Southern Oregon Miner, Thursday, August 30, 1945
President Truman Announcing Surrender ol Japs
in WASHINGTON
By Walter Shead
Treated Lumber Boon
To Farm Buildings
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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.
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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