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The "Walton" soli plan pro
, posed by the Izaak Walton League
of America can be expressed in
' one sentence:
"The Congress (should direct
the secretary of agriculture to
lesse for cash and place In a
conservation reserve sufficient cul
; ttvated acreage to bring pi'oduc
!. tfon into line with current dc
mand." Is getting a lot of dis
cussion in the Midwestern agrlcul
tural states. In yesterday's column
we covered the point of how land
. might be classified under .such a
program, George L. Hockenyos
' the chairman of the league's Land
Use Committee sketches some of
the committee's thinkir-j about
procedure and rental.
"A cash rental figure." states
. Hockenyos, "assuming parity pric
.' es, would be estimated. I might
say uiat If you look at the cash
' rental and land values acro.ss the
nation, cash rentals run pretty
' close to live to live and one-half
: per cent of the selling price of a
piece of land. A piece of land
that is worth (300 an acre Is pretty
likely to rent for between 115 and
18 an acre. Having established
that generality .makes It a little
easier to get an estimate of what
the whole program would cost.
The land would be classified ac-
cording to the USDA system and
the proper percentage factor used
to calculate the rental offer.
"If this proved attractive to the
landowner he could contract to
prepare and seed the land proper
ly the first year and supply such
maintenance operations as were
specified for such land. The cost
of seed in any needed amounts
would be paid for by the Depart
ment of Agriculture, but the cost
of planting would be borne by Uie
landowner. Rental payment would
be made annually and only If Uie
landowner had lived up to his
contract,
"The program would be strictly
voluntary. Farmers have dlffcrcni
attitudes toward all government
programs. We have many farm
ers let's call them the old con
servatives who don't want the
government to have any more to
do with their aflnlrs than absolute
ly necessary. There .are others
who are perfectly willing and even
anxious that the government
anould step In and roiiulato their
affairs pretty thoroughly.
"Well, this program Is strictly
voluntary. Every tRrmcr can take
It or leave it. II enough of them
take advantage of It the others
won't have to do so. Wo re-Introduce
a system of checks and bill
ances. If prlcoii go up there will
be fewer of these lease contracts
renewed and more land plowed up.
If prices go down there will be
more contracts made and more
land will go Into this program.
Any landowner Could place any
part or all of his farm into the
program.
"It seems to me that practically
every farm program Is based on
the supposition that the thing to
do Is to work with each farmer
but to keep him on the farm.
Actually the fanners have been
leaving the farms from economic
necessity of desire. Under this
program a farmer could put his
whole farm In reserve and leave
the farm If he wished. Also, farm
ers are now beginning to get old
benefits, snd we have a lot of
old farmers. There are a lot of
small farms that will not support
a family of boys, so the boys took
off for something else and the
old folks stayed home, They are
going to get old age benefits be
ginning at the age 65. They have
lived on the farms all their lives,
and they don't want to move to
the city. So they can take their
old age benefits, their cash rental
from this program and keep a
couple of cows, pigs and chickens
and still live on the farm and take
it easy. Conversely, they could
Ignore the program entirely.
"The program could be run con
currently with any other system
of price supports such as the pres
ent flexible price supports. I have
found Uiat a good many farmers
are a little scared of anybody's
pulling these price supports out
from under them. So we have
provided in our program that when
this program is put into effect,
and is first offered to the farmer
lor a period of three years price
supports will be lowered to some
extent. Some farmers will wait to
see what their neighbors are go
ing to do; the second year price
supports will be dropped more
and more of them will come into
the plan, and after three years
you should not need any other
price support.
"A perlnent question by farm
ers la 'Just how much would these
rental payments be per acre?'
and equally pertinent to the public
is Just how much would this pro
gram cost? Our committee does
not have the resources to make
an exhaustive survey of this prob
lem. I would say It would take
several men quite a little time to
make an exhaustive study of It.
But from a study of census sta
tistics we believe that the c'ass of
land that should go into this pro
gram could be rented for from
$2,50 to $25 per acre. If you talked
to a farmer in the Midwest about
a $2.50 an acre cash rental he
would throw up his hands In hor
ror and rightly so. But it is not
so long ago you could have bought
lund In the dust bowl for $2.50 an
acre. We figure a national aver
age of $7.50 per acre as the cash
rentnl. We further estimated that
the cost of preparing the land and
having it seeded that cost, of
course, would be for the first year
only divided over the whole
five-year period would probably
bring the average rental price of
this land, the cost to the public,
to about $10 per acre per year.
"The secretary of agriculture
has estimated that our excess pro
duction represents the output of
about 40 million acre. Actually
In this wonderful United States,
nf ours, with one billion 905 mil
lion acres of land surface we cul
tivate only from 340 to 260 million
acres a year. The secretary esti
mates Uiat we are cultivating
about 40 million acres too much.
I assume he means of average
fertility. But If we are going to
take out land that is less produc
tive and more erodlble it would
take probably about 70 million
acres."
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Strong Force
PHILADELPHIA W Secrctaiy
of the Army Brucker called Mon
day for continued "firm and sus
tained combat readiness" despite
the hope for peace.
In an address to the annual meet.
Ing of the American Bar Assn.,
he sain the summit meeting at
Geneva last month "has Riven us
some reason to hope for the grad
ual lessening oi world tensions
) and the eventual establishment of
a stable order based on justice."
But he added that "it would be
tragic to take counsel of mere
hopes, and upon such a slender
premise allow our military might
to deteriorate."
Loyd Wright. ABA president told
the group that individual liberty
and initiative have b?cn en
dangered because too many Amer
icans have bartered away the right
of self-government for financial fa
vors granted by the federal gov
ernment. He said that Americans "have
drifted dnwn the path of paternal
ism, looking more and more to
security, wherever or however it
may be found and abandoning the
good old American traits of thrift,
dignity in work. Independence and
price of accomplishment, and the
joy of succeeding by overcoming
all obstacles."
Members of the National Press
Photographers Assn. will attempt
1o show Monday afternoon that
picture taking under modern con
ditions does not upset the decorum
of the courtroom.
U.S. Atty. Oen. Biownell has
called for the experiment. An ABA
rule, known as Canon 35, forbids
the taking of photographs in the
courtroom during the progress of
Judicial proceedings. The canon
has been adopted by 14 states.
NEW ARTILLERY
SEOUL M South Korea's first
antiaircraft artillery brigade was
activated by President Syngman
Rhee today at the Osan u. 5. air
base, 35 miles south of here. It is
American trained.
HAL BOYLE
By ED CBEAGII 1
lor HAL BOYLI-:
WASHINGTON IPi Ever hear
a President of the United Slates
call a pig?
Uwight D. Elsenhower does it
Mils way:
"Sooooey," he calls. In a hall
croon, hall-chuckle. "Sooooey! Ho,
Pilil Pig! Pis!"
And up to Die President conies
or doesn't coine, as suits its mood
one of the various porkers grow
ing lat and marketable on the
Eisenhower place up Gettysburg
way.
Some of us had the odd experi
ence of seeing Ike turn hog-caller
the other clay, shortly before he
left for Denver, and ihe general
verdict was that he has the true,
down - to - mud approach. Maybe
he'll never win any hog -calling
contests, but he usually gets his
rip.
Then, of course, the conversation
turned to whether the President
will run again in '56. and nobody
egieed with anybody about any
thing. He certainly did look at home
and happy there by the pig-pen.
It would have chilled the Repub
lican party to the marrow to see
the nlfcetionate way he slapped a
skittish heifer on the rump. That
was the gesture of a man who'd
rather be a farmer than President
?.nv day.
But then people remembered Ei
senhower at Geneva, talking tur
key to the Russians. Sure, he'd
rather retire to the farm but what
if ho felt he had a better chance
than anyone else of staving off
World War m? Would any private
prcleicnce keep him from doing
It? .
And so the conversation went
'round and came out nowhere.
One of the correspondents, whose
name had better be omitted, came
up with a thought:
Suppose Eisenhower refuses to
run again.
Then why not make him chief
U.S. delegate to the United Na
Hons, where his personal prestige
and the carry-over power of his
office would make him the most
formidable spokesman this coun
try could possibly have?
That way. he'd have six months
or so out of the year to spend on
the farm..
Certain objections were raised
to this suggestion. Among them:
"What are you, a Democrat? Ike's
going to run again don't kid
yourself.'' And: "Suppose a Demo,
crat won the next election. Can
you see him giving a top job to a
Republican even to Eisenhower?"
And so,' as we were saying, the
conversation got nowhere.
Except Uiere was agreement that
it's a mlgh'.y nice farm.
It's Just short of 500 acres.
The house, which has been com
pletely rebuilt, is painted white
and so Is the barn. There's a Penn
sylvania Dutch, or maybe a New
England, tidiness about the place.
And a good deal of simplicity.
Somebody asked how Elsenhow
er, who. got by most of his life on
r.ot-too-high Army pay. can afford
such lodgings. The house, land and
buildings are worth well over $200.
000 by the most conservative esti
mates of neighboring realtors.
Well, Elsenhower's book, "Cru
sade In Europe." sold more than
800.000 copies and enrned him up
wards of S600.000. Even after the
capital gains tax and other dela
tions, that left a nest-egg. Then,
loo, the President, long accus
tomed to an Army salary, is reli-
ablv reported to be saving a part
of his slOO.000 a year salary.
In .spit" of this. In spite of the
many gifts presented to him for
the farm. Elsenhower complains
with evident feeling about the high
cost of country living these days,
What farmer doesn't?
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FRANK TRIPP
Almost every time a fellow rates
a complimentary dinner, his friends
give him a traveling bag. A going
au-av nrp.tent for a bird who often
would rather stay right where he
is and keep bis Job.
The only good reason thai I can
see i me cnance n
diners to soring all the bromides
about "holding the bag."
It s a help to a dratted toast
master. There's a stoci speech,
with or without pathos, that al
nv ends. "Elmer, vour friends
hope you will use this slight ex
pression of their aifection oiten but
always oring iv uav..
Thn the emcee reaches behind
his chair and clumsily brings forth
ihe satchel which has been there
all evening; right where the re
cipient has had a good look at it
and already wlthed they'd given
him the dough.
The wit who's been presiding
tips over two glasses and a can
dlestick but finally gets the lug
gage Into the hands of the disap
pointed guest oi honor. Elmer opens
it, hoping to find a fifth inside: but
:t's empty and lined like a gypsy
tent.
Hardly aole to talk, he gulps
his appreciation and sheds a few
tears. The congregation thinks it's
emotion but the poor guy is cry
ing real giiei. He's thinking ol
what he wished ne got.
I had an atlic full of traveling
bags that were given me for mak
ing speeches. The baas were as
good as the speeches, which isn't
saying much. Meantime I nad three
watches go on the bum and every
time I hoped the honorarium would
be a watch, but it never was.
Finally I got wise. When they
invited me to speak and mentioned
that they didn't have much to
spend tor a fee, I told them how
much it would be.
When they learned that I was
fed up on traveling bags they'd
write back that because of sick
ness In the chairman's family the
affair had been called off.
If you can stand on your feet
and keep your tongue wagging
for 20 minutes or belter you can
m.ii a sneech a week, provided
you stay amateur, charge no fee
and settle for a traveling bag now
ana then.
When I bought my last watch
I was templed to emulate a car
mnnist friend of mine, who also
had an attic full of traveling gear.
One day ne went off on a quiet
solo toot. Passing a jeweler's win
dow, watches caught his fancy.
He bought one and had it engrav
ed- "Presented to tne oiggesv asp
on earth, by himself, for no good
reason whatever.
A retiring fire chief in a little
berg near my town was given a
hie send off. They presented him
a silver lire axe with a mahogany
handle.
It was such an important occa
sion that the committee let the
chief in on it so the ceremony
could be letter perfect. The man
who was to make the presentation
and the chief got long speeches
written for them and met every
night lor a week to rehearse. They
had the whole thing down pat.
Then came tne oig nigni. lne
town hall was packed. The chair
man called the chief to the ros
trum. He had the axe behind his
back and the chief stood belore
him.
The knees of both wobbled, then
got weak. There was a long p,u
Ttie chairman couldn't get
speech started. Finally he said;
"Well, Joe, here's the axe."
"Damned if It ain't," staaunern
Joe and the ceremony ended.
What You Cost Him
Ceo. N. Taylor
The common people flocked to
hear Christ. At that, the Higher.
Ups, ever Jealous for poner
brought Christ to trial. They
charged Him with claiming tmt
He was the Son of Cod, Let a
man make that
claim in those
days and he must
die. Christ had
so claimed and
He must die. At
the trial that fol
lowed. He waa
sworn In. There
He declared that
He was not only
the Son of Ood
but also that He
would be sitting
at the right hand
of Cod, and also
coming back to earth on the clouds
of heaven. So It was that Christ
died by His own confession.
Being the Son of God, receive
Him as dying for your every last
sin and Ood gives you eternal
life. Then for you, Judgment for
the lost Is out and also the pains
of eternal hell.
This Message sponsored by a
Portland Lumberman se Wife. Adv.
Ceo. N. Tajlor
GRAND OPENING
-OF-
Telling The Editor
THANKS
We wish to thank the more than
700 persona who signed the peti
tions circulated by the Klamath
Archers and the Klamath Sports
mens Association, opposing the
closure of the O.T.I, to Swan Lake
road.
You are probably already aware
that we were defeated by the two
to one decision of the three man
county court, who supported thr.
arguments of n land owners, who
proposed this closure.
We wish to thank the Oregon
State Game Commission and our
local Game Commissioner for their
support in this matter.
We also wish to thank Commis
sioner Rajnus for his sympathetic
understanding of our public prob-lem.
We are interested in hearing any
opinions trom the puoilc concern-
ing this decision, either directly
to us or printed in the "Herald
and News."
t Dorothy R. Brauner, Sec.
I Klamath Sporlsmens Ass'n.
r" P. O. Box 101
. Klamath Falls, Oregon.
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WASHINGTON lift-Every once
In a while the American educa
tional system gets rapped on the
head for falling to give tho youth
of the country a sufficient ground
ing in democracy.
The latest rap comes from the
special committee of government
officials and retired ofliceis which
atudlrd the problem of American
prisoners of war captured by the
lommumsis. in Korea.
This committee blamed the
armed forces for not preparing
uieir men wnue in service lor what
tney faced later when taken pits,
oner: Uie Indoctrination nnd nroiw.
ganda tactics of Ihe Communists.
But the committee said:
The prisoners of war (who
were taken In by the Communist.
naa lost Uietr battle belore Ihey
entered Ihe service. Good citizens
loyai Americans Uie respon-
Mumiy ior uieir miildliiir lies with
their home, the school, the church,
uie community. '
The committee aiicgi'sted onv.
ernment agrnciei Ret together with
civilian educational institutions,
churches and other pmnotir or
ganizations to prove bettor under
Handing of American Ideals.
The committee frankly said the
Communists "made lool" of some
American rows and "tools ol
others with their indoctrination
tricks and propaganda when thev
help up communism s til0 8nv,'.
tion of Uie world and Kail Marx
a mankind's benelaclor.
"Many of the POW's." the com
mittee went on, "knew too lntle
bout the United States and n
Ideals and traditions. So Ihe Chi.
nese Indoctrinators had the ad
vantage." Some of them, asked to tell what
they knew about American politics
and history. Found out their Chi
nese captors knew more: some
didn't know what Uie Communist
program was all about; some had
never heard of Marx.
To set up a system of educating
young Americans in democracy on
the broadest possible scale not
only in college but In grammar
and high schools may call for
a major overhauling in American
education.
How can a young man be taught
not with cliches and slogans
but with solid historical reasons
to prefer democracy to fascism or
communism and be able to defend
It?
Most students, somewhere be
tween grammar school and college,
get some Instruction In political
science. But that's machinery: how
a government operates. The Amer
icans teach one kind of political
science, the Russians another,
Uul political philosophy the
story ol man's struggle Uirough
Ihe ages to shake off absolute rule
by a king or group and stumble
toward democratic rule can give 1
a youth a solid base for his prefer
ence for democracy by giving i
nun a oasis ior comparison and
an understanding of political
opposltos.
11 seems safe to say a very tiny
percentage of youtlu who go to
schools m this country get a
grounding In political philosophy.
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