In These United States
Bought Alabama Form in ’39;
Hus Mortgage Paid off Now
FLORENCE, ALA.—They all said Louis Olive could nev
er get out of debt if he bought that old 120-acre farm in the
Fairview community. But he bought it anyway, back in 1939,
and the mortgage is now paid off!
Mrs. Mabel Anderson, associate
farm security administration super
visor, recently told Mr. Olive’s story
in an article published by the Flor
ence Herald. She wrote:
"In July. 1939, Mr. Olive filed an
application with the FSA for a loan
to purchase a farm, a farm that
had been under mortgage for the
past 43 years. A loan of $4,080 for
purchase of the land and construc
tion of a house and other buildings
wa^ granted.
"The year before the purchase,
only 22 acres were in cultivation,
7 in cotton and 15 in corn, but dur
ing the first year of Mr. Olive's own
ership he terraced the farm, plant
ed 13 acres in soil building crops,
cleared a good portion of the land
to get in a fairly good crop and put
out a nice orchard. The plan called
for a "live at home” program and
this was followed always with a sur
plus produced for market.
"This year, when food has been
a problem, the Olives have 1,450
pounds of meat, 500 quarts of
‘Canned fruit and vegetables, 200
bushels of potatoes, 10 bushels of
sweet potatoes, 1 bushel of dried
fruit and plenty of milk and eggs.
Besides food for home use they have
600 bushels of corn, 17 tons of hay,
hogs for another year, 4 cows, 5
heifers, 150 leghorn hens and 3 head
of work stock.
"Plans have been made for an
other year by planting 4 acres in
clover and rye, 10 acres of vetch,
and 8 acres of hay, according to soil
conservation plans.
"Howard Olive, the oldest son,
has studied vocational agriculture
at Central high school and with the
aid of his teacher has landscaped
the home and is maintaining the
grounds as part of his school pro
gram.”
Name Your Price
And You Gan Buy
Alien Properties
By WALTER A. SHEAD
WNU Washington Correspondent.
WASHINGTON—James E. Mark
ham, alien property custodian, has
a job for the government which is
probably one of the most varied
in the world ... he sells patent li
censes ... he operates farms, for
ests, camps, apartment houses . . .
he operates a (J9-million-dollar film
1 company ... he is a detective, cor
poration operator, wine dealer, rent
collector, custodian, collector of roy
alties, diplomat, and has taken over
household possessions and personal
property of aliens in the U. S.
How about buying a farm? Just
name a price in a sealed bid. These
farms are scattered all over the
country. The custodian has over 46,
000 acres of rural lands. Included
I
CUSTODIAN . . . James E.
Markham operates farms, forests,
camps and apartment honses, all
because he is alien property cus
todian.
In these tracts are 24,800 acres of
agricultural land valued at $475.
000 ; 460 acres of extractive and oil
lands valued at $111,000; 14,070
acres of wooded lands at $88,000 and
unimproved land, 6,290 acres, val
ued at $12,000.
There is some concentration of
these lands along the Pacific coast
and the middle Atlantic states. For
instance, 70 parcels are in Califor
nia, 33 in Texas, 61 in Missouri, 24
in Ohio, 33 in Pennsylvania and 75
In New York state.
The alien property custodian has
vested rights to total real estate
holdings in this country, including
both rural and urban, valued at $3,
622.000. The custodian employs real
estate brokers to collect rents,
which at the end of the last fiscal
year totaled $174,000. He is dispos
ing of the property as expeditiously
as work of preparing for sale can
be completed and purchasers found.
The custodian recently sold real
estate owned by the German-Amer
ican Bund, consisting of several
p ireels of real estate comprising
s.-me 200 acres, for a boys' camp.
VET BOYS FARM . . . John
Dunn, World War II veteran, is
now the owner of an 88-acre dairy
farm near Manchester, Md. Ills
purchase was made through the
aid of the Farm Security ad
ministration. Above, he Is shown
looking over his acres.
AViAi lUN NUIES
FLY DURING VACATION
Clift and Mary Rowland and John
and Marion Lawson, two Bronxville,
N. Y., married couples, wanted to
learn to fly, so they took lessons
during their two weeks’ vacation.
During that time all four of them
soloed, and all declared it was the
finest vacation they'd ever had.
You can guess what they’ll do this
year when vacation time rolls
around.
CESSNA . . . Two-place, high
winged metal plane. The new
•*120*’ and "HO" Cessnas are pow
ered with 85 h. p. Continental en
gines and have a top speed above
120 miles an hour. They are built
at Wichita, Kans.
Texas has more private airplanes
registered than any other state in
the union.
• • •
A recent Gallup poll disclosed
that one out of every four Ameri
cans wants to learn to fly an air
plane. Approximately 30 per cent of
♦he men and 22 per cent of the
women want to be pilots.
• • •
The Vagrant Breezes.
It Is possible for two planes fly
ing in opposite directions each to
have tail winds. Winds blow in dif
ferent directions at different alti
tudes.
FARM BUREAU AND AIR
The American farm bureau fed
eration represents 985,000 farm
families and says "Transportation
of farm and other products by air
is here. Its relative importance will
be measured only by time, vision,
improvements and freedom of op
portunity to expand. Speed, reduc
tion in refrigeration and the con
stantly lowering rales with in
creased services are among the fac
tors indicating that ever increasing
tonnages will be moved by air."
• • •
OUT FOR A RIDE
Three war veterans from Youngs
town, Ohio, recently roamed the sky
ways to look the country over be
fore they settled down. The three,
I. E. Holt, F. Devine and P. De
Matteo, simply went to the ticket
windows of airlines and asked for
a ticket anywhere, on any flight
They went first to Washington
D. C.
• • •
UNUSUAL FACTS
Some jet engines don’t need high
octane fuel, burning anything from
kerosene and powdered coal to hair
| tonic. . . . The German V-2 bomb,
which weighed 12V4 tons, reached
a velocity of 3,500 miles per hour
within 71 seconds after take-off with
its jet propulsion engine. . . . There
are 21 explosions per second in the
cylinders of the cyclone engine run
ning at take-off power. . . . The
principle of jet propulsion was dis
covered by Hero of ancient Greece
j over 2,000 years ago.
Railroads Demand 25% Higher Rates
Rail Unions Renew Wage Bid As
Carriers Ask for Rate Hike;
Move to Spread Meat Supply
(EDITOR’S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of
Western Newspaper Onion's news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper.)
RAILROAD LAY:
Seek More
Despite an arbitration board’s re
cent award of 16 cents an hour to
1,050,000 non-operating employees,
the railroad industry was headed for
another labor crisis with 15 unions
petitioning for an additional 14 cents
an hour boost. Non-operating em
ployees include telegraphers, clerks,
machinists, boilermakers, electri
cians and maintenance workers.
In asking for an extra 14 cents
to bring over-all increases to 30
cents an hour, the unions charged
that the recent award only equaled
wartime grants given to employees
in other industries and an extra
boost would have to be given to
compensate for general postwar
raises of 18t4 cents an hour.
Ask Freight Hike
Even as the non-operating unions
asked for an additional 14-cent-an
hour wage raise, the nation's car
riers sought a 25 per cent increase
in freight rates, with certain excep
tions, to cover higher operating and
labor costs. At the same time, the
railroads requested continuation of
the wartime passenger fare boost
of 10 per cent.
Despite increased annual ex
penses of almost 2 billion dollars
and a sharp slump in postwar traf
fic, present rates are at the prewar
level, the carriers pointed out. Of
the mounting costs, 1 billion, 355
million dollars represent wartime
pay raises, and a half billion dol
lars increases in prices of materials
and supplies.
Exclusive of any wage awards
to the three operating brotherhoods,
the recent 16-cent-an-hour grant
given to 17 other railroad unions
will add 619 million dollars to this
year’s operating costs, the carriers
said.
i Bearing placards, women repre
. sentatives of the national emer
’ gency committee for price control
besieged Washington to press con
gressmen for extension of OPA. In
all, 800 women invaded capital to
lobby for continuation of agency.
BRITAIN:
Lure for Army
Matching U. 6. efforts to njain
tain a strong military force through
voluntary recruitment, Britain of
fered substantia] bonuses to en
listees while Canada announced an
increased scale of pay for regular
army personnel.
As the Labor government still re
mained silent on postwar conscrip
tion plans. Prime Minister Attlee
declared 187,000 volunteers were
needed and a $100 bonus will be
paid immediately to enlistees, with
another $100 for each of three or
four years of service. In addition,
each recruit will be given $52 or a
suit of clothes upon completion of
his duty.
With Canada planning an active
postwar army of 25.000 men, basic
pay and subsistence allowance for
privates was increased to $95 a
month from the wartime rate of
$76.50 and the prewar payment of
$72. Substantia] wage increases also
were announced for the higher
grades. Besides the regular force,
the dominion will maintain a re
serve force of six divisions of one
month's training each year and a
supplementary reserve branch.
FOOD:
V. S. Acts
Seeking to channel more meat
into major packing centers and re
lieve the tight supply situation in
Bowles
and Anderson
big cities, Secretary
of Agriculture An
derson announced
government restor
ation of wartime
slaughter quotas in
a “share the live
stock’' program.
Re - establish
ment of butchering
quotas followed
small operators'
draining of meat
animals from stock
yard! at prices ma
jor packers could
not meet without
violating OPA ceil
ings. Purchase of
cattle for shipment
on high bidding
pointed up the men
ace of the black
market, with pri
vate trade sources
asserting the ma
jority of meat being sold was at il
legal prices and OPA officials con
testing the charge.
The heavy drain of small opera
tors on regular market sources was
indicated by the rise in licensed
slaughterers from 1,400 in 1939 to
26,000 in 1946. Normally dominant
in the big Chicago stockyards. Swift,
Armour an^ Wilson were able to
meet only a fraction of their needs,
with Swift purchases for one week
totaling 270 head compared with
4,103 for the same period last year
While the restoration of slaughter
quotas will not increase the total
supply of meat, it is designed to
promote more equitable distribu
tion.
TOBACCO TAX:
State cigarette $nd tobacco tax
revenue for 1945 totaled $184,200,000.
an increase of 8 3 per cent over 1944,
with the spurt in sales following the
end of the war and the imposition
of higher tax rates in some states
listed as the reasons for the in
crease in revenue.
A rise of 11.9 per cent In fed
eral tobacco tax collections for
the year was also reported. The
federal revenue from this
source in 1945 totaled $937,200,
000.
PRODUCTION:
Higher and Higher
Checking back on production fig
ures, the office of war mobilization
and reconversion reported that the
nation’s output for the first quarter
of 1940 was even higher than at first
estimtaed despite a lag in the hard
goods and textile industries.
Whereas the OWMR computed
production at an annual rate of 150
billion dollars, it hiked its figure to
154 billion dollars and added that
the estimate might be even higher
when all reports are in. Even at 150
billion dollars, the estimated rate
tops all previous peacetime marks.
In reviewing the bright production
picture, the OWMR declared:
• Farm production should be 13 to
15 per cent above 1941 with good
weather.
• The tire, washing machine, pow
er, gas, oil, steel, aluminum and
magnesium industries are operat
ing far above prewar levels.
• Rate of production of radios, vac
uum cleaners, electric irons and bi
cycles is rapidly approaching the
peacetime figure.
FISHIN’ SEASON . . . Stuart
Robinson of Taunton, Mass., like
all good fishermen, is proud of his
catch of brook trout on the first
day of the fishing season. Got out
your gear yet?
Nations Must Submerge
Sovereignty for Peace
By BAUKHAGE
News Analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N. W„
Washington, D. C.
HUNTER COLLEGE, THE
BRONX, N. Y. — These notes are
being jotted down in the basement
of a room that once sounded to the
dull staccato-thud of rubber-soled
gym shoes as the girls came trip
ping downstairs from the floor
above to scamper into the show
ers, pijH on their bobby socks and
other strange accoutrements which
distinguish the modern female col
legiate.
Is the United Nations really go
ing to get anywhere?
First, let me admit that as I
write we are walking a tight-rope
stretched between two crises, either
of which might wreck us or might
be forgotten by the time these lines
reach the printed page.
And, of course, the rock upon
which the United Nations may
flounder is the veto. Most people
don’t understand the veto. Briefly,
it is the right of any of the Big
Powers, the permanent members of
the executive council, to say "no’’
to the discussion of any matter
which said power doesn’t want
raised. ,
Power Politics
Still in Force
In other words “power politics’’ is
still in force and the only advance
we have made is that compromise,
which is the basis of all democratic
action—is the only possible solution
of controversial questions. The un
democratic alternative is the use of
power, which in this case may be
exercised without the will of the
majority. The right of the veto is.
as was brought out in a recent
University of Chicago round-table
discussion, really the insistence on
the expression of national sovereign
ty; the sovereign right of a nation,
if it gets mad enough, to promul
gate the organized savagery of war.
We can, it is true, never hope
for any permanent peace until we
are willing to yield that sovereignty
to a higher authority which ex
presses the will of the majority of
all peoples.
The United Nations at present has
not been granted that authority.
But there is hope which I have
watched grow as international pro
ceedings move forward under the
impetus of a will to peace and the
implementation of ever - growing
publicity which creates the under
standing to bolster that will—It is
this: as the United Nations con
tinues to discuss those matters
which are not affected by the veto,
as it deals with social and economic
problems, as It plans to do, such a
strong public sentiment can be
built up behind it that nationalistic
world-minorities cannot stand up
against it.
There is that hope. There is an
other. Atomic energy.
As Chairman Corbett of the de
partment of political science of
Yale university put it:
“When it comes to that . . . (con
trol of atomic energy) ... I think
that the discrepancy between the
legal situation in the UN (he refers
to the power of the veto and the
nationalistic insistence on sov
ereignty) and the actual needs of
international collaboration are go
ing to become so glaring that we
are going to have to make a di
rect attack upon this problem of
the veto.”
The key word to that remark is
"glaring.” The “needs of interna
tional collaboration” must glare in
the light of pitiless publicity. The
light of understanding must be
shed upon the truths of what an
other war will mean and it must
be more than light. Heat must be
incandescense. World sentiment
must rise to the degree at which it
creates the energy necessary to
bring action.
Peace must become dynamic.
- . _ # „_
Camera snaps Baukhage at
i Hunter college with Iranian flag
I in background.
m
BIRTHDAY . . . Mrs. Anna M.
Jerome, New York City, blows out
candles on her birthday cake. She
is 102 years old. The large candle
represents the first 100 years, and
the two smaller ones for the addi
tional years. Mrs. Jerome had a
big time at the party, which was
attended by family and friends.
SAY ITS STAGGERING
Shippers Fight Rail Rate Hike
WASHINGTON. — The National
Industrial Traffic league has sent n
memorandum to all shippers who
are members of the organization,
calling on them to assemble in Chi
cago on May 7 to consider the course
the group should take in fighting the
proposal of the railroads to raise
freight rates 25 per cent.
A spokesman for the N. I. T L.
termed the proposed 25 per cent
freight rate increase sought by the
nation's railroads a “staggering"
blow to shippers throughout the
country, as plans were being rushed
to seek disapproval by the Inter
' s*ate Commerce commission of the
railroad request to install the in
creases by May 15.
“Seeking a rate increase of this
nature is certainly a very broad
issue and one unusual in transpor
tation history," It was explained.
“The shippers will, of course, favor
a prompt and early hearing but will
oppose placing the rates in effect
before that time," the spokesman
said.
It pointed out that few organiza
tions had had time to view the rail
road petition, but that the executive
council of the league at its recent
Chicago meeting considered the
prospect of a railroad request for
an immediate rise. The railroads
had provided shippers with a brief
declaration of their intentions at that
time.
At the same time, it was learned
that leading domestic steamship
company operators met in New
York to consider the railroad request
and that a possibility exists that wa
ter carriers might launch an imme
diate campaign to raise domestic
water rates somewhere in the vicin
ity of 25 per cent.
"There is a real need for a rev
enue increase by railroads," offi
cials of a leading ship line organ
ization declared. "But there is equal
ly a need among steamship com
panies for such a freight rate rise."
They said domestic water carriers,
including barge lines, may seek post
ponement of any immediate rail
rate increase, desiring to have the
case considered on its merits after
a hearing. The proposed 25 per cent
rise, however, according to these of
ficials, would probably not affect the
joint maritime commission - war
shipping administration petition now
in the hands of the ICC calling for
an investigation of railroad rates
with a view toward raising water
rates.
“This WSA - USMC application
goes beyond the matter of a rate
increase and it will still stand, de
spite the action of the ICC on rail
roads," it was asserted.
Meanwhile, other sources suggest
ed that the maritime commission
likewise may oppose the immediate
rail increase, although basis for this
belief was thought to lie in bringing
about a more favorable reception by
the ICC of the pending joint water
carrier request.
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English Colleges Hold
Bumping Boat Races
Differing from all other boat
races are those held in England
for a week each June by the crews
of the 17 colleges at Cambridge
and the 22 at Oxford, says Col
lier’s. Instead of all shells racing
abreast toward a goal, they are
grouped in three divisions which
race by themselves with their
boats stretched out in a single line
150 feet apart, the position in line
being determined by previous
races.
The object of the contest, there
fore, is to overcome and bump the
boat ahead which entitles the *
bumping crew to move up one
place until it eventually reaches
the head of its division and is pro
moted into the next.
WANTED: WILD geese, ducks,
peafowl, pheasants, quails, barn
pigeons. Jewel Game Farm, Dan
ville, Illinois.—Adv.
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