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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH WIIAT GOES UP Pew Legislators Authors Of Bills They Introduce Released by WNU. i Is speculative ownership of land becoming the No. 1 Enemy of future farm prosperity? Are land prices due to tumble as they did after World War I? Will the cost of land go so high that the farmer cannot make a profit?1 These are questions that WORLD WAR H 1942 1943 1944 1945 194b WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., Washington, D. C. A bright young railroad executive who has his cum laude in law from : a famed university was sitting with me in Burts the other ' day. Burts is a sort of greenroom for radio folk and others are being asked from California to Maine. Land prices have already soared 71 per cent above the 1935-3- 9 aver- ages. They are . approaching the boom levels that followed World War I. Many bankers are frankly worried lest the crash and deflation of the early 1920s be repeated. show Government figures farm land prices during World War II more than doubled in Indiana, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Colorado and Wyoming. t Increases of more than 90 per cent have been recorded in Ohio, Michigan, Georgia, Mississippi, Arkansas and Montana. For the country as a whole, farm real estate values have jumped 13 per cent in the past year. From the beginning of World War I to the inflation peak in 1920, land prices jumped 70 per cent. Prices at the start of World War ... Went up during and after World War I and then came tumbling down. Prices have not gone as high in World War II as before, but they are soaring. These charts show same trend as in LAND PRICES 1914 to 1920. II were and with more and better farm machinery in immediate prospect, many farmers figure it would be a profitable move to work much more land than heretofore, the statement points out. If they will remember the bitter aftermath of World War Is land boom, when food prices were even higher than they are today, they will see the hazards of such a move. Sooner or later the present world food emergency will be solved and the mammoth demand for American food products will end. Then American farmers will have to compete in world markets. The only way they can do this successfully is to produce crops at a lower cost per unit. In such a program, the steady use of fertilizer containing nitrogen, INFANTILE PARALYSIS f No Community Is Safe From Polio Epidemic Areas that have been free of infantile paralysis outbreaks for a number of years may be more vulnerable to the disease than those with recent epidemic experience, Dr. Thomas Parran, surgeon general of the U. S. public health service, recently stated. Discussing cycles of epidemics in the June issue of Hospitals maga-azin- e, official publication of the Amer- ican Hospitals asso- Parran said such theorizing had no scientific basis but was founded pre- sumptive evidence, adding: Many observers have theorized that as an epidem-- Dr. Parran ic spreads throughout the community, it reduces the number of susceptible individuals to a point where the epidemic can no longer maintain itself. Until a new group of potential victims grow up, which may be from four to six years, that community should be less vulnerable to attack. Dr. Parran said there was danger in relying too strongly on this since recently exposed theory areas may be lulled into a feeling of false security while localities which have been free of the disease for several years may become unduly alarmed." The safest procedure by far, he advised, "is for all communities to prepare for epidemics. Dr. Parrans article in the AHA magazine was one of 10 on infantile paralysis timed to reach more thanmember 3,500 hospitals throughqut the country before onset of the polio epidemic season, usually ranging from late June to September. The other articles provide information on methods of treatment, organization of community resources, the key position of the gencare eral hospital in the over-a- ll of poliomyelitis patients, and the role of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis in financing polio treatment at general hospitals.! Dr. Parran said that all communities slould inventory their facilities - - on drafting service which writes bills for committees, but it seldom is called upon by individual legislators for assistance in writing any minor pivate bills. LaFollette Bill Would Revamp Thomas Mechlin, writing on this subject in the current Virginia Quarterly Review, touches on the subject of readymade legislation. who move and He tells how a lobby gets its own and have speak staff .together and knocks out a bill in what their being which the front office would like to is euphemistically see made a law eventually. It then referred , to as runs the draft over to a large law RaWashingtons firm which has one of its members dio center. Inspired in congress. Although the con(or infuriated) by gressman cannot personally reprethe presence of so sent the client, the method used in much so of who few the say many to so many, my friend launched submitting the proposed legislation forth into a tirade on the respon- through the body of the firm takes If the lobby is care of that. sibility of the publicist. will it exploit accordYou cant play baseball from then on publicity shakto football he said, ing rules, out. ing a menacing fist at me, and I am constrained to admit that that is what Washington officials are of these assertions is in much doing. You studied political science true. But all I would like to mention 30 years ago. I studied it only 20 hopeful signs on the horizon, years ago. And you know perfectly three minuscule though they may be. Two is well that the present generation not following the rules laid down by were measures introduced but not our founding fathers. You ought to acted upon in this session of congress. They will be presented again tell the public about it. Now maybe the principles of our and 'have a good chance of passing. One is the LaFollette measure for government are wrong. I am not derevamping congress, one provision fending them. But I am saying that of which increases the technical aswe are deserting them. Rule of the sistance available to members. The majority, a republican form of gov- second is a bill introduced by ernment operated by the representatives of the people, is a travesty, Representative Sabath of Illinois, for an is when jammed which provides legislation lobbies. Most conof investigation And mean I minorities. through by like lobbyists and dont gressmen bureaucrats as well as lobbyists. s Mechlin admits, as Sabath bill, senate This happened when the in the final debate was a crystallization of this feeling. was neck-dee- p The third indication was a resoluover the OPA and my friend claimed congress was revolt- tion introduced during the OPA of ing against what he called the high fight by Senator Taylor (D. the . authorizing Idaho) publicaadminisof methods the pressure tration. Since the congress was tear- tion of a document on how each sening the administration measure to ator voted on every measure. He shreds at that moment I pointed out said that the people are becoming that while it was true that congress more aware of their political rewas sore at Stabilizer' Bowles for sponsibilities, that politics is n what they called propagandizing, longer solely in the hands of politiand lobbyists. the example was not a very good cians, Congress is sensitive to the need one. So he proceeded to develop his theme with specific references all of a restoration of majority rule, too familiar to me and my col- but the only real hope lies within leagues of the microphone and type- the majority itself. Unfortunately, the giant sleeps. writer. ... well-organiz- lower than in 1914, but the increase this time is already 71 per cent, although the actual prices are not yet at the 1920 peak. Higher. Land, Less Profit. Farm sales are continuing at the high level they attained during 1945. The number of farms resold after a limited period of ownership has increased, indicating speculation. Farmers who have a yen to acquire additional acreage, says a statement by the Middle West Soil Improvement committee, should bear in mind that the higher the cost of land goes, the harder it is to show a profit, even at present prices received for crops. With sons home from the war ciation, Dr. By BAUKHAGE News Analyst and Commentator. 1947 for the treatment of polio, including hospitals .. which normally do not accept patients suffering with contagious diseases, and he added: Such planning is necessary if adequate care is to be given to all who contract the disease. Under the guidance of those officials charged with the communitys health and with the substantial support of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis and its local chapters, every community in the United States can be prepared to meet epidemics of poliomyelitis ic without fear or panic. Woman Has Churned JO Tons of Butter Mrs. Gala O. EVERTON, MO. Fletcher of Everton, by actual account kept in an old ledger, has churned 21,000 pounds of butter by brass-boun- d hand in an churn in her 78 years. She explains that she has been churning butter since she was four years ol when she had to stand on a wooden box to grasp the dasher handle. It would be quite a lake if all the cream I have churned should flow into one pool, she said recently. The churn she uses is a century old and she has worn out many a home-mad- e dasher in it. She keeps the cream only a short time before she churns it so that the butter she makes will be sweet. After the butter is churned she places it in a large earthen crock which has been sunning for several hours. Then she starts working it with a circular movement, using a flat wooden paddle That works the milk from the butter in about 10 minutes. She puts the butter away for several hours and then works it again to get out the last of the milk drops. The finished butter is a golden ball. , In order to have the best buttermilk, Mrs. Fletcher leaves flakes of butter floating jin it. After 75 years experience she believes she understands all phases of butter making. Contentment among cows is as important to good butter as the right kind of feed, she believes. ed , , ; phosphorus and potash will be a major factor. More bushels per acre can, and will, mean more food from less land. Increase Yields, Not Acres. The wise farmer will be the one who does not buy more land, but cawho increases the pacity of his present acreage by soil improvement measures. He will study the most practical uses o: plant food. He will consult agronomists at state college and agricultural stations for the most effective methods of fertilizer application, the analyses best suited to his particular soil and crop conditions and the quantities to use. This advice to farmers to improve their present holdings rather than to acquire greater acreage, was corroborated by the committee on farm land prices of the American Bankers association which urged member banks to admonish would-b- e farm buyers go slow, to discourage borrowing to speculate in farm lands, and to tell veterans of the hazards inherent in excessive land prices. Country bankers, a committee are fully cogspokesman said, nizant of the dangers inherent in the present farm land price situation. They are urging farm owners now to reduce their debt and to plan savings for farm improvement during these years of high income, because when conditions return to normal and American agriculture is in competition with other countries for world markets, it is probable that farm earnings will not support prices at current levels. crop-yieldi- ng high-power- ed ve . ward-heele- Town Seethes With Lobbyists rs South Dakotans See Swearing-I- n Two recent visitors to WashingYou too, are familiar with the power of the pressure boys as my ton, Mrs. Evelyn Baker and Mrs. friend Kenneth Crawford called James Magee of Custer and Belle them in his revealing book by that Fourche, S. D., can tell their friends name. Crawford estimated there back home in the Black Hills region were 6,000 active lobbyists in Wash- that while they were here they took ington when World War II started. in three events which might set the There are many more now. Speak- tone for all such future events. The ladies, winners of a radio coner Rayburn said the town was to honor women who did their test with them. seething bit during the war years, visited We all remember the seven-digsum of money contributed to a cam- Washington during the week when government offipaign fund which came out of the three members dues of one great labor cials, all close friends of Harry Truunion. True, the head of the union man, were sworn into new jobs. The swearing-i- n of a cabinet offlater quarrelled with the president whom he had helped elect because icer used to be a rather modest afthe president refused to take his fair. The swearinee, his family, a orders. Nevertheless, this example few friends, and his office staff, a illustrates what big money at- few of the press, usually gathered tempts, and sometimes succeeds in in his new office, and the whole affair was over in about the time it doing. We know, too, that when the entakes for bride and groom to say I do. tire economy of the country was locked to a dead center by strikes True, Fred Vinson and Lewis in two essential industries, coal and Schwellenbach did travel to Capitol transportation, and that when the Hill for their inaugurations as treasgovernment itself gave orders, ury and labor secretaries respecthose orders wdre disobeyed. Mi- tively. But those events occasioned nority rule was operating then. Mi- no such hoopla as did the cerenority groups nullified the wishes of monies which made Monday Tuesd the Wednesday Washington news representatives of day the people. one late week in June. Mrs. Magee and Mrs. Baker and My friend, with all his vehemence, with his allegiance to five thousand other spectators, plus management, made no claim that the navy band, gathered on the the demands .of the railroad men, White House lawn to watch Mr. Vinthe coal miners, were unjust. He son take over his new office as chief merely said that in order to obtain justice of the United States; they what they considered justice, the saw John Snyders big moment powerful leaders of the organiza- made bigger when President Trutions to which they belong were able man strolled from the White House to play baseball according to foot- to the treasury portico to watch his St. Louis crony take the oath as ball rules temporarily at least. The theory that the creation of the head of the treasury department; g laws of the land has been taken and they observed tall, John Steelmans swearing-i-n as from the hands of the elected representatives of the people was put reconversion director, a ceremony forth by Crawford in The Pressure which took place in the rose garBoys seven years ago when he dens of the White House. said: It is improbable that a sinHaving observed these impresgle important law enacted in the sive occasions, the Black Hills visilast 10 years has been written by tors could appreciate the remark of UndersecTo prevent its congressional sponsor or its CHECK LADDER author. - Administration retary of Navy John Sullivan. (Sulfarm accidents, the National nominal exlivan got his swearing-i- n done quietSafety council warns those who bills are prepared by New Deal in executive departments. ly and traditionally on June 18.) As perts use ladders to set the base firmit top-draw- er , . duly-electe- young-lookin- ... of Hie ladders ly about height from the wall or tree, and not the rungs grasp the sides as they climb np. one-fOur- th widely-whisper- Legislation independently inaugurated is almost invariably prepared in the office of a lobbyist. Congress maintains a legislate ed Sullivan congratulated John Steelman after the rose garden ceremony, he asked, "Well, are you the last of the June brides? |