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HOW TRUMAN HOAXED THE FARMERS
Senator John J. Williams of Delaware, who single-handedly
first exposed the flagrant corruption in the Internal
"Revenue Bureau and the failure of the Department of
justice to prosecute accused officials and other disclos
ures of official abuse of public trust, has followed it up
ivith a detailed report of the political chicanery practic
ed by President Truman to win the farmers' vote and
Ire-election in 1948.
The current issue of the Saturday Evening Post con
tains an article by Glenn D. Everett captioned "Wow! Did
Truman Ever Fool the Farmers !" It presents the report
yl Williams' investigation of the "great farm hoax of
Dexter, Iowa," which swung the eight midwest farm
states from voting republican to the democrats and re
elected Truman.
The president's Dexter speech charged that the "terri
ble 80th congress" was to blame for falling wheat and
corn prices because it had failed to set up storage bins
to take care of the bumper crops of 1948, so the farmers
could put their surplus under crop supported loans and
escape making sacrifice sales. Mr. Truman said:
"This republican congress has already stuck a pitchfork In
the farmer's back. They have already done their best to keep
price supports from working. Many growers have sold wheat
this summer at less than support prices because they could not
find proper storage. When the democratic administration had
to face this problem In the past, the government set up grain
bins all over the wheat and corn belts to provide storage. But
when the republican congress rewrote the charter of the Com
modity Credit Corporation this year, they tied the hands of
the administration. They are preventing us from setting up
the storage bins that you will need In order to get the support
price for your grain.
The amendment Mr. Truman referred to was a clause
in the CCC charter reincorporation act of 1948. It pro
vided that the Commodity Credit Corporation could not
own or lease any real property other than that needed for
office space. The major aim of the amendment was to
prevent further acquisitions of commercial grain eleva
. tors, the big ones in town and cities, by the CCC and thus
prevent government intervention in the private grain
trade. The government's threatened purchase of large
grain elevators had been bitterly protested by the grain
trade.
It was voted for by 45 democratic senators and Mr. Tru
man signed it without objection. When the special post
convention session was called on July 26, 1948, the presi
dent made no mention of the storage space amendment,
' though grain was selling at less than support price.
Williams dug up secret reports in the archives of the
department of agriculture of October, 1947, showing that
the CCC had owned grain bins at the close of World War
II that had a total capacity of 292 million bushels, to
carry surplus. These had been rapidly liquidated. Three
fourths were sold as surplus in 1946-7 before the 80th
congress had anything to do with grain. Everett says:
'The liquidation has been found to have continued in 194S.
In the months of June and July of that year, with the bumper
harvest already under way, a total of 1224 st-el bins with
capacity of 2,581,000 bushels were sold by the CCC, accord
ing to Information Senator Williams has uncovered. In August
and September another 2,000,000 bushels of storage bins went
under the hammer. Even on the very day President Truman
was speaking at Dexter the CCC was selling government
owned bins. During October and November, 719 bins with
1,509,900 bushels of capacity were sold by the government.
In many instances, the bins were still in the crates from which
" they had come from the factory, and were sold at only a frac
tion of thir original cost. They weren't around on farms for
the storage of wheat and corn when such storage was badly
needed by farmers who wanted to hold their crops for a better
market price or obtain government price support loans offer
ing the corn and wheat as collateral, another protection con
gress had supposedly given them from a sudden break hi
prices.
"The CCC didn't stop disposing of storage bins until Senator
Williams, early in 1949, began asking embarrassing questions
about why bins were being sold while the president was de
ploring the lack of them."
The CCC act of 1948, in section 5, asserted that, "The
corporation is authorized to make use of its general pow
ers . . . to make available materials and facilities required
in connection with the production and marketing of agri
cultural commodities." The CCC had the power to assist
larmcrs in obtaining grain bins by loans, subsidies and
other methods but did nothing to aid the farmers, though
in 1949 the CCC did just that. But Mr. Truman did noth
ing during the election year and farmers lost $100 mil
lion or more and blamed the republicans.
Mr. Williams asserts that Mr. Truman seized upon the
CCC clause as an excuse to blame the republicans having
discovered a falling market was to the administration's
political advantage. The market was further rigged
downward by discontinuance of all government buying
operations, until after election day and the CCC refused
all emergency action it had power to take.
"President Truman and Secretary Brannan almost succeeded
In covering up the true story of what they did in 1948," says
the senate's one-man investigating committee, "but we've got
It all in the record now."
Twins Born 77 Miles Apart
Deux, France WV The wife of a Deux factory worker fv
birth to twins Wednesday. They arrived 17 miles apart
The older of the twins, a boy, was born here. The doctor,
fearing complications, had the mother moved to a clinlo at
Mort, 17 miles away. The second child, a girl, was born there.
The boy's birth will be registered at Deux, the girl's at
Niort.
Quarreling Boys Scramble Eggs
Hayward, Calif. (UP) Three quarreling boys and St dosen
eggs, neatly-stored In a garage ready for delivery by a dairy
salesman . . .
Mix well and you get . . . three splattered boys and damage
estimated at $36.
By the time police came, said Mrs. Edith Rockwell, the
talesman's wife, there wasn't a whole egg left.
Husband Gets Perfect Bridge Hand
Temple, Tex. u Mrs. T. Y. Flynt bid Ihree diamonds
In a bridge game Tuesday. Her husband mopped his brow
and said "seven spades."
Mrs. Flynt said she thought her husband was suffering
from the heat. Then he turned np a perfect hand of 11
spades.
6 Mos $4.00; One Vear, $8.00.
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Returned Vacationist Perils
All Within Listening Range
By HAL
New York, W One of the
perils of American office life
these summer days is the re
turned vacationist.
He insists that you hear about
his vacation but he closes his
big ears like a car door when
you want to tell him about your
vacation.
How can you deal with him?
You can't get away. He will
even trail you into the men's
room to relate the strange things
that happened to him.
You would think no one else
had taken a vacation before in
the history of the human race.
The only sure way to halt
him is to try to borrow money
from him, or else top him by
interrupting, "oh, by the way,
Joe, while you were gone I saw
a flying saucer."
What the average office needs
from June until Labor Day is
a "vacation hour" each morning.
For the first 60 minutes of each
workday the office staff could
assemble and listen en masse
to the returning pilgrims tell
the sad and wonderful story of
what befell them.
Anybody who even mention
ed the word vacation the rest
of the day would be automati
cally fired.
The office vacationists fall
into pretty standard types. Here
are a few you may recognize:
1. The postcard fiend he
writes you a postcard as he
leaves his home, and stops off
at every other filling station
along the way to mail more.
2. The calamity kid bee
stung and covered with poison
ivy, he returns on crutches.
"Just stopped by on my way
to the hospital," he mumbles
through his bandages.
"The doc says I got to spend
a month In bed. Will you han
dle my work while I'm gone?".
3. The sultry stenographer
she looks the color of a hand
rubbed walnut bookcase from
days of beach swimming, and
there are wedding bells In her
eyes. But the new boy friend
In the Parking Meter Habit
Grand Forks, N. D. (U.R) Parking meters have been out
lawed In North Dakota, but Perry Dornheim, a hotel bell
captain, said Wednesday he saw a woman park her car and
carefully examine the pipe on which a meter once stood.
Finally she fumbled In her purse, pulled out a nickel and
dropped It down the empty pipe.
Ex-Giant Pitcher Loses
Shirt Running Ball Team
Atlanta (U.R) Ace Adams, who
practically Invented the "rubber
arm," said Tuesday his flipper
gets more of a work-out now
digging into his pockets than it
ever got with the New York
Giants.
The "iron man," from Iron
City, Ga., who in one season
pitched in 70 games for the
Giants, is trying to run a class D
baseball team. He says he's los
ing his shirt.
"I knew I would drop a little
at first," said the big friendly
righthander, "but I didn't know
it would run around $7,000. Boy,
that hurts)
"But it's what I wanted. I
tried to stay away from the game
far awhile and I just couldn't
do it."
Ace's attempt at staying away
from the game came whn he re
tired after pitching a year In the
Mexican league. Before he left
the majors to mingle with senora
and senoritas. Ace worked in
299 garnet in five seasons with
Cop Solves Broken Club Problem
Mnnele, Ind. ( An attorney defending a client In an
assault ease In city court asked a patrolman:
"Yon struck the defendant ae hard yon broke your club,
didn't yon?"
The policeman admitted It, bnt aald It won't happen again.
"I've got a bigger elab now," be added.
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BOYLE
she met at the shore quits call
ing her up after three days, and
for the rest of the summer she
snaps at you if you even say
"hello."
4. The camera nut he has
to be forcibly restrained from
pulling down the office win
dow blinds and trying to show
everybody the interesting new
movies he made of Niagara
Falls.
5. The statistician this boy
not only has the figures of how
much he paid for gas and oil
at every stop he also wants to
tell you the air pressure in each
tire the day he drove up Pike's
Peak.
6. The everloving homebody
"vacations are more fun at
home," he begins. And for the
next three hours he bores you
with the details of how much
money he saved and what a
grand time he had repainting his
little grey nest in the suburbs.
7. The funny fellow every
thing comical happens to him.
"I threw my mother-in-law to
the bear in Yellowstone Park,"
he says, "and guess what they
arrested me. How did I know
you aren't allowed to feed the
animals?"
8. The don't-let-'em-get-away-with-anything
guy "they try to
rob you every step of the way,"
he moans, and neglects to men
tion the dime tip he pocketed
that the tourist before him had
left for the waitress at a hot
dog stand in Tennessee.
9. The boss "aren't they
cute?" he says, pulling out some
snapshots of his children wear
ing striped bathing suits. And
how can you tell him they look
like baby saber-toothed tigers?
Well, there they are the of
fice Marco Polos. The odd
thing is how dull their tales
are.
I just got back from a vaca
tion myself, and had a really
unusual experience. I was just
. . . when . . .
(Editor's Note: Enough of this.
Boyle is a No. 7 vacationist
himself.)
New York. He is generally cred
ited with starting an era where
bullpen pitchers work nearly as
often as catchers.
When Ace did get back in
baseball, he went hook, line and
sinker.
"Right now I'm a club owner,
groundskeeper, manager, pub
licity man, bookkeeper, pitcher
and," he added proudly, "the
league's leading hitter."
Ace, who has appeared in 10
games this season as a pinch
hitter, relief pitcher or what-have-you,
sports a lofty .571
swat mark.
Ace's Fitzgerald, Ga., team is
in sixth place in the class D
Georgia State league at the pres
ent, but he says he is more in
terested in building ballplayers
than winning pennants.
"You just watch,' said the
man who wore a permanent path
from the Polo Grounds bullpen
to the mound, "I'll end up selling
more players than anyone else
Inthe league."
- R
WASHINGTON MERRY
Red Satellites
Washington Soviet satel
lites In Washington have a new
dodge for issuing propaganda.
The state department has now
forbidden Communist embassaies
to publish news letters, so here
Is the latest medium for telling
about the glories of life behind
the Iron Curtain.
It's an invitation by the Rou
manian embassy to attend a re
ception in honor of the day that
country came under the heel of
the Red army, August 23. Here
Is how the invitation reads:
"On the occasion of the 5th
anniversary of Roumania's lib
eration by the glorious Soviet
army and of the overthrow of the
Fascist dictatorship by the peo
ple's patriotic forces
"The charge d'affaires ad in
terim of the Roumanian people's
republic
"Requests the pleasure of
your company at a reception on
Saturday the 23rd of August
from 7 to 9 o'clock."
Note: The reception is to be
held in the Roumanian embassy
on Sheridan circle, facing the
Turkish embassy, one of the
swank parts of town. This is the
same embassy used by Queen
Marie during her famed visit
here in the Hoover administra-
Cops 'Baby-Sit' for Boy, 3
Racine, Wis. (U.R) The harried parents of three-year-old
Buddy Moat called police at 1 a.m. Wednesday when their
train-loving off-spring refused to go to bed.
A squad of burly officers rolled np and surrounded the
youngster sitting on a porch chair.
After 15 minutes he agreed to go to bed but only after the
cops had promised him be could sit np all day and watch the
"choo choos" go by.
The Moats live along side a railroad track.
Increase of Water Fowl
Predicted Over the Nation
Washington (U.R) Director Al
bert W. Day of the Fish and
Wildlife Service said Tuesday
that hunters can expect more
bird targets during the 1952-53
huning season than a year ago.
The increase will range from
"slight" to "major," he said, de
pending on the section of the
country.
Day based his forecast on data
gathered at water fowl breed
ing grounds this spring and sum
mer. He reviewed the informa
tion last week before members
of the water fowl advisory com
mittee, but Day's forecast was
not made public until today.
He gave this forecast by fly
ways the skypaths water fowl
follow in migrating north and
south:
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tion. A lot of water has passed
down the Potomac since then,
and it will be interesting to see
who attend on August 23.
TRUMAN VS. ADLAI
Having got his man the Demo
cratic nomination. President
Truman, despite yesterday's
luncheon with Adlal Stevenson,
finds himself more and more on
the outside looking in. While he
hasn't said anything about this,
the palace guard have done a
lot of squawking privately.
They not only heard the re
port that Governor Stevenson
was reluctant to come to the
White House luncheon, but they
know for a fact how much fric
tion there was between Truman
and Stevenson's right-hand man,
Wilson Wyatt
They also know that Stephen
Mitchell, the new Adlai-picked
Democratic national chairman,
didn't pull many punches about
embarrassing the justice depart
ment when he served on the
chief investigating committee.
The palace guard have partic
ular reason to remember the
battles with Wilson Wyatt, be
cause they were largely respon
sible for them.
Inside fact is that Wyatt's
ducks In the Pacific flyway will
show a moderate to considerable
increase over 1951 while the
goose flight may be about the
same."
Central "With increased
breeding population and produc
tion, it seems definite that there
will be a major increase in the
number of ducks moving south
ward through the central fly
way." Mississippi "The fall flight
of ducks in the Mississippi fly
way will undoubtedly show a
moderate improvement over
last year."
Atlantic "Hunters in the At
lantic flyway may expect a
small increase in dabbling ducks
and at least a moderate increase
of divers this fall."
:rt qy "S:
forced exit from the Truman ad
ministration was about the big
gest letdown a top official ever
had. When he took over the Job
of housing expediter to build
homes for veterans, Truman
gave him a letter which instruct
ed Wyatt to use: "The same dar- '
ing determination and hard
hitting teamwork with which
we tackled the emergency job of
building the world's most pow
erful war machine."
PALACE GUARD SABOTAGE
But, after six months of try
ing to carry out this instruction,
Wyatt found himself blocked at
every turn by Truman's own
staff.
Truman's RFC director,
George Allen, held back on loan
ing him housing money. Harry
Vaughn, the president's military
aide, used to sit in a corner of
the President's office holding his
nose and pulling an imaginary
chain when Wyatt outlined plans
for veterans' housing; while Sec
retary of the Treasury John Sny
der warned Truman that Wyatt
would get him into trouble with
the real-estate people.
Finally, John Steelman, an
other White House assistant,
tried to persuade Wyatt to re
main on with drastically limited
powers. This Wyatt refused to
do and resigned.
Even here the palace guard
stepped in. When the customary
press release was drafted to an
nounce Wyatt's resignation, it
stated that he had asked tq.be
relieved because he had "fin
ished" the veterans' housing job.
"But I haven't finished mv
job," protested Wyatt, "and I'll
stay on if I'm permitted to op
erate on all-out emergency pro
gram." This did not please the palace
guard at all, and for one hour
Clark Clifford, then a member
of the Truman personal staff,
argued with Wyatt over the
phrasing of his resignation. Clif
ford's idea was not to protect
homeless veterans but to protect
the man who had failed to help
them.
That was the friction between
the White House and the man
who is now No. 1 political ad
viser to the new candidate of the
Democratic party.
SUGGESTION TO ADLAI
A lot of people have claimed
credit for helping Gov. Adlai
Stevenson write a brilliant wel
coming speech delivered at the
Democratic convention in Chica
go last month.
The truth is that he wrote it
all himself, though he did get
one suggestion Indirectly from a
man now dead Josephus Dan
iels, famed secretary of the navy
under Woodrow Wilson.
When Franklin Roosevelt was
President and Daniels was am
bassador to Mexico, the latter
wrote a letter, Jan. 1, 1936, re
ferring to Justice Oliver Wendell
Holmes, as follows:
"Dear Franklin:
"Here is an exDression from
Holmes which, if it has missed
you, is so good you may find a
use for it In one of your fireside
talks. Holmes said:
" 'I find the great thing is not
so much where we stand as In
what direction we are moving.
To reach the port of heaven, we
must sail sometimes with the
wind and sometimes against it;
but we must sail and not drift,
nor lie at anchor.'
"New Year's greetings to you
and Mrs. Roosevelt.
"Faithfully,
"Josephus Daniels."
This letter was embodied in
Carrol Kilpatrick's recent stim
ulating book, "Roosevelt and
Daniels A Friendship in Poli
tics"; and Walter Johnson, his
tory professor at the University
of Chicago, reading the book,
passed this particular quote on
to Stevenson.
Thus a speech suggestion made
by Josephus Daniels in 1936 to
Roosevelt provided part of Gov
ernor Stevenson's speech in 1952
which helped to clinch his nom
ination. (Coprrtcht 1153)
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