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Show U. S. Gardeners in Rlnr Farm w v I VI I til ill I Aid in Nation's 'Victory' Drive fnnnrfw wwiivjaww' Threatens Wickard's Policy) J , , sum us uommomi es oorDorai Farm 5plinn Ml W Villi s a i vmviv r on Pflritv. Rplnw w.w.. mj Jm ia k ' By BAUKIIAGE u from where Secretary Wickard's windows look out on the wide sweep of lawn in front of the Department of Agriculture building, along the winding roads to the White House. But Mr. Wickard, except for cabinet meetings, doesn't take that trip very frequently. It is not because he isn't as welcome as any other member of the President's official family. It is because he feels pretty sure if be tends to his agricultural knitting he won't be fired. That can be said (and is said) in spite of the fact that he is probably the only member of the cabinet whom the President ever told a large group of listeners that he I m- M 'ft V ' if (Released by Western Newspaper Union.) Uncle Sam's wartime food needs have put the family vegetable isn't going to lose anything. If we garden back on the map. Milsell our grain at 15 per cent below lions of Americans are now parity he knows that he can get poring over seed catalogs, that 15 per cent back, through benechecking tools and eyeing fit payments for soil conservation." That is the explanation of the case which sounds simple even to the layman. But that isn't the way the President explained it He said that if the department of agriculture did not have its way the cost of eating would be raised a billion dollars a year. But the fact remains that the President is satisfied that Mr. Wickard knows what he is doing and that he is doing what the President thinks is right. Of course this doesn't make it right, or if it did, it wouldn't make it necessary that the people accept it, if they prefer some other procould fire. House a was White at That press gram. If the farm bloc has enough and radio conference when the Pres- of a following among the voters it can write its own ticket We are ident was being questioned concerna democracy. It is a lot short still to conflict be a ing what seemed between the secretary of agriculture er from the ballot box to the con gress than it is from the department and Price Control Administrator Henderson as to who was going to of agriculture to the oval office in regulate farm prices. He said if the executive wing of the White they didn't agree he could fire them House. both. The controversy has been forgotten and Secretary Wickard, who The Basic Rule can talk only half as fast as Price Behind War Censorship In Washington we have a censorship for press and radio and also several propaganda organizations which are censorship in reverse. 6 A great many letters which I re1 ceive from listeners to my radio program say: "Of course we realize you are not allowed to say (this or that)," or "we realize you have to say (that or this)." But the surpris ing thing is how seldom the "this or 1 that" which the listeners mention I 7 are the things the censorship forbids us to say, or the "that or this" is ever even suggested by the propaganda organizations. As a matter of fact I have had only one direct contact with either ...... the propaganda bureaus or A man whom I the censorship. know personally who is connected with the Office of Facts and Figures once called me up and said that he would be able to give me some in teresting information from time to time. He never has. of Wickard Agriculture, Secretary As to the censorship, the radio lie is being annoyed . chains drew up their own code be Administrator Henderson and isn't fore the censorship organization was even a quarter as glib, didn't lose founded. It is based largely on com any of his price controlling power. mon sense and except for certain But the past weeks have seen specific details this code differs very those prerogatives attacked from little from the rules which the cen sor expects us to follow. Before I another source the source of annoyance for the departgo on the air a member of the news ment of agriculture the farm bloc staff of the Blue network reads over : In congress. my script So far nothing has been Today it is the farm bloc which is changed so far as I can recall. Until we have official confirmaagain annoying Mr. Wickard. This highly consistent and highly tion from the army or navy we are insistent group in congress decided not allowed to reveal any troop it just wasn't going to let Mr. Wick- movements, or any ship moveard's Surplus Commodity corpora- ments. Ship movements include downwards tion sell farm products below parity. vertical movements First, they Induced the senate to (sinkings). When we repeat inforpass a law agin' it. Then when the mation contained in enemy statePresident said he'd veto the meas- ments we have to say they are eneure they decided to tack it on to my statements and if possible we the war appropriation bill as a rider. balance them with some statement from a friendly source. Then the President said it was repBehind all censorship, behind all rehensible to make an amendment to an important bill when it wasn't government regulation of speech germane to the bilL Then the bloc and action in wartime is one rule: do not give aid and comfort to the decided to tack it onto the appropriation bill without which the departenemy. Specific information of a ment of agriculture cannot pay its military nature gives aid and corn-fo- rt to the enemy. We may feel bills. The department, however, seemed willing to face that calamipositive that the enemy can get or ty. They were willing to let the has already obtained that informaPresident veto the bill so long as tion from some other source but they were able to carry out their that does not excuse us for repeatpolicy of selling commodities below ing it publicly. Certain things are parity if they wanted to. (They knew printed in the newspapers which the radio cannot broadcast because rathey could get another appropriadio waves travel everywhere and tion.) A "The farmers of the country un- the reception is instantaneous. derstand better what we are trying weather report can be picked up by to do than some members of con- a submarine a tew miles off the coast That submarine could not gress," said one official to me. This is his explanation: get a copy of a newspaper until it "All we want to do is to sell grain made physical contact with the shore low enough so that it will make it or with someone who was there. more advantageous for the farmer Beyond the field of factual inforto raise livestock. We don't need mation which might give aid and the wheat and corn. We have plen- comfort to the enemy lies another ty. We do need the meat So does field: the field of speculation, ruEngland. If we decrease the price mor, comment of a nature which of feed the farmer will automaticalmight be interpreted as giving aid ly raise more livestock and let naand comfort to the enemy Here we ture turn the starches we don't need simply have to use our own judginto protein. And also into fats. We ments. Criticism of our government need fats and oil more than ever or of the government of one of the since the vegetable oils of the NethUnited Nations may give comfort, erlands Indies have been cut off." if not aid, to the enemy. But I have That is the way the department never been called cn Die carpet for of agriculture talks. "And." they reporting such criticism when it ocadd, "the wheat and corn farmer curs. .A:, ever-consta- BRIE F S C Many believe that when President Roosevelt invented the term "United Nations" he was doing some long range planning. Now the historian Edwin Embrce predicts that there will be a world union with International courts, coinage, police and other common institutions which will grow out of the alliance of the United Nations. Buy Defense Bonds " Increased Number of Gardens This Year Vital For Balanced Diets. A'eu'j Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1343 H Street, N-Washington, D. C. It is the equal of five long blocks New Defense Opening Each t Fresh Vegetables for the Family by Baukhage General Ilershey, head of the selective service administration, Is of Pennsylvania German descent, a collateral branch of the chocolate family. But his able assistant is Major Culligan, in turn assisted by Messrs Flynn and Shea. The next draft drawing will take place on St Patrick's day and the capsules containing the numbers will be green. Buy Defense Bonds C. likely planting sites. Once the frost is gone, an are Red beets . . . beans . . . lettuce . . . carrots . . . tomatoes look can in her r voune garden, f th vprptahles this lady, busy ict army of gardeners recruited forward to during the coming months. During those months the family from farms, small towns and will not only have fresh vegetables that will keep them healthy and big cities will prepare the strong, but there will be plenty left over to can and preserve for conearth with spades and fertiliz- sumption during the following winter. ers. Then will come seeding, which produced 528,000,000 pounds These town and city gardeners are in a and being cautioned that their gardens of food. weeding cultivating But there was waste and unneces- must be economical; that every vast effort to produce plenty and of fresh vegetables, F. O. B., sary sacrifice, too. Many a hopeful seed, every pound of fertilizer but every implement counts; that there nothing yielded big city garden the kitchen "door. blisters and backaches. In some must be no waste. The members of and This effort is part of a great naplaces park lawns, golf courses and these garden clubs will meet and tional Victory Garden program. In recreation areas were plowed discuss their problems together public the weeks since Pearl Harbor, off- up and planted to potatoes. Ornaobtain guidance from experts. Proicials of the U. S. department of ag- mental in private grounds visions are being made in many plantings riculture have been consulting with were sacrificed; flowers were for- cities by the Civilian Defense orgardening experts from every state. gotten to make room for vegetables; ganization for the establishment of Organizations everywhere have and gardens were attempted in con- community gardens in which plots pledged their aid garden clubs, Boy gested big city locations where sucare assigned to families that do not Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, cess was obviously impossible. have fertile garden soil of their own. clubs. As the program develops, Today an abundance of land is Schools and organizations are proactivities will follow two major available for Victory Gardens with- moting the program. lines: How big a job is it to put in a out sacrificing landscape beauty or 1. Farmers and their families the growing of flowers which are garden and make it produce sucthroughout the United States just as important to morale, as vege- cessfully? will tables are to physical by planting Simple to Garden. 5,760,000 vegetable gardens. This is particularly true in small It's simple, according to relatively 2. Small town and big city towns and in the suburban areas of experts. They point out gardening dwellers will sponsor commubig cities. with modern knowledge of soils, that nity and school gardens, and Nutrition Is Watchword. plant foods, new tools and the imwherever possible individual Nutrition is the watchword of the proved vegetable varieties develfamily Victory gardens. present program. First of all, our oped by plant breeders, it is possiThis newest move in the war on soldiers must be well nourished. So ble to grow fresh vegetables for the the Axis is reminiscent in many must defense workers in fields and family in a favorable location with ways of the stirring days of World factories. Britain, Russia and our only a few hour's light exercise each War No. 1, when back-yarother allies must be kept supplied week. garden The secret of effective gardening with food. But the program goes beyond that A battle is being waged lies in the size of the plot Too big on the home front against malnutrition. Regardless of how long the World war lasts, the nutrition battle at home will go on until every Amer?Vv ican is receiving enough of the right kinds of food. In considering the two main phases of the Victory Garden program, the farm effort will of course be the backbone. Every farmer who can possibly do so will have a garden where he can produce fresh vegetables and fruits for home use and have some surplus to market. Secretary of Agriculture Wickard summed up the movement's philosophy when he told delegates attending a recent conference in Washington: "This situation is different from 1917. Then the effort was to save food so there would be plenty for our troops in France. Now the need Fresh radishes for salads are what Is for a balanced diet. When the farm family grows its own vegeta- this young lady is gathering. Her Victory Garden will give the necesbles, it eats more and thus improves the family's health. We hope sary balance to the family's daily for an increase of 1,300,000 farm meals. vegetable gardens in 1942. The goal a garden is likely to be neglected. we have set is 5,760,000. One just large enough, producing "Growing vegetables on the farm the vegetables a family needs and the food right where it is to be no more, in balanced puts proportions Miss Peg reaps the results of havused; it doesn't take any freight can be kept well without hard work. a own. of her The ing garden green cars or trucks'to move food to those Another secret is in not trying to beans she Is collecting will be deli-clofamilies. Home vegetable gardens grow too large a variety. One auat the family's evening meal. release more commercial vegetables thority suggests six different vegetaers did their bit to make good the for other purposes. Commercially bles as a basis tomatoes, snap slogan: "Food Will Win the War." canned vegetables are packed in tin beans, carrots, cabbage, lettuce and and we are short of tin." But there are wide differences, too, greens. All are high in food and As a reinforcement to the farm vitamin value. Moreover, tomatoes, and it is hoped that many of the mistakes of the 1917-1- 8 war garden garden movement, the work of small beans, carrots and greens can be program will be avoided this time. town and big city gardens will help easily canned. The last war demonstrated: that swen uncie barn's food output. These gardening experts will tell home gardening can contribute imIn communities large and small you one more thing that you've got portantly to the food supply. In 1917 every family that has access to a to feed the soil if you expect it to alone, 1.150,000 acres of city and favorably situated plot for for you. This means proproducing produce town land were under cultivation. By part of its food is being asked viding it with plant food. And this supply 1918 there were 5,000,000 is just as true if you garden on the gardens to Join a Victory Garden club. farm or in town. The average farmer knows by experience with field crops that fertilizer will enhance the size of his crop, increase its resistance to disease, improve the quality and promote hardiness. He will apply that in making his knowledge Victory - - - 4 - v -A r garden contribute to the national defense. The city gardener can profit by the farmer's experience. The three fertilizer elements most needed for plant growth are nitrogen, phosphorus and potash. These elements are mentioned in this orr der in the analysis of commercial fertilizer. "For effective gardening use " rjarXI . I I said one authority, "it has been w k n i L found advisable to apply the ferti-lize- r before planting time, it in thoroughly with the soil mixing when the From industrial centers and other defense localities now working at first spading or plowing is done. The top speed for the nation's Victory program, the excellent business condi-tion- s quantity to apply will vary with the found there are overflowing into the more rnral sections of the soil type, but the Victory Gardener Inited Mates as the above map shows. As farm crops and rural will be safe in using 5 propounds of a duction Increases better business conditions will show In the "fair" mixture such as area, to each 100 of the U. S. square feet of garden. Once having undertaken its American Farmers Now While production has been inproject, the average family creasing, the prices received by Making Wartime Plans Faced with the biggest demand farmers for what they sell have also will reap dividends far Mceeding for agricultural products in the his- been rising. Average prices are now the crop of vegetables at harvest tory of the nation, American farm- the highest in 13 years. Prices which time. Of prime Importance in wartime is the morale factor. Garden-ln- g the farmers pay have also been ers today are planning preparing g is a morale builder without and working toward the single end up, but not quite so rapidly, and equal of producing the crops, livestock, the ratio between prices received wywhere. There is no better antl-d- o e for war and "blues" than a session dairy products, fibers and other raw prices paid is steadily becoming hoe. Gardening materials to meet wartime needs, more favorable. It has already with provides a writes L. G. Elliott, president of the reached the goal of parity, and the release from the worries and nervLaSalle Extension university. policy of the government is to main- ous tension of long hours spent at More food will be required by our tain prices at around that leveL In desk or in the machine shop of a munitions factory. It military forces. 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