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Show TIIE LEHI SUN. LEHI. UTAH Three Hollywood Patriots Serving Uncle Sam t wimm 1 r -x' ';J 'Fnnrl Will Win the War' Anrl MaiKn an Florfinn A: l Washington Politicians Awaken to Fact v That Voting Public, Like an Army, v 'Moves on Its Stomach.' III X.-X SStSSl-J By BAUKIIAGE fiew Analytt and Commentator. WD Service, Union Trust Bulldlnf Washington D. C. Wars and rumors of war, war pro duction, man power, post-war plans, race riots, roll-backs,, gas rationing, itrikes, floods, offensives you can think of a lot more probably. All right, pour them all Into the hopper. Grind them up. .This Is a pretty dish to set before a voter In 19441 Don't worry, be can take It But take away his bread-basket, and he Is a different animal. Food will win the war. Lack of it can postpone victory If it doesn't spell defeat And food, or lack of It, can lose n election, that is what you are hearing in Washington these days. An electorate, like an army, moves on its stomach. On an empty stomach, it moves away from the "ins," hollers for the "outs" to bring back the bacon. And when you get i customer with both an empty stomach and a full pocket-book pocket-book hammering on the table and demanding service, you have a hard customer to please. Slowly, the Washington politicians re beginning to awaken to that fact ' that food is going to be the big issue" In the next election. President Saw It First The President and his keen-eyed, ears-to-the-ground political scouts recognized it first and when Phil Murray, head of the CIO, and William Wil-liam Green of the AFL began to call for the roll-back of prices, the administration was quick to promise prom-ise that they would be served "right way." Meanwhile, some of the other oth-er guests are beginning to feel neglected. neg-lected. But before roll-backs au gratin could be served, congress stuck its foot out and tried to spill the tray. J" or while, It looked as If there was going to be embarrassment in the political kitchen. Even If the administration is able to silence the demands and threats of labor, there are a lot of other Oliver Twists who "want some mora" and who will twist out of their straight-ticket voting and start looking for " better ole" unless this food question la solved before the Ides of November MCMXLTV. Through the days when congress was first trying to fold its tent and steal away from the banks of the Potomac, one thing was clear: unless un-less the administration pulled sice, fat and succulent rabbit out of the hat which could be served up to the electorate with enough bas-ketsfull bas-ketsfull left over for the fighting forces and the hungry Allies and ether pospective clients, the Gallup poll vaulters which had re-re-re-elected the New Deal in advance would have to start their polling all over again. The enemies of the administration re building up barrage to the effect ef-fect that Mr. Roosevelt has babied labor and has left his old friends, the farmers, in the lurch. They say that because he was afraid to offend of-fend labor, he listened to their demands de-mands for lower prices and turned deaf ear to the farmers' troubles. This, of course, since it eomes from hardly non-partisan quarters, has to be taken with a grain of salt, but whatever the working man says, when he sees the cost of living eating eat-ing up his former "raises" if he has had them, the record will show that despite John Lewis' polysyllabic attacks at-tacks on the President labor has not been treated exactly as stepchild. step-child. But what has the farmer been getting meanwhile? A couple of assists, at least, which have benefited him and the war effort ef-fort at the same time. FCA Head Report Let me report to you what I learned from Governor Black of the Farm Credit administration, an Institution In-stitution which has managed to escape es-cape the attacks which most of the government agencies have had to weather. Governor Black was in Washington the other day the headquarters head-quarters of the Farm Credit administration admin-istration were moved to Kansas City year ago, you know, in the inter-est inter-est of decentralization and with the idea that after all, Kansas is nearer the center of American agriculture than the Atlantic seaboard. The governor tells me that the FCA has been used heavily since the first of the year to see that farmers farm-ers are getting the credit they need to achieve all-out productioa He admits ad-mits that the SO million dollars loaned to farmers and stockmen isn't much compared with the total amount of production financing which the farmers use in a year but it's something even in these days of astronomical lending, leasing and spending, , , The loans are made through the Regional Agricultural Credit corporation. corpo-ration. Here are Just few of the facts Black produced from his briefcase. Take flax flax is as important In its way as tanks are in theirs. The automobile manufacturers have had it made worth their while to manu facture tanks instead of autos. The farmers up in take North Dakota, for instance have "shared the risk" as Black puts it with the RACC (Regional Agricultural Credit corpo ration) which extended them credit to "change over" to flax. Instead of one million three hundred thousand acres of this valuable crop that was harvested last year, million EIGHT hundred and forty thousand acres were seeded this year (41.4 per cent government financed). Take dry beans in Montana: SO,-000 SO,-000 acres seeded this year, double last year's planting, 84.5 per cent of the crop government financed. I could go down the list with peanuts in South Carolina, sweet potatoes in Louisiana end Mississippi, ad infinitum. infini-tum. Simple Machinery The way this share-the-risk thing works is simple. The farmer puts up his land and labor, the RACC puts up the out-of-pocket costs after the county war board and its own representatives have approved the deal. If the crop comes out all right the farmer pays the loan. If it is wiped out by bugs, drouth or disaster dis-aster (and when 01' Man River went hog-wild this spring, there was a lot of wiping out) his liability isn't wiped out too, because his liability is limited to what he took In from the crop and the incentive payments or insurance on it "It wasn't so much a matter of how much money was loaned," Governor Gov-ernor Black said to me, "as where it was loaned and what It was loaned for. In the past few months, the country has awakened to the necessity neces-sity of producing the vital crops to the limit and that's where we concentrated con-centrated our financing." Well, that is one agency that has been able to go ahead without having hav-ing to duck the political brickbats. Other government agencies, not so lucky, had to take a lot of punishment punish-ment that wouldn't have been directed di-rected at them if it weren't for poll-tics. poll-tics. The poor Commodity Credit corporation, which everybody 'seems to love for itself alone, got into an unpleasant jam with the subsidies, and had a tight squeeze partly through pure politics, partly because congress and the President didn't see eye-to-eye on the anti-inflation program. What most people fail to realize is this: even now with all the splendid effort the farmers have made, agriculture agri-culture has not yet been entirely "converted" I don't mean converted convert-ed to the "all-out" idea but converted convert-ed in the sense that civilian industry was converted to war production autos to tanks and planes, sewing machines to machine guns. Industry In-dustry had plenty of "incentive." The farmers have had some help, will have more. And the consumer (who is really everybody) and the farmer and the worker, haven't gotten it through their heads yet that unless they all hang together, they'll hang separately. sepa-rately. If we don't get the food, we won't be able to eat the dollars, no matter mat-ter how many we may have in our sock. The per capita use of eggs in 1942 was 318. Prospects for this year re about 324 per capita. The army and lend-lease need about 3 eggs out of every 10 produced, which leaves 7 out of every 10 for civilians. BRIEFS by Bauhhage More than million dollars' worth of schools are destroyed by fire per month. The number of women applying for admission to medical schools in 1942 was the largest in the history of the schools, and was greater than in the preceding year by 25 per cent In 1941, 633 women applied for admisrton; in 1942. 810 applied. The hog population is liable to outrun the feed supply. A scientific "detective force" of six dermatologists and chemist has tracked down causes of skin diseases, and prevented further outbreaks, out-breaks, among workers in more than 50 government and privately owned arsenals and war plants, U. S. Public Pub-lic Health Service officials announce. ( vo I 1? -.V 'ivC m ft. f.rr.& v A LJ Jim II. LLLHjL a . . . . ! ..fie, of hnth xea have ioined the services to help many American actors, musicians, wmcrs ana ----- - T win the war. Three screen stars are pictured above In their new roles. Left: Mrs. John D. Herts jr., .better Sm JlU Loy. who has been appointed assistant to the director of military lantic area, American Red Cross. Center: Capt. Clark Gable of the D. S. air forces is now an laerlal gun-nery gun-nery instructor in England. He is pictured demonstrating the technique of handling the waist ran. Right The government issue haircut somewhat deglamorizes him, but it's still Tyrone Power, who recently achieved a commission as a marine. . The Casbah, Slum Area of Africa lm 'ill fife'1 W mC. M M? Nt3 ',.4 h Even commandos can't get Into the Casbah, old and evil city of Algiers, North Africa. It's a forbidden tone. Left: A street scene in the Casbah. Inset top center: Military police at one of the entrances to the notorious section. Right: A native and his child lie In the gutter of a street in the Casbah. How Soldiers Solve Laundry Problems ( -1 mm S VJ C hi w:riri . -m$u -r m-rJr While many big city laundries struggle along understaffed and eliminate elim-inate extra services, American soldiers in Australia demonstrate that they nave their laundry problems well in hand. Aided by an electric washing machine, they do their own washing. Left to right: Sergt. John Runnels of Fort Worth, Texas, Sergt Harry Tanrit, Chicago, 111., and Sergt. Walter Sandberg, Duluth, Minn. New Army Air Corps Insignia 1 Jrj A V x" - 1 M ! SBSSSSSiBSsAii mwiVii' W A BSSIBSSA sifcjs v. isiiahjLssMsssMBisiiiiisssiM1 This p ane 1, decorated with the new insignia of the army air corps-a corps-a white sUr en a field of blue with a white rectangle added to both wdes and the whole symbol enclosed in a red border. Beside the plane. CoL Tom W. Bastey, commanding officer of Bollmg Field, D. C, studies an aerial map with a member of his staff, MaJ. Clark Coleman Military Mirror Igys ff' "Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who Is the fairest of them all?" The WACs at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, get more questions from this mirror in answer to that fairy tale query. They are: Is your posture perfect? per-fect? Are your shoes shined? Are yon smiling? and so on. Hydro Healing r ' i if?- ' C. 1 fi A small whirlpool is used to restore re-store an injured nerve in the arm of Private W. Downs who was injured in-jured by a machine gun bullet ea Guadalcanal Island. A Londoner in New York: This is the voice of friendly alien. I've been reporting this United Nations' war since September, Septem-ber, 1939. But first thing I had to do when I sought permission to visit U. S. A. was fill put form for aliens. This peacetime form is all rules and a yard wide, full of highly personal, cryptic questions. It floored me. Only two questions I'm certain I answered correctly were could I read and was I masculine. They asked me also If I'd ever been insane. in-sane. Even in the evil Nazi prewar days when I went often to Germany the formalities were never so tough, and I'd never been called an alien. It seemed a symbol of our life and times that you and we, so (as I believe) be-lieve) fundamentally alike in thought and aspiration, should build and maintain barriers to association and understanding. Symbol of our times, too, I never saw Liberty as we steamed upriver. Liberty passed by as I was answering answer-ing an FBI quiz. Very charming, very courteous those FBI men, but the going-over they gave me wasn't less thorough for being so friendly. Is it too much to hope that after the war the American and British peoples peo-ples may share common citizenship in each other's countries? That would be a war aim. It might even prevent World War 3. I was entirely unprepared for New York. Years spent in the Jungles of Burma and on the vasty deserts of Egypt, Libya and Tripolitania were poor training grounds for this exhilarating ex-hilarating contact A strange city but the natives are friendly. Everything Every-thing has been said of New York, but I was surprised at its smooth, velvety functioning, the politeness of the inhabitants; not surprised at its fascinating window displays, Its high prices, its "nothing for nothing, and damn little for a dollar" attitude. London has nothing of New York's spirit or. character. Paris had, a little; the same tempo, same fruity smell of gasoline, same gusts of warm air uprushing from the subways, sub-ways, chestnut trees. Nostalgia broke over roe like a wave at sight of those chestnuts, recalling Paris Maytime in 1940. Sydney has something of New York, in its waterfront, its irregular skyline, its hamburger heavens and gay, gaudy and swift taxicabs." New York's women and Sydney's have certain kinship, too. The skillful makeup, lithe figures, slim ankles and well-shod feet (I am not disloyal dis-loyal to you, you gallant British women wom-en who fill our factories, clean our streets and man our guns.) On Fifth Avenue maidens in uniform are rarer rar-er than on London's Piccadilly. But those I saw rated a backward glance. Unlike British women's service uniforms, seemingly designed de-signed by repressed spinsters as revenge re-venge on their sex, US women's uniforms uni-forms are chic, feminine, frequently fantastique. Perhaps occasionally un peu trop fantastique, devised more for front-row chorines than for frontline front-line corps. There's something to be said for ugly uniforms: those who volunteer to wear them must be pure patriots. A New York girl asked me: "I suppose you must resent our remoteness remote-ness from actual war, and seeing buildings unscarred, coming as you do from Britain and the African front-line?" But of course notl Because Be-cause my home is shattered and my people killed should I wish the same fate for others? No Britisher does. As they stroll on Fifth Avenue I guess they feel like me, that it's good to be able still to find unscarred loveliness and beauty in peacetime proportions. Unaided I spotted Jack Benny, Una MerkeL Billy Bose, and some lesser aristocrats. Walter Winchell was there, too, doing his homework. I was quite prepared to dislike WinchelL (It's the human thing to resent success in others.) I did not expect to meet a starry-eyed youth, but Winchell was much less sophisticate sophis-ticate than Fd imagined. Maybe it's true what they say that every New York columnist yearns to be a farmer's farm-er's boy. Lunch-talking the other day I pleaded for postwar common citizenship citi-zenship for British and US peoples. Someone cracked: "Ah-hahl The British want America back." But what with the Jungly heat, the miners' min-ers' strike, the Roosevelt versus Congress issue, the food wrangle and the race riots, America was no gift Just then. And in Britain right now we've troubles enough of our own. Talking to an intelligent New Yorker about the United Nations' air assault on Germany these days I referred to the air Battle of Britain. He had never heard of it I told him it was the Battle of America under another name . . . Except that chops and steaks are elusive; New York doesn't show signs of war privations. But war isn't merely doing do-ing without things, war is heartbreak, heart-break, personal loneliness, for those left behind. For frontline soldiers it is short periods of Intense fear, long periods of intense boredom. What is the a- r.D mat says Tvw'um? . 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