Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 February 1943 — Page 15

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Under Rationing Plan, Secretary Says.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.). —Food Administrator Claude 'R. Wickard cautioned today that in-

1 will be less than now planned uniess black market operations are stamped out.

solve . the problem of black markets,” he ‘told a press conference. “The black market may force a test whether the American people are willing to co-operate in the war food program.” He hoped the individual meat ration would be two or more pounds a week, but added “it may be less if we do not get control of slaughtering and distribution to stamp out bootlegging of meats.” , He said imposition of ceiling prices on live animals, as proposed by Price Administrator Prentiss M. Brown, will not ‘alone eliminate illegal sales. Wickard said the agriculture department has agreed on no specific program to wipe out black markets

problem which is “causing me great concern.”

Clothing Stocks Called 'Ample’

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P.). —New assurance came from the war production board today -that stocks in retail stores are ample for consumer needs. Retail stores began ‘this year with the largest stock of clothing and textile house furnishings of any similar period during the last five years, the WPB said. Officials added that the available supply of textiles for civilians for 1943 should not fall. more than 10 per cent below 1942, Describing the recent buying scares as only “flurries,” government officials said that they had subsided and t people seemed to be getting to normal buy=ing habits.

OBTUNDED STOPPED THE CONGRESSMEN

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 (U. P). —Mme. Chiang Kai-shek’s address

.| to congress sent more than one

congressman scurrying to the nearest dictionary. : Mme. Chiang speaks faultless English, but one word in her prepared address stumped not only congressmen, but most reporters.

“We shall have faith that, at the writing of peace, America and our other gallant allies will not be obtunded by the mirage of contingent reasons of expediency.” “Obtunded” was the word. Most

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After expressing “hope for a world| ‘union of nations, Mme. Chiang said:

Auxiliary Frances L. Lawler of 3035 Kerwood ave. is now with the WAAC unit at Ft. Bragg, N. C.; where the WAACs have taken over administrative jobs in the post headquarters. Auxiliary Lawler received her training at Ff. Des Moines.

FOOD NEED SEEN BY BROMFIELD

Nation Not Told Truth, He Charges; Townsend

Outlines Plans.

NEW YORK, Feb. 19 (U. P).— Louis Bromfield, author and farmer,

speaking on the Town Hall program last night, asserted that the government has told the nation “nothing of the truth” about the food situation and predicted that without food we will not be able to dictate the peace. M. Clifford Townsend, administrator of agricultural conservation and adjustment administration and former Indiana governor, speaking on the same program outlined government plans to meet the farm manpower shortage by mobilizing an army of 3,000,000 civilian workers. Mr, - Bromfield, who has a 1000acre farm near Lucas, O., said there never had been any authentic, coordinated food production program and that there is none now.

Raps “Frivolous Bureaucracy”

“This scandal, and by next autumn it will be one of the greatest scandals in American history, affects the whole future history of ourselves and the world,” he said. “Its repercussions will destroy the future of the Democratic party for years, the future of liberalism, even the future possibility of a decent peace. “And throughout the world, millions of people will sicken and -die and generation of children will grow up stunted and sickly because a frivolous and incompetent bureaucracy in the richest country in the world did not do its job.”

Urban Help Needed

Mr. Townsend, explaining how the government intends to meet the problem of farm labor, said: “It will call the older men, the women and the boys and girls of teen age to the fields. It will ask the wholé urban community to give all-out work assistance to the farm community in the planting and harvesting seasons. “This mobilization of volunteer and part-time farm workers necessarily will be done throughout the nation, community-by-community.”

HOOSIER FLIER DIES IN FLORIDA CRASH

TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 19 (U. P.).— Public relations officers announced here yesterday the death of two fliers. stationed at Drew field as a result of separate plane crashes, one at Sarasota and the - other near Clearwater. The two killed were identified ‘as First Lieut. Rob B. McNagny Jr., 26, of Columbia City, Ind. and Flight Officer Ray N. Grafferom, 23, of Duluth, Minn.

HEADS FT. WAYNE FIRM FT. WAYNE, Feb. 19 (U. P.)— A. E. Askenberg, Ft. Wayne, was elected president of the Horton

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outbursts about all deferments being called off. It was a false alarm, but i served to drive a good man into the army because he wanted to make certain of service in the branch of his choice. in the John Deere tractor unit.) It was obviously unwise to re-

placé these men with young,’

strong, skilled fellows when the army would immediately take them from us. We decided to hire middle-aged married men with families, hoping the army would not seize them. - C8 # 8

That made necessary a capital outlay of several thousands dollars on housing for the new men and their families. The money was not provided by the government, as in ‘the case of mushroom factories all over the country. ‘The farmer had to dig down into his own pocket, after 12 years of lean pickings with hogs at 4 or 5 cents a pound. ? ” ” ”

Seeks Skilled Men

WE WERE ABLE to do this because capital from outside sources (Editor’s note: Mr. Bromfield is a highly successful novelist, but the average farmer could not possibly do it.) Then the problem was to find the skilled married men with families. Unskilled labor was out of the question, even if it had been available at much higher wages than the average farm could afford. Our replacements came from small farms, some of which went out of production as a consequence, and from paying high high wages to neighboring farmers who cut production on their own places in order to work for us. That solution is not a good one, and it certainly has not increased total production. Actually the total acreage affected in our: replacement of young skilled labor by middle-aged family men is producing less food than before and under economic conditions which cannot show a profit. But for the grim necessity of providing food for our soldiers and civilian workers, our farm would sell everything and go out - of business, and that is just what has happened to thousands of farms in the breadbasket area of the Middle West. It is only the outside capital that has enabled us to carry on as best we can. As to profiteering, such talk is rubbish in the cases of most farmers. It is fair to state that when we appealed to the United States em= ployment service the reply was simply, “We have no farm labor.” Not even a tramp or an alcoholic. This is not written in criticism of the individual men of the em‘ployment service. They are badly paid and handicapped by a long record of bureaucratic inefficiency and disorganization. 2 ® »

There’s No Farm Labor

EVEN “CZAR’ ’ McNUTT'S edict that all employment must be conducted through this service will make no difference. farmer nor farm hand has any reason to look upon the U., Ss. Employment service as anything but a futility, and, in the second place, there is no farm labor. A few days ago I set about getting in seed and fertilizer for spring planting. There was no nitrogen fertilizer at any price. The proportions of phosphate and potassium have been reduced. Most standard fertilizers, used by farmers even in years when

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plied dairy mash told me: “We are getting in a carload. You'd better take as much as you can. There probably won't be any more.” Poultry supplement, vital to egg production, was unavailable. I could get no hog mineral, even from the Farm Bureau, which handles such thingsin huge quantities. The city person may not understand that all these things, and many others, are absolutely essential for production of dairy, poultry and hog products . But of all of them there is great scarcity, and some of them are not available at all in certain areas, : & # = One of Two Choices AS TO FARM machinery, and. replacement of broken parts, the farmer has one of two choices. He can go to farm sales and bid up second-hand machinery to fantastic prices; or he can spend time —which he doesn’t have—filling

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