Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 October 1942 — Page 36
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Owners Want to Keep on Producing Food but Many TOO LATE! FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO SAID “GIVE US ANOTHER CHANCE" . .. HERE IT IS!
‘Have to Sell Land Because of +. Shortage in Help. \ By THOMAS L. STOKES
Cd . Times Special Writer OMAHA, Oct. 16.—Every so often you run across a so
of one-man Gallup poll, and are duly grateful. Such Otto Pfeiffer turned out to be—59, grizzled, plain-| ‘spoken. ‘He sold his farm a year ago because of trouble getting help, and now manages a milk co-operative embracing a ‘wide area around this city and Council Bluffs, across the
‘yiver in Iowa. It has the
imposing name of Nebraska-
Towa Non-Stock Co-operative Milking Assn.
s . I» . . ———————————— A ——— Sitting in his bare office in vent had any vacation this ian old abandoned residence,|year. But I'm going to: take two
‘his. rough hands folded on his desk, he drew a rather depressing picture of the plight “the farmer in this section as a
weeks pretty soon, and I'm going down to my boy's farm and fry to help out. I can’t do what I used to, but. I can help some. “I've got two other boys already
of ‘result of the hired men being draft-|in the army. I didn’t raise my boys ed or drifting down river to work{to be cannon fodder, but I don’t
in waf plants,
want to see them starve. I want
“Here's what's hapepning. Last|to win this war, and there's lots of week the only certified herd in this|things I don’t like that are going state was sold, the Ackermannjon. :
. herd.”
“We've got a race track near here.
This is a rather famous dairy There’s about 500 fellows hanging
herd in these
parts. “A great many
smaller herds are being dispersed.
One of our production distributors sold his herd
last week.
Another distribu-
tor called me up last night ahd
said he was selling his herd. He was taking his boy down to be in- ~ ducted, and he just couldn't manage any more. “Milk production around here is the lowest since 1935. That was on gsccount of the 1934 drought, you . know, when we oouldn’t get feed. We've got plenty of feed now. What Wwe need is farm help. ’ “We're rationing milk among the dealers now, so that they can all take care of their needs. We may have some trouble if we have a spell of cold, rainy weather. . That cuts down production, you know. We've just got enough milk now for our own needs here. None for lend-lease. Hard Job for Woman * . “We're having .trouble keeping our trucks going, too. We have 45 truck lines running in this milkshed.” . ©. asked if they couldn’t use women on milk trucks. “No, not very well. You see a ~ milk can weighs. 16 pounds, and the mollk. in it 85 pounds. Is pretty _ hard work for a woman to be lifting . those cans around.” _ Farmers, he said, can’t get labor- _ saving machniery to make up for the boys who have left. “You might get along with machinery—or at least take up some of the slack—but you just can’t get it. | “These farmers want to keep on farming. But they've got to cut down somewhere when they havn't ~ got enough help. So they sell their dairy herds, and then they can manage the rest of the farming. ~ “But some of them are going to have to sell their farms. A farm ' guctioneer told me the other day that he’s got 150 sales scheduled between now and the 1st of March. That can't go on if we're going to feed this country and our allies. : His Boy Waits Call ¢ *T've got a boy who's running a farm. He's just waiting to be ~ called. He works from 4 in the morning till 9 at night. And he knows how to farm. If he leaves _ it1l take two men you would pick up to do his work. £2
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around there taking care of the horses. They ought to put those fellows in the army, or do something useful with ‘em. Somebody in washington ought to make a sure vey and see how many people there are like that. ] “Then somebody ought to make an investigation of these war plants, and these cost-plus contracts. Those fellows don’t care what happens to that money. It’s government money, The higher they can make the costs, the more they can get. The Boy Eased Up «I've got a friend who's got a big strapping boy who was in high school. He went over there where they're building a war plant and got a job digging ditches. He's a good, hard-working boy. And he worked hard on that ditch. : «a foreman came along and said to him, ‘there’s a lot more ditches to dig’ The boy didn’t know what he meant. : “The next day the foreman camej around again and said, ‘there’s a lot more ditches to dig. I told you that yesterday Ease up.’ So the boy eased up. “Then a few days later they ran short of equipment, and one of the other workmen said, ‘let's just crawl over under those weeds and sleep.’ The boy was catching on now. So they slept.-all day. “That sort of thing ought not to go on. And it’s going on a lot. “Then there's General Hershey and McNutt talking about women getting out and working more on the farms. The women are doing all they can now. I know. Don’t Let Him in Sun “They talk about getting these city boys out on the farm. Well, maybe that’ll work. Some time ago they asked me to get some city boys together, and I did. One of the mothers called me up and said, ‘I think it’s fine that my boy is going to work on a farm-—but don’t let him get out in the sun’.” He looked up, resignedly. And that's what farmers are thinking apout out here.
FRENCH CHILDREN GOMING T0 U. S.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 (U.P) —~ French children who will be brought to the United States are of various races and nationalities and for the most part were orphaned by deportation of their parents to Germany for forced labor, Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said yesterday. ; Welles was asked during his press conference about a published report that 5000 Jewish refugee children would be coming to the United States. He said the refugees were not of any particular race or nationality, but were children from un-}-occupied France whose parents had been forced into. virtual slavery. The children were left completely] destitute, he said, and provided a problem ‘which appealed to the deepest humanitarian instincts here. |: Many nationalities are represented| among the refugees, he said. This government is doing everything possible to facilitate the efforts of pri-|
vate organizations to aid them, he
added. Visas will be granted for entrance
y {to the United States under exist-
ing legislation, he said. The private
| organizations concerned in this re-
lief project will be responsible for the care, support and maintenance
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