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HOME TOWN
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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. ,
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You Can Make This Magic Animal if
? Cracker Pie Without Any Sugar
AN animal cracker fruit pie is
gala fare when you are enter
taining young guests. You needn’t
measure your sugar supply before
deciding to make it. either, if you
use sweetened condensed milk for
the filling. This smooth blend of
fresh whole milk and sugar needs
no extra sweetening when used in
pies, cookies, ice cream and other
luscious desserts. It can be relied
on for a pie filling that is always
of the right consistency to cut,
never too thick and never too thin.
The recipe for this smooth and
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her make the pie. Even the crust
holds no terrors for a novice, for
it is made of cookie crumbs. After
you pour in the filling, stand ani
mal crackers around the edge and
garnish the pie with fruit.
Magic Fruit Cream Pie
1H cups (15 o*. can) sweetened
condensed milk
% cup lemon juice
2 eggs, separated
1 cup fruit i '
2 tablespoons sugar
Cookie crumb crust
Blend sweetened condensed milk,
lemon juice and egg yolks Fold in
fruit. Pour into pie plate (9-inch)
lined with cookie crumb crust.
Cover with meringue made by beat
ing egg whites until stiff and add
ing sugar. Bake in moderate oven
(350°F.) 10 minutes or until brown.
Chill before serving.
Or omit meringue, and garnish
with fruit.
Magic Lemon Meringue Pie
1V4 cups (1.1 >>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.
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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. Easy money
would sacrifice state sovereignty
on the altar of politics when we
are able, really, to increase our 1
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Ironing technique for rayons is of
vital interest to homemakers, since
the uses of rayon and its acceptance
as one of the basic textile fibers
for all types of clothing, as well as
for many household uses, are con
stantly increasing. Avoid ironing
rayon when it is too wet, because
this dries the fabric too suddenly,'
causing hard and sharp lines at the
hem, collar and cuffs. It also causes
stretching and flattening of the
fabric and sometimes a rippled hem.
Iron rayon on the wrong side to pre
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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.
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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. The coil's
other side is grounded and a lead
attached to one side of the head
phones. Then another wire is tapped
from the safety pin to the other side
of the headphones. The safety pin
is tacked to the board so the point
can be moved across the unground
part of the blade.
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THE WAITERS’ COLUMN
By H. W. Smith
Vacation time is here. Are you
ready to take a trip?
Omaha Athletic Club waiters and
waitresses toping the service at all
times.
Regis hotel and White Horse In
waiters going good on service.
, All Sumtner Clubs going good as
golf players are very numerous.
Paxton hotel waiters on the up and
go on service.
Fontenelle hotel waiters in the
front line on service.
Wditers at the Hill hotel on the
job at all times.
Blackstone hotel waiters are smil
ing at the new maitridee in his white
suit as he looks the part.
Omaha Club waiters with Capt.
Earl Jones and Mr. Harry Frazier,
Mr. Virgil Shobe, Mr. Frank Buford
are on the up and go on service.
Mr. Tom Philips, one of the pio
neer roast beef knights hopes to be
out soon.
Vitamin Trouble
Getting other vitamins and min
erals into the diet seems not to be
quite such a problem for most peo
ple as getting enough iron and the
B-vitamins known as thiamine <B-1),
riboflavin (B-2) and niacin (the pel
lagra-preventing vitamin).
THE KELLOM UH1LU
CARE CENTRE
One of the interesting spots of the
near north side is the Child Care
Centre at Kellom school. Here chil
dren of working mothers are cared for
from 6:30 in the morning until 6:30 in
the evening.
Under the direction of Miss Cura
Sailors, physical education teacher, a
staff of trained workers conduct a
program of music, handwork, games,
stories and outdoor play. A substan
tial hot lunch is served at noon, ex
pertly prepared by Mrs. Luella Pres
ton. Fruit juice is served in mid
morning, and milk and crackers fol
lowing the afternoon nap. This nap is
taken on folding cots in a cool, airy
room.
Two adults are in charge at all
times, and the children are super
vised in all activities. All this is ob
tained at the very modest cost of
$3.00 per week for each child.
Nurtured Pine
Locomotive firemen are credited
with the survival of the famous lone
pine tree growing in a large gran
ite boulder adjacent to the Lincoln
highway between Cheyenne and
Laramie. Wyo. When the tree was
very young, the original roadbed of
the Union Pacific was where the
highway is today, and as loco
motives puffed by, firemen drenched
»th.e tree with water.