938. The station found a remedy. Cattle fever tick had pre-vented development of cattle rais-ing in Louisiana up to 1936. Exten-sion workers and animal husbandry researchers led the fight to stamp it out. Missouri had inaugurated in damage is in addition to losses from borers, chinch bugs, ear worms, grasshoppers, aphids, root lice and a host of other insects. Continuing experimental projects are reported by the Arkansas sta-tion in combat with a few enemies of cotton, such as wilt, boll weevil, g diseases, aphids, leaf worms, boll worms, red spider, flea hopper, root rot and just plain soil poverty. Any sheepman, says Mr. Beeler, can count a dozen profit and g afflictions of his flock, but there are at least 36 miscellane-ous diseases and 40 internal para-sites besides foot rot, sore mouth, scab, ticks, pregnancy and lung diseases. Furthermore, the U. S. depart-ment of agriculture year book for 1942 devotes 172 pages to diseases and pests dT cattle and explains there are 70 or more species of bo-vine infesting tapeworms and round-worms. Books have been written about the ailments of horses and mules. The insect, fungous, virus CHINCH BUGS ruin millions of bushels of corn every year, as do cutworms, army worms, and other pests, many of which are difficult to control. Reply That ShoaUj Multitude of HO During a question peJ J lng a lecture, aitijDl " put a foolish query to Jf er. The latter repiie: "The logic of y0lttXr. makes me think of anot you tell me why fire et, B, always red? You candt fire-engin- es have four fE' eight men. Four and at twelve. Twelve inch'" foot. A foot Is a f Elizabeth was a ruler, f Elizabeth is the largest ' sails the seven seas. $j n fish. Fish have fins. Hhej fight the Russians. Their are red. Fire-engin- es iwa rushin'. Therefore, fire-eJ-always red. "I hope this answers j'alki tion also." ; of jj mmlmJl "'f'"-'""- feNiri 1 George MacDonald, who Just sold the Roney-Plaz- a Hotel, says he read It here, but we don't recall it. The difference between Palm Beach and Miami Beach is the difference be-tween the social register and the cash register. At the Newspaper Guild Canteen a hostess was dancing with a Coast Guardsman. When the music stopped, he pulled out routine 77B and said: "Now let's sit down and talk about you." They sat and he put an arm around her. "I get it," she said. "I see you talk with your hands." "Honey," he grinned, "I'm only whispering now." Mrs. Albert Einstein visited the astronomical observatory atop Mt. Wilson and asked about the giant telescope. "We use it," she was told, "to discover the shape of the universe." "My husband." said the famed scientist's wife, "does the same thing on the back of an envelope." A Major told this one to the ca-dets at Yale the other day. He said General Giraud and Lt. Gen. Clark were discussing the best pos-sible places for setting up staff head-quarters in combat zones . . . The youthful Clark recommended a cer-tain distance from the firing lines, but the older Giraud shook his head and said: "Too far back. I like to be right up there on the line." "But, sir," said Clark, "you wer captured twice." Shortly after the Sullivan parents of Waterloo (Iowa) learned of the loss of their five sons aboard the cruiser "Juneau," they visited Wash-ington, where they volunteered to do anything to complete the job their boys had started. A tour of de-fense plants was arranged. "Mom" Sullivan (after a lifetime In Waterloo) suddenly found herself a lady of leisure. There was plenty to keep her busy (with ten and twelve defense plants scheduled), yet she missed the little tasks of cleaning the house, getting break-fast, etc. One morning when the Navy Lieu-tenant (who accompanied them) called at her hotel room in Chicago he found Mom making the beds. She confessed she had been tipping chambermaids (throughout the coun-try) for permitting her to make the beds herself. "I just wanted to keep my hand in," she said. My favorite gag dealt with funny man Tait (Tait's motoring act) who dreaded coming to the U. S. from London where he was always a riot. Martin Beck persuaded Talt to come here assuring him he'd click. To get Tait used to American audiences they booked him first at Yonkers, N. Y., where he laid a frightful ome-let at his first appearance. Next afternoon (sauntering along the main street there) Tait paused at a fish store window. As he stud-ied a huge dead mackerel, with eyes taring blankly and mouth wide open, Tait exclaimed: " 'Eaven's abovel Thet reminds meh! Hi ave a matinee!" Will Rogers in 1927: The best way to describe Russia is, Russian men wear their shirts hanging outside their pants. Well, any nation that don't know enough to stick their shirt-tai- l in will never get anywhere. I am the only person that ever wrote on Russia that admits he don't know a thing about it. On the other hand, I know as much about Russia as anybody that ever wrote about it. Raymond Paige relays it via a pal in London. It's about the Air Corps officer assigned to a desk job. He objected to fliers getting extra pay for flying time. "Why should you get more?" he barked at a Texas pilot. "We're all in this war together!" "I know," drawled the Texan, "but who ever heard of two desks crashing head-on?- " Variety, discussing the chilly re-ception given actors in Pittsburgh, recalls when Katharine Cornell ap-peared there in "Three Sisters." Some in the audience complained that they couldn't hear much of the dialog. Told this (between acts) by the stage manager, Miss Cornell re-torted: "Tell the audience we can't hear them either." Much the same thing happened recently when "Blithe Spirit" played there. Night before it opened, some of the troupe put on a show for wounded soldiers at an army hos-pital. After the premiere, Clifton Webb wired his agent: "Last night we played to the wounded; tonight we played to the dead!" Vaa Beven, one ef the funnier comics (always a riot at the Palace on Broadway), used to warn others about the opening matinee audience at North Adams, Mass. "They sit down front," Van used to scream, "and devour their young!" Autobiography: A Broadway book-ing agent (noted for his rodent-lik- e i part) was asked why he hired an assistant noted for being even rat-tier. "Oh," was the reply, "he's the heel I used to be." classTf! DEPART Me J-at- FEATHERS WaT?. FEATHERS WANTED, Nf , Ship or write to Hurling Featkt SO N. BraaUwaj, St. wi ihea Used Cars Trau? JMLQflLOJh --J Nurses' Training S MAKE CP TO SZ8-S8-A WEEI; SracUca nursal Ltarn quici free. CHICAGO K NURSING. Beat. CW-- I. 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Total crop area lost was about 13,500,000 acres, government figures show, nearly 2,800,000 more acres than were lost in 1942. Pastures and most late crops suf-fered from the hot, dry weather dur-ing July and August although June produced enough dry weather east of the Mississippi to permit farmers in most areas to catch up with late planting and haying. Showers in the corn belt and the eastern half of the cotton belt pre-vented serious damage from the drouth there, and reports show that the warm weather enabled nearly all of the threatened corn and soybean acreage te mature before frost. The dry summer and fall also helped most farmers to complete their gi-gantic harvesting job. The 1943 harvest totaled about 347,500,000 aeres, exceeding 1942 by nearly 3 per eent or more than 8,000,-00- 0 acres despite wet weather that prevented planting of some acre-age, losses from drouth, and flooded acreage that could not be replanted. B R I E F S . . . by Baukhage Nicaragua and Costa Rica are rapidly expanding their balsa crops to keep up with current war de-mands and to anticipation of wood's important role in postwar aviation. The use of tin to preserve food safely in metal containers was first exploited by Napoleon's engineers preparatory to his invasion of Rus-sia. I Stamp out turnover stay on the Job and finish the job! Thai should be every American's creed. All honorably discharged mem-bers of the armed forces both men and women will be assisted way possible to find a job to their liking, according to Paul V McNutt chairman of the War M.ij. power commission. |