Show success of dairy union effected by price parity farm authority believes that john L L lewis will frighten every farmer into solid 1 attacking front by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator service 1343 11 street NW N W washington D C john L lewis head bead ot of the united mine workers of america is well on the road to uniting the farmers 0 of f america but not all in the wa way ty he planned to when he started to or organize 9 anize his united dairy workers under the famous district 50 of his powerful th that is the verdict of a friend of M mine inest in washington an official who has spent his days with farmers and f farm arm organization heads and his nights sleeping with the farm problem throughout most of his adult years lie he believes that john lewis b by Y trying to unionize agriculture has conjured up a devil that will frighten every farmer farmei into a solid attacking front lately the return of gentle parity to the land had begun to have its disintegrating effect on the farmers their long sought goal reached they began to turn back to their separate interests the farmer wont lay down his hoe oe and pick up a pen and sign membership in something unless things are going pretty bad when he can manage to make both ends meet he keeps his eye on the furrow takes care of his own acres and follows the old new england motto that good fences make good neighbors in other words he is the original rugged individualist that Is the way my friend put it to me I 1 was complaining that I 1 get any definite information as to their plans out of the farm group representatives on this move on the part of lewis to try to organize the dairy industry the series of the meetings the group representatives were holding in washington was pretty much behind closed doors they wont talk about their plans my friend explained because they dont know what to do its an absolutely new thing in the american history of the men whose business it is to make a living out of the soil and domestic animals the idea of making a union out of capitalists they dont know how to meet it personally I 1 dont think lewis will have any success what interests me is that his efforts are likely to bring the farmers together again the way they were brought together in the thirties when america lost its export market for farm products or tor for that matter the way they were brought together by the old granger movement clear back in the seventies it takes despair to unite the farmers when america started to change from a purely agricultural country to a semi industrial country the farmer had to unite to get bi his s rights ever since then there have been farm organizations but it takes a real crisis like the one in hi the thirties to really brini bring them together I 1 asked win him why he be thought lewis would fail its been the history of every effort to make a union between city w workers or kers and farmers that after the farmers sign up they find the workers are running them he said they are suspicious I 1 have no doubt that a number of dairymen have signed up I 1 have no idea how many a and nd I 1 cant find out but they are the men who just cant make ends meet they are the ones who been able to run their farms productively or else they are located so that their transportation costs cut their profits to losses in other words they been able to keep their costs down lewis will have to off offer er them something he cant very well promise to boost consumer prices at a time when price ceilings are in the offing it if he organizes farm help and farm transportation that will put the costs up not profits and he added you cant put a cow on a 40 hour week coddling two versions I 1 have received a sumlor nuat r of letters p protesting ro testing against the presidents suggestion that this war be called the survival war the writers do not issue with the argument that this is a struggle lor for the survival of oneff two cultures two types of thinking but because the phrase survival of the fittest which means the fittest physically BRIEFS the poles have now returned to the forms forma of underground fighting them under the oppression of at czarist russia now they are said to have a greater centralized authority and more detailed planning many forbidden newspapers are published many german soldiers and officers disappear community recreation projects are being suspended during the war because 95 per cent ol of their personnel are engaged in war work that may be a sound criticism I 1 do n not 0 t contest it but one thing Is certain we have to be more than physically fit to survive this war I 1 think we are turning out well trained tra hied soldiers equal to cope with any enemy in strength endurance and alertness but there Is no doubt that the nation has been coddling itself during the last few years the letters I 1 get from many well mean ing people with suggestions of what to do tor for the soldiers make me think that this idea of coddling Is pretty deep what the soldiers need most s t 0 of f all is not sweetmeats sweet meats and go goodies e s but the assurances that the folks back home have faith that the cause Is worth fighting tor for and that the fighters are worthy of the cause that it is a duty to protect your country and not simply an unpleasant sacrifice I 1 think that kind of an expression is the one that does the soldiers soldier a heart the most good I 1 know that the only letters which I 1 received in the last war that annoyed me were the ones which told me what deep sympathy the writer had tor for my many hardships how I 1 must be brave and bear it all that my loved ones were so impressed with all that I 1 was going through I 1 was reading over some of my war letters the other day I 1 recall the two things in them which helped me most one was my mothers remarks that my new life as she sha called it might help me spiritually she never characterized what I 1 was doing as better or worse she never discussed it in military terms or the painfully inadequate terms in which a civilian tries to des describe c ribe what he or she thinks military militar Y experience peri ence is my mother suggested that perhaps my new career would give me a deeper meaning of life that gave me something tu to think about the other kind of letter I 1 liked to get was from my father with things like this in it it if you have to sleep on the ground hollow out a place tor for your hips then you wont be stiff in the morning or remember this obey your officers but try to make friends with the sergeant cakes and cookies are nice but they get pretty well bashed up and you have to kopea open them in the presence of some hundred other guys so nobody gets enough coddling the stomach help ones intestinal tes stamina here in washington I 1 find that this coddling goes for the girls too thousands of girls have come here to work they have to come they are getting so well paid that girls in private offices quit and go with the government but the papers are full of long tearful articles about how the poor things are so homesick they cant stand 1 it it they enough boy friends to amuse them all in all they have a terrible lot A series of highly thoughtful meetings were held recently by some anxious people in this vicinity where 80 per cent of the civilians employed by the army in the last five months have been w women omen when the army and navy auxiliaries are founded a lot more men will be replaced by women so it makes washington society slightly bogged down on the distaff side we cant ant create men said one amplo employees Y eels service officer tersely the answer to that of course J is well not immediately the men exist another official interested in the happiness of government employees delicately suggested gest e d but the problem Is to present them to the girls in as normal a way as possible and without patronizing tron izing anybody back in colonial days it was different women were so scare scarce that when a boatload arrived there w was a I 1 heavy bidding and many a bal bale e of tobacco had to be offered tor for a good wife since then however to in most communities I 1 think the supply has at least equalled equal led the demand and yet somehow the ladies used to get by without pining away and dying but now its problem a national problem in the national capital and maidens are languishing for dates because nobody can figure out how to present the boys to the girls without being patronizing does that make it a survival war too buy defense bonds propaganda after a long and careful study and analysis of german propaganda the experts tell us that hitler wants us to believe that democracy Is dying our armed forces are weak the new order Is inevitable our west coast is in such grave danger there Is no point in fighting on the british are decadent and sold us a bill 0 of goods the cost ol of the war will bankrupt the nation |