Show dat food will win the war and nd maybe an election washington politicians awaken to fact that voting public like an army moves on it its s stomach by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service union trust building washington D C wars and rumors of war war production man power post postwar war plans plan s race riots roll backs gas rat rationing ionin 91 strikes s floods offensives you can think ot of a lot more probably all right pour them all into the hopper grind them up this Is a pretty dish to set before a voter in dont worry he can take it but take a ke away his breadbasket bread basket and he Is a different animal food will win the war lack of it can postpone victory it it spell defeat and food or lack of it can lose on n election that is what you are ll 11 hearing earing in washington these days an electorate like an army moves on its stomach on an empty stomach Eto mach it moves away from the ins hollers for the outs to bring back the bacon and when you get a customer with both an empty stomach and a full pocketbook boo k hammering on the table and demanding service you have a hard customer to please S slowly the washington politicians are beginning to awaken to that fact that food is going to be the big issue in the next election president saw it first the president and his keen eyed ears ars to the ground political scouts recognized it first and when phil murray head of the CIO and william green ot of the began to call for the roll rollback back of pr prices ices the administration was quick to promise that they would be served right away meanwhile some ot of the other guests are beginning to feel neglected lecter but before roll backs au gratin could be served c congress stuck its loot foot out and tried to 0 spill the tray for a while it looked as it if there was going to be embarrassment to in the political kitchen even if the administration is able to silence the demands and threats of 1 labor there are a lot of other oliver twists who want some more 1 and who will twist out of their a straight raight 1 ticket voting and start looking for a better ole lole unless Ws this food question Is solved before the ides of november through the days when congress was first trying to fold its tent and steal away from the banks ot of the potomac one thing was clear unless the administration pulled a nice ice fat and succulent rabbit out of the hat which could be served up to the electorate with enough has bas left over for the fighting forces force s and the hungry allies and other prospective clients the gallup poll vaulters which had re re re elected the new deal in advance would have to start their poll polling ingall all over again the enemies 0 of f the administration are building upa up a barrage to the e effect that mr roosevelt has babied I 1 labor abor and has left his bis old friends the f farmers a amers in the lurch they say that aba t because he was afraid to offend labor he listened to their demands m ands for lower prices and turned a deaf ear to the farmers fan ners troubles this of course since it comes fr from om hardly nonpartisan non part partisan isan cju quarters arters h has s to be taken with a grain of salt at b but whatever the working man says when he sees the cost of living eating up his former raises if 11 he has had them the record will show that despite john lewis polysyllabic attacks on the president labor has not been treated exactly as a stepchild but what has the farmer been getting meanwhile A couple of assists at least which have hav benefited him and the war effort at the same time head reports let me report to you what I 1 learned from governor black ot of the farm credit administration an institution ution which has managed to escape the attacks which most of the government agencies have had to weather governor black was to in washington the other day the headquarters of the farm credit administration were moved to kansas city a year ago you know to in the interest of decentralization and with the I 1 idea d ca that after all kansas Is nearer the center of american agriculture than the atlantic seaboard BRIEFS B R I 1 E F S by baukhage more than a million dollars worth of schools or are destroyed by jare fire per m month anth the number 0 of women applying or admission to medical schools in 1942 was the tha largest in the history of the schools and was greater than in the preceding year by 25 per cent in 1941 women applied for admission in 1942 applied the governor tells me that the has been used heavily since the first of the year to see that farmers ore are getting the credit they need to achieve all out production he admits that the 50 million dollars loaned to farmers and stockmen stoc kmen much compared with the total amount of 0 production financing which the farmers use in a year but I 1 its is something even in these days of astronomical lending leasing and spending the loans are made through the regional agricultural credit corporation here are just a lew few of the facts black produced from his briefcase take flax flax Is as important in its way as tanks are in theirs the automobile manufacturers have had it made worth their while to manufacture facture tanks instead of autos the farmers up in take north dakota for instance have shared the risk as black puts it with the regional agricultural credit corporation which extended them credit to change over to flax instead of one million three hundred thousand acres of this valuable crop that was harvested last year a million EIGHT hundred and forty thousand acres were seeded this year per c cent e nt government financed take dry beans in montana acres seeded this year double last years planting per cent of the crop government financed I 1 cou could id go down the list with peanuts in south carolina sweet potatoes in louisiana and mississippi ad turn simple machinery the way this share the risk thing works is simple the former farmer puts up his land and labor the puts up the out of pocket costs after the county war board and its own representatives have approved the deal if the crop comes out albrig albright allright all right ht the farmer pays the loan if it Is wiped out by bugs drouth or disaster and when 01 man river went hog wild this spring there was a lot of wiping out his liability wiped out too because his bis liability is limited to what he be took in from the crop and the incentive payments or insurance on it it so much a matter of how much money was loaned governor black said to me as where it was loaned and what it was loaned for in the past few months the country has awakened to the necessity of producing the vital crops to the limit and where we concentrated cent rated our financing wen well that is one agency that has been able to go ahead without having to duck the political brickbats brick bats other government agencies not so lucky had to take a lot of punishment that have been directed at them if it tor for poll tics bics the poor commodity credit corporation which every everybody bodi seems to love for itself alone got into an unpleasant jam with the subsidies and had a tight squeeze partly through pure politics partly because congress and the president see eye to eye on the anti inflation program what most people tail fall to realize is this even now with all the splendid effort the farmers have made agriculture has not yet be been e n entirely converted I 1 dont mean converted to the all out idea but converted in the sense that civilian ind industry u s try was converted to war production product lo 10 n autos to tanks and planes sewing machines to 0 machine guns industry had plenty of incentive the farmers have had some help w will ill have more and the consumer who is really everybody and the farmer and the worker gotten it through their heads yet that unless they all hang together hang separately if we dont got get the food we wont be able to eat the dollars no matter how many we may have in our sock the per capita use 0 eggs tn in 1942 was ivas prospects for this year ire are about per capita the army ind and lend lease need about 3 eggs out ut of every 10 produced which leaves 7 out of every 10 for civilians the hog population Is liable to tc outrun the feed supply A scientific detective force ol of six dermatologists and a c chemist has tracked down cau causes s es of skin diseases disease and prevented further outbreaks t toun among workers to in more than 50 government and privately arsenals and war plants U S public health service officials announce |