rRIDAY. MAR. 28. 1941
SOUTHERN OREGON MINER
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By Eltanor Roostvtli
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Washington. D. C.
BIGGEST CROP BUYING
PLAN YET
During debate on the lease-lend
bill. Senator Murray of Montana
came up to the vice president’s dais
and whispered In Henry Wallace’s
ear. The bill, he said, ought to con­
tain a provision whereby Britain
would buy or borrow farm products
as well as armaments.
Vice President Wallace replied
that he thought so, too, but had not
felt it necessary to "spell it out" in
the bill. However, he mentioned
the matter to Senate Floor Leader
Barkley, who offered an amendment
to the lease-lend bill.
This was the simple mechanics
whereby the biggest farm purchase
plan since the last war was started.
Most people don't realize it, but
the lease-lend act makes the United
States not only the arsenal for Great
Britain, but also her granary, pack­
ing house and slaughter house.
A total of $1,300.000.000 has been
allocated out of the seven billions
for British defense—all of which will
bring sorely needed help to the
farmer So while industrial regions
have prospered in this war, the
farmer so far has not.
In the last war not only England,
but France. Italy and the Scandi­
navian countries, even Russia need­
ed wheat and cotton. Farm prices
zoomed. But in this war all these
areas except England have been cut
off from American markets by the
British blockade.
As a result, farm prices are low
and surpluses mounting We have
a com carry-over four times nor­
mal or 700.000.000 bushels.
The
wheat carry-over is 400.000.000 bush­
els; while the government has
11.000.000 bales of cotton under loan
or wholly owned, plus 372.000.000
pounds of tobacco. 2.735.000 pounds
of surplus butter. 3.609.009 dozen
surplus eggs. 37.000.000 pounds of
surplus vegetables and 25.000.000
pounds of surplus fruit. In other
words, the ever-normal granary is
not normal at all. It is full and run­
ning over
Sales—or loans—to England will
be chiefly in live stock products such
as canned pork, dried eggs, evapo­
rated milk, lard and cheese, which
England once got from Poland, Den­
mark and Holland, but doesn’t any
more.
Agriculture department experts
who have been studying the ques­
tion don't expect the British to ask
for wheat or corn. England gets all
its needs from the Dominions. But
they figure that British purchases of
live stock products, such as pork,
will greatly help the price of corn
and be a great boon to the corn
belt.
Whether or not the British will
pay for this later or make some
kind of a swap, has not been decided
yet. The matter is entirely up to the
President, and he has kept complete­
ly mum on the subject.
Note—Man at the head of the
farm-products-tor-Britain program
is Milo Perkins, a dynamic young
Texan, who as administrator of sur­
plus marketing already is an expert
on getting rid of Uncle Sam’s per­
petual excess crops.
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ANCHORS AWEIGH
Bottlenecks may be snarling some
phases of defense construction, but
not the two-ocean navy. Inside fact
is that battleships, cruisers and de­
stroyers—the “big three” of the
ship-building program—are being
turned out months ahead of the
schedules laid down when congress
approved the naval expansion last
year.
Two new battleships, the North
Carolina and the Washington, origi­
nally slated for commission late1
this year, will join the fleet in June,
increasing the number of “battle-
wagons” to 17. Fifteen others are
under construction.
Naval chiefs estimated that the
top number of destroyers to come
off the ways this year would be 12.
But actually 17 will be completed
in the next nine months, bringing the
destroyer fleet up to 176, a large part
of them super-craft of the latest
design.
Here's the present status of the
whole fleet:
Ships on hand— 15 battleships; 18
heavy cruisers; 19 light cruisers, 159
destroyers, including 74 over-age;
105 submarines, including 68 over­
age; and 6 aircraft carriers. Total
combat ships in commission—322.
Ships being built—17 battleships
(including the North Carolina and
the Washington); 14 heavy cruisers;
40 light cruisers; 204 destroyers;
80 submarines; and 12 aircraft car­
riers. Total ships being built—367.
The 204 destroyers will be complet­
ed tw IMS; 17 this year. 45 in 1942,
86 in 1943, 52 in 1944, and four in
1945.
MERRY-GO-ROUND
There are many wags in the state
department, but only one who wears
the name—Alfred Wagg III.
He
handles refugees.
Colorado's Rep. Edward T. Tay­
lor, 83. is the wordiest man in the
Congressional Directory. His per­
sonally penned biography, over 650
words long, takes up almost an en­
tire page. Unlike 84-year-old Sen.
Carter Glass, who does not give the
year of his birth, Taylor makes no
secret of his.
WAR GUILT
There is a column by Mr. Pegler
which I think is particularly fine. He
points out that the search for an in­
dividual or a group of people, on
whom to pin possible war guilt, is
really futile. Adolf Hitler has told
us that he planned for this war and
that he has thought out each move
with care before making it
Mr. Pegler tells us that even if
we are drawn into the war, it will
not be our doing, but the pre­
arranged plan of Mr. Hitler. He
expresses it, of course, much better
than I can. but the thought seemed
to me to be one that it is wise to
bring home to all of us, because
what happens during the next years
does not lie entirely in our own
hands.
Our statesmen, our congress and
our people may strive in the sanest
and most temperate way. to meet
each situation as it arises. But we
are dealing’ with people who lay
their plans far ahead and we will
have to try to be as far-sighted as
they are.
For the time being. I think that
far-sightedness lies in stepping up
our production, in aiding those who
believe in the things in which we
believe and. at the same time, in
preparing ourselves in every possi­
ble way for future defense. Part of
this defense, it seems to me, is a
mental defense, and is as important
for the women and children as the
men. It lies in building within us a
kind of courage which is ready to
meet whatever comes and which is
willing to prepare to do so.
When President II. L. Harvill and 50 employees tried to rnler the
Harvill Aircraft Die Castine corporation al Inglewood, Calif., their way
was blocked by a barricade of timbers and an auto. Police arrived
(above) and started to tow away the auto, but one striking employee
shown with his hand on officer objected. Violence was In the air. but
the police departed with the car.
landslide Halts Rail Traffic
I’. 8. Schlaflln. second assistant
engineer of the torpedoed Standard
Oil tanker Charles Pratt, standing
by the mast of the lifeboat which he
commanded for five days. The gun
strapped to his waist la his badge of
authority. Schlatlln, with some of
his shipmates, returned to llajonnc,
N. J., aboard a tanker.
Seized by Nazis
HOUSEHOLD A
QUESTIONS
•SUNNY DAYS’
At Golden Beach. Fla., our days
continued bright and sunny and so
glorious at night that it seemed a
pity not to be 18 again and subject
We had some
to its influence,
showers, but they were over quickly
and everything seemed to be green­
er afterwards.
One afternoon Ignace Paderewski
drove down from Palm Beach to
call on me. He had gone there to
attend a concert and evidently had
enjoyed his evening. It was very
kind of him to come to see me.
but I felt rather guilty that he
should take so much trouble.
The last two years have not been
happy ones for him, with the storm
clouds gathering everywhere and
the danger coming closer to his be­
loved Poland. I think when you
have given as much of yourself as
he has to his country, it must be
bitter indeed to see all your world
thrown away and apparently lost
because of the cruel ambitions of
one man.
I do not suppose, however, that
any really good work is ever lost,
Somewhere the seed remains and
the influence is felt in the future,
But for a time at least, all that
Paderewski has done as a stares­
man must seem te him wiped out
One feels that these years have
sapped his strength, but his eyes
are as keen as ever and they look
at you with an expression which is
indicative of the same courage we
have grown to expect from this
gentleman.
We were interested too, in his
young secretary, who told us a good
deal about his travels in South
America. I was happy to have this
opportunity of seeing once again a
very great man and shall take his
message to the President when I
return to Washington.
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A landslide on the Conemaugh division of the Pennsylvania railroad
along Pittsburgh's Allegheny River boulevard. An estimated million tons
of dirt and rock slid down to disrupt rail traffic, and temporarily blocked
the boulevard, one of Pittsburgh's main traffic arteries. Wheels of the
freight engine were derailed.
U. S. Troops on Duty in Newfoundland
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Mirrors should never be hung
where the sun shines directly on
them for any length of time.
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Wire and iron bed-springs that
become rusty should be given a
cont of paint.
• • •
Put your white wash on the sun­
ny side of the line and keep the
colored clothing in the shade.
• • •
Put small cooked hamburger
cakes between two hot biscuit
halves und top them with a brown
savory gravy or well seasoned
white sauce. You’ll like these.
• • •
Jay Allen, American correspond­
Meat should not be seasoned un­
ent, arrested by Naila for crossing
til it is partially cooked.
from Vichy to occupied France with­
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out permit. He is the second U. S.
Pillow slips iron easier length­
newsman recently seised.
wise.
Ambassador
QUINTUPLETS
CHEST COLDS
use MUSTEROLE for
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The Sams Export Care
At the ftrit »Ign of a cheat cold — the
Dionne Quintuplets'cheat* and throata
are rubbed with Children'* Mild Mua-
tarole— a product made iipinallf to
promptly relieve the DISTRESS of
children'* cold* and resulting bron­
chial and croupy cough*.
Relief uaually come* quickly becauM
Muatarole I* MORE than an ordinary
“»alve." It help* break up local eon-
gaation. A* Muatarole la uaed on the
Quint* you may be aure yon are uaing
Juat about the DEST product made.
Al*o in Regular and Extra Strength
for those preferring a itronger product.
Cropping Time
There is a cropping-time In the
races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the
stock be good, there springs up for
a time a succession of splendid
men; and then comes a period of
barrenness.—Aristotle.
GIRL SCOUTS
The Girl Scouts have now ccle-
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brated their twenty-ninth birthday.
All over this country, groups of
Girl Scouts are preparing through
their various programs to meet the
emergencies of the future.
The
points which they emphasize in their
training, are all points which make
for better citizens in any commu­
nity.
Through their camps, they teach
the building of health and the value
of outdoor life. They develop hab­
its of self-reliance and resourceful­
ness which are a safeguard in their
everyday lives. They learn the value
of conservation for the country and
for the individual at home.
Recreation is emphasized as a
part of healthy, normal living and,
above everything else, they feel they
are a necessary part of any com­
munity in which they live, because
they give service. They have al­
ready offered many hours of work
to the nation in the defense program
and probably have learned the first
and most important lesson, that de­
fense begins at home. The better
you make your community, the bet­
ter the defense of the nation will be.
Their contribution to Pan-Ameri­
can friendship through the encamp­
ment held last summer, where 13
countries of the Western hemisphere
were represented, was really a sig­
nificant achievement.
• • •
GARDENING AN IIOBBY
(GARDENING as a hobby < an
be mads to pay excellent div­
idends. As an exutnplc, a Mis­
souri wontan reports she made a
net profit of $.100 from her two-
thirds acre garden in a single sea­
son. Figured at market prices,
food used fresh wus $230; food
canned, $80; and food stored, $71.
i Seed and seta cost her only $20.
There uro two major requisites
to obtaining garden profits of thia
kind. They are, willingness to
¡work and the use of quality seed.
It is important also to devote
considerable space to multiple pur­
pose crops like beets, onions, and
tomatoes crops that can be used
in u variety of waya.
Here, briefly, are the uses of
principal multi-purpose crops; On­
ions — green, us relish; mnture
bulbs fried, stewed, or us season­
ing; bulbs for pickle, and relish
making; tops for seasoning; bulbs
for storage.
Tomatoes — fresh
fnnts for slicing or stewing, for
immediate table use; for canning,
or for making tomato juice, or to­
mato catsup; green tomutocs for
frying, or for use In pickle rel­
ishes, or in pie filler (like mines
meat); yellow fruits for preserves,
juice, or immediate table use.
Cabbago—fresh in slaw, or sal­
ad; cooked for table use; canned
as kraut, or stored. Beets- tope
for greens; roots cooked fresh,
' canned, pickled, or stored.
DON'T BE BOSSED
U. S. troops recently sent to Newfoundland on the U. 8. transport
Edmund B. Alexander, are getting used to winter warfare conditions.
At top the transport is shown, docked al St. John's. It serves as head­
quarters and barracks tor the soldiers. Below:
Ski troops dressed In
white to blend with the snow leave for the training grounds.
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., who
is ambassador In England to the
exiled governments (Holland, Nor­
way, Poland, and others). Is pic­
tured at LaGuardia airport in New
York city Just before taking off on
the Yankee Clipper for London, by
way of Lisbon.
To Investigate Defense Contracts
Arrest Nazi
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WM. SHIRER IN BERLIN
The other day I read in the March
Atlantic Monthly the war diary of
William M. Shirer, entitled: “With
the German Armies." You have
doubtless heard him many a morn­
ing reporting by radio from Berlin.
As he enters Paris, he remarks:
*T have a feeling that what we are
A senate Investigation of strikes, bottlenecks, etc., was outlined by
seeing here in Paris is the complete
breakdown of French society. A Senator Truman (D.) of Missouri, chairman of special committee to probe
collapse of the army, of the govern­ defense contracts. The committee, is L. to R., (standing) Senator Ball
ment, of the morale of the people. It (Minn.), Senator Wallgren (Wash.), Senator Connally (Texas), Senator
is almost too tremendous to be­ Mead (N. M.), Senator Brewster (Maine), Senator Truman (seated).
lieve."
BY YOUR LAXATIVtwRSUKVW
CONSTIPATION THIS MODERN WAY
Dr. M. Zapp, chief Nazi propa­
gandist in the U. 8., after arrest in
New York by federal agents. He
la charged with failure to register
properly as foreign agent.
You can depend on the spe­
cial sales the merchants of
our town announce in the
columns of this pa per .They
mean money saving to our
readers. It always pays to
patronize the merchante
who advertise. They are
not afraid of their mer­
chandise or their prices.