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OGDENSBURG JOURNAL TUESDAY, JUNE 22, 1943 PAGE NINE qtie WASHINGTON 1m. tig. U. J. Fat. OH. MERRY-GO-ROUND « ly DREW PEARSON FDR outtalks Congressmen on appointment of over-all Food ''Czar\; Byrnes takes issue with him on advocacy of British price plans; president maintains that there'll be \enough calor- ies\ for all; but he believes we'll have to come to total Labor Mobilization. Washington — What really hap- pened at the \White House con- ference called to discuss the question of one over-all food \czar\ wa s that the President jumped the gun on his Congres- sional callers. Before they could get started with their own de- mands he gave them a 10-minute talk on how Great Britain was meeting it? food problems. Al- though the President didn't come out and say s o flatly, his remarks were calculated to show that the •United States eventually will have to come around to (1) total mobili- zation of labor and (2) price sub- sidies to reduce prices. The president pointed out that there was no such thing- as a criti- cal labor shortage in essential British industries such as can- neries. All British labor had been mobilized to meet the emergency, he said, and could be moved about wherever most needed. He pointed out that the British government controlled and direct- ed all industry — farming, manu- facturing, distribution and proces- sing. \They tell labor and management what to do, and when and how to do it,\ he added. The President's ideas met with varied reactions. Republican Leader Senator McNary of Oregon and House Republican Joe Martin of Massachusetts opposed price subsidization. So did Senator Walter George of Georgia, chair- man . of the Finance Committee, and COP Representative James WadswortH of New York. On the other hand, New Deal Senator Joseph F. Guffey of Pennsylvania was opposed to the total mobiliza- tion of labor. When his callers finally had a chance to propose the appointment of an overall food \czar the President replied that this step was no longer necessary because of the recent establishment of the | Office of War Mobilization, headed by Justice Byrnes. He said the OWM should be given a chance warnings by several of his visitors that the United States might face a food shortage before the war 'ended. H e maintained there would be enough calories\ to sus- tain the civilian population if food were properly- distributed and the national diet properly balanced. McNARY WINS A POINT The only Congressional caller who came away from the White House with any real concession was Charley McNary, the champ- ion of -the canners. McNary first asked for an increase in ceil- ing prices for canned goods.To this th e President replied: \Then Mr. Murray and Mr._ Green will come along with demands for high- er wages.\ He went on to emphasize once more how the British toad held their food costs down 'At this point Justice Jimmy Byrnes interposed a polite inter- ruption. \I'm sorry, Mr. President but J have to disagree with you there,\ he said, and explained .that the British situation wa s not at all analagous to ours. \They don't raise much food ''over there,\ he pointed out. '\They get it from us.\ Byrnes gave a brief but detailed exposition during which the Presi- dent listened carefully. His only remark was: \Winston told me they handled that very well over there.\ * Upshot of the conversation was that Byrnes was asked to talk to the War Labor Board about per- mitting an increase in wages for cannery workers, so the canners' could compete with th e high wages paid in shipyards and air- plane plants, AGE AND YOUTH Patriotic Ferd Eberstadt, who has been trying to get into active military service ever since he re- signed as vice-chairman of the War Production Board, had a ses- sion with venerable Secretary of , War Stimson recently. Eberstadt has refused various non-combat war jobs, has wanted to get into the fighting. However, he is 53, just tSree years too old, -and the Army has objected. When Eberstadt took his case to Stimson, however, the Secretary of War up- held his subordinates. \You're too old,\ Stimson re- plied firmly. \I thought that age didn't mat- ter,\ shot back Eberstadt with a smile at th e 75-year-old Secretary of War. v \After all/' he continued, \I'm no older than you were when I served in your regiment in the last' war.\ But the records snow that when Stimson served as colonel in the 305th Field Artillery in World War -1, he was 50 years old and just within the combat age deadline. Eberstadt who was a captain in She same regiment, is now three ^ears over that, so definitely will not get combat duty. MERRY GO ROUND •One thing for which GOP chief- lains have never forgiven Wen- dell Willkie was a $100 contribu- tion to the presidential campaign of Paul McNutt not long before Willkie himself ran for President in 1940. Willkie and McNutt were fraternity brothers at Indiana Uni- versity .... Discoverer of the New Argentine heavyweight box- ing champion Abel Gestae is con- gressman Rodolfo Espil, brother of the Argentine Ambassador in Washington. Espil wants to bring: the new . heavyweight to thei U.S.A. to meet an y taker. . Patriotic American druggists havei dug up three tons of quinine to' relieve the acute shortage for U.S. forces resulting from Jesse Jones's failure to order quinine from the Dutch Hast Indies before they were taken by the Japs. . . . Washington wives with, backs ach- ing- from work in their victory gardens wish they had top ser- geants to hoe their gardens as d o the wives of high-ranking army officers at Ft. Myer across the Potomac . . . .Rare tribute to an Army officer: \Spiritual .lead- er whose concept of authority makes officers in the higher eche- lons responsible for the growth of the men they lead.\ Said ofGen. H, C. Holdridge by American University in conferring an honor- ary degree The OPA or the Army-Navy might well do some- thing for Army-Navy wives who have to pay terrific seasonal rents at Atlantic extablishments where their husbands are stationed. pCDSON IN I WASHINGTON • i u By Peter Edson Journal Washington Correspondent Good American corn — the grain, not the stuff in the bottles —is the most politically dangerous issue* and the most economically dangerous farm product on the scene today, and it's in something of a mess. Loss of the battle of corn in the next few months could be as disastrous as loss of the Aleutians. The problem is complicated . by the fact that com is not just corn. It is hogs, it is dairy pro- ducts, it is poul- try, it i s food for human consump- tion, it is indus- trial starch, it i s cor nsweeten- ers, industrial al- cohol, \\synthetic rubber, textiles, paper — all of them articles of war. Corn is therefore Public Cereal No. 1, and of major interest to the best minds both in and out of Washington, including particularly the War Food Administration and the Office of Price Administration who ar e in fact sitting up nights worrying what to do about it. The situation is briefly this: Corn prices are frozen under an OPA ceiling. Th e price to the farmer in the corn belt is approxi- mately $1 a bushel, as corn. If however, the farmer chooses to feed that corn to pigs;, he can get $1.35 a bushel for the corn in the form of pork. The reason for this is that th e government guaranteed floor price for hogs is $13.75 pe r 100 pounds. Actually, it i s closer to $14.50 and has been as high as $16.50. The price has been permitted to stay high to increase pork production. Hogs Hog The Corn The effect of this ceiling on corn prices and floor under hog prices has been to increase the hog pop- ulation of th e United States from around 104 million head as of a year ago to nearly 120 million head as of today, and this tremendous hog production is threatening to eat up all the corn in, sight — not only all of the holdover from last year, bu t all of this year's crop as well, plus a certain amount of wheat and other feed grains to boot. Eventually, that might even affect th e production of wheat flour and the supply of bread. Sooner than that it might force a shutdown of corn products plants making industrial alcohol and starch things, because they can pay only $1 a bushel,\ while the hogs, in competition, can pay $1.35. The hog is therefore now eat- ing the country into something ap- proaching a national disaster, and its effects wiU be widespread. A large part of the poultry and dairy products are raised in areas which don't produce feed. Corn isn't coming into these areas be- cause the price is frozen at $1 to the farmer. The dairymen and poultry raisers must therefore buy other feeds at higher prices, and up goes the cost of butter and eggs.. There is one relatively bright OUR BOARDING HOUSE .... with .... MAJOR HOOPLEOUT OUR WAY By J. R. WILLIAMS V THIS I S GITTIW ' fi. PUT M BOOTS AND HER BUDEHES A. BIT DISGUSTIN'/ WE EEUEVE PEOPLE FROM UNlMPOKTA^rr JOBS SO THEY CAM DO IMPOI2TANST STUFF/ WHERE'S TH' WIMMIM AM' GIRLS PER. THIS UNIMPORTANCE? VES, AN'THEVU-TAKE WHUT THEY LIKE OSi , TH' MEM'S SIDE OF i TH' FEMCE AM' KEEP VJHUT THEY LAKE. OM J TH' WOMEN'S SIDE, ^ AM' DUMP TH' RES~ ET . i.hi.*ta.v.9,9AT.Grfr n * COPW. iwwiin BEiwtce, we. THE*f5re2M\SE>C 7< By EDGAR MARTIN DOVi>'T WPSSOO «a\WWK VKNKRY „Vi\^ri 1 T 0 ALLtV O02» By V. T. HAMLIN »i^l..» FATTY LOST , Uf&U We*H* HIS PANTS.'H n FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS By MERKIU. 8i.ti&>EK We CAN Ask HIM A r\EW QUESTIONS RIGHT HERE .' ANSWER, THE- PHONE.' 1 COPR. .„ . ^ •\\\\\\\H'MinriTimni wm& Is LEFty THERE ? IHECANTOOMET O THE PHONE-HSS TIED UP /N A CONFERENCE/ IV s1 A. WASH TUBBS By HOY CRANE I'M EXPECTINS A NAZI PATROL SOON TO ARREST mCAPTAIM RED RYDER Bv FRED HAKMAh \ erF-iM-v up: F?\POOSE /' WE CAN'T LOSE TRAIL NOW OR; EAT> IA\NS .KILL REP RYDER/ < , RET> RYDER. 'TX>Utt •DA^3G6.ROUS , THINS TO XsO V0I1H OUTLAW, BUT HIA\- M ' m NOT SCARED/ LITTLE BEMER SOT RED RTDEftlS ©OGtNSUrt— ANT> 44 COLT PISTOL -ALWAYi. fAAKE-LM EVERYBODY k SAME BIG SIZE/ -^fesr A ^OJJjMU^j^tt^CTjJ^^I^Xl^ spot here in that aa of July 1, 11943, there will be an estimated carryover of some 650 million bushels of wheat. But if that is drawn on freely for livestock feed, It can be reduced to 350 million bushels in the next year, and could easily become a deficit. Dynamite In Husks Industrial alcohol -will take 190 million bushels of corn,* other corn. products like starches -will take 130 million and cereals 160 million. Stoat adds up to only 480 million Ibushels or about 15 per cent of the Hotal supply of three and a quar- ter billion bushels available up t o Oct. 1, but i t is an important 15 jier cent and to cut off even a part Of it to feed these hungry hogs would seriously impair the war ef- fort. So what? The alternatives which the price fixers and the government mani- pulators faced were: corn. 2. Lower the price on hogs. 3. Or both. 4. Or figure out a subisdy that in some mysterious way -would keep corn down and hogs up, at the same time giving the farmers more money for their corn while making porkchops cheaper for consumers, still providing enough corn which isn't here for the hogs which are here to eat. Anything decided on was bound to make somebody mad. No. 1 would please the farmers, but raise the cost of living, making the consumers mad. No. 2 would please consumers but anger farm- ers. No. 4 might hit the taxpayers an awful jolt in the long run. And if the pigs are permitted to keep on eating up all the corn, eventual- ly, when the corn is gone, the pigs will have to be sacrificed, which will make the farmers sore. That's why corn is such political 1. Increase the ceiling price on dynamite. One thing sure. Nobody } Moncrief Sunday School Class Is Entertained Lisbon—The Pathfinder's Club of the Moncrief Sunday School was entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Gil- bert Sullivan of Lisbon, on Fri- day evening. In charge of pro- gram was Miss Irene Riley and the Rev. John R. Ralph. Forty members and friends were present. A very delightful program \\ of games and refreshments were en- joyed. Among those present were: Sher- wood Robinson, Raymond Wood- ley, Dolly Exelby, Ruth McBath, i s apt t o come forward with an- other suggestion for killing off the surplus baby pigs. What happened the last time \that was tied is still remembered with pain in some New Deal parts. Thelma Backus, Mene Riley, Mar- garet McNeil, Ruby Dandy, June Todd, Verna Dezell, Irene Riley, Ruiby retterly, Jill Burwell, Pran- ces Ralph, Valdora Thompson, Lois Aldns, Beverly Thompson, Mrs. Gilbert Riley and two sons, Roger McBath, Bill Burwell, Edward La- lone, Donald Miller, Gerald Knight, Darrell Miller, George Lawrence, Dick McNeil, Junior Day, Bill De- zell, Glen Robinson, Roger Craig, Gilbert Riley and the Rev. John R. Ralph. At the next meeting plans are to be made for the anticipated week of camping at Lake Eaton, in the Adirondacks. TH bel he keeps his thickens ffOrrt pi those knotholes JIQWJ!L lifnglhrottgh^ COPR. W3 BV NEA SERVICE. IHC. T. H. DEC. V, 8, PAT. 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