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Show British Laborites Propose Drastic Farm Regulation By BAUKHAGE Setvi Atialyt "d Commintalor. WNB Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. One by one Britain Brit-ain is nationalizing her basic industries. indus-tries. . What about farming? Agriculture was Britain's largest Industry right up to UW but before the war Britain "A produced less : i than a third of IMC UMIU U" the lslnnils consumed. con-sumed. By 1943 they were producing pro-ducing 70 per cent of the wartime war-time rations for their own people, plus the Allied armies and refugees, refu-gees, within their borders. Government control was strict but It worked. Baukhage And the British with their socialist government do not intend to let it slip back if regulation can stop It. To that end a bill Is now before parliament par-liament which would bring the American Amer-ican farmer down to Washington with a pitchfork in each hand. The "two pillars" of the new government gov-ernment policy are "stability and efficiency." ef-ficiency." The agriculture bill would create . stability by guaranteeing prices. It provides: (1) That the prices and other market mar-ket factors of wheat, barley, oats, rye, potatoes and sugar beets be fixed in the year before these crops re to be harvested. (2) Prices and other factors affecting af-fecting fat stock, milk and eggs, to be announced for a period of one year and also minimum prices and other conditions, including quantities, quanti-ties, for a further period of two years. Consequently the producer tir"" George Casely b one of the farmers farm-ers who has increased his production produc-tion oo 5Q acres in Devon, England. With daughter, Sylvia, he hi pitching pitch-ing bay. of fat stock, milk and eggs will know actual prices and other conditions of tale a year in advance, and minimum mini-mum prices and conditions (which include any quantitative limitations) for two years ahead. There la planning and regulation for you I "Stability, however." lays Brit-ain't Brit-ain't minister of agriculture, "is not enough." And then he goes after efficiency with toot, horse and guns. Two requisites for efficiency are promotion of research into farming problems and an organization which will provide the Individual farmer with technical advice. Very good. The United States government does a pretty good job on that score. The point Is: What does the British government ask in return for what it Intends to offer? "Both the farmer and the landowner land-owner have parts to play," it says nd points out that "the rules of good husbandry require the farmer to maintain his holding at a reasonable reason-able standard of efficient production, produc-tion, bearing in mind cleanliness of the land, maintenance of fertility and freedom from disease and pests. The rules of good estate management manage-ment require the landowner to maintain main-tain his estate with adequate buildings, build-ings, drainage, ditches and hedges, to that the occupier can be an efficient ef-ficient producer." And that is not merely suggested In the bill, it is required. The farmer farm-er or the landowner will live up to these conditions or he will lose his land. The first step against an offender of-fender is to place them under formal for-mal supervision after they have had a chance to state their case. The next step will be to issue specific spe-cific instructions at to what is to be done again giving the offender the BARBS President Truman managed to avoid a National Cat Week without ruffling anybody't fur. Shortly after New Hampshire's EeptAUcan Sen. Styles Bridges said thaf .Bussia was trying to make Ger-manya Ger-manya satellite, be lost his voice. But it fat laryngitis, not a Com munist bex. Mi 1 opportunity to state his case. If the offender is a landowner and the expense of carrying out the orders exceeds the annual rent of the land, he can appeal to the agricultural land tribunal The third step would be dispos-session dispos-session in 12 months or sooner. A landowner would have to submit a forced sale; a landowner-occupier might be forced to rent to an approved ap-proved tenant; a tenant's tenancy would be terminated. The law doesn't end there. It deals with the past and the future as well as the present. Experiments will be made to adjust farm boundaries bound-aries made many hundreds of years ago and the Intent is to prevent the splitting up of farms into uneconomic uneconom-ic divisions. Stability, efficiency. Liberty? Mystery of the Whooping Crane As a whooping crane detective I am not worth a whoop. This perhaps per-haps Is natural since I have no credentials cre-dentials as a naturalist. But In the course of leading the Fish and Wild Life service on a wild crane chase I encountered some interesting facts. This is the story: While I was in Florida I heard some convincing descriptions of whooping cranes, said to be found on a nearby plantation. I knew the whooping crane rapidly was becoming becom-ing extinct and I had never heard of any of them having been seen in Florida so, when I returned to Washington, I Immediately communicated commu-nicated my "discovery" to Mr. Lincoln, Lin-coln, ornithologist of the Fish and Wild Life service of the department of the Interior. He was very polite and patient and even agreed to ask Mr. Kelsey, one of the department's representatives, to interview my wife, who was still in Florida, as to the reports which she had first-hand. It wasn't long before I heard from my wife that as a result of further consultation with the Audubon Bird Book and a very short conversation with Kelsey, there was unanimous agreement that the cranes were not whoopers but must be sandhills. It's an old story to the service but they take no chances and run down all clues. Even if the only proof the "discoverer" has Is the earnest insistence in-sistence that: "I know it was a whoopin' crane because I heard him awhoopln" Part of the reason for these meticulous metic-ulous inquiries is that the service is at present conducting a survey in hope of locating the netting place of the whooping cranes. This spot never has been found, but it almost certainly is somewhere in Canada. Lincoln doubts that there are more than SO of these birds alive today although there are records showing that the tklet over the western plaint once were darkened by the flights of hundreds, even thousands, of them. It like the passenger pigeon, they disappear entirely, North America will have lost its tail, est as well as one of its most beautiful beau-tiful birds. The whooping crane stands over four feet tall, has a wingspread of seven feet and flies with neck and legs out straight. It has white plumage except for black tips on the wings; has black legs and yellow bill and a bare red crown. A little less than two years ago National Audubon society approached ap-proached the government and offered of-fered to furnish funds for the working out of a joint survey, the purpose of which was to locate the breeding grounds and other points where the cranes gathered in order to arrange for their further protection. protec-tion. The one place in the United States where cranes are known to pass their summers is the national wild life refuge near Corpus Christ!, Tex. No nest of a whooping crane is known to have been seen within 20 years or perhaps longer. The birds have been observed passing over the Dakotas, Manitoba and Saskatchewan Saskatche-wan and it is taken for granted that somewhere north of these points the nesting grounds are located. None has been discovered although one government plane and a plane belonging to a collaborator (a collaborator col-laborator is a person paid by some private institution but who is permitted per-mitted to use department of the Interior In-terior facilities) have flown over many thousands of square miles in this area.) Every possible effort has been made to locate the nest for it is here that protection is most important. by Baukhage I see that Winston Churchill gave the thirsty Anglophobes a fine chance by opining that prices for Scotch were too low. These days, Democrats whether they be dissenting or deserving, can move around with considerable safety safe-ty without having to dodge brick-b brick-b ta, pppmi 1,1 imw h..iiji ,i i"r-?q-'-l o. v-. 1 r LEARNING TO LIVE 4-H Club Week Will Emphasize Youth's Role in World Affairs W NU Features. ' "Working together for a better home and world community" com-munity" is the theme around which 1,700,000 rural boys and girls are making programs for their National 4-H Club Week, March 1-9. A part of the cooperative extension work of state agricultural colleges, national department of agriculture and local counties, the 4-H club members have earned a reputan tion for "learning by doing," in practically every county in the United States, Alaska, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Boy and girl experts in corn grow-$ ing and tomato canning were her alded in many states even before the cooperative extension work was put on a nationwide basis with passage pas-sage of the Smith-Lever act in 1914. More than 11 million young people have been members since that time, demonstrating up-to-date methods in practically every phase of farming farm-ing and homemaking as their program pro-gram was broadened and more leaders became available. -Promote Democracy. Each club selects officers from its own members, the young people making their own programs and carrying car-rying them out. Such practice in democratic procedures has provided pro-vided young community leaders and deepened the interest of all former members in the educational, health and social facilities available to them and their neighbors. Daring the two world wars, 4-H club members rolled op im-psslve im-psslve records of production . in food and feed crops, In conservation, con-servation, in farm labor and In contributions of supplies and money for wartime causes. It is estimated that 4-H members, mem-bers, during the recent war, produced pro-duced 1,000,000 acres of home gardens, gar-dens, 43,000,000 head of poultry, 2,-700,000 2,-700,000 head of livestock and 1,300,-000 1,300,-000 acres of food crops. They also conserved 74.000,000 quarts of food, collected more than 400,000,000 pounds of scrap, and sold or bought more than $200,000,000 In war bonds. Many 4-H clubs already are well started on the programs to help their communities. Activities that reach beyond Into the "world community" com-munity" are not uncommon, so this year's theme is based on actualities. Here are some examples. In Boone county, W. Va., each of the 34 clubs finished a project aimed at community betterment. Among these were sponsorship of a hot lunch at school, upkeep of the church and grounds, tree planting, a salvage program and planned recreation. One club operated a book exchange in the community. Another had members' teeth checked and repaired, re-paired, while another provided for the distribution of milk at school. There are 802 members of the 4-H clubs in the county, which holds the enviable record for two years in succession of having every mem Alaskan Moose Attack Trains; Governor Defends 'Antics' WASHINGTON. Although moose are ane of the major handicaps to railroading in Alaska, the militant animals have a staunch defender in Gov. Ernest Gruening. In revesting that moose who make pests of themselves be reduced to mooseburgers. Col. John P. Johnson, John-son, manager of the Alaskan railroad, rail-road, pointed out that the animals attack trains, cause derailments and lope along ahead of the engines to ber complete his or her year's work. Improve Community. Johnson, Neb., has a 4-H mechanics mechan-ics club pledged to improvement of the home community. The club's biggest project has been the damming dam-ming of a stream to create a community com-munity fishpond and recreation grounds. The recreation grounds were opened last summer with a big fishing contest. The 4-H mechanics also assumed as-sumed responsibility for helping reduce fires. The village fire chief says there have been bat two chimney fires In the past five years and those In homes not inspected by members of the club or the fire chief. The 4-H members Inspected and helped refill the fire extinguishers of the business places of Johnson. A farmstead improvement project is starting in Dauphin county, Pa., under auspices of the 4-H club. Repairs of fences, buildings and driveways were undertaken first.. The club's three-year program includes in-cludes ornamental plantings, painting paint-ing and some new construction. The 21 members have the staunch support sup-port of their parents. Raise Guide Dogs. California 4-H club members now are raising 60 per cent of the guide dogs from the kennels of Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc., a charitable organization or-ganization supplying dogs free for blind people. A Sumner county, Kas., farm organization or-ganization financed construction of a portable sheep-dipping vat and the chemicals for the dip. Members of 4-H clubr contacted the sheep growers grow-ers of the county, prepared a schedule sched-ule for use of the vat and took charge of arrangements. A charge of 10 cents per head was made to cover services and cost of dip. As one of the four "H's" In the club's insignia stands for health, this naturally has been an Important club interest. Recently Re-cently this Interest has broadened to include not only Individual health activities but community as well. For the past two years a committee of state 4-H club leaders has been at work formulating for-mulating a broader national 4-H health program. A new venture in this field was make a farce of railroad schedules. Governor Gruening, rejecting the request in a reproving telegram to the interior 'department, said: "The delay is not sufficiently serious seri-ous to warrant killing these noble animals whose presence on the railroad, rail-road, while an occasional handicap to speedy transportation, is more than a compensating feature as an attraction to tourists in the summer sum-mer time. They should be consid the 4-H club health camp held in Kansas in August, 1946, at the new state 4-H club camp grounds. Each county sent a boy and girl chosen on the basis of physical examinations examina-tions and background of club work plus interest in health and health leadership. A concentrated three- day training school gave this picked group of young leaders in the health field many ideas for making mak-ing health activities more effective in their own communities. Typical 4-H community activity is that of the 4-H members in Rusk county, Tex., where a club committee Is energetically en-ergetically carrying on a campaign to get everyone in the county to test the supply of drinking water. Foster Recreation. Importance of wholesome social occasions and organized recreation for rural communities and counties is recognized by 4-H programs. The Ramsey Workers' 4-H club in Nicholas Nicho-las county, W. Va., sponsors a recreation rec-reation night each month. The whole neighborhood comes out to play games, sing and square dance. Willingness to study and understand un-derstand people and conditions beyond the home community has led to many activities that make a good beginning for carrying car-rying on the theme: "Working together for a better home and world community." More than 300 Massachusetts 4-H girls of high school age, representing represent-ing every county in the state, came to Boston last spring to study their state capital and to get acquainted with each other. Twenty-four Texas 4-H members and their state leader in 1945 made a good-neighbor tour of Mexico, accompanied ac-companied by Mexican youth and their leaders. In 1946. Mexico youth spent 12 days with a group of Texas 4-H boys in a tour of agricultural areas in Texas. Boost Good Citizenship. Eight 4-H club members were included in-cluded in the 140 young people from 30 states attending the Encampment of Citizenship held in New York City July 1 to August 10. The national 4-H club camp held in Washington, D. C, last June, and the National 4-H Club Congress in Chicago last December featured discussions dis-cussions of the responsibilities of citizenship, problems and opportunities opportu-nities of youth, and other features relating to the task of "Learning to live in a changing world." Four-H members are making every ev-ery effort to acquaint non-member boys and girls in their communities with the program of the club and extending ex-tending to them an invitation to join in "Working together for a better home and world community." ered one of the hazards as well as one of the delights of railroading in Alaska." Johnson, obviously not at all delighted de-lighted by antics of the wayward beasts, complained that on a single day last winter they caused 14 schedule sched-ule delays and one derailment. Principal complaint is that the moose find their way into deep cuts made by snowplows through heavy drits and then cannot get out. ! "O OTHER winter season, no oth . er Hot Stove League of Sport, has ever known as much discussion nor has seen as many headline: about gambling and bribery as the present winter. Almost every cure in the book has been suggested without with-out covering much ground. For example George Preston Marshall, Mar-shall, owner of the Washington Red skins, suggests that all racing entries, odds and selections should be transferred trans-ferred to the stock market page, away from the sporting page and that no odds or selections should be carried on football, baseball or basketball games. "Racing is legalized legal-ized betting" Marshall Mar-shall says, "but it proposition entirely. Grantland Rice is a financial not a sporting proposition. It doesn't belong on a sporting page. In my opinion no one connected with college sport, professsonal football or baseball, in a guiding capacity, should ever be seen at a race track." I can't see much cure in this. Racing has had no part in the scandals scan-dals and bribery talk involving other sports. Cupid Black, former Yale football star, has a much sounder suggestion "I can see no harm," Black says, "in betting a hat or a reasonable amount with a friend on a football game. Or a fight. The trouble comes when vou start betting with book. ! makers, where a long array of even i small bets can run into millions of i dollars, which in turn can be used j in the wrong way. I happen to love college football every variety of I football. j I No Bets With Bookmakers I "I'd like to see everyone who loves football, who believes it is a great game, refuse to make a bet with any bookmaker or any other professional profes-sional gambler. No one is going to stop the betting on football or any other game. But we can wreck the gambling professionals if. we leave them out. This would eliminate the big sums these bookmakers handle. There is always somebody to bet with, apart from the professional gamblers." This is a sound suggestion. There will always be the cheaper sort of humanity who will still place their bets with the bookies. But the list can be cut down. The stumbling block is human nature, na-ture, the selfishness of what a top philosopher has called "the so-called so-called human race." All through the fading winter, a large part of the headlines on sporting pages have been concerned with stopping the gamblers. If most of those, who feel, they have to bet on games will only bet among themselves and leave the gamblers out, there would be no problems of bribery or crookedness. This will be impossible to stop In racing, since racing is legalized gam bling or legalized betting in 26 or more states. But football, baseball, boxing and basketball still have their thrills apart from any betting angle. an-gle. Those who happen to like or love these games can solve the problem prob-lem quickly along the lines suggested suggest-ed above. Majority Are Honest There are more than a few kinks in sport, since it is conducted by human beings. But its general aver-age, aver-age, in the way of honesty, is still well above politics, labor unions or what is known as big business. I don't believe anyone will try to dispute dis-pute this statement. The point is that the public at large demands a far higher honesty average from sport than it demands from politics or business or labor anions. The public expects its sports to be completely clean, not nearly clean. Amateur bettors are not going go-ing to try to fix anything. Only a few professional gamblers will. But these few can wreck a sport if not suppressed in one way or another. The suppressing part Isn't as simple sim-ple as it sounds. But at least a heavy curb can be developed. After Aft-er all the publicity that has covered the sporting pages, any athlete from now on who doesn't report an attempted at-tempted bribe is either a completely dumb or a completely dishonest person. per-son. The terrific amount of money that has come into sport was sure to set the chiselers and crooks to work. Whatever happens, the directing heads of every sport will have to redouble any past efforts in the way of vigilance and guardianship. -' Baseball's Major Shifts The two major shifts of the year in baseball belong to the game's strongest offensive player and the game's best defensive player. This means Hank Greenberg's shift to the Pirates and Joe Gordon's move from the Yankees to the Cleveland Indians. Indi-ans. '.:'.. Even at the age of 36. many years away in the service. Greenberg was lusty enough at bat to lead Ted Wil. liams in home runs and runs batted in. 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