Show 7 P r w T W rj jl r OR DREW W PEARSON a u Washington D. D C. C FOOD AND YOU PAY GO Although food lood was supposed to be bethe bethe bethe the chief topic of ot discussion it lt the recent White House conference with farm larm leaders actually Chester Davis did his best to sell the President on you pay taxa tion He proposed it as an nn anti anti- inflation measure to drain off surplus income and ease the work of income tax payment on the average citizen We have simply got to come tc It Mr l President argued the food chief chic It was unfortunate that pay you as taxes were given a black blackeye blackeye blackeye eye by the Ruml plan But pay-as pay you go taxes should go hand In hanc han with rationing to prevent overspendIng overspend ing The President didn't commit himself himself him him- self sell definitely but indicated that he would favor a pay pay-go plan if it windfalls windfalls wind falls to the wealthy as provided for forIn forin forin in the Ruml plan were completely eliminated Ed ONeal president of the Farm Bureau federation and Ezra T T. Benson Benson Ben son executive secretary of the National National Na Council of ot Farmer Cooperatives Co opera tives tires also took up the cudgels ONeal contending that taxpayers wouldn't be able to meet next years year's assessments unless the you pay go plan or forced saving were adopted GOP Watching Chances Ive made a poll of taxicab drivers drivers ers and they are all for It said ONeal The great majority of ot the American people feel the same way They hey hey are against windfalls but they eel feel they wont won't have enough money to pay their income tax payment next neat year If the administration I doesn't take some action on this the theR R Republicans publicans will steal the ball from I you I right Mr l President i chimed In Benson The farmers I In overwhelmingly overwhelm my organization are arc I for a you pay tax pro gram I think labor is too Maybe youre you're right responded the President Chester to Davis I suggest that you talk this over with congressional leaders The conversation then turned to farm tarm distribution and the President drew on his own experience as a farmer to illustrate the difficulty little farmers are having getting their crops to market I used to raise barrels of ot apples apples apples ap ap- ples every year on my Dutchess county farm in New York the President said I I also raise some apples on my land in Georgia Apple Competition The President grinned to Albert Goss master of the National Grange who hails from Washington the biggest biggest biggest big big- gest producing apple state in the country Id stack my apples up against those you produce in Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington any day Youre getting out of ot your class Mr President smiled Goss Have you ever eaten a Delicious You win Albert chuckled the President but the point I am trying trying trying try try- ing to make is this this little little farmers like myself and the same goes for tor all other farmers who dont don't have havethe havethe havethe the advantage of operatives co-operatives have encountered a lot of ot difficulty marketing their crops and getting their money since the war began because of the transportation problem probe problem lem and other factors Dont you think the government I should step in and buy up apples and other products that have been running running running run run- ning Into distribution troubles and I store them In the warehouses the i President asked Goss It would I take a lot off the market and help i I many little farmers who are hard hardup hardup up for tor cash I Helping Little Farmer I dont don't agree with you Mr President President President Pres Pres- ident replied Goss I think the I Iway way to protect the little farmers Is Isby isby isby by continuing the agriculture department department department de de- support price program Farmers can get along if they are arc are assured that they can get fair prices I and a decent break on priorities for machinery to produce their crops I dont don't think the government should buy up and sell farm products when there is no necessity for It I The President meditated for a moment moment mo mo- ment and replied I guess youre you're right at that I The meeting also thrashed out the question of ot price ceilings Ed ONeal of ot the Farm Bureau and Albert Goss of ot the Grange contending that if it rationing rationing ra ra- tinning were tight enough it wouldn't be necessary to have price ceilings I that rationing would automatically take care of ot prices Justice Byrnes I Chester Davis and Jim Patton of the Farmers Union argued to the contrary The President decided with them I His order shortly thereafter putting putting put put- ting price ceilings on almost everything every every- thing was the chief result of the meeting e e ROUND MERRY-GO-ROUND C Q t Ambassador John G. G Winant has provided an apartment in London for six American soldiers wounded in inaction inaction action with the llie British Eighth army in E Egypt pt Three are arc Harvard men three from Dartmouth The six grad graduated graduated as the top six In a British officers training school before going go ing to Egypt with the British GOth regiment This Is the f famous regiment regiment regi regi- ment which In Revolutionary times was withdrawn from action in America America America Amer Amer- ica because it was too friendly to the colonial cause I |