American farmers
ake Food Biggest
argain Qn Earth
bailor j Note: "Man's drram'25 minules
since crration" Is the wav John
Slrohm sums up thf sucrrssps of
American agriculture. The la
tnous newsman and farm au
Ihorily points up how the real
cost of food has decreased In
20th Century America. The sig
nificance of this fact to all of us
as consumers, taxpayers and cit
liens of the Free World concludes
this last of five reports.
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By JOHN' STROIIM
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
CHICAGO i.N'EAi Your food
is the biggest bargain the earth
has ever seen.
Never have people been able
to huy so much food, of such a
variety, for such a reasonable
price as they can today in the
U.S.A. Thanks go to America's
No. 1 Success Story, the Ameri
can Farm.
. Mrs. America, after taxes, pays
out on the average only 20 per
cent of her income for food. By
contrast, the Russian family must,
spend 56 per cent; the Chinese
family nearly 75 per cent; in
Italy, 38 per cent; Nigeria, 70
per cent: Peru, 40 per cent.
This means Americans can have
guns and butter too. You have
more money left for the so-called
good things of life education,
recreation, television sets, two
cars.
i The real pay-off is (he little
$me it takes a worker to win
the daily bread. The average
American industrial worker
works onlv 38 hours to earn the
monthly market basket, but the
Russian works three times as
urns for less food. To earn a
pound of butter, the average
American works less than 20 min
utes: the Russian. 1S3 minutes. A
pound of rice costs an American
5 minutes of work; a Japanese.
utes of work: a Russian 75 min
utcs.
In the U.S. 8 per cent of the
people live on the land and
enough food to feed himself and
26 others. In Russia, with 45 per
cent of the people on the land, one
farmer has a hard time feeding
three or four others.
This is tlie true significance of
the American farm accomplish
ment.
It means we can race Russia
to the moon, without giving up
luxuries or necessities. Yet the
Russians have not been able U
provide sufficient food, clothing
or housing for their people. Fifty
five per cent of their farm work
ers are women wno wortc in tne
fields to produce food.
In the U.S. we have an average
80 per cent of every dollar ot
the highest wages in the world to
spend for other things besides
food. Russia has only 45 cents of
a smaller number of dollars to
spend for other things.
No wonder Russian housing is
tremendously short by our stan
dards. No wonder only one Rus
sian family in 100 has an automobile.
That's why the American food
story has vast significance for
the rest of the world.
Food is cheaper than in the
"good old days" when beef was
14 cents a pound and bread two
loaves for a nickel. The real cost
adds im like this: Granddad
worked for $10 a week in 1!)12,
and sent $5 or 50 per cent for
food His industrial worker grand
son earns $100 and spends onlv
S25 or 25 per cent or more and
better food.
For one hour of labor your dad
bought 1.2 pounds of round steak
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WAGE DIFFERENCES A Russian works 75 minutes to
buy a pound of sugar. An American works just three
minutes.
Higher Hunting Fees Proposed
SAIXM (UPI'-Sportsmen call
ed for higher hunting and fishing
license lees here Wednesday at a
meeting with the House Fish and
Game Commitlcc.
Allen Kelly, president of the
Izaak Walton Uague. said hunt
ing places are dwindling. He said
it will take more money to open
, up new lands for the sportsman.
4-H NEWS
BfSY BAKF.RETTES
Eleven girls met at the Home
Economics room alter sc'uool at
the Bonanza School on Tuesday.
Nov. 27. Our leaders are Mrs.
Alice Drew and Mrs. Porter Wil
lis. We elected Cathy Angel pres-
itn!- Susie Woolen, vice presi
dent: Janice Rcid. secretary
treasurer; Marie Angel, program
planning; Nancy Angel, health:
Kathy Terpening and Patty O'Con
nor, community service; Betty
Lou Sleher. and Debbie .li'cob
son. safety; Mnnlee Willis, sonc
leader, and Julie Murphy, report
er. The name of our club is the
Busy Kakerettes. We plan to
meet once a month.
Julie Murphy.
News Reporter.
Kelly and other witnesses said
higher fees will give the State
Game Commission the money it
needs for research, rehabilitation
and game law enforcement.
The bill would raise the resi
dent hunting license fee from $4
to $5 and the resident fishing li
cense fee from $4 to $fi. Other
fees would be raised correspondingly.
and you can buy 2.2 pounds. He
bought 7.8 pints of milk and you
can buy 18.4 pints. He bought IS
oranges, while you buy 36 or
anges.
"But I spend more." protests
the homemaker. One answer to
that is that S3 out of every $20
spent in the supermarket where
you have 6.000 items to chooser
from goes for a wide variety of
non-food items from basketballs
to bobby pins. Actually the food
price index since 1947-49 has gone
up only 23 per cent, compared to
34 per cent for housing, 53 per
cent for transportation, 46 per
cent for rent. '
Tlie housewife's can opener and
other built-in maid services have
been the butt of jokesters and
cartoonists whom we suspect are
nostalgic men longing for the
kitchen virtues of their mothers.
The U.S. homemaker does buy
time in the form of "instant" and
heat-and-eat food and boil-in-bag
containers. Such conveniences
have reduced her daily food prep
aration work from five and one-
half hours to one and one-half
hours, according to the U.S. De
partment of Agriculture studies.
But the housewife need not feel
guilty. She can work four extra
hours for 45 cents an hour and
save $1.80, or she can devote
that time to her children, to com
munity activities or to keeping
up with the world: Furthermore,
convenience foods have made it
possible for many of tlie nearly
25 million women who work out
side the home to hold jobs.
All because farmers continue
to make giant strides. If our
farms were no more efficient
than the Russian collective farms
HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore.
Friday, February 15, 13
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-To the housewife, who is now
getting the biggest food bargain
on earth: She must hope that
agriculture continues to be free
and progressive, or she no long
er will have that bargain.
To the taxpayer, who is now
paying towards a $6 billion farm
budget annually: He must hope
that sanity returns to Congress
Mure .we standardize all our
farms into mediocrity trying to
keep farmers on the farm.
To the citizens concerned about
the world battle against commu
nism: Let's not blunt one of the
most useful weapons we have
a free agriculture that can pro
duce prodigiously!
The American system has pro
duced more food, more variety,
and higher quality at a decreas
ing real cost to the consumer.
This has been man's dream since
creation. It's what billions on
earth now long for. It's what Com
munist dictators like Khrushchev
would give their eye teeth for.
Lets' not fritter away our (arm
success with government "farm
program help" that really hurts.
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CHINESE WORKERS
Chinese works for two to .
four hours for a pound of
rice, Americans work only
five minutes.
BIGGEST BARGAIN IN HISTORY The American house
wife has the biggest food bargain in history. In early
1900s, Granddad shopped at the general store such as
this one (on the left) in New York. He spent 50 per cent
where I've visited. 20 to 25 mil
lion American industrial workers
would have to go back to the
farm. Think what a devastating
blow that would be to our sland
ard of living and our ability to
match missiles w ith the Commu
nists.
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of his income buying food for his family.
grandchildren shop in modern supermarkets offering over
6,000 different items, and the averaqe housewife Spends
only 20 per cent of the pay check on food.
EGYPT TODAY An Egyptian worker works 40 minutes
to buy a loaf of bread. In the United States it takes only
six minutes.
Our U.S. farmers continue to
make giant strides. One hour of
labor produces more than four
times as much food as it did
in 1920. An acre produces 65 per
cent more. Each breeding animal
produces 94 per cent more. Farm
labor efficiency increased 5.5 per
cent per year in the 1950s com
pared w ith a 2.2 per cent increase
for U.S. industry. And since we'll
need much more food by 1975. and
we have no more land our farm
ers must be more efficient in the
years ahead.
Why are our farmers more ef
ficient? Why are our processors
doing e better job? Tlie answer
lies. I believe, in our free enter
prise system, based on incentive.
In our over-all government busi
ness climate those who render
the most service to the most peo
ple at the most reasonable rale
get the biggest rewards.
But a free market economy is
strict disciplinarian. We mav
shed tears at the passing of the
corner grocery or the one-horse
farm, but we know that the
cheaper and better way of doing
the job spells good for the citi
zens and progress for the country.
The Soviet dictators arbitrari
ly raised the prices of basic foods
like butter and meal by 25 to
30 per cent recently. In the U.S.
the citizen-consumer is king and
sets the price by his vote at the
market place.
Are there any clouds on the ho
rizon to this continued progress?
Frankly, yes!
Farm efficiency is threatened
by strict government controls.
Proposed farm laws would put a
ceiling on our abundance and va
riety of food. It would tend In
freeze farmers. The reason: An
attempt to shore up the farmer's
income, despite opimsition by
most of the farmers who produce
most of the food.
In summary: What does the
"food and farm" problem mean
to vou?
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