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Show WAR BOARD DISCUSSES FARM LABOR State Board Conducts' 3-day 3-day Meet in Logan National Na-tional Officials Attend to Air Farm Problems. Analysis of the role of agriculture agricul-ture in the war and of the relationship rela-tionship of agriculture to business, labor and- government, featured meetings of the Utah State U S D A war board to Logan this week. Regional agricultural officials declared de-clared that agriculture now is important im-portant "only as it contributes to our national objective of killing" and said farming has entered the "civic" phase. They speculated also upon factors which may relieve the farm labor shortage in 1943. Dr. J. T. E. Dinwoodie, Western region field representative of USDA war boards, said the objective of all national policies today is to "kill the power and aspirations of nations attempting to overthrow free government." "Let's quit trying to soften war," he declared. "War is ruthless and cold. Our job is to kill or contribute contri-bute to killing, and it is only as we can contribute to the national objective of killing that we are valuable. The question of self is pretty small. A nation at war has little time to think of individual inconveniences." in-conveniences." Touching briefly upon competition competi-tion of war industries for farm labor, Guy Bush of Denver, regional region-al division of information representative, repre-sentative, AAA, pointed out that war plants were forced to pay high wages to get the men they needed quickly. He cited as an example the Bushnell general army hospital in Brigham City which 'went from peach trees to patients in about six months." "The whole n .tkm suddenly began be-gan demanding that we have more guns, more ships and more of everything ev-erything immediately," he said. "The only way they could be produced pro-duced quickly was to hire many workers at high wages. The farmer has suffered from the policy, but the nation would have suffered, too, with any other policy." Discussion of farm transportation transporta-tion problems drew the warning from officials that all facilities must be used to best advantage or a "county dispatch program" might have to be worked out. Under such a program, the farm trucker would be reqaiired to report to a dispatcher before leaving a county. The dispatchers would be empowered empow-ered to see that the truck was loaded on all trips if loads were available. R. L. Burgess, western region information division representative, Department of Agriculture, traced the development through three phases each of the nation's agriculture, agri-culture, business, labor and government. gov-ernment. Declaring that more and more functions previously handled by government agricultural specialists are now being turned over to farm-(Continued farm-(Continued on Page Pour) tion workers now rap; bably will be retal : work by July 1. Ecfcoo: . be organized and usl : fectually. Warning that the Iii: on many farms still i-ious, i-ious, Mr. Burgess urt-.f to stay on the job. "Dr. your farm and your t the same time." he mi Officials reviewed i ment and functions of ; for the benefit ol Ai field men who soon ; work in the war ton'. Increased responsible boards, officials sail : the operation ol full '-war '-war board offices. The? Utah must stay open i. day to meet new neei : they declared. Attending the meeu; tion to regional and i-were i-were county agents t war board members M Box Elder and Weter ! War Board Discusses Farm Labor (Continued from Page One) ers, Mr. Burgess said that "unless farm leadership capable of handling handl-ing these functions continues to develop, an economic democracy on the farm will collapse. Development Develop-ment of this leadership will insure greatest war contributions and best postwar situations." Discussing farm labor prospects for next year, the officials cited these "possibilities" of relief in the labor scarcity : Where maldistribution of labor exists, workers in some sections may be moved to places where their efforts are most needed. More Japanese exacuees may be released from reception centers for farm work. Farmers on marginal land may be induced to move to better land where their work will produce better results. War project construction probably will decrease, and about 25 per cent of construc- |