Show aa 0 washington D 0 TUE THE AGRICULTURE department in the last few days the president himself has silenced administration critics of claude and decreed that he remain as secretary of 0 agriculture the presidents stand came at the height of an increasing storm brewing round the amiable indiana corn farmer whom everyone likes but whose all important food program li Is lagging white house advisers have told the president that Wick ards program was inadequate that it must be drastically revised that there would be shocking deficiencies of food some have urged that be replaced the president however has defended his secretary of agriculture but also he has appointed white house secretary lauchlin currle currie whose regular field Is chinese relations to act as umpire an on the farm program currle currie has given wick ard a nine point program for revamping american agriculture and among other things has pointed out that england increased her food production 50 per cent with little additional manpower why he asks cannot the united states do the same game agricultures AGRI CULTURES PROGRAM here are curries Cur rles proposals advanced with the blessing of the tha white house 1 the goals of agri agricultural cultura I 1 production should be higher 2 A new production program P possibly with a new budget should be presented to congress 3 all acreage allotments and other restrictions on production should be removed to encourage the more efficient farmers 4 the farm operators of second rate effi efficiency clency should be brought into full production with the aid of seed fertilize rb livestock machinery and even land 5 cotton and tobacco acreage should be reduced corn acreage allotments lot ments removed entirely and more wheat should be fed to livestock 6 profiting by british example a new land army should be organized gani gamiz zed ed to use town and city dwellers especially women for farm work 7 truck farmers who produce such luxuries as iceberg lettuce should be converted to more essential crops 8 facilities for processing and drying foods should be increased 0 9 local direction of the farm program am should be shifted away from farm bureau minded agents toward agents more responsive to federal direction FARM PROGRAM Wick ards response to this sweeping proposal was to accept part of it reject part he believes the production goals are already high enough that its too late to present a new program for 1943 that cotton goals have already been substantially lowered and tobacco reduction would require change of the law he agrees to removal of acreage restrictions on most crops but not on cotton and wheat which still yield embarrassing surpluses claude is a little touchy on the question of county agents and corn com m Itte emen insisting that federal representation is adequate FULL production on other points however he agrees with the white house proposals declaring some already are in effect he wants to bring the less efficient farmers into to full production to increase dehydration of foods convert truck farmers from iceberg lettuce etc and organize a new land army from towns and cities in fact he already has a plan well advanced tor for the land army who had bad hardly been heard of before his elevation to wallaces place in the cabinet has had wear hear sailing for two years thanks in part to good weather now however he Is facing just as a job in trying to produce lore inore as i wallace faced ten years ligo go in trying to produce less no secretary of agriculture ever faced more opposite and more difficult problems the average person realizes the problems confronting the secretary of agriculture they are exceedingly complex knows his position is ii shaky but he is on his mettle fighting to meet the established production goals baff CAP CAPITAL CHAFF fl L munro leaf who wrote ferdinand the bull hailed as a childrens classic on pacifism has now got himself a captains commission in the army and is more belligerent than any west pointer he even believes that it la Is sacrilegious to criticize anyone in the army or anything the army does especially the services of supply to which he is detailed fl 41 when postmaster general frank walker was shown a recent news photo of himself he said Is that herbert hoover or mal me |