The Greater Omaha Guide s i1 HOME-MAKER'S CORNER ——————————————■—1——————————————————————— The HOME TOWN I REPORTER in I Washington J.H! IJJJJ1! 1) 1IL» New Agriculture Secretary WNU Washington Bureau 621 Union Trust Building. CHARMERS, ranchers, dairymen * and all others in the agricultural industry, both in the production and processing fields, must have confi dence in their government . . . must have faith that their government will stand by every commitment made to them in full . . . and go ahead for the fullest production of food stuffs possible. This is the message to agricul ture from Clinton P. Anderson, tall, lanky westerner, and new secretary of agriculture in the administration of President Truman. The new secretary, a rancher farmer-business man, is determined that farmers will Clinton Anderson not suffer in their patriotic efforts for all - out production . . . that support prices will be suf ficient and over-all to insure adequate prices . . . that there will be no I huge surplus which will bog down prices . . . that consumer subsidies will grad ually be eliminated as upward pressures on prices relax . . . that agreed requirements from agriculture represent obligations which must be carried through . . . that adequate manpower and ma chinery for the farm must be given priority . . . and that the government must take necessary steps to pro vide adequate transportation facili ties to move groups and foodstuffs, perishables and livestock, and the movement of manpower to areas where there is an acute labor short age. This, briefly, is the program which this new, dynamic figure in the de partment of agriculture has set for himself and the agricultural indus try for the immediate months ahead. He is no novice at the job he has undertaken. As chairman of the special committee of the house to investigate food shortages, he trav eled the country from coast to coast, heard innumerable witnesses on all sides of every question and aft er weeks of consideration, he and his committee came up with a set of recommendations, most of which have now been enacted into law. Long Range Program Too And while Anderson is immediate ly concerned with the production of foodstufTs for the war period, he has not lost sight of the long-range pro gram to which the farmer is looking for the postwar years. Mr. An derson will be secretary of agricul ture for the next 3% years. There is a probability that 2% and maybe more, of those years will be postwar years. At any rate, with his char acteristic thoroughness, he already has a committee of agricultural ex perts at work studying basic agri cultural problems with the idea of bringing forth a set of recommenda tions for the postwar period. This reporter would say, after an interview with Mr. Anderson, and a study of his work in con gress, that the new secretary has his feet solidly on the ground, that he is not given to going off half-cocked, that he studies ev ery side of a question and that once his mind is made up he will use every resource and all his ability to carry through his program. While he would not commit him self as to the Triple A program, he did say that the Triple A program, with the exception of soil conserva tion, had been pretty well laid on the shelf during these war years and for the postwar period he indi cated that the crop adjustment pro gram would have to be analyzed thoroughly and that he already had a committee at work doing just that. Interested in Parity By congressional action, however, farmers have been guaranteed a price for their products, or most of them, at 90 per cent of parity for two years after the end of the war and Mr. Anderson is particularly in terested in adequate support prices to maintain this price. Furthermore, support prices are not costing the government anything at this time, since prices of commodities are well above the prices set. It is only when commodity prices start falling for any reason, that the support price will hold the farmer up from ruin ous prices. Anderson is not anticipating any huge surpluses, but nevertheless he is taking no chances on the so-called teconversion period when army and other huge government buyers start cut-backs in food purchases. For this reason he is now starting con versations seeking to taper off, rather than cut-off. army purchases, and lend lease. Consumer subsidies, he looks upon as temporary expediencies, and very temporary at that. He is not in favor of such subsidies as a governmental policy in peacetime. PLENTY POINTS: But Still In Eighty-five points doesn’t neces sarily mean immediate release from the army, as all soldiers know. The trouble is, their families don’t real ize the catch. Thousands of men who have served long and valiantly are classed as '‘essential” and are being held indefinitely. In many cases they are having a hard time explaining to their wives just why they aren’t coming home soon. One captain stationed in Germany with an occupation unit has 127 points. His wife is so sure that he could return to the states if he wanted to that she is threatening divorce. She thinks that he wants to stay because he has fallen for some German woman. Chaplains report that dozens of such cases reach them every week. Morale is suffering seriously. CHARTER: Moves Along The United Nations charter, meet ing with almost no opposition before the senate foreign relations commit tee, went to the senate for what is said to be certain acceptance without modifications. The commit tee ended its sessions by a parade of supporters of the charter, after listening to a few individual out spoken opponents. Final witnesses before the com mittee included Philip Murray, pres ident of the CIO and William G. Carr, president of the National Edu cation association as well as Nor man Thomas, Socialist party leader. The speed with which the charter has been handled indicates that the United States will become the first nation to officially approve the charter or to pass on it in any form. NEW WAC CHIEF: Hobby Resigns Col. Westray Battle Boyce has been named director of the wom en’s army corps, following resigna tion of Col. Oveta Culp Hobby, who was the first head and organizer of the service. Colonel Boyce was employed for eight years in federal agencies in Washington before she joined the WACs. She served as a company officer and in public relations work. In North Africa she was WAC staff director. During the last few months she has been chief assistant to Colo nel Hobby. Colonel Hobby, wife of former Governor Hobby of Texas, and mother of two children, says she wants to return to civilian life to make a home for her family. CHINESE GAINS: On Mainland Doggedly battling Chinese troops have recaptured two former U. S. air bases in Kiangsi province, it was announced by the Chinese high command. The important Jap base at Kanchow is being encircled, it was said, with fighting going on 12 miles outside the town. This com munications center is about 250 miles north of Hong Kong. In another sector, the Chinese are ap proaching Wuchow, Japanese sup ply base 130 miles west of Canton on Sikiang river. Capture of this city is a major objective. New advances are being made in Hunan province, where the Japs are pulling back toward Paoking. They are now only four miles outside the town, which guards the approaches to the Jap-held rail junction of Hengyang. AUTOS: Ration Free? More autos will be available to the public by March 31 than origi nally planned—at least enough to bring announcement from Henry P. Nelson of the War Production board that they would be ration-free. They will still be hard to get how ever due to a serious shortage of tin. The present quotas called for some 690.000 new cars by next March 31, which is not much more than 10 per cent of the market de mands. Thus while cars may be placed on ration-free lists, little hope is held out that many will be able to secure the family car they have been saving for. BEEF: Grass Fed Cattle fattened on grass in Okla homa and Kansas are beginning to enter the markets in sizable num bers. About 380,000 head have been put to graze on the blue stem grass lands. It is expected that the steers will gain from 200 to 350 pounds on the green feed. Ordinarily beef from the grass country rates as B grade or worse. Animals that would come up to A grade if finished on corn are being grass fed because of the scarcity of grain. Commission men think the grassy beef will sell for 13 to 14 cents a pound. MALARIA CONTROL: Daily “delousing” of Manila by low-flying aircraft with DDT, the wonder insecticide, has resulted in a Sharp decline in the fly, mosquito and other pests among its unwant ed population, with a material lower ing of the number of malaria cases reported. The planes, mostly transports, fly at rooftop level, spraying the city with a fine mist composed of DDT. The same method has been used ef fectively on the New York City beaches. The supply is still limitc Hardens Copper Addition of 2 per cent beryllium to copper hardens the metal and ip. creases itsjensile strength. Skin Breathes It is not at all fanciful to say that the skin “breathes,” although It does not do so in the same man ner that the lungs do. The lungs are I essentially a mechanical contraption, 1 a bellows, for bringing oxygen to the blood, for the blood merely car ries the oxygen to the tissues. The real respiring or breathing, occurs in the tissues. Your skin is also a respiratory organ that inhales and exhales. In fact, the very life of the skin depends on the way it breathes. For the bloodstream which carries life-sustaining oxygen to the tissues of the body does not supply it to the outermost layer of skin. This part must get its oxygen from the air. To do so, it “breathes” it in and, in turn, tosses off life-harming waste, back into the air. The two square yards or so of outer covering, which weighs about one-sixteenth of our entire weight, and which stands be-/ tween us and the world v.e live in, is equipped with a very fine me-J chanlsm for its vitally important breathing job. , i cBFmSwX HAT TAILOR & CLEANING SHOP • 1837 North 24th St. • J- H. A Ml DEWS. Prop. _ —Phone JA. 4117— MUIMM •>Erp-r &t *.%t3 >z. can) sweetened condensed milk *4 cup lemon juice Grated rind of 1 lemon or ’>4 tea spoon lemon extract 2 eggs, separated 2 tablespoons granulated sugar Baked pie shell (8-inch) Blend together sweetened con densed milk, lemon juice, grated lemon rind or lemon extract, and egg yolks. Pour into baked pie shell. Cover with meringue made by beating egg whites until stifl and adding sugar. Bake in a moder ate oven (350°F.) 10 minutes ot until brown Chill before serving. Vanilla Wafer Pie Crust Roll enough vanilla wafers t< make % cup of crumbs. Cut enougl wafers in half to stand around edg( of pie plate and put them in place Cover bottom of plate with crumb! and fill in spaces between halvet crackers. Pour io filling as uj-ual. i Independence c> By GEORGE S.BENSON • President of Hard:ng College Searcy. Arkansas *3 ARKANSAS and Mississippi both can have splendid public schools without accepting federal aid. I am prepared to prove this state ment with authentic figures. Only •one state has less income per per son than Arkansas, provides less 6chool money per student and pays its teachers less; that’s Mis sissippi. If these states can do well without help, so can any of the other states. Poor as these two states are, on a basis of income per capita, each of them has more net worth than the federal government. Our national debt probably will reach 300 billion dollars before the war is over. Mississippi had a cash surplus of 11 million dol lars last year and Arkansas ac cumulated 45 million during re cent years. Arkansas schools are inadequate due to politics, not poverty. Wasting WHAT the school sys Revenue tern in my home state needs is re-organizing, not subsidizing. For example: About a year ago there were 106 school districts in Arkansas with less than ten pupils apiece. There were 350 districts with assessed valuations below $10,000. Some districts couldn’t raise $100 a year from local taxes. School districts varied in size from one square mile to 100 square miles. There is one community in Ar kansas which, although it has only 35 students all-told, is made up of six school districts and thus uses six buses to take the Co stu dents to school and bad: each i.ay. Transportation costs $600 a month when one bus might easily do the whole job at a cost of $150 a month. The saving of $450 would pay three teachers at the prevailing Arkansas scale. Enough IT IS A local problem Outlay More money for sucl an inefficient operation probably would tend to aggra vate a bad situation and make it even harder to remedy. The fed eral government spent $80,000 for a WPA survey of Arkansas schools in 1937 and the analysis showed that the state could havei a good school system for an out lay of 17 million dollars a yearj The outlay was made promptly.' Arkansas’ income per person! has more than doubled since 1939J , due to new industries. More than! 20 million dollars were spent foil education in Arkansas last yeari and a recent legislature raised! that figure considerably for the] next biennium. Already about 25% more money is being spent I on Arkansas schools than the' government - supported survey called adequate in 1937. This is not enough. Arkansas should have better schools; bet- ' ter financed. Arkansas teachers should be better paid. I’m for it when the system is re-organ ized and made efficient, but I op pose federal aid. 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Iron rayon on the wrong side to pre serve the surface texture of the fabric and avoid iron shine. Iron shine appears more quickly on dark rayon than on light rayon War Brings Increase in Cases of Scalp Ringworm A highly contagious disease, ring worm of the scalp, is spread ing through the schools of the coun try. Stephen Rothman, M. D., writ ing in Hygeia, the Health Magazine, says that it is apparently associated with many factors related to the war, such as crowding, increased travel and neglect resulting from in creased employment. England and France have had re curring epidemics of this disease for centuries and after the First World war epidemics also invaded central Europe, Dr. Rothman said, adding: “It was rarely seen in the United States, even in the largest clinics for skin diseases. A sudden spread was first observed in New York City in 1943. By now a persistent and con tinuing increase of the disease is noted in many American cities.” The scalp infection spreads in schools, orphanages, asylums and camps and at any other place where children congregate in numbers. The great mass of infected persons consist of grammar school children up to the age of 14. In any epidemic, the infection is much more common in boys than in girls. In children be low school age, the disease is rarely seen because of a lesser op portunity of contact. The infection is spread by direct contact and by the handling of con taminated objects. Children easily convey the disease by hand and body contact. Loose infected hairs may also fall out and be carried in the air. Such objects as combs, brushes, hats and caps are impor tant carriers of the disease. Lately, evidence has been presented that in fection may also occur from contact of the scalp with the back of the ater seats which were previously contaminated by infected children. —- f Seabees Come Up With Another Impossible in War The navy’s fabulous Seabees have j come up with many a cockeyed in- ! vention during the war. Their latest , is the “Foxhole Companion,’’ a radio built from a discarded razor blade. 1 a safety pin, a loop of wire and headphones. Ship’s Cook Edward E. Bourgault, Newton Center, Mass., started the radio craze when his outfit landed in the Marianas. "There was little one could do for amusement after working hours,” he explained. “So I decided to experiment. After a few nights of tinkering I got togeth er the ‘Foxhole Companion.’ It not only picks up standard wave lengths but also pilot jabber from near-by airfields.” The blade—preferably the blue steel type—is tacked to the base and a wire tapped from one side of it to one side of the coil. 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