Show W washington D C WICK ARD PEARS FEARS FOOD CRISIS secretary of 0 agriculture has made it very clear in pr private vate conferences that he takes VI vigorous dorous exception to donald nelsons belsons Nel sons recent abatement rient we ar are e going to have enough to eat throughout this war and we probably will not have to put any very drastic limitations on our range of choice in that regard on the contrary says that we are going to be more and more up against it for food unless we give the farmer more machinery and more labor briefly here are the reasons why 1 an army uses twice as much food as civilians a because a lot is lost at sea b a lot is lost in the field of battle and c soldiers soldier eat at more than civilians 2 we have to feed our allies allie 3 more and more 3 we will also have to teed feed the occupied regions when they are set free but meanwhile farmers actually are killing good dairy cows for beef because they cannot get labor or machinery to keep up their dairy herds in the chicago milk shed alone 1700 dairy farmers have sold their herds and gone out of busi bus ness in one specific case a dairy farmer lost the use of his utter carrier when the tub went bad the carrier complete with trolley and hoist had cost him A new tub to replace the r rusted U sted one would cost only 10 but he cou lant buy a new tub and he find additional hands to do the work 0 of f the machine so he sold his cattle and c closed th the e d dairy airy foreseeing this machinery shortage a ge secretary asked to permit manufacture of agricultural machinery up to 38 per cent of normal the request was made july uy 22 2 2 he did not get a reply until ti this week principal log jammer is civilian supply committee headed b by y joseph L wiener which has to act on a great variety of civilian problems and does not pretend to be expert in in agriculture its lack ot of expertness was indicated by two questions asked by members of 0 this committee in discussing rusi n g larm farm problems lern it there I 1 is a labor s shortage hortage on the farms why cant can t farmers wet k overtime just as factory workers do dof what is the difference between a wheel type tractor and a crawler type so the united states may fail as the larder of democracy if a farmer cant have a new plow point or some other item and the necessary farm labor NO NIX ON NAVYS PIX FIX on the important question of pho to graphs the navy has completely reversed itself with the result that the stay at home public is seeing daily action shots of the war until recently there was wa s a ban on taking pictures of condid confidential estial scenes but on september 1 the navy issued general order which stated that commanding officers are directed to obtain I 1 photo graphs at times of emergency dis aster and combat action picture taking in the navy used to be confined to nuts and bolts photography routine shots of materials to observe their action under stress but now the navy is taking pictures of some of the most dra matic and colorful incidents in the history of warfare with some 1400 photographers if you saw the picture of the jap carrier sinking in the coral sea or the jap heavy cruiser sinking at midway or the U S sailors leaping overboard from the carrier lexing ton toil you have seen the work of navy cameramen some were appointed to do nothing else but take pictures of the battle but some did their camera shooting only alter after laying aside a machine gun the famous picture of the sinking jap carrier in the coral sea was taken by a machine gunner from the rear nest of a navy plane primary purpose of the picture taking king is not to inform the public but to inform the navy the pl pictures ic lur are used to check on operations t lolis to instruct learners and most important to study the position today tomorrow and every day navy planes are flying over new guinea and the solomons taking pictures of whatever lies below the developed shots may disclose that the japs have moved into a new area and that the little black spot seen under a microscope is an oil tank just installed CAPITAL CHAFF one U S general returning from london reported that the waiting wailing policy of f the british in africa reminded him of the union generals in the war between the states who dallied in washington wondering what lee would do next among the closest friends in th the e senate are barkley of kentucky democratic door boor leader and of oregon republican floor leader they disagree on nearly everything except this that they are both swell guys guis |