OCR Text |
Show In These United States Montanan Urges Farmers to Sell Wheat and Save World By WALTER A. SHEAD YV.N U Wash in j ton Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C. Farmers should deliver their wheat to the government arid do it now, if we are to save the lives of millions of persons who are wasting away from starvation star-vation in many countries of the world. This is the belief of Thomas D. Campbell, the nation's biggest farmer, farm-er, tall, lanky, sun-browned, white-thatched, white-thatched, enthusiastic, purposeful westerner of Hardin, Mont. Colonel Campbell, for he is a full colonel in the U. S. army, is delivering deliver-ing 500,000 bushels of his own wheat to the government under terms of the offer of the department of agriculture agri-culture as fast as he can secure trucks and cars to get it to the railroads, rail-roads, in an effort to get together 200.000,000 bushels of wheat for shipment. ship-ment. Gives Reasons The dynamic westerner declares that farmers, large and small, should deliver their wheat to the government, immediately, for the following reasons: 1. The announced plan of the D. of A. to buy wheat at the market relieves the farmer of any uncertainty uncer-tainty of price. Any farmer, under terms o." the offer can deliver his wheat, receive a certificate from the government, and hold that certificate certifi-cate for as long as April 30, 1947, and elect at any time within that period to sell. This gives him the advantage of a higher price when it comes. 2. The government has ordered No. 1 priority for cars for shipment, although there remains the problem of trucks to get the wheat to the county elevators. 3. The farmers who figure their income tax on a cash basis will have the advantage of increased prices and reduced rate on their taxable income, as the government carries him without cost or interest on the loan while he holds his certificate certifi-cate for the higher prices. 4. Delivery of wheat now will empty storage and provide room for the coming crop. Owing to housing hous-ing demands, It will be impossible to build increased storage facilities. 5. Perhaps the most important reason why the farmers should release re-lease their wheat now is the humanitarian humani-tarian reason, for it will mean early shipping, to save lives and to build renewed hope in the breasts of millions mil-lions of people who today are without with-out hope. |