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Show Six Million Farmers Throughout U. S. Producing Worlds Largest Food Crop War Material Vital, hut Soldiers and Workers MiM Get Nourishing Food the Uncle Sams farm whole United States will produce this year the biggest food crop in the worlds history! Harvesting of this planned production for the war effort has begun and the e immensity of it all is an tribute to the American all-tim- farmer. Off Umle Sam' form inrmbl; line every minute ef ever? day throughout 1942 are coming something like !0S, tot quarto of milk. rtco wuuu a Take that aaift wlt.gmg army (.lane up there In its wlnga, lull and fuselage are 650 (quire feet at cotton linen. Vra. Uncle Sam's farmer are turning out war cropa thu year Corn and wheat, for example Moat of It goci fur feed and food, but some to used In making ethyl alcohol which In turn Is employed In making explosives, synthetic rubber and other products. Peanuts and soybean are used to make oil which replaces other oils employed In cooking, and releases them for use In nitroglycerine explosives. Oil from soybeans snd flaxseed Is used In the paint snd varnish covering our ships and planes, Flax is a source of linen for parachute harnesses and rigging Wool from our sheep makes uni Aer-mic- guns turned out this year will be determined largely by the kind and amount of fuod our workers eat. The newest tjpe planes need high Milk and Shipping a la 1912 we are building I lens uf shipping a tremea-dsu- s amount. But the farmed af mil-tio- History's Biggest lax Bill Can't Meet War Demands 3Z3,,1 1 i The Egotist By BAUKIIAGE vuf Commentator, tha department to answer. Morgen"Why don't you commentators bequit trying to wake tho people up thau then said he would itand to tho war and try to wake Wash- hind Bell' prediction. It it true that tha house cut tha ing ton up?" That's a question which repeats it- tax bill as submitted by the treas0 self in my listener mail day after ury. The tressury asked for snd got Jfl.200.000.000 from day. So help me, I know the people don't need waking up And who am the house. The senate it being urged I to decide whether Washington is to restore the cuts But the tresssnoring or Just breathing deeply? ury program itself waa far too Let me say. first of all that I small tha experts say. At present calculations, the government's Inknow that a large part of "Wash come for the fiscal year 1942-4- 3 the and la awake burning lngton" will be around 24 billion dollars, that And remember midnight oil will be in the meant 2.000 business men drafted whereas its outgo neighborhood of 77 billions. into service as well as the governIf after Pearl Harbor the government officials the MAJORITY of whom aro men who ment had asked for the maximum have worked through both Republi it needed the country would have been only too glad to submit As can and Democratic regimes the counBut let me go on from there and my correspondentsto say. waked be up, try didn't need talk about some of tho (lumberers does Whom you nor I nor Big Ben nor Washington Critics of Mr. Morgenthau and his an alarm could wake up if say, "too little and too program they had gone to bed after six cupa late." of coffee and the radio on. They say "too little" because the I am talking (again) about what difference between outgo and InWashington is talking about today come for the fiscal year ending In specifically the tax bill now in con1943 will be at least S3 billion dollars. in and inflation, generaL gress. Bond The biggest tax bill in our history any calm, cool instructed thinker They say "too late" because inthinks Isn't nearly big enough. Why? sufficient measures have been taken Well some say because the fiscal to check Inflation and one way inflapolicy makers of the nation don't tion can be checked la to get right seem to be much more war conafter the spending money and make scious than the home guard before It saving money by forcing the peoPearl Harbor. bonds ple to Invest in Now let's get a few facta straight. that can't be cashed In until after There are men in the treasury de- the war A lot of people are going to need spending money again when partment and sitting on congressional committees dealing with fiscal peace comes until industry Is conmatters who know their monetary verted back from war production to onions as well as a farmer knows civilian production. the rows he hoes. As one man connected with the Federal Reserve board said to me; But let us proceed from there. "There is one thing that very few About a year and a half ago, Leon Henderson who, no matter what you people realize. When the governmay think of his neckties, his man- ment or anyone else borrows from ners or his tactfulness, is pretty good the bank, new money is created; at foresight, echoed the thoughts of that makes inflation. There is plenperhaps a hundred other men in ty of money in existence now to pay Washington when he warned against war expenditures and avoid the fatal error of borrowing from the banks Inflation. 'The difficulty now is that the dolOne of the many brakes on Inflalars which are the most dangerous tion is taxation. Taxation, of course, in bidding up prices and causing inis an ancient process. Another methflation are the dollars in the pay enod, not so ancient, is compulsory velopes of the workers of industry. savings. Henderson favored compulsory And these dollars are not, as far as savings. So did a lot of others. He we can estimate, the dollars that are said so. He tried to convince Mr. buying bonds. "And another thing. The taxes Morgenthau but Mr. Morgenthau don't reach these dollars, either. shuddered. That was totalitarian. 'What we may as well realize is Regulate prices (what you pay out) all right, but don't tell a free Ameri- coming, though not coming as soon can citizen what he has to put in as it should. Is: One, compulsory his sock. That's totalitarian. Hensavings although we won't use that ry Morgenthau never said those unpleasant word compulsory It will words to me. but one of his close probably be a requirement to buy bonds not redeemable until after the associates did. Well Henderson in one of his tact- war and so staggered that they less moments a year and a half wont all hit the treasury at once. "Two, a smaller tax exemption so ago, commented on Mr. Morgen-thau- s that wd1 will get the loose dollars opinions on compulsory savings (not for the record). He said, from the lower income brackets. There are more of those dollars to in effect: "Henry is perfectly willing to have me put a gestapo in get Three, there will have to be every grocery store but he thinks its Hitlerism to force people to save some leniency for the fixed salary man who is already saving; the avor buy bonds. Those werent his exact words but erage middle class that puts money those were his sentiments. I quote Into savings regularly in the form them, not because Mr. Henderson of mortgages on homes or farms or knows everything, but because he plants, money into life insurance poltalks with a punch. I might also icies, money mto pension plans. That add that there appeared a year ago is savings, it is not creating inflaan article from the pen of Reserve tion. But that man with the high Board Chairman Eccles entitled, taxation those in his income brackets have to pay has to go to the Price Ceilings Are Not Enough, in which he expounded the thesis bank and take the money from the that money must be taken out of savings which he has there to turn it over to the government the easy spenders pockets or inflation would result Canada has faced this problem. The United States will have to. War One-Thir- d of the Way production is ahead of schedule, fisToday we have a tax bill which cal thinking Is lagging behind stands, seven months after Pearl We can see, a year after Mr. EcHarbor, as incapable of meeting the cles said so. that "price ceilings are exigencies of war as Manila or not enough." Increased costs are Singapore were. such that the packers, as the It is true that expenses have shot before them, have announced more than was up rapidly expected that they just won't stay in business (although many say this should have if they have to operate at a loss. been foreseen). And now we are The price of the finished product d of has a ceiling but the raw lucky if we can pay materials our way. Daniel Bell undersecreand wages have no ceilings. Sometary of the treasury, said that 24 bil- body has to corral those dollars. lion dollars of the national expendi0 ture would be handled with borrowUrban residents rank highest in ing (not all from the banks) this the proportion of college graduates year. Secretary Morgenthau had re- In the population with 5.7 per cent fused to answer a question on that as coripared with 4 2 per cent for point in the senate committee bearand 1 3 per cent for when rural-farSenator Taft to it put ings groups, according to inhim, but turned it over to Bell. Taft formation collected by the departhe that wanted ment of commerce in the 1940 Morgenprotested thau as the head of census. SS le . oar nitO HU PEANUTS Whaol Pis only comSodtly lor wtuch o decrsoie k detrrgbls American farm goals for 1942, showing Increase over pounds of potatoes, 13,000 pounds of beef, veal, pork and lard. Think of It! EVERT MINUTE. If you saw the U. S. navy riding in a sea of milk, majestically chances are you'd call it a nightmare. But could be! Our farmers this year are scheduled to produce 57 billion quarts of milk more than enough to float not only our navy but every battleship, aircraft carrier, cruiser, destroyer and submarine owned by the United States, Britain, Russia and all the other United Nations combined. If you are good at mental pictures, maybe you can visualize 50 billion eggs. That's enough eggs to make a line reaching seven times from the earth to the moon. Or 224 billion pounds of meat highenough to pave seven ways an inch thick from New York to San Francisco seven of them. Or 91 million acres of com an area larger than Italy and Sicily combined. But why all this production of food and fiber? It Isnt a part of our victory plan to drown the Nazis in milk or to bombard the Japs with tggs and potatoes. Farmers Build Planes and Ships. Well, food and fiber are not merely so many bags of wheat and so many bales of cotton. They are Flying Fortresses and big battleships, like the Washington and the North Carolina; and aircraft carriers, like the Wasp; and General Grant tanks; and workers In the factories and brave men at the front. Those are the crops our farmers are harvesting this year in 3,022 counties of the United States. 49,000 four-lan- e one-fift- h forms for soldiers and clothes for civilians. Aviators' Jackets, pants, helmets, and boots are lined with shearling sheep skins. In fact, the average soldier uses 100 pounds of wool a year, against an average of 24 pounds for civilians. But vital as are these materials for our weapons of war, they are much less important than the food which nourishes our workers and sustains our fighters. Food is one essential without which no man can fight or work. Bataan Proved It. Look at Bataan to see how true that is. Look at Bataan to see the importance of food. According to reports, mule meat and rice were all our forces bad to eat from early February until the time of ultimate surrender. We just couldn't get through to them with enough pork and beef to do them any good. And what happened? Our last ttack failed, not because of bullets or bombs, but because of sheer exhaustion. A shortage of food and sleep had drained out almost the last dregs of vitality. Bataan fell only after its defenders no longer had the physical strength to stand. counter-a- That time, food worked for the enemy. Given the shipping, six million American farmers are determined that from now on food shall work for us. They know that today a tractor used in production of food is just as important as a tank on the battlefield. They know that what they do on their farms is important The number of planes, tanks and 1941 production. officials; "Give us the meat, eggs, and cheese, and we'll increase production 15 to 20 per cent." Again, an appalling loss of production is suffered annually through sickness of workers. In 1941 more s than 20 times as many were lost by sickness as by strikes. The most common sickness is the ordinary cold, and the best preventive for it is a good diet. So, its the Job of our farmers to keep our men fit as fit as our machines. It's their job to provide the vitamin A which helps fliers see at night; the vitamin B which helps curb nervousness and digestive troubles: the vitamin C which wards off scurvy, bad teeth, irritability, listlessness and plagues which in the World war took a bigger toll of lives than bombs, bullets, shells and gas combined. Yes, vitamins and good food are war weapons. But to get them and especially to get the right amounts of the right things is a colossal task. That is why goals are just as necessary for agriculture as they are for plane or tank manufacturers. We want a specific number of fortresses, or medium bombers, or pursuit ships, or training planes. So. too, in agriculture, we want a specific amount of pork, of beef, of milk, and all other farm products. Fortunately, our farmers are ready for the job. Eight months before Pearl Harbor they began turning out war products requested by the e British for shipment. Three months before Pearl Harbor, farmers were fully organized on a e basis. Farm Production Is Planned Production. On April 3, 1941, Secretary of Agriculture Wtckard called for a big expansion in the products which the British had just made known they would need under evaporated and dry skim milk, cheese, eggs and pork. And our farmers set out to see that neither our own folks nor the British would run short. During the summer of 1941 still several months before Pearl Harbor the department of agriculture went to work on a plan to get war production goals for all farm products. The production goal idea had been used for years by Triple-on basic crops, but it was a new departure to apply it to all farm products. It meant estimating our own needs, those of our Allies, the allowances necessary for food reserves, and finally the ability of farmers to produce. It meant breaking down the national goals into state, county, and finally into individual farm goals. It meant the contacting of practically every profarmer commitducer by a Triple-teeman. Size of this undertaking is almost beyond comprehension. The six million farm plants in the United States are more than twice as many as all the other business establishments in the factories, mines, oil country stations, country stores, city retail shops. To get six million in war profarmers duction is by far the biggest job of subcontracting of the entire war. But it has been done and the United States is the only notion that has gone Into .his wsr with plenty of food ammunition. man-day- iend-leas- war-tim- lend-leas- -- ACAA Photo Threshing wheat in Bartholomew county, Indiana This picture was taken on the Perry Thompson farm at the height of activities. Triple-- A Committeemen Even while Japanese bombs were exploding on Hickam Field and spreading ruin over Hawaii and the committeemen Philippines, Triple-were covering the country enlisting voluntary cofarmer operation. There were shortages to contend with shortages of labor, shortages of machinery and equipment, shortdozages of burlap, baling wire, and ens of other supplies. The state and county war boards have worked ) Enlist Farm Cooperation with every available agency to keep shortages from bolding production. Most of the goals were set higher than production had ever been before. Only a few were lower. Wheat, for example, was down 12 per cent from the 1941 level because there was already a supply of wheat on hand. We couldnt afford to use land, labor, and materials for a crop that isnt needed, any more than we can now afford to build pleasure cars and luxury gadgets. two-ye- bridge ihakt!" LITTLE BREEZE A M.700.-000.00- air-rai- d s are performing Ira and an elephant trotted a fungte bridge together. "Oh, hoy," uhitpered th gee in tho elephant oar, hw certainly made that n SS, men the that imply that unfair? Th ArfiM AnmlyU n It Is generally conceded Uiat women are the fair sex. But does Required Savings, Smaller Tax Exemptions Seen as Partial Solution to Inflation Threat. Minnesota and lews alone will produce more thaa I mlllioa ton of milk la I M2. octane gas no more than our war workers need highly nutritious foods. Better Food Means More Guns. Good food. In fact, can be translated more or less directly Into guns For example, the British minister of labor has said to our agricultural That Kind "In n.y time Ive had a dozen men at my feet." she boasted "Chiropodists?" inquired her frund. 1- - Theres Clarence; he' eery much like his canoe." "How so? "It takes so little to upset him.' One Good Reason "I never see your husband look- ing at another woman. "No, George is devoted to me. Besides, he's so nearsighted." IIow to keep that schoolgirl Hide it where your complexion sister will not find it. That Sort of Fellow "Is that man annoyed with you? I notice he didn't return your greeting. "Oh, he lives next door to me. He never returns anything." ALL-BRA- FUDGE N SQUARES-B- EST YOU EVER TASTED! Every mother In the land will want to bake these scrumptious cookies. Children will demolish a plats of them In rave about their a wink. Grown-up- a 'different" taste and new crunchy texof ture. They're made, course, with tho n. famous cereal, Kellogg a FUDGE SQUARES KELLOGG'S 8 squares un- sweetened chocolate cup sugar 4 cup flour 4 cup nutmeats 4 cup 48 cup butter 1 eggs teaspoon vanilla extract Melt chocolate over hot water and add butter. Beat eggs well, add eugar and beat until light and fluffy Add melted chocolate and butter. Stir in flour, chopped nutmeats and flavoring. Poqr Into greased pan. making d a layer about Inch thick. Bake In moderate oven 375F.) about 30 minutes. Yield: Sixteen squares (8x8 Inch pan). 1 All-Br- n, one-thir- DON'T CRY. SISTER -- YOU'LL BE HAVING A BIG FAMILY, LIKE HAVE , MAMA, NOW THAT YOU i THAT SHOT OF CUTTER W SALT LAKE POCATELLO BOISE T 1500 UNITED STATES OODS ' AND ) STAMPS 3 D 0p can-ne- HOTEL BEN LOMOND one-thir- OGDEN, UTAH f $ Hr jj ; rural-non-far- policy-makin- .rff g BRIEFS "Education for Free Men is the general theme chosen tor the 1942 American Education week. A bombardier can expect to spend about 36 seconds over an enemy target During that brief time he directs the plane and makes all the adjustments which actuate the famous American bombsight all at a speed of 200 miles an hour. by Baukhage A gross of 5 million books donated In five months is the record made by the Victory Book campaign. Education is one of the five largest "business firms" in Indiana, according to a recent issue of a publication entitled, "Priceless Product of Indiana's Public School System." The schools directly affect nearly d of the population daily. one-thir- lM mM50 Roam Air Cooled Bathe to S4.M 2.0 M-tfor 4 person ia t Lounr sod Lobby Maine Romi Coffee Shop Tap Bom Boom of Botary Kiwanfe Eseeatlvap Bxebanro Optlaiata Cfewbtt et Ctssra to U CIib Hofei Ben Lomond OGDEN. UTAH Viafafc, Max. Bsksrt x. L |