Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 30, 1945 President Truman Announcing Surrender ol Japs in WASHINGTON By Walter Shead Treated Lumber Boon To Farm Buildings I W N U C0r r .« p o « W W NU 92 1 W n sh in g to a B ureau T ru s t B u ild in g U b ib b Farmers* Welfare Dependent On Industrial Prosperity Keleaaed by W estern N ew spaper Union. Chemically Treated Durable Wood Available RECONVERSION PROBLEMS FACE OFFICIAL WASHINGTON WASHINGTON.—A lively fuss is The nation's treated lumber Indus HE nation's six million farm being raised against the government! try. geared to wide scale production families, together with other mil- failure to provide for reconversion by war demands, it now ready to lions almost wholly dependent upon ^ ,le M ead committee said only half agriculture, should feel a deep and *h a t it thought about the job being supply the postwar construction growing concern about forces now bun«,ed- the senators privately con- needs of American agriculture, es timated by federal agencies as high at work. These forces either will or ceding they were just trying to prod as 2V4 million homes and 7 million Mr. Truman gently into more force will not bring about industrial peace, They really exposed other buildings, including barns. and a full and complete postwar ful action. Census figures of 1040 show that nothing which has not been apparent economy in the country. for many months, as Mr. Roose as a class, farm buildings are the As so often has been pointed out. velt had no announced program, and oldest of any group In the country. agriculture and the 35 million peo Mr. Truman has been busy with San ple supported by it are mainly de Francisco and Potsdam. pendent upon labor and industry for Behind the failure to make a material prosperity. It is axiomatic plan (and this is apparent, if there can be no prosperous agricul it has not been fully reported) ture without large purchasing power ' Is the scrapping between (he va in the non-agricultural fields. Sec- i rious government departments. retary of Agriculture Clinton P. An Photo shows President Harry 8. Truman as he announ- cd the end of the war with Japan. Left to The army has never forgotten derson forcefully called attention to right, front row. Admiral Leahy, Secretary of State Byrnes, President Truman and cx-Secrctary of State its scare at prematurely an this fact recently in an address at Cordell Hull. Three years, eight months and one week after the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor the Japa a c ticipating the end of the Euro Oklahoma A. & M. college when he cepted the terms of the Allies for an unconditional surrender. pean war. said: The army is keeping its produc "Farmers cannot afford to tion going at a terrific pace, and told Ideal farm buildings. forget that their income is de the Mead ccmmttee (although this rived mainly from the spending was not published in the report) about three years older than the of non-farmers. If agriculture that it is drafting 3.000 men a month average age of buildings in other jfe»■eor*'' is to be prosperous, the first while discharging 4,000 a month for categories. essential is that city people a net discharge of only l. 000 a Lumber, always the farm front's must have plenty of buying pow month. nost popular and useful building ma er—and that means full employ To add fury to this plain muddle. terial, will prove even more vital in ment at good wages.” the CIO, New Dealers and some oth- j postwar construction, through the So farm leaders, during this con ers have been increasingly agitating successful application of chemicals gressional recess, are making an for a vaster government spending to make it more durable and useful. interim appraisal of pending legis program, like the old PWA. to take Experiments at the U. S. Forest lation affecting agriculture directly, up a slack in employment, which Products laboratory, and elsewhere, and labor legislation which will have has not yet developed, and is not have perfected treated wood that is an effect upon farm income. The immediately forecast in view of the fireproof, longer lasting, and termite Farmers Union, considered the national starvation for consumers and decay resistant. For instance, most liberal of the farm organiza goods and services, unless per pressure treatment with Wolman tions. is strongly in favor of the chance chaotic management of the salts makes wood impervious to ter Murray full-employment bill. It also problem disrupts production. mites and decay, and treatment approves the proposed emergency INTERNAL BICKERING with Minalith makes wood resist unemployment compensation bill to ant to fire, even open flames. To the problem, Mr. Truman put give laid-off workers an additional Wolmanized lumber is being used j his best new man, John W. Snyder. $25 for 26 weeks, and specifically for such installations in the termite- ■ who found it to be a nest of eco- favors the food allotment bill intro I nomic and political boa constrictors, infested islands of the South Pacific, duced by Senator Aiken (R., Vt.) as it was in Africa. It was also used which would provide more food for i and his grappling so far has not in for the construction of hangars used dicated whether he will throw them some 18 million low income fami by the U. S. navy for its sub-patrol or they him. lies through a nation-wide food blimps on all three seacoasts. So we have had such a condition stamp plan. as this following incident discloses: B etter Diet for AU A business man came to Wash Roughly, this measure has a two ington seeking authority to build a fold purpose . . . to make an ade plant to supply parts for the auto quate diet possible for every family mobile industry, admittedly the key and to increase the demand for farm in reconversion. He was told he products. It is estimated that this could go ahead as his effort was He then will cost from $750.000,000 in pros immediately desirable. perous years to $2.500.000.000 in de went to the steel manufacturers who pression years. This measure was informed him he could have no Plans to Inaugurate a new system of television and EM radio broadcasting from stratosphere airplane« introduced last year by Senator Ai steel unless he had a priority. Wash cruising six miles in the air, as soon as permits and equipment ran be obtained, were announced by West ken and Senator LaFollette (Prog., ington thereupon refused to give inghouse Electric. Initial flight tests of the system, known as stratovision, are expected to be made soon. him a priority. Wis.) but because of the war’s un Large circle shows the increase to about 103,000 square miles possible under the system of Stratovision. This, as I say, is a known con certainty. no action was taken. Sen. dition, but behind it is a truly Elm er Thomas (D.. Okla.), chair major threat to reconversion, in man of the agricultural committee, the relationship of the unions is said to favor the measure. and management, a fact not ob It is significant that much of this served by the Mead committee, legislation in behalf of labor was A one-man beet harvester t that or fully reported. The adminis introduced by representatives from tops, lifts, cleans and windrows in tration has detected the impor farm states. . . . Murray of Mon one operation is the John Deere new tance df this all - controlling tana, Aiken, Vermont. LaFollette, Integral beet harvester. Eight rows phase, as is evident in Labor Wisconsin. Senator Pepper (D.. of beets are windrowed together, Secretary Schwellenbacb's pro Fla.) introduced the minimum wage with the tops placed in two wind motion of a tabor-management increase bill and Congressman Pat rows of four rows each. conference to plan a workable man (D., Texas) sponsored the com The tractor moves along in low substitute for the no - strike panion full-employment bill in the gear, the harvester tops the beets pledge and perhaps a new labor house. in the ground, automatically lifting board setup or at least to pro them. There is an old adage that vide a sensible agreement, un “ you can’t reason with a hun der which men may work and gry man” and so empty stom the nation produce in the brave achs have a direct bearing on new world. political action and political be A show-down between labor and liefs. If we do not have a full Insufficient nicotine will be avail management is coming. 1 am sure, postwar economy, then we may able unless extreme care is taken before much reconversion can take very well have thousands of The average place, I think it is planned. With in its conservation. empty stomachs. Hunger breeds farmer wastes about half of the the threat, publicly brandished by socialism—or worse. CIO leaders for a wave of strikes, nicotine he purchases. The following are the reminders The American Farm Bureau fed the key automobile and other indus eration, while it has not yet taken tries which CIO controls can hardly on how the saving may be brought a definite stand on these specific go far with much reconversion, even about. Don’t dust with nicotine when measures, plans an executive board if the government requires the army meeting in Chicago in September to to be reasonable and loosen up on weather is cold. Don’t dust when wind is blowing, draw up its legislative program in men and materials. Don’t run the fan too fast. time for the scheduled opening of Involved legitimately are the prob Don't drive too fast. congress in October. It is certain, lems of prices and wages. These re Don’t delay application. however, that the Farm bureau rec lated problems are in a far worse Spot-dust with a hand-duster. ognizes that maintenance of a high muddle than the Washington recon “ Before the Sun Goes Down,” a Treat the seed bed. national income in the postwar version machinery. novel about a small town In the 1880s Dip plants before transplanting. Wife years with “full production and full by Eliabeth Metzger Howard, has Keep plants growing vigorously. UNIONS SHOW GAINS employment” is imperative to our American soldiers e^ter Switzerland on furlough to spend eight days been awarded $145,000 In prizes by The union war worker is the man national welfare. In the tiny land that remained a veritable "Isle of Peace” in a sea of war Doublcday, Doran dc Company, and who made the biggest wage in for nearly six years of the European conflict. Photo shows a few G.I.s in Mctro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It Is her flrsl Economic Balance Sought crease during the war. The Little the Swiss Alps, altitude 10,290 feet. novel and will soon be published. It is true that in some areas there Steel formula was shot so full of -Meswtj Strap with Buchi« have been rumblings from farmers holes by the unions (upgrading pay against high wartime wages . . . devices, vacations, pay for portals that these wages have lured men to portals and back again to por away from farms . . . that workers tals, etc.) that it stands only as a should have saved enough to tide sieve against the largest group of them over. Nevertheless, the con the people, the middle class non- sideration is now peacetime wages factory workers. Strap [ro a There are only 15 millions of peo with shorter hours and no overtime. Labor does not expect to receive ple in the unions and 45 millions Halves of Their wages war wages in peace time, nor does outside the unions. Hr« the farmer expect to get war prices were rather effectively frozen by the in peace time. What both farm and government formula, while the This Idea permits easy extrac labor leaders here are striving for unions went on up. But prices went tion of the last drop of oil in the is a standard of wages and prices on up also, through the sieve of the barrel without heavy lifting. The rig which will assure an economic bal OPA (black markets, and especially is made of two stout poles and an deteriorated goods and services). ance in the postwar era. old wagon tire ent in half. In my non-factory town, for In- High on the list of musts in agri cultural legislation is the program stance, the last*bond drive could nol supported by all farm organizations, meet its baby bond quota because to regroup farm credit and loaning the average man just did not have The renovation of strawberry agencies into one independent agen anything left after buying his fam fields should begin Immediately cy. This will mean a complete re ily the necessities of life and paying after harvest. The heavy mulch Those prices will not should be removed with a hay rake organization of the department of his taxes. agriculture. Secretary Anderson has come* down until reconversion has and the sparse mulch cut imo the already made a start in this direc proceeded to the point where com soil. tion by revamping the war food petition is restored in both goods Before cultivating, apply a com agencies into commodity divisions, and services. Not untii quality of plete fertilizer at the rate of 500 to Keo Nakama of Ohio State re with a direct line of responsibility. goods and work are restored, and 800 pounds per acre. If the soil is With the end of gas rationing motorists have learned how to say, tained his 400-mcter crown and was both become readily available, can The general idea behind the inde acid, apply lime. Rows should be “ F ill It up,” again. Service stations arc beginning to get back Into the Judged the individual winner, hav pendent farm credit agency is still the government do anything effective cultivated to 12 or 15 Inches. It an complete one-stop service with windows cleaned, water supplied, oil ing the most points In the recent to loan federal money, but to create on price control, which is the es open furrow is left, the roots wlU checked and tank completely filled. Just like In the good old days. Tlrea Senior AAU swimming and diving sence of economic control. closer local control for its use. dry out rapidly. are also checked—and advance orders taken for new ones, when— ! championship. T Antennas to Blanket Nation With Television Postwar Machinery Beet Harvester Furlough in Island of Peace Novel Hits Jackpot Unaccustomed Service Returns Still Swim Champ Saving Nicotine Can Be Made by Practice Tipping Oil Barrel Renovate Strawberries