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M A K E T H IS E A S IL Y
W eather Vane
Reciprocal Trade Is Vital
To Well-Being oi the W orld
By BAVKIIAGE
knrs Annlval a n d C o m m e n ta to r
by Frank Gaines
COLD FRONT
Furacin Is Effective
In Coccidiosis Control
New Chemical Proves
WASHINGTON.—Despite the spirited battle over exten
Valuable to Poulirymen
sion of the reciprocal trade agreement authority, nothing which
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even its best friends could hope to do about it would be defini- huù n ¿edictne'
tive. for everyone knew from the start that final action must help> now must acknowIcdge nirther
be postponed until next year.
aid from the sam e source. The
Reciprocal trade agreements have been a definite part of our foreign
trade policy for 14 years. If they were of any value in the past, they are
of even more value now. But with an election a little more than four
months off and congress trying to break a log jam of legislation, lengthy
debate on the subject was impossible.
Putting it backwards, the recip
rocal trade agreement policy is
this: If a country is prevented by
a high tariff waU from selling to us,
it can't get the
dollars to buy
from us. Or. if
the country has
borrowed money
from us, it can't
get the dollars
to pay us back.
That's what hap-
p en ed a fte r
World War I.
and the break
down in foreign
trade was one of
the great factors
in bringing on depression.
But that isn't the only thing that
tariff walls do. They tend to force
isolationism, extreme nationalism
on a country and behind the tariff
walls, as ex-Secretary of State Cor
dell Hull used to say so often, grow
the roots of war.
tiling for which acknowledgement is
due is a drug called furacin.
Natural source of this drug is oat
hulls, corncobs, bran and similar
farm wastes. It is one of the fur
fural series of chemicals, some of
which are used in trades and indus
try.
In the very first trial with cocci
diosis of chickens, furacin demon
strated that it was equal to the well-
"restrictions on or crippling of the
trade agreements program would
have very undesirable repercus
sions. Discontinuance or impaia-
ment would destroy consistency in
United States policy and would
undermine world confidence.”
Former Republican presidential
candidate Alfred E. Landon came
out in favor of the three-year ex
tension of the trade agreements act
as urged by the administration. He
said that failure to extend the act
would be contrary to the Republican
policy plank of 1944.
Frequent public opinion polls
have shown that the majority of
the people favor trade treaties.
In fact, persons who know what
trade treaties are vote better than
eight to one to retain them.
I'm no economic expert, but all
I have ever read or heard about j
the old high protective tariff de- j
bates, the experience under ‘the
Smoot-Hawley bill, the post-World
War I debt repudiation and depres known sulfa drugs in stopping losses.
Secretary of State Marshall
sion would seem to indicate that Further research proved that the
stated that the Gearhart bill
the high tariff idea should and !
drug is generally less toxic to
would destroy the substance of
would be dead as a dodo.
chickens than the sulfa drugs, and
the reciprocal trade theory, a
If not, it means we spin the wheel that the growth of treated chickens
theory which is not only the cor
backward to the grand old days of is not retarded as much as in the
nerstone of our general foreign
high tariffs which killed foreign case of those which have been
trade policy, but the principle
trade, made it impossible for for treated with sulfa.
which we have insisted must be
eign countries to sell us goods and
This chemical is as yet available
followed by nations participating
spend their money here, or to pay ' only in small quantities, and still is
in the European recovery pro
back the money they owed us — high in price. Even so, the amount
gram.
simply to protect certain private required to be effective against coc-
The secretary said that "only the interests.
I cidiosis is so sm all that the cost of
shadow of the original act would be
treatment is less than with the sulfa
preserved in the substitute bill pro T h ia C onvention
drugs.
Before long, products con
posed by Representative Gearhart,
la D iffe re n t
taining this new chemical will be
while its substance would be de
As the Republicans swing into ac available to poultry raisers on a
stroyed." And he added: "I think
our national interests would be bet tion with the greatest hope they 1 less limited scale.
ter preserved to permit the trade have had for electing a president
agreements act to expire than to since the fifth birthday of this DDT Emulsion Controls
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permit H.R. 6556 to be enacted.” year's first voters, there are a n u m -, _
ber of striking contrasts to be noted F lie s 111 P o u lt r y HOUSO
He pointed out that any serious
between this convention in Phila- J Spraying a 1
weakening of the trade agreements
Spraying a 1 per cent DDT em ul
act at this critical period in world delphia and former GOP conclaves. sion on poultry manure two day»
One big contrast is in the size before the manure was removed
affairs would "almost certainly be
regarded by other countries not of the audience which actually will from the dropping boards, which
only as a surrender of our leader behold the speakers as they step were cleaned once a week, gave
ship in the international economic forward onto the rostrum. In 1940, 100 per cent fly control at the
some 10,000 people not actually in Hawaii agricultural experiment sta
field, but as a repudiation of much
that has been accomplished under the hall witnessed the convention. tion.
Two television cameras mir
our leadership in that field."
The emulsion was applied at the
rored the scenes to a fairly select rate of one pint per 30 square feet
Presumably he meant this:
audience, some of it composed of of area.
When we agreed to the European
persons fortunate enough to share
recovery plan (E.C.A.), one of the
The addition of lim e twice a week
the hospitality of the Railroad to the manure before use of the DDT
things we emphasized, demanded
elnb in the same building as the treatment reduced odor and m ois
In fact, was that the countries re
hall. There one could escape the ture and reduced the number of
ceiving our aid would have to
sound and fury, the glare of the flies, but apparently decreased DDT
break down tariff barriers against
lights, the heat and aridity, and efficiency in the opinion of poultry
each other and the rest of the
could snack and sip in a comfor specialists.
world. We knew there couldn't
table chair.
be economic recovery if there was
This year in Philadelphia, the
not a free flow of world trade.
Even before the E.C.A. was ever estimated television audience will
All-Time Champion
thought of—since 1934, as a matter be counted in the millions, for net
works
will
carry
the
scene
to
view
of fact—by vigorously pursuing the
reciprocal iuea, by concluding re ers from Massachusetts to Cali-
ciprocal trade treaties with so : fornia. Instead of two lonely cam
eras, there will be the pooled equip
many countries (we have them
with all but six or seven of the ment and programming of the va
rious nets.
Marshall plan participants) we have
But there is a greater contrast
encouraged the world to reduce tar- :
iff walls. Thus it would hardly j in the Republican political situa
seem consistent suddenly to reverse ] tion than in the delegates’ physi
ourselves and go back to the old ! cal surroundings between today
and 1940.
days of high tariff economic isola
No one who witnessed the Willkie
tionism.
Above is Bess Skylark Orms
The measure as the house pre- j stampede can forget. It was just by Dora, 2388170, new all-time
about
as
unorthodox
a
procedure
as
■ented it had another drawback in
champion junior four-year-old Hol
the eyes of Secretary Marshall and history records, for the candidate stein for the United States, being
was
chosen,
not
in
the
hall,
nor
in
supporters of his point of view. The
a smoke-filled room either, but out milked three tim es daily. With
bill would force the President either
in the sticks. If this is to be a her, on the last day of her record-
to accept the recommendations of
smashing 36S-day period, are left
the federal tariff commission on ad "wireless" convection, the 1940 af to right, three generations of her
fair was a convention "by wire.”
justments above or below a certain
A group of high-pressure ama owners, G. F. Walters, Waterloo,
bracket or submit them to a con
teurs, who were no amateurs when Iowa; his son, Harold Walters, and
gressional veto. That sounds rea
it came to organized action, was his grandson, Robert Walters.
sonable in theory, but what it does
putting pressure on the i'big men"
is to smash absolutely the whole
in every community, and the "big 2,4-D Formulas Classed
basis for reciprocal trade negotia
men” were getting to bosses or to
tion.
the delegates direct by telegram In Three Major Forms
A nasty little joker in the m eas
and telephone. The Willkie am a
Since 2,4-D itself is insoluble
ure stating that tariff commission
teurs "stole” the show from the pro water, it is made soluble by treating
recommendations must be made on
fessionals, and the professionals it with other chemicals. This re
the principle of protecting the spe
swore it never would happen again. sults in the manufacture of many
cial interests concerned revealed
It isn’t happening this year.
formulations, all of which can be
the intent of its framers. That pro
Another highly interesting con classified as ester, amine or sodium
vision would destroy the purpose of
negotiation by removing trade trast between conventions — this salt sprays.
Ester, amine and sodium salt
agreements from the field of the time between 1948 and 1944—is the
"general good" and narrowing them hectic atmosphere of today as op dusts also are manufactured. The
down to a question of whether the posed to the comparative calm then. ester and the amine sprays are pro
particular industry is to be pro There was a "Dewey-has-it-in-the- duced in liquid form, the sodium
tected from competition. Thus, not bag" feeling back in Chicago four salt spray as a powder and the
only would international relations years ago which took the zip out of others as dusts.
The 2,4-D chemical is used extern
and conditions have to be ignored the Chicago air. Also the war over
shadowed
the
conclave
then.
The
sively
as a weed killer.
entirely, but broad national Inter
National Republican (the party
ests as well.
newspaper) started off its lead ar
Secretary Marshall used strong
ticle on June 26, 1944: "With the Zinc Coating Provides
words in criticizing this clause
invasion news commanding the at Protection From Rust
when he said: "The bill, in effect,
tention of the entire convention , .
Ten year tests at Indiana indicate
makes pure protection the sole
Another contrast between ’44
that wire having less than a half
criterion for tariff action.”
and ’48 is in the attitude toward
ounce of zinc coating for each square
Very few groups outside of the
foreign policy. Then it was the
foot
of wire surface had 100 per
big industries which want to keep
most delicate question which
cent of the surface rusted during
down foreign competition oppose
faced the platform committee. To
the period. Samples having more
the reciprocal trade program. The
day Senator Vandenberg has for
than one ounce of zinc coating show
great majority of the chambers of
eign policy wrapped up in a neat
ed no rusting. Stainless steel and
commerce are for it Earl Shreve,
package signed with his name
copper clad samples showed no rust
national president of the chamber
and sealed with his signet ring.
ing. Lead clad samples showed
of commerce, has said that any
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