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Show ASK ME aum in WASHINGTON 1By Walter Sheod , wnu lorreiponaenf Future of Farm Loan Agencies in Doubt PARM leaders here, governmental 4 and private, are split wide open over the question of whether or not farm credit agencies should be combined under one head within the department of agriculture, or separated sepa-rated from the department and operated oper-ated as an independent agency. On the one hand, there is the Farm Bureau federation, the National Na-tional Council of Farm Co-operatives and the National Grange who are backing the bill introduced by Con. John W. Flannagan Jr., (D., Va.) which would separate the farm credit agencies from the department depart-ment of agriculture and place them under the jurisdiction of a bi-partisan board to be named by the President, Pres-ident, of which the secretary of agriculture agri-culture would be an ex-offlcio member. mem-ber. On the other hand, the progressive National Farmers union, the secretary secre-tary of agriculture and a group of farm-minded congressmen are seeking seek-ing to retain the farm credit agencies agen-cies within the department of agriculture agri-culture under direct control of the secretary, but with the appointment of an advisory board and an assistant assist-ant secretary of agriculture, who would bo the executive administrator administra-tor of the agencies. And aside from these two schools of thought, there Is another group headed by Rep. Harold Cooley, (D,. N. C.) and Reid F. Murray, (R., Wis.) who are seeking to set up aq entirely new corporation to be knowa as the Farmers' Home corporation, which would operate upon a plan similar to the Federal Housing administration ad-ministration Insofar as farm loans are concerned and which would assume as-sume many of the functions of the existing farm loan agencies, within the D. of A. Struggle for Control Thus, there is a three-way fight for control of the multi-billlon-dol-lar farm lending agencies, which since their inception In May, 1933, nave made various types of farm loans through June SO. 1943. totaling 116,868339.301 under the head of the farm Credit administration, and an additional billion dollars under the Farm Security administration. The various lending agencies, which have been established under the Farm Credit administration governorship, gov-ernorship, Include the Federal Land banks, the Production Credit corporation, cor-poration, the Federal Intermediate Credit banks, the Federal Farm Mortgage corporation, the 13 Banks tor Co-operatives, Emergency Crop and Feed loans and the Regional Agricultural Credit corporation, all of which, as of June 30. 1943 had loans outstanding amounting to $2,-246.628.952. $2,-246.628.952. The National Council of Farm Cooperatives Co-operatives and the Farm Bureau federation believe the Farm Credit agencies should be set up an an In dependent basis much the same as the Federal Reserve system, and should co-ordinate the different fields of farm credit loans to eliminate elimi-nate gaps and duplications, operating operat-ing within the framework of the national na-tional governmental policy, under the jurisdiction of a bi-partisan board of six to seven members. Combino FSA With FCA Sec. of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson An-derson believes the Farm Security administration should be combined with the FCA, but by retaining ail agencies within the department of agriculture. He believes that farm loans are inter-related with all the other functions of the department, and that persons who have a voice In making credit available to farmers farm-ers shoutd have a voice in the formulation for-mulation of other farm programs to make a maximum contribution to the welfare of the farmer. 'Because of the prevailing view that agencies of the federal govern- ment should be grouped under cabl-, net officers responsible directly to the president." Mr. Anderson said, "I believe that for the long run, the question is not whether the farm credit and the farm security programs pro-grams should be set up within an independent agency of the federal government To me, the question rawer seems to be whether it Is more appropriate for these agencies to be in the department of agricul ture, or in some other executive de nartment of government Since these are farmers' programs, it seems obvious to me that they belong in that department which is engaged primarily with the problems of the farmers." This writer believes that since Mr. Flannagan Is chairman of the house agricultural committee and bis measure has been reported out for passage, it is likely it will stand a good chance to pass the house in spite of de opposition of the agricultural agri-cultural secretary. Whether It will get by the senate, however. Is another an-other question. The Farmers union believes the Flannagan bill will definitely kill the FSA end they are standing alongside the secretary In the fight to keep the credit agencies within the department of agriculture. I 1 By EDWARD EMERINE WNU Feature I THE first settlers to Ohio, remem-' remem-' -1 bering the nation which had ma terially assisted the cause of the American Revoiution named settlement Marietta, in honor of .Queen Marie Antoinette of France. That was in 1786, during the stirring stir-ring years of expansion and growth following the birth of the new republic. repub-lic. It was a group of New Engenders, Eng-enders, led by Manasseh Cutler and Gen. Rufua Putnam, that founded the frontier town at the confluence of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers. The story of Ohio might be told In the study of names. The word Ohio, from the Indian, means "Beautiful River," but the names of Ohlo'a sons are known around the world, feven United States i Presidents were born In that state: ! Grant, Garfield, Hayes, Benjamin I Harrison. McKlnley, Taft and Hard-I Hard-I tng. Howard Chandler Christy, the I artist, waa bora In Morgan county. : Buckeye state authors, teachers, lawyers and doctors are known around the world. Thomas A. Edison and Orville and Wilbur Wright are examples of Ohio names in Invention. Others now household words include Van Sweringen, Goodrich, Firestone, Set-berling, Set-berling, Willys. Proctor, Gamble, mm . m uw mm mm iy mmmm!m:'')pmm Paint Creek Gorge Kroger. Olds, Patterson and Kettering. Ketter-ing. The list Is too long to publish here. Slcb In Resources. There are many empires In the state of Ohio, for it is rich In Its natural resources as well as In men. The farmer's Ohio Is 22 million acres of agriculture. The business !n " jt av,,a...fc.lt.Wif;j.AJfR rf,.r-.jf.j.-frinWtftM m-iiiiiiiiaini)i nil Boat on the Muskingum River. man's Ohio Is the fourth wealthiest state In the Union. The manufacturer's manufac-turer's Ohio Is the factories, the mines, the products shipped around the world. The homemaker's Ohio is blessed with an abundance of hu- nan material resources for wuoiesome, nappy uvmg ior typical Americans, urban or rural. The vacationist's va-cationist's Ohio provides parks, game preserves, smooth highways. 110 lakes, many rivers, good dsn-tag. dsn-tag. deer and small game, rugged hill country, archaeological relies such as Indian mounds, and caves, geological formations, etc. I Ohio is largely a manufacturing state, deserving this industrial prominence mainly because of its 'natural resources. The advantages efforded for transportation by wa. .ter as well as by rail cannot be overestimated. Lake Erie and the New York state barge canal make I direct outlet to the Atlantic while the Ohio and the Muskingum rivers offer communication with Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania and the Mississippi basin. The manufacture of iron and steel and their products constitutes the most important industry in Ohio and entitles the state to a place only below be-low Pennsylvania. It (includes the work of the blast furnaces, rolling mills and steel plants. Pig iron production pro-duction In Ohio represents approximately approxi-mately one-fourth of the nation's total. World Rubber Capital Akron Is the rubber manufacturing manufactur-ing center of the world. Cleveland and Cincinnati are the centers of the state's clothing industry. East Liverpool Liv-erpool has one of the world's most extensive pottery works and together togeth-er with other nearby towns produces about half of the nation's pottery. Ohio ranks first In the production of tires and tubes, machine tools, stoves, ranges, furnaces, electrical appliances, printing and publishing of periodicals, soap, matches, pottery pot-tery and porcelain ware, pumps and pumping equipment, coffins and steam shovels. The state ranks second in the production pro-duction of motor vehicles, bodies i, - r and parts; blast furnace products, iron and steel; generating, distribution distribu-tion and Industrial apparatus; and machine shop products. Ohio ranks high in meat packing, bread and baked goods, eggs and poultry, dairy products, hogs, sheep, cattle, wheat, corn, oats, soy beans, hay. apples, grapes, peaches, potatoes, pota-toes, sugar beets and vegetables. Ohio grows more vegetables under glass than any other state in the Union. A Leader In Manufactures. Ohio is also in the top ten states In the production of paper, chemicals, chem-icals, paints and varnishes, men's clothing, footwear, rolling mill products, prod-ucts, petroleum refining, stamped and pressed metal products, bard-woods, bard-woods, limestone, dolomite, clay, sandstone and gravel As a part of the vast region west of the AUeghenies, what is now Ohio was once claimed by France. It also formed part of the grant OHIO'S MEMORIAL MARKERS Landmarks of Ohio's early days have been carefully preserved or restored. The pageant of history with all its romantic characters is recalled in the state's 46 memorial markers. The bronze statue of Gen. George A. Custer, who died in the Battle of Little Big Horn in 1876, Is at New Rumley, north at Cadiz, and marks the birthplace of the famous Civil war general. Other points of scenic and his if vr A I made from ocean to ocean by English Eng-lish kings to various colonies along the Atlantic seaboard. After the settlement of Marietta, a considerable migration from Virginia Vir-ginia was directed to the southern part ef Ohio. A great Impetus was given to settlement when Gen. Anthony An-thony Wayne defeated the Indians of the Northwest In the Battle of Fallen Timbers near the Maomee river. By an act of congress of April 30, 1802, the territory was authorized author-ized to draft a constitution; and on February 19, 1803, Ohio was declared de-clared a state. Edward Tiffin was elected the first governor. Chillicothe became the first capital and Lancaster. Newark and Zanesvllle each snared the honor of being the seat of state government .before it was permanently perma-nently located in Columbus in 1816 Mysterious Mounds. Even back in prehistoric days, men must have found Ohio a good land In which to live. The Mound Builders, whose origin is as mysterious mys-terious as their destiny, devoted an estimated 100,000 man-years of labor la-bor to the building of 10,000 mounds and earthworks. These village sites, fortifications and burial places remain re-main in Ohio as (he record of these ancient people. Intermingled In the fabric of Ohio's history and romantic heritage heri-tage are the French explorers, Jesuit priests, British officers, French traders and Colonial frontiersmen. George Rogers Clark, "Mad" Anthony An-thony Wayne, Ebenezer Zane and "Johnny Appleseed" march across its pages of history, for Ohio was once the wild frontier, the uncon-quered uncon-quered Northwest Ohio's governor was born in Cleveland In 189S, the son of Slovenian Slo-venian parents. On Cleveland's sandlots he became a star third FRANK J. LAUSCHE Governor baseman, and was playing professional profes-sional baU tor Duluth when World War I broke out He served as a second lieutenant, and when the war was over, studied law. He served as a Judge in Cleveland and was elected mayor of his home town in 1941 and 1941 In 1944 he was elected governor of Ohio. toric Interest are the George , Rogers Rog-ers Clark park, containing the site of the battle of Piqua and birthplace birth-place of the Indian chief. Tecum-seh; Tecum-seh; the house in which Ulysses S. Grant was born in Point Pleasant and Thomas A. Edison's birthplace in Milan. Hockey county contains more places of scenic Interest than any other in the state. Rock House, Ash Cave, Cedar Falls, Conkle's Hollow. Old Man's Cave and the Natural Bridge at Rockbridge in this one county. if : : I V " " " " ' : J Aj ; ' President Maintains New Dea! Policies Year-End Check Shows Some CMnge of Faces but Not of Any Principles; FDR Intimates Remain in High Posts. By BAUKHAGE Newt Analyst and Commentator. WNC Service, 1616 Eye Street. N.W., Washington, D. C. Sufficient time has elapsed since President Truman went into the White House to warrant a year-end inventory ef bis reconstituted federal fed-eral setup, and the result adds up to many changes in personalities, but little switch of fundamental policies. poli-cies. In Its numerical aspect the changes wrought by the President suggest more of a shakeup than actually has taken place, for there still are many intimates of FDR in high positions, some of them promoted pro-moted by Mr. Truman. James F. Byrnes, secretary of state and top man in the Truman cabinet was lifted out of the relative rela-tive obscurity of a "career senator" from the southland by Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt He came within reach of his present eminence under the guidance guid-ance of the late President who appointed ap-pointed him to the United States Supreme court made him war mo-bllizer mo-bllizer and economic stabilizer, and took him to International conferences confer-ences which built him to the point where he was a "natural" for the state portfolio when Edward R- Stet-tinius Stet-tinius Jr. was moved out by political polit-ical party considerations. Byrnes was schooled in the Roosevelt ways and bo continues along those paths. Henry Morgenthau probably would have remained as secretary or treasury bad the President who appointed ap-pointed him lived on. But while he was more a personal iriena. ne was less a political associate of Mr. Roosevelt than was Fred Vinson, the present secretary. And again, it was FDR who brought Vinson to the forefront made him a federal judge, then took him into the White House to share Byrnes' multiple functions and burdens. He had little more than passing acquaintance with Truman, and his present post was a promotion ior a -Kooseven man." Robert E. Hannegan, postmaster general, was .slated for that omce before Mr. Roosevelt passed away. It is political custom to award that plum to the winning party's national committee chairman, whether the Democrats or the Republicans win. Robert Patterson, secretary of war, came in auring me noose ven administration as assistant to Henry L. Stimson, creating a team of Republicans Re-publicans in the top spots of the department de-partment He was advanced by President Truman when Mr. bum- son retired, aitnougn were were strong representations made to the White House on behalf of other can didates, practically all of them Democrats. Original Roosevelt cabinet members mem-bers retained by Mr. Truman are James V. Forrestal in navy, Henry A. Wallace in commerce, and Harold Har-old L. Ickes in interior. Anderson Took Off 'Heae on Food Clinton P. Anderson, the secretary secre-tary of agriculture, won White House entree during Roosevelt days by taking the heat off the administration adminis-tration with a food investigation. Labor La-bor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellen-bach Schwellen-bach has been described as "more New Deal than Roosevelt." Continuing, it was President Roosevelt who brought Tom C. Clark, the present attorney general Into government service, placing him In line tor the advancement which Mr. Truman gave him. Paul V. McNutt who left recently to become be-come high commissioner in the Philippine Phil-ippine islands, was originally a Roosevelt appointee. Even in the intimate surroundings of the White House will be found several "hold-overs," notably scholarly schol-arly William D. Hassett, a presiden tial secretary whose typewriter has turned out many of the lyrical Speeches delivered by the late President Pres-ident and whose skill can be detected detect-ed by Washington newsmen to Mr. Truman's more formal addresses. J. A. Krug remained at the head of the War Production board until ft went out of existence, although the new President was often critical of WPB when , he waa presiding over the senate committee which bore his name. Almost every move made by Mr. Truman in organizing his official family bad underlying it a record of Roosevelt association. There has been only one notable discernible BARBS The British tried paying a head bounty for every rat killed in rat-ridden rat-ridden Bong Kong. They gave It up ... the enterprising Chinese started rat breeding farms to make more money. The Japanese wonuj'a federation suggests that every Japanese woman wom-an give up her kimono to raise funds for food Imports. Strip tor warmth. departure from the' administrative status quo so far as fundamentals every job in the book. Postmaster go, and that was the appointment of general Hannegan tried to get him John W. Snyder as chief of the of- to serve on the Important civil aero-fice aero-fice of war mobilization and recon- aautics board, also to accept the job version. Snyder was a friend and military buddy of the President tor a quarter of a century. But Wash- ington hears that the OWMR dlrec- tot Is being sidetracked, tha the President is taking counsel with Secretary Vinson on subjects that rightly fall Into Snyder's bailiwick and that a resignation has been of- ,ered- There' is nothing in the Truman annointments to uiaicaie wneraer the President is turning to the right or the left of center using FDR as than most public figures and com- .. nx mentators - he says he frankly civU aeronautics job. doesn't know what "center" , is. I "That's swell." replied the Presl-imagines Presl-imagines he's about the same as dent. "I have a more important job his late chief. tor yQU- Please come baok nere right away." KTeiSS r tag" too rapidly and that the force him about the tough job of co- of speed wittout direction will have ordinating housing. harmful results. I "I consider this housing situation Except for a few generalized the most important problem con-thrusts, con-thrusts, the White House has shown fronting the country today," ex-no ex-no disposition to come to grips with plained the President "If wf don't the wage-price dilemma, hasn't at solve this one, we'll really be. in tempted to develop a comprehensive trouble in a year and a half." program to eliminate the element of "But, Mr. President," said Wyatt, chance, and, in the opinion of crit- "I'm afraid I can't afford a federal leal congressmen, is simply trusting job. I want to go back home and that things somehow will work out practice law. I need the money." all right in the end if left to their ,.j know yo want t0 g0 to own devices your jaw practice," Truman said. There is a striking example of the ..j taow you want to make 80lne haphazard system which has been money But j ,jon't like being Presi-foUowed. Presi-foUowed. and that is the retention dent either- However, I feel I have of OPA while permitting the Na- to do K gQ rm doing it tional war Laoor ooara to go vir- tually out of existence. WLB exer- cised a fair degree of control over ! wage and salary levels, and with! wages the largest single item of production costs, there is today no agency effectively operating in that field. Both management and labor speech on the subject clarified al- White House for five minutes Walk-most Walk-most nothing. The result has been to tag tato the executive office, he said, cut the ground from beneath OPA in "Mr. President. I've come in to sur-its sur-its efforts to maintain price ceilings, render." Another example is the War Pro- duction board, which was permitted to go out of existence on Novem- ber 3. Odds and ends fell to the newlv created Civilian Production administration, but there is today no raw materials allocation plan and efforts are being made to create out of export licensing a means by which domestic industry might have its needs fulfilled. The theory is that refusal of export licenses for needed civilian materials will back those commodities onto the market here. But its etion upon resiora- tion of foreign trade is making congress con-gress unhappy. There still are agencies in Washington Wash-ington "winding up" the business of World War I, and it seems entirely possible that history will repeat after aft-er World War II is officially over. That day will be fixed by President Truman unless be tarries too long and congress steps in to do the Job. Dissolution of the Office of War In- formation may supply aa Insight tato what happens when bureaus which came into existence since Pearl Harbor cease to exist. Ex- cept for changes in the top positions and discarding of the domestic branch, which always was a minor part of the operation, OWI seems to be a very live corpse. Blanketed tato the state department depart-ment may be upwards of 5,000 OWI payrollers. They will continue, and expand, a worldwfde plan of information infor-mation dedicated to the purpose of teaching other nations more about uu cuuiiiry. iui peupie, uieir aspirations, aspira-tions, their accomplishments. About 2,000 more have gone into the bureau bu-reau of the budget to continue their j present assignment, which is publi-' patfnn nf thf. TTnftpri States anvorn. I ment manual Closing of the domestic do-mestic branch actually affected fewer few-er than 200 jobs in Washington. Larger, actually, than OWI's foreign for-eign branch will be the Informational Information-al office of the state department, for It will Include also the public relations rela-tions section of the office of coordinator co-ordinator of Inter-American affairs, which beams its material to points south of the Rio Grande and which heretofore functioned Independently of OWI. by Baukhage It is the boast of the Koreans that tt was through mem that Chinese1 culture reacnea tne Japanese and led them out of the Dark ages. The Japanese Idea of repayment was to return the Dark ages to Korea. Faver Castle in Nuernberg wa "modernized" by a rich wife. Now durlng the Nuernberg trials, 200 guests share the three bathrooms, FINDING MEN FOR FEDERAL JOBS WASHINGTON. Few people real-ze real-ze it but President Truman spends i lot of time these days trying to jersuade people lo take important federal appointments. An illustration was the tussle he lad with astute 40-year-old1 Wilson Wyatt, mayor of Louisville, Ky., Just appointed federal housing czar. Wyatt was first offered just about nm McGranery wants to resign as assistant to the attorney general, one of the key spots in the justice aepartment. civil aeronautiCg board Job really ten,pted Wyatt, and he asked for B few days to think it over Nexl day he got a phone call rmJMAN PLEADS. "This is the President calling." gaid a vojce at other ot phone. "Mr. President, I've been think- Then, staring at Wyatt sarp-ly, sarp-ly, be said, "How can 1 lo a good job If fellows like you aren't willing to come up here and help me?" This made a deep impression on WV 11 IT A. J IX 11 4 Next day he called at the Ordinarily it is the work of a cabi- net officer to tender a man a job. But now Truman finds he has to phone men personally and beg them to work for the government The other day, Truman who resents criticism of his numerous Missouri appointments, told one visitor: "People complain about all these jackson county (Kansas City) appointments. But whenever I try to appoint someone else, they are t00 busy making money. At least we jacicSon county boys are willing to nk the iobs." NOTE Actually most top federal fed-eral appointees can get jobs paying twice as much outsjde the government Wyatt received only $5,000 a year as mayor' of Louisville, could be making $50,-000 $50,-000 a year practicing law. . DIE'S FIRST SENATE SESSION. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower went over big at his first meeting as thief 0f staff with members of the senate military affairs committee. It was an Off-the-record affair, for whicn the senators went across the Poto- mac to Eisenhower's office in the pentagon building for luncheon, Sitting over coffee and French brandy which he had just brought back, Eisenhower spoke fraly about Soviet Russia and other matters, mat-ters, including co-operation jrith congress in running the army. Discussing Dis-cussing his experiences as the chief U. S. representative on the Allied control commission in Germany he deciared "If the American people had a chance to study the Russians at close range, and vice versa, I am certain -there would be fine mutual understanding ana respect between the two pet-pies. pet-pies. I rubbed elbows with Marshal Mar-shal Zhukov and others and have a high regard for then. We enjoyed splendid co-operation. I was always able to get along with them. "What most people don't real-tie real-tie Is that the' Russians are a good deal like as. They enjoy life like we Americans, are full ef fun and have a fine sense ef humor." The general said he held no fears about future amicable relations Be tween our own country and Soviet Russia. There will have to be some ffive-and-taka in our relations, le said, but eventually things will work out well. Regarding his own relations with congress, Eisenhower declared: "This is a people's' army and I Intend to run it like one, along dem ocratic lines and In close accord with congress. I am especially ans- ious to get along with the military affaire committees of both houses.' i ANOTHER l A General Quiz 1 ? J 1. How many crimes are actual iy mentioned in the Constitution 2. What is an eleemosynary m. ititution? 3. How did Stephan Decatur meet his death? 4. If a President of the United States were impeached, what oody would try the case? 5. In what year were the womej Df the United States given tbt right to vote? 6. In South Africa what it craal? 7. 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