American Farmers to Continue High Production
Goals in Satisfying Demands of Entire World
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Peacetime Need for Prod
ucts Assures Farmers of
Good Market and Price.
What will the impact of war’s end
mean to American agriculture?
That question has been raised with
increasing frequency ever since
Hirohito accepted President Tru
man’s unconditional surrender
terms and the Jap hordes have laid
down their arms. It has brought in
its train other questions: Will a
farm slump occur? Will continued
vast production smash prices? Will
transition to peacetime schedules
upset farm economy?
Three fairly definite answers have
emerged and each is hearteningly
reassuring to everyone who lives on
or near a farm:
1. Demand for foods, fibers and
oils will continue to require a high
rate of farm production. The world
I must eat and American farmers
must feed it.
2. Farm prices will not be deflated.
The government has already guar
anteed the farmer support prices for
many of his products for one or two
years after the war.
3. The farmer, unlike industry, is
not faced with reconversion prob
lems. His job is growing crops and
he needs no different set of tools to
accomplish his objectives.
All of these factors eliminate the
possibility of a sudden crash in farm
income.
Farm economists are agreed there
will be no immediate cutback in
production despite the end of the
war. In the months to come, do
mestic and military needs of the
United States plus the relief de
mands from liberated areas in Eu
rope and the Pacific will take all the
food this nation can produce.
With vast areas of Europe and
Asia laid waste, American farmers
will be called on to produce and
keep on producing. It may be years
before the ravaged countries can
come back anywhere near to nor
mal. In the meantime American
farmers have a big job ahead to
help keep whole continents alive and
healthy. During this same time the
United States itself must be fed.
As demobilization of our armed
forces proceeds, there will be less
need for the various services to have
great stocks of food in reserve. That
will tend to increase civilian sup
plies as well as permit better dis
tribution.
No Major Farm Surplus.
With industrial reconversion get
ting the green light, the dislocation of
workers caused by war contract
cutbacks may be of much shorter
duration than has been anticipated.
That means more peacetime civilian
jobs. One thing the war demonstrat
ed was that if the entire nation is
at work, there is no major farm sur
plus problem.
The greatest crops in history have
been produced during the war. The
record year was 1942. Next was
1944 and indications are that this
year will exceed 1943, so that 1945
may be the third best.
Credit for this epic achievement
must go to the nation’s farmers, but
the contribution of the fertilizer in
dustry should not be overlooked. Ag
ricultural authorities estimate that
more than 20 per cent of the crop
production in the war years has been
due to the use of fertilizers. The
use of plant foods has been of es
sential importance to the food pro
duction program because it has en
abled farmers to produce bigger
crops on existing acres instead of
having to plow up millions of acres
of additional farm land. The saving
in labor, equipment and man hours
has been enormous.
Farm income during recent years
has passed die peaks reached dur
ing and immediately after World
Increased production of dairy and poultry products has been little short
of a miracle. Better breeding, feeding and management has been the
answer. Even greater results can be expected in the next few years.
Industrial Reconversion Getting in Fast Strides
The war contractor who loses his
job of working for the government
is in a much better financial posi
tion for his immediate reconversion
needs than the worker deprived of
employment by wholesale contract
cancellations. It was early realized
by some leaders that provision must
be made to enable manufacturers
with their working capital tied up
in war contracts to obtain use of
such capital at the earliest possible
moment. Consequently the Office of
Contract Settlement has been work
ing long hours to speed up these
settlements.
Reconversion Director Snyder re
ports that about 80,000 contractors
and their employees have been
trained in special courses and know
about settlement procedure. Pro
vision has been made also for the
contractors to obtain government
guaranteed loans to free funds fro
zen by contract cancellations. In
addition the treasury department
The war production of garden crops reached a new high. The demand
will continue for some time. New varieties, improved soil fertilization and
new equipment will aid the farmer in repeating his record production of
these crops.
War I. Prices are now near or
above parity. Even if prices should
come down '.o government-support
levels—a drop of perhaps 15 per cent
below present peaks—farm purchas
ing power will be enormous. The
farmer has a higher amount to
spend out of his income than other
wage earners, for the reason that
less of his income is required for
rent, food and fuel than is the case
with city dwellers. Six million farm
families comprising approximately
30 million people having a gross in
come in excess of 20 billion dollars
a year will be a factor of tremen
dous importance to America’s
peacetime economy.
Farmer in Strong Position.
Just as significant as agriculture’s
high income rate in recent years is
the fact that the farmer has been
laying aside a good portion of his
savings in war bonds to spend for
essentials in years to come. Clearly
the farmer has emerged from the
war in a stronger position than he
was at its start.
To maintain that position the
farmer should do some straight
thinking and planning. Two things
are especially important: 1—He
should avoid overexpansion through
the purchase of additional land in
the peace years ahead; 2—He
should make immediate plans to re
pair the damage to his soil’s fertil
ity level which the vast war crop
production quotas have caused.
The experience of the last war
with its farm land boom and subse
quent collapse should be a reminder
that the American farmer should not
go in for more land than he can suc
cessfully handle. Farm land prices
have already risen dangerously to
ward inflation levels. Farsighted
agricultural authorities are urging
farmers to “keep their shirts on” and
steer clear of the pitfalls of land
speculation.
Better soil management methods
on a well-equipped and economical
ly operated farm will prove safer in
the long run than vast fields without
efficient management.
The key to successful farming op
erations in postwar years will lie in
increasing the per acre yield on ex
isting crop land rather than in bring
ing additional acreage under cultiva
tion, a recent statement by the Mid
dle West Soil Improvement commit
tee pointed out.
“In months to come the emphasis
will be on reducing the cost of crop
production per unit,” the statement
sets forth. “That means making ev
ery acre do a better crop producing
job.
“In every community there are
farmers who increased their war
time crop output as high as 50 per
cent, without increasing the cultivat
ed area by one single acre. In
every case the larger yield was the
result of adopting good soil fertility
practices. The experience of these
farmers can be profitably followed
by their neighbors in their peace
time operations. Their soil-conserv
ing methods not only prevented
waste of fertility, but actually have
helped restore it.
“Such methods include growing
legumes to enrich the soil’s nitro
gen and organic matter supply, the
use of adequate quantities of mixed
fertilizers containing nitrogen, phos
phorus and potash, liming, contour
plowing and a limiting, so far as pos
sible, of soil-depleting crops.”
Soil Fertility Replenishment.
The matter of soil fertility replen
ishment \till have an important
bearing on the peacetime continua
tion of farm prosperity. If the
nation’s farms are to be kept pro
ductive, a vast soil-rebuilding job
lies immediately ahead.
How important this is may be un
derstood from a recent report issued
by the Soil Conservation service of
the department of agriculture which
estimated that nearly one billion
acres—more than 90 per cent of the
nation’s farmlands—need soil con
servation treatment to protect them
from erosion and to maintain their
fertility.
Wartime crop goals used up the
soil’s resources of nitrogen, phos
phorus and potash faster than they
could be replaced in spite of the fact
that the fertilizer industry broke all
previous production records. Farm
ers have realized that this wartime
drain on their soil’s fertility level
was a necessary contribution to vic
tory. But the fact remains that
wealth borrowed from the soil to
help hasten peace must be repaid.
While every encouragement will
be given to soil rebuilding projects
by the federal government and by
state agricultural agencies, the ma
jor responsibility for getting the job
done will rest on the shoulders of
individual farmers.
The effectiveness of the individual
farmer’s soil rebuilding program j
can be enhanced by the co-opera- j
tion of agronomists at state agricul
tural colleges and experiment sta-1
tions. Through research and experi- j
mentation over a long span of years, '
these experts have developed infor
mation concerning fertilizer needs 1
for various crops and soils that is
helpful to the farmer who is under
taking a replenishment program.
The co-operation of the fertilizer
industry will be an effective aid,
also. The present plant capacity of
manufacturers is sufficient to meet
all peacetime needs of agriculture.
Farmers are more fortunately sit
uated for accomplishing their soil
restoring job than at any time in the
past generation. Dollars invested
in war bonds, during the period when
farm cash income has been at a high
level and farm debt at a low point,
can provide the ready cash to pay
for the nitrogen, phosphorus and pot
ash needed to build up the fertility
l^vel of America’s soil.
has moved forward the time for ob
taining tax rebates by big business
which will add to the 30 billions of
stored up funds now in the hands
of the large corporations for peace
time expansion and production.
But no farsightedness has been
apparent in planning for the recon
version of the millions of wartime
workers held to their posts by man
power controls ... at least no legis
lation has shown up on the statute
books.
THEY’RE MAKING CARS AGAIN!
(“First Neu' Model C.ar Rolls Off Pro
duction Line."—Headline.)
Hail, Queen—
Debutante of the Detours,
Emblem of the future,
Omen of traffic jams to come,
Reminder of happier days,
First new model since '42!
Sister you look swell!
They’ve changed your shape again.
No lady could stand that operation
So often and stand it as you do.
You look better from the front. . . .
And the rear view ain’t any worse.
Them auto engineers
Understand beauty treatments. . . .
You’re durned purty!
Yowsir! Global War Gert
Was a superdooper. . . .
She did more than was hoped for.
She amazed the engineers,
Stunned the owners
And flabbergasted the service sta
tions. . . .
She even outdid the advertising
writers!
*
She helped win a war,
She was in there punchin’ alwavs.
And there’s many a tight in the old
gal yet.
«
Lissen, Babe of 1945-46. . . ,
If you can hold a candle to Gert
You'll do!
• * •
,THE BASEBALL FANS TO A
LOSING CLUB
(In the Japanese manner)
To the Club Owners, Managers,
Pitchers and All.
Gents:
Being as how our club has turned
out to be one of the worst clubs in
history, taking last place at the start
of the season and holding it nobly
to the finish, we, the fans, now pros
trate ourselves before you in deep
humility and boundless sorrow.
The pitching was sandlot stuff, the
fielding would not stand up in the
One-Eye League, the longest hit of
the year was a two bagger on open
ing day and the management should
of stood in bed. All of which hurts
us deeply on account of we fully un
derstand that we alone were respon
sible. We had nothing to say about
the batteries, the schedule, the
strategy or the coaching. All we did
was to pay in and show we could
take it. This was a rare privilege
and we are to blame for every
thing.
In this hour of disappointment and
chagrin we apologize, especially to
his August Presence, Tim Maloney,
the manager, to their Imperial
Majesties Cunnihan & Jones, club
owners, to pitchers Ganz, Snaffu and
Crummie for the lousy season and
for the fact the club wound up in
last place. It tears our hearts out
when we think of what they must
be suffering.
With bowed heads and with tears
streaming from our eyes we accept
full responsibility for every lost
game, wild throw, error and strike
out, trusting that the club owners,
manager and players will be noble
spirited enough to forgive us.
We know that the star pitcher
“Lefty” Bizzle. every time he was
picked and sent in to pitch against
anybody, proclaimed himself as a
man of peace, and opposed going
through with the game at all. Never
at any time in the season did he
really want to pitch. In the high
nobility of his matchless spirit
and love for the team and the fans
he always cried, "Include me out of
this.’’ Losing every fight by scores
of from 18 to 32 to 0 he was ever
an exponent of brotherly love.
The club owners, the managers
and the coaches also showed in
their matchless benevolence they
were for harmony and understand
ing. And so it is with deep sincerity
that we apologize for having ever
caused them to think seriously of a
winning baseball team. In the dust
on our knees we express our pro
found sorrow for all the worries we
have caused them.
In All Humility,
The Cash Customers.
P.S.—We also think the outfit,
especially that bum who struck out
with the bases full, should now con
centrate on science and the arts.
The famous estate of J. P. Mor
gan at Glen Cove has been rented to
Amtorg, the Russian purchasing
commission in America. We trust
there is something in the lease pre
venting the Russians from singing
the Volga boat song in the Morgan
swimming pools, doing Russian
dances in the floral beds or having
all the china done over with a ham
mer and sickle design.
THOUGHTS ON JAPAN
It is our fear that in most cases the
fellows being, held as tear criminals will
be i>ut on trial at a time when they can
gel of] on a claim of old age exemption.
♦
Now that the u ar is over we can’t help
wondering whether next season U’ill see
the Japanese acrobats back in the cir
cus labeled ns Japs and not as Hurmese.
_*_
We have it on excellent authority that
the emperor’s horse is in bad repute for
accepting the result as a total defeat and
not feeling particularly grateful to any
body for it.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
By VIRGINIA VALE
WHEN Ann Sothern’s 8
months-old daughter,
Patricia, is old enough to as
pire to fill her mother’s shoes,
she’ll have a complete set of
“Maisie” films and airshow
recordings to study. Mama
(who is Mrs. Robert Sterling
in private life), has had each
of her "Maisie” movies reduced to
16 mm. sound film for her daugh
ter's library. And since she started
the Wednesday night CBS radio se
ries she's had special recordings
made of each broadcast. Incidental
ly, the latest popularity rating of
the ‘‘Maisie” broadcasts shows a
marked increase over the previous
survey—-in fact, a gain of nearly 3,
000,000 listeners in a single month I
• • •
Lt. Wayne Morris has returned to
his screen career at Warner Bros,
with a brand new contract. He en
listed in the navy immediately
after Pearl Harbor, and earned his
commission while in the service. A
WAYNE MORRIS
fighter pilot with seven enemy
planes to his credit, he’s won
plenty of decorations, among them
the Distinguished Flying Cross with
two stars and the Air Medal.
• • •
When you see Jose Iturbi dashing
around on that motorcycle in “An
chors Aweigh” he’s just being nat
ural. He drives that same vehicle
just that way around the studio all
the time—and nobody’ll ride with
him, not for love, money, or even a
new contract.
• • •
Una O’Connor, one of Hollywood’s
most versatile character actresses,
makes a good bit of extra money
each year by doing the crying for
screen babies who refuse to wail
when the director wants them to.
She calls this extra-curricular prof
it “tear money’’ and invests It in
war bonds. The voire of the weep
ing infant in “Christmas in Con
necticut” is hers; she also has an
on-stage role In the picture.
» * *
Those wise men of the motion pic
ture industry, the exhibitors, voted
this way in the Motion Picture Her
ald’s annual poll to determine the
stars of tomorrow: 1. Dane Clark;
2. Jeanne Crain; 3. Kennan Wynne;
4. Peggy Ann Garner; 5. Cornel
Wilde; 6. Tom Drake; 7. Lon Me
Callister; 8. Diana Lynn; 9 Mari
lyn Maxwell; 10. William Eythe.
That's a prophecy worth remember
ing.
Eleanor Parker of "Pride of the
Marines,” who’ll have the feminine
lead in “Humoresque,” is regarded
as the shyest star in Hollywood.
Doesn’t go to night clubs, doesn’t
show off at public functions, never
attends a premiere of her own pic
tures unless completely disguised.
• • •
Tuesday night on NBC is dedi
cated to laughter. There’s Amos ’n
Andy at 9:00 p. m., E.P.T; “A
Date with Judy” precedes them,
and a climax is reached with Fib
ber McGee and Molly following.
If you’ve ever wondered wlial the
studio audience was laughing at,
when listening to a broadcast, and
felt annoyed because you couldn’t
share the fun, you'll agree with
Kate Smith’s manager, Ted Collins,
who feels that too many radio stars
play up to the studio audience, to
the detriment of their radio perform- J
ances. That’s why Kate has elimi
nated studio audiences on her new
Friday night series.
• • •
Danny O’Neil has been signed for
his first network commercial series
as star of the new Powder Box the
ater, beginning October 11, Thurs
day nights on CBS. The series re
places “Rhythm, Romance and Rip
ley.” Evelyn Knight and Jim
Ameche are also featured.
• • •
ODDS AM) ENDS - Extra* who
kissed Shirley Temple in the kissing
booth sequence of Columbia's “Kiss
and Tell” were paid fl6.H0 a day—
those uho merely stood in line got
f 10.50. . .. RKO is so enthusiastic about
Frankie Carle’s first picture, “River
boat Rhythm," that he'll be starred in u ;
bandleader story. . . . According to the I
latest Hooper survey, "Mr. District At
torney" ranks second in popularity
among all radio programs. , . . For the
next two months Ethel Barrymore will
play her co-starring role in “Some Must
(Fateh" in bed—the script, not her
health, is responsible.
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