Show i Price rice Peg Paradox I Million Pounds of Butter Would Cover Lots Lois of Bread By y Frederick C. C Othman WASHINGTON O V O f f C i c cia i a 1 1 consensus seems to be that in Vermont there are more dairy cows than people The people are in charge of or the cows however however however how how- ever and from their milk they make butter This they sell to their Uncle Samuel who holds it in 64 pound pats and stores it hopefully hopefully hopefully hope hope- fully in ca caves caes es And what wha t do you think the people of the Granite tate state Mate spread on their bread Oleomargarine Or so said Rep Walter aller K N Granger D. D Utah He wondered wondered won won- dered if Secretary of Agriculture I Charles F F. Brannan the proprietor tor of the biggest pile of ot butter butler the world has ever known agreed reed about the habits of Vermont's Vermont's Vermont's Ver Ver- monts mont's cows or and/or people There Is some evidence they thy are doing just that that reported the greatest hoarder of nil all time In Involuntary Hoarding The big bald secretary was quick to point out that his hoarding of hundreds of millions of pounds of food was strictly involuntary Hed He'd bought butter eggs cheese and milk by the trainload to hold up the prices as per congressional order Now he was appearing before the house agriculture committee to ask the gentlemen kindly to tell him before it it- it spoiled what to todo todo todo do with the stuff I regret to report that he got no very good g advice ice Take butter from Vermont and practically practically practically everywhere else Brannan Brannan Brannan Bran- Bran nan now has pounds of it and every week he buys pounds more at a pound Hes He's about to run out of cool places in which to put it Rep Clifford Hope R. R Kan has nn an idea He figured that if every week each man woman and child would spread an nn extra ounce of butter on his bread Brannan wouldn't have ha to buy any more Why asked the gentleman from Kansas doesn't the agriculture department department department depart depart- ment put on an advertising campaign campaign campaign cam cam- paig-n paig to get people to eat cat more butter Costs Too lIi High h hIt It wouldn't work said Brannan Bran- Bran nan The butter people make the best butter they know how They put it in packages that are works of or art They extol its virtues in every possible way except possibly skywriting But how are arc you going to get more people to cat more butter butler when it costs a a. pound What this country n needs eds said he is the Brannan plan to get rid of its surpluses This is the scheme in case youve you've forgotten forgot forgot- ten len whereby the price of butter 8 at t the store would drop to world levels of around per pound but you'd pay for it again via the tax collector who'd forward the extra tax to the farmer The congressmen mostly took a adim adim adim dim view of that Only other thing thine then Brannan Brannan Brannan Bran- Bran nan added is to pass another law allowing allowing- him to pay the freight on the butter he wants to give away to charity and school lunchrooms This TIllS would include a further charge for cutting the butter into pieces small mall enough h for the average fellow to handle A pound 6 cube he said is too big to be of much use even in a big kitchen Must Iut Pay Freight ht The trouble is he said that when he wants to give butter buller away today the recipients have to pay the freight and mostly they cant can't aff afford rd it You have any butter butler stored here in Washington ton demanded Rep August H. H Andresen R. R Minn Oh yes Jes sir replied Bran- Bran nan Well Vell I am reliably informed they are using oleo here in the schools instead of butter snapped snapped snapped snap snap- ped R Rep p. p Andresen Brannan turned that over to his local man a Mr 1 Trainer who looked in his IllS book and re reported reported reported re- re ported that during the last six months the district schools used pounds pound of free butter butler How much of this came from Vermont he did not say Copyright 1950 by United Feature Syndicate |