Show 4 4 1 N W 0 0 0 0 0 0 go 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 election news action on the control front the international news held the spotlight in washington as the city settled back and readied itself for a lame duck session of the slat con gresa gress it was expected that continua tion of rent control which expires dec 31 will be rushed thru in the nature of a 30 day extension and hearings are about to get under way in the senate finance committee for an excess profits tax on the control front it la Is expected an attempt will be made to amend the defense production act of 1950 1930 with refer reference eric e to wage and price control according to bureau of labor stata statistics prices are going up faster i than wages under the new act I 1 the administrator of the economic stabilization adminis administration trat ion Is tied by the provision of the law which provides there will be price control without wage control or in other words mr alan valentine the new ESA administration could not set ceilings on commodities without setting a ceiling on wages organized labor is fighting this provision 1 of the act attempts already are being made by the larger labor unions to open up wage contract discussions before present contracts expire on the theory that the living cost index already has i passed them up I 1 insofar as the farmer is concerned cc med wh whatever a bever controls or ceiling prices are placed on farm commodities or produce the farmer will not be hurt for tie he is protected under the law ty by the provisions that farm pro duce prices cannot be fixed under parity or under the price 0 of f commodities between ma may uil 24 and june 24 of this year this means that ceilings on farm pro duce cannot be much it if any under present prices at the same time the outlook for f farm rm 1 ers tor for the coming year indicate indicate that his 1951 income will be possibly 10 percent higher than in 1950 even though production goods family living and taxes will cost him more from outbreak of the korean war prices received by farmers made a 10 percent percent jump by mid september much luch of the ex expected increase in the farm income ne ome Is expected to come from meat animals and cotton with smaller increases from other commodities the increased stature of the united nations as a result of the korean war and reports of successful success successful lul operations of many of its commission functions such as the food and agricultural organization FAO now supported by 64 nations is winning strong S support u aport for UN throughout the t free r ee world in addition blaw history is being written by the nog north atlantic military committee composed of the military representatives senta tives of the member nations of the north atlantic antle pact pacts which has been in session here for the first time since the crusades european nations have joined together agreed upon a common amar armament rient and a combined army for mutual protection under a unified command with probably general ike eisenhower Elsen hower as the commander in chief s secretary of agriculture charles brannan in an important speech this week on agriculture and the national defense 1 urged the nations farmers to even laren greater and greater production of food pointing to the wonderful condition of the nations far farms he said were in good shape our food production this year is about 28 per cent higher than the average for the years just J amsl preceding the recent war and about the same as in our recent yearl years of record and near record production our field crop production I 1 Is bigger than in any year prior to 1946 our total supply of livestock feed for the coining coming year will be nearly as large in bushels and per animal as the record supplies of the 1949 50 season our superb food production I 1 rules out any need at this time for drastic food controls the family market basket can still be filled at prices lower than the lowest ceilings that could be put on under the de dev tense production act |