Show FROM OUR CO W. GRANGER The Greatest Shipbuilding Program Tho World Has Ever Seen Goes Ahead at Full Speed In my article last I explained that our shipbuilding program is divided into three and The emergency program means merchant ships of a standardized war freighters of a slower but designed for mass Naval building In order to double the size of our present an unprecedented program of shipbuilding has By we expect to have finished most of our which will mean 17 huge 12 airplane 81 submarines and 54 In the navy is building around patrol and torpedo For the next three years the naval program will take up more than half of our available ship Our normal merchant ship program is 50 ships a but this has been speeded up to such an extent that instead- of 50 by the end of the we will have and the emergency program will add another ships to this total by June At this rate our shipbuilding program will turn out ships a This in itself is an undertaking of gigantic in we are producing fighting American Ship Aid to Britain Over Tons The United States has supplied Great Britain with more than tons of cargo ships since October Of this tons have been transferred to Canadian Including ships going to alien registry friendly to American transfers affecting the British overseas lifeline total about Transferred to England were ships and to neutral nations friendly to Britain The transfers to foreign registry have netted the Maritime commission about and American private owners about of which has been turned over to the commission to finance new Farmers Seek to Solve Agricultural Problems Thousands of farmers the country over are studying and planning the solution of agricultural social and economic problems posed by the impact of war and national Grass roots planning working with state and federal agricultural research and action agencies are reported functioning in more than agricultural Cooperative planning by farmers and public officials was started two years ago by agreement between the Land Grant State and Federal agricultural extension services and the United States Department of At the end of the first year of operation more than community planning committees composed principally of farmers were in The significance of the land use planning effort in national defense is L Its outstanding possibility as a means for effective participation by farmers themselves in action to deal with problems of Its usefulness as a means of welding diverse elements of a national so far as agriculture is into a single effective Its usefulness as a means of fitting a national effort to local Studies have been made of the behavior of farm commodity prices at the outbreak of the European and the spread between farm and retail prices of as contrasted with the current civilian Conservation Corps Congress will be asked to authorize he Civilian Conservation Corps o use of its funds for and maintenance of its notor repair |