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Show LEHI FREE PRESS. LEH1. UTAH rir " v ur.y Jivu s comparable 'avorbg. Ion wuh the last carnpa- DILEMMA?' NATIONAL AFFAIRS Farmers Shun Expansion in Wartime But They Hear 'Be Prepared' Warning j I By GEORGE BRADFORD i UUlcuad by Wtr Ncaper CARTER FIELD Umoa.l What will the CHICAGO. to American agriculture? Ave That question has been raised with growing insist- ence ever since Adolf Hitler's d legions went into Poland. Repeal of the arms embargo brought it still farther into the foreground. blitz-triegi- ray-cla- ng For the extent to which America's vast reservoir of foods and fibers is used has become a matter of close concern to everyone on or near a farm. Three fairly definite answers have emerged, but each is conditioned by a large "if' if the European war drags on : i 1. The war will create a rising demand at borne for American . farm products, with an upward price level. 2. It will increase the dsmand ' from abroad. 3. It will likely bring a rise ; ( In land values. ' War's stimulating impact on industry will soon be felt on the farm, authorities believe. Already men are returning to work, steel production is rising, dividends are increasing, stocks and commodities re going up. Americans will soon buy more and eat more because they'll have more money to spend. More cereals, fats, meats and woolens will be needed and at higher price levels. Can't Hold Two Jobs. Let's look at Europe. Despite 1039's world's wheat crop (5,290,000,000 bushels, exclusive of Russia and China) every month the war lasts will diminish Europe's Men under arms food supplies. can't till the soil, whether they're mobilized neutrals or combatants. Consider, too, that there are 40,000,000 more mouths to feed in Europe today than during the World war, from which we recall the following production figures: In 1917 wheat and other cereals Stood at S3 per cent below normal, or 960,786,000 bushels. That year American farmers planted 238,000,-00- 0 acres to care for America's needs and those of Europe. It was 22 per cent more than the previous average of 193,000,000 acres. If the present war drags on, Europe must turn for replacements of bread, meat, potatoes, woolens and butter to the United States, the various British dominions and South America. Will Prices Go Up? The third factor especially interesting to farm owners or investors is the prospect of higher land record-breakin- g 20-ye- ar i - h U1 the annual banquet of the Junior values. S. M. Waters, president of the Mortgage Bankers association, has this to say: "The man who owns a farm today undoubtedly has something more valuable than it was three months ago. The European conflict may have the most effects for owners of farm property." Nobody wants to profit by human misery, least of all the American farmer. But war, peace or neutrality, he has a stake in the present situation and if he does some straight thinking he can be stronger at the war's end than he was at its start. Chester Davis, agriculture's representative on the federal reserve board, urged farmers to "keep their shirts on, think intelligently and work together," thus moving out of the war into an improved position. Stress Soil Conservation. By "keeping his shirt on," Mr. Davis meant the farmer should void overexpansion and the pitfall of too easy profits that later may The World war turn to losses. taught that lesson, and it is highly significant that next year's AAA program aims to place more emphasis on soil conservation than on crop control. Probably the most practical move the farmer can make, say the experts. Is to take stock of his bAvexage American weighs t 150 pounds uvone utar flOflflfl flflflflfl fiflflOfl dairy products(wvf buctr). fi if$i241b$$$$$ ' wheat Vegetable Grocers' association during their convention. fresh fruits i&bs. On the basis of figures compiled from ofnciux sources, the average QQQQQ 004 American consumes nearly his own potatoes 145! weight in meat alone using 150 an as average weight. pounds pimsiodur that W) 1431 Heavy on Dairy Products. Likewise, if you maintain an avermeat t4o!b. age consumption, you'll consume your weight three times over, at least, in dairy products, which lead fresh vegetables 104! t the list in "tonnage." Much of this is in fluid form, the balance in DDI butter, ice cream, malted milk and sugar 45 1 similar products. The young vegetable growers, who e&s 38? were guests of the Great Atlantic nd Pacific Tea company at this year's banquet, were particularly inyjht terested In the assembled mass of fresh and canned vegetables which domestic firs oils laid tf.h statistics indicate the average American consumes annually. Potatoes of course lead in this division, canned vegetables 32 tit with a per capita consumption of 145 pounds. Other items in the vegetable division, such as sweet potasweet potatoes yi!tt toes, peas, corn, beans, spinach, carrots, lettuce, tomatoes and all canned frutts the others, reach to a volume close y'h to the weight of an average aduit. All grains consumed, in the form dried vegetables 20 of bread, cereals and in liquid form, treble the weight of the average poultry 24k adult. We're Eating More Fish. lynbol butter i6!l Figures indicate that fish co'20 pounds nsumption is gaining. The figure 'used includes fresh and salt water codec Mb fish, canned fish, frozen tlsh and all the various items such as oysters, crabmeat, lobsters and s- on. The condiments b quick freezing process which permits shipment to inland points of Btf5cllaneoui (TnWwh fearWrt mi ) salt water fish is credited with bring55? ing about some of the increase in 9 demand. The Junior, Vegetable Growers teams from various states competheld their Judging contest on the ed for sevea trophies and 20 cash Thirty-fivprices. day of the banquet. 8 m m m i - 11 e - some sitepw. ---- Many econoDeal fear a mists inside the New cormr.g recession this .Praj tr.ere e majority cpin:on r wb be slow improvement, as stated. ft should be crders increase. YOU CAN MAKE IT Customs Duties Decrease, War is on a?ain betueen But Business Is Improving IF YOU FLY the and T-- e d Terence between 1940 and the administration that the similarity electric industry . . . 'resident a Why not go home for the of improving business during be, as it is Roosevelt hopes to curb fedholds good-- will holidays this year? You ca will be more make it if you fly. y01J eral spending and cut dotcn viewed now, that there where the recple worrying about AttorAssistant reach any point in the can the deficit continuance of the Roosevelt policies have to one antiwas thing It Arnold's U. S., spend several days will lead. ney General more the government spend vastly r and return inside trust law drive against labor three-yeavisiting Iran it takes in for a week. Dealers. a improving with obviously if uorries !etv Inquire about period, conditions apparently resulting. It low round trip fares. might be quite another to have eight WASHINGTON It begins to look fa'l vears (including the last year as though the cruel war between of Hoover) in which the government than the administration and the electric spent billions more every year with periods over took recurring all in, start to it is going industry of and mild improvement. again, with David E. Lilienthai, and of recession as during the eight years Especially TVA, sounding the call to arms Corcoran and Cohen, George V. the national debt had been increased Norris and John E. Rankin in the until it is now dangerously close to Diuion the legal limit of forty-hv- e cheering squad. HOUSEHOLD dollars. All of which is mighty interesting be to prospect seems every There if one traces the history of this camQUESTIONS that Roosevelt's hopes with respect paign back for a year. to increased federal revenues will been have there that During year It is true that cus three moves calculated to give the be eratified. Icines will not run off cakei it are duties toms decreasing rapidly, impression that peace between the and will continue to decrease if the the cakes are first sprinkled light- government and the utilities was at war lasts. But it is also true that, iy wiui luriiaiaiuu. hand. These moves were: due partly to war orders, general 1. Starting of the peace drive by business is improving. This will not Harry L. Hopkins. This began when only mean an enormous increase in Bulbs Need Moisture Most of Hopkins' name was sent to the sen- corporation income taxes the govfailures of winter the be to Roosevelt ate by President ernment takes 13 cents tax of every buibs is due to imperfect flowering root secretary of commerce. Hopkins at dollar any d corporation because of lack of that time talked to a number of makes, and slightly less, down to moisture. A little sand placed un. senators and others with regard to I6V2 cents, for each dollar of the der hyacinth, tulip and narcissus his ideas about business. First and small concerns. It will mean also bulbs when planting them is recforemost he wanted peace with the heavily increased individual income ommended. utilities. taxes. This does not mean that Hopkins It is on the spending side that real was disloyal to either Roosevelt or impends. It will be simple difficulty the New Deal. But he was firmly to cut the budget estimates. enough convinced then, and every indicaeven untion was that he had convinced That has often happened, in the first Roosevelt. der Notably Roosevelt, that something must be fiscal of his administration. year done to restore confidence in the rely on that. electric companies, to get investors But it is dangerous tonot when the come will The key to putting their money in them once appropriation bills are passed, more, and as a result to start the first but when the last deficiency bills utilities spending. appear on Capitol Hill. Investors Lack Confidence Arnold? Drive on Labor So Utilities Do Not Spend Is Worrying Xeiv Dealers Before this William O. Douglas, Probably as left wing as any one now a justice of the Supreme court but then chairman of the SEC, had in the administration, Assistant Atbeen talking a great deal to the torney General Thurman W. Arnold is nevertheless the most unpopular President, to Hopkins, and to others of all New Dealers among labor about this piled-u- p lack of spending Follow these 3 steps as pictured by the utilities. Douglas estimated leaders. The answer is his determined drive against certain labor that for the three preceding years the utilities should have spent one practices, and especially his pro. For ton throat from posed application of the anti-trubillion dollars a year on improvements and expansions. He said they laws to labor unions. 'u nt wrtM and gargle- Pain K fcMMd very quickl. l Reports from American Federahad not done so because their managements did not Jiave the nerve. tion of Labor circles indicate that r 1 Heads of the utility companies ad- word has reached the office of Wilmitted they had not been spending liam Green that President Roose2. To rellev headacti but said it was not so much lack velt is not in sympathy with Arbody discomioa aim of nerve on their part as lack of nold's policy in this particular. But, " Aspirin iauii confidence on the part of the inves- reassuring as this may be in cerdrink a elass of water, tain Kepeai hi quarters, there is no sign that tors, and hence that no matter what 5. Check teTnWrt- they might be willing to dare, they the White House intends to pull Arnold off. h.r. it wnu have had no choice but to defer expendiIndeed there are some who sustures they might otherwise like to not o ture do pect the President would be very make. down doctor. No 2 in the peace moves was when loath to take this action, and might TVA bought out the properties of be very uncertain as to what course Both aches and raw throat rethe Tennessee Electric company, Arnold might follow if he should. lieved this convenient way. Save$ Whatever the President may do, thus apparently making peace behours of discomfort. tween Wendell L. Willkie's Com- it is now apparent that Arnold's polmonwealth and Southern and the ad- icy on the application of the antiAt the first sign of sore throat from a cold follow the directions in the ministration. This is the peace just trust laws to labor unions still has to face a court test. This policy ended by Lilienthal's blasts. pictures above the simplest and No. 3 in the peace moves was the boils down to the proposition that among the most effective methods known to modern science to get war resources board headed by As- union activities are legitimate only fast relief. sistant Secretary of War Louis A. when directed against employers. The Bayer gargle will amaze Johnson. This board discovered This is the essence of his declarayou easing throat rawness in a what it thought were some weak tion that jurisdictional strikes rehurry. And the Bayer Aspirin taken in from the union spots utility setup, looking sulting internally quickly relieves the other rivalry violate at it from a strictly national defense the anti-trulaws because they do painful cold symptoms. While these alleged not concern wages, hours, health or standpoint. Try this way. You will say it is weaknesses were hotly denied by ex- safety conditions, etc., or an emunequalled. But when you buy be sure you get the fast-perts of the private utilities, the ployer's refusal to bargain collecS acting Bayer product electric companies were gratified tively. you want. Ask for Bayer that this board made no pretense Arnold's doctrine is that, a Aspirin by its full name, of using national defense as an ex- which has a contract with anunion, emcuse to force further socialization ployer, is entitled to the same proGENUINE BAYER ASPIRIN of the industry. tection afforded by the anti-truThen that blew up the board was laws as a business man who is the disbanded, and its powers entrusted victim of a combination in restraint Tyrants Need Fear to a new body headed by Harold of trade by other business men. DeNone but tyrants have any busiL. Ickes, who is second in utility partment of justice officials won't go ness to be afraid. Hardouin de baiting only to Senator George W. so far as to say that sympathetic Perefixe. Norris. onmca die ouuawea by their interSo it looks like a long warl pretation of the anti-trulaws They say, indeed, that where one President Roosevelt Hopes union is striking for a legitimate To Curb Federal Spending object a sympathetic strike by anPresident Roosevelt's hopes to cut other union is legitimate. Conditiona Dim to Sluggish Bowel the deficit next year by one billion Stand on Goods dollars are based on two premises. try thia - all alike, just laiatlM. 11 irn ting. . One is that better business will Not Restraint of Trade mild. Ilinr. vgbl. . "vu8ii. rcircsmog. invuzoraung. rw rtlief from tick headache. "billom rU. In taking a stand largely increase federal receipts when associated with constipation. against strikes from taxes, and the other is the deboycotts or coercion by unions which Wlthnilt RFelf et a 25c box of NR from your termination to cut federal spending. have no "reasonable" dniMirt. Make the tert-t- n" ,l H not delighted, return the box to ua. We wi If he should achieve his goal he with hours etc., Arnold connection eiunii .Ka MHrcnaaa does not Drlce Tk..t. will still be far from balancing the classify refusal of union labor to GetNRTahlctatod.v' There would still be defa n budget. handle products as an icit of something between one and restraint of trade. As for rea half to two billion dollars. But fusal of one union to 50- -39 handle the prod- WNU VV at least it would be a step in the ucts of anothei union, Arnold's right direction a step which might tenants will not peep now but lieuCulture's Effect admit be highly important in keeping the The value of culture is its effect budget-balancin- g and eventual inflaon character. Maugham. tion issue out of the 1940 presidential Arnold and his staff are counting campaign. on their anti-trudrive in the build It is true that this issue was raised ing .ndustry to get them more with all the strength of the RepubIT: money for law enforcement from lican party in 1936, and that it congress next year. amounted to precisely nothing so far Just recently, givin? no as affecting public opinion or own sign of v.ew, either collectively or ? 11.. 'UCki 11 changing votes was concerned. But d.vdually, the iuii Kianeys runction oaaiy .4 Supreme court heard the President realizes that the state Arnold uav.K-a "r nagging expound his belief of the public mind on this issue state e Jiln diuiness, burning, scanty or too Milfer-Tacts. y frequent urination and getting up t may be very different in 1940 from mgs act, do not p,us the give what it was in 1936. mght, when you feel tired, nervous,, and distributors free manufacturer, II license , upset use Don' Pill. When the last presidential elecwhat they please in the Doan'i are especially for poorly tion was progressing, business was waof pnce : fixing. He nsieto working kidneys. Mill ions of boxes " ey over- improving. It looked as though the sl,n the somewhat m- . : ara ii.aJ ....... .T1. ti vVry year, iney ar nebulous Roosevelt policies were working out of bounds the country ovei Ak your "reasonableness" they can satisfactorily in a financial way as prosecuted for nel8hborl well as from a social standpoint. man anti-truviolating toe hcr act. The prospect now is that business 1935-assur- r.:r.g j fair-size- The food the eats in a to a ton and almost equal year, more than ten times the average weight of an adult, was piled up for display before a group of young vegetable growers here recently. The merchandise was assembled in actual quantity at 1 o4 You Eat Ton of Food in Year, With Emphasis on Dairy Items CHICAGO. r 1940. A,, continue to land's fertility. For if agriculture is called on to step up production as a result of the war, this will be of major importance. How does the fertility score stand? Of 600,000,000 tillable farm acres, 50,000,000 have been completely ruined, according to the soil conAn-- additional servation service. 50,000,000 are seriously damaged and a lot more has suffered a marked decline in fertility. Causes were erosion; failure to replace necessary plant food removed year 'after year by growing soil; leaching; drain of live stock raising; oxidation of soil organic matter, and by fire. The total annual fertility loss to American farm land is 16,000,000 tons of nitrogen, 2,500,000 tons of phosphorus and 36,200,000 tons of potash, it is estimated. Be Prepared.' "Whether war or peace prevails," says the Middle West Soil Improvement committee, "the necessity for an program 0 soil conservation is indicated by the fact that fertilizers and manures are believed to restore only 18 per cent of the annual nitrogen loss and about 6.8 per cent of the potash loss. Restoration from other sources reduces the annual net loss to 2,700,-00- 0 tons of nitrogen, approximately ever-increasi- 1,200,000 tons of phosphorus and more than 30,000,000 tons of potash. Agriculture here has one advantage in the matter of fertilizers that it didn't enjoy at the outbreak of the World war. Then we were almost entirely dependent on Germany for potash and Chile for natural nitrates. Today, thanks to science and American industry, we are independent and will continue so. When the American farmer hears the "be prepared" signal to get his land ready for any eventuality, he knows it can be done. London Censors Christmas Cards To Foil Nazi Spies LONDON. Spies will find it difficult to use Christmas cards for sending messages out of Great Britain this year because of an ingenious control system which has been introduced by the department of military censorship. Britons who wish to send cards to certain "censorable countries" including most of Europe, China, Japan and the overseas possessions of neutral European nations must place their orders with a stationer and give him the list of names and addresses of those people to whom cards are to be sent. The stationer then himself will address and mail the cards. This control was thought necessary because during the last war, enemy agents made extensive use of greeting cards to convey information to Germany by way of neutral countries. st s" st frJJ P) st st Ron-Unio- s9 MSiSSHi n -- 1. . . . . non-unio- College Income Up in '39, IL S. Information Reveals WASHINGTON. - Colleges and universities did better financially during the past year than the year before, according to a survey by the United States office of education. report from some 330 institutions showed collections from students for educational purposes wenl up 8 per cent over the previous year while national, state and loca! governments contributed per cent more. A 1 While Income from endowments, dropped 3 per cent, private benefactions for current purposes increased 9 per cent and revenue from sales and services of "rented activities" increased 24 per cent. The report was prepared by Henry G Badger and Frederick J. Kelly. st BIS mm . air-trad- ... 1 new-mend- (BellSyndicate-W- NU Servlct.) |